skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
intercropping is done, but there are significant downsides. Farmers do it once in a while, but this is an area that is still very experimental and so any intelligent farmer (most are not stupid!) will try it in a small field for a few years, or watch someone else try it.

Tall plants shade the shorter ones, so you lose yield for the shorter plants, and this may or may not be made up by the taller ones (which have to put more energy into supporting that height).

Intercropping means pests can live and thrive in your crops. Farmers will sometimes plant one crop 3 years in a row because that means the pests don't have anything to live on and in turn they die off. Intercropping means there is always a host species for the pest to live off of and so they in turn thrive.

I think there are other downsides as well that I can't remember. There may also be unknown downsides - since this is not common there may be downsides were are not aware of. This is why we need scientific research and small trails before rolling out something new in mass - it may be worse than what we have.
New organometallic 'sandwich' compound capable of holding more electrons
Crimes against cloud: an investigation (2022)
In the 1950s, the average household spent ~30% of after-tax income on food. It's down to ~12%.

Housing costs just went up to capture the excess "savings".

https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+gdp+that+goes+...

The vast majority of people would rather eat crap and buy another toaster they don't need and add another bathroom to their house they'll hardly ever use then spend more money on quality food.
Revealed: US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations
AFAIK, Apple and Google have never lost a private encryption key. I see no real reason to think that won't continue forever.

And ultimately keeping private keys secure is extremely easy compared to securing an OS, the app store ecosystem, and messaging app. Finding a zero day there and exfiltrating messages from a phone seems far more likely than a key being lost. We see zero days all the time and the number of lost private keys is something close to 0. If you trust them with the entire chain adding a key to decrypt messages is not a meaningful additional risk.

This is about selling phones and not some moral stand by Apple. They're perfectly happy handing over data to the Chinese government. E2E encryption is denying access to the West with a legal system that provides (somewhat theoretical) legal protection while continuing to hand it over to an autocratic government that has legit concentration camps.

E2E encryption is not a meaningful increase in security and it denies society the legitimate tools it needs to enforce laws. The practical effect is that criminals get away with a lot more crime while legitimate usage is not any safer.
The pragmatic engineer blog by Gergely Orosz is great, especially when it comes to topics that are career-related or about the tech industry in general.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
In the US, we almost always hand the card to stuff and they almost always run it for us. It is only with the widespread adoption of technology like Apple Pay that this is changing in the US. No one is going to hand their phone to the wait staff, so the staff bring a terminal to the table.
The JVM Language Summit 2023 Playlist
Imagine getting paid to deliver something and complaining about actually having to deliver it. I can see the problems they face, but delivering an item...most of the way...isn't the solution.
Contrary to popular belief there's, in general, a shortage of children to adopt in the United States. Most of the children open for adoption have several needs that a random single man without any child development experience may have trouble meeting.
Agreed, I can't tell if it is real or all generated?
> The GBA it's just a tiny step down from a PSX.

The GBA doesn't have any 3D graphics hardware, yet it renders that Tomb Raider game with 3D graphics in real time using a software rasterizer, on a CPU with half the clock rate of the CPU in the PS1 and with a fraction of the RAM of a PS1. So no, this is not "just a tiny step down from a PSX".
You're an adult, people aren't going to spoon-feed every tiny thing in the world to you.
In the long term though it accidentally worked out since now they have complete integration and control and don't have to worry about the mess of dealing with other manufacturers. History is weird sometimes, and by sometimes I mean all the time.
the offending part is that there should some kind of drive to have your own children or more specifically that the desire to have children is reduced to the need to reproduce.

i have children because i love them and want to care for them. i would adopt children for the same reason. i felt no drive to have children be my own. i could not care less if it is me who reproduced instead of someone else.

of course if humanity as a whole were in danger because there are not enough kids then i would want to contribute that however i can. but even then that could mean helping someone take care of their kids so they can have more kids.
> That is not true the composition and material of our solar system are the result of a Supernova remnants.

Which are... extrasolar.
8-bit micros can and usually have wider than 8-bit ADCs.

Having said that you are right, I don't expect this ADC to work as a decent oscilloscope.
France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
Ask HN: Moving compute & storage of business-critical apps to the “edge”?
Has anyone done this, i.e. migrating an application that used a relational database to the edge (including storage as well)?

If so, what was your experience in terms of performance, robustness, operational ease and reliability?

By "edge" I'm referring to products like Fastly Compute at Edge, Cloudflare Workers/KV/Durable Objects etc.
Success as a parent is much more than just "my child is alive and getting older"

Are they becoming a happy person? good, moral person? Do they contribute to society or are they a drain on society? Do you, the parent, have to bail them out of jail every other weekend?

