skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If being seen in a lower caste is bad for you, why don't everyone wear it?
Have we looked into whether intermittent fasting prevents Alzheimer’s?
Not to be crass but I think just throwing a book out doesn't help to give evidence-- I think they are looking for specific examples.
I’d love to see a thorough analysis on the technological externalities of the Cold War. How many decades would we be set back technologically if it never happened? I’d say at least 20 years.
Validating DKIM signature of Hunter Biden email
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Yeah, he mentioned in the video that he tried to fundraise the $50k for comcast and the neighbors didn't go for it. But then he managed to get some support from the local township... I'm a bit surprised they couldn't get the Comcast blood money by going to the township.

Taxes! They build stuff!
John Oliver claims (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVIXUhZ2AWs#t=12m10s 12m10s) that India has (at least some) public school textbooks that explain that Africans are god's burnt toast, and Caucasians are underdone, and Indians are the proper color. I found that suspicious. Have you heard about that? Is the translation accurate?
Today's sarcasm is tomorrow's business model.

Actually for a number of years there have been companies that disable car ignitions based on car payment status.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/remote-kill-switches-di...
Blockchain’s Occam Problem – McKinsey
>> We could change the law

I think the law will only change for worse. It all starts with the DRM/DMCA.
I'd vager Wordpress? Maybe Laravel? So not that different from choosing i.e. Ruby to do your business-focused monolith and get payed :)
The title for a news site and the title for a scientific journal needn't be the same. The title here should absolutely reflect the fact that the study was in mice.
I've watched thousands of hours of Americans television over the past 45 years, read a lot of their authors, especially underground and subcultures like comics, I've heard a lot of their music, immersed in a lot of their culture, have many friends who are Americans, I lived there for a few years, but I still think that fully integrating with US culture is a big mistake, because it's simply not relevant enough to give up other cultures.

The more you watch it, the more it's people shooting each other over a bar fight or people killing themselves to get a promotion at work or competing in general over things that have no real connection with happiness.

That's why many don't care about it and spend their time with people more like them that share a common background.

Understanding each other is more important that following every single rule to "integrate" in a culture that have basically no historical background other than avoiding taxes in their homeland.

Mexicans, on the other hand, have been there for millennia.
Switch when you eat. So 8am to 2pm or 4pm eating time.
How the world turns! 100 years ago, an Irish last name in America would relegate you to menial labor with no hope of advancement. Being Catholic (at least in the Sourther USA) would land you with a cross burning in your yard at night.
This comment reflects a pretentious disdain that is exactly what I dislike. I have worked menial and frustrating jobs, and you learn a lot by working through tough situations. I’ve also absorbed similar lessons from sailing offshore in difficult conditions.
Also, unfamiliar with PHP, but a few years ago I somehow ended up maintaining/managing one or two reasonably trafficked Wordpress sites that some (untechnical) friends put together, so every now again I get to learn how weird some shit in PHP is. And it’s that time again, because the comment about name conflicts was confusing as I could’ve sworn that during couple times I’ve had to actually poke around PHP code I saw it had namespaces. After some quick googling though, I was able to confirm a) PHP has “namespaces” and b) they seem to work like most other “features” (i.e. not like you’d expect if you’ve programmed in anything but PHP) [1].

However, C has the a similar convention [2] (though the convention is — as far as I’m aware — for the sake of maintainability/readability as the compiler has no problem telling the difference between to things named the same, the person reading it probably will. While, as I understand it, PHP will just overwrite anything with the same name in the file/lib you include).

It seems like PHP is heading in the right direction, but I have no idea why anyone would pick it up or start anything new with it these days, I don’t care how well done and the nice and new stuff is, it’s the decade of utter mess it’s built on top of that has uninterested me. Don’t get me wrong, since “acquiring” the Wordpress sites I’ve gone from a blind PHP hater, to at least understanding/appreciating it (but still won’t actually touch it with a 10ft pole). PHP is brain dead easy to deploy and scale up, compared to ruby/python/node (which aren’t _that_ difficult to deploy), PHP is basically the web equivalent of a static binary, in that you can just drop in and it’s basically ready to go. PHP also actually really fast, it’s seriously impressive how fast it can render WP pages especially when you consider the absolute spaghetti/thrown together/clusterfuck code it’s running — Wordpress itself is pretty yikes from the code I’ve seen, but the plugins, Christ, the 50 million sloppy buggy poorly coded plugins — PHP can absolutely run laps around other a decently coded site in other languages (at the cost of having to use PHP I guess ).

