skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting in 2012 I began regular fasting, first with one day a week (36 hours) and later 2 days a week. My weight went from 95 kg to 70 kg and stayed there until I got into a bad relationship which devolved into alcohol and stress (but which was kinda fun as well). I stopped fasting for the 2 years it lasted and my weight crept up to 85 kg. I've started fasting again (3 days a week) and it's down below 80 for the first time in a year. I record my weight every day and have done so since 2012. Fasting works like clockwork for me. I can predict what my weight will be in 6 weeks (f.ex), depending on how many fasting days I decide on. I lose between 220 to 230 grams per fast.
"They're mobilizing their army, they clearly mean to invade us"

WW1 is the quintessential example of nation states misunderstanding each other.
If this is widespread, it might explain the absolutely bonkers survey results that I see from time to time.

As an aside, it is sad that lurking just under the surface of so many academic stories is that strong undercurrent of scarcity.
As user/tech guy I’m sympathetic with being paranoid, but we know that paranoid and tech people is a really tiny subset of population.
Advice: don’t design for the paranoid, except is your target market
For anyone who wants to go a bit into the weeds, I really enjoyed this episode of Peter Attia's podcast where he interviewed Jason Fung: https://peterattiamd.com/jasonfung/
The problem with assumptions is that no one knows they make them while they make them. It's a case of what's obvious to me isn't obvious to you.

It's also a case of things that aren't obvious on day one, but become obvious on day 3, or day 6.
Don't interpret it as a negative.
>Many apps turn the microphone on and leave it on.

Source?
That can be disproven easily. Imagine a life in a constant state of pain and torture

To me this proves there exists a threshold at which no life is better
Gonna join the anecdote club. Before I started doing IF, I had a lot of stomach problems. I was taking omeprazole and eventually pantoprazole (more powerful) but still frequently had heartburn overnight and woke up with a horrible taste in my mouth. I had some bad flareups where I'd wake up puking bile and felt horrible all day long. Prior to that even I had two endoscopies and got tested for Crohn's disease (my dad has it, I tested negative). I was seriously considering that I'd never be able to eat Indian food again (my favorite!). On top of that, I would get EXTREMELY hangry every day, multiple times a day.

Then I tried IF.. after just a couple weeks I was able to stop the pantoprazole and my heartburn problems went away. The first two weeks were hard, I had a constant dull headache and the hunger at night (I'm 'skipping dinner' in my 16/8 schedule) was pretty hard. But after I got used to it, I felt much better over all. No more getting hangry, no more heartburn, no more trouble sleeping, no more groggy mornings, better mood overall.

It's ridiculous how much food and your eating patterns can affect you. I've seen it multiple times now when I've 'fallen off the [IF] wagon'... my mood deteriorates, and often other symptoms come out: headaches, upset stomach, all sorts of stuff. I don't think it's absurd to think that the stuff you're putting into your body "for energy" actually has a lot of other affects on your system.

Oh, and I dropped some of the weight I started gaining in my 30's when I did IF, too, which is a benefit of course, but not my reason for doing it.
We're trying to adjust our life so we could live on well under the median income of needs must. In this case it meant leaving the city for a small town about an hour away. Houses are cheap as chips, though.
That uncertainty will only increase the spread and retail investors - ordinary folks like you or I - will pay for it.
The meaning seems clear at least to me.

Language revisions tend to focus on adding features or capabilities or expressiveness. Go is famously, aggressively, minimalist from an experiential point of view. What rsc is saying is that nothing is going in to Go 2 unless it noticably simplifies things, and unless the incremental addition is itself is as simple as it can get.

This is definitely not the typical way languages evolve.
Society has always made sure that most people remain in the rat race.

During agrarian times, it was back-breaking work. During the industrial revolution, it was in sweat shops. Once office became computerised, it became office drudge work. Industrial revolution came with promises of leisure, but they did not materialise (see "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell. [1])

Incomes of the majority, and the debt due to consumerist needs of the majority are kept in balance so that no one has leisure time to fulfil their true human potential, and you need to work 3 decades to subsist.

I somehow tend to think that the coming A. I. revolution, if it does come at all, will leave things as they are in a new form - the more things change, the more they remain the same.[2]

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr
I do intermittent fasting since a couple of months, initially started with 16:8 and then moved to 18:6 after the first 4 weeks.

It took around 3-4 weeks until I noticed results which seems in line what I was told by others.

What stood out beside the weight loss (I was very close to my ideal weight anyway) was my ability to concentrate. I noticed a huge improvement after around 5-6 weeks. When I try to come up with the right words in a conversation it feels I have immediately in mind what I want to say.
I was forced by circumstances to have several of these fasting periods in my life, the longest being ~100 days. During this time I consumed no solid food or food supplements (like vitamins). I replaced that with clear vegetable soups (meaning only the water from boiling the vegetables) and sweetened tea. Very little actual water now that I think of it.

