skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's more expensive than just farming a large section of land.

Does that take into account all the externalities that are currently still ignored in standard farming? I mean, one could argue that they'll continue to get ignored indefinitely sure, but I wonder if we're starting to reach a tipping point there again and while cletus didn't mention it I think that's one of the most compelling arguments towards hydroponics. Pure physical barriers could mean the elimination of pesticide and herbicide requirements for example, and both of those hide and enormous amount of expense upstream and downstream. Nutrients (fertilizer) can be applied vastly more effectively and efficiently, and possibly at least as importantly excess can be recovered or processed before any emission which can entirely eliminate runoff issues and entry into the environment.

Even thinking politically, the general public often enjoys the views and imagine romanticism of farming, but the general public can also quite easily notice and hate algal blooms, outbreaks shutting down beaches, nutrient baths causing explosions of invasives like zebra mussels, etc., and just general reductions in recreational water quality even beyond any other effects. Those also represent big, powerful industries as well. And there is the land itself, hydroponics means arable land is unnecessary for basic food production, and there are other compelling uses for said land.

Also land-wise and politically, one argument that frequently gets brought up is "food security" and governments reasonably worried about having enough basic food available in an emergency. But at least for rich countries, if anything LED hydroponics could offer a better story there (at a price), since the facilities can even be put underground/underwater or in other non-arable, dense and defensible positions. They can be protected from new forms of diseases and pests far more effectively. Small developed countries that currently must import might be able to achieve that politically attractive (whatever the practical merits) "food independence" that is current infeasible for them.

I mean, I don't think there will be any super rapid changes here, and I do think many places will continue to have some agriculture as a boutique offering, but hydroponics long term looks pretty compelling in a lot of major ways.
The quote suggests that Silicon Valley CEOs spend a significant amount of time thinking about politics, and their engineers do not.
Aside from the risk of theft/fire etc, you're also running the risk of rampant inflation. You should have a variety of investments in different economies. If $bad_politician gets in and turns the US dollar into the Bolivar, your 10m will be worthless. If you've got 20% invested in other countries you're running a much smaller risk, likewise with investments in other assets

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, don't put all your files on one raid, and don't put all your assets under the mattress.
Yeah, derivatives, probably futures contracts such as these ones https://business.nasdaq.com/trade/commodities/products/power...

I'm not sure about a website. A lot of the professionals seem to get data off Bloomberg. There's not so much coverage on the likes of Yahoo Finance. Also traders tend to be secretive about large positions.
Alcohol and developer culture – DEV Community ‍‍
It was part of their branding, Apple stuff is for creative people, it lets them get shit done.

Now it’s more of a status symbol, I’ve got an apple rather than a crappy generic android or think pad.
Are you saying after a month there, you’re sure it’s not just a bunch of unused legacy code that engineers are smart enough not to delete because they’re not really sure what it does and the original authors have cashed out and are kickin’ it counting their money? Especially all that Objective C they’ve been madly trying to pave over with Swift?
Unless someone enjoys this subject there's no reason they'd know about the different classifications. I read a lot about this stuff but still need to freshen up my knowledge every time I have a conversation about this for two reasons: the topic is too complex for an amateur and it also tends to be relatively fluid, changing based on new discoveries or theories. Always keep Wikipedia handy :).

If you ever look at different "artist's depiction" drawings about "dinosaurs" you might notice plenty of misconceptions: anatomically incorrect (and impossible) positions, strange mixes of species living in vastly different time periods, animals that aren't actually dinosaurs, etc.
We cannot stop AIDS/HIV research until gay sex is just as safe as hetrosexual sex. Much higher priority than malaria according to where the money is being spent....
I don't think it's necessarily that we have less interest in cultures besides our own, it's more that we usually plan vacations around wanting to see something, like a national monument, or do something, like party at Mardi Gras. Combine that mindset with the fact that the USA is so big, and there isn't much of a reason to ever leave the country because you'll never be able to see everything it has to offer, plus you don't have to pay to fly across the ocean. And yeah, I personally don't know anyone with a passport, it seems pretty rare here. I think one reason might be because of our neighboring countries. Until a couple of years ago, Canada didn't require a passport or visa when crossing our border, and Mexican border towns have been viewed as unsafe for as long as I can remember, so people didn't really go to Mexico except by cruise ships.
Yes, as I also understands it he was a direct member of the exchange. When this happened he owned 23 Twh of nordic and 11 TWh of german power derivatives contracts. That is 1/4 of Norway's consume in 1 year: https://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Energi/2018/09/Derfor-tapte-Ei...

