skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to [1], Europe is the world's largest coffee market, at 33% of production. North America consumes 19%.

Consumption per capita up here in the wonderful Nordics is quite high, with Finland typically leading at 12 kg/person. The corresponding number for the US is around 4.2 kg (9.3 lbs). The Telegraph has a fun list [2] showing the top 20 consumers.

[1] https://www.cbi.eu/market-information/coffee/trade-statistic...
[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/countri...
I like this company and have looked at them for a while, but I am not sure if they are all that viable.

I believe you will see supersonic electric jets capturing overland routes, I think think overland will happen otherwise. Electric planes will fly higher and thus have far less of a sonic boom problem. Even some shorter range over the ocean routes are possible.

Battery technology is improving fast and electric planes have inherent operational cost advantages.

I also think Starship without a first stage can compete in this already not very big market and with a first stage they can do routes that would be impossible for Overture.

Boom often compares itself to SpaceX, but I don't know if you can replicate SpaceX in the air domain. Space was much less sophisticated and much less commercial. And as I said, SpaceX is now going after the same market with rocket technology, so the difference between air and space domain is shrinking.

I wish them luck but who knows if any of these are gone work out anytime soon.
Equalling racism with anything that disadvantages pepole of a skin color, regardless of cause, devalues the word. Racism used to mean that there was a belief that certain races were superior to others, or a belief of that nature involved. It is simply not accurate to apply it to any circumstance regarding discrimination of skin color. You need to look at if there was an intent or a conscious prejudice.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does it mean for something to exist before the big bang? What happens to time at the boundaries?
Indeed, I want a game console that nicely sits on a shelf with lots of other A/V components without standing out
For better or worse, Medium is not just around, it’s growth is (apparently) accelerating: https://blog.medium.com/whats-around-the-corner-for-medium-b...
The disinhibition is why pub conversations are so effective for language learning.

Imbobo xunyam gut. Imbobo rowm oso, keya? (The classroom is important. But also the pub, innit?)
> This is nonsensical. Nobody ever said "How do we make this drive better? I know! Let's make it heavier!"

It's not well phrased, but it is better for the vehicle, if the mass is the same, just closer to the ground. Center of mass is lower down.

Electric cars have this due to the big heavy "sled" of batteries at the bottom of the vehicle.
You're off by a large amount. I'd say its closer to 15kg, and bike quality and weight aren't that correlated here. It's a lot more about maintenance and not being rusted to hell w.r.t. how likely a bike is to get stolen.

In general, since we are so flat a country, bike weight doesn't matter much. We'd rather have extra fancy stuff on a bike than have a lighter bike.
People never understand that argument. With literally every new technology for over 200 years the same argument is made.
It only got really bad once computer building went to YouTube
Nope, Sun's license did not allow for Java SE on mobile devices without a proper license, hence the J2ME partners licenses.
Or they are using a mobile browser.
You have to also take into count the weight and the resource cost of shipping. Or alternatively the time cost of repackaging/reusing.

If used plastic can be safely stored for just a cent but glass takes someone 5 minutes to reuse, your probably making things worse however you measure it.
I had a 2014 Model S and had a bunch of fit and finish flaws. Now I have a 2020 S and it has hardly any. fwiw
What are Magecart attacks and how can you protect your business?
Silicon as well. If it’s safe enough to have in your body, it’s safe enough to drink from. Also it’s extremely heat resistant (I use it for sous-vide cooking).
After a long search, we found two workable 'office neutral' solutions: Virbela and its successor FrameVR. I'll be online on FrameVR in my own personal frame at: https://framevr.io/testerdetest Please use headphones, because the echo-cancelation is a bit iffy.
Did any of the PS3 models look any better?

