skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farming is another industry where almost everything can be securitized.

A dairy farm may own or rent the acreage for growing its feed and related equipment or may buy it on the spot or futures market. May own, mortgage or rent its milking equipment.

Every country’s subsidies work differently, and it’s a bit opaque since everyone claims they’re hardworking and don’t get/need subsidies, but sometimes they’re even securitized and bought/sold.

So as each farmer makes its own bets/hedges, there are winners and losers when interest rates go up or down, feed goes up or down, land value goes up or down.

So the story of the “farmers going bankrupt, we need more subsidies” will never end.

In Canada, becoming a new dairy farmer requires you to buy $$$ “quota” from an existing farmer. Possibly they grow organically as demand grows too.
You need to know percentile, not score.
Becoming a woman is not the path for me. But it's so wild how much of this website is pro-status quo, anti-bio-hacking, anti-personal freedom on this topic. And especially anti-intellectual and anti-curious on the topic, too. Way too much culture war leaking in from meatspace.
This is missing the “scrolling is broken, history is broken, text isn’t high contrast enough, doesn’t work on mobile Safari, I hate paywalls, I hate cookie pop-ups, I hate newsletter signups, doesn’t work with adblock, doesn’t work without JavaScript, so didn’t read the article” comment.
The original LISP's "Lisp Assembly Program" was rather like this -- see Appendix C in the Lisp 1.5 manual, from 1962: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP...
I really want to use and like Nix. But I don’t want to write code (in an esoteric programming language no one else uses, no less) to install/manage my dependencies! It feels too much like it’s trying to be an all-encompassing digital lifestyle instead of just a package manager that I think about only when I need to install a package.
Get used to eye contact cuz if/when you lose hearing you’ll be lip reading and trying to pick up cues re when to speak and what was said. Unless you have two hearing aids for stereo, where people look in a group is an excellent cue who is talking. And talking over people is an “I’m an asshole” cue that one should try to avoid.
He’s working on a business version of Twitter Blue right? Would that sell itself, or would he replace advertising sales people with subscription sales people. Presumably the business version isn’t $8/month.
It's a green card.
"The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." - Naval

I've come to agree with this assessment.
Elon took out loans with over 100% annual rates?
Likewise: full shelves at Morrisons, a large Tesco and a city centre large Marks & Spencers as checked visually in the last few days in a city of 1 million.

Prices are rising for some lines though.
Can recommend Sendgrid, it can get expensive over time, but the the time trade off is worth initially plus basic styling is easy.
Well I’m a fucking idiot then
A huge amount of Linux users use rolling release distributions now (Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, etc). I prefer it as well because I find it less disruptive than occasional big-bang versioned releases.

Where versioning matters, we have better tools than OS package managers now (ex Docker).
> information physics

Agree - this was a refreshingly novel SF concept that he developed. He re-used the concept somewhat in Moving Mars
The situation with Alexa and its ilk (as with GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, autonomous driving, etc.) seems to be yet another case where at one level the results are impressive but it's not nearly good enough to enable the really interesting use cases. So it devolves to basically short formulaic commands.
Am I still on the parody thread?
> IQ is remotely relevant to actual intelligence

> IQ is popularly perceived as determined by the genes and unchangeable

> IQ tests have a negative effect on test takers

> IQ is often used in "scientific" racism to promote pseudoscientific social theories

1. They say IQ doesn't measure intelligence because according to them "Intelligence is the ability to solve problems". Well IQ at least claims to do that with its with its fluid intelligence component. Maybe creativity is independent of IQ, and also corresponds to better problem solving skills, but that doesn't change the fact IQ is still a predictor of problem solving skill.

2. If you can prove IQ can be boosted, that would be revolutionary. There's the n-back that improves IQ according to some studies, but that's highly controversial. But in any case, I don't see how not being able to change it makes it a bad measure. Me not being able to make myself taller doesn't make height a bad measure.

