skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty happy in my current job, but this looks extremely tempting (as a EE that does more with power grid optimization). Although the optimization I do is more in dealing with LP & MIP models vs the control theory stuff I did in college.

I've recently started getting into gardening and have long thought that greenhouses and hydroponics with lots of sensors would be the way forward for the world's growing population. Is the scaling really as easy as I've heard claimed? It would seem that water use reduction and controlling pests (no need for pesticides) would be a big boon. Also, having these farms closer to population centers should help with supply chain logistics and maybe even allow y'all to pick the produce at a later time rather than before when it's ready.

Not sure if you're willing to answer here, but what does the tech stack look like from both the controls engineering (Ex: Matlab or Labview?) and data science side (Ex: Python, R, Matlab...etc)? Is the business model to make turn key greenhouses? How do you deal with the fact that every farm would be different? I imagine it is a bit like substation design firms that have a base design that just needs to be tweaked for the exact needs of the client.

Best of luck on your mission. Again, this looks interesting and beneficial for the planet.
Implying that it wouldn't? It's HN all the way down.
Hi. Thanks for starting this thread. I am a backend engineer so I need help on frontend, specifically, with CSS quirks.

Some projects I am working on
0) A chrome extension which shows website metadata like "no ads, cookie popup, ecommerce site, indie site, news website" etc when you search on the web. This will be useful to weed out SEO spam.

1) An imgur for all software screenshots, starting with github.

2) A website for interview related coding feedback. Companies often do not give this feedback but candidates desperately need it.

3) A new blog/RSS reader that shows deeper insights on what you are reading. Uses lots of NLP to weed out blog spam.

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It’s a little worse now in terms of selective pressures, but, at least hospitals aren’t overflowing currently.
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> is this April fools?

No. Why would it be? Coinbase has been preparing to go public for some time now.
Energy is still somewhat cheap relative to the value of the hardware, so there's been no incentive to optimize for energy usage. This won't change until there's mass production and the hardware is ubiquitous.

You might be right though, but like I said I don't think PoW is necessarily the final state.
The 80-90% numbers are for symptomatic Covid. The protection against hospitalization/death seems to be close to 100%, which is fantastic news.
What's interesting here is that the exception proves the rule.

V is actually the only letter in English that is never silent.

Most other letters also have various possible renderings into pronunciation, especially the vowels—"i" for instance can end up being at least 5 different vowel sounds and also some consonant sounds.

So yes. As I pointed out, English is extremely irregular orthographically, in stark contrast to languages like German, French, or Italian, all of which have extremely reliable and simple pronunciation rules.
Obvious PR stunt. Hope they cash out soon.
If war were subject to referendum, only autocracies would wage war. Such a world is not worth living in.
But I don't think your problems with FE Dev/TypeScript are "TypeScript" problems so much as they're problems around the tooling you're using with `node`.

And I agree. Unless it works out of the box, it's a half-day of profanity at least.

But writing a command-line tool in TypeScript doesn't require any of that. The comment focused on FE development with Next.js -- I have no experience with that, but a simple React-based solution using `create-react-app` works out-of-the-box for a lot of things[0]. I will say, it does sometimes feel like everything TypeScript gets right is made up for by everything "all of the bundlers/tooling around it" screws up, but it's gotten monumentally better. You're always going to be weighing pain points against eachother, and folks that do front-end web development all day long are going to find the problems they routinely encounter to be "simple", possibly even "intuitive" based on how the rest of the ecosystem works.

From my perspective -- partly on the inside, partly on the outside -- I seem to have to muck around with the equivalent of "build scripts" about as often as I used to (not) enjoy in the C/C++-land. But dammit-all if "time to completely working" in TypeScript isn't always twice as quick. TypeScript, configured correctly, catches so many run-time issues at compile-time[1]. For me, the distance between "it runs" and "it runs correctly" is often shorter in TypeScript despite it not being my primary language.

[0] To be sure, it's hard for me to say `create-react-app` without the obligatory `fscking` inserted... it's got many problems, but at least half the time it's an implementation detail.

[1] Static-type-checking time?
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Missed opportunity to call them "digital delicacies".
> I am not understanding your point here.

I know.

> Again, back to my original question, please propose alternate metrics

That’s not actually necessary in order to understand what I’m saying. In fact it would be a distraction.
Thanks! We built it custom because we needed some specific interactions. You can find the code here: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/tree/release/app/cli...
Aren't swans just geese in nicer clothes?
I was under the impression that the OS did only track time in seconds since the epoch, and whenever you see something else it's just the software translating for human convenience. If that's the case, then it this doesn't really make sense; humans will want something friendlier than epoch time on Mars, too.
The idea of making the Internet Archive decentralized is a very good one. It would be a real tragedy if the IA burned down like the Library of Alexandria did. I know Archive Team/Jason Scott attempted this a few years back with the IA.bak project but it seems like that died, so I hope this time turns out better.

