skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese own over 2 million acres of American farmland, more than any other nation. By having that drone backdoor they can get advance information on the condition of all American crops. Possibly scout future land for purchase? They could acquire some of this information by satellite but the pictures from the drones are of higher quality.

The American government has acted decisively to prevent to prevent Chinese telecom equipment being used in the telephone system where it could monitor our communications. They've also convinced Japan and most European nations of the same. Yet they aren't restricted from buying our farmland and monitoring our crops. Farmers are quite concerned about both but so far not the U.S Congress.
In general I have a lot of respect for pre-WWW, special-purpose protocol design. I don't see it as short-sighted, so much as the world wide web having been _that_ big a paradigm shift.

That said, the date on this one is from 1997. Amazon was already selling books via the Web at that point, so I'm not totally sure what the use case is.
Arcane is 3D animation (vectors and polygons) over painted backgrounds for 100% of it I believe.

Anime is computer edited 2D cells drawn on tablets for foreground and background and layered. The 3D work is limited to certain scenes.

3D animation can be scaled up and down, but it's not hand drawn and converted to raster images like the 2D cells necessarily.

I imagine with anime they just agree on a resolution for all the rasters and plug away at it, because they're under insane time/budget pressure.

The painted backgrounds who knows.
An omission really only becomes a lie of omission if somebody would feel deceived upon learning of the omission. Nobody would reasonably feel deceived by your omission of the 0.000000001% cosmic ray hypothesis.
What I've noticed is this:

People who own "everything", including owning a house, plenty of belongings, a car et al, are more happy to pursue minimalism.

People who own "nothing", including renting a house, not much in the way of belongings or a car, are more likely to pursue maximalism.

I think what we can establish from it is that people want different things at different times of life in different circumstances. What suits a young person who loves to travel doesn't necessarily suit someone with a family of their own.

What demographic do you fall under?
Momentum flap will bring average CoP closer to CoM but CoP will shift as JWST is rotated to point at different targets. Unwanted torque can be minimised by carefully choosing observations targets so it mostly cancels out but it cannot be done perfectly.
God you sound like a fun parent
A list of the most dangerous jobs puts farmers at #8 and agricultural workers at #11.

https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...

The leading cause is transportation accidents. Farmers driving tractors and equipment and workers traveling to worksites.

Actually a lot of the jobs list transportation incidents as the reason.
A Go+Haskell=NewLang could be really interesting... or really unusable.
Will this allow my computer, in the future, to be as locked as current smartphones? Will this allow software to refuse to run or services to refuse to work depending on third party software I have installed?
even if its looking at the business side of the telescpe the sun sheild means there is no light there for it to be able to see anything.

its a case of your can't see it because there is no light, not because you dont have an angle of it (although that is also a chalange to overcome.
> during pandemic

The lockdowns are what has caused soaring mental health issues across whole sections of the population.
So the definition of homeless is that it’s ‘not the kind of place a university graduate lives in’? This is absurd.
Pie in the sky thinking.

If humans were capable enough to do terraforming, we'd be terraforming the Earth itself, to fix the problems caused by human activity. (For example, by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, or by getting rid of all our garbage in the oceans.) And that's with all the resources of Earth freely available for the job.

To expect us to terraform somewhere like Mars, and not have Earth's resources at hand, what could we use to do the job?
It's been over a decade since my last astrophysics class, but I appreciate you being charitable about my assumed knowledge! I think if anything this thread shows:

1) how absolutely mindblowingly big space is

2) how bad humans really are at intuiting things at the scale of space
Those are valid and debatable issues, and a lot can be said about them ( like that the economic downturn isn't optional and is due to the pandemic, as countries like Sweden and states in the US which didn't do any sort of lockdown showed us).

However, the question is do lockdowns help against a pandemic? I don't see how anyone can argue with that. The downsides are indeed significant and need to be taken into account, but it's just a fact that lockdowns severely limit the spread of an airborne virus like COVID-19.
windows? it's a dead OS anyways

people are either on macOS/android/iOS or chromium OS
Previous threads:

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23113419 - May 2020 (26 comments)

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14724883 - July 2017 (14 comments)
Because it’s not interesting looking at a big sheet of tinfoil in space. It also would be quite likely that the two would run into each other.

And JWST is really far from earth, starlink would do nothing.
When people fear, they accept authority. Fearmongering is as old as first societies. An ancient priest sold a lie that unless people did sacrificies in his name, they'd be eaten by the demon. So the priest spreaded rumors about dangers of the demon and took down anyone who spreaded a counter-narrative. Today, "covid" is that omnipresent demon, and once people stop believing the lie, those "priests" will rebrand the demon into something else.
The GP’s point was these are probably targeted towards very large industrial farms.
The main bottleneck in GP models is the inversion of an NxN covariance matrix, so training with the most straightforward algorithm has cubic complexity (and quadratic memory complexity). 10k instance is what I’ve seen as the limit of tractability.

