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When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up DVDs of the latest build. I don’t have any hard data, but running a full build on your dev box was very rarely done.
Well... Let's say that OP sounds like it may be oversimplifying a wee bit. The Replication Crisis already came for this one. (And yes, you should be skeptical of any claim to cognitive benefits.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_effects_of_multiling...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/20190...
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/bilingual-...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-batt...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Relationship-of-Bi... https://psyarxiv.com/gjh95/
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. No snarky one-liners either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines badly and repeatedly lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864399

If you keep doing this we're going to have to ban you again. I'd rather not, because you've also posted some good comments. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We're trying to have at least one place on the internet that isn't torn apart and degraded by the usual snark and aggression. If you agree that that's worth having, I'm sure you'll see how we need everyone to do their part to keep it that way.
The FA we are talking about is related to the completion of the construction of the first Fusion reactor by the end of this year.

Also, fusion has only really been seriously considered AFAIK since the 70s (yes theoretical research happened before) so not sure how you get to the 'always 30 years away' thing, which sounds like we had several cycles of Osbourne effect. Not to mention the word 'always' gives your post an 'all or nothing' type of feel which is generally characteristic of people in distress whose fight or flight mode is active, blocking more nuanced views.

You might be right that we are very far away and this is only harmful, time will tell, but I truly hope the breakthrough is here.
The burden of mental disorders across the states of India
Sure, and IIRC like a traditional IRA gains are taxed as income. So there’s not necessarily any tax benefit versus a traditional savings account invested in ETFs, depending on withdrawal and contribution incomes.
Bomb Threats Demanding Bitcoin Force Evacuations Across Russia
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I had the displeasure of working with gRPC and Python as an intern. I ended up writing a makefile that would generate the files and then immediately run sed on them to fix their imports. It felt like a terrible hack and I hated having to do it.

What’s worse is my overall task was to come up with ways of doing this type of thing reproducibly in a bunch of different languages that had poor gRPC support so that the team could distribute consistent (and verifiably working) API bindings to other teams. At that point it felt like we probably should have conceded that gRPC sucks and not used it at all. I’m 99% sure it was just resume driven development by the lead dev.
Yes, something like that is the reason libraries like React exist, even tho many devs can write a VDOM in under 100 LoC.
How should I advocate for a change of policy then? I’ve been complaining about this for a long time, it seriously detracts from the experience of using this as a news source.
I believe that's what OP is saying, That neither party should be in prison for a crime that is just a crime for some people in some places and legal in others.
Wouldn't it be better to return that organic matter to the soil?
What is a language, anyway? Is that where you use symbols to represent grunts?
I've been learning a second language, one that is very different than English, and it has been a complete mind fuck. I can see why knowing two languages would have a positive effect on your brain: another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world. Language is an artifact of the culture that created it, and it crystallizes the values and beliefs of that culture. By learning the language, you can enter into an entire other world.
Researchers show mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic
That's called scientism, and its often conflated with science.

Just because a theory makes correct predictions, does not mean, necessarily that those mechanisms exist in the actual physical universe. It is entirely possible to make correct predictions with incorrect models.
What do you recommend, given that HN itself doesn't care enough to provide a usable alternative for quotes and lists?
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Interesting point about adults acquiring language through the left side of the brain vs. children acquiring through both hemispheres. I wonder whether that is nature or nurture -- does it reflect changes in brain structure in adulthood, or does it reflect the ways in which each respective group tends to learn languages?
$1,000/yr is definitely excessive. You can have managed Kubernetes for ~ $100/yr from Google or (recently) Digital Ocean using smaller instance types.

The point about maintenance is a good one if you're running purely static sites. K8s has a steep learning curve, though FWIW I think its probably easier than systemd and standard unix administration + puppet/chef/ansible/etc.
I don’t understand how people don’t get this.

Taxi companies are profitable and they have employees, a fleet, garages.

Uber is not profitable and does the same job as a taxi company. Doesn’t something seem wrong here?

The reason drivers love Lyft is they pay more. They ph more because Lyft takes a bigger loss than Uber to stay competitive. That business model won’t last so Uber will outlast Lyft and then finally be on the road to profitability once the stupid Lyft price war ends.

I’m baffled by people who think Uber cant make money. there’s no logic at all in that thought process. They also ignore the huge rnd cost uber is footing for self driving tech.

I’m confident The sell off has nothing to do with kalanick spiting Uber and everything to do with him wanting to divest his interests so he can work on his other project
The title of this article is frustrating, it comes across like an ad for Netlify. The author moved to Google Cloud and Kubernetes because he wanted to attain hands-on experience on those platforms, not because he seriously thought it was the right technical choice for his 25 visitors a day static blogs.

