skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised to learn recently how little farming is done by large corporations. Small family farms are vanishing, but unlike basically every other sector, they're largely being consolidated into mid-sized family owned operations, rather then into big mega-corps. Non-family owned corporations only make up 4% of farmland ownership
EA is just one of the CCS networks in the country, there's also EVgo, Chargepoint, probably others.
What do you do? It seems incredible that you can farm for only one month of the year with no related work the rest of it.
Your App Is a Package Manager
The risk there wasn't diarrhea, but life-threatening toxicity. See: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/food-hazards/xylit...
Yields increased by 10x for costs increased by 10x sounds cheaper to me.
I suppose with all addictions it's a matter of degrees, no?

I like to have sex. I like to play videogames. I'm not addicted to either, because that's simply not what I want to do all day.

I don't play the lottery or do pulltabs. I've watched people spend literally $500 on pulltabs and maybe get $10 or $20 back. Loot boxes were different to me because I was always getting something and I wasn't looking for something specific. It was a "fun" way to spend $5 a month or whatever on the main videogame I was playing at the time. If it was $5 and 90% of the time I'd get literally nothing, I wouldn't have done it.
I think there's a capitalism culture that is killing a lot of what could have been good software. People are less interested in making something great or useful than they are getting a huge bag of money from VC / tech.

I know before I got into professional programming I was frequently excited and working on side projects, including utility libraries, games and creative coding, and other things that I considered "valuable" just for the sake of doing them. Now I work for a digital agency building and maintaining a bunch of marketing websites that add, to my mind, zero "value" to the external world... maybe a corporate sale or two, but nothing actually helpful, useful, or even fun.

Why do I do this? Because it was a relatively low friction way for me to make a decent living while keeping my general work hours low. I don't have any illusions about the industry being some grand savior; frankly, I'm not even sure things can last at this pace of investor propped up companies bleeding cash but still somehow considered a good investment, but I'm going to use it while it is profitable and live a modest life without too much worry until things do hit the fan. I think that if I made a career change out of tech I might have the time and energy to return to my old programming projects but when I've spent the better part of the day on someone else's web app I don't have much stomach for building my own on my spare time.
Fork, aka the footgun git UI that repeatedly causes me to lose productive time to help junior devs unmangle their local repos.

I usually recommend SourceTree to them, not because it's particularly amazing, but it does enough while not breaking repos (as often).
The US came very close to war with Russian missiles in Cuba.

If they were far closer there could definitely be war.
the question that keeps me worried is: is it possible to be happy as an employee?
I have tried a few pure robusta coffees and I always find them lacking. They all have that initial kick, which I may like (or not, some coffee is just terrible), but after that, nothing. All flavors are gone, the rest is like water with some chemical bittering agent added, which I find particularly frustrating.

That's why I always drink my robusta as a blend, Italian style. I still get the initial kick of Robusta and its characteristic bitterness but Arabica is still there to fill in the gaps.

But I admit I didn't try that many pure Robustas, maybe some don't suffer that problem.
Xmodem is the right thing for an embedded target for bringup, but zmodem was tons better for BBS'ing. It performed much better than xmodem. Auto-start in zmodem is wonderful. Multi-file transfers are easy and it even sends the filenames. (My old libraries of BBS downloads, pre-zmodem, are a mess of crappy filenames.)
I come here because HN is the best place to be wrong on the internet, and that has been a very efficient way to learn. I read the comments here before the article most times. When they're good, they're really the best, and when they're weak, they're a good sense of what the current convention is.

I would agree we are in an era of forced change, where a small cadre of people using the logic of a few simple ideas have literally conspired to impose their will on the rest of us via our systems of reconciliation (laws, etc) that are built on language. I often think about how my morals obligate me to respond, and what I keep going back to is that the opposite or negation of fear is faith, where if I feel fear, it is the necessary effect of lacking faith, and where one has faith, they cannot have fear. Big fuzzy thoughts certainly, but much simpler when you think about faith not as a rational conclusion, but as an axiom on which all your perception is founded. As life, we are meant to thrive, and for the good of all other life to thrive as well.

What attracted me to the hacker ethos when I was a kid was that what we believe and think doesn't make us good, it's what we in fact physically do and make in the world that matters, so I post here to give words and form to thoughts.

Regarding the percieved problems and suffering of "the world," they're mostly an artifact of narrative. Terrible things happen, but I think suffering itself is also a choice. Worrying is a substitute activity, politics is what we engage in when we have chosen to inferiorize ourselves to what we percieve to be power, or autonomy, usually after eschewing truth. Talking about it as anything other than fancy sportsball is a neurotic vice of conflict addiction. They do it because they love it, it's just for the intensity.

