skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a 14 hour fast, as was mentioned in the article. Most people i know eat breakfast when they go to work, between 6 and 8am and people often tend to snack late at night. There's even the saying that 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day', so yeah I'd say that not eating until noon is not normal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

The answer is generally "no".
I never comment on HN but this story compelled me to. Stay strong, I hope life improves even a little bit for you and your SO.
Do you feel like Epstein and NXVIM are related in some way?

I feel like you draw keep drawing connections between all these things when the connection is basically that you think people wouldn't belive some non specific past claim about Epstein... and so that means something about Pizzagate?

I don't think that people might not belive a thing, anything, and then find out it is true ... has anything to do with anything else.
My trick to skipping breakfast:

Forgetting to eat in the morning because I work from home and get engrossed in what I do.

Anyone here relate?
The goal was to reduce friction in the purchase. You had to walk to a computer, bring up Amazon, look up the product, click the version of it you want, and push "one click order" (or maybe two or three more clicks) -- that's a lot of opportunity for you to just add it to your shopping list and just buy it at the grocery store.

Or from your point of view, that's a lot of effort for a product that you already know you want. If you're busy doing laundry, you want to keep doing that, rather than stop and order detergent, or risk forgetting it in the next five minutes (and then not having it the next time). The price is somewhat variable, but the variation is likely below your threshold of caring.

These aren't huge costs, but it's very much web-UX thinking: people have very short memories (and attention spans) and even a single extra click is an opportunity for people to change their minds or get distracted. If your washing machine came with an infinite supply of detergent, or your cat food canister were infinitely deep, your life would be a tiny bit better. If they knew the cost were comparable to other sources, many people would take that deal without worrying too much about whether the exact price.

That's Amazon's schtick. They make your life a tiny bit better and take a tiny profit on that. It works only if they can get that tiny profit on basically everything you buy. Everything everyone buys.

They've since discovered other ways. As you say, you know the rate at which these things get used up, so it's even better for them to just replace the button with a recurring order.
Will never work for the fur clothing business.
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why not just stick to clean energy sources
Coffee and tea helps me in such cases. Plain, no sugar, no milk. Brushing your teeth can also reduce hunger. Also, try to take it gradually - I don't eat at all on Wednesdays, making a ease-in and an ease-out -the diner the night before and the next day's breakfast in an apple, a carrot or a glass of kefir. Fasting more days in a row take an incredible amount of willpower (one of the reasons why I do it), and also takes a toll on your concentration, physical power.

I used to do it on Saturdays, because then I could reduce my physical activity to an appropriate level - but lately I've been going to festivals, or going out with friends, and it was not doable. Try to find a way where it works well with your schedule. Also, it may be a good idea to be discreet about it, because coworkers, friends and family will pester you.
Broken window fallacy. The work those people are doing could be used for something else, so if they are doing something useless, it is a waste.

If having people work on something useless was beneficial, you could just pay them to dig holes in the ground and fill them up again.
> If you know JavaScript or HTML/CSS, you can contribute to the front-end of Firefox

Huh? I'm interested in that, but I'd think most of the GUI's behavior is in C++ and hopefully threaded for responsiveness? And only the top ‘fluff’ layer is styleable, possibly being made with XUL.

Alas, links in that post don't seem to lead to architectural overviews of the components.
> We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS.

You think the CS grads / devs are the ones deciding to do this? We're not really given true autonomy. We're grunts. Someone above us decides to do the spying and we either do it or hit the job market.
70% of Americans are obese or overweight. Every other major countries are following the trend. It's crystal clear that we're fucking up. IT is one of many ways to stay healthy that's all, no more no less.

> there have been many generations since agriculture started and agricultural societies regularly outcompeted hunter-gatherers.

Never refuted that, it's more efficient in every aspects. The only problem is that we're way past "eating for survival", we eat for fun, when we're bored, when "it's time to eat" no matter if we truly are hungry or not.

> we know very little about prehistoric lifestyle

I'm sure we can all agree they were not eating 3 times a day at regular interval, every single day of their life while sitting 80% of their awake time. Not even talking about the amount of calories or how processed their food was.

> Furthermore it's really not clear that something is better just because it was that way during the time we supposedly evolved. For example, we didn't evolve with antiseptics either and yet disinfecting wounds seems like a pretty good idea.

