skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language here is weird. He's talking about doing more than one thing at a time. If you're talking about multi-threading in the context of the brain, the obvious comparison is with neural architecture. The brain does a massive amount of parallel processing and it very much is multi-threaded. But "multi-threading" sounds a bit cooler than "doing more than one thing at a time" I guess.
> [The (or any) Internet didn't exist when I started as a developer]

Internet is widely considered to have started in 1969. Although I'd consider something between 1982-1986 as the years when it truly became an international network.

I've been in this business only for less than 25 years, you make me feel so young. :-)

During that time, internet has just always existed. Ah, those loong boolean logic web search (hxxp://altavista.digital.com/) queries during my early years.
Yeah? If you build on top of popular open infra that is hosted by a variety of providers, it shouldn't be too hard. You can build on top of K8s, Postgres, and S3-alike APIs, then use Terraform to move across AWS, GoogleCloud and DO without having to rewrite a thing.
Weighing yourself multiple times a day is just tracking noise. It's not a large enough time interval to track tissue loss.
Adjacent: Butter/milk from grass-fed cows has a noticeably better amino acid profile

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10531600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7905466/
> once you get into industry you have to unlearn that because the clear objective goals and grades disappear, and you are left with an array of subtle values and more pernicuous consequences to any action

Which is one reason I continue to think that a broad education, including humanities and social sciences, is valuable even for folks looking to work in STEM fields. It's in those academic disciplines that you learn to work with subtle nuances, and how to originate and defend an opinion or point of view.
They are right. Why would any country give up control of their currency to a single company that isn't even sitting on your soil?
There is nothing about organic that means it builds soil. Conventional farmers are adapting the same practices. In many cases conventional farming with "chemicals" does better: because of roundup a cover crop can be applied much easier - you can kill it when you are done vs having to plow it up (plowing is a horrible thing to do to soil). I find it amusing they separate "sewage sludge" from manure as if they are not the same thing.
i feel like this may be equivocating on "biologically distinguishable", particularly given the chosen examples.
The explanation I've heard is that the total mineral content is about the same, but plants are producing more carbohydrates now due to an increase in atmospheric CO2, diluting the minerals.

Consequently, if humans eat according the amount of minerals in the food, the increase in carbohydrates could also explain the increase in obesity.
As someone who didn't have a movie pass I was too entertained watching this whole thing play out. Venture subsidized products are always a wild ride. I miss all my VC subsidized food deliveries.
Cows are still fed grass. Over 90% of their diet even in grain-finished beef is grass. Chicken and pork I can't speak to as much.
When our crypto prof told us we're not sure if one way functions exist, everyone's jaw dropped.
An alternative view is that it rewards investment in the economy.
That's true, they did influence things. Important to remember that disruption isn't always profitable: you much just nudge the established players into a higher level of competition.
the Insanity Virus (2010)
It is just CICO, whether you won the genetic lottery that makes the calculation simpler or not doesn't mean it's any less of a cop out than saying that it would be simpler for me to be a great basketball player if I were 6 foot 8 instead of 5 foot 5.
Yogurt and fruit are full of sugar and aren't very healthy.
I think it's fair to say that the uptick in lives that were saved made a huge leap forward with the arrival of industrialized medicine which is to say mass produced vaccines made available to the many and of course the arrival of vaccines for even more diseases that were not previously covered.

I hope we can agree that the recent down tick in the rate of vaccinations is a step backwards.
I know this is a throwaway for you (and it sort of is for me too), but I just wanted to reply to you and let you know that I'm cheering for you to find a way to make things work. If I ever solve this problem for myself, I'm going to shout the solution from the rooftops, in the hopes we can all learn to live as humans instead of drones.
> It sounds reasonable to me that as time passes more people become transgenders because it's more acceptable. Similar to homosexuality.

The visibility of transgender identity might go up as it becomes more socially acceptable (although at the moment, it's probably the least socially acceptable form of LGBT identity) but no one becomes transgender (or gay) because of that, as if it were a fad.

>Yeah but the headline makes it sound like it's a problem that's worsening but if the % is not going up then the problem has the same severity.

The article presents numbers, not percentages. It's impossible to know percentages without an accurate view of the size of the transgender community, among other reasons because transgender people may not self-identify, or may be purposely misgendered.
Knowing how to judge the complexity of an algorithm (which is what learning about different sorts helped teach me) is useful to me in developing software on a regular basis. That includes javascript sometimes.
Most comments so far seem to focus on the weight loss part, but I don't think that's very interesting.

What's more interesting is how he is able to manage mental exhaustion and performance with this regimen. I think everything here applies to other mentally exhaustive work such as software engineering as well.

