skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a personal trainer I'm really impressed by the technical depth of this post, although it really only centers on the idea of caloric deficit, which is relatively basic compared to the other topics he mentioned.

It's so hard to visualize small long-term biological changes without moving averages. "Trust the process" is so important.

"Trust the algorithm" is even more apt:

• what/when to eat,

• what/when to train, and conversely

• what/when to rest.

If you haven't seen exercise/nutrition through an algorithmic lens, you might be surprised how straightforward it is to make progress day-to-day and how much progress you can really make in a short period of time. I wish strength training had more academics/coders and fewer 'meatheads' because the documentation around it is so anti-intellectual.

Even as a trainer it's taken time to find reliable resources to optimize this algorithm, but I've been using a solid combination of tools and methodologies that make this complete and quantitative. I have clients that have lost a lot of weight and are lifting serious weight in a short span of time.

It's great to see software engineers speak about health topics in general.
I've turned down management roles all my life. Am still very technical. But now I own a consulting business and do less coding and more project scoping. Still technical though!

Started in 1985 in Silicon Valley out of school.
I brought a 7 inch for £30 just so I can carry pdf copies of my pathfinder / starfinder books when I went to the Wargames Club to play.

Saves crippling my shoulder by carrying a "Damm Heavy" bag with me.
My understanding is that one of the main reasons religion was so important to the success of societies was it’s control over sex.

What worked best for most places was monogamy. With a partner men are more likely to use their energy for their family instead of antisocial tendencies.

This isn’t my theory; I think the technical term is “enforced monogamy” if you want to find data.
You are misunderstanding the difference between “can in theory” and “presently able to do.”
There was an upheaval on the Stack network over the last 10-12 months; part of the fallout is a lot of users pulling together on a non-profit take on QA: https://codidact.org

Still in the early stages, but it's promising.
Not really, I’m not cooking anything remotely fancy and we have all sorts of technology to help us nowadays.

For example, cooking rice is simply a matter of putting rice and water into the cooker and pressing a button [1]. In the past we needed to first rinse the rice by hand.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/16/reference/no-wa...
I'm not saying Ubuntu is the best choice. I used Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, and Ubuntu. First Kubuntu, then became disappointed with KDE so went to straight Ubuntu.

I'm not going to argue about distros. I works magically for me. It might not for you, and that's fine.

My point was: my year of Linux on the Desktop arrived 10 years ago.
Spark University Hackathon
While I could believe it, this study was essentially:
1) make assumptions about mask effectiveness
2) run a simulation model with a range of parameters of that effectiveness
3) conclude that masks significantly reduce spread

I'm not saying it's not worth doing, but it's substantially different than what the headline says. "Theoretically, masks should work to significantly reduce spread of Covid-19" would be more accurate.
At the very least stack overflow should require the version you are using. Python 2 and 3 is a mess on the website, as someone who isn't very great at python and can't easily spot the two versions. Even reading about inane stuff like tmux configs on the web is pretty crap since that syntax has changed several times as well. Version numbers should be required everywhere.
If you do not want to implement a separate interpreter you can do multiple compilation passes instead.
>If you are philosophically opposed to unions, you shouldn't have to pay them at all

You don't. Work somewhere else.
Pretty much, I think it just needs a slightly faster CPU to handle loading JavaScript heavy pages.
Maybe somebody here knows - is there a ribbon search that shows you where to find something in the ribbon (especially in Office)? It has a search box that lets you just run the thing you've searched for, but that doesn't really help you find it in future. It at least shows you the icon, so you can then hunt through all the ribbons for that icon, but that's hardly ideal.
I'd suggest they're synonymous in this scenario.
> Incel communities absent moderation devolve quickly into hate for women, imaginary "facts", and veneration for acts of terrorism and murder.

Right, right, but nothing like that has happened here, yet you've imagined, shall we say, alternative facts as possible explanations of what has been scientifically studied. Why?

> It is exactly like visiting a white supremacist online community with a different target population.

To be honest, you sound like one, only with a slightly different perspective. They'd replace "incel" with "nigger" and spout pretty much the same stuff. If you showed them studies on police violence, they'd say "Maybe that isn't real and many in fact are just criminals", making up some random thing that may or may not explain something (without offering any statistics, of course, and ignoring statistics that suggest the opposite) and speak of "imaginary social issues".
Got the same message. Ok, I want to keep reading so I followed their polite instruction and logged in. Then Medium said I've read all of my free stories for the month. False advertising.
You'd probably end up with the opposite (Android will run faster). Source: I own an ODroid3 which can have Linux or Android installed. Android is a lot faster due to better GPU support.
I'm running linux desktops these days, but for ~15 years my linux development enviroment was windows+putty+exceed/xming. People would ask me why and for a long time I would close the lid on my laptop and reopen it, or point to my monitor layout.

