skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because of my ethics re animals, if I'm going to take a life, I want to use every last bit of the animal.

If you're going by raw efficiency, you can hardly beat factory farming. Besides the minimization of inputs, even the feathers and shit of chickens are digested to their amino acid components and used for animal feed and fertilizer. There is the unspeakable cruelty aspect... but then, I've bought ridiculously expensive "free range" turkey from a hyperlocal organic poultry farm, but, judging from appearances, the barren, rather crowded turkey yard is a far cry from a cartoon happy-animal sleepy farm.

It's nice that you're privileged enough to run your own hobby farm, but even the most artisanal of commercial farms is a business and their animals are commodities. Many of the worst cases that organizations like Farm Sanctuary encounter are cases of neglect or bankruptcy in small family-run farms.
>An important thing to note: I wouldn't call this a fool-proof way of getting creative

I didn't interpret it as a way of getting creative in the qualitative sense of "creative" but rather in the "productive" sense. To that end, the exercise you went through and shared supports that notion.
Apparently, however, if you use this, you are limited to circa 1998 HTML and rainbow HR tags, along with giant bitmapped fonts.
We have 46% efficient solar cells that are not currently cost effective. 45% of sunlight is in the useful wavelengths for plants, but the important comparison is their peak effecency with the optimum wavelength of 30% vs there theoretical limit with sunlight of 11% which is a ~3x boost under optimum conditions. Another consideration is leaf peak obsorbtion is around 10,000 lux though trees for example capture light through multiple layers. So, some plants are going to be more efferent at lower light levels. (this is also why trees don't look like a mushroom with one big leaf for maximum light capture.)

So, ignoring costs you can come surprisingly close to break even in terms of energy budget. Though we are likely better off going with GMO plants to capture more light than build millions of acres of solar farms just to break even.
You are technically correct which, as we all know, is the best kind of correct.
Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
If you're installing 200 servers that's not a dedicated order. That's a colocation. Why on earth would you order 200 from OVH? That's what, 4 whole cabinets if you squeeze? Do people really order whole cabinets through a sales system clearly designed for 1U to 3U at a time? You really expected four cabs in 9 weeks with no involvement on your part?

Of course they need 9 weeks and that's actually pretty good, considering what my procurement timetables look like for facilities my company owns. Shit, I can't even get 52U to the loading dock in 9 weeks.
Counter-hypothesis:

The invading Romans did not displace the pre-existing population of Gauls in what is now modern France. The invading Franks did not displace the pre-existing population of Roman Gaul. The people who lived in France in 1600 were mostly descended from the people who lived there in 1600 BCE.

The people of modern Italy and France are descended from an ancient colonization of Western Europe. The invading populations of Goths and Lombards were able to usurp the ruling class, but genetically the invading tribes were a small population that merged with a large population.

The modern population of Italy is descended from the ancient Romans, which were descended from the more ancient Celts, just like the people of France (and to a lesser extent, Germany).

And I would associate that ancient population which colonized Western Europe with the Y-chromosome Haplogroup R1b [1].

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Now obviously this isn't the entire history. Genocides happened and displacement happened. (I even found an interesting study which found that descendents of ancient Etruscans are still around, but not on ancient Etruscan sites -- they've been displaced to nearby valleys [2]).

But on the average, it looks like the people who lived in France and Italy circa 500 BCE had a much larger genetic impact on the modern populations of France and Italy than the small invading tribes which displaced or merged with the ruling classes of those regions during the fall of the Roman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1b#R1b1a1a2_.28R-M...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

http://brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/
Operational drives with one or more of our five SMART stats greater than zero – 4.2%

This doesn't gel with the prior table, which shows that 4.8% of operation drives have non-zero SMART188 alone.
Bloom Energy Has Finally Filed for an IPO
A law could be written so it only applies to larger companies. Those companies both have greater leverage/power over consumers and small businesses (making the regulation more important), and have more resources to handle the overhead. I believe some existing regulations in the US already have an annual revenue threshold before they kick in.
Panama: The Hidden Trillions
Huh - I wonder if you could use that as leverage during pay negotiation.

"Oh, you don't have any other women on staff? You need to know that thats going to be sort of rough for me, in complicated gross ways. I'll still do it, but only if you pay me an extra 10% compensation pay on top of what you were otherwise going to pay me. (Which you can stop doing as soon as you hire another woman)."
> Why on earth would you order 200 from OVH?

You don't know what you don't know.
When I saw the headline I knew instantly how they did it. But the one thing unexplained in the story was their claim that the seawater piped in eliminated the need for pesticides.

