Inuits did not adapt to their diet. Maasai adapted well but still not enough to avoid severe atherosclerotic build up, there's Maasai people ~20 years old dying from atherosclerosis.
It's not just AHA recommendations based on epidemiological studies, it's also the vast amount of data showing that unfortunately, cultural diets high in animal fat and protein eventually get the best of you.
Scientifically watching these kinds of interventions and showing they have positive outcomes still does not mean that practicing the intervention long-term is fine.
I don't know why but white on black premade theme given here is just horrible for my eyes. The text burns into my eyes and then anywhere I look I can see the blurry text lines.
I code using a black on white editor but could I guess handle non-white on black themes if the non-white color wasn't as bright.
All of the great developers (or at least magnitudes more competent/experienced than me) I met spend very little time on the internet writing comments/answers.
There are good developers that are out there helping others, but that usually doesn't require tremendous skill as most of the questions are simple and can mostly be resolved by looking at the documentation.
The hard stuff usually comes from doing things that were never done before or going deep inside a system. This usually doesn't apply to many people and is hard to share.
I'm in the camp that whatever bodily motions you learn as a young child, your body adapts enough to it that you won't get any kind of damage. I mean, we even had articles here about children having extra bones on the back of the head to counter constant smartphone gaze.
It is the weakening of the muscles that creates issues later in life, mostly due to lack of movement, gaining too much weight and similar.
My whole spine is straightened (from neck down, I have lost the natural lordosis of spine) because I've been sitting and looking at computer screens ever since I was a child. My spine is fine, I do not have any pain, but did start feeling pain in the upper back when I did not exercise for 3 years. Once I started exercising pain went away (still slouched and sat a lot).
Also, there's absolutely no way I could return back to natural lordosis of spine, my spine was straightened since I was 11 years old, my spine shape is the result of adaptation to prolonged sitting.
Everyone in sales is using the leaked emails. I have so many one-time emails that leaked (haveibeenpwned.com) and someone was smart enough to just use those leaked databases and sell the emails to sales departments.
I always ask the sales person where the hell they found the email because I just used it once somewhere long time ago.
I've always been puzzled by this whole Jim Keller situation. Is one man literally the only reason we have technological advancements in microprocessors?
Obviously not the only reason, but he appears to be a helpful ingredient in the mix with good things tending to happen with him around. No idea how much of it is due to his technical vs. management skill, but there definitely seems to be some there there.
He was an actual Microarchitect in his early career. This guy clearly has good knowledge on every aspect of microprocessor design: transistor, interconnect, process complexity, core layout & utilization, ease of design, circuit complexity, time to market, micro architectural behaviors, ISA & software patterns. From what I've seen he is really good at setting targets for the teams, especially given that he has been at multiple companies, he clearly knows what is good and what is lacking. Setting aggressive targets and motivating the team towards them. Something the previous management failed at.
In that light AMD losing him to Intel via Tesla sounds like a potential few billion dollar blunder. I wonder how difficult/expensive it would have been to prevent that.
You probably can't. He appears to like jumping into challenges such as those that AMD was facing and Intel is facing now. The jumping would seem to imply he's doing it to pursue an interesting challenge as the primary. Some personalities need that (others are obviously repelled by that risk & challenge). Lots of big corporations can afford to pay very large sums to retain him, if that were his primary consideration.
Ask HN: I'm somebody with this type of personality that likes challenges and to bounce around, but I'm not as talented and experiences as someone like Jim. What are some suggestions on how I can satisfy this while also avoiding the trap of not being somewhere long enough to gain a higher level of experience? It seems that my habits have sabotaged me and my peers have excelled in their companies to much higher positions and compensation.
Feel free to email me to talk more about this. I can share trajectories for myself and a few peers who have similar experience.
Get a role at a >decent consulting firm in the field you like. Move aggressively into a role where you get to take lead on projects. Find conferences in your area of interest. Speak at those. Build relationships with any vendors that are common to your customers and area of interest. Speak more. Get to know organizers at conferences and seek keynote and panel discussion opportunities. Engage with everyone you can to identify problems. Evolve your content to focus on the intersection of interesting and common problems. Somewhere in here you can shift to a top-tier consulting firm in your field, or to independent consulting, or jump to a vendor, or take on a senior role at an org that would otherwise be a customer of your consulting firm.
At this point you should have strong experience and a reputation for the same. Leverage this to filter opportunities to those you want.
All of this is predicated on you actually being quite good at what you're interested in. You don't have to be world class to start, but you do need to continuously improve. You'll probably end up in the top 10% of your field. Again, predicated on ability.
