skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago I remember reading a syndicated health column in the newspaper by Dr. Peter Gott, and at the end of many of his columns he advertised his "No Sugar, No Flour" diet book. Turns out it's still for sale to this day - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-h-gott-md/dr-...

It's a simple way to avoid sugar and flour in your diet, therefore removing a lot of carbohydrates and therefore calories. A few years ago I tried it (with the addition of no dairy, as that was how I remembered it), and I lost 30lbs in 3 months.

Of course, like any diet if, you don't permanently change your lifestyle you will gain the weight back, and as I one-by-one started back with the bread and sweet foods and snacks, it all came back.
IMHO, it really needs to go through a standards organization in order to claim to be a "standard"...
I will also give you the benefit of the doubt in this case. I guess I've been having some profound realizations as of late how the most important teenager in my life is utterly consumed by memes, and my fellow Americans are consumed by political news, and from where I stand, I am frustrated that what is so obvious to me is so difficult to explain to the entertained/frightened/insert emotional state here.

I don't mean to call you out as the most extreme example of my point, nor do I mean to show that this is the first time I am seeing this. But I see this optimization toward 8 lane highways we construct from content creators towards our brains, for the purposes of being entertained while exerting the least amount of effort necessary, as a giant imbalance toward the content creators, at the expense of the content consumers.
My comment was trying to address the idea of big numbers. People can say there are so many planets there must be other life out there. But relative to the numbers that can be involved here, 10^22 is not that big of a number.

You raise two very good points. The first (or really second) is multiplicity. For the DNA example I gave, there are many different valid human DNA patterns, and there are surely many non-human good patterns. We divide out number of parameters by the multiplicity. I don't think this generally have a big effect on the size of the _exponent_ we are talking about even if it does change the number by a large factor.

The other point is that this was an evolutionary process. What this means is that we could stop and save our work along the way, due to reproduction/replication. When the monkeys try to type Hamlet, they have to start over each time. If one gets the last character wrong, it is back to the drawing board. A better evolution analogy would be if the scientist could stop a monkey when he got the first paragraph and then give that as a starting point for other monkeys. This _does_ seem like it could make a big difference in the size of the exponent.

Back to the size of that exponent - it is roughly the number of components of the system. We are composed of 10^29 atoms. There aren't even that many planets, let alone a number raised to that exponent. Even the most simple life consists of many atoms, but the size of our universe only supports putting a small (100?) number of components together. Given this, I am personally still skeptical the universe is big enough to create life besides us.

I do have one more thing I want to mention related to why life looks easy. When we look back at our evolution, it looks like it was easy, even inevitable. But there is one thing to consider. Imagine we lined up 10^300,000 monkeys or whatever it would take to type Hamlet, and we put a scientist behind each one to check the monkey's work. Imagine if you were the scientist behind that one monkey that actually pounded out all of Hamlet. Given that you did not see the other 10^300,000 attempts, what would that look like to you?
Eating out is fine, stick to restaurants and choose healthier meals and always avoid pizza joints, buffets, and fast food.

> Finding groceries that don't have added sugar is also tricky

Also easy to avoid: if it isn't fresh from a plant or animal, you probably shouldn't eat it. Or at least eat much less of it and be discerning about what's in it and where you buy it from.

You can generally assume that if something is refined, processed, or often even packaged, it likely has added junk you really should not be eating.
Carried over from last year:

- Finish lisp and react (by implementing deployable programs in both).

- Get a part time freelance/remote gig to support me during this phase.

Primary Objective this year:

Develop my business intuition and common sense i.e. improve my meta-thinking. I plan to read a lot of books (50 is the ambitious target), write more and get feedback.

Also, get a freelance gig to fund all the above.
That is useful in the US, but in Europe boring but useful databases are still covered by copyright.
While normally following math notation is good, the lack of composability shown in the article is a real drawback of that syntax.
I did something similar last year and quitting sugar cold turkey was probably the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. I documented my experiences over each of the four weeks: http://avadhutp.github.io/no-sugar-challenge-week-1-update/
> haven't tried Sensory Deprivation Tanks

Cheap replacement - brain machine. Combines stroboscopic light flashes with binaural beats. Pretty trippy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_machine

Even cheaper - foam padded meditation mask (Mindfold Mask) and ear plugs. It puts you in total darkness and silence. Samadhi tank offers the same deal + floating in liquid, which is not so essential. If you can sit alert in total blackness for 30 minutes, you will lose your spatial orientation completely and feel like you are suspended in void.

I have practiced meditation for 20 years (normal meditation, without samadhi tanks and brain machines) and what is essential is to focus your attention and keep it on its object. It really feels like something different than day to day experiences, after a while. There is much potential for life hacking through meditation, the brain being so complex and open.
- Sleep on my back

- Meditate daily
Of course, in the real world, furniture is 3D, and the obstacles you move move furniture around are also 3D. Bannister that's 3 feet high, couches with curved arms, ceilings have heights, stairwells...

