skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is important to consider the bad, but also important to consider the good, and design with both in mind.

I use the Trusted Contacts app to track my mom as she goes into the city for doctor's appointments. We're often on the phone together, calling Uber's together to just the correct spot, all while i'm sitting in the office in another city.

Thankfully my mom is not in this condition, but in our city we regularly get notices of senior citizens who are confused and lost. There is another situation where this type of app helps.
A big part of the assumption that markets will regulate risk is that buyers will approach things somewhat suspiciously.

That’s not how people tend to approach home buying it seems.
Sure, but it's fair, it has the right incentives. Everyone pays clearly for their own part instead of hiding the costs.
> IKEA uses a lot more solid wood these days than compressed particle board, and is thus not bad.

I don't know what you're talking about... all the "classic" IKEA items like the BILLY bookshelf, the KALLAX (now EXPEDIT) shelves, the LACK table, the MALM chests... they're all particle board and, yes, bad quality. (Which is OK since they're cheap, that's the whole point.)

Yes you've always also been able to buy solid wood stuff, like certain tables and chairs or more expensive items, but that stuff isn't replacing the classic particle-board pieces. It's not like IKEA's been moving to higher-quality stuff on the whole.
The rain forest is not being cut down to grow organic heirloom tomatoes. From what I know, it's being razed to grow palm oil, bananas, and cheap corn/soy to feed cattle.

In that vein, see your own link:

The organic-conventional debate often detracts from other aspects of dietary choices which have greater impact. If looking to reduce the environmental impact of your diet, what you eat can be much more influential than how it is produced. The relative difference in land use and greenhouse gas impacts between organic and conventional systems is typically less than a multiple of two. Compare this to the relative differences in impacts between food types where, as shown in the charts below, the difference in land use and greenhouse gas emissions per unit protein between high-impact meats and low-impact crop types can be more than 100-fold. If your primary concern is whether the potato accompanying your steak is conventionally or organically produced, then your focus is arguably misplaced from the decisions which could have the greatest impact.
And considering nearly every construction process is behind time and over budget, the premise itself is flawed.
I'm not sure what this has to do with whether or not the dossier was a Russian disinformation campaign. Did they give him the intelligence? Were they expecting it to be released before the election (it wasn't)? What was the goal of the disinformation? The result was sanctions against Russia, which doesn't seem like something they would want to have happen.
Your numbers are out by at least an order of magnitude.

“The analysis indicates that turf grasses, occupying about 2% of the surface of the continental U.S.,”

“Agricultural land (% of land area) in United States was reported at 44.37 % in 2016”
It says that after reviewing his "official schedule" they concluded no meeting happened. I seriously doubt that an illicit meeting would be included on his "official schedule".
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DKIM could be used to rule it out as a fake, even if that signature is correct we still don't know a lot of things, like whether the sender's email really belong to the person who they claim to be (".ukraine" is really weird thing to add to your personal email), whether Hunter responded to it (you would think that having his laptop, they would have all emails he sent) or whether the meeting happened at all.

There are so many questions, and time too short to answer them all (purposefully, since it supposed to be an October surprise, the PDF with email print shows that it was prepared a year ago)
You say it like credibility in those two contexts are a bad thing.

Doctors and lawyers are about the only occupations where a professional’s mistake could cost a client his/her life. No other professions come close, which is part of why the training is long and the practitioners require a license to practice.
"Asshole" is Hackernews code for "person discredited for nonalignment with political orthodoxy". There are a lot of assholes in the casual sense in SV, but a statement of the form "X is an asshole" on HN means something like "you are morally obligated to disregard or denounce anything X says, does, or establishes, because X holds political opinions I and other fellow decent people find distasteful".

The implications about the use of JavaScript, created by known asshole Brendan Eich, are left as an exercise.
Poorly and bad refer to the inability to accurately assess outcomes objectively and accurately in a way that identifies predictors for future outcomes.

In other words, the techniques praised in lesswrong writings dress up what is effectively bias shuffling, which results in the same problem of being unable to assess the predictors of outcomes, just now better hidden behind falsely confident figures instead of admission of uncertainty.
Some people prefer using a single binary rather than requiring a python installation.
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I'm not certain it's the way forward.

