Ask HN: What are your new years resolutions?
Im hoping to teach 50 people to learn to code this year and help them get a job in the tech industry.
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Save enough to cover all expenses of my family for 5 years.
Once 1) is complete enroll in PhD in mathematics (category theory and informatics).
Beat my internet addiction
Once 1) is complete enroll in PhD in mathematics (category theory and informatics).
Beat my internet addiction
What do you think is future scope in category theory?
I have been interested in functional programming, lambda calculus, type theory etc too as a hobby.
I have been interested in functional programming, lambda calculus, type theory etc too as a hobby.
475lbs Deadlift and 185lbs Press
Convert what I'm learning into content so that others may benefit.
Convert what I'm learning into content so that others may benefit.
Nice goals! Similar to mine (higher weight but similar ambitions).
What routine are you doing?
What routine are you doing?
Thanks friend!
For both lifts, I work up to a top single around RPE 8 (difficult, but with no grinding or form breakdown), and then use that number to determine my 1 rep max for that particular day. Then I do volume based on the Prilepin chart. I find this works very well because it adapts to the stress of life.
Approach all my planning from resource (time and energy) allocation perspective. Previously I would just make a dump of all things that I want to achieve, which made any kind of planning unrealistic.
Stay afloat but do not try to actively climb anywhere, save energy for inner work and contemplation. Stay at my current job (ok pay, just got hired), do not actively learn anything technical unless required for work (not interested, tired from technology). Do no work more than is necessary to feel I'm not gonna be fired.
Approach very critically all learning endeavors that are related to programming, and only do things that I absolutely enjoy. Drop at first sign of dissatisfaction.
Spend time on high RoI things (critical thinking, stress management and overall well being techniques). Drop low RoI things (movies, TV series, guitar).
Try to fight news and politics addiction.
Contemplate on how and where I want to spend the rest of my life.
Stay afloat but do not try to actively climb anywhere, save energy for inner work and contemplation. Stay at my current job (ok pay, just got hired), do not actively learn anything technical unless required for work (not interested, tired from technology). Do no work more than is necessary to feel I'm not gonna be fired.
Approach very critically all learning endeavors that are related to programming, and only do things that I absolutely enjoy. Drop at first sign of dissatisfaction.
Spend time on high RoI things (critical thinking, stress management and overall well being techniques). Drop low RoI things (movies, TV series, guitar).
Try to fight news and politics addiction.
Contemplate on how and where I want to spend the rest of my life.
I've been seriously distracted and lack the inner energy to focus on things that truly matter.
For a decade now, I've been trying to learn coding without success; always running around in circle, motion without progress. So, my new year resolution is to break this jinx and kickstart a career in tech.
1,Learn maching learning and deep learning to do something such as AI chess.
2, read English easily like a native speaker.
3, complete a paper to get master degree.
4,learn anything new and interesting, like painting and music.
2, read English easily like a native speaker.
3, complete a paper to get master degree.
4,learn anything new and interesting, like painting and music.
https://fast.ai is a good place to start with ML if you're new.
If you're interested in chess programming, this is a great resource: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page
lose weight, been 40-50 pounds over weight for almost a decade, i keep dropping 20-25 pounds and regaining it again. I enjoy eating and drinking a little too much.
Try total (not intermittent) fasting. I just discovered it and lost 50lbs very quickly but, more importantly, without difficulty. Easier than one meal per day. YMMV.
My goal is to become a lean, fit, machine. First I have to drop a lot of weight. I started 4 weeks ago and I'm down 17 pounds so far. Basically I'm just limiting myself to about 500-700 calories of protein-rich foods a day, plus a multivitamin, a calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement, and more recently, a fiber supplement.
It's very dangerous, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't put their body through extreme circumstances in the past and knows their actual (not percieved) limits. I haven't pooped in a week, and my last bowel movement was gnarly.