Maybe there's a need for more systematic approach for exercise and diet for software engineering. Not for weight loss, but better sustained performance in the job.
I don't think it's _only_ a media fear fest. It's been scary, and still is. If dogs are dying from this seasonaly, and the media frenzy results in things beeing figured out - it's good. Early news coverage said similar incidents had occured in denmark and england.

Also. I certainly don't believe in the food theory. As a population, dogs are fed a variety of food. While individuals are often on a limited diet. Which suggest to me that it would be figured out quickly if it was a factor.
About That Russian ‘Spy’
Hey that's interesting!

I still think it's harder to do this than it is to use certs, since you'll need to build some tooling to securely distribute keys. But that would vary by environment, for sure, and it's conceptually simpler for folks who don't know how certificates work I guess.

Do you know when AuthorizedKeysCommand was added to sshd? Is it available in most distros?

It's too bad there isn't a RevokedKeysCommand! That would make certificate revocation a lot more flexible. I wonder how hard it would be to add.
It's not very helpful. Why do we need to read it? Why now? How is it related to this topic?

Those answers may be obvious to someone who's already read the book. To people not familiar with the book it's a cryptic imperative.
I finished my masters degree. I had never thought it would happen, I was so sure I would be kicked out or commit suicide before I got to the point where I would actually finish. But I did it, I now have a degree.
I think you've got your head on straight, although it's probably best to think of the old-programmer problem as a kind of half life. Every year, some percentage of the remaining ones drop out, often through no fault of their own.

The main thing is to panic now instead of panic later. Ease into a Plan B before it's a dire necessity.
They appear to be initially targeting the customer who wants to take a weekend trip to LA from SF or vice versa. That’s a high volume route, which also makes it super competitive for air travel. It seems a round trip flight costs on the order of a one way Cabin bus ride, so I assume they are targeting customers who have chosen not to fly for personal reasons.
Yes, hard to find anything more rewarding than that. Here is the prior HN story on it, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760

I wrote about it for the Washington Post, as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-jeff-sessions-ca...
Consciousness about what our brain does is single threaded. Everything else is massive parallel processing.
Absolutely. The difference in VO2 max (essentially, efficiency of oxygen uptake) between trained and untrained individuals is stark and substantial.

Hits of pure O2 produce a euphoric high, which probably isn't what you want during intense mental competition.
It matters even more: making the service free to students doesn't make the inputs free to the college itself, and many plans for government funding include outcome-based accountability for government subsidies (that's even true for sone proposed reforms that don't make college free.), And no plan is going to let colleges charge whatever they want and get the government to pay he bill. One way to get better outcomes for the same government pay check (and thus avoid being excluded) is to have excess revenues elsewhere to funnel into academics.

And, that aside, prestige is going to still matter to college governing bodies, and therefore to the leadership subject to and incentivized by them.
How terrible was it exactly? What would be the consequences of it continuing, and what are the consequences of its ending?

I'm not familiar with it personally, but an adult sometimes has to say "No, it's not fair, but it's not that big a deal, and the damage caused by throwing a tantrum over it isn't worth the sop to my pride."
Hoe come HN so often spends the top comment correcting Some popular outlet? Why dont we get it straight from the source?
People have put up with a lot of shit -- literal and metaphorical -- over the last ten thousand years. I don't understand the assumption that it simply must be better than anything chemistry has to offer, and I find the aversion to measurement and control inherently suspicious.
Farming has changed since the dust bowl of the 1930s. Soil has been lost, but conservation factors have been found. Farmers are now building topsoil. We can only build top soil by about 1mm/year so it takes a long time to get any measurable change (vs the rate of loss which was much higher).
weak soil makes weak food makes weak humans
Of course they eat too much. The question is why? Taubes has a good example. If I asked you why that restaurant was so full, and you responded "because more people entered than exited," I would think you were an asshole. But CICO is the same kind of platitude. It doesn't actually tell you anything. Taubes and many others assert that the kind of food you put in your body dictates your drive to put more food in your body. Eat sugary foods, and you'll drive insulin, pack glucose away in adipose tissue, move less, and want to eat more. Sugar drives energy into adipose tissue AND slows your BMR AND drives hunger. That's a far more useful observation than CICO.
Yes -- although it's rather rare. There's only one place in San Francisco with snooker tables, to my knowledge, but such places do exist:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/legend-billiards-and-snooker-sf-san...
There is a big difference between multitasking and parallel processing. As a former neuroscientist I get rankled when I read gross conflations like this, it doesn't help anyone understand how the brain actually works, nor does it effectively underscore the attentional drawbacks of trying to multitask.
Because it’s missing context for someone who doesn’t already know about the book.
You're missing the point. Shipping from LA to NYC in X days should be cheaper than shipping from Shanghai to LA in Y days PLUS shipping from LA to NYC in X days. China Post charges some amount to get from Shanghai to LA, and they do that slowly. At that point it enters the USPS system, and they deliver the package to its final destination in NYC. But by UPU rules, the USPS has to charge less for that China Post package than they do for a package that originated in LA, even though they use the same infrastructure.
Yep, what if you pee more after sleeping? I agree. But I found that it affected total weight loss, I didn't lose as much when my sleep was affected.

