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What will happen instead is that all land that could possibly be used will continue to be used. Overproduction will instead be exported, which will hit farmers in less developed countries who cannot compete hard.

https://theexchange.africa/industry-and-trade/agribusiness/w...

It's not just food from fields. Meat also is overproduced to be exported in countries like the US, UK or Germany and others.

https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-imports-ranking-count... (some countries, like the US, are both big im- as well as exporters)

I know from following relevant news that here in Germany we could significantly scale down our environmentally bad big pig farms, which also suffer from crowded conditions and not exactly a good life for the animals, if not both the businesses involved as well as government concerned about GDP and creating a lot of exports would oppose restrictions on the meat industry.

I'm not even against meat at all, but this is a bad cycle. We can export more when/if we are cheap, and that requires industrialized "meat production" to the detriment of the animals. The incentives are wrong IMO.

Some might argue that imported cheaper food is better for African countries, but they can't compete on high-tech, they can't compete in agriculture, how are they supposed to bootstrap their economies? There also are reports about all the worn clothing that ends up in Africa, so no local textile industry either.

Unchecked, tose able to produce cheaply will never voluntarily restrain themselves and give up "productive land". Instead, they will use their advantage to conquer ever more markets.
> Also it goes both ways on the trust aspects & maybe when the likes of fb2k, aimp & musicbee go OSS I might eventually reconsider my dinosaur like approach to development but there has to be a tangible benefit for me to do it.

Forgive me for asking, but if the reason for you releasing WACUP to the public at all isn't purely personal benefit (if it was only about that might as well keep it to yourself right?) but to help people and share something that you deem useful and let others benefit from it, why would the source code be any different? Put another way: why is releasing the binaries publicly acceptable even if it doesn't benefit you directly, but doing the same thing for the source itself isn't?
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also the classic modern skin is great
Is aluminum running out? Why is there a deficit? The article doesn't explain that.
There are easy ways to bring major yield improvements but scientific knowledge is by default ignored. E.g Skq1
I don't know, though I'd suspect that plans for increased air exchange are being considered. For much of the state, through much of the year, open windows are a reasonably minor consideration. Heat-recovery air-exchange would be more efficient, and again, though I don't know what's being considered, I'd suspect that this is part of current discussions.

The chief challenge is that of retrofits vs. new construction. Much of California's school infrastructure is 50--100 years old.
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OK, Facebook is now a non profit which only income comes from selling ad space to "Definitely Not Facebook Inc" at such a price which avoids racking up profits. (Like ad house of old.)
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HN is not for profit. In fact, it's purposely a loss leader. They can afford to be heavily moderated because they aren't trying to appease anyone but their specific small, targeted audience.
Yes, my TV is an LG 55" 4k dumb tv, and I love it. [1]

As I posted in another thread [2] a few days ago:

In Canada, LG's Business site has tvs branded as "Commercial Lite" that are all dumb, and work great. I have a 55" 4k and I enjoy its simple features and minimal remote-control. The only downsides IMO are that it only has two HDMI inputs and it doesn't do HDR. But for $1000 CAD four years ago, I'm still happy with it! I bought mine from CanadaComputers in-store. I don't know if it's as easy to get one nowadays, and I don't know if/how they sell them in the US.

[1] https://www.lg.com/ca_en/business/commercial-lite

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29343338
Enforcement is more pertinent than policy. If their policy allows for such videos, but in practice removes them, it doesn't really matter what their policy is.
I would imagine more because those features are probably easier to reverse engineer. Plus traditional CV is weaker in generalized scenarios and is pretty easy to trick or throw off.
It's part of the Atomics feature set (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...). You have a shared chunk of memory and you say "please sleep until this memory changes". Then it's up to the host to change that memory.
That would have been a better answer than "it performs as well as every other Go server" which probably does a dis-service to any tuning work you've done (or any tuning work any other server has done on the thin chance you've not done any).
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Also in Lithuania: it is forbidden to use hong in urban areas unless it is to prevent an accident.
Toilet rather than bathroom, since their baths were amazing.
Huh? The transcript is wrong.

Here's an example picked quickly:

"this became, what's known as lid peacocks. And so lippy kicks is, like six layers of sea macros"

Did Ryan say that on your podcast? No? Because he was talking about libPKIX.
Vietnam does consume a large amount of 333 and Larue
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I think only the first versions of winamp used amp, it was replaced later. Interestingly, the old amp code can still be compiled and ran on modern systems with little modifications. I've did it a few months ago.
Seems very possible that there was a similar approach here in Vietnam where a goal might have been to get the stuff to the US.

I'm a bit confused by the seizure. Ie, if US doesn't want the cheap aluminum -> let another country have it cheap?

That said, Biden does seem to be going big on tariffs.

