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To be entirely pedantic, there are constraints on intention, objectives/aims/goals, and relation(as in with others).
I'm not convinced that this is a 'blatant violation of the First Amendment'. How is this any different from banning billboards, which is currently the case for Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii and Maine?
What if I told you that, if you look at the data, nuclear is the safest form of energy known to humanity [1]. It's on par with passive energy collectors like wind and solar where a tiny number of people die installing things on roofs or doing maintenance.

How much extra money should we be spending to keep saving so many millions of lives simply by displacing air pollution?

Obviously we can't be cavalier with radiological hazards, but we don't have to make it as expensive as we've chosen to.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Nuclear is like a lot like air travel. More people are afraid of it, but it's statistically very safe. Human minds, unfortunately, don't work like this.

I fully understand that saying this doesn't make you or anyone else feel any better about cutting costs at nuclear plants. It just seems weird to have this demonstrably excellent energy source sitting here ready to decarbonize the world rapidly (as done in France in the 1980s), and have everyone be more influenced by pop culture and the media than by simple comparative analysis.

I wish I knew how to change people's minds here but I fear we're up against some evolved human nature, and it's an uphill battle.

Fukushima death rate from radiation? 0 (maybe 1, but highly debated). Deaths from air pollution this year? 4.3 million. Future deaths from climate change? Potentially hundreds of millions.

In this real world, I'll take my low-carbon nuclear energy any day.
Can you please edit swipes like "Wrong." out of your comments to HN? It's unnecessary and makes your comment acerbic when it would be just fine without it.

The way to reply to a wrong comment is to supply correct information, which I assume is what the rest of your comment does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20816911.
Dictatorships need a lot less popular support than democracies. Of course once that popular support evaporates, the regime change is a lot messier than an election.
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You can actually see the list of brands on their corporate website.

https://jbssa.com/our-business/beef/brands/
https://jbssa.com/our-business/pork/brands/
https://www.pilgrims.com/brands/

I haven't checked their beef products, but the Swift premium brand of pork is pretty common and carried at Costco, for example.
Relevant quote:

> Under the First Amendment, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) cannot prohibit rideshare operators from installing tablets to display truthful commercial advertisements. Commercial speech is protected by the Constitution, and restrictions on commercial speech must serve a substantial governmental interest and be no more extensive than necessary.
It should be noted that the HN submitter here appears to be the founder of this particular bit of taxi-based spam, so the choice of an article with this slant is unsurprising (but disappointing).
That's pretty much the case with just about every "sex trafficking" bust, isn't it? Lots of talk about rescuing children and what not, but in the end women, who are supposedly being helped, are hauled off to the slammer, customers, too, and not a single trafficking victim is found. But that doesn't make for good headlines, so the latter part is rarely reported.

Backpage got caught in a perfect combination of "baptists and bootleggers" where, except for people who actually do try to help trafficking victims, exploited kids, etc., who all found BP quite useful and cooperative, everybody, left and right, wanted to shut it down for purely ideological reasons. In the end, nobody came out ahead.
That's a slippery slope. Who gets to decide who lives and who dies? Who should we abort or sterilize? We all suffer to some degree, then we all die. It's the human condition.
Do you think DaPy is easier to use than Pandas?
And also, does the design of DaPy make sense?
Maybe now people will stop using social media. Ah, wait, no. Everything in the name of convenience.
> So the shale gas revolution started in 2005, but the spike didn't occur until 2008?

That sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? I wouldn’t have expected a spike to occur at the start but rather a few years after when production has ramped up?
Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated
It doesn’t mean it’s free.

When you buy a Mac Book you usually dish out around 1500 USD at the very least, where the cost of materials is at best 1/3 of that. You mostly pay for the design, the OS and the privilege.

You can get a PC with Windows 10 Home Edition for 400 USD or so. The implied price point for the OS is way lower.

The economic decision here (re ads) is to be able to make some money on the mass low-end market, while still being able to develop a decent OS.

Case in point: Microsoft Surface Book, which runs at about 2000 USD and is a product comparable to Apple’s has no ads.
Holy hell did you just compare telemetry to rape?
Already posted and discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20809435
Interested in websites, robotics, cryptography, and automating stuff.
Leaving ads aside - I respect New York taxis. I feel safe riding in yellow cab. The moment i step into yellow cab - I feel that this whole industry is so heavily regulated - there is very little chance to stumble upon some "random weirdo" driver or deviate from intended direction for some shady reason.

