skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This needs a huge asterisks at the end of it right? You could argue that plant based diets already dominate the world. Now if he's claiming that "muscular" foods that are produced in a lab will pound for pound outsell animal based meat I would happily take that bet against him.

This seems to be one of those issues that is likely to flip very quickly. I suspect there will be two cut-of points (making no prediction on when it will happen), with the first being when it is cheaper to make then lab-grown meat than the old-style with profit and return on investment in the assets to make the food (ie when you can no longer afford to start new farms, but can keep existing ones in profitable production) and when the price of lab-meat drops below the marginal cow cost (ie when you can only sell meat based cows at a loss).

I suspect that it will take much more time to reach the first cutof point than it will take to go from the first cutoff point to the second and when either is reached it will have very quick effects that will prove massively destructive to existing farms and related infrastructure.
I feel like this is a cheating way to answer the question. Of course hindsight works, but in 2010, what's the way to spot good investments in general, like Bitcoin and Facebook?
That's the thing I'm discovering with recent new management. They've always got a clever sounding one liner to back up their directive. But a lot of the time it leaves me less convinced that their directive is the correct one because it doesn't actually reveal anything new about the issue.
the real reason is that godot feels lightweight to devigners and they want to use it. there were tons of other html5/js game engines, some who have been there longer, but none have had support from mozilla!!
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I'm not sure if the author meant current versions of emacs (with their 42 year lineage) or not. But if that's the case, then I think emacs was one of the very first to support Unicode and whole different scripts. If my memory does not fail me, emacs had extensive wide character support long before Unicode. With an extraordinarily broad treasure trope of different input methods on top.

emacs has also always been (in)famous for its text update render algorithms, that probably still work well over the old slow terminal lines it was originally used for.
Anything above bare bones will be opinionated, imo this is the best solution for infrastructure provider - maximum freedom, but also providing a UI for simpler access.
If i went back to myself ten years into whats turned into a twenty year career of travel I could agree and also advise travel less...
> The primary subsidy afforded to farmers is effectively assistance in paying insurance premiums.

But the vast majority of the subsidy goes not to small individual farmers, who might need such insurance (although even on the assumption that they do, private sector insurance companies and speculators could provide it more efficiently than the government does), but to large agribusinesses who have more than enough resources and diversity to self-insure. So the entities who are getting the subsidy don't actually need it. But it makes a great way for politicians to stealthily transfer wealth to their donors and supporters.

> The intent is not to make food cheaper (although that may happen as a side effect)

It doesn't make food cheaper, it makes it more expensive and creates a mismatch between supply and demand.

> I am not sure that really limits the desire of innovators and entrepreneurs to seek out ways to provide cheaper food.

It might not limit the desire, but it certainly limits the ability. It's hard to compete with large businesses that get government subsidies they don't actually need.
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Your talking about applications not theory. And the new theories you mention (dark energy/matter) are right at the heart of the current crisis in physics.
Google’s Censorship of Cryptocurrencies Goes Way Beyond YouTube
Very few new capabilities for mankind were discovered in the last 10Y mainly CRISPR and CAR-T therapy and two level neural networks (Google translate, alphago). Lithium-Ion batteries got 50% stronger and 6x cheaper (see photo in https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FwCzOaig88r79FC7wM7RqtZ72c...). Most scientists focused on confirming what was already there (gravity waves, higgs boson, water on moon, water on Mars, etc ). Carbon fiber increased passenger air travel efficiency and became commonplace in bicycle frame design. The 2010s were not a creative decade ...
In that case...

Brace for impact.

Also China just loosened their bank reserve buffers.
> "how much would you prioritize a car that used only 0.05 liters per 100km over one that used 0.5? What about one that used only 0.005L?". I'd say that at that point, other factors like comfort, performance, base price, etc. become (relatively) much more important.

I'll prioritize the 0.005L per 100km car for sure. That means the car can be driven for all its expected lifetime (500k km) in a single tank of gas, filled up at the time of purchase! That means there is a huge opportunity to further optimize for many things in the system:

- The car no longer needs to have a hole on the side for filling up. A lot of pipes can be removed. Gas tank can be moved to a safer/closer location where it is used.

- The dashboard doesn't need a dedicated slot for showing the fuel gauge, more wirings and mechanical parts removed.

- No needs for huge exhaust and cooling systems, since the wasted energy is significantly reduce. No more pump, less vehicle weights...

Of course, that 0.005L car won't come earlier than a good electric car. However, if it's there, I'd totally prioritize it higher than other things you listed. I think people tend to underestimate how small efficiency improvements add up and enable exponential values to the system as a whole.
> unless you're provisioning resources so obscure they didn't yet make it to tf aws provider.