Don't neglect your kids, people. Please.
Yes, and at many "elite institutions".

Just looking at the roster of the "club" for the sport I coach I see several former NCAA players on the roster. This club might bill itself as welcoming any level of skill, but the reality is as a beginner you are going to up against former NCAA players who have exhausted their eligibility which is something you are more likely to do at an Ivy as they do not "red shirt".

I'm really not sure there is a story here other than hyper-competitive institution is hyper-competitive.
The dust bowl was 90 years ago. Since then we have had worse droughts, but not repeat dust bowls. We have learned.
A calorie is not indicative of nutrition. I can eat 10 pop tarts a day for a few bucks but it has little to no nutritional value.
That's an opinion an algorithm could come up with based on raw data, but in real life you will not enjoy life the same way when you are 20, especially given at what life stage other 40s are at in most societies.
That is an incredibly shallow and fairly snarky response. I can do a lot of legwork to fill out a more robust position based on assumptions about people’s beliefs who make quips like this.

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I think the most important thing this misses are that there are more parties to an economic enterprise than just a single seller and their buyers. At one extreme, let’s envision a fictional world:

Walmart builds a small empire on the back of public highways. They pay fair taxes which allows the highways to capture and reinvest the value they created for Walmart.

Walmart then lobbies government leaders to eliminate their taxes. Walmart now pays no taxes.

Walmart continues to extract value from the public highways but no longer shares that value with the government which created the value.

I’m not saying this is literally what’s happening - I’m just using it as an example to show how a company can provide great prices to customers, while inappropriately capturing value created by others. This is just to show that your model posited above fails to take into account some pretty large effects in the real world.
Not nearly as nice as an air-conditioned tractor cab.
The car data hype – no need to worry?
What are customers going to do? Go get it themselves? Clearly not. The potential loss of someone's property they use to deliver isn't worth it, as the article mentions. It also mentions laws enacted to support the delivery workers.

> Two Brazilian cities and one state are discussing bills to allow drivers to refuse deliveries at the door — three cities have already approved them.

Kick out delivery apps who don't adhere to the law, simple as that. Important to remember that these workers are humans; remember the human.
The Federal Helium reserve is for sale
This is the entire system including the facility, hundreds of miles of pipeline, helium rights for many helium producing wells, existing storage and delivery contracts, and 800 million cubic feet of helium.

A stockpile of 1 billion cubic feet of helium only is for sale as a separate lot:
https://disposal.gsa.gov/s/property/a0Xt0000005z684EAA/feder...
In "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", there's a forward Douglas Adams wrote for a book by another author which was unfinished. He related two stories: the first about an ancient Greek poet who would spend the morning reciting verse, which one of his disciples would write down; then he'd spend the afternoon throwing the vast majority of it away. The second was about another author who'd type out a page of a novel and stick it on his wall near the bottom; every so often he'd page off the wall, type in an improved version, and put it on the wall a little higher, until all the pages were at the top.

His point (speaking about the other author) was that the book was "unfinished" both in the sense of incomplete, but also "unfinished" in the sense of unpolished; it was a warning that the quality of the writing would not be the quality the readers were used to from that author.

(Which was apropos to include in "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", since it was also a novel started by Adams and not "finished", in either sense.)

It's a hard thing to do, to just sit and write something you feel is garbage. I think I've mostly managed to get to the point where I can do it for coding, but not really for text yet.
> Anti-theft features aren't anything to do with remote attestation, and this feature does not stop recycling the devices
Activation Lock relies on a remote attestation mechanism. It will not unlock without a connection to Apple's servers and can't be bypassed on the device.

>it just means that only Apple can recycle them.
Which would be a problem

>Which would likely be true anyway due to how integrated the components are.
You don't need Apple to melt down gold
Technically yes?

But its way beyond the point where its going to help LLMs. CPU RAM is already "too slow" in machines big enough for multiple NVMe SSDs.
But it's also insulting when someone makes off-hand remarks about "giving mom a break," etc. I have 4 year old twins and a nearly 2 year old singleton. We're all busy as fuck here, but no one ever diminishes my wife's ability to be a parent.
> In 2023, there has been a shift towards acknowledging keyword search also has value and that a combination of vector + keyword search (aka hybrid search) operates in the sweet spot.

Do you have evidence that this hybrid approach is better than a vector search? That would be surprising.
Thanks. By "app" did you mean stylesheet/skin?
If that's "wealth", then "wealth" is worthless.

