skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am not able to see how a network of distributed vertical food farms would be less resilient to political disasters than growing everything in California."

I fixed it for you. States like Indiana import 90% of their calories. Midwest farming is all about massive row crops, not human food.

https://www.crcworks.org/infood.pdf

Yet Indiana does not even feed itself, let alone feed the world. The state imports an estimated 90% of its food. More than $14.5 billion is spent by Hoosier consumers each year buying food sourced outside of the state.
Fortunately for the rest if the world, this is a very US problem.

For citizens of the US, it sucks.
“A "bad customer" is generally just a client who annoys you”

Nonsense. A bad customer is one that costs your company more to service than it earns back in revenue. It’s simple arithmetic.

Maybe they don’t bother to pay their bills. Maybe they run you ragged with endless change requests. Maybe they repeatedly start new projects then, just as you’ve done all the prep work, put them “on hold”. Maybe they string you along with promises of “big projects” coming down the pipeline that never actually arrive. Whatever it is, every hour you sink on them is an hour not spent on a customer that is profitable.

The article may be thin, but it’s absolutely right: get rid of those assholes ASAP, and then fix your own damn processes so you don’t get screwed again. Otherwise they’ll drag you down and drain your business for you.
Show HN: I made a patent search tool designed for stock research
Traditional troubleshooting techniques that seem obvious, like "half split" or "rubber ducking", are often not used.

Teaching some of these can dramatically reduce downtime.
I was inspired to build this tool after reading about Ideanomics, a company that had a 700% stock price surge last month after announcing a pivot into electric vehicles. There are many other examples of this phenomenom, with one of the most notorious being Long Island Iced Tea’s shift to blockchain (https://cointelegraph.com/news/fbi-investigating-long-island...).

Regardless of the legitimacy of these business transitions, I think it's useful for investors to know which companies are doing research into new technological areas.

It’s difficult to use existing tools (like Google Patents) for this purpose, because the vast majority of patents are not registered to publicly-traded companies. Companies also often register patents under a wide variety of names.

To fix this problem, I scraped patent data from the USPTO website (https://bulkdata.uspto.gov) and then used a text-matching algorithm to identify which patents were assigned to Russell 3000 companies (the 3,000 largest publicly-traded companies in the US). From there, it was easy to match each patent to a specific ticker.

You can use this tool to search for a keyword, and find all recent patents by Russell 3000 companies (standardized by ticker) with an abstract containing the keyword.
In the rest of the world, you see whole families living in one room together because they are poor. Virtually no-one chooses to live like this. Case in point, as soon as such people get money, they upgrade to larger houses.
Sure, if you’re dehydrated, your liver and kidneys will probably have a hard time doing their job. But drinking more water than you need, drinking magic teas or vitamins, etc does nothing more than what your liver and kidney normally do in a healthy body.

See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=detox+fallacy for more in depth explanations.
I agree with the sentiment, and have made similar arguments in the past, that we need to be focusing on contagiousness and rapidity of assessment; that all of the specifics of reopening policies and practices are the result of the failure to develop and deploy this sort of testing regime; that this sort of goal would have been a much, much better target for the $10B (or more) deployed in Operation Warp Speed.

But I reject the framing that this is a question of FDA being a bottleneck. That's not it, at all.

There is a criminal chaos actor, and larger political group, operating at the federal level in the US. Entire workflows aimed at actual public health and safety have been disrupted and compromised.

It will not be possible to move forward until the chaos is removed from the system.
Some customers are rude because they dont understand much about software development. If they can listen and learning and have money to pay for you then you can Try continue working with then
I've used some of the pre-terminated assemblies w/ pulling hardware from these guys: https://www.lanshack.com/PreterminatedAssemblies.aspx

The pricing is reasonable, especially compared to having a contractor come in and pull and terminate small, low-count runs, and the results have been very good for me.

