skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the key point Don’t get distracted if author is biased or not...he is making sone goood points.

I was not aware of this..”The USDA, which oversees the foods labeled as “Certified Organic”, states quite clearly on its website about its role in organic, that “Our regulations do not address food safety or nutrition.” Foods labelled “Certified Organic” must adhere to certain rules and regulations but aren’t endowed with any particular nutritional or safety features. However, many consumers believe that the Organic label means the food has superior nutrition and is safer, especially in regard to pesticide residues. This is not true. ”
The author says .... "and the actual pesticides used today are mostly relatively non-toxic to humans."

Nothing can be further from the truth. Most (in fact all) pesticides used are designed to kill biological cells. So pesticides do not distinguish between a caterpillars cell or a humans. All pesticides are harmful to humans, some in tiny doses, some in large doses.

FYI - Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid dangers of cancer caused by its weedkillers. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/22/monsanto-tr...
If someone logs onto an IRC channel, and posts a racist statement, does the channel operator or system operator share responsibility?

On the other hand, what if a newspaper posts an editorial that "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong (TM)"? Do they share more responsibility than if someone comments on the system?

Facebook is trying to decide whether it's an IRC server, or a newspaper. I think the problem is that they want to be both.
Sega Accused of “Anti-Consumer” Behavior with Rushed Sonic Mania Plus Protection
That kind of mirrors Monsanto's insistence that GM foods without roundup are utterly 100% proven safe, neglecting to mention that the reason they're modified is so that they are more resistant to roundup.... which is not exactly proven safe.
> How many jobs will be created by opening up spaceflight at 1/100 the cost?

The old jobs were under your directive. The new jobs are not.
Falcon 9 first flew in 2010, and launched its first commercial payload in 2013.
You just spotted an eight year old contextual feature. While the parser will leave a path "open", only signalling an explicit "close" when it sees `z` or `Z`, it still signals the start of a new path when it sees an `m` or `M` somewhere mid-path. And that's why you're seeing closed shapes even though there don't appear to be any in the original SVG:

There is no such thing as an "open path" in glyph outlines used in fonts (which was the context of this exploratory), so whenever the parser signals a "new path" signal, even when not preceded by a "close path" signal, that's automatically a closed path and the receiver code I wrote treats it as such.

(The starting SVG string was a straight graphics instruction dump from a OpenType-CFF glyph charstring, although I can't for the life of me remember which typeface it came from... it's been a while)
While a reduced amount of, and possibly different type of, pesticide is often at play in our organic choices, the striking thing we’ve found is that a lot of organic produce tastes better, often times significantly.

Part of it is probably the correlation between organic produce and smaller and/or more local production. Part of it is probably the stores that have extensive organic stock tend to charge more, and presumably are more proactive about disposing of less desirable items.

I feel like part of it is probably a more holistic approach to growing the food, as opposed to trying to maximize yields and/or profit.
> Actually, the CLR supports pointers

I said it doesn't provide a sandbox for pointers. CLR pointers can corrupt your whole VM instance. WASM's lightweight bytecode with no runtime can support in-process heap isolation.

> JVM can run arbitrary LLVM bitcode (so C, C++, Rust etc) in a memory safe way with bounds checking and garbage collection these days. Check out Sulong and Safe Sulong:

Nice find. Still, look to be interpreted though.

> In what sense does the JVM not do "full verification at runtime"?

The last report of a formalized semantics for verification that I saw was over 10 years old:

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/2763

The JVM bytecode has significant verification challenges as discussed in this paper and by Leroy in the other papers I linked. The Joe-E papers I linked also discuss the problems of targeting the JVM at length.

As I linked in my other comment, WASM was built with mechanized proofs nearly from the outset. They learned from the mistakes made in the CLR and JVM.
To confirm, you're looking for an interpreter? Because most "C implementations" of sorts would instead compile to a standalone binary. If you are looking for an interpreter, while [0] appears out of date, [1] could easily be consumed statically in a C lib and is basically as portable as a C impl. Even better, compile it at runtime and then run it [2]. There's of course the canonical OCaml one [3]. But it would not be hard to write one, WASM is fairly trivial.

0 - https://github.com/kanaka/wac
1 - https://github.com/paritytech/wasmi
2 - https://github.com/sunfishcode/wasmtime
3 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/interpreter
But the companies that make these chemicals assure us they are!
That's not a subtraction sign, it's a hyphen. N is the norm of x, denoted by |x|. Technically the norm is a scalar-valued function applied to a vector, hence the functional notation N(xy) = N(x) • N(y).

So to be explicit, they're saying |xy| = |x| • |y| implies you cannot have a 0 divisor.
who cares about landlords page

I really hope this is just autocorrect getting hilariously overzealous, heh.
Thanks!

