skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a hugely important point. The article highlights some of the systematic hurdles facing would-be farmers, including the cost of land and student loan payments. However, it also highlights some possible solutions.

This is a throwaway point in the article, but I think it's key to imagining a food system and economy that can support this kind of farm:

> Young farmers are also creating their own “food hubs,” allowing them to store, process and market food collectively, and supply grocery and restaurant chains at a price competitive with national suppliers.

Sure, monetary wealth from corporate desk jobs may be necessary to fund farms right now, but small farmers have a lot more power to shape our food system when they band together. Agricultural cooperatives have a long history in the United States [0] and may have a role to play in keeping the new crop of small farmers in business.

[0] http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/whatisacoop/History/#Development_in...
Virtual drinks that tricks your body thinking you are actually drinking
So how do these people got on the top of these pillars? What did they do there all day?
From the studies I have heard about, there is no measurable nutritional difference between organic and non-organic food. See https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-health-benefits-from-org...

I am unaware of such studies for small farms versus large farms.
From what I hear its now plan A to send your kids to British public and American private Schools as well as for the Russian elites.

Its what I have been told happens in my home towns Public schools - one of Barack Obamas roomies at Harvard came from one of them.

As suggested a in the UK Public School is what an American would call a private one ie one where rich people send there kids
Your right, having a to tool doesn't mean you use it correctly. However, the harder it is to apply a tool the less likely you are to do so. I think the authors point isn't to demonstrate that the design is bad, but rather how it's done in clojure.
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For anyone who hasn't watched the video: this comment is on topic and certainly relevant, because Hinton himself invented Capsule Networks. https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-...
Yes, but computational essays are a "New Kind" of literate programming. /s
I am the child of modest workers (my dad didn’t even have a bachelor degree) and have even experienced bankruptcy as a pre teen. I’m definitely not a western elite by background, but was able to experience Chinese society. Heck, there is a whole stereotype, not completely unjustified, of western losers coming to China to make a long term living as rockstar English teachers.
I played both (1 and 2) almost exclusively in single player, completing every mission. SP missions in DF2 were much, much harder by comparison. Unlike the helicopters in DF1, the MIL Mi-24 Hind helicopters in DF2 were able to shoot at you and you were only able to eliminate them either with an anti-tank missile or with the grenade launcher. No matter how many magazines you emptied at a vehicle, it stayed there and didn't explode :-(
Some US sandwiches, sure, but not really. A quarter pound of meat is a decent serving for a sandwich, and load that up with veggies and only put at most, two sauces, and only on one side (the top side preferably so the lettuce will be pressed against it. If you include cheese, two slices is enough most of the time.

Where you run into trouble is once you start loading it up with like 2 or 3 different meats plus bacon and slathering cheese on like there's no tomorrow, and then including loads of mayo and mayo-based sauces and toasting it with butter and so on and so forth. If you go into a sandwich shop and this describes half their sandwiches, it's because that is what their customers are looking for, but you can absolutely get a proper sandwich by asking.

A decent sandwich consisting of meat, some fat (either avocado or cheese, you don't need both unless you're making an avocado and cheese sandwich without any meat), and some good quality veggies on sliced bread, not rolls, is still going to come out pretty big, but it will fill you up and get you through the afternoon. More importantly, a good 50% of the overall thickness will be from the vegetables if you make it right. If you buy loafs, buy oval-shaped loafs as well, the outer parts can be used as toast and the inside will make solid sandwich bread.
If most people are insufficiently scared of it, the company with the most accurate information about the extent of the damage and the most ability to withhold or misleadingly present information stands to benefit (or lose less) financially.

That's the imperfect information problem.
Funny for me to read this, because I’d sworn off Medium articles too for the same reason, yet never heard other people talking about it.

I wouldn’t say it’s quality overall - many are well-written - rather that virtually none bring anything new to the table, have any insight into their subject. Something about the platform draws people whose goal is to write, not who have something to say.
As the topic has been discussed on HN over the years, I've often thought it might be cool to create a browser extension that only shows reviews from HN users with the option of specifying a minimal karma threshold. Perhaps the HN community is too small, so substitute reddit where appropriate. Anyone have thoughts on such a thing?
> having a separate certificate store made it safe against nasty BIOS level viruses

Sorry but that’s just wishful thinking. In this regard Firefox is less of a target than Chrome/Internet Explorer because it isn’t the dominant monoculture, similar to how Mac OS is less of a target than Windows. That doesn’t mean its safe.
Yes, same author. He has a picture of his book at the end of the video (21:40). With these recommendations, and after that video, I am going to buy & read his book.
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The Mate Selection Trapdoor
Are you trying to claim that genetic drift over geological time spans does not make speciation highly likely?

