skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, there are no additional costs for the employer. On paper yes, but from where do you think those "additional costs" are paid? Right, from the value an employee creates.
I do not, it's an inference I made based on my own experience. I'm not sure fasting after an an appendectomy is dangerous, but I suspect it might be - and that it's almost surely not as useful.

I am vegetarian. I had suffered from low B12 since early childhood, to the point of neurological symptoms in my early 20s (which were resolved by monthly B12 injections for a while, and then oral supplements). I slowly stopped taking them while still monitoring, and was stable at the very low end of what's considered acceptable.

And then, I did a 25 day fast (not even intentionally at first - I was sick with something, lost my appetite, and didn't eat for a few days; and then I felt great, but still had no appetite, so I didn't eat. It took 25 days for my appetite to come back).

I did get my blood tested just before the fast, including a B12 test, and it was low. My GP decided to do a full battery including B12 a month after I stopped fasting (usually only tested once a year or so) - and it was at the high end of normal (any higher, and it would have been suspicious). And it has been between the middle and high end of the range ever since.

At the time (over 20 years ago), this was considered impossible, or some unlikely miracle. However, since then the function of the appendix was discovered, which explains this perfectly:

The appendix is a backup store of good bacteria that the body maintains "just in case", because the digestive system is hostile (and we make it even more hostile by e.g. using antibiotics). It can go wrong, causing the appendix to rapture, potentially with bad consequences.

The conditions under which the body uses this backup to restart good bacteria cultures has not been well characterized yet, but IIRC it does include fasting and starvation.

Also, it is known that B12 is synthesized by bacteria in the gut (of humans or animals - the B12 you get from meat was synthesized by the same class of bacteria in e.g. cows - who similarly suffer low B12 because of extended antibiotics use, and who get B12 supplements these days as well).

So, my conclusion is that -- for the purpose of restarting your gut cultures -- fasting won't work if you don't have an appendix. I suspect, but do not know, that this might be an important part of why fasting works as well as it does, and might even be a requirement.

... which is why I wrote it the way I did.
Not that you were implying it but Nebula isn't decentralised, it's a 50% creator-owned hosting website exclusive to these creators.

Another decentralised system would be https://d.tube.
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Ran a online retail business for 12 years. One day, Adwords account suspended. Some generic 'voilation' email. No way to resolve, no person to speak to, no comment on the issue.

Tried to resolve for months.

Fired 15 staff, gave up. Basically the internet = Google when you run online retail.
Yes, and for aneutronic fusion reactions the maximum drive efficiency is really high. Bremsstrahlung x-rays are still a problem in terms of heat dissipation but shouldn't cut into efficiency too much.

EDIT: Well, I should say that the propellant mass/delta-v is really high and that most of the fusion energy will can end up as kinetic energy of the propellant and ship. But the vast majority of that kinetic energy will be the propellant rather than the ship. To maximize ship kinetic energy over fuel energy you want the propellant to exit the ship at the same velocity the ship is traveling which is very far from what you see in an Epstein drive. But fusion provides tons of energy so that isn't going to be a figure of merit we care about.
Did anyone do High Frequency Trading with neutrinos yet?
Secrets to be fetched by CFN of the Service. "define a config file as a "volume" and mount into the container" is very unusual. Store it in S3, and give your Task's IAM Role permission to fetch it.
So you can objectively track when your “bouncing” in and out of ketosis, like say for instance the way your heart beat changes ?

urine test strips only measure acetoacetate. Urinary ketones often correlate poorly with serum levels because of variability in excretion of ketones by the kidney, influence of hydration status, and renal function. (Wikipedia - I’m being a bit lazy).

I’m not arguing against fasting, or low carb diets. I’m making the point that ketosis isn’t as easy to “bounce” into as people think (though it doesn’t mean there are not benefits from fasting or low carb diets).
For everyone that has comments and questions, the best way to get them discussed and considered is to join the IETF working group mailing list and starting to participate.

As a student I've previously sat on a couple of mailing lists for the academic benefit of learning from some really smart/dedicated people. Joining and participating is open and just requires you to sign up. The signup link is on the announcement page above ^
Even without playing the game, the blog where the author goes through their research for the game is very worthwhile.

https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/
Maybe as a country the US is more powerful with healthy competition among strong tech companies than with monopolies. Look at Intel and AMD.
In the spirit of throwing things out there: keepass/keypassx and keypassdx database(s) synced via nextcloud or syncthing is a dream. My passwords on all my devices and under my own control. Cant beat it.
He is correct. In Germany the auctions for umts licenses costed 50 billion euros. These insanely high auctions (because every telco believed they need these frequencies and outbid everyone) has negative price impacts today, something which happened 20 years ago!
Other countries had better outcomes, but you cant foresee how such an auction will go and which impact it will have.
Don’t be surprised that Quibi failed
Reminds me of a chart I saw on the incremental gain of various therapies for colorectal cancer. You’d see a lot of discussion around “this drug increased median overall survival by 4 months, is that really a worthwhile advancement?”.

