skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not because they're essential food

They are essential, ask any vegan :)

> but because they sell a lot in China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonds_in_California

"Farmers exported $4.5 billion worth to foreign countries in 2016, about 22% of the state's total agricultural exports. The majority of these exports went to the European Union [37%], China [8%] and India [15%]. While the EU is the largest consumer, the latter two countries are expanding markets ...". Canada, Japan and UAE have 6% each.

> created a circle of increased water consumption

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...

1_049_555 million gallons ... beef, dairy

__125_218 million_gallons ... soy, rice, almonds, potatoes

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...

"Agriculture – mainly alfalfa – consumes 80% of the Colorado River’s dwindling water supply ... One out of every three farmed acres in the valley is dedicated to growing alfalfa ... used as food for livestock."

"In 2021, nearly 20% of alfalfa produced in the west was shipped abroad."

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...

"The Colorado River is going dry ... to feed cows."

"That means altering the demand side of the water supply-demand equation and shifting diets globally to foods that use less H2O, which ultimately means less meat and dairy, as well as fewer water-intensive tree nuts like almonds, pistachios, and cashews (nut milks, however, require much less water to produce than cow’s milk)."

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/the-other-side-of-...

"1 kilogram of almonds produces less than 1 kilogram of carbon emissions. (For comparison, the Environmental Working Group estimated that beef causes more than 20 kilograms of CO2-eq emissions, cheese more than 10, and beans and vegetables around 2.)"

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/almonds-sustainability/

The authors compared the nutrition content of 42 different California food crops. They also ranked the economic value of 44 food crops. They concluded that for the water needed to produce them, almonds ranked among the most valuable foods grown in California for their dietary and economic benefits.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/environmental-footprint-m...

Cow milk is still 2x more water intensive than almods, needs 16x more land, produces 4x more CO2 and 6x more euthropication.
Yeah. Some times the guy at the top puts others in danger because he doesn't care. Other times, because he doesn't know any better.
Source Code for National Grid: Live
Recently been running into this, and the answer was to drink less coffee. I am down to about one cup a day now, and finished by noon. I sleep way better and am less anxious with both work and my family. I keep some good decaf around to cut my dosage and to satisfy cravings later in the day.

I find even one beer at night can sometimes torpedo my sleep patterns as well unfortunately. I typically have a drink with dinner but have cut that back as I’ve aged as well. Seltzers and juices can be a decent substitute.

You have to target 8 hours of sleep too. There’s no shame in sleeping a proper amount, especially if it makes you happier/more productive.
Mercedes writes about all sorts of interesting conversions, like these transit buses.

https://www.theautopian.com/this-1948-gm-old-look-transit-bu...

https://www.theautopian.com/how-a-couple-turned-a-gillig-tra...
What more would it take for google to succeed at something like:

"robot can plant, water and harvest food that only poor laborers from other countries did, replacing whole job categories in agro business along with other things like making blue collar immigration moot"?
no magic sauce; the most helpful thing was just staying up despite the massive influx of users and getting even better at fighting platform abuse. This may be very specific to what we do as a cloud provider.
Go for it! Happy to help. Let me know if you want upscales.
Having worked on several large golang code bases, those issues popped up all the time. Yes we used the errors package, but as with the rest of the language, you end up having to reinvent the wheel poorly and in an error prone manner. Incidentally, that employer built their own golang framework with dependency injection and interception to modify error values, such a huge effort for something that comes out of the box with other languages, and it was still not on par with them.
> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To

I was always told never to end a sentence with a preposition. Is that still considered correct grammar? If I was the editor I would have rewritten the title to:

> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths To Which It Could Safely Travel

Better or worse?

Maybe this one:

> Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Traveling To Unsafe Depths
It's one reason why friend-group entertainment like podcasts or YouTube D&D campaigns are so popular.
NACS can be plugged in one handed by a child. CCS1 needs perfect alignment which can be a struggle for a large man using 2 hands in optimal conditions.

NACS cables are lighter and thinner, which really matters when it is cold and the cables harden.

This article shows some visual comparisons: https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-opens-charging-connect...
MIT can foster that attitude because funding is generous, there’s so much support and safety net even for undergrads. In turn the success stories feeds back and bolsters.

It’s only obvious because they are given the chance to demonstrate their capability.

I’m arguing that the inherent baseline quality of student does not differ much. If given the chance CMU/Berkeley/etc alums can also succeed. But they’re locked out of many chances due to school prestige.
trying to get paid to do art is much harder path that being a programmer when you're not really into it and doing art on the side
> Building a slack alternative

I've always thought slack was the alternative, to IRC.
How the heck did she learn details like “he’s into studying fungi”?

