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The internet is making everything winner take all. Off the first page of Google? You don’t exist. Not on first page of Amazon for “Bluetooth headphones”? You don’t exist. That’s why companies will pay so much to game whatever system gets them to the top rank, which is only further reinforced when people buy/click that top product/result. This is a hard problem to solve but I think there needs to be a way of segmenting the results you see, perhaps more highly weighting the opinions of others similar (in preferences) to you.
That's the same approach I am using in all my scripts. You can even combine that with `set -e` and run some

commandThatMayFail || true

in order to continue the script if some optional step fails.

Bonus note: The notation "do something else die 'with message'" stems from Perl, AFAIK. See for instance https://perldoc.perl.org/Carp
> large mammal farts going on now is probably not that much higher than it always has been

I believe a big part of it has to do with the feedlot diet— when they're eating a high-calorie diet of mostly corn/grain instead of their natural diet of grass, it puts their digestive system into overdrive.

EDIT: I looked into it a bit more after posting this, and it looks like it's not clear-cut— for example, it takes a cow a lot longer to reach slaughter weight eating grass, so even if they're belching less during that time, it's a long enough time that it may be a wash, or even worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/climate/beef-cattle-metha...

EDIT 2: Here's a piece which makes the original case, acknowledging greater direct emissions but claiming a savings that makes up for it from soil sequestration due to grazing: http://newzealmeats.com/blog/grain-fed-vs-grass-fed-beef-gre...
But BO has some beautiful factories built for New Glenn, whereas SpaceX is building Starship in tents. Elon says that the factory is 10-100x as hard as the prototype, so New Glenn must be way ahead of Starship, right? /s
So that's why they added it to the 2 for $6 menu. I got them all the time when it was on there.

Anecdata, but ... It's basically the only thing I get from Burger King anymore. And I'm not vegetarian or anything, I just had consistent (not the best, but serviceable and consistent) texture and flavor so I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything.

But I wouldn't be down to paying a big premium for them... that 2 for 6 putting it on the same level as the normal Whopper made the case.
Both of those are Yum brands, so it is really a single deal. Looks like you have one deal that is branded but chicken and pizza places are not going to drive a huge amount of visibility into the segment that Beyond wants (cheap burgers) and I suspect previous comment is correct regarding McD wanting to test the waters while they work on their own solution.
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I don't think it's about housing supply. People want to live in the city and in desirable suburbs. These suburbs have existing tenants who could not afford the market rate of rent today. Gentrification basically.

The question is how much should existing tenants be entitled to their apartments just because they lived there for a long time, balanced against the impact on investment in new real-estate because of lack of incentives due to earning caps.
I agree that this is important, and less meat consumption is good, but I am kind of upset that the entire American culinary experience is being reduced to "burgers, pizza, and fried chicken."

I say that because most of the articles on meat alternatives are written from the perspective of "if only Americans can stop eating hamburgers!"

First off, in terms of global solutions, that isn't going to fly. Try going to Italy and telling people "we've replaced all your meat, with a ground beef alternative!" and see how pissed people get. Countries around the world have culinary traditions older than America itself. Many of these traditional preparations of various cuts of meat are a huge part of culture and history.

Second off, I, an American, don't even eat hamburgers[1] more than once or twice a year. And I'm not going to switch all my meat eating over to meat alternative hamburgers.

Of course replacing some meat is good, my main complaint is how so many articles reduce American food to just a few categories.

I have the same problem when friends come to visit from overseas, or even friends who've been in America for awhile (sometimes years!) who have no idea that American food is anything other than burgers and pizza.

[1] I eat sausages a bit more frequently, which I could fill with a plant based alternative.
But then, the seller has to pay taxes - either business taxes if it is a merchant or capital gains taxes in case they sold an asset. And taxes are paid only in Fiat. So you still need Fiat integration somewhere.
Simply re-invest every bit of profit you would make. Build new locations, new services, hire more people, buy stuff, etc.

Spending money isn't rocket science. Spending it wisely may be.
I don't think it even needs to be a range, you can index using enums
I'm on the same boat, super productive with php/twig/jquery.
But recently my boss gave my a side project without any specific requirements, 10 charts and 2-3 tables with their associated crud.
I made everything with react + php, and oh my god that site is super fast. It's eye opening!
CSS animations are a pain-inducing non-starter for thousands of recurring use cases.

