skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've switched to ddg for a while, and the one area where I find it really lacking in comparison to Google is that it is very poor in surfacing relevant hits from threads on forums or stackoverflow. Which is frustrating, as I'm almost more interested in results from there when looking up technical stuff than some spammy blog. It's gotten to the point where I almost always automatically bang out to Google for those types of searches.

But it is amazing how much poorer Google results feel to me these days compared to from a few years ago. For most regular searches ddg does quite well and when I have occasionally banged out to Google for the same search, more often than not I've ended up preferring the ddg search results.
YES Bank moratorium – crisis, impact on UPI transactions and startups
A book doesn't guarantee you that dragons are real, but surely teaches you how to kill them.
"... an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy, often as issued when doing a dance move or throwing something."

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/yeet/
Finance is a mature and highly regulated market with loads of expensive software and consultants to do all you need. ERPs and off-the-shelf financial software with in-house specific developments do the heavy lifting and spreadsheets macros do the rest.
The problem is a claim like the body/brain, the cells themselves needing to adapt to a new fuel source before seeing some benefits, taking months before you get there, actually contradicts the body's physiology. I don't really need to provide any citations, because the onus is on the one making those claims. And even if I provide citations, the goal posts will simply be moved, with lines like — the study was not long enough, the diet was not low carb enough, etc, etc.

It also takes a lot of effort to dispel bullshit, much more effort than spreading it. Engaging with flat earthers is exhausting, most people don't do it due to insufficient knowledge and actual scientists don't engage b/c they've got better things to do.

My language is emotionally charged because I've been in the keto community for a long time and I've witnessed a lot of quackery, which I believe can do harm to those in need, just like the anti-vaxers are doing.

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There are very few studies showing the effects of a ketogenic diet on cognition, in healthy subjects.

Here's a study showing that a low-fat diet can have better psychological improvement, versus a low carb diet, even with similar weight loss:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

Here's a study that finds similar effects in mood between a low carb and a high carb diet, although the reaction time was improved in the low-fat group:
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/86/3/580/4649430

Here's a study comparing cognitive performance between a high carb versus a log carb diet, showing similar results:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789132/

Here's one study which merely says that people feel awful for the first two weeks and then start to feel less awful after reintroducing carbs — it's unfortunately not randomized:
https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/23706/PDF

Here's a study that shows weight loss itself (the biggest confounder of every claim made by keto proponents) is known to affect mood and cognition and to improve quality of life:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4905696/

Here's one paper arguing that most effects of drugs are attributable to placebo or nocebo:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-...

People on a diet also tend to do some exercise, here's one arguing about the positive effects of resistance training, which many in the keto community are engaging in:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...

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Weight loss, exercise and placebo are actually the best explanations for most of the seemingly miraculous effects of the keto diet.

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Anyway, here's one for the depletion of glycogen:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/254/5031/573.long

Here's a graph showing roughly the evolution of glycogen and ketones during fasting, from "Harper's Biochemistry":
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-Q0MSPXUAEK_-r?format=jpg&name=...
A fine submission, except that it was last discussed less than a year ago, which puts it in the dupe window for HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Its a mobile banking platform in India, which enable money transfers b/w Bank accounts as well as to various merchants on the platform.

PhonePe, the leading UPI-provider app was running it with Yes Bank as the partner, but the bank went down.
This is probably the option I would (like to) go for. I just want a stereo receiver that lets me control all the same “dumb” speakers I own in multiple rooms from my phone.
After my last stay in an airbnb I was asked a series of questions about my stay, facilities, amenities, the neighborhood, etc. They seemed to be tailored in some way or pulled randomly from a larger pool.
A company I worked for had a down year, and so I asked for paternity leave. They wouldn't give it to me, but I did get a maxed out PTO accrual rate. It was a stressful experience.
> If you over consume fat or carbs, they get stored as fat in fat cells. What happens when you over consume protein? Protein can not be stored as fat, it must first be converted to glucose, which the body will try to burn before it is stored in fat cells.

No, this is wrong. GNG is capped in the body, i.e., strictly regulated. It does not increase based upon protein intake beyond that cap. Excess protein is neither converted to glucose, nor excreted. It is utilized in protein synthesis and increases lean body mass.

This has been demonstrated in a number of studies. For example, in Bray GA, JAMA 2012, subjects were fed an excess of 1000kcal over their their maintenance calorie needs for 8 weeks. There were three groups: low, moderate, and high protein. Carbs were constant. Fat made up the difference in caloric content, such that the high-protein group (230g a day) received the lowest fat intake. All three groups gained similar amounts of fat over those 8 weeks, with the high protein group gaining slightly less fat. But the medium and high-protein groups gained lean body mass to make up the difference.