This goes beyond basic research into a person.
It seems like they literally use the content from the Baserow website on their homepage. "Create your own online database without technical experience. Our user friendly no-code tool gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser."
There's a porthole in the front of the sub, where the toilet is.

Funny enough, I've also seen "it doesn't even have a toilet" repeated around HN in the last couple days.

IIRC an earlier design or planned design used cameras only.

Edit: Wow, they were actually sued by a whistleblower over the pressure rating for the window on an earlier design! https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-face...
So why is everyone fleeing the North American standards J1772/CCS1 in favor of Tesla's? What do these car companies stand to gain switching the charging port? They don't own charging networks.
How is Logitech “off brand”. They are well known for input devices.
That's what has turned me off on the whole fediverse thing. Too much time spent on figuring out who's not going to talk to whom and who is going to be banned from where. I am old enough to remember the old time internet forums. It wasn't always pretty. It wasn't always clean. There were trolls. There were flamewars. But people spent most of the effort to connect and build, not on banning each other and walling off. For me personally, a collection of 100 safe spaces, cross-banning each other, is not something I want to deal with, and defeats the whole purpose.
Sure but it's not as bad as you're implying, and for your calculation take a 20% or more cut to your San Francisco salary to make it comparable to Seattle salaries. It's all roughly the same in the end.
Sorry forgot to update the FAQ. We shipped realtime Discord sync a few months ago Will update it now.
Short interesting story:
My mom is an Architect, one day when I was about 8 or 9 she said: don't be an Architect, you won't get paid fairly (developing country).
It got burned out in my mind, like a command. And slowly moved to "Don't do art stuff". I stopped drawing and started using computers more and more.

Only in my adulthood I started to explore Architecture, and ooohhh boy, I freaking love it. And I would have loved worked with my mom, taking clients, etc.

So, just be careful on what you say to your kids about a career, or how you say it.

I'm not complaining btw, just a fact of life from a very simple comment mom made one random day.
How so? If anything it seems the opposite is true. (Prototyping, almost by definition, is almost zero risk. While bringing stuff to market requires real resources, and invokes actual brand and reputation risk. Might be different in some situations, depending on the resources required at respective stages, but that seems to be the long and short of it).
Amazon? https://www.amazon.ca/IBM-Selectric-Typewriter-Ribbon-Correc...
Are those schoolkids' machines connected to the same network as a single adult's?
Yes. I use them for cleanup in every non-trivial script I write.
> A comparable issue: Feynman noticed unlocked safes were vulnerable to get their code stolen.

That would imply that the CVE is that the master password can be gained from an open kdbx, but that hasn't been my understanding, it's just that the contents can be re-saved with a new master password.

Which is more of an analogy to the contents of the safe being vulnerable to be stolen if it's left unlocked.
Robots becoming 100x cheaper, or humans becoming 100x more expensive.
I see it used for communities
This sounds quite interesting, could you expand on it? What is some of the low-hanging fruit in your opinion? Do you have any examples of projects that are explicitly building on top of these ideas?
> Lochridge discovered the viewing window on front of sub "was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers...to...4,000 meters...OceanGate refused to pay...to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters."

Previously unseen levels of "I told you man, I warned you" here.
If you have an apple device, there is free GUI for Stable Diffusion called "Draw Things. It is nice and it just works. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/6444050820

screenshot of the options interface: https://stash.cass.xyz/drawthings-1687292611.png
For those wondering, National Grid: Live is an elegant, real-time dashboard of Britain’s national power generation and usage, using open data: https://grid.iamkate.com/
> It's because not even the government can confiscate your Bitcoin.

They can really easily do that though. A court can say "give us your keys or you are going to sit in jail until you do and we will record your conversations so if you tell the keys to someone else, we'll sell them"
A roma tomato is ~11 calories. Plants yield ~30 on average. They grow for ~75 days and need 1 gallon per 5 days = 1/2 gallon per ~11 calories.

Almonds are closer to 1 gallon per ~6 calories - or almost 4 times worse.

It's almost as if there's reason almonds are expensive and tomatoes and oranges and lemons and limes aren't.
Almost definitionally so, because the world isn't going to be destroyed from global warming. Unfortunately the "scientists" we actually get aren't serious and many of them say exactly that.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-climate-scientist-says-wer...

NASA Climate Scientist Says "We're Toast" (2008)

James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth's atmosphere can only stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for a couple more decades without changes such as mass extinction, ecosystem collapse and dramatic sea level rises.