Example: Using Javascript to SHOW a modal, but then relying applying addClass('animate') using CSS animations to transition that modal (eg: bottom of screen to center, while fading in) are nearly impossible without tons of hackery. The animations do not render.

Hence jQuery animation calls.
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okay, so it can't grow out. looking at pictures of the city, it certainly looks like it has room to grow up.
IMHO it was more a problem of common functions being buried 5 menus deep in a sluggish UI.
Strongly disagree on elegance of [[ condition ]] || cmd and [[ condition ]] && cmd.

Every developer has read enough if statements to understand if then else at a glance. Few people write enough bash scripts to have that same instant parsing of [[ condition ]] && cmd or [[ condition ]] || cmd, especially when intermingled.

I like the idea of cmd || { raise error; } that others have mentioned, but I hate the idea of using these in place of an if statement to save 2 lines.
Yes, but then, really, the fundamental popular software paradigm is not just unsanitized but unsanitary. The models for sanitary-by-design are there. It's just math.

The core leadership behind inadequate decisions, often above the CTO, are frequently of the "don't care about the math, just the numbers" type.

Perhaps the CTO raised concerns. Maybe, not. But if we want an open engineering culture in software, unlike "applied engineering" in other industries, we should actively oppose punishing those that embrace open-to-peer-review models, even when the openness backfires and the history gets removed by the open workflow participants.

We may still have a fragile and unique culture in software, that perhaps contradicts past history such as engineering in construction (look up "corruption construction") or the unique corruption of medicine ("sugar lobby", "food pyramid").

Despite bad decisions and the fumbled cover-up, the attempt to perform in public on their part is valuable to me. We don't have easy access to which of the doctors took money to publish "research" that "calories are the same", pushing for more carbohydrates in diets. This may translate to multiple people, people you might personally know, dying of diabetes.

With open software, we get the names. This should not reward click-bait media witch-hunting.
"Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running"

Had me curious as well.

$ host ftp.support.lotus.com
ftp.support.lotus.com is an alias for service.boulder.ibm.com.
service.boulder.ibm.com has address 170.225.15.26

It's running WUFTPD 2.6.3, which is abandonware as far as I can tell. Though no open vulnerabilities listed.
Minimizing trust is not a good thing. I don't understand where this obsession with it comes from.

EVERY transaction requires trust. I sell you a pair of shoes, you pay in bitcoin, oops! the box is actually full of cat poop, too bad, sucks to be you, you can't get your bitcoin back, shouldn't have trusted me.

Trust in the transaction system is not a dangerous component of commerce. Sure, you can trust Paypal to do the transaction for you (and also get benefits like chargebacks, disputes, and ID verification in return, not to mention the sub-second transaction speed), and what happens if they betray that trust? Well that's what governments are for, the two-ton hammer of the law will make sure you get your money back.

Not to mention, blockchain is the least trustworthy transaction system of the modern age. Over a billion dollars in crypto has been stolen out of people's accounts via exchange hacks and smart contract exploits in the last ten years. This has never happened to any US bank since the introduction of FDIC in 1933.
How so? I mean, I could imagine that they were reviewing computers on practical things that real-world users cared about, but maybe a tech enthusiast would find irrelevant.
Don't use any site he made... Anything compatible with IE3 is incompatible with modern privacy expectations (doesn't support any vaguely secure variant of HTTPS, and any server which supports old variants can't be protected against downgrade attacks, and therefore cannot protect users privacy)
If we can reduce any source with little to no consequences we should do it. The point is we're over capacity because we've added petroleum and other sources, namely large container ships that aren't going to be constrained anytime soon.
As amusing as it'd be to let people patch their synapses with buggy/vulnerable code and wreak havoc in our datacenter, we're not going to. If you want to run a custom server, run it yourself.
hey there phh; slightly tangential, but: What are your plans for phh-treble? To be honest, if you've got the bandwidth, I'd love for you to start something comparative to /e/ and CalyxOS.

With Generic Kernel Images (and APEX to an extent), do you see phh-treble likely replacing LineageOS as the preferred base for projects like /e/? Merci.
Just when you think there is no hope for this planet and for humanity something slowly emerges seemingly out of nowhere.

Fridays for future was one of those developments that caught me by surprise. Young people fighting for our planet while „angry white men“ claiming there ain’t no climate change.

Or take the sudden surge of interest in everything veggy / vegan. In Germany there is a growing demand for vegan products, and this demand seems to be very strong, because every grocery store has a growing number of vegan products lately.