Isn't there precedent for terraform getting support for things before cloudformation?
Safari on iOS would not render Nikita’s article until I killed and restarted it, nicely illustrating one of his key points.
My story is mostly similar to yours (though not related to this book), appreciations for writing it out.
The gall of you to say someone was being aggressive in a response to you when you're writing a comment like this.
Yak shaving is an inevitable, unavoidable part of working in a large company with mature (or rather: conservative and safe) engineering practices.

A feature I’m working on right now involves a ridiculous amount of knowledge of the service component architecture and release process because making any change coordinated across two different hot services with different release schedules is absolutely hellacious. So even though customers will barely notice the change, I have to do all this release and flag and migration and analysis work simply because people actually use and depend on our service and we have to be really careful not to break it.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing. If we didn’t have to yak shave, it would mean we either weren’t making money, didn’t care about our customers, or didn’t do anything important. In 2005, maybe most people weren’t working on hot services with complex architectures that people depended on. But imagine what would happen if the tens of thousands of people working on AWS all collectively decided to not shave yaks when they updated their services.

On an individual basis, your decision to not shave a yak might save time and effort. At scale, it increases your error rate. If you have thousands of developers and hundreds of components/services to keep track of, issues are already an inevitability, and you’re increasing the rate at which issues would occur by a lot.
Dan stopped actively maintaining Redux in the summer of 2016, when he handed the keys to myself and Tim Dorr. This coincided with him working full-time on React.

He's occasionally dropped by to comment in an issue and leave an opinion (such as when he suggested we drop `useActions` from the React-Redux hooks alpha), but he no longer does any work around Redux.
There were last time, too. Eventually those global powers had troubles of their own, and had to pull out of China.
I don't think I was being aggressive. To the degree I was, it's because I do think--as an industry--we should encourage people who don't consider themselves part of the established elite to put themselves out in public.

And I know tons of people who do public speaking where it isn't a career path or even (really) their primary day job--a number of whom are quite good about it.

Of course, if you have nothing to talk about you shouldn't give a talk. But I wouldn't discourage anyone who has something they want to share--even if it's unrelated to their day-to-day work or it's potentially trivial. It's frankly the job of the conference organizers to decide whether it's potentially relevant and interesting to attendees.
That sounds like reverse engineering the encoding and running it on an emulator.
This is why they're orbiting at a safe distance and waiting to see what we do when we discover antimatter bombs for ourselves.
CHIP-8 is really cool, too!
Or, you know, some just want to get away from the other individuals.

That is, if we are talking about something comparable to current humans. Immortal super AIs might don't care about idling in the void for a few million years, just for the opportunity to re-sync those gained experiences to their decentralized knowledge a few million years down the line. I really like the single omnipotent AI scenario, since being immortal and not depending on others changes quite drastically what strategies can be successful - it won't be anything like human kings who need to keep their subjects at bay and working for them to support their power and limited life. But we shouldn't restrict our imagination, if we are talking about possibilities and galactic time-spans.

The important part is, as mentioned by GP, the desire to expand, since this is a dominant strategy. In comparison, not every living being on earth has the drive to participate in evolution by e.g. creating offspring. Those usually just drop out of the "game" and likely won't matter in the long term, at worst making it a bit harder for the others initially till their disappearance. What matters are those who have persistent impact... e.g. by colonizing/making offspring.
Governments and charities should be acting in an economically rational manner though.

For instance, if they can spend $1 for $2 of benefit, they should probably do that before they spend $2 for $3 of benefit. This is kind of a slippery point, because they are often engaging in activities where the benefit is hard to measure, but their activities should still appear rational relative to their best measures of the benefits.
A year ago, works started entering the public domain again. Today, another batch of works was added, including "Rhapsody in Blue".
A lot of the article seems to be based on liberal ideals, which include a less prominent America, the promotion of Veganism, and embracing the fall of the West. For the most part, the author’s expectations about crypto are mistaken in that they assume financiers in the west trust China enough to buy into its digital currency. We are bordering on a Cold War; we aren’t about to trust them to keep their promises on crypto.

I think a more moderate take would be suggesting a straddle of the EU - either it strangles itself with clunky bureaucracy, or it becomes more closely unified and a world power in the likes of the US, Russia, or China.

Furthermore, I think we could see the United States grow with the additions of Guam, Puerto Rico, and/or Greenland.
> So if we want theories that are correct, yes, we should value simplicity.

I'm reminded of a problem I was given on a math exam: a hand-drawn polynomial on a 5x5 grid, where the curve intersected the grid in 5 points. "Find the equation of this cubic polynomial."

