skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always makes sense to roll your own X when you're a leader in the field and X doesn't exist yet until you (or somebody else) makes it and releases it.

I've had a lot of situations like that and been accused of NIH syndrome, but what is the alternative…not doing something at all because nobody else has built or released something that can be used? Every library or tool in existence started out because somebody wasn't content with the status quo enough to bother inventing a new thing. This is the only way the state of the art can progress.
It is both. They way Purdue Pharma managed and sold OxyContin was 100% a conspiracy. They have also lobbied a huge amount. Imo in medicine, with doctor kickbacks etc, the line between lobbying and conspiracy is extremely fine and a few "legal" lobbying tactics should probably be illegal.
Duly noted! Thanks for the info.
Is this true? Almost no one in my social circles knows a victim of gun violence, and I live in one of the most violent cities in the country. Even if you count suicides (and you really shouldn’t), I would be surprised if this were true.

I suspect most people in the country don’t know a victim or offender of gun violence, while they do know several law-abiding gun owners leading them to believe that inner city issues—not guns—are the real driver of gun violence.

This is how I perceive the debate; I’m not advocating for either side.
> Only a very small percentage of the material in a plant is actually from the soil, so most of the activity on a farm is not fundamentally a form of mining.

This is demonstratably false, you only have to look at Hydroponics to see that. A lot of plants are difficult to grow via Hydroponics, and Hydroponicists go to a lot of trouble to put nutrients in the water that they use, despite the fact that _not_ doing so would allow the Hydroponics system to be more efficient and need less maintenance (the latter of which is the main barrier to general-use Hydroponics). If one looks at spray-based systems, the main cost there is the nutrients clogging the spray heads. However, without those nutrients, the plant will literally not grow.

The microorganisms, metals, and NPK in the soil are hugely important to the growth and nutrition of the resulting product.
I am so tired of being assaulted by 5g hype.
Plants need at least 42 minerals and soil in every location of the planet has those minerals, mostly in insoluable (non plant available) form. Aerobic bacteries and funghi have enzymes that extract those minerals and they are mostly kept in their bodies.
Amoebas and worms of all sizes eat bacteries and funghi which releases a large amount of minerals in water soluable form in their poop and coincidently the poop is nearby the roots of plants.
Some plants are called "nitrogen fixers" since they have clumbs of bacteries on their roots that convert N2 into plant available forms of nitrogen. Plowed soil is fluffy after plowing and compacted after a few weeks since the plowed soil has no structure.
What can we learn from these facts?

* do everything possible to keep the life in the soil alive: do not use pesticides, funghicides or herbicides since the toxins are not specific and kill all soil life.

* aerate the soil to have enough oxygen (O2) and nitrate (N2) in the soil. Use a broadfork, but only with compacted soil.

* do not plow since that breaks the networks of funghi and ultimately deteriorates the performance of plants.

Want to know more? See the video "Restoring Soil Biology, Increasing Yields and Reducing Costs" by Dr Elaine Ingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk14Qyulc9E
A Recursive Essay
Strap in, everyone, the climate ride only gets worse from here.
I’m talking about studies such as this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22212999/

Which link various pathogens native to the species consumed to cancer in humans as apparently the compounds that arise from cooking or processing meat which also appear in poultry and fish do not increase cancer risk by as much (or at all) as mammalian meat especially beef and pork despite having the same or even higher concentration of these compounds.
No disrespect to the author(gwern) but I do kinda agree with you. From reading a bunch of their posts linked from HN/Reddit, I get the impression that they're a little bit like the guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music.

Not a value judgement, just the feeling I get.
The data doesn't back up your assertion at all.

I'm looking at the top 25 on reddit front page now:

6 jokes

1 cat picture (which is adorable)

1 outrage post about Nintendo joycons

14 other things (sports, news, events, human interest stuff, science)

3 posts that one might arguably categorize as outrage:

* Donald Trump telling two US house members to 'go back to their countries' (Note, the comments don't seem to be outraged.)

* Ukraine chemically castrating rapists. Plenty of discourse here about wrongful convictions and the ethics of the death penalty/castration/prison in general.

* "I am not a racist, but" starter pack -- doesn't seem to be outrage, but is definitely taking a shot at a class of people?
I'm trying to explain what he meant. Which step don't you understand specifically in my comment?
Oh hey, I got where you were mistaken! :)

You assumed that people who don't want their data being scraped are the nice guys and people who want to use that data are the baddies. Nope, my point was that it's the other way around and if you're truly concerned with community wellbeing you actually have to be on my side of this argument.