I turned vegetarian last year not because I hate the taste of meat but because there are a dozen reasons we should not be eating meat. Environmental reasons, but also the pain we are causing these animals, every single day.
Hi, not really because my understanding is bigquery requires structured data but Stackdriver just expects a arbitrary json payload which can be queried from. Do you have any experience?
YES, Beyond has some incredible sausage products! I go with them for sausage and Impossible for burgers.
At least in my field, I expect this would be a total disaster. One of the major advantages of peer review is that knowing the top tier publication venues, I can look to these to keep up to date on the latest work knowing that what I find is likely to be high quality. In the absence of peer-reviewed publication venues, I see two options:

1. Read everything I can find that is published and try to sort through it all myself to sort out what is good quality. I think in aggregate, this is likely to take more of researchers' time than contributing to the peer review process.

2. Focus only on publications from top quality institutions or researchers whose work I am already familiar with. This has the advantage of saving me time. But it also has the massive disadvantage that I am likely to miss quality work which comes from lesser known institutions or authors.

I don't think either of those two options is attractive. In my field, the delay of idea exchange is not really a problem. If people want to share their ideas, they can often publish a preprint in parallel with submission to a peer-reviewed journal. (Although some journals effectively prohibit this since it has the potential to break the anonymity of the review process.)

Yes, some of the purposes of peer review could be accomplished in the method of "peer debate" you mention. But I think such a process would be much less effective. Of course, that's not to say I don't think there are things broken about peer review that could use fixing :)
"Republicans failed to ensure that the Texas power grid could withstand a cold snap, so the party’s broadcast arm recycled lies about wind energy to deflect blame on to Democrats."

That is such an intellectually dishonest way to frame temperature ratings discussion of critical infrastructure. The people who oversee and maintain the grid operate independent of government and wouldn't let any partisan elected official touch grid infrastructure with a 10' stick.

The right is blaming wind the left is blaming natural gas, they both are wrong, both failed at similar rates.

Trying to frame this according to ideological narratives just comes off as sleazy.
My first apartment was a limited lease for 6 months (like AirBnB but a private company), which I could terminate within a month if I could find another place. I could not, had to extend it to 2 years (the landlord said it will not be possible to extend beyond 2 years). After the 1.5 years of search, I was able to get not so affordable but acceptable place.

1.5 years to find an apartment, that is not cheap but bordering the acceptable rent. Nobody should suffer this in their lifetimes.

I am not going to name the companies and get sued. Stuff like that are serious in Germany.
> we should trust it implicitly, while ignoring the concept of paradigm shift that arises specifically from people outside the consensus

There's a difference in trusting "the scientific process" versus scientists; We can trust scientists so far as they are following that process, which isn't guaranteed.

Also, the two things are not mutually exclusive; While peer review is important in science, it is not strictly the same as consensus; The paradigm shift of the outsider is enabled by this fact. What we really have to fear is that peer review degrades into the consensus-base of typical power structures.
> To get to those rules the content must first be "pornographic".

Yes, the discussion I was responding to was literally and explictly about pornographic content.

> Copyright attaches to the creator, not the subject.

That's what I said.

I also said that likeness rights flow from the subject, and that both were potential issues depending on where the chain of permissions do and do not reach.

> You cannot demand a takedown of a picture just because you are in it

You cannot issue a DMCA takedown based on copyright on that basis, but, likewise, the DMCA safe harbor which applies only to copyright claims does not apply to violations of likeness rights at all. (Section 230 protections might apply to an independent host, but that has no bearing on the legality of the content simply who is liable for the illegality.)
Unfortunately, Berlin-style appears to mean “moving is almost impossible because 50 other people also want to view the same flat as you at the same time you’re looking at it, and you literally can’t outbid them”.

That was my experience, anyway. I eventually found a house share to get started, and after I arrived a hooked up with someone who happened to already have a place big enough for me to move into.

