skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course you wouldn't actually put them in Texas, but since this seems to be missed a lot: It hails reasonably frequently in the Midwest (incl. Texas)
I hope this will get attention. Just so more people will realise that bitcoin is dangerous to use and accept because it is not private. Even if youre doing nothing wrong, would you want to unintentionally receive funds linked to this?
And increase the base price of materials to outset gains but hopefully create a scale for materials that reduces price over time.
That's a hefty claim. Got a source?
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As in disrupting us and thus USD ?
I never tried AD&D to 4th edition, but to 5th edition you can pretty much just do it on the fly. 5e characters are more powerful than their 1e/2e counterparts, so you'll want to increase HD and damage for monsters or just swap in the equivalent from the 5e Monster Manual. You also won't get direct indicators for skill checks or DCs, but those are usually simple enough to figure out.
> It's fundamental meant to manipulate people.

Manipulation implies that you're lying to people to get them to buy things, but is it easy to make that argument for FB? What would be the leading argument here?

And why should we think that automated processes tend towards manipulation (lying) as a strategy in the marketplace?
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Not to mention that he probably owns a lot of stakes in tech startups, which have, on paper at least, appreciated quite dramatically in recent years.

I think Gates is probably to the point where it's functionally impossible for him to give away all of his money. The value of his personal brand and network is such that startups will probably give away decent chunks of their business just to be a part of that network.
That's not all of it. "Lokeshwar noted that even men with a normal BMI (18.5-24.9) had declining total testosterone levels (P < .05) during the same time frames." lack of hard physical labor in general, or modern diets just being filled with hormones?
I’m sure this thought will be a downvote magnet but I wonder if low testosterone levels is somehow related to the “snowflakes” phenomenon in US culture.
Any modern military defers field-level decision making to soldiers in the field. It’s become an absolute necessity as the post WW2 diplomatic regime put in requirements for individual soldiers to refuse illegal orders and making them personally liable for war crimes.

Individual soldiers don’t plan wars, obviously they don’t have a high enough level view to do that adequately. So much of war planning is logistics and not tactics or strategy. The idea is to get the troops there, make sure they have enough weapons and ammo, give them their objectives, then let field commanders do their jobs.
240K acres is merely a spec. Especially in the Midwest region of the US.

There are ~340 million acres of farmland alone in the US
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Poor Zuck, getting bullied like this :( I hope he pulls through
> Twitter is not a monopoly by any stretch.

Considering that Parler was curbstomped by Google/Apple/AWS last week, it's safe to say that Twitter doesn't operate in a naturally competitive market.
There's also the option of going after those who received the money rather than those who gave it.
You have a point that land is a scarce and excludable good and there's an opportunity cost to a corporation owning land.

The initial purchase of the land by the corporation wasn't zero sum, however. The previous landowner and the corporation both gained subjective utility from the transaction (otherwise they wouldn't have engaged in it), so the transaction itself was positive sum.
> and the ones willing to learn will need many months or years to be productive

That’s interesting. I’ve been doing Elixir for a while and found it almost overwhelmingly simple. As in, I’d do something in a very simple way which would usually take me a lot longer and have to think whether it was actually right because I’m not used to that.

I recently learned Go and I think it was only slightly more difficult to learn than elixir. I could see having trouble if you have never done functional before, but that’s kind of a separate issue. The language itself is tiny.

OTP is one thing that can take a bit of getting used to. But again, I think that’s only for people who are only used to traditional threading methods of concurrency, which is again a separate issue. OTP and the actor model themselves are dead simple in terms of how to use them.

> The editor plugins are terrible, slow, and blow away your CPU doing god knows what kind of indexing

Without even looking I already know what this is. You are using ElixirLS and you are hitting the Dialyzer PLT generation which is needed for type assistance. Elixir LS gives you a pop-up (at least in VSCode) telling you that it's building the PLT and it might take a while. You can disable this if you really want. Most importantly it ONLY RUNS ONE TIME. So, if you've already generated the PLT for a project, it will NEVER run again until you upgrade Elixir or something major. Other than that, I rarely ever see Elixir LS taking up any noticeable CPU.

> Compilation is slow and takes a lot of time
Yes it does. However, you can just cache the _build/ directory in CI. Then it will act like it does locally, only recompiling what has changed and doing it very quickly. Usually, dependencies will not need to be recompiled if they haven't changed.

