skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native Americans have a tremendous influence in what we eat every day...

One of the main reasons of why today everyone has a fridge with a freezer is because Clarence Birdseye, the founder of what today is Birds Eye (frozen foods company) was taught how to freeze fish under thick ice by the Inuit in Canada.

He then took the idea and developed it further using refrigeration equipment. Then they provided grocery stores with free freezers so that they could sell their products.

Then you have potatoes, tomatoes and corn. These crops were also developed by Native Americans. Without that effort, what you would be eating today would be similar to the teosinte, corn's wild ancestor.

Potatoes are responsible for a massive population boost in Europe. The reason is because wheat uses more land, requires more work and has fewer calories than potatoes.

Andean peoples had many techniques for dehidrating food... The word "jerky" comes from the Quechua "charqui", which means dried meat. They also employed freeze drying techniques to preserve food, such as chuño (freeze dried potatoes).

In addition to that, you have many varieties berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries), cacao (used for chocolate), vanilla, pineapples, etc.
Switzerland developers salaries are the same or higher than US. You get a much better standard of living, 5 weeks vacation minimum, paid overtime (all time worked is logged and checked by the govt so it is paid), a pension.

Just putting this here for people to know it might be an option. I certainly wish I knew sooner. Visa can be tricky though, if you’re not at least an EU citizen (or better yet, married to a Swiss), it’ll tough getting a visa. And I’d you’re American, no bank will touch you with a ten foot pole.
Everything I’ve read shows that EV’s are preferable to ICE cars.

However both are inferior to a bicycle if you are really serious about your environmental impact.
Can confirm. I was a lucky geek nomad who worked remotely. I had a regular software developer job just like I would if I was "back home".
Maybe you overcompensate and the bias is actually in the other direction? It's the subperceptual bias that's the real stinker not the stuff you notice.
There is a cottage industry of financial advisors who do work with people on their personal wealth management. Of course there is a big difference between an investment bank, trading firm, and a person who does wealth management (I'd google it for precise terms, but I'll get hounded by ads for it for weeks). I know because my parents have a "wealth management guy"/broker and some of my friends' parents growing up were also in that business. And there are also of course mutual funds and pensions as you mention.

I am not super plugged into the financial industry so I can't say for certain, but I think while people may not understand the difference between traders shouting on phones, "wall street", and wealth management, people think about wealth management the most in the context of "wall street", because that's what they're personally most familiar with. They think that even though wealth management seems to me to be very decentralized and not really something physically centered around Wall St.

I think wallstreetbets is mostly a pretty unsophisticated subreddit (which somehow declined in quality even more as it grew) but I think the parent was valid in pointing out that they willingly eschew the old-school strategy of diversification + "value investing" done by a third party on your behalf and the new-school (boglehead) strategy of putting literally everything in the S&P 500 or a bond index with the allocation mix dependent on retirement date/age.

There has undoubtedly always been a group of people micromanaging their personal portfolios with less risk-averse strategies like this, and WSB mostly takes things way too far, but at least for me it exposed me to the idea that maybe I could personally do better picking stocks on my own than just blindly throwing everything into VOO (and for people not plugged into the online-personal-finance-geek community, it could be the first time they even realize they don't need to have a third party manage their investments for them).
I think this illustrates a problem with just about all areas of environmentalism. You start off with a premise that's widely agreeable like "ICE cars are bad for the environment" and slowly edge towards stuff like "private vehicle ownership is a blight on society", which is far less agreeable and completely ignores what most people in society actually want. 20 years ago I used to vote for local green candidates in various elections, but their main platform now is radical socialist economic reform. I'm not sure they're even bothered about the environment any more.
How do you like HK? Would you recommend it to an American?
> As some one else said, every spare dollar I have is going to fund a company that values open source hardware, open source software, right to repair and own.

What is this whimsical company, and how exactly does it make money?

> You know why open source hardware is expensive for lower quality? Because Apple pays the premium on the premium quality stuff. But I'm that process they also drive up the prices.

Apple is not even in contention over the same stuff. Nothing open sourced can fund the development process of a 5nm IC, as the tooling alone would be tens of millions if not more. The total cost of an IC would be in the hundreds of millions (making something of the M1 class is billions).

Open source is lower quality unless there is a commercial sponsor. This is almost universally true for software and hardware. This is because people, naturally, have less resources to invest in something with zero to no financial return.
> to bring diversity of opinion to the newspaper

But the author of the article is a bloomberg employee.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ASj7dG4ftKY/andy-m...

> that's where "op-eds" got their name from, literally opposite the editorial board.

