skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you grow a crop that takes nutrients out of the soil they must be replaced. When you eat the crop in the same location (substance farming) there isn't a problem as your excrement is fertilizer.

When you live in the city that doesn't happen - nobody transports sewage back to the fields. It isn't necessarily a good idea to try: the energy to transport sewage back to the fields needs to come from somewhere; sewage needs to not have harmful chemicals/heavy metals from other processes mixed in.
"We live in the country and almost everyone near me has hens, but they rely on manual opening. They have all lost their entire flocks to foxes at least once in the time my automated door has been operational, but thankfully we have not. I have seen scratch marks on the sliding door indicating interested predators ..."

We live on a very small island of private property inside a huge expanse of open space / wilderness and thus have very heavy predation on any animals we raise.

In the case of our chickens, I just kept adding hot wires to the fence until nothing could get into the run. There are four hot wires now, two of which form a negative (back bending) slope. It is impossible for a thing to climb the fence now without touching (and holding) at least two hot wires. We've had our current flock for over a year with no losses, vs. losing every previous flock to raccoons and weasels every 2-3 months.

I wonder if you would comment on this (seemingly successful) strategy - you seem to know what you're doing...
>Technically, a program that runs without an OS, is an OS.

It is not. A program that runs without an OS just doesn't need the OS provided services but instead manages everything itself.

A perfectly valid program might be:

#include <avr/io.h>

int main(void)
{
DDRB=255;
while(1)
{
PORTB++;
}
}
Wikipedia has a little snippet on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_m...

Basically, lisp machines were expensive workstation computers, and PCs killed all workstation manufacturers. Sun SPARCStations and Silicon Graphics machines bit the dust as well. Nobody could justify the cost anymore.
For Lucas Pope, Return of the Obra Dinn was a bunch of appealing design problems
That is a challenge for us as well. Many of our partners use MitM proxies, but our privacy, compliance and legal teams will not approve the usage of them. We promote a work-life balance which means we allow people to use work resources for personal use. Culturally, that is great. It does create this conundrum however. The company does not want to be liable for intercepting personal and financial data that does not belong to us.
FWIW, Germany specifically has complicated tax laws that make equity tricky. Namely: if your equity ever increases in value — e.g. if your startup raises a round of funding and gets a higher valuation — you owe capital gains taxes on the increase, even if the equity itself isn't liquid (which it might very well never be). There are workarounds, but they're a hassle. None of this is an issue in the US, where you're only taxed when you sell.

I've never been an employee of a German company, but I'm in the process of founding a startup here in Berlin. I totally get how saving early employees from having to deal with that headache would be a blessing.

(In general, the advice in the article tracks with my experience working not just with SF-based startups but companies in other top-tier tech cities like London and NYC. If you get a job at a startup in SF, you'll absolutely get equity as meaningful part of your job offer, even if you actively don't want it. A large part of startups' ability to hire depends on them being able to convince you it's okay you're being paid literally less than half of what Facebook pays because someday your 0.01-0.1% equity stake might be worth something)
Yes, you can, because it's just dividing by 10. If a piece of land is 30000 hectares then it is 300 square kilometers.
Not true. I work in the enterprise software space. We definitely noticed a strong trend, starting around mid-2010, where prospective customers started shying away from one-time, upfront purchases and demanding a subscription model.

The reason is simple: one is a capital expenditure, whereas the other can be categorized as an operational expense. With a subscription model, even if you end up paying more in the long run, you realize the return on investment almost immediately.
Why has Bitcoin dropped so much on 11/20/18?
Recent New Yorker article about controlling actual robotic arms via implanted “Utah” arrays:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-to-control...
I don’t know for sure, but I’ve never had a project fail for lack of monads or functional purity, but they’ve often failed because I couldn’t figure out the tooling quickly enough or there was some critical library missing or the documentation was shit or etc. And the economics of bridges and web apps aren’t comparable (I can’t redeploy a bridge in an hour and no one dies if one of my routes 500s when the user passes unexpected input).
I think you're confusing http(s) and tls. Http(1) is a request/response protocol. Tls is the stream encryption and key negotiation protocol most heavily used.

Also, tls1.3 adds 0rtt for subsequent cqlls to the same server.
Ive worked in factories in the US in a software/robotics role so the general terribleness of her job didnt surprise me.

Sounds like they have a few terrible managers/shift leaders there to say the least.

Those environments are taxing to work in, poor benifits, lack of dignity given to lower level employees, and i thought it was a great podcast to be released on black friday weekend as we all buy things online.
Passwordless Web: End of Password Era?
There is a fascinating (and charming) paper by Alan Turing that describes his "Turochamp" chess 'engine'. Apparently, it was the first program capable of playing a complete game of chess, and the first program that could be described as a computer game (although it sadly only ever existed on paper). The
general pattern he outlines (a heuristic evaluation function with hand-tuned weights, along with minimax game tree search--i.e. backwards induction) has formed the basis of most chess engines, both ancient and modern. Here's the original copy: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0xb4crOvCgTNmEtRXFBQUIxQWs/...

