skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a two-part answer.

First, the big difference about GMOs is that "farmers must purchase fresh seeds as retailers sell them only as hybrid cultivars, which prevents growers from replanting them the following year." [3]
You can imagine that this makes a huge difference in how farmers need to operate.
Farmers do not store seed anymore like they used to but need to buy new seed ever year. If world market prices of their commodities drop they will not even be able to afford new seed & pesticides for the next crop, especially since prices for GMO seeds and brand-specific pesticides are a multiple of non-GMO seeds.
With non-GMOs, farmers retain the possibility and the legal right to the re-seed next year. That is why this cycle is more vicious, especially for low-income countries where credits and loan are hard to come by.

> You haven't mentioned any evidence which would inculpate Monsanto.

Secondly, I explicitly linked an article titled "Death and Extinction of the Bees. The Role of Monsanto?" which is one of many others like the Guardian, citing University of Texas research [0], the German Office for Environmental Protection [1] highlighting the negative effect of RoundUp/Glpyhosat. All of these detail the negative impact of Monsanto's product on biodiversity in general and bees more specifically. So the evidence is not only about the negative impact of Monsanto's main product RoundUp on bee population but also Monsanto's documented efforts to prevent effective regulation and scientific discussion.

For instance, the so-called 'Monsanto papers' "reveal Monsanto-sponsored ghostwriting of articles published in toxicology journals and the lay media, interference in the peer review process, behind-the-scenes influence on retraction and the creation of a so-called academic website as a front for the defense of Monsanto products."[5]

Monsanto doesn't really help here and became the first company that has been "banned from entering the European parliament after the multinational refused to attend a parliamentary hearing into allegations of regulatory interference" [4].

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto...
[1] - https://www.bfn.de/fileadmin/BfN/landwirtschaft/Dokumente/20...
[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2014/...
[4] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/monsanto...
[5] - https://www.sci-hub.tw/10.3233/JRS-180028
An intentionally misleading quote. The memo has over 30 references, looks like about half of which are either to a research paper or reporting about some research.

Even the Wikipedia links are either to a general definition, or a well-referenced section that cites research papers, not to baseless claims.
Job management?
Would love to rent one then!
Passing the System Design Interview for Software Engineers
Their request implies a deadline where non exists, and was inconsiderate to the charity they were benefiting from. Also their use (static linking) would have made one more product that Author would get emails about when said product wasn't rebuilt to support newer boards. Basically they're at best an entitled asshole, at worst an entitled asshole leeching profit.
> Go shopping for a fridge, then buy one. You'll have fridge ads following you around even though you're not in the market for a fridge any more.

This persistent meme commits the fallacy of believing that every person follows the precise same fact pattern as yourself: Buying a fridge on some predictable, perfectly recurring and invariant schedule.

In fact, it is probably far more likely that a person who just bought a fridge will be favorably economically incentivized by an ad for a fridge than a randomly selected person.

For one thing, we know that this is a person who will ever influence a decision to buy a fridge (because they in fact did buy a fridge). Many people will never select a fridge in their life (for reasons that include renting a home, moving into a home which already has a fridge, replacing a non-working fridge with whatever a repairperson selects and is thus not influenced by an ad, is not the person in their family who selects a fridge, etc.)

A person who just bought a fridge is more likely to return that fridge and buy another than a randomly selected person is likely to buy a fridge in the same time period.

A person who just bought a fridge is more likely to be a decision-maker in selecting another fridge in the near-term than a randomly selected person (for reasons that include: buying another fridge for their garage, buying one for their business, recommending one to their contacts).

Buying a fridge is a rare event that probably absolutely correlates positively to buying another fridge.
at home, https://pi-hole.net/
on the go, i use some combination of ublock, noscript, and their equivalents
PiHole with Cloudflare DNS
I think it's easier to write OOP code period, without the 'good'. I think writing good OOP code is significantly harder than writing good functional code, because OOP gives users significantly more options to go astray.

The limiting nature of functional languages tends to force people into cleaner solutions at the cost of harder constraints.
It's not just free/libre/open source software that has this issue.

I run an email security SaaS business. It's closed source, but the suite is free of charge to use for personal, non-commercial domains.

We get numerous support requests each day of users on the free tier (who are obviously commercial users btw) that DEMAND us to fix all sorts of email problems for them. They regularly threaten that they will write a bad review on $_SOCIAL_NETWORK if we don't fix their email delivery issues for free. It's frustrating and also exhausting to try to stay professional towards these 'customers'.

