skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animal capture in the US alone requires enough agricultural land for feed that the world's hunger problem (815M [0]) could be virtually erased by using that existing farm land for plant agriculture (800M in 1997 [1]).

The tropical deforestation cycle is generally understood as: new roads lead to new accessible timber land. That land is then logged legally and illegally and abandoned. Hunger issues push sustenance farmers to slash-and-burn the cleared and abandoned areas for animal agriculture.

So, indeed, unless cotton and coffee and sugar behaviors can feasibly resolve hunger issues, it does make sense to focus on animal agriculture.

[0] https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-stati...
[1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-mi...
> "communist dictatorship" is inexact enough to be outright dishonest.

They are Communists even if they aren't communists.
Click bait headline
I don't think you need a separate queue; if you have an "Events" table then you can just write everything there.

It solves the consistency problem because you can create your event inside a transaction, which will rollback if another event touching the same source is created simultaneously.

E.g. if you have these incompatible events in a ledger:

CreditAccount(account_id=123, amount=100)

DebitAccount(account_id=123, amount=60)

DebitAccount(account_id=123, amount=60)

You'd want one of the debit transactions to fail, assuming you want to preserve the invariant that the account's balance is always positive. You could put the `account_id` UUID as an `Event.source` field, which would allow you to lock the table for rows matching that UUID.
If you live in the bay area, go to Berkeley when you have some time, to the vegan deli The Butcher's Son, and try their buffalo chicken sandwich. It's fantastic.
On top of the terrible search, they also show ads. Which, if search was good, would be explicitly worse than actual search results.
>As police have struggled to round up enough Uighurs to meet internment quotas, the tiniest signs of potential disloyalty to the authorities, such as giving up drinking or not greeting officials, have become grounds for disappearance.

This overlooks the surveillance state aspect of the story. People say dumb things online when they think their communications are private. I can't imagine China being able to produce a list as big without the aid of mass surveillance. The article paints 2008 like it's the olden days. It was not. They were recording then too.

>Ten years ago, bans on the Uighur language in schools, popular novels (often printed by government-run presses), and private prayers and rituals seemed unenforceable. Local teachers ignored rules about language use, banned books were easy to find in private bookstores, and illegal rituals like Sufi dance remained common.

If I had to speculate, I would say what has happened is their words online have come back to haunt them. Maybe they secretly chuckled online about the attack that left 200 dead. Now they get written up and taken off because they "stopped drinking" or some other excuse. The first rule of parallel construction is don't talk about parallel construction.

>That is a very very far cry from a prison, which is what you seem to be implying these camps are.

Reeducation is kinder than what we did to more than half a million Iraqis in the name of 9/11 and WMDs.
The cut is 15% so even if you passed it on to your consumers, which nobody does, you wouldn't charge 50% more.
Idk why people are saying that ES data is always immutable. They can be by default sure, but if a facility is useful to change the history, why not?
Is this a Watson service?
It's just Android though. On iOS you don't really have a choice of distributing outside the App Store, whether you are fortnite or even facebook.
They add value by creating a product that has massive scale, reach, usability and quality. They add value by having branded stores that fix the device for you. They add value by developing stable software that gets updated regularly. If you don’t like the product, don’t buy one, it’s that simple. Go buy a cheap Chinese knockoff that doesn’t have developer support for millions of apps, has lousy quality control, if it breaks you’re shit out of luck. It costs 1/10 the price of an iphone, but the experience is lousy. I value my iphone because it adds more value to my life than it costs to buy, and the company that makes it is entitled to charge whatever they want for it. Apple makes money because they add value and I see no reason why a company that adds value to the marketplace should not turn a profit.
I dislike App Stores and not because of fees. I feel they have made the discovery of good software harder, and reduced the average quality and safety of software that is available, the exact opposite of what they claim is the benefit of an app store.

