skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The soundtrack was fantastic, and had a wide variety of music. I started a lifelong love of electronic music because I was gifted the soundtrack on cassette.
That's not a bad idea. I suspect that the author is not the first to come up with it. It's better than a heatmap.

Like most tools, it is up to the user, as to whether or not it's "evil."

I'm reminded of that rather silly little speech at the beginning of Dark Phoenix, where Xavier lectures Jean Gray about the uses of a pen.

If I were trying to understand users in something like A/B testing, I might use the technique, but I'd probably only do so temporarily. I'd need to make sure that the practice was outlined in the privacy policy.
Is Active Oberon considered a canon (for lack of a better term) successor to Oberon07 or is it more like Component "Pascal" and just a spin off from an Oberon version?
Future generations will look at our wanton use of single-use plastic like we look at leaded gasoline or cigarettes and wonder what took us so long to legislate banning poisoning our environment. A bubble barrier moves the plastic around, it doesn't decrease its production.

If it helps in some small way relative to decreasing plastic production, great -- no need to let the perfect be the enemy of the good -- but let's keep it in context of decreasing production.

Also, technical solutions to social and behavioral problems tend to create unintended side-effect. Have we considered them?
Looks like this study was initiated/sponsored by this company, specifically testing the effectiveness on what they call Fasting Mimicking Diet.

https://l-nutra.com/pages/fasting-mimicking-diet

If I understand correctly this is a low-calorie diet, which is easier to follow than a strict water-only diet, but they claim it is equally effective. They recommend it also for healthy individuals, 5 days a month. Does anyone have experience with it?
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Why not go the extra mile and use wooden pegs. Less plastic!
I’ve been using an app that converts AQI to equivalent cigarettes smoked per day. It’s not perfect but it’s something I can wrap my head around as a meaningfully bad number.
> or evil (unmask a protester agitating for societal change against a powerful state)

Can you give an example of how this technique could be exploited in such a way?
Yes. ZFS has a couple layers of caching in RAM and it actually reads from those caches first, before trying to read from disk. And then it caches whatever it has to read from disk, in RAM. That's why you need lots of ECC RAM to run ZFS. Because errors which propogate from RAM to disk cannot be corrected and such will destroy the whole file system.
Thanks. I was noodling around on my phone trying to find it and landed there incorrectly.
>While Edison’s contribution to the lightbulb was significant, he did not “invent” the lightbulb. At most he put the last piece into place.....

So he did invent it. Being the first that puts stuff together to get a working result is exactly what everyone means if they say someone invented something. That it builds on existing inventions is the norm.
Author names in alphabetical order is pretty ubiquitous in pure mathematics. There are also usually few (1-5) authors on a paper, and some people who contribute a small amount to a paper (say, a nicer proof of a lemma) are not listed as an author, but thanked elsewhere in the paper.

I think the reason this works for pure maths and not some other fields is that pure maths is quite “slow”, in that people don’t release papers nearly as frequently as other fields, and the papers tend to be longer.
Or perhaps, fasting is the cure, and can even undo the harm from chemo!
No, the article makes it clear that he "invented" the first commercially viable light bulb, not the first light bulb, period.
How long do you need to fast for benefits? Is water the only supplement allowed? Curious
The downfall of that conspiracy was to have it involve pizza. Americans just won't let such an important part of our life be besmirched.
What do you use it for?

I've used it to estimate the limit of the following sequence of functions, because I wasn't sure there was enough precision in machine floating point to do it properly:

⎡ ___________________________⎤
⎢ _________________ ╱ _________________ ⎥
⎢ ________ ╱ ________ ╱ ╱ ________ ⎥
⎢ ╱ 2 ╱ ╱ 4 ╱ ╱ ╱ 8 ⎥
⎣x, ╲╱ x + 1 , ╲╱ ╲╱ x + 1 + 1 , ╲╱ ╲╱ ╲╱ x + 1 + 1 + 1 ⎦
I do this sometimes with a single song, but I've found much more success with entire soundtracks from video games, especially Nintendo games, though mostly for nostalgia reasons. The different songs add just enough variety that I don't get bored, but usually the entire soundtrack has a consistent volume, style, and often mood. Plus these songs very rarely have any distracting vocals.

