skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d push back that the behavior of disregarding privacy is a tech community thing. It’s there, but as a side effect of social culture enabling it.

We’ve been normalized to let it go by social pressure to trade, travel, and be scanned at airports.

Why would the people in tech feel beholden to respecting a societies privacy when the seat of that societies power trained us to give it up in the name of “freedom” and we went along?

This is all fallout from decades giving to special interests. You talk about how people were worries about always on mic concerns. Well folks been writing about the normalization of our behaviors to serve these corps and government undermining privacy in partnership with them for decades. And it fed right into this behavior by tech corps.

This isn’t a tech industry problem. Corporate meddling in human society is bigger than just mics in phones.
I would like to try out fasting more, but I get too hungry!

Seriously though, cutting breakfast does seem like an easy way to do it! Eating in the morning is more of a habit than a need, plus it would be an easy way to cut calories too.
It looks like the commenter’s point wasn’t about what people consider “a violation of privacy,” because that’s just arbitrary labeling. Anyone is free to consider anything to be a violation of their privacy. The commenter was making specific points about tangible threats like financial fraud.
Former pedophile here and it is not common that these symbols are used, except for the heart symbol for little girl lovers.
Agreed, which is why I sometimes do carry my phone, mostly when I think I might be taking pictures or be on a video call. I am trying to make my default ‘no phone’ but I understand that does not work for everyone.
> If it's bad, we can always turn the knob back.
Sure, but by then maybe some people or organizations have made/lost millions. So we can't realistically experiment with that (even though I would absolutely love to)
I’m not sure about the properties but on method parameters at least, they will cast, e.g. if you give foo(int $bar) the string “10” it will be cast to 10. It will runtime error only if it cannot “safely” cast the value.

I’m not 100% that it is a wonderful behavior, and a lot of people turn it off (which can be done on a per file declaration of strict) but for us it’s genuinely helped eliminate an entire class of error where a runaway type error would result in a really whacky value way down the line, even occasionally ending up with that stored in the database for some calculation.

The kind of thing we still end up with in JavaScript to this day.
To me at least, food is like chemo, I’ll die without it, but it makes me feel terrible.
Most conspiracy theorists are just mentally ill. Take flat earthers. Most of them suffer from extreme distrust and paranoia and tend to believe only foremost anyone who tells them they’re being lied to.

Saying that mentally ill people who believe in evil government conspiracies could be dangerous isn’t that unreasonable. Maybe specific individuals in the movement are passive, but what about those that they ignite?
Origin and Evolution of J.L. Lawson
As of now, Amazon appears to still be selling their "IOT button" (which is basically a programmable dash button)

https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/
IIRC intestine cells do cleanup and repair mostly when not busy processing food. Intestine is large, and is definitely a lot of work for immune system as an attack surface.
Telling people that Hillary Clinton's passport is going to be revoked pending her arrest is not just asking questions.
It seems like a case of motivated reasoning. Doctors needed to operate on babies; anesthetizing them would be hard. So they decided that babies can't feel pain and never investigated methods of anesthesia on babies.
Call it what it is: White nationalistic terrorism, don't sugar coat it and call it "extremists".
Depends on which country you're from but to me $199/year is nothing for what JetBrains gives me (If you go for individual license, you start from $89 down to third year and onwards $53).
In fact I pay for all products pack and am in a good discount beyond the third year, like $13/mo.
I fail to see how this is distinct from any other opinion article in the NY Times.
I think a dyson sphere would be great more for helping us prevent global warming than generating cost efficient electricity. Opening and closing the dyson sphere to control radiation flux would be a cool thing. We'd have planetary AC
A very odd list.

Yes, Lampedusa had been dead for a year when his book was published--but how old was he when he wrote it? U.S. Grant was otherwise occupied for much of the time before he began his memoir, wasn't he? Burgess's Little Wilson and Big God shows that he did quite a bit of writing before he got Time for a Tiger published.
plpgsql and similar?
Honestly, this shows why projects of major complexity need professional full-time developers.

