skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Composted materials also help hold moisture in place!

The trouble is that distributing compost is extremely expensive and it doesn’t release into the soil quickly.

You can truck out tons of dry fertilizer and irrigate with it, getting immediate results through a system you already have on farms. Your nutrient to dollar ratio is far better (in the short term).

You might know this already. My main intent of mentioning that is that I suspect that way of thinking is actually totally misguided. The externalities seem to be far too severe, and damage to soils seems unsustainable as well. I have a feeling if we sucked up the cost of distribution and application of natural fertilizers, in the not-so-long term we might actually see major turn around on several issues related to crops and fertilizer run off.

There is plenty of evidence for it, but the scale of fertilizer needed is insane. No idea how we’d make that shift. Dry fertilizers are incredibly dense forms of nutrients, and they’re so easy to get from factory to plant.

US universities have published a lot of research showing natural fertilizers do yield good crops with better disease resistance, but any farm using them would need to put more money and time into fertilizing and could expect smaller yields. If everyone plays that game, okay… But if a farmer independently decides to, they need to find a market willing to pay more. That’s exceedingly rare.

We need to collectively value this investment, otherwise it’s very hard for farmers to afford the shift. At least, this is based on my limited hobby gardening/researching understanding. Someone in agriculture would know better.
Uh credentials are good actually. The point of credentials is that they allow me to trust someone without being an expert myself. Of course if you are already an expert then you can look beyond credentials to determine whether someone knows what they're doing or not
(not trying to convince you as I think in this thread no one will be convinced of anything)

Knowing that in Ruby a method will always return its last executed line unless explicitly returned early makes (at least for me) things very easy to get.

A method with two branches will always return the last line of the executed branch, thus you will always know what the response could be.

But this (IMO) is because Ruby OOP where the main concept is that when you are invoking a method you are actually sending a message to that object thus you should get a response. So Ruby makes this way of working with objects universal.

Once you call a method you will get a response.

I find it strange the other way around, working in languages where I need to put return even on the last line of the method. For example after almost one year of full time backend development in Ruby, I needed to write some JS code. I debugged for half an hour why a short function that I wrote was not working properly until I got it: I need to add 'return' to that last line to get the actual result. This was strange for me :)
I guess in part it's become a replacement for "redneck". Watching and listening to some older media, I swear they were using "redneck" closer to how someone would use "white trash" nowadays.

While I still think "redneck" carries a negative connotation in many places, it also seems to be a lot less negative nowadays, And I'm more likely to hear it in the context of self identification or (while somewhat still derogatory) to refer to a kinda idealized version of an unruly and unsophisticated, but fun rural people, and to many, the new redneck stereotype is a sort of role model. Hell, half the "rednecks" I knew in HS were middle class kids who's parents had good job and lived in nicer suburbs than my parents could afford.

There have been some artists trying to take back the "white trash" moniker and use it in a "yeah that's what I am, what about it?" sort of way.
Interesting to see what's changed. CDROM and EXE's, CVS vs Git, Waterfall (I assume a waterfall-ish dev method as its referring to Specs) vs Scrum, Quiet spaces vs Open Bull pen dev areas.
I've been running a Calvin & Hobbes bot for ~20 years now. Back when Google Reader was a thing, the bot published an RSS feed which had greater than >1M subscribers. It's now a bot on Reddit (/u/CalvinBot) with >700k karma.

During that time, I've tried to be very mindful of Watterson's copyright and make sure I don't violate it anyway.

This had led to some interesting "bugs." Specifically amuniversal.com only publishes the comic strip as a GIF. But the official Reddit mobile app has a bug. It treats all GIFs as a video & disables other image features, like zooming. The nature of C&H is such that very often want to zoom to see all the wonderful details Mr. Watterson put into the strip.

Because of that I routinely get complaints about it being in a GIF ("GIFs are for movies!" the whippersnappers say) and tell me to publish them as JPG or PNG. Now converting a GIF to JPG or PNG is trivial, but there's no way I can do so without violating his copyright. I'd have to host the converted image myself, which I don't have the right the do.

