skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangent, but I like reading about utopias, and Wikipedia, as usual, have been a goldmine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_utopian_commu...
The biggest problem with product development for agriculture use cases is that the conditions are extreme, every situation is unique, and the customers don’t really want what you are selling. It adds up to a lot of failed companies with good ideas that just couldn’t crack the distribution layer.

There is definitely demand for tractors from new producers. The inability to repair a tractor during harvest is simply unacceptable. Their technicians can take weeks to get around to you, especially if you are a small shop.
Dutch is probably the closest language to English that isn’t a dialect of English.
Only advices (at this critical juncture) are to keep your website’s CSP very tight, your APIs authenticated. and protected by MFA especially to supplant PII with website-specific index/sequence numbers. Also to mandate HTML5 nonce element usages on all things referenced.
Freelance visual artist, filmmaker, photographer. IT is my hobby that save me quite a lot of money.

I found HN in March 2020 on Telegram, when I start use RSS because main agenda of news was unreliable and social networks became absolutely crazy.
Deep learning framework OneFlow v0.5.0 is out
The murder rate has skyrocketed in the past two years in the US. As have other crimes.
You must be thinking of an area with an unusually high number of Gaelscoils!

Speaking as a former Irish language teacher in a English speaking school in Ireland (now a software engineer in a tech multinational), I don't think most schools teach in Irish, not English. Perhaps you meant it the other way round?

2019 Irish Times: "Number of primary school pupils taught through Irish at record level". Article notes that Irish as primary language of education has risen from 6.4% in 2000 to 8.1% in 2018/19. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/number-of-primary-...

Repeated surveys have shown that secondary students taught through Irish have higher Irish language exam results, but not significantly lower English (or French, German, or Spanish) results. The vast majority of adults in Ireland cannot speak Irish fluently, or at all except for some school-learned phrases. It is not the common language of commerce.

For anyone thinking of relocating to Ireland and confused by my comment or the school system, there is a difference between 'Irish is a subject everyone does in primary/secondary school' to 'Every subject is taught through Irish in schools'. In over 90% of schools, Irish is just one subject across 7 curriculum areas in primary: https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Primary/Curriculum/ and one of 3 mandatory subjects at secondary (with English and Maths).
I would love to see autonomy as a solution but I've seen friends dig themselves deeper and deeper because of said freedom to do as much as they want.

According to Border theory and self-regulation theory people are: Border Enforcers(Have strict boundaries between live and work), Border Adapters(Can adapt if a border is crossed ex an emergency), or Border Expanders (It's hard for them to delimit where one border ends and another starts)

I see how Maximising autonomy could work for Border enforcers but it can cause real damage to Border Expanders.
"Shall adopt" means they have to make local laws. All you're doing is highlighting the grandparent's point.

The grandparent is right and you're wrong.

Also, be very wary about quoting sources that end in a domain .EU, they're obviously biased.
Forgive my ignorance but... If you have all those things and your kids spend all day playing Minecraft, are you really off grid? I thought the whole point of being off grid was to be more basic? If you live the same life as an on-grid people, why bother being off the grid?
Its just another form of child abuse, there is gratification from having this kind of power to lock up even minors, and for no crimes at all, having adults, officers and parents obey.

What is missing is oversight, and strangely enough "a fear of the law" on the part of those charged with enforcing it. Officers and Judges.
I’ve done this with my own crappy code, optparse, argparse, hug, fire, click, and typer. For me typer is pretty much perfect…
> This has been well documented as being able to identify the big five traits (OPENNESS, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, EXTRAVERSION, AGREEABLENESS, NEUROTICISM) and its sub traits.

It's just a simplified model to put personalities in a certain bucket, typical PCA-style. This has limitations just like everything else that uses self-reporting to make a judgment/categorization. it's not like we are able to observe the structure of someone's brain and confirm that with actual facts. In other words, that's not even remotely what you call Science.
HCL being so restricted is the reason why many teams feel the need to implement a layer on top of it.

Once you’re working with HCL templated via Gomplate or what have you, and a pipeline which processes the code base and then spits out the resultant HCL as an artifact to be used by a subsequent step, you’ll pine for the impenetrable JS or Python code. At least that is code which has a reasonable development workflow associated with it, not a monstrosity held together with duct tape and vulgar hacks.
So does a "Championship team" mean you get paid like a champion? Or does it just mean you have to work like a champion, and get a 1% raise when you're working like crazy?

Just curious because I don't know coinbase that well.
The China Challenge
Because Australia has no skeletons in the closet about how it treats black people right?
You could flip it and challenge what you think is "minimum" - just checking off the bare minimum features may not be the minimum needed for a viable product: something people want to use.

