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Commodity agriculture is any agriculture where the products are sold into the commodity markets, basically -- corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, pork, beef, etc.

Commodity agriculture is all about scale and price; there are certain quality standards that must be met (your corn must have a specific moisture content; your pigs must weigh in a certain range and be free of disease) but there is no real competition on the quality of the good produced. You assume all hard red wheat is fungible, and buy and sell it by the ton.

Some products exist in both commodity and non-commodity markets -- you can produce pork for the commodity markets, or your can sell it door to door.
>In this case it could use the Linux crypto API

Could it? That doesn't sound very portable, and ZFS works on FreeBSD too.
It isn't the AMOUNT of land they use, but the value of what they use. An acre of good farmland might be $2500. An acre in Manhattan might be $250 million and up. The rental value of the land is proportional to the value of the land.

And when the Single Tax was conceived, it was already abundantly clear that urban land values were far above rural land values, and rising much faster.

Few tech companies will want to locate where there isn't already broadband, good schools, cultural amenities, a range of interesting restaurants, and ready pool of the talents they need, not to mention infrastructure such was water, sewer, medical care, etc. And to the extent that they create jobs in such places, they will probably be quite welcome.
Ok... And FB and their users are apart of society. Since they are the ones directly effected, their opinion on this matters.
Thank you, I had recorded the definition of “whale fall” on October 16th last year in my log book as I had just learned about it, but I couldn’t remember from where or how.
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Some previous discussion (9 comments) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203853

Related commentary about another Telegraph article along the same lines (6 comments) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23208113 .

This has had a lot of attention on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23139508 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23099499, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101077 as examples with comments.
I think it might say something about your priorities that the word that stands out to you in the conclusion is "chick".
Danny Trejo and Elijah Wood took part in a talk show in Animal Crossing
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> There are type theories that model classical logic and are yet still computable programming languages.

Thanks, but this seems absurd to me. Please elaborate!
The cheap, but not free, schools are probably more likely to be paid directly by the student themselves.
I did UI development for quite a while too, and in my experience having very specific layouts (and look) in HTML is easier than in frameworks I used (Gtk, Qt, UIKit...).

Main difference is that HTML has affordances to size elements "upwards" whereas in other toolkits you need to do this manually (e.g.: estimating text size is a thing, in html you don't need to care about this)

Now, this also encourages original layouts which are untrue to platforms which is not a good thing imo.
Do you ever just tell them that? You will get no respect until you do, in no uncertain terms. Otherwise, you will be walked all over.
Sure, but presumably if some people are using downvotes for a different reason, there's no reason it would be restricted to just one comment.
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Loads OK with NoScript ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Peter Thiel has takes about this kind of propaganda (he calls it "lies") in the context of antitrust law. Firms in highly competitive markets will lie that they are highly differentiated from other firms, while monopolistic firms will lie that they are highly competitive.
If you use a definition of conscious that is so wide, you can also use a wide definition of alive and say that electrons are alive.
Amazon's categorization system is entirely broken. It's quite sad that on of the largest companies in the world has one of the worst product filtering systems I've seen. Hell, they even remove results when sorting by price low to high, but not high to low. They're Also missing thousands of sub categories and filters. Sellers even have the free reign to deliberately mislist their items, what good that does I have no idea.

EBay suffers similar problems but is more consistent witha mostly functional sorting system.
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For what it's worth, I've been visiting Hacker News on a nearly daily basis, on-again and off-again for a few years now. I don't recall hearing the name before.
fair, I actually didn’t know you could disable issues.
I mean, we built the Windows Terminal as a native application because we didn't want users to have to be saddled with 40MB of a webview/Electron just to boot up a terminal. It might take us longer to make the terminal as feature rich than it would have with JS, but no amount of engineering resources could have optimized out that web footprint. When we think about what the terminal looks like in 5 years, that's what we were thinking about.
The top comments from the initial discussion when the model appeared didn't age well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637008
I was really surprised to hear that John Carmack and Github engineers were brought it to clean the code up - after - the government based some of its choices to go in to lockdown.

I know more and more of us are getting sucked into the 'tinfoil hat zone' with increasing rapidity thanks to the internet - and you could competently argue I'm going there with this - but that sounds like it was done to maybe downplay fears and the fallout we've seen over the past few weeks around this code and its outsized impact on our current position.

It was a 50k LoC monstrosity at one point - in a single file.

Neil Ferguson was put in the spotlight as the "source of truth" by the UK media - I get that its more nuanced and I hope the UK government wouldn't have based its decisions to lockdown on this, and they instead took a wide range of data points - but the media pounced on Neils model being the thing that scared Johnson shitless into rolling back the idea of herd immunity.