A lot of that stuff works these days, but there have been plenty of times Ive had issues which burned a whole day fixing. In the latter cases, I've just been left wondering how people who can't fix their own kernel/X/systemd/whatever bugs manage.
Recursive Islands and Lakes
You'd have to ask them. But when you look at their voting patterns it's hard to deny it.
if we’re into this, Valis, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, A Maze Of Death, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are all facets of the same diamomd.

IMHO, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is by far the best PKD book.
From experience working with folks in Aerospace Companies, yes it is possible.

The key part, and this is where it gets tricky is your cost vs value you directly provide. This is why most of those that I saw this happen for never got “high” ranking positions.

When you are an individual contributor, your value is directly a result of the work you do, you don’t get “multiplication” factors by making other folks more productive.

The effective consequence of this is that you are “capped” on how much you can “charge” for what you can individually provide as value to them.

To make this concrete, for a particular task, the value to them may be X. Yes you can do an amazing job and do the job as 5X, but they only needed X. So the most they will want to give you is Z, where Z = X/Y, where Y is some factor >= 1 + a factor. Note the Z will have to account for your “total” cost, which is salary + benefits + the overhead of having you in the company (managers, IT costs, etc).

So as long as you can have X >>> Z, you will always have a job. The trick is either making sure your knowledge gives a large X for your specific niche, or your Z is relatively low.

Hopefully this helps...
Hope I am not repeating any comments here. My suggestion is that you start recording as soon as possible and as much as possible without worrying about technicalities. You can also use if you have any old voice records or videos with a relatively good voice quality. For now maybe she can read a book aloud in a silent room. After you have the data I can also help if you like to create a TTS model.
How do your retirement accounts look? Are you the kind of person that always wants more money, or is that not a huge motivator?

If you choose to stay on this path, you'll likely make less money later in life. Is that ok? You may also find yourself involuntarily pushed out. Is that ok?

I'm in my early 40s, and think that the probability that my current dev job is the last one I'll have is around 75%. I'm ok with that - I write code how I want, I don't work more than I want, my retirement account already has enough money in it, my kids have fully-funded college accounts, etc. I've been doing various side-gigs for years and am thinking that I'll just continue doing that forever, making low 5-figures money, plus the required IRS minimum disbursement.

Does this sound like the kind of life you want?
Oh yeah, I hear you. I switched from Windows XP to OS X in the 10.4 days, and I definitely thought that if I ever left the Apple ecosystem, it would be to go to full time Linux on the desktop.

But then 12 years later, along came WSL, native ssh/scp, a getting-there package management story, and I ended up coming back to Windows 10 (power management on the XPS series seems to suck no matter what OS you run, though).
If you can picture yourself to be this guy, you have nothing to worry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjb1H_j8D8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=woCg2zaIVzQ
Ex-DEA man posed as CIA agent to give fake anti state-sponsored hacking service
Thanks, it’s the first time I hear about https://www.well.com
Agreed. See my edit.
Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients
It dedupes artifacts (according to the twitch demo today) so actual cost would likely be much less than s3 unless you're doing a solo project.
Great question! Super SIM has a feature called Network Access Profiles that lets you pick exactly which cellular networks you want your devices to be able to connect to. A lot of other cellular solutions, Twilio’s other cellular connectivity solution included, give you really rudimentary control such as do you want access to the United States (yes/no) and do you want the rest of the world (yes/no). Network Access Profiles lets you pick exactly which countries and which networks inside those countries you can connect to so you can build access just the networks that you want to.
> US parents often inflate egos to absurd levels, set unrealistic relationship expectations, and frequently create terrible personalities

Did someone inflate your ego?

> especially for their daughters

Oh, I have a daughter and the message I tell her is “there are 1,000s of guys out there that would love to go out with you, don’t settle”
Turning 60 this year. Still working startups. Still enjoy building software, and still better at it than most of the young people.

This path is surely not for everyone. But it's certainly available.

I never wanted management, and don't think I'd be good at it.
My mailbox is in a block of other mailboxes that is fairly far from my home (say, 500m) and out of wifi range without an especially large antenna. I was thinking of making a small battery-powered widget to tell me when the mail arrived and adding it to my Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) installation.

Another use may be something like a device that warns if a locked, remote, storage area is accessed. In fact, almost any alarm system that lacks a cellular backup could add one pretty cheaply with this.
Just because PKD said he hated LSD doesn't mean it didn't influence his writing. The peaks of many of his best works seem like bad acid trips, though the paranoia that can come from heavy amphetamine and other drug abuse could certainly have had an influence as well.

