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> This does not seem like an important thing, it seems like an unimportant thing that can politicians can try to make a thing out of.

Quite the contrary: at least in Norway politicians have been busily pushing your side of the story for decades and only stopped pushing it earlier this year.

> It seems like it would be much cheaper and easier to just buy crops from abroad

If you said this last year many would have agreed.

This spring showed that even Norway - as rich and well connected as we are - cannot get hold of a simple thing like face masks if there is an emergency.
Its not "free" its free at the point of use, its paid for out of general taxation.

Otherwise Bismarck's 19th century Prussia would be socialist
Peak phosphorus is one of the peak i'm less worried about in my lifetime or my children's lifetime. Morocco reserves are probably underestimated, as are Algerian reserves. As long as Morocco stay stable and is help by its economic partners during hard times (France and Spain mostly), it wont' be an issue.

But you're right, hydroponics solve this issue.
What strategies do you find most effective to understand what’s going on in the codebase then?

How informative is git log/blame?
Agreed and advertisers do agree too. They themselves demanded controversial content to be removed while their ads are showing, society demanding the same is in line with that thought.

They do pay for many internet services, but I think the negative aspects outbalance the monetary advantages.
Most of politics involves creative and/or innovative interpretations of the truth. While in theory it would be an improvement to purge all the liers, in practice it is rare to get a substantial majority (60%+) of people to agree that an obvious lie is in fact a lie. And rarely because they have been mislead, one might suspect.
If there isn’t enough money, it only ends up making gangs more ruthless as they now have to compete for a smaller share of money with other gangs.

They end up extorting even more money from the local populace, and try and extend their fangs into other activities.

I’m not saying that legalizing drugs won’t help at all. But it’s unlikely it will help in places that already have gangs without other actions in addition.
plexamp is so much better than their standard media app
I think of it more as a game of rugby. Everyone on the field knows the rules, they are all there of their own free will, they have the chance to make money.

You need a referee, because if you don't have one pretty quickly everything descends into a brawl. The biggest "win" the fight, but there is no game, there is nothing for the audience (economy) and only the largest, meanest players can contribute in any way. All the value from the skilled quick players is lost, in fact all the value is lost. Next week, no one turns up.
Agreed. Using mocks while testing vanilla in-process code is never justified.
AFAIK Itunes Match is still around if you do not want a regular streaming service. But Apple Music also includes the same functionality.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

You can upload your own stuff but it is subscription based, of course. Playing should work through the Apple Music app for Android.
It is still more expensive than exploiting illegal immigrants in southern Spain.
"1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
in "my country" programming bootcamps are considered as a big scam that rely on selling dreams to people like: becoming SE* in 3-6 months or some shit like that for N minimal wages

ofc bootcamps do work for some people (minority)

*let's not argue about developer vs engineer vs coder vs programmer
The language is of course part of the problem.

Because having to write de facto one file per class does not really allow you to write very elegant software. It forces you to write files over files and no one wants that, so they fall back to primitive types.

For the abstraction bloat it is actually similar. Here the reason is that for the longest time (and even nowadays) Java makes it painful to work with functions. So now instead of just a plain function, you have to create a class with an interface that has one method... and instantiate it. Great... not.
CCPA for me is, for all its faults and ambiguities, to me a great start in that you must provide controls, so eventually maybe the controls can have teeth behind them. The definition of “operational” data though is where it currently falls flat.

The article speaks mostly of telemetry rather than ad delivery - however “native” ads delivered in content streams such as thru Reddit’s newer APIs are harder to filter. The only reason client side tracking was a thing in the first place was that the browser data was the easiest way to fingerprint users. We’re entering the age that happens after the market consolidation - the squeeze. Hoping the eventual alternative shows itself soon.
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The post didn't say that it made sense _relative_ to something else, it just said running a school in the proper way didn't make economic sense, and that is not true (except in the sense pointed out in another comment, that honest schools may be outcompeted).

My point is just that a project's economic viability doesn't depend on the relative merits of other projects.
> If you are making a list-like class because you need to keep a collection of strings which you are only comparing, don't use strings. Use <T> even if you only use it with strings, the extra cost while creating the class is almost nothing, but the cost of a future refactorization will surely be greater.

Make it a little less readable for a future case you might never encounter?
Vertical farms start with salads ('crunchy water') because they are easy crops to start such a process with. Once established and verified they will for sure move away from just leafy greens. The typical plan for a startup in this domain runs in the decades, not just a few years, and they're pretty capital intensive compared to software start-ups. Think of the salad producing vertical farm as you would of an MVP for a SaaS company and it makes more sense.
I agree, think you might like this that I've been making: https://ecoping.earth/indexes/gb/digitalagencies
This is a good point, although I am not sure that it makes it impossible to survive as a good school, it just makes it harder.
The example you gave, Megaupload, wasn't a peer to peer blockchain buzzword bingo site, it was just a plain old Web 2.0 era website with a founder who turned a blind eye (or perhaps encouraged) pirated media to be uploaded. Google Kim Dotcom if you're interested in his story.

