skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some additional downers:
- The Roosevelt Institute growth numbers are based on this initiative being 100% funded by increasing the federal deficit. The same report deduced that if the initiative is paid for by increasing taxes on the remaining population, the net effect on GDP, prices, and wages will be closer to zero, just money changing hands. Yang's proposal will fit somewhere in the middle, with roughly one third to half of the cost coming from VAT. The study's model also relies on the following assumptions, both of which I personally do not believe will hold, especially if the main revenue source will be a VAT:
"1. Unconditional cash transfers do not reduce household labor supply.
2. Increasing government revenue by increasing taxes levied on households does not change household behavior."
[1, page 5,12]

- Over half of means-tested welfare (including Medicaid) goes to people under the age of 18, so these costs won't be touched. "In an average month during 2012, 39.2% of children received some type of means-tested benefit, compared with 16.6% of people aged 18 to 64 and 12.6% of people 65 years and older." The median monthly benefit for these groups was $447, $393, and $303 respectively. The only means tested program that isn't dominated by minors is SSI, the vast majority of which goes to the elderly and people 18 to 64 with disabilities who would not re-enter the workforce. [2, p16, 24]

[1] http://rooseveltinstitute.org/modeling-macroeconomic-effects...
[2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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I was unable to parse this reply in the context of "do forks harm standards?" as we're discussing in this thread. What standard came to harm as a result of LibreOffice forking from OpenOffice?
First we must blame ourselves. We won't go far if we avoid that.
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So corrupt backups weren't possible - just my personal preference.
Netflix will never even try to show you 4K on a mobile device. The ISPs know this. They just want to throttle Netflix so that you'll prefer the ISPs streaming service to Netflix.
Poster here — I don't know what happened to the URL (I was pretty sure I posted it). Apologies for the inconvenience.
Cross contamination. You don't want your veggie burger to be prepared/fried/grilled/microwaved/burnt on the same surfaces with the same fats that are being used for the dead animal products.

Some of this is to do with pathogens, some of it is due to taste.

There are many vegetarian products designed to taste like meat, e.g. fake bacon, but plenty of vegetarians do not actually like the taste of meat even if that is acquired second hand by using the same grill or utensils.

even using the same knife to cut a meat sandwich and then a vegetarian sandwich with no washing in between is a cause of concern as far as contamination with 'animal germs' is concerned.

Quality establishments get these details right. They also tend to do better when the food inspectors come round.
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Sorry about that — I deleted my last comment before your reply for the same rationale rather than wasting more time on a thread started in bad faith.
Notice how few miles of train tracks there are in comparison to roadways.
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I became a vegetarian for ethical reasons; I trust it's not hard to imagine or look up what those reasons are. At the time, I felt strongly about this. Over the years, I discovered I felt less strongly about it, but it was a deeply ingrained habit by that point. I also discovered that even though I no longer carried a deep moral imperative to not eat meat, I still carried a deep personal connection to the person I was when I did carry that imperative.

I eventually decided I didn't care about fish that much - but I decided that I would eventually eat fish again years before I finally did. Yes, it's a compromise of my original ethical judgement, but it's one I can live with.
Can't speak for others but I've seen vegetarians for whom it evokes disgust. Unlike folks who choose later in life not to stop eating meat, these folks have never consumed any meat in their life. For them, eating something cooked on the same pan as chicken would be as repulsive as eating chicken itself.

I'm not vegetarian myself, but I imagine their revulsion is similar to what mine would be to dog meat. Even the sight of dog meat would likely make me lose my appetite.
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> Configuring it is a giant time suck.

But Webpack is such a time saver once configured.

Same goes on when you have to setup a Docker and some chef/puppet/ansible scripts.
What do you mean by 'wasted'?
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Sorry that is pure BS. Memorization is a great technique to learn math of course it is not the way to do math. When you learn tables through rot learning you automatically get how they are being computed. At young age it is much easier to rot learn many things and understand the abstract concepts much later.

People who despise rot learning are either misunderstanding it or are simply lazy.
F*#k HTTP and MQtt, we've got better
Isn't it a bit questionable to use these services to subvert paywalls? I dislike the notion of DRM and paywalls and I especially abhor it when it is limiting access to academic papers, but if a content creator does not want to give you access to their content without you paying, it seems reasonable to comply with their wishes.
Obviously if you are deliberately avoiding new language features, you're still going to be writing the same JS as you were in the early 2000s. I could write Python 2.7 and it would be pretty much the same thing.