My assumption is that waste, fat, energy process is complicated, and that something happens during sleep that the body gets rid of stuff, and if it doesn't have enough time to do that, it will just leave some things in place.

This is a logical conclusion based on limited resources = limited outcome. The assumption I am challenging is simply that "diet + exercise" = weight control. But I have found that you need "diet + exercise + quality sleep" = weight control in my tests. But then later, I found that "diet + sleep" = weight control. (I have not exercised for over 2 years now testing this, weighing myself daily)

After this experiment a few years ago I gained almost all the weight lost in 6 months. But then lost _more_ weight without any exercise at all. (I stopped exercising entirely for more than a year to test this theory)

And I found that I could eat 2 meals a day, no exercise, good sleep and I could lose weight. And as soon as I break my good patterns (any of the ones I mentioned in my comments already), weight will come back on.
Fox News is far right, it was founded to with the explicit purpose of putting far right view points into the main stream[0].

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/roger-a...
Where does code begin and end - I do work that could be described as devops, and I'm often writing python or bash to do something work related - according GP (and by extension, you.), I'm just a blue collar grunt
Isn't their shutting down proof positive that what they were giving customers was too good of a deal?

Where you considering working their or something? Otherwise how is not purchasing something that's undervalued a train wreck?
According to wikipedia "WeWork investors as of 2014 included J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, T. Rowe Price Associates, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Group, the Harvard Corp., Benchmark, and Mortimer Zuckerman, former CEO of Boston Properties"

They basically convinced a bunch of non-tech investors that they're a tech company.
I got an MBA from a fairly small private university. Speaking to the head of admissions he only wished the school had a D1 football team so that more people had heard of it.

There is a strong history of associating the identity of the school with its football program (though I expect this to wane as we learn more about the long-term impact of concussions). Let’s take Ohio State as an example: it is more compelling of a mid tier graduate program because of its success on the football field.

I don’t say that as a knock on OSU: they have fine academics. But being a Buckeye is very connected to the football team.

Same with Alabama. I currently live in Birmingham and when I relocated I was asked all the time, “whose your team?” That question only has two acceptable answers: Auburn or Alabama. There is no option for “none of the above.”

But I still expect this to wane given a long enough horizon. From a sample of one, I used to be very involved in college football and NFL fantasy football leagues. But over the last five years I’ve become less comfortable with the sport (it feels like watching a Roman gladiator match). I’m [edit: bearish] on the 15 year horizon for the sport: I think we’ve reached peak football.
You didn’t originally say that you lost weight at the same rate, making your statement almost meaningless. Now that you’ve added that statement, I honestly just don’t believe your assessment. This isn’t a judgement call and I’m not questioning your truthfulness. I simply think your observation was either biased, incomplete, or insufficient.

My gut says you did this for too short of a period of time for the results to be meaningful, or else that you’ve left out something meaningful, or that you simply didn’t accurately measure your caloric intake. If you were losing weight on 3500 calories/day, then your TDEE was north of 3500. If you dropped to 900 calories, you’d be in a 2600 calorie/day deficit without even accounting for whatever deficit you were in initially. I don’t care if that was all HFCS, you’d be losing over 5 pounds a week. That’s major weight loss and I don’t believe you saw the same weight loss at 3500 calories and 900 calories for an extended period of time. It simply doesn’t work from a physical standpoint.

“Empirical” to me implies a level of data that you don’t get from a singular anecdote.
College football is a cancer on our societal productivity. Saban should be fired for his disregard for the safety of students. Baking the brains of thousands of students to impress a few dozen athletes is really stupid.

Not to mention the damage to the brains of student athletes colliding into each other.
Can't imagine why this was downvoted.
Lose money on every sale, make it up in volume…
> successful football programs generate positive publicity for the school

Maybe for lower tier colleges, but I sincerely doubt that anyone gives a rodents behind how the football teams of Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, CalTech and others top-tier Universities are, before applying to them.
It's not a standard, it's the same as TLDR. The only difference is that it's before the content instead of after.
I know what "craft" means.
P-values Broke Scientific Statistics—Can We Fix Them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLM7xS6t4FE
>Try to ship a spare part of a child's stroller from the US. I paid a $40 tax for a part that cost me $25. Duties, tariffs and other taxes are oppressive and the US should fight back

The US should fight back? Shouldn't EU consumers fight back against the actions of their government?

