skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is probably because they use k8s, vitesse becomes a natural choice
Modern mechanized agriculture is incredibly efficient and productive, but
it degrades soil health over time and loses topsoil.

There are methods that increase soil and fertility over time
(Permaculture, Syntropic farming, regenerative agriculture) but they are
typically relatively labor intensive. China and India have made great
strides in recent times.

India's Water Revolution #2: The Biggest Permaculture Project on Earth! with the Paani Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMnbeW3F8A

India's Water Revolution #3: From Poverty to Permaculture with DRCSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtHuIlfyJao

Regreening the desert with John D. Liu https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI?t=82

> It all started in 1995 when Liu filmed the Loess-plateau in China. He
witnessed a local population who turned an area of almost the same size
as The Netherlands from a dry, exhausted wasteland into one green oasis.
This experience changed his life.

To me it seems that the two main areas to focus on to make a real
contribution are:

1) Make modern agriculture ecologically harmonious.

2) Make ecologically harmonious agriculture more automated.

Obviously these converge.

(My feeling is that we would be happier with lots of little
farms rather than a few large ones, but I'm not interested in debating
that particular point. I care about ecological harmony. Future
generations can work out the economic forms provided we don't crash the
system before then.)
I think it was 80k for the US, something like 500k worldwide. Is this chart US alone?

Edit: I think this starts at january, which is well into flu season, so maybe the bulk of this flu seasons deaths were already in 2019? In which case you're comparing the tail end of the flu to the bulk of covid. Covid is deadly enough without having to stack the data with relatively u fair comparisons...
Seems pretty dumb to only compare it to causes of death that add up to 7% of deaths.
" Eventually they lost all the competition to every other company..." -> Are your referring to Slacks?

"Why on earth someone would trust their business communications to outdated pre-hipster infomarketing company?" -> Probably because they are not under pressures from VC. In HN, we like to bash companies who have done unpleasant things because of pressures from VC. We like to said it like this, "Why did this company need money from VC? Can't they just aim the sustainable growth?"
While I think it is admirable for companies to think about how they can help with racial injustice, I am a bit shocked at how far Microsoft is going with their actions. I feel it crosses a line from fighting for equality (meaning equality of opportunity) to being discriminatory itself (seeking equity, or equality of outcomes).

This post indicates:

- Microsoft will set hiring quotas based on race (seems illegal)

- Microsoft will create promotion programs and pipelines that are only available if you belong to certain races (seems illegal)

- Microsoft will change compensation for executives based on their Diversity & Inclusivity numbers (seems illegal)

- Microsoft will select vendors based on their demographic composition

This looks and feels a lot like the controversy involving Harvard and other universities that practice "holistic admissions", which is essentially a discriminatory affirmative action process under a different brand.
Same for me as well
If you hadn't sold yourself out of the free market, you would be able to choose what architecture machine you bought.
I'm kinda thankful to Apple for biting the bullet on this one. For whatever reason people will move mountains for Apple where other companies' products would just languish and die. The second order effects of ARM being something that's "safe" for people to use should be great!
It took me too long to get this so I’ll leave it here:

Colloquially we call all aviator people as “pilots” but technically the person on the left seat is Captain and to the right is First Officer/Pilot/Co-Pilot.

Like on marine vessels, the original idea is that the captain has the full authority to his ship and his first officer steers it under his order.

That extra hierarchy lead to several accidents so newer concepts such as PM/PF or CRM rules were conceived, but as far as terminologies go that’s what captain/officer stands for.
No. It's labeled global, and there's not huge numbers of malaria deaths in the US, so it's not just mislabeled.
Didn't they show off a native arm docker image running in the keynote?
It’s rare for tech to be a determinant to a products success, which is why I’m confused at all the extrapolations here.

What’s working for Hey is years of brand development and marketing that allowed them to do such a hyped launch. It could’ve been written in php with jquery and it wouldn’t have made much a difference.
> auto-delete activity and location every 18 months by default

Does this mean any data older than 3/18 months is deleted or that every 3/18 months they delete everything?

P.S. I assume that they may have already put a price on 3/18 month old data and decided that by then it has lost enough of its value to make such a loss worth it in order to buy a bit of good will from users and regulators alike.
Mine is here: https://www.seanw.org/

Gets all green ticks against Google's new Core Web Vitals metrics for page experience. :)
Hey uses turbolinks, so opening an email is an XHR call not a full page reload.
Thats quite a good point I hadn't thought of, to be frank. You may be on to something there.
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

Assange leaked the DNC emails, hacked by Russian-controlled Guccifer 2.0, in weekly bundles as an effort to manipulate news headlines leading up to the November 2016 election.
I think he means that if you use Postgres you are more likely to also be an evangelist for it. That doesn't tend to happen on the Mysql side. You don't hear people saying "you should switch from postgres to mysql" but you hear plenty of the opposite. Mysql works fine for most things and so that's what he used.
> tech stacks are important

I'd argue that tech stacks are unimportant 99% of the time. It really doesn't matter if you use Java or PHP or Python or Node.

