skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How in the world you deplete soil by adding nutrients through fertiliser?

"Chemical-based farming" is a lot more than just adding fertilizer.

Clear-cutting and deforestation to make farmland. Increased crop yields extracts more from the ground. Increased extraction of groundwater. Erosion due to killing of weeds, heavy tilling, and destruction of forests and native plants. Phosphate mining makes a giant mess.
> any semblance of incremental changes are, at this point, endangering the very lives of future and current generations

Yes, appropriate emphasis on current. Another example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58303792
> HTTPS RR is great, but not super useful at this point.

I still find it a shame that SRV records never caught on. Active Directory uses them very well
You get what you pay for.

The biggest disinformation influencers who parrot the governments like stenographers are showered with millions as news anchors, talking heads and get juicy book deals. These amateur troll farms are a joke in comparison. They have not lied countries into wars unlike the other more insidious kinds.
Sure the right answer will eventually prevail but the process is much worse than we like to admit. Many breakthrough advances were outright rejected by contemporary peers when first proposed.

"Fermi first submitted his "tentative" theory of beta decay to the prestigious science journal Nature, which rejected it "because it contained speculations too remote from reality to be of interest to the reader." Nature later admitted the rejection to be one of the great editorial blunders in its history. ... Fermi found the initial rejection of the paper so troubling that he decided to take some time off from theoretical physics, and do only experimental physics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%27s_interaction
> In a statement sent to Insider, a $COMPANY representative said "WA WA WAH WA WAH, WA WA WA WA WA WA WA."

> "Nothing is more important than WA WA WA WA WA WA WA."
Ossification isn't really a problem for Homa's intended use case IMO; it's meant to be used on intra-DC networks with latencies already as low as 1us-2us, and is optimized exclusively for this design space (lots of short messages, high load, etc). Everything on the path is likely going to be controlled and on your network already and won't be going near the WAN, probably only TOR/same isle at worst, if I had to guess (I don't have any measurements on intra-rack tail latencies in DCs or anything, I'm just spitballing here.) Third party gear is a huge problem in the last mile but not in tightly controlled networks that something like Homa targets; you not only have to adopt a new socket type but also the RPC design to go with it, and reap the benefits. I suspect most people aren't considering this unless they already have strong network control with their own hardware/SDN.

Similarly, you could make an argument that because this interconnect tolerance is so low, pervasive monitoring has a different risk profile. Two servers communicating via TOR thru a 40G NIC using Homa don't even have an opportunity to pass the packets elsewhere in the hierarchy to be snooped by someone else, unless it's just streaming packets directly into the three-letter-agency van in the parking lot I guess. For all practical purposes in a system like this the requirements are so tight you can only afford direct links between systems (or something close to that) if you want to maintain the desired operational behavior, so third parties appearing between two points might not be possible, much less likely.

That said I think including encryption would be good. But the reasons would be very pedestrian IMO: for one, it ticks off the annoying compliance checkboxes (both political and social) and means there's a single design for anyone who implements Homa to follow, so people don't have to painstakingly re-create it. And a corollary of that checkbox tick is that it nips threads like this one in the bud regardless of all the above. :P
Do I believe that everyone should attend college? I do not. Of the people who should attend college, is it frequent that people can't grok single-variable algebra?

I'm not disputing your superior experience on this topic (hence "well-informed position"); I'm just saying that it's fairly depressing.
RMS also created GNU which is used by billions today. Neither Linus, nor RMS, nor anyone who ever started these well known "hacker" project in their basement/university did things just for fun. Despite all the downvotes, I think it's useful to remember that.
"Help compare Comment and Annotation services: moderation, spam, notifications, configurability" executablebooks/meta#102
https://github.com/executablebooks/meta/discussions/102 :

> jupyter-comment supports a number of commenting services [...]. In helping users decide which commenting and annotation services to include on their pages and commit to maintaining, could we discuss criteria for assessment and current features of services?

> Possible features for comparison:

> * Content author can delete / hide

> * Content author can report / block

> * Comments / annotations are screened by spam-fighting service

> * Content / author can label as e.g. toxic

> * Content author receives notification of new comments

> * Content author can require approval before user-contributed content is publicly-visible

> * Content author may allow comments for a limited amount of time (probably more relevant to BlogPostings)

> * Content author may simultaneously denounce censorship in all it's forms while allowing previously-published works to languish

#ForScience
In my Emacs config I redefined one of internal Emacs functions which is responsible for creating new windows (panes in more common parlance), which I think is superior, and I'm working more efficiently, rearranging windows less frequently than before (not to mention with other window managers)[1]. That's something I don't get outside of Emacs.

