skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That what worries me is "He fed a group of mice a high-fat diet around the clock for 18 weeks...". I fail to see any trace of scientific experiment run on people. There is some anecdotal evidence "I’ve employed what’s called intermittent fasting, or time-restricted eating, to help patients with an array of chronic conditions". How it helped? Helped everyone? What about control group?

The only cited research is that: "Among 2,400 women with early-stage breast cancer who provided information on their eating rhythm, roughly 400 suffered from new tumors within seven years. But women who fasted for 13 hours nightly had 26% less risk of recurrence than the control group". Was this only difference between those two groups of women for seven years? Maybe those who were fasting has been doing for 7 years 100 other things and that was the reason they didn't get cancer? But "Fasting cures cancer" looks like a great headline. Clicks are coming.

Will we see in 3 months another article, also based on such vague research, claiming the opposite?

This kind of "science" and journalism contributes to general lack of trust in science. Eggs are bad, next week, eggs are good. Fat is bad. Fat is good. Cholesterol causes heart diseases. No it does not. Yes it does. Global warming? Phew, next week they will announce that global winter is coming. Doctors say vaccines are good and safe. Better be careful, those are the same guys who were paid to say that margarine is healthy and butter not, while it turned out the opposite...
So many things get needlessly replaced for a mix of these reasons:

• ignorance: someone hasn't taken the time to understand what it does or how to use it.

• maturity: the existing thing is perceived as "old", "fragile", "prone to error", not conforming to current expectations and norms (oddly, norms that the existing thing put in place). This perception is influenced by the ignorance mentioned above.

• ego: the replacer's name isn't on the established thing.

• hubris: the current state of the art is fragmented, and will finally be unified under a new regime, and only a new guard and new stewards can do this.

There's a difference between (a) continuously making things better/adjusting to new requirements, and (b) forever creating Brooks' style Second Systems. Recognizing when the line has been crossed or that the thinking and approach is tending towards (b) is more art than science and by then the tipping point was way in the past.
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If you're truly doing IF, you shouldn't add either to your coffee.
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Yeah, after a few DMCA requests they will ban your account. Usenet is supported and torrents, but that is not intended to be used for copyrighted material. AFAIK s3 doesn't do any scanning, nor would they care, since DMCA safe harbor protects them until they get a notice. There are plenty of options if you do decide to be a pirate to stay safe, but again, I do not encourage or think it's a good idea.
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I've written previously of how I got sick after a tick bite, and how I stayed sick for a very long time, even after taking antibiotics, and how, in the end, fasting helped bring about a permanent cure:

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/how-i-recovered-from-...
Teaching should be qualified on certifications only, of which a degree is not a qualifier. Good teachers are under paid, bad teachers are over paid, why support the system? Don't use public schools.

I would say that most 4 year degrees are mostly 'useless' knowledge. I would say most high schools are mostly useless knowledge. I don't know what society is optimizing for, I think it's optimizing for more and more expensive education.
Yeah, probably should.
you went from G to Autodesk?
For the average person, the fed funds rate is a complicated thing that requires background about how money moves between financial institutions that most people simply don't have. The HN crowd is going to be fairly educated, but for the average person, explanations of these types of concepts are valuable.

That said, it's just fundamentally dishonest when they say this came as a surprise. Everyone in the financial industry expected it and the market has been pricing it in for quite a while. They clearly know this is going to be read by people who are of below average financial literacy and are blatantly trying to deceive them.
Yes, milk and cheeses are appetite enhancers. So is cumin.

Believe it or not, for me, low appetite is often goes hand in hand with not getting enough salt. I have found that I can fix low appetite by getting more salt.

I don't know the exact mechanism, but I suspect the Chloride part of Sodium Chloride contributes to the Chloride part of Hydrochloric acid in my stomach.
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This piece feels like it wants me to be upset about the maintainers of EasyList, instead of the people that created the content which has become so toxic that people are scrambling for ways to block it.
I'm not sure there is a "correct" way to do it. There's lots of variations that work differently for different people. But even at its simplest (fasting 16 hours, eating for 8) doesn't really require a ton of extra planning. The point is that during the 8 hours, you fill up about as quickly as you do when you don't fast, so you don't really end up consuming more. What does change is you remove the snacking/overeating that occurs throughout the rest of the day. So even if someone eats the way they normally would during their 8 hour period of non-fasting, many people will see benefits.

