skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People believe technology will solve the day because it has every time single time so far. As we get better and better it looks like divorcing from nature is going to be the best approach.

We are going to make to growing all our food in giant box farms.

The simplest and most glaring issue is the Sun itself. Only a few hours a day for plants. Water is a massive issue! Huge swaths of the earth have very limited rainfall or access to fresh water. Factory farms can make efficient use of its water supply rather than watching the ground soak it up. Pesticides can be used sparingly when the whole environment is controlled.

I'm willing to bet that within 30 years a very large chunk of food grown to eat directly (strawberries, avocados, oranges, etc) will be box farm grown and the transition of wheat and corn will have started.
When you give someone new functionality to implement and they don’t have experience fixing defects, they’ll likely add more defects along with the new functionality.
I don't think the lack of someone being convicted of ITAR violations means we're doing better TBH.

People are only going to complain about this after normal people start going to jail.
iRobot has made the Braava for a pretty long time to do floor mopping. Or are you talking about a robot that does both?
There is some discussion of changing cryptocurrency to be treated like currency instead of property. When that happens, it will behave like you are describing. https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-push-for-new-bitcoin-...
Remember that the IRS was established exactly one year before slavery was "abolished". This is no coincidence, slaves.
I think of software developers having multiple qualities:

- coolness (cooperation, proactiveness, professionalism)

- carefulness

- integrity (ethics)

- morale

- cadence (speed) of work

- skills competencies (matrix)

- grit (badassery)

- estimated time to completion multiplier
Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read
Whether you like it or not, when you say "whole brain simulation" most people will interpret it as a fully functioning model of an entire human brain [1]. If you mean something other than that, you should be more specific (e.g. "a whole brain model of rest state dynamics").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_simulation
By the reasoning of who you're replying to, the answer to your question would be that it's because we share the same common ancestor with both chimps and gorillas—gorillas also inheriting the improved social skills that humans have, making chimps the odd ones out.
> This gets extremely ugly if you are trading one cryptocurrency for another, as these trades are unclear as to whether they are an entry or an exit.

Trading one crytocurrency for another is a taxable event. Just like how trading one real currency for another is a taxable event. It's not unclear and trading platforms provide tax tools that solves this problem

I traded crypto and paid my taxes
How “Medicare Extra” gets to universal coverage without single-payer
Physically and medically, no, thank god. Personality wise, well, let's say my acquired habbit of pushing for a better solution constantly and focus on efficiency didn't sit well with a lot of people. But it's getting better now, still struggling to be as patient as I, somtimes pretending, am now two years later.
I quite enjoyed the cognitive dissonance of the PETA director being a Type 1 Diabetic.

https://www.humanewatch.org/person/mary_beth_sweetland/
R.I.P. Github Oct. 26, 2018
As my middle school band director once said, "Even if I let go of my baton and it stabs someone through the eye, you must keep playing!"
The comment I'm replying to stated "It seems to be bigger among younger people..."
Firefox Reality is a version of Firefox targeted at VR headsets. You can install it from the store of the Oculus Quest (the headset I own, I imagine others are supported). It's not meant to run on a regular workstation.

The interesting feature of this browser is navigating VR ready websites that provide an immersive experience (aka. webvr). You can also browse the regular web from your headsets, of course, but that's not particularly exciting.
Here's one situation where it is very different.

Say I get paid 100 BTC for doing a job worth $100/BTC at the time or $10000. Now, say BTC drops to $1/BTC. I owe income tax on the $10000. Let's say I owe $2000 (20%) in taxes. However, I only have $100 now. My effective tax rate is 2000%.

This does allow for a small deduction of capital gains each year. However you can only deduct $3000 a year in capital gains. In a larger scenario, this would take decades to fully receive your total deduction.
> "fully addressable visual cortex".

I prefer the concept of visual cortex framebuffer.
Interesting. Why proxying though rather than monitoring DNS queries on the CNAME? And updating to point to the right ip when the server is live (This could maybe help with the 10gb base limit + $0.08/gb?)

Not trying to be an armchair coach but rather understand the architecture decisions and trade-offs that I must have missed
Some glyphs wouldn't really replicate in the style of comic sans... plus, stuff like powerline glyphs wouldn't match up right.
They lost customers in the US, not customers overall.
The light bulb example is ironic, because the life of light bulbs was artificially shortened to ensure people had to keep buying them regularly.
If that's what he was referring to, he should have said US customers.
Well technically it does. Just not if you buy from coinbase where they need a lot of your personal information plus you'll be most likely buying with a debit/credit card.

If you pay someone for cryptocurrency in cash and they send to a wallet you have set up by yourself there is not really any way to prove that it's yours.
I don't think Unity3D has anywhere to go from here but down. Which doesn't mean it's dead, since there is a long sunset in sight - but the gamedev workforce turns over in cycles of under five years, which means that training as an economic moat is only locked in for about that long, too.

