skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waking up to a (very good) cup of coffee.

Donning a favorite old band t-shirt, some ragged hoops shorts, flip-flops, and sipping my coffee on the back deck of a VERY modest, but paid-off, house. Watching the deer from said deck.

Then riding my bike into town (TBD, but someplace with <50K people) to a part-time job at the local supermarket. Plan B: doing the same at a local, for-young-people rural incubator & being the wise software sage. Making enough to pay for a Lagunitas Lil Sumpin or two.

At night: dinner with friends. Probably a bowl of pho. Steakhouses (and the requisite dress codes) are for other folks.

Twice yearly: taking the trailer to a coast. Probably alternating between Port Aransas, Texas and the North Carolina barrier islands.
That article says that Monsanto hasn't sued when only trace amounts of patented genes are found, not that growing plants with the patented gene (due to pollination or otherwise) without permission doesn't constitute patent infringement.
That doesn't change the fact that they tried to sue him. And to correct the parent post, it's patent infringement not copyright violation.
IDK why this is top 50 on HN.

Not to be "mean", but it's either broken thoughts or broken English (not sure which), and off topic to boot.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points.
I don’t think so.

- IO can be seen as a tag added to a type that brings »the outside« into scope: the console, the network, current time, the harddrive. In Rust, these are always available, regardless of the type of the expression at hand.

- IO is »viral«, in the way that things that touch IO will become IO as well; there is no way to remove IO to yield a pure value. If a function in Rust contains an unsafe block, is the whole thing unsafe? I don’t know enough Rust, but I think it’s not.
The comment did not imply the expectation for the city to be quiet. But once arrived, they discovered the city to be loud. It seems like you misunderstood the point.
It's an encyclopedia; its content should be encyclopedic. A website that holds on to everything else would be something different. While that's also fine, it's a different project with a different goal.
> paying "attention" to blood vessels and other structures that are relevant to humans

Why is that necessarily a good thing? The point of machine learning is to unveil relationships that we may or may not have thought of. For all we know there's a structure we've never looked at that provides better correlates with disease, and if a model pays attention to that it would be an equally promising sign.

I understand that in medical research it would be best to have a physiologically relevant correlate that is being recognized by the model, but it doesn't mean that we should completely disregard the other pixels that a model could find important either.
> sugars or white flour won't come back as your main caloric source through any reputable study. Mark my words.

People forget. Or are influenced to forget. In the 1800s it was common sense that bread and grain led to weight gain. Lobbyists and non-so-reputable doctors changed the entire narrative. This grain centric food pyramid lasted until 2005.

A reputable study != permanent influence
Although i disagree with your undertone (GMOs are unsafe), i think you bring up valid points--Wide range in what is being modified, and how, makes all the difference in the world
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I see you've never had to deal with SAP AG, and don't run Wolfram's Mathematica. Lucky you.
Thank you for your feedback.

We thought that it would be best if you test it with your own file. In that case we need to send you link to analytics in case you want to remove pdf from our servers.

Your suggestion seems to have potential to considerably lower friction. We will look into it, thanks.
For what he is famous for? I've read his 'The language instinct' and found it boring and unconvincing.
Facebook is for old people
It really irritates me when "GMO" is categorically touted as beneficial or harmful. Each modification has to be evaluated individually, there is no blanket assessment for GMO in general.
I'm much more an inclusionist than a deletionist. Still, taken to an extreme, it's not hard to see the problem with a vast number of articles about obscure and hard to verify topics that are poorly maintained. They're just text in a database but they can bring down the overall level of the encyclopedia.
Why? Status quo is not the only alternative to equality of outcome.
Why didn't they just build a bogey binary and seed that to the torrent sites?

I've wondered why copyright holders don't do this more in general. I've seen a few cases where a downloaded movie for example just gets borked towards the end ... presumed it was deliberate and surely some form of a deterrent!
I think it’s certainly time to have switched. All important libraries have migrated and Python 3.6’s dictionary is faster and more memory-efficient.

Python 2 is dead. Long live Python 3.
Ah yes the owner would be me, and I really have to get around to releasing a new version of REXPaint xD. Lots of potential feature ideas, and it's cool to have to many people using this little tool I originally made for my own projects!

I've also already got a little backlog of great art by users from recent weeks that I still need to add to the gallery...
Part 1, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417490
I really like this. Especially because I'm bad at finding names for my projects, but I can see I'm not the only one. (Python and Laravel is my favorites)
So, one issue I had with this is that a big part of the argument is that "when I see shocks to employment, I don't see shocks to LFPR", but we do definitely see shocks in unemployment rates, and I don't think it's crazy to think that these shocks to employment may transfer to LFPR over long periods of time as different people face different levels of success finding adequate work.

