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My mother suffers from depression and is medicated already for quite some time. Every year when autumn comes her condition gets worse and she ends up in hospital for few weeks where they change her medication and let her recover just to experience the same during the next year. What's especially stunning to me is the reaction of my father and my family who instead to provide her with support and peaceful environment just sends her to hospital instead.

From my perspective this all seems to be caused by the lifestyle she lives and her immediate surroundings - she's like under constant pressure to behave the way the rest of the ppl expect from her and she cares too much about what other ppl think about her. Another cause which I think is quite relevant is that she doesn't have much friends or hobbies of her on own so she's too dependent on my father who mostly cares for himself.

I'm trying to talk to my larger family about this problem but most of the time they just dismiss my claims about her not having a good life, cause they don't want to make more of a drama by talking to my father to change his habits - they see it like everything is ok and the problem is with my mother who is just mentally ill. This is escalating as I'm slowly getting more and more reluctant to even talk to my farther, sister and the rest of the people who don't see this as a problem. I'm even thinking of translating articles like this so they can read this and possibly understand that's not everything is about drugs. Any ideas of what can I do are welcome as this is the source of my depression and anxiety for quite some time.
sounds like you have some valuable experience to share, but it would be helpful to breakdown how much you are a disagreeing with the article and how much you are disagreeing with tom cruise style psychiatry denial.

clearly there have been people helped by psychiatry, but clearly a lot of it has been debunked because, not a surprise, science is supposed to debunk itself and self-correct and iterate to better things.

so while in general it’s a losing proposition to say the field has no value, we need to separate the concept of science from specifics of how it’s practiced in particular cases. this is not a black and white issue. some drugs and practices and practitioners can be life saving while others are the opposite.

it would be interesting to know how right this article gets things for the claims it makes.
You think the manufacturing is high stakes?

They ship all the equipment for telescopes together on the same ship, because if you lose the mirror you're basically fucked anyway. You're at the mercy of the interstate, the shiphyards, the ship, the seas, the canals, the other shipyards, the other highways, the roads, the drivers, and a bunch of other things.

Manufacturing is important, but it's a lab environment. Getting the stuff where it needs to go is the messy bit.

This even goes into the design. The reason all the telescopes above La Serena are curiously near 8.4M wide is because there's a tunnel which is about 9M wide.
Please don't post snarky dismissals to Hacker News, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

This sort of comment is pure regression to the mean, which is not what we want HN to be.
I second this. I too started intermittent fasting ( 16 hours fast, 8 hour eating window) and can confirm benefits that OP has mentioned. I too noticed better sleep, increased energy and reduced GI inflammation (poop better lol).

I started delaying my breakfast later and later until I was able to eat "breakfast" at 1 PM. I work out (boxing or weights) in the evening at 6 to 7 / 7:30 PM 5 days a week atleast, so my last meal for the day is at 8:30 or 9 PM. I don't eat any meat.

1 added benefit is that you also lose body fat and become lean because it seems that we start burning fat after 12 or 13 hours of fasting.

Initially it was hard, I was feeling hungry, but once you get used to it, you don't miss it. If you are a morning person, do your fast from 5 or 6 PM to 9 or 10 AM. If you are evening person, then do it like me, i.e. fast from 9 or 10 PM to 1 or 2 PM (next day).

Also don't worry about whether you'll have energy for your workout. You get used to it.
I haven't been convinced by any of the research purporting to show that cell phones can give you brain cancer. But why take a chance? I am not usually a fan of CES gadgets but I want one of these.

They were featured on KickStarter as well:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sgnlstrap/sgnl-make-pho...
> You can say the same about sums and multiplication

Yes indeed. In particular how multiplication distributes over addition. It is powerful technology.
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-sweet-spot-for-intermitte...

According to Jason Fung the sweet spot is 18 to 24 hours of fasting for fat loss and autophagy benefits. A 48hr fast shows better results for autophagy but the question of sustainable life style then emerges for the 48 hr schedule.

I fast for 20 hours everyday eating once in the evening. My anecdata confirms that it works for fat loss and improved morning concentration and better sleep.
The WHO actually defines addiction to video games as a (psychological) disease now in their ICD. Not sure if the new list is in effect already, my last update was "will be on the 2018 list".

