skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional consulting and crop insurance were created for that.

We don't have a minimum context. area?, rain?, acid soil?, market location?, variety? (early/season/late?), potential load of fruit?

Without data, we can't suggest you anything of value

Try the advice of an --independent-- professional consulting. Hear local sellers also but not only locals. Specially if they are local sellers also (Will try to sell you as many useless products as possible).

Remember this: Chemicals are not a magic wand. Is the number one mistake of a newbie. Sometimes are useful, but incorrectly used can do more harm than good. If your plants get ill, first discover the real problem. Your plants are alive beings in the Family Rubiaceae, try to understand their ecological needs and fix those first.

If you are newbie I would suggest to diversify your crops to reduce the possibility of failure. Some years are bad, other good. Do your location allows avocados? zapotes? icecream beans? plant a couple of trees somewhere to exercise your skills where they don't disturb the coffee plants or where they help them (If I remember correctly coffee plants need some light shadow to grow well, check it). Just an example, not need to be followed literally but, in resume, don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
Let's not pretend that we are babes in the woods, with glistening eyes just opened to the world, trying to decide for ourselves what a "luxury car" really is.

This is a well defined market segment for suppliers and consumers alike. It is a term of art used by industry analysts, investors, producers, and car buyers. Don't create your own definitions. If I say I am going to buy a junk bond, you don't need to start questioning "what is junk? All things are needed in life. One man's junk is another man's treasure", etc.
Yes, and my schools were not throwing out sandwiches either. Schools started doing so because it became a serious liability issue with kids weaponizing it for bullying and leading to death. Unless you have a solution for the human condition that will stop people leveraging deadly allergies as a form of torment, then schools will keep doing so.
I think you’re right, but I assume the whole idea was to avoid having the formal version of this thread in an appeals court a year from now.
A minor niggle there: machine code is the native language of the computer. Assembly language is a slightly higher-level and slightly less expressive language. Most of the time, they can be seen as equivalent, but as a trivial example, a generation of us had to DB Z80 opcodes when using an 8080 assembler. More practically, things like breakpoints have to be set by writing binary to memory - there is no assembly language involved. At a less practical level, you can have things like self-modifying code, or code where the meaning changes depending on what byte offset you start.
This is off topic but are you able to go further into how you're doing DNS or is there perhaps a jumping off point that you can direct me to? Oddly fascinated by it and you make compelling points.
Not to nitpick but technically only thc is illegal federally and only in certain quantities- you can legally buy some cannabis products like cbd oil federally. In most states the rest is effectively legal even if the federal government says no but technically you are correct there.
I want to feel bad for the people who fell for this, but it’s so stupid, it’s hard to. We really are in the dumbest timeline.
That's really cool and I didn't realize that! For future readers, key points from the article:

"Note that while pulls from ECR Public do work from outside AWS, they are rate limited if not authenticated with an Amazon account, and you should generally use the Docker Hub addresses if you are pulling from outside AWS. Please see the ECR Public quotas documentation for more about how limits work with ECR Public.

If you are an AWS customer, pulling Docker Official Images from ECR Public offers several advantages. ECR Public is replicated across all AWS regions, so pulls are local to the region you pull from. This helps ensure lower latency for requests and ensures that all your resources are in the same failure zone, which is the recommended architectural pattern."
A gentle reminder that nothing is intuitive.
It is still a federal offence and even if there are no raids, there are indirect fights, including civil asset forfeiture or even raiding the armored transports that carry the cash from the sales. Feds are harassing the state-legal merchants by targeting the money movement at any level.
I don't think it is unreasonable for them to have blocked it, for the simple reason it would allow banks to engage in businesses that are violating federal law.

The only true policy is a coherent policy- anything else is just the whims of whoever holds executive fiat.

It should just be fully legalized.
Except when that is unethical. Service in this case is relief of pain and saving a life, so the only thing the code of ethics in medicine allows to be a factor in that decision is who needs treatment most urgently.

So Joe Biden shot in the arm comes after homeless guy shot in the head.
> Schools started doing so because it became a serious liability issue with kids weaponizing it for bullying and leading to death

This sounds completely absurd and hyperbolic, but let's say I took it at face value - why is this an issue now and not an issue when I was in school?
Even printing the weather is subject to opinion. Good weather? You're promoting the fallacy that things are good. Bad weather? You're promoting the fallacy that things are bad. Neutral? You're wasting precious space for something as useless as news.
> I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to just eat their PB&J at home.

What's the cost benefit analysis here?
That the kid does not get to share the food?

Would touching someone that ate a PBJ be enough to trigger an episode? In what percentage of people?

