skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Organic crops are much worse for the environment in the long term.

The biggest environment problem right now is habitat loss. In 100 years it might be climate change (of course we should definitely try to prevent climate change), but for the foreseeable future it's habitat loss. The current extinction event is mostly driven by habitat loss. Most habitat loss is due to the conversion from natural land to farmland[1]. We're losing between 24 and 150 species _per day_.[2]

Organic crops are much less land efficient[3][4][5], so they drive habitat loss. It also releases more greenhouse gasses, but given the scale of environmental destruction that a worldwide increase in organic farming could cause, there isn't even a point in talking about it.

Organic farming is a marketing ploy where food suppliers realised they can sell fake ethical superiority to consumers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction

[2] https://e360.yale.edu/features/global_extinction_rates_why_d...

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/22/132497/sorryorga...

[4] https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2019/11/organic-farmin...

[5] https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/10/22/organic-food-be...
The risk of being tied to a small corner of the country is real and something any Ohioan ought to be sensitive to. Most of Ohio has suffered 50 years of economic back sliding. A lot of people thought that they had realized their modest and reasonable middle class dreams of a good quiet life doing honest work. Major structural changes compromised all of that and a lot of people were stuck holding the bag in places like Toledo, Akron, Youngstown. (Not trying to pick on Ohio, just making a point about risk (though Toledo is the least nice corner of the state and they would have been better of foisting it off on Michigan back when they had the chance))
>TSMC 7nm is ahead in many ways. For example, Intel 10nm power efficiency is much worse.

Is this based on the lithography process, or because of the uarch?

The 7nm = 10nm was from https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/File:7nm_densities.svg, which looked at the density. Based comparison tables of lithography processes, it doesn't even look like power is something that they compare (eg. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process)
That's good though, no? They're collecting the information from you. I know it's a joke, but it's the difference between watching my home insides without me knowing - and showing up to my home with a warrant.
>Is it some app store rule?

No, previous version (Fennec) didn't have this limitation...
That's a great initiative by the fans right here
The particular switch chip used here (the RTL8367RB-VB-CG) is older than IEEE 1722.1. And even if it did support AVB/TSN it'd still be cheaper to get said hardware switch without attached SBC.

Remember for true AVB you're asking for network wide sync to the nanosecond with stream based traffic shaping and bandwidth reservations done in hardware accurate to those timings. It's all a real PITA to implement hence the price. That being said you can get a semi-reasonably priced switch like the MOTU AVB for <$500. If you need tons of ports the best way is going to be an older enterprise switch that supports AVB up for resale but beware you'll likely need the AVB license along with the hardware and it's an uncommon license.
I'm interested as well since they had a layoff of the Servo team. Did they rebuild that team with unannounced hires? Outside contributions?
God, so many dead languages.
Given that Germany has long been comitted to become more dependend on Russian Gas (in order to keep the Energiewende from collapsing) one can question the sincerity of this, as Germany clearly doesn't aticipate to do anything about it.

Might this all be just some voter-priming? You know, just in case the results of the upcoming Bundestag election fail to deliver confidence to the electorate about their new government's authority for full-sweeping intrusive laws. Which are of course fully needed in order to prevent "Russian Disinformation"…
US would threaten to attack unless they comply unless there's a other nation backing them. In which case they'd be beholden to them.
Isn't that part of the reason why they blocked cutting Russia off from SWIFT?
Most sources say 8 billion. Anyway, he said that some people are so sick that they can't eat non-organic food. Not food with a specific pesticide. His claim is very different from yours, and IMO his is indefensible.
Medical doctors and scientists are happy to use pharmaceuticals for which the mechanism of action is unclear as long as experiments show a dose response curve. If we can see that the response increases with higher doses then we can be confident that there's a causal relationship rather than just a spurious correlation.

For example SSRIs are widely used and empirically seem to be effective for some patients with chronic depression, but there's still no firm consensus on why they work.
Preditable when code is either compiled with -O0 or the target CPU is a PDP-11 clone.
Does there need to be "a clear alternative?" A video host is a video host. I don't care where I watch videos, I only care about what I'm trying to watch. I never understood this insistence that a video has to be on a certain site. The more video hosting sites there are the better.
Done. looking forward to the results, best luck to you.
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I can't tell if you're just being humorous, or if you actually believe that the Mozilla Foundation deserves speculation here. If it's the latter, I'd like to know more.
Awesome idea to use anki for courses quiz !
This just looks like sharing via the file menu, sadly the web share API doesn't look like it's yet supported. It's still a good addition though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
Everyone going to college has turned it into high school- in every metric. I'm a professor, and college is a lifestyle, the classes are a part time job, and there is greatly reduced academic rigor and seriousness. At some age, general education should become a personal journey, or soon we'll have PhDs in general studies and everyone will need one.
My sense of time is warped.

