skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic but a point about the persistence of cults around unreliable vehicles:

<rant>As owner of an 1985 Westfalia, I have nothing but contempt for the inconsistent and poor engineering of this beast. Even with the factory Digijet pro training materials and factory service manual and several mechanics later, this thing still won't idle right when cold or warm. Systemically went through each system (fuel, air, electrical, mechanical, vacuum) individually and triple-checked per procedures and looked at general stuff like grounds and wiring too. Maybe the community factor akin to Mini Cooper owners: ostensible value built on hazing by ostentatious, expensive repairs due to substandard engineering. Sure VW has/had the hippie thing too, perhaps also due to them being difficult/expensive to maintain or being less powerful.</rant>

I'm grateful though the beastie doesn't have OBDII or keyless entry. (Like most German vehicles of this vintage, the drivers' side door doesn't lock without the key to avoid locking oneself out.)
Occams razor would conclude that he doesn't know. He ripped a ton of documents off multiple servers because he was an IT admin and had access, and rolled out.
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This also heavily depends on your personality. My guess would be the survivalist were extroverts and it was also the main reason why they went into this show.

But most programmers are introverts and lone wolfs and they don't necessarily need others to share their experience with.
"Finding" a co-founder wasn't a choice for the uncountable husband-wife partnerships over the ages. Sometimes for better or for worse you're stuck with your spouse as your co-founder.

I remained in the corporate world for about five years after making the decision mentally to quit until I had confidence that both the technology and my own skill had reached a point where I could have a good shot at hustling a living with my wife as "co-founder." The article somewhat vindicates my decision.
I pretty much agree with Marc Andreessen, on each point. Instead of attempting to paraphrase his points, just watch:

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/06/05/snowden-a-traitor-andreessen....
Robert Sapolsky's lecture, mentioned in the article, wherein he discusses ape language projects, is a good watch:

https://youtu.be/SIOQgY1tqrU?t=1h28m1s

He completely dismisses Koko but considers Kanzi to be more credible.
It doesn't make sense because you didn't read it properly.

Consumers have no reason to care why prices change.

In a world of pure supply and demand considerations that would be true. but as I've pointed out, we don't live in that world. We live in a world where many consumers are experiencing the same drought as the nut growers, and are aware of the impact it could have on prices, either because they live in the same place as where the nuts are grown or because they like to read the news.

Do you really think that when there is a drought, consumers increase the amount of nuts that they consume at a given price, because they find the price reasonable due to the drought?

No, and I didn't say that they did. I said they "accept that nut prices go up." Someone who enjoys nuts will limit their consumption if prices go up so much that the nuts are no longer affordable, but if they only go up a bit that person may consume the same amount of nuts they did before at a higher price because there isn't a suitable substitute. In other words, consumer preferences can result in inelasticity of demand.

It's a bigger mistake to assume consumers behave in ways that make no sense, in order to justify someone else's verbal argument (which made no reference to why consumers would act a certain way, and probably didn't even consider the issue).

Except a) this is an issue I happen to already be familiar with and b) I find consumers' behavior quite rational when I consider the totality of the circumstances.
Not sure, but I can tell you that Emacs is weird inside, in a lot of ways. It runs an interpreter for a language that nobody else uses, which has been heavily optimized because otherwise Emacs would be too slow. Then they use tricks to speed up executable loading, like loading Emacs and then writing the contents of memory to disk, so it can be loaded more quickly the next time.
Actually, judging by the countermeasures taken during the drought, the real problem is restaurant patrons being given water that they didn't ask for and might not drink.

(Even though the effect of automatically-provided water is to nudge people away from drinks that require plants and therefore more water to produce...)
Such organizations tend to be populated with people aligned with extreme ideological positions. And so, yes, I think it is fair to characterize them as the extremists they can be.

The proof is in the trees. Nobody could see past the rules/ideology to focus on the damage that would ensue from not finding a solution to the problem.

There's nothing wrong with regulations. Nowhere did I say that regulations are bad. It's more about being sensible about things.

Again, today, you could not build San Francisco. Period. You couldn't even start. Think about that for a moment.

We have allowed things to devolve to the point where we are damaging our ability to function and drive progress.

Take the Hyperloop as and example. Even if it is shown to work I'll bet it would be almost impossible to build because some group or agency is going to take extreme environmental positions. And so, instead of having a more efficient alternative system of transportation we will be stuck with freeways full of cars and trucks polluting our air.

We have become neutered as a society to the point that nobody wants to fight for anything. The most comfortable position to take is "hakuna matata", play some background music and let the extremists (from all ideological angles, BTW) take over.

