skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unclear on the scope of those numbers, they were for US ag, so your number is comparing US drought numbers to the entire world output. Comparing an apple to the entire apple orchard.

If we wait to take steps until it’s an even larger problem then we lock in decades of yield being curtailed by weather extremes.

In your linked data, 2017 US Ag contribution to GDP is $175B, so almost 10% reduction of the entire nations agricultural output from just drought is significant, and expected to rise.
you don't do google justice. They are fully capable of displaying very outdated information. As an example, i recently wanted to look up election results from a certain country, a day after. Google decided to show me some tired, old news snippets from elections in 2015.

"stale as buns" is my phrase of choice.
The article calls out the researchers that they were acting carelessly, for such experiments carry severe ethical questions. However, I am actually glad that the researchers carried out these experiments with frog cells instead of human cells.
What makes you say that? I thought Covid already proved that the US is more than capable of hoarding their own resources when in need. If there was famine, the political leadership would shut exports down immediately unless they want to get Bastilled.
This reminds me of a competitor "candysan.com".
It is owned by a Japanese woman and her French husband who happens to be a youtuber.
And the website is currently down because the servers burnt with the OVH Strasburg datacenter.

He made some non-technical videos talking about it. Apparently there was no backup and was considering moving part of the site to Shopify (stripe is used for payment).

The youtube channels are Ici Japon Corp. and icijapon but it is only in French.
Here on HN I believe this to be true. But the frighteningly common viewpoint today among progressives today is that white people are not allowed to have a voice when discussing topics of race. This isn't a fringe opinion, there's been bestselling books[1] on the topic.

https://www.amazon.ca/Longer-Talking-White-People-About-eboo...
“Most Microsoft software” is not what that article says. It just says one of Microsoft’s contractors used them.
No, that would be an expense.
> the seeds of this resistance are already present in the neo-Luddite efforts of hackers, pirates, and dark web users who are challenging surveillance and control, often through older systems of communication technology

I actually don't agree that using the dark web is using older technology (but I can see why using the postal system to deliver contraband to households would be old tech). Tor is relatively recent tech that people can use. I think what the writer means is that hackers usually try to avoid prosecution by encrypting literally everything they do (an old cypherpunk tactic), so when they eventually get vanned by a LEA they have nothing to hand over for evidence.

How this is being a Luddite though is questionable. There is a disconnect there.
> The problem with doing that is that it raises staffing costs

...eh. There's a fixed staffing cost of figuring out how to script out deployment to a new provider, and then you're pretty much done. Even if it's some podunk VPS host that doesn't provide an API or anything for automated setup, most of the effort of configuring and deploying to a server happens on the server itself over SSH anyway, so getting that server's (virtual or physical) hardware "powered on" is a pretty small fraction of that "staffing cost".

That is: if your sysadmin is worth one's salt, one will have very little trouble with this. And if you don't have a sysadmin (or someone with approximately that skillset)... well, that's gonna bite you for a lot more reasons than just being beholden to a specific cloud provider.

> which means not using value add services.

The term "value add services" is dependent on the notion that said services actually add value, particularly for a startup in your framed hypothetical. For example:

> No more SQS or the GCP/Azure equivalents, you have to run your own Kafka in case one of them goes evil.

Kafka arguably adds more value than any provider-specific "value add service" like SQS, assuming you actually need a full-blown message queue. Chances are, however, you don't need a full-blown message queue, and trying to architect your app around one - be it SQS, Kafka, or whatever else - is exactly the sort of distraction your fledgling startup can't afford.

> If all you're using is VM's and their infinitely scaling ability, it can pretty easily become cheaper to just run your own hosts and manage a pool of not-yet-in-use hardware.

I mean, if "cheap" is the only thing you care about then on-prem (or colocated) is pretty much the only way to go, period. Those "value add services" that cloud providers provide are themselves pretty expensive compared to just running your own version (even in a VPS, let alone on your own hardware).

