skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on an intermittent fasting schedule (I usually do 16/8) for about a year and a half. I lost some weight during the first several months, but have leveled off to a reasonable weight (which is probably 10 pounds heavier than I'd like, but ~25 pounds lighter than when I started intermittent fasting).

Overall, I don't see any dramatic changes. Lots of people claim to see a significant difference, usually positive, in energy, strength, mood, sleep, etc. But, I generally think all of those metrics are "about the same" for me. Maybe I'm mildly more energetic because of carrying less weight around. But, I'm also at the age where the effects of aging begin to be noticeable...so, maybe just maintaining levels is progress?

Nonetheless, after several years of research into the topic, and related topics like caloric restriction, a couple of years ago I was convinced that the evidence was compelling enough to make it part of my life and started reducing my eating period each day until I was comfortable with 16 hours of fasting each day (sometimes I'll do 20 or 24, if I'm busy and feel OK). I recommend it to people who ask about it, but not because it's a magical cure for all that ails you. I just think the evidence is strong enough to be worth the minor trade-offs. It isn't a risky decision (with the caveat that it probably isn't appropriate for people with diabetes or hypoglycemia or similar)...none of the science indicates negative results, and nearly all of it indicates positive results to one degree or another. It's pretty much like any other diet decision, e.g. eat more vegetables because you'll probably live longer, not because it'll cure cancer or make you an Olympic athlete.
If only the article had mentioned, multiple times, the senior female engineer who was fired.
>"Heh, they are even going to 7nm."

The problem with quoting process nodes from different fabs is that there isn't any standard for defining the minimum feature size. IIRC, the gap between the process node's nominal and the actual minimum feature size began diverging after the 45nm era and has devolved into being absolutely meaningless at this point. Personally, I believe the vertical integration afforded by owning your own fabs actually pans out even though Intel appears to be struggling at the moment. AMD divesting their fabs was one of the largest reasons why they were so uncompetitive up until recently and a large portion of their current renaissance lies in the fact that we have reached the end of the line in terms of consistent process shrinks. There's only a few nm left until we arrive at the physical barrier of individual atoms and the independent fabs have now had enough time to catcb up to the very frontier of process engineering.
Suppose lead were to disappear from the earth tomorrow. It seems unlikely that it would have any effect on the Mexican cartel ecosystem.

The ecosystem is driven by demand from the US, and Mexico has the supply. The brutality is a consequence of a power struggle to control those resources.
The trick is that while you are procrastinating you add items to the list, or add more detail to the existing items, so that they are easier to get started on. Maybe you could call that taking a break from procrastinating :)
> Sitting alone, staring into a wall while listening to music is not a thing most healthy people do. For most, music is a secondary activity.

It's called listening carefully and it's something that every serious musician does on a regular basis. What a strange notion you have that this, an act that requires concentration and discernment, is unhealthy.
The phantom train in VI/III, yea.
I think it's really telling that even though I consume content voraciously and am a highly educated 26 year old making a decent wage, I have never heard of literally any of these writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. I only know ee cummings in passing, because my high school English textbook told me he was famous for using non-standard punctuation and capitalization.

I'm sad that an alt-news source has died. I would have loved to consume their content, but I wouldn't have paid for it. I don't really buy much stuff either, so ads don't work on me.

RIP
There are really two different kinds of vertical integration.

One is where you actually integrate your products, making them less generic so they fit better together. So for example, if you design a CPU specifically to run Java bytecode then you make it more attractive to use that CPU (runs your Java code faster) and more attractive to use Java (runs faster on your Java CPU).

The problem there is that it ties you down. You end up with an ecosystem designed around the integration -- compilers for making efficient Java bytecode for that CPU, operating systems that put Java in low level places because that CPU enables it, etc.

Soon you have a house of cards and nothing can be changed or it all falls apart. When the market decides they want Rust and not Java then you can't sell your Java tools or your CPUs.

The other type of "integration" is where you just buy the good suppliers so your competitors can't have them, or develop quality generic components in house. Then you have the advantage of a commodity CPU which is a little bit faster than average, but if someone else comes up with an even better one you can still switch to it (at the rather expensive cost of writing off your previous investment).

The problem with that is your competitors can do the same thing and on average you're probably not going to be any better at it, so all you end up with is a series of bidding wars where you each buy up or recreate various pieces of the supply chain, and then internalize all the risk of an individual component under-performing the rest of the market.