The given integral points weren't possible for any cubic; if the function was a polynomial, it was a quartic at a minimum.

Sadly, my teacher was not trying to trick us. Simplicity, itself, was an unchecked assumption which rendered correctness impossible.
Britain had to colonize the Americas or France and Spain would have without them. It would take another 200 years for the empire to fully collapse. It’s hard to say colonization was a net negative just because of America’s independence.

Further it seems much less likely the populace would be so willing to send aide to Britain during WWI if it weren’t for the cultural similarities. If instead Spain had colonized the US it seems very likely the country would have remained neutral as Spain did.
Fair as an escape hatch, and I don’t know your situation, but in a lot of cases I think that’s a smell indicating that you need fewer reducers.

I totally understand that there are legitimate reasons for things to end up that way, but it’s certainly something I’d want to avoid or make as rare as possible.
Its kind of begging the question in a way. The only reason you can conclude this is related to Z3 and Z5 is because the original problem statement said to repeat fizz every 3 numbers, and thus its related to cycluc groups. But the only aspect of group theory used seems to be that Z3 repeats cyclicly (which was the fact we used to invoke group theory in the first place). So it seems rather circular.
Slurs like this aren't allowed here.

We've banned this account for that, as well as for doing nationalistic flamewar and ignoring our request to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the western world just one?

* Dailymotion (France)

* Flickr (United States)

* Metacafe (United States)

* IGTV (United States)

* Photobucket (United Sates)

* Twitch (United States)

* Veoh (United States/Israel)

* Vevo (United States)

* Vimeo (United States)

Vimeo in particular has about one-quarter the "market share" as Youtube [1]

[1] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/online-video/youtube-m...
Here’s an article on that: http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-industri...
I’m working on financials-related software that has increasing involvement with our internal compliance/audit team.

I totally agree with your premise, although in practice I’ve found that the phrase “review the findings and ensure the software was working properly” snuggles in a lot of complexity. It implies that working properly is well-defined and formally verifiable, when it usually isn’t.

I’ve had very frank meetings where I’ve explained that, ultimately, log statements can be totally fictional, and we can technically pay out amounts that diverge from the amounts in a report. The amount of trust you have in the developer and your dependencies are the weakest links in the chain, and, if you’re honest in explaining to that level of detail, most compliance minded people come away uneasy. But this is how every company operates?

There’s definitely a need for verifiable money transfer infrastructure, but I think most companies that roll their own payment infrastructure would rather pretend that the problem is a boogeyman.
His response: "My webroot is served by Lisp."
I hear that argument very frequently and I don’t buy it.

Think about all the gas that is saved because people don’t have to drive to the library, all the plane trips saved by video conferencing, all the photo film, all the sheets of paper in file cabinets, all the letters being sent as emails, all the mail order catalogues, ... you get the idea.

Does anybody know of a comprehensive study on this?
Author here: Sheetfu original goal was to port the Google Apps Script API for spreadsheet (made in javascript) to Python, so you'll see a lot of common ground between those 2 libs.

You could probably achieve the same with both Pygsheet and Sheetfu, the interface is a bit different. Sheetfu, however, contains the Table module, which completely abstracts the coordinate system for a more ORM-ish syntax.
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anyone who has something they want to share != speaking at tech conferences
Yeah, the worst thing that could happen to China now is that Li Xinping lives a long life.

We have seen over and over in history that an individual dictator fairly quickly diverges from rational paths.
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My thoughts exactly. I've always found it funny how people imply there's some major issue with cosmology because the Drake equation shows there should be intelligent life all over. Even though some of the terms in that equation are very not known and it would only take a few being an order of magnitude or two smaller than expected to result in a paucity of intelligent life rather than an abundance.
What I learned about Product Delivery in 2019
Unless using TurboTax actually saves people money. I wouldn't expect the IRS to have enough information to be able to predict in advance the deductions people might be able to take -- stuff like business expenses, mortgage interest, charitable donations, state taxes, etc.

Tax evasion and overstating deductions are common partly because the IRS doesn't have access to the information necessary to verify everything -- that's the same information the IRS would need in order to pre-fill tax forms accurately for the 1/3 of taxpayers who itemize their deductions. 1/3 of American taxpayers a pretty big market for TurboTax and similar services to thrive in.
> These days, I think most users will lose more time and be more frustrated by poor UI design, accidental inputs, etc. than any performance characteristics of the software they use.

I’m willing to bet that a significant percentage of my accidental inputs are due to UI latency.
I think it would be something like the bayesian information criteria or minimum description length.
"What they aren’t good at is making people happy. See Hong Kong for the last 6 months."

