skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This following is completely unfounded, but I think that it would become a stigma to those who got it.

We are all driven by chemicals and everyone has their own preference on how to release dopamine and any other chemicals, be it exercise, drugs, alcohol, anything you can imagine. Getting a button to trigger such a strong response would mean a certain division in society, those who seek pleasure the new way or those who want to keep with the traditional way.

Overall I think that facilitating this would give people a huge (maybe too big) escape from reality and would certainly be abused.

Robin Cook had a plot about this (triggering orgasm-like responses on brains) many years ago in his book Brain:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529804.Brain
Let's look at this logically.

"We shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories liberated..."

liberated - freed from enemy occupation.

OK What could China do to achieve that? Break diplomatic ties? Economic sanctions as a huge importer of HK goods and services whilst 50s China's economy was a broken mess? Close the already mostly closed border? Write an angry letter?

What's left?

Invasion. What possible alternative interpretation can you suggest? Military blockade and starve them out? That's effectively war too, but with a much greater chance of escalating if you militarily prevent other nation's shipping...

"However, the present status of Hong Kong is to our benefit" ... "Through Hong Kong we can trade..."

Clearly the Chinese benefited from the huge economic success of Hong Kong so preferred not to invade or bomb the place to oblivion. They'd already backed off destabilising the Hang Seng as they got far more benefit from that decadent Western capitalism. The whole Chinese propaganda around the democracy of Hong Kong is exposed as blatant lie.

"is the West stronger than China or not? I am confused. If it is, then this threat means nothing."

Having had two of them nations generally seem to prefer avoiding a third world war. That one can doesn't always mean one wants to, even if one is as strong as the USA. Allies may not want to join to protect a territory being handed back in 50 years. Taiwan has no such time limit.

"Chinese government doesn't want HK do declare independence instead of returning to China"

Democratic elections are not declaring independence. The people of Hong Kong could have elected their own government whilst still being a British territory until 1997. The elected body would give local powers and the state would retain others. Just as California elects a government whilst remaining part of the USA. The fact that California and other US states have a state government does not make them independent nations. There is no Californian foreign policy, diplomatic service or military, that's for the nation - the USA.

Hong Kong would still have returned to China as agreed in the treaty, whilst retaining a local, democratic government. I imagine even cities in China have some form of city government - just they are entirely non-democratic. Of course it should be noted Hong Kong itself was granted in perpetuity.

As it turned out, China threw out many of the limited democratic changes Chris Patten made in 1994, as last Governor and put in place a much less democratic regime. Giving HKers the absurd "show elections" of the Chief Executive. Patten, who was hugely unpopular with Beijing for the reforms he did put through, did so in the hope that some might stick after handover.
Vulkan runs on Windows.
The key for me dropping 28lbs over the last year was calorie counting, after testing an article here about a guy who lost 100lbs. I can't find the link to his blog but it was absolutely amazing. Penn is right, the most effective stuff is the hard stuff, and calorie counting is very hard when there's just food everywhere.

The key for me to keeping the weight off though is exercise. I discovered rowing oddly enough, and I'm part of an indoor rowing studio. It's incredibly competitive but very low impact to your body. You can also burn 400+ plus calories in 20 minutes which is something sort of extraordinary.

I'm in the best shape of my life. None of my pants fit, even though my weight loss has leveled out my waistline continues to shrink as I firm up.
That's not the same as reading through your phone messages.

You have to assume that any message you send out is read by any number of parties. Any e-mail you send to a Gmail account, for instance, will be processed by Google for (among other things) advertising purposes. If you don't like that, you need to employ additional measures, such as PGP.
this was previously discussed on HN when the talk was first given: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131272

this talk has been finally posted on youtube so i have shared it here as many wanted to see the actual talk
I think you mean "Humans of New York"
While I don't agree at all with the views expressed in most of the banned videos, I think this move threatens not just free speech but any form of free and open inquiry. But I trust they did the math on this found what they did to be in the company's best interests at the end of the day.

