skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel about the Go programming language.

So often you see people ranting about the Go team either being ignorant or scornful of PL research.

I always wonder if those same people are Agile Manifesto zealots at work.
VB for DOS was pretty awesome. It was essentially the final evolution of QuickBasic, which many people were exposed to by the QBasic version that came with MS-DOS systems.
I've never encountered a mobile texting application that allows replies to specific messages, only replying to the entire thread in general
This person should find another job, obviously. But if at all possible, it would also be nice to try and get the manager some kind of counseling or mental health assistance. Their behavior is definitely more than just a little odd.
Congratulations. It's a problem many people would love to have.

Instead of (or in addition to) supporting charity, I will suggest that you set some aside for supporting "starving artist"/open source developer types via Patreon and similar. Find a few whose work you think actually has some value and kick a few bucks their way. For every rolling-in-dough business like yours, there are many more people trying to add value who aren't good at monetization and it's a serious problem.

Don't assume this will last forever. Take all the advice from knowledgeable, experienced people to invest, fund your retirement, etc.
Lively[1] does this with desktop wallpapers if that helps and is FOSS. Additional shaders can be found on shadertoy[2] and others.

It can be a good way of turning your computer into a heater ;)

[1] https://rocksdanister.github.io/lively/

[2] https://www.shadertoy.com/
Thanks for the TT-RSS rec :)
From your link:

Our research found that family farms remain a key part of U.S. agriculture, making up 98% of all farms and providing 88% of production. Most farms are small family farms, and they operate almost half of U.S. farm land, while generating 21% of production. Midsize and large-scale family farms account for about 66% of production; and non-family farms represent the remaining 2.1% of farms and 12% of production.

My point was that the use of "family farm" with no additional context (as in the article), is very difficult to interpret. You've linked a description that includes several types of farm under the label "family farm" but elided the "small" that reflects the statistics you quote.
I hope you're not a web developer. That's a very bad attitude.
Trashes 75% of resumes. Sounds like he's doing those candidates a favor.
You can always go around. Just make sure to cultivate your relationship with your boss's boss and peers.

Sometimes you gotta lead from below a bit. Other times, just be squared enough away to GTFO.
Can weight loss help protect against Covid-19?
This article feels intellectually dishonest.

> According to a recent U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, family farms produce over three-quarters of the world’s food.

Here's a bunch of data [1]. You see some obvious patterns. Firstly, large farms dominate the developed world. Developing farms dominate the developing world. The reason for this should be obvious: labour cost is the driving factor. Labor is cheap in the developed world. This makes farming machinery really expensive in labour terms. In the developed world, this isn't the case. Mechanized agriculture favors large farms so here you are.

I'm not sure we should be celebrating that a large amount of the world's population is growing and tending food by hand.

> Conventional farming practices that degrade soil health undermine humanity’s ability to continue feeding everyone over the long run.

So this I somewhat agree with. It used to be (or at least it feels like this is the case?) that in years past there was a more conscious effort to rotate crops to rehab the soil whereas now it seems like we bridge this gap chemically.

I don't think "healthy soil" is the key here however. The bigger factor is energy cost. Want to make more soil? You can do that... with sufficient energy. Want fresh water? You can desalinate if you have to. The limiting factor is... energy. Want to improve land usage with so-called "vertical farming"? The limiting factor there is, you guessed it, energy.

I actually look forward to a future with sufficient automation and cheap energy such that very few humans are actually required for food production.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/farm-size
I see the irony of your comment.
I can't believe you're trying to justify and normalize that entire list. It literally means you ignore every basic function of your body, and consequently your mind.

It's a zombie lifestyle. Exercise isn't a cure-all because reasons and people have no shoes. What!?
as someone else said, apple is a node ahead of AMD this round. that won't necessarily continue; they don't own TSMC. I expect the gap will close somewhat if they both launch their next gen parts on the same node.

> goals that aren’t aligned with low power usage in idle?

some of this too. intel and AMD architectures need to work for laptop, desktop, and server markets. that's a pretty wide optimization target.

on the other hand, apple's m1 targets ipads, laptops, and laptops in a desktop chassis. they have the opportunity to focus much more intensely on the low end of the perf/W curve.
It's also a bit weasel wordy .. "While large farms excel at producing a lot of a particular crop – like corn or wheat – small diversified farms produce more food and more kinds of food per hectare overall."

I believe in the movement and have seen what factory farming does to a place first hand, but I always cringe when movements try to turn cons into pros with misleading comparisons.
Wow, wasn’t aware it originally ran on DOS, but it looks pretty cool. I may have to find a copy somewhere and play around with it.
I don’t think this is quite fair. Just because someone recognizes a major systemic problem such as spiraling housing prices doesn’t obligate them to unilaterally decline their personal gains on a moral basis, especially because that will achieve nothing in terms of rectifying the situation.