Intriguingly, Turing posed the question, "Could one make a machine to play chess, and to improve its play, game by game, profiting from its experience?" This reinforcement learning approach to chess did not enjoy much success--until AlphaZero. That story that has been well-told in many places, but perhaps best so by David Silver in this recently released lecture by DeepMind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld28AU7DDB4. The first ~40 mins are a lucid explanation of the classical methods, and the rest covers RL/MCTS/AlphaZero.
You either need to read a lot more of The Reg, or none at all. The Reg is written with a certain brand of humour that is appreciated by a fair chunk of its tech readership.

If you want a humour free version of the article, checkout the link to The Guardian article cited. Brace yourself for lots of speling mistakes however.
am i the only one who couldnt exactly get that from the title? is this a trend?
Not in the same social context.

Education was a very elite thing in most societies, even in the west too. But some thing very strange happened around Gutenberg's times and west was able to take advantage of that unique situation.

For example, there is no parallel of Renaissance or Industrial revolution in any non-western country. China comes close, but even then, not exactly.
The most troubling aspect of this article is its suggestion that radical racist groups are actively working to infiltrate the military. That the FBI hasn't yet rolled up this particular group could mean that they're working methodically, as the feds do. Or it could mean that they've dropped the ball. I'm not convinced either way by the article.
What makes you think your understanding is correct?
It support 2 x 128GB DIMMs, though :)
Irrelevant. If the deck is available and discussed, we might as well take a look.
I mentioned Popper because of his emphasis on good explanations. It’s a lot more than falsifiability.
lts not talk about acpi :D ... or system management mode which i think you refer to as BIOS, since bios really hands off control. but has set up SMM to do stuff outside of the os.
Frankly my advice -- which as a human, you are incapable of heeding, being genetically programmed to obsess about food purity -- is not to worry about.

Eat a varied diet, not too much, get plenty of exercise and sleep. Pay attention to food recalls, because accidental contamination of food by things like E. coli and salmonella kill dozens of people in the US every year and god knows how many world-wide.

Worrying about everything else, the micro-contaminants that maybe-possibly-who-knows might possibly-maybe-sort-of-contribute to some sort of who-knows after years or decades of exposure, is a bad value proposition. Maybe BPA causes cancer, or whatever it was supposed to cause. Maybe eating steak does. Maybe gluten is actually poisonous, maybe soy causes estrogen problems, maybe cooked vegetables lose all their magical healthiness. Maybe cell phones and WiFi cause cancer.

You can spend weeks and months and years trying to figure out exactly what food you personally should eat, and statistically you aren't getting those weeks and months and years back in the marginal gains to healthfulness. If you have an allergic reaction to a food, avoid it, and if you don't know if you had an allergic reaction, you probably didn't, but hey, I'm not a doctor. Talk to one.

I honestly don't know if glyphosate is safe when used this way or not (since I am mostly familiar with its more conventional uses in the US and am too lazy to do a deep dive into what the existing research says and am pretty jaded about whatever the latest mass hysteria is for reasons) but frankly if it is really being used in as wide-spread a manner as articles like this claim, it can't be particularly harmful or frankly it'd be pretty obvious epidemiologically, since there's been growing use of it in this way for decades now.
Must suck to have your sensitive information taken and used without your permission.
When he says "buyers" here, I think he's talking about Zuora's customers.
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Have Been Discovered on Board the ISS
No, society is the bottom line. Money is an imperfect medium for regulating society, and government should step in when it doesn't work.
RedPower for Minecraft was a mod that introduced computers that used Forth. It was really interesting. I loved it.
the BIOS sets up SMM handlers which do run. also there is ACPI which runs partially outside of the os's control....
A few comments from prior experience:

Equity in a startup is often used as a way to entice people to work without having to pay them market rates. If you suspect this is the case, definitely keep in mind that this equity could very well never be worth more than $0.

If you are interested in the value of the equity, then you have to be interested in the value of the business. You must understand whether you think the business value can grow. And this requires much more research and business strategy evaluation than most jobs offers.
I disagree. The most common way to predict payout is to compare to other companies' exit valuations.

E.g. "Oh, company X got acquired for $250 million. We do something similar. If I own .025% of the company, I'd make $62,500 if we exited at that valuation. Cool."

It's important to be aware of dilution events so that you realize when you accept the offer that your .025% will be more like .008% if you're lucky enough to have a successful exit.
The City That Will Never Let You Sleep
Of course it has lots to do with Microsoft's fuckery. I don't think it's a binary choice. Can you answer my question now?

