skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a great example of how privacy risks result in conflicts between buyers and sellers. It doesn't seem very surprising that salespeople want it so badly, and also that organizations don't want them to have it.

Some parts of the org chart can be inferred from various public data. Is it any wonder that people want to scrape LinkedIn so much?
Thanks for the downvote. I thought I was contributing.
You would hope, but that is a macro decision that rarely gets into the details of the tools themselves. I've been C level at two tech companies that both grossed more than 70m annually and served tens of thousands of customers. In all cases at both companies the decisions made on SW tools were about cost, ROI, ease of migration/implementation and what present pain the tool solved at the exec level. "Will our support people be more efficient with this tool" and similar questions never ever came up. We migrated from ZenDesk to ServiceNow for support ticketing and the decision mostly hinged on the integration with Salesforce and the TCO, not on the functionality of the tool itself.
Malloc is not a syscall, you're right. But it's a quite complicated funtion, so it wouldn't make sense for the compiler (or linker) to inline it wherever it's called.
It's kind of funny just how much complaining about AI hype and bad coverage there is (on Twitter, and on this very subreddit), it feels like there is more of that now than actually bad coverage. This article suggests some actions to take at the very bottom, which amount to including some discussion of the limitations of the work in the paper -- not a bad idea, but then again the misleading coverage usually does not stem from claims in the papers themselves in the first place.

Shameless but relevant plug warning, I run this effort Skynet Today with the aim to let AI researchers/experts present various advancements/topics to a general audience without hype and with context. Everyone on the team is volunteering their time for free and we can always use more people to help us tackle various subjects, so if you care about this issue feel free to take a look here: https://www.skynettoday.com/contribute
This article is extremely generous towards open source, to the point of sounding disingenuous or just pure shilling
Unless you have low body fat, which is less common than it used to be. I maintain body fat under 7%, and I have to eat regularly or I will become very ill very quickly. If I'm to fast, I have to cut something from my diet, not cut my diet.
Bullshit. He would have died after no more than two months.
We are firmly in conjecture-only territory here, especially discussing a 382 day fast.

Having said that, Dr. Peter Attia has some reasonable hypotheses/extrapolations on how one may maintain muscle on a prolonged fast.

> "I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that you can “eat” a meal of protein that contains all of the essential amino acids during a fast. This may be one of the benefits of autophagy, which literally translates to “self-eating.” Your muscle cells may be dining off your skin cells, so to speak.

> "Obviously, the longer you fast, the more you drain your internal sources of food, and the more likely MPB will exceed MPS over time. (This may also suggest that the fatter you are to begin with, the longer you can eat yourself, and presumably maintain muscle mass for longer.)"

https://peterattiamd.com/can-you-maintain-muscle-during-fast...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117717047/angus-barbieri

Died age 51.
145 years continuously (and on and off before then, dating back to Peter The Great), then 74 years under the Soviets. A pretty good chunk of time IMO.
Told you: Perl is built by the gods.
That's what Hangouts was circa 2013.

It did Hangouts messages, video / data voice calls, or traditional voice calls or SMS messages depending on the capabilities of the other client.

But the culture of new products launched rather than iterating on existing products like Gchat and allo and other products needing to be launched and hangouts being pillaged on its feature set so the other ones would look like they had a reason to exist meant that instead of working towards a Google version of iMessage that they could release an iOS client for and that's dominate all messaging, Google fragmented their efforts in a spectacular manner.
Are you saying you didn't eat or drink anything during 9 days? What was your initial and final weight?
Ask HN: Superhuman product-market fit engine as Service?
I was going through different posts on Medium to see how people are using Superhuman's engine. Although this engine is the most impressive tool to quantify the product-market fit, one has to go through a lot of steps to execute it e.g.

- Users acquisition
- Finding their info. (Industry, Title etc.)
- Sending surveys
- Compiling and analyzing survey results
- Segmenting users
- Iterate over the above steps
- So on ...