I think it also shows a very minor flaw in the open source / pull request process: Expecting casual and amateur contributors to work at the same level as a professional who works with a given codebase on a daily basis is unreasonable.

In my day-to-day job, sometimes I can fix a bug in an hour, but then I need the rest of the day to update tests, avoid regressions, and think through my fix to make sure it's long-term maintainable / readable / performant. Even more important, if I'm working with code that I don't usually touch, I have to make sure I follow the expected conventions that everyone else expects; and I have to be much more careful about assumptions that I haven't learned yet.

So, a 1-hour fix easily balloons into 5-15 hours!

Perhaps the easiest way to encourage new contributors, who are assumed to be casual, is to encourage incomplete and partial fixes that the main team completes?
I don't know anything about the pizzagate conspiracy theory other than having seen the threads about it when it initially blew up. What people were sharing were links to instagram accounts from seemingly well-off people which included a picture of a young girl looking up at the camera, smiling, with her hands taped to the table. The comments? A few friends/associates writing rather cryptic/weird things.

Don't assume people are idiotic enough to start a conspiracy theory from nothing when they can instead build it from something rather tangible such as the instagram accounts of creepy, rich perverts.
Thanks. I was suspecting that, because seeing stuff through the galactic core is so iffy. But TFA was so damn coy about why they're all on our side. As if it was some deep puzzle.
> So "cleansing and restoring" the body's cells only happens when one isn't eating?? Gonna need a citation for that one.

But the article specifies exactly what they mean:

> When we eat, our body releases insulin. That disrupts the process of autophagy (from the Greek, meaning “self-devouring”), by which cells deconstruct old, damaged components in order to release energy and build new molecules. Autophagy helps to counteract the aging of cells and builds immunity. Fasts stimulate autophagy and allow the full molecular process to take place, as a team led by Frank Madeo at the University of Graz in Austria found in 2017.

Now maybe insulin doesn't have anything to do with autophagy, but if if the claim that insulin stops autophagy is correct, then "lengthens the period devoted to cleansing and restoring the body’s cells" has a specific well-defined meaning.
Is There a Human Blueprint? Why DNA may not be an accurate fortune-teller
Why is a matter of agency and fear of death and ability to give non-impaired consent. People fear "getting written off" by other's judgement.

It is one thing when it is readily apparent neccessity -medics can only give you morphine while your guts are hanging out and getting you potentially barely saveable would cost say ten other lives of people who only need the bleeding stopped. It is another thing entirely when they have all of the time in the world and it involves tough decisions nobody wants to make until the conclusion is utterly foregone like total brain death.
Great idea but I fear the saving of the planet from climate change or bad people is not in the hands of IT professionals - not by a long shot.
Wolf in White Van [0] is a book written by John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats). It's very dark and is centered around the main character's management of a play-by-mail RPG.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_White_Van
like Puck-JS https://www.puck-js.com/ ?
same for this genre called "classical", whatever that is.
Extremists motivated by true claims are also a threat.
People often confuse thirst and hunger. I find if I am keeping water or something near by I can avoid eating for quite a while longer
That references this for that mechanism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC363084/
How many NYT op-eds has Thiel written? He's only written one tweet [1].

It's rare. The significance of that should tell you something.

[1] https://twitter.com/peterthiel
Mostly I agree with the idea of limited eating to a window of roughly 12 hours; however I disagree with skipping breakfast.

I never use to eat breakfast until a recent hockey injury where I damaged 6 teeth including losing 2. My weight dropped rapidly because I couldn't eat solids so I started to eat eggs and tofu a lot (mostly eggs). The byproduct of all this was I would wake up so hungry I was dizzy so I started having 3 eggs for breakfast.

