skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The soil is not a mere substrate, it is an entire ecosystem into itself. Topsoil depth is directly correlated with crop yield, and top soil depth has been shrinking. It takes atleast 50 years, often longer, to turn shit soil into good top soil worth anything and it requires sacrificing a lot of the yield to do so.

Growing alfalfa would help, but that is often not that profitable compared to reaping the soil and throwing on more artificial fertilizer until the soil is garbage.
Try the DIY edition, which comes without an OS:

https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition
Please make full sized keys for up and down arrows, with the arrow keys in an inverted T shape. Group function keys in groups of four.

Also provide Mac style keyboard if possible with a command key. I use mac keyboard because it is safer on wrists and thumbs.

All the best.
This looks like a very cool laptop! What material is it made out of?

Do you have information about how the pci-e lanes are routed? I’m wondering because it would be interesting to see how EGPUs perform with this laptop.

Do you have plans to release different types of key caps ( such as U-shaped keys? )
Why collect the data in the first place? When you aren't collecting IP addresses or CPU and OS details you don't need to worry about things like who is going to be responsible for maintaining, securing, removing, or providing that data when law enforcement (or the state) comes knocking. Nobody using the software is asking for this data collection.

Even with their "assurance" that data isn't kept for more than 24 hours, that's more than enough time for it to copied and shared with any number of parties and without independent audits we have no means to be certain the data is being cared for or removed as they claim.

Just don't collect any more info that you absolutely need and users don't have to put their faith in you that it won't be abused, you don't have to deal with the headaches and if law enforcement should ever come around asking you can just say "Sorry, we don't collect that information" and you don't have waste time dealing with those requests either.
I wonder how the environmental impact compares against potential alternatives. Like if instead of reading those pages on your commute, you'd bought yourself a new hand held console every few years to play, or decided that since you're not using the time anyway then you might as well drive yourself to make the trip a little shorter.
3mn Indian souls would disagree
Let's try to put a guess in numbers.

> With roughly 2.85 billion monthly active users as of the first quarter of 2021

> 1.8 billion of Facebook users (66%) use the app on a daily basis

Say 1 database could store the data + handle the reads/writes for 100,000 users (literally just guessing)

2.85 billion monthly active users / 100k users per server = 28,500 servers/"instances" for MySQL

That's not even counting Kubernetes pods (if they use that) running Docker containers (if they use that) for their API / content serving.

I wonder what their average transactions per second looks like.

For Twitter:

> Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter, which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year.

> As of the first quarter of 2019, Twitter averaged 330 million monthly active users

Twitter has 11.5% the MAU of Facebook (330m of 2.85b)? I don't know if 1 tweet can be extrapolated to 1 Facebook like/comment/share/post but if it did, 6k tweets per sec * 8.7x the user base = 52.2k writes per second?

Found this:

> Facebook now has about 30,000 servers supporting its operations, hosts 80 billion photos, and serves up more than 600,000 photos to its users every second.
What is "the principle of justice", exactly? If you're talking about Rawls' principles of justice, you've completely misunderstood the source text. If you're talking about something else... well, I'd be interested in hearing what it is, although I'm not holding my breath for it to be any good.

As to the latter half of your comment, society has a claim on the output of the members of that society, given that the entire operation is built that way.

Society presents you with opportunities that you may not otherwise have. Stated conversely, the expectation is that the opportunities that one might not otherwise have are given to them -- the very definition of welfare.

To do otherwise is merely to try to pull the ladder up behind you, not some great moral ideal.
I think it must be difficult to find something that fits that distinction out of all major cases, basically the things that are illegal and not misdemeanors in one western democracy are probably illegal in the others - the only thing that jumps to mind are laws related to fascism in Germany.
> A few applications hit repeatable-read transaction deadlocks involving insert … on duplicate key queries on InnoDB. 5.6 had a bug which was corrected in 8.0, but the fix increased the likelihood of transaction deadlocks.

Interesting, I've run into a bug in MySQL 5.6 involving select for update where it deadlocked when it shouldn't. I wonder if the two were related.
you're trying to say because a decoder maps n -> 2^n that it's comparable to a QC. lol. my friend you clearly don't understand interference and entanglement.

btw the circuits in quantum circuits clearly aren't just combinational since they evolve in time.
It should become obvious by now: As long as you care about detected infections the only solution is infinite lockdowns.
What support like outside the US?
> The fact that vaccinated individuals don’t stop transmission means that there is no “public good” from getting vaccinated, it’s solely for personal benefit.

This is not true. Where did you hear this? What is your source?

See: "Covid-19: One dose of vaccine cuts risk of passing on infection by as much as 50%, research shows"
https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1112
> that‘s how we always did it

... which, frankly, is a very good reason. Don't needlessly change something people are used to.

