skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about reliable solar panel setups being very expensive and often only barely worth it with substantial subsidies. I'm talking about "village homes" being incredibly space & land inefficient. I'm talking about permaculture-style forests wasting large amounts of land and resources hosting plants and herbs few people actually want but hey, it's a lot of greenery, who cares if it doesn't actually meet demand for modern non-herbal pharmaceuticals and food people actually want to eat.

I doubt that a 2h30m video giving situational advice on soil health is an answer to the declining biodiversity this article is talking about. Even if his techniques are more "productive" (which means little on its own anyway, it's not efficient if productivity gains don't match time/labor/financial/scale cost increases), as long as his farm is still very much a farm it will largely exclude the kind of "wild" biodiversity that is declining which includes a lot of destructive, nasty or totally pointless flora & fauna. It's not a problem with solutions like "using less fertilizer" or "don't till the soil as much so some fungi can grow".

"Real" biodiversity and utilitarian farmland have very little overlap, natural "wild" ecosystems generally suck at meeting modern consumer demand. The most relevant and compelling solutions that I see focus on increasing yield and space/land efficiency so we can meet modern demand with less space, leaving more space for low-utility wild ecosystems scientists care about.

Ultimately, I'm not going to pretend like I'm an expert in the field who can competently analyze two hour technical farming videos. If Gabe and co can solve this problem more efficiently, I'd encourage them to prove that in the market by providing more and better produce. The market cuts through the bullshit and nonsense we tell ourselves about how much better something is. Show me something better and I'll vote with my wallet.

> So where do you want to get power w/o burning fossil fuels?

Perhaps a mix of centralized renewable techs and nuclear. Good solutions don't necessarily exist yet, that's why the world is working hard on energy tech, the world isn't giving up.
So you genuinely believe that the reason your daughter prefers "pink pretty things" is because her "brain works differently"?

You really don't think any cultural messaging that girls are supposed to like "pink pretty things" has any influence?

Did you know that in the early 20th century, blue was prescribed as the normative color for girls and pink for boys? [1] Huh, now how do you reconcile that with your view that your daughter's love of pink is because her brain is just gosh darn different? Is your response that the brains of girls 100 years ago were the complete opposite of girl brains today? Or maybe that they just had the colors all wrong, and that clearly, based on your daughter's brain, you're glad society finally has it biologically right?

[1] https://www.britannica.com/story/has-pink-always-been-a-girl...
Yeah that's what I mean, dating apps are more a thing when most people start looking to settle down.

> Also you are dating yourself with that last sentence.

Nice pun but no, I am typical college age. I dont see how it's "dating myself" to not want to marry somebody in 7-10 years who hooks up a lot now.
Perhaps that's a sign that they're involved in too many things.
Dokku running on AWS light sail or DigitalOcean
I would appreciate a down to earth recipe database, with limited advertising, and limited SEO-pre-recipe content.

Too bad this wasn't it.
We should be careful to distinguish between the dimensionality of the physical space, the dimensionality of image data coming in from the retina, and the dimensionality of the navigational representation.

Going back to the image example, a 100x100 pixel image is 2D in that it can be shown on a screen, or printed on a page, or laid flat on a plane. But the (abstract) space of all possible images is #intensities_per_pixel to the 100x100 = 10000 power.

It's abstract in that each point in this space is not a location in the external world, but specifies one particular image. If you're familiar with phase spaces or configuration spaces from physics, it's like that.

The other thing is that we don't seem to have direct access to a 2d or 3d position-tracker sense. So instead, we have to build up some internal representation for navigation, based on our senses which as outlined for images are much higher-dimensional than the physically allowable positions in the world they're sensing. Robotics SLAM is one approach.

