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I'm down 83 lbs from 2017 and I'm at a healthy BMI for the first time in 15 years. I know I will not gain the weight back. Why? Because I finally figured out how to manage a routine, how to exercise regularly, how to plan out what I eat, and I learned to get enough sleep.

Don't want to be fat anymore? Stop eating at restaurants, cook all your own food, bring in a lunch to work, count your calories. Also exercise, lots. And get 7+ hours a sleep a night.

That's it, that's all it takes.
Apple has a very significant manufactoring presence in China, so unfortunately they can't cleanly separate from China like Google can without risking retaliation
Humans have been eating grains for 10,000 years, and sugar for a hundred.
There are two things that lead to the controversy:

1) They are re-licensing a formerly open source project, turning it into a closed source project. I am not familiar with their community, but there is a good chance that they have attracted users and possibly contributors based on the fact that they the software was open source. While these folks can continue to use the old version, such a betrayal of the community cannot be expected to be taken lightly.

2) The product relies on and is built on top of open source software (Kafka). As it is a part of the Kafka ecosystem, it can bee seen as a betrayal to the entire ecosystem to change course like this.

So it is certainly within their legal rights to close their source like this, and it is within the communities rights, both legal and moral, to decry the change.
Similar to a few other comments, I use Intuit payroll (Gusto might be better in terms of UI and support) and pay myself as an employee through S-Corp. Every US freelance should structure things this way IMO, so that you can take advantage of 401k contribution and company match. You can match up to 50k roughly and that match is a business expense, so you get the money plus a deduction. As you said, this is reaping the benefits of regular employment, with the additional benefit of being able to crank up the company match in years where you make more (or can pay yourself less).

In terms of cash management, I do quarterly transfers to Vanguard which is the 401k admin. Then 1-2 times per year I pay myself a close approximation of my final S-Corp distribution (plus regular monthly payroll).
> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

It is not a study but I know a person very well that lost 40% 10 years ago and kept it off.
Key was changing habits and life style.
The book you listed seems super interesting.
There aren't very many people in first-world countries who need to farm anymore, and all first-world countries have desk jobs and vending machines, yet the rate of obesity varies widely between first-world countries.
Isn't NYU Courant also known for being strong at mathematics/CS?
> AFAIK, there is no special magic to AMP that makes it fast, that can't be accomplished with simple CSS/HTML. It's just an on-rails subset of web technologies

The reason AMP loads instantly is that it is possible to validate AMP pages as safe to preload, so they are preloaded (when you interact with the carousel). That's why it's instant instead of just fast.
This comment comes nowhere near the standard of substantiveness and civility for this site, so please don't post like it again. We're here for thoughtful discussion grounded in our shared reality—a reality in which other people are not hypothetical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "Following Dr. Knuth’s doctrine helps to ward off moronry. He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee."

I liked a lot of this profile, but this came off as kind of weird.
Came across this after the Paul Stamets episode on JRE :)
But what's the solution to this? At the end of the day the Fed Gov has become an incredibly successful jobs program for vets. (see vets preference and all sorts of affirmative action there) Obviously, one can make the argument that perhaps the skill-set and drive that encourages one to join the military is probably, in a majority of cases, orthogonal to what makes someone good at cybersecurity.

But who would ever argue that? It's political suicide, "how dare you hate the troops", etc. It's fun to see how toxic it can get -- I'd recommend looking at a few of the USAJobs message boards that have advice on how to get hired. Every now and then you'll see a thread about how the veteran preference is unfair, and, well, I won't spoil it. :)

It won't change until it has to change.
It is pretty simple. Processed carbs that spike your glycemic index lead to a situation where your body has met its caloric needs for the day but your satiety mechanisms get wonked so you feel hungry when you should not be eating again. This is evidenced by things like white bread spiking your glycemic index higher than raw sugar.

This can be solved by not eating any foods that appreciably spike your glycemic index, which basically means no processed carbs. Vegetables for example are almost entirely carbohydrates but are encased in fiber so they do not get absorbed as fast into your system.

If you eat 'fast' carbs you have no choice but to starve yourself because listening to your natural instincts will automatically mean overeating.
Funnily enough, sugar is typically found alongside most grain based foods. It's in breads, cupcakes, etc etc. Ruling out grains consequently get's rid of a large source of sugar. The two are pretty intertwined.
I often have social anxiety and I can confirm these findings. Some years ago I did an improv class. First I was really scared but we did a lot of exercises where you really had no pressure to be funny but funny situations just developed without anyone trying. I learned to say "yes" to new things and go into the unknown without being scared.

