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> The corn subisides are much higher, because the corn production is much higher.

Is it that our corn production is naturally very high, and so we subsidize it more? Or is it the other way around?

My understanding is that a lot of corn uses were developed in part because of corn subsidies and requirements around ethanol. As corn became an extremely cheap material, people started looking for uses for it. And you can quickly enter a spiral there, where as corn becomes more useful, we subsidize it more, which encourages more companies to figure out how to make more stuff out of corn.

> That means subsidizing what is actually consumed during times of peace.

It feels like this has looped around and that the current balance of subsidies are no longer about disaster planning. If your starting premise is that we're trying to keep production local (or at least, production capabilities local), and you're also saying that during disaster periods we can pivot to more necessary crops -- then what is the problem with changing how our current subsidies right now are distributed to encourage different crops? What do we lose?

I am skeptical that a dairy farm is going to be able to quickly shift to planting potatoes or grain, it probably doesn't have the equipment or the right land to do that. But taking your argument at face value and assuming they can make that pivot, then we could also collectively decide as a society that we produce too much meat/grain as a nation during times of peace, and we could collectively decide to subsidize local production of more diverse foods. We could subsidize the same number of farmers to produce different things.
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I feel like I'm on one extreme of this spectrum which is: I 'need' to develop a deep understanding of systems from the bottom-up and only then can I feel comfortable building on top of it/abstracting it away/being productive with it.

When I started learning socket programming I didn't feel completely comfortable with using it until I had a complete understanding of the networking stack from the PHY upward. I even needed to write my own simple ARQ implementation to feel like I could fully appreciate and have a "feel" for what two machines are "actually doing" when they're sending packets back and forth.

I had the same obsessive desire to completely understand from the bottom-up how database engines were implemented because I just didn't feel comfortable with just the knowledge that "selects on tables with indexes on the field being queried are 'fast'". I just _had_ to know what was making them fast. Funny thing, when I found out that databases and database indexes were just disk-persisted/in-memory self balancing search trees or hash tables, I thought to myself, "that's it? why didn't anyone just tell me that instead of just repeating "queries are fast/optimized by the db"?"

I don't know if my brain just works differently because it seems most people I've worked with seem to get frustrated/annoyed with these details and not even have any desire to learn a system in-depth like this. They seem to only want to reason about a system at its highest level of abstraction, whereas to me, with the database example, once I learned that B+ trees were one of the primary data structures that backed database systems, I felt like the system as a whole just became that much more transparent and easy to reason about because now I could leverage all of my intuitions+past experiences relating to performance of operations on tree structures, having an intuition of perf implications of using linked data structures, reasoning about issues like paging chunks of data in and out of disk, etc.
As a non-American, I feel that, from whatever I've read, the NRA is finding itself increasingly diminished due to poor leadership that was/is lining its pockets and being a poor steward of their core objectives.
Looks interesting! Out of curiosity, why didn't you choose sqlite instead of a plaintext format? With sqlite the users could write their own queries to get the information they want. Adding entries manually via db browser is also easy. Besides readability and the possibility of using an arbitrary text editor what are the other advantages of your approach?
Because iirc, ssh only interprets the tilde if it's immediately preceded by a newline.
NRA Life Member here. I and everyone I know agree with you on Wayne and Marion and look forward to the kimono being ripped off.
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I see your point but why do you blame the NRA for this instead of the left? They are the ones alienating you!
The article talks about making internal discussions public. I imagine that only creditors have the standing to ask for that, is all I meant.
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Disclaimer: I've never used this tool, today is the first time I've heard about it.

Reading the shebang of a stamp file is a lot easier than scanning a bash file for any sneaky obfuscations (including any custom logic that the author may have "helpfully" included).

Alternately, the security-conscious can execute it directly as `node --use_strict /usr/local/bin/tree my.stamp`.
Well, not yet but since they are interested in buying firearms that future doesn't seem to be so far away.
Can't agree more. I spent most of my life hating appleas because of those damn beautiful Red Delicious. I honestly didn't understand how anyone could eat them.

Fast forward to my 30s and reading a random forum post about apples, I see people explain how different apples taste, and a ton of recommendations for Honeycrisps.

Boy were they right. An actual delicious apple, which was a gateway drug of sorts to my current favorite fruit, the Pink Lady. Who'd have thunk two similar looking fruits can vary in tastes so wildly.
I actually just use dish soap. I do this with the most of my fruit/veg. Only takes a few moments and washes right off. Of note I do use no scent, fragrance free dish soap.
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This is a great idea and something that I would argue is required given all of the different “standards” manufacturers use these days. It’s probably a long shot but I’d love to see them all together to build a standard across all RGB devices.