I'm musical in general, having grown up doing various band activities, so there's always a song playing upstairs. Having something external to listen to simply allows me to switch tracks.
Use spacedesk or miracast if your device supports it
Both of them hail from Amsterdam! I imagine the bubble idea might have come out of seeing the ocean cleanup barges in operation - they have the problem of interfering with boat traffic where deployed.
i like to persuade people by having them imagine an isolated tiger who hasn't eaten anything in a week. by force of nature their sense of smell, hearing, etc. must all be heightened so as to ensure their survival.
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"Can't we just assume the standard narrative is correct, and work with that? What harm can it do?"
Many vacuum tubes from the 1920s are also still functioning. They end up being one of the most reliable parts of early radios. Transistors from the 50s - 70s meanwhile are having big problems..
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You can use the same technique with a:active to track link clicks, by the way.

Technically, this would all be relatively easy to block with your own user style sheet. Practically, though, a lot of non-tracking sites rely on background-image for essential functionality, so you'll see a lot of breakage. It's a dilemma.
Another important reason mentioned is that it includes heavy-weight internationalization locale files that are not needed in recent browsers -- "for the size alone." I don't know at what point the adjective "solely" stops being appropriate.

Those who have been developing it for years and are most familiar with it, and the alternatives, discourage it's use in new projects, although also outline the exceptions that in their opinion make it reasonable to keep using it. You are going to take a stand to disagree with them, based on superior understanding?
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Why do you say likely? I would have said that after the Camp Fire and I would have been wrong.
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Fasting also has excellent results for treating many illnesses including mental ones.
There is a documentary that covers two clinics that offer fasting as a treatment and scientific research in this area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1b08X-GvRs
Usually who invented something depends on fine distinctions of how you define that thing and just how many obscure things you know of during the time period it was invented.

It's generally "known" that the Altair was the first personal computer. However, from reading Wikipedia, I found that the first microprocessor based PC seems to have been a French system a couple years before the Altair:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral

On the other hand, relaxing the criteria might mean that wasn't the first either.

The Kenbak-1 didn't have a microprocessor, but was arguably a personal computer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1

Perhaps this is a better choice for the first personal computer since it was a little earlier and more ancestral to modern x86, but it was also so expensive that it was not anything an ordinary person could have owned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200

Information from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers
In Germany it was indeed a problem in the past.

The civil rights movements had people that did try to normalize pedophilia. They were thrown out at some point though. They were mostly active in the green party of Germany, but the party had a clear and complete break with them. To say they harbor pedophiles today would indeed be a conspiracy, although some proponents are still politically active. But also not very relevant.

I think it appeals to a certain right wing crowd because it is a trivial moral stance to be against child exploitation and aside from that they have few other stances that could be called moral. There was this craze in the 70s about sexual repression that went a bit too far in some directions, so it was difficult to call them out. It was a necessary movement, but you also had these crazies that took everything a little too literal and wanted to remove any form of shame or inhibition.

I think Epstein might have had sex with minors under the law that were basically teenagers, but I don't think there is evidence that he was a pedophile. He was just exploitative of young girls and perhaps the trusted pimp of some of the US and UK political class. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder. Children are ugly from a sexual perspective for people with a normal sexuality.
Since this is likely to attract a lot of fasting practicioners to the comments I want to ask - I've occasionally tried out fasting or severe calorie restriction in the past but I always seem to get dizzy, weak and shaky in the first 24 hours and have to give up. This seems like a normal physiological response to be honest, how are people either avoiding or coping with this?
How does a fasting mimicking diet (FMD, like the one described in the article) work? I had a skim and didn’t see a detailed explanation. What’s your experience like?
And yet, most of what you said is bullshit that's not evidence based.

"Autophagy", that famous process which supposedly happens during fasting, that miraculously regenerates us, actually happens during caloric restriction, and it's actually a daily process that happens during the night, in everyone, while glycogen stores get naturally depleted.

And we have no evidence that increased autophagy levels are beneficial, quite the contrary, we have some evidence that, right after fasting, the immune system is suppressed. The bigger the caloric restriction, the larger effect on refeeding. An effect very relevant for malnourished populations that suddenly get access to food.

This is basically modern quackery, medical technobabble lacking any evidence other than obscure studies done on mice.

