skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The farther people travel, the more demand there is for bigger solutions,” he said. “There is no question this region has to address housing, but how we do that, that is still to be discussed.”

No, it's a prerequisite to solving the transportation problem. How else would you know what to design the system for?
Of course you should be able to patent it. You should also be able to give it away for free. You should not be allowed to ask the government to prevent other people from doing what they want with their seeds.
I've begun to notice a pattern... most big countries (especially with big populations) are all shtholes. Brazil, India, most of China, Pakistan, Indonesia, parts of US, lots of parts of my country Mexico...

I wish I live in country like Estonia or Luxembourg. They are are so small. Luxembourg could fit into Mexico several times over with like a 1/9 of population. No sht they will have better everything. Transportation system several times smaller, less food to harvest, less people to teach, wealth spread around more, less diverse (I think diversity often makes doing things extremely hard sometimes)... less people=less complicated. Things dont scale so well , ESPECIALLY with people.
Europe habe also been around sp much longer than US, probably by a couple 100 years ?
There are vegetarian/vegan burgers available with fewer calories, often containing more beans or vegetables. They've been available for longer than the Impossible or Beyond burgers without gaining nearly as much public mindshare. A random example sold at my local grocery store:

http://drpraegers.com/our-food/california-veggie-burgers/
Ingredients: Carrots, Onions, String Beans, Oat Bran, Soybeans, Zucchini, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Peas, Broccoli, Corn, Soy Flour, Spinach, Red Peppers, Arrowroot Powder, Corn Starch, Garlic, Corn Meal, Sea Salt, Spices

They don't taste or feel like burgers, though. It seems that the products that taste like burgers (which require more fat and won't accommodate stuff like carrots and broccoli) are the ones that appeal to a larger market.
You don’t always need a title check - you just need a party willing to bear the risk of problems with title, which are rare. There is plenty of margin to play with there.
AWS TAMs I know spend a sizable portion of their time making sure that their costs are low for their customers, monitoring monthly spend and looking for inefficiencies. Business and Enterprise support customers also receive full access to Trusted Advisor, an automated tool which checks your account for spending inefficiencies and best practice violations.
They talk briefly about housing at the end, but that strikes me as absolutely core to the success of any initiative to decrease congestion. People tolerate absurd commutes because the jobs are better here, increasing transportation bandwidth in isolation will just increase the distance people are willing to travel. Only solution is either more housing here or better jobs elsewhere, and we can't control the latter.
Fascinating link but your color commentary on those in power trying to surpress this knowledge makes you sound irrational - despite being completely right. If those in power wanted to prevent this knowledge it wouldn't be on Wikipedia for any to edit.
How fish and shrimps could be recruited as underwater spies
Per closing paragraph of https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/, part 2 is scheduled for sometime this month.
Theft would be more accurate.
And... euthanasia is the solution to all health cost problems, also.
The Data Protection Directive and GDPR don't care about whether the privacy violation involves a computer :)
I'm currently in Minneapolis, downtown proper. I even own a condo in the middle of downtown. I don't even need a car and buses galore and multiple trains as well as a skyway for bad weather all within a block or less. I have Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Mall of America at my access. Oh, I'm also making 6 figures already.

That said, doubling my salary a Big-N for a few years and getting experience at a larger tech company is what I'm mostly chasing at the moment. I want the experience, I want to see what it's like for myself. I can just rent out the condo I have now easily, pack a bag of clothes and go.
I got stuck on the first line in the abstract:

> Determining whether online users are authorized to access digital objects is central to preserving privacy.

Can someone dissect that sentence and explain why that is? I honestly fail to make the connection.
These are refreshing. Redmon's resume is, the first of its kind I suspect.
The US is very lax on regulation concerning unhealthy foods. Sugar's the usual suspect, but things like livestock antibiotic usage and other sins come to mind.
Do people think they'll be able to change things?
I’d question if this is purely the result of a sugar addiction. This is a very American figure, other countries have less problems, even though sugar is widely available.

Obesity has a variety of contributing factors, (lack of) access to actual healthy food, lack of physical exercise, high calorie intake (certainly aided by sugar), ...
In what situation do you feel the need to use random.org?

Most platforms have better ways to generate randomness without needing to trust an external service.
A thread from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294887
Where can we look to find what is next
> getting rid of ABP may be the primary reason for this move

This makes no sense to me.

ABP is already publishing a version using a declarativeNetRequest-like API, it's in the Mac App Store[1], so clearly it's not going to "get rid of ABP".

Google benefits from ABP and AdBlock[2] being the most used content blockers, as they do not block Google ads by default, and do not block trackers/data miners out of the box.

If Google (rightly) deems content blockers as unavoidable, it sure would want people to install the ones which are not blocking its ads and trackers by default.

