skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't go low-carb. There is no need, it's not unhealthy. Especially if you are sporty (as it sounds).

The current state of affairs is: If you are insulin resistant (either because of genetics, obesity, whatever) then having a low-carb high fat diet is better for you. If your insulin resistance is high, then your pancreas produces much more insulin, meaning your cells will start storing energy instead of using it up. If this keeps up for a long period, your fat tissues, which are supposed to be your fat/energy storage, will fill up and your body (or rather the particles transporting the transformed sugar from the liver) will start sticking to your organs. This starts inflammations and makes your organs weaker, and in turn also raising your insulin resistance. And these malfunctions also spread to the brain and can cause alzheimer and the like. The exact chain of effects is not yet confirmed, so from here on it's a lot of speculation.
But if you now are trying to lose weight, and you just reduce calories, but keeping a "high-carb/low-fat" diet, then you will be hungry. Because either you have too little protein to feed yourself, or you eat enough protein and you automatically eat too many carbs again, producing more and more insulin.
This is how high-fat diets come in handy, as they don't spur liver activity and don't impact insulin as much. This in turn means you can reach ketosis, starting to work the fat on your organs (which is a lot more dangerous then some fat in fat tissues like your belly). Your body will recover, inflammation will go away and your insulin sensitivity goes up again (unless you are genetically diabetic). And with a healthy body your brain can also recover.

The studies for this are still coming in, but I find this explanation very logic and even this study, although the article is weirdly phrased, plays into it.

Some remarks at the end:
- If you do a lot of sports, your muscles use energy even without insulin
- Glucose is spread through the body, while fructose is directly converted to fat (tissue)
- Sport also increases insulin sensitivity
- Diets are very personal, try out things for yourself and see how it works!
- Protein is also increasing insulin (since protein intake signals the body to start storing energy, i. e. protein into muscle cells)
Google is an advertising company, so Startpage isn't any worse.
I use DDG on a daily basis, being my default search engine for the past two years.

However I don't agree — many of my searches have awful results on DDG compared with Google and I often find no words to make it better.

Local searches are an obvious candidate, DDG is awful for my native language, giving me results in Spanish (I'm Romanian).

But lately I'm noticing programming-related results being worse on DDG as well. I'm not sure why because they used to be similar, but now some of the results DDG is giving me (for very specific search terms) are really, really bad, many times DDG ignoring my keywords and giving me something else entirely.

It's fine for now, I prefer the privacy, but they'd better improve and fast.
I think you inadvertently hit the nail on the head here, in that DuckDuckGo requires you to know its incantations, and Google has gotten really good at not having you to know any incantations at all. I can even obliterate the spelling of words and it often knows what i'm looking for.

Now, with that said, if your target is power searchers (like myself) I think you have a better argument, because Google often lacks in some of these areas (like being able to filter by a specific grouping of sorts, like if I want a "dev focused" search, not just filtering by a specific site, DDG has some methodology here that I haven't been able to easily surface with Google)

But there are cases where I've noticed DDG falling behind, like indexing newer content, or being able to filter by time accurately.
He mentioned in the article that he first reads a bunch of book summaries to decide which books to read in full.
Now is the right time to Terraform stuff and get some portability in. We can help you out if you need to be quickly up and running on Infrastructure-as-Code
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Thanks for sharing this story. I really like it.
The change of color is one thing but it would be interesting to know how the brain rewrites its motor cortex to connect to the right peripheral nerves and to the muscles they connect to.
The purpose was to prop up the auto industry while having an eco cover story.
That was the case for me and I graduated about 2 years ago. Professors were paying from their salary to get e.g. Matlab.

More specifically, software is usually not a direct expense so it needs to be paid from the grant overhead, but the university frequently wants to build new buildings or something else instead. It's the same for private government contractors.
It's not just about facebook logins. Any website that you visit can send information to facebook and that's where most of these websites are sharing info with facebook.

I just checked my own off-facebook activity and I am blown away at just how much information is available on me. They have a fairly concise list of all the websites that I have visited in the past month, none of which I used facebook for logging in.
I own a minivan, too, as it's the only vehicle that the entire family will fit inside.

Like the pickup truck, our minivan is an extremely versatile vehicle, but there's just no way I'm going to put loose gravel, wet bags of mulch, or trash bound for the landfill in the back of it. Furthermore, I sometimes need to tow a trailer, and minivans simply aren't built for this.
VC and Ecommerce: The Billion or Bust Deathpact
I presume they mean it isn't possible, as there was an attempted quarantine around Wuhan, and yet coronavirus still spread.
I agree. I’ve been in the DDG camp for a little while, but I finally had to switch back to google as my primary search engine on my laptop - fixing searches was taking too much time. That’s after two or three months of using DDG and Bing exclusively
This is the first time I've seen something reference ingesting or drinking ketones. While I imagine it doesn't have the dietary benefit for losing fat, if this is a thing, and it's safe, I'm surprised it's not made it's way into energy drinks.
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A few years ago I switched my desktops to use DDG while leaving my phone using Google. At first I had to !g all the time. Now that’s rare.