Maybe your question was unintentionally ontological, but it's funny to think that perhaps the answer, "to thrive," is as appropriate as any?
> You always have the option of connecting to PM over tor [0] if you are concerned about this. You can also use any of the VPN services that are available. Get yourself an anonymous mulvad account, and pay with some laundered btc good luck to anyone that wants to track down your IP.

Yes, you could do all that. But if you're doing all that, you can also just use Gmail.
A transfer switch is not required.

The $30 lockout tabs are simple, safe and code-compliant.

Nothing janky about them and also no unnecessary complexity.
This attitude in tech is honestly exhausting

that may be true for the wider tech community. but the FOSS community is still driven by idealism. and that's why i am here. hackernews has a wider topic range than places that focus on FOSS only and it has a significant (but not dominant) following among FOSS enthusiasts.

basically what used to be kuro5hin and what slashdot maybe still is.
Unrelated to fork itself, but I always wonder how do people implement the vertical colored lines representing branches and merges. This is present in almost all git desktop clients, and of course very useful.
I was a big BBS user (and sysop) from roughly 1988 to 1997 or so. zmodem was much, much faster.
Please share the address for HNMUD when it launches, thanks.
my (distant) understanding -- reasons include that various waves of modern political movements attack and destroy archeological artifacts of the past, as a rite of passage to modern power.
?? If there is no buyer for a given price then the seller will have to reduce his price, no need to have this dubious mechanism.
Knowledge work is much closer to a power law distribution than a normal one. That is, there are indeed a handful of 10x engineers, but it's not a ton of 1x and some 0.1x. It's overwhelmingly 0.1x. This paper does a good job of showing just how dominant the 10x are in areas with unambiguous and legible outcomes (tenure of politicians, number of Emmy wins, etc.)

http://www.hermanaguinis.com/PPsych2012.pdf
You need a security-focused platform
Hm. It was either removed, or I haven't seen the title properly.

Still, the argument is the same - a person is posting an article on a news site for the sole purpose of other people seeing (consuming) it.

I consider it basic decency to create a good presentation when you're showing something in people's news feed.
No, but they decide each planting season what to plant. Farmers tend to shuffle crops when needed. Haven't talked to anyone around here about what is in the ground.
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Hurricanes are followed by the intense heat and humidity of Summer in the Gulf Coast. Without AC, it's miserable.
The article definitely goes out of its way to point out that the researchers were Kurds, which if you know anything about the region makes complete sense: Catalan researchers would insist on being identified as Catalan researchers and not Spanish. Scottish researchers might reasonably insist on not being identified as English. This identification was almost certainly requested by the Kurish researchers themselves.

The only thing odd here is your taking umbrage at someone else's need for visible political identity, which makes you seem reactionary or at best naive.
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Like you allude to, there's more than one payment model on these platforms. Netflix worked it out and I'm guessing Amazon might be able to as well.
We’ve all worked hard for our knowledge.
Supposedly their job is to seek justice. Trampling people right, even if civil offenses, is something they aren't supposed to do. In fact it's their job to not violate those rights and take steps to mitigate their impact if they do occur. Violating those rights can undermine any criminal case they're working on.
Is it still pronounced like the bird? I've been reading and speaking American English all my life and would not know how to pronounce Turkiye. The last three letters are in a combination that is both unfamiliar and difficult to figure out.
Thanks, I'm proxying downloads via cloudflare (otherwise I would pay $500/mo bandwidth bill) and sometimes it breaks.

I've cleared the cache and it seems to be working (at least for me).
ZModem was much better once it was available. You'd generally only use Xmodem after that point if you had no other choice, because it failed frequently over unreliable connections, and all phone line connections were essentially unreliable due to line noise (and sometimes other in-band interruptions). IIRC, ZModem was both faster and resumable, so that if your connection terminated in the middle of your two megabyte transfer you didn't have to redownload the first megabyte.
I spent a lot of time last year researching packet radio software for vulnerabilities. I found a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in WinAPRS that let me hack into a system over the air. The result is a reverse shell obtained over ham radio where the victim machine doesn't have to be connected to Ethernet at all, as long as they are running a WinAPRS station. Is it practical? Not really. But it was fun and I learned a lot. I always wondered if I could get RCE via ham radio through memory corruption and it feels good to have proved to myself that I can do it.
The abstract states their usage scenario is where clean audio input is not available
Fossil fuels are a big input into agriculture. Running machines, fertilizer, transportation to market.

Fossil fuels are used because for the industry they are the best cost vs benefit. The industry doesn't pay the externalities.

Moving off fossil fuels or forcing the industry to pay externalities increases input cost and price for consumers. If managed correctly (considering technological, economic, business) price increases can be acceptable.

