skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting project. It really should be compared against some databases of what crops are actually being grown to get a better sense of what one might take away from it. Just spot checking local cases around the Bay area seem to be about 40 - 50% accurate. But there are also issues where crops are rotated so I can imagine one issue would be getting crop images from different seasons could throw it off as well.

That it presents numbers as if it were 100% accurate, is an issue for me.
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Coopretition is nothing new - look at every utility, telecom, cableco, and others - its a normal way of existing when markets and technologies are heavily interlinked.
Another issue I have with AWS is that they simply provide too many ways to do the same thing. I want to run a container. Should I use ElasticBeanstalk? ECS? Fargate? EC2 with Docker? I've been using AWS for years, so I get the subtle differences, but some users just want to click a button and be done with it, which is where third-parties can excel.

Or pay overpriced “Implementation Consultants”. I have no sympathy for people who don’t take the time to learn the subtleties of the platform they choose to use.

On the other hand, I’ll gladly charge them a nice hourly rate to help them.
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Israel has some of the best/worst politicians money can buy - but it is not shy about putting them in jail. A previous PM (Olmert) spent time in jail, as did a previous president (Katzav, this is a ceremonial job, with queen-of-england style responsibilities) and quite a few ministers.
Also I can stay a bit more anonymous to sellers - when checking out with a virtual card, I can use any name or billing address and it will be accepted. I think 90% of online businesses do not need to have my real name and address in their database (for example SaaS services, digital goods, HBO/Netflix/WSJ subscriptions etc.)
What would you define as a "real relationship"? Is texting someone once a month any different than commenting on things going on in their lives, or messaging them on [insert platform]? My view is no - a relationship, whether by social media, text messages, or shared experiences, does not make any other form invalid or less real. I have seen people fall in love purely from online interactions while playing games, or chatting in IRC - these relationships are as real as any other. One person's notion of relationships may be different than another's, and that's ok, but trying to say one's notion is more real than another is hogwash. Depth is not so easily measured here either - direct text messages can also be just as banal (or more) as social media interaction in developing relationships.

I still remember times before Facebook came to dominate social media. It was difficult to keep tabs on friends, and the barrier was higher to keeping in touch with someone you met casually in person, as there are a lot of people who are less willing to share phone numbers with people they just met - there is something intensely personal about phone numbers or similar to many people, which still holds today. I think many people under appreciate this, and the controls for managing the communication relationship social media gives you (or at least Facebook - Twitter's are garbage).

I use social media casually today - just Facebook and rarely Instagram, and post maybe once a day or every other day. I am in some FB group chats, all which could be text messages, but text messages aren't as robust of a medium (for example, location sharing in a group or easy searching of pictures people want to use to respond with).
> Sorry for the long rant

You've got nothing to apologize for, that was fascinating! I knew its orbit had some eccentricity, but I didn't know it was that much!
I like the read!
OpenBSD + fanless PC.

Text config easily source-controlled and diffed. In the long-run, also easier to deal with the config files directly--rather than having to de-cipher how the pfsense web interface currently translates to the underlying services.
For sure, a service like Steam offers tons of value for a game developer. And I’m sure you’re right that the price of Steam matches the cost of an individual developer developing a launcher and hosting service. That’s all true.

But I feel like the margins for Steam are so wide that it’s wide open for undercutting; for others to offer a cheaper, probably better product. I’d hope that game hosting quickly becomes commoditized due to lots of competitors vying for the cheapest possible price.

That’s good for developers, and really good for gamers.
Agreed. They just do a really good job of providing services and support. That's the point though. If people are happy with them, then there's no need for consumers to change and they won't change just because "we don't want to work with Amazon."

Arguably though the US Government (as a customer) has a role to actively encourage a competitive market.
> Brick and mortar stores pay about $45 for a $60 dollar game

Really? I thought anything less than a 100% mark-up generally meant retail wasn't profitable? (ie 30 for a 60 dollar game)?
Vim is my main editor, my main gripe is that it performs terribly (without any plugins) with either relative numbers, cursor line or syntax highlighting in files larger than 200 lines.
'Learn emacs instead'

I would say emacs can be a lot more complex than vim, I mean people use it as basically an OS.
Yes, the fields required are large. But because the distance is so small, the voltage difference can be quite reasonable.
This is absolutely correct, they have done for a long time. They look at what their customers build, see what grows a lot, and then build (often a shitty version) themselves. They don't even pretend to do otherwise, and everybody in the space knows it.

I was chatting to the CEO of a cloud product who went to reinvent and was relieved to find out that Amazon had not launched a competing product. But we both know it's a "when, not if" situation.

