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> Heard activists encouraging driving under the influence because "it makes you chill out and take your time, man." There's no excuse for this shit.

Eh this doesn't bother me. You know how many people are on the roads dosed up on legal pain killers way worse and more sedating and addictive than weed?

My point was that idiots on one side are putting the idiots on the other side in jail.

Like I said I don't blame people for being defensive. I think it's clear which side is more in the wrong - the people fear mongering on the government's side.
Of course the alternative is not on foot- it's mostly mass transit, sometimes mixed with cycling.
The attack on a difficult profession that already suffers from stigmas is not necessary or welcome.
maybe, because they've already banned linkedin, telegram, most opposition web-sites and have laws to proceed further?
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Reading Homer the first time is like watching Athena crack out of Zeus (1997)
I've heard speculation that elite runners are elite in large part because they are not injury prone. It takes an enormous amount of training to perform at the elite level, and most people will simply break before they can complete the training.

That said, I was provided some Hoka shoes a while back (I usually wear Altras). I found myself bounding in a very similar stride to Jim Walmsley. Looking back through the data, my cadence dropped from 180 to 155-160 without much of a thought. I wonder how much the shoes affect his gate, his injury rate, and his performance. Would he be a faster runner if Altra had picked him up instead of Hoka? Zach Bitter seems to do okay.
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just because schizms can be the cause of more activity and different insights it promises no more health than someone without conflicts, in principle.
new conclusions could be beneficial, ie. understanding that spanish and english are equally imperfect but at the same time it's like claiming that we need to experience bad for good to be good.

i speak a number of different languages and dialects and all it gave me is the realisation that babel bla.

the goal should be a whole(some) dense system. with only few necessary disconnects.
This is pretty cool.

What's the time spent on bootup? Hardware POST? I remember seeing some Linux can boot in under a second. It would be cool to see the business card come to life instantly.
I guess they would simply cut it in half by disconnecting the Russian ISP to the German one. Even VPNs stop being useful if all connections to the outside are severed.
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you are falling for the placebo effect. it’s so obvious 1mg does not do anything.
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This [0] has a lot of interesting information about form, stride length, etc. I'm not a pro runner anymore, so I can only say the information is interesting.

[0] https://tim.blog/2017/05/07/ryan-flaherty/
Yes but proto 3 was also a mistake. Throwing away presence entirely was wrong and not preserving unknowns was also wrong. Proto 2 forever, imho.
There is actually a pretty good study that shows that people are able to guess which studies will replicate and which will not:

https://80000hours.org/psychology-replication-quiz/
As supplementary reading material (more to do with Galileo's character rather than competence), I highly recommend the series of articles [1] entitled "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown", which provides a great deal of historical, political and scientific context for Galileo's actions and legacy.

[1]: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...
The "rocking" only occurs as the train is moving steadily across open country. An overnight train between cities, a slow train, will be stopping at stations and constantly adjusting its speed for various rail situations. It may be even be adding or removing cars. The resulting motion isn't akin to the steady repetitive motion of a ship. It can be more like a car negotiating stop-and-go traffic.
And if the recession hit a few years before you retire, your portfolio will never get a chance to recover from that hit. Your 20 years of runway becomes 12.
No security is full proof, but they call it "hardening the target" when you reduce your attack surface.
Very good point.

And this one of the dangers of basing your supply chain on AliExpress. I've had to caution clients that just because they found some normally expensive component dirt cheap on Amazon or AliExpress, doesn't mean that they'll still be available in 6 months when you need 1000 more.

Base your BOM on a manufacturer-approved supplier. If you can find the same parts for less elsewhere (assuming they're not counterfeit), go for it.
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The bug is on our code.
It doesn't seem all that much of a stretch to assume that the repetitive pounding of running results in wear and tear on the body. Your data point of one, who more than likely doesn't have a personal MRI/xray machine for monitoring, notwithstanding.
After getting ousted from Apple, Jobs sold all of his Apple stock. After re-joining Apple, Jobs sold all of his Apple stock to play mind-tricks on the board (successfully, I might add).
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I don't think that is a PR worthy issue... That's more of a lazy issue.
Would you describe YCombinator as part of 'the establishment'?

In my recollection, HN has always been pro-YC and pro-venture-capital-in-general, for obvious reasons :)
I think the approach of blaming the individuals is wrong. It's society's fault that it is preferable to take your car. In places where there is successful public transit( NYC, Paris) you see high-density residential building within a walkable distance to a mass transit station. All the ground floors in the buildings around the station are retail business or offices. This makes it easy and convenient for people to use public transit and shop for food. Contrast this with your average american city where there is nothing interesting around mass transit within walking distance and very few residential options.