3. People not handling well knowing their intelligence doesn't have anything to do whatsoever with IQ being a good or bad measure of intelligence.

4. Again, people using metrics to be racist is an argument against measuring intelligence, not against IQ itself. You could make the same argument about literally any other system measuring intelligence.

A point I find interesting is "school improves IQ". What if the reason we can't seemingly improve people's IQ was because the school system already brought them to their full IQ potential? Maybe when we're trying to increase people intelligence, because we're testing on people already at school, it's like conducting studies on how to get muscular on people who are already maxed out gym bros. It's gonna be very hard to get them more muscular/intelligent if they're already reached max allowed by their body through intense daily workout/schooling.
Your argument is a strawman.

1. Nobody is saying the results of his previous work should be negated.

2. Nobody is arguing has cars vs EV here.

3. You can totally dislike what someone has become or revealed themselves to be without that diminishing who they were prior.

4. You can also change your opinion on someone after learning more about them.

Your arguments seem emotional rather than rational.
>> I'm not sure how any of that describes "using customer funds to prop up your affiliated crypto trading firm"

>Hedge Fund

Is this a distinction worth making? I'm not even sure whether "hedge fund" is even the correct term here. Wikipedia describes it as a "quantitative trading firm" and so does bloomberg.
A lot of east Africa has surprisingly good LTE coverage. I assume you know this. Of course, starlink will have higher speeds.

Anyway, here's an idea: livestreamed self drive safaris!
That isn't a fact.

Keep in mind that this scheme wouldn't reward the authors of software -- it rewards the people who create and upload packages. Those usually aren't the same people, and the maintainers that are most subject to burnout are the authors, not the packagers.

It also appears to require those developers to purchase (or otherwise acquire) tokens before adding software to the packaging system.
Small warning, offline support is terrible. I’m a happy user though but use a combination of Notes and Notion.
That's good to know, I wasn't aware of the difference! They told us we'd have flying cars but the future is just grifters hiding in every corner of the fucking world.
I want rolling updates for my tooling.
Biden Leads ‘Critical’ Call for Game-Changing Crypto Rules After FTX Collapse
Common misconception. It’s important to realise that time doesn’t slow down. Time always passes at 1 second per second. Here a physicist explains it:

https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1435400040072232962
No, it is worst than no measure of intelligence. It gives a false impression of the truth that can hurt the person or people involved. IQ is often used in racist terms, since certain populations in the world do not have the cultural background to pass this arbitary test
Which wasn’t that far from succeeding, at 44%. Since then, they were made to leave the EU, the Queen died, and the party that proposed it has done well electorally.
Ask HN: How do you effectively balance altruism with a strong business model?
I'm in the planning phase of creating some new software and have been mulling over my goals and target audience. I've found it surprisingly challenging to reason about how much altruism I should hope to achieve. Sometimes it feels like being the most helpful is at-odds with developing the strongest possible business model.

As a more concrete example, let's say I am creating some software to help people with their mental health journey.

What market do I target? At a high level, two options come to mind:

- Those who have identified a want for mental health assistance, are currently suffering, and are searching for tools to mitigate.

- Those who have not identified a want for mental health assistance, are currently suffering, and are worsening.

Objectively, I am far more interested and concerned for those in the latter group. They are in a more vulnerable position and stand to benefit more from my efforts, but they are also more difficult to sell solutions. The former is looking to be sold, which is alluring, but I am not as worried for them because they have enough self-awareness to identify their personal needs and are seeking solutions.

In talking to people, I've come to the conclusion that a solution for one group will look markedly different than a solution for the other. Those seeking assistance expect self-help language to exist in the software and are emboldened by it, but, conversely, those not yet searching are repulsed by the direct language and need a softer approach. It doesn't seem reasonable to dedicate an MVP to the former market with the hope of pivoting to encompass the latter.

