skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the lead software architect at a major agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer. I deal with this stuff every day.

I'm not aware of any efforts to make collected data available but what I can say about the company I work for is that we largely view the data the farmer or operator's personal property. We don't transmit it back to any data center presently but we do have ways to copy the captured data off to a USB stick for post processing which a number of 3rd party precision farming applications are on the market to read it.

What I can say about the data is that it's voluminous. Our software collect all kinds of data besides just precision farming data. For example, CAN bus faults, GPS history (vehicle guidance), weather conditions (temperature, humidity), etc... And the way the data is collected follows no industry set standard - it's pretty much proprietary formats.

Also, much of our data collection is stored locally in a binary format to save space and improve performance. We have tools that move the data back to a flat file/text format for post processing.

I'm not involved with the 3rd parties that use the data but my guess is that someone has shared with them the formats and such.
Are there many processes out there that don't use SSE these days? LLVM, for example, will aggressively use SSE for memcpy/memmove of medium sized values (e.g. copies of 128 byte long structs), which almost every nontrivial app will end up using at some point. Likewise, if the autovectorizer succeeds even once, then you'll also end up using SSE.
Don't read it unless you're strong. It made me cry a lake.

:(
Yes, FarmersEdge (disclosure: I know the CTO) is a big player. I think, in a roundabout way, Monsanto is one of their competitors through acquisitions, though I'm not sure of their market placement wrt FE.

I think ag is an underrated software industry. It's ripe for disruption, but you need to do it in a way that makes sense to farmers, which can be tricky for at least a couple of reasons!
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R.I.P. Valleywag, 2006-2015

http://valleywag.gawker.com/r-i-p-valleywag-2006-2015-175041...
>>India's problem can only be fixed by population control.

And with tax accountability.

>>If Sanjay Gandhi hadn't been an idiot and forever poisoned the idea of population control, India would be much better off, especially if we can get the population to around 300M - 500M

Wrong solutions lead to mistakes from which it is hard to recover. The ideal solution was industrialization and planned urbanization. Urban population levels today have largely stabilized, and in places steadily falling.

Most couples these days don't have more than one kid. So really we will see a decline in population levels as standard of living, and urbanization levels increase. This is a long term solution, there is no short term solution.
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Recently noticed that prior to the end of the Cold War, the global annual count of terrorist attacks [1] were growing rapidly, but then, after the USSR fell, they rapidly declined.

Anyone seen any alias of this and if there was any link between the fall in terrorist attacks globally and the fall of the USSR?

[1] Global Terrorism Database:
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Unfortunately, resource war may likely force this to happen. It is not environmentally feasible to support such a large population with a high standard of living and being environmentally friendly.

Frankly, the whole world is going to have to get in line.
No mention of Postbox (https://www.postbox-inc.com)? It's based on Thunderbird, but has very good support for conversations and archiving (Gmail-like workflow) even for non-Gmail providers. It also has nice native looking styles for macOS and Windows.

For me, it is one of the best clients... although I use primarily windows and sometimes Linux (where it works fine with wine), so I can't try the macOS-only ones.
Not crazy, I though the same, maybe apart from how the border ends with too much whitespace. But we would have to see how it looks in the overall design to properly judge that.
You walk around with three monitors?
It's interesting that revoking citizenship was a step too far for Russia. Canada passed a similar law last year: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-dual-citizens-need-to-know...
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AFAICT, that's not actually a statement of "correct" vs. "incorrect" usage generally, so much of practice of certain organizations (including, inter alia, the US Navy.)

And, IME, its fairly common even in formal writing -- but, again, not from particular entities, like the USN -- to use the definite article when no prefix (HMS, USS, etc.) is used.
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That looks similar to a barrelponics system. That was my first, proof-of-concept prototype. It cost me $700 and 50 hours of work, and had a growing area of ~9 square feet.

I'm sure you could get the system cheaper if you found the parts for sale, or already have them. You could also build it faster if you're really handy, have the experience, and don't make any mistakes.
- C++Builder: Compiler ICEs regularly

- Both: No undo in the UI builder

- Delphi: There are about 3 different ways of adding an existing file to a project. They seem to differ in how they track dependencies.

- Both: Project files periodically get corrupted.

- Both: Renaming a control on a form by only changing case causes some references to the control not to be updated.

- Both: No customizable keybindings

- C++Builder (might be true with Delphi too): The debugger periodically crashes.

- C++Builder: Sometimes the project fails to build and gives a bunch of errors in system headers. The solution? Close the IDE and open it again.