Jim has extremely strong foundations in his field of study, and is work is an outpouring from this. He bounces between companies, but not from the basic problem of CPU arch and management, allowing each problem to further deepen his roots.
That really depends on the specific nature of your bounce around trait, what you need to fulfill that part of your personality. Only you can properly answer that of course. However, a few speculative ideas:
- Consulting can be interesting to feed that. You can expose yourself to a wider variety of projects and you can eventually have a lot of say in what work you choose to take on. You will also have the opportunity to limit the duration of projects you take on to an extent, so you won't be stuck on any given thing for longer than you can tolerate. Difficult to get started, to gain momentum.
- A first line suggestion from HN would typically be side projects. This can help restrain your desire to bounce around, dulling that like a pain killer. You do what you want on your own time, and change it up anytime you see fit, while staying at a job and trying to progress up the ranks. I don't know what your skillset is of course (eg programmer), it's somehwat dependent on that as to whether side projects is an interesting angle.
- If you think you're not experienced enough, focus on trying to leap yourself forward on something you are good at, to open up more opportunities to jump. Push one of your skills well above the market average. If you have some strong center pivot skill, you can bounce more often. You don't have to be Jim Keller to do this, people that are in the top 1/3 in tech at something often bounce around because they can, it's not unusual. As the other person commented, Jim has a core strength and it's why he can jump around. The bottom 1/3 is in a beggar position, they are always in a position of having to take what they can get by necessity (which rarely changes, unless their skill level changes or the labor market is extremely tight); so you have to focus on pushing a skill as high as you can, and you don't need to reach elite levels as an outcome.
- Much like physical exercise (high intensity training), there are paths to gain intense experience in shorter amounts of time with a high payoff in the experience you acquire. These opportunities are rare, although that doesn't mean they don't exist. The work is usually very difficult, the hours are more likely to be long. There is always that trade-off in there. To get what you want in the bounce around aspect, you might have to dial up the intensity for a time until you get the experience you need (after which you can dial it back).
Probably a good thing for the market at large though. If the current x86 duopoly ever turned into a monopoly with Intel or AMD it would not be good for consumers.
Intel's problems are not soley tech related, though their missteps here have not helped the situation
Intel does not know how to compete from a marketing, sales, and business standpoint, for a few decades they only really competed with their own product line, now that they have actual competition in the market they are unable to react to it properly even if they had the tech stack to do so
It's so sad because there's so much more to do. Socializing with your family, exploring intellectual curiosities, exercising, reading old books, learning something new.
The human brain compute in this modern age is sadly wasted.
I'm not sure that's sad. People should do the things they enjoy, including randomly browsing and chatting on an app.
People can spend time on gaming, TV, music, reading novel, sleep, rolling on the floor, watching K-Dramas... And that's fine. It's a misconception that humans need to optimize for productivity. Some people optimize for happiness instead (myself included), and there is nothing sad about that. In fact, I'm pretty happy :).
Social media use is not generally associated with higher degrees of happiness or satisfaction, but in fact in some demographics like adolescent girls with increased self-harm and loneliness.
The rise in loneliness (and its associated effects) over the last ten years that thas largely coincided with the advent of social media have been so extreme that some countries like the UK have created a distinct ministry and government strategies to deal with it.
But maybe can you think about the causation in an opposite way? Isn’t because in the guise of neoliberalism society has become increasingly hypercompetitive and alienating that people are flocking into those social media sites as a last resort, no matter how horrible do you think it is?
I’ve seen people suggesting to leave social media to find real opportunities for human relationships, but if you really have enough social capital for that you wouldn’t be vigorously surfing around on Reddit or Twitter in the first place. (In other words: how dare you have the sheer luxury to leave social media and say that it’s harmful to you!)
Wouldn't being distanced from your friends and family kind of increase the usage of mediums you can use to connect with them, and see what's up in their lives?
Also, humour through content like memes, videos which platforms like Instagram, Tiktok provide is a nice escape from all the gloomy news.
While you can use platforms like Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp to kind of socialize in new ways like your home workouts, cooking things etc.
There is no reason why your body should use the supplement vitamins or minerals if your diet is normal (not deficient). For example, a lot of people eat a bunch of animal products rich in calcium, D3, protein etc. and end up with diseases like osteoporosis, sarcopenia etc. Even with real food their bodies did not do anything with it.
Intervention studies with supplements on these kinds of people show that they rarely help or help very little (not long-term).
You need to make your body use the stuff you give it.
I think chickens are ground up with their feathers and ugly bits by falling from a treadmill.
I guess one can't sell that as food but I'm pretty sure they can do something with it.