I recall a very funny PS3 barbeque meme floating around, back in the day. To say nothing of them using the Spider-Man font
I don’t see what the big deal is about making your own exclusive spaces. You aren’t hurting anyone. There are plenty of inclusive spaces for people who like that sort of thing. You are free to do whatever you believe is best. That’s what America is all about. Not everyone has to think the same or control everything we do.
> Some names are as short as one letter

I recently read a French political news story referring to O. It must be a misprint, I thought at first. But there is a French cabinet minister named Cedric O.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O
I would love to go and use swift at my work (working in robotics). But swift just doesn't feel mature enough for barely anything outside of iOS/macOS. I had a great time using it for that purpose. The community outside of that ecosystem is barely there.

I've picked rust instead, it feels like the exact opposite of the single large actor supporting swift, instead it's a huge community effort with lots of use cases already being seen in many spaces. AND rust just got AVR support which I suppose swift could get pretty quickly with llvm as well
Why I enjoyed this more than I should have ?
In Haskell, it's both common and idiomatic. There's always a tradeoff between the usefulness of having static guarantees, and the complexity of the type system features that enable those guarantees. In some cases it's more trouble than it's worth to enforce certain static properties - you have to weigh the costs and benefits on a case by case basis. But it's nice to have the option, and Haskellers make use of it frequently.
Falsifiable by the observance that there is no God. If we get a view of the supernatural it might be clear that there is no God.
The climate has been changing for thousands of years, people used to live on the bottom of the North Sea. You would be able to walk from mainland Europe to the UK.

The best experts basically all rely on subsidies for their livelyhood.

Furthermore, we can only measure and calculate properly for a couple of decades.

And finally, don't you see the biblical theme of your message?
> Server-side rendering on the client

JavaScript has gone too far :D
Never miss a good trade again
While not perfectly worded, it's clear to me GP points out how "building software" is not considered "hard" by the parent (hard as in complicated).

Assuming you are not simply being sarcastic over their "chat" form, of course.
So I'm just going to point out that the first sentence of the article shows that the title is misleading. The twitter user didn't set off the conspiracy theory, the theory has been floating around since 2015 and is quite popular in certain circles.
The basic idea is that in the end, all matter is in black holes, the rest is radiation. You need matter in order to define space, so if there is no matter, space or rather the original space doesn't exist anymore.
You can contract all the radiation (that doesn't have a notion of space due to the lack of matter) into a new point and start something like a big bang.

I think of it as redefining the space that makes the universe, rescaling the size of the whole universe. Anyway, that's my personal take on this so far.
This is impressive and would work really well in a lot of sites, especially ones with static content.

However it misses two important reasons to use a single-page app:

1. SPAs allow for highly interactive interfaces with custom components, drag & drop, audio etc.

2. SPAs can cache UI state in the client. The alternative is to store it in a server side session specific to each client. This is possible, of course, but it will either be lost every time the server is restarted, or it will need to stored in the database. Sending UI state back and forth to the database is another increase in load on the database and network.

There is also the more general point about SPAs exchanging less data with the server so putting less stress on the network but that is touched upon in the post.
Because management isn't always what it's cracked up to be, and it would be a nice recourse for workers to have some leverage to push back against questionable business decisions. Have you ever worked somewhere where mgmt. overruled engineering concerns with disastrous consequences? [0] Perhaps workplace democracy is too radical, perhaps a workers' union won't make the right business decisions that management can- or sometimes they do [1]- but it'd be nice to have some way to voice dissatisfaction with the direction a company is going besides some easily-ignored questions at all-hands. Maybe a channel directly to the board? Well, turns out there used to be something called an ombudsman. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23535292

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13986889

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718336
Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
They are not IFR numbers.
The Norwegian EV incentives:

No purchase/import taxes (1990-)
Exemption from 25% VAT on purchase (2001-)
No annual road tax (1996-)
No charges on toll roads or ferries (1997- 2017).
Maximum 50% of the total amount on ferry fares for electric vehicles (2018-)
Maximum 50% of the total amount on toll roads (2019)
Free municipal parking (1999- 2017)
Parking fee for EVs was introduced locally with an upper limit of a maximum 50% of the full price (2018-)
Access to bus lanes (2005-).
New rules allow local authorities to limit the access to only include EVs that carry one or more passengers (2016)
50 % reduced company car tax (2000-2018).
Company car tax reduction reduced to 40% (2018-)
Exemption from 25% VAT on leasing (2015)
Fiscal compensation for the scrapping of fossil vans when converting to a zero-emission van (2018)
Allowing holders of driver licence class B to drive electric vans class C1 (light lorries) up to 4250 kg (2019)

https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/

The fact EVs are successful is great! But don’t pretend it isn’t because taxpayers subsidize their success.
This looks like the perfect example of I have a hammer so everything looks like a nail. Not needed, unnecessary, and most likely expensive (meaning will bloat up my server costs) :-)
>>The VW emissions scandal and them being forced to switch to EVs in the US as part of the settlement/punishment

Has that actually happened? From my perspective the ongoing exodus towards EVs is due to EU enforcing incredibly strict emissions standard, basically from this year every manufacturer has to have a fleet average of 100g of CO2/km traveled, with very heavy fines paid for every single car sold above that level(it has already led to Mercedes completely stopping sales of AMG vehicles since September until the end of the year, because they are so badly over the threshold), and then in few years the required average drops to 75g of CO2/km and then 50g. Those targets are bonkers, and impossible to achieve on pure ICEs(the 100g target is maybe just possible, but definitely not the 75 or 50g ones). So every manufacturer who sells cars in EU has to innovate and has to move towards PHEVs and BEVs, because otherwise it will be simply impossible to sell any cars at a profit over here. VW of course knows this and that's why there is such a strong push from their entire group towards electric vehicles.

I have no idea what impact the US market had on this, but from my perspective it was zero - just like American manufacturers have pulled out even further from EU, European manufacturers are simply cutting out all models that are hard to sell in US due to their regulations.
Actually they did, but too many developers are lazy to buy books and apply their learnings.

http://filthyrichclients.org/

From the same Chet Haase and Romain Guy that went into Android's GUI framework after Sun went under.

And for mobile there was

https://docs.oracle.com/javame/dev-tools/lwuit-1.3/LWUIT_Dev...

Plus, Google could have done just like any other OS vendor does with ISO C and ISO C++, plus whatever OS APIs they feel like adding.
I think the 1 million doors explanation does a very poor job of explaining why switching is the correct choice and only gives a more intuitive answer, not more intuitive understanding.

This is how I understand the Monty Hall problem (Using 3 doors):

1) You are asked to choose a door from A, B or C. You choose A.

Probabilities:
p(A = Car) = 1/3
p(not A = Car) = p(B or C = Car) = 2/3

2) Monty opens a door and shows you a goat. Let's say he opens door B and gives you the choice to switch from door A.

Probabilities with B eliminated:
p(A = Car) = 1/3
p(not A = Car) = p(C = Car) = 2/3

3) The probability of the car being behind door A remains unchanged at 1/3, therefore the probability of the car being behind not A is also still 2/3. Since door B has been eliminated, this means the probability that the car is behind door C _must_ be 2/3! Therefore, we choose to switch from door A to door C.
I think nobody disagrees that money helps.
Definitely agree the level of detail in the article wouldn't get published in an academic journal, though they do mention:

"Kirstie Whitaker, programme lead for tools, practices and systems at the Alan Turing Institute, reviewed our code, independently reproduced our results, and provided input on the validity of the reported outcomes."

Would be interesting to see a proper write-up of the same study.

That said, let's say that it is taken as given that it's harder for a ML set-up to determine good photos for dark skin. Should it be used at all then? Is it acceptable that it's harder for the ~15% of the population to get a passport than the rest of the population because of an algorithm in the loop?

