skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sugar is the biggest threat to weight loss because the calories from sugar go straight to fat, and the sudden increase in high glycemic index input triggers an insulin response, which makes you feel like a yo-yo merry-go-round of energy/despair.

I've had problems with fatigue/low energy for a while now - I always crash in the afternoon around 2pm, roughly three hours after eating my first meal of the day. After doing some research I decided to cut out sugar and flour in the morning, and the results have been dramatic. My problems with energy and fatigue were getting so bad that I was starting to think I had a chronic illness - nope, just crashing from insulin every day!
Yepp seats are extremely common now. Nearly all cargo/utility bikes have compatible racks and often feature the child seats installed.
Small scale solutions would only create jobs for individuals and small enterprise, not corporate profits. Alternatives to consumerism is NOT welcome on hacker news.
> and dumping some proprietary lossless representation of their internal format doesn't seem unreasonably difficult.

I feel like you're not accounting for the time and effort it takes to maintain backwards compatibility. Once you give a customer a file that uses your internal format you have to always make sure your service will be able to read it back in. Going forward you aren't maintaining just 1 format, you're maintaining N different ones.
This might add some insight into the problem. https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-...
Building for the future, rather than the now.
What do you mean by healthy soil?
My point I was trying to make is probably such an outlier that it is hyperbole. So you are probably right.

I would guess John Carmack would get paid the same whether he lived in a small hut in Estonia or if he lived in SF. I don't think thats true for the person building a web app for a local company to sell knitted socks.
> Biden is the guy closest to Trump that the Democrats could find. Do you disagree?

Yes, I disagree strongly. For what sense of "closest" do you think this is true?
I find it very American to define living standard by the size of the car, size of drink and home size. I much rather do it by the quality of entertainment and culture I have easily accessible, while choosing to live maybe a little bit smaller but much more connected at any time of day.

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It's because it's a Chinese app. US companies have all incentive to show Communist spying. If it was Facebook app it would have been deleted instantly.
Do you mean synthetic keys rather than natural keys?
Postfix. In the local user case. Alias and Virtual are not but local accounts are (because username is case sensitive)

https://serverfault.com/questions/969671/postfixdovecot-case...
> Of course, these sessions were complemented by focus groups and more direct discussion, but in no way was any of this dumbed down by the visual arts.

What's your basis for concluding that the visual arts component provided the benefit, rather than the focus groups and direct discussion?

I also think you're missing the whole point: your activities were for children, and for people who work with children. Why are we treating women like children?

If a non-gender-activist group wanted to host arts & crafts for mental health & community building, I have no problem with that.

I have attended a few and found that there was too much "staring at the problem". We'd start with an agenda and leave off without any action items.

So, if I don't like it why don't I try to change it? At the time I was just starting out and felt that being involved in these groups was not a good use of time as they were a) a distraction, and b) put me at risk of being taken less seriously by my colleagues. A few years later and I've found that I get a lot more satisfaction by having 1:1s or small group discussions with women on my team, who are changing careers, and the leadership in my current company, than I did in a group setting.

I could just live & let live, but the point of this post was to get a feeler out for whether other people feel the same way. Thanks for the data point! :)
Who needs to search for something the most? What topic doesn't have a destination website? I would figure out a niche that needs search and is an industry that is highly fragmented and likely to stay that way. Unfortunately, i am not sure if there are any :), at this point it might make more sense to build a destination site to claim that niche. I.e. you go to amazon for books/shopping, you go to facebook groups or reddit for info from people, travel stays at booking/airbnb... etc etc. what niche really needs external search? /phone ramble
Cha ching. Here's the issue.

That 70$ 'overhead' charge.
The concern is less that Roe v Wade will be overturned outright so much as it will be de facto overturned by death by a thousand cuts. Dozens of abortion-rights cases are heading toward the Supreme Court, and Mississippi's attempt to pass a 15-week abortion ban is just the start.
> VM images can be backed up automatically without downtime (on a schedule, not live.) They offer an EBS equivalent.

But if you need to persist transactions you still need to replicate and persist state yourself. Or can I mount an OVH virtual drive that I know will survive across VM migrations?

> I'll grant that the US regions are operated by a different corporate entity and a different web interface, and that is annoying.

Why? Do they at least support the same API? Can OVH actually scale on demand?
Great question!

Prisms and diffraction pattern gratings split light according to the frequency of the photons (colours) in the input. That's a Fourier transform in a certain sense, and you'd use that to make a spectral analyzer. But what about the Fourier transform of an image, according to the frequency components of objects in the image? Like fence posts at a regular spacing, and such?

