skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the Wikipedia definition their Gamergate article probably is fairly objective, which makes it a bad example. They base their coverage on what news media report, and the news reporting on it was not exactly accurate or honest (which seems to be what you get for going against journalists).

For instance, gaming and tech publications spent a lot of words trying to associate Gamergate with the use of swatting to drive women out of gaming. This caused much confusion as to what they were even talking about, because pretty much all the swatting attacks against gamers had been targetted at guys as far as anyone knew. A few years later, some guy with (as far as I know) no ties to Gamergate that anyone's been able to find was arrested for a series of rather misogynistic swatting attacks against women gamers that the press had known about but intentionally hadn't covered. They'd literally been trying to blame Gamergate for a swatting campaign that none of the people they were blaming could even have known existed because the only coverage was the vague and cryptic attempts to blame a completely unrelated group of people who'd criticised journalists for it.
> They never claimed Germany was.

The article is about Germany.
I think (s)/he's talking about the severe restrictions on movement that US kids are subjected to nowadays, stirred by unsupported fears of pedophiles, child-killers, and in general, the idea that there is a malevolent man with an axe hiding behind every tree in the forest.

Contrast my experience nearly 60 years ago in a small US town of ~35,000:

Once I had a bicycle I had almost complete freedom of movement. My buddy and I would cycle everywhere we could within about a 20-mile radius, out into the countryside, to the rivers and into the downtown urban area on our own. We also had large forests nearby and would wander afoot into those forests and stay out for half a day with no worry by us or our parents. To get to certain woods, we might have to cross private property and go through wooden fences that some owners had erected, but there was almost always a loose piece of fence "left unrepaired" to pass through (if not, then we climbed over the top). We were good Boy Scouts and always left things as good or better than we found them, and no one ever stopped us or threatened us.

Except other kids! In forests other groups of children sometimes might view us as hostile, perhaps to protect a "fort" (essentially a foxhole and a dirt pile) they had built out in the woods or who felt this was "their territory", and who might rain down clods of dirt upon us with little warning. We would parlay around it and if that didn't work, we were both pretty accurate with dirt clods ourselves and learned to keep moving so as to be difficult targets.

Today I get the impression most US-raised children are restricted to the house, the back yard (even the front yard is too dangerous) and adult-accompanied trips. So sad.
Do you use a text editor that highlights errors inline or do you depend on errors in the terminal? Maybe your frustration stems from a lack of tooling.
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> I strongly disagree with the Rust mentality, and the general mentality of statically typed languages with extremely prohibitive compile time checks, that seem to become more common.

> In my opinion the dominant metric to evaluate the usefulness of a language's type system should be its overall effect on cost, time spent, productivity, ease of development and capacity to change. Everything else is very subjective or just an aesthetic concern.

I agree with your overall dominant metric.
But I come to a different conclusion of what language/libraries bring me there.

To me a type safe language, is a refuge, a comfort zone -- away from the wilderness, unpredictableness and punishing complexity of troubleshooting -- associated with untyped languages.
You don't have gas pumps by street parking. Why should EVs be any different? Don't let your charge get so low that you can't make it to the nearest charging station.
Lol "Entirely".

He runs a news organization and puts out constant publications/podcasts/etc on things that are not just criticizing talking heads.
This comment comes across as snarky.

You should be happy you're behind a computer screen.
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What do you disagree with? Apparently, what you list here is not yet true for Germany's law.
Exactly, AWS is perfect for running the search and UI features but you have to have the content at the edge or get killed on bandwidth.
Which characterization? I made two. I disagree with your characterization that "sex work" is "waaay complicated". Putting together a lego set is more complicated.
As someone from a JS background, I am far more productive in Rust than C++. C++ makes it really easy to accidentally break something that then takes ages to debug. And using libraries is a massive pain.

However, if you have already learnt to be productive in C++, then I suspect Rust would end up being slightly slower to write the initial code, but not much. And it'd make up for it in ease of refactoring.
Artists get paid over double what they get paid on Spotify.

https://mixmag.net/read/new-data-reveals-which-streaming-pla...
Point taken, I'd agree. But everything in NYC is expensive. And regardless, live performances even more so. Even Joe Schmoe is only going to see a Metallica concert once every year, it's a treat. But anecdotally, when the local orchestra here plays the showstoppers like Mozart's requiem or anything Tchaikovsky, everybody and their grandma seems to be there, not just the well to do.
Which western culture?
Is anyone else disappointed by what The Intercept turned into?