[1]: Efficiency is probably second priority though to getting rid of the annoyance of windows showing up in weird places making everything around hardly legible. Prior to the customization I felt as if I was pair-programming with an angry gremlin who would keep making a mess on my desk. Now I have more peace of mind.
The iPad Stand: Elevate Your Device for Ease of Use
As someone who straddles the lines in the sand, I actually agree that conservatives I interact with seem to be the more open-minded cohort these days, but it's pretty marginal. The big difference is the amount of self-back-patting that liberals do about how "open-minded" they are and their agreement with standard narrative condemning conservatives as closed-minded or uneducated. Though, even that is mirrored by the other side to an extent.
I have been having absolutely terrible DNS performance in Firefox when I am not using the dns-over-http feature - anyone else? It started happening very recently, within the last week or two.
Thank you, /blast/, for sharing this article. The US public discourse has become a thoroughly annoying, exhausting puppetry of shouting, wrestling straw-men.

Democracy needs education and clear discourse. Citizens in a democracy are to be treated fairly and as equals before the law. If we cannot even ensure these principles, democracy is in a decrepit state indeed.

I wonder what exactly remains as a political commitment to the people.
I am a commercial organic farmer. I have trouble sourcing something every year and I live in the United States and have resources available to me to afford exotic things like potash from Alaska or pathogens to kill grasshoppers. If it’s a wet spring and I need more pest mitigation I can have a hundred guinea hens mailed express for $200.

I’m poorly traveled and ignorant of Sri Lanka but I believe it’s a very poor country where $200 is a lot to ask for let alone luxuries like pest pathogens, ag netting, soil testing etc etc… And if you don’t have all that, then going organic is going to absolutely destroy yields and you cannot have a modern society if everyone is farming
That's why I wrote "an archive of my OLD videos". They probably don't generate much revenue already.

Also, ThePirateBay does not compete with YouTube even in the cases of the same content being available on both the platforms. Most of the people want to watch the videos on-line, go to YouTube naturally and won't bother using torrents. Sophisticated people who want an off-line copy just use youtube-dl anyway. The actual YouTube audience will only go to ThePirateBay when they really can't access the videos on YouTube.
The EU is already dependent on other regions because without imported synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals, they won't be able to produce the same yields anyway. Most countries there already have 10% or more farmland dedicated to organic practices.[1] They have more tooling and expertise available outside the chemical monocropping approach, which is what doomed the change in Sri Lanka.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/657572/organic-farmland-...
This is how it should have been. Who needs a cheap phone which is obsolete after 6 months... If you need a burner phone you can easily buy a dumbphone. The problem is manufacturers like Xiaomi are misleading customers into thinking that their devices will last them for years.
> I think it is past due time for legislation preventing all public money from being used for social media, including tax exempt NGOs and government intern salaries that hire social media managers.

Seems to me that we are in a choice between the devil and the deep sea.

Governments and NGOs spending money on these platforms further enables the continued existence of said platforms and all of the problems that they entail. But because the social media main players are so big, not spending money means leaving the table open for others to further their own agenda to an even greater extent.

It’s difficult.
I mean that’s really close. I always thought of RAM as multiple orders of magnitude faster than disk. Within 3x of speed is pretty excellent.

(though, I guess this doesn’t give us any latency info, just throughput. I’d expect RAM latency to still be faster)
Corporate lobbyists get paid very well. Which is probably the top of that game without going into politics.
Private platforms can indeed do whatever they want, but I think there's a discussion to be had about whether what they are doing is right or wrong...
So, if someone is under investigation for criminal activity, you think they should be given advance warning of such?
> I met several great women developers in my career

Why is the other one poster child for feminity? I met guys who dropped out of college, because they could not keep grades due to regular whole night gaming.

I met guys who switched out of CS, because they could not pass exams despite trying.

In both gender, you get some amount of irresponsible, disinterested, troublemakers or simply people with too many mental issues to finish any school.
Point taken, but by “what person” is what average person in the world that is living day-to-day and is just trying to feed their kids tomorrow. I imagine most of the farmers in Sri Lanka are just trying to make it day-to-day.
9 billion people. Some of them are bound to be allergic to some fertilizer or other.
You should try making the alcohol you drink. I make beer, wine, and mead. It's a pretty good time.
Show HN: Arduino Boards and Shields Collection
Is Node ready for native ECMAScript modules? Yes, how to migrate with a codemod
> Unlike the Shuttle, which was largely designed by politicians and committees and engineered retroactively

It's like saying a service is designed by PMs and engineered retroactively :( . It's a bad choice of words.
I'm not amused at such fowl language.
I found that to be the case many times as well. But awk also often outperforms Perl, especially mawk.
Hopefully nations can think 50-80 years in the future.
You know for a few confused seconds I didn't see the joke about the title and took your statement literally, assuming you were talking about some precocious student, who perhaps had been lucky enough to be tutored or concurrently enrolled while still in high school.