Edit (now that I'm not on a phone): I like these assemblies because I get a "super power" feeling, being being able to cheaply add fiber runs for special cases. The most recent one was extending a single-mode campus fiber termination to a new closet within a building. Loss budget was very high (because the campus run was fairly short) so we did a simple "glass-to-glass" patch on one of these assemblies to the new closet. It was going to be a couple thousand dollars for a contractor to come in and do a proper fusion splice, but the Customer ended up spending $250 for favorable results.
My impression is that the mitigations that would hit hardest are Intel microcode patches that load at boot time, and it may not have been obvious to revert those. Or perhaps not wise to, depending on the production environment.
It's like the inimitable Buckminster Fuller's analysis of the _cost_ of expertise hidden in the dangers of specialization never happened.
Jira. So slow these days.
Looking at the diagram, this appears to be just an LSTM slapped on top of a CNN. If so, I'm failing to see any novelty in this approach. RNNs on top of CNNs have been used before, including for deepfake detection. See for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00582

The recent DeepFake Detection Challenge threw a lot of manpower at the problem earlier this year, BTW.
Loads of shortcuts:
F2: rename

F3: find

Alt F4: close window, ctrl-w seems to do this a lot these days too

Alt minus: show child document window menu

Alt space: show window menu, useful if you remember the X for maximize/minimize, z for resize, m for move, r for restore immediately afterwards.

F4 go to address bar in Explorer

F5 refresh

Ctrl F6 switch windows in MDI interface

Ctrl escape: show start menu

Shift-F10: right click menu

Windows E: explorer

Alt-up in explorer: go to directory above; backspace/alt-left: go to previous history item

Windows W windows ink for annotation

Windows R for run

Windows U for narrator

Windows F used to do find but now shows the feedback tool, which I think is a loss

Any command after the word control will open control panel to the right place, eg control display

Windows D show desktop toggle

Windows M minimise all windows, windows shift M restore windows

Ctrl-shift-escape: show task manager

Ctrl tab/ctrl-shift-tab move to next/previous UI item so you can use the UI with a keyboard; this is why web apps that pretend to be native are so useless and annoying because this doesn't work

Also system items normally end with .msc to open the management console, eg. Compmgmt.msc. There's a load of these that help you get to the nitty gritty of the system.

Turn on "show accelerators" in accessibility and menu entries and buttons will have their accelerator underlined, eg the O in OK or F in File. You can then use alt-(letter) to go to it, eg alt-f to open the file menu, s for save.

Honestly I don't know how I would have got through using Windows for decades without these shortcuts. I always find the Mac relies on mouse usage a lot more and the ctrl-F2 and ctrl-F3 shortcut to get to the menu bar and dock on Mac doesn't compare.
Gotta start them young (－‸ლ). If you need a daily standup for efficient family communication there's probably a much bigger problem somewhere...
Don't think China can complain too much when the west bans Chinese companies for any reason. They have been doing it for years in China.

I wish we could target the platforms that give apps access to this info. Can we please develop a non-google (ad company) platform?
Actual study here:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sci...

Essentially the results are all in this image:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/early/2020/...
I read that and it still sounds unbelievable, that sheep get attacked by a parrot.

But yeah, live sheep are at risk of getting bit and clawed at by a smart parrot whose diet includes carrion. Turns out chupacabra lives in New Zealand.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I was let go but I found that I worked a lot longer as it was harder to get things done with two kids in the background. Even as my wife struggled to keep them away and let me work, inevitably I felt the need to help her or help the older one with online school. As far as telling people that I wasn’t available at certain times, that just didn’t seem to be an option.
Your child might need 'My First Timesheet'
As can deepfakes. All it takes is an additional step to optimise wrt the model that tries to catch it.
Doesn't that interfere with app shortcuts?
US Government Rejects Chinese Airlines’ Request for Additional Flights
It's partially discipline but culture plays a role as well. If everyone at your company is sending slack messages at 7 and you aren't it becomes easy to be branded not a team player.
Not just golfing. Actively interceding to create maximum chaos, which in most cases, means harm.
Epic Games Raises 1.78Bn at a 17.3bn valuation
Apologize for posting too early, didn’t realize it’s still paywalled!
>> people will believe whatever they want to first.

