skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, there is so much disinformation citing opinion pieces. Here is a link to Govt. of India Gazette notification of the Farm Bill.

http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/222040.pdf

TL;DR: Until now, farmers were at the mercy of middlemen to sell their produce.
With the new act Farmers are free to sell it to anyone [E.g grocery chains] directly in addition to the Govt guaranteed minimum price [a.k.a MSP]
So if Market price > MSP; Sell directly in the market. Else, govt will purchase the produce at a minimum guaranteed price. So in essence, govt is protecting the interests of the farmers.
The current protests are an amalgamation of disgruntled middlemen who are going to lose fat profits and some political parties trying to get mileage out of it.
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I'm hoping to do my 90 minute train commute twice a week after this is all over.
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If you were in an office then your employer - or the building's landlord - would arrange for someone to fix the furnace. But your employer has now commandeered your home as your workspace during the pandemic. It's probably seeing a lot more wear and tear because of this. Are they going to pay someone to come out and fix your furnace? Probably not.
Trump's base is too large to be rural. That's the thing about the country: nobody lives there. If they can disenfranchise millions of urban people then they will happily accept also disenfranchising a handful of rural people.
Not to defend incompetence, but could the design have made it a bit unwieldy with the 900 (US) ton receiver housing the array of focusing lenses/mirrors? Is it common enough to suspend something that massive from so few points?

The only comparison I know is the FAST which opted to actively deform the dish itself for focusing rather than suspend such a heavy receiver.
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Huh, great question; I’m curious about this myself. If it works that way then it would def be a lot less pricey.
what about the people who don't want the market needlessly inflated by price floors?
I am not sure what you mean.

The Linux kernel has dynamically loaded modules but you can build modules as statically part of the kernel. 'Y' instead of 'M' in the config.

It doesn't make sense to "statically link" a kernel to a program, or multiple programs together, which I read your comment to suggest. That would be a different thing than the term "statically link" refers to.
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In France too, you might. These discussions about how strange it is to still use MMS in 2020 are starting to get old quick. Among all people, those interested in the Pinephone are probably more likely to not use WhatsApp and its friends. And there are very cheap mobile plans without much data, but on which MMS are free.

Yesterday, I wrote a script to retrieve MMS "easily" on the Pinephone (in the spirit of janky-mms [1] which does not work well on my phone and of which I'm unable to read the code properly), I need to take the time to release it at some point.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~amindfv/janky-mms
I believe high carbon taxes are what's needed to capture the negative externalities of our current systems. All these do-good attempts are wonderful to show what's possible, but so much more would happen automatically if we just accounted for the true costs of things.
The block could still be rewritten from the view of zfs as long as it does not update the last-written timestamp (does zfs have this?). I was just describing how it would look like from the birds eye.
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I do that sometimes, but I found I have to set an alarm, like 20 minutes. If not I end up feeling like my head is made of cement.
Have you actually tried this? Merging .data into .text doesn't work. The binary doesn't run and there's this link warning:

> LINK : warning LNK4254: section '.data' (C0000040) merged into '.text' (60000020) with different attributes
This surprised me: "“We meet once or twice a day for five or six hours,” said Sawhney. “Even when we’re not meeting, we’re just constantly messaging each other.”" That's a lot of math time!
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Note though that QEMU's security boundary only covers running with KVM (see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/security.html). So if you're running without KVM, ie using TCG emulation, you should either only run guest code that you reasonably trust to not be malicious, or run the whole QEMU itself in some kind of sandboxing.
There is an in depth explanation in Zen, Buddhism and Hinduism of this phenomenon.

I would suggest reading anything by Nisargadatta Maharaj, who expanded on this in detail to questioners from all over the world who came to his humble dwellings in a Mumbai tenement to observe him. I’d suggest starting with ‘I am That’, available on Amazon, iBooks etc.

He claimed to be outside of time and space himself.
I can see the value of a system that detects weapons and alerts the police automatically when the minutes saved in response time could save many lives. However, the the idea of not having any humans in the loop regardless of the quality of the system is insane. Is this another case of technology advancing ahead of legislation?
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There's no reason that there needs to be such extremes as either all statically linked or all dynamically linked. History has proven that dynamic linking causes a large number of headaches, and static linking has drawbacks as well. There is a reasonable middle ground: base system functionality that is utilized by most software (stdlib, cryptography, networking, gui, etc) should be dynamic and everything else should be static.

The problem is that Linux userspace has historically payed little attention to backwards compatibility and has no definition of "base system". Consequently, Linux distros tend to be their own little mutually-incompatible worlds where you either play with the package manager/repo combo you have or jump through hoops and dodge conflicts to try to get anything to work.

Oasis is interesting in this way: there are no conflicts, there is no package manager, and the binaries should work anywhere provided the arch is the same.
If the effects are systemic it doesn’t matter if there is an “organized system”.

In fact we have a word for that and that word is “culture”. No one explicitly organizes it.

You use knowledge and reason, not to seek truth, but to occlude it for your own ends, driven by your own insecurities and fear.
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Especially since on PC it doesn't even need 1gb. With 7 add-ons (one being an adblocker) and Firefox having spawned 9 processes in Win10 it still uses less than 1GB RAM for me (even though two tabs are chats, so background-active). Something is clearly either wrong in the Firefox he run, his add-ons or Phinephone.
>“I was almost depressed,” she says. “I was deprived of all my personal life.” After her shift, which sometimes included overtime, she had a small window to eat, shower and go to bed – but she sacrificed sleep to eke out some personal time. Often, Rao would stay up surfing the internet, reading the news and watching online videos until well after midnight.