A safer rate of weight-loss should not be more than 2 pounds a week, or approximately a 1,000 calorie defecit per day. An online search for a basal metabolic rate calculator should be a starting point.
Advice to others, no matter what process you take: I recommend not weighing yourself more than once a week - it's a mental thing.
It's very dangerous, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't put their body through extreme circumstances in the past and knows their actual (not percieved) limits. I haven't pooped in a week, and my last bowel movement was gnarly.
A safer rate of weight-loss should not be more than 2 pounds a week, or approximately a 1,000 calorie defecit per day. An online search for a basal metabolic rate calculator should be a starting point.
Advice to others, no matter what process you take: I recommend not weighing yourself more than once a week - it's a mental thing.
With such drastic diet - gastric system goes for a toss. You don't want to wait that long between pooping. One option is to try buffered vitamin c. It was definitely give you a poop whenever you want without side effect and dependency.
I recommend the following vitamin c powder. If you are up for it you can do also a vitamin c cleanse: https://www.perque.com/product/perque-potent-c-guard-powder/
I recommend the following vitamin c powder. If you are up for it you can do also a vitamin c cleanse: https://www.perque.com/product/perque-potent-c-guard-powder/
I just had a BM, and it was more normal. Thank you for the suggestion though.
6 weeks, 24 pounds.
Why do you think it's dangerous? If you have fat on your body you don't need any caloric intake.
Things I've faced so far: Constipation and Hyponatremia.
Catabolysis and heart damage is also possible. The body will consume fat first, so this is an avoidable outcome. I added the multivitamin and calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement to help avoid damage as well. Damaging my heart is my largest concern with this diet.
Catabolysis and heart damage is also possible. The body will consume fat first, so this is an avoidable outcome. I added the multivitamin and calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement to help avoid damage as well. Damaging my heart is my largest concern with this diet.
Losing fat inherently raises blood lipids (the fat has to be circulated), which is bad for the heart long-term, but not an acute danger. The body is evolved to live on body fat, it's fine and normal.
My dad survived stage 4 cancer... a bowel obstruction is what took him out... you don't want your bowels completely stopped, otherwise very, very bad things happen. That's why it's dangerous.
They don't completely stop though. You poop out liquid that (I've read) comes mostly from your body's dead blood cells.
how do u get anything done at ur job on such an extreme diet? I've tried 1000 cal deficit for 2 months and i barely slept most days due to the hunger.
Eating only protien (versus carbohydrates) should smooth out the hunger. Keeping busy helps me ignore the hunger. For the first two weeks, the hunger was mostly mental. Drinking lots of water helps also curb the hunger as well as keep me focused. I don't know if there is a universal answer, just my experience. I don't sleep any better or any worse during versus before the diet. And actually, I've wanted to go to bed earlier to so I can sleep through the hunger rather than be awake to deal with it. Four, almost five weeks in, I don't have any mental hunger any more, I still have some occasional physical hunger, but its timeline varies. Somedays I feel like I could go all day without eating, somedays two meals isn't enough. I always stick to two meals a day: one breakfast, and one lunch which eventually moved back towards about three hours after normal lunchtime.
Try eating even less. I don't eat anything and I'm never hungry. (This is because I have a lot of fat on my body.)
If you're fat, you shouldn't ever be hungry, but eating food actually makes you go through cycles of hunger.
Stop eating altogether you get a steady hormonal state that is never hungry (until your fat reserves deplete).
If you're fat, you shouldn't ever be hungry, but eating food actually makes you go through cycles of hunger.
Stop eating altogether you get a steady hormonal state that is never hungry (until your fat reserves deplete).
Also, the desire to want to "feel full" is something that's hard to overcome. I'm not sure I'm there yet.
Feeling "full" means overeating.
I read a comment on reddit once: "hunger" is telling you when to eat, not how much to eat.
Feeling "full" means overeating.
I read a comment on reddit once: "hunger" is telling you when to eat, not how much to eat.
do you do 24 hour fasting or multi day fasting?
