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Some examples that come to mind are pesticides/herbicides/synthetic fertilizers. The farming example is very on-point actually. Production agriculture has become synonomous with monocultures (growing one species) to maximize "yield", and it's having devastating consequences. We're killing micro organisms in the soil, which are necessary for nutrient exchange to the crops. Modern vegetables have 50-80% less nutrients than those of 50 years ago. The lack of diversity in plant species means a single predator/pest will not have any natural repellents, thus requiring pesticides. The soils, losing nutrients rapidly, now require additives in the form of synthetic fertilizers: nitrogen, prosperous, and potassium. We took a system that worked, tried to over engineer it, and created a whole mess of problems and additonal work/cost.

Another: We took cows, which have a special organ called a rumen that is specifically designed to extract nutrients from grasses, an abundant resource that many animals cannot use as a food source, and instead began feeding them diets of corn. The corn heavy diets is worse for the cows overall immune system, requiring the addition of antibiotics. Farmers who raise cows in balance with their natural state of a grass based diet will need little to no antibiotics.

Wood is making a massive comeback in the commercial construction industry because we realized it has some properties that we were too willing to dismiss, including it's flexibility and amazing strength-to-weight in relation to it's cost to produce.

I'm not anti-technology or anti-innovation, but I think it's also important to ask ourselves whether all this extra work we create for ourselves is actually necessary/beneficial. In the case of psilocybin synthesis/extracts, I'm a bit skeptical. I think we're trying to re-invent the wheel.
Hey Hacker News! My co-founder and I have been working on this idea for a few years now and are finally ready to show it to HN.

Supernotes, at its most simple, is a note-taking app. It's a place to take the things in your head and dump 'em for storage (and then sharing, if you like). But the approach we've taken to note-taking is slightly different than what you'll see with other solutions. Instead of opting for a long-form document format (and folders to put them in), we decided to go with a card format. So like documents, but shorter. We also decided to make the cards themselves nestable, rather than having a folder system. This means that as you flesh out ideas, you can just add "child" cards to a "parent" card to keep yourself organized (plus cards can have multiple parents!). Each and every card can be edited, commented on, colored, titled, icon'd, linked to, and shared.

We did it this way because we think its a better fit for how our brains actually work. Humans don't think in terms of essays – we think in terms of a large number of interconnected thoughts.

When it comes time to share your cards, all you need to do is send a 4-word share code to your friends/family/pet and they can see that card right away.

So to summarize, on Supernotes you can:

- easily make notecards which have their own tags, comments, colors, icons, etc.

- cards can have parents/children, and unlike most other platforms, a child can have multiple parents (yay graphs!)

- cards can hyperlink to other cards directly in their bodies (otherwise known as wiki-style, Zettelkasten, or the internet)

- cards can be instantly shared via 4-word "share codes"

- cards can be "published" inside other cards (i.e. published children) so that anyone who has access to the parent can see the published child

- once shared, cards have fully-featured permission-system so you can decide exactly how you want to collaborate with whom

- use dark mode because who doesn't love dark mode

Anyway, I'd love for you to try it out and let us know what you think! Always open to suggestions.

If that sounds cool, sign up here! https://my.supernotes.app/entry?signup=1&ref=hn

p.s. Due to the current global pandemic / work from home situation going on, we've also decided to make Supernotes completely free until July, so even more reason to try it out.
That's not what you'd believe if you watched cable news ;)
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> something still running Python 2 likely has significant technical debt issues

Most codebases basically.
Honestly, I don't think morality is the issue here; it is objectively inaccurate to show only white men for the search string "doctor" when not all doctors in the U.S. are white men, and most doctors in the world are not white men. This would be like showing only canoes if someone searched "boat"--we would rightly consider that an error to be corrected.

IMO, wrapping it in a concept like "morality" because the pictures have people in them just serves to excuse the problem and obscure its (otherwise obvious) solution.
Even with the shelter in place ordinances in place you still have the right to protest. They didn't remove that. You just need to protest while distancing your self or blocking access for the emergency services.

Creating a group of people standing closely together and/or blocking the streets is a safety issue at the moment.

If the only way you can protest is to do it in public, you lack imagination.
I agree and we'll see how this affects the lives of each protester and those around them. Will many fall ill ... im hopeful they won't and with hope in mind these idiots (what many label them as) show us that we can get back to semi-normal sooner then later.
I think SteamOS and/or Steam-Machines were that bid. Both seem to have been deprioritized and now Proton is a fallback.