When I read "2004", I thought "that's not that long ago" then I read "his 30s" and all sense of time went out the window.

How could someone become a pilot in 2004, fly in airshows in 20s and stop being a pilot in his 30s and it only be "a few years ago"
It should be "structured, commonly-used and machine readable", and I'm not sure PDF qualifies for that. I'd file a complaint with IMY.

In any case, I've never received anything other than json, xml and csv. Jag är inte svenska, though.
Yeah I watched some 'forgotten weapons' and 'demolition ranch' videos, and it was wild how quickly my feed changed from science and history stuff to conservative talking points. I spent a rather long time marking videos as 'do not recommend this channel, I dislike this video' etc, before things returned to normal.
For video hosting I'd go with Peertube.
They marketed themselves as a safe, secure platform away from prying eyes. As a platform for dissidents. Turns out it was bullshit (as many already expected).
Meat Atlas: Facts and figures about the animals we eat 2021 [pdf]
They can still opt to buy American gas shipped over the sea. The pipeline was built so they don't have to buy a multiple of what Russian gas would cost.

If Germany was really afraid of Russia, they wouldn't be gutting their military or would've made bigger rumblings when the US began downsizing its presence in the mid 2000s.

This is all a ploy on Russophobia -- particularly since every right winger is thought to be directionally Putin-like and this year is an election year with the AfD appearing to be ascendant.
Social media is practically the archetype of a public utility. Of course it should be nationalized or democratized or open-sourced or whatever.
I agree in that, for me, e-mail is almost solely used for business communications and newsletters. However, I don't know of a "timeless", or otherwise decentralized, communication technology so ubiquitous that can be secured like e-mail. Signal seems to be the hip thing, but it's centralized. "Blockchain" communications, perhaps?
To me, the major difference is a proper representation of the source.

If Widgets inc pays a person to publish a bunch of influencing articles which are signed by "Joe Shmoe, social media manager of Widgets, inc", that's appropriate, but if the exact same content would signed by "Joe Shmoe, just a random bloke from Kansas writing my own thoughts about what's wrong in this world", that's misleading.
Something similar appeared recently, in case anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28397524

A seal called "Hoover" that had a remarkably human sounding call :D
In case you don’t know this, community colleges are generally required to accept everyone who applies that has a high school diploma or a GED. We are open enrollment institutions.

I understand now what you meant by fairly depressing. Thank you for the clarification.
I'm also curious about this, since in many areas of computing (not only webdev) the old-school guys take some stuff as so obvious that they don't even bother writing about it or explaining it beyond "This is obviously possible, dude". They know how to achieve this level of performance, but for everyone else, we have to cobble together fragmented insights. So if anyone out there reads this and thinks like the GP, please do write about it ;)
In most of western world agriculture is subsidized: that 25% of farm land that's on a break will be paid by the government. The gov mandates and pays also for crop rotation.
Nutrio (https://www.aurora-nutrio.com) was doing the rounds on Twitter recently for being an utterly ridiculous product.
Plagiarism?
The problem with the RPi is that it was released with that (educational) purpose in mind, and so the foundation does not take it seriously as a gaming machine (which obviously should have been 99% of the focus just like the C64).

The 1, 2 and 3 GPU could not do skin mesh animation because it lacked enought registers and in the 4, half-floats and OpenAL are still buggy in the GPU driver and nobody cares because nobody even tries to use it for anything else than servers.

I have switched to the Jetson Nano (1/2 of a Nintendo Switch, actually based on broken Switch chips) which has the right balance between GPU and CPU.