Is there any tool available to do all of the above steps in less time, all in one place? If NO, then do we need to get permission from superhuman to offer it as service (Is it patented?)?

P.S. https://bit.ly/33EnteW (If someone is unaware of this engine)
Unlock the Potential of the Fast-Rising Online Grocery Shopping Niche
IIRC, that's a specific metabolic state that's seasonal. Maybe this guy was able to replicate it? I'm not seeing any special considerations he took.
Not at all. If you've eaten a high sugar/carb diet, it doesn't matter if you eat less because your body's still not going to burn off the fat unless you actually starve yourself. Eating less is completely different to starvation, and starvation is not a good long term strategy.

1. Cut out sugar and most other carbs (potato,bread,pasta,biscuits,fruit, etc), not counting fiber as a carb). Have a modest amount of protein and as much fat as you want. There are multiple diets such as Keto and Paleo that play with ratio of fats protein and carbs, but they all amount to pretty much the same thing--cutting out sugars and carbs as much as possible.

2. Eat as much as fills you up of everything else.

3. Body learns it needs to use fat for its energy.

4. Get to target weight, reintroduce yourself to carbs in moderation and leave sugar for special occasions.

The hardest part is sugar withdrawls for the first couple of weeks. There's also possible problems with a lazy bile duct due to the body not being used to a high fat diet, but can be dealt with by taking a modest dose bile supplements for a period of time.

Other than that, pretty damn easy. Compared to giving up cigarettes or coffee of which I've done both, it's a walk in the park.
Then we are in agreement. Typically, group selection is not meant in that way, though. Just an FYI.
Some of the GNU userspace projects surrounding Hurd have become important parts of the Linux userspace. Hurd itself, however, is wildly different from the Linux kernel, and has had little to no influence on Linux.
https://www.ft.io/blog/
You cannot use this as an example of a natural experiment. Natural experiment features external variation. In contrast, the amount of liberalization of the economy likely had a lot to do with the country's history, e.g. Ukraine's markets had been less developed than Estonia's before Soviet Union and as a result they couldn't afford to liberalize as much.
Do you have browser extension/ mobile app? How do you use it conveniently?
Do you have any resources on this? Sounds interesting but I couldn't find any writing on the links between these ideas.
The feeling ill part is a n=1.

As mentioned from fasting you still get major benefits from autophay, sirtuin activation, longevity, low insulin variability.

Some of the top fitness and health practitioners who are big on fasting are very low body fat, incredible shape.
I remember in 94 doing an install of an Oracle Forms system we had built - it took 13 or 14 floppy disks to install the multiple oracle products needed.

It took two of us 2 days to install it for 5 systems - we also had to set up a server as they had neglected to buy one :-)

We even took enough cable and nics to build a small network in case they had no suitable network
That theoretical Google messaging protocol wouldn't make a big difference because Google wouldn't be able to push it to every Android manufacturer, because of anti-trust laws. As long as manufacturers do not package it with every phone, and carriers don't want them to package it, it'll never happen.
25 years later, trying to find cause of death...
On Windows you need to use Microsoft Edge (not the new one, the one that ships in-box) and it will render in 4K
Oh cool. So while the earth heats up, we can just plaster everything with these very attractive windmills and we will be fine. The warmer it gets the better. That's a new angle :). Always see the positive in everything.
A lot of "conventional wisdom" about health seems to be targeted at people who are sedentary, which is kind of counterproductive, since being active is the most effective way to improve your health. When you're highly active, things like intermittent fasting start to make a lot less sense.
Dude weighed 450+ pounds at the start. Gonna say the weight loss isn’t what killed him 25 years after the fact
He probably could have presented nothing but slides of cute baby otters and still been charged.

The complaint does spend quite a bit of time trying to establish what took place was an actual 'technology transfer' and his intent to violate sanctions in some way beyond merely traveling and ottering there. And the charge itself is conspiracy, with all of the extra bits they have to show for that attached.

