skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember reading about no-till as a kid back in the 80s and there are still people who are just now getting the memo and trying it.

I remember as a kid in the 80s watching people try it. They either went bankrupt or soon pulled the old iron back out of the shed. But the march of technological progress continues. The tools on the market now aren't the same tools they had in the 80s. It stands to reason that it is going to be tried again.

Not no-till related, but I recently bought an implement for my farm and my grandfather was concerned because a similar tool he had decades ago didn't work well on the farm. But the new tool is only similar on the surface. When you start looking at the details it is very different, benefiting from decades of advancement. It's worth trying again.
From what I've seen, Europeans like to visit 1) NYC, which I'll admit is a really interesting place to visit with fantastic museums and other cultural attractions, but it's expensive as hell (esp. because of hotels), 2) DC, for many of the same reasons as #1 but it costs less and there's far fewer rats, and 3) the National Parks, especially in the western states, because there's not much like them in Europe, and they really are fantastic places of natural beauty.

Europeans aren't going to visit Kansas City or Dallas or Cincinnati.
I think you’re referring to SBF and FTX people, who aren’t the same group ?
Indigenous tribes buffered climate impact on wildfires in the American Southwest
"Devastating megafires are becoming more common, in part, because the planet is warming. But a new study suggests bringing 'good fire' back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today's wildfires."
The midwest used to have great soil. But the soil in the midwest is not meant to grow crops, but to raise cattle (nature put buffalo there as well as other ruminants). If you have grassland with ruminants, you can take a small portion of that and grow some corn or other staple for a few years, and then return it to grassland (what the Native Americans did) so that it is naturally fertilized by ruminants and the decaying roots of grass. But in order to turn it into millions of acres of soy or corn that are constantly and intensely being harvested, you need to add lots of synthetic fertilizer and then deplete the aquifers, because the midwest is a semi-arid plain.

That means the nutrients have been depleted over the previous hundred growing seasons, and it takes more and more fertilizer to get the same level of output even as the aquifers are being depleted. We don't know how many growing cycles are left, but after the next hundred years, if we are still growing crops in the midwest, it will be because we are importing 100% of the nutrients and shipping in the water from elsewhere. We will just be using the physical space at that point, and I doubt crops grown this way can be as nutritious.
Ask HN: In modern Java, is AbstractFactoryFactoryAdapter still a thing?
In the late 2000s I was a Java coder and there was a whole culture of obsession with design patterns, overengineering object hierarchies, "Kingdom of Nouns" (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html)

I hear a lot that the Java landscape has changed a lot in recent years, especially the language itself and the JVM. But is the culture of encouraging overengineering still there or its been relegated to the past?
Nuclear Startup X-Energy to Go Public in SPAC Deal
I think it's good to acknowledge, yes, this is worth the cost (since even if it would have opened up massive potential for this system to be abused, massive privacy loss for law abiding citizens, etc., it's true it might have caught a few abusers). Just like how the physical world equivalent - Governments putting cameras in everybody's homes that are watched by AI and police can access at any time when something is flagged - would be far more open to abuse than they would be useful for stopping crime.

We must always remember that mass surveillance is never the most effective way to stop crime, and is rarely even that useful. You make the haystack far larger and finding the needles gets more difficult, and AIs, while impressive, generate huge numbers of false positives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33901808

Implication seems to be that they'd have to wipe it themselves
> Telegram launched a silly username auction that I won't link here.

No worries, I'll do it for you: https://fragment.com

Source: https://www.telegram.org/blog/topics-in-groups-collectible-u...
I'd call it more than "disappointing", that would be fraud if true. And let's not forget how disgusting it would be stealing the fame from a young Ph.D. candidate for whom this could have been the kickstarting of a successful career.

>Several independent scientists consulted about the case by Science agreed the Scientific Reports paper contains suspicious irregularities, and most were surprised that the paper—which they note contains typos, unresolved proofreader’s notes, and several basic notation errors—was published in the first place. Although they stopped short of saying the irregularities clearly point to fraud, most—but not all—said they are so concerning that DePalma’s team must come up with the raw data behind its analyses if team members want to clear themselves.

Sadly this "surprised it got published" story is all too common. There's a real issue with quantity over quality in science publishing.
Especially for scientists, it often is. Embarrassingly parallel is the norm. Multithreading is only actually hard when you have significant interaction between the threads.
Yes, and here is how that would go down with most bosses:

Hey, we have a new member of the team that's going to help you, pleased to introduce to a new team, member Jerry on a Monday, and then that Friday you are walked out the door citing at-will employment.

