skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many varieties of cultivated plants can die out for reasons other than their usefulness. I spent some time living on a farm in Maine and two stories I heard there come to mind, one about wheat, and the other about tomatoes.

Wheat was once cultivated as far north as Maine, where cold-hardy varieties were developed in order to lengthen the growing season and allow local farmers to supply the state's bakeries in what would otherwise be an inhospitable climate to more productive, but less hardy varieties of wheat grown in warmer areas further south. However, once the railroads reached Maine in the 19th century and were able to bring cheaper grain to market, farmers stopped growing wheat and the varieties grown then are now completely lost. Many northern homesteaders would love to have that seed today but it's gone.

Another example I heard from a woman who specializes in selling heirloom tomato seeds and starts. By the way, in contrast to apples, which do not produce identical offspring from seeds, tomatoes do. If you plant apples, expect the unexpected. But if you plant tomatoes, you'll get pretty much the same thing you started with. The tomato grower showed me a delicious variety that was discovered when a schoolboy arrived at school with a tomato and told his teacher "My grandfather says this tomato is special. But he's dying and he doesn't want it to be lost." It turns out that his family had brought over a variety of tomato from Italy as immigrants and had cultivated it for generations. Its quality was the reason it was almost lost forever - so good they kept it their own special secret until time almost ran out.
If that's true then why does Peter constantly argue that we haven't seen much innovation in the last 50 years? We've certainly had plenty of bubbles.
Search for elevation data unfolded in surprising story
I've often had thoughts of opening up a little web shop that anonymously shipped copies of The Mythical Man-Month in bulk.
WHO is giving medical advice, not legal advice. There isn't a contradiction here; if, because of local conditions, local government has prescribed you to wear masks when you go shopping, it isn't because your local government is making a medical diagnosis about you. It's because they want to stop the spread and they can't know that you are healthy or not.

This isn't a hard call. Neither is restricting people promoting miracle cures that lead people to swallow fish antibiotics in the name of "free speech".

Big companies have a responsibility to fight misinformation. Letting the public "figure it out on their own" is simply social darwinism, and it's cruel.
And I think there are also some 4 or five vaccines in phase 1. See report https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00073-5
Man, who thought screwing over the people willing to pay for their first app was a good idea? Good customers they could've brought along on the ride with their new app via a credit or something. Then hit them with in app purchases for even better service/support or something, or do nothing, which is better than what they did here.
Apple to use their own ARM chips for Macs in 2021
My belief is yes, and this is just my opinion.

I think startup founders are irrational, crazy optimistic, because the odds of making it compared to the effort put in are completely off. But they get to do what they enjoy, perhaps for a while. This is possibly even more true for the employees in such companies.

Rational people go into corporations, and get an MBA, which is at its core a course in (economic) rationality. And the result of this rationality is bottom line is everything, even if it means to suck the soul out of everything or even shrinking the company, or even destroying the Earth.

I admit, I despise (economic) rationality. Rationality is only ever reactive, it cannot give you a goal, or a vision. It cannot give society any values. The values or goals have to be irrational, by definition.

There are some nice examples from game theory underlying this, but probably the best is Varoufakis' story about students of economics and business he taught.

When Yanis came to his game theory class, he gave a proposal to students, instead of them having to work and getting a mark for the course based on their knowledge, the students would just secretly vote on what mark they should get and they would all get the minimal mark anybody voted for. But the proposal would only be implemented if all the students agree. Inevitably, there were some people against this. Later Yanis asked these students in private, why did they vote against the proposal, they could certainly save themselves a lot of effort! They always, and without any hint of irony, told him that they believe there would be some idiot who would irrationally put in a bad mark. The irony being, of course, it was them, who was irrational!

I think this story beautifully underlies the futility of the quest for ultimate rationality.