I have zero expertise in this beyond nerdgooglery but the fact this dude's previous adventures seem to have included bananas shit like 'running a web-to-tor gateway and trying to sell the logs to governments' makes me wonder if there isn't more to this that's even dumber and worse for him.

Equally bewildering are the motivations and intent of the North Koreans. Surely if you actually want someone's actionable insights on violating sanctions, you're not going to do it in public at a conference. "American expert declares cryptocurrency use to circumvent imperialist oppression promotes peace" might be all they really needed from him. It's a cliché but 'useful idiot' seems kind of plausible, with quadruple emphasis on 'idiot'.
If you are highly active and have a low bodyfat percent, then you are just catabolizing your own muscle by fasting, and you become very injury prone. There's no upside.
An Interview with Historian James McPherson on The New York Times’ 1619 Project
I don't know how it is for turbines, but with pistons, an aviation engine is designed very differently from an automotive one, and one of the distinguishing features of the former is that it is designed to run at full load for much of its lifespan. In comparison, an automotive engine spends very little time at full load, even in a racing application. A plane needs a lot of continuous thrust just to keep it moving forward fast enough and generating lift, whereas a car moving at constant speed has to only counteract rolling friction and wind resistance.
The fasting discussion in this thread seems to be about caloric fasting, rather than religious fasting. The latter tending to prohibit drinking, while the former doesn’t.
Confusion and Disengagement in Meetings
And yet that 8 year old child was left with a phone. At some point the adults in the room need to take some responsibility. It’s okay to tell your friends that you think it’s inappropriate for an 8 year old to be left alone with a phone at a social gathering.

I recently sent a postcard to a friend. She posted about it on Instagram (which I rarely check), but I didn’t get a personal message from her letting me know that she had received it. When I saw her in person I joked about her Instagram addiction, and told her how it made me feel. She’s a good friend, she understood, problem resolved.

There’s always been corporations fighting to take as much as they can from us, whether it’s by selling us cigarettes, trying to scam us on the phone, or presenting us with dopaminergic ad feeds. That’s what they are meant to do, by design.

We share the responsibility to educate our children, family, friends, push for new legislation, create new social taboos. The opportunities to rectify this bad direction won’t be handed to us; we have to create them. Complaining about the good old days is easy but accomplishes nothing (and they weren’t nearly as good as we think to begin with).
Suggestion: I think the title should be:

> Linus: Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

His point seems to be more about accepting reality and allowing the practice (which in this case is theoretically "badly written" code) to "just work".

As the title stands now:

> Linus: People should aim to make "badly written" code "just work"

One might incorrectly assume Linus is suggesting that defensive programming should be practiced heavily -- but that does not appear to be what he is saying here.
We have a discord server where we studied Angus' life.

A very good friend of mine in the UK officially requested his death certificate.

The causes of death, if I remember correctly, were:

Stomach bleeding, something else (sorry), and obesity.

We were trying to understand if they put obesity on there just because he was obese decades before, or if he was obese again at that time. But we're pretty sure he put the weight back on. He died in Warwick
I lost 100 lbs eating mostly pasta dishes. I think the anti-carb thing is overhyped.

It's funny that you end your comment with "a walk in the park", because my experience suggests that walk in the park may help more than eliminating carbs.
> If you've eaten a high sugar/carb diet, it doesn't matter if you eat less because your body's still not going to burn off the fat unless you actually starve yourself.

My body also doeesn't obey the laws of thermodynamics and manages to gain an extra 1200kcal a day out of nowhere because I eat bread
Probably because everyone else that lives there chose to live there because of the restrictions in the first place?

