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I found one of his fears interesting:

> I’ve never been anything but fat. Is there something in the fat version of me that also makes me likable and creative and a decent human being? Are the best parts of me all knotted up with the worst? Is there some way to untangle it and keep just the good stuff? Most of the time I think of my fat as a husk—something I have to shed so the best part of me can come out. But sometimes I wonder if I’m more like the shells you find on the beach, where the outer part is the attraction, and the animal inside is dull and shapeless.
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It comes across that you're not a PG fan :) but I think that clouds your response here a little.

CERN (thankfully) is not a company, let alone a big company. I don't think it's fair to counter argue on this point. I've worked across research, big company and startups.

I would argue that the way researchers work is a lot more akin to the 'natural' way of working (free from such artificial constraints as quarterly shareholder value) that this article is trying to get at.
Two thoughts: pg says we are designed but then in the notes he says "by evolution." Since evolution is changing to fit and survive your environment, perhaps humans working in groups is better for their survival.

Also, specialization of labor has created this concept. Humans used to provide their own food, shelter and transportation that's all they needed to do. But when one person specializes in transportation, one in farming or hunting, and one in building shelters things start to change.

And we end up with companies that only build pipe fittings.
"VCs were able to control the startups they invested in to a pretty big degree."

I don't think you're wrong, but I always thought VCs were there to hopefully guide these organizations too. Control, guide, probabbly overlap a lot. But the idea being you get capital, introductions, maybe help finding some people you need?

Granted I don't think you're wrong about the rest of it but control (when you sold yourself...), also guidance are weird venn diagrams. Not sure there is a right or wrong there.
> How can that be?

All else equal, you are right, but practically, for most people who aren't young, or athletes, hard endurance physical exercise triggers eating behavior that overcompensates for the number of calories burned.

Sure, if you force exercise upon and deny the extra calories to someone, they will lose weight, but that's not a desirable solution for most, sustainable for the individual, or scalable in today's society.

Solutions that acknowledge the existence of and work with human eating behaviors are needed.

IMO that would involve reconfiguring our society to enable people to have quotidian implicit forms of exercise (vs dedicated gym sessions), like walking as part of their commutes, or gardening, and of course reducing the amount of sugar in the food environment.

But that's a challenge because the current environment that most people inhabit is configured to encourage the opposite. There certainly appears to be a statistical correlation between car based commute frequency and obesity rates in a given area:

https://www.fastcompany.com/1679157/mapping-the-link-between...
A related phenomenon I've been thinking about is the impact of traditional entertainment media (TV, Movies and Music) and the inherent bias in the sample of worldviews that the people who work in those businesses espouse.

In other words, we only hear and watch stories from those people who chose storytelling as their career, and if you assume we are inevitably influenced by their views then we're effectively taking advice from them. This means entertainment shapes the viewer-listener's interpretation of reality to better fit the model of reality to which storytellers subscribe, but I'm pretty sure that's not a desirable outcome in the long run.

In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said we only ever tell young people about the good parts of marriage. We hardly ever explain to them that it has its ups and downs, that it isn't "broken" if suddenly the lust isn't there like it was in the beginning. She presented the argument in a much more cogent manner, but in any case, if you believe her to be right, then this seems like a specific (important!) example of this broader trend.

There are countless others out there who go on to live perfectly happy lives with perhaps much more useful advice to us, and who would arguably be a better influence overall – you just don't hear about them.
>you are clinically paranoid if you think your compiler will try to twist your code in its favor

C compilers have been known to "optimize" code with undefined behavior in such a way as to introduce a security vulnerability that would not exist in the most direct translation of the C code to machine code.
Don't women usually choose make up to match their skin tone? This mixes it on the fly which sounds cooler, but is that really any better?
Are anti-ageing serums anything more than snake oil?
Something must be wrong here, how can a super fancy school with 1:5 ratio cost 15k and the per-student cost of public school cost 15k?
I feel for the author. I have also struggled with my weight my entire life. At my heaviest, I was 265lbs. I definitely struggled, and continue to struggle with body issues. I was definitely addicted to food and was an emotional eater. I literally had a term called "stress cheeseburgers" as when I was stressed that's what I'd do.

I finally decided to make a significant change last year. It started with me doing meal prep for my lunches. Previously I would eat out for lunch every day, and I would never make good choices. I was able to lose about 35lbs by just doing that and making no other changes in my life.

In August, I decided to start the keto diet. I started not for the weight loss reasons, but for the lifting of the "brain fog". I didn't realize how much carbs controlled my life until then. Eating keto 100% changed my life for the better:

* My relationship with food has completely changed. I am now concerned about what I'm eating, nutritionally speaking, instead of just quantity and taste. I am eating a lot more whole foods.

