skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing about the food we eat is "natural" - none of the major crops we farm would exist without significant human intervention. Farming itself is an unnatural act, in that sense. We genetically modified plants that had some benefit for us - first with breeding, now with breeding and more modern techniques - to have an even greater benefit.

Taking a systems view is a good thing, but I think you're assuming we're not already doing that. But I think it's unlikely that a systems approach to farming is going to look like letting nature do the work; without cultivation, plants are not going to be food.
> Turned out they completely ignored that the traditional method produced not just rice but a long list of other stuff too.

I'm not sure if this is the source you had in mind, but Seeing Like a State offers a similar story from Tanzania.

Colonists attempted to move local farmers from polycultures to "more efficient" monoculture farming, and the results were absolutely disastrous. Polycultures helped prevent erosion and soil depletion, tall sun plants covered short shade plants, and mixed crop types spread both farm labor and crop production across more of the year.

The counterargument, such as it is, is that we've committed so vastly to intensive, fertilized monocultures that we can no longer produce comparable amounts of anything using traditional methods. Which I think is probably true, but as destroy the soil and aquifers of the Midwest it looks like the modern technique isn't particularly workable either.
You have precisely the same attitude as I do. Try to think about the circumstances other people were put in before you judge them. I had to exercise this thinking on the pickleball court last weekend.
Not true at all.

The main reason that people get off their ass is to improve their life. People that have everything are constantly offered amazing opportunities just for existing. You may not have ever seen this because you don't fall in the category but it happens all the time.
This looks like a simple grab for attention by a company that touts "server hardening" and "device hardening" as part of their services, one of their projects being "c0llude", a "self-hosted, flat-file collaboration tool for small teams and activists". It's supposed to prevent tracking by "government lawyers and spies", so let's take a look at the source code:

https://github.com/neflabs/c0llude/blob/master/api/caldel.ph...

Wow, that's just embarrassing.
And `pyenv-virtualenv`!
It's not pointing at a contract. Metamask should let you view the data (and it they're working on it[1]), but ultimately if you want to verify the contents of a contract you're deploying you'll have to compile it yourself. I suppose metamask could take the source and compile it for you, but ultimately verifying what a transaction is going to "actually" do seems like a difficult problem that's unlikely to be solved anytime soon.

[1] https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2847
Is there a reason you didn't use the SafeMath library for protecting against overflows?

https://ethereumdev.io/safemath-protect-overflows/
>> As code advances, higher-level technologies feed on more fundamental technologies in much the same way more complex organisms feed on simpler organisms in the food chain.

This is why it's a bad idea to export your lower level technologies to other countries. You're still dependent on them, but lose control.
Are you sure? That is just a round about way of saying, karma means nothing. “Hey, you can’t have more than 1 cookie because karma. But wink you can.”
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Because it's served statically. No processing is necessary on the host side and it can be cached indefinitely without getting stale.
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> To those suggesting it, Docker is great but you're still dealing with a package manager inside Docker, so that's a moot point.

Package manager/dependency manager is must for any sort of mature mass production coding environment (e.g. cargo for Rust, Maven for Java etc.) Docker doesn't solve all that but at least you are doing it only once and replicate easily and predictably. And a lot of times you can reuse Docker images built by someone else.
Virtualenvwrapper (I hate the name, and as a fish user I actually use virtualfish instead) has as the main advantage in keeping all virtualenvs in one place (by default ~/.virtualenvs), so you don't have to worry about the actual location of your virtualenv. This allows for a number of useful features like activating, listing and deleting available environments with autocomplete, and creating a virtualenv is also quite simplified.

But yes, if you're making sure that you're always careful about passing the location of your environments, you don't really need it.
Interesting that Soylent did not get mentioned since they once seemed to be the poster child for this movement. Are they still a player?
> However, it makes no more sense to argue that someone can't have any legal control over how personal data concerning them is processed than to argue that, for example, someone can't have any legal control over whether their physical property remains in their possession.

No, it's more like making it a crime to break or lose something lent to you. At most it's a civil matter handling damages, not an extension of control over the item lent (baring any contractual agreement).
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> Where free will enters the picture is that not everybody that was lucky at some point in their life ends up making it: you can easily annihilate your luck by working against yourself.

