skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they don't put anyone's lives at risk so surely that gets them out of say, the bottom 5%?
There are plenty of signs facebook proper is in trouble
You are looking for Labels.
the 2nd part is for sure true (they believe it's controlled demolitions, and when you believe something, confirmation bias (https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/) probably makes you find more and more evidence that prove your belief), and whether it's legit, well, considering who the writers associate with, I would scrutinize their claims more, if finding the truth about this topic really bothered me...
Does Gmail even have a warrant canary? I don't think so, so comparing apples to apples it seems like a wash.
>alternative for YouTube

If you mean the site you could use youtube-dl on desktop and NewPipe on Android. If you mean the service, I don't think there's anything. YouTube is pervasive for non-porn videos.

Want to watch a talk from that conference last month? It's only on YouTube.

Want to learn how to rebuild a V8? The best information is on YouTube.

The only thing I know of that isn't on YouTube is gun videos, and only because Google banned their accounts.
This is interesting, thank you for sharing. Is the main problem simply the reduced price of output (due to competition with large scale industrial agriculture), rather than other factors (such as potential increased costs of inputs, degraded soil quality, access to water).

> We've wrung all of the redundancy, both financial and biodiversity, out of the system.

I have similar concerns, not just about farming but other parts of a globalised economy. It is far more efficient to have everyone very specialised, with long-range dependencies. It is far less resilient to have one huge coupled economic system than a number of smaller, approximately independent systems. [+] Similarly, it's more efficient (in the short run, or the lucky case) to not leave any contingency or insurance against rare events.

> What happens if Chinese investors own half the farm land and we go to war with China?

I wouldn't worry about this one -- unless foreign investors have a means to enforce physical security of their ownership claims, there's always the option of the government with control over the physical assets to expropriate them, either by simply changing the law, or declaring special war time powers. For example, re: WW1

> the attack on enemy aliens and their property involved diverse institutions (governments, parliaments, the judiciary, armies and administrative bureaucracies) and actors (local businessmen and entrepreneurs, lobbies and interests groups but also ordinary people animated by patriotism or who saw in the attack on enemy property an opportunity to improve their own economic status).

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/property_r...

edit: [+] to call myself out for claiming things based solely on intuition, it's not at all obvious that many smaller independent economies are necessarily always more resilient than a single arbitrarily structured large economy -- it might depend on the structure of dependencies, and how much choice there is for alternatives if subsystems fail, and how much slack is in the system, and dynamic factors. To argue in the other direction, smaller, isolated economies also tend to be at more risk of failure if any of their larger participants fails (see also: common wisdom about risk of buying real estate in small single company or single industry towns and so on...), so there's probably more robustness for those economies where the impact of failure of any single participant upon the overall system is roughly negligible. but i think there is usually a pretty strong conflict between efficiency redundancy.
People who post on HN have lost their jobs?
I so love this kind of behind the scene story
Pay-per-click is a bad model. Ad networks are a bad model. Ad companies are a bad model. Website businesses should get a proper advertising department (or be the department if they're small) like TV, papers, podcasts, vlogs, magazines, billboards, sports arenas, and the hundreds of other outlets that advertise, without tracking, and make millions doing it. Then the site owners and the advertisers can work out how to trust each other without getting consumers and their machines involved, again, like all other advertising works. And when people stop going to a site because it has a full page animated image with embarassing audio and a well-disguised close button, it will be nobodies fault but site owner for allowing such an ad.
I agree, it's mind boggling how Google managed to work their way into such major corporations and organizations. At a company I used to work for Google massively (massively) undercut Microsoft for Gmail and Google Docs vs O365. I guess like with Android, no one stopped to wonder why they're giving it away practically free?
There's an excellent package named Absinthe. It's pretty great, though I can't compare it to Rails' since I haven't used it.
It's hard to se what Satoshi and Peterson have in common, aside from that they are two people Cowan would have never funded before they were famous.
For one thing, what I said above. For another, it is impossible to libel someone by one private party telling another private party information. Being published is a necessary condition of libel.
I know it sounds nuts, but Dr Judy Wood makes a damned good case that the twin towers (not bldg 7) were turned to dust by directed energy weapons.

Watch with an open mind and just look at the evidence, don’t prejudge based on “come on, our government would never do something like that...”.

https://youtu.be/ermHx3akejc
Rhetorical question: Can you really not see the irony of complaining about pedants who miss the point, then commenting like that on here?