Same here. There's not much "psychology" mystery to it, humans are not robots, we need some fun/me/entertainment/wind-down/-time, not just to sleep, work, and eat.
Ah sorry I see.
From just reading the headline, I thought this article was going to be about little kids refusing to go to bed! I get so frustrated when my toddler won't go to sleep, exactly because it cuts into that precious free time.
> A more comprehensive overview of the specs and improvements being offered with this year’s chipset will arrive in the Snapdragon Tech Summit’s second day of keynotes, on December 2nd.

via https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/21678359/qualcomm-snapdra...

So nothing too interesting today.
I only mostly agree with you, in that he seems to be trying to spin up a war with Iran. It’s hard to know what his actual goals are here.
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“Based on science” means using science as a core part of the decision making process.

It sounds like you actually agree with what I said, but also misunderstood.
I haven't really looked into it all beyond a superficial level, but I certainly think that things like the F-35 program are a net negative to society when viewed at a distance.

As another example, I wonder if Wisconsin's sweetheart deal with Foxconn actually had a negative impact on employment. Clearly Foxconn's promised jobs never materialized, but the threat of them coming to town to spend big money may have had a chilling effect on existing or prospective new employers in the area.

Back to the F-35 program, the jobs it creates may be deadweight, deadend careers that don't produce real value. And then you can't just have these people unemployed and starving, so I guess we'll need an F-35+1 program for them and their descendents. And so on forever, until we break this cycle.

Versus something else that you could buy with the same money that has a future and does create real value (like say, solar panels?). But you're right, its just about the perception of jobs and that photo op.
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Is that really going to raise eyebrows? Google has had over-booked nap rooms for more than twenty years.
I own the 3GB Manjaro edition of the PinePhone (same hardware as this one, AFAIK) and, while in theory you can do everything that you describe with it, it is hardly something you could use as your only smartphone for the day. (I still love it, though, and love hacking away with it!!)

However, as of today, there's a much better way of achieving what you're describing in an Android phone: Termux (1)

With Termux you can use an amazing number of regular Linux/UNIX tools, interface them with phone specific functionality (like GPS or other sensors) and still enjoy having a modern smartphone in terms of apps available, performance and battery life.

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I'm not well versed (or even poorly versed) in agriculture economics but isn't this what the United States does to a certain degree? I know some farmers get subsidies but I'm not sure how / why.
The tectonic shift happening in regional seed funds
You are making the assumption that people working from home work on a clock, and talking to my friends and coworkers is not common. Although I have one friend who does it pretty religiously, and he seems to be happier for it.
I already agreed that the op was hinting at an important problem. The link is weak because the op put hardly any effort into explaining the (possible) connection to these two particular undergraduates and their work. I am not claiming that math and deep learning are unrelated. Please read the rest of my response for context.

BTW, I am not using 'hottest buzzword of the decade' to denigrate the field of deep learning. I am using it to emphasize the op's shallow reference to the field.
No. The concept is that there is an infinite, indescribable void from which emerges consciousness manifested in matter.

And conscious matter creates universes constantly, that appear out of the void, hence creating time and space. This would also imply that its possible not only to change the future, but also the past.

The masters advise, however, that these are distractions and that the journey inevitably leads to experiencing the void itself, hence stepping out of time and space, and consciously experiencing any aspect of time and space and consciousness one wishes to, while always remembering that one is beyond it.
Technically Southwestern Bell was spun off from the AT&T breakup from the 80's.

So basically SBC was one of many companies spun off from AT&T, then it bought up several of the other Baby Bell companies spun off, too. Really, it was AT&T buying AT&T.

It worked on paper, but the victor was still from the same tree.
I could see it being reasonable if a medium to large companies entire infrastructure was cloud based, and they only needed a handful of mac minis. Alternatively, a company who needed them only a handful of days a year for some reason I can’t immediately think of.

Otherwise I agree. 24 hour minimum removes immediate scaling as an option, and for anyone who already has their own infrastructure the cost is prohibitively high. My hope would be that with time, at the very least the 24 hour minimum would eventually be removed, and ideally the price will come down too.
yEarn is offering ~17% APR on stablecoins, but of course the risk profile is vastly different.
If cost is a barrier to entry, then an old used Mac is going to be significantly cheaper than any AWS offering.
No, it’s well documented. [1] That data is captured by the BLS.

> By that definition Bitcoin is a neutral asset class as well since it's deflationary nature is also artificially imposed.

Deflationary is not neutral, it’s deflationary. That’s an artificial imposition of directionality. Further that’s only in isolation. Once you consider the economy expanding and contracting around it, externalities, shocks and the addition and removal of market participants - and loss of coins - its claim to neutrality is like that of a baby fighting Muhammad Ali. It requires positive control to match market conditions. It’s only neutral if you pretend the rest of the world and the economy don’t exist.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/new-homes-toda...
I agree, you learn a lot doing this! I cut my teeth on portable build systems after cross-compiling a bootstrap toolchain for SH4 CPUs so I could build a Linux distro for my Dreamcast. Way more fun working on an unusual platform and building it from scratch.
Hey thanks! We're excited too.
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As another commented pointed out, the collateral is seized. Default risk is very low because there is more collateral than debt.

There's also special loans with 0% collateralization which amazingly have even less risk than the type described above. Those are called flash loans and take advantage of ethereum behavior that allows mini-rollbacks in the time before a block is finalized. So you borrow millions of dollars in the span of about ten seconds, and if it doesn't get payed back then it gets reverted. Very powerful if you're smart enough to use it properly.
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