I vaguely remember the Jonathan Blow video where he talked about Facebook games and how gaming companies hire psychologists to make sure that skinner rat feeling is maximized. It was pretty disturbing at the time, these days tons of games seem to be "optimized" this way. My guess is higher addiction rates are a logical conclusion.
Looking at some Pokemon Go players or WoW players gives me enough anecdotal evidence to think one can get addicted t games quite quickly.
Why one would expose children to this psycho-lab unsupervised...I don't know.
As I understand it, the function that used the xdcbt instruction had an oversight that led to the first set of crashes, so it was rewritten to fix that issue. Even with the fix, the game programmer decided to remove the PREFETCH_EX flag, which is what caused the copy routine to use xdcbt in the first place. So xdcbt ended up in the compiled code, but the flag that caused it to be used wasn't there. The branch predictor ran it anyway, in an unsafe way, leading to the next set of crashes.
> because most varieties of bananas in nature are ugly as hell and have seeds

I've had several different varieties besides the Cavendish; none of them were ugly or had seeds, and most of them tasted better than the Cavendish.

I suspect it's more about yield and where they can be grown and how well they ship (the others I've had were mostly in places close time here they were grown, though Manzanos sometimes show up in California markets as special items.) And the fact that the market is dominated by a couple corporate behemoths that don't really care to compete with themselves and would rather have two product lines (one organic, one not) than a larger number.
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I was shocked to read that the gut microbiome's gene set is about 150 times larger than the human gene complement [1]. I don't know a ton about microbiology, but it seems like that wouldn't drastically increase the time to sequence these microbes since we are talking about total set size, not the size of individual genomes? There is still so much to learn from the human genome alone - I fully expect many of our next great medical advances will come from studying these gut flora.

Hopefully that will also bring a little more science to the probiotics industry :)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779803/
Again, this is really just completely incoherent. "Processing" is a word that means thousands of different and completely unrelated processes. The "number of ingredients" in a food is also a completely incoherent metric - there are hundreds of unique "ingredients" in every natural food on Earth, we just don't report them.

If you think that a specific process, like squeezing oranges, results in a product that has less nutritional value in comparison to a different product (whole oranges), then great. Say that. That is an actionable, specific, testable, and coherent nutritional guideline for society. Meaningless, unscientific buzzwords aren't what we should base nutritional guidelines and policy on.
It has nothing to do with "frigid opinions"; we banned the account for egregious serial abuse of the site.

Please don't do such digressions in HN comments. If you don't think a user should be banned, you're welcome to email us. And of course you can vouch for their good comments.
It looks like Intel won't be selling a socketed version of this, which means this will be available only in laptops and NUCs. I've had trouble with Linux on NUCs in the past. So, I really hope this goes into a new mac mini.
Very well written. Thanks for sharing!
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Where are the L1 caches?
Someone's already done that...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01670-6

Still has to go through all the usual trials, etc, before it can be grown commercially, and then there'd be questions over GM regulation, market-acceptance, and whether the crop is productive and easy to manage for commercial growers to sort. (Usual productisation questions for a new crop variety to have to jump through.)
Agreed, progress or risk mitigation was achieved via regulatory framework, in contrast to suggestion of parent comment, and general to General HN sentiment of free markets for Internet giants.
Not sure if it can fool all cameras, But LEDs seems to bright for some cameras and you can buy hats with embedded LEDs.[0]

Unfortunately this will make you stand out like a Christmas tree on the video. But this must cripple automated facial recognition technology.

[0]: http://odditymall.com/justice-caps-hide-your-face-from-surve...
https://abgc.org.au/2015/05/21/what-assistance-is-resistance...

It seems the industry has been working on -

- identifying "tolerant" varieties of Cavendish (there's more than one)

- a GM fusarium-resistant Cavendish

- management regimes for growing fusarium-tolerant crops in infested soil

Looks like bananas won't be disappearing but could be becoming more expensive for a while.
Made a dark web chat story app in react native.

Currently iOS only:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tormento/id1291133449
While I applaud your efforts to eat well, I'd posit that with some attention, you could measurably decrease the expense if you factor in certain foods and factor out others.

For example, I enjoy tacos as lunch a few times a week. I make them from scratch, and while this doesn't adhere to your recommendation of no starches, I doubt they cost me $1.00 per taco, and that's with avocado, beans, onions, and peppers (plus the tortillas, of course). If I added meat, that would almost double the cost, so I don't.

Other foods are like that too, stir fry with veggies and shrimp, instead of beef saves me another 20-30% on cost.

I also shop at Aldi, or at Wal-Mart as often as befits what foods I'm eating, which knocks another 30-40% off of my food budget.

Eating well doesn't have to cost a ton.
I don't visit Home Depot like I used to. It's basically the cameras--that are everywhere. Along with the underpaid, miserable employees, and ever increasing monopoly prices.

I really despise surveillance, but I am guilty as charged. I have two dash cams in my vechicle.

I think I have a good reason though; being pulled over for driving a old car by our Revenue Collectors, having the nerve to drive past 11:00 pm, and just being pulled over because they can. Oh yea, I'm working on a app that will turn on my smart phone whenever it hears, "Officer".

