skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal I know but same here - by trial and error I have also found certain wheat products OK. Name brand saltine crackers, but not generics, certain local breads, but not others. Some beers but not others too. Waiting for the day when this is all sorted out!
Take it seriously (take notes on paper like ‘real’ school) and be sure to read the papers from the 2007 DARPA urban challenge. See my other comment for the link.

Good luck :-)
> Amazon is the only one of the three companies that breaks out its cloud division in terms of sales. The company said on Thursday that AWS revenue jumped 49 percent to $5.44 billionin the first quarter.

> Microsoft said Azure revenue jumped 93 percent. KeyBanc analysts estimated Azure had $1.76 billion in revenue, while Raymond James analysts predicted the number was $2.05 billion.

This is a cloud hosting comparison. In the article they are comparing apples to oranges...
Yes Autonomous Vehicle
The inventor said it well:

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible."

Most agree that Bitcoin privacy is currently unsatisfactory. If it is not improved it should not be adopted generally. Legal recourse and low-cost transactions are layered onto the base protocol.
https://www.merit.me/
The U.S. feeds not only itself but a huge chunk of the world. Agricultural innovations primarily coming from the United States (but also Canada and other industrialized countries) throughout this century and last saved the planet from the Malthusian famines that were widely predicted in the 1970s due to expanding human populations.

No doubt there can be lots of improvements in all agricultural sectors around the globe but having too much food is much better than having too little.
>Cattle are fed low dose antibiotics in feedlots—not to stave off disease, but because it makes them gain weight more easily than an antibiotic-free cow. It changes their gut microbes so that they grow fat on less food.

Curious if we're externalizing the costs of producing desiccant-free food into our healthcare system. CDC says obesity will cost us $147 billion this year[1]. Does glyphosate save the agriculture industry that much? Has the link even been examined?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes.html
> HERE is a trivia question for you: what is the most profitable business in the world? You might think oil, or maybe banking. You would be wrong. The answer is academic publishing. Its profit margins are vast, reportedly in the region of 40 per cent.

Interesting. Does anyone know what the volume is like?
The North American auto industry essentially held the Canadian and US governments for ransom in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, "bail us out or we'll go belly up completely, and look how many people will be unemployed!".
China Is Building a $9B Rival to the American-Run GPS
This comes up on HN like quarterly, so for anyone else who is always confused when it does:

Both swathing and desiccation are primarily practices in the far north - Canada, the UK, and the Dakotas in the US.

Neither practice is necessary or common for grain production in eg the Midwest or Central Plains in the US: the growing season is long enough for wheat to ripen and dry before harvest, and so it does.

So if you're in the US, there's like an 80% chance that your flour was not produced in the way the article describes.
IIUC if Apple loses then there may finally be better way to get GPLed software on iOS/tvOS. I currently run Kodi on my Apple TV but I had to compile and sign it myself because they can't put it on the Apple store without an alternate license AFAICT.

Unfortunately while I personally think Apple should allow other app stores I don't think this particular suit will succeed.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17479480/supreme-court-ap...
I don't know what you would consider a "large amount", but 32 people were recently poisoned by what authorities suspect was contaminated lettuce.

https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
Privilege is a useless (for non political purposes) lens to view people through, so don't even grant the idea of privilege by birth country.
We should have let it happen.

That money could have been funneled into social services instead of propping up industries.

You played and lost, you don't get my tax dollars.
Seems to me that escalating a situation with firearms increases the chances of a gun being shot.
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China gov't still deny this history, many people still deny believe this history, if you talk about this in China, they may think you're a spy.
This advice is particularly good for perfectionists like myself.
You're the second person I've seen to say "Criminals have more rights than children"

Where do you get your talking points from?
And instead of taking the opportunity to nationalize them, our useless neoliberal leaders instead went "uhh okay lol heres some money pls don't do that thing we all know you'll do".
I totally agree with you in practical terms, but what you're really saying is that you prefer the governance offered by Paypal and the credit card networks to the governance provided by the government: IOW, it wouldn't even occur to you (or most sane people) to file a claim in court over a $25 Atari cart you tried to buy online. In the society these courts are designed to serve (peasant agricultural economies), the courts were where these issues were hashed out, and a fair bit of the "state-iness" of the state derived from its ability to solve these kinds of problems for people. Increasingly, this kind of justice is inaccessible to ordinary people except through "customer support" mechanisms at institutions like Amazon or Paypal or by tweeting at their CEOs.