So I won't do it.

It's minor, but knowing Watterson felt so passionate about copyright, I think it's important to honor. But because the team at Reddit won't fix the bug, the complaints continue to come rolling in. Enough that I wrote a FAQ about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CalvinBot/comments/bdxb6h/why_are_p...

If any C&H fans knows anyone on the team at Reddit, I'd much appreciate it if you could ask them to fix it.
I’m amazed , with the history, lack of progress, and violence committed by unions, that anyone would ever join one. This ain’t Germany
There is a market for buying and selling used mobile homes. I've worked on a few already this year, getting them ready for tenants after they have been bought and moved. Maybe not a large market, I don't know. And I'm sure it's very location dependent. Lot rents are (edit: mostly) only in (some) trailer parks, the vast majority of mobile homes that I see around here (southern Mississippi) are not in trailer parks.
I've wanted a Fuji 617 for years.

I don't need one by any means; I just WANT one. Amazing camera that did it's own thing.
Oh, but I have read about them. What they did was recognize the opportunity in front of them, that everyone else did not see.

Nobody remembers Lotus, which for many years was a much bigger company than Microsoft. Lotus eventually failed because of some terrible business decisions, not bad luck.

They also all worked their asses off.

Tim Patterson was another who was in the right place at the right time. Nobody remembers him. He wrote the original PC-DOS. He didn't know what he had, and sold it to Microsoft for a song.

Gary Kildall was in the right place at the right time. He blew it.

I was in the right place at the right time, several times. I blew it big time, because I did not recognize the opportunity. So have many others I personally know.

Want to look at Jobs again? He had not one, but three incredible success stories. The first Apple Co., Pixar, and the Apple we know today. With Pixar and Apple, he turned both companies from inevitable bankruptcy into incredible success.

Luck? LOL.
After looking closer at the business, it looks like they have 13 or fewer paying clients.

That’s quite fragile unless they have been long term clients, and this type of system has high transfer costs.
As long as they've solved the "what color is your function" ([1]) problem, I'm happy!

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
What’s your exact concern with TikTok?
when did you last use LO?
https://archive.ph/6fC1Q
How did you decide what 3 colors to paint them with for the test?
Many newer roofs are white. For example, EPDM roofs are all near-white.
No. The OP just had mentioned not being sure if it DID occur, so I weighed in to say it did.

I wouldn't say they're most of the people against racism (particularly when it comes to criminal justice and incarceration issues), but they do have an outsized media presence precisely due to their privilege.

These topics are so filter bubbled I don't have a good sense of which, if either, of the two dismissals is objectively more common.
It's worth observing that according to traditional Irish law, there was an explicit process for ascending to lordly status, and it required three generations to complete. So the three-generation model sees some replication cross-culturally.

If you didn't want to wait that long, traditional Irish law also allowed you to purchase an equivalent-to-lordly status for yourself. You held equal rank with actual lords, but there were two major downsides: (1) this was a tremendous ongoing expense, more than many actual lords could have afforded; and (2) unlike true lordship, your status was not hereditary.
This is really cool, just took my drone out and took 64 pics of my neighborhood and turned them into a TIFF viewable on qGIS via the ODM CLI. Love it. There are a few oddities, for example it produced a few geoTIFFs for viewing, two of them are correctly placed, but the high resolution one doesn't seem to contain geo bounds and just displays in qGIS adjacent to the world map. Seems like there's still some development to be done, but this seems like a really cool and interesting project. Excited to see where it goes from here!

edit: the above was user error (or my lack of patience waiting on the high-rez final photo to load!), everything works wonderfully.
> Or are we really to believe that all these huge corporations full of incredibly brilliant and skilled individuals are somehow too dumb and ignorant to figure out how to fix these problems?