I think the strongest argument we can make is that whatever is going on with LFPR has been going on for 50 years, and it does seem to indicate a more difficult job market where people are finding that the jobs available are not better than the alternative.
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>we take nearly all of them as if they are gospel.

No we don’t. You are projecting. Look up “projecting” if you don’t follow what I mean.

Science is not what you seem to think it is. Anyone who says science operates on faith is mistaken and ignorant.

Many such people like you are insanely overconfident about their knowledge and refuse to consider that they might be utterly wrong.

>Observations are powerful but they are limited by our observing senses...

omg this is so wrong I don’t know where to begin. There is such a thing as tests which can be devised to go way beyond our senses while still giving us the ability to falsify theories...
Can confirm, mine was approximately US$59 from the Xiaomi shop here in Hong Kong, with full English support etc.
I don't know what, if anything, the US model has to justify a 40%+ price bump...
>This is like saying “100 years of data confirms coal provides lots of power cheaply!” Yeah, we know. That was never the issue and it’s a red herring from the real issues

Did you read the article? The yield of GMOs has been attacked by New York Times and organic food lobby. If that's a red herring, maybe you should be angry at the organic food advocates for this instead of research that proves this anti-GMO propaganda wrong.

It's kind of like trying to prove evolution to evolution-deniers. If you don't respond to their red herring arguments, they will go "gotcha, you can't prove us wrong!" and when you do, they just move on to another subject because "that's not an important issue".
I love how difficult it's becoming to actually ever visit a website from a google result, especially on mobile. And even when you do you're usually still stuck with their tracking and spyware. Reminds me a lot of AOL's strategy back in the day.
'The nicer parts of London have some of the best state schools in the country.'

Which, ironically, is a major driver in the rising cost of housing in these areas.
My impression is (based on what I've seen with music plugins and heard from plugin developers, which tend to be also produced by small shops) that piracy data does matter a fair bit if you don't do anything about it.

Nonetheless, several plugin companies do seem to be able to nicely balance the ability to protect their software, while avoiding arduous copy protection methods. The method I think seems to work best is a combination "honey pot + time bomb" type method, where you provide an "easy" method for the pirates to "crack" and get on the usual sites, while also including a more difficult to reverse engineer that activates at some point later. (This kind of nudges those who kind of use piracy to "try and buy" but sometimes, er, need a bit of motivation to actually purchase the product. Even people who can afford the software and make a pretty decent living with the product have been caught with pirated plugins in interviews (https://torrentfreak.com/avicii-and-other-djs-produce-hits-u...).

You definitely don't need to include malware to protect your product.
Just for the non-GMO/non-multinational crowd out there... there exists many corn/soy varieties which do not have transgenes in them and have reasonable yield performance...

And yet, the market shrugs. These GMOs are providing value and the ones currently deregulated may been proven safe for humans (by a long shot in my opinion). The environmental claims are more complex, but farmers were spraying nasty, nasty stuff 50+ years ago. That does not scale well
Ask HN: How to build your own reporting tool?
For my thesis I'm going to build a Proof of Concept of a reporting engine but I don't know where to start. I have read about business intelligence tools a bit and that is the direction that I need to search but those all refer to existing tools. What I have in mind is a reporting tools like google analytics based on dimensions and metric to extract aggregated data from the database.

Any recommendations on literature about how reporting tools work? Or some talks about it on YouTube?
This too (John Entine is the executive director for the GLP):

https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-indu...
>I already choose to book my holidays with machine rather than human assistance, pay for my groceries via machine rather than human

It's funny you should mention this. My last job was at an OTA (online travel agent). They started out with a website to book holidays and an intent to streamline the crap out of the process catering to individuals like yourself. They hired a skeleton call center staff to deal with unforeseen problems with an intent to rely upon them as little as possible.

Over time they realized that a lot of people were calling up to do bits and pieces of the booking over the phone that they could have done online.

Initially they tried to steer them back to the website but they realized that they were mostly dropping out of the sales funnel.

It turned out a lot of people actually wanted to talk to a human when spending $1,500 on a holiday. Shocker.

So, they changed tack and ramped up call center staffing, advertised a free phone number on the every page and let people essentially decide themselves where in the sales funnel they wanted to talk to a human - the whole way through or, like you, not at all.

This company had a really smart approach in other areas too about when to use automation and when not to.