"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would." Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

Ten years later in 2018 there were no mass extinctions, ecosystem collapse and the Arctic had plenty of ice in summer. But the world is still going to be destroyed, this time within 5 years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-p...

We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says (2018)

The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," said James Anderson[, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry]. "Can we lose 75-80 percent of permanent ice and recover? The answer is no."

The Arctic is still full of ice, there is currently more than there was at this time in 2012 and we are still not toast.
how bad are gas stoves if I have a giant range above, I wonder?
It’s just normally expensive, not really really expensive. You can get a robot arm for as cheap as 4k (comparable to 2 MacBooks or 1 GPU)
Is it a rare example, though?

Taleb and others spread this idea that "skin in the game" is some kind of magical anecdote to faulty thinking, incomplete risk analysis, incorrect application of heuristics, and other things. That just doesn't seem true. Lots of people do risky things every day based on social proof, or familiarity, or commitment, or scarcity, or many of the other risk-perception-altering heuristics that govern our lives. We do it when we drive, when we drink, when we ski, and in all kinds of other occasions. "Skin in the game" seems like an extremely faulty heuristic in its own way, with little evidence to support a strong assurance effect.

Conversely, I know lots of people who take risks themselves who'd never recommend the same risks to others (especially outdoor and motor sports enthusiasts). That's the opposite of Taleb's hypothesis.
Easiest way to shut it?
From what I understand, naval submarines typically have a signaling device called an EPIRB mounted in such a way that it's released automatically if the sub dives significantly below crush depth and/or if a switch isn't activated on some set interval. Then it pops up on the surface and says "Hi, wreck here."

I don't think the former system would have worked here anyway, since the sub is supposed to get very close to the bottom.
> scientist

> Ultra long feedback cycles

Lol
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>I am convinced that games that are truly exceptional will be successful.

To be cynical, I think the last "truly exceptional" indie I played was Disco Elysium, and before that Terraria and Minecraft. If that's the bar than there is basically zero way any game can be successful. "truly exceptional" for me are once in a decade experiences that either flip the industry on its head or make me consider my own life perspectives. Not many games do that (nor do they need to, especially on a price point of $0-20).

Thankfully I'm wrong and there's plenty of "good games with good success". and even "mediocre (IMO) games that went viral). But I've also seen plenty of "good games go unnoticed". But if your POV is "good isn't good enough", then we may be talking past each other, or have different scale. I think 'good' should deserve a few thousand sales and a few mumbling on social media. Not exactly a high bar these days, but one so many indies still can miss.
I was just thinking about this today. This is how we can measure how exceptionally bad spez's handling has been: people are sympathizing with Reddit mods. Reddit mods have been almost universally despised for as long as I can remember.
Old books with chemical information would often have things like odor or taste written down for a lot of surprising things.
> What is an employment contract? Is that a British thing? I've never once had a contract for any of the companies I've ever worked for, in any industry, in any state in the USA.

You almost certainly have in every employer-employee relationship. It may not have been in a single integrated writing, or even mainly written at all, but when you agree to work for someone in exchange for wages, that's a contract. Often, things like written workplace policies are held to be incorporated as part of the employment contract, depending on form and context, etc.

> They were always free to let me go whenever they wanted to

The fact that an employment contract does not change the default at-will terms does not make it not-a-contract.
A lot of words to describe bayes rule
* They planned to fight a defensive war

* They had more military experience and a stronger military tradition

* They were more motivated

* There were a not-insignificant number of Northerners who weren't particularly in favor of fighting a war against slavery (which, despite the "states' rights" commentators, was the real cause of the war)

* They expected recognition from the British government due to their supposed dependence of southern cotton

I just finished the book _Battle Cry of Freedom_ a couple of weeks ago. It's a fantastic and very readable single-volume history of the war and the ~20 years leading up to it, and I think every American should read it for a clear understanding of why exactly the US Civil War happened
Agreed. We have several packs of wild horses near where I live in the mountains of New Mexico--so many that some people find them a nuisance. They thrive quite nicely on whatever they can find, and they certainly don't find alfalfa.

(Aside: Anybody who wants free horses to break (not to turn into dog food), let me know.)
That hasn’t been my experience. It’s not unheard of for libertarians to use the term.
I feel obligated to extoll enormous praise on Zulip.

I was the person who forced us to try it for a week (so, take a pinch of salt), and people were apprehensive, but I floated the idea of going back to slack recently and was met with open hostility due to how nice Zulip is to use.

It even exceeded my expectations, having only used it briefly with the rust community prior to the trial; basing the trial solely on others on hackernews extolling similar praise to me now.

