skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're almost talking about a fundamentally different type of farming. If your just plowing, growing a several crops and using fertilizers and pesticides, your highly dependent on things like price of fertilizer, price of seeds, price of diesel, price of pesticides. Now the hard goods manufactures are killing the secondary market for farm implements and building implements that can't be owner serviced, which makes the farmer even more dependent on price to service those equipment from the dealer only. All of these easily surmountable in a big operation, but stacked against the farmer next door.
> Remember, that battery is always charged by the engine so the trade-off of less weight also means longer range.

True, but this car is already so extremely heavy that the added battery is 4-5%.
100% I agree with you. The student should be the final decider on what type of course to take. From what I've seen when I ask people about MOOCs, lots of people say they want classroom environment but when you tell them about what if the MOOC is free. Then they all switch to MOOC because they figure they can just hire a tutor if they really need the human help.

Most of the people I see making that argument are "education experts" who are extremely arrogant. My prediction is they made these arguments because they feel threatened by the potential that MOOCs have. If MOOCs become very high quality then there is the very real threat that people will start asking if the preference for physical classroom time still has value.
FWIW, a Ford Escort is not a tiny car to anyone not from the US.
This is how you stand for profit over people.
I don't know that much about air dynamics. How likely is it that a drone would strike exactly on the leading edge of a wing, as opposed to passing just over or just under the wing?
The cruise valuation is pretty suspect, as reported by The Information [0].

> When SoftBank agreed to invest $2.2 billion in Cruise, the self-driving unit of General Motors, most of the attention was on the valuation of $11.5 billion. But a closer look shows that could be inflated by terms. SoftBank’s initial $900 million investment in the firm is at a lower valuation of $8.3 billion; it is only if products are ready to be commercially deployed that it has agreed to invest more money at a higher valuation.

With unicorn-scale deals, the topline number is sometimes not reliable, as it may come with high liquidation multipliers or other restrictive agreements.

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-asserts-mor...
The interaction is also what varoufakis calls a "surplus recycling mechanism".

When reinvestment of foreign American dollars back into Wall Street hiccuped in 2008, the cycle started to break - now there are deflationary winds blowing around
>You may not be able to drive your ICE car to the track though, might have to trailer it.

Owning vehicle you have to trailer to the track is kind of like owning guns and using them to hunt in England. Yeah you can do it but all the red tape and cost results in practically only the landed gentry being able to justify such a costly hobby.

That's really not the same.
I live in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US (according to Bicycling magazine). The behavior of bicyclists here, as far as riding safely and in a law-abiding manner, is _far worse_ than other cities I've lived in. Every day when walking down a sidewalk, I'm buzzed by one of these idiots riding by at high speed. I've seriously considered getting a "rear-view" mirror just to protect myself.

Though I've cycled thousands of miles in prior years, I no longer do, partly because I don't want to be associated with such behavior.
I think 230mph is unrealistic for such tests. A quick google search shows something between 70mph - 100mph on approach [1]. I doubt drones are found at altitudes of aircraft at cruising speed.

I'm not saying that this isn't a concern but can somebody with actual aviation knowledge (I have none) chime in and explain the 230mph figure?

1: http://www.mooneyland.com/how-to-land-a-mooney-properly/
Nah, you login at the website and add rules for moving money around. Already available. Moving percentages instead of fixed numbers is a small step up from that.
They have built a single, forward looking, camera system on an Android platform and are using python for the control system. No serious auto manufacturer would trust a system like that for vehicle safety.

It's a less reliable version of the lane keeping systems that the automotive manufacturers already have and nothing close to the autonomous system that George Hotz was promising would be easy a few years back.

I also doubt automotive manufacturers want to deal with the drama around comma.ai and its publicity given they have a reputation to maintain as serious, safety conscious, organizations.
For those interested, this is the open source code: https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo
I really don't think they reject based on "conflict of interest". I don't remember the name of the companies but I've seen similar companies in different batches but they've been a few years apart.
I think this depends on your definition of efficiency. For food production to land use, small polyculture farm techniques have been proven to produce more yield. If you're only interested in man hours to yield, then yes large scale farming techniques are more efficient.
Tedious but doable is wiping devices before arrival, so they end up seeing a "stock" device with no personal data.

I'm rather surprised to discover on my Lineage OS 14.1 phone, that Settings > Backup & reset > Factory data reset > RESET PHONE does not actually delete everything like the description suggests: following such a reset, I still see files in the Files app when I click on my phone model: all of those directories still contain files and photos. So...yeah.

