skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting recommendation, thanks. I'm curious about the evidence for this "wired to eat" model w/r/t time restriction. It obviously seems plausible, especially in light of this study. But "without counting calories" isn't the same as "while eating the same way", and this seems likely to greatly alter eating habits.

It pushes away from eating high-cal, low satiation breakfast foods, or overlarge restaurant portions at night. It limits idle or social snacking at night, and might push people towards high-satiation "real" meals midday instead of quicker options.

More broadly, energetics studies find that people under-correct for almost all energetic changes, including meal skipping and alternate day fasting. Eating 11-6 commonly means skipping breakfast and tea/snacking, which we expect people won't fully compensate for.

It wouldn't surprise me if circadian-friendly time restriction was genuinely better for us than other changes, especially via not eating late at night and thereby sleeping better. But I'd still expect the weight-loss result to come more from the disruption than the timing.
A classic
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The PhD Octopus(http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/octopus.html) --
6 points|DaniFong|11 years ago|3 comments --The PhD Octopus (1903)(https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/octopus.html) --
126 points|maverick_iceman|3 years ago|46 comments -- It might be interesting to post this every 3 years as a way to measure attitudes towards graduate degrees
Newgrounds is still around, and there are probably some great HTML5 games out there; I don't really play games anymore so I don't go on there much now.

A friend of mine recommended just Scirra Construct if I want something similar to Flash that exports to HTML5.
>Tasmania is burning (2019 – and it's getting worse)

Should maybe say (Feb 2019) - it's not about the current fires. Don't editorialize in titles like that, thanks. Important article, maybe, but that title turns it into misleading clickbait.
> You also added your entire close family to the searchable registry by submitting your DNA.

Noob question, but how does this work?
British people are funny.
Deep Learning State of the Art (2020) [video]
Upvoting because I'm interested, but I can't see the article due to the paywall.
Most people in the VR industry would strongly argue (myself included) that the Quest is the first legit attempt at a consumer VR headset. Before the Quest I never told anyone to go out and buy a VR headset. Now, if they ask, I recommend buying it. The one rough edge with the Quest is the weight. If they knock it down a few ounces I'd argue the Quest is basically the MVP for some startup to create a breakout killer app for VR.
Huh. People eat McD's now. Burger King is everywhere. I don't think Americans at least, are all that picky.
A friend just messaged me telling me that i need to check out Scirra Construct; apparently that gives a very Flash-style interface to build games. I'll have to play with that.
They wanted to avoid a new type certification which would force all existing 737 pilots to be retrained and certificated on this aircraft.

They can go through the whole plane with a fine toothed comb and still end up with a common type.
E:D is more realistic in the sense that space is "boring". Missions are shoot things, deliver this, patrol that. Systems are far apart (to scale, actually) and travel and navigation is important and takes time. The game has nearly no actual goals/story to speak of, but as a space nerd man it is awesome in VR. I love it!

If you want a game in VR thats more like the old-school Wing Commander Privateer where its less realistic but more focused on the fun/hollywood version of space sci-fi, check out X-Rebirth VR.
The 787 has been in service for 8 years now and has never had a single fatality, never mind a hull loss yet. Your fears may be misplaced.
Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes
That's exactly what I said, but I think it may change in the future.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. Firefox's privacy characteristics are as strong as its security track record.
Packet Labs IoT Workshop
A majority of the earth’s population say they are religious, for cultural/social/safety reasons.

The point is that specific religious leaders would oppose it because it would stop them from controlling the population. I doubt there are religious zealots in this age and era.
uBlock Origin is probably the better middle way for most. It should accomplish what you describe most of the time yet breakage is the exception instead of the rule.
These comments (and inevitably, anywhere else there's discussions of VR) always find themselves with a 50/50 split on:

"Most people I know (love it / hate it / don't get motion sick / get motion sick), those who (hate it / love it / get motion sick / don't get motion sick) are the minority."

