skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the chemical inputs to farms make them unprofitable. Each year takes more input to make the farm work. We broke the ecosystem, nitrogen cycle and phosphate cycle by tilling, monocropping, and chemical input. The way we farm kills the soil.

We can support the population without chemical inputs if we manage the land differently. It takes about 3 years to transition to a regenerative management style. That is how long it takes to bring the soil back to life. After the transition period inputs are minimal and yields are similar to chemical farming.
Fixed in linux 5.5(jan 2020) according to a phoronix article.
Hey its a positive change, although I do hope that old timers aren't teaching young ones about the older way of thinking.
disheartened, as usual, to see an insightful comment lurking nearer the bottom of the page than the top, while a bunch of throwaway fawnings sit above it[0]. i have a pet theory that there can only ever be about a dozen good comments on a thread, and hn usually does a terrible job surfacing them. the (poor) karma-to-tenure ratio you describe is certainly one of the mechanisms by which this goes wrong. i actually liked slashdot's voting mechanics the best of all the forums i've ever visited. it wasn't perfect, but did a better job at surfacing good comments.

i've actually been thinking about how to solve this problem lately, at least for myself. the hn api doesn't look like much fun to work with however.

[0]: that's not to say that i don't appreciate dang, i do, but it's cloying to say the least.
Missing features is not the problem. A language is just as much what it has as much as what it doesn’t have. But the actual feature-set and lack-of-features Go has for it is ripe for plenty of valid criticism as is.
Yep, dang is amazing.
I have a windup radio (receive-only). Being not all that serious about prepping, I just got interested in GMRS. Yeah, go ahead, make fun of me. I live in a developed area, so I think it'll be pretty easy to find help, and I do know a lot of the neighbors.

Since the GMRS radios are reasonably cheap, I was thinking of getting one and just trying it out, to see who's normally on. Also so I don't have a panicky read-the-manual moment in a real emergency. Thoughts?
I guess I’m a prime example of this article. I originally majored in biology (racked up enough credits so that if I wanted to I could have a biology degree within 1 semester), then switched to chemistry and eventually graduated with a chemistry degree and a minor in computer science.

My passion for biology came when I attended Human Anatomy & Physiology. I learned about neurons and action potentials, chemical gradients and how diffusion can cascade these changes. These machinery like interactions made the cells come to “life.”

I then switched my major to chemistry to understand these interactions. My favorite class was Physical Chemistry. Both of these fields are saturated by two types: the pre-med schooler and the academic, these two types are fighting for prestige and status. I believe the schools mostly cater to these types so they can get into their relevant higher ed (masters, PhD, and medicine) schools. This ends up robbing the undergrads who are actually interested of the material (you end up with what’s described in the article).

In contrast computer science was a breath of fresh air :) I wish bio and Chem fields were like that.
Hard disagree. We understand biology for the most part. The issue is in the exact implementations.

An analogy would be like understanding how a computer works. We know how chips are made, the physics behind them. We know how bits are stored and processing steps are executed. We also know generally how operating systems work. We have the full compiled code as assembly instructions. But we don’t have the source code of the OS. We just use crude tools to figure out The details of the OS and how it works on particular subsystems but because of the crude nature of the tools the knowledge we gain is ambiguous at times.
Hack Allows Drone Takeover via ‘ExpressLRS’ Protocol
So you only care about rejoining twitter, and not what happens to other people?
> Python, Makefiles, YAML, C, Objective-C, C++, Groovy, Java, shell scripts, Markdown, and plain text files

> - JetBrains various IDEs - haven't really given it a fair shake yet. But I want one editor I can use across all the languages I develop in. I don't want a separate IDE for each language. I'm not sure I want an IDE at all.

For this language list, you just need two JetBrains IDEs:

* IntelliJ IDEA - for Java, Groovy, and Python

* AppCode - for Objective-C, C, and C++

And then the remaining languages can be handled by either one with plugins.
Funny because half these cops shows love glorifying illegal activity. Just make sure the villain of the episode is something really bad like a terrorist and violating their rights is cool and ok.
That assumes that the fringe theory of “pro-life” will gain popularity.
Nowadays I have almost the opposite feeling of it not being worth my time and being error-prone to take up with some editor gui when my terminal already gives me an editor that does everything I want from it and in exactly the way I want it.

But I remember having your stand point when I first started to try to get into vim and getting to where I am now definitely took a lot of invested time. Wether the advantages of vim are worth your time you have to decide for yourself and it seems like you did that already.
Unrelated but I've cycled through monitors and found LG monitors to be the best. They have a reading mode which takes care of most eye strain.