Then finally, there's the dimensionality of the neural representation itself. Let's say that your internal navigation map is represented by the firing-pattern of a population of neurons (i.e. more than one). Define a time-step, say one millisecond. For simplicity, consider each neuron to just be have an "activity" in the range 0.0 to 1.0 per time-step by e.g. counting the number of spikes emitted per time-step and dividing by some number to get things in a nice range. So now you can represent the activity of a neuron by one number per timestep. If you have a population of 100 neurons, then that's a 100 number string. But ... you can also think of it as a point in a 100 dimensional space. Each point is one particular pattern of neural activations. The entire space is all of the possible patterns of neural activations. Again, this is not a space in the sense of physical positions in the world or in the brain. It's an abstract space. But all the vector space math works.

SO we're perceiving 3D by means of retinas that take way more than 3 measurements at an instant, and maybe our brain is finding correlations so that it can represent these in a distributed way in << input_dimensions, but > world_dimensions.
> There are very few new features in 3.8.

> It is a much less important release (for features) than 3.7, which for example added dataclasses and lots of typing and asyncio stuff.

That's funny because my take is the exact opposite: dataclasses are not very useful (attrs exists and does more), deferred type annotations are meh, contextvars, breakpoint(), and module-level getattr/settattr but not exactly anything you can't do without.

Assignment expressions provide for great cleanups in some contexts (and avoiding redundant evaluations in e.g. comprehensions), expr= is tremendous for printf-debugging, posonly args is really useful, \N in regex can much improve their readability when relevant.

$dayjob has migrated to python 3.7 and there's really nothing I'm excited to use (possibly aside from doing weird things with breakpoint), whereas 3.8 would be a genuine improvement to my day-to-day enjoyment.
Sigh, that snarky Twitter interaction in the replies . "Back to your paid counter PR attempt rookie. Grown Folks are talking" doesn't seem like a great way to win friends and influence people.
From a money laundering “user” perspective, would you rather have $1 million that will likely send you to jail, or $700k that you can spend freely without concern?
If you implement it on the frontend you lose all the builtin navigation behavior that the browser gives you natively when loading pages. You instead get to build all that behavior yourself in places where you think it should exist using your best judgment (things like deciding when to push to browser history state, for example, may be perceived as breaking the back button to many users if you haven't thought through your app's navigation hierarchy very carefully).
I would encourage everyone who feels strongly about this to feel empowered to use the App Store reporting system, or the Better Business Bureau complaint system to report exploit and manipulation by business.

https://www.bbb.org/file-a-complaint
I mean, to really make bank, what you need is for those digital assets to be worth something, right? So here's the plan, we just make a game that's really fun and market it so that it becomes super popular, trick people into playing it, you know? And then every day those rubes will be paying us money for digital assets we make for free, and for a 30% cut Steam will deposit it right into our bank accounts - clean, laundered cash. After five years or so, when they're starting to catch on, lose interest, we end ongoing support and just disappear off into the sunset with the money...
Li Bai and the Doorways of Night
If you're trying to convince me microtransactions are bad, I'm on your side. I'd like to see Valve just outright ban microtransactions as they are not only predatory, but also arguably a violation of ADA.
How about applying that to stores in the state of MA, CVS can't sell house brands, and the grocery stores can't do it either. Let's see how it works there first, before doing it at the national level?
Is that still maintained ? It was an experiment in 16.04 right?
In political discussions we call this the “anti-anti” position. If you’re not making any claims that Ivermectin works, why are you wasting so much energy and karma attacking those that think it doesn’t work?
Are you sure you don't have the causation backwards? "X is bad because the govt stepped in" vs "the govt stepped in because X is bad/hard"
I mean for GKE, there is a free tier that covers the cost of a autopilot cluster[0], which means basically no overhead cost of running on GKE instead of a Compute Engine node.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing#cluster_m...
I think most of the limitation might actually lie in software. I have a CE and Megapixels (the camera app I'm using) can store raw files and the raw files and the processed jpg files have a significant gap in quality.
>it could conceivably come from elsewhere

Hit the nail right on the head.

