skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are all directly related to raising cattle, though.

What the parent is talking about are the broader consequences of decisions that farmers make based on the limited scope of their expertise.

A big example is the use of antibiotics to manage disease in livestock, which obviously takes some understanding of biology and consultation with vets and other experts. Unfortunately, it is very likely contributing to the evolution of bacteria away from susceptibility to those antibiotics.

Farmers are not unique in the fact that their expertise doesn't cover all possible outcomes. That's true of everyone. It doesn't mean they are ignorant and I don't think it does them a disservice to say it.

What the parent is talking about cultural factors that might lead farmers or other "small town" folks to dismiss the findings of other experts, because those expert don't know as much about farming. A big-city evolutionary biologist Ph.D. is going to look stupid if they're quizzed about raising cattle or shooting guns. That doesn't mean they're wrong about bacterial evolution.

This is not limited to farmers, of course--in big cities you get people who don't listen to doctors about vaccines, simply because they don't know anything about doctors except that they make a lot of money.
I cannot vouch for the security the editor mentioned here, but anything that handles external data has security concerns.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-8218...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3075
How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images per Second
>The taxes you pay are buying healthcare for people who cannot afford it.

That's great! I wouldn't way to be one of the few people able to afford healthcare in a world full of sick people who can't afford to get well...
I was on a small trip recently. The 10 euros I gave to someone else was the best money I've spent in a while. I got a lot more from spending it that way than in any other I could imagine.
Possibly a Bay area vs Seattle compensation thing.
Where is apple employee data?
Which has to be the leading contender for our civilization's equivalent to "those Roman Empire folks were so dumb for using lead, ha ha". Though it is highly doubtful that lead poisoning caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, one to two order of magnitude elevated levels of exposures compared to normal background levels were no picnic the bodies of for those exposed.

Another example of distributed costs, concentrated benefits really screwing us over in the long-run.
5,000 developers talk about their salaries
What's to stop the "same companies" from working with Amazon to do the same? Amazon Hair Conditioner (made by Pantene"
Yes it would be absolutely beyond the pale ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18150806

>'[Home Sec. Theresa May] added: "It is right that forces up and down the country are now looking... at bringing in the private sector to their forces where they feel there are functions that can be done more cost-effectively by the private sector."'
Isn't this similar to what Grocery stores have done for years? Cereal, pasta, bread, canned goods, you name it, there's a store brand.
Google engineers would certainly like to think that.

In reality, Google's hiring process selects for people who can follow instructions and are happy trading self-sufficiency and independence for the social validation that comes with working for such an "elite" company. Google engineers are some of the most sheep-like creatures on the planet.
If those shares are a small percentage of the net worth, then it can be Okay to keep them as is. But if its the case of them being the majority of your net worth, then its very dangerous.

I look at it from a downside vs upside perspective. I want a lower probability of a downside, which will cause pain to me. For that I am okay, to trade it with moderate upside e.g. index based funds.
I do like the architectural diversity in the Loop, but it goes beyond just downtown. One of the things that I love about my neighborhood is how you'll find 2, 3, or 4 floor walkups built anywhere from 100 to 1 year ago right next to each other. Some of the modern architecture from the 60s and 70s doesn't look great in isolation and I wouldn't want an entire street of it, but when its sandwiched between a building built in 1920 and one built in the last few years it gives the neighborhood a lot of character.

edit: an example:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8970249,-87.6709707,3a,75y,9...
Thanks! I'll be sure to add that note! Currently, minuteman targets Mesosphere's DC/OS (dcos.io), which is Linux only.

We've thought about what it would take to port it to Windows, and it's feasible. Just a matter of work. If you're interested, let me know.
And, if I may: what does 7% happier, 20% increase in life satisfaction exactly mean anyway? My 5% might be or feel very different than someone else's.

See, I have a hard time with all this self-help stuff. What's so difficult about it that needs hundreds of books and blogs to be expounded?

You either want to do something or you don't. Be grateful for what you have and try to improve a little at a time. Remember that everyone is out to get money from you. Try really hard not to be an asshole.

Seems like common sense to me, and everything else feels like a lot of unnecessary junk.
Good lord, I expected more from HN commenters. Yall are talking about how he is a bad spender and should have done better with his money. Did any of you read this all the way through? I'll excerpt what the author literally says is his point of the article.