Those are just the big ones. There are a million tiny annoyances that add up to be very frustrating.
It's not terribly useful for most applications to test compression speed. The only applications I can think of where this is relevant is data backup and archiving.

There are two typical speed benchmarks you want to do. For the "compress once, decompress many times" situation, benchmark the time it takes to decompress and ignore compression time. For the "compress once, decompress once" situation, add the compression and decompression times.

The first situation is common for distributing packages and static assets, the second situation is common for distributing dynamic assets.
While I also think email apps are not great, especially when trying to find a unified experience with macOS and iOS, I think CloudMagic for iOS is pretty good and Nylas N1 for macOS is also very good. maybe if N1 comes to iOS..
(Repost from previous thread)

The first paragraph defends the Gawker media bully under the misunderstood "free speech" umbrella. What about the right to privacy?

Other than that, this is quite a poor article. There's nothing to learn from it or enjoy. The title is a clickbait to a non story.

> That’s why I have no desire to sue Nick Denton. Hell, if I see him, I’ll buy him a drink.

People shouldn't be forced to forgive evil. Maybe the author wouldn't be so chill if those same journalists exploited intimate details of his life for public mockery.
For what it's worth, I have been using Outlook for Mac for about a year now and have really enjoyed it. Categorizing emails by folder is, well, what Outlook has always done well and search is surprisingly good.

Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I don't need any glitz and glam in my email client. I just want it to work and show me the email I want to see when I want to see it.
I do not think it is crazy for people of villages to think moving to the city is a good idea. It might seem pristine and like paradise to a person from a city visiting a village but for a person living in a village its a different story. It's not the environmental paradise they are trying to escape from, its mostly lack of opportunity. Most villages in India are agriculture based, and most of central and southern India does not have perennial rivers and solely depend on monsoons for irrigation. So, if monsoon fails (less or more than expected), so does their income for he year. Not to mention lack of education, transport, banking etc. I have been to villages where even now if you need education beyond middle school, you need to leave the village for a neighboring town. Not to mention the social pressures such as not having equal opportunities for women in villages where as in a city, it is common place and generally socially accepted for women to have jobs and careers.

I agree about smoking though, and specially the prevalence of the cheap cigarettes called "beedis", these are simply tobacco rolled over in a tobacco leaf and do not even have filters. Being very cheap, it is consumed by the poorer people and when coupled with lack of education, I assume does contributes to lot of smoking related diseases.
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Have you read article at all? Why would you call terrorists "own people"?
Yes, I agree that it devolves into an argument over semantics, but is difficult to have a conversation about individual rights without discussing the structures of power which afford those rights.

I'm not sure, however, that a discussion of rights and liberty is completely absent, it is just that our rights are very complicated, because we enter into a great number of very complicated agreements (which allow us, as individuals, to act with a great degree of freedom, historically speaking). Therefore, discussing, for example, the impact of EU regulation, is a discussion of individual rights, and liberty - it is a discussion about what you are and are not allowed to do, within the framework of the agreements you have signed up to.
Yes, me too! My wife also really liked it, saying how the enclosure finally made her not ashamed to tell her friends about it :)
That looks like a host of buffer overflow vulnerabilities waiting to happen.

I think I'll stick with zlib.
Such intensity of hate. It's like he's the sith lord of game developers. So weird.
EU exporters will have to abide by British regulations (without any input) if they want to sell products to Britain

Market segmentation applies.

At the moment, if you want to sell a product to the 'west', depending precisely what industry you're in, you need (a) CE marking for the EU AND (b) UL or similar approval for the US. That's two sets of certifications, which can share some but not all lab reports. There are then sub-modifications required for the UK: left-hand-drive cars, BS1363 plugs, etc.

If the UK starts to deviate from that such that CE marking is no longer sufficient, then we're likely to see either manufacturers not bothering or just passing the extra compliance costs on to the customer.

This is before you get onto the question of trade in services, such as the UK's major financial services industry.