Now if they oppose broader reform that could actually have positive effects, that’s a more appropriate and nuanced question.
I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment.

I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I think it has potential. Such an OS would basically just be Linux + Headless Chromium + web browser API abstractions for things like USB (WebUSB), etc.
This is unlikely to be related to encryption but just protectionism on an older vehicle. Generally speaking, until very recently (like 1-2 years ago), non-immobilizer related adaptation processes are just a matter of finding the correct UDS remoteRoutine to invoke, and aren't cryptographically protected at all. It's likely that the thing you're missing is the diagnostic documentation for the correct routine invocations to send, rather than keys or certificates.

Although, unfortunately this too is changing, starting in the 2021 model year VW AG have introduced a rather evil technology called SFD which requires server-signed tokens to perform these kinds of basic adaptations. This is all being done in the name of anti-theft security.

We really need better right-to-repair rules for vehicles.
This may go without saying, but a word of caution for anyone who wants to try this themselves: doing any sort of automated scanning of ECU hardware (e.g. the equivalent of trying to find undocumented opcodes in a CPU) stands a good chance of bricking the hardware (permanently), so plan to buy several of them if you want/need to go that route.
For decades my bank used a hardware security device that I kept on my keychain. It worked flawlessly and I loved it. Recently they changed to an "App" to be able to use my account. The first I heard about it, I was overseas trying to get back during the Pandemic, and couldn't buy a plane ticket as SMS wouldn't work (apparently it was because I hadn't authorised "Roaming" before I left). Whatever, I did enjoy cancelling all my bank accounts when I returned. I will never use a shitty smartphone App for anything which involves security.
A how-to guide on dairy production
> 95% of people I talked to were non-technical. Many were actively searching for a technical co-founder or early engineer. I’m convinced that me being technical is the single biggest contributor to the high response rate.

That would be the most painful part of all this for me. If I were forming a startup, I don't think I would consider pairing with someone non-technical. My personal idea of hell is having a bunch of marketing people spew buzzwords while I write and debug all the code.
perhaps resonance was being exploited,,,

if the magnet was resonating sympathetically with the earths magnetic field, we could have a tesla amplifying transmitter
Normally I'm put off by cynical writing styles like this, but this time I enjoyed it. I think it was well done. I also liked that the viewpoint wasn't predictable or at least one with which I'm already very familiar--for example, I'm very familiar with the anti-Western tropes and I'm familiar with pro-Western tropes but this article was refreshingly critical of anti-West Westerners who purport to care about Africa--that's novel to me, anyway.
Can't beat a reductio ad Ryanair argument!
Could it be he's sabotaging interviews because there are no funds for a full team?
Those chemicals don’t liquefy solid waste instantly. They won’t be very effective in the timespan of a flight.

Most likely they use a macerator pump that accomplishes it physically and instantaneously.
Works fine for me, getting 60FPS on my 2018 iPhone XS
I play Geoguessr every day (there's a daily challenge of 5 rounds), so it's a good way to see some of Africa. There's not a lot of Africa on streetview/geoguessr, at least not relative to the size of the continent.

Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa/Eswatini/Lesotho have good coverage. Egypt and Tunisia have a little.

Anyway, you get a pretty good sampling of what those countries are like, from the small distant villages to the huge megalopolises.

It's also worth following some African tech people on twitter. Nigeria in particular seems to have a lot of developers and tech entrepreneurs on Twitter.
They proposed to darpa to modify bat coronaviruses with a new furin cleavage site, darpa denied it for being too dangerous, and 2 years later we have a bat coronavirus with a furin cleavage site from a pangolin inserted with no genetic evidence of natural mutation.

“Let’s weld a horn on a horse and make unicorns. No, too dangerous.” Two years later we see unicorns running around the same lab that proposed it.
Wow, impressive collection! After leaving the Commodore world I started on MS-DOS 3.30 on my 10 MHz 8088 with 40 MB Seagate ST-251 MFM hard drive.

Amazing to read the summary of the history of DOS and the lack of features in 1.0. Gives you perspective on how the important thing for any software project is to just get that MVP out. I imagine there were people at Microsoft that were thinking, “Who will use this? It doesn’t even support folders! All files have to be in root.”
The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse
Technical directors are merely tolerating all the “ideas guys” with no skills and no capital.

We should cut them out and relegate these marketers to a contract role, and exclusively pursue business models where customers don’t derive confidence from a CEO sales guy. Mainly because they waste our time, they can’t even judge the character of people in their network assuming they even have a network, and take way too much equity in a conversation that would be better off avoided.
This planet is huge, we have near infinite energy extruding and emitting from the sun. The universe is huge. The planets surface is huge. The earth crust is huge.

