skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Readers, please be very cautious when trying these things. There is research into "never hungry" eating disorders hinting that you can trigger a permanent (erroneous) negative feedback loop with fasting. If it works for you, hooray, but if you or your blood relatives have a history with anorexia etc., be very careful experimenting with fasting diets.

EDIT: The final page of the (1973) medical study about this patient has some rather specific warnings about testing certain blood and urine metrics to minimize risk of e.g. death. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf
Yep, have hired designers from there. Quality of work is first-rate, English is always excellent, and they have (perhaps somewhat contrary to the article) a good understanding of business and what the goal of a client might be. Stark contrast with the work I get locally in the UK.

Would definitely love to visit Minsk too. Seems like a very nice place (if you can look past the govt).
Subspace was so awesome, and playing airmash had a very familiar feel to it.
> The main downside I noticed was meals based on meat and potatoes, not many vegetables.

Do you realize where belarus is? It gets cold in belarus. Meat and potatoes are food that can be grown locally. Also, it is environmentally devastating to transport all the vegetables all over the world like we currently do. Look at how much globalism has damaged the environment, not to mention the problems with climate change.

More people should be eating their local "meat and potatoes" rather than a globalized diet.
HEVC isn't 4x better. 4-5Mbps 4k HEVC is going to look bad under a whole lot of conditions.

And 17Mbps 4k h.264 wasn't a great place to start in.
As I posted elsewhere, I think I have a philosophical issue with the idea that you can undo or reverse the creative process through creating an additional derivative work.

Say you take a lot of photographs of an object, and they are stipulated to be creative. Then you can use photogrammetry to derive a 3D model. So if the direct antecedent of your work was creative, how can your model be noncreative?
Worth mentioning that recipes cannot hold copyright in the US for this same reason. (By recipe I mean the functional list of ingredients and directions.)

https://paleoflourish.com/recipe-copyright/#protected
You are an extreme outlier. Even for men, bf% under 7 is in or getting into the unhealthily low range. Fasting is not for you.
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> but if you don’t have global variables and memory access, shouldn’t it be possible to cover it with just software?

Can you index out of bounds and catch the exception? You're attackable via Spectre. Can you run multiple threads and time operations? You're vulnerable to MDS.

The attacks don't rely on memory unsafety -- they rely on the state of the CPU being changed by doing fairly normal things, while an observer probes the state by doing other fairly normal things.
It's incredible how much bizarre pseudoscience exists to dance around this simple fact.

Even with ketosis (a real thing), 99% of its dietary weight loss effectiveness is because fat is filling.
Sooner or later they will need to make profit. I posit they are on a good trajectory to do so:

Square and Stripe will make profit in payments (they almost are)
Coinbase will make a profit in crypto (it's already break even)
Affirm, Lendup, Sofi etc. will make a profit in lending
Robinhood and the likes of it will make a profit in trading

The reason is simple: The traditional companies that they are displacing had an order of magnitude higher cost structure and weren't able to transform their backend legacy systems quickly enough (yes, they did transform their front-end UI/UX somewhat to match the newer ones, but the core is not scalable to be able to offer newer products). If the older companies were able to make a profit the newer ones will make greater profit. Again, to take Robinhood as an example: Free trading a great lure for users, however most of the money is made on other services e.g. float. Thus giving away a small part of revenue i.e. trading cost and recoup more from other services is huge.
> The whole point of a good api is that it reduces heavy lifting.

Isn’t that the opposite of what Torvalds is saying? He seems to be arguing for simplicity. APIs that do a bunch of magic for you are the opposite of simple and tend to be mountains of subtle bugs and unexpected behavior.
The ESA collaborates with everyone all of the time. It’s a great way to get the best instruments onto each launch opportunity.
"it has at least all the features that make other trucks functional"

That's sort of true. Personally, I'm not impressed with any of the current line of trucks as far as functionality goes. They all have a bloated design and sit too high. The beds are not any bigger or deeper, and ground clearance isn't much better either. It's a bullshit design that makes the truck "look" bigger. They basically do a "body lift" on them. The real addition in real clearance height is mostly gained with bigger wheels and tires.

Tesla focused on "gizmos" and stand out design, not real "work truck" functionality. Tesla'a truck has great ground clearance, and stand out torque, so it should be a tough one to keep up with off road and rock climbing, but it doesn't have the range to keep up with current trail runners for days of off roading.

The electric truck has great potential for lots of design advantages, but this design is just not very handy as a work truck. It's designed to be more of a sport truck.

But as for "Pickups", Tesla is not the only car company putting style before function in the Pickup segment. They all are. They've all been making pickups bigger since the mid-80s and there is no "mini", or even "regular size" pickup on the market now.