My boss is a boy scout troop leader, he regularly goes out to the gatherings, and I can relate his mood to how their last meetup went. His job has 0 impact on it.

Keep looking, something will fill that void soon.

I, myself, found that making bread for community kitchens sorta did it, not the act of making it but seeing people eat it, and taste it, was very fulfilling. You don't have to do it for charity, there may be other things that tickle your fancy.
How does a web session work? (2013)
> I've ruled out hosting them locally in my home lab.

Then you've also ruled out "cost-efficiently host[ing]" them as well.

The most cost efficient method is using the internet connection you already have and are already paying for to also host them.
It isn't, because the seller of the certificate is the moral owner of the work - the artist; this is not the case for stars.

The Tate is the owner of the following certificate of ownership by Sol Le Witt:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-a-wall-divided-v...

Are they the victim of a scam?
> when it comes to hearthstone blizzard decides. you can have every single nft on the planet, but if blizzard decides you dont get to use those cards in hearthstone you 100 percent absolutely don't get to use those cards in hearthstone.

NFTs are just as useless. I can sell you the NFT for the original doge Shiba Inu, and I can sell Bill the actual legal rights to use that photograph.

Despite you owning the NFT, you can't actually use that photograph. Bill can. And he can sue you, and win, if you try to.

All that ownership of the NFT entitles you to is... Ownership of the NFT. It's like owning a photograph of the deed to my house. It doesn't mean that you actually own my house. You can keep reselling that photograph, but it's not going to get you any closer to owning the house.

But eh, we can burn a lot of electricity to certify that you do, in fact, own that particular photograph of the deed. Fantastic. Meanwhile, I can take, and sell more photographs...
Interesting. Might be a case of "all of the above", where the people who get into real trouble do so because they defeat all the sources.
I guarantee some court of the 27th century will be deliberating the validity of someone's claim on Gliese 674 simply because they have the only documented claim anyone ever bothered to make, in the form of a vacuum preserved slip of foolscap naming their star registry buying ancestor as the owner.
The landing page would really benefit from code samples illustrating the basic concepts and syntaxes.

See https://reactjs.org and https://svelte.dev for examples.
Oddly enough, I've had my fingers knuckle deep in the vagina of my girlfriend, yet for some reason it's not acceptable for me to do it to every single woman I meet.

It's almost as if context makes an action acceptable in one instance and not another.
Ask HN: How does one search HN?
I'm pretty sure I have used a search UI. Also, I understand it's considered polite to search before submitting.

But now I can't find it.
As someone with 7-digit spend in GKE/EKS, I will agree with you that it is _anything but simple_.

Your developers aren't going to say that it's simple when Google force upgrades their cluster to a version that deprecates APIs in their yamls for a job they worked on 2 years ago and swiftly forgot about.

Then when you explain to them that Google insists on putting everyone on a force-upgrade treadmill, you can literally watch as the panic sets in on the faces of your engineering team managers/leads.

Nomad is a breeze in comparison to managed K8s.

Everyone that I've talked to that thinks Kubernetes is simple is barely using the thing and could likely save a lot of money and development effort using something like Nomad instead.
If there’s one thing we learned with this entire pandemic, it is that expecting humans to take precautions and comply indefinitely is just not reasonable policy, in particular when the threat is invisible and evolves “slowly” (months instead of minutes). Same applies to other kinds of threats: everyone knows they should eat healthy, avoid sugar, etc. everyone knows people die to diabetes every day. People systemically still don’t care.
(I’m not comparing the morality of spreading a virus vs dying if a disease that only affects you, just using the example as more evidence on how humans deal with threats and how self-compliance-based policies tend to always fail)
I mean, i baiscally want to play like Age of Empires II but script logic for units as well.

edit: I should also add that it maybe depends what you're taklintg about; one thing i'd like to do is be able to play an actual normal game, but offload some of the menial tasks to scirpts. so some manual control, but I can write logic to make it less tedious.
When you buy stocks, you think you're buying a share of a corporation. It sits in your brokerage account. Now you've traded money for "something" you can't touch.