The input dimensionally doesn’t necessarily matter since it’s kernel method, but if you have many features and want to do feature selection or optimize parameters things can really stack up.

There are scalable approximate inference algorithms, and pretty good library support (gpflow, gpytorch, etc), but it seems like they are not widely known, and there are definitely tradeoffs to consider among the different methods.
If you like a more decomposed approach you may be interested in:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/balakr...
I am incredibly ignorant of this market but I'm struggling to figure out the value of replacing a $100k/yr tractor driver in relation to the overall margins from acres worked?... I mean. a tractor doesn't need to drive the acreage year round. The food produced per acre seems like a lot.. I'm guessing a tractor works a field a couple times a year? so 10% or less of a $100k/yr salary?.. Is this really worth it? A cross-country truck driver is limited to the amunt of cargo it can haul, and is needed constantly. I get the value there. I must be missing something on farm tractors..
While I understand and empathize with many of the concerns here in the comments (especially given John Deere's track record in being practically hostile to end users), the promise of farming equipment that can run overnight, in the absence of light, may be a top-five disruptor to agriculture, right up there with fertilizer and engines.
The power balance is different. Boeing vs United Airlines is a somewhat uneven contest, but it's not like John Deere vs. some farmer with 4000 acres in Nebraska.
Even so, that doesn't really belong at the top of an unrelated thread.

(I posted a similar explanation earlier today if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857585)
Thank god for Berkeley and RISC-V.
There is an ever increasing amount of networking in the embedded space. For example, in the past you might have connected several stepper motors to driver circuits on a single MPU and had a RTOS managing concurrent operations. Now you are more likely to have a dedicated MPU on the stepper motor, connected via CANbus and responding to commands to move to a specific position and respond when that position is reached or a time-out due to a jam, overload, etc. Zero position detection is also more likely to be a sub-function of that stepper motor "module".
I converted a large MySQL DB to PostgreSQL in 2004 and never looked back. Think about how many improvements have occurred in Pg releases since that time and the availability of information. It took my team about six months to do the conversion as there were any number of type conversion problems due to programming assumptions and loose typing in MySQL at that time. There's also an excellent support community on IRC at Freenode (you can google it) and they are very helpful to people of any level of experience.

Optimizations as presented by many are not needed right up front and you'll learn them as you go along. Good luck!
It’s probably an internal list of serious things that could go wrong. There’s a lot of bike shed discussion here about what a “single point of failure” should include.
I remember reading an article about this years ago that stacked evidence against this practice.

Slightly more useful might be lucid dreaming. I can imagine that a stable lucid dream would be great for knowledge synthesis.
Take a look at the past 3 years of presentations at DARPA ERI, where every major US silicon vendor is participating. Much work is underway on heterogeneous systems, including Open FPGAs and OSS toolchains for EDA, to speed up (days, not months) the design-test-deploy cycle for specific applications.

AMD provided a custom (expensive) SoC and RoT to MS Xbox, now being generalized with MS Pluton in 2022 Ryzen CPUs (and some future Intel CPUs). Intel already offers custom CPUs to some large customers. If a security-sensitive automotive or robotics customer needed an FPGA RoT, and the market opportunity was sufficiently interesting, Intel has multiple options for meeting that requirement.

> This is sarcasm, right? It must be sarcasm.

Intel at least left open the possibility in their press announcement. AMD did not, but they have purchased Xilinx and TSMC is building a US-based fab in Arizona, with "secure supply chain" FPGAs high on the list of early product candidates. It's up to customers to bang on Intel/AMD doors and show demand for FPGA RoT chiplets that support OSS gateware.
I would agree, if we're talking CUT/SCUT you're in the realm of something that is easily serviceable(and the market doesn't really do DRM/lock-out currently) however these are different scale machines that are much pricier(just a quick glance looks like higher end 8Rs can start at 600k).
This is accurate, and unfortunately the questioner is going through all the threads repeating naive objections to the legit answers offered by people familiar with aerospace.
I know the guy who led the assembly of the JWST/MIRI cryocooler, which was one of a handful of high-risk items on the spacecraft, and all of his team’s time was taken up with assembly, build, integration, and test, not just abstract design. I’ve explained this kind of thing in past threads, but it’s tiresome!
> I personally have been criticized by friends for saying that we don’t know what the impact of climate change is on the weather. I don’t care anymore. It’s all about narrative. That one works, let’s not poke holes in it. It only benefits people running polluting industries.

