skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a didactic perspective, I think he goes off the rails by immediately focusing on something as abstract and hard to measure as intelligence, and where there's a long history of people talking about whether it's even a single trait. In terms of just explaining the breeder's equation, I think he could have been more effective talking about, IDK, tall Dutch people.

The other thing that's annoying here is that although this is an 'equation', as I understand it it's typically not predictive because that heritability term is so fuzzy. It's not that you know the heritability term in advance and predict the response to selection; measuring the response to selection also updates your information about the heritability.

His examples have a cherry-picking feel for this reason. Take the "national merit finalists" thing he mentions multiple times. Note that he doesn't mention the IQ distribution of the college professors (surely it's logistically impractical to get any large number of busy faculty to spend time taking such tests) or of the college towns (which might not be the same as the overall population mean), or the degree to which being a professor is correlated with IQ or the degree to which being a national merit finalists is correlated to IQ. Had the data come out differently (and I suspect he mentions _finalist_ multiple times because there wasn't as distinct a signal among _winners_), this perspective leaves plenty of room to declare that (a) maybe heritability of intelligence is lower than initially thought or assortative mating along IQ lines is weaker than expected (b) maybe professor-ness is less correlated to IQ than assumed or (c) maybe national merit finalist status isn't especially correlated to IQ (semifinalists have to submit a bunch of info other than test results).
Why wouldn't you use tarsnap instead?

https://www.tarsnap.com/
Why would they want to immigrate to countries with oppressive white male patriarchies instead of building better societies at home?
Ask HN: What is the best recourse when an account gets robo-banned?
This is a bit of a broad question, but I've run into it several times, so I'm curious how other HNers handle it.

The scenario is pretty simple:

You're using some mainstream service, let's say Facebook, Discord, Tinder, Gmail, PayPal, Amazon, etc. You're using it not by personal choice, because if you had a choice, being the HN reader you are, you'd probably use an open source and self hosted option. Rather, you're using it because you want to participate in mainstream society and engage with people on the platforms where they are.

To the best of your knowledge, you're sticking to the services' TOS and Code of Conduct. Maybe you're thinking outside the box a bit, because again, you are an HN reader, but for the most part you're a well behaved user acting in good faith.

Then one day it happens, you upload a photo, or withdraw some money, or join a server, or send a message, and suddenly, with no warning, you're locked out of your account. You get a message saying you've violated the terms of service and your account has been deactivated. There is no explanation, and no chance for appeal. You're locked out from doing whatever it was you were doing that you depended on the service for.

So, what do you do? Are there effective ways to get a response, or file an appeal, with these companies? Talking to many of their support teams is like talking to a brick wall. Are there secret ways to get through to someone with the ability to help? Are there legal actions you can take? Does publicly complaining about the issue with a blog post or on Twitter help, or is it a waste of time? Is it better to just cut your loses and move on? Stop dealing with the company altogether?
I use restic to back up my 1TB external HDD to Backblaze for 5$/mo. It's great.
Is it possible that you might be misunderstanding the "challenge" being faced here?

In Rust the "problem" is that the safe subset of the language enforces ownership rules, which make directly representing circular pointer structures impossible. Of course, you can use "unsafe" and it becomes as simple as in C. This tradeoff is well known since the inception of Rust.

In Haskell, the "problem" is that all functions need to be pure, so if you need to mutate a data structure, you actually have to create a new instance, sharing the bulk of the structure of the previous instance to be efficient.

This is not the same thing, but you seem to think it is. In Rust, persistent data structures still use reference counting to manage lifetime of the objects inside the structure (see rpds), which is also what one of the solutions listed here does.
Reed Hoffman offers a great discussion on this subject > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/masters-of-scale-with-...
Okay, but then why optimize at all? Computers are fast, why not just run HTTP everywhere? What’s the point of the article?

My Mac mini runs at three whole billion clock cycles per second. If we’re going to depend on hardware to make our argument, we’re all basically running supercomputers. And yet everything is slow, and my tools lag for no reason, the web in general is slow. Which is all fine, but I thought computers were supposed to be fast? Somehow we’ve arrived at a point where on the one hand, computers are supposed to be fast enough to support these huge skyscrapers of abstraction, but on the other hand… the result is mind blowingly slow.
Why would that not be possible? Especially since you say borg can do it, and borg is said to be incremental and deduplicated?

Note that write-only or append-only is a bit of a misnomer, since reading the files is fine (you need the decryption key anyhow before they're of any use). It's about not being able to overwrite or remove backup data without some verification that you're not ransomware or similar.
>How does it being applicable to more stuff stop it from being a gigantic waste of energy?