It’s super annoying to have to install three different tools on my machine to disable all the RGB.
>The problem is the huge amount of greenhouse gases getting

Really, you mean the huge amount of greenhouse gases we release here in Iceland where our energy is entirely from renewable sources and we mine 11% of the bitcoin network?
It's pretty basic to implement some kind of token scheme for the feed to bypass the paywall. It happens all the time for paid podcast feeds.

If you see large numbers of geographically dispersed feeds you can then look up who shared their key and have a word...

Skeptically I belive most sites just don't want to supply RSS/atom feeds as it bypasses their ability to track and advertise to you and having something like needing to deal with auth is a convenient excuse.
What is the objection? Fees are designed to entice miners to include a transaction. If a fee is too low, the miner will include transactions with better incentives. Recording transactions has real economic cost (mining and permanent storage on the distributed ledger).
The anglerfish and Trichonephila clavipes are nice examples of size dimorphism.
I was in the same position as OP...subscribed to 2600 as a high schooler (maybe I'm on a list)...then after college became a software engineer w/ interest in security. Even got a Security+ certification 10 years ago. Afterwards, I learned most of the security work is policy...at least, that's what people that I knew in the field told me.

Now I'm still a software engineer and get the occasional rush when I need to fix something that our Fortify scanner picks up (rarer now, since we rely so much in frameworks nowadays)
> the NRA has successfully reduced the share of gun-friendly Democratic Party members from 25% to nearly 0%

While your trend is correct, I think you're mixing up cause and effect as evidenced by your later statement:

> in a lot of circles I'm not comfortable discussing even absolute basic things like "you might want a gun for home protection if you live in a high crime area"

That more closely describes those circles' perceptions and positions than anything else. A positive rating from the NRA for a Democrat seems like a bigger risk for the Democrat than the NRA and probably correlates with them being primary'd.
Do you think it's disingenuous to blame the NRA for the position held by the left?
And the industry isn't represented by the NRA at all. That's the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a completely separate organization.
He's talking about just letting the virus run free with no attempt to vaccinate, lock down, or wearing masks. This is what a lot of people now think of that as. Basically what will be will be, the human species has survived this long. Yeah herd immunity is not that but that's obviously what a lot of media has portrayed it as lately.
Who knows what Midgley would have come up with if he had lived to the ripe old age of 85. We collectively dodged a bullet there.
Another reason I've never regretted leaving Texas.
There are no visas for refugees.

Most of Europe indeed has very progressive law regarding the asylum, but very hypocritical enforcement practice - you can get a refuge or at least a permission to stay for a prolonged time once you get across the border (even "illegally"), but a lot of people are going to try to stop you from doing that.

So basically what Frontex does is protecting Europe from legal obligations that Europe voluntary committed to. What's even more dangerous, it's not under control of any single European government, so control over it by human rights activists and through political means is complicated.
Last part: sure, agreed.

First part: bullshit. Shutting down BTC would be highly consequential.

BTC is the perfect peak shaver to have on your grid. This is what makes it so perverse. With a mining rig, you can shave excess production peaks on any of the energy markets: long-term, cover intraday swings, or frequency stabilization where you have to react in seconds.

If BTC ceases siphoning green energy away from hydro plants, etc, the grid operators and their governments will be forced to look into storing surplus production instead of turning it into waste heat and crypto hashes.
I don't have any objection, I just think it's funny.
On desktop firefox all of the code snippets are black-on-black so I have to select the code to read it.
Thanks for the prompt – we had a rough version of this at Outline in the README but I've gone ahead and pulled it into it's own document with a pointer from the README and fleshed out the docs:

https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.md
It seems very comparable to "shar"...shell archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar
What tools do you have for flash loans?

I've been researching flash loans for a whole year and its still clear to me that some market participants have a better way of analyzing all markets (the contract state of smart contracts hosting markets) than I do. I feel like they also image the current state of the network and execute variations on Ganache/localhost before sending it on the live network.

Furucombo is the only thing I'm aware of that only partially helps in the structuring of flash loans, but even then using their contract is too expensive.

Over the past year I've built oracles and deployed fleets of complex smart contracts, learning about many areas of improvement in smart contract land and seeing a lot of vulnerabilities in other team's contracts, but as far as actually doing anything with that I'm still very far off.
Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
>doing useful work with the energy

yea is video games useful work?

youtube videos perhaps?

twitter?