I think the only remedy to over surveillance will be legislative. I hear it's illegial to video record store employees in France. I don't know if it's true, but we need some of these privacy laws. They will always counter with terrisiom, and theft/vandalism, and the general public will buy it.

Hand up!
It certainly CAN but a regular GPS just sucks compared to the Knowledge.
I realise this is nothing more than my opinion, but I have to tell you that asymmetric spacing around a dash looks awful.
I'm not the person you are asking but I can chime in because I also IF.

For me, I simply eat one meal a day, it's really that simple. For me it's almost always dinner, but if I'm super hungry during the day I'll eat lunch and skip dinner.
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Because most people care about de-risking their portfolio? Out of curiosity, are you long on Dogecoin?
No, IT is not their core business. Banking is. IT is a means to that end.
As an aside, I don’t really like the most common banana available in Australia. Growing up in the southern part of India, I distinctly remember 7 varieties which I haven’t seen elsewhere. If the death of the most common banana means others may become more commonly available, I’m all for it.
The second link is fascinating. I've never come across this algorithm. What a clever solution!

I'm a bit unclear on how the "quads" are chosen (ie. which 4 stars are grouped together). I assume your image and the sky-survey database you're comparing to are at a completely different detail-level. Choosing every combination of 4 stars seems not practical. If you just choose groups of 4 that are next to each other then you may find the database has dozens of stars in between your quad's stars (b/c it's at a higher detail level)

The slides acknowledge this by saying " Finally, there is the additional problem of distractor & dropout stars", but I don't see their solution :)

Maybe this is a clue "Cycle through all possible valid* quads (brightest first) and compute their corresponding codes" but there are no details.
The article is about “India's Vedic Sanskrit pandits [who] train for years”. For anyone who wants a glimpse of what this training (or the result of the training) looks like, there are some great videos on YouTube:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALEHkgOx8EE “Embodying the Vedas - A day in the Śrī Kṛṣṇayajurveda Pāṭhaśālā” (The article mentions the closely related Shukla Yajurveda.) (Examples of the training are from 00:00 to 00:55, from 04:59 to 05:35, from 08:00 to 09:08, from 11:15 to 13:40.)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruuPbvViOe4 “Glimpses of the current status of Vedic tradition in Kerala” (Examples of the training are from 00:00 to 03:44, from 08:45 to 12:57, from 13:15 to 14:46)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbpPAjukHI “Champakaapura Veda Paathashale” (Examples are from 06:35 to 07:43, etc.)

(These three from this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63uIhJxWbgjpQhSwfAmS... ; click around for more.)

If you look at the age at which students start, theories like “people with strong verbal memories will choose to memorize mantras” (proposed in another comment) are easy to discard. Of course, other statistical effects are still possible, such as selection bias (people who do not have or develop the needed memory may abandon training, etc).
I believe each core had its own L1 cache, hence why it’s not possible to see on the diagram.
For exactly the reason johnnyb9 points out up-thread: you don't want to be holding 100% U.S. equities when you're in retirement and the U.S. market crashes.

Target retirement date funds are very different from reverse mortgages. In a reverse mortgage, you're borrowing money, which you pay interest on, which is secured by a large asset you own (your house). The reason they're so dangerous is because you're paying interest on the borrowed money, so it compounds, and can eat up your home equity very quickly.

With a target retirement fund, it's a normal investment which you receive investment returns on, but the asset mix moves from stocks to bonds as you get closer to retirement. The reason for this is that you generally don't want to put any money at risk in the stock market that you can't afford to lose within the next 5 years. Market crashes are unpredictable and often take several years to recover from; if you're in retirement and forced to live off that money month-to-month, you may be forced to liquidate stocks at very low prices, often lower than you paid for them, wiping out your investment gains. You're supposed to move assets from stocks to bonds or other more predictable income streams as you get closer to retirement, so that you know that the money you need to live on will be available when you need it, and can just let the money you don't need to live on sit in the stock market until you do need it.

Target retirement funds automate this rebalancing, dollar-cost averaging out of the stock market as you get closer to retirement so you aren't tempted to panic and pull everything if there's a crash.
Nobody is saying the U.S. is flawless, but people in the U.S. are far more free, prosperous, and safe than those in China. As one simple example, Americans choose who governs them and can openly criticize them. As another, Americans can do all these things you dislike, whether you or the government like it or not.

All of the most prosperous, most free countries in the world are democracies. The most prosperous, most free parts of China are democracies (Taiwan and Hong Kong). As Churchill said (reputedly): Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

I wish my brethren in China great freedom, prosperity and peace.
I have now been seeing from numerous sources that in order to lose weight, diet dominates exercise. One of the reasons is that exercise is associated with compensatory behaviors (such as increased hunger). So exercise for the health benefits, but alter your diet to lose weight.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-exercise-para...
I can choose to leave my phone, or buy a wifi only device, or take the cell modem out.