That reading most had stopped 95% of my eye strain attacks.
“Look how often” is a subjective English term people use to ask people to look at the situation and not an invitation to provide statistical analysis. Given that the rule of law is supposed to be applied equally I am pissed at even a single instance but here I provided you with both a link to a case where the protection due to their wealth was terrible in the magnitude of the protection and then a link to the legal defense admitted into court explicitly defining that they needed extra protection due to their wealth.

But let’s get to the heart of where I expect you to take this thread.

Is there any sort of evidence that you would accept that the rich get greater protection in our legal system? Or is it just not possible in your world view?
Epitome of 'too big to fail'

This is a private sector corporation attempting to coerce the people's congress into lending it yet more support; you can see the leverage - US is dependent on Boeing, so the tail is constantly wagging the dog
Totally! And this is one of the worst kinds of code to generate with AI given how often regexes are write-only code. Personally, for any important regex I'm either going to have good unit tests, an extended-mode regex with comments, or both. Which I'm sure this AI is not going to do.

So to me this mainly looks like a way for people who don't understand something to put that ignorance into the codebase, setting traps for colleagues down the road. That's not a new experience for me, but this does seem likely to make that easier and more fun, two things I don't think dangerous code needs.
Depends on the weed, really. Nuke Toxicodendron from orbit.
Fair enough, if you believe extrajudicial execution is a fair punishment for any crime committed earlier there's no point in my arguing further.
I don't think the poor quality code is due to Rust itself. I think manpower is a big part of it. Rust doesn't inherently lead to good quality code, which the article implies.

Re code examples - Here's the Rust Awesome Embedded List - a collection of tools (especially hardware support drivesr) - https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust

Most of them aren't suitable for use in practical projects; they're missing important features like non-blocking operation, low-power modes, DMA etc - these are all things that will come up in embedded projects, but aren't needed for the "hello world" examples they include. Part of this is from attempting to conform to embedded-HAL traits, which support only the broadest feature sets.
RF just simply does not have the capacity of fibre. Capacity upgrades in a satellite network take 5-10 years. Lighting up another wavelength on a glass fibre takes a few minutes to plug in new equipment at either end of the link.

Right now I see usage across my network at around 4-5 Mbps per subscriber at peak. It takes a few hundred users at those rates to overload a Starlink terminal with a gigabit port. Starlink is not a viable backhaul technology for anything but the smallest of networks.
wow ... it makes sense ... more of a top down approach.
~430 questions and tested on 35 of them.

If you're going to buy a radio "just in case"
Make sure you know how to use and maintain
> Eastern Europe as a bunch of client states of the USA dutifully doing the bidding of somebody in the CIA

That would only be the case if Victoria Nuland was handing out food in Euromaidan Square encouraging Ukrainians to overthrow their elected government followed recently by $40 billion of arms from the US to the Ukraine. Oh, that did happen. $40 billion being the first of many such packages I'm sure.

Your argument is $40 billion this year is chump change and some Ukrainians would have liked even more?
I'm assuming what they meant is that video has become the new "casual, accessible, vibrantly creative" medium on the internet, thanks to platforms like TikTok and all the powerful editing tools they include. Not a direct replacement but a spiritual successor
I've been using Linux on my private machines for 20+ years, so to me, every year is the year of the Linux desktop.

But I also think it's actually a good thing I'm part of a tiny minority. Malware authors target Windows because it dominates the desktop. If suddenly 25% of the world's desktop users switched to, say, Ubuntu and GNOME, that would probably change. Right now, I enjoy all the benefits Windows users get from their desktops, without the drawbacks.
Fixing the commute and/or fixing housing would help get people into office heaps. Fully remote seems to work really well for people who are who’ve been at the company for awhile so offer fully remote once someone has been at the company X amount of years.
They didn't though! They had access to the same body of work, but their individual biases, tastes, and intuitions would have skewed both which research they paid attention to, and how much credence they gave it.

This is essentially my point. We all have access to the same set of data, but we all look at it a little differently.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/5nLiC
This site is also useful in that regard: https://untools.co/
I don't know anything about geopolitics, and I don't have a position on the larger question, but your reasoning does not imply your conclusion. A "client state" would not be given more support than was deemed expedient. Client states are a big step down from territories or provinces, and furthermore would ask for an unlimited amount of aid (as would any country) because what are they trying to do, save the US money while they get bombed?
This varies a lot.

