skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rice grows inside a husk. And, white so-called "polished" rice has the outer coat removed. So, insecticide/pesticide residue on the surface isn't such a big deal, even for brown rice.

Ingesting and breathing in the concentrations of insecticide associated with spraying is orders of magnitude worse risk to the farm worker and people around, than incidental food contact risk post production/packaging.

Many chemicals are also broken down in sunlight and water, or are absorbed into the rootstock, not the fruiting body.

(not an agronomist or food scientist. I too wondered at the Merryl Streep ad 30 years ago where she's washing broccoli with soap..)
Driving up rental prices across entire markets is what drove up mortgages. Appraisals were more of a side effect of that than reflections of actual value, although most home owners will be loath to admit their golden geese are a shame.

Rental prices are used as an indicator for housing demand, and median home values feed back into the calculation for rental prices. It was a setup by deep pocketed financial interests with heavy investment into hard assets to game the math.

Before the pandemic, the rhetoric against WFH was largely a tactic by mid- and high-rise owners to sustain property values and income. I don't think a lot of people had access to the people having those conversations, but it was a fairly open topic around me going back to at least 2016.
You're the only submitter who tried to deal rationally with the title issue! It was probably impossible without mod intervention though.

I've merged the various comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329 since that one was posted first.
Depends where you live ;)
It’s exactly that. You’re a kid with a gun creating dinosaurs all cavalier. And a fool to think you can control them.
To me, "safe superintelligence" presumes it is practically feasible and morally justifiable to create such a thing. I don't share those presuppositions.
What Ive seen from these support communities like /r/Adhd is admins gatekeeping their interpretations with this guise of knowing whats best for everyone.

The admins there for example have decided that 1. The word "neurotypical" is banned, 2. One cannot say adhd isnt a disorder / adhd might have benefits. 3. Discussing negatives of medication seems to be removed
>started working as a data scientist in 2019

>Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb.

I'm really sick and tired of kids coming in and shitting on what we had to do to search a tb worth of data in 2009 (or 2004).

A computer in 2019 (or 2024) has enough power to run postgress queries to extract statistics from columns.

Yeah, great.

Now try running that stack on an iphone 7 and report your results back. We didn't create all that complexity for shits and giggles, we did it because it was at the edge of what was possible and the companies that got it right made billions.
This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process.

In the meantime, if anyone's looking for gamified railroad-building (just for fun), check out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/

Or several more: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/tre...
So get this. Check the actual requirements for being able to receive said content. A lot of streaming services block personal computers from being able to get HDR or higher than 1080p content sometimes. You got to use a smart TV or a fire stick or something like that in order to get 4K in some situations.
I am a bit confused about your stage as a product.

When you say "get people to try out your product", I feel that you are building a new product and looking for early feedback - your first design partner.

But then you say "offer long-term deals or any rewards" and "learn GTM for software products", which makes me think that you are done with your pilots proven that your product solves the problem much better than all the other solutions out there.

These two questions are very different. The first one is about validating if the problem is big enough for the person you are talking to. The second one is about communication and growth.
But once it gets to your house, it's actually yours. And then you can play it going forward without a service tracking you. Digital ownership is a massive ongoing failure of a marshmallow test.
Quite vulgar for a topic that doesn’t require any vulgarity. I was put off by the f bombs.
Nietzsche wrote about this in ~1885:

> Where solitude ends, there begins the market-place; and where the market-place begins, there begins also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. In the world even the best things are worthless without those who make a side-show of them: these showmen, the people call great men.

> Little do the people understand what is great — that is to say, the creator. But they have a taste for all showmen and actors of great things. Around the creators of new values revolves the world: — invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory: such is the course of things.
The title is accurate, but it implies that AVs are more dangerous than human drivers in other types of driving.

You have to read the whole thing to understand that the implication is false.

SAE Level 4 self-driving vehicles (those capable of full self-driving without a human at the wheel) performed especially well by several metrics. They were roughly 36 percent less likely to be involved in moderate injury accidents and 90 percent less likely to be involved in a fatal accident. Compared to human-driven vehicles, the risk of rear-end collision was roughly halved, and the risk of a broadside collision was roughly one-fifth. Level 4 AVs were close to one-fifthtieth as likely to run off the road.

So if you ignore all the horrific accounts of Tesla FSD casualties because Tesla is Level 2, not Level 4, then AVs are already saving lives.