"Applicable" means that it is useful, as it solves the problems I talk about in the post.
Personal autonomy is sacred in our country. Personal beliefs, less so. It's an important feature of our system.
What happened to the requirement to second-source semiconductors?
It's all in the link he posted
The problem I noticed with IF or other "diets" which don't track calories in some way, is that people may tend to eat a lot more once they start doing physical activity, negating the weight loss benefit or gaining too much fat.

The method I recommend nowadays is to keep your diet as constant as possible, then replace meals or snacks with protein rich, lower calories alternatives until you're satisfied with your protein intake (depending on your weight) and you hit a maintenance diet and , as in your weight doesn't change averaged over two weeks, while doing your normal training regimen (which should include some incremental resistance training for muscle gaining or preservation and some cardio for heart health).

Then you have the choice of adding a 200 calories protein rich snack if you're trying to build muscle, removing a snack for 200 calories (if you can manage that) or adding some daily cardio consuming an extra 200 calories (like a 20m cardio class, 2x20 minutes walk, a martial arts class, gymnastic skill-work).
You should always weight your self to keep track of things.
Eventually you'll weight will stabilise to a new low or a new high and you can go through the process again.

In this way, you don't really count calories, you just roughly know that you'll have a few eggs for breakfast, some pasta for lunch, meat or fish for dinner.
have had similar and suggest:

- swap coffee for green tea

- supplement phosphatidylcholine daily

- drink hot water with a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and honey at night

- measure humidity in your home and make sure it isn't too dry

For me this reduced inflammation and GERD issue presenting sore throat at night. May take over a week to start noticing results.
Colitis - I haven't read the article but will soon. But here is a data point for anyone with Colitis, if it helps.

I started IF in July as a means to lose a bit of lockdown weight.

No breakfast, no lunch, only a substantial dinner.
4-5 Drinks taken throughout the day. No real restriction.
Lots of walking to keep busy.

I've noticed a significant improvement in management of Colitis. No flares. Enabling me to get back to normal life without worrying about the condition throughout the day. Just (sorry TMI), emptying bowels first thing in the morning (2-3) times. Then don't have to worry all day.

Considering colitis is a primarily inflammatory response (I believe), then this article rings true. YMMV

Once I reach target weight, not sure what I'll do. Maybe just add some more protein or good fats to evening meal. It's been too helpful to give up the routine.
Oh, the nice thing about those i.MX8M based boards, similar to RK3399 ones on the higher end, is that their GPU/VPU has been pretty fully reverse-engineered and kernel mainlined now. That was the biggest announcement for the release of the RasPi OS Bullseye update just the other week: using kernel KMS for graphics by default.

I just want that same level of support for something a few years newer and a good deal faster.
You can't seriously expect people not to downvote any support of expensive locked down standards, can you?
It’s really not an argument against countries it’s more like an extreme form of “meritocracy” mixed in with various problematic views on resource allocation.
Yes, my argument was that, because the second stage would be mechanically so hard to build, driving the cost of the whole installation up, it's unlikely they can offer launch services at a price point low enough to make satellite customers and manufacturers willing to invest in high-G satellites.

I will change my mind when they offer payload to orbit at a price no more than half of what SpaceX can do. Currently, they launch 51 Starlink satellites of 260Kg at a price point of $50 milion, or about $4000/Kg.

Any competitor looking to deploy a high-G constellation will need much better prices, less than $500K per 260Kg satellite, and Starship is on course to slash another zero from that.
I am not sure Minksy was cool if cool was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
For what it's worth: religious, medical, and philosophical exemptions to various immunization requirements have also been some kind of thing forever in various locations. And in the past, nobody hyperventilated about their own immunity not working if another person wasn't immunized for some reason.

> The only thing new here is a politically driven disregard for human life.

The only new thing here? And you can read minds and are certain that the only possible motive here is a disregard for human life? Really? That is not a serious comment.

I'd argue there's a lot of new things and qualitative differences here.

Here are 2 big ones you should consider.

#1) Once the technology to measure clicks was invented, the business model of the mass media has changed from promoting how trustworthy they were to a competition about driving traffic through emotional manipulation (fear, anger, sadness, etc). What media somebody uses has a big impact on how they trust either the Covid-Fear-Porn or Vaccine-Fear-Porn presented.

#2) These vaccine were developed in a much different and quicker fashion than previous vaccines: many of which took around 10+ years of development and testing before being introduced into a mass audience. I think it's entirely rational to be more than a little cautious about the short-term side effects and long-term problems with these new vaccines. It's very easy to see why somebody who took plenty of previous vaccines is cautious about these vaccines.
From the Syncthing FAQ (https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#is-syncthing-my-id...):

> Is Syncthing my ideal backup application?

> No. Syncthing is not a great backup application because all changes to your files (modifications, deletions, etc.) will be propagated to all your devices. You can enable versioning, but we encourage you to use other tools to keep your data safe from your (or our) mistakes.
TSMC is the world leader in semiconductors. Were they "breaking laws, fraud, stealing technology or slave labour"?