I fail to see the link. We evolved a way to keep bacterias out (skin) and antiseptics were designed to help with that in certain cases. Regular mealtime is something we came up very recently, especially for the average joe (ie. industrial revolution). Try putting SP98 in a diesel engine, that's what we're doing with our stomachs. It might somehow run for a bit but in the long term it's no bueno.

The human body is simply not designed for what we throw at it, and is incapable of handling the changes in such a small timeframe. Looking out of the window is enough proof that our lifestyle is not adequate.
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Thanks.

I guess also embedded in my comment was a question: what is an escape room business?

It appears to be a game?

How long does it take?

How much does it cost per encounter?

Can one do it with friends (like lazer-tag) or is it a single-person encounter?

How much space does the facility require to process how many customers per hour?
That's a good point. I usually make it clearer but I guess the original comment in this thread was a little ambiguous. Thanks for the feedback.
Or your normal schedule involves a fasting period.

This comes back to the whole "is breakfast the most important meal of the day or damaging our health?" question. A lot of people who skip breakfast are still consuming calories anyway (e.g. that morning coffee with cream/sugar in it).
Or minimax regret
They also prompt you to install additional browsers during setup. This just states they will change the default search behavior within Chrome if chrome is installed as well.

Not sure I get your comment.
How about we start treating these sorts of freeform data with the highest security and privacy they deserve? If it might contain HIPAA data, treat it as you would HIPAA data. If it might contain military secrets, treat it as you would under top secret clearance. If it might contain personal data, treat it as you would under GDPR. When it's always on for a huge portion of the population, treat it like it's likely enough to contain data that should be held under a really high standard. Don't treat it under the average case standard.

If your users are usually saying "Hello, i am unhappy I spent two hours on hold" but a few thousand data points say "hello, my name is john doe. I have HIV, I live at 123 Main Street and my social security number is 987654321" treat the whole dataset as the latter case. Maybe we should even pass regulations along those lines.
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I used to like easter eggs in software but as the security landscape has changed, easter eggs now show a lack of oversight. If a programmer can slip in an easter egg, what else can they slip in?

Larry Osterman says it even better: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/10/21/wh...
Yes, and I'll tell you exactly why. Markets consist of informed and uninformed traders.

For example your typical Joe Sixpack rebalancing his 401k is uninformed. His trading does not tell you anything about the underlying value of the stocks. The typical informed trader is a hedge fund manager, who's investing tons of resources in gaining an informational edge. If he's buying a stock at a particular time that is in and of itself a signal that said stock is worth more than you thought it was otherwise.

Liquidity providers love trading with uninformed traders. The problem with informed traders is that you don't want to be on the other side of their trades. Since liquidity providers are the immediate counterparties to most order flow, they're the ones that primarily eat this cost.

To counter this, liquidity providers invest enormous resources in profiling order flow to try to identify when to what degree its informed. This allows them to provide lower costs and more liquidity to uninformed traders, like Joe Sixpack. It's analogous to how requiring a checkup allows life insurance companies to provide lower premiums, particularly to those who are healthy.

One of the most important ways to profile order flow is to quickly adjust quotes as market conditions evolve. For example said hedge fund manager may be trading a thesis that the chipmakers are all undervalued. He may come in and buy Intel, AMD and Nvidia in one swoop. If an HFT sees a huge buy hit Intel, it can bump its quotes on AMD for a few milliseconds.

If its a cigar-chomping hedge fund manager executing a basket algorithm, it's quite likely that he'll try to hit AMD and thus pay the higher price. But if its Joe Sixpack the probability that his trade just coincidentally lands in a 5 millisecond time window is vanishingly small.
Can people please stop using the word Millennials as cheap click-bate?

"IBM Fired 100k Employees to Make Way for People Between 23 and 38" - that's basically a huge segment of the working population.
I can't fathom this. I have a condition that makes me incredibly nauseous and STILL I long to cook and eat beautiful meals, even though I can barely tolerate them.
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Maxwell's laws continue to work just fine despite Maxwell's explanations for them being complete hookum. If an observation is insufficiently precise the lack of explanation can be a problem. But high quality observation is useful regardless of the explanation for it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070501105422/http://www.amk.ca...

It's in the Algol family, mostly indirectly through ABC, Modula-2 and 3, C, ...