Having the single portal where you search for things, leads to immense gaming of the system by bad actors. You search for "Chess game" and the good ones are not to be found. Instead you get 100 ad infested, crap. It is a race to the bottom. Everything ends up "free' with ads or dlc or privacy invasion tactics to make money.
"Why did Apple and Google come to the same 30% number - is that a coincidence?"

Google copied Apple?
People keep saying Apple adds no value but bringing millions of paying customers and a trusted storefront does in fact have lots of value for most apps. This is exactly the value Steam brings on PC. Being locked down or not is a red herring to the value argument, people sell on Steam because of simple math: the millions of additional paying customers outweighs the commission Valve demands.
India is far more unequal than the US actually and crony capitalism is also much worse here. I've lived in the US for 8 years and would be bang in the middle class there, I have 3 full time house helps which I couldn't even think about in the US.
To be fair China describes itself as communist and intending to bring about communism, and communism or an essential step in achieving it is a dictatorship of the proletariat. That’s actual Marxist and official Chinese state ideology. It may be popycock, but it’s not necessarily unreasonable to identify a government using the labels it uses to describe itself.

I see in a later post you say a dictatorship is about individuals. Not in Marxist theory.
Loop quantum gravity
> Many of us in the West find hunting wild whales, or dolphins to be repugnant. Meanwhile, we're perfectly happy to eat factory farmed pigs.

I would guess that the intersection of these two groups is much smaller than it seems. The anti-whaling community and the anti-meat-eating community are often aligned in their beliefs (one is a subset of the other). Otherwise for most I'd guess (hard to know), their only issue with whaling or dolphin hunting would be based on endangerment. I doubt many actual people you talk to on this issue would have inconsistent beliefs from whales to pigs based purely on species or familiarity. If the whale is not endangered, I doubt they would see whaling as any different than pig farming (for whichever side they fall on the issue).
Maps Alternative - Here.com (the maps are at wego.here.com). It used to be owned by Nokia and is now majority owned by a german automobile consortium (Audi, BMW, Daimler etc).

Email -

Fastmail.com is a decent feature rich paid service based in Australia; I liked it but stopped using it as it is subject to Australian surveillance (Australia is part of the spying program of the US), and Australia has passed laws to increase its surveillance capability.

Vivaldi Mail (mail.vivaldi.net) is pretty decent though the webmail interface lacks features when compared to Gmail. But its free, offers access through IMAP, and supports encryption.

Protonmail.ch is newer and lacks some features of Gmail like threading. But it doesn't profile you through your emails and doesn't targets you with ads. It also has some interesting features like expiring emails.

Tutanota (tuta.io) is similar to Protonmail and another interesting email project and provider to watch.
Can't argue there
> SVG is not a part of HTML 5

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content-othe... begs to differ.
It's obvious rats cause a lot of problems, but I also wonder what the cumulative environment effects are of using all this poison to kill them. Further, what impact does it have on the rest of the food chain?
One can say this about any other profession, can't one?

The notary I met while buying my last apartment was a sham, he probably cheated while studying. Guess what? My acquaintance rubber-stamps papers like no one else, one of the best paper rubber-stamping guys I know.
I've never been to a retail establishment with anything close to the credit card speed of CFA. The cashier can swipe and grab receipt in one smooth and quick motion. It's so fast you feel like it's broken or slight of hand.

I wonder how they do it or why other companies can't or don't do it. CFA stores are so much busier than even an average McDonald's, maybe the efficiency gains are just worth more.

No idea how they handled the chip card shift.
If they had OOBM of some kind I would ditch all my hardware at home and replace it with them.
Buick, oddly enough.

https://www.google.com/search?q=buick+china+popularity&oq=bu...
>Unless you jailbreak your iOS device, there is no way to install apps outside the App Store

Technically this is not correct. Practically it is.
You can install Apps on iOS devices without the app store (called sideloading, and it's a PITA): https://beebom.com/how-to-sideload-apps-iphone-ios-10-withou...
I was thinking something along these lines, as well. I recently learned of the IDesign Method, which seems to try to do something like this, with a standard architecture for handling scaling in a future-proof kind of way.