In theory when reformatting from TWRP, the mkfs should come with a trim command that ought to blow away all user data and the cache. But the thing is, you have to know what to format because Android has so many goddamn partitions.

Next chapter is when they demand you give them your social media account credentials. What you don't have a Facebook account? Liar! Off to prison!
You are quite correct, I do love that! That's a great link! Please submit it to HN as a stand alone article (hmm, I wish comments could be favorited on HN, you'd definitely get a 'favorite' on this one). Why do I love it? Well, it's brilliant, but in addition to being brilliant also there might be something there that's subtle that could help us understand atoms, atomic forces, and/or matter better. What that is, as of yet, I do not know, but my intuition tells me "there's something there". Anyway, thanks again for the great link!
Anyone know how js-ipfs is able to load files without it showing up on the chrome dev tools' network tab?
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Since oil is traded in dollars I was referring to petrodollars in that context.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling
The USA attacked Iraq in the S Hussien era the moment they attempted to formally trade oil in euros for example.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/10/30/iraq.un.euro.reut/
The EUR isn't proven enough to overtake the USD. The eurozone is just now exiting a deep recession that exposed the weakness of its structure. Until the eurozone countries adopt a more coherent monetary and fiscal union, crises like Greece will still be a risk (this is before we get into the level of bailing out German banks for betting on Greece).

Remedy this, and the EUR will become a serious threat to the USD.
How does any autonomous driving startup compete against that pile of cash?
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*In San Francisco. My friend lives exactly the lift GP describes, but in the Hudson River Valley, in a beautiful Victorian house (with roommates). He's also incredibly jacked now. It's totally possible.
It doesn't miss the point at all. If you don't want to support this supposed implicit "R&D" machine, don't support websites that support it. Why wouldn't the support be transitive?
I use it to log marathon training. There are a lot of fitness tracking apps out there, 2 of which I use, but it's nice seeing:

- Plan for miles run every day of the week, side-by-side with what I actually ran, notes about pace, weather, and other factors

- Sum of total weekly mileage done vs. planned, amount left to meet my goals

- Number of weeks left until race

all in one "dashboard." It's nothing fancy, but the date and sum functions made it really trivial to make a template for this exactly how I wanted it.
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Thanks! That's very expensive, I didn't expect this price range. I saw some stuff on AliExpress that was a lot cheaper, but I guess the spec might not be the same.
continuous draw for hundreds of thousands of batteries is vastly more than this example
SQL Server: Data comes back from SqlSatellite, what happens
It looks like you can self host:

https://standardnotes.org/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...
> Is a tax a subsidy if you personally find it too low?

That could be an interesting discussion. In effect it could be.

On transportation, I'm more for having a level playing field, and discouraging polluters. More so since I've learnt of climate change. To give a UK example the government pays for roads, but not rails - that's a subsidy, yet most would agree the railways need more investment to increase capacity.

I'm happy discouraging individually polluting cars and promoting transport choices - buses, trams and trains, even if I have to pay a little more tax. I'd like to see investment to get more services, more routes, better timetables, adding cycle routes etc. Not just in London. More like the Netherlands for instance. As a car owner I have often taken a bus or train as the better choice thanks to not needing to find or pay parking or be able to have a night out and a few drinks. The UK can't just keep throwing more one occupant vehicles at our increasingly gridlocked roads.

I realise that can't work as easily in the US given how far you built everything around the car. It would take a lot of work to get back to balance or create viable and appealing transport that isn't seen as something you're forced into.

As to what car, at this point I have no memory other than it being a US only make (Chevy maybe), my first US trip was late 80s early 90s. It was referred to as "standard" size before we flew out. I brought UK expectations to that, where a hire would be compact (smaller than Ford Escort, probably a Ford Fiesta), standard would maybe be a BMW 3 series (of the 90s - everything keeps getting bigger!) or Toyota Corola, then large and luxury choices. What I got was something similar in style and size to a NYC cab as seen on so many movies but with a nicer interior. Turns out they're bloody enormous! Thankfully so are US parking spaces. :)
Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
Money and optionality.

10 years ago after staying at one company for 9 years and before that at another for three doing mostly C and C++ with a smattering of VB6, Perl, and JavaScript, I looked at where most of the jobs were in my local market - a major metropolitan area with a lot of Enterprise Java/.Net and web jobs.

I had two offers one for $20K more than I was making as a C++ developer and one as a high entry level .Net developer paying only $7K more (yeah wage compression is real). I took the second offer. I knew in 3 years my options were going to be limited for C jobs.

