skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been long exposed to the standard tech-circles common knowledge about intermittent fasting (IF), the benefits of fasting, basic gym science about calorie restriction, and so on. I thought a lot of this stuff was pretty well confirmed by science as well as various fasting-oriented traditions around the world. Fast one day a week, live longer. Work IF into your eating schedule, increase your productivity and give your body time to 'clean up' your system.

But I was surprised to recently realize how novel a lot of fasting research is, and how unconfirmed a lot of the benefits are. Even the wikipedia page for fasting doesn't have as much as I'd really like to see. It's nice to see posts like this one, but even this doubles down on "there are studies in progress" without any convincing completed studies.

Review studies such as this[0] one basically confirm in so many words that "additional trials are needed" and while IF can help you lose weight "whether IF itself affects cancer-related metabolic and molecular pathways remains unanswered"

It's curiously similar to woo-woo or religious habits and self-help advice: similar in being fringe from the perspective of scientific medicine. But the same groups who I'd expect to be pro-science (for example more likely to get vaccinated) are often mixed up in fasting stuff which isn't (yet) confirmed.

I suppose it's not too unheard of to see tech circles overlap with fringe medicine. Check out r/nootropics for instance. Now, I've experimented with nootropics and various supplements. I don't use the term 'fringe' as a haughty outsider. I'm quite willing to consider that it's "not yet confirmed" protoscience, and that this is different from falsified or counter-indicated "remedies" and bits of fringe medicine, things like homeopathy. But it's curious nonetheless.

[0] https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...
I use a text-only browser to read HTML and make HTTP requests with TCP clients instead of the browser. For many years I have sent no UA header. The results have been great. Assuming a website has many versions for different form factors, there still has to be a "default". Many times it appears to be mobile.
But there is more to the UA header than a means for selecting an appropriate design for a given form factor. If it were as simple as that, then there would not be so many UA string shenanigans. Websites use the UA header for myriad "illicit" purposes. Fingerprinting users is one obvious example. By not including the UA header, we as users can deny its usage. It does not stop fingerprinting but it removes the contents of the UA header as a data point.

There are very few websites I have found that require a UA header. Squarespace hosted sites are one example. Another is sec.gov. (Usually, they do not care what the string is, they just want something.) I have the local forward proxy configured to add a UA header for these few sites. Recently I had to add wsj.com to the list. It really makes one wonder why the heck these sites need a UA string. There are incorporated for-profit entities whose core speciality is UA sniffing for tracking users, advertising and who knows what else. Perhaps WSJ wants our fingerprint. As others will point out, Google is trying to eliminate use of the UA header. One wonders what these folks who think UA is significant and reliable are going to do then.

There was one example I once found of a web site that required a certain UA string as a sort of shibboleth. This was unique because they told users what was the required string. Thus, unless a user could set their UA string to the value the site indicated was required, they could not access the site's content. To me, that is what the UA string is, an HTTP header that anyone can change to anything they want.

I am more than happy to provide whatever UA string a site operator wants. All they have to do is tell me what it is. They could provide screenshots of the different designs they have made for different form factors then indicate which string to send to retrieve pages with a particular design. Otherwise I see no reason to send this header. It is hardly ever required.
>3% is still super low historically. Let's wait and see how the economy actually reacts to the rising rates.

It just dropped 1.4% because of a 0.25% increase. Yikes.

>Judging by the reverse repo rate, people are sitting on $2T with nothing to do with it.

They are hedging their bets, not doing nothing with it.

>but inflation looks like it will remain high for some time.

About 1.5-2 years is my guess.
This is Gatsby, no? Gatsby is a static site generator?
This page is completely unreadable due to the lagging custom scrolling they added. Just make a regular web page please.
All the best facets of capitalism at play: regulatory capture, decentralized costs & concentrated profits, and fees small enough to be a cost of business rather than long-term deterrent.
> Plex no longer worked offline at all.

In Plex settings you need to the IP addresses of devices you will allow to connect to your server without authentication. The setting is listed as "List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth". That way, if Plex or your internet is down, those devices will bypass a check for credentials and have access.

>Plex also doesn’t let me pay for one premium subscription for the server so my family can watch old family guy episodes

Set them up as managed accounts. You can have 15 users on one Plex pass subscription.
Discovering ancient cave art using 3D photogrammetry
No, they don't, generally. When was the last time you were required to compose code in a real world situation, in front of someone, while talking through your thought process, all under time pressure and in a high-stakes environment?
TurboTax forced to stop misleading “free” ads and pay back $141M
This has been my experience too, and is a frustration for managers that, in my experience, ICs don't understand: we _want_ to help you. But we've got a lot of shit to do. So we need evidence to draw from to rep you to the Powers That Be, both formally and informally. I always tried to have good ambient awareness of what my people were doing and how they were contributing, but that gets stretched thin. I am not omniscient, and cannot, and do not want to, micromanage your every action.