Per the interview, string slicing actually came directly from Algol-68 (and Icon).
Or better still..

on centrifuge energy storage with equipment which last for 100 years with only requiring bearing maintenance once every 25 years..

e.g.

https://beaconpower.com/
You could easily make an argument that the same philosophy will benefit rapidly growing projects for full time devs. The less "arcane" knowledge needed to work effectively in the code base, the faster new engineers can onboard, the faster old code can have small changes made without breaking something else unexpectedly, and the list goes on.
If this wasn't technology-specific, I'd submit an idea of:

"The Web We Want... doesn't require you to accept a cookie notice, ignore an anti-ad-blocker warning and newsletter pop-up before circumventing a soft paywall in order to read a quick, shared article."
One great resource for those interested in contributing to Mozilla, is mikeconley's live coding sessions[0], which are cataloged here[1]. These can be used to help understand internals.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmaFLMwlbk8wKMvfEEzp9...

[1] https://mikeconley.github.io/joy-of-coding-episode-guide/
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That's very dangerous due to potentially deadly refeeding syndrome on breaking the fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome
Unless you add random delays to each trade.
This really should frighten people, to be honest. There is a lot of public information out there that people are completely oblivious to, simply because the media giants don't cover it. They attempt to discredit QAnon but they fail at doing so because their articles are void of facts. They have an obvious narrative but nobody seems to care.

People who believed Epstein was involved in child trafficking were considered conspiracy theorists up until a few weeks ago. What about the others close to Epstein? Who got him off the hook last time? How do you explain away James Alefantis' photos on his Instagram? Who is he close to? How do you deal with Laura Silsby, who is now Laura Galyer, and her adventures in Haiti? Podesta and especially his "art"? I can go on and on.

Am I a conspiracy theorist for being concerned about what the hell is going on?
How do you differentiate a correct procedure with an incorrect explanation from an incorrect procedure?
I struggle to gain weight (always have), and fasting sounds incredibly easy to me - all you have to do is not do something. On the other hand, eating to gain weight if you have no/little appetite is hard work - you actually have to take the time to do it.

Is there a relatively easy way to boost one's appetite? Drinking a gallon of full fat milk a day on top of one's usual meals is the easiest option I have found, but even that is a lot of hard work.
Technology and progress is great, but deciding on what to use is becoming like browsing for something to watch on Netflix (or other streaming services).

Lots of the time we spend deciding, dealing with devtools and toolchains, and debugging magic helpers or abstractions on top of abstractions (and I love good abstraction), that takes time away from what we are building, the product.

Simple is good, complexity is bad unless it is simple layers/parts but not too many you have to deal with, simplification is good, refactoring is necessary at this stage. In a way there is a choice technical debt. Move fast and break things, sometimes the 'break things' part of that is adhered to a little too much.

Engineering/product development is taking complexity and simplifying it, are we doing that? Or are we adding complexity where it was simple? I am looking forward to the next great simplification wave.
Sounds like a very interesting book - I hadn’t heard/read much about the regicides who successfully evaded capture before as it’s something of a very minor subplot in the overall story of the civil war.

There’s a very good documentary series on the English Civil War called ‘The English Civil War’ from 2005 which it looks like is available on YouTube.

The episode on the trial of the regicides (called The Trial of the King Killers) who were apprehended in England is well worth watching.
"I'm just doing my job" - Nazi soldiers operating Holocaust ovens
True, nevertheless the current stack(s) for developing needs to be drastically improved as long as it is meant to be a platform for building apps and not only for publishing documents. I recall how easy and fun it was to build apps with Delphi and alike IDEs and now the whole React&Friends stack scares the shit out of me.
My mother was in this situation and with the help of a doctor we gave her a fentanyl overdose to help her avoid weeks of pointless suffering.
Bitcoin has only existed for 552 weeks, beginning on 2009-01-03.
Exactly, spy networks are about aggregating information from many people about many people.

Fundamentally, spying is very good for the world. It allows for nation states to understand each other’s thinking and reasoning. The most dangerous situations come from misunderstanding, as we are now experiencing with North Korea.
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> It's not like detergent is something you need to order every week

That's exactly why this is useful. It's something I forget to buy at the store because I run out so rarely. Right now while I'm doing my laundry if I notice I'm below about a third I'll hit the button.

Before I'd almost always realize I was out of detergent mid-washing, undoubtedly the night before some important meeting, and have to run to the store in the middle of the night.
The important point in this article is that the NYPL just recently digitized the relevant records, thereby making it possible to determine whether a copyright was renewed. The old rule of thumb (anything after 1923 is presumptively protected) was used because looking for the absence of a renewal in a multi-decade span of printed records just wasn't feasible.