I've never raised capital or founded a startup in Europe, but from what I've been told by Europeans there are several challenges that the continent should try tackling

- Talent and Pay gap with the US

- Risk averse investors

- Over-regulated markets

I don't see how this plan will solve any of the above.
This list is wildly inaccurate:

- Picasa was much better than Google Photos

- Google+ as a social network is gone, for all intents and purposes

- Google Desktop Search isn't even mentioned

- most importantly they killed the original Google search. The quality we see today is how Googles competitors used to be ;-)

(The last is a joke, but also true, try this query and tell me how many of the top 10 results actually contains the phrase "express-http-proxy": https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m... . FWIW this ha been going on since at least 2013 which is the first occurence I can find where I document that they ignore both double quotes and verbatim: http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/?m=0)
Why exactly should it end? They already have social network reservations where they're always welcome to spend time in. What's up with this cancerous desire to fill every niche and perverse every subculture? Stay in your lane, normies.
"The system is broken when honest people have to cheat to compete."
It looks like they both have links to Desmos.com on them.
I’ve participated (as a bystander, thank goodness) in some recent home offers in Washington where all contingencies (including inspection and financing) were expected to be waived if you wanted to win the bid. These were neither cheap nor fixer-uppers, but they were in central Seattle.

Edit: Also, the expectation was auto-escalating offers, eBay style. The owner set a date to take offers and picked the best one.
There will still be a need to give computer a commands or specification. Probably in some kind of human readable structured textual form.
Relatedly, I wrote this CSS that renders HTML as Markdown: https://gist.github.com/ImJasonH/c00cdd7aece6945fb8ea
There is not agreement on the "fact" you propose.
Exactly. When you have "ultra important warnings" for everything, it becomes that much harder to know what you should really care about. Hence the phenomenon of alarm fatigue (or the "boy who cried wolf"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
It's an attempt to get a handle on "does our documentation suck?"; we'll exclude it from the blog. It should go away when you click on it, but looks like there's a bug on some browser/tracker-blocker combos.

Try to not let it distract from the fact that the governments of 2 billion people want to outlaw end-to-end encryption though...
In some sense it will, but it will do so in a discontinuous manner going from affordable to not affordable overnight while most people who say this think it will do it smoothly and gradually over time lol. We are seeing this now with fire insurance in many areas.
For me,

QC35 - I had cheaper 100$ noise cancelling headphones but Bose is another level. Way more noise cancelling and 10x more comfortable.

Kindle PW - I said this in another thread with QC35 and Kindle, I can find oasis anywhere.

Nest Thermostats - I resisted these but they really made life easier. So much easier to ask Alexa to make it cooler than waiting until I get one more thing done before I get up to change thermostat.
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Industrial espionage?
As pointed out downthread, you can indeed feed a family on one acre of land, and many people do actually do this.

The problem with your math is that it assumes the 3k lb yield from gp comment is for potatoes. Your crop yield depends a lot on the crop. Aparently you can get between 10-30 tons of potatoes per acre (that range is from beginner yields to expert) which would be 7-21 million calories per year. Plenty of room, then, to grow a number of other crops to eat a balanced diet.
What's a good example of this misinformation?

Oh, and Trump is a serial liar who has spread really damaging lies via twitter ... numerous times.
That video is embedded in the article :)
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I think your observation applies to most online communities. IME the quality of a forum/community seems to be directly tied to the population size following a somewhat skewed normal distribution. A monday morning theory based on my observations:

Once you reach a critical mass of users that will sustain discussion, you will see a gradual rise in quality as a small board of passionate users will organically attract likeminded individuals, who typically contribute and elevate the discussion. Everyone is highly motivated to explore, discuss, and challenge ideas with each other and decorum is usually quite polite, as to them there was no other place you could engage so freely with these ideas with likeminded individuals.

At a certain point though, you seem to cross a rubicon where the new users are less informed, less motivated/passionate, and don't contribute anything new or novel to the discussion. This is quickly followed by an exodus of the most informed/important voices who aren't interested in dealing with uninformed conjecture, or novice matters that aren't particularly interesting to someone who has more subject matter expertise.

This progresses to the end state of the board, where there are very few if any true believers to whatever the original intent of the board was, and the posting reflects that as it moves further and further from the intended subject and more into meta and social. I'd describe this state as similar to the discourse you'd see on twitter today: rude, tribal, uninformed, speculative, etc.
https://archive.vn/Ef1xc#selection-237.9-237.67
Screenshot displayed seems generic coding style.
This is really not that hard folks. Be skeptical of things you read on social media. Prefer reputable sources. There are many entities out there attempting to confuse you with the goal of making you disbelieve in truth. We live in the age of deepfakes. This stuff really needs to be taught in schools now.
Why do you think it supports <script> tags? To allow you to extend the functionality where HTML is clearly limited.

Adding two numbers in HTML might be expressable but clearly it's much easier in Javascript.
It seems the perfect COVID-19 option. Completely touchless and fast. I was playing with a DMV kiosk and it took about half a second to recognize a key press.
This talk introduced me to the no-till, soil health farming paradigm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk

TL;DR: focus on soil health and diversify your crops. His results are stunning.
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I'm thinking of places like New Orleans. The original city was built on a river bluff but then it expanded into the river bottoms. You have that phenomenon all along major rivers, towns expanding from upland settlements onto agricultural areas that are 100-year floodplains.

