skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no. Precision agriculture is an integration of many components of the farming operation, all of them very much data driven.

Lets just take the example of variable rate fertilization, because its the one I'm most familiar with. In the case of winter wheat (hard red and white), there are 3 primary components determining both yield (kg/m^2) and protein (g/kg). They are the available water, the available nitrogen and the 'site index' which is generally related to soil depth, but slope and aspect also play into this.

So, if what you want to do is land on a very specific amount of protein, say 7.5% across all of your fields in a dryland cropping situation. You need to know how much much water is available at all points in your field; how much nitrogen is available at all points in your field; and what scalar to carry around for a given XY position in your field. Maybe think of the scalar as an 'X-factor' to multiply the result of Water*Nitrogen by to adjust for local conditions.

Wheat, grown in high water low nitrogen gets very tall and has low protein and higher yield (to an extent). Wheat grown in high nitrogen stays short, but has higher protein and lower yield (to an extent). So it becomes a trade off between protein % and yield, and the theoretical maximum is described by the site index.

Wrapping it all together. First, find a cooperative old kook of a farmer. Second, convince him to let you drill a hole in his up auger to mount a hyper spectral sensor. Third, duct tape/ bungee mount a LiDAR puck to the front of the combine. 4th, solder some leads into the on harvest yield monitor. 5th, mount a high quality GPS unit to the top of the harvester if you don't have one already (or can't access the NMEA stream). Add car batteries, some old notebook computers to get the data, and a few days to harvest. Boom. Now your combine is a fully integrated data collection platform. You now have a measurement of grain height at all locations in your field. You also have a measurement of protein content at all locations in your field (with a little PCA wizardry and some protein sampling). Combine the two and you now have a 'site-index' that is nitrogen/ available water independent that you can use in your variable rate drill to adjust the fertilization rate to match the site index (since you can control the fertilization rate and not the available water). This will give you fairly precise control and allow you to more or less homogenize the overall protein content of the field. Alternatively, you could also optimize for yield (allowing protein to fluctuate).
Exactly. Just because you can walk away from a term sheet doesn't mean doing so doesn't make you a giant jerk. Try doing that regularly and see how long you last in this business.
Not long ago, it seems companies were still in the business of making tractors, or cars, or cakes, or something... Nowadays it seems every company is in the business of making money and paying bonuses for directors. The rest is an excuse.
All true. I suspect in this case Softbank was depending on the Vision Fund LPs to come back for round 2, but the WeWork fiasco scared them off, and now WeWork is in panic mode.
#4 is disturbing.

Humans in large swaths (most?) of the world live without stealing from one another.

Safe communities are not built on policing and monitoring (or guns), they're built by people who have basic communitarian values, basic education, who are conscientious, honest etc..

Obviously, macro issues are important (jobs, economy, credible judicial/civic systems) and that's part of the equation.

But none of this is new, it's downright ancient - and I'm wary to think of any technology that can be directly applicable. We have to raise our kids well, and there won't be any software to do that for us.
One thing I haven't seen anyone note about clickhouse though which would be really important to many for data durability, is that it does not use fsync anywhere at all.
The Names of 1.8M Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable
Yep, there’s always the job available of "customer wants a new form" and "make this wordpress site match some designer's PSD" out there
You missed the entire point of the article and your analysis from what you misunderstood is also somewhat daft.

Supporting war because "[it] is inevitable, and better for it to start on our terms, when we have an advantage"
__is__ insane and is not a defensible position.
In today's market, your argument doesn't hold water.

A new brand would need to start from smaller than scratch? So what? People start new companies every day.

It would require tens of millions of dollars of investment? So what? We keep being told how capital markets are just sloshing with cash looking for investment opportunities; that one of the reasons for rising inequality is due to the dearth of investment opportunities for the rich to use to seek returns.

They'd have trouble finding customers willing to give them a shot? So what? Every startup has this problem. You solve it by differentiating yourself from your incumbent competitor. When your competitor is so hated that they're getting negative press in national news outlets and state legislatures are being pressured to pass laws, your differentiation proposition is practically written for you.

I'm sure there are tractor upstarts out there trying to get funding. The question is, if they're not getting funding then why not, and why doesn't anybody know about them?
> In a proprietary system, it may have been there forever.

Why? Heartbleed was discovered by fuzzing the compiled binaries, not by eyeballing the source code.