Funny story, though: this is the upper division algebra text we used at UC Davis, and one amusing anecdote that our professor relayed was that this book was in fact written for MIT freshmen. Supposedly, this is why the book introduces linear algebra from scratch rather than assuming it as a prerequisite....
Maybe some mods can change the link to the pdfs?
In any case they're not difficult to find and I trust the HN crowd wants to see the primary source anyhow.
Awww, I actually enjoyed feeling like I just fired up a new game of Adventure when visiting an unsecured site. Accepting the risk and continuing was my modern day key to the yellow castle.
And Germany and its media mouthpieces like DW and Der Spiegel spin up stories in other countries trying to influence elections.

Pot calling the kettle black.
Are these exploits patched in IOS 14.7.1 or earlier?
I'd like to see some harder numbers on this, too. I'm from a similar area, but, maybe things are different in other places. It would be great to see the figures adjusted for cost of living.
Wow. Ok, that's pretty convincing. I guess it's frustrating having organic vs regular as the option here. Seems like we need more terms to have a more reasonable discussion. Like, what is it called when we don't use dangerous pesticides but we do use man-made fertilizer? What is it called when we use crops optimized for flavor and nutrition vs shelf-life and bulk?

I live in the Netherlands and the produce here is pretty awful compared with France, Italy or Germany. I'd be happy with some kind of arbitrary point system to indicate holistic quality. Even though we might disagree on details, balancing price, health, nutrition, taste, environmental sustainability and labor ethics is really hard for a consumer. When you buy organic you kind of hope all those things are included, but it just seems so non-rationalized at the moment.
Yes, out of the blue, in all countries, and all cultures, on all continents, parents spontaneously put computers and screen, engines, motors, in kids rooms. What a weird collective behavior ! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the many experiments carried out on children, from the youngest of age, showing that even 2 days after birth, boys and girls had different attractions to moving objecs, or human faces for instance !
Can we at least label which products are coated in ground up insects?
Not Germany, but its politicians.

They themselves sabotaged North Sea gas projects, and drilling for gas elsewhere in Europe, as well as Qatari gas offers.

Remaining beholden to Russian natural gas takes a lot of effort on their side.
Self hosting?

That sounds like an unregulated place for all the people who were thrown out by those with at least some ethics left.
>If college was a bad deal, you would see women opting out as well.

Not necessarily. Bad deals are generally taken due to deceptive marketing, something that drove a lot of the college applications over the last two generations. If deceptive marketing is still in play but one group, e.g. American men, is no longer being targeted...
He's advocating for "anti-racism" which claims there is no such thing as "not racist" policy, only racist policy and anti-racist policy. But he jumps through hoops to redefine racism so that it can suit his argument that "not racist" doesn't exist. That if you don't consider race in literally everything then you are racist, by his definition. This is in direct opposition to the Civil Rights act of 1964:

"Since the 1960s, racist power has commandeered the term “racial discrimination,” transforming the act of discriminating on the basis of race into an inherently racist act. But if racial discrimination is defined as treating, considering, or making a distinction in favor or against an individual based on that person’s race, then racial discrimination is not inherently racist. The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity."
And, is he sure it was his wife on the phone?
It's a person who does mathematic calculations all day. For example, creating range tables for artillery, calculating averages or totals of a large range of values, or solving complex integrals or differential equations, and so on. They're commonly used in industry or government, especially in astronomy, aerospace and civil engineering for both simulation and analysis. Perhaps the most well-known computers were the Harvard Computers, which operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

As a job, computers were largely automated out of existence by solid-state transistor based automated computers and integrated circuit transistor automated computers in the 60s, 70s and 80s, which replaced the enormously expensive and often largely experimental electro-mechanical automated computers while radically reducing cost and improving performance both by several orders of magnitude.
Victorian Premier warns no-jab, no-play as state moves to 'vaccine economy'
You're right that 'match' would have obviated the ambiguity in this title, given the context, but I don't think it's the only 'correct' term in general. I'm British too, and I would have no objection to referring to 'a football game' - nor can I imagine anyone ever getting that confused with the abstract game of football.
Why do you say this? How does money-printing = corruption?
actually, it was simply because I didn't want to write the name wrong :)
> if 100 years aren't enough to evaluate long term consequences what is?

100 years isn't long when you're changing the global ecosystem.

The Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s. We're only now beginning to agree on its long-term consequences, and quite a ways off from agreeing on mitigation steps.
Technology and the market will set the cost of triple-A productions
Spectral Clustering: Where Machine Learning Meets Graph Theory
I'm not a big-time Mac user- only using it for work. So, I'm usually plugged in to a power source. I also don't use Chrome or Safari, so my answer is almost completely useless to you. :P

But, those times when I am "free range", and I pull up the Activity Monitor thing, Docker and my IDE(s) are almost always using more energy than Firefox for me, unless I have a tab open that's doing something stupid.

