skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm however not by and large a programmer by profession.

That explains it. Different risk tolerances when you're not reliant on it for a living.

Apologies for whatever I was flagged for, if I came across as rude in text that was not my intention. Legitimate curiosity.
My guess would be nuts, vegetables, and meats (like fish). Some fruits are okay though, like low sugar ones (avocados). I personally have tested my diet for years and found this diet to be optimal for me, and in line with most current research on what the body needs—and what the body should stay away from.

Many people would consider a diet like this difficult, but if you approach it correctly (I end up cooking a lot of szechuan cuisine), it's quite easy—and delicious!
> Life on earth evolved in the oceans, so the oceans had to exist for eons before life evolved

I can't intelligently contribute to the overall discussion here, but I know one of the most interesting things about the currently understood timeline is the apparent lack of eons between the earliest conditions conducive to life after its initial cooling and the earliest evidence of life. Don't quote me on exact numbers, but within margins of error, as I understand it, it's like in the range of millions of years, not billions (which has all sorts of interesting implications for both the Fermi paradox and religious thinkers) Though, as far as I know, you'd still be correct on the distance to photosynthesis.
Before he resigned, Steve Bannon said, "Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us."

That's the most recent statement by a high-ranking government official that I've heard, but it's so high that it has to be an exaggeration. Anyway, to surpass Hiroshima, they don't need anywhere near that amount. They just need about 3x what your estimate says they had in 2012. Less if Seoul has grown in population density during that time.
Yes, the Hue hub will expose a local internal REST API where you can easily GET the status of your bulbs and POST updates, and really do anything the Hue app can.

You just curl to your hub and everything...works.
There's nothing wrong with whole grains or fruit. The book "Wheat Belly" is terrible science.

Also, my wife is a registered dietitian with a PhD, not a "nutritionist".
Think about how large of a lens you're talking about. Even if it were one hundred meters across and was able to collect 100% of the sun's energy passing through it, the amount of energy produced would be utterly insignificant compared to the problem we're discussing. And how would you get a one hundred meter lens to mars orbit? Even after that, you have to consider that we want an oxygen atmosphere, not one made of water vapors.

I don't know what you mean by "too far removed from current capabilities", but I doubt we'll even start working on the problem for two or three centuries.

No, it seems more likely to me that we'd use our growing knowledge of genetics and psychology to hack out the part of ourselves that needs to be outside, and opt for a purely enclosed existence on Mars.
With lenses you could also burn the soil to produce gases that add up to he atmosphere ... but we want breathable atmosphere. With lot's of oxygen and very little co2. And that is a bit harder ...

So you also couldn't just vaporize the ice, you need to split it up. Solar heat could be sufficient, but the water will then be missed everywhere else on mars where life wants to grow.

And Mars is dry.

So I would first use the water in enclosed habitats. And then after, if there is plenty of water left, one could start to think about smoking that up ..

But there might be other options, once you have lot's and lot's of autonomous machines and rockets available and allmost unlimited fuel (sun?). But without that? Not a chance ...
It's a problem that has always existed. We are only now more aware of it because there are fewer barriers to communication.

Technology is an easy scapegoat for what are very human problems.
Honey has micronutrients HFCS doesn't have. But by far the biggest difference is price. You won't overeat honey simply because you won't want to pay 21 times more. And for a taste that is not a direct replacement of sugar and may not combine well with everything.
This sounds suspiciously like the mid 1990's when everyone was bemoaning how the big software companies had basically ended the at home software startup shop. Then the web struck and all these big companies had to get nimble enough to complete with the scrappy little web shops. This basically happened again the mid 2000s with smartphone development.

I'm not sure if the machine learning revolution will favor the guy at home with a GTX 1080, but until we go for a decade or more without any big hardware/software companies starting up then I will believe it.

OTOH, I suspect that the US as lost the competitive advantage to china in this regard. The "IOT" revolution probably isn't going to start in the US since all the little board dev shops are in china where you can actually purchase all the little parts you need without having to wait 6 weeks for a part or pay 10x in shipping.
> Why are you assuming that Google is going to trust these people implicitly?

How are they going not to? Hand-verify each provider and each claim? Not scalable and volatile, reliable site today can become trashy in two years. It's either completely uncurated list (welcome, 4chan trolls, food bonanza for you!) or list curated according to biases of a small overworked team isolated somewhere deep in the guts of Google corporate behemoth. What other options are there for selection?

