skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the ASPCA, over 95% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms[0]:

[0] https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare

According to Dr. Hershaft, a holocaust survivor which has dedicated his life to researching animal rights, it is estimated that less than 1% of the meat in the US are from smallscale family farms, he and his team did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80year...
That's because "tech" isn't a vertical but an operating model. As I've said before:
https://twitter.com/mbesto/status/1017116663676919811

"IMHO the idea that companies are either "tech" or "not tech" has been peddled by VC's to convince buyers that all companies considered "tech" either have or will potentially have high gross margins regardless of current state and thus high valuations."

"When working with my clients (investors/acquirers) we generally consider businesses in three distinctions, IT Supported, Heavily Tech Enabled and Software Businesses. There are then varying degrees in between those distinctions."
In an ideal world that would be possible/simple. The real solution is to get someone a job that pays more than $50k/yr.
> underlying medium that allows forces to be propagated

General Relativity is a local theory concerned with the mechanisms that generate the metric, the geodesics implied by the metric, and the coupling of objects to those geodesics.

The relevant forces are those which accelerate objects into non-geodesic motion (or boost them from one geodesic to another). Those are local[1] as well: electromagnetism and the nuclear interactions. There's nothing like a luminiferous aether or underlying medium in the Standard Model, even if you look funnily at the gauge bosons -- they obey Lorentz covariance.

I made a couple of sibling comments to yours, one of which deals directly with your comment's parent's idea of a gravitational aether.

- --

[1] RM Wald, _Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics_ (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Cf. the top of page 6 of Hollands & Wald 2014, https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2026
Got this hilarious text when accessing it from Tunisia :

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Montgomery Ward makes no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries.

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At the very least, they have investors[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Foods#Financing
> They make people nauseous or they give people hangovers, so why do we find them so rewarding? Why do we remember the good things about them and not the bad?

Is this not generally true? I like to hike, but a lot of times climbing a mountain is absolutely miserable, and I might be sore for some time afterword. Yet I always remember it as a great experience.

Or with past relationships, I have to try to remember the bad parts, but the good parts come easily.
maybe someday we will be purchasing mobile subscriptions to controll our drones in the cellular service areas?
this could of course be coupled with an AI so that onboard computing power can be minimalised, and the real computation is in a cloud instance.?
This brings up something that is perhaps easy to forget: the interpretation of diacritics is far from universal. The diacritic in the character 'ä' can be one of two semantically different diacritics. It can be a diaeresis, a diacritic whose function is to mark that vowel starts the next syllable rather than existing as part of a diphthong; or it can be an umlaut, whose purpose is to indicate that it is a different vowel sound altogether. As far as any charset is concerned, though, despite those very different semantics, the two things are the same diacritical mark [1].

Even beyond the issue with two concepts using the same glyph, the interpretation of the same diactrics among different languages is inconsistent. English tends to drop diacritics to the point that many people think that English doesn't use them; German uses expansion (so ä becomes ae). As you mention, some languages are incomprehensible either way, so they need to be preserved. And sorting and collation is even more fun!

[1] This does mean that Unicode's insistence that characters represent semantic differences rather than graphical differences can come across as rather arbitrary. The original purpose of Unicode was to unify different character sets together, so it preserves character differentiation that existed in antecedent charsets but tends to otherwise unify characters in practice.
Just an update, couple things:

I took your feedback and added a guest login to the site to help reduce the bounce. I've also updated the banner with a better 1-liner about the platform.

So now dinnertable.chat has a simple progressive engagement flow, although it can still be polished a lot... but I'm hoping this will help.

Thanks again for all your feedback, and please do let me know if you have more! :]
Google's TPU decreases demand for chips from Nvidia, by introducing a competing chip within Google that runs ML workloads really quickly, so people pay less for algorithm training. Since TPUs are not commercially available outside of GCP, GPUs are only commoditized for Google and whoever uses TPUs on its cloud.
This is a negative quality of monorepos.
I brought this up with my Japanese friend. He told me there are so many homophones in the language people are desensitised to stuff like this. For example: シ (shi) can mean both 四 (four) and 死 (death).
indentured servitude. great innovation.
Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.

I also have difficulty seeing the first benefit you list as being a benefit. I don't have a problem with people pursuing degrees in fields that aren't big money makers, but I also don't know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields.

On the other hand, there is societal benefit to these fields being pursued in general. And the market economy may not adequately pay for the benefits it receives. As a society we wouldn't want everyone to major in poetry, though.
>In the US it is actually a big deal because data is not a "creative work" so it is not covered by copyright protection.