Not good.
Insurance should be cheaper on a plain vanilla car.
Because those giant companies have an army of managers and accountants that will be sure to check every box and cross every t. A group of Valley engineers is thoroughly less thorough.
Can you prove that? I see that claim for first time.
Most of the time, nationalists trying to hide their history, because, in large, we all branched from Africa peoples.
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Looks like a nicer UI than the withings app. Any thoughts about adding bf%? My #1 feature request for an app like this would be to see trend lines for LBM kg and Total Fat kg on one chart.
Generally cars cannot control their steering. But obviously this one does have that ability. Interesting.
Meh, it was an "example given". How much do you want? Another famous one would be MH17 and Fedotov. Also you should read the definition of agenda, you clearly misused it. ("the things that must be done"[1]). The word you were looking for was motive.

That Reuters isn't a reliable source of information isn't a matter of motive or "agenda", it is common sense within educated circles.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda
I gave up caffeine a few years ago, for the very reasons you speak of. I feel completely different now - my thinking is broad and calm, rather than narrow and frantic.
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I don't always buy new cars, but when I do, I don't let car thieves pick the make and model.
> You could, of course, act on user input inside an f string, but the fault of that lies with the developer not sanitizing inputs, which is an issue with anything....

A good language protects the experienced developers from making a stupid mistake, and forbids the novices from them to trigger a learning response and guide them to better ways.

Example: In python if you use a normal map to implement an algorithm that depends on the elements being ordered in some way, then you will get different results for each run. If I remember correctly, I think python will randomize the order of the map every time it is iterated over. You see, developers could have got away with blaming the user for using an ordinary map when they should have used ordered map. But instead, they implementation map in such a way that it would be impossible to use it incorrectly.

> I think may be you gave the PHP example as how this mixing can lead to certain unintended issues (not necessarily in python with this PEP..

Yes. correct.

>it's just a convenience..

I come from a land filled with such 'conveniences'. it is called PHP. You can compare

var_dump("228" == "0xe4"); -> True

See? a convenience. You can compare hex and decimal strings with out explicit conversion. And what is the result? Countless exploits and security holes that leverage things like these, all that can be possible blamed on the programmer. So was this worth it? Where would you draw the line? How much correctness are you willing to trade off for a minor convenience?

I may be over-reacting. But I think this pep is a step in the wrong direction and should be aggressively corrected.
From the article this was only because they were being stolen, if anything I think that's less regulatory, even though we know addicts are using them stores are free to do what they want.

Fun fact - Although the tech might have improved, a lot of the seeds never used to get irradiated properly.
> Statements like "all I care about is what you have done/created/accomplished" is predicated on the notion that everyone is already equal.

You're implying that you're so clever, perceptive and knowledgeable that you can make the entire industry "fair" by reverse-discriminating in all the right cases? Hah. That's exactly how various flavors of discrimination pop up and solidify in the first place. Plus, the law of unintended consequences will always take its toll.
What if init doesn't exit, and just hangs? What if it just goes crazy and starts erronously restarting your processes? There are more failure modes than simply crashing.

At some point, you just have to assume that some critical components are working correctly. Adding complexity just makes it harder to reason about it, or, depending on how paranoid you are, prove it.
And PPC has big and little endian variants, to add to the matrix.
It's a tragedy of the commons because groundwater is legally a common resource that anyone can exploit as they see fit. You can't charge market prices for it without changing that picture and declaring that someone else (eg the state) has a property interest in the groundwater, at which point it's no longer in the commons.
> Yup, failure to use the metric system in everyday life is why the US has the worst scientists and produces the least scientific output. Oh, wait.

Failure to use the metric system everywhere cost NASA a $125 million Mars orbiter just 16 years ago, and yet here you are, insisting that this is not a problem, and throwing in a non sequitur to justify the position.
> The program sounds like a very targeted, but also very invasive, ban on alcohol.

Well, you only get hit by it if you drive drunk (and get caught) once. (Maybe that's what you meant by "targeted".) Once someone has driven drunk, you can lower the hammer on the driving part (loss of car/license), or on the drinking part. It seems less destructive to lower the hammer on the drinking.
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And these dramatic changes are implementing water conservation strategies that have been common in Europe for decades.
Curious what your competitive advantage is over something like Cloudcheckr?
Thank you for trying it out! Let me try to answer your queries. No pun intended of course.

- Siri doesn't maintain conversational context. If you wanted to find a sushi place in SOMA, and the recommendation was too expensive, you could just say "show me something cheaper" to Myra. For Siri, you'd have to repeat saying "cheap sushi places in the mission" which (doesnt work today and) would show you a whole different set of results. You can also never ask Siri things like "Show me reviews for Foreign Cinema" and "get me a reservation there".