Well, I've learnt my lesson about explaining downvotes - you just wanted someone to attack.
I found 70MPH, where did you see 55?
Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has a study on the collapse of just World Trade Center Building 7, which fell even though it was not hit by a plane. So far he has concluded that:

"The findings thus far are that fire did not bring down this building. Building failure simulations show that, to match observation, the entire inner core of this building failed nearly simultaneously."[1]

[1]: http://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/
I was hoping for something more interesting. All they did here is raise the usual doubts, and provide no evidence to bolster their conclusion. At best what they've done is show that we still can't completely explain through modeling what happened with those buildings. That's a looooong ways from proving it was really a controlled demolition.
Doesn't every bar on the planet do something like this?
There's One Big Problem with the New iPhone (If You're a Woman)
Ask HN: Liquidate 300 high-end FPGA Boards
we have 300x 2yr old Virtex Ultrascale Xilinx Boards, how do I find a good home for them? Has value depreciated a lot?
AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra on Competing with Apple Watch Series 4
Who knows which of our past comments will come back to bite us as society becomes less tolerant of ideas.

Your desired solution only deepens such problems. It agrees that one is guilty and deserving of being fired instead of pushing back against that idea.

Disney recently fired someone for decade old tweets. Shortly thereafter, some publication stood by its decision to hire someone when their old not PC tweets came to light.

Civil liberties can be lost at any point in time. Gaining them doesn't guarantee them in perpetuity. They need to be guarded and promoted.

Your proposed solution does the opposite of that.
I can see this being a great way to get people interested in embedded devices through a low-friction entry into that world. Hoobyists more likely to be skilled with js than with C so getting them into the IoT world has to be as painless as possible. I see this as also a valid reason for micropython - bring the web programmers into the IoT/Maker world gently. Eventually everyone will realise when they need to do something serious that one can use these other tools to create, experiment, and refine a concept. But when it comes to building something that you want to deploy inside an elevator, car, factory, or bury 10km underground and must work for weeks/months reliably, then most everyone turns to C.
The same could be said about a stopped clock :)
This is Jeff Bezos' daily routine and it sets him up for success
Thanks a lot for your work, sage is awesome!

I think sage should advertise more that it can be viewed as a big library + modified but compatible python 2, i.e. all your weird file parsers just work. I am looking forward a lot to finally get python 3 compatibility, for that reason (write as much of my code as possibly to run on cpython as well, not just sage-python; possibility of using stuff where only python 3 bindings exist).
Yes, I think you’re right. Despite the established potential threat, many people still don’t think twice about clicking on links. I think you’re on to something. It starts micro and hopefully becomes the norm at some point.
There are many lovely reasons to apply (or ignore) SBIRs: http://seliger.com/Should-your-startup-seek-Small-Business-I..., but the review process is not particularly opaque. It is true that most agencies receive far more applications than there are awards available, so even "fundable" applications may not be funded.
Facebook is in trouble man, I am amazed the outcry of general public. Its all circumstantial evidence but the amount of people in my circle who are talking about leaving, creating fake profiles and getting their kids pictures of the platform is profound.
Edit:
IMO.
Python3 support for Sage is close.
The idea is fine. The execution was garbage. They created a race to the bottom that no one felt compelled to join.
It was definately the done thing for a while. Might just be muscle memory.
GraphQL support is pretty good. Check out Absinthe.

If you like learning from book, I can recommend this one: https://pragprog.com/book/wwgraphql/craft-graphql-apis-in-el...
HaCF is one of my favorite shows! It's not very technically accurate, but it's still really good at portraying the social aspects of being a technological optimist at the dawn of the age of personal computing and the web.
"The Mind-Body problem doesn't exist. And it doesn't exist because it was demolished by Isaac Newton three centuries ago." - Noam Chomsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoRmqbPFasE
I really think node is toxic and ought to be contained as best as possible, if not just cleansed with Fire. There’s not a lot I can add that hasn’t already been said other than an exasperated “Jesus Christ, not this shit again”.

You don’t have to like my opinion, but I genuinely have had enough of the nodejs hype.
That's a poorly phrased warrant canary. Aren't warrant canaries intended to be for FISA-type warrants?
EU to phase out Daylight Saving Time in 2019
When’s the last time Google has to even pretend to give a shit about the end user?
Doesn't it stay pinned if you click the hamburger icon on the top left?
Jordan Peterson is so controversial, why would you mention him in that interview? "Team" Satoshi actually solved fundamental problems and moved the world forward in cryptocurrency and associated underlying technology like blockchains, but Peterson has just stirred people up.
The “without getting caught” is a pretty big thing to hand wave through. For apple, who is already making money hand over fist, this would be a catastrophically stupid decision.

