skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video is not a complete story.

I suggest you read the Wired article that came out a few days ago, as it addresses a lot of the questions being asked here.

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...

It should be worth noting that the story in this video and the Wired article appears to have been initiated by the creators of the Kytch.
Ag already uses way fewer workers than they did in the past. There are still some migrant workers but not nearly the number that there were 20 - 40 years ago.
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There are only 7 black billionaires in the US. There is a reason you chose the experience of 7 people out of 40MM.
I feel for her struggle, but this is disinformation.

She starts with the false claim that the Chernobyl disaster "killed hundreds of thousands of people". UNSCEAR (the IPCC of radiation) puts the death toll at 50 people, + 6000 thyroid cancers for those who were children at the time (due to radioactive iodine sticking on the thyroid) [1]. This is why folks who live near a nuclear power plant are given iodine pills: to saturate the thyroid so it doesn't use the radioactive one. This mostly useful for children.

She then attributes her defects on mutations originated from radionuclides induced DNA damage. Unfortunately there is no way to verify that claim, since there is no discernible health effect under 100mSv/year, which her parents definitely were not exposed to since they were in England.

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
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There's nothing wrong with what Neo4J is doing here and they aren't fighting the GPL/AGPL. ONgDB forked it, with was fine, but they just couldn't resist trying to give the finger to Neo4J when they did it. In doing that they used Neo4J trademarks and made false or misleading statements and shouldn't be surprised that Neo4J would take issue with that. They're required to enforce their trademarks.

They should have just forked it, changed the names which it looks like that's what they're doing going forward.
Robots will eventually kill bugs too.

Once they get small enough, homes will one day have insect-sized robots in the walls preventing termite and other insect infestations. But maybe without lasers.
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Oh, don't worry. This is way behind AI weaponry tech.

Err... that's probably not what you wanted to hear, though.
To me that message implied weed recognition and marking with drones followed by destruction with the cube.
The current way is to spray a broadbase weed killer. From a decent sized tractor, usually with some sort of GPS guided map.
Those complex machines are often bought by corporate and require lots of hand-holding (I've seen the employees at Kwik Trip cleaning theirs multiple times which must mean it takes a decent amount of time to do, or I'd rarely see it).

If the sales are mediocre it becomes a vending machine that requires work and the local management won't bother as it's not critical for the business - just like the ice cream machine isn't critical for McDonalds but I guarantee if they had the same problem with the soda machine they'd fix it somehow.
Haha. I remember an interview of Eric Schmidt by Stephen Colbert. Stephen asks a great question in the interview.

Stephen : So the goal of Google is "not be evil"

Eric : Yes. Not be evil.

Stephen : How low would the stock price have to go for your to start being evil? (or a similar question to that effect)
> 4-5x the cost of Netflix and Amazon Prime, and both are commercial-free

Dont you get annoying pre-roll commercials for other amazon programs? I do and its driving me insane. Any way to turn them off?
From what I've read, this technology is still very far away from practical deployment and the Intellectual Ventures company is notoriously scummy, greedy, and lawsuit happy. They won't let anyone else work on this so no one else is making progress.
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From my understanding, police could scan phone A, if phone A had the malicious code then the scanner is infected, now when scanning phone B the results are invalid, it could always show a "All OK" message or it could plant evidence. There was a news on the first page a few days ago where many postal workers were put in jail because of a software bug - so we know for sure if a computer says X the "experts" will confirm it.

The first thing this Celerbrite dudes need to do is to guarantee that the device gets a full reset before each use.

We as society we need to force our police and government to use only open source software, otherwise we don't know what backdoors or shit this guys put in, we could evaluate the code and see if we are wrongfully convicted by a shitty algorithm and transparency would also prevent (hopefully) people selling some open source software with a logo and a python script for milions.
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I'm a little surprised to learn that they use normal styluses instead of reading the grooves optically.
Thanks to whoever brought up that 'wiby' search engine, I'd never heard of it.

The shittiness of google search has made me think about the value of a curated search engine, although everyone probably needs their own version. Maybe 'engines'. It would be cool to have one that looked exclusively at bonafide discussion forums generally, another could look at the library contained in libgen or sci-hub.

Maybe somebody has done a search that works the opposite way, something that makes use of google but blocks all the cruft.