Jerry performs subpar duties, but not enough to get noticed, doesn't say that, and everything is good right up until the incident, and then Jerry quits.

Who got paid more? Needless to say, at that point the incident can be filed right under, "not your problem."
Sympy is pretty capable but not as beautiful. The first time I tried doing math in Julia was a pleasurable shock.
> It is thus possible to "stop" and put a boundary over the world and yet achieve almost all the benefits of "globalization" if your country has 300M people and spans the width of a continent.

Very interesting comment. Could you point to me some article that supported this?
Amazon as therapist.
My (recent) introduction to Zeihan was this talk he gave to pig farmers.

https://youtu.be/Wi_nFz1CJSI

The audio is a little rough, but it's worth the watch (in my opinion).

Yeah, he comes across as a bit forward and a bit nationalistic, and clearly not every prediction is going to land, but I think he's got some really good observations and seems fairly credible. Better at least than most of the talking-heads you see on the news.
So people can't bookmark websites anymore? They need a stupid APP? What are they doing on the internet exactly?

I'd rather have nothing to do with weirdos who require an "app" to communicate, and I say that having been using voice chat online since Iparty. (1997)

Iparty. Battlecom. Roger Wilco. Ventrilo. Teamspeak. Skype. Mumble. Discord etc

Until recently, you could host your own server on most of these. I want to go back to that. I'm sick of relying on other people for things to be up. Jitsi Meet is great.
I hit that when working with NHibernate (an early ORM in C# that was a port of Java's Hibernate.)

I found that it was easier to write the ^%$#$^ query myself than to deal with that monster. What was crazier was that the senior members of the team were so afraid of a database that they couldn't conceive of writing a SQL query.

I got stuck on trying to store an enum as an int in a column for about 3 days. Eventually I decided to read the book; and walked away realizing that it was only really useful for extremely complicated schemas. For simple schemas the learning curve was so high that writing boring SQL code was easier / faster.

(Now, Microsoft's entity framework is often "good enough" as an ORM, and has a rather gentle learning curve. It helps that C# has a way to express SQL-like queries on a collection of objects and translate them into SQL.)
If I can change the situation, I will be a part of this team. The tech team has been treated as full-time employees for the last two years in terms of being available from 9 to 6, doing daily standups, reporting that the work gets done, sending sick leave emails, and cutting money because of that "skipped" days. Never get any "paid holidays" or something. Most of the time, my rate was less than 25usd per hour. Taking the worst part of being a contractor and employee is my daily life. This is our first "international job" for the second developer and me. Hence, we were happy just taking it and believing in the founder's promises of higher salary and equity options. If trusted to my profile on carta.com, the options equity is about 0.8%. My friends with experience in startups said it's ridiculous. Only a tiny contractor's hourly rate with a small amount of equity for such hard work to make the company profitable. We did it but got no bonuses besides "Thank you! Let's work harder!"
Your line of reasoning would make a lot of sense if we ignore the fact that Facebook (at least claims they) would allow the other ads.

It seems likely to me that rather than wanting to hide these specific categories (but be willing to expose every other type of data collection they do on you), that Facebook doesn't allow these specific two categories because of the significant negative social/legal consequences if they get them wrong.

They are very likely trying to avoid gay users getting an ad that says "You're straight, join my Straight only dating site" or an ad incorrectly diagnosing users with a disease they don't have.
Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
I read this article and got curious so I went to reddit looking for any sign of it on /r/paleontology. I figured there would surely be someone in the field commenting about it since it is a really big deal to fee like you need to call out a colleague in such a public manner.

In a thread about another Hell Creek dinosaur that may turn out to be a chimera fossil instead of a distinct species [0] I found this Twitter thread from someone familiar with DePalma [1]. Seems like more than one person suspects that DePalma may not be on the level [2], [3] or that his work may not stand up to close scrutiny.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Paleontology/comments/zfj0ll/sad_an...

[1] https://twitter.com/paleopaws/status/1600520038070587395

[2] https://thesauropodomorphlair.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/nukin...

[3] https://twitter.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1600577537868181504

Pretty interesting. I'm pretty sure I watched a movie about this discovery detailing how they narrowed the season of the asteroid strike down to spring and it was an informative movie and entertaining too. Anyway, we get to see how this all shakes out.
> I'm not sure which part of the standard you think they're violating

The part where you're not supposed return a successful Command Status claiming a write succeeded, when actually, you're dropping writes — to anything but a few specific blocks, and only if you see those writes in the order you expect — on the floor.
If they want to have orgies, fine. That's consensual. Fraud, no.
Ok I know I’m the outlier here but I’m some ways I really don’t feel outraged about this and I almost understand it?

