skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional agriculture has "solved all of the scale problems" through the use of pesticides, destructive monocultures, and disruption of the natural water cycle. It's also built on the idea that diesel is cheap both for the tractors to farm in the midwest and the trucks to deliver goods to markets around the country. Should any of those fragile pillars collapse due to regulation (not likely), major environmental catastrophe (pretty likely), or disruptions in the global fossil fuel economy (possible), solutions like vertical farming start making a lot more sense.
Thank goodness. Google is the biggest potential 'database of ruin' that could embarrass many people if even a sliver of the dossiers they have on people were leaked. Holding onto this database (without periodically wiping it) is like keeping tonnes of radioactive waste under the floorboards.
Perl5 was released in October 1994. That's the version which competes with Python, Ruby and PHP because it introduced OOP.
How did you transition your email address? I've wanted to get off, but I can't do that without wiping all of my previous conversations or losing contact with many people.
The Amazon retail site is written in perl (at least the presentation layer still is, you can find mason references still in the HTML source if you go looking, don't know how much else behind it is in perl).

https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason (if you're not familiar with Mason)
Yeah, I'm not sure why the author was so excited about web apps. I have a 12 core Ryzen 3900x and all web apps are slow pieces of shit. I want native apps for everything and no, electron doesn't count.

It's crazy how people all the time say on HN that performance doesn't matter and how optimizing code is a waste of time while I'm simultaneously frustrated about how slow the majority of software I use is.
Run Office 365 Apps on Ubuntu Linux with an Open Source Web App Wrapper
I hate to have to sardonically upvote this but Apple has really been losing their way.I find both my iMac and my iPhone to be increasingly nagware-focused, especially because I have zero desire to use iCloud.
Reminds me of the Radio Shack portable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

There were also a few simple word processors by Brother I think.
> Of course the data would still be hackable if a bad actor were to get their hands on both of those keys, but security could be increased by, for example, increasing the number of parties needed to authorize the access.

Not "if", "when". It will happen, and as soon as it does, everyone's privacy (for previously encrypted content) is gone forever. It is impossible for me (and I think a lot of other people) to imagine the government can keep those keys secret for a reasonable period of time, nonetheless forever.
Those updates have a price though [0], Android phones sure have their issues, but I never heard something about Google slowing down Pixel phones after updates. Moreover, if your Android device is not supported anymore, you can still opt for LineageOS, with iPhones you're pretty much fucked up.

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
There's just no way to really measure long term health effects at this point, because the vast majority of infectees aren't past the normal timeline for full recovery from a serious disease. (Fatigue reports in particular probably shouldn't be concerning, since post-pneumonia fatigue is known to continue for 3-6 months.)
I compiled a list of 26 firms offering Non-Dilutive funding options to Founders
If you have some initial traction and recurring revenue in place already, you can raise money without going to VCs and scale your business at your own pace.

Whether you are a solo founder of a bootstrapped business with a $1k in MRR or a startup founder with $100M in ARR, there is an option available for you to raise money without giving away your equity.

A couple of examples from the complete list below:

(KickPay)[https://kickpay.com/]: If you are in eCommerce space and have enough inventory but need access to capital before you “sell” your inventory. KickPay is a great option for you.

(PodFund)[https://pod.fund/]: If you are a Podcast creator who is noticing some traction and revenue and are looking to scale your efforts, do check out PodFund.

You can check out the complete list of companies below. I hope you find this useful.

https://district.substack.com/p/26-firms-offering-non-diluti...
While Apple has been publishing their MDM Protocol Reference, the only implementation they ever offered was "Profile Manager", a limited, unreliable service that only runs on macOS Server. Apple never provided MDM as a cloud service.
This seems rather expensive for what amounts to a keyboard + eink display.

It would be nice to have an e-ink display, but I can also buy a thinkpad x201/x220 for <$70/<$100 usd on ebay right now. It's not the smallest thing ever, but the x201 is pretty dang small for a "writing only" machine with a good keyboard. And I can still do basic web browsing or email if I really want to.
Around 6 years ago I quit my job as a developer to dive into agriculture. I learned about syntropic agriculture systems and felt in love with it because:

- You are able to work with space and time in a way to maximize yield (not 1 crop yield, but but multi crop)
- It focus on being biodiverse
- It builds forests

So in this systems you will see rows of trees intercalated with rows of beans, corn, soy anything "weedy" or grasses... Harvest this small plants for many years, after a few years you harvest fruits, and after 2 decades you harvest the wood and start over. All with extensive pruning.

This way you end up with better soil each time without machines or fertilizers (sure you can speed even more the process with them), its a type of agriculture focused on nature's processes instead of inputs.

