skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your desert idea tracks (many of the biggest greenhouses already are) but to keep the majority of the water, you would dehumidify it from the exhaust air. There are systems for this, I saw a couple in NW Mexico when I worked in greenhouse hydroponics in a past life
"The problem with grains and hydroponics is that grains are just so cheap it doesn’t make economic sense to do it."

It makes a ton of economic and ecological sense if you actually break it down. Damn shame the article fails to do so. We knew it made sense a decade ago when I got brought into the field to improve upon the lighting aspects for several companies.
The sad thing is there’s tons of people who use those apps who still like Twitter. And if they had announced that it was being cut off on February 1 for anyone who wasn’t a Twitter blue subscriber, they probably could’ve gotten a ton more subscribers. I’ve had for years I would be happy to subscribe if that was what it would take to be able to keep using a third-party client, and the third party client could actually do all the features like editing and polls.

Instead they just massively pissed off every single person who used one of those apps. And it’s going to be real hard to get them back, if at all possible.
The bug was in profanity?
Literally the plot of ongoing sci-fi show The Expanse (can recommend).
We can drop water requirements up to 99% for some crops versus traditional land farming using hydroponics. You get a sealed environment where water doesn't just get lost.
You do know that we've already been around this circle once with tobacco. Not to mention other "nuisances".
Brave browser’s new Snowflake feature help bypass Tor blocks
I’ve always felt BSDs are way underrated, and Dragonfly being underrated the most.

Dragonfly has some really innovative features:

- H2

- virtual kernels

- how it achieves SMP with no locking

- and much more
Rare Complications (Vaccine Study)
Original, old version with "Pentel 5" on the cap. It's had heavy use but shows no sign of it except tiny marks on the finish. I did buy a second one recently to have a different color. (Midlife crisis, I guess.) The new one is just very slightly not as nicely constructed.
The stack didn't seem stable from what I got talking to Fortinet employees at a recent event they hosted. My coworkers certainly ran up their bar tab tho!

What are your alternatives though? Watchguard is another home rolled Linux distro on a box under the hood, SonicWall is a mess, Ubiquiti got rid of their dev team and replaced them with non-US talent, which has caused severe stagnation in their routing products.

I only really trust OpenWRT and Mikrotik, but the latter requires a fair bit of learning and most MSPs and IT groups aren't game for either.
The UHF Bridge is interesting… I wonder if that’s a thing Norway lets you do? I’m pretty sure in the US you need a ham license to patch phone over radio like that.
Amazing way to put it actually. You summarized it in a great way.
I assume you meant "audiophile", not audiophool, right? If so, I wonder what makes an amplifier to be an audiophile amplifier in your opinion?

Objective and measurable parameters of the amplifier in question are phenomenal.
It needn't be real time though, and arguably better if it weren't. But I'd expect to see the training data updated at least daily at some time in the future.
Monoliths can scale. My monolith doesn't crash if one endpoint is throwing errors :)
Not sure I like the idea of humans taking over the galaxy unless we can evolve to be more caring.
x86 is a fairly uncommon choice in embedded systems, but it does show up occasionally. The DisplayPort to HDMI chip used in some current-generation Apple laptops has an embedded 80186 core, for example.

What you will find all over are 8051-compatible cores. Those show up everywhere, even in some places where you might not have expected to find a microcontroller at all.
Hyperswitch – Connect to multiple payment processor with a single API
No more steak, that's for sure.
Is there reason to believe they ever will be?
I think professors and schools need to realize learning and life will be different now with the mass utilization of AI. Humans are taking a role more of composers than generators of the raw material — writing in this case. And I think, ultimately, it should be ok to use assistive technologies like ChatGPT to write an essay. After all, a human still signs off on it. The human still has to creatively make decisions with respect to prompts and what to include.

And as long as it does not infringe on someone’s copyrighted work, then what is the trouble with using AI to write? I’m sure all scientific papers could be made far more comprehensible in parts with the use of assistive ai tech. It’s like spell check but better
Any “good” lawyer in the United States has told their clients to treat selling crypto assets as selling a security.
Yes, they are uncomfortable, if your butt tries to invade the next seat. If you sit properly, with a straight back and your bum at the end (or the start?) of your seat then you can sit like this for hours. Or until you start to lose your legs crammed in the back of next seat, but that is unavoidable for tall people.

People just don't know how to sit (properly), because nobody ever explained them nor they listened.
Yeah. Agreed. For example I need to ocr things sometimes. I literally have a process running an ocr server. It's basically a microservice.
Many of those features are not in the interest of the end user. It’s Google’s idea that the web should be converted into a cross platform product it controls. And Firefox follows along in the hopes of remaining relevant.

