skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would this be scalable?

Extend the x and y axis?

> How would this justify its cost?

Presumably by saving costs elsewhere? Labor, chemical inputs. Not saying it's there yet though, but why should it be?

> How does it withstand being outside all year, year round?

A cursory glance at the specs indicates that they've considered waterproofing at least. I imagine "the elements" will prove even more challenging than expected, but it's not like this wasn't considered.

> How does it not just destroy your crops when they grow tall?

The y axis is up pretty tall, and the manipulator is pretty narrow to get down in between plants. Clearly it is not advisable to grow crops that are taller than will fit in the machine.

> How could this possibly improve on current farming methods

Automation? We don't expect Burger King robots to improve on culinary techniques. I feel this is mostly interesting for repeatable research uses, but as basic manual labor savings it's interesting as well.

(I am in no way affiliated with this project... just seems easy to see the potential, and odd to treat a prototype as if it needs to make a business case right out of the gate)
> The problem is that consciousness happens "now"

Well, if it doesn't? Rather, you have a statechange between two times and you don't know when the change happened any more exact than that.

The notion of the now is just a placeholder of a state, for future reference. It's an abstract idea anyhow. But thought arises from statechanges, seeing how nothing would happen if everything stayed the same.
I've been working for ~8 years in a mix of environments, some with syntax highlighting and some without.

When working without highlighting, I rely on the shape of the code's text and the search function of my editor to navigate as I jump around code. With syntax highlighting, I have those tools, and extra navigational cues provided by little islands of color.

I haven't noticed a difference in my scanning speed or code comprehension between the two. It may be there, but I'm not conscious of it. Consciously, I've got a slight preference for the colorization. It makes the code feel "friendlier", and I'm happier to be looking at it. The un-highlighted environments tend to be older Unix machines with other annoyances in the operating experience, so I'm sure that plays a lot into my perception.
This is an excellent point and a perspective I hope more free-market learning people (such as myself) come to appreciate. Although making externality influenced descisions in when factoring in your own energy expenditure and limited resource allocation, it may be a luxury of those of us in the 1st world and nearing the top of maslow's heirarchy.

Some climate change reducing habits can be cost-saving though. Such as biking vs cars, reducing meat consumption, long-term investments in solar power, etc.
> The really strange thing is that the city's officials aren't being irrational.

As Yglesias is well aware, the city officials are only being rational in a very narrow sense.

A building project can only create as many jobs as it can pay for -- and the workers must be payed enough to buy or rent places to live. What lies behind the claim that it will "create too many jobs" is that the construction workers will compete in the housing market against people that the officials want to protect.

And even that "protection" is only coherent within a mindset where it is somehow evil to build new things, or else the stock of accomodation could be increased.
> Honest question: Is making advertising effective

Yes.

You haven't been paying attention, that has been the name of the game since Locke.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine The Facebook burrowing everywhere -- forever."
Do you mean compared to an alternative where people's energy comes from burning wood and dung, or one where energy comes from widespread solar, wind, and storage?
nano supports syntax highlighting, IIRC. Not sure if pico does. If you're a fan of Motif you could even used Nedit.
Hmm. I think fusion is more important, but I'll take what I can get.
> But if you want to use the spectrum to stop others from communicating—stop being a jerk. (You may, of course, substitute stronger words for "jerk").

I think a big part of it is the corporate entity involved and money involved - they were jamming peoples' HSPA+/LTE-to-wifi hotspots because they wanted to sell $600/day internet service for trade shows and conferences...

It's not that the FCC delineated between layer 1 and 2 in their decree, it's the difference that they intentionally messed with wifi at the wifi-protocol level by issuing deauths, not by being noisy... for example if the hotel had a hundred wifi security cameras, baby monitors and other random part 15 devices in use in their facility, effectively preventing anyone from using wifi because the spectrum was too full of shit, that wouldn't be "jamming", even though it would have the same effect.
The community bookmarks extension launched back when extensions did. It's quite mature at this point and you should check it out if you rely on bookmarks. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragn...
I was once involved in a large-scale government project that rewrote a Java app to RoR. They went from 50 servers to 10.

It has probably got more to do with the rewrite and the new architecture than whatever language it was written in.
Concurrently crosscompiling Go applications with Make
Zero Knowledge Slack, AFAICT.
> But that doesn't explain the mechanism for conciousness to occur, it just explains why it might exist.

Hmm, what if both, the physical mechanism and the subjective qualia are simply intertwined in a way, that can not be deduced any further?