My gut says capitalism is too ruthless to tolerate pursuit of the less valuable market for an MVP and that the only viable approach is to chase the money and then, once ~stable, tolerate losses in the pursuit of rebalancing the business model more towards altruism.

Does that sound right to you? What comes to your mind when you consider the difficulties in balancing altruism with a strong business model?
I've looked at a few alternatives and they all face the same core issue :

The Alexa's hardware is really good, it is the software that is the issue.

If i install Mycroft, what will it run on? I guess a Pi? Does this look anywhere near as refined as an Alexa device?

How much time will i need to spend to get it working vs simply plugging an Alexa in?
We're talking about trans men getting pregnant, not trans women. While trans men are a minority, those percentages are multiple orders of magnitude too small.
Cool Website!
We used to. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1980s-doron-drivers-e...
Technologies really grow recently, but this mostly affected static objects (buildings, interior things), or slow motion objects, like big ships or large planes on parking.

- Life like behavior of small autos (smaller than semi-trucks) and human behavior, still programmed manually by humans.
Loved that, read it start to finish. C is already a minefield and it looks positively tame when compared to C++!
> Blaming “Toryism” is pretty odd. You think the economic problems affecting the UK started in the last decade?

They came to power 12 years ago when interest rates were <1% and they've cut investment in every industry, from Wind Power to Tidal energyto basic infrasteucture like an HDVC cable to iceland to import cheap geothermal power.

They have sold profitable state assets like the green investment bank, and essential security like gas storage.

The office for fiscal responsebility has calculated that these cuts have cost us hundreds of billions in the current energy crisis.

It has also been the most law-breaking government in living memory - they illegally deported thousands of british citizens in the Windrush scandal, had party in the middle of lockdown at number 10, to the PPE/covid eqipment contract handed out without tender to friends and family, Lordship titles for friends and dobors, breaking laws on political campaigns finance in Brexit referendum and taking godgy russian donations.

Combine that with the fact that they recently proposed a law to ankle tag 'repeat protestors' without a court process or any evidence of a crime.

I genuinely fear that UK is becoming like Russia or the inside, but with better marketing.
While Python is "the second best language for any task", I think the Python standard library documentation is second-to-none:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
> I think the country could very well cease to exist

Do you mean something like Scotland going their own way? Or something more dramatic (think revolution)?
I see, I think the app is in beta / TestFlight right now
He voluntarily offered to pay $44 billion and voluntarily signed a contract saying he'd do so. Insisting that he follow through with what he voluntarily made a binding commitment to do is hardly "cornering". The debt that has been taken on was his idea, part of the original offer he made, it's not like he didn't plan for Twitter having that debt to pay off.
How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid?
> A point I find interesting is "school improves IQ". What if the reason we can't seemingly improve people's IQ was because the school system already brought them to their full IQ potential?

The hell kinda schools do they have around you? I promise you no school I ever attended even tried to do that. Anyone who had potential had to skirt around the school system.
“Heist of the century”: how $2.5B was plundered from Iraqi state funds
Have you tried Starlink’s Whatapp:

https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=14253313125&text=Olá%21...
What percent of drivers in the UK go to a drivers school that might have such a device?

In the US, Im pretty sure the typical path is that parents get their kids comfortable with the mechanical controls in parking lots and low traffic roads.
To be clear, I wholeheartedly agree. I just want to emphasize that, to the degree that UK's overall problems are worse that the EU's, Brexit is largely to blame. And this is taking into account some pretty boneheaded things that EU countries did, like Germany deciding to phase out nuclear in 2011.
This is a longer trend with the way women behave online. Ghosting, zero-effort one-word conversations, setting up dates and then backing out last minute. This describes 95%+ of my online interactions with women since around 2016 or so. This is coming from someone who used to consistently get 1-2 new dates a week before eventually finding a very long term relationship with a girl who met me for a drink after I asked her out in my second message. My suspicion is that some sort of attention tipping point re: female psychology has been reached - they're so inundated by everyone that they want no one.
> wrote the addendum because I knew that some people would be curious exactly why I left Twitter, and also because I did feel like ranting about Musk

To me the "addendum" was the low point of the article. Because it turned what might have been a principled position into a semi-coherent rant about politics, former US president, climate change, and "Muskrat", which in it self resembles the worst kind of twitter threads.