The idea that simply by visiting a web page can fill many gigabytes of the user’s drive and keep using CPU resources even after a tab is closed is antithetical to what the web is supposed to be.
Modern Gadgets in the Style of Gaudí
Darren rouaar's 'drawing from the sight size cast'. Pick up a used copy for cheap probably. That and his memory drawing book.

He describes a semi-traditional method which is way more than you technically need. But just reading about the method will inform you of a practical approach to begin drawing what you see or have seen. It's like K&R for drawing, lots of 'Oh that's how it works'.
Literally Newton's Third Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

This was the guy who figured out exactly that if the asteroid can modify your trajectory, you can modify its.
And yet here it is on the front page of HN.

Really, your comment seems unnecessarily harsh and condescending. You seem to feel cheated that there was nothing about promotion strategies but I don't see any promise of that, in the headline or the intro.

Nonetheless, there were a couple of snippets in there - send plenty of emails, and get the author involved in self promotion basically. Having said that, she proceeded to... promote her books...
I hide the content which doesn't appeal to me.
> On the other hand I can’t find any source to tell if they had 1-1s from the begining or not.

From the court findings: “In February 2022, Miss Besse began having weekly meetings with her manager to help her better manage her files. She says she initiated the meetings because she felt unproductive and that she was not performing as well as she should have been. On February 21, 2022, Reach installed a time-tracking program called TimeCamp on Miss Besse’s work laptop.”

This is actually the point where I got angry and felt that I needed to comment. Usually these articles are filled with one-sides opinions, but here we have a formal accounting of events from the court. According to the court, Besse went to her manager because she was struggling and the response could be called intimidation.

I’ve been managing for long enough that this, to me, calls into question the cause of the events here. It’s possible this lady was just lazy and is entirely at fault; but when I see a paper trail indicating a failure of management to engage I wonder if the whole thing could have been avoided with some empathy and servant leadership.
Serious question - what would bring someone to write and publish a book like this?

also, I read the preface and found this interesting:

I believe it is usually the "square guy" who wants to know what is going on, though (or because) shocked and even tantalized by such subjects.
We have emitted more than the original amount of CO2 in a bit more than a century. Since it would take tens or hundreds of thousands of years for it to be all absorbed by the ground, yes, I think whoever is here in 1.4G years will do just fine.

Of course, there are other disasters to come after that one.
It's was quite amusing for me to understand what I'm trying to find a seatbelt in the cinema.
Do you have a reference? I'd love to see a literal anarchist cookbook, but a bit of searching turned up nothing.
You answered the question "why don't homeless people get jobs" with what you insist it should be reframed as. That doesn't make sense.

I don't think it's healthy let alone desirable to discourage pointed questions from kids. It's another thing altogether to teach them to be tactful and tip-toe in mixed company around sensitive topics (which goes beyond the level of maturity of a child), but they shouldn't have to do that with their own parents.
> I'm a little surprised at the contrast between the contents of the paper and how people have described it on HN.

I haven't read the paper beyond the abstract yet, so can't comment on it's contents, but can you specify what you mean by "how people have described it on HN"?

To be frank, I don't like this style of argument, because I literally don't know what you're referring to. I'm quite familiar with the hubbub that happened when Gebru left Google, but feelings around what happened there shouldn't be misconstrued as feedback on this paper specifically.

In other words, if you think that people are arguing that this paper is "outside the realm of valid academic discourse", I think you should call out what you're referring to, because I haven't seen that as a widely held opinion. It feels like a straw man, or at the very least you are discounting some very specific critiques other commenters have made by just broadly referring to "HN sentiment".
Are there any Roku TVs with EVO OLED panels?

The Roku remote controls TV power and soundbar volume just fine. CEC didn't seem to work quite right, so I enabled the Roku's IR blaster feature. The LG remote can control the Roku as well, through CEC.
Seems to be? Calling it a "loss" is more of an accounting viewpoint (holding reserves to offset possible loses lowering revenue) than what laymen would view as a "loss".

But then again, the amount of reserves held is supposed to be a best estimate of actual losses that will be incurred with bad debt.
Psychedelics can do that too. Much cheaper and less commitment
Great source of Akkadian.
Guys, I'm in the content business. If you know what you are doing you can get thousands of dollars of value out of it.
> I read somewhere direct efficiency of most grain crops in sun energy conversion into calories is 1%

This is why I’m in favour of turning farmland into suburbs/exurbs. As you cover your roof in solar panels and plant a few trees, you’re collecting more energy than the farmland did before.

