skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you end up doing that (and are in the United States), I would encourage you to look into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).

"The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a land conservation program administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). In exchange for a yearly rental payment, farmers enrolled in the program agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality. Contracts for land enrolled in CRP are 10-15 years in length. The long-term goal of the program is to re-establish valuable land cover to help improve water quality, prevent soil erosion, and reduce loss of wildlife habitat." [0]

[0] https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...
Show HN: I built a dashboard to monitor my bg/cron jobs
Crown Sterling Issues Statement Regarding Allegations Made at Black Hat 2019
I had the exact same thought and then stumbled on to Julia's another article which talks about tailwindcss.
Giving a sponsored talk at a conference that attracts a lot of experts in the field is an interesting attempt at hacking, had they gotten away with it they would have had that much more bragging rights while trying to land investor money.

Outright scams are pretty rare but I've come across them a couple of times in the last decade, it always amazes me that investors would even begin to consider them.
This is a cool project, but it's kind of ruined by Discord's inane TOS.

I hope we can get people to move to something open.
- The Last of Us

- Titanfall 2

- Uncharted 4

- The Batman games...
I find that a good number of pro freelancers are fairly old, about 10+ years of experience.

I think nobody cares. Ageism is more about potential - someone who is 40 but not a millionaire raises some flags.

But for a freelancer, it makes sense - this person has become too expensive to hire full time and/or chose to forego a higher salary in favor of free time and family. They're not a part of any 10 year venture, but will be a good deal until the team can find someone permanent.
Climate change has recently been blamed for the insect decline, as it tends to get all the environmental news these days.
There are organisations varying from grassroots to global where you can participate in such purchases with nominal sums, and end up with small parts of land in your name, collectively owned with other participants, or probably something in between.

Here is one (that I know about because my employer currently offers an option to use some of our open source contribution rewards for that): https://www.helsinkifoundation.org/
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (and perhaps others in the series) has a brazier on top of each fort that occupants try to reach and light to signal for reinforcements if you're spotted.

It encourages stealth, or at least stealthily reaching the brazier first to set a trap.
Really a reply to muzani

Facebook lost money for 2 years, right at the start. That's it.
PTSD in humans has become a joke, probably because it's so hard to define and measure.

Yet such a complex emotion exists in animals and can be defined?

But we can't find and prove the simple emotions?

Science is completely broken atm.

Fine tuning science seems beyond humans ability to do efficiently.
> "the system that elects presidents with a minority vote"

A margin of error of about 1% is a very minor issue in having a democracy. And neither of them had over 50% anyway.

The low voter turnout is a far more important issue but even that's not a disqualifier.
Booking.com: 'It's One Big Chaos' (Translate with Google Translate)
Which might be why determining if we are in fact in a simulation would be helpful.

If an AI created this simulation but is not actively part of it (I do think free will is an important component of the simulation), could we discover a way to import it?

If so, we'd only need to be able to open a passthrough and we'd have authentic AI well beyond anything we could hope to achieve within the next few centuries at least.

Along these lines, I think it's interesting to ask: "if we are in a simulation, what determines randomness?" In theory, a qubit in a superposition has two possible outcomes of equal weight. But why does it end up being one or the other?

Arguably, if our own consciousness is a manifestation of that AI, we might be able to answer how to import it by better understanding how we ourselves make decisions. Where does that embodiment of free will originate as a physical event, and could we recreate that physicality artificially? Would such a setup end up producing random junk, or a cohesive output?

Regardless, as others have stated in this thread, if we know we are in a simulation, we'll likely shift how we approach multiple domains, particularly in the sciences. And it's very likely that if we are currently coming to realize that we are in a simulation, that's the whole point.
At what age did you start loading anabolics?
American here. The way we use the word "immigrant" is that if you were born here and grew up here, you are not considered an immigrant.
At most grocery stores, the price per ounce is quoted beneath the overall item price. I realize reading glasses are expensive, but can the economists at the Bank of International Settlements and MIT not simply calculate inflation that way?
Because how a taxi works is not how a courier works.

Taxi's occasionally do courier work but there's a reason why courier services exist and it's not just all taxi firms.
It is interesting that each epoch had an image of the universe that correlated closely to their current technological state. Not so long ago people thought about a mechanical universe. So now because computers are pervasive we think about a digital universe. What will be the next wave? A biological universe made out of a mycel which behaves like a giant deep learning neural network?
Do not get married!
I do wonder sometimes when self preservation will kick in and put a stop to this kind of stupidity.

I mean - surely the executives of those companies eat food right?