That said, I don't actually understand how cryptocurrency or blockchains help with distributed file storage. Are these "filecoins" actually useful for anything, like incentivizing people to make copies of files? I'm by default skeptical when I hear about cryptocurrencies because the majority of ICOs seem to be get-rich-schemes riding off the Bitcoin buzzwave that then fizzle out over time.
I find it hilarious how Play Store is slowly banning permissions (some justified, some not) in regards to 'privacy', yet the internet permission is still classified as a low dangerous permission [0], which means that when you install an app, this permission is not even shown. (And you can't even turn it off!)

[0] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...
An Open Letter to My Younger Self
Life after leaving an abusive relationship
Thank you. As it so happens, I am aware that when a HNer requests an answer like this they are fully aware of two things:

* They can stay righteous knowing that the mob that they are the vanguard of will apply suppressive pressure on their behalf

* They can disclaim responsibility of knowledge of the mob

* The fellow members of the mob will post answers "on behalf of" the side they oppose which will strawman those positions

Interestingly, many HNers will disingenuously ask "for feedback" or "an honest discussion" knowing full well about this phenomenon.

Therefore, I'm not upset by their reaction because I was braced for it. My position is logically sound. Objections come from different moral foundations and different circumstances, not from logical failure. And I can accept that you can also have an opposing logically sound conclusion rising from different axioms since our axioms are beyond our Aumann Agreement Horizon.
PHP's documentation is still excellent and is still available at the same place it was 20 years ago: Typing php.net/FUNCNAME in the address bar gives the documentation for FUNCNAME(). I'm glad my current work is only about 1% PHP and not the 100% it used to be, but whenever I need to edit one of those PHP scripts we still have around, I know how to get by, even though I'm seriously rusty.
If you're not locking the counter whilst reading, incrementing, applying, and updating it, what you're eventually getting ... isn't really consistency.

"A widely shared myth" would be more accurate.
It was illegal for farmers to grow wheat above a certain amount... on their own land... to feed their own animals...

The wheat limits already assumed that farmers would feed their own animals first and then sell the remainder on the open market. The goal was to prevent the price of wheat from dropping too low by limiting the amount available for non-feed purposes. However, by doing the opposite, selling up to the limit and then growing "extra" to feed his own animals, Filburn was deliberately contravening the wheat restrictions. If he had succeeded in challenging the law, everyone would have done the same, the supply of wheat would have skyrocketed, and the price of wheat would have dropped through the floor, financially ruining Filburn and thousands of other farmers.

The wheat restrictions worked for the purpose they were intended: they eliminated the swings in wheat prices during a time of economic crisis, allowing the price (and the market) to stabilize. It worked so well that the these restrictions were included in successor laws and are still part of U.S. agricultural law today.
Credit where credit is due. It was developed by BioNtech and Pfizer helped with trial and distribution. Calling it Pfizer vaccine because it is American or just because it is bigger is such a shame. Give credit to the small company that developed it no matter what country it is from.
If the company was from the US, there would’ve been hundreds of fluff pieces and heroism on display writing up the company and the name would be known long and wide.
As far I know they more or less stop at detecting if the device has been jailbroken or not and if it has, refusing to function.
I prefer a more judgmental-looking Krebs but I like the design.
This is my understanding as well; one of the reasons why China has such a high percentage of that market isn't because no one else can, but rather that they don't want to. The environmental damage is often horrendous [1][2] so everyone that can outsources it. I believe there's also been a lot of work on reducing or replacing relience on those materials in quite a few areas, as I believe a parent comment mentioned.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...
Despite what Crypto Bros say, all they really want is to get filthy rich with real money.
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Data scientist with 15 years experience - Before people even knew to call themselves "data scientists".
I'm an experienced data scientist who is looking for new projects to take on. My usual consultancy has taken on a massive healthcare project which I'm not able to participate in as I'm Canadian. So I'm out looking for projects myself.

My past projects have included things like wound identification, AR repayment prediction, mechanical systems failure prediction, and chat agents.

I'm currently very interested in ML safety/security. This is a Greenfield area that no one is taking seriously at the moment. I expect it to be extremely important in the near future.

My contact details are in the profile if you're looking for someone to join your team, or if you want to collaborate on a project.
And I'm not sure that ~3% counts as “lots” in any event. Also, that 3% includes people who may have overstayed a work authorization (although that's probably a small enough fraction of the total to ignore).
You have friends in Myanmar and now know they’ve lost wireless internet.