What do you think determines this? At what point can you say this magical thing called free will pops into existence? I don't understand how the laws of physics determine how the universe behaves but then those laws decide to step aside while someone is making decisions about their life.
and today on xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1987/

Python is another example of a simple language + complex everything else

or at least a language that started simple
The system is feeding it self. The simpler it is the more people are reached and the less ordinary person is willing to learn and overcome problems. Slowly everything that is slightly complex becomes too much of a hassle or gets negativity.

There is a middle ground somewhere.

I suppose the gaming topic made be rant, because it seems like a lot games being made now lack substance. But there are so many more games being made and so many more players compared to 10 years ago that I'm probably biased. I still think simplicity vs function is a tough problem with short term and long term pros and cons.
I haven't seen his tax return of course, but perhaps he's not running it as a "business" at all. From the sounds of things it was a side project and could easily be classified as a hobby even if it were generating a little income.
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This is just one silly tautology.

TFA simply redefines everything such that the root cause must always be some kind of random allocation of resources/capabilities, or "luck". Then essentially concludes that there is effectively no free will.

Sophistry. With zero useful explanatory value or application in the real world.

I want my 2min back
How definitive is Snopes.com? I don't see a specific reference as to why they made their rejection.

Anecdotally, I spent a year in France in the 00's and had minimal issues with bread I consumed there (before I realized I was sensitive to wheat in general).

Also I know someone who moved from France to the US and she's had lots more digestive and allergy issues with fruits/etc in the decade+ she's been here.
I make several trips to Detroit each year (entirely music related) and after every visit the voice in my head that says "move to Detroit" get's louder and louder. The place is definitely still having a rough time but it feels so much more promising over the last couple of years and I'd love to be there permanently. Just have to convince my wife...
> a weedkiller linked to cancer

This is controversial to say the least. And very one-sided reporting from The Guardian.

Every research agency but one considers glyphosate safe and not linked to cancer. Bodies like WHO (World Health Organization) and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) [1], EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) [2], and ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) [3] have concluded that there is no evidence for glyphosate causing cancer.

Only one agency, IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) in France, has classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen, but their work has raised some suspicion [4].

[1] http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf

[2] https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/151112

[3] https://echa.europa.eu/fi/-/glyphosate-not-classified-as-a-c...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-who-iarc-glyphosate-speci...
I think removing oxides inherently requires fantastically reactive (and hence fantastically toxic and/or flammable) chemicals.
I believe pipenv still uses virtualenv instead of python's venv. Isn't that a drawback to use it?
No. Someone needs to invent something like HN but with the capability for 1.) cryptographic signatures for all content and 2.) the ability to create a completely custom blacklist/whitelist for the content and comments you see.
I don't control the money I hand over to my bank, but short of complete societal collapse, Mad Max style, it will be used, and accessible in ways that are very clearly defined. It's not just going to dissapear to the Bahamas one day.
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> If you are going to be implying glyphosate causes autism, for some "extra fun" as you say, then you should perhaps reconsider this.

No. The burden of proof is on those defending a chemical. Even if there's a 1/1000 chance that glyphosate explains 5% of autism cases, then it should be banned.

The world doesn't need more food, America throws away half its food. The world needs better health -- the sperm count in America has dropped 50% in the last 30 years, autism is at about 1/52
Most people on HN are very quick to dismiss the role luck plays in their life.

I realize many are very accomplished so they don't want to devalue/dismiss their own efforts.
Start with simple approaches. If you're comfortable writing a series of scripts and wiring them together with bash, do that. You will learn a lot from having the end to end system working even if every component isn't amazing.
Their might be personalized vanity angle to it. Why wouldn't my friend and family want to trade Bob Coins...
A recent good experience with rust: wanted to learn a little about machine learning. Found a crate called rusty-machine, copied some examples from the docs, and built them.

No problems, compiling all of the dependencies was fast, examples worked, and in literally about 2 minutes I had a neural net and was hacking on it.

This is without touching rust in months.
Once upon a time, someone similarly pointed out that, if "they" wanted to improve vehicle safety, rather than mandating seat belts, air bags, and antilock brakes, they should just put an 8" long, razor sharp spike in the middle of the steering wheel---to make the dangers obvious.

The current state of data privacy doesn't even include the spike.

As you point out, education is a fine idea, but it isn't going to work if there is a major industry based on it not working.
This is an important point that I still struggle to find the right words for.

To benefit from luck, one must roll the dice in the first place. The more times you "roll the dice", the more shots you have at getting lucky, if nothing else.
If you give someone a license to reproduce a digital asset, you lose the ability to revoke access to it.

