skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not just incomes and labour costs. It's equipment prices, it's also land prices, it's land availability, and in North America subsidies for cash cropping favour that kind of farm. But also a huge part it is equipment costs and other costs that favour huge economies of scale here that is not necessarily the case in some parts of Europe, Asia, etc.

Look at what Chinese small farmers farm with -- small nimble walk behind tractors. Now try to get yourself one of these in North America. A BCS or Grillo walk behind fully equipped (rototiller/rotary plow, decent sized engine, cultivator attachment, etc.) ends up being at least $10,000 worth of an investment. Chinese farms are using similar equipment at a fraction of the price (just look on Ali Baba for example. But of course you can't import that without huge tariffs, shipping costs, and regulatory hurdles). On top of that they can get small equipment we can't get here: balers and combines that fit on small tractors or walk behinds and cost little. And they get access to markets as small growers that you can't get here.

Let's say I wanted to get into hazelnut production here. Or buckwheat. Something unorthodox like that that is not soy or corn. I'd be on the hook to not only grow the crop and harvest it and etc. there'd be no market that would take my small amount of crop and pay me for it and process it. To make it worth my while I'd need to grow hundreds of acres and get my own processing equipment and become a large agri corp. And so assume a huge amount of risk.

In places that have vibrant agrarian economies (most of NA does not) and high populations and a diversity of things grown there are more options for processing, etc. A place like Burgundy for example has a huge amount of small wine growers and makers and they form cooperatives and work together to process and market their grapes among a large number of businesses. But the model in North America is far more capital intensive.
It shows a deep lack of understanding or empathy when one the wealthiest people of the world says something like that.

Especially when a large portion of americans don't even have enough money to be healthy ...
You'd only tell the difference if it was Guinness
http://isomorphismes.faith/post/54831080606/perception-is-re...
I found it worse. I was playing process kill whackamole for a week.
I'm a JavaScript developer, and (much to my delight) my team recently switched to a much more FP-heavy style (for example, switching from Flux to Redux for our React app... we even used PureScript for a bit). The differences were night and day; even just prioritizing immutability has transformed our codebase. The project is about ~100,000 LOC, so the benefits we get in maintainability and readability are huge; also, after we switched to Redux, our application's performance jumped tremendously (for several reasons).
So, to answer your question more directly, I can emphatically say: Yes!
Any developers have aquaponics systems setup? I've been thinking of doing this.
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Advertising replaces trust. This is how the modern economy works -- people buy the lies.
Some interesting stats on average farm sizes in Europe (with most countries having an average size smaller than 80 acres): http://www.valtra.co.uk/1872.aspx

130 acres in the UK, compared to 430 in the USA. Just 7 in Romania, and as small as 3 acres in India.
I think you have misunderstood the overwhelming consensus of economists on the nature of finance and banking. A excellent work to better understand the history of economic thought from before Adam Smith through to mid-twentieth century is Mark Blaug's Economic Theory in Retrospect.[1]

Discussions about systemic risk, for example, have not lead to normative conclusions about nationalizing banking. An analogy might be that finance is like electricity. The very real risks of electrocution or fires don't discount its fundamental role in modern civilization.

China is absolutely able to engage in megaprojects financed by the state and the PLA, however funding for the industrial centers on the Pearl River Delta which are so important to China's economic success is largely private.

[1] https://www.alibris.com/Economic-theory-in-retrospect-Mark-B...
Can there be anything but a subjective estimate of what someone's health and life are worth?

We have to put a dollar value on lives in many cases because it's impractical to let each person choose individually. Normal pollution regulations are a good example of this. You'll look at the economic value of lives saved versus economic value of the pollution controls and see which one wins.

But I don't see that a nuclear accident requires this. The affected area is relatively small, the damage is already done and can't be reversed, and there's a single responsible party. It becomes practical to handle it economically rather than having the government dictate a solution.
This is the reasoning given as a guess by one of the thieves in the Polish criminal comedy film Vinci. It's funny that it's true.
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UBlock Origin in dynamic mode is absolutely essential, I will not use a browser where it is not available. So that means Firefox on mobile, and it makes browsing much less aggravating.
Which is not Chrome.
This resembles what happens to tv channels, like History, Discovery, TLC, OLN, etc.

