skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you didn't mean to cause offense, but this comment is so incredibly frustrating and highlights the incredible ignorance and stereotyping of rural America that's still common.

My reaction to this comment was to shudder the same way as if someone had said "A black person on hacker news? Please tell me more"

Modern farmers are polyglot technologists. Hybrid GMO seeds are selected to optimize yield in their specific soil and weather conditions. Tractors are largely self-driving along with a host of technology to rival a race car and harvesters give live feedback on the quality and quantity of grain so that farmers can make decisions about what to do with the grain- sell immediately, store, or take to a specialized storage facility to dry. Crops are rotated seasonally to minimize pests and optimize soil quality, sometimes on complex multi-year patterns of cover crops, cash crops, spring harvests, etc. Underground "tiling" is installed to speed the flow of water away from low-lying sections of fields to maintain consistent soil moisture across fields on rolling hills. And the futures, options, insurance and debt financing decisions to maintain stable income in the face of unpredictable weather and commodity prices rivals what any investment banker in Manhattan is doing. And that's just for commodity grain producers, meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables have their own unique uses of cutting edge science and technology.

A group of farmers in Iowa sitting at a conference about managing soil nitrogen are likely leveraging far more real science and tech than a group of web developers in the bay discussing the latest updates to React.
Tangent, but:

Emotions can't be shitty.

You can miscalibrate your emotional responses to situations, much as you can sear your conscience.

But the emotions themselves - the full range are valid human feelings, from fury to transcendent joy.
The State of Phishing in the US: Report and Statistics 2020
They're sharing on your "platform". The only reason for you to do this is because it's profitable to you for some reason, hence, you're capitalizing on people's pains.

Support groups help in real life, not over some app where a faceless entity's purpose of existence is to extract your money.
Great to hear that it can work, and has worked for you. Congrats & thank you for the inspo

Houses and toys are plentiful and of low value. The payoffs I have in mind are the great luxury of being able to afford creative freedom and integrity, and the pleasures of mastery. Sounds like you are rich in all that - the wise person's wealth
You really need to hire an accountant. A reputable accountant won't break you, you don't need a major firm or some SV firm, just a licensed accountant. You need them even without revenue because taxes will need to be managed and paid etc. Gusto helps with payroll, but you'd still need to hire a CPA to manage the taxes.

You started a Delaware C corp which means you also have foreign registration fees, business licenses, insurance and things to take care of for your local state. You'd probably be smart to get out of NYC just from a cost perspective although I also understand the desire & benefits it can have. In Florida (that's where I am) or Texas (also lived there), your dollar will stretch further in rents and business licensing is significantly cheaper etc.

The IRS doesn't like the rent thing if you do it improperly, or don't manage the tax implications correctly, they don't care otherwise. They just consider it a benefit which is fine, just needs to be accounted for and reported properly. Use an accountant they will help you set this up to the best of the business and you.

Which is the parent entity? The US one or the Europe based one? Depending where the investment was banked it will also affect your tax issue. Like it or not you will have a more complex tax situation regardless because of the two linked entities and moving money around is simple but has ramifications you need help with.

You can get a small business/startup type accounting firm for ~$2-3k/year at first if all they are doing is quarterly bookings/taxes etc, some will toss in the payroll for 1-2 people at that. Even if you only raised 30k, spend the 3k on an accountant over the next year or you could wind up with a major tax burden or miss out on R&D credits which can help you in the future too etc.

* edit to add this: I'm not trying to sound negative or scare you. Just want to pass along information I have learned and been taught as well. My biggest lesson, being a successful founder means you need to build your advisors team from day 1.
Microsoft hollowed out what was left of Nokia years ago. HMD has been making phones under the Nokia name since 2017.

Nokia is now a boring telecom infrastructure company like Ericsson. When Microsoft killed the Windows Phone brand altogether, a number of engineers left for HMD and Jolla.
There are many of us.

https://mulligan.farm
Historically speaking farming has been a very up and down business and not a good way to make a living.

In the US we have this idea that there was a golden age of farming, but the cycles of boom and bust and etc have been all over the map, often short and unpredictable. Even the historical homestead type plots were potentially unsustainable at the time they were given away.

Not everyone is cut out to run their own business and farming is a pretty tough one at that ...
Hong Kong Man Found Guilty in First Verdict Under China’s National-Security Law
i second that.
I wasn’t touting haggling, I meant a name your price model.
> Instead, the mother delivers and the neonate’s growth rate slows relative to its fetal growth rate, keeping both the offspring’s and the mother’s energy requirements in check.