Maybe it's a little like the relation between gravitational forces and curved space time. Both are basically the same thing. But if you're used to live in one system, it's hard to imagine how it feels to see things from the other perspective.

Still there may be a lot of value to the complementary theory. Much like the GTR opened up a whole new range of physical applications, a physical theory of consciousness may lead to computer systems that we will have to attribute being conscious the same way as we do with our fellow human beings - just because both will follow the same fundamental laws of consciousness.
How in the world can someone make anything but a wild ass guess about what the population patterns will be 84 years from now? Even 20 year predictions are dubious IMHO.
Isn't it the case that when you go to university, you don't choose your major but rather it is chosen for you based on your entrance exam score?
After watching the video on the page "What is Semaphore?", I still have no idea what it is.

It seems like it's Google Drive/Dropbox with end to end encryption, but part of the copy is about how people "used to work with files and folders", implying that they no longer do. If there are no files it can't be Dropbox, can it?
Zoning laws. And existing owners who staunchly oppose increasing density by building larger buildings.

A lot of people who bought their single-family homes years or decades ago now live in appealing low-density neighborhoods with home values that are sky-rocketing. They don't want their neighborhoods to change into concrete canyons, and the ever-rising values of their homes fund their retirements very nicely. They therefore fight any attempt to increase density by loosening zoning laws.

This behavior is exacerbated by how California handles its property taxes. Essentially, the property taxes on a home are fixed at the value of the home when you bought it, meaning people living in homes that have increased in value are paying disproportionately low property taxes. This tends to discourage people from moving, thereby reducing the liquidity of the home market.
Why on earth does the military-industrial complex need to spend money on a duplicate, irrelevant technology? I worked at Trimble Nav in the radio group, and the POTUS has the ability to increase selective available (SA) to an enormous number (which can be defeated by differential/kinematic corrections, but was set to 0 by executive order under Clinton) or disable the unencrypted channel entirely for a particular region or the entire planet (which includes space). WTF!
Many folks come to Go from "modern" languages, Python and Java in particular. I don't think this can be considered "dismissing".
That URL is the most amazing thing I have ever seen! Unfortunately, it does not convince me of the power of speech operated interfaces. My history tends to consist of a series of multi-part voice commands with the first or second phrase being repeated multiple times, in progressively more angry tones of voice, until it seems I give up. It looks like the most common thing I do, interestingly, is set timers for myself.

The most hilarious clip I found was one where Google had transcribed the request as "bbbbbbb bbbbbbb bbbbbbb" and on playing it back, I heard the sound of my alarm clock going off with a steady beep, beep, beep...!
Nicely written article on the adage of first-world problems. They're always there. Yes, the author is correct in comparing those 'problems' as insignificant when compared on a world scale, but they're still problems in a sense. There's nothing wrong with doing everything within one's ability to strengthen their local community. Problems are problems, no matter what the size.
Fortune 500 are all sitting on record amounts cash right now, they apparently see no place to invest it profitably.

The thinking behind trying to pump up demand is that if people are buying more, the Fortune 500 will put that money to work selling things.

Traditional supply-side economics is basically "shove money into those companies however possible".. but they're already sitting on piles of cash and doing nothing with it. How does more of that help?
> anecdotal data

Fixed that for you.
I'm genuinely not trying to treat it as if it's a business right away. It's just, I don't know, maybe I'm too close to farming to get my head out of it.

I'm a 4th generation farmer in my spare time. The variables required in agriculture are just too many for something like this, is my opinion. I get it, farming isn't immune from technology, but this just seems like over-engineering a problem.
I completely agree with you in its current incarnation. There is no way this is even within an order of magnitude of the price/performance ratio of a migrant farm worker (who are career farmers and much faster than you or I).

However, I suspect a device like this will scale well cost wise with longer rails, thus larger versions working in a elongated greenhouse would probably significant efficiency. Additionally, you will need a device like this if you want to do vertical hydroponic farming, as the efficiency of people drops precipitously as soon as they can no longer easily reach the plants they're working with.
I've interacted with Rick a bit in the past and hes an awesome developer. Really glad to see progress continuing with this.
It'd be cool if you could create a permalink from a github URL (with a line no. param).

Then the interface could look like tinyurl (anonymously paste a github link, get a sourcegraph link in return).

Bonus points if it simply redirects you to the new line number on GitHub's master.
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They pay high prices, but then they also vote for anti-building laws in those places too. (At least in NY and London, I don't know about about Paris).

