skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Don't start with longer than 2-3 days fasts

Oh, absolutely right. If you have never missed a meal in your life and you plan to start multi-week fast you are in for a rude awakening.

As with any other change for your organism, you are best doing it slowly and letting your body adapt.

The metabolic pathways needed for operation while fasting are different from the ones you train on 3 meals a day. You need to let them develop a little bit before you go for a long fast.

It would be like trying to run a marathon without any training.
> it's morally fraudulent even if legally allowed

Can you detail the immorality?

> To close the loophole, putting private shares into a Roth IRA should be banned because they have no true market price that indicates their worth.

Why should they be banned? Everything has a price. IIRC, in a self-directed IRA you can put anything... paintings, gold, collectibles, houses. Why not random shares?

I see a huge problem here. Roth IRAs were made with certain guarantees. That some people would make outsized returns in a country of almost 400 million should be expected. Why do we find it necessary to then go and 'get our fair share'? Didn't we already set the rules? Why must we now change them since some guy got lucky?

Ideally, we should just say 'good job Mr Thiel', you held up your end of the bargain and we'll hold up ours. The deal was already struck. This is why no one trusts the American government.

Also, I'd point out that the roth IRA mentioned here is only nominally worth $5b. If he were to sell all the shares there would likely be a huge drop in price. Either way, what goes unmentioned is that the $5b wouldn't be taxed anyway if it was all in unrealized capital gains.
I don't like that they make it mandatory, but I understand why they want to push users to using MS accounts. When I set up a PC (Android phone) for non-technical users I always make sure they have a MS (Google) account.

Things like backup and password reset are just so convenient that they outweigh the very theoretical privacy risk for most people.
Maybe not for everybody
From the MS website
Minimum system requirements:
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0
What I don't understand about this whole maneuver is that Roth transactions must be made at arms length; ie, "Transactions must be made at arm’s length and not involve the IRA owner or a member of his or her family."

An example of this is that if you use a Roth to invest in property, you are not allowed to use it personally, not allowed to manage it or do maintenance yourself, etc.

Prohibited transactions risk tainting (and thus exposing) the entire account.

How is Thiel investing in his own company not considered a prohibited investment?
So, almost all the new “features” are about forcing Microsoft services onto users, really cool.
There is a secondary benefit in that it influenced people like me to save, invest, and work very very hard to get that status. I invested in one YC startup after achieving it and that felt like a major personal win.

However, the financial goal posts were set 20+ years ago should have been periodically updated for inflation.
Well, they did try to merge the web browser with the desktop (and, I as far as I remember, got sued for that).
Probably more a return to form than anything. I seem to recall reading a book about the early (v 1.0 - 3.11) history of Windows where a developer recounted Bill Gates looking at early builds and asking if they could make it look more like Mac. Wish I could remember the title because that's going to gnaw at me for the rest of the day.
You'd probably have to wait days/weeks just to be sure. Otherwise the UI can "pretend" to have a dead battery.
But for the Senate the size discrepancy is at the state level not within state races. A senator from Connecticut has less constituents than Texas but still has to win a pure majority in Connecticut.

In any case I think you'll agree this is now a much narrower point about Sinclair than ppl like Oliver intended to make.

(Got my account rate limited cuz too many fellow liberals downvoted me w/o comment. Seems like HN might not be a good place for reasonable discussion on controversial topics.)
The bad effects of advertising are well known. I personally don't think this is too big of a price to pay.
The way the algorithms and the current approach work, there is really no way to participate on a platform and not get slowly pulled into the extreme machine one way or the other. It's not just politics, the algorithms are geared towards driving you more and more into that world and maximize your attention. I wish there is a mellow mode where the platform just shows you everything. I like reddit for that reason, I can control what aspects I want to get into and block everything out. I don't think FB has an incentive to fix their stuff. They also have fully gone on to the "lets cover up things and spend on lobbyists and PR" mode, nothing is going to change.
Yep, "magic corners" are considered infinite size in terms of Fitts's law, though with larger and larger screens it still takes time to get there.
1) It's Richard Ebright who has been quoted in numerous articles. He isn't some "rando on twitter." You didn't read his sub-tweets.

2) You only read the title of the article I linked that was in sub-tweets. See the following tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14052391926286...

> The construction of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and lab animals at WIV (1) was published with acknowledgment to NIH grant AI110964 (https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...) and (2) was reported to NIH under NIH grant AI110964 (https://reporter.nih.gov/search/0dVX_GElSEGDOsNMZq7qaQ/proje...)

So, yes, gain of function research was happening at WIV.
Related, a recent study just discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27599085
This is the third time you've posted this. Please stop.
One would have to be incredibly naive to fall for that.

