skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one wants to start a career in Agriculture, it only makes sense when you are payed extremely well and currently that's the case when you can make the bare minimum but that minimum is a lot somewhere else.

In West Europe, Agriculture is done by Eastern Europeans who can work for few months and make some money that is uninspiring the West but life-changing in the East. Western youth would't touch it.

In Turkey it is done by people who escaped a war or tyranny : Syrians and Afghans. It makes sense for them because the alternative is worse but the Turkish youth would not touch it unless it's some kind of organic avocados hipster thing.

The Agriculture production is now cheap but unless everything gets robotised at the same pace(or faster) with the people leaving the business or the inequality in the world vanishes it can get real expensive real quick.

The vertical farming looks like an option before automatic drones produces us all the produce in a sense that no one ever seen a tomato field in life.

But as the author states, farming is massively automated and the efforts are still going on. So, maybe it's about lifestyle? Having a vertical farm in each garden could be desirable even if not efficient.
No amount training in the world is going to matter when there is no accountability after-the-fact.

Or when your training is directly at odds with the the job that you are expected to do by your boss.

The police, as they exist today, are largely unsuited for dealing with the majority of issues they get called out for. No amount of training is going to fix that. No amount of training is going to turn them into mental health experts, or social workers. No amount of training is going to empower them to do something useful about the pants-less gentleman yelling outside my apartment at 2 am, or about the tent city down by the overpass. [1]

Training is, however, a great substitute for actual reforms, that you can point at as a 'see, we are doing something'.

[1] What they should actually do about the tent city is an open political question, but doing a monthly sweep, where they arrest and release the occupants, and throw all their belongings in the trash is probably not a good long-term plan. No amount of training is going to stop that, either.
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You wrote just minutes before this post that wikileaks "literally dispatching Lulzsec". Seems quite hyperbolic to claim that they had any power to control lulzsec and dispatch them as if Lulzsec was their underlings.

So maybe we should all just tone down the colorful language a bit and use a bit less extreme rhetoric to make our points.
I definitely think we shouldn't give another dime in tax credits to broadband providers - a signed contract with aggressive enforcement provisions would be in order, and if the current major ISPs don't want to build the infrastructure we should find someone else who will.
To be clear, we don't know if the ARM MacBook will be able to run Linux natively. We only know that Apple won't continue support for Boot Camp and therefor Windows anymore. Linux was never supported.
Sad, but inevitable, after Nikon stopped dragging its feet. I used Oly cameras for a few years, mostly due to their compact size and excellent in-body stabilization. But then Nikon released Z6 and I switched to that. Not much larger, much better image quality (Sony looks too "blue" for me), great usability, great stabilization, great glass so far. Still Olympus OM-D series were excellent cameras.
You are confusing the x86 CPU architecture (which is closed) with the PC platform (which is relatively open).

> Also, the CPU is but a minor part of the puzzle. But still that is still twice as many as apple (good luck exchanging that apple-arm with any other brand).

Even on x86, interchangeable CPUs are the exception, not the rule. Intel and AMD CPUs haven't even used the same socket since the 1990s, and even within those manufacturers, socket incompatibilities are common.

Software interchangeability is more of an operating systems issue than an architectural one. With appropriate software shims, though, there is no reason to suspect that (for example) Linux ARM software could be run on an Apple ARM CPU. In fact, it's quite likely that tools like the Android emulator will do exactly that.

> Please compare that with a computer built from AMD/Intel with a motherboard out of dozens of manufacturers etc. Any ATX power supply etc. Pretty much any PCI-E graphics card etc.

Server-class ARM hardware generally does use similar parts as x86 servers, including power supplies and PCIe peripherals.
Yep, this solves nothing. The ISPs will continue lining the politicians' pockets and we will keep over-paying for it. I wish Google fiber hadn't hit so many road blocks and took off nationally - it would have set a higher bar for quality vs price. I'm lucky enough to have a decent month-to-month internet plan under $40 with 200mbps, but I realize the majority of America is still being stiffed hard by Comcast/AT&T/CenturyLink/Cox/Verizon, especially households in rural areas.
LaunchPlan – Business Plan Software with Free Trial
LaunchPlan is new business plan software that helps small businesses, entrepreneurs and startups turn their ideas into action. It fills a gap in the middle of the market: By offering detailed guidance and automated financial forecasts, LaunchPlan is far more robust than free business plan software, yet it is more affordable than subscription-based competitors, whose features can be unnecessary or overwhelming for the average small business. Curious to hear what people think.
It's awesome for real racists that now every minor bullshit is considered racist. Suddenly there's a lot more of them, they're in pretty good company and the term has been diluted into meaninglessness.

