skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had both and you hit the nail on the head describing internal texture. The beyond burger was beyond awful, the impossible burger was quite good, but neither compare to eg shake shack. It comes down to subjective taste of course. Personally if I want to reduce my meat consumption for the day I'd just opt for vegetarian friendly cuisine like Indian. It's been accommodated for a very long time in history, there are more vegetarians in India than anywhere in the world.
Seems like you haven’t read the article, have you? What Chinese leadership are you talking about? Just read the comments here, Amazon is lagging behind JD and others
While you're waiting for the main event to start, here are some recent interviews with Elon about self-driving cars. He's very confident.

"To me right now, this seems 'game, set, and match,'" Musk said. "I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone."

I am eager to see what they unveil today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI

https://ark-invest.com/research/podcast/elon-musk-podcast
I dislike the early section about arrogance. Who cares? I don’t care if someone is being arrogant, humble, or anything else, when it comes to mathematics proofs. Imagine if Hardy had scolded Ramanujan for being “arrogant” and dismissed his correspondence?

At best, by trying to judge arrogance, you’re trying to use it as some type of correlate with being a crank and more quickly dismiss a claim without spending the effort to read it.

At worst, it’s trying to entrench the superficial credential of mathematics academia and journal publication style of collaboration and peer review, which frankly (and especially in mathematics, where polymath amateurs can easily be responsible for ground-breaking solo work) is overdue for being replaced by a more fully open, unrestricted participation model of discovery and publication.

Some arrogant cranks are going propose time-waster claims. Just accept it. Don’t care if they are arrogant or not.
Interview with devs of Sinespace, all-in-one world building platform
Generally speaking to reach that high of level you have to have fully drunk the kool-aid and be an owned person. It'd furthermore take a lot of stones to risk compensation that high (and probable soft blackballing for similar positions at other companies). See: https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
A non charitable reading of my quickly formulated comment may have given the impression I believe that the need for real feminism is over. I'm lamenting the appropriation of the word by those that are cheapening it with nonsense.

On the one hand we have women in Iran facing real dangers to take off their veils. Then on the other we have this strange group that deny science and demand we believe men and women are identical. I also reject this pattern where women should measure and compare themselves to men, and shape themselves into men. Which seems very anti-feminist. You're fine to do it, but to label that feminist is (I believe) wrong.
Sounds like maybe you're referring to Beyond Burger, not Impossible Burger? Impossible Burger isn't available in grocery stores yet, and Beyond has sort of a spammy taste to it that Impossible doesn't have (from my perception).
It's not just the API docs that are copied, but the API structure itself. Then again, the examples shown in the article are just OAuth flows, which are a standard and docs are going to look similar regardless.

But I totally agree with not worry about competitors. There's always going to be people copying you, and if they do that means you're doing something right. Think Stripe - I'm sure they're a huge source of 'inspiration' for a lot of sites when it comes to design and documentation.
What about Uber and DiDi?
Ask HN: How to Fund a Non-Profit?
Can you explain for non-googlers?
Ask HN: "Issue Tracker” for Governments?
Has any government (country, state, city, etc) implemented an issue tracker, in order to promote visibility into what the government is working, prioritizing, making progress towards, etc?

This relates to the problem statement of "I, as a citizen, find it difficult to keep track of all the important issues. Instead, I default to thinking about the most recent issues, or the ones most publicized in the news media. "

I'd imagine the federal government-level tracker would deal with large-scale macro issues, link to public feedback (e.g votes, complaints, importance over time), show legislation (along with proposal/implementation status), estimated duration/budget/resources required, prioritization (along with rationale), etc.

On small / local scale, as a simple example: Imagine that you see a pothole in a nearby street. As a citizen, you could submit an issue "Pothole @ 56th/2nd ave" (along with consolidation of similar issues), and the city could be able to transparently acknowledge the issue, delegate to the right group, and provide visibility into the urgency and timeline of the fix, etc.

It would be interesting if a government leader deliberately held themselves accountable by taking stock of the "issues" present at the beginning of their administration, and then regularly providing a summarized report of progress they've made (how many issues closed out, and what impact that had), where they are blocked ("we don't have money for that!"), and soliciting input from the public to help prioritize certain initiatives.

Note: I am specifically NOT talking about "law as code", GitHub for legislation.
I am happy if they are being fired. Modern workplace should not have any place for misguided activism.

