skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason the agricultural land is not converted into housing is because there's little demand for it - not because it's essential to food production.

As an Ontario farmer located several hours from Toronto, I have had a seemingly endless line of people wanting to buy a small plot from my farmland on which to build themselves a home. The demand is there[1], but there is far too much red tape to make it happen. Furthermore, the price of food has been strong for the last decade or so which has sent the price of farmland sky high (up ~500% over the last 15 years), making housing on those lands more expensive. I would suggest that the price of housing in the cities has gone up exactly because it has become considerably more expensive to build out into the farmlands compared to earlier decades. When sprawl is too costly, that puts more pressure on existing city boundaries.

[1] Or at least was there. It is not clear if there is much lingering housing demand in Ontario as of the past few months. All reports I read indicate that people don't want to own homes anymore.
Ive used mkdocs at work, and Hugo for my personal blogs and sites (I recently created https://cyphersrd.quest using Hugo).

I will say at first its always takes a second to remember how all the folders nad files interplay, especially the `_index.md` file, but after that its super clean.

I tend to find a theme that I like that is MIT or ISC licensed, and then modify it from there to my liking. Like for the site I linked, I started with `hugo-book` but didn't like some of the coloring, so I transplanted a good chunk of Water.css into it and it looks good now.
The shiny decoy.
https://fly.io/docs/postgres/

Second paragraph
That's what they seem to hint at in the final sentence.

> "Suggesting to the study authors that city life in Milan has provided a stable environment for thousands of years"

This does throw a wrench in prevailing thought that improved childhood nutrition is leading to taller people. I would guess that, when it comes to changes in stature, environment/nutrition are more cataclysmic effectors while genetics vis-a-vis sexual preferences play a more sustained role in shaping it. i.e. in a stable environment you would expect change mostly to be effected by the cultural preference of taller/shorter people.

On cataclysmic effectors - one really interesting study I think back on often[1] is a serendipitous survey of island lizards hind-leg lengths before and after a major hurricane season. Basically, they found that over the course of one year, there was a 6% reduction in the populations leg lengths due to, they claim, the taller ones being unable to hold onto trees during the storms.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lizards-with-b...
And if you fly, drive, use credit cards, use cellphones, etc the government already knows enough about you.
All in podcast mentioned growth slowing, but not revenue dropping.
Bright visible light causes the pupil to constrict and triggers an instinct to squint, blink, or look away. IR alone does not.
As somebody who was curious about Nix, I was pretty turned off by my first exerpeince.

I also found it humorous/ironic that for something that is all about like... deterministic and reproducible or whatever: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/458#issuecomment-1019743... it touched the system in a bunch of places and was a zoo to uninstall
> Vertical farming makes sense when energy is cheaper than what we get from the sun.

Uhhh, is there any energy cheaper than what we get from the sun?
You should probably look into stud finders and metal detectors. I didn't even know this but apparently iPhones have a built in magnetometer so there are apps for that as well!
Get in touch with Kitboga or any of the littany of youtubers that try protecting the innocent from these scam centers.
Currently using a Kyocera DuraXE. It's great and still has a very inconvenient to use subset of the functionality you might miss from a smart phone. I bought it because I needed hotspot tethering for work. However, I've recently read that the Light Phone II has that feature and is even dumber of a phone, so might switch over to that.

Previously I was getting by fine with a pre-paid LG flip phone and buying around $100/yr of minutes/service from TracFone.
To clarify the parent commenters statement, this is rarely, if ever, part of full time employment agreements in the US (where the worker is a W2 employee and not a 1099 employee) where the worker is above a particular level/skillset.

In fact, it's codified into law and payroll systems have clear delineations about how this works. Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers), where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns.

Point being, if you are an exempt worker (which I'm guessing is like 95%+ of W2 employed programmers in the US), you won't be getting paid overtime.
> What if this person values the time they spend on making twitter better?