In all cases, the restrictions are good for the people who are already there.
I can't imagine ever surfing the internet without blocking ads, javascript and cookies. There's just nothing to evaluate other than which plugin to perform those tasks.

"self-destructing cookies", on the desktop, lets you choose to destroy cookies 1) when you close the tab, 2) when you close the browser or 3) never. On android it's a toggle; presumably 1 and 3.

The android version of noscript is inexplicably named "noscript nsa". It has a bunch of options but I never fiddle with them. You can't install it via the usual firefox plugin system for reasons I don't understand, so instead you have to get it here:

https://noscript.net/nsa/

You want the link "Download NSA++ (NoScript 3.5 alpha)". It's been alpha for as long as I've been using it. A recent change to firefox means you probably have to use about:config to temporarily enable the installation of plugins from outside the official firefox plugin store thing.

Perhaps the developers are trying to demonstrate that you can't have security AND convenience.
Absolutely. Syntax highlighting for me is much more about what not to read than it is about what to read. It can be skipping over 'for' for the billionth time but often it's also reading only a couple key tokens to get the gist of what the line does and only going back to read it in full if non-obvious details matter.
They would if they wanted to preserve its image going forward. I actually need a remote tool to help my parents & was planning on downloading TV. Guess not...
I don't think there's enough people in the valley with the money and the desire to convert and rent out part of their house to do much of anything about the demand.
That is indeed very good progress.

Elon Musk mentioned recently that he expects a yearly capacity increase of 5% for the foreseeable future.
I wish there was an easy way to support projects like this. Click a button? Put a quarter in the tip jar.
To the cop it doesn't matter. He just needs someone to blame and look, here's someone who looks kinda guilty.

Sure the case might fall apart in court, but that means going to court and defending yourself, a not inconsiderable expense and time commitment.
How small a fraction? Tesla is expected to produce between 80,000 and 90,000 Model S and X this year. With 80 Kwh battery pack on average (my guess), Tesla currently consumes 6.4 Gwh of Lithium-ion battery.

Back in 2013, the global production was estimated to be 35 Gwh (cf. Gigafactory announcement presentation).

How much has it grown in the past 3 years?
As a home owner in this area, the majority likely already have double or triple unrealized gains on their home value. The potential to lift that to 'quadruple', for the cost of increased noise, traffic, people, etc is probably not worth the the incremental gain (in theory).
I think it's because they are so attached to their cars, and more density brings more traffic.

Especially when starting with a low-density neighborhood that's poorly served by transit and everyone that lives there is tied to their car.

Places like NYC, London, and Paris have great public transit systems, it's easy to live there without a car, but much harder to do that in spread out Silicon Valley, even if you live next to a VTA light rail station, be prepared for a very long trip if you want to go across town.

I live in mid-density housing in a mostly low density area, and many of my neighbors fought hard against a new high density apartment building being built nearby -- 2 of the most common concerns raised were traffic and street parking (oh, and crime was also raised -- apparently they thought that criminals were going to move in to those $3000 apartments).

It's been nearly 2 years, and those concerns are mostly unfounded -- I haven't seen any significant increase in commute time car traffic (though I bike to work, so maybe I just don't see it), there's usually still street parking available in the neighborhood, and afaik, there's been no uptick in burglary.
When stimulus is suggested in a Keynesian context, it is not to create new factories, etc. It is to provide demand to fully utilize the productive capacity which the economy already has, but which is not currently being used because of lack of demand.
As elsewhere in the bay area, many residents of SV want the physical structure of their neighborhood to be forever frozen in amber as it was circa 1960, and they've enacted robust zoning laws to that effect.

Silicon Valley was a quaint, sleepy semi-rural suburb in 1960, and that's how they want it to stay, at least in terms of physical appearance.

The problem is that, despite these zoning laws, they can't actually stop people from moving in from other regions, which causes property values to skyrocket. You can easily pay 2m there for an ordinary 3 bedroom ranch house that would be 70k in most of the US.
JB Straubel just mentioned at the annual Tesla shareholder meeting they're now expecting to produce 150GW of storage capacity a year at the Gigafactory, split between vehicles and energy storage based on demand for both.
I've not used Erlang, but I've also heard comparisons that prefer Go to Erlang for its familiar syntax and comprehensive standard library. Obviously I can't vouch for these claims.
Actually Common Lisp and Scheme have a clear distinction between mutating and non-mutating list functions. They even have a naming schema to distinguish between, and most books focus on the non-mutating, in Common Lisp speak "nondestructive" list functions. Functions like append, remove do not mutate the input list, but (partially) new lists, which can share sublists with the input lists. For example (append a b) returns a list which contains a copy of a and the original b.
https://apex.sh is nice
Which was created to combat the problem of grandma kicked out of her house because she can't afford her property taxes. How do you get around that?
> Why are people so adamantly opposed to density?

