skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shipping costs time as well as money. Cheap shipping also requires trade-offs that are not always advantageous with foods.

For instance, it may be cheaper to grow tomatoes in Florida rather than in Manhattan, but in order to get a Florida tomato to Manhattan, the tomato itself has to be a bruise-resistant variety with predictable shape and size, harvested while green, and artificially ripened with ethylene gas. The tomato grown in Manhattan and eaten in Manhattan can be one of those bulbous, deeply-pigmented heirloom varieties, harvested while ripe, and eaten within hours, bursting with actual tomato flavor.

The tomato grown in Florida must be grown during the tomato-growing season for Florida. The vertical farm tomato can be grown as easily in the local regular season or for harvest in mid-February.

Rather than solar panels and LEDs, the rooftop could support advanced deck prisms that pipe natural sunlight through optical fibers. That alone is likely insufficient to meet the lighting needs of the plants, but it would be more efficient, and a watt of natural sunlight is a watt that you don't have to pump through the LEDs. The true advantage of LEDs is not in energy efficiency, but in wavelength tuning. The farming LEDs don't even produce the green light that is usually reflected by plants. Also, the red-blue balance can be altered to produce different effects on the plants. Blue light produces growth, and red light influences the plant hormones for germination, rooting, etiolation, and flowering. Tinkering with the red-blue schedule could allow the farmer to grow larger heads of lettuce or cabbage without bolting.

And, as you mentioned, hydroponics and aeroponics are more water-efficient.

Vertical farming will never entirely replace land-surface farming, but it will complement it. And it will allow farming underground, and in non-terrestrial habitats.
How do I verify that the host is executing my application correctly?

How do I make sure that a host is billing me the right amount of money?
(Argues that social media and data tracking is a dangerous combination that can serve to further alienate us from our humanity)

(Proceeds to inject his political agenda that, while it has many truths, is written in a way that will completely alienate anyone not far-left)
I find it interesting that the non-Grammar "comprehensive/secondary modern" schools in areas with Grammar Schools actually perform better than Comprehensive schools (such as the one I attended) in areas where Grammar Schools have been abolished.

Does this mean that such schools apply more focus to issues such as the ones you list in order to better compete?
Chrome Canary Shows Off Material Design 2 – Now on macOS
Chrome's Canary build now has the new UI by default on macOS, and it seems to look much neater.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Canary users on Windows were able to access this UI by enabling the top-chrome-md flag (src: https://beebom.com/google-chrome-canary-revamped-material-design/).
I'm not an aviation expert, but their reasoning seems to be "it's a tiny chance and we reaaaaaallllly want to use these planes".

We are talking about a known bug that could lead to deaths.

This isn't some critical military aircraft or a cargo plane that without which food and goods can't be transported. The only "harm" will be to shareholders.

People are more important than profits.
The FAA does a great job with general plane safety. Boeing does a great job with Safety. It's great to see this in public, so we can understand the system that leads to aviation being a unbelievably safe form of transportation, while still being responsive to the market.

(See https://www.popsci.com/why-air-travel-became-so-incredibly-s...)

All of that said, the modern generation of engines are so complex to hit their efficency windows, it's majorly impacting airlines. The A320-NEO engines by Pratt & Whitney have huge problems that have significantly impacted airlines and carriers, while GE is struggling with this problem.

All of these are engineering problems, with a complex trade-off between efficiency (fuel), safety and cost.
A myth typically refers to a popular belief unsubstantiated by fact.
They were good friends with my manager at work. He grew up with them and went to school with them. He seen them only a few weeks ago :(. When I took my swiftwater rescue training the first thing I was taught is never jump in after someone in the river...
I'm not sure if that's (just) aging per se, perhaps Conservatives are, er, more conservative and so less likely to leave to find something else. That would leave older sites that were once the mainstream to become automatically more [C|c]onservative.
How did Obama's strategy harvest racial tensions? I genuinely want to know. Can you link me to something?
It's not a graph of compilers to a file on disk. It's a graph of compilers. Just because it exists only in memory doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Has the JavaScript been compiled to machine code. Yes, it has.

You mean that the JavaScript compilation is only valid for a given application at a given point in time? Yes that's true.
The first version of OS X I ran was the beta that didn’t look much like the UI we know today. In those days I was a NetBSD user. The first public release of OS X was mana from heaven for me.

I think the addition of Expose (Panther?) was the high point for me in terms of OS X releases. The addition of Spotlight shortly thereafter marked the beginning of features that I started disabling either partially or wholly.

