skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the first article:

> they grow almost 70 kilograms (154 pounds) of tomatoes per square meter. That's at least 10 times the average yield from an open field in Spain or Morocco, but with eight times less water and practically no chemical pesticides.

A promising method with a yield like this shouldn't be abandoned just because the taste isn't as good. This is just something the market will force them to improve, if customers don't continue to buy them. Personally, I've never tasted a tomato that I would label as atrocious so I'm now intrigued to try them :)
Yeah, well. Let's just say it is not uncommon for young people who work in that field to die of a heart attack.
Also just not really appropriate for a global company.. Isn't their EU HQ in Ireland? They should know better than this
FPGA’s are a common man’s TSMC!!!
>I can't imagine Microsoft is anymore interested in paying these fees than Google or Facebook is.

AFAICT the law is targeted at Google and Facebook only, Microsoft would not have to pay.
> semantical distinctions

I would disagree that it is nothing more than semantics. Your example is someone seeing a black person and applying negative stereotypes to them. That is easily recognized as racist. My example does not require anyone to even know the race of anyone involved. Explicit racism is obvious to anyone around it and is low hanging fruit. Institutional racism can often only be identified through actual study of complex interconnected systems and their history.

> This isn’t an example of institutional racism

> Never said it was

You responded to a comment saying “it's similar to something like institutional racism. There probably are very few people who are openly and unashamedly racist at the highest levels of power (although sadly not zero) - but all it takes is the current players acting in their own self interest to keep perpetuating an extremely unfair and totally rigged system”, clearly saying they are not talking about explicit racism, but people acting in self interest not related to race or racial stereotypes. Then you respond with an example of someone that is explicitly racist. That is not what was being talked about and is not a relevant example of what the commenter you are responding to was saying. Discriminating against others, racial or otherwise, for economic self interest is racist and bad. But the point of institutional racism is it can happen without any individual discriminating against anyone based on race.
ICANN's DNS roots are flawed by centralization, and DNS itself is a very insecure protocol. However, DANE is still a major progress over the browser CAs, because you can stop trusting random corporations and state agencies (the CAs, who are known to emit fake certificates) and instead trust your naming scheme.

Agreed DNS might not be the best candidate for this. However DNSSEC validation within the LAN (eg. on your local router, not @Google/CloudFlare) mitigates a lot of risks associated, and a new secure backward-compatible protocol like the GNU Name System (yes that's a thing) may eventually overcome those risks entirely in clever ways.

There's literature and actual deployments on tying name resolution to public key discovery in location-addressed protocols (eg. .onion, .i2p..) and it makes entire sense in my view. If such concerns interest you, check out the latest GNS draft RFC: https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001
Very inspiring. Congrats! Can you talk a bit more on the EE consulting line item and the certifications for TinyPilot? I am trying to prototype my own hardware design[0] and would like to learn from your experience.

[0] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=2...
[1] https://riffpod.io
I agree about the taste, but I don't think it's caused by variety taste difference. Problem is that when tomatoes are imported from further away, they are picked and transported (more) unripe and later exposed to ethylene gas to ripen closer to consumer. Being grown using hydroponics or bags of mineral wool certainly doesn't help with the taste either.
Not by the definition they use.
This probably has no net effect on the budget, people on the project were already on salary. Only loss is that Navy could have used these people on something more productive, but then again, I doubt Navy cares about productivity too much.
It's a small amount of money for any physics experiment and absolutely tiny by the standards of government expenditure.

I don't have a problem with them having done the experiment, I have a problem with the fact that they prematurely filed a patent and appear to have misrepresented the state of their research to get it approved over the objections of the patent examiners.
> Are we in a higher level of conflict between rich and poor now than in the past? I'd say no.

I’d argue the drivers for the war are already here, but the only reason the war isn’t class based is the rich and powerful have convinced the lower classes to attack each other instead of them. They’ve successfully driven in dividing lines such as race and religion to distract us as the plunder to their hearts content.
Almost every side project of mine :D
The Media is dominated by labor unions. I suspect that is the key difference and the source of the conflict. Every unionized journalist has a financial conflict of interest in how they cover the news.
I suggest increasing the text contrast on your site. It's barely readable on my screen as it is.
Wicked, thanks. It is the exact kind of nonsense I had pieced it together to be. A reverse 'okay boomer', if you will, but where you don't get accused of being ageist for saying it.
Regular deep cleanings and disinfections of "shared surfaces" has a distinct advantage, even if it doesn't help much against SARS-CoV2: it reduces the spread of other contagions - like the regular influenza, herpes, hep-a or e.coli. The regular flu, for example, is all but non-existent in the world at the moment.

