skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this people: https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-foo... about a third of the food produced is thrown away along with half the water used to produce it.

Strikes me as an obviously improvable thing, as long as we're as a species capable of reining in the market forces at play.

But then again, we as a community don't seem to able to stop a couple hundred maladaptive nerds from using downvotes as a "me no likey" button, so there's that.
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Alan Carr also has a new book on digital addiction(written by his co-author since he's dead). It's addresses some of the things that make digital addiction different from nicotine addiction(you get nothing from nicotine, whereas there are legitimate uses of tech).

It's good stuff and is a great tool.
This looks like a case of the contrarian dynamic [1]. Dismissive comments tend to appear first, not because they represent the community, but because they're the fastest to write. Often there's a wave of such comments objecting to the OP, followed by a second wave objecting to the objections with some variation of "I can't believe how negative the comments here are". The irony is that they're driven by the same impulse—to make objections—they're just objecting to different things.

The second wave of objections tends (ironically!) to get upvoted to the top of the thread. Whether that's because people's minds are open to the creativity in the OP or because they enjoy disses of other people (i.e. the rest of the community) even more than they enjoy disses of someone's work, we can leave as an exercise to the reader.

This impulse governs the internet but it isn't the greatest thing on a site that values intellectual curiosity [2], because it's essentially reflexive: people see something that activates a previously existing grievance (be it battery-draining websites, bad internet comments, or what have you), which generates irritation and therefore energy to produce a post, but the post is actually litigating the generic grievance rather than responding to anything interestingly new. To get the latter, one has to perceive the new information and digest it in a way that leads to a new response—that is, one must be reflective rather than reflexive [3]—and that is a much slower process. But we definitely want reflective comments here.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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Edit: I'd like to add a response specifically to this:

> HN has become one of the worst places to have one's work demonstrated at

... by pointing out that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29786132 is currently at #1 on the front page. It's very much a question of which examples you notice and how much weight you put on them.
Companies in my industry have products they sell for 10-20 years. The chips will get used. Product updates often keep the same chip, and the same chip is used across multiple product lines.

EOL for these chips usually means a bunch of firmware engineers in sustaining need to scratch their head and read 10-15 year old documentation to find a viable replacement.
I must say it works great on Firefox on my old OnePlus 5 phone.

I really like the Waves preset.
I think that's only super novice or very sociopathic people
That metaphor doesn't work. Radioactive isotopes produced in nuclear reactors do not occur naturally.

Coronaviruses are one of the most common types of viruses in nature.
I am not sure I understand your point. Please clarify.

In the United States, the average size of a farm is around 400 acres.
They already created https://radar.cloudflare.com/ , not a lot of functionality for now, but could be expanded in the future.
Have you read Atomic Habits? If so how does this book compare? seems very similar
Agreed, it's probably the best library for 3d graphics in JavaScript. That being said, if you want websites that load fast and perform well on a large number of devices, avoid using ThreeJS unless it's absolutely essential.
I can foresee the clouds will be used in some religion-related websites, and the "futuristic-looking" animations in crypto websites.
For a landing page with one form you don't need React and I question how beneficial it is. You wont need or even use most of the features in React for a landing page. Same for most marketing sites, how much JS do they really need?

For app front ends I might buy the "Just use React" argument, but that still adds significant complexity, especially for a smaller 2-3 person team trying to get an MVP out the door. I don't think it follows that using a more basic framework like jQuery means you are suddenly accruing technical debt. It really depends on your UX needs greatly.
Even without covid, the change to EUV is a massive bottleneck. You see , there is but one company in the entire world who is making the EUV machines, ASML in the Netherlands. EUV was on the "edge" of roadmaps since, I dunno, mid-90s or something. ASML persevered and now reaping the rewards. EUV fabs need a ton of capital and investing this much without good institutional knowledge in chipmaking is too risky. And TSMC and ASML had a very good relationship for a very, very long time including TSMC buying 5% of ASML in 2012. So a very very long history culminated in TSMC being the sole top dog in the industry. Intel tried to make chips with parts similarly small without EUV and it took them an awfully long time to ramp it up -- it was supposed to ship in 2015 https://www.techspot.com/news/48577-intel-rd-envisions-10nm-... and the first desktop processors on this process shipped like two months ago, barely making 2021.

