skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is money in agriculture, but it's not the same sort of money that tech people are used to. Big tech thrives on dumb money - people are willing to make bets on unproven tech in the hopes that it will either make their lives easier or make them look like they are "innovating" to their customers or their bosses.

the medium-scale farms (~10-20 permanent staff + labourers) i have experience with will have no problem making 6-figure purchases if they can do the math and see that the capital investment will pay off in a reasonable amount of time. the money is there, it's just not gambled. there's no value for a farmer in the appearance of innovation.
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The Natural History, Pathobiology, and Clinical Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2
Thank you for writing it! It was a pleasure to read and I appreciate you contributing to the community.
The African slave trade stole less human time than the Federal Reserve ponzi.
Come on man, you don't need to be this rude about a disagreement. You didn't even attempt to contest the primary claim, that farmers aren't going to flock like lemmings to a product that sells safety as its primary benefit.

'Dangerous' is contextual...if the risks of a task can be mitigated with some basic safety process, is it still dangerous? Getting into a grain bin is like rock climbing...go commando and you're playing with death, go in with the right process and gear and you'll be fine. Is it still 'dangerous' then?
By writing this I'll contradict what I'm going to say, but, generally, not applying to this thread, I observed that many times people spend their precious time to write a reply instead of using it to better understand TFA.
The article you linked relies on low-precision guessing that only reduces the entropy in the system, but doesn't eliminate it. No reasonable jury would consider their 33 bits to be "uniquely identifiable".
This is called the hedonic treadmill, and is why we don't have a more leisurely lifestyle in general.

John Maynard Keynes famously predicted something like a 10-20 hour work week by the year 2000. You can actually have that today... if you are willing to live at the standard of living of someone in the 1930s.

That would mean a much smaller house, much less technology, a very cheap car or public transit, vanilla food, only a few suits of clothes, and bare bones health care.

Instead we tend to use our gains to get more space (houses today outside dense cities are huge), more tech, more education, better health care, designer hipster food, more entertainment, and so on.
How are abstraction and persuasion "equal and opposite"? They seem to be completely orthogonal activities.
Physicists measure the gravitational force between the smallest masses yet
I was going to eventually write a blog post on this that kinda focused on some of the tools to use and how to configure things to be more linux like, but I never got around to it. Some tools of note though to look into are:
- Karabiner-elements
- iStats Menu (paid)
- Easy Move + Resize
- Rectangle
full title == [The Natural History, Pathobiology, and Clinical Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 Infections]
I know HN loves to hate on touchscreens in cars but I don't really get it. Both cars I own and almost every car I've rented in the last few years (that's quite a few) has had a touchscreen. This is pretty much always how it works: 1) The most used functions have physical buttons and knobs, often on both the steering wheel and the center console 2) Touchscreen is used for uncommonly done things, like adding new Bluetooth connections and adjusting radio settings 3) If the vehicle is moving there are limits on touchscreen use (like the touchscreen will refuse to work after X clicks, or disallow some functions, or both.)

This seems ... fine.
I'll bet central mailrooms are a big driver for safety. In my NYC building, for example, the mailman does not even see any of the public space -- they enter the delivery room through the mailboxes' rear side and deliver en masse to all 110+ units' mailboxes. I imagine the higher the highrise the more efficient the delivery and the safer the delivery.

Now contrast that to crossing lawns individually house by house...
I'd argue feeling safe when I drive is net positive for actual safety. Stressed drivers going to make way more errors.
The Teams iOS app already has this. Go to Settings > Notifications > Block Notifications > During Quiet Time, then specify what hours you want the app to be quiet.
I don't see how it's too late, unless HN commenters from today will be the only audience. You could also add an note.
Really like the flexibility provided by Argo. It's the missing workflow concept from Kubernetes.
We have a manager using a throaway account here. Of course you’re not going to find a job elsewhere.
Confirmed this is a technical limitation that we're working on as swiftly as possible. Drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com and I'll let you know as soon as we've resolved this limitation!
reverse the terrible ITAR legacy

fund foundational security and mandate its use by government agencies and suppliers
> If I have to suffer with ads to support the websites I like

You don't. Use an adblocker and be done with them.
Most farms are not large corporate. It is one guy and the hired hand farming 3000 acres. Legally they are corporations, but it is still small
I do that too, mostly. The only real downside is no transcoding. That's fine as long as you stay on wired Ethernet but a 50G remux via trans-pacific nfs is... suboptimal. Recently I've started running a Jellyfin server on a spare NUC for those times when transcoding is needed, but sticking with direct nfs access when it's not. Seems like the best of both worlds so far.
Data+AI Summit Recap: Everything That You Missed on Feature Stores
I'm talking very specifically about Pennsylvanian/ American style grocery store pretzels. Rold Golds, Snyders, and the many many other atrocities masquerading as food on grocery store shelves.