Super shitty, just that’s probably the reason.
Yeah. It's misworded. It's more like, given a particular person, and a given instant in time, compute the average of an ensemble of people. It makes no sense.
Lol. The number of times I've been downvoted for suggesting dry fasting. Those who deny it are living in the stone age of health.
However, if you can count on increased wind speeds you can build equivalent power windmills with smaller sails. Thus increasing the number of them you can put per square mile while keeping them out of each other's vortices...
I remember when Airmash was posted as a Show HN. It was fun and far more performant then it had any right to be.
Cancer is an instance of the tension you’re describing erupting into open rebellion as a lineage of cells starts over-consuming resources to the detriment of the organism (and all the other cell lineages contained in the organism). I’m not sure what your depth of knowledge is with regard to genetics and evolution, but a fruitful google search might be “germ line vs somatic cells”. This tension also exists at the level of DNA, with some fragments of DNA replicating themselves willy nilly all over the genome, rather than merely being replicated through the normal mechanism. And regarding the game theory: I think the typical thinking is that incentives are dependent on the mode of replication. If something replicates only when the organism creates offspring, then it tends to work harmoniously with the rest of the organism to further this goal. If it replicates via a different mechanism, such as a parasite or disease, then it tends to be uncooperative in collective endeavors.
I've lost a small amount of weight whilst still entirely eating bread this year. The only thing food groups have to do with it is how filling everything is
Aren’t these artificial market manipulations exactly what makes luxurious goods scarce? It’s not like they’re hiding the fact that they’re a luxury product.

It is an interesting perspective on what Luxury goods of the mass manufactured kind may look like in the future.
They said nothing about drinking. It is pretty common parlance to use "fast" to mean "without food/calories" (i.e. water is completely kosher, and some argue "black" tea/coffee/diet soda is too as it is 0 calories/negative calories).
Emacs is also a more complete operating system.
PETA is going after the University of Georgia for using a live mascot
Apple's and Microsoft's 2019 Holiday Ads: Naughty or Nice
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Quite a bizarre read considering Linux's decision to e.g. overcommit memory makes 100% correctly written code break nondeterministically...
It’s an open-source project. Anyone can work on it or fork it. If you’ve got technical criticism, let’s hear it.
Urbit only uses a blockchain as a ledger of who owns which addresses within the network and root DNS for peer discovery.

The OS itself runs as a VM on your machine (either a Linux or MacOS host, for now), and that is the only place your data lives.

Urbit does implement a peer-to-peer encrypted, authenticated network among these VMs. It's not solely socially focused, though.

It's also intended to be your personal archive for things like your personal financial data, pictures, nusic, notes, and private documents like tax records and medical histories.

And not only an archive, but also your personal "agent", in the sense that it's a program that's on all the time, on the network on your behalf, to serve your blog, for example.

You can access Urbit through the command-line or a webpage that it serves for you.

The state of an Urbit VM is a folder on the host OS. You can zip it up, move it to another computer, and restart it there seamlessly.

None of these features by themselves is particularly interesting. What's unique about Urbit is that all of this is accomplished using a very small set of primitives, making it easier to write applications that don't go through some huge company that tracks your every move and has a conflict of interest between serving you and serving advertisers.

If you're interested in learning more details of how it works, there is actually quite a bit of technical documentation at https://urbit.org/docs

We're obviously still trying to figure out how to describe this thing. It doesn't occupy a slot that people already have in their minds for a piece of software, except maybe "personal server", but even that is somewhat vague.

Because there's a different world of computing inside Urbit, with its own libraries, apps, languages, etc., it can take a while to wrap your head around.

What's funny about this is that the Urbit world is orders of magnitude simpler than a standard Unix-based stack. We've just spent so much time learning things like DNS A records vs. CNAMEs and what 'xzvf' do for tar, that a parallel universe of these constructs seems bewildering again.
I certainly resonate with this. In California the CostCo membership pays for it self with gas purchases so there isn't as much 'sunk cost' as you might think. Their product quality, and return policy has consistently impressed me as Amazon has gotten worse at this.
Sounds a lot like US government politics today, sadly.
Very little depth to this article.
Take on Gravity Jet Suit Demo with HMS Queen Elizabeth
You seem to be under the impression that animal breeding--artificial selection--does not involve trial and error?
But it is, no? Why livestream a fishing boat if people weren't concerned about working conditions on them?
> because the tech behind the posting ability was Right.