So he spent $1k to learn GCP and K8s. That seems like money well spent.
I know French and English and several programming languages, and they do seem very similar to me.

>You can't describe a dream in Java.

Before you write any code, you first imagine how the application should work. So yes, a person can codify something from their imagination into Java.
In Lyon the public ad space was traded to an ad company in exchange for funding and maintaining the city's public bike share scheme. It's a trade off, of course, but for just 30 euros à year I (and the rest of the city) get virtually unlimited bike share.

The anti-ad groups here would be happy for the public ads to disappear but it would be a real shame if the affordable bike share went with it.

FWIW there is a real debate about who got the better side of the deal between the city and the ad company, but the Velov scheme is great. :)
Well, I've definitely taken a pre-EE class where we breadboarded a bunch of logic circuits without decoupling caps. But #electronics on Freenode, Horowitz & Hill, and EEVblog are all pretty emphatic about them, so I figured everybody would know by the time they considered themselves a junior EE.
"ASN.1/DER sucks -- everyone knows that. Let's build a new, better thing. How shall we encode things? Oh oh oh! I know! Let's have a type tag, a length, and a value encoding. Perfect! So so much better than ASN.1/DER!!!"

Those who don't study the past...

Look, ASN.1 is a crappy (but not awful!) schema language, but it supports many many encodings, and some of them are dumb, stupid, and bad, like BER, DER, and CER, and some are clever (PER), and some are awesome (OER), and it even supports things like XML (XER) and even JSON. So what's so bad about ASN.1? Not much, really, just that the first generation of encoding rules (BER/DER/CER) for it were.

But no, people don't look. They jump without looking, and then they re-create things, and do it badly.

The only thing since ASN.1 that doesn't suck is XDR. That's because XDR very much resembles ASN.1's PER/OER, but with 4-byte units, so XDR is very ergonomic. EDIT: I should also mention flatbuffers as not sucking.
FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Switching Out Linux for Hard Fork of OpenBSD
If you force the most common system to translate byte order, then you'll have some confidence that your code is performing the translation correctly. If instead you rely on hoping that everyone added the correct no-op translation calls everywhere, you'll find your code doesn't work as soon as you port it to another CPU.

This is a nice side effect of network byte order being the opposite of the dominant cpu order, though obviously it was never intended.
Your point is well taken, but anyone who is challenging themselves to accomplish a personal goal has business at that race. They may have no business being in the lead pack, but that too will be a learning experience.

(Consider that the mental aspect of a race is inversely correlated to the distance of a race, and that muscle glycogen is generally depleted around 2 hours into a race-pace bout)
> With IRC, messages fade away and its really a matter of timing you find someone with the right expertise that bites. If you ask something at the wrong hour, you have to hope someone reads far enough up to answer you.

This is what connection bouncers solve. I think IRC just needs a good client. IRCCloud is a good client and bouncer service, cheap too. I can keep track of IRC convos from forever ago.

The only thing stopping an IRC client from being as resourceful as Slack or similar is the client developers. I've seen clients that preview images like Slack does, long before Slack was a thing. I think the KDE one does this? Or at least Quassel does.
How do you plan to monetize?
Nice idea. Good luck on seeing it grow out. Do you have a revenue model long term?

Right off the bat, I think you need a search box. Probably with autocomplete to the job titles. I was a bit frustrated trying to click through to the various titles, and I could not find the search box.
It is a known thing that Bilinguals usually have a smaller vocabulary by grade level in both languages on average compared to most peera but well within proficiency windows. Social issues are likely way more "awkwardness" of being a minority among a minority than shared identity than deficiency related.

Looking at the numbers effectively it seems that monolinguals have diminished returns - and I can see that just because a lot of problem spaces are like that.

Granted "vocabulary size" isn't quite apples to apples given how languages and syntaxes differ.
> Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments.

I wish this model worked for me, but the concept of "pages" just doesn't. I would immediately get into a situation in which I'd need a sub-page for an aside.

Is this a problem for anyone else?

I am currently using Dynalist to solve this, but very annoyed by its proptietary nature. Is there any free software that successfully implements this "infinite outline" approach?
I'm not the OP, but I mostly agree with his comments. I have trained track and field for years, and bad running technique is highly correlated with injuries.

I don't understand this mentality of running longer and longer distances. Most people should not do that; even with proper technique you're repeating over and over the same motion, same impact on the same areas. In most cases, injury is just a matter of time. Stress injuries are extremely frequent [1] and all this is part of this mentality that with suffering I'll accomplish more. And, longer distances usually equate to more injuries [1].