I don't understand why people do these things, but just like twitter - your post would also be better without this type of stuff. Just personal opinion.

To end on a positive note - I like your apps and the spartan css style of the blog. So this is a friendly message :)
“Fox News delivered an average total audience of 2.116 million viewers in prime time, down just 1 percent from the same period one year ago, according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen. MSNBC was second with 1.295 million viewers (down 2 percent from 2021), while CNN was a distant third in prime with 731,000 viewers—down 15% from one year ago.”

“The country with the most Twitter users is the United States with a total of 77.75 million users.”
Fwiw I acknowledged the good people directly from the Cromwell team on a presentation recently due to the incredible support/help somebody & their team provided my team. The WDL/Cromwell community has grown and I've heard people mention it everywhere now (far away from the Broad) and it's in no small part due to that team and its former leadership.
Not exactly. I disabled my router‘s built in DHCP server so that they don’t conflict with each other. Luckily it didn’t have _that_ option locked down :)
My driving lessons (in India) did include a few hours in an arcade-style simulator before we went on the road.

I've tried driving lessons in the US and they don't seem to include simulators. People actually follow traffic rules here and there are lots of quiet (low traffic) streets, so it's not as intimidating to be on the road.
Not even just gas fees -- the publishers have to outright pay to get a package added:

> Specifically, the package maintainer must:

> [...] Contribute to the package’s reputation and trustworthiness by steeping tea tokens.

https://github.com/teaxyz/white-paper/blob/main/white-paper....
I mean, he did commit to buying them $44 billion. If he didn't want to buy them, he shouldn't have signed a contract agreeing to do so. You can't argue that Musk doesn't know what a contract is and can't get decent legal advice.
>Populist nationalism is rising throughout the western world. It’s a reaction to the failings of globalist liberalism, not the cause of those problems.

Was there any alternative to 6B people in the developing world offering to sell their labor and environment for less than the 1B people in the developed world? Arbitrage opportunities cannot go on forever without being outcompeted.
My website, http://invece.org, is 5k not compressed. Assuming the linked images don't count.
Ask HN: Do you like Homebrew updating all tools to bleeding edge versions?
Homebrew is a great tool! It's de-facto standard package manager for macOS.

The reason for this Ask HN is that I saw a comment from one of Homebrew maintainers in this comment thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682031

Here's an excerpt: "because the majority of its [Homebrew] users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling."

My biggest pain point with Homebrew are its constant trying to update packages to the latest versions. I know there are ways around this like some pointed in that thread. I'm just baffled that that's the default behavior.

I'm wondering how many people prefer this behavior and why?
> A broken clock is right twice a day and all that. But the key point is 'if a referendum were blocked, they would fight the next general election as a referendum instead'.

to what end? with no agreement from the UK government nothing will happen

> Point being why would anyone invest in Scotland or the rest of the UK during such tumultuous times?

there's no doubt it hurts investment in Scotland

however its economic impact on leaving the UK would be more or less a non-event for the rest of the UK

(Scotland's share of UK GDP being less than the UK's share of EU GDP)
> I agree that relative to other sentences she does, but what does 11 years mean to you? It's everything to me. I cannot imagine giving up 11 years.

Then don't commit one of the most notable frauds of the 21st century? It seems to me that avoiding this fate you so rightfully fear is incredibly simple and anybody who therefore fails to restrain themselves from doing so has earned every second of their sentence.
Important fact:
The [-] does not remove a point. After you get 500 points, you earn the privilege of down voting, you will get a "down triangle" underneath the "up vote up triangle" that you can click on.
It seems to me that learning the business yourself is the best option. A number of times, PG has mentioned this.
For buying stuff online? In which EU country is this supposed to be the norm?
Nearly perfect.