The thread first model is really great for finding information, the search works decently and integrating with random things is much nicer than with Slack.

its not all sunlit uplands, the UX feels a bit weird sometimes (there is a strong keyboard shortcut system for power users but you can be in the wrong context to use the common hotkeys with no visual indicator) and the mobile app is mediocre at best.

Additionally; a few business people have referred to it as a “nerd tool” and do not put any effort at all into getting over the relatively minor learning curve, but I also believe that they wouldn't truly engage with slack either.

But holistically: its a fantastic system and is a much better use of inefficiencies of electron based messenger clients.

Jitsi is also extremely nice by the way and the pair of Jitsi and Zulip is extremely nice.
they do. you cant be their size and not do everything.
I was also curious about the timeline of this. I'm waiting for that one geeky blog post that integrates all the facts.

I'm particularly interested in an educated perspective on their choice in materials. I'm familiar with carbon fibre from bike frame building, and the common tricks/practices to try and look for fissures, find voids/delaminations, etc. after a crash, and it's such a complex subject and material. I wonder who manufactured this vessel and what the quality of their facilities, tools, processes was.
If a system offers a bad deal not buying and keeping your resources is the best deal. Would layflatlanders migrate if they got the chance and then change their stance.
CMU School of Computer Science has its own admissions for undergrad which is dramatically more selective than CMU as a whole. It really is well known for undergrad CS, it's not just a halo effect of the grad program.
If anyone wants to get more into Bayesian stats, I will always recommend Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. Maybe my all time favorite text book. He has an accompanying youtube lecture series as well.
The fibers are strong in both tension and compression (not equally so, see figure 1: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~mohite/axial_compressive.pdf), but in compression their aspect ratio is very very very large so they buckle instantly… unless you glue them together so each strand is supporting the ones near it and the effective aspect ratio is much less. Aside from fiber wound pressure bottles just about any real world composite structure will experience bending forces which will put the top in compression and the bottom in tension. The designer might need to reinforce the compressive side more, depending on the application (e.g. if designing for stiffness the strength might end up with considerable margin for both tension and compression).
It makes sense if you want a simple construction.
Bolting it from the outside is easier than an internal mechanism.
Go to an agricultural technology school. Become somebody with a degree. Get a job for The Man and save up a nut. Use that to seed your farm on the side. Build it all yourself, without temporary workers, over a longer course of time. Soft launch at farmers markets, if it’s really profitable, congrats you can quit your day job. Let us know how it goes.
Usually ego is worse. Money is inclusive - anybody can have money. If the decisions are made purely on money (this never happens in reality, but speaking theoretically) then any community of considerable size can find a home - it's money, so somebody would want to take it. When egos and ideologies come in, then splintering and exclusion runs rampant.
Ending sentences with prepositions is perfectly fine English. According to this source [0], the original idea behind avoiding ending sentences with prepositions was conceived by people who wanted to align English grammar more closely with Latin grammar. Obviously, that's not an attractive selling point to many English speakers and sentences frequently end in prepositions today.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/prepositions-e...
Author here: I updated the post to include the generated results from Stable Diffusion and Midjourney (thanks to kouteiheika and mdorazio).
As an RV-driver, I try my best to use the pull outs when I can. There are a few complications, though.

First is the visibility of these pull-outs is often very poor. You'll be driving through long winding roads and then all of the sudden the pull-out appears. In an RV, you can't just slam on the breaks and swerve into the pullout, ESPECIALLY if you're going downhill.

Second, often times (in the USA at least), these pull-outs have rough terrain going in an and out of them. There will be a little bump or uneven ground that most vehicles wouldn't mind hitting every now and then, but in my rig, that causes the whole thing to sway back and forth (Class-C built on a Mercedes Sprinter). I REALLY need to upgrade the suspension.

Third is time. Since I'm slower than everyone else, people tend to pile up behind me pretty quickly. Pulling into the pull-out, coming to a complete stop, waiting for everyone to pass, then getting back up to speed takes a long time. If I did this every time there was a car behind me, it would take forever. So, I tend to wait until there's more than a few cars behind me before pulling off.

Fourth is my wife. She says I have "overly-considerate disorder" and I need to make our safety #1 and stop caring about other people so damn much.
Those blogs "don't have it" or "don't advertise it"? Seeing that most blogs are Wordpress or another platform that has RSS baked in by default it seems rare to come across one without a feed, even if you have to dig for it a bit.
See, this is what I mean. You have an extremely cynical, corrosive view of relationships, and it leads you to post things like this and assume other people are angry, too.

Relationships aren't something you acquire, they're something you build. You need to be a net asset to your partner, and just bringing home money doesn't count.