Strength [2] and fast twitch fibers are the first ones to be lost while aging, so it is way more effective to train those and run shorter, more explosive distances. And even more effective learning proper running technique.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465455/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940510/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15462613/

Edit: added [1]
This crosses into personal attack. EmilLondon did nothing wrong. Posting jobs to Who Is Hiring threads, in particular, is a service to the community.

We don't allow users to hound other users because of where they work. Please see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and make your substantive points without that in the future.
The processor usage of serialization is almost never the bottleneck, usually it's bandwidth. Despite that, unless you're sending floats or large integers over the wire, the difference probably isn't usually worth the engineering investment over gzipped json until you're "web-scale".
Really, there was no "crisis", at least none that I ever came across. Perhaps you could post an example? The 1970s saw the development of UNIX, VMS, CP/M and other enormously successful products.
Is this similar to what happened this month in Germany? https://www.zdnet.com/article/more-than-38000-people-will-st...
They wouldn't buy the advertising if they couldn't make a profit on your attention. Pay with brain space, or pay through a tax. Which is more expensive?
What kind of cancer? That’s like saying “RSO cures illness”. Fire cures cancer too I’d you apply it directly to just the cancer cells, but we can agree that setting a can we patient on fire isn’t exactly a worthwhile therapy. Also any actual sources aside from KillYourCancer.org? I am not saying RSO doesn’t work. Just that it has not been proven or disproven by anyone reputable.
Designing the layout of the PCB. Populating it with surface-mount components using home-made solder paste stencils and an oven. Selecting the MCU. Figuring out what kernel drivers are needed and what can be stripped out. Searching the web for datasheets and drivers that others have created/ported. Building the userland. Debugging and testing.

Like many pieces of technology, once you lay out the steps it starts to look as though each one, and therefore the whole, are achievable to a highly-motivated but somewhat typical person. And it's true! But even so, few people develop the whole set of skills to build something from start to finish, even notwithstanding the incredible help you can get nowadays from open-source software, consumer access to services such as PCB manufacturing, and online documentation. Even in a high-achieving community focused on building stuff, like this one, I doubt many posters here have completed as impressive an individual project.
This is an example comment that will make a few example points.

- This is an item in the list.

- This is a second item.

> “This is an example of a quote”

Followed up by some final points from the commenter.
Of course it is. If pressed, they will surely find a justification for it in reducing spam and bots. Less defensible is why they would wait to get a phone number until after you make an account.

And of course, try not to compare it with the Chinese rules requiring phone number verification for online accounts...
Is it really "popular knowledge that people are not supposed to run"?

I've only heard this claim made by people that don't agree with it as some sort of strawman. Almost everyone I know thinks running is good, and all of my fit acquaintances run or jog daily.

I honestly can't think of anyone that thinks we aren't supposed to run except the occasional article where most commenters disagree with the article.
I would point out that bring drenched in the stuff is not really the same as eating food with trace amounts of it.

I would also point out that Monsanto is not being held responsible becauseof the toxicity, but because of the fairly clear evidence that Monsanto put a lot of effort into concealing that toxicity from workers, consumers and regulators.

It is possible for adoption of Roundup to be a net positive for society and for Monsanto / Bayer to be liable for concealing the risks that do exist.

I rather doubt that Johnson's case will be reversed, but I would not to see some other cases fail because they aren't able to show such a direct connection and as extreme an exposure.
Was it just the windows kernel? Or did it include all of the utilities in Windows?
I'm certainly glad the originators of HTML didn't agree with your suggested quote mechanism. It sucks.

But yes, an unordered list would have worked OK here, albeit not quite as effective at making the GP's point.
My money is on JCDecaux winning this battle.
Compared to what? Is there a control group we're comparing this claim to?
Scurvy and the Terra Incognita
My experience is mostly with epilepsy, but CBD at dosages of 25-100mg (varying on the intensity of the siezure) really does help better then any prescribed medication my partner has tried. It's not ridiculous to me that it's effect on other systems in your body we don't know much about could be significant.

I do agree though, regularily using 500-1000mg's a week gets expensive.
They have a network effect. If a car is not available or I have to wait too long then I will consider some other option. The number of cars available is a function of the number of users.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I think his assertion is that it's possible to participate in a marathon without being healthy or physically fit (both being defined by a reasonable BF% and proper biomechanics to support long distance running).

