skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but EVs make up a far smaller proportion of miles driven than they do the fleet by units. For obvious reasons: many EVs are short-range vehicles and the people who buy them are self-selecting as people who are both environmentally conscious and able to live with the range problems. People with long commutes who can't afford a Tesla are obligated to burn gas.
The History of Playing Cards: The Evolution of the Modern Deck
The most eye opening discussion and research on this topic for me came from what Dr Richard Carrier has to say. He got down to the task of just doing the research like how a historian might, or how a scientist might. His standpoint is clearly atheist, but don't let that put you off. He uses logic, reason and applies that to how he weighs the factiness of the story.

Any of his talks on YouTube are a good introduction, if you want to learn more and are willing to have your opinion and assumptions challenged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYRoYl7i6U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier

You don't have to 'believe' in the guy, however his methodology, knowledge of history and enthusiasm for the subject is not something you find in the priesthood.

He does not rate the probability of Jesus being a real person as that high, neither does he rate the existence of Ned Ludd as that high. He does trace where ideas were borrowed from and has read the bible extremely thoroughly. If you are interested in Christianity because it is part of our culture and history then I highly recommend taking time to hear what Dr Richard Carrier has to say.
That's what I took from it. He goes pretty exhaustively over all the "evidence" and in the end concludes that "you have to slice the baloney pretty thin" to see a historical Jesus.
That's true, I should have used Nice as my example.
I'm a bit dubious about that article, because it spends a lot of time spinning the prevalence of kosher and halal food into an elaborate analogy and presuming future resistance to its existence without even considering "it's something that most people just don't care about either way" as an explanation.
We all know it's a mess. Most comments provide anecdotal or other evidence of how terrible and unjust it is, but it's not a disputed issue. What I am more interested to hear is what we can do about it.
The various books in the bible aren't even consistent, and we know that many people were running around claiming to be God or affiliated with God. If he existed, he was just one of many such people.

Meanwhile, bible scholars acknowledge that the books weren't written by people who had personally met Jesus, and don't even know precisely who the authors were—they are in fact anonymous—the names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are just traditional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Canonical_gospels
Sanctions work like this:

One country decides "fuck that other country in particular", either alone by their power of sovereignty or together with some international body. The sanctioning country (say, the US) now declares economic sanctions against another country (say, Iran). Since the US can only directly make rules for citizens/entities within the US, they say "it is illegal for anyone to export goods or services to anyone in Iran - if your company does it, the company gets fined and the CEO goes to prison". They might also say "and if anyone else that I can't punish directly sells to Iran, I will prohibit my people from selling things to you!" to force others to also participate in their sanctions.

Now, the US gets a suspicion that Slack provided services to Iran. They arrange for the FBI (or whoever is responsible) to raid their offices, build a case beyond reasonable doubt that shows Slack provided services to a company in Iran, e.g. because said companies egress NAT IP was connecting and the user names match people working for that company in Iran. On top of that, they also show that Slack didn't do enough to prevent that from happening. Now, Slack gets fined and their CEO goes to jail (not sure if that's the penalty for sanction violations but I'd assume so).

Since the CEO doesn't want to go to jail, and the company doesn't want to be fined, they'll do whatever they can to avoid selling services to Iran. They can generally choose who they do business with, and its in their best interest to err on the side of caution. You have little recourse if Slack doesn't do business with you because they don't like your IP, and they're almost certainly well covered by their ToS.
SOTA -- State of the Art?
Flutter seems great, but so far it definitely does not achieve perfect 120 fps performance. It still drops frames quite often at 60 fps. It's getting better but I don't think it is up to iOS performance levees yet.
Exactly, start with linking neighbor cities where the density supports it. Once the infrastructure and expertise is in place, then it starts to make sense to link the existing lines together into a bigger network.
The sad thing is that Rich Hickey had some very good videos when Clojure was a new thing back in 2008–2009. Unfortunately, I've disagreed vehemently with most of his talks since then. In this case, it's completely illogical that a function `Maybe a -> b` should be callable as if it were a function `a -> b`. Do you want to know how I know? Because it would be just as illogical to allow a function `Vec a -> b` to be called as `a -> b`. And Rich must agree because Clojure itself does not support that!

I've learned that videos of his talks are just not worth my time.
How does one try out these work in progress features? I tried compiling the example on godbolt.org with gcc-trunk and wasn't sure how to get it working.

https://godbolt.org/z/YSPXLu
It's not. We're talking about a different scandal altogether here from a few days ago (the one referenced in the article) where Felix gave a "shout out" to a couple dozen different channels - one of them for some sort of anime content. That channel turned out to have antisemitic content as well. Felix promptly apologised and removed the link to their channel.
Most of the scholars that study this are Christians with an obvious agenda of defending their faith. As has been stated elsewhere in this thread (even by you) there is no evidence of Jesus from when he was claimed to be alive.
Yeah, "proudly" is probably too harsh, but I do find a general attitude of willful disregard of math and (hard) scientific education in the U.S. I don't think the disregard from policy makers is an accident. Mathematical or scientific reasoning capability is almost nonexistent in the average Joe, and if you look Ph.D. programs in math or hard sciences in any prestigious university, or maybe any university, you see a very international community of students — a marked shift from undergraduate programs. Not saying everyone needs to hold a Ph.D. in math or science, but the overall ignorance means any quantitative argument among a general audience usually meets indifference, confusion or blind acceptance/rejection (at least in my experience). I find this rather frustrating. You know, one can usually pick up humanities and social sciences stuff any time in their life (which usually only involves reading), but there are relatively few examples of self-teaching math and hard sciences later in life, and a good chunk of that subculture seems to end up in the crackpot bucket.
Is there any reason why a country can't have both?
Yes, i’ve been hearing it won’t work for about 40 years. You’re wrong, of course.

Unfortunately, now it’s incredibly expensive to build HSR.

China, the same size as the US, will have 25,000 miles of HSR within a few years.

Your calculus is wrong but let’s just check back in 2025. At some point, we’ll realize the advantage that all that HSR gives China.
Great find. As a glassblower who has made a fair bit of pipes and vape accessories, I definitely appreciate this… Other than that he used it for cocaine. That does make him even more of a pioneer. Given the position of cannabis in the pre–prohibition pharmacopoeia, I’d be surprised if these devices were not employed for hemp and marijuana inhalation as well.
I'm fully aware. Clearly people will believe what they want to believe so I'll stay out of that, but I do think there is a major issue with what "context" is and how it's presented.
A significant portion of people, for real, decide their immigration destination based on movies. I've answered many questions on various Q&A sites, in English and Hungarian both which decidedly has this impression.
Yes it's welfare by another mechanism. It's giving you someone else's money, not letting you keep more of yours.
I was a very active early Quora user and loved the site and network. It all seemed to go downhill when Charlie Cheever left.

Not sure on cause/effect or if he exactly left because of it - but I don't think it was a coincidence that Quora went hard on spam, walled garden and monetization strategies after one of two co-founders leaves.
Nah, that's basically just a knock-down argument that high-speed rail really works: it takes one fourth of the time by train as it does by car, and is less expensive.
It is reasonable to assume that a 5 year old EV will be as cheap in 2030 (2025 model) as a 5 year old EV is today (2014 model), while becoming more capable at roughly the rate we've seen so far. A 5 year old Leaf is $6-10k now, and would be a ~250 mile range car by 2025.
If these devs are high caliber, they don't mind the paltry pay. Mindgeek (the Canadian company that owns most NSFW tube sites) is notorious for low engineering pay.
I was thinking the same thing when I read this article.

Who the fuck cares about what pewdiepie does with his platform for his speech?

Trump, on the other hand, has far more power, but hasn't figured out how to anything other than being the center of everyone's attention.

And while Fox News is ginning up fervor against immigration in the US, it's not like we're going to go into a serious war with Mexico over it. Thank God.
What, precisely, are "judeo-Christian values"?
"By displacing to a large extent judeo Christian values, for all their faults, perhaps in education and elsewhere, it looks like something far more broken, dangerous and sinister has filled the void left by it."

Bingo.

A good quote - "A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses. And it will be simply impossible to stand through the trials of this threatening century with only the support of a legalistic structure."
Then there is the argument why should the rest of the country pay for something that will only be used in the coasts or densely populated areas?
I've been hearing a lot lately that hiking/nature photography people, who is mostly what I follow, have been getting copyright striked by "meditation" publishers for recording the actual waves crashing against a shore, or the rain on a tent, things like that that happen naturally and they just happen to film within their hiking videos.

I really, really wish Youtube had competition.

edit1: Example; https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/a74f7p/youtubes_con...

edit2: TheFatRat made this song, it's his own music. He said anyone could use it so long as they credited him. Some publisher made a remix of it, copystruck his original, claimed it as their own and now they receive the revenue for its views.

https://twitter.com/ThisIsTheFatRat/status/10729330469391933...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR-eV7fHNbM
I guess the record low unemployment rates this year aren't a benefit for anyone?
> you kind DO need that extra funding. because if you don't get funding for that you get out-competed [...]

This seems to be a common view, but I don't think it's always true. In my own work, I've found that being careful has led me to write more papers, not less. Particularly given that I've found errors in previous work that I intend to publish or already have published. There's a delay involved (i.e., it takes time to find the problems) but I think I'm coming out ahead in total publications in the long run.
Which is fine and generous; not everyone like fareesh may be so accommodating.
A highly effective tactical weapon in our long standing battle against the sea and everything that lives there. That damn sea, one of our oldest enemies and yet it still persists. We'll get the better of it yet though, the big wet bastard. Glitter production will help enormously and I am delighted to say it has almost doubled since our recent glitter marketing through social media and that article in the New York Times.

edit - Some people actually like the sea and dare to speak against our mighty and patriotic glitter industry - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/glitter-plastics...
was it a Prince song? lol
Subcellular, in Vivo Deep-Brain Imaging Using Minimally Invasive Fibre
Errors I've made as a Tech Entrepreneur
Closing their eyes and pretending it doesn't happen, because with VPN they have plausible deniability/can claim they had no way to detect that they were actually providing the service to someone in a sanctioned country.
ScyllaDB and Seastar are good examples of modern C++ that are "greenfield" applications, and have great performance and a very good developer experience.
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I'm leaning towards a yes but then again I wasn't there at the time.
A wise anon said as far back as 2007, on 4chan's politics board, paraphrased:

A community that consistently pretends to be something will eventually attract and finally be replaced by exactly the people they meant to pose as.

In this case, nazis. Even now you can't really tell how serious people on there are.
Search this article for the racial slur that PewDePie yelled out during a livestream, and you won’t find it.

The essence of the anti-censorship position, non-governmental or otherwise, is acknowledging when someone says something that you object to, and nonetheless supporting their right to say it. Sweeping it under the rug is just cowardice.

(I’m being generous in even linking this to censorship of any form. PewDePie is still on YouTube (as he should be allowed to be!), he just wasn’t featured in a highlight reel).
Yeah, and you should have included the time to get to the airport. The need to arrive early, trains make a few stops between destinations, etc

That plane leaving SFO isn’t stopping in Fresno.

I suppose when you’re contriving an example, you’re hoping that people aren’t really paying attention.
You’re probably right, but could you provide an example of an unexpected consequence of an inserted gene?
I guess one could argue that outrage porn is a satire of outrage culture
> From my laymans POV, DNA is just a shit ton of variables in a very complex code that interact with each other. No single point just does a single thing. They all interact with each other. No different than changing a variable in one piece of code and having it create a bug in another that was previously working.

Drew Endy did a lecture this a while ago. It's from one of the chaos computer club seminars.

https://vimeo.com/18201463
Last Refuge: A Bay Area RV community bands together to fight City Hall
Plenty of narcissists fly below the radar. NPD is a spectrum, and individuals fall on it in different degrees. What you imagine as a typical narcissist in your comment is closer to an outlier than the average.

You can even find them in nonprofit, charity organizations where they use their jobs to boost their social status. They use goodwill and greater than average charisma to leverage friendships and create stalwart allies. Then they stir up tension and controversy behind the scenes, and their friends come to their defense, thus solidifying them as allies on the narcissist's side.
The mind blowing fact is that they're advertising this metric as if it's a stat to be proud of. I think the average person browsing the internet would see this and instantly question the site's credibility. I would maybe understand this statistic being shared internally or in an email to partners--but published publicly on the internet? They're just looking to invite criticism and a loss of trust.
Auren Hoffman: What is holding back scientific progress and innovation today?
rotten.com? stileproject? goatse.cx? were there even other sites 20 years ago? The Smoking Gun? When did Cryptome/Cartome start? I don't know, but I know users on slashdot weren't pearl-clutching prudes, for example.

Sure people "commented on" things they didn't like, on their own websites. Not on platforms from which they wanted to kick others, certainly not as a habitual normal thing a sane person would consider. Yes, "such people always existed", so in that sense it was "thinkable". But it wasn't done as a matter of course, as a way to win debates.
For a long while when search results lead me to some interesting Quora questions, I couldn't browse the site without logging in. As a result I don't even bother anymore.
I'll play devil's advocate. Part of the Charlottesville pro-statue crowd were "heritage not hate" types who grew up with those town statues as part of their local history and had no personal racial animus. While I think they're misguided, I think they can still be "good people". They heard of the rally amidst the trend of statues getting taken down, and showed up without knowing of the organizer or who else would show up. Before you dismiss this out of reflex - most Women's March attendees had no idea that some organizers of the march were connected to anti-Semitism and a speaker was convicted for torturing a gay man to death (Donna Hylton).

Of course, this part of the crowd was not sensational and was not covered so perceptions were shaped accordingly. The part that was repeatedly covered was the neo-Nazi vans showing up later in the day (the original attendees started leaving when this happened), and the subsequent brawls and vehicle terrorism.

Much like how there were well-intentioned statue protesters and violent antifa marxists, there were also well-intentioned statue advocates and violent neo-nazis. In light of that the statement of "good people on both sides" is not malicious or technically wrong, though it was unnecessary and tone-deaf.
Auren Hoffman: How do I become a star employee?
Youtube has gotten out of control regarding copyright take-downs. Something as inconspicuous as a MIDI file or some really old video game music in the background can get a take-down notice. A publisher I used to follow, 10k subs, got taken down recently for this. Appeal process was useless for him. I suspect a someone will submit tons of flags and then YouTube will automatically suspend the account. Guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of YouTube.
Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook by Jay Cummings [0] finally helped me conquer elementary real analysis. It was fast, smooth and streamlined experience. Your millage may vary, though, as this one wasn't my first analysis encounter.

This book enters the pantheon of books that were tremendously helpful to me: Learning to Reason by Nancy Rodgers, Discrete Math by Susanna Epp and Linear Algebra by Kuldeep Singh.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Analysis-Long-Form-Mathematics-T...
YouTubers might not be able to get famous as easily if they link the wrong channels
The culture of deprioritizing free speech, free association, presumption of innocence and other such principles in lieu of "virtuous" principles that seek to right the wrongs of society.

So hypothetically if you say the wrong terminology to refer to a group of people, then you have blasphemed and regardless of context your use of the terminology deprives you of due process, presumption of innocence and freedom of speech. Anyone who defends you has their freedom of association revoked.

Stories like these seem to be becoming more and more common. The dark and sinister replacement seem to be a new set of rules whose goal is to protect people from certain blasphemies. At one time it was the sun revolving around the earth or denial if the ressurrection of Christ. Today it's some forbidden phrase like Merry Christmas or handicapped or midget. If you are the CEO of Firefox or Oculus rift, you are fired for your charitable donations. Freedom of association is far more important to society than the harm done by a CEO who blasphemes or pays people to blaspheme.
I used to enjoy getting Quora digests. I remember seeing famous people and even some of my professors using Quora.

Jimmy "your premise is flawed" Wales was famous on Quora for his shutdowns. The site slowly started turning into a platform for marketers to pump their self-help/motivational channels.
I feel like it should be called c::
No, ranges in C++ are analogous to the iterator trait in rust
Or maybe instead of crying and groveling at Google's feet we could get up in arms and create a better platform.

But, oh, we can't make it a centralized platform because then we'd have to replicate something similar to Youtube's copyright system to avoid getting litigated to death by media companies.

So how about a federated or fully distributed platform? That could work... except it couldn't use regular payment processors because they will block payments.

I seriously believe cryptocurrencies were the final piece to this puzzle. Maybe we'll see a resurrection of cryptocurrencies in 5 to 10 years, like the one the internet had after the dotcom bubble.
Does it use 4gb ram like it does on desktop? Does it remind me that Edge(TM) provides the best browsing experience?
> then why on earth should I trust any other story from you.

Gell-Mann amnesia [1] is rapidly disappearing as people has access to broader information channels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
The Spanish Inquisition occurred under the aegis of a church that had strayed so far from Judeo-Christian values that many of the most pious people in Europe would soon abandon it.

Judeo-Christian values are hard to pin down, but I feel confident that the 15th century Catholic Church did not reflect those values.
This is a wonderful illustration of American obsession over the years. Back in the 1990s, Japan was the target. Articles attacking Japan appears on NYTimes and the like daily. The accusation was Japan used all these unfair trade practices to protect its industries, unwilling to open its market to US companies, etc. Then after a while, these criticism disappeared. Has Japan changed much since? Apparently not.

Now the target is China. Which makes me wonder how much of this avalanche of attack on China is driven by a insidious political agenda.
The MSM are going to lose an entire generation because of stupidity like this. The people who actually follow pewdiepie know it's BS and then start to wonder what else the media has lied to them about where they didn't know better.

Pretty much the definition of shortsightedness. They are killing their reputation long term to get ad clicks today.
I found the bit about PayPal particularly interesting. It sounds a lot like "PayPal is under no obligation to freeze his money but they decided to keep it anyways, so not our problem".
Not to mention, YouTube req. a Google account. If you lose that, you lose your YouTube account.
> Isnt the point of the certification to be the expert? I'm just a math guy that can read.

Enrolled Agents (EA) are very good on average as tax accountants. Not perfect, but if talk to them mid-reporting period and they'll have heard of new rules.

Beyond that, what you need to know about "professionals":

1) The job of a CPA is to collect their fees.

2) The job of a lawyer is to collect their fees.

3) "Professionals" rank larger entities ahead of individuals in fees and advancement.
http://se.ri0.us/2018-12-22-184516548-9adee.png

It has a pretty obvious mark under the name if they are verified.
So economics eventually kills anything that's free to consume.

Well... I can't say that surprises me.