skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alfalfa is "extremely low value" by what metric? It is a rich food source for livestock. Alfalfa is also one of the most water efficient crops there is due to its deep roots, high yield and perennial nature. [1]

A lot of "studies" on water efficiency of crops ignore yield, which is kind of the whole point of agriculture.

And regarding your export claim:

> Based on USDA data for 2022, only 4% of all U.S. dry hay produced and 6.5% of all harvested alfalfa hay entered the export market.

[0]: https://hayandforage.com/article-4300-hay-exports-in-2022-of...
[1]: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1772...
And there are very few laptops that can compete on metrics like fan noise and ability to run at full performance unplugged without nuking the battery.

It might sound silly but this a big thing for me. It’s disconcerting for a laptop to sound like an angry banshee when I’m pushing it, and my 16” M1 Max MBP doesn’t. It’s also why I sold the gaming laptop and replaced it with a desktop, because quiet high performance x86 laptops are apparently hard to come by.
I've left Twitter years ago. But I occasionally follow Twitter links and sometimes even refer to them, when there's no other choice. There's nothing "dangerous" in that and exactly nothing changed recently. And I must note in general that using "dangerous" (or "unsafe") to mean "has a non-zero risk of mildly annoying me" is extremely pretentious and obnoxious. The login requirement has been slightly annoying (note - not "dangerous") but only marginally as it still allows to view the main tweet, and the discussion under it is usually very low-value (also nothing new in it, has been like that for years).

I feel like all this "twitter is a hellscape now" is posing trying to get back at Musk because his idea about who should be allowed on twitter doesn't match theirs. And mainly for politically tribal and partisan reasons, to be blunt.

Also I note I have never followed or sent a link to Threads so far - not because I am somehow opposed to that, just there was no opportunity to do that since nothing that could interest me and is published there got into my attention so far. There's little reason to prefer one to the other, but effectively my experience shows twitter links sometimes contain useful information - I follow several every week - and I haven't seen any Threads links yet that did. Maybe in time that'll happen too.
So I've been slowly moving from nginx to Caddy in new projects (old projects still use nginx).

The reasons for this are:

1. Automatic ACME integration in Caddy compared to the mess of containers something like nginx-proxy-manager is or the unreliability of external solutions like certbot or acme.sh

2. nginx's config. Footguns like if are well known, but even just if you want to deploy a nginx server with virtual hosts, did you know that if there is no Host header nginx serves the site evaluated first in its config file (even if the site has a server_name directive)? This is fine for an enterprise deployment where you probably only have one site behind nginx anyway, but as someone who has their side projects share servers to cut down on costs, it's really undesirable. There is a way around it by setting up a default host to explicitly serve errors, but it's just a chore I don't have on Caddy.

3. I can use Caddy on the CLI for testing also, in a way that's a more advanced replacement for python -m http.server etc. for more advanced use cases, or even just setting up server config rules.
> MNIST and CIFAR-10

I understood (though only skimmed) that this paper is about generating MNIST and CIFAR-10, not the usual classifying?
Both Tower and Intel have fabs, manufacturing, and customers in China.

If they want to divest out of their Chinese operations, they could ignore Chinese regulators and merge.
> Half using it less than before isn't surprising if the other half are using it same or more than before.

There's a breakdown of responses in a chart included in the article:

- 6.7% stopped usage

- 24% significantly decreased usage

- 23.3% slightly decreased usage

- 37.3% have been about the same

- 6% have slightly increased usage

- 2.8% have significantly increased usage
An alternative perspective:

If a group has repeatedly shown that they will use their tools and power to oppress others, why give them tools that increase their odds of doing so?
> texting while driving is insane

I'm inclined to agree, but I would also love to see more detailed analysis. It is easy for everyone to jump on this particular bandwagon (I have found very few people willing to say that texting while driving is no big deal), but at the same time I see a lot of texting while driving happening every day. And while we do know it contributes to accidents, driving remains a relatively safe activity statistically given how dangerous it seems.

It's a little bit similar to the 'think of the children' argument, and it makes me uncomfortable when we use such justifications for massively increasing surveillance in a way that seems disproportionate to the problem we are trying to solve.
I can rephrase then... Why is it so important to you that only the ideas you agree with have visibility?

Why are you even sure you are right?

Because of consensus? That's never been wrong.

Because all "the good people" think like you do? Cool, your tribe and religion will be happy to hear that.