I get it. it's exhausting and usually pointless to make these sorts of arguments. I think it's fine to give up after a while, at least with certain people. every single issue can't be our hill to die on.

but this goes further than acceptance; we shouldn't go so far as to embrace obviously wrong narratives, however effective they may be in the moment. it really damages the trust we have in each other, which is already in short supply.
John Deere Fully Autonomous Tractor
John Deere and Co. has developed a fully autonomous tractor designed for large-scale farming and that it plans to sell the machine later this year.
I didn't know school kids lived in a vacuum, I'd have thought most go home to their families after school, where, you may have guessed it, there are other people to be infected.
If a major problem is discovered they should do a recall or get sued for selling defective goods.

This whole idea of shipping half-baked and fixing later OTA is one of this age's great consumer scams.
Right to repair is about to see a new chapter.
I don't think poor plumbing is exactly what we're going for here.
I'm not sure what non-technical users are downloading but I suspect Adblock is going to be far better at preventing non-technical users from downloading a virus than antivirus software.
Not sure whether I understand your attack scenario: If the database itself has an exploit to bypass the append-only functionality: All is lost, agree. But if some of the hosts are compromised which push garbled/encrypted data to the database, you can recover from it by simply ignoring it as it does not overwrite any prior valid data.
Just getting downvoted yet no one is saying why!?!
Perhaps this will be clearer: (1) don't post snarky, low-information comments to HN; (2) do say something thoughtful and substantive.

Having something substantive in your head does not justify posting a snarky low-information comment. You need to make the substantive comment explicitly, and without the snark.
Fuchsia looks very promising. I wonder why it still hasn't been released as part of a product, e.g. ChromeBook?
When I saw the story the other day, I had thought it was good that he wasn't above the rules (whatever you think of the rules). I realized reading this there is a lot more to it than that - like you say, it feels like it was calculated to provoke the reaction it provoked in me, but ended up jerking Djokovic around in an unnecessary way (and it mentions there was another woman coming to play who was also deported).

I am definitely against any kind of special rules for certain people, but this seems to be something different and completely political.
FWIW, I think it's quickly becoming an academic question. Last year had an extreme heat wave in Canada (worst in record) and a cold wave in Texas. Sure, last year might have been a freak year, but the thing with unmitigated climate change is that a "freak year" quickly becomes a "normal year" which then becomes a thing of the past.

For example, see the graph in [1], and imagine we only have data up to 1999. The year 1998 sticks out like a sore thumb - it was a freak hot year. Except that it became the new normal temperature in the 2000s, and then the most recent six or seven years have handily beat it. It will be an unusually cool year if it happened now.

We are transitioning into a world where "worst since weather records began" is a regular phrase at evening news. When a town burns down, will its residents even care if the particular fire was linked to climate change or not?

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
https://archive.fo/RhGxU
summer two years ago...?
Everyone involved knows the applicant was probably paid less in their previous job. What the present conpany doesn't know is how much less.
I wonder when Netflix will have their own video editing software...
The fearmongering about Pluton feels very similar to the criticism that was levied against UEFI Secure Boot when it was being debuted. In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

I predict that this will blow over, and won't be a big deal in a few years time once FOSS drivers for what is effectively just a new breed of TPM are released.

If in five years, it turns out I was wrong, I'll eat my hat. Although defining "my hat" by then might be difficult, as it'll probably be subscription based.
>1. The internet was a solution to a very specific problem. Go and educate yourself on what ARPA was doing, will you?

In the same way the original Bitcoin paper was a solution to a very specific problem. I was referring to the amount of useless companies that were created during the original dotcom.

>2. Crypto peddlers keep equating cryptocurrencies to the internet. And never ever equating it to Juicero or Enron even if all signs point to that.

Not sure what this has to do with my comment. My comment was specifically there is a decentralized solution to do commerce that is powered by crypto. To pretend that this doesn't exist is absurd. NFTs, and Defi are literally just asset speculation but at the very least there was a platform that transacted billions of dollars on top of Bitcoin (Silk Road). I can't say that Juicero ever created a million dollars of value for its customers.
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete 8 times (I think, 7 times to increment the counter, then 1 more time to trigger a force reboot) sends SIGTERM or something to all processes. But many wedged processes (like kwin calling a Nvidia libglx function trying and failing to acquire an spinlock) ignore the signal and can only be killed with SIGKILL, which systemd sends a few minutes after you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete 8 times. I work around this by enabling Alt+SysRq and pressing Alt+PrintScr+R (raw input), E (SIGTERM), I (SIGKILL) whenever systemd gets wedged.
The second sentence frames the purpose of the matrix: "[The Eisenhower matrix] maximizes your productivity". The 2nd graphic also describes what Quadrant 4 tasks look like.

It has nothing to do with the author's value system, and redefining the matrix misses the main point of the article: you should have more serendipity in your life.
Oil used to be 40:1.
> this is 100% the fault of the same people who have created every other problem in the education system: the administrators.

