skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. You can eat a lot of calories of pure sugar and still not "feel" full. Whereas it's hard to overeat lettuce, you'll literally fill up before you go over your daily caloric intake.

Not that I'm advocating a lettuce only diet. But as I acquire more and more information about how we eat, what we eat, etc, I've become of the opinion that we do have way too much salt, oil, and sugar in our diets. We can even cut down our meat consumption greatly with no ill effect.

We're survivors who haven't had to survive for centuries now.
I guess the UK could have a referendum on leaving the WTO.
That's a great explanation, thanks.

For the way you described it, to me, it doesn't sound that hard.

- Create interference pattern

- Record interference pattern

- Shine ref light onto pattern to recover emitted light

If done perfectly would this yield a convincing hologram (what I might try to describe as "visual sense impression of real 3D object being present" ) ?

What are the major limitations in the current technology? You said it might be possible for high end screen, does that mean there is hologram tech out there? I have never seen any demonstrated.

Is there some sort of information processing problem that software could solve on the interference pattern? Or is this more a physics problem -- maybe we do not have the materials that can do the steps required?
Is "Tangerine Shitgibbon" a normal British colloquialism?

All this time, and I'm still learning things about the Queen's English...
Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars
> It's very likely that if they had another referendum now people would vote to stay in the EU.

AIUI this is, while an article of faith for many on the "remain" side, entirely unsubstantiated.
excellent comment!
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> his party is duty-bound to implement its results

And what are the results? To leave with no deal?

In any case it is NOT legally bound. But it acts as it was.
> private hospitals often forward patients they are unable to handle (e.g. complicated births) to public hospitals, who are more skilled and experienced.

In India, this happens simply because private hospitals don't want mortalities on their hands. Complicated cases often mean higher chances of things going wrong. Best let the public hospitals handle it.
Yep, I missed that one.
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Thanks! I missed this the first time through
It says the SE and 6S are available at $300 in India, whereas they're $349/$449 here in the US. Sounds like Apple's willing to take less profit on the low-end in exchange for market share, but is assuming anyone who can pay $1000 for a phone isn't anywhere near as price-sensitive.
The article should also be considered required reading, as these scientists are trying to understand the physical composition of a proton. Pretty safe bet that it exists, though it would be rather exciting if they discover it didn't.
More of a description of a symptom rather than a cause?
Remission is more accurate term.

Remission is the state of absence of disease activity in patients with a chronic illness, with the possibility of return of disease activity.

I'm relatively sure that if patients quit their new lifestyle, they get to back to diabetes symptoms faster than those who didn't develop diabetes. It's also possible that they just delay the progress and after 5-10 years changes of nutrition is not enough anymore. Even then the results would be huge improvement.
Here's the original paper (no paywall, and apparently not linked in the BBC article):

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/scien...

A couple of highlights:

My first thought was why couldn't this be some other liquid like CO2:

We examined other possible explanations for the bright area below the SPLD (supplementary text). For example, a CO2 ice layer at the top or the bottom of the SPLD, or a very low temperature of the H2O ice throughout the SPLD, could enhance basal echo power compared with surface reflections. We reject these explanations (supplementary text), either because of the very specific and unlikely physical conditions required, or because they do not cause sufficiently strong basal reflections (figs. S5 and S6). Although the pressure and the temperature at the base of the SPLD would be compatible with the presence of liquid CO2, its relative dielectric permittivity is much lower (about 1.6) (28) than that of liquid water (about 80), so it does not produce bright reflections.

Why liquid and not solid water?

... Perchlorates can form through different physical and/or chemical mechanisms (30, 31) and have been detected in different areas of Mars. It is therefore reasonable to assume that they are also present at the base of the SPLD. Because the temperature at the base of the polar deposits is estimated to be around 205 K (32), and because perchlorates strongly suppress the freezing point of water (to a minimum of 204 and 198 K for magnesium and calcium perchlorates, respectively) (29), we therefore find it plausible that a layer of perchlorate brine could be present at the base of the polar deposits. ...

This is a similar principle (freezing point depression) to that used in de-icing roads.

And maybe the best part of all - there may be other smaller but currently undetectable pools:

... The limited raw-data coverage of the SPLD (a few percent of the area of Planum Australe) and the large size required for a meltwater patch to be detectable by MARSIS (several kilometers in diameter and several tens of centimeters in thickness) limit the possibility of identifying small bodies of liquid water or the existence of any hydraulic connection between them. Because of this, there is no reason to conclude that the presence of subsurface water on Mars is limited to a single location. ...
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How are the eras named? This will be the end of the Heisei era. I grew up in the Showa era (apparently.)
Remember folks, this isn't just any brain parasite spread by cats; it's specifically Toxoplasma gondii which is well known to have a life-cycle dependent on deliberately changing the behaviour of its hosts, reducing risk inhibitions. This has been repeatedly confirmed in studies on rodents, and has been strongly suggested in a number of correlative studies on humans.