Dry, tasteless or ridiculously salty. Just a blank terrible tasting carb with no redeeming quality.
This thread is a hilarious game of "I'm better than you because I know real farmers". For some reason, certain occupations seem to bring out a sanctimonious attitude in people that nobody can understand it if they're not personally doing it themselves, combined with a failure to recognize that those occupationists are diverse and one person's personal friends might feel differently from another group or even the majority.
Your guess would be nearly as good as mine, I worked as a vendor and never actually had to abide by the requirements the integrators over at the OEMs had to stick to.

Usually when talking with them they would throw around "lifetime of the vehicle" requirements. For typical OEMs I think they consider that 15-20 years. Tesla, probably 10 lol!

Though, in reality, if you baby your flash to last 15-20 years. You've probably designed it in a way that it has a chance to live a whole lot longer.
Oh, I have more lol. I had a legitimate ER visit for some stitches. At the visit I gave them my insurance, credit card, address, etc... When leaving I asked if there was anything else I owed? Nope.

Fast forward 12 months and I get a letter from collections for ~$500. WTF is this? I never received a bill from the hospital. It took me a bit to even realize where this might be coming from. Once again, this type of stuff annoys me, so I call collections. "It's not much just pay it" - they cut it like $100. Not going to happen. So I wrote them and the hospital asking for the bill details which neither could produce and the delinquent bill was cleared.

I rarely go to any ER type care and I have 2 stories of bills being f'd up. So yeah, the rate of errors seems beyond that of simple mistakes.
All those are great examples of things on different abstraction layers.

I agree with you insofar as you can't know what you're building ahead of time so writing software is continuous process of revision, but it's still the case that when I'm writing a particular piece of code I can ask myself what is actually on this layer vs not on this layer, and write my code accordingly.
Mind-bending viral Unity demo turned into playable game seeking publishers
Apple announces winners of the 2021 Apple Design Awards
There are a few reasons convergent evolution is really unlikely here.

1) This particular gene isn't the obvious solution - there are many, highly diverse antifreeze proteins, not to mention other mechanisms of freeze resistance (glycerol production, for example).

2) Even if it were, the genetic code is redundant, meaning that there are often several 3-base codons that code for a given amino acid. So even if the exact amino acid sequence is what mattered, the odds of using the exact same coding to obtain that sequence is unlikely.

3) The similarity extends beyond the coding region. It includes stretches of DNA in between and flanking the gene's code itself. These are stretches of DNA that normally mutate at a much higher rate than the coding region itself, and they aren't under the selective pressure of making a working protein, so there's no real evolutionary explanation for how they'd end up so similar.
your assuming that these 20 hour will be 100% work which is unlikely
Yeah the difference between the things we know we should want, and the things we actually want in the moment. Its incredible in how many ways the brain can be annoying ;-)
I don't think it's enough to say people get vaccinated and we didn't see this in the past. This is quite different. Many people are afraid of this vaccine more than others in the past. I've had countless arguments with family trying to convince them it's okay. Their arguments are A) it's mRNA, which is new... And B) they argue it was rushed.

I can't help but think about how someone with that mental state would feel while in the waiting room.
These specifically are what I would call 'American' or Pennsylvania style' pretzels.

They aren't food, they're poorly implemented landscape fill.
> I start in a new role soon

> My coworkers are my good friends

I think you need to make friends outside work. Live a little.
That's mostly due to the physics of how it's being aerosolized.

We used to take individual serving packets and do giant flame spikes. We got a large can of it and did the same thing from the top of a stairwell with someone on the bottom floor with a lighter and someone up top with the creamer.

We hadn't fully considered the ramifications of our actions until we saw the fireball coming up at us.

But basically, even without the fire, it would have made the mushroom cloud.
It's been hypothesized that AstraZeneca's vaccine is more likely to cause clots when accidentally injected intravenously:

https://www.sortiraparis.com/news/coronavirus/articles/24662...
Can someone explain why this the mRNA vaccine (which tells your body to produce spike protein and thus mimic the virus) produces long-lasting immunity but the actual virus which is being mimicked does not do that?
I can see your reasoning there, but from what I’ve seen that’s simply not the case in a really meaningful way.

Drugs as a whole are incredibly expensive as a lifestyle. Often times you’ll hear about poor people committing crime to support their habits and it’s understandable to think that they use drugs at a higher rate.

However more affluent people can simply afford the drugs, so when you hear about the mistakes they make while intoxicated it’s framed in a different narrative. Instead of some random poor person doing a robbery for meth, you read a story about a Hollywood actor getting into a car accident or a popular sports player committing sexual assault, or a singer going to a “retreat for exhaustion.”