Overpopulation is a myth if we can spread out and not overwhelm specific places of our world.

Slow down on the extraction.

Slow down on the waste.

Let us multiply not divide.

If you want to learn more, check out the YouTube channel listed in my profile.

The universe is a Trivium, inputs > processing > outputs

Pollution is the piling up of byproducts or inert or semi-inert materials. Things which are no longer useful or helpful inside biological bodies.

Pollution bio accumulates inside all bodies, including our earth.

We grow our inputs (food) in a very sensitive edge between atmosphere and earth's crust, 0-30 or so feet. Let us maximize the edges, reduce pollution, & multiply and share our soil & soil growing skills.
Exactly. Finding a way to integrate seems like the big obstacle. Then again, as I'm typing this, I'm wondering if integration is a bit of a mirage. While, it's certainly a real thing, I'm not sure how I'm actually employing the integration aspects. Like, is Keep and Docs really working together in my workflow? I like how keep can sit in my Gmail sidebar, which is classic integration. But, is something like that really what keeps me around, or is it more a feeling of integration. (sorry, getting very Hamlet in here).
The author also doesn’t define efficient. Food produced per unit area? Energy? Effort?
From the technical end, absolutely, way easier. From the design end, definitely not. Compare Nintendo's website in 2002[0] and today. Blue's News hasn't really changed layout in a long time and it looks substantially different than a more modern style like IGN which is much more difficult to reproduce.

I can take a video with my phone and upload it to YouTube from my phone. My phone camera can work surprisingly well in poor lighting conditions. I can spend < $100 dollars and get a couple of cheap ring lights and improve the lighting massively. If I wanted to make a spoof news show, I'd just need OBS and a good webcam or a cheap DSLR now. Way easier than in 2002 where I'd need a Video Toaster and tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20020325234352/https://www.ninte...
That's really nice. Mac OS needs to get some shadertoy desktops asap. I can't even get a toaster to fly anymore :(
I guess it would depend on what it is, but I would think anything I would be interested in would need more than one technical person from the beginning…everything I’ve ever started has.
I needed a newer android revision for work.
I don't regret it. As soon as I got my application running in it, I immediately abandoned it.

I really like the idea on paper, but it's cheap and easy to have small server instances running all the time. It's also easier to understand, debug, and scale those server instances.

I'm sure serverless solves problems for some people, but it feels like an edge case (or at least, at the moment, a lot of added complexity for marginal benefit).
In Control of Obsessive Thoughts
I have a habit of overthinking for almost the things which happened and about to happen in the future. I am a bit sensitive and emotional because of this whenever i go through emotional feelings for example if someone asks me about something they need or wanted my opinion for further proceedings if i am not able to fulfil or by mistake if i deny them i feel guilt after that and this thought will be haunting me for a while in a loop. Recently i learnt to be in the moment and practising mindfulness that is to be in the present moment whenever these guilt thoughts come over in a loop i apply mindfulness strategy and i’m seeing progress in this and one more technique is to re-route the current thoughts by distracting yourself like going for a gym, talking to somebody you feel comfortable. One improvement i have seen is going for gym and doing workout really helps in the process of workout you will get tiered so excessive thinking or anxiety will settle down in no time. I have been in contact with my psychiatrist and therapist almost for year and this really helped me. psychiatrist gives courage and guide me how to handle obsessive thoughts and my therapist on weekly basis listen to me and re-route my negative thoughts to positive thoughts and i can open with him easily and discuss whatever fearful, nasty thoughts that i went through in that week which i am seeing as powerful positive change because earlier i was no clue what to do when these negative thoughts were bubbling and i used to go deep inside these thoughts due to which i was getting panic and anxiety attacks.Now it is in control i will change completely to a positive and confident person.
How's it going, Michael O'Leary?
Case study: Zapier’s long-tail SEO at scale
From GP’s post: “I’m a flaming liberal but I still thought we should at least pursue the lab leak hypothesis…”

I was questioning the relationship between the two parts of that sentence, that’s all.
It's unethetical to pay taxes if you're American. Have you seen what they do with that money?
As cool as this is, I will never EVER hack/jailbreak car steering. I can't put my faith in unsupported (non-OEM may be a better term for it) software keeping me safe. I watch the tesla autopilot videos of them totally messing up and that is fully supported but still failing too much.

But cool POC for sure.
Weight loss good but…

> The increased risk has led many to wonder if losing weight might keep them from catching or getting sicker with Covid-19.

>Ethically, it would be nearly impossible to do randomized controlled trials to determine this
The AGS-101 was never advertised outside North America and stayed relatively unknown. I don't fault OP for not knowing about it.
Oh indeed. I'm not sure how or why but disabling Zoom Page WE fixed it.
This is correct. Shortages of new generation chips can generally be resolved by new capacity. We are seeing record levels of capacity spend by the chip companies.

