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> It's easy to talk about how awesome it is when you basically are selling insanely overpriced boutique goods (organic, free-range, etc) to yuppies who are willing to pay triple for their calories.

Most of the hipster microgreen crowd aren't even making their money that way, they are making it by scamming other hipsters into trying to do that by acting like anyone can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling $10/pound lettuce to hipster restaurants. There's obviously a very limited number of restaurants in the "overcharge people for local food" market to sell to. But you don't need to do that crap. You can sell normal vegetables for a normal price to normal people and make a perfectly reasonable living.

>Once enough people do this, the prices fall and you're just another farmer, scraping by.

The reason most farms are "scraping by" is the same reason most restaurants fail, and most programmers can't handle fizzbuzz. Most people are simply incompetent, regardless of their occupation. Every farmer I see complaining about money is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most of them are driving around in $80,000 pickup trucks while complaining about how poor they are.

>Being outside is nice, but there's a reason the kids doing this grew up in suburbs and cities: they have no idea what agriculture really involves when you have to achieve economies of scale to make it remotely profitable.

You don't have to achieve economies of scale to be remotely profitable. Not every farm has to be a corn+soybean rotation.
First we’d need to have a deep space planetary observation probe with a high dV propulsion system, an RTG and TWTA backed high gain antenna. Chucking a standard cubesat at it would be no more use than launching a washing machine. At this point the probe wouldn’t catch up with it until it’s at least as far away as Voyager is now.
I have an agricultural engineering BSc, too. So it was not a big transition for me. My family helps me a lot since I am studying and also having a job. I work a lot; my life is always in a hurry. Maybe paying for a consultant is the best way if you do not know how to start.
Maybe it's just my old school expectations and ethics but to me you've just made an arguement for not buying anything at all from Amazon. If they don't care about me and mine, why should I show them any love at all?
That's an artifact of it being statically typed. The data type to unmarshal into / marshal from needs to be defined somewhere. The extra stuff apart from error handling isn't required if you use a more generic type like `map[string]interface{}`.
> Is this the stage where all of the "shallow" players fall while "quality" players begin to rise?

I think this is super-optimistic. I think the result of this stage will be further consolidation, demands for even higher margins due to a lack of competition, and even lower quality content.
It's a perfectly good comparison in fact. Let me show you how that works.

Did you know, the Stratolaunch has a wingspan wider than the length of a US football field?

The equivalent reply would be: geez, that's a terrible comparison, because the Stratolaunch is not a large plot of ground, they're entirely different things!

GDP is obviously not inherently measured in years. GDP has no set measurement period of time. GDP can be measured in quarters (and frequently is), years, decades, etc. It's most commonly measured in a one year span of time though, and it's likely safe to believe that's exactly what the parent was referring to. One should give people the benefit of the doubt on their intellect and knowledge, imo.
As def_true_false mentioned, the way keybase handles things would be what I was thinking, but the crypto doesn't have to be as strong, nor the workflow so elaborate.

And for those mentioning gaming, HN does pretty well against all but the most sophisticated and motivated. Browse with 'show dead' on you can see there are plenty of attempts. A link to their profiles on HN and reddit would allow for review of their comment histories in order to determine authenticity/ how closely tastes align.

Even Amazon could allow us to filter reviewers by review history, or other such criteria.

Edit: You are probably right about allowing other identity providers, but the idea was to minimize the addressable market in order to study the dynamics of such a platform. Your comment definitely made me think of it as a possibly viable idea, thanks!
> Officials from the New York City Department of Transportation insisted in emails this month that all bicycles with any sort of electrical assistance are illegal, which would make them subject to confiscation and fines of up to $500.

They aren't necessarily illegal if one fits them with the required lighting, gets insurance, registers them as a moped, and wears a DOT approved helmet. Nobody does this of course but it is possible to be legal in NY.

They do become illegal on bike paths, which is now prominently displayed on signs along West St. instead of installing the bollards that should have been there all along.

EDIT: Apparently insurance and helmet are optional for class C (sub 20mph) mopeds/scooters.
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I've been using a Swagtron Swagger Scooter for a few weeks now and been loving it. I need to make some modifications, and I need to charge it before leaving work.
One of the things I noticed moving to Canada was that every drug store (rough Boots equivalent) and grocery store did not have a vast selection of packaged sandwiches. Having lived off them for work lunches for years I was initially at a bit of a loss for what to eat.

I do sometimes wonder when visiting the UK what cultural difference accounts for the relative lack of popularity of such a wildly successful product in Britain here in Canada. Having not eaten bread for many years now though it's largely an academic question these days.

