skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) force WeWork owners to pay for something they're morally opposed to paying for
b) force staff to do what exactly? Pay for their own meat?
I don't find this equivalence very compelling. Anti-gay arguments are based on either religious or extreme-naturalism grounds. This seems much different than arguments based around not harming sentient creatures, which I think many people intuitively identify with to some degree.
When I was a traveling consultant, meal and lodging budgets were generally so bad that it really only made sense to eat a single meal per day anyway. While WeWork might be on a moral kick about this, I can only see it becoming common if companies can use it as some kind of cost cutting loophole, in much the same way many have a no-alcohol policy. Yes meat will continue to be a rare and expensive thing, but humans have been eating it for a few millennia now, I have a hard time seeing that go away in the 100 year picture.
Edit: The authors of the study don't imply causation, but it's tempting to infer it yourself. Thus, my comment.

OK. So this is a observation study, not an experiment. Only correlation can be inferred, not causation.

To make it clear why you can't, let me come up with a new, parallel study:

Track everybody who self reports being told they have a genetic disposition to cancer by a doctor. Divide them by those that decide to go a cancer treatment center vs those who don't. The study would probably show that cancer treatment centers are associated with shorter lifespans.

That makes sense, because you're not going to go to a cancer center treatment if you don't have cancer. But it doesn't mean that going to a cancer treatment centers are ineffective.

Self selection in a study means you can't infer causation. You can only infer correlation.

Note: I'm not actually weighing in on whether I think therapy is good or bad. I'm say the results of this study could happen either way.

Edit: I think you could reasonably infer that therapy isn't enough whenever it is used. But you can't tell if not going to therapy would have been better than going to therapy for those who did - so if there's an action item from this study, it's to improve therapy. But I don't think you can unequivocally say: this study shows therapy is bad.
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They're forced for example in the context of a business trip.
What exactly is the hypocrisy? Eating only meat is a very restricted and strange diet while excluding only meat can be a perfectly healthy diet. You're trying to make these equal opposites but they're not.

Sort of like how not serving alcohol is acceptable but serving only alcohol (not even water) would be outrageous.
Boo hoo hoo you made a lot of money. You could sell some of that value to pay the property taxes, even doing a leaseback.
It might be too much to ask as an interviewer, but it wouldn’t be too much to offer as a candidate. Sit there submissively and only give me what I ask and you might impress me with you skills. Be proactive and get me engaged over something I haven’t seen before or that I wouldn’t expect you to know and you have a shot at wowing me with your potential.
Eating vegetarian is more expensive if you want to feel full and satiated in the end.
Not to mention the times my face shows up in a picture someone posts to Facebook. I'm under no delusion that Facebook actually deleted my account. They know what I look like even though I haven't had an account in years.
The way it works (as far as I have heard) is that when it's "fulfilled by Amazon", the vendors will ship Amazon their products.

Amazon won't really do much in the way of vetting them, and then just throws them all into the same bin (i believe they go by the SKU and not much else). When you order from any of the vendors that sell that exact item, they just pick one at random and ship it to you.

All it takes is one bad actor to ship a bunch of counterfeit stuff to amazon for fulfillment and then it's possible to get counterfeits from ANY seller that Amazon fulfills.
The miners are more than likely expecting that the future value is worth much more than the electricity today. Bitcoin went from 1k to 20 k inside of a year. If that happens again, or more, they would be able to sell at 10x the electricity cost.
It's not, I'm just stating why I believe businesses don't always explain their actions.
Not exactly: An AppImage file packs a Linux app as a compressed ISO image with an ELF preamble that is able to access the contents of the ISO image without unpacking, so you can just double click the package and run the app without ever unpacking it.
I'm pro-choice.

The exact same argument is used for requiring companies and insurance plans to pay for abortion.
What's their position on plastic straws?
<troll type="language">Just use Go.</troll>
When did you last try julia? Things are looking pretty great these days.
What if your company said that they are starting a program to reimburse solar panel installation, but that program doesn't cover reimbursement for gas. Would your argument be that most of the world consumes gas, so they're "forcefully impose extreme views on a whim."
Also, if a group of urban westerners WERE to stop eating such a large quantity of meat en masse, it would have the effect of lowering the price of meat and not the effect of simply reducing the meat eaten in the world. Most of that meat will just get bought by others for a slightly cheaper price. Making protein cheaper for poorer people in the world would arguably be the best outcome of this experiment if the magnitude were anything close to their estimates.
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I thought we already did this by deploying fast food chains everywhere? (taking drugs that make people more compliant or apathetic)
Love your profile message, you pretty much nailed what's going on with HN. Just keep posting, it's the only way to improve things.
>it is unconscionable that we support the literal mass murder and ill-treatment of billions of animals each year when there are alternatives that require no suffering and no death.