Correct! Because in every generation it is far more likely that the mutant strains would be brought "back into the fold" through interbreeding, and you need the precise opposite effect to happen over many generations to produce a separate species or morphology. So the probability decreases exponentially with generations, not increases.

This very article shows that the male finch was not a different species since it's interfertile with viable offspring.

You are ignoring the need for the mutants to reproduce and outcompete the nonmutants eventually, while somehow simultaneously making a clean break with the other species. The process has not been understood at all.
While shocking, it appears this is not a secret by Expensify and they are up front about it:

https://docs.expensify.com/using-expensify-day-to-day/smarts...

"If our OCR technology can't read the receipt, we will make sure it's flagged for human review by one of our secure technicians. At the end of the day, nothing beats the human eye for ultimate quality."
Merchants and their friends can buy their own products...
> Do users who receive browsers with Cliqz get a clear, effective opt-out warning? Really, it should be opt-in

Either way would render the experiment useless (self-selection bias). Obviously if something like this should make it into Firefox proper, that would make something like an opt-out warning a hard requirement.
No idea what you mean by “strong language”, but a high-level programming language is one in which patterns are expressible directly as libraries or frameworks.
My gripe with Clojure is readability. Its like the PERL of FP to me. Why is there so much syntactic sugar to achieve the same thing? Like this line from the article: "Eve: Or if you want - no-hash solution." This shit makes me cringe.

Just pick one way to to do something, and make that the default in the language. This is why Python is one of the more popular languages today, you can go from 0 to relatively proficient in no time. No FP lang can claim the same thing. And people wonder why after 50 years FP hasn't completely taken off (unless you count javascript).

I can read 10 programs solving the same problem in clojure and they can look almost completely different. That is bug, not a feature, I'm sorry. Having "freedom" to do things in different ways just adds cognitive load. We already deal with enough option fatigue in our daily lives, why make it a core part of a language?
0.000001g doesn't even seem like its enough to make liquids pourable.
Basic Sound Processing in Common Lisp [video]
> That seems to be their current approach

What evidence do you have of this? As far as I can tell, their strategy has been to 1) imitate Chrome and 2) get faster. I don't know that people wanted them to imitate Chrome and get faster, and I would cite the fact that millions have uninstalled it over that period, and installed Chrome.
>Something tells me that this idea will be rejected as being too expensive, which should be quite telling.

Nah, it'll be rejected because you will be interpreted as saying that it's okay for poor people to be exposed to dangerous radiation.

People view health as a "sacred" value that no one should be forced to trade for money, even if they want to.

EDIT: See what I mean.
The demoscene is still pumping out amazing stuff. Check out this ~5 minute 64K demo (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX7ESVZ7T6Y.
It’s opt-out as well. I wonder if this is actually legal in Germany, they have pretty strict laws.
> the main goal and usefulness of patterns is to communicate intent and provide semantics and use a common language to describe common problems

No, that's the role of programming languages. If you can't do it in your programming language of choice, you aren't using a high-level enough one.
As mentioned in the video description, slides are here: http://lisp.amsterdam/presentations/2017-11-02/sound_process...
That's a neat idea, how would you confirm identity, though? Could be challenging to reach critical mass.

Why tie it to only HN and/or reddit? It could be a choice for users to make, about which sites to correlate with which review sites.

In any case, interesting idea, thanks for sharing!
That's true certainly in my teens I wouldn't have thought that though I do come from a middle class back ground as would those went to public school instead of a comprehensive.

I suppose it started to dawn on me when mum commented that if we had stayed in Birmingham they would have used my Grandfather (a headmaster) to try and pull strings to get me into Kings Edwards, BTW this is "the" King Edwards (JRR Tolkien's alma mata) that takes turn with the Oratory for the top school in the country.
My god is go a cumbersome language. I get why the explicitly returned errors are a good thing but the complexity for parsing json surprises me
I reported these (and similar): https://www.amazon.com/Hiearcool-Canceling-Bluetooth-Headpho... a couple weeks ago.

Got a support response telling me to look at verified reviews, and that basically they don't care and verified is considered legit.

Take a look at the reviews. Every single one is 1 paragraph, from "Firstname Lastname" names, within last 3months, 5/5 to every review they ever gave, etc.

I dug into this problem, and it seems that they really are verified reviews. Getting these kind of reviews is costly, the vendor really does suffer an item loss, but having such positive reviews is worth losing 1000 units or so. I won't get into details where to buy these fraud reviews, but essentially there's groups out there on social media websites and specialized websites that work similarly to those discount click ads for us to get an item sites, but instead, it's leave positive fake reviews for us and you get the items for free.

