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One of the most important things they should fix ASAP, IMHO, is how cumbersome it is to install and get up and running on Linux in general, it totally needs something like Rust's rustup before or first party support from major distros before I can recommend it to anyone.
While not this obese, I have gone through a similar experience in the last couple of years where medication almost completely suppressed my hunger trigger. As a result I kind of "accidentally" did intermittent fasting for over a year. My BMI went from 31 to 24 in the span of half a year, at which point my colleagues were getting worried because of the rapid weight loss and I started to rationally force myself to eat during lunchtime.

Since a couple of months the hunger suppression is no longer an issue, but it has been surprisingly easy to maintain a healthy weight and healthy eating habits since.

I suspect one part of the problem is that the body takes a long time to adjust to what it considers a new "normal" weight, which is why diets often don't work. Maybe if they were specifically oriented towards staying at a certain weight for an extended period of time?
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Exactly. Thus the problem with loot boxes, gold ammo, premium accounts, etc. Pay to win.
> Did you wonder why I even felt the need to write a summary? Why would I need to, if one could simply just read TFA?

Unless you're a summary bot, most people inject their opinion when summarizing an article. When they disagree, they will dispute points in that summary. When there's no dispute, such as your case, it's implicit that you're agreeing with the article's core ideas that you've summarized. It's as obvious and routine as a rhetorical question.

ok, let's pretend you didn't agree with article. It doesn't take away from the fact that my comments just strongly disagreed with the idea of Jackie "paying too high a price for success", which what you've espoused in your comments. (It is still one of the core messages of the article, in addition to Jackie's subsequent 'apathy'.)
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The Babe Ruth effect of VC's needing big hits and the entire industry being a hits-driven business (unicorns, PG's Black Swan Farming, etc.) is a relic of the VC industry being not-long-tail compatible (i.e. offline).
This will change, and more money will be made in the fat long tail than the hits.

I've been writing at length about this movement (https://medium.com/swlh/the-new-bootstrappers-how-alternativ...) and the kinds of startups that will emerge as smart investments (https://medium.com/swlh/rise-of-the-transformers-db7887c2668...)
This was my same takeaway thumbing through. I think I'll take the weekend to grok PHP a bit better.

Thanks for publishing this op!
Ask HN: How can a programmer contribute to their country/province/city?
What are the best ways to find software projects to contribute to, which are beneficial to local institutions? Do national/provincial/state organizations have open source projects, how can they be found?
> Carbohydrate addiction is no joke

Completely believe it, although I think it depends on an individual's metabolism, which is why it's so tricky.

I stop having an insatiatable hunger after dropping carbs; my hunger feeling is more muted and in turn more managable. I have often wondered if "normal" people simply always feel that way, and so portion control is easier for them. I'd do keto more, but it isn't great for one's social life.

The other thing that helps me was Firas Zahabi's advice on Joe Rogan, that consistency and flow are key (to excercise), not intensity. I think his advice generalises to almost everything, how I became good at programming, playing an instrument, and also how I became fat. None of these happened overnight.
Because all of this is regulated by hunger. If you move more, you get hungrier.

The issue in the case of most overweight people is that their body is trying to maintain a set point at a high level of body fat. Hunger serves to maintain this weight set point.

The way to sustainable weight loss is to eat in such a way that the body starts to target a lower set point and decreases hunger.

Obviously this also results in less calories taken than expended, but if it were as simple as a math formula most people would have six packs.
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Lisp macros are not self-modifying code in any shape or form.
They calculate new syntax tree fragments from existing syntax tree fragments, often using purely functional techniques (no mutation at all, not even of local variables in the macro).

The compiler internals of pretty much any programming language do similar tree to tree transformations: just not ones that the program itself can specify as part of its code. We don't call C self-modifying because a for(;;) loop structure was changed by the compiler into if/goto with generated labels, and then changed again into assembly code.

A macro that mutates the input source code on which it operates wouldn't pass a code review in any competent Lisp shop.

It can happen. For instance (setf (car '(1 2)) 2) is self-modifying code; it tries to replace the 1 with a 2, and that 1 is embedded in the program code itself, in a literal list. This is undefined behavior according to ANSI CL, very similarly to how "abc"[1]++ (modifying a string literal) is undefined behavior in C. Note that this code isn't implementing a macro.

I've never heard of compiled Lisp object code being mutated.

Lisp programs as such can be self-modifying; a common example of that is updating while running: loading new versions of existing modules, replacing old functions with new ones. That doesn't involve modifying code.
I don't think "average game" is a valuable metric. What is an "average book", or "average film"? Art isn't measured by averages really, but by what's available. I'd say, PC gaming offers better tools for artistic expression, including more complex games that console market deems as not fitting.