It's nice that you have a sliding scale of what utility is that only you can define, you seem completely trustworthy.
It's an uninformed comment about XSLT support being removed from browsers—not "about browser rss-feeds". Misinformation about something as consequential as that definitely has the potential to cause a non-zero amount of harm if people take it at face value.
Can you describe your desktop setup? What login manager do you use? Does Zoom work? Does usb 3 work?
The main benefit, in my mind, over zip/tar is the built-in parameter substitution.

You could imagine using this as a development dependency, to standardize the creation of new (anything) that follows a predictable pattern. Check in your stamp file, and any junior dev who creates a new [anything] in your project can get all the custom boilerplate and best-practices right away.
Yeah a lot of the same people who are trying to tear him down are the same who voted for and continue to support a President that has been easily counted to have 30,000+ completely untrue/outright deliberately false statements in the past 4 years.
> But you are not getting them close enough for that. They taste different. They also have different nutritional composition, so if you will just replace meat by then brainlessly you are setting yourself up to failure.

Have you actually tried Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger? If you haven't please do. Just go to your nearest Burger King and order an Impossible Whopper and a regular Whopper and compare them.

They're very close to the taste and texture of real ground beef now, and I think they'll get even better with time, and that they can become as tasty as the real deal, as nutritious as the real deal, and cheaper.
> This is the definition of a good store of value.

No, it isn't. Apart from the fact that countless people have lost their shirts to BTC (it's down 6% today! There are losers today!), an asset whose value rises in unchecked proportion to the real economy represents a fundamental liquidity risk: everybody is going to want to sell, but nobody is going to want to buy.

That is why cash is the canonical store of value: not only does it not change (much), but you can exchange it without undermining the value itself.
It's hard to browse Twitter when your battery is 296 mAh and the screen is very small. I have found this is good for my mental well being.
I've used this in the past: https://www.veggie-wash.com

but there seem to be many ways to do it, usually with a solution of white vinegar or baking soda:

https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/how-to-make-homemade-apple-...

https://afarmgirlinthemaking.com/removing-wax-from-fruit-usi...
Me too! I got it used for $17 iirc. One of my best purchases.

If you do find more, please let me know.

I was hoping scientific American or wsj etc would have them but couldn’t find any.
Does HN have RSS feeds?
I don't care about a competitive UX for the in browser support. Just something that vagually renders the XML as something readable with a button to add to reader of choice. Even just leaving the old address bar icon indicating there is a feed available would be nice.
sorry for the late reply, didnt see it earlier.

Your words sound like you support implementing laws, then clamping down on any avenues of dissent until things cool down aka people get tired and carry on all the while the motive behind laws is achieved, people be damned? that so? is that what is meant by "democracy" in 2021 ?
I think this is an interesting experiment. However, I don’t buy the premise of an “audio-first” future. Hearing and speaking are great, but so ads seeing and touching things. I believe in a future that is multi-sensoric. Sure, smartphones will most probably be replaced by other visual devices, maybe googles, but as a species we will continue to augment all of our senses with devices.
Maybe BTC succeeded at providing people with free (as in freedom) money, so some of it is inevitably going to all sorts of unregulated uncensorable trading games.
Nonsense, a shrewd capitalist can easily sell these in kits with everything you need to keep them alive. They are so small, and if they die well they are tiny you can probably just get a new one and most people will probably keep like 4 or 5 of them at a time anyway, probably breeding their own replacements. These are fantastic can’t wait to have a terrarium filled with them.
Do share the name of the short, if it comes to mind later.
If it needs to be plain text there shar command (shell archieve).

It was used to send text file attachments.
taking up visual info is much faster, than audio info. Plus you have control over the flow and much more flexible UX.

going into audio mode is a completely different attention pattern, and definitely not casual.
This depends. If a subcomponent only requires a small subset of the data used by a function and its input/output can be modeled well by a single simple data instance, then this often helps. This goes wrong when the subcomponents aren't actually logically distinct and you end up passing basically all of the local variables between each one.
"Doing good" is relative to what our aims are. Switzerland has to obey all EU rules and regulations or they loose market access and open borders, which would be catastrophic given their trade is mostly with the EU and they are completely surrounded by EU members. However, Switzerland has no say in deciding any of those rules and regulations. They just get a "take it or leave everything" deal each time.