So whether automakers could use a 7nm fab is a theoretical question -- there is but one 7nm fab, the one at TSMC and they already sold every wafer they can start. They would be able to sell more if they could start more but there are only so many EUV machines ASML can make so there are only so many wafers TSMC can make. All the gaming consoles? yeah, that's 7nm chips. With AMD and Apple moving to the next line, there'll be some capacity freeing up but the demand is still very, very strong.

Also, another effect I do not see here is the container disruption. Read https://www.vox.com/recode/22832884/shipping-containers-amaz...
~3k to ~5k dollars a month, no vesting, and I'm not sure if there's a bonus structure. At least 22% of the Clojure workfoce make entry-level money by US standards, so the other 78% must be doing pretty good
also, over what time span/# of crop cycles?

effects on other aspects of the system?
>I will totally appreciate the honesty and it goes a long way.

Not far enough to get a job in most cases, at which point, after the rejection, you and I are likely done and won't talk again. On the remote chance we cross paths again, the honesty might be worth another interview (if you're still in that position), but not much more. Person-to-person, I know the honesty is appreciated, but here's why candidates are not likely to be honest and simultaneously have no moral/ethical failing during interviews:

You're an agent of the company with a power dynamic over candidates when interviewing. You can't be honest with us via feedback, even if you wanted to, because there's potential legal problems for the company if you are. Many companies don't give feedback as policy for these reasons. So, knowing that I know that you can't be completely honest with me, I only hurt myself by being honest by telling you I've seen the problem before.

If I already knew the answer, but can't answer 'why?', then that's on me - I likely don't fully understand the solution in that case. Reject those people, sure. But they have no obligation to be honest with you. Similarly, if I already knew the answer and disclosed that fact, I might get a tougher question. So there is real a risk that I hurt my chances by being honest.

The risk of getting a tougher question is important. For it to be really fair, you'd have to grade these questions and determine if the next question is of similar difficulty. But your interview and problem grading process (if you have one) is not likely to be disclosed to me. The honesty would be appreciated, but we both know that interviewers aren't going to share those details chiefly because it defeats the purpose of the test, but also it'd end up on a forum if you're a well-known company leading to more cheating.

If you were giving a well-known test developed by professionals (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT), there are significant resources to show me that those are fair tests developed by academics and other professionals. I would trust those testing admins to substitute questions of a similar difficulty. Were that the situation with your interview, the risk of getting a tougher question by being honest is significantly diminished because I know you have a bank of questions with accurate difficulties attached.

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I'm not arguing that you should change your process. A candidate unable to answer 'why?' is a perfectly good reason to say the candidate failed the question and maybe the interview. I'm arguing that this really shouldn't be considered cheating or a moral/ethical failure.
To be honest this one is neither. It just works poorly under very specific conditions.
I suppose it depends on the kind of product your building. My non-technical cofounder (medical field) does so much that I wouldn't enjoy, like trying to secure contracts with health care companies, funding, working through all the nuts and bolts of setting up being a provider, finding patients, etc.

Comparatively, I feel like the tech part is the easier part. I know (generally) what we have to build, and I'm confident I can build it and build up a team as we scale.
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That's a waste. Just take a few pictures and put it on Ebay or some local equivalent.
Is the painting's imagery public domain or does the museum have weird exclusive rights to licensing images for it?

Actually a more interesting question: Does this new image dataset fall under 'newer' copyright laws / rights and is it copyrighted for the next 80 or so years, or does it fall under the copyright law of the original image, that is, expired?
I will never purchase a vehicle for my own purposes that does not use hydraulics for brakes and steering.

Putting a computer between my foot/hands and the physics unfolding in front of me is a total non-starter.
There's evidence that the lab was doing gain of function research on coronaviruses. That's not exactly a smoking gun but it's extremely compelling evidence.

NIH admits that Fauci lied about funding gain of function research in Wuhan.[1]

1. https://youtu.be/lRCowOPL5Vc?t=229

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIsK9tosck
Thanks. Nice to hear there’s interest. Unfortunately, it’s a native iOS app. Android support is out of scope for me.
It's clear these practices don't scale. It's like saying you only need to hire 1 software dev and have them do everything, perfectly. When you find that 1 dev, it looks great.