I never understood Subway here, just the smell walking past one on the street makes me feel slightly queasy.
If Facebook is concerned about fake news, why isn't Amazon concerned about fake products?
The goal would be to seek out the signal instead of trying to identify the noise.
"You're claiming that knowing a lot about economic regulation makes you a superior domain expert in any field which can be regulated."

Not quite. I'm claiming that knowing a lot about regulation makes you more qualified to study the effects of various regulations, after listening to input from domain experts in the field.

An automotive engineer can tell you that requiring component X in all vehicles would make accidents Y% less fatal - an economist can tell you whether that actually translates to lives saved (maybe it increases the risk of accidents due to behavioral changes? This was a theory around seatbelts for some time although I can't speak to the current consensus in the field).

Sure, an economist who isn't allowed to speak to the relevant domain experts wouldn't do well. But likewise, a domain expert who doesn't know economics wouldn't do well either. Understanding side effects of regulation, incentives, etc are critically important for crafting regulation/public policy that actually help.
ive considered doing something kind of like this but just grow enough food for myself -- so a garden rather than a farm. the draw for me is reducing my living expenses. modern houses make absolutely no sense because their design carries vestigial baggage from thousands of years ago, from a time when we didnt know about any of the physics or technology that we know about now. it turns out that you can build a passive and maintenance free house for about the same amount of money as a traditional house.

someone else commented about the fact that modern suburban life is a hell-scape. i couldnt agree more. people think you have to do it in order to live. but you dont, just buy land on the outskirts of the city and build a house on it. the city is right there if you want it. i dont want it most of the time, personally. but sometimes i really do.

there are also people in here who say how they know farming, the grew up on a farm and its horrible. i really think that there is a new trend on the horizon of people moving away from the city, but this article misses the whole point. they wont be farming, because farming does suck. theyll just be making their lives more secure and cheaper by owning land and a house instead of renting. this will continue to make more and more sense as solar power and electric cars and self driving cars become more and more reliable and cheap. i really do think we will see more and more people opting for city outskirts.
> Is a redstone interferometer an actually thing, a quick search didn't turn anything up?

I'm probably using slightly different terminology than other people -- I haven't played much in a while.

The basic idea is to use two quasi-connected redstone wires hooked up to a piston -- one providing an update signal but no power and one providing power but no update signal.

The circuit is such that the two wires are actually branches off of a single redstone wire, using only redstone -- so you can detect if the left or right branch off of a redstone line updates first (within a single update cycle) based on if the piston extends: it only extends if the line carrying the update signal is updated after the line carrying the power signal. (If they come in the other order, it stays retracted because it updates before there's power available.)

> how would you decide between them being part of the game mechanics and them being shadows of the outer world given that you have no ground truth knowledge of what the game is supposed to be like?

You only have an operational model, just like us -- but it's eventually going to look like an extremely localized computation running their world that occasionally gets bumped by outside sources. That sounds like them discovering that their reality is a subregion hosted in another, richer reality.

The question of "game mechanics" only has meaning to the people outside in their language for discussing their actions -- at the end of the day, there is no "game", there's only what the simulation does as a facet of reality. The people inside will accurately suss out a model that includes a structure that looks like them being run as a simulation.

How they interpret that is likely to be different, but no more or less correct, than how we do.
Yes, but mostly about tech stuff. I have just started the orchard thing, so it has been my first year. I will consider posting agriculturally related articles shortly. If it becomes actual, I will leave the URL here.
Actually there are only two major methods of drilling both include injection of a product. For core drilling you inject water/"mud" to remove cuttings and for RC you use air pressure to remove cuttings. Injection is intrinsic to drilling. I'm yet to hear of a deep hole rig that doesn't use injection.

So yes it is the drilling that is the problem.

Note: I worked on drill rigs for half a year punching holes to 1.6km.
By what basis are you making these claims?
>>official guidance on how to use Monero safely

I don't think there ever will be :) It all depends on risk tolerance, as you correctly noted.
I have an e-twow scooter as well. Clocked 1200+ kilometers on it already. Not owning a car, so the thing saves me a lot of time and money.
Er, the banks were bailed out of those terrible decisions. Individual homeowners were left to hold the bag.
Ask HN: What were the top startups per founding year?
I've read that historically there's about a dozen startups per year that "return the fund" for a VC fund, meaning each year there's about a dozen startups that exit for very large amounts of money.

Is there a list somewhere showing the best startups founded each year historically?
Was 100% of the Fukushima fuel fissioned and vaporized into the atmosphere? How is this a useful comparison?
The simplest techniques for 3D rendering without relying on a GPU and WebGL are indeed (2.5D) raycasting engines (such as this Voxel Space engine). A short google search reveals for example:

http://www.playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/

Also read the readme file of this Voxel Space engine. Maybe this is already enough to understand the principle.
I'm all for alternative entry level transportation... that can stand up by itself.