I'm sad to say that Windows will likely stay this way for the foreseeable future. The additional test/QA work required in order to make additional platforms (linux, macOS, etc) have to have a business case associated with them. You could imagine the developers writing the game on linux, building and debugging/running locally on linux, but testing and shipping on windows. So even if the games work well on linux, they won't necessarily get a release.

The only thing that might change this balance would be if somehow PC-style games would target Android, or if Android would somehow become some kind of desktop OS. Both seem infeasible to me now but something could change.
Last GDC there was a cool BCI talk from Valve[0], if I had money I would bet that the next VR headset from valve would contain some brain activity sensors.

And in this interview with IGN, Gabe Newel talks a bit about where they stand with BCI [1]. Gabe: "reading and writing to someones motor-cortex is much more of a tractable problem than making someone feel cold" The idea that different parts of the brain have different levels of interface-usability was really mind-blowing to me. I guess it's easy to fall into the trap of seeing the brain as one thing, while it's doing a lot of different things which you can interact with in different ways.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhj3C1H5JWo
[1]: https://youtu.be/I0zXkwLs_lo?t=647
I don't think it's possible to take the virus seriously while also carrying a sign that says "COVID is a lie".
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neat! how do you (or would you) model active and passive forces at the joints and endpoints?

edit: having helped build a hexapedal robot (way) back in the day, my first thought is modelling rather than games or whatnot.
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The point is that either these numbers are not accurate, or that there are crucial differences between LA and NYC. Either conclusion is interesting.
Only slightly bigger, much of it is dramatically more poor, and a sizeable portion of it can't understand English, much less German.
> But we didn’t then write up a damn preprint and set the publicity machine into action.

The latter part is crucial here. I don’t think you should have to apologize about mistakes in a preprint. Papers get improved by the review process. And most of us just upload them to get around journal paywalls, or to make it easier to share with our colleagues what we are working on.

But when a University hears that you’ve got a result on a hot topic, dollar signs light up in their eyes, and they go to work. Scientist beware.

I hope we can find a balance where scientists don’t rush something out just because it’s a hot topic, yet are also not paralyzed from working on something because of the dangers of the spotlight.
Well, that's a little more involved than a reservoir, in fairness. Makes me wonder though if we might see something like this pop up in the private sector in case this happens again. Even a tens of millions of dollar investment in storage would look reasonable alongside the potential profit having millions of barrels of storage would bring right now.
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That's probably my buddy, don't bite ;)

I would argue the case that facebook is not malicious and promote disinformation. If their algorithm promotes comments that get lots of emojis and responses you would see the same behavior. I see it in many forums, the top comments are usually controversial.

Now add to that fact that all sites rely on web traffic to make money and you get a systems of incentives that breeds discontent and divisiveness. On top of all that high speed visual medium, such as the internet, produce an emotional response with little time to rationally process information.
I doubt anyone is defecting in any numbers, but that the unix die-hards are being diluted by an influx of developers who prefer an IDE.
That was new to me, thanks!
Collapse of Sports Brings Dire Scenarios to Schools Like Clemson
Truckers block interstate 610 in Houston to protest low rates
> And why would it crash only at critical gameplay moments? Sounds like FUD.

hah! at least back when I played nonstop twitch games there were no moments that were non-critical gameplay moments ;)
Bloomberg seems to always republish their articles on sites like MSN and Yahoo. If you search the headline you can usually find a non-paywalled article.
The company hired a recruiter years ago and someone notified us a week later that he was charging applicants, mostly students, for interviews. His excuse was that he used a coworking space and needed money to cover the expense, so he made them pay instead of asking the company.
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animalCrax0rx is in the business of producing quick pithy posts to earn more karma while keeping understanding low and making claims that are not evidence based...

See how that works? That's not really what's going on. Sure, G. is incentivized to include pages quickly, but they are also incentivized to produce them accurately, and as the above poster indicates, this is quite a hard problem to solve generally.

A is also incentivized to sell items.

In many cases different algorithms will lead to quantifiably different results. The algorithm changes that work better for the measurement set will be kept and those changes which dont will be discarded. And both A and G do that within different constraints.
disclaimer: this is obviously satire
> If you prefer “print x” to “print(x)” you’re...

...wrong, and probably also mythical. There's no excuse for having it as a language directive rather than a function call. I don't believe that any human who's spent even a few seconds thinking about it actually prefers the former over the latter.
Another odd thing: One of the co-authors of the study, Andrew Bogan seems to manage a hedge fund, and then published a WSJ op-ed on the study. He didn't note in the op-ed that he was involved in the study (and a co-author no less!). A lot of conflict of interest potential here. These authors seem to have an agenda and end-result in mind, no matter the data.