The problem is threefold:

1. Almost no game will use all of its features. For any one project a competitor with slightly more niche positioning can find a way to pull ahead - a death of 1000 papercuts.

2. The underlying tech only becomes more of a commodity. Some of the biggest things that Unity solves are things that are still important, but not very differentiating now: having an asset store; having cross-platform deployment options; having modern rendering capabilities.

3. Unity isn't designed for sustainability. Interest in long-term maintanence has become increasingly important for developers who are able to continue marketing the same game, with the same tech, more-or-less indefinitely in today's digital marketplaces. Unity's approach is of the "move fast and break things" sort, which has served it well to grow, but makes it a business risk for developers: updating Unity versions is a perilous exercise.
"623 social leaders and human rights defenders have been assassinated in Colombia since the signing of the peace accord in November 2016." - Indepaz
...and GSK who payed >$700 MM for Sinclair's company Sirtris (and closed it 5 years later.)
Best Copy-Paste Algorithms for C and C++. Haiku OS Cookbook
I originally had the so-called single-storey a by default, but it looked too confusing at coding text sizes. I even considered offering a "purist" version with that simpler a, but decided against it (too many options would confuse buyers). In my opinion, the simpler structure of a is better described as "writability" rather than legibility, and just because the new design does not follow the original does not mean it's bad. Whether it actually improved is a matter of opinion, but I believe in my decision in the context of coding.
That discussion was reasonably settled a very long time ago and court cases established reasonable laws around it. Then one side demanded a do-over, in much the same way they are seeking do-overs for a lot of previously seemingly settled issues.
And "How to shoot yourself in the foot in C and C++. Haiku OS Cookbook" - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0644/
The implied expectations here are part of what bothers me so much about Slack. The people who really embrace it are putting too much of the burden of communication on all recipients instead of on themselves when they produce content. It is selfish and inefficient since every recipient has to do the same redundant work to sort it out.

Careless mixing of realtime chatter, async memos, and reference documentation leads to a fear of missing out. You have to wade through a stream of junk to see if you missed something important. Eventually, people even expect you to know the whole stream whether you were present or not. How mad! If something important happened during your vacation, someone in your organization should tell you about it once you return. Otherwise, you should return to a clean slate, only tracking the chatter that happens while on duty.

In the best recent office cultures I've seen, instant messaging is used without history. It's water-cooler banter or popping your head in the next office. Important but still transient things can go in email and be read a week or two later when you return, but there aren't so many of them. And stable things go in a wiki, not in email, i.e. if subsequent new hires are supposed to know about it too. Nobody should be onboarded by telling them to crawl through transcripts of previous work weeks, and a proper vacation lets you return as if you are onboarding.

By the way, early in my career, these same types of careless people abused email the way they abuse Slack today. Busy people dealt with hundreds of emails in a day, not counting spam nor automated notification messages, which weren't so common then. Your inbox would be flooded with realtime chatter, async memos, and attached documents that should have been in a repository somewhere. Eventually, those with enough clout were driven to set auto-reply messages that they are on vacation and no email received during their absence would ever be read.
The societies of ants are even more complex. Just sayin'.
Our team always assigns a few cosmetic bugs to new developers during their first week - only because it helps them learn their way around our codebase.

Where they proceed from there depends on their strengths and interests.
This is totally valid; I think the complaint was really with modeling a solution to a non-problem with a cryptocurrency, specifically.
If you have a capital gain on one transaction and a loss on other, in general the net gain is taxed, and usually losses in one tax period can be used to offset gains in other periods - there are all kinds of accounting rules on how to properly document the transactions and these gains. In general, everything you worry about in this post isn't new, it's been argued and resolved decades ago, you "just" have to follow all the regulations. Or, alternatively, chartered accountants make a living by following the details of these regulations so that their clients don't have to.
The bugs were typically related to general correctness or translating python semantics. The correctness-type bugs were due to the complex nature of the API. The python translation bugs were just about getting the correct behavior of statements like

if val:
# ...

in Go.
Going stone-faced and leaving your rifle, no of course not.
But, maintaining military bearing under pressure, absolutely imperative.
> So literally pay investors so they can get richer without risk?