Of course, when the inevitable flood comes and everything is under water the urge to rebuild is stronger than accepting reason and settling elsewhere, also because money is missing, especially for the flooded-out people.
>Isn't the issue that the arable land gets destroyed using the current practices

The changes you are citing are miniscule. A rounding error.

Older methods absolutely destroyed arable land because they had no robust method of replacing what the crops took besides manure. For example, in the US, as soil east-coast farms were depleted by intensive farming in the 1700s and 1800s, people struck out west for fresh soil. This culminated in the dust-bowl era, and a rethinking of farm management.

With modern fertilizer and testing, farmers can replace and renew their soil in detail with the specific macro and micronutrients which are lacking. Furthermore, no-till methods keep the soil anchored in place while more advanced methods of manure and residue use allow for building up organic matter.

There isn't any more land. Farmers are no longer migrant. It is in their bests interests to protect the vitality of their soil, and they are doing that.
I'm a big fan of combinatory logic. The rabbit hole goes really deep, with connections to quantum computing (via the linear combinators mentioned in the article), philosophy (e.g. John Tromp's investigation of Kolmogorov Complexity using binary combinatory logic and lambda calculus), and also to type theory and fundamental mathematics (e.g. illative combinatory logic, which I've played with on my blog http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2012-12-01-typed_combinators.html ).
I love ikea furniture, I see it as lego, and who could hate lego?

That said, a lot of ikea furniture is made of a fiberboard/mdf type material which is a light-duty material. For most use cases it doesn't matter.

But take that minimalist-look bookshelf with a fern and 2 books and add a whole row of books and it will sag.

I had bookshelves made of actual wood, and they don't sag (along the grain). I guess because the wood was evolved to hold tons of tree in place vertically and horizontally.

But ikea also sells stronger stuff like metal shelves. Just buy the appropriate stuff for the task.
The zlib license [1] is very permissive, so I'm not sure there's any real issue here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License
> * { display:block; }
>
> actually displays the whole contents of <head>

Yeah, it enables some whacky stuff. There's something funny about <style style="..."> actually working...

For lolz I hacked up the following piece of code where an "article" is rendered entirely from <head> (probably not the cleanest implementation, but it works, and passes the nu validator with flying colors too):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>.</title>
<style>
head {
display: block;
max-width: 600px;
margin: 0.5em auto;
}
style.show {
display: block;
/* Create new stacking context. */
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
white-space: pre-wrap;
margin-bottom: -1em;
background-color: #fff;
}
style.show::first-line {
font-size: 0;
}
</style>
<style class="show" style="font-weight: bold">/*
An article rendered entirely from <head>

*/</style>
<style class="show">/*
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam ut viverra purus. Ut enim ligula, luctus nec mi sed, molestie mattis purus. Praesent quis mauris orci. Nunc blandit eget ligula sollicitudin pretium. Duis at est porttitor, feugiat est ac, volutpat magna. Nulla varius nunc ut blandit porttitor. Vestibulum tempus eros quis massa efficitur, quis condimentum nunc condimentum.

*/</style>
<style class="show">/*
Duis porttitor lobortis nulla pretium aliquet. Nulla in dignissim magna, eget tincidunt odio. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Sed quis vestibulum ligula. Vestibulum nec nibh quis neque venenatis sodales vel et purus. Duis purus lorem, facilisis vitae dictum in, mattis eget est. Suspendisse porta ornare elit, vel dictum felis. Cras mattis erat nec sapien scelerisque faucibus. Donec quis odio porta, pretium nunc at, laoreet massa.

*/</style>
<style class="show">/*
Nullam bibendum ornare malesuada. Phasellus eget sollicitudin lectus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nulla eget diam sed erat interdum lobortis. Curabitur sed posuere magna. Donec ornare pulvinar gravida. Sed ante ipsum, laoreet vitae rhoncus in, vulputate a est. Maecenas a ligula eu leo fringilla commodo ac cursus ante.

*/</style>
<style class="show" style="padding: 1em 0"></style>
</head>
</html>

Here's a fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/zfs2rabc/
> These yield gaps dramatically close when you start using fertilizer and modern agricultural practices.

Yes, but only if you start with degraded soil in the first place. Adding fertilizer to healthy soil just messes it up.

Even when you start with degraded soil, the fertilizer and modern agricultural practices only help up to a point and then diminishing returns set in.

Check out what Gabe Brown is doing on his land: "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A
imagine the line you'd have to wait in to do the returns. no thanks.
The difference between a super GM and stockfish is that a super GM will play moves the "feel natural" to a human given the current position on the board. A chess engine won't care about what is natural and will maximize the position 15-20 positions down the line. For this reason, they will make sometimes a weird move given the current position that will result in an advantage a lot of moves downstream.

