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>Of course you can. I'd be happy to share my Google sheet of daily weight, losing about 0.06lb/day, and my BodPod measurements showing going from 28% to 20% body fat while gaining 2.5lbs of muscle mass.

Sure your muscle/fat percentages changes over time. But you didn't simultaneously grow muscle and lose fat, that is not possible.

>Drew Baye has several articles on losing fat while gaining muscle

Again its done over time. There is never a point you are "losing fat while gaining muscle" simultaneously, you gain both or lose both...you can certainly gain more of one than the other, or lose more of one than the other.

Just as an example:

1. You lift putting yourself into a catabolic state, you will lose both fat and muscle in this state (your body if burning more fat than muscle...but its is breaking down both, it is not burning fat and growing muscle);

2. You refuel after your lifting with protein like Whey and some glucose to spike your insulin to force the protein into your muscles, you are now anabolic (your muscle cells and fat cells are both growing and storing this new fuel you consumed, and the protein is rebuilding the muscle, as a result your muscle growth slowly outpaces the fat cell storage and growth)

3. rise and repeat over time and yes you will lose fat and gain muscle (like you did), but the growth/losses never happened simultaneously. Your body was always either catabolic or anabolic...never both.

It is over time you achieve net loss of fat and gain in muscle, but physiologically it is impossible for those processes to occur at the same time.
As far as I'm concerned, using a VM is a poor choice technical choice: a VM closes off lots of potential integration opportunities and creates all the system-resource-use coordination problems that all non-container system partitioning approaches have.

The point of WSL isn't to just run some Linux code on Windows. You've been able to do that for literally decades. The point is to create a tightly integrated environment that gives you Linux and Windows views onto the same workspace and that makes Linuxy and Windows processes peers.

Using a VM here feels like a "safe" and "sustainable" uninspired corporate choice that gives Windows a checkbox feature without expanding the bounds of what's possible. You can tell me all day that switching from innovation to crank-turning is right for the business, but I personally want nothing to do with crank-turners.
Microsoft knows full well how to do technically interesting things, that's why WSL1 worked as well as it did. The problem is that, being a company and not a grad student, "works 100% of the time" is more worthwhile to them than "works 99% of the time and sounds really cool."
Best job ever? /s
Thanks for the links! I am aware of the Buffet's bets but I did have a feeling that some VCs can be quite profitable especially the ones which invest in future government contractors and/or future surveillance facilitators.
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Sorry, Peter F. Hamilton's ideas are awesome but his writing--not so much. He desperately needs an editor to chop out 1/3 to 2/3 of his words.

I'm reminded of an old Bugs Bunny cartoon: Detective: "Okaaaay, start at the beginning." Bugs: "In the beginning, the Earth was without form and void ..." Detective: "You can skip ahead a bit, thanks ..."
> Cygwin allows for precisely this use case

Yeah, and WSL1 did not.
Decoy Effect (Marketing / Sales)
The discussion isn't against startups. It's for giving employees more incentives to join startups, as opposed to repeating the same hoary cliches. The tech industry and cost of living have simply changed from a decade ago. Incentives must increase accordingly.
I started to write a point-by-point response but realized I just don't want to spend the time on it.

It's possible my grasp of the history here is wrong, but I'm fairly convinced yours is.

I sing Christmas carols with explicitly Christian lyrics that date back at least centuries.

Santa is certainly secular at this point, but he's a young figure, and there's a case to be made that he's rooted in Bishop Nicholas of Smyrna, a.k.a. "St. Nick".

Many other Christmas traditions do have their roots in pagan holidays, yes. Current observance is largely secular, yes.

But, anything that's been observed by Christians for centuries is clearly Christian at least in part. Claiming the holiday has never been Christian is absurd and shows that you've never bothered to study Church history (which of course you don't have to, but if you haven't you should not pretend you know it).
"Anything frozen & prepared seems to be taboo"

This sort of thing always seems super american centric to me personally. It's common in chinese households to have a stash of frozen dumplings prepared in-kitchen, or frozen steamed buns, or various other frozen prepared foods that are kitchen staples. I get that if it's from a restaurant or big processing plant you might find things questionable, but if you prepare your own pizza and decide to freeze it for later I don't think anyone should besmirch you as suddenly less healthy compared to eating the pizza as soon as you made it.
I think I was caught up thinking the discussion was all about the efficiency of the GCS coding for the underlying bit-set; which it is indeed indeed nearly optimal for (but only for some parameters, which don't happen to be where the fp rate is 1/2^k, which unfortunately is the case usually considered in papers!). Sorry about that.

