skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the linked study:

>The first thing we needed to understand was how temperature and precipitation influenced crop productivity in many locations. To do this, we analyzed data from up to 20,000 counties and districts around the world to see how crop yields varied in each place with changes in precipitation and temperature. Once we had constructed an empirical model connecting crop yield to weather variations at each location, we could use it to assess how much yields had changed from what we would have expected to see if average weather patterns had not changed. The difference between what we would have predicted, based on the counterfactual weather, and what actually occurred reflects the influence of climate change.

The researchers are throwing every deviation from "average" into "climate change" - including cooling, heating, more precip and less precip. Headline of OP would thus seem to be inaccurate. Also, hard to say with just this info how much of the farm productivity effects are driven by manmade carbon emissions.
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IPOs via SPAC are booming too. I think this is even bigger issue.
Nobody, which is why I said my example didn't apply to the situation, but rather to the broader hypothetical.
> If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best.

If that's the best case scenario, what's the worst? Firing squad?
When you're looking at something complex on the scale of the earth, it's easy to cherry pick data, even accidentally (we call that bias), to paint whatever picture you want. Right now there's immense institutional pressure against any research that is critical of climate change, so it's hard for me to trust anything in that field. There are indications that increased CO2 concentration is a huge boon to crop growth.
The Risks and Rewards of the Remarkable Desert Truffle
OK, but Finns aren't Nordics.
>shaming and moralizing, hoping 330M individuals will make charitable contributions and recycle

My response was neither meant to shame or moralize, but rather to give people who decide "I'd like to do something right now" a way to do it and get maximum benefit from their contribution.* Should there be other and better responses? Undeniably. Will that prevent me from responding in the meantime and telling others how they may also respond if they want to? No, it will not.

* Before anyone gets pedantic I mean maximizing a charitable contribution's impact by going to an org that uses the majority of the donation to help their target community rather than being sucked up by administrative overhead.
The best way to get into Crypto from a traditional brokerage account is GBTC. It tracks mainly BTC and Ethereum. It is not a perfect match though, sometimes you pay a premium and sometimes you get a discount to the underlying cryptos. Currently it is at nearly a 18% discount where earlier in the year it was at a 10% premium (GBTC is currently 50.87, BTC is $59,515).

This is by no means a GREAT way to do it, just the best option currently if you are looking at crypto from a US based brokerage account.
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I was! Looking at the reception, the single exclamation mark evidently wasn't quite enough to connote that. Ah well.
The Paradox of Caring About ‘Bullshit’ Jobs
True that. The reason for this is simple. Stock price. Investors would wine around, price could move.

It is all about money today: serious business.
I have created JSON schemas for the output of dozens of commands and file-types with my jc[0] project. I tried to keep them as flat as possible, but there are many other ways it could have been done. Creating the schema many times requires more thought than writing the parser itself.

[0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
> No need to enforce your semantics through type

Maybe I'm spoiled by other languages with more powerful type systems, but this is exactly what I want my types to do! Isn't this why we have type traits and concepts and whatnot in C++ now? If not for semantics, why have types at all, the compiler could figure out what amount of bytes it needs to store my data in, after all.

I use types for two things: to map semantics to hardware (if memory or performance optimization are important, which is rare) and to enforce correctness in my code. You're telling me that the latter is not a valid use of types and I say that's the single-biggest reason I use statically typed languages over dynamically typed languages, when I do so.

But even if that's not the case, why would I use a more general type than I need, when I know the constraints of my code? If I know that negative values are not semantically valid, why not use a type that doesn't allow those? What benefit would I get from not doing that? I mean, why do we have different sizes of integers when all the possible ones I could want can be represented as a machine-native size and I can enforce size constraints in software instead? We could also just use double's for all numbers, like some languages do.
Interesting take. Can you point me to a time in recent history when good, honest, hard working people (i.e. common folks) were the once making money out of the stock market?

As a worker, my experience has always been the opposite. That is rich folks using the stock market to get some unearned money out of my work.
How ungrateful does one have to be when they want a piano, are given one for free but don't want to take the bare minimum effort of moving it into their house?
> Option traders - real ones, mind you - are sophisticated armies of statistics PhD's

Oh? I guess they forgot to ask me for my PhD at the door when I came to work for the first time.
I would recommend reading "The Mom Test". You can knock it out in a few days and it's got some pretty good insight on finding the right people and also getting meaningful feedback.
So this article's clickbait headline should read instead "While crop yields are up, they could be even higher..."?