The existence of your stock ownership depends on a legal and social framework to exist. If the government was overthrown and you were exiled tomorrow, you have nothing. If an asteroid destroyed half the earth tomorrow, and you survived, you still have nothing.

You take for granted the systems in which you live and function in. There are many things we "own" and cannot touch, yet they are as real as anything. The money in your bank account is an example of that. It has value, you own it, but if we are stranded on a deserted island with no electricity or wifi, it ceases to exist to us.
Get me a policy or some sort of response in writing from their corporate overlords.

Edit: just got an update. Here's what he said:

>So sorry for never responding! We are not using the cameras on the POS card readers. You will see when it asks you to swipe the card that it has an eye crossed out to signify that it is not actively using the camera to look at the customer.
It’s pretty easy to stop businesses from accepting Bitcoin if you are the military industrial complex.

Black markets are hard to eliminate altogether but no real threat.
Steam is more than just a store though.

Its "content filter" functionality could/should be separate from other functionalities they offer.
I feel that Brooks puts a time horizon of 10 years on his predictions because of AI. If we achieve AGI, then that would be an obvious example of something overnight which would yield (at least) a 10x improvement of productivity. But I think it was a safe bet for Brooks to say we wouldn't be there by 1997.

That said, on the topic of environments and tools Brooks writes, "Surely this work is worthwhile, and surely it will bear some fruit in both productivity and reliability. But by its very nature, the return from now on must be marginal." This claim is not timeboxed to a decade, but is instead projected to perpetuity. He boldly asserts without support that that from now on, improvements to tooling environments definitionally cannot yield 10x improvements in programming. I think this is where people have taken issue, and have shown this claim to be wrong.

I think this error comes from a misconception in the previous paragraph: "Language-specific smart editors are developments not yet widely used in practice, but the most they promise is freedom from syntactic errors and simple semantic errors."

There is no reason to believe that language-specific smart editors could only save you from simple semantic errors and syntax. In fact, language specific editors in the ethos of Eve and Light Table supported sophisticated debugging and development modalities:

- time-travel debugging capabilities that rewind the state of a program to a previous point in its execution history

- what-if scenarios to test how the program would respond to different inputs without restarting it

- provenance tracing of program state to see how it was calculated

- live debugging and modification of a program while it's running

- saving, sharing, and replaying program state to trace bugs

- the ability to ask new questions about program output e.g. "Why is nothing drawing in this area of the screen?"

These are not "simple semantic errors" but deep program analyses and insights that are not even supported by most (any?) mainstream languages (nor could they be without changing core language semantics or adding on new language features with orthogonal semantics). Brooks doesn't imagine any of this and dismisses it all as "marginal" whereas in my experience actually using these tools, I found them literally transformative to my productivity and workflow.
The Daily Telegraph disagrees with this analysis (you may have opinions on why this is the case)
Nice, bookmarking!
Back when I was a student, I used to have insurance from a company that let me save money by plugging in a ODB-II device to monitor driving habits.
Fear Not
The certificate itself says that it is to accompany the actual work. I suspect the certificate itself, separate from the work, isn't actually worth much.
So basically someone proved their position thoroughly with regards to this singular claim, but you’re still skeptical towards the fact checkers because …? Kinda seems like the fact checkers were right here, and yet you still persist for whatever reason.
You're comparing corporate big tech to what, the lean and scrappy traditional military contractors? The level of incompetence in the military sector (private and public) is unfathomable unless you experience it in person.
The public library probably have the local "Tax-calendar" (taxeringskalendern). Like an old fashioned phone book except instead of phone numbers it has the taxed income for everyone in your town for the last year (there is of course web sites with this info too but no free service that I know of). Spent an hour at the library looking up my coworkers salaries when prepping for my first pay negotiation many years ago.
The resemblance isn't as big as the previous remakes IMO. Especially because they didn't bother to make a metallic grey/silver or grey/gold colour option like the original! Edit: Ok the black one comes kinda close to the original 'dark' model but even the black/grey was metallic on the orginal.

