skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NZ stopped protecting its farmers and we're a large exporter of food and the 3rd most obese nation - all those damn famines huh?
The Draeger breathalyzer fiasco in Washington State was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Draeger has consistently resisted attempts to make its source code public. Will you commit to publicly releasing the source code to your "cannalyzer" device firmware?
I’ve been using Rails since 1.2, and somehow it has never lost it’s magicalness for me. These days I might eventually end up using something different to build a production app, but Rails is always still the first tool I reach for. It is absolutely incredible to me how much value DHH and the core team have created with it. I’ve got a new project starting Monday, so this is great timing! Thanks to all the Rails contributors that made this happen!
Wow, TIL.

ris·i·ble
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such as to provoke laughter.

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I can't speak for anyone else, but my kids are likely to end up with iPhones at some point (the oldest is 9, so not anytime soon) because Apple's child/family controls for iOS, while far from perfect, are miles ahead of anything I can find on any Android devices. So now they have iPads, and the ecosystem just works for us so it will be natural for them to stay within it when they graduate to phones.
Not a single comment from anyone who has actually gone through the documents, like they don't reveal important AI security exploits caused by the "good intentions" of Google's morally superior engineers. Why is that?

Is HackerNews supposed to just assume Google is the paragon of moral supremacy? If so, can we get that written in the TOS so people know what to expect?
Everyone says they are ethical including the unethical I'm not sure how you possibly took this at face value.
You produce at a loss? Is this a serious question?
Thanks for the additional insight, I learned about this type of strategy in "The Selfish Gene", by Richard Dawkins. Although, I personally don't think that the analogy alone can describe an incredibly complex structure such as the global society.
OK, but, I mean, we've done this experiment, and we found that M:N in Rust was slower than 1:1.
India Hints It May Be Reconsidering Its Doctrine on Nuclear Weapons
Western double standards at play again. There were more than 50k people died because of Pakistan sponsored and controlled terrorism in India. Native populations of Kashmiri Pandits have been cleansed out because of their religion. Kashmir was an integral part of India and will remain so.
> Tesla has indeed offered to share the Supercharger network

Tesla should standardize on CCS like everyone else has and enter into billing agreements with the other charging networks. That's what Electrify America and ChargePoint have done:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/electrify-america-chargep...
To drive on the public roads you have to prove "Financial Responsibility" for most people the cheapest and most effective way to do that is Auto Insurance, however every state i am aware of has alternatives, aka "Self Insure" that can be a Bond, or some other guarantee that you are able to cover the minimum liability of state
Have you tried VR?

Glass & 3D TV never added anything meaningful to the mix. They were just extensions of technology that already existed. VR entirely changes the paradigm of how we interact with computers.

Even if it's "only" VR gaming that takes off, that is an entirely new medium of storytelling for artists to explore. We don't see those often.

Remember that DOOM was more popular than Windows - games are often all the system seller you need.
I've never heard anyone pronounce 'Australia' as 'Auztralia'. 'Aussie' as 'ozzie' yes, but never Australia.
There's no point in debating what "reasonable" means here, since everyone usually thinks they are reasonable.

I think you've reframed the situation so that it no longer sounds racist. Obviously worrying about your commute isn't racist!

This is, of course, missing the point. I think the reason this bothered the memo's author is because their coworkers had a strong negative reaction to a hypothetical (and likely minor) change in their commute, but no reaction to a high-profile pattern of racially motivated murder by corrupt police officers.

Is ignoring racism racist? I think so. Is prioritizing something super trivial over racism racist? Seems close enough to me.
Well, technically Cargil's are family farms since it is a privately held corporation (150k employees on $115B revenue) owned by a family which owns and operates the farms. Most (unbiased) estimates are closer to 70% family farms although those have also grown extraordinarily large in the last few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill

https://newfoodeconomy.org/who-really-owns-american-farmland...
They can't win here on HN can they ? Mistakes happen. It's how you respond that counts as well.
Most U.S Treasuries are held by American citizens, it's why fiscal hawks are always ranting that defecit spending "bankrupts our kids", foreign holdings are insignificant in the grand scheme, and as noted the largest holders are all allies.
Pronouncing 'Oslo' with a z sound doesn't mean 'Australia' is pronounced with a z sound, you're comparing the... you know, I don't care.
> The idea that we’re in a new epoch is a profoundly optimistic one, for it implies that we’ll persist into the future as an industrial technological civilization on something like a geological timescale [...] perhaps we should more humbly refer to this provisional moment of Earth history that we’re living through as we do the many other disruptive spasms in Earth history. Though dreadfully less catchy, perhaps we could call it the “Mid-Pleistocene Thermal Maximum.” After all, though the mammoths are gone, their Ice Age is only on hold, delayed as it is for a few tens of thousands of years by the coming greenhouse fever. Or perhaps we’re living through the “Pleistocene Carbon Isotope Excursion,” as we call many of the mysterious global paroxysms from the earliest era of animal life, the Paleozoic. Or maybe we’re even at the dawning of the “Quaternary Anoxic Event” or, God forbid, the “End-Pleistocene Mass Extinction” if shit really hits the fan in the next few centuries. But please, not the Anthropocene.
This reminded me of the illegal number [0]. People being told the number was illegal so created flags that also represented the number. The neat thing was that by making numbers illegal anything that can be used to represent those numbers also becomes illegal. Like art work painted a certain way. Imaging being told you can not paint a certain color pattern as it is illegal.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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I'm still unconvinced Machine Learning can do much here. ML can predict something, but it cannot tell us why. You're only solving half the problem of 'science'.
Not all new code shouldn't be async. I write graphics code. There is no benefit to me, or any of my users, if all of my code is async. No system has 10,000 simultaneous GPUs to drive independently.
> “we subsidize critical resources because people die if there’s a shortage”

That's not the argument, though. Government subsidies are intended as welfare programs for farmers. Far more food is currently produced than would ever be needed in the case of a shortage. We could produce a lot less and still be fine.
1. NZ has 3 times more arable land/person than, say, the United States. It could probably use the same farming methods as China did in the famine of Great Leap Forward, and still have enough food to go around.

2. Driving without a seatbelt, or car insurance works, until it doesn't.

3. You'd probably be producing even more food/person, and be more resilient to market failure/drought/crop failures/etc were it subsidized.
Users that promote priority network effects are bad for everyone else.

This isn't Google's fault. It's low education users who get whatever phone their parents bought.
All the finance folks I know use "fundamentals" to mean some class of attributes, that they all know what they are. Like when I say "GPL3" to someone who has a-priori knowledge.

Not exactly sure but I think the "fundamentals" are top-line revenue, unit cost, unit margin, yoy-growth, EBTDA, cash-on-hand, default-alive - and likely the ratios those values produce.
> sizable but short term fix
Punjab is another example of severe groundwater depletion. Experts here say that growing Basmati rice through groundwater is an unwise endeavour, as we are exporting a future valuable for pennies. Now government is recommending Corn to be planted, I guess I will forward them this link.
Overall, very good. I might share this to help people out.

Two pieces of feedback

- What is classified as influence is not all or nothing. In my mind it is covering multiple distinct traits

- The quote "At your company, it’s important to understand which arc is valued by your team and managment." screams bad manager to me. A good team builder will balance teams with these strengths according to the proportion that the tasks demand.
U.S. Customs Computer System Goes Down Nationwide
This should make you not use any technology. Including Apple's. Delusional comments.
I am not familiar with Treasuries, I'd appreciate some insight into what this means "China has been a less aggressive buyer of the U.S. sovereign debt". How is it possible to "hold" (buy) another country's debt?
Faster than you think: Exponential growth in electric vehicle adoption
I'm not sure VW will be continuing with the e-Golf. The VW ID.3, which will be released soon and has over 200 miles of range, looks like the e-Golf's replacement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cHHNPRg-c
You've made quite a boo-boo here my friend. Give this man a break here guys.
NZ is nowhere near the size of the US though. If you face a famine in NZ, you import from Australia, China, India etc. If you have a famine in US... millions of people will be without food, it would be an insanely crazy situation (consider how many firearms are held by ordinary Americans).

