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>it's just hard to meet people in the first place

I disagree. There are plenty of places to meet people. Instead its hard for most people to be compatible to hang out regularly. Most lonely people have plenty of acquaintances, but no close friends to regularly hang out.
I only have my own anecdotal experience to work from, but I genuinely believe that most Americans are so lost when it comes to diet that these last-resorts are all they have left.

I am very fortunate to have fallen in love with a Greek woman who has shared her family's diet with me. It's likely saved me from needing an extreme solution myself.

I think that in North America, we don't know the first thing about eating healthy. A big part of the Mediterranean diet is using high quality, expensive, olive oil with everything. My parents would blow a gasket if they knew that we paid for the fancy stuff. At $10/L it's more than my parents would ever spend, but it's honestly not noticeable as far as my budget is concerned. It's seriously a game changer.

By putting high quality olive oil in all you're food, everything becomes much tastier and satisfying than before. It allows you to eat and be satisfied with much less. The other key is to splurge on expensive, good looking vegetables.

Having delicious vegan recipes allows you to get your kicks without eating tons of saturated fats.

This allows you to be satisfied with less volume. It's made up through quality and taste. This is the foundation of a healthy diet, eating high quality tasty food.

The problem with the North American diet is that we don't have the same traditions of passing down recipes as they do in other parts of the world and so none of us know how tasty a simple dish can be. We then eat this processed crap that gets passed off as identical to the original when it's a fraction as tasty and nutritious. As a result, we compensate by eating far too much of it.

I think that this continent is in dire need of better recipes and respect for their ingredients. Until that gets integrated into the culture, we are doomed to depend on these extreme measures to stay at a healthy weight.

Don't get me started on drive-through culture or eating at your desk. Eating is something to be enjoyed, not rushed. When you rush your meal, you eat more and you aren't taking the time to enjoy any subtlety in the taste. This results, again, in overeating.
Why is it that people disable JavaScript and then act surprised that random sites break? Whether or not this site should need JavaScript, the presence of JavaScript support in modern browsers is almost universally assumed at this point.

If you want to browse with Netscape Navigator 1.0, go for it. But stop feigning surprise that random things don’t work.
There is less of a chance of activist funds buying up your stock when you aren't public. This lessens the effect of activist investors.

Most shareholders don't care about the 'Do everything to make me money short term'. Some activist investors do. Those are easier to keep out if you are a private company.
My older brother has a master in physics, I spent less than 6 years in any kind of formal education. We both work as software developers and I do think my education is as well rounded as his. So on these fronts I don't think it makes much of a difference. That said I did develop anxiety problems that I might not have had if from age 9 to 15 I had spend as much time around a diverse set of peers as he had.
Bias: I actually made more friends in the last 10 years (I'm 40) than in the first 30 years of my life.
> It's worse than that, the authentic name-brand listing can still ship scammy clones instead because Amazon aggregates the listing from multiple sellers and pretends they're all the same thing

It's called fraud. Some people here call it "scaling" but it's just good old fraud at scale.
So, Verisign is an interesting example.

Verisign sold their certificate business a long time ago to Symantec.

Symantec had a contract with a Korean company "CrossCert" in which Symantec would issue certificates (including "Verisign" certificates) based on CrossCert's validation.

We don't actually know what CrossCert's validation practices were, because during investigation of problematic certificates Symantec found that CrossCert wouldn't give them the paperwork they should have been keeping to track this work so that it could see what they'd done. It had never asked to see that paperwork previously (over years of the relationship) and had simply accepted a Korean auditor's finding that everything was fine without really inspecting anything itself or letting anybody know about this arrangement with CrossCert.

Did you know about? When you see "Verisign" do you think "Or, you know, maybe some Korean company, but that's fine?"

Never mind, this scandal eventually resulted in Symantec exiting the CA business late in 2017, and today "Verisign" certificates are issued by DigiCert, another company you've probably never heard of.
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How is sequencing described in the type of join?
Really? I don't see that happening very often here in Belgium. Unless traffic on the main roads is really really bad, I hardly ever get sent through residential areas.

(We have an incredibly dense road network though, so main roads are usually significantly faster anyway.)
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I'd love to hear about the times going 120 mph kept you safe from an accident.

Keep in mind I'm not talking about powerful acceleration; top speed can be electronically governed. You could have a car that goes 0-60 in under 4 seconds, but is governed to 75 mph top speed by law.
So what if you don't directly work on a product you consider unethical, but you know that others in the company do? Sure, you're not working on it directly, but you're keeping a company alive that does. But where else to work? What if the company you're working for isn't directly creating products you consider unethical, but is e.g. a customer at an unethical bank, or creates products that help companies that produce products you consider unethical?