I'm mostly over the injury now (still waiting for the implants to be implanted), however I've continued to eat a large breakfast and my weight has remained the same - roughly 20 pounds lower than before the injury. I had already gotten in the habit of not eating at night, and if I have anything it's a little bit of yogurt.

Long/short I think it's a mistake to skip breakfast, I had done that for most of my life and now I'm sharper and more productive in the AM than I have ever been.
HFT's are purely parasitic unless you're another HFT benefitting from the faster trades. But what's a solution that doesn't add so much friction the house of cards falls down?
This article could be interesting, given the depth and breadth that one could explore given the topic. Unfortunately, it quickly turns into fluff marketing for the Chinese company they focus on. Is Technology Review accepting money for articles?
YouTuber Joerg Sprave Announces Fairtube.info
I tend to agree with the notion that diving into rails is a difficult way to learn when you start from little or nothing.

The core issue is that Rails can do so much to help you out, which allows you to stumble your way through many issues and make things that do mostly work. While this is great for getting things done quickly at first, you might develop incorrect notions of where the abstraction layers' boundaries are which can make life difficult when you step outside of the box.

Now that's not to say you can't learn that way, or that tutorials couldn't be written that effectively teach using rails. It's just that there are dangers in learning first from a complete and robust framework that does such a good job of masking the complexity it encapsulates.
Do you know how to tell whether a transaction is beneficial to both parties? It’s mutually voluntary. Some third party thinking it’s bullshit is just meaningless noise.
Heatwaves amplify near-record levels of ice melt in northern hemisphere
I've been doing IF (18:6) for 6 months and OMAD (23:1) for 2 months, while I've lost a decent amount of weight, slowly but surely, I've mostly plateaued. I don't weigh myself and I'm very active (ice hockey 3-5 times a week) but I've noticed a difference in body fat qualitatively.

But... that's not why I am doing it. I've suffered for years from migraines. 2-4 times a week, I've been to half a dozen doctors with no solid recommendations besides medication.

Now, not only do I take zero medication, but I get migraines about once a month, and way less severe than I used to. Ive also correlated the migraines with times followed by poor fasting behavior (for instance, eating all day on a weekend with family and friends).

I also need less sleep, am less groggy, and have far fewer stomach issues.

Overall its a massively net positive change.
I inadvertently started fasting during college due to my class schedule, living off campus, and not being able to afford eating out. I'm now at a point in my life where my schedule is more flexible, I'm not spending as much time commuting, and I can afford to eat out if I choose to, but I've continued to maintain a one meal a day lifestyle. I don't feel the sensation of hunger anymore though I still have an appetite. My coworkers get noticeably anxious and antsy if they don't have their lunch by 11 AM while hunger no longer affects my ability to concentrate. I've also been able to maintain a healthy BMI as I age; I'm neither overweight or underweight.

I will say that when I was younger I often wanted a bodybuilder physique, but I didn't have the discipline to eat enough to support proper muscle growth. Now I'm just glad I'm not going the seemingly inevitable route of becoming an overweight middle-aged office worker that morphs into their chair.

Edit: To be clear, I still go to the gym regularly to lift weights and do cardio even with fasting, but I never have and never will compete in any bodybuilding competitions (which I'm OK with).
No, it's just that sane and rational people realize that the emails are just old people conversing and not proof of an insane conspiracy.
Alternatively, You could eat breakfast early, say 6am, and have dinner at 8pm and skip lunch (i.e. just have a banana or apple). That's something I have kind of been doing and it's working well.
A month ago, you would have said "Not sure why you would bring up Epstein; he's old news and did his time years ago."

A year or so ago, you would have said "Not sure why you would bring up Epstein, he's old news and did his time years ago, and what's with these weird conspiracy theories about some harmless-looking club for people with too much money to play make-believe dress up at each other every so often? I had to google to even find that much."