Why is the blinker control on the left side and the wiper control on the right side? Because that's what people expect.
The Framework Laptop DIY Edition ships without an OS or OS license: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition

We've been testing with Ubuntu 21.04 and Fedora 34 so far. The latest Fedora 34 respins actually have full functionality out of the box, including the fingerprint reader: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/
> it correlates 0% to my in-job performance

False. It correlates directly to your job performance, unless you're YAML developer.
The line between veganism and cannibalism is getting blurry.
Cell service is metered, even if they say it isn't.
> so lets tax the fucker, and all the other fuckers

I'm not a fan of Bezos or the other "fuckers", but how are American billionaires going to pay that tax? They'll have to sell assets to someone not subject to the tax, probably a billionaire from another country.

Do you really imagine anything will get better when most big American businesses are owned by foreign billionaires? Will working conditions in Amazon warehouses improve if Amazon becomes a subsidiary of Alibaba?
Other than small screen size there isn't much that's amazing here.

Compared to learning on a Commodore 64s with no internet its easy mode.
I would hope that carpenters would include photographs of their work as part of an interview process.
It's enough to circumvent regulations for marking products as GMO.
> Flaw in the capitalistic system.

???
You're presupposing that the hiring manager would be able to tell what skills are involved in making an NES emulator, or even what skills they are looking for.
"catastrophic loss of institutional knowledge,"

Government Engineering has been a giant sucking sound of retirements. The knowledge loss is crazy. Larry even tried to quit so they dropped his targets and increased his pay.
Do any of them give you a busy signal and make you re-telnet?
> If someone asked me to hand over access to a database with thousands if not millions of peoples PII, I would expect it to be "on the books", not just some fishing expedition. I would feel forced to hire lawyers just to validate the request. Fishing around would cause real harm to innocent bystanders.

In the US you may not even be given any choice in the matter. They just hand you a national security letter and you're forced to give them access to anything they want for as long as they want it while being forbidden from ever telling anyone (your customers, your shareholders, the press, etc) that it's even happening. The laws really need to be changed, but how do you petition government to give up so much power? Hell, the NSA has outright lied to congress about what they're doing so our lawmakers can't even know about the data collection going on until some brave whistleblower comes along who is willing to sacrifice everything to let us know.
Design for Obsolete Devices
Could this type of operation had something to do with it?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-backed-company-s-mis...
For everyone other than the country's current labor force, yes.
What a fascinating time for search companies. We saw 2 companies with huge accounting irregularities purchased by large enterprise software vendors. The story behind Fast's acquisition by Microsoft is just as crazy. It was called the "Enron of Norway" https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/did-the-enron-of-norway-pu..., and happened just 3 years prior!

Autonomy acquired Verity, they were the largest enterprise search company out there and HP had high hopes with their e-discovery solutions paired with storage. They didn't learn from Microsoft's mistake.
If you have Samsung Galaxy S8 onwards they actually make a fully functional PC once plugged into a monitor and keyboard.

You can even use the phone screen as a touchpad.

Samsung DeX is very underrated.
Would you please label the rows and columns your table? This will help others check your work.
Yes, probably easily in these GPU days. I have an many excellent hardware and software implementations of analog modular synthesizers; it' soften easier to plan a patch virtually before doing it in hardware (where it does sound better but behave less predictably).

Synthesizing color video might be a bit more work, but not that much more; I have analog synth patches that display animated logos and even allow you to play pong when hooked up to an oscilloscope (analog or digital). It's absolutely doable.
Couldn't sign in after sign up, keeps looping me in Verification. Please fix!
I live in a community, where Verizon FIOS (later sold to Frontier) put down fiber in the ground, and then didn’t connect houses! So this fiber is there for 10 years now, unconnected…
>scanning the entire archive would be ridiculously slow on a system with <1MB/s throughput a some kilobytes of RAM

That's how tar works. Just the other day I was making a backup and streamed 5gb of data as a tar archive, opening it in the archiver took a lot of time.
The Pomodoro Productivity technique: What and why it works
I've seen a lot of similar shenanigans with tech companies bending over backwards to get hires that aren't white or asian males.
In reality, modesty is not used in the way you say it is. You call someone modest when it is a slightly negative trait. You would otherwise call them unpretentious or humble.