One of the very real problems that cryptocurrency enthusiasts are concerned about (but IMO totally failing to actually solve) is that it seems like a really bad idea to leave such basic functions of state in the hands of difficult-or-impossible-to-regulate transnational enterprises. When will these players realize that they've got more "state-iness" than most actual states, and how will they use it?
... so a Ford made in Mexico could better compete against a Hyundai made in Alabama.
> I can buy a used Cisco 48-port 1000BaseT/PoE switch on eBay and know that I have some degree of buyer protection.

This is a basic insurance market. You can still buy the insurance separately if you want it -- sites like eBay would undoubtedly offer it with nothing more than a checkbox for about the same fee as the credit card companies currently charge for implicitly the same thing.

The problem with the existing system is that it requires you to buy that insurance, even when it isn't necessary. If you order something from Newegg, they're ultimately going to send it or give you a refund, because they're a stable business and it's cheaper for them to make good to begin with than have a small claims court order them to. So you lose 3% in processing fees for nothing -- Newegg is no more likely to not make good than the payment processor is to not reverse the transaction.

The existing system also basically makes micropayments impossible because the transaction costs are too high, but it's not actually all that serious of a problem if you get ripped off to the tune of $0.10 from time to time. The amount is small enough that it doesn't need to be insured, and that allows you to get a good feel for what kind of purchases are scams without actually losing any significant amount of money. It also creates an opportunity for curation services to vouch for verified sellers at a lower cost than insurance would have to be to cover the losses from less savvy individual buyers not knowing who to trust (or not caring when the insurance is mandatory).
Wow, something I am working on made it to HN FP?! Happy to answer questions.
Yes, agreed. They should have gone chapter 7 and the canadian equivalent in bankruptcy law. Some foreign buyer would have bought up the assets worth buying, and made better cars. Maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the workforce could have been re-hired, the government bailout money could be spent on retraining and supporting the remaining 2/3 to 1/2 of the workforce.
Have you actually had a bag of ground flour analyzed to measure how much glyphosate or 2,4-d it contains?
Stable isotopes of lithium: dissimilar biochemical and behavioral effects (1986)
Yes, bizarrely enough, Nabisco Saltines are also ~OK for me. But not Breton.

I didn't figure it out until I started logging food and symptoms.
Forget PornHub, the Valve's SteamLink app is a much better example. Denied, on Apple's own words, because of a business model conflict.
Both of those are what escrow is for. A trusted and publicly audited thing where a payment is held until the services are rendered.
I've been using zstd now for over a year to compress my large SQL dumps. Consistently amazed at how fast it works and how small the results are.
Too bad we didn't call their bluff, and especially that of the banks, and put the bailouts into infrastructure or new industry to replace those jobs and put us in a better position for the long term.
I'm sure you can think of some things, but as long as it agrees with the available evidence and is the "best explanation", which includes some subjective and objective criteria, it's a valuable theory.
And now we are redefining “monopoly”. This has been going on for 30 years. The console manufacturers have had lock out chips on their cartridges, specially made disk, etc forever.
Yes that’s roughly what needs to happen, and it’s a policy issue. It’s great to ride a bike to work, eat less meat, and switch to LEDs but it won’t make a dent.

It requires scale which requires policy which requires political action which requires activism and voting.

It’s a long road, it doesn’t look hopeful.

But that’s it.
So, to take this to a logical conclusion...

Their Social Ranking is used to identify individuals with appealing DNA, and that DNA is used to make future model citizens.
Pretty sure s/he means lower
Here’s how NASA will attempt to land on the red planet Monday
Surely it must be.

In my country, our recently former Prime Minister was known to regularly catch trains while going about his government business. Sometimes with a cabinet minister. Sometime on his own. And rarely, if ever, with a visible security detail.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Malcolm+Turnbull+train&tbm=i...
It does two things for you:
a) you get to visualize and explore the image layer by layer, and b) it will analyze and score the image with a % efficiency, listing all of the potential "inefficient" files.

In this way it's not just showing you a score... the score doesn't help you make the image any better. This is why letting the user explore the layers is good, to help discover and explain why there is an inefficiency (not just that there is one).
Setting aside the complexities of two nations trying to nationalize the same company...the most recent example of an anglophone government taking over its carmakers (UK) isn’t exactly an encouraging precedent...
Saddest comment in a while
From what I can tell of the quote, it looks to be just the ability of an engineer to successfully code a new program? Does it touch on any of the other roles of a computer programmer, such as the ability to break a large task into smaller, incremental deliverables, arrange those deliverables in a way that allows parallelism, communicating with the rest of the team to actually make use of this parallelism, and before doing any of this actually verifying that the thing you’re planning to implement is really what the customer needs? And of course, such work is usually done within an existing system that you have to navigate and modify in a way that remains maintainable (for example, writing the right types of tests, and creating the appropriate types of abstractions). I would be stunned if one’s ability along those axes plateaus within just a couple years of experience.