Forgive me if my understanding of that architecture is wrong. I only have read parts of the book so far.
I fail to see how that relates to the GP's argument. You just brought up something else that Americans do.
China Wants Only the Cleanest Trash
Learning to Love a Humble Neighborhood
And between PWA and WebAssembly, it is going to be even more difficult in the future to force developers to use the store when they can access most of the functionalities they need without paying a penny or having to bend in front a capricious app review policy.
This person[0] seems to have found a way of engaging the CEO in dialog. I, personally, think this is the best way of discussing differences.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/dan-cathy-c...
In my modest opinion, progressive app store fee would make much more sense: https://svedic.org/philosophy/why-app-stores-need-progressiv...
This is a whole cabinet. 42 Units, that means you could put 2 switches and 40 Dual E5 systems with 384GB memory each. In this case the colo pricing doesn't matter at all, you could even pay 1000 bucks per month and wouldn't notice it much because the main cost is simply hardware.
Working with RaspPi and Docker has been surprisingly difficult. Docker's support for multi-arch is poor at this point, and also applications that are I/O heavy seem to bottleneck at the network.
What? They're complaining about Valve too.

Bethesda, for example, recently announced that they're launching Fallout 76 on their own personal launcher (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/fallout-76s-pc-versio...).

I've noticed this trend in the game industry. Any game company that is large enough will work on their own launcher (look at Blizzard, Epic Games, EA, etc.)
Interestingly enough Egypt reportedly brokered a deal between Qatar, Hamas and Israel for a one year ceasefire.
https://www.jns.org/report-israel-hamas-deal-to-include-one-...
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/10/08/2018/Hamas-says-...
Explain how hunting a severely endangered whale is the same thing as killing one of the 1.5 billion cows on the planet.
> my software value "derives from the functionality of RedisSearch"

Your software might just literally be 99% RedisSearch, but you're not making money from your software (e.g. by selling it); you're making money from operating your software, combined with content (e.g. by using it to facilitate e-commerce transactions.)

You'd be in trouble if you wanted to white-label "your technology" and sell it as a platform for other people to run their own online shops on, because it's not really "your technology" to sell.

But if your play isn't specifically that, then you're fine.

Also,

> Do my only option not to host it at Redis Labs?

this wouldn't be an option. The whole point of this license is that the software "RedisSearch" is owned by Redis Labs. Hosting it with Redis Labs themselves, or not, is irrelevant. You have to license the software (if you're deploying it yourself)—or rely on your DBaaS provider to license it for you (if they're deploying it.)

Basically exactly like a software patent, come to think of it.
Where? Over the last 2 years I visited HN from China almost daily without any issues. I'm no longer there, but this test seems to indicate that HN is not blocked: https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinato...
How to write science fiction with AI
The Linux kernel in raspbian treats the SD card like a normal block device. I'm not aware of any special optimization for write wear leveling at the OS level, or on the board's sd card controller.
Maybe Apple and Google should be paying app makers instead considering how much more valuable their phones become BECAUSE of apps. If there was perfect competition between more than two OS makers, I'd predict the charge would be closer to 0. Without it, we can only stab into the air to guess what the real clearing price would be.
Chicken is significantly easier than beef to make mock analogues. Quorn, tofurkey, lightlife, and all kinds of other companies make very convincing turkey and chicken. Impossible seems to be the only real beef analogue that's semi-enjoyed by meat eaters. I haven't found many long term vegans/vegetarians that like it. I personally didn't find it fulfilling.
Show HN: Mjukna – Layout animations for the web
They're too big to fail because politicians decided they were. Of course, they aren't actually too big to fail. In the financial crisis, if they hadn't bailed out the banks, they'd either be acquired by competitors, or go out of business and people would have actually learned their lessons to not take on excessively risky assets. Instead, the government bailed out the banks, essentially telling them that they should take on whatever risk they want, because they'll just be bailed out whenever they fail.
The body text is contained in a <pre> tag with newlines for paragraphs instead of the correct <p> tags. You can force Firefox to respect your font choice by adding a font:inherit to the <pre>'s css with the developer tools. This will break pages with correctly used <pre> tags.
I don't think the Commons Clause is going to go anywhere: it's not DFSG-free, so Debian and core Ubuntu won't distribute it.
IIRC this is how the Kindle app works for iOS. You can't buy books, but if you own books on your account you can read them.
you can perhaps implement it with https://developer.nvidia.com/perfworks
self hosted wordpress does all this out of the box I think. I have one site where I have public posts and pages and some pages are "password protected" - so they are viewable by a select few associates, and a few pages are either saved as draft or pulished privately in the admin backedn / dashboard - which makes it easy to retrieve and edit and such.