Now I’m starting to have the other problem. If I search for a company, product, person, etc., on DDG it’s the first hit. But on google I just get a wall of ads and videos, and it’s hard to tell where the actual homepage is for the thing I’m looking for.

So as of now I would say, google is still better if you’re looking for something obscure and especially if you don’t know what it’s called. But today I would say DDG is better if you are searching for something specific by name.
If I wanted to search using natural language, I'd use Ask Jeeves. DDG is just fine in my experience.
Not using Facebook to log into services does not exclude you from this. Almost all mobile games I've used (and only those) are listed on my FB activity despite not giving them my login or even having the Facebook or Messenger apps installed.

I think this may be by correlating the Android advertising ID?
People tend to hate Congress in general but love their own representative.
Not throwaway gloves. Carry a pack of disinfecting wipes. Whenever you're about to touch a public surface (gas pump, handrail, door handle, elevator button, touchscreen...) wipe it first. That way you protect yourself, protect the people who come after you, your hands get disinfected many times a day, and anyone who sees you will pick up the idea.
> To my knowledge duck duck go uses Bing's search API to get their results.

And their own crawler and wikipedia and stackexchange and about 400 other sources: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

That said, yeah it is mainly a better Bing.
Advanced Programming Challenges
Some of the specific advice in this guide is great, but I really think all the advice about managing people is about competencies and strategies that a good engineer should also be developing. People get caught out because for an engineer the role often doesn't involve explicit one to ones or anything with other team members, but the best way to have an influence beyond your own skills is through your ability to influence other people.

The only other thing I think is missing in this article (and fair enough, it's long, and you can't cover everything) - is about the expectations. One of the most difficult parts of making your way into the glorious role of Lower management is that you're generally in a new role, and so it's up to you, your subordinates, and your boss to define what is your role. Very often your boss was doing your role (as part of their larger role) previously and it'll be a transition to get them to a place where they're coming to you instead of directly to your team, and it's clear when people should be coming to you.
Another option might be the coax cables laid for cable TV. They've been run everywhere in my last couple houses and worked much better than EOP.

I've used Actiontec and Netgear models at various times, but other people make them. MOCA is a standard and the different models work together fine.

Here's what I bought last. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013J7OBUU/

These Motorola ones are new (since I bought mine) and look nice as well (and cheaper). https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Adapter-Ethernet-2-Pack-MM10... or https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1389945-REG/motorola_...
And it has: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ketones+drink&va=z&t=hk&ia=web

Probably should have searched first :)
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The thing that drives my OCD nuts is that in Europe, all of the circles are centered the centroid of the country, except Germany.
It's actually Bing+ other sources, there's a page on their site that explains it.

And I had the same opinion as you, until I started using it every day. My habit was as follows: When I didn't get good results, I would switch back to Google and run the same query. Over time I found more "purple" links in Google indicating DDG was giving me almost the same (sometimes better) results.
Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" novel has the Friends of Privacy who spew falsehoods into the Network so as to disrupt attempts to track everybody all the time. My first "Agent" contribution when I worked as a researcher was just code which listened in to other conversations and then lied about stuff. If another agent said "X = 4" my agent would state "X is not 4" just to disrupt things.

I suspect it's much harder to do this successfully in real life than it is in a novel where it's just an excuse as to why otherwise resourceful intelligence agencies don't know who the central character Rabbit is (Vinge says he's not sure either, to me it seems obvious Rabbit is an AI, surely the whole point of all Vinge novels is that there's a Singularitarian Apocalypse, and in Rainbows End the humans think they've averted that apocalypse but actually the thing that just saved them is the Apocalypse and they ought to be terrified)
Hmm. I didn't realize the key, or at least the signing function, was in the microcode. So if the microcode can be changed by an attacker, they can have it sign <fake code signature> but go ahead and run <evil code> instead?
Interesting, what is the pws arg?
I like the character limit because it forces me to really think hard about the piece in order to cram, say, a highly technical, oftimes abstruse 200-character scientific journal article title into the 80-character HN space.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/31/facebook-sues-onlinenic-fo...

https://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/09/namecheap-sued-over-wh...
It's hard for me to understand how a domain can really be worth large sums of money, when slight variations on spelling or word choice can be just a dozen dollars/year. Maybe in the 90s people would search by domain (e.g. pets.com), but now people find things through search engines.

