skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again for your reply,
I am also getting information from my brother related to politics and sports since he keeps a closer eyes on this topics.

I agree is impossible to have a rigorous way of comparing the party corruption but I think that always the party in power will use all it can to win the next election, like voting populist laws, changing electoral rules and here in Romania attacking the justice department that is investigating the politicians and changing laws so most corrupt politicians won't be put in jail but keep their freedom.
You can check Feedbro as an alternative to Brief:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader

I was a long time user of Brief but moved away during the transition to webextensions. Although Brief worked there were some performance issues at the time (maybe solved now?). Both provide a similar user experience, and are the two best RSS readers I used so far.
Goodhart's law is entirely applicable to management (adding scientific in front doesn't actually mean anything). That is one of the prime areas of applicability. People change their behavior to increase a metric at the cost of decreasing other more important things.
>While it sure is pretty, it's really jarring when you're working in CL. Where are the parens? How the heck does this parse?

Note that the compiler will often tell you if the LOOP is wrongly written, at compile-time.

It is ugly to some. I love it. On imperative programming, a big part of programming is doing iteration. LOOP makes iterative code read easier, natural, as you sample code snippet proves. LOOP looks like that because it's a DSL; it is a DSL tailored for doing iteration.

>How do I figure out what magic keywords are available within this loop macro? It's maddening!

Yeah, but then it comes on second nature.

Again, you're not forced to use LOOP, there are alternatives like ITERATE.
Saying this in public can cause someone to actually follow your advice without consulting a doctor and, well, u know, die.
Thanks for the useful feedback — we took a different approach to see if we could redefine the border of what "UX conventions" are on the web. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it's... different.

Fortunately we didn't expend a tremendous amount of effort building the page. Here's the preview link to the actual landing page for those curious: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/g-r-i-d?utm_source=g-r-i...
The purpose of this whole thing was to manipulate the market. Super Micro stock fell 50% and still has not recovered since October 4th. Before the report its trading volume was invisible. After the report the volume experienced almost 2 orders of magnitude increase.
I would not call "setting internal structures to fight against each other" an example of free market.

A company thinking thats a better strategy and failing and going bust is a great one though.
Don't confuse the language with the ability to program.

I lost count the amount of times I have fixed junior code doing what should be background stuff written on the main thread, for loops instead of System.arraycopy, allocating memory in loops and lots of other stuff due to lack of proper teaching.

As for Android, the real time audio stack is fully native and Google had to learn from Samsung how to do it properly.
Totally anecdotal but I lost 40 pounds in 4 months with IF and I still worked out 4-5 days a week in the mornings. I found it very very easy to follow and my body had very little trouble adapting
I have been doing IF for a month or two now. Hard to really quantify it's effects since I've been eating much better and going to the gym during that same time period. Either way I think it's useful if only as a way to make eating at a calorie deficit easier. My biggest gripe is that it's basically impossible to have a social nightlife on the weekends if you can't eat or drink after 8pm
Some black hats also patch the systems they compromise. Depends on the purpose.
It's not a matter of being offended if you just want some gray-hat to mind his own business.
I've been thinking about this lately. What if the web fundamentally was data collection of what a person is doing, and then things hang off that. Right now it is a collection of information that you can 'find'. Like your photos, web history, and fitbit would be generating your profile which is the fundamental part of the web, not the 'addressable places to get javascript apps' we have now.

Anyway that's as far as I got. Good luck and let me know how it goes.
> all functions of an OCR engine outside of character recognition per se

Actually, depending upon how 'obfuscated' an author was attempting to be, you might need that OCR engine itself.

PDF allows for defining arbitrary mappings from byte values to font glyphs. So one could define byte value 32 (decimal, usually ASCII space) to actually map to printing, say, a capitol letter Z instead. One is supposed to provide a reverse mapping table when one does this that says "a decimal 32 byte prints a capitol letter Z" to allow for search and extraction purposes. But the PDF spec. does not require this reverse table be present.

So it is quite possible to randomly assign font glyphs to arbitrary byte values, and omit the reverse mapping table. The result would be that extracting data back out of that PDF results in garbage if one does not know beforehand what the mapping from byte value to glyph was.

So, if a 'bad actor' did this, one's only recourse to retrieving data would be to rasterize the PDF to a bitmap, then OCR the resulting bitmap to extract the content back out.
There are many out there who praise Ayn Rand, but I often find it illustrative to consider their actions over their words. My reading of Objectivism as described in Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, would value the contributions of an entrepreneur building something of value to society over financial engineering that destroys value. Rand is also often carried as a banner by those with whom I'm not convinced she would agree.
> So I just fasted, and now I want to do intense cardio.... but I might run out of glycogen or blood sugar

Isn’t that where ketosis comes in? Your body can break down fat and provide energy through ketones.