Anyway, I'm not sure how trustworthy PKD's accounts of his own drug use are.
End ticket quotes. Traffic stops would ease up a bit imho.
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The only way out of this industry is to eat a poisoned apple.
You're saying even if the sex was objectively bad in comparison with what you had later you still felt this way?
This is the important part. You _have_ to keep learning. I work with a coworker who's in his 50's, he's flippin' GREAT. Super dependable, takes responsibility, likes to come in an hour early, code, not really talk to anyone and go home at 4. You can give him any project and he'll get it done, with tests and documentation and a one command deploy script. If I ever started a company I'd hire him in a heart beat.

I worked with a "grizzled veteran" at a previous job... He was difficult. Kept talking about how he had a "classical" computer science education background from Stanford. Over complicated everything. Never took responsibility. Never wanted to learn anything new. Just a pain, we ended up working around him whenever possible.

So if you really like doing what you're doing great! I'm actually going the opposite route now. I'm 29 and actively trying to hop to sales because I know I don't want to spend that much time coding anymore. Different strokes for different folks. There's engineers at google making 300k and sales people making 80k and vice versa.
I must say I find it funny that the head of AI at Tesla used 1) computer memory 2) internal combustion engines as examples to relate to human biology :P
I went back to coding after going into IT management, then teaching English in a foreign country, being an IT architect with loads of responsibility at a company with massive IT infrastructure, owning my own web agency, and finally being CTO at a few companies. I had zero problem finding work again and I intend on retiring within the decade. With that said, there is ageism. It wouldn't hurt to do what my friend did: he took advantage of high programmer salaries and retired at 45. You can always work more after that if you want and you should be able to make it another 15 years without encountering too much ageism. Can I say I have zero regrets about moving out of management and back into programming? I cannot. I enjoy both but for the past few years I've been having a blast coding so that's where I stay unless that changes. If you don't enjoy management, it should be a far easier decision. Just don't count on working until 65. Lots have. But it's definitely far from guaranteed.
> So, this mean that McDonalds is as healthy as the burgers I make at home?

Sure, as long as you use similar ingredients.

> I was under the impression that their food is loaded with sugar and strange additives.

It's not. The beef patty really is just beef. The bun is white bread, just like you can buy at the grocery store. And the condiments are self-evident. It's just that that they've nailed the production process so precisely that what you get tastes almost exactly the same, every time.

A lot of people have this warped, black and white view of "healthy" and "unhealthy", but the reality is that it's a spectrum, and you can get reasonably healthy food at McDonalds but eat like crap at home.
Being alone is a strange experience. Most people can't tolerate it. I think maybe 5-10% of people will make through it. They'll give up. They'll find ways to reconnect.

It's important to have faith. It'll spark curiosity, hope and optimism. Otherwise, pessimism will slowly consume you. Studying philosophy, religion and history are useful to develop faith.

Being alone is hard. But it can help us develop deep understanding.
Pretty much this I think.

I started programming as a career in the last millennium, did desktop stuff for years (Delphi and then .Net) saw the writing on that wall and moved to the web.

It doesn't have to be a "no life, always learning" thing like some make it out to be, I've gotten good (and patient) at waiting things out, I'll take note of a technology, think that it seems interesting and then keep an eye on it for a year or two - I have an internal list I use to evaluate that, if it looks to still be interesting I'll pick it up at that point when there is a wealth of good material and best practices have shaken out and it's a lot easier to pick up.

The sheer torrent of stuff coming out means no one person could possibly keep track of all of it anyway.

These days I do my 40 hours at work and then maybe 4-5hrs a week looking at stuff that interests me outside of work because I find learning enjoyable and then I do other things and switch off.
Around the same time a number of us working furry conventions on the west coast had about the same idea, but we noted that many of the terminals of the time had a browser session type, so we ended up using that and web based kiosks for terminals.

These days the same software (now used at a number of conventions) is used with mobile devices and the need for having convention-provided kiosks has slowed quite a bit.

People still forget their passwords all the time.
I remember saying in 2000 to someone that Linux cannot simultaneously have a reputation as "elite" and being for hackers and also have its Year of the Desktop.

Of course, we ask so much more of desktops now than when I was running a beta of NT 5, so I think all of the goalposts have moved (or perhaps a rising tide has lifted many boats). Still, whenever I try to set up a machine that is the equivalent of my "not very thinking hard, screwing around with my brain off" Windows setup, I keep coming across this friction, a drag to any momentum I develop.

