skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing is that farmers nowadays are required to have huge surface to survive.

Yes and no. From a country to the neighbouring countries, the average farm surface vary greatly; from an area to the next area in the same country, variations are high too; in a same municipality, we have farms which are 5 times larger than others (20 times or more if you take market gardeners into account); and yet they all sort of manage.

There is also the natural tendency of every farmer for expansion; once he's done with his stuff, he always would like to buy one of the neighbour's field, and now they are not afraid of buying/renting/using land that is tens of miles away (their fuel is subsidised too), which increases the phenomenon.

There is also the race with constant investment (and with constant debt) in order to capture subsidies and avoid taxes. There are plenty of weird incentives, sometimes pulling in the same direction, sometimes towards opposite directions.

But you can choose to play differently, more or less like it was done until the eighties, with lower investment, lower expenses. Subsidies are now directed to smaller units (above some threshold), so if your investment is low, it can compensate the relative lack of scale economy. Scaling requires lots of expenses too. But that's the way most choose: what can we tell them? "Well, good luck with that rat race?"

Actually, if we look at statistics, the smallest farms do not really disappear, it is mostly the mid-sized farms which disappear by fusing and shifting to large ones.

> I think non farmers don't understand why they have to bear the nuisance from food production when the food can be brought from outside, and cheaper.

Maybe it is common a point of view in America, but it really isn't here. (I am not saying I agree or disagree with it, but it is something which is very rarely heard here.)

> What they loose sight of, is that being able to feed your country is a huge advantage when shit hits the fan.

Well, as far as the country France is concerned, we used to produce as much or more before all those changes...

Cattle production has been going down for 25 years. It is well known that beef peaked around 1990, but other productions decreased too: pork peaked around 2000, sheep peaked already as early as 1980, more surprisingly even poultry peaked around 2000.

Surface (as a whole) is going down, while yield per surface has (expectedly) reached a ceiling after the crazy increases for 5 decades after WW2.

The agricultural balance which was the pride of the country has been collapsing for a decade or more, with a massive raise of importations, and is probably negative now if it is not saved any more by wine and booze...
I don't assume anything, just going by with your hypothetical 8-hour slacker.
The day/night cycle. I don’t think I played until the end of year 2. It felt like every day was just managing my crops as fast as I could, then running straight to the mine and getting as far as possible before the day ended. Days where it rained were a relief. Maybe I just planted too much
Yes, but they have been simultaneously making it very hard not to use their sign-in your browser and sync everything.

If they actually revert chromium to not having any of this, they have the problem that they are building a path that works for a lot of people and takes us further away from chrome. It will be politically bad if they dead end that path, but a politically bad end is not unlikely.
You call it time theft, I call it work life balance.

If I'm struggling with a problem, sitting on my ass for 5 hours is not going to make the solution come quicker. Going for a walk, playing video games, or calling somebody are a great way to recharge, and as long as I'm not blocking anybody or producing worse output, it's a net plus over time for productivity.

In return, I'm happy to throw in a few extra hours in the evening or over the weekend if I suddenly have a breakthrough, but I'm doing that on my terms.

The team cohesion part can be a real issue, but defaulting to asynchronous communication can really help here.
Right, somehow I missed the time “theft” part. He thinks of his people as if they’re criminals.

This is like a textbook example of manager red flags that you should check for and avoid when joining a company.
Turkeys think they have a great life right up until Thanksgiving.

While I’ll readily concede that Japan has surprised everyone, at some point in time the sheer magnitude will overcome the lenders’ belief. Their ability to repay, and then it all goes downhill very fast.

That’s the thing - hyperinflation happens fast. You usually don’t see inflation, high inflation, higher inflation, and then hyperinflation. Instead you see slow deterioration and then a huge jump in a short period of time. It’s like falling off a cliff in its suddenness.
Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
This is quite common. Lots of small to medium IT teams have terrible security hygiene and awful image build and cloning processes.

I’m glad to see Microsoft at least attempted to take some of that away with things like autopilot which allow OEM builds to be customised just by signing into AD. It’s fairly easy to sidestep a lot of problems like this.
How many widgets will worker B make in 8 hours?

Also, how many widgets will worker A make in 4 hours?
Short King Dating
Are microcontrollers that unapproachable for the hobbyist?
> Well, pick a big city?

I know. I guess it’s just choice paralysis.
I have 6 Raspberry Pis but only 1 at home.

I set up some to stream media from my home server and gave them to friends and family.

I have a couple at relative's houses for remote monitoring. I have the Pi set up to make a reverse SSH tunnel back to my house. I can then tunnel VNC / RDP and help debug any issues they are having with their own home computers.

