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Hi fellow HN readers. I made this this new tab Chrome extension a while back and I recently published an add-on for Firefox.

This is a little side-project of mine that began life as something of an assistive tech tool. I have great difficulty typing (SMA Type II) so I try to minimize it in favor of a mouse-based approach where possible. A Fine Start is essentially just a list of text links with a minimal amount of categorization functionality. I originally developed it for myself and eventually turned it into a fremium product. I hope some of you find it as useful as I do.
Value is built, not bought. If your idea of a successful startup is bringing together a group of high-priced mercenaries, then you have the wrong idea of what a successful startup is.

Every great product ever built was done with a team of missionaries. People joining together against all odds to try and usher something new (big or small) into the world. They would do it whether someone paid them or not. Even when the odds seem impossibly stacked against them. And more times than not, these small teams create something great. These kinds of teams have always, and will always beat the odds. Time and time again they have competed with and/or taken down the giants in their industry.

It’s an idea or goal that will just bite you and stick with you. It’s something you can’t put down. Each second of free time you have is spent working on it. That’s the kind of startup you belong in, and a reason to join one.

If you are evaluating a startup by financial metrics, then you don’t belong in a startup or that startup doesn’t belong in you.
> Epidemiologic data suggest that excessive energy intake, particularly in midlife, increases the risks of stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s
disease.

Would be great to have some new therapies for these terrible diseases.
I struggled with weight all my life. I constantly would get motivated to workout only to quit over and over again due to the lack of meaningful progress after the initial period. Even weight lifting I could only put on muscle but never lower my body fat below 18. After getting a scale that measures body composition and studying what I ate and how it affected me I was finally able to figure out the issue. The issue is metabolic syndrome and I suspect many people have this condition.

Think of it this way, your body is constantly in either burn or store mode. When you move, you deplete energy reserves within the cell which must be replenished from the blood supply. Glucose is the basic energy block on the cellular level (ignoring intercellular ATP) for the human body. In order for glucose to pass into the cell and replenish reserves, it must pass through a gate that blocks out harmful material. The key to this gate is called insulin. When you eat a sugary diet, this gate mechanism becomes less and less responsive sort of like a tired security guard after the morning and evening rush. When the gate fails to open, two things happen: The first is that the cell becomes fatigued because its energy reserve hasn't been replenished, and second, the glucose stays in the bloodstream where it eventually is converted to glycogen and stores as fat.

This is the problem that gets people. When you are in this state, you will burn less fat during your workouts and they will feel harder too. For the triple whammy, your body will catabolize energy-burning muscle instead of using what's already available. The only good time for sugars is after a workout so as to prevent catabolism. Keto and low carb diets work by reducing the strain on the insulin receptors allowing them to become resensitized. This is also why fasting diets work because they reduce insulin sensitivity so that your body more readily uses the energy it has when it has it.

3 Things Effect Weightloss and a change in any of them could make a "bad" food good or a "good" food bad in terms of losing or gaining weight.

1 - How much have you moved recently

2 - How much have you eaten recently

3 - What did you eat recently
I cant recommend Omstars enough for solo work. They have tons of material to help develop fundamentals, though Id encourage you to use the videos to build a habit and then seek out a teacher.
Commit your lock files, but never the node_modules folder.
[Citation needed]

And I'm asking you not just to show that a bunch of bad stuff has happened, but that in its totality at least one country most people would consider a democracy (a good but imperfect shortcut for this is if Freedom House rates them as such) has essentially no accountability.
I can t decide who s better 3 or 4
A Big and Bizarre Drone Mystery Is Unfolding in Rural Colorado
Great job! How long did you spend on writing the book?
How does Nielsen know 88% of Americans are using a second device while watching TV? How is that data gathered, and how is the research conducted?
Continue reducing my anxiety to improve physical and mental health.

In 2019, I peaked. I did an international move with my family (wife, 3yr old) while working on a major project which was ultimately setting us all up to fail

Since that move, I've begun running 5km 2-3 times a week, and improving how I focus my time. I am a workaholic, but now redirecting that time to work on (or for) myself, rather than for the company I work for (I love my job, but I was spending an inordinate amount of time for it)

Next steps are to continue reducing my caffeine intake. I don't know if it'll help but caffeine can increase anxiety. I'm working on going down from two double-shot espressos and a tea in the evening to one cup a day. I'm much better off here than others but again -- it's about reducing that anxiety!

A work in progress, never overnight :)
While there are technical blockers...

The real blockers are human behavior and expectations. "Take down that murder video!" "If I lose my debit card, I lose money?!"