The truth of the whole thing is beyond me. But the first derivative of this stuff is disturbing. It may only be a small amount so far, but it's significant enough stuff that that's a problem even so.
It should be noted (and it is in the article) that this is an internal memo sent from a field office about threats surrounding some topic(s).

In other discussions I've seen a lot of folks go on about freedom of speech and other issues, there's no proposal to limit speech in this memo, or even launch an investigation purely based on someone(s) believing a conspiracy theory.
Autophagy is not "cleansing and restoring". We need to stop using these wellness-ad terms like "cleansing", "restoring", "toxins" and "detoxification", "building immunity". Please.
The sort of questions that come up in qanon circles are "when will Hillary be thrown into a gulag and tried by a military tribunal for her many crimes against children, and who will do it?"

Just asking questions, you see...
Absolutely go. I repair these scopes as a hobby and the people at the tek museum have been endlessly helpful. Repairing old tek designs and reading the schematics has made me a much better analog engineer.
"Single digit profit margins" is in terms of percentages. I'm talking absolutes: However low the profit margin is as a percentage, as long as it's positive and the owner makes more than enough to live on, it could be made lower by a pay increase.
This. I use an EDU license for work and buy a personal license for home use, a personal license starts at $83 first year .. I'm on my fifth or so year so it's only $53 yearly ...
Are you about to bring up the "pedophile code words" conspiracy theory about those emails on Hackernews?
Or that JFK Jr. is walking around waiting to pounce on the deep state.

This is mass hysteria.
I think people feel the need to add a scientific explanation to things where in my view the pure observation that it seems to work would be enough already. It reminds me a little of Semmelweiss who observed that washing hands reduces infection rates but was ridiculed because he couldn’t explain it.

When I meditate or fast from time to time I can observe that it makes me feel better and I don’t really feel the importance for someone to explain it.
I love the idea, but the implementation is IMHO poor. It doesn’t require non-nullables to be defined by the end of the constructor. Instead it moreorless adds a new type of NULL to the language (always a mistake) which causes parameters to throw runtime errors on call if they were not defined.

This adds up to essentially making everything nullable, regardless of if the type is defined as nullable, and adding an entire class of runtime errors that could have been avoided.
prohibitively expensive? I think you haven't thought this through.

Already Chairs, Desk and Rent for every engineer is more expensive than 200 USD every year. Their salary is many hundred times 200 USD. I pay more for coffee and water that they can get for free every year.

Independent devs without income can get PHPStorm at much lower rates.
Do you feel Pizzagate is real?
Nope, it does not. Only the trigger phrase (“Hey Siri“) is recognised locally on the device (according to Apple), everything that comes after that is sent as audio recording snippet to Apple servers where the actual speech recognition happens.

There are rumours [0] that Apple might enable local speech-to-text at some point, but as of now, that’s not how it works.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/15/apple-considering...
What does "too hungry" mean to you, and what do you think will happen if you deny yourself food when you feel this?
The problem is the U.S. government and the mainstream media has little to no credibility because they've continually lied to the American people. So what's happened is folks selectively believe what they're told and those beliefs typically align with their political ideology. It's quite like religion.
One part is that Big-O is an upper bound that kicks in for sufficiently large n.

For example, a O(log(n)) function will be faster than a O(k * n) function, for any fixed k, when n>j (for some fixed j i.e. when n is large enough). When comparing major classes of functions (n, log(n), 2^n, etc,), constant multiples don't matter, mathematically.

The other reason is that when comparing two functions with a similar amount of constant steps, let's say 5n vs 2n, it's impossible to say which is faster in the real world, so it's simpler and just as useful to collapse the set of O(k * f(n)) functions into O(f(n)).
> Although still a fringe belief, some right-wing celebrities and pundits have embraced the conspiracy and lent more credence to its followers. These enthusiasts subsequently show up at Trump rallies and draw positive attention from the president.