> They are providing markup so they can associate claims of fact with identities

URLs already provide that markup. Google's markup assigns specific elevated role to "fact-checkers", implying they are somehow more authoritative than the original article, otherwise there won't be any need for special designated status for them.

> They can then choose how to weight those claims using other evidence.

That's what I am afraid of - that they (Google) would choose to weight the claims according to how they see fit, thus blocking from me information they consider not necessary for me and skewing my informational stream.
> unless it becomes a market standard and employees demand it.

There doesn't need to be a market standard, employees just need to unionize.

Remember, unions don't need to interfere with salaries or working conditions in any other way. And in fact union agreements in tech would likely be super minimal and focus on only a handful of issues, since for the most part the market already offers reasonable salaries and benefits.

There is already work happening to unionize some of the biggest tech companies, I think it's actually going to happen because it's a huge win/win for both the employees and employers. Employees get fair equity agreements and the right to own their side projects, and employers get a reduced cost of hiring because unions can take on part of the burden of vetting candidates and making sure they can follow security practices.
There are probably more people hopping onto VS Code than people jumping off.
Right, but when the most likely outcome is that it will make the problem worse rather than solving the argument for not trying becomes a little stronger.
Smart and easy-to-use image masking and cutout SDK for mobile apps, 1.4k stars
Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis: Properties of Expanding Universes
Everything except red meat and dairy, honestly.

But if you want to know what we believe to be true about which foods are healthy, there's probably no better starting point than Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate.

- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...
There is no question that TLS is loaded up with cruft and dangerous legacy goo.

But, again, you can remove 80-90% of it if you don't care about compat. People run into a cognitive block when they think about TLS because they assume TLS means "browser compatible". But no browser speaks a NaCL transport today, so that's out the window.

Without the requirement to support browsers, you can:

* Allow only an ECDH handshake.

* Allow only the Chapoly ciphersuite, in TLS 1.2's AEAD format.

* Eliminate CAs and do an SSH-style key-continuity scheme.

This TLS "subprotocol" already exists and is already supported by most of the TLS libraries, all of which have been audited. It's supported by middleboxes and monitoring tools so it can be deployed operationally. Every mainstream programming language has bindings to it. Meanwhile, NaCL doesn't actually provide a transport protocol or even the security semantics of a secure transport; that's work you'll have to do de novo, and you will generate bugs doing it.

So what's the advantage to scrapping TLS and redoing it with NaCL?
Arguments that are based on the premise that everyone else is stupid are condescending and wrong.

https://xkcd.com/1901/
> But your examples aren't 'facts', they're 'opinions'.

Exactly.

> we shouldn't be pretending that those example claims can possible be 'fact'.

We shouldn't. But "we" do all the time. Slapping API and UI with Google logo on it won't change that. But it would let people pretend that now these are "facts" - after all, the source of all knowledge in the universe, Almighty Google says right here "fact check"! How's that not a fact?!
The main title in the article ("The Toxic Truth") is a tribute to UCSF's famous Dr. Lustig of the lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" [1], which is a fascinating and well worthwhile lecture about the biochemistry of fructose as it relates to obesity. I thought I'd just watch a few minutes of it and ended up sitting through it and learning a whole lot.

He also wrote a book on the topic("Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease")[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0095ZMPTU/
I absolutely pay for YouTube in a package deal with Google Play Music.

$15/mo for the family plan.
Sure, but at some point Google has to decide whether they're a search engine and should return relevant results based on what the user is looking for or a publisher that curates results and is therefore responsible for the content that appears in their results.
Why are you asking for evidence for my claim, and not the parent's "another possibility"?

I'm getting tired of this new fad of dismissing someone's comment by demanding evidence for it.
I concur with parent.

Health insurance: if you're freelance, your health insurance is preferably private (cheaper) and you're free to cancel it if you please.

Capital gains: is for speculations, can choose to "be a saver not a gambler".

Church tax: is for church members, don't join.

Gewerbesteuer: is for LLC/Ltd/GmbH/UG etc --- not for freelancers/Freiberufler

Pflege: never joined that in my whole life. Seems to be optional then.

