skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert, but yes it can be stored; see also the 'stocks' section in the submission. It also seems to be implied that 'consumption' includes derivative products (which makes total sense as long as it's not double-counting).

It's not continuously harvested (spring and winter crops) so there'd have to be a buffer anyway, and you wouldn't know in advance if that's going to be good bad or average.

Also I assume good stock control (not necessarily just FIFO, but also relegating the good stuff to animal feed as it ages) so really running a slight deficit for several years is the same as a big deficit for one year. (Or better even - less implied risk for the next year, doesn't seem so volatile.)
We're talking about grain. If people can't afford grain what simpler, cheaper food would they fall back to? Sand?
Which is a huge pain because you can’t just spam click update or “update all”. You have to one by one wait for them to download and for the android UI to come up and then wait for the install to finish before starting the next one
> But isn't the whole announcement about Firefox also going to support v3 (e.g. you only need to write for v3) except that it still allows some of the removed functionality _additionally_ to the v3 APIs Chrome has?

Right - maybe I misunderstood the previous commenter's question, but I thought they were asking if it would be possible to make a translation layer that would allow developers to seamlessly support Manifest V3 without changing their Manifest V2 code.

What you are saying is correct though - Manifest V3 code will be universally supported, with a few browsers (Firefox, and Brave I believe) also supporting some of the V2 APIs on top of that. But if you use those APIs it won't work in Chrome.
But then, how many job applications do you do? Maybe Canonical wants to filter out people that apply to hundreds of firms, and only consider those for whom Canonical is on the short list - and a list short enough that a few hours spent on those questions is not a big deal.

(Side note: it's kind of a Proof of Work...)
My experience growing small patches of grain is that migrating sparrows and sleeping deer will mostly wipe you out. These are relatively insignificant depradations for large fields, but if you only have 40 square meters they can destroy it all.
Google’s Russian branch plans to file for bankruptcy
How are they worse than any alternative? If I dump my food waste in the garden, is that emitting less GHG than letting it decompose in a landfill?

Is it that it comes out as methane from landfills but less harmful CO2 from a little pile? That should be solved by flaring the methane.
>" Historically, a company is fundamentally valued by the discounted rate of its free cash flows into the future."

Could you elaborate on this, is this a metric that VCs use in their valuations? How is the discount amount determined?
Windows 11 Is Now Ready for Broad Deployment, Microsoft Says
Thanks. It's kind of disappointing there isn't a simple pip-installable library that can do this without gstreamer dependency.
I've heard the argument from the other end from time to time, that Western food aid is bad because it distorts markets for food producers in the destination country (by making local farmers unable to stay in business). But I think this is the first time I've heard it argued that it's affecting prices in the West in a significant way.
We had all that about a year into the pandemic and there were still tons of restrictions.
This is a common problem in etymology and related reference works. Publications cite the earliest written reference that they are aware of. All any reference like this can state is that N is the first publication date for a term in the sources in which they have looked. No one has time, resources, or access to verify all sources. Most reference publishers welcome it if you notify them of additional occurrences.

It is also widely acknowledged that verbal usages of new words almost always precedes written references so there is a natural lag in that regard, as well.
Survey shows Netflix is losing more long-term subscribers
The disclosure is standard in CA. They don’t test they just assume.
Competition in the energy market is key to bringing more renewables online. With Texas style retail choice we’ve seen 10% of their power come from wind, and that’s not for environmental reasons. It’s just pure market dynamics at play. But we’ve also seen blackouts ~$10,000 residential power bills come out of Texas, so that’s what utilities focus on when there’s talk of competition in other markets.

There are other forms of competition that work better. The form used in CA, OH, and MA is community choice aggregation, which lets municipalities buy electricity for their residents. Newton MA procures 80% of its electricity as renewable. Marin County CA is at 100%. CCAs reduce residential electric bills by 2-9% vs monopoly utilities. With CCA you get the price reductions of the free market, combined with the protections of regulation. The only opposition comes from utilities.
They both started ignoring covid right as the vaccine came out.
It's common for plant farmers in smaller countries too. I interviewed at a company that wanted to help banks lend to tiny farmers who have to borrow against future harvests to afford fertilizer / seed / equipment maintenance for the season ahead. Since many of these small farmers are geographically and technologically a long way off from where the banks are at, they don't get great rates because the banks (currently) don't have great tools for assessing the risk of any particular family farm.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this should still work if you write your own extension, right?
They can do direct wire transfers and that actually concerns me more. I had zero interaction with my bank. I gave the IRS my bank routing and account number then told them how much to transfer. Not even a single email or text message from the bank at all. As far as I can tell there is no upper limit on how much they can withdraw. Ever since then I have been super careful what I keep in banks.
Anyone know of a company other than Paddle and PayPro Global that act as the merchant of record and remit taxes for you globally?

