skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lost about 13kg since December. Most of it before our winter hit then I plateaued now that spring/summer is back I expect it'll start dropping again.

3 major changes for me:
1) Every (or most days) day I get up and on my bike. I dont set a limit, its just enough that I get on it. What I've found is that over a fairly short amount of time I started riding longer and further just because I was enjoying it. I now add in a stop at an outdoor gym for some sit-ups and push ups etc.

2) I skip breakfast every day. Call it Intermittent Fasting or Calorie Restriction... It matters not.

3) I no longer drink sweetened drinks. black coffee, black tea, water... that's about it.

They're not world changing things but they all seem to add up and work. I think they shouldn't be too difficult to keep up indefinitely.
Many have admitted that they don't understand how Brave works.
Possibly, do you live in VA?
New study finds deaths in Game of Thrones follow predictable rules
Does it matter? I'm sure the machines backing EC2 live quite a long time. And that's OK depending on what they're used for.
Isn't getting paid to view ads a pretty good deal in 2020?
Cosmos was written in a similar style. Try reading it in Carl Sagan's voice and see if it's any more interesting to you.

The purpose of longform writing is to provide flavour and context, which are important parts of an information diet. Not everything has to be about the freshest facts delivered to your brain as urgently as possible. Just because you've happened across this in a frenzied binge of clicking HN headlines, doesn't mean it was designed to be consumed that way. If you don't feel you have time to sit through a New Yorker article, save it for later.
Most of these lessons are 100% applicable to non-SaaS businesses too.
I (partially) disagree with #7, though. A lot of times, the product idea comes to you before you have a clear definition of the customer. As long as you take the time to consider who would actually pay for the product, and define your requirements in terms of their needs, you've done the right thing.
> Setting the same thing up on AWS

Having run a simple web server + database on both EC2 and Digital Ocean I disagree. The two services are nearly identical at that scale.

In fact I don’t see any significant differences between any of the proper cloud providers at this level. The cost & functionality are very nearly the same.
The locked down nature of the Chromebook is also (if not primarily) about security too.
Sorry to hear that.

Did you get your irreplaceable's out? Decent coverage? Really hope it's not too much of set-back for y'all.
Hopefully Google gets a better grip on this - they already ban YT channels while leaving the rest of the G account in-tact (including in cases of copyright violation, although limited to YT - G Drive copyright probably still affects your entire account), so it's in their power to ban you only on certain services, it's just a mystery.
Fedora just did it for all the infrastructure servers this summer:

https://hackmd.io/@fedorainfra2020/Sybp76XvL
Same here. I like Brave especially on mobile for blocking web trackers. I find the crypto attention token neat and automatically pay out a few bucks per month to my favorite websites as well as sometimes one-off tips.
Seven Years' War would beg to differ :)
I think that most of the towns in the Flathead Valley all have good potential - they are all nice little enclaves
Most of the issues in the article can be addressed with an API Gateway or similar wrapper abstraction so that consumers may integrate with the gateway one time and then add each feature as-needed.
Or the same people who defend Holocaust denial.

I don't know what's going on either but there certainly seems to be an uptick in some straight up embarrassing thinking on this site.
I've been doing it for while. For me, "degoogling" was (and still is) a long process. I literally went service by service, testing a new solution online for a while, and when satisfied, I switched. Obviously, I can't reproduce the way everything was integrated to work together, but my other options are still comparable and functional. I feel I've taken back control of my data and how I manage it.

Another aspect is that I have much less trust in any online services - free or not, open source or not. I'm more sensitive of where my data is hosted (politics and privacy), who owns the service, and their reputation. I now have a plan B for those solutions I've switched to, just in case.

For things like backups, passwords, file storage, calendar, I use different systems on a Raspberry Pi that I can access online. When picking an online service, I made an effort to read the EUA and the privacy policy to find out how my data would be used and if/how I would be tracked. In the end, it's very possible to move away from Google and it's working for me, but this will always be an ongoing issue, since companies, like people, will "adjust" their ethics to fit their needs.
The work-at-home cultural change makes the pressure on mass transit less. Remember we had to do work at home with current, somewhat neglected technology. Just wait.
Have you gone back to see why those regulations were created in the first place? I mean, it's not like lawmakers just came up with them randomly.
Ok, so in the interest of a genuine conversation here, what gives you such a strong reaction to this?

I see this as basically identical to having paid for a storage unit or a safety deposit box.

I paid to store things there. When I stopped paying they got dumped out.