But this doesn't address what happens when (not if) that datacenter has an outage, so you'll still end up needing at least two such sites if you need any sort of reliability. And maybe you don't need any sort of reliability - an early stage startup probably doesn't - but a business that already has customers and doesn't want to be on the hamster wheel of perpetually selling itself to investors just to "raise capital" and make ends meet probably should be a bit proactive about resiliency.
Those symptoms are consistent with the dozens of common cold viruses that haven't diseappeared. Consider that many people get COVID tests because they are symptomatic, yet most of them are negative.
Do you have any good wisdom on how you got diagnosed and what diets? I've always had GI issues and I have found some triggers like mushrooms, blackberries and cauliflower which poimt towards SIBO but my GI doc says there is no SIBO treatment or diet, and sometimes I have problems even on fodmaps. I did AIP diet with my wife who has Hashi's and I think that might have helped a little but not sure. Everything my GI prescribes just makes it worse. I can't eat sweet potatoes anymore after he put me on a round of fluconozole.
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That carrier grade nat'd ip address would make this an unreliable resource.
There's a screenshot of pcweek.com page but unfortunately (or very conveniently) the earliest the internet archive goes for that domain is May of 1996, missed it by just one month!

The full link in the screenshot is this and it still works!
http://www.pcweek.com/spencer/spencer.html

update:
adding wayback link:
https://web.archive.org/web/19960512211429/http://www.pcweek...

update 2:
From the main link: "There are a handful of print articles from tech magazines at the time"

Turns out that the Internet Archive has a ton of computer magazines scanned in and there's a lot from 1996 so now I'm going down a rabbit hole both searching for any mention of this and also nostalgia:
https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?sort=-date&and...
We excavated three areas of the shelter (4.75 m2 in total) and reached a maximum depth of 1.7 m, which revealed a sequence of stratified Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age deposits

Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of quartz from each of the three stratigraphic aggregates provided in-sequence dates with 1σ errors of 14.8 ± 0.8 ka (dark brown gravelly silt), 30.9 ± 1.8 ka (orange ashy silt) and 105.3 ± 3.7 ka (DBSR) (weighted mean, n = 3).

Several lines of evidence provide support for an anthropogenic origin of the OES. First, the fragments occur within a well-preserved rockshelter context and are in direct association with many other traces of human activity (Extended Data Fig. 5). Second, the OES fragments show evidence of having been burned. Over 80% (n = 34) of the OES fragments display red colouration (Fig. 2, Supplementary Data), which reflects exposure to temperatures of 300–350 °C. Third, humans were the primary agents of accumulation for the faunal assemblage at GHN and there is no evidence for the presence of hyenas or other animals that consume ostrich eggs. The identifiable fraction of zooarchaeological material from the DBSR (n = 467) is dominated by remains of ungulates and tortoises (Table 1, Supplementary Data). Taphonomic analysis demonstrates a high frequency of anthropogenic percussion marks and cut marks (Table 1), and most of the faunal specimens show evidence of moderate burning.
Fair enough. Thanks for providing it, I have a few uses in mind.
The virus has hopped from humans to computers
Standing on the Shoulder of a Giant Elephant: Upgrading Discourse to Postgres 13
> Most likely what happened is that someone entered their own number in connection to their own account, then they got a new number and never bothered updating Facebook, then the number got recycled and assigned to Duguid so he got the alert.

I've had this happen to me and really wish phone companies would wait at least 90 days before putting a disconnected number back in service. The worst part of it is I was given the option to "disable" SMS. But it turns out that doesn't actually prevent shortcode messages from going through.
I saw a remarkable video [1] of a swarm being transferred to a hive. The beekeeper caught the queen and put it into a hive. Tens of thousands of bees followed the queen in minutes. It's worth seeing how an a beekeeper in a tee-shirt was able to accomplish this.

[1] https://youtu.be/YgOYLDf5Wv8
Surely you see the difference between Asian men being into Asian women and white men being into Asian women?
Quanta article on this, also from March 31: https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-form-into-xenobots-on-t...
The woke crowd can't cancel Apple without having to buy a new phone and laptop to comment from. Way too much work.
> we learn these inferences by acting on the world and observing the results, and arguably they are simply not learnable by pure observation alone.

Tangentially, wouldn't sampling based ML methods like particle filters / kalman filters or other randomized state space exploration algorithms be analogous to the person learning by acting on the world? In this case, the "action" would be bouncing the radar off the object being tracked.

Of course these models are far more limited than a child in the way they can act on the world, and in the number of aspects of reality they can model.

And furthermore, they have no concept of causality, and represent only the current state of knowledge they are modeling.
Spiritual and ritual purposes is the automatic answer any time archaeologists find something they can't easily explain in an better way.
Those are two different things:

For 'char has 8 bits': the bitwidth is 'implementation defined' in C. If you know your target architectures, you can assume it's 8 bits, because it's indeed a question of portability.

