skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Russia has no boundaries."—V. Putin
For those who want a wonderful update to the C-r reverse search, I highly recommend FZF[1], which allows fuzzy search of your command line history when the keybindings are enabled (among other cool features).

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
If they've been putting this transient income aside in a fund for the past 30 years then they'll be good for a while when it trickles down.

/s :P
Not sure I follow this logic. Are you saying everyone tries to have their job eliminated so they can get paid less money to not work? Some people would like that, but a majority couldn't justify the reduction in their standard of living. And there are quite a few people who find work meaningful and wouldn't want to be paid to not work.

I do understand the point about people being upset at not receiving a pension for the difference in their job being eliminated, but that's different from working toward less pay for not working.
A very good read. I didn't expect a court opinion could be written in such clear language.
Urban Computing Foundation Launched to Support Smart City Infrastructure
This is strongly stated but that doesn’t really cut it. Height discrimination is well-known and documented. I’m sure there are many short people of all genders here who have experienced it. It’s one of few physical characteristics that American society still openly accepts making fun of. I think it’s serious enough that it really does need to be explicitly accounted for in any study of gender pay gaps.
Pretty much nowhere given my experience as a non-software person living in Seattle.

Well, nowhere except fighting attempts to do things like “make big businesses pay their fair share of taxes for once”.
From what I've observed, there's far more overt misandry than misogyny.
You don't need an app to train yourself to change the pitch of your regular voice.
It's funny: if you asked me that right now, I wouldn't be able to do it. That knowledge was in my brain at some point, but it fell out. I can, however, implement a PR quad tree[0] (which is a trie and not a tree) which allows efficient coordinate search of a 2D space since that's what I've been doing most recently. I think that's more impressive, but it's not what you asked for so I fail the interview. :3

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree
Here’s to hoping 58 is the age where my voice changes and I get a high power executive position.
That looks fantastic! Have been looking for a way to embed a roadmap into my app while keeping the data disconnected from it in a frictionless way.

Wonder if there could be a way to two-way-bind so that users can actually make changes to the data when displayed as a table.
Don't f*ck with Israel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can you please post the full talk if you’re going to cherry pick sound bites from bill gates
Ivy league? Neigh - it's space camp that will keep you out of the world's most elite social networks.
You can play world of warcraft to feel useful to others. Or mine cryptocurrency. Both are well-designed proof-of-work systems.
That's 14 kilometers for those wondering.
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Toward scalable decentralized identifier systems
Two obvious location-based things that could benefit from NFC:
- event registration
- punching a time clock

I'd argue that Apple's lack of NFC support effectively stifled any would-be innovators from even exploring the possibilities.
The topic of this thread is economies of scale wet scale of farming. And so yes, we should talk about everything!! Including CAFO meat. Where do you think all the GMO corn and soy goes? As does storable commodity crops. You can’t grow lettuce and eggplants on 2000 acre farms using fancy JD tractors. How will perishables that can be harvested every 60 days be picked and stored and transported and sold?

So yea..large scale Ag is geared towards commodity crops that go to feed livestock and all the sundry by products like ethanol and HFCS etc.

Those ‘increased yields’ aren’t even human edible. It only increases meat and factory farmed meat that taints our water and has a massive carbon foot print and methane. So I am asking you..what are YOU talking about when you think of scale?

A diversified food farm can net anywhere between 1000-40000 bucks. Commodity is anywhere between 45-120 dollars(corn-sugar beets). Why do you think JD makes air conditioned tractors for commodity that nets $50 and not for higher value vegetables? Because you can spray broadacre pesticide for mono crops. Pollinator dependent food cannot abide by chemicals that kill the pollinators.

I don’t know what ‘almost certainly not’ carcinogenic means but I will concur and call it glyphosate based products that are known to cause cancer.

Agtech doesn’t create anything for food crops. Almost always for commodity crops that can be 1. Stored 2. A single one time harvest 3. Traded at the stock market. It is a data play and a speculative industry. It’s neither about Ag nor about Tech. When we can trade spinach on Wall Street, Agtech will create scale appropriate tech.

I am not sure you understand the scope and breadth of Ag. Large scale Ag will falter because it’s not sustainable. At which point, only small scale Ag will feed the world, but our world is over populated. So we need Agtech for small scale farms and for that tech to be born, people must pay the true cost of growing food.
Although it's only a minor gripe, sometimes when I see people posting links to Wikipedia articles, I wish the poster would also comment why they were posting, and add their thoughts about the article's content...
These days, long form poetry is dead.
The premise that self-taught programmers necessarily have core holes in their knowledge and skills that would have been filled if they had a CS degree is entirely false.

Start with the example you gave of messaging middleware. There are many BS CS curricula that do not address this at all. Also he mentioned that he had already learned about named pipes on his own. For many applications, named pipes could be a perfectly valid alternative to some external message queue system.