Including Harari. There's more wrong in that book than there is right, aside from basic facts that people should already know.

Chriatopher Ryan (Civilized to Death & Sex at Dawn) explores the few compelling points made by Sapiens in depth and without all of the disingenuity and naive philosphy present in Sapiens.
I understand the relationships— it was merely a play on words.
I also find that people forget about the tricks on macos:

You can drag the icon from any title of a window into a finder window or dialog to go to that directory.

You can right-click on the title bar of any window and see the path to that window's document.

But enjoy Windows!
Bad nutrition or just less protein?

I say this because I was just looking at another thread where people were arguing about whether a vegetarian diet is suitable for humans.

And I vaguely remember reading about how average height increases in a given society as meat becomes more available and less of a luxury.
Nope. I was an anime and video game geek in the mid-2000s. People talk about gatekeeping at the time, but I honestly don't remember it.
But why do you think that?

The more you practice something, the better you get at it. Assuming people to be 100% noobs at masks for months is a bit pessimistic.

It's easier today to use hand sanitizer with masks than months ago. In my experience anyway.
Unfortunately, there's not a good single solution. Best depends on single vs bi-directional (also, which direction), switching speed, tristate or not, etc.
The difficulty with phonetic spelling reforms is that you quickly run into the problem of words being pronounced markedly different in different dialects in different regions, and you inevitably end up trying to declare on dialect standard and the rest wrong. Granted, the sort of people into this reform are usually happy to declare their dialect obviously correct and demand everyone else get in line.

The last time this came up on HN, the comment thread already disagreed on whether "mention" should be spelled "menchin", "menshin", "menchun", or "menshun".
If vaccination rates are too low you don’t get herd immunity, and people who are unable to be vaccinated are more at risk.
You need to be able to switch directly from workspace #1 to #8 (eg.), not hitting ctrl-windows-arrow 7 times. I use AutoHotKey for this purpose.

I agree with the grandparent poster that the Windows situation is very bad compared to something like i3.
loser* not looser.
(I wouldn't normally comment on mistakes like this but this is an increasingly common mistake online)
I've done most of these and they all help.

What really helps is silicon earplugs (they warm up to body temperature and mold to fit, so comfortable I've forgotten to take them out until I'm half way to work) - a lot of my issues are I require silence to sleep and stay asleep and the modern world just isn't conducive to that at all.
For me HN and twitter are only useful for learning of things, not learning the things themselves. It's easy to get caught in the perpetual 101-level trap. All my actual valuable knowledge has come from reading textbooks & documentation or trying to build something in my own time.
> aggressively ignorant and anti-science parents

This is what came to mind for me. I've lived in Georgia my whole life. In fact my hometown is right on the county line of Paulding County. There have been plenty of quips about the unenforceability of a mask mandate, but they can enforce rules against spaghetti strap tops or above-the-knee shorts. The first thing that came to mind when I read it was Road Rage Randy bursting into the principal's office demanding to know why his son was told he'd have to wear a dangerous, oxygen-restricting, anti-freedom muzzle to come to school this morning. It might be unenforceable just because of unhinged dads.

Judging by the stream of Facebook posts and arguments in comment threads among my own family, people I went to church with as a child, and other connections from "outside the city," the anti-scientific beliefs are deeply entrenched here. The zeitgeist is some kind of rapidly evolving mixture of: it's just a flu, the numbers are faked, masks rob you of oxygen, there's nothing you can do about a virus we just have to live with it like we do colds every year, vaccines weaken your immune system. To compound the madness, this crap is all mixed with reactions to Black Lives Matter protests. I'm losing it.
Is this a GPT-3 post?
Did you follow a guide for this? It sounds like a great way to extend the life of my iPod indefinitely!
Lots of teachers are old and/or vulnerable. Lots of people who work or volunteer at the schools are old and/or vulnerable. Lots of parents are old and/or vulnerable. Lots of grandparents - same.

