skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing that, I've never heard of the Haast's Eagle.

The ~9ft wing span would be terrifying to see.

> Haast's eagles preyed on large, flightless bird species, including the moa, which was up to fifteen times the weight of the eagle.[9] It is estimated to have attacked at speeds up to 80 km/h (50 mph)

I wonder if these things attacked the early humans that inhabited New Zealand, before they went extinct.
They had the opportunity to monetize google reader. What's more important than eyeballs. You made a wrapper around other people's website. They could have done _something_. But, no. The just shuttered it.
I'm not bothering to read this, but if step 1 isn't owning a multi-billion dollar company, then I don't think the success will scale to the rest of us.
"Some folks" sincerely believe vaccines cause autism. "Some folks" believe the earth is flat.

I don't care what "some folks" beliefs are, I care about the ground truth.

It doesn't take a lot of equipment to deduce that billions of people eating grains consistently over the course of millenia means that people are in fact well equipped to eat grains.
IMO feeding the anxious with fear about supposed medical maladies is why their practices are unethical.
You may find it terrible (I don’t think it’s great, but it’s usually at least mediocre for me), but Vimeo has virtually nothing. Also, Vimeo doesn’t seem to rank well in search engines either. So yes, even if YouTube was universally terrible as you claim for organic discovery (it isn’t), it’s still better than basically nothing.
I used Apple Maps when I had my iPhone and it worked great for me. Loved the UI. When I saw error on the maps, I gave feedback so Apple could improve the thing. I do the same on Google Maps.

I'm using a Pixel 2 XL now and while Google's services are indeed quite good, Apple's own suite of apps worked quite well, too. I like that the image recognition for photos was done on device instead of some remote servers.
One of the biggest problems Peterson seems to have, that stirs up his opponents the most, is their propensity to misquote or completely fabricate things that he has said or done.

I have seen quite a few of his interviews and never heard him say that he is smarter than the interviewer. So I think some citations are needed here.
There's some interesting mechanics in the milk subsidies. The original subsidy was based on the distance from Eau Claire, Wisconsin ( http://icetronauts.tripod.com/milk.htm ).

> Under the system established in the 1930s, the farther a state was from Eau Claire, the higher were the federal price subsidies paid to its dairy farmers on milk sold for bottling.

> For example, the maximum subsidy, or differential, paid to Wisconsin dairy farmers is $1.20 per 100 pounds of milk, while farmers in southern Florida are paid $4.18 per 100 pounds.

California is even further away.

The particulars of it are at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-97BR/html/G...

It is still based in part on Eau Claire. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/08/what-does-bo...

Between water policy, oversupply during the Eau Claire Base Point and existing subsidies... California is a very odd place to produce milk and the cheap milk is a legacy of those policies.

And the last spring and hot summer in Eau Claire ( http://www.aos.wisc.edu/%7Esco/clim-history/stations/eau/eau... & https://madison.com/wsj/business/usda-wisconsin-milk-product... ) will impact the price of milk there, along with the tariff spat with Canada... which in turn changes the amount of the subsidy across the country.
Because companies are made of people. Nothing a company does isn't decided at some.point by a person. That "profit is the only sacred thing" line is nonsense. It is possible to run a company ethically. There isn't some moralimparative to justify a means towards the end of never leaving any money on the table. Where does that line get drawn? Theft, murder, torture? There are all kinds of things companies do every day the equal passing on dollars for ethical reasons.
> engineers why they work for companies that track and addict kids.

If you think addictive games are bad, then we can go ahead and cast a moral judgement ib parents too. Parents know that games are addictive. Why are they letting their own kids play addictive games?

As far as engineers go, it is possible that they did made the game addictive specifically for <13 years old. It just happens that parents of <13 year olds let their kids play, and they are getting addicted.
To add to the mystery, why do people get less motion sickness when they are not just passengers, but drive their car or a boat?
> Given a random screw, can anyone determine material strength using household items? If so, I would definitely like to apply this to some personal projects I am working on!

Yes. Fasteners are typically marked on the head/face.
The truth is we are only just now beginning to understand the impact of food on health and we have tons more to learn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x...

Nginx, non blocking io, thread pools, etc.
me too man. I don't remember why zune was such a butt of the jokes back then, I think it had something to do with brick like form.
> I suppose that a general-purpose, consumer-oriented site like Amazon doesn't put enough priority on something like M8 steel bolts. The facets for, say, computer monitors are much better, for example.

It goes beyond that. I was searching for a water pump this evening and hit Amazon out of instinct. Despite only returning 18 results across god-knows-how-many categories, there was no option to filter by manufacturer. Amazon simply doesn't get search.
> "The ~9ft wing span would be terrifying to see."

