skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Israelis invented modern drip irrigation and use it extensively. They also make good use of low-quality water, like treated wastewater and not-totally-desalinated seawater, by developing salt-tolerant varieties and carefully optimizing plant nutrition under their constraints.

Of course they do lots of hydroponics too, for the usual hydroponic crops (tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.). The science in hydroponics and science in sophisticated soil culture aren't really that different--you'll see mostly the same chemical fertilizers, the same EC and pH measurements in the field, the same lab analyses by ICP, etc.

Some water still drains to the aquifer and is "wasted". It needs to be though, or else unwanted ions (from impure source water or fertilizer, including but not limited to Na+ and Cl-) would accumulate and kill the plant. Israel has a significant problem with salinization of their soils and groundwater, and lots of interesting work modeling that.
The Nest device doesn't use GPS, but it does use a variety of sensors (sound, IR, etc) to try to determine if you're home or not, thus technically establishing your location.
That’s surprisingly applicable. I’ve definitely seen this happen more than a few times.
I worked at Papyrus during the Sierra acquisition; Sierra was a great parent company and Ken a sharp and fair CEO. It all went pear-shaped when Sierra was acquired and then had a series of transactions with financial rather than gaming companies shortly after the end of this story, unfortunately.
Codes abs standards have working groups composed of industry, consumers and inspectors. New groups are created all the time to address new technology. Unfortunately the initial cost to set up is typically too high for most individuals leaving progress in building codes/standards up to corporations.
Yeah, I own an EV with piss poor fast charge rates so it pains me to say this, but charging per minute is probably the right move. It certainly feels like the bottleneck right now is charger availability, not amount of electricity available. We should be incentivizing higher charge rates to make the chargers more accessible especially as EV penetration increases.

Nothing more annoying than arriving at a charger on a roadtrip and having to wait 45 minutes just to start your charge because all the spots are full. And don't even get me started on the people who just leave their EV on the charger for hours at a time even after fully charged.
Well, Calyx keeps the basic security model of Android intact (verified boot), unlike Lineage.
Why? Today in only one day we get "law enforcement" installing pre-crime spyware on your apple device. In addition to congress enacting more crypto currency laws.
If I hire someone to do X I trust them to do X. If X involves them getting in my house to do something while I'm not there I give them the keys. If they screw up I no longer trust them for X and I no longer trust them in general.

I'm not saying you trust someone for all the possible things under the sun.

I'm saying if I trust you for X and you mess it up I no longer trust you for X.
I would suggest increasing the contrast on your text and button colors. Also maybe adding a transparent-to-black gradient on the hero video? The copy above it is hard to read while it is loading. Best of luck with this enterprise!
The rule of thumb I've seen is that electric cars are about 25-75% better than fossil fuelled ones over their lifetimes, depending on energy mix and taking into account battery construction.

So it's hardly nothing - it puts them roughly in the same league as steam trains per passenger-mile.
> whether or not others are required to use strong passwords has no impact on your privacy.

It's worth considering, though, that attackers may target sites that don't mandate strong passwords, because the password hashes in the site's database are likely to be easier to crack (and users with simple passwords are likely to reuse those passwords).

Once an attacker has chosen to target that site, that increases the chances that they find themselves able to read your data regardless of the password you used, because they'll have access to the whole database.

In fact, a site which hasn't put the engineering effort into enforcing strong passwords (not even a simple regex, let alone more complex approaches like checking for compromised passwords against the haveibeenpwned database) is also likely to have undervalued security in other areas, again making them a target.
Hmm. So it is OK for me to say make all of my money in San Francisco then go buy property in much poorer Detroit?

Now what if about 1/3 of that income came from my wife who is from a poorer country than Spain?
I'm White. I'm not racist. I agree with your opinions of wanting more black stories.

The fact so many people are capitalizing black and lower casing White is such a deliberate act of divisiveness.

Stop doing this. You're turning moderate people into enemies.

Everything is being turned into race and division to the point it's making my Asian partner and a lot of her friends in the Asian community mad at the black community.

Can't we all just get over the tiny number of genes that separate us?

I mean this in love and honesty. And I'm sorry I didn't capitalize Black. Let's capitalize it all.
> United States society has been problematically lumping people together based on skin tone

Wouldn't the best solution to this problem represent a rejection of such categorization? Wouldn't that necessarily exclude "X for Black People" in the same way it excludes "X for White People"? I'd like to live in a society where skin tone is no more important than hair color. Surely the best way to get there is to de-emphasize skin tone and therefore "blackness" and "whiteness"?

> What evidence do you have that this defines a cultural group (whatever that is)?