Another victory for social justice. Brexit, Trump, you guys just can't stop winning.
Any data to back up this claim? My experience in dealing with large numbers of files, huge data sets, is that Perl generally roars, while python lags. I converted a python code to Perl associated with some recent work, and got a good ~2.5x overall improvement. It varied a bit as a function of the input, but generally Perl is superior in performance. Some areas Python is better, but not many.
Considering the article it looks like they know either way.
I really hope Starlink will have a turnkey small-community ISP “solution”.
Olympus was one of my first digital cameras. I forgot the model, but I still remember it used SMC/SmartMedia cards, which were an exotic item back then (CF/CompactFlash were the most common).

The picture quality of that camera was better than even Canon or Sony, and it cost less.

Sad, but I haven't heard anything about Olympus for a long time. They developed their own standard for mirrorless cameras, but then kind of vanished, at least in my world :/
I somehow always had the feeling that serious photographers use Canon and Nikon to a lesser measure for professional work but a lot use fuji for fun :)
I am not sure, I suppose an administrator may want to tear the guts out of the business and try sell off the parts of value.

Was just thinking of the people that rely on Wirecard for transactions at the moment, switching them off doesn't seem sensible for any outcome.
Please explain. Have you heard of chef? That is ruby and it can be beautiful. Chef > Ansible. Chef server is meh.
Wasn't one of the theories why the UK wanted to get Brexit done by New Year's this year that there was a new EU financial transparency directive coming into effect that might have exposed a lot of Conservative MP's financial dealings?
I just do analog, but isn't mirrorless the trend right now? All my friends who got into digital photography are using Fuji/Sony/Olympus setups now. Canon/Nikon took years to produce competition there and I really still haven't heard much about them, they seemed pretty underwhelming.
vote for people who don't take funds from them. Its almost impossible.
My guess is firmware issues.
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I use a laptop with a 16" pen enabled 4k display. Works like a champ, and is super portable... and folds into a tablet for even better drawing ergonomics.
For professionals, a lot of that selection also comes down to serviceability. When Sony started gunning for more of the professional market with the A9 they had to up their service game and it’s still considered lacking.
Government policies. Legacy code. Cascade of updating vendor contracts and waiting for them to update their product/service. The Webmaster frequently doesn't have the autonomy to be able to prioritize the project they think is most critical.

The switch from HTTP to HTTPS is almost never as simple as "call LetsEncrypt and switch the port number". If you have an existing HTTP site that includes Images, Script, Styles, Frames from other HTTP resources, switching the top of the page to HTTPS may break functionality on the page if the browser's security settings deny HTTP resources from being loaded on the newly HTTPS page.

That said, there's really no reason any government shouldn't prioritize these fixes... except we are in the middle of a COVID-pocalypse where budgets are likely to get slashed. Sometimes it's "incompetence" of management (not seeing the risk after it's described to them or their underlings not communicating the risk), but mostly
87? Yep. My 2 year old has a deeper appreciation for modern society.
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What grave scandal is uncovered by knowing that Jobs had AIDS?

Who will get justice or recompense by knowing that?

What future benefits or change of course will this bring for you, or me, or society?

Don't get me wrong, I don't care about this guy's privacy either -- plus he's dead, so privacy is mostly moot -- but it's hard to see what anyone stands to gain from airing inconsequential medical history.
Honestly, I really like them.
Why doesn’t the government just build it? They do it with sewer lines, power lines, gas lines, water lines, but a little fiber is too much?
It is intentionally naiive to dismiss the concept that your actions, however small, have societal impacts.

Whether you intend them to, or are aware of the extent that they do, is a function of your personal curiosity and ability/data to analyze the causal impacts of your actions on broader outcomes.

I always see a lot of "I'm just a cog trying to make ends meet" responses, to these kinds of challenges. This is a willfully ignorant cop-out. Which is different from embracing some form of existential nihilism.

It might sound trivial but the quote from Socrates applies:

"The unexamined life is not worth living"
Random comment on the app: Using a 4-character room code is a really really bad idea.

"Zoom-bombing" became a thing because 9 digit room codes without an additional passcode was fine, before millions of new people started using it and suddenly the probability of guessing a valid room code shot up.

Nowhere near enough entropy with a 4 alphanumeric character room code to prevent this kind of attack if the app takes off.
Very interesting seeing people in the comments debate what is a very basic thing taught in any stats/econometrics class.

The idea behind binary regression ( Y is 0 or 1) is that you use a latent variable Y* = beta X + epsilon.

X is the matrix of indenpent variables, beta is the vector of coefficients and epsilon is an error term that sums the rest of what X can't explain.

Y thus becomes 1 if Y* >0 and 0 otherwise.

