skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bold statement. I don't think I can get more things done when I take one more day off. Can you?

They don't show how they measured their productivity exactly. I also don't think a month trial is good enough to derive the conclusion. Furthermore, there is a chance that other variables affected the result. It's difficult to come to the conclusion through this kind of uncontrollable experiment where you cannot control the variables and constants.
The not drinking glyphosate thing is way overblown. The best data we have says that eating Crayolas is safe. Young children do it all the time. They're non-toxic by design. That doesn't mean that I'm going to munch down a boxful if asked to. It isn't food.

OF COURSE he didn't drink it. Again, it isn't food.
I think there are people who keep A. cerana here, as it seems to be the only native, domesticated honey bee species around here. I have seen lots of bee hive boxes on western side of the Kam Shan Country Park, though they are definitely not top-bar.

My understanding is that A. mellifera is not native to South-East Asia. In fact, there's no recorded observation of A. mellifera in Hong Kong on iNaturalist. So I wouldn't want to import them, lest it results in an ecological catastrophe.
You don't have to trade on Coinbase, you could just buy and hold on Coinbase and send it to another exchange if you want to trade.
The open secret is that that is how a lot of that fiction is actually written.
This is going largely off topic, but I'll indulge.

> I don't know why leavers think the UK will be able to

> negotiate better trade deals than a bloc of 27 countries.

Other than shear volume, what does the EU offer that the UK is not capable of? And is what the EU offers worth ~£9 billion a year?

The UK doesn't have to make better trade deals, they can even afford to be slightly worse and still be of a net benefit. The trade deals would have to be ~£9 billion worse in order for them not to be beneficial.

Playing 4D chess: I highly suspect that the UK will receive very good trade deals in a medium/long-term gamble by other super powers to destabilize the EU.
RH probably won't be repaid, but they have incentives to recover here.
Every state is different, but e.g., in California the median wage is about $20 / hour, and you can garnish 25% of the income above the state minimum wage of $12 / hour. That's about $4,000 / year. It's probably not worth it for RH to sue for this, but they might get back $10–15 k from a debt collection agency, which are designed to recoup debts over a period of years, all the while collecting hefty interest payments.
You should check out slashdot. It's like hackernews, but with specific people who choose the stories.
Yeah, it sounds like we are going through a similar form of hell. How long have you been dealing with this?
Microsoft Japan switched to four-day workweek – sales skyrocketed 40%
Setting aside the highly relevant particulars of history mentioned in other replies, it's odd to me that every city isn't designed this way; we'd probably have less wars if they were. The main incentives for invading countries are

1) taking resources/land

2) travelling through to take other countries' resources/land

and

3) self defense.

If you aren't attacking anyone, and attacking you is more trouble than it's worth, you'll most likely be left alone.
If you think the free market would serve markets better, then why are there food deserts?

The truth is that the free market optimises for maximised ROI to the exclusion of all else.

There used to be a lot of smaller retailers serving communities - smaller markets, corner stores, delis, etc.
Large retailers came in and set up super stores which offered comparable goods at lower prices (due to the larger purchasing power and ability to take a local loss subsidised by other areas).

Once the local retailers were run out of business - the business eventually looked at what stores wern't turning enough profit and shut them down. After all, there's no local competition - customers will be required to go further.

This lead to lots of local unemployment and communities in which it's impossible to get food and other necessities locally.

In a free market, wages only rise where the business doesn't have control over the market. Once they do (through consolidation and driving out competitors) - wages drop, positions disappear, and conditions degrade.
Capitalism kicks in. The proprietor would build a bigger coffeeshop. Or someone would open a Starbucks.
When I plug in your example (in Chrome console and in the TypeScript compiler), `a` is type `() => Promise<{foo: string}>` and `b` is type `() => any`.

I thought you had to actually provide a Promise to `Promise.all`, not functions that return promises (you have to invoke the functions):

const [ a, b ] = await Promise.all([
(async () => ({ foo: 'bar' }))(),
(() => null)(),
])

When I do this, `a` and `b` have their proper types.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/65633-c...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/03/climate...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574335/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-h...
More accurately, Apple is getting more insistent that apps on the store can’t use private APIs, and the Chrome browser is a huge offender in using private APIs. Of course, Chrome is the technology underlying Electron, so any apps built with Electron are likewise affected.

