skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people are willing to pay the high price. Mostly also because of the other offerings, like managed databases and applications, kubernetes, etc. People like to have all the services at the same provider. And the brand name is also decisive for some people.
Can you speak more to "Also there can't be scientific evidence that anything improves lifespan." I am missing the subtlety, but I would think statistically with twin studies and controlled experiments you could?
Define what it means to be rational in a way that isn't dependent on a consensus among other rational persons.

Even science comes down to peer review.
I thought IF was more popular in the 90s than it is now.
The title is "Meal Skipping and Shorter Meal Intervals...". That's not much like "intermittent fasting", which brings to mind things like not eating for a 24 hour period rather than skipping breakfast. The actual title of the paper would be a much more appropriate title for this post.
These are equivalent ways of looking at the same thing. On one hand you could say that money today is worth 5% more than money next year, and then figure the return net of the risk free rate. Alternately, you could say that VC money must provide returns in excess of the risk free rate and say that startups now are expected to provide higher returns. Both are mathematically equivalent.

The broader point is that the current need to provide higher returns than before is more acute for a company that isn’t going to produce big profits for 10 years because of all of the compounding over that time.
Intercompany and transfer pricing agreements for startups
> Why would you want to change starting time based on age?

Because there primary and secondary education utilizes a single set of busses, and nobody is volunteering to pay for duplicates just so everyone can start as late as you'd like. Locally, this means our elementary kids go first, then the high school kids, then the middle schoolers.

Anecdotally, this is a good arrangement. The middle schoolers really need the late start. The high schoolers are a bit more mature and can handle a slightly earlier start, and generally have an increased amount of extracurricular activities competing for daytime.
> with the number of dietary science that turned out to be wrong over time, I must be skeptical about every new study.

This I agree with. There is so much noise and so many confounding factors affecting the underlying data that you are bound to frequently get conflicting results. Compound this with the fact that studies with the most surprising (read: contrarian) results tend to get the most press, and you get an infinite see-saw in the literature.

> Am I wrong to have suspicions about the possibility that food conglomerates may have funded this study?

This I don't agree with. I think your model of more fasting equals less spending on food is overly simplicitic. The sort of health conscious people who are interested in IF tend to be wealthy and willing to spend on premium health related products. I'd wager that you can make a lot more money selling a few premium, organic, protein bars that you pitch as premium feel-full-for-12-hour-guaranteed products than you can by selling the same old breakfast cereals.

Besides, Occam's razor. Intermittent fasting is not a subject where there is or ever has been an overwhelming consensus in the literature, as opposed to say, climate science. It's not surprising or suspicious in the least to see a contrarian result in this field.
so what you mean to say is that you're just making things up as you go? neat.
> Meanwhile, "(c)" doesn't actually mean anything, doesn't gain you any worldwide protection like © does

Law does not work like a compiler. It doesn't just throw "syntax error" when you use an incorrect representation.
This whole article is a mess. There are no details except that there will be a change to the payment model for advertising. The article just fearmongers about “emotion recognition” which it isn't even clear TikTok is trying to do. To me it seems like TikTok is trying to emulate the skippable ad pay structure from YouTube, where advertisers only pay if the user chooses to watch past the point that they can skip. There are obvious privacy concerns with TikTok, but without more details this seems like a severe overreaction.
literally nothing in the article mentions anything about fasting, intermittent or otherwise.

This post should be flagged/removed.
Terraria might be the most successful example from a 1-2 person dev studio. Does anyone know of a more successful example?
From my understanding of ChatGPT, it will not remember that it all. It isn't fully aware that its knowledge stops at 2021, and will hallucinate that it has the ability to store information. It doesn't.

If you asked again in the same conversation, I'm sure it would remember, but a fresh chat session would result in ChatGPT telling you that the closed restaurant is open
School is a good tool to gain a comprehensive education. It is not the only tool to gain a comprehensive education, and it is not effective for everybody.
Just run that code through another model to fix the problems. Then run that output through a model that will summarize the final code.
Until you change VCS systems at some point in the future and it's not backwards compatible with the previous
At some point, does not the software itself become part of the historical record? Otherwise we wouldn't care about things like the Internet Archive hosting its DOS emulator.
Hi, I'm Adam Cimarosti, one of the core engineers at QuestDB.

We built play.questdb.io to make it easy for anyone to try our database.
No installation.

There's a Jupyter Lab notebook, data, sample code, queries and graphs.

We'd love to hear what you think.
newsflash - there are people who do not want children, please don't try to dictate your values onto others
Definitely a bubble, if you think it's limited to a few groups of people. But seeing as how the "conspiracy theorists" have an outstandingly good track record, maybe there's something to it when they say it.
Based on this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882990 - you seem to be spot on.
My gf finished New York Race with a keyboard just fine.
Several cars with automatic climate control I owned have a sensor on the dash that detects sunlight and adjusts the system accordingly.
I think it's about fault-tolerance.