Level 4 AVs are worse at dusk and dawn, better in rain and fog, worse when making turns, better at staying alert with no fatigue, better at staying on the road.
> Thanks! I'm proud of my moderation browser extension with keyboard shortcuts! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - which is written in Arc by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179860.

Really cool! How different is Arc running HN or your extension from Arc3.1, the last-released version?
I've been thinking about some problems recently and one that keeps popping up is "engineering vs science". Autonomous vehicles are the epitome of engineering vs science. Engineering is dirty, pragmatic, and with a lot of trial and errors. Science is pure, abstract (not necessarily practical), and proven. Human brain is great at engineering stuff (that's how we survived the natural selection), but computers are fantastic proof machines. When you wanna map a problem that our brain solves through dirty engineering tricks to something grounded in math and theory, you lose the emergent magic of all the little hacks that made the system possible.
Not just that, but it's just plain cheaper and more efficient with commonplace broadband. You don't have to pay for making CDs/DVDs (paying for a master is quite expensive, and the rewriteable ones have poor shelf life and can't be mass-produced nearly as quickly), you don't have to pay for postage, and you're not stuck with whatever's on the master since you can just update your data in your datacenter at any time.

I'm just sad that no one's come up with a really good, user-writeable long-term bulk storage solution. CD-Rs and later DVD-Rs were supposed to serve this need, but while they seemed like a ton of space in the 90s, they're tiny now, and later we all found out, the hard way, that the stupid things decay rather rapidly. Now we have BD-Rs but here again the storage size is just too small, and only a fool would trust them to last.
Before anyone gets excited, this is Level 4, e.g. Waymo, not your Tesla.

I’m a bit skeptical that there is enough data for a meaningful comparison at this point. Humans can and do drive in significantly more exciting situations than Waymo, and that’s probably going to remain true for a good while yet.
I abhor the style and disagree with most of their comments.
It isn't just an "algorithm" in the computer science sense. It is property managers reporting a bunch of information that is then fed into an algorithm.

Selling the algorithm should be fine. The information sharing is the part that gets into cartel territory.
I joined a bootcamp once, already knowing most of the material covered. I wasn't the only one in my cohort (of 4 people) who already knew how to program.

My hope was that the bootcamp might make it easier to find a job, which didn't happen. They put more effort into instruction than into placing applicants. Not sure why; I can easily cover any material that would be covered in a bootcamp myself.
Except for that in the sentence right before that he says that he did write his own C libraries from scratch, which I think means that the only reasonable interpretation of the "practitioners..." clause is that those are the people people that he describes as his "competition" who he is "clearly better than".

I'd really like to read it that way, but I'm afraid he actually did come across that arrogant.
TIL 50" smart TVs are SBCs.
> that does not change that it is not related to GPUs or the graphics stack itself. Working in the Linux display server space makes me quite comfortable in my understanding of GPU's display controllers.

I didn't mean to suggest some sort of fundamental limitation in GPUs that makes it impossible to synchronize this. If you take a look at my previous comments, you'll see me explicitly pointing out that I'm talking about Windows, specifically, and I'm only using it as an example of how short a latency is still perceptible. How exactly that latency happens is almost certainly not a hardware issue, however, and I never meant to imply such.
Not OP but want to say thanks for the suggestion. I just put a hold on it at my library, looks like a good read!
Oh completely, but the power of "fuck you money" is a very real thing and I think I would still be doing this, albeit with a very different career trajectory.

I'm exactly the person that would live cheaply and work on open source full time if I could afford to.
This rings true and is also hilarious. I am tired of the AI hype/grift that seems to pervade the industry - funnily enough some of these same promoters were on the blockchain/crypto hype that was going to revolutionize every industry on earth.

There is meat to recent advances in Machine Learning…but the revenue / savings for actual businesses will need to start coming in if this hype is going to be sustainable for the next 16-24 months.
Piano (keyboard) and Guitar. (Western classical training + pop songs)

I have also learned an Indian keyboard instrument called Harmonium. (Hindustani classical training)

And I love trying out new instruments :)
I'm pretty sure you will eat some, yes.

However, irrigation and the rice's own metabolism will remove some pesticide. And
rice grains have a peel which is later removed, often after a drying process at somewhat high temperatures, which will further degrade "safe" pesticides.

