skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, is there some French Defamation League, downvote-brigade choosing to censor realities it dislikes, rather than respond?

I note I have down-voted responses to replies that do not have further responses. Hence, from my point of view, it seems when the argument got difficult, down-voting was resorted to..

note: this comment was also down-voted within 5 minutes, again without comment. Those who never comment, never run the risk of malicious down-votes.
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- I should have used the word "salts" rather than "salt". They're definitely not adding NaCl. If I get time I'll try and dig up exactly what it was. If you're adding ash you'd be horrified at the thought of adding salt, since ash is often used to combat salinity. But some crops grow well in saltier soil (or acidic soil or alkaline soil or ...), or at least better than the weeds that would otherwise grow there.

[edit: other commenters have linked to the use of copper salts in organic farming]

- From a quick glance, Rodale is a non-profit. That definitely allows them to do things that farmers who have to make a profit to feed their family can't do.

- It's awesome that Rodale is studying organic no-till. Herbicides are a crappy way of controlling weeds, it's just that tillage is worse.
write a quick lodash method call to filter your collection.

given the consistent nature of data collections I almost never have a need to examine the full dataset via some front end debugging tool. trust the data to be consistent or not?
> Their problem is that they can't keep up with their launch backlog

Yes and no. The have 6 boosters sitting around that no one is willing to use because they were previously flown. No one will take the risk of going first.

As well, SpaceX could meet that demand by increasing their size, but there is a risk that once their backlog is completed they'd need to scale down again. A customer like the internet service smooths that demand no matter the situation.
>Most abused spouses are not literally helpless either.

Comparing Amazon employees to battered spouses is a stretch. Some might even say it's ignorant.
It's one of those pedantic programmer things I think. It's strictly better semantics, but I'd agree it's poor UX.

I wonder if it came from LibreGraphics collaborations as Inkscape did something very similar.

What's weird is that The GIMP used to win plaudits for allowing user-set defaults (particularly it's shortcut system). Why this change, "save only allows native format", wasn't introduced as an option I don't know.
Everything is relative. How many other countries had systems like BankID, Swish, doing their taxes online as well as with Skatteverket, etc etc when those came out? how many of those countries have populations smaller than Sweden? How much innovation comes out of Ohio which has a larger population?
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Read somewhere that the chance of having higher intelligence is reflected in how self-sufficient you are. People with higher intelligence tend to manage just fine with a small social group with weak connections. The more social you are the more likely that you have lower intelligence.

Sort of suggests that following the collective, being an ant in a colony may have negative effects on intelligence over a few generations. Natures law: "What you don't use you lose." You don't need higher intelligence because so many are chipping in to compensate.

Then again, balance is a fickle thing.
Facebook ties my hands again (with API restrictions)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

One of the most enlightening reads out there. Read both Why Nations Fail and Guns, Germs and Steel.
Being guilty before proven guilty is a thing in the real world.

As is being guilty and getting away with it. People do that all the time too.

And courthouses and judges don't have some monopoly into assessment of guilt. Just into its official identification and punishment.

(If the legal system had the monopoly, or some moral monopoly, of only it determining guilt, then how would we, as a society, judge the effectiveness or not of the legal system itself?)
What you say is a truism, of course. But more specifically, the overt stance towards values across different cultures is one of the best researched topics in the social sciences. For example, you can download data from http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ and http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/, and http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org and these are just the top links from Google when you look for value surveys. This kind of data is based on surveys with all the caveats these come with. (People do not necessarily report what they really think in surveys.) I believe Ronald Inglehart was one of the first to start with extensive empirical surveys of this sort. Nowadays they are conducted world-wide by vast number of organizations and there are also yearly summary publications in book format.

I was admittedly too lazy to check the values in Sweden vs elsewhere, just wanted to add to your comment that what values people endorse (or at least overtly report to endorse) in various countries and regions of the world is not unknown at all and it is not hard to look up data from reputable sources. How people act upon the values they report (if at all), is a different matter, of course.
> capitalizes on a competitors stumble

If I was actually making money off my site, I would probably be livid enough to dump my current provider - this is by no means the first time this has happened (although of course I bring this on myself by choosing an extremely cheap hosting provider and completely accept the risks I take).

