skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than for fun and to donate to a good cause, I'm not sure why anyone would ever take the other side of a bet like this or the follow up one for the case of wine. The author is basically betting against an unlikely outcome and the challenger is betting on it, with no adjustment for the likelihood. This would be like offering a bet that a particular college football team won't win a national championship and getting even money that they will.

I realize this is outside the scope of the article, but I think it's worth noting because the author gets outsized credit for being correct despite not really offering an alternative. To be fair the author should have had to bet an alternate area that would win a Nobel prize before 2020, otherwise it's a push and each person's stake goes to charity.
> It’s unwinnable. You go in and take sides, it’s interference, imperialism (you’re doing it for the oil). You stay out and let them work it out then it’s craven indifference.

But it is winnable. What people want is for you to for once just go in for the actual ethical reasons, fight for the actual rights, secure the freedoms, stop the injustices. Not go to a country to secure oil under bullshit pretext of WMDs and terrorism, only to destroy a nation and create a terrorist state next to it, and only then leave it to fend for itself.

(I think everyone would think better of the US if the government said, "you know what, oil is really fucking important for prosperity of our citizens, and we're willing to kill people to secure it". It still wouldn't be ethical, but at least it would be honest.)

People worldwide are not (just) unhappy that the US plays world police. They're unhappy that the US proclaims to be the world police, but is in fact a world gangster.
You didn't address, and I don't know: what is the relative environmental impact of growing human-grade soy vs. livestock-grade soy? Is there even necessarily a distinction?
So tyrannical oppression is ok because it stops the citizens from bringing attention to the tyrannical oppression through protests? That is absolutely not better; sometimes violence is required to spur change unfortunately
Computer science now counts as math credit in most states – is this a good idea?
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I went through that website before posting. That's why I thought it was a Gitlab-like service. I like that it works without JavaScript, and it appears to have a wiki-like integration too.

It looks like a neat service.
Why would Germans have had an opinion at all on Kurds? Were there a number that immigrated there in the 70s or earlier?
I recognised the author's username before even reading the body of the comment.

HN is inundated with recently created or recently reactivated accounts posting CCP propaganda. These accounts don't necessarily belong to bots or shills, but they are nonetheless part of a state orchestrated social media influence campaign. Reddit has addressed this with mass purges and browser extensions that allow shared tagging of users to disclose their affiliations.

What is HN going to do? A purely neutral platform is easy pickings for state propaganda.

I'm not calling for any particular action, but highlighting the increasing need for a call to be made by HN moderators. This forum is exhibiting the same symptoms that Reddit did during the first wave of Russian media influence campaigns. This was initially met with dismissal and accusations of racism/etc if anyone called out the accounts in question. It took another 8 months for the Reddit team to admit what was going on and take action.

The only defence currently available is downvotes and a higher snr ratio, but those only work as long as the influence effort on any particular topic is smaller than the userbase that tends to discuss said topic.
OP sounds like a drug addict or someone who simply isn't getting enough calories!

> A pizza and a soda, or a huge steak and garlic mashed potatoes will lift my mood quickly.

When I eat processed/junk food, the temporary high is very soon replaced by feelings of low energy, moodiness, acid reflux, and general sluggishness.

When I eat a veggie-dominant meal (raw garlic-tahini sauce over roasted broccoli/kale with a side of buckwheat noodles and hemp seed, for example) I feel vibrant and happy and productive for hours.

Tip for OP: when eating veggie meals, make sure to add vegetable fats for more calories.
You don't need to argue with them, vax your kids and let the anti's die of disease that you and your family are immune to. It is their choice and their freedom of choice. The info is out there if they choose to ignore it, it is their own peril. The part I find interesting is that they try to get other people to become anti-vaxers, when they are by effect more protected by heard immunity when the pool of none vaccinated is smaller.
Or, a bunch of wealthy lads looking to get even wealthier teamed up with a bunch of xenophobes and racists with friends in the publishing industry to scam the entire UK. Depends on your point of view I guess.
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Sure, that's true from a purely ecological perspective, but your argument does not capture the general inhumane practices that go on within the diary industry (e.g., caging, keeping cows perpetually pregnant, separating mother / calve at birth, etc.). All of these combined create a life of significant distress for all the animals involved and should be captured as an "environmental cost" in your equation above.
The EU can always stop immigrants no matter the quantity if there is political will.
Oh and now blizzard is preventing users from canceling their accounts?
> The strongest predictor for a county having high social mobility is a strong welfare program..

Citation needed.

> financed by progressive taxation of income and wealth.

