skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the reason we're in the soil predicament we're in (in Europe, at least) is that we've been dumping literal mountains of shit on the fields for years, leading to massive nitrate pollution. To the point that one of the limiting factors for keeping cows is the amount of land you have (or can rent) to spread the manure they produce over.

But that's just nitpicking of me - I take it that what you meant is that we need less annual crops, more polyculture food growing, less tilling, and other such methods that increase soil organic matter and soil life. The problem is though that all alternatives, right now, are only a little bit less labor intensive than subsistence farming; especially if we add in the extra constraint of 'minimizing food kilometers'. Whereas the high-tech route (vertical hydroponics-style) doesn't need soil at all...

I'm not sure where I'm going with this; all my replies in this thread have been pretty negative I'm afraid. The thing is that we don't have a good way forward; right now there is no 'sustainable agriculture' that is also scalable and cheap enough to feed everybody. If everybody who claimed 'their method' as the answer would start by admitting that, we could at least start from a position of mutual vulnerability, instead of the ideological entrenchment we see now.
I would call it Unsolicited Commercial Email, because that's precisely what it is.

I suppose you could philosophically contort a meaning by which "it's not really spam if you squint", but if I get that garbage in my GMail I hammer that "report as spam" button so fast, and encourage everyone else to do likewise.
> Except that messaging services are useless if the people you want to talk to don't use them.

This applies to centralised/proprietary systems as well, including those 8 walled gardens that you use.

When Slack was created, nobody was using it. When Signal came out, nobody was using it. Same with Telegram, Skype, Twitter and all the other centralised/proprietary systems.

Some of those did manage to gain enough users for positive network effects to kick in, so "nobody uses it" isn't specific to FOSS/decentralised/federated systems, it applies to messaging systems in general. The fact that so many messaging systems keep being created, and so many users hop from one to another, shows that it's not a particularly strong argument either.

The real problems for systems like XMPP are the levels of investment required in marketing, UI design, etc. to compete with the proprietary systems.
> Polish farmers are forced to produce less milk than they have ability to - milk producers are given fines if they create to much milk, which is ridiculous.

It's the exact same thing in France. It's not uncommon for farmers to dump the milk they overproduced to not get fined.

French farmer aren't any less productive than other european farmers, they simply target another quality for the most part.
Protest flyers what are they protesting about?
virtually a declaration of war.

Have you reflected properly on why Germany felt a need to defend itself against the US?
That is Thailand. It is theoretically illegal but still popular. The birds usually don't die. Here's more: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/751760/coc...

I was recently in Lao and saw village boys around ten years old training these birds to fight. In context it looked totally normal and reasonable.
I agree with you on most of your points including that grass-fed beef is not sustainable at the current rate of consumption, but that does not mean that it isn't sustainable at a lower rate of consumption / higher price.
In that video, the game is using hardware accelerated 3D because we can clearly see the bilinear-filtering.
I think they were making a point that they were going to clarify these things but didn't want to get involved in arguing online.

I also wouldn't exactly call that a rant, I call that a bullet-point explanation of their logic. Personally I'm grateful to them for clarifying things. Until that point I had multiple people making comments about how I couldn't tell a bot from a human.
AWS is a very specific business unit within the company and from my friends that work there seems to have a very different culture than Amazon (retail) proper.

Yes their dev/release cycles are quite impressive.
Simple Performance Optimizations on Grofers.com with React, Webpack, HTTP/2
The lead developer for Redox OS is on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/crowdfunding-os-7569975
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it already happened for Segway, here is a documentary of the design process from the future/past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyLnWm1iCs

and here are the products: https://www.walmart.com/tp/hoverboard
Thanks! Will add to my "reading/random" sublist :).
The killer feature is that you get to have the same source code run your model on your $300 netbook's CPU or on a server/workstation's multiple GPUs.

When your model changes every day, you really need a framework that abstracts away the underlying computational resources.
My biggest issue with AMP regards its UX. In mobile Safari, scrolling is hijacked. This creates two issues: non-native scroll momentum, and the inability to scroll to the top (by tapping the status bar).

I have several other issues as well, but they are mentioned in the article.
Dossier SaaS: Create, Share, Collaborate, Store
For the ones who deal with the subtleties of human and corporate behavior. Those who lead, manage, sell, convince, recruit, litigate, investigate, inform.
(If this is right up your alley - check out the Dossier examples and the Dossier Creator, to get the gist of the service)
If using competitor is not viable. Similarly, one could have installed an alternative OS with an alternative browser in 2000, but the jury thought that it's not that simple.
... but will unsustainable farming not kill us all by definition too?