Reading a 100mb file 10 times a day vs. 100 times a day is perfectly acceptable in many scenarios.
I didn't deny any of the first two sentences there.

The third sentence I think is wildly optimistic. The whole problem is the overhang of jobs and the labor market. What they're really worried about is baristas being able to job hop to find better wages just like SWEs have been able to. The Fed have openly talked about this, the business pages talk about it openly and Musk and Zuckerberg are both almost cheerleading the effort to start punishing workers that they think have had it too good lately.

And that is just going to take economic pain and negative employment numbers. And all the talk of a soft landing for the past few weeks is the same language that was used in 2007. They don't actually have any kind of surgical ways to cool off the economy, what winds up is that they crash it. When they do the proverbial "tides goes out and we see who has been swimming naked" -- which means that structural issues in residential and commercial real estate will be exposed. We never really regulated the banks with any teeth in 2008, so we can assume that people out there are making stupid bets on the economy again which are going to go against them (the 2008 crisis actually proves that the people making those stupid bets will not suffer any personal consequences, so it's reasonable to assume that will happen again).

The Fed will have to continue to raise rates until the labor market fails. At that point shit should get very interesting.
That is excellent to hear! I really, really want a Linux workstation using Dell UP3218K. Sadly so few people have this monitor, and even fewer use Linux, that it's quite the financial gamble to know what actually works and what doesn't. I could return the monitor, of course, but then I end up with a newly bought machine without any display I could use...
You can always just get a Baofeng to scan around UHF and VHF. I recently got some basically just for fun. They’re $25ish so basically a toy but pretty capable and programmable. They’re technically fairy illegal to actually broadcast with but as an emergency system I think they’d be fine.
Sorry, I think you missed the point I was trying to share. The large providers all lease infrastructure from each other, so it's unsafe to assume that using two providers creates a total diversity in access. But you're correct, in that failures can happen at different layers, that may isolate outages to one provider or even a subset of customers.

The outage I cited, only occurred in the Bell Wireline Core network, but caused service impacts in Bell, Telus, Rogers and other networks for Cellular, Internet, etc services.
No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists
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Depends on whether there was UII in the underlying dataset. It's probable that Twitter kept the mDAU numbers and probably shared them, and Elon's people asked for underlying data that aggregates up to that metric, so they can scrutinize the methodology.

However, saving user identifiable information > 90d is a challenge these days - you have to anonymize it, which defeats Musk's purported goal. (And it might be illegal to share that data w/ a 3rd party.)
Child labor was allowed back then too, which solved both child obesity AND weeds
Missed the “never” part of the title and I was in there really getting my mind blown for a minute
It’s well established that sovereign entities have the right to regulate the conduct of their citizens even abroad. For example the FCPA which makes Americans liable for bribery that occurs in foreign countries. Or American federal income taxes which are based on citizenship.

That changes when someone relinquishes their citizenship, however. As to American states, relinquishing citizenship is as easy as relocating to another state and taking steps indicating intent to change your residence permanently, such as changing your driver’s license or voter registration.

Thus providing relocation assistance is on different legal footing than paying for abortions out of state.
How does it bring back productivity when it has the expressivity of C (at least before generics, it’s a bit better afterwards)
This is a great example of it happening in the .NET world:

https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276
It's a terrible contract: no due diligence, a specific performance clause. The only type of person who would ever sign a contract like that would be a dumb guy who got rich by accident.
Precisely - more than anything else, this article reminded me just how much of our planet is covered by the Pacific Ocean.
Sundance Film Festival (2014) - Alive Inside: A Story Of Music & Memory Featurette - Documentary HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc
On top of that, there is the "education first" mindset. When a culture puts education first(e.g Eastern Asia countries), it not only means they will sacrifice their limited resources for education, it also means teachers are well respected and well paid across the society, relatively speaking.

Further, when a country focuses on CRT and LGBT+-education and Equity-grading at K-12 these days, school is no longer a place to prepare kids for a meaningful career, instead it is a playground to raise future everyone-is-a human rights activist or politician, we will have to rely on skillful immigrants that actually _DO_ things to sustain the economy, this pattern won't last very long obviously.

It's not a teacher's problem, or school's funding problem, it's more of a political problem to me these days(including the recent education-unrelated law changes). I feel lost as an independent.
Definitely try out the free resources for learning vim before ever considering Vimified, or any paid option!