One of the main reasons that Petrosian "got caught" was other GMs (see Hikaru's YouTube video on this) pointing out how unnatural some of his moves felt to them and considering the speed at which he supposedly calculated them.
wood glue during assembly ftw.
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The style might be generic, but the comments are exactly the same too. For me this creates a reasonable suspicion.
Declaring that it’s not an HTML file is a weird way to claim the smallest valid HTML file.
This is also the case in rural Ontario.
Those are HTTP I believe.
I imagine for much serious work, you probably have to go back to school and get at least some education in area. Assuming you're american: luckily at 24 going back to school is slightly easier than it would be in past years because of the nonsensical "dependent" requirements the financial aid system. If not, I imagine your education system is generally better for returning back to anyway.
My guess is your one acre of growing whatever you grow would feed about .6 people per year. A human consumes about 1M Kcals a year (accounting for meat as waste), and at best you can achieve 11M kcals per acre with corn or potatos. Beans yield about 6M and wheat 4M. My guess is you are growing and giving away about 600k kcals of roughage. 70lbs of tomatoes only has about 6000 kcal, so enough for one person for half a week.
The problem with ion engines is that they need quite a lot of power, which becomes problematic in deep space. Solar panels aren't really viable outside the orbit of Mars.

Anyway, yes, of course there are countless variations that can be done to make it work. Sticking a Centaur or two in a Starship also seems to be viable. But the parent comment specifically asked about Super Heavy/Starship here.
It was confusing. You'd think they'd point that in the article.
Yes, but as the article says it's normally dog walkers that get attacked, rather than walkers.
Part of it from my layman's perspective is that today, even home exercising frequently involves protein shakes. As you go into even basic body building or training, you start taking more and more "Stuff". There's no clear obvious intuitive big line between "natural talent and hard work" and "illegal chemical cheating". Reading the details of the tests involved a few years ago made me believe the line we draw is thin, porous, arbitrary and ever-changing.

The things we are testing for are not so much clear-cut presence or absence, but volumes and concentrations based on statistical curves, and it's a constant race so somebody who was "legit & natural last year" may be "doping and illegal this year" or vice versa; everybody will have SOME naturally or legally allowed amount of tested substance; etc. Which means that I cannot get excited that ANYbody at olympic level is doing it "on their own, unassisted, natural", for whatever definition of above we take.
Cow manure: where do they get it from?

I suspect that the input of cow manure is not sustainable, or not scalable, or not economic. That part of the article is a bit whiffy-washy to me.
In the short terms, EW and CIWS, which can be countered by “Wild Weasel” drones and overwhelming CIWS systems with cheap decoys. Now that low-tier states are fighting it out with autonomous systems purchased from mid-tier states in conditions significantly different from how (e.g.) the US has been using them, expect to see a brutally Darwinian evolution of TTPs in the field.
Variable names and code comments are character-for-character identical. Highly unlikely for two programmers in different industries in different countries who speak different languages.
Found [this] 2 year study in which one year apparently the cover crop was not enough to stop the weeds totally, there may be some fine tuning needed in the beginning, like which cover crop to sow.
[this] http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/agronomists_conf/media/Car...
See:

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Case of Caster Semenya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya
The smartphone market has reach the level where computer were 7 years ago maybe. Not really necessary anymore, there's no feature worth the change. Probably a good thing.
Yes! Basically I preferred solutions that avoided W, since you're then working in a subset of the language that is definitely terminating and affine.

(although in this case I just didn't find I = WK)

I should actually add a note about that, since a few people have pointed it out.
Imagine the scale of the gaping maw left behind after a century of quarrying for high quality stone to support modern city construction.
Lol, youtube-dl exists purely because it's userbase is small enough that it's impact on Google's revenues is less than it would impact CDN efficiency to kill it.

If that were to change (either because CDN efficiency improves so that post encryption ad-insertion is cheap, which will happen eventually or youtube-dl's user base increases) then Google can implement Widevine on everything and it'll be useless.
This one has been relevant for the last 10 years: https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
msc.fema.gov/nfhl

It’s pretty trivial to find if a property is in a floodplain. A mortgage is such a significant financial burden that I would hope most people would thoroughly research a property before signing a contract. However, many people can’t be bothered to care until their mortgage underwriter forces them to buy insurance. Most of those assume everyone just gets bailed out whenever their house at the bottom of a valley floods.

I was a FPA for 2 years for a mid-sized city.
Aye. 2020s
I'm unsure why the tweet author thinks this would be a GPL violation?
I just went to a craft store and found some stickers.

It doesn't take much, just the smallest sticker can change the feel of a key.