skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that you are never even going to ask an interesting question if you are going to remain determinedly ignorant of all the questions that have previously been asked and studied.
300 lbs of urea or .65 boe of NG (1 bbl of oil = 20 gallons of gas and 11 gallons of diesel)
The main reason prices are falling is that we are coming off the biggest commodities boom in history. 2008-2013 saw record setting prices for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Really, things are just returning to normal now that the boom is over.

As you would expect, marketing corn is more challenging now, after the boom, but there is still opportunity for money to be made. The thing about these crops is that the market price can swing by fairly large amounts in the matter of days, so the fact that a losing venture today can become a huge profit opportunity next week keeps people interested.

There is no lack of people keen to buy land and equipment if someone really wants out of the business, but we're not that bad off yet.
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To add on to this, I found the recent reddit AMA with Bill Bengen (first author on that Trinity paper) highly interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/6vaz...
Amazon.com: An Economic History of the World Since 1400
Interesting point.

It's hard to prove theorems without the [correct] axioms.

I suppose what our field needs to do is some "triage" categorizing aspects of systems that MUST be "defined and proven" vs those that can be "intuited" - e.g. - back-end database updates need to be correct, but it's acceptable to have the user reload a web page if something crashes occasionally???

But The Man wants lots of 'wares made by cheap full stack developers, er, dev-ops :-(
Why not redistribute the subsidies to other fruits and veggies?
> Probably not.

"Traditional nomadic tribes often end up abandoning their elderly during their unrelenting travels. The choice for the healthy and young is to do this or carry the old and infirm on their backs — along with children, weapons and necessities — through perilous territory. Also prone to sacrificing their elderly are societies that suffer periodic famines. Citing a dramatic example, Diamond said Paraguay’s Aché Indians assign certain young men the task of killing old people with an ax or spear, or burying them alive."

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/jared-diamond-on-aging-1505...

If you want to lop off 30 years of life expectancy to join your tribe, please include me out.
I recall the blog having a much cleaner URL (no redirects) of https://blog.google before..

I’m curious as to why the www. version was made the default after some time? Would you happen to know the story behind it?
> We had big brains before we discovered fire.

Homo Erectus had a much smaller brain than us. And the cooking theory seems fairly well accepted these days.

Someone once made the calculus that if you had to grow and sustain your brain with just raw food, you'd have to eat like 18 hours a day or something (can't recall the exact number). That would not give you much time to actually use that brain. It's hard not to conclude on the importance of cooking in the evolution of our brain.

There's a TED conf on the subject, if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_XH1CBzGw
Nice! I love the economic history since the 1400s
The word picture you've made up doesn't remotely resemble anything I've read about a wide variety of indigenous cultures. It's as much a caricature as is the Noble Savage.

I don't have a horse in the race, which is a silly one in any case. We are where we are and global civilisation can only be unpicked via cataclysm (which is a by no means remote possibility). And one can still see the human good in other cultures without wanting to abandon your own. I personally wouldn't be of that much use in a more communal society.

But I see no harm in starting with at least a modicum of knowledge, interpretive charity, and curiosity. When did the latter in particular become so undervalued in our society, as it seems to be on HN when this subject comes up?
You can demonstrate any level of qualify of life you want if you're willing to cherry-pick demographics like that.
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Maybe it's the case that societies where the women stay home have more kids. That would make them more successful from an evolutionary perspective. Those societies would be more likely to propagate and spread.
The thing is, someone needs to firmly prove that it is -language- and not -culture- that causes the influence. To me, Occam's Razor would almost force the latter, unless you can find a way to explain why Quebecois culture is different from French culture.

That said, thank you so much for not sharing Boroditsky's work.
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Have you ever considered the fact that you might be a genius? An evil genius for sure, but still.
You believe the researchers who have found errors in Dr. Wansink's work are in league with the food industry? You don't think the mathematical errors stand as errors in their own?
The federal income tax isn't the only income tax. There are also state, local, FICA, and medicare taxes. Add those in and someone with a $100K salary ends up in that 30-40% range.
It's a part of their employee screening solutions.

What does lexis/nexis not do?
> The reason seems to be (but this is my personal opinion) that the typical things mathematicians love to write proofs about have a high level of redundancy for this kind of error.

Rather than “redundancy”, it's a matter of having nice (algebraic, geometric, whatever) structure. Of course, a pure mathematician has more freedom than a programmer to decide what kinds of structures he wants to work with.

> statements that are rather trivial and obvious, but very subtle in the edge cases.

This is a contradiction in terms. If it seems “trivial and obvious”, but is actually “subtle in the edge cases”, then you are underestimating its complexity.

> Often the a non-formalized proof is "trivially correct" when a human skims it, but often is wrong for very, very subtle reasons.