Failures that I have seen due to the choice of tech stack include:

- Technologies that your team doesn't know well

- Technologies where hiring is difficult (I've seen attempts to turn C# devs into F# devs and Java devs into Clojure devs and productivity suffered)

- Choosing the flavor of the week, whether that's the hottest Javascript framework or newest NoSQL database

- Over-architecting thinking you were Google-scale with the added complexity hurting velocity (it doesn't matter if you can scale to millions of users if you can't get there)

Generally boring tech stacks work. By the time your Ruby/MySQL monolith has performance issues, hopefully you're successful enough that you can scale out the worst performing parts in some other language/datastore combination. You'll be in a better position to fix performance problems are when you have them rather then when you are trying to predict them up front.
It seems to work quite well for me, so from my perspective, it's fine.Opening an email and fully loading that whole page takes less than 400ms for me, with he first meaningful pain around 200ms.Even on slow 3g throttling its faster than loading gmail.
I would hope this leads to more people running native Linux, but the cynical side of me thinks it'll push people to WSL2.
Why is either of these a bad thing?
I do consulting for non-technical founders of software companies. This is an incredibly common question. A lot of ink has been spilled over it, including my own ( https://jeremyphelps.com/blog/how-to-interview-a-freelance-d... )

Generally speaking you want to focus on more than raw technical skill. It's far more important that you align on expectations, values, etc. than it is to hire the world's greatest developer.

Most importantly: pay them to work on a small project before tackling your MVP. You don't want to get involved with someone on a big project only to find out the person is difficult to work with.
Using just your bare hands to build a startup is cool.
I think you missed the point. What about all the dependencies of your code that are only compiled for x86_64? The article isn't talking about native apps on the laptop, it's about apps that run on a server but that you are developing locally.

You can't run your x86 docker image on your ARM mac without emulation. You can't run your x86 Windows VM without emulation etc.

Of course there are solutions like using a remote server or a VM in the cloud, but if you're buying a decent machine then you would normally expect to be able to run these things locally.
Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible
When was the year of the macOS desktop?
Ask HN: Any way to recover deleted surveillance video from DVR
Thought I might ask HN...in short some serious crimes happened to me at a gas station (abduction/kidnapping), I did everything I could to preserve the video, but as you might expect the gas station did not preserve the video and allege it was over written within 7 days.

I went in person to request the video 2 days after the crimes against me (and to file an incident report and request the name of the insurer), the employee said she would call the owner/manager to help me but actually called 911 and had me removed from the premises.

Then I reached out to the corporate franchiser (Sunoco) to request the name of the franchisee to serve a notice of preservation (required under state law), of course they dragged their feet just long enough to delay service of my notice.

Now the insurers (Berkshire Hathaway - Berkshire Hathaway guard) and their scumbag attorneys are alleging the crimes didn’t happen to me and if they did they didn’t happen on the property but across the street (they even published a written statement online to this effect, which the judge said isn’t defamation and that I am just taking this to personal), notwithstanding the fact the guy was caught and sentenced to a total of 80 years in prison.

I’m sure I would need the make/model of the surveillance system DVR for a solid answer, but in the meantime, I thought HN would be a great place to ask if there is any hacks or hope of recovering overwritten video from these types of systems?
Mac book was never really a dev platform. Maybe for front or nodejs, or definitly for native apple apps, but seriously, brew and so are so subpar.
Jon Ronson’s book “So You’ve been Publicly Shamed” touches on this. Less from the angle of PC culture and more about anger on Twitter. I think it’s a good book and interesting even if you disagree with the conclusions.
>Here’s a wild idea: don’t try and fill the hole with money; if you can’t afford to safely move your nukes, you can’t afford your nukes, ergo you shouldn’t have nukes.

Pakistan is playing in a geopolitical game that also involves the US, China, India and other nations much stronger than it. Large countries have a track record of being willing to throw small regional powers under the bus for their own gain. Pakistan, rightfully in my opinion sees having nukes as their only way to be dangerous enough that nobody will try to screw them out of their sovereignty. It's no surprise that they'd rather have nukes unsafely than not have them at all.
>>> expect ... a lot of common Docker images being built with ARM versions out of the box.

