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Show HN: How to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at any fitness level
It isn't an accomplishment, it is an honor. It is an amazing wonder we are incredibly lucky to experience. Before you say you can't,I've seen the legally blind, amputees, octagenarians all finish. Athletic types counterintuitively have a lower completion percentage than the introverted individuals not in particularly good shape. couch potatoes, smokers even. Because unlike a race, you come back to it every day so you have to leave some in the tank, never red-line yourself. Just walk, and eat and rest when your body wants to. It's learning not to push yourself, but hold yourself back

What worked for me was to forget about miles hiked in the beginning and just focus on time hiked. Hike 8 hours a day at whatever pace is comfortable. Take breaks when you need them, eat when hungry, take a zero days, sleep as late as your body seems to need. Don’t pick up the pace until comfortable hiking 8 hours. When you struggle, slow down and breathe

pretrain by getting your ankles,knees strong and lung function through deep breathing exercises. Don’t think about cardio or miles until you start.

The trail is tough in Georgia & Maine and the hiking is slow, so if you are focused on miles in the beginning, it will get into your head.
For most this puts you at 12-15 miles a day 3–4 weeks in and minimizes risk of injury. Focusing on miles pulls more off of the trail than anything else. You will get into shape without trying.
Cost was $3K for gear and food and lodging 6 months I had $1200 left after gear tent,cookware, stove, h20 purification, high end backback, good sleeping bag, good boots, good socks & liners)
> Everything can be measured. We just don’t have the tech yet.

Theory of science shows us that this statement is a belief. Whether you believe it or not can be argued about, but it can never be proven or disproven, much like the question whether God exists.

Personally, I believe the opposite - that there are some things that even in theory, even with the best and most advanced technology, can't be measured.
The problem with the "rational agent" model is that it's a tautology. Yes sure everyone wants more utility, great, but everyone's utility function is slightly different. As you say some are risk takers pursuing insane rewards/yields/profits with low probability, while others are super risk-averse conservative in their choices, etc.

That said, economics doesn't rest on this. Macroeconomics doesn't care, nor micro/labor/health/sports/developmental econ either.

Sure trying to predict how someone (and more interestingly how groups) will behave based on their psych profile is an important area of research, but the aforementioned subfields of econ already have well working assumptions about how people will behave in the aggregate, even if they can't derive it from some exact utility function.
> seems like you'd be nuts to buy an Intel Mac now, right?

Not as bad as yesteryear. Can still run Windows or Linux on it after Apple stops supporting it. Am currently running Ubuntu Mate on an old 2007 iMac given to us for free and it is nicer than expected.
Women often do better late in the trail over men because they are much more efficient at metabolising fats and at the end they look great and the guys usually look like concentration camp survivors. So, if you are the latter you must force the protein and calories at times to keep from hitting a wall nutritionally. Oddly, you'll find that you can live on the densest of foods like sausages and little debbies and "cameling up" on periodic breakfast buffets and sweet trail town cuisine whenever you can and is essential for many to maintain weight. For many it will be one of the only times in their lives they will experience the feelings of fat deficiency. Get the tuna in oil over water and use all of it with your dehydrated ramen.

If you have the opportunity to thru-hike, do it or accept that you are going to take a different path. That window doesn’t stay open long for most people so don't assume you have plenty of time later in life. Doing it changed everything for me.

Good luck! Please ask me any questions.
(Hardest things? Bugs (mosquitos in south and blackflies in north and the ignorant little gnats that have no goal apparently than to try to bask in your breath and land on your eyeballs) and suffering through poor choices trying to time cold weather and cold weather gear)
They are dichromatic and thus can see color, only different than we do and somewhat limited.
Ask HN: Is Gartner Inc. still relevant in 2020?
Previous discussion in 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498657
>dev's don't care about OS

Maybe ask Netflix or Whatsapp (before FB) why the chose FreeBSD?

>sysadmins, I don't see much job openings

That is the HR 'coolness' Factor, often they don't even know what a DevOp is but i find alone in Switzerland 304 alone on one platform:

https://www.jobs.ch/de/stellenangebote/informatik-telekommun...

And 668 devop's:

https://www.jobs.ch/de/stellenangebote/?term=devop

But if you read the description of the jobs its mostly pure System-administration with a grain of Jenkins and Orchestration...as if that's not pure Administration.
What was your super effecient way to communicate with people out of ear shot before/without IM/irc?

Email?
Conference calls?
Daily meetings on site?
> However, there was a couple of weeks where that was not allowed.