These morons have mixed up their politics with issues of sexual harassment and workplace and deeply hurt their own cause. For example forcing Google to end arbitration is a bad idea for the victims and Google. Ending arbitration essentially means the senior VP will take all his severance package and leave the company. With arbitration high chance he wont get that.
Yes, I was feeling dumb watching the same thing in a loop, hopefully they’ll start soon with the real meat...
Airbnb leads $160M investment into startup Lyric
And it isn't true, because Mozilla is very involved, and every browser engine will have to get on board.
I think you meant k = 1000, M = 1000^2, G = 1000^3, T = 1000^4, P = 1000^5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
It means the production of the items in question came out of the location specified.
Maybe too much confident if you ask me..
DepHell: Project Management for Python
Ted Nelson recently did a series of videos on the important ideas in Xanadu. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac

Also you can buy his classic 'Computer Lib' book here: https://computerlibbook.com/
Did that roadster just pass two model 3s on a double yellow blind turn? Smh.... but that was awesome
I am not vegetarian, but I like Beyond Meat and eat it pretty often, especially their sausage. But in my opinion it doesn't really taste or feel like meat at all. I'm OK with that, but if they really want to "fool" meat eaters, I think they have a ways to go.
> No, they don't, because “more or less” is not actually directly.

I disagree.

Consider a `Counter` class, intended to be used for counting something. The class has one field: `Counter.count`, which is an integer.

A setter/getter for this field would be like `Counter.setCount(i: Int)` and `Counter.getCount() -> Int`. There is no effective difference between using these methods and having direct access to the internal state of the object.

A more "true OOP" solution would be to use methods with semantic meaning, for example: `Counter.increment()`, `Counter.decrement()`, and `Counter.getCount() -> Int`. (Yes, the getter is here because this is a simple example.) These kinds of methods are not directly exposing the internal state of the object to be freely manipulated by the outside world.

If your getter/setter does something other than just get/set, then it's not really a getter/setter anymore — it's a normal method that happens to manipulate the state, which is fine. But using getters/setters (in the naive, one-line sense) is commonplace with certain people, and I feel that their use undermines the principles Kay was getting at.
> There's something to be said for making sure the government is doing it accurately.

>> Let the IRS do it, they send you a copy and you send it back either as is or with modifications.

That's why you check it.

And to respond to a possible next question, do we trust TurboTax (or others) more?

> Also, if you have other income with no W2 it needs to be reported.

All those other forms that are handed to you are ALSO already handed to the IRS. For example the 1099. The W2 was an easily verifiable example of how they already have this information before you receive it. The gov already has copies of all those forms. So really as tax payers we're paying for the IRS to do our taxes and we're paying for companies like TurboTax to do it as well (assuming you don't do it yourself)
Apparently gyms are increasingly using formal contracts at signup which stipulate this convoluted process to exit the contract.

Good luck winning that in small claims.
Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees
The story is true. It was a long time ago but I remember the head being up near the top of the mast, the rest of the body would have been lower. My strongest memories are of a beady black eye looking down on me and the feeling of the boat rolling.
McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast–the latest Windows update breaks them all
That's a really huge assumption, considering they never met (afaict), let alone deliberated anything or issued recommendations. Google sought input from outside their bubble and those inside the bubble immediately protested based on identity politics.

There are a lot more people outside the bubble than inside, and this action makes it seem like Google doesn't give a shit what they think. It's the sort of thing that makes heavy regulation appealing even for those who normally would oppose regulation on principle.

How does that benefit Google?
All these replies are from devs and the like who aren't used to how everyone else uses this notation. Everyone in the business world uses MM, it just looks weird because you're not used to it. Different industries use different notations.

If you came to my workplace and used a single 'M' everyone would have the same response here but inverted - how using a single M makes no sense and is inaccurate.

I work in advertising where "CPM" is a common metric (cost per milli). So using a single M still means thousand, will MM means million.
Go ahead and cherry pick and tilt at straw men, but my point still stands.
That theoretical distinction makes sense to me, but I don't see how it would be possible to support one kind of animal agriculture and not the other with purchasing habits. When most consumers don't distinguish provenance, demand for animal products is fungible.
I'm very happy this sentiment is becoming more common. It is just insane when you think about it.
I don't think lacking life has ever been an argument vegetarians use. Once consciousness emerges, there is an innate desire to remain alive and to be free from suffering. Even if we could give animals a wonderful life in our current capitalist system, and then kill them without their awareness, we'd still need to justify (from a philosophical standpoint) why it would be immoral to do the same with a human animal.
Americans Waste 1T gallons of water every year
Maybe it is a test to see when the AI generating the video breaks
The parking was deeded to my unit. I didn’t intentionally pay for 2 parking spots. I was forced to buy two.
Talk about hyperbole. What vendor contracts are next to impossible to cancel? And are we just talking about obnoxious phone calls with extended waits?
Those are observations from her life, I've experienced those too.

I'm dangerously close to stating common stereotypes so please take the following with good faith;

I knew a female engineer who was very good at her job (she was in networking), after having a child she discussed with her husband (also a network engineer at another company, roughly the same pay) about reducing her working hours.

