skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then lets use some better terms.

Petrochemicals and derivatives aren't good for the land. It depletes various types of long-accrued chemicals and biological structures that make it healthy.

Neonicotinoids and similar neurotoxins are bad for myriad life in the vicinity where these chemicals are deposited or sprayed.

If it ain't EM, strong, weak, or gravity, it's chemicals. But there's a whole slew of really nasty shit we humans have created that is devastating on the ecology. Some are damn near permanent, others mess with endocrine systems, others cause cancer of everything.. Probably a good idea to keep the bulk of these away unless we reallllly know what we're doing. And considering the usual reason is "to make a buck", we're selling our future selves really short, and we ain't asking them.
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It's a shame JS at the beginning doubled down on the "billon dollar mistake" [1] with two(!) kinds of NULL instead of just using Maybe/Option.

Ah well, if it were good it wouldn't be popular :/

[1] https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...
Ah good catch, I was spacing on the easiest way to show how to easiest show the operator and forgot to invoke my functions!
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It seems you are right, I automatically assumed it wasn’t.
Xerox spun off their services business as Conduent, which was basically ACS that they acquired previously.
Pretty much, that's how I read it too. This has nothing to do with glyphosate being on the hydroponic crops.

It says it right there in the article:

> This is all because the USDA does not consider spraying toxic herbicides like glyphosate on the soil immediately prior to inspection to be a disqualifier for organic certification.

> According to Jennifer, because the plant itself is not being exposed to prohibited substances like glyphosate, spraying the ground with herbicides the week before organic certification is 100% legal.
I go for superstition. In this case.

But these things described as "illusions" aren't, really. Type just looks better when it looks better. Making it look more like physical objects makes it look better.

The perception of a problem is entirely in the minds of typographers indulging a fetish for mathematically "pure" curves. There is nothing objectively better about a low-dimensional curve.

It is the same fetish that favors sans-serif faces because they are supposed to look "cleaner" or something. Only people not interested in actually reading the text could develop such a preference, because the "cleaner" it is, the harder it is to read. Perfectly circular letters would be cleanest of all, and entirely illegible.

We can each do our part to put down impositions of fetishism on people who never asked for it. Fetishistic graphic designers have a lot to apologize for.
Because you either win huge, say $10M with ~ 50% chance, or go bankrupt, which is a good proposition for people who have very little to lose.
Merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21452643
I don't care if these words were uttered by the Pope or by a vox day. They are still true, and well put.
I have been able to replace my yaml with well typed cue. https://cuelang.org/
We were trying to interface with bluez (the Linux kernel Bluetooth stack, which exposes a D-Bus API) in order to communicate with our device, and no method we tried was able to get past opening the initial connection (no MTU negotiation, no connection interval selection, no service discovery, etc.). It was an old kernel, so it could have been bugs in the bluez implementation from that era, or bugs in the firmware blob of the BLE chipset (it worked on the same hardware running Android, but we didn't verify whether the BLE firmware blob was the same).

The argument in favor of this approach was that it was supposed to look and feel "just like normal Linux" which is where we do most of our development work. Unfortunately, this just isn't the case. I think the two biggest issues are:

1. ubports uses an Android kernel, and although it's 99% pure Linux, Android kernels usually disable a lot of things that your typical Linux machine expects and that some libraries rely on (e.g. most IPC mechanisms). This is really frustrating to work around.

2. This one could just be my lack of experience with these things, but the AppArmor security policies and the weird container setup slowed me down a lot and made the system unpleasant to work on. This didn't really cause an issue, but it made working with the system unpleasant.
You can read about Sofosbuvir, an actual _cure_ for Hepatitis C, and Zolgensma a novel treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. CRISPR is still very new, this field will be unrecognizable by the end of the next decade.
What about non-Uranium isotopes?
Ethereum was responsible for the 2017 bubble, but not because it is useful or smart contracts are useful or blockchain is useful. It was ICOs/scams running on Ethereum. Everyone saw their friends getting rich from Bitcoin and wanted in on one of the supposedly Next Bitcoins.

Blockchain is just a database, a slow and expensive one at that. “Legacy” tech (like a RDBMS) is much more efficient, reliable, and cutting-edge than blockchain. The only benefit of a blockchain is censorship-resistance—not needing to rely on government or centralized third-parties because a swarm maintains consensus (the longest Merkle tree). Financial markets operate in broad daylight with real identities enforced by judges and men with guns. There is absolutely no use case for censorship-resistance in that space. It is a lose/lose. How is it even supposed to work? Bankers pay miners to secure a log of their transactions? Ok, say someone robs a bank. A banker calls in to report the loss; a block gets mined showing that money is lost. Why did you need a blockchain? Why not just trust the banker to update a RDBMS cluster since you're trusting the banker's word anyway? Blockchain only works for purely digital things...like Bitcoin.