Part of the reason my new startup is on GCP. I don't want to AWS to have any of our internal growth numbers.
I wonder with Amazon if we’re seeing a failure mode of Apache and BSD licenses, and if the future OSS might trend back towards more aggressively being copy left... or some place in between.
You don't pay anything for OpenJDK.

Also, I really don't get this mentality of wanting to be paid for work, while refusing to pay for the work of others.
I wonder about the little things.

In winter, indoors was colder, not much, but you expended energy keeping warm. Wanted to send a message to you colleague 10ft away? No email, so you'd get up and walk over. Your whisk would probably be a hand whisk, your hedge trimmer would probably have been shears. Even driving would have been without power steering.
Everything was just slightly less automated, and required just a little bit more energy. It really starts adding up very quickly.
Similar to @nyolfen, would love to read about your experience more in-depth.
Racket may be too strong of a word, and no I don't expect Amazon to hold inventory for free. However, charging people to "dispose" of inventory (ie. sell for their own profit) is a bit shady.
By definition, you need someone to be physically with you for real support. There's no such thing as "remote support".
> reserve a separate name for mere passage of genes.

Genes are account for about 50% of the differences between people (with the other 50% being environment), so I don't know if "mere passage of genes" is a phrase that really makes sense. (Actually, "nurture" is less, because the 50% environmental component includes surroundings that parents have no control over: https://www.medicaldaily.com/nature-vs-nurture-debate-50-yea...)
Ah no, you’ve misunderstood. Yours is a different argument from mine, though it is similar. You’re talking about the cost of being informed enough to understand stuff. I’m talking about trusting the raw data.

The conclusions someone draws from data can be fully verified by another party (what you appear to have called opinions or “data” with quotes). The raw data itself cannot be, even by the most informed party. I can attempt replication but I’ll never be able to verify your data even if you opened your dataset to me.

For instance, I may say that on being given drug A, patients’ self-reported pain reduced within two days, unless they’d been taking drug B for a related condition. Now, you can read my paper and see if my hypothesis is reasonable, if my experiment actually tests my hypothesis, if my sampling method is reasonable, if my results actually reject the hypothesis, etc. etc. The thing you can never check is whether I made up the numbers. Even if you were the foremost authority in the field, you can’t tell that from the paper or my data.
Given that he is at the peak of his popularity and his coalition is expected to win reelection in a landslide - I doubt that the people you've been talking to are a representative sample.
Interesting that this comes out at the same time that a Russian journalist triggers a security alert filming outside their base of operations:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46420486
The thing that always blew me away with BeOS was the time it took to cold boot. From powering on a machine to being ready to work. It was seconds. Still faster than a chromebook.

That sure is something that most OS'es today can't do.
Hm so Steemit scrapes Facebook so your friends are there? Why wouldn't Facebook just cut them off?

In general I don't think it is possible to create new interfaces to social media sites without the owners consent. It is too easy for them to break you on purpose, and that has happened many times in the past.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works.

Decentralization also seems orthogonal to this issue. If someone could gain users by creating a new UI on top of Facebook, it would have already been done in a centralized fashion.
So basically back to vacuum tubes?
The hyperbole might've been injected later by an editor or whoever optimizes cnbc.com articles for pageviews & clicks. Not sure what that person's job title would be. (Senior Outrager? Assistant Click Angler? FUDmaster General?)
Ask someone from Bhutan :)
Does anyone here use Haiku regularly? Would you recommend it?
> "Welcome to "Your" Zionist Occupied Government"

What is AIPAC?
It kills me that a website full of well paid people in IT who all benefit from the free market always cry for regulation.

I guess you don’t realize how many people in middle America would love to “tax the rich” and if you’re making six figures “they” consider you rich.
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"However, at this time, does OS responsiveness matter?"

It always matters; I don't want to waste my life away in front of someone's irresponsive, laggy, slow software.
The challenge is to convince customers to pay premium for services/products from i.e. Bonsai/Elastic/etc than to use a general purpose, darn cheap, Cloud-based offering.

Amazon scales. Niche does not.
Just delete the app from your phone. Check the web app once or twice a week if you want. You'll probably realize there really isn't much to be gained from checking instagram everyday.
Just fantastic, thank you!
That's a great point. But to state the obvious it begets engagement.
In a lot of companies you simply don't get the time to study things. I am right now working on porting a project to the cloud that was previously supported (and fucked up) by our IT department but it's hard to do it right. Ths director has declared that AWS is best and there is a lot of pressure to show something soon or the move to cloud may get cancelled.

There is no way to get something really that way but getting away from IT is already worth it even if the result is still not very good.
There were three major exoduses of reddit people to voat and similar sites, years apart. The first was when reddit cracked down on paedophilia, the second when it nuked fatpeoplehate and associated subreddits, the third when it banned and/or hid some of the more egregiously Nazi-oriented subreddits. The third was probably the largest and most influential, but yeah, there’s other horrible stuff on there.