So in short, excess protein is not converted to fat via GNG, but is used for protein synthesis, and increases lean body mass.

> This is why a high protein to fat ratio carnivore diet will prohibit ketosis or kick one out of ketosis, unlike a high fat to protein carnivore diet.

This absolutely does not happen, and I have the blood tests to prove it.
How many reviews would you have to read to get the unique information from each one?

I'm not sure people read that many reviews.
Incorrect.

> You assumed a lot about the parent comment's interpretation. "

No I did not. That the THE primary argument detractors make when they say that UBI disincentivizes work. Read enough on the arguments against UBI and you will realize that for yourself.

Your interpretation indicates that you have not been steeped in debates about UBI, otherwise you would know this already.

Interpreting the parent's remarks, ESPECIALLY when they bring up the existing "detractors" as simply meaning "not working", instead of what is the primary argument the existing detractors make is absolutely disingenuous.
Junk Science Then and Now
Turning vs Code into a DIY Notes App
What's worse is that it didn't used to. The current version is a rewrite, based on a wiki-interop framework (developed by the original wiki's creator, so it's not a hostile takeover, but rather an attempt to do stuff that wasn't possible originally).
Hm, I'd also argue that accountability would help. Create it somehow find a partner with whom you work out. Document you workout in a blog, youtube, whatsapp conversation, conversation on Eightygram.

Or, ignoring technology. Find a personal trainer. Or a really small workout group that has some sort of trainer that really cares.
"I bought a donut and they gave me a receipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut. I give you money and you give me the donut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a donut."
--Mitch Hedberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWx6uA5aCrE
What happens when they paint the parts to prevent corrosion? I imagine all the properties of the laser etching are negated.
40% of UPI transactions, not all transactions. There are other payment instruments, and a lot of transactions are just bank transfers (with even lower margins).

Even UPI had pretty low margins, and wasn't really making them much money to make up for the HUGE losses they had because of the bad loans.
This?

$ python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.date(2019, 3, 12) + datetime.timedelta(days=366))'
2020-03-12
They are back up now.
Exactly. That’s my point with these glass-quantum dot windows. Glass is fairly sturdy; are all the electronics?
So did this backfire for this CEO? I assume that he never got the full amount of the note back but he possibly could have if he extended the note.
It would be great if you could add an RSS feed to the blog.
A game of rock-paper-scissors where some of them are weird and have some characteristics of the others.

P1: Rock!

P2: Deformed paper scissor!
I wonder if this project is in part a hedge against Apple's legal attacks, as in "our tech opened up Apple's locked hardware".
Your last paragraph is just unbelievably flat-out wrong. Maybe you didn't suffer from keto flu, but it can last for a couple weeks to a couple months (my case) and has zero to do with dehydration.

You're literally retraining your body to efficiently burn stored body fat when it never had to much before. This takes time. The idea that it happens in days is laughable, as is the idea that your microbiome adjusts that quickly.

Please don't spread blatant misinformation.
I design Ad Tech systems, currently work as an architect for a DSP, and I deleted my Facebook accounts years ago. People who think they are privacy conscious and use Facebook are a living oxymoron.
For no apparent reason. Five years ago it was part of the world-wide web and open to mashups and automation, now everyone needs a custom deobfuscator (albeit a simple one).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983158
I hate it's so java-centered.

I mean, how do you do SAML in C++/Rust/Go?
I've never been on your side of this, but from the customer's side this is what I would like to see:

1. Give ample warning. The time frame depends on what your product is and how difficult to replace it is, but I'd consider anything less than 1 month for a consumer product or 3 months for a business product to be unacceptable unless you're on the verge of bankruptcy or something.

2. Consider grandfathering in existing users. This doesn't need to be free forever, but X months free goes a long way towards keeping people happy. This can be combined with the previous point; for example, you could announce that new users will be paid only either immediately or starting soon, while existing users have X months free after which they will need to pay.

3. If applicable, give your users a way to export their data from your service before it goes paid. Even if most of them won't use it, it helps avoid feelings of lock-in or bait-and-switch.

4. General considerations for paid services: consider a free tier or free trial. Free tiers can be very effective when most users don't use many resources. It may or may not be appropriate for your case.
AI Art Generators
I understand the precaution but do feel bad for the W20 founders. The energy and buzz of demo day is really great. I am curious to see if this lack of dynamic face to face time after their demos will impact the fund raising of this batch.
>while it's competitors partnered with multiple banks.