Smart contracts also do not need censorship resistance. People get along fine with the current legal system at least for civil lawsuits.

You need a blockchain iff:

- The data you are representing are other data in the same tree, not entities outside the data structure (much less entities irl).

- You need censorship-resistance because you're Silk Road or Wikileaks or trying to overthrow your government.

- The data is publicly/www world accessible by parties who do not trust each other.

TL;DR A blockchain is a domain-specific data structure internal to the Bitcoin project circa 2009.
Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day.

The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.

Seneca
Easily Correct a Typo of Previous Command Using Carat (^) Symbol
Okay I am going to contradict myself a little bit now... actually, today the state is also healing people when they are sick, using tax money for that. So, just letting people make themselves sick and then suck up tax money to get back on their feet is very counterproductive... which is why "prevention" is so important, and why so many substances are regulated or forbidden.
I'd say it's less about feeling "left behind" and more about feeling like they're being attacked and hated.

Whether that's the kind of "attacked" that sounds like Obama saying they "cling to their guns and their religion" (that is, personal attacks), or the kind of attack where policies are created intentionally to harm them (like subsidizing international shipping and trade, or free trade deals which had the direct consequence of shipping many of their jobs overseas).

Of course, like all topics, the truth is more complicated than the meme, but these are the kinds of feelings you'll hear about if you start listening to Trump voters.
From the title I had figured this was about a certain CIA whistleblower.

On a more on-topic note, I feel like there's some holes in this article. Like why exactly didn't they name their source in the report?
They get paid money for that fucking food.
At least we have 11000 willing volunteers that will stop reproducing immediately.
Fuel needs to be more expensive.
But have people won big, or have they just been losing their modest initial stake?

If you only have a few hundred or thousand to start with, you can gloat about how you only really lost that much while theoretically owing millions, but you still gave up 100%.
Fortunately, indentured servitude was outlawed, along with slavery, by the passage of the 13th amendment.

Of course, the constitution is only as powerful as we are willing to follow it -- but I'm pretty comfortable that the slope between people agreeing to pool their income voluntarily and people being forced into servitude isn't all that slippery.
What services business? Xerox makes almost all of its revenue from selling or renting printers/copiers. HP itself spun off its services business a little while ago (HPE is a completely different company now).

This is essentially a move for two companies in similar segments that see a slow death on the horizon to combine to cut costs and hope for a successful pivot. It makes sense as well, since the market for printers is already too small for two major players and is just shrinking every year.
I saw a documentary on this.

The long short is "faking their deaths" doesn't mean what we normally think it means. Its more of a therapy tactic for depressed/suicidal people where they get to go through with it. They write goodbye notes, have a funeral, even get put in a coffin for a few hours.

I don't know if it works but it seems promising.
This is actually funny to me because as a child I fondly remember playing “Funeral” as one of our games.

The game consisted of players taking turns lying very still and dead in some kind of coffin or just on the floor. Then everyone else takes turns going up to your dead body and saying last words about what a good friend you were or maybe you were an ass and the world is better off without you or absolutely whatever you wanted to say, sometimes funny and sometimes true. Then maybe you throw some “flower” or something and the next kid takes a turn.

When everybody has spoke their thoughts you’re covered with blankets or pillows or whatever we had and you experience just being dead and buried, until you get bored then you get up and it’s someone else’s turn to die.

I don’t know why we played such a morbid game as kids but there you go. Maybe it’s why I’m so cynical and nihilist as a grown up.
And the interstate commerce clause had come to mean that the federal government can do almost anything.
'Three-Body Problem' Perplexing Since Newton..A.I. Cracked It in Under a Second
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And arguably they provide more useful news for most people than 'serious' newspapers that get you the latest political outrage.
Thinking about the potential impact of Twitter's political ad ban
This is what I want to know too -- seems like you have to have at least one common library, that is, the library that lets you write a service call in one line instead of twenty lines. IME Go can be quite verbose, especially with >3 lines of error checking after every function call.
This I didnt know
as many as 1000 developers may have accessed user data improperly

... using this one weird trick!
Title is slightly misleading. This is during the time when America wasn't very united, and couldn't even be called a country. A better title would be New England's first banned book.
Discreet-log contracts are a miracle, but in the same way that a dancing bear is a miracle. There's no way they can compete with smart contracts on a platform designed with smart contracts in mind, at least on a technical level. (Maybe we'll all end up using discrete-log contracts and their descendants due to network effects, but I doubt it. Or maybe some richer zero-knowledge contract-enforcement scheme can be devised on bitcoin... Maybe.)
I've seen several stories today on related concepts. This one, and another on apps like Waze advising people to drive through neighborhoods.