What "healers" and witches used to do, but taken to the next level.

And unfortunately it is also a recipe for serious eating disorders. Hello anorexia.
https://www.repostatus.org is a similar idea
I use instant.page and it doesn't appear to work in Safari (at least in desktop version 13.1.2): I can't see any transfers in the Network tab on hover.
Works for other things too like plants. A bit of stress ends up making them more resilient. Depriving them a bit of water and Sun can make for a stronger plant.

Of course there are limits but when done right you end up with a plant that on average is stronger.
Interesting. Though cancers that force you to fast, like stomach or esophageal cancer don't have great 5 year survival rates.
A transfer standard is an artifact that is produced at a standards laboratory to be sent to another laboratory for the purpose of calibration of the 2nd laboratory's processes and equipment.

"Measurement Assurance Programs are quality control programs for calibrating a customer's entire measurement system. In a typical MAP, a stable artifact or set of artifacts called transfer standards are first measured by NIST and then sent to a customer's laboratory for a series of measurements. The transfer standards are then returned to NIST for re-measurement, along with the participating laboratory's results. NIST reports its comparative findings to the customer and, when necessary, offers guidance on achieving and maintaining measurement quality.

Successful use of a NIST MAP requires that the customer make periodic measurements of in-house check standards to estimate their measurement process uncertainty and to ensure that the measurement process remains in a state of statistical control. Unless a laboratory has a measurement quality assurance program to monitor its own measurement process parameters continuously, there is no value in participating in a MAP. In fact, NIST recommends that its customers establish and use a measurement quality assurance program to monitor their measurement parameters, whether or not they participate in a MAP." [1]

https://www.nist.gov/calibrations/policies#:~:text=In%20a%20....
Interesting study with, as always, a lot of caveats. The most we can take from this is that it's worth to study more, the effect is existing but not extreme.

I don't get the submitted title here claiming that it protects from side effects. The study does not mention this at all, just that the side effects are similar despite omission of dexamethason in the fasting arm of the trial - it increases appetite, so makes sense to omit it if you want any reasonable compliance rate.

As with any fasting and dieting study, compliance is moderate at best. In this study, only 33% of patients were compliant for at least 4 cycles of chemotherapy, out of 12 cycles total. Most of them were compliant with at least once cycle though.

Overall, we need some more research on this in a larger trial. This paper is a call for funders to do just that - the trial ended prematurely due to needing to include more patients but there was a lack of funding to do so.

I'm currently doing research on a similar patient population, so open to answer any questions.
I don't believe in throwing out the old completely. As others have noted, the cost of completely replacing the current infrastructure is astronomical.

What could be done instead would be a parallel virtual platform inside the current technology that abstracts the current technology in such a degree that many things become trivially doable.
Exponentials are very unintuitive.
I have been on a 18/6 and 20/4 fasting protocol for 3 months now - few up and downs but mostly sticking to it. The obvious results are weight loss (not so much, I'm within my BMI targets). I can confirm that my mental sharpness has improved but it's not the same every day.

Most days I feel amazing, some other days I feel quite tired and I experience some mental fog. I still haven't found the reason for such an oscillation.

I suspect it has to do with what I eat during the eating window (for instance, more sugarish food, more carbs, etc). I think I should record what I eat and compare it with the overall well-being to get to some conclusions.
The title saying it's a multi-centre phase 2 trial makes it extremely clear. You don't do those in animals.
No, that's exactly the mistake. You can check that the counts are equal without parsing the string at all. So the ability to recognize the string language is not evidence that the string is being parsed according to a particular CFG (or any other grammar). In other words, it is not evidence that the birds are pairing up each A with the corresponding B.

Most of the literature on birds stems from a confusion of the distinction between regular string languages and context free string languages with the distinction between grammars with and without recursive rules. The two distinctions are largely orthogonal. It is certainly possible, for example, to define certain regular string languages using recursive grammars, and to define certain context free string languages without using recursive grammars.

When you say that "the result must be a context free grammar" I think what you mean to say is that the string language defined must be a context free (and non-regular) string language. But that does not in any way entail that the only way to recognize the string language is by means of a particular context free grammar.
> If you spend some time and effort removing whatever obstacles you have in place that are keeping you from being able to do that

This is literally impossible for many JS libraries. Chromium / NodeJS / other JS environments are themselves constantly changing. Irrespective of the evolving timezone info, the core MomentJS can only be "done" for a particular set of browser versions. Each bug pertaining to dates, like https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7863 , is a potential browser/engine version for which Moment needs a fix.