Part of the fun of moving is trying to figure out how to orientate furniture to get it into a room - or out of the room, since someone already got in there so of course it must come out.
What about making an interactive version of theaeticle with klipse?
Looks like it's finally compatible with modern versions of outlook.
Some of the secret names of sugar I came across when I was sleuthing in the supermarkets—agave nectar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, or corn syrup solids, dehydrated cane juice, dextrin, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, honey (probably heated and not raw, thereby losing all its nutrients), invert sugar, lactose, maltodextrin, malt syrup, molasses, raw sugar, rice syrup, saccharose, sorghum or sorghum syrop, sucrose, syrup, treacle, turbinado sugar, xylose, etc.
Email marketing is ridiculously cheap in terms of retention compared to most other forms of marketing. You 'own' the list, unlike with Facebook and Twitter. You can push to the list, unlike Google.

I can't talk for startups, but I have worked with very big enterprises on email marketing and all their analysis said email was the most cost-effective over the customer lifecycle.
"That's some nice data you go there, guys. It'd be a shame if... somebody scraped it and kept that page view and ad revenue for themselves."

Again ironically, this will put Google out of business if they keep it up, unless they can start to collect all that data on their own or otherwise incentivize content producers to allow them access.
craiglist on amazon? amazon is getting bigger and bigger and is making ebay obsolete I feel.
We add salt, we just don't add as much as "normal". We generally cut salt from a recipe about in half, or skip it if we're adding another salted component (ie, salted butter, bullion, etc). Salt is generally added as a finisher to the recipe to enhance the flavor profile, rather than just throwing a bunch of it in to start out with. We're definitely aware of the value of electrolytes.

We're not anti-salt or anything, we just tend to use less of it than recipes call for, and the effects has been that we notice oversalting more in other foods.
Exactly.

What's worth adding here is I generally have huge logical problem with the whole "acquired taste" thing, I mean if something tastes like crap (I'm referring to coffee, alcohol, marmite etc.) why would ANYONE want to acquire the taste? What's the point of it? When I don't like something I just simply try it once, maybe twice and then I'm like "no, thank you, it's gross".

I used to think I'm beginning to like coffee because I really liked coffee cakes or Kopikos (not sure if you have them in the US), but once you realise these things are 60-80% SUGAR (!) then it's not the coffee you like in it at all, you most likely just carve sugar.
No it goes further than that. They embedded assembly languages & many aspects of computation in HOL then built their compiler. The thing goes straight from logic to assembly with the theorem prover being the TCB outside the specs themselves. Whereas, CompCert was specified in Coq, would probably be extracted to an ML, and then that whole pile of code (hopefully verified to assembly) would do the job. Unless they're doing all the compiles in Coq itself w/ its checker. This is the part I could be really wrong on.

The TCB reduction is huge. Also, seL4 organization built the Simpl embedding of C in that to do "translation validation" (due to Jared Davis) of it straight to or matched against assembly. Skips the need for a CompCert-style, verified compiler altogether. Myreen et al's techniques were also used to verify theorem provers and now hardware.

So, the CakeML effort and its effects are huge. Maybe more so than CompCert given the flexibility & fact that it's a proprietary product now whereas Myreen et al's stuff is open. That's what I said back when I saw it. The prediction was confirmed as COGENT was built on the same technology with amazing results so far in cost of verification:

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml
I find the whole idea hard to understand. Coming from a family with diabetics I grew up knowing the effects of sugar on health and been avoiding it. I do eat fruit just not a lot, unsweetened dark chocolate (a couple of squares a week maybe) and occasionally try cakes but I restrict myself to a couple of teaspoons. I try to buy bread that contains no sugar but if I am eating out I don't get picky about it. I don't feel like I'm missing something and I find it weird when I see people downing cakes, energy drinks, jams, juices etc. To me avoiding sugar doesn't feel like something I need to think about, it feels normal. I can't be alone I'm sure there's others doing the same. Where I'm getting at is that your sugar intake is affected by the environment you were brought up and its something one can change. It's not a compromise.
Is there anything like this for Google Docs, Gmail or Atom?

We've had spellcheckers for decades but I find it really surprising that automated grammar and proofreading checkers aren't in common use yet. For example, having my email client highlight overly long sentences, duplicate words, ambiguous references (e.g. what noun does "it" refer to) and more would undoubtable save proofreading time and doesn't sounds that difficult to implement. I see online comments every few days of someone pointing out the word loose/lose is used incorrectly for instance.