From tptacek in another post:

"Black culture ... was created artificially by kidnapping millions of people from the African content and stripping them of their cultures, family ties, and names, prompting those people to construct a new culture (while uniting them for another 100 years in the experience of apartheid and the civil rights movement). It's its own powerful, interesting thing."

I have a hard time disagreeing - it seems to be a distinct cultural group.

> Few people share your distinctions, so it's impractical

I disagree. I would say many people are able to make the distinction, and the lack of appropriate terminology to discuss it is universally frustrating.

> More importantly, it's impossible to distinguish criticism that is racist from that which is not.

It's quite easy. If you criticize a practice of cannibalizing visitors then it's reasonably clear the culture/practices are at issue, not the inherent traits of the people, unless of course we can prove some genetic predisposition to cannibalism.

> arguably non-racist but critical in order to encourage and spread racism

Yes doublespeak is a thing, but that doesn't mean frank discussion should be off the table.

> But being born in a neighborhood to a culture doesn't make you responsible

I would say that it exactly does. Who else can be responsible for a culture's practices than the people who maintain and perpetuate that culture?

> space for criticizing black people. Why is that important? How about we focus on the overwhelming problem, racism?

Because these are intrinsically related. As long as we can't disentangle the criticism and solutionizing of very real problems with black culture and ideology from racist bigotry against black people we'll never solve the problem. As long as black people are in a special class that's protected from serious criticism they can never be equal to the rest of us.
This is a valid criticism.

Upstream being AOSP helps a lot.
This is answered in the article:

> As an example let’s compare two hexes:

> fc94b0c1e5b0987c5843997697ee9fb7

> and

> fc94b0c1e5b0937c5843997697ee9fb7

> are they the same? Let’s use the random art to find out.

Sometimes hashes are visually similar and people aren't always able to compare so finding a different way to represent them could help ensure accurate comparison.

What would be interesting though is if you simply chunk the hash into smaller pieces would it be easier to compare?

> fc94 b0c1 e5b0 987c 5843 9976 97ee 9fb7

> fc94 b0c1 e5b0 937c 5843 9976 97ee 9fb7

I'm sure it depends a lot on the size. If it's a longer string the grid becomes easier, but for shorter strings the chunks would probably suffice.
Having an appeals process doesn't inspire confidence since we rarely hear stories of those appeals processes working.

What we usually hear instead are people being unsuccessful in their attempts to go through an appeals process, often because the system doesn't reveal any information on why they were flagged. The real remediation appears to try to gain some publicity in order to attract the attention of some real human to actually look at their case.
ByteDance's Douyin product has Chinese employees that are based in China. TikTok employees are also ByteDance employees which means a ByteDance employee that passes through their "strict controls" can access whatever TikTok data they want. Even if that's a dozen Chinese nationals that can get access that's a dozen people required by Chinese law to help the state security aparatus.

I don't see any reason to give them the benefit of the doubt considering they already moderate content the Chinese government doesn't like [0] as a matter of company policy.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
Almost an IP address
'terrorism' is defined as whatever a governing body in charge says it is.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran/u-s-officially-d...

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-parliament-blackli...
Model X you mean.

There's no way 7 can fit in an S (and be safe!).
Yup, There's a lot to dislike about musk.

However, it's hard to argue that he didn't significantly change the landscape for motor vehicles. I highly doubt we'd have the current level of BEV investment without tesla. Before their vehicles hit the road, the Nissan Leaf was what everyone thought a BEV was. Slow, no range, with batteries that didn't last long at all.
You are a couple of years behind the times when it comes to your knowledge of the cost effectiveness of solar and wind. They are $ for $ competitive with nuclear, and are being rolled out at scale. 8 MW onshore turbines are now pretty normal, larger ones are on the drawing board, and in the offshore wind market there are now 15 MW turbines.

Base load can be provided through carbon neutral sources, such as the burning of rest-mass left over from crop production. Smart control of appliances is another way in which the need for baseload power could be reduced, allowing for increased consumption to co-incide with periods of higher (or even excess) power generation, and high voltage DC has made it cost competitive to route electricity across larger distances than before allowing an excess in windpower from one location to be moved with relatively little loss to places where there is a shortage.

Storage is entirely optional in this scheme, but we already have more and more battery storage coming on-line in the form of the expanding fleet of electric vehicles which can provide a large sink.