However, a lot of ES6+ features offer more than just syntactic sugar. For example, arrow functions remove a lot of weirdness regarding 'this'.
It makes some of us vomit and then get diarrhea.
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I've always interpreted it as a lack of keywords etc.

Both lisp and forth can be built up from a small number of primitives. Everything you use day to day is basically optional.
Not to bring back an old debate, but I simply want to point out the obvious: many data scientists disliked Python 3.x. I work with Python people who dislike Python 3.x, and we are still using mostly 2.7, because everyone feels comfortable with it. The upgrade seems to be a large imposition, with zero gain.
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Holding off algebra to high school predates common core by decades.
If Google is on your resume, you have plenty of employment options.
> I am a bit surprised that fast would get throttled though.

Fast.com runs its tests against the actual servers that stream Netflix to you. It uses the same selection algorithms as actual Netflix. The whole point of it was so that you use Fast.com and then call your ISP and say you did a speed test and aren't getting anything close to the speed that they advertised.

On the back end they can't tell the difference between a Fast.com speed test and actually playing Netflix, and that was the point. So if they are going to throttle one they have to throttle both.
Posting a paywalled article is pretty helpful /s
>What are "our" options?

We choose to buy suburban homes with large gardens. We choose to buy gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. We choose to fly thousands of miles for a week-long holiday. We vote for municipal governments that choose low-density zoning laws. We vote for politicians that promise cheap gas and disparage public transit.

We all have some responsibility to bear for this issue.
Looks like that particular issue was closed in July 2018? Also, anybody who considered that feature important enough could have fixed it. It's not rocket science. Certainly 10x easier than when that magical something in the webpack build chain breaks.
The team trying to end poverty by founding well-governed ‘charter’ cities
In all likelihood, you're currently living in a way that environmentalists would describe as unsustainable, but still shaking your fist at society. This is hypocritical. There are two paths to avoid this hypocrisy:

1. Buy an electric car. Live in a smaller home. Consume fewer material goods. Set your heat cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Do what you can and actually put your money and lifestyle where your mouth is.

The electric car will cost more than your gasoline powered car. You will be uncomfortable. Depending on your viewpoints about stoicism and hedonic adaptation, this won't actually be so bad. However, you will be actionably pulling society in the direction of living in a sustainable way.

2. Decide that you do not care about global warming. Either deny its existence, come to the conclusion that the net effects on planet earth will not be severe enough to be worth the cost to prevent it, or come to the conclusion that it is an unsolvable collective action problem.

Shaking your fist is virtue signalling. Do something.
I don't know. I ordered them at Bareburgers in Westchester, NY in the past year: https://www.bareburger.com
I've supported a few svn instances. Devs could be trusted with svn, but analysts,testers, system people, ... My god the horrors these guys dream up.

Say you want to edit a few chars in a 250MB file. Why don't you, just to be sure, past that whole file in the comment field? Do that for a few 100 commits. Tortoise really hated that one, and crashed the windows explorer every time you dared look at the logs (out of memory).

Or the time some joker (His CV proudly declares 10 years of developer experience) deletes the root of the tree, doesn't know about history, and goes with his manager straight to the storage admin, who wipes everybody's commit of that day ( a few 100 people). There clearly is no need to contact someone who knows anything about subversion if the data is gone, and maybe this way nobody will notice anything and jell at them.

Or say you want to do an upgrade. Theory is every user leaves, service and network port get shut down, VM instance is backed up just to be sure, you do the svn upgrade. Of course enterprise IT means I have to write detailed instructions to every party involved and under no circumstance allowed tot look at that server myself.

So it turns out: A) some users just keep on committing straight trough the maintenance window. B) The clown who shuts down the service doesn't check if the service is actually shut down, and there is a bug in the shutdown script. So svn just keeps on running. C) The RPM containing the patch is transported by an unreliable network that actually manages to drop a few bytes while downloading from http. D) The guy who should shut down the svn network port is away eating, so they decide to skip that step. E) SVN gets installed anyway (what do you mean, checksum mismatch) and starts commiting all kinds of weird crimes to its storage. F) The VM guy panics, rolls back to the previous version, except for the mount which contains the data files. G) Then they do it all again, and mail me how the release was successful without any detail of what happened.