A smaller, more functional and very affordable electric work truck is where I think Tesla should've put their efforts first. That would've been a far bigger market for them. It would take at least three years for any of the manufactures to get back in that market. After that they'd be in a much better position to take on the Full Size and Luxury Truck market.
I think this is by design.

Prior to the current stellar analogy the founder described this using terms from feudalism.

> In one design sketch for Urbit, Yarvin made the link between monarchies and the platform more explicit, classifying users as “Lords,” “Dukes,” and “Earls.” The design behind the titles, he writes, “is standard Lockean libertarian homesteading theory.” At the end of the sketch, Yarvin indicates that he’s reserved a special title for himself: “The prince (because he spent 8 years working on this project, without being paid), has reserved 32 duchies for his exclusive personal benefit."The founder is an alt-right philosopher that believes we should replace democracy with a corporate structure in which some residents in a country are shareholders and have voting rights.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14671978/alt-right-menciu...
My mom used to regularly fast for "religious" purposes. One day during a week long fast she passed out in the shower. According to the doctor it's because we're not supposed to keep a full schedule while fasting.
A better version of HN might be one which is deliberately impossible to read unless you edit the CSS yourself.
> I ended up using DOS + DESQview, and it worked out fine.

This was my standard setup for almost a decade, from my first 486 machine (my previous computer had been an 8088 PC clone, with only two 360K floppy drives and no hard disk) until I replaced it with a Windows 98 machine. I even ran Windows 3.1 occasionally in a DESQview window.
Probably yes, however, because so many properties are assessed so far under their current market value, due to historic low turnover, the high turnover of an exodus would tend to raise the overall assessed value, unless the price drop was very extreme
Turbo codes are typically soft decision codes, which don't make a ton of sense at the filesystem level, since there has already been a hard decision made. They are useful in storage at the read channel level, as in processing the analog stream from the head on the hard drive.

Reed-Solomon is often used in storage because it is an optimal erasure code - e.g., I know this block is missing or corrupt, correct it.
That makes much more sense. And it turns out to be the opposite of what I thought when I read the title. I had initially thought - just write bad code whose only merit is that it works.
He wanted to destroy democracy, now he wants to sell web services (2017)
Being active is one factor, but doesn't fix obesity. It's also difficult or even potentially harmful to start doing some kinds of activity when you're extremely obese.

Highly active is something you can be when you're at or approaching a healthy weight; the causality is IMO almost backwards from what you've described.
Yes, literally by eating less. You can lose weight on a diet of pure granulated sugar.

For the purposes of weight loss, exercise is absolutely overrated, especially the low intensity cardiovascular type that most individuals trying to lose weight engage in. The actual number of calories burned for the mental effort/discipline is garbage and that effort would be better spent on better dietary discipline.

High intensity training and weightlifting have better results due to increasing metabolic rate for a long period after the activity, but the key to weight loss is diet.
> The efficiency of turbofans goes up as speed increases.

I didn't say efficiency, I said thrust. Nothing you said contradicts anything I said.
The article does dedicate about 25% of its content to the "don't try this at home" section, but I understand not everyone will read it all the way before going to HN comments.
And who would want to live in some podunk town? Top talent live and work in destination cities.
I think he's got a point.

As a developer I find myself in a different scenario. I'm usually trying to find out what exactly the 100% guaranteed way to do something is. Instead, I find incomplete documentation and different people with different opinions on what the guarantees are, and most people writing bad code that they assume will usually work.

Just modifying a file in an atomic way requires a complicated dance of multiple files and multiple syncs and a rarely tested cleanup routine the next time the file is opened. No one does this.

I don't know what the solution is.
It's likely he put the weight back on.

Fasting for 382 days as a medical intervention isn't learning how to actually live with a stable healthy relationship to your food environment. The behavioral patterns leading to the intervention initially will very likely resume afterwards.

This reminds of a personal experience, story time:

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An obese friend of mine visited the ER for a persistent respiratory issue. Through negligence of the hospital staff, he found himself in an emergency abdominal surgery with a perforated colon.

What started as a relatively casual ER visit turned into an extended many-month ordeal under hospital care, mostly bedridden. As the months ticked by his weight dropped to fairly close to normal. He was still a bit overweight, but easily over a hundred pounds lighter with only hospital food in controlled portions to live off of.

I clearly recall visiting him in the hospital in the days approaching his release, and how proud he was for the weight loss. He was so ignorant about his relationship with food and how significant a factor it was for the hospital's control being responsible for his weight loss vs. his own chosen lifestyle. I didn't say anything at the time, but was already a bit nervous about what would happen when he left the hospital's care, with a severely compromised abdomen still recovering.

Fast-forward to a year later, and he had become more obese than before starting this ordeal. No doubt his eating problems were exacerbated by the depression of his life situation. The last I heard he needed abdominal reconstructive surgery, and had developed an intestinal hernia from the substantial size increase while still recovering. Apparently he couldn't have the procedure done until he lost the weight again.