I do not agree with "no business being there", but I think the idea that being overweight/moving incorrectly and trying to run long distances will increase your overall injury risk. It should not be a surprise when a 230 lb person suffers knee and ankle injuries as a result of LDR, regardless of shoe tech.
Starlink will be a total game changer when it goes global.
Given that he is looking at one stock over a period of 6 months where AFAIK nothing particularly unusual happened, I highly doubt any "extreme volatility events" were relevant.
> If you come up with an automated solution that replaces the need for expensive interior finishing processes

There is already a large panel prefab process, which is highly automated, including finishing, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near "revolutionising" the industry.

The thing is, in North America the preference for single family houses is so strong that making people care about extra $100k is really hard.
Fair point. However another selling point of working at a startup vs a big company is the impact you get to have on a product. Being able to say you were one of 5 people that built out a core feature of Uber in its early days is immensely valuable for career trajectory.

Once a company is large, it's hard to have that level of impact until you're a director/vp/etc.
Importance of College Drops Nearly 50% Among Young Adults in Just Six Years
I made one a week or two ago, followed some people, made a few tweets, and wasn't asked for a phone number. I wasn't even asked for a CAPTCHA.

I deleted the account a few days later because Twitter is dull and the entire point of what I was trying to do was see if the rumors of immediate account flagging were true. They don't seem to be.
I'm always curious why these bug bounty programs for billion dollar companies pay so little.

Why not make this a 10K, 25K bounty even if it's small potatoes?

That amount is nothing to Twitter but might prevent what happened in this case (continued collection of data, public release before Twitter could notify users, etc).

I've noticed this trend of painfully cheap bounties at most other tech giants too.
Patents. Profit, hopefully, somewhere in the distant future. If you manage to make part of the process cheaper the real estate developers make more money and/or government can charge more for a permit.
I'm currently reading Born to Run[0] and they spend a couple of chapters discussing the history of running shoes and how they may be counterproductive. The main point being the Tarahumara (ancient running people) are the best distance runners on earth and they wear homemade sandals.

Looks like this[1] post goes into the debate, as framed by the book, but I'm on mobile and haven't read through it so YMMV.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greates...

[1] https://www.chrismcdougall.com/born-to-run/the-barefoot-runn...
Using the word "amateur" to mean "inexperienced" or "unskilled" is a smell, or, more precisely, an equivocation: It lumps not being paid to do something with doing that thing poorly, which definitely aren't the same thing.
I noticed this as well. I wonder how much of his assertive and dominant character also influenced empire-building politics. Management is responsible for setting the general tone and language for the corporate culture.
If it's just a bare LED on a board (ie: not in a case going through a light pipe or diffuser), 1 mA is actually pretty bright with modern LEDs. They're a lot more efficient than they used to be.

For use as indicators for firmware debugging under typical office lighting, I find 1 mA to be the "sweet spot" - bright enough that I can tell it's lit with a quick glance, but not so bright that if I'm staring at the board it becomes uncomfortable to look at, or distracting out of the corner of my vision.

However, if it's for indication for an operator of a device, and it's inside a case going through some lossy elements (eg: aforementioned light pipe or diffuser), I'll definitely use more current to make it a bit brighter.
Ok, changed to that from http://www.idahoreporter.com/2019/florida-man-got-3-4-millio.... Thanks!
Why do we sleep - Matt Walker

Amazing insight on importance of sleep on the human body. Well explained with elaborate and engaging examples.
"As of this writing, Cap’n Proto has not undergone a security review, therefore we suggest caution when handling messages from untrusted sources."

Something like that has to be rigorously tested or proven to be free of buffer overflows. It's so easy to attack with malformed messages. Parsers for remote messages are a classic source of vulnerabilities. It's hard to test this, because it's a code generator.

This looks promising as an attack vector for a big system built on microservices. If you can find an exploit in this that lets you overwrite memory, and can break into some service of a set of microservices by other means, you can leverage that into a break-in of other services that thought their input was a trusted source.

The "zero overhead" claim goes away as soon as you send variable length items. Then there has to be some marshaling.
Some older distance runners have been able to minimize injuries and sustain good race results through extensive low-impact cross training, like on elliptical machines. It's almost as good as actual running for building an aerobic base. That way they can reserve running for the workouts that actually count, focusing on form and faster intervals.
I'm not exactly sure on a revenue model yet, but I think job ads is one idea that could work. However, when I was researching companies that are trying to match people with the right career, several ended up partnering with Fortune 500 companies to essentially be their marketing channel. I won't be doing that, as I think it creates a conflict of interest. Having good content is my top priority.

Adding search is the first feature on my list to build out, sorry for the frustration. And thanks for the feedback.