Only 4 OECD countries still have a wealth tax. “Taxing wealth” hasn’t worked out very well.
Taking a step back, coral reefs have been around in some form or other for at least 500 million years. I would be greatly surprised if they weren't resilient enough to survive a lot of things. That's not to say we shouldn't work to protect them, but it does make me skeptical that they could be lost as easily as we seem to be assuming.
What's keeping you from looking for somewhere else? Despair?
Of course, Cook is a corporate shill, not an ideologue.
The parodies are pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/sli/status/1181736342063108096
Turkey is a huge trading partner to the US and not really a rival. They make the chassis to our next-gen fighter planes, for example. Why toss that aside?
It would be good to remember this moment next time some of their marketing bullshit about privacy will surface again.

Their word extends no further than the next paycheck. And people still fall for it.
I'm going to say something very unpopular:

If your plan to save the world includes requiring all 9 billion people to fundamentally change their lives (especially if its perceived as a degradation of their current quality of life), it's never going to work.

Now I'll speak for myself. I will not go vegan, given the current offering of vegan foodstuffs. It just doesn't taste as good. I know it may be better for me than my current diet, and I know it could help decrease my overall carbon footprint. I still have no plans to do it.

Perhaps it makes me greedy. Perhaps it makes me an asshole in the eyes of the next 20 or so generations. But I look at it in the larger context - the ship has sailed, our course towards permanent (on a human scale) climate change was set by the industrial revolution and the speed set to flank by global increases to our quality of life.

So yeah, I frankly refuse to permanently sacrifice my quality of life to have no effect on the future.
I do wonder if supervising devices lowers security overall.

Apple has been moving a number of the 'heavy hand' management permissions to only apply to supervised devices - for example "global http proxy" [1], which can be loaded onto a device through safari on a link to an plist on an unlocked device or through a management server (MDM), forces all http/https traffic though a proxy only applies on supervised devices.

Also Apple announced at WWDC [3] that blocking host pairing in Configurator is going away in favor of the restriction setting blocking it [2]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/g...

[2] allowHostPairing restriction at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/r...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/303/
This is a way of thinking that emerged within the past century. It was not always considered universally true, and I think it's harming society.

Why do we consider it acceptable for CEOs to shrug off any and all social consequences of their actions? We can and should outlaw actions that are socially harmful, but we shouldn't just shrug our shoulders when powerful people find ways to skirt those rules to enrich themselves.
Tribal civilizations were like that? At some point humanity discovered that making parents "compete" who can raise their own kids the best, generated the best outcome overall. "A dog with two masters will starve." OTOH the competition must be complemented with cooperation, because it is not good to be king of a devastated hill. People want their children to beat the average but the average should be also good.
>Turkey is the (almost literal) culture gate between Europe and the Middle East, this is in itself very valuable.

If this were true why do ME refugees not want to stay there?

>Largest army in Europe.

Okay, but if they're more culturally similar to the ME, as your first point implies, than to e.g. Germany doesn't it become a little problematic for employing this army in NATO's current theater of operations?

>Erdogan still has to restrain himself because he has treaties with NATO allies...

This is a great argument for why entangling alliances with people who aren't really your friends or are too culturally distant to even pretend as much are a terrible, awful idea. I believe we fought a World War because of this once.
A thread on HN is a far cry from what a typical American thinks. America doesn’t need to take over other nations in the parochial sense. Rather the number of bases the US has established throughout the world accomplish manifest destiny in a modern fashion. No other country has or has ever had this level or scale of military deployment.
There's other reasons to have opinions about populations being systematically oppresssed besides them being immigrants (or refugees).
For those of you who remember this when it was "the 2004 slashdot phenomenon", the newer additions include powered (motorized) rod logic, and rotational logic.

https://www.randomwraith.com/blog.html
It is definitely not, However, a surprising (to me) number of people in HK use WeChat for nearly everything, so...
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You are wrong, there have been plenty observation of pointless killing across multiple other species. Look up surplus killing. We only differ in that we are far more effective compared to other animals.

In addition, we've also shown to be capable of far more empathy towards others of our own race and others, compared to any other species out there.

The simple truth is that if any other species had the destructive potential that we have, they would simply exterminate themselves without ever questioning their actions. So don't be so damn vindictive of humans when comparing us to animals.
To be honest I had written some custom build systems and spent extensive time working on the problem. So a lot of the Bazel features made me go “aha” because they solved a problem I recognized—but the features seem weird if you don’t recognize the problem you’re solving.

What helps is to understand the separate phases of the Bazel build process and look at other Bazel repositories.