Looking at the items submitted, the vast majority are core skills that would necessarily be picked up by people who need to work with them. The idea that someone would not know about Makefiles or debugging or profiling or SQL just because they were a hobbyist or self-taught is ludicrous. If you are serious about C programming, whether it's a job or your hobby, you are going to learn about Makefiles. Likewise anyone seriously working on a data-centric application is likely to become well-versed in some database technology, up until a few years ago that would have automatically been relational.

And one other thing. Some of the most important skills in programming are in the domain of software engineering. Software engineering is very poorly addressed by many BS CS programs. So again, whether they have good SE skills is often not going to be determined by whether they have a BS degree or not. It's not even necessarily determined by whether they are working in a professional environment. It's mainly going to be a factor of their motivation to self learn and above all practical experience.
The ecosystem is pretty amazing.
And historically men have fought wars, guarded borders, done very dangerous jobs, and so on.

Most men have not held power. A top 1% of men held power, and 99% of men did dirty and dangerous jobs at the bottom of the hierarchy, and worked worse than animals to try to provide for and protect their families.

Men give up seats on lifeboats for women, yada yada yada. Trying to frame this whole thing as "men vs women" is ridiculous, because men are so incredibly in favor of sacrificing themselves for women. Clearly other issues are involved than some "pure evil sexism".
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There's a newsletter online called Resilience Roundup which, to a limited degree, covers these topics extremely well.
Originally he learned to make soap in Europe, so I wonder if there are any soap making artisans still around who learned the same techniques.

Dr. Bronner himself is a quintessentially American figure though. An immigrant fleeing Europe, he became a prophet of his own bizarre religious movement, and was persecuted by the authorities and fled West, where he became a wealthy California entrepreneur. All three of those are archetypal American stories.
> Interestingly, it's a 5-4 decision, with Kavanaugh writing the decision, joined by the 4 liberal justices. Probably the most unexpected alignment of the current term!

It isn't really. It's just the standard partisan split, albeit with one guy "crossing the floor". Such crossing is common but since most of the media is incapable of understanding anything but partisan point scoring, they portray the Justices as partisan hacks, which they are not.

Heck, they aren't even that good at tracking point-scores, since the most common score at SC United (states) is 9-0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_term_opinions_of_the_Supr...
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Recently at work I was able to use C++ templates to automate a lot of repeated boilerplate code I was responsible for. The reason was to minimize the amount of (error-prone!) rote work that had to be done as the project would continue to scale.

It worked out great, but I’ve noticed that the compilation time of translation units that use the templates have been growing linearly with features added. It’s not a lot in the big scheme of things, but it made me wish I could reason more about C++ compile times when I use its various features.
I’d say hide vote counts on submissions and comments, don’t grey out anything, and show approx karma eg under 500, 500-1k then to the nearest 1s.f.

Limit submission karma to 10 per post and 10 post karma/week and maybe only if comment to post ratios are met: why do I get 200 karma for pasting a URL and 4 karma for a good comment?

I’ve seen accounts that are clearly submitting NYT and other articles on the hour 24/7 with huge karma.

This is an issue because it means it’s easy to automate creation of 500-karma accounts and have an army of downvoters
I hate to break it to you, but Twitter is fairly meaningless to almost everyone in the world except a specific type of people in coastal cities.
With the US standing almost alone among developed nations and even the ACLU backing away from its policy of defending impolitic or hurtful speech we can probably expect this recent anomaly of free expression to be relatively short lived.

I'm glad I got to live now and not some other time.
"occupation"? Dude, c'mon.
Come on. She could have, like, totally said it. Confusing total cost with per year cost is on brand for her. The OP got the information somewhere, shouldn't it be quarantined before it spreads any further.
That's #1. It depends on the sellers accepting the extra tasks, and doing them competently while harming Amazon's brand if they don't. It also prepares those same services to sell though other intermediaries that can not compete today with Amazon's logistics.

Why would Amazon comoditize its greatest competitive advantage? (Yet, it seems that they are, so the question is not rhetorical.)
My pixel phone had it but the filter ran at around 0.5fps, so it was very hard to use.
I would assume it's because there is little cross-pollination between modern tech workers and automotive focused engineers. It explains why most cars' user-facing electronics are so terrible and why Tesla made such an obvious quality mistake.
Thank you!

Here’s my point of view. The purpose of discussion, I believe, is to convince people of a given point of view.

That is done through rational and logical debate.

So when you say that I’m inviting people for a debate I have to agree. After all, isn’t that the purpose of a public forum?

If we can’t go deep and have meaningful discussions what’s the point?

Just do some virtue signaling and bash whoever is the person we are bashing this time?