I'm not sure why the trend is to start off with strong good content and then eventually just end up with superficial, low quality garbage.
To economize other costs on the supply chain and to standardize quality
"Rendezvous with Rama" theorized such an incident. Shame we spent too much of the last century blowing each other to smithereens rather than developing the technology to figure it out for sure.
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https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...
The sly sense of humor helped the presentation. Whatever his other qualities the author is a good writer, in a second language no less.
Well, on the other hand, forcing spammers to pay money (in your case it's $106, even if it sounds like a racket) is the most effective way to battle spam. That's the price you pay for neglecting your information security.

I would even make the price higher, so people would pay more attention to their information security practices. Like, sorry dude, if you're hacked -- it's your problem, not problem of all the innocent people who received the spam from your hacked accounts.

Once the fees become higher, there will be insurance plans for it, and insurance companies will require some basic level of security controls. There are already talks about it in IoT community.

It really annoys me when people think it's someone else to blame when they neglect their own information security and get hacked.
Which extensions would that be?
Fake news is here to stay…
Yes, really. Why should that surprise you? The majority of XUL extensions had not been ported to WebExtensions when Mozilla pushed this update and Mozilla was well aware of that fact. This was executed poorly and Mozilla deserves to be criticized for it.
Looks like the author also arrived at a similar conclusion:

“It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.”
What does Medium do that the million other blog services don't in this respect?
Politics will be too slow to handle the rate of technological change. Already is to some degree. And Orwellian precincts will be at a competitive disadvantage.
Have you tried again since 57 was released? Or tried nightly? I've been using Firefox on mobile for a long time, and I remember experiencing similar issues from time to time, but I haven't had these in a while.

FWIW, closing tabs once in a while can also help. Mobiles typically don't have too much RAM.
I'm surprised no one here is talking solutions. The fundamental problem is someone can connect to me and I have no way to trace it back to an organization who I can charge/sue.

The first step is to start adopting standards that aren't free either in cost or in compute. For email, this could be as simple as requiring proof of work before accepting an email. For private telcos requiring the ability to charge the company connecting to my number would solve most of these problems too. I'd love spam if I had the equivalent of an 80's era 976 number.
There's an easy solution: if you return your purchase, the review MUST be negative. Don't allow people who return the product leave a review with, say, more than one star or whatever.
I used to work with a developer who'd preach the "IceWeasel is the ultimate browser" gospel to us. I guess this makes your argument somehow more valid:)

OS might be hard, as Win and Mac have their own browsers, so my first guess would be Linux or security focused builds of Android. This doesn't sound like enough exposure to make a significant/disruptive change.

I expect Mozilla to be more active in this area though. Yes, performance is important and I switched to FF recently too, but I'm still using Electron powered apps on my MacBook.

What's more plausible is a situation where Chrome for some reason (ekhm... privacy?) loses market share to FF/IE/Safari. Having more competition will make my browser better, regardless of my choice.
I skimmed, but it looks like this is just a fancy way of saying a self-hosted JVM? Can someone with more knowledge elaborate if this is in fact more significant than my assessment?
Yeah, I spend each winter contracting for funded startups and the vision of new tractor implement or some new gizmo makes it easier to work on the stuff.

I guess the big part of better lifestyle is just giving up on ambitions. You know that you are not building next billion dollar company and you also know that you are not going to buy new BMW every year anyway so there is no pressure in keeping with Jones.
I recommend taking a look on borg backup (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/) or restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) instead of rsync... and use snapshots for zfs.
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That isn’t going to stop constituentcies from voting for populist candidates and policies.

As long as economic prospects deteriorate, they’ll double down and demand the state use their force to enact the desired outcome. And it can’t be said it won’t work, because China does it very well.
After initial “cure” of Clostridium difficile with antibiotics, about 15-25% of patients develop a recurrence within a few days to several months. The chance of a recurrence depends in large part on the type of antibiotic being taken, such as Flagyl, Vanco, or Dificid, as well as the age of the patient.

This repeat infection can keep on recurring, even after multiple courses of antibiotics. We have seen some unfortunate patients with 10 or more attacks of C. diff in a two-year period. It can lead to chronic diarrhea, weight loss, and diminished quality of life.