He basically did become to big for the marked.
Oh, I've had edamame on numerous occasions. But it is served quite differently to the dry beans we're talking about.
Did you put Google and customer support in the same sentence?
We clearly have different definitions of "experiment". Having a theory (e.g. light is affected by gravity), making a prediction (that star that should be behind the sun will be visible) and then doing an observation fits my definition of experiment. It's more difficult to reproduce that measuring the speeds of falling apples, but eclipses are not that rare and you can always come up with other predictions from you theory and do the corresponding observations.

I would rather argue that we can in fact do experiments in economics as well. It's just harder to draw conclusions from the observations because there are lots of variables you can't control for easily.
>By contrast economics has a branch that is entirely value free (game theory, imho the hardest part), and most of economics likes to pretend it is value free (and whilst they're not 100% right at that, they're ... let's say 75% right), and only a small part is justifying existing power structures.

If you want to see where the "value" part of an econ paper, study the assumptions. Perfect competition, perfect information, etc. -- these assumptions weren't commonly built in to models because they actually simplified them (there are plenty of better ways to simplify economic models).

They were built in because identifying and exposing the source of the power that feeds you isn't the way to get ahead in this profession.

>However the actual cause is people ... bought and built houses they could never afford

The actual cause was banks giving out loans to people who could never afford them and then disguising that fact, taking commission and passing on the losses to somebody else.

Arguing that it's the fault of the people who took the loans is kind of like loaning all of your worldly wealth to your irresponsible, deadbeat cousin and then blaming him because you just went broke.
FBI Obtained Wiretaps from Spanish Police of Alexander Torshin and Trump Jr
Linux and its maintainers. LineageOS and its maintainers.
Fixing Xorg's Modesetting Driver Tearing on Intel Skylake IGPs
The cost of any serious surgery needs to be weighed against the quality of the work and I would never go for the cheapest guy in some foreign country to cut me open.

Frontline, I think, once found that, while there are very good doctors all over the world, when you walk into any hospital in the USA, at least, odds are the doctor in front of you is very good but the odds of that happening in other parts of the world is far lower.
Google Search Prototype for China Links Searches to Phone Numbers
When you can travel freely in an area basically the size of continental Europe without a passport, having one is not generally seen as a baseline requirement for being a regular person. This is a major change in mentality from many places where countries are smaller and crossing them not a rare event.

There might be a minor distinction to be made between having a no interest in other cultures and having £1500 lying around to fly to London.
Sure, because HIV through heterosexual sexual relations, needles, mother to child, and other types of bodily fluids exchange definitely aren't a thing. Let's go back 3 decades and call AIDS "GRID" again.
Maybe some do. I'm lucky I don't know the meaning of the word 'work hard'. I'm sitting here on a sunday afternoon working, or rather waiting for things to go wrong. Sure it's a 12 hour day, but it's not hard working.

Those holding down two jobs and doing 80 hours/week of non-stop work on their feet filling amazon deliveries or cooking burgers or picking fruit for minimum wage know what working hard is. I doubt anyone ever became independently wealthy through hard work.

Is it right our society is set up to reward luck above all else?
It's not hard to do by any means. Put it randomly inline with other content and don't give it any special attributes. How is any blocker going to catch that without hogging my cpu and killing my battery, or worse, sending details about the page im viewing off to a third party?
I spoke to a medical researcher who had worked both in public and private labs during their career, they said when they worked in public academic labs there was incompetence to the extent that no-one understood how to properly calibrate certain lab equipment. Working in private research, they said public research generally could not be replicated, and unless from a known lab was considered borderline useless.

I think it goes way beyond what you’re talking about. In large sections of academia there’s a very Darwinian system where researchers are fighting for their careers and labs are trying to keep their heads above the water, and everyone needs sexy results now. I don’t think such a system can lead to robust, unbiased research by default.
Some 3rd party accessories used 3.5mm jack to transfer data without MFI chip. Maybe Apple didnt like that for some reason. Just a thought.
Books are someone's fanfic that someone else liked enough to publish. Scripts are similar.

Most stories are written around the same small groups:

- Single protagonist

- Duo or buddies

- 3 person team (heavy hitter, smart/tech/engineer, leader)

- 5 person team (usually a 3 person team core with 2 additional members)

It's like "madlibbing" a story - using characters named "heavy", "tech", "leader", any IP can slot in their characters. For these, Teal'c/Carter/O'Neill or Raphael/Donatello/Leonardo or Hulk/Stark/Rogers.

Some plots will naturally be more widely adaptable to multiple IPs than others. Any hero can be used to tell a sufficiently generic story, but not all heroes work in all stories. Imagine doing Man of Steel in the MCU, or Infinity War in the DCEU.
I'm not saying Facebook is collapsing tomorrow, but ...