If managed incorrectly, it means prices skyrocket and some people simply in the world simply can not afford adequate nutrition.

It is my opinion that sanctions, ESG, and fossil fuel divestment are incorrect management of transitioning off fossil fuels. And we are seeing the result.
Hmm, my Outlander PHEV doesn't have the 1500W outlet - I must have a lower trim.

Cool that you can do it though. I believe there was a demonstration of using this vehicle as a backup generator during an outage, but I don't think it was ever commercialized.
What is the flight profile and purpose of the vehicle?

If it's hypersonic atmospheric cruise, then it would be for weapons development as there's no civilian use for that technology.

Satellites are launched first up and then horizontally outside the atmosphere.
> Trying to find someone at HWC who could show an iota of free-will and thinking was hilarious and impossible.

Since this is such a common pattern when interacting with any kind of customer support I'm interested in exploring why this is.

The solution seems trivial enough. Write down the customer id, date, time and what was pre-approved on a piece of paper. Then when the computer comes back up, enter it into the system.

Maybe the call handlers were just lazy and thought they could use the outage as a break. But you would think that bickering with customers on the phone is a lot more draining and annoying than just keeping business flowing.

Maybe the software didn't allow recording events that had already happened, like the date and time field wasn't editable. Did the developers think that their system was infallible and would never go down? Or did they ask the domain experts if they should make this provision, and it was rejected?

If so, what was the motivation of the domain experts? Did they think that their developers and IT infrastructure was infallible? Or did they not trust the call handlers enough to make the date and time field editable? Or do they take delight in finding loopholes where they can shirk their contractual obligations?
I agree, modern medicine is great. (Notsomuch insurance at least in America)

Other than that though, I find it very hard to point to anything heading in the right direction. Nobody is trying to "massively improve the quality of life of billions of people" they're trying to sell their specific product or be middlemen or "disrupt" things that were regulated for good reason.

I struggle to think of anything non-medical that has dramatically improved 2010-present. Certainly many things have gotten worse (house prices, inflation, no wage increases, politics, wars ...)
Absolutely. I used a ton of "sz" when I had a dial-up shell account (and didn't yet know about SLiRP). More recently I've used sz/rz when I've been connected to a router w/ a serial connection and needed to pull down a file from a remote host. The router had an SSH client so I just connected to a Linux box, downloaded my file, then sz'd it to myself over the SSH connection via serial.
> Are you seriously saying that your idea that magic is a fifth force (which you called "energy")

Possibly, yes. And I'm not the one calling it "energy". That's the nomenclature of MANY occult groups. What that type of energy that is, I do not know.

Just like anything in the sphere of how our universe works, I think that there is enough interesting phenomenon to warrant further study.

> physics is as scientific as modern medicine or machine learning?

Why not? Those subjects were too "shrouded in mystery" until they weren't. And even without a rigorous scientific theory, we can still do experiments and attempt to discern this "energy" and come up with ways to accurately detect it. From detection, we can then start making accurate models to be able to manipulate. This is no different than other types of physics.

(As a note, the term "energy" is used by many occult groups. If anything, it appears to be a form of mental concentration. I've seen numerous cases where someone was envisioning a 3d shape, and I or others could see it. There are no good explanations to accurately describe this in existing science. And we know science is ever-growing, since what we know is incomplete.)
I've heard that binge drinking among teens and young adults is pretty limited to the United States with our high drinking age vs. Europe, so it seems the logic might hold.

Perhaps there could be more limited laws where people below 18 can only spend so much per month, and those above could also potentially have a limit.
Where I live in The South it’s 80-90 degrees for months on end with 70-90% humidity. If you’re on the gulf coast a hurricane could knock you out for a while.
I don't believe electrical codes have anything to say at all about the sizing of emergency generators.
Grain farmer. It is not one consecutive month, for what it is worth. The work is spread out over the year, but the total time spent each year is equivalent to about a month of work.
Not to sound too stupid but what do people mean by "that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse."

I typically think of Mongols sacking Rome as society collapsing. All I see going on now is some people not agreeing on public policy, not Mongols on the horizon.

As for why I am here, mostly to kill time waiting for meetings, drinking coffee and to see how the other half live.
I assume the 10x cost increase was per-yield, 100x the yield for 1000x the price.
Doesn't Amazon have its own Android app store? Why don't they offer the full version there and allow users to side-load?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get/amazonapp
DCPP is not going to stay open. That bridge was crossed long ago, and it's difficult to imagine a realistic scenario where the plant gets relicensed and power purchase agreements are guaranteed such that running DCPP remains profitable even with California's renewables mandates.