When you have a capped number of humans, and every last one of them is jacked into the Matrix and has everything they could possibly want - what is there left to grow? If the growth in "wealth" doesn't actually reflect an improvement in human experience, then it's a pointless term. Sure you can have two computers trade virtual tokens at an ever-increasing rate until you saturate the network cable, but calling it "wealth" is an exercise in semantic subterfuge.

It's like saying economic growth is unbounded because you can always print more money. Eventually it has to bottom out in something real.
There is an analogous grief for those dealing with a broken adoption system. I know someone who cared for a newborn for 9 months, before it was forcibly taken away at the request of the biological grandparents. This is in Canada, so you can guess why. They loved and cared for it as any parent would.
As the title says, it's not about not wanting kids, it's about thinking it will happen automatically.

Some guys think that relationships magically start in a romantic setting, like shown in Hollywood movies. Reality is: if you want something, you should actively purchase it.

So if you don't want kids: fine, enjoy the freedoms it will offer.

If you want a relationship and/or family, don't sit on your ass until it will magically appear to you. Go get it!
Right, but nobody takes anything, the sticking point is the copyrighted content.

Unless someone tries claim you are stealing electric current, this claim of theft is absurd - first you must attach a device to the cable, then spend your time watching said device (presuming it has a screen). Until that happens, it belies belief that you have "taken" anything. After that point, one must assume somehow this is content enriching your life somehow (dubious), or that you are recording and reselling content (which would be obvious fraud, at the copyright level).

Before then, the fact is that another entity is blasting all content continuously on all their lines. That's not theft.

I'm not arguing that people should be intentionally jacking into other people's wires, or saying cable should be free for everyone, just that the legal definition of theft here is absurd. That you can then be prosecuted for something you have not done by no fault of your own except malpratice of the people involved in originally laying the lines, is ridiculous and a sure sign if cronyism and protectionism, not one of a healthy judicial system.
Definition 3: “Full of life, strikingly alive.”

Etymology: “Borrowed from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).”

I like it!

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vivid
I love teaching/interacting with the occasional good-natured, learning-sponge kids, but the stars haven't yet aligned to have kids of my own.

Now that I'm 50-ish, although I'm energetic and not yet noticeably graying, when I think about kids of my own, I have to consider:

* A dear friend adored her father, and when he died while she was in college, she was devastated. I could nurture a kid to be resilient in that possibility, but I don't like the idea of setting them up for that possibility to be not-unlikely.

* I'd want the other parent to be a life partner, and that probably means in a close age bracket. So biological clocks are a factor, at least for building from scratch. Or, if partner is significantly younger, that means we'd have to consider how much time we could have before the woman likely outlives the man, and where that would leave her.

That said, I haven't written off the idea of a family, and I'm paying every month to keep a life insurance policy, just in case there's someday a family who might need it.
No kidding - despite the fact that the images are all credited as "Photo by", I simply don't believe they are photos. They look more like videogame loading screen artwork (especially the images with engineers working on planes)
temporal is for managing events. How is it related to ci/cd? Generally curious.
Haven’t tried it but seems like a promising approach to try out!
Consistency and uniforms? Uniform dress is kind of a keystone for military service.
I think the curvature of the earth on those photos is exaggerated and camera artifacts. If you extrapolate, the earth would be much smaller in these photos.
Imagine a world in which doing the job right (and taking pride in doing so, regardless of how trivial a job it is) is actually the norm.

In some parts of some countries, it still is.
Looking for co-founder for a blockchain data indexing project
Hey HN!

I built a blockchain indexer, currently supports EVM networks and offers big technical advantages compared to current state-of-the-art methods.

Also have plans to extend it to other chains and develop analytic query options on top of the current storage system.

I am on the technical side and don't have time to develop this into a product/business myself. So I am looking for a business oriented co-founder.

There already is an offer to acquire the software but I am aiming to make this a product on it's own. There are also a couple potential users already but it is difficult for me to keep up with the technical stuff and also network with these users.

I am open to suggestions technically as well
On the contrary, "trying for kids" was accompanied by an elaborate ceremony to kick off the process. This big ceremony was often so successful that the kids would arrive 5 months after the ceremony!
Probably similar to most other farms: Depends on how profitable your off-farm job is.

Farming is much like tech startups. Is a wealth building game, not a profit generation game.
this is why women generally don’t post pictures to the Internet without a lot of thought behind it

I know someone who was doxxed because the pattern on bedsheets that were visible in the picture uniquely identified her hotel. The picture only had a tightly-cropped cat sitting on generic white linen.

I know a person who made a comment on Twitter about “I need a new pair of boots” three years ago. From that, her stalkers correctly inferred what city she lived in based on historical snowfall data, and were then able to use other context to get her fired from her job.
> And vastly more people drive than walk. It's pretty obvious how we end up with the infrasructure we have.

