skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>legislating that a part-time job would need to offer a fraction of the benefits proportional

I mean, I think you’re spot on with the incentives but but I worry that your proposed solution would just take what is already a complicated system related to benefits like healthcare and just turn it into a bigger rats nest. It’s hard enough for people to navigate providers for in-network services, then haggle with insurance companies etc. I can’t imagine if this was fractured along different more complicated means.

I know it may be a pipe dream in the US but it seems like a better solution would be to divorce benefits from employers entirely through a single payer system
What benefits are we talking here? I presume mostly healthcare, though I may me missing something. What you suggest is overly complex compared to untying health care from work. In many countries healthcare is not tied to work.
A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the goals of vertical farming. It’s not to save space, we have more than enough of that. It’s to stop produce from being shipped hundreds of miles on trucks which greatly increases greenhouse emissions and results in less fresh produce.

Transportation is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in our food’s supply chain. When you hear about beef having such a big carbon footprint it’s also accounting for the massive footprint of transporting all that beef as well as it’s food. If you can cut that down you would be greatly reducing the carbon footprint of your food.
The problem is partly a lack of choice in off the shelf products. In some industries the choice is basically Oracle, or a 3rd party app that also runs on an Oracle database. The alternative is developing your own system, which really isn't an option for anything but large organizations.

Things are a little better these days where you can often find apps (usually SaaS) that fill a specific need very well, but then you're usually stuck managing a dozen different products and a massively more difficult integration between all of them.

If you're using Oracle to power a home-grown system though, yeah: With a little effort you can swap the backend for something where the vendor won't show up with a surprise multi-$million invoice along with pre-made lawsuit papers if you don't sign it.
I agree, I was really only proposing PRESS for the "parameter efficiency" part of your comment. It'd be interesting to see some modern takes on IRLS. I think generally this goes against the grain of the Cheap Gradient Principle which is why you see less of it (edit: eh, I think Fisher scoring can be cast in this light).

For instance, on modern modelling problems with non-linearities and change points, it's a lot less easy to do something like IRLS in an end-to-end system, but interesting as a research direction.
Decriminalization isn’t legalization. Not only is it still a federal crime to buy and use, but it’s also illegal to sell. And illegal heroin is still cut with a variety of substances leading to more overdoses and deaths.
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Over 140K virus species identified in human gut, 50% never seen before
This might help: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
I actually found it fascinating that in German speaking countries they actually pronounce it as "u" not a "ü" (more like "you-ber"), when as an American it seems clear to me that it's intended to be Über and just didn't write the umlaut.
Proof of work was not invented (or envisioned to be used with digital currencies) by Satoshi. It's been around since 1993. I can't really find a reference to prove what I claimed so I would agree I might have been misled to think that. But the truth is that it doesn't matter whether it was taken into account or not, what matters is that you can mine Bitcoin (or do any PoW) using untapped renewable resources (which is why big mining operations are based in places with abundant geothermal/hydropower and very little, if any, population) but you wouldn't be able to do much else in those places.
I think this is fundamental design difference between SQLAlchemy and ActiveRecord in general. SQLAlchemy uses Data Mapper pattern which does not necessary map 1:1 to the row in the database, so you have to deal with the whole (Object, Mapper, Data) tuple instead of just Object in case of Active Record pattern (of which Rails' ActiveRecord were based on).

This means SQLAlchemy does not try to hide away SQL, which is beneficial in dealing with complex queries. In Rails ActiveRecord you could use arel in such case but being a query builder it lose the benefit of ActiveRecord, whereas in SQLAlchemy it could be done relatively easily within the ORM layer (arel equivalent in SQLAlchemy would be its Expression Language). On the other hand, some things that are complicated in ActiveRecord can also be trivial to implement in SQLAlchemy (e.g., column_property[1])

[1]: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/mapped_sql_expr.html
Yes, they do. 100% correct, 100% missed the point.
But you signing up for classes is you buying something.

I used a class registration system that wasn't this and didn't mention a "shopping cart" metaphor anywhere, but the system was exactly the same. Why object to calling it a "shopping cart?
the very first sentence says that Adventure was first.... :-/
They will also claim that the municipal system gets subsidized out of taxes.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that the telecom industry gets subsidized to the tune of billions per year, despite decades of failing to accomplish the objectives that they said they would while being subsidized.
This article seems disconnected with what we currently know, to the point of being completely delusional. It seems the professor is so focused on price signals that they’ve begun to mistake them for reality.

The core premise seems to be “we need all this excess capacity, who is going to pay to have all of this production that will sit idle?”

The problem is that it’s not clear that we need more capacity. At the minimum we need to winterize our current capacity as is, so that it doesn’t fail when the weather gets cold. That’ll cost some money, of course, but it’ll cost a hell of a lot less than creating brand new extra power plants that’ll sit idle.

It’s also not clear why extra capacity would help. If the grid has a bunch of new power plants sitting idle, why should we believe that they too won’t fail when cold weather is shutting down other power plants? Wouldn’t they be even more likely to fail than the plants that are already on and running? I guess we could winterize them, by why not just winterize the main grid so it doesn’t die when you need it most?

It honestly seems like they started with their argument and began to work backwards towards to find some evidence to match, because they’ve totally ignored the simplest solution that already worked in places like El Paso: winterize your damn power plants.
Keith Gill testimony at GameStop hearing: I'm not a Cat. I Like the stock
People without both debt and assets are paying in the sense that their ability to purchase assets (such as a home) in the future is being diminished.
My point has illustration here.
Coronavirus endemic, which means life probably won't be the same
Raising minimum wage leads to efficiency gains, because companies automate their processes to remove labor from the equation.

We can take care of those people who cannot sell their labor at above minimum wage. It's not a law of the universe that they need to be exiled to starvation or eviction. (American corporations would love to have you think so!) Of course, this means that if you own a big company like McDonalds and put all your workers out of a job by automating, you need to do your part to take care of them.

When jobs are automated, overall revenue doesn't go down. It often goes up. It's a misallocation that the increased revenue doesn't go to displaced workers in the form of welfare.

Groceries are already adapting: they employ fewer people than they did prior, especially in high-cost areas. They already are removing cheap labor: self checkout. The increase in productivity goes to the worker who still remains, in the form of a higher wage.
Is that easy? I assume they are going to have Syrian pounds as cash. Then I guess you need to put them in a local bank account and use that account to buy BTC. Can you buy BTC with Syrian pounds? If yes, wouldn't the exchange rate be dreadful? I'm not sure exactly who would want SYP.
Acknowledged but cannot admit? I'm a bit lost on what you're asserting here.
Silly idea, is there any Lisp SoC, like the famed Lisp machines?
The fiber itself needs to be infrastructure. Managed by a for profit company but one which does not sell the services. Instead, the fiber company sells access to a multi-tenant, open environment for all service providers, enabling consumers to choose which services they want to consume.

Note: expect the big ISPs to increase this anti-competitive lobbying as they are concerned by Starlink (and its competitors), new ISPs funded by rural broadband grants and dev such as CBRS and software defined radio.
It comes with its own set of problems, but deserts are not dealbreakers for agriculture as the GP suggests.
Everything you said is spot on and resonated with me personally
If you’re into this you may also like durex forth: https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth

A modern C64 variant, as well as CollapseOS which is a Forth based 8-bit OS: https://collapseos.org/
My understanding is that renewables were one of the problems. Wind makes up just under a quarter of the energy. And, depending on who you ask, they lost half to almost all of the energy from wind. That is a problem when the demand goes up.
It wasn't the only problem, but it was definitely part of the problem
> deliberately reflect away 90% of the sun's energy

They'll have that same efficiency with artificial lighting too… At least until our grow lights stop emitting light in the green spectrum (not something I expect to see anytime soon).
But in the case of university classes, you are in fact buying them, it ain't free. So the shopping cart actually does make sense even if its a terrible use of another use cases' interface.
> I would

From your comment, it looks like you have zero skin in the game here. Given that your comment is unproductive.
Yes from what I've read, there was a set of winterization recommendations made the last time this happened in 2011, but they weren't implemented...that seems like a pretty clear starting point for some regulation to me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/texas-was...
It wasn't the first time the Concorde had exploded tires. There already was several "close calls". The last one was for real, with the power of hindsight, they should have addressed the problem long before the deadly crash.

For me, the best illustration is the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in the history of aviation. Two Boeing 747 crashing into each other on the runway during takeoff.

Circumstances included fog, problems in the control tower, nonstandard phraseology, radio interference and overworked personnel.
From the article:

> My friends on the right tend to send blame towards green energy

Plus he's pretending he's not on the right.
Markets don't just magically work better.

Have a look at the harm that fossil fuels can do simply because the costs of these damages were not priced into the cost of fossil fuels.
This classic example is why some journalists need some real good education in Economics.