So "programming" in the Software 2.0 world is basically training a model. Which isn't a task with an end. You stop when you're bored, or when it passes a given level of accuracy, not when it's "completely trained" because it will never get to 100% accurate.

In e.g. speech recognition, handwriting recognition, speech synthesis, drawing pictures, writing a response to a human's question, all those messy "organic" problems, this is fine. A 99.9% accuracy rating at e.g. speech recognition is better than humans do.

But there are problems that absolutely need 100% accuracy, and you can only get that if you code it up the old-fashioned way (though probably not Agile - I love my iterative development cycles but they're equally prone to not quite getting it 100% right).
I think the main thing that's changed is the ever-growing "high end" segment of video cards.

In 2006, a Playstation 3 was $600, but by 2010 it was a $300 system. Video cards were $500 at the top end (GTX 480). So you could argue that the console was a vastly better buy, if you didn't mind it having 4 year old hardware.

Consoles have held their pricing much longer lately, so the $500 PlayStation 5 is still largely $500 over 3 years after launch. Meanwhile, you can get some great graphic cards in the $500-$800 range.

Overall, that's not a vastly different ratio. It's not until you look at the $1000+ video cards that it seems quite skewed, but no one needs those cards to have a good PC gaming experience. Those are extravagances.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that!
I made a passing joke the other week that we're turning the act of coding into a bureaucracy. No longer will you just be able to write code, you'll instead have to navigate whatever byzantine logic maze the AI has constructed for itself.

Soon we'll have camps advocating various rhetorical paradigms to program AIs. Instead of imperative versus declarative programming, we'll have effusive versus abusive prompt engineering:

"The best way to program is to be really nice to the AI, and tell it how much you appreciate it and it will come up with the best solution itself."

"No! The best paradigm is to berate the AI and to beat it into submission to get exactly what you want!"

The more I hear people talk about programming in the future, the more it sounds like that's really where some people want to take us. I'm not excited.
For a little bit more money, there are a good number of of power banks that output just as much as normal Air wall charger.
So, no proof? Your argument could be used for every single chemical.
My experience tells me the exact opposite. I lost more than 20kg thanks to IF. I would not have done it, if it would not mean I will lose weight.
So, could this meditation craze actually be making people autistic?
The data was based on behavior between 1999-2014, which means it was behavior that almost certainly was not health motivated since intermittent fasting wasn't popular then. So I think you have to ask: why were these people skipping meals? I think there are a lot of possible explanations and they are all potential confounds.

Like, one obvious reason people skip meals is that they don't have time. If you don't have time to eat, you're probably working long hours and really stressed out. Stress could easily contribute to CVD or otherwise take years off your life.

Another obvious reason to skip meals: you don't have money to buy food. Poverty is well known to lead to worse health outcomes.

Or one more: people skip meals because they have no appetite. What's a big cohort that routinely skips meals because they have no appetite? The elderly.

Maybe they ruled these kinds of things out in the full paper (I've only read the abstract) but so far I'm unimpressed.
Formal verification of software has been around for a while though.
Check out SimAnt if you haven't already!
Two new species admitted to the JI (Journalisme International) system of units
This is obviously false, but in any case that would still mean we would have actual proof. Where is it?
Only those who had less than 4.5 hours between 2 of their 3 meals.

The lowest hazard rate/lowest all-cause mortality was among those who ate 3 meals a day and had 4.5+ hours between them.
>I keep seeing discussions that go like preprint/abstract pokemon battles where everyone's just throwing out papers they don't understand that seem to corroborate their point as though that was enough.

It's the same phenomenon among people who learn logical fallacies for the first time. Instead of using that knowledge to improve their own framing and arguments, they instead use it as insta-kill magic spells to "win" arguments without actually bothering to understand the opposition.

Intellectual humility and curiosity are in short supply, especially in online spaces where you're rewarded for combat and engagement.
It seems that VCs are primarily selling to LPs. They hire bankers to sell to public markets.
On an entirely silly tangent. It's a bit of a shame that Karpathy stopped working at Tesla. Just because having a guy named Karpathy working on car pathing was such a great example of nominative determinism.
That sounds about right to be honest. The part of the process which is essential to be useful is to obtain trust from the Browser vendors/ OS vendors in their role representing the Relying Parties (ie in this case, ordinary users like you or me).

And in practice although you need all of the big ones to be OK with it, the one that matters is Mozilla, via m.d.s.policy, a public group overseeing this well, policy for Mozilla both directly as the vendor of Firefox, and as de facto trust store for Free Unix systems.