When it was formed I expected it to be an honest, unbiased journalistic effort that would expose people of different backgrounds to uncomfortable truths. Instead it turned into editorials and blogging, with most posts filled with strong, obvious bias that would never pass the editors at most mainstream publications. Their biases are so strong and clear I'm sure they scare away at least half of the political spectrum.

It's too bad because the topics and facts they report on are important and interesting. There's no need for such strong bias.
I don't think the title is a fair representation of what's going on. Hear me out.

The way it's phrased, it's like each ride directly translates into 14 more cents for Amazon. But really, the figure comes from averaging Lyft's Amazon costs over Lyft's total rides.

Now, in some cases, that would be valid accounting, if all (or nearly all) of your costs (with respect to that service) are variable. For example, most of the cost of sending a letter is the truck/plane/employee, which are variable, so it makes sense to divide total letters over total truck etc costs.

But would Lyft pay twice as much to Amazon if they served twice as many rides? Would they have to double every AWS service they're buying? I don't think so. They might have to add more of one or two kinds of server/services, but most of that 14 cents figure comes from amortizing fixed costs, which will go down if they scale up further.

Am I off base here?
But the USS Jimmy Carter launched in 2004:

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

I don't think he made any pre-Snowden comments on mass surveillance?
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If you have a sense of humor, that's fine. They aren't trying to hurt you; they are trying to understand the world and contribute to it and be important. These are all good things. And kids get obsessive about their fad hobbies, but it passes.
If they are spending too much of their energy on easy problems, give them harder problems. Like another commenter said, give them the map and ask them to tell you where to go.
A common fallacy is "if there are two strongly opposing sides, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle" and the related "if there's two strongly opposing sides, there are ways in which they're both right."

But, this is a fallacy. Vaccines don't cause autism, the Earth isn't even a little flat, and GG wasn't in any way "about" ethics in games journalism — some people were led to believe it was, but they were useful idiots who were purposefully corralled to create a smokescreen. So I'd argue strongly against claims that the Wikipedia page is "biased" if it doesn't mention the ethics storyline. e.g.

notice the lack of cultural hell during "Gerstmanngate" — https://kotaku.com/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-review-...

Or how the "sex for good reviews" accusation was about a game that never received a review from that publication

Or the chat logs that were found of the channers who worked the whole thing — https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/zoe-quinn-outs-4chan-behind-...

It's understandable, for parties with less information, to think this was more balanced than it was, but I hope with appropriate information we could stop giving that side credibility.

A great comic illustrating the dynamic http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/10/15/the-perfect-crime/
I think most of the reason is that many people who post online got Greenwald's misreporting of the NSA documents (OMG, PRISM can access anybody's emails), while the public in general got the less sensational facts about what the NSA was actually doing.
Great interview with Mark about the start and demise of MtGox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cUBFXf678o
Greenwald is one of the last remaining journalists out there who sincerely criticize both the left and the right. While I disagree with a lot of what he writes, I give him a huge amount of credit for it.
This is why I buy egg whites. They come in a carton in my local market, and previously they were very hard to find. I had to ask management to keep getting them in, as they kept disappearing from the shelves
But you're giving a tool to the people who want to ban it. Just because it's not an exact fit doesn't mean that someone can't use it to achieve their specific goals. Plus vagueness like this can create chilling effects that limit the establishment of things like Tor, and further serve to solidify the view that things like Tor and End-to-End encrypted chat are inherently bad/illegal.
True. It almost seems to be a badge of honor.
Japanese websites amaze me. The colors and density always seem so extreme.
This is a disingenuous argument, you have to buy a PC to develop Windows. And you have to pay $100-300 for windows, AND you have to play $600-$2500 _per year_ for Visual Studio
The Internet facilitates a great many crimes. New forms of crime previously unimaginable. New scale of crime previously the stuff of nightmares. New reach of crime previously to the most innocent.

Is the purpose of this infrastructure to facilitate all this criminality? Certainly not the sole purpose. Perhaps it was purposely build in a way that would allow scale and prevent censorship which enables many forms of criminality which a different architecture would have suppressed.

Typically the law is written quite differently. If there is a uncoincidental legal purpose, then infrastructure must be legal. Because many times the purpose of a specific technical measure can serve both a legal purpose and a criminal one. To ask merely of a technical measure serves a criminal purpose without regard to a greater purpose is to criminalize any censorship resistant network.
Van Gogh paintings are more like a rollercoaster than most paintings :)
And that's why we see such a huge diversity of thought in mass shooters political manifestos, because it's random?
Quick google search: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/nsadocs
Entirely may be an exaggeration. I should have said mostly. His recent articles list on The Intercept support that.
> not like the garbage you see on ATMs and gas pumps though

What don't you like about these buttons? As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a proved design that works well for a great number of people. Plus, the elderly / tech averse are likely to already know how it works.
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There's a blurb on the page, but I'll try to say bit. The pages there are rendered from some structured data that has been collected to facilitate mapping businesses in OpenStreetMap. Mapping the brand to OSM tags makes it easier for new users (and everyone else) to figure out which tags make sense for given store.