Yes Bank launched PhonePe on Day 0 of UPI. The whole multiple bank thing was made possible much later via NPCI because of Google Pay.

I wouldn't blame them for it. And they managed to get back up in 24 hours, which is pretty decent. (The Bank itself is still down, but payments via PhonePe are functional as long as you have a non-yesbank account)
https://jamie.build/const

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1208369896880558080
One simple example - of many: Enterprise clients with low workload but very sensitive data strict infosec and segregation requirements - several clusters per client all managed with infrastructure as code.

There are lots of benefits to k8 other than just scale, and there are architecture choices that are made for good reasons that rely on separate clusters with no particular need for a legal uptime SLA on a control plane.

This decision will cost us a lot more than $72 a month.
Thanks, this is an excellent response. This is super informative.

I do understand your goal post comment. It's super-frustrating that virtually all diet information out there has some tangential agenda (Eg. animal welfare, keto/paleo cultism, etc)
Everything in this thread is discussed (in a few paragraphs) in the article.
Devil's advocate for a moment: why can't the business do whatever they want with the data? It's not clear to me that I own the data in any single transaction with a business. I could see us both owning it, either shared or independently.

For VISA to sell transaction data, that's one thing. But a business that uses it to run their marketing, using transactions with their business? That seems less clear.

To further muddy the waters, if I can tell the business how they can use transaction data, shouldn't they also be able to tell me how I can/cannot use it? That seems like it would infringe upon bad reviews/etc., but it feels more consistent.
Ah darn, I was hoping it was something named after Marvin Minsky
Fortunately, delirium sets in during an all-nighter and you can get creativity from that.

Not that you should strive for that scenario though.
you cannot AB test that.
Bob MaloogaLoogaLoogaLoogaLooga. One Malooga, four loogas.
It's worse than that - they actively edit/delete negative reviews.

https://qz.com/1333242/airbnb-reviews/
There is a real sense of rating inflation happening here. It makes a 4-starred place seem especially sub-standard, even though it might be the result of a single unreasonable guest, or even a reasonable guest providing a muted review.

Yelp is hated in the restaurant industry for similar reasons.
Any faults with the DICGC approach?

They do publish details about premiums in the annual reports (last report is still pending, sadly)
Why do you build ad tech if you think it's harmful?
It's going to be a great experiment IMHO. If successful, it demonstrates how unnecessary it is for these in persona gatherings are for demos, interviews, and funding, and lends even more credibility to operating remotely (not that YC is adverse to remote portfolio companies, but every little bit helps; I keep seeing more and more remote-eligible roles showing up as jobs on the front page of HN, this is good!). Being more remote friendly in the future opens YC up to founders who previously would be locked out of the experience, and YC gets exposure to startups they otherwise might not have. Everyone benefits.

Thanks YC!
How long before VMWare supports that?
I find it hard to concentrate on videos of people talking. I have no problem sitting in long lectures or conferences, but I get fidgety and distracted trying to watch conference videos on my laptop.

I'm used to thinking of video watching as being a low value activity that should not be optimized for, but there's an increasing amount of professionally necessary video watching.

Maybe I should build a dedicated video room, like a home theater but for work, with minimum visual distractions.

Do people have advice on how to focus on videos?
A few comments and op were trying to align dates listed in fb to dates they made purchases based on cc data and haven’t been successful. I don’t know if it’s the case here, but working with dates in facebook ads is a bit of headache. Those dates might be when the transaction was made, when it processed, when the product was shipped, when the user first saw an as, when they last saw an ad, etc.
white papers vs a submarine PR article for cropster that aims to get a larger, mainstream audience on a tight deadline. They are two different things
This seems to be a problem with most similar review systems. I believe Uber has similar issues with anything less than 5 stars being considered unacceptable and causing problems for drivers.
Current consulting project involves strategy for patching 8000 vulnerabilities, across 300 OS images, hosting 500 applications, managed by 50 branches, in 20 divisions, where about 40 people are accountable at a business level for the applications.

I'm using neo4j to integrate this set with HR and financial allocations data to show the direct exposure of business applications to their budgets, and provide a rough value at risk on a per branch basis, and create big scary graph viz clouds of vulnerabilities that all point to the person responsible for them, mainly to get people to get off their asses and patch their shit.

I'm also using queries of the graph to auto-generate hierarchies of jira epics and stories and assign them to the business owners so we can track remediation across the whole enterprise in both jira and azure devops.