Technical limitations that hold developers back are only part of it. Another issue is simply creative control of incumbent console owners. PC gaming doesn't have it, so creators can do whatever they want. And masterpieces are always a minority, no matter in what form of art.
Ask HN: Which Western country is next? Either to have their own national nabbed in China or to nab someone on their own soil for spying for China.
You could be more specific about the nature of your product. The wording is confusing.

If you want to build a China-only consumer product from scratch this is likely impossible as a foreign entity. Some specific industries will be laxer. But most pop consumer Internet is off-limits [0].

If you're introducing a somewhat established product and just want to broaden your customer base, then there are ways. But again super tough. Like the article you linked mentioned, many Chinese join venture schemes are just conduits for IP theft.

Generally my best guidance is to be very careful about risking any money in China. (lost quite a bit myself)

There's no publicly available information as to how YC China is structured legally. But they mentioned it's going to be China-first, investing on Chinese terms in Chinese companies. So likely the accelerator operation is going to be like any other in China.
The creative part is how YC can maintain ownership over this structure.

[0] And despite what some will try to tell you, as an individual you also cannot own or hold stock in plain a domestic company. And all the crazy workarounds only start making sense once you're already very successful and are still super shady.
"No matter where you stood, you were no more than 10 feet from fried chicken."

I'm sorry but I just can't relate to this, which is probably why everyone in my family is thin. I can't even remember the last time I ate fried chicken.
Maybe its a cultural thing (my parents were European), but there is no reason to bring fried chicken into your house. None. This is the kind of decisions that lead to being 460 pounds.

Growing up, for dinner, we would have a bowl of broccoli, a plate of asparagus, and bowl of roasted vegetables like sweet potato, carrot, parsnips, ect. We would always would have a mixed green salad. And we would have a meat dish like grilled chicken and mushrooms. No matter how much of that you ate, it would be very difficult to get fat.
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Mankiw says [0]:

Paul Douglas was a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1966. In 1927, however, when he was still a professor of economics, he noticed a surprising fact: the division of national income between capital and labor had been roughly constant over a long period. In other words, as the economy grew more prosperous over time, the total income of workers and the total income of capital owners grew at almost exactly the same rate.

Douglas' evidence isn't actually presented in Mankiw, it's just stated as fact: do note that I asked for empirical evidence in my earlier post. The observations are over 90 years old, and the government didn't even collate national statistics in the 1920s. Do they still hold? Do they hold in non-US countries?

I'm not these modelling choices (cobb-douglas above, and the assumptions in TFA) are wrong, I'm saying that they're unjustified.

[0] http://irfanlal.yolasite.com/resources/N.%20Gregory%20Mankiw...
I agree, but you have the wrong takeaway.

Improbable's knowing, selective omission of the pertinent fact that they'd been in negotiation for over a year shows the true nature of Improbable.

I really think Unity went above and beyond, here. And the fact that Improbable ran to their competitor to do a rapid PR stunt shows that they had their knives sharpened and ready to go. Tsk, tsk!
Hey John! You probably don't remember me, but we met in Malmö a couple of years back when you gave a very nice talk. I remember you being very nervous about Douglas Crockford attending it, haha.

I was being grumpy about the death of Google Reader, and you said that that's what you use Twitter for. So you're basically the reason I'm now on Twitter actually.

Glad to hear the intermittent fasting is working well for you! Hope you'll have to buy a new wardrobe for yourself soon ;)
I'd love to use Swift on the backend, but I don't want to use XCode.

I only develop part-time, as my main job is financial in nature, but god, it is really hard to find good learning material for serverside without depending on XCode. In particular, learning the server frameworks is almost not worth it. By using one language, I can keep my productivity acceptable.

If anyone has any references, I'd be super thankful!
Since the government insists that it has the authority to violate the 4th Amendment whenever it feels like if I'm in a 100-mile vicinity of a border, I really want devices to have "reset switches" which reset the device to, if not a factory-default state, then a state of "just completed initial configuration without logging into any services."

Which is the state I now feel compelled to set my devices whenever I travel, and then restore from a remote backup when I reach my destination.
How would a visual compiler even work? You can't really just skip the text layer unless you're willing to be married to one set of paradigms.

Plus, what makes anyone want to bring mechanics into programming?

Look at an internal combustion engine. That's your physical manifestation of visual programming. It's a bunch of blocks of different shapes and sizes fastened together to do a task. It is made no easier to grok without text. The people who can operate on such systems are called mechanics, and even they still need text to reference from time to time.

Part of programming, and arguably where the Art shines through brightest is linguistic mastery through which comes the ability to visualize the System Under Work.

I'm increasingly reluctant to try to teach coding primarily as opposed to computer science. Doing so robs the practitioner of that ability to perceive the visualization of what the code is rather than what the code actually reads as.