It's a cool toy, not really needed though
No, it, literally and directly does, that's the definition of it. Your representatives are accountable to you via vote. If not that, then what do you think democracy even means?
"Ads have become a tax on the technically illiterate." -- Scott Galloway
Tracks are great texture-wise, but they come with their own problems since you’re only turning left or right. Body movement will compensate for this and it can lead to injuries if you’re not careful. My PT told me he’s sees a lot of this at his practice.
That's what I thought, too.

There's a lot to be said for real single-assignment programming. It provides many of the advantages of functional programming. The code is more readable, because the intermediate variables have names. When you need to do something imperative, you don't have to jump through hoops to do it. Go and Rust both encourage that style - the default is to create a new variable, not assign to an old one. (The semantics of multiple := assignment in Go, where some variables are assigned and others are created, though...)

One of the historical headaches of C is that function parameters are non-const by-value by default. That's backwards. The default should be const ref. If you need a local mutable copy, or the parameter is an "in-out", as Ada calls it, you should have to specify that. Those are the less likely cases and the ones that cause trouble if missed. Passing small const ref values by value is a compiler optimization; the programmer shouldn't have to worry about it, especially since whether it's a win varies with the target machine.

The language in the article seems more like a variant of Matlab, not C.
At least for me, that is not the case.

Most television and film content is just unbelievably boring, self-important, and undemanding of the viewer's attention. Frankly, content producers have become more and more disrespectful of the viewer's time.

In very rare cases, I suddenly notice I've lost track of the plot--if that happens a couple times, that's when I know I need to put away my phone/laptop and focus on the show.

It is not obvious which content is actually demanding. For example, the film The Martian was very dense and demanding of attention, while the more recent Ad Astra could be summarized with the single sentence "sad sack mopes around space." Dialog rich comedy is generally the most demanding.
Why Is Inflation Low Globally?
Sure, I lost a lot of weight when I started running and cycling a lot, but I wasn't tracking my food at all. I was suddenly "the kind of person" who doesn't put crap in the temple of their body, etc. When the laboratory experiment is done, in a controlled environment, same food with exercise results in same weight without exercise. If you want to change how you eat as you start a cardio exercise program, great things will happen. Just because someone loses weight when they start cardio does not imply the cardio led to weight loss. Though the 50% of floor space in big box gyms devoted to cardio would make you think that is the most important effect. The gyms just never get around to presenting any literature to back up that presumption that sells so many memberships.
Used to climb weekly. It's enjoyable as a social activity, though (for me) not so much individually. Either way, after having a kid, I haven't prioritized it in.

It's also a lot different from hiking or biking - indoor climbing lacks the calming nature aspect. Outdoor climbing has a high time/coordination cost.
It's the top rated by Wirecutter right now. I mostly use them just paired with my phone but I haven't had trouble using then with whatever when I've needed to.
There is a genre of music called "noise", which is much like what the term sounds like.

I remember coming home from a noise concert with a friend one day, and going down in to the subway, where there was a construction worker hammering away with a jackhammer. My friend and I found ourselves really enjoying it, and appreciatively nodded our heads to the beat.

Lots of experimental and avant garde music is also frequently described as "noise" to people who aren't fans of it. Back at the dawn of the rock-and-roll genre and of jazz, people to whom these were new types of music also frequently characterized them as "just noise". I've heard the "that's not music" accusation being thrown at heavy metal and dissonant traditional Japanese music.

That's not to say that chimpanzees must be fans of what was played to them, but the realm of music is much wider than most people that listen only to mainstream music appreciate.
Learning Scala for the Beginner
The old desktop approach had some cool things. List views tended to support common operations, e.g. sorting, drag-and-drop, multiselection, common ways to do renames and type-ahead-find. Tree views had some standardization, too. Crowded menus/toolbars could be ugly, but you could discover a lot of functionality going through them. Right-click tended to expose a set of verbs.

These things often exist now or have an analog (e.g. long press is right-click in mobile UI), but not everywhere and not always done the same way. Mobile has some inconsistency; the Web has a good bit.

The modern has plenty of its own UI/UX things--URLs and the Back button for the win, dev tools/view source are awesome, and certain cool things can come from services not living entirely on your device. Something like hiding clutter at the cost of discoverability is a win for many people.

Still think it's interesting to compare and think about what can be usefully brought forward from the past.
This is what they usually say, but in this case, what would that be?

1. joining one big name in cryptocurrencies and providing software for the chosen one exclusively?

2. creating their own thing, like Facebook did?

3. banning cryptocurrencies entirely from the Chrome ecosystem?