How many sq feet of land do you need to grow say 1000KG of wheat ? That number would widely vary. In Nevada that number would be really really huge compared to say fertile soil of Kansas. But with a vertical farming that number can be made much more uniform all across the geography. With a vertical farm someone in Nevada might put to use the vast empty land they have to produce wheat.

At the end of the day, success of vertical farming would come from such efficient usage of land and in my opinion even if authors narrow case of growing wheat using solar panels comes to fruition would still lead to more efficient use of land
The real security advice is: keep up to date with security patches. Staying up to date just because is not good advice.

Gentoo has a nice system, "Gentoo Linux Security Advisories", where you can periodically run a program called glsa-check which lets you know if you have packages installed that have security problems, what the problems are, and points to more info (like CVEs). You can even have it upgrade stuff on its own if you don't want to think about it. Something like this would be a nice feature for browser extensions.
With a Star Science Reporter’s Purging, Mob Culture at NYT Enters a New Phase
New leadership prompting a 5-10x increase in valuation? Dubious. And Robinhood didn't shut down trading at $40. They shut it down in the $300-$400 range. To be frank, anyone that thought this price was driven by people who genuinely thought gamestop was worth that much is just willful ignorance.

There was no good option for Robinhood. Keep trading open? Be complicit in a pump and dump. A pump and dump that may be legal by virtue of the fact that it's decentralized, but it's still a pump and dump and Robinhood probably doesn't want to take it's chances. Ban both buy and sales, and people lose money because they can't sell their positions. This is worse. Doing what they did was the best option. Not a good option, and one that still left a lot of people unhappy. Sometimes the best option is still a bad option, it's just the least-bad option.
HN doesn't implement hashtags.
Yes, please include the cost of nuclear power in the considerations.

(The joke here is that the true cost is undefined because we here in the US have no method to store the long-term hazardous waste it produces. Current cleanup costs for just the military reactor waste are estimated at $500B, for civilian reactors the costs are said to be higher.)
Plants use green light: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/green_light_is_it_important_fo...

In fact the idea of light frequency restriction is dying a death in LED grow lights, sun-like full spectrum with deep red and UV ranges have proven to be superior to specific ranges (blurple).

Light being a bottleneck isn't very meaningful as plant growth is adjusted by a bunch of levers, e.g. increase respiration and nutrients and more light energy can be utilized - obviously there's limiting factors in plant biology.
Propaganda operatives, whether commercial or military, seek what are called "placements". These are packaged kernels of message content to be repeated by media gatekeepers, who may be reporters, editorialists, authors, movie directors, computer game studios, or social-media "influencers".

Zero Dark Thirty and Argo were important movie placements by the spooks. Diamond, cigarette, car, beverage, and now phone product placements are a familiar movie phenomenon. It appears that there is significant budget available for funding movies and games that present CIA programs in a positive light, which also generate direct revenue.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic partisan battle. I know the GP contained a provocation, but part of the art of being a good commenter here is learning to resist the temptation to take the bait and respond generically/indignantly to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“I own what I create. That’s fair to me.”
Please drop me an email (you can find it on my profile here). SQLA is my go-to library for lots of stuff, I would love to help :)
Marc Morris [0] has a new book out in May entitled: The Anglo-Saxons: The Making of England: 410-1066 [1]

I'm not a history nerd, but his Norman Conquest book [2] almost turned me. It's more fun than most novels.

For a non-academic approach, written by a academic, I wouldn't look anywhere else. And while you're waiting, read Norman Conquest. It's brilliant.

[0] https://twitter.com/longshanks1307
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52025940-the-anglo-saxon...
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13065400-the-norman-conq...
It's such an important point that's the core value proposition of vertical farming. Arable.land is unlikely to keep up with the combination of population growth and climate change. That's the whole point of the exercise! Solving that problem!
Ask HN: How to survey local devs/engineers/makers?
I’ve recently moved to a progressive, yet small community. I haven’t yet built a social network (haven’t been feeling social myself) but am interested to know what kinds of skills local devs have (and if there are many).

I was planning on having a basic landing page accessed by QR code on a poster on the local noticeboard. With a short survey asking about skills, exciting upcoming technologies, current projects, etc.

The results of the survey will be open for the community to view, and I won’t be collecting any personal data.

Do you think this would be an effective way for me (and the rest of the community) to learn about the kinds of skills there are locally, and also learn about interesting companies, technologies, etc?
>"Major" refers to the same things you mentioned (physics, math, EE, etc.), it's not any different in the US.

