skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is being treated as a failure of organic farming by mainstream media. Dow Chemical and Monsanto (which technically doesn't exist anymore; "Bayer BASF" now, maybe) would really like us to think so, and Big Media is always happy to do their part.

But it was obviously really just massive government incompetence. It has been known for decades how to transition to organic methods successfully: incrementally, and with education. Both skipped.

After a sensible transition, yields could be lower, per acre, but not necessarily. Money spent on fertilizer and pesticides would be much lower than that. Money previously sent abroad would have stayed in Sri Lanka, milling around in the local economy generating prosperity.

Now they have chaos, and it will take a long time to get back to their previous, precarious state, probably in hock to China. Dow and BASF will get themselves well locked in; other countries will be spooked. A big success, for them. Not so for Sri Lankans.
I always find it weird how western "promoters" of Buddhism are so gung-ho on the meditation part, pretty much disregarding everything else.

Having met quite a few Buddhists (also my partner) who were raised by Buddhist parents, I'm yet to find a single one who meditates at all. That's not even that big of a part of "mindfulness".

After reading a monk's book (Essential Chan Buddhism by Guo Jun), I have a feeling it's all cargo-cultish in the west.
I don't know how to explain it in English. But he didn't say his teachings were to last only 1000 years.

Buddha said it is super hard or impossible to achieve Nirvana or became Arahant after 1500-2000 years.

But if you never practice, you'll never achieve anything.

Even Buddha needs 4 Asaṃkhyeya to become a Buddha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa%E1%B9%83khyeya
Only sz should use ß. Ss stays ss even in German-german. Switzerland got rid of the sz/ss distinction a long time ago.
So you need to be culture and word aware to do it „right“.
> why don't we refer to Germans as Deutsche in English, call the country Deutschland instead of Germany?

Because the Germans aren’t throwing a fit about how other countries are addressing them in their languages, while the Turks currently are.

Given how Turkey currently has insane inflation and internal political turmoil with Erdogan’s opposition rising, there’s a line of thought that has war as the only way to maintain power for Erdogan, much like how a coup solidified his power in 2016.

Turkey’s neighbors probably should start feeling like Ukraine before February, or like Poland before September 1939.
Digital-locks like UEFI signing have a singular flaw, in that it only truly offers security to the people holding the signing keys i.e. a firm that did not pay for the computer, shouldn’t be tying unsolicited services to other peoples businesses, and should be classified as an adversarial threat vector.

If Libreboot wasn’t such a pain to install, it would have saved a lot of grief.
Sure and the corporation has so mangled Christianity that it is now most associated with massive mandatory shopping sprees every December.

So what? Corporatism fucks up and subverts everything it can get its hands on. Buddhism remains a powerful and compelling religious practice.

Like most religious practices most people dip their toes in or only take the parts they like the best. It’s not like most Catholics are running around washing the feet of the poor.

Not sure exactly what insight this story thinks it’s conveying.

This article basically says Buddhism has two key elements, the more important devotional worship that westerners are ignoring, and meditation, which is sort of a fringe practice.

That’s pretty confusing as I think most people would say the main concept of Buddhism is the teachings of the Buddha. This article appears silent on the concept of dukkha, enlightenment, the eightfold path, the four noble truths, and so on and so forth.

As such it is utterly and completely missing the point.
According to Reuters, I was off by a factor of two, if the number they quoted counts all the plants they decided to shut down. ~4000 GW shut down. That’s a decent wild-ass guess, IMHO.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/could-germany-keep-i...
I wish we had better missile defense. It is 2022, we should not be living like it is the 1960’s.
in india, the car market starts at around 4 Lacs Inr or $5000. people tend to now buy cars for like 4-9L or $5000-$12000. the cheapest EV on the market is tata tigor ev for like inr 12Lacs or $15000 and those prices are on the high end spectrum of the general market and mass adoption is only possible if prices are price-matched or be close to the ICE cars.

in that situation, it is not possible to add "features" that the people don't care about. think about it, a $5000 car is barebones as it is, when they launch its EV version, it is not going to have tesla features. there are manufacturers who are failing NCAP testing and they are pushing to not make such testing mandatory because in their opinion, it would reduce choice for customers and their own business would fail.
UN touts, then memoryholes, ‘the benefits of world hunger’
Would you campaign for it to be written as Hannofer in English so that non-German speakers will not butcher the current pronunciation.
Obviously there are long historical reasons for language diffs of city names and I imagine many predates the nation states who now house those cities. Changes in local pronunciation is also a thing, and those changes are of course not always propagated to other languages
Man, this Specs [0] library is so strange to me, coming from a Unity background. Is there some sort of comparison as to why one way is better than the other?

