skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all (80-90%?) of the human footprint is making food. To try to grow our food and ensure biodiversity on the SAME LAND is going to be less productive per acre and would mean even MORE of the Earth’s surface is needed to feed humanity. That’s a losing proposition as we’re already near land usage limits in much of the world that uses less efficient production methods. The best way to ensure biodiversity is to INCREASE the intensity of farming, at the limit to just convert our staple food production to vat-based food production (think methane fermentation ala Calysta Feedkind, or maybe microalgae). Corn and wheat and meat gets highly processed anyway; you can hardly tell it WASNT made in a vat. Fresh fruit and veggies that retain their grown form are a relatively small part of our footprint.

Grow food in vats, and the vast majority of the planet can just be like National Parks.

But I do think we can think of smart ways to ensure biodiversity under, say, solar arrays. Solar arrays are (or can be made to be) biologically inert. If they are high enough, they can act as a sort of technological canopy over a biodiverse forest floor. And that would only be a small portion of the planet (the rest would be National Parks). We’d use solar electricity to produce food super efficiently from vats. About 2000-4000W nameplate solar per person (at least in the 30N to 30S latitude that most people live in) should be enough to provide the macronutrients for the average person. At high efficiency, that’s about 10 square meters per person at noon. That’s just 100,000 square kilometers to feed 10 billion people, compared to over 50,000,000 square kilometers used for agriculture today (which is half of the habitable land surface of ~100 million km^2). It can be over the ocean, too. That’s just 0.02% of the Earth’s surface.
Thanks for sharing your story!!! That's the spirit.
For those who haven't read/watched it: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/war-stories-how-crash...

It is indeed a story of creativity in design.
You seem to have a fundamental misapprehension of capitalism.

If you invest your capital, it's not being hoarded in a money bank like Scrooge McDuck. It's being put to use by the companies and institutions you invest in to provide products and services.

Now I'm all for donating to charity, and it's a much better option than leaving massive wealth to your offspring, in my opinion.

But investing your money is totally rational at any wealth level and it's good for society, and necessary for capitalism to function.
Hacker News has had a long history of unwarranted skepticism toward crypto and decentralized consensus systems.

It's surprising that so many of the negative responses (and commentators themselves!) are still around today, seemingly impervious to the profound developments over the last near-decade.
Similarweb F-1 IPO
It only "worked" by not actually being useful as a globally distributed currency for microtransactions (which was the original promise)
An underappreciated benefit of using a password manager consistently. It might be a long and unpleasant chore but you can have some confidence that you're updating everything that matters.
I remember reading about that Bill Ewasko case back when it became newsworthy. On reflecting now, and hearing about other stories, I tend to think the guy was abducted / killed by someone in the wilderness, given the weirdness about his cell phone signals, etc. and him never having been found. There's a lot of shady shit that goes on in the desert, even in a place like Joshua Tree.

Anyway, aside from that, I am perpetually in awe / fascinated by how we as human beings long to solve a puzzle, no matter how distant or unfamiliar (or insignificant) another person is to us. There are stories about townspeople keeping a stranger's death alive for decades until solving it. It's almost like a mysterious death is as important, if not more important in a collective consciousness, as lots of people dying from something that is well known or not "interesting"...
That is not my read at all:

> Last year, Facebook announced plans to implement end-to-end encryption by default in its
instant messaging service. In the absence of accompanying measures, it is estimated that this
could reduce the number of total reports of child sexual abuse in the EU (and globally) by
more than half and as much as two-thirds, since the detection tools as currently used do
not work on end-to-end encrypted communications.

Seems more like stating a fact.
Wouldn't that approach also be doomed to failure? How would you provide a unique domain to every John Smith in the world?
This is an excellent, detailed reply. I've never had much experience debugging anything related to hardware beyond (linux) kernel drivers and JTAG on (far slower) devices.

As an outsider who is interested, what's the best source to read about Intel's Yellow & Red modes, and its toolchain (which I is analogous to AMD's)? I've always felt that this is the level in which "the way things work" goes from being well-documented and google-able to "leet hax0rz", accessible only behind corporate NDAs – very complex, very hard to read about, and rather hidden. Of course, this could be just my ignorance talking – but I want to learn! IME seems complex and hidden enough!
> Pretending it is because change occurs sabotages your ability to categorize, analyze, and ultimately judge change.

Who is pretending this?

> Most people are not qualified to and cannot make careful informed decisions about the way drugs affect you.

Who is qualified in your opinion?
That's not even the proposal they're talking about, this is: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/interim-reg...

Also as the other comments said, even in the one you link they're discussing the true issues that exist and what to do in that context.
> Ruan said painting a roof of 93 sq metres (1,000 sq ft) would give a cooling power of 10 kilowatts: “That’s more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses.”