Some proponents of intermittent fasting would probably argue that simply not eating at certain times is the simplest diet of all since it doesn’t require continually evaluating at each meal what a “reasonable” level of intake is.
God forbid should they actually do this and cure themselves of whatever said doctor is telling them is a life long ailment. Unbelievable the brainwashing out there.
For athletes, how does one reconcile IF with the idea that one should eat protein at regular intervals? They seem to conflict.

https://www.climbing.com/skills/climbing-nutrition-how-much-...
In tech we trust?
Exactly. There must always be an assumption that abuse happened.
Every ad I see is writ across my retina. It fades as the photosensitive opsin chemicals replenish.

Every ad I hear is injected into my phonological loop. It fades as the neural activity drops back to normal.

An ad is an ad is an ad is an ad is an ad. It does not matter whether it reaches my brain from a computer monitor, a television screen, a radio speaker, or newsprint. I have the choice to attend to it, or not.

The argument here is that ads viewed or heard by robots will probably never reach a human brain. The computer-delivered ads make different types of metering and targeting possible, but they also make the advertiser vulnerable to automated exploits and automated blocking.

In print, you can extrapolate from statistical modeling and circulation numbers. In television and radio, the same can be done with ratings numbers. On the Internet, there are so many possible metrics. The problem is the advertisers started an arms race they cannot win, because they had to make themselves more useful than the media companies' internal advertising departments.

Those guys could sell fractions of a page of static ads. Those ads get served with the same content, every time someone reads the paper. Any targeting has to be based on the predicted audience for the content itself. Men's razors advertised in the sports section; the exact same razors but marketed to women advertised in the lifestyle section. Car, boat, and RV dealers advertised in the business news section. If the online edition of newspapers embedded their own non-scripted copy of static print ads, served from their own servers, from the same places as their article images and stock photos, nobody would bother trying to block them. That's just what newspaper articles look like, to everyone that remembers when they were actual papers that got delivered by kids on bicycles.

The ad services that sucker media companies into using them are worth 1000 times less than the ads served in-house, because of all their clever nonsense they attempted in order to trick the media-companies into using them. I don't need to block dumb ads; I might want to, but I don't need to. I do need to block ads that run scripts and set cookies, because they hijack my own resources to make my experience across the entire web worse. There is nothing inherent wrong with writing an article that has a permanent, static set of ads in it.

Old media had the full-page, half-page, quarter-page, per-column-inch, and classified ads. A new media article can be pasted into a template, with a fixed number of advertising slots. Show the article template to your registered advertisers, who know your standards for the slots, and let them buy specific slots for specific articles, categories of article, or anywhere on the site. Paste the approved ads into the slots for them, and archive the article page. That's now what the site serves whenever the URL is requested, forevermore. It's the same as going to the library and looking up a newspaper microfiche page from October 15, 1985; the ads are still the same, and just got one more impression.
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Since this is the thread that took off for feature removal - I'll copy/paste a response I had in another thread that didn't foster more discussion.

I've reinstalled a backup I kept of FF 36 - my entire workflow has slowly been gutted over the years.

1) With FF 41 I could no longer set my New Tab page to my Home Page without an add-on. As of Firefox 57 the add-on became buggy if you regularly and quickly try to { Ctrl+T -> Ctrl+L -> Begin typing URL } due to limitations with the Web Extension API. [0]

2) Lost Tab Groups as of FF 45 (the add-on isn't a full replacement of old functionality)

3) Lost many, many, many addons with FF 57 including a very specific tab management that an addon called FireGestures allowed for: using a context menu to navigate my tabs.

4) Lost Bookmark descriptions with FF 62, also lost the Developer Toolbar

5) Now losing Live Bookmarks with FF 64

I no longer recommend FF as the "power user" browser but as the "I dislike Google and want a good browser that isn't Chrome" browser. If you're a power user of some uncommonly used feature, expect it to be removed at some point. I'd love to see how Pocket usage is measured and the statistics of how many people use that trash that they have shoved down users' throats since FF 38.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...
Or, do like Kanye, and use a trash password when you know you're sure to be shoulder surfed. Then change it later.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong here. Publicly traded companies have to declare their risks. Cue share holder lawsuits if an identified risk was ignored and caused material damage.
One of the justifications from the article:

> feed previews and live bookmarks are both used in around 0.01% of sessions.