The best solution I found is the one you described: get people in the habit of incrementally building a case for how they contribute. Some people bought into this strategy and they benefited bc I became way more effective in advocating for them, not just at set times, but always. Some didn't, and they were constantly dis-satisfied with the company, and with me. I never was able to solve the issue for them before I resigned.
Why can’t you?
Maybe, just maybe, they understand the actual business they are actually in better than you do?
> They are beholden to no one AFTER they are appointed.

Article V of the US constitution makes them ultimately beholden to the states. It describes how the constitution can be amended. Such an amendment can possibly threaten the supreme court. Seems very unlikely to happen, though.
DiffWave https://github.com/lmnt-com/diffwave
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They are so understaffed they need to use interviewees to do their work! Bad news!
There's always protected inheritance, a/k/a "was_a," or, "is implemented in terms of."

That's like postmodern furniture design. "This couch was_a giant pair of lips," meaning that although it is implemented as a pair of lips, we'll treat it as type couch.

Same for, "This chair was_a giant baseball glove."
This is a problem of active vs passive communication.

I can think of 100's of other personal behaviors that would be worse or just as bad as being an asshole. Passive aggressive behavior, secretly taking credit for someone's work, backstabbing and rallying others against someone in review cycles, ... The fact that being an asshole gets so much attention may be a symptom of the problems people are trying to root cause and are converging on an incorrect cause.

ie. chances are that you're not having the issues you're having in your org because people are being assholes, but because they're incompetent, smile in your face and sabotage you later, cozy up to the boss to get promoted or a multitude of other shitty attitudes that often go under the radar.
A strong part of me believes that United indexes on how much of an asshole the person can be. /s.

But, seriously, I feel like if you're using a potential employer's services, you should assume they're taking that into account when they're hiring you.
The code is: "earn money/eyeballs". Like fashion, it is confined to variations on a theme which only shifts ever so gradually that you need to zoom out to a generation or two to witness any significant change. I couldn't tell you what changed in fashion in the last decade, but I can show you a 90ies look, an 80ies outfit, one from the seventies, something from the 1770s, etc. People want the same but different, and this imposes exactly such invisible 'codes' as you point out.
seven times if you include AirPods and the Apple Watch
You're using an Oracle product ;-)
It varies a ton per person - I know that I often, for example, end up with the opposite of acid reflux (essentially my stomach is too basic). I would have similar symptoms and take an antacid and it would make it immediately WORSE.

Not sure if this is why but I am also one of those people that can eat super acidic foods all day no problem - I can drink black coffee and follow that up with a bunch of citrus and feel great.
Meh, I definitely want to filter out people who can't handle situations like this, because honestly they come up all the time. Uncertainty in ownership, data not matching up, clarity lacking; how people behave in these scenarios is basically how they'll behave at their job.

I don't think it's an "asshole" behavior to induce stress during an interview and observe results. What else are you supposed to do?
Out of curiosity, are you somehow forgetting about QAnon, the incel movement, etc?
That sounds almost like the St. Petersburg Paradox. (But in the paradoxical version, you keep whatever's in the pot; you don't lose everything at the end.)

The St. Petersburg game has an infinite expected payout! But most people would only be willing to wager $20 or so, and it's hard to articulate exactly why.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/
How many don't speak it as a native language? Quite a lot as most of the world uses something else as their primary language.

If you're instead asking of how many can struggle trough an english text supported by machine translators, then that's clearly almost everyone.

There's very often a significant gap between the ease with which the native and the foreign language can be used for reasoning, but surely I don't need to point that out since any bilingual person knows this.
2006 was... early. I don't remember when HCs were formed, but there's no way the internal ATS had any level of sophistication, if it even existed then.

(Admittedly this is all years before my time.)
IBM probably had too many assholes working for them during world war II, hence the test. Their role in helping the nazis should not be forgotten.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
We used to have a very basic C whiteboard test for junior devs. Super simple "find the bugs" test. The best technical performance I ever saw was a guy that walked up to the board, swiped with the marker to mark the bugs like he was swatting flies (found every bug correctly). He finished the test in maybe 10 seconds, where typical was five minutes or more. He sat down in a huff. I didn't know we had an asshole test until that moment. I thanked him for coming in and showed him out. I'm so glad I never had to work with him.
I worked at a company with a process like that when I was an "Engineer" looking for a promotion to "Senior Engineer", at least for me it felt insulting that I had 3 years of performances reviews "exceeding expectations" and "already performing at the level of Senior Engineer" to then be told, ok now you have to do an interview and a presentation to say why you deserve to be promoted to Senior. I declined to go through the process and then left a few months later to become a Senior Engineer at a different company.
It sounds nice and makes a great story until you see all the exceptions being made. “He was a jerk but he did go to MIT”, “he was a jerk but his father is good friends with the CEO”, “he was a jerk but I’m a jerk and he reminds me of myself” but it won’t be that honest it will be more like “ he wasn’t a jerk he is just a natural leader and it was everyone else’s fault for not recognizing that and falling in line”
Why? Without escaping it's very simple to implement a parser or verifier for it. With escaping it has no real advantages over csv.