Very quickly after starting it just sort of became normal, the hunger pangs were gone, there were no particularly strong cravings even when sitting at the table with people eating normal food. Surprisingly many times I even felt more energetic but this may have been purely a subjective feeling.
Probably because New Zealand is not a military rival and China is, this is pretty obvious to people who aren't being disingenuous.
> What's the general lesson taught by such redactions by the browser vendor?

That all you need is keywords and a good search engine. Platform companies hate URLs because they enable interoperability.
And yet that is the opposite of what has contributed to success. Countries can do without apprenticeships and have success. They cannot do without academia and do the same.

Even if there are useless members within the whole system can still be positive. The whole model of venture capitalism is technically very wasteful from all of the failures - but the outsized successes more than pay for the failures.

It is a common mistake in a pattern of thinking that "If I cannot understand how it works then it must be bad." By all means question and be skeptical but assuming that is an increasingly bad heuristic as specialization grows.
The military base is there to protect the regime. It’s easier to deal with a small monarchy with no transparency than a democracy. And they make for a good enemy of other local countries keeping just enough zest in the region for the weapons to keep flowing and the figureheads to keep toppling, but still allowing for a steady supply of oil.

History of Modern Middle East by William Cleveland is a good resource:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64594.A_History_of_the_M...
Would you pay $0.2 to avoid that?
what? whos worse? its 2 people busy with different things. thats why its a fair trade. its teamwork.
Right, let's say you are 35, you already changed careers once. If you have a family and you aren't rich, you are stuck, that's it, your life is over.

And if you are not? Let's say you got to med school, and let's say everything goes PERFECTLY. You are still 47 with $200,000 in student loan debt, what was the point?

Or you to the army because you always wanted to be a Green Beret, now you are 41 with your career dead and a path into management.

You can still take risks, like starting a business, but now the cost is very real. The question of "When do I start living. What's the grind actually for?" starts to become very real.
I wrote a Golang version when I was trying to learn Go: https://github.com/bediger4000/lisp-in-python-in-go

This is a great article.
this is real neat do you have plans to monetize it or more a hobby thing? Think you could do well, the space could do with some competitors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-saw-a-thing-when-a-smal... I assume, maybe a mod can edit it?
Here is a very nice table listing pretty much every case under US copyright law [1].

For books first published in the US, here is what is now in the public domain.

• Books published before 1924.

• Books published from 1924 through 1977 without a copyright notice.

• Books published from 1978 to early 1989 without a copyright notice and without a subsequent registration within 5 years.

• Books published from 1924 through 1963 with copyright notice but whose copyright was not renewed. (This is the case for the books the article is talking about).

• Books prepared by an officer or employee of the US government as part of the person's official duties.

[1] https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
I completely missed the `For individuals` tab...
Very true and let me add a note. "Positive feedback" in everyday terms seems like a good thing. In systems speak:

> A positive feedback loop speeds up a process. [0]

So in this context, that is highly undesirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points
Project is too small, from my understanding (I'm only a contributor, not a core team member). You can see from the contribution guidelines[0]:

Ebooks that are not clearly in the U.S. public domain. If it’s not on Gutenberg, we’ll probably decline it.

So we're basically piggybacking off of the copyright verification work we assume that PG has already done. This is one of the reasons I haven't started The Worm Ourboros yet--it's in Australia's Gutenberg archive, but not the US one.

[0]https://standardebooks.org/contribute/accepted-ebooks
This probably reflects poorly on me but the #1 reason why I think it's difficult to fast is because of boredom more than anything else - does anybody have any strategies for this?
I've been doing intermittent fasting on and off for years now. In the past few months, I have become more extreme and am doing OMAD (One Meal a Day). I typically do a 23/1 fast where I only eat within a 1 hour period (dinner). The Keto diet + OMAD has enabled me to lose more than 100lbs and keep it off.

I haven't been perfect but I have noticed that it (obviously) has cut my mindless snacking and has made me more mindful as to what I'm actually eating. After about a week your body adjusts and you're hungry during the day.

What I've been doing now is during lunch, instead of eating I go for a 30-45 minute walk.
The faster you can trade, the faster you can flash crash. The current state is that bots can crash the market faster than humans can react, how does that help stability?
For N=104, if you look at the PDF and zoom in, you can see the blue circles have a line rather than a dot. Admittedly, it is hard to see why the blue circles do not have enough freedom to move slightly away and become magenta (particularly the one on N=108).
I lost 35 pounds in 40 days of on/off fasting.

I feel so much better and healthier now.

Longest stretch was probably 5 or 6 days. I'd lose 5 or 6 pounds.

Regular stretch was 2 or 3 days.