There are free plugins like buddypress wihch can make more complex systems, private, public, semi-private groups for friends and content, stuff like that. Many others like s2member and such.

only trickery is if you have a widget displaying a list of published "pages" on your site, you may need to get into that widget and tell it to not display page 10398 if that is one you are trying to keep under wraps and yet be available for your secret friends, published, but not listed as another comment mentions with docuwiki, and I think youtube has a similar option.

there are many auto backup options with basic free plugins too, so I think WP would cover what you are describing.

Definitely need added security plugins as these are auto targetted for breaking into regularly, good ones are free and available.

You could always put it in a sub folder and add in an htaccess extra htpasswd to lock it down further and such of course as well.
It has to affect your salary too, which tends to be >50% of your income.
I'm surprised it's that different; in the optimum case, it feels like a several layers of JITing interpreter should get to the same performance in the end. Might not be enough to trigger it I guess.
HN isn't blocked in China
Bull market is now longest in history
Not legally.
Only 1321 fps? Compatibility layers always add such a terrible performance hit.
Bigotry does not just mean 'intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.' It's a silly definition, not what I want it to mean.
I'm not at all interested in eating a "burger" made using the same techniques as junk food. It's just trash made in a way to trick your brain into thinking it's getting real nutrition by faking textures and flavors a la Doritos and other processed foods. No thanks.

edit: I'd prefer a response to downvotes. Companies like Kraft, Frito-Lay, and Post have had "food scientists" whose main job have been tricking people into thinking absolute garbage is tasty for years. The results is an obesity crisis and tongues that are too confused to guide us to decent nutrition any more.
BlueSnap/Avangate/FastSpring develop a free OS that's used by 85% of the smartphones in the world?

The fee is paying towards the development of Android. Your comparison of "same services" isn't remotely valid.
You seem to think that this is an insightful comment, as opposed to just vomiting rhetoric when people have already pointed out it's a false equivalence.
No. I know these fighters from the Brazilian air force. It's an F-5. They probably are able to manufacture parts for them, but it's most certainly not an original design.

There is a good incentive to make parts for them and to, eventually, be able to build the complete plane themselves because they have quite a few F-5's and they are reasonably effective against their regional rivals. If they managed to get reasonably modern avionics and weapons in these, they could defend Iranian territory quite well. A lot of military pilots trained on its brother, the T-38.

Lower speed and worse maneuverability make no difference if they can lock a missile on you before you can do the same to them.
I would bet that Apple would probably rather you not have a relationship with Amazon Video at all, getting your TV and Movies from iTunes instead.

But Apple doesn't have a majority of market share (by number of devices), so, in my opinion, antitrust regulators have completely discounted their behavior.