And what if you work at/for such a company, but you're not a programmer, but e.g. a cleaner, are making ends meet, and you're lucky to have a job in the first place?
I would be very interested to know which, if any, schools make this possible.
It depends on your case.

I can say that pandas is amazingly good and fast at joining, if your data is really huge you can parallelize/segment your data with dask.

If it relatively simple to do the joining then it will probably be quicker to process the .txt files and not hard to write the script.

If the complexity is high you might want to try sqllite.
This was just posted on HN:

https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheat...
I stand corrected about not being able to use induction motors as generators, still

As per wikipedia

> An induction generator produces electrical power when its rotor is turned faster than the synchronous speed... An induction generator usually draws its excitation power from an electrical grid

Which is not what they want in a car

Also they do want good torque at zero speeds, while it can be done with induction motors it's not ideal
Fine particulate pollution is the easiest to filter, but not the only harm from urban air. Many chemicals like NOx compounds, CO, etc are not healthy.

Including increased accident risks, particulate, and chemical pollution together is a very different risk profile vs comparing all benefits vs a subset of downsides.

That said, you can filter out most particulates and there is little reason not to take this precaution.
Could it be possible to spoof ether frames with udp in them? Like say dns responses from the othe containers dns queries? Or to spoof the same MAC address as a peer container?
> Part of me wants to move on

If you like starting companies, there's no shame in focusing on that. Sell & repeat until success is obvious enough to warrant sticking with it!
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I've always looked at Introversion/Extroversion using the battery example. As an Introvert, we recharge our battery by being alone, and drain it in groups. An extrovert is the opposite... charge in groups, drain when alone.

Outside of "charging your battery", it's a matter of skills and preferences. You can learn to deal with groups better, and (when allowed) pick the events you want to deal with.

If those meetings are important, don't avoid them. But if they are "social gathers because someone wants you to go"... then you can think twice.
This has been going on for a lot longer than the current US government. Chances are high it's just Zug Island, which contains blasting furnaces for steel and whatnot. The problem is that Zug Island is a part of Michigan, while Windsor is a Canadian city, so investigation is pretty difficult.
I don't normally but I went to the site, saw the little spin the wheel deal, and went ahead and signed up. The difference is - his site/company doesn't look like some scammy crap just syphoning up emails to spam them.
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Agreed that pytorch feels “pythonic”. I think tensorflow doesn’t because it’s really a C++ API with an extensive set of wrappers and it shows. Pytorch feels like they started with python and added in the C extensions after the fact.
Where are these new battery technologies that are invented every 6 months, according to the news?
Current Go vendoring already allows two versions of a package to be used at the same time, and it is problematic. Both copies of the package will run their initialization, which works if they are completely self contained, but if they interact with any other global state things can start going wrong. You mutexes protecting external global resources don't work, because they are in different namespaces. These and similar problems are why common wisdom is that libraries should not pull in vendored dependencies.

So yes, attempting to allow multiple versions of the same module will cause grief.

You would also need to work around a way to override the choices made by dependencies, eg. to rebuild with security or bug fixes, without requiring me to fork everything.
Well, here's a source I was remembering the claim from (I was just a little off): http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

> In reality, 97 percent of dieters regain everything they lost and then some within three years. Obesity research fails to reflect this truth because it rarely follows people for more than 18 months. This makes most weight-loss studies disingenuous at best and downright deceptive at worst.

I also think this article is interesting because it includes some personal testimony from a successful long-term dieter that I think illustrates why most people are not successful:

> Debra Sapp-Yarwood, a fiftysomething from Kansas City, Missouri, who’s studying to be a hospital chaplain, is one of the three percenters, the select few who have lost a chunk of weight and kept it off. She dropped 55 pounds 11 years ago, and maintains her new weight with a diet and exercise routine most people would find unsustainable: She eats 1,800 calories a day—no more than 200 in carbs—and has learned to put up with what she describes as “intrusive thoughts and food preoccupations.” She used to run for an hour a day, but after foot surgery she switched to her current routine: a 50-minute exercise video performed at twice the speed of the instructor, while wearing ankle weights and a weighted vest that add between 25 or 30 pounds to her small frame.