10 years and 4 additional jobs later and making $70K more, it was the right decision. There are very few jobs making what I make now in my local area for C developers, plenty for “Enterprise” developers/architects.

Going back on topic about certificates, I’m again at the same crossroads. I got to where I am being mostly a backend developer/architect with very little modern front end experience. Also, in my local market, “full stack web developers” are becoming a commodity and make less than I do now.

So along with learning $frontend_framework_of_the_week just to check off the box, I’m working on AWS certs, since they are still marketable and the only way I can make the next jump without going into management is by being an overpriced “implementation consultant”.
If it weren't for the threat of Google and Uber American car makers would still probably be uh... asleep at the wheel :)
The default is the whole point. Almost any language can support lazy evaluation, given enough boilerplate, but laziness-by-default is a major contributor toward making Haskell code more composable and reusable compared to idiomatic code in other languages.

In strict-by-default languages one must decide up front whether to permit evaluation to be deferred, and there is a cost to be paid via more awkward syntax to first capture the deferred computation and then explicitly evaluate it. This also tends to add runtime overhead which a Haskell compiler would optimize out in cases strict evaluation can be inferred. As a result, libraries generally expose only strict interfaces—and while most lazy functions can easily be made strict in Haskell with judicious application of `seq`, the reverse is not so simple.

Sure, sometimes excessive laziness becomes a problem. However, these cases are not that common, or particularly difficult for an moderately experienced Haskell coder to identify or work around. Enforcing strictness-by-default just because one does not foresee a need for laziness, without any evidence that laziness is negatively impacting performance, would be a form of premature optimization.
Whether you think it's for better or worse, how is independence from global governance moving the world away from freedom?

Is diluting your vote on your nation's policies to include the rest of the world a necessary cost for having a free world?
> isn't it better to install ublock origin

Yes, under any and all circumstances, this is the correct thing to do for safety and sanity.

When I get roped into doing "fix my computer" work for friends and family, it's also best to slap down a hosts blockfile. People get into some things I can't even imagine; it's like they're a one year-old sticking everything in sight in their mouths, just clicking on everything.
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I want to double up on everybody else's comment here— thanks for this. It looks great.

I use Apple Notes, Keep, and email myself stuff all the time.

I don't think I'll stop that, but I can at least keep a singular source now. I might even self host...
However, it's not great for local air quality.

If you live in the countryside and rarely visit towns, it's a reasonable choice. If you regularly drive slowly through a city, it's awful!
We look at what happens inside SQL Server when data is returned from SqlSatellite.
I assume the tech isn't there, but mechanical turk for manual labour sounds like a fun concept, in a black mirror sort of way. Can't wait for Uber to try to solve its self driving cars with this.
You are missing one big advantage of market based solutions. They raise revenue.

For every dollar that is raised from taxing gasoline, is another dollar that can be used paying for social programs or whatever.
Franz is all about handling messaging app while we handle all types of web applications.
As for Rambox, indeed they are closer to what we do with a different type of interface though.

We do support self-hosted apps (any kind of custom apps) but as of today it requires a few weeks before it is added. In all honesty if that's a key factor for you, I would stay on Rambox and wait for us to have released the V.2 of custom applications before bothering to try it :)

Indeed PWA would be amazing especially for offline functionalities and push notifications.
Show HN: A templating engine for *.docx files (written in Clojure)
Right off the bat they compare the production output of their robot interior farm with a comparable exterior farm "5 times the size" - which is another, more subtle, form of BS - how does it compare with a standard "meat powered" indoor farm? Production from hydro/hybrid is higher than traditional outside soil only.

>> "What we found is that the two biggest costs in the indoor farm are labor and electricity"

this may be true but it doesn't mean the costs of outdoor farming are lower, plus the added cost of land (good farm land is expensive to own or rent)
The NY Subway alone handles approximately 1.7 billion riders a year, and the MTA system as a whole sees roughly 2.6 billion riders a year. For a 18.5 billion annual budget, that breaks down to only $7/rider/year.

For those in other countries wondering why so many US citizens always seem adverse to the expansion of government services, it's because they can't perform basic arithmetic.
> It's been surprisingly difficult finding a good replacement for keep. If anyone has suggestions I'm open.

I've been on the hunt for a good Keep replacement myself, but not exactly a replacement for the "Simple" Keep interface. In my perfect world I wanted something markdown based for taking notes, and syncable between mobile and web. Most (but not all) of my personal checkmarks has been checked with Joplin[1] which was not yet mentioned in this thread; at a glance:

- Synced via cloud accounts (Either it's Dropbox, OneNote, or even your own Nextcloud via WebDAV, if you wish to be public cloud free!)