Although, it's fine by me, meat is in its nature pretty wasteful, in addition to those 2M chickens there's probably more tons of soy protein wasted on chicken feed.
Good thing that protein rich legumes do not need much processing.
Thanks for asking! but unfortunately I haven't written anything up about it, but informally I can share that it's really benefited our health and even finances. Eating beans and rice every day and not eating out is very cheap. I buy most of our food in bulk online or from local farms - e.g. just got 50kg of chickpeas in the mail and 20kg of string beans from a farm. We also avoid eating oil for health reasons
The minimum daily intake of carbs for a human to remain healthy is zero. The minimum daily intake of oil is in fact, not zero, as oils are required for the basic functioning of a human.
But minimum daily intake of fiber, for humans to remain healthy, is not zero.
Vegetables, especially if you eat them in amounts that sustain your weight, have enough omega essential fatty acids to last you a lifetime.
Legumes do have fat in them.
If you eat 2000kcal of red lentils, there's more than enough protein and fat content, almost meets your omega-3 essential fatty acid requirement. Nothing stops you from adding different fattier vegetables.
Here's a study on historical data, here are some statements:
"Arteriosclerosis and degeneration of the myocardium are quite common conditions among the Greenlander" -- study from 1940
IMO, best evidence ever is on Maasai people, where they find massive amounts of atherosclerosis in the blood vessels of young people and there are multiple cases where young people die of atherosclerosis. Only thing that makes Maasai survive is that they start with this kind of diet at early age, their blood vessels get extra wide and elastic and can withstand the hardening effects of atherosclerosis.
Fiberless diet is a death certificate for the modern western man if one's not on it from birth.
My point was that there's nothing wrong with pressed plant oils (coconut, olive, etc). If you're going to focus on cutting the unnecessary, that's bulk carbs.
Haha, bulk carbs unnecessary? I'm not sure what you mean - we eat nothing processed - only whole beans, grains, fruits, nuts, seeds. Nothing unnecessary to cut out
We don't avoid fat - I mention in another comment about eating nuts, seeds, avocados, durian, egg fruit etc. And avoiding meat is no longer controversial in terms of health - with a little planning it's not difficult to be healthy.
Extra virgin olive oil is very healthy, unless you have some digestive issue with it that I haven't heard so far. Apart from frying (which you don't do), you don't need much more in your kitchen
My wife gets extreme inflammation in the blood and joints from consuming oil (even EVOO yes). It isn't /from/ the oil per se But complicates her condition.
> It's just a bland mixture of sadness and despair
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That might have been from the lack of money, not the food itself. If you're eating them by choice and making the right dishes, beans are fucking delicious.
I understand that you associate beans with poverty, but when your circumstances are better (or now that they're already better, I don't know which) try them again, this time with some good recipes. And not the canned shit - gotta buy 'em dried, soak 'em, cook 'em in a slow cooker, instant pot, or pressure cooker.
Many kinds of beans, many kinds of spices and ways of cooking. Really not more or less boring than meat, it's just that nowadays most people never bother to learn how to cook and those that do dont often focus on non-meat dishes.
Not to mention that there's lots of variety of ingredients, you don't need to eat beans every day ;)
It definitely makes sense, recurrence relation does have its own polynomial. Even the naive polynomial multiplication is very fast.
Now, what I'm wondering is if this is possible to do with adjacency matrices of graphs.
Recently I was calculating the number of paths of a knight going from one position to another in K moves. Ended up doing O(N^6 log K) (N is the chessboard dimension) which was fast enough for a small chessboard but maybe there's a way to turn that adjacency matrix to a polynomial and do the same.
Cayley Hamilton theorem gives a linear relation between A^N and the terms less than that.
So for your problem, you can calculate the number of paths from A->B of length k in k*N^2 time, you need O(N^3) to compute enough terms for Berlekamp Massey, O(N^2) to compute Berlekamp Massey, and then O(n log n log k) to compute the k-th linear recurrence term with FFT.
I've actually considered writing a blog post about this :) It's a cool example of how much further you can go with a problem where many people only know the O(NK)DP solution.
On an unbounded chessboard it's not too difficult to represent the movement of a knight by a polynomial (or really a 2D convolution), but when your chessboard is bounded then the boundary effects become annoying. Maybe there is some way to mitigate those but I'm not aware of any.
It's not just AHA recommendations based on epidemiological studies, it's also the vast amount of data showing that unfortunately, cultural diets high in animal fat and protein eventually get the best of you.
Scientifically watching these kinds of interventions and showing they have positive outcomes still does not mean that practicing the intervention long-term is fine.