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I should have mentioned that I'm using RTL-SDR to catch the signal.
This was posted on HN several days ago:

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.htm...

Usenet didn't start out by running over TCP/IP.
Urbit recently made the front page [prev_hn]. Because the founder's political philosophies are reflected in the foundational building blocks of the product [feudal_design], I found the context behind them relevant.

[prev_hn]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21672481

[feudal_design]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673198
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I am currently trying to wring maximum performance from Cloud TPUs. This comment really resonated with me, because Cloud TPUs are complex, subtle, overly complicated, and have twenty opaque ways that you can ruin your performance.

Compare that with a GPU. It took decades, but (at least for nvidia GPUs) they have finally reached the point where you can be at least reasonably certain that high-performance is the default. Sure, you can ruin your performance by doing some stupid things, but it's at least harder to do those stupid things. The defaults are high-performance.

It's exactly the opposite for Cloud TPUs. By default, it only uses one core. You have to use their TPUEstimator API, which is a byzantine mess. Since two weeks ago, I've spent roughly 3 solid working days of effort solely trying to read and understand (a) what is the TPUEstimator actually doing? (b) why is it supposedly so much faster?

I have some half-hearted justifications -- the answer seems to be "you have to colocate your gradients with the device; you have to scope your tensorflow graph to a specific device; and each TPU core is a separate device." But there are unanswered questions. For example, you're supposed to pass your tensorflow computation to tpu.rewrite(). Yet I've never done that. The defaults seem to just work. So does that mean it does the rewriting for me automatically? Is it being emulated in software, and I'm ruining my performance? Tensorflow, why don't you just crash instead of being so damn slow on TPUs? That would at least let me aim my optimizations!

If only I had low level access to the actual TPU operations, I could just write a compiler that specifically emits instructions to give me the performance I need. But this tensorflow graph abstraction makes everything "easy" yet exponentially more complicated.

Anyway. Yes. More of your mindset, please. Simplicity is such a lovely metric seldom optimized for.

(Anyone who's curious can see a dramatic 11x difference in performance on GPUs vs TPUs in Colab: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1196593451174891520 ... this was very surprising, since Google's marketing would have you believe that TPUs are the bee's knees. Yet by default a TPUv2 is 11x slower than a K80 GPU for some basic matrix multiplications.)
Does ASP.NET have a bad rep for poorly scaling?
I'd have thought it was just the licensing/overhead costs of running Windows that turns folks off.

This should, hopefully, change for the better with .NET Core getting wider adoption.
I did mine in 1999 also. I definitely did not have any proof of anything in 1999.
I spent over a decade on usenet and only saw that convention used a handful of times. Most of the time, clients would just use multiple > or | symbols to indicate quoting level without any initials.
That title would explain most of the industry.

Slaaaaaaaammmmmmmmm.
Why take it out of context? Here's the full quote. Nothing sexist about it.

> And, whether by nature or nurture, as a woman I was always better with words than numbers
It is remarkable what can be accomplished when another much larger state is heavily subsidizing your entire economy. Good on the Belarusians for the progress they’ve achieved, but let’s not pretend it’s attributable to communism.
I used to be a much larger mammal and lost a lot of weight (100+) through fasting and diet change. Longest I did was a 14 day fast with zero-calorie electrolytes, black coffee, and sparkling water. You get pretty low energy but the hunger just kinda subsides into background noise. I still try to do a 5 day 'reset' fast every quarter or if I hit 200. Diet change is really the most important factor but fasting is a nice tool to have because at least for me it's relatively easy and provides quick results compared to trying to maintain a sustained calorie deficit for multiple weeks. IF is, of course, likely safer so definitely start there if you're new to the game.
Are you allowed to make money using their algorithm? Did you verify that?
Although there may be more total energy in the atmosphere, the polar regions are warming faster than the tropics. This would seem to decrease the temperature gradient as a function of latitude and slow convection. It must be that average wind speeds are mainly determined by the vertical temperature gradient as a function of altitude?
I like your description because it (accidentally?) likens the state of mind of wanting to write "cool" and "magical" code with being high on drugs. In my career I've made that connection many times. This team is not interested in some engineer having an "awesome trip" through arcane abstractions, we're interested in shipping stuff that works.
I vote for the second option :-) IMO taint mode is a great example of what Linus is talking about. Too subtle.

I cut my teeth on Perl and actually believed the books when they said you should always use taint mode when touching data that came e.g. over the network. I wrote all my web code under -T (-wT actually but you get the idea).

Then one day I went to drop in some full text search via a then popular library (Plucene). And what do you know, Plucene would not work under taint mode, because it was not developed under taint mode. The maintainer would not accept my simple patch essentially because he did not understand that you could not untaint without a regex somewhere (i.e. he did not know how taint mode worked at a basic level). So I maintained a patched version of that lib privately. Only to later hit the same issue with another popular library.

