skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I believe fasting is safe your logic is flawed. If I following your logic, what would the answer be to "Is it safe to not brush your teeth or visit the dentist"

It's safe because humans had no access to dental hygiene. Think about it, humans had neither toothbrush or toothpaste. And there where no dentist. Humans had to go through life without proper dental hygiene.

Obviously, not taking good care of your teeth is not a good idea. Even though our ancestors didn't.
There is a difference between non-repeatable in same state and non-scientific. Applying absolute standards of rigor is ironically also unscientific.

We know that hyperinflation is a way to screw over an economy utterly. It can and will fail and in the best case be the equivalent of dissolving the currency and going bankrupt.

The most benign form of it that may not techically count would involve massive growth as well and the devaluation wouldn't be a pathology but a reflection that yes, a well honed spear, flint knives, a badket, and a few carved bone pieces of jewelry may have been respectable wealth for nomadic hunter-gathers but aren't really worth anything compared to even the contents of a jalopy in the great depression.

Just a steel knife or pot would be grand artifacts because they are better in performance than anything else they could find.

That their old currency isn't worth anything is reflective of the fact that past production has been rendered obsolete and the old goods are worth little.
What? Facebook will happily take your money to advertise pretty much anything and everything, it doesn't matter where the payment is eventually taken.
The Latest of the Greatest: Samsung's Newest Offerings Are on the Table
Have you ever worked at a bank (or another dead atmosphere place)?
You get used to it after a while. The hardest part I found was social pressure to eat. So much of our culture revolves around eating that it's hard to do IF with any schedule where you leave out dinner time.

So skipping breakfast is super easy (IMHO) and skipping dinner is nigh impossible.

Skipping lunch highly depends on how pressured you feel to eat with your colleagues. I think one meal a day (usually named OMAD) is also not hard if you don't have lunch at work.
tl;dr: yes it mostly is.
Unit tests / automated tests are critical.

If you're lucky, you will have a suite of unit tests and automated tests with high code coverage. Rely heavily on these tests as you refactor and debug.

If you don't have working tests, consider writing them before making any major change.
Those sound like different questions. The original is asking if it is theoretically plausible. I don’t think that’s out of line.
= sha1("The title of the article will distract HN readers from the content.")
I am on mobile, couldn’t find the original article but this one seems good enough. Please take a look.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fiber-famished-gu...
>It also makes sense from religious perspective, since a religion will prepare you for another life which is only attainable by dying, with no apparent intention to give you a good and healthy life on Earth.

I'm not seeing the connection; religion allegedly prepares people for life after this one, so it encourages suicidal tendencies like fasting? I's biased because I'm religious and have generally fasted once a month or so, but I imagine it's more to develop delayed gratification and gain insight into the self, similar to meditation.
From what I heard it's not terribly hard to improve depression symptoms for a short time. Interventions with long-term effects are harder to come by.
In practice, actual hate speech (the respective local legal norm, not the battle cry) doesn't govern what you can say but how you can say it.

Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to formulate many of his statements in compliance with local hate speech regulations. Far from all of them, though. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen#Issues_and_p...
The US government just needs to rebrand itself as an app store & platform, and we'd be done with all this controversy around tax rates.
That's pretty common in America too
GHCQ’s “Exceptional Access”, E2EE, Decentralization, and Reproducible Builds
The different technology jobs in investment banks
Eniac Programmers Project
People should be more aware of this, especially if you go to work for a couple years at a high-value Unicorn company where your strike price might be something crazy like $25. If you don't ride it through to exit, you may very well either be trapped, or gamble that they will have an exit in the future. You may easily be spending $60K or 150K to exercise your options and have no market to liquidity them.

Naturally, this is counter-balanced by you not giving up on your base compensation when you go to work at such a company and you mentally treat the stock perk as an incentive to get you through the rough work patches.

I'd be really curious about people's experience who worked at some of the more famous unicorns and left already. Maybe at a company like Uber or AirBnb?

Edit: I don't know if Uber issues RSUs or anything. I'm only basing on my knowledge that I know there's Unicorn valued companies out there with late stage round raises that offer options at what seems like grossly high prices.
> To avoid the annoying seconds in which vIM would freeze during tasks like syntax-checks, neovim lets you run jobs asynchronously.

Vim 8 also has asynchronous tasks, as well as a builtin terminal emulator. So there is not much of a reason to use Neovim (except Lua scripts, maybe?).
IF seems relatively commonplace at this point. That said, its physiological value over other calorie restrictive diets is dubious:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/108/5/933/520...
Monday coffee (or tea, mostly tea), Tuesday snack and dinner, Wednesday cofee, Thursday snack and dinner, Friday just dinner, Saturday three meals (or more or less) and Sunday three meals (or more or less).