"I don’t ask for or expect any sympathy. I am responsible for my quagmire—no one else. I didn’t get gulled into overextending myself by unscrupulous credit merchants. Basically, I screwed up, royally. I lived beyond my means, primarily because my means kept dwindling. I didn’t take the actions I should have taken, like selling my house and downsizing, though selling might not have covered what I owed on my mortgage. And let me be clear that I am not crying over my plight. I have it a lot better than many, probably most, Americans—which is my point. Maybe we all screwed up. Maybe the 47 percent of American adults who would have trouble with a $400 emergency should have done things differently and more rationally. Maybe we all lived more grandly than we should have. But I doubt that brushstroke should be applied so broadly. Many middle-class wage earners are victims of the economy, and, perhaps, of that great, glowing, irresistible American promise that has been drummed into our heads since birth: Just work hard and you can have it all." (emphasis added)

The point is that though the author screwed the pooch on his finances, he assumes that he is a lot better off that most Americans. If true, that should be shocking to us all.

Other commenters point out that those that did save will have to rescue those that have not and that is a BS thing to have to do. I think that is probable, though not certain. However, like this student loan time-bomb, I think that forgiveness is the best path. Yes, we can lord over those that were dumb and did what others told them to do without really thinking. But I would rather have happier and less-stress neighbors and fellow citizens with the forgiveness even knowing that they will do it again and thinking to themselves that they cheated the system and won. We can be 'right' but have to sit in the mud, or we can forgive and all be happier and wiser for the next round.
Why is it any better idea to stretch yourself to go to an "elite" college? The only way that the authors children "earned" the right to go there is if they were awarded a full scholarship.

I went to an unknown stare college, stated at home and got a degree in computer science. After my first three years of working - almost 20 years ago - my salary has been comparable to anyone else's. No one cares what college I graduated from.
If it's made it through your body, it's likely to make it through the sewer... Not a lot of really reactive stuff there (cleaners/oils/detergents dissolve, not degrade), anything super reactive (e.g. bleach) exhausts itself chewing on poop. Microbial degradation is a thing, but it's not very different from human degradation so anything that's already been excreted is probably pretty stable.
Pre-2000 students had access to card catalogs within the library. Most libraries nowadays use the Internet to support their many locations' cataglogs.
This would have been in 2012 or 2013. Perhaps lack of remote work was specific to that team.
Besides the author being local, DC has some pretty interesting demographic/geography patterns.
Or America for that matter!
Amazon would like to have a word with you.
A type of Japanese communal bath house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent%C5%8D
From the article linked by GP:

How does CWD spread?

The method of CWD transmission is unknown, however there is strong evidence to suggest that abnormally-shaped proteins called "prions" are responsible. The agent responsible for this disease may spread directly through animal to animal contact or indirectly through soil or other surface to animal contact. It is thought that the most common mode of transmission from an infected animal is via saliva and feces. A recent study confirms that CWD prions can be shed into the enviroment in feces from animals showing no clinical signs of the disease and can contaminate the soil, leading to infection in other animals. CWD can be spread from region to region by the movement of captive deer or through the improper disposal of a harvested deer transported from a CWD infected area.
> It turned out finding a Python library to parse regexes (and not parse using regexes) was surprisingly difficult. You could use the debug flag (re.compile(regex, re.DEBUG)) to see the AST it parses, but 1) it prints to stdout and 2) we'd need to reparse it again to get our own AST, so it seemed too hacky of an approach:

One option is to use the internal and undocumented sre_parse module:

>>> sre_parse.parse("[AB]C[D-F](G|H)")
[('in', [('literal', 65), ('literal', 66)]), ('literal', 67),
('in', [('range', (68, 70))]), ('subpattern', (1, [('in',
[('literal', 71), ('literal', 72)])]))]

It's been stable for 10-15 years, and the above works in 2.x and 3.x.
Well it makes it better for the rich people that now exclusively have control of the prior state run functions; they make more money and that's what's important to the Cons as they're who pays for the Tory party and provide the "consultancy" jobs for MPs.

Why make things cheaper for everyone by running national functions from taxation when you can make them more expensive and share - perhaps at a distance - in the profits? /pure-cynicism which I hope is misplaced.
Looking at averages across the industry Python will make you more money than Java. If you want a higher salary based on tech skills go with Ruby (on Rails) or iOS development.

My theory is languages like Java and PHP that have higher popularity have lower salaries because there is a bigger base to hire from and thus it is easier to find people. And that in turn keeps salaries slightly lower. On the up side, it's easier to find those kinds of jobs.
I don't think the monsters in it are.
How on earth does that make sense? Amazon has data centers all over the world - why would working on a 2am page be any more efficient at the "office at location A" (corporate) versus the "office at location B" (home).
AMZN's growth prospects increasingly resemble abuse.