I think the issues are multiple, complex, and fairly entrenched. It's a shame because I would like to be able to set up machines for friends that are familiar, easy to use, and so forth, but my occasional efforts have been stymied.
he does have many genuinely good and interesting takes; he is definitely purposefully inflammatory and i can’t really evaluate his philosophy writing as someone who doesn’t pay attention to any, but his blog has some excellent and well argued essays. this was my introduction to him and my favorite:

https://jmrphy.net/blog/2017/07/13/supertoxic-masculinity/
Yep. I moved to it when I got frustrated with the performance of docker on Mac (our stack also includes quite a number of containers).

It was a great decision. I barely notice the difference, thanks to how seamless VSCode makes it. My laptop fans hardly ever spin anymore. And there’s no mental block to starting work or managing resources on my laptop, since I leave the dev box running 24/7 and it’s always there.

I wouldn’t be exaggerating to say it was the single best decision I made for my productivity in the last year. Don’t underestimate the mental effects of your laptop heating up based on how much work you’re doing. It’s been great to have those things decoupled.
Documentation for dash format output: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#dash-2

There is an argument "hls_playlist" documented there that also generates an hls_playlist in addition to the dash manifest. They use the same segment files.
I was wondering how Amazon can afford Alexa. Running the service must cost a lot and it's not like they can show ads
VPNs and Zero Trust
> when a population of young men doesn't have the opportunity to form families, _they_ become the powder keg. It's true at multiple scales, from individual criminality to societal unrest.

Well, perhaps videogames and internet porn (both inaccessible in the past) could workaround that now ...
You got me. I was too lazy to implement the return stack. But it should be fully possible. The hardest part was not implementing things in the trait system, but parsing any non-trivial syntax using the clunky macro_rules!. For this reason if/else/then are not a special syntax but words that block and unblock subsequent word execution.
Also consider communication tactics to let them know you find them attractive like vocalizing the words, "I find you attractive. Would you like to go on a date?"
I am under the impression that Rust is lacking even the most basic level of dependent typing: being able to template over a value; pretty much every typesafe buffer library I have ever written uses this to make Random<32>() return not just "a buffer" but "a buffer of size 32", which makes doing parsing of various packet formats and combining sources of information a lot more reasonable. (I am also under the impression that the Rust people intend to fix this lacking, but until then I know I am going to feel a bit crippled.)
>Dependency injection frameworks were there already and decided against it at the end.

How did dependency injection frameworks solve this problem then?
I'd argue it is the opposite. The people that want to grab your Signal or WhatsApp messages can often do so by simply sending your some picture or specially crafted message; it's only the people that want to run their own software that need to break all the kernel defenses and 'root' the device.
Linux Mint (on an old Inspiron 5530, currently chained to the ground) and the cheapest Ideapad (for travel) works for me. Perhaps there were one or two issues at the beginning? If there were I can't remember. I can keep identical installs on both which means stuff that worked at home will likely work on the road. Mint installation is so straightforward now that, personal data aside, I can consider install almost throwaway - it's just not a big step anymore.

As for the RPi I wish they'd make more effort for it to be a better kiosk or headless device - lack of built in safe shutdown makes me reach for arduino where possible. I don't anyone is going to use an RPi to replace their laptop or desktop anytime soon.
I can imagine such a device would be quite disconcerting to Winston and Julia as well, hidden away in a natural clearing; around a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by tall saplings that shut it in completely.
Apple’s Mac Chip Switch Is Double Trouble for Intel
There are some plugins (I haven't used them) for using VS Code with remote instances. You can also use sshfs to mount the remote system and use VS Code as if the files were on your local system.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
Sure some of one's attractiveness can be improved with fitness, but for everyone there's some amount of genetic lottery there; if you don't have it you ain't gonna get it.
- using block-level replication allows them to support multiple databases in a common way

- block-level replication can be more reliable in the long run operationally than some types of database replication, especially MySQL back in the day

- block-level replication has more scalable support staff available than hiring DBAs to fix database replication problems

- programming for all the edge cases is something that is a competitive advantage

- no licensing required for it

- you can probably guess which Open Source project it's based on

Source: DBA, worked there.
The current setup is entirely obtuse. I suck at python. Sometimes I find and answer that solves my problem, and low and behold, it's python 2 and I have to read up on the changes to that function between the two versions and see if I can even use the answer as written. If there was just some little tag in the op question (Python=2.7), that would save me hours. Multiply that anecdote by the mountains of novice traffic the site receives, and you can see how a lack of versioning makes a lot of answers worthless for a lot of people.

For your concern, if op said they needed help with version 2.7, presumably you'd write your answer with that in mind. Or you would say how you got it working in 3.8, and exactly how you set up your environment. If someone asked you about another version, you can throw your hands in the air and say "I don't know, but it works in 3.8 with these packages installed," and that would be a perfect response that shows others how to reproduce your work. Reproducibility should be standard practice, and you shouldn't be reliant on dubious context and dates and guesswork to reproduce an example in a website devoted to technical help.