It's kinda funny that it has only dualband GSM, making it pretty useless in most countries now that 2G is being decommissioned. For comparison, the original 6310 was tri-band! So the original was actually better, after exactly 20 years no less. Even some of the other specs are literally the same! 16MB RAM, 8MB storage. Yes, MB. In 2021. Really.

And 0.3mpx.. That's 640x480. It's the same as my Kodak digital camera from 1999. Lol. They're really going for retro this time. I thought the idea was to have the same design with more modern specs. Not to have 20 year old specs except with a colour screen and a "camera".

Even with those 0.3mpx you can take about 10 photos before the 8MB storage is full. Wow. Like, how much does 8 GB flash cost these days? Cents??

I really don't understand what market they are aiming this thing at. The "I just make calls and text" crowd won't have a use for a camera, even a crap one. They'd often not want a camera at all (In some cases those are not permitted at work!). The rich retro crowd can't use a 2G phone in most countries. Customers in poor countries won't care if it's retro because if this is all they can afford now, they certainly didn't own a 6310 20 years ago, that was pretty much a 'flagship' phone in those days.

I really wonder whether it was even worth the trouble of designing it.
Worth noting that it's a fairly common saying, not something he came up with for the article
Because all the current recipe sites are cesspools of adverts, unnecessary and distracting write-ups, and obfuscated printability? They are poster children for much of what makes the current web a miserable chore to use.
Hedge fund guy in me thinks this is all marketing.

The whole XaaS picture thing looks like a nice OSI stack type of thing, but it's not how the systems work together (funnily enough networks don't work that way either lol). They're more like a graph, maybe a bowl of spaghetti. For instance the compliance part reaches into everywhere. You can't just write an API layer and do .complies() -> bool. Some of it even requires you to implement PTP timestamps. And it certainly reaches into reporting, where you have all sorts of strange requirements. I recently looked at a file with over 100 columns to be populated.

Having said that there's plenty of use of OSS. I've rarely been anywhere that doesn't use Linux or git or various other common software. I haven't seen a lot of proprietary languages either (Delphi/Slang/Matlab).
Peter Thiel bets on far right, spending millions to bankroll “Trump wing” of GOP
I don't see why NFT game devs should care about this to be honest. We shouldn't be putting decentralized games on one of the most centralized platforms in history.

Love Steam, but you can do your own distribution pretty easily these days. If they want to miss out on the next platform evolution, that's a mistake they'll have to reckon with.

I don't see it affecting the NFT gaming market one bit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gj8inf/rust_structuri...
The market is very liquid for anything above 3 pennies.

Source, I have over 150,000 market transactions.
You mean programs where you put an object into pickle and some other threads modify it while pickle is processing it? Doesn't surprise me - the equivalent written in plain Python would be very thread unsafe as well.
Followed you on twitter (:
> No one sensible would claim the Fed is as bad as, say, Bernie Madoff.

Give it a couple of decades.
Take a look at sxmo[0]. It is inspired by the niche of tiling window managers and shortcut-driven workflow. I don't know if it is your style, but it qualifies as radiaclly different.

[0]: https://sxmo.org/
Oh not just it's possible, it is absolutely the case. There are still some who intend to settle down earlier but for probably the majority now it's the case. The interesting problem will be that maybe not as many guys will want to marry a 35-year-old.
The team at facebook will be able to show bigger sales, making the next version more likely. You will count as a "oculus quest user" in steam stats etc. Developers will be more likely to support this headset. Etc etc etc. The market is still so small that network effect like these can be huge.

Facebook is selling at a loss in an attempt to destroy the competition and build another monopoly. They don't care if they don't make a profit now, as they will be able to gauge you later.

Don't buy facebook stuff.