skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes all of this is possible. But incredibly costly and pointless on a large (farm) scale. I was (as another poster pointed out) being hyberbolic. But realistically there's no way we'd do what you're saying for hundreds of acres.

You can actually grow edible things, though. Carefully. My understanding is that the metals accumulate in the tissues of the plant but not in its fruits. Depending on the kind of fruit. So actually orchard crops can ironically be safer in these old orchards, as the metals should not accumulate into the fruits. Instead they accumulate in the vascular tissues of the plant (stems, leaves, etc.)

So:
* Avoid bare soil, as the metals would be more exposed this way.
* Don't eat or be exposed much to the plant tissues growin there (which includes things like making hay or straw)
* Could maybe grow fruits, but carefully.
* Even mowing could be dangerous, maybe.

There's people who talk about cleanup using fungus, to accumulate then dispose. But I truly wonder about if this would ever be effective.

But, yeah. What a smart species we are.
If anyone has any suggestions on resources for how to present to *lawmakers*, I would greatly appreciate it. Especially if they are willing to talk about how they target their messaging based on party / area of government. I've yet to find a good piece article or book that goes beyond platitudes, ideally with specific language that I can iterate on.

A specific, concrete examble might be how to express "look I know you cant vote for this, but I suspect you are secretly with us, even if you wont say it during this meeting cuz you dont know us well enough to trust that we wont leak it, but can you at least get us meeting with x other lawmaker who might also agree with us, and is in more of a swing district but we cant get ahold of because they have a shit schedular that if they vote our way we can help them out in the primary?"

I've been in the "part time citizen lobbyist" game for a while now and I suspect that just saying the above (even without the "we cant get ahold of" part) would be to much a specific / blunt ask. But none of my attempts at soft balling a "can you introduce us to X?" has worked thus far. And I am not sure if its just that I am an untrusted newcomer who needs to build up more relationships, or if its an issue with the language / tone, or if its the nature of the ask itself.

I really wish there where more leaked audio recordings of meetings between lawmakers and hired lobbyists. that would be helpful.
Thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole of automating my RDWC system :-) Seriously, it's the blending of many hobbies into one! I've been eyeing the Atlas Scientific Whitebox T1 now as it seems to allow me to start small, learn, and add new sensors/probes.
This line stood out to me:

> “As it stands now, there seems to be a tradeoff between ease-of-use and control, and until someone figures out how to remove that tradeoff, there will always be a need for engineers who can fully manipulate software to meet the full range of use cases businesses (and individuals) need.”

we're constantly making this type of tradeoff as developers. It's not just a decision we make at the beginning of a project where we look at the requirements and say hey no-code might be the way to go here.

have you written a function for a library to hide information / details of how something works? that's a tradeoff between ease and control for the client.

now expose that through a GUI with some params and now you have "no-code".

sometimes that's ok. it's nice to have options!
I thought it was Bethlehem?
Paris Faces an Even Colder, Darker Winter Than Berlin
Just because you've worked at Google for "a few months" and you haven't seen it, it doesn't make the assertion not true.
The tax breakdown on the receipt is usually because certain people are allowed to reclaim the tax if the goods are used for certain purposes.

Obviously, the be able to reclaim the tax, they need to know how much has been paid on the transaction.
Unfortunately, I think in the world you describe, you will be immersed in 100x more computers, they will just be smaller, and everywhere (possibly inside you).
And there's your mistake, thinking that knots would be the same as books. Knots are knots.
I have a load of very old ones from howies.co.uk
Their more recent titles (Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris) are actually quite approachable, and the upcoming Victoria 3 is looking pretty good too.
Caste discrimination is not a "subjective experience", however much your subjective experience maybe telling you so.
The coding aspect of mindustry is a lot of fun, having robots intelligently deliver resources and engaging enemies enable builds that use to be impossible.