There are ways to put down animals which require no suffering.

And no, there are no alternatives to death. Plants are living things too. Why is it okay to murder a plant but not an animal?
Oh man, the moral status of possible future entities is like a singularity of very weird conclusions. I would avoid it.
Only exactly as equal a choice for the individual doing the eating. It's less of a choice for the other beings involved.
From the article:

EPA is proposing to eliminate consideration of scientific studies unless the raw study data are made publicly available — possibly including participants’ personal, confidential, and private information — data that may be subject to legal, ethical, and human subject research protections.

This requirement would eliminate human health studies that use integral medical, lifestyle, and geographic data, as well as studies that include confidential business information, such as information from studies conducted by industry to demonstrate safety of a pesticide or other toxic chemical. It could also eliminate consideration of older studies for which data are no longer available or accessible, even if the data have been reanalyzed and the studies have been validated, replicated, reproduced, and undergone rigorous and independent peer review.

Far from using the best available science for EPA decision-making, the proposal would severely limit the studies and scientific evidence the agency would use to fulfill is statutory mission to protect human health and the environment. This is not a new idea. It is the result of a decades-long campaign to undercut reliance on groundbreaking research...
Is this any weirder than how a lot of companies let employees charge their personal electric vehicles for free, but won't let you expense personal gasoline?
The fact that they are limiting people's choices and free will to eat meat and write-off (financial incentive) is the core problem.
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Hi Chip!

Did you evaluate flatpak/appimage/snap before developing XARs? If so, what were the shortcomings that you noticed in them?

I have found reasonably good success with snap on Python and node apps, but am not an expert on them. Just want to know from other practitioners about any gotchas that others might have studied/stumbled upon.

Thanks!
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/30/2018-09...

The proposed regulation provides that, for the science pivotal to its significant regulatory actions, EPA will ensure that the data and models underlying the science is publicly available

The public availability requirement sounds nice on paper, but in practice, it means ignoring a lot of science during rule-making because the original data can't be published due to genuine privacy concerns.

There are some common-sense workarounds. For example, requiring an EPA or third-party audit of the original dataset and analysis. Or simply carving out exceptions for research whenever it can be demonstrated that an IRB (and therefore federal law) would not have allowed the research without restricting public access to data/analysis.
No they're not.

Every company has limitations and provisions on what they'll expense on business trips, and I don't see how this is any different.
It might be worth mentioning that MS Windows has very similar (though somewhat distinctive) function WaitOnAddress https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/synchap... , introduced in Server 2012 and Windows 8. See for details https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170601-00/?p=...
That could easily backfire though (healthier chips are usually much more expensive), specially because kale chips are delicious :)
"A couple hours on a plane can match a few months of meat-free lunches."

I think you are mistaken there. Maybe if you only care about CO2 emissions, but meat production is also incredibly wasteful on resources like water, and is at least objectionable from an animal welfare standpoint.
It’s alarmist because people will die because of this rule.

If you get cancer because of a chemical spill do you want all of your personal information released to help prove that the chemicals spilled poisoned you? No. You want your personal data protected.
> Humans must take a positive action to eat something.

If you're going to talk about morality and agency, it is not a positive choice to eat anything. It's acting out of necessity to survive. Choosing not to eat is self-destruction and there is absolutely nothing about that that's a moral choice. In fact, it's generally accepted to be immoral[1]. This is why we force feed people on hunger strikes and why suicide is illegal. Modern/western written law is based on natural law.

"Breatharianism" is pure stupidity/insanity and anyone who undertakes such practice can (and will) literally go die.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI25easQs2k
Why is speciesism acceptable but not racism?
You can't just self-publish on Amazon or somewhere else?
Why does it make sense to compare global CO2 emissions to WeWork's CO2 emissions?

One company with one decision making an 0.1% reduction on global CO2 annually sounds pretty darn good to me.
That doesn't weaken the argument, it just calls into question the argument that employers should pay for abortions.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation? Those Millimeter wave body scanners at the airport?

I don't seriously think the gov't is out to do this, but there are possibly ways to do it without leaving outward physical traces.
In the future please avoid using link shorteners (especially bit.ly). The links expire and tend to leave older forum threads full of frustrating link graveyards. In this case, the link points to https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Max-Roser-three-facts...
Is someone inferring causation? From the title, we can at least conclude that "therapy" did not "prevent" measured negative changes.
Could you expand on that? I'm a lifelong vegetarian so I don't have a frame of reference for how satiated a meat eater feels. I wonder what I'm missing.
I will have to test on my 2018 MBP when it arrives in a couple of weeks. Will be interesting to see side-by-side against the PM981.
No Taco Bell was harmed in the making of this policy.
Not to mention, the world is much more connected now. Most German citizens were unaware of the death camps until the end of the war.
Unless you eat quinoa or advogado that may not be as expensive as meat, but are putting a huge stress on the environment.
Conclusion: they only seem to be intoxicated with power.
That's neat, thanks for sharing.
Does eating fast food cause compliance to authority?
There is no requirement for personal data to be released. Plenty of environmental studies have been done with anonymized data.