Half their success at breaking into new business is consumer trust / lock-in. ('they already have my address & payment info, let's do business with them again').

The situation isn't as nice for their merchant customers; this is amazon's achilles heel. Companies like crowdsupply are the leading edge of a trend to use logistics & sales smarts to help merchants rather than compete with them.

amazon has ridden the wave of consolidation until now, but let's cross our fingers that the tendency will toggle to diversification.
I've got impression that the author has somehow conflated adaptation to pleasure and monotonicity. Adaptation doesn't imply that people will always want more stuff, monotonicity [0] does.

What adaptation implies is that all gains in subjective happiness are short-term gains. Hence the "treadmill" image: though striving forward, people go nowhere.

Maybe I've got the wrong impression.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_preferences
>>>First Things is published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.

I'm not quite sure what to think about the bias we might be seeing in this post from this site. This is quite a long essay and there's not a single link on a site that seems like it would be likely to be quite biased. I'm not saying anything is wrong with this, but I guess just consider the source? It could very well be fine.
Do you think it's possible to, say, understand the entire Linux kernel? Because these cars have that, and other kernels besides, just as one example of complexity.

Sure, a single human can have a decent understanding of everything in it, but not down to the deep details. There just isn't enough time to learn all of that.
Thanks for the feedback :). L1 is right out of college, but the others are based on different criteria. Quora has a pretty good post that describes the levels at Amazon, which you can translate into our levels that we created to compare across the companies.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-levels-of-softw...
Except their consensus making prevents real needed features from seeing any progress, sure they have thousands of open issues on the topic, but when did any of them last move. Oh and arguing too strongly on controversial issues (hex stringification! oh no!) gets you banned (that was a hilarious read). So how is anything supposed to move when there is a split in the community?
Control, monitor, and instrument your React Native apps from your console
This reminds me of the story of the KGB analyzing Chairman Mao's stool samples from the "private bathroom" they provided when he visited USSR. [0] [1]

[0] http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/kgb-agent-stalin-extr...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35427926
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I agree that most of us should be "off the grid" more than we are, but not for any of the reasons he suggests. There's no real reasoning to this argument, just "It used to be like X before the internet, so the internet is bad." But with no reasons why X is good, as if it's obvious, but the modern ways seem better to me.

> Well maybe they should consider this for a moment. Who most wants you to stay on the grid? The advertisers. Your boss. Human Resources. The advertisers. Your parents (irony of ironies – once they distrusted it, now they need to tag you electronically, share your Facebook photos and message you to death). The advertisers. The government. Your local authority. Your school. Advertisers.

Really? "The man wants you on the internet, so you should stop!" If you avoid the internet just because of this, you're still letting the advertisers, your boss, "the man" make your decisions for you, rather than coming to your own conclusions..

> Remembering what I was like at fifteen, I wriggle pleasurably at the thought of how it would feel in 2016 to tell a teacher that, no, I couldn’t possibly ‘e-mail’ my homework, because I don’t have e-mail:

> ‘I’m not on your email, miss/sir.’

> ‘Don’t be absurd, Stephen. Email me the essay as soon as possible.’

A bit of a strawman here, isn't it? In what situation would a teacher ever demand you send an assignment ASAP instead of on the assigned due date? And if it's because you've missed the due date, what right do you have to act difficult and decide the medium over which you turn it in? Either accept the failed grade, or play by the rules of the person who is accommodating you.

Self control when it comes to technology is great and all, and if you feel you need or want less than the average person, that's fine. But thinking you're better than everyone else because you refuse to use a tool some people use incorrectly?
Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482081
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Well isn't it ironic, don't you think?
1. GNUcash for a Quickbooks alternative.

2. Ledger for CLI badasses.

3. Org-mode because time series data is essentially lists with time stamps.

4. Paper and pencil, because if that doesn'twork, then the issue is not technology. It's habit. Personally, I'd go with paper and pencil to develop a workflow before fooling around with technology.

But, the problem with going over budget boils down to one of two things: poor estimates or buying the job.

Lastly, if you're billing hours internally against a fixed price externally, there's always going to be an impedance mismatch. I know that HN'ers love to promote fixed price, but if it doesn't work then don't use it: bill time and materials instead.