Well you might be excited to learn that optical lenses actually compute the Fourier transform of their input image:

http://web.mit.edu/2.710/Fall06/2.710-wk10-a-sl.pdf (the ideal thin lens as a Fourier transform engine, PDF)
Really? If you're familiar with rate cards, can you read this http://www.local14funds.org/forms/NewForms/Wage-Scale-082018... and tell me what portion actually makes it to the person doing the work?
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Perhaps that was the case with e.g. vintage sports cars from the 50s and 60s. But I don't think the British manufacturing industry has been doing well ever since. I would love to be wrong, though.
When SpaceX was talking about reusability for years prior to the first F9 stage 1 landing and reuse existence proof, industry "experts" wrote all sorts of conventional wisdom that was very much like this article.
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In the past, I have supervised cross-platform Unity and UE4 game projects. I even found and fixed a mobile GPU heat death bug :) So that 2x to 4x is just my personal experience.

Some things like GPU pixel shaders tend to be magically slower on WebGL, even if you send the same raw HLSL/GLSL source code. The reason appears to be that due to security concerns, the same shader source code is compiled differently by WebGL than by desktop OpenGL.

Also, many smart tricks like DMA from the SSD bus to the GPU are inherently very unsafe, so WebGL sandboxing simply doesn't allow them. The result is that you need to copy the data twice instead of once and if memory bandwidth is a bottleneck (it usually is for triple-A), then that can easily completely waste performance.
Even in other countries where it's covered they often wont start screening for it until later in life when you are considered at higher risk (but you can get it much younger).
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Hah, I wish!
I can watch a BluRay without an account; just throw it into the player. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t have DRM.
Global Privacy Control [1] is a new specification that is backed by an increasing number of browser vendors and publishers.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/coming-to-a-brow...
> If someone goes faster but never tells anyone, they still went faster.

That's true, and I certainly am not the authority here nor am I knowledgeable enough to pretend to be one....But this reminds me of an argument I had once with someone about Short Takeoff & Landing airplane competitions.

They were bringing up how a group in Alaska was totally incorrect in claiming the competitors at their event were setting world records because (paraphrased) "well I know a guy whose uncle in Idaho took off in a foot less than that on his mountain airstrip, so that video isn't of the world record.".

Did he? Maybe. I can't prove either way. But the difference is, these guys are the, or at least an, authority on STOL world records. If you are serious about setting a record like that, you're going to participate in one of these events. Uncle Jimmy might be a pretty dang good pilot but it really doesn't matter if nobody was there to see it. And the pilots in these all agree that this group is the authority, so why would they recognize a "record" from someone outside it?
People will just sell their possessions to the largest corporation around and then spend their remaining money on something wasteful. Others will try to find loopholes such as buying products from your daughter's company or simply smuggle their assets.

Proposals like this also usually do not address what should be done with the tax revenue. It's almost guaranteed that it will be used for something that increases wealth inequality, because as it is right now that is the default state.
But nobody should be forcing people to use E-mail addresses AS USER IDs!

So dumb.
Great idea! Drop add to list, the searchbar and streaming audio in a different language! Noone cares about any of that stuff
The first picture is giving me Akira vibes for some reason. Hope this doesn't destroy Neo-Tokyo.
You are right that having a fresh eye on the project might be hard to grasp what it actually is. You easily become biased from working on a project, you make readers assumptions without even realizing it.

Although to your point that the jargon is too specific is a bit concerning to me. When I go on and discover a new project, if I don't understand specific terminology, I will go on and read about it to increase my knowledge of this topic. If you're not from the "web world" and you are not familiar with what full-stack means, you should go on and read on the subject simply out of curiosity!

Once again, I totally get your point that the project first few lines should be more informative as to what it is exactly and how it can be used.

I have in fact created an issue for it: https://github.com/chocolat-chaud-io/stator/issues/105
Latest version of both. I figured any of the video recording capable DSLRs likely would work fine and gave it a shot.
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I consulted for six years before going back to FTE a couple years ago, I always used Harvest to track time and expenses, and invoice clients. It was good if you’re doing fixed hourly rate or project billing. If I stuck with it longer, I’d have probably used something that was also accounting, like Quickbooks. Harvest can integrate with those, but there are always challenges keeping things in sync between two systems.
I pay for accounting software. This is part of an accounting package that tracks expenses, invoices, they calculate VAT, Corporation Tax etc.

I can generate invoices via the software and it is emailed to the client.

Some invoicing software give you APIs. I am thinkng about moving to Pandle when I switch accountant but I am currently undecided.
I’d wager that the average HN reader already doesn’t worry much about healthcare; health insurance at high end tech employers tends to be pretty good. Of course many people in tech want universal healthcare for the benefit of others, but it’s not a compelling argument to e.g. personally move to Europe.
>From the sounds of this there's two possible outcomes (assuming good faith): They run again and set somewhere >300mph.

