skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matters is not organic farming, bio farming, no-chemistry farming or anything like that.

What matters is substainable farming.

And what is often labeled as BIO/organic is often not the most substainable farming method. It's to much focused on categorizing thinks by their origin instead of categorizing them by their effect specific to their usage.

(And over night switches to anything tend to not be a good idea.)
20 meat & dairy firms emit more greenhouse gas than Germany, Britain or France
I mean the cost of the phones would obviously rise if their manufacturers are to do what this proposal dictates. For cheap smartphones the increase will be the most dramatic.
It's a literary device called allusion. Using "epicenter" in the context of a normally non-seismic thing alludes to a seismic aspect not normally associated with that thing. It falls in line with other earthquake flavored language used for people, like "movers and shakers."
It's socially unacceptable for a lot of men to be in trades as well, especially if you factor in family background. Let me know what school promotes trades as a good alternative to traditional education? It's almost always looked at as the options for "stupid" people. I don't think your anecdote holds up at all. It seems fare more likely that women in general just do not want physical labor jobs.
The problem with part time is it adds significantly to the time cost. The attractiveness of a degree to me declined significantly if I won’t be able to complete it till my 30s. I can stomach the lost wages if education could be completes in a mostly standard time, but otherwise there’s already a very good case to be made for staying with what I do now.
>But what individual can afford to think 50-80 years in the future?

Parents think that far into the future, as do thoughtful members of a productive society.

MBA driven obsession with the next quarterly earnings report isn't a universal infection, yet, thank goodness.
> People have to do what is best for them in their life time.

Kim Stanley Robinson's recent novel "Ministry for the Future" had an interesting take on this; that our future descendants may need legal standing in the court system, and lawyers tasked with defending their needs there.
> I frankly don't see where containers could lower the performance.

Have you seen most k8s deployments? It's not the containers, it's the thoughtspace that comes with them. Even just using bare containers invites a level of abstraction and generally comes with a type of developer that just isn't desirable.
DigitalOcean Announces (Upcoming) Serverless Platform
I love the immediate mode style of developing, but ImGUI specifically, at least without third party patches and extensions, has very awkward and limited layout (for example, I'm still waiting for this to get merged[1], which would make it easier), its styling support is relatively minimal (but it can be made look pretty nice) and its accessibility support is non-existent. I also find the API slightly clunky, although its not bad once you get used to it.

Overall, I really like Dear ImGUI and I love how easy it is to expose data to a UI through it. Its much more pleasant to use than a traditional retained mode widgets API. But Dear ImGUI isn't a good general purpose UI (nor was it designed to be one), although I could see the immediate mode API work well for one. I started making a complex editor for a toy engine in it and while it worked ok, the reasons above made me cut it back to just some basic in-engine stuff and the rest is exposed over an optional embedded web server module and a react app as the editor. Its only a toy, but you would use the in-engine ImGUI editor to see the scene rendered in-engine, move objects around etc, but you would use the react app to edit object properties, add assets and behaviours and whatnot. It made it much easier to create rich editors for things like behavior trees, node graphs, etc. Although since its just a toy, I didn't implement a lot of this stuff yet and haven't had time lately to get back to it.

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/846
Data centers at sea lowers the bar from "government with a warrant" to "guy with a gun and a boat"
That's not really a thing. Also, wait till you hear how much an academic makes from the articles they publish, and from those lucrative research grants from big-[oil,pharma,etc].
US Organic and EU organic are two different things. In EU organic "bio", copper pesticides are allowed, and even compounds synthesized by humans in some borderline cases. Differences for wines are even more profound.
Be real for a second: if a government targets you, you have no way of escaping it. If you're targeted by a small country, with not much power, so your only real options are kidnapping you if you are ever in said country. So, moving away does keep you safe. Should be, say, a Chilean journalist reporting on wrong deeds in your own country, you can safely assume that ProtonMail is safe for you. (That is, unless the government knows who you are).

But a first world country ? They have laws, they have international influence, they have technical means and the ability to intervene wherever you are.

"Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them. In summary, https:// and two dollars will get you a bus ticket to nowhere. Also, SANTA CLAUS ISN’T REAL. When it rains, it pours." - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/mickens_on_se...

This applies to ProtonMail too. What do you think happened with Lavabit ? They were pretending full security too, and we all know what happened.