To lose that perspective is to be completely out of touch with a program. It's just a bunch of words and desperate flailing to line everything up until the compiler stops complaining. Fighting a merciless djinn hoping that you don't get saddled with the unintended consequences of not realizing what it actually was you were doing.
My hope would be that even if the slap is laughably small for the current offense, the thread of larger fines for continued action would be a deterrent to keep going.

My limited experience with legal issues at large companies is that once a precedent has been set for legally risky behavior, the organization becomes extremely averse to approaching that behavior again (due to optics, legal complications, etc.). AT&T doesn't strike me as a company that cares all that much about the optics from citizen customers (as opposed to business customers), but being found to be a serial violator, i would hope, would have larger consequence.
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I think it’s just the start, soon there will be a much larger paradigm shift.

Especially in tech where there is generally a large community of supporters who are willing to fund the projects they believe in directly.

I think the Green Bay Packers is a perfect example, it’s the only “publicly owned” football team in the NFL and as a result when they need funding for large projects (like stadium renovations) they go straight to their community supporters with “public offerings of Packers stock”...which isn’t really stock at all but a certificate and small voice in corporate governance (ie election of a small number of directors). It’s so successful of a legal structure the NFL publicly takes the position they are at a competitive advantage to the other teams which are owned by billionaires.

There is no reason Startup’s shouldn’t look at the same model and cut out all VCs, incubators, etc...
Article> those who don't participate [in drinking alcohol] are de facto excluded

Though I do sometimes drink, I've never felt uncomfortable ordering a water, a non-alcoholic beer (more commonly in Europe), a soda, or a coffee at a place where "everyone else" is drinking.

That may not seem as comfortable in Japan or China, but in Europe, India, and America, I haven't felt the least bit self-conscious or pressured beyond the occasional "Oh, no beer for you?" "None for me, thanks." interaction.
Try Firefox. Doesn't work in Chrome for me either.
Have they opened up the game to any significant automation?
Does trading still require manually entering orders or can it (is it allowed via EULA to) be automated? Does travelling through systems still require ~1 minute minimum (assuming no scouting) per jump? Do they still prohibit any external app attempts at automation?

EVE is a job. It's a job that gives you an occasional adrenaline dump from some awesome or horrifying event, with no real-life consequences (other than memories), in a space-based violent virtual environment with no judicial system.

Anyone looking for something fun to do in real life, you're probably not going to match the addictive kind of "fun" you can get in EVE. The isolation from real-life consequences also isolates you from most real-world feedback that would discourage you from continuing to play. Spaceships, lack of judicial system, and the extremely long-interval-based variable reinforcement schedule of boring activities (trading, ratting, logistics) punctuated with very occasional great deals, great drops, or PvP or empire-building success, make it pretty optimal in terms of addictive "fun". If you want to dedicate a part-time or full-time job worth of time to achieve that fun, and you can stomach an environment that's often sociopathic, then jump right in, you'll have a blast... for whatever that's worth... but your real-life life might well suffer for it.

In a nutshell, EVE is a combination of paper-trading (it's not paper-trading in the virtual world, of course... virtual proceeds support virtual world activities), virtual logistics, virtual rock climbing with good loot at the top of each climb. And — for players who do PvP — that part is like WestWorld, with long stretches of anticipation-fuelled scouting and voice comms fun leading up to short, adrenaline-fuelled encounters with an enemy... with much of the virtual money and equipment gathered through trading and ratting being put on the line in combat.

Layered on top of that, on a corp and alliance level, it's like trying to build a real company, with factories and outposts and such, but in a virtual world, while trying to defend and expand the corporation's assets... again in a space-based world with complex but often obtuse game mechanics, and with no judicial system. That means a lot of successful corp and alliance activity centers around psy-ops and team-building to keep all the people in your corp or alliance happy and doing their jobs, and to demotivate and distract opponents... otherwise the corp/alliance assets will get blown up or stolen.
Yes, this is a strong point. VC money saves time but then getting VC money takes time.
Even if successful you have a good chance of losing your job or being forced to move to fully vest your options after a buyout.

Chances are low you will be there or your job will in 5 years
I am not sure if the person heard a caricature of the program, but it focused on exercise, healthy diets, reduction of empty calories like soda, and public policy efforts such as introducing healthy meals to school.

As an example, here is a PDF with 5 ideas for kids:

https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/letsmove...

1) Exercise
2) Try new fruits and veggies
3) Deink plenty of water
4) Break up TV time with jumping jacks
5) Help make dinner.

Those are headlines, but when you look st the details for exercise, for example, these are the benefits it points to, in order:

Feel less stressed.
• Feel better about yourself.
• Feel more ready to learn in school.
• Keep a healthy weight. 1 • Build and keep healthy bones, muscles and joints.
• sleep better at night.

