skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘Farms’ can mean a lot of things and they are not all producing food calories. So what is your definition of ‘productivity’?

A farm can be profitable not growing anything and collecting subsidies. Many ranchers have a small herd and use their ‘farmland/ranches’ for endangered mitigation purposes as there is a lot of federal dollars for conservation. There are ‘farms’ that have upto $250k/year tax write off for an alpaca farm.
Not GP but how'd you find the land? I'm from Texas (grew up but haven't lived as an adult) and was wondering how to find 1-2 acres
If you could afford it. Which is precisely where we find ourselves today isn't it? You can buy whatever artisanal produce you want. You can have your yak milk from Bhutan if you have the money.
The plebeians will just have to do with the supermarket.
>It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis. I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change.

The whole left/right division has completely lost its point. You can see it if you list the typical points of disagreement, order them from most discussed to least discussed, and look at stances from left to right:

COVID vaccines: mandate -> encourage -> offer for all -> offer for vulnerable -> ignore
Climate Change: ban plastics/meat/kids -> subsidize solar/wind -> promote nuclear -> work on mitigations -> declare hoax
Race: discriminate majority -> be color-blind -> discriminate minorities
Homeless + petty crime: tolerate -> prosecute -> punish progressively
Homeless + mental issues: tolerate -> offer treatment -> force treatment -> imprison
LGBT: set quotas + role model for kids -> allow with no special benefits -> frown upon -> criminalize
Immigration: allow arbitrarily -> set quotas -> allow high-skilled only -> ban
Abortions: allow -> allow for medical reasons -> ban
Housing: increase density -> ban foreign capital/increase rates -> develop new areas -> do nothing

What typically happens is a vocal person holding a specific opinion on a specific topic declares everyone left from them "communist" or everyone right from them "far right", implying that they have the leftmost/rightmost stances on all other topics. So people that would normally agree on some middle-ground solution for most topics end up at the opposing sides of the artificial division.

We must resist it and look at specific problems and specific solutions and call bullshit on anyone trying to generalize and alienate someone based on their affiliation.

P.S. Note how impactful topics like interest rate, retirement, corporations taking place of middle class owner-operated businesses, etc. are not even on the radar.
Demo: https://coqui.ai
Code: https://github.com/coqui-ai/tts
Blogpost: https://coqui.ai/blog/tts/yourtts-zero-shot-text-synthesis-l...
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02418
Analyzing the NYT Spelling Bee with Hex
The war to free science (2019)
I'm surprised Netflix hasn't been buying IP owners or aggressively expanding into other entertainment channels. Imagine if they straight up acquired Nintendo (or a large part of it), the amount of movies + series they could produce (zelda series like the witcher, donkey kong animated series for kids, metroid prime series for adults, star fox, etc)
Now that TorStar is on its deathbed, without CBC, Canadian English-language media will be comprised of solely Postmedia. That's not a future I am looking forward to, but one that is quite likely the next time CPC gets elected.

No party wins popular vote anymore (as in more than 50%). With FPTP, we are stuck with less-than ideal seats-to-votes correlation.
This presupposes that companies think their products are bad. If you have (what you believe to be) a good product, you definitely want DC Rainmaker to review it. I think this is a reasonably general point across industries - companies want to get their products into the hands of the most reputable reviewers.
Quest was the best selling game console this holiday, which doesn't sound niche to me.
I read it as well, and also listened to his podcast (which is where I learned about "TEAM-CBT", his supposedly highly effective new approach). The concepts and arguments in the book (and podcast) make total sense to me, but the _way_ it is presented is sounds more like snake-oil marketing than science, which is why I am interested in learning about its effectiveness on severe forms of depression from independent sources.
Imagine searching for something that is quite common that will produce a large number of results but the user can only retrieve, say, 230 results total. How does the user verify that all of the "millions of sites" that contain results were actually searched when the user submitted her query.

A search engine can tell users some large number of sites were searched at the time of the user's query and some large number of results exist, but what if it does not allow the user to actually view all the results.

To put it another way, the question is not what Google has discovered about the www,^1 but what Google is willing to let the user search and retrieve. If retrieving the 963rd result for a common string is not allowed, then it is impossible for the user to verify that the site containing that result was searched when the user submitted her query. Even if the search produced a 963rd result, what difference does it make if the user cannot retrieve it. What is the point of the search engine locating the 963rd result if it never has to show this result to the user querying a common string.

1. What Google has discovered about the www^2 and what Google users are able to discover about the www through Google may be two different things.^3 Google has its own interests to pursue in the name of online advertising and these may conflict with users' interests. "Censorship" is one concept that often draws negative connotations but there are many more subtle forms of filtering and manipulation that are possible here, including unintentional ones.

