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I found this article really engaging. His ability to explain the product and its guiding principles in laymans terms immediately destroys the many doubts that cropped up in my mind as I read. The lack of unneccessary jargon gave me an affinity to the product that I couldnt have got had he just appealed to the photophiles.

I still have questions but I thought his clear communication style was quite compelling to someone like me who only has a cursory understanding of photography.

Thanks for posting this, a very thought-provoking article.

This sentence: "He thinks too much choice overwhelms us and makes us unhappy—a phenomenon he calls the paradox of choice" reminded me of this humorous clip: https://youtu.be/UtwKFZHY5o4?t=252

Preparing for downvotes for posting something overtly Christian....

It turns out that you are correct: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

It feels a little like the space-race story where NASA developed an extraordinary pen and the Russians just took pencils

This is a great point and the responses are classic HN; algorithms etc...but whats wrong with locking the truck? EDIT: spelling

For a relatively angry-toned comment, I feel you hit the nail on the head.

They're becoming pretty commonplace. A friend runs a farm that uses them. The cows come in to be milked when they want to be, which averages about 2.2 times per day, they enjoy getting milked. A back scratching machine gives them a rub (which they love) and they stroll leisurely back to their paddock to eat more of their favourite thing; grass.

Staffing costs are much lower along with the subsequent disasters and animal problems caused by thoughtless staff. The cows are happier than ever and milk production is record-breaking.

Robotic contraption milking them? How about these milking robots on the farms all around me?

https://youtu.be/Aju_wqHhCBk

I initially thought this was a NYTimes self promotion piece. As in "Think NYTimes is hot right now? Just Wait".

Ten years ago a friend and I (both with little technical knowledge) made an extra display on our flat wall using an old overhead projector and the lcd display from a busted sattelite pro laptop.

A decade later achieving a similar thing using more recent technology is so difficult that it is noteworthy.

I dont have a point. It just seemed an interesting comparison.

I have no doubt that climate change is a problem. I have kids, I dont want to give them a hospital pass.

I've tried to stop living such a carbon dependant lifestyle but I look outside and my efforts feel futile. How do I REALLY do something about this other than a few pretentious yet barely discomforting lifestyle changes and the odd empassioned few sentences at dinner parties?

Start pushing for a carbon tax?

Start an electric car company?

Begin development of technology to get us to Ma.....oh wait

Plant heaps of trees?

Buy drones and start my own version of operation sunscreen?

Seriously. The mild excitement that comes with media alarmism has transitioned into "I really need to start doing something drastic or I'll regret it"

Its quite refreshing to hear you say that last sentence. Being labelled a bigot, self righteous or any of several other generalisations, because I believe Jesus was who he said he was, is a little hard to understand at times.

Totally, which is why I added "...yet"

Making dinner in the kitchen? Hit "Salad" on the app and have your farmbot harvest the ingredients for a 300g garden salad....

Lots of cool applications and I got prepared for "buying mode" when I watched the video. But three deep breaths reminded me that this wasn't going to return the value to my life that it had initially cost...yet

This is clever, and I applaud CNC principles being applied in such a unique way. But once the planting and prep is done (which takes a few hours max for me to do by hand) I now have a several thousand dollar watering can.....

Make no mistake, this is where agriculture is heading and the people behind this are obviously clever and innovative. I just don't think this is a very compelling product (outside of the "A robot planted my veges" kudos)......yet.

I saw a cartoon of congress where someone is standing up and saying "Wait! What if this is all a hoax and we're building a better world for nothing!?"

Or words to that effect.

Seems to be the only argument that has had any impact on the deniers that I've had discussions with.

I've heard it described as confusion between cause and agency. Just because you know how something happened doesn't explain that thing's purpose or that it doesn't have intent.

I may have been in the Toyota factory and even met the engineers who designed the cars. That doesn't mean I understand the full intent of Toyota's board of directors.

It seems as though, in some online communities, the discussion about faith and purpose has begun to evolve beyond some variation of "OMG you believe XYZ? That is proven completely false by ABC - Lolz".

I won't hold my breath but increased meaningful discussion can only be a good thing.

Have been trying to get my head around AI as a layperson with kids who will grow up in a world where some form of AI is commonplace but are unlikely to be prepared for it by school.

Have found this free book that I saw on YCs 2015 reading list particularly helpful in this respect: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

Do you have any examples/references pertaining to The Big Short?

After reading The Big Short and discussing its contents with people who know a lot more about the financial industry than I do, I was surprised to find how much the book stood up under their scrutiny. So many popular books seem to lead me down a deceptive rabbit-hole of semi truths and poetic license given for the sake of sensationalism whereas Michael Lewis just seems to have a knack for telling the facts as a compelling story.

Also, this quote from the article struck a chord with a lot of the internal dialogue I have about doing what I know is important as opposed to doing what is profitable:

>> "They had been so transformed by the rates of pay and the needs it had created in them, they couldn’t escape from it. “

I feel like I'm subconsciously much more loyal to services I have used than I would otherwise like to think. There is so much other stuff going on and I just can't be bothered going through the (probably easy) task of understanding a new service. So I just go back to the service that I've already used, know works, and does amazing things like ship 3 cent buttons for nothing.

So that people who need a 3-cent button use the service, are impressed by it and become higher margin customers later on.

"the giants are among the top 10 most valuable American companies of any kind."

Depends what you mean by "value". If current price Mr Market is willing to pay = "value" then yes. If value is a measure of long term return based on another set of measures like profitability etc then basing the future dominance of these companies on their current stock price seems a little speculative.

I feel nervous that focussing on one language will only give me understanding within a narrow sphere. Is there a reason why Go is more broad reaching than others?

I'm not planning to be a coder but to at least have a fair understanding of modern tech as a whole.

I understand this is akin to saying "I wanna understand heapsa stuff" but at least getting advice from HNers will make this process more efficient.

Wowza! $25 USD for the kindle version. If I can get one more vote for this book I'll buy it.

I assume they charge that much coz its a great book but social proof, Robert Cialdini etc...

If I understand the situation correctly, JavaScript could soon be commonplace as a back end language as well thanks to NodeJS? I may have completely misunderstood this...

Being corrected by someone online who gives a complete and reasonable argument to support their assertion is what makes HN so good. Thank you kind stranger.

As someone who is interested in tractors, this article was a total letdown.

wingsuit flyby of the latest "startup" getting a small fortune in funding....chapter 11 before the 'chute deploys

If only everything on HN had a wingsuit flyby