skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those ML and AI engineers better rethink that logic, as it is equivalent to the reckless taking of human lives, i.e. criminally negligent homicide.
It's very easy to see whether this is true, just look at non-socialist countries and whether their social safety net is as strong as socialist ones. I think you'll notice that, on average, it's nowhere near.
Farmers create the one product you can't live without
Well the $8k/month the author is making on patreon to work on this project clearly indicate that my view is not shared by all. :) Horses for courses.
Someone could likely trivially publish an extension that just drops

* { user-select: unset !important; }

into every visited page.
A typical failing of short term economic thinking:

Superbugs are virtually certain to kill a huge number of people, because virulent resistant strains gonna Black Death.

But we can't get a payoff within a quarter or whatever the payoff window for the seed money is? Eh, don't bother investing.

This is where the government must step in. Oh right, gubberment baaaad.

Seriously, if these have promise they should be funded for 10 years by a multinational conglomerate.

I mean, maybe the Chinese government will step in. You know, the only forward-thinking major government in the world? What a world.
So, inverse APL?

Read-only, write-never?

;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21794932
> find a blog that summarizes books like this into a few bullets or paragraphs.

I personally find this is really important with business books. It is very rare that you need lots of depth, but you benefit immensely from breadth and understanding a lot of competing perspectives on a topic.

You also benefit a lot from knowing a bit about a whole range of business topics, even if you are only a sole technical contributor. Business books are generally a poor source for this knowledge unless they are case studies. Models used in business and management courses can often be covered on a piece of paper.
Not cruel at all! I asked and you answered. And you very well may be right. My expectations were probably just off. I thought for some reason it would have more "world constraints" so if I say "swim to the center of the earth" it would recognize that as not possible.

I do find games with no rules tedious and not fun. The card game Fluxx, for example, I cannot stand.
I get it, he likes the name and enjoys the opportunity to pay homage to Quake and illustrate his having played an early beta of it.

But what insights did the name inspire? None as far as I can tell. I fail to see the claimed significance naming had in this effort.
Cybertruck legal to drive on Mars; in Germany, maybe not so much
Could these be used as a general purpose bluetooth beacon in terms of just ranging/detecting? I work on an app that uses beacon detection to indicate when users passed through an area, but most bluetooth beacons are a bit unreliable.
Ido is an alternative to Esperanto with similar grammar rules and pronunciation, but less complex conjugations and no need for diacritics, instead using digraphs and is thus easier to type. Ido is also gender neutral (rather, gender on nouns is optional) while Esperanto is not, which makes that part a bit easier to learn.

The problem is that there are only about 1000 speakers, which is significantly less than Esperanto. And so learning resources are quite limited by comparison.
My favorite version is "The difference between theory and practice is small in theory and large in practice."
Bootstrapped SaaS Cost Teardown – and the Nuance
PNC Bank says that this is the cause of new security procedures which have the effect of limiting Plaid's ability to verify customer Routing and Account numbers.

While I'm not a customer of PNC I think this is actually a good position for PNC to take - there is a ton of ambiguity in the data that Plaid collects on customers who may only think they're verifying their account for an ACH transaction.

Plaid's business in not necessarily deceptive but it is far from clear to the end user about the extent of their data collection.
> It appears that overprescribing existing antibiotics to people and livestock is a leading cause of rising drug resistance, both of which can be addressed by policy changes.

I worry that any changes in that area will be too little too late.
This is a No True Scotsman argument. Who said anything about beating the S&P 500? I said most industries, and every comment you are redefining what that means.
It actually wasn't taken down. He unlisted it himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9bK_mkmu8
Egads! I thought nothing could approach the uselessness of LaserShip. I’ll pray for packages good sir or madam.
Utah has shown that if you have a small city with lots of cheap land, freezing cold winters, mostly-white population and a religion that expects everyone to do community service you can have a much lower homeless rate. This doesn't hold many lessons for California.
This has happened in my small city as well. The main library is no longer a safe place to visit, and has become a homeless shelter of sorts (with the accompanying smells and infestations).

The good news, I guess, is that kids now have the Internet to learn from, and libraries are no longer a foundation of civic life.
The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries sure seem to have a lot of market failures.
I wasn't minimizing it at all actually, you made that assumption. :-)

I was under the impression that several billionaires are in the business of solving aging (Larry Page comes to mind), but I could be wrong.
"Vote with your wallet" doesn't work when one party rigs the election by giving away their product for free.
Major ISPs colluded with FCC to lie about their internet speeds
The U.S. Has a Perfect Opportunity to Bring Better Internet to Rural Areas
I believe that it is meant to be interpreted in conjunction with the item above it on the list:

> 2. Guarantee farmer/repair technician access to the identical information, parts, and tools that are available to dealerships. These items must be fairly and reasonably priced (taking into account both small and large producers) and be delivered in a timely manner.

