skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farm-to-table is a mark of quality for gourmets because the food tastes better and has more nutrition when it has more expensive inputs. Feed a pig nothing but acorns and he's gonna taste great, but he's gonna be really expensive. Feed a pig nothing but hyperprocessed nutrient foam or whatever and he's gonna taste bad but he's gonna be cheaper.

>On a long enough timeline, I see this as the future of the industrialization/technology trend that touches everything, including ag. While the "old" industrial-ag model shows that bio-mass reduces over time with fossil-fuel inputs and mass production, so won't stay viable forever. Higher end consumers will support the fully-organic small farm sustainable rural modal, but it remains to be seen if/how they can scale and be price-competitive for mass-consumption vs cheaper alternatives.

Why? When people can afford it, they tend to want to upgrade what kinds of food that they eat. The quality issue is not something that is easy to sidestep just because of the law of conservation. Output can't exceed input. It is a huge operation to move soil and fertilizer around. It is expensive even in rural areas. Hydroponics have certain fertility, plant type, and plant quality limitations and cost more money to set up. Not to mention the issue of devoting expensive urban real estate to agricultural production.
I looked and this has already been done a few times!

https://github.com/gitonwithit/MorseKeyboard

https://github.com/whymarrh/morse-code-keyboard

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Input.Mors...
Absolutely this. mp3s wreak havoc with Pro Logic II decoders (stereo->surround processors), regardless of the bitrate, by stripping phase information which the DSP uses for sound steering. Also, the extra speakers allow you to spatially isolate sounds that would normally be masked - this can actually be a richer listening experience, but with lossy encoding it's a mess.

More generally, this applies to any scenario where the sound is distorted or altered by something. A crappy speaker might have a perverse frequency response. A room reflection might manifest as a comb filter. Both will destroy the careful masking assumptions of any psychoacoustic model.

Lossy compression should be avoided as an archival format whenever possible, even if you think you know better, because you never know when you might need the information you thoughtlessly threw away.
> If your argument is that an influx of unskilled immigrant labor and an army of college professors can correct this imbalance then I'm speechless.

Then try harder to formulate a response, because that's the proper argument for globalization: an influx of unskilled immigrant labor and an army of college professors is what will save the world.

The article itself describes how globalization has benefitted the world, in particular, the massive reduction in of poverty in China, Korea, India, Poland, Indonesia, and Thailand after they opened up for globalization. It even says China went from 2% to 20% of the world's share of manufacturing, in line with it's share of world population.

How is that a bad thing?

Did you think the world was supposed to be static? That the third-world was supposed to be poor and suffering forever?
> your feeling of uncomfortness is the only thing stopping you from growing a spine and standing up for such an inhumane treatment

> Have some decency and confront your so-called friend.

I think your advice falls into the "much easier to say (from a great distance) than do" category.

The people who unfailingly and immediately know and do the moral thing, regardless of personal cost or expectation of results, are often literally saints. The rest of us muddle through; being uncertain, un-confident, and only occasionally recognizing and mustering the strength to act against an injustice.
Is that a rhetorical question with a foregone conclusion?

As an average American, whether prosperity increased or decreased, I feel grateful and prosperous every day. I can walk outside without fear of bombs dropping from overhead; I can run, bike, drive, or fly anywhere within this vast, beautiful land without encumbrance; I have uncensored access to the internet at-large; I get to watch some of the greatest entrepreneurs in the world build amazing things; I can communicate and interact with any one of the 300 million+ people here; and I can make money as I please when I please without anyone blocking me. And I can start doing all this with a minimum wage job (like I did).

That's just to name a few things.

No one is owed anything except for equality of opportunity. Are we wishing for equality of outcome? On its face, I can't understand why that would ever make sense.

Do I think we're fully at equality of opportunity yet? No. But I feel that's what we should be working on. That's what we should be protecting. I don't give a hoot who made $10B as long as I have the opportunity to as well.
So, shift the burden to the business that actually paid to create enough parking for their customers?
Yes once the program is already open it's pretty snappy. But I like to keep my desktop clean so I close / open it fairly often and it's startup time if just not on par I've found.
It could be a technological (column-oriented) alternative to what map-reduce in general and Spark with RDDs in particular are doing. It might be easier to define a data processing workflow as a number of column definitions rather than as a graph of collection transformations. And such a column transformation workflow could be also more efficient at run time.

Here is my implementation of this column-oriented approach as a Java library for server-side transformations: https://bitbucket.org/conceptoriented/dc-core
It's unfortunate that this blog post does not cite another study, the results of which were published a month prior to the post's publication, which investigates in detail this issue: The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001–2014 [1].