Let's set aside the dishonest scaremongering headline.

No one can disprove a study that describes a fictional alternate reality based entirely on supposition of simulated outcomes.

Productivity is higher than it has ever been in human history and the trend line is up and to the right and the Guardian wants you to be terrified.
My experience mirrors yours.

I have never experienced frustration with free/open-source/source-available software like I have with proprietary software.

If I had a dollar for every damned time I was dealing with proprietary software and became frustrated that I just couldn't looked at the source code to figure out what the programmer meant... sigh

When I do contact support I end up taking to people who also don't have source code access. They might have better documentation and a more comprehensive knowledge base, but they're no more equipped to look at the code (and, arguably, probably less equipped to understand the code) than me.

Occasionally I find proprietary software whose accompanying documentation is sufficient to troubleshoot the really bizarre problems w/o source code access. Microsoft's protocol disclosures, created because of the EU anti-trust action, are a good example.

Having source code access and a modicum of reverse engineering and programming knowledge is a game changer for supporting software.
Gotta have a lot of euphemisms for your sewage treatment plant. Apparently they now call it a "water recycling centre"

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ionica/@52.2330937,0.15565...
I think the general category this falls under is supply chain finance.
April Fools Day used to be edgy and daring, as per the article. Secrecy and vast clandestine effort was needed.

But now it is too easy and there isn't the same cost. Personally I have decided not to bother with social media on April Fools Day because you know time is going to be wasted by sub par corporate efforts.
Free software was literally supposed to solve all of these problems. Free access to source magically makes it easy for everyone to contribute bug fixes and (less convincingly...) good documentation.

Of course this rarely happens. Developer/maintainer attitude is one factor, but it's not the only one.
People who do pranks like this don’t care how it negatively impacts on other people.

Also think about all the additional work the PR people were forced to do to clean up.
Worth mentioning that the control group wasn’t matched for hospital admission status, while the study group was solely people who ended up in the hospital. I’m guessing that the authors likely could have acquired the data to match a control group of people who had been admitted to the hospital, so I’d be curious to see what the results would’ve been there.

According to the paper, this control group was picked because, essentially, that’s what the authors wanted to choose:

> We selected controls from the general population rather than matching to non-covid hospital admissions to determine the increased risk after hospital admission for covid-19 versus no hospital admission for covid-19 (that is, compared with the expected risk for people with similar personal and clinical characteristics in the general population).
LEED sucks. This has been known for a long time. But instead of bashing it, we should be asking: is there an alternative? If not, how could we create one?
I think the issue is that the joke made Microsoft look bad (like they copied another company's product). Google has a big April Fool's collection, but you can imagine their PR department probably would not let anyone's joke reference that the product would be sunset in 18 months.
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Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
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Been tinkering with web dev for the past 5 or so years. Went back to school and recently completed my BS Comp Sci in nights/evenings while also working a full time job. Currently working for a small SaaS company with a jack-of-all-trades type position (customer support, web design, web development, bookkeeping, etc). Looking for my first 'real' engineering gig. Open to position at any point of the stack, though I am drawn toward the back-end and database layers more than the front-end.
What was the root cause?

That's easy: the root cause is the roadworks two streets over, which caused the driver to divert from his usual route.
After reading the rest of the quote, I agree. It's an apt quote and a challenge to FOSS founders to bring make their software better.

From that standpoint, Challenge Accepted.
I feel like jokes about rebranding to "Microsoft 364" write themselves
What was happening is that we didn't know if they do or do not prevent infection or the spreading of the virus. The phase 3 studies were designed to see if the vaccine prevented disease.

Measuring infectiousness is more difficult, since you can't isolate healthy unvaccinated people and see if they get infected. Since we know the viral load is an important factor for COVID infectiousness, you can reasonably use the viral load as a proxy for measuring infectiousness, and the viral load DOES drop significantly for people who have had the vaccine.