* * *

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock-plus-for-safari/id14...

[2] The two most-used content blockers as per Chrome Web Store.
But a BMI in the low 30's is better for you than alcoholism. If you're six foot and 230lbs, that's a BMI of 31, which is obese.

Here's some pictures of guys with that build: https://www.height-weight-chart.com/600-230.html

They're not very fit, but they look "a bit fat/chubby" to my eyes - not dangerously unhealthy like your comment seems to imply.
> downvoted me for no reason, hacker news, what's the point of the upvote/downvote button anyway

In case you are genuinely confused why people would downvote you: you bring up a lot of issues like 6/4, the Opium Wars, Huawei ... that only fit into a coherent topic if you make it incredibly broad, e.g. "China vs. the West". It is hard to have a good discussion on a topic that broad, and by bringing up so many different issues you spread yourself too thin and argue none of your points particularly well.

If you were to focus on a single on-topic issue, try to provide some additional relevant information and keep your value judgment out of it (voting on opinionated comments is inevitably going to be opinion-based), it would at least make for good reading.
This is actually very close to the flavor I had in mind.
I think it should be made clear that we simply don't know enough about keto yet to call it "healthy." More healthy than sugar over-consumption? Almost certainly. I will say that it allowed me to cut to under 10% bodyfat with almost no effort, so for that I think it is a valuable tool.

But I also found that I was not making progress in my athletic hobbies until I stopped eating keto. My progress visibly accelerated after I stopped. So I hesitate to recommend it as anything other than a short term body recomposition tool. Fat may not be evil, but carbs aren't either.
I too really want to know. I'm guessing living off the state? I know that's the case for most people I know, but pensions are all managed by the state where I live so you don't really a choice. You get a baseline poverty level income even if you never paid taxes.
Start by getting rid of the street level single car parking garages that literally define every single residential neighborhood in San Francisco.
FCC vote paves way for budget cap on all universal-service broadband programs
As a somewhat overweight male approaching 60 with elevated cholesterol who has been on and off statins for years, the ridiculously inconclusive state of this research is very depressing.

I finally decided to stop taking them as they have annoying side effects and the cynic in me believes the science may have been pushed a bit off center by monetary incentives to the makers of these patented treatments.
> [...] why are Europeans very nearly as fat as Americans?

They really aren't "very nearly".

According to [0], US' obesity rate is 36.2%(highest of OECD) while the EU country with the highest obesity rate is UK with 27.8%.

Every other EU country's rate lies below that, e.g. Germany is at 22.3%

[0] https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0060...
My understanding of "the statin issue" is that in the 1970's drug companies found new chemicals to poison the liver's ability to manufacture cholesterol. They reasoned, "as cholseterol is a major part of the arteriosclerosis that hardens blood vessels, people whose bodies are depositing cholesterol where it shouldn't will benefit from poisoning their liver," and promoted the new patent medicines to medical professionals as anti-heart-disease medications.

The medical profession is rather vulnerable the promise of miracle cures to offer their patients, and prescribed the new anti-cholesterol drugs with gusto. Later studies have found the benefit of statin therapy to be minuscule: the "number needed to treat" to prevent one fatal cardiac event is rather high, on the order of 217 for low-risk patients [1]. That is, ~216 patients get to experience the side effects of artificially-reduced cholesterol levels while only 1 person avoids the problem the pill was prescribed to prevent.

In the holistic way of looking at the role of cholesterol, it is more important to think about why the body is manufacturing excess cholesterol and depositing it where it does. As you indicated above, inflammation is an important consideration. Another line of thinking is that there is a roadblock in the steroidogenesis pathway, and that supporting the body's effort to make steroids takes care of the elevated cholesterol levels too.

But our medical professionals tend to develop tunnel vision as they specialize, and assume their specialty's understandings of their domain is basically correct. The drug companies find it much more profitable to peddle anti-cholesterol drugs than to address patients' actual problems.

At least patients who are harmed by statins have the freedom to discontinue their anti-treatment.

[1] http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-persons-low-risk-cardiovas...
I've been trying out carnivore diet for a couple of months. I went from years of yo-yo dieting and pathological binge eating to effortlessly losing 10% of my bodyweight. I think my psychology got rewired somehow, I don't know how else to explain such a drastic change in behavior.
It will almost certainly be necessary to significantly overprovision both panels and batteries in order to avoid running out of power or needing to add more later. Hopefully the cost decreases will reduce the financial headache of this... time will tell.

I think there is an unrealized business model out there where a company builds, installs, and then maintains (incl. emergency fixes) solar+battery installs for a monthly fee, just like what you pay to the electric utility today. Such a business would hopefully achieve some cost savings by buying parts in bulk and be able to quickly fix issues by using similar system designs. It would be a bit like the electric utility, but they wouldn't own any grid or power plants.
That happens a lot, specially in places selling healthy snacks.

