skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That feels like it’s missing the forest for the trees. The article is specifically about how cheap money let these business deprioritize a functional business model for the sake of growth, which is exactly what we’ve seen happening across all of tech and other sectors.

If it’s too expensive, then explain why the Netherlands has had such huge success with CEA.
The numbers in the article don't work out.

First of all, they were claiming that farm workers used to earn up to $1,400/week and now they are earning up to $1,000/week. They were also claiming that they could work up to 70 hours per week in the past, and now they are limiting it to 48 hours per week. Oh yes, there was also the claim they could earn up to $30/hour.

- $1,400/week at 70 hours results in an hourly rate of $20/hour. Likewise, $1,400/week at $30/hour reflects 46.7 hours of work. Perhaps they mean take-home pay, but I've never heard of businesses discussing pay in that context. Perhaps the skilled workers ($30/hour) are working fewer hours than the lesser skilled workers who are being paid $20/hour. In that case, they are not working enough hours to earn overtime.

- Even if they had to start paying overtime, time-and-a-half only accounts for a 21.4% increase labor costs assuming everyone was working 70 hour work weeks, not 50% more as the article claims. Given the claim that labor costs contribute to half of the cost of production, we would expect the cost of the product to rise by about 11%.

Take my numbers with a grain of salt, because the numbers they are based upon (those cited in the article) are of unclear provenance. At best, the article's numbers are cherry picked and misleading. At worse, they are pulled out of a hat.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get your account banned, so please don't.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It's a counterpoint to the notion that having a single common language for something is a negative.
The most "insufferable" people on the left are typically the people who have made massive changes to their lifestyles. Just ask a vegan.
> Please act in good faith

FWIW, disagreement does not equate to "bad faith".

The "Russia invaded Ukraine mainly for its natural resources narrative" requires extraordinary cherry-picking of historical fact to support.

- Russia already has oodles of natural resources. They export them to the West for a bargain. This is not Japan in WW2.

- Do a modicum of research on post-Soviet IR in Europe. What were Gorbachev's and Putin's agendas vis-a-vis Europe, based not on Applebaumian psychoanalysis but public statements and action? Study the Budapest Memo, Putin's 2007 MSC speech, Minsk agreements, etc.

- Also do a modicum of research on the agendas from the other side. What was Brzezinski saying about post-Soviet geopolitics? What is Victoria Nuland working on in the Bush, Obama, and Biden State Departments? What was Yalta European Strategy about? How did Zelensky rapidly rise from clown to president? What does the leaked Nuland-Pyatt call reveal?

There is an enormous amount of historical fact that we can build our understanding on, rather than resorting to simplistic Zeihan-tier pseudo-intellectualism.
That is unfortunate about cashews, but I'm jealous to read of the choice of rice varieties - it's a funny world!

In the UK I think I'd have a hard time getting anything other than generic 'basmati' (which afaict just means Oryza sativa indica - it could be IR24, what you're calling basmati, anything else in the subspecies, or some blend with the yield & shelf-life & availability properties they wanted) that would be at all suitable for (my attempt at/interpretation of) 'Indian' food.

Whatever it is I suppose I subconsciously agree it's bland - I tend to cook it with some rai/jeera/ilaayachi/laung depending.

(Edit -) It just occurred to me that the cashew issue is probably not helped that they're hardly cheap here, largely eaten as a snack (roasted & salted) on their own - which supports a higher price, I suppose, than more common use as more of an ingredient (e.g. kaju katri, ground up in creamy dishes) in India.
Running the phone would warm up the battery.
But unless you were ignoring reality, i’m pretty sure it counted in your mental math about “is this job worth it”. Right?
Depends on your area.

I'm in a suburb outside Portland, OR and have Ziply Fiber which sells me symmetrical gigabit with no data cap for like $80/month.
So are you going to claim that there is not a single farm in the state that opted to pay their labourers overtime? Not a single one?
That's pedantic. That's exactly what they wrote: due to licensing issues.

"You" here is a generic pronoun, not "you, reader"
That is a very interesting name for a programming project lol. The Jacobins were a revolutionary political club during the French Revolution in the 1790's. It's also the name of a magazine at https://jacobin.com
Is that just based on your experience, or do you have a link to benchmarks?
Moving to FreeBSD would require patching even more things.
This commentary seems very out of touch with what the reality of farms.

> "I can't hold my employees to 40 hours, because it's just not enough to live on."