The bloom cost 1.44 times the lower bound. The difference between an optimally coded bitset and the asymptotic lower bound is an additive 1.44 bits per element. This is a pretty big difference!
> This does not really affect software freedom in the traditional sense?

That’s not the point though. These kinds of people just consistently seek conflict and are bending the reality to fit their narrow field of view.

And yet, they don’t see why no one use their projects.

Anyway, this article was probably written on a computer booted with a proprietary bios, typed on a keyboard with a proprietary firmware, a proprietary CPU microcode and what else.

There’s no code base to “hard fork” to sell as their own nor really something to make outrage of so they don’t care though.

In reality, that’s more of a religious issue than anything else. Fingers are pointed at those that are not extremist enough for their taste.

Real freedom is letting people do what they want with software. Most so-called free software licenses are actually really restrictive and absolutely not freedom inducing.

I guess it’s very important to create confusion not to say exclusion and throw around licences so complex that you actually almost require a lawyer to understand if you can use the software or not so organizations that produce nothing of real importance can exist and preach the “real freedom”.
"Have no compulsion to release the source" -- reminds me of the interview on the Bryan Lunduke show with a FreeBSD maintainer who talked about Juniper, Comcast, EMC, and Netflix engineers who contribute back a lot of code to FreeBSD, just not the code that specifically makes their work a competitive advantage for their employer, a definition that changes over time. I might be conflating the Lunduke interview with something else but I thought that the Netflix engineers that build their ISP-level caching servers ultimately decided that none of it constituted a proprietary advantage so they released it all. Had the project been based on closed source this wouldn't be an option -- and GPL was out the question all the way unless it was known up-front there would be nothing that could give the makers a competitive advantage.

Programmers have to eat; permissive licensing is the best compromise between openness and needing to make a living. History has shown that eventually the code comes out rather than being socked away in proprietary hell.
Debian/kFreeBSD comes to mind. It kind of fizzled out and was dropped, though.
Only bits and pieces when they feel like it.
Gentoo added support for BSD kernels at some point, but it wasn’t a switch, and didn’t see much use as far as I know.
I think the problem is both broader and simpler. There's an economic term for it, but i don't recall what it is.

Basically, the whole of capitalism depends on the idea that individual incentives (for employees) can be aligned with organizational goals. Often, however, employees realize they can make more money by putting their efforts into getting a bigger slice of the pie instead of working to make the pie bigger. This is always true to some degree, and especially true for big, rich companies with low growth rates.

Outside of the economic theory, I suspect that people who make to the executive level are most likely to have engaged in this kind of behavior, since getting promoted is one of the best ways to get a bigger slice.
I think cloud computing is an implementation detail that nobody outside of tech really cares about. People who sell IT services try to spin it as this big thing, but for people outside the industry it's just not such a big thing. Yes, it's easier to rent servers on demand now, but does that really make such a big difference?

To me it's similar to how engines with direct fuel injection are so much more efficient, easier to handle, more reliable than engines with a carburetor. They were so much better that no current car uses a carburetor any more. But nobody would say that better gasoline engines were the big new thing that happened in the 90ies.
It seems strange that the author has not met a single one that understands that concept since it is quite basic. I am guessing he just is bad at interviewing and asks trick questions till he meet someone who know the interviewing game inside out.

Examples he gives:

"Current limiting resistors missing (BJTs, diodes, etc.)

Shorting a potentiometer node to a rail

Voltage regulators missing capacitors at input/output

Missing pull-up/pull-down resistors on digital buses

Missing decoupling capacitors"

I mean ... looking at a schematic how should you know that the voltage regulator doesn't have internal caps without seeing the specs? Missing pullups? How do you know those are not internal? It is stupid.
yeah, making sure the secret keys stay secret is harder than plumbing the encryption calls together
I’m a fan of Ram Dass - but not “fascinated”. To me he was like a spiritual comedian sharing the absurdity of this life. I find it’s helpful to get perspectives from far out people - perhaps so I don’t have to venture so far out myself. By no means does he get a pass for any transgressions.
I bought my first Macbook Pro when OSX was first released, having previously been a fan of NextStep. Was a loyal Apple user until earlier this year. Bought a ThinkPad P1 Extreme. Running Windows 10 Pro with WSL for unixy stuff. Could not be happier. The only thing I miss from my 2015 vintage Macbook Pro is the gesture to click and drag with 3 fingers. I have to tap and drag with one finger.

I bought an iPad for my mom this year. I likely won't buy another one, period. Not sure there is a good enough alternative to my iPhone for when I need to upgrade next but I'll be looking.

AAPL needs to stop making jewelry and start making proper computing machines again.
This article wouldn't be the same without all the progress examples sprinkled in. The explanation of how to make the material ""feel" like we are looking at glass (and accompanying graphics explaining the method) is excellent.
Google and FB were paying less when they were founded than most startups I see today, adjusted for inflation.