SSC has actually already agreed to run again. [1]

[1] https://jalopnik.com/ssc-tuatara-will-re-run-top-speed-attem...
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You can, and indeed many direct-drive hub systems include this, but it's not a range issue. It's more to save some brake wear. In a 'best case' scenario of many steep hills, such a system will extend range perhaps 5%. Much less in normal use.
Not OP but I would absolutely advocate for that. Urban areas are like huge toxic wastelands to the natural world and inhibit so much growth and biodiversity. Its very possible to imagine cities that integrate nature into their design rather than just plowing over it.
That sort of overhead should frankly be illegal. It's exorbitant. To pay the worker $30/hr, and charge a $70/hr overhead on top of it is daylight robbery.
See also: any time a "subversion repo" is discussed in the mainstream media (see for example the breathless coverage of how Levandowski used one to steal the chauffeur project files from Google).
Running Linux Chrome in a FreeBSD Linux jail already works [1].

But, Chrome is already ported to FreeBSD [2]. Not sure why you'd need Linux Chrome specifically. In fact, there's already a port of Electron [3].

[1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-go...

[2] https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium

[3] https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/
I'm well aware of the differences between a motion to dismiss, summary judgment, and awards at trial. A ruling on a motion to dismiss shows that the law applies to a situation as alleged in the complaint.

As I said in the comment you originally responded to, damages are likely to be negligible, which is why I wouldn't bring such a claim.

You didn't explain what objection you had to the concept of tortious interference as it relates to a takedown request, so I just checked my database for examples of successful tortious interference claims at any stage. (I'm following over 100 similar cases where people or companies harmed by false infringement claims sued.) To the extent you were objecting because I lack a relevant contract, I don't see why the GitHub contract isn't sufficient. The biggest issue is damages.

And as I said above, the plan is to file a declaratory judgement claim, which definitely applies if I can get standing.

Whether a tortious interference claim would work depends on a number of factors including the exact details of a hypothetical RIAA takedown request, and as I said I don't plan on pursuing one anyway.
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Re-evaluate the future you're building for if it's unreasonably expensive to build for it. Sometimes it's cheaper to destroy demand or otherwise not build for density you don't need. This is way different (massively over budget and/or behind schedule public projects) then dropping extra fiber in a trench because you're there already ("Dig Once").

For example, Strong Towns [1] seems to champion the whole "the suburbs are unsustainable" perspective, but never the "public works projects in HCOL metros are too expensive for the resulting density" thesis. Market forces will likely work it out in this case though (people leaving HCOL locations for lower density locations where per dollar quality of life is higher, with major cities having to do more with less, or do less with less [tax revenue] [2]).

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/nyregion/mta-virus-budget...
Bedrock is a generic term for the hard(er) layer of rock underneath the softer stuff.

Manhattan has very tough bedrock (schist)
London has very soft bedrock (chalk and London Clay) - and it's also deeper
Yeah, unfortunately CEQA has become a way for anyone extort.

In LA, housing associations sue to get concessions for their neighborhood and usually using the services of the small group that is suing.
Yes. This is why Americans have so much hatred of labor unions. They cause extremely high labor costs.
Part of it has to do with the fact that unions have to negotiate for health benefits. In other jurisdictions, primary health insurance isn't a thing, so the union can focus on getting better wages.
this is a submarine piece by industry insiders to pin the blame squarely and solely on labor, rather than the myriad corruptions that funnel money to executives and shareholders. for instance, labor rates are likely high, not because workers are being paid so well, but because administrative costs are opaquely tacked onto the labor rates.

that's not to say all of the recommendations are bogus (e.g., the environmental review process being subverted to inflate costs), but rather that that particular conclusion is highly suspect.

the regulatory environment needs to incentivize smaller, leaner, more nimble contractors, rather than oligopoly, if we want a competitive market that will drive down costs and foster innovation.
I'm not saying your comment is wrong, but you don't seem to have understood my point: the unions for the dockside workers in new york were strong, but ultimately a rational negotiation worked. The huge advantage the shipping companies had, was relocation. But, the fact remains a rational negotiation worked. This single fact (relocation) does not explain why.

For some reason, rational negotiation with the workers in the US tunnel boring community doesn't work. Given the amount of excess cost, I think it is very likely better negotiating could work. The question would be, why there hasn't been a rational negotiation. I would argue, the highly intermittent nature of tunnelling, and tunnel work, has made the entities involved (the employers, the state, the city, the corporates) reluctant to do the negotiating.

You talk to consequence: behaviour on the job. That doesn't have a lot to do with negotiating. Negotiating is done behind closed doors.
The relationship in question is mostly not criminal, but rather involves the unions in question supporting the political career of their people in Albany. For instance, when the governor suddenly changed the plan for the L-Pocalypse tunnel repair over the holidays, after chatting with some of his buddies, undermining the MTA chief (who, if I recall correctly, first heard about it from the press conference?) The new plan involves fewer outside contractors and more union labor.

(Yes, Albany, because the MTA is run by the state instead of the city, mostly to limit accountability.)