skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other reasons to farm indoors (or in vertical farms) than electricity and water too.

Pests are one such reason. They are extremely difficult to control outdoors, but far simpler to do so inside. Both fertilizer and pesticide treatments (if necessary) can be far more specific - e.g. less wasteful and environmentally damaging) when done indoors. Similarly, inclement weather generally does not affect indoor farms.

There's also my favorite argument: if we're ever going to try to colonize space or other planets, we better be damned good at growing plants artificially. IMO every dollar spent improving this space gets us one step closer to unlinking our future from Earth's.
Yes, and I updated my comment just as you were posting this to mention losses due to reconversion. However, also keep in mind that even large efficiency losses can still lean in favor of photovoltaics/LEDs, because plants only use about 10% of the sun's energy in the first place.
One explanation I've read is that heavy addicts build up such a tolerance that they need dangerously high doses in the first place. If they quit for awhile like in this story, their tolerance drops and what they could previously handle now kills them.
https://www.workforce.com/news/labor-and-benefits-expenses-i...
If you doubled the employee wages the prices would increase less than 10%.

If minimum wage went up these businesses would not disappear; prices would just simply increase.

Most modest increases in minimum wage would simply result in income transfers from higher to lower.
That's not what they said. They said POS can't distribute coins, which is not accurate.

ADA and XTZ did pre-mine their initial distribution, and now they distribute coins through stake rewards.
the analysis is bluntly false for several reasons, starting with really bad strawmen. I'm trying to coherently put together a post with links explaining just how bad it is because of the utter lack of technical knowledge the author displays.
This sounds like this job was done by consultants (could have been Oracle consultants too) and this is standard behavior across consultants (that doesn't make it right though).

Oracle as a product company (applies to all Enterprise Product companies) will not charge separately for a customization.
When I was in high school I toyed with the idea of trying heroin due to how it was described in health class. Never did, though.
I think if you're drinking before noon you have a problem.

Some mimosa with brunch is one thing, but if you're into pretty much anything else (beer, wine, liquor), you should probably stop immediately and take a good hard look in the mirror.
subcontractor in India named Arokia Raj... Citibank official in Delaware named Vincent Fratta

Raj probably still has a job working on non-Citibank accounts. I doubt Vincent Fratta is still employed by Citi. I guess this is fair? Raj made a mistake for one client where the client-- the experts-- signed off on it.
Your type of reasoning is the exact problem that we have in politics.

Single people think they know better than this genius swarm intelligence that is the market. And then they make stupid rules for everyone.

It doesn't matter what is good or bad. Right or wrong. Only the outcome matters. And arguably given the content of the original post, the outcome right now with politics is bad.
This is one of those headlines that are missing the word "yet" at the end. All of the problems brought up are solvable, given enough time and resources.

Also given some f-ing ingenuity. This quote is just disingenuous: "the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels". Can't you just install solar panels vertically as well? A single web search for "vertical solar panels" brings up alternatives and even this article from 2017: https://offgridworld.com/3d-solar-panel-towers-increase-ener... . I'm sure a thorough search will solve that problem right away.

I just think the author has a beef against this type of farming and is playing dumb to validate his opinion.
> Beware and use Django until you’re sure you AND your team know what you’re doing.

That's one of my pet peeve in the Python world: people thinks Flask is for beginners and Django for advanced users. The Flask API is simple, the hello world is 5 lines. By the time you render your first Django ViewModel, you have read and tried out the full Flask doc.

So it's easy to say, "I'll start with Flask, and check out this Django thing later".

But in reality, it's exactly the opposite. Flask requires you to know a lot of things and make a lot of decisions, not to mention select/write additional libraries for features Django packs.

So if you use Flask for anything non trivial, you should show your trade or you are going to mess up, big time.

If you are a beginner, you should always start with Django. Yes, it's more work up front, but it will give you an idea of how important concepts work, plug in to each others, and can be organized in a code base.

Django is not perfect, and its ORM is really far from SQLAlachemy, but it's good enough for a loads of thing. And it will be mostly secure and extensible by default.
That's $6 a person.

The consumer surplus on vaccines is so incredibly large that it's all just a silly discussion. Pfizer making $40 of profit (or whatever) on a vaccine worth thousands of dollars just isn't interesting.

Higher prices make it harder for lower income countries, but you are claiming it's offensive that they would capture any of the value of the product, even in places where the 'high' price is not an issue.
It sounds pretty awful to me also, so I appreciated their analysis. You’re saying I’d have to pay a tax on every trade I (newer retail investor) make? How in possible hell does that help anything?
And .i2p domain too.
Have you written comprehensively about the system you've set up and how it works? I've thought about a Zipgrow system or similar: https://shop.zipgrow.com/products/small?variant=316809164227..., but, as you can see, it's fairly costly to set up. I don't think it'll be cheaper than the grocery store, but it also seems fun and like the final product may taste better.
Oh? When I first saw that illustration it hugely frustrated me about how poor that illustration is.