I’m not really interested in the “Snowden, ergo it’s all pointless” line of reasoning.
The race to the bottom seemed to be an attempt to capture a userbase which could then be directed at particular films whose publishers paid MoviePass or used directly as a cudgel in negotiating better pricing from theaters. Might have worked eventually if they had been able to keep bleeding money.

As a consumer, I think I got a much better deal out of AMC crushing this particular middle-man before things got out of control.
Do you think the industry fails to innovate, or does it actually fail to innovate?
My two cents: in my relatively small sample of developers that I know, I see differences in the ones with and without degrees in the topics that require more study and discipline like operating systems, complexity, and formal theory. For example, people without a degree in general does not have a good background for developing multithreading systems or understanding that the problem they are trying to tackle is NP hard.
I hate how when hovering over labels or threads it hides the information that was previously shown, such as number of unreads in a label or received time for threads. The UX of the new UI is amazingly bad.
i never saw petain as such a bad guy. In ww1 he changed the French strategy to something that wasn't batshit crazy and saved many lives. In ww2 he stopped a fight the French could not win. Signed a deal. Did what he had to do. I don't think supporting him is that strange at all.

Petain did bad things too but basically anyone who was with the nazis had to. What matters is whose idea it was to slaughter Jews and other civilians and also who forced who to do what.
Trump administration to send U.S. cellphones a test alert on Thursday
About 30 FPS on a 13" 2015 MacBook Pro, 3.1 GHz i7, Chrome 69, and full screen 1200p.

I had a blast and really enjoyed the game. :)
Ah, never knew that!
What do you make of stories like this[1] talking about grossing six figures on a quarter acre? I know it's gross, but it still paints a much rosier picture than your claim that even 300 acres can't be farmed to a halfway decent lifestyle.

There are plenty of very positive stories about significant profits on less than five acres, even less than one acre. I'd like to hear your take on it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHwAfHQA9M
You can change that so it's always expanded.
Talk on Tensorflow 2.0
Gmail’s tasks are inferior to Inbox’s reminders. For one they don’t have recurring tasks. The ease of creating a reminder and snoozing it just like an email was killer. Of the hundreds of todo apps made over the decades, Inbox finally nailed it. I’ll greatly miss Inbox.
Peterson in interviews even says he is smarter than every interviewer (I've listened to a few of them). He just comes across as pretty conceited. Everyone has their areas of expertise, but the claim that you don't know anything but 'they' do comes across like a certain world leader.
Regulation / anti trust/ nationalization.

Not too far fetched given that DJT is presidente.
Yep. I'm getting off the Google train.
It is also because of the word embedded. You can call anything embedded but in our community, generally, 2MB is a rediculous amount of memory and cpu cycles are costly. C(++)/asm are very normal and people are used to that. For prototyping products we use a Forth, but I guess JS could work for that if efficient enough to try it out.

Also, this would not pass audits (yet) in some industries. But that's not a reason to be negative; I think the footprint and calling that embedded is not very realistic atm.
> So even a relatively small lead in consumer-facing firms will seem much larger than it actually is.

No? Leading consumer brands are a lot bigger than B2B brands for the most part because B2C in the aggregate economy has to be bigger than B2B (in $) and because B2B is a more fragmented and specialized market than B2C (i.e. harder to gain large market share). Just look at the biggest tech companies by market cap/valuation: Apple (B2C), Amazon (mixed, debatable), Google (B2C-designed products), Microsoft (mixed, more B2B), Facebook (B2C-designed products), Alibaba (B2C), Tencent (B2C), Oracle (B2B), IBM (B2B), Netflix (B2C), Uber (B2C), Baidu (B2C). You don't find a pure B2B company until Oracle, which is ~20% the size of the Apple.

This makes sense as well. The ultimate source of private sector profit comes from selling to the consumer. There's no point of a B2B company if there are no businesses selling to consumers (ignoring governments). If the B2B space is bigger than B2C, businesses would, on aggregate, be buying more from other businesses that they would be selling to consumers. In other words, they'd be losing money and such a system wouldn't sustainable for long. Of course, we're focusing on tech, and tech is a subsegment of the overall economy, etc., so it's possible that tech as a sector is more B2B than B2C... but this a question that will have to answered with data, not assertions.
At the time of writing, there are three humanities articles on the front-page and they are the only articles that have 0 comments: this, Spinoza's Ethics, and A Defence of Common Sense.