When I invite argumentation I’m honestly looking for people to present arguments that can convince me. I’m open to be convinced, just not by empty argumentation and fallacies. What I’m getting, instead, is downvoting which reinforce the bias you said I have. Right?

Also, you mention that what I’m proposing it’s an awful idea with no counter argumentation. Is this how we suppose to convince people now? Especially the ones on the other side of the isle?

I used to do that too, but then, through argumentation I was thought that it is not how it should be done and in the journey I was able to help some other people to see that too and I’m proud of it.

I think that as long as there is respect we all can have a discussion and learn from each other so for whoever reads this and see any of my comments in future threads, please know that all my positions and arguments are made in good faith and only have the goal to promote intellectual challenging.

Lastly, I have not defended Alex Jones in any comment I made. To be honest, I read and hear a lot about him but I have no idea what his thoughts are. I’m just pointing out the fact that people are being “deplatformized” arbitrarily and I don’t agree with that.
This is also hardly a phenomenon unique to video games.
Sure, but then you need at least two central points for the Space Coast Guard to operate from: Earth itself (inevitably) and whichever "cluster" in the asteroid belt you want.

And there's really a limited size of an asteroid belt cluster you could get. If you start from Ceres and go a few hundred (even dozen!) meters either towards or away from the sun to reach another nearby asteroid, that asteroid has a completely different orbital velocity and will not line up with Ceres again until either it or Ceres completes another full revolution. That means you have to be in essentially the same orbit and travel either clockwise or counterclockwise, which is most efficiently done by making a more eccentric orbit (so your aphelion is the same as Ceres' but your perihelion is lower, or alternatively your perihelion is the same as Ceres' but your aphelion is higher) and then readjusting once you reach the target. But even this maneuver requires going the long way around the sun. Similarly if you want to go up or down relative to your orbital plane (i.e. change inclination).

If you want a cluster of bodies in space that stays relatively the same distance from each other, you have to have a smallish orbital system. The Earth/Moon system is one of these, and it's going to be a lot more feasible to capture near-Earth asteroids and stash them in Earth orbit than to try and find a meaningful cluster of belt asteroids that actually stay close together over the long term.
> Anyone who remembers the California rolling blackouts (thanks Enron, et al) understands that power consumption peaks in the mid afternoon.

That's not true. Power consumption tends to peak around 1900-2100, while solar energy production will peak around 1300-1500. The typical load profile is that you have a minimum load around 300 that ramps up to a peak around 900-1200, then plateaus/slowly declines until about 1600-1800, ramps up to a second, higher peak around 1900-2100, and then declines rapidly to the 300 minimum. Exact times and amounts will vary depending on time of year and the local weather and climatic concerns: A/C-heavy summer climates will see an earlier peak consumption and much less of an intra-day climb, while cold winter climates will see later peak consumption with a more prominent higher evening peak.

The extra fun thing that kicks in is that northern climates tend to have minimum solar production during the time of year when energy consumption is highest (winter!), while southern climates tend to have maximum solar production during peak energy consumption. The economics of solar power are quite different for California versus Massachusetts, let alone places such as Alaska.
Additional (Additional (additional side-note)): No it’s not. The Guardian and other articles are wrong. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/au5hd6/is_winnie_the...

In addition, Peppa Pig is not banned and neither are time travel shows. In 2018, there were over 20 TV shows that had time travel in them.
"start with no"
I don't think this true. Look at your bank statements after a purchase from the App Store. You're not billed by the developer of the app, youre billed directly by Apple, so under Illinois Brick, and users do already have standing (obligatory not a lawyer).
> I can see the argument against this being freely publishable. If I wrote a textbook which explains some badly written and archaic laws really well, and lawyers and judges started to look to it as the de facto law, should that void my copyright?

I would expect any reasonable government to do one of:

- Write their own, non-copyrighted version of the law in question.

- Pay you decent amout of money and become copyright owner prior to including your textbook in the official law code.

I think that's the primary difference between civil and common law: in civil law legal system you cannot have "de facto laws" - either something is codified in form of (non-copyrtightable) parlimentary bill or executive order, or is not a law at all.
Almost all SCOTUS opinions are like that, dissenting views are also really good reading material.
Who says those claims are bogus? Why would you take the Times claims at face value, but not RTs? Intelligent people don't take any claims at face value.

Mollow McKew is a career neocon and registered foreign lobbyist for the former Soviet country of Georgia.

The NYT also cited in this article employees of New Knowledge. New Knowledge is the company that create fake bots to influence the Albamma election. The scheme involved New Knowledge creating bots that appeared to be Russian and then spreading fake stories in US corporate media that the Russians were attempting to influence the Alabama election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...

These are the sources that the NYT uses to "debunk" claims about 5G? A conspiracy theorist who is a registered foreign lobbyist and a fraud who tried to influence an election using fake Red Scare tactics?

