skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is ridiculous how lenient the laws are.

I think it is because people who make the laws are breaking them too.
I took a quick look at the full report (linked in the comments), and I think the data shown in the visualization might not be 100% accurate.
Intermittent fasting is gaining popularity, but it's hard for me to tell which aspect (if we must choose) provides the benefit: either there is something inherent in fasting for 24 hours (one meal a day, "OMAD") itself which promotes "health" or weight loss, or it is simply that it's difficult to eat too much in one nutritionally balanced meal. Anecdotally, I've been doing this for about three months and I noticed both that I am fine with eating less (the "stomach shrinking" phenomenon), possibly due to the nature of fasting teaching my body that it doesn't need to eat so much and that I have lost a non-insignificant amount of weight - and even at this rate, I was being rather lax with it, taking days off (i.e eating two or three meals a day) now and then (which usually left me feeling bloated).

In my experience, people tend to severely underestimate how much energy they are consuming, often neglecting to take into account chips (one of those small cans of Pringles has something like 400 calories) and more egregiously, sugared soft drinks which don't leave one feeling very full.
And I make half that in my mid 20s. So? That doesn't change the argument.
I tend to think of it is holistic memory or whole body memory. The more functions you can involve subsystems in your body the more it hangs together in your brain for longer terms I think.
It's not clear to me what Columbia did wrong. She got a PhD there, likely for free, and after graduation was able to secure a tenure track job at a decent university. She was set up pretty well at that point.

The issues that came after that point seem to have very little to do with Columbia.
OK thanks! How about persisting files (which actually isn't possible on Heroku but we would like to persist files on disk for simplicity so are debating about just using AWS)?
You can keep moving the goal posts but the fact is there is a lot of choice in the US. Not everyone can afford all choices but that’s an entirely different conversation.
It's about helping MS market their products by encouraging devs to pimp their tools/products under the guise of "technical excellence" that everyone used to look up to.

An award for being one of MS's best pimpers just doesn't hold the same level of street cred.

Now whenever I see someone wearing an MVP badge in their twitter bio I immediately discredit their pro-MS "advice" as an MVP shill wanting to score points towards their next renewal.
Might just be me, but I don't think it's appropriate to pull a camera out at the urinal
You've hit on a question that is extremely interesting and quite philosophical. Fundamentally - are professional journalists a good idea or a bad idea? Note that Hacker News is basically volunteer run with a thin layer of corporate control and good moderation, so in principle we might all be happy to live without articles by formal journalists appearing on the site - making do with blogs and suchlike.

It isn't at all obvious that the large centralised news media companies are a good idea; there aren't a lot of them (the Murdoch press owns a big chunk of the public discourse). I'd be happy to see them go mainly on political grounds.

There is a suspicion that the quality of information in news media articles is higher than word of mouth; but that is balanced by the knowledge that a lot of the information is manipulative by inclusion and omission [0]. There is no question that the media edifice supports the major political parties, so the demise of traditional news media might also destabilise the strong two-party-system that exists in America (and practically in my native Australia) by reducing the ability of different political groups to coordinate. People voting on issues that affect them rather than issues that the media think is important could very easily be a net gain.

As the internet became pervasive we discovered as a society how often the news media was just making up stories, and there is a lingering suspicion that most of the important issues aren't actually being covered. I rate the top issue facing society as energy security, and it doesn't get a lot of press in that form (it is tangentially covered under environmental politics).

The clearest negative is we benefit from having a mechanism to communicate political scandals to the voters. I have a lot of faith that an alternative that is as good as a media company exists, but I dunno what it would look like.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
She seems like a lucky Elizabeth Holmes type.
Additionally, imposing strict consequences (like a ban from driving, loss of license, etc.) for phone addicts kills two birds with one stone: not only does it save lives, it has the potential to remove A LOT of people from their cars and onto public transportation which would drastically alleviate traffic congestion.
What about drunk driving? That qualifies as endangering those around you.
I've known Marissa since Stanford too, and you're wrong. I'm not sure if you're lying or what, but you're wrong.

Edit: Before you pile on, I'm rich too. Not as rich as her but rich enough not to take issue with her for that reason. The reason people remember Marissa is she was pretty. End of story.
And when you scroll down to the end of the page you will be redirected to some other page and you cannot scroll up back to origin.

What is wrong with you web developers? Have you ever used a mouse-wheel before??
Try it out? The sub-headline is "A transit map should be [bla bla]. Berlin has received such a transit map.".

One of the last words are:

is it an official map?
Not yet. [bla bla] then it will become an official one.

I think he thinks he's the Designer God's gift to humanity. The design is nice, but IMO the guy's kind of a dick.
Yes, that's what libertarian paternalism (see: Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein) is meant to do. Legal and abundant alcohol imposes high negative externalities on the rest of the population. Sin taxes reduce consumption because economic incentives usually work.

