skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have quite a few questions and they're all tangled up together.

1) are there side effects to taking protein supplements or mass gainers?

Practically, no. Whey protein, which is the most common protein supplement taken around working out, is just concentrated food. It's widely tested and incredibly safe. A small number of people (including myself) get a lot of mucus at the back of their throat when they start taking whey protein, but that's just a rare reaction to large amounts of dairy.
The safety of every supplement would, of course, also depend on the purity and therefore on the manufacturer so do your due diligence before you buy. But in general people who warn you against using common supplements such as protein/creatine/bcaa have done no research and are simply having an adverse reaction to seeing a powder or a pill.

2) is it a good idea to take protein supplements or mass gainers?

- mass gainers - pretty much never a good idea. They're just protein + carbs. Usually with too much carbs and at inflated prices for the concentrations that you're getting. If for some reason you've decided that you need a protein + carb supplement, you can get them separately and mix your own shake at the ratio that you want.

- protein - maybe. It certainly won't hurt but you would probably expect to see changes in your body that simply won't happen. If you've worked out for a year and not seen any progress, it's likely that your training and/or diet haven't been that good. So adding a protein supplement won't do much.

3) So to give a general outline to solving your problem:

- make sure that you're training heavy (relative to your ability). Use mainly compound lifts (squat, deadlift, military press, bench press, pull-up) and get on a program that would allow you to progressively get stronger and lift more.

- eat more. This is the biggest factor in gaining weight. Calorie counting has many problems and usually isn't necessary. But you can start with recording everything you eat for a period of a couple of days to a week. And then increase your intake without adding too much junk or sugar. Make sure you're getting enough protein in your diet in the form of meat/eggs. If this doesn't work, you're probably still not eating enough.

- make sure that you're getting 7.5 - 8.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night

- don't worry about supplements until you start seeing progress from training and diet. And don't expect to see significant results just from adding a supplement.
It's very different. If you own a home next to the stadium you will likely loose out because every match day is a hell day for you (gridlock, noise, pollution) and the construction traffic will also be horrible. The money you will get for your house will likely be less than the money you will get before the stadium comes. On the other hand if you own a few "lots" or a strip of land near the stadium then you will make much money - a simple play is to turn the tumbleweed into parking, and sure as eggs are eggs you'll get $20 + per car sized space per match, which is a lot more than little or nothing! More investment and you could put cheap 5+1 development there, the retail can be focused on food and fan shops, the apartment will appeal to incomers.
They just don't see it as a burden and/or are maybe not too honest with themselves ('yeah but I will read it later'). That being said: there are other uses for TST, can replace bookmarks etc.
My battery was being sucked by GPS according to the battery usage reporting. And that stopped being the case when I revoked the Google app permissions.
Then of those people, there is a fraction that uses the Nvidea cards that are impacted, and an even smaller number of uses will run into issues.

To save those users from themselves, Google now disabled GPU accelleration for all Ubuntu users.

Seems like a bit silly to me.
Commonplace notebook in emacs, several moleskine notebooks and a digital voice recorder.
You assume a machine with a single all powerful user. These days computers don't really work this way, for our own good. A huge amount of effort is put into keeping programs as isolated as possible (unix permissions, chroots, cgroups...). Most systemd units include isolation features enabled by default.

Having an API that can reconfigure syncing being available without authentication for anything running on the machine feels backwards to me. More so for a project that focuses on security.

If anyone from the project reads this, may I recommend either encouraging users to set a password or mentioning the implications on the page about Security Principles[0]?

[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/security.html
I add to OmniFocus inbox and then eventually move into a sometime/maybe - ideas project
Around here I'd expect something more like a 7 year minimum to be more likely...

Limiting the timeframe does improve the costs and the privacy impact, but the ISP will still need to build and run all of the logging infrastructure, and the end result is that you'll still be identifiable.
yup, modern is a qualification meaning that they support current internet standards, not only legacy

as per internet standards/rfc’s IPv4 is a legacy protocol, so every ISP limiting it’s customers to only this veraion is not considered modern
Sorry, but that seems a bit confused. If there are not enough votes for a stadium, then there will not be enough votes to throw out a candidate for "not backing" a stadium.

Not allowing people a voice in the question and then blaming democracy for it? You can't blame an abstract system of government for sports owners making sweatheart deals that ignore public sentiment.
Sadly, plenty of ISPs use DS-Lite with a single /64 issued.

(I'm looking at you UPC/Virgin Media/Liberty Global)
Also housing is expensive because there are not enough appropriate houses.

Even in SF with the legendary homeless problems there 1000 people off the streets would make a gigantic impact.