I don't genuinely believe it would have much impact. Basically no one views the content I really try to make public, so who's going to hunt down those docs?

The company isn't saying "When you cancel we'll send an email to your spouse, boss, and parents with all your private documents". They're just saying - "Hey, we're tossing your documents in the bin over there because you stopped paying to store things"

Why is that anywhere close to as bad as revenge porn?
I don’t know why people subscribe to arbitrary numbers on the internet vs just experimenting. If you want to lose weight, you eat less and burn more and that is it. Not losing enough weight? Don’t quit. Just run more and eat even less. Or run even more and maintain your diet.

There is no human that won’t shed weight like water off a roof if given energy expenditure coupled with restricted intake. And its easy to overwhelm yourself with energy expenditure if you wanted to still eat like a pig: start running up and down bleachers until you are on the verge of puking and watch the pounds fly off.

The reason why so many people are overweight is because they spend their life sitting in bed, sitting at work, sitting in their car, burning tens of calories. Then they try cutting out a 300 cal muffin from their daily intake and wonder why it takes 6 months to lose 5 lbs. You need activity, especially if you don’t have activity in your life. It’s who we are as animals. Early humans would walk game down until it was exhausted and sitting down no longer able to even stand. Then our ancestors would calmly walk up to the delirious antelope on the verge of death and poke it with a stick or beat it with a rock. Today, no one bothers making time to burn those calories, and that’s ultimately why people get fat. Modern suburban living has coddled us from physical activity, such as walking.
Not sure which is better - the government of China spying on me, or the biggest American tech company which, in return, provides access to immensely valuable services.
Here's how a few hedge funds use data in production 'Dexamethasone Announcement Could Have Made Hedge Funds A Fortune'
https://www.alpha-week.com/dexamethasone-announcement-could-...
I think they made the discovery that infectious diseases exist.
I've found YouTube to be extremely valuable for eductional/informational content that I wouldn't have otherwise had access to.

Ditching YouTube would be a massive net negative for me.
It's not unusual for a server to also be a router in a layer 3 link aggregation setup. It's extremely common for IPs to be load-shared amongst servers using ECMP. If each server is connected to 2 Top-of-rack (TOR) switches and advertises the route to the shared IP through both TORs, you can very easily have ICMP probes used for PMTU take the wrong route and be dropped. The result is a TCP session with a default MTU that may not work along all traversed paths and will suffer from fragmentation.
If all it is some data scraped off a few web sites that they could get an intern to do in a week or three, then it's unlikely to be valuable enough for them to pay you a substantial sum of money.

The most valuable data is data that is difficult to gather. Think things like proprietary (i.e. unpublished) industry data. The canonical "sexy" alternative data set sold to hedge funds is counts of cars in retail parking lots from satellite photos.
I agree that developers make mistakes and humans are fallible. Why then do you want me to list permissible cipher systems off the top of my head? Of course I would look that up. (I’ve got a JIRA issue from a couple of years ago about this topic.)

By saying that I want developers to worry about TLS algorithms, I mean that I want developers to worry about everything and understand that they have shared ownership of the production system.

I lead a small dev team working in a reasonably sized division of a large company. We’re accountable for both operations and development, and we’re security-sensitive (I have domain expertise in DFIR). It’s my ass if we screw up any of the ways you cite. We mitigate that risk in a lot of different ways, and I try to seek out new things we can do to ratchet up the quality of our build products.

Again, I think your insistence that things be a certain way doesn’t fit my situation. Have a good evening.
Healthcare in Europe is also paid by the workers, with their taxes.

The real difference is that it's 2-3 times as expensive in the US.
> Facebook perfected it.

Wow, that's quite a statement. Do you really, honestly believe that Facebook is a perfect social media service? I mean, Google Plus was far superior to FB but still had room for improvement.
Sad because thats how it began.
Last I heard there were ways to farm BAT so be careful investing in it.
> If I want to have more than you, and I can get it by [exploiting labour and existing material resources]... why not?

>If I can't get rewarded for [exploiting labour and material resources], I probably won't [exploit labour and material resources].

>First, society doesn't get the extra that some people would have been motivated to produce.