Seeing how Y is binary, we can model it using a Bernoulli distribution with a success probability P(Y=1) = P(Y* >0) = 1 - P(Y* <=0) = 1 - P(epsilon <= -beta X) = 1 - CDF_epsilon(-beta X)

Technically you can use any function that maps R to [0, 1] as a CDF. If its density is symmetrical then you can directly write the above probability as CDF(beta X). The two usual choices are either the normal CDF which gives the Probit model or the Logistic function (Sigmoid) which gives the Logit model. With the CDF known you can calculate the likelihood and use it to estimate the coefficients.

People prefer the Logit model because the coefficients of the model are interpretable in terms of log-odds and all and the fucntion has some nice numerical properties.

That's all there is to it really.
That depends on how many more bonuses their executives need.
What a significant difference. I'm afraid of it in the hands of Big Brother. But I would love for my phone to be able to look through my glasses and notify me "violent escaped criminal 30 feet away at 11 o'clock."

Except then it would also be able to raise notifications like "person affiliated with <outgroup> 30 feet away at 11 o'clock." Add syndication and people who wrongthink could be tracked down like pokemon.
Oh wow. As of last year, I still had an Olympus C-120 in the glove box of my 1999 Miata. Many, many moons ago, it was recommended that you kept a camera in your car in case you got in an accident. Decades later, I just never bothered to take it out. One night last summer, I forgot to lock the car. Someone came through and stole it.

"Uhh, ok," was pretty much my reaction. Hope you get a lot of money from it at a pawn shop. Maybe that 32MB SmartMedia card might be worth something.

Back in the days of early compact digitals, the Olympus lines were such a great value. The technology overall wasn't that great to begin with so no one was head and shoulders above everyone else. Olympus solidly beat everyone on price, though.
I already have it, but it is usefull for me only as linux device (well until they release v22 firmware to mod it). But my main motive for buying it was linux/sailfish.
I also noticed the "Q" in the video opening, but youtube appears to indicate the video was uploaded 10 years ago (Sept 4, 2009). Wikipedia's page on QAnon [1] indicates it began in October 2017. It appears the video is a promotional from the Dillon Aero company, and the "Q" graphic appears to be something they included (again, based on upload data, 10 years ago). It seems plausible the "Q" in the video is meant to refer to something different.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Edit: also see the same video from 2007 from another uploader:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AowpYoYhzEI

It appears "Q" might refer to the product here. Or perhaps it is a James Bond reference.
I started working on Krita end of 2003; long after the application was added to KOffice and had gone through the KImageShop and KRayon names. It could do nothing but load images... In 2004, people had joined me to hack on it. We had the first release in 2005, and honestly, if it hadn't been for Krita... KOffice 1.5 would not have been released. After 1.6 we realized we needed a new direction, though... And I never was the first maintainer of KImageShop/Krayon/Krita, of course.
The web back then was also useless.

I know because I was there trying to learn programming, or anything, from the web of 1996-2000 and it was a freaking pain, a garbage dump of poor content filled with banner ads and popups and searching on AltaVista and Yahoo! was completely futile. The only useful content I found was not on the web, but in FTP directories. And learning was all you could (barely) do.

People were doing bookmarks because it was rare to find something good, so remembering stuff that wasn't crap was worthwhile.

People tend to glorify the old days. That's because memory starts playing tricks on us.
Egui – An experimental immediate mode GUI written in Rust
-Oh, it is about more than just quality - say, a pro DSLR should be able to double as a hammer if you need to drive in a few nails to hang your backdrop from. Also, autofocus should be instantaneous, and should be able to lock on a bat in a coal mine. (It is a bonus if the high-ISO performance of the sensor is capable of freezing said bat in flight using only natural light.)

Obviously, I exaggerate for effect - but a pro body should first and foremost be utterly reliable no matter what it is subjected to...

(Oh, and it should be compatible with the lenses you already have - as they can easily be a few thousand dollars a piece. Now, that's some serious lock-in!)
I'm in a similar situation!
I still use my trusty GF1 which is by far the best camera I have owned and I wanted to eventually upgrade and bring my lenses that I accumulated over the years with me.
Olympus had a solid m43 lineup back when I last checked. I was always a little frustrated how some vendors just started their own mirrorless, fragmenting the business. Its a shame and I am afraid to what will happen with m43.. its a shame if it goes, it is still a world better than cell phone cameras and it is so much more convenient than full frames.
An individual can’t take part in a collective action unless they have some kind of personal safety net in place.