- Notes are Markdown based

- Notes import done also via .md files, folder of .mds (including nesting), or even Evernote's ENEX format.

- Dedicated applications for PC/OSx/Linux and even Android & iOS native apps. No web interface available since it's used to sync to an external source. But with that much access with said applications, it's a tradeoff I can take.

(I just found out about this app this morning, so please excuse my enthusiasm :)

[1] https://joplin.cozic.net/
Hi, I work for a small company creating insurance software (dealing with lots of insurance policy documents, offers, legal documents, etc).
I created this library to make creating and editing document templates easier. Now we can turn a custumer's document into a document template in just minutes.

I wrote the core of the library in Clojure. It turned out that Clojure's data.xml is a great way to deal with immutable XML trees.

- source: https://github.com/erdos/stencil
- documentation: https://erdos.github.io/stencil/

I am happy to answer questions and receive feedback about this project.
Most satellites these days have a way to deorbit once they reach the end of their lifetime. I hope this applies to the cubes too.
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On platforms like udemy, the good courses range from 1.5 hours to as much as 97 hours. For this length, the shorter the better for individual videos.

For YouTube playlists, the same. However, for one-off youtube tutorial videos, I do long videos as well.
> Since oil is traded in dollars I was referring to petrodollars

Oil is quoted and traded in all kinds of currencies. It tends to be exchanged in dollars for the same reason that when Lufthansa bought Airbus jets in the last decade, they did the deal in dollars: Fedwire was, until very recently, the world's only international real-time high-volume electronic money transfer system. (Now Europe has a competitor.)

The Hussein euro thing is a conspiracy. In what currency do you think British North Sea oil being shipped to Europe is paid for?
Will there be a version for Lattice FPGAs? These are more interesting targets because they are lower cost than Altera or Xilinx.
True, many overstate the importance of the president. I think you understate his importance, though. His actions (and statements) have real-world consequences.
How to Use Postman to Test an API During Development
See: Kindred.ai
Not quite. The camera only systems were confused, but the lidar systems were completely certain that a collision was iminent with enough time to prevent the collision or at least reduce injuries.

Unfortunately the lidar did not have control of the system, did not have override capability, and could not notify the driver in an emergency in any way. It was effectively disabled from the perspective of vehicle control and safety.
I biked through Denmark a few years back. It's a really small country. So a modern electric car would need like one stop to recharge in the middle somewhere?
Sadly they also have the worst OS ever.
Domain specific languages are everywhere. If you ever worked in the Java Enterprise Domain: just see the zillions of XML or other configuration languages. Take any 1MLOC Java project and it will have all kinds of languages and extensions.

From my personal view, very descriptive Lisp programs are actually quite easy to read - but they can be harder to maintain: there is this meta-level.

Lisp has a bunch of 'problems':

1) it has this meta-level where code is data and where programs transform code. This adds added complexity and increases the distance of the executing code from the written code. The machine is possibly transforming a statement before executing it, then the new code will be executed and can also be possibly transformed.

2) the code as data feature adds a layer of confusion: what is code and what is data exactly when?

3) the amount for programmer freedom makes it possible to write extremely hard to understand code. Especially the code might only be understandable while it is running (because then introspection and reflection can be used).

4) much of Lisp was developed at a time when more people knew how to use it. A lot of that practical knowledge is lost and thus it's difficult to educate new programmers. In the 'open source'/'free software' domain SBCL

OTOH, the fear of application/domain specific constructs is overblown. Sometimes groups report that Lisp code for large applications is much smaller and more readable than the equivalent, say, C++. If the code is full of low-level operators, repeating code, etc., then often the usual answers are configuration systems, extensive meta-architecture, added languages, an added scripting level, code generators, lots of manual labor, user-interface-level automation tools, ... this is no better or even worse than Lisp-level code generation/transformation.
Which is why they’re not selling it to the public yet. They’re testing. And they NEED a working manual mode for that.
Example: When I was at the Fed, I worked on a system that moved $100 billion a DAY. Yes, billion. More money flowed through that system every day than the GDP of most nations. I got to see what happens when you overflow the Money type in Java. We were delivering 10,000 transactions a second on a Unix/Java/Oracle stack, a feat IBM told us could not be done.

You don't get to do stuff like that with your new lead gen app.
> If and when they think that it is safe enough to do so then they will.

Which is exactly why the US should and will continue to project power all over the world. What you're really saying is that given a power vacuum, other countries will try to step in. Are there any other countries you would prefer to be projecting power?