If there is one thing to be learned from the whole covid-19 disaster, it is that a lot of life and productivity loss can be prevented by relatively simple measures.
I run a 15" 4K laptop, next to a 42" 4K monitor.

For the external monitor to have the same dpi as the laptop, it would need to be a 16K resolution monitor.
Do you accept remote worldwide?
By that definition the Chinese persecution of the Uighurs or the Rwandan genocide were not racist. Racism only ever existed in Western civilization in the last 500 years.

Do people not realize this kind of bullshit plays right into "replacement theory" fascist conspiracy propaganda?

It's doubly odd for this to be the ADL's definition. The majority of people would identify Jews as white. The only people I've heard explicitly state otherwise are Nazis. So for most people this definition would exclude anti-semitism from being racism.
In many large companies, operational costs are often budgeted differently from capital expenditures.

The workflow from approving a $85/month cost can be significantly easier than approving a $1,099 purchase.

Also, renting an machine from a 3rd party might allow you to avoid dealing with a dysfunctional IT department.
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PLLs ("phase locked loop") are entirely normal in both FPGA and microcontroller worlds. They involve a high-frequency oscillator and a frequency divider. The fast clock is divided down, as is the fast one, and the two signals compared. When they are out of phase, one is ahead of the other, and the fast oscillator adjusted accordingly.

This is also how PC BIOSes let you configure various CPU and DRAM speeds from a single physical crystal.

They're accurate enough for most practical purposes. They can take a large number of clock cycles to acquire "lock" and start producing the correct frequency, which rarely matters unless you need to go from 0 to X00MHz very quickly.

> system clock doesnt run fast enough to keep up with 60hz

It doesn't actually say that as far as I can tell?
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Exactly this: Wayland solves no issues I have

(It is very similar to systemd, and the motto on page https://nosystemd.org/ that is what I think about systemd also: If this is the solution, I want my problem back.)

If one doesn't use multi-GPU setups or high DPI they don't need Wayland, yet (later they will either have no options (like with systemd) or will buy better screens).

For me e.g. I don't know if I have a problem that Wayland may solve - I have not issues with Xorg, I don't like using more than one screen (I forces me to move my head left-right, I prefer single large screen, with full sized window) and I don't have high-dpi screen (I think, at what DPI does it start? My laptop has full-hd with 14", so probably not).

But later when such high-dpi screens will be the norm it would be nice to use them.
Struth. The Libs are fundamentally dependent on the electorate being swayed by the constant anti-labor pro Lib background noise. And it may sway only 3% to the right, but that's enough. 10 minutes of Friendly Jordies, 60% of which is bullshit gags contains more journalism than a full Sunday paper.
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I specifically qualified it with efficiently. As in, when the surface is in the GPU memory, the software doesn't have to read it over PCIe bus and then put it back into another buffer for the encoder; but that the encoder can do zero-copy encoding in the GPU memory.

Here, Firefox uses dma-buf. Unless X11 exposes a special extension for exposing dma-buf, your client won't be able to do that.
I still need to convince my bank to let me back date a loan to 1980 and buy some land. I'm sure that would be a big help.
How is wearing masks safety theater?
I collect UX-related articles, books, tools and more at https://www.uxlift.org/.

It’s purely for my own reference, as a sort of glorified bookmark manager, but other people are finding it useful too.

Technically, I built it with Jekyll as it was supposed to be a simple site. I’ve long got past the point where it probably should be based on something more dynamic, but can’t be bothered to do the rewrite. Instead I’ve wrangled Jekyll collections into something resembling a relational flat-file database.
If you have a large model in excess of 500mb, any advice on the next best way of deploying as cost effectivtely as possible?
.. not really? They're pretty niche and outperformed wildly by actual hardware.
Interesting, I had no idea.

I think I heard the variant without article in German, as well, but I'm not aware of a similar discouragement.

The German Wikipedia seems not to have anything on it, as well.
It's hard to be critical of people who want to see justice, paradoxically, I think we need to be the most skeptical when corporations which have zero problem operating and participating in them most aggressive regimes, try to use moral ethos to sell us products.

It's one thing to say: "Here is our product, it works well"

It's another to say: "Here is our product, we are moral, and that's a reason you should buy from us, it might make you moral as well".

e.g. Do you remember the bottled water at Starbucks called 'ETHOS'? As if to say 'this is Ethical water - you don't need to be concerned abut the fact the plastic is not reusable and wasteful)

I am not remotely against spiritual organization, but there's a special kind of cynicism we reserve for the moral failings of those who's job it is literally to tout morality.

