skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quote is from a report, which itself is based on a FAO report:

http://www.fao.org/3/ca7036en/ca7036en.pdf

Quote with context:

The results show that, worldwide, farms of less than 1 hectare account for 70 percent of all farms, but operate only 7 percent of all agricultural land. Slightly larger farms between 1 and 2 hectares account for 14 percent of all farms and control 4 percent of the land. Together, farms of less than 2 hectares account for 84 percent of all farms, but operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land. Farms in the range of 2 to 5 hectares account for 10 percent of all farms and control 6 percent of the land. Interestingly, the largest 1 percent of farms in the world (those larger than 50 hectares) operate more than 70 percent of the world’s farmland.

(there are 608 million farms in the world)
Interesting, didn't notice that before. I believed my downloads are too obscure to be cached by Cloudflare, but I may be wrong. I'll do a comparison once I fixed my server at home...
Most people don't know about the muscles or bone structures in their hands, but most people seem to know how to use their hands anyway, despite the gross complexity involved.
> Far from the days of just informing and listing main arguments from both sides of the aisle.

For that model work, you need two sides with a commitment to the common goals and a good respect for truth and a common set of facts, which we don't have anymore. That stopped being the case at least by the time one side ran a president who is an obvious-to-most compulsive liar with tendencies for demagoguery.
Hi! Unfortunately I have no idea, I don't work there nor have any affiliation with them.
Strange! Can you please share the device model?

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I haven't paid much attention to GPT-3, and this is an interesting point (that is picks up the tone of forums).

Although the original article is interesting, I think it would be more interesting to try to systematically vary the original prompt, and then see how much the tone and utility of the response depends on the prompt itself. It is forums, or is it the prompt, or some of both?

It did seem to me like the response was flirting with something interesting but not quite getting there. I thought it would have been interesting if the response had echoed the original book by having the parent eventually grow old and sick, and the child mature and have children of his own who begin asking similar questions, and come to understand the question not as understanding the universe, but as understanding the people in his own life. In my view, that would have been an interesting nod to Adams with a bit more poignant and actionable outcome. In the final section, I thought it was going to go there, and when it did not, I was quite disappointed.
Later high school start time is associated with lower migraine frequency
There might ten other, a hundred other people with the same public IP visible to Apple, if you ISP is running you through a NAT.

That fact that you have connected from an IP recently in no way guarantees that the next connection from that IP will be coming from you. That is exactly why you need to send an identifier for any data being collected.
Lol you’ve never stolen a book from the library before either intentionally or not? This should be pretty straightforward but the more valuable something is the more incentive there is to steal it. Meanwhile, while you can throw more money at physical security and scale it up, technology hasn’t changed much in 50 years let alone 20 - you hire enough people at considerable expense and implement good basic security systems. This costs money and stupid tech like “slap an rfid tag on it” doesn’t change anything
Hawaii’s Last Outlaw Hippies (2018)
Italian report about how weather already changed is grim
This very comprehensive document [1], sadly, is only in Italian, but here are the highlights:

1. The overall number of extreme weather events rised significantly (chart at page 15).

2. Tornadoes, which were extremely rare in Italy, now have 10s of occurrences per year (chart at page 40).

3. Both droughts and floodings are more common (charts at page 44 for droughts, page 34 for floodings).

4. Average temperatures in the major Italian cities raised considerably in the last 10 years with Rome reaching a shocking +3.6°C (Charts at page 55).

Happy to help translating other bits, but those are the numbers that got my attention. The remainder of the report is about how Italy should prepare for these new circumstances. Extremely interesting, but hard to translate succinctly.

[1] https://www.legambiente.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Rapporto-cittaclima-2020.pdf
I heard of a team that did a similar thing;

Their app had some Norse name (something like Ragnarok or Valhalla etc) so the put it on an RC boat and torched it on a lake :-)
You should absolutely come back in a few years and discuss it with me. I'm entirely prepared to be wrong.

I can see an end-state in which Bitcoins reach a tipping point that they would become a default for transactions. That would give them a basis for value, the total value of all the world's transactions divided by the total base if Bitcoins (yadda yadda velocity of money and other hand-wavey stuff; I'm not doing the math here since that's not the point).

I consider that unlikely for a number of reasons. Some are technical (the weight of Bitcoin is so high that most people end up using an online provider, which is no easier than just using any other spending app) and some economic/political (if blockchain really works for currency, a government could easily set one up by fiat without rewarding speculators in any existing cryptocurrency).

While that end-state could happen, a stablecoin gets there faster. People could buy and use a stablecoin today, without making every transaction a speculation. Of all the cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin attracts the most attention, and is most driven by speculation rather than any kind of store of value. While Bitcoin's notoriety could be the reason it becomes the one that stands out, I believe that it's more likely to be a different one (most likely a stablecoin, probably backed by a government).