Eventually someone will make a TWM desktop for it.
Apparently you don't understand what the word Suggested means. Do you also report every single classic car that is selling for higher value that it was initially sold for? If not then you're pretty much just being an asshole for no reason.
Ironically one of the source wrongly cited in the article says the contrary (ie organic is more efficient on energy per unit of food), see my comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444679
So for example, wood stoves in vermont are now banned under your proposal?
It might be a personal opinion, but I do not like this at all. A cert error now looks way too similar to other connection errors. Other errors you cannot bypass, but cert errors you can. This change means I am going to go cert error blind and assume the site is just inaccessible. The older loud yellow alert made things easy to differentiate.

https://imgur.com/a/jF37m8G
Modern organic farming is in infancy still, plagued by a number of problems plaguing non-organic farming too (eg. transportation, picking unripe fruit and vegetables to let them ripen in the storage or on the store shelves and to avoid pests...).

The focus is currently on how use of "non-organic" methods (pesticide effects on humans and insect—particularly bee—population, soil depletion...) are harmful, and naturally, humans immediately explore the other extreme, without looking for a sweet spot in the middle (of course, humans are exploring it, it's just not publicized enough).

And the sweet spot is always in the middle.

Organic produce is popular because it gives you some reassurance (compared to almost none otherwise) and the living standards have increased in large (edit: small, but mostly participating on HN :) parts of the world to be able to afford it (with their living standard, I am sure Sri Lanka wanted to be the first exporter of exclusively organic produce, not for their internal use): we are still far away from finding the best way, but it's important to work from both ends to help us get there.
For the plumber, a stuck toilet smells like money.
Profit includes changes to asset value; it's not in the farmer's interest to destroy his soil.
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It is, as for many more things.

And they are drawing "a picture of the crisis," where there is none.

Germans kept blocking gas from Netherlands, yet doing everything to keep buying it from Lootin.

They actually even sued Poland recently for them booting Russians from their pipeline: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-court-rejects-ger...
This is probably referring to some work to use Stencil for self-hosted code. That reduced process overhead by 6%, which is quite a bit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1688794

There might have been some other Stencil work that landed in 92 to reduce memory.

There's a description of what Stencil is, and some work related to it that landed in Firefox 90 and 91, here: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2021/07/19/newsletter-firefox-...
Well said. Today it's a dating camp that you attend after high school before you settle into the debt economy.
Can anything be engineered retroactively? I mean: the thing flew and landed, so there was clearly some successful engineering going on, before launch.

The requirements were heavily influenced by politics, that is for sure.
> Parents think that far into the future, as do thoughtful members of a productive society.

Ironically, thinking that far into the future results in many choosing not to become parents.
This one works for me: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/daniel-andrews-vaccin...
Does a VPN slow down your internet?
> put swap at the end by default for reasons unknown to me

If you assume that swap is a crutch the ideally won't be used or if it is used it is either for a short period only (due a to temporary overallocation) or for pages that are very rarely (if ever) used again (chunks of code & data that get loaded by then only certain configurations ever touch again), then you want to keep the fastest part of the drive for things that are going to be assessed regularly (your root partition for instance) in normal operation. For the occasional write & read of swap it makes little difference, and once you are properly thrashing pages to & from swap the time cost of head movements completely dwarfs any difference made by the actual location of the swap area (the heads will be spending most of their time in/near it anyway in such circumstances).

If you were relying on swap for general operations because the amount of RAM you'd need otherwise was just far too expensive, then you have a workload that warrants custom partitioning, to put it elsewhere but the end or ideally on another drive if you could afford a second.

If speed is an issue then you want it near the most commonly accessed data. Back when I used to have to think about these things much at all my general default arrangement was “boot, LVM” and within LVM “root, var, swap, homes, other data”. Swap being in the middle makes resizing in-place something I wouldn't generally consider, but if I needed more temporarily the extra would be created as a swap file (with lower priority than the partition) instead and/or better on a different drive (with higher priority, moving the main swapping load off the system drive).

Another, though less commonly useful, reason might be because it is easier to resize that way: if you need more than shrink the filesystem and add an extra swap area in the newly freed space.

> that also made moving an existing installation to a larger disk more complicated, since you couldn't just resize the os partition, you had to delete and then recreate swap

That isn't really a significant issue though, you shouldn't need swap while performing that operation (unless you are somehow moving the root filesystem around live) so stopping swap isn't going to be a problem (and a user capable of safely performing such a move at all will be able to handle the three extra commands needed). Assuming that you move everything first then resize, my preference would instead to be to move and resize individual partitions instead of moving everything so swap doesn't need to be moved and resized at all.
What percentage of all college students are going straight into a $200,000 a year job?
Well I think this is an important point, because the tests, IME, are asking you to apply the concepts to solve a toy problem, not to actually implement stuff like sorting algorithms from memory. The latter is indeed unrealistic, but the former is something my job actually does entail.
I'm sure it's more fun than filling potholes...
I think he is talking about the CEOs blog post, where he does not make that clear and absolutely creates the impression that the French activist received a notification. It even sounds like that you get a notification as soon as somebody just requests it, even if PM declines / fights it. [0]

> Under Swiss law, it is obligatory for a user to be notified if a third party makes a request for their private data and such data is to be used in a criminal proceeding.