So while Switzerland is doing fine, they are, at least when it comes to trade, borders and certain security measures like weapons controls, very much a second class member. I'm quite sure that is the opposite of what the Brexiteers intended, at least in my interpretation of their aims.
> What do you mean by risky investments? If you mean the bank risks losing money on them, that's countered by the point the person you are responding to made here: "in this day and age we hardly ever let large companies suffer the consequences of a bad investment "

I kinda glossed over that under the assumption that it was meant as rhetoric regarding the 2008 crisis. It's definitely not true as a literal claim; banks quite regularly write off consumer debt that can't be collected or corporate investments that didn't work out. When you stop paying your credit card, or when WeWork ends up not being worth the price tag, the government doesn't step in to cover the bill. (They do step in for mortgages, and I agree they shouldn't.)

> It's worse, though, because on an individual level the banker has extremely minimal risk with their investments and loans. JP Morgan may or may not be at risk if they invest tons of money foolishly, but Jack the banker at JP Morgan has risked exactly $0 of their personal capital on the same bet. If the bet succeeds, Jack makes a million dollars. If the bet fails, MAYBE Jack gets fired. More often, he gets another crack at it because things don't always go well and the company has an appetite for this kind of risk.

This is definitely a real and important problem.
As a hiring manager in the security field, a tip would be to include contact details that would allow people like me to reach out and discuss opportunities :)
Note: I'm a security engineer. Have been doing security work for ~15 years now.

Penetration testing is a good way to get real security experience. You'll learn pretty quickly just how vulnerable everything is and how attackers use the tools to exploit said vulnerabilities. If penetration testing is your job though know that it doesn't often pay very well. Most companies that hire "penetration testers" are really just looking for folks to run a bunch of scripts/tools against a list of IP addresses/hostnames and generate a template-based report. That is tedious, mindless work.

There's "security consulting" too which often involves at lot of actual penetration testing (not just running scripts) and that can pay pretty well but probably not as much as you'd think. The real money in security consulting is in governance work, sadly (because it's not as fun haha). There's a million companies offering "penetration testing" (even if its awful/useless) so the price for that has been driven down quite a lot of the years but companies offering consultants that can write your company's security policies and procedures are much more rare (and expensive!). That's why one pays better than the other... Even though becoming a good penetration tester requires 1000x more knowledge and experience than the skills necessary to write a policy document.

Penetration experience is important though if you want to be serious about security. I think penetration testing experience is so important that I'd say that anyone that claims to be a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) that hasn't performed some form of penetration testing doesn't have the requisite knowledge to do the job. They're an imposter, IMHO.

At the very least learn how to use Metasploit and actually use it to successfully run a payload on something (anything). Then--rather than getting a job as a penetration tester--I'd use your software engineering skills to develop some security tools. For example, there's a huge gap in the market for open source password management tools (think CyberArk, not Hashicorp).
Gun manufacturers are represented by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a separate lobbying organization that, while mostly ignored due to the media's fascination with painting the NRA as the root of the world's evils, is in fact well funded and a presence on the hill.
Project Kuiper is so far behind Starlink at this point that this kind of regulatory maneuvering is pretty laughable. (As compared to regulating the brightness of LEO satellites, which is very much needed. In this regard, allowing SpaceX to lower the orbit of these satellites is actually good for astronomy. We talk about this stuff pretty frequently in Orbital Index [https://orbitalindex.com].)
Perhaps look into exploit development/reverse engineering if you want the most difficult 1% top tier job in this field.
shar is specifically mentioned in the footer, with the drawback that it's really an arbitrary shell scipt. ptar is also mentioned, and seems rather nice. It's also way better documented[0] though with glaring holes e.g. how does it deal with non-UTF8 file content (it's not clear whether file size or delimiters is relevant, and why you'd have a closing delimiter if the filesize rules), it also specifies file names as UTF8 or ASCII, neither of which is sufficient to handle the full breadth of possible file names.

[0] https://github.com/jtvaughan/ptar/blob/master/FORMAT.md
I think government assistance is why people are revolting a lot of the time. We're going to take "this" away from you. So what are you giving me back in order to help me through these tough times? Here you go a gold star for participation and one atta-boy. Thanks for your sacrifice.
As one of those who believe that self defense is an inalienable human right, I left the NRA years ago along with many in the gun community. They're a laughing stock among the younger crowd (Negotiating Rights Away is a common epithet). They are seen as much more focused on fundraising and slush funds for executives, while being far too open to yet more compromise with too few successes. Meanwhile other organizations seem to be getting things done even if progress is slow.

All my "gun advocacy" money goes to:

- Gun Owners of America

- Second Amendment Foundation

- Firearms Policy Coalition

- Texas State Rifle Association (technically an NRA affiliate, but most infringements are state level and there are a number of important measures this legislative session in Texas).