So then people wanted to see the model, and saw it turned out to be horrific in its quality, its lack of testing, and its potentiality to contain mistakes (which it did - given Neil rolled back his predictions after a while) I think that probably spooked some high profile people into action.

The whole thing is weird and Neils reputation is in tatters in the media over the way this thing has played out (as well as for some of his extra-curricular activities).
No, most of Taiwanese property is freehold. You might be thinking of Hong Kong and mainland China, where almost all private property is leasehold.
It works if everybody puts up a defensive value because tax rates would drop for constant revenue. Also consider how much value would be assessed for all property, e.g. google.com.

In the US there is $16T currency, $38T stocks plus a roughly equal amount in corporate internal valuation, ~$30T small business, $33T houses, $17T commercial real estate, plus commodities, any other mark to market securities, vehicles, collectibles, intangibles like copyrights, patents, operating licenses, and really anything else that a court can adjudicate possession of.

I would expect somewhere around $250-500T with defensive valuation, so tax rates <1%. If your house is worth $1M, it’ll cost you $800/mo. By comparison, a US top 5%-er pays the same in property tax, plus income tax of about $7000/mo.

And it seems amazingly efficient. List and pay. If you like it, pay more. If you want to sell, just pay less and somebody will inquire. Market liquidity and order book depth transparency would be amazing. Capitalizations would be accurate for liquidation rather than estimated by float pricing.

The big monkey wrench I see is privacy. I believe this can be solved with zero-knowledge proofs. Maybe this is my next project.
That's a good feature, but not applicable to my setup. What I'd like is more limitations, say Grammarly can only run on pages with textareas.
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Not sure what you mean by an optimization pass. Hindi is one of the many vernacular languages derived from Sanskrit. You will find similarities with other vernacular languages derived from it as well, for example, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali. The Indian national anthem and the Indian national song (yeah India has one of each) are in Bengali but they almost sound indistinguishable from Sanskrit to the untrained ear.
Hey! I actually liked this idea and I'm considering starting a learning project on it. I've seen a lot of interest and ideas in the comments, and decided to create a very short Google form to start gathering all the interested people so we can organise something interesing. Is anybody in? :)

https://forms.gle/5KuTYVdYaMzRD2n78
> which it did - given Neil rolled back his predictions after a while

Can you please source this? Sorry to have to ask, but last time someone said this it turned out they were comparing predictions in dissimilar scenarios from two different countries.
As far as I can get the argument boils down to "the model is stochastic", "Fortran is old" and "the code is spaghetti". Of which the first one is deliberate, the second one I don't see as a problem, and the last one is definitely a risk factor, but is far from a guarantee that the model is flawed or broken.
I used to want my body or ashes buried under a newly planted tree.

If it weren't for the expense and trouble this would cause my loved ones, I would now ask for a burial at sea into the abyss^. So poetic in word and effect.

^abyssal zone
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And less riskier too. 1 day downtime for Zoom will be a blow in their business but will be backup the next, a few flights crashing in day and the rest grounded will put an airline out of business.
We don't even need a new file type, we just need browsers to let us use video files like MP4 et al in IMG tags and give us gif-like behavior (muted, autostart, and loop).

I mean, I know everybody is really pumped about webGL and shadow DOMs and webcomponents and webASM, but I feel like the basic "html as document language" could use some loving to solve this.

This whole mess reminds me of SVG. I get that there are fantastic reasons why SVG has JavaScript and its own DOM and can pull in external resources, but sometimes we don't want a whole new framework for new forms of content, we just want an IMG.
>It's in every large company's interests to maintain a steady stream of propaganda to show just how splendid they are at regulating themselves.

Propaganda is right. Call me a cynic (because I am), but a significant portion of "effective" self-regulation is a self-interest spin on manipulating perception of efficacy.

As long as you can spin your self-regulation to a point the outside mostly believes you, you can make compromises between what you should be doing and what you can get away with in the framework of profit seeking motives. Perhaps this is still more effective than external regulation? I'm skeptical.
> no one can pirate your software/service

Huh? Given how most web applications these days are using client-side rendering there's nothing stopping someone from just downloading all of the frontend assets. You can also connect to a server from your desktop application so I don't understand how desktop makes it easier to pirate anything.
I think both you and nurettin raise a very good point, in that FIX had some great aspirations, but the wiggle-room in the standards was too wide, and has resulted in, well, not a very a meaningful standard. The existence of certain companies that do nothing but aggregate and normalise broker and LP APIs is further proof of this.