What's even worse, at the bottom of this bit of corporate propaganda using the Red Scare to squash questions about 5G, the NYT admits:

“In January, The Times announced a joint venture with Verizon to build a 5G journalism lab.”
It does work but someone went and starred all the 1337 repos that was currently listed.
Why was the word "Israeli" removed from the title?
Cars are a tough environment for electronics. Asides from the other examples mentioned in the article, my Ford's monochrome non-touch LCD turns into an illegibly garbled mess in the cold (below -20°C) until the car warms up.
Or, more likely, most people don’t think the situation is as dire as certain politicians and costal elites make it out to be.
What makes you think Microsoft intended to keep hololens-class devices manufacturing to themselves?

This could be a relationship just like PC OEMs like Lenovo already have, licensing things with a royalty. The prominence of the AR apps in windows (preinstalled in many cases) well before the hardware that Microsoft made themselves was ready for mass adoption makes it clear that they want Windows and that ecosystem to have a play in AR and VR.

We've seen hardware plays like this in the past with the Surface design which seems to have too odd of a cadence and release cycle to be purely motivated as a product offering. The design was meant to be an influence on the market, which helped windows machines remain relevant in a space where Apple sees devices like the iPad fitting.
Subbed. One of my favourite fictive ship name would be an Adams one: GSV Mostly Harmless.

Was great to see the replies, user names. :) Also the number of votes tells there's a large number of people who must really miss Banks (RIP). It's been a while so I will start re-reading the Culture series soon, chronologically this time. A number were lost paperbacks, but will just add them to my Kindle collection.
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Agreed that pricing in carbon externalities is a necessary step, but that will only make solar / wind / hydro more attractive with respect to natural gas. My point was more that the reasons that the coal industry is dead is that natural gas won exclusively on short-term economic thinking with zero contemplation of externalities.
From the Vision page (https://www.forevergreen.umn.edu/about/vision):

Minnesota has 27 million acres of farmland, occupying nearly half the 55.6 million acres in the state. Two highly productive and profitable crops, corn (8.7 million acres planted in Minnesota in 2012) and soybean (7.1 million acres) are the foundation of our agriculture, along with other important production systems such as animal agriculture, small grains, horticultural crops and others. The proposed initiative aims to build on these strengths by adding to the productivity and profitability of our current agriculture.

Most of our current crops are ‘summer-annuals’ that are grown during the summer. By selectively adding winter-annual and perennial crops to our agricultural landscapes to create new crop production systems, we can enhance the prosperity of Minnesota agriculture, support rural communities, and provide major benefits to all Minnesotans. A strong base of evidence indicates that these new production systems will enhance yields of our summer-annual crops, enable production of new commodities, enhance our soils and wildlife, and improve our water resources. All of these benefits are possible because perennial and winter-annual crops are active during a large portion of each year, including many periods in fall, winter and spring when summer crops are absent.

For this reason, perennial and winter-annual crops—working in tandem with summer annuals—can capture solar energy, water and nutrients with very high efficiency.
I am currently looking into it :) So far the theming does not appear to be fleshed out; I'm about to compare some performance metrics with some of our animated components. I'm also not sure what the state management solution looks like, but I only spent a couple of hours setting up today
The Apollo 11 backup crew was the prime crew for Apollo 13.

Crew scheduling was somewhat messy, but generally the backup crew for a mission were the prime crew for the next+2 mission. (13 and 14 crews were swapped for reasons).
Making the source of your profits be children's value signaling is ... unappealing.

There is a difference between selling a game and giving it away for free so you can sell peer's respect via hats (or whatever). Then your product is children feeling inadequate in a way that can be solved with money which is some sort of sign of the apocalypse.
For this to be stable it would seem very elegant if you could design this in such a way that it occurred in equilibrium with any undesirable lift generated by the nascelles.

As supposed to an active measure controlled by electronics based on a separate AoA sensor, if somehow the lift caused the engine the thrust vector in opposition to the lift as a matter of physics.

I mean, in theory there’s nothing to say inherently such a design would be more reliable than triple redundant sensors and a bunch of code, but that would be pretty neat.
The whole "plant trees" thing doesn't work too well because you'll run out of space long before you run out of hydrocarbons to dig up and burn. Plus, the trees need to stay standing; if at any point they're cut and burnt, or die and decay, then all the CO2 is released again. CO2 buried underground in the form of coal or oil is a much better long-term storage solution for CO2 than trees up on the surface. The logical thing to do would be to start burying CO2, not continue digging it up and releasing it.
Even within the comments I’m seeing “fossil fuel subsidy” amounts jump around. Besides, are basic “all business” subsidies included in that number, such as depreciation? How much of it is specifically for fossil fuels