And then all of the people those people interact with.

Children do not exist in a vacuum. This is the point.
If they have some downtime, but I do not explicitly block time.

If they spent 3 days on the PDF during work, I would have a talk.

But, an hour or two here or there, I have no issue with that.
"the vast majority of Apple's clientele for computers are businesses"

I'm sorry? What?!
Children are susceptible to infection, and long term consequences are not clear.
Also: see "The Warren Harding" bias (Blink, Malcolm Gladwell).
my wife and I both work full-time (SWE). Have been fun WFH with 2 and 5 year olds. And, I know, we are among the lucky ones who got to keep their jobs.
I thought RAM too, but that'd be overkill even for a workstation I'd try to slip past the purchasing dept.
Though the rest of the article makes it sound like they're streaming it to a central server, so that's a pretty beefy local buffer.

I guess it'd be appropriate for a local fallback if the network connection was dropped. Shouldn't take more than 5 days to get back up.
The problem is that it's very easy to get distracted or engrossed in work and not register in your consciousness the signal of thirst.
Still Rocking the 90s Design in 2020
If they didn't have a skill we needed, then they didn't get hired.
I've been making some YouTube videos, and editing the automatic cc makes very clear how many um's, and stutters I have. It is a bad habit I have gotten myself into. Shocking.
Why didn't anyone learn from CSS when we all made pre-processors like stylus, less and sass that added white-space sensitivity. It's not great.

I thought HCL was one of the best attempts at a terse config language. Shortening foo { bar { bazz {} }} to foo bar baz{} cleans up plenty.
You have to charge them enough so either they don't agree (most likely), or you'll be happy to tolerate them for that price.
> A part of me thinks we should open school for the younger ones, halve class size, require masks, introduce daily disinfecting,

Younger children are not very likely to maintain distance from one another nor will they keep their masks on. They're also likely to talk loudly or scream which would increase the likelihood of viral transmission. Unfortunately, distance learning is not a realistic option for younger children.

> Note I am assuming kids can spread it as well as adults

I have not kept up with research about how likely covid-19 is transmitted between people when comparing adults versus children. But looking at historical data in terms of viral transmission between children in school and daycare settings and the fact that children tend to be less fastidious compared to adults, it stands to reason that their will be viral outbreaks regardless of what measures the school takes.
> In 2011 I graduated with a Master's degree from Brown University and then moved to Japan and got a job as a software engineer.

I'm curious why you would do this. In any other occupation, I could understand it. In many respects, Japan is a more advanced civilization than the United States. But as a SWE, there is nowhere else in the world that you can make a higher salary than the United States. Even if your long term ambition was to move to Japan, wouldn't you be better off becoming financially independent first and then moving?
I've known the "real" color is supposed to be pale straw yellow for years but I still feel best when it is clear.
Because it's unclear how long antibodies last. Unless you've had a positive antibody test it seems like a reasonable measure to protect people around you.
A lot of Grove's management practice is mangled when applied to most companies, things like OKRs being a stunning example. That fashion seems to have replaced misaapplication of Drucker. In both cases, the philosophy is cherry-picked for the parts that seem to apply to profit and efficiency at the cost of the human parts that make them sustainable - things like training, focus on building continued relationships, etc.
I wish home grade routers would start using SFP already. Very few of them do. Why is that?
The last line here: "like any solution, SQL is facing increasing inadequacy in the support of the new requirements, modes of use and user productivity. It is time we do something about it."

I agree, but I'm not sure the solution is to broadly replace SQL with something like EdgeQL. Graph Databases, BigTables, Document and Object Databases, Large scale key-value lookup tables... there are all kinds of solutions for problems that feel crammed into a SQL context. EdgeQL could be a great one in some scenarios - for example, when you need to do a lot of querying on arbitrary trees.