He was fine with it, but he was open to also taking time off, she felt it was needed because she was the mother, purely her choice. Her manager took it graciously and put her down to 80% time.

However, one engineer resented that she was away 2-half-days a week, he ascribed values that he held to her and couldn't understand why she would want to be home with her kid instead of making more of her career.

--

a male example: I have a close personal friend who is what you would call a manly-man.

His girlfriend obviously loves him, but his girlfriends best friend is not a fan of how he's "aloof", often she considers that he is secretly plotting something or is going to cheat on her. He lacks the empathy to be "seriously deep". He might even be a psychopath; by the way she tells it anyway.

The truth is that he's just a bigger guy and he is quiet, it's different when it's just me and him but with a large group he recedes into being very quiet.

She never made much of an effort to connect with him; but she judges him based on values she has, values about being open and warm and caring and smiley.

My mother has more "anecdotes" but the way things are is that it's not statistically backed. But it's a good rule of thumb to ensure that I at least try to understand someone else's values before I judge their actions (or, non-actions).
> Instead, Svelte runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM.

So, Svelte is compiled into web assembly? If not, given the emitted imperative code is less efficient than emitted web assembly and the emitted imperative code is less concise than the original declarative code, then what would be the advantage of an imperative translation of the declarative Javascript code compared to emitted web assembly or the original?
There's also a huge market for small, low-cost, low-complexity chips. Even if they produce something that's underpowered compared to the competition, it still may be perfectly suitable for a kitchen appliance or similar.
WTF, most animals that are farmed are fed agricultural produce - crops that are cultivated. It's simple math that it's inefficient to grow crops -> feed the animals -> eat the animals. There's efficiency loss at every step. Are you seriously claiming that eating meat is better than being vegetarian?
Unless they're making hundreds of requests per visitor I fail to see how the load is shifted so drastically to make such an impact.
Easy to say from the sidelines. Working at google means

- getting better benefits & pay

- being at one of the darling companies in the industry

Walking out is daring. Leaving is even scarier. I remember leaving my last job thinking, "I'll never work with as talented people." I was wrong, but it was a legitimate fear.
it's a horrible plattform to upload content to. Maybe I haven'T found it yet, but deviantart has an ftp upload interface
We experienced issues when we enabled H2 on our HAProxy 1.8 reverse proxies into our K8s cluster. Didn't anticipate the increased memory consumption and we ran into a few memory-related defects with older versions of HAProxy that were fixed with more recent versions. We'll re-enable it at some point, but we've upgraded our reverse proxies in anticipation of it.
> How is anyone supposed to establish WHY a company does something?

Courts deal with mens rea and actus rea every day. They look at the evidence and see if it meets the burden of proof.
Agreed. My high school Econ teacher told me I was too young to be cynical after I told her I expected to pay into SS throughout my career, but I didn’t expect to receive it. This was early 90s.

I’ve never included it in my retirement planning.
ITT: Engineers attempt to armchair-reengineer new standard units for representing millions, billions and so on without understanding the parameters of the problem.
Fair enough. If you're going to make a point, do what "literally" all the other good posts do and footnote it. Don't put the burden of proving your point on the reader, that's your job in the OP.
“I mainly wanted to provoke people...” I hate this. I see it way too often. It’s either a cop-out to avoid having to own up to your arguments or its just poisonous rhetoric in the first place that contributes to partisan opinions, especially when the speaker has an air of authority that causes people to accept what they say at face value. It is directly antithetical to critical thinking.
It would be nice to git clone a contract.
Exercising the principle of charity != Promoting [X]

If we all started calling out everything that might possibly be [X] without being absolute certain, then this stance to accept false positives would result in far too much noise in the form of one of the harshest accusations in 2019.

This sort of stance, where the Presumption of Innocence is sacrificed, to prioritize catching all the guilty, the innocents be damned, is also the stance that leads to the witchhunt mentality. It's a social epistemological catastrophe, where everyone suspects everyone and accusations for ulterior motives cannot be detected.

In 2019, it seems as if this stance is designed to and deployed to cause a social epistemological catastrophe over social media. I suspect this is actually being done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

This is precisely why Blackstone's formulation came to be, and why it's necessary to avoid toxic and tyrannical societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
> PETERSON: Yeah, well, because I see that the social justice etiology (sic.) that’s destroyed a huge swath of academia is on the march in a major way through corporate America. And if the corporate people think they’re immune to it, they’ve got another think coming. It’s not like they’re any smarter than the universities.

I've heard that Peterson was spreading worthless claptrap, but am still a little suprised.