Then you need to roll up your sleeves and actually prove things, not just skim through purported proofs.
One thing about HAM that I didn't see in perusing the comments is how many tools HAM operators have developed that integrate with the internet. There are a bunch of tools that let you start out on HF and hit a receiver or repeater that puts your traffic into the internet. In an environment with the right kind of repeaters you can hit the internet with a handheld (Puerto Rico likely has had it's repeaters decimated with all other towers). On HF you can go around the world to hit a link to the internet. I imagine the Red Cross and ARRL will be selecting an HF mode and band to take the shortest hop they can into more modern data systems.

The secret sauce in HF is that unlike the web, conditions matter to the operator. Things like sunspot activity, the position of the day/night line, if you are near water etc. can greatly affect your ability to successfully communicate.

DXpeditions, which are trips HAMs take with their gear to try to hit very distant stations are often based in island locations because HF tends to propagate significantly better with the antenna is near water as opposed to irregular ground.

I would just say to all of you who are into tech as I imagine HN readers to be, to give HAM a try. A lot of us are old and HAM sites regularly feature a list of "silent keys" because so many of the hardcore operators are dying off. Yes it's a bit antiquated but the younger generation will be able to marry all the amazing things you've invented to HAM to serve populations where the new tech either hasn't gone or gets knocked out as in the current crisis. For so many of you engineers it will be easy, like dusting off your first Circuits text. Yes, the regs are a drag to learn but I bet the average HN reader has done things that are way more challenging.

Have fun!

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The battle is very much not over. Famine remains a major issue in many places all over the world.

http://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-fac...
Here's some info if you're interested in starting your own open source program c/o the TODO Group: https://github.com/todogroup/guides
Good of you to have a grasp on the fuel inputs on your fertilizers. How much land do you tend? I'm interested to see what brings a farmer to HN.
A real function key row on the high end models. I'm very hesitant to buy at all without one.

That and the aforementioned 32GB. Other than that I'm more than happy with my 2012 model.

Edited to add: oh and bring MagSafe back. I forgot about that. Can't count the number of times it's saved my computer. On the lookout for third party adapters....
The smart contracts in Ethereum sounds awesome in practice and way more useful than Bitcoin mining but it seems like a giant security hole.
Be careful not to jump to conclusions as well. :) Even given that Rust is newer (as well as hopefully harder to exploit!) it's entirely fair to criticize the contest rules for being a bit intimidating, and doesn't imply fanboyishness or anti-Rust sentiment. I think it was an interesting experiment to try crafting a more "real-world" underhanded challenge in contrast to the highly artificial underhanded C contest, especially since this is the first such contest and the organizers weren't sure if they were going to get a flood of responses or a trickle. But personally, for future iterations of this contest I'd suggest something more freeform to encourage more submissions (which is ultimately better for the security of the language, after all!).
hmmm, why not monetize it somehow?
Famine is caused by poor distribution, not poor production.

From your link: "The world produces enough food to feed everyone."

Further: "For the world as a whole, per capita food availability has risen from about 2220 kcal/person/day in the early 1960s to 2790 kcal/person/day in 2006-08, while developing countries even recorded a leap from 1850 kcal/person/day to over 2640 kcal/person/day."
> Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?

Yes, this decision has already been made. Freedom (of speech and more) is fought for and won through struggle and sacrifice. We have already lost much human life to defend these rights and continue to do so.

Bad actions will be dealt with the appropriate consequences, as they always have, but that does not mean we should start limiting rights. This is the foundation of the justice system and society itself.
What i was about to post. The weak-version of Sapir-whorf has been affirmed by research, specifically in color labels vs ability to distinguish absolute differences, e.g., here: http://www.blutner.de/color/Sapir-Whorf.pdf
> I pay a lot of landing fees

You must fly a big plane (or fly into big airports)! Or things have gotten more expensive.

> I agree that the US is a flyer's paradise compared to Europe

Which in turn is a flyer’s paradise compared to Asia :-(

Africa (southern part) is surprisingly fun and uncomplicated to fly in.
The real physical limitation is the sensor size.
Whatever innovation you can come up with for a tiny smartphone sensor, they would work proportionally well to improve a bigger sensor.
> It should be noted that voluntary commitments can rapidly and more easily become involuntary commitments. After all, the patient has already admitted that they are unwell.

Yes. Once admitted you have something no matter how convincing you are. Never talked to someone who walked out having not be diagnosed with something.
Romanticism about nature and whatnot. Regardless of the merits of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, one thing marks it far inferior: the ability of the author to make his argument and have it heard.

H-g societies lack knowledge beyond the most immediate needed to survive. The author himself probably knows more about the world and the universe (excepting the specifics of how to survive in the wild - a mundane problem) than the entirety of all hunter gatherer societies.