I recall that many grammar checkers suffer from false positives though but has the technology not advanced?
but you still need write them for interview purposes, it is the first step to filter out candidates, no matter how senior you are I think.
Hence the Vellvm project and its ilk:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm
What is a Doubt Club? [pdf]
Building a Solar Proposal Bot
And to pass into the med they need to cross the bosforos which is controlled by NATO.
original poster. i take what i said back and misspoke. i am building my own search engine and am annoyed because blender 3d appears when i do searches for 'blender' and expected the kitchen item result.
Death by graphs
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Thank you! A heads up though, I'm a beginner so the skill level might not be interesting to you :)
Perhaps coincidentally, the ambidextrous sofa has an area scarily close to the sum of inverse squares, \pi^2/6 \approx 1.6449341...
Fair enough. Have an upvote for giving me some interesting reading, though!
You might checkout out [Duet](https://www.duetdisplay.com/) which I have used for years (currently on the 12.9 iPad Pro) and really takes the edge off for me. It works perfectly and turn an iPad into a damn good display.
>Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating?

On the other hand, think about it like this:

What if insurance costs $10,000 a month, with a $9900 discount for "healthy behavior", so your average person pays $100 a month.

It's a great deal.

Now what happens if someone gets sick and can't upkeep his healthy behavior?

He loses his insurance.

This defeats the purpose of health insurance, but most people tend not to think of long-term repercussions.
> How terrible would it be to have a doctor tell you to stop smoking? Or to stop drinking? Or stop abusing drugs? Or to stop cutting yourself? It's all self destructive behavior just like overeating.

It's not terrible, it's just pointless. Fat people know they're fat; people who self harm know they self harm and they know it's not ideal.

Merely saying "stop doing that" does nothing ot help them stop.
I disagree with OP point... but I also disagree with yours.

For example, in the new year eve, my parents asked me my objective for 2017, I told them to become strong and healthy.

Both of them were VERY skeptical, and thought it was absurd, specially because in their view, being strong and healthy won't make me pay my bills...

And they are in a way, correct, to stay healthy you need resources and time, not always those are available, for example right now I am unemployed and have no contract, I have plenty of time, but no resources, and I am begging my parents to buy me some gymnastic rings I need for my exercises... but short term, I would be better if I stopped worrying for my health and went to get some short term job, even one blatantly unhealthy one (for example working with garbage).

The thing is, I chased money (Because I was in debt) disregarding my health (out of necessity) from my 18 years until I was about 27 or 28... It is clear now the long term cost has been very, very high, my health is very damaged, yet if I had to go back, I don't think what I could have done differently, the path I took was the only path available to pay my debts, and in my country personal bankruptcy doesn't exist, not paying my debts wouldn't work.
Bear in mind that many people consider abortion to be murder even when the people it "kills" only exist in the theoretical future.

It's not a rational way of thinking, but it is common.
Isn't that still a point in favor of the diet, though? That it's much harder to overeat on it?
Running queries against the songs you played with Alexa
Lots of people saying "nobody does this is real life". I have.

My PhD code (which was too slow and RAM-hungry, having been written in Python...) was a monster, and was a lot less of a monster for order-2 and order-3 nested list/dict comps.

It started out as a 200 line proof of concept (which worked perfectly on an ideal of the system I was studying), and it evolved into a 6,000 line behemoth (~2,000 lines for OpenGL rendering error cases) which would have been 10,000 lines without nested list and dict comps.

By the way, never use networkx on anything you expect to have a large number of vertices or edges. It uses a lot of RAM (esp in undirected graphs where you have backrefs for each edge.) Wrap a C++ graph lib like boost::graphs or something, and code against that interface from the beginning.
Of course, Hillary's email server should be the real story, but everyone wants to talk about Russia instead. If Hillary hadn't broken the law with her illegal server, this wouldn't have been a problem at all. Media has unfortunately jumped on the bandwagon and generated fake news about this (such as the "Russia hacked the U.S. electrical grid").

In the end, Trump won the election. People need to get over it.
How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source community
> …really, it's all about calories in v calories out.

In the absolute sense, you're absolutely right. But in my experience sugar tends to stoke a desire for more, in which case the form calories take is a crucial factor for success.

(Caveats: I know what works for me but couldn't tell you how much of the effects of eating sugar are physiological vs. emotional, etc.)

[EDIT: Typo]
Not to mention huge externalities. In the case of stock markets, things like financial crises, central bank decisions, political events (brexit etc).
are there really trending topics around most b2b topics? most b2b content dont exactly go viral.
> Woah woah woah there. That doesn't follow at all.

And the article acknowledges that it might not, while discussing as yet understudied observations.

In the sentence right before your quote: "We’re still studying this question, but our best answer at the moment is: work hard at something."