Obviously there's lots of other additional dietary steps one can take, but most of them don't actually differ much from traditional healthy eating advice: limit carbs and sugar, balanced meals, don't drink your calories, etc.
I imagine a year in solitary confinement (how is solitary even legal still?) would likely change your mind. I'd say no life is better than a life of torture, and taking "life of any quality is infinitely better than no life" to the extreme, would mean that hell with eternal constant torture would be better than not existing, which I can't agree with nor understand. I'm glad that you have such a positive outlook on life, but I doubt that you could maintain it in the face of a long torturous experience, few can.
Ancient Greeks called the life period when one is about 40 "akme". It is a period of greatest mental skills (can't find it on English Wiki, but here is German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akme).

The "I'm 30, so I'm to old" syndrome is a consequence of very natural social phenomenon - society wants one to be well defined and established, easy to predict.
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Yeah .. I dislike the route that Adblock Plus went too, they make a ton of money off of lists like EasyList, and their silly Acceptable Ad (read: how is this not extortion) program.
This is a symptom they believe they're under paid. Plus, you don't need an advanced 'degree' to learn much of anything anymore. The wealth of human knowledge that is available online, for free, is astounding.
It's not the old factory model at all. It's the model taken from competitive sports.

It is superior in employing talent but leaves many broken people ultimately resulting in social costs.

Short name: rat race.

Old factory model provided identical education, relatively broad, to everyone (zero help if you got stuck) - and provided single vocational education on top. (Including research vocations.)

Yet more ancient one started with a trade education based on propinquity; rather than scouting and filtering.
I did run into the same issue as mentioned in the article and the Easylist forum is full of publishers having complaining that their site doesn't work anymore.

I started working on http://blockedby.com , a monitoring tool to warn you when a rule would impact your website.

But after contacting a few websites that did have the issue on the forum, I couldn't find any that actually wanted to prevent this. A few discussions with publishers told me that they're more interested in convincing their users to give up on ad blockers rather than face the fact that people are not going to abandon ad blockers.
> it's just depressing how the full time staff just see degrees as an obstacle to getting a raise not a path to growth and learning. The average American already thinks higher ed is a scam

I think an unbiased look at the evidence might say they're right.
Fasting has a side-benefit of saving lots of time. Less time planning meals. Less time shopping. Less time preparing food. Less time eating. For me, the extra N hours a day I save is very noticeable.

I also notice more easily how food is pushed on us. Food advertising is pervasive. In the city, you cannot even walk 50m without seeing a signboard enticing you to eat something. Everywhere people are eating, carrying food, talking about food. When I am in a more natural setting, thoughts about food come from within. I get hungry, and then I think about eating. If I am not hungry, I do not think much about eating (aside from having basic food security). The desire for food is not broadcast to me.
So it will be just like Plex but it will be more focused on larger media servers or people who want to not care about organizing media, need multiple qualities pre transocded, and etc. I wrote a bigger detail to inimino below about why that decision was made, but it's s3 first class and all about ability to server media globally and scale.
I think using screwdrivers as an analogy underplays the potential importance of AI. Electricity would be a better analogy.
> I thought this was standard practice for designing C APIs taking callbacks.

This is to supplant non-reentrant shared state for node depth. Same as strtok() -> strtok_r(). Doing this with the generic closure arg is just a bonus since the callback is already present.
>But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization

Yeah they are, the balance they're targeting is zero ads.
Anyone have more data on this? What happens to programmers as they age, are they in fact unemployable?
>“It’s crazy that more people don’t know about this,” said Marty Kratky-Katz, the founder of Blockthrough, which lets publishers monetize using Adblock Plus’s Acceptable Ads program. “I don’t think they mean any harm or have any malicious intentions. But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization, or like they were elected. They’re just four dudes.”

Why would you ever want your adblocking list run by "experts in balancing publisher monetization"?
Indeed. Once I finished the article I sat there and had to think: "what am I supposed to be feeling after reading this?". I think they want us to be angry that EasyList is only maintained by 4 people. Or maybe just be angry that EasyList exists. I'm not really sure.