> If Google is still mostly focused on writing software and building the future, rather than prosecuting culture wars

Thankfully, Google has stayed away from Peterson
I think that's a reason Impossible has only been available in restaurants so far. (They say they'll be available for retail purchase later this year.) My understanding is you have to be a bit careful when cooking it, so they want to make sure it's cooked by professionals so people get a good first impression.
The lawsuit was about copyright on headers though. I think the headers did include the same documentation as the original Java implementation.
How does this work when you can be individually identified by analysis of the things you write in comments or your mouse movements? And that can be correlated across HN, Reddit, LinkedIn. I suspect that almost all of us are the laymen you first described, to someone.
This is surprising to me. Can this be related to the low salaries compared to equivalent jobs in the US? Is the culture in Canada about taking on debt?

From my limited experience, Canada is somewhat a middle point culturally between US and EU. This aspect (debt) seems to be far closer to the US, at least when compared to northern EU where average debt per family is virtually zero.
Oh good, because everyone knows millennials are just swimming in extra taxable cash
> I doubt any language can prevent this kind of 'exposing guts' malpractice

Actually, true OOP languages do prevent this. Internal state is completely private and cannot be exposed externally. The only way to interact with an object's state is through its methods — which means the object itself is responsible for knowing how to manipulate its internal state.

Languages like Java are not "true" OOP in this sense, because they provide the programmer with mechanisms to allow external access to internal state.

Internal state should be kept internal. You shouldn't have a class `Foo` with a private internal `.bar` field and then provide public `Foo.getBar()` and `Foo.setBar()` methods, because you may as well just have made the `.bar` field public in that case.

Also, FWIW, I did not downvote you. I dunno why you were downvoted. Seems you had a legitimate point here, even if I disagree with it.
> Ending arbitration essentially means the senior VP will take all his severance package and leave the company. With arbitration high chance he wont get that.

I don't think this changes that much. If a lawsuit results in the company letting the VP go with cause, there will be no severance package. If the lawsuit fails but the company does not want the VP around anymore, they will let them go without cause, triggering the severance. With arbitration, it either lets the company sweep the incident under the rug, or if they let the VP go, it must be without cause, thus triggering the severance.
I'm very excited about the OSCAR project. It could be very helpful down the road to the overall goal of creating a free open source viable alternative to Mathematics, etc...
Further to that point about undercutting for years, it's not going to be just $55m.

If Otonomo have raised ~$55m, it means they have very powerful, very rich backers (Bessemer, NTT, SK, Aptiv). They might realistically have another $100m over the coming years instead, if they continue making progress.
Germ-Killing Brands Now Want to Sell You Germs
I don't disagree. But I have no way of knowing.
You'd tax those making >$10 million/year, not those making <$100k/year.
> This isn't difficult: stealing and copying API design and API documentation is wrong.

Copying APIs is fine, as far as I'm concerned.

The world is as better place if hardware and software is compatible with each other, and common interfaces enable that.
You're welcome to try all you want. But after the hundredth crackpot paper someone receives, expect them to be a wee bit less welcoming, open, and excited than they were the first couple of times.

I think a lot of people commenting on this topic to this effect are obviously not receiving a huge deluge of crackpot papers. I've never received them myself, but I've seen a couple of instances of people and companies who do, each of them themselves small instances of the problem, and it would have been plenty to try my patience if I had to spend any time at all on each of them.
...and of course Java was somewhat open to begin with, which isn't the case for the technology the company that got copied in story. There's always the next level in douchebaggery, if Google was really wrong copying those headers to begin with.
Book Notes: High Output Management by Andy Grove
This post was causing my spidy-senses to tingle. It was reading like something I’d find on Zerohedge. Then, I got to this:

> Ipsos, which conducts the quarterly poll for MNP, surveyed 2,070 Canadians online from March 13-24.

I don’t trust this data as far as I can throw it.

Corrected headline “48% of 2,070 responses to online surveys stated that the respondee does not have $200.”
The idea that our social institutions systematically favor/reward men over women seems to be contradicted by the fact that men are also disproportionately represented at the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy.

It does not necessarily disprove the hypothesis of systematic sexism, but it is an observation which requires explanation.

Update: fixed wording.
For the record, I'm Asian and my wife was born in Fujian province, China.
Yeah, Raytheon Vision. They do satellite cameras/sensors. Northrup Grumman is there too.
Samsung has postponed Galaxy Fold launch events in China
Most I don't. And many of them work against me as well.
Yeah - and Jeff seems to be the type of guy who is like, you are right CFO. We are here for the short term - let us do what you are saying?!

China is the biggest eComm market in the world! If there was an opportunity for Amazon to penetrate (regulations being the biggest challenge), Amazon would have totally gone for it.

This is a company why, 5 yrs back, committed $5B to India when eComm there was/still is totally burgeoning.
Not yet. That was why I started CoCalc.