jackschultz

>A machine learning algorithm which can be trained using SQL opens a world of possibilities. The model and the data live in the same space. This is as simple as it gets in terms of architecture. Basically, you only need a database which runs SQL.

First paragraph of the conclusion, and this very much fits with the mindset that's been growing in me in the data world over the past few years. Databases are much more powerful than we think, they're not going to go away, only get better, and having the data and the logic in the same space really removes tons of headaches. ML models, transformation of data, generating json for an API can all be done within the database rather than outside scripting language.

Are others seeing this? Are the current tradeoffs just that more people know python vs sql or database specific languages to where moving logic to postgres or snowflake is looked down on?

Took a while for someone to bring up the 8 straight finals with 3 teams. Even with one team, making 8 finals appearances in a row is astounding. Stats against different generations are impossible to compare for any sport, but that many times in a row on the final two teams in giant playoffs, in a sport where the better teams do win (compared to something like NFL or MLB where it's much more toss ups in playoffs), can easily get people to consider him the best.

There's a great /r/nba thread[0] on this post too, for those looking to see comments from an NBA community perspective.

My couple notes on this post:

1) > For the past 20 years, I’ve occupied myself with social activism, my writing career

Kareem is incredibly good at writing, and with the focus of his writing career, which is something that's rare. Many famous people spout opinions, but him putting a label of "writing career" is really cool to see.

2) It's hard to imaging, going back in time to when LeBron was in high school with his games being played on national tv already, and him still blowing all those expectations out of the water. Absurd how someone can do that.

3) When people talk about GOATs, it'll be interesting to see how much the perspective changes in terms of time frames. LeBron still being one of the best after multiple decades without sustaining injuries is incredibly impressive, and I think people will more and more start to consider high quality play over time just as important in determining who is the best as they do with an few year hot streak.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/10x1c9w/abduljabbar_wh...

> The sort of intense, grueling runs that most people do are likely counterproductive. It's like running a race every day as a workout. It's just not sustainable and unhealthy at high doses.

Totally, I agree, in that the reason they're intense because they're using the wrong energy system.

My half baked theory is that the reason people (like me) don't like running at all is because the our subconscious mind tells our conscious mind to not like it because it's so inefficient and a waste. If, however, we trained our bodies and mitochondria to use more fat for energy aerobic-style, we'd like running a ton more. I'm betting that'll be the case with me.

What I'm saying is that for the majority of people, even those who are considered "fit", don't default to aerobic system of energy when doing endurance sports because they don't have a solid enough base. They think because they're going for a 30 minute run it _must_ be aerobic, but if tested, they'd find it wasn't.

To know if this is true or not would require testing and numbers and defining what's considered "fit", rather than commenting on HN. That said, I truly have relatively high confidence in that the active population these days very much relies on the glycolytic energy system rather than oxidative, anaerobic rather than aerobic.

> Running, swimming, playing soccer and other aerobic exercise do a lot for the cardiovascular system — our heart and blood vessels — but they don’t do much for overall muscle mass or strength.

Preface: like most people here, I'm not a doctor or physiological specialist.

I am decently active, and what I've found from the papers and science that gets brought up, and from my own self experimentation, is that the majority of our aerobic exercise isn't aerobic. In order for your body to use the aerobic energy system, we need a much higher base to raise our lactic thresholds to levels where we can use that system for things like running, swimming, or playing soccer. Instead, our bodies use the glycemic anaerobic systems by default because we don't have that aerobic base.

In order to change this over the winter, I've been doing workouts at much, much lower intensities to try to build up my aerobic ability. For example, this morning I did an hour long walk on a treadmill with slight incline while keeping my heart rate at a consistent 100 bpm. This is a much, much lower level than might even be considered a heart rate for the workout. But I could feel my body doing work the whole time. Other workout is on an indoor bike where I also find a pace where I'm giving effort, but super low intensity to build up my base.