I'm able to focus any day. Some months I do 1 week when I fast Monday, Tuesday and I eat dinner on Wednesday; body reboot.

I began to fast gradually and this is what I consider my optimal IF method.
Jokes on you, I was an Esports "athlete" (World of Tanks)! :P
Depends on what you consider "smarter" of course. At the moment, the best AI is much smarter at chess than any 4 year old. AI is also better at translating text to different languages. It's better at driving cars.

But there are still many things a 4 year old can do that no AI can do.

Sometimes I feel like our AI research is leading us to consider ourselves increasingly unintelligent rather than our computers more intelligent. It's leading us to question what we really mean by the word "intelligence". Is it being good at certain skills? Is it being able to acquire arbitrary skills? Does it matter how much guidance we or the AI needs in order to learn?
Show HN: Gossipr.io – Ephemerial and Linkable Group Chats
I Still Make Silly Mistakes
I am confused by some of the comments in here who seem to see no food intake for more than 36 hours as dangerous or even pathological or assume that you need to somehow "prepare" for that or take certain precautions. Is this a cultural thing?

When I was I student, I ate one meal a day, maybe some snacks in between. Very often, I went without food for a day, simply because I was too lazy / too emerged in some project to leave the house to buy food. Eating the last meal on Sunday evening, not eating on Monday, eating again on Tuesday evening - 48 hours without food. I did this many, many times, and still (in my early 30ies) do it occasionally, again just because I am too lazy to buy food sometimes. It never occurred to me that this could be considered "fasting", because neither did I feel any different after going 48 hours without food, nor did I lose any measurable amount of weight from it.

Days, weeks or even months without food was pretty much the norm until ~150 years ago. If a day, or even a week without eating would be seriously dangerous to your body, mankind would've become extinct a long, long time ago.
ClassDojo, an app to help teachers and parents communicate better, raises $35M
It always has potholes. Have been there several times and you can tell they patch it but the heavy excavation vehicles and the temperature probably play a big part. City folk underestimate what true darkness really is, and each time I have been we always have the same thought as you but you get so captivated in this unique environment that you just don't want to leave!

Also for folks not familiar with USA roads, you can be on a State Highway, US Highway, or even the Interstate system and still be pothole ridden. Every state has jokes about their roads being the worst and the neighboring being the best (and they all think they are unique). Just the nature of roadways and government management.
That's odd. I'm certain I've used the one you're referring to in the last few years.
Great! It's precisely how trivial stuff will be handled in the future, whether we like it or not and I am glad something like your company popped up. Could you please recommend any papers your approach is based on? Thank you!

Future extension you are likely considering could be voice/gesture driven development, or "natural language" programming, where one can use this combination naturally like talking to another person, describing what kind of app one needs and how it should look like.
ChromecastingCall – Chromecast Screensaver for Crowd-Sourced Movie Clips
Simple Linux/Mac app that detects when your Chromecast is idle and plays short movie scenes selected by reddit users on the subreddit /r/ChromecastingCall.
Claims Denials and Appeals in ACA Marketplace Plans
Once we can rigorously define what "smarter than a four-year-old" means, then yes. But until we even know what we are talking about, no.
FB is charging a premium for accessing an economy of scale (audience).

As a content creator that charges $25/mth, would you rather:
1. Patreon - 500 subs 25x500x.95=$12,500 rev
2. FB - 5K subs 25x5000x.70=$87,500 rev

10x growth doesn't seem unrealistic given FB's scale and $$ motivation to grow your audience
Interesting question! I would assume that some invoice must be generated, but it can be in electronic form (e-mail). Getting this right internationally is still a major problem as far as I'm aware, but would love to know if there is a (cheap enough) service that solves it...
Have you guys run FuzzBuzz against FuzzBuzz? If so, how many bugs did you find?
I'm not picking on you in particular, but this is a rather annoying argument that people bring up that is utterly nonsensical. Companies can and do cause harm to individuals. No they can't put you in jail but they can otherwise isolate you from society via making you unemployable, revealing personal information to social embarrass you, or barring you from essential services to function in modern society. To pretend they aren't is to be in denial to the scope and power and of modern companies. I say all this as an ardent capitalist for what it's worth.
Psychology and the Allure of Conspiracy Theories
You may be underestimating the snacking then. Your body starts missing a lot of nutrients after going without food for so long
Right, the title of the article is inane.