I realize sustainable and organic are not the same. I am actually, not sure if organic is sustainable or indeed what is required across the world for a farm to be deemed organic.

However, I have always been under the impression, that conventional (non organic) farming is unsustainable in the long term due to the environmental impact, which we'll have to pay for at a later time.

Are we already seeing some of the impact from both European and US farms (pollution of oceans and e.g. Colorado river drying up)?

To me it seems like we are in trouble either way, if we wish to continue with our current consumption of meat.
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"cold sales emails"
There's a difference between cold sales emails that are completely impersonal and emailed out to thousands of people an an email that is personally addressed to me and my current situation.

"believe promises"
No, you're reading in to what I believe. I stated that it made them look good since they were responding to me more quickly than the company I was paying which had stuffed up.
Slightly away from topic, but my new burn is "this is so web 2.0." Because that was like 10 years ago. Personally, I think AWS feels pretty "now" with UX only a developer could love (said as a sometime developer).
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On one hand I agree with what you're saying, biggest problem is that the price isn't fair, as it is subsidized, either by the government directly (corn subsidies, etc.) or by the damage to the environment and our health that we keep ignoring.

However you cannot introduce a tax on all produce, when clearly some practices are more sustainable than others. At the current rate of consumption, grass fed cattle might not be enough to satisfy the demand, but if a farm doesn't pollute the environment, then it does not deserve a tax.

In nature there's symbiosis in the food chain, there's symbiosis between predator, cattle and grass, with grass being evolved for grazing, which in turn helps to offset the CO2 emissions of the cattle consuming it, with predators playing an important role in trimming the herd, which would otherwise go out of control. This obviously doesn't have to be a zero-sum game and by the looks of it nature has been way more effective at converting sun's energy into organic matter than we have.

Surely meat is too cheap compared to what it actually costs to produce, but I fear that many people identify meat consumption as this big evil, but without identifying the source of the problem. The problem is with all industrial farming, because we've accelerated farming by burning fossil fuels, turning forests into corn fields and polluting everything in the process. Without cheap fossil fuels or government subsidies, industrial farming practices wouldn't be possible. And it's not sustainable because there is no symbiosis in anything we are doing.

And the other problem is over-population, with capitalism and poverty encouraging continuous growth. You now hear on the news that the population in Europe is aging, which should actually be a great piece of news, except that our current economic climate doesn't cope well with a diminished fertility rate, capitalism relies on constant growth, hence we actually rely on other nations remaining poor and producing imigrants ;-)

And we should be ending the global poverty, which I'm fairly certain that we can, which should flatten that growth curve, but we should also impose a maximum fertility rate of 2 and stop doing commerce with the countries that don't do that. Because we wouldn't need industrial-scale farming, if we wouldn't have 7 billion mouths to feed and Earth is limited.
Is this your site? If so, this would likely be better submitted as a "Show HN" if it meets the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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I'm curious: When we talk about product-market fit, do you classify that as marketing?
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I tought this was a very niche project but there are obviously enough people interested to pay Gina $5400 every month.

I assume even after patreon takes it cut (?) and German taxes she has enough money to live a comfortable life.
Well, they sent me a personalised message, deliberately at a point when I was frustrated with my current hosting provider. I don't make money off my site, but if I did I'm pretty sure I might have been livid enough to take them up on their offer.
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Thank you very much for sharing that.

What ever happened to "small is beautiful" and "less is more?"

These used to be core "hacker" values.

Had Twitter followed such a strategy it might still be sustainable.

Edit: as an aside, consider the parallel in the music business. It is now possible, thanks to technology, to self-produce and market one's own music without "VC funding" from a record label. However, it's almost impossible to gain meaningful exposure, without which it is impossible to earn a sustainable income.

It turns out that few people want to listen to unknown artists. What most people want to listen to is whatever is most popular. And to be the most popular requires massive marketing, which requires a record label. No surprise then that the big labels - which were supposedly destroyed by the internet - are actually stronger than ever before.

We seem to be an a race for hypercentralization - a race empowered by the internet that was supposed to decentralize things.

I'll also add that the rise to stardom and "riches" in the music business comes with similar creative and ethical compromises discussed in the article.
Great reply. Interesting how your decision to become a generalist stands in direct opposition to most of the replies to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409239

Given that you probably have much more experience than many of the people here, I'm going to assume that your advice is more sound than theirs.
It depends on what you already know, I think embedded development with systems level languages and hardware know-how is a very durable skill.