I support every point in your response expect that I don't get your motivation to fight for folks who either don't understand how internet works or consciously use dirty tricks to block information access just to protect their shaky profits.

Look it up, my first comment in this thread was about making it illegal because I think everybody would benefit from making it so. If you publish your data and it's accessible by browser and not copyrighted, we shouldn't make it hard to collect that data for automated processing.
Google docs has no link to ads. I’ve never used the Google Calendar web interface. I just use it with the built in calendar app on iOS. Same with gmail. Rumors are that Youtube is barely at break even after all of these years.

As far as Android, it came out in the Oracle trial that it has made less than $40 billion in profit during its entire existence. Which isn’t nothing, but seeing that Google has close to 80% market share (not including AOSP based Android phones in China) is not really impressive.
Permafrost thaw sparks fear of 'gold rush' for mammoth ivory
This might catch you up a little bit :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357
If a doorbell is conscious then we've made "conscious" into a useless term.
> Based on 2014 trends, the world has about 60 years of topsoil left.

Playing devil's advocate, there's no guarantee that these trends will continue. For a related example of this go and look up the Malthusian catastrophe
Oh I did not mean to say I hate the Dummies series. I had picked one up, something on personal finance if I remember correctly. I was quite pleasantly surprised that the author did not speak to me as if I am a dummy.
The arbitrage is that the same amount of dollars to pay engineers goes further in the midwest than on the coasts which extends the runway of a company with the same amount of funding because of reduced burn rate.

Drive Capital (ex-Sequoia) is a good example. You might be surprised how uncommon this idea still is today.
I try to understand things as deep as possible, often that goes together with building it myself. I am not satisfied with “that’s the way it works”. That worked well for a lot of things, I often read other people’s code to see how stuff works. This approach is the reason why I refuse to use Kubernetes; I wasn’t able to understand it, it has just been too complicated so far.
Very well written and very thorough. I'm signed up with Alcor and have not regretted it for a moment since I signed up over 15 years ago.
Fun fact: I purchased the very last original from Amazon, though I hear they reprinted it recently.
Do you have data to that effect? What you're saying runs contrary to the data I've seen (e.g. https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...) and it doesn't matter how elegant a theory is, if the data doesn't fit. There of course may well be additional data that I'm missing, which is why I'm asking.
> there's mounting evidence that exercise generates new neurons.

This wikipedia article is one of my favorite discoveries. The list of benefits just keeps going.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_phy...
Different people learn differently. Very few people learn all they know from a single source. Therefore, having many sources presenting a same subject in many different ways is a wonderful thing.

Gilbert Strang’s book is wonderful! Some will find it to be the “best book” to learn calculus, others won’t. No need to poo-poo others’ work just to value signal. (I’m sure the authors would appreciate any constructive feedback though!)
Compare GCP adoption to AWS and Azure.
I’d hope so given the clusterfuck of problems with these machines.
You don’t know anyone who’s ever been robbed at gunpoint or something like that? I think it might depend on who you define as a victim, but if you include suicides and robberies that didn’t result in a homicide this claim doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

I guess one thing is that it may be generational, as violent crime was far higher 20-50 years ago. Since the mid 1990s violent crime including gun crime has dropped dramatically so Gen Z and younger millennials would be less likely to have experienced it.
When I applied two years ago, you said you're "looking to hire people who are already settled in the (viscinity of) Amsterdam (NL) and are available on a short term". Is it still the case?
I've been doing an audio blog on just that topic: https://alchemist.camp/learning-machine

I've experimented a lot with MOOCs, OCW, spaced repetition, paid courses, teaching strategies, etc. The specific ideas I've recently been most focused on when learning are:

- The depth of processing. I learn much faster and retain the knowledge/skills longer when I take a very active approach that involves deeply processing the material I'm learning.

- Making my studies more game-like. Games are fantastic, not only for motivation, but also for learning.

- Tightening my learn-use loop.
It’s not obvious AT ALL. If you’re aware of the “cluster effect” of those with rapid-onset gender dysphoria, you’re aware that being trans is highly influenced by ones social conditions.

You’re making an argument that nature is everything when it comes to one’s LGBT status and nurture means nothing, but there’s mountains of evidence to show this is not the case.

If you want to tell me that it’s JUST A COINKYDINK that so many female movie stars have male children that JUST SO HAPPEN to be gender dysphoric, your “nature means everything and nurture means nothing” philosophy on LGBT status seems incredibly far-fetched.
I find it very amusing that eve somehow constantly comes back to hacker news front page. I don't believe there is another game that made the headlines here THAT often
“Free nights” from rewards programs also sometimes require the payment of the resort fee, even when some of the items included in that fee (like internet access) are also included in your status level.
Another big one is the "Surprise! Valet-only + parking garage" fees.

shrug The whole shady passing-fees-to-willing-consumers thing is just business. I can appreciate T-Mobile creating their identity about not doing this (final price, taxes and fees included). All the other hotels do it too. Restaurants use tipping, etc.