*Edit Now we know: it does reduce transmission.
Wow, I figured it always traded at a premium. 18% discount is huge, am I missing some downside of this arb opportunity (buy GBTC sell short BTC or BTC futures)?
I've used Tmux for around 8 years, and I've never had a pleasant copy/paste experience. This is not for lack of reading plenty of Google search results, installing different plugins, aliasing long command strings, to keyboard shortcuts. In the end, I'm still back where I started. I grab my mouse, highlight the text and pray that it's not longer than what fits on the page. I then hit Control+Shift+c, and I have the text on my clipboard. I've heard that there is a way to do this in a more vim-like fashion, but I've never actually gotten it to work. I used "Copy mode" every single day to be able to read what's in my scrollback buffer (test results, error output, etc) but using a key to start highlighting and copying contents to my clipboard? Man, that'd be awesome.
Now it just needs an NFT!
From the study:

>We develop a robust econometric model of weather effects on global agricultural

I don't think the US counts as global agriculture. Certainly a subset though.
Adding in additional events that we have no evidence for would also be bad science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Other_hypothe...
This is actually a desired outcome of Robinhood's business model.

They go through great effort to make their trading app feel like a slot machine without giving off the appearance of gambling.
The fascinating description of how they used satellite imagery and topography to find the location from the videos really stands out in an age of fast shallow journalism.
Prison? That seems over the top.
Hackers leak Social Security numbers, student data in data breach
This is a difficult question. Crack down on fraud, not even novel fraud, the same fraud that would have been cracked down on hard and fast in generations past, and you're cutting individual investors out of the picture. A claim which has merit--it's not obvious to me why e.g. hedge or PE or VC funds shouldn't be open to individual investors.

But let the fraud run rampant, and individual investors will lose money. Enough money that it becomes a political problem. That threatens to destroy the market (e.g. onion futures [1]), or at the very least cost the public at large.

The only solution we have is to wait for a crash. But with modern monetarism, and the political cost of unemployment, monetary easing cushions financial assets from economic declines for a long, long time. Long enough for entire generations to have no memory of losing money in the market.

We need another mechanism. We have the same problem with vaccines [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

[2] Is there a term for tearing down a levy on account of having no flooding on account of having a levy?
This kind of happened with Mark Shuttleworth in 2005. At that time you had Suse and Mandrake/mandriva as the top desktop distributions. Both were going out though: Suse was moving to servers/closed source and mandriva was in crisis.

Mark's millions gave desktop linux a good push and it spawned a new generation of desktop linux (like Mint)
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For 10 years I have been working on this open-source HTTP app. server.

During this time only 4 external parties have used it afaik:

1) Some CS class at an Indian University.

2) An Indian startup to share physical things freely.

3) A Japanese university doctorate study about analyzing concurrency!

4) A Minecraft map server.

To me this is mindblowing, here you have the simplest and most performant version of the most used protocol on Earth and nobody cares!

Nobody wants to learn!
It's hard for any company to support the actions of their employees once they go lone wolf and depart from the approvals and procedures the company has put in place. Even Bill wasn't happy with this and more importantly when it comes to April Fool's jokes, he wasn't laughing.
I think the other issue is that demand increases the most when it’s raining, just when supply is the lowest, further crushing any weak systems.
Of course they have a legitimate purpose.

That doesn't mean the market is rational, etc.

You can know all about risk management, etc, but there is no guaranteed winning strategy. Because options trading is gambling.
I think it's deeper - and more insidious - than that. People with no sense of humor, or even awareness of their lack of sense of humor, have clawed their way into positions of real power. They used to just run the parent-teacher council and try to get TV shows cancelled, but now they've moved on to control nearly every aspect of our lives. And their power is growing.
I think what makes this a satisfactory prank is that PR didn't vet it. When the company officially signs off on a joke, you know it's been watered down.
k3s is kubernetes. Simpler to install and get a cluster running and much smaller, but still kubernetes, with an identical feature set and API. That is part of the point of kubernetes, that it is a standard and anyone can implement it, with Google's original implementation only being a reference, not canonical.

Part of what something like k3s enables is this: https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2557413/...

They don't mention that this was accomplished via k3s, but I happen to know it was because it was colleagues of mine that did this. The point of being able to do something like this is you can deploy a completely identical stack of admin/controller level software to systems running in data centers and systems running in airplanes. As long as they can run kubernetes, you're good to go, and with k3s, just about any piece of hardware can run kubernetes. This has huge implications for defense because it means you can develop and test software that isn't directly responsible for specialized hardware control without having to build emulators or lab equipment identical to what is installed in the actual weapons platforms. You just need to ensure they can both run kubernetes.