But what about building a giant homeless shelter instead of a stadium? Or.. how about having homeless dorms in the stadium? May be just trying would help?
Is DNSSEC Adoption Worth It for Enterprises?
> The percentage of foreign-born people living in the United States is the highest it's been in nearly a century.

I think this is happening in a lot of countries, the capital cities in particular attract a large diversity of population. I was curious so spent a few minutes exploring figures.

In London 36.7% are Foreign-Born, rising to 42.2% for Inner London. [0]

Paris is about 21% [1]

Berlin is 18.4% [2]

New York city is 36%, Los Angeles is 41% [3]

In 1976, less than one in four Sydneysiders was foreign born. Forty years later the figure is nearly 40 per cent. [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London#Foreig...

[1] https://archive.vn/20150404125339/http://insee.fr/fr/themes/...

[2] https://www.businesslocationcenter.de/en/business-location/b...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#...

[4] https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2018/the-world-loves-sydn...
No, it's part of the philosophy that this particular feature led to users suddenly being without tab bar and basically having a broken browser. Although I do believe they're still weighing that against the benefits of being able to use TST without needing to go through extra hoops.

You can still view individual cookies and their values: open the dev tools, then the Storage tab.
I have a git repo. I wrote about this and other related time management things here:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/03/how-i-manage-my-time/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...
You're missing the point. A mobile app isn't for the benefit of the user, it's for the benefit of the analytics and marketing teams. They want to be able to know who's engaging with it, and spam them with notifications.
Mapping and visualization
Less "some women might like it" and more it's often explicitly prescribed to help women with irregular cycles.
every ipv4 only isp is legacy, not modern

basically they are the edissons of electricity boom era when AC was becoming the new standard for power transfer
When I was using an iPhone & mac as my primary tools I had siri create reminders "write a tool which does.." which were synced to caldav & regulary auto-imported into my GTD inbox (omnifocus).

I really liked this solution since it was reliable. The synced entries were deleted from my phone automatically so I did not have to worry about an endless list of tasks on my phone.
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This also boggles my mind. The only ones allowed a say in what happens to a city are.. the people just moving to it? Aka the same ones who are responsible for a majority of the current issues?
It must use a lot of energy to keep that biosphere constant-ish temperature the whole time.

I assume it needs to be fully enclosed and use artificial (electric) lighting. In that case, I wonder the use of sending it to the moon at all.
So we'll regulate facebook maybe?
I've had some thoughts about liking to see some studies on whether people who write left handed or are mostly left handed dominant still mostly use mouse with their right hand. And to take it further, are these people playing first person shooters with invert mouse more often than right handed people OR left handed people who use mouse with left hand?
>>> Decimal('9999999999999999.0')-Decimal('9999999999999998.0')
Decimal('1.0')
The Best of Frenemies: Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon
Pardon for the somewhat OT post, but the quotes about patent use in the article made me realize once again that I don't get how the patent system works.

> [Facebook:] "We’ve often sought patents for technology we never implement, and patents should not be taken as an indication of future plans."

> “A lot of patents are filed at the idea stage rather than the actuality stage,” said Ranieri by phone. “A tech company that files a patent has, hopefully, at least thought about how to do it. You’d hope they could implement it if asked, but it doesn’t mean they have done so before.”

So if registering a patent neither requires that I actually intend to make use of the idea, nor that I even knew how to do it, what keeps me from patenting moonshots such as "A general framework for DNA-editing based cancer therapies" or "A method to construct a moon base using a mix of on-site material and material sourced from earth" and start raking in cash once someone else figures out the details and actually wants to do it?
I mean, as long as the car doesn’t bottom out when you’re at the speed limit, this is perfectly fine. I live in France, here there are speed bumps where you practically have to stop in order not to ruin your car, even though the speed limit is 30 or higher... that is annoying.
Yeah, the problem is, basic functionality like text editing and even just scrolling keeps getting worse, slower and more broken with each version, at least on Mac. Display of web-clipped pages and images becomes buggy. The desktop app somehow gets bugs in its window switching behavior. The Android app is slow and heavy like a glacier, can't save data on an SD card, fills all internal storage to the last byte if there are too many notes to sync (incapacitating the phone), and needs lots of memory to edit simple text notes.

Meanwhile the developers are fiddling with the interface to keep up with MacOS, and the company is adding more useless front line layers to the support to shield itself from the customers. And this all has been going on for years.

So, been there. The price is not the problem.
Also, if you've bought a home, increased supply might mean that your "investment" (because homes now seem to be primarily investments rather than a place to live) becomes less valuable.

No, if you've bought a home, you want ever increasing prices. But people forget that during the first half of life, you generally try to move somewhere bigger each time you move. If prices increase 10% on average, your $500k property is now worth around $550. Yay!