I tell my wife to take yellow cab in NYC airports, not Uber-X.

The problem with yellow cabs is that 90% of them look like run down shit. They're no cadillacs. The problem ends here. We get predictable pricing and predictable person and predictable drive.
In airports they're just there. No disappointments with trusting Uber's misleading arrival times that typically grossly exaggerated, no shady callbacks from Uber mafia driver trying to figure out where you're going to find excuse not to take you there.

Try to take Uber Black in LA airport. You'll get immediate callback from armenian mafia driver with attitude pulling all kind of BS to judge whether take you or not.
75% of chance he'll insist that you need to cancel the ride (not him of course).
Instead of focusing on this you should focus on the prior comment using the accusation of disengenuous. That was the trigger point.
Immigration will likely think you're lying if you say you don't use any form of social media.
Do other countries do stuff like that too? In German media I often read about things like security researchers not allowed to go a conference in the US or people turned around for their twitter posts. Does this really happen often and do other countries for example in Europe do this too?
Going to note that I am largely against facial recognition tracking to us citizens before I say this post.

Being able to track and find individuals, anywhere in the US where there is a camera, will significantly reduce crime. Cameras would cover a larger swath of territory, and we would be able to find potential terrorists, criminal suspects, missing people, human traffic victims, etc. far more effectively. We would likely be able to identify people acting like they were about to commit a violent crime too, but that’s just an assumption based off my experience.

Does large scale surveillance help with making individuals safer? I think the answer is obviously yes. I disagree with it because it has significant side effects, and doesn’t address the underlying problems CAUSING cultural violence and international crime.
The first and last are different conclusions by different researchers.

If there's no evidence something is effective, it should be considered ineffective. I've found sources that say there's incomplete evidence and sources that say opioids aren't significantly better than placebo, but no unbiased reviewer says that they're more effective than OTC and generic painkillers.
It's a common dialectic pattern in law enforcement circles world-wide that data at rest that is never touched is data that doesn't exist.

That angle is based on the idea that this data "may as well not exist" but it ignores the many issues with indiscriminate data collection: the data might leak, or management might change and invent undesirable "new" purposes for old data - which, within this theory, then begins to exist retroactively.
I'll rather not visit the US, thank you very much.
Summary:

New York taxi regulator put a stop to a new, intrusive, advertising mechanism.

The people responsible for the advertising - set to financially gain from it - are unhappy, trying to portray the issue as something else and get people on their side.

"Good luck with that." ;)

Personally, I'm glad there's one less advertising mechanism able to gain traction. Otherwise it would likely spread elsewhere.
You bet, done. I was responding to the unfounded accusation of being disingenuous. You're totally right that the community is better without that kind of reaction, and the comment is way better with out it. Thanks. Forgive me.
This is exactly right. Good comment.
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I assume talk to a realtor, but I'm not sure. Maybe a big national one would have people on staff who specialise in this scenario and have the appropriate rolodex?

I just try to operate on the philosophy that if I wouldn't buy it if I didn't already have it then I should probably sell it. Sounds like this house fits that for you in that you probably wouldn't buy a house with government development looming over it.

If you're not able to get much now its because you wont get much later anyway.
Just watched this which calls CPC a mafia... Interview with Miles Kwok by Kyle Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE
USCIS should not be involved at all. It should be just CBP.
As much as I despise facebook et al surely this problem lies completely with the over-reach of customs.

If anything the solution is to boycott the US. This is ludicrous.
I literally just heard about K for the first time while listening to fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard talk about it in a podcast, less than 5 minutes ago.

(https://youtu.be/J6XcP4JOHmk?t=696)

Do you recommend any resources for exploring these array languages? They sound really interesting.
Google is the new Yahoo.

They cannot keep services running for more than 24 months.

I would be terrified about starting to rely on any new service they create.
Not in the past 10 years, the Workers Party literally setup corruption schemes like this you just linked.
> It's on the nuclear people to figure out how to get operating costs safely down. But boy howdy it'd be nice if their carbon-free nature could be valued higher, or if fracking could be made more expensive.

Well, it is not like there is a law of physics prohibiting a carbon tax (and dividend) scheme...
I like this idea because it is a membrane-first type of scenario. I've always thought the idea of naked molecules replicating outside of an enclosed space to be unlikely. It is likely that membranes were there from the very beginning, and there was never a phase where you just have molecules replicating in the open ocean without a cell to enclose them.
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The price is included in the price of the whole product.