This group has much more ability to control the story.

Humans are humans. The value proposition of “awake, alert, focused, euphoric, horny” appeals to people equally regardless of one’s bank balance.

Rich people aren’t noticeably smarter about avoiding these pitfalls as far as I can tell. They have bad days, make bad decisions, and develop bad habits just like everybody else.
How is remote making collaboration worse since it forces people to overcommunicate?
Ask HN: Why is there no standard for API documentation?
I'm currently integrating purchase api for google and apple in my app. And it's quite painful because api documentation is often slightly inaccurate, which is leading to a ton of extra debugging.

Take this apple purchase api documentation for example: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstorereceipts/responsebody.

Attribute "is-retryable" is documented as boolean, but in fact it is an integer (0 or 1), which is only explained in the description text.

Also, you almost never get the information if an attribute is nullable (or optional). Why not just document nullable like e.g.

1.) Type (nullable), or
2.) Option<Type> like in Rust

I guess, a strict api documentation standard would help tremendously to save quite some debugging time.
Bologna and creamcheese is literally in the article.
| a much smaller house, much less technology, a very cheap car or public transit, vanilla food, only a few suits of clothes, and bare bones health care.

You would have to be highly skilled to do that, the average worker couldn't get anywhere close to that lifestyle on 10-20 hours a week.
(Housing and property excluded)

Try charting the cost of the same exact parcel of land in Manhattan over the same time period.
It's mind boggling that the government needs to require this. What bureaucrat is refusing some IT person from requesting the funds doing this?
When will Apple bring back RSS to Mail?
In addition to the other comment, they also sold an "elves" subscription program.
https://swagger.io/specification/
I have seen this type of reasoning before in HN comments but from a user's perspective it does not make sense. Imagine every user is sending a maximum amount of information, which we can see keeps increasing over time, via HTTP headers (including cookies), browser capabilities, hardware capabilities, etc. This "run with the herd" reasoning seems to suggest the best way to avoid fingerprinting is to send the maximum amount of information, "like everyone else". That only results in ever more information being sent to the online advertising industry. The probability they can distinguish one user fingerprint from another goes up as the amount of information sent increases. The objective of the online advertising services company is to gather as much information as possible from users.

The objective for the user should be to send as little information as possible. If a fingerprint shows the user is not running JS and is providing only a very minimal, generic set of information, how much value is there is trying to serve ads to that user. Users who want better privacy should be trying to reduce the amount of information they send. Maybe the first movers in that effort are "fingerprinted" as being privacy-conscious, tech-savvy, etc. That is probably going to result in less ads served to them, not more. Eventually, when most users, "the herd", is sending the minimal amount of information, the fingerprints all look similar.

Think it through. Advertisers do not care about users who will not indiscriminantly run JS. They go for the low-hanging fruit.
My friend's roommate dated him and I used to hang out at their place a lot in Brooklyn. Super nice guy! It was in the years after this happened, and he was still typing stories for strangers. I respected that then, and I continue to now.
What features? Not every app needs access to your camera.
>Gmail and similar providers proxy all image URLs they receive at the time they receive the email, so you can't tell when a user later opens the email.

I searched around and found some articles that makes the same claim[1], but in my own testing that doesn't seem to be the case (ie. I had to click on the email before image would start loading).

[1] https://sendloop.com/articles/the-effect-of-gmail-image-prox...
At least I don't think so on the jobs that would actually allow you to work 10-20 hours a week.
My guess is that this will be the subject of a lawsuit at some point.
It's similar to the third-personing we do when we have to enforce a rule: "I'm sorry but I have to ..." or "I'm afraid I'm going to ...".

In both cases we're trying to downplay our involvement a bit.
That’s the right question to ask
There are plenty of new ones all the time; egirls, fuckboys, vsco girls, streamers, influencers, incels, you can also be "basic", "based", etc... it's possible you're not seeing it as much because you're getting older and these are adolescent tribes
Musk coming from software they seem to actually adopted modern software engineering practices that other manufacturers going to struggle with for some time. Being vertically integrated helps heaps too.
Has anyone tried this and successfully blocked ads from services like YouTube and Hulu? uBlock works on my computer but I've always had a hard time with pihole. It'll work for like a day then go back to serving ads.
You're climbing on tricky terrain for the fun and challenge of it. They are climbing a large ladder because there isn't an elevator. My brother used to climb poles for his job (may still from time to time). He wouldn't strap his belt round the pole until he got to the top and needed to free up his hands.
One is json schema.
The other very good one is stripe API docs.
How do you know this? mRNA vaccines are literally so new we don't know what will be in 2 years from now. They were never used in humans.