> this world does in fact exist

It only exists for certain proprietary software and SaaS developers because of the hard work of open source developers to keep up with the changing landscape. If everyone adopted your attitude, you would be forced to contend with the true nature of the ecosystem directly.
Because software development is closer to developing a prototype object than a production object. There is so much knowledge to gain from implementing the problem that need to reflow back to the conception for a (hopefully possible) second implementation.

Also who was saying that architecture is the wrong metaphor for software architects and the good metaphor is city planners? They put some frames and infrastructures but mostly enable the creation.
Nice! Can you post the bc script you used?

I use bc as my desktop calculator instead of a graphical calculator. I use one with more extensions than GNU bc, so it is useful for me when programming.
Cliff Mass spoiled himself for me with this asinine blog post comparing Seattle BLM protesters to brownshirts in Nazi Germany [0]. It feels icky to get behind someone who will use his platform to sling ridiculous accusations and accept no criticism [1].

It's a shame - his weather reporting is uniquely good and fun to read.

[0] https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-...

[1] https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.htm...

EDIT: Fleshed out criticism of the original blog post:

http://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_8421ecd2-d90c-11ea-9e91-...
"Soccer" is a good example of an Americanism that's not.
There was lipdubs that were popular. I think that started the whole trend. Vine was certainly an initial iteration, it shows that you don't have to be first! I think the discovery algorithm or at least the discovery presentation is the most important part. Reels and SnapChat both have "shorts" but they don't deliver in the same way as TikTok.
That's what an inventor does. He puts together something functional and usable. If someone tried before with limited success hes not considered the inventor. The plane wasn't invented by the people who died jumping off of things.
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same! all about getting “in the zone”. I usually go for house/techno DJ mixes or some sort of cool drumming. lol tangent but you might like this digeridoo one... https://youtu.be/FHpTYVOWin4
The shocking part is that her lab never published that sequence contrary, to my knowledge, to common practice. Also the little research associated to it.

Let's gloss over the whole thing:

1- In 2012 6 mine workers get infected with a SARS-like disease, test positive for SARS-specific antibodies, 3 die.

2- Shi is literally sent to that cave to research the bat coronaviruses there that might have had caused the illness.

3- Her team finds a plethora of viral samples of potentially zoonotic diseases.

4- Her team describes generic findings, no full sequences published whatsoever, no mention of the actual reason that motivated the study of that shaft.

Fast forward to 2020

5- SARS-like disease arises, sequence matches 96% with one that potentially killed 3 miners that somehow wasn't really researched past basic findings.
Epstein was an abuser, but not a pedophile. The minors involved were all between 14 and 18 years of age. He didn't seem to have been a pedophile (i.e., predominantly attracted to pre-pubescent children). He was, possibly, an ephebophile; someone primarily attracted to pubescent minors. (He was, of course, a sex offender and abuser).

This lack of distinction is used to give this right-wing narrative more impact. People tend to think of prepubescent children when the word pedophile is used.

Not that this excuses Epstein in any way of course.
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I heard it originally in reference to planes getting automated. The idea is that nobody would be comfortable riding a pilotless plane, so the pilot is hired on to assuage people's fears, but assigned a dog to keep him from messing with the automation.

I assume the same dynamic is at play, but I find the entire thing to be riddled with hubris, and projective of industry for industry sake.
"You are going to take a stand to disagree with them, based on superior understanding?"

Uh, no. I read their list and the two things I cited (from their stated reasons) seemed to be the key drivers.
I have an offline computer with Windows 7. The computer does not have a network card and I use it to play old (obviously offline) games.
It's of little relevance if the trees regrow. There are some signs these big fires may permanently damage the ecosystems in ways that prevent that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/forests-wildfires-1.44449...
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Google has been experimenting with Fuscia and I believe doing some interesting stuff, but I'm by no means an expert.
So you just say a bunch of bullshit...ok
> I wish that once people do name their project, they would assign it a 128-bit random number in lower case hex

We already have something similar: URLs.