To fix public transit in America we need to build high density residential building around existing stations with shops on the ground floor. Then it will be rational to use public transit.
Personally, I found it to be a rehash of all the articles since 2017. Even the structure of the book is like each chapter was an article about a set of events.
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I think in the near future we'll have empirical evidence that most ads are malicious exploits of flaws in human psychology.

Ideally, all ads should be plain text listing of facts. Pictures only allowed for demonstrative purposes. And they should be listed in "Ad sections", like a phone book.
Really? Not welcome by whom? You do not know what difficult profession is. Try something better. And the reason they suffer from stigmas is their own doing.
> many other projects have had their compile times explode over many years

Like, for example?
I'm convinced that compiler speed is all a matter of how it was initially designed.

Take for example Delphi which can compile millions of lines of code in under a minute or something ridiculous. Then we have D, Go, Rust, and such, they compile rather large codebases that would take C++ a good 30 minutes on high end hardware of today in shorter spans of time (not as familiar with how fast Rust compiles, but I know Go and D do pretty nicely, especially if you enable concurrency for D), which probably takes those same 30 minutes on high end hardware from about a decade ago.

Sadly from what I have heard C / C++ has to run through source files numerous times before it finally compiles the darn thing into anything meaningful. Facebook made a preprocessor in D to speed things up for them, it technically didn't have to be coded in D, but Walter did write the preprocessor for them, so he gets to pick whatever language.
> Under-reporting of one’s ability is often related to having a _higher_ ability though. perhaps a heightened perception of your linguistic shortcomings is an unfortunate by-product of that superior ability

I don't think this is true. Unless you've misreading the Dunning Krueger paper.
They are the same size as UTF-8 numbers but much slower to decode. I think the more-bit format is the only glaring mistake in proto that can never be fixed.
We embraced minimalism on my team a long time ago—no tests, no docs or comments, variable names are usually 1 or 2 characters, no indentation, no code reviews or QA, no meetings, etc.
‘Meh’ = ‘I don’t know.’

1. Psychology is also considered pseudo science. The age old question about economics is whether it is science or art...some ..usually the cynical..settle on pseudo science.

Pseudo science is a catch all term.

I am reluctant to dismiss something that captures the attention of so many people..now and in the past. Many mathematicians were Astronomers as well as astrologists. When did astrology become the illegitimate bastard child of astronomy? Why?

What about personality tests? What about algorithms? Google search algorithm is not a secret. It must be easy to reverse engineer it, but only a small percentage of the population who use google know how it works. For the rest of the layfolk, it is magic and for others, it’s something advanced enough that it’s beyond their comprehension. But nobody really believes or calls google search results = ‘divination’. Because we know and accept that it’s in the realm of mathematical possibility.

Why not astrology too?

2. Can you explain a little more about AI part of your response. That’s what I want to understand. I can’t even articulate well what question I am thinking of..but I think if you expand upon that I might find the right words.
tsk tsk if you had used a dependency it would have been bug-free /s
This type of elitist, out-of-touch proposal is how you get populist movements like the "Yellow Vest" protests recently in France. In a democracy it's tough to get people to vote for politicians who make their daily lives worse, regardless of the potential long-term benefits.

Sure from an idealized economics standpoint we ought to eliminate subsidies and price in externalities. But it's challenging to eliminate them once they exist.
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the definition of a network effect is that the users themselves make the network more valuable, if the network effect is meaningful they do so in an exponential way and the network is hard to break up.

Uber has virtually no network effects. One driver is just one more driver without any effect on other drivers or users, in contrast to say, user-driven content generation on tiktok or youtube.

In fact, due to the natural constraints on supply in cities if anything there a negative effect to growing the business, which is of course why there has never been a taxi monopoly, to begin with, and transportation is a traditional small business, high competition sector.

No offence and I don't intend to be rude but literally everything in your statement is comedically wrong. They don't make any money, there are no tech margins because drivers, regulation and advertisement cost pile up linearly, and the competition is brutal. How Uber got butchered by Didi in China is only one example of it, but the ride-sharing industry has had many victims already. Just look at bike-sharing in China.
By 'moderators' it seems that you mean users with enough karma to downvote and/or flag. Those are the users who've been affecting this thread. What you're seeing here is that the article is a divisive one, which is unsurprising, no?