Wow! Looks like large bald eagles can have wing spans of 8ft, so you might get a chance to be nearly (89%?) as terrified :)

> " The largest eagles are from Alaska, where large females may weigh up to 7.5 kg (17 lb) and span 2.44 m (8.0 ft) across the wings."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle#Description
Microsoft and Intel _worship_ backwards compatibility and the result is that I actually do trust them to not nuke api's on a whim. I can build a product on MS or Intel and it will work for a long time. Google does not care about developers if it nukes api's.
In the 90's, MIT researchers suggested a 600 mph hypercane were hypothetically-possible if large areas of seawater were heated to around 120 F / 50 C, such as after a massive volcanic erruption or asteroid impact.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-09-10/news/9709090543_...
inbox wasn't a great performer either, to be fair.
The movie theatre experience is one of a kind. You can't come close to re-creating it with your phone or tv.
This problem is similar to what happened in Ancient Rome. As wealth and influence concentrates, farms get bigger and bigger. Instead of slaves we have massive machinery and migrant workers.

Disruption or destruction of key transit or water infrastructure in California would be a crippling blow to the US.

The infrastructure to farm is gone. I worked on a farm as a teen in the 90s. There were 10 active farms in my town then (down from dozens in the 70s). Now there is one. I don’t think there are more than a half dozen dairy operations in the county left.
The past needs to be judged in context.

Stein was the den mother of the Lost Generation, a group who had been brutalized by the last gasp of the European monarchies in WW1. As an avant garde movement, the Lost Generation embraced many new political philosophies.

WW2 had not yet been fought, you cannot judge the intellectual interests of the Lost Generation based on what was learned at the Nuremberg Trials
Talking is maybe more of an issue, but taking a phone call in the middle of a movie doesn't work around me. It has only happened once, near the emotional peak of The Aviator in 2004. The theater wasn't that crowded, and after just a few seconds I yelled "Take it outside, buddy!" across twenty seats. He took it outside. I was ready to stand up and yell again, and walk over to him and yell again, if necessary. If he's ruining the movie for me, I'm sure as hell going to ruin his phone call. But that was the only time it has ever happened to me, and I see a medium number of movies. I saw an unusual 14 movies in my three month MoviePass membership before I canceled, with zero phone calls or talkers.
You're right that passionate users can no longer effectively bring new people to Google. But passionate users can lead people away from Google.
> The internet is great, but unfortunately has the ability to agglomerate individual moments of otherwise transient irritation into a pyroclastic flow of outrage.

I must admit I love the way that you phrased this.
Falling on your sword is a great sentiment. But not everyone has the luxury of pushing back and risking their livelyhood and the income that feeds, clothes, and shelters themselves and their family.
This is why the entire field of genetic counseling is a thing. Barring a few specific diseases, genetic determinants of health are very complex and poorly understood. Moreover, genetic testing, especially of the consumer sort, are not always right. Even high-accuracy clinical tests have false positives/negatives. You need more than a web portal to work through the personal implications of genetic testing data as a patient.
Out of curiosity, why do you frequently need to know your altitude? I don't think I've ever known my altitude except when driving past those "Welcome to Springdalevale, pop. 781. alt. 2,003 ft" signs you see when driving through small towns in mountainous areas.
I provided some evidence (billions of people have been eating many kinds of grains since the dawn of agriculture).

The Semmelweis effect is regarding rejecting new evidence -- and yet you provide no evidence, while dismissing mine.

Perhaps you should question your beliefs.
Perhaps he simply has multiple genomes? https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.h...

"But scientists are discovering that — to a surprising degree — we contain genetic multitudes. Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. But scientists are finding that it’s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people."
They “made mistakes” in the past that bypassed those preferences.
It seems like our current economic system of capitalism is pretty bad at balancing slow-response externalities. Driving of short term prices below sustainable levels is just another kind of bubble. Financial bubbles become front and center because the system focuses on money, but sustainable food, sustainable wage/living quality, and a sustainable climate are all bubbles with equally or more serious consequences.
Hello! I am a mathematician as well as a programmer and have been very interested in Sage for many years, it has inspired me over the years to make various calculator type projects. You are going to love my new one which I am preparing to release, promise! Thanks so much for all your hard work I have followed your career.

I have almost completely finished a visualization block coding system which sits on top of Numpy, Scipy, and Sage designed to help kids who are learning math on youtube, to be able to create "problem set" style save files which can be shared to supplement math education videos, and to create animations for my upcoming youtube channel for math education. It also has a fully functional debugger and console, its like web inspector but for math, so I have named it Math Inspector.