Also, testing in Elixir is crazy fast and everything runs nicely async by default, even database tests with Ecto.
Would be interesting to see the map, I couldn't find it with a quick search.

There is ~4ft of shoreline in the US per household, which gives me some notion of what the packing would look like.
Also, you wouldn't have to power as many Texans. More for everyone else.
For all the people leaving SF/Bay-Area and particularly California, I wanted to ask these two questions.

1. California has the strongest non-compete laws in the nation, was this something that influenced your decision?

2. California has IP laws which are to the effect that "what you create in your own time with your own resources cannot be used by your employer" (disclaimer IANAL). This has a grey area for large FAANG type employers that can enter any domain, but Bay-Area has lots of companies doing amazing things. So it opens up opportunities to start new companies in new frontiers.

The above two are still major factors that are preventing me from leaving California at least despite the high taxes, rents etc...

Bay-Area is still the best place w.r.t to getting investment and finding interesting tech-companies.

I'm curious what thoughts others have here.
>It's incredibly tiresome when HN commenters try to "Macsplain" to me.

Isn't it also tiresome when people on HN assume we know who they are from their handle, or that we are somehow obliged to have followed them outside HN, and remember/know who they are?

I might recognize pg, or patio11, or tptacek, and a few more, but not everybody. And most handles, I just glaze over, they are not the important part in the discussion. I'm pretty sure most of us on HN have dozens of HN handles that we don't otherwise know who they are, or even keep tabs on from one HN thread to another.

I wouldn't try to "Macpslain" if your comment didn't seem to me to imply that this is just some an isolated thing with ContentFilterExclusionList, that can just be reversed like that, or if it mentioned that this is part of an extensive change to how network filters / kernel extensions work (or rather, don't work anymore) in Big Sur.
One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'.

That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.
Sometimes you just gotta wonder about some people. The most pro status-quo candidate in a generation is planning to take us to the dark ages?
At that scale you have to buy the factories that make the factories.
Agreed. And covering that amount of land mass would have profound environmental impacts.
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You’re missing the fact that that area you’re trying to put panels on is not perfectly flat, and existing animals/plants/rivers live there.
My point is that it doesn't have to be visibly complex. gmail or outlook could automatically generate and store a public key for every single account transparently then just append signatures to the bottom of emails while providing the public key directory for their users.

Then any random client can hit keys.gmail.com (or whatever pseudo standard one wants for finding the key servers) cache public keys and on some TTL check for revocation/etc.

Then the only thing the user would have to know about is whether the from box is "green" indicating that the user was validated, "yellow" indicating an invalidated email, or "red" indicating a problem with the validation. Once the validation is complete via a back/forth exchange the clients then know they can encrypt emails to the destination, thereby turning the from field green on the next email exchange.

Sure people using those services would also be allowing the service to see their private keys, but for phone apps, or desktop applications the key generation portion could be done on the machine and only the public key pushed to the email providers keyserver.

Plenty of other email services (proton mail, symantec) make this very easy for the end user.
The problem with this argument is that it completely sidesteps the issue of how much platforms like Twitter and FB possess quasi-monopolies in their respective niches. In fact, perhaps Twitter's biggest competitor just got shut down by Amazon.

This effectively means that we are back to the old days of newspapers first, then radio, and finally TV, where a small number of media companies control what people read, hear, and see. Except, this time the power is concentrated in even fewer hands.

This raises the question of whether something should be done to turn a service like Twitter into content-agnostic platforms that can no longer decide at their own discretion what even the world's highest elected officials can and cannot say.
I would be cautious about that. I've worked in the startup space for over 10 years now as a data scientist, often the first one hired on, working on the pipes.

From my experience, there are two types of data scientists who work who do infrastructure work: 1) Those who do not make the best data scientist because their skill set is too far in engineering land, leaving them weak where it counts. If the startup is relying on the data scientist to be profitable, I'd be cautious with these types. or 2) Someone who is senior, beyond senior really, who has worked both jobs, and doesn't mind doing both jobs. This unicorn is so rare it is mythical. The joke when the terminology was created is they're so rare no one has ever seen one, hence unicorn.

Me, I can not do the work I need to do if I'm on call. That is where I draw the line. That means hiring someone to monitor the infrastructure. Furthermore, I'm an okay architect, but you really do want to hire a specialist if you can help it for that. Do I help them with the infrastructure? Absolutely, but they're on call if a server is on fire. They have the admin login credentials, not me.

