skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not totally true. I remember as a kid going to my grandfather's farm in Iowa and there would be an alfalfa rotation every 6 years I believe. Now they don't bother with that anymore since the fertilizers/seeds and other treatments mean that the low value alfalfa no longer needs to be in the mix.

Fertilizer is like doping. It works! But it comes at a long term cost. Anyway, now we can go down two paths, hyper-modern indoor farming which is expanding in Europe and organic farming that is growing in the US and Europe. Conventional industrial farming is going to get hit from both sides.

Also, the big things keeping corn going is sugar duties and ethanol subsidies. Without those, alot of the crop would disappear.
You know, I've recently seen here on HN complaints about "product substitution" at Amazon - getting, not what you ordered, but something that Amazon thinks is equivalent. I'm not sure medical supplies is where you want that to happen. I'm therefore not sure that the comparison of price to Amazon is fair.

Note well: Yes, hospitals also gouge you. I am not claiming otherwise.
> The number one determining factor of how far you will make it if you're working class is how driven you are.

In my experience it's much more about how you manage the money you make, i.e.:

1. live below your means

2. invest the difference - put your money to work for you

For example, in the last week there was a bank that accidentally deposited $120,000 in the account of a couple. The couple immediately went on a spending spree, buying all kinds of very expensive items. By the time the police got involved, the money was gone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/09/08/bank-acc...

Criminality aside, the "gee I have some extra money, let's go shopping!" is how one remains poor for life.
Genuinely curious, what is it that you don’t like about Agile? I mean, the concept, the processes? The lack of something or too much of something?
I've seen buses in the high speed lane and if they keep up with the flow of traffic I don't mind.
Verizon plans 5G Home Internet in every city where it deploys mobile 5G
I have worked in a few startups and there are lots of old software guys. The biggest reason why there tend to be fewer of them is because most old software engineers used to be young software engineers, which meant they had access to obscene amounts of capital via their incomes, and thus exited from 'wage earner' to 'full-time investor'. The only old software engineers tend to be those that didn't use their capital wisely (or didn't care to) or that went through divorce or other financial trauma.

> When I am not employed, I can't just "go around the neighborhood" or "advertise on craigslist" or "hang out a shingle" that says "Got a broken fence? I can weld it for ya! Call me @ xxx..."

Also... I have no idea why you think you can't do this. Before I went to college for computer science, I did exactly this, and made quite a bit of money. But, I think this goes to what I said above... some people are aggressive with their skills and money and you tend to not find them at work.
Ask HN: Designs in which information stored in the system outlives it?
I am currently researching / designing a kind of annotation system for digital
materials (PDFs, EPUBs, scanned books) meant primarily for experts to create
annotations over the source material of their domain. The system will allow quick
navigation, linking, referencing, creating hierarchies of tags, scripting and
heavy domain-specific customization.

Think professor of literature annotating thousands of pages of Dumas
over the span of months for easier lookup later / notes / categorization / research,
creating a graph of knowledge you can interact with in the process, where
facts are referencing the source material or building on other facts.

This system might be used for a while by few people and after
few months / 5 years / a decade it might be retired.

What general advice do you have to make sure that when it happens, someone
(people who found the files on the internet, students, archivists, former users)
can recover the data without much burden?
why does this get downvoted ?

Epstein dying in his cell is a major scandal.
So I work in manufacturing. On one of our systems, we recently upgraded the fleet to a $10k computer with a 22nm processor running RHEL 7 supplied by the system vendor. We had all of the install files and could have bought a $2k computer and gone through an extended install and qualification process, and closing the door to some support from our vendor, but we didn’t. We paid the extra $8k for a guarantee that it would just work and that we could get the exact same computer for years to come.

I see these high prices for what appear to be commodity items in a similar light. You are paying for a certain amount of comfort that the sling will just work. Amazon is not going to care if the sling, which might be a cheap knock-off, rips apart while you’re walking and unseats your unhealed bone.
> The Catholic church, the largest pro-life organization, is pretty vehemently against IVF, in all cases, for any reason.

Note that the Catholic heirarchy is, in fact, opposed to all forms of conception that don't involve a sex act between married partners, including homologous artificial insemination within marriage.

> However, within the 'Catholic bubble', fertility clinics probably get as much ire.

They really don't; they rarely get mentioned outside of fairly academic discussions of the relevant theology, even by most of the people within the Church that engage in intense advocacy on abortion and/or family issues.

They do get some ire by extremists on the opposite side of the heirarchy’s position than the general society, the types that put out pamphlets or go on Catholic radio using arguments like “clones—and IVF babies—have no souls” (seriously). But they don't get a lot of attention in mainstream circles. If a couple asks their pastor about it, they’ll probably have the official positioned mentioned, but unlike abortion it's not something you're likely to hear mentioned in a Sunday sermon or as the focus of a heirarchy-led public advocacy campaign.
Yeah I feel FastAPI will become the new Flask in a few years.

