skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an entertaining, quick overview of the state of scientific knowledge around keto: https://www.gimletmedia.com/science-vs/ketogenic-diet-should...

Asking here will get you anecdotes, which might be interesting, but won't tell you anything about how likely the diet is to help you. For all you know, it's a placebo effect or something unique to another person's body.
Hi,

Strictly applied, I've followed a "ketogenic" diet by definition. My body operated on ketones for prolonged periods over about a year.

This came from intermittent fasting. This did not come from a strong meat-based diet with high fat. I believe those are very bad ideas.

The process was roughly Mon to Wed/Thu/Fri with no food whatsoever. I used keto-sticks to ensure my body switched to ketones as fuel.

Each day I stepped on the scale, I lost 2/3 - 1 whole KG a day. It was amazing.

Psychologically, there was a sort of buzz that I felt enhanced focus and was pleasurable. I was also amused at how I conquered hunger. It stopped ruling my life and I decided when to each and how much.

Physically, I did not feel like I could climb a mountain or anything. I felt light and floaty, but also slow and somewhat weak. This was not necessarily a bad thing at all. I did _not_ feel heavy and sluggish or lethargic, but rather capable of focus and walking around, just perhaps slower, but more comfortable.

Heads up: the first 3-day session was very hard. Headaches were an issue. From there it became easier. Then second nature.

I lost 20+ kilos over the year, but most of that was during the 3+ day fasts. I took many weeks off throughout the year and easily switched from normal eating to fasting throughout.

I have also tried meat/fat based keto diets and I think they are bad. They did not work for me in any way, and I have red of people damaging themselves from this harmful diet fad. I tried many other diets as well, but fasting was all that worked.

Some of the weight was regained, but I still fit into the clothes I bought at the target weight I reached through this method. I happen to believe this diet is perfectly natural and even medically beneficial.
For a lot of people, deeply subjective-analytical thinking of this sort is very brittle, and they lack the experience that would teach them what to do even if they knew they were lacking some important thing on the hierarchy.

It also happens that some very depressed and anxious people will e.g. read only the "criticisms" portion of the Wikipedia page for the hierarchy concept, and determine in the end that what they need is an experienced professional rather than a possibly-unscientific concept. This is really sad to observe, because their inability to be open to certain kinds of information can make them more dependent, not less.
Immediate business expensing courtesy of the US tax changes.

HP + Dell added 1.7 million units vs the prior year. A substantial boost for them.

From April:

"Tax Windfall Going to Capex Way Faster Than Stock Buybacks"

"Among the 130 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported results in this earnings season, capital spending increased by 39 percent, the fastest rate in seven years, data compiled by UBS AG show."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/trump-tax...
Disappointing that Tencent took my library's name. I'd been using the name since 2006 or so. I guess you can't expect a two-letter lib* name to remain unique. My luck that theirs would become the most well known in this space, though.
That recorded phone call sounds very much like a man impersonating a woman's voice to me.
I see what your saying, but the article says they ARE in the same family,	Asparagaceae. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus
How is this better/different from https://lineage.microg.org/ ?
Ibombshell – Dynamic Remote Shell
Google Chrome’s new Meltdown and Spectre safeguard is a memory hog
gnu is unix
If you want to be safe, you need to intentionally fall in a lot in order to practice getting out.

Generally true of all dangerous activities. This is the purpose of “play” you practice dangerous things in relatively safe, intentional “silly” space, so when you have an actual leopard trying to eat you, you’re not trying newbie stuff for the first time.
I should add, the implementations are neither secure nor fast, but rather designed for ease of human understanding.
It's not really about being able to change yourself, it's about wanting to change so much that you're willing to put in the work. When I did it I had to unlearn a bunch of mental habits, but I also had to change my environment and seek things that were outside of what I knew. Therapy would have done nothing for me if I had let the therapist do all the work. I'm my case the work was to find a new way of living that is aligned with who I am and what I want for myself.

When I went in I had some major anxiety problems, and by working with my therapist I was able to identify where those problems came from. I started taking steps to change how I lived so I wasn't as anxious anymore.
Sold and (never) shipped from Amazon. I only spoke to Amazon reps.
+1 I'm pretty sure multiple rounds of CBT made my anxiety disorders worse. The approach attracts hyper-rationalist types who aren't willing to say anything other than "Your thinking patterns are wrong, you need to fix them." No serious discussion of trauma, identity issues, or relationships. Pure gaslighting. Recently, I finally realized that what I needed was some serious introspection and an empathetic therapist who would help me work through it. For all the bluster about psychoanalysis being quackery, I'm not sure you can disagree with its basic premise that maladaptive personality traits are likely to come from the social context you spent most of your first ~18 years in.
What’s not wild about running through an actual forest?
How large is the market? Determining TAM using the wisdom of an expert crowd
What sort of workloads does your company run? Are they MS Windows or *nix thin clients?
> there really isn’t any direct practical application for knowing the solution

Oh, but math always seems that way. And often, it is. But sometimes, very rarely, your solution to the sofa problem explains a key detail to P vs NP, or allows a breakthrough in transistor design, or improves the airflow calculations allowing for faster jets, etc.