It was super low pressure and very supportive and I would rate it in the top 5 of life transforming experiences for me. Others are travelling without preparation, joining Toastmasters and picking up martial arts.
I'm not exactly a study test case, but I'm at least an average person who has drastically changed bodyweight (from ~230lbs to 180lbs) and has stayed there for over five years (about 7 years now).

This is obviously entirely anecdotal, but what seems to have worked for me is that I didn't do a diet "program", I genuinely changed what I eat. I grew up on fast food and microwave meals primarily, and did most of my gaining when I started working and was eating out much more.

I switched to making almost all my own food from basic ingredients (raw meat and vegetables). I occasionally eat out but try to keep it to once a week. I also changed my relationship with the gym, but that's primarily about muscle gain and not weight loss.

I suspect that the main problem is that diet programs are just that - a temporary fix that doesn't treat the underlying problem of diet. You are what you eat, ultimately.
I think the point is that any diet related comment should probably be prefaced with: speak to a doctor, dietician; have a blood test done to test levels. From what I recall, zinc, magnesium and vitamin D could all reach sufficient levels just from diet, and, having too much of any of these can have bad results. Therefore someone who simply follows every and any diet suggestion on forums could possibly be at risk - despite a goodhearted, scientifically founded suggestion.
The missing piece of any climate model is how the earth will respond.

Do I think we are pumping co2 into the sky causing a raise in tempature? Yes. What happens after is still unclear.
It doesn't work on Android Chrome or Firefox.
Calories in < calories out is specifically mentioned as working.
Because we eat like royalty. I have access to exceedingly tasty food all the time.

If you look at food we eat every day, they used to be celebration foods: Ice Cream, Tamales, Cake, etc.

Additionally, if you have a sedentary job, you won't be burning off the carbs.
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I've never encountered with "improvisional theater". How does it work? What practically is "performing without a script"? You stay on stage and say anything that comes to your mind?
I had the pleasure to attend his 80th birthday conference (http://knuth80.elfbrink.se) in Piteå, Sweden where he also premiered his piece Fantasia Apocalyptica for church organ.

We attended the conference as students but still got to see the conference, listen to the music and be at the birthday dinner free of charge. When I talked to Knuth I was amazed by his humility. Every presentation was about how grand he was, but he still was humble and friendly.

They say you shouldn't meet your heroes, but they're obviously not talking about Knuth!
Further, no trust was ever requested or place. IIRC they didn't even have a waitlist or anything. They just announced that they were going to launch a product in the future and now are redesigning it some more.

Furthermore, this fits into their narrative of disruption. Their target audience will likely see this as, "stupid big banking industry trying to make it hard for them again."
As a 100% sedentary person (I sit for maybe 14-15 hours a day) I've had pretty good results with a combination of:

* 6 days of gym (4 lifting, 2 HIIT + cardio for 40 min)

* 2-3 days of water fasting every week, sometimes every other week

* reduced calories

* cutting out most foods that have added sugar, sweeteners or refined grains in them

* doing most of the cooking myself with non-processed ingredients (so vegetables and meats you could get at any market)

* 8-9 hours of sleep on a fixed schedule

It takes a significant amount of discipline and lifestyle changes, but it does lead to also significant results. You generally can't sit in front of a computer as much as I do and also expect to look a certain way without a fairly radical approach. 185lbs to about 160ish in ~6 months at 5'11".

I have a ridiculous amount of energy and for once I feel pretty good about how clothes look on me. Ultimately you have to experiment and see what works for you, most bodies are different and will react differently in subtle ways to diet and exercise.
Tell me what privacy you think you're losing. Then avoid clicking on AMP results.
About five to six years ago, I lost in excess of 40% of my body weight over the course of a year (I know, I know, too fast). After that, I've remained within ten pounds of my target weight.

It wasn't easy. I basically had to fight my body with my brian every step of the way. It worked through an amount of personal discipline I'm slowly coming to realize is very unusual.

Also, some of your links are broken. Looks like mostly malformed markdown.
Tracking error against the index, auditing, security, and financial controls are more important than a couple basis points.

Honestly a much stronger argument is tax efficiency. If you're buying the individual stocks, then even when the index is flat you'll have some capital gains and losses. You can use both these to improve your tax efficiency - the losses can be harvested to offset realized gains elsewhere, while any appreciated shares can be donated to charity and repurchased with new money, effectively increasing your tax basis.