Energy consumption correlates to qualify of life because that's the society that we've built. But it need not be so, not every source of pleasure or quality of life needs a combustion engine or a plug.
yes but didn't react do a big jump? like 0.13 -> 14.0 or such many moons ago. at any rate agree with the point
If you like to use the ‘pg’ Ruby gem in conjunction with this app then you need to use `gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/X.Y/bin/pg_config` where X.Y refers to the correct version (IIRC you can also replace the version nr by `Latest`).
How to Switch to Windows 11 Beta from Dev Channel?
It's an interesting take but the phenomenon is obvious in other alternatives to Clubhouse. Like the Spotify backed Greenroom. I signed up and waltzed in because Clubhouse hadn't sent an invite yet. Got an eerie feeling listening in some rooms.

These apps can be a good supplement to likes of HAM radio for non-technical people but who knows what will become as things continue to ramp back up to being normal again for physical interactions.
8orl
.o

1
> There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused.

For several years now politicians have been asking for "exceptional access for law enforcement" to backdoor encryption. In Europe there's been a number of laws passed recently which violate privacy also.

This is just Apple getting ahead of future legislation so that they can be the ones who get the power and money from every government agency turning to them first whenever they want to monitor and punish their citizens.
Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10
> Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago.

Citation needed.
More like NEED-REFACTOR.CHECK-TODOS.CHECK-FIXMES
The idea is that you develop with GDK, then you are already 80% there when applying for an XBox submission.

HoloLens (aka Windows Mixed Reality) has already moved away from UWP, you are supposed to use Unity, Unreal or OpenXR.
> Why not use open protocols like DeltaChat, Matrix or XMPP instead?

Because Signal and WhatsApp are text/messanger replacements and Matrix is a slack/discord replacement? I'm not sure why there's the constant Signal vs Matrix battle here on HN, I see them as different tools doing different things. I'm not going to create or get all my friends to join a server with Matrix. Or even coworkers or random acquaintances I meet. But I can get their phone number and quickly communicate with them on Signal/WA. I don't see why Signal and Matrix have to be in competition. Just the same way I don't see Slack/Discord in competition with Text Messaging or FB Messenger.
Not every project follows semver. Just because there are numbers with periods interspersed doesn't mean it's semantic versioning. People have been throwing numbers together to communicate something about what it is for a long time now, long before semantic versioning was formalized.
My bad, got [1] and [2] backwards. [1] is supposed to be the archive link, and [2] is https://www.d2l.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/all_statistic....
Sounds like this could be easily generalized to basically everything in society.

Edit: typo
Or refactor something and git no longer thinks the new files are related to the old one since there is too little overlap.
No. He's referring to direct observation.
> So what if you want to make some changes that mandates breaking compatibility?

> Well you simply release a new library or framework under a new name.

I don't think that's necessary. If you use the model you propose (BREAKING.FEATURES.BUGS) and steer very clear of breaking changes until absolutely necessary, then "Framework 2" becomes in a very real sense a new product while still conveying continuity of development team, ideas, etc.

I think of Vue 3, Python 3, Bootstrap 5, or Fontawesome 6. No one would make the mistake of thinking they could just update the version number and be on their merry way. They're treated as "new dependencies", in effect, but re-using the name makes it still obvious that it's the same team and philosophy behind the new language/framework.

One aspect of each of the projects I list above is the continued commitment to maintenance on the old versions, with security and bugfixes and with the old documentation still being available for years after the new version is out. This allows organizations to treat the new major version as a new dependency, with all the caution that entails, without fear of having the rug yanked out from under them.
The issue is that Bolts are limited to 50kw of charging, even if the charger can offer more power.
Ask HN: Do You Invest in Cooperatives?
So I found that "Overall, coops are better than publicly listed companies at growing market share."[1] and found some cooperative investment options[2] and wondered - do you invest in other cooperatives and which ones? If not - why not?

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/dotcom/client_service/Strategy/McKinsey%20on%20Cooperatives/PDFs/McK_on_Cooperatives-How_cooperatives_grow.ashx
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/cooperatives/comments/mqfgu5/some_cooperative_investment_options/
Political activism of many forms is already considered terrorism in many parts of the world. Investigative journalism is not hard to frame as such either in many cases.

If terrorism is the final step, all that's needed to expand it is to redefine what constitutes it.
It really depends on where you live and what the air's like.

I have a $100 HEPA air purifier, and separately an air quality monitor. I live in a very residential area of Brooklyn on a side street.

On normal days the air purifier makes absolutely no difference because PM10/PM2.5 are relatively low just generally.

But the other week when wildfires were producing smoke that smogged up NYC? It absolutely made a difference (brought indoor levels back to "normal", far lower than outdoors that day) and I was happy to be able to run it.

Before you buy a purifier, buy an air quality monitor. This is the one I got, based on reviews it seems to be the most accurate for any under $100:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P4QN2NN?psc=1
Trivia: by default (unless it has changed upstream), the F-Droid app defaults to "Include anti-feature apps: Off" in the Settings. The user must go in there and manually opt-in to see all the anti-feature apps on the mobile client.
It also works the other way though. If attackers target the site, they'll know some users have weak passwords, so if you have a strong password, they'll move on quickly to easier targets.

