skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true and the stereotype of middle aged men looking for status via large purchases (boat, car, hobbies), what would dosing middle aged men do to their purchasing habits?
Why don't they just do it without all those expensive lights and equipment, that's where all the biggest expsenses are. Just straight hydroponics with vertical farming. am i missing something?

EDIT:
I mean, do it outdoors with vertical farming, either on rooftops or around offices or parks or just outside the city (better there than 6000 miles away). the vertical aspect of it would still help reduce costs since real-estate is probably the biggest limiting factor on cost.
As the article states, they lost their competency. Here in France, the reason is poor planning, focus on cost-cutting and lack of long term vision by top management and government. EDF, the historical state power company turned into a private company in 2004, laid off most of the technicians that built the power plants over the years and subcontracted all the maintenance work to hundreds of subcontractors that fight for the lowest bid and employ only underqualified people, who often work in illegal conditions. The latest EPR reactor in construction in France is riddled with defects, the pressure vessel, built by Framatome, also absorbed by EDF, has uneven carbon content which means it could crack. The concrete enclosure has many large holes due to poor work. The bridge on top of the reactor was made of low-quality steel bought in Russia and had to be replaced. Basically everything is badly done, because they constantly try too make it in the cheapest way possible. But it's not working out for them because fortunately the nuclear safety authority is there to force them to redo things correctly. In its current state, the nuclear industry is basically dead in France. As another example, they can't decomission the plants arriving in end of life, and EDF officially postponed it until 2100.
Trip saved, thank you
I'm just going off the wiki articles [1] and some random articles [eg, 2], but given the rarity of 'Fukushima type meltdowns' I'm still confused about why people are worried about them. Flooding and violent storms are much more dangerous. Fukushima's meltdown doesn't appear to have posed (or be posing) any particular threat to humans, given the drought of observable impacts. That said, I'm starting to understand that the risk is to farmland (although I am /extremely suspicious/ that most of the people who don't like nuclear haven't figured that out).

Given how hysteric the response is to radiation risk, I'd really like to see a trustworthy source describe how and why the legal limits are set to what they are - maybe one day I will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fuk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35761136
not too much of the healthy variety: fruits and vegetables
"Why would you plan to fail?"

Because it isn't failure if your only goal is to learn.
"You can say what you like, but if I don't agree then you've harassed me." You can't have it both ways.
Sorry, you are correct, I made that assumption. It seemed implied by your use of user complaints as a metric of success—I assumed that was the case because you didn't have hard data, so I apologize if that's not the case.
Tried to cancel an Upwork account, a message said I should call a number in USA. I called and a message told me I should call between x AM to y PM business days.

It is somewhat expensive to call from Brazil just to hear a recorded message saying the call was useless. In the end I was able to cancel using their web chat. The experience just confirmed my opinion about the company.
I’m sure lots of folks have already seen this, but the aftermath is still visible from the air.

https://goo.gl/maps/bHEEVZKKK1B2
At least with LA Fitness, I said I wanted to cancel and the guy at the desk printed out the letter for me. It was pretty low hassle. There are other gyms that make it a more insane process.
Notwithstanding the article, focusing on volume as the primary metric has been the driver of many of the problems with industrial agriculture. Producing "more" isn't the only target worth thinking about.
I'd never thought they would actually assemble this genome. But put together the father of string-graph assembly (Eugene Myers) and a shitload of money (PacBio reads), and you get an assembly of a 32gb genome.
Our company used React when starting a new project, but we still had an existing project with a vanilla HTML/CSS/js website, which really needed a rewrite. I had a talk with my cofounder about the strengths and value of React, but hadn't dived deep yet - I wasn't working actively in the codebase of the new project. I tried to, and all the moving parts were monstrous to wrap my head around - states, redux, actions, whatever, even though I thought I understood the fundamentals of the reactive paradigm.

My cofounder suggested I check out vue for the rewrite of our legacy project, and I was able to onramp SO easily. I can easily hand off components to other team members to write, and it rarely broke stuff in the rest of the project. On the whole, vue feels a bit less powerful but a LOT simpler to wrap your head around while subscribing to the reactive UI paradigm.
Apple's definitely following fashion to the point of self-harm, but Apple started in a garage but then had offices until just recently and were kicking ass that way.
Last week I spent 1 hour and 20 minutes waiting for a Zipcar rep to answer my call. Creating my account was as simple as taking a photo of my license within the app and getting into a car. Companies that make signing up easy and cancellation difficult are the worst.
Of course if people make more journeys, i.e. become more mobile, you could argue that the increased number of deaths should be balanced against life-hours of drivers freed up while also improving quality of life of passengers at the same time, i.e. it might still be QALY-neutral or even positive.

