skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem for farmers is they have to sell to distributors/processors. Supermarkets don't want to deal with 100 different farmers per produce item.

In the last few decades, those entities have merged into megacorp regional and national monopolies. They are effectively fucking the farmer and the consumer.

https://time.com/6171326/meat-beef-industry-congress/

>Over the past three decades, as the largest four beef-packing firms have amassed control of 82% of the U.S. beef market

>Since 1980, an average of nearly 17,000 cattle ranchers have gone out of business each year, the report said.

>Meanwhile, some of the biggest meat-processing companies—Tyson, JBS, Marfrig, and Seaboard—have seen their gross profits increase by more than 120% collectively since before the pandemic, and their net income skyrocket 500%,

This also goes beyond the meat industry of course and extends into everything farming.
If it takes elite education, doesn't that contradict your original comment about dropouts?
We cover this a bit in the architecture page: https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/architecture

Basically Electric is horizontally scalable. You can run multiple Electric sync services on top of Postgres and then obviously many clients connecting to the Electric. We're focused on running on top of a single Postgres right now (which we take query load off).
Thanks. I thought I had recently seen the Ubiquity name in the headlines again after the Krebs debacle. I just didn't realize it was that recently.
Art as a product? Really. We both know that is a topic of much debate.

Further, they ordered a redo of a creative effort. They understood it would be substantially the same as the referenced work. He deviated significantly, creatively.

Oh well. It's all their business I guess.
Scientific Replication Crisis
- Registration of alternative treatments with contact info (registered business address, etc.). Prevent fly-by-night hucksters from hiding in the dark.

- Require disclosure of ingredients

- Require disclosure of tests for contaminants

- Require disclosure of adverse advents

- Have a standardized form for all of the above. Kind of a "truth-in-lending" document but for alternative treatments.

- Allow licensed doctors more freedom to administer alternative treatments without fear of license loss, so long as patient consent is received. This could be allow weeding out of some of the actual snake oil, but would add cost.
A more extreme version of this would be to install something like Prox-mox on a machine (doesn't have to be the actual machine you're using, but probably could be) instead of the standard OS, and then create virtualized containers for each "use case" (and then use good security practices on each containerized OS as well of course).

Setup correctly, if any one container was to get compromised, it shouldn't leak out to anywhere of the other ones. Would be super inconvenient, I'm guessing to actually have a semblance of efficiency there would still likely be a "main" container and you'd SSH into others in order to do tasks associated with that container. Not too much different than the "clean OS" described here, probably the helper scripts could be similarly adapted to utilize the individual containers instead of docker containers.

I personally would be hard pressed to consider something like that, but seems like the logical continuation of this type of machine configuration/setup.
Correct me if I’m wrong but that appears to apply to the cameras themselves which are not on my network. They plug directly into the NVR (which provides PoE) and are not exposed to the network at large.
First off, thanks for chiming in with that detailed explanation. It's always a learning curve when you dive into the technical side of things, and I genuinely appreciate it.

Given the constraints with TypeScript not being further compilable, I've been pondering on Svelte's direction. Personally, I'd lean towards letting go of some of the special touches in js/ts file if it means keeping more magic in Svelte. If we're heading towards making Svelte syntax work exactly the same in js/ts entirely, it feels like we might risk turning Svelte from its unique language-like identity into just another framework in the JS world.

Thanks again for the insights! I have already felt a little better about my current work in migrating an app from another framework to svelte 4. I was worried that I have made a very wasteful decision for my own company.
What happened with the human-powered airplane?? Is that a thing normies can do?
https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera... Maybe avoid Eufy...
Does group membership not help?
It's wavelets all the way down.
That's right. And I'm also saying that switching hardware will make the break attempts take longer
Bet they've been working on that one before the new API was released.
That would be a _terrible_ outcome. Things would routinely break, and code would be vastly more confusing.
silly question, but wouldn't that be called a restaurant or a cafe?
> Network effects mean that most internet platforms form natural monopolies

I don’t think these monopolies are nearly as natural as something like transportation on rail infrastructure.

I think there’s a ton of regulation that can and should be applied to these companies that would bite away at how “natural” these monopolies appear (though, some of these require new legislation, for sure, which might be impossible given Congress in the modern area).

We could regulate interoperability, and force major media organizations to provide interpretation to their competitors (similar to how MVNO’s are allowed to buy their backend infra from the major players at or near cost).

We could prevent these “natural monopolies” from being embedded in a larger organization. YouTube’s monopoly might not appear nearly so natural if it was forced to be separated from the rest of Google and stand on its own.