* My overall pain level has gone down significantly (I have back problems).

* I literally crave vegetables. My first couple of weeks I ate nothing but bacon and other unhealthy meats. After a while, all I wanted was a big plate of broccoli!

* I have much more energy and mental clarity. I also noticed my recovery time from working out is lessened.

As of this morning, I weigh 196lbs. I don't know how long keto is sustainable for, but I plan on sticking to this for the long term. If I do stop, I will definitely apply the lessons I've learned from going keto: mostly eat whole foods and carbohydrates that have nutritional value.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defence_of_Poetry ("poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world").
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Privatize it and stop letting local politics strangle it

https://www.econlib.org/no-more-public-mass-transit-infrastr...

> In Japan, being in the railway business means being in the real estate business, explained Egon Terplan, SPUR’s regional planning director, at Thursday afternoon’s panel discussion about what the Bay Area can learn from Japanese transit station area development. “They are able to capture the value of the train stations they are building and beyond. One third of the revenue is from retail, services, hotels.”

> That’s because rather than contracting out the business opportunities on the real estate around their stations, they own it all–everything from department stores to vending machines on the platforms. That has turned Japan’s six passenger railway companies–Hokkaido Railway Company, East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company, Shikoku Railway Company, and Kyushu Railway Company–into hugely profitable corporations.

> “These are companies listed on the stock exchange; they make money,” said Terplan. They also, together, carry nearly a third of the world’s railway passengers.

> In Japan, the profit motive of real estate, retail, and office space–in addition to the trains–becomes a bit of a feedback loop. The Japanese railway companies want to maximize the value they derive from space around the stations. So transit oriented development isn’t just about housing. In Japan, it includes department stores, office buildings, shops, and hotels, and housing on different levels directly above and below the stations.

Regulation is a serious problem in "free market" USA. Subway construction is 7x the cost in NYC than Paris because of land and labor regulations. It's out of control, nobody cares because most just blame some other thing like funding being insufficient when that's not really the case. Instead they'll try to get more from the gas tax instead of fixing the root problem.
screw the downvoters, I'm right.
> Also, IME, exercise makes me hungry for more calories than I burn. Exercise to get healthy, treat the metabolism boost as a bonus. Exercise does not cancel out foods (this is speaking to fat people like me - if you’ve been skinny your whole life your body probably works differently).

Conveniently summarized as "You can't outrun your fork". No amount of running replaces a calorie deficit.

Also, props for 70 pounds of weight loss. That's a huge number.
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As a child obese person (obese at 2 years old, morbidly by 8), hearing that you're supposed to play more and move more to lose weight and then for years attempting to do that and failing over and over again is not only useless but actively detrimental to young children.

Also, I only ate "healthier food options" during that time. I ate too much of it, sure, but "portion control" doesn't mean much when there's healthy carbohydrates everywhere to eat.
The posting literally describes sex toys for men at CES being displayed. There have also been numerous sex toys over the years by multiple partners and companies. I'm not sure why the award was withdrawn, however none of the options make CES look good.
> I don't know why I haven't seen more studies where extremely obese individuals just stop eating.

Primarily because it's not considered medically safe, and a study along those lines would be too dangerous to the patients to be permitted.

In this particular case, the 27yo male patient informed the doctors of his plan and said, "This is what I'm doing, you can monitor me or not." They didn't propose the study themselves.
https://phpdelusions.net/pdo has done a very thorough job of covering PDO IMO and makes a fantastic companion to https://phptherightway.com/.
When I exercise, it puts me on a health-minded path every day that snowballs into other good decisions. It's like how they say making your bed in the morning helps put you on task the rest of the day.

I find your line of thought unconvincing. The thing in common among everyone I know who is overweight is that they don't even work out at all. The amount of people I know who don't do anything is astonishing. The problem people have with exercise is that they don't build the habit at all. That's where they fail, long before your hypothesis could even be tested.

"Better not exercise so I don't overeat!" sounds like every other self-sabotaging bargaining we do to avoid effort, like not jogging because you can't yet afford nice running shoes. This seems like the last excuse that we need to be peddling to people trying to turn their life around.
Even the most oldest, most experienced players are just food for the lions most of the time.

The real trick is knowledge and specialization. You play long enough to understand what you want to do, then create a character that specializes in that and that alone.