They're just going to bring that fee back later when/if people actually start using their store. Windows has a lot of problems, but as of yet the world has been fortunate enough to avoid it becoming another walled garden.

Actually using their store, either as a developer or consumer, is a sure-fire way to fuck that up for everyone.
I'm speaking specifically of initial releases. I recall working on a Vista SP2 machine that I honestly thought was Windows 7 until I looked closer. And 8.1 wasn't too bad. But Vista at release was just awful. It created as many problems as it solved, as did 8.
In my experience, 90% of ot systems have no security and are easily vulnerable it's no wonder that these incidents keep happening
UUCP
Isn't it also opening each file, to extract text, EXIF data, etc?
> Windows is more than justn operating system

So we decided to make meaningless and confusing UI changes! Nevermind that billions of people rely on their knowledge of this OS's interface, fuck 'em! We're just so damn innovative all the time!
Looks like I still would need to change hosts to use that.
too early to tell
Author here - you may enjoy another post of mine that mentions this - https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-3-mis... and https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-i-law...
In my one week PTO right now and made tremendous progress on personal projects, 100% relate to what you said! Job is just for financial support unless you have a team and goal you truely love. Currently looking for jobs that's chill but sustainable, or quick way to get a lot of money so I can stop worry about money for life and start making cool stuff!
Not you, re not alone, and some of them (like no local accounts) seem like a step backward.
I don't see ads either. I run Windows everywhere: Home, office, laptop.

Are they complaining about a few demo games pre-installed? I don't get it.
Byte Code and VMs are are older than just 90's tech but okay. I still honestly prefer native code, but it does not work well for non-open source software unless the developer also compiles for other systems. Also windows is really the only major non-*nix OS these days. Although apples GUI software stack is still a pain port for when porting.
This could be a deal breaker
Minimum system requirements:
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/ex-nevada-guardia...

There's a previous discussion on HN with suggestions on protecting yourself and loved ones from predatory guardians.
There is a game in here, somewhere, somehow.
You must have looked into LetsEncrypt. I’m not aware that there is any serious problem with acceptance of their certificates, is there?
You are underestimating how painful and denigrating sex work is for women, especially in the lower price segments, even without abuse, which is widespread.

To believe this is a voluntary choice of work, you need to assume these women have no other options. Which is ridiculous, as both Sweden and Germany have a social welfare system that values dignity. No, you don't have to hurt yourself just to get fed.

If a john visits a prostitute, and there is a chance that prostitute has been forced, at what level of chance does he become a rapist and at what level should he not be criminally liable? 90%? 50%? 1%? Point is: Neither the john nor the police can meaningfully tell the difference, and even a significant amount of forced sex labor is worse than prohibiting all prostitution.
I have found many people (though not most) can be fine and pleasant even when you directly challenge their ideologies. But that is only assuming you do so in a respectful manner. In fact most of my best friends have different stances and we often regularly challenge them in discussion.

What I have noticed in recent years is that people increasingly have little respect for those they disagree with and it’s largely on the basis of that disagreement.
Meritless cases don't even make it that far (the court refuses to hear the case), so while true this seems like an unnecessary quibble. Yes, the suit had enough to actually be heard by a court, but the reason for the judgement is due to McAfee's refusal to even participate. Said another way: if McAfee had participated, this is not the judgement that would've been reached. McAfee may have still be found responsible by the court, but not for the same reason.

It is certainly not the normal level of proof people take a court decision as being.
Thanks for that. It really comes down to the target audience. We have a lot API builder like platforms. In fact this is what Micro was before (https://m3o.dev) but it turns out that's not really what a lot of people want. Those who want to build APIs already know how and tend to pick a cloud of choice to do it on. Otherwise it's really down to reusability of building block APIs we all tend to continually build. What GitHub did for source code we want to do for APIs.
> That is, ambivalence motivates attitude-consistent exposure when issue knowledge is relatively low because less familiar information is perceived to be effective at reducing ambivalence. Conversely, when knowledge is relatively high, more unambivalent (univalent) attitudes predicted attitude-consistent information seeking.

In non-technical jargon, they are essentially saying that when you don’t know anything about a topic and you also don’t care about that topic, you aren’t likely to care where your new information comes from. But on the flip side, when you do know about the topic and care about the topic, you are more likely to care about where your new information comes from.

edit: this is highly relevant psychology research for people interested in understanding why disinformation spreads so virally.
I'm torn: on the one hand I'd rather not be spied on on every damn web page I visit. On the other hand, my experience with Instagram's ads was downright positive, which was very unexpected. They showed me cool stuff that I didn't even know existed, and that I'd actually like to buy.