It's real nice when mapping using street level imagery, any brand in the index can be quickly mapped just by searching on the name.

Tracking the wikidata items serves 2 purposes. The first is that wikidata is a decent place to go look for further information about the brands. The second is a bit of a trick of curation, the existence of a wikidata entry tends to imply that the brand exists.

There's some plans in the works to use icons from social media in OpenStreetMap editors to further reinforce that the correct brand has been tagged. That's one of the things that is useful to add to wikidata, Twitter handles and Facebook pages.
I think (now for quite some time) that is exactly the kind of elitism presented in this title and article, that is driving the average citizen away from mainstream politics.
There are several "hard" things in CS/software-development that I keep having to convince myself I do, in fact, understand, every time they come up in a discussion like this, because I find them really simple and wonder whether maybe I missed something. One's pointers. I don't get what's so hard about them. I mean I get why they might be tough the first time you're introduced to them but it's exactly the same kind of reasoning/structure that's used all over the place in programming, so if one can't understand pointers I'm not sure how one's programming at all, really.
And while i am at it...

Suggesting lyft needs 5-9s is ridiculous for 1000s of servers is ridiculous. Its entire event stream comes from a mobile network which is probably less reliable.
Wow, interesting possibilities. Great find.

As life expectancy grows, and an aging Baby Boomer population in the US, these studies become more urgent. Either to find new solutions, or to rule out avenues that dead end.

This article has actually great info on the study, the team's previous work and next steps. It answered my initial questions as well. (many of these research articles have little to none information outside the official published study)

My initial questions:

* Cooked or raw mushrooms?

-- The photo caption says 3/4 cup of cooked mushrooms.

* Did the type of mushroom matter?

-- "Six commonly consumed mushrooms in Singapore were referenced in the study. They were golden, oyster, shiitake and white button mushrooms, as well as dried and canned mushrooms. "

* How did they collect data? (maybe this should have been my first question)

-- "The six-year study, which was conducted from 2011 to 2017, collected data from more than 600 Chinese seniors over the age of 60 living in Singapore. The research was carried out with support from the Life Sciences Institute and the Mind Science Centre at NUS, as well as the Singapore Ministry of Health's National Medical Research Council. The results were published online in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease on 12 March 2019."
> And there is the Apple dev annual subscription.

Only if you're publishing.
Yeah a lot of stuff there seems to be a bit extreme, despite some really well researched articles or even original investigations that you won't find elsewhere. Also it's not sympathetic at all that they exposed an interviewee of one piece.
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I still remember, my mom hit me exactly once, and then apologized. That was very powerful.
Right now, it's not great. I say this having looked into an EV recently as an option. At the moment, my personal conclusion is that I'd need to rent a garage space, and then pay to have a charging point installed.

There are a small but growing number of street chargers available, albeit owned by different groups (presumably with rules and different payment routes) and with different changing and connection specifications. [1]

And of course, even if you're lucky enough to live fairly near a charging point, this doesn't make an EV comparable to an ICE car - as you then have the hassle/worry of finding a charging point, leaving your car where while it charges, and then presumably returning and moving it again, so as to free up the bay for someone else.

It's not insurmountable, but would take serious commitment from local government to change things significantly for street parking. I suspect it will come with time, critical mass of EVs, and some degree of homogenisation of the voltage and connector specs.

[1] https://www.plugshare.com
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2...
On highway 85 near Cupertino a few years ago they did something called “microgrooving” and it made a huge difference in tire noise, even inside your car. It’s dramatically quieter when you suddenly hit that section.
I just skimmed Greenwald's bylines and here's some recent media crit that isn't about msnbc

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/03/nbc-news-to-claim-russia... (about nbc)

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w... (about multiple outlets, lots of wapo)

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/cnn-submits-to-right-win... (about CNN)

I'd say at a glance there is slightly more crit of MSNBC than other major news outlets, but doesn't that make sense given the intercept's left-libertarian leanings? Of course they don't think brietbart or fox is doing good reporting. So bad in fact that it's not even worth commenting on.
FAA is not responsible for the crashes but for not taking any precautionary measure in the US even with reports as the one linked above coming in. Their role isn't just reactive but also proactive. The report above is coming from a US pilot:

> State Reference : US

> B737 MAX First Officer reported feeling unprepared for first flight in the MAX, citing inadequate training.