Also, if we're in the business of judging the news by who's delivering it, the study was published not in New Scientist but in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
One things that comes to my mind is: when I was starting using Python, I was eager to mock Java people and their absurd approach (write everything in Java, specify a full classpath for all dependency, etc). I pointed out as it was easy and quick to program in Python rather than in Java.

I did not appreciate what the pros of a linear and well-defined (by the language) approach to the dependencies, and a clear API between the system libraries (java, javax) vs the user libraries, actually gives A LOT of value. Even though it's more cumbersome to use.
For me, the biggest thing in logging these days is being able to remove performance impact of logs lower than the level threshold. How does this library compare?

Currently I'm using Zerolog, which has a nice compromise of UX, performance and adoption. The less cost the better if my application logs with a level that is not enabled.
Spelling and grammar aside I really enjoyed the article and I appreciate the effort you put into writing it.
> each side had months to state their case

With one side directly and openly lying, and breaking funding laws in the process.

> and the results were uncontroversial

Anything BUT controversial.
> If liberals want to do anything about it they need to start actually giving a damn about America's poor and rapidly shrinking middle class in spite of the fact that they hold "backward and primitive" religious beliefs and are behind the times on social issues.

Hillary focused so much on the shrinking middle class and the poor during the 2016 election - I can't believe that anyone who has actually read her policy suggestions (or the policy suggestions of most other Democrats) can say that liberals don't give a damn about America's poor and shrinking middle class with a straight face.

Here's a selection of Hillary Clinton's policy positions from the 2016 election that would help the poor or the shrinking middle class. I understand that most of them aren't actual policy - however, if you go to the website where I pulled this from [1] you can find information about specific policy as well. I just went for the quotes here to make my point while keeping the comment brief.

> "Provide tax relief to working families from the rising costs they face"

> "Simplify and cut taxes for small businesses so they can hire and grow."

> "Make debt free college available to all Americans."

> "Hillary Clinton has announced a $275 billion, five-year plan to rebuild our infrastructure—and put Americans to work in the process."

> "Bring down out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles"

> "Reduce the cost of prescription drugs."

> "Fight for health insurance for the lowest-income Americans in every state by incentivizing states to expand Medicaid"

> "Expand access to rural Americans, who often have difficulty finding quality, affordable health care"

> "Remove barriers to sustainable homeownership."

> "Help responsible homeowners save for a down payment."

> "Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"

> "Strengthen American manufacturing with a $10 billion “Make it in America” plan."

> "Restore collective bargaining rights for unions and defend against partisan attacks on workers’ rights."

> "calling for a tax credit for businesses that hire apprentices, providing much needed on-the-job training—especially for young Americans."

[1] https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
Fat + Carbs makes you fat. Cut out one and you lose weight. I'm on a plant based diet which is high carb (no highly-refined carbs) and I'm very fit.

If your body's glycogen stores are full from carbs then YES fat you consume goes straight to fat.

EDIT: and WFPB (whole food plant based) also reverses type 2 diabetes.
>an area of high reflectivity which is thought to be water

This not seems to be entirely = to 'water revealed on Mars'
That video's contrived. Of course your average companion dog or hound / gundog isn't going to really know what to do when an intruder appears.

Try the same experiment with dogs who've been trained for protection. Search YouTube for protection dog.
I'm told Elon Musk is currently planning a Mars retrieval mission so he can "drink Mars Power juice" and "live forever"
For those, like me, wondering how this is even possible:

In order to remain liquid in such cold conditions (the research team estimate between -10 and -30 Celsius where it meets the ice above), the water likely has a great many salts dissolved in it.
It does if one listens really intently.
> I don't think the landing system uses visible wavelength cameras (other than for human consumption).

I can't imagine they'd taste very good.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist and have karma to spare.)
Even on a completely static site one could introduce links if they can manipulate content. Create a fake blog post linking to Reddit asking for support, make up a story that a family member fell ill and please donate to your Go Fund Me. Add a cryptocoin miner Javascript. The possibilities are quite endless when you have full control to manipulate a website and an easy way to make a profit off of someone elses' reputation, audience, and laziness.
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"...based on highly individualized carbohydrate restriction and nutritional ketosis"

That's really the key to what is fixing the diabetes. And it's just a brief mention in the article. Nothing else about the nutritional aspects. This was extremely light on actual, real information.