- Siri's not good at answering questions. If you ask it for happy hour places in the mission for instance, or the best outdoor date spot in SF - the results are simply not useful. Myra will not only recommend a place, but also things like when the happy hour time is, and why the japanese gardens in Golden Gate Park are a good outdoor date spot. More importantly, it will factor in things like open times and available reservations when showing you this data.

- Also, when you're having a group conversation with other people, when it's too noisy around you, or you have something private to say - text is always better.

Re: Tech stack - for every query, you are actually seeing live results (for instance, reservation data can't be cached). Doing the NL parts quickly was the most challenging piece so far. It's written in Python.

Hope this helps.
Hell, I live in Germany and even everyone here collects all rainwater from roofs, just to water plants, etc.

The stuff california implements now has been standard here for decades, and we have more water than we can use.
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> I was in California six months ago and was taken aback by the lack of worry. Nobody seemed to be doing anything.

Do what? Please do tell us what will fix the problem and we'll do it.

The problem is that there is nothing that the average consumer can now do that will materially affect the situation.

Southern California is building desalinization plants. That's something that local communities near the ocean will do. That can solve the water problem for many people.

However, the only real way to solve the water problem in California is to shut down agriculture in the Central Valley. There is no other option.
Of course, I left it vague - who knows, maybe the aliens (i.e. any life form) are communicating in ways we can even detect?

Maybe we're simply not intelligent enough to realize that our own form of communication is actually very primitive, and a sign of little intelligence, not great intelligence.
My family is conserving water in N California to water 100 ft (30 m) trees to prevent them from weakening and being colonized by borer insects which will then kill the trees. Having a tall dead around suburban homes is a very dangerous thing. They're also in an extremely risky area for fast-moving forest fires and a dried tree is fuel too. In addition to enough water, trees often need systemics (chemical treatment if there are specific pests) and annual inspections by arborists.
> If I remember correctly, I think python will randomize the order of the map every time it is iterated over.

No, a normal non-ordered dict in python is guaranteed to have the same iteration order as long as no keys are removed or inserted (i.e., if the only changes are changing the values associated with keys.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYhVnmeWrk and http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/erik-... probably? :)
Jonathan Blow is working on at least part of this (sorry, the only links I could find were to his videos about it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTqZNujQOlA
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The messenger has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of the message.

As I said in my comment to the other poster, we have accepted having become a neutered society where the ideological extremists (from all angles) win because you, I and the next guy are socially neutered.

We don't fight for anything and accept such nonsense as "bureaucratic inflexibility that's unresponsive to unique local conditions". NO, that's bullshit that ought not be tolerated. And that's precisely the attitude that lands us in these kinds of problems.

What you wrote is wonderful and sounds like it ought be be read sipping ice tea while reading Plato's Republic on a green lawn on a nice Sunday afternoon in a gentle breeze. In other words, neutered intellectualism.

And, while we do that, HALF THE TREES in a forest are DEAD.

So, yes, maybe it's time we stop tolerating and rationalizing billion dollar websites and killing half the trees in a forest, get a little angry, sound a little less erudite and fix the problem.

Look, I view these issues not with my eyes but rather with my kid's futures in mind. We have reached the peak of the ridiculous in this country. We can't get anything done. We can build anything, we can't grow anything and we are at a point where people actually get angry at a guy calling an agency "nazi's" in a figurative sense when, the real issue is that HALF A FOREST was destroyed and a town stands to also be destroyed in the process.

So, what should we focus on? The language and semantic choices or the real problems? Do we vote for politicians who sound, well, political and neutered, or do we want people with fire in their eyes who are going to plow through the nonsense and fix problems. I have to tell you, my conversation with my Mom and Dad last night, life long Dems, was an eye opener. They've lost all trust in the political class. All of them.

You can hate me. That's fine. Now go focus on half a forest being killed due to either the lack of an ability to make sensible decisions or, possibly worst, decisions driven by ideology regardless of the consequences they might bring. Focus on that. Please.
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> An interesting fact to consider when people talk about how substance abuse bans create "victimless crimes."

I don't see how this affects the victimless crime argument.

It's exactly as if you made a law forbidding people from living or hanging out together. Domestic-violence arrests would plummet, but the victimless argument would still be valid: living with someone else is not the problem, violence is.
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Full text of the open-access scientific paper, "The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties," discussed in the thread-opening post by a biologist.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v524/n7564/full/nature1...
Why not? It's possible (I make no claims as to whether it's correct) that a large portion of farmers do have water as a cost, enough so to affect price, and as the price increases, the farmers that weren't growing nuts (or were more diversified) that don't have water as a cost (or its cost is less than it is for other farmers) may switch to the lucrative crop, exacerbating the problem.