(I'd argue that the big undemocratic TPP, TTIP, and WTO agreements are more of a sovereignty impairment than the EU, but that's not a view with much traction)
This looks like a good solution for scrapers where "close enough" is good enough. If you need 100% accuracy you can always fall back to using scrapy directly and make your scraping logic as accurate as you need. But in many cases you can live with some false positives and then this tool looks like it will fit the bill.
Now that's some source I'd love to take a look at
I was expecting "tectonics" and "drought" to be the forces.
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Memory usage is also annoyingly high in FF for me, but with 380 MB not as high.
When comparing employment and housing in San Francisco to predict future housing prices, I don't think you can consider San Francisco in isolation (like this article does). You need to consider it in terms of the surrounding metro, because a housing boom in Belmont can reduce the demand for houses in San Francisco.
In case you're wondering what hardware this source code is for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. The AGC had a 16-bit word length, with 15 data bits and one parity bit. Most of the software on the AGC was stored in a special read only memory known as core rope memory, fashioned by weaving wires through magnetic cores, though a small amount of read-write core memory was provided.
Recent acquisition means that employees often have culture changing underneath them. This often results in high attrition.

Fad perks, like kegs.

Open work spaces that are also quiet.

Large number of new hires.

The overuse of the word startup from large companies.

The use of the phrase drink from the firehose as if it is positive

Companies may be better set up for new employees of specific skill levels. If you are fresh out of school, then be aware that some companies will have poor onboard support.

Lack of age diversity, diversity is potentially difficult to come by, age diversity is not. This requirement may not apply to startups that cater to persons without children.

Bonus question: in general the company should pay for your travels. If you feel weird about asking and you can afford it, then drive out for the interview. Getting good interview practice is worth time and money investment. Do not feel that they owe you something because you made this decision. The company should also be willing to pay for your move to their location. This should be a requirement if you are going to accept an offer.
Not all of these are purely aimed at terrorists. A lot of this will overflow onto the general public.
I think it would. As things are at the moment, biologists spend most of their time doing repetitive manual labour.

One of the most promising things I've seen is the Emerald Cloud Lab, but it's still a long way off from what's needed:

http://emeraldcloudlab.com/
What percentage of SF people work in startups? What percentage of people living in SF work in SF and not a surrounding burb (and v versa)?
I am skeptical as well, and I agree with you in principle. However I'd be interested if a 3rd party managed to reproduce his benchmarks. He credits using various prefetch hints for the performance gains, which sounds somewhat plausible.
I would be more impressed if it had more artists. Every artist that I suspected would beat it (in the interest of fairness I only tried artists with 2+ albums) it didn't have.
I read once about an idea: to stimulate the growth of algae in the oceans by seeding them with iron. It would lead to an algae bloom which will die and settle on the ocean floor, trapping the carbon.

Yep, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
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One can know that a system can be improved by a certain amount without knowing who will pay for it; knowing how much it can be improved and how expensive it currently is, is enough to place an upper bound on how much someone would pay to improve it.
By collecting it you mean scraping?
This is an interesting point. Using spread spectrum techniques would increase the cost of the radio hardware involved, and might hinder adoption.

Also, there would need to be regulations on signal quality, since a bad citizen in a shared-spectrum scheme adversely impacts others.
Democracy doesn't work in most middle east nations, it doesn't work in Russia also, they had democracy in 90s it ended with organized crime ruling the nation, killing politics, pensions not being payed etc. They have enough of democracy. Putin has 80-90% support in the nation. You know how many people are protesting ? Around ~10k max in Moscow in 146 mil nation. And i am writing that as liberal person that supports democracy. Liberal democracy is not panacea for everything.
This is a pretty good blog post and pretty insightful for people looking to build a simple environment and deploy their code.

The only thing I would say would be to use terraform in place of cloudformation and ansible. Terraform is a lot nicer to work with, and it reduces the toolchain footprint. Terraform supports elasticbeanstalk, but you have to have a dig around to figure out the settings argument format on the EB resource...
The problem isn't developing on device, it's importing code/dependencies. Apple doesn't want apps that can download and run arbitrary binaries from the internet. My understanding is that they have interpreted this broadly in the past as basically "any code that the end-user didn't type by themselves or hasn't been vetted by the app's author".

Again, my understanding is that this has historically thrown a huge monkeywrench into builds and dependency-resolution, for example you cannot include something like Maven. However, apparently this is OK (presumably as long as you stick to the official DotNet library set).

Stuff like git is really in a grey area. Apple won't officially approve it themselves, but they have approved some scripting tools for which people have implemented git.
FarmersEdge is definitely big in at least exploiting the data for higher yield through several techniques including avoiding disease, rotating crops, weather preduction, etc...

Really interesting work, and in a domain that is just opening up to the idea of using data. They're definitely recruiting and open to remote work if you're serious. I used to work for a startup they acquired.
Can one use k9 with Gmail? I've never tried.
I presume you need to manually top off the system for evaporation?

In rainy weather, is losing nutrients to overflow a problem?