So it seems like we should either have no surveillance, or the absolute maximum -- most ads are still in that gross uncanny valley.
> maybe there's some technical reason

Native code is opaque to the JIT, which means no inlining through native code (inlining being the driver for lots of optimisations) and no specialisation. This means if you have a JIT native code is fine for "leaf" functions but not great for intermediate ones, as it hampers everything.

When ES6 compatibility was first released, the built-in array methods were orders of magnitude slower than hand-rolling pure JS versions.

This issue is one of the things Graal/Truffle attempts to fix, by moving the native code inside the JIT.
I'll half-agree and half-disagree with other comments, I think.

First, I think this is a clever way to wrap API requests in what strikes me as the modern PHP style, which these days seem to largely driven by the de facto standards of PHP-FIG in general and Laravel and Symfony in particular. Use a CLI tool to generate a class that extends your base class and adds configuration, extend that class to build new more granular methods, maybe make a static facade to call everything. This is just super Laravel-ish and absolutely what I expect from modern PHP apps in 2021.

Second, it is overengineered, because that is what modern PHP apps do. Spend a bit of time tracing just how much goes into encapsulating a PSR-7-compliant request, and think about how often code that's using those requests literally doesn't need anything more than the $REQUEST superglobal. (Gasp! They said "global!" Think of the children!) It's great to have standards for packages, but it seems like I'm spending way, way more time -- and occasionally writing more actual code -- figuring out how to do things The Right Way (tm).

In the argument for Laravel Transporter, Mr. McDougall shows a bit of pretty clear code and then says, "But, this is very procedural." I mean, yes? It's kind of a procedure? "What happens if the URL changes? What happens if the query parameters change?" If I was insistent on wrapping this up in a class, I'd probably just write an API class that you call with something like

$api = new FooApi();
$todo = $api->getCompletedTodos();
// or if I am feeling all static
$todo = Api::getCompletedTodos();

and if the URL changes or the query parameters change, I still basically only have one place to change it.

I'm not saying I pine for the days of 100% Procedural All Pasta All The Time. I'm just wondering whether maybe PHP developers should spend some more time with languages that not only aren't PHP, but aren't Java, then come back to PHP -- and start questioning the orthodoxy a little.
The Thiel Fellowship allowed Vitalik to drop out of school and work full time on ETH. And that's just one of the recipients.
Good! Consumer choice in action, Invisible Hand of the Marketplace would help weed out the weak or harmful businesses. Ad supported web sites can be really harmful. Direct, monetary feedback would allow us to have more say in things.
Thats where I got the inspiration from for thinking about a lot of accounting differently. Financial engineering that people seem to neglect or be to scared of considering.

With him sometimes Bain Capital made separate share classes, and I think they would give massive dividends periodically to the separate share class that only the 401k investors at Bain Capital would receive. I think its a really great strategy!

Buffett should be doing that in Berkshire Hathaway for their employees instead of being sad about how much tax his secretary pays
Do you have any info on where to take this class?
I'd recommend prioritizing impact over "duties, interesting projects", especially quantatative impact e.g. "built widget that increased x by y%"

I'd also always include months
Looks like there isn't since 2018.. somehow last time I looked into it there still was. Now I only have to change hosts..
Your comment contradicts your previous comment.

> There's no indication WIV was doing any gain of function research.
They're not squirreling away $5B in a Roth IRA, they're squirreling away $2000 and putting it in an asset whose value grows from $2000 -> $5B. In theory someone who put Dogecoin in their Roth IRA in 2014 could do the same.

It would make sense to limit Roth IRAs to publicly-traded assets. If you're investing in securities that you need to be an "accredited investor" for (> $1M liquid net worth), that's not really a tool for the middle class.
I still use my OnePlus 3 and its great! The battery capacity has degraded significantly (which isn't such a big deal during lockdown) but because most Apps stay in memory with its 6GB of RAM I hardly have issues with performance (to be fair I'm not really a phone power user)

For the most time I was so happy with this phone, that I was sure my next one would be a OnePlus again. But following the reviews of new OnePlus phones closely: They're really quite expensive now, Oxygen is deviating more and more from vanilla android and personally I'm not a big fan of some software and hardware design choices.