I don't think it's that much of a stretch to think that instability in market prices for a good may cause odd market behavior that has consequences in related areas.
I am curious of what would happen if you all agreed to cut down the dead trees on mass? Can this level of civil disobedience really be stopped by any Californian authority? To allow a situation to continue that puts dead trees ahead of human life is totally insane.
> Unfortunately by the time the law envisions the new rules being fully implemented — 2040 — aquifers across the state are likely to be permanently damaged or destroyed by over-pumping.

I view the law more as a warning to the agribusinesses than anything else.

Up until now, the agribusinesses assumed they had free rein. The fact that laws are now on books is a warning that if they don't start taking action, more laws are coming that will be far more immediate.

California has a proposition system. If the people aren't getting water, they will vote to shut down farming.
You are a very angry and misguided individual. Grow up and learn how to communicate in a non-creepy manner and you will be fine.

Your situations are ridiculous and not as black-and-White as you make them out to be.
oh goodness yes

In my early twenties I would occasionally drive home “tipsy” — what felt like tipsy at the time; in retrospect, I was as drunk as a skunk. But there were no alternatives! I lived in a spread out western city, taxis were unheard of.

Threats and punishments don’t work on young people who have a psychological sense of invulnerability. The best way to curb drunk driving is through practical solutions that have immediate and obvious effectiveness.

All that said, I’m impressed with the psychology behind this program, and it’s nice to see policy that aims at curbing and solving destructive behavior instead of profiting off it in the form of fines.
Just a reference to The Guardian's article, which was already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062134
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This is not a ban on alcohol and it's not really invasive.

They can still access cheap easy alcohol (legally even?), like anyone can access illegal crack.

And pretty sure they don't have to do the program, they can just lose their license and take their appropriate punishment.

This is about offering a medical solution to people with a problem, not a ban.

It also catches up people without problems but as above they have chosen it as a better 'punishment' and given they don't have a problem, hopefully being caught once it will also give them a life lesson.
> The program sounds like a very targeted, but also very invasive, ban on alcohol.

You could say the same of prison sentences for alcohol-related offenses. Which is more invasive?
I don't get the fascination with powers of two in storage. RAM I understand, because you're counting address lines. But storage? What sense does that make?

I have an SD card with 16.0 GB of space available, and I'm recording video at 9.00 Mbit/s. How many hours of footage? Well, (16.0e3 MB) * (8 bit/B) / (9.00 Mbit/s) = 1.42e4 s, or 3.95 hours.

Now do the computation with binary units.

I have an SD card with 14.9 GiB of space available, and I'm recording video at 9.00 Mbit/s. How many hours of footage? Well, (14.9 GiB) * (1e-6 * 1024^3 MB / GiB) * (8 bit/B) / (9.00 Mbit/s) = ...

Why make people do extra math? Shouldn't we choose units that make things easier to calculate, not harder?
Yup.

Done on internationally to see how quickly my helpful comment would find someone looking for a way to take me down. I figured it was easier to just offer-up three errors and get it over with.

Yes, there are two more you missed.
This reminds me of the way Big Brother is working on a new language that doesn't have words for things you're not allowed to do - if there's no word for it, how can you think about doing it?
There is so much more to this experiment than drunk driving!

It shows that modest, swift, carefully metered punishment is a lot more effective than the more traditional slow, but heavy punishment.

This is a big deal, because it shows a promising path to dramatically reduce the US prison population. Don't mind the drunk driving, think about all of the crimes out there, and all of the people who got a hammer dropped on them.
That's a slippery slope argument: because we can't solve the halting problem or verify program correctness, we shouldn't try to handle crashes, either?

Agreed on minimizing complexity. The only part of the chain I described that's very complex is svc.startd, and that's largely to support rich configuration.

Also don't mistake my position for saying that quality isn't important. Rather, just that perfection is not a reasonable constraint.
>Unsustainable food production is more of a contributor than personal consumption

I wonder when we will finally admit that we need to watch what foods we consume. Casava instead of rice, soy instead of meat, etc.
From the outside it seems that the revolution is the ultimate end of habitability of Iran, end-of-world, barbarians-take-over-Rome quality.

Let's stop progress, abolish human rights and heed to words written thousand years ago and interpreted by corrupt barbarians.

Foucoult can write whatever nonsense sitting in warm Paris with all the freedoms and comfort readily available.

I'm more scared by "Iran - then and now" series of pictures.
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