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> I don't know what the solution to this is.

The problems you mention are very real. I am not in farming, so a noob, but it is clear to me that significant change in food production is a requirement.

I see some positive trends (at least here in The Netherlands). On the one hand the awareness that industrial-scale production is unsustainable. There is a Guardian article on that today: 'Europe's meat and dairy production must halve by 2050, expert warns' [0]. Also there was talk on potato farmers getting only 0.09ct per kilo for their produce, while in the supermarket it costs $1.80 (this for local production, NL is quite small). Even large farmers are selling below cost price. Furthermore they throw small potatoes back on the field to rot, because they do not match supermarket criteria. Etcetera. NL is 2nd-largest food exporter (in a bunch of markets) in the world, after US [1]. A system under strain.

On the other hand - at the consumer side - there is growing awareness of the problem, more willingness to pay more for local and organically (eco) grown foodstuffs.

I think it should be possible for different models to be profitable. Besides the bartering communities mentioned by sibling, your small farmers could all arrange yourselves in co-ops, both to the supply-side (buy machinery together) as towards consumer-side (e.g. run/finance a co-op supermarket).

Regarding produce: Diversifying, and offering stuff that is not in supermarket can be a unique selling point. Good cooking with proper ingredients has become a hype in NL (stimulated by countless TV programs). Now take cucumber. The supermarket only has the long green, rather tasteless kind. But there are countless varieties. Different forms, different flavors, more tasty. Sell it as a specialty. Tell a good story with them (i.e. marketing storytelling), 'The good country life'-idea. Have people be willing to pay a premium.

I realize that in Netherlands this may be easier, because of population density, and production being always very near to consumers.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/15/europe-m...

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...
>Most people en route dismissed me as an English eccentric

that'll happen when you cross the alps on a space hopper, dressed in a tweed suit and pith helmet at the height of summer.
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(1) is not technically possible unless Google issues new certificates for each site they want to inspect, and they would immediately be untrusted for doing so. (Admittedly, a CA did this once and is still alive, but they came very close to getting axed.)
It favors hn links that have a low squabble index.

> This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to-discussion ratio. Mostly because controversial pieces tend to produce a disproportionate number of comments compared to upvotes.
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RIP Songza. I will never forgive them for acquiring and ruining that service.
Is any contract entered into by a child even binding?
A logout button could work the same way as with usernames and passwords. Sure you could use the cert to reauth the user with every page load but you could also use a traditional login page you just replace the user / password entry with the certificates and then operate as usual from there. Same with privacy it is all in the implementation details.
True. However, "market rules", are at the core, law. Above that are contracts, norms.

The rules permit that crap, risk / reward being left up to the merchant.

Then there are illegal markets. Still risk / reward, but operating more on norms and some contracts, of a sort.
Of course. Also if the article is structured In N things (1) I am not even bothering.

1 http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html
Greg Egan wrote a Java app to simulate the view near to and inside the event horizon for his short story The Planck Dive. The view from inside, looking back, at around 2M is particularly interesting

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To me, his controversial argument is the idea that the academy is infested with communists who think you should be thrown in jail for using the wrong pronouns, and that an entire generation of college students is taking women's studies classes wherein they are taught that the problem with the world is that men exist and that they aren't enough like women. And that in these leftist circles you're not allowed to talk about sexism perpetrated by muslim men. And a bunch of other such theories.

Sure, all of that exists in various crappy people in obscure corners of academia. But he makes it out to be widespread, and he makes it out that no dissenting voices are allowed to exist on the left or in academia. Neither of which is true. But more troubling, there's a community of right wing pundits who use Peterson and his theories to justify total vilification of the left and academia in their entirety. The impression you get from Peterson is that no gender studies professor has ever done anything except hate traditional values and the people who love them.

There are people out there making constructive criticisms of overzealous leftists. Peterson seems to be choosing a purely divisive path. You can tell because he never talks to or about anyone on the left with more moderate views. He only engages the center right and the radical left, because fundamentally his goal isn't to reform the left, it's to justify his own rightward shift in his personal politics.
Same, yet I would gladly see it done.

