skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also people who fast for a long time: How do you do that? I get super hangry and find it really a struggle past a certain point of not eating.

Different people have different responses to fasting.

It's always been very easy for me to fast by becoming "at peace" with the feeling of hunger for the first 2-3 days, and after that I don't even notice. But later in life something about my body changed and my response to fasting was much more severe and I was suddenly unable to fast for more than 1-2 days due to extremely strong urges to eat, irritability, etc. This happened for 2-3 attempted fasts around the age of 32. A year or two later, and fasting is suddenly "easy" for me again. To be clear, the first 2-3 days usually sucks regardless.

I suspect that I am generally very good at metabolizing fat. When I get blood tests while fasting, even if I haven't eaten anything at all in 7 days, my glucose is generally still well above the minimum of normal, even sometimes towards the high side. I suspect that if my blood sugar was low, I'd have much more difficulty. It does seem to take 2-3 days for my body to "switch" to metabolizing fat at a high enough rate to raise my blood sugar up.

I also suspect different people have very different reactions to low blood sugar.

Just as a note, for me one of the biggest determinants of a successful fast is control over my environment. If there are people in my home cooking great food every night at the same time, it's very hard. If I'm living alone and let my fridge get empty, it's much easier. I've also dealt with it by shifting my work hours to leave later and come home after my partner has finished dinner and cleaned up the kitchen. But this is orthogonal to the above issue.
This is cool and useful!

Putting "Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer" in the kitchen in 2022 does not look good!
I think expunging a website from the internet for "suspected" involvement in crime is a huge overreach.

I think such a posture would encourage some to commit "false flag" SWAT-ing as a means to silence those they disagree with.

SWAT-ing is a very serious crime, and if they are "top suspects" as you claim, I expect LE would be robustly investigating them.

Thoughts?
Is there a modern equivalent of rentacoder?

A dozen years ago, rentacoder was 99.5% people wanting impossible things for $50 but there were some worthwhile "I want a visual basic app that does this clearly defined task and can be created in two days" jobs. (rentacoder got sold and stopped being useful)
Textual inversion seems like it'll eventually cover this space. But bootstrapping is going to be harder than necessary, yes.
and yet here we are, sustaining psychic damage
Verification badges only makes sense for public figures. There are about 125 people in the US named Serena Williams, but giving anyone of those a verification badge for their account real_serena_williams would be counterproductive, since everyone would assume it's the account of the famous Tennis player.
That is a very shallow perspective. Fasting causes large, measurable phase changes in cellular function (eg autophagy). You can question whether it actually works or not, but there's a very plausible mechanism for why it would work that isn't simply related to calories-in-calories-out weight loss.
Maybe we need a vim/emacs tickbox option so we know how to seat people.
water can kill but brings new life also.
As I see it:

1) they've "held" the south-east (and donbass etc.) for a while, now

2) nukes were never really on the table, that was just some tedious "russia strong man!" nonsense

3) Sanctions are starting to bite

4) Morale among Russian troops is (allegedly) basically non-existent
If you're ready to share all that, and it's just family photos&videos (nothing too sensitive that you won't mind them leaking through ordinary bad security and social media), then you could give them access as soon as they have their own online accounts, and they could just grow up always accessing it.

But, for financial/estate data that my heirs might eventually needed, I have a script that `rsync`s select data to (multiple copies of) an unencrypted external USB drive, in FAT32 format.

Included on the drives, and also stored printed with them, is a one-page `READ-THIS-FIRST.txt` file that says what info is on the drive, as well as top-level summary about other things they might need to know (like what insurances I have, any will, and how to access the GnuCash files).

There's also a PDF&paper one-pager assets&liabilities report from GnuCash, for use before anyone gets around to installing GnuCash. This enumerates all the accounts where money is stored or owed, and sets expectations for the reader's very-very tiny inheritance.

There's also passwords. Mine are currently handwritten in a redundant pair of Rite In The Rain paper notebooks, one off-site. But you could also use a password manager service, and some services can release more passwords to family members upon your expiration. Your survivors being able to just one of those accounts, might save them a lot of headache, and you don't know which one that will be.

Even for only family photos that they can already access, you even might want to have a one-pager bus-factor document that includes things like how to keep the photos from disappearing (such as by not getting locked out of access, not failing to pay a cloud service bill, or not donating the old junk servers that were storing them). If this one-pager is accessible to kids, maybe structure it as notes for yourself of how things are set up, like an engineering nerd, without alluding too much that they'll someday need to do it.
WMO predicts first “triple-dip” La Niña of the century
Okay, so the thread started from your request to provide sources for Putin discussing historical borders of Ukraine:

"I just read the entire address by Putin [1] after the invasion started - it's all about NATO expansion, historical borders or something along that lines make no real appearance in the entire thing.