I get wearing multiple hats, but keep in mind to be a data scientist you're already wearing multiple hats. Being a data scientist is like double majoring and getting a phd. At what point are they stretched too thin? The consensus in the industry is they're already stretched too thin and should be broken up into different specialized roles.

>My question to HN is this; are there rolls at these larger companies for a Data Scientist who who primarily just crunches data in R and Python without the ability to actually build the pipelines / tools or conduct research?

That is the standard role, even at startups. However, the industry consensus these days is data scientists should have more responsibility when it comes to deploying models than previous standards.[1] So data scientists are being pushed in a more engineering direction, not with hosting sql servers and infrastructure, but with working with engineers to make sure the models are monitored properly. This change comes from model deployment being further automated as time goes on, making it easier for the data scientist to have more responsibility during this stage.

[1] source: https://www.dominodatalab.com/static/gfx/uploads/domino-mana... page 9. Suboptimal organization and incentive structures.
> and there are some great AD packages, but in no way is everything automatically differentiable (even with the nice packages), nor is that a design goal.

I work on the AD infastructure for Julia.
That absolutely is a design goal.
Certainly we are not there yet; we still have a long way to go.
But that is where we want to go to.

With the cavet that thigns that are not mathematically defined to have derivatives (e.g. the derivative of `xs[i]` with respect to `i`) we won't differentiate those.

But for stuff like mutation (the big thing Zygote doesn't support (though some of our other ADs do)), we sure do want it to.
Looking at it the other way around, I'd much rather be a farmer in 2020 than 1920 or 1820. You'd earn much more.
Gender roles were stricter too. Business correspondence used honorifics more. People with "ethnic" names changed them to fit in.
Which facilitates collective action.

Don't get me wrong, we need to be able to pierce the corporate veil a lot easier in the US, but the setup isn't born from pure cynicism.
Wine has been a wonderful piece of software when it comes to running old 16-bit Windows games and CD-ROMs of the early to mid-nineties. I can run tons of games which will never see a re-release on a modern machine without spinning up a VM.
Hence why I said DE need to be involved as early as possible. Aspirational sure, but that's what I've seen work the best and repeatably. It's the only scalable solution IMO otherwise you're perpetually playing catch-up.

On the point about the govt I literally built a completely new contract type and civilian hiring practices for the DoD to bring in Data Engineers so they could do exactly what I describe to make your life easier.
Maybe unusual, but I didn’t leave Facebook because of the moderate viewpoints, I left it because of the routinely offensive commentary ordinary people would otherwise not be comfortable making, and the privacy concerns. It was lowering my faith in humanity.
I made https://bigmacpricing.com a while ago to price things based on the index, for global audiences.
>However, unlike other jobs, you spend tons of time to learn new technologies, visit a university and all that for absolutely nothing.

I mean, I have a ton of perks, my job isn't that stressful and I don't even have to leave my home.

I feel like as a software engineer, I'm pretty well off in general.
> My group gave up on 5e because it (subjective) felt like the PCs were overpowered early on (especially the healing rules).

I felt the same way about 4e: overpowered early on, but underpowered (compared to earlier editions) at higher levels. It basically felt like playing a party of 30th-level characters wasn't all that different from playing a party of 1st-level characters.
People do absolutely fund peaceful protests, anything involving a large number of people has expenses. Just think of the cost of renting a stage and a sound system, or provision of water and snacks. As a rule of thumb any event with >100 people needs a budget of about $5/person.

Not an endorsement of this example of political funding.
Wall-E was made when obesity was already insanely out of control. It was a commentary on society, not a prediction.
You have to run the numbers over 30 years. Over 30 years the rent will increase (as will taxes), but the payments stay the same. Then the payments go to zero and you get a big payoff. If you can't commit to at least 30 years it is probably bad (you can change your mind as conditions change, but 30 years should be the plan) .

You want to share-crop for part of the price. It gives you incentive to ensure the farmer is farming the land as opposed to mining it for the nutrients before leaving you with dead land. Because you share some of the risk (and will have to cover it in bad years - there will be bad 5 year stretches so make sure you can budget for this!) you can get a greater return long term.
Correct, about 330M acres of farmland. Lol, I wouldn't call all 330M prime. Maybe 180-200M are 'prime'. The North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas acres aren't going to win many 'prime' contests. They can produce a profit, yes. But no always a big one
That's truly sad. These echochambers are really the worst place for these people to spend their time backstroking through a cesspool of whatabouts and conspiracy theories. I look forward to a peaceful transition of power and hopefully these folks find other things to worry about like why cats haven't yet pushed everything off the flat edge of our Earth.
My money is on the ubiquitous endocrine disruptors that have polluted our ecosystem
For those who don't know this reference...

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Bill Gates is the wealthiest person in the world (or arguably Arnault).

You might say, no, Musk and Bezos are worth 50% (or ~60 billion) more. On paper yes, but that's not a great metric. When I think of wealth, I think of what you can reasonably acquire.

If you multiply Musk's shares in Tesla times the current share price, sure you get 180 billion. But if he tried to sell a large number those shares, they'd plummet in value as he was selling them. Without Musk, I'd be surprised if Tesla is worth 20% of its current valuation. To a lesser extent, this is true of Bezos too, although Amazon without him is still a very valuable company.

On the other hand, Bill Gates owns 1.6% of Microsoft, which I believe is his biggest holding, followed by Berkshire Hathaway stock. I'd bet he can sell both of those holdings completely without a huge hit to either stock price (but definitely some hit). Same with his farmland and other alternative assets. On top of that, having already sold his Microsoft shares, he's not subject to as much capital gains tax as Bezos or Musk, each of whom pretty much owe 20% of their total net worth the second they want to sell.

So on paper, Musk and Bezos are wealthier, but if all of them decided to Scrooge McDuck it and put all their money into a gold filled vault tomorrow, Bill Gates' vault would be the fullest.

EDIT: typo above... Originally said that Musk owns 180 bn in Amazon stock :)
According to the CEO of Parler, banks and payment vendors, law firms, text and mail services also cancelled on them.
Sorry, the software really did a number on that one. I've fixed it now. In the future, you can always correct such mistakes by clicking 'edit' after you post.
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I think it costs about a million dollars to get two chicks at the same time
As long as people don’t ruin my view of Germany being the EU version of Japan kinky preferences and all
> They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

There's a reason for that [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/13/flo-gets-ftc-slap-for-shar...
Don't a lot of these lists allow people to pay certain amount to be taken off the list and remain anonymous?
Terrorism is "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience". Trying to coerce / kidnap / etc. Congress people sounds like terrorism. They don’t have to be successful.
The big difference is whether platform refuses to moderate those .05% on Parler. Afaik, twitter for all its moderation flaws is not refusing to moderate those and reacts to big real world events significantly more quickly. And yes, twitter did deleted accounts and tweets of people who called for violence during summer. Maybe not perfectly and plus some ambiguous accounts ended closed too, but twitter did put real effort into it.

Arguing as of the two were equal two is lacking even basic attempt at nuance.

Parler was created because that content was booted from twitter, reddit and public facebook discussion. Literally. So acting like Twitter is the same is unfair despite Twitter deficiciencies.
The problem is "key down" and "key up" are usually separate events. If you write software in a way that you always expect a "key up" to be preceded by a "key down", you'll have problems like the above mentioned.
Comparing the banning of a Twitter account to the fall of the Berlin Wall is one hell of a false equivalency.
The study states the majority of the effect is for fairly predictable causes like age and obesity, but I found this interesting:

> After controlling for confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity—total testosterone was lower among men in the later (2011-2016) versus earlier (1999-2000) cycles (P < 0.001)

Excluding all those confounders, there's not much we're left with. Environmental toxins?
> The future of farming is most likely vertical farming with controlled conditions

Not even for high price per area needed products like salad vertical farming is profitable yet. Most of the farmland is used for crops that use up a lot of space like wheat, corn or soybeans.
Yeah, I feel like the creators have already created the world for you and are just giving you a rule set to have adventures in that world. Which, like you mention, is fine.
iPhones in China back up to a version of iCloud owned by a Chinese company that presumably shares its data with the government.
Exactly. If you can accurately ignore 50% of the bot traffic you halve your hardware expense. The trick is doing it in such a way that the bots don't notice.
Because if you allow a paid option, all the people worth advertising to switch to that, and now the advertising portion of the business is worth a lot less.

They’re betting they can get more out of advertisers than paying subscribers.