[1] https://kornel.ski/en/phpns

[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/404613
Are you yourself higher caste? Being a member of the group that isn't discriminated against frequently makes it harder to see the discrimination. My wife is Indian-American, and her parents are a mixed-caste marriage; I've seen caste bias between her own relatives, even though they're all in the US and have been since the 1970s.
I’m curious whether there’s data showing the age breakdown of the perpetrators and victims in these cases and whether the rise of Hindu nationalism contributed to an increase.
Did you notice any benefits of autophagy?

I’ve always been curious if a long fast would clear up random stuff like knee pain (or even gum disease)
> South India has a very strong "Brahmin" influence ..
Oh dear! That notorious Tambram superiority shit. I agree it is still largely at play. However, considering how it is played in the North of India, South is light years better.
Others don't so much eliminate this restriction as they shift the problem to creating so much transaction history that it becomes impractical to run a node that fully verifies said history. In other words, they're significantly less decentralized.
Im not sure, if what the research here observed is real, stand-alone "neuro" genesis.

Several animal species, in times of hardship (like migration) reform their brains, by forgetting unimportant memories or reduce brain area dedicated to now unimportant skills. Quite similar to a stroke victim, that relearns speech, by "re-purposing" a different brain area.

Fasting indicates a food scarce environment, so the brain might do the same thing every body does - and reduce calorie consumption in all areas, including the brain. So the "reconnection" might just be a side-effect of the "down-sizing".
Wow, thank you! I wish this data was in the article.
What would be the consequences for, say, a dalit who role played as a Brahmin? Tell everyone his last name is X, wear the white string things, etc?
I had the same thought, but I think it still counts as asymptomatic. Symptomatic and detectable are two different things.

For example, it's possible to have early stage breast cancer or colon cancer but have no symptoms (yet). Which is why they do screenings to catch these early.
It must be the environmentalists! You must have heard that the US, the UK, and France has been run by environmentalists for the last 40 years!! /s
“Intermittent” fasting in this context (mice) is more akin to prolonged fasting is humans
That's like saying foreigners can't judge chattel slavery.
All the cool people are in Hell. Only go to Heaven for the climate.
This article is from february.
That’s what I did for a long time. But somehow it didn’t feel right. I then switched to 4pm to 8am. Works way better for me now
Correcting myself: I was thinking specifically of intel vroc, which is actually more an enterprise thing.
“The only way to push past those local optima is by acquiring large amount of real world automated driving data, using systems in production”

That, I don’t see ever being true. What would you get from that that you couldn’t get from “large amount of real world human driving data, using systems in production”?
They still are. My project is mostly Java and the scala part takes up most of the compilation. It might just be because javac isn't an optimizing compiler so it's fast (I'm not sure about scalac).
I avoid including anything less tha 20 years old in my stack, so it,s an advantage for me.
So, nuclear plants are economical if and only if you happen to need some nuclear weapons? Isn't it?
You are not alone. I've tried several times to use dark themes and dark modes. I just can't do it, I feel less productive because I'm hunting for UI elements to click in programs more often, and the lower contrast between text and background makes everything just that much harder to read for me.
I missed that on the first watch but you're right, the driver engages the self-driving mode in front of the train barrier and it immediately accelerates towards it.

This system is really bad.
That’s certainly an idea. The nice thing now is that it’s effortless.

I don’t feel like eating after dinner and I don’t feel hungry in the morning.

You’d think there would be something calorie free to make coffee taste good.
lol, exactly same diet with the same coffee problem here. I'm constantly told that "coffee is fine" whenever I ask. But milk is still food and not a "drink" so switching to black would be the only acceptable solution. sigh.
Is this a breaking change or backwards compatible?
I couldn't agree more. A personal anecdote; I used to think about what would be my legacy as software developer? Anything that I write would be obsolete in few years. Nothing I wrote back then remained working. This thought was depressing me.

Then I realized that what I'm actually creating and maintaining is not code. It's the mindset behind the code, and the skillset to convert ideas to working pieces of software. My legacy would be to learn through experimenting, and to help others learn the same.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201031141621/thecodeangle.com/...

Use archive.org.

Google Cache loads pictures and scripts from the website itself. So when the website is down it won't look good.
Science is just a tool. It's humans who choose to use it for good or ill.
Someone from lower caste might be more qualified to speak to personal experiences of discrimination, but everyone can synthesize the anecdotes and data for themselves.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201031141621/thecodeangle.com/...
Debatable, latency matters. It’s possible that Rust or a well-tuned JVM could be an alternative, but C++ is a sure thing and schedule matters too.
A few more locales:

France: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Germany: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

United Kingdom: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Spain: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

India: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Australia: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Mexico: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Argentina: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Brazil: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

(queries translated with Google Translate)
Hey, it's Jared! I used to work with him at Akamai -- great guy. Definitely the kind of guy who would do something like this.

