skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The catch is teaching people to farm this way. It requires many more farmers but there is money to be made. My hope is that some of the unemployed millions will see the dollar signs in the soil and start a new generation of farmers.

Most people outside farm country dont even consider farming to be a viable career. Just look at the comments here. High cost of entry to compete on an industrial scale and razor thin margins. Who would want to even try. But a small farm run like the article can be very profitable.
Actually in the early 2000s I remember openly welcoming this technology. At the time it was not obvious to me at least that this sort of information would so easily be abused by corporations and governments. It just seemed like a great personal assistant and the rose colored glasses were firmly attached.
Russiagate is well documented in the Mueller report, read for yourself.
Git 2.29 Highlights
“Your argument also seems to want to blame politicians and economists rather than the people whom they represent. That's incorrect, these are decisions that the boomers made. If they outsourced the decisions poorly, the blame still lays with the boomers.“

Only if your goal is to create an arbitrary division between generations using the concept of blame.

As far as I can see there is literally no amount of money the Boomers could have ‘saved’ that would have made any difference if there isn’t enough surplus value (not money) generated in the present day economy to service their needs.

This has nothing causal to do with generational debt - that is just a symptom.

It has everything to do with economic decisions made by politicians and economists, around education and trade policies, that leave the US (and many other economies) in a weak position.

You can certainly argue that whoever was around to vote for these policies is responsible for them, but that’s a weak position.

Voting is too coarse grained to assign that level of responsibility to the group.

Individual political and economic decisions are in fact important, not who happened to be a certain age when the decisions were made.
Post positivism, you got to have people believe in progress to make progress. But it's all meaningless, they say, because over 4 billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen and go super nova. It's not the sort of attitude that will make someone think of star-lifting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5U&feature=emb_logo
The latest version of my invoicing app lets the user install CouchDB on their desktop PC and they can choose to use their local CouchDB only. This "local-first" approach runs offline only and provides close to native app performance.

They can also choose to "live sync" their local CouchDB with my Cloud based CouchDB and use the app online on all their devices.

They can also configure CouchDB to live sync their DB with 3rd party services like Couchbase and Cloudant and create backups and snapshots of all their data on those 3rd party services with their local CouchDB.
The OpenGL quality problems are strictly on the Windows side.

The open-source OpenGL drivers are very good.
Am I missing something? Those diffs look identical.

Edit: got it. Thanks!
Jeff,

It would be interesting to see if you can get the ESXi ARM fling running on the CM4: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/10/how-to-copy-the-rasp...

No idea if UEFI would open up more possibilities to boot from NVME? Also, does the CM4 PXE boot with the attached expansion board?
Looks like there's some nuance here. From your linked document (emphasis mine):

> Although Congress has ultimate authority over federal lands under the Property Clause, states have legal authority to manage federal lands within their borders to the extent that Congress has chosen to give them such authority.

So whether California is able to manage forests on federal land within state borders to address the risk of uncontrolled fires isn't immediately clear, and presumably someone would need to dig up a relevant statute, if any, to show who is actually responsible.
Google shuts down Trusted Contacts, its emergency location sharing app
How is this related to Russiagate?
Indeed! I highly recommend following the author.
> Mozilla Firefox/NSS has undergone three complete and separate rewrites from the ground up of the engine

Can you provide more details? I'm only aware of one of these rewrites...
I can't help but think that argument would hold more water if most eligible voters even chose to employ that bit.

As it stands, off-every-four-years elections tend to see sub-50% turnout.
I've been researching a lot of plants and weeds lately, and quite frequently I am being reminded that there are many plants that are toxic to cows and horses, and so part of your job is to make sure your pastures are free of these plants.

One of the appeals then of broad spectrum herbicides that you scorch the earth and plant what you want in the space. And despite some very loud protestations of horse owners, people who try to garden with horse manure have to contend with herbicides.

Mechanical pest/weed management is still a very powerful tool. And maybe some day we can have robots do that for us, but we don't have to wait that long to get much of the benefit.

In order to kill a weed, you first have to see the weed. Rather than putting all of this onto a drone, there's plenty of utility to be gained by having a system that looks for these plants and geotags them. Then a centralized identification system (possible, the farmer's eyeballs) can filter down the false positives and they can send someone out to dispatch the weeds by hand, and/or adjust their graze rotation patterns to reduce exposure.

And something organic gardeners learn intimately is that every weed has intervals where they are most expensive to deal with. Seedlings may be too labor intensive. Blooming weeds are priority 1. But depending on soil profile, some weeds are easier to kill once their stalks and roots have become more robust - strong enough that you can grab the stalk and pull.