So I had to stop using taint mode. If it’s just an option — even one aggressively marketed in O’Reilly books back when people actually mostly read O’Reilly books to learn various systems — it’s not going to win much adoption.
Pretty sure that's from Blade Runner not Dao De Jing.
But nobody really wants to be average. We all deep down want to be exceptional or important or matter in some way - not average.
Put another way: If at first you don’t succeed, change the rules.
Just now??
And that’s why reading Golang is much more straightforward than Rust which is way more verbose/flexible.
It reminds me of when the Buddha fasted for a long time, sitting in the same place all day. Everyone worried that he might die.
What do you think the "insoluble" problem is here?
Would the original card continue to work in that case? You could simply state that you never requested a replacement card and still have the old card in your possession.
> This is one of my favorite papers.

Mine too. It's a gem.
We’re talking about basic calculus, so it’s the first one.
More to the point he's saying crappy code that uses the filesystem should just work if possible. Don't make it worse than it is. And don't expect anyone's going to fix their code to use your new and improved API. Because they won't.
It's easy to pretend that "badly written" code is intentional or desirable, because then when we write it, we can excuse ourselves by saying, "BUT IT WORKS!"

That's why this idea is popular, and your comment is controversial. You're taking away a crutch that many of our peers cling desperately to as a way to justify their shortcuts and poor decision making.
Right, but we are talking about sixth-graders here. If a sixth-grader saw username90's solution and tried to apply it to the adjusted problem, they would not know that the result is incorrect without actually summing up all the numbers to check, an undesirable chore on a math contest with other problems to worry about.
Urbit's design directly comes from the founder's neo-monarchical political theories. Therefore, I think his political theories, which include sympathies for neo-nazism ('Yarvin wrote that, although he was not himself a white nationalist, he felt “the urge to defend” the ideology'), a hatred of democracy, and the desire to replace it with a model that grants more rights to wealthier individuals are relevant to this discussion.

So I submitted an article on those beliefs to HN. I'd like to see what other readers think of their relevancy to the product.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673760

> In one design sketch for Urbit, Yarvin made the link between monarchies and the platform more explicit, classifying users as “Lords,” “Dukes,” and “Earls.” The design behind the titles, he writes, “is standard Lockean libertarian homesteading theory.” At the end of the sketch, Yarvin indicates that he’s reserved a special title for himself: “The prince (because he spent 8 years working on this project, without being paid), has reserved 32 duchies for his exclusive personal benefit."

Note: Curtis Yarvin resigned from his startup. I still find his ideas relevant, because he designed and started the startup in question.
This. The dieter was on a multi vitamin. I saw reference some years ago to an eating disorder (anorexia I believe) being directly linked to low levels of some common trace mineral. Some proper dosing brought back an appropriate appetite. Which made it easier to deal with the remaining psychological aspect.
Number 4 is ethical quicksand. Please don’t build a machine that guesses personality traits based on personal data. It won’t end well.
I am a Google certified premier partner managing hundreds of thousands of dollars in spend a month for Google AdWords... Google ads have become a giant scam over the last few years. Be extremely careful, they are constantly changing things in ways that border on outright fraud. Google used to be a company I respected and loved, I am disappointed to see what's happened recently. It would be great to see someone with integrity step up and set the company back on the right path.
One of the achilles heals of democracy. When the many or the older vote for their self-interest, sometimes those self-interests don't align with the well being of the younger generation or society at large.

You can't blame the older generation for voting in the interest of maximizing their home values and low taxes for themselves. But you also have to admit how unfair that is to the younger generation who have difficulty finding affordable housing and have to take on a greater property tax burden.

> Sheesh. I wish tar and feathering of politicians made a return to modern political discourse.

Why blame the politicians for doing what their voters wanted? Why not tar and feather the voters?
In no way is fasting healthy for you if you rely on having energy, focus, or any ability to function as an independent adult while fasting for more than a day or so at most.
It should not. StackOverflow.com, for example, runs on ASP.NET MVC and is one of the websites with most traffic in the world. Also blazing fast and rarely goes down. Even in Black Friday!
It's still hit of miss for me so far on the ringing in the ears. Some days are much better than others but I haven't been able to mail down why.

My wife got some potassium and I've been taking it with "Natural Calm" magnesium for the leg cramps. That's been working great to stop and prevent them. I haven't taken it everyday though. Only when I feel them coming on.

I think the Ginkgo I'm taking may be hit or miss. I'm pretty sure it's a cheap Wal-Mart brand and probably not a very high quality product.

I'm not sure what type magnesium the Natural Calm uses. I'll look into that too.

Thank you for the additional info!