> than the average sober, careful and experienced human driver

But ultimately we do accept the fatality rates caused by all drivers and not just the good ones as a cost of having individual transportation. If we didn't only teetotalers would be allowed to operate cars to remove one risk factor. And we also accept the risk of inexperienced drivers because we have to teach them eventually, the same reasoning can be applied to autonomous cars (just substitute teaching with data gathering)

The total distance driven also does not just depend on technology alone but on urban planning. AVs may change that dramatically over time.
The fact that you even need to ask those questions (about the truthiness of those variables), means the language is a dealbreaker, to me.

What absurdity.
Won't be fun if there is a vulnerability.
Will this be true for gyms as well?? That would be a game-changer.
I know from previously working there that Microsoft gives all public holidays. When I started you had floating holidays you could take for some (MLK, Columbus etc) but now all are given. Wouldn't be surprised to learn it's the same at Google, FB et al.
I'm surprised this is at all controversial.

Many Americans believe that vegetarianism and veganism are wrong and even offensive belief systems. The foods those people eat instead of meat are part of this wrong belief system, and no 'normal' person who doesn't believe in that system would want to eat those foods. Tofu and veggie burgers being the two biggest offenders.

In my experience, people outside of the big metro areas are not at all shy about sharing the above perspective.

Source: I lived in the Midwest as a vegetarian.
For one: vue, vuex (centralized state library) and vue-router are stewarted by roughly the same people, which has a few benefits. The documentation is all pretty decent and uniform. I never sit for very long wondering how to do something.

Changes that break backwards compatibility are reflected across all three at the same time, and the correct versions are installed by vue-cli. I had several starts with react, react-router, and redux, and on almost every occasion something from my last attempt was broken because the api had changed, and the documentation changed with it (in the span of 3-4 months). That lead to several WTF moments. IIRC there was a period where react-router made some breaking changes from v2 to v3, and then less than a year later made more breaking changes for v4.

Vue is also a lot simpler to drop into an existing application. The .vue single-file component is very approachable, albeit a bit magic but about as magic as JSX. You can add a vue-loader for sass/less/etc. and simply specify lang="less" in these as well.

Vuex was a little easier for me to grok, although I had the advantage of trying out redux first. It has the advantage again of sharing documentation with the rest of the project.

Also, because react has worked for big companies as you mentioned, does not mean vue couldn't work for them as well. React gained a lot of momentum early among western programmers. Vue first gained traction in Asia - Evan You, the creator of vue, is from there. Also you might remember the massive amount of confusion for early React adopters regarding how to manage state. People liked react, but it only really had the view part ready out of the gate. Facebook's explanation of what the early-best-practice flux model entailed was vague, and there were several slightly different implementations.
I think one idea is to produce good, healthy food closer to where people are instead of producing it from far away and then having to deal with transportation and preservation of food. It would allow urban dwellers cheaper and more available access to healthy foods.
I think he means that you have to spam j/k instead of just holding it down. ie. if you hold j you expect the cursor to keep moving up, with vs code it will just move up a single line.
In my opinion the most important bit of Gödel's results is Tarski's Undefinability, an essential corollary that is often completely omitted when talking about incompleteness. GEB covers this (on p580 in my copy) and talks a bit about the consequences.

The other important part, of course, is that these results are inescapable.
I hate to say and use it, but my best tool in situations like this is disposable credit card numbers via the privacy app. I make a best effort to close the account, and if that doesn’t work I cancel the temporary credit card I used to sign up for the service.

Make sure to get your cancelation attempt in writing (email, etc) because some places will still try and collect.
This would reverse overnight in the US if we redirected our agricultural subsidies.
>that's a problem by any social measure.

No it is not. East Asians on average are higher quality students than gentile whites in every measure of intelligence and grit we have. Denying them entry because such ethnic differences make you uncomfortable is not just.
You might be doing yourself a disservice. There are a lot of people who would be extremely competent in practice who are put off by the dirt and competition of the election process.

Choosing officials by lot is also extremely resistant to the money-in-politics problem and corruption amongst officials (it becomes easier to detect, and occasionally you get incorruptible people in the role).

The ideal political system could well be random lot to determine a small pool of candidates (I think 3-4), then voters choose 1.
There's also Goodhart's law / Campbell's law.

Once the measures for admission are made public they'll cease being good measures as many will teach/live to the measures rather than actually remain high quality students. (Of course the measures may also be bad measures.)