Not to mention the lawsuits as big ag realises that their cash cows have been killed by an one of their suppliers products.
Rental bees, obviously. It's a major industry across the US.
Somehow it seems to have happened in a huge way every time a republican is in office though. It’s not like politicians respond to the people, they respond to their donors.
The EU banned field use of neonicotinoid pesticides from the start of this year. Is there evidence yet that insect populations within the EU are recovering this year? It's too early for scientific publications to have come out, but if you live in an agricultural area of the EU, have you observed a difference?
Presumably only if you fail to alert the authorities to the theft.

Of course authorities don’t always pay attention to registration changes — one UK police force sent me a speeding ticket for a car I had sold nine months previously, even though the DVLA had actually registered the sale and transfer of ownership.
In what context were you scorned? I've been to China a number of times (though not in the last five years) and found locals curious and very friendly. This was not, however, in a business context - purely as a traveller who knew a bit of Mandarin.
Maybe they are investing in user habits, branding and data, such as : where are the consumers, where are the most wanted food, how frequent is it, at what time, etc. $544m are invested to grow the data machine.

Uber uses the current fleet for now, but once they have more data to analyze, they can switch to a better operational model which would be hopefully profitable.

What is worrying is the aggressive, anti-competitive, potentially illegal (depending on the country) subsidiaries aimed at killing the local competition.
So the particles follow the path of a doublet?
Yeah, my bad. That said, I've read the article now. Indeed, the issues I've mentioned above are, more or less, echoed in the article.

Me: "these recurrent projections would need to (1) form a 3rd party connection at every synapse and (2) know which synapses were to blame for the error. "

Article: "Although the dendritic error network makes significant steps to increase the biological realism of predictive coding models, it also introduces extra one-to-one connections (dotted arrow in Box 4) that enforce the interneurons to take on similar values to the neurons in next layer and thus help them to predict the feedback from the next level."

The takeaway for me was that this article wasn't attempting to explain how biological NN actually function, but instead took the position of "for biological NN to implement a backprop-type algorithm, this is what it would entail..." and then went on to detail several models that demonstrate just how complex the bio NN architecture would have to be considering only just a few major constraints (there are still many constraining factors of ancillary importance that would have to be explained, should any of these model make it through the initial gauntlet).
Sure enough, there are jobs for pollinating cash crops by hand. Vanilla has been like this for decades.
Bitcoin has soared 60% this year. Meet the new buy-and-hold investment (CNN)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper
For that, I'd be interested in Paulownia trees for their fast growing speed, and thus (I assume) faster CO2 reduction rate.

1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa is also rapid to spread, which may turn out too rad for local flora or neighborhood politics thereof, while

2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_elongata seems not to spread on its own and thus may need active help for that.

You'll end up with a lot of soft wood from these relatively fast (10 years?). That should be used in some way that does not release the CO2 back.

I have no studies nor experience in biology nor gardening and all of this is only based on what I've been reading on the internet.
Or, you can go to Europe that have an organic layout like in Japan but street names and numbers like in US.

So you can have a pleasant experience following an inefficient route but still reach your destination.
I don't think Consistency was explained in the post. But that may be a weakness on my part.
> A competitive advantage has no value without a path to profitability.

It's a real pity that there is no 'HN Quotes' section, I'd definitely nominate this one.
That stance received some knowledgeable opposition in the quoted thread if I'm not mistaken. I'm in no position to assess the soundness of the arguments, but I noticed that the poster admitted to some flaws in his own reasoning at the tail end of it.
Greg Egan - Permutation City. Very nice book.
> Furthermore, the performance of this engine is abismal. To put it into perspective,a modest ion engine would produce about a million times more thrust per power.

Would it, though? The proposal mentions 14mN/kW. What ion engine produces 14N/W ? I think that such an engine would be a massive improvement of current designs. VASIMIR, for instance, is designed with 1N/14kW.
Put an encoder on both shafts, have a control loop match the speeds, adjusting as frequently as desired, easy.
Two Narratives of Creation
>transform your fund into a family office

What does this mean?
No problem, robo-bee drones can do that!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120832-robotic-bee-cou...
Uhm, that's actually not true at all - if you enter the main page of the website, the very fist sentence says:

`Paged Out! is a new experimental (one article == one page) free magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.`

EDIT: DevOpsiarz on our discord pointed out to me that you might mean things like excerpts from articles, "screenshots" of the zine, etc - i.e. typical marketing content one might find on a magazine's website.
In that case you're right - I admit I'm bad at marketing. I'll try to make some changes based on feedback - thanks!
Nothing that accelerates at a tiny fraction of a percent of 1g is within miles of a "warp drive", no matter how high the max speed is.
You know that data scientists have access to real data, right? It's not all just kids doing tricks on kaggle? That we have the ability to actually measure shit?