I think it's really exciting what is happening in the world of math education and the way that the medium of video is being used for the first time to communicate the joy of mathematics to the world, especially to young people. It's revolutionary. My goal has been to create a tool which enables people to be able to interact with Sage without needing to even know python at all. I wish you the best!
This sounds like Theranos.
It says "Up to date as of: 2018-05-22". That seems to imply that it may have been invalidated at some later point. If it is valid until removed, then it shouldn't have a date at all.
perhaps it's de rigeur to mention this in a thread about genetic tests, but if you've had it done already by one of the major providers, the service mentioned in this piece (promethease) is really fantastic.

if you're lucky it won't tell you much you don't know, but learning about all the possible things to look out for (heightened risk of diabetes and adverse reactions to a medication, for me), sorted by magnitude, is exactly the kind of thing you'd hope to learn from personal genotyping. it's much more granular than what is offered by eg 23andme's health service, and is updated with new research. it's more than worth the $5.
They U-turned on devs, not on paying corporate clients (mostly).
How long did you spend with a thesaurus to construct this sentence, good god
Is this still true? My understanding is that "Modern Farm Science" is a big thing in Midwestern US colleges.
Oh hell no. Don't preach honesty to thieves and con-people here.

The whole tech industry data-harvest has been done dishonestly and is the most massive bait and switch since forever. The con is on and we didn't know about it at first. You did? Really? Well you were in the 0.00001% who understood it.

The thing is the muppets who make regulatory decisions can't find the on switch on a computer so the "just don't" is complete nonsense. Everything from your social life to your salary takes a huge hit because everyone else made a decision for you. You've been held hostage like it or not. Avoided gmail? Nope, they've got basically your entire inbox through your counterparties. Avoid facebook? Nope, they've got a shadow profile from everyone uploading their address books. And they've convinced everyone that non-facebook users don't need invitations to stuff. Avoid linkedin, avoid job opportunies because recruiters have decided for you that this is what they'll use? Just don't? Yeah, right.

Treating these data harvesting sites with withering contempt until they prove themselves honest is actually the correct and proper thing to do. ESPECIALLY tell children to lie and lie and lie becuase any information these vermin get on children could follow them around for the rest of their lives and have affects we don't yet understand. "But we wouldn't let them, there would be laws passed against it." Maybe, but extrapolating from what we've seen so far it seems very, very unlikely. New regulations have until now have just about universally been conceived in idiocy, protected incumbents, punished new-entrants and provided nothing of value to consumers.

Telling children that they should not trust big tech firms is not just right, it's our duty. We do understand just how untrustworthy these firms are now, let alone how you're trusting all future possible owners and employees any number of years hence. It's insane to even think about trusting them any time you can simply avoid it.
Totally agree and thats what they still teach us at school in EE and CE (believe it or not). I worked a bit on embedded devices during internships and the only thing I saw is C sometimes with an API to abstract the registers (I was in the world of PIC).

I talked with guys that still only coded in assembly and C was a "new" thing for them. People just don't realize that if you can save a KB of RAM and cycles of processor, you save on cost of pieces (you can use cheaper ones) and if you are to produce million of pieces thats a lot of money...
you can have both. but the base tag will make it default instead of on each a tag.
If Azure costs 10x what bare metal costs, it's choosing between 1% of my tech budget or 0.1%. I doubt the multiplier is that bad, but bare metal isn't a consideration either way.

There's also some good integration with PM and IDE software that we use and enjoy.
I'm guessing zilch.
If you want to read more, "The Futures" was solid intro to the "how" it started:

https://www.amazon.com/Futures-Speculator-Origins-Biggest-Ma...

(no affiliate link)
It's very creepy that you don't say who "we" is. If this is a real, ethical study, you should at least start by disclosing that info.
NASA Has Discovered Arctic Lakes Bubbling with Methane
Measuring Meta-Intelligence
YouTube: TV is our fastest-growing market
I think “better than nothing” is the perfect way to describe it. Almost anything else would be better, but there is effectively nothing else. I would point out that when talking about how Youtube does well on search engines though, it can’t hurt that it has that little connection to Google, the premier search engine.

I’m glad that you’ve had better luck with using it for discovery though, any tips on how how to get that to work?
what really happened: apple did delete the guy's movie, but then spent some PR money on cnet for Chewbacca defense.
The New Apple Watch Shows the Money Big Tech Sees in Health
Despite Pike's appalling contempt in https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article I'm not convinced this is a problem Google actually has. They're faced with perverse incentives but they're far from stupid.
Knowledge is never unethical.
Are you author of the linked article? What's contact info?
Imo if we develop the ability to connect people with machines in a high bandwidth and high fidelity way the world will change completely.
I happen to believe that we should at least try, rather than just hope moneyed interests provide for us by accident while pursuing their own orthogonal interests.
How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? (Part 8)
On mobile all I see is the comments section.