"I know that he supposedly said things more in line with your point on other occasions but I never came across something that convincingly provided support for this point of view. Can you provide sources?"

I provided a source (even though your message was directed to someone else) and you proceeded with moving the goalpost to basically "yes, but did he stated he intends to conquer Ukraine to re-establish those borders?" (even though that wasn't what you asked for in your initial message):

"I read the entire thing [1], well I just skimmed the historical section until the 20th century. I do not see how this can be read as Ukraine is part of Russia end must be conquered back."

I indulged you and provided a specific excerpts that in my opinion reasonably support the notion of re-establishing the borders by force. Now you moved the goalpost again and constructed a stawman by saying something along the lines of "yes, but how does that implies that Russia intends on conquer everyone?!". Well, guess what, no one in this thread said that "Russia wants to grab land left and right and conquer everyone"!
I assume HN leans more male so I'm inclined to ask, have you given any thought to skincare products for men?

And do you have any plans to expand from direct to consumer skincare? Maybe something to address medical texts exclusively depicting white skin?
Is the dose for immune suppression the same effective dose for longevity, i.e. how many mg/kg body weight are we looking at for each thing?

It seems pretty safe anyway from my understanding…
Anyone interested in Nürnberg/Nuremberg?
Pair it with "I don't care about cookies". This one clicks Accept on all cookie banners, and Cookie AutoDelete deletes them when the tab is closed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
It's better to say Apple is becoming less reliant on selling every iPhone user a new iPhone every year.
Then they're in violation of EU regulations. And while I grant you that for the moment this is probably true, Apple will lose this fight and start scanning chats and messages.
I thought this was going about the Atari SIO bus[0], which literally was a forerunner to USB. The designer of the SIO bus, Joe Decuir, gave a talk at VCF East 2019[1] in which he spoke about SIO leading up to his work on USB (and, if memory serves, being used to quash a patent troll).

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As an aside re: the Atari joystick "standard": I have an Atari Flashback 10, which accepts Atari-style joysticks. The sticks that come with the unit are flimsy so I broke out some old Epyx 500XJ controllers from my youth to use. Unfortunately, that meant losing the on-controller buttons for game reset, game select, "rewind", and "menu" (which are implemented as "illegal" controller states-- up and down simultaneously, etc).

On a lark I plugged-in a female to dual-male DE-9 Y adapter I had laying around and discovered that I could just connect both the stock controller with the fancy buttons and my 500JX simultaneously. I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me, given the simplicity of the interface (just normally-open switches). It was a nice hack to get both the on-controller buttons for emulator control and a good joystick.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SIO

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlVpu_QSHyw&t=2296
Ugh I stopped playing league of legends because it just made me so angry and act so terribly. Screaming at my friends and just constantly feeling angry and frustrated. With the way the ranking system works this is basically guaranteed that you’ll lose half your games unless you’re a literally world class player.

My wife’s ex would piss in bottles while drinking vodka and playing. If I try to play League she’ll throw the breaker because the noises are triggering to her.

Now I play D&D because losing is just as much fun (or more fun!) than losing.
He was extremely careful in the docs he permitted to be released. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you.
I just point an A record in my domain at the public IP I get from my ISP. It's not technically static, but it changes rarely enough that it doesn't bother me. And since I use Route 53 for DNS I can (one day) use their API to automate the process of updating the A record if the IP changes.

No VPN tunnel or anything at the moment. I just forward the port from the edge IP in to the server running Mosquitto. I use OpenWRT running on a TP-Link AC1900 for my networking "stuff". That's a change I just made, moving away from an older Netgear router. One nice thing about OpenWRT is that it is, as I understand it, fairly straightforward to configure OpenVPN, so I may implement a VPN for access to my home network sometime soon.
So your resolution to a systemic issue like this is to say it's the responsibility of each individual?

That's not a solution, it's a misdirection from the problem
Google is putting a lot of resources into enterprise productivity software with gsuite. Google's strategy there largely revolves around letting students use the software for free and giving away chromebooks to school districts so that ten years from now every college graduate will be more comfortable with gsuite than microsoft office, so a bit of a long game there. This is basically microsoft's entire business, so there's definitely a huge market there. They also have GCP which is chugging along I guess.
How does someone with the name Harold Sanders get the nickname "BJ"?
I can't help but feel like they're adding this at this particular point since Stable Diffusion has announced they're releasing their 'inpainting' model next week.
> I'll never understand the reasoning for social media platforms to get into the hardware business.

They probably felt like their primary revenue stream was built on a pretty flimsy, easily-copyable foundation that might crumble at any time due to social trends (i.e.: TikTok). Hence, they are desperately trying to diversify their business model using the cash they have before it's too late.
This was always great for having a second controller. You might have had a master system and your friends an Atari or c64 but you could always take your controller to their house and play.