The idea of bringing something old world into current is compelling, definitely morbid in some sense, and primal.

Yeah, not a good mix, but what can I say? This is a want to see happen. I am likely to regret it, but maybe, just maybe it could be a good thing. Somehow.
Isn't Apple just a distributor of music, movies etc. When they remove a music you don't actually own it.
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We should comment a lot on this post, thus ensuring it's high on HN, but low on itself, right?
This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to-discussion ratio. Mostly because controversial pieces tend to produce a disproportionate number of comments compared to upvotes.

Interesting thesis. The current listing didn't convince me there's any merit to it.

I might check this site out more often if it included the HN front page ranking and a green/red up/down arrow showing the relative diff.
Who requires these certs? I've always gotten the impression they are useful for 1) checking a box on some form; and 2) making more money for CAs.

And, if its my job to check that box or to make money for a CA, well, that's fine. But, it terms of them actually having a real use, I'd love for someone to tell me what that real use actually is.
A credit reporting agency seems very much like a publisher. They receive statements from some parties and distribute them (usually more widely) to other parties.
The article illustrates the crisis, producing an example of how farmers fail to make ends meet:

>A gallon of milk costs a farmer approximately $1.90 to produce, but in the last year, farmers have been receiving as little as $1.35 per gallon.

But they don't explain the underlying economic forces. The only possible reason (I think) that a farmer can't charge more than $1.35 for a gallon of milk is that some other farmer is able to produce a gallon of milk for less than $1.35.

So, clearly, some farmers are quite successful, and their success (or maybe just their efficiency) is part of the reason that other farmers are having a hard time? But the article doesn't talk about that much.

Slightly off topic: I pay my local supermarket $3 for a gallon of milk and now I'm curious about the breakdown of what that markup is spent on.
Burn I wonder if that’s really a problem because in 3 years, if GOogle Cloud becomes a billion dollar company then most wont question its financial importance to Alphabet.
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Have given most things in the Beta Group, First off I love the format conversion capabilities, just missing a few things like Clustering Algorithms. If parity can be achieved with the PostGIS ST functions then it will be fantastic!
Great!

More political and "bikeshed-dy" an article is, the more comments it has. This seems great to eliminate that type of fluff.
Becoming 'a worker' is very eye opening experience.
So? Many people hate the current system. Its not clear that anyone has a better idea.
very meta
Ask HN: Shall I teach python to my 11 yr old daughter?
I am a programmer and know python well. I know my son is good at studies and very good at learning new thing, loves science. At times I am tempted to teach him some python and I have a feeling that he will do great. Perhaps this will boost his confidence a lot.
My concerns however are: he might spend a lot of time then in front of screen instead of going out and playing with his friends.
Have you faced similar dilemma? What would be your advice?
Ah I see, perhaps I was too quick to the draw.

I haven’t heard the term “squabble index” before, and google returned zilch, but I like it. That being said, I tend to use the comments on HN as a filter for whether or not the article itself will be worth my time. Perhaps this is a flawed heuristic.
Got it, MTurk defintely makes more sense than the Turk :)

Which actually raises an interesting point. The word data comes from Latin dare for "to give". So, as Rob Kitchin observes, while something like MTurk can be properly described as collecting "data", Google and the vast majority of networked platforms should really be more properly described as collecting "capta", from Latin capere, or "to take".
Imho it's the other way around. Threads with a lot of discussion is interesting because... there is a lot of discussion meaning there are multiple views and rational arguments. I think I like HN's algorithm better than this one, but it's a very interesting idea, so it's definitely good that we have both (for algorithmic variety).
Global Foundries just recently scrapped their 7nm process because it was too expensive. It's to AMD's advantage to not have a foundry.

On the other hand it's not good for the market in the long run when TSMC has a monopoly on 7nm...
God I listened to Songza every single day for hours. I walked out the day they got acquired.

