skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, I learned that the french in school is nothing like the french they speak in France. Sure, you get by and they'll understand you, but french relies heavy on vernacular, sayings and expressions.

Virtually everyone who learns a language in school as you described will feel this way when they encounter native speakers in the target language's country(s) of origin.

The reality of school teaching is that it enforces prescriptive snapshots of the language. It teaches the grammatical "rules" of a language at a moment in time, but these rules are always changing. Common English has changed a lot since 1800; consider how different an English class in 1800s might be from one now, though they are both valid in being called English classes. The classes continue exist, but they are often lingering behind the real deal.

Language is developed naturally by our minds, and its inner workings are still largely unknown to us. The best way to learn it is by actual exposure to it, as it is meant to be used. You are always going to be removed from this reality if you are sitting in a classroom with minimal direct exposure.
This is a systemic problem. We ask non software engineers to write code, and then we expect them to apply a level of robustness and long term planning that even we have difficulty achieving. Not because we're being picky, but because we know the failure modes that are likely, and we know that people convince themselves that they aren't.

We've been through this with installer writers, database admins, test automation, operations people, and now 'devops' people who were supposed to be the answer to these problems. It never stops.
Yes, but I think the problem is more that we have a massively connected society but are relying on the good will of corporations to provide that connectivity.
Twitter is a company. And banning decisions are made by specific people in it. And it's not like after banning Trump they will happily consider their job done and go stock shelves at Walmart for minimum wage. Oh no, they have tasted power and they will continue finding new targets because their cushy job literally depends on it.
>As I recall, of those 630,000, only 3 have been used illegally since 1934 and 2 of those were, ironically, by cops.

Still, as shown by the media at least, weapons became an accessory in protests and public manifestations over the past... 4 years? Even though they're not used, people have demonstrations of power by presenting their weapons.

But again, my culture is very different from USA, so it's hard for me to grasp such thing.
"A slime mold was above the door you entered, roll a d20 and add your dex mod."

"I got a 19"

"OK, well, it's on you. Roll a d6"

"I got a 5"

"Well, you're going to die quickly then."

"What did I need to live?"

"To look up."
My English is good enough to understand your reply is thinly veiled insults without any substance.
As far as how rare they are - helicopters in LA are a daily occurrence. I used to live in Mar Vista, just a few blocks from Venice Beach, and they flew over our house every night. There were times when they flew so low they caused the water in our pool to ripple (though that was rare). Now I'm down in Westchester, and we get fewer, but they're still around frequently. I saw some yesterday, but think they were just regular LAPD, and not these particular ones. (And looking at the map of their route, they didn't fly over us.)
> By “actual notice”, I assume you’re referring to the paltry 24 hours notice provided by Apple.

No, I mean actual knowledge of the content, by whatever mechanism.
Did anyone else read that and wonder, "Okay, so what is so special about the single acre of land in New Mexico?"
It used to be the Church of LDS due to cattle ranching, right?
I would estimate that greater than 90% of that traffic is bot traffic. Having run two web search engines in the past: search.netscape.com (pre-google) and blekko.com. Robots accounted for > 80% of traffic at Netscape (around 3M searches/day in 2000 IIRC) and definitely more than 80% at blekko. Maybe 90% or more. Some traffic is obviously bot traffic (single source IP, common patterns, obvious bot useragents) and then there's the non-obvious bot traffic that is random-ish, but in aggregate is clearly bot traffic. For instance, way too many queries matching the pattern "(mortgage|home loans) (zip|county|city|state)" even if they are coming from random IPs and user agents.

At blekko, under high traffic, we would loadshed obvious bot traffic first and prioritize searches from humans.
that's a different game from putting your life at risk.
It depends on where you're looking. Like housing, prices vary widely all over the country. Quality farm land anywhere on the west coast seems to be out of my budget as far as I can tell (and I've done a lot of research), but in places like Vermont, the midwest, and the south it seems quite affordable.
Hopefully this means better support for exporting, say, step and minute by minute heart rate data to Apple health and vice versa. I want to be able to do what I want with my data.
There is a cutoff where small farmlands are not sustainable or economical. Small farms means that the overhead for the produce is too high, and they require extensive subsidies to stay afloat.
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If Bezos's and the other mega billionaires wanted to truly change the tax code for a top .0001% tax rate or whatever they could almost certainly get it done.

How much does Bezos spend on lobbying (not Amazon specific interests)? Virtually a 25 cents to him - .000086

Adelson spent something like $500mm over a decade and he probably has 75% or more of the 'credit' for changing pro-Isreal policy.

Bezos and the rest of them could put a few billion into treasuries and still not lose any basis just use the dividends politically.

In addition if they stopped following shareholder primacy Bezos could direct Amazon to repatriate profits continually and pay the tax. Stop relying on legal 'loopholes' to lower tax % and just pay in 'best faith' and stop pitting local governments against each other in a race to the bottom.

Hell they could even send a check to Treasury but spending only a billion $ lobbying for new laws would be more effective and longer term.

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Personally I'd like to see something like a sovereign wealth fund that benefits social security/healthcare and directly supports the bottom 40%. Look to Alaska as an example.

Each 'bailout' the taxpayers should get a % of shares for their investment, basically free money from the Fed which is supposed to make its money back anyways. Fannie/Freddit/TARP is an odd example something more like UAE, Norway but passive and only US companies

Go further and make it part of taxes for the mega corps only. 14% profit + a small % of shares annually.

We don't have to turn into CCP with control over Corporate direction. Simply hold the shares passively.

Have to figure out something where corps have no dividends. Maybe a set yearly sale %.

I think about how beneficial it would be to give $1600 cash right now and match another $1600 to each individual in basically a retirement index fund that is only accessible in ___ years or ___ first time homebuyer etc circumstances like a new type of IRA. Hell the government could take a cut in ___ years and it would pay for itself.
Enforcement Bureau Reminds EAS Participants of Compliance Obligations
> Yeah if you just read all these articles about Japan, you'd think that all young men beat off to hentai all day at their parent's home, and that everyone is visiting "love hotels", or buys used panties from vending machines.

Firstly, love hotels are a sign of not being lonely. They do not offer a prostitute; those batteries are not included

Secondly, I do not gain the impression from that that all do it, merely that they note that the very existence thereof is exceptional. In particular, of the used underwear vending machines, when the story broke many would not believe it and thought it was a hoax, but it actually exists.

No one thinks that every U.S.A.-man bought an assault rifle at a gas station or got one as a gift for opening up a bank account, but that the practice even exists, that the number of occurrence isn't zero — that is something remarkable in and of itself.

> The media loves to spin up an image of Japan to naive westerners by exaggerating its quirks.

What I must ask is why the term “western” invariably always drops whenever Japan is discussed.

Experience taught me that more often than not “the west” in that context simply means “The U.S.A.”.

There is no “west” relevant to what you claim. All that matters is “Japan” vs. “everything else” or at least anyone not particularly experienced with Japan which applies as easily to, say, India, Russia, Uganda, or Indonesia.

> It reminds me of HN. If you read HN too much, you might think that you can only write applications in Rust and Go using K8s, no JavaScript but Typescript only, but in reality the vast majority of apps being written are using boring technologies to implement CRUD around a relational database.

I find that every time an article about a, shall we call it “exciting language” is posted most of the comments, though impressed with the theoretical innovations thereof, doubt it's real world applicability.
> Over the past week, they’ve [Trump supporters] flocked to an array of other platforms, including encrypted text-messaging services like Signal and Telegram, which were among the most popular apps in the country this week.

That statement is a bit annoying, given that a fair few people have been switching to Signal/Telegram et al in the same time period for another reason - namely WhatsApp's changes to its terms to allow more data-sharing with FaceBook.

Edited to add this:

Regardless of what I might think of the people highlighted in the NYT article, I found this affecting:

He’s paid a price. He said he lost a few customers of the credit repair business he runs, which he also promotes on Facebook. And members of his family started distancing themselves. After his cat died in December, Mr. McGee said, no one in his family offered condolences.

A bereavement is horrible, and I'd offer condolences to anyone who had lost a friend, relative or pet, regardless of what I thought of their behaviour or views. The feeling of loss is, I think, something common in humanity. It should make us reach out - even in this case if, as I am, you are a dog person rather than a cat person (and definitely not a Trump person). I would definitely have commiserated. Shame on his family.
It's not about Twitter's ability to ban users it's about enabling them avoid a substantial expansion of their moderation responsibilities. Twitter considers it a positive thing to have transparent and relatively equitably-applied rules, and this is an obvious positive for its users, and society in general (given how central Twitter has become to national discourse). Capricious one-off expansions that are difficult to justify generally (or that would require massive increases in moderation that pretty much everyone would hate) are the last thing Twitter wants.
He's been giving his money away for many years now and strangely is still one of the richest men in the world. I suspect that his desire to not give his kids money will work out much the same way - he gives them "only" $10m (of course, enough to live comfortably on for their entire lives) - but also, control of some billion dollar philanthropic fund.
I just googled it and could open it in Twitter.
I doubt they would use the spark-plugs sideways (which is how you'd get the ceramic part of the spark plug to contact the glass). Unless they are throwing the plugs, it makes more sense to use the sharp, metallic ends which can apply the same force, but over a much smaller surface area.
He's giving away basically all of his money, and leaving comparatively little to his kids, $10 million I think. It's a ton of money, but a small enough amount that they could spend through it in a generation if they aren't careful. Apparently he finds the idea of passing on vast fortunes to be distasteful.
I love my Fitbit hardware but loathe their apps. After 5 years or so, they still suck at data synchronization.

I hope Google fixes this
This + LoRa and we're golden!
Recognizing Pose Similarity in Images and Videos
I hadn’t thought of it from the perspective of historical data, thanks for that insight.

The existence of a law enforcement tool to watch the screen of a specific device at a specific set of times does seem more palatable than the existence of such a tool to decrypt any data stream.

1. Arbitrarily constrains the surveillance to taps on the device itself

2. Tapping the infrastructure would be unnecessarily redundant

3. Given the contemporary security landscape of vulnerable chip architectures and remote access vulnerabilities, the existence of an unpatchable vulnerability (“backdoor”) enabling a sophisticated attacker (“government office with the keys”) to get read-only, remote screen capture just seems like less of a security risk than other, non-hypothetical vulnerabilities that already exist.

Not sure how you’d secure those keys though, or what you’d do if they got stolen, but I imagine that it wouldn’t be dramatically different than secure boot key handling.

Anyone have insight to that side of things?
> It also confirms what I have always said..most of our food and farmland is controlled by sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, pension funds, unions and institutional investment.

Does it though? Based on a post above yours he owns less than 0.1% of US farmland. That means ownership is not concentrated. It seems to be much like the logistics / trucking industry. There is no concentration of power.
From the application page: "This batch of Y Combinator will be remote due to COVID-19"
What Is Negotiation? Things You Need to Know
Unrelated, but the English literal translation of Les quatre cents coups is just daft, it should have been "The school of hard knocks" or similar.
I don't know about their fitness band. What I know is that Amazon will acquire Wyze within the next 2 years.
No, it was per area per economic unit originally, and the definition was changed in ways that don't make a lot of sense. Clearly the performance of a 72-core machine has little relevance to personal computing.
I can't quite put my finger on how to define "this" but it seems like stories like "this" have been replacing stories of drive and grit in our cultural lore.

It's en vogue now to talk about "doing nothing" or making it sound normal that you need to hire someone you don't know to accompany you to visit the hospital, etc.

I am sure this is a part of the human experience but is it really a part we need to normalize, versus reconnecting with the culture of yesteryear of toughness, resilience, independence and productivity?

The reason I say this is because I think the world is a tough competitive place whether we act like it or not. There's a premium to be someone (and a nation of someones) who can deal with harsh realities and crush through adversity. Every society that got to "the top" got there because of this, and I suspect every society that declined did so because of overindulgence in decadence and weakness. We don't want that.
I am aware of there being recent regional stay at home orders in California. I believe that is usually what people mean when they use the term "lockdown," at least outside of the Chinese context where they had much more forcefully kept people in their homes. In addition, since we have a global economy, COVID restrictions in other countries could affect US jobs.
The thesis of this article is that China has not actually controlled the spread of the coronavirus, and instead claimed it had while it continued to spread. The article hypothesises that the reason this lie has not been uncovered is coronavirus is mostly not harmful to 99.9% of the population, and hence small negative effects can be concealed.

I believe the logic in this article to be false. The negative effects on hospital overload of well characterised in the west. The sudden peak in number of people with an acute infection as a product of exponential spread leads to clear peaks of hospital need and associated reduced capacity. While this is most significant in nations with a significant number of elderly, it is also visible in the younger population.
I therefore find it unlikely to be feasible to conceal this level of spread, although I concede Chinese control over the media may allow it to do even this.

We will find out eventually with the presence of Covid antibody studies in the Chinese populace compared to say the USA.
What does CV stand for in this context?
It's not a secret. If the people who wrote this press release are not like outright lying for publicity then they are really really bad at their jobs.
The assurance that it's not going to be used for Ads is the only thing that makes this acceptable. Instead of it being on some random fitbit server on someone's Cloud, it'll be held securely on Google servers.
I was expecting a much larger number. At $10k/acre for good arable land, that's only 2.4e5 * 1e4 = $2.4B, which is still a fair amount of money.
When reading this I instantly get this sinking feeling of another doomed Windows version. Why does microsoft insist on trying to make versions that are less featureful, and have less hardware compatibility? Those are windows’ strong suits.
PG: Twitter made a mistake in banning Sci-Hub
.Net has shown some impressive performance improvements with .Net core. Double the performance of already performent runtime is commandable.

.net is now much faster tha Java on all but one benchmark https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> specially for local results. thats where DDG is not upto the mark. Google has an advantage there.

I've had a different experience, I prefer being able to choose the location. For technical queries it gives me better results, for general queries less SEO'ed content and when I want something local I change the switch.
Bonus is that I can choose a different location, which has been useful this year because my travel pattern has changed to staying at a remote location for longer periods - I can still easily get my home country results when I need them without trying all sorts of extra keywords.
So lying Jewish scum, I'm not surprised.
While this is entirely true, real assets don't get any realer than productive farmland. The Fed's super money creation policy of 2020 is resulting in a new landrush (pun intended) of well-funded entities into real assets.
Use of facial recognition cameras to identify people refusing to wear masks
Razer embraces a cyberpunk aesthetic with smart mask concept
Back of the envelope tells me you can power the whole world's current energy needs, not just electricity, with an area that's 3/4 of Texas:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B3Vtm-bk8NIntYc8mZRw...

Getting 10x our total energy would only require half the Sahara. We have plenty of deserted place for this if that's what we wanted to do. Transporting and storing that energy is more the issue, which is why hydro/wind/solar mixes aided by batteries/nuclear are probably what we'll be focusing on for the next few decades.
static typing is what drew me to go, Elixir isn't a static-typed language, but there are plenty of guardrails in the language that make up for it. Pattern-matching, guards, good compiler messages, casting, etc.

You've also got fantastic testing framework, and good conventions like tagged tuples {:ok, x} vs {:error, y}.

On top of all of that, you've got the Erlang underpinnings: immutability, crash-fast, app umbrellas, etc.

It's a very safe language to develop in. I don't miss the strict static typing at all.
That sounds exactly like a Karen: The power company started the fires due to lack of maintenance! Why is the power company flying helicopters and disturbing me?
At least with 10.15 and earlier you can configure MacOS to hybernate after certain amount of time when it will ask for FDE password on wake up and load everything from the disk.
That’s a really bad idea. Farming is a profession and an essential one. People need to be educated, trained and experienced. We can’t waste valuable farmland and distribute it.

However, if it does pass..then it could just be the dollar value of farmland that is redistributed or with the caveat that they form a co-op to professionally farm the acreage to be productive.

All farmland needs protection. Transitioning of farmland into commercial land or residential land should be fully discouraged.

Also..small holdings(less than 1000 acres) should be automated. Farming is for the rich. You need to lose a lot of money first before you can start making returns.

Encouraging those with no farm experience with farmland is pushing them into debt and penury.
In the context of powering an entire continent, it's still small.
Given recent events, I wonder how strong the calls will be for her resignation.
> You might be the best Java programmer in the world

This is also true in the opposite sense. A mediocre programmer at a bank or a high-profit company could still create a lot of value because of the surroundings or simply the industry. And they're probably compensated for that, at least in part.

Even more interesting – the cafeteria workers, cleaning staff, etc at those companies also produce more value than their colleagues in less fortunate companies/industries. But they're probably not compensated for it, because markets.
The future of farming is most likely vertical farming with controlled conditions or underground. Especially when humans start going to other planets, this will be key.

Side note: Mormon church is the biggest land owner in lots of areas including Florida and Utah. [1][2] Also own lots of land in other states where they are top 10 like Montana and Idaho. [3]

Ted Turner and the Wilks family are also massive land owners in Montana, Idaho and other areas. [4]

Here's the top land owners in all of US as of 2019: [4]

FAMILY ACRES

John Malone 2.20M

Emmerson family 1.96M

Ted Turner 1.92M

Stan Kroenke 1.38M

Reed family 1.33M

Irving family 1.25M

Brad Kelley 1.15M

Singleton family 1.10M

King Ranch heirs 0.93M

Peter Buck 0.93M

John Malone is the largest land owner in the US [5].

Largest land owners are mostly corporate, private individuals and in some states, religions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_Ranches

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-florida-mormons/mormon-c...

[3] https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/money/2016/06/21/who...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-i...

[5] https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/article/john-malone-eve...
That is an awfully viscous claim to make.

I grew up around family farms. Many members of my family still produce crops and own livestock. So, to someone with first hand knowledge your comment rings false. The large feedlots, processing plants, etc. are the most inhumane (and dehumanizing), places I know of in the industry.

I would appreciate if you would at least _attempt_ to provide proof/justification before making such a blanket, mean-spirited statement.
You wouldn't download a chair from the DMV
I have been using DDG for 6 months, I'd say 90% of times results are good enough to find what I'm looking for.
I even tried DDG Apple powered maps,but Gmaps is still vastly superior, imho
100th reminder to stop using Twitter and to stop acting like it's an acceptable medium of communication.
If you aren't picky about location, you can have that for relatively little money. Less than $100K and sometimes with a salvageable house.