That study actually offers insight into which particular factors correlate weakly or strongly with other factors, and offers charts and figures in key places to illustrate more detail than a mere line that mentions "socioeconomic factors, including race, education, and income, and access to health care".

It's not a long read at all, and highly recommended.

[1] doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4226 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/
Just speaking from Julian Barbour's The End of Time perspective:

When they say time isn't real, they mean something more like "not ontologically fundamental" -- i.e. you can produce a model with no explicit reference to time, and it can produce all the same predictions as a "timeful" model -- of course, you'd have to do some final transformation at the end to express the time values if you want it to compare to a timeful one.

Yes, you can measure it, but that measurement is wholly implied by all the other (ontologically fundamental) ones.

Compare to a word in which people used four dimensions to describe space. In that case, you could correctly argue that, "hey, space is only three dimensions. Yes, you're measuring a fourth one, but that's redundant with the first three; once I know the first three, I can tell you what your measurements of the fourth one will be."

Barbour's argument, then, is that you can derive the laws of physics in terms of a rule for "which universe configurations are possible", and make that your primary model; time then just becomes a label for a measure you apply between different configurations (the "Machian distinguished simplifier"), but is wholly implied by them.
I hope you're right, but it's also worth looking into the history of the Philippine-American war, which like many smaller wars seems to have been largely forgotten by history. I wasn't even aware of it until I came upon a gruesome picture of US soldiers posing in front of a pile of thousands of skulls in one of my history books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_Wa...
Really frustrating that newer versions of iOS inevitably run more slowly on aging hardware, Apple incessantly prompts you to update, and there's no way to roll back.

Sure, I miss security fixes if I don't update, but at the point when Apple stops supporting the hardware, what's the difference?
This has already been posted before, but the fact that DRL can do pretty good autoML is pretty useful!
I try to use Slack voice as much as possible with my team but I find it quite unstable in terms of call quality with lots of dropped calls. Is this the case for others?
I keep thinking all of these are designed as pre-emptive investments before marijuana is legalized. They figure out the problems of mass production and management and the second the laws pass they flip the switch as the biggest supplier with right down the street access.
Yes, but most "architecture engineering" has already started to be phased out in deep learning research, with the exception of specifically tuned network types (i.e. for computational efficiency) or those with special layer types (i.e. separable convolutions, deconvolutions, etc.).
Intel's new Gold/Platinum branding also sounds childish to me.
Several of the robots around my home (dishwasher, washing machine, etc.) make noise, and I already accept them. If another robot adds value, even with noise or creepiness, I cannot imagine rejecting it over those concerns.
There are community-provided atom packages for all/most of the providers you listed. The point isn't one editor versus another. The point is that Atom should remain plausibly neutral about Github (which is separate from Git or Mercurial or whatever).

An analogy would be if VSCode shipped with a fancy CodePlex dashboard by default (I know CodePlex is dead). There's an obvious incentive for them to pick sides but it's not in the best interest of the people using the editor nor the editor itself.
Hi ryanschneider

This is a very interesting model we are actively exploring. The primary issue is that the cost of the minimum infrastructure required to run Graphcool in the scalable and fault-tolerant way we have designed our architecture is too high to make it feasible for most projects.
We are offering this option on the enterprise plan, but that's a very different price point than our publicly listed plans.
Anecdotes are stories, not data points. 100 stories don't become 100 data points.
I use Slack voice a ton as well - quality has been perfect for me and I don't think I've ever had a dropped call.
What's the name of the film?
Now you made it full circle to my original comment, "you can do this if you're a dictator. Otherwise, residents won't agree to pay for parking in front of their own homes."
Has Apple ever said that they don't want to create all the parking spaces they're creating? Isn't it in their interest as an employer to provide ample parking for their employees?
In the worst case you might have to run a kernel built for Android instead of the default debian kernel (e.g. lifted off the android OS for that type of device), depending on how it was packaged up. Hopefully those aren't built with certain useful features turned off.

For devices that support a vanilla android, I imagine the driver issue is already worked out and there would be no problem getting them to work in a kernel that you can compile yourself, even if not the default debian kernel.
I'm disappointed by the intentional conflation of life expectancy and longevity. They are two different things, and the NIH knows it. Life expectancy has larger and sometimes completely different variations than longevity. Yet the first and last paragraphs are pretending they're exactly the same thing, using evidence and variations in expectancy to make statements about longevity.
No issues here though I only use it on occasion so not very frequently or heavy use.
It could be simple memetics. Stories about slaves who are treated in an outrageous manner are more likely to be shared than stories about "nice" slave owners. Such stories might even be mistaken for endorsements of slavery.
I've avoided Red Delicious for years. Nobody told me to, I just realized they sucked. I didn't know this was a common opinion until reading these comments. (And given their prevalence in grocery store produce departments, I'm still not convinced.)