It's starting to sound like some folks are questioning the wisdom of having public roads that are free for anybody to use.

Because, y'see, that's the rub. If you want everybody to pay taxes to provide roads, and you want roads from your house to everywhere you want to go that you don't have to (directly) pay for, then you kinda just have to live with the fact that they're public and anybody can use them.

Or, I mean, you could start having private roads everywhere, and then make up any old rules you want.
You missed k__'s point which is that no matter what peak price you think was the best time to sell out, it has always been followed 2-3 years later by an even greater peak.

You have hindsight in the past but you are still lacking foresight into the future.
+1 for cue, it is very impressive especially given how new it is.
This is a new product launch, the current users are reporting on the earliest units. The first normal pre-order batch should be shipping this week, and then I believe there are 2 more batches to be shipped until after the Chinese new year. The current preorder is the last for these units for several months.

The Pinebook Pro specs compare to a somewhat powerful 6-core arm SBC: 5V power input, easy to charge off a solar panel on your boat, IPS LCD panel, MALI gpu, 4gb Ram (SoC is maxed out, this could be upgradable: Original $99 Pinebook upgrade kits are coming in Q1 2020), 64GB MMC, wifi, no ethernet (use $9 dongle, case too thin), USB-C, a UART accessible from the headphone jack with a $7 dongle breakout thingy, optional $7 M.2 NVME daughter board. This is a (almost) fully opensource chromebook with a magnesium shell, and hardware privacy switches. 2 blobs afiak for Mali GPU and Bluetooth/wifi module. Hackable. Inexpensive accessories already exist with good availability. Replacement parts available, BSD according to the wiki.

Personally, I like reasonably powered home computing devices, I just put the stuff with all the fans in the closet. Maybe doing a huge compilation or git merge on the Pinebook hardware is gonna be slow. Full video and smartphone graphics should be fine. Connecting your Pinebook to a Pine64 cluster for big jobs is something you can do today and sounds like a summer project.

This client hardware seems pretty decent for two large bills. A specced Librem 15 is $2000 and could be eye watering if it falls off your boat again.
Agreed. Doesn't mean "too hard, thus ignore" is the right approach though. ;)
> Either that or the beginning of a new dot-com bubble.

The dotcom bubble was the start of a cambrian explosion.

Those two events are part of the same process, not wholly separate entities in which case one is bad and the other is good. They require eachother and cannot be unlinked. The dotcom bubble was not a bad thing, it was a necessary process of chaotic, sometimes idiotic, experimentation. It was an extraordinary good. The total sum of all capital destroyed during the dotcom bubble (which lasted less than four years) would fit into a corner of Amazon's present market value.

Unless you want to pretend that humans are all-knowing gods. In which case we require no experimentation, there are no foolish mistakes possible, no errors of judgment possible, no irrationalism or over-excitement is possible, no emotion is possible, no idiots and malevolent actors (eg con-artists) are possible. And so on.

We should all be hopeful - giddy in fact - if we're about to see a space-focused dotcom style bubble. Bring on the space bubble, do it right now, let's get moving with that. That will be truly extraordinary, it will signal what comes after: a real, massive, sustainable expansion.

The global Internet is beyond a magnitude more valuable - in every way you can measure it, whether in business transacted, value of tech companies, or how valuable it is to end users - today than it was at the peak of the dotcom bubble in 2000.
Not really. Better TL;DR: Peppermint is so great it tempted the author into making it the one distro. But then he realized that he didn't have to pick one - that part of the beauty of Linux is that he could just keep choosing new distros without changing anything much.
I have to say, 5 km/s delta v is more than I was expecting from a tug like that. Still, I really wouldn't be surprised if adding one of those to your smallsat would cost more than $5m.
To paraphrase McPhee: the Swiss are determined to know how to wage war so that they might not.
The Swiss system is soooo interesting in many respects.

Most citizens are army reserve and regularly go for training. Many own a war weapon at home (that is strictly forbidden to take out without orders)

They also have underground air bases that allow plane to take off from national roads and that are designed to resist nuclear bombings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=296&v=vEOLonBfaD...

The main idea behind Switzerland's defense is that it is doable to conquer it, but it is very costly for very little gains. It is said that banks vaults of gold are mounted on trains that are designed, in case of alert, to run into underground tunnels that collapse behind them. Taking months to recover.