That being said, I'm also not sure why this stuff is still considered news. Many people, myself included, have been saying for some years now that low-carb is the way to go. I'm glad this stuff is getting press, but I'm just surprised that people seem to be acting like this hasn't already been known for quite a while.

The real problem is that people can easily fix this themselves, but they either 1) don't know this information or 2) don't have the willpower. It's more of #2 though, because people generally know when they are eating garbage. There might be some foods that surprise people as having extremely high glycemic responses, but most of the time they know what they should be avoiding. The problem, I think, is that they don't quite know exactly how horrible what they are consuming really is for their metabolic processes. The one that seems to surprise people is potatoes. They know french fries are bad, but think it's because they are deep fried. When I tell them that a regular baked potato or red potatoes have glycemic index values of around 85-89 and that potato chips are around 50-55 they are stunned. I don't know why, but they are. If you are consuming the same mass of food for comparative purposes, the potato chips are loaded with fats where the regular potatoes are not so that makes sense to me that it would be lower. This tells me there is a serious lack of education on this topic and it is quite literally costing people their lives.
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Today's recovery was at night.
The same goes for oil which is all fat and no carb. Refined food is the real culprit, not just refined carbs.
When the UK finally Brexits, will the EU's GDPR still apply?

Not counting that the UK might very well have their own version.
I don't think you understand what a heart is

Here's a helpful reference: https://www.webmd.com/heart/picture-of-the-heart#1
how does sugar contribute to heart disease?
Scientists have excellent language to describe these sorts of things (ambiguity and confidence in guess). For example, from the actual paper's abstract:

"""Quantitative analysis of the radar signals shows that this bright feature has high relative dielectric permittivity (>15), matching that of water-bearing materials. We interpret this feature as a stable body of liquid water on Mars."""

It's absolutely true that we can't call this a strong positive siting, it's more of a "good evidence which is not completely unambiguous".
It's not about the size of the audience. It's about how much they pay for apps. iPhone apps consistently sell for higher amounts.
Wow, that is seriously draconian. In my opinion it should be illegal if it isn’t, intentionally obscuring data storage to prevent marketplace competition.
I did, just recently; the biggest difference, to me, is that you have to configure synchronisation of PDFs yourself, if you don't want to use the Zotero web account thing to do it for you. I haven't tried the Zotero account file-syncing option, myself; I just use the Zotfile extension to make it copy the files to a Dropbox folder.

ETA: The firefox integration of Zotero is great, and something I missed from Mendeley. Also, I should say, before I switched to Zotero, I was a Mendeley user for about nine years, and did my PhD dissertation's bibliography using it. I'm quite confident Zotero would have been just as good.
I am extremely convinced with all points in article apart from the model that author proposes, which I am not sure I quite get it.
I think the definition of pointer becomes more and more abstract as you move from hardware level to more high-level languages.

In languages like C/C++ (Not aware of Rust) which lie in middle (higher than assembly where pointer is just a hw register and lower than say Java having no pointers per se) the definition of pointer is not so clear.

The other source of confusion is syntax of pointer in C/C++ and fact that they can be used interchangeably with arrays and arithmetically manipulated.

Pointers are indeed complicated and thats why standards like MISRA C / autospice restricts use of pointers to great extent.

In highest level languages like MATLAB for model based development, the inputs outputs are treated in form of Arrays at user level. When autocode is generated from these models compilers internally transform array operations into pointer operations, essentially making the array-based source code into object code that's as efficient as the pointer version. The advantage is that the pointer-oriented compiler-generated code is created in a controlled fashion.
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Did they mange to catch the fairings?
I recently switched to Zotero from Papers, which is only for OS X and I needed to work on a Linux computer. After Papers was acquired by ReadCube, I was also concerned it would end up like Mendeley, which has a social network model that I don't particularly like.

On the whole, the transition was pretty effortless and I am pleased with Zotero (plus the Better BibTex plugin and webdav syncing). I like having the rss feeds inside the client. The firefox add-on is far superior to the Papers version. And finally, because it's an open source project with a reasonable ecosystem, many of the things I found annoying about Papers have been solved (like customizing which fields to exclude from a bibtex export).
I used to be really good at remembering names. To the point where people I met once briefly would get weirded out I remembered their name. As I got older and met more people though, I became terrible at remembering names. Like i'll forget moments after i'm told kind of thing.
Notes on Finding a Remote Job. Why is this so hard?
The only issue is that the display doesn't require glasses, so it doesn't have any idea where you're eyes are. Or if there are multiple viewers.
The article discusses the xoshiro RNG, and some better alternatives: “One other concern we might have is that some generators have weak low-order bits. For example, the Xoroshiro+ and Xoshiro+ families of PRNGs have low-order bits that fail statistical tests.“

The xoshiro page mentions this too, and says it won’t matter if you are generating random floats, but the article is generating random ints.