No. it's exactly the opposite. When government steps in and offers 0% interest rates, it's subsidizing the money lending by handing out cash like it's free candy. It's preventing the natural lending that would have occurred if it didn't step in. Hence offering 0% interest uses the power of government to force people into riskier assets.
Not to dismiss your point, but there was also a generation of people who wanted to mine the grand canyon. I think that as people we still have the same psychological trappings as we did before. But I do think we're becoming more conscious. Certainly, if you asked any of those lavender tramplers about setting of dynamite in that area to unearth copper or whatnot, they'd probably not support such an idea.
> hiring better people

You say that like it's some sort of epiphany, but do you honestly believe that there's anybody who wasn't trying to hire better people in the first place? If the problem is the quality of the people you've been hiring, maybe your boss should consider replacing you with somebody who's better at finding better people to hire, eh?
And some people disagree with the fundamental basis of that moral.
Not talking about a hacker. I am stating that the described hash dance offers no exclusion from GDPR as saying "we promise we won't look" would do.

My point about brute forcing being useless, is that you hold all the information needed to re-create the hash. All but one tiny piece that is the random number. so brute force is a very effective O(<tiny piece size>). And since it is stored in your locally available data, there is no rate constraints.
>for the most part it's been as practical as a card and often faster

Have you ever used a card? If you think that opening your phone, scanning a QR and then hitting "verify" is faster than a tap or swipe of your credit card, I'm not sure what to tell you. Best case scenario, they're about the same.

>I can call up my card company and claim a fraudulent charge after getting the goods

And they'll investigate and determine you committed fraud, and you'll be fined or go to prison. What's the equivalent with Bitcoin?
Apple Card Said to Launch as Early as First Half of August – MacRumors
"I can call up my card company and claim a fraudulent charge after getting the goods... It takes something like 180 days before a CC charge becomes much harder for the payer to dispute, vs. bitcoin's 10 minutes for very hard and 60 minutes for basically impossible."

Yes, because obviously what we need is less power to the consumer.

So what if it takes you 60 minutes to get home just to test the product you just bought? Or that you can't dispute frauds that target seniors (i.e. grandma), because she won't tell you what she bought within 60 minutes but only the next time you call her?

The digital nature + relative untracability + no chargebacks makes Bitcoin scammer heaven.
There's no standalone VR headsets running ios.
If they're "useless" as you say, what's the problem with keeping them passive? Your arguments about marijuana legalization and weak regulation of prescription opiates also don't jive with your "keep the population passive" stance. Marijuana was made illegal with the intent of making it easier to incarcerate non-white populations and weak regulation of opiates was intended to keep people addicted so the big pharmaceutical companies could keep profiting.
Just for comparison, years ago those Korean companies selling A- quality IPS panels from LG (rejected stock from Apple displays, mostly, that didn't make it in) would give a similar disclaimer. Given even panels of that grade could have them (and I had seen user photos of such dead pixels, although not on all units) this doesn't seem out of the ordinary given the price point.
> an extremely thorough understanding of the project

Right - so no time like the present to get started understanding!
This title doesn't even make any sense. Golang is not going to magically shield you from the math and machine learning teaching methods that do attempt to shield you from the math recognize that it is just a stepping stone to understanding that eventually results in learning the math. That being said the math isn't really that difficult. It sounds complex but I was able to develop a working knowledge without having had taken a calculus or linear algebra course.

Also what does Go magically do that any of the other abstractions over machine learning algorithms don't do? The answer is nothing. If anything you're just making it more difficult for beginners since the machine learning in golang ecosystem isn't fleshed out nor does it have the documentation trail that python does.
the backside of the Microsoft acquisition.
If Github was its own company as before it wouldnt have banned so fast, atleast the gov would have to put more pressure on it.

This is really bad, we need an alternative to Github. (Not gitlab)
Now, if you'd have finished your message 'ZZZZ?', that would have been funny. :P
The military term is called “bearing” and what its intended to teach is to “keep your head” even in the midst of the unexpected (which pretty much defines combat). Instead of freaking out, take stock of what’s happening around you and make a decision that accomplishes the strategic directive. In close order drill, it’s maintaining discipline and conformity. In the fluidity of the battlefield, it may be different, but the mindset is the same.
Totally agree. Their UI seems to be made only with ease of use of the most common case in mind, not spearing a single thought for power users. My preferred example is getting WLAN details before connecting. No way to do this with Win10s UI.

I totally understand mobile phones having having barely any space available. Even desktop optimizing for common use cases. But there got to be a limit on how much you dumb down your software.
Police use face recognition on flawed data
Yes, I know people who have such issues and have the greatest sympathy for them. Permanent joint damage, heart issues, etc. However, the distinguishing factor is usually that people with serious lingering complications don't run around claiming they're still infected. I wasn't intending to lump your father nor those I know in with the crazies, just trying to make a point that the crazies make the people with real problems look bad.