MVP is often seen through the lens of tech or resources while you should be looking at it from the user's perspective.
Substack – making serious money – but it’s publish or perish
> Like the crazy idea that this virus warranted exceptional, catastrophic measures.

Do you understand you're downplaying the severity of one of the deadliest pandemics in history?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic

Do you honestly believe that it's ok to not do anything at all and just let millions needlessly? As if that isn't a catastrophy?
I don't understand how the police are called for a playground fight? (not even serious!) And then they are allowed to arrest children? Isn't there a law against that?
> We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot"

I say we call their bluff and stop shooting black people indiscrimately anyway. That'll show 'em.
I suspect they confused 'police going into the classroom of 8 year old children, handcuffing the black one and taking them to jail' with 'teaching critical race theory'.

To be fair to them, I can see how one might see it as a practical demonstration of the supposed topic, and in some way be considered a lesson for the class that day.
Ofcourse it's my tax dollars that's getting burnt through this useless endeavour. Academic funding must be for bold ideas that are more likely to fail but push the knowledge boundaries further. There is nothing being learnt by mindless number crunching that is done in such work. Infact this is worse than buying lottery tickets hoping to hit a jackpot.
An thoughts on incinerating toilets? They’re like $4k, but that’s cheaper than septic usually and no plumbing. Can run off LP or electricity. A big appeal is that you don’t have to worry about temperatures since they’re waterless. And you can take it with you if you move.

> Heated water: once you have water you quickly realize 10C is not always pleasant to shower in. So for $150 we bought a water heater that heats water by 25+ C as it flows through. It works with a gas cannister since our small electric system is not powerful enough to heat water.

I’ve had good success with an ~40L pot of water on the wood-stove/gas-stove (or sous vide cooler if you have the energy budget) and an immersible battery pump with shower head:

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005003145415630.html

Works well for dishes too.

Since we don’t have running water in winter, these are great on top of a large bottle to fill a cup or wash hands hands-free:

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005003145230040.html
There are usually Two Responses to each Crisis
Former Twitch employees say company valued speed&profit over safety and security
Try the "Million Short" search engine.
The first page of Google is usually useless unless searching for the obvious.
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The gifted program was an amazing experience back when I attended in the 80s-90s. It was an all-day, mostly self-directed experience with deep instruction and guidance. It helped a ton of poor kids like me dig their way out of poverty. However, back then, it was still a cold war program to defeat the Soviets. So, it was well-funded and evenly-distributed. However, interest in funding such things lessened after 1989. Since then, the gifted program seems to have become more of a prize for the wealthy and well-connected. I'm pretty sure a poor kid today wouldn't have the same opportunity that I had.
I think one possible downside is the amount of major datacenters in such a small space. It's about 7 or 8? And you've got Facebook, Amazon, Google the likes. Recently there was almost a blackout in the city cause the grid just couldn't handle it after we got rid of the peat burning power stations
> [sic] Notion that supply chains are "old technology" is frankly part of the problem.

That is exactly it's fundamental problem, everything from bills of ladiing, to invoices to AR/AP is archaic and rigid, thus it's prone to severe strain under non-ideal conditions: couple this with the need for JIT everything to idealized forecasting and you can see why shortages are becoming the norm in a country run by an executive class that has benefited from making the World it's manufacture de jure via outsourcing for decades.

As a person that worked in supply chain for mega corps, I was lured back into the industry earlier this year, as some incredibly well paid jobs responded without solicitation as I applied to other non SC positions and to be honest SC management was never an 'easy gig' but swing shifts and 20-30 days with no days off are the norm now to catch up and I don't feel like burning out over something I tried to resolve in my own capacity.

Surprisingly, this is following Naomi Klien's shock doctrine fairly well and if this (in addition to it's egregious and belligerent behaviour in Xianjing, Tibet, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan) is what it takes for the World to decouple manufacturing from the CCP then so be it.

I'm fairly certain I'm past the consumerist phase of my life as I find it entirely unfulfilling so I have no need for their trinkets, and I hope I can keep a stock of used computers and laptops around long enough to see the transition, phones are always going to fall victim to planned obsolescence so I keep that in mind and reduce my dependence on them when ever possible.

All in all, yes it's old, but only because it was made to remain as such and a certain contingent of people vastly benefited from this system as a result; I'm recalling the gas shortage in 2016 when oil tankers were anchored out at Sea waiting for the price to correct to make a profit, and this article of Seamen left and cast aside [1] with no pay shows just how remarkably foolish things have gotten during COVID for those hapless enough to need to be in the trenches when it comes to large scale logistics under this scenario.

Globalization gave us many benefits, a robust and anti-fragile logistics and supply chain network was not one of them, if anything it showed why vertical integration (or at least as much as possible) is a highly desired albeit costly expense, which won't always be seen as a priority to quarterly earning fixated execs and board members.