2. The most important focus would be what is "popular".

3. Some users might care less about what is "popular". Such users would, by and large, be less interesting to an advertising company. Individual interests might become subverted in favour of "popular" interests, to the extent they conflict. An advertising company (that runs a search engine) will favour the larger audience.
Indeed, the notion that a single axis can represent people's views and values is laughable.
FAANG was originally about hot stocks. Jim Cramer coined it. And then, in tech circles, it became mostly about compensation--which had some correlation but imperfectly.

Today, especially with Netflix being less unique technically (they did a lot of early out-of-the-box stuff like going all in on AWS and microservices), they're pretty much an outlier from the other companies although as far as I know they still pay very well. As they become more of a studio they'll become even more of an outlier.

Microsoft certainly has more in common with the others, but their stock (as well as the company generally) was out of favor when Cramer coined the term.
You can do it with Canonical's multipass, for one.
Have you considered using `git commit --amend --no-edit` after making your first commit? It simplifies the unwinding step.

This is pretty much my workflow, too. I’ll make some changes, `git commit -m wip`, and then `g can`. When you’re ready to prepare the PR/diff, `reset HEAD^`. Then, a few cycles of `add -p`, `commit -v`.

`commit --amend` and `add --patch` are super powers!
Repeating a narrative that was crafted with a particular political intent is furthering that intent regardless of how you’re thinking about it internally. And unfortunately us Americans are really good at exporting our shittiest ideas everywhere else (especially Western Europe) so it still has meaning regardless of where you live
>But we often hear about and think about FAANG, like with this poll. What sets Microsoft apart from this group?

Fang is a catchy word, and the "m" does not neatly fit into it or an alternative acronym that is as catchy.
Good. In fact, if we want people to visit websites other than google.com (and then read the answer in the snippet or the box in the sidebar) then it's good that google results are crap. Use google less.
WTF is this 'IP' that y'all keep bouncing around?
Well, when I left in 2010 it was extremely true. Not even remotely in the ballpark. According to Levels.fyi they pay about 50% more now, but still less than any FAANG.
As long as Google has search ads, they have granular targeting at their disposal.
Steering geometry on a motorcycle is very important, and getting it slightly wrong will make it hard / impossible to balance and steer. Actually, this is true for a bicycle as well.
You can keep moving the goal posts, but eventually you must face the moment of truth. If you’re not willing to work hard for a year and put the money down you do not get to own a home. There is no amount of downpayment people will ever be comfortable with, people simply want to have no downpayment at all and jump straight into mortgage payments.
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Highly complicated jacked up messes that you can't explain to your customers...and they don't care.
> That's not quite what I'm seeing ... it wasn't actually deployed in the general case

I'm was literally trained in the British variant of technique I'm describing. There's a wikipedia article about it, and it's referenced from this cryptography wiki's one-time-pad page. Other countries used similar systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BATCO

https://cryptography.fandom.com/wiki/One-time_pad
By viral I mean accidentally viral - random things that somehow capture the zeitgeist - Jackie Weaver, Bean Dad, Bilal Göregen, Num Num Cat TikTok Chain, podcasts that suddenly blow up, etc
All I get is a blank screen.
The drought was a factor for a very short while, but it is completely over after rains that caused flooding a few months later.
this study is extremely flawed. It is impossible to tell if these results are from the garbage collection or how bronze violates rust aliasing
While we do see cases where papers include e.g. principal investigators who just got the funding or the supervisors of the grad students who did the actual experiments, adding random politicians with no connection to the studies is IMHO exceptionally rare, mostly because politicians have less direct power to force their country's scientists to do it publicly and keep their mouths shut - instead we're seeing plagiarism cases exposed, like the recent German case of (should-not-be-a-)Dr. Giffey and the earlier scandal of (not-anymore-a-Dr.) zu Guttenberg, and a bunch of others.

However, I'm not really implying a qualitative difference - I'd fully agree that anyone in the capitalist west who has "made" all their publications by somehow arranging to be included in the authors' list should be considered not as scientists but as frauds, just like Ms. Ceausescu.
It's also a lot easier to pirate than it is to sign up for a billion different services. I'd put my money on "Netflix making this work somewhow" over "Cable all over again."
It requires far more knowledge: an in depth understanding of the agriculture relating sciences. But less pesticides, less fertilizers, no-till certainly reduces the labor.
Great Interview, enjoyed this a lot. Interesting to think about different points of supply and the communication systems. I deal with this obfuscation on a daily basis.
The coop was maybe 60 ft away so I opted for a battery that I'd have to recharge every few weeks. I don't have chickens right now but if I ever get more I'll use a small solar charger and maybe add a few more bells and whistles. I lost a lot of chickens to raccoons and hawks so maybe next time I'd actually do a fully enclosed chicken run.
Can anyone living in SK share some info on their views of Fried Chicken? In San Francisco half of the new Korean restaurants are actually Fried Chicken restaurants. They are really good, but as someone from Indiana its kind of like eating New York Pizza in Italy.
I thought DDG beat google when it first got going. It seems to have declined and in some cases is no longer even usable anymore.
Yes, I am aware of the history, which is why I specified the "purpose" of the poll.