It doesn’t mean farms pay less money, quite the opposite actually. Skilled farm labor is very valuable and gets paid more than your regular blue collar worker driving an Uber or working a fast food kitchen. The problem with farms is that work doesn’t fit your 9-5 M-F 40 hour work week. Most of the year, you need very little work, and on specific stretches, you need round the clock work. What the comment means is that 40 hours won’t work for the workers because they don’t get 40 hours all the time. Specific seasons are the time for the workers to work longer hours and make more money for the rest of the year. And if the law forces people to work only 40 hours during the season where they make bulk of their money by working longer hours, workers won’t have sufficient for the rest of the year.
Less Is More: Stuffing LLM Context Windows Doesn't Work
We can all be passionate about what we care about and strive to be better. For me, this is what looking back at my old code means. When I see that I could have done something better, it means that I have grown. It also means that whatever I produce now could probably be improved upon. The biggest trap (for me) in this endeavor is to not be a perfectionist; One can spend a lifetime improving/optimizing/refactoring/etc. By accepting that there is no single encompassing definition of "good code," I am freed to choose the attributes that I think matter most for a particular piece of code.
https://archive.ph/zBRQz
It looks like my mom was right, again! :)
> over 12 hours

How much is over 12 hours? 12 hours and 10 minutes? 13 hours? 67 days?
This is key. People don't care how long the total process takes. People care how much time they spend standing around with nothing to do, feeling bored.

A 15minute charging stop can FEEL shorter than a 5minute gas stop if you have to stand there and hold the gas pump handle the entire time vs walking away from your car and going to buy a snack or (in the case of Tesla, this was a excellent idea and not just a silly easter egg) sitting in your car for 15minutes playing a video game. My wife and I will happily spend 30minutes playing with the music synthesizer in my Tesla and forget that we finished charging after 20minutes.
Primo itself is a SvelteKit application, so I don't know how possible it would be to run it on a LAMP server, but you could certainly deploy the static sites it generates on one.
I keep my own phone in my pocket so it's unlikely to have a problem, but I've seen one die quick kept in a bag and we weren't really sure if temperature was the cause..
I'm running it on real hardware (Ryzen 9 5900X, 12 cores 24 threads) and all I'm doing is executing the program once. My understanding is that the program is using runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0) to ensure it's using all available CPU cores because that falls back to runtime.NumCPU ?
There's an insane amount of everything varieties, you just don't often get much (or at least not explicit) choice at the point of purchase.

Potatoes are the biggest exception I can think of in the UK. Largely grown here! Could believe it's similar for retail rice in India for similar reasons. (That doesn't work for say wheat flour though. A lot grown here, but best you can do is pick your protein %. I'm also not sure if you should care about more than that though - milling aside.)
What is the browser-based debugging tool story for compiled-to-WASM languages?
Another post about the same story, also on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815744
Yea I didn't include it, but that'd be the "free as in beer, but not freedom" circle :)
Are you familiar with the expression missing the forest for the trees?
Interesting, could you give some examples of the more nuanced words that Hindi has, which English lacks? (If it's feasible to do so at all; I'd struggle to translate some idioms from my native language to English...)
Wild.

Blood clots can be scary. (personal exp). Glad to hear you know why they are happening and how to fix it.

Happy clear-thinking !!!
It seems like a no brainer that western powers should defend the transport of Ukrainian grain. The shortage of food is going to cause such an immense problem in states like in Africa. Europe is going to have a terrible time with this.
Same here! I didn't learn my lesson, of course. The moment we upgraded to a DSL line, I port scanned even more machines, way faster, which led to Qwest shutting down our account, which was only re-enabled after several days worth of apologetic phone calls from my mom.

Love ya, mom. Sorry I was an idiot.
Coming from farm country in Iowa, I'm glad to see Allan Savory's work getting more publicity. Regenerative grazing definitely works. The problem is restoring a distressed ecosystem (typically soils) back to its natural state after desertification has already occurred in an area that livestock continually grazes. There are a few agTech companies looking at doing just that via different GMO seeding products of native grasses and plants, but the cost is still far too high economically coming in at around $50/acre. I don't think any farmer or rancher would argue that we need more free-range livestock and less confinements/stockyards, but it's a slow process.
Here in Australia we have been pretty blessed with pretty good ISPs. In the earlier days we had Internode (locally here in Perth it was iiNet for me for a while :)), which had a Usenet mirror (!) and were the first ISP I believe to offer ADSL2 in AU. Unfortunately in 2011 they were bought out by a major competitor and it went downhill.