YouTube needs better competitors.
You can raytrace by hand too, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no dedicated hardware support for it on any hardware shipped by Apple.

Raytracing is a not a problem that is well suited to GPUs since there are lots of data dependencies, which means parallelism is severely limited.
I agree with all other other replies (so far).

What I'll add is: focus on being crystal clear above making the challenge less challenging.

I subscribe to the idea that anxiety (and ADHD) is not 'disorder', but rather 'hyper-order'. it's characterized by an intense need, whether necessary or not, to bring order to things, and one of the ways to minimize the problem is to make the challenge 'orderly' before you make it less challenging.

The approach might be different for ADHD compared to anxiety, but I think the root desire of being provided with order is similar. I can't speak for the former (at least not with a diagnosis), but I can for the latter: I'd be happy to be faced with a difficult challenge, as long as it's clear what the stakes are. what the pay-off is, as well as the consequence on failure. I'd probably want regular feedback, and a reminder that nothing I do is the end of the world. In the case of ADHD in particular, I suppose I might want regular feedback specifically to find out if I'm going down a path that isn't worth it in the grand scheme of things.
There are two types of exercise aerobic and anaerobic.

Aerobic is easy exercise (walking, jogging, etc...) where the body can supply enough oxygen to oxidize glucose to convert to energy.

During Anaerobic or high intensity exercise the body can not supply enough oxygen, so a bunch of things happen including: 1.) the body begins needing to rely on lactic acid for energy instead of oxygen/glucose, and 2.) while the lactic acid is being used for energy the glucose (blood sugar) builds up (lactic acid also builds up which is why intense exercise can not be sustained for long periods).
JITs do more than just profile-guided optimizations. Their secret weapon is speculative optimizations that mean they don't need to work hard (and often fail) to prove the soundness of certain optimizations. They're allowed to guess and be wrong.
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I would say slow based on the past students I have mentored of the same age.

It's interesting that this individual wants to struggle through a certain mode of problem solving (which I allowed for some time just for learning experience) even after I eventually showed them the more efficient strategy.
Type II diabetic here.

I think "permanent remission" is a misleading phrase. I think a better phrasing would be along the lines of "...cutting out nearly all carbohydrates ... allows the diabetic to have 'normal' results for standard blood tests such as fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c."

My doctor said to me my last check-up, "These numbers are great! If a doctor were to see these, they wouldn't be able to tell you were a type II diabetic."

Me: "I'm cured?"

She looked at me: "Make no mistake: you CANNOT afford to gain ten pounds or to go back to your old way of eating. Those days are gone. If you go back, your symptoms will return in full bloom."

My insulin response is permanently broken, diet notwithstanding. As long as I don't slam my body with too much glucose, my impaired system can manage.
Even then, the responsibility wouldn't be on Facebook, but on the other person. Facebook can't contact you to inform you of anything before you send the message.
Frankly this makes me a little happier to live in the present. As much as ubiquitous surveillance is terrifying, it also makes this kind of bullshit on the part of those in power harder to get away with.
I was curious if there is any indication of vulnerability between Rowhammer attacks and running Memtest86, a procedure I've been doing on new builds for many years, and it's a program that IIRC tests for all sorts of RAM issues (usually just being plain faulty) by looking for bit flips.

Turns out they do test for Rowhammer vulnerability, though I am not expert enough to know how thorough this may be:

> Test 13 - Hammer Test:

> Starting from MemTest86 v6.2, potentially two passes of row hammer testing are performed. On the first pass, address pairs are hammered at the highest possible rate. If errors are detected on the first pass, errors are not immediately reported and a second pass is started. In this pass, address pairs are hammered at a lower rate deemed as the worst case scenario by memory vendors (200K accesses per 64ms). If errors are also detected in this pass, the errors are reported to the user as normal. However, if only the first pass produces an error, a warning message is instead displayed to the user.

https://www.memtest86.com/technical.htm
Which is always ironic, given that without Stallmann's GNU concepts, Linux would never have happened.