The linked post in the article is very detailed and has more background: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/31/us-copyright-history-19...
This is how you tell a story. I know what it's about from the beginning, and they tell the actual story, not some crazy diversion for pages, avoiding any mention of the lead.
It's totally rational. When the mic activates only when I physically press a button or pick up a device and dial a number, it's different from it activating itself. I'm in control of the former, and am happy to have it in my home.
I would love to have all the winners of the Hugo Awards(the first were given in 1953)
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Thank you, this is great constructive feedback. Now that fully working composable multithreading has been merged to master (that was the top compiler team priority previously), the next two priorities are "time to first plot" and friendlier error messages. The specific plan for better error messages is to use the Julia-native CSTParser ("concrete syntax tree parser") to give Clang/Rust-style diagnostics telling you exactly where in an expression an error happened [1].

There's already work in progress to improve Documenter.jl (the package that generates Julia docs) to change the TOC style to something less annoyingly detailed and different from Sphinx [2]. Julia's own manual has grown incrementally, written by various people and definitely needs a once-over by someone who is good at clear technical writing; it's hard to find the time when there's so much other work to be done.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31954

[2] can't find the PR now but part of a GSoC project
React Native it's come a long way
Wouldn't that be blatant market manipulation? The SEC would fine the hell out of anyone who did that.
Not really. It can determine, for example, what a watch is, but not which watches are similar. I'd like it to offer to filter by manufacturer, for example.
From what I've heard/read, time-restricted feeding works best when you skip dinner versus skipping breakfast. So I'm not surprised that's been your experience.

But it's also socially difficult to maintain a no-dinner lifestyle, so I still choose to skip breakfast instead. I'll take the 80% benefit I can maintain versus the 100% I can't.
You are a client of Goldman Sachs? I think you won't worry about a share of $100M then.
Overwhelming majority of people have no contributions or only small ones. Most people github profiles are a bunch of plat projects.

The companies won't hunt on github.

I don't think it does all that much difference even if they know about said contributions.
The author mangled the mammogram example, but when written correctly it's a good example to use.

The author should have used a woman with no symptoms who goes for a mammogram screening test, not a woman with symptoms who goes for a diagnostic test.

https://www.harding-center.mpg.de/en/fact-boxes/early-detect...
We anesthetize infants fairly often now[1]. It's still a bit risky, but it's fairly common. It's gotten less risky because we do it a lot and have gotten quite good at it. If we'd never revised the science on infant pain, we never would have even bothered to try. Turns out, it's possible to do it fairly safely.

It's one thing to say, we're not going to use anesthesia because it's too much risk, it's another to say that they don't feel pain at all so let's not worry about it.

[1] http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26958696
> All in all in 20 years we'll all be writing ml ?

If everything goes well, yes. Everything is moving towards static typing with local inference.
Slightly off topic: does anyone know if Wealthfront manages HSAs? I really have liked their stuff and would like to "rollover" (not sure if that's the proper term) an old former employer HSA to them.
The project I never got around to was extracting n-grams, making them nodes of a graph, then testing for badness variants using cliques and isomorphisms. Part of the reason I didn't move on it was 'graphyness," did not appear to add information that could be obtained using other, faster, clustering methods with more mature tools, and much smarter people than me were working on solving it.

Reasoning about the interpreted behaviour of a program as "malware," is a really fun problem. Detecting known malware, variants, work-alikes, known behaviours, and then intent and "badness," are layers of abstraction that can't be solved bottom-up.

Badness is an interpreted reflection of the effect of executed code, so this "missing interpreter" information means there is no pure functional definition or derivation of badness. The best possible solution is a risk calculation based on code reputation with the error rate covered by some kind of event driven insurance. (Where you can't have certainty, you can at least have compensation.)

IMO, malware analysis is an imperfect information game that we have spent a lot of time trying to solve as a perfect one, and you can see how AV products are running up against these limits now.
I think the controversy and confusion about functional programming stems from the difference between procedural and OOP programming. The switch from procedural to OOP which occurred in the 1990s was basically all or nothing - with the languages of the time, mostly C++, it was a full paradigm shift.

People probably assume it's the same with FP, ie you have to do EVERYTHING as FP whereas in fact with current mainstream languages (eg JS, C#) you can just drop in bits of FP whenever you feel it is appropriate. It's a tool in the toolbox, not the entire toolbox.