"Society" doesn't get that extra anyway, if we are talking about billionaires keeping hold of an 11-figure income. The same labour and material resources exist in the world either way (perhaps moreso, if they are not used up unsustainably to the point of scarcity); the "extra" only accrues to the person doing the exploiting.
It's probably related to Google killing^W sunsetting Google Play Music and moving everyone to Youtube Music..
I love this insight, I just recently learned about the hidden HN feature to favorite comments and used it for the first time to favorite your comment. It's always a pleasure to read your comments on HN, I noticed your handle popping up here and there and would like to thank you for your contributions. If you had a collection of all your comments on HN printed in a book I think I would buy it:)
I can speculate just as well as the next guy. Their system could have been been rate limiting me, or maybe it decided I was a spammer abusing the system. The point is, there was no transparency.
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That foot caught in your door could be that of a digital security enthusiast (i.e., mine)!

A night off is often spent at the workstation hopefully long enough to solve a CTF reversing challenge or boning up on my cryptography, be it in coding practice or theoretical studies. Proudly, I have completed the Cryptopals' original six and Microcorruption.

I am looking to step up and assist with fortification efforts for live infrastructure as a consultant or in-house team member. And, it is my hope that such industry exposure, sprinkled with your expert guidance, will accelerate my pursuits in further learning.
Covid-19 is killing my people – And no one seems to care
That's not the right question.

The question is are labor unions stronger in Paris or New York; London or Chicago?

It's not an obvious answer. If you just looked at pay, you'd probably come to the conclusion that unions in blue state metros in the US are much more powerful than any of their European counterparts.
Head coverings for referees would generally be a matter for national football associations as is the case with other parts of the uniform other than FIFA controlled international competitions. In the US, USSF lightened it’s stance on hats at lower levels because of skin and eye cancer cases involving “people everyone knew.” But you won’t see it a high level (e.g. professional matches) and young referees seeking to move up are discouraged from it in practice. And because the parallel system of High School and College officiating allow hats, USSF is probably more open than many national associations. The ADA also creates some legal liability as well that is unique to the US.
You'd think at some point, if people were watching, they would've gotten the linesman to wear a hat or something.
Copy is a term for the words on a page/site. The writing. The sentences and the construction of their words, purportedly to advance whatever cause the page is trying to push.

I think it's a vestige from the days of the printing press.
In my experience wavenet-audio isn't that good. You can definitely hear the difference. That sounded very natural. I'd be surprised if it wasn't an impression.
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This is a good point.

A standardized (and importantly open) platform that executes code exactly the same is the best to execute code on.

Flash was terrific because you, as a developer, didn't need to wonder if it would run the same on every machine. It did.

It was a major hit to my productivity when Flash went away. HTML5 never really replaced it - mostly due to browser compatibility issues.

Flash was not open but chromium is. The future is oddly bright here.
> I'm not sure how I feel about adding deliberate boobytraps to repos that seems to be purely punitive.

It also feels like it would violate the license of the repository. I see that one of the author's repos is LGPL [1], which allows redistribution of the source. Restricting how that source is distributed seems to me like a violation of that license, if not in letter at least in spirit.

(Of course, it goes without saying that I'm not a lawyer, which is why I said it feels like a violation.)

1: https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/haskell-mountpoints.git/tre...
My manager at work is a big believer in microservices.

I never reveal my true thoughts because I don’t think he would understand the heresy of the unbeliever.

Never tell anyone to their face that you don’t believe their god is real.
What hardware would then you use to get a secure environment? Is there something better that system76? Orange Pi?

What do the big players use to avoid loosing secrets?
The pipe that stopped drilling in Seattle was 10 years old, not 100. It was meant to measure the seismic stability of the viaduct that was eventually removed. The tunneling firm was found to be aware of the pipe and liable for delays.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machin...
There's also the second hand market. My first PC was a used Compaq. Weighed about 50 lbs too.
Tinder got their first 15,000 customers
Interesting theory. And indeed, it is just. But On its face it negates the validity of any drive by scroll down to accept contract, but I believe they are binding to some extent at least. Maybe the scroll down click is considered at tacit acceptance of what’s inside.
I really don't think that FP should be able to take claim for this. Or, at the very least, I don't think the sort of evangelical FP should. Type pattern matching isn't all that different from virtual dispatch if you squint.

If the FP community wants to say that impure languages have been "doing FP" for decades then great! The religious war is over! We can happily have mixed paradigm languages and move on. But that's not what I'm seeing.
Well, a lot of reporting on the affiliate code situation partly mischaracterized what actually happened. There was an auto-complete suggestion that was auto-selecting when you pressed "enter", and it was fixed shortly thereafter. There is a blog post about it called "On Partner Referral Codes in Brave Suggested Sites".