Nothing prevents you from performing the exact same research on proprietary software.
So, what are the real advantages to the newer tractors over older tractors for farmers? Why should a farmer spend 4-10x as much for a newer tractor as they would for a 1980s model?
I can't find anything that even hints at what TLP is supposed to stand for. P = power, I can guess, and L = Linux, maybe. T?
How do people even read on Twitter? All I can see on their desktop website is a single tweet with a "Show this thread" link that doesn't do anything.
I would encourage everyone to vote for the candidates who best represent their values even though voting by itself does not produce meaningful change.
Cisco routers have three serious security issues, need immediate patch
The statement that the stolen data was used for the campaign is contradicted by the interview link provided.
Being a bad host or tenant scares people from the market, taking away housing from others.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049319
A new framework to detect oxygen on exoplanets
Right to repair had some traction in Minnesota, but the same politicians that farmers vote (MNGOP) for opposed it.

There's a lot of strange ideological nose cutting off in rural america.
yeah pretty sure these were all CA. offers I've seen for Seattle are a bit lower, not sure about Austin.
Hello, Interesting Innovation? I'm Outdated, The Draconian Zoning Law. We have some things that need to be discussed.
In other countries (like Italy where I currently live) leaving a package unattended is unthinkable. If there is nobody home they leave a slip of paper that says there will be another attempt at delivery the next day or else you have to fetch the package in some remote dispatch center (things are getting better now and many couriers are now taking their time to call you on the phone a few minutes before they drop by; sometimes you can ask them to drop the package at neighbors or at some small shop nearby, if the owner is willing)
This goes back to my old quip of the easiest way to increase GDP to 5% would be to force everyone to learn how to actually use Excel. HT "You Suck at Excel" - JS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
yep, 100%

I personally think the Rust community has missed the biggest advantage of unsafe, and that's tooling. Imagine an IDE that could highlight and warn when touching state that is accessed in unsafe blocks, or when state being accessed in unsafe blocks isn't being properly tested.

Or tools that kick off notification for a required code review because code that touches state used by an unsafe block got changed.

To me, these sorts of things will have a far greater effect on security and stability than just the existence of the unsafe block in code.
I'm sorry, when you shake hands that's it. Here in SV we believe in trust.
I work at a startup in San Mateo and feel that the work-life balance is great here. Not all startups are created equal.
I guess, convincing Elon Musk that we need tractors on Mars could stimulate some competition.
So is the expansion of the project name to "Wine Is Not an Emulator" intended as a joke?
I volunteered to replace a headlight in my girlfriend's car long ago. The socket was completely buried. No access from above. The assembly looked like it was held in by two screws and a section of 3/8" metal bar, so no problem, I'll remove those, pull it out and then replace the bulb. Nope. You couldn't actually get it out because the hole was slightly too small.

Looked it up online, shops put this model on the lift and access it from below. Ended up laying on a piece of cardboard in a light rain because it was only accessible from below the bumper. If my forearms were any shorter (I'm pretty tall) I would not have been able to do even that.

Meanwhile the headlight on my 10 year old VW went out a couple months ago. There's a twist-on cap, and a twist-in socket. The cap is visible standing up.

I had the replacement bulb in in under a minute. Unfortunately the matching bulb on the other side, the socket was a bit wedged and I spent most of the time getting it out.
It's even worse than just putting pressure on the employee. my manager has a number of days he thinks is reasonable, his manager has another, and his manager has yet another - and at one point a minimum was higher than another's maximum.

It really isnt fair, I don't know employee who actually considers it a benefit. It's like a contract, just write it down so everyone knows what to expect.
I mean the ISA-style bootcamps don't make any money unless you get a real SWE job (being a TA doesn't trigger the ISA) and there are good ones out there.
I didn't say "may". I said they can because I took care to look at their benchmarks.

https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.s...
>> Regarding finance specifically, the industry has its quirks so they like to get people who worked in finance before

I had almost 8 years of experience as a software developer at the time and I did have some experience in the finance sector (but a small startup). My resume looks pretty great, one of my open source projects is quite popular (over 5K stars on GitHub) yet I did not even get asked to an interview.
I switched to Rollup for a project and liking it so far, also less dependencies:

Here's a comparison of popular bundlers using a visualization tool I found online:

Webpack - https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/webpack

Parcel - https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/parcel

Rollup - https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/rollup

Granted this only covers the initial package for each of these, there are usually a bunch of extra plugins or cli packages that you'll need to work with each of these but I also found the dependency tree of each of the added Rollup plugins to be less than the other 2.

here's rollup-plugin-babel: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/rollup-plugin-babel
Have ditched IE support long ago
They are pretty good for their price. The factory is still producing some models that were first designed in the 1970-1980s.
Nothing worse then having cafe shops being packed with people working on their notebooks taking whole tables and not allowing people to enjoy them to drink their tea. I wouldn't mind if they would forbid notebooks in cafe shops like Starbucks
Kentucky's primary resource extraction historically was tobacco more than coal, more traditionally a part of "tobacco road" with the Carolinas than coal country with West Virginia. As tobacco has waned the tobacco companies retrenched to the Carolinas and left Kentucky shifting in the wind. That coal so dominates the national and rural conversation around Kentucky today is a huge sign of whose interests are in play in the discussion and that it has convinced so much of Kentucky itself that that's what is causing the economic problems is a shame, if not a sham.