It may be better for the school to have a written system for evaluating or at least reaching an initial coarse filter result which they create and disseminate to external auditors who ensure it has been applied 'fairly' to the data set and which can provide opinions about the process without revealing details that could ruin the effectiveness of the measures.

Additionally they could monitor the applicant pool to see if the applicants are more uniformly reacting to a discovered / leaked measure and thus that it has ceased being a good tool for decision making.
Farmers would produce lots more of those if the price was higher.
Yes, you're missing light. The top layer of plants would get enough light, but the lower levels will only get some trickle-through, and that's assuming the hydro equipment doesn't block the light entirely. Either way, you won't have nearly enough to grow productive plants.
Yes, quite right. The runback makes sense in PVP; it largely doesn't in PVE, where it's mostly been eliminated.
Better than WSJ, which continues to let you use the service but threatens to send the bill to collections.
i wonder what the nutritional content of those veggies are compared to their ground grown counterparts.
Yes, but my phrasing was specifically mass murder. In terms of genocide, I agree. But that list explicitly excludes non-genocide mass murders. In terms of the Chinese Great Leap Forward, if you exclude the policy/famine based deaths that still leaves you with at least 13 million murders, and that's just the property owners that were slaughtered for their land by the impoverished peasants. That doesn't even include anyone else.
I suspect this stereotype may have a signal-to-noise problem. Consider that many men who buy a corvette at mid-life may have wanted one since their childhood, and mid-life happened to be the earliest point at which they could afford one.
1. Clean room farming means no need for pesticides

2. LED lights are pretty efficient, and they provide another avenue for optimization (e.g. color, intensity, timing, etc.). Whether or not those optimizations are financially effective is probably situationally dependent.

3. LED lights provide latitude independence. No idea if this is a serious reason, but I could see it being of interest to Iceland.
This is very back of the napkin guesswork, but here goes:

If part of the pitch is that, more than just "vertical" farming, it is "vertical urban" farming (e.g. for logistical advantage of proximity to demand), that would imply potential proximity to other tall structures in a city. Probably taller structures. You would have concerns for consistency of sunlight. Also only the edges of the building would get it, so you would want your farm to only occupy the tiniest edge footprint of the building, but across multiple floors. That is an odd sort of lease to get from a building.

Even a new building built nearby after a year or two could destroy the efficiency of your once-carefully-selected site.

Another under-educated guess that I would be happy to hear about from someone more knowledge: I would guess that glass facades costs more than other materials.
Everything is natural convection or gravity-fed in a blackout station scenario, so there's no way to pump the steam back down into the ground. Also, the ground wouldn't dissipate the heat from the steam fast enough, and would quickly reach a hot equilibrium temperature. It's basically a low capacity heat sink quickly saturated.
Ask HN: What is the enterprise value (practical and disruptive) of blockchain?
Blockchain has separate utility and business value from the accretive gains in holding coins.

There are many really smart people who currently hold crypto assets and therefore have skin in the game to convince us that blockchain will be revolutionary, or at least have practical enterprise value.

What are your best arguments that the technology will create massive business value?
His predecessor under the previous administration had plenty of scandals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epa-knew-blowout-risk-c...

http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-epa-administrators-spent-...

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/gold-miners-near-chi...

https://lists.grabien.com/list-epa-scandals-under-obama-admi...
Farmizen lets urbanites grow fresh food on a remote farm (2017)
Elite is not necessarily correlated with surefire intelligence, there are other aspects like social skills, leadership capabilities, connections in the right places, drive, courage and a healthy sense of entitlement. When Harvard are picking their students they are looking into all those aspects and trying to find people with a combination of some of them, that's why so many Asians fail to get in, they don't have a lot of those characteristics. Most of them have the "hard worker" characteristic, it is not enough to become elite, in many cases it is exactly the opposite. That's the truth that nobody wants to say. They try to compare it to the old days when there was a cap on Jews, but Jews were on a different league when it came to creativity and courage to do new and interesting things and that what brought them into the elite. Granted there are some Asians who can be elite, but just having good marks gained by hard work is not always sufficient.
And if you read about Cantor you will find he defined a term called 'countably infinite'. No 'countably infinite' set has a higher cardinality than any other.
Ask people whom you have send mails (like your family) to forward you all they received from you. You can find meaningful informations and keys in the headers that might help you to prove that.
Generally, the definition of "best students" that the top universities are looking for is the ones who are best able to handle the content of the course by themselves without their parents there pushing them, because that's what it takes to succeed. They're not looking for the students who've most effectively been sheparded through intensive test prep by their parents, because that all falls apart the moment they have to stand on their own and deal with harder courses that can't be prepped for in the same way.
You can buy prime farm land in Saskatchewan for well under $2000 an acre.
I think the best solution is to use a tool like StackStorm, Rundeck, Wooey (https://github.com/wooey/Wooey) or even Jenkins (as mentioned in some other comments), and standardize on adding new scripts to that system. This has the benefit of not needing to cater to individual environments -- you can get it running on a server and call it good.

