skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your response and taking the time to answer these questions.

> basically the body fights hard against you as you try to lose weight by dieting

Anecdotally I think many folks would agree. Any citations or references you could provide on this point would be greatly appreciated - I'm struggling to find any solid literature with the phrase "metabolic resistance" in the context of dietary changes.

> So it's now industry-standard among obesity specialist doctors to see obesity as a "metabolic disease" which, for the vast majority of people, needs a medical approach which doesn't rely on willpower.

I agree that the current standard of care is largely focused on prescription medication. Is there strong evidence supporting the claim that the majority of people need treatment that doesn't rely on willpower? I'm particularly interested in the well documented association between obesity and mental health [1], and I think Fella would be especially compelling if a holistic approach to treatment was offered.

[1] The High Prevalence of Poor Physical Health and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviours in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Scott-76/publicat...
> Is getting a bank loan or something like that a terrible idea? I have no problem putting skin in the game, I just have a limited amount of skin...

It isn't a terrible idea... for you. The bank probably won't feel the same way (though you should still check out your local community banks or credit unions, just in case).

The kind of business development or capacity building funding you're looking for is more the province of the Small Business Administration:

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans
a facebook group? smh
Instead of asking someone to read an entire book as a response to a paragraph, which is just an extreme version of what happens to be the talking point in every discussion about "the bias is in the algorithm, not just the data", why dont you quote relevant paragraphs from the book here?

Responding with - have you read this or that is not the fait accompli you are imagining. It doesn't make you look more informed than the OP. You actually do have to provide an argument instead of have you read this or that.
>There is some basic level of matchmaking thats required to get any relationship off the ground and for many people older than their early 20s this tends to involve some element of shared goals and shared lifestyle.

I think the key here is that the users should be able to decide what that is, and be given the tools to explicitly seek it out for themselves if they so desire.

Black box algorithms that apply to everyone are a far cry from that. Although I never had the privilege of using it, that's probably why a lot of people speak so highly of the old OkCupid.
Look higher up the problem domain and solve it without requiring a consensus protocol.
In my current organization I saw a project, where there is no Maven. The build system is a couple of configuration files for Eclipse IDE and that's the only way to run it. I'm glad I didn't have to do anything around that.
It's not about IDE or not, it's about curiosity how do things work under the hood.
My point is that I / other people / mainstream media are not blaming the failure of the invasion on anyone. That's a massive strawman. We all agree that the idea was doomed from the start, a war fought under false pretenses, which would have failed in its nominal goal even if it succeeded (terrorists would have just moved from Afghanistan to e.g. Syria, which they did anyways).

The retreat itself was a massive failure, and that's to (at least partially) blame on the current leadership.
I would hope that the majority of "great" things that are getting done are on teams that are managed in thoughtful, healthy and constructive ways.

The Steve Jobs way of doing things worked in that he was able to motivate small teams of people to generate results quickly to solve problems that were quite difficult. The market both rewarded and punished him for this.

It would be nice to get away from personality cult product development. If there is a process to do this, I am all for it!
> The slight odds of infection when they are likely outdoors, or that they are running track, passing out, getting dehydrated, breathing high levels of CO2, and the unknown long-term health effects of that?

Unless you are wearing something like an SCBA mask without an appropriate air supply—which is very much not the masking recommended against COVID—that’s not going to happen, even while exercising strenuously.

> It doesn't take much common sense to realize that exposure to virus is bad, masking while running is potentially much worse for everyone

You are correct, having that “realization” definitely requires very little common sense.
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
parallel doesn't either, it just nags. I agree about how silly and annoying it is. Imagine if every time the parallel author opened Firefox he got a message reminding him to personally thank me if he uses his web browser for research, or if every time his research program calls malloc he has to acknowledge and cite Ulrich Drepper. Very very silly.

Parallel is the better tool but the nagware impairs its reputation.
Launch HN: Free live video collab on Figma files, Google docs, slides & sheets
Hello HN,

I’m Jithin Raj, co-founder of Volcano (https://volcano.live) together with Sajith Amma. We are building a platform for anyone to go live with live video collaboration and streaming it to the existing platforms.

The Figma & Google docs live video collaboration tool is one of the tools we developed part of the larger project.

If you don't want to install a chrome plugin, a better way is to enter the Figma / Google docs/sheets/slides URL on this page to get your shareable live video collaboration link.

Looking forward to feedback and support from the HN community. We will be monitoring the thread to answer any questions.