Again, n=1 and I'm not an expert, but my true guess, which is one that I'm working on myself, is that very few people have a good aerobic base to where very little of our exercise is truly aerobic.

Yeah, the first two nights I woke up decently alert a couple times which I took to be my body telling me that something might be wrong and I should check it out.

I never felt a sense of uncomfortableness, it felt almost comfortable for me as if the tape was making me feel more secure, maybe? Similarly I didn't have the worry about not being able to breathe and not know about it. In both those cases, don't feel weird about wearing some around when waking and you can get used to it.

The other mindset to have is remember that our bodies are really incredible at things after millions of years of evolution. Nose breathing especially is something we're able to do. That acknowledgement and trust can go a long way mentally.

My theory on the way this will progress is the skills of being an editor will become even more valuable than today.

For article writing, or non-fiction book writing even, step one is finding the data, making connections, and planning out the topics and flow, done by a human. In a way, that's how it's currently done, the only difference now might be making sure to format that in the correct way for AI writing generation to handle it.

The words are generated, and then the human editor comes in and corrects issues that might come up, say not good enough connections between topics. This can be fed back to the AI for next time to help improve.

Fictional prose will still be around, as there isn't much better than being able to read and connect with an author, where reading and connecting with AI isn't quite something we can accept (for now).

But non fiction writing is quite mechanical already. If you read the Economist like I do, you'll know what I mean. That writing and connecting of bullet point lists in the order a creator wants can be quite valuable, and having someone do an active edit at the end will be quite valuable as well.

I can see how it can cause some anxiety. I suppose I was lucky that it didn't for me. The first two nights I work up in the middle a couple times, decently alert, and could tell my body was trying to say something might be wrong. I was able to fall asleep quickly though, which also was something I wasn't able to do before.

If you might have that anxiety, I'd say try putting tape on your mouth during the day at times to get used to it, and you might find you'll forget about it and that can ease the worry. It might be difficult, but we all can breathe only through our noses, even if that requires some practice and reassurance.

+2 for taping mouth shut.

I read the book a week ago, said, why not. Instant improvement. Before, I'd have to wake up to go to the bathroom every night for the past 10 years, and when I woke up I'd have this eye pain every day leading to these giant eye bags. On top of those, if I didn't get that last sleep cycle in, I'd have to take a nap to get rid of this weird headache which made the time in the morning before nap seem pointless. In the book he mentioned how face skin can improve, and less bathroom in the middle of the night because apparently the body releases something to tell the body to hold water because we're sleeping. Mouth breating at night didn't cause this to happen.

I did the mouth tape and instantly, first night and every night in the past week, eye pain is gone, I don't have get up to use the bathroom, and the amount of consistent energy is absurd compared to before.

Seriously, I want to shout it out to everyone to tape their mouths at night.

Notepad works too! I think the key is to force yourself to actively think when reading, and if you don't want to do that, then don't bother reading. Obsidian helps because of the ease to linking other notes, and that I think it a big benefit when you start having a bunch of notes.

QuickAdd and Templater. It's a custom macro that takes the url, does a request, pulls the relevant information (site name, title) from the head, and then uses a capture to use the template to put the file in the correct path. Lowers the number of steps required to get a good page to take notes.

I've made a change recently, where if there's a blog post, web article, magazine articles, or even watch a video, I need to take notes on it. Obsidian is great for that, where I can put a link in, and it pops out a page for me to write any thoughts that come to mind from it, even if it's a single sentence or two. It's a slight barrier, but makes the feeling of reading something much more worthwhile, and also is interesting to make connections to other things I've read.

Meta comment, but I'm curious about the money range of $200-$1000. Many threads like this are for cheaper products (granted, upper limit here of $200 is higher than usual), and a lot of the answers are repeated. I feel it's hard to justify spending larger amounts of money in the range I provided, but in the end, there are times when the value absolutely is worth it. Finding those times is the difficult part.

