skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably just numbers. There are ~2 million farms in the US and ~200k in the United Kingdom.

As an aside, I love UK produce and when it's available to me in the US I'm generally quite happy with it. France probably makes the best butter, Le Beurre, but it's too expensive for me to use regularly. British Double Devon is a true delight and even something basic like Kerrygold is very present and better than 90% of commercial US butter. I'm lucky enough to live down the road from a nice dairy farm and get most of my butter from them, but the UK has some truly good butters at an affordable price.
That sounds pretty promising. Does taking turns work well in practice?
They do, however those comments with links to evidence all seem to get flagged for some very strange reason.
> Between the two requirements, I think Java, C#, and TypeScript might be the only languages that qualify.

says jtolmar in a browser written in C++
And “Knacker” is also a sausage because it “knacks” when you break it in half.
Knack in German has the meaning snap or crack.
Agreed ... the thing that bothers me about UML is that it has displaced better, smaller-bore tooling in a significant way. The idea of thinking-before-coding work is of course completely necessary.
This is a dramatic misunderstanding of economics.

Inflation is a function of both supply and velocity. Velocity is low because US savings are at an all-time high. The central bank has a number of tools to contract the supply once velocity increases. [1]

Your statement that an increase in supply leads to a commensurate reduction in the value of each unit is strictly false. And something you can measure by going to the grocery store and checking if your bill is 100% higher this year than last.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...
I wish people would stop saying authz instead of authorization.
Great suggestions, everyone!

Here are mine:

1. Woolpower Zip Turtleneck, 200 g/m^2 version. Merino wool but unlike others it is made using a circular knit, which makes it light and stretchy. Great in the house in the early morning. Canadian Outdoor Equipment is a great source if you're in North America. Made in Sweden I think.

2. Pentel P205 0.5 mm mechanical pencil in green.

3. Letts Icon 5 year diary. Made in England. They invented the diary.

4. 9x12 dry erase whiteboard lapboards. You can write on them like a regular whiteboard, but I use them as little lap desks. 3 for $10 at Amazon.

5. My one inch tungsten cube from Midwest Tungsten (via Etsy). What can I say -- it's an objet d'art that is always a pleasure to pick up.
agreed, but generally that comes with being a slanderous news organisation
Climate change doesn't make trains any better. What we need is Skytran: https://www.skytran.com/
I’ve gotten into the habit of just pumping out a naïve solution without worrying about anything and then throwing it away and re-building more thoughtfully because now I have full sense of the scope and some immediate edge-cases. As long as the thing is small enough to do that.
key phrase in parent's post being "I'll", you can leverage other people's C-based assets from zig very easily.
This is the same issue all decentralized systems of ownership/value have, including all cryptocurrencies. Technology itself can't be a trust anchor without enforcement.

The dollar has value due to a mixture of trust in its continued value and in the entity enforcing it.

Bitcoin has value mostly because people speculate it has value. The extra decentralization loses its value as soon as you add enforcement, because now it is just a really complicated dollar.

Similarly, smart contracts do not solve an actual problem we can't solve with real contracts much cheaper, and the contract itself is unenforceable if any participant stops cooperating.

If you have to rely on police and courts to enforce your smart contract, why do you need the decentralized smart contract to begin with? Can you even model a smart contract that satisfies the legal constraints of all countries where participating in it is possible? Why aren't you just leaving this to lawyers and signatures on paper?
The thing governments keep building despite their contribution to climate change, air pollution, destroyed neighborhoods, and inefficient land use? The thing funded by the poor at the same rate as the rich? You know... I think I've heard of them. My government is building another 6 lane overpass over a neighborhood (and its a toll!). Hope this one works out!
Rick Beato has some really good videos on drums (and guitars, and ....). Here's a quick 7 min one on bass drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFjZ1QaKHdk

One thing cool about Rick is he has access to a lot of original multitrack recordings and can solo tracks to isolate them, even on older stuff like John Bonham/Led Zepplin like in the above video to isolate drum tracks.
The value you produce is just the upper bound of you salary. The salary you need to survive is the lower bound. Then what you get is in-between, based on supply and demand.
Agree. I ended up going with https://www.openpolicyagent.org/ - it's way, way, way easier to use and integrate with. Policies read better. They're easier to write. They're individually unit testable. The API for OPA is better. Generally I'd recommend OPA over casbin in a heartbeat.
I read his next one - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/183/183975/the-world-beyond-...

I’m pretty busy but found it to have been worth the time. The discussion leads up to a longer final chapter that describes in detail a very well-selected example, to which I still find myself referring years later.
The amount of waste is so small it’s not worth recycling. But we easily could (France does this or at least used to).