Wrong Chinese people are very happy. In some rankings they belong to the happiest people. Here they are medium range:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/09/10...

My prediction:

We will see an economic depression, also caused by energy problems. The current quantitative easing is actually the first sign of the problems with energy:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2019/09/12/our-energy-and-debt-pr...

PS: The US is also pretty good at making other countries unhappy. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran to name a few :-)
Perhaps it's more that most (not all) of the many programmers today are not as good as the (relatively fortunate) few who had access to computers in the past.

In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest there are more good programmers about today then there were in the past. Though having said that, percentage-wise I'd say the profession is definitely being deskilled (good thing if you're a manager, bad thing if you're a good programmer).
I agree with this.

I think we need a guild. We need licensed software engineers.

Not every programmer needs to be one, just like not every engineer needs to be licensed, but there needs to be a licensed engineer on every team. And, of course, sometimes there doesn't need to be. But I sure wish there was the option.

And hell, bring back apprenticeships and mentoring with the guild. There is so much we could learn from the physical science engineering disciplines
Yeah, but it would be kind of nice not to have to reboot my TV every couple of weeks because of a memory leak.
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> It turns out that 2x4 construction on a slab is one of the cheapest and most durable methods of construction around.

That the ordinary person knows of, yes. But that's a far cry from being the cheapest and most durable method possible.

> Building codes are built from lives lost

To some extent they are. But they also are an excellent vehicle for regulatory capture. The safety aspects don't need to be controlled by the government; see below.

> It would of course be cheaper to build favelas.

Would you buy one? In a free market, the construction industry would build what people wanted to buy. If people don't want to buy unsafe homes, nobody will be able to make money building unsafe homes. If people want assurance that their homes are safe (and even if they don't, their insurance companies will), there will be a market for third party home inspectors and standards organizations to provide it. Other industries have had no problem coming up with safety standards without government regulation; a good example is the Underwriters Laboratories standards for electrical devices.
My point isn’t that they couldn’t or shouldn’t be more efficient, it’s that there’s no market pressure. No incentives means no change in behaviour. The only way to fix it is to change the incentives, otherwise we’re just in “old man yells at clouds” territory.

Besides, you could essentially do what you’re describing by piecing together a Linux desktop from a lean distro. It’s not hard to find efficient software, it’s just not really mainstream
Part of the problem is that there wasn't enough supply of the inactivated vaccine, and arguably there still isn't and probably won't be for some time. See for example https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/220/10/1545/5432103 Also, while the inactivated vaccine protects receipients from the risks associated with polio infection, unlike the oral vaccine it may not be all that effective at preventing it from replicating in their bowel and then infecting others.

I'm not exactly sure why the WHO rushed to pull type 2 from the oral vaccine before there was sufficient supply of the inactivated vaccine to replace it, but I get the impression that they didn't expect it would be necessary because they thought that type 2 virus would rapidly disappear once they did so.
VPN – a Very Precarious Narrative (2019)
GraphQL the protocol/language was designed for performance, but (when I tried GraphQL, which was several years ago) the server-side implementations seem to have had much less of a focus on it.

It's true that the client doesn't over-fetch (and also doesn't need multiple round-trips), but at least when I tried the gql-js library it required the server to over-fetch: it would ask for individual records, and then do the field plucking/record joining itself; there was no way to intercept the query along the way to find out which fields it needed so you could only fetch those.

I get the impression that the server libraries were designed to work with a document store or "fat" REST API that is only capable of taking a single ID and returning the entire record. In this situation it makes sense to have a separate middleware server to keep the big fetches and round-trips inside the datacenter and only give the client exactly what it needs, and needing a little more server power isn't a big deal. But, if you need to do something more sophisticated (even something as simple as only fetching certain fields from the datastore), they were no help whatsoever; when I was looking into it there wasn't even a way to parse the query into an AST and do the rest of the query planning yourself.
Bizarre: In chrome this is rendering as strange character set in UTF8, but HTML source shows correct english text output.

https://imgur.com/a/18CJCDY
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Sounds like slavery and brainwashing with extra steps to me complete with doublethink.

It is no accident that "we had to destroy the village to save it" came from a conscript army. Your choice doesn't matter but you have ordained responsibility and not those with power.
I'm really hoping the Pinephone, and other Linux phones succeed in creating a niche yet affordable libre phone with secure software. I ordered a developer phone simply because I'm interested and want to see what it has to offer.

The only thing that will be hard is working without my current setup of apps. A browser can only get you so far. The transition will be a little tough but i'll manage.