Does anyone have real data on this, or just anecdata?
fwiw:

I've moved to Trio over asyncio (I did plain old async for a couple years and Trio makes a ton of sense)

Quart-trio over Flask (just to get a Trio-friendly flask-a-like server) - plain old aiohttp worked really well too. It takes a bit more roll-your-own work, but you get exactly what you want.

peewee over SQLAlchemy (less committed to this change, but peewee has been fine so far and is much more streamlined) I'm mostly just using SQLite. the async version of the ORM looks pretty new, i'm not using it yet.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. U.S. politics have gotten so toxic that anytime someone's "team" is not in power, they're cheer-leading for a recession. Conservatives did this under Obama and now liberals are doing it under Trump. Pointing out this fact is germane to the discussion.
> I still remember Valve responding to complaints of motion sickness in Half Life 2 with the lame excuse "It's because our technology is so amazingly lifelike."

That's interesting you bring adaptation and immersion together. I do feel motion sickness in VR in extreme cases. Interestingly I managed to become more tolerant of it but it came with a significant loss of immersion.

Oh and the "amazingly lifelike" argument for justifying motion sickness is indeed complete bullshit. If you experience motion sickness, it is because it is not lifelike. Bad framerates, high latency, unnatural camera movement, etc... all contribute to motion sickness.
Keeping Up with Java: Look at All These New Features
Three shifts at the Scrabble factory: The inventor
I'd prefer physically accurate skeletal animation because even with all the mocap, animations still look sooo fake. Maybe neural network post processing step would do some good? Maybe some life-like flexibility in interactions instead of everything being little finite state machines?
Maybe some neural network game optimisation to be more fun for given player?
VR is only going to become an obsession when we're jacked into it like the Matrix or The Beam. Otherwise it's just you wearing a screen on your face.
I know. But do you need that performance for what you do on the computer?

For most uses, Intel GPU is fine.
I don't think you can have a proper Merkle tree if cycles are possible, and cycles definitely are possible in this AST representation: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/faq#how-does-hashing-work-for...
The only feature I miss in sci-hub is going from a doi to a BibTex file for the citation.
My tiny studio's open area is more or less the minimum size SteamVR will allow for standing play, and it's still a wonderfully immersive experience.

Heck, even the most physically immersive VR game out right now (Boneworks) encourages sitting play-- so maybe the huge open area isn't that necessary.

However, my definition of "tiny" might not compare against your definition of "tiny" well.
Guess they want you to take this seriously!
My thoughts exactly. I'm not impressed with the accuracy of Omron's wrist BP meters, so why should I trust this thing? Also I'd expect the battery to die after about two readings; measuring BP requires a lot of energy.
Sorry, I didn't notice you had responded. I think maybe you're reading too much into adding JWTs to emauth.io. It simply provides another source of information, ie that as of a certain time, emauth.io verifies that the holder of this token had control over the email address. Implementations can do whatever they want with that information, depending on their threat model. And since previously the API was returning a fairly redundant text response (status code already tells you whether verification was successful), returning the JWT doesn't interfere with the previous functionality.
Your DNA is extremely similar to your close relatives.

Those murderers found through 23 and me data? They didn't submit their DNA, their family members did.
Front and Center: John Siracusa's Window Layering App for macOS
I worked in Flash animation around 2000-2005 and it was always a crashy resource hog.
sanic seems nice.

also, sqlalchemy is an over-engineered system imo. i only go for it when i have no other choices. otherwise i use a database client directly.
A "work-queue" doesn't have strict ordering in many multithreaded programs. But a "queue" or "fifo" is expected to have a strict ordering.

The confusion comes in because many programmers expect a strict-ordering on "work-queues", especially because many work-queues are made out of simple queues or fifos.

The big decision point for many is finally deciding, and/or realizing, that strict-ordering is not necessary in many pragmatic use cases. But this also comes with a double-edge sword: many algorithms require strict-ordering of tasks.

---------

Take a Breadth First Search, as an example. One core assumption of BFS is that the first solution you come across will be the solution closest to the root.