There's an interesting video about it showing some big farmers here trying to build machines better adapted to this kind of agriculture, this is the biggest bottleneck to scale because right now most machines are very focused on monocultures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE
Engineers? In your original post, you were talking about "lower middle class" people. People whose careers stocking shelves and waiting tables do not progress in a way that affords them the opportunity to save $1K per month at any point in their lives, let alone consistently through their lives and across generations.
I worked with Zach and Ken back at Wikia. They were great to work with! When Zach showed me the first version of Fleetsmith I was beyond impressed and knew he had discovered a very cool market opportunity. It's really nice to see their efforts get recognized in such a fantastic manner. Way to go!
Apple doesn’t have an MDM. They create the base MDM protocol for iOS/macOS/tvOS that other vendors make systems on top of. You used to do some basic stuff using OS X Server and configuration profiles, however much of this is gone now and you really need a third party MDM to manage Apple devices in any meaningful way.
Why not a usual startup?
I agree with your main thesis, but I'm going to disagree on the inflection/saturation points you chose.

I think it's closer to the iPhone X and the iPad Pro, 2nd-generation, or thereabouts.

Compared to the devices you cited, raw speed and graphics power improved massively in the A-series chips during the years in question, the camera system is almost unrecognizably better as is the neural-net processing and computational photography.

The displays improved markedly as well.

I agree with you that the 6S is not obsolete, and that's a credit to Apple, but my current iPad Pro is miles ahead of the Air 2, which I owned as well. This has enabled me to do all kinds of new things with the device, and do them better. I wouldn't be able to go back. The last couple iPad Pros are 3x faster in Geekbench single-core than the Air 2, and more than 4x faster in multi-core.

It's going to start to get hard though, moving forward, to make that kind of massive improvement. We already have 120Hz refresh, we now already have raw CPU power that is superior to almost all current laptop computers including MB Pros, we now have about as good of a screen as can be imagined, laws of physics will start to bar further major physical camera improvements, etc.

Apple's already at the 5nm mode with its silicon; there are only a couple steps left before transistor sizes are just a few atoms across.
Money launderers are in command of the Justice Dept at this point.
This article comes off as woefully naive towards the average user and frankly quite elitist.

You're forgetting that Google does not optimize for power users like yourself. Instead, they are just interested in adding the most amount of people into their ecosystem. Free, easy-to-use, and familiar products like Docs and Sheets will no doubt garner the most amount of users.
You can create the company from abroad. There’s no real additional process for creating a company from abroad. The banking setup is the only thing that takes longer.
What's interesting is the iPadOS supports A8-based iPads like the Air 2 and the Mini 4, while the new iOS does not support any A8-generation devices like the 6/6+.
Can Facebook have me arrested? Take my property via “civil forfeiture” or “imminent domain”? Can they force me to pay taxes? Do they employ police who can shoot me in the back to make me use their services? Can they hire people to choke me for nine minutes? Do their employees have military styled weapons who can be summoned to someone’s house just by making a false report?

Comparing any modern private company’s power to the government is like comparing a flea to the sun.
To be fair, DFP sucks too.
Not for their location, they have 99,9% electricity by geothermal and hydroelectric, as in renewable.

That is what makes it economical to ship bauxite from all over the world there, and have it manufactured to aluminum, and exported.

So this is a nice topping on the cake, to have even some of the last bits of CO2 from the process eliminated.

I don't see why this wouldn't apply to other sites elsewhere. How they generate their elictricity is another matter.
Reliance Jio 222 रुपये के पैक को मुफ्त डिज्नी + हॉटस्टार वीआईपी सदस्यता के साथ
Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab
you can't use a non-standard definition of a word and then complain others are playing word games.

you seem to think all that matters is inequality in political power but I think inequality in, say, quality of life, protection under the law or healthcare are also important and those exist well below the 0.01% (and in non-wealth dimensions).

Also, I'm nowhere near the top 0.01% but I do donate a good amount to political campaigns and I regularly get personal calls from congress people (presumably expecting more money). I don't think people in the bottom 50% get such calls.
Tiddlyroam – Notetaking app for collecting and connecting your thoughts
I stuck with Perl even when Ruby came along and offered to be the next best thing because Ruby didn't have a use strict equivalent. Having to declare variables before use is a good thing.
Came here to say this. Vimium is excellent! I've been using it for the last number of years and when I switch to a new computer without it, I still fire off the `gg` and wonder why the browser isn't picking it up. It's essential to me at this point.
> Vaccines are definitively, unequivocally safe.

Then why does this exist:

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
> Why can't I search for ( cohort of near my age who went to my school ) or ( everyone called Bob who is one or two hops from Alice and lives in Bigville )?

