skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm uncomfortable about taking BBC articles at face value. If you read it with a critical eye, you can see it giving weight to unspecified surveys a lot more than official Government surveys. There would have been a much easier way to measure meat consumption: measure the production of meat (internal + imports) and average daily consumption of households to see if the data is valid. Until the article provides any kind of proof that the data is flawed, I will continue to trust official figures.

> Which is hilarious considering the whole holy cow thing.

I genuinely don't understand what you mean by this. Milk rearing in India is not done in the industrialized fashion that you see in the US, but by small scale dairy farmers who sell their produce to cooperatives. In a country like India where nutrition is scarce, milk and milk based products are an excellent way to supplement diets. And as you mention they are already a substantial part of Indian cuisine.
There's a lot of assumptions buried in that statement. Once they reach scale, sure, but they also raised $1.26 billion to manufacture the Tesla 3. That's going to take a lot of cars to amortize out the cost of the production pipeline, and R&D.

These production cost numbers remind me of bad graphs. I'm always left wondering if the author really meant them to be informative and accurate, or just wanted to rabble rouse.

A Tesla 3 doesn't cost $28,000 to make. It contains $28,000 worth of parts and labor. Just like my sandwich doesn't cost $1 to make. That's only true if I ignore the waste materials, kitchen, lights, cleaning supplies, house, neighborhood and city I bought into in order to enjoy the privilege of making my own sandwich in peace and quiet. Just standing in my kitchen that long cost me 6 cents in property taxes, for instance.
Those ads seem to indicate to me that things are much worse, traffic wise, than it seems from the outside.
Moreover, IMO there is a danger of Streisand effect for users who may be using FB despite everything..
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You live under a rock, not in SF. I live in SF and I constantly see scooters riding both on streets and on sidewalks. "No one is riding them in the streets" is absolutely false.
> I recently saw SF helmet-cam footage of an intelligent, conscientious biking coworker, who decided to pass a van on the right, only to find that the van was turning right. While trying to make a left in busy traffic, I was ambushed by a bike-bro in North Beach

I can't speak to those locations but FYI, in Massachusetts, the driver would be eligible for a citation in those instances, even without a collision. Turning traffic always yields right of way to straight-through traffic.

Speaking with cyclists who practice such "momentum hacks", I often get the response along the lines of "Even obeying the law, drivers nearly kill me every day so what good is the law?".
I think you and the media are both wrong. You're wrong because the distribution of outage is rarely uniform. If 9 of 10 attempts worked, customers would try their cards again and there'd be no story.

What we see here is that some customers are seeing a total outage, while others are entirely unaffected. And the press is more wrong, because by ignoring the 90% who are unaffected, they exaggerate the problem by an order of magnitude.
Google may be interested in the problem.
Brief, Multiedit, Codewright, Semware, Slickedit and Epsilon used to keep the lights on at many programming/tech magazines. You don't hear much about them anymore...

Clark Maurer still updates Slickedit at least annually though.
I'm still trying to figure out how that would work with e.g. a piece of glass sitting at an angle other than parallel to the wavefront. That would pass most of the light while reflecting a collimated beam that is much more powerful than allowed for direct laser emission.

Consider the situation where a flat piece of lime glass is in the way at an angle that reflects 1% of the light and passes the rest. With a 3W beam, that would reflect 30mW of laser light which as a direct emitter would be class 3B.
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I'm somewhat bothered by the fact that the illustration is of "cavemen" and video of someone recreating paleolithic technologies.

The neolithic period was one of agriculture and early civilization. Stonehenge was built by neolithic peoples, and Egypt, Mesopotamia and China were embryonic civilizations in the neolithic era as well. Cavemen, these were not.
I understand what you are saying but I disagree.

Your value is facilitating the whole enterprise, providing customers a way to get the work done, taking the risk of finding customers and other uncertainties of business while giving someone a place where she can earn these $800.
If you had not done that, she would not produce the work and someone would not be able to buy it.

This is where your value comes from.
>Anyone can go build a crawler and scrape the web the way Google scrapes it so they can compete with Google.

Unfortunately that is not the case. Many paywalled sites will let googlebot index their content but block other crawlers.

They may have good reasons for doing that in some cases, but as a consequence the level playing field you're talking about no longer exists.

Also, the purpose of using Google as part of some automated process is usually not to compete with Google's search engine, but to complete some specific and limited task.

I don't understand why Google does not have a general search API offering. I'm sure many people would happily pay for it.
you mean to travel with a chair or buy a chair and desk in every place i visir every three weeks :)
Why SoftBank invested $2.25B in Cruise
However governments often have undisclosed access not even known to the holder of the information.

I doubt GDPR will significantly affect information to which the government wants access

Can I ask the government to delete all information on me?
For this to work you unsolve the key-sharing problem. Everybody who will ever want to communicate with anybody must agree in advance shared secrets with every such party and then retain them indefinitely. You assert the resulting scaling "is harder, but it's not impossible" and I'm sure that by some technical definition of "impossible" this statement is even true, but in practical terms it's never going get done which is why such systems are used (if at all) only by secret agents.