They could stop providing information, parts, and tool for old models, but only if they also no longer provide the information, parts, and tools to their dealers.
The Complete List of Every IoT Conference in 2020
This change will prevent us from using a large number of open source apps, effectively locking us into Google's own tools.

My org will be eyeing alternatives when this rolls out.
I am glad to hear that you were indeed joking!
What is it about certain designs that give them a 'modern' look despite the passage of time? Do sharp, angular lines always suggest a 'modern' or 'contemporary' aesthetic? What makes a design feel dated or old?

Here is a teapot design. Modern-looking? (Some of you may recognise it.) Can you guess when it was made?

https://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006AB...

Here's who designed it and when:

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78328/teapot-dresser-chr...

Some more designs by the same designer:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015...
Does mutt support oauth yet? If not, this will be the last straw for G Suite from me. I can sort-of understand turning off "less secure" apps in consumer Gmail, but forcing "security" requirements for private, paid enterprise accounts is ludicrous. Time to find a provider which treats me as a grown-up capable of independent security risk judgement.
I find that on twitter most people speaking esperanto speak about anything BUT politics, and rarely Esperanto itself.

Maybe i've just self-selected that stuff out but I certainly didn't _try_ to. I've found it quite refreshing to be an Esperantist on twitter because of how LITTLE political BS you have to deal with.
Did Vox Just Fire the Entire Golden State of Mind Staff via Twitter?
It seems like overprescribing to a cow is such low hanging fruit.

I understand that if my 5-day-old child marginally needs antibiotics, that the doctor may prescribe to appear active.

But couldn’t sensible legislation end over-prescription to livestock overnight? Is this really an issue of beating the cow lobby?
Indeed, the behaviors described in the article immediately reminded me of Games People Play [0], a popular psychology book from the 1960's based on transactional analysis. The book describes various "games" in which the participants attempt play a certain social role to achieve their desired outcome. The ideas and behaviors here are not uniquely Japanese at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)
I don't see anything wrong with analyzing social interactions. I'm not on the spectrum, and I still find value in it. My confusion what at what seemed to me (perhaps incorrectly) as an approach to conversations that tried to min/max against information disclosure.

You've clarified that though and it seems much more reasonable, although I'm still not sure why there must be information asymmetry. As an example, I just attended an office holiday party. Myself and a coworker I don't know well had a brief conversation on each other's family visit dynamics during the holiday season. I think we both fairly adequately covered our respective situations, and neither of us could come away thinking, "Wow, he/she knows all about my setup but I still don't know much about theirs". It was pretty equitable.
I would not be surprised if DARPA were already in this space. They have been researching the affects of Sulforaphane on reversing autism in children. Surely they must have teams of people working on antibiotics.

Are there any scientists here from DARPA that can chime in?
Illusionist Derren Brown pushes the boundaries of mentalism [video]
I love Goggins! That's a great book. So hard to believe, but there's documented evidence for his achievements. Unbelievable.
> liability

When has any company been held liable for a customer modifying it.

> distribution channels

It might be annoying to create but they won't lose money on parts, it would likely be a profit center, just not as big a center as doing the repairs themselves.

They already distribute parts to dealers around the world who service the tractors.

> documentation

They already have repair documentation that they distribute to dealerships around the world.

Nobody is asking manufacturers to make huge sacrifices, just stop holding customers ransom.
it's the same reason you don't see many atheist "churches". the organizational problem--getting a bunch of people, along with their resources, aligned--has already been solved by the overarching religious organization (and companies, incidentally).

it's then a smaller step to use some of those organizational resources for evangelizing in the form of charitable acts.
> It is my understanding that the primary blocker to serious open-source kernel development on phones is closed-source drivers for the phone hardware.

For what it's worth, Google (or at least parts of Google) agrees that the closed-source drivers are a problem for extended security lifecycle, and they're working with the Linux community to a) extend the kernel LTS cycle to 6 years b) make something that looks awfully like a stable API/ABI for drivers so that Android can upgrade you to a later point release of that LTS without requiring additional work from the hardware manufacturer. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...
The only time I ever had a package stolen was LaserShip
I enjoyed the last bit too - if that's the kind of questioning you get in a defense, it makes me think getting a PhD might not be so hard after all :)
It’s to the point where I can’t blame Amazon for actions like these.

The consumer has come to expect guaranteed overnight or 2 day shipping. When they don’t get that, they get really upset.

Amazon doesn’t want its customers to get upset, and it can’t trust its shipping partners because they don’t have the burden of the consumer sentiment. No one blames FedEx for their late package these days, they blame Amazon. Heck, you don’t have to look hard to find product reviews that only gripe with the shipping time or condition.

