skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did bought few small vineyard plots 5 years ago. It is good lifestyle, especially as I live in the city and commute to countryside few days a week.

It is hard to make living this way, you have to spend astronomical amount of money just to buy basic infrastructure and land required to even start. Then you are very dependent on weather and without good planning you might end up broke very easily.

In my case I basically bought into (less then) minimum wage job, that require huge ongoing investments and sustained work all year around. I like this lifestyle and I am not fool, so I still keep working as a developer (during off season as well as part time work) and have diverse streams of income that can sustain my family.

What I can see on forums and discussions around the internet is romantic view of this lifestyle with bankruptcy down the road. Trust me, this lifestyle is not easy and you should spent more time with Excel then you are comfortable with.
Ok, we've derarified the title above.
And let them spy on my email? Why do you think I administrate my own server in the first place?

(I reckon being a paying customer may mean they do not collect data. I don't trust them not to, though.)
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Impressive that you already know who is responsible.
Bluetooth LE range is easily magnified with a cantenna. The device will play audio sent to it over an unencrypted unauthenticated link to your kids. Also it will show videos sent over the same link (but they must be small because eyes are small)

Both of these are problems for some parents.
Wow, did not know this - thanks!
Well, if it had hit Earth, it would have happened without astronomers (or anyone else) knowing about it beforehand. As you point out, it was discovered after it had passed us, so there was no advance warning at all, however this is quite common with asteroids.
You are absolutely right, but that visual quality comes at a huge cost in other areas. For example, I find tomatoes in the US disgusting (and don’t tell me “oh, you need to try fresh/cherry/whatever tomatoes”, I have). They look good but taste horrible. They’ve been bred for looks and weight, not flavor.

In many places outside the US, the tomato breeds there are bred for flavor, not looks. They’re uglier, but they have a vastly higher sugar/fat/whatever content and taste much better.

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/12/10972140/fruits-vegetables-tas...
Relevant: Bitcoin Boiler

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Not visual quality, that's for sure :)
While I agree that one's Emacs setup will never be able to compete with a fully-featured IDE for any single language, I've found it impossible for me to leave Emacs because I now do everything in it.

However, with my org-mode integration:

- I have a list of all open tasks for each of my open projects, each with an associated deadline (if applicable).

- As I complete tasks, I provide a short summary of what it took to resolve the task; as such, my .org files have become a log of what I accomplished

- I also use .org to clock my time, which makes it easy to summarize a week or month at a glance, and to see if I'm spending my time where I think I should be.

- Finally, one of my favorite features of org-mode is the ability to include links to my code in each of my todo items, which means that I can immediately open files of interest (and even link to a particular version in git: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-git-link.html) and start editing, since I never left my editor in the first place.

To me, it's not about having all the features for a single language; what keeps me working within Emacs is the ability to have all the features I've grown accustomed to for every language, and have a system customized to my liking that I never have to leave. It's certainly not for everyone (I hope I don't come across as critical), but I'm convinced nothing will ever get me to leave.

EDIT: formatting.
I know two people who had serious problems for many years and recovered after doing fecal transplants. Placebo or not, I would recommend it to people who can't be helped by regular medicine. Certainly worth a try.
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> "In Communism, the future is certain; it is only the past that might not be"

A fine essay, the above quote gave me a chuckle.
Homeopathic treatments help lots of people. The trick would be to demonstrate that they help people more than a placebo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#How_the_Placebo_effect...
> Does the light signal in an fibre optic cable get noisy over distance?

Yes.

> If so, then wouldn't an analog signal amp such as this simply amplify the noise along with the signal?

Yes. That's why there are limits on the reach of amplified networks.

> Decoding and re-encoding would have the effect of 'cleaning' the signal in this case.

Yes, but regenerating the signal introduces complexity, and thus reduces reliability, adds latency and only works for a specific encoding, which makes upgrades impossible. None of these things are wanted at the bottom of the sea for the next 25 years.

> If it does get noisy, where does the noise come from?

There are lots of noise sources. See: http://www.svphotonics.com/pub/pub029.pdf

> The medium?

Yes, partly.

> Leakage from outside the cable?

No. Although vibrations can cause noise.
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The finding of the study mentioned in the article was that the far effect was inversely proportional to the quality of the study design. Everything in one anecdotal experience may in fact be the case but in many situations will not constitute a high quality experiment.
Why shouldn't a philosophy major do community service? How does reading Foucalt or Plato make someone inherently virtuous?