[0] https://docs.rs/specs
Also Hindistan (Land of the Hindi) means India, and "hindi" means turkey, in Turkish. Mısır also means corn and also Egypt in the same language.
It's decentralised because you can pick up any other provider or even host your own (which I did, until OpenID declined from popularity and wasn't accepted anywhere any more).
Tokyo Metropolitan government is one of the best I have seen in matters of everyday functioning. They are pretty well prepared most of the time. I think this has more to do with the ever present threat of major earthquakes. You can pick up printed copies of this guidebook for free from any local government office. (Even new apartment rentals provide this nowadays)

(Disclaimer: Lived in Charlotte, Boston, SF and now in Tokyo)
A miscorrect of “degree” (or a mistyping thereof), something along those lines?

Especially since the rest of the phrase talks about qualification in addition to a degree.

Edit: apparently not, til
Thats like saying my calculator and my CPU are the same thing. It's a pathetically bad argument, and a false equivalency.
The ODB port only has to provide emissions diagnostics. Anything else can be isolated.
I don't think Chinese Buddhists seem to care.
So then make it a standard feature. If it's cheap enough to install, it's cheap enough to include as a base model feature.
Cosmic Rays – high-energy Protons and atomic Nuclei
Have you actual first hand experience of that or are you just propagating the predominant online rhetoric?
It does, if only in the sense of "writing as thinking". Stating something out of oneself does help to consider it objectively, not only subjectively inside your mind, before it even gets confronted to others' understanding.

It all participates in refining the connections around the thing you're writing about, for you, and for others.
Gitea Diaries: Part 1
I don't think parent meant that Buddhist's aren't "people of the book" with the muslim meaning of the term.

Given the context, he probably meant they aren't "by the book", not strict about their scripture.
Pre/Post request scripts are also available in Kreya via the Scripting feature (only available in paid versions), which also allows to define tests. A CLI to run these tests and variables (https://github.com/riok/Kreya/issues/23) are currently on the roadmap.

GraphQL may be supported in the future, but we currently plan to expand the core features of Kreya first.

Regarding collaboration, we explicitely designed the Kreya storage model to be easily syncable via git (or your favorite VCS).
I presume that might be rejected on the grounds that it is a completely different writing system. But my point is that even if it was accepted, the true common name of China in practical English would still not change. Or did you know there already officially exists countries such as Czechia and The Holy See - much better known in English as The Czech Republic and The Vatican respectively?
At what point will mjg59 be willing to write the whole thing off as the anti-Linux measure that most open source fans have realised it is for a decade or more?
It's definitely possible, but I don't think you can do it in the span of several years.
Surely it will. Like in 2008, we just offer human suffering as sacrifice to the Almighty Market.

Gotta keep feeding its rebalances, no point in fighting or challenging the will of a god.
> Buddha said it is super hard or impossible to achieve Nirvana after 1500-2000 years.

Well, that I can agree with. Also according to the Buddha, there are signs that an enlightened being can display to prove their enlightenment. A simple one is that fire does not affect them. To prove his enlightenment, "Ānanda performed a supernatural accomplishment by diving into the earth and appearing on his seat at the council (or, according to some sources, by flying through the air.)"

This is the only modern evidence of anyone meeting the criteria: https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads...
They are making sure you don't die of COVID, if you somehow survive a megaton blast and then make through the intense radiation /s

Sounds absurd. Priorities have gone for a toss.
SF Mayor and DA Pushing to Expand Police Access to Private Security Cameras
My first layoff was horrible. After losing my job I was drinking heavily for almost half a year and basically lost everything. It's a miracle I even survived the experience in some ways because things got pretty dark at one point.

And to be fair it was largely my fault for not being able to cope, but the brutality of the process was something that was difficult for me to understand at the time. I'm autistic and I tend to be very naive about human relationships. I was working at this place for about 5 years and thought the people I worked with were my friends, even my boss. When I got let go there was no warning - which I now know is normal. I was just finishing up one Friday afternoon and I got a call from my boss basically telling me not to come back on Monday. I didn't understand... I asked why and got some BS explanation, but I took it seriously and tried to propose alternative solutions confused as to why they weren't listening. I then tried to thank them for the time and say goodbye to the team, but I immediately got cut off from all my communication tools (I was working remote at the time). I was so stupid I actually thought they'd call me on Monday and ask me to come back because this was so out of character for how my friends normally treated me. Man I was such an idiot...

Obviously now I know this is standard corporate practise, but at the time it was such a surprise that someone would do something so cruel. The experience has completely altered the trust I have for people in my life, probably irreparably, and I'm now constantly on edge about the same thing happening to me again.

I know layoffs are something that have to happen, but these experiences are hard on people and it's crazy to me how unsympathetic employers can be. Why don't they find it harder to turn sometimes life upside down? Why don't they ever seem to care emotionally about what they're doing?