We think that recurrence of C. diff depends on a “Perfect Storm” of several factors:

1. Simultaneous failure of the immune system with inadequate antibody formation

2. Failure of the colonic flora to regenerate, owing to exposure to antibiotics.

Failure of the immune system to generate an antibody response is quite common after age 60. The older the patient, the weaker the response to an infection or to vaccination

http://cdiff.in30minutes.com/recurrent-c-diff-why-does-c-dif...
There's a lot of organic farm internships around where they cover your meals and accommodation in exchange for work, some also pay a stipend of $500-900/mnth. Many of my friends do this for 6 months of the year then travel during the off season. It's a good way to learn farming if you want to run your own.
Good to see some of them take their job seriously.
When you apply this statement to other subjects (eg religion in government) it is rather depressingly incorrect.
But then what about your own use?
I was thinking of using FreeBSD for a large filer as well, but then I learned that you can run ZFS on Ubuntu, which should have better driver support than FreeBSD (at least I would think so). So you may want to consider Ubuntu with ZFS instead.
https://www.howtogeek.com/272220/how-to-install-and-use-zfs-...
I think you and I would have built some amazing Lego together had time and geography brought us together in childhood times. There are rules of aesthetics with Lego that a lot of people/kids just did not get. If building a house then the colours would have to be right, or best given available bricks. Some kids just put stuff together with any colours. Not good design. I can't remember guidance from parents on brick colour etiquette and style, that was something we worked out to do, or not, as the case may be.
You can't just look at the overall trend because there are multiple powerful drivers of murder rates (economic stressors, chemical pollutants, etc)
Excel is remarkable, yes, but I'd argue that given its nature pretty much every reasonably complex workbook can be expected to have at least one bug. Having worked with them a lot in many different contexts, I've seen just how easily errors are introduced and I think they should never be used for research or finance where the cost of errors is high. At it's core the issue is that it's really hard to create variations and tests which can tell you if something is wrong... Much harder than it is to do this in a normal programming paradigm. Yes, the barrier to entry is lower, but the trade-off is much increased error rate and ongoing brittleness. Even if it's "right" at one point there's no guarantee it will be right in the future. What if someone copies/pastes data into a crucial worksheet and misses a column? It's so incredibly easy to screw up!
Why bother returning it? The fake reviewer "agency" will just pass the costs on to the party that hired them.
Usually I hate this format, but given the ratio of text to images, I don't really think the "tweetstorm" style got in the way. Each tweet was atomized to reveal a bit more of his story in a well-paced manner.
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A good argument is the question what happens with the money.

For example, assume Facebook replaces a local competitor. Now instead of the profit going to owners, which spend it locally, on philanthropic projects, or just high quality goods, instead it goes to Mark Zuckerberg, who spends it in the US, on US brands, and to fund US charities, in best case.

If you currently live outside the US, outside SV and NYC, you’d very likely gain an advantage if everyone would buy local. The skyscrapers of NYC, and the philanthropic projects in these regions of the US, are funded with money that was extracted all over the globe, but will probably never leave the US again.
That's so cool and really inspiring to me! Do you have a blog or anything?
Looking towards technical minded relatives and friends definitely helped, but what really pushed Chrome over the top IMO was Google.com, Gmail, Youtube, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Hangouts, etc. all insisting you must use Chrome.
Unless of course f is a macro, then x could have been modified.
What is worst?
Because I'm not a scientist. And anyway, the reason they didn't include this is because back in July 2016 when this review was written, there were no published placebo controlled trials. The Kelly trial was only published in Nov 2016. Presumably newer meta analyses will take this into account.
Here's a question about adjustment to rural life, because I have been daydreaming about this for a long time: Are you now isolated from existing friends and family? That's really my one big worry.

I'm super burned out on software, and currently facing all the same concerns it sounds like you did before, it just frightens me the idea of being further removed (geographically) from the few family and friends we have left.
Consider that AI driving challenges happens on roads, which we have engineered to be easy to traverse on. And the direction of travel is independent of the force used for propulsion. Sailing has more variables, and many are not independent.

For example, you frequently can’t just point your boat in the direction you want to go; that’s only going to work when you’re going downwind. You’ll often need to tack back and forth, rarely actually facing the direction you want to go. When and how frequently to tack will all have to be determined automatically. In a driverless car, that’s two independent variables: steering wheel orientation and gas paddle depression.

Thought of this way, cars really are a marvel of engineering and UI design. They reduce transportation down to only three controls: steering wheel orientation, gas pedal depresssion and brake pedal depression. The complexity of the car is hidden under the hood. Just about all other modes of transportation require much more input.
Maybe the US has a higher natural rate of accidents

Natural?? Roads and cars are all human-made! Are you saying the "deaths per road mile travelled" metric is wrong or biased somehow?
- Assembly has a rule that only members are allowed in the assembly hall.

- One member requests special permission to bring her child.

- They refuse.

- She brings her child anyways.

- They require she obey the rules, like every other member.