The modern American life is very strongly predicated on cheap, abundant supply of _some_ kinds of nutrition (unhealthy for most, but still, something that prevents starvation even if it increases the chances of heart disease etc.)
If you know that 5.6% of the users (automated, or parroting the preacher) of an exchange will use fibonacci retracements, and that 15% of the amateur market will follow the market price change caused by either buying or selling activity, then you can play roulette with a decent edge. Of course, not as much as the preacher, who is allowed to bet before (s)he will speak to his or her congregation.

When you gather enough of these commonly used technical analysis, it's like having to predict in which startup Ron Conway will invest, but you can calculate Conway in a Python one-liner, and keep up-to-date by going to weekly sermon.
Potentially. I really don't see that being conducive from the forks. It would still involve more than one police, one to pin, one to slam the head into the pavement.
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It's true, but prices declining is a positive thing, and I'll take what I can get. (I say that as a Bay Area homeowner—contrary to my financial interests, I would rather see relief for lower-income renters than more equity for tech workers like me!)
Apple vs Facebook? I'll stick with sms
“Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.“

Catch-22
But there is a foolproof way of profiting from the stock market. Insider trading! I find it fascinating that people do not believe it occurs at a grand scale given the low risks and huge rewards. Exactly like how people believe athletes don't use steroids so they get all upset when every once in a while one is caught. :)
Probably WordPress.
Your experience is not universal. Multiple car fleet operators have had problems with Tesla's quality, reliability, and speed of service:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27725/tesla-fleet-company-stru...
That's stupid implementation. You can _easily_ build static websites that load near instantly and are tiny. Also if you choose to shut off javascript that's your choice, but don't complain the web does not work.
Does anyone know what is the history of the Ohmm sound? What is the desired effect?
>>Unfortunately, the basic incentives in the insurance industry still are, and always will remain, for companies to do as little as possible about fraudulent claims

Incorrect, the entire point of an insurance company is to collect as much in premiums as possible while paying out as little in claims as possible

the Clear basic incentive is to DENY as many claims as possible

>> What I see in the facts reported by the article are companies that have used fraud investigators who are poorly trained or under-resourced

I don't see that at all. I see the companies incentivizing "investigators" to find away to deny claims even if it means fabricating a good story wholesale.

The Contractor that had is business ruined by State Farm because he was talking to the press is a clear example of that

>> The insurers named in the article most definitely have been incentivized to learn the lesson not to refer marginal fraud prosecutions

Where on earth do you get any of these companies have "Learned their lesson"

Let me guess you are an insurance sales man, or in some way make your living connected to the Insurance scam?
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I don't know of any because I haven't tested too many, but LE Secure Connections has been around since the Bluetooth 4.2 spec, which was adopted in 2014. The feature is supported by most single-mode BLE chipsets / stacks that have been released since then. I'd be surprised if there were none that supported it, though I don't know for sure.
They'd be priced low. There is no "should" when it comes to markets - the market price is whatever people will transact at.

The problem is that stock price movements depend upon future events - making money in the markets is effectively a future-prediction problem. So if your strategy is to discard the bottom 10%, great, you got rid of Foot Locker and Sears. You also would've gotten rid of Apple in 1998, which was responsible for a good portion of the index's gains over the last 20 years. And you would've kept losers like PG&E, which went bankrupt over a black-swan event (they were doing fine until they burned down a town).
What liberties do you enjoy that we don't? The only egregious thing I can point to in Georgia is the heartbeat abortion bill, which if you aren't paying attention is merely a ploy to get it in front of the Supreme Court so they can make it national.

We were so close to defeating Governor Kemp and making this not happen. Now it's a risk to you and the entire nation.
What issues did you encounter? We've been using Spark since 1.0, and the dataframes API and Catalyst query engine have abstracted away RDDs nicely, we rarely have to use them. We recently converted a bunch of legacy ETL jobs that ran against the same dataset in Vertica to Spark in EMR by storing the raw data as Parquet, caching it in memory, and running the 30 or so different SQL queries against it using Spark SQL.