And I find it hilarious that while free market ideology touts rationality as the ultimate goal, the reality of capitalism is that it actually requires people to create startups and small businesses, which is inherently irrational behavior.
I made it almost all the way through. I, however, died laughing at "... and vim is impossible to quit from"
You could sell a variant or have a constant recycled set of promos
About Sabre Rods
I wouldn't expect SARS-CoV-2 immunity from a previous MERS infection, AFAIK their similarity is in their severity of outcomes, not in the immune responses.
It may be legitimate, but is it relevant enough to call one indie but not the other? I don't think so, since 30m and 10m are the same order of magnitude. Halo has roughly a similar ratio with COD, and both series are famous.
^ exactly and when there are big benefits to developers like that and the technology is focused on more, the maturity of what it will become is what really excites me
Yes, Prime Minister used to call these irregular verbs. I compete, you steal, he or she colludes...
I lived in Shingu in 2017-2018, which I see you visited on Day 8. I am absolutely enamored with this small city and the people in it, who are the most welcoming I've met, and whom I think about daily. I'm looking forward to my second visit since moving away in order to walk the Kumano Kodo myself. Thanks for sharing your experience!
If you want to interact with the cpu directly it needs to be a ktext which is part of the kernel.

This ability will be removed in 10.16
Remember that’s not a count of cases. That’s a count of the under 3000 people that came up positive after permitted to take a limited availability test.

Take total case deaths, divide by CFR, that’s how many likely total infected there were 3 weeks ago, and then compound daily by the daily spread rate to find how many likely today.
We have plenty of improvements we want to make to the app. This is only version 1.0

Appreciate it!!
> The 'for all' statement is also an existential quantifier, as is the 'this one value' statement implicit on the imperative statements.

If you're making a technical claim, rather than some informal claim whose meaning I'm missing, then "for all" is a universal, not an existential, quantifier. The truth of universal quantification over an empty set is an important part of predicate logic.
No snark taken :) your comment is definitely in good nature and is appreciated.

Sounds easy to implement, and many companies have attempted to do so. Generally, the solutions you've suggested are what they turn to, with mixed results. Rsync bogs down, bare ssh doesn't let you use gui editors, and the users I've talked to so far consider docker to be opaque.

Folks here on HN are strong engineers. They're happy working with current tools, because they've already gone through the ringer to learn them.

My assertion is that this skillset shouldn't need to be learned. When I write code, I don't need to choose which CPU core is used, and I'm grateful for that abstraction. I'd like Booste to abstract cloud ops in the same way.
> "This caused app stores to turn into a series of ads and in app purchases."

Right, because the core technology PWA is based on, the web, hasn't been tainted with ads.
Obvious lies like these aren't meant to believed. Their purpose is preventing the follow up questions that would come if the truth was acknowledged.
Have spent many nights in Shingu — I agree, I love these small towns. Made all the more interesting by how rich (and important!) their spiritual histories are.
For one, you don't need to use vim.
Funny, I'd say that writing proofs is a lot like building an airplane, and software engineering might be far away from both.

In writing a proof, you provide an argument that justifies some claim is true. Your argument has to be airtight, so that no matter what kind of counter example or ugly scenario is proposed, your argument still holds.

The same seems true for an airplane. It needs to do its job (fly) and do so on the face of a myriad of different external factors. If you build a plane, it should "never" fail.

Software on the other hand, can be built without thinking about ALL of these edge cases. Obvious it's better if it always works, but it's usually okay if there is some bizarre scenario that causes an error. For some pieces of software it might even be okay if these errors never get fixed (ie: a very small number of users ever experience them). Software can work, even when it (kinda) doesn't.

The Curry-Howard correspondence might be technically true, but we're just as bad at writing specifications for programs as we are at writing the programs themselves. It could be good to acknowledge that and just write the software that solves most, but maybe not all, of our problems.
Section 1(a)(3):

"(3) Taiwan is a free, democratic, and prosperous nation of 23,000,000 people and an important contributor to peace and stability around the world."
But I propose it as opt-in. If you don't want in, you aren't. It would also be entirely free, Shopify makes money on the transactions, so there are no ads but they have incentive to make you visible. I don't see how this is a negative in any way for anyone. Your store still exists in its own container, and the portal is just to drive sales to you by increasing your visibility. You could theoretically carry on your business as if this never existed within Shopify. It is basically just a giant search engine that only works across the Shopify network. If Shopify won't do it, I am near willing to bet this business model is eventually put together by someone. Wordpress.com kind of does it...but it's only with content and they don't make money on transactions. They key is that there are no ads, it's a pure search engine, the money is made from the new transaction/hosting.

GoDaddy, Wix and Squarespace couldn't really afford to do it because they aren't e-commerce focused.
Thanks for the website feedback. I'll do my best to rethink how I present this there.