Thank you. :)

PS: We have shared the Youtube co-watch based on a URL hack earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039474
That would be amazing! You guys are the only non-awful ad network with primarily text-based ads, which I like. I also love that we can style the ads with CSS which I'm pretty sure nobody else allows.
The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan (2009)
There only two things I remember about my first day at a large telco. The one relevant to this topic was the call centre. I had never seen cubicles in real life before. Looked absolutely horrible even from the outside. What really made an impression on me, though, was the fact that they had this printed owl on the door. Immediately told everything I needed to know about the place
The arrogance of someone prescribing a checklist to become a self-proclaimed "genius" is truly astounding. Only a completely dull and mediocre mind would even be interested by something like this.
In the US, class 3 electric bicycles can assist up to 28 miles per hour, or around 45 km/h. I might be able to ride 28 miles per hour on a regular bicycle, but I can't do it for very long.
Thank you! There are number of cool 2D game engines, but almost no such developed 3D engines, so rg3d is the most feature-rich game engine so far.
Your problem isn’t generics or any other language features; your problem is a lack of effective code review or technical leadership.
If nothing else with reference to a commonly cited trait of genius being that it have its head in the clouds.

That, or I suppose to the idea of someone who takes the care to compile (what I assume to be) a checklist of traits of genius, should fail to consider the basic necessity of ensuring it remain available so that people can read it. But perhaps they are the same.
Inside Afghanistan’s cryptocurrency underground as country plunges into turmoil
You always need repository IMO, even just as DMS system to backup issues. You always need some files along with issues and copy pasting them directly into issue is not good idea (+ low number of formats supported).
>An IDE can be a powerful abstraction

how IDE "can" be an abstraction?

It's tool, it's wrapper (e.g button over commandline commands), but abstraction?
Not to defend the site... It leaves a bad taste for some reason...

... But the site never claimed that you'd become a genius by following the checklist. Just that you'd make a lot of progress.

The items on the checklist also do seem to be associated with many of the people that I've met who I'd call geniuses. (I've been lucky to meet a few, at least online.) For example, intellectual curiosity, stress free life, solid sleep schedule, general happiness.

It's very difficult to find an instance of a miserable genius. Misery, for unknown reasons, seems to undercut one's ability to apply their genius traits.

So although I don't think this checklist is going to transform you into a genius, it does seem to be a checklist of qualities that geniuses tend to share. I just wish it was presented in a clinical, dispassionate way, rather than a "you can too!" style.
one can definitely do something about dust mites. I thought I had a cold, flu or something and could not breath comfortably because of the congestion; I tried cold medicine and allergy medicine and it did not help. I ended up searching internet at 2am and found out about dust mites. They and their poop will be in any sort of cloth material. Think matress, sheets, etc. enclose your matress in a 6 side dust mite proof matress cover. Supposedly matresses will accumulate 15 or 20 pounds of dust mites and their poop; think about how much that is. Also, your flaked off skin in food for them. You need to clean your sheets in 130 degree F water temperature to kill them. Same with all pieces of bedding; needs to be dust mite proof and properly cleaned to rid of them. Get a pillow cover that is dust mite proof. You can get dust mite proof comforter cover as well. Also, carpeting below bed could house them and their poop. I switched to hard flooring. Anyway, you can definitely do something about the dust mites. After doing this, problem went away and I slept much better.
Announced cybertruck prices were always highly predicated on huge battery manufacturing improvements (we now know as 4680 cells). There have been plenty of rumours Tesla is having trouble ramping up production volume and yields since they have admitted the refreshed Y might not get them right away, so if cybertruck does ship in mid 2022 it's likely to be a much more model 3 launch trickling out than Y where they could ramp up very fast.

That's ignoring all the basic issues with the cybertruck design. Tesla doesn't have EU pedestrian regulations to contend with (something cybertruck's basic shape likely cannot ever meet), but they still have a bunch of NHTSA stuff that isn't going to be easy with the weird choices they made. I suspect the production cybertruck won't be quite as extreme as what they showed.

I really like my model 3, but I treat any statement by Tesla as a complete fabrication until it's in the metal off a production line.

On the other hand, I'd be shocked if Ford doesn't deliver exactly what they announced for the prices they predicted. If I was looking to buy an EV truck right now I'd put my money on F-150 Lightning.
From this outsider's perspective, RG3D and Bevy are the two most mature engines. The Bevy folks are a bit better about getting the word out, so you hear a lot more about it, but both are doing really impressive stuff.
There are two paths to getting a quant job in finance: (1) prove you can make money trading, (2) have connections.

I am in Ithaca and make it to NYC from time to attend free conferences of various sorts, some put on by vendors (Sun Microsystems, AWS) and others put on by industry associations (say American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) also there are all sorts of meetups.

Tell the guy pitching a system that it's not quite the bee's knees for main memory databases in 2005 and you might get a business card pushed into your hand from somebody who works at a really famous hedge fund.