You missed the mandatory post on how I can read the author's blog post for 400 hours without recharging on my superior Mac M1, versus just 10 minutes on pleb Linux boxes.
Don’t forget a snippet of text, but you better make it as generic and boring as possible so you fi in and don’t look like a “weirdo”.
Perhaps pitching trump on a system to repost his truth posts onto twitter would get you a sweet gig
Right, but aside from academics, what is the use for the number. Like, sure, it will maybe tell you that person A is better than person B at solving what essentially are logic puzzles, but that's at best tangentially related to most things, even in "intellectual" jobs it's a mix of knowledge, creativity and ability to see correlation plus almost always some social skills too.
Communist China says hi! And the British Empire was hardly a bastion of freedom and yet kickstarted the industrial revolution. Even the USSR, for all ita horrific flaws and mass murdering ways turned the Russian Empire from an agrarian one to an industrial powerhouse in 2 decades.
Shiny Cake Derps – Minecraft Skin Pack
I find it a bit interesting that he's lost 50-75% of the workforce and there's hardly any effect on the service... yet.
How about Carmageddon? :)
A suggestion for next time: try the bar. Even if you’re not a drinker, it’s a great way to meet people, romantically or otherwise. After all, if they didn’t want to talk to random strangers, they’d be drinking/dining at home (or a table).
My bad! I I stand corrected.
There are quite a few sources of data but yes, the ingress POI data was used as one source.
Maybe a person who can build a "saner Nix" might be smart enough to decide that "web3" is a good fit for the project?
Cross origin caching of resources is a privacy risk

If site A can tell based on timing information that you probably visited site B recently, that's a pretty big privacy issue

This has largely killed cross-origin caching on the web, as I understand it
There's a handful of big tech companies that are laying off ~10k each, a few more laying off in the low thousands or hundreds. All told, they might hit the 100k range. If you're in tech, you know there's a huge number of unfilled positions, so likely most of these 100k will find a new job, and won't count towards unemployment. Let's be very cautious and estimate 50k of them will remain unemployed; that's still only 10% of the number of jobs the expected recession next year will cost:

> Bank of America is projecting that the US economy will lose over 500,000 jobs in 2023.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-jobs-lost-next-year...
We all "sort of" recognize intelligence, but it stops there.

> The entire edifice of research which makes these claims is a product of a pseudoscientific use of statistics by amateur statisticians.

That's bollocks. It's just a topic that's too complex. Unfortunately, everybody likes it and draws conclusions from it. Even the HR department. If you would say we should ignore IQ measurements in society, I would agree. But it's not pseudo-scientific use of statistics. Nor all done by amateurs. It might even be more scientific than string theory or dark matter.
Is it not useful to highlight that we have no idea how to measure “the best,” so defending hiring practices because they’re filtering for “the best” is silly?

Edited for clarity
I find myself oscillating between bargaining, depression, and acceptance on this topic.

Something will happen in the world, like Bolsonaro losing his election and Lula making some promises, and I will gain hope. Then I'll look at the IPCC again and feel depressed. Then I'll make some commitment to change my life habits in some way that's a bit greener and accept that I can't do much more.

But there's still some cognitive dissonance when I reach acceptance. I don't really accept it deep down. I live in fear, especially fear for my kids' generation.
Early in covid, I played with a famous 65-year-venerated dataset from where I work. Found some interesting minutiae and ended up on the front page of the wsj over it.

https://github.com/RANDCorporation/milliondigits

It's probably not what you're looking for, but it's my own favorite dataset.
Where's the random guy making a silly, reddit-like joke and being downvoted into oblivion with a snide reply about how this is HN not reddit?