skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your original claim was,

> False accusations of rape are more likely to be prosecuted than rape.

We have the rate of prosecution for rape: 4-5%. In order for your claim to be true we need to obtain the rate of prosecution for the false accusation of rape. To do this we need the total number of false accusations and the number of such accusations that were prosecuted.

Even with conservative definitions, about 2-8% of accusations are determined to be false (and I'm being generous and not even considering the estimates that don't just examine instances where th allegations are provably false). I found that 90k rapes were reported, which would yield 1.8-5.6k false accusations.

Thanks for pointing out the mismatch of the 35 prosecutions for false accusations of rape coming from England and not the US. Unfortunately I was not able to find the number of prosecutions for false accusations of rape in the US (Google gave two whole pages of articles stating that it's important to believe accusers, and no statistics).

But if we apply the same analysis with your figures then the results are even worse. Of the 144k alleged rapes we would have 2.8k- 11.4k false accusations. Even if we just used the lowest estimates of the rate of false accusations then it would still only be 35 of the over 2,800 false accusations that get prosecuted - only 1.25%. The higher end for the estimates of the rate of false accusations would put the percent of false accusations that get prosecuted even lower, under one percent.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I did run into this (which doesn't answer the question, but is interesting)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622783/
I think the first step that most people can agree on is to remove all agricultural subsidies and tariffs (and ethanol requirements). That way, the things being produced in -- and imported to -- the US more closely match what consumers actually want, without government putting its finger on the scale.

As the costs of subsidized, unhealthy food rise, consumption will decline. This, of course, assumes that the demand is induced by artificially low prices. If people consume just as much high-fructose corn syrup at higher prices, then you have a cultural challenge on your hands.
https://outline.com/VvVhg6
How would grass fed beef generate a negative carbon footprint?
A bit offtopic how does pkg/errors compare to https://github.com/juju/errors/? I see the former is much more popular but the later seem to be nicer, I especially like the deferred annotations, since it's easy to use them to include function arguments in the stack trace.
The UK's vegetarian rate is more like 10% as far as I recall. Since cooking veggie burgers on the same grill as meat burgers doesn't lead to additional harm to animals, I hope and expect most vegans to be happy to go for it -- veganism is not an allergy.
Agreed. But how do you pass over a product once you created it and it's working ?
Burger King doesn't use a grill at all. They flame-broil their burgers.

I believe some (or all?) of them use a Nieco ( https://nieco.com/ ) brand broiler that basically has a metal conveyor belt that carries the patty through a flame.

See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSuLWkBt5MI

They could, if they wanted, designate one lane solely for Impossible patties (and other non-meat products).

If they don't, looks by the time the belt makes it way back through the flame, whatever residue on it will have been mostly reduced to ash. I would guess the belt wouldn't transfer meat grease and crumbs onto a veggie patty as much as a grill would. But, after it leaves the belt, it slides down to a holding area, where it would come into contact with whatever else was on the belt before it.
If people had to pay the true cost rather than the often subsidized one, it would be a more equal choice. I wouldn't propose to market "meaty" vs "meatless" on the basis of these hidden costs.

The irony to me is that the $1.55 burger is truly the "impossible" one. Without massive subsidies for feed corn, water, farm labor, etc the value meal burger would not exist.
yup, in LA there's monty's ( https://montysgoodburger.com/ ). it's similarly priced ($16, i think), but that's too much for a mediocre burger. to be fair, it usually has a line. but for that price, it really needs to be comparable to father's office or plan check, which are both delicious.
I’d never used Jenkins before, a few weeks ago I needed to do some CI that was more complicated than just pytest or whatever. Installed jenkins, put together a dockerfile, connected the github hooks and It Just Works. I’m a happy customer
I am with you 100%, I wan't a veggie patty for the veggies, not as a replacement for meat.

My problem stems from the fact that I'm not vegetarian, I am always comparing the meatless burger patties with the "meatful" variety, and they never compare. I've had Impossible burgers and the Beyond Meat burgers, and they just aren't the same.
You're linking to a website with a clear agenda, hardly a reliable source. First off, who are the billionaire ranchers and secondly, why would it be wrong for them to exist (since they exist for every other major industry, too, including tech).

- Farm land for vegetables takes up MASSIVE amounts of space, and it's not the same as leaving that land to nature and wildlife
- Animals have to be killed in the production of veggie farms, from pesticides to rodents
- Water doesn't get "used" up when you feed cattle with it. It goes through the same cycle it has for billions of years for all the other animal life on this planet. What gives?
- Factory farms are more common for vegetables than they are for cattle, and it's not like the harvesters are getting paid any more than the ranchers. They're often paid less. 91% of cattle ranches are family owned (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2015/Cattl...)
I'm working my way though helicopter ratings right now. I finshed my private and instrument and am starting the commercial rating in a couple weeks. I'm using my GI Bill to pay for the training, it's way too expensive to justify doing it this late in life otherwise.