I don't play Eve anymore, but when I did, my favorite character was a solo stealth bomber pilot. I spent most of my days in the game running around nullsec, cloaked, looking for targets of opportunity. Every once in a while I'd come across someone trying to sneak an industrial ship out into or our of nullsec and ruin their day.
Sounds like the typical terms need to be negotiated in the direction of founders, away from VCs.
Where are you located?

You can apply to R&D roles (search for R&D engineer, research software engineer, R&D software specialist and similar titles) which are essentially software engineering roles that require grad school.

A good idea may also be to pick a subfield that traditionally hires more educated people (science or engineering or chemistry software hires from that pool because the clients tend to be in academia).

In a given city most of the PhD-friendly industry jobs are staffed by people who still regularly see your professors at happy hour. Have you talked to your professors and alumni of your program if they know anybody's who's in industry now? Look up on LinkedIn where the people from your lab ended up. You can probably get some of these people to give you an interview that's not biased against your specific experience.
> And any system that relies on majoritarianism to do curation just amplifies these defects.

This is such an important point it needs to be repeated.
Not everyone can get a FAANG job nor do many FAANG jobs pay >300k
I wonder what the rest of your family says about you behind your back.
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Too much old crust, but as other commenters around indicate, this isn't really solving that either: it doesn't talk about best practices or even highlight where the sharp edges are (EOLs and Namespaces are mentioned elsewhere).
Re Toqueville argument: I would take the stance that upward mobility is because of capitalism, not because of public education.
There's also eating less and actually eating less. You can eat less food, but if the food you're eating is higher in calories then you're not going to lose weight. Part of the problem with eating less, is the size / portion of what you eat matters just as much as what you are actually eating. As an extreme example: The size of a slice of cheesecake is roughly equivalent to the size of a breast of chicken however eating the slice of cheesecake is eating a lot "more" than eating that breast of chicken.
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Some Ulrich Drepper papers:

- on memory access/caches/memory hierarchy: https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

- on DSO: https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

- Agner Fog on CPU optimization, latencies, vectors etc: https://www.agner.org/optimize/
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Yes 8 bit is absolutely a good choice. ARM comes in less than a dollar for the cortex m0 core (maybe others now?) but sometimes that is more than you need in both size and capabilities.

Also sometimes you may have existing expertise, tooling, or firmware already for a processor such as a PIC, AVR, or STM8, so why reinvent?

Some examples may be things like a custom serial to input/output expander, small motor controller, power controller, data logger, or other small and simple machines.
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High protein, and (while still calorie restricting) high fat does wonders for appetite.

Also: water! As an obese person I kind of had to learn what thirst is because I almost always interpreted it as hunger. Also vital while your stomach is shrinking if you're used to overeating (as I was).
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I'm not sure even a penalty will be enough, given how most of them end up being a slap on the wrist that is easily affordable.
Electroplating baths have a "memory" of how much current has passed through them. Edison used them as a way of measuring DC power use.

https://ethw.org/Electric_Meter
Just because it's easier to state. The same reasoning applies for a progressive tax rate system with extremely high top marginal rates.
Then how you grow if the kings of Facebook, Twitter, and Google don’t want you to grow?
Any chance these will be worth it when NYC is forced to close the Hudson River tunnels?
That’s my core understanding too, the model is essential and that not only rubs statisticians the wrong way but also the current luminaries in deep learning get visibly irritated by that too. The irony is that JP was very successful with statistics having invented Bayesian Networks, and now has moved on.

Here he asks a very simple question and look at the body language from the panel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFYM9j8bGtg&t=50m47s
Which should have been covered in the entry section before the award was even made. They received an award that was rescinded for either puritanical reasons, bad category reasons, or political reasons. None of these are anything other than ineptitude or bias. I can say I'd not want to put money forth for CES given that they can't even get their awarding process straight.
Keep in mind that "fair use" is an American doctrine, not built into international copyright treaties and often defined administratively (not legislatively) in other countries. And we are discussing copyright law in Europe. Europe uses several itemized exceptions to copyright; a movie quote could fall under 5.3i "incidental inclusion" or 5.3k "pastiche", or in some contexts 5.3d "criticism and review", but there's no overall doctrine that "reasonable uses" are allowed.
This is assuming one can get hired by a FAANG, which is not true for many.
Hello Frank, big fan of libsodium & your other work. Are you involved with Terrarium?

Is this wasm compiled with turboFan in V8?
I feel there is the BS there too. You need to get board support packages. Sometimes the memory map is wrong. If you can get board up it might be a timing issue and you have to solder onto the Trace etc.
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Actually you're more of less agreeing with the conventional wisdom of those who do weight lifting. The vast majority of fat loss is simply diet.

Walking, is helpful. And strength training is good to prevent muscle loss.