Your friend's farm is likely a well run operation and he might be a top 1% farmer (how ever you would quantify that). Also you make no mention of profitability, most farms are for profit and need to generate positive cash flow, regardless of practices. Oftentimes these sustainable practices are antagonistic to profitability, a complicated problem people in ag/tech/engineering/policy are working to resolve.
Thanks, that means a lot. That’s very good feedback, I’m working on a new version at the moment with a lot of UI and accessibility improvements.

I think you’re right about the blocking issue. Anything that helps redirect people back to what they really want to do is important. There’s so many little hacks like the one OP came up with that can help, and lots of room for more apps that make these hacks official.
In fact floppies themselves were the folders - you'd have a box of floppies on your desk and pick the one you needed for whatever you were working on.
It's sometimes frustrating that some exciting features take so long to get incorporated, but nowadays you can get functional experimental versions of compilers to play with and do personal projects.

Things are looking up - I wish all of Herb Sutters ideas with metaclasses, in out parameters, pattern matching and so on come to life.
> 6. Fees. The Services are currently offered by Neeva free of charge. Neeva reserves the right to charge fees for the Services in the future.

https://neeva.com/terms

Sustainability TBD, but they do have a plan.
Older laptops I throw Ubuntu LTS on and give to those in need.

Older desktops -- if not noisy gaming PCs -- become servers or get harvested for parts to bolster an existing one, otherwise they get donated or recycled.
Another reason could be due to smokers. There's a reason toilets on airplanes still legally need to have an ashtray - there's still people who are willing to break the rules to have a fix so it's safer to at least provide somewhere safe to put a cigarette out.

Charging for the toilet could just encourage those same people to light-up in the main cabin.
It's good to donate a percent to a charity (I think charities where you personally know people working for them are best). It's also very important to make sure you have money set aside for retirement or emergencies (even if you have a surplus). You may have children, your parents may need care, your small business may be disrupted, and it's good to have something to fall-back on or use if you need a runway or to invest some money into a new business.
What exactly is wrong and untrue, E. O. Wilson's work?
Check out htmx. I use it for thing like table pagination.

Server side I check for htmx headers, and if so omit headers/footers are just return the body. htmx then handles the html swap and boom, you’ve just turned the page without reloading the whole page.

Simple and straightforward. I also use a plugin to preload the responses on mouseover in some cases for even more snapiness.
Sure, but when we have tech 20 years old we can assume you don't need two days to learn it. 7 years is not that young but it changes way, way too fast. So the react 7 years ago is not the same as today: hell I have nodejs and react stuff that simply doesn't work anymore and is only a few years old. While php/html/css/jquery code written 15+ years ago is fast and robust on the very latest versions.

I updated one of my oldest saas app written 17 years ago to the latest php version from apache to nginx and the latest php and it works 100%. That makes me sleep well at night.

It has 60000 active users and costs $4/mo to host and has not had downtime in over 10 years. How is this new stuff holding up?
> XOR with very large keys is how critical military encryption systems such as radios work.

Cool! Do you have any references?
Bee keeping. Doesn't make much though.
There are certainly advantages to both routes. I think there are a lot of business skills that are just as important, possibly even more important than the technical skills.

fwiw, my original plan was to be a solo founder. I ended up killing that idea a few months in because I missed some of the key red flags a business focused person likely would have caught.
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Good lord, listen to yourself.

> People who score highly in IQ tests are interested in puzzles and seeing patterns in things. This is not necessarily a useful skill in real life, and may even be detrimental sometimes.

Have you been outside in the last thirty years? "Real life" has been completely designed by people who are good at puzzles and patterns! Grocery store checkout machines, venture capital, social media, automobiles, the internet--all of these are puzzles and patterns. The better you are at puzzles and patterns, the better you'll be at "real life".

There is a difference between discussing the weaknesses of IQ theory and completely ignoring reality in favor of making sure you can't be accused of "racism or eugenics". You sound like someone in an authoritarian religious state making fervent declarations of whatever the parish is telling people to say. I agree that IQ does not exist, it is an abstract metric invented a while ago--but on the whole, people who score highly on IQ tests are going to have a much, much easier time succeeding in the modern puzzle-and-pattern reality.
He spent a lot of the chapter pointing out that the IPCC climate models have problems and could potentially be inaccurate. But his takeaway seems to be that global warming might be mild and so we don't have to worry that much while my takeaway is that most of the reason to be afraid of global warming is in the tail risks for things getting much worse than IPCC projections.
From what I remember of various new articles over the past three years (I'm not going to go find all these articles over such a broad time span, I'll leave verification as an exercise to the reader) there are a large number of contributing factors.