I would bet it was the desert climate that reduced the need for pesticides. I am willing to predict that they will eventually need to use pesticides.
> dark asphalt roof and direct sun would do it

But if you were going for cooling, you wouldn't go for a dark asphalt roof.
The Bootstrap guys (@fat is one of them) joined Medium.
Well, sorry, but... it is. Maybe you find it interesting, that's subjective, but there's no real technical challenge in front end stuff. You're not solving hard engineering problems; you're pasting together libraries other people wrote on top of libraries other people wrote (and on it goes) and searching google to figure out why your opaque stack doesn't seem to be working.

Developing a good UI is difficult, no question about it, but not for technical reasons. Whether you resent that or not doesn't make it any less true.

>I wouldn't think there's any programming challenge that is inherently easier because it's on web as opposed to something else.

Not because it's on the web, because front end work doesn't require anything more than knowledge of your toolset and some design sense.

It's nearly all "hey, build a UI with some CRUD functionality which is essentially the same as the 100 you've built before, but for this special snowflake customer." Bleh.
People over 30 feel 'old' every 10 years. That's nothing new; it's not even 'programmers are 20something'; people becoming 30-40-50-60 have all been saying 'now I am old' while we stand to become 90-100 (at least in western EU), so 60 is not that old. 40 (i'm 41) is spring chicken and I look forward to many years telling my younger colleagues that the latest thing, however interesting to learn about, is not always better.
A pendulum in a vacuum will oscillate forever, requiring energy to stop. Is it like that?
Here's two actual concrete problems: efficiency and type safety. Indexing an array with "1.5" doesn't seem awesome, nor does using 8 bytes for a double where a 1 byte int would do fine.
A early variant of UNIX was explicitly that. But it was called Programmer's Workbench.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX

It introduced version control (SCCS), make, lex, yacc and more.
Humans also have to learn to swim, not fear fire, and many other things that our instincts say we shouldn't do.
I'm honestly surprised by that, since it seems like just using a simple webcam to read your expression and pick it that way would be a much more natural choice, and probably the least technologically complex aspect of that entire setup. Though I guess you can't always be in an environment with a webcam pointed at your face... but if you have an Oculus on your head, my guess is a webcam isn't far away.
So it begins. https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307...
Interestingly enough, recruiters get paid a % of the salary as a commission most of the time. This means they actually have an incentive to get you higher pay.

But they also can't keep bringing in people above a company's ask. It's a balance that has to be managed.
Imagining a Cashless World: Sweden Begins Eliminating Cash from Daily Life
Revlon Marble-Ous Match Liner/Shadow Duo
I remember finding this gem in my calculus book's exercises, and toiled over it and debated with my professor and lost sleep over it. Well, I didn't disprove it, but I learned a lot of good stuff along the way :)
If you read the Wikipedia link above the law was written by the lobbyists. It's up to the elected officials to take the time to write their own bill or they may simply work from the lobbyists draft.
At first thought this was a bogus article on a bogus site. Pixellated logo, tiny text, design that looked about 7-8 years old.

Click the main AP logo in top left, and you're taken to a blank page that says "AP has suspended this beta product."

But it's definitely a legit story and seems like they have something pretty damning. If he intentionally chose not to act in the face of the knowledge of what was happening (as it certainly appears), I'll be rooting big time for government on this one.
It may not have been intended to be derogatory but that doesn't mean it hasn't ended up actually being derogatory. "No more tofu" certainly sounds like a judgement that "tofu" is bad/unwanted
I got a bug report from a 76 year old developer the other day.
It's really, really hard to change an old organization to follow a different business model without effectively firing everyone, selling everything off, and starting over. There's inertia in the various forms of personnel specialties, management style, capital expenditures, and financing. A tiny company can change that stuff in the span of a single email because there isn't anything to unwind, but a big company that has gone to great effort to optimize its existing position and has a lot of stakeholders to appease will run into trouble even if it has visionary leadership that can see the problem.

For that reason, startups can persistently find opportunities: e.g. IBM had a rental-computing business model, so it gave up a big early advantage in the PC market while scarcely realizing it; Microsoft swooped in to occupy the new monopoly on software.
Consider the price of air.
There was no humor in the attempt. Can't help that.
I didn't reject it (at least I don't think I did -- it has been a while since I watched the video). I believe I said that both "many-worlds" and "zero-worlds" were equally legitimate -- only "one-world" (Copenhagen) is untenable.

[UPDATE] Yes, my recollection is correct. Go watch it again starting at the 58 minute mark or a little earlier.
There's Taiwanese-style pig blood cake (made with rice and fried); or Cantonese-style pig blood curd, which is nothing more than solidified pig's blood.
It's something that's been reliably working for me over many servers over the last two or three years...

I don't care if it's easy to replace bits of - the people who produce the distribution I use can worry about that. All I care about is that it has worked really well for me in production and I have found it much easier to use and maintain than older systems.
The notion that all white men form a monoculture is just as racist and sexist as the notion that only white men are suited for engineering
That's more in line for colocation than just a hosted solution. They probably don't have that much hardware laying around that's unused.
> ... but had I not had such a great employer ...