"The decision is one of Mr. Biden’s first significant moves on trade and suggests that his administration may be inclined to maintain the type of hefty tariffs Mr. Trump imposed on foreign metals to protect domestic industry. That position found favor with unions, but disappointed industries and businesses that have argued the tariffs raise costs." - NY Times - Biden Reinstates Aluminum Tariffs in One of His First Trade Moves

So this story does seem to be continuing with efforts by Biden to keep imported prices higher and there may be an element of politics in some of this all.
What other currencies do people trust that have been "massively inflated" by speculation?
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I've only used caddy twice, but it worked for like 2 years without interruption both times.

I don't think you're being negative or whatever and I also think the other person has an idea of what they want to know but not how to explain it.

Do they want connection handling metrics? SSL terminations? Caching performance?

Also, not at you but a general laugh, "the reverse proxy isn't the bottleneck ever" is funny because prior to haproxy, getting gigabit throughput to a backend was considered extreme engineering.

Now I can load balance and ssl terminate a gigabit with like 5 raspberry pi and an old Intel box to load balance and cache.
Sublime Text is handy for doing text manipulation and jumping around files. I use it in addition to Xcode for that sort of thing. I know some vim but not enough to use it this way. I hope Fleet is closer to ST in speed than I’ve heard VSCode is sometimes.
TLS and JWT are both "IETF protocols", but the IETF police won't arrest if you if you slot XChaCha20 into either of them.

This is actually how it's supposed to work: RFCs are meant, at least somewhat routinely, to trail implementations. "Loose consensus and working code" used to be the motto. Get XChaCha20 deployed, and then let the IETF standardize it because they have to. That's what happened with Curve25519.
Hmmmm... I can't help but feel like this technique is related to the TeX layout engine.

If you've ever read Knuth's TeX design, you'll know that TeX has a intricate solver to determine the "badness" of lines. The spaces between words (and sentences: such as the ".") will be manipulated to minimize the "rivers" of poor-justification algorithms.

Today, instead of manually writing a constraint-solver like Knuth did for TeX in the 1980s, it makes sense to leverage open-source solvers like Z3.

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We can see that TeX is simply a domain-specific language that puts glyphs (in the form of letters) into a set of constraints... constraints of the form "width = target_size +/- adjustable_size".

And TeX is simply a constraint solver that iterates over all possible combinations (!!!) and selects the set of adjustable_sizes for all glyphs for the best looking paragraph (where "best looking" paragraph is a set of calculations Knuth thought looked good back in the 1970s/1980s).

Knuth proved that TeX's solver traverses across an NP complete problem. But it turns out that written paragraphs are "small enough n", and that exhaustive search (with some good heuristics to speed things up) is possible on computers, even computers 40 years ago.

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I also can't help but feel like a lot of UI-design is about layout engines like this. Flexbox makes my head hurt but having the web-browser "solve" constraints that I gave it is more flexible across different devices (phone vs 1080p laptops vs ultrawide desktop screens).

Constraints are already used for 3d CAD for engineers (this point must match that point. This angle must be 2/3rd of that angle. Etc. etc. Computer, now solve for the shape). Using them as 2D designs for GUIs, figures, and text only makes sense.
I’ve heard of this rumour and hope it’s true and that someone has evidence of a tv manufactor is doing this in the US.
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/wi-fi-connect...
There's a lot more to "ultimate" than just performance. It's a cross of many dimensions.
Not to diverge too much, but if you’re keeping everything in memory how do you handle hardware failures etc? Wouldn’t that result in data loss?
First he shared Rothbard's "Enemy of the State" and now he's resigning from Twitter, one of our censor-happy tech overlord...

I'd love to know what goes on in his head besides the PR crap he's posting.
Oh yes, but they should simply do a much better job at this :)
We have the dumbest modern TV I could find, it routinely decides to ask us to agree to the T&Cs again, and complains about not being connected to the internet.

The problem isn't just that they want to be connected tot he internet, it's that that they're terribly written buggy bloatware devices that glitch continuously when not connected to the internet.

Of course from what others have said it seems like they're also glitchy and terrible when connected to the internet?
The library that this was written for does in fact do all of the above, and I actually did look at your library for inspiration when I was doing background research. Big fan of your blog by the way.

Though given the blog post is devoid of the context, and its apparently blown up a little, this is a valid wording concern and I'll edit the title.
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HN it's both highly regulated, and focuses on a few niche topics. I can tell you how to create a mobile app using flutter and firebase. I can't tell you how to handle a relationship.

I can argue flutter is easier than react native without getting personal. I don't argue about my relationships, or anyone else's relationships. I have extremely strict criteria for anyone I let into my life, whether that be a friend or a partner. This has worked very well for me.

You're not going to find what you want in every single city, life can become drastically better just by moving.

But that's it. I don't need to argue about why I live where I do.