The $20 it cost for a second controller was a lot back then.
OpenSSL 3.0 FIPS 140-2 Validation Certificate Issued
They should've embraced Snapcash and there wouldn't be an OnlyFans.
Do you think that supports the claims made above?
The Salton Sea shouldn't exist at all. Had arrogance not overtaken those thinking they'd bring irrigation to the desert, the Salton Sea would still be the bone-dry Salton Sink. But after the canal and headgate failure, et. al., and the Colorado River flowed into the Salton Sink for two years, now we go from Sink to Sea. (And to be fair, it wasn't all due to arrogance; several floods one after another didn't help.)

In short, the Salton Sea was the result of what was probably one of the worst humanitarian and ecological disasters in California history.
I think I misunderstood the statement.
Well, technically, Europe also has a lot of gas. We just didn't want fracking. But it would be possible to be, at least, a lot less dependent.
So DALL-E is already old news and the Stable Diffusion ecosystem is once again already ahead especially with this announcement.

Quite funny to see OpenAI panicking and falling on their own sword, as they were supposed to be 'Open' in the first place and are now being disrupted by open source.
I don't know about that image in particular, but most likely the answer is yes.

https://time.com/6209889/pakistan-food-floods/
This list is very general (it's about high-level controls, not actual tactics) and is geared towards enterprises, so there are things on it that definitely are not startup best-practices. For example: most startups don't do any serious network monitoring (even if they do operate monitorable networks, which isn't a given).
Not anything I haven't read on Twitter about priests. Seriously, that's what everyone is upset about?
This reminds me of Lex Fridman talking with Jaron Lanier about Data Dignity
https://youtu.be/Fx0G6DHMfXM?t=2609
The message is not (necessarily) lay off 20%.

The message can be "we should not have hired so fast"

Or perhaps "take decisive action to respond to market conditions". O

Or any number of other messages.
> Growth must be eternal, regardless of how unsustainable, or Wall Street will decapitate you

Note this is only for publicly traded companies. If you don't want your company to be like this, don't go public and you won't have to answer to shareholders and have to produce eternal growth.
> We'd all be happier if everyone was politically correct.

That's not really clear. Language is for communication. Political correctness makes language a constantly shifting landscape, far more so than it is now, which I think is the primary reason why there's resistance to it.

If everyone bought into that project, then any marginalized group, no matter how small, would be able to dictate a global shift in language. This would dramatically impede effective communication.
Does SD have the ability to take this kind of micromanagement input though? From what I've seen, it works off of a general descriptive prompt. Will adding a very specific "but put the duck 5 pixels to the left" or a very vague "give it more pop" to the prompt actually have the intended effect?
No one is claiming that, in a perfect world, this would be Cloudflare's problem. Some other authority would step in and take care of it I suppose.

But we don't live in a perfect world. It's a pretty weak response to say "this should not be their problem" - because, for a bunch of reasons, it is their problem.

There are bigger, harder questions along the lines of "how do we as a society deal with this kind of issue." Cloudflare does not need to solve the general case before it deal with the specific actions of this specific website - and the desire to solve the general case is not a defense against confronting the specifics.
IIRC, the statement was from some Java blog about Loom. Idea is that with lightweight threads you can make everything sync and still be performant. While C# has gone ahead with making everything async
Some people have blind faith in scientific claims. That's not science though and it does not invalidate science. A big principle of science is to do exactly the opposite and not blindly trust in something. Every system gets corrupted by some people but it does not mean the system is bad. We're talking about the same thing over and over.
How long until we can run this over shows like Star Trek Voyager/DS9 and Seinfeld to achieve believable 16:9 scenes?
Grice’s Conversational Maxims
IIRC, he never even apologised for it - just straight up said nothing, like he was pretending it never happened. I haven't followed Krebs' articles since then, he totally lost my trust.
No I mean humans. I mean neither is very deadly but I believe far more people would die constructing and reconstructing 3000 giant towers rather then having a single GenIV nuclear plant running for the next 60 years.

There are other reasons as well.
Sites that serve content to Google's crawlers, but then slap up a paywall are spamming users, and unfairly drowning out content producers that are playing by the rules. Last time I checked, they were doing this without Google's consent.

As for the read path, the sites consented to Google indexing their stuff, and Google consents to letting people read the crawler cache. I don't see the issue.
But we are literally getting the copy here from the library because the author gave the book to the library.

Google is obeying robots.txt. Google caches a copy of what you serve and gives that out. That is part of the deal.
That’s weird, I got RTX3070 on Windows.

Are you using 512x512 images or larger ones?