Do you think that all of this is a total joke? I mean, you're allowed to think that. But, umm, yeah. Real people do real things with real data. Believe it or not.
You know that:

- it doesn't matter how the wealth transfer ends as long as untold billions are burned on a dead end, those people will lose their jobs regardless

- and if Uber does not go bust that means they've cracked the self driving problem in which case those people will be out of a job again

- In the meantime Uber is happy to exploit those people by having them engage in a thinly veiled race to the bottom, one where Uber sets the rules and they walk off with the bulk of the gross which they then spend on their own inefficient machine.

You really can't win with such actors in the market, Uber clearly isn't in it to be a 'good employer', in fact they've done everything they could to strip away what rights those people would have had as employees.
[citation needed]

The extinct elephant in the room is the fact that those cows are going to be slaughtered for food anyway.
That's what they do for car navigation, but they use a proprietary system called Mapcodes instead of just GPS. Some sat-navs there won't even let you input GPS coordinates and you have to convert them to this first.
Not in the UK. Almost all doctors don't like to prescribe benzos at all nowadays, and if they do it will be literally a few as a one-off for something like anxiety.
Maybe you could get this guy interested in doing a re-run?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python
Postgres does this, too; at least to some degree. They call it "synchronized sequential scans".
Which other countries are you talking about? European countries are, afaik, required to show a comparison price. I'm more surprised there are developed countries that do not require it.
This is an incredible comment.

You have some real chutzpah, sir. I respect that. You are as wrong as can possibly be, but this is a bold move.
My youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Solozzo business.

All right. I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely, cleared of all these false charges.

But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot in the head by a police officer. Or if he should hang himself in his jail cell. Or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning. Then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room. And that I do not forgive.
> All clients are fully open source

They’re literally not. The distributed apps update every couple of weeks or even more often while the source they push lags months behind, if it’s even what’s being used to build those binaries.
This is a good point, which I gave quite a lot of thought when trying to decide the format. But in the end I decided to go for paper-size to have a fix space limitation - sadly this has the consequence of not being readable on a phone.

While there are plans to make the PDF pages available as web pages (so you can link them), they would still have the same layout. But actually now that you mention it, there might be a way around that - I'll give it some more thinking :)

Hopefully there will be some podcast recordings of some articles btw - that would make it easier to "read" while in motion / having only a phone at hand.
1000 days in circulation means we'll have to wait at least 4 summers to start seeing a change, I'd wager. Also, it might depend on where there are different types of insects currently, and how successful they happen to be in reproduction and spreading over time.
A good set of performance tires really wakes up a 3. Try a set of Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+, (or 4S if you never see snow). I rented a 3 LR RWD for a few days and decided not to buy, but then drove the Performance and had to have it. Yeah, the brutal acceleration was part of it, but the biggest difference is how much sharper the handling is. And this is mostly down to the squashy super efficient tires on the base models masking the capability of the car.
Well it does a pretty remarkable job. Recall too that the stats are foreign born as a percentage of the population (Peri, 2016 that I mentioned above).

The USA is larger than all Canada, Australia, UK and NZ combined. So, let's not pretend that the US is not taking new comers at all. We're still in the ballpark of close to 50 million people. This compares to about 7 million in Canada.
Neonicotinoids are new since 1994, so they get pointed to as the cause of Honeybee collapse, because what else could it be?

Well, a lot of things can cause a decline in insect populations, including non-human mediated things like new diseases, new parasites, or new competitors.

And there are some good reasons to think that neonicotinoids are unlikely to be a serious cause after all.

https://i.imgur.com/HaWyRr7.png

What's the cost of getting this wrong? You make farming more expensive overall, which means more CO2 emissions to grow the same amount of food, if you go in for that sort of thing.
In the case of the strong flavors I mentioned, I think it's appropriate. They headline the label because that's what the food tastes like. It just doesn't take much peppermint oil to create a really strong flavor.
Berkshire Hathaway doesn’t pay dividends and most probably never will.
Yeah, not all are from, but most are from after 2000.

As the person said: the only new "type" of game they know of released the last years was Minecraft, and lists games from "early 3D" era, I assume the person is not aware of all the new genres of games created the last 20 years. The only goal with my post was to list some genres that might be unknown (some of which has been around for a long time). I hope someone reads the list and finds something new that they might like, you should try out Rocket League if you are remotely interested in games. Rocket League is an insanely hard (high skill cieling) physics based football-ish kind of game.