Good luck.
>It is not about the numbers. It is _never_ about the numbers. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

The ad midway probably has something to do with numbers, where 10,000 is better than 100.
Any word on IPv6 support?
Same here. Bing imagery is more current. Apple maps has traffic information. Google maps has.... well.... its slow... that is pretty much it.
Or even "the e-tailor."
It's a minor point, but this trend has been picking up steam for a while. Not going though the full list, but 2008 was in the middle of this.

Several states had already long allowed medical use by 2008. Maine 1999, Nevada and Hawaii 2000 etc. But, Massachusetts decriminalized in 2008. 2009 Maine "
further decriminalized cannabis when Governor John Baldacci signed legislation (LD 250) which made possession of 2.5 ounces or less a civil infraction.[27][28]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._j...
At the scale they are at now I would expect they are pretty average.

With insane variances between the teams offcourse.
I couldn't decide whether to post the "product" website or the thorough review by Dave at EEVBlog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5CQUy3OKL4
It really is hideous. I grew up in the Boston area, and even as a little kid I distinctly remember thinking, "This has got to be the ugliest building in the world". Then when I got older I thought, "Well, the world is a big place and I haven't seen much of it, so I don't have much of a frame of reference. I'm sure there are uglier buildings somewhere." And then when I got a little older still, it was kind of satisfying to see multiple articles and polls saying that no, it is indeed one of the ugliest buildings in the entire world.

It's not even that I think Brutalism is inherently bad. I think there are some really nice examples, like the AT&T building in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#/media/File:A.... But Boston City Hall is Brutalism at its absolute worst.
Isn't the whole point of Kerberos to secure (micro)services like this?
The old adage back in school was "reduce, reuse, recycle" and the order is important.

Reduce your consumption as much as you possibly can. Then reuse everything over and over: rinse out the container and find another use.

Recycling is the last resort.
The UBI is quite thinkable without an LVT, and if your accept the GPs description of housing supply curve, trying to solve the problem it creates by lining UBI to an LVT would just create a huge positive feedback loop and inflationary spiral.

Really, independent of the unlikely characterization of housing supply curve in this subthread, UBI makes more sense tied to a progressive income tax without preferential treatment of capital income than to an LVT.
Google /Android already has an issue with App Quality relative to ios Apps- that would make it tougher to produce a quality product.
Sounds rational.

"European Union antitrust regulators said that by requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser, the U.S. company was denying consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and stifling innovation."
go f' yourself with your income porn ...
Usual stuff when dealing with Amazon - never use the same browser/IP address/geographical location with two different accounts. Use different VPNs for different accounts/companies. Doable. Only the paranoid survive.
It doesn't make sense to me either. I believe at the time they said something about having a strict network access policy, forbidding access from home.
This is a common fallacy.

Even for a married couple earning 500k in high-income-tax California, effective tax rate (as opposed to marginal tax rate) is only 30-35%, and that includes the employee portion of Medicare/social security (the latter of which cuts out around 110k).

The exact effective tax rate will vary mostly with your mortgage interest deduction.
Brilliant tips
I simply mean that some time between 300 BC and 2016 AD somebody figured out that the human mind is great at explaining pretty much anything, so between bouts of solemn cogitation we might want to check out what's really going on in the real world just to make sure that we're on the right track.

Logic is obviously necessary, but as today we know that our universe is not a logical tautology, just one of many possible-Kripke-worlds, different models for the logic can lead to different results, so opening the window from time to time to see which of the possible worlds we actually live in is a good idea.
You had the opportunity to turn all of the internet's eyes into googly eyes and you missed it!
1. This is largely a restriction that comes from earlier versions. In earlier versions we relied on the source port to be in the range, as we remapped it in user space. Now, we let iptables / conntrack do it. We might go back to writing it with the conntrack entry though. There are some unfortunate awkward aspects of how iptables does free tulle mapping that can prove annoying.

2. This is a complicated question. You don't pay minuteman for active connections, only at connection construction time. You are reliant on netfilter's conntrack capabilities. By default these are built for 100s of thousands of connections. Given that in DC/OS this runs on every client, we are fairly confident in this approach, though conntrack could reasonably scale to millions of connections.
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I completely agree - however as an EU '09 Audi owner I have zero hope of getting anything other than a car with 10-20 less horsepower that does a few less mpg than before the fix. This in turn also means that its resale value drops around $1k or thereabouts (hard to tell). In any case, I have zero hope of getting a single penny from VW because the car no longer meets my expectations. That is even if I participate in some class action process. I'd be shocked to even get a 5% rebate on new car.