I guess, I’m just skeptical of this because I recently switched jobs from a place where nobody seemed to know what was happening to one where everything seems to be very well-polished. At
both places, people generally are similar in their ability to write code that does a specific thing, but there’s a night/day difference in how they do these other things. And I’m hesitant to say that it’s because they just fundamentally aren’t good at those things, because that can’t explain how I was also miserable at those other areas but seem to be learning how to do them now that I’m in the right environment. In other words, I feel like my ability to meaningfully contribute to an organization as a computer programmer is increasing with experience, and I can see quite clearly that the people with more seniority at my present job are generally capable of more effectively navigating the problem space than are my coworkers fresh out of college.
Slowing sales of pickup trucks and sedans -- Silverado and Impala in particular.

Ford recently announced ceasing production of all sedans in favor of SUV's. GM said it wouldn't follow suit but it looks like the market might be dictating terms.
USA, maybe 5 years ago.
Then the first draft can go out when it would have been normally published. Then, the main value add would be commenting and suggesting changes as well as a centralized place to see comments and suggestions as well as their reactions.
New evidence that giving cash to the poor is more transformative than we thought
Yes, but just like
microsoft.telemetry.elegantcode.com
it has no ip address associated with it.
Chargebacks are also insanely useful. If my card is stolen I can get my money back, if my merchant tries to defraud me I have a recourse. I will never use bitcoin for consumer transactions for this exact reason.
What's the ratio? How much better?
A return to exponential performance gains will come from parallelism is how I read your comment, and I agree. Multiple cores running at 5GHz for a few hundred dollars is an amazing amount of processing capacity.
Government's justification for bailing out companies like GM is to ostensibly save jobs. Diversification is great for your economic portfolio but it's not so easy for workers. Telling a laid-off auto worker to switch industries is not a very fair thing to do.

It's far easier to move capital around to different industries. Not so easy to transfer your skills between them.
“I wouldn’t want perfect privacy because that would mean it would be impossible to investigate crimes at all. And that’s one of the jobs we need the state to do.”

Anyway, I wonder if there is any protection built-in that prevents the exchange from looking you up on linked-in and associating your salary information with your job, then selling the data. It could make salary negotiations a little more unfair.

Actually wondering, does anybody know details? This seems it would need some law passed to protect your privacy in this case, and that hasn't been the trend lately (except in the EU).
In my experience of this sort of situation, the reps are there to yell ‘stop’ when the orthopod tries to smack something fragile with a hammer.
Each sub speciality has its traits and orthopaedics is no exception.
No need to bucket like this. Rather split this into a 2-dimensional space where one axis is “ability to do things effectively” and the other is “ability to spot which things lead others to success”. The buckets suggest that there’s a point at which a person is no longer able to learn from others, which is dishonest.
Dangerous Infection Tied to Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them
Can we not make baseless claims and back up things especially when they involve justification of a fatal weapon?
> So what sandbox is available for apps that don’t allow a native app to ascertain individually identifiable device information?

That's the point. Currently nobody can build that because Apple doesn't allow it.

> You also now have to trust the non Apple App Store to check the source code. The entire open source community let the HeartBleed bug stay in open source software for a year and a half...

"Many eyes" results in fewer bugs over time, not zero bugs instantaneously. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better.
Building an automatic chicken coop door opener
Yep. All of the Windows machines that I actually rely on for work—the ones that I need to be able to start up and immediately use, and need to be able to trust them to keep running without interruption or regression—are completely firewalled off from the public internet, so that they are secure both from malware, and unwanted updates. The rest of my work is done on other, more obedient operating systems.

Windows 95 was capable of 49.7 days of uptime. That's pretty difficult on client versions of Windows 10 unless you take extraordinary measures.
https://academic.oup.com/wbro/article/33/2/259/5127165
We had curation before we had commercial academic publishers. Professional societies handled it. Publishers just did the physical publishing, and didn't get copyright.
Unfortunately you just have to avoid it. Wheat, flour and bread isn't processed well in the US. For grains and beans, soak them for 10 minutes in baking soda or 5 minutes in activated charcoal. It doesn't get rid of everything, but it's a solution.
Lovely, but posted previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415488
Oh no, bitcoin is insanely easy to tax and regulate, they’ve just not bothered yet. A permanent ledger of all transactions is the tax man’s Dream.
(4) Security audits
> these publishers actually provide real value ... If they didn't, it'd be pretty easy to destroy their grip over academia.

Your argument equates to "they have maintained their grip, therefore they're providing real value".

Their stranglehold seems to come primarily from academic incentives to publish in prestigious journals.

> The idea that after 23 years of internet they've maintained their position via smart deals is ludicrous.