Facebook’s monopoly would not be so natural if it had been prevented from buying every apparent threat to its business in the last decade. If you split up Facebook into its data collection systems, Facebook itself, the ad sales business, Instagram, and WhatsApp, suddenly it’s monopolies aren’t so natural.

Hell, the standard VC playbook of the 2010s was essentially the definition of anti-competitive practices: ignore the costs, ignore the revenues, just lose money on the business in an attempt to dominate the market to a degree that you can raise costs on consumers and no one will be able to stop you. That was the exact VC playbook, and also almost a perfect description of monopolistic behavior and anti-competitive practices.

I don’t think these are natural monopolies at all. I think Congress and regulators were both asleep at the switch for decades while these monopolies slowly formed out of pretty standard anti-competitive practices.

Tear down their walled gardens, separate these behemoths into their actual distinct lines of business, and prevent them from buying every competitor they see and they won’t be so unassailable.
Clang-expand: Expand function invocations into current scope
Another similar anecdote I heard before was related to a wireless device, and some employees flying a drone during their break, generating interference.
If there's a person who studies the works of George R.R. Martin, spending years cultivating writing skills based on just his works, and then writes new material, can that person lose a lawsuit for being too similar in style?
This reminds me of the "my monitor blinks every time I sit down in my office chair" turning out to be EMI spikes from the gas lift affecting the signal traveling on monitor cables.

A DisplayLink KB article even mentions it (and the associated white paper about the issue), stating:

Surprisingly, we have also seen this issue connected to gas lift office chairs. When people stand or sit on gas lift chairs, they can generate an EMI spike which is picked up on the video cables, causing a loss of sync. If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs. Again swapping video cables, especially for ones with magnetic ferrite ring on the cable, can eliminate this problem. There is even a white paper about this issue.
what ages exactly? (I don't use windows now but need to know)
The comparison to 'morals clauses' is apt: it was used mostly to force Christian, anti-Communist, and later pro-China stances on actors lest they harm the 'reputation' of the studio.

It's not a good thing.
For home security stuff? None of it will be exposed to the internet so I don't particularly care.
I'm going to take this as a naive question and answer it with an example.

Andrew Wakefield et al published a paper based on a small number of participants. they effectively preyed upon desperate parents to assert that MMR caused autism. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9500320/)

When people are desperate, its very easy to get them to do stuff thats very bad for them.

The problem is that in some cases that "very bad" thing might actually be quite good.

For example adding chlorine to water, on the face of it, is a fucking stupid idea. However along with proper sewage/sanitation, its responsible for most of the extended lifespan we enjoy in the west.

It is a grey area between doing good, through taking informed risks, and using shortcuts that require desperate people to take extra ordinary risks.

For example the reason why that vaccine was a massive risk is because the immune response could have just attacked the brain tissue as well as the tumour. And as it is a learned immune response, its super hard to stop it.
You can also achieve this with Astro, which will render your React islands statically and also enable client-side JS for interactivity / progressive enhancement when the client has JS enabled
This is a good listen as to the problem with public unions:

https://youtu.be/6PI_EldBehU

1. The gov doesn't haven't to turn a profit, so there is no alternative if prices are driven too high by union negotiations.

2. The union members get to vote on both sides of the table: both for their union wages and for the elected "neutral" party, that is obviously not so neutral.
> All of our VPN servers continue to use our custom and extensively slimmed down Linux kernel, where we follow the mainline branch of kernel development.

The custom server is a niche security point. While every server is continously researched and patched, we cannot expect the same from a a server like this. If someone were to find a security hole, an attacker would purchase it and no one else would ever know the system was compromised.
Alas, many top experts/writers publish quite infrequently. Therefore I personally think that HN/Lobsters/Fediverse is much more convenient than RSS.

With that said, I really like these blogs:

https://jvns.ca/

https://xeiaso.net/

http://www.paulgraham.com/
ERC-7512: A Solution to the Centralization of Security Audits Data?
There's a big difference between the proximate cause and root cause.

Proximate cause: buy vanilla ice-cream

Root cause: vapor lock

The letter didn't assert that the ice cream was the root cause, but made it very clear it was the proximate cause.

The Pontiac President, and the person who wrote that "moral of the story", may have confused the two. But the engineer in the study didn't.
I do sympathize. However, my old nextdoor neighbor had cancer, and he lectured me on how homeopathic medicines could get rid of all the "toxins" in our bodies. Naturally, he's dead now.