Yes, it is sad when people stuff up, however if I was earning a living off that hosting, then I wouldn't see something wrong in a competitor specifically offering to fix something that is hurting my income.
I can't even. Of course they are sustainable without artificial fertilizers, if compost and animal manure (nothing big necessary, just chicken and rabbits) is used. Of course, you can use fertilizers and stuff in unsustainable way, too, but what does that prove or disprove?
Well OK, the UK fishing industry was cannibalised....
But EU integration and harmonisation made it easier for young people from Grimsby and Hull to go and do their International Baccalaureates in Florence.
So, swings and roundabouts...
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gimp would benefit itself immensely simply by implementing all of photo shop's default keyboard shortcuts
"The actions required to achieve b) lead to radical nationalism..."

If you're going to make generalisations in an article, make sure they are generally true. As an inhabitant of the UK, I can't see the truth in this whatsoever.

If your article is about something more specific, which is it, then talk about the specifics.
It seems we revisit this topic or a branch of it often enough that it's almost becoming a meme.

Here is a 2-page, 7.4K security checklist. If you verify and check each box, your application won't be bulletproof (it is software and you have 3rd party libraries), but it will be close to air tight.
--Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this security checklist or its authors, except appreciation and respect.

Security Guide For Developers - Latest: https://github.com/FallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers...

--Donald
Curve25519 in pure PHP? Yikes. Have you done any measurements to verify that the implementation is constant time?

https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat/tree/master/src/C...
Herbicide resistent (Roundup Ready!) plants are bad.

Patenting life is bad.

Using your patents to then economically enslave the developing world is bad.

If you call all that GMO, then GMO is bad.

Objectively, empirically, morally, ethically. Bad.

I know, facts are second millennium woo woo. Sorry, I just haven't been able to let go. Must make me bad too.
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until you hit "back"
Street address correction would be popular.
Thanks for pointing that out, i raised the issue on their repository: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/issues/5
That would have no effect over just a few generations.
That's exactly my thinking. If I actually made money off my site or it was happening too often I would have been really ripe to poach.
I wouldn't let AI & VR worry you- that type of growth in the field means new types of jobs.

As far as updating my skillset, I watch conference talks, and I built a site that has a big index of them: https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&class1=Technology&type1=Co...
exactly any non trivial site that uses google products will have accounts used by multiple people one person doesn't run all of proctor and gambles PPC
"In the end it's just a label."

Worse. It's a racket. Text book regulatory capture.

If pressed, our local farmers say something like "traditional farming". But they can still claim no pesticides, no growth factor, yadda yadda, without paying off some goons.
Despite the history of corruption in Korean politics up to the presidential level, my gut feeling is that the Park/Choi scandal is unprecedented in Korean history, both in terms of the scale of the revelations, and the low level of tolerance that regular Koreans are showing towards it.

I think in 20 years, people will talk about pre and post Park Geun-hye Korea because the difference will be that important.
Admittedly I haven't used GIMP in a while, but the entire selection interface was awful last time I did. That's a very basic thing that was constantly annoying to me. Wether I can grok it or not really doesn't matter. Normal users don't want to have to grok things. It didn't feel intuitive, and as a result it only took a few hours of using Photoshop CS3 to never want to go back.
But I think Sweden, and the rest of Scandinavia (I'm Norwegian) has a less adversarial political system. We're used to coalitions, so most political parties are careful not to burn bridges totally. We also often have broad negotiated compromises where the US is more likely to have bitterly fought battles leading to a small majority where the losers ends up trying hard to reverse the decision afterwards (witness the Affordable Care Act debacle).

E.g. when the immigration crisis hit all the parties in parliament in Norway other than the Progress Party (furthest right wing populists in parliament) negotiated a joint agreement, rather than wrangling until someone managed to get just a 5x% majority for their plan.

As a result a lot of decisions end up being a lot less controversial than one might think, and remain more stable, as few substantial decisions rest on a minor parliamentary majority.
Resize an image, transcode video.
If this gets enough supporters, it could eventually fund GIMP development: https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot

"Jehan is a developer of Free Software and the scenarist of ZeMarmot, but he is not the initial funding target. Right now, we want to fund the animation and the music. "
Organic in my place(South of India) means no chemical and only used cattle dung/ food waster / or plant itself as manure/Fertilizer. No other chemical used but in my experience we made only 10 bags of paddy per acre while if we use Urea / Potasium + pesticides we managed up to 30 to 35 bags of paddy. I am not sure why in use organic farm still uses any chemical. There are good techniques to deal with pest though not very effective.
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"There is such a thing as sustainable ranching..."