But you track it over 15 years, median overall survival had gone from 6 months to 10 years. All small incremental gains.

That’s the difference between a death sentence and manageable disease.
Thanks for this tip. The live coding / hacking videos are awesome. There's never too much good quality tech "howto" videos available. If you know good sources like this, I'd love to hear.
>> it's always 5 years away because mainstream AI researches are stuck with yak shaving their gradient descents.

A small correction: that's deep learning researches, not AI researchers and not all machine learning researchers even. To be charitable, it's not even all deep learning researchers. It's just that the field of deep learning research has been inundated with new entrants who are sufficiently skilled to grok the practicalities but lack understanding of AI scholarship and produce unfortunately shoddy work that does not advance the field (any field, any of the aforementioned ones).

As a personal example, my current PhD studies are in Inductive Logic Programming which is, in short, machine-learning of logic programs (you know, Prolog etc). I would not be able to publish any papers without a theoretical section with actual theoretical results (i.e. theorems and their proofs - and it better be a theorem other than "more parameters beget better accuracy", which is not really a theorem). Reviewers would just reject such a paper without second thought, regardless of how many leaderboards I beat in my empirical results section.

And of course there are all the other fields of AI were work continues - search, classical planning, constraint satisfaction, automated theorem proving, knowledge engineering and so on and so forth.

Bottom line- the shoddy scholarship you flag up does not characterise the field of AI research, as a whole, it only afflicts a majority of modern deep learning research.
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I was surprised to read that the BEAM has no concept of processes.

I assume that the BEAM has some primitives to do with reduction counting and pre-emption that can be used to implement the full erlang process, but the BEAM book (https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_concurrency_parallel...) isn't very clear which bits are in the C code (the BEAM) or the Erlang code (the ERTS).
Can you recommend one from your experience? I'm in the market for one. (Preferably one that doesn't need prescription)
100% agree with this based on my experiences.

Often MBB consultants are brought in with privileged permissions too - they get access to data, meetings and personnel that internal staff don’t get access to, and the end result is a fancy PowerPoint with a few well-spaced bulletpoints about simplification, efficiencies and renewed cost cutting. Hardly rocket science.

Further, their tendency to use the latest hype (big data! blockchain! data is the new oil! machine learning! etc) in their consultative sales model often shows their hand. They read the same stuff as everyone else, they just went to a fancy university and as you note ‘know how to wear a suit’.

Then once the PowerPoint has been presented, they go off into the wilderness after cashing their checks, or appear at another part of the company working on an unaffiliated project purely based on their connections and brown-nosing.

Has any research been done on the efficicacy of decisions that MBB consultants make in corporates? What empirical evidence is there that these consultants actually deliver value over the medium and long terms in relation to a placebo (ie the current management of a company)?

I don’t doubt they are generally intelligent and well-read, but so are a lot of internal staff and non-consultants.

Update: added last sentence, fixed some spelling errors.
Except those people will most often prefer to go watch a minute-long video on YouTube or an even shorter TikTok clip or just scroll mindlessly through their social media of choice even if nothing new shows up. What Quibi failed to understand is that bored people on phones aren't lacking entertainment, they're just in the exact type of boredom that makes them want to do pretty much nothing.
I admit that military spending as a indicator of capabilities is extremely simplistic, but so is using number of troops or many other other "easy" metrics (also your numbers are very off UK active military are 190 000 compared to Russia 1 000 000 according to https://www.globalfirepower.com/) I would still argue that with current military spending in Europe it is not clear that Russia would win a military conflict (lets leave asside the global disaster that would imply). Also the arguments about the US paying for European defence also misses the point, that it's very clearly in the US interest for Europe not to be controlled by Russia.
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A John or Chad is a colloquialism for certain types of men. I've met countless men named both and never heard them complain about sharing a name with these slang terms.

There are countless other examples in English and other languages. Amazon coopted Alexa. Apple, siri. I've met more than one person named Isis.

Unfortunately language is still a rough tool. We name things from mathematical proofs, to sea slugs, or even groups of people with certain identifiable characteristics, arbitrarily and sometimes capriciously.

Ultimately those effected find a way to adapt to an environment that's coopted one of their identifiers under a new definition in the collective lexicon. Trying to fight it usually just makes things worse.
For me Chrome just works. So far I did not see anything I would hate about Chrome. It's extremely polished and fast. I don't love it, but it's just good enough for my needs.
You can run a supercritical CO2 heat engine on turbine exhaust and make electricity. GE has a product.