Ex: If searching for "Checkmate" in a chess puzzle, the BFS implementation will ALWAYS find the shortest checkmate. Lets say you're in a situation with "many checkmates", checkmate in 5-moves, checkmate in 7-moves... etc. etc. But you want to absolutely find the shortest one. BFS is clearly the answer. But ONLY if your queue is strictly FIFO.

Now if you parallelize the BFS search by replacing the true FIFO queue with a pseudo-FIFO parallel queue, its no longer guaranteed to find the shortest checkmate.
I bought this game for 1 dollar (in the first Humble bundle) and I still consider it as of the most fun games ever. Simple controls, catchy music, interesting mechanics (for its time), nice difficulty, without being "unfair". It has everything. If you like platformers and simple games you should check it out.
Have you looked at firejail?
Gov. to propose that California manufacture its own generic drugs
Is Cuba still sanctioned? I thought the main embargo was lifted a few years ago.
We (ArchiveTeam) are still trying to archive portions of Yahoo Groups (our methods have changed a bit since Yahoo turned off the web archive in December, but the data isn't deleted until Jan 31).

What's the name of the group?
Two-Person MRI
Not all reviewers even work for universities. Some of us are in industry, and our companies certainly don't pay us to anonymously review scientific papers.
Try it now MacOS X
This has been a workflow that served me well for the last couple of years -

Most of my stuff is on dropbox/google drive for accessing them across different devices. I prefer tools that let me control where the data is and not the other way around.

For all academic papers, documents, I use Zotero. you can use your favorite pdf reader to annotate or take notes on pdf's and zotero will sync these. I also love the feature where Zotero can automatically extract all annotations from the pdf. (I some times save these as an org file)

If I am reading a longform web article or a blog post that I really think is useful and helpful, I also save these to Zotero. The push to kindle extension from fivefilters is an awesome tool that converts webpages to pdf.

I'm currently testing the memex extension from worldbrain to annotate and organize my browsing history.

For all notes, journals, random thoughts, ideas, (both work and personal), I use orgmode. (I recently switched from ZimWiki). Its been amazing so far. So many things are easier to do orgmode although the learning curve for emacs is pretty steep in the beginning.

On mobile, I use the orgzly app for accessing and taking notes! Its by far the best android app I use so far.

practices >> tools!
+1 for the Jimmy Song book. The guy does an amazing job of laying out difficult concepts in a very accessible way without too much dumbing-down.
I like when mine tries to guess if I'm cycling. It's usually about 20 minutes into the ride that it figures it out and starts the counter.
jessfraz has a great collection of Dockerfiles for various applications: https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles

x11docker provides tooling: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker
> Sharks therefore were found to have lost the ability to see colors.

I've heard that bright color bathing suits might intrigue sharks as it could resemble some type of colorful fish. Is this just an urban myth?
Enjoy http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html#HTTP and http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html#Sham... .
> Is there perhaps a better way to run Firefox in a Docker container?

You could always build your container from a glibc distro and then just download and use the official binaries from Mozilla.
My INTERNATIONAL FEES for my MSc in Bristol was in 2013 only cost £ 17k. This includes lots of face-to-face contact with lecturers who are research leaders in the field. With living expenses the total would only be £ 30k. Inflation makes the total closer to £ 40k today.

However, for £ 28k, Europeans can study at Imperial in-person and live (albeit on a budget) in London.
They are loud and they are annoying...

But electrics (battery or corded, but esp battery powered) are insufficient for commercial (landscaping) purposes. They can’t carry hundreds of batteries to blow leaves from business parks. Cords would tangle and also be hazardous in trafficked areas... so gas is the best available solution in that use case.

Does anyone know what landscapers are using in places where the ban has gone into effect?
"Don't make VVVVV 2 with my code" seems to be what they're going for. I don't know if I agree with the sentiment, but it's nice to have this source available, so if this is the price we have to pay...
Yeah I think there is an innate desire for fairness that leads to a desperation for objectivity. You have companies like Triplebyte attempting to commoditize software engineers, and the perception that FAANG is the only place to be exacerbating the problem.