They had this feature a couple years ago. It was called Graph Search and did exactly what you're suggesting (and even more impressive than that). They shut it down fairly quickly because it was a huge privacy and security issue as well as an incredibly abusive feature at their scale.

Building products in a system as complex as FB is not as straightforward as adding features just because you can or have the talent to do so.
The console unfortunately has a very limited character set. Perhaps using fbterm or a newer equivalent.
Developers in their forties wrote Perl.
Developers in their thirties replaced Perl.
Developers in their twenties say “What’s Perl?”
> HASH of a document for unlawful material

This is ~super common with things like copyright violations and child porn. You store a database of hashes of copyrighted or pornographic data. And specifically you can use visual-similarity hashing to detect even somewhat perturbed documents.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA)
Emigrating does not absolve one of the duty to pay taxes in the US. Renouncing citizenship does, but doing so for tax reasons is already illegal and those that do would be taxed anyway when renouncing.
I understand. Apologies again for the misleading joke!
A coworker asked me last night about a cloud but controlled email option and protonmail was my first thought, though I don't know the current competition. Own a domain, put some cash aside for paying for the service, and go from there.
> Squatting + Vandalism != peaceful protest

Agreed that vandalism is not peaceful protest.

> If a group of people peacefully protest on my lawn, they are not Constitutionally protected to do

But occupying a public space (not a private lawn) in protest - what you refer to as squatting - is absolutely peaceful protest. Lafayette Square is not POTUS' private lawn.
True. The original 530s had a spinning platter drive, 4GB of RAM and Intel integrated graphics.

But the original was also a low-end Dell PC. With these upgrades, it would be a higher-end 2005 machine.

The performance boost was unnoticeable with the added RAM and video card (primarily for driving dual monitors -- the GT 610 was a cheap $70 card, not a high end card by any means). What really changed the performance was the SSD -- which I added much later -- now that was noticeable.
I don't think CloudFlare knows who my registered agent is. But I am a paid customer of theirs and they cache my website and serve my DNS.
I wonder if part of it is that corporate culture run amok. It does seem significant that they had a really great board that should've never allowed this. They should do some serious soul-searching. How could it reach this point?

This is just a guess, but I've worked at companies where I worried the leadership took the analogy of 'going to war' a little too seriously. Like they didn't get that it was supposed to motivate us to make a better product and win the customer. Not literally go to war.

Does an executive have a killer instinct? Will they go for the jugular? The answer is supposed to be yes - metaphorically. Many executives don't get the 'metaphorical' part, which is one reason to drop that language.

Just work super hard and make a better product. Maneuver in the market to outsmart your competitor. Don't literally try to kill them with a heart attack, or send pig heads to critics writing negatively about your company.
What project, if you were starting now from the scratch, would you use Perl for?
https://twitter.com/melissamcewen/status/1275493977672777733

it seems Scott Alexander deleted SSC just as the reporter was going to get in touch with critics, and not just cheerleaders.
What's the Deal with Snap Packages?
> "oh don't worry, they'll piss away that money anyways" is a bad reason for not taxing someone.

IMO that argument is meant to counter people disliking unearned wealth.

But to argue in favor of dynasties:

1. It might encourage a longer time horizon. "Leaving something good for your grandchildren", etc - and in a lot of ways people not doing this is why we have issues fighting climate change.

2. If investment ability is correlated across generations (and I'll eat my hat if it's not) then giving the children of competent investors more capital than those of incompetent investors will lead to better investments overall, and thus faster economic growth. And economic growth is everything. (2% difference in annualized growth for a century is the difference between the US and Mexico)
Right. Once you hit a certain feature set (certain clock speed, core count, hardware shaders, minimum RAM, RAM speed, storage speed and capacity) everything after that becomes much smaller improvements. You won't see doublings of the numbers anymore, instead you'll see much smaller percentage increases that, while important in the long run, aren't going to impact users significantly.

Let's just look at the CPUs:

1st gen: 412MHz, 1 core, 32-bit (under clocked)
3G : 412MHz, 1 core, 32-bit (under clocked)
3GS : 600MHz, 1 core, 32-bit (under clocked)
4 : 800Mhz, 1 core, 32-bit (under clocked)
4S : 800MHz, 2 core, 32-bit (under clocked)
5 : 1.3GHz, 2 core, 32-bit
5S : 1.3GHz, 2 core, 32-bit
6 : 1.4GHz, 2 core, 64-bit
6S : 1.85GHz, 2 core, 64-bit
7 : 2.34GHz, 2 core, 64-bit (4 cores, 2 used)
8 : 2.39GHz, 6 core, 64-bit
X : 2.39GHz (2 cores) & 1.42GHz (4 cores), 6 cores, 64-bit
XS : 2.49GHz (2 cores) & 1.52GHz (4 cores), 6 cores, 64-bit
11 Pro : 2.66GHz (2 cores) & 1.82GHz (4 cores), 6 cores, 64-bit

So you initially got some major bumps (0%, 50%, 33%, 50%) then it starts slowing down until the jump from 6S to 7 (about 33% again), then it's just creeping up each year. Core count makes a major jump from 7 to 8. But after the 8 there really is no major improvement in the CPU itself (with respect to these raw numbers) so most users won't see a major difference between them on that front.

