skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is fundamentally flaws analysis. Lack of economies of scale mean you have to analyze the production of food bottoms-up. What's the cost of getting the resources needed to each of these individual farms and to support the life of people there?

The thing people don't realize is that industrial farming is actually extremely carbon-emission efficient. Even your food coming from a container ship from halfway around the world, transported via freight, and driven last mile in a semi is less carbon intensive than getting a delivery from a local (XX miles away) farm.

This seems to be trivially true as well for an entire city of inefficient farms with any expectation of modern amenities.
It seems to me that except for a small group of crazy persons on the internet fascinated with the imagery of the Soviet Union and a "US bad justifies anything" hard line on the internet and some sectarian self-proclaimed marxist-[leninist] groups no modern anti-capitalist will seriously defend any of the self-proclaimed "socialist" state. (I very much hope that) the consensus in the Left seems to be that a state-owned economy + no democracy = Horror.

One of the hard part is trying to understand what capitalism even is. In that endeavour, Marx has only laid out the basis for an analysis at the end of his life in The Capital. It's an unfinished work, hindered by a philosophical education he did his best to shake off. Most social sciences did not exist or weren't well established to help him then.

You are only seeing the good sides of capitalism because you are on the good side of the stick if I may say. But without regulations, capitalism incentives are to brutally exploit all living workforce at hand, and this has been very from the beginning of capitalism. It is true that scientific advances in production (and especially the algricultural revolutions) have enabled to production of a incredibly well (in terms of calories available) and cheaply fed workforce which in the end also benefits the working class but this might well be a relatively recent development in the history of capitalism and may have with the fact that investing in mechanization may have seem the best of option in times of working people unrest. Plus you have to factor in the competition that took place with the USSR to be the most prosperous for all state/model.

Maybe the solution is capitalism with regulations/better incentives, maybe it is democratic governance inside of corporations, maybe something else I don't know but history has shown times and times again that unregulated capitalism is awful for most of humankind. I am ready to acknowlegde that market mechanisms have their usefulness but that usefulness must be harnessed for greater good, it should not be turned into a religion.

Whether there exists or not a "human nature", trying to derive social phenomenas directly from it seems a deeply unscientific approach to understanding social systems that does not seem fit for the 21st century.
I'm a little wary of those cheap hex keys -- I've been burned a few times by them stripping out a hex head when the key was just a little loose. I know I should invest in some quality hex keys, but you are right -- it's hard to justify the purchase when I already have so many lying around.
If you have Firefox anyway, why not just install uBlock Origin? I don't think I've ever seen a Youtube ad in Firefox.
I installed a battery cutoff switch on my car. One of the best investments in upgrading a car.

My Kindles all die fairly quickly even when off.

A lot of my electronics is plugged in via bus strips with off switches.
Would you pay them for their water?
But then it won’t look good in print either, right? The pdf is just a file with what would have otherwise gone to the printer.
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Whether they are technical or not.
Almonds in California use so much water it could feed 56 cities the size of Los Angeles (back-of-the-envelope math from publically available sources)

It's not just people that at fault, but an agricultural sector that has no limits on its consumption do to the money and politics involved.
Ask HN: Opinions on WhatsApp's new feature of Emoji Reaction
These past days Whatsapp (Meta) implemented a feature of reacting to messages on Whatsapp.

Isn't active in all devices yet, but some of those already do have it.

For those who already have it, what's your opinion about it?

To be honest, it freaks me out that an app of message service is implementing this feature, as it interfere of the role goal of Whatsapp - exchanging messages, easy and simple communication.
That would be the following font I believe[0].

https://anchorfonts.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-font/
Wow. How long did it take yall to pull this off?
Art Gone to Hell: A Boschian Bestiary (2016)
I’m looking at both comments. They are both saying Plato pushed for longer terms.
Forio has a digital version https://forio.com/app/showcase/near-beer-game/

I was on a team that wrote a beer game app for HBS, and the rules are really simple. It's not really worth playing more than once, though.
And it isn't true. There are various things that can be done.

You can shop only at stores that do post prices, even if that means travelling some distance or paying higher prices. You could open your own store and be sure to post prices. You could organize a protest in front of stores that don't post prices. You could form a volunteer service that posts prices for stores.

Obviously, these things require various levels of effort from you. They may or may not be worth it to you.

But "there's nothing really that can be done" usually translates to "there's nothing really I am willing to do."
Scientists make real dairy with no cows
Farm labor. Soup kitchen. There are different ones depending on the lesson someone thinks we should all learn.
Professional artists will be the first to tell you that there's no such thing as good or bad art. There's only art that you like right here and right now, art that moves you today but not tomorrow, that speaks to you but not your neighbor. It's why we can keep making more without ever running out.
No, alcohol is a depressant that acts on the GABA B receptor. It would be similar to antipsychotics or antianxiety drugs. Good try though.
You think kottke doesn't have bills to pay?

You think there are no alternatives to 9-5 jobs? No people who work different shifts, no people who work 12hr days then take long days off? No people who work 9 months on / 3 months off? No people who work and live cheap while saving then spend the savings on long holidays because they want to? No people who have spent years building passive income sources so that they can one day take long breaks from working? No people who quit their jobs to live in the overdraft of their bank account?

And on top of that you think a sarcastic one-line complaint is a good contribution to the thread?
Particularly useful for Twitter announcements on Twitter, where in order to say anything of value they have to tweet an image of some text.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear, but I meant specially the CDN product.
It'd be very, very nice if devices with re-flashable memory had a physical write-enable switch on it. No, not a software switch. With physical write-enable, no more malware getting installed on them.
Of course SpaceX is a defense company. Starlink is essentially the next GPS in terms of defense importance.
Until you get down to the details of what makes a good orbital launch vehicle vs what makes a good ICBM.
Serious in the sense that, "I'm going to put some effort to investigate what is going on, seek out teachers and resources, and apply my knowledge through daily practice". The actual meditation itself is very playful but focused, like getting good at a competitive video game.

> The five spiritual faculties are said to be like a cart with four wheels and a driver. If any of the four wheels is too small, wobbly, or not in balance with the others, then the going on the spiritual road will be rough. The four wheels symbolize faith, wisdom, energy, and concentration. If the driver is not paying attention there will also be problems. The driver symbolizes mindfulness. [See SN 48.18, also Visuddhimagga, IV, 45.2.]

> The five spiritual faculties have also been presented in another order that can be useful: faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. In this order, they apply to each of the three trainings, the first of which, as discussed earlier, is morality. We have faith that training in morality is a good idea and that we can do it, so we exert energy to live up to a standard of clear and skillful living. We realize that we must pay attention to our thoughts, words, and deeds in order to do this, so we try to be mindful of them. We realize that we often fail to pay attention, so we try to increase our ability to concentrate on how we live our life. In this way, through experience, we become wiser in a relative sense, learning how to live a good and useful life. Seeing our skill improve and the benefits it has for our life, we generate more faith, and so on.

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-i-the-fund...
I think I may be misunderstanding exactly what you're discussing then. Is the point in your original comment that the DOD uses off the shelf commercial technologies of all sorts for their work and that people who work at startups unknowingly contribute to this? I mean sure, but I can also tell you that the government struggles with buying products commercial off the shelf, this is again a reason you see the push for OTAs and collaborating more closely with the private sector instead of primes.

Also, not sure if calling it "the murder machine" is necessary or useful for a discussion. Many people, myself included, believe that a strong military is necessary for the United States to ensure its own survival and apply its protective cordon around NATO, Korea, Japan, etc. and despite its flaws has probably led to much less overall destruction and death than if the U.S. had a very weak military and could not deter more global conflicts.
Reverse osmosis throws a lot of water down the drain to keep the filters from clogging. I'm just an hour or so south of you and get the water doesn't taste incredible out of the sink, but I got a Pur countertop water filter which gets the chalky taste out without wasting any water, might be worth a try? Reverse osmosis is pretty intense if your water coming out of the pipe is treated, it's better suited for people with totally untreated water IMO
I really enjoyed the patient explanation that no, they play games in their lunch hour but what they get paid for is developing games which is what they do the rest of the day.
That's correct, and the designer is too close to the product too.

That is the correct message, and the one every article about design should push. Neither the engineers nor the designers can design a product in a vacuum.

Those are both old books that do not deny this message, but focus on less relevant subjects, and have less than clear advice. We shouldn't recommend those books for people without previous knowledge on UX design, because they will be harmful.

Besides, given that Nielsen was himself a very important voice on the creation of the modern user-focused design, there is very likely a newer book from him to recommend instead (I stopped reading his books and started reading his papers at the time of the change, so I don't know one).
It's not your water. If you want it, buy it from them.
H.265 requires getting a license from at least 2 patent pools[0], and who knows how many other patents are out there waiting to get sued over.

If you want a new cross platform video codec, check out AV1.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

[1] https://aomedia.org/av1/
> Don't these things show up on radar

I'm sure they do, but they're quite small and mostly made out of composites that are fairly transparent to radar. Their radar cross section must be very small compared to a gen 4 jet fighter.

> What is preventing Russia from building these things in the thousands and I don't know patrol the skies of eastern ukrain with it?