My takeaway was that it's pretty impressive they still respond to exclusion requests in a timely manner.
But that is a ridiculous standard to apply to nonessential broadcasted information.
You have to apply some judgement; otherwise you reach ridiculous false equivalences. AI is clearly something interesting to both militaries as a potential strategic advantage.
> While a technology shift doesn’t completely negate the skills of veterans, it certainly levels the playing field for recent grads.

It can more than level the playing field, especially when the hiring managers are particularly narrow-minded. I'm seeing more and more "degree in data science" (an academic discipline that didn't exist 10 years ago) as a requirement for what are effectively programming jobs. Of course, we can agree that this is stupid, and that not getting a job at such a company is "dodging a bullet", but unemployed is a pretty nasty bullet in and of itself.
Sure. It’s good to have people trying to understand things but while they are findings explanations we can take advantage of the benefits already and don’t have to wait. I am thinking the same about placebo effects. As long as it works let’s use it and in parallel make an effort to understand the mechanism.
I think if there's any problem with the term "cleansing," it's that too many people have used it in a totally meaningless way, and almost caused the term to drift. This is unfortunate, since it clearly does fit a (more sane) colloquial definition of "cleansing and repairing."
uBlock Origin really really needs to do something to distinguish itself from uBlock. Every thread I read about ad blockers has a comment trying to clarify.
Age discrimination is absolutely a thing, but (and this is only based on anecdata) I would say it is much, much worse in the valley than just about anywhere else. The rest of the world seems to have a less damaged culture.
what do you mean by "strong undercurrent of scarcity"?
I really don't think you should be giving vague advice like this -- it could be dangerous for some people.

> drinking lots and lots of water

People who are sedentary and probably drinking more water than someone who finished a marathon does not sound like a good idea to me. I was drinking a ton of water throughout the day based on ideas like this and got sick from it. I feel much better now having cut my water intake. Could the converse also be true, that we're overestimating how much water we actually need?

> Hunger pangs are usually just food cravings

Are you sure? For me cravings and hunger pangs are entirely different feelings.

I don't doubt there are benefits to some forms of fasting, but people should consult their doctors first and tread carefully.
I've read so many blog posts on HN about ray tracers and I still haven't got tired of them. Very cool twist using Lisp and a microcontroller!
It depends when you crystalize the loss. If you need the cash and the market happens to be down this week, that's a problem. Don't forget this is replacing the savings and bonds that "dolts" use, this is supposed to be your short term easy to access money.
Why is there no netflix for books? Google already scanned most of the world's books. The only thing that would be scary is someone knowing what books I read when and where. (my usual privacy concerns ...)
In general if you don't keep up with the pace/trends, you will become out of touch. I would suggest this is for programmers that stop learning while they age.
yes, if you quote the next part of my post:

> medical science isn’t so good at explaining why the drugs have these actions

you can see I'm in full agreement
The reason this provides little value to society now is because there’s no easy way to leverage price information to make inferences about the world-state. HFT on a prediction market would provide lots of value to society.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fasting-cure-is-no-fad-1156...
The outcry is over the leaks from the Dutch contractor that worked for google to the media.

He was acting as a whistleblower because he was alarmed at the amount of data he was asked to review that was just people talking privately in their homes (not intentionally interacting with their smart devices)
A Peace to End All Peace is good too
As someone who has worked in higher ed, part of the degree requirements are to reduce corruption. Otherwise low tier state schools and community colleges would just be packed with the top administrator's buddies. Requiring a doctorate at least means you can't give the job to your pal Joey from Bayonne or whatever. Well, you still can, but he has to grind a mail order doctorate first.
Regardless of what can be done to cure our brain, can you mind adapt after twenty years of solitary confinement?
The most successful people in MOOCs and boot camps are people with college degrees already!
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I don't have the numbers. You would need to go to the history books to find it but you can see the trend in action to a certain extent for certain occupations. A prime example is farming. In aggregate, total employment in farming has declined significantly. The people that are left are doing higher level work, not tilling the field with a donkey and plow, they're driving a tractor or doing soil analysis etc. The field laborers moved to cities and now they do light manufacturing or similar jobs with maybe a few weeks of training.
I'm over 40 - I found myself suddenly back on the job market a couple of years ago when the company I worked for abruptly went out of business. I was only out of work for three weeks before I found something else. I keep current, though - one of the realities of this profession is that you have to keep learning, and you have to do it "on your own time", if you want to stay in it. Personally, I find that to be a reasonable trade-off, but I know a lot of people don't.
Let’s simplify the question. How do you differentiate an correct procedure from an incorrect procedure? The correct procedure can be observed to work.
Plan B is necessary for all, not only <40yo coders.
Fasting has been known for a very long time, and people often practiced it for religious reasons. Intermittent Fasting is actually a Fad, and don't expect any magical from it. Some people simply don't eat breakfast, but they don't call it intermittent fasting. My mother never eats breakfast, simply because she is not hungry in the morning. She is not super healthy, nor she aged better than people who do eat breakfast. I also find it funny when people finish dinner at 8PM, and immediately start tracking fast while they have a stomach full of food which is not going to fully digest for several hours. Wait till your food is digested before start tracking your fast.
I was surprised it was that hard to change a route on autotrader. The article kept mentioning hundreds of thousands of pages, like they had some person editing each page in textmate.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/f-22-raptors-may-n...