Because the screens all agree with you? What an amazing coincidence and surely not a planned correlation.

... I feel like the real issue is we have convinced everything that their thought matters and when we see a thought that is different it makes us mad and we want to smash that downvote button or angrily reply.

But what if you're the wrong one?

Maybe open debate and exchange of ideas is just overall better for everyone.
Breathe without Benadryl? Isn’t Benadryl used for allergies? Allergies come mainly from plants and pollen. Hopefully those won’t be going away as we adopt solar more.
Spring has gotten so bloated. It seems like there's no feature request they can say "no" to. Plus there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. e.g. JPA, spring-data.

their call stacks between injected components are sometimes a couple dozen layers deep and it makes no sense.

they don't provide easy upgrade paths between majors versions and they stop updating vulnerabilities on older major versions. I inherited some code that was using version x but had to be upgraded due to critical vulnerabilities. The vulns weren't fixed in x or y but only z. I tried moving over and their cryptic unit test fixtures stopped working. No docs on migration. Spring is sort of like cancer.
"Misinformation" just means "any information that contradicts something the CDC said at one time", which is _insane_, considering the CDC's guidance and the efficacy of these mRNA shots changes weekly. It's shameful to think that a diversity of viewpoints or interpretations of data, and willingness to change one's viewpoint based on new data is considered "misinformation" by a political, government agency. That is not scientific in the slightest. Science is a _process of discovery_, not a Soviet diktat from the highest-paid bureacrat and the corporations that pay him.

We've reached a dark time in American history where presenting a different point of view gets you labeled as a crank. Yes, there are cranks out there, but I think most of them will actually engage with the data and are frankly more reliable than a good Soviet doctor whose rationale for treatment is "the Commisariat this week said so".
"No one was allowed to leave the theatre during his recitals, however pressing the reason. We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men being so bored with listening and applauding that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the rear, since the gates were kept barred, or shammed dead and were carried away for burial." - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Of course, for anyone who wants up-to-the-minute Unstable/Testing channel, Debian still has that as an option, but I'm with you on Debian Stable.

When Debian's APT network package manager happened, that was pretty new and unusual. Imagine hearing about a package, typing a shell command, and Debian probably had the package, and it was installing. (When I was using Red Hat before Debian, there was a set of Web sites that I'd have to use to find packages, in a way that now seems naive and reckless: "https://www.neilvandyke.org/lab-linux-1999/#software".)

The package ecosystem is more mature now, and it turns out that Debian Stable almost always has what I need, so I still get the APT experience. (I even got the closed Nvidia CUDA stack from Debian Stable `non-free` repos, the other day, and it just worked. Maybe a little too easily and well, but that's another matter.)
Discover Three.js
I guess I…don’t see it that way? But I only watched the Star Wars live action material, not the other stuff.
> One definition of a dystopian society is a society where you cannot make mistakes.

Except being awarded penalty points, or fined for doing something dangerous is not exactly "cannot make mistakes" is it? You do a stupid and dangerous thing, you are fined and hopefully you won't do it anymore. If you do it often enough your privilege of piloting a giant metal box around people is revoked.
It's even worse with electricity in California. No I am not going to save energy or install solar+batteries to help cover for PG&E's negligence. We live in a calm climate where there should be no problem transporting energy and no need to subsidize inefficient home power plants. Don't let them shove their problems onto us.
I was using a similarly spec'ed home-built PC at that time. It was an ugly beige box with a 15" beige monitor. I convinced my girlfriend to buy that Bondi-Blue box with only USB ports as she needed a new computer for her upcoming semester. We purchased it at the on-campus "Apple Store". It was the slickest computer buying experiences EVER. We had a Gateway 2000 store in town around that time. Trying to buy a computer there was such a nightmare. Apple really figured out the "experience" part of buying and owning a computer.
I agree with you but also:
I gave my young daughter her own Android phone last week.
Google Family Link is fantastic. It prevents her from using a web browser or any other things I don't want her to do. All she can do is message people, call people & look at maps. It turns itself the phone off an hour before bedtime. She can get headlines from Google search, which I didn't expect, but it's not proven a problem since the links can't be opened.
The usage tracker shows she spent almost an hour messaging/calling yesterday, which is more than I expected, but if it gets too much then I can limit it.
One happy customer here.
If the goal was to prevent folks from getting a raw deal, the governor could just come up with the funds to help folks rebuild like most catastrophies. Instead, he wants to take advantage of the disaster and use the land for his own designs. Maybe the governor's heart is in the right place after all, but this feels super slimy at first blush.
Each of those sectors has a variety of support roles: accounting, HR, software, janitorial, etc, in addition to primary operations.
Why didn't the Nazis beat Oppenheimer to the nuclear bomb?
If I remember correctly, the algorithm in Alpha Go used a combination of reinforcement learning and searching the space of moves and possible outcomes to determine the next move. So it does indeed use both search and learning.