Edit: Sorry, misread the author. Thought you were the same as I asked the original question. Nevermind that.
And regarding the Cmder <--> iTerm2 comparison…

Ctrl-Shift-E and Ctrl-Shift-O? (split windows)

Ctrl-T to create new tabs? (create new tabs)
POC learning tool: SoftwareSystemDynamics.com
As a developer, do you find yourself struggling to explain technical debt? As a product manager, do you find yourself facing dev resistance when adding new features?

I think the reason for this gap, and many others, is because teams don't fully understand software system dynamics. After reading Michael Williams' excellent "How the Software Machine Works" (link at bottom) it became clear to me that every software team should know this stuff.

But how to educate at scale? People don't want to read a 12 minute long article.

That's why I'm thinking of starting a dedicated service to provide communication and learning tools for software system dynamics. I built a POC at:
softwaresystemdynamics.com

The goal is to have an interactive, graphical representation of the dynamics so that learning is intuitive, customizable and tailored for the unique needs of an organization.

For all you side project believers, this is tangentially related to my software development business. I think it's a good side project, but also potentially a standalone business too. Would really appreciate any feedback here.

"How the Software Machine Works"
https://medium.com/swlh/how-the-software-machine-works-6265b30c0fc0
Well, it's not quite exactly the same thing as the 3-way handshake over a single packet.

The 3-way handshake ensures that both ends are able to send traffic to their counterpart. Just because i receive a packet doesn't mean I can send one back.
I don't even understand what half the words here mean and the alienation of human beings still comes through. We can offer advanced college calculus in public high schools but we can't teach basic finance. I don't think anyone but a handful of workers at my job understands any of this
I swear that looked like movie FX. All it needed was some sort of display with a circle around the target and ranging, etc. information constantly updating.

Very cool!
Have you tried Mypy? It certainly has limitations, but it provides some static typing to Python.
The linked story is just a slice of the larger story, obviously tailored to be more significant for a Canadian audience. But the larger story [Reuters report] involves a major restructuring.

"GM is expected to announce it will cut the Chevrolet Volt, Impala and Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and XTS, and the Buick LaCrosse"

More info at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-restructuring/gm-to-cu...
Are "liquidation preference" shares just tagged as being worth more than their actual value though? I can't reconcile how they could get paid "according to the number of shares and the valuation of those shares" and have there be nothing left over for the non-preferred stock. If the founders/VCs have any n% of a, say, $10M acquisition, that still has to leave money for everyone else, unless the total number of shares is >100%, someone has a funny idea of a $10M company being worth more than the $10M that was paid for it, or there is something else going on.

My understanding is that you're perfectly correct, however — I'm just trying to demonstrate how I don't really "get" it. I presume there's some other number involved in the "liquidation preference" that is visible to those involved that make it more than a mere n% of company calculation.

Edit: Googling this, it seems like these special investors get to recoup their investment if the company is selling for less than what they valued it at at their time of investment. (And since it seems like this generally applies to VC firms, I gotta say, this is really lame. It was a bad investment, but you know the actual employees took a lot more risk in it, and yet the VCs get a better return — albeit a loss.)
i wasn't talking about the goals of individual scientists, but the goal or the purpose of science as a whole. why do scientific research? if it's for fame then you'll have more chances as an actor.

no, there can only be one reason for publicly funded scientific research. to advance our society.

as for academics having no interest in technology. yes, that is a problem. but that is changing. the younger generations are more comfortable with technology, and i am guessing that if they don't use modern tools, it's because their supervisors can't deal with them, and they are not bold enough to change the status quo. but they will once they are in charge.
You're not going to get top spec at all in laptop formfactor if that's what matters to you.

Two decent desktops are each going to be individually more powerful than a good, expensive laptop.

But realistically we're probably not working on a fixed budget. My job is how I get almost all of my income, so I will do whatever is necessary to continue being able to do it. If that means spending more money on another computer so be it -- what that money is buying is less hassle from having to move a computer around twice a day, and reducing risk of forgetting it or not having it at the right place, as well as reducing risk of damage or theft in transit.

I don't pay for these extra computers anyway, though. I simply have two work laptops. The refresh cycle here is two years long, and the first laptop I had was a top spec 15" ~2014 gen Macbook Pro, so it's still way more than adequate. I simply didn't turn it in when I got another laptop two years later, so now I have two -- the powerful Macbook Pro at home, and a lighter Chromebook at the office I carry around and primarily use in meetings (nothing comes close to touching my monster of a workstation in performance anyway).
And the Atlantic article is just a repackaging of the original Quanta magazine article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-quantum-phenomenon-...
I mean, let's be honest... the major change that happened for Adobe users wasn't the shift to a subscription model, it's the fact that they closed the widely used hosts file loophole that enabled pretty much anyone technically savvy to use the full OEM version of the software without paying for it.