Let me tell you, svn really loved having its binary change right under it, in the middle of a commit, while meeting its own previous version in memory. Oh and clients having revision N+10, while the server is at version N. A problem that solves itself in a few minutes as N goes up really fast ;-)

Now thats what happens with subversion, which is rock solid and never drops a byte once committed. This company is now discovering the joys of git, where you can rewrite history whenever you feel like it.
On the other hand, by purchasing vegan options at a fast food chain, they would be increasing the market signal for vegan food. Getting a massive chain to reorient its supply logistics so that 0.2% of inventory is vegan instead of 0.1% could have a huge impact on overall animal welfare and environmental welfare.
Minor note; "Manure management accounts for about 15 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the Agriculture economic sector in the United States."

If you include the emissions from manure management you end with 45% of all emissions emanating from livestock production.
Do you have a non-paywalled version of this?
Thank you (and colecut) for responding. I'm loading 'em up right now :-)
Why should some pen pushing bureaucrats get to decide what is good for American kids ? Shouldn't that be left to parents ?
Hey spez! What's a good background for a jr ML engineer? Would be really interested in learning more.
???

Did you realize that the city in question is San DIEGO?

(Because your post seems to be about San FRANCISCO.)
I had to report it to my boss. It was top down, but only a few interactions were required, and it wasn't reported farther up the chain. Because I had to report to my boss, he knew me well enough to judge if it was enough. It was just enough of a metric to ensure people looked for something to bridge a communication gap, without being hard enough that people tried to game it much.
We are definitely not even close to having "solved" self-driving cars.
Cannot wait for all the correlations and conclusions drawn from this data. I can see people from sides of the spectrum looking into this data to understand and make cases.
Congrats on shipping! What stack did you use? Was the data scraped?
I don't work for Cisco. Even then, Google's business model is surveillance, Cisco's is selling routers.

I don't wake up every day to spy on people. If you do, you're a bad person in my book.
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Your quote describes a rapid economic growth, yet you were telling us the country had stagnated and gone backwards since the oil revenue came, in your first comment?
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The majority of the world's vegetarians are Hindus, who regard cows as sacred and consider beef to be strictly taboo.
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We might be saying the same thing since the only thing you need to memorize is the multiplication tables. ;-) How long can that possibly take?

My grandsons are between 3 and 8 - so they are in this age group. They are amazing at solving problems when it leads to something they want like winning a game against their brother. Puzzles are great for teaching math to this age group.
Thanks for a comment. One thing I would like to point out is that this is a programming language and does not dictate what integrator you use; you can write your own and experiment. The idea is to make that be opened up for users.
Glassdoor has average boston Software Engineer salaries at $98K. Hmmm....
exactly why this is a good example of an organisational activity that can't be easily measured through simple metrics
Some, yes, but not all. Everyone has to negotiate their personal principles versus practical and social constraints on a daily basis; this is just an instance of that phenomenon, and not everyone will do it in the same way.
What sort of perspectives are we talking about? These are from the news article:

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108768455141007360

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497
Good recommendations and I'd add an additional upvote for Above and Beyond. I feel like it's a good entrance into EDM.
You also don't want to be in the business of determining which ads are "good" and which are "bad" and being tastemakers in any way, so probably a smart choice to stay out of the ad game.

A good add on though might be a way for people to run their own service on a Cloudflare worker that gets hit with each request to 1^4, which would allow them to run their own ad blocker.
I wish I had the time to chase down the ways our axioms and premises are preventing us from doing more than talking past one another here, but I don't, and I don't feel like fighting uphill against a "which is fantasy" kind of tone, just to have the attempt.

Have a nice day.
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> what's the reasoning behind a strict separation of the two?

Some observant Jews choose a vegetarian option because vegetarian things are kosher by default. But if the veggie patty is cooked on the same grill as both meat and cheese, then the veggie patty becomes (according to some views) non-kosher. This is because kosher stipulates strict separation of meat and dairy: separate grills, separate sinks to wash any dishes afterwards, etc.
Private insurers are already moving toward value based care where providers bear some of the risk. For example it's common to have bundled payments for certain things like joint replacements covering the procedure itself and all necessary follow-up care. But the fee-for-service model will still be used on some claims for many years to come.