Math's true beauty is that it's never done playing games with us as we realize all the strange connections.
I doubt too many business PCs are being upgraded to run Fortnite.
to be fair you should point out that libco is written in c++, where as OP is actually written in c
You make a good point, but I had a laugh picturing him going "alright, managed to get out of the ice safely. I am 100% ready for leopard attacks."
Nothing is stopping you from talking to the manager..
If 10% changed reading habits that is a big change because those 10% can influence peers through the copy cat effect.
Why convolute the data format and software architecture? The 18 month to 24 hour is gross.

That is a lot of words for little real information. I can’t figure out the target audience.

My favorite line was “XML is a leading open standard for describing and tagging data in industry” which could be rewritten to “For more than 20 years...”
> The concept is based on web services, or micro-services, similar to those you would see on your smart phone

:thinking_face:
Agile, machine learning, cloud, microservices... I wonder if they will also add ICO and blockchain in there.
I can't help but think of the beginning of Battlestar Galactica https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Cylon_computer_virus
If I understand correctly, they're also trying to build a server/cloud thing, so that you have everything out of the box. I'd say they're trying to get LineageOS to the general public.
What about .internal? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-internal-00
Everyone Wants In-Flight Wi-Fi, So Why Is Gogo Struggling?
While it does require your participation for success, you are paying the professional for the tools to help yourself. And sometimes others aren’t able to help themselves, and the professional’s job is to help them discover how to.
Join the military to work on leading edge technology like XML and SAML? Why do people think the military has advanced technology? Aside for aerospace stuff, it seems like they're hugely behind the commercial world.
It might not be awful if it came with a matching coffee table for the middle section.
They should make a strong UI distinction between "we got this from the manufacturer or one of their authorized resellers" and "this is some random guy in China selling on our version of eBay".
>... actually, this page is a joke, right? The more I read on the page, no way that this is serious.

Yes, I think it's very much a joke.
Certain tasks cannot be performed in parallel. For instance, if you are trying to emulate multiple CPUs, and the order of operations is important, you have to single-step each CPU an instruction (or cycle of an instruction) at a time.

Cooperative threads can (and should) be implemented in userland, allowing you to perform tens of millions of thread switches a second. Doing this with preemptive threads will be vastly slower, usually by two orders of magnitude (mostly due to no longer being userland), and there is no actual SMP benefit since we are constantly waiting on other threads.

Cooperative threads can also be used in place of preemptive threads that could execute in parallel, if you would favor completely eliminating the possibility of race conditions at the cost of only being able to utilize a single CPU core.

State machines also work in place of cooperative threads, but the managing of control flow becomes explicit (on the heap with variables and switch-cases) instead of implicit (on the stack frames.) I find state machines are increasingly error-prone and slower as the complexity of control flow increases. Still, if you only need a single switch case for control flow, state machines will be faster, as swapping out the stack pointer on modern CPUs is not kind to their speculative execution models. The drawback here is that you can serialize and unserialize a state machine context. Doing so with threads (cooperative or preemptive) is vastly more difficult.

In my opinion, symmetric coroutines are preferable to asymmetric coroutines. With asymmetric, if A calls B, and you need to get to C, you have to first return from B and then have A call C. It's less efficient. Technically, you can implement either concept using the other, but I'd rather implement the asymmetry on top of a symmetric library than the reverse for the aforementioned reason.
Grades really seemed arbitrary to me. People who got high grades didn’t mean they’d be more successful in life, it just they got good at gaming the final exams. Indian education has this huge obsession with grades, it’s nuts. Students commit suicides over grades, I believe it’s same with china.

I’m glad my university had more focus on labs and hands on work. I pretty much aced all my labs and did okay on paper exams. Paper exams always felt like an exercise for the professor to put students on an explicit bell curve.
For a balanced perspective check out Mic the Vegan's take on it: https://youtu.be/MzHLAqyO7PQ
"This transformational architecture is called “Compile to Combat in 24 Hours,” and was recently piloted this spring aboard several Navy units. The concept is based on web services, or micro-services, similar to those you would see on your smart phone, and use of a new cloud architecture Navy is developing and testing, and fielding this capability quickly and securely. It involves decomposing legacy/monolithic applications into agile micro services, developed in the cloud and synchronized with the tactical cloud shipboard. The cloud environments are designed for machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities and will “package and prioritize” data exchanged between the ship and shore clouds to get commanders the information they need for improved decision making and lethality."