I'd say on the whole it evens out.
There was another comment that highlighted how he's trying to bury this story right now:

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-08-05...

That comment seems to have been deleted, but I thought it was interesting. I hadn't heard anything about this and it's fairly bad.
If you want to stay with UNIX 1980's rendering model.
One of the probably underappreciated aspects of digital is that it makes what would have been considered extremely low light photography and film-making a few decades ago almost effortless. See what Kubrick did for Barry Lyndon candlelit scenes.

As an undergrad in the late 70s, even B&W up to about 1600 ASA/ISO was pushing things and required special chemistry. For color you really wanted to shoot ASA 25 Kodachrome if you could. Could reasonably go up to about ASA 100 Ektachrome in subsequent decades. And could push things to maybe 400/800 with significant compromises.

These days a full-frame DSLR can hit 6400+ without breaking a sweat. Probably higher with the newest equipment.

I was being "filmed" for a documentary a couple of months back and the lighting was just some LED soft boxes.
Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study
Hi, thanks for the questions!

1. We don't store any raw user data. We pull things like mean and standard deviation from data sources, run the statistics, and store the result.

2. We use a Bayesian statistics engine which is much more immune to peeking problems and Type I errors than frequentist approaches.

3. Tests can be run either client or server side. For client side, we recommend bundling the SDK with your app (webpack, etc). We really care about performance so never want to add additional http requests or script tags of any kind if at all possible.
Thank you for this comment. Now, I know, I do not need to learn SAML. I will wait for the next technology. It reminds me how SOAP has been superseded by JSON.
Huh? I don’t think any journalist cares what god(s) you worship , as long as you don’t impose anything on those around you
My point was that battle was already lost a long time ago when terrorism was the use case.
thanks, I forgot the name of the app!
Intro to Descriptive Statistics
Not what I'm saying. I'm saying there are plenty of terrible engineers coasting and this will catch them.

Edit: I've been top of regular productivity charts AND the unanimous answer to "who do you go to to get unstuck?" at at least one company you've heard of. Management regularly promoted the suck ups. Read something like Blind and you'll know how prevalent this is.
Mh, but you're on used cars, so you are a cycle or two behind. So yeah, you can't afford a new EV. But let's wait for until there are used EVs.
And yet Unix itself is even older.
This thread has made me appreciate the Star Trek Kobayashi Maru exercise in new ways. People _really_ don't like being told that they've failed.
KMonad – An Advanced Keyboard Manager
Two thirds of the way through this all I could think of was “strawman”. He talks about the invisible hand but doesn’t even namecheck Smith or his central thesis.

If he understood that, he might understand that Jeff Bezos got rich not by exploiting people but rather by improving people’s lives
Yes, `flyctl` from https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/login-to-fly/
Metasploit under the hood – Python payload
Wherever you listen to podcasts?

https://conversationswithtyler.com/
Porting your code to C++17 with GCC 11
If you're unfamiliar with the context: Calyx Institute is a 501(c)(3) with a digital privacy and security mission. For a while they've offered, for a few hundred dollars a year donation, unmetered access to sprint's network. I don't know the details but I think they have retained access to the network through the merger due to some non-profit provision (something like the sprint merger was allowed with stipulation that certain agencies using the network for certain purposes would be grandfathered over). There's apparently more history related to the founder previously running an ISP under gag order, which drives their mission.

Access to the network is only possible through wifi pucks. I asked if I could register the IMEI of my ThinkPad's modem/radio, but they wouldn't allow it citing the usual "we are responsible for the behavior of the devices on the network so you have to use our certified device". Sadly, these phones do not participate in Calyx's data network, they require a traditional carrier. Maybe it's part of their roadmap to eventually offer their data services on these handset form factor devices? But until then, I don't see a huge point. It would be really awesome to say "I get my network access through a privacy oriented non-profit" (:
There is: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Please don't be an asshole on HN. We ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you many times to stop breaking the HN guidelines. If you keep this up we're going to have to ban you, so please fix this.
Naive is not something I would associate with Apple, but I guess they have seen it now. I guess they must be ready to pull off any time...Or is their CEO too busy, lecturing others on the righteous paths in other jurisdictions?

"Apple's Good Intentions Often Stop at China's Borders"

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-apps-flag...
Sounds like Apportable: https://github.com/apportable

Our company used them for some games and other things. I once ported a UIKit app that used autolayout and was surprised at well it worked. They were acquired by Google IIRC.