Google doesn’t care if Apple won’t let Chrome on the App Store. But if you built your app with Electron, you may very well care that Apple is now getting more insistent about enforcing these rules.
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The problem is fragmentation, this would require upgrading thousands of apps in close proximity to avoid consumer confusion when decimal places switch across platforms
The first implementation makes sense. However the second "hardened" one is completely broken, because now the cache is encrypted with the dictionary key...
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus, MIT Press 2019 - an excellent overview of the history of our conception of communication with intelligent life as well as a technological survey of the means with which we pursued it. Is not afraid to go into detail about linguistics, radio communications, and astronomy.

Abolish ICE by Natascha Elena Uhlmann, O/R Books 2019 - specific, comprehensive call to action regarding the atrocities committed by ICE in the past two decades. Doesn't split itself on partisan lines and goes after Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump equally. Honestly a must read.
> Perhaps the takeaway is that when banks refuse to do business with crypto traders, or when a government bans trading altogether, it doesn’t stop traders from trading. It just forces them to find creative solutions. If it were easy for crypto exchanges to use the traditional banking system, there would be no need for Tether at all.

This is a point not many seem to understand.
What programming languages should you learn?
Ethereum's smart contracts are obviously more developer friendly and easier to implement. Ethereum smart contracts are the go-to for dapps, despite having a significantly smaller userbase and market cap than bitcoin.

To say Bitcoin smart contracts are equal to Ethereum smart contracts would be akin to comparing Myspace to Facebook.
You refactor that way but then you make it unnecessarily more complicated.
Oh man, Super Sad True Love Story had me seeing its storylines surface in American culture for months. Even new news I’m like; “this is just how it happened in the book!” Great read and great author.
Right, and that's why smallsat launchers are only really viable for orbits/launches that can't be served by rideshares. Better to pay $5mil for an Electron to launch your smallsat than to book an entire Falcon 9, even if the $/kg is far higher.
https://www.ft.com/content/6999dc72-893e-11e9-97ea-05ac2431f...

This explains it decently IMO

> Assume that you own a business that has an overall value of $100m and generates $10m in annual income, and that you hire me as your manager. Assume also that my compensation is $1m and that rather than pay me with cash, you give me 1 per cent of the business as compensation. While you may maintain the fiction that this is a non-cash expense and that your income is still $10m, you are now entitled to only 99 per cent of that income in perpetuity. In effect, your share of the business is worth less and it will get even smaller over time, if you continue to pay me with equity. But if you are a common stockholder in any company that grants options or restricted stock to its employees, then you are in exactly the same position.

While it's obviously bad for shareholders, it basically dilutes their profits in the future, but if those never come, who cares about that dilution? I think it would affect my opinion of the stock long term, but short term any way they get towards profitability minus stocks is a way that someone actually sees a dividend.

But of course, most people actually looking to buy and sell individual stocks won't really care a ton about the dividends IMO. And it's not like people really use voting rights today on tech stocks even if they are offered. It's always fascinated me that stock games like that really come down to just betting on future performance compared to the opinions of others. It's comically confidence based and nothing else.

So if Uber were to eve somehow reach profitability minus stock compensation, their business itself could actually take advantage, even if the shares of others were diluted in terms of dividends.* So if you're buying and selling stocks individually in the current pattern, Uber hitting that middle zone of technically nonprofitable but adjusted profitable would be a good sign for long term resilience, however that factors into the current confidence equation.

How the stock market hasn't been classified as gambling at this point is wild to me.

*I'm actually not personally clear on if it is a dilution or those specifics, its surprisingly hard info to find online easily. One thing is clear though: the company's cash flow itself is not affected at all.
Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP
In this context that's exactly what it means. I have no idea what you are talking about, but this article is about the pound not being backed and the peg being forced to break. That doesn't happen unless there is some sort of dishonesty or insolvency going on.
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My brother is a beekeeper, I help him, that article seems to present a very shoddy method that sounds unhealthy and risky for the bees
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It's very likely that hint23 is his account.
You and I may disagree on this but my assumption is that it’s not the drivers job to determine whether the car will take the right action, but to do whatever is necessary to prevent any sort of accident.

Regardless my point was more related to the fact that an additional driver likely would have prevented the primary driver from watching a movie on there phone as opposed to watching the road.

Whatever they’re supposed to do in this instance the driver wasn’t doing it.
> The only way to know for sure is to plant your own garden

Presuming you test your soil, first. Leaded paint and leaded gasoline have heavily contaminated large parts of residential land, especially those parts closest to buildings.