While your comment is true (no established causation yet), this reminds me of the climate change debate. For the sake of argument, human carbon production may or may not contribute to global warming. For the sake of argument, global warming may or may not be happening, and may or may not be bad.

But the solution proposed to reduce global warming, "reduce pollution," is good in and of itself. We're pretty sure pollution increases disease and death. It also looks bad and smells bad. How much is too much is debatable, but minimizing it as well as we practically can is a good thing. There are no mainstream proposals, as far as I know, to entirely eliminate pollution (as close as I can come to your equating exercise with professional sports), but dodging climate change has become a way to dodge responsibility for pollution.

Thinking is good. Thinking moderately harder is probably better. Getting up and going to the bathroom is good. Walking to the store is probably better.

If I happen to retain cognitive ability in later years, from exercise and thinking, great. But regardless, I'll do it because it's already good for me in other ways.
It's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology.

The top story, Apple's refusal to bend to the governments request to assist in compromising security on the iPhone, was hugely important.

It's also interesting that Google/Facebook/Amazon have not made anything like the same commitment to user rights and privacy.
That sounds plausible, but on the other hand, it also sounds plausible that the immediate discomfort of dieting for most people would outweigh the immediate financial incentive.

An additional plausible explanation, that always has to be considered until it's eliminated, is that wellness reward programs don't work at all, but tap into the psychology of the HR managers who buy that kind of stuff.

I was only thinking in terms of a simplistic "homo economicus" model, in which a worker acts rationally in their own best interest. If we abandon that model, I'm not sure we have a useful alternative.
You don't digest fiber for calories. Counting that the same as carbohydrates for most dietary purposes doesn't make any sense at all.
1. not using my cellphone while in the bathroom and not actually sitting in the toilet unless i was almost ready to 'do business'.

2. not eating anything past 8pm.
Exactly, its very important to get enough sodium. Cook your own meals and add salt.

For anyone who works out or is starting to its good to remember you lose salts while you sweat as well.
There's something else parallel arrays give you: control over the visibility of fields based on subsystem that needs those fields.

Because the index into the arrays is the identifier for an entity, subsystems can keep attributes related to the entity in their own private arrays. They don't need to modify record definition or use some complicated attribute extension mechanism or associative lookup mechanism. Their access will be just as efficient as other attributes.

It is indeed about row-oriented vs column-oriented, but the distinction isn't merely "storage layout", like how you'd choose to the order of dimensions in a multidimensional array.

Rather, it affects how the software is designed, developed and debugged. The referenced PDF with a defence of the approach by Adam Rosenberg is quite interesting: http://www.the-adam.com/adam/rantrave/st02.pdf - particularly pages 16 and onwards until you get the point.

Adam Rosenberg has some real points. The billions of dollars lost to insecure programs written in idiomatic C style wouldn't have happened, at least not in the same way, with the parallel array approach. For my part though, I think that parallel arrays represent a local maximum. I found Adam fairly convincing, and I think the approach is probably superior to pointer soup for programs that can fit inside a single person's head. But I don't think the approach scales; you need better encapsulation and composition tools to scale up, and those come with more indirections.
> create a new "Astronomy Celestrial Time" zome

TAI already exists and it's free from leap seconds. Operating systems and time protocols should absolutely use this. Too bad that both POSIX time and NTP time are infected by leap seconds.
Terrific. #1 American cultural export is National Lampoon's Animal House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWjtI6n5xWM
Surely now we can agree that it is FINALLY time to adjust our planet's orbit to correct for this problem once and for all.
Chinese AI crushing pros on Fox server?
Not very long ago I posted a Ask HN about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12366364
It's actually Alphago playing top go professionals at 30s per move on the Tygem go server. Score at 31st December: 30-0.
I wonder what evidence, if any, will arise about more contemporary presidents-elect making deals with heads of state with interests opposed to the American people's.

Would it surprise anyone to find direct communication and collusion?
I'm using Google Chrome in an instrumented fashion on https://urlscan.io/ and I've always thought that using Chrome that way would make a pretty good crawler. Maybe this is me being naive, but it's certainly not surprising that crawlers do execute JavaScript at this point in time.
I like to search Algolia for PDFs from time to time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pdf&sort=byPopularity&prefix=f...
Perhaps. But if you're copy-pasting scripts from other sources into your platform without [being capable of] vetting them, then it fundamentally undermines the security of the platform.
I know, but given that people trying to lose weight generally have a problem overeating carbs, "giving yourself credit" for fiber carbs overcomplicates tracking and most people tend to underestimate digestable carbs taken in, so counting fiber against your quota can help correct for that error. Trying to "game" your carb intake by padding with fiber will work for the ultra-disciplined, but will probably just result in a false sense of intake levels for most people.