skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corn makes up more than 10% of global food production. A significant fraction of the world would not 'survive' if those fields of corn suddenly disappeared.

A better example would be specifically corn used for ethanol because driving a car is not essential for survival.

The other two examples seem valid. Replacing part of your meat consumption with corn would reduce the required agricultural land.
Adding Compasses to Dragons Abound
we also consume more food than required and US alone wastes about 30-40% of food. https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs. Hypothetically if we eliminate the waste effectively we need 40% less land + reduced consumption of other resources
Or Futurama's Central Bureaucracy.

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Central_Bureaucracy

They even have slowmobiles!
this is the same state that block Tesla direct sales because dealerships support t-ball leagues.

and blocked low cost medical imaging because then the hospitals would have to lower their prices and make less money. ( https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/n-c-bureau... )
Good point.

It barely weighs more though. I wonder if the weight increases much with capacity as it does with batteries?
So is Mint, to pick a random example.
The best thing they could do would be to license and regulate distributors so that consumers could buy products of known purity, but they explicitly aren’t doing that.
This app's still going?!? Man, this was my official PDF/eBook/CBZ reader when my life revolved around cheap PC laptops, Win2K/Classic theme, and lots of low-footprint apps like Foobar2000, uTorrent (pre-monetization), etc
> I think if the vaccines hadn't come out at all, it could well have been as bad as the Spanish Flu.

I'm very much for vaccines, but this is just not true at all. Covid was never going to be near as bad as the Spanish flu, even if no measures were taken at all.
Their gross negligence and subsequent stonewalling should have earned them a penalty, not a 20% bonus.
I'm interested in an EV for similar reasons but I also live in a remote mountain area where batteries, generators, and even propane tanks grow legs.

So the fact that my entire off grid battery system would travel with me when I'm not at home is a huge benefit.
Sorry, I must be misinterpreting, because I’m he way I read this now, you can’t get into the school system without having gone to HS in California?
I work with a dev from Toledo, a couple weeks ago they ripped up his back yard to put fiber in. Help is on the way :)

But yes, at the moment his speed sucks.
If I open an envelope with $10 then I know that there is $20 in the other envelope.

As soon as you assign a well-formed probability distribution to the money in the envelopes you will find that opening the first envelope is informative.
I am not arguing against you.

I find your comments interesting and have great points. We are both not wrong. :-)

your comment style is interesting in that you start with a refute, then end with an agreement...

--

I enjoyed this exchange.
USDC is exactly as unaudited as USDT, they've just flown under the radar so far.
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Personally, I’d prefer not to have a generator nearby. Storing fuel, noise, exhaust—all things I’d prefer to avoid. And as I said, this is not the vehicle that will solve the problem for me, since nobody yet makes an EV that would work for my usage, but when they do make he EV I want, this will be the primary feature I want. I was planning to setup solar at the location to charge a small battery for an hour or so of power a day if I spend a week at the location, I can plug the truck into the solar to trickle charge during the day.
Ah the good old genetic fallacy. As it so happens, he was a lead designer on the original PowerPC and received several awards for it. So a real engineer and scientist. After retiring he started investigating the fallacy of climate change.

It's quite irrelevant who he is, it's what he has to say that's important and whether his facts are correct (which they are).
Yeah let's chat about it! We've overdue for catching up in any case :)
> On a side note, as a dedicated Firefox user it was very disheartening to hear that as one of the crucial people involved in Mozilla over the years he decided against using a Firefox derivative for his new browser, instead choosing a chromium-based one instead.

I felt the same, and I may have done more than simply dismiss Brave if that were the case. Although I do understand that Gecko isn't exactly simple or easy for a third party to build off of.
great marketing, but again I can't see anything related to privacy.
I've been looking for a new client. It really only needs a couple things:

* Be fast

* Let me do line-by-line staging/reverting

* Automatically wrap commit message bodies past a given line length, and warn if titles are similarly too long.

If it does that, I am happy.

I've been using Git-cola, but it's slow. Every action incurs some delay, even simple ones. (Can't use VSCode for reasons)

The problem is most of the alternatives are either subscription (eww) or quite pricey. Fork is one of the cheaper ones, been meaning to try it.
The trouble isn't that the Arduino doesn't support hardware flow control but that the USB-to-serial adapter built into the Arduino doesn't support hardware flow control.

I have another USB-to-serial controller I got to program my handheld ham radio that does support that, you can wire that to your Arduino and it just works...

But really it is a bad bit of cost cutting because the AVR8 is capable of very fast and reliable communications and you shouldn't need to have to add another dongle to get access to it.
To make it more tractable, 1% daily growth, means doubling in about 70 days.
> Yes, let's blame the consumer.