The difference is that now Google and FB pay way more. More than startups could ever dream of competing with. Everyone I know at FB or Google is making $225k+, with the average/median being around $300k/yr. Absolutely no way new startups can play ball with those salaries, and FB/GOOG certainly weren’t paying that as they got off the ground.
Seems like it says more about the writer's hiring pool.

I can't think of one junior EE I've interacted with who couldn't have told you what decoupling caps were for. Sizing them correctly (instead of just sprinkling the 0.1uF magic fairy dust on your board) might be another matter but I've yet to see someone fail to grasp the purpose.
> Someone being a criminal should not put extra burden on the rest of us, and our social services,

I disagree with this, criminals shouldn't place extreme burden on society, but it's our job to deal with rehabilitating them - it's a societal choice, some societies over time have forced capital punishments on any law breakers and our modern society tries to rehabilitate them.
I know this is totally super optimistic, but can we change the perspective from

> is a really, really big hit.

to

> really amazing payoff for the early engineers/employees

My very limited understanding of the growth of the SV tech community is that its a generous cycle of people creating wealth, and then using that wealth to fund the next generation of tech. So it seems completely logical for SV founders to want to do more of this.
Comments like this break the site guidelines badly. Please don't, regardless of how bad the comment you're replying to is, or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I worked at 4 startups in my youth. All were formed at the tail end of the dot com crash. Of the 4, 2 outright failed and were totally miserable places to work. At one I even had to work for minimum wage until they realized they violated our exempt status. Of the other 2, one was acquired for peanuts. I got a check for $1200. The last company went public. They had had huge funding (almost $500M) and had had several down rounds. Due to this, management was extremely miserly with stock. My stock was briefly worth $250k until the lockout expired and quickly sank to $120k and got as low as $45k. Looking back on it, I totally wasted my time there.

The pay wasn’t the worst of it, I encountered many tyrants who made things even worse.

Now as an older person I have many business ideas but I am unable to take the risk due to having to support a family. I need to make a certain income to cover expenses. The only way I would join a startup is as a founder and at that I’d have to be able to pay myself enough to keep things going for my family.
The VCs are always profitable - for themselves. They get 20% returns no matter what. Their investors on the hand....
also reptiles
Shouldn’t the default position be that a multiverse exist? A multiverse is what logic suggests (starting with “a point in motion is a line” and moving up to higher dimensions)
If you don’t forcibly ban doctors from opening up private, non-governmental clinics - and that means radically restricting individual freedom through the threat of violent force, which I assume would be unconstitutional - then doctors (or at least the good doctors) will decamp to the private sector only.
No, this argument you’ve made is question-begging.

What I was referring to has more to do with the labor theory of value https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

I understand why I got downvoted, it seemed like a political drive-by comment. I should’ve explained what I was referring to in the first place. But this implication that socialism somehow naturally leads to slavery/internment in ways capitalism doesn’t is a canard.
He's probably confusing his cities. Santa Clara has a 0.25% city sales tax, among other cities in the county: https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/california/rates/santa-clar...

San Mateo county also has a few cities with their own sales tax: https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/california/rates/san-mateo-...
Something out there low on power and needs recharging
Only 8700 RFCs to run the internet.
The ends aren’t encrypted
Persecution by clandestine U.S. agencies CIA NSA 124 page petition
In all my years I have never thought about calling the Control Strip that but all the vocabulary fits.

I do miss the control strip a little
Thanks! Yes, it seems very well suited for it. The financial sector is slow in adapting new technology (with a few exceptions). We need to show what can be built and how stable the new software can be. Adaption will come :)
Summer cycles can easily stretch into a few hours. That's a significant amount of time out of the workday already, and they leave the mind thinking about personal stuff as often as about work. Much as this is a nice freedom, it doesn't come for free, even in taking into account the difficult problems worked out while working out.
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. That just makes the thread even worse.

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I love the concept of using OpenBSD on my personal machine as my primary OS, but it's much slower and the drivers are less stable than Linux these days. I wonder if this move will either shrink or grow the audience of this admittedly small distribution.
comp isn't above market rate. without equity or bonuses & with the long hours required, not sure what the upside is.
Productivity in this case being in the eye of the beholder? I’d argue that people experienced in how node works, wouldn’t have to think too much, since async is the default. I agree with your general sentiment though.
Worthy subject, but the deindustrialization of Britain didn't spare the chemical industry: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2019/12/younger-uk-industrial...

In the medium run the lack of industrial policy can't be good for the country, you lose too much informal knowledge.
I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?
I don't know what to say, that hit home really hard. All the luck in the world to you.
>> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.