To me it’s not as bad as e.g. the mess I remember going through with TypeScript back when you had to write a lot of your own types for libraries you used.
Another benefit of rsync is it's ability to honour the .gitignore:

rsync --filter=':- .gitignore' ...
You are making the mistake of assuming that just by growing livestock-grade soybeans you magically have milk. You still have to make this animal drink about 3 gallons per 100pounds, per day.

https://beef.unl.edu/water-requirements-for-beef-cattle
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Climate change threatens hundreds of North American bird species with extinction [pdf]
I can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcastic or just extremely naive wishful thinking. Could you provide at least one example of a successful such program?
> trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states.

But they don't have more power than nation states. Last I checked nation states had guns, and guns are still very much the real source of all power in this world.

Apple has a lot of money. That makes them economically dependent on a larger surface area of not only nation states but other corporations. In a way it gives them less power.

A more personal analogy: a regular old Joe or Jane can say anything they want on social media with little fear of anything bad happening because their economic dependency surface area is small. A corporate CEO must watch what they say much more carefully, as Elon Musk learned with his various stupid tweets. A government official on the other hand, like Trump, can say asinine provocative things all day with little consequence because he's in a high position in an organization with guns. Xi Jinpeng is even more immune as his government has fewer checks and balances.

In terms of practical freedom of speech and political/social action, being rich outside the protection of the state is probably the least powerful position you can be in.
Likely because you are addicted to the dopamine from eating lots of sugary/fatty foods or otherwise eating poorly. It would be like saying you try to drink water and stay hydrated, but you're at your happiest when drinking beer
Hence the “if people use it” qualifier.

Companies relying on Bazel would step in and support it. We’ve seen this play out plenty of times before, e.g. Hudson to Jenkins or OpenOffice to LibreOffice, where a popular OSS product loses a corporate sponsor and continues.
Hard working people, family oriented, mostly (but not all) muslim, they tend to be moderate about religion.... especially compared with the craziness that goes around them....

They got the short stick of the dividing of the area, and their lands were used as a 'loot' to divy up by the great powers...

They ended up as a nation without a country. They have faced great persecution over times, even mass gassing (in Iraq by Sadam)

They have every-right should form a their own country... and they have been a good ally to the US, but Trump is messing it up and just letting Erdogan have free rein the area....
"I worry that students may take computer science just to avoid the more difficult math and science courses they need for college. Computer science could be a way for students to circumvent graduation requirements while adults look the other way."
Greenland, Caribbean, most of Central America...
Take a look at the number of Syrian refugees each country hosts, compare it to their population and GDP if you feel like it.

Turkey have many problems dealing with its minorities, neighbours, even its own citizens, sure - but on this issue, maybe its time to get off your high horse, before calling any country nefarious. Are we really worse than Spain, worse than France, worse than UK? Why do they have a say in it without helping the problem in the slightest?
>Independence is not one of the demands of the protestors. Please provide a source for that claim.

Point taken. But it was one of the demands of some protesters in the past[0], so I must have got that confused with the current demands of the 2019 protesters.

Be that as it may be, the comment I was replying to was echoing points made by the pro-independence movement in justifying their stance, in particular by highlighting Hong Kong's allegedly distinct cultural identity.[1]

I'd think, for instance, that Macau has a more distinctive cultural identity than HK, and in any case, harshreality's argument sought to portray China as a cultural monolith.

The reality is that there are at least as many cultural identities as there are provinces, and in Guangdong province alone, there are three separate dialect groups -- Yue (Cantonese)[2], Hakka[3], Southern Min (Teochew[4], Leizhou[5]) -- each with their own distinct culture.

You may see why, from a certain perspective, the cultural identity argument of the pro-independence movement is rather specious. But harshreality isn't the only commentator I've seen who's brought up HK's cultural identity as an argument.

Finally, perhaps I should let a Hongkonger speak for himself. Lewis Lau Yiu-man is a commentator based in Hong Kong, who writes for Stand News[6], a pro-democracy online news website, and contributed this piece[7] to the New York Times last month. After a historical preamble, he made this claim:

>That’s because — want it or not, know it or not — the Umbrella Movement planted the seed of separatism in the city. I don’t mean that the idea was entirely new: There had been some proponents of localism, at the margins. And I don’t mean that separatism is now the order of the day[...] I mean that the Umbrella Movement was, in fact, an independence movement — but an independence movement that didn’t know itself.

He even analyses Beijing's perspective:

>And so from Beijing’s perspective, when pro-democracy protesters and their supporters reject what it perceives as its right to intervene here, they are challenging its very sovereignty. In this, at least, Beijing is correct. It knows what many Hong Kongers don’t seem to have fully appreciated: Admit it or not, we are actually rejecting Chinese sovereignty — we are already an independence movement in disguise. And it all started with the Umbrella Movement.