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-did-russian-su-35...
$10K’s doesn’t “wildly overvalue” the developer time that goes into a successful browser extension.

At almost $200k/year, a starting google developer makes ~$4K a week (pre tax, but also ignoring health care, facilities, etc).

The browser extension offers are comparable to months of developer time, but since they are made after an extension succeeds, they’re not accounting for the probability that a new extension won’t become wildly popular.

Put another way, if the scammers could develop (or steal) extensions for less than they’re buying them for, I’m sure they would.
And what if you are used dynamically typed language for years and still cannot understand why anyone would choose on if can chose freely?

Seriously I have noticed that static vs dynammic preference is quite sustainable thing for people. Even if you are have used lot of both most people prefer the one they are used when they 'got it' during their programming learning path.

I don't really understand that CSV example what's the problem but one concrete challenge I have noticed with static types is when you want do mutation which effectively change the type. Instead of setting just new property you have to potentially do dummy copy (including type) or some additional hashmap by id for this additional data.

(btw I am not your down voter)
They also attempted to make schematics logically cohesive, if possible. For example, in oscilloscopes signal paths are typically differential and DC coupled, but there are often sections where high and low bandwidth components are fed through different paths. In Tektronix schematics these symmetries and asymmetries, which paths are critical and which aren't, which things may look symmetric but are not, these are all very visible. This isn't always possible, though. For example, the Z blanking signalling in 7000 series scopes is distributed over approximately six or seven circuit boards just in the main frame, and the schematic drawers clearly came to their limits trying to pull this together into cohesiveness.

If you compare this to the schematics of more modern electronics, they are often madness. Even though it is far simpler to re-arrange schematics using EDA, it clearly isn't done a lot, because parts are sprinkled around randomly, everything is just on one enormous sheet or everything is randomly split up across sheets with numbered net names making connections etc.
Agree with you there. Also, my experience is atypical because I'm going back to these subjects after 25 years out of school. It's interesting to me that many people will revisit favourite novels, or religious texts, but we don't re-read textbooks. I'm getting whole new layers of meaning from the same old first-year stuff. AI / agents could help schedule revisiting topics to achieve deeper understanding.
While I’ve no doubt that age discrimination does exist, when you see people who are former programmers at 40 (or 30 for that matter) it’s often just that they started out in programming but got bored of it and moved on to other careers. Or gradually became managers rather than programmers.

Statistics may certainly show that programmers skew young, but its not always due to being forced out, or denied opportunities, because of age.
One problem with AI in education is that it promotes magical thinking. That is, if you rationally understand what the AI is doing, it seems awfully simple. And then the disappointment comes: if it is simple and understandable, it isn't really AI.

That's why you see a race for obscurity -- lots of jargon to describe the complexity of the system.

In reality, good educational software is about good design, good goal alignment, good assessments, good sequencing, good intervention material -- it's all based on classic instructional design, not a superior algorithm. Has the software been set up to support data driven continuous improvement? That is more important than an algorithm.
No will, no specific wishes, except for 'be healthy' and 'if not possible, die on the operating table'. No way to obtain them now. Even so they'd make no difference. Ending life is prohibited by both law and religion of the land. Any attempt to do less than possible to keep her alive would be illegal and religiously immoral. We just have to wait till life-saving measures will fail.
I miss my old Tektronix Oscilloscope... I was learning electronics, a whole new world opened up. That was a great feeling, probably why I keep learning new software languages.