He hasn't done any jail time, despite the US DOJ's attempts to extradite him, although that really leads to the question as to whether jail is an appropriate punishment for copyright infringement.
How about iOS? I'd love to give Zig a try, but I need to be able to build static libraries for both iOS and Android.
Amount of sunlight also makes a difference.
You would end up stalling the development of new products. I can't invent and sell an 800 usd massage chair if people assume they cost 5000 usd and so don't even go looking for them.

I can't start a "we are cheaper than wallmart" discount business without advertising this fact.

You need advertisements, or something like that, to encourage new products and price competition.

You do not need tracking for any reason since you can advertise against the content of the article, video or podcast. If I am reading up about apartment prices in AREA, serve me suggestions based on that.

Targted ads don't work.
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Hey all!

Sampld is a sound sharing platform made for musicians and content creators, where they can find quality sounds for free.

We understand that finding sounds can be daunting at times, be it for background music, beat for a song, or just an SFX.

That's why we built Sampld - to help people share and use sounds that are both royalty-free and free to download.

Some use cases:
: download and use in your music, or simply use the platform to find inspirations
: Sync the sounds with your video and use them as background music
: Find a jingle song for a podcast segment
: Have it alongside your Instagram Story/TikTok, and make it come to life.

Sampld is currently still in private beta, but you can simply register on our website to download the app through your device's testing platform. Check it out and shoot me some questions and feedback. Thanks!

PS:
even though it's in private beta, if you sign up for iOS you'll get the TestFlight link automatically - we've configured that. As for Android, I'll have to send the invite manually as Play Store doesn't allow such automation.
Genetics defines a potential not an outcome, so it lets us with defining the methods to leverage this potential.

Moreover, our taste is only loosely related to the plant optimum. Some prefer sweetness, acidity, softness, juicyness ...

The soil, undersoil and climate have great impact on naturally grown plants. See wine.
Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
The author was born in 1935 and is writing about the car culture of the 1950s and 1960s. That was killed off by the oil crisis. This should be treated as a dispatch from the surprisingly distant past, not a commentary on the present day.

What we might consider is that the freedom was both genuine and unsustainable, and showed a general problem for humans: there's such a thing as too many other people exercising too much freedom getting in the way of you exercising your own freedom. Something to contemplate as you sit in traffic.

(There's a whole interesting discussion we could also have based on the sentences "Advertising didn’t have to be a near-criminal conspiracy. It could be tasteful, honest, and useful.")
I lived in Baltimore, from 1980-83. Back then, it was a blue-collar town, but not like The Wire.

It has broken my heart to see what has happened there, since, but I know that it's a really strong town, and I'm glad to see this.
> "chemicals to be produced and disposed"

I wish we could just remove the word 'chemicals' from the English language. Most of the time it's used, it doesn't mean anything at all.

What is actually used? Fertiliser, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, not some scary poisons and 'chemicals'.

Do they need to be disposed of? Not really, plants use them up. If you are disposing of them, you are disposing of your money, because you paid for them.

The whole point of these greenhouse or vertial systems is that they are closed off, so you don't have runoff like you do in the open field, and you don't need pesticides because pests don't get in.

There are 99 problems with this 'tech bro' solution, but chemicals is not one of them.
The more I read such works and try to abstract away from their exaggetared use of words, the more I find it to be like those inflatable air "houses" or potemkin villages. Once you take away the punch, the urgency and the strength of the words themselves, there's little left.

The thing is, you can try to project something sensible onto them, ie steelman them, but you will end up with something the authors would disagree with.

You may just as well say you should read Scientology, and you will surely find common points to agree on etc. I mean, it's perhaps still useful to try that, I've read some Scientology materials myself and left with more knowledge about the specifics of Scientology, but I didn't get closer to believing it. Perhaps I can empathize with why it can hook people, we could call that understanding in a sense.
Is there a problem in the case it's sure that COptions objects never have vtbl pointer?
I was using Google Play Music only for my own music and moved recently to Google Drive which just syncs my audio folder on every device. I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudbeats on my android phone and Rhythmbox (since I just sync plain mp3-files) on my notebook.
Counter counter argument:

New Folder
New Folder(2)
New Folder(3)
New Folder(4)
New Folder(5)
New Folder(6)
New Folder(7)

Muscle memory can be important as well. If I'm going through the Finder/Explorer, being able to pick the 4th item down and having it be the one I'm concerned about is helpful.