On the other hand, some fields like web development have peaked a while ago, I would argue that 2012 was the high watermark. I think it's a very precarious choice of career right now. It has been steadily going downhill since the introduction of trendy front-end frameworks that don't offer any value to the end user (including React, Angular, et al). The culture stopped being about making usable and accessible interfaces for people, and more about "component architecture", "server-side rendering", "tree shaking", that solve problems created by the very tools they are using.

That isn't to say that web development is dead, but I think that the future will be more specialized around certain features of the platform such as WebAssembly, WebRTC, WebGL, Web Audio, et al. And these will be more readily picked up by people with more durable skills, than those who only know the most popular front-end framework.
What is the workflow like? I don't want to have to install it to know that.
Also for companies where we want to self host and not have our communications routed through a third party.
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> made so second generation crops are crap

To be clear, they're not specifically made so that second generation crops are crap. That's just the natural process of nature.

If you selected the two most ideal humans to breed, by the time their children have children, it's easy to see that there is no guarantee that the original traits in the parents that were selected for are carried down the line. The best traits are soon lost. It's much the same story here.

> I'm just not aware of them.

That surprises me. Bayer, BASF, DOW? I would have figured these are household names, and in some cases are much larger businesses than Monsanto.
I never answer my phone.
Fair point, although one could argue that its situations like these that are potentially most likely to make you reassess how much you want to spend on hosting - these guys are actually more expensive.
Ahh, slurry. yes, that lovely problem. I should have been more specific, instead of litrally spraying raw shit everywhere, we need to create proper compost/soil products.

The aztecs managed it, I'm sure we can re-do Terra preta at scale

I agree, what we really need is the application of science, and some imagination to try many different things.

There is no one size fits all here.
It's "intellectual property" all over again. While I agree my usage of "chemichal" is loaded, I think "conventional" is even worse: it's an implicit acceptance of the status-quo, and unfairly shifts the burden of proof.

On a "chemical vs organic" debate, we focus on the (over) use of synthetic, unproven, or even unsafe chemicals. Reducing their use, if possible, is obviously a good thing.

On a "conventional vs organic" debate, we focus on the risks associated with change. We have a working system. Changing it on a global scale is an obvious risk.

I am personally convinced massive change is necessary, and the sooner the better. So I frame the debate in a way that doesn't talk much about the associated risk, and focus on the benefits. I am not aware of a more accurate, more neutral term to name that conventional/chemical thing.
There is certainly variation, but a lot of the broad social policies betray a bias toward individualism. For instance one of the goals of the "million programme" to build enough homes so that you didn't have man generations living under the same roof.

I live in Japan now, and while it's seen as a collective society, it's clear so much more of left to families to deal with themselves rather than society as a whole.

Sweden has broader social programs and is more individualistic, and Japan has weaker social programs and is more communal. It shows how the US one dimensional view of left/right isnt all there is to it.
The same chicken-and-egg problem plagues all the open source creativity suites and other "professional" software (GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, etc): there aren't enough artists, photographers, etc using it and contributing to it to make it competitive, and there will be no new users as long as the development (with user friendliness in mind) is stagnant.

The pool of programming-capable professional artists isn't very large in the first place and I can't blame them for focusing on their jobs and deadlines instead of developing the software they use.

That said, I have no sympathy for people who complain about the issues but do not contribute in any way. Being rude and mean to the developers doesn't help anyone, go ahead and use the commercial alternatives and shut up.
Yes it's blocked by CSS: #player { pointer-events: none;} and it's against the YouTube TOS:

"G. if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Player including but not limited to links back to the Website;"

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
I think that provided your own desktop or laptop is powerful enough I would just use that for testing and development. Cloud wins out over a custom PC build due to the flexibility you get.

Want to run an algorithm on 10 nodes for 5 hours? No problem. Want to leave something running for days connecting to the twitter firehose? Sure.

However building PCs and your own clusters is quite fun! Check out these https://www.picocluster.com/collections/cubes/products/pico-...
fascinating. Do you have a source? I would like to read further on such a statement
Can I even use it to remote control my server? HP have iLO, but it's completely different beast, AFAIK. I've never heard about using Intel ME for servers.
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I didn't judge you, sorry if it came across that way (that's why I said I wasn't picking on you specifically, but your choice of words; apparently, you even know better than that). It is just so ridiculous that I can find 10+ instances per day on HN where people use 'marketing' when they could more correctly write 'advertising/ promotion'.
> ... it is also old school machine learning ...

Is there a reason for your pointing this out? Are there pitfalls of the method not accounted for by the authors? This is an application paper -- if it were a new method, it would be published in a machine learning journal, no?
I have to say, as a student it is very comforting to read this.