And most likely, given the BSD state back then, it would mean we would just keep using either commercial UNIXes, or Windows would have won the UNIX wars.

But lets get rid of Stallmann's GNU concepts.
Plenty of religious rituals involve fasting yet nobody considers those practitioners to have an eating disorder.
Well, it is ESR speaking...
RTX is a marketing term, not a new technology.
Cl-cpp-generator – A Common Lisp library to generate C/C++ code
The idea that ESR is a LBIP is laughable. Do not give this horrible person your hard earned money.
APIs win on technical merits and market tooling, not on feels good kind of thing.

Not at all, as someone that learned to program graphics when demoscene was all the rage, it is all about taking advantage of the hardware.

Professional game studios are more than used to have a thin layer to abstract each 3D API, which is a very small codebase from any game engine/middleware.
Second item from the top:

> gpsd

> gpsd is a service daemon that monitors a GPS attached to a serial or USB port, decodes the position/velocity/time information it sends, and republishes in a simple uniform format on an IANA-designated TCP/IP port. This enables multiple applications to read from a GPS without contention. The distribution also provides C and Python libraries to encapsulate the client side of talking with gpsd.

From the core team page on the following project (https://ntpsec.org/core-team.html), with at least one falsifiable claim:

> Eric S. Raymond has been the technical lead of GPSD, a close peer project of NTP and one of its principal time sources, since 2004. GPSD has billions of deployments in Android smartphones world wide and is a mission-critical component in most of the world’s drones and driverless cars and robot submarines.

The top item, where he's also the technical lead:

> NTPsec

> A stripped down-security-hardened and generally improved version of the NTP reference code. Features code bulk reduced by a factor of 4, better monitoring and diagnostic tools, and Network Time Security.

Aspires to become one, but it's early in the process to see if it'll succeed.

Those are projects I've vaguely followed over the years. Reading down the list, this claims to be one, and the claim is partially falsifiable:

> giflib

> The ubiquitous service library for rendering GIFs. I handed off the project 1994 to avoid problems with the U.S. patent system, but accepted back the lead in 2012. This code had the odd effect of making me virtually omnipresent; it seems nobody has ever bothered to write a replacement, and it's now ubiquitous in web browsers, cellphones and gaming consoles. In a nicely ironic touch, it earned me an appearance in the credits of the Microsoft XBox.
What software for a critical internet service or a library does ESR maintain? I checked his Wikipedia entry and have not found anything.
That said, there is a pretty wide gulf between

Paid actor who works out 30h a week

and

Never worked out, 200 pounds overweight

I try to at least put 5 hours a week into bridging the gap ;) (sometimes fail :( )
> that doesn't change the fact that there is no dedicated hardware support for it on any hardware shipped by Apple

Nobody in this thread or anywhere else said there was.

> Raytracing is a not a problem that is well suited to GPUs since there are lots of data dependencies, which means parallelism is severely limited.

...no it's the classic example of an embarrassingly parallel problem - that's literally the term people use because it's so easy to parallelise. Each pixel is completely independent with no data or control dependency between them and they can be rendered in parallel.
Brain can work also on ketones. This is exactly what is the point of keto-diet. It resists as much as possible to switching in this mode, I have to admit.
>More than a quarter of the 365 people exonerated in recent decades by the nonprofit Innocence Project had confessed to their alleged crime.

Using guessimation, x would be the numer of people that confessed that were innocent, so 91.25 < x < 182.5, and that, alone, was the principally driving force (assumptive, I'm aware) to convict them - and these are the numbers that we're aware of because of the overturned convictions.

Whilst I can understand the reprieve it must give police and the district attorneys in the efforts of building a case, it almost seems as if they just kind of give up applying any further scrutiny, once any confession is had - whether the person actually committed the crime or not.