Yes you can code in mindustry!
FTC explores rules cracking down on commercial surveillance and lax security
Official announcement on @FTC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FTC/status/1557733026947543042

FTC Chair Lina Khan [further breaks it down](https://twitter.com/linakhanFTC/status/1557738539202531334):

>1. Firms track & collect data on Americans at a stunning scale—on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy.

>@FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security practices.

Senator Markey (MA) has also [responded positively to it](https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1557738870397353984):

>We have reached a crisis point for children and teens’ well-being online. I'm glad to see @linakhanFTC and @FTC working to give users the privacy protection they deserve. Congress must also pass my legislation to further protect young people online. We must act now.
The game developers can charge for the upfront cost of purchasing the game and starting an account. They can also charge a take-rate for each transaction in their official marketplace (this is how OpenSea makes money, and it's also how Minecraft Marketplace makes money).

There are also plenty of indie game developers who are happy to publish games for free, without taking profit.

> Why do you need a roll up? What security do you need if the L2 itself is able to manage a simple ledger…

The main benefit of the roll up compared to a simple ledger is that you can still use all the same blockchain features such as issuing ERC20/ERC721 assets, creating decentralized markets, escrowed auctions, and so forth. The benefit of a rollup compared to a side-chain like Polygon is that it is theoretically more secure. At no point can the rollup owner control user funds, and they also cannot block a user from withdrawing their assets from the L2 back to ETH mainnet.
> Sometimes insisting on arguing everything out forever every time you think you are right is what is in fact accidentally being a bully and making the workplace toxic.

What one person considers arguing is not always considered arguing from another's perspective. (I don't want to label the sides here because I think definition varies neurodivergent or not)

From the examples given it sounds like the author views the conversation as a beginning middle and end before they can make a judgement, but the person asking them the question is only expecting the end part so theres a misunderstanding.

Generalising here body language is different in autistic people, tone of voice, social cues and manner of speaking, depending on how well that person can mask might affect how their attempt to understand the problem is perceived.
It's morally neutral, at best. I suppose watching a pirated Disney property doesn't deprive Disney of anything, since someone anti-Disney+ otherwise wouldn't have watched it on Disney+ anyway.
IMO, Zapier is a little different because it's connecting disparate APIs.

Disclaimer: I work for Zapier.
Because of this (from the article):

> (b) We need to scientifically understand why the dark-matter based model, being the most falsified physical theory in the history of humankind, continues to be religiously believed to be true by the vast majority of the modern, highly-educated scientists. This is a problem for the sociological and philosophical sciences and suggests a breakdown of the scientific method [18].

There are few hot takes I agree with more. I don't care if the opponents of DM/DE are proponents of MOND, or proponents of something else involving pixies and turtles. We should continue to investigate DM/DE, but not with the religious fervor that we do today.
I'm tempted to hack out a website real quick, you'll search for a show and it'll tell you when the next season's coming and on which service.

And then you can schedule your entire year around which individual months you want to be subscribed to say Netflix or Hulu.

Maybe call it Go binge me
Yes, so here, Canada, we tend to make that flat sales tax more complex, so some groceries are excempt, some meals, etc.

Which makes it harder for people to know all the ins and outs of...
By TS I really mean JS. I'm sure they will adopt types soon enough. You would agree JS will be around forever right?
To be clear, black people having the right to vote wasn’t the original deal, either. Was them achieving the right to vote disenfranchising white people?

That’s the problem here. Yes, black people achieving a say in how they were governed lessened white people’s power. Clearly it was the right thing to do. Unless you’d like to argue against this point?

My argument is that favoring rural over urban is not dissimilar. As a matter of practice, favoring rural _is_ the same as favoring white, Christian (especially evangelical) land owners.

Your fears over “one person one vote” nullifying smaller states is just not reality. Most countries don’t have a Senate-like body and their smaller territories are not wastelands. Thinking it would nullify their voters is not based on real world observation.