No doubt it couldn't be too successful since the gaming would begin immediately.
>Apple’s $430 billion in contributions to the US economy include direct spend with American suppliers, data center investments, capital expenditures in the US, and other domestic spend — including dozens of Apple TV+ productions across 20 states, creating thousands of jobs and supporting the creative industry.

I dont like how Apple spin this as investment in the headline, when it is clearly contribution. If you buy something at Walmart, or any of your daily needs, is that an investment in US?

And I dont know how that $430B is calculated.

Direct Spend with American Suppliers are mostly Corning for Front Glasses, Qualcomm for Modem and Patents. These two alone is close to $50B in five years.

Even if Apple spend $10B on Datacenter and $10B on Apple TV ( They dont ), Likely including all their employees salary, Rent for Apple Retail, basically every single dollar spend within US. The numbers still doesn't add up.

It reads to me Apple is doing their PR pieces on their contribution to US because Congress is now looking at them as enemies.
Allrecipes is a worthless time sync. The vast majority of recipes on that site are written by amateurs and just not good. It's not worth sifting through recipes on there to find a good one because the odds are so low.
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Amazon is the worst for those. Netflix hasn't tried it yet, as far as I've noticed.
Working example needed.
How is this ignoring the difference? The statements 'I do not have any sheep' and 'I have 0 sheep' are synonymous; neither statement ignores the other.
Which Apple TV? I have 1 1st gen TVOS box and 3 4K TVOS boxes. YouTube works on all of them.
Laser hair removal meets farming.
True but it's just not as cool as all the dystopian films made us think it would be
In my region of the US, sports were literally subsidized by the cable bill. You paid an extra itemized fee for the privilege of regional sports programming even if you never turned your TV on. This is part of why I ended up going full internet, but due to bundling discounts the savings were not actually that impressive.

I wonder if we'll get a similar institution demanding something from our ISP bills. You can see the slow decline of ESPN[0] as it gets eaten by the internet, and I'm curious what'll happen as the money pie in that vertical decreases and how it affects professional leagues.

[0] https://nextlevel.finance/updated-espn-subscribers-and-espn-...
I see this perspective somewhat in reverse. I watch TV for the content, not how nice the remote is or how solid the box feels when I hook up the HDMI connection.

Granted, there are some objective measurements between different devices, such as Dolby support and format support, but that's typically for the most advanced consumers of content - not the vast majority of people who just want to watch certain content.
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Probbably due to the memory of the deaths of millions of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

You get bit by a viper in the bathroom and your going to avoid that bathroom for a while.
PlantUML is great but it renders Statecharts in a non-obvious manner.
I'm pretty confident Minecraft, Roblox, and Dreams are not following Casey's practices.
There is no sugarcoating it, Mars is a hostile environment and to claim otherwise would simply be lying. Between the radiation, temperature, microdust and more, inhabiting Mars will be very hard. Kurzgesagt has a great video outlining many of the challenges [0]. Regardless of how meticulously you prepare, mistakes on Mars will lead to death and it's good to be honest and upfront about it.

[0] https://youtu.be/uqKGREZs6-w
> since image recognition is something computers can do on par with humans

No way. Computer image recognition is nowhere close to human recognition in real-world contexts. Still full of errors and bugs.
Don't forget 4. doing a good PR so that a Dem-controlled Congress doesn't push for repatriation of corporate cash reserves kept in tax havens.
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The wild boars eat moss growing on trees, which is a tremendous filter for particles.

A reasonable cleanup process might be, harvest tree moss and reduce it to radioactive elements. Or just harvest the boars I guess?
Learning phylogenetic trees as hyperbolic point configurations
Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
I kind of hate the way Apple phrases their business investments like they're performing some great charitable act. Also, I'll wait for an external audit of whether they're paying all the relevant local taxes before I would consider giving them credit for these "investments" in local infrastructure they're making.
I would definitely be interested in giving it another try, especially with any available patches. Didn't realize that was out there, thanks!
I'm a bit surprised about the use of flowcharts, specifically. Do they really add much over just writing down the same content in pseudocode notation?

From a theory-focused POV, flowcharts are supposed to be essentially complementary to dataflow diagrams. But the latter are often more useful for practical concerns.
I don't get why all this ag tech has to be autonomous. Would it not also make sense as a trailer or header for a tractor?
we don't have enough tech and economy to make our way of life more sustainable? Au contraire, we simply lack the political willpower.
Would love to see your response to Sandofsky here.
Most important UML diagram as per my experience are StateCharts, even more than Sequence Diagrams, it can indicate behaviour, including time outs, and possibly exceptional circumstances.
I mainly use diagrams in documentation and not in specification or development (although tools I am learning to use, such as Alloy [0], for specifications do generate diagrams of the state).