That said, it does essentially the same thing Firefox does when you do a search on Firefox. Try right now: go into Firefox, type in a search in the URL bar, press enter, and you'll see it appends/"injects" a Firefox "affiliate code" as a query parameter so that Firefox gets a cut from Google. One salient difference is that Firefox's "affiliate code" is a vanity code (human readable: "?client=firefox-b-d"), so it isn't viscerally shocking.

If it read "?client=brave" like it does on Firefox, it's very likely no one would have ever cared!
The permalink icons do work for me (Firefox)...
Pizza fritta is at least a Neopolitan tradition. I thank them for starting this wonderful trend.
Sebastian Thrun: How to Get Big Ideas Off the Ground
https://archive.vn/tNQdE
Sure, if you are independently building your service, or working a tight feedback loop with others on the product.

As others pointed out, it works for companies who operate and scale engineering teams. Good luck maintaining complex applications across tens to hundreds of developers.
It would be interesting to add up the monthly fees for the top alternatives and see how much it would cost to completely replace google. Just the first few items already put you in the mid double-digits per month.
It’s also a matter of strength in numbers. It’s impossible to go after every little VPS provider in the world, or at least significantly harder, than it is to just tell Google to shut down person X’s account and give us a nice report.
> I think women from cultures where the fairer sex are considered historically ‘submissive’ would have dealt with this entirely differently.

It's pretty much all human culture. It's probably a trait inherited from our pre-human ancestors. After all, our closest primate, the chimps, also have male dominant social order.

> Women who are not surrounded/supported by their ‘sisterhood’ or female ‘tribe’ often get exploited by men.

Oh boy here we go again. Sure there are exploitation by men, but the vast majority of exploitation of women are by other women. There is no magical "sisterhood".

> Experience. Other women know. They share. They talk. They gossip. Guidance.

Or gossip, exclusion, rumors, destroying reputations, bullying, etc. Eating disorder, self-image issues, cutting, self-harm, etc are mostly female on female violence.

> I am always suspicious of men who try to isolate their girl from female company.

Female company? No. You should be suspicious of men or women who try to isolate a girl or a boy from their parents/siblings/friends. Most women recruited for prostitution, cults, MLMs, etc are by "female company".

> Children are a burden.

They are a responsibility.

> the female uterus is severely undervalued.

As opposed to the male uterus?

> As is the value of progeny.. by men.. it is the vessel for half their genetic material and their only way to leave a meaningful biological legacy.

Seems more like you are devaluing the value of men?

> So until we can grow little humans in pods, women must make men pay their due for carrying their genetic material and delivering it as viable life forms or deny them the opportunity to leave behind a genetic legacy.

You are essentially saying women's only value is procreation. So if we can grow little humans in a pod, wouldn't women have no value then?

Also, men protect the women, provide shelter, food, etc. You make it seem like women do all the work. Stop basing your reality off of silly netflix series.

Honestly, what's the difference between people like you and white supremacists. Just change race with gender and I don't see a difference. Of course this kind of flamewar and disinformation nonsense is welcomed all over social media.
Yep. I decided to check if they really still look anything like that. Shouldn't have done it.
Wait till Asia's borders open. The fanout will go transpacific. Especially in Southeast Asia.
I worked for Samsung. Some guys in Korea got into heated discussion and carved each other with kitchen knives available in the office. Guess what, no kitchen knives other than plastic.

Here in Poland people just started bringing their own EDC knives.
But the idea that interacting services can be built by different teams isn’t just dev ops complexity, it’s insanely complex managing that stuff because it involves humans.

Never mind that everyone building micro services just goes “fuck transactions and eventual consistency, I’ll go with maybe/probably my data gets corrupted over time” whoop.
Yeah, but the worker has to be a union member, and they don't let random people join.

> The idea was that the government didn’t want jobs to be done by cheap labor

To be more specific, they didn't want the jobs to go to black workers.
You can actually see how it will look like by watching The Expanse - it takes place in ~2350 and there is a huge wall all around Manhattan including in front of the still standing original UN building, as most terrestrial glaciers are long gone.

But this is actually a much less pressing issue than the couple gigaton nukes the Mars Congressional Republic has targeted on Earth, the ever more emancipated belters and some very shady deals by secretive yet very dangerous corporations.
Smoked haddock and chips is delicious. Comes in just ahead of the spicebag/box, closely followed by scampi.
I love the docs. Seems very complete, lots of examples, easy to follow.
>I don’t seem anyone complaining about the Android monopoly for example or the Linux kernel monopoly.

It's funny because these are very hotly debated and detested monopolies, but I guess that discussion just never happens on hacker news...