4. ...?
big thanks!
No idea about this. But sending good wishes your way!
Google suspends MetaMask's Android client; rejects appeal
Started in October, spending about 1 day a week. Then we did a big push over the last 10 days.
I'm a big fan and long-time user of crystal. It's like the good parts of ruby minus the dangerous parts, with actual performance. The OOP system is also very opt-in, in that you can get as granular as Java is if you want, or use modules for everything. The introspection offered by macros is absurdly good as well, and allows for constructions you would only think are possible in interpreted languages. Slices make everything nice as well, especially with string and byte manipulation.

Generally, crystal will let you do what you want to do, often in a number of ways. I definitely couldn't say that about Rust, though I like Rust.
Well, a lot of them are "full stack". Full stack seems like a fantasy but this really seems to be the case. I know plenty who work front end for a couple years and switch to a back end role just because they want some back end experience. Some even switch to a sales role.

I think it's part of the learning process, where cross-discipline helps them learn a lot faster. Or maybe it's the attitude, where they work to learn as many things as possible rather than optimize for some high paying specialist role.
Agree. Although, when I'm doing my working set of deadlifts (after a series of warm up ones) my whole body is by then heaving for air and on fire after the last rep.

It certainly gets the heart rate going. Now I don't do those every day, of course, but squats I do. Either as high rep/lower intensity warm up for other exercises, or low rep 5x5 heavy as a primary target of the day. They never fail to kick-start the body.
If you really coached so many CEOs you don't really need to brag about it. This guy is just advertising himself
Python vs. Scala as an API for Apache Spark?
It's amazing how good this is for training!

Apparently I am not that great at minesweeper and guess way too often when it's not necessary. This variation kills those bad habits pretty quickly by punishing you 100% of the time for guessing. Along with undo and double checking with the debugger, I've picked up way more patterns/heuristics than in my years of playing.

Coolest thing is that if you're a perfect logician you can always win!

Link to actual game since it's not prominent in article: https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/
> The fact is 99% of people can’t tell the difference.

No, they absolutely can, they just don't think the difference is worth the cost. That's not the same thing.

> Just like 99% of people don’t care about the headphone jack being removed.

[citation needed]
These are the countries where most adults still don’t have a smartphone
If anything I'd think that drones would save lives on net. Right now we get our packages delivered via multiton diesel trucks that speed through neighborhoods as fast as they can manage. Sometimes people step in front of these vehicles and are maimed or killed. Some of these people are children. All so we can get our AirPods delivered on launch day.

Drones could be a substitute for many truck deliveries, but the FAA has banned such uses. This endangers more lives, creates more pollution, and increases delivery costs.
>all mainstream, tried and true research

I'd really like any reference to that in the exercise science literature. I would be looking for full blown calorimeter studies with fixed diets. Does not seem to exist.
Back then you also could create your own theme. You could set the colors for text, backround, buttons etc. and every App did respect and use it. Today you can choose dark or light mode and almost no App does respect it, instead they bring there own colors and options.
Perhaps you're misunderstanding what this article about.

The author is making a pr that updates the package.json, which also means the lockfile is updated.

If you don't accept any PR that touches the package.json file, then that means you're not accepting a PR that introduces any new dependency, tries to update a dependency for security reasons, or uses a feature available in a newer version of the dependency.

All of those reasons seem like valid reasons to accept a lockfile change -- that the author of the PR changed the package.json file for any of those reasons.
Anything with an MMCX connector allows you to swap out the cable. Generally any expensive headphones have MMCX connectors.
The irony of this article is that it recommends you to use npx.
And the moral one. You could have gotten any conceivable illness while having had optimal healthy habits forever.

The US pays around 2x the cost compared to any other country, and just as much as the others from taxes, presumably just to be able to say 'F YOU' to those who can't afford care.
Working Retail in the Middle of the Retail Apocalypse
Yea the 90s might have been the steroid era in baseball, but players beforehand were regularly consuming greenies as performance enhancers.
https://www.razorgator.com/blog/remember-when-everyone-in-th...
Being fat is hard; being fit is hard too. You get your abs in the kitchen, not on a treadmill. Also, exercising so one can get away with indulging a higher caloric count sounds dangerous and reads like "exercise bulimia." Sweating so you can cheat and eat some cake or candy is still going to tax your pancreas, gallbladder, and liver. YMMV
Walking outside in colder weather will make you lose more weight than sweating on a treadmill with no breeze. Running, cycling, and swimming are great too, for you can do races which are more communal and a future goal keeps you at it.
Even to this date, there is something oddly satisfying about clicking those buttons. It feels like I'm operating a machine and actually getting things done.
I highly recommend anyone who wants to learn more about exercising for aesthetic or performance goals to check out Eric Helms, he is a huge name in the science based fitness community along with Greg Nuckols, Brad Schoenfeld, and Bret Contreras to name a few (there are plenty and luckily all these guys mention each other so you can find great info all over). His Muscle and Strength Pyramid videos (and books that I have both bought) provide a great amount of detail into the fundamentals of nutrition and training as well as understanding the hierarchy of importance.