Yes, let's. I don't think an argument can be held against this. As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. It's an inconvenient truth, but it is the truth nonetheless. I'm rooting for alternatives like lab-grown meat to thrive, but no amount of wishful thinking allows me to skirt the fact that eating less meat would probably be not only good for the planet, but specifically for my own health.

> the consumer has no idea how their specific spending habits contribute to an issue

Let me point it out: in the developed world it's almost 100% guaranteed that it contributes significantly. You have to go to pretty far edge cases to find really sustainably produced meat. A case can be made that not all industrial farms contribute to deforestation per se, but they are all part of a system that has a high cost for our environment. Deforestation is bad, but it's not –and should not be– the only issue.
Hello Matt - I deliberately didn't name any tools, as the ones I worked with are no long in the tooth and were $$$. What I wanted to do was bring to the OP some concepts that they might search for in order to identify the right tool for their purpose. To your point - yes, some of the tools I used made use of the kind of network port mirroring similar to what it appears you developed at Amazon. Others instrumented various virtual machines, others used various external monitors.
A browser is more than just an app, it’s an application runtime that executes arbitrary code downloaded from the internet. It’s the closest thing iOS has to an unregulated open App Store, that happens to only run apps written in JavaScript. With native apps Apple has the opportunity to inspect and profile them before they hit the phone, and pull them if necessary, but not with web apps.

As such the only way Apple has to manage the power and compute consumption of such apps is through control of their runtime environment - the browser.

I’m not saying their policy is right or wrong, but that’s the argument.
Right but those were built in, not a module that could be installed only when needed.
PopTron was my favorite station for years, many good memories there.

Give them a chance if you haven't yet.
> There is a differentiation between source and destination accounts (called expense and revenue) which makes reverse transactions a pain

Sure, but that doesn't make it any less of a double-entry bookkeeping system.

> Now I can either create the furniture store as both source and destination account or delete the first entry. Both is equally bad in my opinion.

The first is correct bookkeeping. The second is bad.

Regarding the process you suggest, each step in your workflow is a massive undertaking to build. And it serves exactly one (1) user for whom the workflow fits: you.

It's how I started Firefly III: solving my own problem. So I guess you know what to do ;)
Isn't that what recommender systems are for? /scnr
America is slowly devolving into the corrupt cronyism of developing countries due to vested interests.
> What percentage of published research is done by a university versus a private entity?

What incentive is there for a private entity to openly publish valuable research in the first place? Except in certain unusual situations (monopoly justification a la Bell Labs, PR, patent applications), I would expect that private entity research results would be kept private by default so the business can maximally exploit it without assisting its competition.
Do you have any data to back up your claims?
I built a lot of fun stuff for the Newton. I built a Sherlock clone for the Newton (which 15 years later landed me in the middle of the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit). I also wrote the Java virtual machine available for the Newton. It was a lot of fun for a bored PhD student. My Newtons have recently all died and it's a little sad.
To me, the UI is unfriendly/confusing. Not sure if I'm just used to Slack, but it is very hard to use.

Simple things like stream messages only being displayed halfway down the viewport with no scrollbar making it seem like there are no earlier messages.
These types of books are my favorite style. I typically use whatever language I'm trying to learn and get more practice with (usually F#, Elixir, or Racket) instead of whatever the book suggests, if it does suggest one (usually Python or some OOP language). But sometimes the language used in the book is fun, like Logo or Prolog.

* Mazes for Programmers (by the same author of The Ray Tracer Challenge but is not as language agnostic)

* The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

* Programming Machine Learning: From Coding to Deep Learning

* Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go (both by the same author)

* Introducing Blockchain with Lisp: Implement and Extend Blockchains with the Racket Language

* Exploring Language with Logo

* Visual Modeling with Logo

* Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring

* Thinking as Computation: A First Course (uses Prolog to solve various problems in small projects)

* Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix: Rethink the Modern Web App
As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash
Careful devil, don’t give them any ideas
I tried a few Git clients over the years and am proficient with the CLI.

My impression is that Fork captures how git actually works better than some of the other GUI tools and it has a lot of handy features that make certain tasks a pleasure instead of a chore (common rebasing things, add/deleting/changing local/remote branches, splitting up changes in single files into multiple commits - this is maybe be an antipattern but I do it frequently enough).

Also, it's very cheap. I hope they make enough money with it to continue development.
> So we're talking what, $200,000 for a house and a couple acres. You can afford that on $35-40k a year, which you can make at walmart or Amazon

This is misguided. When you are making that little it is extremely difficult to save enough money to buy a house. Most of your income will be going to expenses, and pray you don’t get hit with health complications, periods of unemployment, broken down cars, or any number of other rolls of the dice that could zap any/all savings you’ve managed or drive you into debt.