No. It got it's name from being "opposite of the editorial page". Not the editorial board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed
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The saying goes if you see a problem in everything perhaps the problem lies in your framing? If every country makes you lose hope when we live in the safest, wealthiest and longest life expectancy era in human history inspite of a global pandemic, then perhaps you need to examine your assumptions and framing?

The fact that you can choose a country to settle in implies you either have means or talent or both. I would speculate that you have the potential to make manifold contributions. Please reconsider your conclusions in a more optimistic light.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

Feral cats seem to be a particular danger to little critters.
As a native californian, the only connotation I know of having a Midwest accent is about the sounds.... there is no real characteristic that the accent evokes
> Anyone who pretends they have no bias against X people for Y characteristic just isn't aware of their own biases.

Bias is easier to mitigate when you ignore any generalization about any large group of people, such as a linguistic group. Human nature is no excuse for having delusions about an accent.
> Matt decided to use a thin strip of copper to pull heat away from the processor

Errr...this ain't watercooling man.
The value of great looking hardware and a great looking OS is strong.

The value of being able to open the lid on a brand new machine and just run a terminal is significant. It’s compelling.

It sounds so silly but it’s the same silly that makes us buy the same beer and the same coffee and shop in the same stores all the time.

I migrated off macOS for good during the pandemic though. I yearned for rc.local and xinitrc too much. I live a somewhat (ahem) humbler life now with i3, Firefox, python, vim, and Notable: they were all I really needed, but I miss the shiny.
true, but it is a balance. If you import packages for things that can be done in one small function, you force them a lot of dependencies, which can be worse.
I think the parent was more suggesting that records of how they discovered / formulated ayahuasca may have been lost to antiquity, and might have answered this question.
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I would much rather fund the development of a decent UI/UX and associated application suite that runs on Linux.
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I was comparing directly against C. There's no such thing as "C/C++".
The next.js method is completely static. You can run your wordpress instance locally in your laptop/pc, run next.js static site generator, then upload the resulting static site to aws or github pages. No need to run the wordpress instance 24/7 as it's only required as a data source during static site generation and can be turned off when you're done with it.

There is also an option in cloudflare to pre-cache everything on their edge servers so visitors will never hit the origin server, but it's not available in free plan (I think it's enterprise only plan).
"minimal"?
Couldn't find any authoritative data on real GDP figures but this - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNRGDPEXP shows a good upward trend since 1995, and considering the population has been going downwards, real GDP per capita is going up by your metrics.
If you are looking at fast and quick way to build DApps as a developer, you can look at Blockstack(now Stacks) blockchain. The API's are quite easy and lets you to build faster.
How is the purchasing power with that swiss salary though? Are the job opportunities mostly in the financial sector?
positively shitty.

err...
You say that because you haven't heard of the latest crypto investment form. You put $140 at least 6 month in a new cryptocurrency deposit. In exchange, you get paid every tuesday during this time, you also get sent a red visa card and a premium Spotify account (you never have to pirate again!). Plus, if you're referred, you and your referrer will get $25 dollars free.

Now, when I asked where did that money come from, the guy on Twitch told me "it's like a bank, the money comes from you". The difference here is, of course, this gives you much, much higher returns than a bank while a bank can actually invest your money, and this "entity" cannot. Also the interface of some of these "investment" agencies look like a game, I guess to be more attractive [1].

In the end, the idea is always the same: crypto will only go up. So far that's been the case, though.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjI5hTcU0AAnUO0.png
I use stackprinter[1] for the same. It's advisable to suppress printing of library functions (`suppressed_paths=["lib/python"])`) otherwise deep stack traces (as some libraries---hello pandas---like to produce) will cause the actually-problematic code to be elided. Long reprs are also truncated so your 2GB JSON buffer isn't going to blow up your trace.

this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "demo.py", line 12, in <module>
dangerous_function(somelist + anotherlist)
File "demo.py", line 6, in dangerous_function
return sorted(blub, key=lambda xs: sum(xs))
File "demo.py", line 6, in <lambda>
return sorted(blub, key=lambda xs: sum(xs))
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

becomes:

File demo.py, line 12, in <module>
9 somelist = [[1,2], [3,4]]
10 anotherlist = [['5', 6]]
11 spam = numpy.zeros((3,3))
--> 12 dangerous_function(somelist + anotherlist)
13 except:
..................................................
somelist = [[1, 2, ], [3, 4, ], ]
anotherlist = [['5', 6, ], ]
spam = 3x3 array([[0. 0. 0.]
[0. 0. 0.]
[0. 0. 0.]])
..................................................

[...]

File demo.py, line 6, in <lambda>
3
4
5 def dangerous_function(blub):
--> 6 return sorted(blub, key=lambda xs: sum(xs))
7
..................................................
xs = ['5', 6, ]
..................................................