Yep - TCP can paper over a lot of incompetence.
The Fight over Encrypted DNS Explained
"Anybody who wants more complex and subtle filesystem interfaces is just
crazy. Not only will they never get used, they'll definitely not be
stable."

I think there is a more universal truism here - that "complex and subtle" are sources of pain, problems and headaches.

I want to write "cool" and "magical" code as much as the next person, but that's the stuff that I look at later WTF because I am no longer in the same state of mind. Clear, simple, straight forward, plain as day are better than anything else.

And if you do have to do something "magical" something "odd" or hard to understand for the love of god please leave notes explaining what, why and how you did what you did. And if you are replacing a "clean" and "readable" version leave it there commented out. Sure it is "in the repo" but almost no one ever looks and you are just making it harder for me to figure out the original intent of whatever was there.
I just needed one peek at that crazy diagram to agree with your point.
I always take those speeds with a grain of salt as it is likely that they dont actually provide those speeds. What is someone gonna do if the speeds are wrong? Sue them in court for not commited the crime they are paying to commit enough?
It gets even better. Because commercial property taxes are so low, the state is forced to rely more on income and sales taxes. Unfortunately these taxes source are affected much more by recessions. Things go to crap, and the state's coffers empty out.

Welcome to why California has budget problems in recessions!
I think the message is that we should make the basic stuff "just work" before we start adding the complexity of more bells and whistles.
Don’t forget US Robotics we’re really the kings, always faster with their not-yet-standards.

Meanwhile I was doing pretty well with my Spectrum Peripherals 14.4k before I got my fancy Zoom 56k...
The thread title omits a crucial word: "Filesystem" (as in "filesystem people", not just "people"). The point he is making is that filesystems are supposed to be utterly reliable; applications should not have to take extreme precautions to avoid having the filesystem lose their data. And the fact that practically nobody actually takes any precautions, let alone extreme ones, is strong evidence that programmers do in fact expect filesystems to be that reliable.
If you need to replace your car tires, you sink that membership several times over in one shot.

Everything afterward is just a plus.
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On some phones it will not be the default messaging service.
Or perhaps “Filesystems should aim…”. Which is what he actually seemed to mean.
> 1. by eating less you are going to lose weight

> 2. It's no(t) going to be easy

> Not at all

Self righteous nonsense.

It does matter. I would suggest, that it would be compelling to stop with the deterministic statements that are equivocations to fit your own narrative. What "less" means or what "starvation" means, is information that would be helpful. Given the multiple vectors that compose the general term "nutrition", we can be sure that less intake is more effective for losing weight. Then going on to say "pretty damn easy" is insulting. Most people aren't informed enough to make measured political decisions (many state initiative cycles in the US have shocking consequences), choosing what to eat and how much is an impracticable behavior.
y, I took FMLA or tried to when our son was born, they weren't happy and were letting me know they were trying to find any loop hole they could to get out of it, and said there might or might not be a job for me when I came back.

I ended up taking the leave with them, I ended up finding a new job while I was off that started when my FMLA ended.

As far as if you die, don't worry about how your employer will find out. They don't worry too much when they let employees go. As an employee that shouldn't really be a concern for you to worry about.

Focus on your health and having a successful surgery. Good luck, I hope it improves your quality of life.
Canonical pronunciation for each character is a wonderful thing, and I use it all the time to discuss code. If there's one thing other projects should steal from Urbit, it's this.

Spoken programming languages FTW.

The pronunciations are no more exclusionary than learning Cyrillic, and the effort pays off.