It doesn't have to be kubernetes, obviously, but you get the advantage of a fairly rich ecosystem that includes things like k3s, which doesn't even require bash or a shell at all to work.
I read the GP as meaning that people spreading lies provide less value than people spreading truth.

Of course, deciding what is a lie isn't trivial, so system that enforces that will be complex and unstable. But that does not automatically means it's a bad system.
There's no incentive to store multiple copies of the same data vs a single copy of multiple datas. It's a possible attack vector, for example you could store all of the copies of some data and then lose it, but there's no economic incentive to do so from what I understand.
Experts can be wrong, but there are limits. There has to be some line that a person can cross, whether through duplicity or ineptitude, that strips them of their status as “expert”, otherwise the term loses its meaning and we are talking about something more akin to a religious figure or royalty.

When someone is completely wrong on a matter that is central to their supposed expertise, and there are terrible consequences for humanity, they shouldn’t get a pass just because they went to Harvard or wrote some books or held important positions in the government. That doesn’t mean it’s better to listen to Dr. Oz instead, but it is better to find new experts to listen to.
Depends on your reason for wanting WFH. If you prefer your home office because it's quiet and effective, or if you have a really long commute, 2/5 or 3/5 is a good compromise. If you want to actually leave your expensive city and live in Montana, then these hybrid schemes don't help at all.
I wish this submission pointed to a longer article instead of two tweets; especially since it's opinionated and addresses a complex topic. I feel like I'm missing the real world context and that I'm seeing only a part of the author's point.
https://www.aperitif.no/artikler/frankrike-er-kanskje-ikke-b... Is an article from 2015. It mentions Petrus 2012, at that point available for nok 9500 at vinmonopolet, while winesearcher.com had it at nok 22000.
2) and 3) would probably always be illegal since phone numbers are recycled and you can never know when that happens. I guess it’s fairly likely that is what happened in this case?

So even if you are sure it is the number of a customer, it is verified and used for correspondence it can still be sometime else number a year (I don’t know how long the recycling waiting time is) later.
Well, I was going to say start your own business, not with Google-size ambitions, but just a goal to help people and bring real value to them. The barriers for tech people to do this are very, very low.

But, if you can’t change your job I would first caution you to listen to your body/mind. Pushing yourself to be chronically stressed for years can have severe health consequences.

There’s a lot of advice about exercise which is really important, but if your burnout is also saying you’re tired of doing the same thing, maybe look at hobbies. Do something that is radically different from programming - meaning interact with tangible objects.

Try welding, archery/riflery, mountain biking, casting - something that gets you outside, with a good feedback loop and that engages your body and mind in a very different way. Basically diversify what you’re engaging in, adopt something that is more interesting than your day job which will drive a bit more balance.
> Anyone who buys options is literally gambling.

I guess you also believe the entire insurance industry is gambling too. Out of curiosity, what parts of finance do you think aren't gambling?

If you categorize all speculative activity under uncertainty using the same word, that word ceases to be useful.
But not, weirdly, at the airport. And they're proud of that. There are all kinds of signs up about how you can buy it at the airport on arrival and carry it in, duty free.

I paid $20 apiece for shots at a bar in Reykjavik. I paid (IIRC) $5 for a bottle at the airport.

(The bars are especially expensive. I'm told that all the Icelanders pre-game before going out drinking. If you plan to drink while in Iceland, pick it up on your way in.)
This isn't such a great analogy (in the way it is presented) because ...

- There is light-weight software that is easy to understand and use: like piccolo or flute, rather than a piano.

- This light-weight software can be both proprietary and free (in beer and speech sense): there are expensive flutes, and there are free flutes.

- There is heavy-weight software that users wrestle with, like getting a piano up the stairs. Likewise, this can be proprietary and free (in both senses).

- In proprietary software, support contracts can be extra, or part of the deal. Just like if you buy a piano, you may have to arrange for your own moving (exactly like with a free piano) or the piano shop could arrange it for you, factored into the piano price or itemized separately.

If we don't take the viewpoint that free software is always like a free piano, but allow for free flutes, then we can repair the analogy. Otherwise it is just bigoted.

It is quite insulting, actually, because, for instance, free GNU/Linux, though a complex behemoth, is a lot more wieldy to ordinary end-users than proprietary Unix ever was.
Many users report being more happy with a friendly GNU/Linux distro than with the proprietary OS they used previously.