One Pi is used to wake up my remote file server with a Wake On LAN packet. The Pi idles at under 2W while the file server uses about 80W when on. I run my backups and then put the file server back to sleep.
> start the server using site enable and you’ll have a secure production web daemon that survives errors/reboots and auto-updates itself

Is an auto updating daemon what you want? And does it run under its own account? I wouldn't run this as root or under an account with sufficient sudoers privileges.
MMT works so long as you've got the ability to conjure your own money. (Eg, not on the Euro, or a currency pegged to another currency.)

The idea is that you create money to pay for things, and then pull back excess money through taxes. (As opposed to pulling in money through taxes, using it to pay for things, and whining that you don't have enough.) So it 'works' as long as you have your own independent national currency.

Another mind flip: the scarce resource isn't money - it can always be generated - but labor. Inflation starts when there's a labor shortage, because up to that point you can just employ more people to meet demands.
You just need to be careful because usually these offers have fine print along the lines "if you don't pay this back fast enough, you will have to pay very high interest even on the debt you already paid off."
Thanks for sharing.

I'm using 2080ti for my "at home" projects and going above CUDA 11.0 is indeed breaks lots of things - good luck trying to make something like colab/kaggle docker image for DS where you have TF+torch+sklearn+more combo.

Would you mind sharing resources you used to assemble your software/driver stack for 3090x2 setup?
Relevant: https://www.robrhinehart.com/the-new-york-times/
Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
worker B will make 80 widgets in 8 hours and be unhappy because he knows the employer expects 80 and he's not going to work harder for no reward.

Worker A will make 40 widgets in 4 hours.
At least in bigger cities, there tend to be a lot of clubs and other organizations for outdoor activities, sports, etc. That may not be to your taste but I've always been more involved with that sort of thing than work colleagues even when I was working in a fairly large office on a day-to-day basis. (I've been remote or effectively remote for years.)
Thats because consoles are software locked out of mining cryptocurrency and ML. GPU equalling PS5 performance is somewhere between 2070 Super and 2080TI, $1-2K right there. Microsoft and Sony make additional money on game licenses so cheap hardware is in their best interest.

Just imagine what would happen if someone managed to publish a TensorFlow "game" allowing you to use current gen consoles in distributed machine learning workloads.
Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper
My bad then, but I still disagree that hours put are an objective metric. Yeah, sure, 8h have passed <- this can be measured objectively, but it's basically the only thing that can be measured objectively in a work setting.
Personally, my issue with the term "sloshing" is that it implies the money is floating around in liquid form ready to tick up inflation. It's not.

There are a lot of places where this money has gone that are illiquid though. One would be American property; for most households a good chunk of their wealth is their house. In high-COL, high-property areas the main thing preventing a fall in house price is the lack of supply.

Another part of it is China and other countries with large amounts of USD. China has tight capital controls though so none of that money is about to leave suddenly any time soon. but if a big chunk left at once it would probably make the 1998 Asian capital flight look like child's play. Some countries like Saudi Arabia are trying to figure out how to spend it; Vision Fund literally created (and destroyed) very big companies in very short order. When Japan had this problem the hangover lasted for a decade, and depending on your view may even be continuing to this day.

Of course, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, so these things are mostly theoretical until they're not. But no use holding your breath trying to wait for it.
Except it's even worse for crypto because many tokens don't nearly have the same liquidity as traditional stocks so market manipulation is even easier with crypto.
Yes, unless you want to play with peripherals too.

Like another commenter said, being able to put it on a shelf is nice. You can crack it open 5 years down the line to play with, or just give it to a friend that's interested in trying different OS's
Definitely. This will make Chromium less annoying to use as it won't keep nagging me to login/sync with Google. Always hated that "feature".
As is Covid.
The post seemed to state both hours and output have dropped.
What bothers me are the hundreds or even thousands of journalists that spout corporate lines, propaganda, and outright lies everyday, and not much is said about them, but with principled journalists like Greenwald, you get these nitpicky judgemental critiques that seem aimed at deriding them.

Yes, Greenwald is not perfect, but he is more objective, honest, and brave than the great majority of journalists out there. It has the flavor of an inorganic smear campaign that has been absorbed repeatedly and unconsciously across social media. It's a common pattern for a post about an anti-establishemt figure to have some positive comments about them, but then some critique inevitably bubbles to the top of thread every time.
Wow, this has the biggest reviewer/audience score difference I've ever seen on Rotten Tomatoes. 30% vs. 94%.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/orville/s01
Let's say worker B draws 2x salary of worker A, because he is known to be twice more experienced/skilled/productive.
Big commercial aircraft do that and more (including inertial navigation, older systems like VORs), combining and error correcting all available inputs. Long range air travel existed before GPS was available to civilians, but a certain unfortunate incident showed the need for more precision.
Response from first author:
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/01/13/deeply-unfair-first-a...