People will read this and the majority will think there is some kind of notification as soon as that happens. I mean, users here on HN thought that.
Only if you click the link, the one that you shared, then you'll know that there are multiple situations where that notification will be delayed.

I think that is actually the worst part about the whole situation so far. One can argue that they should've made the potential logging more clear right under their no logs marketing. But pretty much doing the same stunt again with the notification, does feel a bit like intent... or stupidity.

0: https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/
True words!
I do that as well. One problem I have is that if I send a tab from FF desktop to FF Android it opens in FF Focus, although it's basically a click from a FF Android notification.
With the selective honesty from most media outlets, you don't need disinformation agents, the people themselves will flood the internet with all kinds of cacophony.
part of the problem with this is that HTML is mostly not valid XML
The capitalist machines do indeed grind up most attempts at simply helping humanity; I don't think that's unique to tech. So I doubt you'll find solace by simply quitting tech entirely. Also, be aware that your contributions are relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, would have happened with or without you, and will not be solved if you quit the game. The problems are systemic, global, and ultimately controlled by corporations. You should not feel guilty for being forced into playing by the rules of capitalism.

I would suggest two options:

A) Try to make as much money as you can and use that money to help humanity. We are all extremely lucky to be in tech at this time, when compensation is massively higher than most other jobs. You could leverage your ability to make money and then donate that money to charities you believe in.

B) Find companies who have missions you actually agree with. While these are rare and don't always pay as well, they do exist. There are non-profits (and for profits) trying to solve homelessness, world hunger, inequality, discrimination, climate change, etc. Every type of company needs software developers. You just might have to take a paycut.

Good luck!
I think this is a winners takes most of the pie situation, not unlike the situation with CEOs and OnlyFans models. I also believe that there are 2 distinct paths - public advocacy where one manipulates the plebs who vote for people in power, and political advocacy where one manipulates the people with legislative power.
Depends on who you ask, but personally I agree vehemently.
You got the first half. A private business will always be self interested.

Collective ownership is not the only solution. Alternatives include public benefit corporations, non-profits and federal government ownership.
It can do the same without having bitcoin as legal tender.
Edit: I got this wrong. Very sorry! Original comment below.

All the principles are correct but I applied them in the wrong order. The article's title is misleading in the way gojomo points out below, so the title rewrite was good.

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The submitted title is heavily editorialized, breaking the site guidelines badly. We take submission privileges away from accounts that do that, so please don't do that. "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Cherry-picking a detail, especially a sensational detail, and making that the title is the main way that people break this guideline. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's great, but do so by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Threads are sensitive to initial conditions and titles are the mother of all initial conditions, so this is a big deal.

Normally we'd change the title, but since the thread has been entirely determined by the editorialized title, I don't think it makes sense to do that in this case.

Edit: yikes, this is the third title in a row that you editorialized. I don't want to take submission privileges away from you! so please don't keep doing that!
According to Elon, insurance rates decrease after first launch. So the insurers think the same too.
I have been searching before but sadly could not find it. I'll keep searching.

[Update]

It's not the post I have been thinking of, but there is a line there

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_w...

"[...] but you should wonder: when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? Why did they leave? I assume they aren't home with the kids, right?

I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic, bickering, easily manipulated and powerless [..] if some field keeps the trappings of power but loses actual power, women enter it in droves and men abandon it like the Roanoke Colony. Again we must ask the question: if power seeking men aren't running for Senate, where did they go?"
Organic farming could also depleted soil nutrients the same way as modern agriculture. Regenerative farming could be a sustainable alternative to this problem. I think politics failed here to really understand how to transition to a sustainable model. Check producer Gave Brown https://youtu.be/QfTZ0rnowcc
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Sure, but I have no idea how to pull that off. I have lots of other ideas that should work, but I don't know how to pull any of them off in practice.