Rundfunk: this becomes an issue when you register as a resident or fail to deregister as a resident. Now, not being registered as a resident while residing qualifies as "offense"/"misdemeanor" (Ordnungswidrigkeit), not as a crime, last I checked =) (I registered though, when I moved back here after years abroad. Though in retrospect, I have no idea why I did --- for someone who never makes it to the voting booth, all it gives you is GEZ hassles.)
Unstructured control flow is easily emulated with switch statements. In fact it's what emscripten did long before asm.js was made, IIRC.
Kids today don't watch TV anymore. Their source of entertainment is gaming on the PC. My 14 year old plays every evening and is on Discord with his schoolmates (a group of about 4-6). At some point they pull out their homework and work on it together and chat, laugh, argue and discuss the school day. It's actually really nice to see them work and help each other. I would encourage all parents to have your kids setup Discord Channel for themselves and friends to do homework together.
Social Media as an idea was great when it started. But like any idea, when taken to an extreme, it tends to do disservice to its many participants. It seems often some product ideas are just better when they are not scaled. Craigslist, HN news, Basecamp - are good examples.
"If that's the case, why haven't we been hit by any in recorded history that gave us more water?"

Most of the comets whose orbit intersects with Earth's orbit collided eons ago.

Some comets still enter the inner Solar System, of course, but it's going to be extremely rare for one to be on the right path to hit the Earth.
I firmly agree with both of you :-) There is a balance to be struck here. Certainly a 14-year-old should be helping with the running of the household to some extent, but they also need free time.
Einstein's theory of happy living emerges in Tokyo note
I wonder if it ever occurs to these people that I can still see (on linkedin) that you're a "senior javascript engineer" who just graduated from college 2 years ago. 2 years ago you really were a 'senior', but now it's just title inflation?

I also wonder if these same people assume everyone else with "senior" in their title has as little experience as they do.
Given the US uses HFCS a lot, whereas many other countries use other sugar, it would be interesting to compare liver disease rates since the 1980s in the US vs non-HFCS countries.
You are underestimating the significance of this. The economic security of the US rests to a significant extent on the fact that there's far more fundamental innovation going on here than anywhere else in the world. Whoever pays for it, ends up owning it, which is not a problem if the innovation in question is just some inconsequential bullshit like a business model. It becomes a problem when it's something that is a force multiplier: AI, hardware, big data, etc. You don't want to let the Middle Eastern hereditary theocratic dictatorships to play with any of this stuff, or own large chunks of the US innovation sector. You also don't want Communist China to play with it either, but I guess it's too late for that now.
Just stop using it. It's really not that difficult. Admit you're addicted and browse impulsively and then give it up.
They should get nix working in there. That would be catastrophic!
But of course you are above that sort of thing. Condescension isn't an argument.
School is horrible at teaching people to tackle non-trivial projects, because almost no time is spent practicing it.

Figuring out how to break a large job into small pieces, do one piece at a time, and stick with the project until all of the pieces are done is a critical skill which can only be learned through practice.

Someone who is 8 or 10 years old should be able to start doing projects that take hours of sustained effort stretched over a few days (as compared to the typical schoolwork which consists of externally specified small exercises that require a few minutes each), with a lot of hand holding. By age 18, after 10 years of consistent practice at the edge of their ability, students can certainly learn to deal with projects taking a month or more of sustained independent effort for a little bit of time every day.
> the article's real point is that they're also worn out by the emotional labor of being a repository for all of their parents' expectations and insecurities and frustrations

Stunningly well said.
And I agree with you to a great degree (South African here...)

The problem is still, it's unlikely to be the solution. If we want the west to change there are two ways to go.

1. Legislation - This is the force option, i.e. if you break the law you go to jail and we'll come and take your property by force.

2. Market - Make technology that makes alternatives easier/more efficient/sexier etc.

2 is hard especially if alternatives are more expensive or about the same. Cost of panel can't really go much lower so we're stuck. Many people on the eco side don't like Nuclear (they're crazy).

Technology is getting better and I think small steps in regulation (i.e. taxing emissions slightly) may work. That's the direction that we're heading in so I'm pretty hopeful.
Been using this for quite a while now, awesome app. Solved all my needs for a decent SSH terminal, and even for running a pocket version of Emacs.
Houston during the day, South Africa in my dreams.

I'm there once a year. I'll pin this.
You should talk to a tax laywer
Seems like wasm would be a better platform for crypto mining in the browser than js is.
Emscripten has a specially-designed algorithm called relooper for reconstructing control flow (there’s a paper on it!). Switch statements are its last resort.
If not for corporate racketeering the immigrants would not have been let in. Someone funded those politicians and their legislation because they wanted cheap workers, more democrat voters, the destruction of the white middle class etc.