Cars made long distances easy to reach and shaped cities.

Let's reshape cities to reduce dependency to cars and to gas.
> Churches just want you to do their thing, with zero practical application in the short term.

You say

> And all the warning they get is a random guardian article in the slew of media rain.

The truth is some decisions take a long time to 'make good'. I can assure you any father having kids will, at times when his newborn is fussy, his toddler annoying, not see the wisdom or 'practical application in the short term' of his decision to have kids.

You clearly realize that there are some things society ought to tell people that they will only understand at a very large picture.

Yet you then criticize churches, the source of many traditions in the West that I'm guessing you like, as having zero practical application in the short term.

I would suggest you change that and give it a real go.
> It's still two orders of magnitude more expansive than any other SaaS business.

Really? Some SaaS businesses have users doing things that generate tens of thousands of IOs per user request across spinning storage, or even far more.

> ChatGPT is mostly being used by people who use it a few minutes per day, which is a nice place to be, but:

I think you basically completely misunderstood everything I said. Here, the point was that someone using it is generating tokens a very large proportion of the time they're sitting in front of the service compared to most use cases-- but it's still only like 20% of the time.

We all have a pretty good understanding of the tradeoffs between owning hardware vs. elastic usage of a utility. We know that "peek usage" [sic] is higher than average (which is why there's a duty cycle correction in the calculation in the first place).

> - when you start integrating LLMs in tools you use routinely (an IDE being the typical example, then the token generation amount skyrockets).

It all depends. The system I just built and deployed does not need to be immediately responsive to end-users (users can tolerate a delay of a couple of minutes), with a few thousand tokens per user per week, and usage smeared pretty well over a several hour per day window. There's a lot of reasons (beyond economics) why moving it to a consumer GPU is attractive, but it won't be happy with a 1B parameter model.
"LMUL state" is three bits (7 possible values) of thread-wide config that just change how operations operate with the same vector registers; similar to say the FP dynamic rounding mode, which also needs to be saved & restored across context switches.
>To debate a Nazi is to give them a platform

And how well has deplatforming been doing? We tried deplatforming the alt-right for the last decade, and all we've gotten is trump elected, various terrorist attacks, and the jan 6th riots.
The government is not the “end”. The message is decrypted prior to reaching its end. It’s not e2ee.
Sounds like the primary worry is having their bike or other gear stolen, which is reasonable I think. If you can't earn without those things, then you won't want to risk them.

The solution seems to be either to get customers to come down, or to eliminate crime. I'd take a guess that having customers come down is a quicker and cheaper solution to implement.
Motivating goaldirected behavior through introspective self-talk
> In the USA you can just buy a black-powder cannon if you want

Is this... common? Can't imagine why anyone would want one.
Wonder how many times you can threaten this before being permanently banned. 3 times?
Thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary! I knew that silver had antimicrobial properties but didn’t know the phenomenon had a name.

I think the material described in the article is a bit more novel than you’re giving it credit for though. The article has an image showing an intact bacteria on polished titanium next to a ruptured bacteria on this new surface. My guess is that the increased surface area of this new material allows for the oligodynamic effect to act more quickly.
I guess this is just a fun project, but obvious question, and maybe answered in the TFV or TFA, but weighing them?
> The French government has said it is preparing a new decree against meaty terms like “steak”, “grill” and “spare ribs” being used to describe plant-based products.

I wonder what is the approved alternative for grilled vegetables.
There's trades offs either way. Personally, I would rather have had the experiences I had in my 20's. Anything you can do in your 40's, you can do in your 50's or 60's. Some of the crazy (good and bad) you can experience in your 20's you don't get a chance to experience again. But, it's a trade off still.
Punching nazis will also make you popular if people believe you are punching Nazis. That doesn't mean you should do it.

First, of course, what if that person isn't actually a Nazi? Either mistakenly or maliciously labeled Nazi.

Second, for every boost you get punching a Nazi, a Nazi gets the same boost for punching a Jew or a black person. All you have done is justify their action.
Google dragged their feet for a while, with no easy way to reject all. IIRC they had to be threatened with serious fines before they complied.
You also have regular Firefox + uBlock Origin that works great.
I usually read this one: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog
It provides useful information about programming, web3 and more topics!
They are creating a global socialist state where everyone is a slave except the ruling class
So you can buy one H100 for our own server (if you can find it), or this.
sounds like another desperate cry for attention from an inherited-wealth internet troll with a long track record of bullshitting and trying to back out of his commitments
Except the poor dog. Surely that dog deserves a ballad!