Give two examples (in the USA).
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I dunno, I think this is a pretty good argument actually:

> I agree that another SQL injection should be included - not because the vulnerabilities exposed by this file should be tempered (as that would only be to assist a dangerous confusion of responsible practices), but because "DROP TABLES" is such a cliche in infosec that it's prone to be caught by extremely crude filters, naive to the degree that it's the only class of SQL injection they know to avoid.
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All metaphors are a stretch. If they were absolutely analogous to the original there wouldn't be metaphors in the first place.

Something doesn't have to be of equal value or importance to the thing its a metaphor for, just to convey the mechanics of the thing. It doesn't even have to convey the full thing, just the part the metaphor is intended for.

In other words, one can use e.g. the Cold War as a metaphor for some office turf situation, even if the Cold War has millions of victims in proxy wars and could potentially have meant the end of the world, whereas office politics are much more inconsequential.
If the corn produces pesticides, which are poisons, it's a reasonable question to ask "what happens when you eat the corn" - are the ears/kernels covered with it as well, or could they even contain it?
I think brotli can be used. Global usage is 55% according to http://caniuse.com/#search=brotli
It's actually quite easy to believe because the mechanics makes sense: instead of a number of different herbicides to attack a large number of different weeds, herbicide resistant crop breeds allow you to use just one herbicide, with a much smaller total amount.
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What is the holy grail of [classical] computing?

For anyone else who might be having a slow day at work - where do you think the evolution of computing practices is headed?

I’m curious as to what the prevailing ideas of “ideal computing architectures” are, in terms of computing performance, programmability and utility.

Perhaps a platform that frees us of having to tailor algorithms to match the hardware topology?

How would reconfigurable hardware change the nature of the game? Does it turn into an optimisation problem that we can throw ML/DL algorithms at?

Is it useful to work backwards from some ideal computing platform? Are we doing this already?

For instance, If Optical switches are the fastest possible computing device, would it make sense to focus most R&D effort there? Or Would this come at the cost of missing other low hanging fruit? And if so could there be an optimal risk/reward strategy to advance computing?

Are there other existing Non von-neuman architectures that that aren’t getting the attention they deserve?

Are these too many questions for one AskHN post? Do I need to stop and back to work?
> organic farming's main tool to combat weeds and regrowth is tillage

No - mulching, no and no til are very common

> For example, some organic farmers literally salt their soil

Certainly in the UK you wouldn't get organic certification for doing that. The certified pesticides over here are genderally safer for the environment, if more labour intensive.

> Conventional farmers care far more about the value of their land than organic farmers do

Really no. Conventional farmers can quickly boost the fertility of their soil by adding some quick-fix nutrients.

> they sometimes spread massive amounts of manure on their fields

Where do you think this manure goes otherwise?

> Their major costs are diesel, herbicides & pesticides -- minimizing those is both good for the farmer's pocketbook and the environment.

Unless of course, there's a really cheap pesticide that is appalling for the environment.
In that video it's running on a modern system using hardware accelerated rendering. It didn't look like that back in the day.
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If you mean recognizing if a product will be good for a particular market, then obviously not.
The rethoric I've heard here (Netherlands) is that France idealizes the small farm as a living unit, which leads to undersized and under-modernized farms. This is then being propped up by subsidies, but imports (and government budgets) are putting more pressure on these farms' inefficiencies than the subsidies can compensate.

I am in no position to judge either way.
You can easily fold a shirt with a sheet of paper.

Here is a video (she uses a magazine, but you just need a single sheet) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yaMc9Sz-YE

Probably not as fast but very effective if you need to travel with a couple of shirts.
Has anyone tried https://coy.im/ ?
>the VR market is not zero sum right now.

this is only true if anyone who buys either a Vive or a Rift has sufficient funds to afford getting both
Up to a point central compressed air solutions do have H&S issues I recall one of my thermo fluid lecturers saying well if the main pressure vessel failed it would have demolished the building.
Hasn't Bayer bought Monsanto by the way? In any case, you're certainly more aware of those firms than I am. It's your trade after all. I have heard those names, but the propaganda I've seen tend to point to Monsanto as the one deserving the torches and pitchforks.