Big con: I did throw up a lot from keto flu. I recommend eating right away after that (slowly but solidly) then resume, drink heavily vitamin water (no sugar) and maybe and egg a day.
> at 199 USD yearly phpstorm is prohibitively expensive for small teams and independent devs

First, that $200 rate is for teams; independent devs can pay a significantly lower rate (the catch is, you have to pay it personally, not expense it or be reimbursed by an employer).

And even for teams, $200 a year is nothing. If you can afford to hire devs in a first world country (US/EU/Aus/etc), you can afford tools for them. NO employer you should possibly consider working for is going to quibble over the license fee; not when they're already paying 1000 times that in fully loaded costs in salary/rent/overheads/benefits/etc.

If you can't find $200 for a tool to help you do your job, you're not really a professional. (Again, in a 1st world country.)
Indeed, word on The Street leading up to the announcement was 0.25 rate cute was most likely followed by a small likelihood of 0.50 cut. No surprise.

I disagree, however, that rates are going to zero in the States. ZIRP/NIRP are going very badly in EU and JP and The Fed does not want to replicate that outcome. What's more likely is a long-term interest rate peg before cutting short-term rates that low.
> those who say TAOCP is hard to read or boring

I always regard TAOCP as the finest technical writing. It's a pleasure to read, and certainly most accessible English to the complicated topics.
I would contend that knowledge is better gained through slower, deeper studies, not through rapid fire education for a single semester.

People may be taught physics and biology, but most of the knowledge will wash through them once they finished their exams and got their grade.
>How does frequentist statistics answer this question?

By applying Bayes Theorem, just as the article did. By invoking Type I and Type II errors.

This is a standard problem in stats textbooks - not breast cancer but the general problem of a diagnostic measure that is 99% accurate, for a disease that has less than 1% prevalence.

Frequentists don't insist on using p-values to solve all problems.

>Can this question be answered without assuming a prior on the likelihood that the individual had breast cancer before the test was performed?

Why should one not assume a prior? There is a base rate for breast cancer. Why should a frequentist not use that information? I've never heard a statistician who does not describe himself as a Bayesian say one shouldn't. Every textbook suggests one should. Where are people getting the idea that frequentists don't use Bayesian methods. They always have used them.

I'm finding this whole discussion orthogonal to Bayesian vs frequentist statistics. The main issue frequentists have with a lot of Bayesian approaches is that Bayesians often want to assign probabilities to one off events, whereas frequentists insist only on repeatable events. That is where the accusation of "subjective" comes from. Frequentists like to believe that any question of probability can be decided by taking N samples and seeing the outcome (even if only conceptually).

For problems where there is a population, and one can do sampling (i.e. repeatability), there's never a problem with using Bayesian methods.
Checkout A Complete Guide to Fasting by Dr. Jason Fung
That's very clear and interesting. Thanks :)
i suppose you wanted nuclear research to happen in germany and japan rather than america then?

it’s just like a screwdriver, that’s why china is using AI for tracking and oppressing their uighur minorities
I know this isn't quite on topic, but this is not the web I want. I want open services to compete with the entrenched players of free-as-a-service, and I want more interop between these open services. I'm sure HN already gets the gist.

I run as de-Googlified a stack as I can: Nextcloud, DAVdroid, LineageOS, exclusively Linux, a private cloud server, etc. This is for my personal usage - at work, we run the whole Google/Atlassian suite, and I'm (mostly) fine with that separation.

But I positively pine for the ease of use and general UX of the closed services when I go back to my private, open-source stack. A quick case in point: the Conversations Android XMPP client

I'm a Librem 5 backer, and I'm looking forward to the challenge of using it as a daily driver. So I'm looking to wean myself off WhatsApp in favour of something open. But Conversations isn't it. It's a great XMPP client, but it's not something I will ever convince the majority of my friends and family to use. It's couched in technical know-how, and while it's a great app for an open source project, it still manages to feel subpar to the closed-source, back-doorable, privacy-draining consumer offerings. Signal seems the closest so far.

(I should add here that I am trying to do something about this: I contribute haphazardly to OSS I use and I evangelize it in my social circle, but it feels like an uphill battle)

More anecdata: I run self-hosted GitLab, Nextcloud, and Wallabag. Hopefully Mastadon and Pixelfed soon.

There is no freaking way to do SSO between all of these. Despite OAuth+OpenID being older than some of that software. Don't get me started on the fact that the quickest way to get a file from phone <-> PC is to Slack it to myself from my work account.