I used to work for one of them at certain point and the secret sauce was mostly using tons sugar and/or salt to increase sales. Unless one puts a lot of effort (which can be quite expensive when running a business), healthy food doesn’t sell well.
I think it's a relevant and legitimate thesis that this is in part caused by the origin of the major data capitalists (please explain why they are voted down).

I think it is fairly widely believed that the USA government favors US-american companies. The EU might do this less, but would have a clear economic interest in doing so, so I find this very plausible as well. I don't know how many smaller personal data companies there are in the EU compared to the US, but the major ones you hear about (Google, Facebook) are definitely in the USA.
Every edible thing comes from the excrement of others.

Do you eat yoghourt?
I always understood the term "full stack" to refer to a developer who has tried (and mastered some of) many different technologies and roles, including embedded, system, sysadmin, backend, desktop frontend, web frontend, DB stored procedures... It doesn't necessarily mean that such a person would be immediately proficient in a given technology (that depends on their recent experience), but given a few months' time they would produce solid code in any of these areas, and within a year they would be proficient in it.

In my understanding it has more to do with a person's ability to learn, or lack of fear from learning, if you wish.

Of course I have met my share of "full stack" devs (PHP + JS), but that's the same as with "senior" devs... Having a job title and being one is not the same thing.
That could get exciting. Think of all the factors we could base health insurance on. Risky outdoor activities? Higher premiums. Biking to work? Higher premiums.

Alternatively, we could work to help everyone become healthier, and then use as large a risk pool as possible to leverage the benefits of insurance.
> If you're making deals with a government that is undemocratic, you're making a deal with the government, but not with the people.

I think a better way to phrase "a government that is undemocratic" as "a dictatorship".

The idea that democracy is the only system of government that can possibly represent the people is a horrendously American view of the world.

To show an example that counters the "everything that isn't democracy is oppressive" claims I usually hear, have a look at Lichtenstein (which admittedly is partly democratic but is also a constitutional monarchy), where the people voted to give the monarchy _more_ power and refused to curb it in a referendum: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18649156
Not sure if it is ad spam, but here's the text pa engelska:

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That is correct, such decreases have been seen before.

e.g: "If we're not careful, we could end up with declining life expectancy for three years in a row, which we haven't seen since the Spanish flu, 100 years ago."

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy...
You can't outrun the spoon.
Maybe we should call it "lipids"? Not sure if that's the same.
I would imagine it is due to copyright concerns-see Google's Java API implementation woes. Additionally, the wine devs have very specific rules [0] about who can contribute, ideally they don't want contributions from people who have read the win2k leaked source. And I certainly wouldn't want to give Adobe any reasons to sue me, especially as Blender almost certainly can't afford to fight them in court.

[0] https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#Who_can.27t_contribute...
Yikes that sounds bad. Will need to see the details to be sure though.

So here is how Santa Clara County handles the same issue already: every 10 years, they put on the ballot a one-cent sales tax. Along side it, they put a list of the projects to be funded. There is a clear link between the tax and projects, local control, a deadline, and a 10-year reckoning. Alameda County has also started a similar project.

Consider the alternative: the new Bay Bridge eastern span. It cost way more than it should have. Why? Because the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley demanded a pretty bridge instead of a simple one. It was paid for not by Oakland and Berkeley, but by the state which charges tolls on all the bridges -- including the Dumbarton, San Mateo, and Antioch bridges which were of the exact same "simple" type that Oakland and Berkeley complained about.

When the projects are paid for out of big, faceless funding, then there is no incentive to make it work for the people paying the tax. For example, link up Caltrain closer to downtown? That's not really a benefit to anyone other than SF and the Penninsula.
Home usage,with encryption, over 4/5 years, had some hard reset and never lost data. Nothing to complain
Many are, and many of those who are not are working to support them. Farmers need things like gas, clothing, housing goods and raw materials, foods they dont grow, mechanical services and other goods and services too.
Avoids the slippery slope of those links. I say ban them.
Call them back!
Not zero, but compared to US the state is kinda sad. Quite a few EU startups move to US sooner or later too. Meanwhile vice versa ain't happening. It's one way road for both engineers and companies.
This is closest to where I am on this issue, but I do worry that government-set premiums will be affected by lobbying more than anything else.
Not sure what you mean here. Where I live (Sweden) I don’t believe we rely on gas for our energy needs.
Shutting Down a Profitable Side-Project
The coin toss example works when the distribution is unknown, and relies purely on independence and stationarity.
During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops
I think it all comes down to uniquely American cult of individualism, in two distinct streams that separate and then join together. The first is a general anti-regulatory attitude and distrust of government, assuming that those things are harmful to individual freedom even when they're anything but. The second is treating corporations as people. Put those together and you get a belief that the government shouldn't tie companies' hands with privacy laws.