It's always been ok for downvoting to express disagreement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.
It makes complete sense for programmers learning git to also learn some relevant underpinnings of what git is doing (not necessarily how it achieves it so efficiently). That is a much quicker route than having users guess at similarities with things they've used or imagine while using it and being surprised with it veers off expectations.
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This is a natural progression that wasn't available during the software crisis of the 1970s.
More. I paid 250 euros for a CalDigit TS3 Plus. Thing is amazing.

When I first got my MacBook Pro, I just got USB-C cables for my external monitor and my (USB-A) hub. That was very cheap, but I love the convenience of Thunderbolt and shelled out the cash.
If it isn’t code, don’t use the code formatter.
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If you need the full power of BLAS, etc then it’s absolutely the right call to use the library. The situation outlined in this article is different: you just need one function (say dot product) and so the minimalist approach is to not take the dependency.
Oh thank god! How nice of them to stop doing that! Go Zuck, go!
Not clicking through to TED "everything will be solved with our optimism".
I had a linux system hit with a virus early 2000s. I had more confidence than linux skills back then and made some colossal blunders to make it happen. But whatever you use as your daily machine, it isn't immune. It's a smaller target, but there is still malware out there for Linux. One of the first widespread computer worms was Unix based[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

PS Edit: Many routers are linux/unix based so it is a much bigger target than a lot of people on this thread are making out. If you have control of a company's routers you are in position to do a lot of damage.
Sao Paulo did the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
I mean it does seem like a good opportunity. Renting a kitchen or even cooking out of your own kitchen seems like a way to bootstrap to success. I remember hearing/reading an NPR "how I made it" about Stacy's Pita chips and she basically followed this path. Here Travis seems have learned from WeWork to own the real estate and rent out the kitchen as well. It seems like a win-win.
> plain text listing of facts

Coca-Cola tastes great!

Coca-Cola gives you an extra pep in your step!

Coca-Cola will rot you teeth!

These are all true statements (the first one is subjective, I'll admit), but I suspect that many believe the effect of plain test listing of facts would only allow the third statement.

> Pictures only allowed for demonstrative purposes.

Wouldn't a photo of someone drinking a Coke and enjoying it be allowed under this rule?
This also applies to features. Easy example: if you’re implementing commenting on a social media app, you could use a textarea instead of embedding a rich text editor. The simpler option usually decreases your overhead and helps keep your product easier to use, easier to explain to potential customers, easier to develop...

It’s easy to keep adding stuff (especially if your customers are requesting it) but you should evaluate if it’s truly necessary.
For those who haven't been to Paris, there's moving/jittering electronic signs everywhere like something out of Minority Report. They're a distracting eyesore and should be banned.
In NYC at least, they prefer Juno (RIP) or Via. For Uber they drive the minimum amount possible to pay for the lease on their car if they have one.

The whole lease situation is kind of fucky though, they're like a sharecropper.
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We found the same going from Munich to Paris a couple of years ago. I'd probably book a cheap hotel and first class daytime train ticket for the same journey now.
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Why did Steve Jobs go back to Apple?

Partly because NeXt was failing, but it was more than that. I suspect there’s a lot of similarity there with Travis, but in his case he may be in a better position.
survivorship bias I guess.
Really nice idea! Congrats!
Please do not take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar or ideological flamewar.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They ask users to comment quite differently than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The main license problem that Debian had was the _license of the logo_. This flaw is remedied. (and Rust hasn't made that mistake)

There was no change of guard, just a very long discussion on how you can make some of the stars align: Mozillas interest that things shipped as "Firefox" are something they can vouch for and Debians interest to use them as free software.
Nothing that they don't already have in place with some configuration adjustments. The Internet is just a lot of interconnected routers.
From the same time period, I find this review that has found different evidence:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3510595

Sodium and hypertension. A review.

Arch Intern Med. 1986 Jan;146(1):179-85.

Abstract

Abnormal sodium metabolism may be critical in the causation of certain forms of hypertension, particularly salt-sensitive hypertension. Long-term restriction of sodium intake in patients at high risk for the development of hypertension may reduce the chances of established hypertension occurring later. These high-risk patients in whom subsequent hypertension may be prevented include normotensive patients with family histories of hypertension, elderly patients, black patients, and those with low-renin hypertension. Treatment of hypertension with moderate sodium restriction to 70 mEq/day will significantly reduce blood pressure in a large percentage of patients, particularly known salt-sensitive hypertensive patients. This degree of restriction is also an effective adjunctive therapy for patients receiving antihypertensive medications. There is convincing experimental, epidemiologic, and clinical evidence that moderate sodium restriction helps prevent and assists in the treatment of hypertension in those patients who are genetically predisposed to develop primary hypertension or who already have hypertension. There is no evidence that this degree of sodium restriction is harmful.