Anyway, the above is actually the conventional wisdom of those who go to the gym and try to get lean. This is not the message you hear in pop nutrition however.

Congrats on your progress! If you do ever do strength training (or for anyone reading this), one very simple metric to add is weight + waist measure.

After all, the goal is fat loss, not "weight", per se. When doing lifts, it can be discouraging to see the scale not moving. However, in lost cases the fat is still going away and the waist shrinks.
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This is a problem beyond academia - tech has the same issue too. See this Wired article from a while back: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/techs-alcohol-soaked-culture-i...

I'm going to hazard a guess that any field, at a certain level, has these issues because so much of it all comes down to personal relationships and making deals...which happen over drinks (historically). I'd be curious to learn more about high-functioning organizations without an alcohol culture - what do they do instead?
It may be dangerous. But I imagine being 400+ pounds is even more dangerous, especially at an advanced age. Experimental treatments that may be more risky should be encouraged. Otherwise being that size is a death sentence.
You want the coefficients of the factors to be integers. That is why you can very seldomly factor them.
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Everything is political. I wouldn't want people to downvote Mercurial links into oblivion.

Anyway, Google links are pretty much already ordered by popularity.
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> “sealed” implies they somehow changed something that directly impacts all RSA encryption.

So we are talking about holes in RSA, some readers may find the following interesting, that in fact, RSA does have a problematic aspect (well, many) that can be called a "loophole": the padding. You are encrypting a short message (the symmetric key) by using a large public key, so the message have to be padded. From now the real fun started, intuitive solutions are prone to various forms of mathematical and cryptographic tricks, you get chosen ciphertext attack, and gives an attacker a straightforward "padding oracle". If you can manipulate the ciphertext and asks the server if the ciphertext is valid (or not), often, the attacker can deduce knowledge of the message or even the private key. Bleichenbacher attack and Coppersmith attack are known in the 90s, yet we still see exploitations in 2015. Proper padding is tricky to design and implement. As a response to this problem, OAEP, a padding algorithm with rigorous security proof, has finally been designed, and it should put an end to these attacks eventually. Yet, recently there have been some theoretical doubts about the soundness of the proof.

But it turns out, you don't have to encrypt the session key as a message and padding it securely to begin with. Cryptographer Victor Shoup purposed RSA-KEM. The basic idea is, we can just keep generating a stream of meaningless random numbers using a CSPRNG, until it's long enough to be encrypted by the public key. Then, put these random numbers to a hash function (or any other secure KDF), the output will be the session key. This scheme is known as RSA-KEM, offers strong security guarantee, yet it only uses a simple approach that is hard to get wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_encapsulation
There's one way out of this vicious cycle.

I substituted the prodigious amounts of refined carbs I used to eat (pasta, rice) with meat, vegetables and a reduced amount of carbs. The proteins definitely helped with the hunger (and being a carnivore, it didn't take much to convince me to eat more meat -- though for me it's mostly white meat and eggs). I actually ended up eating more

I also started lifting weights. Exercising increases appetite for sure, but proteins satiates it.

I didn't lose that much weight (10 lbs), but I managed to convert what used to be flab to muscle.

Exercise + protein/vegetable diet (even if eating more) = body shape change.
>As far as I'm aware, nothing in the Snowden revelations suggested that that the NSA had been able to break SSL/TLS, so it would seem reasonable that it would be very difficult for them to snoop on you while you're googling.

Not sure if you mean in current time, but they used to be able to do that [0]

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-...

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_progr...
Going down this road is what started my programming career.
Seems like result of iterative design from breadboarded 328p[1] to breadboarded 1284[2] to finally this. Nothing wrong with that per se, but I do see ways of iterating the design even further.

[1] http://www.technoblogy.com/show?1GX1

[2] http://www.technoblogy.com/show?1INT
The null coalescing operator ?? is not well explained. It returns the first operand but if it's not set or null, will return the second operand, i.e:

$name = $_GET['name'] ?? $_POST['name'] ?? "unknown";

In the arrays section, I'd also introduce the $array[] shorthand for array_push(), i.e:

$array[] = $new_element;
Magnesium is known to be depleted when stressed. You should consider adding that as a supplement.

Also high stress = high cortisol = high glucose production (even from fat/gluconeogenesis) = high insulin = increased rate of fat storage and insulin resistance/diabetes

https://idmprogram.com/closer-look-cortisol-hormonal-obesity...
Um, it was an ongoing negotiation. It stands to reason that Unity had made it abundantly clear how and why they were in violation many many months ago
(this supports my claim. was that your intent?)
what about public companies that pay dividends?