> “Maintaining weight loss is not a lifestyle,” she says. “It’s a job.” It’s a job that requires not just time, self-discipline, and energy—it also takes up a lot of mental real estate. People who maintain weight loss over the long term typically make it their top priority in life.
If the performance gets significantly limited by instruction cache misses, then yes code density can become important as you point out. However, there are two things to keep in mind:

1) most actual RISC ISA have compact modes, typically using 16 bits instructions mixed with the regular 32 bits ones. That's Thumb2, Micro MIPS, RISC-V Compact mode, and others for embedded CPUs (ARC, Andes, ...). Their code density are competitive (and sometimes better) then x86. So with practical RISC implementation the code density is not a factor in RISC vs CISC;

2) there's a big outlier if I remember correctly: ARM in 64 bits mode dropped Thumb2 support. They certainly have to know how to keep a compact mode, and they decided not to bother. So I guess the I-cache limitation is maybe not a such a problem in real life? I don't have the data but I trust ARM to take benchmarking seriously, particularly for an ISA that also target server chips.
Yes, I kinda gotten carried away by the hype. While NNT has just a couple of interesting points, what I relly like are the anecdotes of his interesting life or from his non-iconoclastic knowledge map.
It’s really terrible lately. When Wal-Mart has better quality products you know something’s up.

I’ve been using Fake Spot to get any non name brand item[1]. The only issue is now there are straight counterfeits instead of reply cheap knock offs. I recently learned of the all the counterfeit SD cards when I bought some for my Pis. A google search brings up examples on many forums and blogs.

[1]https://www.fakespot.com
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Thermodynamics and entropy, while causing decay in the long-term, have nothing to do with human decay over the span of 80-90 years.
Arguing that entropy is THE fundamental cause of death just shuts down the conversation.
I would like to know more too, but from my own experience with my clients they usually get very satisfied when you are as honest as you can be if you screw something up, and make it up for them as a gratitude token. People still value humility in doing business, they just don't want to feel "cheated" even if you it wasn't your fault really. I was really surprised at that, I thought I was done when I made my first serious mistake but my clients were pure understanding and support.
I'm surprised they don't sell it as a 40 core, 64-dimensional processor.
It's not an HOA. It's actually part of the city's code, so it's an actual minor criminal offense we're talking about. But that's not important right now. All of us are required to abide by laws, sometimes over things we consider trivial, like the speed limit. Why should a "person" with far more resources than any individual not be held accountable for their actions?
Animals die for lots of reasons, e.g. famine, predation, disease, injury, fights for mates. I doubt aging is necessary to ensure death occurs.
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> I'd imagine this leads to people mindlessly buying more and more stuff, to use up that money before it loses its value.

They don't spend it mindlessly, they still allocate it relative to other opportunities. Low but positive inflation makes a lot of investments relatively more attractive, therefore incentivizing people to invest in economic activities, instead of sitting on their cash. Deflation creates a dearth of resource available to invest.

Plus it's a redistribution mechanism. If all you have to do is to sit on your cash for it to grow, then it's a rich becomes richer system. If you have to invest that money, there's an uncertainty, a risk, and opportunity for people to multiply their starting capital.

Some early bitcoins buyers are saying exactly that: "I got in early, I'm set up for life, if you didn't get early enough too bad you're gonna stay poor". It's not really how we'd like an economy to function.

> [...] people would have to spend it only on whatever they actually really need or desire. Is that bad?

It's bad if you want a growing economy. And usually technical innovation comes from relatively niche investments that no one really needs right now.
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So essentially you agree that we live in an environment that encourages obesity but in the end you think individuals should just "suck it up" and try harder. I think this is unlikely to ever see success for a large percentage of people and I don't think it's fair to fault people for not succeeding.
That must be incredibly frustrating. I'm actually doing a PhD myself (in ECE) but I recently decided to get my MS and take a break to work in industry. My end goal is to get a PhD however. But I hear that the transition from full-time to grad school is pretty challenging. What were the issues you faced, if any?

I think one of the biggest issues in faculty hiring is that research experience and a strong publication record outweigh any form of teaching experience.

But this doesn't make sense at all, simply because ~30-50% of a full faculty member's time is spent teaching (including prep time, office hours, etc). More importantly, the fact that you have a couple of publications in top tier conferences does not imply that you know how to teach!
The actual original release, which the linked page simply copied wholesale.

http://newsroom.toyota.eu/toyota-develops-new-magnet-for-ele...
Given the amount of spam calls I get now, landlines are pretty much anonymous too.
Got to see his "Crusade in Central Park" when I was pretty young. Felt like about a million people had come to see a single man speak ;)

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http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/23/nyregion/new-york-hears-wo...
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Yes, so it looks like Microchip produces multi-core MCUs after all, though as I've mentioned, I haven't encountered them and can't comment about quality of their tools.
> But I guess I still have that romantic notion of him getting a well-rounded education in many subjects that I couldn't help him with, making friends, and meeting interesting professors

Interestingly, in my country (Poland) we never had such romantic concept. You always went to university to go deeply on one specific subject (which you chose when you applied to the uni) - the opposite of being well-rounded. Professors were never meant to be interesting. The one thing I see in common is the hope for making friends.