Now, m.d.s.policy wants to see a whole bunch of paperwork, including audits, beginning from when you began setting stuff up, your own policy documents etc. and it sometimes wants these fixed so you need to go around the loop again. During this you need a complete, working, system, with the only differences from your final public system being maybe scale and the fact you aren't actually directly trusted. But in practice you will have trust via a cross signature (in this case GoDaddy) so you are trusted, just indirectly - if you screw up that's for real and that's going to be a big deal.

Example: m.d.s.policy wants to see what a working secured web site will be like, so you spin up a site which exists only to show that yup, we can issue a correct leaf cert for the site, with a valid expiry date, path leading back to GoDaddy, if testers tell their test system that it trusts $newCA, then it says it's valid from you not GoDaddy, check.

Another example: m.d.s.policy wants to see that expiry works properly, so you spin up a site with a two month old certificate but only a month of validity. Except wait, if you're like Let's Encrypt/ ISRG you intentionally don't have manual issuance so you literally need to use your normal automated issuance process and then wait until the certificate expires to show that this works. Let's Encrypt really did this. Twice I think.
Correct! The word "fasting" doesn't appear anywhere in the abstract. And the study also found that shorter meal intervals (i.e., the opposite of fasting) was associated with the same thing. Nothing to do with intermittent fasting.
Web5 is all the rage
>by enforcing planned obsolescence

Their support for software updates and security patches in older models is actually quite good. They've also made a ton of strides in the right direction when it comes to repair-ability of their phone line.
I think their statement is accurate. If they've been accepted into root programs (and it sounds like they have), then the GoDaddy cross-sign is only relevant for older browsers, and even then requires no additional or ongoing actions from GD to keep working.
The researches obviously treat the word "symptom" in a strictly professional way, so all those questioning themselves "How do you find enough mice with symptoms of schizophrenia in the first place?" are in no luck.

The symptoms are:
- Reduced density of pyramidal neurons
- Cognitive dysfunction associated with methamphetamine treatment
Because most code involves teams and different stages of development, not just a single approximation of a good enough result. And what happens when you need to make tweaks? The UI isn't quite right or a business rule needs to be added.
Showing the random art can help to notice if you connected to the wrong server by accident, e.g. Incorrectly connecting to staging.example.com when you actually wanted to connect to live.example.com
a) We both made claims, no sure why I'm the only one being asked to provide evidence, b) I'd love to provide evidence but in order to do so credibly, I need to know which institutions to source that data from, so we don't go back and forth on whether or not the data was collected with bias or some other excuse and, c) this is HN, which is neither equipped for conversations like this nor are they encouraged.

If you actually are interested in learning about the negative impacts of misogyny in the US, there are classes you can take online, people you can talk to, papers to read, etc. Demanding your entire learning experience be run through HN exclusively is only done by folks who have no intellectual curiosity and just want to annoy others.

You'll notice he hasn't responded to my basic question for clarity, as that would require some form of baseline cooperation on his part, which runs counter to his clear desire to be a pain for the sake of it.

It's been three days since this conversation started. Is the expectation that I'm to sit here and engage for eternity with a person who I don't know on a topic it's clear they're not interested in understanding better?
Unless you are making your coffee out of an chemical soup instead of coffee beans it would be sufficient to run trials on the beans.
Good question: it turns out I didn't know there's a technical difference between "hazard ratio" and "relative risk". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_ratio

But the basic idea is that in the samples under the two different conditions, the ratio of the observed frequencies is 1.3 or 1.8. E.g. it'd be 1.8 if in the fasting sample they saw 3.6% bad outcome, while in the nonfasting sample they saw 2.0% bad outcome.
Ask HN: YC co-founder matching is bad
I'm wondering is there a monthly or periodically post on HN where we could actually learn about other people's ideas or people who are just in development phase or maybe just researching and are looking for co-founders.

I'm wondering what everyone thinks.
It is a bit of effort, but you can make the computer do the verification for you by writing (or generating) a simple text file. Using Perl shasum because I'm on a mac at the moment, but Linux sha256sum works the same:

$ echo hi > some_file
$ shasum -a 256 some_file > check
$ cat check
98ea6e4f216f2fb4b69fff9b3a44842c38686ca685f3f55dc48c5d3fb1107be4 some_file
$ shasum -a 256 -c check
some_file: OK
$ echo $?
0
$ echo bye > some_file
$ shasum -a 256 -c check
some_file: FAILED
shasum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
$ echo $?
1

Edit: Oh cool, at least perl's shasum allows reading from stdin so you can even skip the file if you're just copying some check file off the software's website:

$ shasum -a 256 -c - <<EOF
> 98ea6e4f216f2fb4b69fff9b3a44842c38686ca685f3f55dc48c5d3fb1107be4 some_file
> EOF
some_file: OK
TikTok is the first piece of computer software that I'm treating like a dangerous and currently legal recreational drug. No doubt lots of fun, obviously not good for you, don't need it, so simply not gonna use it.
> My expectation is that the judges you know are not Supreme Court Justices.