The characters are pretty much just for this, when would you ever need to put them in the data? If you're working on tooling for unicode itself? Just use... any other format. Literally any.
The FBI has a bar inside their offices?
https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry lots of cool videos on his channel about chips - i've definitely learned a lot watching these.
I've worked remote on and off for 6 years. The first two years was pure bliss. I slowly started to realize that having no hobbies, partner, etc was not good for my mental health. It took about 6 months to fix that. That has been (in my experience) the only thing that would excite me enough to go into the office.

I walked to work in Los Angeles (can you believe it?) for 2 years in-between and it was great - i loved that job. It still didn't hold a candle to WFH for me. I think many have realized this same thing in recent years: it becomes very hard to want to go back for a multitude of reasons.
> When you ignore a red light, the fine is not calculated based on whether you had an accident or not. For a fine to be significant, it has to exceed the profit made from the crime, otherwise you'll keep running red lights until you actually crash or run someone over.

Sure but that would still be based on the profits of the scheme, not any other unrelated revenue. In your traffic light analogy it’d be like billing the ticket based upon how many miles per year you drive rather than the speed limit or how fast you were going.
Little of-top, but is there any good & easy to use example of GitHub Actions script for built & package software from GitHub repo into DEB? (for Debian)
Hate to argue, but I agree that Plaid's connection to SVB is indeed unusuable. I've been trying to use them for over a year and we ended up dropping SVB just this month. Chase is on OAuth and WAY better if you need TXN data.

A partnership for ACH is more related to importing stable routing and account numbers, then enabling initiating ACH transfers. Scraping transaction data is a completely different integration that seems to have been forgotten.

Sadly, I'd even wager SVB-Plaid data won't improve any time soon. Remember that SVB doesn't even yet allow external bank transfers on their own bank portal.
Why not? What's wrong with it?
Which door? In this case OP seems to have outwitted the FBI, since the candidate is being surveiled the moment they left their own home.
Im Canadian.

I filed my taxes using WealthSimple Tax.

It cost $0.

It took <5 minutes.

I really don't understand why people pay for TurboTax.
Am on same one meal a day scheme (espressos in morning, nothing but dinner) for a year and love it. However, it's literally just replacing 2/3 meals out of my day with multiple servings of a highly addictive stimulant. Obviously I'm fine, but I am sure our descendents will look back on coffee as some kind of traditional folk-meth.
So mo lo. No, we're lo so mo. No no wait, lo mo so.
From Ad Tech to Synthetic Biology
Couldn’t you just use a any element with a focus pseudo selector? Or is there something in an input that’s special?
I generally apply a similar test when dating - if the person is a huge asshole to the service staff then it generally is not going anywhere
Every time I pair program. Also sometimes I've given talks that way. I like it, I guess not everybody does.
they deserve a lot of credit for how early they built this and made it relatively broadly available!
If you've got an asshole being strategic about when to be an asshole, you actually have a sociopath, because most folks at the point where they know they're being an asshole would just stop.
I have worked on plenty of successful fixed price software projects. The simple reality is when you fix costs quality becomes the flexible metric, but meeting the minimum project goals becomes really important. However, considering how many software projects fail, reaching the agreed upon minimum at the agreed upon price is vastly better than what generally happens.

As to failing to finish a project the wonders of fixed price contracting is you can pay at completion of some milestone. Of course that means people need to pad the price even more ahead of time to assume that risk, but price becomes a really useful signal.
On Linux we have something called "cgroups" which is integrated with the kernel's scheduler. Cgroups can be used to control and limit resources and do exactly what you are describing!

Cgroups can be used to limit the maximum amount of CPU bandwidth a certain group can use in a given period with fairly high resolution. For example, you can use the cpu.max variable to limit a group to run for a maximum of 1000 microseconds per second (1s = 1000000us). You can also limit what cores the group can run on, and the "weight" of the group when CPU bandwidth is being contested by other groups!

Cgroups can also limit resources such as RAM, swap and IO in a similar way.