Yes, indeed. Large-scale organizations are plagued by this sort of pathology; bad treatment of workers is only one of many instances of such. Individual skill does not translate to effective behavior on the larger, collective scale. We put up with large organizations despite these flaws, not because of them.

> I'm increasingly cynical that it's ever possible to meaningfully improve human systems

Large, hierarchical, command-and-control structures are what they are. If you want improvement, it must come from designing better ways for humans to cooperate at a grassroots level, such as ordinary or "smart" markets.
I probably qualify for HSAM. I'm often reminding people of how we met, or a relevant conversation or interaction, and I can read them back what we talked about, what we ate, what the weather was like, those kinds of details. It's not as complete as a lot of the examples I've seen, where you can name a date and the person can recall everything, but I definitely haven't met anyone with a better memory, on average, than I have - with the possible exception of my mother, which suggests it's to some degree genetic.
Yet another libertarian think tank paid to poison the public opinion, this time by cherry picking old publications as if they represent our current understanding of climate change.

Where I live we are in the middle of a drought that's more severe and widespread than any we have ever seen. Everything is burnt out and dying. It sure feels like the apocalypse already. This is what we are risking by not even trying to prepare for the future.
I'm sure some people feel this way and others feel differently. If it's not for you it's not for you—no need for a snarky comment
If you live in the north, it's so you don't have roof collapses in the winter due to snow buildup.

If you live in the south, it's because people think there isn't good roofing materials that can be lighter colors. Those people are wrong.
Most of the danger to life is people drowning in lakes, rivers etc.
Is there a specific (potentially country-specific) background to this?

For me as a (pre-2020) office worker, food trucks setting up near my old office seemed like a win-win-win:

* the food truck operators make profit

* the students and employees around the area had more variety in food available

* I reckon the employees took shorter lunch breaks because they didn't have to travel further for the same variety/quality of food

(I'm not even sure if the food trucks were charged rent, or encouraged to show up by the local business/college. I would describe the space they used as 'semi-public', think 'the middle of a plaza between 5 buildings')
OCR Currency Converter for Android
Yeah side projects are like therapy but there are people who are trying to make a living from side projects and end up selling them for quick money.
Isn't the camera the built in QR reader? What do you need from a QR reader other than just opening the link it's pointing too?
https://archive.ph/0p12Q
5 years from now, you will rue today as you didn't see the opportunity in front of your face. Someone is in a garage right now becoming the next billionaire that you (and me) muffed.
From what I understand, the appeal is that it's quick and cheap to get a mobile home compared to having a house built.
Escooter rentals aren't as green as you think
The difference between virtual environments in Python and node_modules in JavaScript is minor I would say. It’s the same concept. I believe composer has something similar. It’s a directory where packages go and they are not part of the system wide installation.

I agree that lock files are useful and it’s a pity that pip does not offer them.
The decoupling global economys breeding misinformation, driving the world apart
My point is that Linnaeus's 'family' is not rigorously defined and generally not a very precise term anyway. If you're not sure what level of clade a pair of related creatures share, referring to them as being 'in the same family', informally, is fine.

And Ungulata is a clade. "Ungulates (/ˈʌŋɡjəleɪts, -ləts/ UNG-gyə-layts, - ləts) are members of the diverse clade Ungulata which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves."

As a clade, it includes several clades that are historically classified as 'orders' and several that are 'families'. It would be inaccurate to say 'horses and cows are members of the same Linnaean order'; but equally, in Linnaean terms, it would be insufficiently precise to say they share the same Linnaean 'grandorder', because that's also true of, say, a grizzly bear, or a badger.

Basically, if you're going to be taxonomically pedantic, I think it's better to be pedantic about the Actual taxonomy (i.e. the real common ancestry of an organism) than it is to be pedantic about the metataxonomy (i.e., the classification of clades as 'order' or 'family' or 'genus')
We've done something like this at Hasura.