Would be more economical if fuel or emissions were more expensive.
Building blocks of language evolved 30-40M years ago
Some people reported a sense of time having suddenly, subjectively "sped up" in the 3rd week of September 1992.
For an unknown reason at the end of that week it felt "as though only 4 days had passed rather than a week" according to some.
I have not heard of any reports that Subjective Time has changed again, so I suppose it must still be going at 7/4 it's 1991 rate.

:P
Yes, it doesn't need to be default. But comparing C and JS doesn't make much sense here. It's easy to avoid using innerHTML and similar. You can just turn those functions off, if you don't trust yourself to not type them out from time to time in your editor, or if you don't trust your dependencies to not use them.

There's nothing unsafe about having context isolation off, per se. Yes, you can do stupid stuff like run code directly from the internet, but context isolation doesn't prevent that. It still allows RCE. It just limits the fallout to just stealing your data, like with any other XSS on regular websites.

And if programmers can't be trusted to not execute untrusted input as code in more secure context, adding an extra hop via some IPC will not save them, if they make the same mistakes in less secure context.
This reminds me; i used to email back and forth with Alex Grey, my favorite artist... he was so personable over email.

When i was building a datacenter in manhattan i went to his studio - Hall of Mirrors... or whatever its called...

I need to reach out to him again before such happens and make sure i talk to him before the world loses him.

Thank you for your story.
> stream videos, play online games or work in virtual offices. This requires a great deal of bandwidth

only the first might if someone were streaming 8K video with 7.1 lossless audio, which wouldn't even come close to 1.2Gbps, but on a mobile device on public transport? no

I'm pretty certain 1.2Gbps would serve an entire train 720p video with 128kbps stereo audio, which for 99.9% of people would be adequate for a mobile device on public transport

it's a bit like breaking the land speed record, a bit pointless and you'll never get (nor need) to be the driver
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I bet a majority of critics here have a Github account and work actively on the platform. The good news is that we still have the freedom of choice, so, take a step back and resume the control of your code and data. At least think about it.

Pushing bureaucratic certification is a step back in history and paves the way towards corporate centralization & exploitation.

Look out for alternatives, you can live well without Github stars for prestige and I hope also without Github certificates for your career. After all, Git was made for decentralization, I do not want Microsoft to dictate the future well-being of (professional) developers.
CD/radio alarm clocks were very prevalent not so long ago. A handful of CDs that meet your taste and one of those (presumably obtainable for peanuts on ebay) might do.

If that's too much clutter - did you google around for pre-existing pi projects so you don't need to waste any time on it? And if it doesn't exist - sounds like an approachable project for someone in the HN crowd to pick up!
> Asia is LINE/WeChat. Very few use either FB or Whatsapp.

This is...not true. Line has Japan and Thailand, WeChat has China and the mainland diaspora, and the rest is mostly dominated by Messenger, WhatsApp, or a local app (e.g. Zalo in Vietnam or KakaoTalk in South Korea).

Source: me, a person who has lived in Asia for a long time, and the bulging folder of messaging apps on my phone.
> It's impossible to determine this what-if scenario though, so I agree it's best to leave out the speculation.

What are you talking about, CEOs get criticism all the time. Especially on HN where people are aggressive about their opinions. Just because you can't do alternate reality simulation doesn't mean you can't say anything about this.
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Has anyone seen something like this with a user-customizable recommendation engine? In the long run, I'd love to have one optimizing for something like "well-rounded education" instead of "time spent on site".
I suspect what the keto community calls "fat adapted" is basically that "easily bouncing in and out" state -- which some people reach easily, and some take weeks or months to achieve on keto. (but as far as I know, takes at most 3 days to achieve while fasting)
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My point is that the spare capacity would evaporate, as the higher-cost power plants would be shut down.
Apple watch tap to wake feature.
I don't think it's unreasonable to state that we will never deploy a new IP protocol again.

At least not one that works over the general Internet - controlled intra-organisation networks might possibly be able to do so, but very rarely.

There are too many broken machines on the Internet that assume all IP traffic is one of TCP, UDP and ICMP. And far too many are configured to screw up ICMP too.

So new protocols MUST use TCP or UDP as their base layer instead of raw IP.

So yes, QUIC uses UDP, but that should be considered an implementation detail. A hack for the lack of IP support on the Internet.

HTTP/3 uses QUIC like HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 use TCP + TLS, but QUIC is not limited to use by HTTP/3.

QUIC's development has been, basically, paused while HTTP/3 is finalised and then the IETF will pick up where it left off and work out how other higher-layer protocols will work using QUIC as the transport layer.
Seriously this Firefox update was a massive bait-and-switch for me.

I was on holiday and out of the loop on how big of change this Phoenix upgrade would be, got a notification on Android to update firefox and went through without realizing the massive UX and functionality downgrade this Firefox version is.