Can anyone point to examples where a specific domain name measurably paid off?
I work at a company that does full-time pair programming whenever possible. There can be drawbacks for sure, but overall, I love it. However, one caveat is that our hiring process places emphasis on finding people that are collaborative and easy to work with as opposed to know-it-all "rockstar" developers. We also do test-driven development, so in addition to the most common pattern (driver / navigator) we sometimes do it a different way wherein one person writes the failing test, then their pair writes the implementation to get the test to pass along with the next failing test. Rinse, repeat.

I generally find the axiom "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." applicable to this context.

----

Benefits of pair programming (IMHO):

* It eliminates the need for code review (most of the time) since another dev is providing input as you write.

* Pairing senior and junior developers is an excellent way to build the abilities and confidence of the latter.

* Pairing decreases siloing of knowledge and one individual's "ownership" of a particular feature or system. You much less frequently see things like "Oh, you have a question about our Widget Framework? Go ask Sally, she's the only one who touches that part of the code."

* You're less likely to implement hacky solutions just to get something to work because someone else is working alongside you. (At least, I am.)

* It's easier to find and fix bugs (in my personal experience) when you have two sets of eyes on the code.

* You have to slow down and explain your ideas before immediately jumping in and implementing them. I generally find that reaching consensus with my pair about the strategy to solve a problem helps surface edge cases I might not have thought of alone.
It really shouldn't be any more work to revoke a certificate or just maintain a whitelist/blacklist of certificates than it should be to just disable a user account.

Certificates are only more difficult because nobody seems to have put in the effort to automate them, and client software hasn't put in any effort to make the experience nice.
Thought about it overnight and this is what I have:

To reason about the distribution of positives in the sample, we consider two limiting cases, then interpolate between them. The cases are:

1. All positives are clustered exactly together. We start with log(S/P) queries to find the parent node of all positives, then test every node in the subtree with 2P-1 queries to identify all positives. In total, this is O(p + log(S/P)).

2. All positives are uniformly distributed. By the pigeonhole principle, the lowest level where every node tests positive must occur at log(P). Above this level, every node tests positive, so we must perform 2P-1 tests. Every P nodes on the level must be binary searched; each node has a subtree of height log(S/P), for Plog(S/P) operations. In total, this is O(P + Plog(S/P)) = O(Plog(S/P)).

It is not immediately obvious that the worst case distribution is either case 1 or 2. To address this, we define an interpolation variable K in [0, 1] which describes a distribution where all positives begin clustered together, then KP positives are adversarially moved elsewhere. We claim that K = 0 is case 1 and K = 1 is case 2.

Consider the case where KP = 1. As in case 1, we need 2P-1 + log(S/P) tests to fully identify the cluster; we also need a single binary search starting at the 2nd level corresponding to the other half of S, which takes log(S) - 1 operations, for a total of 2P-1+log(S/P)+log(S)-1. As KP increases, the level at which we transition from testing every node to initiating binary search on a node will decrease; as an example, when KP = 4, we fully test halves, then quarters, and then begin binary search. In general, we will need KPlog(S/KP) queries for all binary searches. Finally, no matter what KP is, we need no more than O(P) queries for subtrees where we need to test every node. This yields O(P + KPlog(S/KP))

This allows us to navigate around an adversary choosing the worst distribution of positives possible by taking the upper bound where K = 1, yielding O(P + Plog(S/P)) = O(Plog(S/P)), though this bound is not expected to be tight.
Corpus Christi is the name of a major Christian festival and is a holiday in many countries with a large catholic population, including Poland. The city in Texas and the movie are named after it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi
Depends on the diet. Low carb on its own can work because you can eat between 20 and 50 grams of carbs in a day, but ketosis is limited.(which might be okay depending on one's goals)

Keto is shit for working out, in my personal opinion. Some people claim they can have effective workouts on keto, but I hate it, and a lot of others have a hard time having energy when training on keto. Keto is good for weight loss, and I lost 60 lbs in 5 months doing keto, but it's total crap for building muscle, in my experience.

The best compromise, in my experience, is fasting. I'm talking ideally 48 hours between meals. I'll keep it short because I've been spamming threads about this topic recently; because fasting forces the body to solely burn through its glycogen stores, and then body fat once that runs out, ketosis becomes easier to achieve even if there are some carbs in meals, and the presence of carbs in meals provides glycogen for when you workout and train your muscles. I believe this is needed, especially for HIIT. In my experience, you can eat a modest amount of carbs when breaking a fast and still manage to get back into ketosis(fat burning mode!) within a few days. It totally outperforms keto in that it often takes people several days, possibly weeks, to get into deep ketosis.

That said, a low carb, but not necessarily keto, diet can work for someone doing HIIT. Everyone's body is different. A person may find that they want more carbs in order to be effective in the gym, but if they're trying to get lean, then that can compromise their goal, in which case they should reduce their eating frequency a la fasting. A person who is either building muscle or maintaining body composition may not need to do a low carb diet at all.
I tried it when I switched to FireFox.