It's when things are outright illegal (see: prohibition, narcotics) or the cost of ignoring the law is de facto lower than the legal price that things become quite dangerous for consumers, like the sale of narcotics laced with cheaper, more potent compounds like fentanyl.

For better and worse, a regulated market that pushes prices upward is usually better than an unregulated market or a criminalized one.
Make the jurisdiction keep a hard copy in every library and city hall / state building that it controls.

Contractors will buy a copy. And any novice that just wants to DIY can go look up the rules for free. And the copyright holder gets the sales from the library and city halls sales.
There were other asylum seekers who won Fields Medals.

For example Klaus Roth and Alexander Grothendieck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Roth
I love Outline but it seems to me that more and more websites are being excluded from it.

Does anyone know if there’s a preferably open source alternative available that I could host on my own server?
I grew up in the mountains, where everything was at least 20 years behind, and our school was well-stocked with 80s-era BASIC books in the library back in 2003. This was well into the Visual Basic era if we're talking beginners' languages. I still had the experience of typing stuff into Qbasic and I remember that fondly.
The interpretation of "superimposed" is important here. It doesn't mean that the imaginary image and the real image are merged like titles composited onto a TV screen.
Who is upvoting tweets here. Nobody cares about somebody's single sentence thought. Stop.
I notice how long it takes to start up the app, I notice how hard my CPU fan runs when Slack inexplicably decides to max out a whole core for a few minutes, I notice the data hit if I have to download a new version while on the road. It's definitely bloatware.
You're correct--but most enterprises start out with credit card accounts when some line manager greenlights an experiment. "Time to go drop $50 million on a cloud provider this year" doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum. Experiences like this with early-stage accounts cause significant damage to the sales process--and you'll never see it coming until after the decision has been made.
Is there any reason why you should use Firefox over Safari in this case then? How are we defining the "moral superiority" of web browsers here because it all seems to bit iffy to me. Why not use NetSurf if we're really talking, something that's actually open source and not only in name like Mozilla does with Firefox.
The article could have been written ~5 years ago with maybe a few interchangeable variables and would have expressed the same feeling of being frozen in an unchanging dystopian time loop.
Nerd wallet did a study on tech hubs that might be interesting to you (https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/best-places-for...)

Personally, I get up to the bay area often enough, and while I think its fine, I'd recommend looking into other cities if you are trying to do "entrepreneurial" things. (maybe go raise some money in the bay area if VC is something you need).
My wife got her start as an attorney in the U.S. and her first criminal cases as defense counsel were for drunk divers. It ended up driving (no pun) her away from defense work, because these guys were inveterate offenders and never got more than a slap on the wrist. The penalties on the books for DUI and the penalties actually administered are often miles apart. That may have changed in the last decade though, I can’t say.
It is Mozilla Corporation's leadership moral obligation to resign for their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox.
>libertarian paternalism

Just when you think you've seen everything; someone actually came up with this term? Is this meant to try to convince libertarians as to the merits of statism and regulation?
The programs coached by all of the coaches on those lists make more money than they cost.

That's not true for all athletic departments. But it is for the big name one where coaches get paid millions.
Interesting that Australia is so high up, while SE Asia so low. My experience of both (specifically Cambodia) is exactly the reverse.

But I suspect the cultural factors are at play here. Ask an Aussie if they're living the best life and they'll say yes, proud in their Lucky Country and the best beaches in the world (whichever city an Aussie inhabits has the "best beaches in the world").

While in Cambodia they're more humble. Obviously this is to certain extent about poverty. But it's also about the cultural tendency against boasting. And an acknowledgement that life isn't perfect, there are things that need to change and improve.

Yet, in my experience, obviously a limited sample of anecdata, the average Cambodian is happier, quick to find the joy in life, with strong supportive family connections. While Aussies are comparing ourselves to each other, disconnected from our families, suiciding in record numbers, and angry at the world.
The lady whose boobs won't stop growing
The committees don't write the code, they consult on what codes they want to see. Those people should be volunteers, otherwise it would introduce conflicting interests. The data they gather is then codified paid employees. They have no profit margin as they are a non-profit and they have highly paid executives because they are enormous in scale.

Stop talking out of your ass.
You know,

I never knew Computer Science was an applied math. But I always went with statistics.
How we get to the next big battery breakthrough
VSCodium: 100% Open Source Version of vs. Code
No mention of Safari here (or Epiphany on Linux). The latest version of Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1 is pretty good at fingerprint protection.
Google's Cloud Prediction API was deprecated last year.
Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old
IANAL, but I think in the Public.Resource.Org / EFF case, they were claiming you could restate the law:

"""
Judge Tatel: you have to stay in the hospital for the three days. Can they not use three days?