Because they don't just like it. They want a neighborhood that's completely detached single-family homes and where driving is hyper-dominant, and if that means they have to support policies that hurt middle- and working-class newcomers, so be it. Of course, many of the people 'opposed to density' are okay with density somewhere in the bay area, just not where they live, hence the term NIMBY.
Look to China for mass production of cost effective batteries, not Tesla... firms like EV West help me demystify the true state of maturity of this market http://evwest.com/catalog/
Well Musk has often claimed that the cost of batteries doesn't magically go down due to big new innovations like we've seen in some other industries. Rather it's due to constant iterations, making small improvements, and economies of scale. Particularly that latter part is hugely important and hasn't been much of a factor yet in the specialised market that is car batteries. And that's why they're building a gigantic factory, because producing at scale can really do a lot to push the price of batteries down. But the notion that this is somehow unrelated to money is kind of silly, this is exactly the type of thing you could fix by throwing lots of money at it. The very reason they couldn't do it sooner because there was no cashflow to finance such a massive project.
It's pretty common to look at code without highlighting, for example, in code snippets included with comments here on HN, or printed out on a terminal. Often it's not too difficult to understand in that circumstance, but it might well require more effort to grasp vs. syntax highlighted viewing. It suggests familiarity with the code is a crucial variable in determining the utility of highlighting or ability to get by without it.

Like others I find highlighting useful for code editing, and agree with the implication that syntax plays a much bigger role in coding vs. reading non-code text. IOW semantics of code is obviously far more dependent on syntactic precision than in ordinary use of language.

Finally, the universality of syntax highlighting in code editors is unlikely to be due to degenerate comprehension skills among programmers. Rather it's implicit evidence that highlighting provides substantial productivity benefit to code writers.
I live in a VW somewhere in Silicon Valley.

Ask me anything (respectful, non-troll)

EDIT: I don't usually bite, but when I do, I won't eat much.
Not necessarily. I think by providing native slice and map types Go reduces the need for generics already by a large margin. Other things that often use generics (higher order functions, future types, ...) are no idiomatic Go which leans more to the imperative way of doing things. In total I have not really missed generics in Go up to now (but I have up to now only written about 20kloc in it) - while I certainly missed them in early Java and C# versions.
For some of us, syntax highlighting DOES make code more difficult to read. We're all different.

I learned most of what I know on a Solaris 9 machine on a CRT with a model m back in 2008 with zero syntax highlighting, in vi and without vim. Zero fluff. I've tried syntax highlighting, but every time I do, I end up going back and my code quality and readability improves. I imagine a similar effect would happen to others if their colors were changed to incredibly tacky colors.
How a 30K-member Facebook group filled the void left by Uber and Lyft in Austin
> Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes

Yes, but not in the way you expect, which is why your comparison fails.

In many cases, its not to prop up the market value of their homes, but the features of the community which supports the personal value they place in their homes: its "I live here, and I'd like to keep it the kind of place it is that led me to choose to live here".
How did you build that? I'd love to make something like that.
His argument makes sense to me as to why that was needed, however if they want to take that stance, thats understandable, as is people being less likely to run things down for them.
Personally, I think "cowboy coding" is the best derogatory name for this. IMO, what all of these ninjas have in common is that they don't realize that software development is a team exercise. Berkeley did a study on BSD and found that a file was opened 10x more often for reading that writing (i.e. people read code 10 times for every time they make a change). To my mind, "cowboy" conveys the proper amount of ignorance of the other people on your "team."
Subgraph is meant to be used as an installed OS with hardened containers/grsecurity while TAILS is a live Debian system maintained by anonymous developers without any of the grsec patches or containerization.

If you really need to not have your ID leaked, like the UAE recently going after dissidents with state malware, you'd want to use something like Subgraph with a seperate firewall/NAT internal address as insurance (pref running OpenWRT or a BSD not the default proprietary lighthttp server 'admin portal' firmware running with full privs).
Mongo, in one word: sucks.
Couchbase, does not.
Maintenance costs and taxes also track inflation (taxes will often exceed inflation). It's quite possible to spend more than the purchase cost of a home in renovations and maintenance before a 30 year mortgage is paid off.