For 'int must not overflow': this is 'undefined behaviour' in C. You must not do it, regardless of what you know about your target architectures, because this is a language level prohibition.
Another tooth restorative product that is hard to find in the USA is CPP-ACP (Recaldent). Apparently there are some regulatory issues with this product as well. It's available in the USA as MI Paste, and in other countries as Recaldent gum. I was interested in this for a while as it seems promising and you can feel the anti-plaque slickness effect, but on the other hand, the research tends to be in lesser-known journals, which is suspicious to me.
You can get carrier grade connections that would allow this kind of routing- it is not part of a standard consumer package. This type of capability is managed via the "Access Point Name" feature in phones.
It distresses me that many of the comments here lament this UBI program because it targets POC and I think, perhaps, they are looking at this situation as if it were somewhere else in the country/world, or they don't live/haven't lived in a minority community. As a current and longtime resident of West Oakland, who grew up in the city next door, I find nothing wrong with targeting this towards POC in the city, because, as the mayor framed it, this is about promoting equity in the city: a city that has, historically, seen many awful things done to their minority communities (by all levels of government and private enterprise).
What kinds of things am.I referring to? Here's a cursory list:

1) White flight take jobs and money out of the area, into towns and cities over the hills, and also into more affluent parts of the city
2) "Redevelopment" carves up the neighborhood: hwy 980 isolates West Oakland from downtown; 880 (former Cyprus Freeway) slices the neighborhood in half; BART lops off an additional portion near the port. (I can't emphasize how badly this messed up the neighborhood.)
3) The Black Panthers started a few blocks from here, on Peralta Street, as a way for the residents to defend themselves from police abuse and empower the community; they are all but destroyed by the Feds' COINTELPRO.
4) Not specific to the neighborhood, still The War on Drugs is worth mentioning. Need I say more about that?

These things that happened a generation or two ago, they still resonate down through to the present in this community. I see it outside my window: my black and brown neighbors scrape to get by. This UBI program isn't supposed to fix it all, it's just a small step in the direction of balance.
God bless you, man.
I would highly suggest researching options trading, as you appear to be completely confused and/or misinformed about even the most fundamental aspects of options.

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Glad I'm not the only one expecting an article about this
It was only a mirage.
If you look at the stats, "Japanese" is driven by Chinese/Central Asian viwership. N-Am and S-Am still prefer lesbians (primarily driven by women viewers, btw).

Honestly, JP porn is unwatchable. Squeaky sounds, just quite "unique" as they say. It's the porn you'd watch if you want to quit watching porn.
This is DHS being paranoid and inventing scenario to justify their paycheck.
I don't understand how this is a demonstration of a color-blind policy mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color; it's not a color-blind policy. In what way is this policy meant to overcome distrust of color-blind solutions?
Thanks! Yeah, what happened was that Apache wasn't sending a content-type header until I tweaked the .htaccess file, which was about 14 minutes before you posted your comment. I had to ctrl-shift-r in Firefox to get it to notice the changed content-type.
I recall bad video as more like this - lines on the pic
https://youtu.be/BIVEitYSEQ8?t=312

The vertical hold going as in the featured article was more of a 60s/70s thing in my memory.
looked at your source code, I think `window.requestAnimationFrame`[1] may fit your use case better than `setTimeout`.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ...
Maybe it’s my privilege speaking but I never understood what’s so uniquely horrible about Amazon warehouse work that isn’t also found in numerous other menial jobs. We have lots of labor laws designed to prevent various abuses. What’s the new abuse here?
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> surveys conducted by patient groups indicate that 50% to 80% of patients continue to have bothersome symptoms three months after the onset of COVID-19 — even after tests no longer detect virus in their body.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-post-...

Search for the term "covid long haulers" to get more information.
You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!
Rather common mistake, even among Scandinavians.
Except AI isn't being 'sandboxed away' in any discernible way. A child being an unpleasant annoyance isn't comparable to a an AI that can't drive in either risks of failure or capability because the child is far more capable of moderating his behavior to conform to social norms than an AI.
> It's a holiday dedicated to reminding people that they have to use their critical thinking and maintain a healthy skepticism

What? You just made that up. It's a holiday dedicated to pranking people and trying to have a laugh. There's no deep meaning behind it.
Would ZFS's Adaptive Replacement Cache be considered for inclusion after IBM's patent expires?
We're transitioning to a scam/casino economy.