Of course, all of this makes for a charming community.
This is not unique, it is the “integrated” vs “best of breed” offering. It’s like the oldest business school IT case. Amazon isn’t trying to sell the best anything, they’re selling one spot where you can get everything you need even if some of it is crappy.
There's plenty of companies other than Tesla offering solar roof tiles who aren't selling at a loss. Wiring seems to be a simple case of plugging them in. How do Tesla manage to make this complex or labour intensive?

First one that cropped up in search: http://www.reuk.co.uk/wordpress/solar/solar-roof-tiles/

In the UK, mounting solar on top of the tiles is far more common as roofs are rarely replaced.
It apparently also means that you are free to brand anyone you disagree with as "nazis".

Just like I can freely say that any self-proclaimed "empath" is with all likelyhood just another sociopath.
AmigaOS can, and yes it's still being developed.
Personally, I find it is still convenient for Oauth and event planning. Not sure that justifies the $400B market cap though...
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I'm surprised that Fred didn't identify this as a cyclical phenomenon in computing.

The history of computing is the cycle between centralization of compute (Mainframe, Cloud) and decentralization (Desktop, Edge) from the users perspective. It's been going on forever and I don't see it stopping because of the computing cost cycles and increasing network speeds.

We're going to push more compute to mobile devices, then back to mesh networks etc...
Bird populations are also crashing. It's a complex problem, overuse of insecticide is one part, but global warming is another. We have changed the habitats of these creatures in such a short amount of time, they don't have time to adapt.

Humanity should ask itself, can we adapt to a world without bugs, birds, and eventually every other vertebrate? Or is our habitat changing too fast to cope too?
Most papers include pseudo-code when it helps clarify things. This tends to be a very high-level description of the algorithm though, and is not really the same as including actual source.
I've been working on my pet language recently. The documentation is much improved and Ivy now supports object oriented programming.
The money games can make on steam is infinitely higher than other platforms - what you're paying for is to get your game on the platform with the most users.

A local game company I knew had a game on the humble bundle, their website, and a few other platform for months - they made a few thousand. Then it got greenlight on steam and they pulled 1m over 4 months.

Steam is not merely a payment processing system, it's an audience.
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You can absolutely provide emotional support "remotely". Do you think that's not the case?
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I fully agree that AWS should do a better job of contributing back to OSS communities both in terms of code, money and man hours, however I don't think most ppl appreciate that a lot of AWS' secret sauce just doesn't make sense to open source even if they wanted to.

They build their own custom nitro ASICs to integrate with KVM, for networking, storage, security, etc. That code doesn't make sense anywhere but AWS. They build things in ways that are tightly integrated with their internal systems and at a scale that few have experience with.

Take their new Envoy based service mesh for example, I really do hope that they make meaningful contributions back to the main project, but I also suspect they will doing lots of custom integration with their own hardware and internal network that will never make sense to support in an OSS project. Who knows, their Annapurna Labs divsion might even be building a custom card that includes Envoy functionality.

As to them being known for destroying OSS businesses I am drawing a blank there, can you provide some examples?
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Unfortunately that hints to me that risk of jail doesn't solve the problem.
much less processed food...
A GUI feature I read about in 5: menus were going to have a colorized band that followed through all the menus and submenus. It seemed like a feature that would really help with complex software, but of course never saw the light of day. To this day, drilling down to deep submenus quickly becomes user abuse. It wastes a lot of time to have to drill down to something only to have all the menus disappear because the mouse tracked off the submenu accidentally.

It was also just cool to have a GUI mounted on a Unix like os - which wasn’t Linux.

Nowadays though I’d like to see some Plan9-isms adopted instead of cloud stuff. I think people would benefit from being able to make their own user experience that was kept more or less unchanged and the same files and preferences available on all of their devices. I’d also like to be able to “mount” processor/memory hardware from networked machines and delegate processing to them and output results to the local GUI. Like tunneling X but without actually needing to pipe the whole user stack - just the compute input/output.
Most dedicated game retailers (GameStop) make their profit from selling used games. There is a higher markup for that.
Not sure its shipped yet, but I did notice this sweet embedded SDR board on CrowdSupply. They list a few potential use cases including drones ;)

https://www.crowdsupply.com/fairwaves/xtrx
"3. States"

Solaris 10 (and now by heritage illumos) has had this with beadm(1M) since ten years ago, if not longer.
I think that it is fairly well acknowledged that obesity, both in the US and globally, has gotten a lot worse fairly recently.

There's a lot of different theories, and a lot of controversy as to why but the idea that wide scale obesity is a fairly recent problem is not controversial.