"More than 1 in 4 American users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey finds"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/05/more-th...

And is there really a generation of new users ready to take their place? I'm not sure:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

No tech company of this size dies overnight. And they might be diversified enough to be fine for a very long time (WhatsApp, Instagram) but these are very real problems for facebook.
Apple needs to do a better job at explaining this issue. I know several people who buy from the iTunes Store and assume that their purchases will forever be available for them to download.

Apple should probably give people the option of backing up their purchases to their iCloud account. It would increase the usefulness of iCloud.
I recommend this presentation to help dispel a lot of misconceptions about phishing and how easy it is for even highly technically and security literate people to get phished:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjW12K0IHgo
Speaking of this issue, is there no FLOSS effort to create software that could provide this analyzing service?
Good job Apple!

Funny how they really should have worried about this but apparently haven't.

But you can still use the lightning earphones that come together (or buy a dongle, since the newer model phones are dropping the adapter). 3rd party dongles are cheaper and some allow you to charge and listen to music at the same time.
It’s getting better I guess. I’ll let you know in a couple years when I’m ready to ditch my iPhone 7.

https://wccftech.com/the-iphone-xs-and-iphone-xs-max-both-ha...
Go-ycsb, supporting YCSB generators and Core workload for CRUD benchmarks in Go
i.e., put a cookie on the site, and trust the cookie instead of the cert for all pages except the login one? That leaves you with all the usual problems of cookie-based logins that certs are supposed to solve (revocation, risk of being stolen, etc.), and also if you want to do that you can just put a private key in localStorage and use WebCrypto on the login page. Or with username + no password + FIDO security key as your only factor, if you want a hardware token, or whatever. There's no advantage in using SSL for this.
Then you've never done real science. The term science has become watered down. People confuse the words science and research and think they mean the same thing. They are not. Science is how we verify that reality operates according to how we believe it does. It is the gold standard. It requires more work than just research
It also stalled my iMac on Safari 11.1.2, macOS 10.13.6. Had to force reboot.
I really reject his founding principle around the value of efficiency. The efficiency he declares as better appears to be in the axis of production of wealth and takes no consideration for the distribution of that wealth.

The idea that everything should be privatized for the efficiency (and later other reasons) is just broken in its own right.

I also really don’t like how he repeatedly throws out "commies" as an insult.

This guy reminds me of the "architect of Gilead" in the handmaid’s tale. He is obviously a smart, abstract, theoretical thinker, but they’re so abstract that they wind up being reducto-ad-absurdum.

I shudder to think there are people in the world that take this guy seriously. (To say nothing of the Mises Institute, who appears to have a crazy amount of money with which to spread this stuff)
Good to meet a fellow hobby farmer in tech! I'm doing the same only I only raise meat animals for my family, some extend family and friends. Around me there's a number of folks that used to be full time cattle farmers(it's middle Missouri we have grass and land. too much rock for crops). Over the last 10-20 years all of the full time farmers, except one, have had to branch out into other stuff. Most took up construction or excavation or some other trade, and run cattle on the weekends/nights. The only full time farmer around raises heritage breed hogs for high end restaurants. Even a friend with ~500 acres of paid off land and 300 head of cattle has had to move to organic cattle in order to keep that part of his life from going too far in the red, and it still barely turns a profit most years.
> He can offer help to many farmers, but what was once a robust network of state-funded farmer advocates has shrunk dramatically

Do we have a robust network of state-funded plumber advocates or cashier advocates? If farming is unprofitable for many, then the expected market response is people exiting the market, which itself will make it more profitable for those who remain.

Farming is largely a commodity game. That we need fewer farmers over time due to technological advances is entirely expected and even good! A society where a large percentage of people still had to be farmers to have enough food to eat would be a poorer one.
Yeah, it's more like 2M will let you live confortable indefinitely in 90% of future scenarios. So there is still an y% chance you might have to go back to work again.
An Oral History of Apple's Infinite Loop
I'm using i3wm and no compositor; I've had troubles with this fpr multiple CPU generations and could never figure out how to actually resolve this problem (without trading CPU power). By reading mpv's FAQ [0] I finally figured out what is going on. This even resolves the poor video-playback performance on Firefox, so it's a huge relieve for me.

If you aren't using a compositor and you've experienced tearing effects on/after switching to kernel mode setting (KMS) I can really suggest you using a compositor such as compton. From the linked article, here is a test video for tearing [1].