Perhaps someone has claimed that, but I don't recall ever seeing that argument.
Oh my. I've read that story in the distant past. It was merely hilarious at that time. Today I was grimacing.
Really? Where is this paradise you speak of?

Maybe there's hope for my area. They really are the most pointless and annoying things.
>This is all overwhelmingly worse than in the native case, because we make some effort to run only trustworthy native code, but browsers actively solicit unknown code from known-hostile sources--most particularly, web ads. The existence of safe-ish languages doesn't help, because there is no incentive to deploy them in user-hostile code fragments.

WebAssembly strongly sandboxes WASM modules that are executed, so the situation where an attacker creates and serves a malicious WASM module to the user's browser is one that is handled well.

The article is saying that WASM's protections stop a module from escaping its sandbox, but it doesn't prevent a buggy module from having its own memory get corrupted by its own memory-related bugs common in unsafe languages.
such as..?
Counterpoint: If small design decisions require global SQL schema changes, it slows you down. And small barriers to change will, in aggregate, kill you.

Eg, over a month of iterations: "Can we add another field to user registration? It should be free text. Oh, they should select from a list. No wait, make it a date. Actually a date and a text field. No wait, dump the text field."

Sometimes slowing down these changes is a good thing. But often, being able to ship each iteration along the way will help your design team converge on the best solution. If you need to write a schema migration for every iteration, it kills the ability of your team to experiment and explore the space of "what should our product actually look like".

Faster iterations = more iterations = better product in the long term. Sometimes the best long term result requires some random stuff getting crammed into a big JSON field in your database in the short term.
No, the opposite would be confiscating your oil by force. Compared to that, taxing the externalities is extremely free market.
Very nice to see that it's released under a standard BSD license.
Good God you sound stupid.
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Printers are even worse than getters
Scihub exists you know. There is! Volunteering,. fed grants, and donations. You even said it yourself that it was useful. Wikipedia is a great example of how to open source info. Also, ATTACK THE ARGUMENT, NOT THE PERSON!
> Nintendo, Somy[sic], and MS

You don't need to purchase games directly from Nintendo, nor music or games or video directly from Sony, nor are Sony Videos only playable on Sony devices, nor do you have to only install Microsoft "blessed" executable for Windows.
Oddly enough, the Equinox uses the same V6 engine as the Impala and Cadillac. I guess it comes down to how you use the vehicle and not how you power it. The 3.6L V6 VVT is a good engine too -- reliable, 300+ hp, 30+ mpg hwy, etc. Built in Detroit even though the vehicles are assembled in Oshawa.

This shutdown is a bellwether, not just a cost move.
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Technology is somehow boosting underemployment
Google maps copies a ton of data from open street map. The other day my oddly specific edit on OSM was on Google maps within 72 hours.
Right, this is distinct from the shoe case because here Apple has a direct relationship with the customer in a way that USMC didn't with the purchasers of shoes.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by scholars getting credit for their work?
Right! Curiosity could very well be about optimising the structure of one's existing knowledge rather than finding out new things per se. A distinctly non-random process.
> I wouldn’t want [X] because [Y]. And that’s one of the jobs we need the state to do.

> jobs we need the state to do

> we need the state

What about libertarianism were you guys talking about? Because the motivation around this coin is simply NOT libertarian..
Escrow is far more expensive than chargebacks. And if we're involving a third party either way, I'd rather have the regulated, battle-tested, already existing banking system.
In 1621, Geneva faced a syphilis outbreak. Geneva's council demanded that apothecaries and physicians report every treatment to the council, in the name of controlling the outbreak. The apothecaries and physicians immediately protested in writing, claiming that violating their patients' privacy would exacerbate the outbreak by making them less likely to seek treatment.

A summary of these writings in French, by Leon Gautier: https://archive.org/stream/b2475674x/b2475674x_djvu.txt

Relevant excerpt fed through Google Translate for convenience:

> The Council, according to its custom, did not wish to be wrong, but practically justified the faculty. From that date, the authority does not seem to have required the medical profession to make the mandatory declaration of all cases of venereal disease. And even today (1906) the problem of reconciling the public interest and the honor of families remains before the legislator and the public.
It does not exist. This isn't just for the software architect, but systems architects as a class don't have a generalized IDE to build diagrams (static or time-series) that allow them to think, demonstrate or iterate on systems in any meaningful way.

My workflow right now is hand-drawing diagrams in Paper and pulling them into a Notion page. Notion is amazing, the Paper workflow is not.
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mls/vskNqxGlJCKql0UsDK...

> At the interim last week, there was agreement to remove the discussion of ART from the protocol draft and focus on TreeKEM.