Now I’m not entirely comfortable running macOS as a daily driver simply because I know heaps of crap is turned on that I probably don’t want, and don't have the time or inclination to research the likely security implications.

We crossed a point a few years ago where I rediscovered free *nixen, and decided that it was easier to make Xubuntu do what I want than it was to make macOS not do what I didn’t want. I miss simple OS X.
of course I do - I misspoke after I missed your reference to prime numbers in the list of open/hard problems. I get why you're including it, but if we're just deciding whether the program halts then "f(x: int) => x is prime ? halt : loop" is clearly resolvable to "doesn't always halt" so I don't see your point.
Yeah, why not follow the model of every domain search site and monetize via affiliate links? Honestly you'll probably make more that way than with the pro plan anyway. Or maybe you're doing both idk.
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Humanity needs to abandon the idea of strictly binary gender and sexuality, and in particular the fallacy that heteronormativity is more correct, rather than merely being more common. However, I doubt the entire premise of identifying oneself with a particular orientation or gender is going to disappear, since sexual orientation and gender do exist.
Who should pay the price? Profiting from selfishness (2015)
Banks ordered to show tech back-up plans
When HPE hired me on, I know I was about 20% more then the guy who had been doing the job for 20 years. Companies don't value you if you stick around. Your only hurting yourself.
This article doesn't say how it did, but that it did.

However, this is still an interesting piece of history. I didn't realize anyone considered any particular MacOS better than the others.

I've had several macs since 2012, and I always upgrade. Haven't experienced any particular issues I can remember.

So this whole thing was missed by me although apparently it was a big event for other people.
You can usually also just bash the "0" key over and over again.
Its and interesting concept, and one that may have already occurred in some societies in the past.

Imagine seeing someone attractive, you get to know them, and during this time you find out something that destroys their attraction. Maybe finding out they were of the opposite gender you like, maybe finding out they were an awful person who abuses pets, maybe finding out that they were much younger than you assumed. How much of the destruction of attraction is biological in nature verses social in nature? And even more complex is that idea that the origin is sociological in nature, develops to be biological.

I'd suggest looking up research on linguistic relativity. The extent of the impact of it is still being researched, and it is unknown the extent it might impact attraction (even far more mundane things like object placement and color recognition are still being researched and debated among scientist).

2018 article that has found evidence some mental processes may be impacted while others appear not to be:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002438411...

Sadly basically all the research I found on it is locked behind paywalls, but I will say that while a lot of the initial concepts have been challenged and thrown out, from what I've read the idea as a whole has survived to some extent.
I've used OS X since the very first betas. Every release has had its bugs, but every release has been an improvement too.

I don't get the praise/hate online for different releases, or the narrative that Apple's software quality is turning to crap. It's too shrill to be genuine.

Are there still annoyances or things that could be better in macOS? Of course. Is it better than the alternatives or than it used to be? Yes.

I also don't get why you wouldn't want to upgrade to the latest version. At least Apple never tried to force-update the machine I was using in the middle of an important client pitch, unlike other OS vendors I could mention.

Having said that, the initial release of 10.5 Leopard was known as Leper amongst my friends due to its general tendency to fall over all the time...
How can cancelling an agreement with one other nation be considered legislating the whole world?
Completely agree on this. After the 5th time going through multiple screening rounds only to find the hiring managers had a really low budget and were actually looking for a cheap worker to take advantage of, I started telling recruiters up front what my salary expectations were. It's saved a huge amount of time.
I don't think my iPhone was ever damaged by an update - I always migrated to a newer one before the newer OSes caused strain. I was one of those who held off on the initial releases of iOS 7 ..

But my god Yosemite in 2015 (again waited for it to "stabilise") on my 2014 MBP was an unholy shitshow.
The way all distributed systems work is that you hope that some hosts may be malicious but not too many and not in a coordinating fashion.

So in Bitcoin for example, Bitmain has 41% of the hashing power and a bunch of pools have 10% but you just assume they won't work together to defraud you. And turns out, you're pretty much right, that's never happened.

Codius just improves on that security model by letting you choose however many hosts you want by whatever criteria you want.
>Nowadays it is difficult to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong without being condemned as a bigot.

How is that not a form of bigotry?
I'm not an American so I haven't followed all the debates, but I got the impression that the Obama campaign was overall positive? Wasn't it basically "yes, we can" (for the minorities)? Basically there was a racial component, but the basic idea was to be proud of your origin and stuff like that.

The Trump campaign, on the other hand, struck me as trying to put down the others. Totally negative.

I don't think those two are equivalent.
Intake is key. I positively hated school through to 16 when I then went to a separate Sixth Form College to do my A-Levels - and suddenly all the knobheads were gone and I could actually enjoy myself for the first time.
> defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in.