>For the moment I pay humans to do some things like cleaning

You say that as if there has been a multitude of advances in home cleaning technology since the 1950s. I'm skeptical of the notion that Roombas took anybody's job or that I'm about to get a toilet cleaning robot any time soon.
I was not trolling in any way. I'm dumbfounded. Why would you think I were trolling?
The dark money driving the Scottish Tory surge
This is so inane.
I use bing all the time (accidentally) and I always go - wait, what's wrong with google? why are these search results so awful?
oh riiiight.
(switch to google).

Google is being attacked hard by Apple (blocking ads), amazon&azure (cloud)

and ads (facebook).

What Government really needs to do isn't break up Google per se, but generally give more natural advantages to smaller startups versus larger corps. One example would be corporate tax.

Increase corp taxes on large corps (say over 100 billion) and decrease on smaller ones.

In fact, if I were the democratic party this would be my rallying cry. Time to really re-invigorate the american dream.
A leashold will have a "pepper corn" ground rent, which should be around £10 a year.

Anything else and you need to walk away.

Basically buying anything other than a flat through a leasehold is a scam. That goes for "share of freehold" which is a leasehold, just called differently. Those should really be avoided, because they are basically houses that have been sub divided. This means that the leasehold agreement will be of varying quality.

Either way, you will need to find a competent conveyancer, one that is paying attention and actually reads the contract and leasehold agreement. (basically do not use the ones that are provided by the estate agent/seller/other)
>It’s easy to see why Nietzsche sociopathic ravings would have inspired so many repugnant movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, the Ayn Randian fringe of libertarianism, and the American alt-Right and neo-Nazi movements today

I can't square that with the Nietzsche I read, the one who hated anti-semitism and who was against nationalism and for a unified Europe. See this random point in 475: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hQ6FDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96&lp...

But that's what makes Nietzsche so interesting I guess, you can find contradictory positions everywhere.
See I didn't get that from their comment (that GMOs are unsafe), I understood it as the user is worried about unknown unknowns with it.

Even the best things in life have downsides, and GMOs are no exception. I think there is a literal solution to world hunger here, but it needs to be done carefully and with a lot of oversight.

The last thing I want is DRM in my potatoes...
Many ( most? ) of the killed were not "red" or even ethnically Russian ( see for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ). Many of the "reds" were not ethnically Russian either. Your "of their own" doesn't really makes sense.
These bizarre roundabout ways the NYT finds to worship corporations are starting to get creepy. Calling their work wondrous and speaking directly to people who "love" Google is just absurd. Just stop, don't worship an organization.
What is the claim here? That yields increase? Ok, sure.

That it reduces specific contaminants? Maybe.

That it provides health BENEFITS? Definitely not.

That it is SAFE in the long run? Definitely not.
This is a topic that in general warrants a lot more discussion and attention than it currently receives. Also, while the components of it's analysis exist in the academy (economics, management, sociology, psychology etc) I don't think it exists as a separate domain and I don't think anyone publishes about it. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

In my limited understanding, as I've spend a lot of time pondering about these questions, the problems the writer is concerned about (corruption, inefficiency, distribution and management of resources) are not a side effect of democracy itself. Democracy allows for these problems to be corrected, and indeed in many democratic countries they have.

Regarding the slow development of India (and much of the world) in comparison to China, there are quite a few pieces to the puzzle that the author misses. China was both lucky and unlucky. The reason they were allowed to advance so fast, unlike India, Africa and much of Europe actually, is because they accidentally (in my opinion) managed to strike a number of conditions, which allowed them to develop while in control of their country. Similarly with South Korea.

That is that they joined the era of globalization with a strong, central, national and authoritarian government and a lot of impoverished workers. The Chinese government managed to be "left alone" by US corporations by playing on capitalism's greed without borders: They provided a very cheap workforce, by the condition of managing it themselves. By keeping the cancer of foreign corporate infiltration off their land, they could reinvest the profits on local infrastructure, which gave them a high ROI (as they were selling the developed countries) and simultaneously acquire technical know-how on production technologies.

Foreign powers tend to leave systems that work for them in place, ie nobody tried to fix India's caste system when they first arrived, because it provided stability for them. Similarly, the modern western corporations saw the Chinese government as a tool to control and manage a billion workers for free.

This is in contrast with much of Latin America's countries. When people took control of their own country, completely opposing the interests of US corporations, they would be murdered by US-funded coups and dictators. So that leads me to believe that the practical road to success for small countries lies in taking advantage of the predictable behavior of foreign powers and gradually taking out the leash from their necks.

And what holds for international issues scales down to intra-national ones. Proper organization and coordination between parts of society can lead to a practical, achievable path to a better world. It's a very complex problem because knowledge of the proposed solution can lead to an alteration of the circumstances, but it might be solvable.