The web I want will compete with closed-source ecosystems, instead of being a disparate collection of DIY server software that doesn't talk to each other in the slightest.
I was gonna write that I do not want any more tools to my web toolbox. Then it struck me, I'm working on developing ... a web tool. But I'm struggling to find "product-market-fit", who needs more/better tools ? And what do you need ?
Voices from Chernobyl. Personally I thought the series was rather well done all things considered and gave a good account of the human and technical factors that went into the disaster. A lot of people were compressed into a few composite characters but that's the reality of making television. I feel like I can blame the show a bit for exaggerating the danger of a steam explosion because of cherry-picking quotes. But I don't really see anything else worth complaining about.
This still reads like a conspiracy theory type argument where just because in your mind something you feel may have been rejected was true (without any clarity on what exactly that is)...then you insert another topic people reject in an effort to support it along with a bunch of vague implications that they're related.
> you would trade two boring work days for one awesome day right

In principle you are correct, but in practice you rarely can make such choices because you can't possibly know the future.

You can think you are choosing better life by foregoing the treatment, but it turns out that severe symptoms set in sooner than expected and your life's bad anyways. Or you can think you are choosing longer but worse life but the side effects of the treatment don't seem to affect you much, therapy works way better than expected and you get to experience some joy you couldn't wish for, like holding your newborn grandchild.

What people usually do is balance probabilities and go for longer non-horrible life and hope for the best, and when everything becomes horrible there's usually not much left to make decisions about, which are inherently flawed even then.
everything has to be upgraded. Older version of composer doesn't work with php 7.3, cakephp must be carefully upgraded. In my tests we even got different query results.

So maybe upgrading PHP itself might not be that bad, something I can't tell you for sure, but in my experience nobody uses vanilla PHP, they all wrap it in frameworks, and those must all be carefully upgraded too.
actually, I'd be as interested in how he operates when coding as his future texts :)
Usually the friendlier term "ecosystem" is used.
Wasn't the story of Stuart Parmenter being flown out to California to help with the browser based on his open-source contributions from his parents house in some midwstern town?

Was that Mozilla or Netscape at the time?
>The claim is that the prior is subjective and they're bad.

The only such claims I've seen are ones where they disagree with the prior, which is no different that disputes amongst themselves where so-called frequentists argue whether p=0.05 or p=0.001 is appropriate. Frequentists don't pretend that their p-value is set in stone.

Let me repeat what I said in another comment:

I'm finding this whole discussion orthogonal to Bayesian vs frequentist statistics. The main issue frequentists have with a lot of Bayesian approaches is that Bayesians often want to assign probabilities to one off events, whereas frequentists insist only on repeatable events. That is where the accusation of "subjective" comes from. Frequentists like to believe that any question of probability can be decided by taking N samples and seeing the outcome (even if only conceptually).

For problems where there is a population, and one can do sampling (i.e. repeatability), there's never a problem with using Bayesian methods.

My complaint is that while there are differences amongst Bayesians and frequentists, this article does not present any, and wrongly implies things about frequentists.
Does `docker run --detach ...` work for your use case?

I have a tangentially related Docker use case: I'd like Docker Desktop (and Kubernetes) to spin down automatically in the background anytime I haven't run a container for some period of time and am on battery. It drains so much power even when idle.
It counts as fasting and is one of the easiest ways to start doing IF.
Yes. Or rather, I'd be happy to pay let's say $25-$50 a month for an overall "News Subscription". Then this amount would get distributed over the various news sources I visit, either based on how many articles I read from a certain source or some other "fair" mechanism.
>It's good that the textbooks you were taught from point out that assumptions exist and should be acknowledged.

Have you found a "standard" text book that doesn't?

Not a probability textbook, but a statistics one.
At what point should hugely disproportionate healthcare be provided to select individuals at the expense of everyone else'e healthcare?

I have Sarcoidosis, a genetic condition that means my immune system literally attacks my own body. It's extremely rare. Should I demand that a hugely disproportionate amount of money be spent to cure me so that I can enjoy this theoretical immortality? Seems a bit selfish. That money could presumably be spent to benefit many more lives beyond my own.

This isn't pro-capatilism reasoning, it's just being realistic and reasonable.

EDIT: To clarify I'm not advocating that we don't invest money in treating Sarcoidosis (or other rare conditions); right now it's much more realistic and more likely to cause immediate benefit than immortality moonshots! However, down the track perhaps the best investment would instead be prevention in newborns. In which case I'll miss out. A shame for me, but if that happens to be the approach that's going to have the best net positive outcome for society, then go for it.
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The "not enough work for people" is mostly a myth from what I've seen. The reality is rote work will be automated but higher-level type jobs will increase. Also the idea of "basic income" will probably come indirectly - not from a state funded program - but simply from cost of goods dropping so low that buying the basics to live will be so cheap that you don't need much money to begin with.
Take this in context but I think this is partly due to the overinflation education requirements for employment.
On the other hand, I dropped 40 pounds in three months on a calorie-restricted regimen combined with strength training, and kept it off permanently (even years after abandoning the diet and training).

That said, doing this successfully does require a mindset change. It requires a "new normal" at the end of the period.
Airbus is testing a plane with flapping wingtips inspired by the albatross
Although isset() still returns false for null ;)