As a matter of fact, smaller states derive more benefit from cleaving to bigger ones than the other way around in nearly every way. The world provides plenty of evidence that disproves your arguments, we don’t have to fear theoreticals.
China has a lot of brilliant scientists. They also have 1.4 billion people. Not surprising.
Not the person you're responding to but yeah, the Fit was the Honda Jazz. Sadly it has been discontinued. I'm not sure anyone makes a comparable car (must have fold-flat seats that also flip up for transporting taller items).
Which Way, Online Man: Archaic revival, spectacle, and masculinity
If you compare the losses to what is claimed as active you can rule out whole categories as being "active".
No you can't (unless you do it yourself but the price is extremely high if you want uninterrupted power). What happens is: your provider purchase "green energy certificates" which means that some green electricity was generated on a sunny and/or windy day.
When it's night and the wind don't blow, you use coal and gas as everyone else.

No storage is cheap enough to store solar and wind energy on day-to-day scale, let alone seasonally.

Please don't let the brainwashing gets to you and inform yourself.
I’m glad I ride a bike. The rampant anti-consumer abuse and fee stacking you see with cars do not exist for other types of transit.
> It's pretty established that GM stopped selling cars to the discerning value focused customer years ago.

Eh, GM makes the Bolt. That is hard to beat on TCO.
This seems overly pessimistic, and perhaps very myopically metropolitan. I can't imagine wasting food from a restaurant -- I always have taken my leftovers home and eaten them later. Even at home, stuff gets used or I feel shame, and unusable scraps go into the compost.
Mushrooms (to be more specific, only certain species) can be used to clean up dirty sites, since they absorb heavy metals so well.

+1 for raised beds.

+1 for testing. Here in the US, almost every college has a Cooperative Extension, and does soil testing. At Rutgers [1], it's just an extra $18 for lead testing.

[1]: https://njaes.rutgers.edu/soil-testing-lab/services-fees.php
Is AWS Wrong?
I work at a large enterprise and have been challenging our architects on AWS Cognito JWT implementations. The OAuth implementation indicates to never use the ID token when sending to the resource server (https://oauth.net/2/access-tokens/). I have found this same recommendation through other providers as well such as Microsoft, Okta, and Auth0. However, the AWS Cognito team seems to clearly indicate it's ok to use the ID token (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/amazon-cognito-user-pools-using-the-id-token.html), "The ID token can also be used to authenticate users to your resource servers or server applications."

Our architects are adamant that AWS is the sole authority here, but I want to understand why AWS seems to recommend using the ID token when I can't find recommendations anywhere else.
Why did you censor “sack”? That’s not even a foul word.
"The areas with highest quality of life have declining population, so your premise is flawed."

Which premise, and how so?

"Obviously the solution is to increase our resource usage. If we had abundant clean energy (e.g. nuclear, maybe even wind/solar) none of this would be a problem."

I fail to see how this solves all our problems. How does this replace things like metals, plastics, all agricultural products, over fishing, deforestation, etc?
Yeah, but for a long time previously it was things actually related to fire (burns, asphyxia, internal trauma, etc.)
I would say the big mistake was to only use pipelines to Russia for gas. They should have built LNG terminals as redundancy. And maybe push for another pipeline to Algeria either through France and Spain or Austria/Switzerland and Italy.

They basically left the door open to abusive trade partners by not building any redundancy on such a critical resource. And it is not just electricity Germany needs gas for as it is also a very important resource for lots of industrial processes (and used for heating a lot but that should be replaced by heat air pumps)

Obviously such redundancy would have pushed up the price of gas in the short term at least. Easy to say this stuff in hindsight.
Depends on if the 4 hours a week was all time I had to be at the office or the time I could do something useful but still had to be there 40 hours. For the first option it might be ok. I could find other things to do, maybe start my own little company, spend more time with the family and so on.
Coming to Android as well? Or maybe web based?
> this would have been impossible for a single person using traditional tools such as Java

I don't think so?
Powered by Raspberry Pi: SearchWing maritime search and rescue drones
I've also had a deer run into the side of my car!