If I move within the city again, it will have to be by buying a place.
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What I do now:

- Program Director working in a National Security field holding an active Q/TS/SCI w/ poly - Manage a ~$180M+ annual budget w/ oversight of 150+ FTEs organized into distributed teams working on complex projects in 30+ foreign countries across the globe - GS15 equivalent with both a policy and program implementation background at senior USG leadership level

Previous work includes: physical and political risk assessments for clients operating in potentially dangerous environments, sub-contractor as a national security subject matter expert for multiple US National Laboratories, sub-contractor for Palantir sub (back when they used to use other companies for forward deployed), research analyst at a policy institute on defense and intelligence topics, other interesting stuff

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There needs to be a proper discussion, debate, to break apart ideologies that are perpetuating misinformation or just simply not taking into account the whole ecosystem; the documentary Sacred Cow seemed to do a good job to explain it.
The earlier points in the piece about the distinction between information and physical matter got me thinking. I only have a bachelor's in computer science and not much cryptography knowledge, so please excuse if this question has a simple answer: What fundamentally prevents us from creating a digital analog of gold? Gold (partially) has value because it is scarce, and it's scarce because it's difficult to create--nuclear fusion takes a ton of energy, and gold is one of the heavier naturally occurring elements. As the article mentions, all physical assets can retain value because they're impossible to copy. If I give you my gold, the transfer of value is being held up by the laws of physics. You now have it, and I don't. There's no ledger keeping track of all the gold atoms in the universe, therefore it's trivial to transfer it from one part of space to another. What keeps us from having some cryptographic primitive that enforces the same thing?

Bitcoin got the part of "requiring some difficulty to create", but I feel like the killer cryptocurrency would be the one where no ledger is needed.
Yes, and add on to that the complication that not all science derives from the scientific method. You have evolutionary biology and theoretical physics, which are essentially retrofitting theories to existing data.
This would only be relevant if all other things were equal. If we can cut methane emissions to below "historical averages" it will at least buy us some time to get CO2 emissions in check.
I'd take it as a "move on" hint, though I do personally know people at FAANG who waited months after some interviews before getting in. 3 applications also isn't a lot, imo; the hiring grind can be very real.
Volley (YC W18) is hiring engineers to build voice-controlled entertainment
I found this site after reading your comment and being curious myself. no promises on it being trustworthy data: https://1ml.com/statistics
Anecdotally, environmental concerns led me to consume less beef and to try the Impossible burger. I liked it better than beef and now I'll order it rather than a burger.
Yes, discussed here 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284750
Every greenhouse gas counts, whether it's part of the preexisting baseline or something recent we started emitting. The goal isn't a return to how things were, the goal is to keep the temperature from climbing too high too quickly.
"Conversions" and other voluntary consumption where people specifically pick the beef they want doesn't really matter to the bigger picture.

Plant based meat is a rounding error until it gets good enough (at an equivalent or better price to ground beef) that McDonalds and Walmart can cut their low end products without anyone noticing or caring. People don't understand just much low end beef sells compared to the mid range products people might replace with plants (at present). In my experience at the foodservice level it's easily 50:1, maybe even 100:1.
I can 100% judge him. It is the CTO's job to put in place processes and safeguards that reduce the possibility of one of the most common widely known security vulnerabilities. Either he didn't put in the safeguards or he bypassed them, either way it's a fireable offense that put the whole business in danger.
When dealing with teachers understand that when presented with a career choice they are the folks who self selected into the job with summers off and the easiest course load. They will use the smallest excuse not to have to show up for work.
The tenants are not in arrears. In the common case rents were lowered officially by landlords, with a footnote that the difference is due in full if the law is striked down.
As an educator that uses the free version of your site... A debugger for Python is the killer feature you're missing.

Stepping through code, especially loops for beginners is game changing.
I think you're encountering Poe's Law here - at some point it becomes difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone genuinely expressing an extremist point of view.

Are there trolls on Gab and Parler? For sure. Are there purestrain rabid culture warriors on Gab and Parler? Yup. Are Gab and Parler honeypots? I don't think so, but that also depends how you define "honeypot."

Both exist because other social networks cracked down on distasteful content. Gab erupted during the era of cracking down on ethnonationalists and is full of wannabe nazis and 4chan-grown edgelords. Parler erupted during the era of cracking down on dangerous misinformation (QAnon, COVID denialism, the things that we now know lead to election denialism, etc etc) and if full of people that choose to believe that nonsense rather than reality. Parler was also signal boosted by political voices that intentionally framed crackdowns on distasteful content as an aspect of the ongoing culture war.

Both naturally courted their respective audiences.

The guy running Gab is a True Believer. Check out Gab's Twitter (heh) for some pretty questionable recent posts that blame the hack on "mentally ill trans hackers," only with a slur instead of trans, because of course there's a slur.

The Mercer family bankrolls Parler. They have a long history of throwing money at causes that follow their political viewpoints. We don't have a reason to doubt that their board and and management are True Believers in their own cause as well.

So, is it really a honeypot if it's honest by design?
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