What else does it offers besides performance (switching to async is no free lunch)?
calcium and magnesium? that sounds familiar...the two main minerals that water softeners remove. could this be related to water filtration/softening that farmers may be using? (I don't know if they actually use filtration or not). I imagine they'd want to use softeners, as it would increase the lifespan of irrigation equipment.
> Because you managed to get under my skin...

I'm not betting on the remainder of your comment being objective. In 2019 if someone can get under your skin by just politely asking for evidence, maybe just maybe, you aren't engaging objectively.

Nonetheless, while there is some evidence pointing to aggressive spying by the Israelis, if you disconnect it from the context of what the U.S. does in Israel, the suggestions of favoritism seem disingenuous.

Most of all, there's no real evidence that 3-letter agencies and career state department employees, who largely handle domestic and international spying, would undermine U.S. interests, regardless of who is in the White House.
>What proportion of mail comes from them and what from developed nations with whom we'll need to come to new agreements, drastically increasing the friction of overseas shipping to everyone involved?

I don't see the problem here, nor why the proportion matters at all. The simple fact is that shipping from the US to anywhere else in the world costs a fortune. So flipping the table can't possibly make it any worse.
One example and of course it's Stripe: https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team
I’ve never known anyone who was “naturally fit”, defining fitness as the ability to work out at a certain level of intensity for a given amount of time.

I’ve known people to be naturally skinny or even tone but not “fit”.
Out of interest, can I ask how much the "lactation consultation" cost?

Here in the UK, my wife's breast feeding help consisted of an inexperienced midwife (possibly only a trainee), awkwardly being remarkably unhelpful.
I want to see Bill Hader do a skit as this guy maybe during an SNL guest appearance.
Perhaps it was unnecessary. The rest of my absolutely supports it, though. The claim is that within 6 months the body will adapt to a change in caloric intake, completely canceling it out. Indeed, the claim is that the body will adapt so well that it will begin gaining weight from the same caloric intake that was previously a weight-loss-inducing deficit. This is utterly untrue. Not just an incomplete picture or misleading, but an utter falsehood.
> The benefits of treating the soil as a living organism include increased fertility

This is a pretty interesting (and correct) point, and there's a lot to say about it from a few different perspectives.

You get much higher all-inclusive yields from a unit of land by growing several different crops in the same space. They (can) complement each other, using different resources from the ground and providing resources to each other.

American agriculture is not set up to do this. Instead of optimizing yield as a function of land input, we optimize yield as a function of labor input, because we have tons and tons of fertile land relative to our small-for-the-size-of-the-country population. If you have one person growing food on a thousand acres of land (remember, one acre is originally "the amount of land one man can plow in a day"), it makes more sense to give that one person just one thing to do. There's no way they're going to be able to care for 5 different crops simultaneously, or even adjust their practices to better suit the specifics of individual fields. We prefer to get a lot of land under low-labor cultivation, even though the cultivation isn't very effective, because our tiny population doesn't require high agricultural yields per unit land.

A more traditional model involves starving peasants intensively cultivating scarce land. With cheap and abundant labor inputs, you can get much more from one unit of land. But most of that increase goes to feeding the peasants who provide the labor. This is similar to how models of the effect of immigration on American GDP tend to show large increases in GDP -- the benefits of which, if you account for them, mostly accrue to the new immigrants.

I don't think there's an easy way to combine the ideas of "infinite cheap peasant labor gives us higher agricultural yields" and "a middle-class lifestyle should be in reach for everybody". Americans are rich, from a historical and current-rest-of-the-world perspective, specifically because we use so few people to grow food. One guy with enough food to feed three million people is a huge benefit to the rest of the country, and he's personally stinking rich. Five million peasants in huts who collectively produce enough food to feed 5,100,000 people are all dirt poor, and they produce only a minor benefit to the rest of the country.
Why every developer should build a side project
Dystopian take: WeWork will provide companies with all kinds of metrics and tracking, like time to enter and leave. This will make remote work "palatable" to a wider range of employers.

Practical take: For the same reason companies don't let you book your own plane tickets and expense claim them, and almost always instead use corporate services like Amex Global Travel / Carlson Wagonlit Travel, as well as mandate the use of the corporate card on travels etc. When you have a non-trivial amount of employees, companies don't want to do one-off arrangements like that, or argue about what is reimbursable. WeWork being a "known quantity" / The Default(tm) is really important to Corporate. Your experience may vary at smaller companies.

As Patio11 put it, "You probably have a lot of questions but it’s a Holiday Inn; anything else?" https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1161796809741627392?lang=...
Are there any videos of the Two Trees tech, or does that not do it justice?