I'm not sure why this breakdown, for lack of a better vernacular at present, occurs though.

Is it antipathy? Is it because numbers are more important than anything else (e.g.: for elected positions such as Sheriffs)? Is it because we ply the path of least of resistance to the investigating demeanor?

I'm sure a lot of the convictions in the past are biased for varying other degrees but this seems to infer that even without those other degrees of influence, we have a high margin of error for putting innocent people away.

Add those varying degrees referenced above into the equation and I'm not so sure that the deflection, "It's not a perfect system but it works," is really applicable, anymore.
That is my understanding, too, but my understanding of this subthread was about achieving the best possible results in general, rather than just in the subset of manuscript authoring tooling.
It seems like the people studying this stuff disagree with your opinion:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/02/25/automat...
Thanks, appreciate the reply and additional info! Will spend some time looking into this more!
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One meal a day here that always has a large amount of salad. Get by lunch with just a bit of cheese and apples. Only coffee for breakfast. Works for me, milage may vary. I really like how an ~2k calorie dinner knocks me out all night for a deep sleep though.
I don't appreciate it, it's masturbation. I don't need some kind of faux murder mystery to read the news, just tell me what happened please. This only reminds me of friends who also don't know how to get to the damn point.
That part also got my attention. On which alternative universe do these guys live in? We have even come to the point of having no buttons on the front part of a phone (e.g. OnePlus 7 Pro), let alone going back to more buttons.
I am also pro physical buttons in cars, but that argument simply doesn't hold.
Oh, and if there's a way to subscribe / be notified when LFS support is added please let me know :)

For now I'm building around Gitlab, possibly migrating to Github if I run out of LFS storage on Gitlab (Github lets you pay for more storage.. don't think I can on Gitlab yet..).

Appreciate your work :)
Can you show me an example? Like I said, I call BS on this. What website does a non-trivial amount of pure JS on the main thread? What even is the use-case? React reconciliation?

Secondly, how does it prevent you from using a website? Sure, jank is annoying, but it doesn't entirely prevent you from using the site. Perhaps you give up on the site, but that's up to you.
Depends on the exercise. Cardio can suppress appetite for a time, resistance training not so much.
Facebook's static analyzer Infer https://fbinfer.com is written in OCaml.

There's a lot of OCaml in the program verification space: https://frama-c.com http://why3.lri.fr https://alt-ergo.ocamlpro.com

And for mysterious reasons, OCaml is now kinda popular for.. web frontends. Bloomberg created an OCaml-to-JS compiler https://bucklescript.github.io and Facebook (again!) created an alternative syntax https://reasonml.github.io and this combination is apparently a new hipster way of writing web apps.
Type II diabetic here.

I can personally attest that fasting is not necessary to control type II diabetes without medication.

I'm strict about my diet, but I never fast. My numbers? My A1c was 8.7 when I was diagnosed, and now, seven years later, it hovers around 5.8 - 6.0 (high normal).

I find fasting difficult, and I suspect that fasting comes more easy to some than to others. If it works for you, great, but if it doesn't, don't push it. I suspect that part of the difficulty is that I'm thin, so I don't have much in the way of reserves when I stop eating.
Yes, but it was ultimately turned back in Australia.
Its not a common term for younger generations, but for older ones it was quite common. My parents used it often.
"under US law, police are allowed to lie"

in consideration of this fact, anyone taken into US police custody, for any reason, ever, should refuse to open their mouth, or help police in any way.
I'm curious if GraalVM can do the same rockstar party tricks on Java 11? He uses Java 12, but doesn't go into huge detail why he chose that rather than the LTS.
APT is written in C++ and YUM is written in Python.