Nobody sees any way to get ahead doing work, so they're all looking for get-rich-quick schemes.
> Had to remove the /1

Thanks, fixed.
Death isn’t temporary.
The EFV was supposed to replace the AAV but ended up canceled in the 2011-2013 crunch. $3bn reset. However, this can't be blamed entirely on the budget crunch - there were reliability issues with the platform, which, given the budget crunch, the Marine Corps did not feel it could adequately address. The threshold for when you stop throwing good money after bad depends in part on how much margin of error you have in your budget of good money.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a21729889/marines-...

Things like building aircraft carriers and training 100s of thousands of people in a non-flat leadership structure aren't processes that can turn on a dime. The joint chiefs testimony on the effects of budget predictability on readiness is certain to be more articulate than anything I can say. Brief overview here: https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/945964/...
Same thing I did last time, most likely: start a BBS, or join some BBSes; start sharing files, get FidoNet going again; bootstrap the whole thing back up. Only maybe this time we could skip the WWW part and focus on store-and-forward mesh networks, for better resilience and corporate profit-seeking resistance.
No? What difference does it make?
idk. I wouldn’t discount the promise of get out of dept quickly schemes. Reading headlines like “Made x millions on Robinhood”, “Invested in GameStop, now a millionaire” is doubly tempting for desperate folks. And if you have easy money available from predatory lenders (i.e. payday loans, second mortgages, etc.) I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant amount of the bottom 10% have lost money on the stock market.

Of course this is a measurable figure, so I’m willing to accept that I might be wrong.
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There is an assumption that anything worthwhile is available on the web. About half of what I read is only available in print (mostly older books of poetry, math and music). I spend enough time looking at and working on screens that when i read I prefer physical books with all of their delightfully different form factors.
>> Without a brain, these thoughtless bodies are not persons and are 100% ethical resources to use for the betterment of mankind.

Is this not slightly dubious or debatable? One might consider their heart to be their center, or the seat of their soul. I do think there is a lot of opportunity along these lines. Our ethics haven't quite evolved enough for me to not wince at that paragraph though. Not saying we can't get there, of course
Some people are just masochistic or they just want to distract themselves by solving problems that have already been solved by Spring circa 10 years ago. Most of them don't even use the technology that they preach around here, it's borderline trolling.
I assume you are american?

That's the definition of the ISO week, which is very much the standard and in common use throughout europe. Monday being the first day of the week is also standard in europe.
The federal government could abrogate a contract (like an obligation to export a commodity) but they'd have to pay the same price, because of the takings clause. So food would not be "cheap".
Came here to post the same thing. This is actually the state of the art [1]. A peptide that helps creating a scaffold to rebuild little enamel cracks.

If you apply some P11-4 varnish and you use a regular toothpaste results are quite good. Something to keep in mind is that fluoride might interfere with newer enamel repair technologies, but not with NovaMin.

Fluoride is nice, although I have some little concerns about swallowing it and getting some accumulation in soft tissue which alter calcium pathways. The Japanese strongly prefer HPA, which is safer and more effective. It's funny it has not become popular in the West.

I have tried basically all different technologies, and the only one that has made (a small) difference has been P11-4 plus a calcium salt toothpaste.

[1] https://sci-hub.st/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007...
Candy Japan guy here. Japan Post announced that there will be price increases, which seemed to more than double the shipping cost. Even if I could ship (haven't checked lately if they opened yet or not), the service would need to change. Probably going from twice a month to once a month while still costing the same, so not sure how attractive that would be to subscribers.

While the site was down I started working on some other projects which are looking promising, so I'm dragging my feet a little bit about restarting it (I already refunded everyone's candy balances in case I never restart). Since I spent 10 years curating candy I also got a little bit tired towards the end to be honest.

I should probably make some use of the organic traffic it's getting though. I've actually had more traffic from Google after I could no longer ship. Thinking of selling one-time boxes on the site instead of subscriptions, as I could then spend the time I used to spend on curation on new projects instead.
I can see it's now implemented. Thank you, acnops.
> I've got a copy of the two most useful(?) standards of our time.

I wonder if the pun was intended.

EDIT: According to the comments over there, it was.
It's equally a matter of rewriting history either intentionally or by omission.