And if you’re like me, using most of the backyard as pretty high intensity agriculture and food scrap management (and if I could get away with it, some fertilizer I usually flush to the city for processing…).

The average flower garden has more biodiversity than any corn or wheat field.
We are nature as well
It is many orders of magnitude easier to turn a scheduled hit into a miss than the reverse.
That's until they manage to stack vertically six layers of planted wheat, then you have 156x the yield per acre. You don't need to move all farming indoors either to create a big impact, if some countries manage to move indoors only 20% of the farming for instance, that's already a huge change by any possible measure, be it environmental, economic or geopolitical.

And also your remark about the energy cost doesn't seem correct, if that were true any kind of indoors agriculture would be too expensive to be possible.
I think this is the document the article is referring to?

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
Death of Korea's 'apartment king' leaves 100s in property purgatory
Partly, yes. Partly it's a coping mechanism for being homeless, because they have no money and useful social connections, or the know-how to get out of it. In other words drugs being a symptom of homelessness, not necessarily a cause.

Regardless of the extent of drugs' blame, I'm skeptical of any solution to homelessness that entails just putting them in a cubicle, "no strings", and declaring them no longer homeless. Yes it can be a useful mechanism, but there's more work to do beyond that, it's admission that there's more to fighting homelessness than shoving people in free apartments.

I'm more curious as to why there's not an equivalent grassroots leftist sentiment for getting them jobs, as though that were somehow undignified. But notwithstanding the sometimes distorted incentives, maybe that's the actual hard part - holding down a job, and getting one that pays enough to make rent. Jobs can give us a sense of meaning, but if validation and social needs are being replaced by a similar proxy among the homeless, then maybe motivation is stifled - on top of the general fatigue that comes from it.
DIY in the site name is very misleading. There is nothing DIY there, they sell already assembled kits, no schematics or component list. From the site it looks like they work closely with NCORE which produces very good amps.

Edit: clarification
I recently chatted with some game developer friends about this. You just write backstories for each of the characters, you can even have them interact with one another easily. The issue currently is the length of that characters story, but definitely see some interesting stuff happening.

I mean you could just take some short-term lived characters and that would work pretty well. Like an enemy you have to defeat. Procedurally visual, with a randomized backstory and traits all from ChatGPT, then can take in small details, but then each encounter would be a bit less repeating.
> > Finding a list of what can be imported is non-intuitive. With C, you can just look in /usr/include/*.h. But with Python? It's best to use 'python -v' to list all of the places it looks, and then search every file in every directory and subdirectory from that list

> I don't think C/C++ is actually that much better at this?

Yeah, I really don’t know how someone could work with C and not have experience with include or linker path issues. The section on installation shows he doesn’t understand how Linux packaging works, though, so I think it’s something along the lines of a mental model which doesn’t include the extensive time which the Debian / Fedora maintainers have spent packaging that code, or that the reason why they’re not having versioning issues is that they’re using systems which only change the version on system upgrades. He could have avoided those issues with Python by only using the distribution packages just as with the C libraries, or done the inverse by preparing packages for a newer version of some C library.
I pity da fool. I am the victim of similar phenomena from other 90's games like The Legend of Kyrandia, Indiana Jones and Thw Temple of Doom, Myst, Power Pete, MathBlaster, ShufflePuck Cafe, and Sim City v1.0, Marathon, and movies like Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and CKY2K.

I enjoyed it at the time but given the current political climate cannot recommend to others. I continue to hesitantly and remorsefully enjoy, an indemnible stain on my soul.
That makes sense. It is only about 1k of C code and it seems to have everything you need to use it in practice. Including macros.

Its interesting that Altair Basic is 10 times smaller than Tiny Lisp. Basic obviously doesn’t have the features (macros etc.) that Tiny Lisp has. But it looks as if it has what is needed to write practical (console) software.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Forth would be the champion when it comes to minimum implementations.
Very inspiring and thoughtful ! I feel overwhelmed from time to time and this is a great reminder to prioritize and set boundaries.
If two people arrival at the same time, the person on the right gets right of way.

It works fine most of the time and 4-way stops are usually only used in city streets where the speed limit is 40-50 km/h.

They are dangerous if used on more rural roads where people aren't expecting they have to stop or misjudge right of way.
Not sure what political climate has to do with anything here?
Overhead is way worse with microservices once you talk about network latency, database cost, infra for logging and monitoring, labor to manage that, and developer cost. Way, way, way, more than spinning up ten more identical webapps.
Increasing lifetime by greatly reducing frictional wear via allowing rotation, plus the spring eliminates any frictional gap that might arise. Pure genius!
Currently reading: Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth (Doxiadis & Papadimitriou 2009) [my spouse found it]

Also recommend: Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe
> I think this comes with long term, heavy use.