So there, I explained my reasoning. It could be wrong, and if so, it will hopefully be clear where. There will be no reason for me to either feign ignorance or double down: I'd be more interested in learning the lesson of what I missed than defending my ego. It costs nothing to my ego to be wrong, only in failing to learn.
> let alone any type of machinery.

Any 20th C machine. If we do get good enough at robotics that we can switch from herbicides to weeding by AI, that might allow all sorts of interesting things.
This has always been my question. In college, we built a spinning pumpkin launching appartus...the first time we had it release a 5lb pumpkin it the whole frame (about 400lbs) jumped about 2 feet in the air a split second later.

Unless they are releasing liquid, releasing two projectiles a half cycle apart (which still isn't optimal) or something similar, I can't see how the counterweight doesn't just turn the structure into dust instantly. If it isn't perfectly the vibrations will just eat the thing.

If you could guide the counterweight, maybe you could use the thing for either forging [0] or bonding of metals [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program

[1] http://www.explosionbonding.com/
Deploy Serverless Docker Containers and Functions with Koyeb CLI
Breaking the skill limit, pianists attain more delicate touch
I've been asked to write parser of _my_country_law_ and something that's capable of doing diffs and putting it together (diff+original=>newest version) docs without knowledge in that domain

after seeing sample doc I've estimated it on something like 1 week of work (XD)

month later I've been crying and having like 20-30% done

this shit has been so sensitive (insanely error prone) and debugging was time costly. I think I didn't spent enough time on thinking about its architecture, but on the other hand my experience was pretty small with this stuff

easy & fast to test and reliably

have solid abstraction over original documents

have solid abstraction over operation (e.g Article 5's meaning is changed)

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project died because it was needed "fast" (in that time there was very specific peroid of changes in law) and we weren't getting to the viable version fast enough
My question to this solution would be: do you have to modify the book in some way? Would we want to potentially ruin a book to do that? If the solution is easily removable then does it help?

We should digitize as much as possible and background check the heck out of librarians it seems to me.
If they can only do it "in some cases", then they can't do it accurately, is the entire point. It can do it SOMETIMES.

Apple has more accurate information. They are not sending it. Why?
I think "experience" is too ambiguous to be useful, honestly.
>maybe blockchain will solve the problem of trust among humans

Absolutely not.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an...
Talk is cheap, but lies win elections, especially when supported by a massive media machine designed to mislead voters.

The output of Fox is bad enough, but the QAnon nonsense isn't some weird aberration that appeared out of nothing. It's the logical conclusion of a huge social experiment to see how much political benefit you can wring from an industrial lie machine.

And it's working far better than anyone on the left was expecting it to.

The downside is that the US now has a huge voter demographic that is literally disconnected from reality. These are the people who scream that Covid isn't real - because something something George Soros and Bill Gates - while they're in hospital dying of it.

This doesn't end well. You can't push a large percentage of your population into delusion without some very destructive consequences. Even if it does mean you keep your Senate seat.
And yet, this claim about Apple’s intent isn’t made with a shred of evidence.
Sure, but the Mac II fx was the high-end machine in a consumer line with plenty of low-end options. And the Sun boxes were workstations targeted at businesses and institutions, where high price is not a barrier if the business value is there.

The NeXT hardware was never really competitive in either market except certain niches. E.g., all our clients were in financial trading, because they were willing to pay a huge premium for rapid app development for financial traders.
You can supplement these elements as the animals you eat get this supplemented too.
You don't need the animal medium to transport these elements.
> The producer of "civilization and culture"? In what sense? Farms produce the goods we eat, how does that lead to culture and civilization? I'm not that knowledgeable at history - if that is the case, then I'd really like to read more about it.

Well, I recommend any history book about the Fertile Crescent and Ancient Egypt.

If you have 1 hour, hear/listen to this podcast/video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA
Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about the contents of his conversations with the Russian ambassador

Sounds scandalous, but we actually know the actual contents of the those conversations! And once again, there's no there, there. Seems to be another important omission in your follow-up yeah, but.

I've no interest in this side vs. that side. For sure, there are no saints to be found. But the original point is that the New York Times played a key role in the spread of misinformation that we know, and was fairly obvious from the beginning, was actually political disinformation. And it's clear those media outlets weren't simply patsies - they were willful propagandists.