So on any given day you may be aware of a hundred weeds, but only twenty of them are on the priority queue.
Yes, forest management is an important factor.

No, it does not have "very little" to do with climate change.

We just had the worst heat wave in the recorded history of CA. To suggest that climate change is an insignificant factor is just plain wrong.

> In early September 2020, an intense heatwave broke temperature records in several locations in Southern California. The dry, hot conditions helped fuel new and existing fires, which have consumed tens of thousands of acres of land.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147256/california-h...
I don't think any company, aside from NVidia, is working on FP16 Tensor cores. Not Intel, not AMD. Google has a systolic processor for tensor units, but that's cloud only.

I know ML is where the current money is at, but coprocessors in general seem to be applicable to far more problems than just machine learning and graphics.
different approach, but I'm sure at some point we'll get close to one another.
It sounds like either your antivirus or your company is breaking your SSL.
Technically, Ikea furtinure is usually comprised of composite elements formed by a mix of cardboard, MFD, fiberboards, and plywood.

Perhaps the epitome of Ikea's engineered lumber prowess is either their Kalax line or their Lack tables, which are built from fiberboard blocks held together by a plywood diaphragm and with a celular cardboard core.
>As you go into even basic body building or training, you start taking more and more "Stuff". There's no clear obvious intuitive big line between "natural talent and hard work" and "illegal chemical cheating".

yep, it is all individual. Some people have nice biology, some will get nowhere without "stuff". A recent blood test showed some anemia (that explained why
i had such low level fatigue and tiredness threshold in the recent times, and you couldn't just make through it on pure will because it is like an engine with closed air intake - no oxygen, no burning) Started to take B12 and iron - things improved remarkably, physically and mentally. If i were a competitive athlete should i be forbidden from such a "cheating" way of increasing of blood oxygen carrying capability?

My understanding they ban testosterone which also increase the blood oxygen carrying capability. Which means that you're lucky to be born with high testosterone, and you're doomed otherwise (like me - i'm on a lower side). How is that a level playing field then? No exercise can compensate if you get less oxygen.
>Keeping this to post under all those comments saying there was nothing to "Russiagate".

Maybe we have different definitions of "Russiagate", but I don't think anyone doubts Russian (or Chinese, American, Iranian, Israeli...) state-sponsored cyberattacks are a thing.
The fires are nothing new;

> Before Europeans arrived (pre-1800), when the area was much more forested and the ecology much more resilient, 4.4 million acres (1.8 million hectares) of forest and shrubland burned annually.[1]

> During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires have contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land, making it the largest fire season in California's modern history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires
I have a quite rare condition called intestinal malrotation which basically means my intestines didn't rotate completely before I was born (apparently they do rotate).

I had surgery and I am basically living a normal life, I didn't have symptoms until I was about 25 years old. The thing is it made me lactose intolerant and very sensitive against sleep deprivation.

What basically happens is stomach pains from time to time and that I need to visit the bathroom quite often, sometimes in a big hurry.

I'm living basically as before, eating too much lactose still and getting too little sleep. I am starting to get better on it though.

Get enough sleep is a big point in general I believe if you want to your body to be healthy. Also eat healthy and move a lot. I have a standing desk and tries to stand most of the day. It helps a lot.
If only PAX wardrobes were possible to move.
agreed! would really like this to be something big.

needs to work out some kinks for sure (styling, audio sending, etc) and also should have a much lower barrier to entry (maybe a browser-based webRTC version)

Overall great idea and not hard to set up if you aren't a total noob. Sadly tho, can't see many normal users opting for this over Zoom or GotoM. :(
I am even more confused by this comment. How is this propaganda?
> As far as reading what others write, I really don't care, and find it sort of bizarre that anyone would.

The main one that trips me up is when people use acronyms I'm not familiar with. Then I try to Google for them, but sometimes it's hard to find, or ambiguous.
Star Lifting [video]
The second one shows the changed lines' context as a method definition "def tickets_as_html" instead of the mostly-useless "class TicketPdf".
Yeah that doesn’t sound great. If it effectively encapsulates waste plastics in a steady state across thousand-year timeframes then it could be a net positive, but otherwise does sound like a big liability/disaster in slowmo.
You can drill through concrete with a cordless drill too, they're definitely good enough, especially with modern batteries.
I have been learning Haskell through IHP. It's the best and actually simplest web framework I have ever tried.