The reality there is no objectivity in hiring, and there is no theoretically optimal global stack rank of software engineers: every person is unique and the needs of specific roles vary widely even within a single company. A lot of people treat getting a job as the continuation of a people-pleasing, hoop-jumping mentality that was honed over decades of education in the Victorian model.

I know it can be very frustrating to be rejected by seemingly clueless hiring managers for arbitrary reasons. I also know that some personality traits can be positive or negative depending on the internal situation on the team. You can never be sure of the illegitimacy of any given rejection, or whether it’s a blessing in disguise. For these reasons it’s better to focus on your craft and clear communication thereof rather than obsessing over the game-like aspects of hiring.
"I think if you like fixing bugs (kind of like solving puzzles) and easing the pain of stressed out small businesses, it's a great niche"

Fixing bugs is only a small part of what I do (like most developers). This is less about the language and more about the previous developers that the small business hired.

PHP runs almost everything for a client of mine (hundred-million dollar+ company) (I'm a consultant). I'm regularly involved in new features and new code. New features and changes in PHP7 has made PHP into a much better language.

I feel like Rails is the COBOL of our time. I remember when all of the cool kids were using it around 2007 and the blind zealotry that ensued when anyone tried to discuss its shortcomings.

Those same people now have since jumped ship and now are mostly involved in various Javascript Frameworks.
Agreed, contracting is the way to go if you want decent money.
As far as I understand Dhall, you have the choice between writing specific types in order to have a safe, actually decent to use interface (which is kind of the point of Dhall), or you can just use a key-value map in order to cut corners while writing.

But honestly, if you're going for the latter, might as well just use Kustomize and accept the chaos.
Deadly fungus (C.Auris) became resistant to all drugs in 3 US patients
The commented completely missed the fact that they are contributing to building the mass surveillance that covers OTHERS that don't opt in. You can't opt out of 23 and me since your relatives opt in for you.

The US does not collect everyone's DNA at birth, and there would be some pushback against that. But there isn't against 23 and me because few care about others.
Aww man, this is sad. All good things.

The article makes no mention of anyone hoping to fill his shoes, which is even more heartbreaking. The tradition of kindness and personal connection is already waning. Even a 'corporate' ambassador of goodwill is better than one less person to gift the world a genuine smile.
Would you like to elaborate on what changed over the last 10 years to make it no longer useful?
Ah yes, fond memories of spending hours trying to navigate my little dude through several screens of Godzilla’s Spiky Asshole.
Sharing an SQLite database across containers
Truly mind-boggling!
As a pilot, I use VR with the XPlane flight simulator and it seriously feels like I'm in a real Cessna. True, the flight controls are a little off (for example, stalls and landings don't feel like a real plane), but other than that, everything is absolutely spot on.

It's a great way to scratch my aviation itch and is also great for practicing procedures, especially when paired with a live air traffic control network like PilotEdge. My brain seriously forgets that it's a simulation when I'm in it.

This could be a way to revolutionize flight training, and make it more accessible. The entire cost of my PC build including VR gear and software is a fraction of what real-life flight training costs.
What you get:
Imperial College branded online MSc degree.
What you need:
At least a GPA of 3.9 and £28k+.

So, One year for a online masters at £28k also requiring a three year BSc degree at £25k of debt sounds like your really getting your money's worth. /s

(This is £14k more expensive than a normal masters degree at Imperial)
Do you have an example of a programming language that's both widely-used and does not evolve ? Even C has a new standard every 3-5 years nowadays.
Exactly. And the few that actually can analyze the interviewee's response wouldn't ever start with such a moronic question, but something subtle enough that the interviewee wouldn't even realize the true intent of the question before giving an answer.