How can you just say something like that without also stating a model? Without percentages and numbers?
I think your paraphrasing is inaccurate, they said

> Instead it might be better to select programmers who are good (but not necessarily great) at coding

Good but not great doesn’t mean they are the least valuable, it means they are competent or at worst average. This may be a good indicator that they would like to explore other forms of career advancement than mastering programming. You for sure shouldn’t just pick someone and make them a manager, you’d need to survey a few people or create an opening and take applications from interested parties. You also need to evaluate for competence and train them to become managers.
Sun was caught by the WinTel (Windows - Intel) engine that commoditized computing. They died because they were unable to rapidly change their businessmodel that relied on an expensive sales staff vendoring relatively big ticket items.

In other words, they died by their own sword.
Currently 37 of 50 states have some sort of law on their books allowing legal Cannabis sales in some form.

The 13 with no legalization:

Idaho

Wyoming

Nebraska

Kansas

Iowa

Wisconsin

Indiana

Kentucky

Texas

Tennessee

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia
Yea but imagine the optics if the judge didn’t do it. It would be much worse either guilty or innocent .
I run my own email.

I have my own physical servers, that I built and tested myself, that I'm colocating. They handle both incoming and outgoing, and I've been doing it for so long that there is no previous reputation for the IP addresses I use.

In spite of how vehemently some people, Reddit's /r/sysadmin, as an example, want you to NOT host your own and use issues like deliverability as reasons, it's really not hard at all. It's super simple to refute all the major points they make, because they're so painfully weak that anyone that believes them may actually not have the aptitude to do it, and therefore shouldn't be telling others to not do it.

1) The primary issue brought up is deliverability. If you don't have a static IP, or you don't have control over your reverse DNS PTR, or the reputation of your IP is poor, then pay a company to smarthost your outgoing mail through them. It's a few $ a month, and poof! Problem solved.

2) There is no problem 2! Incoming email is incredibly straightforward. Even if you're on a residential network that blocks incoming port 25, you can pay for a VPS or something like that on a public address and port forward to your mail server.

Why make a distinction between simply hosting your email with a VPS and doing this? Well, one of the primary reasons for people hosting their own email is being able to possess your own email - that is, your email isn't sitting unencrypted on a server that you don't control.

I've even run an email server in my car while driving across the country, just to show how easy it is. It uses tinc to forward a public address and had no issues with email in either direction :)
This blog post is from 5 years ago, but it explains how you can use CSS Houdini to make smooth corners. It's quite a lot of work, though.

https://iamvdo.me/en/blog/smooth-corners-with-css-houdini

I would love it to be built into browsers as standard.
I read the GP a bit differently... I didn't read it as saying obfuscation is evil, just that it is ineffective. More like "obfuscation can't prevent reversing, therefore it's not a valid security practice since all it does is slow down the casual observer but does not stop the determined adversary." The statement that most use of obfuscation is nefarious is a corollary... since obfuscation doesn't protect IP it is mostly used to hide malicious activity.
This is largely correct. All major news outlets are information distribution platforms to reach particular demographic segments. The principal customer is not the reader but the advertiser or interest that controls the publication. It isn't necessary to be an advertiser in the traditional sense to control the news. Mostly, control is exercised by hiring the right people who are ideologically aligned with the target readership. Only management needs to receive marching orders and truly understand who they really work for. It's more accurate to think of newspapers as political party organs. This is their original function and remains so. They signal to their readership the acceptable bounds of opinion, beliefs, and facts. Even publishing the results of an election is an attempt to control discourse and to dominate the minds of the population. Gumshoe investigators aside, corporate journalists are mostly discourse police and propagandists. They are some of the lowest forms of human life. If you know one, the only reasonable feelings are contempt and pity, never admiration. Science journals are completely co-opted by interest groups and cannot be taken at face value. The only true news is sports scores.
IMO the FDA should say that such labels do absolve the company from liability, it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t.
The law outside its application is meaningless. That’s why there’s so many “Did you know it’s illegal to wash your aardvark on Wednesday” laws still on the books.

Regarding drugs and guns — how is that enforced? Can’t see how a gun dealer would know.

Also, employers can drug test for nicotine, which is legal, and deny employmet.
I've been hosting my own email for 20 years.

I started on grokthis.net, they got acquired by Rackspace, stuck w/ rackspace longer than I should, groomed an elastic AWS IP for a year, got reverse DNS Mapping on it, and it's been pretty good.

Years ago, I was blocked once a year, and have not really seen much deliverability issues. More recently, either due to the reputation, or AWS being more diligent in blocking abusers, or blocklists being more focused, I have not had many if any issues. DKIM, SPF, DMARC all setup help.

Rspamd, postfix, dovecot, and roundcube are the tools I use to manage it, and it works for my pretty light load. There was a fun incident early on where my Bank did not send a 'Date: ' header (which is legal, per spec), but an rspamd default rule scored that as a high spam signal.