Stop thinking this is a problem technology can fix.
ProtonMail has an official TOR page, there hardly is a reason for those performing activities illegal under relevant jurisdictions (I support the notion of illegal non necessarily being evil - in many countries many good things like fighting corruption, loving a same-sex partner or responsibly using psychoactive substances for genuine medical reasons can be illegal) to use it the way exposing their actual IP address.

I also don't understand why does ProtonMail record the device type - I doubt there is a law requiring this.
Nice, didn't know about this (there isn't much information about MD@H after the rewrite).

BTW, how can I register my VPS on MD@H? Before we had a dedicated form on the page to register interest, at least after the rewrite I didn't find it. Is it only using something like Discord?
> all the Grievance Studies major

Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies (I'm assuming "Grievance Studies" falls under this category), at least in the US, have been in steady decline since 2008, and even at their peak only accounted for 0.5% of majors (now just 0.3%). Even if you want to add in humanities in general that has gone from 3% to just above 2%

The idea that college campuses are ever more filled with people studying "useless" majors is a fiction. The largest areas of major concentration are business, biology, health professions, and engineering and all of these have been more or less growing for years.

There is this pervasive myth that most students in undergrad are having trouble transitioning to industry because they wasted their time studying their non-practical passion, but the data[0] clearly shows that the trends for the last decade have been increasing focus on career oriented practical majors.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_322.10.a...
I dunno.

I play the game of assessing the gender balance of groups a lot.

Some of it is wondering where society is going, some of it is just trying to avoid sausage parties. Trans people don't give me any trouble because they want to be assigned a certain gender, non-binaries might force me to learn the multinomial distribution but those seem to turn up at the 1/256 - 1/512 level if that.

I stopped going to Yoga classes in my ZIP code because they attract a lot of middle-aged and older men who, I think, are there to look at women without doing anything too strenuous.
> I’m surprised this code isn’t being rewritten in something like Rust

I imagine the internal discussion is something like "by rewriting it, we will just introduce 100 new bugs. once we squash these last few bugs in the current tried-and-tested C code, it will be bulletproof!"

Being Apple I imagine they would prefer to rewrite it in Swift, but Swift may not be mature enough
I've been around a number of silicon valley organizations now, from large (30k+) to small (employee # 58). I've seen some good and a lot of bad over the years now - but it all seems to stem from one place: the sales organization. Now I'm not saying all sales organizations are bad, but in fact they do seem to follow the many of the stereotypes they've been cast into over the years.

Watching some of Intel's recent events seem to be driven by sales and marketing in a very tone-deaf manner. It's almost always been the case, in my experience, that sales leaders don't see competition. They continually talk about how what they represent is the best and you can't have a lucid conversation with most of them because they don't fundamentally understand what may make the competition better, or even fundamentals of their own product. It's black and white and many seem to just go all in on FUD to a ridiculous level, when forced.

When executives are far more focused on what wall street thinks than what their own customers want you know that the cancer runs deep. I continuously hear things like "our customers want a subscription model for our software because it's more flexible and is often cheaper!". Neither is, generally, true when it's being broadcast like that. It's a dark pattern (most notably in enterprise software / hardware) for a company to pull in long term revenue on a product that is, potentially, not evolving fast enough to warrant customers wanting to pay for an upgrade or new version. And a lot of SaaS just to "SaaSify" something, even though the customer could very well run it themselves, where they'd like, and be far better off.

It's just frustrating to have been in the industry as over 20 years now and to see even less inspiring, less charismatic and ignorant people continually failing up and driving companies down. I know C-levels that have lied, cheated and been fired for the former - yet they continue to land better positions, somehow? Some days it's beyond maddening to watch. But more often than not these folks are in some way, shape or form tied to the overarching sales machine.
I don't see why it's AS big a scandal given what CEO stated and reading accounts from reputable news sources.

My quick take: France tells Switzerland who then compels PM to START tracking account holder(s) and prevented PM (by law from what I've read) from telling account holder. Per PM CEO this type of Swiss order could not be disputed with the way PM has disputed other claims.

To me, it's not logging of the IP; it's when did it start and from my reading they started after being compelled to do so over a period of time between compelled to and this coming to light.

To me, strong pushback (for those who feel passionate about it) should be directed to Switzerland for complying with France for what many think is not a high enough bar to compel all this tracking. Maybe they did scrutinize it and maybe they didn't.

Any meta-data saving isn't secure but sharing that after being compelled to track account holders isn't surprising.