1. How has Twitter has gotten better?

2. What does making Twitter have to do with sleeping in the office and boasting about it?
For each self-driving car added on the road how many ICE cars are replaced by EVs using a sizable portion of low-carbon/ zero-carbon electricity?

IMHO, the real problem is that with the transition to all electric we must not only move to low/zero carbon electricity but we must also dramatically increase electricity production.
No, older smart phone cameras lacked IR filters because the IR filter didn't only block IR light, but also a distribution of wavelengths around IR. Filtering out IR means many of the visible light wavelengths are attenuated as well, decreasing the amount of light arriving at the sensor.

With better noise reduction algorithms, more sensitive sensors and lower noise sensors, IR filters are now almost always used in smart phone cameras.
Unfortunately this post is basically the author just showing they're young and out of touch.

Here's the thing-- some data work is fundamentally worthless. Yes, some companies are a total mess when it comes to their data. Some roles are tasked with projects that are... to put it bluntly, a waste of time.

But it's your job to be improving the status quo rather than wringing your hands and declaring it all pointless. This is frankly where the difference lies between someone more junior and someone that can be an effective engineering leader-- they're looking to constantly improve.

Yeah, that means making a case to leadership sometimes. Being an effective engineer (software/data/ML) ultimately requires strong people skills.
The point of this webpage is that more people should be wearing it.
> Vertical farming makes sense when energy is cheaper than what we get from the sun

that's just part of it. Closer to the poles, away from the equator, there isn't enough sun to have a winter growing season. The energy, expense of transporting produce to those areas is another factor. Along with the flavor and quality benefits of harvesting when ripe instead of optimizing for transportation durability and presentation.

Historically the solution was canning the in-season produce and consuming that during winter months.
Ah yes, ggbmagazine. Clearly a Hikvision product you can buy...
jcelerier and jchw basically said what I was going to say. All I have to add is that getting rid of moc in and of itself is not the end goal here; it's getting rid of moc without needing to change anything else. Until then, moc is providing something that C++ itself cannot.
You're begging the question: what is the definition of 'necessary'?

Do you mean necessary to live a risky and brutal life, or necessary to live a comfortable, long, and pleasurable one?
You are right. However, nothing is really secure. As Emails still operates on a store-and-forward model, where your message, jumps from server to server (akin to UUCP in the 60s). Even SMTP is not secure in itself without authentication layers.

And also HTTPS is still sent as plain-text. Cert authority in itself doesn't have the keys to decode the text, it just an authority to show the plain-text, but all along, it was a plain-text.
In rural areas they commonly composted the organic garbage and burned much of the rest. Food scraps were also fed to animals so there was generally very little food waste.

My uncle used to pick up all the food scraps from a local restaurant and feed those to his pigs. It made a mess in his pickup truck, but it was a lot cheaper than commercial pig food.
Thank you, this is great! I love the focus on OSX support and on uninstalling. As a nix newbie, it can be difficult to resolve some issues and sometimes re-installing is the simplest option.

Is the end result of installing via the bash install script and this new installer the same? Can I use the new tool to uninstall nix installed via the bash script?
> I'm catching up on the last 20 years of gaming I've missed for not having a Windows machine :)

What are your top 10 games that you have caught up on so far? (please exclude any recent blockbusters from this list)
Do you have a source or something? I'm not trying to doubt you but I'm interested in learning further. I work on cameras with IR emitter and there are many safety protocols, emitter covers, warning signs, etc. for a simple IR camera that we are instructed to abide by.
And that's why we have the "Game Ready" driver mess.
In fact I can walk down the street and walk into them. None of them look like that.