It doesn't need (and shouldn't be) "copyrighted".

It's enough that the law classifies it as private info, and protects it from any third party without an immediate consent.
pretty similar to my community college transfer experience

don't forget how much cheaper it is!
If we combine your comment with the one about not having children... do we end up with A Modest Proposal?
To the best of my knowledge, Mozilla relies on Google for the vast majority of their operating budget. That is a precarious position to be in. So of course they're searching for other sources of revenue.

I'm glad you want Firefox to succeed. I do too. (I'm posting this from FF!) But unless you can find a few dozen million friends to pony up actual cash for it, every year, Mozilla's going to have to keep looking for other options.
Probably less than 0.001% of the population considers ETC to be the "real Ethereum"
The "miracle" is waiting for inflation to make your debt cheaper to pay.
Makes plenty of sense. Real beef doesn't taste as good when you overcook it too.
That’s not really true.

They would need change their model to meat based burgers after they gain market share for their mission to be BS. Profit has nothing to do with it.

What you are proposing would prevent them from building a healthy company that can maximize market share and have the largest possible beneficial impact on the environment. I want them to drive all the meat based competitors out of business.
What device are you using? I'm using a Pixel 2 XL and had to sideload it because the Play Store shows it as incompatible. It is broken, though, can't type more than one letter. There's a ton of promise though. I haven't found a good VR browser yet.

Somewhat considering actually working on the project, I know they're on Github but don't know if they are looking for help.
That’s true, but community colleges can’t award baccalaureate degrees. You would still need to transfer to a more expensive four-year university after 2 years (at least here in California).
Thanks for the feedback! We try to have a good mix of trivial, novice, intermediate, and advanced questions.

Some of the multiple choice questions are fact-based and just require a Google search -- this is intentional, since proper Googling skills are still needed for the job :)

Problem solving questions are better formatted as open-response essay questions, which we do have.
I've been bitten by Parameter Store's rate limiting (non-increasable) from just launching a new environment of a regular application (we were storing a lot of values, and there's no real bulk GET as far as I recall). There are countless threads about this problem online.

I imagine that with a serveless workflow, this might be an even bigger problem.

I haven't explored Secrets Manager yet though.
Zuckerberg’s 2019 challenge is to hold public talks on tech and society
Another problem is confusing causal effects from confounders. Did a monorepo cause success, or did they succeed in spite of a monorepo. Studying individual cases for which there could never have been a counterfactual outcome (e.g. FB or Google) literally cannot provide evidence of a causal effect.
I too question the source of "pizza hoods". I found no other better sources online though compiling the information though. Going through yelp's dataset would probably yield the best results, since its not as biased.

The two zipcodes, google (itself) stated there were 2 zipcodes, 07030 and 07086 . That has a lot of merit to it to me at least
I think they are particularly pernicious because they almost always go to people either based on popularity or based on being attached to some splashy new thing.

This often means that line operators or customer service folk have no chance of winning even though they can be central to the success.
Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here.

Yes, some countries have similar structures, where you pay after a certain threshold. The difference is:

1. In those structures the school gets paid no matter what, the taxpayer just swallows the cost. With Lambda School we will literally go out of business if a large percentage of our students don't get jobs. That causes a lot of stuff. For example, we have an entire sales team dedicated to bringing companies in to hire students, and there are 2-3 that come in every day to hire students.

2. Our minimum is much higher than government minimums ($50k in the US).

3. We only collect a percentage of income if you're hired in field (using the skills you learned)

4. If you don't get a job within 5 years the agreement simply goes away and you owe nothing.Happy to answer any questions, though I'll be in and out.
Doesn't to appear to be a U.N. sanction, maybe it is indeed "only" a US sanction.

the last UN resolution lifts all sanctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...

> United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 - Passed 20 July 2015. Endorsed the Iran Nuclear Deal and lifted all previous sanctions on Iran provided that Iran remains in compliance with its responsibilities in the nuclear deal.

(just went to wikipedia now, not an authority on the subject)
Yup -- and some (Borders) made the strategic mistake to literally just use Amazon. When Borders finally broke off the relationship, not only was it too late [1], it was at literally the worst possible time it could have done it, from a business perspective -- given the financial crisis.

Toys R Us did this too and as a result, never built a really solid e-commerce strategy. In fact, when Toys R Us left Amazon in 2006 (after years of litigation to get out of the contract) [2], it had the unenviable position of being behind from a tech perspective in a massive way. Not only that, the experience was considerably worse than it had been under Amazon.