In documentation I typically use a mix of ditaa[1], mermaid[2], and graphviz[3]. I used ditaa for architecture diagrams, a mix of sequence, flow chart, and ER diagrams in mermaid to explain protocols or interactions; and I use graphviz usually for datastructures or dependencies, etc.

[0] https://alloytools.org

[1] https://ditaa.sourceforge.net

[2] https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

[3] https://graphviz.org/
I think we have collective amnesia around just how bad "traditional cable" is/was (in no particular order):

1. Tons of ads

2. Ads with terrible content

3. Expensive

4. Piecemeal content (having to pay for multiple packages to get all the programs you're interested in, some options being nearly mutually exclusive)

5. You could either watch live at a time you didn't choose, record (hassle), or use a pretty terrible "on demand" UI (which may also only have the last 3 episodes or other weird restrictions)

6. Bad content

I've used Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, CBS All Access, HBO Max, and Disney Plus.

None of them have issues 1 or 2. The "previews" can get more ad like than I'd want, but no where near cable. Huge win for streaming in my book.

Combined they are about on par with the cost of cable, though I rarely have all of them subscribed at once and could easily cut back to a much cheaper combo (so, draw on issue 3, but possible win for streaming).

Issue 4 is still an issue (and I can't really imagine it not being an issue given how for profit business works).

Issue 5 is a win for streaming. Better UIs, better content strategies, etc.

Issue 6 is subjective so I'll leave that to the reader
Don't worry. The robots can use machine guns like the rest of us.
To give a bit of context and relativize:

> Between September 2012 and August 2013, 297 out of 752 boars exceeded legal limits of radiation -- particularly the hazardous isotope Caesium 137, which has a 30-year half-life and decays slowly. But to give an idea of how strict the regulations really are, experts say that a person would have to eat 13 kilograms of contaminated meat to get the same low-level radioactive effects of being on a transatlantic flight.

Quote from this article from 2014: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chernobyl-disaster-leaves....
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The killer feature of services like Netflix is not really the "over the internet" part, it's the "watch any show on demand" and "massive library so you can start watching from S1E1, if you want to". Streaming live TV services fail at both of these.

I think being over the internet is the killer feature. Cable companies had on demand for a decade before netflix streaming, being over the internet meant you were not locked into a monopoly or duopoly.

That said, I agree it seems old-timey and the wrong way of doing it.
$430B seems like more than you'd need for a good PR stunt.
Right, and also - did they really "commit", at least in the "pledge" or "binding promise" sense of the word? I think "commit" might be too strong of a word. Maybe "plans to" would be better.

They can announce this now and change their mind as they please, right? I'm not sure about Apple's track record on things like this, they may be good, but they could just slowly pull or decrease funding, and we probably won't even hear about it in the future, or am I missing something?
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I'd push back on that a little bit. I grew up on a farm that's still operating today, and it truly is difficult to find people to work those jobs. The farm pays just as well as any other job in my rural hometown, so from my experience, it seems to be more of an issue with the work itself. The hours are longer, and work is more sporadic/seasonal. When harvest rolls around, farmers need to get the crop out of the ground ASAP. That means 10-14 hour days for 4 weeks straight, otherwise, you'll lose product. It can be physically demanding and monotonous work.

But it's also incredibly fulfilling work, and it's a great example of a community-driven effort to accomplish something very important: providing food.

So I think it falls into a similar category of "college is over-emphasized and we have a dwindling supply of trades-workers". While in school in a rural farm town, I never once heard anyone say "what about farming?" when discussing future career choices. It's not marketed as an attractive option. Maybe it's as simple as "farmers have the work-life balance of an emergency room doctor while making ~1/6th" (source: Dad is the farmer, Brother-in-law is the doctor)