I don't doubt everyone at Apple wants to help in some way, but it's a pretty dangerous thing to make certain claims, and it's doubly dangerous when there are potential hypocrisies afoot.

I'm cynical of this kind of marketing, I wish Apple would be less Nike about it, and more 'local community group' about it - and take a much more humble approach. Their willingness to try to turn their actions into projections of morality is a bridge too far.

There is a women's shelter 100m from my flat, I see the crazy goings-on all the time, the workers there never get a hint of the credit they deserve. It's the most 'opposite' place I can imagine from the clean, austere, clinical, 'corporate morality' ethos of an Apple Store.
Yes, but most don’t seem to mind. There are so many other high ROI things for clinical pharmacists to do instead. Most want to round more or spend more time with patients instead .
I think a lot help is needed towards the "poor" concerning the subject of justice. No matter where someone lives, there should be forms & guides on court websites for filing a lawsuit or defending oneself and currently only a few places provide that help.
For the same reason that it can make sense to say that python is more powerful than C, even though you can obviously do more things with C than with python. Xdotool lets you send keystrokes to a particular window, even if it's not in focus. You can do that with ydotool if you also do some sway IPC, but it's not as convenient, and no one has made a higher-level tool, possibly because it would be a nightmare to make it work with multiple different compositors.

Do you know if there's any standardization effort to support xdotool-like functionality over wayland with some kind of actual security model (using ydotool kind of subverts the security improvements wayland offers unless one does more due diligence than is pleasant to do for quick scripts)
Why wouldn't they reject a ID/passport with some details blacked out?

They have proper support lines where one can call and ask. (At least this was so a couple of years ago, no need to call support since then..).
> No one knows when or even if the squeeze will happen.

Well. $GME closed at -100 dollars (-31%) yesterday, and it's currently down another ~95 dollars from that in the pre-market. I guess we will not go to space today.
Masks have been shown to be effective. [0] We are not just value signalling when we wear them, we are saving lives.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien...
I'm working on getting an oyster mushroom farm going in Reykjavík, Iceland. It's a bootstrapped operation so it's going to be a slog of a run. I've solved most of the engineering problems associated with a low-tech mushroom grow, just need a place to put it. My problem is I need a small area (100 sqm) for packaging and an office and a sizeable lot to put 40' containers where the mushrooms are grown. I need good access to both 3 phase electricity and municipal water (both hot and cold). Hard to find those elements without going rural.
I think in a lot of cases it's already been budgeted, it sends a signal that care is being taken and also it probably is helping reduce spread even if the benefit is small. And if not covid, it's at least killing other germs.
> That should tell you a lot about the people that lobbied/wrote it.

It doesn't really. Care to elaborate?
How would that change if they weren't unionized?
They are actual hardware
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> By the way, I think it's absolutely amazing that one can access the same discussion over several protocols (NNTP, email mailing list, and often HTTP) without losing any functionality.

By using HTTP I lose a lot of features! I can't filter (both for removal as well as for highlighting) as I need (i.e.ignore some flame war threads or highlight messages to me), I can't work offline (while there are less situation where that is needed, but can still be useful when loading on the side and then having low latency while looking through messages) etc.

However mail and nntp never really got the spam problem solved and development of "nice" clients basically stalled last 15 or so years.
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The CDC did say that masks didn't work. Then they said that they do work.
Yes, we do know the answer. We have many letters written by them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34243042
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"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise"
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The better question is why aren’t we ventilating. It is justifiable to clean high contact surfaces as a precaution.

But this is like optimizing the last 2%. The most important thing other than masks and distancing would be opening windows, installing air purifiers that kill viruses, and setting hvac’s to bring in outside air. Co2 meters could be used to gauge effectiveness.

One year in official guidelines in most cases don’t mention ventilation and in some workplaces people are forbidden from ventilating because it isn’t in the guidelines.

We’d be a little chilly or a little warm, but the virus would spread much less readily.
508,000 cost. 462,00 salaries. That leaves 46,000 for equipment. Over three years that is roughly 15,300/year. Numbers that low in a government might be only office costs, desks, a few computers and maybe a big printer. I think this might make it the cheapest new-physics experiment in recent memory.

The goal of this program seems to be to keep this guy on payroll. This guy knows something. It is probably totally unrelated to this "patent" but there is some reason the Navy wanted to keep him in their orbit.
Clever name!
I think it's a shame that the Voynich Manuscript has received so much more attention than Nova N 176[1].
It's almost certain that Nova N 176 isn't a hoax, which IMO makes it much more interesting, both from linguistic and historical perspectives.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_N_176
Nowhere near as flexible as the US though. The ability to hire and fire quickly without high costs has helped the USA recover from crises many times in the past as well. Employers in countries with high protections for workers are often reluctant to hire because it costs so much to slim down the work force once you employ them. It's not like the aftermath of 2008 was the first time this has ever been tested.