Growth rate slows after birth, so that would account for some of that. Mother’s also would not need to carry around the weight of the baby, and would be more able to provide for the child.
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How is this better than Inaturalist? https://www.inaturalist.org/
As opposed to the Covid-skeptics, I tend to view the rules and regulations as half-assed, based on last year's information, and not enough. You wrote "Everyone was masked" as if that's enough. Hopefully the room was well ventilated, because if someone had been breathing out virus particles for a long time in a stuffy room and you walk into it, it's probably very likely you'll breathe in the virus, especially if you're just wearing a surgical mask and not N95.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-a...
You can! You need to install the Hercules mainframe emulator and the freely available MVS 3.8 on top of it. There are compilers for COBOL, Fortran, PL/1 and assembly available. The go to guy on YouTube for getting all this working is moshix:

https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix
https://archive.is/m9Nz4
Some other fun related tools and searches

http://www.stuffin.space/?search=StarLink

https://starlink.sx

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization (add "StarLink" to the search at the top - this one is particularly useful to get an idea of the orbits as you can speed it up to see what's going on)
If the farming life was so wonderous, people wouldn't have fled to the cities for new and better opportunities.

At least in Canada, farming in 1800s was a miserable and hard life. I don't think work-life balance came to mind for the settlers, more survive or perish.

edit: After posting I'm thinking of a couple of accounts of what farm life was like on Manitoulin island from back then. I can't get them out of my head so I'll write them here.

The first is the story of a farmer who one day finds that some of his sheep have been killed by a black bear. Now he has do something about it because the bear will keep returning until he has nothing left. He doesn't own a gun because guns and ammunition are expensive, so he borrows a trap (which is re-usable!) from a neighbouring farmer. He baits the trap with the carcass of one of the lambs that the bear attacked and waits. The next morning the bear is trapped but alive. What to do? He doesn't want to leave it like that, and he doesn't have a gun to shoot it, so he elects to finish it off with an axe. In the farmer's account he really did not want to do that but said that he had no choice in the circumstances. He still could have easily been injured by the bear and felt lucky that he wasn't.

The second account is of the local mail carriers. They were issued riles for self protection and in winter if they came across deer or elk they would shoot them and carry it into the next town in the wagon with the rest of the mail and parcels. The meat would then be cut up and distributed. It was noted that for many of the families it would be the only fresh meat they'd get to eat in the winter.
Can I ask, how are you blocking it?

Also, it seems rather strange to me that you focus on porn when social media is a bigger problem.

But that's probably because of my own bias, I've been trying to quit Reddit and other garbage for years.
A growing number of Europeans are also getting their eyes up for the fact that it has been one small democracy (kind of) against a whole region of warlords propped up by oil money from the gulf.

It used to be for years that newspapers only wrote "Israel bombed". Now they write "Israel bombed [...] after days of rocket attacs".

Hopefully it will soon be: "After days of unprovoked attacks Israel demolished weapons".

At that point maybe we can get UN soldiers on the ground to catch the torturists and warmongers in Gaza and elsewhere, get rid of the rockets, restart schools with a curriculum that doesn't include death wishes for their closest neigbours etc.

Well, one can dream.

Here is a very short joke: the UN.
I don't know about you, but I'm rarely annoyed that my server isn't 5% faster. But I'm always annoyed when it goes down.
Definitely don’t use employer equipment to produce work that you intend to profit from.

As always, consult a lawyer and understand the implications of any IP assignment clauses in employment contracts. That said, IP assignment clauses are generally intended to cover works related to your employment. If your day job is writing SaaS backend code in Java, a reasonable employer has no interest in paying lawyers to seize your indie video game IP. However, if your day job is writing video games and your passion project is also a video game, your employer has a reasonable position to argue that your video game overlaps too much with your work for hire and could be at risk. This can be true even without an explicit IP assignment clause, so don’t assume the employment contract is the final word on the matter.

Ironically, this means it’s safer to work a non-gamedev day job if your goal is to make video games on the side.

The easiest path might be the one mentioned above: Work a standard day job that pays well, build up a comfortable amount of savings for a decade, and then use that cushion to do what you want. The failure rate for indie game devs is massive, so plan career paths and finances such that it won’t be the end of the world if it doesn’t work out.
> even today

Probably should be 'these days'. I believe that's a function of modern mono cropping and corporate takeover that concentrates profit and turns a farm into an inhuman input output system.

I've known several small time farmers that had a bit of everything, and they were incredibly proud and very happy.
> but there simply wasn’t that much to do the rest of the year

This kind of assumes they did not needed cloth, bedsheets, candles and other produce. And especially making fabric is super time consuming. This also assumes animals don't need daily care outside of summer. No milking cows or goats, no animal feeding, no cleaning of enclosures.