Nowdays we have Aussie Broadband, which has an active tech community on Whirlpool (AU Broadband forums, fondly called Whingepool). Phil Brett as their cofounder made this an incredible company, and he recently left.

I pay $149AUD/month for "1000/50Mbps Unlimited", which I haven't had an email yet for my usage (I use around 4-10tb/month).
I had to share a line with my parent's business. I bought this little box off ebay that listened for the call waiting signal and then dropped the internet to let the call through. Had to remember to disable the disable call waiting option in modem settings IIRC.
Are weeder courses really a problem? Some students are just not capable at that moment to take certain degrees. Maybe it's a lack of preparation from highschool, in which case the student needs to take some remedial fundamentals, or maybe the student just simply isn't interested in the field they got in under, either because of parental pressure or a misunderstanding of what the field actually entails.

Weeder courses signal to the students "Hey, if you're struggling in this class, it's not too late to switch majors". Every student "weeded out" frees up a disproportionate amount of resources for the rest of the students who are ready and willing to learn.
> Hertz wanted it back with 80% charge or they'd bill us

Can you share what the cost was so I can complain to someone at Hertz? I think it's reasonable if they charge for fast charging the vehicle upon return, but it shouldn't be extortionate. Should be what a fast DC charge would be (~$15-$25) so they can cover equipment and energy costs to quick turnaround the vehicle for the next renter.

One of the benefits of EVs is that electricity is somewhat ubiquitous (including airport rental facility parking garages), so it's not great UX when an auto rental company is incentivizing customers to chase down fast charging at the last minute before return vs just topping cars up when returned.
Also your production database is optimized for different workloads than your analytics database.

Usually production is used for fetching and updating a small number of records at a time (think updating a shopping cart), and has strict latency requirements whereas analytics involves reading a large amount of data in columns (think count group by one or two columns), and can be done in batches where the results can get a more and more stale until the next batch runs.
That's just because we stole all the good words while busy taking all the other stuff and getting into fights with our neighbours.

Guru, avatar, loot, orange, safari, schadenfreude, karaoke, cookie, entrepreneur…

One day the lingua franca will be somewhere else.

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Tabling that (in the American sense rather than the British), every technical field uses language slightly differently; as a software dev I found it very weird when first witnessing scientists pluralise their source code as "codes".
> Gaming sites traditionally employ human writers with a deep knowledge of the subject

Citation needed.
I agree that the modality of treating symptoms and not curing disease is probably causing more problems then just having the disease.

I disagree that it is the best we can do. I have essentially cured my self of an "incurable" disease, one which was treated with drugs that masked the symptoms while my nervous system kept collapsing. when doctors see my labs and I tell them my story they are uninterested. That has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with curiosity and compassion.

My mother was told to take a baby aspirin everyday for her heart. Then the doctor one day to her just to stop taking them. It turns out that "just stopping" casued her to have a mini stroke (TIAs) which was well known issue when stopping long term low dose aspirin. That, and the fact that psychiatrists killed my nephew with medications, has led me to truths about the medical and pharmaceutical industries that see them as an obstacle to human health.
The more we caricaturize them in history, the harder it will be to recognize them now. It is more chilling but more protective to recognize them as ordinary. To make monsters of them is false comfort.
I took some Spanish and was taught the "se" form. Is it maybe a "traditional" Spanish vs common usage which has picked up on English sentence structure? A question for parents or grandparents I guess.
That's probably true. There are a disproportionate number of people in very middle-of-the-road neighborhoods with solar panels on the roof, and the ROI on solar in Oregon isn't really awesome. So there's some idealism going on, for sure.

But I've run the numbers enough times, and for the people who buy a car and drive it into the ground the EV math is pretty great. At least around here, because 9pm-5am every day and all-day weekends our per-kWh electricity cost is under 8 cents (all-in, including transmission costs, etc).
Since Open Source has been established in the tech ethos for a while now, any deviation has been met with derision. It seems like the community has been more tolerant of these "open" licenses as of late. While must of the hate for projects that do not fit the FOSS standard is mostly unwarranted, hopefully we are not moving quickly in the "open" direction.

Here is another article on LLaMa2: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2023/07/19/is-llama-2...
The study of the mind is the study of intangibles. English is a good language for the material, tangible realm but a poor one for describing the intangible realm inhabited by the mind. For instance, the Pali concept of "dukkha" is difficult to translate into English effectively [0].