If you mean debris after a disaster, then yeah, I agree, we aren’t great at cleaning that up e.g. in Fukushima.

Edit: I was reading this page while writing this; maybe the actual source is better than my comment https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
Record or choose the push notification sound for your Zapier triggers
I'm paraphrasing Adam Carolla here, but he's not the only one who has made this observation: the average business owner is way smarter than the average politician. They will run rings around any regulations that hurt their profitability, and if they can't, they will leave and take the economic contributions of their business with them.
I Build Learning Projects – Part I – By Robert Chang
Trains are 200 year old technology that has hardly improved. What we need is skytran, which is 1/50th of the cost of trains for the same capacity: https://www.skytran.com/
13 minutes read.

This post by Robert Chang is such a detailed masterpiece on how to deliberately grow and improve at your craft; I cannot recommend it enough. The framing around "Focus on Transferable Skills" is something I've never considered that way, and it helps to set a strong filter (if you choose to apply such) when you explore for ideas. Share this post with your teammates, and even better - share your learning projects so you could push each other to learn and teach.
I meant employee but flubbed it and totally flipped around my post. Sorry!
Crypto technologically solves the social problem of trust.

I‘ll leave the interpretation of this statement up to you ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Effects
And, as we've recently discovered, the academic equivalent is "I was just testing the security of the code review process".
Yes, the Northeast Corridor is the only profitable part of Amtrak, that is why Amtrak tried to cut as much service as possible outside the Northeast Corridor prior to Joe Biden taking office.
I hardly ever had to tune JVM, and would never put the single threaded V8, with a dynamic language, under similar workloads.
Amtrak hasn't worked out. The USPS no longer needs mail sorting cars, and air travel has been deregulated and is highly cost competitive.

The Amtrak system should just be abolished, except in the North East corridor where they own much of the tracks.

Remove the prohibition from mixing freight and passenger cars, and in fact partially subsidize freight carriers having an Amtrak car at the back of most every freigt train... partially subsidized to ensure they will making stops in the small remote cities without other transit options. Modernize the systems to allow bypassing stops with no-one waiting to get on or off, and use more cameras and intercoms with fewer on-train employees to keep costs down while still supervising and assisting passengers.

Technology is marching on, and if Amtrak doesn't make these sorts of changes soon, it'll become entirely redundant. Passenger trains are faster and more efficient than automobiles right now, but a near-future with self-driving, fully electric vehicles on non-pneumatic tires could be faster, cheaper, and less polluting than passenger rail.
The share of warming is higher than the pure emissions because of the aerosol effects and resulting heat trapping. Some estimates are twice as much.
> Then it’s not realistic. How can companies afford to raise their highest expense?

So we’re back to my original point then.
Some past threads:

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585890 - Nov 2015 (22 comments)

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874875 - April 2012 (66 comments)

Feynman's wobbling plate: how to recover from burnout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291773 - March 2011 (22 comments)
> You wouldn't write a web frontend in Java (not anymore)

I really want to try out htmx (https://htmx.org/docs/#introduction) for my next project because I feel it's the only logical next step to HTML, so yes, I could definitely write it in Java
I don't think the comparison is accurate. The subproblem explanation of DP immediately lends itself to a strategy for solving problems: come up with a brute force solution then look for where you are duplicating where, i.e., how can a hash table help me? Even if there is a more efficient way to do things in the end than a hash table, I find it easier to go from brute force, to hash table, then finally look at it and see if I can optimize it further.
We need to revise all consumer protection laws. Way more than we did a few years ago.

I would start with, Mandatory Arbitration.

Let consumers take these companies, including credit card companies, to court. What is the limit for small claims---$25,000? Companies might treat customers different? I wouldn't mind doing away with Terms if Service all together. If a company can't act within our laws without a 10 page TOS, so be it. Or, maybe strict protections for small companies, and nill for large companies. Companies that can afford to investigate claims against them?

All my belly aching here won't do a thing though. These companies have bought our representatives.

I'm waiting for a day someone has a successful website, like Hacker News, where people could offer suggestions to their representatives directly.

I don't think I'll ever see that day because those in charge know these matters are above the intellect of most Americans, and most Americans would rather escape the inequities of real life, especially on line?

I just looked up that 2008 Consumer Protection Act.

This popped up?