My assumption at the time was they had no choice to go to a subscription model at that time, because the other option would be to instantly demolish the finances of every broke graphic designer out there, which would possibly cause an exodus to a cheap or OSS option and risk their ability to stay the dominant player.
The FBI has paid some attention to white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-inve...
You backed up the comment with a bunch of points from the rest of the article. Why bother replying to me with that when my point was about the attitude shown by one person that seems to have gone unchallenged? In the context of my post, I really don't care about the "critical facts" because I was commenting on the attitude of someone testifying. "I dismiss his comment but he's actually right and here is why" isn't really interesting.
> Zuckerborg

It's the new M$ / Micro$oft.

Childish and appealing to a small minority.
Yes I believe this to be correct.

"N26 has had a full European banking licence since 2016 – and any funds you have with it are covered by the German Bank guarantee (up to €100,000)." [1]

[1] http://www.moneyguideireland.com/n26-compared-revolut.html
In fairness, a lot of the 'safety' in BEAM languages is delegated to processes. It's ok for a process to crash.
> Anecdotally it's mostly credits towards Google's own products, free storage, etc

Not anymore. I finally reached tier 5, but there was no reward no free storage. I haven't received anything. It's B.S.
Maybe off-topic here, but: you sound very bitter, and that bitterness is no doubt understandable. I'm currently being pushed around at work by incompetent people who have lied routinely, and it stings. I'm sure the same has happened to many if not most people in the industry.

But you and I both should let go of that bitterness and even forgive the liars if we're to move on as people. I'll quote an old saying, "Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting your enemy to die."
> betting on electric cars and already has an affordable model on the roads that could actually benefit society.

GM is hedging their bets at best. Right now the Volt and Bolt are compliance cars that allow the remainder of their fleet to be inefficient and still meets CAFE standards.
That reminds me of this story about removing empty boxes from a production line.

https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEng...
There's another "solution" to this paradox: if we assert something we are guided by a set of "conversational principles". For example, asserting "X implies Y" if we know that X is false is inappropriate. If X is false, "not-X" would be the appropriate assertion.

According to this theory, there's nothing wrong with the truth-functional meaning of "X implies Y". We just need to take into account what is implied by asserting "X implies Y", rather than e.g. "not-X", or "X and Y".

Same with disjunction: "X or Y" is true if we know that X is true. However, if we assert "X or Y", it is implied that we're not certain that X is true, otherwise we would have used "X", which is the simplest way to convey what that fact.

This is known as Grice's Pragmatic Defence of Truth-Functionality.
Hey, I've written some comments regarding the use case in the past you can see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18305446
Man, I agree 100%. I wonder if it would be possible to get this by compiling an Elm/SML-like language to Go?

[Edit: I'd add a few things to your feature list: really fast, OCaml-speed compilation, along with a utop-like REPL]
There's two, main attractions for Raptor:

1. All Intel and AMD CPU's are backdoored with management processors running black box software that's already had vulnerabilities. They refuse to remove the backdoors for consumer segment for probably shady reasons. These POWER CPU's have open-source firmware, OpenBMC, which is a little better on trust side. Personally, I think they're still backdoored somehow since IBM is one of NSA's longest-running partners. Still a risk reduction if we go from anyone might hit this closed software to open software anyone can analyze and improve.

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-...

2. People that want POWER ISA or just a RISC ISA at x86's performance. The x86 ISA is pretty horrible to some of us. It also locks you into specific patterns of execution, like its stack architecture, that can make it harder to efficiently implement alternative schemes. POWER could be more flexible for alternative designs.

2.1. PowerPC, like sold by NXP/Freescale, is still used in a lot of safety-critical fields along with sections of the embedded sector. While invisible to desktop programmers, it kept getting better and better for niches like with QorIQ CPU's for telecoms. I speculated developing on a POWER architecture for POWER-like targets might be easier somehow (idk though).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QorIQ

2.2. The separation kernels like INTEGRITY-178B were all originally designed for PowerPC boards like Curtis-Wright makes for aerospace and military. They might be easier to port in evaluated configuration to a Raptor than to x86. There are also a lot of hardware/software architectures for improving security that work better when you know what the hardware is doing in the first place and/or can modify the firmware. OpenPOWER has more potential for these designs with the main drawback being CompSci folks usually not able to afford expensive, new computers. Somebody might port an existing idea, though, that they were doing on MIPS, Leon3, ARM, etc.

2.3. The Amiga people also use PowerPC-based machines. They're willing to pay a premium to maintain their nostalgia. Wouldn't surprise me if someone ports MorphOS or something like that to these machines.

So, there's a few ideas.
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518302