All other rights are reserved. Would it change the dynamic to be able to revoke access to assets in a private messaging system? For sure. But copyright law (at least in the US) supports this right of the copyright owner. The inability to revoke access is a failing of the tool or the product, not the law.
I didn’t mean to sound like I was rubbing anything in. It felt helpful to point out that security is sometimes a concern, and why.
> How can any server administrator trust Matt Holt or his software again?

I sincerely hope much of the community views this kind of personal attack on an open source developer for what it is: disgusting.

If this kind of behavior is encouraged, imagine the message it sends to people building open source software. Not only does your open source work not directly reward you financially, but it will be used as ammunition to tarnish your reputation, all because someone doesn't like the direction you're taking your project.

Honestly, this is shameful.
They often really mean "common Microsoft languages such as C# and VB.net used with Visual Studio". There's no common short way to say that (yet). "Microsoft stack" is about as close as I can come.
From the sources linked in the article there appears to be quite a bit of pushback from Monsanto to even test that infiltrated the Department of Agriculture (FDA and Department of Agriculture appear to have some overlapping responsibilities to test to standards created by EPA), there was some movement by 2016 but that was all cancelled by the new administration, doubt we'll see any progress in the USA unless Canada and EU start testing their imports from USA and banning contaminated imports.
you "assume" free will, but even that runs out when you run out of money for the cookies, everything is capped somewhere due to your karma.
This was about git in the context of the GDPR, so a company (say, a git hosting provider) is by definition involved. If you're sending commits to other private developers in some way that doesn't involve a company storing the data, the right to be forgotten/right for records to be corrected/etc in the GDPR is irrelevant in the first place.
> Pipenv [...] has been officially blessed as "The One True Way" of installing stuff by the Python documentation.

Oh? I don't see any mention of pipenv in the cpython git repo.
Europe eyeing bot IDs, ad transparency and blockchain to fight fakes
So what did they pay for? I’m confused, do Twitter rate limit free accounts?
Anyway none of the company that pretend doing AI are actually doing AI. AI nowadays is pure branding bullshit.
This is an existential dilemma that has always bugged me, but I found a work through that's satisfactory for now:

there seems to be a distinction between Free Will (the ability to act in the moment, I don't believe it exists) and Self Awareness (the ability to consider your-self & your actions in the past or future, which apparently does exist for me).

To me, it seems we have no choice about what to do in the moment. But the moment afterward, we begin to reflect on our experience, replay those sensory signals & imagine our different responses or outcomes, and rewire our brain for the next opportunity to automatically respond in a "free-will" scenario.
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Yes, but you'd have to run a 2.5+ years old - and unsupported - version of Docker (1.7.1).
If anyone is interested in how to buy public Twitter data, here are the available APIs:

http://support.gnip.com/apis/

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/batch-historica... (new doc for Gnip API)

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/overview... (new doc for Gnip API)
Fascinating.

A hard ratio seems fair minded, but seemed to have failed here because I think there was a misunderstanding around compensation. Compensation is a product of many variables including value created for the company and supply/demand for skillset/talent. As a business climbs the value chain or seeks to hire and compensate those that create greater amounts of value, and it maintains a compensation ratio, it must seek to increase the value produced by the lowest earners (or lose business to competition).
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Some of us are clearly more lucky than others. I remember an article on HN a few weeks ago about how to get +1 to Luck.
Intelligence amplification
My understanding is that an F-35 carrying AIM-120s (AMRAAMs) is kind of a stopgap measure anyhow. The AMRAAM was designed to be deployed externally on the F-15 and F-16; the next-generation missile will be smaller and designed to be deployed in internal bays, therefore increasing the number that can be carried.

My memory said that the new missile was called the "NRAAM" or something similar, but I can't find reference to it anywhere after a brief search. Maybe that idea was scrapped?
>They might have some more comprehensive optimization passes eating extensive cycles, but even rustc debug builds are extremely slow in comparison to the Go standard compiler.

Work is not just the optimization.

Having Rust track lifetimes and warn about ownership bugs, races, etc, is also productive work for the compiler -- and happens during the debug builds too.
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It’s important to debate privacy, but it’s also important to understand that privacy is much bigger than tracking and telemetry. From my position, Neflabs compromises their own authority when they resort to bullying by mocking Matt for his faith.
Off topic, but since your on the tram. Is there any way to allow a child's device using family link to access grasshopper? It would be great if on such a device one could add another account at least for the purpose of logging in to apps like this.
I'm confused. If telemetry is an option and you can opt out, why not just do that? Also, because everything is open source, you're welcome to inspect the source to verify that it's behaving as expected and not reporting telemetry. You mentioned that you're not a Go programmer and/or you don't have time to do this...okay, so pay someone else who is a Go programmer to do this for you. Or is any software that costs money too much?