It's helped me learn about SMTP and all the related tech, and for someone who's in systems + operations, it's not that heavy a lift to do on the off time.
The latest self driving videos are looking really impressive. Maybe we’re getting close.
fastmail with custom domain
Ask HN: Racism in London
I traveled to London this week and I’ve been going to restaurants. When people see me (I’m black), they always say the restaurant is booked. Finally, after a few minutes I came back and spoke to a black woman who was working there and asked for a seat. She gave me a seat right away. According to her, the restaurant was not booked. There was plenty of space. I don’t know what to make of this. Has someone had a similar experience?
I don't know, but if I were in charge of the FCC, I'd purge most such rules and instead bask in the glow of true freedom.
Just in case Sciter supports mixins out of the box.

@mixin button-alike {
border:1px solid;
border-radius;
background:gold;
}

and its usage

a.button {
@button-alike; // mixin application point
color:blue;
}

Parametric mixins are also supported:

@mixin button-alike(back) {
border:1px solid;
border-radius;
background:back;
}

and

a.button {
@button-alike(gold); // mixin application point with parameter
color:blue;
}
I’m not speaking of preferences, but of what you’re taught to do in professsional journalism/editing programs.

Headlines are read before article bodies / before other meta-information like URLs. Often — especially when a headline is a link embedded elsewhere, but also when a headline is one among many on a multi-article layout — only the headline is read (because the reader decides they’re not interested and moves on.)

In the inverted-pyramid style of news-article structure — which is so commonplace that people intuitionally expect even non-news writing to also conform to it — a reader is supposed to be able to stop at any point in reading and have received all the important info; and an editor is supposed to be able to cut any article from the bottom up for space reasons without damaging the article’s meaning.

Thus, readers expect a headline to be a most-condensed summary for an article; something they can read without reading anything else, and still come away informed.

This leads to guidance for writers of headlines, even in non-news traditions: write the headline such that a reader can read a headline, decide they now know enough, and stop reading/move onto something else, without doing so having resulted in the reader being misled.

An article whose headline is a quotation, but which does not quote the quotation, is misleading to those readers who read nothing else. This is, from the headline-writer’s perspective, bad praxis.
>They had full control and could have legalized it

That's not how the Senate works. A 50-50 "majority" is not full control.

In any case, it's pretty silly to blame the party that's on your side for not being able to overcome the bad-faith obstructionism of the opposing party. It's not about political "footballs", it's about having finite time and public attention to be able to get things done. If every single fight has to be dragged into the public to shame the other side into taking a few minutes off from looting and pillaging, then you have to prioritize and pick the optimal time for each battle.
In general, I agree. But most recently, there's one thing that's not (for me, at least) getting easier despite doing it every day: cold water exposure.

I'm someone who HATES HATES HATES cold temperature. Once, while camping in one of the Californian mountains during winter about 8 years ago, I couldn't stand the cold and I ended up stuffing heated hand-warmers in both of my shoes...accidentally fell asleep and woke up blistered feet.

Anyways, starting July 2022 (a little over six months ago), I started cold water exposure. Every morning, as early as 4:30 am, I would force myself to hop in the shower and blast myself with cold water for at least 3 minutes. Sometimes 4 minutes. Now, I've been doing this consistently, every day, since then, and .... it's not getting easier. I still hate it. Every time. But I still do it, every day. But no, definitely not getting "better" at it, I don't think.
Yes I love that integration too. Pretty much all of my aliases have been set up using 1password’s interface that integrates into signup forms.
Is it really fair to say "tonnes of money" to use Docker Desktop?

Docker's pricing page has:

> Commercial use of Docker Desktop at a company of more than 250 employees OR more than $10 million in annual revenue requires a paid subscription (Pro, Team, or Business) to use Docker Desktop

A huge amount of solo devs, small teams and decent sized companies will end up paying $0 due to that criteria.

That means all of your startups with 20 employees and 5 developers making $4 million a year are paying $0 for Desktop Desktop. If you become big enough where you surpass $10 in annual revenue then you'll pay Docker $300 a year for your 5 devs to use Docker Desktop.

Or if you're in a bigger company with 400 employees and 60 developers. Those 60 DD licenses will cost you $3,600 a year but your payroll for 60 developers will be like 15 to 25 million dollars.