I wonder if it's similar in other European countries.
> Most of the teachers are also more occupied with doing research than actual teaching.

This varies wildly across colleges/universities, faculty position, and department. There's enough variation that it's much more nuanced than your statement indicates.
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kinda crazy that this is not frontpage here, very interesting reporting.
I happen to be very much like you (except I'm a cis woman, and my friends are usually not cis women), but my impression is that people like us are the exception, not the norm.
I don't think that pointing out who came first is even relevant to the discussion; the real question might be: "which model is better to program in?" and the answer would be lambda-calculus derivatives for many.
Worse, in the UK universities with lower prices often have trouble filling their places, as applicants assume there must be something wrong with them.
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> The existence of a mechanism doesn't absolve HN of responsibility

I didn't say it did, I said that the mechanism which detects controversy withoutbconcern for ideology was far more likely to blame than an ideological bias.

Obviously, HN is responsible for the existence of the mechanism.

> or guarantee objectivity,

I don't see objectivity as a goal in the first place. The overt standard for inclusion in HN [0], “anything good hackers would find interesting”, that which “gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity”; not “[m]ost stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon” [emphasis added] are inherently highly subjective.

If you want objectivity, a community whose overt standards are highly subjective is not where you want to go. But it's quite odd to come and sign up for a community with such overt standards and then spend a lot of time complaining about the lack of objectivity—it was literally what you signed up for.

> Being downvoted unjustly and reflexively is going to annoy commenters and make them comment back in defense.

Commenting on downvotes is explicitly against the commenting guidelines. Downvotes do not, under any circumstances, compel responses, nor will they ever produce responses from people following the rules of the community.

To the extent that people are positing about downvotes they or others have recieved, they are deliberately and wantonly violating the norms of the community by so doing (it's also quite stupid, even aside from the norms, to do so quickly because on controversial topics inappropriate downvotes are quite often negated within a few hours.)

> The vigorous discussion should be a sign that people do want to discuss it

Which they can (and do) continue to do, and if you want to catch those ongoing controversies you can browse in “comments” view instead of the front page. The front page is for things that generate more light than heat. You can choose your view based on your preferences.
FWIW, you can also achieve similar behavior in Clojure via pmap, Reducers, etc.
I would like to see either a Show HN or a Tell HN about that!
Intellectualism isn't just a set of privileges, it's also a set of responsibilities. There's a lot of good reasons to question whether intellectuals at universities are correctly discharging their responsibilities to be worthy of the traditional privileges that go with it. It's, if not "anti-intellectual" then at least a betrayal of the basic principles, to assume that just because forms are maintained that substance must therefore be present. Accusing people who ask these questions willy-nilly of "anti-intellectualism" itself helps the decay of the intellectual system, because basic human nature is that if you allow someone an easy way to accrue privileges while failing to discharge their responsibilities, they will, and I see no reason why being "an intellectual" provides even the slightest resistance to that.

If you care about the intellectual system, the correct move is to hold their feet to the fire even moreso than the "anti-intellectuals", so than when the latter come calling, no fault can be found. Blindly protecting them in the long term will hurt them.
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> Giving access to the proprietary server code could hypothetically lead to preservation societies building their own infrastructure and charging for access. Thus, they'd be a direct competitor to the original developers and publishers, which is something the ESA isn't exactly keen on.

This is ridiculous. Since when did "businesses not wanting to compete" justify anything? Of course they don't, but that's what our economy is supposed to be built on!

Are they actually admitting that their modern games cannot compete with older titles they shut down because they decided they were no longer profitable? Besides, nothing is stopping them from also hosting those old titles again. They've just admitted there's a market for it!

I suspect the real problem here is that older titles don't support the "live services", GaaS, and modern monetization strategies they've been pushing for the last few years. Sure, an old MMO like Everquest might be profitable to host, but it can't rake in the kind of money a lootbox scheme can.

Copyright is not inherently a bad idea, but articles like this indicate to me that our current implementation is very broken.
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