The potential upside is that you may end up owning something that turns out to be really important and can be used to conquer the market, but that upside is dampened by the fact that if it actually works you'll soon have antitrust lawyers from six different countries at your door. And it also tends to have a long-term destabilizing effect on the business, because temporarily having high margins and no competition simultaneously allows the company to become complacent and encourages third party investment into disrupting the market. It's a strategy designed to produce a trillion dollars in revenue for a year rather than a hundred billion dollars every year for a century, at a nontrivial risk of taking down the whole company without first conquering the market.
Terry's worldview is a largely coherent one which praises the old ways and the rule of Godly kings, in which White men are truly free; today, they obviously are not. He has the same visceral disgust toward race-mixing that most White people feel, and is not afraid to voice his opinions on it. Terry is a more authentic human being than 99.99% of the puppets that inhabit this Earth.

Thank the Gods that the monk is (probably) still with us and will be with us, providing us with wisdom from the mountain tops, for years to come.
But of that hundred, maybe 1 or 2 are somewhat qualified.
Look at me! I'm an armchair expert on everything. So "much" so that I put "random" words in quotes "be"cause I don't understand their multiple "meanings"

#fakenews #maga
They get a fairly crappy review, including being awarded the "Shady" badge, at "That One Privacy Site", which I have trusted for years.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/2016/09/03/nordvpn-review/
Blitzkrieg is morally neutral as a tactical description even if its infamous users were the Nazis. As opposed to say aspects of their dogma like lebensraum, eugenics, or 'master race' ideology which there isn't any good use for.
For VPN and email, I really like "that one privacy site": https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
Does Apple really have a choice?

They have to keep as far away from being another HP or Dell as possible as more and more services head to the cloud.

I look at Apple as being like EMC when they were printing cash. EMC was selling high margin software with hardware. You paid maintenance on both and re-purchased the software every refresh.

The question with Apple is how sticky the services are. Those blue iMessage bubbles are powerful peer pressure. I don’t think that Sun, DEC, or EMC had anything like it.

The other thing I like about Apple is they are less exposed to political winds of change. Government (PRC) have already broken Google in their locales. Apple is not as vulnerable imo.
1. I used to sell retro video games on Amazon and through my own site.

2. I'm not a dick, so I was hoping people would choose to buy my stuff because they liked me and trusted me more than some random seller on Amazon. Didn't work.

3. This niche is pretty crowded now and there is a lot of turnover and consolidation and competition between vendors. There are less people though who tried to make a personality out of it.

4. Post, because revenue is easy, profit is not
Why aren't there more Scottish American or Italian American or Jewish American inventors in the list though?
I wasn't implying a full node for every light client, of course that doesn't make sense. People using light clients in their products, like a wallet or DApp, are probably adding tens to thousands of light clients. When you add that load to the network, you should also deploy a few full nodes, and probably add them as static peers if you want the application to work well.
When Neurons Turn Against Themselves
> Also there are several initiatives towards incentivizing more light clients. I am working on one: https://vipnode.org/

This looks cool, I may have to give it a try!
The urban trails are one of the best public amenities in Seattle. The problem is that there's not enough of them.
Both FB and Google still buy a ton of equipment from Cisco..
Bank of America freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being citizens
Set of Illustrated Machine Learning cheatsheets for Stanford's CS 229
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The first part of the article (which summarizes a WWDC talk on protocols) presents something you can do with interfaces and structs in Go. But in the second part, where the author presents a superior pattern based on values and sum types, is precisely something you can't currently do in Go.

To do what he proposes, you need sum types akin to what Rust calls enums. In Rust it would be something like:

enum Path {
Arc {
center: CGPoint;
radius: CGPoint;
start_angle: CGFloat;
end_angle: CGFloat;
},
Line {
start: CGPoint;
end: CGPoint;
}
}

The idea is that you have a value declared as Path, you can only assign Arc and Line to it. Similarly, if you want use a value, you have to match against it:

match value {
Path::Arc => ...,
Path::Line => ...,
}

or you can destructure:

match value {
...,
Path::Line { start, end } => {
draw_line(start, end);
},
}

Languages that have sum types are usually expression-based, so the compiler insists that your match is exhaustive, or it won't compile:

// Fails with compilation error
match value {
Path::Arc => ...,
}

// This works
match value {
Path::Arc => { println!("is an arc"); },
_ => { println("is something else"); },
}

The closest Go has, as I said in my comment, is the ability to unify multiple structs with a dummy interface, e.g.:

type Path interface {
isPath()
}

type Arc struct {
center, radius CGPoint
startAngle, endAngle CGFloat
}
func (Arc) isPath()

// etc.