How far out do you think consumer AR is realistically?
One billion Google calendar users exposed to fake invite scam
If you decide to live outside of society, hidden in a shack in a self-sustained manner then maybe you could live tax-free, but you wouldn't be entitled to any subsidized services (varies by country) like healthcare, police protection, water treatment, driving on public roads, etc.

At some point, it's just easier to get taxes and let the authorities to determine where that money should be distributed to best serve the society that elected them. And if you don't like the way they redistribute that wealth then you're free to vote for someone else or get yourself elected to do things differently.
I think you're missing a basic understanding of what an "analogy" is. Hard to keep this conversation going.
How can you say "_____ doesn't have this problem (unless you use wildcard imports" when all of the languages you listed allow wildcard imports? (Or just dump all their garbage symbols in a global namespace.)
Where do you feel the fault was, wrt communication problems and leadership?

Was it because of incentives being wrong in the company, the wrong people in charge, something else?
I'm thinking more along the lines of the berths in the Cabin bus, not Amtrak's rooms.

Plus, the LA-SF routes on the Coast Starlight aren't overnight.
Wow, fascinating! Sounds like a huge undertaking.

Wish you good luck and fun, and hopefully we'll hear from your MMORPG again. Would love to read more about the technical challenges of your game. :)
Restoring History: Creating Wow Classic Panel Recap
agile, lowercase a, is not bad.
Dropbox market cap is crazy and they are trying to pivot to something else like paper.
He comes off as a guy with integrity. But what about Julian Assange? The consensus in the US media now seems to be that he just wanted to hurt Hillary by helping Donald Trump, and thus was working for team Russia?
Trying playing Moira -- she's broken right now. Highest I've ever been previously is just over 3k on tank and I'm sitting around 3300 right now just from playing Moira.

Right click orbs only and use your ult on cooldown. Good luck!
Superblocks: Barcelona’s Car-Free Zones
For more on Heidegger and any other philosopher, I highly recommend the podcast "Philosophize This", it's helped me understand philosophy better than anything else.
This is all there is
Because that goverment was democratically elected and have the legitimacy to decide.
Kerry Roberts has a degree in accounting, an applied science (mathematics).
I have seen this with people who had cancer. Even with insurance they slowly got sucked dry. They spend hours and hours on the phone with insurance and doctors and if you don’t have a lawyer on retainer or really good nerves all the billing mistakes slowly bankrupt you. It’s a horrible system where the patient is just a football to be kicked around between hospitals, doctors and insurance.
Frameworks like Laravel are the way forward. Very similar to RoR and I've been very productive with it.

PHP 5.x days are long gone.
Please don't use indentation for quotes. The side-scrolling makes it completely impossible to read on mobile, and nearly impossible to read on desktop.

>So what about companies like WeWork and Peloton that interact with the real world? Note the centrality of software in all of these characteristics:

>

>- Software creates ecosystems.

>- Software has zero marginal costs.

>- Software improves over time.

>- Software offers infinite leverage.

>- Software enables zero transaction costs.

>

>...

>

>- WeWork claims it has a software-created ecosystem that connect companies and employees across locations, but it is difficult to find evidence that this is a driving factor for WeWork’s business.

>- WeWork pays a huge percentage of its revenue in rent.

>- WeWork’s offering certainly has the potential to improve over time.

>- WeWork is limited by the number of locations it builds out.

>- WeWork requires a consultation for even a one-person rental, and relies heavily on brokers for larger businesses.

>

>Frankly, it is hard to see how WeWork is a tech company in any way.
Here's where that analogy falls apart: If your 10K computer fails, your vendor will fix it under the support contract for free. If the hospital-provided sling falls apart and you go back to the hospital, they'll charge you again. In most cases, the product is the same one you can get yourself elsewhere, and it still doesn't come with a guarantee.
Obtained industrial premises for a robotics business I conceived 4 years ago and began to invest in significant hardware for insourced manufacturing and further acceleration of future R&D. Received unprompted, personal email regarding direct corporate investment from billionaire investor chairing multibillion conglomerate. Initial hires (and one fire) toward daily operations management delegation.
It's not a bus. It's a second-generation groundcraft.
He should write more about the qualitative differences he experiences instead of some argument referencing streaming music.
I would agree this is AR. It's similar to the AR introduced in sports broadcasts that overlayed first-down lines or field goal long-distance records onto football fields, hockey puck trails for speed indication, and on and on...
The “reports” are just the bankers putting out offers essentially, and seeing how the (investing) public reacts. So on the one hand, they’re extremely real because they’re from the people who will eventually set the price, but on the other hand they’re extremely fake since not necessarily anyone has expressed an interest to transact at that price.
Care to hypothesise what those rules might be? Because he does criticise the Russian government openly and often, so he certainly doesn’t look like a pawn, even if Putin is playing metaphorical chess against the whole world.
> A superset of PHP that makes PHP cool again.