Booste allows GUI code editors like VS Code and Sublime.
> But if you plant tomatoes, you'll get pretty much the same thing you started with.

Unfortunately this is not true. Many tomatoes with the best disease resistance are hybrids, and seeds will not produce the same plant with the same disease resistance. Heirlooms varieties will “generally” produce the same plant but you have to be careful about inbreeding.

> It turns out that his family had brought over a variety of tomato from Italy as immigrants and had cultivated it for generations.

The funny part about this is tomatoes are a new world veggie! So the plant went from America to Italy, and then a new variety was brought back to the homeland. I’d love to try this variety!
And the Arctic Ocean etc etc

The Soviets won out eventually, but without the west they could very well have lost before they really got ready.
Can I dive straight into Antifragile without having read the author's previous books?
Turns out spaghetti isn't that hard to make.
This is the exactly the type of comment I came here for, thanks!
Native is obviously better and always will be. Making cross platform apps is not worth it only if you can easily afford to go native. This is obviously not true for everyone.
Out of curiosity, what advantage would that provide?
EUvsVirus Hackathon
Stardew Valley is indie, because it was made by a single developer who was responsible for everything from coding, composing the music, writing the story and the bitmap art. Animal Crossing is not indie, because it was made by a large studio.
Because people sometimes buy insurance for things even when they think they’re not likely to happen, and even as they’re working to try to make them not happen?
‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms
I'll take the fake news today just to protect speech that may be wrong today but is right tomorrow.

It's amazing how quickly people who benefited from free platforms think that people who defect to the other side only do so because they are weak minded and read some bad news.
My dad used to tell me this story, In rural India in the 60s the Federal Government would lay copper cables to bring electricity to the town. Some locals would bring down all the cables overnight and sell it in black market to some quck money.

For them electricity wasn't that important compared to food on the table.
Some things you buy in the store don’t even taste remotely like what you grow. Tomatoes are night and day difference. They pick them green for travel robustness, and “ripen” then with ethylene, so you’re eating a red but unripe tomatoes.

Strawberries are another one. Do yourself a favor and get some ripe strawberries locally sometime. They’re nothing like that Drischoll’s stuff in the stores!
The classic build or buy. It seems we'd be one of the first SaaS products in the space, but I've heard of a few open-source projects as well.

Is there any site that ties open-source programs to their equivalent SaaS product? That would be very interesting to look at, to see what went into building these various SaaS products.
I'm surprised to see nothing on negotiation there.
> Apple aren't stuffing a third party CPU into an inadequate cooling solution with the iPhone because there isn't one.

It might have escaped your notice that (1) third party ARM CPUs for mobile devices are not exactly difficult to find and (2) Apple was in fact using one before they decided to take the design in-house.
Preserving the status quo by functioning as both a high pass and low pass filter. For both better and worse.
The headline made me think this was supposed to be a dig at Apple's lack of innovation.
So does social unrest in the country you grew up in and have lived your entire life. This whole thread is bizarre.
We have a control, people who have remote worked for years.

This jumps everywhere on reasons, but experienced remote workers should start getting 'Zoom fatigue' for some of these reasons.

And experienced remote workers should have already identified some of these reasons.

Or it's a new technology we are a few weeks into using and that's tiring.
Is there a reason I can't middle click on a game and have it open in a new tab/window?
baybal2 made two separate claims:

1: The thermal solutions in macbooks are comparable to some $300 laptops

2: Other companies do laptops that are just as thin and powerful as macbooks but have much better thermals.

The list they posted is 2, not 1.
It's funny that the big tech companies have such high hiring bars and yet when you get inside there are large teams of people actively working to protect the company from the stupidity of their colleagues.
Theres clearly a difference in the magnitude of probabilities between masks and tinfoil hats actually working, and we are not in a global electromagnetic disaster right now.
There is flipkart (the Indian ecommerce site) which was also used as a case study by Google

https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/2016/flipkart
Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber for COVID19 Patients
> I take your point, but calling the comparison "lies" based on the possibility of long-term implications we know nothing about seems like a big stretch to me.

I had gone through my post and removed all the places where I called it "lies" because I intended to say that this arose from ignorance rather than malice, albeit irresponsible ignorance from journalists whose responsibility it is to share information. I must have missed that one, my apologies for the accusation.

> We don't know the long-term effects of 5G either.