News to me and I've been here in Norway all through the COVID time. There was a period when we were not allowed to spend the night in a holiday home unless it was in the same kommune as one's usual residence but as far as I remember there was never any country wide ban on internal travel. There were a few kommunes who set up border controls that were most likely illegal but that's about it.

And resident status is not relevant here either. As long as you went in to quarantine on entry to the country (was 14 days, now 10), whether resident or not, you are free to travel where you like.

If you know that anything I have said here is incorrect I would appreciate it if you could provide addresses of web pages (Folkehelseinstituttet, osv.) that would set me right.
It means, whatever you have stepped on outside, you don't just spread it all over your house... Maybe you don't step on Covid infected materials but who knows? It's just another possible source.
I use the Movidius NCS and it's pretty much the optimal solution for light OpenCV work. It draws very little power, but as the Pi itself is powered by USB, don't expect to run much else off of USB on it.

I use it in the exact same scenario, a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) with a camera with motion detection and notifications on movement, my implementation may be specific though.

Each of my Raspberry Pi cameras runs motion (https://motion-project.github.io/index.html), and recorded files are stored on a NFS share. Each camera has it's own directory within this share (or rather each camera has it's own share within a parent directory), and the server then runs a python script that monitors for changed/added files, and runs object detection on the newly created/changed files.

If a person is detected in the file, it then proceeds to create a "screenshot" of the frame with the most/largest bounding box, and sends a notification through Pushover.net including the screenshot with bounding box.

There implementation is not quite as simple as described here, i.e. i use a "notification service" listening on MQTT for sending pushover notifications, but the gist of it is described above.

Edit: I should probably clarify that my cameras are based on Raspberry Pi Zero W. They have enough power to run motion at 720p - at around 30fps. Not great, but good enough for most applications. I've since migrated most to Unifi Protect instead. A little higher hardware cost, a lot better quality :)
Wasn't that uptick in us employment found out to be a calculation error though?
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogspot.in

480,000 results for me. All broken. Wow.
It is concerning seeing Nature viewing everything from such a postmodernist perspective of power dynamics.
Hey HN! I'm Matt Schrage, one of the cofounders of Fig.

We were planning on launching on HN later on, so this caught us a bit off guard. (As someone noted, our 'Fig' icon is, in fact, an emoji pear). Still we're super excited to share what we've been working on.

Fig lets you connect web apps directly to your terminal. You can use Fig like a browser to get quick access to sites like Github, Stack Overflow, or Notion. You can also run apps built on the Fig.js runtime that integrate directly with your terminal. We want to be a low-cost abstraction. Use a Fig app when it's useful, drop back down to the shell when it's not.

I just wanted to respond to a couple of points.

The app is actually written in Swift: we're using a WKWebView under the hood but the majority of the codebase is native. Also because we aren't built on Electron, we don't need to bundle v8 and node along with the app, so the binary is pretty small (12mb).

Fig is extensible. The apps shown on the website (git, curl, and finder) are just a few examples of what is possible. You can check out the documentation at https://withfig.com/docs and build your own.

Fig works with the tools you already use - we integrate with any terminal emulator (iTerm, Terminal.app, Hyper, Alactritty, etc.). Previous attempts at building GUI terminals have required throwing away 50 years worth of tooling and transitioning to a new application entirely. Fig is built around the premise that in order to upgrade the terminal, changes must be backwards compatible.

Happy to answer any more questions and really appreciate the feedback we've gotten so far.
> there were actually plenty of people who predicted pretty much exactly what would happen and why

You have the full spectrum of opinions on what will happen and why for pretty much every non-trivial topic. It's the power of hindsight that lets you select the correct ones and maybe even assume that it was indeed trivial, all the information was out there.

Would you bet your life savings on that one person who predicts against the trend? That's not dumb, it's realistic and cautious. In some situations the risk isn't worth it.
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Hum, never seen that one until I just searched for it. Agreed, it's too dumb for me to get.

Anyway, here's the pic alone https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Cow_Tools_car...

And here's the wiki article it's in, with explanation, such as it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools

Unrelated, look up the wiki article for Thagomizer. It's funny and show life following art (Q: are Larson's comics art? A: yes.)

Edit: save you the effort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
What you're talking about there is a Model Repository. We're building one at the bank I work at, except because our modelling language (or meta model) is based on OMG's MOF we can generate artifacts (code) from our models. You can't do that with TLA+ as far as I know. It's pretty powerful - you can compose models together very easily, as well as generate loads of useful things for data-in-motion.
Some religions (including most variants of Christianity) proposed models of universe equally as absurd as flat Earth.