There's a line in their agreement that says " If a request is made for encrypted message content that we do not possess the ability to decrypt, the fully encrypted message content may be turned over.".

Maybe I'm missing something in my logic.
Given he went to Caltech in the 80s, probably the 1910s
Exactly. What happens after 50-80 years? We continue to fertilize.

The alternative is massively expanding farmland so that it can lay fallow for 25% of the time and also to account for lower yields.
Why the downvote? I don't share her opinion, I'm just sharing an encounter I had. I was really surprised by her response, coming from different culture to the west, both of my parents are engineers.

I met several great women developers in my career and I personally think the field will benefit a lot by having more diverse perspectives on the tools being created.
What Would Albert Camus Think About Software Development?
Thanks for that article - that was a brilliant read.
But I don't think Chomsky would necessarily be against Harden's research/aims/motives?

She seems quite aligned with Chomsky on that front actually.

From the OP's article, she seems to be very aware that her research is reflective of current society and should be used to better/change it.

Chomsky mentions that such research could be useful e.g. for improving education - Harden seems to agree there.

"In 2018, she wrote an Op-Ed in the Times, arguing that progressives should embrace the potential of genetics to inform education policy."

So yeh, I don't think they are necessarily talking at cross purposes (despite the 40+ year time delay :P).

(First HN comment, be cool to hear back what you think!)
HN discussion threads for some of the links mentioned in the article:

* Using AWK and R to parse 25TB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20293579

* Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135841

* The State of the AWK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240800

For awk alternative implementations, I'm keeping an eye on frawk [0]. Aims to be faster, supports csv, etc.

[0] https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk
Thank you! Very much appreciated!
High-quality-but-small-audience might have an easier time than most, I suspect. To get niche content people have to be willing to trawl the internet.

Still wild guesses, but I'd be worried about mid-sized channels with a lot of ambivalent viewers, not really invested, not going to swap platforms. Although how all that factors in to various monetisation strategies is complex.

Anyway, the situation is really interesting. I don't think YouTube can pull off the censorship campaign that they are trying for. They're fighting some really fundamental economic forces - it is too cheap to get people a message if they want to hear it.
Hi, again, we're talking about the USA. A serious number of people believe that Fox News is not only reputable, but the only reputable news organization operating in the USA. CNN is considered trusted and mainstream. Who do you think was pushing fake WMDs? I grew up in the USA during this time, and I recall how the media embraced the neoconservative narrative.

Also, seriously, stop blowing the fucking dogwhistles. "Even Wikileaks tried to help," you say? Did Wikileaks send their peacekeeping forces, raise the issue in UN, wage a legal fight in USA courts to stop the killing? The Yes Men did more to stop the Iraq & Afghanistan wars than Wikileaks.
does the upload here also submit to arxiv, or will uploading to xivra mean they diverge?
If it reduced yield by 20%, that doesn't mean it's unsustainable, it means it's somewhat more expensive. The difference between "rich people" and poor people isn't 20%.
Their actions were illegal in Switzerland too. As much as I can criticize France's recent actions against protesters, in this case, it's the Swiss justice system that ultimately decided to comply with the request.
You're making it too complicated. Find an open wifi somewhere.
I am an old time slackware user and I always put swap at the beginning on 3.5 inch drives. I belive for laptop drives the end of drive was better.
> Can we be certain that it didn't label any white people this way?

I would expect their reps would be shouting this loudly if it were the case.

> Remember that nearly every cartoonist compared GWB to a chimp. In fairness, he kinda resembled one. Doing so to Obama would have been immediately flagged as racist.

Sure, because context and history both matter.
"20 points by st0ffregen 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | discuss"

Submitted 3 hours ago, no comments, and collected 20 points? Looks like someone is upvoting this too much.

https://archive.is/v9U4l

Apparently, the upcoming IPCC report says we should invest heavily in preparing the economy for climate change.

This website tries to pretend they do not come from the fossil fuel industry. They call for "economic growth" which means keep using fossil fuels and pretend the world is not burning.
I haven't seen a defense of organic farming based on data rather than on "natural" being good and "unnatural" being bad.
The problem IMHO is that the discussion is poisoned:

> And most are based on a very short-term picture, which ignores the long-term costs of chemical-based farming: the incredible soil depletion and insect population depletion.

But there are enough organic farming methods which also lead to "incredible soil depletion and insect population depletion" similar there are non-organic "chemical" methods which do not lead to such effects.

So we should focus on long-term sustainable farming.