Money, corruption, inertia, brain drain...
Do they not have remote temperature sensors as an option?
You make a good point that inefficiency due to inexperience likely increased the workload. Although a lot of the stress only came after the guests arrived, as suddenly everything had to be timed correctly and the guests seemed to be doing everything they could to screw up my predetermined plans. I don't think they really were, it just felt that way.

When main course orders came in and I had more orders than people, I had to ask my server what was up. Somebody ordered the beef but with a side of the pasta, and I had to suddenly figure out how to plate that to look good as I'd only worked on plating the dishes the way I had planned on. Stuff like that kept happening through the whole meal. To your point again, experience would have helped, but thinking on your feet is clearly a big part of the deal.
> You don't have to solve the problem in a single year.

Yes, you do. Or nearly so. This is not a problem that has decades to go. If Lake Powell drops below the minimum power pool (as early as 2024), the results could easily be dramatic and horrifying.

It's not even known if long-term water releases from the Glen Canyon dam are possible without using the power plant.
Design needs to be given back over to the engineers again.

No, no, then you get the open source approach:

In case the desktop shortcut for your application is not available with the /usr/share/applications/ directory you have and option to create the Desktop launcher manually. In this example we will create and Desktop application shortcut for Skype application. Obtain the following information for any given application you wish to create shortcut for. Below you can find an example:

Path Application Icon: /snap/skype/101/meta/gui/skypeforlinux.png
Application name: Skype
Path to executable binary: /snap/bin/skype

To obtain a full path to executable binary of any program use the which command eg.:

$ which skype
/snap/bin/skype

In regards to the application icon, the choice is yours. You can either head over to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ directory and search for any relevant icon to use, or simply download new icon from the web. Now that we have all the necessary information, create a new file Skype.desktop within ~/Desktop directory using your favourite text editor and paste the following lines as part of the file’s content. Change the code where necessary to fit your application specific details.
Am I the only one who sees "learning" features for things like this as nothing more than overcomplicated ways to engineer in unexpected, unwanted behavior?

My heating/cooling desires are straightforward: unless I'm gone, stay in this range. I am not gone on a predictable schedule, any pattern it picks up will be incorrect.

The only thing the "ugly beige box" doesn't do that I want is remote access, and that would only have been handy a couple of times in the last 11 years I've been in this place. And that is not worth the surveillance or the freakishly buggy behavior some people report.

I'm increasingly convinced the major effect of "AI" will be to ensure that instead of bugs not being fixed because ultimately they aren't considered worth fixing, bugs will not be fixed because nobody understands them.
Comparing to Preview, just opening Acrobat is pain.
That's just a simple example. When the Nest came out, it felt like an amazing no brainer product to me:

1) The thermostat drives most home energy usage. It's probably above $1000/yr for most households.

2) The existing programmable thermostats were awful and no one used them effectively. There's a ton of waste as a result.

3) The smart thermostat can easily pay for itself in a year or two just by having a better UX that you'll actually use. That's an amazing value proposition.
This is another reason for me not to connect a UPS to data.

I started using data-connectable UPSes at home a couple decades ago. When I got my first such UPS, I happened to be in an IRC community of systems people who were frequently targeted by script kiddies. Usually they would just knock people or servers off the net, but sometimes they'd hack in, and we got a little practice at countermeasures. With this awareness in mind, I decided that having a UPS-triggered smooth server shutdown, in event of rare extended power outage, wasn't worth even the tiny risk of someone messing with the UPS remotely, and accidentally causing a fire.

I currently have two rackmount Cyberpower UPSes at home, still not data-connected. And it turns out, in the last couple decades, I've never needed the data connection.

Incidentally, this IoT move by APC sounds off-putting. I've long favored APC, and only switched to Cyberpower at home for the short-depth form factors. APC now has a neat and pricey Lithium battery short-depth line, but if Cyberpower can beat APC on customer goodwill (including IoT nonsense), they'll cement me and presumably others as loyal customers.
My bank issues a fido device: a card scanner with a built in camera that reads qr codes. Excellent tool, but for a few years now the bank is actively discouraging its use, touting the benefits of apps instead. It costs them around 60 euro to issue the device, and, sadly, thats incentive enough to advocate less secure solutions. When they take it away from me, I am out of options as this is the last bank in my country that issues them to individuals :-/
> but they're only doing what private industry has for years.

Thoughts similar to this one are often deployed here - like this:

commenter A: This makes <problem related to surveillance> worse

commenter B: It's only incrementally worse, so it's OK. Besides <other parts of problem> mean there's no practical difference currently (at least if you've already basically admitted defeat about <problem> as I have), so what possible rational basis could there possibly be for not going ahead?