Wow, that's impressive. With rather basic changes in home-building we can reduce climate change effects significantly, while saving a ton of money now and in the future.
Oh, I assumed assembly as in assembly language and not assembly as in group of people.
Is it more humane to kill stray cats, or let them fend alone? (2014)
Yeah, I think hiring managers think that I'm a quitter. I definitely think that I was whining too much about the Amazon role. Beggers can't be choosers. However, the no health insurance thing rubbed me the wrong way. I felt like it was a dead end job. I wish that I would've stayed with it though. I probably would've been promoted by now. I need to stay with a job and rack up some years of experience for sure.

Like I mentioned in other comments. I think HM's see me as a quitter. Also other baises like ageism etc. I think are apart of the issue. I felt like that I should've got promoted after reporting those issues, especially since I found them within my frist two weeks. I think that I come off as demure. I take a long time to answer sometimes. Due to my sutter, and southern drawl etc. But I try to listen, and pay attention to detail. Learn when to shut up, and when input/insight is wanted etc.

Sometimes when I do receive rejection feedback it's mostly "overqualifed", "not a good fit", and "not enough experience". I received a rejection from state farm today stating that I'm not a good fit. Even though I meet the qualifcations.
I use KolabNow, can strongly recommend them for reliability, security, support.
Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant
From a personal point of view, FastAPI and Pydantic are some of the greatest additions to the Python ecosystem lately.

Apart from that, FastAPI is currently the top 3 web framework according to the Python developer survey[0]. I think having such a breaking change is a serious issue.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2020/
The problem is single use plastic, and there is a solution: use less of it.

Raising awareness of the difficulty in recycling plastic will help reduce the demand for it. Or, who knows, maybe we'll see an even better solution emerge from a makerspace working with Precious Plastics.
I use Krisp on a daily basis from Brazil (a very noise country, terrible build quality) and it works incredibly well, better than most hardware-based solutions I've tried.
Anyone here that have experience with the Sennheiser PC 5 heaphones with a mic? Would appreciate your comments!
is it bad of me that I want this to happen to end the madness. I can just imagine Iowa trying to sue another state for doing this.
Yes. You can authenticate "other tools" using a personal access token or GitHub App.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions
The most terrifying thing Youtube has put into my suggestions is videos of people 'making their own diesel' by melting down plastic. I can't begin to imagine what sort of PAHs those people are inhaling during the making and especially the burning process.

Perhaps the plants don't actually have to be the size of a Walmart, but the engineering is still pretty big. I wouldn't mind seeing smaller regional centers using mature tools.
I'm not advocating for insider investing - which may well be going on here. That's obviously not ethical.

I made a much more general statement in my comment, which you seemingly objected to.
We have one extremely important trait that makes us a lil bit different than regular bacteria.

We are mostly lead by greed and not a need of growth. This is ofcourse not the case for all individuals but good enough portion.
Technically, the existing dns resolving mechanism is a part of glibc, so it is userspace already.
As someone considering either Fastmail or Protonmail, could you share what your experience is like and why you chose Fastmail?
Something I haven't seen in the comments is simply that some businesses operate on an annual budget allocation, usually older, larger companies.

One thing I would suggest about pricing is not to get greedy - nobody likes to be charged more simply because they can be. If you're going to increase pricing, I believe the perceived value should also increase.
Does Nancy Pelosi have influence over Tesla?

Even if you take a pretty hard-line attitude about members of Congress being prohibited from doing things like trading their own portfolios, it's hard to make a cogent argument that Paul Pelosi, who is by all measures a private citizen, should be restricted from trading specific stocks.
FB also already proposed one where users can report encrypted messages and send an unencrypted log to them from their client device.

Since most existing child abuse imagery is reported by users that see it somehow - this seems like a reasonably pro-privacy way to keep the same amount of reporting.
We wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place if people refused to engage in usury.
Assuming you didn't lose it to MtGox, to Quadriga or myriad other ways. Crypto is just a digital obstacle course designed to transfer "wealth" to the "strongest hands" lol.
Ask HN: Best services to handle local payments in Latin America?
It seems that all alternatives require minimum volumes (ppro, ebanx, etc). Does anyone recommend a partner that requires no minimums and offers decent rates in order to get started?

Latin America has country specific payment methods that stripe, paypal and other providers don't handle at the moment. (E.g offline payments, bank transfers and local credit cards).

Interested in hearing your experiences,
Thanks :)
Because that's what politicians do. Tons of talk about banning "weapons of war" that are rarely used to kill anyone, meanwhile handguns are used for murder/suicide much more often, but they rarely make the news because they aren't scary looking, and because the majority of crimes with them are committed by minorities, so Democrats don't want more restrictions on them.