I wonder if the utilization/customer is in part because of people's habits still being leftover from the WISP days. My ISP gives me ~950Mbit/s, and it's not unusual for my house to be using 70% of that with all the video streaming going on, especially in 2020. A couple of customers like me, your bandwidth rates are gonna start hurting really bad.

Also, it looks like he's running the fibers directly to the house in a point-to-point arrangement? Or are there passive splitters along the way somewhere?
> it’s inhuman to force someone to change their name

I have very complicated feeling about black parents in the US giving their kids "black" names. On one hand, they're expressing themselves and honoring their culture. On the other, if society in 2040 looks anything like society in 2020, they're hurting their kid's future.
So early dinner? And then a big breakfast?

It’s hard with a family though if they’re on different schedules.
It doesn't work well through competition as it is a feature that is not relevant at the time of purchase. We have seen this already in other markets, from ink cartridge to planned obsolescence.
I thought Microsoft invented xhtml no-refresh tech just for web outlook no?
Bad compared to what at the time?

What other tech compared to PHP at the time?
Good Point. But it was purchased with a debit card. Good reason to always use the Credit Card.
More charitably, you could read that as "doesn't widely exist", which would track with my experience working with dozens of Indian developers over the last couple decades.

I think OP was being curmudgeonly because they saw this as people trying to drag Indians into the existing culture war stuff as a pawn, after basically pretending they don't exist for decades while getting all sorts of mad on behalf of different minorities.
If they'd work decently - ask people who have them, i "know" at least two on a 3d printing discord and what they have is basically a pretty expensive paperweight...

I once saw some video about the buffer and the way it is flawed - also don't expect any print speed if you're using it :S
There's a legal requirement for data portability. That's a different thing.
Is it market efficiency or is it cheap energy?
The First Africa Drone Passenger Aircraft Built in Kenya
Worth noting for those people, their credit risk is so high the alternative is no loan and no car. It's not just lenders being jerks.
Evolving pg_cron together: Postgres 13, audit log, background workers, job names
It’s different when you’re talking about a group (Indians) the broader public might not have much exposure to or understand very well to begin with.
> The point is that nuclear is the only known geographically independent way of generating carbon free energy that isn't subject to intermittency.

For one, it needs a cool river with lots of water available for cooling. Which with climate change is, even in the UK, becoming less ubiquitous than it was so far.
You can't say that an obvious outlier ("You want to marry someone from Missouri?!? You're out of the will!") is the "same thing" as widespread pseudo-racist, quasi-religious nonsense like the Indian caste system.
It makes sense that food deprivation stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis, because in the absence of food, a mammal has to go to new locations to find new food sources. That requires navigation and memory mapping, both of which are core functions of the hippocampus.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00005.20...
> Your last name is your identity and heritage. You are advocating for cultural genocide and trust me I know what comes after that.

It's okay if you want to speak for yourself, but if you want to apply such a statement globally then I think that's a little ethnocentric. The whole idea of last names and who has to take whose in marriage is steeped in a lot of history that plenty of folks had issue with even back then not to mention today.

Your identity and heritage is more than your name, and your identity is more than your heritage. By advocating for keeping last names for all societies, you may be unintentionally advocating for keeping an oppressive caste stratified authoritarian regime going which has been alive for over three thousand years which affects others even if it doesn't affect you personally. Is that really what you want to do? Why not accept that the cultural utilization of last names varies from society to society?
If all the lower castes do it and all the people from higher castes keep the signifying surnames, what does that change?
Perhaps a silly question - but what is considered a black name? I could not tell you if the resumes that end up at my stage are filtered or not.
I am not really sure what you’re asking. You could get a Xilinx RFSoC, but the development board is like $10,000.

If you’re just wanting to learn and experiment, like myself, then Digilent makes a lot of nicely packaged boards. The Nexys A7 is a capable board.
Likewise; it's particularly bad when I view a light on dark website, I often have to use reader mode or invert the screen colors.
Yep. It's all based on the current people or group of people in power. It seems that if you want to be CEO at my company, you must be a male of Irish decent (all the CEOs of the past 30-40 years have been, maybe even for the complete history of the company and I know who the next one is planned/rumored to be and he fits that too). I'm sure there are still areas or companies that do discriminate the other direction too.
They had pretty serious land reform, too. Meaning that large estates were confiscated and given to the people working them. Doesn't always work out, but seems to have been an important part of what other success stories like Japan/Korea also did.
I made a Google Search API (https://rapidapi.com/apigeek/api/google-search3) which I launched at the start of 2020 and made over $6k+ so far. It cost me less than $100/month to run. All I have to do is answer support questions here and there.