Multi-day. IIRC I've only eaten on six different days since November 10th. Three Thanksgiving parties! One Christmas. Still eating out of social conformity but otherwise, just not. Next time I'll eat will be New Year's Eve.
A suggestion from a friend to stop the weight going back on: set a weekly calendar reminder for you to record your weight and to track + view this on a graph over time to jolt you into action (e.g. being more mindful with calorie intake again) when you see the weight creeping back on. The problem can sometimes be improving the feedback loop so you don't slip back into your old eating habits.
biggest recommendation would be dont do this as a short term goal with a diet.. that never helps and you will gain back your pounds. introduce exercise into your routine. eat healthy but dont deprive yourself of stuff. if you like to eat fried chicken eat it but try to make it yourself.
I highly agree with this approach.
Specifically about fried chicken, I love it myself, but it turns out making "fried" chicken in the oven is super easy. And it's not really fried, so super healthy. I learned it from this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACqgyPAtD4&t=671s
But just to outline how easy it is, the whole process is basically to cover the chicken with some cornstarch and salt, let it sit in the fridge for a few hours, then cook it in the oven for forty-ish minutes. So easy, and tastes 80% as good as real fried chicken.
Specifically about fried chicken, I love it myself, but it turns out making "fried" chicken in the oven is super easy. And it's not really fried, so super healthy. I learned it from this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACqgyPAtD4&t=671s
But just to outline how easy it is, the whole process is basically to cover the chicken with some cornstarch and salt, let it sit in the fridge for a few hours, then cook it in the oven for forty-ish minutes. So easy, and tastes 80% as good as real fried chicken.
that looks bomb! Thanks for sharing. Havent really tried this but 100% will.
1. Run at least 35k every week
2. Make a polished game with a very small scope and publish it. Emphasis on “polished”. I keep making pocs and never finish them because the scope and the polishing (ui, fx) gets daunting.
Also I’ve already started these two goals because I try to start my “new year” goals on a random day in December rather than starting on actual new year. I find I have better success rate that way.
2. Make a polished game with a very small scope and publish it. Emphasis on “polished”. I keep making pocs and never finish them because the scope and the polishing (ui, fx) gets daunting.
Also I’ve already started these two goals because I try to start my “new year” goals on a random day in December rather than starting on actual new year. I find I have better success rate that way.
Write at least two hours per day.
To learn less new things and just get better at the stuff I already (somewhat) know through application. Too much time in recent years has been spent doing any Udemy or Coursera course that looked moderately appealing. The breadth of knowledge has become too much; with far too little depth.
Build my DevOps training platform and on-site training centre.
Develop a portfolio of mentees.
Replace contracting with income from the above :-)
Develop a portfolio of mentees.
Replace contracting with income from the above :-)
- Work in my garden regularly (as in, put it in my weekly schedule).
- Advance from producing food in the summer to doing it all year round.
- Start an offline publication dealing with spiritual and philosophical matters, distribute it locally.
Grow funding of the nonprofit I lead by at least $400k.
Delegate or die trying.
Dial back the reflexive urge to self-host or home-grow every aspect of my personal and professional tech stacks.
Delegate or die trying.
Dial back the reflexive urge to self-host or home-grow every aspect of my personal and professional tech stacks.
1) Write a blog regularly. My primary objective is to improve my english writing, a nice side effect would be to build an audience
2) Read a book a month
3) Finally finish a sideproject and publish it
4) Regularly workout
2) Read a book a month
3) Finally finish a sideproject and publish it
4) Regularly workout
1) Learn inline skating.
2) Learn Piano.
3) Stick to regular practice of meditation.
2) Learn Piano.
3) Stick to regular practice of meditation.
Try and increase side project revenue so its ramen-profitable or at least hosting profitable
Have residual and passive income that pays all the bills.
get skiing with grace and balance.
Sub 3:30 marathon
Any tips on running a marathon? Did 25% yesterday for the first time and it felt really good