Unlike with commercial produce where only a particular plant here or there may have come from a contaminated patch of land, if your garden is contaminated you're being exposed regularly.

Similarly, even if all the land around you is pristine, who knows what a previous owner may have done at any particular spot. Maybe someone once stacked a dozen, leaky lead-acid batteries where you want to plant your garden. It's kind of unthinkable for many people today (if only because we're not a fix-it yourself society much anymore), but people regularly did dumb stuff like that years ago, and some still do today.
The Book by Alan Watts. It metaphorically and literally puts a lot of thoughts I’ve had into words while also pushing the limits of my own perspective and philosophical thought.
Nobody wants to use a maps app that feel like it's from 2004. There's a reason people put up with giving their data away -- because data drives machine intelligence, which makes your maps app smoother, more responsive, more useful, and overall a much better experience.

I, too, don't want to give my data away. But when I'm in my car, the most important thing is that I get to my destination safely and on time. That acute need vastly outweighs my own philosophy on who I think should have my data.

I'm just being honest with myself. I can't deny that I make heavy use of products that make heavy use of my personal data. People in this community seem to think of personal data collection as a form of parasitism, but in reality, it is far closer to mutualism.
In your context, even if the pound are being backed, doesn't mean it can't be destroyed.
> The politics of Brexit are also not very suitable for a HN

> on shorting the pound.

As I stated, £3.3 billion is very small compared to its other ongoing expenses. Factually pointing out the cost of membership is neither an argument for leave or remain.

> By mentioning only the costs of remaining in the EU, not

> the ongoing benefits, you're being pretty disingenuous

Please read the Full Fact reference [1]. From the £17.4 billion membership fee I negated the rebate amounts. The only major thing not taken into consideration is the financial sector investments and the philanthropic nature of the EU.

[1] https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
Pedestrians always have the right of way and can be ticketed for failing to stop.

However, just because you have the right of way doesn't mean you can't be ticketed for not crossing in the designated areas.
Then consider allowing your children to merely gargle with glyphosate, and remove their crayon-eating privileges if they insist on persevering to digestive phases.
A stop-the-world GC for HFT doesn't sound like it would work all the well…
Yes. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Bitcoin originated smart contracts, but they were severely limited due to a filter that was imposed. Arbitrary scrypt execution was seen as a security risk (despite not being Turing-complete), so a set of scrypt templates were whitelisted. I think all clients would accept blocks with any scrypt in them, but most pools would only accept transactions with the fixed templates.

Bitcoin does have enough flexibility to do trustless cross-chain trading though, so it's possible to do dapp logic in Eth and manipulate BTC funds indirectly. (IIRC)
Pokemon Go, Subnautica, Kerbal Space Program come to mind immediately.

It should be noted that ALL of these, including minecraft, suffered in quality because of their performance. But, commercially they all did really well.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to put mesh around the hive with holes that the bees can fit through but the giant wasps can't?
Policing the Berlin Wall: the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi’s hidden cameras
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The residents of Flint, Michigan might disagree.
> When we have guaranteed lunches for every school student, then we can talk about subsidizing services for people in rural areas.

Why do these have to be a one or the other?

It's like the argument of "Why are we doing stuff in space while we still have poor people".

As a society we're capable of solving multiple problems simultaneously.

Many farmers are going out of business because of major corporations driving out independent farmers.

There's huge numbers of farmers that are being required to undertake terrible short-sighted practices because that's what they're contractually required to do for $BrandName to buy their product.

As for 'not exactly poor' - no, they're the modern working class, for the most part. They're asset rich, but free cashflow low, and operate in conditions that are highly unpredictable, and much of their ability to turn a profit is based entirely on things out of their control. They depend on huge amounts of credit to buy the machinery and resources they need to operate.
As yet another nerd married to a doc in a rural area (Hines, OR, 90 min south of GP's John Day, and similarly remote), I'll also point out that rural docs have a broader scope of practice - to some extend they make more money because they do some work that is done by specialists in urban and suburban areas.
clang-tidy has a command to replace auto_ptr with unique_ptr[0]. I haven't used it in anger, though.