This is really an interesting system probably tied tightly with their democratic system.
I don't understand this at all:

Why would you need kill weeds (unwanted plants) if you are growing your plants hydrophonically?

What am I missing?
Was this the documentary you saw?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejEaJUEOhjs
I would argue that your first sentence contradicts the rest of your post. Yes, solve problems with tools that suit your criteria. But you might do that better if you actually know some tools.
Prompt: "Real things don't exist unconditionally and things that exist unconditionally are not real. However the reality has an essense. It is"

Response: "an actual thing, and it is not the thing to which we attach meaning. It is not real because it is not a thing. And therefore, it does not possess the qualities that are inherent in all real things."

Just wow. Sure, there are a few logical mistakes here, but this response serves as a good prompt for my bio-GPT. In other words, we usually need some starting points or hints for analysis and discovering these hints is non trivial because whatever we can think of is not very new to us. This GPT just gave me an answer that smells like a serious wisdom and I'll surely dig in that direction to see if this idea has any substance.

Edit: what's happening here is while I can't ask this model to give me a short and conscise summary on a topic, I can still interrogate this model and find out what it's seen in the training set. I can't possibly read all these books in the training set, but now I can rapidly navigate in the multidimensional meaning space: I tell it where to start and it says what it seems in close proximity to my prompt. This is a breakthru.
All without ending car ownership whatsoever.
Which securities law?
In case anyone is considering downvoting this response, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
Apparently "face book" was a concept/generic phrase in common use before Facebook was a thing.
> What services business?

According to their annual report:

https://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/x/Xerox-2018-Annual-R...

2018

- Revenues: $9.8B

---- Sales: $3.97B

---- Services, maintenance and rentals: $5.59B
One of the junkiest places in orbit right now is around 800-1000km (mostly thanks to the Chinese ASAT weapon test 12 years ago and an unrelated collision between two satellites in 2009. There's also tens thousands of droplets of irradiated coolant that was ejected from Soviet nuclear reactors in 70s-80s). At 1000km it can take around 100 years for something to deorbit from drag (can vary a bit depending on unpredictable space weather events).

1000km is still in Low Earth Orbit, but lower parts of LEO decay more quickly, e.g. months years or decades depending on the orbit's height.

When you get into orbits higher than LEO (MEO: medium Earth orbit, GEO), the timescales before something reenters can get more geological. A GPS satellite (~20,000km up, near the middle of MEO) left to its own devices will stay up for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years.
Flexport open sources its design system, Latitude
That reminds me of this scene from Better Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_hk8ln2pA
Same scam, new brand? Whatever happened to the Norton class of product? Those delivered good value to the user. Did what they promised, didn't spy, didn't upsell me through FUD and dark patterns.
well yeah, but the sovereignty argument was always part of the deal. it's not like it was sprung upon member nations that they suddenly had to accept a common currency out of nowhere. FWIW US states are prevented from having parallel currencies as well; that's also loss of autonomy. it's not necessarily horrible, just a different set of rules.

you are correct in that it makes monetary policy impossible to control from the "outside". obviously that's not a great outcome for various economies in the EU, including the ones you have listed.
An effective way of stopping people from driving an hour to save 5% off their grocery bill is making driving more expensive. Raise gas taxes to European levels and people will think twice before burning 10$ worth of gas to save 10$ on food.
Because RH is on the hook, immediately, for any losses their users may have incurred. Any reparations they might get from their users would have to be collected individually, through a lengthy legal process, from people who are likely unable to pay.
Can't speak for the centralisation of Omni, you have any more info on that? Know little about them, it's a word thrown around quite readily in the cryptoworld for various reasons. They present themselves as decentralised and were in the first wave of layer 2 cryptocurrencies. Tether tx's are anchored into the bitcoin blockchain somewhere along the line.

RE: Maker, certainly agree, just stating the situation. There's no chance of laws being able to keep up, it's a game of asking for forgiveness later for most. If something blew up quick enough and got mainstream adaption the law would bend for it (ie. Uber, AirBnb).

https://decrypt.co/5940/secs-crypto-czar-stablecoins-might-b...
Well, it did go from 30 to 3.
You're joking, but I hope we can see this in RPGs of the future.
Did your class cover any aspect of how the mainstream media, like cable and broadcast TV news channels and the top printed newspapers in the country, also practice heavy bias in their reporting, and how the members of your class could become aware whenever those biases arose?
Paris Airports to Test Facial Recognition for Boarding and Baggage Drop
Just finished reading "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and started "Guns, germs and steel"
I saw a list elsewhere that was tracking ~200 companies building launch vehicles. I'd guess that 90% of them will be gone in a decade having never put anything in orbit.