There are plenty of financiers who are draining the wealth of the world into their own pockets who were educated in the humanities.
I imagine the perpetrators may also be hoping someone will buy it philanthropically, to return it to the original gallery.
I'm also from a farming community. They're scraping by currently, with college debt... Every farmer will tell you that unless you get enough "good years" stacked away in the bank, when the inevitable "bad years" hit, you will go under. I've seen it dozens of times to young farmers starting out. If they time it right, they'll just make it. If not, the farm is in foreclosure and they're back to their 'old' jobs.
Yeah, the intro is spot on - unhappy office worker leaves for a farm.
And the "n-cube" is the "measure-polytope" because you can use squares to measure 2-space, cubes to measure 3-space, hypercubes for 4-space and so on...
I would be curious to know what the attack scenario is exactly? I assume this is local, not remote, but the article is not very specific. Furthermore, has any kind of PoC been published?
The text is larger, and thicker than usual text in a newspaper or book, and it is just as black, or even more black (measured on a calibrated display).

You might want to change your monitor, or recalibrate it, because it seems like this is an issue with your display.

Photo: https://i.imgur.com/o5bknYs.jpg (The text on the newspaper there is #574839, while the text on the linked site is #454545. The text in the newspaper is the equivalent of 10px tall, and 1px thick, the text on the site is 16px tall and 2.5px thick)
> Other than that, keeping copies on another computer is the only way to reliably protect against data loss in any VCS system.

That’s not the point of GP post. In fossil for example, one can have multiple checkouts of a single repository (on a single computer by the same person) without fear this will lead to data loss. I don’t think this was suggested as a backup strategy, just a workflow feature.
For people wanting to learn, this article trying to use it for audio applications will give you a nice taste of the language:

http://www.electronicdesign.com/embedded-revolution/assessin...

This Barnes book shows how it’s systematically designed for safety at every level:

https://www.adacore.com/books/safe-and-secure-software

Note: The AdaCore website has a section called Gems that gives tips on a lot of useful ways to apply Ada.

Finally, if you do Ada, you get the option of using Design-by-Contract (built-in to 2012) and/or SPARK language. One gives you clear specifications of program behavior that take you right to source of errors when fuzzing or something. The other is a smaller variant of Ada that integrates into automated, theorem provers to try to prove your code free of common errors in all cases versus just ones you think of like with testing. Those errors include things like integer overflow or divide by zero. Here’s some resources on those:

http://www.eiffel.com/developers/design_by_contract_in_detai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...

The book and even language was designed for people without a background in formal methods. I’ve gotten positive feedback from a few people on it. Also, I encouraged some people to try SPARK for safer, native methods in languages such as Go. It’s kludgier than things like Rust designed for that in mind but still works.

GPL download for AdaCore GNAT:

https://www.adacore.com/community
Not a bug. Working as intended.
Is salt unhealthy? I thought that is a myth too. I think salt is required part of healthy diet. In moderation of course.

Sugar? Hmm I didn’t know there’s much sugar in sausages. I mostly eat family made sausages and I don’t think there’s much sugar.
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What's currently happening in London is the sub-surface lines are GoA 1 (i.e., "a train system with signals") and are moving to GoA 2 (i.e., "the train drives itself from station to station unless the driver intervenes").

The new deep-level stock (i.e., New Tube for London) is specified to be able to be retrofitted with GoA 4 equipment (i.e., "there are no staff on the train, driver, attendant, or otherwise"), but will start out as GoA 2 (Victoria, Central, Northern, and Jubilee lines are already fitted and run as such with their existing stock).
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My sense of the available evidence of the behavior of social groups with blatantly mistaken beliefs is that many don't 'see the error of their ways.'
My dad and grandfather both kept 2-3 acre food producing gardens as hobbies. So, I am well aware of what's involved.

At those scales you want machinery, but you can use a Garden Tiller instead of a disk plow behind a tractor etc. Their are actually a lot of moderately expensive tools that scale up to ~80 acres without hitting the very high costs of an actual farm. Also often possible to find an actual farmer willing to lend you equipment for a large cut. ~2,000 hours of effort is a significant hobby, but less than many WoW players as a direct comparison.

10k in revenue before expenses is not much and is easy for that to end up negative after expenses and even in the best case your likely paying yourself well below minimum wage. As to wine, again that's something you can do completely independent of a farm by just buying grapes.
> visual quality

When it comes to food --and specifically fruits and vegetables-- visual aspect is not a good indicator of taste or nutrition value. I would actually argue the opposite.
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Actually, it isn't. An "automatic donut maker" doesn't make automatic donuts.