I'm not here to debate whether those attitudes are right or wrong. That's just my theory on how they answer $question.
Well, fortunately, doors have peepholes.
Yeah, then every role will require it and the tax does nothing.
Incentivizing healthy group dynamics in classes (2012)
The artist just doesn't understand physics. Even if it was possible, you'd be losing huge amounts of energy to constant deformation.
Putting a Price on Latency: Startup Network Next Aims to Fix Internet Routing
Does Blender make any money? Are the developers compensated?

I've always had a kind of conflicting perspective, as a developer myself, I enjoy the vibrant exchange of information and source which is open and often free and even "gratis". It has helped me grow and learn, it empowers me to be more productive as I can leverage a lot of existing code. That said, it also often worries me that the culture isn't willing to pay for a lot of these, since being a developer is also my profession. If we get users used to not paying for software, and developers willing to work for free, does it devalue the job of developer?

For example, I often wonder, if there was only proprietary software, would developer salaries be even higher?

Would there be more devs who are small businesses, one to 3 man teams, working on software like grep, 7zip, calendars, todos, calculators, etc. ?

As it seems, open source, especially the licenses which have the side effect of being mostly "gratis" forces the market into offering a service or product which isn't the software itself. Which is why a lot of devs can't make a living of being a small business, we need to be employed by bigger companies who offer collateral products or services.
Sugar isn't the cause of obesity though. I think people that try to blame it all on sugar are simply looking for a scapegoat. It's easier to actually over eat on fat than on sugar because of a higher caloric density. Carbs are just cheaper so they get added to everything as bulk.
This is probably the right way to think about it at an individual level. Eating berries and fruits in season is probably quite healthy and corn-syrup added processed food unhealthy. But we've already seen how companies obfuscate. For example "Nitrates" have been demonized. So know you'll see "natural" or "healthy" food making using of "celery extract," which is really just "natural nitrates."
Shell.

I’m keen to try D too, just need to find a project where I have enough time to learn without holding up something important.
We do have tech companies but we don't let them grow beyond reason and extend their tentacular grip on almost all areas of society. Are you implying it's a bad thing?
> How about we just let people choose what to do with their body?

Would the conversation be different if this were about ads for opioids targeted at children?
Nah you just described me and my father to an extent. There are variables, but what you described really sounded familiar. And my dad’s side is Scottish.

My mom is more social and cognizant if social needs (Irish). Though less so now that they’re getting older/retired.

I’m not sure how well it mixes with the norms of Canadian society here. Often feels a touch off-centre but not entirely out of place.

So maybe more a trait of people who just tend toward family over other social connections, and less a heritage thing?
> Most "software development" is internal software that exists simply to solve some organization's bespoke issues

Do you have a source for this?
Conquest would be most accurate.
I'm fine with alcohol sales. I'm not fine with alcohol in advertising nor in television shows.
Clearly not enough, but there are laws (NetzDG) for censoring illegal posts in Germany.

Much more interesting and important, of course, will be regulation on actual platform mechanisms like vendor lock-in, Apple's non-compete app store policies and such.
Do you eventually earn the money back?

Something I was reading recently claimed that total operational costs on underground lines also higher in the long run - dielectrics break down, faults are much more expensive etc. Found it counterintuitive, but hard to counter.
If DarkGray is too bright (66%), there's always DimGray at #696969 (41%)
China Adds Washington Post, Guardian to 'Great Firewall' Blacklist
> where the people voted to give the monarchy _more_ power and refused to curb it in a referendum

This is democracy. The people voted for a strong executive and to be represented by the monarchy. Nobody gets that vote in Uzbekistan.
On Windows I tried NVDA and the demo version of JAWS. Installation worked without issues for me, and I looked for tutorials on how to use them/put up the keyboard shortcut overview. Sorry I can't point you to anything more specific right now.
a solution to all problems: referendum.
Or mailinator.com or one of its many aliases.
> This directly contradicts your original comment.

No, it doesn't. Android lets you get your GPS location without telling anybody, including Google. This is the default behavior, even on Google-flavored Android devices. It is impossible to get your GPS location on iOS without telling Apple.

You're confusing Google apps that send location to Google on any platform when the app is configured to send location to Google (like search), with what the OS does regardless of which app is asking for location or whether the app itself sends location data anywhere.

> I don't think that anyone in this thread has acted in bad faith and I don't see any benefit to the quality of the conversation in accusing commenters of dishonesty, being sinister or otherwise attacking the individual rather than the issue.

You're confusing me with sbuk and izacus, who are the only people in this thread who have engaged in the behavior you describe. Please direct your scolding appropriately.