That makes sense, but GP wrote "once you've done it, everything becomes dull without it". I interpreted that to mean it happened after the first time.
For me, it was:

- Hotel Mario "No" Sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwz7YN1AQmQ)

Honorable mentions include

- Sleepy Mega Man Dub (https://youtu.be/pmMispgpUs0)

- Me? Gongaga (https://youtu.be/kKnkhAQxLKI)

- Hotel Mario "All Toasters Toast Toast" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7jvyslRek)
Experience using Golang arenas for Game dev
K8s isn't so bad if you use a service like azure. I wouldn't run my own cluster. But k8s does make your life easier. It's basically supervisord on steroids with regards to features. Tho networking and storage is a nasty thing.
1 is equivalent to a rhyming Swedish proverb: Det finns inte fel väder bara fel kläder.
I read casually, equally older and ongoing series (Saga, Sandman ongoing, Akira, Watchman)

There are some DRM free series around but for the most part I think most series are locked up in Comixology/Amazon and the DC/Marvel subscription services.

I buy one of my series (Saga) from my local store monthly, another from Amazon monthly to read in the Kindle client, and buy collections also primarily on Amazon, but I’ll usually go find a .CBZ format scan of it on google to archive away from Amazon’s DRM…

edit: keep an eye on Humble Bundle, they often do large packs of different series in PDF/CBZ formats!
Great book, previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630740 (43 comments)
I got more “catholic environmentalist” vibes.

The comment celebrates this feat, but only in the context of an ‘apology’ for humanities environmental sins, which are described in a way that is essentially unforgivable. Reminds me of a Catholic nun who is constantly reminded of sin, or Greta Thunberg who’s only comments seem to be “be did bad, we need do more good” without actually suggesting better courses of action. Religion without a church.
I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. That’s just as valid as staying up all night to watch a sunrise. As with all things, moderation.
We've got the resources to do that too.

There's 8 billion people on the planet already and something like 80% live in developing countries. There are massive productivity gains to be had as those people improve their education and move into more productive jobs.
> IBM never owned PCs

They certainly did, from the debut of the IBM PC to the debut of the Compaq PC. Complete domination.
Some of the jokes and themes therein are now widely considered racist, forbidden, or otherwise *-ist, and were founded on now banned or socially unacceptable concepts, assumptions, or thoughts.

Obvious cases are the transphobia portrayed at the end of Ace Venture: Pet Detective when Jim Carey's character reacted to the Chief of Poice having taken measures to conceal her physical gender identity, or the manipulating a blind child into buying a dead bird with it's head duct taped to the neck in Dumb and Dumber.

It comes down to respecting others and I get that. I consider myself a supporter of all well-intentioned human beings and intelligent species and entities at large, yet I still can't stop laughing about all kinds of immature stuff, including when myself or my spouse step in dog crap.

I'm sensitive but generally have tended towards trying to focus on self-acceptance and surrounding myself with people who are understanding but also won't put up with too much.

What should I do? Suggestions welcome.
I knew a guy that had his left hand blown off, by a bottle of nitroglycerine. He picked it up, and, boom.
Also, early grain breeding trials (before field testing) at least since Borlaug. Walk past any university greenhouse in the Midwest and peek inside
They all have lines that we're repeated quite a bit on the playground, but would be considered offensive by today's standards.
A Letter from _why (2005)
Also Lisp and Smalltalk & descendants pass by reference.
"temperature lift as high as 25°C using a voltage strength of ~0.22 volts."

Sounds impressive, but I know little about the field, and don't have access to the full paper.

What kind of ionic solution are they using?
>A mask cannot be more comfortable than no-mask

As you may note, that's not what I said.

> Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants

Didn't say that either.

It's simply strange to me that people get so worked up over it, just like it would be strange if people got super worked up over wearing pants.

In my experience, absent of the 'hot/stuffy mask face' it's no big deal. YMMV
He said life, not humans. Taking a life-cycle analysis, biological entities are dramatically more efficient than existing robots. Designed a nanobot that gathers energy and resources from the natural environment to reproduce itself? Congratulations, you just invented the cell.

It's also worth noting that our robots are far from perfectly adapted to space. Usually, they get to the destination by jettisoning all manner of fuel tanks, landing gear, etc, and then they die in a few years. They're adapted to being put together in factories on Earth. Much like we don't have isolated livable environments on Earth, we don't have self-maintaining robot factories, either, and both problems seem pretty hard.

I think a compromise solution might be developed over the next fifty million years or so. No idea what it's going to look like.