I used vimtutor and openvim to get started, and they're fantastic free resources.

It was only when I couldn't find something to fix my specific problem that I stated in the top comment, did I start building this.
> The GPLv2

Though this helped a lot, I believe the commandment "Do not change user space" was a much larger factor. In some upgrades of any of the BSDs, some user program will crash depending upon what changed in base. Linux, hardly ever happens, I have never had an issue with User Space on Linux Upgrades.
A couple years ago I got a Secret Lab Titan, which does have high back/head support. I'm very happy with it. Before that, I've worked this way with whatever chair my job gave me. The head support is nice, but for me it isn't critical.
Yes, but then you're losing the self-steering, which isn't ideal, either. For low floor vehicles you take that compromise (except possibly at the vehicle ends if you don't need fully 100 % low floor), but otherwise it looks like fixed axles still are the preferred solution.
I think the best he can hope for here is settle the lawsuit that will follow for buying twitter at a slightly reduced price.

The amount he would pay to walk away is roughly equal to the current fair market value of Twitter. I wouldn't be happy to pay that and get nothing for it. Better to go through with the deal.
I think it's pretty easy to conclude that offering credit cards isn't socially responsible. The company's revenue is maximized if they can identify and sell to people who are just wealthy enough to be trapped more or less indefinitely in debt.
Second this. Fascinating book.
Pythagoras's revenge....
BTW, to those who don't know -- Money stuff is free if you subscribe to it as an email newsletter.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
The current goal of the Fed is to crush the labor market and create unemployment and remove the ability of workers to have leverage over wages.

They're not worried about high gas prices because they're economists and they understand that commodities prices are cyclical and act as their own brake on the economy.

They're worried about the wages.

Those aren't going to come down without significant pain.
I don’t understand why we need to make things personal: a multibillionaire with practically unlimited resources is negotiating with a multibillion dollar corporation with practically unlimited resources.

It’s clear that the offer Elon got stuck with has an unrealistic price at this point (and Elon just want a reason to get out of the deal), just like it’s clear that Twitter’s management is incompetent in the last few years.

I just hope that there will be a lawsuit with juicy details so that I can get my popcorn, but I believe the 2 parties will settle.
Maybe I'm bad at reading, but it would be nice if the page explained "this is the equivalent of two 20-inch 16:9 monitors stacked" instead of having to bust out the Pythagorean theorem.
How ironic it is that the "Freedom Caucus" is using the power of the government to limit the freedom of it's constituents.

I remember the day when libertarians were vehemently pro-choice. What happened?
Stanford CS 25 – Transformers United
Find an old Trinitron :)
Ruby Evolution: a brief list of new significant features 2.0-3.1
> A man (or woman, or gender fluid person) is not one-dimensional.

I just want to point out that calling people “normies” is one-dimensional categorization. I loved reading your self reflections until you got to the point where you chose to classify a huge chunk of the population as one-dimensional and unworthy of your consideration.
Self-checkout beats dealing with lazy cashiers. A recent checkout with a cashier included a delay because the cashier made a phone call while buyers were in line. A personal phone call.
Agree. HN is not a charity and it is most certainly profitable enough to be able to not have so much effort vested in one person (if that is the case that is).

I understand fully PG thanking him publicly for his effort and the pats on the back (by others here) but let's face it it's a job in the end and he is doing his job.
Last time I went to the self-checkout lane I dutifully scanned all my items and clicked "Pay" and it brought me to a list of payment options with cash all grayed out. There was only one real cashier working that day with a long line stretching back into the aisle. I left the stuff I picked out right there and just walked away, so I guess they had to pay someone to put my stuff back anyway. Not sure what these companies are getting at with these user-hostile changes to their checkout flow. I drove to a small local quick-mart and did my shopping there instead.
It is a problem because it creates a trust vector between the binary vendor and the app developer consuming the binary.

Sure, there is going to be a build-your-own kit, but is everyone going to audit the codebase and the tooling and all dependencies?

It’s a fresh new can of worms and we’re already overstocked.
Yea I think you lack perspective. Belief is a deeply personal thing. It bring a meaning and understanding to peoples lives. Many people are religious or have a belief in god that do not allow their faith to intercede in poor ways like fundamentalists do. Fundamentalists and evangelical anything are the problem.
Aren’t there side effects of this stuff killing other microorganisms in the soil? Like it’s not just the cancer aspect, or the gmo crop aspect. It’s, as I understand it, contributing to arable land loss
“I want more”

You’re welcome.