Renewing a plant's license is like building a rate case (which takes years), but harder. It takes time and money and we don't have enough of either to succeed, no matter what Biden or Newsom claim. NRC could waive certain things to speed it up but they won't (nor should they).

FWIW, I live just a few miles from DCPP, have been onsite there a number of times when I worked for PG&E, and I sleep very well at night. PG&E may have screwed up in a lot of ways over the years, but DCPP is a well-run facility and it's a shame it has to close prematurely (lots of life left in that plant).
"And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse."

No? It certainly is being undermined and sky is falling perception is certainly fueled by old and social media, but if you talk to an average person on the street, you won't hear them actually preparing for a collapse ( and you rest assured that if anyone actually thought a collapse is coming, they would be preparing so that at least they are not caught unprepared ). They might not tell the truth, but that is another story.

"Why are you here?"

Probably best place online for talking with people I don't know and people who are likely smarter than me. It is not without flaws and its own biases, but compared to most communities out there, its not even really comparable. Also, it is a bad habit now.
You could use your phone's browser instead of your laptop.
> As someone with a large house who just investigated a hybrid power walls + gas generator + solar backup solution

What about solar as the primary power solution, plus powerwalls for the night. How much would it cost?
People can only eat so much food, and it can only be sold for so little.
AWS account was permanently closed because it was suspended for 90 days
"You can't reopen this account or use it to access any AWS services."

The last message I received was from our load-balancer in January. No other warnings etc. What is going on?
There has got to be something better than Xmodem for use over a reliable connection. It's not going to be particularly fast.
This is quackery, please don’t waste any time with it. If you’re interested in astronomy, I can recommend the PBS spacetime YouTube channel.
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I wonder if having one supercomputer with x number of chips or having eight supercomputers each with x/8 number of chips would be the more practical working setup. Weather forecasting for example is basically a complex probabilistic algorithm, and there's a notion that running eight models in parallel and then comparing and contrasting the results will give better estimates of actual outcomes than running one model on a much more powerful machine.

Is it feasible to run eight models on one supercomputer, or is that inefficient?
There is almost no chance that people who run small farms are evaluating on the same terms as you.

They have found a sustaining lifestyle that lets them spend time outside, work at home, teach their kids to work, eat local, work with their neighbors, have seasonal variation in their lives, transact with their neighbors, have fun toys (seriously, if you've never driven a tractor...), have privacy, and on and on. It's a totally different path than a salaried job, and not because they couldn't how to code for big tech or work for a bank. It's a dedicated version of the FIRE idea that so many people with highly paid jobs aspire to.
Yield per acre 100x, yield per $, 1/10x
Probably with a lot of variance, this would happen to some people. IIRC Darwin.
its super embarrassing if you thing TF is the source of truth when the cloud provider clearly is
You almost certainly pay far more than 68 an hour for a doctor! (How long are you actually with the doctor?). Plumbers and mechanics are paid at a significantly lower rate than doctors and lawyers!
We have some close friends that are farmers. Both have 200+ acres. Each of them employ about as many workers as a midsize restaurant.

But farming is really hard work - none of their kids want to take on the business. As they retire, the people actually set to take over the farm work are all immigrants (who do not have the capital to acquire the huge farms). So we'll probably see a trend where the farmland goes to capital management firms while most of the work will be managed and performed by the same group of immigrants.
you can't just go all the way from xmodem to zmodem without stopping at ymodem, ymodem 1k and ymodem 1k with batch support first.

also, kermit.

who remembers rip graphics?
This reads more or less like a corporate press release - (edit: actually, it reads exactly like a corporate press release) - is there a more substantive article on the topic?
Author here. As the arbitration attorney said earlier, "They don’t make money by paying out claims!" No insurance company or home warranty company exists to pay out claims. I laugh when I hear them claim that their business is to diversify risk.

Any sort of out clause that the have to not pay a claim, they will try to use. In this case, it was "you didn't get a preauth." This makes it by no means a binary, black/white issue contrary to what a stereotypical HNer believes.

As far as a national consumer protection law that doubles reimbursement, good luck. I'm shocked that foreigners are shocked when they hear that the US actually has very few national laws. The country is big, diverse, and the regional histories that bought the states together, and grew, is too varied. The system is set up so that the states handle most legal issues. I for one am fine with that.
I never "fell for it." I never had an specific item in mind, and the amount of money I spent was incredibly limited. To me, the random item I received was a fun way to customize my car.
FTA “ improvements in crop yields, agricultural productivity, and dietary choices are so important.”

and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Our meat consumption has lead to pasteurization of forest land to raise and feed the huge amount of livestocks needed to satisfy our meat craving.