However, the house you want to buy, that cost $1m when you bought your current property, now costs $1.1m. So actually, you lost $50k for the standard of living you're looking for, rather than gained it.

If prices decreased 10%, you would seem to have lost $50k, until you want to move somewhere bigger and therefore can cash in the proportionally bigger "discount".
Huh, I missed that. Thanks!
You forgot the "old desktop (2013)" naming structure.

But yeah, that's exactly me.
Ask HN: What is your experience with IT/Dev certifications?
Have you finished some certifications in 2018? Have you attempted but failed some? What is the best value for money? Were there experiences you'd consider bad?

Also, how helpful were the certs in interviews, promotions, or whatever else you hoped to achieve?
If equal opportunity means removing one groups opportunity to prop up that of another, then you are most likely incorrect to say that that will be an overall benefit of harvesting untapped potential.

The world doesn’t function off raw potential, sadly. You can’t just be smart or driven and magically become a functioning ceo of a major company. You pretty much have to have a certain groomed background to be successful in that role.

This is an extreme, but the same logic applies throughout the workforce hierarchy. Equality movements have demonstrated that they intend to actualize policies which disregard this fact for the sake of an ideology. That is more than enough reason to criticize these movements.
What did you use to create your personal wiki?
In fact in Norwegian companies over a certain size (forget the number of employees), it is a legal requirement for there to be a cafeteria provided by the employer.
Pop-econ, as a subgenre of pop-science, is a necessary evil.

The thing about econ is it's closely connected to political philosophy, and politics causes all sorts of partisan issues. Witness the furore over Piketty's work over recent years.

So why do I say it's necessary and evil?

Well it's necessary because it's often the only way for someone outside of academia to get an overview of a topic. Without these kinds of work we'd be lost rifling through various journal papers, not knowing which ones are considered important and which ones not.

It's evil because that editorial power is seductive. To sell books, that author needs to make a forceful point. To do that, you can't just leave the evidence at "inconclusive", even though that might be sensible. Why write a book at all if it says "we don't know"? So we get selection bias in what books are written.

A friend of mine writes pop-econ books, and from a very libertarian point of view. Something about it seems like a just-so story. The inherent noisiness of economic evidence is lost, all the graphs are cherry picked to support his view. And yet you'd have to dig quite a lot to find specific things to complain about.

I studied economics myself, and on a lot of things I thought the stack of papers had good arguments one way and the other. My tutor, a famous Marxist, was also quite good at giving the free market side of evidence, so it's not like he was all one-sided.

My main concern is that people who haven't had a bit of exposure to economics at university think that it's like picking up A Brief History of Time. Basically true, but for laymen (wonder what a real physicist would think, heh). In actuality a lot of it is opinion, disguised as science. (In fact I tend to view a lot of economics like that; Opinions well defended by some sort of evidence.)
HTTP Client (java.net.http) Java 11 API – the practical example
City of the Future: Singapore [video]
I ditched for the same reason - I run btrfs on my workhorse machine. I'm very happy with nextcloud (though it leaves something to be desired as a developer who wants to contribute). The biggest difference though, is that now I have a product that beats the hell out of any cloud storage provider. 6TB of space (drives I had lying around, basically), integrated with Plex and my Roku, encrypted off-site backups (free azure allotment from my work, but pennies anyway), and better use of my internet connection. If I need more space, I can buy it very very cheap as a one time expense. I never have to go back to Dropbox again. Feels good, man.
A Slick Crime Fighting Machine – Metal Earth Batman Batmobile Kit
> Also, you might not want your tax dollars going to support professional sports, but many people do. That was my other point. We live in a democracy and the people generally are in favor of sports.

So let the taxpayers vote! If a majority wants to waste their money, then let them. But even then it is an absolute waste no matter your arguments because these are commercial entities backed by obscenely wealthy interests _that can afford to build them themselves_.
The accounting software we use has a built in calculator which has a similar problem.

5.55 * 1.5 = 8.3249999999999....

26.93 * 3 = 80.7899999999999....

I raised it with the supplier some time ago, they said it's just the calculator app and the main program isn't affected. Quite shocking that they are happy to leave it like this.
Notes app for quick hits.

An insane collection of project/notes/ideas/code folders on iCloud for permanence.
Same as my shopping list, use IFTTT to add a Trello card using Google Assistant or similar.

It's the fastest way to get those thoughts stored, and I always have my phone on me these days.
Nobody at a concert is going to wait through commercial breaks, for starters.
It's particularly ridiculous to talk about "highly processed supermarket kind" in a BBC article. I'm Norwegian. I live in the UK. Hardly a week goes by when I don't miss Norwegian supermarket bread - to get bread of that quality in the UK you mostly need to take time to go to a proper baker, and finding decent bakers (no, to anyone from the UK, Greggs is not a baker by any reasonable standard) in the UK is hard many places.