I think they know cars are dangerous, but they don't perceive the speed and don't do a good job of extrapolating where the car will be. And why should they, they're deer. So they just bolt across the road knowing it's dangerous when a car is coming (hence why they're bolting) but often misjudge.
So in short:
- Hire good people
- Use off the shelf tools when it makes sense
- Prototype rapidly
- Develop systems iteratively
It’s also a logistics thing. Since we also shop online. Store want online prices to match what’s seen in store and making the two match would be a nightmare and not reasonably viable.

On the other hand thing like cars really should have an all inclusive price sticker. They already have an itemized price sticker on the car so there is really nothing stoping these sellers from putting the remaining fees and taxes on there two as that should be consistent with the same dealer location and with such low inventory.
Just to add another layer of complexity.

Many landlords and development companies add on percentage based fees. Some merchants will report these on recipes as PIF Tax (Property Improvement Fees). These are not a technically a tax, but impact the consumer the similarly

Even if you are tax exempt or buying non-taxable items like food, the property own still collects PIF.

PIFs are in the contract between the landlord and merchant the actual details of how fees work are not publicly know. Merchants may benefit from actual property improvements, or the fees are entirely a profit stream for the landlord.
> The difference is that cars are a extremely competitive market, and the "no connected" version will always be offered.

Are they? Cars are an extremely difficult market to break into, much more so than laptops/etc.

All mainstream manufacturers are already on the way to do the whole "connected" thing (the hardware has been there for a decade, it's just a matter of software) and the vast majority of people don't seem to mind.

Starting a car manufacturer is already a huge expense, even more so if your only customer base is the small percentage of the population who understands the downsides of connected cars.

More likely we'll see reverse-engineered aftermarket replacement controllers that behave just like the original but don't have any connected/DRM crap in them - that market is much easier to break into and you may not even need to make any hardware - just refurbish & reflash the original ones.
I wonder... certain software, such as Flight Simulator and Lotus 1-2-3 had a profound effect on the level of compatibility of clones.
So perhaps if software was released that demanded EVEN MORE compatibility, we would have even more compatible clones than we do now?
Ah yes, the ol' "turn an unverified reddit thread into a news article"
I guess this depends on how well cars with mandatory subscriptions sell compared to before. If the number of sales goes up, or stays the same I would guess more manufacturers start doing this.

And I'd say this is the slippery slope from smart home devices all requiring a subscription. Since everything "smart" requires backend infrastructure and cloud bills can't be paid for the entire lifecycle up front, get ready to see a lot of subscriptions added to things that didn't have it before.
If a truck or a van is big that seems reasonable to me. What really gets me is how stuff like the Mini. Park a BMW Mini next to a BMC Mini and the modern mini looks like a SUV. Buying cars that comfortably fit in "compact only" spaces in the city is getting harder every year.
> Russian propaganda proposes partitioning of Ukraine.

They also try to stir up tensions by proposing that Poland and Romania annex parts of Ukraine too. Example: https://adevarul.ro/assets/adevarul.ro/MRImage/2022/07/28/62...

The maps are ridiculous, especially considering Romania's interests are only in re-unifying with the rest of Moldova, but that's been prevented for last 30 years by Russia's occupation of R. Moldova.
Only a foot deep? My sprinkler system is deeper than that.

ATT recently did fiber by my house with some kind of machine. It did some kind of U shaped trench, where it drilled down (not sure how deep), then over about 200 feet, and back up. So you only see a hole every 200 or so feet, vs a solid trench. Let them go under driveways and all of that.

A team of 4 guys was able to do my entire neighborhood in a day. Still waiting for ATT to actually wire up the fiber, until them I am stuck with comcast cable (which is fine ,except the data cap doesn't scale with speed, so the faster connections cap cap you out in like 15 minutes).
> Can somebody explain why people tend to prefer petrol engines for trucks America?

Fuel and maintenance costs. Gasoline is currently $3.58/gallon here, and diesel almost $5/gallon. Also, diesel isn't necessary for most pickup truck usage. I would consider replacing my gasoline truck with diesel if I had to haul lots of weight often. I would also have to upgrade from a half ton. I have no problem hauling most building materials that I need for work, but I wouldn't want to move for example heavy equipment on a regular basis with my (comparatively) small gasoline truck.
To clarify: sure, I'm wrong in the sense that there is a normal way if we by 'normal' mean 'most people do it like this'. Unfortunately, 'normal' almost always also carries a meaning of 'the proper way'.

Also, something that's normal (in the sense of 'most common') in, say, the US is not necessarily normal in, say Norway or Thailand or Zambia.
What features of the OnStar service cost anywhere near $40/month to provide? Your phone does almost all of that for free already. The only sustaining cost is the mobile traffic. (For reference, Tesla's "premium connectivity" feature that provides YouTube and satellite imagery and remote camera streams and such is $10/month).
Do you mean programming competitions? They were a huge thing for me in high school, and that was 20 years ago. I have to imagine they’re an even bigger thing now.
I’d add that recent deregulation (energy markets) & pre-regulation (like cryptocurrency) show that companies are remarkably fast & consistent in enacting proven, exploitive models.

The idea that regulation is a burden on society is fanciful. What is burdensome is regulations that cannot be readily adapted. Unfortunately, popular myths like “regulation bad” is part of the reason regulators stay with policies they would much rather propose updating. Veteran regulators are quite eager to improve their frameworks. It is “politics” that prevents their evolution.
To a degree... but the problem with a lot of "low/no-code" is the people using it, lol. I'm not a musician, so even with better/different tools, I can't compose a good song. Same goes for a lot of low-code solutions I've come across. The design/architecture causes a lot of problems. The big ones I've seen are ppl designing without thinking about side effects and responsibility of "modules."

I'm probably bias though, as I do contract work that is 99% replacing low-code solutions with something proprietary. I think it works out pretty good though. They usually have some sort of system in place and "working." Makes my job a lot easier as you can see the "shape" of their intent.

There's always going to be one or two things that bother a PM to the point of switching to some proprietary solution ;)
GM doesn't and never will "go out of business" as long as the USA remains a viable nation-state with military needs and financial ability to bail them out.
Isn't that what a lot of environmentalists/climate helpers suggest anyways?

I've heard that driving a vehicle until everything falls apart is a lot more green/climate friendly than immediately switching to something new.
You have to word this carefully...

Disney has more subscriptions than Netflix, when you add together the streaming services they offer. ("Subscribers" implies people, but that's much harder to count accurately.)
Possible. I also wouldn't be surprised if it's actually real either.
Your agent takes a cut, you may be able to save more going alone if you are willing to do the legwork.
Does this mean that the formatting due to conversation might change? Aren't the features of azw3 lacking compared to mobi: can this also result in unwanted changes?
One of 5G’s biggest features is a security minefield
Full blown multiplayer 3d shooter rendered at 120 FPS vs a lagging infinite scroll. Same browser, different tabs.
The U.S. built wide roads in order to be tolerant to the small mistakes people make while driving. It’s called “forgiving design.” Planners were not expecting auto makers to inflate their vehicles to the larger lane width.
Over several years of playing in the muck every day before maturing past the tendency to eat dirt / cram dirty hands in mouth, 1/4 pound is just not that much. There is no "safe" level of lead exposure.
> You're following too close, like most drivers.

You're an outlier who thinks they know better and your standards do not reflect the average person, like all people who complain about "most" people's choices when it comes to subjective matters like risk assessment, the right way to cook a steak, what colors look good on a house, etc, etc.

Basically it's impossible for "most people" to be wrong here because the standard for what is reasonable is roughly defined by social consensus.
I'm curious what that actually accomplishes in non marketing terms. That just means someone else is getting less renewable electricity, right?
Source for similar amounts? Median disposable income is way higher in the US.