Sounds like a red herring to me.
I use the Forza ios app, and during the last few games I had to literally hide my phone to avoid its notifications. The lag was more than a minute on England matches.

To be fair, apart from the lag and that crash at the end of one game, the BBC stream was a rock-solid HD, and it almost never buffered. ITV instead was low-res crap, stuttered all the time, and even had compulsory ads. Both streams got worse as the tournament neared the end, of course; in the first rounds the latency was only a few dozen seconds.
Where does it stop? When does compensation stop being the company's money and start being the employee's property to do with as they please?
I just skip the middlemen and use Aliexpress.

There, you'll see 95% of the electronics, tools and small appliances you'd see on Amazon.

The pictures are usually the same, too.
It's worrying.

The groundwork was laid in the US starting in the 1970s.
With the founding of Cato, Searle, Olin fnds. Murdoch bought the NY Post in 1976. Fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987 allowing Rush Limbaugh to go bigtime. Fox started in 1997.
I read mkempe's comment as agreeing that it sounds pretty darned good... in fact too good to be credible.
How do I get something like this with a snapdragon 845? Arm CPUs have taken big steps and there is a big difference between the latest and older CPUs like this.
Bernie lost the primaries by like 10 points and millions of votes. The snubbing was definitely organized, and it was done by the people.
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> The public availability requirement sounds nice on paper, but in practice, it means ignoring a lot of science during rule-making because the original data can't be published due to genuine privacy concerns.

It is more limited if you read the whole sentence, which goes on to qualify which data they are interested in (specifically "publicly available in a manner sufficient for validation and analysis.").
Isn’t this from the custom SSD controller they’ve been iterating over for years? [0] A variation of it even made its way into the iPhone [1]. Of course there are likely more hardware factors, such as binning.

0: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2015/04/apple-custom-ssd-controll...

1: https://bgr.com/2015/09/29/iphone-6s-macbook-ssd-storage-con...
Ah, this is prompted by a conversation I had with others. I'll add a general disclaimer.
I really don't agree, and think you are misguided by the high end/low end characterizations, although I can see where you are coming from. You think that if something was enterprise grade, etc. and had all the features people would switch. You could be right, but

a) you really need to check out some case studies about things like this because people absolutely do not shift to a "better" or even "more complete" product. There is a thing such as lock-in and it's caused by many factors, some of which the user don't even have control over and

b) Consider that people using the other offerings could use your simple less complete offering but which has that 1 killer item (and a couple more as time goes on and you add them slowly). I have seen it many times and I'm sure you have too -- users keep using Photoshop but use that other editor for something special. Or use Office but use some other tool for their specialized offering.

I really think this is the way to go to a) have success and b) even get funding. It's incredibly difficult/rare, even for a team of multiple highly proven individuals, to get that kind of funding and green light to go do a waterfall project based on your hunch that everyone will switch if something just existed.
Do any independent websites sell counterfeit? If so, then we're just comparing isolated cases on a large ecommerce site with what?
“Intensely terrible” is one way to phrase “illegal under the ADA”...

I would assume there will be accommodations made for folks with dietary restrictions that require them to eat meat, whether that’s through a simple waiver or a massive lawsuit.
Taco Thursdays were the _ONLY_ good reason to work at a WeWork location (Unless you are trying to get paid to be an alcoholic).
Your comment is much more polite than my knee-jerk reaction was going to be. I am thankful you made it before I made a poor comment.

I have no problem recognizing climate change and the impact humanity has had on climate change, but for some reason my brain dismisses a vegetarian diet for the sake of affecting climate change as an absurdity. I don't know why. I feel I am open minded out other things related to climate change, or vegan/vegetarian-ism. I don't doubt the science behind it at all, I just find it silly for some reason. I raise livestock on my own land for food and also hunt, maybe that bias has something to do with it.
A lot of comments seem to be missing the facts:

- WeWork isn't forcing employees to be vegetarian (it's not like a hiring requirement)

- most companies have restrictions and rules surrounding their expensing

- WeWork has decided they won't reimburse meat (employees can still buy meat)

Should we force WeWork leadership, despite their rights to hold moral positions, to pay for something they don't want to pay for?
You certainly don't feel this way in principle, just in degree.

Do you swat at mosquitos or flies when they bite you?