I can't choose not to be tracked by computers and cameras I don't own, generally. Therefore, the Chinese system is greatly more nefarious since there is no opt-out.
I think that the developer didn't yet have the fixed version. They thought they would be safe because they weren't passing PREFETCH_EX, but the branch predictor decided otherwise.

There were other ways that xdcbt could cause problems (what if the block of memory was freed before being purged from L1) so who knows, and I don't remember for sure.
I highly suspect any highly restrictive diet will have the same effect no matter the restriction. Especially if "junk food" is one of the restrictions.

You hear plenty of stuff like "I went vegan, food tastes so much better now, I've lost weight, I have so much energy, my mood is better, blah blah blah." Same with "alkaline diet," "cabbage soup diet," "low inflammation diet," "bacon diet," "salad diet," "gluten free diet," etc.

Also bananas, apples, and coconut milk have plenty of sugar.

Pick 6 other random non-junk food foods, eat nothing but those for the next couple months, you'll lose weight that way too. Let's just say, off the top of my head, the pork chops, oatmeal, pineapple, orange, green bean, soy milk diet. Try it.
This would skip a lot of the sites that buy ads from Google in the first place. They'd probably rather just purchase it and shut it down.
How do you still fit in around 2.5k cals in the short time where you do eat? In other words, how do you ensure that you maintain your weight while fasting?

I imagine one has to force feed quite a lot in in that period.
It is speed, the speed of light. Particles that have zero mass go at the speed of light. This is a property of the particle. That there is a maximum speed is a property of spacetime however. Even if there were no massless particles we could still discover special relativity, for example by noticing that when you speed up particles they can't get past a particular speed. In the large hadron collider they can speed up particles to 99.9999991% of the speed of light.
That's true, but limiting someone else's freedom to save yourself some money seems to me to be pretty evil. -- I guess what you said doesn't conflict with that idea.
In large teams with a large number of microsoervices, triage is about assigning bugs to teams (and therefore devs) because those who file them (and most of the devs) don't know what service is affected by the bug. That and de-duping of course.
A banana has 30g carbs (15g sugars), while the Trader Joe's peanut butter I am looking at has 7g carbs (2g sugars) in a 32g serving.
I think the L1 caches are the per-core blue blobs visible in this die shot:

https://randomascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/xbox360_proc...

but I'm not sure.
Do you allow for coffee (or tea) in the mornings, or is it just water?
Any thoughts on the old adagium dat breakfast like a king, ...? Skipping breakfast - no dips in the morning?
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OP's remarkable point is that she is restricting food groups, not calories.
The difference between the two meanings has been explained on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve#"Steep_learning...
All clear now, thanks!
Yes, I am aware, my point stands. I highly suspect any diet that restricts most food groups will produce similar effects no matter what the food groups are. It's far from "remarkable," its what happens when you micromanage your diet plus a small dose of the placebo effect. People have written exactly the same thing about a high carb vegan diet, for example.

My mother in law also has a "I just don't eat [several random food groups]" non-calorie restricted diet as well, but the food groups are different, she says the same types of things and lost over 100 pounds and has kept it off for like seven years. Same with other people I know with omitting other random food groups.

(My mother in law actually eats outside her chosen food groups regularly, she just is really, really, really misinformed about what's in food - which further illustrates my point that it's the micromanaging and restriction, not the type of food consumed.)
Moreover, exercise is frequently associated with muscle gain, and muscle tissue being heavier than fat tissue introduces a great deal of uncertainty into tracking one’s weight.
How long did it take for you to observe the positive effects of IF? I tried it for 1 or 2 weeks last year, but didn't observe any benefits.
Also consider that most big players in the game have very little incentive to reduce screen-time in a meaningful way. The more time spent on devices consuming media the more they sell from their App store.
It's a bit of a tricky comparison. Bacterial genomes are jam-packed full of protein-coding genes, while human genomes have genes spread out between much larger regions of both "junk" (viral elements, pseudogenes, and repetitive elements) and regulatory regions.

A human genome is 3 billion base pairs, and a bacterial genome is ~3 million base pairs. Considering there are probably 100-1000 bacterial species of clinical / gut ecological importance in a person's gut, it happens to sort of work out that it takes roughly the same amount of sequencing to sequence your gut microbiome as it does your genome.

Studies like this one do not do that. They only sequence marker genes which describe which bacteria are there (however, this process doesn't include all bacteria, doesn't tell you what those bacteria do, or what their small differences are). It's like a census where you just ask for people's last names.

That being said, after reading I think this was a nice little study. It had a small sample size but pretty clear effects that fit in with a lot of priors that we already have about the gut with regards to butyrate production by specific species.
So essentially you are just skipping breakfast?