I'd rather drink HFCS-infused water, eat processed meat, and breathe diesel fumes than be unable to think the thoughts I think today because I lack the framework to even think them.

No thanks.
Here's some more information if you're interested in running your own open source program: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/open-source-guides...
Yes. The iPhone X has something literally called the "Flood illuminator" which projects IR light. This is one of the many reasons FaceID is not reactively available to previous iPhones via a software update.

> The flood illuminator produces infrared (IR) light, part of the electromagnetic spectrum that's invisible to the naked eye, to illuminate your face;

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2017/09/16/how-face-i...
I think you're overcomplicating things.

Men are stronger and don't have to bear children.
Before you ask someone to correct you, you needed to raise examples which Chinese education isn't rigorous. AFAIK, East-Asian countries education are all consistent and rigorous and focus very much on STEM. And they all focus on good hand writing on paper. Good handwriting can probably get a few extra marks on writing exams. But after their students finished high-school and attended college entrance exam, fewer people keep up with good hand writing since everyone types right now.
Any interest in implementing DNSCrypt? I feel DNSSEC alone is useless since one can't guarantee integrity to the DNS resolver.
You don't store the name. You use the name to generate the salt and hash the results. You only store the hashes.
The Next Steve Jobs Isn't Buying an iPhone X
He's probably doing an ICO and bypassing the Valley completely.
You can't protect yourself from bad events like health issues with a cushion of cash. I mean not unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank. My son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 19 months old (4+ years ago) and with what we spend on hospital, health insurance, supplies, etc we could buy a new Toyota Camry every single year. Let that sink in for a minute. I have been a contractor for quite a while so we've been able to weather it, but if I was making a 'normal' salary (I'm in the Southeast US) we'd be drowning in credit card bills to pay for our son's care.
> Wallaroo is an open source project.

> You can run all Wallaroo code in a production environment for free on up to 3 server or 24 cpus.

So it is not an open source project then.
This Furniture Startup Wants You to Meet the Craftsman Who Made Your Sofa
With any sort of password or authentication, you can just wait for the person to take out their phone and start using it, and then grab it from them. Not exactly difficult. If you are so concerned about security that you think there is a good chance someone is going to physically attack you to get into your phone, you should just assume someone will get into your phone eventually, and don't keep any sensitive data on it. For the other 99.9999% of the population, face id is good enough.
Sure, but the crucial thing is that offsetting the gravitational potential energy is angular momentum; we can treat the former as "negative energy" with the idea that it takes positive energy to pull apart two bodies attracting each other gravitationally. [1]

Since the negative energy ultimately wins, there must be less and less positive energy holding the bodies apart. The positive energy has to go somewhere, and that somewhere is gravitational radiation.

One could equivalently be very Machian and rotate with the system and consider that the gravitational attraction of "the whirling distant stars" is working to keep the black holes from colliding. The distant matter loses because the binary black holes move positive energy (holding the BHs apart) out towards the distant stars (which also lets the BHs move a bit further away from the distant stars).

s ---+ B1 --++ B2 ---+ s -> s ---++ B1 -- B2 ++---s

Even if we consider inspiralling stars (no horizons to be found), we're lifting relatively little mass-energy out of them, rather than dealing with the energy that keeps them from colliding. The mass-energy of the system (which you measure in Joules or solar masses) when considered in the cosmological frame is what has the excess ~ 12% that gets radiated away.

Finally, in Special Relativity the angular momentum and energy-momentum of localized systems is frame-dependent; the addition of gravitational fields in a linear approximation of GR does not change that, and gravitational waves are a result in linearized gravity. It certainly is useful to discuss dimensionful quantities like the ones you listed, but it's important to remember that different observers are free to disagree violently about the numbers. Thinking about how and why they might do so is often enlightening.

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[1] Although the convention is mostly there because in Newtonian gravity, one takes T + U = const. for a body felling gravity, and since by virtue of having been described earlier T (kinetic energy) is positive so U (gravitational potential) must be negative, with the result that F = - \nabla U. We break the conservation of T + U in General Relativity quite happily, but retain the notion of the gravitational interaction as negative in many useful frames, so in the footnoted paragraph we have a generalized T and U available by a suitable choice of frame of reference in the weak limit.
No, but I'd like to see them too. The closest I can come is what the now-retired Jupyter Dashboards project had to say:

http://jupyter-dashboards-layout.readthedocs.io/en/latest/us...

> Alice is a Jupyter Notebook user. Alice prototypes data access, modeling, plotting, interactivity, etc. in a notebook. Now Alice needs to deliver a dynamic dashboard for non-notebook users. Today, Alice must step outside Jupyter Notebook and build a separate web application. Alice cannot directly transform her notebook into a secure, standalone dashboard application.