Nonetheless, it'd be great to see brokers in the retail space normalise toward a uniform API. Even if that is a standardised HTTP interface with good WS support for streaming data, or a standardised binary interface. My feel is that FIX is the closest thing we have now that would get us most of the way there, even for all its warts. But of course, I'd be equally keen on anything standardised.

Edit: typo
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Kudos to UC Berkeley for using a virtual world. Somehow I read the choice of virtual world as a comment on our education system.

Even if they had a restriction on using Open Source only, they could have used OpenSim. If they had been ok with commercial servers and free accounts, they could have used Second Life.

Instead they used Minecraft, and "A team of more than 100 UC Berkeley students built the virtual Blockeley University in the popular Minecraft video game"[1].

Where is the lasting contribution of this? How can others reuse these students' work?

[1] https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/05/16/watch-blockeley-uc-berk...
> The color of gif is unacceptably bad (8 bit indexed)

That's like saying the character limit of a tweet is unacceptably restrictive or a painting by Picasso is unacceptably blocky. You can use any color in a GIF but you can only use 256 colors at a time. This makes the GIF recognizable as high art. You can point to any GIF and say "That's a GIF!". I suggest you browse https://gifcities.org to see GIF gold. It is impossible to mistake these graphics with video.
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If you are in text-mode it's very easy to display text https://wiki.osdev.org/Printing_To_Screen
Back on the[day you felt your blog would be picked up randomly and a variety of people would read it.

Today no one will read the blog unless I push them from twitter or youtube or facebook.

People post photos/videos/comments with less investment and get better viewship.
You’ll never have the worries about your potential future children’s friends finding out about your stint in porn and torturing your offspring with that knowledge
Interesting perspective. I was watching this talk and thought there should be a way to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM
It often works that way - when binary RPM compression switched from xz to ZSTD in Fedora recently, it was reaaly just about making sure the tooling can now read ZSTD while keepin xz support in place for compatibility (basically msking sure it links to ZSTD and can use it at runtime). Then just switch the Fedora build system to compress binary RPMs with ZSTD when they are built and you are done. :)
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I’ll admit, despite having developed professionally on ruby for 6+ years I do not get this attitude of ruby being “beautiful”. Some things are easy to read and interpret in ruby (well-written DSLs come to mind) but it doesn’t strike me as anything special in terms of general purpose programming—closures are now common, macros are gaining ground in more formal languages, syntax is carried on in successive languages like Crystal (and is highly subjective anyway, I’d give my hand not to structure my programs with english keywords), and ruby is missing proven features that have hit other languages devs may or may not have noticed.

Ruby has a great liquid hiring pool and can be used to write functional software rapidly. That’s the beauty I see, and it comes at a cost like all languages. There’s nothing especially beautiful about the way that it expresses algorithms; most languages have great aesthetic by leaning into the features and idioms designed into the language. How can a language have aesthetic in a general sense if languages have expressive tradeoff?
There are a lot of libraries in different languages that are sort of in a middle place between drag n drop engines and programming straight to a graphics API like Direct3d or Vulkan. You should look around for a popular one in a language that you're already comfortable with and read up on tutorials, documentation, and such first.

For reference, the ones I used to love and seem to still be kicking were Phaser.js for web games and Libgdx (on Kotlin) for mobile/desktop. Both were incredibly fun to learn, and I went at it very slowly on my own pace with a clear, small-scoped, end game goal each time. It was very hard but worthwhile to not let myself fall to scope creep, and after a couple of completed prototypes I felt ready to tackle 3d. I got some projects on C# that used Direct3d to draw things with triangles and went nuts trying to implement the concepts I read about in books like realtimerendering.com

I know it all looks daunting at first, but always remember that it's supposed to be a very long, very fun journey, meant to satisfy your intellectual curiosity at every step of the way. Games and graphics are one of the most rewarding problem spaces since every time that you learn a new concept and get it working, you get to see it and play with it and it's the best feeling ever!