[0]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ

[1]: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/274755154/kenjo_vidtest_60fps...
I liked her comment about mainstream economics' bias toward maximizing "efficiency". It definitely felt like eliminating sources of "deadweight loss" was the primary goal of introductory microeconomics. Nevertheless, most societies today have substantial tax rates, suggesting that there are other priorities than efficiency in the real world.

Interestingly, though, mainstream macroeconomics would probably have predicted (and could have been used to prevent) the 2008 crisis if it had actually been used. Instead, well-positioned economists supported policies that ignored the rapid growth of a housing bubble and the fact that it was driving a substantial portion of total economic output. I would not, for example, call the analysis in Baker's 2002 paper [1] a heterodox analysis, indeed, it was pretty mainstream. It was, however, contrary to the pronouncements of the Federal Reserve.

1. http://cepr.net/publications/reports/the-run-up-in-home-pric...
AirPods warn you when they're low (it requires a considerable amount of time in-ear to get them low, about 4+ hours), then if you pop them in the case for 5 minutes, you get 45 minutes of play time.

Battery life is rarely a concern for me, and I wear my AirPods almost constantly. I even sometimes sleep with them.
I don't know about offering the latest chips, but Dell and HP at least, have offered AMD based servers for many years now...?
Tokyo Group?
Why is there more risk of sites being blacklisted with this model than with existing mechanisms? Google Safe Browsing can always ban your site. If you say "But people can turn off Safe Browsing," I'll counter with "But people can install their own CA."
I don't think this is true any more. I made a list [1] of high prescribing doctors (with sql). I noticed that some of the highest opioid prescribing doctors are in jail now. If you are a doctor these days you avoid opioids like the plague. [Keeping Medical Malpractice Insurance is hard enough].

My newest doctor makes me sign a sheet that he doesn't prescribe opioids at all.

[1] https://www.opendoctor.io/opioid/highest/
Tying a legal identity to a cert is not snake oil. It's a fundamental part of every crypto system, including PKI prior to GeoTrust making DV in 2003.
Hit me up if you’re in Chicago.
I was unaware of such a method, I change my statement from "forbidden by ..." to "heavily restricted by Wikipedia..." Thanks.
I find AirPods to be a disappointing product.

The pairing isn’t great IMO. So many calls take a minute to figure out AirPod connectivity issues. It’s frustrating switching airpods between a Mac and iPhone. Much of the time only left or right pair, and the only way to fix it is to put them back in the case and re-pair them. Sadly it doesn’t “just work”

Another common problem is the mics tend to rust out after about a year of usage, eventually breaking down. This happens if you use them for any exercise (which apple advertises them for) with sweat rusting the mesh on the bottom.

Eventually I switched back to a manual headphone cable with a mic built in. It always works...
Dug through WebKit Bugzilla and Trac and the only recent visible "crash backdrop" issue seems to be "Fix crash when reflections and backdrop filter are combined" [1], which references bug that requires authorization [2].

[1] https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/235475/webkit
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188504
> The economies of scale in agriculture have become so strong that there's no way to compete on price any other way. And people understandably don't want to double their grocery bills just to buy local.

Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. Those economies of scale mean cheaper food.

> They mainly want to grow exactly the same small number of crops, to keep supply chains simple.

Is there any evidence that variety of, say, produce in markets/grocery stores is less now than a hundred years ago?

> Or what happens if we encounter this generation's version of potato blight on corn or wheat?

Then we switch crops, like what happened to bananas before? It's not like we literally have no access to seeds and whatnot for other crops.
waveapps.com, love the UI
This are some amazing buzz words your have learned.

"Malaria probably can be eliminated for single digit millions of dollars through gene drive against specific species of mosquitoes which carry it."

Probably. And to throw a mutagenic chain reaction against evolutionary pressure, what possibly could go wrong? And why does this not work in the lab and why do mosquitoes develop resistance against gene drive after a few generations?
Search, comments and an image viewer with Hugo
I clicked the third link thinking it was a link to a demo video. I can confirm that 1) it’s not a link to a demo video 2) it rebooted my iPad.
What? Coping is personal, but planning would be critical. Long Term Disability Insurance is totally a thing. One would probably make different reproductive decisions among other choices. The entire argument against knowing seems to be that it might hurt your feelings.
I'm sure you're in the absolute minority. Most people want all apps, including the browser, to stay the way they were when they closed them, even after a reboot
It would be rational and moral (within Google's own worldview) to sell EV, drive all the other EV sellers out of business, and then stop. It's a lot harder to get into the EV business than into the homeopathy business, so it's not quite comparable to your doctor trying to drive the homeopaths out of business.
That sounds like a problem of needing better identity indicators rather than verifying identity via EV.