A poll about FAANG with netflix and excluding microsoft seems simply like a poll about a group of companies that a tv show host made a catchy acronym about, rather than a poll about which of the big tech companies today is likely to decline or not.
> Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?

Most shortage todays is on 200mm.

Why? Trump's sanctions on SMIC brought down like half of world's 200mm capacity.

> Can automakers not use a 7nm fab?

No, process, and cell libraries are incompatible. Chips will have to be redesigned.
Scientific American started its decline in the 1990s. It became a "rag" in the 2000s. It's 100% worthless now.
I didn’t say comedy specifically, no. But comedy should probably actually be funny and not feel like I’m being lectured to, which has become increasingly common. And at times comedy can cover even the darkest topics, that’s really up to the comedian to decide.

And I actually consider myself a leftist I just strongly dislike corporate Democrats. So if I sound like right wing propaganda that comes mainly for our mutual distaste for certain aspects of “progressives” in the U.S. or whatever you’d like to call them.
Is there a static demo that I don't have to provide my own voice for?
> including shooting out tires

Thank you for posting the TL;DR @marktucker. It saves everyone watching a video that is no doubt full of pure invented FUD and BS.

Why do I say that ? Because of the "shooting out tires" bit.

1. Its a dumb American thing, no way in hell it would be permitted in the UK .. actually no, to give the yanks their due, I don't event think they would start shooting at tyres randomly on a public street. ;-)

2. Ecuadorian Embassy is in Hans Place, Knightsbridge. Anyone who has ever lived or worked in London will very quickly tell you that (a) Shooting at tyres in that neck of the wood is likely to result in far too many casualties and collateral damage to very expensive assets (b) There is unlikely to be a need to do so because there is both heavy police presence in that neck of the woods AND a lot of vehicular traffic (i.e. no chance for a fast car getaway, you'll end up stuck in traffic sooner or later).
This doesn't happen though. The money comes from brands, and brands are hungry to spend it. They don't really care about return on the dollar either.
I went through a half dozen real estate agents. After several months and false starts, I found a real estate agent who was close to retiring, loved driving far, and liked looking at rural properties. During the week she'd send property listings to me and I'd yay/nay them. Then on the weekend we'd drive around and see three or four of them -- literally all-day affairs on Saturdays and half-days on Sundays. That went on for several months.

I moved from Houston to my new 5 acres in August after watching the housing market for a year and actively searching for a home for about 6 months.

Honestly the real selling point is that this home has AT&T gigabit fiber :)
If I'm not being cynical--sales and marketing.

Building out a marketing organization is expensive in terms of manpower and money. Not everything can be bootstrapped. Enterprise sales, in particular, is expensive, slow, and annoying and needs a marketing organization dedicated to it.

It's rare that you can pour money to hyper-activate the technical side of things. However, normally you can do that on the sales and marketing side.
Ask HN: Feedback on Solving the Product Reviews Spam Problem
In light of the ongoing conversation[0][1] on the difficulties of finding quality product reviews, I wanted to ask for feedback on the approach of an app I've nearly finished which seeks to solve this problem.

It's called the Kujo App: https://app.kujo.com/

The premise is to use social trust on a platform built for recommendations.

The landing page breaks down its use, compares to existing solutions, highlights strategic vision, and business model.

It's currently in private Beta, but I'd love feedback on the approach! If you wanted to join the waitlist for the next wave, that'd be alright too

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782186
I'm pretty sure OP means SWE is "software engineering" and not Sweden...

In places where the employer directly deducts taxes/social security and transfers them to the authorities, they might ask one of the employers if they're the "primary employer" or tell them that they need to contribute less because 2 other companies are also paying into the fund for the employee... at that point the jig could be up.

I wonder where OP works, and if he's wearing some nice Dunning-Kruger glasses...
Legal consequences possibly depending on your contract, and if caught and the employer wanted to go public (unlikely), then you could get media attention etc, not gonna help you with future jobs.

If you an IC, getting the work done and your employers are happy, then good luck to you.

If your not pulling your weight, then likely you're putting work/stress on to others.

I suspect despite thinking your just doing your job, getting your tasks done etc, you're not really contributing in the spirit of what is asked, expected and what your have been entrusted to do. Perhaps the roles you have taken are very transactional (Jira ticket monkey) and you are expected just to do basic tasks and not contribute beyond explicit tasks, however in the many companies I've worked in the last 25 years that has almost never been the case. As a hiring manager I would likely feel you had betrayed my trust, and had taken the place of someone who could have contributed more.
Your language pushes pretty hard for a conclusion.