If a European country has a 10% tariff on American-made autos, who is the victim? The European auto buyer. Who is the beneficiary? The stockholder of the European auto manufacturer.
Something that has puzzled me recently: how is anyone supposed to get the daily recommended amount of potassium? If you look at foods like bananas that are supposed to be good sources of it, you still need to eat something like eleven bananas a day to get enough (according to US recommended daily intakes, anyway). At least with the minerals mentioned in this posting, you can fall back on supplements if you need to...but if you try to buy potassium supplements, the max dosage you can get over the counter is 99mg, which is only about 3% of the daily recommended intake. WTF?
It's expensive because we can't get away with the labor rates that China does-- for building infrastructure, acquiring raw materials, and employing a workforce with benefits and pensions and unions. China has less bureaucratic overhead (in terms of factories/mines not caring about pollution) and a more driven, obedient workforce (i.e. they will work harder expecting less pay). I'm not saying those are good things, just facts as I see them. I don't know if this is a true dichotomy, but on the surface it seems that we either pay more at all levels to employ our own citizenry in manufacturing these goods, or we let our manufacturing capabilities and professions atrophy. This may actually be a good (roundabout) way to ensure that greener manufacturing is used, by making us design manufacturing these capabilities by our standards.
Something can be both true and used in a misleading manner.

To use your same metaphor, there are people going around speaking as if height and total hours of training are the only things that matter for basketball skill.
Article seems suspicious. How were these measured 100 years ago? Same techniques as today? Can we verify the 100 year old data?
I guess the python, and bash I write doesnt count as code. I guess the architect work I do to do design implementations doesnt count either.
How many videos from the other side do they 'FACT CHECK' in big bold letters? Its not the factchecking in and of itself thats the issue.
Minerals need to be in the ground before they can get into the plant. The depletion of soil & vegetable quality has been going on for years. This isn't the first study on the topic by a long shot. [1]

[1] - https://www.vitacost.com/blog/food-nutrition/nutrition/how-i...
Lose money on every sale, make it up by selling all the personal info of the customers to anyone who will buy.
It was more supplemental than citation. Maybe they won't affect your kidneys. That's just something I heard when the NIH study broke in the news. Consult your doctor, etc.
What typically happens to all the intellectual property when a company like this shuts down? Do the investors become shared right holders or something due to lack of return?
Ever since I realized they will inform users directly of who's looking at their profile my trust in the platform plummeted.
I work in devops (and did so before it was called that), I write code in turing complete languages. Just code that manages infrastructure and software rather then interacts directly with end users. I template configuration files rather then user interfaces. I have to consider race conditions in complex systems, consider the robustness and security implications of anything I do, verify my input (that's you, you hotshot "software engineer") and fail gracefully if needed.

Tell me that is not software engineering, the only difference is that my ability to test before deployment is much more costly and limited, I have to get it right the first time around..
If you want to read something interesting on how thinking works I suggest 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman.
A crappy assemble-at-home Target organizer costs like $20 and probably cost a fraction of that to manufacture, but a fancy artisanal lacquered organizer made by the hobbyists across town can be sold for several times the cost of supplies and labor.

But a lot of folks feel the squeeze so they buy the crappy Target one instead.
There's an entire section in the article about how bad it is for the US. One excerpt:

"According to the Postal Regulatory Commission, the independent agency that rules on postal rate proposals, the loss to USPS attributable to terminal dues reached $134.5 million in fiscal year 2016 and $170 million in fiscal year 2017"

Spending over $170 million a year (and rising, especially with the massive yoy increases of packages shipped from China) and making it easier for your largest (by far) economic rival to sell in your country than companies that are established in your country is pretty terrible, I would argue.
> training people is a very good way to get cheap talent

It's also exactly how the master-apprentice system works. It's a good system, is fair, and works. It's also vastly superior than the system where you pay to be trained by someone who is not a working master and end up learning substandard or obsolete methods.
>Important to remember that disruption isn't always profitable: you much just nudge the established players into a higher level of competition

<Sarcastic/ironic voice> ....while someone else foots the disruption bill....
The Catholic church, the largest pro-life organization, is pretty vehemently against IVF, in all cases, for any reason. It talks about them quite often, but there is little support for it outside the church (most protestant denoms do not agree with the catholics here), so it receives very little mainstream attention. However, within the 'Catholic bubble', fertility clinics probably get as much ire.
True, but from a big-picture view he might be doing a better job explaining the concepts to laypeople. And in that it might help them improve how they work / live :)