That being said, it's always in the top 3, beating out the mail client and Teams chat. I don't know if that's better or worse than Chrome or Safari, but I wouldn't be surprised that either of those are superior than Firefox in technical metrics.
lrshg;kjsdhfvkj.hsd;cvkj
> This is the classic, “You can’t negotiate with terrorists” situation.

Even older, it is the classic "don't pay the danegeld" situation:

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.htm...
The fun with percentages: people get it wrong even when it hugely affects their bottom line.

> “The ban has drawn the tea industry into complete disarray… If we go completely organic, we will lose 50 per cent of the crop, (but) we are not going to get 50 per cent higher prices”

Thinking simplistically like that (the entirety of the cost is not in production, ofc), you need 100 per cent higher prices (double) to cover for losing 50 per cent (half) of the crop — this "tea conglomerate expert" has not thought this through :)

Percentages are so ingrained in our culture, but with them being a relative measure, they are so easy to confuse.

Why not speak in simpler terms to help yourselves? "Losing half the crop, we'll need to double the prices (to break even)."
If this existed (or does) I would seriously consider getting a law degree and passing the bar.
Plenty of rust-based projects are using these libraries. I've yet to hear of a bad experience. I don't think there's much adoption outside of the Rust ecosystem.
For those using TOR: https://web.archive.org/web/20210903011953/https://www.econo...
I always assumed no one give me benefit of doubt if I don't have something actually in hand. Which meant for me, I would expect the degree to be necessary for me to get the first job.
>spend $5,000 a semester

That's what I spent a semester (total)... in the early 90's.

These days it is more like $5,000 a semester (per class)!
> I have never had a program cause a system to run out of memory in real software

It's pretty common when your users sporadically upload GB-sized pdfs and you have code that quietly duplicates the pdf octet stream =D.

Luckily, our system is stateless, but it could be far, far worse.
but that cuts your yield by 25%.

Wouldn't a competing farm be more profitable to add fertilizers to the soil to replenish the loss nutrients, which means they can price out the crop rotation farm?
It's not like there is a cheap alternative that the professors can switch to. All new edition textbooks are expensive. They can't specify out of print editions because then you can't guarantee that your students can get access to them, and the textbook companies update the problems in the books just enough to make using a different edition from the one specified impractical.

Some publishers may incentivize using their particular textbook, but there isn't some vast conspiracy to jack up prices. The fact is textbooks are a niche product with a steep demand curve that can be paid for with subsidized loans, of course they're going to be ridiculously overpriced.
Well, you're sort of assuming that our physics are the full range of physics, and everything is being modeled faithfully. What if our simulation is just a subset? That is to say, everything is already a less complicated pattern (from a certain perspective) and you don't notice because you don't know any better.
I've worked with Unikernels for a couple of years. They are great, but they are very, very pure and this can be limiting.

Say I have an web API written in Go. For some reason I need to do some openssl stuff before I start up my main program. In a container I can just wrap my program in a little shell script which generates/signs a cert before starting the API.

Such a simple task. It is gonna be a lot harder with a Go Unikernel as I could have to bake this functionality into the application itself.

This Swiss Army knife that is Unix often has it's uses.
The question is, "What is God's Phone Number?"

Even Deep Thought mentions it ...
If your location is assigned a /48 you can then set up over 65,000 subnets with 2^64 possible endpoints in each.

My iPhone spoofs the MAC address each time it connects to WiFi, so support for changing your /64 is not going to be a challenge even with consumer devices. Whether we lose this ability or not is another question (but they could easily make the same requirements of “hard device uuid” on IPv4 if they wanted. These are laws and regulations after all, not technical limitations).

If anything IPv6 gives you an even greater amount of plausible deniability because like you said you could be running a vpn with a billion different devices connecting to it.

IPv6 just means your laptop could have an internet routable IP associated with it. You can easily change to one of the billions upon billions of possible addresses that your assigned prefix will give you (just like you could have something like 10.0.0.0/8 with millions and millions of addresses behind your internet routable IPv4 address. Your ISP will turn you over all the same if the authorities ask who that address belongs to.
The downvotes tell me how uninterested enough of HN can be to other people's experience, even when the comment is just explaining how someone would dismiss current science based on history.
Regardless of whether the virus is airborne or not, there is no need to require N95 masks everywhere or prohibit public gatherings. All exposure control interventions are ultimately futile. They can perhaps slow the spread down slightly to reduce impact on the healthcare system but we'll all eventually be exposed no matter what we do. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...