(IMNSHO, Kentucky should have been in the vanguard of legalizing and growing THC and selling it to other states. That it hasn't and that it isn't, is a huge economic blunder on the part of the state, and I'm feeling it is high time Kentuckians shut up about coal, but what do I know.)
This kind of reminds me of the dril quote:

> drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762

Point being, just that something has some upsides does not mean that it is a good thing overall. I personally believe that if flying millions of people across the globe is truly impossible without reckless exploitation of people and resources, we should rather not do that, no matter what the benefits of that would be.
>What are the most famous companies that perform this sort of work?

https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/

https://cure53.de/

>Is it useful?

Yes
My Project for 2020: Node on Rails
I would say it's worse than running a lottery. It becomes a self-reenforcing thing where you mentally bucket highly ranked individuals as "your good people". Then you give them the prestigious assignments at the exclusion of others, and that act alone gets them the bonus and promo at the next round, at the cost of under-investing in those who you passed over and demoralizing them. It becomes a tool to create and re-enforce bias, or an echo chamber.
Entry-level Emergency Medical Response training is 90 hrs.

https://www.emergenthealth.org/ems-education/ems-licensure-c...

This is equivalent to coding bootcamp.
That makes it the much more urgent not to squander it all on hypotheses that failed 20 years ago.
I hate how pervasive this degenerate thinking is in local politics. "we don't want a nice thing because then people would use it."
Agreed, I once had a team which I gave all good PRs, but was told that we had to fit a curve and these 2 people will start PIP before being let go 3m later.
While that's true, at least electric cars have a low maintenance burden compared to ICE cars.
It appears that tractors in general are dramatically overpriced. Who else makes big tractors? Brazil?
In the progressive era we had pretty good anti-trust enforcement. But during the early 20th century the fashionable view was that dog-eat-dog competition was inefficient and it would be better if the economy was made up of a series of well regulated monopolies like Ma Bell or at least cartels like the airlines used to be. Back when the USSR was reporting huge economic growth this theory was something people pointed to to explain how communism could be so much more efficient than capitalism.

Thankfully the pendulum has been swinging back in the other direction for various reasons like the fall of the USSR, realization of the dangers of regulatory capture, etc. But then we've been allowing all these horizontal mergers recently which just doesn't make any sense to me.
Obviously you can't, because you cherry picked a non-confusing date.

But you can easily confuse 01-02-2020 or 03-01-2020.
A tesla uses about 20 horsepower to push itself down the freeway (it is capable of much more, that is what it is using after about 5-10 seconds to get up to speed). A tractor rated at 100 horsepower is expected run at 100 horsepower output continuously. 100 horsepower tractors are considered small (or maybe mid size) tractors these days.

In short, a battery operated tractor will need to stop to recharge every 5 minutes - if you can find batteries that will allow you to discharge that fast, most will not.
I used Workshop Cafe a little and liked it, but I agree with the planning commission.

All they were asking was for 2/3rds of the space to be available to the public.

They could have made 1/3 reservable. They could have charged for wifi in the other 2/3rds or came up with other ideas.
Вокзал in Russian is the train station (or less commonly to large bus stations or to airports with appropriate modifiers: автовокзал, аэровокзал).
For pronunciation and etymology refer to [1]:

Borrowed from English Vauxhall (former site of a pleasure garden). The ending was influenced by зал (zal, “hall”). The spelling фоксал (foksal) attested in 1777 is from French facs-hall, from the same English source. The transportation sense derives from an epithet for the Pavlovsk train station building, which at one time served as both a passenger lounge and a place of entertainment.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B7%D0%B...
Which recent bootcamp grads are writing spacecraft software and cars?
> The exact guideline is "If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link", and I think that wording speaks from an outdated mindset where every submission is a standalone web page that _has_ a title, for one thing.

I suspect the original intent of the rule was to get rid of pointless redundancy in the title. "The 10 craziest things you don't know about X - clickbait.com" is the sort of thing you see very often in the <title> element, but it adds no new information. Actually, you'll notice even Hacker News posts have " | Hacker News" appended to them.