I mean, it’s not the price of materials that dominate Apple’s pricing. And you actually have to pay money to people developing the OS. So no, it’s not free.
Getting access to your social media handles is now part of the application process for many different kinds of visas. To me, it's just another way for CBP agents to make arbitrary decisions. There's not even much accountability as-is. They have the ultimate say if they want to let you in or not. Now, it's even crazier since simply liking a page 5 years ago could turn into a disaster if that page evolves into something 'anti-american'. God-forbid you get hacked and someone sabotages your online persona'.
The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force. Keep treating them like shit and competition will soon step into that role.
I am less concerned with the immediate safety and more concerned with the long term waste that we don’t really adequately deal with.
Well what truth do you want? China wants to extradite Hong Kong citizens to China to stand trial. Hong Kong citizens want autonomy. This is a classic David vs Goliath battle.
Quite right, but they still need enough buyers to stay in business, which looking how things in FOSS hardware and software business go, that isn't a guarantee.
I think that kind of two-handedness is misguided and unhelpful. International media is openly reporting the violent side of the protest: brick-throwing, sticks, petrol bombs etc. Video footage of protesters beating away at police are openly displayed. Certainly, it is reported with the angle that the protesters have broad public support (as is true) and that they are the underdog fighting a justified battle against an increasingly oppressive regime (as is also true). But it is by no means one-sided coverage
Until you realize that Hangouts is a core service which is being shutdown.
RSS feeds are designed for an offline first usecase. Almost no one subscribes to this usecase anymore since mobile internet is just REALLY good MOST of the time.

When it isn't - subway rides, long commutes passing through areas with weak signals - i just listen to podcasts instead of the frustration of reading an article and not being able to search anything instantly.
I worked for a gaming company, so, mostly curiosity.
I do believe it is going to fail.
Venezuela is a good example.
They explained that RSS traffic was minimal, and what there was couldn't be monetized, so they probably don't care.
In Win7, the one I was thinking of is called "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen".

That one seems to be pretty specific, and for me is very useful.

KDE has a similar thing, which can also be disabled. Only thing I haven't figured out with KDE (yet) is how to disable automatically maximising a window after dragging it from the non-primary display to the primary one. That's pretty annoying too. :/
Facebook friends have nothing to do with people one keeps company with.
But they're happy.
Choose either one of them to fully understand it, then you will find another one is not as hard as you thought.
> "Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built.

And blatant copyright violation is a common tool for up-and-coming countries (e.g. the US in the past) to jumpstart their creative sector. But at some point, they all begin to protect their own work (nowadays the US is among the fiercest proponents of a strong copyright).

I suspect shanzhai will end, too.
This is like banning posters inside buildings that are open to the public. It’s invasive.
I think he's harkening more to the standard try-hard neckbeard analogy than just genders. Usually women aren't lumped into that category. I think it's nuanced, but I don't think he meant any harm when writing.
The overpriced hardware (usually the same of other OEMs, like DELL) is including the price of the OS itself.
You seem to be knowledgeable. What do we do with the waste?
They have enough alternatives. Free alternatives at that! If they don’t switch, then that’s their choice and they are obviously fine with it.

The whole “Windows telemetry bad” meme is mostly just an excuse for a flame war.
Yes. Thanks to 9/11 and characters like Mohamed Atta who look good on paper but are crazy. No easy way to spot them. Better to be safe than sorry etc etc.
Assuming that community is actually behind them, those 10,000 should sell out as hot cakes.

Then they can focus on improving other stuff.
With great power lies great responsibility. People give great power by using centralized social media from a single nation without fully understanding the implications of it.
I wouldn't be so sure about YouTube being safe.
> A California school district outside of San Francisco agreed to desegregate its schools on Friday, after a two-year state investigation found that the district had “knowingly and intentionally maintained and exacerbated” racial segregation and even established an intentionally segregated school.

> In the Sausalito case, the state said the district had violated the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.

> The settlement, filed in state court in San Francisco...

Sounds like it was (a) not overt (if it took a two-year investigation to establish it), (b) illegal, and (c) eventually punished under preexisting law.
Please don't gang up on another user no matter how wrong they are.
Would be neat to know what the margin of error is. Is it less than 10%? ie given 157 dots, how difficult is it to estimate 150-170 dots?

I think part of this is a lack of practice. I've only counted how many macoroni noodles were in my bowl once
I don't see any element of truth in the "failed economy" narrative. That's one angle that we really can get to the truth of without any media bias.