It has produced a navigable organization map and we can run queries like, show me the vulnerability exposure of this division based on the aggregate risk of the applications deployed by its branches, and show me who is responsible for fixing it. Show me the sr. manager who has the most vulnerabilites roll up to them by their jr. managers, etc.
Just putting it in the privacy policy isn’t good enough. The general consensus is that unless you’re claiming another legal basis for your processing of data (which would be hard to argue here), consent needs to be informed, opt-in, and granular per usage. I don’t see evidence of that in this story.
I am facing the same problem. Never installed the Facebook app anywhere, but still seeing recent stuff from apps that I have installed on my Samsung.

The only thing I did was logging in to Facebook via the browser on my phone.

Wait... I logged in to Tinder with Facebook on my phone. That how the Facebook SDK probably found out.
South Korea: Death rate is just 0.6% – far lower than in China or the US
> But it will get very ugly if the market tightens and Intel can only lose both revenues and profits in a price war. There is no way to maintain at all. Period.

Yeah adding "period" to a sentence like that totally makes up for the lack of data backing it. AMD spent years in the red and they didn't disappear. I looked it up and Intel cash on hand for the quarter ending December 31, 2019 was $13.123B, a 12.64% increase year-over-year. That's about two quarters profit. Their debt to equity ratio is 0.33 which is on the lower end. They could double their ~29B debt if badly necessary and still be considered a good investment. That two together makes for one gigantic war chest...
I can confidently say i've never bought any t-shirts.

Perhaps they do other whitelabel manufacturing, but I just looked through my emails a week around the date and I don't see anything it could be.

Also keep in mind the only thing tied to my FB account is my work email (and my name I suppose), which I definitely didn't order anything with.
Can the general public view these videos some point in the future?
Maybe this will fuel more funding for VR and AR?
I was pretty bummed out by Kontena Lens shutting down, but I definitely sympathize with their struggles. They made a really fantastic product and gave it away for free and then they couldn't sustain development costs according to their twitter page. A couple thoughts on their departure: The application (an app image that ran on your local laptop) relied on talking to their servers, once they shut down their business, the product literally 100% stopped working. That was pretty shocking, as I didn't hear that the company was struggling before they shut down. I had to go hunt around on social media to find that news as their website was also no longer up. Although it wasn't mission critical to our work flow, as it was basically a (very very nice) GUI wrapper around Kubectl, our team came to rely on it. So it was troubling when all of a sudden part of our workflow broke. I know Kontena has a few other open source products. It would be nice if they put up the old codebase up on github even if they state explicitly that they will not maintain it, although I know how burdensome it can be to prepare code for open source if it wasn't initially designed as such.
You know better than anyone that deleting your fb account doesn’t really accomplish anything though. All you did was change some flag in their device graph.
I moved to B2B, doing ads for companies targeting employees of other companies. Convincing you to buy a bad database is not harmful compared to convincing you buy unhealthy food or feel anxious about not having the latest in fashion.
Will the online demo day be accessible to public.
Not...

Ah, in your experience. I missed that, initially.

I meant to write "Not khat," which gives me the best inspiration ever (and a crash that lasts days when I get off of it).
The NIFTY Bank index is still at +4.6% for the last 1 year period.

But a lot of boats have been rocked across large and small banks. Lots of small-banks are getting merged, and NPAs are at peaks.

But RBI's refusal to let Yes Bank collapse means that it can only go upwards from here.
This could be very nice for the right people. however,there are 0 instructions in the readme.
Custom client-side window decorations in Qt 5.15
Yep, and don't forget that savvy hosts have ways to prevent you from leaving a review (I don't know how, but I do know that when we had to leave a cockroach-infested unit, we were unable to leave a review). That means that there may be people who want to leave an informative (and bad) review, but are unable to do so.
The WHO fact-finding mission to China reported that they ran 350,000 tests in the province of Guangdong alone (though it must be noted that its population is 110 million) ...
Like this?

kubectl exec -it deploy/<deployment> sh
Do you believe that a plain bagel is less healthy than a slice of pie as a result? The pie will definitely have more added sugars. A plain bagel would make for a reasonable breakfast. Pie?
Double speed is life.
How to Work from Home Without Losing Your Mind
I do tons of things, and yes, I know deleting Facebook/Instagram had an effect.
Now you stop being an asshole to get more money, which is exactly what an asshole will do.
Ask HN: How do you find out about new tools?
I am trying to figure out the best way to find out about new tools or techniques in data engineering and was wondering what are some good sources?
A great death story. It's good to celebrate excellent last days and moments.

My father died recently and it was truly beautiful to be there and help him go. Sadness, yes, but we shouldn't fear.
Tech sees 72% drop in office use – Density Covid-19 stats
Wait.. are you saying bill gates is an asshole?