I think the problem is Scale. These experimental treatments are only available in small quantities. There are many, many people dying of cancer. Are they supposed to open factories for drugs that aren't even developed yet?
Hydra – Compute/Storage Resizing
So https://www.qubes-os.org/ ?
jutsu websites overtly recommends Chrome or Chromium.

It is like they have an agenda.
I also can't believe the big bad USA has turned the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine, etc on Russia. It's because the media is just too weak in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea so they haven't been able to communicate their upstanding values clearly enough.
If you have to pay for safe, encrypted DNS, how is that substantially different than using a VPN? Still need an external service.
I had a Dodge truck with a similar problem but it was never resolved. If I went to an ATM or convenience store on a muggy day when I left my truck transmission stuck in 1st gear. It was obviously the short time stopped and start up again but no clue why. The dealership looked a few times even taking it for a drive with a test tool but nothing happened. It did it until I sold the truck for about 17 years.
R10edocker: Reproducible Docker container for Go applications, in Nix
r10edocker creates a framework for making bit-for-bit reproducible Docker container images for Go applications, in one click.
How We Hire – A directory of company recruitment processes
If we assume a workstation compromise, why would we trust the zero trust infrastructure that was set up with that workstation?
Hey HN!

I'm Freddie and I created this resource during some research I was doing. I hope it helps job seekers know what to expect from the recruitment process before applying, so they can make more informed decisions and have a better recruitment experience.

I've added 100+ companies (and growing) that are transparent about how they hire in one form or another. There's a lot of general information, but many are also specific about the Engineering process. Check out the README in the Extensions tab for more information. Hopefully you find this useful and please let me know if you have any feedback. Thanks!

P.S. Because of the limitations (also outlined in the README), I'm looking to standardise the content and format on a third-party platform. I'm working on a pilot in the background, which you can sign up to find out more about at https://www.howwehire.fyi
wonder if removing and replacing the fuse box (reseating all the fuses, reconnecting all wires, etc) would have done the same thing? sigh.
We hugged another site to death, didn't we?
We've been chatting with the ElectricSQL team for a few weeks, super responsive and open to adapting to our use case. We're building an offline-first, mobile-first app and have high hopes for this project!
Not all further investigation needs to be surgical.
A mass that is found can be observed in decreasingly frequent ultrasounds or some other imaging and surgically investigated/removed only if found to be growing or passed a concerning size threshold.

A doctor jumping straight to invasive procedures seems to be a mix of poor risk management and rarity of this type of medical imaging.

My doctor for example, pointed out that actually in some East Asian countries, there are routine annual imaging tests done that pick up some of the types of cancer we do no screening for.

To me the reason we don't in US is simply how medical care is paid for - employer provided insurance, and some actuarial calculation that on the insured pool they'd spend more money on imaging than they'd save on high cost stage 4 cancer care. Personally I'm happy to advocate more for myself, even if it costs money.
The problem is that people are losing faith in our institutions
yeah, the tool selection (and options) is just terrible! UI logic is very weird.
I've heard of Awk for years and (probably like many) only used it for single-line snippets for the vast majority of that time.

Imagine my surprise when I just decided to look into it one day (after finding slightly more complex Awk scripts that did a lot with very little code which piqued my curiosity) and finding this very nice line-oriented DSL that has aged SHOCKINGLY well given how old it is.

I just wish it had interrupt handling of some sort without running a custom fork/patched version
Editors/VSCode: Visual Studio Code – open-source version 1.82 in FreeBSD Ports
please expand to include more explanation for why you think this is a memory managed lanugage problem. I used C and C++ professionally for years and ran into all sorts of issues like this. Interaction between subsystems doesn't care at all what language you're using inside each component, they care about design patterns and architecture.
> The betrayal of trust by the company you partner with, due to low-cost, convenience and attractive tech, is what a third of YNews headlines are about today.

Good point.
If only japanese would be white...
I think modern agriculture is miraculous, don't get me wrong. But we ignore the negative externalities – the cost to our health, and to ecosystems, and to the sustainability of civilization long-term. Even conventionally-minded farmers know that things like soil loss are a huge looming problem. And the labor issue is also complex – while big corn fields may be farmable via GPS-enabled, air-conditioned tractors, there's still a ton of migrant labor without which the system would cease to function.