It is, if the UK doesn't have minors but only majors (e.g. you determine from the start what you'll be studing).
Remember, hypocrisy is very much a strategy of the Republicans. They'll hoot and holler about "fiscal responsibility" as they rack up record deficits without batting an eye, and that's just one of many examples. Any slogan of theirs is only relevant until it becomes inconvenient to them, at which point they just drop it and say "When did we ever say that?" If challenged, it's the old walkback, like describing their presence at the coup attempt, storming the Capitol, as "We were just there to witness history."

They're basically using the Nazi playbook, as described by Jean-Paul Sartre:

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Fukushima ended with very little contamination over land due to the prevailing weather at the time. But if winds and rain hadn't cooperated as nicely, things would have been more serious. So I wouldn't say evacuations were pointless. However, keeping the area off limits for as long as they did was.
You know they could winterize the pipes and still not connect to the other grids.
Whenever you find a blog called something like "Notes on Liberty" and it isn't written by Frederick Douglas you know it's just going to be a libertarian trash fire, and that's why this kind of statement passes as axiomatic. There are far too many examples of excellently-run government services to just let this slide. My favorites on the national level: air traffic control, and weather forecasting.
> I sincerely hope this post has been written ironically.

I'm sorry if it came as hurtful or mean. This was not the goal. I just wanted to share how it works, and why it's done, in the hope it could help others.

> It may make sense but I really don't want to live in this world.

Neither do I - which is why I'm mostly retired, an anomaly at my age, made possible thanks to crypto.

In the early 2010s I was reading a lot of things on HN that I felt were very wrong: mostly people describing the world as they wish was, but not as it really is. I found out the truth by myself.

In the process, I lost a few years not entering the crypto market early enough (my fault for trusting the HN zeitgeist) and I lost a bit of my soul (mostly my trust in people).

Please do not make the same mistakes I did. Don't buy the lies, instead look at the world honestly and without sorrow, so you can change it for the better.
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars
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Griddy customers were not exempt from blackouts. You lost power if you were in an "expendable" part of the grid, regardless of provider.
Speaking of competitors and alternatives to this. I've used a version of my own for years, and have recently started working on a FOSS password generator and manager, called SrsPass.

Would love feedback on it, and it has an open-spec so you don't need to dig into the code itself to at least get a high-level overview of how it works, and at same time give anyone else the power to reimplement the spec:

https://app.srspass.com for the app available as PWA

https://docs.srspass.com/tech/ for a tech overview

I have received complaints about the current unskippable setup process being somewhat cumbersome, and one of the things on the top of the list to improve that experience is allowing a quick setup, essentially postponement of saving the backup phrase to a later time, albeit I'm deliberating a safe implementation of it.
How would that differ from simply gradually shifting to renewables?
People rob and murder people for all sorts of reasons. But drug addicts have to commit fewer crimes if their drugs are cheap and easy to get.

And legal drugs have known potencies, and aren’t mixed with other more addictive drugs.

Don’t compare decriminalization to legalization, they are entire different things. Decriminalization still suffers from higher addiction and death rates because selling the drugs is still illegal.
I was curious on this and did some googling.

One thing that I found per a paper from 2008 (https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/performance-persistence-in-entrep...):

"All else equal, a venture-capital-backed entrepreneur who starts a company that goes public has a 30 percent chance of succeeding in his or her next venture. First-time entrepreneurs, on the other hand, have only an 18 percent chance of succeeding, and entrepreneurs who previously failed have a 20 percent chance of succeeding."

I remember reading something that had a collection of anecdata indicating that b2b success seemed to be repeatable but b2c did not.

Would love to see what other research data is out there.
I know at least 1 friend doing this. Of course you don't tell the company know you are doing this. It require good time management for sure. The risk are low.
Free-market capitalism almost always leads to monopolies. That’s the whole game. Not really competitive is it?
You are always going to have crazy extremists on both sides: be it Trump-truthers or socialist “China did nothing wrong in the last 50 years and Venezuela is good for poor people” leftists.

Majority of people tend to be more centrist, but that doesn’t get as many clicks / ad dollars.
On the homes, offices, and industrial parks surrounding the vertical farms as well.
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I think aidungeon would be very similar to a game if it remembered the past sentences that the player and the AI have input so far. So far, it seems to create a new context from scratch for each and every sentence from the player.
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> our line engineers were almost always busy

I should hope so, otherwise you've hired too many line engineers. :) I think an interesting metric would be how many line engineers you had, and how much they cost.
I've banned this account, not because of whatever your political views are, but because you're breaking the site guidelines egregiously. Please don't create accounts to do that on HN. We're trying for something different here.

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Looks pretty rad. Does it (or will it) integrate with Vidyard?