Are there any econometrics published from before the protests started that would indicate an economic cause? I haven't seen any but I also haven't looked hard enough to reject the premise.
Like the name Job => Joob. Seems like a great simple abstraction, and the documentation is really great.

But, this is a very crowded space on NPM, so how does this compare to gulp or grunt?
The only time people jump onboard google products is at launch. Being the premier tech company in the world that actually launches things like this brings significant network effects that help boost these products past noise threshold.

After that it doesn't matter coz you'll probably move on to the next company(2-3 years) and it won't matter that the google product you adopted failed/was shut down since you'll be in a different tech time/space continuum bubble and will have adopted newer things.

This is really a problem of Google just not bothering to invest in things long term. It's a known problem and I don't think Google cares coz none of these products really disrupt the market or bring in the big bucks which is all tech giants care about.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments and especially please don't cross into personal attack.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and using this site in the intended spirit? We'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The common denominator is Larry Page. He has great technical vision, but it's evident that he is an awful judge of character and a poor manager who was out of touch with what was really going on and unable to exert control over his reports. I was there when Eric Schmidt was CEO and don't recall any management issues. Larry takes over, and one of his first big things that happened was the G+ fiasco. Larry just sat back and watched that mess unfold. His whole tenure was marred by hiring sleazy execs like Gundotra, Levandowski, Fadell, and Rubin and letting them do whatever they wanted. Sundar is better, but he lacks the authenticity that Eric had. To be sure, there are lots of reasons not to like Eric, but he was easily the most effective CEO Google had in my mind.
You'd have it tough in Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_quality_mark_of_the_USSR
USCIS discussion:

Agent A. This guy is a terrorist. Look at that crap he's part of it.

Agent B: Yeah but I don't see his name anywhere.

Agent : Well, he might have scrubbed his posting first.

BOTTOM LINE: your visa depends on the agents at the gate.
One of WhatApp competitors, which is quite strong in some Eastern Europe countries, Viber, just dropped GNU/Linux support.

The executable is still there to download, it barely works though.
This is a good decision, reflecting the wisdom of Silenus, who, legend goes, once mused that the best thing is not to be born, and if already born, to die quickly. Google is intent on gaining the lead in Cloud, and this was a distraction from that.
I'm entertained that it's the same codename that ZFS originally had when it integrated the layers of the filesystem.
How is this the conclusion you're reaching first? Does the unbelievable invasion of privacy and infringement on freedom of speech not raise your ire first and foremost?

Can you imagine being denied the right to travel or to temporarily relocate for school or work in a theoretically democratic country only to be denied entry because you or your friends expressed a personal, private, inconsequential and most likely fleeting opinion in the past?
Or they could recruit directly from the OPM database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management....

Even more interesting is that a Chinese company owns most of Grindr. Think of all the possible blackmail opportunities if they could cross reference those. At some point there were security and privacy "concerns" and US, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen... ruled that the Chinese company had to sell Grindr by 2020.
> centralized social media from a single nation

Does this matter? Would it make any difference if the same message was spotted on a self-hosted out-of-us mastodon instance?
- Palo Alto homeowners mistakenly believed for years that the new HSR would be buried so that the noise wouldn't affect their property values. It's a kind of mass delusion thing, since you're looking at $2 billion/mile or so

- Mountain View, an adjacent city, just went througn the same calculus wrt tunneling and found it just as breathtakingly unaffordable

- Atherton was mentioned in the article or comments, which is hilarious. They have a city lawyer who's mandate is to not change a single thing.

- When I say "city", I mean approx. population 40,000. So they don't have billions to throw around, although the York family did help Santa Clara City (pop. 10,000) spend $1.2 billion for their football stadium. :)
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Name has to be perception because after taking Fixed Income and Currency, the business has additional expenses. Large companies track this expenses and business practices, they then classify this as perceived corruption.

Because it affects only business, things like the corruption scandal accounted on the article are not accounted.
And that would also break the power grap of Google. Everyone is training their machine learning algorithms.
I’ve heard that a few days ago (probably same day as this story) CBP detained a bunch (heard about 20-30 in the secondary room) of Chinese students at LAX for a few tens of hours and trawled all their electronics and pressured them in various ways. I know for sure that 7 of them got their visa revoked that day (I don’t have information about other universities). They apparently got a curious deal: either they paid for their return ticket or they got a five year ban on top.

According to the people dealing with foreign student CBP has never done that before.
Yep! That's what I do with Wobaka too. You don't have to give access to your complete email. Just BCC or forward messages to a specific email.