Ads everywhere, google showing things in your face. Nop!
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The only word of concern is dismissed. He is of course an english eccentric, but he shouldn't be dismissed for it.
TIL americans forget toys they invented faster than danger mouse.
Author here. There’s a longer description in the Github readme: https://github.com/ejamesc/go-hn-confidence

I should note that while this site is how I weaned myself off Hacker News, it’s no longer as useful as it was in the past (hnconf has existed for 6 years). I’ve a feeling dang has taken this observation into account (that upvote to comment ratio is a signal of quality) and they’ve adjusted HN’s ranking algo accordingly.

I still use the site, but for a different reason: a site that updates once every 30 minutes is far less addictive than a site that updates all the time.

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You sound like another happy Theranos customer.

The US managed to hit the sweet spot of enough regulation to raise prices over developing countries, but not enough regulation to limit prices like developed countries.
I've wondered about making the opposite, that is, a view that sorts by controversy.

There are quite a few things that get posted here that quickly get votes, quite a few comments, but are soon killed/massively down-ranked by flags. Sometimes it would be interesting to be able to see what these are if you don't see them in the hour or two that they're visible. I know they're often controversial social or political topics and that HN doesn't really want them, but they can still be interesting to look at.
> technically possible

Yes, it is technically possible for Google to commit corporate suicide.

There are many things which are "technically possible" which are not remotely plausible.
Seems to be working, almost off it's first page.
the four listed are the biggest products in the world in their space. the first three would be multi billion dollar companies outside of Google.

not to mention Search itself, Docs has become a fantastic product as has Photos. of course they have killed hundreds of potentially great projects (RIP Reader) but give the company their due - they know how to build products.
I appreciate the idea, but I question the merit. Importantly, I think what it is really optimizing for are posts without experts on Hacker News.

As the author of https://hnprofile.com - I've spent a long time analyzing this...

For example, you post something about PostgreSQL on HN it'll have a ton of discussion. That's not just because there is squabbling, it's because people are interested. Often it is a disagreement, but it could be providing additional context. Take this comment thread on PostgeSQL 11:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962821

The comments are significantly more interesting and helpful than the article (not that the article is bad, just the collective knowledge of HN provides more value). I often upvote items because I think they are interesting, but I comment asking questions, adding context, or providing feedback. That's the value of hacker news, IMO.

If you filter that out, I might as well just go to my feedly.

Edit: Prior discussion about hnprofile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942981
Who pays the costs of phishing? Is it mostly individuals or do corporations feel the pinch?

Your analyses gets at the root causes, the bug fix that woukd stop the trouble tickets. Are the incentives there or the political will? It’s big. You’re getting into major league ball level public policy when banking regulations are involved. The problem must not yet be painful enough to drive the politics but maybe that day will arrive sooner or later.

While this could stop the most lucrative form of phishing, it woukd still leave the other forms of phishing. And as @badrabbit mentioned there are other types of phishing (e.g., Malware delivery).
Was ditching the headphone jack a good idea?
We never used the term "space hopper" for that sort of ball. That is a British coinage.
He is a tremendous hacker. Sure is arrogant, but I would like to see more hacker run companies rather than some business face running it to squeeze profits from gimmicks.

Doesn’t apply to commai since they moved an internal automotive engineer to CEO. That’s awesome. God speed! Best of luck to them.
Does part of your core business also involve mining silicon, crystalizing it, cutting the crystals into wafers, and then etching those wafers to make the chips your servers are built from?

Somewhere, you're drawing the line between what you build in-house and what you outsource. Where to draw the line depends on many factors. There's definitely no "right" place, such as never using cloud resources.
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> It almost certainly will make those changes through coercion rather than eliminating sexism in the interview process

Why do you say that? You're basically presuming bad faith. Eliminating sexism in the interview process is exactly what anti-bias recruiting tries to do.

> it only builds resentments against movements which restrict and criticise behaviors which are fair

Not only that. It also helps get better people into the positions where they can be more effective, which leads to a more productive economy overall. The resentment is an unfortunate (I think inevitable) side effect.

To me the wage gaps are evidence that we're not using the labor force effectively, that there are talented women and people of color who are not getting into jobs where their skills are adequately leveraged. So getting them into better positions means companies will be more successful. The statistics suggest that some of the men in these positions don't deserve to be there and are holding their organizations back.