This has no chance of happening. The common cloud CI systems do not support ARM at all (travis, circle CI and co). There is only a minority of developers with macbook and the rest is not going to spend $2000 to buy one just to build some docker images.
If the worst of every possible thing happens and you avoid the most obvious solutions and one is very, very slow, then yes, you're right to worry.

Or, you could use already-extant Debian ARM releases and spend minutes rather than months switching over.
Huh? You claim you can get the same functionality of location tracking by just taking photos of everywhere you've ever gone, and oefrha said they don't want to take a picture at every place they've ever gone (like a bathroom). I don't think his take is that narrow or regressive.

When I go to a restaurant I don't like taking pictures of the food, or pictures of the restaurant. I like enjoying the food and the company I'm with - but maybe I'm regressive.
Programmer Weekly – Issue 10
Silicon Valley Can’t Be Neutral in the U.S.-China Cold War
Just how do you think the Nobel committee decides which work to look at?

I don't think they need to be meeting racial quotas for prizes, but my guess is that there is a lot of work to be done in the system that promotes and nominates candidates and those systems in place that decide who and what gets published.
To add, if you are a tech person study the combines following the harvest from south to north. That will lead you to so many aspects of what modern farming in the great plains is and probably give you some ideas for tech services that farmers would be willing to pay for.
I loved symbian and the whole "java on phone" never seemed right to me. I would prefer having a linux phone - I dont ask for much - working camera, working calls, mms and sms, gps, bluetooth). I dont care for anything else.

All my hopes are now leaning into Cosmo Communicator( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator - please take care, I have jumped into this with "I will loose my money" mentality - I still dont trust, they will realize the linux part, but hope dies last), it reminds me of beloved Nokia Communicator and if they realize my conditions (camera, calls, mms, sms - gps already works same as bluetooth ) I will give my foot a very long swing and remove my Android phone (even if heavly modified) from my life.
The former, any data older than 3/18 months is deleted.

so if you set it up for 3 months today, then any data on and before 3/15/2020 will be deleted
Now we’re resorting to name calling are we? Let’s consider first principles, like microbiology, before jumping on the bandwagon of “everyone else is doing it” because circumstances vary widely. What is selfish is to ignore other factors that play an even more significant role than coronavirus, which has an extremely low mortality rate. I have not gone to “all microbiologists agree”, but rather that you ought to listen to what they have to say over a journalist or government official. It is a good time to learn empathy, and statistics, to avoid the kind of narrow thinking your last post vividly illustrated.
It's unlikely the test boxes are going to people who deploy to x86 backends. They are targeted towards iOS and macOS developers.

We can have the experience of developing on ARM to deploy on x86 right now with ARM workstations. A 16 core barebones costs around $700
Decades of nepotism, which leads to corrupt courts and once law is up for sale everything rots
I double checked and I think it's because the data begins in january
I also went through a dev board phase later on when I was working on Maemo, etc. but they took it easy on me when I was fresh out of school and let me have real production hardware
I disagree. Deception isn't cool and its worth calling it out when it happens.
I wonder if Apple will still allow a dual boot with a native (arm64 in this case) Linux
Doesn't sound very sophisticated from a privacy standpoint. How does this kind of vanilla tech stack protect my private emails from access by rogue insiders?
iOS remembers that stuff too. It just stores it device-side and doesn't use it for advertising.

Edit: Turns out it doesn't actually provide a location history visualization like GMaps does - it only shows "significant locations" - but to my knowledge there's no technical reason it couldn't do so
2012 ?
Everyone thinks they are not susceptible to advertising.

Advertising metrics continue to prove that they are wrong.

HN will continue to have "contrarians" who think they are smarter than everyone else, and who reflexively argue contrarian positions, like "privacy is bad, actually", not because those positions are smart, but because the speakers are addicted to being "clever" contrarians.
I use Macports and I'm quite happy.
Computing a perfect metrics is as hard as the task itself, so lf course scores like BLEU and ROUGE use and easy approach instead that can be gamed. Every researcher reading this kind of paper normally understands that.

In this post, the 0 example for a good translation arise because the question is not formulated in the standard English way which use sujet/verb inversion. This problem is easily solved by extending the corpus with more diverse way to formulate questions. It’s also notable than the way a question would be translated in Chinese would also similarly be affected by the construct used by the MT system and the constructs present in the corpus. Instead of ditching the scores completely, improving the corpus seems to be a more productive approach, which would also benefit other researchers and the field in the long term.
one can’t run an x86 OS on an ARM architecture

This is the limitation. There is an ARM version of Windows, but the comments from Microsoft don't sound terribly promising:

“Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs. We have nothing further to share at this time.” [1]

And Apple has more firmly stated that this won't be an option:

“We’re not direct booting an alternate operating system,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. “Purely virtualization is the route. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct boot shouldn’t really be the concern.” [1]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...
I've been developing on a Mac for years, and I've never needed to use Docker or virtualisation to do it. (I've been doing game development, and now web front end development. I'm sure the major game engines and browsers will be ported to run on ARM chips (although it may take a while)).