But many steps that make a problem incrementally worse can lead you to a bad place. Many steps that make things incrementally better would lead us to a better place. And with a tangled problem like this is by now, I think you do sometimes have to accept that not every step may always make a practical difference for many people, if you want to move towards a solution rather than forever away from it.

In this case I'm surprised to see you use the word "only" - government starting to mandate something is a significant step over even a duopoly doing so, because the cost of trying to ignore a government mandate can be much higher even than ignoring the smartphone duopoly - right? I can and do avoid the smartphone duopoly currently, but good luck to me if the government mandates it, eh?

Also given government power, in some ways it's a lot easier to make progress on knotty problems like this one than it is for a company, because government has a lot of power - so in that sense they have less excuse than private industry for moving us backwards here. Of course the public, though I think they see the problem to some extent, don't really believe in solutions yet. It's up to us to give them confidence that better solutions exist.
anyone running graph neural networks in production ? what framework do you use ?
Which one are you using with Home Assistant?
One of the draws to use Hugging Face is because the open source community is giving those trained models away. What they are doing is permitting people to use those models affordably (something like a million words would be $10 if I recall correctly, you need to spend $10k minimum to run GPT-Neo-x in your bedroom just to print out one prompt).

I'm not saying these are bad ideas but they need to more focus on their friendly front end and clean API access. There will be a DALL-E 2-Neo-x in a few months. People are going to want to run it without being limited by OpenAI's terrible interface.
The amount of water you'd have to move to sustain agriculture in arid regions is a stupendously huge number. We can't even keep up with badly needed electrical transmission grid construction (and maintenance), which would be orders of magnitude cheaper to build and maintain than what you propose. I struggle to see how thousands of miles of water pipeline hundreds of feet in diameter is practical to construct or maintain. That's like type 1 civilization class of engineering project.
I know exactly what you’re talking about, as I’ve had a share of my own struggles against Nest which thinks it knows better. However, right now, I have it set like the following:

https://postimg.cc/D8YBfB4x

And it works just like a normal thermostat, which makes me happy. I’d never buy a smart thermostat now, I keep using Nest because previous owner of the house installed it, and after lobotomizing it, it works good enough.
Imagine that you were a regulator, such as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board [1]. Put yourself in that position. How would you go about deciding the appropriate regulation?

Of course that is not the only stakeholder in the situation. Now for each key stakeholder, including railroad companies, railroad employees, shipping companies, the purchasing public, and landowners near tracks, what would be your professional opinion on the correct outcome?

It is pretty clear that what you see depends on where you sit.

Now step back even further and imagine you are an omniscient being that can truly comprehend all of the above perspectives. How would you go about deciding the correct outcome? It will depend on your notion of good and fairness. I think for many definitions of good, you'll find that considerable analysis is involved.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safe...
The "smart" feature in the UK seems to be add a temperature change every time you adjust the temperature, so your "smart" schedule is just the temperature yo-yoing throughout the day between 14 and 20C based on what you did in winter.

Then to edit it you have the worst possible UI and end up, like you said, turning all off the smart features.
When reading it, it sounds bad, but it’s actually what a lot of big companies do.
...and if you stop farming in california. Inflation will go up.

Realistically, California could and should start a major water works project to import water from the east or pacific northwest.
It is not just about what you alone can "mine", your participation is only made possible by ALL the miners burning electricity to keep the global state of the network. Without that combined wasted energy and CO2 generation there is no system for you to "benefit" from.

Anyway, you didn't tell us if you have stopped eating meat.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199300
The starting point for this work is really: how can we take what exists (text files) and make it work in a CRDT setting, without tainting the data in any ways. For instance, if you decide to host your data on Git, we want the repo to look exactly the same as if it was a regular code project. We don't look to add another standard on top of existing ones – for instance, we are not aiming to enable "CRDT version history" in the file system. This could of course constitute future work (something similar to a .git folder – CRDTs can be stored efficiently). But our main goal here is to show that browser apps have a way to free their data from the tool, something Excalidraw started doing [1], and which was a source of inspiration to us.

[1] https://blog.excalidraw.com/browser-fs-access/
All good, thank you, apology accepted.
With Caddy, keep your filename the same and use try_files:

try_files {uri}.html {uri}

Done. (You can also add a redirect if you want to enforce that ONLY the non-.html version is used.)
If you're feeling extra froggy, here's an implementation of the game [1]

[1] https://forio.com/app/showcase/near-beer-game/
But they consume 100% of the water they own. If urban water users need more water than they own, they can buy more or consume less.

There is a mechanism for government sizing property, but they do have to pay for it.