With the Age of the Internet has come greater visibility and accountability. Twitter-like outbursts can go viral creating damaging PR. I can see society slowly moving towards consumer friendly practices and upfront total costs. We'll get there.
Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor
Is it not data that GCP is far behind AWS and Azure when it comes to adoption in large enterprises?
"reduce, reuse, recycle" has been a popular slogan for a long time.
Why without any APIs?
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), known as Freddie Mac, is a public government-sponsored enterprise (GSE)

On September 7, 2008, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director James B. Lockhart III announced he had put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the conservatorship of the FHFA (see Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). The action has been described as "one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in decades".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac

A government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) is a type of financial services corporation created by the United States Congress. Their intended function is to enhance the flow of credit to targeted sectors of the economy

The desired effect of the GSEs is to enhance the availability and reduce the cost of credit to the targeted borrowing sectors primarily by reducing the risk of capital losses to investors

Well known GSEs are the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or Freddie Mac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-sponsored_enterpr...

Fannie Mae was founded in 1938. Freddie Mac was founded in 1970. Freddie Mac ranks 38 on the Fortune 500, which means it's quite powerful.

One can’t modify a financial instrument like a mortgage to manipulate value of an appreciating immovable non replicating asset like land

Home mortgages aren't really for land per se. They are mostly for fostering the development of specific kinds of buildings on that land. We absolutely routinely "manipulate" what kinds of development we wish to actively encourage. We very often do that via various financial instruments, such as tax breaks, grants and loan guarantee programs.
It is obvious most of the time.

Do you assume major companies don't do it to each other all the time? Sometimes they get caught at it. See:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Samsung+paying+students+for+...

Reddit for Sale: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bb7t71/reddit_for_s...
Nothing. All things are addictive including holier-than-thou ideologies such as communism.
Terry Gross is the best regular interviewer in the US. She prepares well, is thoughtful and respectful, thinks on her feet, asks good follow-up questions, and focuses on getting the guest to talk.
I'm not sure, it could be true. I'm two degrees away from gun violence although I never met the victim (friend of a friend was accidentally shot in the ankle by a cop during a broad daylight robbery of a store he was in. The robber was unarmed but apparently very bold), one degree from knife violence (nobody has ever threatened me with a gun, but I've been threatened with knives more times than I can even remember.)
You probably don't mean it, but the phrasing you're using is very tone deaf to LGBTQ people who have historically been considered "diseased" and something to be "cured."

To your point though, anecdotally, most people I know know someone personally who is suffering or has suffered from addiction. I would imagine much of the USA is that way. So in terms of visibility, I would venture to say that most of the population has/had some kind of personal contact with it. In terms of stigmatization, addiction is stigmatized because nobody wants to admit that they're out of control of their being. There's all kinds of social implications for de-stigmatizing being out of control.
Show HN: Fuzzy Search Documentation from the CLI
I would have dismissed something like this in the past — it seems to be just template + community. But now I undertand that the social context matters a great deal, so it seems interesting!

How does it compare to Glitch, which seems to be trying to achieving the same thing, however? And ObservableHQ? (though the focus seems different there)
We have this new trend over the past couple of years in Seattle restaurants to charge a flat 20% “service fee”. The fine print says “service fee” actually goes to business, not the staff. But the claim is they pay the staff a proper wage (and provide 401ks, etc.). Which sounds good to me, how it should be everywhere. But in that case they should just increase the prices 20% and remove the tipping option. This middle of the road thing labeled a “service fee” feels like a trick.
I think whats different about the 737 Max versus other past troubled models of planes is the lack of empathy.

Prior troubled models are reflown or rebranded and flown - of course after addressing the critical flaw.

The 737 Max’s flaw is that it doesn't really fly well and needs software to regulate it, and a human to override the software, which is just odd.

But the company’s complacency, self regulatory status, lack of empathy - probably because saying sorry has legal consequences for them, or they’re leadership really are sociopaths, or both - is what damns this line for good.

Will consumers really be so gullible this time or have more pressing needs for the cheaper flight that they ignore the model being flown?