Honest question: What sort of development regularly requires using docker or virtualized OSes?
Boot Camp support will remain for Intel machines. Current understanding is that ARM machines will have no Boot Camp capability at all.
>"It's fun to go to art museums and see the still-life pictures, and see what our vegetables looked like 500 years ago," he told me. In many cases, it's our only chance to peer into the past, since we can't preserve vegetables for hundreds of years.

Um ... not even by saving the seeds?
So if all these things were possible on Symbian so early what in the world happened that they lost the market race so badly. Too much engineering-driven design? Lack of a unifying Jobs-esque force at the top to make hard decisions?
If you're not leveraged to the hilt paying for that combine!
>>> If people don't want to see my site with random trash inserted into it, they can choose not to access it through broken and/or compromised networks.

Such a pointless read.
I think it was running in Parallels
Frechet Inception Distance using language model is a solution (commonly used in text GAN). I think the core idea is that you should never rely on one metrics for evaluation but rather a mix of them ( even statistic ones: unique word count, word distribution similarity etc )
> It goes to show that libraries like React, Vue, and Angular are _not_ necessary to build smooth, modern, and fully-featured web interfaces.

I understand what you're saying but want to clarify: Angular is a full blown opinionated framework.

And from my experience in the enterprise which library or framework to use are decided by how productive the dev team can be. Not sure newbs would hit the ground running with the HEY stack.
You can tell the kernel to not make certain cores available to the scheduler (isolcpus)
the title should be changed
> Privacy is at the heart of everything we do

No it's not. Fucking outright lies.

* You can't use the google assistant without turning on location tracking or web history

* You can't use your podcast app without web history

* I can't disable Google scanning of my email for product purchases

* I can't disable Google tracking me across the web without arcane browser extensions

* On-device speech recognition doesn't exist

* On the linked page, where's the option to delete my information immediately rather than 3 months?
Asians do very well in America and they didn't need buildings named after them. Why do you think black people need buildings renamed before they start learning calculus, physics, etc?
My objection to this is that I'm really bad at anticipating where interesting or useful information will come from. Many times I've been watching or reading something and find a offhand that is really useful to some part of my life.

If I only read the stuff I suspect of being useful before I start, there's less of a chance to be surprised by useful information.

Is that efficient? Bot really. It's enjoyable though.
C# can greatly improve developer productivity.

Just don't do things the way Microsoft says to. ^_^
Noteworthy how they tout the success of their "magic" frontend stack made with vanilla JS, lack of a trendy framework, etc. But if you use the app, the UX is fairly laggy, requires frequent refreshes, all the animations and interactions are off - the list goes on and on. It's noticeably subpar (and I like Hey).

Seems to me that the proof is in the pudding wrt their stack, but it's probably not what they wanted to prove. I would take a well tuned React SPA over this any day of the week.
I made a website that describes natural harmonic (just) tuning systems:

http://just-tunings.info/learn

I do need to add a section on cultural consonance/dissonance but..

Octaves are not cultural. Resonance is not just an aspect of music or even animals, but literally everything in nature that makes sound. Dropping a rock in water will create sound, and frequencies that resonate with each-other will stick around longer than those that fight, teaching us that these sounds belong together.

An octave is the simplest possible relationship between two frequencies, and it can be heard in almost every natural sound imaginable. We learn they belong together from almost every sound we hear.

As an aside, western tonality uses the twelfth root of 2 because if you just start hammering randomly on those tones, they'll get along extremely well regardless of whatever the biggest bassist vibration is. The big bassy frequency being the one that every other frequency needs to get along with (harder than it sounds). It's sort of a fudgy form of relativity that allows things to vibe together mostly, but not perfectly.
They will. Trust me. And you can buy a cluster of RPis to build your images for $2000
That is not what "ad hominem" means
Why shouldn't they be allowed to? It's just a secured loan.

Why should banks give out personal loans where someone can do whatever they want with the money? Why do credit cards exist? Why are brokers allowed to provide margin accounts?
It says so right at the bottom of the page.

*Except COVID, causes of death shown account for ~7% of global deaths annually

I'm not sure that this qualifies as "cherrypicking" so much as it's a comparison to causes of death in a similar order of magnitude.
A free market wouldn't have saved you because the market has every incentive to gravitate to a single architecture because vendors and customers want the best software compatibility. The more popular an architecture (or really any platform) gets the more software that's written for it until it starves out competitors because they can't run the software their customers want.