And before anyone says it, no, that last part is not some right-wing racist conspiracy. A couple of years ago in Maryland, the governor wanted harsher punishments for people using handguns to commit crimes because of how bad gun violence is in Baltimore, and the state Democrats said it was a racist policy because it would mostly affect minorities. They didn't want to seem soft on gun violence though, so they banned bump stocks, which have never been used to commit a crime in Maryland, and which the ATF says are trivial to reproduce using belt loops and rubber bands.
Same problem with climate change.

1) You assume technology will be better. There is no guarantee that this will be true.

2) Externalities like mass migration or civil unrest that could occur from food shortages would mean we don’t have a chance in the future to tackle the problem effectively.
That sounds like a pretty frustrating bug to try to find and fix. No type-level feature that I'm aware of could prevent this issue directly. What you're describing is pretty high-level business logic. While I've seen some pretty impressive demos with dependent types, nothing that I know of could handle this.

I don't know much at all about the structure of your application, and it's hard to speculate, but what strikes me is your live and snapshotted data have the same shape/type and seem to be interchangeable for the compiler/interpreter, but are very different to you and your customers. The engineer creating that screen may have had the forethought at the outset to say "this should never deal with live data, only snapshots", so that warning probably gets put in a comment, but there's very little to stop someone from later passing in the live data that you definitely don't want.

There's a feature in Haskell (and similar languages e.g. PureScript) called newtype declarations. They're a lightweight way you can tag and optionally limit access to your data. You essentially tell the compiler "this is a new and distinct type that can wrap the original one". The original and newtype are not interchangeable, and an attempt to do so won't compile.

Having that feature I'm in the habit whenever I recognize overloaded meanings encoded with the same type (e.g. live/snapshot) of wrapping one of them in a newtype, and before I even implement application logic, I write out the signatures and specify which type I actually want. They add a bit of tediousness, but they have saved me many times, and I've never regretted using them.
From the article:

> and no lock lasts for more than a few milliseconds
It's fairly common in Arizona. A number of the apartment complexes use centralized water heating/cooling that is piped through all the apartments and is used for the HVAC system. They usually flip the HVAC to heating mode during the winter, and cooling mode during the summer.

It's a lot more cost-effective than having a different HVAC system in every single unit. This is especially true in Arizona, where it's not uncommon to hit temperatures of 110-120f in the summer.

The downside is that if you have a hot day in the winter time (which isn't uncommon in AZ), you are out of luck because your HVAC is stuck in heating mode until March rolls around. Another downside is that the air conditioner will often struggle to cool things down to lower than 80 degrees during the summer time.

I make do by supplementing the main A/C with a 10,000 BTU portable window-vented A/C, though... Which is free to use because electricity is included. So it all works out.
Or M.U.L.E. for us old timers.
It's starting to feel like gambling is the bedrock of the economy, rather than a side show. Everyone has a 'portfolio' of stocks and coins that they in no way contribute any value to, but expect huge returns from. 'Net worth' has nothing to do with value created, only returns on bets.

Jobs are just an activity required to build capital for further gambling for yourself, and to pump the portfolio of those who own stock in your company.

Is anyone actually doing anything useful in 2021? (other than the people we pay like crap, including teachers, nurses, carers and environmentalists of course)
[1] https://actualbudget.com/blog/porting-local-app-web

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23508923
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825432
I was more replying to those saying these products now offer a typescript feature
Agreed. It's the one thing we know for sure about the ocean and its rather large predators.
Sounds a lot like the nomadic identities in Hubzilla and the Zot protocol.

https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project
https://zotlabs.org/help/en/developer/zot_protocol#What_is_Z...
>“In 150 years or so, we’ve lost over half of that rich topsoil—if not all in some places.”

If the timescale of the solution is decades we are good, because the time scale of the problem is centuries.
> A complete refusal to use email for any purpose is pretty unusual to begin with

I don’t know if I would say I “refuse” to use email. I simply opt not to because I am privacy conscious. I also do not browse the web with cookies or JavaScript enabled. If that’s “bizarre” to you well then I guess I am a bizarre person but I deserve a bare minimum of respect just as all humans do.

> Publicly complaining about the consequences of that decision is another layer of strange behavior.

I literally never complained about anything. Someone else initiated a question at me about my communication with dang and I shared the results of that communication. I am not bothered at all by not being able to request a name change nor have I ever expressed resentment towards anyone for not being able to request a name change. My screen name is not very important to me. I feel like I am being unfairly judged here.
I wasn't even thinking about the market or trading aspect.
Ah ah, but that is completely circular logic.

AOC would not represent Texas or Florida because they are not progressive enough to support her in a landslide, twice, the way her district did.

Manchin mealy-mouthed his way into a slight win and has to be a slimy politician with no backbone because he craves power.