Interesting observation: This behavior seems to be culture dependent. I'd say about 90% of our over-demanding free-tier users are from the same region on the planet.
Banned in Boston
Wordpress + WooCommerce

You can say all you want about bad the platform is, but the fact of the matter is that you can setup and start selling on a proven platform for almost nothing.
> Yes, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would be in the same party in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, etc.

You're getting downvoted but I'd like to register that I agree with you: they'd both be social-democrats, sitting on the center-right in my opinion :)
>The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

>I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

-Ernest Hemingway

https://dianedrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hemingway-...
And a lot of those filmgoers eager to see it, left the theater disappointed in the story and soured on the brand, which contributed to the franchise fatigue Solo suffered at the box office from.
> As climate change pushes sea levels higher around the world,

That is correct, but the effect is very small for now, so starting the article with this is misleading. More information https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170911122642.h...
If you read this Gordon, thank you for all you did for so long, it was way more generous than we deserved. I'm sorry for how unappreciative it all turned out, I appreciated your work and you're right you definitely should not put up with that shit. Best of luck =)
Might be cloudflare. They use Recaptcha.
Open source gets inundated by the unwashed masses. I am so glad they taught our idiots in the office how to code, but the twits can't even figure out an a simple Excel formula.
> With this, the international research team has also made an important step towards practical applications such as a future quantum internet, since high-dimensional quantum systems can transport larger amounts of information than qubits. "This result could help to connect quantum computers with information capacities beyond qubits", says Anton Zeilinger, quantum physicist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna, about the innovative potential of the new method.

I wonder how a quantum internet would be different than the binary one.
Judging by your username, I assume you submitted your own blogpost. I really don't mean to put you down, because I am interested in the material but if you want to improve the quality of your blogposts, let me give some constructive feedback on your writing:

The title includes "The Baarle Problem", indicating some problem exists. I assume you mean the problem is the 1995 introduction of the border demarcation? (or is the problem the border complexity in itself?) However, you never really say what the problem is that arises from this policy.

Then you finish with: "It is truly extraordinary how such an arrangement exists - in harmony. Maybe other countries with border disputes should learn something from [this border]", which implies that it is good and not a problem?

"it is not very uncommon for tourists to completely skip this little gem" appears to be wrong. Do you mean it is very common to skip this "little gem"?

Your map doesn't make clear what part belongs to which country. Maybe add NL or BE in a few strategic places?

Judging from the images, you have visited this place. It would have been nice if you could have asked some people what their experiences are living in this place. Maybe the border causes issues,maybe it doesn't? What problems (and solutions) are uncommon in NL/BE (or Europe, or the world) that they have experienced first-hand due to the complicated border?
We're chatting to the FreeBSD and OpenBSD folks about this.
z_open's setup is really good. Very similar to mine. A site that has helped me learn enormously about this is privacytools.io. I designed my config based on their suggestions. There are a tons of privacy conscious alternatives to everyday software.

Many of the configs you are going to see here can be reasoned through the suggestions at their site.
I disagree, I think that:

People want to go about their day and not be hit and have to reject people face to face. It's a difficult interaction human interaction to have.

People DO want to go about their day and be hit on by the right person. When I was single, I loved being hit on by someone who I was into. It was fun. And I hated it when I had to let someone know I wasn't interested, it was terrible.

One of the issues that online dating solves is it makes the rejection process easier and less confrontational for the person being approached.
I’m as “non white” as you can possibly get and I have no interest in talking about politics or any other hot button issue st work.
_"As a European citizen I would really like to provide the people of Hong Kong a passport of their choosing. Our Western colonial mistakes"_

As an European Union citizen, I find it VERY insulting that anyone can equate Western (former) colonialists with the European Union and viceversa.

I'm from Eastern Europe, I have zero connection to former colonialism and zero guilt about that.
I've been using https://www.nextdns.io for the last month.

It's PiHole as a Service.
Yes, producing is hard.

No, quantity is not the same as quality. Some people write 5,000 books in a lifetime. Wittgenstein wrote two. The second refuted most of the first.

Much modern consumer technology is aggressively anti-generative. I'm wrestling with a crap tablet and OS and a browser that's crashed a half-dozen times today, taking down the 50 or so items I'd had lined up to read (I've yet to embrace the "consome less" element).

I spend a lot of time fighting to create and acquire the time and space and materials and tools I require to create, often battling with uncomprehending others in this. "Why do you need books / computer / light / space / food / housing / clothing." I only wish I were kidding.