[0] https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca1/dukk...
Head lettuce might make sense since it needs a lot of packaging and refrigeratoration to get to market. I can imagine a vertical system where it's grown in its clamshell, not dissimilar to some head lettuce you find at the store. It's gotta be in a refrigeratorated truck or car for the journey. It's also in pretty high and constant demand.

For pretty much everything else though...
Work also has to be "creative" in order for it to be eligible for copyright. This is why photomasks have special, explicit protection in US law; they're not really "creative" in that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...
While I love the UX improvements, MuseScore 4 is unusably laggy. On every machine I’ve tried, it takes 10+ seconds to respond after a few phrases have been entered.

I was hoping they just rushed out a buggy release, but there’s been no improvement since then. When folks complain about it on the subreddit or forums, Muse Group just brushes them off.

I’ve used Musescore for a long time, and I happily would’ve put up with moderate bugs for a contemporary UX. But unfortunately, 4.0/4.1 is completely broken for me.
I'm glad you were able to articulate this idea so clearly. I think similar advice which maybe isn't so clear is to try to avoid "being the smartest person in the room".

On the topic, I'm reminded of coworkers talking about the most recent Super Bowl (I think, I don't follow sports) which included commentary from players who played as quarterbacks in the same season. One of the things my coworkers mentioned was how interesting it was to hear them talk about the game because they used unfamiliar terms.
> [...], but if we don't do it a lot more people are going to die.

ftfy.
Someone like Tesla could ensure that queues never happen. Not by building an infinite number of chargers (clearly impossible), but by telling users to continue onwards with their journey early as soon as someone else shows up who is more in need of charge.

Using that technique, and relying on the fact different users are going in different directions, demand can be shifted to other sites hundreds of miles away and many hours into the future.

You can also shift demand onto users home chargers (make them arrive home with less charge).
> it's at best a contractual clause binding a particular user. Anyone using that improved model afterward is in the clear.

That's... not really accurate. See the concept of tortious interference with a contract.
No plumbing adventure is complete without 6 trips to your local hardware store, thinking each one is surely the last.
This always happens in these discussions:

> if the law forces people to work only 40 hours

The law isn't forcing them to work only 40 hours. It's forcing Schreiber to pay them more if they do.
No, because you the input to that process was a bunch of work that you did.

In the case of an LLM, I don't think that the work of compiling the training data probably would qualify by analogy to the phonebook example.
> To be fair, I'm talking about labeling, not the larger social structures groups inhabit.

I am also talking about labelling. But we as a society don't go around and say "you're gay, and you're gay , and you're gay" - we listen to what people identify as. This is fundamentally different from racism, which is rooted in behaviour, which we don't have to listen to self-identity for. That's my whole point.

> I don't believe pure actions are how humans derive intent. Actions are often used as an implication toward the state of mind. A child hitting another child is an action that does not connotate racist behavior under most conditions. Per your own statement: "even if you think you're not being racist, you might be racist from the PoV of someone you were racist towards" - the classification is arbitrary based on observation.

How are the classifications arbitrary if they are based on observation?

> That's an opinion. Given the existence of homosexual behavior in animals, I think there is a biological component that is separate from conscious decisioning.

No, it's not an opinion. You can't look at someone and accurately judge their sexual preferences. You can't even necessarily look at their actions - how many gay people had to live straight lives in the past?

The only way to properly arrive at someone's sexual preferences is to ask them.

> I do not subscribe to the idea that "black" is a specific differentiation in humans. It's an arbitrary label based on observation.

I don't understand how you're arriving at "black" being arbitrary based on observation, since it's an identification. Someone isn't black because they "act black".
Your second argument, if true, disproves your first argument.
This weekend is when the schools break up for Summer holidays. People are going on vacation starting today.
Honestly, those are talked about on a daily basis in all the mainstream news outlets not owned by Rupert Murdoch. Howard Zinn won a long time ago.
There will always be smart devices that operate 100% on-prem.
Why don't you ask the workers?

I don't have to even ask them (since I've worked such jobs) to know what they want. They want as many paid overtime hours as they possibly can get during the season. Anyone limiting these hours will be seen as the enemy.

They are not upset at anyone other than the government over this situation, as they should be.

I don't think many on HN realize that this sort of ham-fisted regulation damages the lower classes and the narratives start from here. If you want to know why the EPA is so hated by blue collar rural workers - this is almost a perfect example. A policy put in place that harms them, when they are told it is helping when anyone complains about it.