I'm a solo founder not interested in dealing with either the complexities of these billing issues nor with the taxes issue. But my product would easily be of interest globally and the API's I've built have more interenational customers than global customers so I suspect the same may be true for the product I'm building out of those apis...
Depends on what you mean by "Garden standards". No, a single plant isn't worth harvesting by itself, and one square foot would be barely enough for a single serving, but a typical 1 acre lawn, imagine a square that's just ~200 feet/60 meters on a side, is 43 THOUSAND + 560 square feet. The linear/square relationship can be really surprising.

Wheat yields like 50 bushels/acre, if I seeded my lawn in wheat I'd have 3,000 pounds, more than I could possibly hope to brew or drink. If I instead grew sweet corn, I'd have something like 15,000 ears. That's a lot of corn on the cob, and you've got to eat it within 24 hours of harvest for best flavor, and the harvest window is only a few weeks in early August.

No, you're not going to want to grow cereals one stalk at a time in a raised bed, nor grow it like a little potted oregano on your kitchen window sill. But it doesn't take that much cultivation - say, 10 rows of sweet corn along the edge of the lawn - to get more than you can hope to consume.
The next step is to use excess renewable energy to electrolyze water and make hydrogen. To get to the next step requires direct air capture of CO₂. We haven't solved that last problem yet.

Also, it is not really necessary to go to that step in many cases. Steel can directly use hydrogen in production. Natural gas turbines can switch to hydrogen instead. So any kind of hydrocarbon quickly becomes a value-added cost that may only make sense if you need that particular hydrocarbon.
1997 for BSOD? I find that very hard to believe.
> I think he understood that what was really important was to get everybody across the organization to focus on essentially one big goal.

I think “focus” is the keyword and am very glad to see this pointed out.

The company I’m at has gone into OKRs thinking that it’ll be some magical, productivity unlocking tool. However, when multiple people asked what the company strategy was and what we were planning to focus on, the response was that they (C-suite leaders) wanted to continue tackling every opportunity. That they think having OKRs will lead to the same workforce being able to tackle more things. It was really weird to try and write OKRs where literally any measurable outcome could be considered success. It wasn’t a surprise when I read the OKRs for other teams and orgs and saw everyone rowing in different directions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If any fund has a nominal return target, then I’d question their abilities.

Nominal means nothing.
Some of these services simply take advantage of new customer promos and handle the account generation on there end. I don’t think there has to be any financial fraud involved, simply taking advantage of a loophole at scale.
A mentor has advised me not to become "boring"

Maybe you need a new mentor. Being boring has nothing to do with starting a business. Plenty of successful businesspeople are boring. Plenty of plain old working class stiffs are not boring.

As for the root of your question, do what you want. If that’s being “just” a developer, that’s fine. As long as whatever you do brings you joy, not much else matters.
Yeah. A majority of grain on the market is not 'new'. It's been stored for a while, either waiting for buyer, or for the right time and the right price.
Most country also have a national reserve to ensure food security. And they tend to be quite trigger happy with the slightest risk to that. I'm from a major rice producing country and when the first wave of Covid hit, they block exporting right away.
in my experience, this has never been the case. it was sold that way, but lack of management capabilities and integration just meant you didn't manage them, and left it to your end users. in the few places I worked that actually administered osx devices to the same degree as their windows and Linux endpoints, it took 10x as much administration force. we had a team of 3 administering 400 osx devices, and a team of 5 administering over 20000.

apple is severely lacking in the enterprise world
“This is obviously not a small amount of money to <extreme example>” obviously does not mean “everybody to whom this is not a small amount of money is equally poor, or has an equal view of its largeness” because there is, very very obviously, a large range of incomes in this world. I shouldn’t even have to say “Italian developers are very obviously to anyone with half a brain not the same as beggars”, and yet, here we are.

I’d suggest you learn to read things charitably, instead of searching for the most unlikely and preposterous meaning you can possibly dream up in order to get mad at a post. You’ll be happier for it.
That spare solar power will be used for hydrogen production most of the time.
Voyager 1 is sending back data from interstellar space that's mystifying NASA
The real threat is the nearly 1 trillion tons of toxic waste we're racking up PER YEAR. It's the most lethal stuff this planet has ever encountered.

If the CO2 levels spike, life on the planet (including many or maybe even most humans) will survive. If you look at historic levels, they were hundreds of times higher and the planet was the greenest it has ever been.

If/when that toxic waste leaks out and starts killing, NOTHING will survive.
Feed it to the dog.

“There’s a smart dog!”
They are red they look like tomatoes they just taste like nothing that’s what I mean. Those are available most of the time the other kind almost never
>"This is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but if you can park risk-free capital somewhere which generates high interest, the opportunity costs of investing in tech become higher, so VCs stop investing."