Is this real, or a massive troll attempt?

If they’re serious about this, they desperately need better marketing.

Nothing like calling your own project "cool" to make it appear incredibly uncool.
AliExpress survives entirely from these low postal rates, and a chunk of Ebay business does too.
AMC theaters has A-List which is similar.

https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist
But you only know that because someone analysed user behaviour, so...
Even if one is clear about the definition in use, it's the fallacy of equivocation if it is used to counter an argument using a different definition.
Thank you for the thoughtful response, it’s very helpful.

Actually I think I am the one who was raised with extremely maladaptive and toxic argument patterns by watching my parents, and I’m struggling to change because I didn’t have the chance to see and learn other healthy patterns, because, well, disagreements usually happen in private.
>She's literally a child lecturing the grownups. It fits that "emperor has no clothes"/out of the mouths of babes trope.

>The people who back her want to hold her up as someone wise beyond her years. The entire thing is primarily an appeal to emotion.

She's telling a story that directs a lot of attention to an important issue, no more, no less. It sounds to me as if you're criticizing her essentially for telling a compelling story. What standard are you holding her to? She's not a politician, CEO, engineer, etc. ...

>Greta is the face of the idea that there is a simple and obvious answer that could be readily implemented, if only us sinners would get up off our slothful, gluttonous sorry asses and Do The Right Thing.

Your choice of words, not anyone elses. The fact that this is what her words sound like to you does help answer my original question (where all the hate comes from) though (see atoav's sibling comment...).

The rest of your comment is basically saying that she makes a complex issue sound too simple. Maybe so, but claiming that something is "too complex" is often an excuse for not doing anything.

In fact, quite a lot could be achieved by measures that are relatively simple. A carbon tax would be a great example. If the publicity she's generated can speed up the introduction of such a tax, she'll have done more for our future than most of the experts she's apparently supposed to defer to.
Democratic FTC comm:We’re not going to fix Big Tech monopolies with little fines
Sounds like the kinda fraud that makes for no-knock raids in the early morning. Of course it is difficult to make a case if you never use the laughable barrier that is judicial consent to search.
I ran across FastAPI earlier this year and did a tiny prototype to play with it. Selling points for me:

- Integrates nicely with some existing libraries (Starlette, Pydantic)

- Well documented

- Auto-validation of endpoints from data models

- Auto-generation of OpenAPI schemas from those models

- Auto-serves live API docs from that schema

- Easy definition of sync and async endpoints

Again, it was just a tiny proof-of-concept prototype, but I'm sold on using it on future projects.
I think you missed the point that we need an open pricing system. Sure you are willing to pay $200 for that sling but others might decide differently if they see the price beforehand!
I didn't even say anything against vaccines. Simply, it's not the primary driver of decrease in childhood mortality. You're blinded by ideology if you can't have a conversation with resorting to name-calling and reductios.
Many optional things never become mandatory, stop the slippery slope fallacy...
Call me ecoterrorist, but hearing "flights are cheap", so we flight makes me angry. Flights should not supposed to be cheap. The whole industry contributes significantly to global warming for you to watch movies.
I thought it was kind of surprising at first then I realized it’s because he already thought deeply about everything he’s been asked.

After careful deliberation he made a moral choice to leak information at great risk to himself. This makes him not only good to talk through the technical implications of his choices but also moral ones.
... what if you don't make it to a Kaiser emergency room?

The Kaiser system would be great if every major hospital nationwide was under it. Kind of like a national healthcare system...
You need very strong nerves. Their collectors can be very aggressive.
Are they profitable? Despite what the techno digerati have you believe, a successful company is not based on how the market values it but whether they can get people to give them more money than it costs to produce a good or service.

There is no better evidence that Dropbox is just a feature than for the same price that Dropbox charges for 1Tb of storage, you can get the full Microsoft Office Suite for up to six users and a total of 6TB of storage.
In case someone cannot get past the paywall

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVmaUKkcZwyWRZ5ZyK8MkxDzYPWL4dGdSLrfjN...

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmVmaUKkcZwyWRZ5ZyK8MkxDzYP...
>But more seriously, as someone who has followed MoviePass since 2011

I was confused and had to look up the history[1], because I thought they were only around since August 2017 [2].

As it turns out, 2017 was when they shifted over to the "one movie a day for $9.95 a month" (paid for at the retail level with no special buy-in or discounts from theaters), which is what made them a household name.

So, just an FYI if were confused like me.

Someone else probably has more details about the clusterfrak regarding all the sudden blackout days and surge pricing and running out of money and denying your ticket after you got to the theater.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoviePass

[2] which I remember I was visiting my brother when I started hearing about it
Congress is investigating Apple's control of the market for iPhone repairs