The foundation still owns the property, and if money was still going to the right places is it the end of the world?

I wonder where people would actually suggest they’d have their head quarters ? I know individuals who spend 2/10ths of they on their personal house so for a foundation it doesn’t see too outrageous.

the tweet is scant on details, maybe a foundations member donated the money for that specific property ?

Seems like Twitter is always looking for some thing / someone to lynch?
If the company promised the driver 300 dollars and used tips to reach that 300 dollar amount, it's not clear to me that the tips went to the driver at all. The tips reduced the company's liabilities.
I am in two minds about it. It costs less than top exec yearly compensation, and probably less than a lot of London office floors (presumably ?).

That said, there are cheaper ways to fire up the imagination of these luminaries: some decent grade tents in the woods, campfires etc. Sort of a poor mans burning man. I think the connection to nature and simplicity, and having slugs crawl on you at night, would create that creative bubble they are looking for.

Optics are important too, and even if this estate is genuinely good for how the money is spent, there is no way the average charity donator will see this. Also I reckon anyone well connected enough to be an EA doesn't need accommodation or money or a job to survive.
https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1600460052762009600?...

This is the closest thing in that thread, but it doesn't appear to be an official justification. In the replies of that tweet, someone suggests this as a better-faith representation of a justification.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky

Does not exactly sound like a desirable state
That form of “globalization” was for esoteric commodities usually consumed by the wealthy. You could only ship products that were a) small enough, and b) could survive a year long voyage.

You were trading expensive spices and luxury fabrics, not furniture and household utensils. The average person had maybe a couple of items in his home that were imported from global shipping routes. The rest of it was made locally.

Compare that to now when its the opposite - your house is filled with imported goods and locally made products might be rare (and often, expensive).

Which is to say, globalization of previous eras was a demographically isolated phenomenon - for the wealthy few.
"and it shows how poor entire states become when the soil is poor (which I suppose is not unlike the American midwest!)"

I'm not sure this is the reason the midwest is poor. In relation to farming, the size of land needed to make a good living has continually increased largely due to overhead costs increasing (insurances, general cost of living, and equipment). You have a lot of farms that try to hold on and are eventually consumed by corporate farms. Then factor in the pressure of globalization on commodity prices (one of the reasons for subsidies; although the subsidies may be hurting more than they help. On top of this, other industry such as manufacturing has been greatly reduced.

Soil quality may compound these issues through reduced yield. But even with better soil, the economics of the region are unlikely to change in my opinion.
Musk lashes out over investigation into Twitter’s bedrooms for employees
But hey, immortality is free.
> clicker-training them like dogs to use the appropriate pronouns

In my experience, this “clicker-training” consists of childishly threatening to kill themselves if others don’t give them what they want.
temporarily, due to public outcry from many groups
Ancient stone tools from China provide earliest evidence of rice harvesting
"A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting rice, which helped initiate rice domestication."
I think it’s like with many of these kind of developments: they come in waves. Thus, I rather think that globalization is not dead per se, but in a downturn. 10, 20, 30 years from now things might be very different again.
https://zeihan.com/newsletter/
Before commenting, I recommend reading this thread as well: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/...

Particularly the top reply: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/...

Of course, not everyone will agree with their decision, but it wasn’t done haphazardly. Here’s an excerpt:

> We had various calculations about costings, which made it look somewhere between “moderately money-saving” and “mildly money-spending” vs renting venues for events that would happen anyway, depending on various assumptions e.g. about usage that we couldn’t get great data on before running the experiment. The main case for the project was not a cost-saving one, but that if it was a success it could generate many more valuable workshops than would otherwise exist. Note that this is a much less expensive experiment than it may look on face value, since we retain the underlying asset of the building.
Once a code base gets big enough to be larger than a handfuls of files, a text editor just won't be able to keep up with the refactoring/reorganizing capabilities of a statically typed language managed by an IDE. This feature of Java alone makes it well worth it (over say JavaScript or Python), despite whatever other issues the language has.
Or future generations will look at ours as we look at the British who exploited India, or the Europeans who exploited the Americas, or the merchants of the triangular trade, or any of the other thousands of episodes of mass exploitation for profit. Fingers crossed for that and not a fascist uprising.
Zero-till farming will come to parts of the mid-west in fits and starts as farmers realize that the current methods are unsustainable, in most places there is no need to "plow it up".