I'd guess that the reason why the top comment here was downvoted, if it was downvoted, is that many people feel it's an obvious problem; calories in and calories out and the falling costs of calories in and the increasing cost of calories out explains the whole thing for me. You take an organism that has lived essentially on the edge of starvation for hundreds of thousands of years, and you put it in an environment where calories in are almost free and where for most of them, calories out are not? and yeah, those organisms are going to overeat. (Just my opinion, but it's a common one)

(the complaints about downvotes were downvoted because they are complaints about downvotes; those are obligatory downvotes.)
Yeah I think it's wrong too. There's no way a single purse costs almost $14 in FBA fees.

This 4 piece purse set is only $7.01 in fulfillment fees:
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Based on this CDC paper -- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obe... -- the numbers for the US look absolutely correct to me.

Note that the percentage of overweight but not obese individuals has remained a constant at roughly 30% of the population (both in 1960 and now). So there were some problems with weight issues back then too. But not so extreme.

What's also noteworthy is that extreme obesity (BMI >= 40) has shot up from barely existing in 1960 (0.9%) to 6% of the population. The health risks of obesity are much more problematic at BMI >= 40.
>GBP 200/month for a transport pass

Seems pretty normal depending upon the type of transport covered. If I bought monthly passes to commute into Boston from my house, I'd be something like $600/month between commuter rail, commuter rail parking, and subway/bus. Driving to subway parking (which fills up by 7 something) would still cost something $100/month plus about $10/day for parking. Commuting into most big cities in the West isn't cheap even if you use public transportation.
I agree. I think a few more years of clinical experience will provide them more clout, then they can go be a Chief Medical Officer of some startup.
> As antibiotic resistance increases and vaccination decreases I wonder if there will be a return to serving spoons, butter knives, not wandering around with food etc.

Sad thing is, I expect this time solutions will most likely involve a lot more of single-use disposable plastic stuff.
Steemit is completely separate from Facebook and you have to create an account there. In terms of interface, it's a lot like reddit.

The thing that makes Steemit unique is that to create your own version of Steemit, you just build an interface on the blockchain. You and every other developer has unlimited access to Steemit users, followers and other data. This allowed projects like DTube (a decentralized Youtube) to immediately have millions of users. If the Steemit website starts placing ads everywhere for example, someone can create a different better interface. The point of this decentralization is exactly what the author mentions. You decouple user data from the interface enabling companies to compete on interfaces instead of network effects.
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The distinction is pretty clear cut. The two disciplines are philosophically different by category, not degree. Just because much of theoretical physics is applied math and physicists can publish in math journals doesn't mean the two occupy the same domain. One is ostensibly guided by empiricism (even if it's not always possible), the other is not.
I believe in this and also that the overall cumulative amount of activity really makes the difference. A while ago we met with couple of childhood friends and even though none of us are really sedentary it was obvious that one of the guys in our group was in seemingly excellent physical condition. We discussed about this and he wasn't involved in any actual sports hobby or nutritional diet but lives in a small town with his wife and two dogs, works in a industrial production plant and turned out that his average daily step count over the last year or so with his current phone was something between 15 000 - 20 000 steps per day without even trying. Those of us who live in a city doing office work and mostly trying to hit the gym couple of times per week clocked in around 6000-7000 steps per day on average. That difference must add up somewhere!
I think the difference is "content" vs. "communication".

Insta and FB have become Personal PR outlets where you make content for social validation.

On HN, you communicate, and karma can be a proxy for social validation, but it's to help you calibrate for communicating on the platform.

Karma serves the greater community by helping you understand what the community values, whereas likes serve to validate your own brand.

I think the feedback loops are similar but subtly different.
My phone's ROM has Facebook and Instagram baked in. Unless I trust some unknown person's custom ROM, I'm stuck with Facebook properties doing god knows what on my phone.
BeOS was by far my favourite operating system of that era. Fantastic platform that really put the competition to shame. Fast, stable, pretty and powerful.
As a rule of thumb, consider writing "I" instead of "we".
Part of the reason why this is happening is because Twitch and Discord are going to compete for this market. This is good news for game developers and I am glad Steam is doing it.
Those links were to flamewar subthreads, not isolated comments. The quotes are all there. Where else would they come from? I'm not here to make shit up or because I like to argue; I'm trying to explain how close you are to getting banned from HN and how you can avoid that if you want to.

Of course facts can be used as weapons. When one middle schooler points out the physical awkwardness of another, the more factual it is, the more cruel it is. "I'm only stating facts" is an evasion—why those facts and not others?
There are infinitely many facts. The ones to mention don't select themselves; we do that, and there's a lot more going on in us than just "facts".