If I hear dumb questions in an interview, it's a red flag about that person's ability to be self-aware.
This is a great addition to the ecosystem of Kubernetes application management tools https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FCgqz1Ci7_VCz_wdh8vB...

I really hope we'll get to a dominant standard soon. But this subject is much more complex than I thought https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contribu...
It'll get there. Oculus Quest is $400 and games can be had for pretty reasonable prices. In a few years I wouldn't be surprised to see an even more streamlined Quest reintroduced at $200.
> which is annoying to do in flash for boring reasons

Does anyone know what are these boring reasons? I've used AS2 and AS3 extensively and don't remember this ever being an issue
How to Periodize History: 2020 and the Decade Dilemma
Roughly... Crime is committed, police find DNA sample at scene, police compare sample with online DNA registry, hits as a near-match for personX, police now know that a sibling/cousin of personX is the culprit. That sibling/cousin never allowed their own DNA to be collected.

This happened in 2018...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27...
You might be interested in https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp
by one of the inventors of Taos. It's brilliant.
That's about $36,000 US. Honest question... is that crazy expensive? How does it compare to other online and on campus programs? I'm guessing it's HIGH?
And yet... someone trying to “sell” me a language while seemingly refusing to show me any code samples feels like someone trying to sell me a car based entirely on a spec sheet with no pictures and without actually seeing, touching or experiencing the car. They both provoke a reaction of suspicion - “what are they trying to hide?” As if they don’t trust me, the customer, to be able to understand the very thing they want/expect me to buy.

I’m perfectly fine with a page that says, “here’s a code sample - notice that it looks similar to C, but here’s a list of reasons / an explanation of why/how it’s actually quite different from C.”

One of my favorite programming books of all time is K&R, from back before ANSI, even. It said, “here’s a simple problem to solve, and here’s how you solve it in our language.” Repeatedly. Explaining how the features helped to solve the problem at hand. It was revelatory. And it assumed its audience to be knowledgeable programmers. It didn’t spend the first chapter just describing all the features or how great the language is without showing any code.
I don't understand why this is such a complicated category and that many platforms do not have solid http clients in standard library.

On every single project I do, it's just a bunch of posting JSON and getting a response synchronously. Over and over.
Show HN: DrMock, open-source C++ testing/mocking framework
How about a broom and rake to actually save some fn top soil??
Hopefully, the same people pushing for these laws aren't going to turn around and complain when all of the prices go up.
You can buy an Omron wrist BP monitor in a drug store today. It's cheap, lightweight, and portable. Accuracy however, is not very good in my experience when compared with an arm cuff and a stethoscope used by an experienced practitioner.
Nobody thinks that. Just a handful of loud ones. Look what happened after Snowden. Did people start spending less time using their phones? The biggest step they took was covering their webcams via tape. Nobody cares that they are being watched as long as it doesnt make the news.
For CI (testing) we use tekton [1] to run tests and pass around artifacts inside k8s. You can kick off and monitor tekton builds with their CLI tool, but we ended up building our own create/monitor/download-artifacts tool for it in ruby. We use an off the shelf CI server to kick that tool off, and it dumps back results the CI server can understand.

One of the things we need to do is elastically scale the number of tasks (basically pods in tekton) that comprise our test suite run. This might be based on cluster utilization or whether it's the master branch. Since we have a single threaded test suite, we hoist parallelism up to the k8s level by breaking apart the tests into partitions each run by its own pod. For this we just render processed and parameterized erb to yaml. Eventually we'll dispense with yaml altogether and programmatically construct resources using a k8s REST api client.

We haven't moved into CD with any of this tooling yet.

[1] https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
There are also great Javascript platforms for all kinds of purposes these days. As a former flash developer (hobbyist level) I do not miss Flash at all.
Rust already provides a stable ABI via `repr(C)` types and `extern "C"` functions.
You have, quite literally, described Facebook.
I use orgmode and emacs for everything plain text!
Thanks, I believe you're based in Austin also so happy to do coffee (unless I'm wrong)