Edit: here's the WSJ op-ed (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-data-suggest-the-coronaviru...

The more I think about this, the more outrageous I find this. It's a form of astroturfing to advance the beliefs of the authors of the study. (Note that the senior author Bhattacharya and of course Ionnadis were advancing this theory before data collection began. This means their analysis deserves even more scrutiny)
Those look almost entirely like stock photos or part of advertisements. It's probably just reflecting the biases of what photos other businesses like, which get the label of "doctor" or "nurse".

Any sort of image search is going to tend to be biased toward stock photos, because those images are well labeled, and often created to match things people search for.
In a discussion about negative future prices no less. If buyers could refuse physical delivery, that's what they would be doing now, not selling at negative prices.
There are many apps written in the old Python nobody is going to rewrite in Python 3 despite many people may need them occasionally. In many cases they can be used for decades as long as there is a compatible interpreter available - there are many contexts where security fixes are not really necessary.

There also are platforms where new Python is not and not going to be available, e.g. DOS.
Ah. I read (I thought) the article, but I apparently got fooled by an ad break, and thought I had reached the end. Still, even if true, that's Murphy. That's not the Dorr brothers, or the Koch site, or the Orange County Republicans. So, even if Murphy is a Russian cutout, much of the rest of this isn't. That leaves anonu's point as somewhat valid - they're still meddling, at least to some degree (and in fact, I kind of presume that they would continue to try to do so) - but his comment still seems like a bit of a reach for a response to the article. One of those registering has a maybe-to-plausible Russian link, so let's veer off and talk about Russian meddling? Yes, we do in fact need to talk about it (and more, find ways to stop it), but this article doesn't seem like the place.
Yes! Not only does Mary Celeste have a way cooler name and backstory than the Mayflower, it also carries fewer weird colonial/imperialist connotations.
Is that the view of every protester?
I wrote this to capture and comment on two significant tweet streams that offered a bootstrapper's definition of capital. Here are relevant sections from both:

"We view economic capital: it is the capability of a group of people (an organization) to meet its own diverse economic needs. Everything about the organization, its skills and capabilities, its cultural roots, its relationships to its customers, its resilience--all of them play a part in defining capital. Capital defined this way is an intrinsic attribute of an organization, and it is not measurable. What we tend to do is reduce capital to its monetary valuation, and that process itself does injury, because the monetary then gets confused with capital itself."

"My definition: Capital is the capability of a population to meet its own diverse economic needs. Capital in that sense includes cultural, social practices that enable cooperation in a people and also includes skills, know-how and formal knowledge. Capital in my sense exists prior to market or the notion of trade itself. Without this capital, there is no trade. When we have capital in that sense, we are able to meet our own diverse material needs. Trade arises when we exchange our surplus for some other groups' surplus. Markets organize trade."
I'd argue that the other HN story about Krebs doing investigative journalism about who the players are behind the "reopen*.com" is a much more interesting discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22928292

This story is going to dig up the usual FB hatred, battles over "freedom of speech" vs "corporate platform", and tired discussion topics that have been re and rehashed again here.
Can you please provide links to judicial opinions or rulings that validate your interpretation of the law?
Why not monitor the movements of the ones in the group and alert the local police of their whereabouts, maybe arrest a few of them and it would be an even bigger statement
I am very concerned about the economic impact this will have and I am also taking this seriously and observing social distancing.

What would be a reason to protest lockdowns?
That's alright sometimes. But there's usually a 100 (or something) readers to 1 posters ratio. If none of the "trolls" are contested that leaves the impression that it's a legitimate opinion.

I don't think the option of "don't feed the trolls" really works in such scenarios.
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> What I cannot believe is how the USA still allows this

Mueller's prosecutors dropped their prosecution when the Russian company charged sent lawyers to court because, among other things, they did not want to have to present their evidence in court.
It's fairly remarkable to see how weaponized misinformation is becoming.

Here's a snippet from Wikipedia[1] detailing the background behind the already-very-dubiously-named Local Government Information Services -- which is in no way a federally (or even regionally) accredited institution:

"Locality Labs published Hinsdale School News, a newspaper that masqueraded as the student publication of a high school in Hinsdale, Illinois by using the logo of Hinsdale Township High School District 86. In March 2019, the publication released a number of articles opposing a Hinsdale referendum that would increase the school district's budget by $140 million.[1] Officials from District 86 sent a cease and desist letter to Franklin Archer, LGIS, and other related companies, claiming that their publication of the Hinsdale School News was deceptive and violated trademark law.[5]"

This is a wake-up call for authenticity.