And while I'm here I want to share the most wonderful tutorial on how to build hexagonal grids for games and things, in case you want to do something hexagonal at some point like I did, from what I think is one of the best educational resources I've ever seen: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

Cheers!
In Dark Star a sentient bomb gets stuck in the drop mechanism. One of the crew teaches it existentialism in an attempt to stop it detonating, but then it comes to believe its the only being in the universe and decided “Let there be light”.
IMO matplotlib was the inflection point. Once you could capture students and junior researchers at the "first plotting solution after Excel" on-ramp (on which MATLAB previously had a department-mandated stranglehold) the mind share exploded.
My hypothesis: it’s hard to have a descent grasp of technologies without having actually used it. Tie that with “let’s not include too many moving parts” and it’s easy to end up in a situation where the edict is “Kafka”. Let’s say you have never used RDBMS, only used rethinkdb and that turned out to be problematic for whatever reason, next project the founder hires you on the premise that the system you build needs to scale to billions of requests per minute ASAP (eventhough currently there is 0 traffic).
While not exactly the same, the concept of "whale drift" has existed in Icelandic law [1] for almost 8 centuries, and still applies today. It specifies to whom a whale carcass would belong to, depending on the situation, and so forth. The concept of "whale drift" also exists in the Icelandic language, and is used to point out an event as a stroke of great luck.

[1] Hvalreki (whale drift) in Icelandic law, from Jónsbók in 1281: https://www.althingi.is/lagas/150b/1281000.401.html
Honestly, I just want to be able to put a video in an IMG tag and get gif-like semantics.
The question suggests the money might be a distraction in the form of shopping. "Marketing" is not a concrete plan. Easy brainstorming might be displacing the hard concrete things that need to be done and the things that can be improved between now and launch in two weeks. Good luck.
JVM has pauseless GCs now, in fact two of them! The Erlang multi-heap approach is much less compelling now GC pauses are finally vanquished as a problem.
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are we whining about only having functional tests still, or have actual bugs been demonstrated that substantively affect model output? If so, what's the link to those issues on their github?

the last time this came up it was firmly in the former camp, and was pretty small beer as a result.
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Here's what a "Whale Fail" is [1]. In 1970, a whale died near Portland, Oregon and washed up on the beach. The local authorities decided to blow it up using explosives, with awful and unexpected results.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ
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At least for the second one, they talked about how they invented new camera equipment and imaging techniques. Amazing work!
I'm only a layman, but is not true that in vitro results are hardly worth getting excited about?
This is really good!

https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=J+apply+verb

versus google's completely useless:

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Everyone else, get in here: this is top notch stuff.
You keep misdirecting. Sure, our nominal capital gains policies are roughly in line with the rest of the world. But our overall tax fairness is not. So something doesn't match up, and the answer is the way our tax regime is enforced and regulated. Let's make that match Europe. Would you agree there?

> The motivation seems to be more focused on taking money away from certain people

I straight up told you what my motivation was, and it wasn't that.
When I see someone expects/demands something of me, I point them to the permissive MIT license. I am also a Spaniard living in Japan, so the concept of "social norms/expectations/etc" (whatever that even is) is totally meaningless to me.

If you put some effort and need help with the project, I'll try my best to help you. If you come demanding free support for your project, I'll just close the issue saying this is not the place.
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Misleading title. They found an inhibitor not a cure. The solution would more akin to a nasal spray that prevents infection than a therapeutic avenue.
> Unfortunately, DINKs are hard to compete with professionally

Sure, but people with kids win at life.

Let the DINK make some extra money. You still have it better.
>whats your objective in learning all those things?

being a world-class software engineer

>Do you mean you are worried about not being able to pick up another job if you lose your current one?

no for the short term but yes for the long term. also, for me, having "a" job is not enough. I want to have a job that satisfies my intellectual curiosity and career goals.
Am I hell banned?
Well, if you want the Minecraft experience in open-source, there's MineTest.

I used it for my daughter's birthday party:

https://www.pxtl.ca/2020/05/05/minetest-birthday/
Nice! Windows XP was peak UI design, I wish we'd make more UI's like it today.
Excellent. That sounds like something I'd really enjoy. I don't work in the space, but I'm more interested in the trading systems than the algos, primarily. After all, I'm a little skeptical about my ability to beat the PhDs with their institutional nukes while I'm over here sharpening a dagger.
No — they’re useful for you (presumably) which is enough reason to keep them. But they’re useful documentation too. I’ll usually search for “todo” as part of evaluating a library because it highlights what’s missing as well as the developer’s priorities and mindset.
Control-f on "cure". Nothing. Very misleading title.
You don't need to raise as much when you don't need to subsidize rent-controlled housing, unemployment and other expenses related to high cost od living in places of abundant work opportunity.

That said, you roll out the new policy gradually by reducing labor related taxes while increasing land and monopoly related ones.

After several iterations you should expect convergence to a new stable position.

It's better to prefer iterative deployment over big bang changes. Not only in software.
And they also, for the longest time, strongly turned me off paying for any news sites. The more they use scummy ads that turn people off, the more they need ad revenue.

That's a nice negative feedback loop or catch-22
Why is Ruby so popular here at HackerNews, I just don't get it!