Now you can do a type switch:

switch t := path.(type) {
case Arc:
...
case Line:
...
}

However, since Go's interfaces are implicit, it doesn't know that Arc and Line fulfill a possible union of types, and so the switch cannot fail if it's not exhaustive:

// This compiles
switch t := path.(type) {
case Arc:
...
}

I'd love to have sum types in Go; it feels like a fairly natural fit for the language since we already have high-level constructs like interfaces:

type Path enum (
Arc {
center, radius CGPoint
startAngle, endAngle CGFloat
}
Line {
start, end CGPoint
}
)

The syntax for matching could be exactly the same as today, even. It would be to cool to be able match with destructuring, but given that Go doesn't support any destructuring today, I'm OK with this being left out to keep the language small.

As an aside, it's important to note that in Rust, enums aren't just structs; they can be tuples, too, or constant values:

enum State {
Alive,
Dead,
}

Here, a value of type State can be either Alive or Dead:

let s1: State = Alive;
let s2: State = Dead;

And you can pattern match against it. The closest Go has to this is numeric constants with help from the iota keyword:

type State int
const (
Alive State = iota
Dead
)

But yet again, this is a hack that doesn't provide much type-system safety:

var s State = 123 // Invalid, but compiles
Humor me for a moment. What exactly is “the monk”?
First of all DoorDash and Rappi are not comparable, as much as they provide the same type of service.

If you're rapidly growing company in South America trying to raise money from American/Asian investors, you're already in disadvantage.

You could totally get competing term-sheets for a company raising money to operate in these markets but nobody is dropping their pants to give money to these companies when they could be easily pouring money into safer markets. These are companies raising unprecedented rounds for markets in which the delivery fees are in their majority under 1 USD. As they keep expanding and growing their business they will have to shave a lot of profitability, while dealing with the unpredictable economic nature of these countries (for example Argentina, one of their markets, is currently going through an economic crisis - their currency is basically worthless, bank rates at 60%, inflation expected to be at 26% this year...not
a great time to pay for food delivery)

I'm not saying that these investors are sharks and just being predatory for the sake of being pieces of shits. What I'm saying is that given the market, the opportunity, the risks, the environment and the competitive landscape is very unlikely that they are leaving these deals without severely affecting the common stockholder pool.

These investors have the fiduciary responsibility of getting the most out of their funds and I really don't see why they would give 200MM USD to a company that operates in emergent economies without getting a huge chunk of ownership.
There are many things that influence crime, the question is how much of the total variance is due to gasoline?

And the answer from this research is quite a lot, because the timing of the rise and fall in crime match the timing of leaded gasoline (with a 20-year lag) across cities, states, and countries.

To say that 'other factors are responsible' would be to posit that there is some other factor that holds both across and within different cultures and countries that perfect accounts for the pattern in crime rates that we see. That seems much harder to believe than simply 'leaded gasoline causes crime', which we both have robust evidence for now, and for which we have a very plausible mechanism of action.
Manafort Ally to Cooperate with U.S
If you visit the Big Bend area and see the Rio Grande border area, you’ll see the insanity of the idea. There’s a river and steep banks on both sides. There’s also a symbiosis where Mexicans cross to sell trinkets (many bearing the words “no wall” en espanol) and tourists cross into Mexico to spend the day.
Has anyone tried running the Slack Android app with this? I am wondering if it would work better than the Electron based one available on desktop.
To be satisfied means having one’s own needs or desires met. What we are optimizing for, in this case, is people’s self-reported evaluation of their own value function.

That being said, I think there is merit to your second point, although I don’t believe we have enough evidence to know.
> It seems unlikely that it would have any effect on the Mexican cartel ecosystem.

How can you on the one hand so easily dismiss the evidence that lead causes violence, which is backed up by rigorous statistical analysis and medical evidence, and on the other hand assert so surely that you know the answer?

If you were consistent, surely you'd apply skepticism to your own explanations as well.
The problem with drugs that help you focus is that they don't necessarily help you focus on the right things.

You could very well be focusing on the wrong things -- that's the essence of procrastination, and drugs that help you focus could exacerbate that.
Did the mice which had access to food 24/7 eat more overall than the mice with restricted food access?

If so, then the study seems useless because the results can entirely be explained as excessive eating leads to health problems.