Only issue we encountered was one query used three unions which was rather inefficient, but once that was replaced with a query using grouping properly, problem solved.
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> have the contents of blown-away worktree files somewhere

This would be an amazing feature for nearly all git commands that affect the worktree. Many times I've done `git checkout ./src` to blow away "unrelated" files forgetting that the file I was just working on was in that directory. Whenever I teach git to a new-hire I always talk about wanting revision-control for revision-control.
I agree! But also being able to compromise so that you still can wield influence is important. For example, if an American company (such as Google) does not fill the need for this service for China, that leaves the door open for other countries to fill this void -- countries which America might not want to be furnishing this service.
Published academic studies on the size factor go back decades. I'm not ready to consider them refuted because someone on reddit says he google searched papers from the last eight years and found them lacking, especially since he doesn't specifically claim to debunk any of the major factors, and the momentum factor he even confirms.
> That implies you have no self-control and require the government to tell you how to think/behave.

I don't see how that implies a lack of self control, and I'm not sure what the government has to do with it.

> Who said people need to be nice? I recall me saying:

I guess I read 'positive' as 'be nice.' What's a positive way to deal with a world that you hate (hypothetically)? Why should anyone do anything positive, why can't they lash out as they see fit? Why should someone live by rules that others created without their consent, and then be 'positive' about it?

Maybe society has failed. Maybe we're not living how we're supposed to be living.
Unless I'm missing something, the Gompertz function you refer to has an implicit model that the organism's population stabilizes because of Malthusian constraints, a lack of some kind of resource.

But birth rates have been declining in first-world countries for a long time in the absence of this kind of constraint, and the Foreign Affairs article specifically notes that both Malthus and Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" doomsday resource-shortage scenarios didn't come to pass.

The Earth certainly does have some kind of carrying capacity for humans, but that's not the limit that's being it, it's something else.
Congrats to the Rails team ! I can't praise Rails enough. Such a huge boost in productivity for prototyping or full production app. I use it for both work or side project. I can't imagine a world without it. Long live Rails !
Winning strategies are not published generally speaking. You wont see many business people blogging in detail about how they went for 0 to 1. Which is shy most blogs about business are a load of BS. Reading your statement and this article confirms my long suspicion that relying on internet strategies is a bad startegy.
The Googler didn’t claim to represent everyone. That part and the rest of your comment are arguing against things no one is against.
I used to live right by 24th street right before the whole foods moved in, and I can visualize all of those shops as I walked down the street to Holey Bagel (still going strong!). The little weird boutiques! The running store! But even then I would never go into any of those places. I am fully on board lamenting the fact that numerous one-of-a-kind stores no longer exist in SF because it is not economical for them to do so (RIP Macbeath hardwood), but a lot of those little shops on 24th street were put out of business by Amazon and the internet, not by SF.
I had no idea this was such a polemic topic. Police have been doing roadside saliva-swab tests for cannabis, ecstasy and meth where I live for years now

https://adf.org.au/insights/roadside-drug-testing/

Is it because it's a breathalyser?

My personal feeling is that lumping those three drugs in together (along with alcohol) is a blunt approach (which admittedly is often what the law favours) - I'd much rather be sharing the road with a bunch of stoners than meth heads or boozers, but the tendency here is towards zero tolerance for all impaired driving, regardless of the substance
The U.S. govt. holds a sale of treasuries every so often and people/entities buy them. Nothing special about it. They're high quality and liquid assets so they can be frequently found in many investment portoflios and balance sheets (essentially as good as cash).
If we are after impairment why don't we measure reaction time and motor skills?

Alchol breathalyzers are orders of magnitude easier are broadly recognized as unscientific garbage.

It would be remarkable if your research led to anything but another tool to ruin peoples lives.

It will likely be weaponized to attack groups the police dislike like minorities.

In short I think the world would be a better place if you stayed in bed.
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The worst part about it is accepting the 40,000 deaths a year just because people are selfish and feel they need a car to get anywhere.
From that same twitter thread:

> The SMS protocol makes "tap backs" and stickers and other stuff work differently (and worse).
Which is mildly interesting, but not something other people should use for investment decisions.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

1. Apple embraced SMS with the original iPhone

2. Apple added encryption and other enhancements to messages which were not compatible with any other phone

3. Extinguish users who use traditional SMS/MMS by downgrading quality of service and disabling enhances features

What we really need is a universal internet messaging protocol like Email, something that everyone agrees on and can deliver the rich experiences people expect today