Someone held up a baby with the letter Q written on his back and Trump commented how cute the baby was. How is this claim not on the same level as the conspiracies it's decrying?
The Podesta e-mails were not fake (at least as far as I know), but they were out-of-context view into the cynical world of running a campaign.

The idea that the Clinton campaign was using "pizza" as a code-word for child pornography, and that the basement of a Washington DC pizza place (which had no basement) was used as a hub for an international child smuggling operation, aka pizzagate, is absolutely fake.
You are repeating one logical fallacy: the fact that you perused ad-supported "free" content does not mean that there wouldn't be non-ad-supported "free" content without the internet turning into an advertising mess.

I've grew up on the free Internet resources without ads (banner ads just came to be). I've read free books on highly technical topics, on Mathematics...
Space startup aims to launch thousands of satellite ‘cell towers’
"In one place it explicitly warns against assuming the "traditional" approach is more objective, and points out that the assumptions exist in the model and the practitioner should be aware of those assumptions."

The Bayesian approach forces you to explicitly model those assumptions. Or to admit that you are ignoring them.
The example was very clear, and although it might not negate it, it certainly undermines it. If contrived examples don't have bearing on the validity of an argument, I don't know how we are supposed to move forward in a debate.

I agree with the spirit of the parent poster, but to claim the OP is arguing slavery is okay because of raising standards of living is just as dangerous to this discussion.
Yea, they laid the groundwork for questions to ask and recorded the lives and data from people, trying to find some correlation. I'm not saying they were perfect. They were the first ones that tried to do it seriously. Freud came up with his parent relations theory of people being jacked in the head because he saw a lot of that going on. But Jung, taking that info found that it's even deeper than that.

You also have to realize that not everything is perfectly quantifiable if you don't know how to quantify yet. Under your assumption, we should just give up entirely on trying to understand how and why people think the way they do. The right questions still aren't figured out yet. Hell, don't forget there were problems with predicting orbits with newtonian physics. It wasn't until einstein's theory of relativity that fully figured out orbits of local solar system objects. Does that mean that newton should have been thrown out immediately and the field of astro physics should have been trashed? You're living in an imaginary reality that all answers are perfectly figured out in the first try. That's not science.

Again, psychology is young and there are a ton of unanswered questions. It's not like "people thinking" is fake. We do it. How and why? It's trying to better understand how the most complex structure that we know of works, the brain. Neuroscience explains the gears and pulleys. But it can't recreate a functioning brain. Both neuroscience and psychology would need to be mastered to do so.
What about donation models? They aren't lucrative or dependable but they technically can make money - still hard of course.
Thanks, looks like I pasted something incorrectly while over phone :( It is working now - maybe someone edited it?
What made a huge difference for me is lowering my intake of carbohydrates and transitioning to a lower carb and higher fat diet. I think the way it works is that our bodies have a lot of energy available from fat stores and becoming more fat-adapted means that during fasting hunger is satiated by energy coming from fat.
... and when he tried to explain it, he was wrong, in ways any attentive observer could work out.
Ok, they wrote their magnum opus or the book that got them famous after 35, but it says nothing about all the writing they were probably doing before that. A lot of writers slave away in obscurity while holding down other jobs. Then they might publish that book which makes them famous.It does not mean they just woke up one day and wrote that book ( may happen in a few cases..). You may be writing for unknown journals, or may be writing but never have the contacts to get it published, or you may be writing, but never think your work is good enough to be read...
Interesting article but I think this is really a broader topic: not just how AI can transform tutoring/education but also how AI will impact all areas of work, how human productivity and job satisfaction can be increased, and how we will deal with “not enough work for people to do.”
Confirmed factual... from Q.

The person that posted an image of "secret" files that was just copied from another website?

Declared that Hillary Clinton would be arrested / has been arrested?

That's not asking questions.
I wonder if it's easier or harder to do something like this in a modern corporate environment.

Wikipedia has a list of software easter eggs, let's see if we'll discover more of them as time goes on.