0: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-...

1: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/imagine-being-strande...
for a different take:
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=are+people+naturally+meat+ea...
Why the /s? Declaring that you dislike something is engagement, as much as declaring that you like it.

No way will I ever engage with like/dislike buttons. My preference is that organisations like Faceache should never learn that I even exist.

I don't have a problem with ranking my feed, by the way; I don't have a feed. I've never had a Faceache account, and that fact causes me zero grief.
Thanks for the link as the thread is rather hilarious with the Dropbox v2 comment.
Covid Comspiracy by Harson Robkus
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS
It's a difference without a distinction. They're paying to be the default search engine so that they can show Firefox users ads in their search results. Either way, they're a middle man selling ads and giving a small percentage of their profits to Mozilla when Mozilla helps them show more ads (mainly to avoid anti trust, mind you ).
Why shouldn't people or companies be able to move where they can grow, prosper or have rules according to their values or projects? Curiously, when we talk about taxes the focus is often in the country that is harboring people instead the one that made itself unattractive.
Laws aren't real unless there's someone willing to enforce them, which is why police don't follow laws. In this case there was no crime to arrest them for in the first place.
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28312632
October 9, 1963: Vajont
I see what you mean, but these are countries I visited 10-15 years ago, so not recent by any means.
I see what you are saying, but I think that there's a contradiction in your argument. The fact that /much of/ (i.e. not all) software engineering is plumbing and project management implies that there's still a nucleus which is proper tech. Someone has to write the frameworks, configure the servers, do the devops etc. even if it is being further and further abstracted away from the 'typical' user.
This is the real answer. In some cases that water is already owned by someone downstream.

Here is the scenario: you are the first settler in an area. You settle by a stream and use the water for irrigation or whatever. Then someone settles upstream from you and diverts the water for another use. In many places you have property rights to the flow of that stream based on prior usage.
Because poor FB engineers have no other economically viable options, right?
> And given who was and who wasn't implicated in this and given which news orgs received these papers, it's pretty obvious that CIA or NSA or some other part of the US IC community was behind these leaks.

That’s a pretty bold conclusion from the premises provided.
Niansec is how big creators get big
Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable through settings/package management GUI
You collect a couple of gallons of rainwater, no problem. Everyone upstream catches rainwater? After all it's unregulated, a tank or a pond, no difference. Now cities downstream have no water.
Official Ireland were dragged into this kicking and screaming. There really wasn’t much choice involved - unless the OECD brass were thinking in generous terms towards Ireland. If anything I’d say the timing of this is in part what drove Brexit - this has been coming for a few years now and “City”* of London is one of the worlds biggest hubs for processing funny money.

* This is the somewhat cryptic name for the financial services enclave in the middle of London City.
That's going to escalated quickly. The Streisand Effect at "web scale"
What's the state of the restaurant management software scene? Any scope for an open source restaurant management system? Could be a good side-hustle.

Edit: Just googled and found TastyIgniter. https://github.com/tastyigniter/TastyIgniter Don't underestimate the value of someone who knows code AND has worked in the industry in helping clients implement tech like this. You could make a good consultant!
> Less and less people are using facebook.

So I hear. This is the trajectory of all social-media sites; they cease to be fashionable and hip, as their early users (late teens to early 20s) move on. What remains is then children, old fuddy-duddies, politicos and advertisers. So they become even less fashionable and less hip. Consider Myspace.

What surprises me is that Faceache has lasted so long. If I were into gambling on stocks, I'd be shorting Faceache.
To be off the grid - to be self-sufficient for electricity, water, etc. Depending on how remote you are, it might be the cheapest option.

You can like that idea without wanting to 'return to nature'. People can like independence without buying in to any of the rest of your ideas...
Another Irish resident confirming that this statement is not true.

Most schools teach in English and teach Irish as a second language. Irish is rarely used in normal day to day interactions and never at work unless you work in an Irish language related area or government department that supports Irish as an official language.

There are some niche exceptions:

- "All Irish" schools where you optionally learn through Irish

- "Gaeltachts" which are pockets of Ireland where Irish is promoted and spoken. Even here the locals will happily switch to English if you prefer.

I like Irish and wish it was more widely spoken as an everyday language but in reality you have to make an explicit effort to experience it.
I think you're wrong. I distinctly recall NoSQL being hailed as a move away from SQL, as in you'd never need SQL again.

This turned out to be misleading, so the Not Only SQL was suggested as an alternative name.

See e.g. https://hostingdata.co.uk/nosql-database/
Would you mind helping me see the equivalence? Buttons here, or buttons there. Is it the amount of buttons? The size of the buttons?! All I can think of is the amount of people being shown per button.
> If your motivation is money, you can absolutely find that employment elsewhere.