Outrage on social media demanding the retraction of it and similar research:
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/08/06/a-retraction-and-a-re...

The retracted article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68291-w
Who needs bitcoin when Deutsche Bank and HSBC exist?
That’s like leaving your car at the gas pump while you go shopping.

It takes five minutes to fill at a gas pump. Then you move on, and the next person fills up.

Until there’s a charge station at every parking spot, it’s not going to work. You have to stay close to the car while it’s charging. Works for the 7-11, but not for regular shopping.
I don't think it really does, mainly because you and your house aren't a huge public corporation whose services are used by a massive number of people to communicate, receive information about events in their life, and participate in all kinds of things not related to your house.

Superficially it of course makes sense that a business doesn't need to serve people who criticize them. However, social media giants are practically a significant actor in the society, not just a random business down the road, and they should accordingly be held to a higher standard.
The most interesting thing I’ve seen from smart contracts is using them to structure funds management for international FOSS projects without having to create a legal entity. That saves a ton of cost and legal overhead which is otherwise very tedious.

That said, the interesting question this raises is, what happens when disagreements happen over those smart contracts? It seems like inevitably lawsuits and regulations will arrive, potentially removing the upside of using smart contracts.

This leaves me asking a couple questions. One, is the culture around “no reversable transactions!” a kind of defense mechanism against introducing legal overhead which could harm the value prop of crypto. Two, should legal overhead arrive, could the smart contracts still provide some value compared to old solutions?
WeScheme
Two news updates since 2002, the last in 2009: https://mklinux.org/info/index.html
They’re not the number one domain experts though. As you said, those who work at the Fed are probably number one. I’d put academic economists at number two. That leaves the relevant traders/hedge fund managers in third at best.

Fundamentally, trading an instrument doesn’t necessarily make you an expert in all aspects of it, only in those aspects related to making a buck on it. Exactly how much a trader ends up knowing seems to vary. While a bond trader might understand how bonds work very well, chances are that a grain trader would make a pretty bad farmer.

It seems in passing that fixed income traders have a moderate level of expertise on how government debt works, with their long, loud, and so far wrong predictions about catastrophic inflation undermining any claim they have towards total expertise.
That's a tough question to answer! I spent some time on it in the blog post, and a lot more time that I didn't write about hacking on little bits of gVisor while researching that post. My take is, no, I don't think gVisor is as secure as Firecracker; it's way more ambitious and has a larger attack surface. But I buy that it is substantially better than OS-sandboxed container runtimes, and I would probably trust it for multitenant workloads.

(Kata, as I understand it, is mostly about microvm containers; I like Firecracker almost as much for its implementation, which I think is pretty gorgeous, as for the microvm design choice, but I like 'em both fine I guess. Also, there's a Firecracker-based Kata that people use, right?)
Exactly. I was confused why the Elasticsearch blog is ranting about Amazon when the actual issue is in Elasticsearch license change which makes the source code closed which was open source.
Working from home will stick FOR SOME... but not for others.

I have a long commute and don't miss it... i do miss the books/podcasts and I miss the office. I hope we go to a 3 day home, 2 day office but we'll see.

Managers like having butts in seats. we'll see how it goes long term
I guess ifixit do that for new products, rating them by how easy to repair they are.
You'll need a bit more than 50$ to jam them for an aircraft, though
Overturn by peacefully protest, showing Pence that there is popular support to investigate the election inconsistencies.

The biggest act of violence was a policeman shooting a protester point blank in the neck, after being let through by 6 other policeman.

I mean can you elaborate how exactly would it work with violence? What was their plan? And how would that be accepted by the every authority and the people?
On the west coast it has pretty much become a standing Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that some agency will potentially be interfering with GPS signals. Sadly they continue to decommission VOR stations across the country.
https://bruceair.wordpress.com/tag/vor-decomissioning/
Really? I would think both R and Julia covers much the same functionality as Pandas. I don’t know R well enough but Julia can certainly be used in almost exactly the same ways as LISP with respect to being functional.

There are even REPL plugins which lets you write Julia code using LISP syntax.
I’m not too worried about commercial airlines. I’m more worried about press-button-and-fly weekend IFR warriors.
I'm very happy with this change as well. I just wish distros would go with ungoogled-chromium in the first place. This would be a non-event.
With userfaultfd(), you can. Not necessarily a good idea, though...
I've used Java for over 20 years. Not once have I ever replaced an attribute with a computed value.

Also p.x = p.y + p.z is much easier read.

Another drawback of getters and setters is that you end up not looking at that code because you assume you know what it does, so you can miss when someone puts logic into a setter or getter
If you decide to offer the code so it can be self hosted I'll keep an eye out for it.