Posting on GitHub and having a decent internet presence seems like something a humble person may do, not something a modest person may do. A modest person would have all of their code on private servers, or would have nothing impressive associated with their public/resume persona.
I sorta suspect that soil conservation is just a vehicle for your complaining, not an end in itself.
What I don’t understand is my the M in MSRP aren’t the ones raising prices as demand increases. Why let scalpers profit? Is it just business pipeline / contract issues?
A new version of GitLab is out which comes with a bunch of features for the $99/user/month plan such as code quality inline in merge requests, status checks API etc. Had hoped this would be available all paid tiers of Gitlab :(

Does also seem to have added tracing and metrics of CI pipelines/jobs but only for Datadog
Join the Tesla Virtual Power Plant (Beta)
Have you ever coded on a commodore 64 plugged into a CRT television via RF?

People adapt to what they have.
Another Zip article from early 2020 - historical but also covers quite a lot of technical ground:

Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation

Hans Wennborg

https://www.hanshq.net/zip.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506451
> Why would it be "pretty scary" that a non-SemVer software doesn't use SemVer?

Is there another level of patches below point releases for backported security patches, or are your options to upgrade to something that adds new features and may be backwards incompatible, leave your system vulnerable to known security wholes, or patch it yourself (or maybe depend on your distro to do itl
The sordid and possibly murderous secrets of the Sowden House
It’s All Training Data: Using Lessons from Machine Learning to Retrain Your Mind
I used to feel very strongly about this. Then I started using Common Lisp and discovered the abomination that is tabstop. This archaic "feature" leads to tab width that varies across the line and seems to be hardcoded in every text editor out there. Worse, it's only useful if using tabs for alignment which is completely broken anyway! At some point I intend to patch the source for the editors I use to remove this nonsense.

Admittedly this is something of an edge case - how many languages other than Lisps involve alternating layers of indentation and alignment? The more common C like languages don't suffer from this at all.

At this point I'm largely convinced that more or less all of our tools, languages, and conventions are poorly thought out, brittle, and inelegant. /rant
> Build a small personal project and put the code on GitHub.

This has lost its effect and partially turned it upside down. In school people seem to be instructed "have a github with personal project" to improve hiring chances so now everybody an their mother has an account with a bunch of meaningless crap projects that they have 0 intetest in but put it there to try to boost interview chances.

Don't. Whenever I screen a job candidate and go to their github, if I find that this is just there so you can tick off "projects on github" from your employability checklist, you get huge minus points from me. Then better not have it at all.
> Some businesses genuinely can't operated at a higher cost price as well

I'll believe that when executive pay at said companies isn't high enough to cover hiring 1000+ front line workers that they supposedly can't find.

Their CEO alone made $14m last year and their wages are $15-33/hr. "Can't afford" isn't the issue.
Are you perhaps thinking of Slitscan, famously used by Douglas Trumbull to produce the stargate scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey??
https://indiefilmhustle.com/stanley-kubrick-slit-scan-2001/
American Parents Are Way Too Focused on Their Kids' Self-Esteem
In know a lot of railroad workers..specifically train crews. It is a great job requiring little education…. Unionized, good pay…lots of time off. It ain’t a 9 to 5 gig…but lots make their miles in the first 20 days of the month and take the next 10 days off….and that says nothing about their generous vacation package.

That said… I have also never met a group that complains more ore talks about how much money they make.
A reliable 100W solar installation is indeed non-trivial especially at higher latitudes. Source: typing this on a packets routed via a solar powered relay site on a mountain. Our site only needs ~20W.
On infinitely wide neural networks that exhibit feature learning
I guess I'd also point out that some doctors might be expected to give talks and publish findings etc.
The equivalent Ada code does not exist as the Ada boolean type only has a logical AND operator (no bitwise operations exist):

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-A-1.html#I538...
I highly recommend interested readers to follow through to the Quora page. It’s more or less a public apology, and helped break me out of the echo chamber that occurs here and on Reddit related to interviewing at Google.
I enjoy everything Shawn Wang writes. An impressive set of insights for you to think about during the weekend. You might want to experiment with a few of them, for example, "Build Tools For Yourself." I launched downleft.com and managerreadme.com to scratch my own itch.
Highly programmable quantum simulator operates with up to 256 qubits
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-...
I know a lot of railroad workers..specifically train crews. It is a great job requiring little education…. Unionized, good pay…lots of time off. It ain’t a 9 to 5 gig…but lots make their miles in the first 20 days of the month and take the next 10 days off….and that says nothing about their generous vacation package.

That said… I have also never met a group that complains more (about everything) or talks more about how much money they make.
As long as it’s not round up ready or otherwise encourage more pesticid use I’m cool with it
This doesn't reassure me at all. Linux can be just as oppressive as windows if configured accordingly.
> You can work through a proxy program, but adding that complexity doesn't seem worthwhile to me unless your program to be sandboxed is very complex.