This is true, but one is federal. And substantially younger than most of the SCOTUS justices. He doesn't know how to use a web browser. Which, to be honest, was actually unbelievable to me, since even the older clients at the homeless shelter I volunteer with know how to use a web browser. How do you even function in today's world without this knowledge? I guess a job for life and a rotating staff of ambitious brown nosers who are willing to google things for you is the answer.

Of course judges don't need to be experts on everything. But you seem to misunderstand my critique of the bench. This isn't akin to "can't write a novel" or "never read Shakespeare"; it's more akin to "actually functionally illiterate in anything outside of law and some subset of the humanities".

You might not care that a judge hasn't read this or that book, or never wrote a short story, for example. But if your judge didn't know how to read?! You might have some serious concerns. That's the state of affairs with respect to numeracy and technology.

For that reason, the rest of your post seems like fairly non-responsive to my primary concern.

In particular, I don't doubt the raw capability or intelligence of SCOTUS justices (or other judges). Becoming a federal judge is incredibly difficult; these are bright and highly motivated people.

But I do think many judges lack the basic numeracy and technical literacy required to know what they don't know, or learn what they need to learn. Again, the baseline here is less like "never written code" and like "doesn't know how to use Chrome".

A secondary concern is a lack of humility, which is of course a precondition for learning. Combined with a sort of general innumeracy among the elite set. I can give some examples of opinions that put this combination on display.
Google started this didn't they? Making the users the products?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612475/ is a review of Britton's research discussed in the article. It presents several points of evidence with a coherent argument for why meditation brings benefits while an excessive level of meditation may cause adverse effects.
"Unfortunately, this interpretation completely misses the random forest for the decision trees."

Nice one Andrej!
Can you provide examples of such?

I'm not calling bullshit, I'm honestly curious. I'd like to experiment with them - maybe using a paper or clay "sabot" that encases the seed, then fire it out of a relatively low-pressure pneumatic barrel.

I'm imagining a fixed-wing drone with a downward-facing semi-auto "seed gun" that fires seed "bullets" from a magazine. It sounds like a fun side project that touches on several of my hyperfixations :)
> Computer load up celery man please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
Regarding Lenovo:

I bought an original Macbook Air. It always worked well. As it got on to about 10 years old, I took it in to an Apple Store a couple miles from my house and asked if they could replace the battery. The battery worked pretty well, but I figured.. the machine was going strong and if they still had batteries in stock, I should grab one now and the laptop will live even longer. They replaced the battery for $99 and when it came back (3 days later), they also replaced the motherboard for some reason. I don't know why, but basically, aside from the screen and the keyboard, it's a new machine. I still use it today -- the only thing I can't really do on it is edit 4K video.

Two years ago I bought a Lenovo gaming laptop for my son. A couple of weeks ago the keyboard stopped working. We bought a replacement keyboard and swapped it out. Still didn't work. So, something on the motherboard. When we called and asked about getting it fixed, they said it wasn't in warranty anymore and the price to diagnose and replace the broken part couldn't be estimated, nor could they estimate how long it would take. We'd have to ship it to a third-party repair center. So my son is walking around his college campus with a Lenovo laptop and an external keyboard, for a laptop we bought 2 years ago for almost $2,000.

So, no. No Lenovo for me. And given my previous stupendously negative experience with Dell (they couldn't repair 2 brand new machines that were shipped to us with broken WiFi and took so long to declare it unrepairable the machines couldn't be returned either -- two machines bought together had to be reported in separate calls to tech support and the third party tech support people who came to the house weren't very knowledgable -- calls disputing the non-returnable declaration took so long to return and were bounced among so many unhelpful people at Dell Headquarters they basically convinced me to give up, buy third-party wifi cards and live without Bluetooth in these machines), no Dell XPS laptops for me either.

On those experiences, I'll only spend my own money on Apple laptop hardware.
That's an apt typo!
Saw this interesting Twitter thread with some data yesterday. In fact it doesn't seem derailments are unusually high compared with history. It seems they may even be decreasing.

https://twitter.com/mike10010100/status/1627344918220767232

The complaints about precision scheduled railroading are valid though. Every foamer has been talking about it. And again as your link shows this derailment (like many) had absolutely nothing to do with the overturning of the breaking rule that has frustratingly grabbed everyone's attention. (I guess everyone loves a simplistic explanation that blames government officials even if it's wrong.)
people can choose how the tone of their education. some people may want brass tacks engineering and to focus on getting a job.. some people may want a philosophical approach... its a good thing that there are lots of diverse mindsets out there.
Technology doesn't have family members you can cripple.
Newer ThinkPads are a lot better in this regard — my X1 Nano Gen 1 for example has a 16:10 2160x1350 450 nit matte IPS panel that looks excellent. These models aren't that well liked by ThinkFans though.