On the other hand, the experience of using Apple Pay is miles beyond Google Checkout/Wallet/Pay/Android Pay/whatever marketing's new name-of-the-week-is, and only allowing One Blessed Way of taking payment on Apple devices is a big component of that. Having one consistent flow that I can execute in three seconds from muscle memory really does make buying-from-random-apps-and-retailers experience much nicer and more predictable than it is on the web and on other mobile platforms.
Strong consistency is possible with this model, consider for example git.

One real database that works like this is Datomic, which is competitive with SQL for most kinds of read-heavy data modeling loads that SQL and CQRS is used for.
Cryptocurrency is. IOUs are essentially private currency as well.
Oh I know. It's Quentin Crisp's joke, if you know who that is.

I worked for two years at a big corporation (mostly as an experiment, but also to prove that I could) on a huge and somewhat important internal project (meaning that we're were never going to be killed because we represented a thing that would save millions of dollars when it finally worked AND we had no external users that could abandon us, ours was a captive audience.)

> At the time this becomes clear the manager who made the previous has already been promoted somewhere else and the next guy will make another quick decision to fix the previous problem. Then this guy gets promoted too and the cycle continues.

Not only did I see that happen two or three times while I was there, but the project itself had been crapped out by some cowboy coder who stood up a demo, got some traction for it, and moved on to greater things. He had a rep as a Rockstar because of this project but if you actually looked at what he did (as I had to every day) it was a rickety un-designed P.O.S. that could barely function. It was a glorified spreadsheet basically, but of course not implemented on top of the in-house spreadsheet product. We rolled our own TableView... It also crashed on importing more than 25K (not M, K) records, which was one of the main reasons it had been started in the first place: the existing system it was meant to replace was slow on large ("large") datasets. The new system wasn't slow, it just crashed. This was progress.

But the money was good. Food too.

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edit, I started getting flashbacks to that job after writing the above. Hoo boy was that ever a shocking place to work. I feel like I was kidnapped by aliens for two years.

The software was a textbook case of the "Lava Flow" anti-pattern: http://antipatterns.com/lavaflow.htm It had at least five distinct waves of rewrites, all of which were left petrified in the code.

At one point the dispatch system was rewritten in this weird not-OOP, not-Aspect, not-Actor, style, during a wave of the "composition-not-inheritance" fad that comes and goes. I remember opening up one of the affect modules and thinking, "This is like Romulan code." It was so strange.
Was funding a lobbying group to reinstitute the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda a reflection of their religious principles or their political ones?
> Using a monopoly to squeeze excessive fees that happen to be exactly the same as the fees for a competitive market? There seems to be a logic breakdown there.

Valve gets 30% of apps distributed using Steam. In other words, only companies that value Steam at the 30% premium will use it -- and many of them don't. Meanwhile Steam has to be responsive to customers because it has competition, so it's forced to be a better product than monopoly app stores.

It's like saying that $25 is "the market price" for eight ounces of tuna fish because there are restaurants that charge that price and some people patronize them, so a monopoly that charges $50/pound in all cases is not charging unreasonable prices.
Not that surprised, a fully automated restaurant is every restaurant chain's dream, reduces labour costs and logistical accuracies go up at real-time speed.
Is there a SaaS opportunity here? Helping developers create a frictionless experience redirecting customers to an optimized web view to complete payment and then back to the app in a seamless way?
To me, the worst consequence of the App Store tax is that it aligns the interests of Apple with app developers rather than users (who ultimately provide Apple with much more revenue). Apple promotes things like “Top Grossing” because it makes tons of money off those dumbfuck apps that turn users into broke zombies. If they only got 5%, they’d create an App Store that encouraged and promoted apps that delivered great entertainment at low cost.
The systems in EU are much better than the weird amalgamation that TSA has cooked up for us. With a EU passport traveling from the US I can sometimes just go through a gate that scans my passport and takes a photo and does a biometric verification in 10 minutes total. When traveling back to the US I always get to stand in a line for at least 30 minutes no matter what things I use and then talk to the friendly CBP officer