I don't think you can put it down to other factors like socio-economics as the Home Office reproduced this in their user testing before launch and acknowledged as a problem of the system (Vs the photos)
It's not cool to smoke anymore because of all the aducation and PR campaigns.

The decline started decades before vaping and bans on smoking inside. It started when the message changed. In the US "peak smoking" occurred in the 1960s and consumptions has been decreasing ever since [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK294310/figure/ch2.f1/
From your wikipedia link:
The barber is the "one who shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves". The question is, does the barber shave himself?

If the answer is "no", then he's shaved from another barber and the problem is solved. Nowhere is stated there's only one barber in the world.

Tattoo artists don't tatoo themselves but they're not living paradoxes. How is this different?

Again, I'm sorry for the obvious elephant in the room I keep missing.

EDIT: I see your answer to sumtechguy, I understand now it's more metaphorical than pratical. In my understanding, the paradox seems to arise when you try to put all your existing elements to fit one of 2 kind of boxes, which are clearly not enough.
With the Java licenses that Google have stolen from them, they could have eventually survived.
A lot of anglo speaking countries like to quote Portugal as an example, I would just like to add some reality to the picture perfect descriptions I read:

- The main public opinion driver for both the needle exchange programs and the decriminalization was a _massive_ Heroin epidemic which lead to an HIV, Hepatitis B/C, AND Tubercolosis epidemic, the last one of those is particularly airborne contagious. I often see the lumping of 'heavy' drugs but (although decriminalized) Cocaine consumption in Portugal was marginal at the time (mostly because the majority of the population couldn't afford it). The main precipitator was Heroin consumption.

- These programs served as a 'trojan horse' anchor point to bring these, often homeless/missing, people back into the healthcare system. For added controversy for the americans out there, healthcare is universally free in Portugal.

- There was a clear rupture point both in crime rates and the prison system capacity due to the heroin epidemic. Police forces could no longer be bothered with the 'noise' of the numerous small possessions of 'non-heavy' drugs like haxixe or marijuana. Offloading that to mental health practioners was also logistically useful for law enforcement.

- It took a considerable amount of additional healthcare funding for these programs to be implemented. This would _not_ have been possible for an economy like Portugal without supplementary funds from the European Union economic development programs.

- I am very suspicious of the counter-argument insinuation that the program initially _caused_ an increase in crime rates and consumption, because the start of the program also matched the start of a fairly large economic downturn. The main idea of the program was that people could go and ask for help, without the fear of being put in jail. If you have a desperate person, willing to do desperate things, not pushing them against a corner is usually a good policy for crime rates.
It is a bit more than a few pints, more like a 300 page book...
We’ll see, but I don’t trust their assumption that they can make the price comparable to business class unless it’s heavily subsidized.
Thanks for clarifying!

It's frustrating that it leaked out into wider usage, like in the tech industry itself. Microsoft often gets excluded in relevant discussions (e.g. privacy) as a result.
I'm not disagreeing with the validity of ISO or anything like that, I don't know where you got that impression.

The original point being made in this thread was that Oracle copied the API of SQL from IBM and thus is guilty of the same thing that they are accusing Google of doing. The counter-point was that SQL is an ISO standard and Oracle (allegedly) licensed it, which was then followed up by my point about Oracle DB predating the ISO standard. Hence why ISO is being discussed and why I was making the point that buying a standard document from ISO or paying for certification are not really relevant to this discussion.
Duncan Grant: Artist's 'lost' erotic drawings worth £2m discovered
Imho very true, which is exactly why Chrome can be called the new IE indeed.
Problem-1:
"You pick a door. Then Monty opens a door he knows having the goat. Calculate probability of winning if staying."

Problem-2:
"You pick a door. Monty opens a door at random, which just happens to be a goat. Calculate probability of winning if staying."

Both are conditional probability P(A|B) (that is, probability of A happening, under the assumption B has happened).

- A is probability of picking the correct door at the first try (or switching if you prefer)
- B is the probability that Monty picked a door with a goat

P(A|B) is defined as: P(A|B) = P(A and B) / P(B)

In both problems P(A) is 1/3.