Not to mention, even if you manage to buy a house you can still get screwed by a period of bad luck making it impossible to keep up on your mortgage.
"Boiler"
Not sure it's 7x houses, but it's big enough to make me wonder how states like Texas are going to keep up over the next 5-10 years, with its absurdly low population density and love affair with trucks.

Texas struggles to get electricity to citizens in recent summers. How will it handle the coming electric vehicle wave?
Can anyone show me statistical evidence that this "great resignation" is anything more than a story made up by the media?
I had forgotten about that. Super fun when someone sliced a large file into parts and you typed in the wrong thing.
The issue with that is that you have a lot of extra weight, parts, and complexity which you're barely ever using. Having a module allows you to only install it when you need it. You could even rent it only when needed, as another person suggested.
I don't have much advice beyond the normal stuff - diet and exercise and discipline. You probably can't change the condition of the world, but you can influence your own.
With the increased adoption of treesitter and LSP, we should be optimistic that we can get to a single tool for highlights and indents. Essentially a common format had been defined and a lot of languages are already covered
I vote to defend the individual right of people to belong in the US even if they won't vote for "individual rights".

You have an extraordinarily narrow view of what things should be voted for - and to then claim that anyone who disagrees with you, doesn't belong in the US?
Alfred/Spotlight on macOS.

Albert and GNOME Search or whatever, on Linux.

Windows Search on Windows. (Windows Search doesn't work very well for me, but it's something.)

https://www.alfredapp.com/

https://albertlauncher.github.io/

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-search....
Because in practice using any appstore other than Google Play is a bad experience on Android.
Yep - any distribution that is nonzero over the set of choices works, so over the reals, anything that is everywhere nonzero works.

For example, exp^{-x^2} with normalization factor is a simple choice.
Strongly agree. My small, fully remote startup uses it, and this is the big reason we switched away from slack. The name threads are simply terrific for making it a better way to manage communication.
Meh, on normal mode it resolves down to can you solve a 5-letter anagram with placement clues. I pick a new starting word each day (definitely sub-optimal) and play hard mode.

To each their own.
Netflix U.S. weekly usage up in Q1, Amazon Prime drops
The UC system accepts out of state admits but they have always paid full tuition. In state residents get a discount (which used to be 100%).

But they also guarantee that they will admit 9% of state grads.
Its an area of active development and research - https://youtu.be/5chk9Sory88

Note that this is an area that is rather specialized - a pepper picking robot isn't good for tomato picking or lettuce picking ( https://youtu.be/EFC3OvkVKaQ ). Compare that to the incredibly versatile human ( https://youtu.be/oxbJVqfIK1U ).
I'm trying in earnest to learn Spanish, and am at intermediate level. I've had similar experiences trying to use Spanish in various contexts particularly in Southern California where I live, where there are a ton of native Spanish speakers that also speak English, and most of them speak FAR better English than I speak Spanish. Years into my language-learning adventure, I continue to feel super intimidated to try to use my Spanish here, locally, because people so often compliment my accent but the conversation quickly switches to English. I always feel like I'm creating frustration and inconvenience by trying to practice my Spanish, though it could just be my nervousness and desire to people-please that lead me to feel that way.

I've had more of this kind of experience (Me speaking intermediate Spanish, with my conversation partner speaking intermediate English) in places outside of my home area where people are more likely to speak Spanish than English on a regular basis: a range of Latin American countries that I've visited, and especially when I visited the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
DALL-E 2 has a secret language
Also useful to consider you can actually watch the peer review process for this paper here: https://openpsych.net/forums/5/thread/242/
Russia Has Some Dollars Somewhere
Debt forgiveness is indeed an extreme, perverse incentive. Capping federal aid seems unthinkable. Asking something of all of those grads (service) on behalf of forgiving their debt also seems unthinkable. Forgiving college loans is a wealth transfer to the highest earning cohort... I'm not in favor of a debt jubilee.
What I like about RadioParadise is that I don't have to pigeon-hole the music I listen to. Sometimes you do want a particular genre, and other times I'm happy to be led by an expert curator. RadioParadise is superb for the latter.
> If Charles State spends a million dollars trying to attract Bob, Derek U spends a million and a half, and Bob decides to go to Derek U, Charles State has wasted a million dollars. Furthermore, the fancy new aquatics complex at Derek U may have been the deciding factor for Bob but it does nothing to make him better at electrical engineering, his chosen major.

Why do you think it's zero sum? Everything I've read suggests the total number of college students is increasing while school count isn't. Schools are increasing capacity, but not necessarily fast enough. Bob may not matriculate, but many others might because of the aquatic center.