Random queries sound like a good extra tactic. It would prevent any of my 6 (unrelated afaik) DNSCrypt proxies from knowing with certainly about where I'm going. The queries would have to be somewhat credible and randomly timed to stop the noise from being easy to filter out, but that doesn't seem insurmountable.

I think the VPN aspect is already taken care of by making all queries via those independent proxies. Is there something else a VPN would help with that I'm missing?
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At least 50,000,000 were killed in WW2 alone. In WW1 around 16,000,000 were killed. That is over 65,000,000 people killed counting only the two biggest conflicts of the 20th century. If another global conflict broke out, the death count could easily be 100,000,000. If the money the US spends on military keeps a world war from happening in the 21st century it will be money well spent.
Serious question: Is it wrong to work for organizations that have done horrible things? The US government has plenty of blood on its hands from the past few centuries. Yet I don't think it follows that everyone should quit. Rather, if you're a moral person, it seems better to think about you can enact positive change from within, rather than seeking to morally disentangle yourself from an organization you find unethical and thereby allowing it to become even more unethical.

And of course, the US governement is different from Facebook in many ways. Perhaps the same logic of not working for them doesn't apply. But if it doesn't, I think it would be helpful to explain why.
I would be very interested by this if it was opensource with integrations to major clients and open source web clients like Roundcube.
But until then, I don't want to give always more private information to any new third party, even very cool Indie Maker ones.
More to the point, what would the engine and booster factories do if they had 12 months off each year because all the payloads would fly on cheaper reusable rockets? If the jobs are doing something inefficient, they're going away anyway.
The Core i9 clock cycles go up. Who cares where they come down?
'...Some 530 camera and video surveillance patents were filed by Chinese groups last year, according to the research firm CB Insights — more than five times the number applied for in the US. Unhindered by worries about privacy or individual rights, China’s deepening specialism has attracted global customers and investors. “The surveillance industry is still in the growth phase,” proclaimed analysts at Jefferies, the New York-based investment bank. '

In a way I'm relieved the West is lagging behind on this but I found the whole article very worrying indeed. Individual digital rights have never been more urgent or important in the West to delineate 'free' society, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness etc...
It depends. If Uber was truly marketing itself as something you should stake your livelihood on (i.e. a viable career), then it's understandable that people would do that.

People are only idiots if they take something that is only obviously meant for non-sustainable income, try to turn it into their livelihood, and then act surprised/outraged when it isn't sustainable. I kind of got this vibe from ride sharing - I never thought it would be sustainable as a full-time job, I thought it was more for just some fun side income.
Because you're making strong comments that are not supported by any fucking evidence about a health problem that kills people.

You're grossly irresponsible to push your personal, unevidenced, pet theories.

You talk about your lived experience: that tells us what worked for you. It says fuck all about anyone else. Notice also that the psychiatrists and psychologists you worked with have professional qualifications and professional registration.
> a culture of keeping reasonably quiet

Wouldn't that be nice. Doesn't happen in my office. Maybe because upper management doesn't care.
I think the problem isn't Haskell but rather the way programming is usually taught.

Imperative programming is the most widespread paradigm, by far. When people find an introduction to programming, it's going to be in a language like C, C++, Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, etc. Many of these languages support functional style in some way or another, but none of them truly embrace it — and anyway, you wouldn't find any mention of it in introductory material.

In an imperative language, you write down a list of instructions for the computer. You can think of it as a step-by-step recipe, and the computer will dumbly follow your instructions to the T. This is easy to explain, and since it's what most people use it's also what most people teach.

Haskell (and pure functional languages in general) are fundamentally different. In a functional language, you're writing data transformations. That's literally all it is. Instead of writing a procedure, you write what essentially amounts to a mathematical function describing how to transform the input data into the desired output. It's not a list of steps, but rather a single modification. You compose multiple functions together to get the desired result. This definitely seems more aligned with the goals of data science, for the most part. (Though I'm not a data scientist, so I could be wrong!)

I don't think functional programming is significantly more difficult to learn. It's just hard to learn after you've already learned the imperative style. It's hard to go back and figure out a different way to explain things to the computer once you're used to doing it the one way. I think this is the part that those quotes you have are really talking about. I don't think Haskell is inherently more difficult to learn than Java for somebody whose programming knowledge is a blank slate; it's just hard to learn after you've started down the path of imperative thinking.
You get the joke.
Many of us that use local DNS (pi-hole and similar technology), this is not an option. On the other hand, I feel more secure with my local ISP than with mega ad-corporation like Google.

I think that DNS over HTTPS is loved by the ad-community. No local DNS that can disturb or block user generated data. Don’t get fooled people.