The funniest part of your post is that you claim AOC "would not be bold." Do you even know who she is? She's the definition of bold. She is doing what she said she would do and pissing off centrist dems all over the place every day.

But call me when AOC & Wyden are involved in a scandal, which is what this entire thread is about. If so, I'll change my tune, but until then, my original point stands.
Why shouldn't the creation of knowledge and expertise come with a price tag? The question is "is it cheaper to create a system that creates new expertise than it is to hire someone with that expertise?" As long as the cost of the system is less than the cost of the generated expertise on the open market, it's a worthwhile investment.
See also: cryptocurrencies.
As I concealed my first puffs on a join to my parents, I'm 100% sure that my kids have access to internet without my permission.
I mean that's still a fair amount of sites. I recognize and have used plenty of those.
In our stack we use a custom CI runner and that's the image we give to gitlab-ci, so it's easy to just test locally. Not sure what the story is with GHA, but generally I try to make sure everything fits into one script so I can just test that. A more fun/hacky option is opening a reverse shell on the CI box. I was even able to get it working through ngrok to my local machine.
> The operamail.com domain is owned by Opera, not Fastmail. We've handled mail at this domain on Opera's behalf since Fastmail staff bought back the company in 2013. Opera has since advised us that they will no longer allow us to handle mail through this domain.

Why though?

How come Fastmail handles mails on Opera's behalf, and why Opera now prevents Fastmail from doing it? How come they couldn't manage to agree on a way to avoid losing their users' email addresses?
I just really have a lot of trouble with that comment. I originally downvoted--but then I didn't--but I just have trouble with the concept that I must always take active measures to have people rescue me just really bothers me.

I'd probably consider a PLB if I were soloing in a remote area but I doubt if I would on the AT in general. And certainly don't have (or would consider) in routine local outside areas.
> "I have a very weird hobby, which is I love taking a look at photos and figuring out where they're taken."

Sometimes you have the right person in the right place at the right time. I'm also really interested in learning more about how this person pinpointed the hiker.
Brings back some memories. On a similar note, does anyone remember the "earthquake screen" on the early Macs?
I read that and I'm still no clearer about how to do anything about this, though as a user of both pydantic and fastapi (and having mandated their adoption in my org), I'm extremely motivated to do something about this. Can anyone spell out to me precisely what i need to do to be heard?
The hiker texted a photo. Even better, since he had a smartphone, he could text his GPS coordinates from an app like Gaia. Not sure if there's a way to get lat/long from Apple or Google Maps.
Sure, here’s one for the former (link below) and for the second you might remember the refusal to accept the election results and months of egging his supporters on, culminating in an attack on the US Capitol and the deaths of 4 or more people.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-prop...
As of a month or so, it's even better: Replicache has no server side component at all. It's client-side software that talks directly to your server. See: https://twitter.com/replicache/status/1359690468892626944?s=... for more.

(We've shipped this now, but not re-announced it yet).
A twist to how he came to conclusion: “Coincidentally, Kuo tracks wildfires using satellite images. A hobby that certainly came in handy.”
2020 Should Have Been the Year We Demanded FDA and CDC Reform, but We Didn't
This argument comes up a lot and it's an astounding oversimplification and gross misunderstanding of how taxes work in the US. The IRS does not know how much you owe until you file. They may have a rough approximation, but they absolutely don't know anything close enough to be able to bill you.
It seems to be a net negative to society to me. One of those cases where a small group gets rich, while everyone else pays the externalities.
Was it in Austin Powers?:

"How fatal?"

"Completely"
> I am worried that I will f' it up again (self-fulfiling prophecy?).

Self-fulfilling prophecy is a possibility, but it’s not inevitable. You’ll want to watch yourself closet to avoid letting worries and anxieties get in the way of getting things done.

There are many resources for self-management of ADHD symptoms. Most patients benefit from these strategies regardless of medication status.

I’d suggest starting with something like a Pomodoro timer app. The idea is that you work for something like 15 minutes and then take a 5 minute break, then repeat. Set a goal of doing something like 10 Pomodoro sessions (minimum) each day, and get to work. It’s much easier to manage time in short intervals, and to break problems down into manageable pieces.

Identify your distractions. If you spend too much time on certain websites (HN included) then get an app to block those during working hours. If you can’t trust yourself, then don’t leave it to chance. Shape your environment to encourage you to focus.

Communicate with peers and your manager. Write a short status report every day to your manager if it helps. Or just write it to yourself. A cadence of accountability goes a long way.

Support groups are hit or miss, especially online. Some of them have helpful tips, but some of them turn into another time wasting venue. Rule of thumb: If people are doing more venting or complaining than sharing helpful tips, close it or add it to your block list. You don’t need it.