From another comment below (a simulator industry insider):

> However, since the 737ng and 737 MAX are common type (meaning that in the eyes of the authorities, if you're licensed for one, you're licensed for both) customers aren't REQUIRED to get a 737 MAX sim granted that they already have a 737ng sim.

This is where the FAA could have intervened. Pilots consider them different enough to warrant training so it should have been clear for the FAA too. But they accept this compromise to allow companies to cut costs.

And the scary thing is that a new pilot will also get to train on an old NG sim before flying a (different) MAX plane. Unlike experience pilots, a new one would have little flying experience to fall back on and the FAA allows them to fly a plane after being trained on what might as well be a sim for a different plane.
I would not get depressed, you're talking about an extremely small audience of developers in the field. If anything I'd look at it with aspiration, you're reading up on hackernews and you're straight out of college at a startup. Keep hustling no idea where you'll end up, I assume netflix is not paying kids out of college 800K :D
This is wrong, because you get it cheaper because the better product price was inflated.
Tux has really slimmed up for sure. Let's be honest and say Jed's the real Teflon Don MVP unloading the MtGox shitshow on Mark, doing the ripple thing, selling that chainless shitcoin to banks and rinsing and repeating again with Stellar.

-otc bro high-five
> "if we want to see a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we need to move away from the idea of ubiquitous transportation via personal vehicles."

Unfortunately, this is extremely difficult in the United States... we've spent 70+ years building our entire country around the personal vehicle. Save Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, and perhaps SF, ALL of our cities require owning a car. Strategically Musk might actually be going the right way... by starting to get people to think about transit in a different way.
I am not going to draw the conclusion that Rust does not have an elitist community from <5 replies, just how you would not want me to draw the conclusion to the opposite based on a handful of people, right?
Lots of ways to skin this cat ;). Figuring out the best way that works for your setup is half the fun. Thanks and good luck!
Mathematics on Wikipedia is top notch (my training was in mathematics so I can say this with a high level of certainty), but mathematics is hardly controversial. Not surprisingly, the more controversial the topic, the more biased Wikipedia gets. Try to look up any controversial political topic, current or historical, in most cases the objectivity and comprehensiveness of articles are highly questionable.

Also, you would hardly ever see edit wars on math topics, but they happen all the time on politics.
I've suspected for a while that the pharmaceutical companies are manipulating the drug pages on wikipedia. Often I'll come across a claim about a drug and then click on the reference, only to find that the reference says something completely different from the wikipedia article. I don't have an example off-hand, but it's something to keep in mind: always check the references rather than blindly accepting what wikipedia says.

(Related, wikipedia's policy of only accepting secondary sources is similarly problematic, because often the secondary sources say something completely different from the primary source. I understand the need for the policy -- it makes it more difficult someone from writing an article just to manipulate wikipedia -- but again, it underscores the need not just to check wikipedia's reference, but also to check the primary source).
But you would be facing a government arguing that Tor doesn't have any legitimate legal uses... after being put through the process of being raided, having all your equipment confiscated, and being arrested.
Exactly. A bunch of link spam to reddit or quora doesn’t add up to evidence that the Rust community is reasonable or fair in its evaluation of alternative language choices or trade-offs against other languages.
To turn this into a criticism of other fields is kind of ridiculous. You can easily find many examples of people in hard sciences rushing to publish - some to the point of having very significant consequences. Andrew Wakefield and vaccines and autism spring to mind. Cold fusion is another example.

>This shows how scientific standards and diligence can vary from field to field.

No they vary from person to person, journal to journal, school to school, lab to lab. Some fields might tend to do better than others, but why turn this into a field v. field issue?
"I’m sick of self-serving Medium articles and Twitter circlejerks with people singewashing their experiences for pageviews."

What is "singewashing"?
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This. Design != Content. Often times, simplified CTA and Value Proposition can have the same effect as a full blown redesign.
And first used in 2003.
Ah, I didn't realize that, thanks! That makes sense now that you say it.
Boeing was doing what the airlines wanted, which is provide a new more efficient airplane that requires minimal training for existing 737 pilots to fly, much like the A320neo. Airlines are the ones who schedule the pilots and their training, and from what we have heard, there _is_ training for pilots new to the Max that apparently some airlines have not administered.

Ultimately Boeing and the airlines share responsibility for ensuring the training is adequate, thats why many airlines have lots of training that goes above and beyond what Boeing supplies.
Both Lyft & Uber have begun partnering with healthcare providers to provide non-urgent patient transportation.[1]

[1] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/lyft-announces-integra...
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