Most updated their models when science proved they are wrong. But the holy scripture which specified these models in the first place remained and many of them declare holy scripture to still be 100% truth.

That's a self-contradicting stance and you cannot defend it without hardcore mental gymnastics (which is what theology mostly does - "proving that in fact 1 can be equal to 0").
Having written some equations in LaTeX I can tell you that this can very much also be the other way around.
"The Fifth Season" is pretty heavy in LGBT concepts. If you don't like this tag, then be aware that this book contains pretty "graphic" descriptions of gay sex. I'm not saying this is a good nor a bad thing, it's just something I would like to know before reaching out to this book.
E.S.S Schumacher described this very well with his concept of adequatio

"What enables man to know anything at all about the world around him? … Nothing can be known without there being an appropriate “instrument” in the makeup of the knower. This is the Great Truth of “adaequatio” (adequateness), which defines knowledge as adaequatio rei et intellectus — the understanding of the knower must be adequate to the thing to be known.[...]

For every one of us only those facts and phenomena “exist” for which we posses adaequatio, and as we are not entitled to assume that we are necessarily adequate to everything, at all times, and in whatever condition we may find ourselves, so we are not entitled to insist that something inaccessible to us has no existence at all and is nothing but a phantom of other people’s imaginations.[...]

There is nothing more difficult than to become critically aware of the presuppositions of one’s thought. Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see. Every thought can be scrutinized directly except the thought by which we scrutinize. A special effort, an effort of self-awareness, is needed: that almost impossible feat of thought recoiling upon itself — almost impossible but not quite. In fact, that is the power that makes man human and also capable of transcending his humanity."
Never give up vs give up is such a classic dilemma. I do think the positive aspect of procrastination is exploration, satisfying curiosity but on the flip side exploration can also increase anxiety. If we did not explore then we would be using the same fishing net to catch the same fish. All progress depends on procrastination.
It used to work if you were using m.youtube.com. not anymore, sadly. However, NewPipe allows you to do the same thing and is available on f-droid
There may have been a misunderstanding.

I didn't post to score points against you or at all discredit your personal experience.
You're totally right. We're deleting it from our site now. Change should be pushed in a few minutes.
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What's the matter with publishing to PyPI or hosting your own instance?

The Python ecosystem makes publishing binary packages easy. node-pre-gyp might come close if you use S3.

The most used NPM packages[1] overlap with Python's argparse, datetime, glob, os, shutil, uuid, and xml modules.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended
The number 8 appears to be on upside-down.
How did a simple citation turn into a rant about the “liberals”?

This isn’t a novel observation. People live by people that look like them when they are voluntarily choosing who to socialize with, they socialize with people that look like them. I’m not making any value judgments.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria...

https://tcf.org/content/report/attacking-black-white-opportu...

https://tcf.org/content/report/attacking-black-white-opportu...

But, even if you look beyond racial lines, how many 25 year old singles hang out with 45 year old married people? It even happens in reverse. My former manager was trying to build a department of developers in a remote office. After he got one or two good hires using the standard recruiting process, all the rest came from referrals.

No one in our office of 10 developers were under 35. How much different would the median age have been if he hadn’t used referrals?
It is dangerous, but how dangerous?

Every year, about 1% of the population in the US dies. The median age of COVID deaths is above life expectancy. If you are elderly, death from pneumonia is quite likely even without COVID.

For a middle aged person, ordinary Influenza is statistically more dangerous than COVID. For a child, Influenza is vastly more dangerous. Efficacy of Influenza vaccination varies seasonally and averages around 50%.

Furthermore, COVID death rates are going down across the board, even while cases are rising.
I really like your not ＳＭＳ but SMS experiment. This one way flow of messages into artifact could be a really good model for social network interaction for community projects.
Conspiring to destroy or to create better futures
Copy/Pasting my reply to the exact same comment posted elsewhere.

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From reviews:

"..you have to pay £5,400 per year!"

"Even with the nonprofit pricing it would cost $900 per year."

"Pricing for singe user with one "app" is $60 per month. The "free" version only allows 100 "views" per month. Everytime you go to the page with the app and interface with the tools it counts as a "view". Everytime you refresh the page it is another "view"."

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By programming, and not doing any risky things to avoid going to the hospital and thus get infected.
Lol. “Communities that have borne the brunt of surveillance” and then a list starting with “women.” Men are surveilled at vastly higher rates than women, and a huge majority of police brutality is against men (specifically, poor and black men). Next up is “Indigenous” which is also laughable, as at least in the US the federal government clearly couldn’t give two shits about what is or isn’t happening to Native American people.
That's what I've always done in interviews. I'm confident about the things I know well, but I'm extremely open about the things I don't know and would like to improve.
Her other books are excellent, too. The Inheritance trilogy has probably my favorite of her protagonists, but they’re all great.