I wrote and open-sourced a tool called Scrypture (https://github.com/mosesschwartz/scrypture) some years back that partially addressed this need. It served as a central place that everyone could add their own scripts to, and it made it easy to expose the scripts through a web interface. Today I think going with one of the tools mentioned above would be more robust, but it goes to show that this is a real need for a lot of teams, and there really isn't a recognized single best solution.
You should’ve seen the $600 silk shirts I was looking at after rolling through Neimy’s. Must be the T. Lol. I’m serious about the former, but I dunno: my T level is always average. Not sure status has anything to do with it because they’re damn comfortable shirts and any shirt without a clothing tag gets my vote.
Keybase + bitwarden
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Yes, you seem to be missing the light supply. Plants need a lot of light to grow. In a multi-storey greenhouse, the incoming solar radiation per unit floor area is smaller than in a normal (one-storey) greenhouse. Thus the need for artificial lighting and associated costs, both for hardware and electric power.
Not a problem at all. I place high value on being available to users of my website. I reply to each and every message. Perhaps it's a bit unusual for someone to talk about that before the numbers.

It has been my experience that I've gained more valuable insight from talking with users than I have from the numbers.

But, as a little Latina girl once said, why not both?
Pretty sure the grandparent comment was missing a /s
> They can't even require a doctor's certification of some sort (without any details)?

That's correct, generally. I mean, if you show up at an airport with an oxygen take, be prepared to demonstrate that you medically require it. It's also different for employment, where your boss may ask you to provide evidence that you need a special accommodation to do your job.
Specifically, the legislative analysts working for the legislature who draft and edit proposed laws are generally very good. The wisdom of what is trying to be accomplished may be questionable, but the text of the law usually is defensible and accomplishes what it sets out to do.
What a bizarre and dishonest piece of historical revisionism: by cherry picking short fragments of quotes without providing proper references the author builds up some support for his completely baseless accusations. The EFF have never downplayed the privacy issues of GMail, on the contrary, they warned us all about these issues and one can easily verify this by searching their old blog posts:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2004/04/gmail-rough-guide-prot...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2004/04/gmail-whats-deal

And then he goes on implying that these Silicon Valley astroturfers manipulated the public opinion on SOPA so Google could make billions by publishing pirated music on YouTube... baffling indeed.
That I should have not spend time at all on the "ecosystem" (npm, typescript, transpilers...). It works well out-of-the-box.
>testosterone increases positive attitudes toward positional goods when they are described as status-enhancing, but not when they are described as power-enhancing.

I'm not sure what this means. I thought status was a power-enhancing attribute. And that that was the reason people want it.
You get specialist pay don’t you? An enlisted person who pilots a helicopter or works in a special operations unit gets paid more. You could just have specialist pay for developers.

But anyway this whole ‘you need to pay them the same as civilians’ is nonsense anyway - soldiers are already paid a fraction of what private security get now and it doesn’t seem to be a major problem causing people to leave to do that equivalent job.

People join and stay in the military for great reasons other than pay, such as comradeship, family history, sense of duty, the challenge - appeal to those.
>> Coding is a not at all comparable to literacy, it is simply a lucrative trade that is in demand at this time in history, but it won't always be (in fact, I suspect the career prospects for software engineers will look very similar to the career prospects for lawyers today, within the next 30 years).

I think you are playing semantics, my argument is simply that coding can be as fundamental to earning a living as literacy and unlike many other occupations there are no gatekeepers that tell you what/when you can code - thus it gives you the freedom to work to improve yourself and your situation in ways that other occupations do not. I have no interest in debating the fundamental building blocks of learning etc... only the tactical dat to day skills that can add value to ones life but I would like to see your GitHub profile. Here is mine - https://github.com/ArionHardison. I also have 0 interest in your supposition, do you have any empirical evidence to back up the assertion that coding in 30 years will be akin to being a lawyer?

Note: To assert that someone would be able to code well enough to hold a job whole also being functionally illiterate is simply moronic.