If you decide well that's OK, we can do something simpler - everybody will have an infinite set of aliases like "Zanizabo" or "Fylnatis" but they won't be one-to-one shared secrets, alas Mallory simply hears you say "Zanizabo" and she says "Hey, Zanizabo, call Oxymoron" (Oxymoron is an alias Mallory has chosen for this purpose) and soon discovers that Bob answers so now she knows who you wanted to talk to.
Maybe it was sabotage.
Glad I happen to be in Munich where cash is king otherwise I would’ve noticed. Using cash here has made me rethink my habits.

Still no chance I will put down my AMEX. 6% cashback at Grocery stores, 3% at the pump, and 3% at the department store I shop at. Even if I carry a balance sometimes I made almost $700 back last year.
Probably 28 inches or so.
> Reading is just consumption. You don't have to do any critical thinking

If that were true, you would believe anything and everything you read. I doubt that, barring Trump tweets, I will read a more ignorant statement all week.
Teens Dump Facebook for YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat
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A hasty "Out of service" works instantly because we (as Americans?) are conditioned to expect to see that when something is broken, just like a stop sign.

The longer note looked like a notice, which people tend to ignore — particularly if they're in a rush or frustrated.
Hey, I get a response from your mail server saying the "jobs" group may not exist.
> The link you referenced counters your point that its a big no-no in most parts of the world to take a photo of someone without their consent. In the majority of the countries listed on that wiki page no consent is required with certain exceptions.

I added the reference to the list as support for my thesis that it can have legal consequences, a fact that in my experience people from the USA or the UK are often oblivious about. Just because it is not forbidden doesn't mean it is acceptable though.
I think it is no coincidence that we see strictest regulation in central Europe because these countries are around the border line between the different attitudes. Go farther east and there is no need to regulate the culturally obvious.

> I have never personally had any issues with my street photography in the UK,

Of course not, UK is one of the best countries for shooting street.

> it boils down to being respectful and not behaving in a harassing manor. If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy then one should consider taking an unsolicited photo as an invasion of privacy.

Absolutely.
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Yes/No?

Keep in mind, the shift from farming being a major employment sector happened while the current US infrastructure was being built. The highways and population distribution were in part because of that.
Also the US is one of the world's largest in area, and while urbanization is being pushed due to changes in the labor needs, it's something that happens over time not over night.

As for "you could do X" most of your statements aren't really proof of an American obsession with cars, just a different infrastructure choice relative to other nations.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Roa...

The US has 27% more cars than France per capita. That's statistically significant and reflects difference in city planning/culture, but IDK that I'd draw the same conclusions as you.
It was a constant source of bad publicity when offensive things would hit Trending. Once Facebook conceded that manual curation would be necessary, it was just a matter of time before they deemed it not worth the cost.
I think if streets were limited to delivery traffic and construction you would be fine. Note that this needs to be real deliveries. Sort of like pornography I know it when I see it, but I'm not sure I can define it well enough for a law to work.
I'll be the voice of dissent regarding The Soul of a New Machine and also More Than My Share of It All.

Yes, Soul won the Pulitzer prize, but it was published in 1981, and I found it very dated, and hard to slog through at times. I know it'll never happen, but I'd love to see a re-write, or a heavily edited edition that's more approachable for a modern reader.

I also found More Than My Share to be a little disappointing. There were some fun things in there, but overall the there was too much of an emphasis on the tedious details of his life, not enough detail about the technical and managerial challenges / accomplishments, and then (unfortunately disjointedly) a few project management guidelines and some technology forecasting were tacked on at the very end. I can't help but think that he had more anecdotes and technical adventure stories in him which would have made for a much more compelling, enlightening, and readable book.
As someone who left Facebook awhile ago mostly because life got busy, those ads seem to solidify an (alternative?) narrative of why I left rather than urge me to come back.
Payment chaos as Visa system crashes across Europe
Kubed 0.7.0 – Kubernetes cluster ops daemon released
to make a bad CS analogy, imagine 4.5 billion years of grad student code. Each generation does juuust enough work to graduate, makes liberal use of chicken wire and duct tape, JB weld if you're lucky. Source control is for suckers. Mutation is a great design pattern. Globals are obviously the best. Goto is fine. Dependency management is for lesser beings. The code was hard to write, so it should be hard to read. There are no comments and if there were they would lie.
I should probably clarify: it’s easier to make sure that a binary is the same as a version that has been audited, whereas with source code, there’s much more uncertainty in the build process.
Curious about the 1-tap law. Do you have a link to the actual statute here?
That's no doubt true, but I think the biggest problem was (and maybe is) price. They were something like $5K when they came out. I don't have hard data, but I'd be surprised if the median adult bike sold is more than $500 or $600. And the retail price of electric scooters seems to be $500.