Facile works can be created with relatively low barriers surmounted. More substantive ... takes a bit more. I'm not remotely pretending to be another Ludwig, but reading him and others like him, I've formed a pretty strong view of the quality-quantity curve and how that works out. If even just a 1,600 word blog essay takes a month to compose, a more ambitious project might just require a bit beyond that.

And yes, getting into the creative habit, and seeing what works and doesn't (cold starts on blank pages have their place, but so doe boxes and stacks of index cards and books), and not being afraid to start over or take time.
I'm curious, what websites are breaking for you? I use the same (+ Facebook Container) and I rarely notice breakage. PrivacyBadger is the only one that's broken something for me before (image links from a CDN), I can't recall uBlock Origin ever breaking a site for me unless the site has an anti-adblocker.

If you're talking about the "please disable your adblocker to continue" messages, you can consider something like Anti Adblock Killer [1] which can help bypass those kinds of blocks.

As far as the best setup I think what you have is fairly close to "the best" already without getting more hands-on. You can check out Pi-hole which I've heard is superior, but harder to setup [2].

[1] https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

[2] https://pi-hole.net/
We hear you - it's being worked on for 11+. 8 we're not so sure bout as the OpenJFX version there is unmaintained
Isn't this a problem online too?
I've been delving into bash scripting a bit more than I'd like as of late and the lack of universally available consistent structured output for the CLI really got to me. Most of the script contents end up being these obfuscating and brittle "hacky solutions" that never should have been necessary. When I thought about pursuing fixing this I felt like the task was a bit overwhelming. I'm delighted that these developers are working on this!
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
and AlgoVPN
Statistics can be misleading. The vast majority of incidents aren't reported, and if they are filed they are filed under generic labels.
a) Probably wise not to conflate homelessness with the opioid crisis. I would be a fool to argue that the latter correlates in any way with winter temperatures.

b) Different scale, man. Seattle's issues are way bigger than Methadone Mile. (I've lived in Boston too.)
I seems to me it shouldn't be too expensive to offer a key upgrade, if the new models are safer.
As a designer I didn't really liked the experience (but things may have changed since 2008). But I had to basically enter as much competitions as possible every day, that meant doing as much as four or five proposals daily. The quality, as one could expect, wasn't as good because a) I spent little to no time refining each idea and b) there was no time to edit myself. Out of the tens of competitions I entered I won two (I won 3k which was very welcome at the time) and both become regular clients outside the platform.

I may have getting used to working on 99designs eventually, but I'm just not wired to that staggering amount of rejection and sense of uselessness.
Twitter Trust and Safety Advisers Say They’re Being Ignored
Seems its only one level deep, no tables of tables are shown. Powershell has a lot of issues but one cool thing is you can access output as nested object data. Seems like the logical evolution.
I am having a problem with --raw not being default. Defaults must be secure and stable.
Check out the no script Firefox add on. If u go to a website that pops up a big screen saying disable ad block u can right click the screen blocking and remove it and bam website works perfect
I have been using mercurial for more than a decade now. I just install hg-git, work on my local mercurial repo, push & pull to git, without any friction with anyone in my team.

Mercurial simply stayed my secret tool for version control, without anyone noticing.

- the command line is unsurprising and coherent
- the UX in the terminal is nice (with tweakdefaults=true, you have colored word diffs, and nice curses interface for commit, uncommit, amend, --interactive)
- integrated web ui via "hg serve"
- compatible with git. There are margin for improvement here: hg-git can do everything but you have to be an advanced user.
- advanced workflows are not only possible, but easier and safer, due to non destructive history editing
- TortoiseHg is a honest GUI. Most advanced workflows are even easier there. Works on windows, so it's a good way of introducing less advanced users to version control.
Wonder if the temptation wasn't there to just call it 'nutshell' and if so, how it was resisted.
I believe that men can manage their image and make themselves attractive to women. If a man believes they are worth speaking to and are attractive, it goes a long way with a women.

If my starting base is "women just don’t want people they’re not attracted to hitting on them in public", then it's would mean that I start from a weak position. I feel like that mentally basically says "I am not attractive and women do not want to speak to me". People can sense this and find it unattractive.
I love the idea of treating output as tabular data.

I see you already have a where operator. What would fit this very well would be in-built sql-like syntax. Since tables are first class, you should have an in-built way of handling them.

A languiage similar to q/kdb - it has a great SQL dsl, but also works as a regular programming language. It's also very concise and expressive, you can write oneliners that do mind bogglingly complex things.
Gamarjoba,

I think what you are doing is very important thing but it's not scalable to 2.5b people.

