skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the system of plant variety and hybrid development, fertilization, pest management, and mechanization with related techniques

You're correct, but there turned out to be second order effects that were not accounted for because we didn't know that much about it.

For example, chemical fertilization in the Midwest turns out to all flow into the watershed and dump out into the Gulf via the Mississippi. Which creates a dead zone for marine life. Which translates all the way down that food chain. It's a real problem. So much so that I'm surprised that the Gulf States haven't tried to sue the Midwest States for economic damages.

Any "feed the world" solution really has to deal with the problem of "exactly how much of the world do we actually need." It sounds grim, and it is, but if the ecological problem is real and serious, it's a question that has to be dealt with.
There was a charity angle though:

> A mission to build 2 schools in a country in need
> Really, will a non-living entity (virus) break down?

Yes, this is fairly well studied, see: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/health-medical/diseases/cov... and https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/sars-calculator

> Also, I guess that flies are attracted to licking moisture before it evaporates. Therefore the flies are likely to be looking to lick masks if they think they can get an easy drink.

Various insects including flies can mechanically carry SARS-CoV-2 around, but they can't be infected. There are no documented cases of insect-borne COVID-19 (doesn't mean it's never happened but we can infer it's a "rare" event).

UV does induce mutations but not sure that masks make much difference here since that effect will be much the same on virus floating in the air (aka primary transmission mechanism) in any case.

Finally, the virus that causes COVID-19 can't actually infect bats, this would require a reverse zoonosis event.

Picking up masks is great though. Personally I would recommend PPE for this (gloves / grabber & mask) if you are going to do it a lot, because COVID is not the worst thing that could be on the masks. You could get really unlucky and handle a mask with TB or something else nasty. It's low likelihood but the risk is worth thinking about if you plan to handle thousands of masks.
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I was interviewed by some engineers as well.
There are directors in the west that have similar ideas and even see some mainstream success, for example Terrence Malik.
Xerox, man.
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Bid require you to use WETH (Wrapped ETH)

> WETH (Wrapped ETH) is a currency that allows users to make pre-authorized bids that can be fulfilled at a later date without any further action from the bidder. WETH is used to buy and sell with auctions on OpenSea. ETH and WETH are worth exactly the same amount and can be exchanged directly on your OpenSea profile.

https://support.opensea.io/hc/en-us/articles/360063498293-Wh...

Also, gas fees do not rise with the amount of the transaction. So if you're selling for a really high price, gas fees are negligible.
I'm intrigued by them and wanted to dig deeper into Switch Transformer. So hopefully yeah if they continue to show promise.

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My city and county is infamous for fighting tooth and nail to prevent any kind of construction or development. And they look for any excuse to re-assess and double your property tax.
Don't know if you're agreeing or disagreeing, but: this is why I said "accept" in quotes.
Some people don't consent to infidelity. It's very practical.

People who are shopping around for sex are rarely reliable and committed and you couldn't trust them at their word if they say otherwise.
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Really? Yes all those things exist, also on other continents, but we are talking about how representative they are of Africa in general.

Yes FGM exists in many places in Africa. It also exists in many places in Asia. So what? Regular mass shootings are a peculiarly American thing. Does that there is nothing else to discuss about the US?

Yes elephants roam in parts of Africa, usually in national parks. I fail to see how that’s a bad thing. But also, how that implies that any wiring about Africa is incomplete without alluding to that fact.

> there does not seem to be much available

Much of what exactly? If you mean positive stories about Africa, there are plenty that can be told. Those stories do not sell newspapers internationally though.

However, the article was not even talking about writing positively about Africa, which in itself is patronizing. It was about writing _accurately_ about Africa.

For examplE, right now internet access is expensive across many countries in Africa. This is a challenge to budding entrepreneurs and ordinary people. An article about that would be representative of the concern of many actual Africans.

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I've never seen a company give 2 week notices of firing or layoff. It's not like they care when business numbers go a certain way.

ALWAYS and I do mean always have a contingency plan. And if you somehow feel "obligated" to a workplace, quit thinking that right now.

The proper solution to a bad workplace is to make it a FORMER workplace.
To add other info on relative outcomes:

> During March 2020–January 2021, patients with COVID-19 had nearly 16 times the risk for myocarditis compared with patients who did not have COVID-19, and risk varied by sex and age.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm
https://www.givewell.org/ Is a good site for finding charities that create the most good per dollar. That’s what I care most about.
This is a great point. I would think Google could rank users from low quality to high quality in terms of the quality of the websites which they recommend or downvote. Tricky business and could be difficult to control, but basically the same thing they currently do for websites, but extended to humans.
It might be useful to load the pages using the Nitter front end instead too
> as long as they are ARM ISA compatible.