Is there a fast way to help them recover some functionality?
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What we’re building:
Consumer and merchant focused ordering solutions for restaurants and pubs. We’ve built mobile ordering and payment apps and a number of React based webapps enabling customers to order and pay and merchants to sign up, get setup and manage orders.

Who we’re looking for:
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The news websites that entered the top running for headlines on facebook are all really bad. Just a lot of low quality, shady headlines. Not bored panda bad but pretty close.
Writable file systems are needed for things that are stateful but inappropriate otherwise.
I've discovered that the most fun way to play is by turning industries off and sending only mail/passengers. Industries give far too many opportinities to earn big, but towns are small, and grow only when you drive people around, eventually growing to extraordinary sizes. (best trick is to serve the whole town with just one station, made by sprawling an airport with bus-truck stations and extending it to cover as much town area as possible.
So, I worked at a major American university that (years back) had to remove SSN from all of their databases; it was a major project. The exceptions were related to cases where they get something monetary (e.g. cash scholarship, student jobs, etc.) that requires reporting that income to the federal government, which wants the SSN.

Generally, it is actually LESS common to require SSN now than 20 years ago; when I was an undergrad, exam grades would get posted by SSN on a public bulletin board (the idea being you could find your own, but you wouldn't know anyone else's SSN to look up their grade). So SSN was considered less sensitive than your grade on a single ordinary exam.
If you want something simpler and use podman you can try `podc` [1] which compiles a pod yaml spec into a single executable shell script with a nice managagement CLI api to it.

[1] https://github.com/simplenetes-io/podc
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Thank you!
Why we need starlink.
My perspective is that it’s a useful idea for abstraction — which combined with category theory’s ability for composition is cool beans, at least in computer science.

The square in a category diagram is a legit object — and we can have type theories with the same features.

That’s useful for computational equivalence (eg, spec matches implementation) and path bundling to prevent case explosion.

About what you’d expect from adding homotopies to type theory.
You're also getting immunity to variants that you haven't caught. Vaccines have been proven to confer some immunity, and less dire infections to those who do get it. Having previously caught it doesn't seem to, especially the Brazillian variant.
Some (many?) countries have big subsidies on industrial electricity use and high taxes for other uses.
Alien technology
I'm almost certain it's a joke, the question is for how much longer? The crypto interoperability issues are amusing, thiugh I do seriously wonder how you deal with anything from a 10 to 40 minute round trip time.
Aw, it doesn't show a button for me...
The negative side-effects of lockdowns is so grossly under-represented in discussions, especially of those in power. Depression, joblessness, separation of families, separation of bi-national couples, suicides, financial stress, hunger, a collapsing economy.. These things need to be taken seriously.

Many politicians have been acting like these things don't exist while ordering more and more stringent lockdowns, giving passing condolences at best, and it borders on negligence. There needs to be a balance. Yes, avoiding the chance of death matters for you and those around you, but what is it worth if you're miserably suicidal and have lost hope as a result of it?

I know this has been said before, but I feel the need to keep saying it, as it's still a problem to this day.
Startup Performance Improvements
I knew these things, but I guess it is definitely not common knowledge.
'polarization' only began in the nineties?

Good lord, please do not google WWII
For a prime to be delicate as per the definition given, all numbers with "levhensthein distance" 1 must be composite. This puts a lot of conditions on what the prime can be, for p = a_0 + a_1 b + a_2 b^2 + ... + a_n b^n, if p is delicate then (p - a_0), (p - a_0 + 1), ..., (p - a_0 + b - 1) must all be composite, and so must be (p - b a_1), ..., (p - b a_1 + b (b-1)), and so forth.

This is equivalent to proving that certain slices of some arithmetic successions contain no primes. Not a professional mathematician and I didn't read the paper, but I suspect this is related to prime gaps works by Tao, who is cited in the article.
You vote by talking to decision makers in that case.
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> Coinbase anticipates that its Class A common stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “COIN” on April 14, 2021.
NY Post usually has solid content that matches the assumption taken by the headline. Can't say that for most of the major "news" domains.
Computational Tool for Materials Physics Growing in Popularity
Perfect rebuttal to those saying the “store of value” is a pivot after it failed as digital cash. (And maybe it hasn’t failed yet)
Wasn't this the coin that was subject to a 51% attack only last month. It's a classic pump and dump shitcoin.
Actually, in the US, sometimes demolition derby cars run in reverse, because they get to protect the radiators that way.
I laughed out loud listening to the recording. It's so grating! But very fun
"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time, now across two planets!" :)
I fully believe the CDC is optimizing for the sociological aspects rather than biological aspects with respect to mask-wearing.

I'll do it for many more months, because the sociology aspect is valid.