The biggest problem for those 2.5b people are:

- Availability of network infrastructure. It starts with whatever network backbone and ends with either mobile internet or wifi network. In most cases there is no business case to build out this kind of infrastructure as there is essentially no way to recover investment unless its subsidized by government or world bank or something.

- Availability of electricity. There is many place that simply has none or it's very unreliable. It has twofold influence - its hard to build infrastructure that will work and people have no place to charge phones/laptops

- The actual price of devices. Even if you are talking about advanced feature phones or low end smart phones (laptops are way out of price range for most of 2.5b people) its still expensive. There is all kind of schemes with operators subsidizing the device over few years but it's bring arpu to very low numbers making it hardly viable business.

Edit. I actually lived in Georgia during the "fun" time, late 80s - early 90s. Good luck.
Hardly anyone. Still going strong. The first add-on I'd recommend.
But then you don't have a mainland IP
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/341 now there are only 458 :)
Which specialty retailers do you recommend?

I have all my stuff sent to a PO box because I live in an apartment building with no secure way to deliver packages, but, yes, I have noticed that Amazon's contracted delivery service (Amazon Logistics) is pretty incompetent. For the longest time, I couldn't get them to deliver properly to my box, even though I said in the extra info section that it's a business with business hours.
Indeed. I wonder why there isn't more visible startup activity in SJ. Is it purely cultural/historical, where it emerged in SF and that remains the main regional attractor?

Or are there other political/zoning reasons that make SF more attractive? I believe SF is giving some rich companies discounts to keep them around and reap (I assume) local taxes?
Would this block the whole video about the Glass Age[0] by the MythBusters since the whole thing was sponsored? :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc
Not in Rust.
There a subtle but important variant to this. When you are getting paid to provide ad space, even if you are not explicitly deceptive, you’re incentive are still such that the ad space takes priority. It will lead to choices compromising on quality for quantity diluting the very reason for putting the video message out there in the first place.

Yes, some things take time, effort and resources to produce, and we do want to make sure such things are available to those who know how to crate value from them. But ad-revenue cannot be some kind of default, let’s do better.
Ask HN: Resources to learn Electrical Engineering?
I have virtually no experience in this field and would like to learn about electrical engineering - both in theory (e.g. the relevant formulas, best practices to design circuit boards, etc.) and in practice (e.g. soldering, little projects, etc.)

What resources can you recommend? I'm looking for starter kits, books and/or video lessons.
Square's online store is probably the best for being able to sell without paying a platform fee for most features. But it is much less feature rich than Shopify.
The owner of the copyrights is under no obligation to release their code just because they've previously released earlier versions under the GPL.
Yes, Mailhardener uses Matomo to track basic statistics on our website. Mostly just visitor counts and mapping where traffic comes from.

In terms of costs I'd say it's neglectable, it runs on a container in our existing infrastructure. Required resources and maintenance are minimal.
The author owes nobody anything. He's already done enough. If you've given away something for free, don't expect support or anything free in the future. It's literally like taking a gift from someone and then complaining that it doesn't have enough for you to act indignant to people who give things away for free. Don't like it? Don't use it or improve it and contribute back. Want more? Pay them to build it and add it to what's available for everyone as a way to say thanks.
Digging into Regressions
Starting with a negative premise will more likely end in a negative outcome.
Although no TCK we do run > 100,000 open tests, including many popular open-source libraries, frameworks and languages. We're very comfortable standing behind the quality of these binaries :-).
Paywall; site wants a subscription to read the article.
>I do believe that there needs to be an honest discussion about the limits of rehabilitation.

First I think we need to have an honest discussion about actually trying rehabilitation. The criminal justice system is more concerned with retribution than rehabilitation.
It's as if a primitive man saved enough berries at night to be able to eat some before foraging for more in the morning.

You there's no concept of "scale" to something like this. Save a snack, a small task, for your brain to munch on in the morning, and you'll get in the routine much better than on an empty stomach.
Very similar to what I have. May I recommend using containers? It works wonders and gives me peace of mind.
This sounds like mobs in the French revolution. You don't agree with my political view, so you deserve the guillotine. And people do this all in the name of justice and righteousness.
This project has goals similar to GNU eshell [1]. Great ideas, thank you for sharing.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...
Learning Julia and high performance scientific computing opened up a ton of opportunities for me. I would definitely recommend the same (and am now looking for students who know Julia!)
Oftentimes the people they say are "executives" are just rank and file employees. I have a friend who is not an executive who got tricked into meeting with a Project Veritas scumbag. Thankfully they realized something was up and left the meeting.