How about a nice e-Tricycle with a basket on the back?

I'd prefer not to go tumbling to to ground or into traffic if I make a mistake on my bike or someone else makes a mistake and I fall down for it.

That'd be truly entry-level.
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I decided to buy an ebike last month. Turns out there was a lot of information to take in.
Hub motors are great and cheap for cruising on flat roads.
Crank drive motors/mid drive are great for power and torque for hills and mountain biking.
Lunacycle.com is the best value I've found, I had sticker shock at first until I learned what's what.
i started out with c++ freshman year, got the basics down, then the class switched over to turbo pascal the following year. i was bummed, but the math teacher did actually code!
Not sure about the downvotes but whatever floats your boat
Italy is not a model of productivity for several reasons. Reducing this problem to the union involvement of workers looks intellectually dishonest to me.
I could pay back in 5-6 years at the current pace. But the loan is long-term (10 years) designed for farmers.
25 might seem low but when I pedal only I go about 22-24 km/h. Going 25 km/h electric only is more than enough. Then you can pedal and go even faster. In a city you will have to break soon anyway and you realy start to feel the wind.

The diference between 25 km/h electric and 25 km/h pedal only is the acceleration and the fact that electric motor never gets tired :)

To have a good acceleration they sell bikes with 500 W motors that are limited to 250 W. I guess in software.

The bikes that I tested, all have pedal assist but also a separate throtle.
People are terrible at taste tests.

True, but after being served backyard vs. store eggs without being told which is which, or which feed type was in use, or that anything had changed at all, and still noticing a difference, I am confident that it is possible for the flavor of eggs to vary.
>I really admire that you made something "useful" with Haskell!

Why? What did you think everyone did with it? I'd be more impressed is someone ever makes something useful in PHP.
mine too!
From the acquaintances that have tested the Brompton electric[0], I've heard nothing but good. It's just not for sale yet...

For a two mile commute, you might want to also consider a pedal powered Brompton. I can easily call mine one of my best investments ever.

https://www.brompton.com/Brompton-Electric
I said nothing about taxes. Also, sarcasm does nothing to advance the conversation. If you see logical flaws in my thinking, please teach me. However, snide comments do nothing but reinforce preexisting thought processes.
So, sort of a pastebin, but not for code.
Hungary, send me a PM next autumn, and I will be glad to have you here.
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The situation is far more complex than that. Back in the 30s through the 50s the police would aggressively crack down on undesirables. Sweeping Blacks and Homosexuals off the streets became politically problematic. Now judges routinely throw out cases involving so called quality of life crimes. Furthermore, politics and budget constraints have resulted in San Francisco having very little jail space available. So, police, strong mayor or no, have limited options and try to avoid wasting effort only to have offenders concentrated around police stations and hospitals where they are released.
They demonstrate it is not _impossible_ to have ship to ship collisions, but considering how rare these events are they tell us more about the state of seaman skills in the navy than about navigational hazards.

The collisions weren't really "near" any port, and were due to really shitty ship handling by the person in charge, possibly due to how the navy treats its sailors.
I will consider posting agriculturally related articles shortly. If it becomes actual, I will leave the URL here.
The question "whether we live in simulation" is indeed a new dressing.

But the question "is simulation possible, and if yes what it can look like" is new, and can have useful answers.
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> What about making admission simply based on intelligence

How do you measure intelligence for school admissions? Wouldn't that introduce biases?

Also, there's an underlying assumption that college currently is about selecting for and advancing intelligence. What makes you think this is what college is for nowadays?
The part of the universe that is empty also provides nothing you can use for a computer to run a simulation on, i.e. you don't have to simulate it but it doesn't help running the simulation either. And given that we probe the entire visible universe looking at gravitational waves from across the galaxy, spectral lines in the light of galaxies at the other end of the universe, and the decay products of Higgs particles, you still need a quite good simulation or good heuristic approximations for a lot of stuff in order to not produce inconsistencies. Or you have to limit what your simulated humans can do and keep them actively away from discovering your speed optimizations. Faking parts of something as complex as our universe without it becoming obvious would probably not be a small feat.
Yes, because wordpress is useless and snap is a hugely popular web framework.
It's Zeus, not Jupiter, and it's in Athens, not Olympus.
I did c++ in high school in the late 90s. No teacher, just a textbook. The "teacher" for the computer lab just handed each of us a book and told us to show him something cool every day.