Regardless, the author's point is that computation is a better way of finding and exploiting patterns/strategies than our own intuitions. The distinction between search and learning is not the important one here.
The guy was sexually assaulted and then accused himself of sexual assault which got him “cancelled.” I followed him on Twitter back then, it’s hard to imagine it not being suicide after all of that.
It still seems to work intermittently. I'd chalk this up less to targeted malice and more up to the general problems Twitter has been having in the past few days.

I don't think it's an accident that this is happening at the same time that there is a "news site throttling" going on. I bet it's just yet another failing system at Twitter HQ.
How is the static-text "serving my own blog" business doing these days?
Obviously the cash isn't free and will be claimed back. The story here is a bank who has made a series of poor tech choices going back decades starting to catch up on itself.

Bank of Ireland has shockingly poor tech infrastructure both internal facing and external facing. A story involving outsourcing to Infosys in India and never having a customer facing app taken seriously.

They were bailed out in 2008 by the Irish government having made poor choices regarding mortgages.

Currently people lining up across the country to withdraw money from ATMs.
> The former Twitter leadership just hid content that didn't fit theirs or third parties sensitivities and told me they are doing me a favor.

The former Twitter leadership was very clear about what sort of content would be his. And is was based entirely on the type of content ahead of time.
Critiquing this sort of content policy is like saying that newspapers should not be allowed to have clear standard for what is publishable in classified ads.

All claims of "I'm being oppressed" by Twitter policies have been absolutely ridiculous, and discrediting to supposed free speech advocate/absolutist positions.

Similarly discrediting is the silence on Musk's attacks on the free web and attempts at censorship of specific disprefeerred news outlets.

We all see what gets fought ago and what is not faught against, and the answer is clears the right to attack and intimidate groups with threatening behavior is defending, but actual censorship of reasonable discourse is tolerated.
> the extremely long tail seems to have left the conversation.

The long tail leaving I suspect is because unless you are verified, your tweets will be seen by almost nobody.

Post a few tweets that get just 1 view, and you will soon be demoralized and stop tweeting.
> if you like Tailwind's approach you may enjoy it coming to your language of choice, where you can code by writing very long variable names in a highly specific way, which are then read by reflection and interpreted as code.

No need for Tailwind; in enterprisey Java land we already have Hibernate and Spring Boot for those who like long, magical method names. And if you want an extra layer of obfuscation, drop Lombok in there.
> A good manager should. A technical manager, doubly so, and if you're an engineer, your manager should be technical.

They really should not. Their job is to manage a team, not to replicate everyone else’s work to understand in detail how clever they are. It’s just impossible. Particularly as teams tend to have a distribution of profiles and skill sets. In this case, do you expect the manager to be a master of all of them? That is clearly unrealistic.

If you are a good engineer, you should be able to come up with some executive summary in 1 slide or a paragraph to outline what’s good in whatever you came up with. Otherwise, it means that you don’t understand what you’re doing or that you’re bad at bringing information together and condensing it in an understandable form, which is really not great for a technical role.

> Of course you're ultimately your best cheerleader and hypeman, but your manager should be doing that job too, especially to other higher-ups.

If incentives are set up correctly, a manager will advertise to the top. They should be rewarded when their team perform well, so it’s in their interest to publicise successes. (Bad managers will do it whilst claiming the credit for themselves, but that’s another problem). They cannot do it if you don’t provide them the information they need, though.
She needs to get into raising Swans. My wife’s uncle bought a pair for about the same price. The couple who raises them said they sell about $750,000 in swans a year.
'Terrorism' Became a Dirty Word [video]
Eternal Backup of ESA's Collection of Earth Observation
The long term data preservation progamme was announced in the 2000s to ensure that more than 30 years of valuable data that ESA has provided to organizations across the world would still be accessible.