It's common to use supermarket bread in Norway because supermarket bread in Norway is nowhere like the "highly processed supermarket kind" you can typically expect in the UK.

And, frankly, what is generally a disappointment to me is when I for whatever reason doesn't have any alternative but the ubiquitous pre-made sandwich packs from UK supermarkets, that people here seems to accept as decent sandwiches. The bread is usually bland and awful, and they manage to make all kinds of combinations of nice ingredients into a stereotype of why British cuisine has a poor reputation.
Ask HN: Those working remote, do you use your own laptop for work?
Disclaimer: I have been actively meditating since 2012 and have had the opportunity to sit with many experienced monks and masters. E.g. I lived in Dharamsala (Dalai Lama's home) for 3 months a few Summers' back, and have traveled Buddhist countries extensively.

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Headspace is not meditation. If anything, it's a courtesan version of it. Yes, there has been a discussion on HN about this before, and people have varied 'opinions' on this subject. Headspace is not meditation, period. It's a cash-cow riding on the wave of pseudo-happiness and 'good vibes', none of which many people have an actual understanding of.

And don't get me wrong, I'm happy for anyone who can find stillness using Headspace. Truly, because ultimately this is what ancient texts teach us as well -- meditation transcends the mind which in turn unravels the ultimate reality. And it for sure doesn't happen in a day.

But, when I look at Headspace -- all I see is marketing dollars being thrown around (couldn't this money be used to feed the poor?) and zero emphasis on the hard truths of life. Of course, Andy's way of bypassing this is to say he is an 'ex-monk', so in saying that, he only needs to sell you the 'thought of meditation' and not the 'process'.

If this gets me downvoted or flagged, it's fine. I just hope that more people can see through this, and perhaps challenge themselves to take on the true practice of meditation. It's hard, but a lot of fun!
Maybe they're interested in it?
I've largely stopped using local storage, but I suppose the question isn't limited to that.

~/documentation - Git directory containing various personal & project notes, running unedited public documentation, and general ideas dump directory (there is a bit of structure but it's fairly free form)

~/workspace/{language}/{project} - I have active projects in several languages, some I group in large categories such as "linux" or "sites" when I feel they're more specific. These are all version controlled, mostly in Git repos.

~/remote/{media,backups,archived_projects,data_sets,unsorted} - On-demand NFS mount. Is the destination for automatic backups, where I archive old projects, and miscellaneous files I want to share between machines
In real life geoip blocking is terrible. IPs are traded from one organization to another all the time. It often takes months for services to update their databases mapping IPs to locations.

What is a user supposed to do when a random website blocks him because it uses an outdated database?
I went all in with Notes.app, sounded so appealing with much more potential features unlocked on iPad Pro with a pen, as well as iCloud web accessibility.

Then it failed syncing.

Then I noticed search doesn't work over note titles.

Then it prevented me from having more than 100 attached links (yes, links, not files) per note. Hard-coded.

Then it started crawling performance-wise. Slow startup, slow scroll.

Currently, I'm at file level when on desktop, and on paper when not. I'm not particulary happy with this either, but at least I'm aware of limitations at all times.
Physical notebooks started working for me when I started using them for daily planning, which I did by buying a silly $5 stamp of off AliExpress: https://medium.com/@kristiandupont/high-resolution-planning-...

On NYE I went through my books of 2018 and it was a great experience -- both reiterating all the things I've actually accomplished and refreshing various thoughts and ideas that I had stored and sort of let go. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDWesbnkDI/
Duplicate from a day ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18834107
YAML Has Won
I use vimwiki to keep notes. It's not synced out of the box, but as it's just a directory with text files, you could make it so. If I'm not with my laptop, I just make a note in Google Keep.
I think the speed test is accurate but I suspect both my ISPs throttle my speed until they detect I am running the speed test. I will try yours.
It sounds like you're not training hard enough or are not doing the correct training for your goal.

Are you specifically training for size gain? Are you doing the big three (bench press, squat, deadlift)? Are you training your muscles to complete exhaustion each set - which means that your last rep is the one you cannot physically complete? Are you increasing the weights if you're hitting the target reps on the first set? Are you taking rest days and getting enough sleep?

Honestly you should probably talk to a trainer at your gym, they'll be able to sort you out. I can also highly recommend ATHLEAN-X on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24), he really knows what he's talking about.
From the job listings (remote) that I have seen in recent months, a lot more companies are getting comfortable with hooking up remote employees with company gear.