#DeleteGoogle
I haven't played with MLR; how do you like it, esp. compared to caret?

I never really caught on to caret as it felt rigid and clunky and non-idiomatic, but I've been using Max's newer rsample (setup CV) + recipes (like sklearn pipeline) + yardstick (metrics) packages to good effect lately. parsnip, which will handle the core model-fitting, seems promising but is too early to use yet.

I don't expect sparse matrix support to get any better, as the core model functions would have to be rewritten entirely to avoid rehydrating them, which AFAIK nobody is seriously working on :(
"I also don't want those chemicals to be in the water supply or ground."

In my anecdotal experience, algae blooms downstream from organic manure fertilized farms are far worse than from conventionally fertilized farms.
Thank You. This is a good video to drive the massage.
The dude is a freakin' machine. There's a short film (13 mins) called 'Kilian' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVBrMcflDE which made it into the Banff Film Festival last year. Worth a watch if you want get a better feel for how he travels and his thought process. Food for twenty hours in the mountains? Oh, I'll probably take 4 Snickers or something...
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The organic milk I've tried is also quite different and better. Usually, that is, like Costco adds fish oil to theirs to get the omega 3 because the milk itself is ultra-pasteurized.
You ever notice that Facebook isn't known for hosting child pornography? It's because they police their platform effectively, and things that they don't want on their platform are quickly removed.

They are very effective at policing their platform, full stop. The stuff that's on there is the stuff they've decided they want to host and share with the world, including holocaust denialism.
Oh, I think everyone complaining knows precisely what's the goal of this design. This is a "grey" pattern - not very dark, but sort of signalling that the people you're dealing with do not have your well-being in mind. Not evil, just not nice.
Java and the CLR are not suitable targets for C or C++ compilation. Likewise with Python Bytecode.

Using LLVM is exactly what Google tried with PNaCl. It had a lot of drawbacks; WebAssembly is a much improved iteration of this idea.
I care less who Facebook takes money from, and what advertisements they put out. There's too many services I'd have to bail from based on what advertisements they put out, I simply don't care.

I care much more when I share a link, and Facebook tells me they've flagged it as "untruthful" and won't let me share it. That's what my root comment is about.
I think it's worthwhile for people to go back and read this 1996 news article from the time when we were opening up China and see who led the charge and why.

>The power of the new China lobby was evident in Beijing last March 7, when more than 100 representatives of major U.S. firms held their annual conference under the auspices of the U.S.-China Business Council. Delivering his first major speech since taking office just weeks before, U.S. Ambassador James Sasser told them that the Clinton administration was counting on aggressive pressure from business to secure renewal of MFN status for China.

>Of course, the Fortune 500 companies that comprise the U.S.-China Business Council—led by Boeing, Motorola, Caterpillar, AT&T, and the American International Group (AIG)—hardly needed Sasser's encouragement...

>Industry's real interest in China is its direct investment there (more than $25 billion), and its revenue from exporting such Chinese-made goods as electrical machinery, clothing, textiles, shoes, and toys back to the states. These exports are highly profitable for the companies, but they undercut labor's bargaining hand—and frequently take away jobs—in the United States, even as they provide a cheap source of goods.

http://prospect.org/article/new-china-lobby

I'm afraid that this has always been about rearranging our trade policy so that we enrich the few at the expense of the many inside our nation.
Who would pay for that? Businesses through higher taxes?
This is like bemoaning plastic factory worker jobs because we've become too good at reusing cups/bags/packaging/whatever and don't need to produce as much plastic anymore. Man that would be a nice problem to have. Mind-bending levels of justification here.
> Unemployment is at an all-time low and goods and services are very cheap.

Unemployment is low, precarity is high. Wall Street bitches about the primacy of stability and predictability all the time, but doesn't apply the same principle to working- and middle-class families' employment.

In percentage terms in the US, several big-ticket items in a working or middle-class family's budget are not cheap at all. You named housing, but it really is real property (the dirt), which makes this an even worse problem than expensive buildings. There are any number of alternative structure designs that can work around expensive buildings, and many DIY'able as well. You can't get around expensive-ass dirt, no matter how much "up by your own bootstraps", creative, or determined you get, and dirt even in "flyover country" is expensive for these kinds of budgets, especially so considering the kinds of wages they can get in those areas of the country.

Healthcare isn't cheap. Education isn't cheap. Insurance isn't cheap. Internet isn't cheap. Leisure time isn't cheap.

In young Millenial, working- or middle-class families, these budget categories combined tally into the 70%+ range of take-home, after-tax income. Sure, computers are hedonically cheap. Packaged, sub-standard nutrition food is cheap. Externality-reliant-business-models spewing forth piles of throwaway junk appliances, one-time-use-plastic, etc. are cheap.