In an article about Arch Linux, the text "Arch Linux" is much less likely to be redundant than an article about something else that just happens to be on the archlinux.org domain.
My own tractor is 67 years old. The parts catalog brags that not only do they carry every part new, but they have a photo of a copy they built entirely from contemporary made parts. It's a fine tractor and not hard to work on.
Places like Workshop Cafe are designed to cater specifically to this need. Their existence reduces the number of laptop hobos and startup squatters in socially oriented coffee shops.
RTK does. Also, fields are big and 'generally' there isn't much to hit out there. I think most new harvesters these days are self driving.
For my offer, I had 10 years of experience and they slotted me as Senior. Generally I've seen people with as few as 2 years of experience slot as Senior. I think it has less to do with the years of experience you actually have and more to do with your panel.
>As a teenager, you don't grasp what you're saying. You're just part of the crowd.

This is pretty much how reciting the Pledge of Allegiance felt when I was growing up. We'd stand and recite it at the start of every day of elementary school, but no one really paid too much attention to the words themselves and their meaning.
Maybe people who go to bootcamps know that watching videos from home doesn't work for them?
Heh, it's like rebooting the tablet in my Tesla 3 by holding both scroll wheels for 10 seconds. It's both creepy and reassuring that the car operates just fine even when you can't see your speed, hear your turn signals clicking, and so on. The separation between body control modules and "user-facing" controls gives me more confidence in the face of potential bugs.
It has meeting rooms, desks,...etc.

Not really surprised the zoning department ruled it was co-working space vs a cafe:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x808580795532c08...
I belive they were enhancing it with terrestrial base stations (Loran-C was mentioned in the discussion, which was 10+ years ago). John Deere has proprietary secret sauce and if I recall correctly, they can get sub 1" accuracy. That precision farming has enabled things like different amounts of fertilizer for different parts of the field, a substantial material savings and improvement for the environment.
The greatest innovation in the history of mankind was a land consolidation. It took what 100 peasants all making enough food for subsistence living to 100 peasants be able to make enough food for thousands of people.

It's not sad, it's progress.
It appears that their customers are particularly defenseless, in contradistinction to other industrial markets.
Um, no.

The initial versions of the datasheet will be read by NOBODY if this is kept up! If you make it hard to see what your product does, who will care?

Learn from STM32 - public datasheet!
> there are thousands of people looking at changes even if you aren't looking yourself.

I’m sorry, but it’s really obvious that you don’t really know what you’re talking about.

Very few commits are looked at by more than a handful of people. If you’ve ever had any involvement in FOSS development you must know this.
> after getting unrelated bachelors degrees from a large university

This seems to be the common denominator in boot camp graduate success stories: they've completed a college degree already, so they have at least some foundation, they just need somebody to walk them through the details of software development. I'm curious what your degree was in - did you have a math(ish) background already?
When it works, it works. Myself and a friend started learning programming at the same time, both with the goal of switching careers. I worked in tech in sales, he had a job translating subtitles. He did a bootcamp, I taught myself. I'm finally on my first job as a SWE at a tiny startup with no funding, making a little less than I was in sales. He has been promoted 3 times to engineering manager at a well established international company with $xx,xxx,xxx in funding, and just bought a house. Maybe don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
The vast majority of the effort in the software development field is essentially writing the exact same code over and over again, dealing with other people, and spending hours tracking down why your implementation of a super common pattern is broken because you misplaced a letter somewhere.

Maybe 1% is actually solving new or "interesting" problems, which is good, because imagine if other fields were like that. Imagine if a plumber had to re-invent the wheel every time they installed a shower or faucet.
Deregulated or not, the airframe business is essentially a duopoly of Boeing and Airbus.
@jeffbarg just FYI I've thought about this some more and I really like this idea. I'm planning to add it. You could have a client talk directly to emauth.io to get a JWT, then they can authenticate against any server that accepts emauth.io-formatted JWTs (probably just email and timestamp). It essentially decouples clients from servers.
>Opportunity for a company like $TESLA or other startup to provide additional competition in the farm equipment space.

Wait, what? Tesla is just as bad (or worse) when it comes to right-to-repair.
Not by itself, in most situations. Maybe if you're automating a combine, where you're doing repeating patterns in a big flat field with no obstacles and where 1 meter deviations from the desired trajectory isn't an issue (not an uncommon situation, but for a lot of use cases you really do care about that 1 meter deviation, e.g. for plowing or cultivating).

Otherwise you have to augment, eg with relative GPS or machine vision.
How does that work if there are already improvements on the land? You'd either have to auction the land with the improvements—in which the auction price won't indicate how much the land would have fetched on its own—or else stipulate that any improvements must be demolished prior to the auction, which would be massively wasteful.
In Europe, Claas, New Holland Come to mind immediately. But there are definitely others.
Interesting. I assume nobody figured that it's high time to rewrite the damn thing?
What are the ways they get paid at exit with worthless stock?