Looks like a good start, I can see it becoming much better - good luck.
I’m really with you. The culture around it feels borderline developer-hostile. It’s exhausting and feels like I’m participating in some strange, elaborate religious ceremony.
130k USD is currently about 170k AUD. That'd include base salary plus a mandatory employer contribution of 9.5% to a tax advantaged retirement fund (Australia's "superannuation" scheme).

Excluding retirement fund contribution, equivalent base salary would be around 155k AUD. That'd be subject to roughly 29% total income tax. There are no additional state level income taxes . So you'd end up with around 110k AUD cash. A single person who rents & shares a place can cover all baseline living expenses on a quarter of that.
> The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding.

You have obviously never been on the Tube at rush-hour in London. All it offers is a sense of stress and anger.
Biden Inaugural Climate Move Should Saving Nuclear Reactors Slated for Closure
i'd be lovely to see a write up on what the implementation does, how it transfers data. is there grpc? i feel like there's going to be grpc. what kind of endpoints does it talk with?

can anyone find the old #xmpp based sync-code in the source code archives? it'd be fun to compare how sync used to work on the old semi-xmpp based platform versus how it works now. that this sync used to built somewhat around xmpp always fascinated me but i never dug in. there's got to be some neat interesting morsels in the code, around this, if we go looking for it.

there also used to be a very unsophisticated demo sync server one could run themselves[1]! i kept thinking/wishing people would take this & run with it, stop sending their core data to google, own the stack, own their systems, take responsibility, possibly expand & innovate openly on sync. it always seemed logical & obvious, but i didn't ever do it myself, & best i can tell, no one else really did either.

fwiw, the interfaces are part of the open source code[2], then & now, i believe, but the specific implementation is unavailable.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/614744/how-to-set-up-a-own-c...

[2] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sync
What I mean is that WFH employees will still demand perks, just of a different nature (maybe higher salaries). As long as the market dynamics we have today stick, employers will still be spending money on perks.

Just as employers can now access remote employees anywhere in the world, employees can access any company hiring remote.
According to Russia these guys are rioters and mobs and so cutting off internet is justified. It is reported in English news as 'protesters' getting their communication cut off. However, about two weeks ago the US president himself and any site or program where 'protesters' also known as 'rioters' or 'mobs' were able to communicate had their communication cut off, even with access to the internet. Besides websites, social media, video hosting sites, web hosting providers, ISPs, domain holders, payment processors, all of the above used censorship in the U.S. The effect of cutting off communication was the same and even these protests are essentially the same reason people in the U.S. were 'protesting.' So really it is how you define or even how a protest is depicted that determines whether people are for censorship resistant communication.
This, so much!

But politicians have friends & famility working at DB and HSBC - so they'd rather show teeth and get votes by attacking the newcomers.

Who cares if there's less illegal activity there? At least they won't have to fear retaliation by cartels!
Perjury is for courtrooms after you take an oath. Lying to law enforcement is categorically not perjury.
I agree. I wish the Scala community would inherit some of the simplifying culture of the Go community.
Often case it's the author disagreeing with a good number of the viewers, and not any spam or vulgar content.
This is why I donate every month. Not all heros wear capes.
Thanks for your comments. Regarding determinism, potentially a fair point. Here are a few comments:
(1) A driver which randomly produces different output when running the network would be valid according to these restrictions.
(2) It is conceivable that a driver would produce non-deterministic input with the same hardware. One commonly known example is that tensorflow will run multiple different convolution kernels and then choose the fastest one. In that case, you can run the same network on the same hardware and get slightly different results. Its not that hard to imagine that a mobile driver could do something similar.
(3) It's not true that specific hardware will produce consistent results on the same input. You can run a model today, the driver gets updated, and tomorrow you get different output. This happens frequently.
Unless they can use it target they people they already "know" committed the crime, maybe?
If you want to synchronize your bookmarks across devices and even browsers, you may want to look at https://www.xbrowsersync.org/.

It doesn't require registration. The clients you would like to sync just need to enter the same sync id and password. If I understand right, the password is used to encrypt your data on client-side. The server (called "service" in xbrowsersync lingo) only sees an anonymous sync id with a binary blob it can't read.

If a sync id is not used for a while, the associated stored data gets deleted. That's it. There is no "account" in the traditional sense. I really like this simplistic approach.

It's even open-source.

You don't need to use the default https://api.xbrowsersync.org service but can also host it yourself.

I'm using it and it works quite good. Every now and then sync fails, but I think I narrowed it down: It fails only when you create a bookmark in a just-created directory. But am not sure and didn't file a bug report, though.