This is a good point. I never have my browser save cookies / cache information between sessions. Now when I visit reddit I need to tick the "change view" box every single time?
(Playing devil's advocate)

The child doesn't consent to a life of being outside of that social norm. One could make the argument that it's in the same ballpark as raising a child in religious extremism.
I have so far encountered zero conversational UIs that are even usable, let alone capable of replacing a human. If Google had such a technology, it would be used in Google Home.
> mods shouldn't be all powerful

Modding is hard work; reddit barely provides the tools we really need. Note that _bionoid_ mentioned bots - you effectively need to use third-party tools to effectively moderate even a moderate sized sub.

I'm not sure what you mean by "just shut down", but the best subs tend to be the ones where rules are enforced strongly and consistently.
Labels for gender and sexuality are so much more than simple political identifiers.

People who actually use them for themselves experience them as guideposts to finding out what's going on inside by seeking out other people's experiences. To us, the labels are no different from "nerd" or "musician." I would still find them useful even without a vast social and political movement hell-bent on making my world as sad and empty as their own.

Identity labels are fundamentally about making space to explore. "Musician" leads to all kinds of places, like grungehead, or rondo fanatic, or furry rave DJ. Why people get so up in arms about identity labels when it comes to gender and sexuality is beyond me, and I've already written too much here to start speculating.
The datasets are still available on BigQuery: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/fh-bigquery:reddit...
https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/fh-bigquery:reddit...

They are not owned by Reddit.
So claims the police. I don't know about you but I don't think the average police officer is going to be able to distinguish between any old chemistry and explosive chemistry.
He may be less corrupt than the others but I wish his go-to move wasn't to block traffic to express his displeasure with every policy decision.
When did suggesting government oversight of companies that have shown themselves to be bad actors become a far-left belief? Why does it feel like these appellations come from people that aren’t so much right or left politically, but just want to keep their fingers in their ears out of fear?
The War on Normal People–A Review
As has been pointed out in past threads, the typical HN reader probably only calls on the phone when something has failed or is unavailable on the website, but from the point of view of the call center, most of their incoming calls are going to be people who refuse to use the website for things that could in principle be easily done there. So they are always trying to cut that fraction down or automate it.
Is that for using a personal moral definition of consent (even if it is quite a popular one) or using a scientific definition? I find most people will find scientifically consensual cases morally wrong when considering the edge cases (since the scientific tests for consent are not based on age and instead based on measuring ability, they are mostly developed for studying mentally disabled adults, but the finding apply regardless).
What you are saying is exactly the kind of info I'm searching for. Do you have any links/reviews for the laptops you are talking about? I'll look into them when I have time.
Yeah. He is right.
Anyway, thank you. I couldn't read an article so long to communicate so little, so I just went into the comments here. Thanks again.
I'm not seeing an error; you may have to display the `fh_bigquery` project first.
What are great saas ideas?
What do you think that what kind of saas or which saas ideas would be good to improve coding skills, and have usage potential at future ?
It would probably hard to get accurate data on that, because a single job posting does not necessarily represent a single position. It represents a role that can be filled multiple times.

For example, basically every company is always hiring for a "Software Engineer" role. No company is publishing a new job description every time they hire a new Software Engineer.
> * The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns.*

Which subreddits?
You are the reason I keep a few pieces of esoteric code in my interview notebook. I'll gladly answer yours as long as you can answer mine.
My issue with deleting Facebook is that a lot of services depend on it for authentication and friend/contact discovery. I wish there were an open standard for a social graph.
AFAIK, the "El Torito" standard, so named for the restaurant where ppl. from IBM & Phoenix BIOS hashed out how to do it...
> 3) Shipping may be cheap, but the time of travel from the farm to the table is long. Growing locally increases the amount of time a plant can be on the shelf or fridge before going bad. Food waste is a big problem from a waste and cost perspective.

To the point that strains are picked and/or modified based on their ability to withstand long trips.
“My friends are not racist, they just all agree with these 14 words...”
Why is it sad? It's literally the labour market working it's best. If one of the developers that report to tell me that he deserves a higher salary and I woul find myself disagreeing with him, I would literally ask him to go out and get some offers, so instead of relying on our limited and biased understanding of the market, we would both rely on something more objective instead.
Some cities are dominated by insurance/banking/healthcare companies. Their IT needs are quite different than the consumer software space.

It's more like a salesguy just landed a big fish and the big fish is making these demands to close the deal, so bolt on some new functionality to your existing platform. Ad nauseum.
> So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching.