> If you selected the two most ideal humans to breed

I get the point (super-crops that regress to the mean after a couple generations), but the actual downsides seem more serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid#Disadvantages On the other hand, the upsides are enticing.
This made me wonder if anyone had tried combining word2vec with emojis, and then I came across this:

https://github.com/uclmr/emoji2ve
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They have a good reputation. They also have nice offices.
>Conventional farmers care far more about the value of their land than organic farmers do. [...] //

You're going to need some pretty amazing sources to convince me that Organic farmers in general care less about sustainable farming than those practising more conventional techniques.

This sort of unsupported claim makes anything else you're saying lack credence IMO.
Yikes indeed. Implementing crypto primitives in an interpreted language is full of hazards for side channel attacks - being constant time is just the first step. Cache behavior, branch predictor attacks, etc are also important. And all of the above applies to native code crypto too. When you add an interpreter on top, a ton of new side channels are introduced.

The author (see links elsewhere ITT) seems pretty knowledgeable about basic side channels but I'm still extremely wary about this. The motivation for this project seems to be "not every PHP programmer can install native libs on their $5 hosting platform", which IMO is a pretty poor justification for a new crypto library. Feel free to disagree on this.

Good thing is that this library will use native libsodium if available, so hopefully the impact of side channels in this isn't that great.
Is this a reading comprehension issue?

Where did I say anything about an accent? Merely pointed how that "Steve" would have looked.
It wasn't the first, even at cruise phase of the flight, nor was the last.

You can check a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_collision#List_of_nota...
I don't understand the question.

Can you help me understand why the idea that raising animals cannot be sustainable, when clearly grazing animals can live perfectly well on their own with no care whatsoever from humans (as they have for millennia) on areas of land that are not suitable for farming?

I think the direct answer to your question is that clearly carnivorism is environmentally sustainable, as it has been practiced by millions of various species for hundreds of millions of years.

Maybe your greater question is, "is a constantly growing human population sustainable?" which is outside the scope of this discussion.
It is possible, no doubt. You also have image decoder on the client and getting support for a new format is difficult because it is the browser vendors job to distribute these.

So how do they practically get the client to decode / upscale? JavaScript?
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I wonder how they measure patent activity given the vastly different patent systems. Software patents being the most obvious example. Is a country penalized for being "less active" if there are no software patents in that country (the explanation in the footnotes has me believe the answer would be yes)?

I'm also skeptical of the weights that were used (equal weights). My instinct (as a non-US citizen) would be that the #1 spot in high tech of the US is worth a lot more than other categories (and the gap to #2 is probably also substantial). I'm fairly surprised that the U.S. is only #10 in R&D intensity.

I'd like to see some correlation to some education rankings (+imported workers) as well, could be interesting.
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I don't think so. It's more like - a lot of technologies help you join bigger communities, in particular the Universal Culture[0]. If your community is defined mostly by not being part of universal culture, technology becomes an existential threat to it.

--

[0] - defined as the culture that outcompetes other cultures; often called "Western culture", but it's not really important where it came from. McDonalds, for instance, is part of universal culture, but it wins not because it's from America; it wins because people find it to be actually a pretty good idea.
Tcl forces an event driven approach that seems to be relatively unfamiliar.
If it where the case they should be using belt drive driven by wind/horse power - until fairly recently mech eng techs in the uk where taught how to design belt drive systems
That wasn't a particular point the parent had -- just his general conclusion. He listed several pain points none of which was addressed.
If a guy that rides 1200km on a bike in 50 hours prefers a generator vs batteries based on drag vs weight I'd say that the generator + lights is pretty much solved technology.
Not give up
> but I do think we've given up a LOT of security for the sake of convenience.

Worse: There is no reason you couldn't have both. For a start: A simple "off" switch for Intel ME would please a lot of people.
MIT's Moral Machine wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident
The poison is in the dose. Of course all pesticides can be harmful, at least if the dose is a 200 litre barrel that is dropped on your head. Even pure water is harmful, and the dose for this is that drinking 5 to 10 litres will kill you.
Is there a way to measure the strength of those bonds?

We in America are very individualistic (eg "I got mine, screw you!" because Freedom Markets™). Our elder care is terrible. Our nursing homes are bleak.

(A buddy worked as the CFO for a nursing home corporation. Told me the biggest thing he learned: Don't end up in a nursing home.)
It's a random sampling of the "YouTube video uploader" population.