There are tons of crappy grunt jobs still in the factories America has left. Outside of a few industries, it's there isn't margin to do that.
The implication (rightly so) is that with the advent of LLMs and their successors we'll be drowning in a bunch of AI generated garbage.
Wirecard Had a Wild Run
A lot of "here's the version X code, how do I translate this to version Y?" over here at the moment. It's right more often than it's wrong.
i had an across the street neighbor in Dallas that basically had a mini-farm in their backyard. An actual "up at 5 to milk the goats, feed, and eggs before work" type farm. I did enough of that in HS growing up in the sticks with odd jobs at dairies, elevators, and other farm type work. No thanks, dues are paid :)
True! But you can do some fun acts like using heat pumps in certain climates (the Netherlands, for example) to extend growing seasons or create them (if they don’t exist) all year long.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...
Farmers are absolutely devastating to local water quality. Green houses should be a lot more ecologically friendly than current farming practices but that seems more like a side benefit.
Author here. Any questions about 8086 microcode?
I don't know where you live, but a lot of municipalities make what your neighbors are doing illegal. Might want to check.
I'm using a Ryzen 9 5950X to run some tests with Whisper (ASR), and since I have no GPU with more than 4 GB VRAM, I'm running it on the CPU. It is slow. It takes between 20 seconds and 2 minutes to transcribe 1 minute of audio, I'm using 8 cores. Adding more cores doesn't seem to improve the inferencing time.

ML is really something which should be left to a GPU.
I use resources mentioned on privacytools.io
You could suspend your subscription. (Shhh – suspending print delivery doesn't interrupt your access to the site or the Replica Edition ツ)
I'm pretty sure they're saying the same thing, but just being very pedantic and/or using layman terms versus non-layman terms. Temperature versus energy?

Honestly, I got lost part of the way through.
Never attribute to malice and all that, most people are probably just confusing fashion with offensiveness.
That distinctive purple hue is a result of the IR filter. Filters on consumer cameras don't block 100% of IR, which is visible as that purple color. Useful for checking if remotes are working properly.
All the camera would have to do is ignore the brightest parts of the image, then correct the ExposureTime based on that image.
Hesiod came out if project Athena. It was used for posix accounts. Similar function to directory services such as LDAP.

Last time I checked (several years ago). There source code was still available if you poked around the CMU FTP servers. It was unavailable via http.

Edit, it actually may not have been FTP, it may have been on their AFS volumes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod_(name_service)
Protest organizers should hand out these hoodies, or someone should sell them to protestors through some kind of pop-up shop ambassador program where an affiliate at each protest sells the apparel on consignment.
No, I know that where security cameras are positioned and the amount of processing they currently have there will be no gait analysis being done on the camera itself. They have enough trouble telling one person from another reliably.

I was being facetious as I don't believe hackernews readership is that enterprising.
We can stare at a burning campfire and barely get damaged. Long term exposure is another thing. The emitter power would have to be insanely high, or some kind of laser.
I agree 100%, but just want to add my2c.

Unit tests are in general never wasted, in the sense that they trap regressions before release. I don't think they necessarily are good to validate work though, or at least, they do so poorly. It's easy to write lots of tests which don't cover the areas your program will bork on in production. Which I think is point of GP.

Value of tests compound over time. The longer the software is in production and maintained, the more work the unit tests have been doing. It could be a paltry 20% code coverage set of tests, but nonetheless they're fighting the good fight. The value of a test suite is expressed in the integral over time. Few tests can do a lot of work; on the flip side, a lot of tests are useless when they're continuously thrown away due to pivots in business logic.
To expand on the parent and grandparent:

Laremere is correct in that there is no "magic" built-in understanding of iterators in the language, i.e. under the hood calling a `.next()` method, without explicitly having to call it. That _would_ violate the no hidden flow control maxim.

However, as Jayschwa points out, Zig's `while` loop will bind the result of its expression (in its own block scope) if it is non-null and otherwise exit the loop. This gives you essentially the same as a for loop that has some language-level knowledge of the iterator pattern, except there is no hidden flow control (I have to explicitly call `next`).