Regardless of whether foreign influence is involved -- and it can be very challenging to determine whether it is -- U.S. nationals are taking actions that imitate authority without possessing it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Government_Information_S...
any decision can kill people, whether its motor traffic laws, junk food laws, or smoking laws, or quarantine laws. its all open for debate and should not be deplatformed for mere protest. There is a point where quarantine does more damage than good, especially when thinking big picture and government control.
Rules of Acquisition

34: War is good for business.

35: Peace is good for business.
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When you go into business with friends, you are already jeopardizing your friendship. That particular ship has sailed.

You now have an option to (1) do what's right for you, and (2) potentially have some friends at the end of it. BTW it's not guaranteed that you can have either of these, let alone both.

If you are convinced that you want to leave, I think the best way to phrase it is "I no longer believe that the direction we're headed is the right one. You deserve a co-founder who is all in and believes in the mission. Even though I know this will be painful for everyone, the best path for the rest of you is if I leave now." Expect to give up most or all of your equity position, and maybe stay working a little longer than you'd like to get things wrapped up and in a good place to hand off. Also expect that this won't work and everyone will still be mad at you, but you'll learn a lot and your conscience will be clear. Maybe someday your friends will stop being upset and will realize that you were right, and you can be friends again. No guarantees though.

Best of luck to you.
Prior little experience in what exactly? This is the sort of situation where those with deep rolodexes and lots of connections are able to find opportunity.
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OP was sarcastic.
Google American Inventors and you'll get 95% black men.
US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up
The study is for Los Angeles County, not LA, so the population is 10m.
You have inconsistent fears. Presumably you mention 70mph because you're afraid of explosions from vehicle collisions. Yet ammonia is much less flammable (NFPA 1) than gasoline (3), and much much less flammable than elemental hydrogen (4). Ammonia is regularly used as a refrigerant and has been for longer than CFCs have existed. It is poisonous, but no more so than many gasoline additives and less so than tetraethyllead, which was a common additive until quite recently. More to the point, when burned in an engine it produces nitrogen and water, which are much safer than ICE exhaust.

No one is proposing hydrogen or ammonia as an energy source. There are no underground deposits. They will only make sense once solar generation is efficient enough that electrolysis becomes competitive with fossil fuels. We'll know that's coming soon when hydrogen hype artists are drowned out by engineers talking about ammonia.
Here's lazy and cynical me makes a guess what it is reading just the title. It's a grabby data mining platform that hoards medical data and gives Stanley nickels in return. Something like Fitbit, but with crypto currency buzzwords.
Can't reply to semi-extrinsic, but it would seem to me, it'd be cheaper to just shut down the originating well.
Google has gotten worse for me BECAUSE of the stuff you're talking about: It used to search everything and find the words that I cared about.

Today, it will silently guess at what I want, and rewrite the query. If they have indexed pages that contain the words I put in, but don't meet their freshness/recency/goodness criteria, they will return OTHER pages with content that contains vaguely related words. "Oh, he couldn't have meant that, it's from 6 months ago, and it's niche!"

They'll even show this off by bolding the words I didn't want to search for.

So, if I'm looking for something that isn't popular -- duckduckgo it is. It doesn't do this kind of rewriting, so my queries still work.
That man is one of a very small group according to this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rogue_traders
I keep having issues with 3.8 and many dependencies. Two months back, I started out a new project in 3.8 and two days in was downgrading it due to compatibility problems with Pillow and a couple others.
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>It sounds like federal agencies are stepping in to investigate and prevent price gouging

This is not correct. There is overwhelming evidence that the federal government is seizing private supplies of masks for redistribution. I find accounts like this quite chilling, note that the federal agents don't dispute that these are the property of a hospital, it takes (political)force to keep their stuff:

"After receiving my assurances and hearing about our health system’s urgent needs, the agents let the boxes of equipment be released and loaded into the trucks. But I was soon shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting our PPE. Only some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure."[1]

1) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025
This should be clarified, if you setup YOUR OWN proxy it can handle both public and private modules (side note I haven’t been able to verify this yet with artifactory).

You can also just let your GOPROXY fallback go “direct” which will then go straight to vcs (you need to make sure you have a gitconfig setup to redirect https to ssh).
Aw, sorry. I think I mis-interpreted your comment. I was thinking more of how long the system has been falling apart for. It didn't make sense to me that that could have been for billions of years, since the movement involved would be so slow?