Any thoughts to using a 12VDC pump, powered by a solar panel and small battery? (In some places it is illegal to have an extension cord outdoors for months on end.)

Would it be easier/cheaper to ship a version that didn't include the kiddie pools or sand, with the expectation that someone could source those bulky items themselves?
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This only makes me happier Apple made a stand against backdooring. These laws are precisely the fears they expressed—that foreign countries would demand similar things that the FBI did and that Apple would have very little room to avoid bowing to the same demands.
But by your definition, you maximise sovereignty by declaring yourself entirely independent. That makes no sense.

No, that makes a lot of sense and accords with most people's intuitive understanding of the word. The trouble is, as you say:

If you are wholly unwilling to enter into agreements with other people then you will find it very difficult to achieve anything at all

And economic 'independence' is a real problem if you want to have a non-agrarian society. You need to import oil, electronics, pharmaceuticals. This is what goes wrong in places like Venezuela and Greece when supplies of hard currency start running low.
Escalation.
This is disturbing. The author makes himself out to be the victim because a bully was taken to task for their abhorrent behavior. It's like internet Stockholm syndrome. Valleywag, Gawker, and the whole lot are horrible, trolling bullies. I for one am glad Hogan took them to task and Thiel was able to help make it happen.
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If it doesn't work, you shouldn't be doing it.

I made a new language.

God says...
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I do lattice QCD, and this is a pretty decent explanation.

A few minor things:

People typically use lattice sizes that have lots of factors of 2, because they fit on the supercomputers in a better way. So rather than 100 people do 96 or 128. Only some calculations require lattices this large.

The field content is usually a few fermions, and the gluons. On each site there is (usually, depends on the discretization as you say) a Dirac spinor (2 spins * 2 particle/antiparticle * 3 spins = 12 numbers) for each fermion and on each link (ie. the edges) there is an SU(3) matrix (3x3 complex doubles) for the glue.

The field configuration is simply the glue. But this already is a large amount of data. volume * (9 complex doubles per link) * (1 link per spacetime direction) * (4D spacetime) ~= 9 gigs for a (32^3 * 64 spacetime volume). This is effectively a giant (sparse) matrix, which we want to invert.

The mathematical trick is called importance sampling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_sampling which people accomplish with the metropolis algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings_al... . If only we could do a few billion samples! People usually make a few thousand to a few hundred thousand samples.
>>I though to my-self the living standard in the villages were HIGHER then the cities.

AND

>>The village people though I was crazy to think that their village was a paradise, and everyone wanted to move to the city.

Well this is because 'standard of living' these days in India is largely measured through a proxy of wealth you own. Not on the factors you mentioned.
Russia is getting close to USA PRISM[1] program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
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You mean the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan where the US supplied weapons to the Mujahideen insurrection/terrorists (including a Mijahideen member named Osama Bin Laden)? USSR retreat meant no more targets for the insurrection/terrorists. This was towards the end of the USSR's life. Before then, in the 60s Afghanistan was a pretty modern country by western standards. So there wasn't violence and discontent like there was after that entire event.
Hopefully you can partner with installers in metros such as the Bay Area who can help less industrious folks get up and running. Amazing what a difference that decking makes :)
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> For instance, the type of memory was called core rope memory

Rope and core memory were the standard memory technologies of the day and very likely have not been chosed for they radiation hardness. The fact is, solid state memory became reliable and available in quantities only in the second half of the 1970-ies.
Terrorists are people too and do not have to be 'foreign'.
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> all drawing is done either by direct writing to frame buffer from userspace

Before Windows 10, though, GDI was in kernel space, so it was a bit higher level than that, no? Old-style GDI apps would send state-of-the-1980s-style graphics primitives to the server, while newer apps would just write directly to the framebuffer, right?
Congrats to Rob Walling, 100% bootstrapped in Fresno, California, which, for international people, is far away from Silicon Valley and that whole scene.
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Have to recommend Postbox as well. It is the only mail client that could integrate with my school's terrible email server, which saved me from using their broken web client. Postbox has a clean (but not exactly minimal) interface, a nice way of displaying conversations, great attachment handling, is super stable, and has been around a long time.
It looks like these devices are indeed affected by a change which came into effect on July 1, 2016. However, this is going to be a stepwise reduction of 0.8% points rather than a complete elimination. So this month the duty changed from 4.9% to 4.1%.

Source: German customs, cited by http://www.heise.de/foto/meldung/Zollsatz-Senkung-bei-Kamera...