This is a sort of group version of the boy who cried wolf - if enough people run around fussing about something which isn't, those for whom it is won't be taken seriously.
Careful. How did the team get there in the first place? Why would better people want to join if the manager can't coach an existing team? You can argue that it doesn't matter and you just need to clean house. But that runs the risk of cover up the root cause and not addressing it.
I would be interested in seeing some glam shots of this product. Especially interesting design details, if there are any. Confidence in build quality feels important for portable devices.
It's the exact same as if you'd be paid in a foreign currency right before it depreciates signifcantly.
Past edit window, but TWSBI Vac Mini is another (much cheaper) one that can seal the nib off from the reservoir.

Since air expansion in the reservoir is why low pressure pushes ink out the front, a seal between reservoir and the feed means they're safer to fly with.
> In a saner world, the 240 MB LS-240 would have been the last floppy.

Years ago I longed for an LS-120 but by the time I had the money a CD writer was the better deal. I occasionally look at eBay for LS-120s just for fun but I now have a new unicorn to search for and one that didn't even come out in the US - the LS-240. Thank you for a new bit of nostalgia!
> I'm just strange.

Maybe. Who am I to judge?
I'm not sure why you got downvoted and flagged.

You are absolutely right; what Japan wants to do in their own country is their own decision.
I'm not aware of any iOS-based VR headsets.

They are probably not targeting the el-cheapo cardboard variety.
>My effective tax rate is 2000%.

Sounds like a pretty good reason not to get paid in Bitcoin, no? How is the ridiculous volatilty the government's problem?
How is this different from any other sort of security that drops in value? You make a conscious decision to hold a volatile security. You could have just as well sold it and put it into An index fund.
"Users hate change" is it a meme?

If your favorite what ever changed, do you like it? Or do you immediately go what is this? Regardless if it was good/needed.

There is obvious parts where a change may be good or needed, and those are easier to accept. But if you deem X to be good enough does a change that increases the ability to do Y speed by like 5% really matter if it changes everything. No.

"Voting with your wallet" always matters. Doesn't matter if it's free or not. It always matters. If half of anyones customers stopped using the product because of a redesign, they would consider alternatives. The problem is people complain and stay, and 5 weeks later they are used to it and don't care anymore until the next change.
He was clearly wrong, as the truly rich/big corporations do not pay taxes and take most from the state.
From a legal standpoint, it's muddled. The CFTC claims jurisdiction over Bitcoin and Ethereum as commodities. The IRS claims that cryptocurrency is "property" and doesn't elaborate further, except to say that it falls under existing capital gains rules. The SEC claims that most other tokens are securities and fall under its jurisdiction, but does not claim jurisdiction over Bitcoin and Ethereum because the CFTC has already claimed it, but also claims that Ethereum "was a security" but is no longer, and sets out a process for adjudicating similar claims that other cryptocurrencies might've been securities when launched but are not anymore. The SEC's jurisdiction is being challenged in court by Kik, claiming that its Kin token is a utility token and should be considered a product feature, exempt from regulation at all. Bipartisan H.R. 2144 (the "Token Taxonomy Act") [1] is currently making its way through Congress and explicitly exempts cryptocurrencies from securities regulation and crypto/crypto transactions from taxation.

Pretty much the only thing that all branches of government agree on is that cryptocurrencies are not currency. It's hard to see how they could declare otherwise, given that the U.S. Constitution grants the government the sole power to coin money, but there's a growing international economy that exists outside the nation-state framework and disagrees.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2144...
But that's no different than if you got paid in a foreign currency, or shares of stock.
> Not even close.

It's actually bang on the money. Two words: Common Law.

I would suggest, strongly, that the UK does indeed have vastly more in common with the US, at the most fundamental level. Our freedoms, law, government and society at large are based upon it, and this makes our countries much closer than any European nation based upon Civil Law will ever be. It's not just down to legalities, it shapes our entire attitude to how a society should run, and how the laws of the land are made and changed over time. In all these things, the UK and US are almost entirely the same.

Common Law is central to the fundamental philosophy, and political and judicial processes which make our societies run. Most European countries have Civil Law. It's very different, and I would argue that much of the friction between EU institutions and UK law (and public) is because it's trying to impose the Civil Law framework onto a Common Law system, and it's not really compatible. Much of the time, in the UK, we look at the actions and attitudes of EU political figures with disbelief. Because they make little sense, for people used to Common Law. In Civil Law, it's more understandable. The public's expectations are quite different in both systems, and this is a fundamental disconnect which can't be papered over. It's one of the reason many in the UK, including myself, feel that the rules-based EU is fundamentally undemocratic and unfit for purpose. Because from our rather less hidebound and laissez-faire point of view, this is absolutely the case. We're much more used to the "whatever is not specifically forbidden, is allowed" point of view. And when it comes to the law, we're used to our juries and judges being able to interpret and shape the law in new ways by common sense, rather than being rigidly stuck to the letter.