This nonsense where every expression of opinion or preference is labeled as "signaling" has got to stop.
Sedentary lifestyle, cheap food (and not just junk food, calories in general are insanely cheap), eating too much of said cheap food.
There is no question in my mind that I would confront anyone I knew engaging in the situation you're describing. Among my circles, injustices always seem to be a third person. Mostly bosses. Boss doesn't give you a day off despite a month of notice. Boss dicks you around on hours or a promised promotion. The people I consider friends are folks I can talk to about morality. I've grown as a person based on the critical things some friends have told me.

Never anything in the same time zone of FRIEND MISTREATS LIVE IN HELP, MIGHT BE SLAVE, I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO SAY. This whole thread is hysterical to me. This is a parody of real life, right?

I hate to edge in on godwin territory, but this has reminded me that our society has not grown at all in the last 100 years. We've accreted a card house morality that collapses for SO MANY people at the slightest breeze. Can't let a slave come between friends am I right?
We are on some continuum of globalization. What's best for a single country may not be best for all countries. Governments should be looking at the long game as much as what happens along the way. People in the US right now seem to be only focused on the 'right now.' What happens when Chinese wages get as high as the wages in the US? It will happen eventually as long as the market is free.
The most politically feasible solutions to help I can think of are education and better school lunch policies. I'd think the food lobbies would love if we provided free lunch to our students (other political factions maybe not so much). We'd of course need stricter guidelines to ensure the meals are healthy.

Another issue is it's expensive to eat healthier foods. Addressing income inequality feels like one aspect that could help as well. It's much harder to come up with a good, politically feasible solution to that.
Driest ten months in 100 years recorded in southern England
Humanity is both so strange and so static. We got 'rid' of slavery in most of the world no later than a century ago. It was bloody and difficult to do, but we managed it. Yet, there are still people living as just the same as slaves century or more ago, in a world of space ships and the internet. Yeah, tech has helped, we don't have smallpox anymore and the mass famines have stopped recently, but the deeper gestal psyche is the same. The old saying of history repeating itself if you do not listen to it comes to mind. But, what can we do, humans are still humans, basically the same for the last ~10k years. No matter how much we want to change, how much time and effort and writing and money and sweat and blood and death and war, we cannot. Its not that we are dystopian now, maybe, its that we have always been so.
> I'm not sure what the author was trying to imply here - obviously something about Obama getting help from corporations in an effort to force a couple of states to - gasp - treat humans with dignity and respect.

I believe the author's point was broader than that, more about the dangerous power that corporations wield over their supply chains. From further up in the paragraph you quoted:

> International corporations are constantly threatening and laying down the law to backward societies.

And from the previous paragraph:

> If the English people were better, they could have had those jobs, but they have proved unworthy—they have failed the global supply chain. Any sense that the economy should serve the citizenry and not vice-versa tends to get lost.

In other words, the citizenry are only a link in the chain that can be replaced at will, and have thus become subservient to the corporations, for good or ill. Thus the author closes by saying,

> It is hard to say whether we were right to go down this road.

Even if the ring is used for good, it might not end well.
Thanks man - looking forward to finally meet you in Berlin! When are you guys flying out?
The problem with that logic is that people with unhealthy behavior actually cost the system less. It's way cheaper to be relatively sickly for a few decades then die of lung cancer or heart disease at 50 than be relatively healthy and die of cancer or alzheimer's at 90.

Not saying something like that might not be a good idea from a public health perspective. I'm not educated enough on those issues to have an opinion.
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Do you think that these people (basically enthusiasts, nobody else would participate) are representative of all windows users? Do you even respect a feedback that goes against your business objectives?

Because all in all, Windows is getting less and less useful and more and more annoying. No, you don't need to stuff Cortana, Onedrive or whatever new initiative you have. If I wanted it, I would sign up by myself.