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

[1] https://github.com/cknd/stackprinter
I'd say the combo of "work ethic, risk tolerance, and perseverance against ridiculous odds" involved in Tesla/Apple/etc, is orders of magnitude more commonly found than actual Tesla/Apple/etc level success...

Agreed. For every tech millionaire there are a thousand guys who are just as smart and worked just as hard and it didn’t work out for whatever reason. Maybe their timing was off by a mere 6 months for example. There’s a lot of survivorship bias in what is in large part a lottery.
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An alternative is to reuse pytest version:

exc_info = ExceptionInfo.from_current()
print(exc_info.getrepr(style="long", showlocals=True))
> The root cause is cars

Root cause of what problem?

> But fundamentally we should be looking at ways to reduce the number of cars.

Why?

> Parking is a blight in urban areas

Sounds like a poorly designed urban area. Need to make enough parking available for a building. This is a solved problem in private residential apartments and office buildings.

> trains and public transport are massively better people movers

Absolutely not, a car is much better for moving me and my family. We have flexibility of time, space, luggage, comfort, temperature, health, music, speed, privacy, basically everything.

> EVs produce significant pollution from their production and tire wear.

Irrelevant, pollution is always produced. Do you think trains and busses do not produce large amount of pollution?

The biggest problem with public transport is that it is usually paid by taxpayers, who have no say in the operation of said services and no option of voting with their dollars. I would prefer not to pay for shitty trains and busses, thanks. If you like, you can start your own bus service and operate it as you see fit. Don't force me to pay for your little communist ideas and then force me with my own money to pay more for the privilege to use my own car.

Trains and busses are fundamentally less convenient and useful than cars, which is why we have much more cars and why almost everyone (unless otherwise coerced by oppressive government, using taxes on cars, or lack of parking on city streets) prefers to use their own car.
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Neat idea but it doesn’t look like something I’d be comfortable using in production. A useful feature to have would be to selectively tag the variables I want to track (in the decorator perhaps?). This way one can prevent printing sensitive info or potentially large variables in the logs.
Conceptually, I want the cluster orchestrator to populate a set of systemd units on each machine, and then switch to a very passive role in the node’s life.

I tried to write a cluster manager from 2010-2015, and essentially what it did was write a big shell script for starting a service. The node could then reboot on its own, and the init system would invoke all the shell scripts.

The "host" part of the command line was on the left, and specified the container, and the user parts go on the right, after --

my-container --fs /images/mine --bind ... -- my-server --port $PORT

There could also be a line before that to sync the container / layers, etc.

I still think that is a good paradigm ... The whole thing could just be a "shell script compiler", where the shell script uses a very small number of tools.

The problem with cluster managers is that you get into the "inner platform" problem. Once you have a lot of software to run the cluster on each node, now you have to figure out how to update and monitor THAT software. But you don't necessarily have the update and monitoring mechanisms it implements!
Oh, sure, that'd work, but only on mobile.
Those are some of the worst colors ever chosen for a bar chart. Topped off with "Chart series order in same order as legend order" while having the bars vertically stacked, and the legend with two columns.

I don't know how some of these tech writers made it out of 6th grade science class with those charting skills.
Exactly. Shazza the bogan has a completely different accent from bro Rangi, who sounds completely different to classy old Muriel; while farmer Jim has yet another clearly different accent. I think the differences between these accents are broadening over time i.e. I think social clique accents have got stronger.

There are few regional differences (mostly city versus rural). https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lingvan/1/1/article-...
No idea why you're getting downvoted. It's completely true and I participated in a few. The excitement was that you knew it could blow up at any time so it was like gambling.

When you got your profits you often sent it back to the scheme. It was a classic chicken race where you wanted to pull out just before it crashed.
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Nobody I was friends with could afford to overdose on legitimate oxycodone due to its cost, so many overdosed on much cheaper heroin after not being able to afford oxy pills anymore. I've also read about people overdosing on counterfeit oxy pills containing fentanyl (for example, the musician Prince if I remember correctly) though that's not happened in my former friend group as far as I know.
I don't trust the folks who tag information as "misinformation". I would rather that be left to my research and judgement.
Don't try build the next big app? If you're frustrated by the status quo, reject it and live life by your own values. Also nothing (bar the pandemic) is stopping you going to Thailand or another cheap location and building your app from there. The flight tickets will pay themselves off in cost of living savings pretty quickly.
> Nobody EVER reinvents the wheel. We all know about wheels, and how they work and why they are useful.

You greatly overestimate people's knowledge of wheels.
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There is a method that tries to classify images by decomposing them into components that are interpretable without too much loss in classification performance.