I've been worried sick trying to learn the things I see people commenting here or in hackernoon. I had the idea that by the time I graduate, these technologies will be trending or have a good market share.
Anti trust prosecutions work only if harm to consumer is proven - harm to other companies doesn't really work for successfully anti trust prosecutions.

There's a reason no US attorneys bring anti trust lawsuits against Google and that's because Google would very likely be able to show their choices benefitted consumers (eg. say saved 10 mins and 50MB data a day across 200 million consumers without charge)
What is your current skillset? Maybe we can help guide you and ease the anxiety.
What's "engineering" other than being smart?
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Of course the difference here is you can just leave your "prison cell" and go home whenever you want.
I don't have a specific suggestion, but it could be something like "synthetic fertilizer kills the symbiotic microbes nevvessary to..." rather than "scorched soils (that require chemicals to grow anything)".

Just an example. I have no idea what "scorched soil" means.
"This video has been removed by the user."
There will be an AI to take over all these computers.
Well, as long as there are suckers asking for being pigeoned...
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Props on growing your business. Mine is also bootstrapped and doing well. Sorry that was your experience. They so seem to have particular types of businesses they are more interested in (though I don't know what that criteria is).
A parrot also is mascot of the localization platform https://Phraseapp.com.
I believe the poster means appreciate as in 'I recognise that' or 'I understand that' rather than 'I approve of'.
Will work != will have enough output to be useful. I'm hopeful, but honestly, I haven't seen any decent estimates. Anyone has a link to such?
> To create his pictures, Bosch uses a computer program toconvert a drawing (or painting or photograph) into a scattering of dots

I think Bosch is using AJ Secord's work here:

https://cs.nyu.edu/~ajsecord/stipples.html

I'm also wondering if EMSLabs got the idea from him, or the other way around:

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/stipplegen-weighted-vor...

EDIT: Also, plenty of other people have tinkered with this since, for example:

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/swingline/

https://github.com/repwolfe/stippling
I beg to differ. My experience was really the opposite.

I come from the maghreb region and lived in France for a while. I experienced racism at work and outside of it.

If you are arab looking or black, you better emmigrate to another country like UK/US or even germany for a better chance. If you don't you are doomed.

For those who don't understand what I'm talking about check a movie called "La Haine".

And I agree with you, it might be different in other cities.
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Not sure. They are startups after all.
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When creating a business, there is this old choice between bootstrapping and venture capitalists.

The former forces you to squeeze every penny into gaining traction in the market, as becoming profitable is hard, and your cash reserves limit your ability to advertise.

The latter gives you the means to grow very fast and to gain experience from people who have played the game countless times, but it encourages reaching an exit (either by selling the company or through an IPO).

It sounds like you favor bootstrapping.

> build business garages where people go with an idea and they've been given a cheaper way to expand their business on their own and see if they can actually make it

That was the idea behind Kima15 [0], which was co-created by Xavier Niel, who is also behind Station F. It provided 150 K$ within 15 days in exchange for 15% of the company's shares at a post-money valuation of 1 M$.

[0]: https://medium.com/kima-ventures/kima15-lessons-learnt-and-w...
Oh no. It's blindingly complex. The Dust Bowl happened well after Haber-Bosch.
You might find Nagel's famous paper on what it's like to be a bat interesting if you haven't already read it.

http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
I bet on the opposite. We will rapidly see hand-crafted UI disappear. This is a next Google/Facebook opportunity. This will take place within 5 years.
You are making an assumption (an incorrect one, I think) that providing explanations causes people's behavior to change.
> It would be a product owner who uses Photoshop daily.

But no-one sings praise to the Photoshop UI either, I've heard numerous complaints about it getting worse and worse all the time. It's a matter of people being used to PS and not willing to change.

There was a project earlier which had a Photoshop-clone UI for GIMP (called GimpShop or something), but it didn't magically solve all the issues. These days core GIMP has a single window interface available.

I've personally never had an issue with GIMP's UI after I grokked some of the basic concepts (e.g. "make selection and flood fill" - not "draw rectangle"). I see the lack of non-destructive editing and (historically) bad color management as a bigger issue.

I'm sure GIMP would accept UI-related contributions but the list of volunteers is short.
Great work, I'll definitely be checking this out. I find myself using the WSL more and more recently. It still has plenty of rough edges, but Microsoft seem to be committed to improving it. The lack of a full Linux like terminal is probably one of the bigger reasons I can't switch fully over to Windows.