It allows users to write adapters for datasources in any language, expose them over an HTTP API, and then combine them together into a federated GraphQL API:

(Disclaimer: I work on this feature)

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/28/hasura-now-lets-developers...

https://hasura.io/blog/hasura-graphql-data-connectors/
I wrote a post about this thread. I am the author of the XML-RPC spec and co-designer of the format.

http://scripting.com/2022/07/16.html#a172934
For context, a bunch of UK rail staff have been striking lately and one of their demands is no efficiency improvements or compulsory redundances. (They also want a substantial pay increase of course.)
I haven't used much Python recently, but iirc you can just import your own runtimes, too. Twisted, gevent, that sort of thing. Having some sort of sane defaults bundled gives you a really nice baseline for interop, but doesn't preclude you from picking things that fit your use case better.

Definitely feels like one place where Rust kinda dropped the ball, at least from a user perspective in $CURRENTYEAR.
Agreed. Another cool feature is that the film is shot backwards - it unwinds the film, then shoots the film in reverse, winding it into the canister. This way, worst case, you loose one exposed frame if the back opens. It's this sort of clever thinking that sets this up as a great camera.

And I also picked one up years ago when they were relatively cheap!
Seems like a waste not to use horsemeat. They are kept as livestock
The extra money goes to more union staff and union facilities; lobbying; and grants - overwhelming the former. Also, it's not like non-profits have to balance their budgets every year; the UAW added $60M to its net assets in 2021.
I more or less give WSLg a pass because it's very complex and inherently requires WSL2 to run the internals. It would be nice if you could connect WSL1 programs to it at some point, but they only just got it working at all.

For other issues, well, I'm willing to believe it either way, but I think the last couple comments on your example link make it clear that this feature doesn't really exist on WSL1 or WSL2.
I emailed the recruiter at the last place using a lot of the language recommended in the threads here.

They might respond next week during a weekday and if they do I'll share their feedback here
It was, yes! Just a part I found interesting to contrast our bubbles.

I'm a nerd about the subjectivity of the modern internet experience.
Such automation will be banned in the UK. Painting things has to be done by hand. Union rules. No unauthorized mechanization! Spray cans are untested technology and are unsafe. Spray paint is worse for the environment and workers health. Besides, painting by hand is better for morale.

Painting will obviously have to happen at night (double pay), and is risky work (double pay again). Oh, and we can't do more than 3 hour shifts because it involves bending down. And we'll be needing a minimum crew of 8 - 1 painter, 1 safety expert, 1 signalling expert, 1 electrics expert, 1 spotter, 1 paint quality expert, a foreman to lead the team, and a union rep to check everything is done according to the book. Oh, and wherever the work is being done more than 15 minutes from a toilet, we'll need a mobile toilet booked and installed, as well as a break room. If any of those people are missing or late, we'll cancel the work and retry in 3 months.
Rumor has it he slips signed copies into the shelves at Fireside Books in Chagrin Falls every so often.
Have you ever worked in a union shop, or have family that did? Demarcation is not a hypothetical case, and it's not something that's so uncommon that you can just not worry about it, especially as a worker that needs to consider whether or not your opportunities are going to be hindered by it. Me, my father, my grandfathers, my friends, their fathers and grandfathers, and basically my community on the whole have watched it happen firsthand or have been directly affected by it. Union membership can be a big choice where you're heavily incentivized to join the union not just on the merits of them protecting you as a worker, but because they're going to work against you if you don't. Some unions have worse problems with it than others, and some don't have the problem at all, but it's not something that is so minor that you can just ignore it.
I'm not arguing against all regulations. There are certainly many that aim to keep food cleaner, and can be done efficiently. But there is also a lot of red tape and permitting processes that add large costs to new restaurants and keep them from opening.
Invisible XML is a language for describing the implicit structure of data
I'm thinking about blinds, but they cost 10k eur to install and require approval from the union of house owners.