And apparently in Apple's case, they get to be a little bit incompatible (no nVHE mode, crazy custom ISA extensions, ...)

Which is also obvious proof that they're their own designs, because literally nobody else could or would implement the same Apple-proprietary ISA extensions. Here, we use some of the custom instructions in m1n1:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/blob/main/src/gxf_asm.S#L...

That won't work on any non-Apple core.
Economically, Romania was one of the wealthier countries in the Eastern bloc in the 80s. The fall of the communist government actually led to an economic downturn which took several years to recover from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Romania#History
> the system knows "Tylenol" is synonymous with "Paracetamol", "Acetaminophen", etc.

This is the exactly the kind of thing that Google cannot fathom manually doing. As if entering facts into a computer were morally wrong somehow. They'd much rather launch the equivalent of a shell script that harnesses face-melting amounts of computational power, processing literally trillions of webpages in bulk, signal and noise together, junk, spam, and misdirection alike, to learn bad associations and then serve them up with no human review and then put the full force of their reputation behind a results page that apparently people never check and certainly can't correct because of the inscrutability of a machine-learned model that has few to no levers to adjust.
well it's unfortunately the smallest CPU available at that time. And I also noticed it after upgrading to Big Sur, especially the battery issue.
I generally never used macros when I wrote C because the C macro language is lacking, there are a lot of pitfalls and saving function call overhead is usually not that important.

I think I'll try to get a new understanding of Lisp macros by trying to come up with a language feature in C# or Dart that I really want but can't implement without a lot of non-intuitive difficulty, but could easily in a Lisp style macro that the compiler could use to build in a new feature at compile time.
Agree that is annoying, but if you start excluding such results then how does one find that type of content?
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Address the problem at the EU level because both Sweden and the Baltics are in it. This what the EU is for. But obviously it is much convenient to solve this the "Apple" way and claim that there was no other way...
Very excited to see this team bringing the open core model to the device management space! I'm a proud investor.
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My concern is if the engineers were qualified and allowed to follow proper protocol for designing safety critical systems.
I just shake my (cheapo moto) phone for a flashlight. That doesn't work on pixels?
A lot of the details depend on what level person you want to bring in. My 2 cents, having done this bootstrapped more then once before, is to hire in good mid level sales people who have networks in the space you are in. Do not hire a VP of Sales or similar type role, hire in a few sales people and dice up the pie and let them compete, the one who does the best, find more like him/her and help the others learn or cut them if they can't make it to the same level. Once you have a small team that is selling and has made some progress then you can start looking into hiring a sales manager/VP of sales etc.

One (of many) mistakes I see too many startups make is hire some high end VP of Sales because the founders lack sales experience and think you need that person to lay out a plan for the young company. Yes, a good VP of sales can lay out a plan, but there is a massive difference between someone like that and a person who just pounds the phones, emails etc to get sales moving. Get people to get sales moving, to learn what works/doesn't work and measure how and what they are doing so that you can refine a system and train new people. Then when you bring in a more experienced VP they can take that basic system and scale it and tweak it in ways you don't understand (yet) and things will grow.

I like to iterate on sales like you would engineering, most good sales people I know do that naturally too. So don't be shocked if you go through quite a few sales people till you find a fit for your team and market. That is fairly normal in my experience if you are moving fast. If you are moving slower and can take more time then you might go through fewer but your lead time to hire will be much longer. Just tradeoffs.

As for finding them, look to competitors in the same market space and hire away their mid level people, or find people that have sold in a sister market. Targeting people is usually a good way, over placing ads and most recruiters can help you with this if you don't know how.

Interview sales people with normal questions and by introducing them to your product and then have them sell you on it after a 10-15 minute intro & question session (pay attention to the questions good mid level sales people ask lots of detailed questions typically). They'll screw things up in that presentation, see who can dance on their feet and not lie, embellish or back themselves into a corner. Pay attention to how they handle being in that position cause it will happen for real in 6-8 months on the job too.

Compensation can be hard to figure out at first so it will take some time, work with them to find a balance between what motivates them but doesn't break you or upset your balance. I always avoid equity on sales positions and they generally want cash anyway.
> really messes with family dynamics

Spending the inheritance?
I keep reading about series I bonds paying out 7% and tax advantaged, but unfortunately never patient enough to actually read about how it all works. 10k is the yearly limit which is why I mentioned it.
Eventually search will become a decentralized activity (No, not a web3/crypto/coin type decentralization, I am talking about the useful type).