The numbers are not explained, nor are the rows, or columns. And the numbers repeat.

I saw the diagrams first outside of that pdf, though. Still, the way it goes "4, 8, 2, 16, 1, and so on..." is a boatload of "wat?".
my favorite thing I did on zork so many moons ago was something very much like:

> kill self
with what?
> self
sorry, you do not have the you

I will forever remember that I do not have the you.
I personally despise Oracle for this. I've seen it time and time again and every enterprise I go into, Oracle is my first target for death. Almost all say "But it's critical" until it isn't.
Strongly agree !
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I'm glad my evidence is persuasive :)
Yup, we might be down to 100ms now -- certainly still a long way from your initial 15ms guess.

Since I moved on from that last gig, I note that Telstra completed their Sydney-Perth re-cabling project, and the Vocus Perth-Singapore undersea link came online (2018-04).

(I believe east coast traffic routes through Perth to get to Singapore, which was/is/will continue to be part of the problem.)

"lightspeed math" means LEO may well offer performance improvements over terrestrial cabling in many non-obvious scenarios.
> I can't even understand why anyone would propose such a thing

A bill that won't go anywhere but gets a lot of attention is a great time-waster. Think of it as part of a DoS attack on meaningful legislation.
Board: You might try https://flashquark.com/product/gb-mitosis-wireless-split-erg... and seeing if you can get custom switches installed. I believe the pin outs are the same, so it would just be a matter of sending them switches they don't currently sell, if they agree.

For keycaps, Signature Plastics is where I buy blanks. DSA profile will be your best bet, given how strange split board layouts can be.
No, they earn substantially more than in America, which is exactly the opposite of what OP is proposing.
> Those juggling more than one occupation earned less, on average, than people who had only one job.

I would like to see a more detailed breakdown on why that is. I thought that perhaps there would be more information in the source paper, but these journalists at Reuters have shared neither the title nor the names of the authors with us.

I haven't found anything similar to what's being reported on either the U.S. Commerce Dept. or the U.S. Census webpages.

Where is the source paper?
It's shocking that such a dangerous system can't detect that a probe is not installed.
When did the NYT get paywalled?
Drinking alcohol at work is acceptable in many office jobs. Getting drunk is mostly not.
Temporarily blow up the Bitcoin price and then crash down to oblivion.

I believe that's what you meant. If you think Tether implodes and Bitcoin's price goes higher and higher, I have more creepto to sell you.
what is something that you'd like to learn that has a relatively easy math requirement?
Jira is just one way for an individual to track his or her tasks, and TBH it's such terrible software, I wouldn't use it. But, if someone wanted to show off how many deck chairs they re-arranged on the Titanic, it's a good way to track work done.
> It is a server which sits alongside your application. You can access it via http or grpc.

Why?

If I have microservice A and B - how is A and B different/better with this sidecar?
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Yup. We used to have to use some kind of obnoxious VPN to get access; Sci-Hub is just easier. My University's library has gradually been making this easier -- I suspect partially due to COVID and partially due to the fact that people weren't using it as much because Sci-Hub is actually user-friendly.
I'd probably just go with something boring. But then again, I'm pretty happy with garbage $10ish keyboards[1] (for the most part; I managed to break a keyboard and the easiest replacement was a cheap logitech that was really awful; so I apparently have standards).

I like the idea of unmarked letter keys; but I'd probably keep markings on the others, opposite of what you did, but I'm also not going to pay extra to get unlabeled keys if it's extra.

[1] Like what usually comes when you buy a pre-built desktop.
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't have access to the article. The deregulated option allowed people to pay an extreme price for a scarce resource during a rare and extreme weather event. The regulated option forced blackouts on people, and they had no option even if they wanted to pay $10,000 for one night of power.

This brings us back around to the original question: what regulation would have solved this problem?
We already know apple's own software has special exemptions in the OS e.g. from packet sniffers.

Any reason to trust the ram usage for Safari nowadays?
Sure, but if they payed the higher price, almost everybody would be asking why they payed so much, when others did not.
Not everyone can see all the benefits, but anyone can compare two numbers.
An inefficient art installation uses a lot of electricity and water to grow wheat in a single layer (where's the "vertical" part?), but I'm not seeing what that has to do with any actual efforts at vertical farming.
I was wrong... estimated touchdown is 15:55 eastern time.
Obviously Republicans are a big group with diverging interests and alignments on certain issues. Both parties have been more than happy to grow the power of the Federal government over the states. That we have a bipartisan consensus of lobbyist-owned politicians in Washington is not even a novel concept. In fact, probably the most aggressive state to take advantage of states rights is California, which implements stringent regulations at the state level that are far in excess of federal regulations on many things. I don't see anyone arguing that California should be prevented from doing that. At any rate, these are 2 Republicans proposing a bill, nobody has any idea yet what kind of support it has in the House or whether it will die on the vine.
> This quote is just disingenuous: "the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels". Can't you just install solar panels vertically as well?