> despite my submission being anonymous, shortly after submitting it, a superior had a meeting with me

I'm glad you had a good experience, but a great employer wouldn't have lied to you about the survey being anonymous.
To me, it seems a bit like JSPs of 15 years ago, with all the logic in the presentation code, but I'm "old", so I assume I just don't "get it".

No, you get it. It's the people who get excited about stuff we tried and abandoned two decades ago that don't get it.
Many cultures use most of the animal. For example, in Korea a popular dish is called Sundae (soon-day), basically a kind of pork blood sausage. It's often served with pig ears and snouts as a side dish to alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundae_(Korean_food)

Pig liver is a popular in dishes the world over: pate, various sausages, etc.

It's surprising how much of a pig is useful as food.
I never said that I was old ... One good sign is that my wife keeps telling me to act my age!
Yes. I'd love to hear some people's journeys to advance their career and move from web development into more specialization. Off the top of my head, there are three types of specialization, for money, for domain knowledge and for technical skills.

For Money: Not necessarily any more satisfying or churn-proof than web development; But definitely more lucrative. Salesforce/SAP/Oracle consultant, mobile app developer, SEO or becoming a web dev consultant or remote work arbitrage or just becoming a manager.

For Domain Knowledge, you are becoming a computational {Biologist, Geologist, Financial Quant} than a pure coder. Fields like modeling fluid dynamics or finite element analysis for GE or GM; or modeling petroleum reserve for Shell; or Bioinformatics for BigPharma or modeling risk for banks. You probably have to go back to school for another degree in that subject or get the equivalent on-the-job training.

For Technical Skills, you are specializing in a sub-field of practical coding/IT, working at a software company. Like Data Science/Machine-Learning (distributed computing tools and knowledge about basic learning models), or Information Security (e.g., MITRE) or Embedded System (C++/Assembly) or high-performance system (e.g., Akamai; C++/networking).

Curious anyone who took the step to specialize or just started out in a more specialized field and their thoughts; and if I am missing any potential specialization options out!
Completely agree. This stance clearly makes sense from any individual's perspective.
If it was a laser printer, you'd think the fuser would do the job that they suggest using a hairdryer or microwave for.
I get where the guy is coming from, I'm right there as an old guy.

On the other hand, I think there is a bit too much fatalism in the article. Sometimes the kids are being stupid, and they need to be told so.

The vast majority of web apps could be built in 1/10th the code with server-side rendering and intercooler.js. All this client-side crap is wasted when you are trying to get text from computer A into data-store B and back again. It's the front-end equivalent of the J2EE debacle, but with better logos and more attractive people.

And people are starting to wake up[1][2]. It's up to us old guys to show the way back to the original simplicity of the web, incorporating the good ideas that have shown up along the way as well as all the good ideas[3] that have been forgotten. Yes, we'll be called dinosaurs, out of touch, and worse.

Well so what? We're 40 now. And one of the great, shocking at first, but great, things about that age is you begin to really, truly stop giving a fuck what other people think.

Besides, what else are we going to do?

[1] - https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b...

[2] - https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...

[3] - http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
Where on earth did you get the idea that the viscera must be disposed or cannot be safely eaten?

Pig intestines, heart, lungs are all part of traditional cuisine. Even the kidneys and liver are "viscera," and those are completely mainstream organ meat. Brain is also eaten (head cheese).
awk is probably better in this case, since you can save only the raw values (and other columns that you deem important):

awk '/Reallocated_Sector_Ct|Current_Pending_Sector|Offline_Uncorrectable|UDMA_CRC_Error_Count/ {print $2,$10}'
Seasonal Trends in New York City Traffic – STL Case Study
Awesome. It took us only ~7 decades of Computing to invent this :)
Gambling: nope.

Alcohol: nope.

Marijuana: nope.

Cocaine: nope.

Obviously the list goes on and on. If by "transcend" you really mean "ignore" or perhaps "aid those in trouble, leave the others alone" then, okay. But to eliminate the demand: I think the evidence, over many decades, many cultures, and despite billions (possibly trillions) of dollars of direct and indirect cost, the evidence speaks for itself.
+1 to yucky manzanita. pollen stinks so bad.

only worthwhile thing they produce are the burls, but those are worthless for turning since they have a high likelihood of containing rocks.
How easy is it to change the input of SHA256 without changing the output? That strikes me as still very difficult (MD5 is basically worthless for this reason).
Only in two professions pro athletics and computer programming is forty years old.
It's good PR to bring more tech companies; it signals there's a talent pool in the area, because high tech companies are established there.
Or an Upton Sinclair novel.
Verizon wants $1B off Yahoo sale price
if the plants are inside a greenhouse, i think this is a major barrier to most pests.
During the end questions yes, but at timestamp 43:20: "But I personally find [Many-Worlds] takes a heavier toll on my intuition than I'm willing to concede."
Except the Oculus is occluding your face.
I wanted to try the Noto mono out for programming, but it looks like the `O` is indistinguishable from the `0` :/