Consider: A friend had no heart issues for 35 years, decided to take a new route to work, and dropped dead of a heart attack. Is it coincidental?

Of course it is. Anecdotal / single point evidence is completely useless. The study gives you the actual numbers on how likely it's a coincidence or not.
Yes. But the point is that a term coined by a TV stock personality years ago has pretty much zero relevance for looking at what the arc is going to be for what are seen as leading tech companies (through a Silicon Valley lens).
WebAssembly permits stack inspection to the degree that you could fully implement call/cc? Java of course does not. This would seem to be a security risk.
Ideas from 2021
Not a fan of the format but I do enjoy hearing about things that aren't covered or highlighted in the elite corporate press. Not everything has to be left vs right.
RedBox provides all the new DVDs nearly instantly, and for anything older it's often pretty cheap to buy them used on Amazon.
It's worth remembering that Disney's single largest revenue source is... ESPN. Not its animated movies, other film IPs, other TV series, theme parks, or merchandising, but ESPN.
The efficacy for reducing disease severity is super high and it's what's keeping many jurisdictions from not getting hospitals stuffed with Omicron patients.

The vaccine isn't experimental, stop with that stupid trope. How many billions more patients do you want before you'll consider the known data definitive?
Depends, if someone is popular you can't afford not to have them review your things. A a certain point a bad review will still generate more money than no review at all. Few reach that level though, most reviewers don't have that much following.
> Fusion will almost certainly have a lower power density than fission and therefore will require a larger plant to produce the same output. Suppose a fusion plant had to be ten times as big and therefore likely ten times as costly — as a present-day fission plant to produce the same amount of power.

I don't see how that follows. Different forms of power generation have orders of magnitude differences in costs on a per volume basis. If you're comparing within a type it might make sense, a coal plant 10 times larger probably does cost between 5 and 20 times more. But I don't see any reason to expect a fusion plant to have comparable per volume costs to a light water fission plant. And why is he assuming the cost is per volume rather than per mass?
Isn’t every piece of writing?
HBO Max on Apple TV is a terrible experience. The app doesn't appear to use the standard playback and navigation functions in most other Apple TV apps so you get unintuitive scrubbing behavior and inconsistent searching. Also, the app signs me out on a regular basis at random intervals. When this happens, you can still browse shows and click play but at that point you're interrupted with a "buy HBO Max" screen which is totally confusing. You have to manually navigate to the account, sign out, then sign back in and re-find the one episode you wanted to play.
You could do something along the lines of Mendel's pea pods. Predict a recessive trait appearing in offspring. An explanation of hybridization to Ancient ears could be enough to trigger a Baconian revolution ;)
I’m also an ex-employee.

FB’s predilection to reorg every six months, isn’t a sign of strength. It’s actually a sign of dysfunction. They’ve just been able to power through by being extraordinarily lucky in the social networking space. It’s tire spinning.

The company hasn’t released a noteworthy product in at least a decade.

It’s an ossified megacorp.
This is the first time I've participated in a poll, and I wish I could vote before seeing the results. Not that dang and friends aren't busy enough — just mentioning for the future.
8b. Flooding in Malaysia where the factories are located. Some may attribute this to ordinary flooding, others may attribute it to global warming.

https://techwireasia.com/2021/12/malaysian-floods-devastate-...
The GP commented about using curated sources. One can disable all those (google, bing, etc.) and choose to only enable results from reddit, wikipedia and so forth in searX, which directly queries based on a config inside the project.
yes, that's price segmentation working as intended. companies (i.e., the price insensitive) can afford to spend an extra $1k, even if the markup is otherwise outrageous. it just doesn't matter relative to the long-run productivity gains it affords. that's also why mac pros are in the $10k range, with wheels that cost $500, because that's a drop in the bucket for editing shops relative to the productivity it affords.
Facebook is for old people now. I organized an event for new students at the university and we had a discussion in the team whether we should advertize on FB or whether it would even be a hindrance because FB is not cool. We then agreed to post it there after all because people expect "serious" information such as dates of university events on Facebook.

I don't post regularly on Facebook, because my old FB friends are not very active. I'm in the age (late 30s) where you don't meet so many new people, and if you do it is no longer appropriate to add them on FB. So it is effectively dead for me. I communicate with one person via FB messenger and post uni events there. On Whatsapp, I communicate with my family and some coworkers. Everyone else is on Signal, Telegram, Instagram, maybe Twitter. TikTok is terrifying.
> As they become more of a studio they'll become even more of an outlier

also, as they invest in developing proprietary production software they could get an advantage over other studios.