The developer experience is the best I ever had for a MVC-style framework. And I got to learn Haskell without banging my head too much against the wall. Really enjoyed it :)

I really needed something like IHP to get started with Haskell. It's fun and easy and the documentation is very easy to follow.

I see some argue that they wish to make more custom choices regarding the setup. That is precisely what I don't want and that's why IHP is a great fit for me.

In terms of simplicity I think the choice of supporting only Nix and Postgres actually are strengths at this point. That lets them streamline the development of the framework without supporting the minor preferences of every individual. And these choices should work really well for most web developers.

Some may disagree on this, and maybe IHP is not for them, but I don't think it shouldn't discourage those who considers trying it out and form their own opinion.

I was prepared for great hardships learning Haskell as most of the resources are very academic and I'm mainly just a simple application builder. IHP was just what I needed to fill that gap, and it made it really fun :)

I am tweeting about the whole thing, coding Haskell for 100 days: https://twitter.com/larsparsfromage
I have just bought a Sony ZV-1 to help on my screencasts. I liked a lot the simplicity of the "Use as Webcam" feature [0].

Very disappointed I was when I found that it doesn't work with ScreenFlow (the main software I use to record my screen) and it only does work with OBS. So seems I'll be switching to OBS then .
Unless the original title is incredibly vague or generic ("Report from Committee, May 2019"), you should stick to that, rather than highlight (cherrypick) one fact from it to support a viewpoint. Even if that fact is "actually accurate."
The header that indicates context. Default:

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class TicketPdf

Configured:

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def tickets_as_html
First of all THANK YOU JAMI DEVS! All the love. You're the best. I offer this all with a spirit of hope and love.

I had a nice little chat with another HN user, and I want to report back:

Both of us are on linux, and we tried to use:
a) voice call, did not work, autofail

b) voice messages - recording them has no audio levels or visual feedback if it's working, and there's no option to hear what you've recorded before sending it. We both sent audio messages and neither arrived, or even appeared in the chat log.

c) even the test chat has wonkiness - like awkward line/word wrap.

d) Messages in the chat log have a greyed-out 'undelivered' vibe, but the grayout remains after messages have been read and replied to. It doesn't inspire confidence.

I WANT to love Jami SO BADLY. I want to tell my friends we can use something open instead of Signal!

Please, if there are any Jami devs here, please speak up and ask for help. The community is paying attention right now, this is a golden opportunity to get developer eyes on Jami code!
What super certificates? What exactly is the new single point of failure?
Not ‘big C’ chronic - but I’ve got Celiac (fine until I get gluten-Ed) and had a DVT a few years back.

No one cares about your health more than you. You must be your own advocate in how to maintain baseline health.

Also, you’ve got to reserve holiday / pto / downtime for when issues pop up. Life doesn’t go to 100% like it did before these issues.
I love #1.

People who go beyond WebMD, and keep digging to the point where they can have a conversation with a specialist, more as a peer than as a patient, are a big deal. It's not easy, and I think it's unreasonable to expect that everyone can do this (dig through and understand the primary literature), but if you can it's a big deal.

There are so many nuances and complexities and tradeoffs in managing chronic diseases that if you can sit down and make informed decisions yourself and then talk them over with a healthcare provider in a non-adversarial way, it really does put you in the driver's seat as much as possible.

It opens up #2 and #3 as well.
Nvidia refuses to work with upstream properly, so that's not surprising. Once they'll stop fooling around and will get behind Nouveau, things might improve. Though I'm fine using AMD for my gaming needs on Linux.
These are aggregated insights from tech sources - Github, Stackoverflow, hackernews, reddit, forums, blogs and niche developer/tech communities.
The second diff identifies the target of the changes more precisely - method vs class
>and costs haven't gone down at all.

I think that is only with respect to App / Play Store policy? Otherwise every part of Smartphone has seen substantial price reduction.
> I also love that you're making being a "Professional Dungeon Master" a plausible future career choice. :)

Professional DM'ing will never be good for anything other than making some money on the side unless you're charging players an unreasonable amount of money. Yes, there is an imbalance of potential players versus DM's, but at the end of the day the only thing preventing anybody from being a DM is getting over false assumptions that "it's not as fun as playing a character" or "I'm not Matthew Mercer and thus I'm going to be a bad DM". If my introverted and self-critical ass can DM and have players enjoy the experience, so can whoever is reading this.