(NB: I took these numbers from Wikipedia, I'm assuming I read them correctly as I just threw this together in a couple of minutes. There's probably a mistake or two, and I skipped some versions like 5C, XR, and 11.)
Being pedantic, the list strikes me as poorly named. Websites listed do have images and other media, the unique trait they have in common is very minimal CSS (for better or for worse).

They tend to use little to no decorative images outside of main content though, which is nice. Not to imply a list like this doesn't have the right to exist.
There are a couple of points in there:

1. You can use virtually any language to write clean code

Not sure if I agree with this, though it may well be true. I just know there are some things like Brainfuck where it's designed to be impossible. I realize that language is created specifically for the purpose of making a coder say "WTF", but perhaps there are other languages that are not designed to be so that are really nearly impossible to write good code in.

2. Perl lends itself to unreadable code

If you stick to Modern Perl you still might end up with things like `wantarray` in your code so I guess this is kind of true. You need to be judicious in your use of code.

Some languages lend themselves more easily to writing clean code, like I feel about Go or if you hate the Go type system, Ruby. Even in Ruby I feel like metaprogramming is ripe for misuse.

It's a tough thing to talk about. I don't feel like I wholeheartedly disagree with your sentiment which seems to be "some languages lend themselves to bad code" and subsequently that Perl lends itself to bad code but there is plenty of ambiguity in these thoughts.
Tax money must come from somewhere. Imagine this as a zero-sum game where you have some fixed total amount of taxation that you're trying to reach and the question is just who pays how much.

Given that, is there anyone who could possibly need their money less than the dead?
There are lots of people that protest for social change without the luxury of getting company paid days off!
The problem is the changes you anticipate often are not the changes that happen. Those anticipated-but-not-happening changes waste your time, and also clutter up your code, getting in the way of the changes that do need to be made.
Your answer aligns with pretty much all the others. They have in common reprhasing the original situation or questions in extreme way possible.

Cake is a personal taste. Are technical choices a question of taste. Your arguing against debates and technical discussions.

It's telling that many examples given were using video feed or pickpockets as an analogy to telemetry. These are not interesting explanations. Going to extreme arguments is not illuminating.
I was on one of several CAD teams at Intel in the 90's and huge parts of pre and post-silicon Itanium simulation flows for timing, layout and verification were written in Perl. (Not even Perl 5.6 so we hit the 2GB file limit often!) ... Not the tools themselves, but the control flows and asset managers. The other processors still used Tcl on HPUX/Solaris/AIX so Perl on Linux was like nice warm sheets by comparison.
True. If you search Indeed.co.uk there are more jobs which mention Perl than Golang.
One problem is that cheap LCD displays are not easy to source. E.g., the largest old school lcds I find are 4x20 characters, which is a bit confining.

There seem to be tons of TFT options out there on the cheap, but they're probably not great in terms of eye strain and power consumption.

If price is no object, then e-ink displays seem a great choice, e.g. $70 for a 7.5'' display:
https://www.banggood.com/Waveshare-7_5-Inch-E-ink-Screen-Mod...
And even for those use cases, Google Docs is sufficient.
That, frankly, is downright pleasant compared to counterfeit food.
A better strategy might be to pixelate a photo of each member of the jury, than de-pixelate it through the same service, and distribute the before and after. Maybe include the judge and prosecutor.
No mention of whether a judge signed a warrant for the arrest. In what world can cops just show up and arrest you on your front lawn based on their hunch?
Yes, but I said holding the domain without conducting business under that name.
The old mobile interface is entirely text, it removes the thumbnails present in the i. subdomain (also available with a trailing /.compact) -- the fact that there are so many different interfaces is a little baffling to me, but the text-only version is the only one I can stand to read: https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/.mobile
Doubt that many people can afford to hire an expert witness, or hire someone to develop bespoke software for their trial.
I recommend WordReference for that case also. That website has been essential in my relationship (language divide also).

https://www.wordreference.com/
Perhaps link to the writeup next time. It's not against guidelines and I don't speak for HN or its users, but video posts tend to not do as well as text posts for reasons I don't understand. Just an observation.

https://build5nines.com/windows-gets-package-manager-with-wi...