Friendlier link:

https://www.anandtech.com/print/13282/nvidia-turing-architec...
I'd be OK with these places charging a little bit more and letting people talk to a consultant that could help interpret the results.
> But he notes that people who lack a vestibular system—something that can happen through disease—simply don’t get sick

But doesn't this go against his own theory?
I always thought the standard anti-phishing advice for end users is to never click on any link in any e-mail. Then it doesn't matter how sophisticated the attack is.
> And of course with soybeans... they would need to be dried or canned, packaged, stored, and shipped. Doable but different from what we are currently set up to do.

As a soybean farmer, and one who has focused on IP soybeans for the human market for most of my career at that, unless I am misunderstanding you, that is exactly how we do it. The beans are harvested dry, packaged, stored, and then shipped (primarily) to the Asian markets who are interested in such product.

The trouble in North America is that few know what to do with them. To be honest, I have never even tried my own product. I also grow navy beans and have cooked with them. They are more of a common staple in these parts. But they are also a much more fickle crop. You're not going to easily replace soys with other edible beans.
What if it's knowledge w/o context that can be more likely to confuse than help someone?
It's possible (though perhaps not likely) that episodes like yours have made him more likely to take further-out ideas more seriously now than he did then. I mean, to me it seems like he should have stuck with his original reaction, but he seems pretty bullish on that stuff now, so maybe the feeling that he was wrong has chastened him.
I don't agree with the conclusion that passionate users are going to take their passion elsewhere. This feels like more of an idle threat by a scorned user.
> I'm afraid I still don't follow; Rust also has C-style pointers, they just require one to use the `unsafe` keyword to dereference. I can't think of any C code that can't be expressed in Rust in this way.

What I mean is without an equivalent in Rust that doesn't require unsafe, which people are correctly admonished to avoid using whenever possible.

> I don't see how this shows that Rust is any more dangerous than C; a C programmer is no less capable of mistracking object lifetimes. Furthermore, array access are checked by default in Rust; even in the degenerate case of using the `get_unchecked` method (which requires the `unsafe` keyword as well), that's no more dangerous than every C array access.

The equivalent things are equivalent. The issue is that if you call one dangerous thing unsafe but not another thing that is as or more dangerous, the naive programmer assumes that not having to use unsafe means whatever they're doing is safe.

And it's little help to bounds check the array because that wasn't the problem. The data the programmer was expecting to be at that index isn't there anymore but the array itself still is and there is now some other data there.

> Why can't we as an industry have both safe tools and competent programmers? These are not mutually exclusive.

It's not that we can't have both, it's that we should have both.

Whenever we get better tools, people are tempted to hire worse programmers, because better programmers are more expensive and worse programmers with better software should be as good as better programmers, right?

This is obviously at odds with the ideal of using the new tools to create better software, and doesn't actually work, because a smoke detector can't save you if you don't know what to do when it warns of low battery.
This. Google cloud for example is the most technologically advanced. But no one in my company would touch it with a ten foot pole. Google can and will shutdown things is just ingrained - even when we pay, things will change so drastically or be not supported any more that you just can't assume anything.
I don't know if you'll ever see this, but whoever is writing the haikus on rwtxt, you are amazing! I absolutely love them.
It's amazing that they put so much attention to detail in the same movie where a botched docking maneuver causes an orbiting spacecraft to fall out of the sky, and in which a black hole opens the way for programing mechanical watches from the past.
EDIT: I don't care about downvotes, but if you are going to do it at least leave a comment of why you think I am wrong.

I look forward to the national election where a politician stops what they're doing to complain every single time someone doesn't vote for them, and interrupt what's happening to demand an explanation.

That isn't how voting works.

"cost a ton more than you realize" - unless you look at the prices for the contract you're agreeing to? Y'know, like you do?

"Should have" - telling someone what their company should have done, without even knowing what their company /is/, let alone what they were trying to achieve and what constraints they had on their available options. Assuming or implying that the cheaper thing is always the more correct thing and no other factors can change that.
Is that like PostgreSQL's row-level security?
Ancestry.com is known to report one of the ApoE-SNPs wrongly. I wouldn't be surprised if this happens for more rare genes as well.

> Word of caution to those with data from Ancestry.com: in our experience, based on data in OpenSNP and from Promethease users since 2006, Ancestry data always reports rs429358 as (T;T), even for people who's data from other sources indicates they are (C;T).

https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/APOE
Especially when they get the job done quite nicely.