I don't see anything in the article saying how they controlled for quantity of food consumed.
I'd be more concerned about the entire cities that are empty.
I'm firmly convinced that tech workers will come around to unionizing once they accidentally reinvent it under a different name
If you're having a bunch of angsty feelings, listening to music can really help make you feel better and more connected with other people and the world.

I think this is a matter of correlation doesn't equal causation.
Website is cancer on mobile. Using Materialistic HN APP on Android.
What are the biggest purchases people make? Of those, is there a high-end product which does apple can apply their middle-high end design chop to see a signficant profit? How will Apple grow from a $1T to a $5T, and $50T company?

My speculation: cars, houses (or likely condos with Apple financing), then communities (like Disney/Celebration) and Cities. All designed by Apple, with everybody living the Apple way.
Maybe, actually. But I’ll definitely share with others I’m mentoring or training while doing such. And I think I will also finally put the time in collating my version. Thanks (for indirectly inspiring me, heh).
Great, yet common trope with a long history in fantasy RPGs:

http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Revive_Kills_Zombie
> And if you're a Mac user concerned about security, use Google Chrome

and surrender your privacy to Google, have no functioning private browsing etc. makes me to rethink about objective-see tools.
What tangible benefits would the average tech worker get? What benefits would a FAANGer get?

Not surprisingly I work in tech. I'm not morally opposed to unions - I just don't see how they would make my life any better.
How We Wrote a Self-Hacking Game in C++
And yes my queue is long and intended as well. So I can relate to having “too much interesting”.
But who is saying they will build their own car? AppleTV is a good example, remember how long an actual Apple Television was rumoured?
Peacock pose: "[...] oneself is raised like a horizontal stick holding the floor with both palms while the body is supported by the elbows"
(Cited Wikipedia entry with image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayurasana)
It would help to see performance benchmarks against blas or armadillo, etc.
Bribe a guard, install a hardware keylogger on random workstation, steal corporate login password, and go from there.
I'm getting "Internal Server Error" when visiting the site.
hope this applies to Russians too
If I understand the way the process works, no. The credit card is attached (via privacy.com) to a checking account via ACH. So if you get a refund (or perform a chargeback) on one of your credit cards, then the resulting funds are just deposited into your checking account.
[Re:] the same article we are talking about...

[===>] https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
I was very sad to hear about this.
Terry always had a special place in my heart and I'm sad to hear of his passing.
I don't think I'll ever forget him.
"just plant a few trees" sounds pretty dismissive.

Trees are effective at capturing carbon and building with timber is an effective way to lock up that carbon for a long time.
Most Final Fantasy undead monsters are vulnerable to healing or life-giving magic/items.
He commented/posted as "losethos" for a while.
I was thinking that too. It's bought up a lot if you watch retro gaming videos that talk about this era. Doom was an incredibly fast game. It's pretty technically amazing to think about how the game was constructed to run so smoothly on a 386.

The game can still be jump-scary after all these years with the way the levels and sound effects are designed.
They could easily buy one to instantly become a major player.

How much thicker do you think the margins would be on a Ford if it carried an Apple logo and access to their walled garden on the software end?
Tarrant is a very fast-growing county. The population has doubled over 20 years. Be interesting to see 2008 and 2012 results to see if there is a trend.
I think that was in KQ4? Those games were all pretty much impossible to solve without a hint book or getting help on Prodigy/Compuserve back in the day.
I don't see any comments in this thread making personal attacks on Holmes on any grounds - gender-based or otherwise.

Comments on HN threads about Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Travis Kalanick and other high-profile male founders accused of ethical failings are routinely very personal and vitriolic - and fair enough. But there's nothing of that nature aimed at Holmes in this thread.

I'm sympathetic to concerns about double standards in the treatment of people in tech on gender grounds, but this doesn't seem to be an example of it.

The moderators here work hard to stamp out abusive comments, and regular users generally take care to avoid making them and to flag any such comments made by others.

I think the flagging of your comment is most likely because people are disappointed to see an accusation of misogyny where there isn't really any evidence of it.
Knowing assembly made me a better C programmer. I still remember this tech interview I had with a Seattle based company (no, not MSFT) many years ago. The interviewer was trying to twist and turn all kinds of C-pointer questions, but knowing how the code translated to assembly made the whole thing a breeze. I got the job but didn't take it, and I somewhat regret that.
No one said that lead is the only driver of crime. So lead and economic factors along with other causes can all jointly affect crime ratesand therefore correlate with it.
what you wrote makes no sense, can you provide an example scenario?