And indeed the Zig standard library is replete with iterators (and in most of the Zig code I write I will will write iterators for my own collections). For example, `mem.split` returns an iterator:

var it = mem.split(...);

// it.next() returns null after we run out of
// split text and the while loop exits
while (it.next()) |substr| {
// In here we have a non-nil substr
}

> Plus I imagine it's a lot easier for the compiler to perform optimizations this way.

That's an interesting point: does Zig miss out on some optimisation possibilities with iterators given they are not a language-level construct? I don't know.
I had one too; was a great phone even though I don’t care for windows
What’s the bar for “sensitive”? Anything that reveals something about yourself? This reply reveals that I’m more interested in privacy than many. Should or shouldn’t I be able to delete it?

I’ll concede that it may be rude, but given the trade-offs, I’m ok with being rude in this respect.
Exactly. My earliest still available posts on the internet are from 1994 on Usenet. You can still find them.

I can confidently say that nothing I’ve ever posted on the internet would be ruinous to my career or personal life.

My spending time on *.advocacy in the 90s would be more embarrassing in a teenage high school picture type of way.
> Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers)

That's not what “exempt” means, though its very common for those to correlate (you can be hourly exempt and salaried non-exempt.)
As others have mentioned, there was no revenue drop, there's been a reduction in growth. AWS's 20% growth rate is still very respectable, more than double the 9% growth rate the company had overall.

I would be hesitant to attribute slowed growth to a return to self hosting, it's much more likely that it's caused by companies dialing back their cloud growth after spending a few years going ham digitizing everything during the pandemic.
I wonder if you've tried our installer? Part of its reason for existing is the ability to safely / completely uninstall.
Heh, I see people like you pop up every time there's a discussion about privacy online. My guess is you work for the US government or a contractor, the messaging is always the same: "Don't bother trying for more privacy."

But it's a lame, weak gambit. If the collective you weren't terrified of privacy you wouldn't try this every time there's a discussion about privacy online.
It's true, but just to clarify for people out there: "yard trees" bring less, and maybe nothing...if you can get someone out there. It's because there's usually only one or a few in that spot, they're difficult to get to (behind a house), and they're full of metal that will damage saw blades (like that clothes line pulley someone put up in 1930).
raising and lowering. sometimes, you have to move your bird out of the way of something else. with enough notice, you speed up or slow down to change altitude cost effectively. direct lifting in altitude is expensive in use of fuel
In general, the crates listed here would be good to look at https://blessed.rs/crates or browse the Rust topic at GitHub: https://github.com/topics/rust

For beginners, maybe look at smaller projects like libraries and CLIs without a lot of dependencies.
I'm curious if this generalizes to mid frequencies (ie. add some blurred noise in addition to the offset) and what effect that might have on the generations.
Every time I use hugo I feel like it’s way too complicated for what it offers
In other words, one of many pipe dreams that will never happen.
Our gated community spent $80,000 on upgrading their cameras system and bought state-of-the-art 5MP surveillance cams (total of 5 of them) that "lets you read license plates from within 100 meters" and "does a color-in-the-night type recording". They were sold on upgrading the whole freaking network of cables to cat 9 for God only knows reason. And I kid you not - less than 2 months later, we were hit and 6 cars were stolen. Apparently it doesn't matter how fancy your camera is, if the perpetrator setup a stand alone red laser at cost of $6 that shines directly at it...
D has two problems:

1. Being "C++ but nicer" is an awkward niche. It's not differentiated enough to overcome switching costs for C++ users. It's hard to justify risks of a new language, costs of hiring and/or code rewrites just for quality of life improvements.

At the same time being similar to C++ is a turn off for users who don't like C++ and look for something different.

2. D with a GC is not really competing with C++ in its core niche where C++ is irreplaceable, but rather with many many other GC languages for programs that can use almost any language.
The idea of GC being optional is a hard sell, because it's an obvious switcheroo — without the GC you don't get all of the nice features, so GC-less D is even less differentiated from C++.