Apart from the non-starter of missing add-ons, the whole UX overhaul is insane, so many things that use to be frequent single tap are now two, three, tabs plus swipe up/down business.

With the risk of not sounding constructive, I don't know who in their right mind proposed this but it's crazy to me that it went through hundreds of beta-testers without nobody complaining, or that nobody accepted feedback against this if it existed.
The author infringed on Facebook name and possibly the logo too. Facebook sent a notice to Google. Google complied with the law and removed the extension.
Yet the author blames Google for all this.
HTTP/2 without TLS is basically not a thing.

The HTTP/2 specification tells you how you could in principle do this, but no popular browsers implement it and so far as I know no popular servers do so either.

So in practice it's always ALPN, a modern browser specifies that it would prefer h2 and servers that speak HTTP/2 select that during TLS handshaking. As with SNI this means it is not secret yet (but it could be protected by Encrypted Client Hello)
From half a world away the US tech industry has looked more "strangled" in the last 6-8 years compared to the 2005-2012 period (to give just an example), one could say that happened because of the concentration at the top (of talent and money, mostly, or of money keeping that talent in golden hand-cuffs).

During that 2005-2012 timeframe you had a US search engine becoming really global, a US online retailer almost single-handedly inventing a new industry (cloud computing) and a US social-web company crushing almost all foreign competition on its own home-turf (and which could only be stopped by explicit Government intervention, as was the case with China explicitly blocking FB and with Russia directly taking control of VKontakte as a better way to counter FB).
Get. Tested.

I recently lost a close friend to bowel cancer in his 30s. He'd been ignoring blood in his stools, and it was stage 4 before it got picked up.

Don't find excuses to put it off.
"Render unto Caesar" is not a new idea.
"Social cues" rather than "social queues."

I don't mean this as a tell off, just that it had me confused for a second. :)
Yeah, go ahead and dictate to users the exact manner in which they must interact with your product. Don't allow any alternatives. This is what happens.

I had a similar experience recently when my phone broke and many services wouldn't work on my older phone, or older iPad, even in the browser. The worst offender was HBO Max which also flat out refuses to run on linux. I had to cancel it because I'm not going to buy a streaming service to exclusively use on my work laptop.

Does anyone remember when we made websites with the goal of as many people using them as possible? streaming video has been mainstream for over a decade, yet everyone still fucks it up.
I am not sure if I have the correct understanding, so correct me if i am wrong.

Ketosis is not some magical mind state.

When all glucose and glycogen reserves are exhausted, body will start producing energy by burning fat reserves. To do so it needs to produce ketones. When low or glucose body will gradually start switching to ketosis to supplement energy needs and eventually fully switching to ketosis and only way of producing energy.

When glucose is available it will be used as primary 'fuel' source again.

That is a reason why after fasting its important to ease in the cards and sugars.
How are those connected in a way?

Should you not prosecute murderers because birth rates are down?
Millions of developers, millions of apps used by billions of people. It's quite a challenge to have it perfectly run. Mistakes are unavoidable.
I always had issues with gastroscopy (I guess mostly panic and uncontrollable reflexes), but recently I discovered that there’s an option to do it through nose instead of mouth (of course, with a thinner tube) — highly recommend it for people like me!
I know everyone joked a few years ago when they removed "don't be evil" as their tagline and from their employees CoC, but it really does make me wonder.
Remember a few years ago, Microsoft was running its failing Scroogle campaign and I (under a different nick) and others were defending Google.

Fast forward to today and Google has managed to do to itself all that the Scroogle campaign could realistically have hoped to achieve and then some:

- techies like me go out of our way to avoid them. I just spoke to a friend of mine during lunch and told him to think twice before using Gmail as a single misplaced comment on the Internet can get you locked out with no recourse except hoping for friends on social media if you are so lucky.

- People are still making Chrome-applications just like they made IE6 applications but we are turning the tide now it seems and I see a growing trend that loathes the Chrome-only trend.

- Regulators are circling in the air above.

- etc.
I seem to remember that the Norse also had a few of those over land trackways on their "Traderoute from the Varangians to the Greeks" across the Russian river network to get from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
True, I didn't consider aneutronic fusion reactions. I don't think the sources I'm thinking of do, either.
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You can't self host Lbry right?
People loved Chrome when it was released.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292980

Slowly after they gained monopoly and became sure that they are going to exist in browser-space , they now don't care about these tracking bits present in the browser.
Yep this is exactly what happened to my dad. He had bloody stools, told no one but his 80-year old doctor who said “relax it’s just hemorrhoids” without verifying his claim. This went on for years until he was diagnosed with Stage IV and died five years later at 51. Just one colonoscopy even a year sooner may have saved his life.