The small kids did not needed care, feeding, watching. Food cooked itself.
Tips for your next Kickstarter campaign
Here are three tips I learned from my successful Kickstarter campaign:

1- Make an intro video

2- Your social media should be 80% content and 20% asking for money

3- Keep sharing until the end

I hope you found these tips useful. I am the host of a podcast called Wannabe Entrepreneur and in episode 49 I actually speak about this tips more in depth in case you are interested in hearing more about it.
How are you defining growth? Are you defining it by volume? Ie assuming the body mass density remains the same, how much does the weight increase (which means the body is volumetrically growing)?

If not--I am very lightweight right now, and I'm trying to put on body mass by eating more and exercising. While my volume will increase, my main growth is in density. My growth is not in fat, but actual muscle mass. Is this growth? If so, I have gone from 125lb to 140lb in ~2 months, which in absolute terms is obviously more than the baby (my goal is 160lb by the end of the year).

A few years ago, I went from ~130lb to 165 lb in three months--blame the free food at FAANG cafes during an internship. But this might be closer to what you were saying earlier--putting on fat.

Edit. I guess in the original statement saying that a person will never gain weight at this rate again there should be the explicit assumption that we're talking about natural growth, not growth due to external factors (ie more eating--intentional or not). In that case, that statement would be true.
I think this is pretty awesome, shortens the loop significantly for me when practicing.
> I strongly suspect that the goal was to cast a wide net (i.e. bias toward false positives) at the expense of accuracy, but then "cases" became some kind of top-line media metric...

Then in January the WHO updated the diagnostic protocol [1] because of that false positive/low confidence problem. Unsurprisingly, case counts plummeted in the following weeks.

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-not...
I'm still sad they got out of the PC game. Nothing will ever top the PS/2.
Surely Scott Alexander is not because lord of mercy is he verbose.
I don't think it's about such things, it's about pushing features that are developer convenient but not really user convenient.

I'm on an older MacOS version with Safari 12 (too lazy to update, but that's on me), and there are sites that work just fine one day and then break the next because they changed how they want to load random content for their forever scrolling.

I'm sure there's a business case for the development team, but as a user, all I see is that what worked just fine for users before is now broken. The same happens with Firefox too because of Chrome-focused optimizations that a lot of sites seem to make don't always work with Firefox.

For me as a user, I don't see it as Safari/FF holding developers back, I see that because of some unknown benefit, I'm being corralled into using Chrome. I make my peace and just don't visit sites that decide on such changes, but the benefit for me as a user for these changes is completely non-apparent. It's very tempting to write it off as "it's convenient for the devs" due to lack of any relevant information on why such changes are made.
> There is no such thing as a GPL compatible license

On the contrary, you can use MIT, BSD, MPL, LGPL code in a GPL codebase without any issue. You can dynamically link LGPL in any codebase. You can statically link GPL in another GPL codebase.

This is all working as intended.
I dunno I still disagree.

If someone gave me a "simple" API for say networking. I would expect the API to be easy to use. But by your definition, I could give you an API such as "write(byte[])" which just puts bytes on the ethernet wire or into on the wifi radio. It's simple! It's not complex, there's only one API method with only one argument!

But in reality, I'm just shifting complexity to the user. I only consider things simple if they truly reduce complexity rather than if they just shift the complexity to someone else.
Court bypasses 5th Amendment ordering man to unlock laptop with face
You could use matterbridge[1] to connect & bridge the various new networks including matrix back to a client of your choice - in my case the same znc+irssi I've been using for a long time[2]

[1] https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/

[2] https://xkcd.com/1782/
It's tough; I wish I had a good solution to the latter problem. Half the trouble is the majority of what Google bans is semi-automated bot farms; the "minimal human contact" policies are to avoid making the company vulnerable to social engineering.

(That vulnerability goes deep. People would look up the phone numbers of Google offices and call with stories about kidnapped family members and the need to get into a Gmail account to find the ransom note.)
Fifteen years ago it was not feasible for a random person with an axe to grind to publish a convincing video of a specific person doing something they did not actually do.

It's about to become pretty low-effort for a random person with an axe to grind to do that.

It's not that you can no longer believe anything published online - it's that video evidence without provenance was relatively reasonable to trust for a few years, and it's about to stop being so.
"File-ize" would be accurate. DV tapes are streams of keyframes and are not computer files. CDs are tracks and subcode data and are not files. Importing these data media into a computer usually ends with saving a file, which you can store on HDD, SSD, CD (with a file system and not as audio), flash card, etc.
Nokia could make crazy devices like the N95 and others because they had their own factories and supply chain back then. HMD buys off-the-shelf components from Samsung, Sony and others and makes mid-range phones that are indistinguishable from most Chinese and Indian OEMs, who are using the same parts.