Systemd has some features to put daemons in cgroups and provides ways to set the various control variables which is pretty handy, and it also has a way to launch regular programs with resource controls applied with systemd-run. There is also libcgroup and the sysfs interface for systems without systemd.
I don't think any of those 3 could have been a good team player. They are entrepreneurs.

So yes I am pretty sure you don't want them at your company.
I find this extremely hard to believe. I, too, try very hard to not get upset at "service workers", but at a certain point, if someone has a bad attitude with me i'll eventually give it right back. This has only happened a few times, off the top of my head: support at ISPs a couple of times, creditors who were harassing me without reason, and one time extremely rude and racist people at a California School transportation office.

Sure, i probably could hang up, turn the other cheek, whatever. And i'm sure my responses/actions made them no nevermind.

You might be as stoic and nonplussed as you claim, but we're all the heroes of our own stories, or something.
Yeah but not by much.

Also I doubt there was any info in those packets that would have mattered. The whole point of the test was to stump the group.
I am certain this is not true, as I only use them for a subdomain CDN for hosting my static site, and don’t use them for any of my other dynamic sites that are on the same parent domain.

Maybe what you say was true at one point. I only set up a static site and used Cloudflare to front it within the last couple of months.
UPDATE: Just received a notice. Only spun up a single dyno to see what it was like for about 10 minutes in 2021. Never logged in again. No integration with GH or anythig.

Assume they've been pwned end-to-end based on this alert.
The right comparison is yearly income - $2.062B. From the 10K, TurboTax and Mint are 37% of revenue. Mint is probably negligible, so the income from TurboTax is $0.67B a year or 5x the fine.
> This tweet makes the case

Please stop sharing nonsense like this, because those people will get death threats as a result of their LinkedIn profile being shared in this context. The tweet isn't "making a case"; it's wild speculation about someone he just looked up on LinkedIn. The whole "case" being made here is that this particular clerk is passionate about abortion rights, and she has some second degree connection to the Politico journalist who published the leaked documents. That's it. That is the flimsiest case I've ever heard in my life. That's a high school gossip level evidence right there.
>and noticed that one of the domains in the redirect party as soon as you login is Adobe ....

It doesn't look like it. I slowy scrubbed through the ChoosingForm.mov video, adobe isn't in any of the domains. It's only present as a query parameter.
> whatever the ultimate nature of reality may turn out to be, it's completely different from how it seems.

Hey, it's one of those high-dopamine "ideas, by idea-extroverts" sites! The kind that crank the mental air-vents way open. These are a favorite topic of mine.

Some others I've enjoyed...

https://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/

https://www.kleinbottle.com/

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm

Related archetypes: Mad scientist, eccentric atomic bomb scientist, renegade scientist, time lord / Doctor Who, neighborhood scientist / Doc from BTTF, Gender Stereotype-breaking Swedish Engineering Youtuber, modern egyptologist, modern shortwave radio host, etc.

I do prefer the ones that go a bit more eccentric and become say, _right historic_, merging with the personas of yesteryear while performing impressive feats of domain expertise. Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6zoOUs77N4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDPNxz3WXTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOfvkWI-OY

Blend in a bit of the supernatural, you get your Rupert Sheldrakes, your Jacques Vallée. Opening new mental venues in the face of all that the institutions of our time consider holy.

"Fractals! Nature! It's all around us and we're doomed to a life of _endless connections_! Did you know, that back in the year..." Fun to take it all in.

(BTW you can often spot the more introverted, but still highly-imaginative members of this societal cadre by looking out for the newsboy cap, a popular accessory in this zone of personal psychology [1][2])

Thanks for posting op!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Weir

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin
Why do you feel the need to mention functional programming in a thread about a clearly structured, systems programming language?

What makes generics and functional programming style mandatory for any given language?

These things just add complexity and philosophy to a field that values pragmatic thinking.

Functional programming is not pragmatic. And neither are thusand ways to handle generics.
Because you're literally working for them for free.
Somehow I found this very clever, and more appropriate than asking people to napkin-guess how many piano tuners are in NY. I'd expect most candidates kind of panicked, a few reacted superbly, and a few became assholes. This would be a very way to both separate the most problematic people, and find potential team leaders.

Of course they could have accepted the assholes and invested ample time and resources to nurture their emotional intelligence, but they would have resorted to that only if they couldn't find enough candidates.
In the context of neural networks with differential equations (which appears to be the original poster's field), the trade-off depends: https://diffeqflux.sciml.ai/dev/ControllingAdjoints/
Interesting just met a client who us using Amazon SES with a few domains, all of his emails go to spam, across all domains. Curious aye! Almost like these sender's aren't inpregnable and there is something else going on.
Did you talk to the interviewer at all during this? I could see them wanting to know your thought process to solving an unsolveable problem but otherwise this seems a little far fetched. Probably they just really liked you?