Three weeks now, still nothing done, and still scamming. Good work Amazon fraud dept.
Techcrunch didn't lose. Michael Arrington, made a good amount of money from the sale at the time, unlike Mashable now.
This is not a great comparison: net worth vs market value of goods over time. E.g. what if GDP was measured in decades instead of years?
Its a western tendency to look for alternate interpretations of speech ("what is this really saying?") contrasted with Chinese style of writing which is typically very literal.
If you see two loaves in a store that are basically the same kind, you normally won't think too hard about which one you pick. As mechanical and indifferent as some hiring processes are, they don't approach that level of indifference.
Kudos for going the route of a VST bridge on this. I can see this becoming a necessity as this project grows. This is the route the Hauptwerk took for their pipe-organ software. They used to have a VST-version of their platform, but it was just too unwieldy, particularly if the DAW ever crashed, taking Hauptwerk down with it.
There used to be a British acronym FILTH Failed in London, Try Hong Kong :-)
GDP is a flow, net worth is a stock. Not sure how this became a standard comparison.
Yes, but also this scheme is best rejected as being too convoluted.

1) Someone needs to assess pre-accident prices of every house. That isn't as easy as it sounds, it is a massive logistic challenge (and open to corruption from all angles).

2) This links a nuclear company's performance (after a disaster) to the property market, where they have no inherent expertise. That isn't fair or sensible.

3) If the company has to pay some sort of transactions tax on housing (eg, as is the case in Australia) then they are facing enormous costs even if the market value doesn't change.

4) The vast sums of money involved would probably bankrupt them for cash flow reasons even if the whole transaction were notionally profitable.

5) All of this doesn't even incentivise good behavior. May as well pass a law that if things go wrong the company gets wound up - same basic result (this is not a good idea either imo).

Also, the people who are concerned about trading dollars for lives probably don't want to become regulators [1]. We don't know how to run a 0-death society and there are decisions that must be made in practice. Valuing life with money is a great way of doing that.

[1] https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statis...
Ha I was waiting for you to say that guys name was 'John Carmack'

Could probably search for him on LinkedIn maybe it is ha
Tech is one area in which young people can generally make a good living, sometimes without the need for significant college education. While I am sympathetic to immigrants (sometimes I want to move to America) I also understand that people do not want people from overseas gunning for their job.
> We will try to match both freelancers looking for gigs...

There exist several platforms that do this already - Toptal, Freelancer, Gigster, Upwork > https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2016/10/24/the-skill...

Can you deliver a faster, better, more economical experience for clients? More interesting/rewarding for job-seekers?
So Bezos can pay to run his country tax-free for, what, 2-5 years?
Cells’ uniqueness is explained by epigenetic. And as already said, this problem could be eliminated. You can take a new borned baby stem cells with zygote's DNA almost in every clinic nowadays.
The main problem is that almost all finding are banned in this field. I guess modern countries are incompatible with cloning. It is too game changing.
REI’s Crunchy Business Model Is Crushing Retail Competitors (2015)
The fun thing is that it used to be that rural areas has the most Republican votes for example.
Are there any other commercial lego sorters?
No matter what the public policy is, some percentage of people will leave. And that will shrink the local economies, and that will act as an incentive for even more people to leave. To make things right for those who stay, the government would have to subsidize the local economies, and even that would be a fraction of what things were like before the disaster.

The reality is a nuclear accident causes massive asset destruction, it touches people who had absolutely no say in the economic transaction, and probably no meaningful political say either.

Pretty much the only fair solution, is equal unfairness. Part of the "not in my backyard" is because the track record is, local residents are disproportionately impacted, and there is no where near enough support for them, while people far away are minimally impacted. This is trust damaging, and incentivizes people to vote against nuclear power: not in my backyard = I do not trust you to make me whole in the unlikely event there is an accident.
That's quite informative. I've been using Emacs for over 25 years, including maintaining to-do lists, but have never dipped my toes into org-mode. Time to give it a try.
>I'm expected to trust that everything is perfectly fine.

Sure, you shouldn't be forced to stay. But by the same token the government shouldn't be able to force you to leave your perfectly safe home and possessions just for the sake of giving them some "caring" PR.
Interesting speculations about the ostensible naivety of Trump, but not necessarily true. He would be impeached by now if he didn’t approach intelligence contacts early on about securing America-first interests as it pertained to any interactions with Russia going forward. His attorneys are likely not Russian agents, after all.

If not true, one would reasonably expect impeachment to be forthcoming, if there’s enough there to connect the dots on such accusations of collusion.
It reminds me of the The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (2nd book of the Three Body Problem trilogy) where one of the wallfacers came up with a chip to overcome defeatism in the troops (the Mental Seal).

Scary but fascinating how fast future approaches.
This is behind a paywall. Is it available anywhere else?
An increase in sales tax or more likely VAT in the UK will immediately show up in prices as inflation. You may be thinking of income tax which may indeed have a different effect depending on the circumstances.
BLE supports pairing and bonding. It is optional, by default every connection is unencrypted and unauthenticated.
True. This is the reason why our primary storage is an Isilon cluster supported by EMC. This is something we can't afford to have downtime with.