Is there any particular reason why internet search has to have a distorting gatekeeper to the global commons (that pretends playing Maxwell's demon). For chrissake, the stuff being indexed is public.
For posterity, here is Dr Robert Malone's Google scholar profile showing his parents and papers:

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Maybe try and time stamp the page, presumably the earliest page is the original source. Could also combine it with a site reputation rating or something similar.
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People convince themselves of anything.

Part of me envies the fools, everything must be magical for them.
I really wanted to give developers more control over their asset hosting. If they wanted to host their assets on a remote server for better performance, that's an option I'd want them to have. Relying on only X Y Z service will certainly work, but certainly not optimal.

It didn't out right kill the project, It'll work under these specific conditions but reducing usability is not helpful.
I am wrong in thinking that ethernet is opto-isolated? If that assumption is correct, I assume this negates any electrical effects that a switch could have on interference (ignoring UTP differential pairs and assuming that this is never an issue anyway)?

And I assume this switch isn't doing some absolutely insane decoding of some common unencrypted audio protocols to 'improve' audio in any way.

As everyone else has already said... what an insane money-grabbing audiophile-abusing product :D
These charlatans sell a $10,000 "Active Ground Block" complete with a 5 day long burn in process.

https://www.synergisticresearch.com/power/accessories/galile...

Just when I think I've seen the peak of Audiophile stupidity some "entrepreneur" comes along and raises the bar yet again. This isn't even an isolated grounding system, it's just tying a piddly little ground bar to the regular electrical ground through the power cord through some B.S. filters that have no chance of doing anything even remotely useful. I'm amazed that no one involved is being prosecuted for fraud.

How is such a substantial chunk of people delusional enough to fall for all this HiFi garbage? It's like finding someone in their 40s who still believes Santa Claus is real. No, your analog Rube Goldberg sound system does not sound better than a half-decent DAC playing an MP3 on $30 headphones, you're just incapable of rational thought.
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To me, it seems like an "analog" cargo cult thing. A lot of audiophiles simply don't get the digital transition.

In the old times, the musical signal was analog and any impairment was a degradation. Audiophiles went to great length to avoid this.

And they keep on applying this approach to the digital part of a modern system, in completely useless ways. For example, here, it seems they use a marker to prevent light to leak from the side of the CD. I guess it's a misguided way to try to increase the SNR of the laser detector while reading the disc.

What they don't get is that the digital part of the system doesn't carry a musical signal. It's information, that is used to reconstruct a musical signal at the DAC. And this information is very robust. As long as it can be reconstructed error free, SNR and the like do not matter. As long as it arrives on time at the DAC (I'm simplifying a bit, but it's easy to get the idea) any previous jitter is irrelevant.

If you're an audiophile, keep on caring about the DAC and the analog chain after it. And don't bother too much about the digital part, it's not audio it's IT!
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https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1477707884632834049

> I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either. I’m wondering if this isn’t really a tech problem but the influence of some suit responsible for quarterly ad revenue increases.

Please no more of this. Two men, Page and Brin, together have basically unfettered control over Google.* If Google does something bad then, unless it's genuinely something small enough that those two could not be expected to hear about it, it's happening with—at the very least—their acquiescence. And low overall search quality is not something that some "suit" is successfully hiding from Good Czar Larry. They could fire the "suit", or command him or her to make other decisions. This is—again, at the very least—something that they have chosen not to do. The responsiblity lies with them.

* There is the risk of lawsuits from the minority shareholders, I assume. But IIUC this is not realistically that big a restraint on what shareholders with a majority of votes can do. However IANAL.
I think many people conflate at least 3 different terms when discussing whether iPhones are expensive:

- “Luxury good” is objective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_goods: “a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending” (luxury goods need not be expensive, either, especially if they only become useful in combination with other items that are expensive. Many people can afford to buy golf balls, but I think they still are luxury goods because golf clubs, club membership, and the ability to find time to play golf all are luxury goods)

- “Status symbol” is subjective, with groups of people deciding whether something is a status symbol. Status symbols need not even be expensive. Cultural or legal norms can prohibit the “don’t haves” from acquiring them (in Rome, not everybody was allowed to wear a toga, for example).

- “Overpriced” is subjective, with each individual deciding for themselves whether they think something is overpriced. Because of this, arguing whether an item _is_ overpriced is useless.

I see “overpriced” as 100% distinct from “has high profit margin” That’s objective, but a consequence of the value users see in a product (either as a functional item or as status symbol)

I don’t have the numbers, but chances are that iPhones are luxury goods. Whether they’re the other two depends on context. If you work at the Free Software Foundation, they may not be status symbols, for example.
Spending their fixed retirement income and racking up debt. Folks who are teetering on the edge of needing their kids to get financial power of attorney.
It can be whatever you want it to be
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