In terms of sharing, too, I don't think it's a coincidence that the real ascension of bike and scooter shares is happening with smartphone penetration.
Interesting. Yes, this is certainly a possibility (and far worse for people who are impacted).
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I had not previously seen theses ads you describe, but I found a photo of one here: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/99893040218522009...
If adults forget so much of what they learned in school, what's the point?
The expanded universe had a lot of absolute junk in it. It's easier for them to throw it all out and then selectively re-introduce the few bits that are worth saving than it would have been to drum out the bad bits one at a time.
> I have 11 kids.

I think its a pretty safe assumption that your paradigm of life differs significantly from most people on this forum. More concretely, having that many kids automatically make it a different calculus to decide an optimal place to live.
Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
Exactly, they have to pop my machine too. They can't just take control of the traffic in the middle, which absolutely can be done in Tor with enough gov controlled guard nodes, as the arms race of patching has proven.

I can set up multiple canaries that they will have to pop and the fingerprint of one of those canaries is going to change or drop off the net.
> How would I debug with no source?

I don't work in the field, but just because you're using a certified binary doesn't mean no source can ever be associated with it for debugging.

Continuing the example of a certified binary of openssl from a third party (say version 1.1.0h), I'd expect you to be able to debug the certified binary using a version-matched source tarball from the openssl website [1].

[1] https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz
I've found it way easier to customize Emacs, and you can do so much more. Though Atom has pretty great customizability also. This is not true of Visual Studio Code, which has much stricter plugin points.

That said, I know Lisp as well as JavaScript. Obviously, more people know JS, so might find tweaking Atom easier.

In emacs though, I don't even need the internet to figure out how to customize things. C-h is all you need. There's a book bundled in, all functions and variables have amazing built in documentation. You can search for any binding, function or var by regex, go to their code, read their doc, redefine them at runtime.

The only place where Atom wins for me is in theming.

At the end of the day though, I had to go back to Emacs for performance and memory footprint reasons. Atom was just too slow, and used up too much memory.
If the only genuine charity is invisible, how can we maintain a society with a culture of genuine charity? If charity is secret, it's too easy to simply not do charity, since there are no consequences, neither positive nor negative reinforcement.

I have my suspicions about the PR motives of https://givingpledge.org/ , but ultimately, doing good in exchange for positive PR (a form of "buying advertising") is a deal I'd take every day.
The initial part of this article sounded a bit handwavy to me: "Evolution could have simply tweaked the parameters of sperm development so the ideal temperature of its enzymatic and cellular processes was the same as the rest of the body’s processes. [...] The fact is that there is no good reason that sperm development has to work best at lower temperatures."

Do we understand enough of the sperm development process to be able to affirm that a higher temperature variant of the process could work better, and that the only reason for the lower temperature one to have won is path dependence?
Looks like a cheap escape from jail card.

Run an exit node and then do something illegal. Then blame it on someone else.
It depends on what is thrown into R&D costs. For improvements and maintenance to current production lines, that would traditionally be considered as part of the gross margin. Though research into completely new production lines would not.

Tesla classifies both as R&D and doesn't include them as part of their gross margins.
Contemporary nerd culture. It's all about being in on things, so you have 20 year olds that act like old fans of ST:TOS when they were -30 years old when it first aired, and was the last of the series that they ever watched (they may not have even watched it). They know everything about it, titles, air dates, actors who played bit parts and became famous later. Or people who didn't give a shit about Spiderman in the 90s who're fully read up on his wikia content now.

This leads to a faux or ironic nostalgia act by everyone involved: the "fans", the actual fans, the creators, and the media around it all.

It's making things pretty dull because this spans all ages. Older folks may have actually been fans from the start, but they still fall for teh nostalgia trip of the new media and spend money on it. And the media companies make things that are designed to appeal. To nod and wink at you for being so clever, for knowing which episode or comic issue that quote came from. For knowing that this guy was a villian in the comics, but here we'll give him to you as a bit part. Wink wink.
So it's actually quite hard to use your data as a proxy of understanding how badly Visa Europe credit cards are doing.
ICANN is the internet's FIFA
http://www.thirty-thousand.org

Even if we upped it to 5,000-6,000 reps, it would be a huge improvement.
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Your post says "No prime divides the new number, so you've just produced a new prime." What, exactly, do you mean by "produced"? You say produced, not "established the existence of", so it makes it sound like you are assuming a constructive argument.

Do you mean that the number you've produced is prime? Or do you mean that "the number you have computed is either prime or has a prime factors not in your list of primes, therefore, by computing the factorization of that number, you produce a new prime"?

The former statement is demonstrably false, the latter statement is true. Others have read your proof as stating the former, and I argue that the latter is a generous but not unreasonable interpretation of your phrasing.
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> Many do prefer that.

No, they don't, unless they're small companies who are very risk-averse perhaps. I'd wager there isn't a single debt-free company in the Russell 2000 index.
Visa Debit in Ireland too, now.
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National statistics disagree with you. IDK what your neck of the woods is, but there's millions of people who live in urban areas in which car ownership is completely foreign that bring those averages down.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/United-Sta...
Not in the Senate we don’t. The Senate is supposed to represent the will of the states, and who better than the sitting Governor?