So why are people upvoting these entirely subjective articles (because I don't see how they belong here)?
Come on! Yes, someone or some group created the blockchain etc. But he/she/the team is fictional because there is no one individual or group identified.
Farm land borrowing is through completely different organizations from home loans. Farm Credit Association, for instance. And the backer is FmHA, the farmer lending equivalent of FNMA.

Farm lending is not nearly so highly leveraged as home lending. FmHA equity requirements are much larger than on home loans.

Farm land prices are driven by commodity prices. When corn and soybeans were high, Iowa cash rents went up, and land prices followed. Commodity prices have come down, cash rents have come down, and land prices are following.

There is some speculation on price appreciation -- just about any Iowa farmer will tell you about "the piece of ground he wish he had bought", but didn't have the stomach to bid higher on at the auction. Most farmers are buying land with the idea that it is a multi-generational investment, and when good ground near/adjacent to your current farm comes up, you tend to dig deeper into your pocket and hope your children will see the value appreciation -- because that piece may not come on the market again in your lifetime. So there is a certain psychological component priced in to the bid, but mostly it has to pencil out.

If you think land prices are completely unhinged, then here is an anecdote: I own some ground in Winnebago county Iowa. When land in Winnebago county was selling for $11K/Ac there was land 5 miles north on the Minnesota side of the state line selling for about $10K/Ac. Same soil type. Same weather. Same local market elevators to sell crops to. Same local market seed/chemical coops to buy your input. Why the difference in price? Minnesota real estate taxes are higher (I won't go into the politics of that.) The taxes are a per-acre annual production cost, and get priced into the land value.

Commodity prices are coming down, that is causing the income squeeze. Leveraged farmers are going to feel a squeeze, certainly. But the amount of leverage is nothing like what was happening to home owners during the housing crisis. Farm land owners simply can not borrow at those kind of loan-to-value ratios.

(Source: Owner and/or partner in several pieces of farm land in Iowa and Minnesota, some inherited, some purchased.)

Oh.. about corn prices... back when there were enough ethynol plant building permits on file to eventually make Iowa a net importer of corn... yeah, that was a corn price bubble. Those days are gone. (Let's not diverge into the silliness of ethynol, we all know it defies physics.)
We're just too damn lazy to use encryption and authentication. It's that simple, and that brutal.
Ajit Pai seems really upset about the California net neutrality bill
It was the clearest example of a start-up designed to build marketshare without any idea how to profit from that marketshare.

Anybody can create a business trading $5 for $6 dollars and get millions of subscribers but that doesn't make that business idea good.
BART Approves New Surveillance-Oversight Policy
The folks on the Oberon mailing list might be interested in them: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon
To say that flippers caused the crisis is grossly simplifying the causes. That was certainly a part of it, but far from the only part.
Amazing. It's like how forest fires can be good for forests.
I would not want to try and sell NodeJS to an embedded developer, at least not within arms reach.
I'm not assuming that the publishers worry about this -- I'm saying we should.
I know it's not your comment but for others benefit who might not know - people of Afghanistan are Afghan, not Afghani. One afghani, or af, is the unit of currency there. The confusion may come because people of stan-suffix countries do use the stani, like Pakistani. Anyway it's pervasive mistake in us media.
Eons from whose point of view?
Facebook bug allowed some advertisers to access other Facebook Analytics data
what happens if we encounter this generation's version of potato blight on corn or wheat

Out of curiosity, how would you rate the quality of the soil in today's agribusiness farmlands? Seems food production now involves clones fed on ammonium nitrate derived from natural gas and mined potash. This suggests the crops of today are being raised on junk food.
Such articles are welcome and have been part of HN from the beginning. If people don't comment when they have nothing to say, so much the better. Would that were the case with every thread!

Part of the DNA of Hacker News is a polymathic sensibility. That comes from pg, who's interested in a lot of things. Diversifying the subject matter here is why Hacker News exists, as you can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html. That's the origin of the phrase "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", which became the mandate of this site.
I remember one employed by the protagonist in one of Clancey's books, Without Remorse.
If a clock is always off by three minutes, people will just adapt.

What if they make it off by 3 minutes a random 50% of the time? Then people can't adapt and half the time they'll be "helped" with extra time.

Kind of useless in modern times but an interesting problem to think about.
I just checked the App Store, it appears to have breached the 500MB barrier now: https://imgur.com/a/9LOrq1K
The company being discussed is in Lithuania, an EU member.

(I noticed this when the CEO's name was obviously from there, as two of my grandparents were also from there.)