[0] https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-rep...
If investors were all as wise as Buffet time arbitrage wouldn't be a thing.
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A Twitter user is bragging about having my HN account banned
So I am a little confused here. My understanding of hydroponics, a method which uses an inert medium for the root system to grow in and is often a relatively closed system, aquaponics, also a pretty closed system which uses water for the roots to grow in, and aeroponics, a relatively closed system which uses a fine mist for the root system, have pretty much zero interaction with the soil which is outside of the system.

What is stated is that

>glyphosate...is being sprayed on fields prior to constructing hydroponic greenhouses awaiting organic certification. This is done to remove weeds from the greenhouses.

>The way this use of herbicide is incorporated into “organic” certification is to...level a field, compact it..., wait...until the weeds...have germinated. And then spray it with an herbicide. They are doing this in California and Florida. The weeds...can grow straight through the black plastic.

What I take away is that the herbicide is being sprayed as part of construction on the ground and then it is covered. My guess is that this black plastic is used as a weed block and or helps isolate the outside environment.

>the NOP continues to assert that hydroponic, aquaponic, and aeroponic production is allowed (1). NOP argues that because glyphosate does not “touch” the plants being certified, it is technically still “organic.

Typically in a hydroponic setup you’re growing the root system in a container filled with a nutrient solution which is not in contact with the soil so it seems reasonable to assume the plant will not be in contact with the soil. Except for maybe the air, the inputs to the plant should also be isolated from the soil. At least that is my understanding. Please feel free to correct any errors here.

So from a strictly certification standpoint I can understand why the fruit would remain organic. However it does seem to violate the intent I assume most people buy organic products for.

Personally I’m not sure where I stand on glyphosates at the moment but given language like this in the article...

>Using common sense, this would rightfully deem any product non-organic – but this doesn’t seem to be the case for hydroponics

>Besides the fact that it is obvious that organics cannot and should not be sprayed with glyphosate, the NOP continues to assert that...

>If that’s not the craziest assumption I’ve heard in regards to organic food production, I don’t know what is...

I feel like some of this needs to be balanced out and we approach this with our eyes fully open.

Some relevant resources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics
The karma on this is going up and down today. Dunno what thats all about.

Perhaps I'm a little more optimistic about logistics than most, but in all likelyhood, we'll see an exodus from the urban areas that will drive the growth of same day/next day shipping to these smaller communities.

That would fix the "retail deserts" explained in the article and in the comments faster than shining up the facade of small town retail and hoping for the best.
We watched this documentary in the fake news class I taught this past summer.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542

While some of the assertions in the film are unsubstantiated, the resulting classroom discussion on the role of social media and privacy were immensely constructive.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036195
Ask HN: Facebook force scroll top when scrolling past a playing video
I found this annoying UX on Facebook with Chrome, they force scroll top when you are scrolling past a playing video!
No... these are hydroponic, meaning they are grown without soil.
I don’t know how tax system works in the UK, but to calculate US taxes you cannot just simply add the tax rates. Because taxes in the US are progressive. For both Fed and CA taxes, your first $x gets taxed at a lower rate, next $y gets taxed at a slightly higher rate. The highest rate kicks in >$1mn. Then we have a standard deduction of $23k for married couples. Which means $23k of your income is not taxed. Then state taxes are deductible on your Fed income, which means you can subtract the state taxes to calculate your Fed tax income bracket. Then there are myriad of deductions for property tax, mortgage, child care, health care, etc etc. Finally SSN and Medicare tops out at $100k, and you don’t pay beyond that. Net effect is you are probably paying close to 25-30% in effective tax rate
> The whole point of growing organically is to ensure this planet stays healthy and chemical-free.

The planet is entirely made of chemicals, it can't be made chemical-free and, even if it could, that wouldn't be healthy.
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See my reply above
I am getting emails telling me I need to get a car serviced, which I no longer own, and it's from a dealer I did not buy the car from. It is claimed they got my information from the manufacturer. And there is no unsubscribe link, presumably because I have a "business relationship" with someone.

So yeah, I think that is a form of violence.
That's interesting to hear your experiences with Yang.

I certainly have my own critiques of his campaign team's strategy. Unfortunately I think Yang has failed to establish legitimacy with some of the left, due mostly to flaws in his narrative and framing of certain issues.
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Here is a complete list of countries in mainland Europe that have not been invaded or suffered a civil war since 1900.

Switzerland

Here is a complete list of Switzerland’s neighbours that have the same constitutional settlement as in 1940.
I think it's quite fitting that your clarification is probably something missing from Zuckerberg's perspective as well.