I cannot suggest enough that everyone should get a high lux light. I'm in the north midwest of the US, where there's little sun, it's cold which makes being outside much more difficult, and even when I am it's cloudy.

Last year was another fall when I could feel myself getting more and more tired and lack of energy and I couldn't figure out why. Christmas came around and my mom got our family high lux lights and literally the first time I tried it I could feel a difference. The tiredness was zapped away instantly. You can feel your body's reaction to the lux.

Pretty much whenever I'm sitting at a desk I have it on. The one I have has the ability to change the intensity, so sometimes I move it down from the max if I can feel overly bright. I plan on getting another one soon to have on the other side of my desk.

I don't have a brand to suggest, but doing test searches shows there are many different kinds. Thinking about price, they're so beneficial that from the benefits I get from it, I'd legit pay over $1k for one. Life in the dark cold winter is so much better. I hope everyone reading this gives one a try at least.

> You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes

The main point from the writing fits right along with what I consider the main point of mindfulness and meditation practice.

Everything that arises, also passes away.

Highly suggest people try out the practice through guided intro courses. There are tons of benefits, but even just realizing and witnessing how all types thoughts, feelings, emotions that come up will go away is alone worth the time.

Pitching wedges were originally 48, now they're in the 46-47 range.

Tour players have very different lofts depending on type of iron and ball flight. For normal players though, companies like to deloft the irons to 1) make them go further so if you're comparing a 7 iron, you want to buy the one that goes further even if you don't know the reason is because the loft is different and 2) because the cavity backed design and soft material makes the ball fly higher than a blade, which can cause problems. Like the wedge example, a soft cavity back can go super high so they have to knock it down a few degrees.

DARPA has such a list of impressive, world wide useful technologies that wouldn't have been able to be created without funding from the government at the time given the time and money and at time, unlikeliness to be successful [0].

It really sucks that there's a 'D' for 'Defense' at the front of the acronym. Their website says they're "creating breakthrough technologies and capabilities for national security". Horrible that national security is the reason for this, when it should be human progress.

[0] https://www.itpro.com/technology/34730/10-amazing-darpa-inve... [1] https://www.darpa.mil/

I'm in the US and had sort of a reckoning against out football a few years ago after a medical incident of mine. I used to be a big watcher of the NFL, mostly because my team was really good, but suddenly I had trouble watching week after week guys getting drilled in the head and being carted off to have their career ends. These league average numbers [1] are horrible to think about, with how little tie running backs play when they're able to make money (screw the NCAA) and they get hit every play.

One of the arguments on a change that could help is a big transition back to old school leather helmets, or no helmets. There's been much talk about safety of rugby compared to football, especially from armchair thinkers [2]. Some of the answers in that Quora thread are agreeing with the result of this article, where rugby isn't exactly that much safer regardless of lack of helmet or tackling style. Heck even soccer is having to come to terms with headers causing head injuries later in life [3].

With more "lower" impact sports like rugby (not that much lower, but has been considered lower) and soccer coming out with so much head injury reports, I wonder how long we'll be stuck with popularity of the NFL. Brett Favre, a quarterback from the south, came out and said to not have kids play tackle until they're 14. But when they turn 14? It's not like that risk goes away.

I'm lucky for myself that I like watching baseball and basketball the most so I don't have to think deal with watching head injuries that last lifetimes for the players. Or maybe that's why I like watching those two team sports the most.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/240102/average-player-ca...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Would-the-NFL-or-football-in-general-b...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/01/5128481...

[4] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028547803/brett-favre-kids-f...

This comment is getting downvotes and given my experience playing D1 college, getting a STEM degree, this scenario is in no way possible.

Stanford on its own is one of the top golf programs in the country. Its practice facility is absurdly good (my team was able to use it once when we were out there. The reason we were in the bay area? Because we took our spring breaks to go play fancy courses with rich alumni to get them to donate to the athletic department, which is another part of money you don't see but athletics gets.) You need to be really, really good to play at Stanford.