Genuinely asking: what alternatives are there that HN doesn’t consider “evil” and can provide the same remuneration and working environment?

Also consider that not every FB employee works in the Bay Area.
Even those who support qualified immunity should find it difficult to support continued qualified immunity for those repeatedly breaking laws. I don’t understand how the individuals of the article can repeatedly break the law yet still not be held personally responsible.
It's your typical distraction. Politicians do this all the time.

If you see an article about psychos jailing kids, and your reaction is this drivel, then yeah, it's malice. I don't think this person was just venting.
When I started doing telecom related projects in Australia I needed to learn about the protocols and terms. It took ages to figure out that when the US referred to the "central office" what they meant was what we would call an "exchange" (formally "telephone exchange"). Why would a building that is primarily serving to interconnect and switch telecommunication circuits, and providing desks and rooms for workers would seemingly be a secondary function, if at all going by those windowless rural sheds, be called an "office"?
Usenix ATC '21/OSDI '21: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
FYI, this happened in 1966.

§5225. Discontinuance of Postal Savings System

" (a) The closing date for the Postal Savings System is the thirtieth
day immediately following the date of the enactment of this Act. On
and after the closing date no deposits shall be accepted in existing
postal savings account and no new postal savings account shall be
opened. After the closing date the Board of Trustees of the Postal
Savings System shall not be required to maintain the 5 per centum
reserve of postal savings funds otherwise required to be maintained by
section 5214 of this title nor to apportion deposits in banks in accordance with sections 5215 and 5219 of this title.

"(b) Interest on deposits in the Postal Savings System shall cease to accrue on the anniversary dates of the respective certificates occurring in the twelve-month period starting with the closing date
Only if you were an English speaking user
Should be easy enough to accomplish with an extension. Maybe one exists already.
What's a normal person?
This is exactly what I do - store location components as jsonb in Postgres
Or starting a business to begin with.
Weird? Nah, but there is a lot of variation, and some of them can be difficult even for locals to understand.

However most of us naturally switch to some variation of RP (or as heard on the BBC) while interacting with non locals. It has often been said that there is more variation in the way that English is spoken within the UK, than there is in the rest of the world.

I once had an experience in the USA while sitting at a Restaurant bar and conversing with the barman. He eventually asked where I was from, presumably due to my manner of speech (in English).

I then went through the rigmarole of asking him if he believed I was a native speaker, or knew it as a second language. He picked native, but was unable to enumerate the short list of countries where I was possibly from, and could not guess the answer.

At no point did he try England. He was surprised when I eventually told him I was British, and from England.

It seems too many folk in the US expect that all of us sound like Hugh Grant.
NFT and blockchain-based Axie Infinity Raises $152M
Heard of this big word called gerrymandering? Its when politicians do hijinks to ensure that voting with ones feet becomes more and more ineffective for people that don't support said politicians.
How about /not/ getting the same amount of compensation, and being able to spend every day making the world a better place (or at least, not a worse one)?

I have made that choice. For me it was a simple one to make.
>can see replenishment of the water tables being a concern, if everyone (or a good percentage, at least) started doing so.

Used to live in a village with a well (acquifer) and pumping station but in the city I live in now, and all the surrounding towns, all the water supply comes from rainwater (via a reservoir and treatment plant) ... like, where else you going to get it from?
WAT?! You didn't enjoy running QEMM, running the optimizer to figure out the best order to load things. Configuring EMS and XMS memory? Editing your config.sys and autoexec.bat. Manually setting dip switches and setting pins to try to get your cards to each have a unique IRQ

I certainly have some fond memories but I'm pretty happy with modern UIs
China again blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO
Going back to office (English subtitled)
Classical Place-Names and the American Frontier
I only read those sentences:

> Once Facebook usage becomes a real nuissance for whatever reason, businesses will slowly migrate off of it.

>> The same can be said about climate change.

Yeah, we will start migrating to Mars!
Well, let's see.

When I was in hospital a few years ago, I met a total of perhaps 15 people during a week. Pinpointing the cause of an infection would have required testing those 15.

Also, there's good evidence that the vaccines dampen transmission. Random quote (from Nature): "…people who become infected with the Delta variant are less likely to pass the virus to their close contacts if they have already had a COVID-19 vaccine than if they haven’t1. But that protective effect is relatively small, and…" and basically the effect is small but measurably present.
Quite the other way. They are being strong-armed by other countries (especially the EU) into taxing companies.
Just checked the recent reviews and they all say doesn't block YT ads. Is the special setting needed?
Um, it seems they don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=if50.substack.com