Matt has a right, as the creator of that work, to ask for some form of compensation for the portion of his life invested into the project. It's a completely fair and reasonable request. If you're set on avoiding any form of compensation (financial or otherwise), then you don't have any rights to demand anything from him. Just go use nginx and be done with it.
Do you set cookies that are not functionally required for the site to operate? Have to allow opt-in and opt-out of those cookies. Adsense cookies almost certainly fall into this bucket.

Do you set cookies that are required? Need to identify them and inform the user.

Server logs? You probably have ip addresses. Despite what us nerds think the EU considers them personal data.
I believe it would require Congressional approval at this point to sell the F-22 to foreign powers.
Excellent point -- the outliers will always raise false-positive flags.

Now, if you could get access to the data yourself and (also) use it as a biofeedback self-training device, it could be very effective at helping us produce better/more frequent calm and focused states even in stressful situations.
That's what every solution aims to be at the start.
You're right, I suspect this article is based off of new federal requirements that companies report employee vs. CEO pay disparities [0].

0: https://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Yes-median-...
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I think its a villainous and cynical quote, but I expect no less from mankind with all its flaws and biases, contradictions and irrationality.
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Target about 5% week on week growth. If you have $1000 in sales this week, you'll want $1050 in sales next week, $1200 weekly sales in a month, , $12,600 weekly in a year.

This is actually a very conservative growth chart. Personally if I couldn't get 7% week on week growth, I'd worry about my business model.

If you can just hit this, you'll be fine.

If you don't, this is where all the startup frameworks kick in. You can set up a Business Model Canvas, look at whether your assumptions are correct. Attack either the low hanging fruit or the riskiest assumption. If you can fix the highest risk items, you can usually start generating good growth without any paid marketing.

Normally the problem is that the business hasn't hit product-market fit. Either the product isn't good enough, or it hasn't been able to expand or pitch itself into the market. When you hit product market fit, you'll be dealing with some crazy growth and struggle to keep up.
You can actually take most of the bullshit out of an "AI!!!!" headline by simply replacing "AI" with "computers".

"Artificial intelligence is being used to predict gambler behaviour" --> "computers are being used to predict gambler behaviour"

I think it's a lot more reflective of what's actually going on and removes a lot of the clickbaity hype...
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For a language that has "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." as part of its core philosophy, this is very ironic.
Well, european countries usually didn't shy away from bureaucracy. Now that there is the EU, there is another big layer of bureaucracy, and it doesn't help at all. Even worse is the fact that these bureaucrats are really distant from the people, both physically and with their hearts.
We are still going on because we're wasting the capital we accumulated in hundreds of years, otherwise we would have succumbed long time ago.
Of course, this is a summary of my political analysis, I don't pretend to know the truth or really anything. Don't want to offend people with my opinion.
After reading your comment and then reading the article I would've to disagree.
We just used the erc20 template from the ethereum wiki.

It looks useful although for the people that do want to understand how the contract works it adds complexity to the codebase itself.

I definitely would use it for more complex smart contracts, but this one is meant to be easy and educational (like the whole app).
One of the best books I read last year was "The Halo effect"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NY128M/

It talks about exactly this issue:
If company A is successful, we explain it by saying that the management is absolutely brilliant,
if company B does the exact same things but is failing, we explain it by saying that management are totally incompetent.

It's a major cognitive bias which renders most "business press" articles totally worthless.

The solution, obviously, is to gather a large amount of data and do some rigorous analysis.

People have tried to do this but the general conclusion is that there are no real simple rules that a business can follow to always succeed despite our eager desire for simple explanations.
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> Meanwhile, in the real world, hardly anyone clicks on a banner ad ever.

Google has about 1 trillion dollars per year in revenue that says otherwise. Online advertising became so huge because it works.
https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/managing-dependencies...
comex's research above would appear to disagree.
Not to downplay the influence that the classical music tradition has had on popular music, I think it's incorrect to say that rock and pop are direct descendants of classical music. Rock music, for example, is very clearly directly descended from folk music traditions.