Geez, did you get this from Vox too? The bands used for 5G didn't just spring into existence: they've been around and used[1], albeit deployed on much smaller scales than 5G will be. We have long-term data on the effects of adjacent bands, and a few different ways of modeling how electromagnetic radiation affects the body. The data we have is certainly from much smaller deployments than 5G will be, so it's true we don't know all the long-term effects of 5G, but we at least have enough data to put some bounds on how horribly 5G could go wrong. For starters, we know that it doesn't have a 40% chance of killing everyone exposed to it in the next 30 years with lung cancer, because an effect that large would show up even in the more limited data we already have. And if it does turn out to cause some problem with even a minute fraction of that severity, we can turn off the 5G and stop the cause of the problem.

We don't even have a clear lock on the short term mortality rate of coronavirus and we can't stop the spread with the flip of a switch. Where, exactly, is your confidence coming from here?

> If it saves the lives of a bunch of nurses in the process? I don't know—I think I'm cool with a possibility of it, yes.

> Especially when those same people could also catch the virus naturally.

The worst-hit place in the US is NYC, with 141,754 confirmed cases currently. Even if we assume unconfirmed cases 5 times that, we're still talking single-digit percentages of the population infected. And cases are going down. So yes, people could catch the virus naturally, or, as is much more likely, they could not catch the virus, if we continue taking the recommended measures that are working.

Certainly populations like health workers working directly with the infected are at much higher risk than the general population, but there's still a very significant chance they don't get infected. And even if the chance of them not getting infected were negligible, the solution would be to give them proper PPE, training, and other protections, not to say, "Hey you're probably going to get it any way, so let's just deliberately infect you to test vaccines that may not work."

[1] https://ethw.org/Millimeter_Waves
If, as t -> infinity, the fate of a video hosting service is getting classified as a publisher, why would a competitor turn out any differently?
The number one reason to choose PWA over native is performance.
Isn’t the idea that the fed makes it basically free, and if you get in big trouble they’ll just step in and bail you out?
"Idle games" are one of the recent booms in gaming over the last five or so years. They now even have their own section on Kongregate and are a large mobile gaming category.
From the article [Note the last sentence especially]:

>"Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell has stated that the COVID-19 patients he has treated are suffering from an odd lack of oxygen, not an inability to breathe. This leads Dr. Kyle-Sidell to conclude we need to get high amounts of oxygen to these patients as quickly and safely as possible, without dangerous high-pressures often utilized in ventilators.

Every hospital has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It is possible a COVID-19 patient can spend a short amount of time in the chamber and have their body heavily oxygenated with low-to-no risk.

However hyperbaric oxygen chambers are currently not a part of the approved COVID-19 “protocols” that every hospital in the world is following. Instead, the hospitals are assuming COVID-19 is the same as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and are following the ARDSnet protocols even though it is killing 70 to 90% of all patients once placed on a ventilator."<
Earth Day_See what it means. – Yawabase
I’m assuming “grill” means something different than cooking this over some charcoal?
Yeah, I hated that book. I didn't really understand it. Then I read "Head First Design Patterns" and it clicked. I went back to the Gamma book and now it makes sense, but not as a first book on Design Patterns.
> Here, it's closer to a random sample,
but more importantly it shows really
high rates. Those rates overwhelm any error
due to false positives.

I'm not seeing that, at least not from what I've seen. Whether false positives skew results significantly is highly dependent on how accurate the antibody test they used is (in addition to how large a subset of the population is positive).

This guy has an interesting visual tool that helps you to see how much a study could be affected. [1] Also, he says "Here's an interesting relationship. When a test with 95% sensitivity and 95% specificity is applied to a population with <5% prevalence of disease, MOST of the patients with positive tests are FALSE POSITIVEs." I.e., positive rate shows up as greater than 10%, when it's actually less than 5%.

Do we know the sensitivity and specificity accuracies for the antibody tests used in NY?

You'd like to think they know what they're doing. But this Bayesian stuff can be tricky, especially if they're rushing something through (esp. regarding testing of accuracy of the antibody tests themselves). And the California studies, although they seem to have some competent people behind them, seem to inflate/exaggerate the lower bound of uncertainty in their projection. [2]

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/tgmteststat/home

[2] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Seems they aren't treating them well enough or paying them enough.
Cow Clicker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker