skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hope we at least go for number (1) and do the trimming at the top where it needs to happen.

Do not advocate for mass murder on HN.

> Why don't we have more, spread around the world, and capable of slight over-production just in case?

Because we don't have global centralized economic planning, and overcapacity costs money?

Besides, only one of the three NPK is really "produced" in a plant, the other two are mined. (You can in theory extract the elements from seawater, like gold and uranium, but it's very energy-expensive)

> local and locally controlled chemical plants

Doesn't actually help unless you can also get the feedstock - natural gas - locally. Otherwise you're still exposed to world prices and world availability issues.

Really this is all fallout from cutting Russia out of the market and the invasion of Ukraine itself.
College was a fun time and I met a lot of friends, and, 30 years later, I actually stayed in touch with none of them beyond the first 3 or 4 years. It is definitely easier to make friends in that kind of situation, but it doesn't mean they remain long term friends, ime.
After watching the demo video for PW, I think it is better than what you were doing, but doesn't have the automation you want.
... says the Axe advertisement with lots of paid models in it, so it must be the truth.

"The Walk showcases how AXE can transform an everyday walk into an amazing journey of attraction."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-new-axe-effect-...

But jokes aside, I can't find the study for it now but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that for long-term married women, smelling the sweat of their long-term partner can reduce anxiety. And from an evolutionary perspective, that would make sense: If your long-term partner is around, you're probably halfway safe.
Obviously not in Europe, they obviously can't.
Not sure what argument is being made here. The DARPA Grand Challenge was an incredible success
The rest of the laptop, is the obvious, but clear answer.

I bought a couple of ThinkPads because they're well tested on Linux, have the best non-mechanical keyboard on a laptop that I know of (even after Lenovo), and have a decent build.

I can't stand using the TrackPoint despite having tried a few times, but my workflow relies more on a keyboard and any decent scrolling device, for which two-finger scroll on the touchpad more than suffices.
> The casual dismissal of TrackPoints in the grandparent comment shows that the author has never tried one.

They're a great and innovative "backup" pointing device when one doesn't have access to a mouse or touchpad. They really don't compare to either of those more expressive and efficient options, though.
Fantastically helpful article, imperfections notwithstanding. Many thanks!
It's a popular opinion on HN that the EU picks on American companies but to offer an alternative theory: American companies are more often subject to EU penalties because they more frequently/severely break EU law.

American companies more frequently break EU law because they're used to the US regulatory environment, which is so loose that in many areas it may as well not exist. In the rare situations where a regulator does start to speak up, it's easily manipulated through lobbying (see FCC common carrier regulations as an example).

Part of it is also cultural/economic. American companies are aggressive and come to Europe when they've already amassed a large war chest from their business success in the US, so they're willing to risk a fight with European regulators because they know they'll be able to fund it. European companies are more conservative, so less willing to clash with regulators, and they have to survive in Europe from their inception, so may not be able to afford a large legal battle.
Very interestring. I might be actually wrong here.

So I assumed the problem is not cultural bias, but a tokenizer which does not have the concept of open compound words. For example a naive implementation which is just splitting the strings into chunks of printable characters would be suspectible to this problem.

To test this I have tried it with various open compound words. My theory was that it will reject all of them. Turns out it is not the case!

The site rejected “sweet tooth”, “apple tree”, “chow mein”, “banana split”, “school bus”, “life jacket”, “mobile phone”, but curriously accepted “rain forest”. This means that it has the ability to sometimes recognise open compound words. Curiouser and curiouser!
Agreed, I have never heard of this, I’m pretty sure it would not be legal in the UK
When somebody’s mortgage depends on ignorance, don’t go looking to them for wisdom.
By not using Grub you lose the ability to fallback on a safe kernel. That may be quite dangerous depending on how reliable kernel update is for you. I have been saved by kernel fallbacks before. Double that for laptops whose ACPI drivers randomly break from version to version, as evidenced by your note on 5.17.x kernels.

Regardless I sympathize, as I recently had a good deal of trouble updating from BIOS to UEFI. The 4K issue seems to also affect Dell XPS15 and leads to a kernel panic on the latest Canonical Live CD [1]

[1] https://cenains.blog/2022/05/01/converting-boot-mode-from-bi...
Linux distributions are becoming irrelevant (2017)
Rubrics produce mediocre results. They reject extremal, specialist workers.
Ask HN: Engineers Running a Business?
Hello HN,

I (firmware/software) and a group of fellow mechanical (1x) electrical (1x) engineers often wax about starting a company. None of us are interested in managing anything non engineering-related. Where do you usually find the manager types for your startup? You know, the ones who can talk to investors, do the government paperwork, and other boring stuff.
Regarding your last point, do have a look at utilities like these [1][2][3] if you haven't seen them before - I have just been using cheat.sh as no install is needed, and I think it pulls from the other 2 services.

Just set up a bash alias to simplify querying it.

[1] https://github.com/cheat/cheat

[2] https://tldr.sh/

[3] https://cheat.sh/
Oh, definitely. They did a great job fact checking Volkswagen: https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/peter-mock-vom-icct-uebe...

I really don't understand how Americophobia can be so disproportionate among HN crowd. Does anyone honestly think politicians in a specific part of the world are not corrupt?
I have a XPS 15 with a 10th gen processor. Its absolutely perfect, linux support is great. Except it gets hot an battery life in 2-3 hours max. M1 stats seem a dream, just too expensive and screens are too small I can't justify it.
You could try Shake. It's a sane build system written by a former co-worker of mine. https://shakebuild.com/
In many US states, and European countries, driver's license is now also offered digitally. So it's not true that you always need a physicial driver's license.

I find it very conveniet to only have to carry my phone with me. It's also (I would argue) more secure, since even if someone was to steal my phone, they wouldn't be able to use the credit cards or stored driver's license without my face or fingerprint.
I don't know, I think they would've gone with cheaper and cheaper materials and ended up with pretty much what Lenovo has nowadays.

Dell and HP also had great business machines. I'm particularly fond of the Elitebook 8530/8730 - built like tanks, easy to repair, good keyboards, and still so thin for the time (even today, they look and feel good).

Quality went downhill ever since - newer models are still pretty good, but not as good as older ones. More plastic, fewer screws, trash keyboards, just kind of average for the price.
This could be the case. But then Apple would simply have to offer better terms to lure in customers (banks). Just like any other company offering a paid service. Having a good UX is part of that.

Nowadays they can basically charge whatever they want since they've eliminated all competition through software restrictions in iOS.
N.Z. cannibalism multiplayer game unexpectedly garners a large userbase in China
Mathematicians Coax Fluid Equations into Nonphysical Solutions
My point is, I didn't have to take an economics class, and probably same for a lot of people.
I don't think we're disagreeing here. I already admitted in my previous comment that it was theoretically possible. My point was that even though it's possible for animal protein to be "not a problem", that's not the case today.
It was outlandish enough that the only history lesson I took away from it was that the Enigma machine existed and Turing and his team helped break it.
Law firm says staff can work from home for 20% less pay
They don't really do "stand around and argue for 10min and then finally bust out the tazer when you still won't get in the damn car" enforcement in war zones.
At what point should desalination plants be considered for agriculture irrigation in California?
Fuck that! It will put trees out of a job!
Your claim does not line up with: https://openai.com/api/policies/privacy/
Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
At least for apples, that's due to the feedback loop from the super market.

1. New variety ( red delicious, gala, fuji, honey crisp)

2. Customer says, "I really like it! Could you make it redder?"

3. Farmer/nursery selects for apple strain that is redder, implicitly deselecting all other characteristics.

4. Customer selects red'est version of variety in the super market and passes up less-red variety.

5. Non-red variety taken out or grafted over in orchards to super-red variety.

6. Customer says, "I don't know why, but I don't like the taste of galas anymore!"

7. goto 1
This is exactly the kind of stuff I wrote this post about. The first (exactly once) is actually just at-least-once with deduplication based on a counter. To reliably process the events, however, you need to make your downstream idempotent as well. Think of it like your event processor might fail, so even if you only receive the message "once" if you can fail processing it you still have to think about retries. In my opinion it would be explicitly better for the event system to provide "at least once" and intentionally duplicate events on occasion to test your processors ability to handle duplicates.

The second (lock) is actually a lease fwict, and writing code in the locked body that assumes it will be truly mutually exclusive is pretty dangerous (see the linked post from Martin [1] for why).

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...
Your claim does not line up with: https://openai.com/api/policies/privacy/

You're exposing your API key, plus I wonder if everyone trying your extension has made their IP address visible to you on the 'usage' page mentioned here? https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5112595-best-practices-f...
You're looking for croc or magic-wormhole.
I mean skeletons - as well as spinners - are a patch on the real issue, that it takes time to load a page.

Because just look at HN itself; a comments page is a long list of content, not dissimilar to the examples given of Facebook, but it loads instantly with only a small spinner in the tab bar that resolves in less than 200ms. No skeletons or spinners are actually needed on the page itself.

I'm convinced that most sites would work faster if the pages are just rendered server-side. I don't believe it would cost more server load, and I don't believe the extra server side cost, if any, outweighs the vastly improved client performance. Plus it can be scaled, especially with modern-day techniques like CDN workers / lambdas; they could put the templates and final rendering into those edges, close to the end user, and only pass data between their datacenters and the CDN's edges. From there on out they could make the pages partially dynamic.
Not OP, but I can say that PF2e is complicated only in comparison to something like D&D5e. Compared to D&D3.5e (which is what PF forked from) it's more streamlined.

I think streamlined vs complexity is a topic that should be discussed here. Complexity isn't a bad thing- Street Fighter is more complex than Mario 1. But that doesn't mean it's bad, obviously. PF2e vs D&D5e are similar. Both are great games depending on what sort of complexity you're looking for, and that's personal taste. For me, 5e isn't complex enough.
Just came here to post it, great documentary!
It amazes me that this isn't considered a full blown emergency. This feels as bad as a nuke slowly descending onto a city of millions. Yet everyone continues to consume water like nothing is happening. The time for extreme water rationing and banning of certain industries in the desert is years ago.

If I lived anywhere near there I would have been desperately trying to sell my property before it became worthless.
Living in synch with nature, what a radical idea! /S

They wont, it will fail and then those who get it and are ahead of the curb will innovate. You already see it with rising fertilizer costs, farmers are looking into more traditional methods not reliant ok chemical companies.

Regulators will surely screw it up, as they have been in cohoots with $insiders.
"The 80/20 version."

There are times when I'm willing to pay 5x to get something 20% better. Not all the time, though. Moralizing the choice feels like a sales gimmick.
The largest stumbling block is typically when the machine has 2 GPUs.

If it is just a normal Intel with integrated graphics / ultra-book it will work out of the box with distros like Ubuntu.
Which species are you claiming would go extinct and does your list cover 100% of those on the environmental list? Perhaps there's room somewhere between the two extremes?
From a user perspective, I don't care what you use as long as I can distinguish a frozen state and tell me what task you are stuck on. (IOW, spinners suck).

Seriously, why is it so bad to tell a user what the hell they are waiting for? Sure, it will be gibberish to some users, but even they will understand that your code is trying to do something.

Even better, have a time check with a head's up that something is taking longer than expected.
World is closer to nuclear war than Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is going to tell middle California that they need to pay a lot higher to grow crops? The politicians sure won’t. The government is already an enemy in those parts.
That sounds great, maybe I should do that. I was using TeamViewer for Android, but the problem was that it hid the screen at the most important parts, and the hardest parts for my mom: accepting second factor authentication and banking apps. She doesn't see the difference between the notification and a real window with action button for example (I will teach it to her when I visit her soon).

Right now the simplest thing is that I just take over everything from her and pay all the bills, just tell her to forward me the emails and pay everything with my credit card...at least using email is very simple for her.
It's highly dependent on the specific hardware. On some everything works out of the box, others you're stuck with very little working (think Apple M1). Just like any OS you always need to ensure hardware compatibility before purchase.
> It is politically untenable to fix this

I believe this statement is applicable to the climate crisis in general. Recent reviews of 2015 Paris agreement progress indicate abysmal performance. We've been using resources in such a way that we don't have to consider their true costs, and we've been doing so for generations. I don't think we'll see very significant change until it is forced upon us. We'll then make reactive changes, rather than proactive changes. And it will be too late for a lot of regions / people.
>I can't believe I actually need to say this, and I'm not even sure whether responding to such lunacy is a good idea, but:

>No. Mass rape, kidnapping and murder of civilians is not how wars have historically been won, and they are certainly not "necessary"

I cant believe I actually need to say this but trucks leave tire tracks in the dirt. You're gonna have a hell of a time dragging an army (especially a conscript army that needs far more ideological motivation than a professional army) across a country without leaving some ancillary destruction behind.
> Don't live in the desert.

Only ~10% of the use is residential.

> Don't grow baby spinach in the desert.

This would also be fine if the water wasn't divided up using a formula that allocates more water than has historically flowed through the Colorado.

I have no problem with pricing it correctly.
pw has no tail -f functionality; it doesn't monitor whether a file that has reached EOF will start growing again. If you do pw < file, it will just read to the end and then exit. Or else stay running with pw -d, but without reading any more data. But it can make sense to do this:

tail -f logfile | pw

the main behavior change that pw will introduce is that during periods when the logfile is rapidly growing, it will prevent spewage to the terminal. It will only update when there is a lull in in the output exceeding the short timeout (default: 1 s), or else once every long timeout (default: 10 s). (These values were hard coded at first, then they became command line options, then dynamically adjustable too).

The development of pw was inspired by a discussion in the GNU Coreutils mailing list by a user wanting behavior along these lines from tail itself.

Then the other feature ideas came.

For instance pausing: we can suspend the display indefinitely. With tail -f, that's easy: you can just kill it. You can't kill a program that's taking input from a pipe without breaking the pipe, though. You can pause the terminal output, but not indefinitely without causing a backlog that could block the producing application, and when you resume, all the backlogged spewage will show.
I don’t know the story, what’s bad about it?

My understanding so far is that the corn used for ethanol isn’t the kind you eat (sweetcorn) it’s a cheaper to produce and more hardy plant but consequently can only really be used for cattle feed and ethanol production.

Ages ago i read something that said in the US, corn was the optimal source but in other parts of the world, sugar cane could result in a more energy efficient process for ethanol.
> But, if you wanted to sample on the Amiga, you actually needed one external piece of hardware: an audio sampling interface, however these were generally very cheap

Interestingly, an amiga and cheap sampler is how Kanye got his start.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7SeNjFeeSc
The unintended irony of those who throw around "bourgeois" in this context is amusing. Historically, the classes that discounted sexual mores have been the poor and the wealthy and powerful elite. The latter already have long standing social mechanisms for maintaining their social position, and the former are under economic pressures that undermine moral and ethical considerations.

It is basically the middle classes that definitively require stable families. So unless OP is manor born -- the working classes do not have leisure time to spend time on HN -- OP is likely a product of a petite-bourgois family who has not really understood the vital necessity of sexual mores for their class.
The ability to export the call hierarchy from VS code for all typescript files in a directory. Doesn’t have to be pretty or interactive.
Why is this trending again for the 10+ time?
Holy flashback to my 90s gaming days!
There are a bunch of video DJ suites out there that can do way more than what you need but they all cost about $300. There is an open source software called Snowmix that might do what you want. Interestingly, the project is run by an amateur manned space program.
I think the reality is that most of us love programming. The bad part is working on someone elses design and code base - just spending your week figuring out what someone elses weird code does gets exhausting.
Haha sick

Here's one I remember venetian snares had in his youtube likes like a decade ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg
Rolemaster is probably my favorite system, to this day. Had a devil of a time finding anyone to play it with though. Somewhere around here I have a couple boxes full of ICE Rolemaster books. I like the complexity, and the ability to run either a low power or a high power game.

I still think ShadowWorld (the main Rolemaster campaign setting) is the most detailed and well put together setting I've ever seen.

Just checked, ICE and Rolemaster are still going.
Running a water pipeline across the continental divide and through the Rocky Mountains? Did the Romans do anything comparable to that (move water UP)? I was under the belief that aqueducts relied on gravity to move the water.
That's why I wrote "They don't have to read RFCs in bed before sleep, but they should at least know the gist of what they contain."
>We call this collection of values the data universe. The data universe is always internally coherent. Once you mutate your state, you can call any function that depends on the mutable state, and that function will see an up-to-date version of the state.

It's a model. Call it a model. This reinvention of standard CS terms is a constant source of cringe in the JS community.
the easiest way to do that is of course to plant shading plants at the edges of waterways.
> Why they have this bad touchpads is beyond me. Then it would be better to ditch them completely and position the keyboard nearer to the user.

I think some brands have tried this (like ones that include a mechanical keyboard or a screen) and the feedback about having the keyboard closer to the user and not having a "shelf" you can wrest your wrists on is almost always negative. YMMV.
“How much is that?” is strictly different from “I will pay you $2500 for this”.

First isn’t an offer, nor is it a negotiation.
Grow your own food then.
you completely miss the point that for many, horses were for daily transportation.. to and from work, the store, school, supply houses, meeting halls, civic participation.. all kinds of things
> It has never been a lack of global food shortage

Indeed. It's about availability and right to food, as articulated by Amartya Sen in his Nobel prize winning work on the Bengal (and other) famines.

https://www.prismaweb.org/nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Pove...

However, quite a lot of cattle grazing land isn't really suitable for arable farming. The American approach of raising cattle on soybeans grown on arable land may not be sustainable, but more traditional hillside grazing may be.
Don't bother with HN comments for anything other than tech and startups, and even then you should be suspicious. It's full of privileged tech bros pushing shitty solutions to the wrong problems.
s/apple //g; and by and large, the answer is yes.

But it even happens to the tech-literate.
Dependencies are handled by pkg-config, not autotools.
Very interesting examples - though I’m really not a fan of this kind of practice. Just feels kind of dishonest… Sometimes (such as cell towers poorly disguised as fake trees and the like) I think it can actually look ridiculous and worse than just raw infrastructure!

I think it’s possible to put these kind of things in buildings that look good but that don’t “lie” about their purpose… But maybe that’s just me - I know I’m definitely am much more interested in seeing and understanding the infrastructure that makes the world work than the vast majority of people probably are!
Being Dutch might influence my take, but I love the no BS communication in Israel. What you describe as troublesome cuts both ways BTW. You are allowed to be as direct. Got no time? Say so. Got other priorities? Say so. Just be clear and to the point and do not waste the callers time with an elaborate story.

The explanation I got was that no one has time to beat around the bush since every single day might be your last.

That was 30 years ago when things where a lot less safe than it is now.
Mark uses the natural landscape and small man made ponds and swales to move water throughout the farm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBRnPcZ8xUo

In hindsight, this may have been the better video to post.