Carbon at least avoids the second problem. I'm not sure if Carbon's new syntax and semantic tweaks are different enough.
Oh and as long as you're being opinionated about installing and making it easy for newcomers, have you considered including an option to install home-manager and nix-darwin? My uneducated guess is they are typically used by folks on OSX.
Good question, this guy seems to have studied this question:

https://medium.com/@alex.kilpatrick/ir-illumination-and-eye-...

He concludes:

"If you buy the largest IR floodlight available on Amazon and you stare at it 200 mm (~7") from your face for more than 1000 seconds (~ 16 minutes) there is a possibility you might damage your cornea. So don’t do that. And I doubt anyone would do that because these things get pretty hot at that distance."
I find more liquid gels are nice and palatable during runs. SIS ones are nice in that respect
I'm a pastor and I make up to $3k a week with my side hustle using ChatGPT
> my understanding is that the primary source of cost overruns is rather endless appeals and the authorities changing their mind many times over the life of a project.

Precisely because the people who know what to do the first time around are not in-house. So you get a first push where they try to be quick and efficient, don't really know what the issues they're going to face are, and then 3 years in there's a complaint about a frog and they need to spend a million dollars on an expert to tell them "don't build it where the frog lives." It's penny wise pound foolish.
I haven't released the source code, it's an ungodly mix of Perl and Haskell, but maybe I will try and clean it up a little and make it public - it's quite hardcoded, eg the domain, currently.

How do you keep up with 1000+ feeds now? I feel using Gnus is quite efficient, but of the 664 feeds on Feedbase currently I'm subscribed to "only" 304.
Maybe we don't, but we should let market forces sort it out by doing our best to tax the externalities of power generation too.
Whenever I hear about completely broken KDE installs, it's Fedora in 90% of cases.
Just like with pointless loading spinners. You just delete the element which is overlaid on the complete content. Sometimes there is an overflow, opacity, or visibility attribute that needs changing. Fucking webdevs!
I plan to record a small (4?) series of videos about starting with Hugo from scratch. Would love to hear any pain points you specifically think need to be addressed.
I have most of my services at home:

- email on a personal domain name, local IMAPs/SMTPs relay to a third party ones for crappy antispam practice by giants, but having anything at home migrating the domain to another third party is easy and almost no one have my real mails addresses only dedicated or spare aliases easy to drop being just a third party an alias;

- homeserver with most of my services, so no need for third party stuff by well-known name (let's say Alphabet/Microsoft etc) so not so many nor much used accounts;

- I have, again, a craphone (Android-based macro-spy [1] device) since I have an EV as a primary vehicle now and I can't manage public recharge on the go properly without... BUT it's just for limited usage, and as for email most do not have my mobile number, just VoIP accounts on a home PBX;

- not much social (HN, Reddit) just because Usenet is almost full only of spam...

My biggest digital footprint is mandated de facto by:

- government, who push connected services who happen to be crappy stockpiled crap, I can't do much for them beside annotate and diffuse any bad design and issue;

- crappy surveillance capitalism crap built-in modern vehicles, again I need a car, I do not strictly need a new one but it's still useful for some aspects so...

- crappy IoT crapware, I normally confine it, it's just domestic p.v. and hot water heater, managed in a separate network by my homeserver and operated via Home Assistant WITHOUT internet access for them except for rare crapware updates needed here and there...

No smart dumbwatches, spy environmental mic called typically "digital assistant" devices, no video spying tools commonly know as IP cameras (ok I have some, but again managed via the homeserver, with no direct internet access to them) or smart TVs, ...

So far it does work a bit...

[1] because in the past such information-munging devices was smaller and typically paid by those who spy, now are bigger, apparent and maintained and paid by those spied on, and apparently most of them like that...
New Orleans does it in streetside garbage cans.
Hof is still used as yard in "Belgian Dutch" (Flemish). At least in some dialects such as my grandparents'