Not at all. This is the fault of all the other societal damage done in the name of "stopping COVID", it's the fault of the "public health officials".

Schools are constrained by zero covid policies still clung to by anti-science public health, which mandate widespread testing followed by far reaching preventative isolation which bars health students from school.

Imagine you have a class of 20. Each kids in that class goes to 6 other classes of 20, largely different kids. Now one "tests positive". The school is then tasks by "public health" to find who sat near that kid in each and every class, and "quarantine" all of those kids. Rinse and repeat, ever. single. case.

Many schools have realized this is unsustainable absurdity and rightfully stopped complying, but the more "stay safe" they are, the more they comply. Consequently, the less those schools are able to stay open and effective.

The fact that "public health" has not been willing to reevaluate their policies and insist on sticking to policies that are literally damaging to the health of the public is telling.
Gonna challenge the last part. You can probably make billions with disaster recovery, but I doubt that you can make anything with disaster prevention.
Childhood obesity also jumped from 19% to 22% from 2020 to 2021 (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...)
Everything needed to lock down your computer as much as a phone already exists, there's no need for a TPM or Pluton to do so.
I wasn't sure if you were joking or not.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363122/boeing-747s-flop...
On BBC.com there was an article which quoted 5 scientists about climate change and one said that 40 years ago we had an extreme weather event every 3 months, in 2021 it was every 19 days and that we will run out of the capacity to pay for it.
I can't find the article atm, but its a pretty good way to visualize it.
Just a quibble: not only are millenials "by and large" not teens any more, the very youngest of them are 25.

Signed, a Gen X-er who won't use SMS except with his Boomer parents, and prefers gChat or Discord.
The economics of John Deere renting a fleet of tractors to farmers becomes more attractive than selling them when you can now run a tractor 24 hours per day without a human operator. That's because you can use the self driving software to accurately monitor how many acres the machine has been used on.

You can start renting the tractors in the South and keep moving them North. While a farmer might use that tractor a maximum of three months a year Deere could keep them running more than double that usage.

It's possible that a startup could start doing it proving the model and then get acquired by Deere.
It does, rust-analyser is much better than IntelliJ rust right now.
A couple of months ago I had a Zoom meeting with the CEO of another startup. I remarked his camera must be good because the capture was of incredible quality. His "webcam" was actually one of the Canon ones on the list.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1633519-REG/canon_379...
It's interesting how all articles against measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 seem to ignore/gloss over:

1. What would the statistics be without any measures? We saw what happened... everywhere... That chose to go "herd immunity".

2. Are the two "sides" truly equal? The author says Georgetown is imposing tests, quarantines, etc... Even if you include a more difficult learning experience because of remote learning, is that truly as bad as the side effects of not having those measures? (see #1, Italy early on, Sweden early on, etc... Vs places like NZ and Taiwan) This brings me to:

3. Why is it fine because "only 0.001%" of the population died in the past two years? In the US alone there are ~40mm people in the 15-24 age group (conveniently chosen, how many 15-18 year olds are in college versus 24+ year olds?), articles like this always something that boils down to "it's fine that ~40k YOUNG ADULTS DIE". "oh, they are unvaccinated and fat!!". So what??

I get it, it really sucks to be inconvenienced; masks, tests, quarantines are awful; education is going to suffer somewhat... But why is everyone so cavalier about free, young, innocent people dying like that? And not a pleasant death either.

Sorry for the rant, stay safe.
I am in my 30's, am married, have a first grader, I love to travel but don't get the chance much these days. I agree with your points, different tokes for different blokes, just wanted to share my experience.
Typically this was something that was handled locally by the client by logging messages sent to channels you were in. The concept of having all messages on a central server to pull down actually makes certain actions more difficult.

For instance, pressing PgUp several times or just scrolling up to see what was said some time ago in Slack takes quite a bit of time because it has to pull down data from the server rather than relying on local storage. Same thing with using something like ctrl-f to find a certain phrase you saw in the channel some time ago. Slack, for example, requires you to go through several dialogs to formulate your search terms, and by default, returns results in channels you never were in, and won't filter them out until you select just the channels you want.
So basically "Why it's ok and you should be happy about Microsoft's hardware controlling the software on your PC".

I'm so unbelievably sick of this 'security by corporation, it's what's best for you so accept it bullshit.' I really am.

No I don't want proprietary internet enabled hardware on my PC monitoring my software, no it does not make me feel safe and secure, actually, go fuck yourself and whatever marketing bullshit you spew to make this desirable for consumers. I'm honestly so fucking done with this kind of shit.
Journal or online diary made simple
Stardew Valley was developed by one person, if I recall correctly.