So I ended up doing bits of QBasic, Visual Basic, and C++ (since all three books were in the room, and QB was easier to generate flashy visuals with, as a beginner).
There’s nothing new under the sun...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Acres

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_serie...
>their design carries vestigial baggage from thousands of years ago, from a time when we didnt know about any of the physics or technology that we know about now. it turns out that you can build a passive and maintenance free house for about the same amount of money as a traditional house.

Can you expand on this? What are the vestiges in a modern house? How does one design a passive and maintenance-free house?
it's rama everybody.
The overhead of layer 2/3 packet headers in OpenVPN did not cause such a huge slowdown, its much more likely that OpenVPN was operating in TCP mode, and thus subject to the tcp-in-tcp[1] problem with tunnel internal tcp sessions. Even an extraordinarily slow machine by modern standards can manage 100mbit openVPN without much of an issue.

EDIT: did not see UDP results. There is still something else going on here, thats still much too slow for openVPN (without tweaking).

[1] http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
The subway is the preferred entry-level electric transportation of millions of New Yorkers, including me.

New York City delivery-men mostly use electric bikes, probably built from Chinese models used by hundreds of millions in China.
Yeah... I was once in the middle of an argument between two people I know: the first person has in a way managed to make money "meaningless" but only by moving to the middle of nowhere and living on the moral equivalent of peanuts that he has been able to make with a business he has scraped together, but has recently gotten involved in a new company (as an "employee" of the second person) where he was being paid less than all the other people (who had come in to the company earlier, FWIW) and his opportunity cost is "I might be stuck not making much money forever on a product I don't even have much control over", and a second person (a "co-founder" in this new company) for whom money is also "meaningless" as he has so many millions of dollars that he got from trading cryptocurrencies that his opportunity cost from working on projects instead of actively managing investments is supposedly itself millions of dollars... money he is happy to go without because he believes so much in the team and the vision for the product. The person who lived on peanuts wanted to be making as much money as everyone else, and the person whom I will claim literally couldn't understand why anyone would ever care about money was extremely upset that the first person wasn't sufficiently devoted to the vision of the product (which again, the first person only even had limited control over from his position... this is despite having designed a good amount of the technology). It was a brutal argument. The first person quit. A couple weeks later, in the aftermath of what happened and after some time to process what was going on there, I quit (as one of the "co-founders").
How would bollards prevent ebikes from entering the bike path? The Williamsburg bridge has bollards and yet ebikes and even recumbent tricycles fit through.
The boat is tiny, so you can't put much on it and there's limited space to make it strong, that's primarily what makes it hard I iamagine.
This reeks of discrimination. Someone should sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Electrical assistance helps individuals who suffer from bad knees or other physical issues that prevent them from using bikes effectively. As long as the assistance keeps the bike well within the range of "normal" bike speed/power, they should be treated under the law like pure mechanical bikes.
After familiarizing with QM/SR concepts some years ago, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing more strange and pointless than the world without these two. If max speed was infinite (or finite but non-relative, which is essentially the same) and there was no probabilistic outcomes, then the world would "happen to the end" instantly and/or with analytically predefined series of events. From any initial state. The entire "consequence" concept would fall apart. There is no point for the universe to exist in classical & atomic-ball electron mode.

Idk why both seem so unnatural to so many people who try to get what it means; it feels like it should be obvious instead - it means evolving existence, the only thing you're able to appear in and think about it. Classical uniform fundamental time is much stranger to me than what emerges from what we have now; we simply shifted our focus to "oh" forgetting how much "wtf" was left behind.

I'm not claiming any deep-enough physics or math knowledge (layman actually), consider it a funny philosophical view.
Makes me wonder what type of AI controlled drug submarines are out there or will be out there in the future.
Walmart is at $425-$450 billion in traditional retail sales ($485b total), it very clearly can be done. Ecommerce will double over the next ten years in the US. Out of the trillion dollars in that ecommerce expansion, Amazon will very likely get at least a quarter of it. If you slow Amazon's growth down to something like 9%-12% avg per year over the next 10 years - which is very reasonable based on where they're at now - they're over half a trillion in sales at the end of that.

On a modest decline from the present rate of growth, they'll hit $300+ billion in sales in just three years. AWS should easily be at a $9b operating income annualized run-rate, at that point.

The common proclaim for years now, has been that there would be no margins in cloud services. AWS has always proven that wrong, all the way back. There's no reason to believe after 11 years, the margins are suddenly going to disappear. If the fierce AWS / Azure / GC competition the last five years didn't squeeze those margins out yet, then what would? It's more likely that the AWS margins will hold as they add more specialized services that are difficult for basic / smaller competitors to replicate (unlike eg standard compute or database services).