And even then, their best features seem to be going away. My Nokia x6 in 2018 came with a stock version of Android. This one has a free trial of Spotify and ExpressVPN, i.e. bloatware.
At about 1k nautical miles between NYC and Miami he'd need to do ~50 nm a day to make it a 3-week trip. That's two marathons per day, a fair stretch even if he managed to make the same propulsive efficiency with his paddle wheel thingy as he would on land.
I wouldn't. I also wouldn't give him any credit just because he's dedicated to the idea. If someone spent millions of dollars trying to recreate the balloon house from Up, I would certainly call them insane.
This article is complete bollocks from beginning to end. I had to hold my nose reading the article. It even manages to rubbish some well regarded studies that comes to the conclusion that insects are indeed disappearing. I wonder who really funded that article?
That's why I wrote AGPL in the sentence.
It’s interesting that IBM wasn’t sooner to the cloud with superior virtualization technology.
Yep. It was stunning to me that this was rarely mentioned in the press.
The Australian government is a nauseating lobbyist front for fossil fuels and oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch and Gerry Harvey

It is my sincerest hope that by some miracle we finally turf them out. The way they've swung from disaster to disaster hopefully left enough of an imprint of how much of a despicable failure they really are
Hasn't that morphed into some sort of emulation nowadays?

Like almost COTS(common of the shelf) Xeon, running some hypervisor and the 'legacy' within? Similar to what Symbolics did with Genera for Alpha?

edit:

[1] https://microsites.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-...

Azure?! Err...sure...
> very strict with sick leave not going into negative

Why? Do they at least allow unpaid negative sick leave? Some surgeries and heart operations and things need a month to recover.

Pooling it IMO isn't always the best result. The problem is that the people who get sick a lot are the ones who also get a lot of work stress, the work stress compounds into more sickness due to lost sleep / lost vitamin D / etc., and they are actually the ones who need the holiday time the most. People who have zero health issues probably have good work life balance already, at least enough to get exercise, eat healthy, and sleep well, and although they too deserve holiday, they need it less than the people who are already exhibiting the symptoms of overworking (lots of body issues).

Especially in the US where many only have 2 weeks of paid leave, or in many cases, 0 weeks.
This winter I transferred a ton of VHS tapes and a bunch of MiniDV tapes. The process is vastly different (obviously analogue vs digital). VHS was a lot more fun with the super cool deinterlacing/FPS boost stuff you can do with AviSynth.

For MiniDV I ended up using iMovie on my Macbook Pro and it worked surprisingly well. It automatically imported and spliced the different "cuts" of a single tape into different files. It even timestamped the videos with what the camera thought the time was (spoilers, tons of the times were clearly wrong).

I found a guide online somewhere, but I'd like to present the dongle beast I used between my Macbook and my camera:
https://i.imgur.com/wZ9rJnH.png

Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Firewire

I just handed off my MiniDV hardware setup to a friend to try out on Windows for some of his tapes. What a blast!
I would argue that if you just providing capital seed and oversight, you aren't farming, you are investing.
> Associations of Email, phone numbers with Matrix IDs.

Collected hashed at a identity server (you can choose) in case you decide that other people should be able to use the identity server to discover you via phone number
A few caveats:

- In most civilized countries (the US being a notable exception) there is a degree of legally mandated job security, so the likelihood of losing your ability to put food on the table from one day to the next is reduced if you work for a company.

- Most companies (startups being an exception of course) already have a working business model, so the likelihood of people suddenly not giving them any money anymore is also reduced.

- Some people (me and many other developers included) actually do like their job - maybe not all parts of it, but generally speaking...
> I wouldn't call the IDF "100% humane", as they deliberately shoot reporters,

sources?

> Arab countries have had decades to offer to resetttle Palestinians and Uighurs, but not a peep.

Also remember that far more jews have been chased from their homes in lands around Israel than Arabs from within Israel, the major difference being that Israel integrated its own people instead of abusing them as a living pawn in a horrible game.

Also remember that Israel tried to get Arabs to stay but they were convinced by their own to leave to make "cleansing" the area easier in 1948.
I have no doubt that farming can be an incredibly taxing job, but taking Clarkson, notorious for making stupid decisions, as an example of farming isn't exactly accurate.

He made many things harder and more expensive than they had to be. The prime example is his oversized, expensive tractor. Throughout the series, whether this was scripted or not I cannot say, I often got the feeling that he had absolutely no clue what he was doing and tried winging it.
Don't work as hard as you're doing at work. You're giving your employer all your creative and mental energy. This is the source of why you feel drained. If you don't fix this, it will eventually lead to burnout down the road (it could take a few years). All the other solutions are just hacks and workarounds while working 200% at your job. Those won't address the core of your problem.

Focus on your GF and personal experiences, your work will never treat you as humanely as life. You only live once, enjoy it!
Are there any plans for a web version?
So, it's not just me that noticed it's getting worse.
As I said, a scale for the most pedantic of scientists. I and everyone else who took physics in highschool is well aware of Boltzmann's work.