Not saying it's the migrants' fault but they're involved. It's not crazy (or even racist!) to say you want them gone when the effect of their arrival is your political, cultural and economic disempowerment.
Facebook's new “Explore Feed” kills publisher reach
This blog post really shows how overly complex their system is. I'm constantly bumping into state management rendering issues on the 'new' LinkedIn. For example, when you add a new connection, you can't immediately send them a message until you reload the page. Pretty much the number one workflow you'd expect someone using the site to do.

"Before releasing it to the public, we knew it had to be at least as fast as our existing site."

Which wasn't saying much because the original site didn't load well at all. At least it didn't have all the state management issues. It is like they take all these newfangled technologies and then struggle to implement them correctly. So sad.
Sort the table. Germany is second.
not so sure i would call this frozen:

https://www.aranca.com/assets/uploads/articles/images/01_Num...

note, the 2017 figure is the first half compared to full years.
How do I develop a complex open source scientific application alone?
The amount of micronutrients in honey is inconsequential, it is measured in single digit milligrams per hundred grams. It consists primarily of sugars and water, and the main component is fructose.
So, after "optimizations [...] to further reduce the resulting bundle size", a Java command-line "Hello World" is still 21.7 MB. I've found a Node.js version (using node-packer [1]) to be about the same size.

However, as mentioned in the article, "Hello World" in Go is an order of magnitude smaller. The article may be right that Java is "the best choice available" for cross-platform GUI apps, but for cross-platform command-line tools, I think Go is currently the best option. IMO Go provides the best tradeoff between ease of development, ease of distribution and runtime performance.

[1] https://github.com/pmq20/node-packer
I heard that a16z did something similar when they started - they were willing to pay a significant premium because 1) they had more conviction in their bets and 2) to win deals/access when starting off.

Softbank is just doing this on steroids, and we'll see what happens. Though I am glad that this much capital is at least being directed to high growth tech companies creating things (rather than being used for financial engineering like MBS/CDOs)
The "Nones" are actually two different groups of people:

(1) Those with religious belief but no religious affiliation. They believe in God and/or an afterlife, but they don't participate in or identify with any organised religion.

(2) Those with neither religious belief nor affiliation. They say that there is no good reason to believe that God exists and that when we die we irreversibly cease to exist.

Both groups are growing, but group (1) is significantly bigger than group (2).

I'm not sure how helpful it really is to lump these two groups together.
The real genius of Buffet is not the ability to make series of good investments, it's how he has structured his business.

Berkshire makes steady amount of money (float and profit) from insurance business. They have always cheap money to invest, even in bad times when money is expensive.

When there is downturn and buying opportunities arise, other investors must sell something good, arrange expensive financing, or dilute their stock to buy something new. Buffet just buys.
> I doubt that peoples' capacity for willpower has changed, but that the exercise of that capacity has.

You say this so matter-of-factly but it's actually quite a claim. I think people are right to call you on it.

I understand there is a general feeling that past generations "made do with less" and "had greater moral fiber" and so on, but I'm also a little suspicious of that kind of thinking.
I'm not sure if a business-focused article discussing an order of the aircraft really needs to make mention of it?
I am not familiar with the "long tail" book or the particular internet theory, but I used to work for a company which owned an actual windsurfing website. They only sold advertising to what they called "endemic" advertisers, which means they are of the industry that supports the niche; in this case windsurfing. They dealt directly with the advertisers. The reasoning was that "non-endemic" ads would sour their allegiance with the niche audience they served. I would be interested in some research on this theory.
11-year-old girl inspired by Flint water crisis creates cheap kit to test lead
You don't need to customize your software every month. I haven't customized my configs for over 3 years now. I am running linux and it is a one-time effort.
What I'm really curious about is how they're going to deal with radiation. At the required altitude your pilots and attendants can't do a normal routine. You'd get too high of a dosage, unless things are shielded. But that is heavier.
Palmer Luckey’s new company Anduril interested in AR and VR on the battlefield
On the contrary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

Look at that line, and note which non-European countries speak Spanish and which ones speak Portuguese.

For instance, Brazil wound up being Portuguese (a rarity in South America) because it stuck over the line into Portuguese turf.
Proton kind of gets around this, they've got a service you can use to send encrypted emails externally and also get replies to them securely as well - https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou...

No idea how good it is, or if it does what it says on the box though.
Insignificant compared to the tens of thousands or airplanes flying daily.