- Long time push for "just in time" supply chains. A lot of manufacturers stopped keeping a local stock of chips they needed for the next 6 months of manufacturing to save on storage costs. This is fine as long as there are no hiccups in any earlier part of the supply chain (this transition has been happening over the last 15-20 years).

- Crypto-coin mining and the sudden extreme demand of graphics cards. This has been going on for a long time. A lot of low-nanometer demand goes to a large number of graphic cards and ASICs for mining crypto-currency. This led to the graphics card bottleneck that existed for the last 3 or so generations of graphics cards.

- pre-COVID there were several (I want to say Taiwanese) fab plants that were destroyed due to Typhoons. This led to reduced production capacity.

- There was contamination of shipments of silicon wafers which disrupted production in several fabs. This was a pretty short delay more than anything but it was a contributing factor.

- At least one US based Fab was closed. I believe some other international fabs also closed down either temporarily due to COVID or permanently for other reasons. Some fabs were acquired by major companies and likely switched their production pushing more pressure on other fabs.

- Global politics. There was a lot of aggressive changes to global policy during this time frame that forced a redistribution of where certain chips were being manufactured adding more work for all fabs (retooling, reworking designs, getting a design working in a new fab).

- The canceling of car chips actually relieved the pressure on the fabs as they were able to take other fab orders. I don't think this slowed down fabrication in general, but when the car manufacturers realized they actually did need that capacity and more, the capacity had already been sold to other customers. This is entirely on the car manufacturers and is only kind of related to the overall chip shortage.

- Global distribution issues. This isn't just in the final stage of consumer products that has been affected but also raw supplies affecting the rate some chips can be manufactured.

- Increased demand overall. Consumer consumption of chips has increased pretty dramatically over the last decade pretty consistently as everything wants to be connected to the internet now from your toaster, to your butt plug.

- Complexity and difficulty in building up a new fab. These are incredibly specialized facilities costing in the 9 figures to setup the facility. The people that work in these facilities are highly specialized not just in the profession but to the intricacies of that specific facility and their pipeline. Training up these extremely skilled labor tasks can't be done quickly.
While high resolution 2D scanning is nice, I would like to see some specular and bump mapping. This would enhance the experience of viewing the works in VR.
Same, though every year I'm able to part with some of the truly dead pieces of equipment at the recycling center. Those old hard drives pile up, though. But now I've got half a dozen broken laptops—which have awesome screens that I wish I could use.
What does it mean to permanently brick the hardware?
There's also the confounding issue of the AKM factory fire. AKM made the majority of the DAC chips used for consumer electronics and automobiles, and their factory burned to the ground in 2020. Then another company that tried to step up production to fill the gap (somewhat mysteriously) also caught fire.

https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/business/akm-factory-fire-sh...

There are other companies that make similar chips, but in much smaller quantities, and they are really in no better position than AKM to fill the void.

A recent "update" : https://evertiq.com/design/51031
I think you might draw benefit from this essay:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...
Seriously, I don't even have a red tie. And I wouldn't buy one for an interview, even if I read the message.
You wrote "Family farms operate about half of America’s farmland and they are responsible for about 21% of production".

The resource you link identifies those as small family farms and gives much larger ownership and production numbers when larger farms that are also classified as family farms are included.

The article linked for HN discussion uses the term "family farm", which we can see doesn't mean a lot in the US.

Now you are discussing, probably, mean size, which the article you link makes clear doesn't mean a lot (because there are many many tiny, not very productive farms).
That's true, but that doesn't mean you should use it everywhere. Using Three.js to render a single quad is like using Rust+WASM to add two numbers.
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This was done in 2005 by eyeOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS

Sadly, too advanced to its time, it was acquired but dismantled some time later.
This is a common misconception. If someone says they want to bring you in as a cofounder, they almost always will think of you as a significant equity partner.
Distribution networks is key. We are plenty of food to feed everyone in the world, right now. Petro-chemical based agriculture was one of the greatest innovation of humanity. But it's been misapplied and abused, mostly in the name of profits and slow/bad policy makers. Does not mean those tools and techniques can't be more properly applied.

Can we feed them American style diets? No, but I would argue that diet is not worth scaling as we see several negative health outcomes as the result of our quantity and quality of calories.

Link to my blog in my profile where I write about some of these things.
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