Consider for a minute why these rules are in place. Imagine for a moment that everybody started bringing children to work. Suddenly the assembly is having to speak over crying children. Or members, in the midst of a debate, having to excuse themselves to deal with their children. Oh sorry, I missed that. Could you please repeat it? It would be horrifically counter productive, and chaotic.

This seems simply highly disrespectful of the organization of which she's a part. And the article also reeks of sexism. This has nothing to do with sex. Men and women have the exact same issue in this case. Finding appropriate care for your child is a major issue and the responsibility here is one of the major issues of parenting. Deciding to simply take your child to work in most professions would lead the real possibility of things like a crying child completely hampering everybody's work day. That's not progress by any interpretation of the word.
Probably better titled “Life is a random walk”. I completely agree with his premise - ‘success’ in life, however defined, seems largely a function largely of luck. Those who see the world for what it is - rather than what received dogma teaches - understand this truth.
* luck has more to do with results than we think

* "focus on the process, which we can control, rather than the result"

This is also well explained by Scott Adams: "Goals are for losers... try systems that improve your odds of success."
Totally different kind of Uranium. You can't just compare kg and tonnage.
It only intuitively makes sense -- there are quite a few assumptions. The local product is typically more expensive because it's production is less efficient (if it wasn't, it would just compete with the non-local product at regular market conditions). Being less efficient means using more inputs per output, so what is the local farmers inputs, and -- crucially -- where are those inputs made? Is he using his not-locally-made tractor less efficiently? Is he paying a mortgage to a non-local financial institution? Is he sourcing his feed, seeds, fertilizer, fuel etc locally? And of his profit, how much of it is he spending locally?

These are difficult numbers to work out exactly, but it's not difficult to see that they have to be in a pretty thigh range for your local-premium to actually, on the net, drain resources from the community, compared to you just eating cheaper meals a bit more frequently. The main type of input that most obviously support the local community is labor, and most modern products, particularly agriculturally, are rather light on labor, so you might end up supporting one job at the farm in favor of three jobs at the diner. Especially if the farm-job is held by a "highly educated, ex-urban, first-time farmer" and the diner-jobs by single moms, it's getting morally quite dubious.

But to wrap this up, local to non-local is rarely apples to apples. Just as with organic, there's probably a very substantial overlap with meeting a demand for products that are simply better (and thus more expensive), with the nominal quality (local, organic) actually being secondary.
Someone who studied CS with me said he'd rather work in conatruction, because he sleeps better after building houses instead of software
A good portion of Manhattan has a steam system that's partially fed by cogeneration.
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Have you tried Tab suspender[0]?

A couple of hours ago, I've had about 25 tabs opened, about 20 of which were suspended. Just for the heck of it, I've checked the memory usage of Firefox. 500 megabytes.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-suspender...
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I don't understand your comment. Are you saying that Chrome has extensions that Firefox doesnt? Or are you saying that you used Firefox because of certain extensions it had and other browsers didnt, but Chrome was still your primary browser, and that now the FF extensions you used don't work anymore, you don't see any reason to use FF anymore?
No matter how they love to work at small farm, they will be eventually replaced by machines when machine learning farming equipment becomes affordable to small farm owner. Then small farm will be one man farm.

After that, the lifestyle of supporting local farm losses the meaning.
If I remember correctly, Mathematica started the notion of having a notebook interface when working with code, Theodore Gray even has the patent for this [0]. Even though the post reads like a longform ad for Mathematica and the Wolfram language, I do agree the notion of code written to present an idea/solution as a story. Sadly, with Jupyter notebooks being free/open source and compatible with other language kernels, there seems to be a decline in the mindshare for Mathematica and its notebook interface among researchers.

[0] Patent US 8407580 B2 - Method and system for presenting input expressions and evaluations of the input expressions on a workspace of a computational system
(https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580)
If it was a workload like bitcoin it would not need a fast connection at all. You could ship it with a copy of the Blockchain and it would download the delta after you turn it on.
Commands are perfectly fine. But you can't practically use the hjkl keys for navigation in vim.
If an emotion is neither experienced nor physiologically detected, does it really exist?
I found this video to be much easier-to-follow than previous posts focusing on intuition, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15690121
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You need to see a layer deeper than that. The opportunity cost of the tens of thousands of highly qualifies engineers required to build and run dozens of national/regional Facebooks rather than doing something else is absolutely huge.
Seems like in the next few years might see some more information about fecal transplants for obesity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045147/
except that China's communism has nothing to do with communism. can we come up with a new word for whatever China is, please?