Visa/Mastercard are the world leaders in payment processing. Were they "breaking laws, fraud, stealing technology or slave labour"?
> the anals of history

Now that's a Freudian slip if I've ever seen one.
github stripped the key names/annotations from .keys (for good reasons), so if you do that and you use one ssh key per machine, when you need to revoke a machine you won't easily know which key to remove from authorized_keys.
Did/do you work at Ab Initio too, or just TM?
What is your most technical page? Here usually you need a more technical article to get traction.

The only technical detail I found is

> How does it work?

> We grafts long chain fatty acids on the OH groups on the specific surface of the substrate.

That makes a lot of sense. In the main page it says something about cellulose and fatty acids, but fatty acids are essentially soap, so I was very surprised the treatments makes the cardboard waterproof. But if you form an ester then it's easier to understand.
What meal do you skip? My problem is that I can’t skip breakfast or I get lightheaded (I’ve passed out working out before breakfast multiple times). And I feel like during the work day I need glucose for my brain to function.
Everything expends energy in order to solve some problem or accomplish some goal. Whether the problem is worth solving or the goal worth pursuing given the required energy is subjective, but beside the point. If it can solve more problems then the expending of energy becomes more justified.
The TYPE of housing being constructed also matters. There has been plenty of construction in some areas, but all luxury condos to serve as bank accounts for foreigners.
Never mentioned it's super simple. It's DIY that I stitched together in 1-2 hrs of incremental upgrades and it's been running like this for months. To me it's simple enough but YMMV
Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. No?

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/
> So the lesson is, they can all be corrupted.

To which the conclusion is: test your backups!

Still, some might corrupt more easily than others. People just confuse first-hand problems with statistical significance.
Yes, I rhetorically asked for your public keys because they are personally identifiable data.

While some may be fine having public keys dissiminated publicly, other github users would prefer keeping this data private, as it can be used for looking up their real identities.
A Sprachbund (extensive borrowing) is not remotely the same as being from a common root.

Interesting about millet though, I think theories about the origin of the Dravidian language family depend on words for different kinds of millet too.
> start at 5pm and hold it until 9am

Isn't that basically normal? We call it breakfast for a reason, and 5pm to 9pm is extremely close to what many people do habitually. Maybe a slightly early dinner and a slightly late breakfast, but not by much.
Does slotmap shrink and reclaim allocated memory when most of the elements it stores get deleted?
Why should I care to get involved or second-guess their thought process and decide if their self-determined preference is “sound”?
ICE was created in the Bush years and has been demonstrably brutal and racist. You don’t need ICE to handle immigration. Somehow America made it until the 2000’s without it, and much like other three letter agencies created post-9/11, their effectiveness is dubious at best.

One real way to solve illegal immigration would be to make it easier to legally immigrate. Making them citizens means they have equal labor rights and can’t be treated like serfs, so then can command higher wages.

Also, outsourcing has done far more damage to the working class than immigration. Billionaires ginning up the “they’re taking your jobs” sentiment while offshoring as much good paying blue collar work as possible. Neoliberalism in a nutshell.
Are you saying the Racket REPL does not support "Interactivity, short feedback loop" ?
The fact that we can trust government communication about as much as messages from a Nigerian prince gets us a step closer to the kind of society that produces them.
but this is where the Western ideas of an individual really start to show their limits.. Those careers are (were?) also surrounded physically by social and literal safety. It is an unsafe world! The benefits of being committed and embedded are undeniable, yet many prefer adventure and risk. In good times, the safety seems "boring"; when economics or social circumstances change a lot, safety takes on new importance.
Armchair counterintelligence!
The tarsnap subthread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209658
I've been doing time-restricted eating for maybe 5 years, only eating between 12 and 7-ish. It's not what this experiment studied but is supposed to have similar effects. One thing I can say is you get used to it quickly and no longer feel hunger in the same urgent way as before. Hunger is more of a vague "yeah, I could eat now" feeling in the back of the mind, which can be easily ignored for several hours. Mood never changes, either.

On the few occasions I've gone 24 hours+, the hunger feeling is a little stronger, but still pretty easy to ignore. For one example, there is no difficulty going to sleep.

None of this applies when you are first starting out though :-)
There are studies on this and, from what I can remember, meal frequency didn't seem to have an impact on weight loss or muscle gain.

You don't need to eat 6 meals or 1 per day to lose weight, just do whatever makes it easy for you to consume the amount of calories you want.

I agree that doing 1-2 big meal makes it easier to eat little calories because you can stuff yourself up to a point.
Delta lake is not meaningfully more "open" than whatever Snowflake (or BigQuery and Redshift) are doing. It does not require any less "moving data around"

With all these, the data sits on cloud storage and compute is done by cloud machines - the difference between Databricks and the others is that with Databricks, you can take a look at that bucket. But you're not going to be able to do much with that data without paying for Databricks compute, since the open source Delta library is not usable in real world.