> This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.

Telling applications about resources is literally what the operating system is for. Both Linux and Windows let you do what you want.
You keep implying differences, while not actually stating them. Who was hired is not a salient difference, in this context. The tactics employed by each are essentially the same: Heavy internet advertising with effective, outcome-based targeting. For all of Cambridge Analytica's marketing puff pieces, I see no evidence they were doing anything fundamentally different.
Seem to vaguely remember a Twilight Zone or similar along those lines.

There's a planet that's trying to achieve peace. They're in the middle of a cold war, looking rather like earth, half hour ends with the failure of talks and a nuclear war. Camera pulls back to two alien teens playing an intergalactic arcade game, now showing "game over".

Perhaps the one playing the sim got bored and started star killing their own solar systems.
> Just when I thought Microsoft had rediscovered how to do technically interesting things, they wave the white flag and run away

You might want to look up all of the reasons why they made this choice, including but not limited to the amazing impedance mismatch between Linuxy I/O operations and Windowsy I/O operations.

Running the Linux kernel in a VM and doing all sorts of integration tricks ends up being a better end-user experience, even if it's not as cool and clever as what WSL0 and WSL1 are.
Cross River, the secret bank behind the fintech boom
Where does it say anything about people growing muscle when catabolic or losing fat when anabolic?

Just because the processes don't happen simltaniously, doesn't mean you can't gain more muscle than fat (or gain more fat than muscle) or lose more muscle than fate (or lose more fat then muscle), I never said the two were done at the same rate, just the body will gain simultaneously or lose simultaneously...but the body can't both gain and lose simultaneously.

Link a study showing simultaneous anabolism of muscle and catabolism of fat, or vice-versa...I'll wait.
It's not that stupid. If a candidate asks the questions you are asking then you know they are on the right track. It isn't about getting the right answers but about having the knowledge to ask the right questions.
We have no quarrel here. As you’ve clearly demonstrated, these topics are touchy subjects in the West. China is unrepentant about its history and has no issues being exploitative if it gets them ahead. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not trying to make some cosmic moral comparison of all the various atrocities ever committed in human history and by whom.
Science (by study and consensus) is what adjudicates. It's not an individual. If you fail to understand or accept the science, then it's not an issue with the truth but with your personal understanding and beliefs.

Coherence is not understanding. Not applying the scientific method and saying there's a bunch of anecdotal evidence does not override the scientific foundations. At that point then there's no discussion to start because you don't agree with others on the premise of reality based on common consensus. It's like trying to talk about math when you believe 2 + 2 = 5 instead.

Now if you're talking about metaphysical "what is real" conversations then there are no facts or a "safe space" logical boundary to be worried about since you can say literally anything and it can, and must, be accepted for such a discussion to occur.
The only credible way from here is to:

- remove the hack that is MCAS for the purpose of being able to piggyback on the old 737 type certificate;

- start the process of type-certifying 737-MAX as the individual design that it is without MCAS instead of trying to make it behave like the old 737 just to keep things on the cheap side;

- and offer free type certification for existing 737 pilots to obtain their certification for the un-augmented 737-MAX.

Even if they fixed MCAS bugs and added a couple of redundant angle of attack sensors the public won't trust the hack. And even if the public doesn't know to care, airlines will.
According to this comment [0] by laurentlb (one of the people working on Bazel who also commented in this post) from a year ago, Blaze is just Bazel but with integrations to Google-internal tools.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823546
The figures above where scaled to population, the actual US population (according to the wiki source) was 2,121,600 vs. UK with 83,014 - the GDP is honestly pretty even per capita though the US probably suffers from worse wealth inequality[1] although the CIA factbook says that both countries have ~15% population below the poverty line - so many that's not really a factor.

1. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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New Method Developed to Detect Light in the Brain
As the article mentions, this punishes many stay at home moms and that’s really quite tragic.
What I was saying is that Google somehow manages to track test dependencies at the source level so globbing wouldn't matter.
On HN people often do not reply on replies to their comments and it does not mean that they do agree.

It seems like a rather nice thing which helps to avoid many ego-battles.
The history of crisco is also eye-opening. It was a waste product from cotton production - chemists were given the task of finding ways to extract money out of left over cotton seeds. Cottonseed oil was previously used to make lamp oil and candles, but that business was dying out. They came up with partial hydrogenation to make it look close enough to lard, and then marketed it as a food product even though very little was known about it at the time. It was also shortly after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, so people were excited about a vegetarian alternative to potentially contaminated animal products.
I wish OS X would do better with AMD and also get it working with Tensorflow. No OS X support here sadly.