Many good people were misled because they trusted the Times and other outlets they considered reputable. The Times abused that trust. And now the Times is assuming that, thanks to some form of Gell-Mann Amnesia, people will believe tomorrow's paper is honest reporting even though yesterday's paper was a pile of lies.
A Spy Agency's Challenge: How to Sort a Million Photos a Day (2020)
I'll RSVP no to the in person watch party and happily watch a stream with a room full of engineering students so we can debrief the explosion afterwards.
The French government and parliament also use this implementation of the law (taxes, benefits, ...) : https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france
It's open source and contributive so, a common structure is used by multiple countries. They are listed here : https://openfisca.org/en/countries/
never watched much TNG but I remember this episode!
I have a hard time believing this is efficient in terms of energy.

Air resistance is a function of the velocity squared and the air density. Air density is a non-linear function as well- it gets very thick near the ground.

To put all your energy into maximizing your speed while you're at ground level (the spin launcher) you're wasting huge amounts of energy just pushing air out of the way. At hypersonic speeds, you'

Rockets, by contrast, go their slowest at ground level and continually accelerate as they get higher. In SpaceX launches, they actually have a period where they throttle back as they go through "Max-Q", the highest aerodynamic pressure point, as it's more efficient to be slower until you're past this point.

I guess using electrical energy, which is a much cheaper source than chemicals like rocket fuel, makes the payoff worthwhile? I dunno, I'm skeptical.

Oh also you can only launch this somewhere that no one around will mind an insane sonic boom at ground level.
Given the tax and liability laws in the US only a fool farmer isn't a corporation. Hobby farm is the most likely way to fall into that - if you are doing it for fun you don't really care that there might be a better way.
The beginning of the article, coupled with what I know of security testing triggered my PR-fluff detectors.

The problem with these automated "agents", just call them scanners, is that they only test for known threats. Just as your vulnerability scanner du jour.

Sometimes an attacker does not need more than a flaw discovered and patched 2 years ago. Regularly I still see important systems in my customers' networks vulnerable to MS17-10. But that is covered completely by vulnerability scanning.

What does this supposedly bring to the table? Blue team training? Network detection validation and tests?

If you are a financial institution the groups that want to target you include sophisticated and determined attackers. They will have techniques not adequately covered by these systems. Or they will just invent a new technique. You don't hamstring these operators by endlessly re-sending their C2's traffic through your network sensors! (Or so I keep telling people rabidly interested in "actor emulation"). They are not stupid, they'll just invent a new technique...

Secondly, holes in your monitoring correlate with holes in your preventive security. You can hardly monitor for an exploit you don't know exists. You can't 'simulate' an attacker living of the land.
That's fair, BitTorrent v2 does solve this problem, but I can't say I've seen any v2 torrents around (not that I'm specifically looking)
Maybe better in outline?: https://outline.com/jvqduR
I don't understand the reference to digital nomads. How is it related? There are nomads from everywhere as well.
They do this is some parking garages. Especially long term (airports) something drives around and reads all the license plates. Easier than books but same idea.
It is just a slightly annoyed comment that they might be part of that problem. If it was meant as a self-reflection I am sorry that I have misunderstood the intent and message.

It isn't just directed at the NYT to be fair and the harsh tone might stem from the fact that I have higher expectations. Personal problem of mine.
The throttled performance is full performance. Without throttling the phone would simply crash.
What did I forget by working for the same company?
Because even a $3K non-Apple Machine outperforms the $5K base model Mac Pro by a large margin, and if I spent $5K outside Apple it would be even more ridiculous, double RTX 3090 + 24 core Threadripper ridiculous.
It's like an obese person struggling with a diet. I'm sure most of their employees don't want their products to be used to sow discontent. But that sweet, sweet paycheck is so large that it's too difficult to quit.

I'm guessing most of them rationalize it in some way, or figure that they will be on a plane to New Zealand before the effects of this is really felt.
So you guys know AV's randomly upload ur files to the cloud right?
Iraq being an aggressive war for conquest was obvious at the time, if one wasn't hopped up on propaganda goofballs - motte and bailey "support our troops" etc.

It's not enough to claim the enlightened viewpoint in hindsight. You have to be on the right side of history while it's happening.
The nearest I've been able to articulate this is lack of overlapping skillsets & departments' tendencies to hire people who look like them.

The kind of person who (a) lives in business problem land & (b) is proficient in programming language design (even guided DSL generation)... doesn't exist. At least not in hireable numbers.

And those that do are buried deep in the guts of consultancies, who can afford to pay them way more than customers can.

It's a shame, because it results in suboptimal software. And suboptimal tooling available to the devs that do work in that space.

The best solution I've seen are products that lower the knowledge barrier of entry (at least for creating a proof of concept) + designing for non-programmers as your primary users.
The Obama Administration spied on the Trump campaign in 2016. [0]

[0]: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/509002-more-willful-...
Bitcoin's value based on how much people use using it to store value. You can't store billions of dollars without the price of Bitcoin being high. More and more people are using it to store and transfer value.

Why? Because as a currency it's good. There's nothing like it and I challenge you to give me an alternative.