So I opted for heat-reflective window foils instead. Only costed 30 eur. They help — but only a little. Maybe cool my living rooms by 1C or 2C in the summer. In the mean time my wife complains that the rooms are too dark and uncomfortable. She doesn't understand why I don't just install AC. Neither does anyone else in her social group.

So, what is a man going to do to keep his wife happy?
Why do websites insist on customizing their scrolling speeds? I'm used to my defaults so I get motion sickness browsing this website. It literally adds nothing positive to the experience - it doesn't look or feel nicer in any way, instead it feels worse and uses more processing power.
I like your UX! It's simple, clear, and fast. Thank you for focusing on usability :)

Some minor feedback:

- I wonder if the pre-revenue column should be left, and the >5k MRR should be right, so it goes from least expensive to most?

- Can the category dropdown be checkboxes (so you can choose more than one) and also have an "All" category if you're just casually browsing?

- Some measures of time might be useful, like how long a project has been active ("since 2019") and how long it's been listed for

- Could you please add some tooltips or similar to explain what MRP and MPP are? Just a one-sentence description like "Monthly recurring profit is ____, as reported by the company/calculated by our algorithms/whatever".
Async/await should be locked behind a compiler flag and not used by libraries that aren't experimental. Instead it already contaminated the entire ecosystem with to-be-deprecated dependencies that are hard to remove.
A financial argument for deep tech
This really isn't the right story for diving into this line of discussion.
>I always had trouble understanding why we are learning such hard topics to find the number 5 in a sorted list of 10 numbers.

It is left up to the learner to realize that the list of 10 numbers can be either the left side or right side of a higher node, showing that any binary search of 10 numbers works on 20 numbers and hence on any size sorted-list. Then, it becomes clear why the average search space decrease from N to log n.

Many people find binary search to be a valuable algorithm to use in practice.
Is magic leap b2b/enterprise only now? I seem to rennet them starting more b2c
Unfortunately there's some cold-hearted logic in buying cheap Russian gas for years, even if you know they will use the money to fund their incremental invasion of Ukraine.

As long as the one-off cost of switching to another supplier (or just reopening coal power stations, and re-certifying the nuclear power stations) is less than the accumulated annual cost of buying from more expensive suppliers in a pre-emptive boycott of Russia (who would just sell their gas to somewhere else instead) then ultimately Germany is saving money.

Importantly, (some of) the money that Germany was saving needed to be put into its own military preparedness and stockpiles, so that the foreign policy goal of protecting Ukraine's sovereignty could still be achieved (which would be a cost shared by other nations, including those further away from and thus less dependent on Russian gas).
In case you want (and need) to get how to think in Ruby I recommend you to listen to this talk by Sandi Metz (and in general I recommend all her talks even if they are old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_FBrZQiU

It presents OOP in Ruby in such a beautiful way and it takes a while to start thinking like this.
It's not uncommon to buy a piece of rural land and drop a mobile on it. I've even seen folks do it so they have a place to live while they build a traditional house.
I agree that this is an annoying issue. I don't think it's inherent in the FRP UI design, but I think it might very well be somewhat impractical to avoid, especially on the web. The fact is, the DOM already has sort-of 'hidden state' that can't be 'managed.' If you designed a UI framework from the ground up, without worrying about the web, you could avoid some of these pitfalls, for example by making the underlying UI nodes (equivalent to the DOM) completely stateless.

The scroll position, in this case, would just be props.

However, at some point a UI framework usually encapsulates some kind of state somewhere. I'm not sure if a design exists that 100% doesn't encapsulate any internal state. (Maybe immediate mode GUIs?) Though, removing hidden state in the underlying UI components would at least solve the problem of needing to care about underlying node identity for them. But, it wouldn't solve it for components that compose them. I think this is unavoidable in a system that allows state encapsulation.

I think you could make an FRP UI framework that in fact, does not have state encapsulation, but it would be a lot more cumbersome to use, because you'd have to "bubble" the underlying state of any component anywhere all the way up the tree to the root.