In Problem-1, P(B) is 1 because Monty knows and it's not a random event and P(A and B) = P(A), so P(A|B) = P(A)*P(B)/P(B) = P(A) = 1/3.

In Problem-2, P(A) is 1/3, P(B) is 2/3, P(A and B) is 1/3 (if you pick a car, Monty is guaranteed to pick a goat), so P(A|B) = 1/3 / 2/3 = 1/2.
Try searching "optics Haskell"

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=mL5-X7iCJNCs0PEPo...

First result is to the popular and well-documented `optics` library which is exactly this topic. It's perfectly discoverable.

On that note, try googling "Haskell >>=" or "Haskell <$>". Good results for both. Looks like the "Haskell's symbols and esoterica isn't googlable" is a dead argument now :)
The thing is, do you want so many iterations to get something close to being good. Or do you want people to work with the community and decide together what a feature should look like and then get it in a good shape at day 1.

Like, ask any python dev what dependency management is like. That's what iteration gets you. Take your time and you get in a much better shape.
I do not think they were oblivious.

The ultimate goal of such systems is to gain hours and hours of your attention daily. What works better than outrage?

Not even cute kittens.
In Canada that's referred to as a deposit and retailers will often price it on shelves without the deposit invluded, because technically it's like borrowing a shopping cart. Very related to this discussing, this week I found a $0.25 deposit on a 1.5L $2 plastic water bottle. That's enough for me to consider some kind of alternative.
C++ Core Check in Visual Studio
If I would have had a second life, I would then have read this excellent book many times, from cover to cover.
It is a trove of information for deeper understanding of historic (and then modern) grammar.

An historical grammar of Japanese (1928)
By Sir Sansom, George Bailey

https://archive.org/details/historicalgramma00sansuoft/page/...
how would an idiomatic loop statement look like?
Your average "gamer" according to the industry's own statistics is a 25-29 male, owns one of the consoles, and buys exactly 3 games a year - Fifa, CoD, and one other action game. Maybe 4 if it's a good year. It's definitely not your stereotypical "gamer" type buying RGB everything - so yeah, I would guarantee that this kind of average gamer does not care about their "gear" being attention grabbing.
The expert to turn to in cases like this is Florian Mueller. While everybody else insisted the Alsup ruling was a slam dunk for Google and would settle API copyrightability once and for all, Mueller insisted that Oracle would win on appeal -- and they did.

Mueller is now telling us that the Court will find for Oracle in a near-unanimous, if not actually unanimous, decision: http://www.fosspatents.com/2020/10/supreme-court-inclined-to...

He points out that the justices have been asking some really pointed questions of Google since you made this post, questions which suggest that they don't buy Google's crap for a second and they think Google is trying to pull a fast one.

The law is pretty unambiguous that Google is liable for copyright infringement. Just because techies thought the law didn't work the way it does for decades doesn't actually change anything.
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I found it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXzee3tIZco
I don't even remember when parens stopped being an issue.

I think my hate relationship toward algol syntax was so strong, sexp were an obvious answer from minute 0.
Does anyone know what the maturity of standalone C-compatible implementations is like?

Curl seem to be evaluating two different stacks: ngtcp2+nghttp3 (C, seems to be from developers behind aria2) and Quiche (Rust, from Cloudflare)

Then there's Google's C++ QUICHE implementation which seems to not be used by anyone outside of Chromium (Even node.js apparently isn't using this, unless the code is just old).

There are several more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3#Libraries

It's a bit of a mess, and until Curl makes a decision I'm not sure where to go.
That's 7 years old by a Norwegian university, unlikely to be the thing.
The time difference between regular and slim consoles being released has been pretty much spot on 3 years for all consoles, on all generations going back 20 years. If Sony releases a slim PS5 "a year later" that would be unprecedented.