... that poor, confused PR author.
Thank you very much for sharing! That was very interesting.
TOML needs anchors (like yaml)
Could you share the titles of those other books? Searching for a "Vanderbilt transit book" only brings up pages of commuting advice from Vanderbilt University.
For the average reader, semicolons are simply archaic, and there is always a contemporary — which is why you don't see them that often.

When they're used to indicate a separate larger than a comma but less than separate sentences, an em-dash works just a well without any of the pretense: from

"My wife would like tea; I would prefer coffee."

to

"My wife would like tea — I would prefer coffee."

And using them to separate list items which themselves contain commas is asking the reader to do too much work to parse things visually, since semicolons are so similar to commas. Literature can use parentheses or em dashes, while technical material can use lists. Observe how much easier all of the following transformations are to parse at a glance:

The people present were Jamie, a man from New Zealand; John, the milkman's son; and George, a gaunt kind of man with no friends.

The people present were Jamie (a man from New Zealand), John (the milkman's son), and George (a gaunt kind of man with no friends).

Several fast food restaurants can be found within the following cities: London, England; Paris, France; Dublin, Ireland; Madrid, Spain.

Several fast food restaurants can be found within the following cities: 1) London, England, 2) Paris, France, 3) Dublin, Ireland, and 4) Madrid, Spain.

Here are three examples of familiar sequences: one, two, and three; a, b, and c; first, second, and third.

Here are three examples of familiar sequences:

- one, two, and three

- a, b, and c

- first, second, and third.

In academic papers you can sometimes wind up having such hierarchies of information and restricted space (e.g. in footnotes) that semicolons become necessary, just like legal documents use § to mark sections... but academic writing and citations has all sorts of conventions of its own.
Good read! Also good architectural and delivery decisions, considering the constraints they work under.
And that’s how overnight, 2/3rds of WeWork employees became religious/Ill.
It's frustrting when you ask someone how they know this works or how effective it is and they give you blank looks. It feels like a failure of informed consent.

> The CBT ppl just blink at me like the question is not on their manual.

What country? In England the IAPT programme (the main source of CBT) has extensive data collection on outcomes (probably the largest collection in the world) and a focus on getting more and better evidence to improve the service.

Chapter 3 and 6 of the IAPT manual are about evidence based practice and gathering better data:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-ia...

The data sets are here: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...

The latest (Jun 12 2018) says this

---begin quote---

Key Facts

In April 2018 there were:

-- 119,304 new referrals;

-- 85,145 referrals that entered treatment;

-- 47,296 referrals that finished a course of treatment, of which;

-- 89.4 per cent waited less than 6 weeks and 98.9 per cent waited less than 18 weeks to enter treatment;

-- 44,222 started their treatment at caseness, with 51.9 per cent moving to recovery.

---end quote---

There's some jargon there, but that's explained in the executive summary: https://files.digital.nhs.uk/D3/B3FC5F/iapt-month-apr-2018-e...

tl;dr: CBT is somewhat effective; it's more effective if you have CBT that follows the high intensity model (14 to 20 weeks, one hour per week, face to face one to one with a qualified therapist).
Proove that you can't walk. Don't walk.

Hmmmmmm.

Of course you can prove something exists by an example. And you can prove a property does not always hold with a counter example.

But if you want to prove that something doesn't exist, or a property always holds, then you shouldn't be looking for examples.
Venezuela has almost totally collapsed under Chavez-Maduro's "socialism".

Russia is a kleptocracy of Putin and his inner circles of billionaires.

The US economy has seen a fairly significant boost from shale gas and fracking.

Better counter-examples than those 3 would be Saudi Arabia and (to a lesser extent) Nigeria. And yes, as those 2 demonstrate it's not that simple, it's easy to fall prey to "the resource curse" aka "Dutch disease": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Norway has been wiser in its approach.
Most shooters are imho.
Thank you for your response.

This Left and Right declaration style was a new one for me. Also, homogeneous map wasn't exactly a familiar concept. I don't remember meeting these when learning TypeScript and dabbling with Elm. I fear I don't quite grasp the type structure here yet. I can go forward with my testing based on your example.
I had read years ago that all the herpes viruses emit RNA strands into the nucleus upon initial infection and conversion of the cell into a "provirus."

This RNA serves to keep the virus latent and quiet, perhaps for years. Only when this suppressive RNA is washed out of the nucleus does replication begin.

The idea was to remove all of this RNA everywhere in a controlled manner while administering acyclovir or another antiviral. I don't know what inaccessible resovoirs remain for the herpes family. The brain would be particularly hard to reach.

Such a treatment might also trigger shingles, mono, and ks all at once if it was too widely targeted or if the antiviral wasn't strong enough.
The innovation is mostly in hardware, albeit they're trying to move as much of that as possible to CotS.