Compound adjectives in English should be hyphenated, so strictly speaking, the GP is correct and the headline should have been: "The Computer-History Simulation Project."
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Only in multimode fiber. Not so in single mode fiber. All subsea cables use singlemode fiber.
We're actually working on this, first with a rewrite of our item/block behavior system to be modular and moddable using lamdbas.

Then we will be adding a way for plugins to provide new textures in resource packs.

Once that's all done, we will create a client Forge mod to allow for plugins to add new blocks rather than reuse existing ones.

We also have a pretty nice modular system for AI tasks, but it needs more stress testing with a pathfinding implementation before we start finalizing the API for it.
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There's a storage startup that posts their hardware designs openly on here. I forget the name though.

Edit: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... Cost is $0.036/GB

Alas it's ext4. You could do XFS if you want something in the mainline Linux kernel with a long history, btrfs or ZFS-on-Linux if you're happy with one or the other, or just run ZFS/BSD as you mention if you've got BSD skills.

Edit: I know it's not the done thing on HN to complain about downvotes, but why on earth would anyone downvote an entirely informational post?
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I remember typing class with typewriters and the little cardboard boxes to cover your hands freshman year in hs. The kicker was, this was in the 90's in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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It is false for x86_64 when compiling with gcc 7.2 or clang 4.0. Not sure you can make atomic.h use CMPXCHNG16B.
I pay ten dollars a gallon for fresh non pasteurized milk from a local family that has seven cows. I don't buy a lifestyle from them, I buy fucking good milk from animals that are loved like family, and I'm proud to be helping them make a living doing something that is good for everyone(including the cows). It's not a lifestyle, it's just supporting people who aren't shitting on everyone's future.
Reminds me of this old Daily WTF:
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Just-a-WarmUp
Not if it's in the Hadean Eon; we have serious difficulty finding well-preserved direct evidence from that time. It could be that we settled on DNA and cells before the geologic record was capable of faithfully preserving evidence of either.
Glad they are useful for something. They have a ridiculous and annoying call and run in front of me as I bike.
I thought at first glance it might be a reference being swallowed by the browser thinking it was an html entity ( &whatever; ).

I don't see anything in the page source either though. So if it was something swallowed as an entity it didn't make it into the final source at all. Perhaps an editor expanded it automatically into nothing.

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Those initial life forms would probably take the form of something like prions, or viruses: small protein assemblies, with a tendency to replicate. They would, almost by definition, have no defences against the armada of today's microbiology roaming every crevice. They would be devoured within seconds of accidentally forming.

Of those that formed billions of years ago, no trace would remain, or, if it did, it would be indistinguishable to us from any non-living molecule that once swam in the primordial soup.
If you have never read "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" [1], do yourself a favor and get a copy asap. Not only is it a realy good read on the work of the Grants and their team, it is one of the very best pop-science books I have ever read.
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The placebo effect is to a large extent due to regression to the mean, i.e. a statistical glitch that has nothing to do with health outcomes.

[1]http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6369471
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Keep telling yourself that
I would guess that the commenter who said that is making the statement that the US farming market touts visual quality because consumers look for visual quality and that is the reason for visual quality being a premium in the USA. Tomatoes being an example for this where recent years find the taste being almost absent but visual quality and uniformity of grocery store tomatoes being very high.
Good read concerning this topic: Into the Cool (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52737.Into_the_Cool)
Funny how everyone talks like Mashable lost to Techcrunch. Look up how much TC got acquired for, it's actually less than what Mashable got acquired for.

What REALLY happened was not that Mashable failed. It's that the entire journalism sector failed. Mashable is just a good mascot and sacrificial lamb because it's actually one of the most well known ones.

I say Mashable is a "mascot" because they represent exactly what's wrong with "journalism" nowadays. Instead of producing what people should read, they have shifted their focus onto:

1. What people will click (Memes, controversial topics, content about other people's misfortune)
2. What advertisers will pay more for (Video)

It's understandable because it's been a while since "content" became commoditized. Now media sites no longer can differentiate themselves with content anymore and they can't figure out how to, so they just do what makes them money in the short term.

This article also inevitably mentions Buzzfeed, which I think is what Mashable would have been if it didn't have to go through all the trial and error. Buzzfeed probably learned a lot from Mashable's mistakes and decided to go all in on "I don't care about quality, I'll give you what you want, just give us ad money".

But those who've been following the media landscape also know that that model's not been working out either (It's a good thing that it's not).