This is just the best compromise we can make between labor cost (both financial and human; I have worked in rice crops and it is no joke) and safety, practically speaking. If I had to dream a better solution, I would have our crops grow in completely artificial environments out of planet, while tended by robots. Then insecticides wouldn't be needed, and genetic manipulation would be less of an issue. But, as they say, choose your dreams.
> try running that stack on an iphone 7

Why?
Yes, that's the thinking.

To elaborate that thinking: when absorbed in the quantities experienced by a farm worker in this context, some pesticides can have irritant or toxic effects. They (or rather their application methods and cocktails) are designed not to permeate the food products of the plant, although some do with some foods and this is ongoing research. Farmers need to consistently produce healthy produce people can afford, and want to do as little harm as possible to people in the process.
Do you mean this? https://osrd.fr/en/docs/explanation/containers-architecture/

Could it just be the skillset that government has to? Web devs are a dime a dozen and you can probably find people to maintain/incrementally upgrade parts of it in the future easier than you could find an expert in some desktop GUI language (like .NET or Swift) that would still work after a few years of OS updates.
"nation state" doesn't mean what you think it means.

More constructively, I don't know that very much will stop even a hacker from getting time on the local corporate or university AI and get it to do some "work". After all the first thing the other kind of hacker tried with generative AI is to get them to break out of their artificial boundaries, and hook them to internet resources. I don't know that anyone has hooked up a wallet to one yet - but I have no doubt that people have tried. It will be fun.
Important points from the article:

> [Y]ou cannot combine accidents with self-driving cars [SAE Level 4] with the accidents of Teslas [SAE Level 2],” said Cummings. She took issue with discussing them in tandem and points out these categories of vehicles operate differently....

> [Level 4 vehicles] were roughly 36 percent less likely to be involved in moderate injury accidents and 90 percent less likely to be involved in a fatal accident. Compared to human-driven vehicles, the risk of rear-end collision was roughly halved, and the risk of a broadside collision was roughly one-fifth. Level 4 AVs were close to one-fifthtieth as likely to run off the road.

> [However] they were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk. They were relatively bad at navigating turns as well, with the odds of an accident during a turn almost doubled compared to those for human-driven vehicles.

I assume that the findings in paragraph 2 are despite the limitations from paragraph 3? That makes the "regular driving" performance look even more impressive.
Unbelievable how meta the original comment is. Seems like many of the subsequent replies, too. Skim a few paragraphs and that's plenty, time to share your thoughts with the internet...

This passage comes to mind:

> we want so badly to be believed, to be seen as someone who knows stuff.
Given the scenario you proposed, yes it has.
And then were they forced to date trans people? No.
Google DevRel had someone who went by his last name (Surma). In the company directory, he was Surma Surma.
Interesting, seems like a pretty open and shut case.
Same here, it came across as a juvenile and arrogant post that I stopped reading at the second threat of violence in spite of tantalizing comments on hn.

I'm slightly disappointed in hn that it has drawn so much attention (maybe there's gold after the threats; have at it to anyone with the demeanor to wait for it).
The downside being, naturally, that every single interaction requires a separate round-trip HTTP request, and a web backend that is far more stateful/sessionful than would otherwise be necessary.

To some extent I can see the appeal for rapid prototyping, especially for those less familiar with JavaScript. In a production environment- especially a bandwidth-limited, high-latency environment like a mobile device- it incurs an outrageous overhead on end users and server resources for that developer convenience.
No, it's definitely not. The postal service can easily beat any internet service's bandwidth. It might take 5 days to reach you, but if someone sends you a large box full of 20TB hard drives packed with data, there's no way you could download that much data in 5 days over a normal internet connection.
I'm not seeing where he says he wrote libraries in C in a cave with scraps. That sounds like a few steps beyond writing libraries from scratch (non-specified language). One's competition is their equals, no? It's not a competition otherwise.
For me Meetup was always about the marketing reach (created the eBay Tech Talk Germany event series with Meetup), not about features etc. (with 50% no-show-ups for free events in Berlin).
Disgruntled aspy with no social awareness vibes.
I don't think it's very specific to screens, but it is specific to situations where you've got incoming stressful content and especially a time deadline.

Which perfectly describes when you're trying to deal with all your e-mails before 10 am and a lot of the situations don't have easy resolutions, or you're trying to debug something that just won't work and you have no idea why and it's going to mess up the entire rest of your day if you don't get it fixed in the next 30 minutes.

So just a lot of our time-pressure stress situations happen via our screens now.