If I were in NYC I would be going to those kind of events as much as I could and I'd be dressed as a goth corporate raider/vampire. To stick out at that kind of event takes a mindset similar to the person who "makes money trading" in that you need to be 90 degrees out of phase in the leading direction.

"Having a connection" thus works in a different modes, one of which is "I am a bright and bushy tailed ivy leaguer who was on the rowing team", another one is that you find out about opportunities before other people do, know the people who make the collection management software used at the Met, etc. That last one might take 6-18 months to pay off but it pays off handsomely.

Unless you really don't like NYC for some reason I wouldn't leave it.

I think most of the "data scientists" and organizations that employ data scientists are poseurs. I blew a really good opportunity because I didn't have the courage to say: you're going to have to make a big investment in building a training set which matches the business problem you're trying to solve. Instead I went ahead and did the same things that couldn't possibly work that everybody else did.

There is nothing like a good demo, my experience is that every side project I start and stick to seriously changes my life somehow in about 18 months.

Looking at your last round of job hunting I would say you should be focused equally on resume and interview, I would point you to this guy

https://job-interview-answers.com/job-interview-tips/about-b...

and take what he says seriously, he helped me get over my fear of job interviews and actually feel like they are fun and empowering instead of scary!
Being able to do the wrong thing should not be confused with power. It's just a broken tool, that is broken so often, it needs this so-called "power" to clean up after it when it shits the bed.
Pronouns in some languages are less confusing than in others, he might be coming from a language where pronoun-heavy sentences are clear.

One feature of language that helps with this is gendered nouns. In English "a book lies on a table, destroy it" can mean 2 things. In some languages you use "her" or "him" or "it" depending on the grammatical gender of the noun even if it's not a person. If the table happens to be male and book - female - it's clear what you meant.
Haha, don't know where the downvotes are coming from, this is the absolute truth right here.

He knows the world idolizes him as a slightly eccentric genius engineer with a heart of gold, and I think there's probably some truth in that, even. Nevertheless, if you are smart enough to be a good engineer, it doesn't take much to realize that you can greatly expand your aura by occasionally trolling people with something stupid just to see if you can get away with it. The fans will adore him more, the critics will pounce, but the net result is more exposure, and more exposure gets investment money. Rinse, repeat.

Personally, I think one of the smarter touches is to release/leak information that looks bad shortly before releasing information saying that the problem was overcome. This constantly reinforces the impression that anything Musk-related is always overcoming impossible odds. "Andrej didn't think we could do it, what do you think now, Andrej?" "The Starlink terminal costs $2400, but just a few months later, it costs $1000!"

I'm sure FSD will be here by Christmas.
I ran my life into a train-wreck, after doing a start-up. I'm still recovering from a burn-out. Luckily I still have my wife and kids around. They also had to put up with a lot.

Some advice:

1. Go do a ten day retreat with Vipassana: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index It will learn you to 'listen and intercept' your impulses so you can deal with 'work-triggers' more easily

2. Turn your notifications off, forever. Train yourself discipline on order not to look on your electronic devices all the time

3. For every 'effort' you take, there should be an equal amount of recreation. Exerting and relaxing should be in balance (Keep in mind, using a screen is not relaxing)

4. Eat healthy, plenty of outdoors/ nature and exercise.
I used to joke "AutoCAD is an 800lb angry gorilla sitting between you and your work."

Then I met a UI researcher, hired by Army Corps of Engr to explain the missing productivity, who went way past time & motion to strategies. The interplay between tools and techniques, influencing how people organize their tasks. Matrices to highlight weird noun (line, circle, text) and verb (copy, move, delete) interactions. In other words, he showed how strategies from manually drafting did not translate to CAD and proposed new strategies (metaphors) and training appropriate for the new medium. Then validated his ideas with usability testing. Brilliant stuff. Like facepalm obvious once you see it.

Crickets.

Both Autodesk and Bentley Systems were hostile to user centric design based on real world data and lived experiences. The geeks and sales pukes who had never designed or drafted knew what designers and drafters needed, so piss off.