Mr. Verrilli: No, I think they could describe the fact that the standard says three days. But again ...

Judge Tatel: More than two and less than four? Is that what they'd have to say?
"""

(p. 24 of DC Circuit oral argument, https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb0by3nm3dfql3v/gov.uscourts.cadc....)

But to answer more directly, we host the law. If we change the precise wording of the law, then that's unacceptable. If you being tried, you can't say "well, I followed this alternative law and if you read that, you'll see it can be interpreted differently". No, the exact text of the law is the law, nothing else.
I'd say that Pubsub has it's own use cases, as it provides different guarantees than Kafka (most importantly in message ordering that enables different performance characteristics).
Arguably that Firefox is open source, and Safari is not.
I gave up on most internet radio stations - not because they run ads, but they often only have one ad, which they run over and over and over and over ... It drives one mad.
Cloud be, yes.
I think I'm partially aphantasic. I say 'partially' because I can picture the broad strokes about things in about the same detail as a watercolor painting run through a blur filter a few times.

This hasn't been any hindrance to my career in software, as once I grok something sufficiently it turns into an abstract knowledge tree that I work through on a subconscious more than conscious level.

I do lose track of things around the house constantly, but I'm not sure if this is a side effect of poor "where'd you leave it last" visualization or just everyday absent-mindedness.
It works pretty much this way in my country too. 'Standards Australia' is a body who charges for PDFs of various codes (including those which are thinly layered services over ISO standards)[0]. Local and state governments refer to those AS 'standards' for compliance.

Yes, it's a self referential ponzi scheme forcing citizens to pay to be adherent to laws. It should be free.

INAL however, I think the main loophole that allows it to exist is that since it's a private company (albeit labelled as a non-profit) it has 'copyright' on its publications, which is like the 'mechanical copyright' that the music /video industry has on CDs add DVDs, which is independent to the 'artistic copyright'. Many of our 'governing bodies' operate that this way: there's the law as written, and then there's the implementation of said law (tax office, Medicare, workers compensation, etc) in which, over time, become the arbitrator of the law -- which is a very different thing.

[0] https://www.standards.org.au/search-for-a-standard
Can we just condemn and prosecute drunk drivers and call it good enough?
3-year-old disables dad's iPad for 25M minutes, or nearly half a century
They almost surely did not implement Git in Ruby, but merely wrote bindings to it. I used to remember reading through their Ruby source code for this (Edit: found it, it's called Rugged). But even then, you need a more efficient API layer for this binding to be more practical for programmers, hence the libgit2.
Been going around. I'm thinking it's fake due to the increasing timeout delay.
The comments here are so bizzarly positive for HN. Makes me feel that this might not be all genuine.
> Otherwise fight or flight would be kicking in every time you crossed the street.

That exact thing does happen to me. The drivers in my country are atrocious even if we do not consider the use of phones. Having to cross the street is quite stressful and do not dare to do so without running, even if I am in a another country with more sane drivers.
You're not wrong, and in a just world that Swartz situation would have never even happened because we'd have a reasonable setup for papers.

With that said, he was also an adult making a conscious decision to fight the system. TFA is still a minor, in high school.
Oh yes:
https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/employee-referral-bo...
I have an issue with most of the defenses of using a phone while driving, but are you saying we should not be able to use a dashboard mounted phone as a GPS unit? Should all dashboard mounted GPS units be illegal, or just phone as a GPS? The advice was literally to keep the phone in your pocket.
Intel and Facebook Collaborate to Boost PyTorch CPU Performance
Safari doesn't support disabling click tracking anymore:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/Safari-link-tracking.htm...

Firefox does this (as well TOR and brave)
> isn't a medically recognised condition.

Personally I wouldn't describe it as a medical condition, it has no adverse effects at all, and I wouldn't want to "cure" it. Whats wrong with having a spectrum from no imagery to vivid imagery and accepting that mentally healthy people can be anywhere on that spectrum? This tendency to classify any variation between people as normal or abnormal is completely unnecessary in this case.

PS not meant as a personal attack at all :)
OK, then why didn't Yahoo just hire me to run the company? Same outcome but my salary would have been MUCH lower :)

In all seriousness, just because Yahoo was in a downspin doesn't mean that leadership can't save the company. Look at John Chen and Blackberry
I don't have any problems visualising objects, faces, rain, snow, wind,...etc. But when it comes to drawing, I get stuck, especially if I try to draw a face that I remember/visualise almost perfectly. Why is that? What it takes to be good at drawing (not that "painter-level" drawing)? It's (relatively) easy for me to draw objects which have sharp edges and straight lines (like a table, door, sofa), but I have hard times with drawing more detailed things like human faces, animals and cars even though I can visualise them as if they are present right before my eyes.
I imagine that if I were to describe someone to obtain, say, a police sketch, I'd not be able to do it because I don't know how to describe a face, even though I have a clear image of it in my mind. Obviously, I'd not be able to draw it myself either.