Eventually I'll need a new phone and OnePlus is still in the race, but by a significantly smaller margin than maybe two or three years ago.
Not exactly real time (as in proven bounded response time), but a noteworthy effort: https://franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/jlugm00/conf...
only the most psychopathic individuals say "oopsie daisy" after causing accidental death.

for everyone else the result is usually a lot of sobbing.

that doesn't mean they're not blase about taking risks ahead of time. but that's more because they misevaluate the risk, and can't clearly imagine the negative outcomes.
I had assumed/hoped that the next version of windows would be built atop Linux.
cynical take:

here is the opinion of one singular hiring manager. do things this way because this person likes things that way. however out in the wild you have zero insight on the preferences of every n=1 situation. despite this huge asymmetry you should spend a bunch of time trying to impress n=1. and even then, after all of this, you're still one out of roughly 1,000. good luck.
> retail executives, police officers and city officials have attributed the surge to Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent larceny as a misdemeanor

Your sources don't even support your opinion/narrative? If anything, I'm afraid your claim to the high ground has worsened.
Hey we don't yet have one to publicly share but will happily put one up if more people are interested with potentially user ranked priority so we get to the most requested ones first.
Korean hangover soup is where it's at! Nothing beats a hearty stew for me.
Evasive Maneuvers – IcedID Campaign Aims for Stealth with Benign Macros
This, again, is like the local phone company being forced to block your ability to call people because of an assertion that the person being blocked has infringed on their copyright. It's clear that the phone company has nothing to do with the situation and it's a massive legal overreach to compel them to get involved.

But media megacorps have never cared about logic or sanity. They make their own reality with their piles of money and lawyers.
I dunno. That sort of thing is exactly my job, except the remote devices are still on earth somewheres. What you'd see is me sitting in a library drinking coffee and looking at source code and schematics until I had an answer that matched the evidence.

Satisfying, but not exactly must watch tv.
I've been watching drive prices, it's hard to say exactly why, but around mid April disk prices at Newegg and amazon jumped significantly. One drive that had been $300, jumped to $400, $500, and even spiked to $800 for a bit. By Jun 1st had dropped to $550, and only this week has dropped for $400. Still above the original $300, but at least a not terribly painful premium.
If you ever worked on a busy mainframe your compile jobs could easily be queued for 20-30 minutes. Made you much more careful to check for typos and do test runs of the code "in your head" before submitting.
Did CISA publish this report because of the colonial pipeline attack?
There is a developer-focused event soon. But I wouldn't expect significant changes. Probably more focus on Teams and Store apps.

At noon PDT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=egZ82QGshX8

Possible content: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/24/what-w...
Well, with the pandemic and general shift to learn-from-home and work-from-home, I would say that they are not wrong.
Am I the only one who likes the padded, easy-to-read UI but just wishes MS would actually implement it across the OS? I don't want MacOS infinitesimal icons nor windows xp aesthetics. I like what they're doing, there is just a lot of variance left which is where e.g. apple does a good job.
What did that comment actually bring to the conversation?
A politician should also have a certain basic knowledge of physics.
The question is on the same level as whether one could not set PI at 3 in order to be able to calculate with it more easily.
It wouldn't be quite as bad if the owner actually chose the advertisements shown, suitable for the article or service shown (like they do in a newspaper or magazine).

The owner might get subtle ads for tailored shirts, while I get animated punch-the-monkey¹ or some dumb freemium game.

1: Not sure if these are actually still around. I usually don't last five seconds before installing an ad-blocker.
>> app developers can now bring their own commerce into our Store and keep 100% of the revenue – Microsoft takes nothing. App developers can still use our commerce with competitive revenue share of 85/15

> This is great. That's how it s done

It can't go on, though. Why won't every developer turn their app "free" and use Stripe or something to shave even more off the commerce fees? Meanwhile Microsoft eats hosting/maintenance/development on the store for zero return. We saw why Apple went the IAP route even if it's unpopular among developers and the fees could afford to be reduced.
> unsolicited advertising

The issue you'll run into with this is that retrieving content that is accompanied by advertising is not a passive activity. You've solicited it.

You could make some interesting arguments along these lines, for example against the concept of highway billboards perhaps, or similar. But the word unsolicited is doing a lot of work here that I don't think applies.
Caving in to Sony’s lawyers again. DNS resolution is not copyright infringement and someone needs to put Sony/BMG in their place and make them go after those who are actually infringing instead of those who are providing internet backbone services.
Does anyone know whether this kind of tax planning is available to today's startup investors? Are there any administrators which support this kind of illiquid investment?
This is also fascinating. Thank you! :)
Control panel allowed for third-party add-ins. settings doesn't. Until CPLs are migrated, Control Panel stays
That's not a fair comparison. Hacker News isn't making user based recommendations based on the content of the article or user preferences, Facebook is.

FB's recommendation algorithm is tuned to promote (by their own admittance), divisive content because it promotes engagement. AND it's tuned based on specific user data.

HN doesn't recommend specific content to specific users. It's based on site-wide upvotes, downvotes, and flagging, and doesn't take the actual content of the links in to account at all.

I'm not saying you can legislate the difference and stop FB while keeping a free internet. But HN and FB are not remotely doing the same thing and is not an argument why it's fine for FB to continue doing what they're doing.