Not all categories are weighted the same in quality of life, don't fall for the economic canard that just because a number of categories are dirt cheap (and many of them are externality- or outright subsidy-dependent to make them cheap), that those people standing closer to the left-hand side of the bell curve are getting a fair shake. They aren't, they haven't for the past 40 years, and just because they can't figure out the relationship between interest rates and bonds, or use Lexis-Nexis, or read an actuarial table, or navigate a bureaucracy, or extrapolate the possible implications of policy decisions decades into the future, or write a loop, doesn't mean it's open season on their human dignity or they're "muppets".
You'd be surprised. Even though ublock origin and uMatrix are blocking most things, they're still able to build a unique fingerprint based on installed fonts, hash of canvas fingerprint, webGL fingerprint, etc.

https://panopticlick.eff.org
I type at around 120 wpm on that test, and have tried to switch to an ergodox before. And it was an utter failure. I simply couldn't endure going back to typing at 40 wpm at best, with many errors. Too high of a learning curve.
Infrared used to be used prior to Bluetooth to transfer data between phones and PCs. The speed was useless for anything significant but you could send small files (business cards, text files, etc).
Your points are appreciated. I think your graph-theoretical interpretation of the XML-vs-JSON debate, though, is missing the point that SGML/XML describes an information serialization using a grammar formalism (regular tree languages), as opposed to JSON which is essentially described by co-inductive type theorems. Though JSON is lacking because it can only represent trees rather than more general graphs, and because of JavaScript's very weak type system (eg. wrt. primitive types as well as it's lack of a natural type system for JSON compound types, hence requiring kludges such as JSON schema).
>I have good ear-on headphones that isolate me from the sounds of the office most of the day.

I seriously think the hearing aids industry is going to explode in the next few decades.
The unsprung mass of hub motors makes them terrible for handling, especially at speed (military vehicles top out at "slow person in the right lane" speeds). When you've got a teardrop shaped turd (or economy car, whatever your preferred pronoun is) that's riding 2in off the ground (because how else are you going to be aerodynamic enough to deliver reasonable range) and nearly nil suspension travel (relative to anything expected to operate off road) drive-train and power transmission packaging isn't really an issue (whereas that was the primary issue solved here by going electric).

You should expect to see centrally mounted motors driving the wheels via CV shafts as the dominant EV power-train for the foreseeable future.
This is from over 2 years ago, I thought "OH NO NOT ANOTHER ONE" but it's not all that new now. Maybe needs a [2016] tag?
I have been told that this is also true in my home state- Minnesota. Land owners do not automatically retain mineral rights when they purchase property.
My bad. I read one article and linked to another without reading it. I gotta check my sources more closely.
The ABI is only part of backward compatibility. From another POV, you can run software designed for VT100 or other terminal in seventies on any Linux or Unix today, (though it may be recompiled. That legacy mentioned in previous post is that terminal is still considered serial device with specific protocol). There are companies, that do exactly that in production. You would be hard pressed to find DOS-era software that bangs on buffer starting at 0xB800:0000 that still works in 64-bit Windows.
But do they generalize to GR?
Yes, it's mainly avoiding pesticide residue that's the health benefit for organic foods. That's why it helps to know which foods have the worst residue issues (e.g. the dirty dozen), buy organic for those ones while buying normal produce for foods that don't have bad residue issues.

I will say though that an underappreciated benefit of organic foods is their probiotic content. Organic fruits and vegetables contain many more species of bacteria than the those grown with pesticides. So Organic produce is actually a great underappreciated probiotic source, especially considering the diversity of probiotics is superior to any store-bought probiotic (provided you have a diet of diverse fruits and vegetables).
wow, that video was amazing! forwarded to some writer/editor friends. thanks!
No worries, not suggesting you think it's slavery. I think that would be a pretty extreme position to take.

I do agree people aren't always rational, and there are certainly other costs in terms of wear and tear etc.
But I think people are (1) relatively more rational when it comes to money, (2) get more rational with experience (i.e. as they observe having to take their cars in more after driving a while).

Uber has > 160k active drivers, I think it's very paternalistic to suggest they aren't rational enough to realize how screwed they're getting and think gov or some other third party needs to step in. I think it should also give us pause that many of the loudest voices saying these things (especially locally) are associated with the taxi industry.

These researchers say it's $8.55. Some people argue it should be more (like $13), but -- like I said in another comment -- a job is a bundle of things including pay but also: flexibility, liking who you work with, feeling like you accomplished something, etc. Uber provides very high flexibility (literally can almost work on demand), which economists have estimated gives drivers twice the surplus over similar paying, less flexible options.
They finally created World Cannabis Map
You have a typo in the URL, a "my" on the end.