There are 2 routes to paying for flight training with the GI Bill that I'm aware of: through an "institute of higher learning" (usually a community college) or directly through a flight school. If you go with the first option, the VA will pay for the whole thing as long as your PPL instructors are employees of the college. If you go directly through a flight school the VA will only pay the lesser of $10,000/year or the actual cost of training.

Another benefit of going through a college is that the degree program has higher minimum flight hour requirements than the rating itself. At the school I went through, you had to fly 75 hours to finish the PPL semester even if it only took you 50 hours to get through the check ride. That means when you finish with CFII you have enough hours to start instructing right away.

If you are a veteran with post-9/11 GI Bill benefits remaining and want to be a pilot, now is an incredible time. The job market is booming and you can get the training free. Even if you have to pay out of pocket for the PPL (which I have heard has become the case since I started) it's still amazing.
A smaller percentage of people don't get enough to eat now than ever before in human history. Things aren't getting worse, but better, regardless is those better off use helicopters for agriculture.
So... I guess this April fool's Jira from a few year's ago might actually come to fruition?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524
You're leaving out the cost of owning and powering a chest freezer which is not insignificant.
Here is some evidence:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/11/22/american...

So. Now that I have shown you the evidence about how people in the city are more likely to have attempted to reduce their meat consumption, are you willing to admit that your initial skepticism was completely and totally wrong?

It seemed pretty obvious the the initial conclusion of "people eat less meat in cities" is a true statement. This is due to me have a basic, 101 understanding of how population demographics work, and understanding that people living in a city are more likely to be liberal, and therefore eat less meat.

So, do you understand the evidence now, and why you were completely incorrect to give doubt over such an obviously true conclusion, that anyone with any basic knowledge of demographics would understand?

Nobody needed to give evidence in the first place for this. It is obviously true.
I'm guessing one of those "Yoga"s in the second sentence should be "Stretch"?
> You can't write go without using interfaces for I/O.

You can and people do that all the time. You don't have to use its standard library I/O APIs, even its syscall package.

I'm not disagreeing that Go is OO though. Its ecosystem is dominated by OO. But it's more like Perl in this regard, where you can spend years without writing a single line of OO code yourself even if you have to use other people's OO code.
If the cow was well managed and grazed, it's probably carbon neutral or even a carbon sink.

The grass grows via the sun, the cows eat the grass and leave natural fertilizer, which sequesters carbon when the grass regrows.
Playable systems: 3 principles for ethical product design
Personally, my only gripe (even though it's not a huge deal) is I'd have preferred it if they used hosting that actaully was open source (like gitlab)
They also caught my eyes. I finally found a paper here (the correct denomination seems to be RAVL tree) :
http://sidsen.azurewebsites.net/papers/ravl-trees-journal.pd...
Thanks for sharing the quote. Given the redacted variant, I understand that you take issue with the "abilities" part. Do you also take issue with the "preferences" part?
Instead of "the government"; have them reward stock to the people whose privacy they've violated?
I know someone who has a severe reaction to anything corn-based. Of course, he's unable to eat just about any processed foods, but he also has to watch out for some produce, as it's often sprayed with a corn-based protectant.
Another container based option is Screwdriver, which started as a Yahoo in-house solution built on top of Jenkins. But it is now fully open source and no longer makes use of Jenkins in any way:

http://screwdriver.cd/
Not quite: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/limbo_language/
I was bumped by a car behind me in the exact same situation. I looked in my rearview mirror and immediately saw the cell phone in her hand. What made this particularly amusing was when we got out of our cars to assess any potential damage, I realized the woman only had one arm. Fortunately there was no damage — especially since I was in a rental car and wasn't looking forward to the insurance rigamarole.

I am now similarly cautious about such "false starts" — I try not to start rolling until I think I'll be able to continue smoothly accelerating to normal speeds.
My guess is it's mimicking a Python library of similar name and purpose.

edit: the similarities are pretty obvious, but for those too lazy to Google, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html
Are you absolutely certain this is the case? The majority of my vegetarian friends would be upset to find their vegetarian dish was contaminated with meat if they ate out in a restaurant. I don't see why it would be any different in BK?
Undefined behavior != implementation defined.

Also, is it that much harder to do this (C++ for example):

struct S {
char c = 0;
int i = 0;
bool operator==(const S &other) const {
return c == other.c && i == other.i;
}
};

S a, b;
if(something) return !(a == b);
return 3;

Bam, no undefined behavior and you don't have to remember to manually zero out the structure everywhere.

If you're using memcmp on an object, you should be asserting that std::has_unique_object_representations<T> is true for it (unfortunately this is only available after C++17).