Still, you're likely better off just hiring people to do the tax planning, estate planning, and philanthropic services. It's essentially setting up a single family office with no control over your investments.
oh wow massive life changes are all it takes to lose weight?
Posting the reference to this for those who may have missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699166
"yes and" is really important to learn.
when you say "a single pixel" here I believe you mean a very small angular diameter
> count your calories

That's all it really is. Everything else just makes it easier to eat few enough calories, including any crazy diets.
That sounds wonderful and I really wish you the best with this. Please come back in 2022 (5 years after you started) and tell us more about this.
humans were extracting sugar from sugarcane 8,000 years ago. It was consumed heavily in india 2000 years ago. BUt of course we've been eating free sugars in foods for as long as we've been around.
It also centers the process, meaning how problems and solutions are validated, on your users.
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We can't let everyone and their dog into CA. It's great CA is popular, but being too popular is can also be a problem (see Venice Italy). Why not fix up Detroit and the rust belt and fill those empty houses instead? Spread the load.
Fair point, though it certainly was try at one point. In any case, doesn't detract from the point I was trying to make.
Conclusion: "We each have a duty to make the moral effort not to be climate deniers in our own way."
My sister in law had a lap band put in a decade ago and she recently had it taken out because of complications. It would be fair to say that it was a partial success and her doctor says that her case is not unusual and that lap bands haven't been as successful as had been hoped.

As for explanations of the obesity epidemic note the timing -- it really took off in the 1980s, together with the social and political changes that we call "globalization"

https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312011

one possibility is that it was a change in social stressors, another that it was some environmental chemical introduced around that time. (eg. neonictinoid pesticides or glyphosate)
I couldn't help but wonder if it could have been some gigantic robinhood scheme to take from the rich and possibly give to charities or something. Now we'll never know.
Paying people to understand exactly what form that regulatory capital should take. Determining where it should be held. Proving to your regulators that you or someone you retain followed the proper procedure in determining how much and what kind of capital should be held. Demonstrating that the proper changes to those balances were made at the proper times and that an internal framework exists for making modifications as risk exposures shift. (And more and more and more.) Here's the simplest summary I could find of one of the many required compliance frameworks: https://www.bis.org/bcbs/basel3/b3_bank_sup_reforms.pdf
No animal or insect actually digests cellulose - instead they use symbiotic microorganisms to break it down.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/1335/Cellulose-Cellulose-dige...
Some estimates for the outer boundary of the Oort Cloud put it at 200,000AU = 3.16ly (more conservative estimates seem to be 1ly or less). Even the inner boundary is thought to be at least double the distance of the object just discovered, so current astonomical hypotheses align with your idea that there's a lot more out there.
Try removing all grains but keep eating as many raisans and dates as possible. You will loss weight. The type of sugar matters more than just all sugar.
Hey Reilly,

Thanks for taking interest in my question.

Yes, I am already using a theme called Ascension. I also got in touch with the developers on GitHub whenever I wanted to make any changes, but they could do only so much.

I am looking to achieve something on the lines of https://drexel.edu/

Merci beaucoup! :)
Right, that much I grok, but when you say "move fast and broke things", in the context of "relating-to-the-law" what are you hypothesizing was 'broke'?

I think it's a matter of phrasing perhaps, that has me a bit confused of what your post is suggesting as a matter relating to the law.
I don't think they ever tested that--the issue was with SPIC saying they would not protect the accounts, not with the banking authorities saying the name was misleading.
Do you water fast the entire day?
Agree. 100%.
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If the average failure rate is 400 years and the failure rate is close to Gaussian, how many coke bottles can you store in your warehouse for a month and expect not to have one leak? Not having a bottle leak is the whole point of a bottle. It might not matter to you if every once in a while a bottle you are handling leaks, but if you are shipping millions of them around in harsh conditions it would be nice not to have your truck covered in sticky corn syrup when you get to the store to off load.
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They do, the system is just complicated and focused on high-value branded items.
This happened to me too, but at work haha.

One thing that I always appreciated about Barkley growing up was his ability to be sincere and relatable; he speaks from the heart.
Exercise is also not the easy answer. Your best bet is still to change what you eat.

But it's not "calories in < calories out" that you should focus on. It's the quality of what you eat. For instance it's super easy to overeat calories wise if you eat candy since it doesn't do anything for your hunger, or if it does it makes you crave even more. While it's much harder to overeat on steak.
I'm an old-school programmer (though not as old as Knuth) and I use a gaming keyboard. I like the "click click" and full travel and the new "buckle spring" keyboards I can get aren't as good as the cherry clicky ones.

I learned to type on a a mechanical typewriter in High School and in college punched programs on keypunch machines. A lot of us old-timers use gaming keyboards.
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I dropped 40lbs in about 5 months and it was REALLY EASY. Put down your pitchforks, everyone, I know everyone has reasons and excuses, I'm just here to back up what you said about counting calories. It's the best thing I've ever done. Seriously.