Brains just process information. Computers process information and we continue to make them better at it. Eventually, computers will process information at least as well as brains do for various definitions of "well".

https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without...
Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
It was actually pretty close to that at that time; at one point I thought it was like $16,000, but I'm not sure.
Most editors have at least regex search / replace. Most regex flavours allow you to do '\<i\>' or similar to specifiy word boundaries.
Without neovim, there would probably still be no asynchronous tasks in vim.

Sometimes a little bit of competition is very well perceived.

Others will probably chime in with the technical merits of neovim but for me, this reason alone is good enough.
Really? This is good news. I thought they just lured with Elixir but actually had a legacy Ruby app to maintain :)
The answer is yes. Ever is a very long time.
You might have misunderstood me: 48 hours without food were 48 hours without food. I ate the snacks on days when there was food in the house. Or do you already consider 1 meal a day + snacks fasting?
This appears to be the same algorithm used by ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) for searching when SIMD/AVX is enabled. Specifically, it uses the algorithm Teddy from the library that’s derived from this paper.
Fyi. HN has flagged it ( lower ranking ) and removed European and 0 commission from the title without moderation comment ? ... :(
I'd feel more comfortable with a Stripe branded off-site transaction if that's the case. Get that credit card field off of the seedy untrusted site.
The commenter didn't conflate anything. They defined the legal parameters under which freedom of speech actually exists in the United States. You can insist on talking about this idealistic normative if you want, but in common parlance it's reasonable to refer to the legal concept by the colloquial term.

You know how you can say whatever you want on the street, but I can make you leave my house for whatever reason I want? Same idea. Free speech is only a coherent concept in public spaces. Otherwise my right to private property would be impaired by your right to say whatever you want in my dojo.

As for your last question...I mean, really? "What's the point?" Are you actually asking this in good faith? Go take a look at any country which doesn't have freedom of speech or freedom of the press. How about being able to say what I want without being disappeared in the middle of the night? If Twitter bans someone for hate speech you honestly believe that's comparable to something like Khashoggi's assassination?

You're quoting Voltaire like the stakes for private and public censorship are the same but that's utterly ridiculous.
Cron Expression to English Translator
They look great!

Somehow like the Jetsons, where everything was modern but with a view on how people at that time thought "modern" would look like.

One could argue about the price, but around 15k Euro isn't too expensive after all.
AMA with CodingHorror, Jeff Atwood from Stack Overflow
Nope,chemistry was my thing. Went all the way to the International Science Fair (high school) and won big there. Then got a National Merit, had choices of Hopkins, Stanford, etc., but stayed at Bama for family reasons (sick mom). To be fair, I also cared a lot about radio & computing, so switching to EE wasn't a big shock, but better career prospects w/o having to do a PhD.
The OP's point was that adding "ever" in the title means the question isn't just relevant to our current understanding of what is theoretically plausible but it also doesn't exclude some currently unknown theory that might be derived at a distant point in the future.

While I do see - and to an extent agree with - their point, I there is a lot more wrong with that heading than just the lack of a contextual end date.
Antecedent about Steve Jobs telling a contractor to drop out of college
AMA confirmation: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1100870668793434112
What distinguishes a Twitter or Facebook from a phone company? At scale these platforms have become vital to public communication in the same way as certain utilities. Perhaps it would be better if businesses facilitating speech communication had to classify as a common carrier or utility. As a carrier they would get exemption from speech liability and in exchange democracy -- which needs free public discourse -- can function. Any business entity that gains too much power over the public discourse will inevitably gain undue influence over the future of politics. Do we not all lose if that happens?
Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change
I think salt with the bigger "meatier" tomatoes is a must, however the smaller varieties are better straight.
On traditional phones. Skype shall be banned, of course.
I thought this was supposed to be a joke. The title would have worked well as:

Slang: language mechanisms for extensible real-time trading systems
>Obviously, not taking good care of your teeth is not a good idea. Even though our ancestors didn't.

TBF our ancestors weren't eating much
Honestly, if we can ditch the myopic "quarterly perspectives," I think we can improve some, though the bottom's still gonna be what it is.
> society has reached the point where we do not apply intristic value to a baby inside the womb, only outside the womb

This is completely false, and a typical mischaracterisation of abortion by anti-choice advocates. If what you said were true, abortion would generally be permitted up until the moment of birth. Yet virtually nobody wants that. Abortions are performed in extremely early stages of gestation. Where exactly to set the cutoff point is a touchy subject, but there’s a broad consensus that (with few exceptions) abortions are only permissible while the foetus hasn’t developed a connected central nervous system yet, has no functioning pain reception and no higher brain functions (in fact, in most countries the cutoff is considerably earlier than even that).