More to the point, solar panels don't need to be installed on arable land. Solar panels can be installed in low-fertility areas like deserts; offshore wind turbines are absolutely not displacing farmland.
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You can also use Google Forms, and embed those within Google Sites. I've been doing this to create media training exercises for interviewing techniques, and they've been popular with the journalism students.
You're forgetting the variable of time. The current generation is borrowing from the next generation.
I understood the point to be more about the energy inputs. The gist of it is: plants are more efficient at capturing energy from the sun directly than indirectly via solar panels -> light bulbs -> plants (which seems obvious, when you state it that way).

The only thing that makes vertical farming make any financial sense, today, is the access to cheap (subsidized) fossil fuels.
Yeah I was going to say:
> My friends on the right tend to send blame towards green energy. And they have a point! Renewables are temperamental – with too many clouds solar doesn’t do anything, and frozen blades can’t turn wind energy turbines. The impact of the storm is to shift energy supply curves to the left, and the more the grid relies on renewables, the bigger that shift is. The basic problem renewables have had is that it’s really difficult to STORE their energy for future use. If we could create really large energy reservoirs, we could store Texas’ abundant solar and wind energy for a literally-rainy day.

Renewables were literally not the problem and it’s hard to take any kind of advice from this article when it gets the basic facts wrong.
The theory is that there's a correlation between heavy Tether minting and Bitcoin value pumps.
You can also have an airport in the middle of a city and an apartment complex in the middle of the desert - there's nothing that stops them technologically. The problem is that they don't make economical sense.
I was sort of passing by Bogota a few years ago and got a job for BairesDev... It was 2,500 US a month kind of job... I guess thats peanuts in the US but it was quite a bit for my needs in Bogota, rent included near Calle 85 (which I miss like hell!)... Super secure as well... never had a problem in Bogota... LATAM is the best, I must say.
I'm not sure if the calculation is correct. 2000 people winning lotteries out of at least millions of people, right? Yet in the startup word, it is thousands of people out a few hundreds of thousands? Another factor to consider is that your equity keeps giving, while lottery is a one-off deal.
For what it's worth, where I live in California, all of my utilities except for gas are managed by the city government and their prices and service blow the competition out of the water. Didn't have any blackouts last year.

The internet here is subpar, though.
We don't feel awkward about it! We're leaning into it hard. See https://blog.beeminder.com/focus and https://blog.beeminder.com/defail

But it's definitely not for everyone! If your reaction to Beeminder is "I would not do anything differently and just waste money" then you are probably right and should not use Beeminder. We've been around for about a decade which we think is evidence that there are people for whom it does work.

For anyone in the category you describe (tried Beeminder, found their expectations of themself to be unrealistic, quit Beeminder) we definitely want to talk to you.

Also calibrating self-expectations is one of things many users tell us is worth paying for.
That article just reinforces what I gathered from this one:

GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-ope...
> Any change in libfoo-1.2 might require a newer version of rust.

In theory perhaps. But in theory this could happen with C or C++ too. In practice, security patches try to be minimal.

Sure, if you're several versions behind you might have more work to do. But you knew you were gonna own that problem when you decided to lag behind.
> US wages have reached an all-time high, powered by strong growth during the Covid recession

Translation: employment losses were strong at the bottom and light at the top, leaving the average wages of the remaining employed workers much higher.

> With higher compensation it makes sense that more people would trade off leisure to work additional hours at attractive pay. Including getting a second job.

I would be very surprised if the distribution of who is getting second jobs is consistent with that “a sinking tide lifts all boats” fairy tale rather than it being concentrated in the same segments where unemployment has gone up the most and representing instead people who would otherwise be underemployed due to limited hours available in the primary job backfilling with a second, possibly lower-paying-per-hour job.
I suppose that's not just incompetence. I mean, it happens to be incompetent when incompetence lets you pay your workers less...
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Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels. The vertical farm is a paradox unless fossil fuels provide the energy. In that case, there’s not much sustainable about it.