Besides the Python2->3 thing, are there actually any practical advantages to using a lower-level language for managing packages?
Who just happens to be the tech lead to a partial answer to this problem: http://ntpsec.org/ Which implicitly criticizes the reference implementation.
There is some, ah, interesting other content on that website.
The Freestyle Libre is good for 14 days at a time, and as far as I know costs $110-120 for a 2-pack. No it's not cheap, but it's not as expensive as the Dexcom. My son wears a Dexcom (type 1 diabetic) and my dad wears a Libre (type 2 diabetic.) The Dexcom is far more expensive, but it's the only one that will integrate with my son's insulin pump.
So now I am a wumao right? If someone disagrees with the Western media, just say he/she is a wumao and you automatically win, how convenient.

The image in your link makes me laugh. I can do the same, just get an image of an Amazon fulfillment center and say it is holding thousands of supporters of Edward Snowden against their will.

> I dunno, you tell me.

Because we don't arrest people for their religions.

It's not just 31 people btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...

If you don't think your media could lie, there is nothing I can do.
It isn't really though. A cascading failure can knock out an entire grid. The Northeast blackout is an example.

A line goes out.
while (there some lines are still live):
The current redistributes itself among neighboring lines.
Neighboring lines trip
end
BlackStart()

BlackStart() is fun. Having your plants and grid down is like having a dead battery (plants use ~30% of the electricity they gen on themselves) and no one to give you a jump.

Usually the hydroelectric plants are started first. Arg. is lucky, they have a lot of those. Otherwise you need to fire up diesel generators (which hopefully have been maintained).

You give power to the grid first so you can start another plant.

Then you feed hospitals and continue firing the thermal plants.

Throughout all of this you have to keep phase stability (no grid, no phase reference). I'd assume this would limit renewable's use-fullness for re-start (a thousand 5Mw turbines out of phase are best left idling)

As a last step you turn on your nuclear plants (Arg. has a few). These are last because of nuclear poisons that accumulate from decaying wastes that weren't burned while the reactor was off.

It's a bloody hard problem.
It'll definitely be announced on sr.ht-announce:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce
The AI side of cognitive science is concerned with first world problems
Price's Law - that the square root of the number of people in an organization do half the work - predicts that about 22 people should have done half of it, regardless of anything about 10x engineers.

It also predicts that the N lines by the remaining people would be half done by about 22 of them and half done by 4xx of them; I wonder if that pattern was seen?

Even if the original engineer was 10x as productive, that would leave 12 people doing half of it, not 1. It makes me think that if the average team worked twenty days a month for six months the project should have been 60,000 units of goodness, and if he was as productive as all of them, 120,000 units of goodness. If, instead, he wrote rushed low-quality code, they spent a week trying to untangle and integrate with it, then he ignored their work and rewrote it himself, demoralizing the team and refusing to play nice with them, it might have reduced the overall units of goodness way below what it could have been. And at the same time he gets the boost of writing it all himself his way and not having to care about making it stable for others to work on, so he looks disproportionately better for that as well. What did the other team members say about it? What happened to the project after?

> He was a lead programmer, who issued two-week assignments to other engineers

You ought to expect a lead programmer to be better, otherwise why would they get and deserve that position? You'd also expect a leader to be way better than assigning work people can't complete, not working with them, not stopping doing that, then taking over from them. What would a 10x exceptional leader who wasn't a worker, get out of a team of 500 average workers?
The aliens are coming !
I couldn’t do that. I seem to be metabolically required to eat almost immediately after waking up. I make breakfast and lunch my meals of the day and dinner light-just enough to get me to the next morning.
A lot of VB programming was connecting together 3rd-party COM components, which had to be written in C/C++. After the CLR came along, those vendors slowly stopped supporting VB6 with their new releases as they moved their codebases and workflow to the new system.
And about 450€ per transmitter that lasts for three months. Using open source tools you can extend the sensor lifetime to 2-3 weeks and transmitter to 6-9 months and I advice to read on that and try tools like xDrip.
Hopefully someone will make a movie about this guy similar to: www.imdb.com/title/tt8106596
Care to elaborate on the correlation? I've had the same experience as OP when I do 24 hour fasts.