Another solution is to go as far as the sweet spot of SQL can take you, and then switch over to a programming language (this is distinct from what is possible in SQL, the basis of many SQL programming interview questions)). I suspect SQL compares less favorably in a lot of scenarios that require a pure, single language solution. But may be we should be comparing SQL + Python with EdgeQL + Python (or even SQL + EdgeQL + Python).
A vaccine approved by the FDA on November 2 - not a chance

A vaccine approved on November 4 - sure, I’d trust it.

Trump’s down by a huge margin in polls. If the election was held today, he’d lose. If he thinks he can help himself win by forcing approval of a vaccine, then he’ll do it. A vaccine approved after the election has zero electoral upside for him.

There is virtually no chance that the U.S. will have a proven vaccine by Election Day, several top vaccine experts told POLITICO...But while the Trump administration has insisted that it won’t cut corners on safety — a vow the vaccine developers have taken as well — it’s left the door open to short-circuiting the process before those trials are complete

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/trump-october-vacci...
I drink coffee less than once a month... All I get is anxiety instead of any effectiveness
I wondered about that 'soccer' thing as well. It was always perfectly good English when I was growing up, and at school we used it to distinguish the game from rugby.

The origin myth I heard was along the lines of 'I don't want to play rugger, but I do fancy a game of assoc-er' where it was an attempted play on words with 'association football' by someone at an independent school. I doubt the truth of this, but anyway...
Under normal circumstances are people supposed to keep a baby sitter on call at all times just in case society is suddenly upended and schools go away? If kids are usually in school all day, parents are going to build their schedules around that. It would be pretty silly to do otherwise.
We’ve also had studies which claim something along the line of ”Apples cause cancer” and the truth is that it happens only under some certain rare conditions and even then one might have 0.01% chance of increasing their chance to get a cancer by 0.1%. But hey, that’s an increase in possibility nevertheless!
As a tangent, I find audiobooks offer a great multiplier to the number of books I can read. I'd say I get maybe 80% as much out of a book I listen to versus reading it in print, but I end up reading 3-4x as many books because I can listen while I bike to work, drive to errands, etc.

They also force me to stay focused while I'm listening, versus how my mind tends to wander while I'm reading a print book (where I realize I've been on the same page for five minutes).
Last time I checked, there was no data about COVID-19. Just guesses.

For example, in Israel, people die with COVID-19, not from it.
Habits. Pretty much all of the comments here boil down to habits.

Sleep, diet, exercise, attention, focus, productivity, knowledge, workflow, socializing -- anything we do repeatedly is a habit. Right now, in each and every moment, we are all the average/sum of the daily habits of the past few years.

So, the "level" we achieve in each domain is a lagging indicator of our habits; fat stores up over time, dirty dishes stack up, lack of knowledge is the result of lack of learning habits, etc.

If you make weekly improvements to your habits, that means small changes are sticking each week. While 1% better doesn't seem to matter much in the short run, if you stack 1% every week, in one year you're now 50% better in your routines.

How to do so? Here are some ideas:

-Make the bad habits harder to do. Keep the snacks, games, distractions out of reach, so you have to expend extra effort to get to them. You want high-effort barriers to beginning bad habits.

-Make good habits easier to do. Prepare yourself for workouts in advance. Commit yourself to things that will be helpful. use daily streaks, motivation, positive thinking, and imagination to encourage your good habits.

For more information, check out James Clear + Sam Harris' conversation on the Making Sense podcast (or the Waking Up app).
Amazes me how people are okay with giving these massive corporations so much power and control over our lives - voluntarily. Most would be rightfully horrified if Walmart or Citibank was to decide what you get to watch or not tomorrow. But somehow, if Alphabet or Apple does it, it's all okay.

The tech world in general needs to wake up about the overreaching power and influence tech companies have on our lives.
I learn more facts about the world and such from BSS (bite-sized sources) but I learn more about myself from books. Facts are useful (in emergencies) but I've found that knowing myself is far more useful. YMMV.