In western Canada farming practices involve more crop rotations and less tillage, the net result has been increasing organic matter in many areas. I farm in an area with a surplus of organic matter, and too much can be a problem, so we still engage in a lot of tillage under normal precipitation conditions.

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agriculture-and-environment...
> He still had the Spectrum in pristine condition in its original box last year when he died of cancer. I'd love to have it, but don't really want to ask my aunt and cousin for it.

You could say something like "If you ever plan to get rid of it, please let me know first". You might find they offer it to you there and then, or worse offer it to you later on. And you won't feel like you're directly asking them for it on the spot.
New Deployment Option for Self-Hosting Bitwarden
There has never been a time in history when an incumbent power and an ascendant power just…got along.

Why would this time he different?
Profits and independent safety assessments don’t lie. They made the right call.
I don’t think it would be that different. I think the growth curve of our technology and population would have had a longer flat section.

Obviously this is a ridiculously complex thing to project, but the reason I’m skeptical is that without fossil fuels, there’s still far more energy available than we need.

Perhaps an argument could be made that fossil fuels are a distraction and we would have been naturally forced towards more sustainable options. …or we just get super good at burning trees.
> Surprised that is possible in the age of compliance for certifications (PCI, HIPPA, SOC2, etc).

If you can’t manage devices in a way which makes it possible to give them away to staff on separation, you can’t manage devices in a way which effectively protects against the risk of theft or loss.
If you enable automatic updates, you still have to trust that the GrapheneOS devs won’t push a malicious update to your phone, or sell that ability to someone else.
Please don't conflate effective altruism with SBF/FTX. Although SBF was a major donor to EA organizations, they were not party to his fraud and EAs do not generally approve of doing unethical things "for the greater good."(Citation: Point #5 here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-250)
I was probably 7 years old. Dad had a DOS machine for his business. Through rote memorization I could navigate to the games folder and run programs like Qbert.
Well, being a farmer, I have to compete against them and have a good handle on who else wants the land I have been able to rent, and who has taken the land I wished to rent but lost out on. So, no, I don't think so. That doesn't even get into the people who wish they could farm but can't because there are already so many lined up in front of them.
To be frank, they are already not very nutritious, both due to the type/genetics of the crop and the depleted soil providing fewer minerals.
I worded that confusingly, what was meant is the general public's perception of the academic world, not researchers themselves. We're in complete agreement about the reaction and in my opinion it's an appropriate one. If this guy made up the data he needs to go down.
> New model released

Journalists: ChatGPT, update my last article to be about you. Also send an email to someone and get a filler quote. And ping the waiter to bring me another of those dirty martinis.
Critical Vulnerability in Hasura GraphQL Engine v2.10.0
The entire organization that investigates leaks and supply chain tampering at one of those is formers and retirees of U.S. and allied intelligence and law enforcement communities. It is a large organization. It is itself a very small part of the organization containing it.

This is not uncommon, of course. Cops work at Kohl’s and shadow the Zuckerbergs and bounce at clubs and set security policy at multinationals. I don’t get why this is weird unless you’re implying that working in LE or intelligence automatically makes someone untrustworthy. Which is odd, since half of the peace officer or clearance processes are establishing trust and creating an enormous hill to climb to successfully violate it. The threat model is obvious, and it only takes a moment of thought to realize that “ex-CIA person” you’re looking at with a cocked eyebrow was deemed by said organizations to be trustworthy enough to represent the interests of the United States or wherever they come from. Do they get it wrong? Sure. Is it as often as you think? No. You don’t hear the successes and the ratio is way lower than you think it is.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who would disagree with your premise. Many of them have a quiet, nonzero involvement in ensuring you can safely share that opinion and eat, a majority are former military and had direct involvement in the same, and at the end of that they’d like to put the gun away and provide for their family. Why is that automatically suspect? It’s not like they’re walking out of government with an armful of implants.

Put it this way: would you rather someone that the government spent millions of dollars training in, say, cybersecurity and active threat assessment end their career by buying and operating a movie theater or by making sure the Internet and power grid keep working? I’m about as liberal as it gets and even I can get there while acknowledging that occasionally those powers are used for malevolence. I’d counter that Sand Hill is just as capable of capitalizing that malevolence as Fort Meade and arguably more successful on some axes (no pesky laws). And sure, leak investigation is a bit stupid and mildly malevolent, but supply chain isn’t, and it’s also their prerogative to run their house as they wish.

We’d all benefit from debating the policy instead of the person a bit more, I think.
You’re joking but smart TV screens already do this to identify and report content back to the mothership.
What is the implement you bought?