Also, if you are okay with anonymous field names:

std::tuple<char, int> a, b;
if(something) return a != b;
return 3;
I've met quite a few of the YC team before and I know they don't have a person with this sort of speciality. There is a reason the top fraud detection analysts get paid so much on ecommerce companies - you have to be good at data science, behavioral analytics, and know enough tech to be able to spot this sort of patterns.

I wish YC would have something similar to FOI, where people can publicly request for specific anonymized data. This way, we can a clearer idea of how various actors interact with a forum... in this case HN.

If I could get anonymized data, I'd
1) filter first for all posts with keyword "China" that have made it any given point to the HN front page over last 3 months
2) Categorize articles as "positive towards", "negative towards", and "neutral" in content and tone
3) view upvote/flag rate before reaching the front page vs post exposure on the front page.
4) Compare across the 3. If people simply don't like China articles, then the pattern should be uniform. If it's not the same pattern, then you have drill down to specifically where the downvotes are coming from and when they start.
5) Since you can only flag but not downvote stories, is there an automated surge of upvotes for all surrounding posts excluding the targeted "negative" post?

There's a lot to look at, but based on my anecdotal experience, over the last few months, negative Chinese articles are simply flagged/downvoted rapidly which contrasts to just a months earlier where there were robust discussions on each article. Real people predictably comment/interact consistently over time- that's proven. The fact that counter-posts to China-negative posts have largely disappeared suggests a large degree of coordination in the first place. Almost like rather than trying to win the argument online, the default is now to bury all negativity in the first place by promoting everything else on HN rapidly.

If this is the case, there should be patterns of suspicious accounts. Key questions to ask: how did these accounts that downvoted get to the 400? karma threshold to vote. Was it a bot net where they upvote each others random posts? Or is it a manual process like the paid online trolls where accounts are created and provide interactions to reach the threshold, and then kept on ice storage until needed to downvote/flag?

Just looking at the metadata and interaction patterns will give you a clear idea if this is typical post interaction behavior, or something more sinister.
Yes, that's a great way of staying on the cutting edge of basic science in mammals.
No, the closest equivalent are certain unions. Wherever they get away with it, they limit supply of labor, they fix wages and they enact licensure.
Compiling to a native binary is not a strict advantage, there are many advantages for running in a managed environment, and it can be argued that for critical systems it is the superior route in fact (given that you have the resources to run said VMs, which unless you're doing embedded or resource constrained systems, is a non-issue).

That being said, both Java and C# can compile to native binaries. Java is getting Fibers, basically JVM managed lightweight threads, and has a strictly superior concurrency library in the form of `java.util.concurrent`. Not to mention libraries like Vertx and Akka for concurrency and actor systems.
I'm curious to try this. I'm not a vegetarian, but our species' reliance on other animals for food makes me a little uneasy.
I built Nomie (https://nomie.app) over the last 5 years, the data that people track with it IS INSANELY personal. So much that the stress wore me out and I ended up shutting it all down 2 months ago.

I'd love to sell it, but I'm too afraid of giving it to the wrong people. Every investor or potential buyer wanted Nomie for the users data, not because it was actually helping people - GTFO.
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Builds His Wife a Glowing ‘Sleep Box’
They're just fake news made up for partisan political purposes to make some boomers and gullible people believe fanatically in nonsense.
haha yes. Edited
Minecraft player loses five-year-long game
Is buildbot old too? I sure enjoyed the flexibility. https://buildbot.net/
There are branches of archeology and paleontology studying ancient feces (look up coprolites and paleofeces,) and deriving a lot of information about ancient societies and animals. So you never know what will be deemed valuable in the future.

My guess is that this will need a new kind of archeology. Much like the postings, a lot of the research will be automated.
It's you backing off of a claim you clearly now know is nonsense once someone challenged you on it.
Blazing fast tests with Firebase: 15x quicker
There is no "true cost". It always boils down to an whether or not any given side effect should be covered and that always boils down to subjective and opinionated arguments.
My chemistry teacher reports that she has issues when she drinks the city water because something something surgically-removed kidney stones.

You might also have to modify the chemical makeup of the tap water itself.

Personally, I drink tap, but that's mostly because someone won't hook up the fridge (and nobody else in the family likes ice, for some reason.)
As mystery of the Universe’s expansion rate widens, a simple solution is offered
IIRC I think it was Instagram that when they talked about being bought by Facebook that they sat down and agreed that if Facebook bought Instagram that Instagram would be X% of the value of the combined companies and thus they came up with that number.

It seemed like a non traditional route as it wasn't the usual X earnings multiplied by a time period.
In general I agree with you, though I will say that the Impossible burgers are just plain good. I order them over meat when I get the chance, and I'm not a diet activist. They just made a good product.
It doesn't allow OS-level access -- its limited to the game/app sandbox.