I'm curious the source of this data, seeing as I've switched to Firefox due to privacy concerns.
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>That a footgun can be occasionally be handled carefully does not erase the fact that it's a footgun.

You know, there are languages that don't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, because they don't allow any guns.

I prefer languages with power.

>The ability to modify the read table on the fly is for certain super interesting, but IMHO very dangerous.

> I am glad that the languages I use on a daily basis do not have this capability, for certain.

Reader macros are there to be used when they are necessary. And in those cases, they make ALL the difference in the world. In such cases, the "languages that do not have this capability" will require a lot of code, often hard to maintain, to achieve the same result.

So, i prefer languages with guns.

>Macros like these are un-lispy, and really never should have been included.

LOOP wasn't included on a whim. Read about the Common Lisp standard creation, it was based on at least a decade of experience writing Lisp for "serious" stuff.
The paper is OA, and the supplemental has the videos. S5 and S6 are the best.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-018-0044-7#Sec14
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Don't you worry that if you email spammy/virus-laden links then your email address could get flagged?
hey here is the full code starting from data loading to housing the viz on a dom node.

https://jsfiddle.net/adarshlilha/8n5a94j1/20/

Does this help?
Because it is imprecise and dismissive.
Will this work across NATs?
>an example of free market.

What's the real difference?
This is hollywood material.
I would love browsers to split document-mode (think static content) and application mode (think single-page web app).

Yeah, exactly. A given page should be able to request "application mode" and the user should be able to say "OK" or "NO", or just navigate away if they don't want an "application" doing stuff.

For our SPA we have needs that are not related to documents (restricting the viewport zoom, fixed toolbars at top and bottom, preferably hide browser URL and toolbars). Heaps of modern browser functionality such as WebWorkers and notifications is only really relevant to web apps.

Yep, yep. Glad I'm not the only one who agrees with this. I've been thinking about floating this idea for a while, but I kinda figured everybody would just say "that's stupid". :-)
Yea, it's a pretty transformational layout paradigm for the web. The crazy thing is less than 1% of websites use it: https://twitter.com/ebidel/status/1034874571747291136?s=19
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> if you can actually do something paradoxical, like killing your grandfather.
... before certain crucial event in his life, you mean, I assume.

How exactly does having a superluminal telephone imply I could change history? Changing history is the paradoxical part - don't assume it can happen.
"Didn't say no" is a very, very bad standard for consent.
Prediction: 99% of sites would signal "I'm an application", including those that obviously are content sites. The only ones who wouldn't (personal blogs and the like) are already pretty usable, so they wouldn't gain much.
Python, React, R, and we're actively killing off PHP. Infrastructure is AWS and Docker. Unfortunately, the company is not pro-remote :(
Either one. It's more about a founder who has decided they don't want VC money, or the idea is such that it could not raise VC funds (because it doesn't have the potential to be a unicorn).
This requires [et c.]

Or, they could run their own fabrication facilty, where they can exert total control over the production line, in total secrecy, and you'd never know the difference, or notice a sacrifice in the fidelity of replication.

Think that's impossible? Not at the nation-state level. Not in communist countries where everything is property of the government by default. Not in capitalist countries like the United States, where entire nuclear facilities are replicated in secret. [0]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-built-a-secret-replic...
How about attempts to abuse the vulnerability in the months since?
Objectivism really is a vacant and pretty incoherent "philosophy." It's no surprise she presented in in the form of tedious novels with wooden characters rather than engaging with actual philosphers.

I think its popularity is due to the fact that it tells people what they want to hear, and they can think of themselves as John Galt-esque ubermenschen.
For those trying to parse this thread (like myself), "perpetual copyright" refers to the "CLASSICS Act" that's bundled with the Music Modernization Act. It retroactively extends federal copyright protection to recordings from 1923 to 1972, up to 2067 for recordings between '57 and '72.

IMO it's not the worst, but it opens the door to more Mickey Mouse antics further down the road.
The “Trusting Trust” argument comes up a lot as the final counter in this line of reasoning. It’s not and work continues.

Do check out David Wheeler’s 2009 thesis on Double Diverse Compiling for instance: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
We tried campfire and found that mapping chat to projects didn't make sense when what we really wanted was an office banter space. It was even harder to track meaningful conversations!

Also, not enough fun integrations for our team. We have all sorts of custom bots, emoji, and such. ;)
This needs a title change to the article's actual title:

"A diet guru explains why you should eat dinner at 2pm"

The submitted title:

"Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting and ADF diets work"

is bad because the article doesn't appear to [1] use the term "ADF" anywhere. Google tells me that probably stands for "Alternate Day Fasting", which also doesn't appear to be anywhere in the article.