This entire piece is based on the assumption that the only sources of energy are solar panels and fossil fuels. This is false. According to the US Department of Energy, 19.6% of the energy produced in 2019 is nuclear. In that same year, 7.1% was from wind, 7.0% was hydroelectric, 1.4% from biomass, 0.4% geothermal. Only 1.7% was photovoltaics! https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427

If we look into the relatively near future, fusion energy is going to account for a rapidly increasing share of energy production by the end of this decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
I've worked with other consulting groups-- such as on the successor project after the dust settled on this one-- that were not nearly as bad, so I guess sleaziness varies significantly.

In any case, these were from the the actual consulting arm of Oracle inc. And IIRC, our Associate VP for IT said we shouldn't use both Oracle & Oracle Consulting, but that person was overruled by the VP for IT. I the VP was kept around until the lawsuit settled because it might have been taken as a sign or admission of culpability to fire the VP before that, but shortly after the settlement (which we won, incidentally) that person moved on for "other opportunities".
The answer is not much.

Satellites give you an amount of bandwidth per geographic area based on how many satellites are overhead at any time, and how good they are. If the population density is low, then that's a lot per customer. If the population density is high, then it is very little per person.

The result is that satellites are a wonderful solution for getting internet to rural areas, and are not a solution for towns.
Well, as one counter-example, because there's far too much data to dig out of the aether, as far as I can tell there are only two manufacturers selling manual pickups: Jeep and Toyota.

No Chevy, Dodge, GMC, Ford. That's just one huge gap.

Update: also, if you extend that to SUVs, one of the hottest markets, I think the only model you add is the Ford Bronco.

So there are no entry-level pickups or SUVs as manuals. For CUVs you could probably add Kia Soul and Mazda, but not much else.
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It may be a unpopular opinion, but I think the issue with free-market capitalism is that it is a almost-perfect optimization engine which converge to the cheapest solution that is still barely acceptable.

That why it is harder and harder to find good quality product, and that's why low-occurrence incidents are less and less provisioned for.
But how much space would you save if all the veggies that are vertical farming friendly are moved indoors?

Does everything have to grow indoors? no, but we need to save the space for crops that need it.
that doesn't make any sense
Good reasons NOT to get AWS certified
> as a manager I loathe when employees try to tear each other down or diminish each others' accomplishments

Absolutely agree, and in my job I would address it with more sophistication. My comment was somewhat simplified, perhaps even flippant, for this context.
It saddens you? You made a scathing misjudgement about the involved people without having read the article, or even the rest of the thread here. I don't think it's the downvoters that are "brutal" here.
Here's the thing.

Municipal owned fiber is great -> you permit and add it on EVERY dig. Putting a new sewer line in? Run fiber. Someone wants to replace their sewer lateral? Run fiber. Repaving? Run fiber. Someone doing a new development. Run fiber.

You can actually wholesale it out as well if you want and let folks compete on top of it with backhaul etc (at whatever level you want, from customer service / billing handoff only to some backhaul network comp). That said, fiber to the home is pretty close to a natural monopoly. Everyone should have a fiber to their house, but it makes NO sense for competing providers to string up fibers in most cases and so they do not.

I'm on fiber now with a hardwired set of connections to pretty much everything. It is AMAZING! I do remote work, video conference, large files. Even my 300Mbps cable service only had 10Mbps upload (or less), so wife and kids doing whatever on things (dropbox file sync maybe for large vidoes) meant my zoom calls were dropping. Gigabit is 4-6ms (!) ping to major services. And symmetric.
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The greater problem to solve is maximizing nutrition for communities while minimizing the carbon costs of providing it. Vertical farms fit into that equation by moving production closer to the people that eat the produce, and making it more available to food/nutrition deserts in urban areas.

Extending growing seasons or returning farmlands to wildlands miss that point. The bigger problem in the latter is livestock anyway.
Here is a nice Twitter thread that succinctly explains the Texas grid's problems from a viewpoint that is not that of an economist with Libertarian axes to grind:

https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1362473071156879377

tl,dr: the Texas grid is deregulated so it can avoid following Federal rules about making it able to deal with harsh weather; because of this, it also has very little interconnectivity with the rest of the country, and cannot act like every other state and purchase power from elsewhere when things go awry.

So there's part of the "deregulation" that his liberal friends are talking about. If they were following the regulations then Texas would be able to get power from elsewhere. It'd still be newsworthy and a mess, there is a lot of knowledge and preparation for snowstorms that Southern states simply do not have, but it would not be as apocalyptic of a mess.
So if the market wage fell below the cost of living everywhere in US and Canada, then we would all move out to latin america or any other country with a lower cost of living, thereby a lower standard of living. Got it.
No. It's an inlined reference counter, not a runtime with dedicated thread and so on. Most people use "GC" to refer to the latter.
Bleeding person with white coat syndrome gets upset because two doctors and a nurse asked them the same questions.

I mean, it's better than cutting off the wrong leg, but boy is it rough.