Simulators today are a totally different breed of games, no one that plays them now would consider them even close to what was possible to achieve 20 years ago, thats why I included them.

Edit: I meant to write Planetary Annihilation, not Total Annihilation in my original post. Which is a quite unique RTS.
That video is amazing.

The conference is really playing into Time AIs game by censoring it. Underlying the story that this new technology is just too big and too groundbreaking for the industry to accept :-D
The Universal S
Missing the weirdest one, which I sadly can't find on the net right now because I lost the name:

What's the average population size of alien planets when you are one in 7 billion having this question.

I don't quite get it together but it had 2 interesting problems:

- It allows for a prediction with a simple size of just 1 which differed from said sample

- it's debatable if we should calculate with 7 billion humans or one globalized "intelligent" race

If anyone could point me to a source to this I'd be happy :)

also related: the german tank problem https://www.eadan.net/blog/german-tank-problem/
My current favourite youtube channel is "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't". He swears a lot. But he appears to know a lot about botany and a fair amount about geology. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA

I thought you might enjoy this video about "kill your lawn" and native Illinois prairie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M
The most appropriate trees for an area are the local ones and with a view to Climate Change, the local species with good adaptability to climate change characteristics (need less water, can rezist temperatures variations, etc.). Pawlonia is being pushed/marketed heavily on the internet due to some superficial/mercantile characteristics (fast growth, big foliage), but besides that, in the agroforestry/agroecology academia, Paulonia is known to be just a marketing buzz, and a relatively dangerous one.
Close to 100% of Americans are descended from people who were foreign born.
I think this would be an interesting concept even in 1-1 communication. Instant messaging is too fast, we don't think before we send. I think adding a 1 minute delay between all messages would lead to much higher quality conversation
I really persisted with both Gabapentin and Pregbalin, as everything I've read points to them resulting in the best outcomes for patients that tolerate them.

I actually do take magnesium citrate daily anyway (200mg twice a day), but it didn't seem to help me here.

I even tried taking 2 weeks off work and took the minimum dose for the entire period - it was a horrible couple of weeks, where I felt drunk, dizzy, disoriented and anxious for the whole time. I just really can't tolerate them :( I had a similar experience with SNRIs, and also experienced horrendous withdrawals with them - I've tried about half a dozen of them, but after my last experience I accept they are not for me, and will never try another! I guess it all comes down to genetics.

Anyway, all that said, your advice seems good, and I'd encourage others to try to persist and slowly titrate up.
Future planning heavily depends on deciphering trends.
Most vanilla corporate bonds are unsecured and offer nothing more than a promise not to give anyone else security over the corporate assets and an unsecured debt claim.
Initially I avoided macros and simply learnt to write "flow-oriented" small programs in Scheme. It took a while to get used to not using many intermediate variables and simply feeding the output of one function into the next. Once I started seeing patterns I found myself writing small general purpose functions from which I could assemble larger more complex functions.

BTW it is important realise that Common Lisp and Scheme have significant differences. Personally I prefer gnuScheme. I hear that many business applications prefer to use SBCL.
If you have precise symbols, date ranges and exchanges you're interested in, get in touch I'll work something out so it's not that taxing on your budget.
Debug (Film)
That’s not how it works. There’s a native bridge that enables you to access and use virtually any native APIs that you’d like to via JavaScript et al. If the native API that you need access to isn’t already exposed by the Electron framework, you can write the bridge code yourself
In some consulting businesses, managers want similar up to date documents / CV when marketing consultants externally to prospective customers. E.g which projects you’ve worked on etc.
This is the standard/traditional theory of business, right? No one person decided it, it's just a theory about a capitalist markets. This theory is cited as one of the main guiding principles in corporate ethics as well.

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2019/1/25/sharehold...
Reply since I can't edit:

Note that I'm not endorsing using this for "flipping" books, quite the opposite. I've been screwed over so many times in my search for old out-of-print technical books, that it's a bit of a sore spot.
No immediate plans for FIX API, many exchanges focus solely on WebSocket and REST APIs and even if there's FIX it's often built on top of WS API.
I'm part of a group developing RNAi-based pesticides which are topically applied (so non-GM). They are extremely species specific; when designed properly they can avoid even close relatives of the target insect, and the by-product of the active ingredient is degraded RNA, which is harmless. The OECD had a meeting on it recently to help develop a regulatory framework - link here if interested (https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/pesticides-biocides/conf...).

In my opinion, if these kinds of products are successful, they'll massively reduce a major adverse environmental impact of farming. They also offer a non-GM approach to combating viruses, and are far safer than broad-spectrum insecticides, synthetic and organic alike.