Get fired for speaking up about something illegal? Better hope you have a new job lined up or you have plenty of savings. Because it’s gonna be a long time before you either get your job back or see any kind of settlement.
There are very few packages compiled for ARM on PyPI, and there are more than a few packages on PyPI that are a pain to build from source.
You ask all the questions from a company's perspective, presuming no users want this. As a user, I absolutely prefer the convenience.
I got one better: i sank $2k into a full four thrids lens a while back (the f2.0 zoom; its still worth every penny). I've been wondering about finding a new sensor to put behind that, if i have to embrace the suck of adapters anyway, what should i be looking for now? Seems like "any Cannon" is the only sensible answer.
Thanks! I will. I'm already using a KDE based system so being Qt app Krita would fit in just nicely.
Search history, ad clicks, etc. can serialize to very tiny records. I don't think this is about saving storage space. One day of YouTube uploads probably takes more space than every user's data combined.
The Spider’s Web is a documentary film which covers this subject in detail. Well worth watching if you have an interest in finding out more.

“An investigation into the world of Britain’s secrecy jurisdictions and the City of London. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance.”

http://spiderswebfilm.com/
It's not running in a virtual machine.
>How superficially do they check their customers?

I'm not an expert but maybe they just believed in the books. Or maybe they checked the documents, but the documents were forged, so checking the documents would have been useless.
This looks really promising. I've been wanting a very lightweight solution for this which runs on a single host (no need for another host just to run the scripts) and pulls its configuration from a GitHub repository periodically.

I ended up writing my own - and hating that I had to do that - because I couldn't figure out how to use any of the existing options. Their documentation all seems to assume multiple hosts and a separate machine that you run the scripts on.

"Each host periodically fetches the latest version of the inventory to see what roles should it be performing" - that's exactly what I want.
Always enjoy seeing what you guys are up to.
Check out the works of Trish: https://twitter.com/geosi40 ! It's so awesome -- she made even me, who is a coder, explore abstract expression.
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> I really hope Starlink will have a turnkey small-community ISP “solution”.

I mean, an ISP could get a receiver and use Starlink as backhaul, but IMO, that just doesn't make much sense. The cost of infrastructure is almost certainly more than the cost of a receiver per consumer.
Right, but did you believe these things because an algorithm on social media was giving you a limited view of the world?

My own view is that I could limit my intake of knowledge to just a handful of people, but if they were the right people, I’d end up with a more original worldview than if I tried to read “both sides” since “both-sides-ism” tends to reactively assume the people shouting old views loudly represent an entire debate.
Hell, Apple is at the mercy of Microsoft and Adobe right now. I'd bet they had to line their pockets very well, so that they don't get any funny ideas.

I’m sure that's not the case. It's much more in Adobe’s interest to be ARM-ready on day 1; there are plenty of Photoshop alternatives in the Mac App Store—notice they demoed Affinity Photo running on the ARM Mac and Affinity is much better at using Apple's native APIs and technologies than Adobe every was. And it's just a one-time cost of $49.99 vs. renting Photoshop from Adobe. Users of Apple devices are continue to be a large segment of their customer base.

Adobe has already migrated all of their core applications to a new codebase that should be relatively easy to bring to ARM Macs. Photoshop and several other of their apps already runs on iPadOS, so it won't be that big a deal to move it over to Big Sur.
The link provided only concerns logging of DNS requests on Comcast's DNS servers themselves. It doesn't say anything about recording packets to UDP port 53 in general. If Comcast were recording every packet I sent to 8.8.8.8 they wouldn't be breaking the letter of the policy.
The article is hosted by a real software product so it’s not likely this is satire.
The Government does not build those.
If you're going to choose to misrepresent / misunderstand what I said, there isnt going to be much point in discussion.

But in case there was confusion here, I would like a claim that X deaths were caused by Y war to be backed up by evidence rather than "obviously war causes death, so this war must have caused that death!"

The rise in mortality could be partly caused by war, and partly by changing political factors, and partly by changing responses to vaccinations (relevant in Pakistan re: polio), and partly by a hundred other factors.
Good points. It maybe would have deterred Russia from invading at all, but that's debatable.
Because the ISP corporations have sued the government (successfully) when it's attempted.

And 'successfully' includes a completed lawsuit and/or dragging out the proceedings so long that it costs the taxpayers too much to continue.
"Add your babies' medical records on data centers of a private firm in Estonia": Maybe not.

"Get real time notifications when your baby is crying": Um I think you won't be able to ignore it even if you want to.

"decrypts babies'cries and informs parents of the reason behind the cry : Pain, Sleep, Discomfort or Hunger": Do you have benchmarks or citations for the training/test data used?

"Based on 35 research papers": No need to cite them I guess.
This is interesting, and at least in the tech world it seems like work will be noticeably more distributed from here on out.

Does anyone know of any other companies that have gone remote first during the pandemic?
With few exceptions, the government doesn’t build or operate power lines in the US.
It's more open in terms of what software you can run. And if you cared about hardware being open, RISC-V is where you'd have to go. ARM certainly isn't open hardware.