[1]: http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3749336/Bord...
[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113798030922653260
> their death nail

Just FYI, the phrase is "death knell": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_knell

This is a common 'eggcorn' (https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1130/nail/) because 'knell' is an old-fashioned word virtually unused outside of this one idiomatic phrase.
In California Community College is $46/unit for California residents. Typically people take 10-15 units. There are a few additional fees probably total under $100/semester.
I work in tech, but my and my companies work definitely doesn't involve eroding anyone's privacy.
“Update: Zuckerberg asked me in the comments of his posts for some format and speaker suggestions. My ideas include:

A formal debate between him and a civil but pointed critic.
- ...”

Hear, hear.
Guess I should say outside North American.
The updated variant of this postgresql/glibc warning and story is https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/08/27/glibc-upgrade....

And glibc is still 2 years behind in its unicode version: they are at 9.0, current is 11.0.
musl is at 6.0
I believe the title is slightly misleading; most college students are above 18 and are thus widely considered to be adults. This guide seems to be written for adults who are 25 and older, which is a subset of all adults.
So we may have some time to prepare ourselves culturally before the tech is production ready.
The bid was rejected, apparently: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/06/sears-rejects-eddie-lamperts....
I guess you Austrians must be doing things wrong :-). In Bavaria I have never seen Kaiserschmarrn as dessert.
The case under discussion is a U.S. case. In that context, "administrative law" has one specific meaning. When discussing administrative law, "arbitrary and capricious" has one specific meaning. Your use of these terms is not correct. This is not an administrative law case, and you were wrong to mislead tptacek.
SQLer – Turn Your SQL queries into RESTful APIs without any programming language
I think, because of how society views alcohol, it's possible for not drinking to have a negative sociological and emotional effect. For example, someone gets passed up for a promotion because they don't go out to happy hour.
> "Only exists as an internal Google project" is isomorphic, from my perspective, to "Does not exist".

I mean, it shows that it's possible...
From the article:

"The difference is that this approach [Slate's in Current Year] is now tempered by other, graver duties—the need, for instance, to avoid equivocation on matters of morality, fundamental policy, and human rights."

I find this puzzling, due to the realtive nature of morality. Morals are plastic and variable based on popular persuasion and general consensus. If "morals" are a pillar of intellectual identity, isn't this just a subtle way to say Slate will just go with the majority regardless of objective facts and subjective opinions of merit?
It wouldn't be my first choice either, but modern JavaScript isn't backwards-compatible, it is at least possible to write reliable and robust code if you take some care and know what options to enable, and it's mostly consistent across platforms. Last month, I spent a week trying to handle all of the possible error conditions in an overgrown bash script. It was immeasurably worse.

Python is the more direct substitute, though: it's built-in to almost every platform, and the Python 3 stagnation has even given us a consistent version: 2.7.
The mkt cap of Bitcoin is only 70B, there's no way they can buy even a fraction of 10B without multiplying the price.
>Ah, good ole' NAPA, where you pay twice as much for half the quality

It's all about knowing who makes the part that goes in the branded box. At present their "blue boot" ball joints are the only way to get Spicer ball joints.

>Also, they always seemed to prioritize their garage delivery service over their walk-in customers.

Varies by location. It's a franchise model after all. Napa uses probably the longest leash of all the chain parts store franchises.
Do you have a source? Every one I find states the numbers I posted above, no where near your number. Total federal and non federal combined is currently around $100B annual.
Have to? No. I would guess that 90% of programming is not functional (all statistics made up on the spot).

Knowing functional will open some doors, in terms of careers, and also some doors in your mind. Either set of doors may be helpful to have opened, but neither is required to have a long and profitable career in software.
> It's an effective method to hit them where it hurts (their pockets) without creating casualties directly.

That's not always the case. The sanctions against Iraq, put in place around 1991 (after Gulf War 1), lead to the deaths of 1000s upon 1000s of children, as hospitals couldn't acquire critical supplies like incubators.
Congrats on the funding!

I think that this is a viable model for professions where high paying jobs are available aplenty. How are you planning to scale with this narrow model? Also what is your competitive advantage? I am trying to figure out the valuation as an investor.
The author Zecharia Sitchin wrote about this in one or more of his books. His claim is that the Sumerians wrote about this exact thing.
I assume you mean this sarcastically, as that sounds like a feature to me, not a bug
Thanks for the valuable feedback!

Re: GAN, we tried including ML in the Core exam, but have actually since removed ML since it wasn't working. We may introduce this as part of an ML specific subject test.

If you want to get involved designing questions, please consider applying to the TSC for next term: https://cspa.io/tsc/apply.
It's a scummy business but without it bail bonds wouldn't exist, or at least be as widely available as they are today. Maybe there are better systems for ensuring compliance with orders to appesr in court than that of Bail but as long as the concept of Bail exists, private Bail Bonds will have to be a necessary part of the system lest lower/no-income individuals find themselves with no recourse.
Minor quible, the most common system in the US has 15 week semesters for fall and spring.
U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018, After Years of Stasis
This author writes so well. The introduction, in just 169 words, tells you exactly what the article is about. I wish more articles had such good introductions.
On the other hand we have this constant pressure to stay up-to-date and face age discrimination after only a few years in the career.
SSHazam: Hide Your C2 Inside of SSH
Most researchers are not independent and don't have much choice where they publish. Also, prestige plays a huge role in academia. Getting in Nature is a big deal to them. That's one reason I really dislike academia. They are often playing games that are very far from genuine progress. It's all ladder climbing and groveling at their masters feet. Someone please disrupt academia.
Since he said he took them "at night" and didn't mention her time, I bet it's the same time in the sense that their schedules overlapped.
And when somebody takes your existing chain then generates a bunch of new users in a 51% attack, how do you recover the usernames on the alternate chain?

edit: sorry for reply to wrong post. Should have responded to jhunter1016 below.
> All beef is grass fed period. Some are finished at the end with corn or other dense grains (your soy patties).

Visit the Harrison Ranch (on I-5, south-east of SF), and see for yourself how they're treated.
Our initial goal is to replace the technical phone screen. We are asking companies to guarantee an interview (or skip the phone screen), if they score above a certain threshold.

Long term, we hope to replace as much of the onsite as possible. But we do acknowledge we can never fully replace it.
Well, I think that's largely due to the ability to use cute emojis as variable names.
Hi - would like to hear what bugs you reported to no avail. There may well have been good reason they weren't addressed to your satisfaction - or we may have simple not fully appreciated what you were reporting.
I thought you were referring to Aldi. That model seems to be working well for grocery stores.
Fetching parameters by path is an easy way to get bulk parameters and avoiding the rate limits.
Great question! I asked myself the same thing initially. Bain now has a design and development lab to help solve problems using software. We add human driven design and development to the traditional Bain toolkit. Its an interesting role to say the least!
Admittedly, whenever I see these graphical programming tools, I do get bad flashbacks from LabVIEW spaghetti projects - but this does look decent. Just what I need for quick'n dirty home projects and easy every-day data acquisition, without spending too much time on actual programming (which usually is the case - I want something done in 15 mins, but end up spending hours on setting everything up)
So what's your suggestion? Country X won't play nice, what do you do? given your moral stance on sanctions I can't imagine you would propose war. So what are the options? What tools do we have available to us to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons and persuade bad actors?

The world isn't some idyllic place where there's always a solution to every problem which harms no one. Yes, the citizenry often gets caught up in this sort of thing, but again, what are the alternatives? Let them do as they please and hope everything works out?
Honest question -

Do most adults need to retain new information very often?(excluding the typical HN audience who are constantly learning/innovating/reading/etc)
$1,500-a-month doggy daycare prompts growls in San Francisco
I last went to Sears a couple years ago for some vacuum cleaner bags. I hadn't been to Sears in years, but something was telling me that Sears was the place to go for vacuum cleaner bags. The vacuum cleaner salesman looked like he belonged in the waiting room in Beetlejuice, but he was very helpful, and he sold me an 8 pack of vacuum cleaner bags. He knew what type of vaccuum cleaner bag I needed before I had a chance to describe to him my vacuum cleaner. In 2 years I'll need another 8 pack of vacuum cleaner bags, and with Sears out of the picture, I don't know what to do.
I use the favorite-function for posts more than I do for comments, because generally great posts contain more than one great comment in the discussion anyway. I haven't really used it for comments, so I guess I've decided to use it for comments that shock/make me laugh :).

For the aforementioned comment about 4-color-map theory, I thought it shouldn't be debunked because the person seemed to attempt to substantively debate (until he apparently gave up). I mean, the comment should have been downvoted to oblivion for being so definitively wrong. I just associate flag-killing with comments that are obviously abusive.
That particular guidance has provided a lot of gnashing of teeth because some readings of it have an implicit “because” before the final sentence. That is IP addresses are personal data as sometimes they uniquely identify people.

The guidance my firm received was to treat them, by themselves, as an ID. YMMV.
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