And sure for most farms the first steps to sustainable farming are the same or at least very similar as the first steps to organic farming, but the "mid" and "end-game" can differ massively.
?? It's entirely reasonable for two populations to make statistically different choices when they are under different pressures. It is exactly what is happening with what is being discussed in this thread: white men skipping college because they have face pressures to earn money, feel college is not for them, etc. Women face different levels of these pressures and also pressure to skip STEM and go into "feminine" majors.

The different pressures are sufficient to explain much of the different major choices, especially when considering the changing distribution in other countries with different sets of pressures.

There are indeed differences between men and women -- cis-men can't give birth, for instance. However, other than the statistical population differences, an average man and an average women with equitable socioeconomic settings are incredibly similar in many areas. Perhaps even in an ideal world there would be more female biologists and more male IT workers. That would be fine. What matters is that a human who is interested in something would have a fighting chance to get there.

Right now, cultural and societal factors are tipping different scales in different ways. For future generation, we would do well to reduce the imbalance -- encourage and support minorities, women, and, yes, white men. People face different battles and helping some does not mean others have to be ignored.
I also generally opt for organic (at least marketed as such). I don't know much on how much better it really is though apart from my feelings. But feelings and perceptions could lead to beneficial placebo effects.

It is another thing to mandate it for all agriculture overnight in a poor developing country.
The issue with Electron is that devs tries to mimic the browsers UI in a desktop environment. Our desktop OS need to have a desktop UI instead of the mobile webpage with Material/Flat UI design (no visual box line, no separators, no multi-windows, pushing the setting menu as a sidebar, etc). It should be treated as a desktop app with the benefits of desktop, not a mobile app which is the issue.
I’m super into crypto, but I don’t see how this will help anyone in Salvador at all. In fact it seems to me that it will likely just aid corrupt elements in the country. I just can’t think of a reason for them to do this.
Women, maybe not, because they're not Bad People. However, the "contingent" that GP was talking about are totally fine with banning Bad People.
> That is, unless there exists some kind of tree structured database that I don't know about ...

Believe it or not, hierarchical databases were actually quite popular once upon a time, mostly in IBM mainframe land as I understand it. Today the Windows registry is a hierarchical database in common use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
A "revolution" which imposed from above is generally trash, for many of the same reasons that big-bang replacement projects fail. Incremental change is the responsible way forward; it will show you the costs of your decision, and give you time to understand the best practices which will mitigate these costs as you perform a gradual roll-out.

Even the successful American Revolution was an incremental change: an effort to preserve a tradition which feted the traditional rights and liberties of Englishmen going back to the Magna Carta. The shift in philosophical underpinnings may have been radical, but the political culture barely changed at all.
Certainly wasn't my first thought. Though there may be a better phrase.
And intelligence is no more than a crude guideline for determining human potential.

The fixation on intelligence is a reflection of a culture that don't recognize hard work and is ultimately lazy. We don't want to put in the grueling effort it takes to master, and hone a craft over decades. We would rather cash in on "genetic lottery" points for the rest of our lives.

You see people bragging about their university or SAT score from 30 years ago, but have accomplished nothing since then.

I have no moral objection with studying IQ among individuals and groups. But I think compared to other factors that influence human potential, it is the least interesting and least actionable. It also perpetuates the myth that it really matters on an indivual level.
I suspect the leadership of the leftists in America know that there are race IQ differences, but they use this to set up a loop to gain more power.

How do you increase your authority if you know that races are not all of equal ability?

1. Lie and publicly express that you think all races are of equal ability at all things.

2. Widely report that some races don't do as well as others on standardized tests, etc.

3. Blame racists, or even a whole race that does better as the cause of this.

4. Demand that racists must be rooted out and further and further scrutinized for microagreassions, etc.

5. Demand more unconstrained power, money and authority to 'fix' this.

6. Go back to step 1 and continue the loop till you have absolute power.
>> Going to college is and always has been a reliable way towards earning more money[0]. The issue isn’t that college doesn’t work, the issue is that it’s basically an asset bubble of sorts and the cost exceeded its value.

That last part about exceeding it's value contradicts the notion that it currently IS a reliable way toward earning more money. At least net more money.

IMHO a bunch of professors should be able to start their own "non-profit" college with minimal overhead. But I suppose a lot of them aren't really into teaching anyway. Maybe we need to separate education from funding their hobbies (research).
I gave you three days to rise, but your words are still impotent. Read a book besides the Bible already.