The problem is that you lose most of the community. Starting a new sub is easy, growing one is hard.
I find it sad this is being downvoted. I think this rings true.

Perhaps too true?

HN has its bents and focuses, but it's at least more conversationally balanced than reddit (perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965536 partially explains some of the reasons why). The news media is of course pure bias and content/distribution/agenda masquerading as fact-based objectivity (eg, https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI).

Where else can I look for... the kind of apolitical, discussion-focused information sharing that eg used to happen on blogs circa 2007, but in discussion community form, and within a community framework that is bias-resistant?
Open Science fan here, I have some concrete questions about this copyright, publishers and linktax story, for example:
(0) - will Scihub be affected?
(1) - will arXiv link instead of the published article link be affected?
(2) - will the social media companies start to apply filters to the search results and timelines???
Calling up lots of companies is just a hassle, and you get trained to dislike it due to all the negative experiences.

My best support experiences have been with Apple. I've had to interact with them on the phone a few times and it has always been a highly positive experience. They don't give you any crap or try to sell more stuff.
To be fair, when I started in IT, around 2001, it was common for IT to be in the basement or sub-basement. It probably still is at larger companies or government contractors.
I believe the standard process is to win a fiddle contest.
I only have personal experience (and, admittedly, my own biases) to go by, but I suspect you're an outlier, and I'm referring to the norm, both within and outside the mainstream. I think the ways most people approach social media are the same either way, people want to be entertained and they want to feel emotionally validated.
Probability was understood long before computers, true, but it waited for Kolmogorov’s axiomatic formulation to actually become the coherent field of math that it is today, rather than a hodge lodge of definitions, tricks and theorems.

And that only happened in 1933, which is around the time that computers became a thing. Not general purpose ones yet - I agree it was before computers were widespread, but definitely not far before they were a thing.
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Microsoft Launcher for Android Gets a Big Update with Lots of New Features
Myth, huh?

2001 10.1 Puma: First OS X to ship by default
2002 10.2 Jaguar: GPU compositing, Mail.app / Address Book, MP4
2003 10.3 Panther: Safari, iChat AV, Journaled FS, Apple's PDF engine
2005 10.4 Tiger: Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator, Core Image/Video
2007 10.5 Leopard: Core Animation, Time Machine, Boot Camp, 64 bit, intel
2009 10.6 Snow Leopard: App Store, XCode overhaul with LLVM, major dev tool updates
~~~ wind leaves sails ~~~
2011 10.7 Lion: Launchpad, auto-save documents, multi-touch
2012 10.8 Mountain Lion: Game Center, Notification Center
2013 10.9 Mavericks: iBooks, Apple Maps, iCloud integration
2014 10.10 Yosemite: Skeuomorphism -> Fisher Price, Continuity & handoff
2015 10.11 El Capitan: San Francisco font, Metal API
2016 10.12 Sierra: Siri, Auto Unlock, Night Shift
~~~ wind returns? ~~~
2017 10.13 High Sierra: HEVC, APFS, VR

On the upside, High Sierra was a release that lives up to the old standard. Hopefully that's a trend that will continue.
> you never head a company say the following: "The market is competitive and your market rate has increased, so here's a raise (of more than 2-3%)"

That has absolutely happened to me at the company I'm with. And yes, the proactive stance of eng management around keeping up with the market is one of the factors that's kept me happy there for over 4 years now.
“The fact you can't conceive of how this goes wrong is actually _illustrative_ of how Sun got screwed.“

I can very well concieve of it, as I’ve been preaching this to the Linux crowd for decades and they just don’t get it. By the way I know about Tandem because yes, I’m that old.

Please, before you go preaching to the choir (me), read how ZFS works; if the drive totally completely lies about everything, if it silently corrupts data, first read from the drive will uncover it because the checksums won’t match. ZFS will still deliver good data if it has redundant copies and will attempt to overwrite the corrupt data automatically.

50% of the two memory chips in my Solaris storage server no longer function correctly; Solaris has automatically migrated the affected pages out of them. When I get new memory chips, I will off-line them and replace them. Tandem might have been even more robust, but its engineers didn’t continue working on it after the company’s demise like those Sun engineers did on illumos.
> Not if that is made illegal

That would be a massive change to the American securities markets. Enough so that it might destroy them. “You can buy or sell your securities at competing venues” is a basic tent of finance.
Altair does grammar of graphics on top of Vega-lite.
I strongly disagree. I am atheist but have no doubt that wantonly killing people (or for that matter, animals) is morally wrong. Empirically, I don't think atheists are much more likely than theists to commit crimes.
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