I don't understand why so many folks want to switch from DD because of pricing alone. Their pricing is extremely fair.
How a Vermont farmer proved no snowflakes are alike
dmg and deb files are not binaries, they just contain binaries.
To me, the most important question is: how did we end up in a place where there are so many food allergies and we still do not understand the reason for the increase? Is it better diagnosis? Early exposure to allergens? Lack of early exposure to allergens? Some evolutionary advantage to having an allergy? (I doubt that, but it is plausible).
Engineering managers exist to ensure the company is getting sufficient value out of the hundreds of thousands they’re paying for each software engineer. If goals were always crystal clear and every SWE always had a good sense of how their work translated into business outcomes and prioritized accordingly then no, managers would not be necessary. Those conditions are often true at very early stage startups, and never true at any company over 100 employees.
You've never heard of pre-paying for up to ten years?
Despite a lot of ratings myself, I have still have had to cancel a fair number of trips because my plane lacks known icing protections. I’m comfortable shooting an approach to minimums but icing is such a capricious and limiting problem for light aircraft.
TFA suggests that the official git repo for the Linux kernel is on GitHub. I wonder if they really did their research
Mail hosting and mail client aren't strongly related. I host my own MTA and POP3 mailbox, and happen to read that mail box (and all my other mail accounts) with my macOS mail client. I have been through a lot of MTAs, mailbox handlers and mail clients over the years.
#legend
"Some hosting providers has insecure server images. E.g. Ubuntu where the root user has no password, since, as they might argue: "you login with key file on SSH anyway""

Ubuntu is not insecure regarding root user access.

Reference

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/security-users/11881

"This does not mean that the root account has been deleted or that it may not be accessed. It merely has been given a password hash which matches no possible value, therefore may not log in directly by itself."
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? (Poem)
Does anyone know what I could say to strangers? That part trips me up.
The problem is that "may contain sesame" is not a legally valid excuse for containing sesame, but "does contain sesame" is. And the part about "may contain X" not being an excuse comes from existing precedent, not from the new law.
> From my personal experience, I don't find general news helpful at all

The issue here is that's not actually news. Something happening - because LOTS of things happen - is not news. Content focused on "increasing engagement" (to increase ad views) is not news.

News has relevance. News has importance. News' priority is to inform and clarify.

All too often, most news is not news (at best it's current events). It doesn't help that parroting press releases and narratives that force feed "conventional wisdom" is passed off as journalism.

Collectively, we need to stop giving credit where credit is not due. A barking pet is not a cat.

Sure, the abnormal has been normalized. But that doesn't make it right.
> Anyone that has taken a little MDMA at a party will have experienced it: when you make a point of introducing yourself to everyone, people tend to be quite friendly and open

Especially if everyone else is on MDMA as well...
I literally posted a story where this was happening, did you not read the link I shared? There are multiple other examples in just the past few years, and the thing is that all it takes is one inciting incident to cause massive problems for the school district.
Netflix probably re-encodes for new devices (to avoid delays doing it on the fly) regularly like Google does for YouTube. That compute time might make up some of the difference despite the different needs.
Yeah sorry the issue that I run into frequently on this topic is "US bad because those poorer, more conservative states are terrible and if we just governed them like the utopia of New York City, we'd do much better in rankings", and while I think red states have their own failure modes - the stats show that at least some of them are doing just fine.

Sorry for being a bit reactionary there, sometimes a certain opinion is common enough that you respond like it's being stated due to similar comments being a prelude to it.
I'm a huge fan of contemporary poetry. I can give a few recommendations, but of course you'll have your own tastes, so I'll try to annotate :)

"Here, Bullet" by Brian Turner. Poetry of the Iraq war.

"In the Surgical Theatre" by Dana Levin. Medical, experimental.

"Black Aperture" by Matt Rasmussen. About his brother's suicide.

"Homie" by Danez Smith. Hard to pin down but amazing book. Stream of consciousness, experimental, explores queerness and blackness.

"The Tradition" by Jericho Brown. Phenomenal. Explores being black in America, more historicism than Danez's collection.

"Frank" by Dianne Seuss. Powerful and beautiful. Modern lyrics. All sonnets. Will change the way you think about what poetry is. Stunning collection.

"Post colonial Love Poem" by Natalie Diaz. What it sounds like :) really cool book

"When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities" by Chen Chen. A little bit more fun.

All of these, of you're not familiar with contemporary verse, will challenge your notions of "what poetry is."

Here's my advice: just read it and experience it. It's supposed to be fun! None of these works are puzzles to be solved, or have hidden secret meanings. They are all works of art, and all experiences of them are valid. Enjoy!
font-size: [fit-width|fit-height|fit-container]; would be nice
> a machine may be programmed to act like it understand something without understanding as we consider it usually

There's a (maybe subtle) point being implied in this statement: it assumes the idea that we'd be able to poke the AI in some way that makes sense to us that would demonstrate that the AI doesn't "understand".

As a trivial example, it's possible to have an extended conversation with chat gpt about ways to treat male pattern baldness, and then ask it "what do you think the likelihood is that I am balding?" and have chat gpt reply along the lines of "I have no knowledge of your physical body." (I made that example up based on previous conversations -- chat gpt might do better in real life)

But if chat gpt were also able to answer that question reasonably -- and every other question we might think to ask, all using its current (non-"understanding") method -- then can we even say that it doesn't "understand as we consider it usually" if we can't demonstrate that it doesn't?