I’ve got a deep and abiding love for authors who build unique “systems” for magic / “powers” and so on, and Jemisin’s are really unique and pretty well thought out without becoming tedious.
Links to previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19467367
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As far as democratizing hardware goes, I wonder if silicon is the wrong place to start.

Decades ago computers used magnetic core memory. Those things operate on a macroscopic/classical physics level. You can make a core memory by hand if you buy the ferrous toroid first. But moreover, you mention 3d printers — it’s probably possible to manufacture the toroid on a sub-10k machine these days, be it a 3d printer or CNC machine. Some of these techniques generalize to multiple materials, meaning you could automate both the manufacturing of the toroid and the wires connecting them (and the assembly) and have an actual open-source, easily fabricated memory.

One thing not a lot of people know is that you can create clock-triggered combinatorial logic out of core memories just by routing the wires differently. So you’ve got your whole computation + volatile memory + non-volatile memory built on the same process using just two materials and at a macroscopic scale (think: millimeters). That sounds easier to bring up than silicon.

Yeah, macro-scale has its limitations (speed; power draw!), but it’s still enough to enable plenty of applications, and with room to scale it as the tech gets better.
I think this is a common viewpoint, and a misconception.

I've seen a number of juniors who were very humble, and this humility was perceived as lack of knowledge.

I've interviewed some seniors who were not humble at all (nothing was an issue).

In general, skill level has little to do with humility and other personal traits. However, we like to project our reasoning into other's emotions, and we love to pattern match, e.g. "she's humble because she has 20 years of experience".

It's another bias you should look for when interviewing candidates. This one definitely does not serve you well.
This is a very complicated topic that involves things like trust in government, sense of community, etc ...

Lockdown is a last resort measure, not the first response.

All things considered, Sweden is doing remarkably well but if you compare it with its scandinavian neighbours rather than with Italy or the UK then things look appalling.
I'm struggling to see how this anything more than Bohm's theory with a dubious interpretation of the guiding wave (which, to be honest, Bohm himself was guilty of). Like Bell without the 'Beables'.
You made a prediction that these places will never be comparable to China. What do you base this on? What prevents India and African countries from establishing special economic zones that are attractive to foreign investors?
Not sure what you mean. I was responding to this:

> I have to disagree with the idea that Vietnam didn't take it particularly seriously

I didn't present that idea, so I'm not sure how you can disagree with it.
Java meets your requirements. It gets a lot of shit but there's reasons why its so widely used.

The standard libraries + community are larger than Go, you can find a library to do anything. Standard library is huge and mostly great.

Compilation time is a couple seconds even for huge projects. You can do automatic reloads using Gradle.

Its very cross platform, including one of the only good cross platform desktop UI's.

You can build smaller binary distributions using JLink or a multitude of third party tools.

Single binaries are overrated. Any app that's widely distributed uses an installer or package management anyways (brew,choco,apt)
> I also prefer the minimalist approach to language design and even though I like Pascal, the modern incarnation of the language in FreePascal is simply too large.

Then don't look at c# version 9. There's an expressive and modern (immutable and null safe by default) language somewhere in there struggling under the weight of previous syntax and semantics.
No, Sweden has an exceptionally low population density. You cannot just grab a country and take it as a model for any other country. The same measures as in Sweden would lead to a catastrophe in many other countries.
Behavior and empathy. People often have a reason for doing the things that they do which differs wildly from the reason they state in words.
Look Mr Blogger, take this in the kind hearted intent it’s meant by a 40yr old engineer who doesn’t have time for bullshit anymore.

Get to the point, fast and quick.

I’m sure you have many valid and interesting points of view about your job, experiences, and wants. I’m interested to hear about them. You could offer some unique experiences I can learn from or maybe there’s some tidbit I can offer you.

But unless you learn how to get to the point first, I don’t care. Even now after 3 minutes of perusing your entry I’ve lost any sense of what it was about.

To finish up, I’m not trying to be evocative, negative, or anything. I just want to encourage better ways of writing, thinking, and publishing.

Always consider your readers first. They don’t have as much time to parse what you write as it takes you to write it.
Your first link, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-sympto... - makes no indication that the loss of smell is neurological.

Your second link is purely speculative and not a report of neurological loss of smell.

Spare your gish gallop for someone else.
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Coincidentally just reading this after a 2km walk... free exercise! Good way to see some new sights too :)