Explain to me how you think different races compare to each other like a human compares to a cow? We are superior to the cow in so many ways... is that your opinion of races?

I think it is immoral to not hold humans in higher regard than animals, and do what is necessary to prioritize the well being of animals above humans where there is a choice to be made.

Also, I am absolutely in favor of treating animals as humanely as possible... though I won't go so far as to not eat them.

Maybe some group of humans will evolve over time to thrive without eating animals... but we haven't so far.
For me, hjson takes on some of the warts of yaml (bare strings) which is why I prefer json5 if I'm going for a json variant.
There's a site that will help you do this: https://longbets.org/faq/

The downside is that you won't get your money. It'll go to charity. But you'll be able to prove your point to your great-great-grandkids!
No one's stopping anyone from eating meat. They're just choosing to not serve it. I'm sure you could bring some jerky if you really had to have meat.
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One of the best ideas I ever had was getting a completely separate network connection for our guest WiFi. It was trivial to implement, keeps our diagrams and GRC needs simple, and we no longer have to worry when a PHB wants an IOT lightbulb that'll no doubt get hacked in 24 months.
One typo in the lede and one a few scrolls later. Wtf, Wired, no copyediting?
Wonder if folks at Coinbase did or could have engaged in insider trading? And if they did, does it even fall under SEC jurisdiction or crypto currencies are in the wild West of insider trading?
I don't doubt that many producers aim to improve their process and flavor profile and aim to modernize. But how can they when something like Scotch must be aged 3 years in wood to be sold as such? That is, you can replicate the traditional Scotch aging process in a pressure chamber in a matter of days, and it tastes similar, and the chemical profile is similar, but you cannot sell it as Scotch unless you stick it in a wooden barrel for years. It's arbitrary and ridiculous.

But the article linked in the OP describes traditionalism. Nothing is stopping these Japanese distillers from innovating and expediting the aging process. So really, those low-stocks are artificially inflated in value.

Here is an interesting article [1]:
We put the distillate into a pressure capable stainless steel tank and then we cut up the wood from the barrel into measured segments. We control for size and shape and surface area and moisture content and weight.
Once Cleveland’s spirit is in the tank, the pressure is ratcheted up and then plunged down to a near vacuum. Supposedly, the process is similar to what happens when the temperature fluctuates in a rickhouse. Although “essentially, we’re squeezing that wood much like a sponge,” Lix says. “We pull a tremendous amount of flavor in a short time.”
“By the traditionalists, we’re considered heretics and what we’re doing is sacrilege,” Lix continues. “We’ve been called the number one most hated bourbon distillery among old-school whiskey drinkers.”

Not only do these modern processes face regulatory restrictions in the market, they face backlash from the consumers themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if in a blind tasting, such pressure-aged spirits would fare favorably, but not if their brand and process was known. There is too much biased involved for me to appreciate any part of this industry and it as a hobby.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-scientific-arms-...
Let's not be hyperbolic here. Serving food that doesn't happen to contain meat isn't forcing you to be vegetarian any more than serving only soft drinks at an event would be forcing you to be a teetotaler.
It always stuns me that people still internalize the "both parties" arguments. One party in particular seems significantly more determined and certain to drag American living standards down.
The average cost per mile for an electric is about 8 cents, gasoline is about 16 cents. https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf
It might. Give people empty calories, take away the amino acids, vitamins, enzymes and other nutrients require for normal brain activity, and people get numbed and dumbed down, apathetic, weak.

I have always stood up to authority and as I have improved my health, my will power and energy to stand up to authority has increased substantially.
> Also, if a group of urban westerners WERE to stop eating such a large quantity of meat en masse, it would have the effect of lowering the price of meat and not the effect of simply reducing the meat eaten in the world.

This is equivalent to claiming that demand for meat is purely elastic and that the market for meat is frictionless with respect to shipping worldwide.

What evidence do you have for these claims?
Maybe it is just me, but abortion and health care plans are in no way comparable to eating or not meat during company events.

But, it absolutely is strong argument for change of the laws so that employer paid healthcare plans are not privileged against individual plans. That way, insurance would be paid by government or employee without having to pay more money then what employers do. The root abomination is that employer has such advantage on insurance market against individual.

That would make healthcare kinda like eating dinner - none of employers business.
I'm curious about this mindset - it seems like you object to eating animals because they lack a choice. Do you have any problem with wild animals eating other wild animals (who presumably also have less of a choice)? I'm not trying to trick you or trap you, just genuinely curious.
Chemtrails, man.
That's what I'd always assumed, but taking madrox's comment at face value, it seems like the employees in question thought they were actually cleaning up the Internet. COPPA did no such thing; it just gave the appearance of cleaning up the Internet by making all children magically appear to be over 18 to those asking the question.