Muscle and Strength Pyramid series:
Training: https://youtu.be/OWmchPCyDvw
Nutrition: https://youtu.be/GAvW6xBZjSk
I only picked the 315s since they're give or take the same price point as AirPods Pro and have infinitely better sound quality because they only do one thing.
Right unless you want to plug it into the IFE on your plane?
It actually is not. The compiler has no problems turning your imperative code into SSA on its own, and PHI functions are no problem for optimizers.

I guess it's just for readability and easier reasoning about the code.
Agreed, this is a lot of speculation from short clips by people who probably don't know what they are talking about or what conditions these animals were really in.

But I have to say the article description:

> He was subjected to periods of piano music with a repetitive bass note for 24 days.

combined with the choice of music in the videos is just asking for the internet outrage machine to react.
Sleep has definitely been a problem. But I just feel like my body is not responding to exercise like it should (or like it used to). I've been pretty consistent doing barbell squats and dead lifts at least once a week. I've stepped up the weight and think my form is decent enough but I still feel like a ton of bricks. I haven't seen any obvious muscle growth or seen my waist shrink.

I'm not one for fads but I may give intermittent fasting a go.
Smart TVs know what you're watching and when. Smartphones know what you're doing on it and when. It's simply connecting the two at this point.
I'm surprised by how well written the social security administration article is. I found it interesting and readable enough to read all the way through, which I absolutely wasn't expecting.

Our tax dollars at work, I guess.
Tombs at Ancient Greek Site Were Gold-Lined Chambers
What works for me is continuous tracking. As long as you continuously track weight, body weight, activity (fitness monitors or the pedometer on your phone), and calories you will be able to make corrections based on the output (basically body weight with some corrections based on what you see in the mirror if you lift weights or exercise regularly). Even if your calorie estimations are off eventually for the day, it will show up in your body weight so you just adjust your estimates based on that to develop your "feel". Buying a food scale and cooking your own food really gives you a good feel for the calories involved with various ingredients. After a few cycles of calibration you will get a better at it and it will be less of a burden.
I'm always looking for more, if anyone has any, please let me know!
Unless there's something I don't understand, that's what the single static assignment pass does in a compiler.
You just keep gaining?
Ask HN: If you were to start a new company in Jan 2020 what would it be?
>I've found that calories-in/calories-out logic only gets you so far. It's foundationally true, of course, because energy is conserved, and we use all of the calories that we eat, with few exceptions, either for energy or for fat storage.

Unfortunately it is not true that we use all the calories that we eat in the same way, or that simple calories in/calories out is all that matters[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzV-J1h0do
I think democracy generally means that the population elects representatives who establish policy. That’s certainly true. But in what sense is the government actually accountable to an individual in any meaningful sense? If you are wronged by a democratic government do you honestly believe that you have a remotely decent chance of holding the government accountable? And how about for individuals who are among the least fortunate in society?
Aaaaand here we go reinventing the wheel of "trust graph." Key signing party anyone?
Revenge porn protected speech? Lawyers weigh in, hope for Supreme Court ruling
If anyone has done this without trying or wanting to lose weight (ie, for some other purpose), could you share more? What was your goal? Did you reach it? For 24+ hour fasts, did you deliberately compensate by eating more before and after?
Yes, in my case the personal trainer would come to us, with all the equipment needed for that day in the trunk of his car.

Usually we'd train in a nearby park.
I'm going more monastic.

Eat more boring, cheaper food. Spend less, or rather enjoy the free things more, like fresh air and kids.

Career wise, I make enough now to not need to make more.

So I want to stop marketing myself so much, especially writing, blogs, social media - used to freelance where excessive posting was part of the job scope. I want to pick up programming languages that are genuinely useful and interesting, and not necessarily the ones that are easier to get jobs in.

Now that I no longer get paid hourly, I want to pick up a hobby. Philosophy is tempting. Maybe read all the big books like The Origin of Species, Das Kapital, Wealth of Nations. Probably learn swimming or a martial art.

This seems impossible, but the resolution is not a fixed SMART goal, but rather a direction and process.