So my take is, they didn't flame out because of all these little reasons. They were just the symptoms. The real reason was because they have lost their soul. It's not only Mashable that flamed out, it's that the entire media industry that is flaming out, and OP's own publication will probably flame out too, if they keep writing crap like this (I personally think all publications that monetize off of someone else's misfortunes deserve to taste their own drug and die off too)

Oh, by the way, this is nothing new, and is definitely not just because of the Internet. If you read up on the history of the media itself, you'll realize this type of pendulum swing between "quality content" vs. "shallow, give people what they want in exchange for revenue" approaches have existed several times already.
> it's just supporting people who aren't shitting on everyone's future.

If all dairy cows were treated exactly the same as the cows you're getting milk from, would milk be sufficiently plentiful and affordable for everyone to be able to get milk?

If you really want something that's better for cows and the environment, why not just drink soy milk (or any of a pretty big variety of milk that doesn't come from cows)?
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I was just browsing Amazon's black Friday sale, and came across a product with high-quality fake (I think?) reviews. I almost fell for it:

https://www.amazon.com/Soundbar-UPGRADED-Surround-Theater-Bluetooth/product-reviews/B076DXH4WP/

There's a huge burst of product reviews from Nov. 21st, all from 'verified' purchases, all from accounts with a female first name and exactly 3 product reviews.

Is this the current state of the art in fake amazon reviews? How can they not be detecting this as anomalous? Is there a semi-reliable way of detecting this kind of thing or do I have to be insanely vigilant all the time?

Or is it just a coincidence, and I'm being too paranoid?
I wonder if they will get undercut by a more scalable approach to high-end food?

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/11/8/1661171...
> 200Gbps

I take it you meant 200Mbps. Otherwiae you have better home internet than everyone in the world and not juat the US.
But once started, life will spread quickly and consume the resources needed for sparking life again, making second sparks less likely.
Is that legal? In Canada I'm not sure your allowed to sell unpasteurised milk.
I don’t want to make you relive the dreams, but can you elaborate on “creepy”?
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If all I had was a cell slurry I'd hardly be able to tell the difference. Where does one kind end and the other begin? Maybe the kind of earth is DNA-based with left-chiral protiens and right-chiral metabolism.
Blergh, just a PR puff piece. Sorry I clicked.
And what happens to cows, as a species, a few decades from now?
If you're going to quote one paragraph, I think the following is more interesting:

"In 1999, scientists published data suggesting Dolly’s telomeres were too short for her age. Since then, scientists have cloned a whole menagerie of animals: mice, horses, cattle, pigs, dogs, and so on. Studies of their telomere lengths have turned up every possible result: Clones have shorter telomeres, clones have longer telomeres, and clones have normal telomeres—depending on the species or cloning technique."

This seems to suggest that telomeres might be much less connected with aging than initially believed by some researchers.
I'm sure this is too raw, to actually works.
There is "I have finished/done" phrase mentioned in the middle of the test to answer later "Have you finished?"/"Are you done?" question at the end of the test (though it seems easier than memorizing 4 words compared to 3 words that form a meaningful phrase that is the answer to the immediate suggestive question).

There is a question on naming 12 different things in a kitchen/countries (also easier -- no time limit, no constraint on the first letter).

"The test has a sensitivity of 79 percent and a false positive rate of 5 percent in detecting cognitive impairment from normal subjects." btw, you don't need the perfect score to be considered "normal" by the test.
Agreed, and it's depressing to see that so many people see any disagreement with "natural selection pressure and mutation is the sole method for formation of new species" (despite these two being rather hand-wave-y in parts) as anti-scientific.
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> They want to distinguish themselves and buy the feeling of authentic life and values.

More than this, I think there is a substantial portion of consumers who aren't as much attempting to distinguish themselves as they are realizing how important their dollar vote is.

Buying from a small or local farm keeps money circulating locally (ideally). When there is a community of local businesses, this becomes amplified.

It's the primary reason why the whole "farm to table" concept with restaurants caught on. By choosing to eat at a diner that gets their eggs from a local farm, rather than, say, buying a breakfast sandwich from McDonalds, you're not only supporting the local restaurant, but also the local farmer.

So while there is certainly an appeal (not exclusively, either) to purchasing something labeled as classic, authentic, natural or original, there's a less selfish reasoning tied to the root of it.

An interesting part of this is the way primarily Liberal-metro local/organic movements have been ignored as a common ground, and even mocked as purely an aesthetic, by the "anti-globalists".
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This is a super interesting topic but the cynical side of me thinks it doesn't get enough attention because you can't patent bacteria(?)..

For more on this, checkout the work of Martin Blaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwK_O0ahDKo&t=168