My hunch is that for every study we could find in the bibliography reporting that there is no correlation between high salt consumption and high blood pressure, we would find another 10 that say the opposite. Personally, I don't have the time, or the background, to figure out how to evaluate the quality of an epidemiological study. So I base my assumptions on the current expert opinion that continues to be that too much salt is bad for you especially if you have high blood pressure (or are at risk for it, like the review above says).

Edit: also, remember the basic rule that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". But _presence_ of evidence _is_ evidence of presence. If 10 studies find "no evidence" that lowering salt intake reduces hypertension risk and one study finds that it does, then we have "evidence that lowering salt intake reduces hypertension" and we do not have "no evidence that lowering salt intake reduces hypertension". How we interpet the evidence we do have is another matter, of course.
>The concept freedom & democracy as understood in the west is... just a concept of western cultures.

Not to mention a heavily self-serving hypocritical concept, as they were the first to have 2 world wars, billions of people non-voting second class citizens / working slaves in their colonies, meddling with foreign governments, being best pals with dictators in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and so on...

The concern is all theater...
> in Egypt in 2011 the government famously shut down the internet

The news is that they can now isolate their Internet domestically and run a Russia-only WWW. They presumably could have shut it off completely from Day 1.
The #1 trait is they will dig until they fully understand the problem. When writing code if the first draft Is not good they will rearchitect until it makes cohesive sense.

Time spent getting it right the first time saves significantly more time than dealing with the fallout of not doing the right thing.
It would be interesting to see a comparison to App Engine, which seems like a better fit than Kubernetes for low-traffic sites.
It is a gimmick, the value is that he designed it himself and no one else does it. If you just buy a computer card and install your own software, it is just a really impractical waste of resources.
As a Swede I think the main difference between "these are movies and shows that are popular around Christmas" is that it's always shown at the exact same time on the exact same channel and becomes a strict part of Christmas eve planning.

This has its roots in that non-state broadcast TV was outlawed until 1992 (satellite TV broadcast from the UK was the workaround but far from universally adopted)
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My first thought is that literally billions of people already do something similar every day. They use a card that runs its own small, programmable computer, that is portable, energy efficient, and can be powered 'wirelessly.' It's called a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) -- or the chip used in credit cards / sim / ID cards.

The OS these cards run is often referred to as the "Java Card Platform." The OS has many of the same features you would expect from a modern operating system like support for multiple programs, I/O, and very strong crypto primitives. It even has features you wouldn't expect (because some applets give you access to APIs that aren't currently open source available outside that environment.)
You were living large! My first Linux computer was a 20Mhz 80386SX with a 40MB hard drive partitioned half for Windows 3.0 and half for Linux (SLS) and swap. It had a whopping 4MB of RAM and I also compiled my own kernel making sure to trim down features as much as possible. It was magic seeing X11 come up for the first time just like the big-bucks Sun boxes!
The link is to an American website, serving an article written by an American, about an educational video created by an American.
I think it was irresponsible to keep collecting more phone numbers, and I think he should've let Twitter handle informing users of this vulnerability. Had he used responsible disclosure, he could have claimed a nice bug bounty (between $280 and $2,940, according to [0]).

[0]: https://hackerone.com/twitter
Well, Occam's Razor is just common sense based itself.

It's not an absolute rule, and not something that has been (or can be) proven.
Of course most aspects of life are stressful in some way. That doesn't seem to be a very interesting point. Sitting is probably bad for us, many of the foods we eat cause some damage, etc.

What I meant was that popular knowledge seems to suggest that running is ultimately inappropriate in some fundamental way, and that humans try to avoid it. The trope is that running "hurts your knees" while studies suggest that running generally strengthens knee joints and obesity actually hurts one's knees.
Yep. And they'll be saying things like "the bilingualism dementia study was already debunked", and "we've studied 100s of interventions that supposedly led to IQ increases and none of them have replicated so what are the chances this is a true effect".
> I'm not a physicist but i'm pretty sure its a thing more talked about by philosophers and the popular press than actual physicists.

Right, hence the popular aphorism (among physicists): "Shut up and calculate."
Given how open source is eating into the proprietary software market, this is something everyone in the industry, from developers to operators to investors, should be closely watching.

I suspect the biggest change to affect proprietary software is the shift to SaaS rather than open source.
As a bilingual (and a writer/storyteller by trade), I've always seen the second language as opening my brain to other phrases and analogies that don't exist in the other language. Some people aren't able to parse the extra options, but many are.