In other words, “society” does not apply an intrinsic value to a clump of cells (if it did, chemotherapy and amputation would be similarly ethically problematic). Instead, value is derived through tangible qualities, such as thought, and pain reception. Disagree all you want but don’t invent irrational reasons because they’re easier to attack. That’s deeply dishonest.
Why not just use an enum for the switch, and if strings need to reflect the enum, use an xmacro to expand the enum into an array of strings?

https://github.com/glouw/andvaranaut/blob/master/src/Theme.c
Writing Reviewable Code
This a12z podcast episode is about gaming but at 2:00 they talk about interacting with Steve Jobs. Including telling the guy that his mouse copy was [terrible]. And Steve Jobs complained about the smell of the contractor's office because it was above a Burger King.
The trouble with IT job descriptions
>"Can I massively lock things down, remove features and simplify things to the absolute bear minimum?"

I feel like a CMS generally gets too complicated after the first three or four bears, but if you only have one bear protecting your datums it may get lonely and eat them out of boredom; I'd recommend two as the bear minimum.
1. It is not freedom of speech, if the consequence of speach is death.

2. If the country considers freedom of speech a right, shouldn’t the country make serious attempts to protect it? It does so for other human rights.
In my mind at least the 30% fee was the price for access to the audience.
Breakthrough Technologies 2019, Curated by Bill Gates
Its probably going to take a month to get familiar with the code base if it has enough complexity. Most companies aren't all that good about documentation.
Read a lot of code!

Spend time reading code in the codebase even if it doesn’t seem to make sense, even if you don’t think you’ll need to know that part of the code. Keep reading until it starts to make sense.

My trick has always been to just read. I even avoid tools that automatically navigate the code because I like to just read it until I know where things are.
> Days, weeks or even months without food was pretty much the norm until ~150 years ago.

People also died younger 150 years ago. Humans as a population are much healthier today overall—we shouldn't look to how we lived 100+ years ago for health guidance.

(I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the crux of your post, as I don't feel knowledgable enough to weigh in)
State of Site Search 2019
"Here is an easy way to prove me wrong: Find the minimum of a pure python function quickly, with whatever python tool you want, without having to deal with the enormous python function call overhead, without rewriting the function. Imagine this function is deep down in another library and it uses a bunch of 3rd party libraries."

Have you tried that yet?
I agree with your points on AI being better at certain tasks, except of course regarding translation. There are definitely bilingual 4-year-olds who translate better than the state of the art machine translator.

You could maybe say a machine translator can poorly translate a greater set of strings, including highly-technical strings. But a 4-year-old easily can translate a greater proportion of strings correctly or at least intelligibly.
Most people find that hard to believe. IMHO I think we eat mostly out of habit. I found out what hunger really is after fasting a lot.
GitXiv Is No More
"X+Y years of experience with THING that has only existed X years" is my favorite red flag.
‘Miraculous’ stem cell therapy has sickened people in five states
Yeah that would certainly be a better approach.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big
The distinguishing factor is considered being a general intelligence. I.e. the ability to learn solving new tasks in many different problem domains and adapting while applying it.
Fedora.
Who fasts with distilled water? Is this a thing now?

It's dangerous because it will dilute electrolyte concentrations in your body. Drink tap/bottled water. Distilled water is completely unnatural to the body and should only be consumed in emergencies when you literally have nothing else. Even then it's still probably not a good idea.

There's literally no benefit to choosing distilled water over tap/bottled water.
Good point. Trying to equalize the retreats for time of year, weather, and other externalities could get tough. But with a big enough sample size maybe those features would be levelled out.
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Roelof
You can complain to me on twitter ;)
If wl_list was required to be the first member of the struct, the wl_container_of() FLM becomes trivial. This implementation comes from the kernel though, where a single item might be in multiple lists.
Why Do We Crave Sweets When We’re Stressed?
It's worth mentioning that what both of these are talking about are rewrites using a new project in a all or nothing stake. Iterative rewrites are not subject to these caveats.
I have no problem with the government spending tax money on things but resources are not infinite (eventually you run out of other people's money) and in lieu of that they should not be spending taxpayer money on services private entities are willing to provide.

What if private entities are willing to provide an essential service, but due to effects like lack of effective competition or economies of scale, most/all people wind up paying more direct to the profit-making private entity than they would via tax to a publicly funded service?
> Being fined or at least reprimanded for jaywalking is very common.

As one of the grandparent comments correctly pointed out, jaywalking is legal in Germany if the road is empty. (A policeman's instructions would override this rule, however.)

Source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__25.html