In comparison SARS survivors from 2003 still have immunity (I believe the same is with MERS).
Literally all of them. Security is a cost center, and non bureaucrats salaries are minimized as much as possible until you are left with "warm body to fill chair". Even the NSA doesn't pay well, compared to private sector.
Delivery rates, AKA staying out of spam and getting into the inbox are correlated to subscriber engagement on your emails.

The more often subscribers open + click a link, the more likely the mail server will let it in the inbox.

If you blast 10,000 emails, and noone clicks or engages with your email - you'll kill your domain's delivery rate.

One of the methods email marketers use to keep their email delivery rates high is by removing subscribers that don't engage with their email.

Preventing email tracking prevents marketers from removing uninterested or unengaged subscribers from their lists.
I got covid last year, and this year got vaccinated, and if I repeated the scenario 1 million times I'd take the vaccine over the infection 1 million times.
I wonder how Cargo will be regarded as in 2-5 years if it gets anywhere near the number of projects/libraries that say Python or Javascript has.
Isn't monetary damages exactly how you achieve change?

The mayor and voters don't care if some moron gets locked up for this. They do care if the town budget collapses and taxes have to go up to pay for it.
I like to think of it this way: ads do not exist to serve value to me. Ads exist to extract value from me. They are an increasingly obtrusive and insecure means to convince me to spend money. They are, essentially, psychological warfare on my wallet.

And no, I am not being sarcastic, nor do I think I'm being overly hyperbolic in this.
I'm sure these are the same kinds of excuses the execs within the company give as to why they can't do what Tesla is doing. And that's part of why Hyundai stock is up ~30% over the past 5 years and Tesla is up over 1000%.
I used to like the idea many years ago (think 10-15 or so) since if i'm going to see ads might as well have them be about stuff that interest me - which can actually be useful now and then.

But the thing is, what i wanted was for Google to let me actually choose what sort of ads i see, not try to guess.

Nowadays i just use an adblocker.
> if you are willing to live at the standard of living of someone in the 1930s.

So you'd have to live like it was the worst period of global economic collapse and hardship in modern history?
I believe the currency conversion charge can be avoided by only charging your customers in your own currency or another currency you have a bank account for. I rarely see a small merchant that takes more than one or at best two currencies.

That'd leave you with 20p + 3.9% (international) / 2.4% (European). Compared to Paddle's 5% + $0.50 that could be a good deal depending on how much of your volume happens in Europe.
Development and operations are two different mindsets not typically found within the same person.
> Does that really do anything?

It does very little; effort is better spent getting people off FLoCed browsers like Chrome.

More info: https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinf...

This is what's really bad about FLoC; it's so hard to fight back on behalf of oblivious Chrome users who didn't opt out. For the uninformed, there's no winning move.
You really think your peers are going to appreciate your attitude?

Don't take this the wrong way but I think you need to think about Therapy.
There was a whole Next Generation episode about this
93.5% of all trackable email opens on phones comes from Apple Mail on iPhones or iPads.

If Google is already doing something similar for gmail then android statistics would be ignored or worthless.
Sure, the model is different, but that still doesn't make signing up to an impossible promise with unbounded liability when you inevitably break it a good idea.

What happens if Paddle are faced with a customer who is getting snotty about a bug and threatening litigation in an expensive jurisdiction? Paddle apparently have the right under their terms to settle that dispute on whatever terms they wish and then pass the entire cost on to the developers. There doesn't appear to be anything requiring those terms to be reasonable nor anything close to what the developer themselves would have had to offer in their own home jurisdiction or if they'd been selling directly to the customer on reasonable terms. As far as we could see, Paddle don't even have to notify the developer that any of this is happening, they can just send the bill at the end.

If anyone from Paddle is reading this and would like to explain publicly why that isn't an existential threat to every SaaS business using their service and what their terms actually mean, that would be very interesting to read. Maybe something like the above scenario would never actually happen. As I mentioned before, I've heard nothing but positive comments about Paddle from various people I know who actually use it. But in that case, there's no need for such one-sided terms, and it's better for everyone if the legal documents say what you really mean instead.
Yes, and the article refers to it as "new and interesting ways" to eat bologna. I'm just saying I've never heard it done before. I don't even associate cream cheese as a philly cuisine as the article claims. Personally, my cream cheese consumption skyrocketed when I moved from the Philly region to NY because a good bagel needs a good schmear
> They're "reading your emails" for functionality like spam filtering anyway. This seems like it would work on basically the same level as that kind of stuff.

This is how Gmail started as well, and now Gmail is a big source of profiling info for Google advertising.
Terry Pratchett "lies to children" about educational simplifications teachers fall back on
ive seen this happen alot... a lead dev is a manager without a title, and is not recognized or have any true authority, and they arent compensated for it either... its the worst of both worlds...