I am currently trying to build a standalone website (https://goog.io) and moving the service away from RapidAPI.
... and certainly not for pleasure.
One does achieve "none", tis marketing hype and wasteful. For instance, if you eat or drink any fermented foods, you are regularly consuming organic solvents. Undistilled alcoholic beverages contain quite a few interesting organic solvents that contribute to flavor (and hangovers).
Isn't it though? All kneel before consumerism, the one true God.
I was also wondering about the swimming pool! Is it meant to be one of those stationary lap pools or more of a lounging pool? Looked pretty small (although everything is on a submarine).
I don't understand why everyone doesn't apply basic caching headers and a free CDN to their site. :)

Thanks for the mirror!
Who else believes this valid/legit email is being used to sell a boat load of other unvalidated crap?

Also, not sure it's a good HN post.
Good work. Ridiculous that the NY Post and Fox weren't able to do this themselves. But glad the matter is settled.
If you decide to experiment, add a b-12 supplement. B-12 deficiency will have the opposite effect (as in, you could damage your memory).

Seen it happen, it's real not pretty.
Odd question, how much air were these things leaking? I know there were containers with pressurized air (not only to refill chambers after torpedo was launched or cleared..). But I wonder how air tight submarines actually are.
Rwanda wasn't a British colony. You are maybe thinking of Uganda.
PHP isn’t exactly an elegant language, and I would argue that you need to be an pretty good developer to write safe PHP code. Still PHP is easy to get startet with, well documented, productive and impressively fast for a “bad” language.

If you know what you’re doing I don’t see any reason to not pick PHP.
Europeans Bought More Electrified Vehicles Than Diesels in September
Interesting and lines up with other brain development factors found in human fasting (https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2014-0290).

I often read these threads about fasting/intermittent fasting on HN and see a lot of nitpicking about flaws in the study.

Given that almost all studies tend to fall between "no effect" or "clear positive effect" of fasting on health, do we have enough evidence to say "fasting is good for your health?" I still believe there's value in further research to nail down exactly how and how much, but curious if we can make the overall statement confidently.
> I think there are good reasons to be bullish about battery storage.

I only need to look at how long my laptop lasts compared to 15 years ago.
I assume your Must functions panic. Is panic-ing in a handler considered okay? I was under the impression that using panics as exceptions in this way was un-idiomatic and thus frowned upon.

If it’s the common practice then I’ll happily jump on board, I miss exceptions. I’m just curious because I’m starting to do more web stuff with Go and had been treating handler recovery as something I should endeavor to never touch, as a final guardrail to keep a server process from exiting.
Here's a nice picture comparing their sizes: https://inteng-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/images/import/2017/0...

Source: https://interestingengineering.com/uncovering-i-400-japanese...
Audio DACs are actually a lot more complicated than you might think. Human hearing is very sensitive to non-linearity and noise, especially certain kinds of noise. In terms of raw performance, the linearity and noise requirements were definitely the most demanding as far as state of the art when I was doing research. They're certainly still tougher than anything in the RF space (specifically cellular, bluetooth, and wlan). Also, because most of them use delta-sigma modulators, the jitter requirement was also very stringent, though high-performance digital and RF may at this point need lower jitter than audio.

Unfortunately a lot of the advancement, especially in the high end space, is proprietary. I read a somewhat vague article about some of the more recent innovations, and one that stood out was the need to set the Initial Condition of the Delta Sigma Modulator in a specific way. Delta Sigma quantization noise is notoriously poorly behaved, and because of its periodicity, it was actually perceptible even at its lower levels.

I would agree that audio DACs are indeed a "solved" problem, but at this point so is pretty much everything in integrated circuit design. Most advances in design are very incremental. The need for innovation comes from the continued push to reduce power and cost. Eventually you have to change process node - smaller transistors means a smaller die and lower cost, and also lower power for many circuits. That tends to be very challenging for a lot of mixed-signal circuits because the smaller transistors are worse in analog domains. You end up having to play a lot of tricks to make things work, but its pretty well understood and nothing revolutionary.
uhh lol, just because you own an iPhone doesn't mean you get all the features like Apple Music, etc.

I can think of a ton of examples where what you're saying is nonsensical.
Except I don't need an application in 2020 hardware to replicate my Emacs experience in 1995 hardware, with hardly any improvement worth mentioning.