I DM a weekly 2-hour session, beyond the actual time spent in the session I spend ~45 minutes prepping every week (and I'm running published modules right now, not homebrewing, so that's just time spent reading ahead, writing session notes, etc.). Paid DM's generally charge $25 per player for a four hour session, and their prep time is included in that - given that even running the same module for multiple groups still requires prep time and longer sessions moreso, you're only making $15-25/hr before banks, taxes, etc. take a cut. Not only that, but being paid means you have fairly high expectations placed on your skills that nobody would have for the friendly DM running a game for fun.

I don't have anything against paid DM's, but unless you are literally providing an insanely polished experience that has potential players willing to drop $50 each for a session you're not going to be making a living off it that justifies the time spent beyond some extra pocket change.
Hi P01, thank for your great work. Can you explain what this means?

> keep an eye on the heatmap of the DEFLATE stream

How is the heatmap generated?
Oh, so naieve. Here in America, we have the illusion of choice when it comes to peanut butter and lots of products. They do look different, and maybe taste different but they are different product likes from the same company. And that company owns more than just peanut butter.
It's a press release from their "Office of Public Affairs" that would actually impede their ability to bring the people listed to trial.
This is a $60 million civil penalty and finding of fact from FinCEN, the money laundering & terrorist financing authority. Harmon appears to still be facing up to 17.5 years of prison on federal criminal charges as well.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/02/13/bitcoin-lar...
No. CalFire has reports on their response to crises, but no statistics on preventative measures. It hasn't been what's driving promotions.

They can't change incentives placed on them. And we have to be willing to voluntarily accept man-caused air quality tradeoffs (and e.g. make liability exemptions, or have the state pay for harm caused by the side effects of intentional, planned burns)

- Most recent "Redbook": https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/11146/2018_redbook_final.pdf

- "Stats and Events": https://www.fire.ca.gov/stats-events/

- "Vegetation Management Program" (sub-programs (2-tick "--") existence and structure shows how much CalFire has been able to invest in these): https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/resourc...

-- Forest Practice (other portals mentioned here): https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/forest-...

--- Open Data Hub, mainly timber mgmt: https://forest-practice-calfire-forestry.hub.arcgis.com/

-- ...Landowner Assistance: https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/resourc...

-- Environmental (e.g. Air quality): https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/resourc...

--- CEQA CA Env. Quality Act: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/CEQA/Purpose#what

-- Climate Change: https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/resource-management/climate...
10k-year-old footprints show journey of squirmy toddler and caregiver
Thanks for your comments!
- homomorphic encryption is much much faster now, so the latency argument against won’t hold much longer
--> I can see that as being true for private libraries, hopefully this will become reality soon once public libraries integrate GPU or FPGA support

- with multi-key FHE, you could replace MPC, without the integration complexity and increased bandwidth cost

-> Good point! Multi-key FHE is still pretty tricky to implement, however. Though the research is getting there!

- Trusted Execution Environments are not about protecting user data (that’s the purpose of FHE) but rather about protecting the software itself from people having access to the physical machine. An example would be running a sensitive ML model in the cloud: you would want to use FHE to process the user data encrypted, inside an TEE that would protect your model from the cloud vendor.

-> It can be and is used for both code protection and user data protection (e.g., for authentication)
In the first diff after the @@ there's a reference to the enclosing class, in the second diff it's a reference to the enclosing method.
Which could help perhaps if the methods are moved?
FooBar = Module.new
def FooBar.foo(a) a < 0 ? bar(a, -1) : bar(a, 1) end
def FooBar.bar(a, b) self.puts [a, b].reduce &:* end
> I'm very impressed with the effort that must have gone into transpiling the original JS codebase into C by hand.

Thanks! Yes, it was harder than I expected.

> Any plans to make this available as a library?

I've been thinking about it, though I've never written a library before. I think I would like to get the code to build on other platforms first.
Me and my co-founder wanted something like this for a while and timing just seemed right to start building it! We do have the ability to search games being played currently of different systems and search GMs who run certain systems too. We notice a huge amount of our customers are folks who have seen Critical Role and want to get into the hobby. I think it will hopefully get a lot of other systems a chance for people to explore other systems too.
Bolivia: A Tale of Two Countries
Hmm. Image Movers Digital (IMD) was definitely 50-weeks minimum. IIRC, the "original" DD had the same policy.
Your argument would be stronger if you didn't deride Hunter Biden for his health struggles. Addiction is a medical issue, not a moral failing.
This is a press release from the department of justice. There are two attachments at the end.
Closure CL’s editor is based on Hemlock — which is essentially a Common Lisp emacs.