The situations you're describing seem very much the opposite of stressful.
I'm not Kye but I equally don't expect to have to work around some developers ideals getting in the way of Linux being able to function correctly when faced with an Intel IGPU and an Nvidia DGPU in a laptop. I don't expect to have to work around tons of things in Linux that take way longer than two to three clicks when the alternative is just install Windows 10 or 11 and it functions as it should...

Edit: most of the pre-installed things that people talk about are actually shortcuts that make things install. When you go to uninstall those things or remove them from the start menu it's readily apparent that most of those things are just a couple hundred kilobytes or in some cases a couple megabytes.

It's not like it's not a selling feature on Linux or any other operating system to not have things pre-installed right? It almost seems like something's broken if you install Linux and it doesn't have Firefox right out of the box and it doesn't have a built-in image viewer and whatever else things people need pre-installed.
McMurtry Spéirling:Record breaking EV car with 2000 kg downforce from the get-go
"I am clearly better than most of my competition"?
We know organic interest when we see it, so I merged all the comments into this one (the first) and re-upped it. Meta explanations here if it's the kind of thing you like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734700
I make tin foil hats aka beanies with silver lining,, and clothing to deflect,
Feels nice
Based on what data can you say these symptoms tend to come together though?

This is a whole another problem with the diagnosis. A human being is making subjective judgements based on the self reporting of another human being. Most of the dsm is stuff like "is often inattentive in conversations", "often misplaces things".

How often is "often"? How do you know on average how many times people misplace things?

I have no issues with this at all if we just admit its not really a science and were just trying to treat patients
Well, a ton of the sort of information on CD-ROMs also became readily (and often even legally) available online. The focus of this article seems to be the wonder of having access to all this rich multimedia in your home which wasn't really practical before broadband was common and web content filled out.

Some of it probably ended up as proto datahoarders to be sure. I have this massive archive in my house that I will probably never fully explore! I'm sure I still have some of those CDs although a lot are in wonky formats that it would take a lot of effort to access.
Science is not like that really. Science is mostly experimental, which is pretty much trial and error. The theories produced through that process can closely fit observed results and yet still be wrong, like Newton’s theory of gravitation. There isn’t much in science that is truly pure and proven all the way down to its foundation, though something doesn’t need to be pure or proven to have good predictive power and utility. And there isn’t much that is truly abstract in science since everything is ultimately trying to explain how material reality works, even physics.

Math is the only thing that is like what you’re describing.
This works under the assumption that all negative environmental externalities are tracked by governing bodies in every jurisdictions, and that's simply not the case.
A garotte is a device or weapon used for strangulation. It typically consists of a cord or wire, sometimes with handles at each end to provide better grip and leverage. The garotte is used by wrapping it around a person's neck and tightening it, cutting off the air supply and causing asphyxiation. Historically, garottes have been used for execution and assassination due to their silent and deadly nature. In modern contexts, they are often associated with covert or criminal activities.

welp
Did you need to add "Linux doesn't need you"? This is the exact problem that makes the Linux welcoming party so two faced
Deleted because it was unnecessarily inflammatory.
Wouldn't it be worse if HN didn't honor its users' requests to delete data? I legitimately don't know, it seems like both approaches would cause issues.
As much as i love every P standing for PHP, "PaaS" usually means Platform as a Service
"loans are rarely predatory" misses the point why they are bad. They are bad for the economy because it's you (not the market) who decides who gets resources.
Somewhat dated by the reference to tapes but still true overall:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/20jlv3/n...
ADHD forums are notorious for this. I do not personally moderate this way. Everyone’s opinions should be valid if they respect others. No one’s problems are any more special than anyone else’s, and if someone is displaying that type of behavior, they probably don’t belong in a support group.

ADHD in particular is further complicated by the fact that there are many, many drug seekers that game the system and even fool themselves. Even worse these drug seekers have collectively done alot to create scarcity in a limited supply of a class of drugs that many people think they need to survive - (i am making no comment about the efficacy of
adhd meds) - so strong violent opinions are evoked (understandably). That is why these rules are in place. People simply cannot discuss the subject rationally. I do not try to involve myself in those communities, but many of the Autism spectrum disorder communities and depression support groups don’t suffer similar issues and people that try to gatekeep are promptly scolded. I do acknowledge adhd forums are a unique place for the reasons I mentioned above.
https://archive.is/1PdVW