Besides, they're printing money, validating their efforts. And you aren't. So piss off.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
Parallel's killer feature is how it spools subprocess output, ensuring that it doesn't get jumbled together. xargs can't do that. I use parallel for things like shelling out to 10000 hosts and getting some statistics. If I use xargs the output stomps all over itself.
As somebody who has lost and gained weight a couple times, I can confidently say that losing weight on it’s own is hard. Really hard. I’ve had far more success deliberately changing my entire lifestyle and outlook on life. For me, it had to be a part of a wholistic health regimen. This included therapy, healthy eating, regular exercise, proper sleep, and a good balance of recreational activities (it’s important to have fun!). As somebody with chronic sleep problems, it’s been interesting seeing how unhealthiness in one aspect of life (sleep in my case) can affect other areas of my life (my weight). It’s hard to quantify this line of thinking, because in the end, all I did was eat less and exercise more to lose the weight. That advice isn’t terribly helpful. Then again, it’s very likely that “just be healthier” is just as unhelpful ;)

I will say, don’t be too hard on yourself. My stress eating would spiral (and still does!) when I get too hard on myself. Set small goals and objectives (no eating after dark, be mindful of what you put on your plate, no second helpings, etc) because completing these always feels good.
But the opposite is also true. Also, isn't that an instance of a fixed mindset?
Is there anything like levels.fyi for the European market?
Supermemo supposed to have a better spaced repetition algorithm from what I've read.

Supermemo also supports incremental reading; a very intriguing concept. Of course all of this comes together bundled in a windows app with no mobile support. Anki ecosystem is much easier to use.
Mark Blyth: Why government's won't act on climate change
I don't live in a major city. I unfortunately live in an area people are 'fleeing' to.
Ironically, you picked the one "law" in physics which is technically a statistical statement rather than a law per se.
- Richard Feynman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1939), Princeton University (Ph.D. 1942)

Agreed that credentials aren't required for a pass to the genius club, but I didn't read that in the post above either.
No, because all types have a Typeable instance! Haskell has type erasure, and then using Typeable adds the type information back exactly where it is needed.
As far as I'm aware, xargs still has the problem of multiple jobs being able to write to stdout at the same time, potentially causing their output streams to be intermingled. Compare this with parallels --group.

Also parallels can run some of those threads on remote machines. I don't believe xargs has an equivalent job management function.
Yes, agreed to. There will always be top of the top people like Droge, Carmack, Bellard, Thompson, Torvalds, etc.. (you get the point) who's innate ability will far trample the average person no matter what. But i do think the average person can do better than average if they put their effort to it. Not everyone can be the best, but it doesn't mean you cant be good either.
I stress to my reports that work is work, and that there are boundaries between the two.

That doesn’t mean lack of kinship and lack of empathy.

Working extra during high-priority projects? Expected.

Downtime and looking the other way to allow recuperation? Also expected.

Getting reassigned or fired because you’re hindering the team or business? Not at all great, but expected as well.

It’s a team, not a family.
Alcoholic owners were often featured on the old episodes of Kitchen Nightmares
Masks to be required outdoors at Palo Alto's K-8 public schools
Oooh that means I can form it to do Redis instead right? Because that could be a nice way to to Redis clustering
> Good luck getting anything done with such an obfuscated environment without tools to deobfuscate it.

There's always the option of not working with such obfuscated environments. I know I don't.
Very important point. Struggling to take painful breath for days on end is the gist of "severe covid". I'd rather break my arms than experience severe covid.
Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change
For the demographic in the mindset of "America = good, whomever makes it look bad = evil"(which is going to be a big demographic within the US so long as it's a going concern, and applies to US allies to a lesser extent), the Afghanistan exit is a must-win.
As for Tao, I think he was a smart kid who's parents just pushed him in the right direciton. If his parents weren't involved and he started math at a later age, I'm sure he would still be great, just not as prolific as he is right now.

So its a mix of genetics and experience in my opinion.
Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
It was mentioned in an earlier thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28250056
Not to be pedantic, but that's a bit of a non-argument. _Of course_ you can do it with xargs and shell, but imho parallel is generally more convenient, especially for remote execution. It provides a higher level of abstraction for such tasks.
Living in the poor side of town often correlates to a history of systemic racism and redlining.
If you want to back an open source engine that’s already very mature and has a big community, you want Godot. It’s not written in Rust, but it supports an FFI API that allows you to write your game logic in Rust. The killer feature that sets it apart from pure-Rust engines is console support.

If you want to see a skilled team with strong leadership building on a carefully designed foundation, and you’re not afraid to wait years for the payoff, there’s Bevy, which has made a splash on HN a couple times over the past year.

If you want an engine that’s comfortably mature today, and you want it to be written in Rust for no particular reason, then RG3D is the clear winner.
I find it to be unusable for projects of any decent size. There's pretty much zero visibility on what everybody else is doing, discussions are hard to use when they go over five comments (for example, you can't easily binary-search a large discussion with Home/End or my favorite vim-like navigation plugin, because you don't have the full page right away and it loads a few comments at a time). It's very JS-heavy and writes multiple gigabytes of data to localStorage every hour (which wears down my SSD needlessly) — the only web application I've ever seen doing that. I can go on.
Me too. I haven’t tried jamming sales into issues but for product dev it is all issues and wiki for docs.

I also use high med low customer impact and low med high difficulty labels as advocated by yc to organize priority.