I find this pretty unconvincing. The gap between "stuff I did in a notebook" and a secure, let alone correct, application is nontrivial. There's no way for Alice to do this without learning to write computer programs for real. And if she does that, she'll find that it's a lot easier when you don't pull in a huge dependency like Jupyter.
> Fewer on both accounts than you would in early settled agricultural societies.

Especially because they had fewer children, since the human child is dependent on the mother for so long. So they focused more on getting each child to an age where they could start to take care of themselves before having another one.

And it also helped keep population low, which slowed the spread of disease and parasites, and also meant that a smaller food supply could feed people well.
They spent 500 million dollars on something and no doubt on many different things, but it wasn't on 4 houses. There's definitely a problem in that we don't know what exactly they spent that money on, and we also have no idea if the stuff they spent it on was actually very effective (it's hard to believe that it was anything other than a great waste, but that may also be true of the very large sums of money spent by other non-profits in Haiti). The narrative that the American Red Cross spent half a billion dollars on a handful of houses is so grossly -- and obviously -- over-simplified that it can't be anything but complete baloney. It makes a great headline though.

(It goes without saying that this is my own humble opinion, of course.)
The social science you're describing is not the same as that I learned at university. Maybe it doesn't often admit experimentation, but it sure as hell uses observation and comparison. In fact you're sort of insulting economists here, implying that they practice a sort of solipsistic philosophy. Lots of them really deserve it, but still!

The secret unacknowledged religious dogma you might not even know you've swallowed (although golly are Goldman glad you did!) is the proposition that banks are difficult to replace. This notion is preposterous on its face (which is why no one ever says it out loud) because of course anyone who owns capital is quite capable of purchasing financial instruments with that capital. If they weren't, they wouldn't own it in the first place. In the absence of "bailouts", there might have been some temporary confusion as legitimate profitable uses of capital switched from the old banks to the new (and presumably as the new bankers upgraded their executive suites to the level of opulence required in their new positions), but the history of recessions in 19thC USA makes clear that when we just let weak banks fail, the economy quickly recovers.
Or in life-threatening circumstances
Agreed. Every single time I've ever looked at a github profile for a candidate they've had 1 or 2 original repositories that are as bare bones as possible and 18 forked repositories so it "looks" to the untrained eye (i'm guessing recruiters) that they have an active profile.
>deserted villages in the eastern states

Isn't that the consequence of half a century under communism?
I don't get the thesis of this article... its kinda obvious
I'd guess: 1. probably easier to manage, with a central net coordinator and many remotes. 2. there is lots of equipment 3. cheaper
I really liked "Visual Complexity" by Manuel Lima:

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complexity-Mapping-Patterns-In...
Or they could go with a slightly higher powered chipset in the already insanely thin and lightweight form factor of last year's MBPs to leave space for a bigger battery.
Yes, I encourage you to write to your reps about it.
The type of comment written by someone not bombed to shreds by a drone or being born a cow in a factory and so on? Civilization isn't the only source of progress, and it's the source of a deep alienation, too. That is, when it overdoes the turning people into cogs part. Having a cavity filled is one thing, what is done to others, what we do to each other on many levels, how we have ritualized abuse in many ways, is another. Why does that have to be a competition? Why not pick best we can grasp of all worlds we can find?

People who need glasses or medicine but can't afford them do rely on the impulse to treat others like you want to be treated and be social. Having a cavity filled is a much better experience if you're helpful to the dentist and they to you; I once worked in a hospital and a doctor put some tube into a patient so abruptly the scream made people of the other clinic building come to the windows, and I still can't tell you what is more spooky, such an action or how people just perk up and then down. Technology isn't worth much in the wrong hands, and it's the hands I'm personally more interested in than the technology. I consider technological progress a given like rain dew. It can collapse or go at different speeds but I don't think it can stop outright, not without enforcement by a dystopian "civilization", anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer

> One way to divide hunter-gatherer groups is by their return systems. James Woodburn uses the categories "immediate return" hunter-gatherers for egalitarian and "delayed return" for nonegalitarian. Immediate return foragers consume their food within a day or two after they procure it. Delayed return foragers store the surplus food.

Don't get me wrong, storing food is a great idea, spoken like someone who never had to starve. It seems more like as soon as we get the capacity to be jerks, we seize that. That is, I don't think those hunter-gatherers don't store food because it's more fair to eat together right away, but because they don't have the means to. Why can't we have progress and decency, i.e. be more worthy recipients of progress? The question isn't just health and longevity, but also what we do with it. I know that's banal and again I'm not claiming you disagree, it's not like I disagree with you either, after all. But the rift between what we could do and what we do do is growing in my eyes. George Carlin called it sneakers with lights in the heels, I think.
Is Humanity Suicidal? (1993)