But if the funds are not investing, that money is not doing any work. How long are investors willing let that cash sit idle before they ask for redemptions?
> It is fantastically frustrating, as it makes wealth-building through home ownership impossible

TBH this seems more like a feature than a bug. Home ownership should be less about investment income and more about, well, owning a home.
look at a graph of covid deaths.

then look at when California lifted its mask mandate and when New York lifted its mask mandate locate that on the graph.

February, during one of the highest peaks of the entire pandemic in covid deaths.

Coincided nicely with midterm election year though.
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This is a bit myth. Though taxable value would become near zero and it can't be priced much (except land), usually houses won't be rebuilt at 20 years. Original residents continue to live there. No market value != no value.
> the equivalent of phrenology

I mean, there are plenty of bad tests out there (Meyers Briggs etc.), but good aptitude and personality tests might well be the best (objective, reliable, valid...) tests of aptitude and personality there are, no?
How does this compare to MathJax? Is the primary difference that MathJax renders dynamically using JS, while Latex.js runs offline and produces static pages?
> getting rid of (or renovating) old structures is a good thing.

It's worse than that in Japan. They build everything cheaply and plan to destroy them in 50-60 years down the line, making investing in property a really bad plan as whatever you buy sees its value go to actual zero. This causes a massive economic strain on Japan.
Yes, whatever is under the solar panels gets less sunlight. There are even some companies starting to lay solar panels directly on the ground, which means it gets none at all.

I don't think it's all that hard to take that into account, though; it's a land use concern. What was the land being used for before?

Also, the terawatts of power generated will get converted to heat in developed areas where it's used, but that's true of any electricity use.
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Then feed the animal grade crops to cows and pigs, should still free up a sizable load of human-quality grain to ease market pressure. We need drastic and quick action before famines hit Africa.
This was the biggest struggle we had with OKRs, rocks, EOS, etc...

Goals != Strategy and that took a while to realize.

I wish I read Good Strategy Bad Strategy and The 7 Powers first.
Sinclair and the Pocket Calculator
does not mean that it's normal that your house value goes to zero, no matter how well built it is.
They spend their lives buying a house that's worth nothing when they die. Nobody likes it.
Every American supermarket sells blocks of perfectly good, normal cheese. You can get Vermont cheddar all over the northeast, at the very least.

Where you might be disappointed is if you like "extra mature" British cheddar, which is not really equivalent to "extra sharp" American cheddar. Personally I find both unappealing.
At 100TW, solar power would use a whooping 0.06% of total solar radiation the Earth receives. The Sun is truly immense.

The biggest environmental concern is the disposing of the batteries when they die, and that should seen solutions soon as solar gets more and more popular.
But at that point your client isn't really reading EPUB isn't it?

Amazon backend accept EPUB (either from KDP or from Send to Kindle). Amazon then process EPUB into Amazon own format, and deliver that to Kindle device. Which sounds a lot like what you described.

Btw your project is interesting. Does it support vertical-rl EPUB? After finding out Moon Reader+ doesn't it make me doubting everything now.
I like Desiderata as life advice. Text here:
https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

It's a 1 minute read, but two snippets more directly relevant:

"Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story."

and

"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

I see everyone simply doing their best to get by and focusing on differing details at differing scales depending on what situation and inclination are. Your details are important to you. You can learn other peoples details if you talk to them for a bit. No one is boring - and everyone is - depending on your own viewpoint.

As for:"But I wonder if I'll do these things or if I will just work and be happy."

What the hell is wrong with being happy? :-)
First off, I love zstd and thanks for your work - I've used it multiple times with great success.

My question is...what's up with zstd compression levels? It seems to be impossible to find documentation on what the supported compression levels are, and then there are magic numbers that make things more confusing (I think last time I checked, 0 means 'default' which translates to level 3?)

My notes when I was trying to track through the minimum compression level through multiple header files seemed to indicate it's MINCLEVEL...which appears to be -131072? But it starts talking about block sizes and target length, and I'm not entirely sure why they would relate to a compression level.

# define MINCLEVEL ZSTD_minCLevel() [0]
int ZSTD_minCLevel(void) { return (int)-ZSTD_TARGETLENGTH_MAX; } [1]
#define ZSTD_TARGETLENGTH_MAX ZSTD_BLOCKSIZE_MAX [2]
#define ZSTD_BLOCKSIZE_MAX (1<<ZSTD_BLOCKSIZELOG_MAX) [3]
#define ZSTD_BLOCKSIZELOG_MAX 17 [3]

[0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/550410d05d7c7815b1ff41...
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/550410d05d7c7815b1ff41...
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/550410d05d7c7815b1ff41...
[3] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/550410d05d7c7815b1ff41...