Second, college golf is a case where, because of the niceties like practice facilities, tournaments, where you don't pay for any of that, it's a feeder to the main tour. In fact, PGA Tour University[0] came out to help get guys who were good in college to the Tour quicker. The quality of guys in lower level tours is crazy, and this is a deserved bumper for the good guys. Guys play in college first because that's where you grow.

I'm very anti-NCAA. Each sport is different in terms of growing to the professional level though, and how engrained the NCAA is in most cases though makes it tough to have an overall solution.

[0] https://www.pgatour.com/university/what-you-need-to-know-faq...

For people reading these comments, Dubliners is amazing short story collection, on a level of its own. The Penguin Classic printing of it is what I have, and it's ideal because it has 76 pages of notes for all of the stories. Those cover phrases that were lost in the last 100 years, description of locations in Dublin, explanations of cultural differences, etc. Ulysses is very difference, but if wanting to read Joyce, my suggestion is to start with the Dubliners.

There was an article I read in the Econonmist[0] (paywall, sorry) a couple months ago, that talks about a paper [1] (read the abstract) how raising the age that children are required to stay in car seats, 8 yo in the US, causes birth rates to decline. The reasoning is that cars have room for two, but not three, children in car seats. Thus the cost of the third child includes upgrading to a larger sized car or van. Very interesting unintended consequence of a safety measure. Also this doesn't deal with the pandemic results, but when I read about it I thought it was interesting and that if this is a thread about birth rates, others might want to read about it too.

[0] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/26/...

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

I was going to put this one. I'm a fan of Reply All, but this was an episode that was so good it almost didn't seem real. Low spoilers, but they downplayed the ending so much that even without it, it'd have been a really good episode. But with the ending, I straight up dropped my jaw. Such a cool, relatable, story.

Instead of a stock trading bot, go for daily fantasy sports contests. It can cover pretty much all parts of programming.

Web scraping to gather data, databases for storing it, ML for analyzing, front and backend web dev to show the daily information and adjust.

And instead of having to deal with trading regulations, contests can be really small and easy to enter. There are daily contests for 5 cents an entry, and you can enter 150 optimized lineups from an uploaded csv for $7.50 a day. You can really learn a ton.

It's crazy there are still people here who don't realize that ISIS was created because of US involvement. Great book with link below on the topic of America's actions in the middle east that talks about everything starting from Carter in the late 70s to time of publishing in 2016. Highly suggest reading.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241154/americas-war...

Nah depends on what fever means. I got my flu shot this year, and I didn't have a fever, but felt like garbage for a day and a half where it was a struggle to have energy to do much of anything. Fever != feeling crappy.

Throwing in a comment in this thread to say same. Incredible how I've used mine for 7 years and it seems new still. Only issue is 8 gigs of ram makes things like docker or ides difficult, but I get hesitant to buy a replacement because of the year to year changes. I mean, why buy a new one if you have a machine that's been going strong for so long?

We could really need the Milwaukee to Chicago train up to speed. I'm in Milwaukee and would go to a Chicago office twice a week on that train and it just got tough with 1:30 each way. The train is packed too, where on the way back in the evening, people can be standing because not enough seats. Higher speed, like cutting it down to :45 or :50, would mean a ton. The problem is the value of that isn't able to be calculated and in pretty much all infrastructure cases, it gets purely political.

One thing not mentioned that I'd like to add is avoid using pronouns when you can. Like he, she, it, them, this, that. As soon as you have multiple nouns in when explaining something, you can get screwed. I find myself typing pronouns a lot and when I read back what I wrote, I can see how people get confused. Clarity is so important, and pronouns hurt that.

An incredibly number of people in the entire world who have seen these tweets, and currently, 5:16 eastern, shows 271 transactions.

Not like everyone who sees these tweets has bitcoin accounts, but less than 300 falling for the fake tweets is such a small number in terms of populations.