The RNG isn’t the point of the article though. It’s discussing the speed and correctness of what happens after the RNG but before you use the results.
As I have said, I'm sure it's not a new concept. You provided some links to hardware accelerators for somewhat related systems, and they imply software solutions are unworkable performance wise.

But it seems to me that is not the case for what I am proposing. For the most part, working with pointers should generate almost the same assembly, the [alloc_id] part is simply copied around verbatim and [ptr] is used as before. A function that just dereferences pointer parameters will receive alloc_id in the stack frame but it will ignore it and not load it in the registers. If the pointer is duplicated, the alloc_id is copied on, somewhat increasing stack pressure and reducing memory bandwidth, but certainly not 100x slowdown. Modern processors are very good at parallelising these type of loads and stores.

The performance impact should hit when doing pointer arithmetic and advanced casting, depending on the degree of runtime assurance we want to offer. Every address alteration is followed by a sanity check of the pointer against it's allocation segment. An out-of-bounds pointer can be NULLed to trigger a subsequent run-time exception, while keeping with the standard that such pointers mean undefined behavior.

In the case of some frequent operations, like incrementing, these checks can be extremely fast. Not that hardware solutions would not help, but if such a technique works there is certainly a class of programs that would even accept the slowdown of a software solution. So I have to wonder if there is more to this I am not seeing, besides performance.
iPhone users are more attractive to developers than Android users because they're more likely to spend money in the app store. (This is an unobvious way that iPhones are even more expensive than the sticker price)

Localization for India is complex. To start with, you need to use their national rupee symbol. But also, many devices in the region may not have any Indian languages, or may only have Hindi; so you may need to go beyond the system apis. Some users don't know how to find the system settings, or aspirationally want to use English, but aren't very fluent. Literacy in general is a challenge. English tech words are commonly used in everyday speech in other languages, so you may not want to translate them.
Cool concept! Looks much more readable in this context:

err = checkErr()
if (err)
return err

Vs

returnif checkErr()

However, seems a bit overboard to add a reserved keyword for this 'exceptional' case.
In other news, he accuses journalist asking questions of him being a serial rapist.
Earth's atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, and 0.03% carbon dioxide, so no.

If you want to create an atmospheric pressure that humans could survive without a suit, the dry ice in the polar regions is more than enough, the trick with Mars is raising the average temperature 5C at which point you'd create a runaway greenhouse.

As for just water needs, the polar regions are lousy with water ice (the northern cap alone has more than 800k cubic kilometers of water ice and a cubic meter of ice is about 917L so yeah, a LOT of water). There's also suspected to be considerable amounts in the regolith all around the planet and given there might be this underground lake there could possibly be many more.
Cats do too.
I’m a huge fan of passenger rail, and I have a soft spot in my heart for the cross country Amtrak trains, having ridden them frequently in my twenties. But I don’t think you offered evidence that it makes sense to fund Amtrak.

Cross country trains in the US are a perennial loss maker, subsidized by under-investing in the profitable dense population corridors, where we could conceivably invest in high speed rail if there was political will to do so (there’s not, but that’s a separate issue).

Replacing cross country Amtrak with comfortable buses would be faster, more reliable, cheaper, and more acccessible to the population that uses trains. Buses are just lower status in the USA, which I think is a pretty silly reason to keep subsidizing Amtrak’s cross country routes.
It's very rare here in the US. On my current Mazda, it's present only in non-US versions; in the US version, they took it out.
I LOVE the concept, as I'm constantly searching for free stock photos. I think there's a disconnect in informing users what they are supposed to do once they search a term..

I wasn't sure if the results on the right were a result of my search (no feedback loop or indication that they were), and then I didn't quite know what to do.

Then, clicking into each result let me realize that this was simply a tool to "queue up" the search functions on each of those sites. Which is awesome, but there was a bit of mystery around it before I clicked around.

Keep tweaking, but this is a great little tool I'll be using
Why don't we send a rover to some of these interesting places? It seems like we're constantly making fascinating finds on Mars, then send rovers to the middle of a random rocky desert.
The new "Cosmos" series has an episode that touches on the domestication of dogs [1]. It talks about variations in hormone levels of wolves: some naturally feared humans less and were rewarded with scraps of food. And thus formed an early symbiosis with man.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHBmY6LbiA
> Literacy in general is a challenge

Amongst the part of the population who can afford an iPhone?
Thank you for being a voice of reason in all this. When this ketosis madness ends and we go back to eating plant based like our ancestors did the world will be a better place with healthier humans and no factory farms.