Amazon is going to vertically integrate shipping, no question. The market demands it, and Amazon will probably eventually ship more packages than any of its competitors. And, Bezos isn’t dumb, so he’ll build and sell this capacity to others.

Amazon is reaching further and further into the economy, and I don’t see much stopping them.
Burn everything and flee to the woods. Can't be too careful.
Yes. This was my initial concern, but it looks like it's a simple process of running a script:

https://luxing.im/mutt-integration-with-gmail-using-oauth/
Disclaimer: I'm a VP for an IoT software company. I also grew up in farming communities.

I'm all for the right to repair, but I'm concerned we're creating a bit of false hope for famers. As more and more software gets injected into the equipment, "fixing" things requires touching both the physical devices and the software.

Obviously, the right to repair for non-software related problems is easy to understand.

I'm wondering, however, how the current proposals handle software fixes or mixed use cases (software/hardware fixes)?
Anyone else get `./venv/bin/activate: No such file or directory` on step 3?

Also, I can't quite understand from the main page: Is this the way to play, free or not? I became a Patreon, but didn't discover any other way to play the game.
Half their fanbase will be dead in 30 years
This is excellent news, and good awareness for the ag sector.

The most existential threat to human survival is the consolidation of the farm sector. If any industry needs to be decentralized (for the sake of resiliency) it's agriculture.

We don't want to create single points of failure in the food supply

Urban USA doesn't can't comprehend the fact that famine is a logistical possibility if finance/tech fucks up farming.
The problem of the 737 was trying to keep to the type rating so crew didn't need re-training and re-certification, especially for airlines which refuse to fly anything but 737s.

This was not a concern here, it's not going to be sold to operators (let alone operators who don't want to retrain crew).

There are only 5 Beluga XL (likewise its predecessor) and it exists solely and exclusively for Airbus to move parts around due to the distributed nature of its production.

Before Airbus built their own cargo aircraft, they used Super Guppies, which is why there is one on display near or in two of Airbus' facilities (Toulouse and Hamburg), despite the Guppy being on a Boeing base. Airbus actually bought the right to build Guppies at the time.
Definitely possible, but it would depend to some degree on the requirements for your system. For now we're focussed on our end to end asset tracking solution for teams.
> This seems like the worst possible name for a potentially nice tool.

Exactly, a unanimous decision from all search engine results show that this is indeed the worst naming of a TeX-related tool I've seen and it is easy to get confused with MacTeX and TeXmacs even though the latter isn't even based on using a TeX distribution.

I've downloaded and for it being a WYSIWYG it has great potential for making TeX easier to user rather than remembering the arcane language of TeX for just typesetting documents.
Really interesting. I'm on Android so I'll have to look into how to get similar functionality.
Libyear: A simple measure of software dependency freshness
My experience has been people is afraid of asking, as the article puts it, “sensitive questions”. Afraid of the repercussions: Will they react aggressively/defensively and never talk to me again? Will they feel bad and have depression after that? Among other things.

I say it because it happened at my previous company: After a new team member joined the company (he was like 6, 7 feet away from me), I from time to time started getting weird smells, but it was occasional and it’s not like I was out on a hunt for the origin of the smell. Eventually we had to work together and wow, the smell was really intense (not sure if only that day or what); I immediately told him about it (it was just the two of us). He started using deodorant (that was the reason) more often after that. Weeks after I was drinking with his team, and they started talking about him and how much he had improved his issue, and I asked them if they had told them. They said no, with the reasons I mentioned above.

So, yes, people is different and you have to hopefully measure a bit what you say depending on the person in front of you, but if society wasn’t so sensitive these last years, it’d be easier for everyone to accept criticism so everyone improves. Also, if it’s something that directly affects me, there is NO way I’m not going to try and change/improve the situation.
How much business logic should the database implement?
You're missing the main point of the article.

If you invent a great new antibiotic, it won't be used unless absolutely necessary.
Scylla DB did a write up on it https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
Seems like the production of the 737-MAX is going to be stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HVnhrCM4Pk
There is a better book called Talent is Overrated that stresses these differences.
If the mere perception that people might sue was sufficient to dissuade one from building at such a location wouldn't every neighborhood be a nimby neighborhood? At that point where do you build?
Or crazy thought, expand the number and duration of grants to research this area...
Isn't a large part of this about being able to go to third parties as well?
Amazon: Is There Any Escape?
Thanks! It's not that bad -- am on a 2080 8GB and it takes less than a minute for each response.
Read/Write Splitting with Azure Postgres
Less reliance on the tech sector for hardware solutions, and more research in logistics and supply chain. Let farmers farm.