Here's the requirements you need to meet -

* Unable to be manipulated - this rules out most fiat currencies. The recent pandemic shows governments have no self control and will print trillions on a whim.

* Fast to transfer - I can send thousands of dollars worth
of bitcoin around the world in under 30 minutes. It takes days for ACH transfers. It takes hours for a wire transfer if you're lucky.

* Cheap to transfer - Compared to wire transfers, transferring bitcoin is cheap.

* I can hold it - I can't store large sums of cash or gold in my pocket (or even my house) safely. Large sums of bitcoin I can securely hold in my phone with my private keys backed up elsewhere.

* Open source - This entire system is out in the open for inspection. No company controls it or can mess with it.

* Battle tested - The fact that people have been trying to break Bitcoin for 10 years now and it still works gives people more confidence to use it as a store of value.

It doesn't matter if it has no value to you. But it has a lot of value to myself and others. If you have an better way let's hear it.
Enter the Cube Farm
> America is not actively shoving its politics into our conversations, we're doing that ourselves (I'm from Germany as well, btw.).

I read a book a few years ago that made an interesting point about cultural exports like TV shows (the book was written pre-youtube and pre-netflix).

If you're a small country (with your own language, culture and traditions) and America has 30x the population of your country, films and TV shows made for the American market will have 30x the budget.

And yet, when that American show is selling broadcast rights in your country, no matter how far they have to drop the price, making a sale makes more money than not making the sale. So the price of the American show will never be out of reach of your broadcasters.

So when a broadcaster imports an American show instead of producing locally, they get a much flashier, more polished product - and it actually costs them less!

And so, for example, Belgian TV shows more scenes in American courtrooms than Belgian courtrooms. And if American TV shows include American politics, they can't help but shove it onto Belgian TV screens.

There's not a moustache-twirling Uncle Sam deliberately orchestrating this, of course. It's just a natural consequence of copyright, deregulation and free trade.
> Bittorrent over I2P

Yes. I2P is designed with P2P in mind. The default Java I2P client already comes with a bundled BitTorrent client, there is also a BitTorrent client called "Vuze" and is used by some non-anonymous users to help seeding a torrent across the clearnet and I2P simultaneously. Because of the nature of I2P, don't expect great speed. No seeder is "usual", 10 KiB/s is "normal" and 50 KiB/s with only 3 or 5 seeders is "good", overall, it feels as if it's still the early 2000s, but when you get used to it and adopt a "download and forget, come back in 3 days" mentality, it's not actually that bad. The fastest download I've ever seen was the movie Snowden, 20+ seeders and over 200 KiB/s+...
Thanks for describing the Lucas critique in this way. I went to look into it more and the wikipedia page[1] doesn't spell this out nearly as clearly as you put it, so thank you for the added context.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
Excel data glitch may have killed 1500 people
But the survey wasn’t conducted among “we humans”, it was conducted among lesswrong readers. Lesswrong is normally pretty worthless, but this gentle lampoon if its own readership’s dumb opinions is actually pretty funny
Some combination of temporarily embarrassed millionaires and tribalism. They may think of themselves as future rich people who can benefit from cheaper labor, and they may be step above the lowest on the socioeconomic ladder, and so want to maintain that hierarchy. As President Lyndon Johnson said:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
> What has been puzzling me ever since is that these OCSP checks have been well-known for a couple of years, and only now have attracted attention.

It's not much of a puzzle. Everyone's Mac essentially froze simultaneously, and that's what drew all the initial attention. Then people were digging into why, and the cause of it got a lot of play. Privacy advocates took the opportunity to advocate privacy and had a large and annoyed audience.
Conserve Your Energy for Those Who Truly Value It [video]
I'm just sad that this person has to build it's career on this stack knowing it could be so much better.
You've never had something fail 1 month or 6 months after purchase?
...Do people not know AV's randomly upload files to the cloud to be analyzed?
Apparent ransomware attack closes Baltimore County public schools
Cloudwatch, cloudwatch events, and kinesis events in us-east-1 have been down for about 2 hours now
Increased Error Rates for Kinesis Data Streams APIs in the US-East-1 Region
No need to triangulate, just measure round-trip time.
Empathy is great, but unfortunately it's not a fix. There's only so much empathy we can have for the environment around us without giving away everything and getting nothing in return. Having empathy for the needs of your fellow human beings is still empathy, even if it comes at the cost of empathy for animals. Empathy for animals at the cost of empathy for your fellow humans is no more a solution than the other way around. So empathy just doesn't fix everything.
But 1% of even 2000 car firms is far from a "monopoly", and 1% of the world's farms is still probably thousands of farms, right?
Yes, but the reason it does it is to make it fast. The shorter your sawtooth spokes, the slower your app.