So there's your source.

[0] https://time.com/4440708/hong-kong-independence-china-locali...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_independence#Reasons

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Chinese

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_Chinese

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teochew_dialect

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leizhou_Min

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_News

[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/opinion/hong-kong-umbrell...
> more articles about politics that are neutral and factually oriented.

I'm a fan of Shields and Brooks. Mark Shields leans left and David Brooks leans right, but they're balanced and good at sticking to the facts.

Transcripts, podcast, and video available:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/shields-and-brooks
I find this very strange, .50cal is one of the standard sniper caliber all around the world (although originally intended as anti-materiel it works OK for anti-personnel purposes too).

In fact, longest confirmed hit AFAIK was done quite recently by .50, I think by canadian sniper.

Plus you have these machine guns on vehicles that are .50, I can't imagine they are not used 'because rules'. Maybe not against civilians, but that's another topic.
A neuroscientist (nate1212) on reddit offered the following reasons:

- He just possibly infected his whole digestive system. Not just small intestine, but stomach
as well. Furthermore, AAV can potentially exhibit transcytosis through epithelial layers,
suggesting that it's possible the virus infected more than just his digestive system.

- He did not determine an appropriate dose, and so he likely infected with a HUGE genetic
payload. Overexpression with AAV can kill infected cells, which means this man is risking
his digestive lining.

- Neither the promoter nor the encoded protein itself are human, potentially risking
(possibly severe) autoimmune reaction.

- There are few/no long-term studies on effects of AAV integration and expression in humans.
There is indeed evidence that AAV increases risk of cancer, almost certainly in a dose-
dependent manner.

- AAVs could integrate randomly into your genome in low frequencies (0.1% to 1%), meaning that they could just by
chance disrupt a gene you really need to not get cancer.

The person in the video also suggested "trials for volunteers" (on his reddit post), but immediately backtracked on that after he learned that people cannot legally consent to such experiments.
USA
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Guatemala
Belize
Honduras
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Bahamas
Cuba
Jamaica
Haiti
Dominican Rep.
St. Kits and Nevis
Antigua and Barbuda
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Nobel Prizes in literature go to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
"However, all wars must eventually be won with boots on the ground."

Can wars even be "won", in this sense, any more?
Modern war is asymmetric. If the enemy is a radicalized percentage of the civilian population, hiding in plain sight, when do you "win"? Who surrenders? Who signs a treaty?
Talking about boosting / anti-depression food, I got those https://imgur.com/HJFqlsX delicious kakis (called persimmons too) in a friend's garden. I'm thankful to nature for this amazingly delicious and nutritive thing

Eat any seasoned fruit, at will
You are free to make good decisions and bad ones.
Ahh, makes sense. Thanks!
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To answer your question, it takes a lot more soy beans to feed a cow, that then will digest them and use only part of them, produce waste, consume water.

The cow will be slaughtered and only part of the body will be consumed (gut, head, for example, make for a huge part and are not usually eaten), some of the eatable parts will be wasted in the food chain.

If you count for everything, the amount of land and resources used to produce a gallon of cow's milk is always going to be much higher than anything done with a crop directly, because you cut out the middleman, the animal.

For the specific case of almonds, why not use soy milk instead for a better comparison. I'm sure you will agree that you can produce a lot more soy milk by using the soy directly then by feeding to a cow, impregnate it, shooting the calf on birth if its male, etc. the whole process.

Not to mention the copious amount of cow excrement produced and the impact on global warming due to methane emissions of the cows intestines.
I have done async in Clojure, Erlang (Elixir) and Rust but never touched Javascript (wat?). Not sure you can attribute async to frontend development. Erlang predates Javascript by almost 10 years.
Please, educate yourself before coming here to say things like that. Do yourself this favour.
It's not about the UK legislating for them. It's about the UK not protecting them anymore. The UK constantly works to keep them off tax haven lists.
Totally anecdotal, but I was a vegetarian for 12 years (since childhood). A year after I added meat to my diet, I developed Ulcerative Colitis (I was already genetically predisposed).

I have always hated the taste of meat. My pet theory is that some bodies simply can't handle it.
The parent is saying that Turkey will fall into Russia's (or maybe China's) orbit. I'm not sure how accurate that is because Russia backs Assad and Turkey is against them. There'd also be some tension in the Iran/Russia/Turkey triangle.

IMHO, I don't think we should care that much. The middle East's importance is waning and it's been nothing but trouble for 50 years. Better to step back and let others play the game.
There is a supposedly 'unpatchable' new jailbreak for most currently-in-use iPhones, it seems: https://www.cnet.com/news/theres-a-new-jailbreak-for-million... .