Basically, is there a decent reference I can be looking at here?
Wow, I love the honesty within that page. Keep up the good work!
> [...] to improve the isolation of data between different origins, cross-origin requests are no longer possible from content scripts, unless the destination website opts in via CORS.

If the server doesn't supply your target domain in the CORS header, the request should fail if my understanding is correct. If it is this would allow a website like YouTube to block SponsorBlock from loading it's data. There might be ways to bypass this but for me it's just a side project, so I haven't really looked too deep into it.
The TLD is one of the only ways that's quick to teach as a way to verify a domain. It's absurd to use another country's -- especially as I've seen first hand how the actual operation can just be handled by a small and easily-infiltrated group (as sometimes the TLD is initially handled by a university group).

It was always funny seeing news about the instability of government in Libya and then also see a bunch of projects come out using the TLD (.ly)
I wonder, what's the age/tenure distribution like in FAANGs these days?

I vaguely recall a factoid from a recruiter during a round of interviewing at Google about 15 years ago, where some crazy percentage of the current employees had been fresh-from-college hires in the last 2-3 years. I understood there was some churn in the valley, but could not quite imagine how many were fresh hires from school versus more senior folks on their next stint.
I don’t think the two concepts are separate. The depths to which some people will stoop only goes as low as their accountability.
I’ve had Kindles with ads. They are almost unnoticeable. If you are tight on your budget it is not unreasonable to choose the ad-supported model. Often the screen saver ads are offers for books that match your interests.
>At this point market validation (and practice validating ideas) is starting to seem like the most important thing.

Market validation - especially for online products and services - is indeed incredibly important, but not many people like to write about it because it is actually very drab and a tiny bit audacious.

His market validation - you are seeing it. It is a submission to Hacker News.

Ok ok, that is a given, but the author alludes to other various ways he gets feedback and validation for his products. He also talks about how well his products were received on Product Hunt and you can also follow him on Twitter.

My final advice for seeing how online services validate their ideas - run the product's domain through a backlink checker. It lets you see what other websites link to their product and what avenues they pursued for outreach. Each of those submissions exposes the product to potential customers and gives valuable feedback to the creator.
The passwords most used by CEOs are startlingly dumb
They forgot one con off pull based deployments which is that you need to put a repository key in your cluster where your code is running. This was a nonstarter for a lot of companies I worked for.

Also if I was going for pull based I would use Argo or Flux, not some gitlab feature half stitched together by underpaid devs
I consider anybody who has all of his/her expenses covered by passive income (assets) to be wealthy. In other words, if you still have to work to cover your expenses then you are not wealthy. And of course the more expenses your passive income (assets) can pay for, the wealthier you are.
You're missing the people who have multiple chairs and are sitting on chairs hoping that price goes up who would be incentivized to sell (look at supply coming online as mortgage rates rise - and any similar pattern - i.e. 2018).

Price always going up makes chairs attractive to hold, which results in misallocation of chairs - ideally you want them to go to whoever wants chairs the most, not whoever grabbed a chair first.

Yes, the best answer is to make more chairs, but that is not something that the FED has much control over (it's federal/state/local zoning policy and regulation which prevent more supply).

The question the FED can address is not "how can we make sure everyone has a chair", but rather "how do we make sure that the existing chairs go to the people that need chairs the most"
Their homepage cracks me up: "Your one account for government." Don't we wish...
I haven’t heard this before. What kinds of toxic waste are you talking about?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426821.
Sounds like a very dysfunctional organization
Really great essay. Anyone who feels similar to OP should read it.
I worked on a tax app. I was amazed to find that some tax tables necessary to compute taxes were not released until months after taxes were due. WTF?
With an uncontrollable virus the same amount of people are going to die, it's whether you peel the band aid off quickly or delay it. Its a sad fact.

One view of why the economy's going to shit because it was shut down due to Covid and tons of stimulus money was given out contributing to inflation.

NYC did not have as disastrous impact. Most of their overflow hospitals were never used. The corpses in refrigerator trucks was media sensationalism.That wasn't common or widespread.
While that affects most older workers, one group that it doesn't are famous, well-connected, high-achieving folks. It's not like Guido van Rossum is hurting for work, for example.

So he is mostly likely well-off already, and has friends doing interesting stuff. No need to continue working at a boring job.
The numbers are relative speedups, not absolute numbers that can be compared with any prior results, so I don't really see how this matters.
I wish these could be automatically outlined and navigated like my code can be :(
They tend to have trouble working well with other teams. Business owners constantly pestering them for updates and just one more change. Other groups refusing to engage.

Program Managers are a little like defensive backs within an organization.
Sounds like your Compute-By-Ebay solution should be able to undercut all those other idiots who buy new.

Where can we sign up?