Switched back after 30 days. Still in Firefox.
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>If that's not supported somehow classic SEPA transfers work everywhere, and arrive in 1 business day max.

Right, but one business day will often be two days during the week and four days over the weekend, because many banks set an arbitrary cut-off time after which they will no longer process any payments.

One bank I use will process payments received after 12:00 pm (lunchtime) on the next day. So the money will arrive two days later, unless it's a Friday, in which case the money arrives on Tuesday.
I think we're just arguing for the sake of it now.

There is space for both viewpoints.

>> Specific Region - the US.

>> Specific Supply Chain - consisting for 100s of companies

In my metro area alone (not in the top 20), there are hundreds of one type of company, not counting the others in the supply chain.

Catering to a niche like that, i.e. building software where the customer base < 1000 companies is still a potential multi-million dollar software business.

You are absolutely right, if you niche too far down, you'll get stuck customizing for each customer and that may not be worth it.
I do water fasting (rather "bone broth fasting" like Dr. Jason Fung advocates in his talks on youtube and in his books), and also have done and will do keto when I am not fasting.

I am not quite sure about the "health" class. So roughly speaking I am obese and I do think with every 3 kilograms I loose per month, I am healthier. So keto as a tool for loosing weight is really without a doubt healthy. The correlations between being overweight and associated risks are MUCH stronger than the correlations between food and associated risks.

Now, if you dig deeper into books on keto and fasting by doctors, you see how fragile certain conclusions are that are now the consensus opinion in nutritional science. I am a data-scientist, trained biophysicist and I know I am not an epidemiologist and not a biologist, but I can tell "creative statistics" apart from not-suspicious ones, and a lot of central nutritional science studies that triggered the fat-fear seem to be highly deficient from a statistical perspective, hardly proving any causality.

So I tend to be rather sceptical about dietary advice after 1950 unless it has been (a) shown in humans and not just in experiments with animals (b) based on studies that do interventions, i.e. change the behavior of humans rather than just surveying or asking what people do.

What I also find fascinating is, how the fasting community and the keto community often reach similar conclusion while actually being kind of different communities advocating for different "resolutions".

Anyway, what I was trying to say: If keto and fasting helps the normal weight range at steady 3kg/month, I do think it is healthy for me, when I am in a normal weight range, the priorities may change from "weight loss is really important" to other aspects.
My team uses slack and trello what are we missing out on by not using this?
What type of situations are you constantly experiencing that make you feel this way? Bikes riding against traffic to the right of me (ie at me), and bikes coming off the sidewalk are really the only two situations that get my hackles up. And these are better categorized as poor individual behavior rather than putting it on all bikers.

My experience is that I used to bike often and now I don't. So this probably alleviates my surprise at say an inexperienced biker riding in the gutter, coming up on a parked car, and jutting out at the last minute. But a little bit of riding would get you this sense too - its probably the best way to change your perspective. It will also give you the superpower of knowing when a car is going to change lanes before it puts on its blinker.

When riding, my biggest worry was being creamed from behind on non-city roads where traffic is going much faster, and drivers tend to space out or expect to pass within inches. But this tension is totally on the specific drivers themselves, and the easy answer is for them to explicitly pass rather than viewing a bike as some kind of roadside decoration.

FWIW I wasn't a fan of bike lanes in general. They're redundant and constraining, creating an expectation that you'll ride in the door zone or through road hazards, backed up by a solid white line. I'd rather explicitly share the right lane with cars rather than have a fake division. (Well-done bike lanes like modern NYC obviously change this)
> You need to provide clear examples

Nope, I don't. I don't care what search engine you like. I do want to see Google knocked down several pegs, but fan rants aren't going to do that.

I just keep using DDG as it gets better while Google gets worse and sometimes think a little about the variety of the human experience.
I'm curious to hear about these innovative payments systems...
i just get a facebook loginpage when i click the link. I dont use facebook thus dont have an account and never have. I wonder what is the difference?
>> Quantrix

Hadn't heard of it, I will check it out, thanks!
I think this is more of a reflection on how far Google results have fallen. But I really glad to see someone gaining at least some ground against Google while at least claiming to be privacy focused.
I'm sure about that but I wonder how many coins I lost since the Euro. Not many. Probably all of them went into malfunctioning vending machines.
There are other choices, such as SearX, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia.

Recommended read: "Detailed tests of search engines: Google, Startpage, Bing, DuckDuckGo, metaGer, Ecosia, Swisscows, Searx, Qwant, Yandex, and Mojeek" [1]

[1] https://libretechtips.gitlab.io/detailed-tests-of-search-eng...