Johnny Decimal also helps with avoiding having too wide of a hierarchy, as well as having too deep of a hierarchy. Can't be more than 10 folders wide at the area or category levels, and can't be more than 4 levels deep.
Ask HN: Does Lambda School sue for not paying ISAs?
Corporate diplomacy? It's almost like the corporations are the states and the states are minor town councils.
No. I can get a paying job right out of high school, while someone going to medical school will be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for over a decade. If you are just looking at wealth at age 25, people working in fast food made better choices than doctors. Yet somehow, 10 years later, the doctors are ahead.

Clearly that is an extreme example, but it illustrates the point - getting a paying job quickly does not mean it is the best answer for long-term salary and career growth. Getting any old coding job just to get one is not the same thing as getting the full education that comes from a degree. That doesn't make it the wrong answer... getting a job matters. But if you are comparing long-term outcomes, you need to look at it with more context.
> I think the fee was 300€/year, most of it was headed toward paying mandatory access to the university library.

In Bordeaux it's ~200€ for licence and ~300€ for master, but yeah, lowballed that a little bit.

But ! Note that in France almost 40% of university students get the state grant (https://www.campusmatin.com/vie-campus/experience-etudiante/...) - and thus don't even have to pay the inscription fee.

> Lets not forget that all this is paid with tax money though. You will sort of pay back these studies when paying your taxes once working :)

People in the US pay income tax, too - https://www.companow.com/us-vs-france-where-do-you-pay-the-m...
> What agriculture really needs is an effective way to make and keep decent soil.

Growing up on a farm in Germany, this is just what I would call decent farming and this is not rocket science. The knowledge how to do this is there and imho it does not involve some "tech disruption". Agriculture, at least in Germany, is highly mechanized/technized and in the end it does not matter if you look at conventional/"industrial" or ecological/bio-farming.

You need to take care of nutrients, humus creation, ... . This involves "artificial" fertilizer, regularly taking soil samples, to check what nutrients are there, crop rotation, etc... Sure you can just "raid" the soil and move on after ten years, but good luck finding new area in Germany to farm on ;-) And this is more or less independent of scale of farming.
What I meant specifically is that they are in part rich because they didn't have to rebuild from scratch after WW 2.
I am sure since they are classing in as a "nation state hack" the government will move quickly to classify the details for "national security".

So then the question becomes was it really a nation state, or just incompetence being covered by claims of "nation state" hacking
I'm a bit split on boot camps.

On one hand if you're already a high income earning person, such the lawyer and you need to pivot it can be an option.

But they're targeting high school grads and others who aren't as prepared. I don't think you actually need any formal training to become a programmer, I don't and I do exceptionally well.

Once you add in investors who expect returns, why wouldn't lambda School enroll as many people as they could without any regard to education. Those who are motivated will learn on their own, find themselves entry level tech jobs and can be put up as an example of successful students.

Those who fail will be shown as too lazy to put in the effort.

If I was to advise a new student on what path to take, I had almost always say to go to college. The main advantage being that you can grow a real Social circle, and with the coming saturation of boot camp grads you'll have an actual degree.

For non-traditional students, such as working parents many state schools offer online curriculums which will be a much better fit versus an exploitive boot camp.
And so perhaps the question that should be keeping the rest of us up at night this week is this:

What if this exploit came through a compromised third-party dependency (eg npm or pypy or deb or rpm or docker image) that made its way into SolarWinds CI system?

Is that something the rest of us now face?
The Case of the Extra 40ms
I have been reading the comments and and I agree with you. my thoughts are as below.

1) The poster has no market plan and is building one on the go.

2) Haven't done any kind of market research.

3) The poster does not seem to have an actual platform built. seems to only have the domain at this stage.

4) Very poor presentation of the product on the site.

5) Does not actually solve the problem the market has. Does not bring anything new to the table.

I have done research on ghost hosting and there is a demand for low end ghost instances but the problem with ghost is its not profitable due to its scalability and management problems at lower scale.
Something I find interesting is how we get bombarded all the time about the bad conditions in Venezuela, but we heard very little about, for instance, Honduras and El Salvador.
1. How many of these points can be achieved, and to what relative quality, with greenhouses?

2. Given sunlight is ~1 gigawatt per square kilometre, and given the light level plants need, to the extent that this allows winter production of:

(a) staple crops such as wheat, rice, potatoes: this will need implementation of all the improvements to the global power grid that eco-optimists like me call for and which eco-pessimists claim will never be sufficient, and because the energy has to come from elsewhere in winter they will be lacking exactly the same sort of independence they have now with food imports. (I don’t count this as “not independent” because if I did then no city would be, no apartment would be, no non-farmer would be).