I always viewed the idea as the last refuge of a miserable process. That I'd rather just be somewhat overweight than to track everything that closely. But actually it was INCREDIBLY freeing, because it helped me realize that 95% of my habits were REALLY GOOD, but the 5% that I thought was sorta bad was actually extremely terrible. By having the immediate data on what you're consuming or about to consume, it gives you the power of choice, rather than just hand-waving about "it's just one <whatever>" or "it's a friday, what the hell".

Anyone here should appreciate how having data, and seeing "I am on track to lose 2lbs this week" and then it shows up (not every week, but on average) creates a really positive feedback loop in a way that a vague concept of "cutting back on X" never does.
You too? My whole body tightened up more than a max-effort deadlift just reading the article.
Just broadcasting a similarly strong signal won't jam GPS family transmissions. This is because the transmission is based on a pseudorandom bit sequence. It looks like noise unless you also know what the pseudorandom sequence should be. If you do you can pick this out from any not related signal trying to jam it, until the jammers pour in so much more power that it overwhelms your receiver.

The new birds know a pseudorandom sequence that was state of the art ten years ago rather than forty years ago (times approximate). This is a shared key system. If you either break the system or know the key, you get position data or can effectively jam it. You can put several transmissions on the same bird, and give away some of the keys, voila you're a public service. Keep one or more for your military and they've got position information that can't be jammed.
You aren’t 100% sedentary if you’re in the gym six days a week!
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Good answer. Actually a 10-line blurb on the core operations of Minikanren and some output from programs would be pretty useless. It would only serve to confuse the reader because names like "fresh", "conde", "numbero" etc aren't very descriptive (you can argue whether they're good names at all).

Maybe having a little blurb about the meta-circular interpreter might be useful as a way of "exciting" the audience by presenting a cool result.
Not interesting by Hacker News' standards. We're not here to have dumb flamewars, but that's what follows comments like this.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
iMessage and FaceTime are end-to-end encrypted and work in China. There's different rules for Apple.
Humans have been eating sugars in fruit form since day 1.
Compensation is literally a zero-sum game.
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That seems fitting, doesn't it? Weight change requires weighty changes :)
I like this response because it doesn't put the blame into anyone.
The study notes a high attrition rate (~45% of those who started this dropped out), and this appears to be a voluntary endeavor.

This is significant to me, as I suspect many of the people with anxiety that is significant enough to be diagnosable would not be willing to do it or would pretty much shut down if placed in the setting.

To delve into personal anecdotes:

I had a theater class in school that regularly included improv exercises like described. In 11 years of it (K-10 or so), I don't think it ever went well.

The actual manifestation of the problem with "no script" was drawing a complete blank as soon as I was asked, not having a bunch of ideas I was scared to respond with.

It's certainly possible that these people have a better method, but I had multiple theater teachers and I was socially fine in normal settings. All these activities tended to do was give me more anxiety issues because everyone else could come up with things and I'd just be stuck there no matter how people tried to help me get going.

Those are not really common situations in adult life, but I'm still bad with "icebreaker" games and other similar things that "put me on the spot" to come up with something outside of normal social interactions.
the problem is not in keeping the cash stashed away, but in the opportunity cost of doing so. startups are first and foremost expected to grow quickly and setting money aside dampens their growth rate (along with the hefty regulatory requirements of running a bank).

if banking is needed, most startups will partner with a bank instead, so it has access to all of its cash, even if it has to pay a bit more to do so. flexibility has value (which is the same reason options have value beyond the underlying asset).
There was a direct up-tick in obesity almost immediately after the government's Food Guide Pyramid was released.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/health-lifestyle/did-the-food-...

The Food Pyramid And The Food Industry Contributed To A Massive Increase In Sugar, Carbohydrate And Calorie Intake.

Humans simply aren't supposed to eat so many carbs and so much sugar.

Whenever you eat carbs and sugar, it triggers insulin production. Insulin causes your body to store fat instead of burning it as fuel.

I've been doing a ton of research on this topic lately, and the /r/keto forum on reddit has proven to be a very useful resource.

Another one of my favorite resources has been the Youtube channel, "What I've Learned", which does some pretty amazing breakdowns on the topic, if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqYPhGiB9tkShZorfgcL2lA/vid...
bariatric surgery has around a 68%~ success rate (as in hits goal weight) and around a 2% total failure rate (all weight gained back) it is by far the most effective weight loss intervention that exists by miles and miles.

There are also a variety of surgeries with varying side effects and risk profiles from sleeve gastrectomy to something like a duodenal shift.

It's definitely the case that this is not root causing the issue. There are probably many root causes to increasing obesity with many probably centered around the creation, easy availability, and marketing of calorie dense foods that do not satiate, however, bariatric surgery is something an individual can do while changing most of the root causes requires vast institutional changes.
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