[1] I'm saying "appear to" because I've been burned before by browser search functions missing something because the site did something like have some markup interrupt a word or maybe have some invisible character in the middle of it.
Nobody is saying that they shouldn't be able to, rather that they should be informed as to what they're doing so they can actually make that decision. Without knowing what is happening, they cannot make an informed decision.
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These are good suggestions, thanks! I'm noting them down...
Hats off to this guy.
The empty list and NIL are the same, but you aren't forced to use lists for everything on Common Lisp. You have arrays etc etc.
No, what makes Carmack interesting is his discussions about highly technical topics at a moderately advanced level. There are plenty of people who are more than happy to explain what functional programming is at a basic level for laypersons. Carmack is not that.

I assume you're American because of your need to dumb everything down instead of respecting intellectualism as is.
Most site admins aren't really aware/in-charge of the javascript on their pages.

Most webmaster@ or admin@ e-mails aren't monitored at all, or so flooded with spam that it's easy for things to get lost.
No. Advertisers were unwilling to pay the same amounts because 1. there were 100 other places where they could reach as many eyeballs for 1/10th the cost, and 2. there were indications that people's attention is completely different between screen and print, and thus the effectiveness of the ads was much lower per viewer.
How is it a fiasco? He wanted to gut the place and get the real estate.

He gutted the place and got the real estate.

It's a heist, not a fiasco
I dislike articles like this as they continue to perpetuate the belief that there are secrets to weight loss. There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.

The problem is made worse because overweight people typically greatly underestimate how much they eat, while underweight people (me most of my life) typically greatly overestimate how much we eat. It's nearly impossible to accurately gauge calorie intake without strict calorie counting.

When talking nutrition with people, I'll often bring up the examine.com piece on "does metabolism vary between two people?"(1) And I am always amazed to find at least one person in any conversation that will flat out deny the information presented there. they are positive that if they ate one single slice of pizza a day and nothing else, they would still be fat.

1: https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...
It could probably be argued that the standard is ambiguous as what content goes where is up to the creator of it. However, I think as a user it's fairly obvious that using it for clickbait and teaser headlines/articles rather than at least a complete thought is abusive. It's probably a non-trivial part of the reason its popularity with end users has waned in the much the same way spam polluted peoples email inboxes.
This looks really cool. You put a lot of effort into it, and it's noticable.
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If that study was isocaloric, then good for them for adding some human data to the existing animal data.

I'll qualify my remark: most people who practice restricted eating hours in some way won't count calories or aggressively try to ensure they otherwise eat the same amount and type of food, and thus the mechanism for benefits will be largely that of calorie restriction.
This whole saga with Eddie Lambert is a great example of how the rich fail upward.
Bitcoin itself is all about mining arbitrary puzzles, there is really no more fitting way to give it away than this.
It’s common terminology when referring to fasting, and it’s pretty clear from context. Apply the principle of charity: it’s highly unlikely that the author is making the ludicrous claim that people on average are literally eating food constantly for 14.75 hours a day.
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You may be right. And honestly, I haven't spent a ton of time yet thinking about all the ways "content mode" and "application mode" would differ. A couple of obvious ideas jump out, but there's probably more to be said about this.

It might also be that the right thing to do is have a fine-grained permission model where pages request specific capabilities from the browser, and the user can allow or deny, with the ability to revoke permissions if abused, or white-list sites in advance, etc.
Simple. Don’t track. Figure out another business model. Or die off.
Why do I care if something like this is "burdensome" to businesses?
>The one that kills me, every time I look at CL, is the lack of a real Boolean type. Maybe I'm nuts, but that really isn't acceptable in this century.

There is a boolean type in CL. You can declare variables as boolean and they will be enforced to hold the T and NIL boolean values.

>Maybe I'm nuts, but that really isn't acceptable in this century.

Perhaps you haven't realized this: Booleans are all over the place in CL, they are first class: Any value is true in CL, except the NIL value, which is synonym with the empty list (). This sounds strange, but makes perfect sense in practice and makes writing code really easy.
"Thanks for the info, I'll check this out :)"

There, nothing was admitted.
Am I meant to know who Jason Fung is? Means nothing to me.
I didn't agree to any of that. I took a box from a shelf and paid for it.
Most people here expect evidence after an assertion. They are especially critical of use of terms like "brainwashing" in posts devoid of evidence. Food for thought.
Thanks for the links! I see your point, but lots of people wouldn’t know about this if it was just a press release. I know I don’t have enough time to check for them.