I don't need the validation of random people when it comes to my life decisions. However if you want to argue with me that I can get better server-side performance via a Rust backend rather than firebase, I might listen.
I'm surprised at the thank you gesture. The intended use of warning lights is to... warn people, right? I've always understood them to mean "something weird has happened, and so I may do something unpredictable." I can't see how that could have morphed to "thank you."
> "There is no real "value", however. I'm not an app. I do not simplify your workflow or make you more productive on a daily basis."

I think your "value" is inspiring people with your art, and the challenge is bringing your art to an audience more conveniently than they can from your website. A second challenge could be providing your art in more convenient or unique formats.

One thing I could think of is printed versions of the artwork, such as on T-Shirts, coffee mugs, and other things, even cards for special occasions. It's a way for people who enjoy and identify with your art to make it part of their personal self-expression.

What about a windows or mac desktop application for automatically setting up a desktop wallpaper with the latest one on your website, with a subscription fee. It makes it more convenient, and gives something to think about each week. I always really enjoy the Windows Wallpapers on the lock screen. This could be kind of similar.

Have you thought of iOS Wallpapers that could be sold as an app on the iOS app store?

Each one would definitely take a lot of time, but hopefully one of them might be useful.
> It seems to be a project and a commercial vision with tremendous potential, one that investors see as a pivotal piece of the cloud puzzle and are willing to pour in significant capital to help build.

Monetising open source is something that I've struggled with. Can you speak to the business model, Matthias?
I don't think that's a contradiction personally. Most reasonable people accept that some level of censorship is necessary for a good discussion, especially when hundreds or thousands of people are involved. HN style moderation doesn't exactly scale to twitter size easily though.
There is some humorous graffiti in the latrine at Ostia Antica (pictured in the article). The Seven Sages of Greece had permeated the collective consciousness to such an extent in Rome that some unknown individual inscribed some graffiti referencing some of them.

For example, one graffito reads: "Ut bene cacaret, ventrum palpavit Solon," which translates to "To shit well, Solon rubbed his belly."

Another says, "Durum cacantes monuit ut nitant Thales," which translates to, "Thales admonished those shitting to strain hard."

Another: "Vissire tacite Chilon docuit subdolus", or "Sly Chilon taught to fart silently."

To get the modern cultural connotation, substitute "Thales" or "Solon" for "Einstein" or "Abraham Lincoln".

Some of the other graffiti do not reference the Seven Sages. The Seven Sages graffiti use a higher register --- past tense and a meter associated with comedies. But the other graffiti are in a lower register --- present tense and no meter. One of these others recommends "shake yourself about so you'll go faster."

One of these also references the tersorium, or sponge on a stick, that the article discusses. (Also called a xylospongium.) The graffito reads "No one talks to you much, Priscianus, until you use the sponge on a stick."
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In a setup with high-level of containers collocation on large ec2 instances, we've seen the opposite behavior at Netflix: default CFS performing badly. We've AB tested our flavor of custom pinning and measured substantial benefits: https://netflixtechblog.com/predictive-cpu-isolation-of-cont...

PMC data at scale is pretty clear: very often, CFS won't do the right thing and will leave bad HT neighbors on the same core, leading to L1 thrashing, or keep a high-level of imbalance between NUMA sockets leading to degraded LLC hit rate.
If you go to 8gb you have to shift to a 64bit operating system right? And isn’t there a memory efficiency cost of shifting to 64bit? Intuitively it would make sense if things were not 64bit optimized but still had to allocate 64bit chunks you’d be incurring some amount of unnecessary memory bloat.

I don’t have this info ready in my head but I think I’ve seen analysis of it previously.
"I do understand that actually; but we weren't discussing the technicalities of how you violate IP. I was discussing why Mickey Mouse shouldn't be in the public domain."

That's not violating a trademark. You can research what violating a trademark entails if you are confused.
That's the point. Instead of worrying about overproduction we should worry about distributing food to ones they need it. And 811 million is a huge number. Can't be ignored just because another 7B are ok. Also I suspect that there are more than 811 hungry. They're just not literally dying.
> Explain what methodologies you'd do to stop these pieces of misinformation from spreading on Facebook, Twitter... or hell... Fox News / traditional media.

Explaining that these sources of information are not reliable, because they use techniques to manipulate public opinion. We have to discredit entire subsets of media that aren't willing to give up manipulative practices.

Saying that we can and should demand higher quality for our information, just as we demand high quality for other products. We make all kinds of (life) decision based on information.

Offering an alternative, better source of information, which is transparent, has a well defined methodology, can "show you the work" if you want to see it. One where you will know people put a lot of effort into producing high quality material and went to great length to avoid common pitfalls of human reasoning. A new kind of media to improve the quality of our lives by improving the quality of our information.