Anyway, it's a problem I think about a lot. I didn't get into farming, but in many ways I wish I had, because it's a highly undervalued skill with a very rewarding outcome: you feed communities. How do we change the narrative? Do we need policy changes? Continued technological advancement? A push to educate the next generation of farmers within schools? I'm not sure, but I don't think it's always as simple as saying "it doesn't pay enough". That _is_ an issue, but it's not the only issue.
A player-driven economy isn’t about the money. It’s about having every way to play the game serve a role in the ecosystem. It’s about all the wonderful and weird ways we choose to live and play, and how we find out that our silly hobbies are vital necessities to someone else.
What's so surprising about the fact that someone would find that immoral due to the potential to mislead? I would find it immoral, as well.
There's still a lot that is obscured. For example, most states restrict complaint information against judges to the point that even if it contains exculpatory evidence they are still allowed to keep it secret. The reason they give for keeping it secret is to maintain the integrity and public trust. Transparency only threatens that objective if the system is inappropriately dealing with the complaints.
I thought there was something in the early 2000s that used a laser (an array of them, actually) to map the grooves on a vinyl (or wax) record with perfect precision that allowed for the virtual audio processing of the record in higher quality than any physical stylus or pre-amp system could deliver. (There was also the side-benefit that the reading process didn't involve physical wear on the record or cylinder to optically record the grooves.)

Also, not being a vinyl expert, I would like to learn more about the different types of stylus and how that affects playback... does anyone have any links?
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- Entity-Relationship Diagrams

- Sequence Diagrams

- State Diagrams

- Activity Diagrams

I use PlantUML to render all these, with the added benefit of being able to produce it programatically.
I understand this perspective. To me your example clearly points out where neoliberalism has its limits. What strikes me is how linear this thinking is. In real life we need to receive a mixture of good and bad examples to truly advance our experience, whereas this model seems like it would be a stream of mini pseudo-advancements packaged in transactional wrapping to maximize creator's benefit. Saying that, I am also aware that many existing ways of monetization already work like that.

I think existing internet contains both the commercial and benevolent 'free, no strings attached' models and to me it strikes a good balance.
Pretty sure the difference of opinion between the last two comments comes down to differing understandings of the word 'trust', and very different time scales.
I really don't know much about this, but do people often do CAD in non-Euclidean geometries?

Outside of art and black holes and stuff, of course.
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You know, the feeling of surprise is the most important feeling there is. It’s a clue that somewhere in your network of facts about the world, something doesn’t fit.

Without surprise, you cannot learn anything new. Without surprise there is no change. If you are never surprised then you are stagnating.

I welcome surprise. I enjoy it. It means that tomorrow I will be smarter than I was yesterday.

What happens to a group of people when someone gets mocked or downvoted for being surprised about something? What happens in a school where you punish kids for speaking up in class with the wrong answer? Nobody speaks up. Nobody takes the risk. Everyone strives to be the same- same ideas, same stupidity. Boring. Give me surprise any day over that.

Don’t fucking downvote me for saying I was surprised. That’s how a community dies.

It must be wonderful for those of you who already know everything. But for those of us who don’t, and prefer to try to learn, don’t try to rob us of the joy of being surprised.
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> and you lose control over where you yield

you don't [1]

[1] https://www.gevent.org/api/gevent.html#gevent.sleep
The world is finally flat (again)
No, the price increase will be much smaller than the wage increase because the wage increase only goes to the fraction of the population that does the work while the price increase applies to the entire population.
Another "gotcha" with PG notify is that in PG the payload cannot be more than 8kb long. If the UPDATE query changes thousands of rows, it's quite easy to end up with a generated text longer than 8000bytes. I'm not sure if this error raised by NOTIFY would block the UPDATE from executing, but would be worth testing.
The next step will hopefully be something on a rail, as I don't apreciate diesel either :-)
The future needs a big kiss
That's a standard use of the term "investment" in the macroeconomic sense of exchanging money to get people to do work so they can pay other people to do work for them.

Ita because paying US people for that work is better for the personal development of (otherwise underemployed) US people than paying non-US people.
It's worth noting that the Internet Archive are always on the lookout for more records to digitize, so if you (or someone you know) has a collection and wants to see them go to a good home where they'll be preserved, you can donate them [1] to the Internet Archive (they also take 33/45rpm records, books, CDs, etc...).

(I'm not affiliated with the Internet Archive)

[1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...
Some of the diagrams are not viable to draw by hand. Statecharts for eg, derives much of their expressivity from the ability to nest them without limit. Such nested Statecharts require a system which can collapse/expand nested levels, and hand drawn diagrams cannot do that.
Bill Gates was already involved in a startup to radar identify and kill mosquitos with lasers . . . guess it did not go well.
Thank you. The Gamma radiation was starting to glow.