I would love it if all network connections of all programs were created through a proxy. It would allow me to do load balancing, firewalling, tunneling, packet capturing, etc. etc. etc. entirely in userspace, without needing to rely on administrative features like pf/iptables, tun/tap, bpf, etc..

You see that in Kubernetes land folks are trying to achieve the same thing by using so-called service meshes (e.g., https://istio.io ). Right now those systems launch a proxy next to every container. For projects like these, it would have been so much easier if UNIX-like systems already had a standard for making the network stack used by a program injectable.
The target audience for iOS devices does not care about running dos emulators with their custom binaries. Believe it or not, many people are okay with boundaries, especially when the promised and mostly achieved return is a reasonably stable and secure experience.
I disagree.

Spreadsheets are like a Swiss Army Knife.

I have used them for

- Templates for Printing
- Data Analysis
- Financial Tracking
- Report Generation
- Calculation sheet for engineering stuff

and a multitude more uses that I cannot even remember now.

They are not a hammer, though that is one form in which they can work.

Ultimately they are a tool, and a damn fine tool at that.

Their potential is limited only by the creativity of the user using them.
I don't think you're interpreting the labor force participation rate correctly. A low rate usually means that a significant portion of people simply aren't looking for work at the moment, but the reason for that is not reflected in the rate. Right now, many people have decided that taking pandemic payouts is a better option than working for low wages with no benefits, so the rate is lower than it would normally be. If wages were to go up (or when the payouts stop), the math would change and the rate would likely recover.
They’re “gravity defying” because they hang off the side of the mountain, and the people who installed them had to do so also. Don’t be so literal.
Soil depletion / degradation is definitely something we should be paying more attention to. A couple recent HN threads on the topic:

"Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809279

"Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032337
Can ye recommend any novels / authors that are as hard sci-fi as KSR or Arthur C Clarke?
If a company doesn't have enough employees to generate revenue then net income will decline regardless of the profit margin.
Thinnest magnet: Tunable room-temperature ferromagnetism
Note however that MSVC does not support these by default. You need to #include <ciso646> before their use, or you need to pass the `/permissive-` compiler option.
No, it’s ONE incandescent bulb.
And much less than the bulbs that were needed to light a fairly large room.
We used to have a lot of 100W lights until not many years ago, honestly I don’t see the problem in spending that amount of energy if you have no other means to access a fast internet connection.
How does a seller deal with taxes and related legal stuff across jurisdiction? Do you handle them automagically?
Taken to an extreme, MySpace allowed every user to customise the appearance of their profile. That was great for individuality (and training a generation of web designers) but the site lacked a consistent look-and-feel, and the platform passed from the scene.

I'd like to see it return, though probably in some subcultures (indie music, hospitality exchange) rather than the mainstream.
Methylation groups are considered meta-genetic I thought. Sort of like dog-earring a base pair.

edit: epigenetic, not metagenetic
We should keep in mind that working in mining operation is very bad for your lungs and mucous membranes in general. They may also be vitamin-D deficient among other issues.

Just saying they may be immune suppressed...
No I don't mean Rawls. Justice, in this context, means giving to each man what he deserves. This includes not punishing men who don't deserve to be punished.

"Society" has no claim on the output of the members of society. Actually, there is no such thing as society above and beyond "the members of society." What you're claiming is that "the members of society" have a claim on "the members of society," but obviously it doesn't manifest itself in a just way otherwise you could only claim what you deserve, or in other words you wouldn't claim anything from anyone else without mutual agreement.

What your statement really means is that one group of people in society "the needy" have a claim on another group "the productive." As a productive "member of society" you are forced at the point of a gun (don't pay your taxes, then defend yourself from being arrested) to support the most worthless scum on earth as long as he has the social grace of being "needy."

Need does not produce food, need does not build houses -- those are productive efforts -- but need is the ultimate claim on the life and labor of all the productive members of society.

If you want to help the needy so much, I will not stop you, please feel free to spend every last penny you have supporting them -- but leave me out of it. I have a right to live my life as much as they have a right to squander theirs.
> The government is killing these businesses by making it impossible for them to hire

Nobody is entitled to cheap labor.
He also provided 0 citations to people being extradited from the UK for a crime in the US that isn't a crime in the UK. Reading the actual content of the agreement in question I can't find anything remotely close to that text in it.

https://fas.org/irp/world/uk/extradite.pdf

The story itself is about a person who committed a crime that is a crime in both locations so...
No, GP is saying that soil depletion is causing tasteless, nutrient-poor crops, which in turn cause health problems. Not an uncommon view, actually:

"fruits and vegetables grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. The main culprit in this disturbing nutritional trend is soil depletion"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-aN...
Probably not a such a terrible design considering it was later used as the base, among others, for Java archives and all modern Office documents.