The idea behind a lot of the regenerative methods is to work with nature to reduce the need for inputs. I am a pragmatist and will tell you that, it's really hard! On this I agree. But a lot of the ideas from more fringe communities like permaculturists are becoming more and more integrated into the mainstream. I just think we need to accelerate that, and put a lot more research into alternative methods like agroforestry – because I think we all rely on a food system that's way more brittle and tenuous than people realize. One with a lot of negative externalities that we can't paper over forever.
True that India isn’t strictly an ally of the west. And even now India is importing oil from Russia. Though, I’d say much of these differences with the west are not ideological as much as the result of India applying realpolitik to their geographic circumstances. And after being screwed by the British for centuries, India doesn’t feel like owes any favors to the west. If India were located in Europe, without needing to deal with Pakistan and China, I think they’d have a lot in common with other European nations. I know that’s a bold claim. At least on paper, Indias government was formed based on principle of equality and self-determination. Obviously, populism and corruption have caused the government to veer slightly off course, but India is nothing like countries like Russia or China, at least.
I’m Jewish (by cultural background), not aligning myself with this article or liberal values, but I would say the framing here does indeed conflict a bit with liberal values.

2.4% of adults identify as some kind of Jewish; 1.7% by religion. The article mentions that 21% of “elite boomer American academics” are Jewish. 20% of federal judges used to be Jewish. It laments that it is not considered very acceptable to hope for a return to these numbers and for 15-20% of undergraduates to be Jewish. It’s true, it is not. I don’t have a nuanced and researched opinion on affirmative action, but I’m pretty sure it’s ok if a religious group is not as over-represented as it used to be.

It seems like the baseline expectation here is for Jews to be 10x overrepresented in “positions of power” and use that power to sustain or increase the percentage? I’m not trying to read anything into the article, there are just a lot of mentions of power and percentages and a lot of lamenting.

I know there is still lots of anti-semitism alive and well, in the US and elsewhere, today. There’s also a valid and earned backlash against Israeli nationalism. Personally, I am spiritual, not religious. Religious groups have agendas, of course, like for some religions it is converting people to that religion. I think these agendas are more understandable and relatable if you are inside the group.
> Basically, the thinking goes, once we’re able to express our desires to computers in natural language, and once natural-language agents can carry out actions on our behalf, we’d no longer need the myriad of individual task-specific applications that exist today. Personally, I neither believe in nor desire this outcome.

Strong agree.

I find it very telling that the kind of people who advocate for chat-like software are often managers and executives. Sure, if the kind of person you are is one that enjoys giving verbal orders to people, it makes perfect sense that that's the kind of job you'll seek, and the kind of software you'll want.

But for the rest of us creative hands-on people who like to feel that we're making things through direct manipulation, talking to a computer is just about the least joyful activity I can imagine.
Well, because often said snake oil can be quite toxic to your body and result in a lot of needless suffering. To be honest, most people know that if 'right to try' became a thing it would need to be followed up with 'you waive all rights to a lawsuit' because the moment an experimental treatment resulted in an extremely painful and accelerated death suddenly all of the people being advocates for right to try would sue them out of business.

In this scenario, it's a cancer expert well aware that these treatments could possibly result in the above and is willing to do so anyways.
18 months ago I spent a few days figuring out how to get WPA working natively on gokrazy, and then as soon as all the bits got merged, got sidetracked and forgot all about it.

One of these days I will get around to picking it up again and trying to use it for the original idea I had.
Homeopathy needs to be banned. It's pseudoscience at best, a cult at worst.
EMF can do some seemingly crazy things. I built a kiln controller and the initial version would sometimes randomly lockup, reboot in the middle of an operation, or do other seemingly "crazy" things. Sometimes even the hardware watchdog would stop functioning.

Turns out contactors pulling in and out a 5000w load generates some strong EMF and sometimes that EMF is enough to cause random glitches to the CPU or other hardware.

Switching to high power solid state relays completely solved the problem while keeping the system compact. The actual silicon transistor was so big you could have drawn the mask by hand and it was attached to a heat sink half the size of an adult fist. I was initially worried about reliability but (knock on wood) 8 years later the system is still working without issue.
but what do you do with 50kg of basil... I love pesto and it's a great addon to many things, but I don't see myself using more than a couple hundred g per week.
> Kitty also had a command line flag to allow setting the window class

That's quite fortunate/fortuiutous and makes for a nifty shortcut that works so well. Is this common for all terminals, eg does gnome-terminal have a --class that would let it slot in to this .desktop setup?

Tbh the Mac version looks a bit too involved and hinges on or works around specific behaviors, I'm not sure I'd want to go that far as it then ventures into the territory of 'maintenance'.
That’s not ubiquity specific that’s all cavium based networking gear which is a substantial fraction of all networking gear. I’d be shocked if similar back doors aren’t present in other common network chips.
Could you expand on that?
How would you achieve "partial order" guarantees?
micro-payments for fancy skins )
Climate litigation remains a tough sell in Japan despite wins overseas