However, older chips are difficult to increase capacity for. The tools are not available, and the profit from legacy chips from them is many times insufficient to make the business case for.
I think you have it backwards. Wealthy already have all the power they need. Everyone else has zero power, unless they organise, pool their resources or at least choose to move in same direction independently.
> some of these are unreal. Can’t imagine how the manager justifies this

It seems pretty clear to me that the manager in that story does not want to hire someone. One reason is even given - they believe they get a half day of free time with every candidate. As soon as they hire someone they lose their half days. It’d be plausible if the manager has a budget for another person that they’re redirecting as well, or that the manager’s manager is going to start getting rough when the lower manager is operating near their budget ceiling. I can imagine a bunch of reasons this kind of thing happens that the employee might be unable to see.

> Hiring is broken

This phrase gets repeated a lot, and for a long time before the recent COVID related labor shortages, but I’m not sure what it means. I’ve only ever seen it in the context of frustrated newbie candidates complaining that they have to put in some non-coding effort in order to get hired. Is hiring broken from the actual job/business perspective? Have many/most companies on the whole been unable to hire people when talent is available? What statistics are there that shed light on how hiring is broken? I’m curious and asking honestly, because it’s been a long time since I was fresh out of college, and I don’t know how hiring has changed, and I don’t know what it’s like for fresh graduates. But I also have changed jobs several times, and been a manager and participated in hiring and interviews for many years, and I haven’t seen any large scale indicators that hiring is broken.
The graviton chips are not an in house architecture, the cores are designed by and licenced from ARM.
This is the best comment in the thread. So many people are in love with "the person when they aren't depressed." But that isn't the whole person. Depression is not something "happening" to a person, it is part of them (I say this as someone with depression and general anxiety disorder). That's not to say I don't work to improve my lot. I take medication, meditate, etc. But it is always there. It always will be. Thankfully, I have a loving partner who understands that. It's not always easy on her, of course, but she knows that it is part of who I am.
Favor real dependencies for unit testing
I love this. I’d use it for an even wider range of calculations…

Check also out this PL for the law brewing in academia, called Catala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHwAh_-IOU
Myopericarditis rates in young men after Covid-19 vaccine second dose [pdf]
French is my mother tongue, but I've quickly learned during my studies that using English keywords in my STEM-related searches would simply lead me to better (and more abundant) results.

A few weeks/months ago however, while I was trying to solve an issue whith a colleague who would search using french keywords, I noticed that some websites featured on the first page of the Google results were off.

In short, they were machine-translated versions of Stack Overflow threads. And they would appear in most of the searches using french keywords.

Those websites also appeared rarely in my searches while I was using English keywords, but most of the time I never bothered opening them. But now I notice them every time.

Some examples:
When searching for "wget set http proxy" on Google, the fourth result leads me to qastack.fr, and the ninth to it-swarm-fr.com, both are websites featuring scrapped and machine-translated threads from Stack Overflow.

When searching deliberately in french for "Eclipse CDT stdout ne s'affiche pas" ("Eclipse CDT stdout not displayed [in console]"), the first result leads me to askcodez.com and the fourth one to qastack.fr (askodez is the same as the other two).

I have never stumbled upon Github clones, yet, however.
The real key to feeding the world and not destroying the planet is to stop eating animals and animal products. End of story.
Poll: JOIN FOREIGN
This is a follow-up to "SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN" [1] [2].

Thanks to the comments from HN and Github users, new syntax alternatives have been added to the proposal. Please vote on the syntax you prefer, feel free to leave any other comments, including other syntax ideas.

Note: Choice 1,2,3 use foreign key names in the syntax, while Choice 4 uses foreign key column names, similar to JOIN USING.

For details, see the "Alternative syntax" section of the Gist [2].

1) JOIN FOREIGN fk_alias.fk_name (original proposal)

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN FOREIGN f.films_did_fkey d

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM distributors d
JOIN films f FOREIGN films_did_fkey REF d

2) JOIN table FOREIGN fk_alias.fk_name REF pk_alias

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN distributors d FOREIGN f.films_did_fkey REF d

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM distributors d
JOIN films f FOREIGN f.films_did_fkey REF d

3) JOIN table FOREIGN fk_name [ FROM | TO ] alias

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN distributors d FOREIGN films_did_fkey FROM f

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM distributors d
JOIN films f FOREIGN films_did_fkey TO d

4) JOIN table FOREIGN (fk_col, ...) [ FROM | TO ] alias

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN distributors d FOREIGN (did) FROM f

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM distributors d
JOIN films f FOREIGN (did) TO d

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739147

[2]: https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/15b50b65ec343dce94db6249cfea8aaa#sql-language-proposal-join-foreign
Both WhatsApp and iMessage have supported this feature for a while.