Otherwise, it's a nice looking font for the editor.
Law enforcement and intelligence use this information for what amounts to blackmail. There is no safe way to do this.
> Every time I feel like I'm "out of touch" with the hip new thing, I take a weekend to look into it. I tend to discover that the core principles are the same, this time someone has added another C to MVC; or the put their spin on an API for doing X;

But that is only for the 'abstractions' they implement; the details are another thing.

I feel the only thing that really changed is that now big companies with PR / marketing departments are on the case while before it was more a geek thing. There is nothing fundamentally different in new frameworks (heck, most are them are just rehashes of others that are many years old with very small improvements), but suddenly the echo chamber makes it out to be vital to your career.

Like React. It's nice but come on... Every frontend programmer I know is fretting that they are not into it enough because you will die or something if you are not. That seems good marketing by Facebook to get such a solid drive behind it so quickly. But it's not needed for anything; you can still just use what you used before and often faster/better (because you are good at what you did for many years right?) and you don't have to bother with learning the latest thing all the time, while, with React, because you are drinking the cool aid, you have to update/refactor/redo stuff often because of changing libraries and new insights. It would make you stressed if think you feel you have to keep up with all of that.

Also, some tools seem to have just been made to look smart. Really, something like Webpack doesn't have to be that obfuscated. It really looks like it has been made like that just to say; 'ah, you just do not get it'. I see people (20somethings included) really sweating in their keyboard when trying to figure out more than the basics of that thing; so why are people using it? Why is it actually popular?
What's the last truly new thing you can think of? I'm interested because I am young (22) but have studied programming language paradigms and history and I also agree a lot of "new" stuff is old.
Verizon will control Android updates for Google Pixel phones it sells
They made a good post addressing this.

https://www.ovh.co.uk/news/articles/a2294.how-ovh-expand-in-...
Wow, this is great. I wonder when we will have farmville in VR. My friends, family can take care of our virtual farm...
Snapchat considering IPO at $25B valuation
The phrase "security fatigue" makes me raise an eyebrow. Are these guys implying I should keep track of twenty or thirty passwords, but I just can't keep up?

Frankly, if it's not something I use everyday and care about, I can't be bothered to put a strong password in it.
Foundational knowledge does not decay.

True in a certain intellectual sense. And in practical senses, also.

But unfortunately, the hiring market doesn't filter for "foundational knowledge"; in realistic terms, it largely hires for what might best be termed "keyword compliance" -- that is, baseline exposure to stuff that barely existed, or if it did, barely ticked most people's radar screens more than 5 years ago. And sometimes with even greatly shorter cutoffs than that. You know, stuff like Docker, React, Spark, etc.

That is, everyone says they're not out to hire dummies. But if you look at a lot of job ads -- a lot of people apparently just won't talk to you if you don't have a good number of "boxes" checked. Corresponding, in many cases, to stuff that wasn't even around 4 or more years ago. Very few (or so it appears) seem genuinely interested in hiring generalists with "strong foundational knowledge".

I know there are many counterexamples. But if you go by the stated proclamations companies make about who should bother sending a resume -- for a lot of them, it's not foundational knowledge that gets you to a screening call -- it's keyword soup.
> would the interviewee tend to talk to the female interviewer?

In my experience, yes, this definitely happens.
I think it depends on which definition one subscribes to. Broadly speaking, there are two major lenses through which "organic" is viewed:

1) Focuses on holistic management, rejects intensive injection of industrial inputs into the farm/garden, and emphasizes applications of emergent activity of native species rather than aggressive "pest control".

2) Focuses on keeping "unnatural" chemicals or genes out of / off of the food.

I think this approach would tend to look organic under lens #2 but not lens #1. Various definitions of "organic" lend different weights to them and introduce other considerations, though.
Ask HN: How do you organize or bookmark your content?
How do you organize/bookmark/index your visited websites and the content you liked to retrieve it efficiently in the future? Do you use any special tools to do it?

I have been finding it very difficult to track this. I always remember that I want to pull up something interesting that I read but never able to find it back. Sometimes I search by keywords which I vaguely remember in Google and it shows up, but mostly there I don't remember what I am searching for and it becomes very difficult to keep track of everything. This gets even more painful if you are researching on some topic and you follow trail of links to reach something. That article might not be on top of the search engine indexes but might have something that I am interested in. How do you retrieve such content/websites when you suddenly close all your browser tabs?