Best workflow is to keep images close to 512x512, record the seed and then upscale.
It is so interesting that you draw that conclusion. I draw the opposite: that whether Cloudflare withdraws services or not is going to make no meaningful difference to whether KF remains online
Many of the benchmarks are using BenchmarkDotNet, so consider reporting this to them: https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet/.
> Economic interdependence is good to maintain peace.

I think history has plenty of counter-examples. Interdependence also provides incentives for one to either take over or extort the other. Taiwan and mainland China are interdependent, and that situation is tense.

I think it's the other way around. If the relationships are already peaceful, then it's much safer to have interdependence. Think Canada/US, or the various countries within the EU.
As someone already said - rapamycin literature is mostly in cancer and transplant patients and with relatively high-doses. The risks are real, but my clinical judgement would lead me to believe that for at least some people the benefits would far outweigh the risks
In my experience Cloudflare goes too far with offering their security services to everyone.

There is a website that's constantly ripping and stealing artistic content from a community I used to be part of. They have an automated process for ripping and reuploading content not meant to be downloadable from small independent artists in this community without informing the artist, obtaining permission or anything. Outragingly, when content is marked as "private", they upload it anyway but charge "credits" for users to "purchase" the download for the stolen private content. This website is clearly not existing in good faith, even has the word "rip" in its domain name, and they ignore most takedown requests.

Their website and any information about their true host is protected by Cloudflare. Over the course of a year I have sent several abuse reports about this website to Cloudflare and have never heard back. They seem to absolve themselves of any responsibility by saying they just forward reports and leave it up to the host or the website owner(???) to take action. In this case, the owner and the host already know they're stealing content so they just ignore the reports.

Due to the fractured nature of the community, no single artist so far has had the time or money to take legal action or even the knowledge of who to take legal action against (the owners are anonymous), so it appears the website will continue existing, proudly protected by Cloudflare.
The evidence is that this isn't the first time there was water there. Regardless of what contribution human activity made this time, the area has a long history of periodic flooding creating a temporary lake as evidenced by geological markers and Indigenous oral traditions.
Using DALL-E 2 Inpainting for Interior Design
I have a couple of questions about ingredients in your description. Zinc oxide as you mention tends to be pasty white, like Desitin for diaper rash which uses zinc as one of the active ingredients. This is likely to be a really dumb question with an obvious answer but since zinc has been shown to affect nerves (it is used as an anti-itch ingredient since it tends to dampen nerve responses and can cause nerve damage if dosage is too high) do you anticipate problems with long-term regular usage of zinc as a component of your sunscreen or other products? I believe that since it is already a replacement for the oxybenzone components of earlier sunscreens that you use it since it works. Down the line though, what do you think about the safety of using it?

The other question I have comes from my background as a geoscientist. Your usage of iron oxides for pigmentation seems genius here. Iron oxides occur naturally in shades from bright yellows to reddish-blacks. It seems that using iron oxide as a pigment (mankind has used this for millenia) is the most perfect way to enable exact skin tone matching. My question though is this - in your studies have you found any tendency of the iron oxides to stain clothing on exposure to sweat or through normal wear and tear? I know that iron staining of laundry and porcelain for people who get their water from wells with high iron content is usually addressed in the water softening/conditioning operation before distribution to faucets in the household. Do you anticipate problems with iron staining on clothing? It's a dumb question and probably a non-issue since you have obviously done a lot of work in this space.

Congratulations to you all and best of luck in your efforts to improve and create safe skin care options for people of color.
Per wikipedia, the actual number is three.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Suicides_of_harassm...
> irony of your statement on no government involvement. Zelle originated at Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo in 2011. Three of the largest recipients of bailout funds after the 2008 financial crisis. So, technically, Zelle wouldn't exist without government involvement.

I agree with you Zelle might not exist without government involvement in saving some of the banks involved. That doesn’t mean the government was involved in developing or managing Zelle.

That’d be like saying Tesla is government run because it gets a tax break per vehicle. You could argue Tesla wouldn’t exist without it (probably true), but it doesn’t mean government manages anything
> Teen boys are doing skincare routines.

Maybe, but I'd be careful about generalizing that kind of thing. Even stuff like consistently applying sunscreen is heavily dependent on class membership, i.e. it's "just what you do, obviously, any time you're going to be outside at all, of course we always have sunscreen on-hand and our kids have been taught to apply it as routinely and consistently as tooth-brushing—wait, why are you asking, doesn't everyone do that?" in some circles, while in other (larger) circles they only break it out for beach or lake days, if at all.

I expect the described behavior is similarly unevenly distributed.
Ironically enough, that's a platform choice: it's the tractor emoji glyph, U+1F69C. On lots of platforms it's red or yellow :-) (Not on desktop Firefox, which is where my screenshot came from in the blog post.) Switching to dark mode may help it be a little more visible for people who find it a problem? It's a good point, though...