This is good article. Layoffs are something we should probably talk about more as a society.

If you know someone who's been layed off, please make sure they know you're there for them. Just knowing they're not alone and that people are there and care can take so much weight their shoulders.
Column order in PostgreSQL does matter
Again, though, that labor is paid for either way if the installation was already done and it wasn't activated. Essentially, I think the argument being made here is that -- whether this was true or not -- when the heated seats had to be paid for up front to even have them in your car, you could tell yourself that they legitimately cost something (for the parts or the installation or whatever: that doesn't matter) related to how much you were paying for them... but if everyone has them and you are merely paying to turn them on the facade dissolves and you almost have to assume that the feature didn't cost much to put in your car and you are simply being charged as much as they think they can convince you to pay, which is often true but never fun to realize.
Then maybe you don't follow under the demographic of "needy"

My mother also spends $2 on them. Sometimes a couple times a day. She also compulsively gambles and has endangered my life before trying to satiate the urge.

I also grew up absolutely dirt poor, she was homeless half the time, but two unwavering constants in her life have been cigarettes and gambling, and they are far from unrelated when speaking of industry motivations. These industries have ruined my relationship with my mother, severely impacted my own quality of life as a knock-on effect, and I'm far from the only one.

Keep buying the tickets. But you can't justify the state of the industry today because you're not the one caught in its net.
In that case they should fix the title. It should be: ISO name change for Turkey
I had a colleague who used to sit across me. Really swell guy, but literally every sip of coffee he took from his mug ended with a smacking sound followed by a contented exhalation. Boy, did he love his coffee! Believe me, I do not have misophonia but that nearly drove me insane.
I used netguard for years but i had one complain about it: it would either completely block an app from accessing internet or it would allow it total access.

In some apps I wanted to keep the the internet access for them to function correctly, but i wanted to block everything else (from ads to telemetry) as a result of a lack of trust on it.

With netguard the solution was to buy an addon that would allow that. But since i'm not scrooge mcduck... i had to keep the basic version.

UNTIL...

I found TrackerControl ( trackercontrol.org ) it's based on netguard but with no restriction on the features. I can now have all the features minus ads and telemetry on the apps i don't trust. :)

give it a try
Unless you're also willing to forego maximizing profits for this, it's just a BS for-show "putting yourself in another person's shoes".
For me, it was 'Password must contain "Password must contain"' and only unique characters
Exactly. It's politics, which can take a completely new direction on a whim of a dictator or a regime change. But language, as used in practice, changes much less rapidly.
I get it. But without knowing what actually happened it's impossible to know who was the least accurate, there's nothing stopping Jose, W1, and W3 being mistaken.

I feel it really should say "likely to be the least accurate".
What’s the utility of being in a different economic class? There is more to money than just spending it and I’d argue there are large utility gains from crossing class boundaries. The academic models ignore any utility except spending and don’t even adequately account for things like more expensive high-quality goods being cheaper in the long run. So I don’t find this utility argument that proven or convincing.
Another name for 'Lower Second Class honours' (50%+ in assessments*).

97% of people who completed their degree got a 2:2 or higher in 2019/20[1], but the UK's seen significant grade inflation over the last 20 years. You'd be looking at around 80% in the 1990s

Nowadays, you will lose out on some graduate jobs if you get a Desmond.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_c...

[1] https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/27-01-2021/sb258-higher-educatio...

* 50% is acceptable in the British system

> Getting a mark over 50% means that you are beginning to understand the difficult work of your degree. Getting over 60% is excellent because it means you have demonstrated a deep knowledge of your subject to the marker.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/students/success-guide/ug/assessm...
I have fixed (and written!) plenty of bugs but I don't recognise that terminology. Could you expand please?
Maybe you would like Bevy's ECS more? https://bevyengine.org/learn/book/getting-started/ecs/ (it's a later design that incorporated some improvements, like, you don't need to define a struct and impl a trait to define a system)
Well there is already a Chinese port there that is used for the Maritime silk road but I'm sure this is an opportunity for them to create more. I feel like it's too late already, Biden is weak and I don't think there is any win for them to get involve.
Ah, interesting. I suspected that I got a "save face" answer from them because they always err on the side of "Japan and Japanese people can't be criticised by Western people".
I'm not saying I agree with the parent commenter. But their point was not that they didn't want to see profanity, it was that they don't want to see anything at all from the type of people that use profanity. If that's you're position then shadow banning works well, whereas getting them to post reviews with profanity taken out does not.
> Mainly because most of the pictures I usually see of the galaxies in space, they appear as practically identical dots. Never before I've seen this level of detail and the variety of shapes.