Only the 4th out of 6 benefits of exercise mentions weight.
Most heavily-VC funded companies die Young, even if they make it to IPO, like SGI (now reconstituted as NVidia). VCs don't care about companies, they want to make a quick buck and get out. Most successful startups are self funded for most of their life, e.g Microsoft, Dell, Google, Amazon.
I agree with the general point of the article that taking VC money leads to a "get rich or die trying" binary mindset which may not be right for all startups. For many startups, it's not necessarily to become a unicorn to be successful, bring riches to their employees, and in general build a better world.

However, there are some points that I don't agree with especially this: "Would Facebook’s leadership have ignored warning signs of Russian election meddling or allowed its platform to incite racial violence if it hadn’t, in its early days, prized moving fast and breaking things? Would Uber have engaged in dubious regulatory and legal strategies if it hadn’t prioritized expansion over all else? "

Of course, this is subject to survivorship bias but I think it's generally agreed that part of the reason Facebook was able to grow so quickly and Uber was able to capture markets and be the market leader were exactly those things: Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and focused on growth above all else. In hindsight, if they hadn't done that, it's possible that we wouldn't care at all what they did because they wouldn't be the giants they are. There are tradeoffs with every strategy and these two unicorns chose the ones that led to their dominance even if it came with some headaches later on.
Hard to turn VC money down when it’s practically free.

None of the founders I know that raised seed capital even had a business plan.

Hard to turn down $1,000,000 when all you have to do for it is say yes. Maybe go to a few meetings, make a PowerPoint. I mean really. Some of these investors haven’t even asked for any metrics, a web app was enough. It’s... shocking how cheap VC money is.
> Maybe Microsoft became a bad steward?

The argument before Bungie was divested from Microsoft supposedly was that Microsoft was too conservative in their success chasing: they were supposedly only taking pitches for More Halo As We Know It from "The Halo Studio", and that lead to the strife of teams increasingly wanting to do something Not Halo. Part of the struggle too was that Microsoft definitely owned "Halo" and started to want more control of the IP from the top down (the movie attempt, the novels, the RTS game, the MMO attempt, not all of that was controlled by or even presented to Bungie for oversight, despite being "the Halo Studio").

You can see one of the "lessons learned" here in the deal with Activision: Bungie worked very hard to retain all rights to the Destiny IP regardless of what happened with the project. (It's possibly why it may have indeed been Activision severing the relationship early rather than Bungie, because publishers really do not like it when they don't own the IP, and they probably did have pretty high marginal sales quotas to continue feeling publishing was worth it.)
Exercising and eating less is the only thing that works for losing weight. For the most part an individual is personally responsible for calories in and calories out. Being morbidly obese is a choice and it will kill you.
Yeah, we have a corporate policy of never storing anything critically sensitive in an Atlassian product. Though, to be fair, we have the same policy for Slack and most of our tools; that stuff never leaves Amazon.
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You assume only adults have children with this statement. This is not entirely a correct assumption given the number of teen pregnancies.
Amen. I dropped from 235 to 182 a few years ago doing keto and it definitely was like a fog being lifted.

Unfortunately I’m back up to 225 but my life’s in a different place with new demands and stresses to figure out how to work healthy eating around. It’s a constant struggle!
Actually, I didn't think about the portion control part. That makes sense. And there would be differences in how kids (especially) would perceive the emphasis of the program versus how adults might. Then there's which aspects and parts the facilitators emphasize.
I’ve been thinking about this too. React_on_rails makes react really nice with rails for universal rendering.

It seems a pretty great framework similar to rails could be assembled out of typescript, next.js, react, typeorm, webpack, ant design, terraform, postgres, cloudflare workers, cloudflare key value store, rds and by adding model and view generators, plus project and crud scaffolds.
Strange: you painstakingly quoted me, then offered the same non-response to each quote. Essentially: "because that's the way it is and you're a child if you think it could be otherwise".

You can't seem to get past your programming. Carry on.
I remember it as using a pseudorandom noise source. Wikipedia on POKEY[0] says 8-bit values from a 17-bit polynomial counter. Sounds about right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POKEY
"Eurogroup", which (like the Economic and Financial Affairs Council) would be meetings between the democratically elected finance ministers of the countries in the EU?
Only thing this proves is that the problem of gigantic blocks rolling over everybody in their path now extends to wormhole space.

Wasn't wormhole space designed to give smaller alliances a refuge from the bigger nullsec alliances? If it hasn't been formulated already, someone should come up with a law about Eve Online. Any game mechanic designed to keep gankers from messing up your stuff or large alliances from taking over will be subverted, or something like that.