Free speach is totally fine to continue existing. Traditional media can also continue to exist. That doesn't mean we have to take it seriously - nobody bans tabloids either, but we don't put much into them.
"Technological progress" is "greater output with fewer inputs".

Economists typically measure inputs either in terms of total financial costs, or specific types of inputs, typically capital and labour. As is being discussed elsewhere in this thread, energy is also a principle input, and there's a strong argument that it should be considered on its own terms.
WhatsApp Web was Chrome only for quite some time.

From personal experience I know that Teams definitely has some Firefox-only bugs.
> the public would quickly learn that it can answer any question at all... if you don't mind if the answer is right.

There appear to be an awful lot of conversations in which people care about other things much, much more than what is objectively correct.

And any technology that can greatly amplify engagement in that kind of conversation probably is dangerous.
From the article:

> Airbus is also not alone in facing problems. Boeing has had paint issues and a phenomenon known as rivet rash, or flecks of missing paint, on its competing 787s.
Non profit can't have shareholders, and there are regulations around how non profits operate financially.
Is it not possible to represent this in a 2D graph for learning purposes? Or is that the point, that it can't be represented in 2D?

I'm imaging square nodes with 0 or 1 in them, and 8 other 0 or 1's on the corner and edges, denoting the parity of other nodes, and by simply inspecting these edge/corner bits you can tell whether the whole graph is corrupted?
Yep, that's very near term on our roadmap. Right now, you can download the Google Slides document that we make and have it work pretty well.
I look at this and ask - from this analysis, what distinguishes conservatism from feudalism?
Thanks for adding the original research.

I'm also not an epidemiologist, but I can think of at least one disease where the advice "catch it when you're young and you'll have stronger immunity" has a serious downside: chickenpox. A subsequent case of chickenpox itself is rare, but the herpes zoster virus remains dormant in the body and can re-appear as shingles in adulthood. I don't know the probability of that vs catching chickenpox following vaccination.
I'm not so sure. Are these the definitions GPT-3 uses?
I bet Swift beats them all in number of features introduced per release, and that's not a good thing.
How would the TV phone home if it's not connected to the internet?
A lot of the assumptions of Xanadu are incompatible with an open world. For a trivial example, bidirectional links require either a central authority, a burn-the-forests blockchain solution, or acceptance of the fact that every document will consist entirely of links to Viagra pharmacies. Unbreakable links (no 404s, no link-rot) implies the inability to ever remove anything from the system, which means no right to be forgotten, your bad takes will haunt you forever. (This lovely feature is implemented as "content-adressing" in some Web3 protocols.) Transclusion and transcopyright mean the whole system has to be surveilled to enforce IP law, and all expression is potentially financialized.

Basically, something like Xanadu would work very well as a personal system, or even a closed research system like a law library, but an open-world Xanadu would be even a worse hellscape than the Web-as-we-know-it.
I don't disagree with this comment, but it's worth noting Chrome was already rising to dominance as a desktop browser before Android/mobile internet usage became a significant factor.

Somehow even with Microsoft promoting IE on their platform, people still chose to install an alternative.
I'm sure he only focuses when things are really wrong. It must be awful to be fixing Tesla problems when SpaceX is humming along. Then switch to SpaceX when it's falling apart while Tesla is back on its feet. It's like a perpetual grass-is-greener problem regardless of which side of the fence you're on.

edit: a month or two ago there was this huge increase in SpaceX development all of a sudden that has since dwindled. I wonder if that was Musk working on SpaceX but now back at Tesla? of course i could be way off base too ( FAA thorn in SpaceX's side etc )
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Well, I still can't find the references I'm looking for. So I'll accept that CDMA will be dead, and we can both be surprised if it survives a little bit longer.
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Thank you for your feedback and advice!

Wow, it is great to meet a person here who knows about our main desktop software IP Video System Design Tool.
To import a floor plan in the lens calculator the user can click on a small house button in the bottom of the screen. Yes the button is not in the toolbar.

This video shows how to import a background image 1:40
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NE7eTx1aPpg
That might be the case when you already know a lot about cryptography. But when you're a newbie, an IETF standard which hasn't been marked as obsolete is a safe choice, in this case ChaCha20+Poly1305 (RFC 8439). Besides, if you don't have a standard document, there's the risk that your XChaCha20 is not the same someone else's XChaCha20, leading to interoperability issues.
Same thing in Clementine, except you don't even have to press J. Just type your search when the window is focused and the filter bar will catch the keys.

This can be disabled too.
Half the time they're either furiously clicking "connect" on suggested connections in the hope of expanding their network to impress the people they really want to target, or getting a bot to do it for them. It's not necessarily anything to do with the quality of your followups if no cool conversation ensues
Or without a config file, simply:

$ caddy file-server --root /path/to/files