I’m really curious
Most creatures that are injured seem to react physically and mentally like we do when we feel pain. From an evolutionary perspective, they also all probably do for the same reasons. So, my default assumption is that animals feel pain.
The amount that the readability of the original Reddit design led to the popularity of Reddit seems to have been completely lost. There were aggregators before Reddit, and they lost out because of dumb design, and now Reddit seeks to follow in their footsteps. Absurd and foolish. No adults in the room.
You can use ExitNodes in your torrc to set a country code, e.g. {us}.
Stadia is an audacious attempt to demonstrate technical prowess of Google.

And Google Fiber wasn’t?
A question I've been meaning to ask. I've always heard flight critical systems have to be at least doubly or triply redundant. Why was there only 1 pitot tube? It's clearly flight critical.
Off Topic: I argued a similar point a while back (albeit I think I mixed up phosphorous and nitrogen) on Hacker News and got downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139102

It's interesting how fickle hacker news can be.
As clickbait, I have to applaud the author.

tl;dr: As a sustainable (heh!) solution to the current waste crisis, landfilling everything is not a good solution. We tried it for many centuries and are still paying the price for that approach today. The only people who will benefit from a 'landfill everything' strategy will be 23rd century archaeologists.

As the UK is mentioned a couple of times in the article, I'll add a link to the Wikipedia article on UK National Waste Strategies, as it includes links to the various strategies published by various Governments across the UK since 2000 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Waste_Strategy

While those documents are a bit on the long side, they are very informative about the many, many (many!) complex systems that contribute to planning for, managing, and attempting to reduce waste in a large, rich European nation state.

(Disclaimer: I was part of the team that developed and published the Waste Strategy for England in 2000).
For most skills, I absolutely must have a small project in mind from the beginning. I have no patience for learning a new language or tool if I don't have a particular project that uses it.
>>”Is your business managing hardware and data centers? No, so you use 3rd party hosting.”

So should Dropbox roll its own storage solution, or use cloud hosting - based on your statement?
They are already bleeding money on unprofitable products. After years of trying to diversify, they are still mostly an ad company.

On a side note: RIM was most profitable three years after the iPhone came out. Profits are a lagging indicator.
It’s an interesting question. For example, gender-at-birth should be evenly distributed, but in wealthy families kids skew towards male much more frequently than expected. As another factor, some social structures and norms will make it more difficult for LGBTQ people to come out - even with identical odds, there will be less visibility and personal experience within those groups.
It's a bit worrying that they talk about burning human shit to get phosphate when you can just compost it.
I can learn things quickly. Read a few chapters, poke at some code, make something work.

I do however need a few months to _understand_ something. I have found that this "incubation" time works well for me, and I find myself far more comfortable with the subject afterwards.
My most productive learning has happened while I was deeply invested in creating something new. Being a bit thick, I would run into obstacles almost every step along the way, but being thick has its benefits: the obstacles break down before my skull does.

I've tried going through books and courses, thinking, ahh, it's time to get serious, I must Learn JavaScript or Learn C or what have you, and this never gets me very far. But if instead, I decide to Make Thing, where Thing just happens to require C or JavaScript, now I have a point, a purpose, a destination, and though there may be headaches, I know that they are worth it, and I get where I'm going in the end.
Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (1982) [pdf]
> when I take a very active approach that involves deeply processing the material I'm learning.

Can you give a concrete example of what that looks like?
Some of those in power benefit from keeping drugs criminalised. See for example the way that possession of crack cocaine - used on the street - carries much heavier sentences than powder cocaine, used by the middle classes.

And the way large parts of the US jail system are run as a for-profit work camp. This results in miscarriages of justice, unjustifiably long sentences for trivial possession, and outright corruption.

This is not an unfortunate accident. It's motivated partly by greed, partly by class violence, and partly by racism.

Most Western countries don't quite have the culture of political extremism needed to create these conditions.

Meanwhile the murky story of CIA links to drug smuggling is a different topic altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
The very next paragraph of your quote. Not sure why you missed it:

> The report states: “Twelve percent of adults would be unable to pay the expense by any means.” I’m dubious about that as well. In any event, 12% is a lot less than 39%. The report also goes out of its way to make clear that some of the 39% who wouldn’t use cash might still have $400 in the bank: “It is possible that some would choose to borrow even if they had $400 available, preserving their cash as a buffer for other expenses.” In a footnote, the report even cites a 2016 study finding that 76 percent of households had $400 in liquid assets, even after taking into account monthly expenses.

So they are not "by definition unable to afford the expense in question". May of them just find it inconvenient.

Make no mistake, even 12% figure is too high. Still, it doesn't support the argument that "most Americans can't even afford a $500 surprise bill", and it speak to the click-baity nature of modern media.