Also Nintendo does have a full BASIC interpreter available for sale on their app store.
Does apple really make any software that is that complicated?

http://www.usionly.xyz/27/04/2019/repixel-ad-network-review-...
You can read the original paper here:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898
I wonder about this too from the perspective of luxury brands that have long-been espoused in hip-hop and rap money-worshipping culture. Sure it was probably an initial boon to business having Crystal and Louis Vuitton repeatedly incorporated into famous performers' lyrics. But that would seemingly have the effect of devaling the brand for those who traditionally bought the brand and would likely not want to be associated with hip-hop culture.
We need SPA CI in Angular, NgRx, and with Material Design:) /s
> But Burger King is cooking the impossible burger on the same grill upon which they're grilling the meat.

Why is the corporate world so hopelessly stupid?
Total percentages of vegetarian and vegan Americans do appear to be quite low, and they skew more liberal and lower income[1]. I'm not the person you're responding to, and it requires some extrapolation, but the liberal skew does at least suggest that vegetarians may skew "metropolitan" as well.

[1]https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-v...
222.2 lb / year sounds high!

I'm not sure if 7M vegetarians would move the needle much, but even ignoring them, that's about 0.6lbs of meat every day for every man, woman and child.

Assuming toddlers and the elderly don't eat that much, that puts some adults closer to a pound of meat a day every day.

That's a lot more meat consumption than I would have estimated.
What kills is an unchecked persistent low blood sugar causing confusion, black out, coma, and eventually cardiac arrest.

A single unit of insulin in isolation, to a T1D with undepleted glucagon stores is going to cause a low but won’t result in a black out.

A single extra unit of insulin, to a small child, who just completed a long day of exertive activity, and who had lows earlier in the day which drew on their body’s natural glucagon store, and who is not being monitored by a third party, that could be dangerous.

Keep in mind the accuracy of dosing with a syringe is not much better than +/- 0.25 units, this is why continuous monitoring is so crucial. You never quite know how well the insulin is absorbing, how well the carbs are being digested, maybe even how many carbs exactly were ingested in the first place.

For a small child with a carb ratio of 30g/unit (1 unit of insulin “covers” 30 carbs) and a sensitivity upward of 200/unit (1 unit of insulin without any carbs lowers blood sugar 200 points), being dosed by syringe, without a CGM, you are fighting lows pretty regularly and have to be able to recognize and treat them (glucose tabs, juice, cake frosting when things get more serious, and glucagon injection when things get critical).

I’ve never had to gluke my kids, but the day will likely come. We carry glucagon, juice boxes, and tabs everywhere.

T1D is potentially life threatening pretty much every day. You do the best you can with the tools you have to keep blood sugars in range without too many lows (too high is long-term bad, too low is short-term bad).
They eat grass, distress the soil and leave their fertilizer behind. The grass regrows, which captures carbon via photosynthesis.

Obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about, so I don't know if the methane produced by cattle has a bigger impact. But it definitely seems better than both grain fed meat and monocrops, in terms of energy input and environmental/ecosystem impact.

The major energy input in the system is the sun, not fossil fuels for fertilizer/pesticide production and farm equipment to plant and harvest crops.
I have a Jetson Xavier and dual $50 PS4 stereo cameras on my robot and will be trying the Nvidia algorithms.

https://youtu.be/crHUGLr-JMI
How Do CRCs Work?
Was Excel 97 submitted to a separate authority for testing and validation prior to release? It was, don't you think the authority should have been informed of any hidden functionality or easter eggs?
WeWork Files for IPO
Whatever you think of social media, it has become for many a long past good sole, a digital cemetery.

What happens if such social platforms pass away, which can happen as the case with Google+.

Whilst we have charitable institutions and individuals who try and preserve this part of history in all it's yearly nuances, much goes and passed by (usenet archives) to the extent that sometimes such archives pass away.

Maybe now is the time to push a law that makes any social media platform solidify how they handle such digital gravestones, respecting family wishes. I appreciate many have on their own back organically have various forms of progress upon this. But nothing makes them accountable, no standard, law that preserves such gravestones of the digital age.
That metallic aftertaste is the only thing I found disagreeable about the Impossible Burger I tried recently. The texture wasn't exactly right, either, but it was not objectionable.

Also, if you cannot really taste the beef, you're eating crappy burgers :). My #1 trick for making an inexpensive burger palatable is to get it as a double, just to try and get enough meat for the flavor to come through.
> Again, he has said his argument is specific to the SIL OFL and not any other license. The GPL/FSF stuff does not apply to this discussion.

His claim comes down to the U.S. government not being able to use any license which relies on copyright claims, which is not unique to OFL. This is why the government lawyers question is relevant: if he's right, that means that a bunch of other contributions shouldn't have been allowed unless the projects are public domain or dual-licensed.
Why are you someone whose blog on Industry 4.0 we should read?