Sorry for the blogpost.
Maybe linking to the study itself instead of a pro-GMO lobbying site or at least to some popular science news without an agenda would be the safer choice.
>> if you're a seed company from a poor country you can get the license for golden rice (extra Vitamin A) for free, not the seeds themselves, you have to make those.

How convenient....what about not paying any license at all regardless of the "golden" seeds you produce?
That's actually not too hard as long as all your software is written in Forth.
>They sniffed and said the low salt movement has been very well marketed but what they don't tell you is the "shit" they put in to food to replace the salt - which is actually worse than salt - same with these low fat spreads

I'm eternally annoyed by statements like these:

Low salt diet is bad because it is replaced by things worse than salt.

Low sugar diet is bad because artificial sweeteners are worse.

Low fat diet is bad because replacing them with carbs is worse.

Gluten free diets are bad because the substitutes are full of artificial, weight gaining stuff.

Butter alternatives/margarine are bad because their replaced by unhealthy low fat spreads (e.g. full of partially hydrogenated oils until recently).

All of these statements are wrong. You can always get any of these without the harmful substitutes. People who want to eat healthy can do any of the above diets without the worse alternatives. I myself went on a low sodium diet once, and I did not buy stuff with junk in them to substitute. Not even KCl.

You can get healthy butter alternatives.

These arguments usually show a giant leap in the logical process. These are false dichotomies. Yet way too many people I know believe these arguments. My guess is: Most of them are accepting of the arguments because it is convenience - not because the claims are true. It gives them a license to continue on unhealthy diets.
I assume a spouse would not be employed, or would also work remotely.

And believe it or not, even rural places have schools, at least in the US.

If anything, I think this is more appealing to families, because of the available space.
I've gotten loooots of upvotes from basically joke comments. HN doesn't like all humor, but if it's actually clever, it'll work.
Do you have sources for your final statement?
That's the dilemma inherent in innovating a market you are an indisputed leader in: why rock the boat, and reset all your incumbent advantages to zero, when you can just sit pretty with what you've got?

Kodak invented digital photography way back in the 1970s, patented it, and did nothing with it. It was only when the patents expired that digital cameras came to the fore (likely also because of intervening decades’ worth of technological improvement), and it killed them off. Until the beginning of the 20th Century the Royal Navy had an unassailable advantage in terms of ships and then Admiral Fisher designed the HMS Dreadnought which instantly obsoleted everything afloat and dialled back the UK's advantage to a single ship, and the Germans instantly took advantage of it and started building their own new dreadnoughts.

This keeps happening.
I am not sure why closed-source code would be relevant here. The opaque aspect in this case would be the server handling it, not the device.
I agree with you. It's a double edged sword. It's good because if you want to put something like this into clinical use, physicians are going to be skeptical if it's not interpetable. It's bad because, if humans have already identified the relevant structural relationships, there is less likely to be a big breakthrough. Nevertheless, one could imagine a model identifying features that humans wouldn't consider even within the structures that we already know about.
Damn you Pinker. Now I have another 33 books or so to read...
This is a Syngenta/Monsanto sponsored website, it would be very surprising if they had anything critical to say about GMO.
The "gotcha" people and the "not important, I already knew that" people are usually not the same. Thinking that there are only two sides to any issue is usually quite shortsighted. (Same for being angry at the NYT instead of TFA: you can be angry about both.)
I'm more concerned about the legal implications of GMO crops and the way it's played out with massive agriculture corporations vs farmers.

I think there's also been a corresponding spike in human-consumed glyphospates that GMO proponents conveniently overlook.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26583...
There's a way to get a list of PO boxes, banks use them and so do other orgs.
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No, that does not make sense. Rust's unsafe code lets you do some things that could violate the compiler's expectations, and making sure that you're aware that you need to manually enforce those invariants. Haskell has some unsafe* functions that are exactly like that, too, such as unsafePerformIO, that are analogous. On the other hand, the IO and State monads are completely safe-to-use, using a simple abstraction to represent impurity in a pure language.
Yeah I think the point here is the reductionist mentality that we can just change one part of a system and everything else is uneffected. You see it in western medicine and GMO farming is just an extension. Our ecosystems are incredibly complex and we understand barely a fraction of how they work. When you mess with one part of the ecosystem it can have potentially catastrophic effects down line.
What's being said here is that current commercial crops of GMO corn are seeing increased yields, and are not causing health problems. (The headline is, as usual, overstating things.)

Separately, while you're right that each individual modification needs to be examined individually, the same is true of non-GMO foods, plastics, products, etc, etc. Singling out GMO is foolish.

One might even expect, with time, enough evidence to accumulate to be able to answer the ("blanket") question "all other things being equal, does application of GMO as a modification technique cause problems?" Indications thus far are that the answer is "no".