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811718978/supreme-court-casts...
This is a really fantastic article above and beyond what the headline suggests. I recommend giving it a full read.
Family and Productivity
How many times will people keep proposing PRT before they discover that it doesn't work?
no when you look at it
they are not spending less(beside rent)
they are just buying lower quality stuff to sustain life
an iphone is an iphone all around the world you wont find it for 50$ if you are getting paid 100$
The interesting question is how they organize these tremendous design efforts before laying the first brick. In software, there just is no construction phase after the design phase.
Nod. Pre-9/11 peak deregulation had $40 flights BOS-NYC. I'd run from Boston subway, to a quick direct shuttle bus, then through the doors, across the small lobby, with staff yelling at me... "Run faster!" they'd shout, mostly with a smile. Down the ramp without stopping, sliding through the closing aircraft door. Flight attendants later walking the rows, collecting two twenties from everyone. Here in a multiply dystopian future... sigh.
STEP (ISO 10303) is moving to use SysML to define the models for the collection of standards.

Part of the reason is to be able to use visual tools instead of defining everything using text.
Level 3 is actually a level where the responsibility is still with the driver.

It means that can mostly drive itself but the driver still has to be alert and ready to take over at a moments notice.
Which is the worst off all worlds, and I believe all manufacturers have said they will skip level 3 in their offerings.
When you expect your materials to arrive daily for that days production and keep almost zero inventory and relying on "Just in Time Delivery", then cancel all your orders overnight and then expect them to start again on whim, on the day you decide without any heads up to your suppliers...what could possibly go wrong? Can you imagine if Apple behaved this way? If iPhone sales drop one quarter, cancelling all their chip production until sales picked up again?

Auto manufactures are spoiled, they get anything they want whenever they want from the Government every time they start crying. Whether it's multi billion dollar tax breaks (Ford, Oakville, GM Oshawa, etc), multi billion dollar Gov programs (cash for clunkers) at the tax payers expense or being allowed to screw their suppliers for billions through bankruptcy (GM).

Don't excuse their poor management, forecasting, greed for frailty of the global supply chain. It's not like a asteroid hit Taiwan.
For example the crash is typically used in pop and rock on the first time, and in metal instead of the hi hat for heavy parts. For the ride you can watch some clips from the film Whiplash maybe.

Edit: also I can think of one album (the first one of The Glitch Mob) that doesn’t have any cymbals (not even hi hats) if I remember well.
> Pay developers enough so that they'll stick around

It's amazing FANG companies have any turnover based on that logic. Turnover happens for a variety of reasons... like global pandemics... you can't make a blanket statement like that and expect to be taken seriously.
Sally Clark – quashed conviction judgement transcript
Simple color picker app I made is 25MB. Even 10MB sounds pretty large for a simple app. But what I'm trying to say is more that I don't feel very hygienic considering using all these abstractions to develop a simple app, if I could just use the same C codebase to deploy for both platforms. Latter is technically possible, but nobody has created a framework around it similar to flutter or react-native. Flutter seems like the better option for the hygiene now though.
who cares, go vegan already
Everything at google is built on RPCs between systems using protobufs
Assuming that there should be a universal salary, I seem to recall a lesson an economics lesson on the interaction of supply and demand in determining price.

The bigger question is whether there should be a universal job salary for remote working jobs.
Sleep deprivation study finds that caffeine reduces the detrimental effect
This might work in northern locales, but given the climate it's not practicable here in the American South. Nobody wants to walk or ride a bike through sweltering heat (i.e. ~85-90°F with high humidity) from May through September.
That's only if they design the distribution system such that it relies on the existence of the servers. If I start up Age of Empires 2 (assume in a computer or older VM such that compatibility isn't an issue), I can start a multiplayer game through LAN without any issue. If I start up a game of Overwatch, I cannot play against somebody in the same room without connecting through Blizzard's servers.

It is perfectly reasonable for a company to be liable for refunds if they want to deliberately take products or features away from users. In order for a company to avoid this liability, they must provide a way for those features to still be available to users, even if the company no longer supports the product.

This is pretty easy and straightforward to legislate. A media company that provides distribution of individual works (like Steam or Apple, as opposed to subscription services like Netflix), must provide a method for users to easily and automatically back up all purchased content. A company that runs servers necessary to the use of a program (e.g. matchmaking servers for video games) must provide the server executable, in a form that can run on currently-available commodity hardware, and must allow the client to select a privately-owned software. Companies that don't meet these requirements would still hold full liability for refunds if they remove product features later on.
>What information exactly can you get from a debugger with watchable variables and immediate mode code execution, that you can't get from print?

Lots of things but an obvious example is private member info.
A lot is in the 150-160 range
Starbase, Texas: Can Elon Musk create his own city near SpaceX Gulf launchpad?
This is something made easier by the fact that we understand how mechanical designs age. We've built high-standing structures with parts that move in a similar way that last decades. We understand how to maintain those structures without totally replacing them.
It solved the problem of paying for drugs which you ordered online.

It solved the problem of ransomware payments, before winlockers used to ask for gift cards which didn't scale well.

It solved the liberty reserve problem where the US government shuts down your sketchy no-KYC money transfer platform.