The NAS I was asking about is a passive backup server. If something goes wrong and ZFS asks me nicely to do do a clean boot or a scrub, we'll be perfectly okay.
Even if it is down for a few days, we can catch up from snapshots on the primary storage.

Good point about going for enterprise grade hardware instead of putting together cheap parts. Duly noted. I will buy a decent server with good support and lots of ECC memory.
Okay, this is going to sound mean, but this is like the definition of p-hacking. When you look at 30 values, you simply can't be surprised that one of them is lower than the mean, with a p value around 1/20th. Use something like a Bonferroni correction, to get a significance level of 1/600. Does the result still stand up? In fact, there's an xkcd about this very topic. https://www.xkcd.com/882/
I try to use ObjC PPC macros for things that are constant for the run of the program, and can be reasoned about globally.

For example, some good ones I use are isLandscape or isIPad, which are both variable depending on the user, but constant for the run of the app. Perfect for a PCH file I think.
But it's always after midnight
Show HN: I created a coding challenge where the answer unlocks some Bitcoin
what does "steady emotions in people" mean? are you suggesting that brainwashing / political indoctrination is a good thing
I have to disagree and I can not really understand what is so appealing about the simulation idea to many. It is an idea that will lead nowhere because you are unable to distinguish a real universe from a simulated one. In order to do this you would have to know what at least one of those scenarios looks like and then compare the universe you observe to what you know to be true about a real or simulated universe.

It is common to base such thoughts on analogies between our universe and our computers, i.e. our computers have only finite precision while the universe seems continuous, at least to a very good approximation. Therefore if we would detect rounding errors in the universe we would know that the universe is actually a simulation.

But that is at least naive and most likely not true. How would you know that a real universe does not have finite precision? Why would you assume simulation must have finite precision? And you have to answer the same question for any other feature you want to use to make the distinction.
Does it make any sense to place a series of landers in solar orbit, waiting for short-lived opportunities like this? I don't think we'd save much on fuel since the orbits wouldn't be optimized for the target. However, it would require much less planning when opportunities arise, and wouldn't be as reliant on the political winds of the day.
A blockchain that can repel minority forks
I grew up in a dense city, and feel the same way. Currently work in a suburb and live in SF, and I especially enjoy the close proximity to lots of people. That said it is nice to spend some time outdoors and walk the soil barefoot!

It's a personal choice, do what works for you.
>Correct! Because in every generation it is far more likely that the mutant strains would be brought "back into the fold" through interbreeding

Is that something you came up with yourself or is it something that mainstream biology acknowledges?

And if random-mutation+selective pressure (i.e. natural selection) is not the primary mechanism for speciation, then what is?
That is because it is inherently exploitative to ask poorer people to trade their health for money, as they simply will only have so much money to pay.

When only the rich can afford to live the sacredness of this value starts to become apparent.
Are sites like fakespot not sufficient (or any other popular meta review sites)? HN/reddit review writers would be such a tiny subset of purchasers that you probably wouldnt get much relevant data.
MSFT Market Cap: $642.317B

$20 Billion income a year

Lots of dividends over the years.

if this is lost value...I'd take it.
I definitely think it was intended that way. From the beginning, the language seemed loaded with judgmental terms and obsessed with status. So the article seemed purposefully not to resolve itself, most likely because the natural conclusion according to the article's tone and content would probably be some asinine assertion like China > USA, Americans/British/people from Western society are silly/irrational/incompetent, communism > democracy, etc. of course all while being blissfully unaware of ones (and ones culture's) own biases, shortcomings, and contradictions. So really the article lacks a point so it won't make a crude/distasteful one. Like a polite person who gives a vague noncommittal answer in a group instead of a patronizing one.
Just wait until there is a BFR supplied gas station in orbit for such an occasion.
If/when the economy has a major hiccup all those sellers of "distinguished" goods will have a very hard time because people will pay their mortgages first even if that means drinking PBR and eating GMO grown frozen broccoli. The upper middle class aren't a very stable or loyal set of customers.
As opposed to work nine to five like a nice corporate drone retire and die within 2 years as was common a generation ago?
This story immediately reminded me of Scott Adams. He spent some time working on financial models before writing Dilbert. If you can stomach polarizing political viewpoints from a cartoonist, I would highly recommend reading his non-Dilbert books and giving his blog a thorough reading. His reflections on life touch on the role of luck, the limitations of prediction models, and framing worldviews from multiple perspectives as a way to narrow down on success, influence, and the very meaning of life.
Try setting layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to e.g. 2 in about:config?
Maybe you are being ironic. My point was about chemicals.