Do you mean these specific galaxies? If not, you can see many galaxies in amazing detail with very modest equipment. If you know what you're looking for you can faintly see Andromeda with the naked eye.
How would they detect if the car is sold?
It can happen, that's for sure. But Martini glasses, probably not. I'm sure there's a strong chance they were either a gift to them, or cheap. It says a lot that the poster doesn't even drink! I've been in the same position with receiving sets of shot glasses or cocktail glasses, but anybody that knows me more than a few hours knows I don't and can't drink alcohol.

In Japan, re-gifting is the norm. It is becoming more common in the UK too now that people are living in smaller properties.

I find non-consumable gifts to be a stress to receive, and to give at times. I try to always make sure if I give a gift that it's consumable so that it won't linger, mainly out of respect, just like I wouldn't outstay my welcome as a guest anywhere.

The worst is being gifted something handmade by would-be artists who can't see the flaws in their own work and thus why it doesn't sell, and they end up giving it out as gifts. No joke, had a room full of objectively bad paintings, poorly painted glassware, badly knitted blankets et al. A huge relief to get the space back.
Sure, that's easy.

Consider where lotteries come from - everyone in the room puts their name in the hat and then one winner is drawn (or maybe also a 2nd prize and 3rd prize). But it's simple - 1 person, 1 chance.

You just can't buy more in that system. So the 'problem gambler' that blows most of their paycheck on lottery tickets just isn't even possible.

Maybe the limit doesn't need to be strictly 1, but even just having a limit, low enough to not be too much of a hardship even to a poverty-level person, would still be a simple solution.

People sure wouldn't like it though.

They'd immediately start working on ways to get around that limit. Same as they would if you limited them to only buying 1 6-pack of beer per week.
Observing how children need a fairly limited amount of "learning examples" or "training sets" to learn that a cat is a cat, for instance, remains one of the most solid argument convincing me that AI fundamentally is not reproducing what actually happens in human brains.
The problem is this kind of payment doesn't necessarily mean the results of the research are wrong or fabricated - but at the same time they might be.
> Economic sanctions on Russia were useless

The sanctions on Russia have caused them to be unable to wage war in a way that they could have previously, which was the point.

On top of the number of people living below the poverty line in Russia in the first quarter of 2022 rose by 69%. Probably not all the sanctions, but given the amount of jobs that just up and left its likely related.

> China didn’t budge nor did India nor did most of Africa and South America highlighting the new irrelevance of the USA

China, Russias 'closest' ally with a 'unlimited friendship' isn't doing anything outside of providing humanitarian aid to Russia. They clearly want no part of it.

> Ukraine failed to properly negotiate after stopping the Kiev advance when it would have been advantageous to do so because the USA was a poor steward and is now sure to lose significant territories in the south

Ukraine will now likely retake Crimea if things keep going how they have been the past two weeks, if Russia never invaded they would of ironically kept more land. I await the day that Russia loses their black sea fleet.

> The war will not be allowed to keep going for long because it has a significant impact on Ukraine allies economies and these allies are already significantly pushing for new negotiations to take place. Sweden and Finland joined NATO at significant cost to them in their negotiations with Turkey. It’s not far from a complete debacle honestly.

Ukraines allies have repeatedly said that any negotiations are up to Ukraine, I think that a lot of the allies (especially eastern European states that have felt the thumb of Russia before) know that this war is about a lot more than Ukraine and Russia.
The readme says it should be compiled with borland c++. Do you know why wasn't turbo c/c++ used for these ?
Deploying 5G doesn't involve laying new fiber?
SmartClik Scissor Design (2019)
There are no public benefits in Svalbard because they send anyone who can't support themselves back to Norway. The economy is small and dominated by a few state-owned employers who own almost all the housing and rent it to their employees.

Sending illegal immigrants from Norway to Svalbard is not a practical suggestion.
Likely also less safe.
Yes (15%, cap at 65k income). Yes (for the company it’s like a payroll tax, they also pay 15%, capped at 65k).
>Blindly calling .ToUpper() on anything is a typical anglo-centric mistake.

Yes, one that you might make if you were for example, trying to make English text uppercase. Which is why it would be daft for anyone to suggest that their country has two different English spellings depending on the character case.
I don't know if he conspired with someone or if only he himself knows of his own plan. But I do not believe he acted impulsively.
There is sexism in Buddhism. I stayed at a Buddhist temple in Germany and there where way more rules for the nuns than the monks.

> "It is extremely important to note that world religions [...] are, naturally and inevitably, in large part compendia of rules for
managing daily life." - John A. Hall, Ideas and the Social Sciences, 1993

This is why I think it's a good thing that western Buddhism exits. It gets rid of all the bad stuff. And there are really interesting insights in Buddhism, like the concept of non-self or the four noble truths.