And some tangential thing, when I visualise things, I visualise them through my left eye (faces, especially. since you almost always see them, well, face-to-face), as if a projector projects them through it and I remember left parts of things better as if they're recorded using my left eye. I occasionally think about it, but haven't come up with an answer for myself yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An alcoholic is not free not to drink alcohol in any meaningful sense. Restricting access to alcohol can actually make society freer if it reduces the number of alcoholics.
Well, they didn't just rig the election. They did it by accessing their (apparently google backed) email accounts. If that happened outside of a school setting, there'd be no question that the person violated the law. So, yeah, they did commit a crime. Maybe it shouldn't be prosecuted, but it's still a crime.
lol at firefox in 2019. It's a joke of a browser. Gimped to the biggest extreme. It's basically a chrome clone.

edit: I mean I use it (not the latest version anyway) but with distaste.
> A great way to have peer to peer communication, with local TV's and radios, ended up being regulated.. and in our culture, its normal to sit in front of a TV, and have a few monopolies to choose what we will watch.

I don't think this is comparable. Radio and OTA TV needs to be regulated by a central authority or it won't work for anyone beyond a certain level of technological penetration. There's a set amount of data that can fit in the amount of spectrum available, and a radio station is transmitted to everyone whether they request it or not.

You've always been free to create and distribute VHS and cassette tapes because those don't eat into the amount of spectrum available to everyone.
Immigration to Australia is mostly low-wage male workers from poor, non-European countries entering on student visas (the country is one of few to allow international students to work). They serve to drive down labour costs and increase cost of living pressures (water shortages in many cities for example - requiring expensive desalination).

The opposition to mass-immigration (the country is growing at about 1.6% annually, with the same annual level of immigration as the UK, a country with 3x the population) is completely justified and it is not in the long-term interests of the country or of individual Australians.

Its not only the formal mechanics - the whole system is rorted, with a lot of fraud. A Chinese businessman bribing federal politicians for citizenship is a current news item.

Finally Australia makes its way in the world by mining and selling off its fixed endowment of minerals. The rest of the economy is not particularly competitive, mostly just domestic services and real estate. More people means a smaller slice of natural resources per person. This is not theoretical - wages are flat and cost of living pressures are high in the country. Public healthcare, education and transportation are all overcrowded.
I don't agree with that. The way I see it, looser codes could very well start making the US look like China with man-eating escalators and frequent structural failures.
Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
It's easy if you don't need exact results! For instance if you want 1/2 votes for A, 1/3 for B and 1/6 for C, well you roll a die and vote A for 1-3, B for 4-5 and C for 6 - do this enough times and it'll approximate that distribution!

Things only get difficult if you need exact results OR start doing things to make it "look" random - breaking up long runs of one vote, that sort of thing. (which of course makes it look distinctly nonrandom to someone with a stats background)
I don't think it's good enough. It's just one situation, but there are others. Alcohol makes people more aggressive. It also makes them piss on the streets. A neighborhood I lived in banned alcohol sales past 10pm for those reasons.

The fact is there are social costs to alcohol and they have to be internalized somehow. Taxes are a pretty good way of doing that.
I used to think that was the case. It's mostly not, at least in 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/runni...
Depending on your use case, there is a way to proxy gRPC to Cloud Run in a slightly hacky way leveraging the fact that outbound gRPC works.

You can run in GCE a gRPC server that whenever it gets a gRPC request, it temporarily stores the gRPC message and associates it with a session ID. It then sends a HTTP request to Cloud Run with that session ID. Then your Cloud Run instance will take that session ID to make a gRPC connection to your gRPC server in GCE. This GCE instance will then take the session ID, retrieve the gRPC request, and forward it to the Cloud Run instance.

This is admittedly hacky, but depending on your use case, may be good enough.
What do you consider a slap on the wrist? Everyone I know that’s had a DUI lost their license for a min amount of time with exponential increases for repeat offenders (one month, then two years, then 10 years). And that’s only the ones that weren’t involved in a collision.
This reminds me of Jacob Falkovich's approach to picking a girlfriend:

https://putanumonit.com/2017/03/12/goddess-spreadsheet/
FF was also behind in using auto update the software without user interaction. That was a big change from user’s perspective (who didn’t much care that a certain service was also always running behind the scenes).
Have you ever applied?

But really, if the MVP program was what it is said to be, people like you'd be in it.

ServiceStack has been a valuable contribution to the .NET community, and your continued development/support of it should defacto make you an MVP.
For those who can afford it, sure. That neither much of an achievement nor very useful.