Since commercial data warehouses are an enterprise product for enterprise companies (small companies can use stick with normal databases or SaaS and unicorns seem to roll their own with Presto/Trino, Iceberg, Spark and k8s, nowadays), the vendor and the product needs to be most of all reliable partner. And Databricks behavior does not inspire confidence of them being that.

If I'm outsourcing my analytical platform to a vendor, I want the to be almost boring. Not some growth hacking, guerilla marketing, sketchy benchmark posting techbros.

At the end of the day, anyone making years lasting million dollar decisions in this space should run their own evaluation. Our evaluation showed that there's a noticeable gap between what Databricks promises and what they deliver. I have not worked with Snowflake to compare.
The blurb says that someone claimed that someone else has control over the 64B in bitcoins in a lawsuit. Is there any reason to actually believe them behind the paywall? Because people say wacky stuff in lawsuits all the time (see also: the Kraken) and it doesn't mean anything at all.
It seemed to have helped my epilepsy. It’s mentioned in the bible as a treatment for the disease, and diet based treatments are experiencing a resurgence in use. Keto is sometimes prescribed in kids with difficult cases, and low GI (the south beach diet) is similarly being prescribed to adults since keto is too difficult for most. I haven’t heard of IF being prescribed but my doctor said it may be effective when I brought it up.

I did low carb/cal AM (1 egg) and didn’t eat til 3 PM. I did this most days of the week. There are other confounding variables so don’t take it as medical advice, since the diet can also exacerbate seizures.
> I tried 23:1 for a week but I could not eat enough in that one hour.

That gives me a stomach ache just thinking about it. 2000C in a sitting is a lot, even with relatively high calorie food choices.
I haven't read enough on the subject, but Peter Attia has discussed this on a few podcasts. His general view is that no one knows; we simply don't have the biomarkers or lab tests to even run good experiments yet.
Why Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud momentum is accelerating
Death by 1000 greedy cuts.
For me it feels uncomfortable eating something I can't track accurately, like it's going to actually have 5 times the calories I think it would, since that's the story for so much food. Like once I was hungry after a dinner and there was stuffing left, so I had some assuming it was a lighter food, then I looked it up and it's actually extremely calorie dense.
Ethereum is going to stop being so inefficient in about six months. The proof-of-stake migration will reduce its energy usage by about 99.95%. So that will make it an efficient way to make verifiable stablecoins.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/
This is fantastic. It’s long been difficult for me to understand the prevalence of instant payout mechanics, or the propensity of ordinary people to use debit cards like credit cards. I’m that guy who only uses his debit card to withdraw cash, puts everything on high reward credit cards, but never carries a balance.
https://archive.md/NRbwx
If they mandate we all take the latest and greatest anti-viral cocktail daily or even weekly, fresh out the Merck/Pfizer lab, would we all be onboard with that also? You see the legal precedent that have been set here because "just save one more life".

Because if the goal is elimination and not crushing the curve, then mandating experimental anti-virals is the only logical next step, and it will only work if its truly global.

This virus is endemic now, deal with it. It will never go away, and anyone who thought that 60-70-80-90% vaccination in the USA only would magically stop it was nuts. The vaccine wont prevent transmission or replication, not even in the slightest. Its only at best a therapeutic that 'might' keep you out of the hospital, not even guaranteed.

The government didn't want to create "vaccine hesitancy" so they ignored any and all counter data, doubled down on a bad idea and mandated it, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and suckers fell for the groupthink. Now that its endemic, we have to step back and ask, is +0.07% more deadly then the flu worth all this heartache (lockdowns, mandates, masks, etc)? If its never going away, then at what point do we all plan to take the masks off?
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The Steam Deck Conference: Key Takeaways
my folks lost a ton of weight using Noom. I'd try that if Lose It annoys you.
Nah. It’s life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in that order. Your liberty isn’t a license to drink and drive, yell fire in a theater, or refuse vaccines.
I remember seeing a mature-ish project that was architectured around them. I think it was JS-related.
Publications, high salary, prestigious/selective employer
This study seems a little weird (crap) in that they started with a hardcore twice a week fast for a month then dialed it back to once a week. Unless I missed it, I don't see an explanation of why this approach was taken in the paper.

Given the subjects were high cholesterol and/or diabetic, it makes me think their life styles sucked already. I couldn't imagine living like then suddenly being told to stop eating for entire days. I would not be shocked if people didn't really adhere to the guidelines. It seems a food diary was the only thing keeping them "honest". Also a staggering 40% of all participants refused to answer how much alcohol they consumed on average.

If you are going crazy with food or lack of exercise for 6 out of 7 days, I don't think taking a break for one day a week is going to make much of a difference.