(b) high-value non-staple foods such as lettuce, kale, peppers: it doesn’t provide enough calories for food-independence.

While absolutely you could put a small unit the size of a shipping crate in every village and have the local shops stock it’s lettuce output on their shelves, I see this as a fantastic solution to e.g. greening the Sahara [0] and terraforming the Moon/Mars, but mainly only a cash-crop thing in industrialised nations on Earth.

[0] unlike this surprise I found on Google satellite view:
https://goo.gl/maps/EjD4CNCkQB3aziR97
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> Even being a YC company, I believe it didn’t have to be that way.

YC is a startup incubator. A startup, as defined by YC's founder, is a company that grows fast.

Trying to convince anyone in SV that this is extremely dumb or dangerous or unethical is a waste of time.
here are the prices for my local university - https://www.u-bordeaux.fr/Formation/Candidatures-et-inscript...

Where do you come from ? If it's from the US, sure, it's quite more expensive. If it's from another european country, or a poor country, it should be cheap.
Apple Music lets you upload any personal music and stream/re download it alongside normal offerings.

Works perfectly through music.apple.com and an oddly good native Android app.

Un ideally it requires a subscription, though there’s a generous three month free trial. I also don’t think there’s a self hosting option.
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> The worry is that accumulated micro-plastics could be deadly in later life, but that we don’t find that out until hundreds of millions of people have become terminally ill.

But even if this scenario were to happen, is there anything we can do about it? Maybe it is already too late and we can only analyze what we could have made better, not what we can.
> It's another "C but better" language.

This is actually a surprisingly underserved field. There's relly very few language that actually tries to be just C but better.

Go: Uses garbage collection, not very applicable

Rust: Too complex, more like C++ but better. Bit too cumbersome to write "unsafe" code

D: More like Java/C++, although they have a "better C" mode, but feels like an afterthought

Nim: Uses garbage collection.. like D they're kind of trying to reach down into the plain C usecase, now with some nice reference counting stuff. Also relatively complex

Some actual attemps that I know of: C2, Odin

Some reasons why Zig is a better attempt at "C but better":

- Complexity of the language is just a little higher than C, and mostly in ways that resolves issues with C that leads to its own complexities (Like, the C pre-processor is simple, but solving problems with it can be surpringly complex. Or how you may have to resort to compiler extensions/pragmas to solve real problems)

- The Zig compiler is also a fantastic C compiler

- C headers can be imported and used directly in many cases

- Significant parts of the language is dedicated to excellent interop with C (even has syntax for 0-terminated strings)

- Cross-compilation is a highly prioritized use-case (C is very popular in embedded programming, where cross-compilation is essential)
Couldn't you make this same argument for any school in the US?

Maybe We're getting vague here (my fault.) What do we actually mean by "teach yourself?" Nobody is spoon-feeding you knowledge. You get a curriculum to follow.

It seems to me that if you get through the program and then land a job from it, then you got some value from the program. Maybe you could have done that on your own. But if you're looking at a bootcamp to learn in the first place, then you probably weren't going to learn on your own anyways.
It was a shame that he overstepped the mark that one time, because he had a lot of sensible and deeply insightful things to say. He is literally one of the best essayists in tech.
> 5) make a system of payments that allows both mixed crops (ie fruit/lumber/nuts) as well as livestock and arable.

I don't understand that statement. Is that a tech/internet software payment solution ? Or do you mean that a farmer/breeder should be able to use his fields/pastures for either livestock and agriculture ?
If I like (for whatever reasons) to primarily program in a classical OOP style with objects that have encapsulated state and can be late-bound then at the moment it looks like that this would not be a great use case for Zig. Would this be true?
(BTW I really like Zig's philosophy in general, just saying that this might not be a great use case for it)
That's a bit of a generous assessment. They had an OS that was launched on one premium phone, well behind iOS, Android and Windows phone. A company like Nokia would struggle to turn their Symbian dumb phone market share into something that could win against Android.
I, uh... first modified an example, then found the actual example, changed the text, but not all the way. That's why it appears near verbatim from your website.
Ain't this the truth. It's an incredibly inefficient way to feed the human race. And to boot, there's fewer starving livestock then there are starving humans.
www.freecodecamp.com is really good and is free. I haven't seen it in your list. I done some of they're stuff for front end/Javascript development in 2016, now i see they have different paths for back/DevOps/Qa. Also they have a really good YouTube channel with lots of introductory videos