At a very general level cryptocurrency has solved the "anonymous online payments"-problem.

These are all very real problems solved by cryptocurrency.
I invested much of my early career in model driven architecture with UML. Including diagramming tools, dev rel, XMI transforms, code generation, etc.

I couldn’t have summarized it better than you just did. Thank you.
The portion of the CAHSR system being built right now is flatter and more open than most of France, and isn't on or near any of the major fault lines in California. Its outrageous expense has nothing to do with the geographical challenges of California (which are real, but not for this segment) and everything to do with the incompetence of the construction companies and their governmental overseers, as well as NIMBYs exacerbating these problems to epic degrees.
I had a folding bike with a belt and the belt would slip if I torqued it too much. Have you had that problem?
React/Redux/Angular all have staying power so I don't understand your point. I don't know what you mean by "shiny" tech. Other than specific libs that go unmaintained, most popular tech has some staying power.
I sympathize with the general sentiment of your argument, which is what initially drew me towards Go (in addition to the hype).

For better or worse, Go is where all the energy is in terms of OSS, so I do hope I see the light some day, but for now, the dev x for me is pretty underwhelming compared to Java
Us. The money will come from us.

Or RoboCop. You choose.
Actually ML.
Wrapping my head around DFINITY's Internet Computer
The Wikipedia article you posted is very relevant to me because I watched a division of the Air Force waste tens of millions of dollars trying to implement that approach for their collection of IT systems.

The consultants got very rich with their cartoon drawings on the walls and nothing was produced for the taxpayers naturally.

A complete failure but because it's the federal government nobody was held accountable and the person in charge changed the success criteria enough to be able to cancel it and call it complete.
Seems like a search algorithm update is called for.
Never had problems with belt. I have been using it for 4 years now.
To be honest, it seems like the author has never tried Clojure, for example. You get most of Java's ecosystem and JVM benefits (and if performance becomes an issue, you can drop down to Java), while being way more expressive and easier to write.
UML is the virtual thing, so it will be a virtual pole, of course.
You can store it in a deep freezer without losing much nutritional value, which means it’s available on a whim without having to make a trip to the store. In many places that means you have it if you have a hankering without spending 1+ hr tracking it down first (typical if you’re not in an urban center or next door to a grocery store). I usually have some fresh broccoli stocked, but sometimes I already ate it. If you have kids, or are more remote (so it’s 2 hrs round trip or more), that is huge because you just can’t make that trip many times - too many other demands on your attention.
Similar to dot-com bubble where people were investing their life savings into companies that just had a domain name with no business plan whatsoever. Lots of them blew up, but the ones that made it through ended up becoming trillion dollar companies.
White women most dangerous upholders of white supremacy in Silicon Valley
I'm not sure how true that is even though Amtrak is one mover of people. One of the reasons I for one tend to take Amtrak is that Boston area into Manhattan is mostly a pretty awful drive and it isn't because there are so few vehicles on the road. Also, pre-Acela business travelers mostly flew (and many still do) on the northern section of the corridor. And, even today, most business travelers aren't going to take the train from Boston to DC.

So it seems pretty probable to me that Acela came about because there was already a huge and increasing demand for such a service.
This chart affects 0.35% of the global population. This one is far more representative [1]. Notice how after Bretton-Woods ended, things got really nice and stable? That's successful active management.

Venezuela's problem isn't inflation - that's a symptom. Venezuela's problem is the Maduro government. Solve the latter and you solve the former.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA
It's too bad because music proved that DRM doesn't make any difference for piracy.

Spotify and competitors are successful despite piracy.

Movies piracy is still just as big with DRM.
>not generally family affairs

You're absolutely right in that most of the food we eat in the US is grown on a relatively small number of huge commercial farms, but interestingly enough about 80% of the ~2 million farms in the US are classified as small, which means they earn less than $350k annual revenue. That's 1.8 million small farms in the US, by comparison there are ~200,000 farms total in the UK. It's just a numbers game, there are vastly more farms in the US than the UK.

Keep in mind, many of these small farms are __very__ small, half of them generate less than $10k annual revenue and 80% earn less than $100k. At that scale they can't compete on price, so they usually focus on the quality of what they grow, and for that to work you have to market your crop which means farmers markerts, facebook, youtube and any other way they can think of to get their product out there.

Also at the $10k or less annual revenue level (about 1 million farms), often the the farm is only nominally a business and in practice it's closer to a hobby or lifestyle. I live in a semi-rural area that's close to a high-income metro and there's always been a constant stream of people retiring from city life to go live in the "country" and farm, in most cases they have savings or other income and only sell their produce to offset some of the cost of production or just because they are proud of their produce.