In my case, after I disabled the infamous KB 3035583 update for N-th time and it was back again, I lost my patience and switched the platform. I'm too old for such games. Some of my colleges still need win32 specific apps, but you can be sure, that as soon as they will be able to replace them, they will jump too.
I'll take an occasional dog bark or lawn mower noise (usually during the day time) instead of traffic noise, sirens, yelling, loud music, wondering if my car will be vandalized, etc. And aren't modified compact cars more of an urban thing? Mostly SUVs and minivans around here.
If you filter for "Software Engineers", it goes up to a 4.1, FYI.
iOS jailbreak used to do this, for the root user. The password 'alpine' was the codename for iOS 1.0.
That isn't true:

On average, healthy people lived 84 years. Smokers lived about 77 years and obese people lived about 80 years. Smokers and obese people tended to have more heart disease than the healthy people.

Cancer incidence, except for lung cancer, was the same in all three groups. Obese people had the most diabetes, and healthy people had the most strokes. Ultimately, the thin and healthy group cost the most, about $417,000, from age 20 on.

The cost of care for obese people was $371,000, and for smokers, about $326,000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.97488... (numbers from 2008)
I must have missed the part of Netflix ToS that gives me ownership of all their content for $9.99 a month.

I do agree with you for purchases that have DRM, but this is a subscription service - you watch when you pay, not when you don't.
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This appears to be advertising and is focused on using Talend's tools to apply machine learning. Also it contains errors.

I can't imagine this would have made it to the front page without manipulation.
You need to try a Cortland. If only we could get them here on the West Coast...
Well, we know the following: If people lived active lives and didn't eat too much we wouldn't have this problem. So I guess those are the only two vectors you can attack it on.

As far as eating goes, you can't really dictate quantity but I think one thing you can do is subsidize healthy foods and make them cheap and affordable so everyone can have access to them. I know if you grow up poor you just can't afford to buy healthy foods b/c they're too expensive.

As far as physical activity is concerned, we've had unhealthy foods for a long time and people have eaten unhealthily since the 50s. Look at this chart: http://wellandtrue.com/the-world-has-changed-so-have-our-wai... and you'll see that we only start getting a big spike after the 1980s when everyone basically started moving to fulltime desk jobs in front of a PC all day. So I think some kind of nationally mandated PE routine kids had to do M-F would be a start even though it'd probably never get support.
Interesting.

This article makes me a little scared because I don't take initiative.

I used to try to build new things people wanted (at work) and I thought would make good additions: nope.

Now I just wait until people tell me what to code because it is a waste of time to build what I see is missing and needed when I am nothing more than the monkey.

This sounds really negative, but it kind of is. It is sort of demoralizing and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
I've since been working on this:

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html

I can see no real gain for small lightweight pages with users close by geographically, but heavier pages with >=10 objects do see a benefit IMHO, up from ~1--2 objects per connection to many times that.
I guess that's exactly why I thought it was a bit snobby ... internet folks trashing the preferences of 99 percent of the population.

Having a tree is pretty hard where I live now but pretty normal back in the Midwest.
[1] and [2], both citing the original paper as a source, show that Carbonated water was part of their experiments.

Not only that, but they also tested against degassed carbonated beverage, which is clearly stated on the "RESULTS" section of the abstract.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352563

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352725
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I guess I was looking at it from the wrong perspective then. It is very expensive for me then :)

I guess it is not even meant for me (a single developer with a small project) then!
Alan Kay: How to Invent the Future [video]
Going through it in my head now, actually.

It seems there's an opportunity to meet my friend in person soon. I'll use it to ask about what exactly happened. It's not the kind of thing that comes across well electronically, you really need to be there in real time looking at the reaction. It also needs to be managed properly because this friend is in a somewhat fragile state for completely separate reasons. The last time we met this other issue meant nothing else could even be discussed.

But the key takeaway for my kids is his parents aren't perfect. Hopefully he will have learned that in other ways by the time he's old enough to understand this situation.
You don't have to tax corn. Removing subsidies would be more than enough.

Oh, and the government should STFU about what it thinks is healthy. The last time it tried to interfere with the market it told generations of kids to eat a pound of bread every day. Don't tax anything you think is "bad" and don't subsidize what you think is "good."

If you absolutely must do something bring home-ec back to public schools. Teach kids how to cook. Then let them figure out on their own what they want to eat.
Typically we don't like having companies manipulating municipal policies. This is how we end up in situations where we have one or two ISPs in a market. Or a situation where ATT and Google have to go to court for access to that pole. That was my point. It was not a dis on Apple or a desire for things to not change. We just need to tread carefully when allowing business to dictate municipal policy.
We spoke about this at the office just the other day. Five years ago our small team would simply not have been able to build Graphcool. By utilising the latest technologies and outsourcing as many non-core areas as possible we have come incredibly far in just 1.5 years.