At a tactical level, better hardware with dated but tested software > inferior hardware with the newest software.

Edit: To elaborate, there are almost no startup spaces where someone is actively trying to degrade your systems as they're being used. That changes a lot of calculus.
I usually use calibre for that.
Yup both right. All the clues were there >:3 I could have used Inf instead of the unicode but thats not really whimsical enough for Hacker News.

A slightly less listy pattern style is to declare types. Like I'd prefer this sort of declarative style:

subset Prime of Int where *.is-prime;
subset TwinPrime of Prime where (* + (2|-2)).is-prime;
my @twin_primes = grep TwinPrime, ^Inf;

Just feels a lot more clear what my intent is and I get some cheap types for later, to use in function parameters that require twin primes.
> Don't all browsers render the same between OSes?

Canvas fingerprinting wouldn't be as effective if it did
The key question when reading any article/book/whatever is the following: "if anything, what is actually important enough to remember from this article?", or in the case of PKBs: "What should be in my PKB and what should be discarded?"

By asking yourself this question explicitly and then actually writing down the key points you practice your own judgment on what is worth remembering and what is not.

Now the added benefit of a PKB is that you can actually keep these key points in a central location and reference them in other contexts or share them with others. You are basically doing prework for later (research) questions you might have. However I would say the biggest benefit is the process; explicitly writing down what is important and discarding what is not.

For more on this subject I recommend following @fortelabs on Twitter. He does a lot of interesting writing on the subject.
I think the first use of that sound was in War Of The Worlds in 1953, they didn't even had lasers at the time :) I couldn't find any explanation, how they arrived at the sound (it's supposedly just electric guitar + reverberation).

https://youtu.be/G5H4yK_tiGI?t=116
Not only that, I think I can hear non-native English speaking twang as well...
Just wondering, seeing your setup, it seems like you develop on Windows? Do you deploy your .NET Core apps on Linux or Windows?

I'm also using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows, but I want to deploy on Linux. Right now I'm trying to figure out what is the most optimal way to set everything up.

I'm leaning towards using a VM to run the app while I develop on Windows.
Seriously? You are judging the project on the serialization format they use? Who cares what it does or how it serves it's users right?

Not to mention that XML is actually not all that bad of a technology. Not my first choice, but it is fine.
Do you get taxed for having a child. I was under the impression that you got tax breaks.
That's a good point, but there's a crucial difference you're not considering. In US, programs like MK Ultra were actually trying to be secret and had a severe public outlash as they were published. Now, these programs are widespread knowledge and you won't find a reasonable US person who would defend them.

In USSR, on the other hand, state-backed violence was only "save face" secret that everybody was more or less aware of. Solzhenitsyn's revelations made a much bigger splash outside of the USSR than within exactly because he didn't reveal anything most of the population wasn't already aware of - but the people themselves didn't mind that much. Even today, most Russians would say that state-sponsored violence of USSR, which affected tens of millions of people, was a good thing, and leaders who perpetrated it are still viewed favorably.
Make Docker Compose easier to use with app packages
...and don't forget Big Data. Or is it no longer in fashion?
The ability to get so many books I never knew existed made me switch. I still prefer a book but the advantages of ebooks starts to outweigh the book. Ebooks have less of value/worth, not sure why. They feel more generic because the ereader presents content the same way. Carrying a book could lead to a chance encounter with someone who was reading the same book the way music t-shirts could connect similiar strangers in a large crowd.
For me it's just time. If I ever need to search how to do something more than three times, I put it in my notes.
Xe Services -> Academi
This is super exciting as I've had this on my "hobby to do list" for a while... now I don't have to do it! :)
> Like if the FSB started hiring string theorists or telekinesthetics positions to waste the NSA's time figuring out why they're doing that.

They already did that: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-p...
Yeah, by now. The idea is to reverse that, because if you just say "fuck all regulations" you have pandemonium, which is the same in that it also favors the largest, but is different in that it's a million times worse than even what we have now.

The very same interests that subvert regulations then use that subversion to say regulations, "in general" are bad, without explicitly saying what the alternative would be. No regulations, or less corruption? What, exactly, are you arguing for?
The lesson of Norway is how to manage a valuable natural resource. I.e. Don't sell it off in a one time auction to the highest bidder who then reaps all the gains. Norway tightly controls access to its oil and the profits have been very well managed.

I agree that other nations like Venezuela and the US have squandered their natural wealth when compared with Norway's careful management.

That being said, I agree with the parent that the aforementioned lesson isn't particularly universal, as a perquisite is having a plentiful and valuable natural resource to manage.

So what lesson can a country like the UK or Germany take from Norway, given their natural resources are, for the most part, already exploited?
It likely doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier.

It also wouldn't touch latent virus, only a minority that were actively replicating.
Taking Go modules for a spin