They are proving that it can be done with more profitability acre-for-acre with hand tools than tractors

https://www.neversinkfarm.com/
This seems like a transparently disingenuous way to further platform lock-in using security as a pretext. I question the level of "security" this provides, especially given that there's little difference on the client side from using an app-specific password and using an OAuth2 bearer token, except the latter is more annoying to acquire and use. Either way, it's a small blob of text managed via Gsuite that the user has to have on their device and that an attacker could steal.
We did a great disservice to the mentally ill when we closed (rather than reform) our mental institutions. The mentally ill would greatly benefit from compassionate custodial care. For those who merely make bad personal choices then enforcement of no urban camping laws by disposing of unoccupied campsites along with the availability of low cost simple barracks type shelters for overnight use should ease the situation without resorting to arrests or fines. Society can be firm and compassionate at the same time. The current situation in some of our cities is intolerable to all concerned.
At some point we're going to have an entirely new field of study specifically for this situation. I propose the name "Quantitative Philosophy". The goal is to merge AI research, philosophy and law to determine the "correct" choice in complicated situations when the agent of action has time to consider all possibilities.

Without a by-in from academia, law, legislatures and society as a whole, any action Mercedes takes in this situation will get them in trouble. In addition, we could either see premature or delayed adoption of AI.
If a customer repairs a machine improperly and it causes more problems, or someone gets hurt, it can paint the manufacturer in a bad light.

The automotive industry, for which a huge aftermarket exists, has dealt with that argument before, and in general it seems the manufacturers are not responsible for anything but the defects they themselves create (hence recalls.) If anything, trying to lock things down only means the manufacturer wants to take on more responsibility, not less. Tesla is a notable exception to the tradition.

Also, as a hardware product, what happens when you make a minor revision? You send out a whole new book on Tractor v3.8973 (has slightly different brakes than 3.8972 because the brake manufacturer went out of business and Deere needed to find another).

This is a solved problem and has been for over a century; design changes mean you add a new section (or maybe just a paragraph, depending on the extent of the changes) to the manual. Here's an example from 70 years ago:

http://buick.oldcarmanualproject.com/manuals/1948/1948-1950%...

Hardcopy manuals for large and complex products often come in (sometimes multiple!) 3-ring binders, so that new material can be added easily. These days, it could be as simple as uploading a new PDF to a website.
> but for narrow business reasons we're doing the best we can to prevent that eventuality from ever happening.

Authors are motivated to write books because of money. A lot of authors who are not make their books available for free in pdf and other formats. Almost all ORielly books are found as pdfs on internet too.
Discussed 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312259

A little bit from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11103012
I don't think it's worth asking for explanations on votes because a negative comment is often due to a <handful> of voters, and there's no insight into the makeup of these voters and whether they're as representative as you hope. IMO just make your comment and let the reactions come; some comments will be upvoted and some won't. Some reactions are helpful and some aren't.
Fluxx has a ton of rules, does it not? It's just that the rules keep changing and you have to keep track of them.

I'd say a closer analogy would be Calvinball, where you just make it up as you go along.
> No one blames FedEx for their late package these days, they blame Amazon.

As they should. FedEx's customer in this instance is Amazon, not the receiver of the package (who is a customer of Amazon, and Amazon alone). If anyone has the clout these days to hurt FedEx economically if they don't improve, it's Amazon. Amazon should be pushing FedEx (and their other shippers) to be more accountable for late, damaged, and lost packages.

These days both FedEx's and UPS's preferred delivery method seems to be to rake their hands over every single door buzzer to my apartment building, dump the packages outside (insanely unsafe), and run off before anyone has a chance to respond to open the door. They even do this for signature-required packages on occasion, forging the signature. I get that drivers' incentives are completely screwed up regarding how their performance is evaluated, but it's a terrible experience from my perspective.
Lineage depends on the community to issue device specific builds. For instance, my dual sim traveling phone has no official Lineage support, but is well supported through the community (and indeed, everything works quite well).

I do wish Lineage had a way to promote and adopt community versions more officially.
Does Levine talk about WeWork in all of his articles?
Something I hadn't quite considered: a 2000-something Logitech is cheap by todays standards, but back then Logitech was covered the range from affordable to high-end (Gaming keyboards with screens for maybe ~$100-130?), probably didn't make much really cheap ones, and likely didn't want to skimp to much on the cheaper models and ruin their reputation for the expensive ones. They weren't cheap enough for the effect to "trigger".
This doesn't seem very strange if their goal is or was to pressure FedEx into better terms or stronger guarantees on delivery. Making an announcement and/or releasing these details to the press closer to an earnings report seems like a pretty high pressure tactic.