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/hash/dca5672ff3444c7e997aa...
https://github.com/saralajew/cbc_networks
> and we got to teach some of the young guys at the office things they should've learned in their CS education (but somehow didn't)

What specific things had they not learned in their CS education/which puzzles utilized them?
Opening an issue to ask for a FAQ comparison might help people evaluate the differences.

For those like me who didn’t know about this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/cgitb.html

While the function seems similar, the interfaces seem very different. cgitb seems to need to be wrapped and configured to match the fully headless/logger use case. I think they could focus on that in the FAQ.
I had experience developing automated underwriting models in the insurance industry. As the models are becoming more sophisticated and adapting machine learning, heavier scrutiny is coming from regulators.

For good reasons, guardrails are required to not only protect against discrimination, but also so proxies can't be used either. For example, we can't include race in health and life underwriting decisions. But since zip code is highly predictive of race, that attribute must also be excluded.

I'm not familiar with banking regulations, but imagine similar policies are applied. In these cases, being able to demonstrate that a model isn't discriminating is not only ethically important, but in many cases is legally required.
Some Iranians were definitely involved since who ever did it had to use at least some local assets.

Could the Iranian state be responsible for this? Possibly but not particularly likely, could it been an internal conflict within the IRGC or between the IRGC and the local criminal underground (yes this is a thing, the IRGC often supplements it’s income by running criminal enterprises in the region) a bit more likely but still less likely than a combined western effort to take him out.

I don’t think Israel could or well would pull this off alone, by all accounts whilst Israel does operate a very large humint network in Iran much larger than the US ever managed to set up (in fact by published accounts, Israel is the one who’ve always provided the human element in joint operations) they still heavily rely on US intelligence and operational support.

Before JCPOA was signed the “rumor” was that one of the sticks and or plan B was a pretty extensive plan to take out quite a few very high value Iranian targets of the map and that plan didn’t include buildings but rather was a direct threat to essentially take out anyone of any importance especially in the IRGC.

This seems to be the second and quite likely last at least for a while (due to the US elections result) operational use of that “backup plan”.

As far as conspiracies go or at least corruption I would put KSA pressuring Trump to do something before he leaves office in exchange for financial favors over anything else.
I see it as being a bit like the move from Python 2 to Python 3, but easier.

Most software that can run on x86_64 can run on ARM after recompilation. Some software does require changes (anything using vector intrinsics for e.g.). But in general, the biggest barrier is the dependencies.
Expect this to become standard worldwide as electric vehicles become more common
Soylent is actually not a bad idea IMO, and it kind of spawned a small industry of competitors (e.g. Huel), the problem there is that entrepreneurs have a tendency to make products that only appeal to other people in their techy/"product"/entrepreneurial bubble isolated to a small number of US cities. And I say that as someone who really likes Coffiest (or whatever they call it know)
I will start with a quibble to make a point. India has a republican form of govt just like the US not a Democracy. Republican forms of governance have existed in India for over 2000+ years [1]. They will survive whatever foreboding you have real or imagined that will befall the "great indian experiment" which is not an experiment except for those whose history starts in 1947.

Hinduism has been present in India for over 3000 years. Hindu kingdoms welcomed Jews (~900BC), Christians (52 AD), Zoorastrians (600AD), Muslims (550 AD), Armenians (1500AD) who have lived and prospered without molestation for millenia because of the pluralistic nature of Hinduism. Zoorastrians who were wiped out in Persia (Iran) by their own kith and kin who converted have prospered in India to the point that this tiny minority (less than 100k) leads several of the top-20 conglomerates (e.g. Tata). Hinduism is not just tolerant but pluralistic because it acknowledges multiple paths to god unlike any other religion.

Pluralism >>> Tolerance.

Multi-religious, multi-ethnic India will survive because of Hinduism not in-spite of it. Case in point, the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh are both Islamic and the non-muslim population has dwindled precipitously from 20% in 1947 to less than 10% and they are well on their way to becoming 99% Muslim the next couple decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%E1%B9%87a_sangha
Of course I do. But there is no 13 inch laptop that fullfills my nerds.
A speaker's output transfer function is determined by the drivers, the chassis, bass reflex or not, frequency splitter, etc. Software has nothing to do with it. And even if you're only listening to Spotify or using fully-integrated equipment from Sonos or others, you will care if your speaker decides to play ads, in addition to Spotify ads.
I'm personally used to submitting CVs with dates of birth, but I've never submitted one with a photograph. I guess it must depend where you're based.

(I've worked in the UK for most of my life, but I've been located in Finland for the past five years, or so.)
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