The data being deposited is a collection of earth observation (EO) data with historical data from missions like the ENVISAT and GOCE program. Satellite images from the these missions are focusing of the exploration and understanding of the earth. Further, there is also information from science missions, like Giotto, ISO and EXOSAT which more contains valuable data regarding other planets, comets, asteroids and other objects in the space.
Great link. Another classic on patents as rent-seeking: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm

> intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.
I am also carnivore with NO energy or fatigue issues.

HOWEVER, I am constantly experimenting with foods, isolation, etc. - and I discovered that PLANT-BASED milks or creamers for my coffee give me TERRIBLE CFS.
- Almond Milk
- Cashew Milk

Specifically "big brand" names you find at chain stores. They must be chemically treating these foods with something. I don't trust them.

Back to cow's milk for me.
i think it's a matter of taste and preference. your taste and preference is different than mine. we don't have to work on the same projects together.
This is obviously a lie, the provide the fee in the invoice to the customer and probably have to identify the fees for taxation purposes with tax authorities at tax time.
> I wouldn't call "requiring drivers to not be using mobile phones" a "tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims".

You wouldn't, and I wouldn't, but someone else might.

This is the problem: who gets to decide? Today the people deciding the parameters for focusing the AI's attention might be benevolent and acting in good faith by your standard and mine, but who is to say that this will still be true tomorrow? Not everyone shares our quality metric.
Yes, and going back to the original point, a company’s posture on this is entirely a business decision and not a “UX MUST BEAT DX” truth
https://archive.li/TX86r
Seven Gold Paintings Inspired by the Brain
Interesting. I spent a bit of time reading Nintendo's FAQ on this topic and it seems you're right.

They are a lot more permissive with their digital copies than I expected, honestly.
You say that as if Amazon would be the manufacturer of these drugs. There's a difference between a pharmacy and a drug manufacturer. In this case Amazon is just the pharmacy.
I don't feel bad about myself. I didn't contaminate the environment with industrial processes.
yeah i'm only able to use tailwind because i know the fundamentals of CSS
Tailwind does let you specify files other than HTML/css. I point mine at .cljs files. Can you point it to whatever files are generating your html?
> When we pay $1,000+ per pill for our newest cancer drug we are not paying $1,000 for the few micrograms of active ingredients.

My usual statement is that the first (approved) microgram costs a billion dollars, the rest of the doses are basically free. Commence pricing games to sort that out.
The tech job recession is over
Archive Today has an endless ReCAPTCHA loop presently
I'm among several HN members who're experiencing an endless ReCAPTCHA loop when attempting to access Archive Today (<https://archive.today> a/k/a AT) or any of its various domain aliases:

- <https://archive.ph>

- <https://archive.is>

- <https://archive.li>

- <https://archive.vn>

- <https://archive.fo>

- <https://archive.md>

All resolve to 23.137.248.133 for me.

This has been noted in comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136514> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37132089> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105936>

As well as an earlier HN story submission: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049>

As a practical upshot, as AT is the principle viable workaround for paywalled articles on HN, which means that HN is now left without a reliable option for such submissions. This becomes a policy issue for HN itself.
Kotlin all the time, for these reasons:

* Nullsafe typing.

* Nullsafe typing!

* Inline extension functions for existing APIs. These are supremely useful. You can write features like locking and unlocking around a block, or try-with-resources in a one-liner, without compromising performance.

* (Nested) When statements, if-else as expression etc.

* Reified generics. You can actually write: "if (xy is T)" or use T::class

* Nullsafe typing

* Data classes

* Getter/Setter syntax as property and indexing syntax.

* Only unchecked exceptions

Kotlin really is Java 2.0.
Here's some detail from CNBC (w/out a paywall)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/ev-maker-vinfast-is-now-wort....
I've seen people build entire careers on simply figuring out what project is favored by upper management and doing everything they can (short of actual work) to associate their names with that project.
Substitute "robber baron" with "mid-century gangster" and you'd find it's quite accurate. Mind your own business, keep the peace, and you'll find little trouble. Moral busybodies, by definition, have to constantly meddle in your affairs; it's their sole source of life.
The new 'pay for ad impressions' scheme encourages twitter to direct more impressions at smaller and unverified tweeters. They don't have to pay out money for those impressions after all.
Please please tell me you have a recording of its performance.
You just return an HTML fragment that describes the error with a header that says where to put it. The htmx JS API has events for errors too, if you want to do client-side handling.
What’s “distributed” mean here?