To be clear I'm not saying their system is superior, I think it goes too far. Poverty and what I consider labour exploitation are much more common over there. Also I think it's pretty clear now that significant increases in minimum wages don't seem to significantly increase unemployment, for example, but on severance pay particularly it's pretty clear this is a tradeoff.
I think this is a problem that will solve itself as global inequity is reduced. When there's no cheap third world labor the average person won't be able to afford to fill their home with Chinese knick knacks, and there won't be enough land to support a meat-heavy diet. Pod living and bug eating naturally follows
I'm currently building https://github.com/dealloc/wumpex, a library for building Discord bots written in Elixir.
Aside from being very helpful to learn Elixir (and Discord's internals), a couple of my friends are really into building Discord bots and have expressed interest in using it already.
I can echo that. But still Maybe something good for poor or disadvantaged people comes out of this.

Like at Facebook or Google, programmes/initiatives like these are less marketing directed at customers (Eg why would a Slovenian IPhone User indulge himself with us domestic issues and be bothered with his alledged white guilt?) and more directed at their workforce and the incumbent US administration.

Both groups which represent the same cohort (upper class woke) which are trained in identity politics and will use the rhetoric to their personal gain.
Everything you said is correct. But, there are surely cases where even though rewriting everything from scratch almost never works, the status quo doesn't work either.

I'm afraid that's where the Linux desktop is today. Linux as a platform actually sucks for running "untrusted" software. And "untrusted" doesn't just mean proprietary games. It also just means "can I please run the alpha version of this cool open source project without being afraid that it'll fuck up my whole home directory?"

Android does a hacky thing where each program is its own "user". But then, having multiple (human) users is confusing (I don't know how Android does this, actually).

I don't know if Wayland will succeed. In fact, I'm rather pessimistic about it. But I'm also pessimistic about desktop Linux "succeeding" (staying reasonably useful even to nerds) if Wayland doesn't.
I don't think you can. The 1070 is $300 used. That gives you $200 to fit in a case, fans, PSU, SSD, motherboard, RAM, and CPU. No way. A comparable CPU would cost at least $100 used by itself.
The time of deforestation of Europe is a few decades behind us, I think. Certainly in the EU, forest areas are growing slowly (by about 10% since 1990, according to https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/pdfscache...)

I don’t think the forests will (soon) return to what was there in Roman times, though. There’s a lot less, and of lower age (I don’t think Caesar’s men would find it as easy to find the huge trees they used to build a bridge over the Rhine in today’s forest as they found it two thousand years ago)
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How to ensure that each person gets exactly one vote? How to ensure that none can see over the other person shoulder and coerce the vote? How to ensure that nobody can check what other person vote and apply a retaliation?

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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In case anybody is wondering, it looks like the KC-H50-W can be shipped to the US straight from Amazon, but with the 11.4k yen shipping fee the total comes to ~$317.15. About $30 less than the American model.
https://www.climbcation.com

it's essentially a crowd sourced rock climbing destination filter for world class destinations. Most similar tools will have ALL climbing areas meaning you have to filter through a bunch of noise to find the real diamonds.

I originally built it to solve my own problem of "I don't really know where I should go on vacation" so I don't mind if it isn't successful because I actually use it myself quite frequently.

everyone I've showed it to thinks it's amazing and that it will do well but I have no idea how to spread the word effectively so I think it's destined for mediocrity haha.
The ‘projects’ section on the website has 3 projects. I wonder how widely the author uses this stack.

‘Personal SaaS’ is a weird category.
They would have no financial interest in empowering the political left.

Without the anti-capitalist ideology journalists popularize, with stories about 'Amazon the exploiter' for example, the laws that violate their employers' contract liberty, and consequently provide unionized journalists with above market wages and protection from competition from other workers, would not exist.
How can google be a monopoly if it is that easy to switch away? The truth is competing search engines are at least 90% as good as google, and literally a click away.

People don’t, and there is some browser default lock in, but it’s hardly like an electric grid, water or broadband monopoly. Or Standard Oil for that matter.
The one good thing that has come out of this is that most people now wash their hands after using the toilet. I used to see so many people not washing their hands and in a gym where everyone touches everything it is quite disgusting.
I don't recall ever hearing the CDC say that masks don't work. My understanding is that initially there were recommendations against the general public wearing masks out of a concern that mass buying may have limited their availability to health care providers. In any case, the science is pretty clear now that they do work.
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To be fair you can't buy any 3000 series Nvidia card either.