I understand you interpret the data in a different way, that some things just make men and white people more valuable. Differences aside, can you see that these interpretations are subjective and the data doesn't actually differentiate between "the women are just less capable" and "the process is not promoting the best people"? Those two realities are indistinguishable from pay data alone, which is why the stats become a Rorschach test for peoples' beliefs about gender differences.

Not sure how to engage the rest of your argument... I definitely wouldn't say people are blank slates, nor would I deny that gender differences exist. The vast majority of feminists don't think those things, those positions are straw men that anti-feminists like to bring up because they are easy to argue against.
Actually, they have explicit guarantees, yes.

As an outsider, you would know from the terms of service:
https://cloud.google.com/terms/

7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if it intends to
discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the
Services specified at the URL in the next sentence. Google
will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to
operate those Services versions and features identified at
https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these
changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless
(as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

(i) required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

(ii) doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."

If you click through to https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation you will see the covered services.
(Reasonable good faith is a legal term of art, so no, Google would not get away with whatever silly edge case people come up with)
Everyone who operates a website with users that can be the phishing targets. Plain certs (DV) only tell you that you are talking to a server that that has been validated to belong to a domain (and the taking is done encrypted).

For example: https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/1038919152826757122
Doesnt even have a repl now. This one will surely take many people back https://github.com/robhagemans/pcbasic
The disrupted is disrupting the disruptor in the [var] market.

Arguably this is going to be the case going forward.

Increasingly, incumbents can move as fast as "disruptors" because information flows so quickly and nearly every major incumbent has learned that "disrupting yourself" is key to long term survival.

Incumbents can see threat trends as they are gaining traction, rapidly invest in an in-channel copycat (because they have so much cash on hand) and since they already have the user base, deploy the solution more easily.

I'm increasingly convinced that the orthogonal flanks that startups have been able to do to incumbents in high tech over the last 20 years, is not viable anymore.
This is the exact issue I sought to solve when I invented the system that I later sold to VidAngel.
> But this isn't really a reader app, it's just my email and browser!
> Exactly! Aren't those powerful?

I love this. I am building two email-only services right now, one released/beta, and one that I just started on the other day. I have a similar section regarding the email: http://snpy.in/ADIhJ4.

Mind telling me a bit more about your stack? And the payment?

I went the weekend project path, as basic as it gets. All scripts are in PHP (because of ease of setup), the email sending is done through some mail methods in PHP via through SMTP from my webhost. My database is actually a simple JSON file. Email verification is done by generating a unique url/code which they click in their email.
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Richard Lloyd (formerly the guitarist for the proto-punk band Television) has a few great lessons on YouTube that teach theory and the circle of fifths very effectively:

https://youtu.be/mNmEq-cP9Oo
https://youtu.be/9lSifKZ80H4
https://youtu.be/fjWFqz1Sjps

Lloyd is a bit eccentric in person and in his methods—he's very opinionated, but IMO that's one of the things that makes him a great guitar teacher.
His counterpoint appears to apply only to individuals and small bands; without density we never achieve industry, which brings us, well, the modern world and all its medicine, internet, refrigeration ... satellite-based forewarning of enormous storms and time to prepare against those and other existential threats to large areas.

People live to be 100 and happy and productive on largely grain-based diets, not thanks to the grain, but thanks to the modern world it allows. Pre-grain, we didn't live so long.

On balance I think grains are a no-brainer. Maybe there is some extraordinarily minor benefit to the individual not to eat grains, but, obviously, in light of the past 10,000 years of history, grains are fine for you and will keep you both alive and happy.
My understanding is that their entire idea is the race to the bottom. What's the fine idea I'm missing?
Can't argue taste! I really like the recent blockbusters (eg all the marvel stuff). The more ridiculous, the better! Looking around at the cinema I feel like I'm not the only one with that opinion. Usually when I go watch some Iron Man 8 kind of movie the room is filled with faces of eager anticipation.
But that also means if it doesn't become profitable, it'll be shut down on short notice. Which is exactly the reason nobody is considering Google Cloud, and going to AWS and Azure instead. Google knows this (they're not stupid after all) and seems to be pulling out of kubernetes development recently.