I can't imagine schools are building an aquatic center for one individual who might not even matriculate. I can imagine schools building an aquatic center to increase the overall matriculation rate. If it works, and this example is representative, then what you're describing sounds like a competitive market causing all the producers to make investments to improve their product. (You could argue they shouldn't, that we'd rather they be affordable and not have aquatic centers, but that's a different debate.) If it doesn't work, then it sounds like it was just a bad decision, and possibly one with long-term costs for upkeep. But as far as I can tell, on average these things _are_ working, because colleges are only getting more selective.
We really need more anti-trust action shaping the marketplace for things like mobile phone app stores. Apple and Google both demanding a 30% cut of all sales on their platforms is just awful. And they are literally a duopoly, there is no reasonable alternative.
Why offer the mode, then?
My life turned out great and I wouldnt trade being gifted for not being gifted. We do focus our kids on working hard. They get praise for trying hard, incremental improvements, focus, advance preparation, and leadership. We never praise them for being smart.

We talk a lot about what happiness means and how to be truly happy.
I totally agree with you, the pricing is more complex than aws! To OP you should really simplify your pricing
I don't think RES offers such a feature, but I could be wrong. Even if it did, mine is personalized, there are other subreddits sprinkled in there that others might not want to block.
I love Radio Paradise!

One of the best things about it is how the main mix transcends genres. I consider it basically a rock station, but they'll also play Country, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Classical and miscellaneous other stuff. In a single song set you can easily go from Led Zeppelin to Radiohead to Johnny Cash to Arctic Monkeys to Stevie Wonder to Billie Eilish to JS Brahms to some West African singer you'd never had heard of otherwise. It's great for musical discovery.
> Nobody outside these structures cares

Oof. Is that how you determine what is worth doing?

I think it's more accurate to say that nobody cares about anyone else OUTSIDE of personal relationships.

> Meanwhile some people are building things, yourself included, that have never existed before and push humanity forward.

Nah. We're just twiddling our fingers on keyboard until we die or have sufficient padding from the current economic climate. So SO much less worth doing than loving another person and providing the support for them to be their best self. Or raising a child to start with the knowledge and resources which took you a lifetime to learn the hard way.

To be frank, it sounds like you deeply want to be loved by others and yet avoid the only way to get it. I'm sorry.
HPSS-Disassembly Progress Report (May 2022)
You can be on a very reliable grid, and lose power for an extended period of time due to issues with local distribution lines. This is common in areas with above ground distribution lines that experience storms.
I hope at some point to see a federated implementation of the Zulip communication model over Matrix. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/356

I'm at a point of choice fatigue with communication platforms where Zulip being siloed is more important than it being open source. I'm phasing out proprietary platforms in a way that will take years and may never complete. I don't want more apps, I don't want another user account, and I certainly don't want a bunch of user accounts on different servers.
Yep, that was what made everybody at my company immediately switch to Netscape. "Look, a browser that doesn't stop. You can read the page before images load!" And click to the next one.
How about cutting a T1 down to ISDN BRIs? That's where I want to get so I can play with old ISDN phones and such.
One of the reasons I suspect that Wordle is popular is that it's "calibrated" (word length, number of guesses, don't have to play on hard mode) to almost always be winnable if you have some semblance of a decent English vocabulary and some sense for letter combinations.
> The behavior of the "obj.b += [2,]" for the list is the real gotcha here where it correctly alters the value of "obj.b" but wtf'ingly also alters the value of the class attribute "A.b" which completely alters the behavior of A.

It necessarily alters the value of A.b, since `+=` is specifically overridden to update the list in-place. With lists, `a += b` is specifically not an alias for `a = a + b`, instead its behaviour is closer to

a.extend(b)
a = a

The issue here is the first part, I absolutely hate this override, and sadly the core team has not learned a thing there as `|=` was overridden the exact same way on dicts when `dict | dict` was added to the language.
It seems keyboard is unresponsive on FF mobile: is that just me?
I'm here because I've found a community of kindred spirits. We vent our spleen and pick each other's examples apart a bit too much, but moderation and an amazing job by the mods like DanG, keep us in line.

Technology is a tool that can be used for good or evil. In our case, we're on the timeline where instead of the singularity being used to uplift man, it's called the Algorithm, and used to commodify our dissent. Except here... an oasis from that.

There are powerful ideas still left to be implemented which can address the major technical issues, as well as the biggest issue facing mankind, the need to convey complex concepts without losing context.

We'll have all sorts of upsetting news fed to us by that evil AI, but know that it's not as dire as all that, for the most part. Focus on the things you can control, and celebrate the wins when they happen.