skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason chemical pest control and broadly spraying fertilizer on the top of fields are a thing is that they have low labor costs. You'd get more efficacy if you walked the field and removed pests by hand or sprayed fertilizer only where you need it.

It's the simple reason why a well-tended garden produces better produce than a corporate farm. There is simply more effort per plant in a garden. Tractors are currently too dumb to treat plants individually. They require plants to emerge, grow, harvest at the same time, and in the same way. Current modalities for pests/nutrition treat plants at the field level, not at the individual level. This creates lots of waste and externalities.

If there were a robustly built robot smart enough to deal with plant issues in and individual way then there is a huge slice of efficiency that could be gained. A field with the productivity of a garden. People have been trying to create this for a decade now and the limiting factor is the software. Maybe with the latest round of AI advances that will change.
>But the whole industry has gone overall into believing that anything newly 'invented' is good and anything that's been around a while is passé.

I think this is partially accepted to keep wages down. New languages allow fresh developers to be on a level playing field with more senior developers. Both have say 2 years experience in said new language. Fresh developers are cheaper and therefore push down wages.
Can anyone explain this from an RF/networking perspective? What frequencies does this operate at? How well matched are the antennas in most phones? How much more power are you using to be able to do this? What kind of modulation are you using for TX/RX?
Most of whatever is now dry and unpopulated, including in the US is so because moisture is being pumped out of there by the atmosphere and sun. Not because someone forgot to drive some water there.

It is being moved out of there in such amounts that no economically possible diversion of water flow can overcome this. Cf the crazy and eventually buried USSR project of diverting north-flowing rivers water to the Kazakhstan from 80s.

That could not work even in theory, where the talk was about thousands of cubic meter per second and you suggest that some toilets can make this work. That is just not possible. Maybe if the climate actually changes, some of those lands will become good enough for agricultural use. But not now.
Huh, I've generally seen smaller referral bonuses (<$5k). I referred someone I knew from college at my last role, and got a $5k bonus.

If you're able to consistently source great candidates, you might want to lead a team instead where you'll be better evaluated / rewarded on that though ;)
Introducing Windows Terminal Canary
Gcc actually totally does that. Even doing it while not static by copy/pasting the function and enabling further optims.

to me modern compilers are like voodoo magic
I also still don't get it, years later. I wrote a short post on this (a bit too inflammatory, tbh, sorry for the URL): https://blag.cedeela.fr/curry-howard-scam/ . A lot of logic and theorem proving can be done without ever thinking about CH. In classical logic I think it's not even that convenient anyway, and classical logic is a pragmatic choice.
Excess nitrogen does run off and tend to kill the river and marine ecosystems it concentrates in. The problem is aggravated by industrial amounts of fertilizer.
I agree. I've looked at this before and not used it because it isn't clear what it actually is.
Brash, but like it or not there are enough "Microtransactional experiences" out there with fanbases that will react poorly to that language, that the PR hit isn't worth it. Genshin players probably overlap with the audience you want to target.

Also, in general im not a fan of "hate marketing" to begin with.
The website says text messages in 2024, voice and data starting in 2025, and IoT in 2026.

So it seems they have had the same thought on the usefulness for remote telemetry data.

I don't know a lot about LTE signals but given the distances to the satellite and wide coverage area each satellite is responsible for it makes sense that performance is significantly diminished compared to your local cell tower.
Yes exactly that. Many also used to boast about how they did not have WiFi, although people's own cellphone connections are putting an end to that trend.
Apple actually owns the baseband/modem group they bought from Intel a couple of years ago. The 11 and 11 Pro were shipped with in-house ex-Intel modems. Since then they have moved back to Qualcomm but I have to imagine they're continuing development and will cut Qualcomm out one day. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/qualcomm-ceo-says-planning-f...
I believe this is addressed in the video that I linked. There are very good compression algorithms to allow voice, and "browsing" means something akin to slow dialup.

This is not something that could, for instance, replace your cell phone carrier.

In the video at 21:00 Elon clarifies: 2-4 megabits per cell zone.
I tried to find it in this video, but failed. Could you please share a time stamp on where to look?

It’s a pretty big deal if Gmail migrated to GCP-provided Spanner(not to an internal Spanner instance) and sounds like he kind of vote of confidence GCP and Cloud Spanner could benefit from: might I suggest to write about it? It’s easier to digest and harder to miss than an hour-long keynote video with no time stamps.

And so just to confirm: Gmail is on Cloud Spanner for the backend?
Thank you for this context.

The site says "Voice and Data Starting 2025", I do wonder what will change by then.
The problem is that tabs do not have consistent visual columns across applications.

For example, I would argue that MOST modern text editors treat a tab as approximately 4 spaces, not 8 spaces.
interesting, thx for sharing. Yeah I recently learnt that at some places (like Accenture Federal Services - specifically their "hot jobs" section), there are some bonuses going up to $20k.

source: https://events.afs.com/referral-bonus-program#:~:text=For%20....
Chattel slavery was legal between the 15th and 19th century, so slaves were uniquely accounted for accurately during that time. Now that slavery is officially illegal (unless the government has a good enough excuse), instead of legal, accounted for chattel slaves you get the de facto / black market / "technically-not-slavery" categories you describe and the job of estimating counts becomes more difficult.

Sure, "modern" slavery is more akin to historical/ancient slavery (i.e. ostensibly based on punishment, debt, or civil status), and yes 19th century Southern American slavery was particularly brutal, with cotton becoming the world's top cash crop on the economics of the cotton gin + slave labor.

But my point wasn't how many slaves there were between the 15th and 19th century, use any number you like, we all have some sense of how bad things were. My point was that there are tens of millions people living in slave-like conditions right now, while your point seems to be something like, "but it's modern slavery!"
90s kids computer nostalgia video
Awareness at Death
> I also don't think people should have the right to do or say whatever they want online with no repercussions either

Are there not circumstances where relative anonymity is desirable and reasonable?

What if I'm a refugee facing roundup by the death squads? What if I'm a person of color in a racist environment? What if I'm trans and fear hatred and genocide for my gender expression? What if I'm a political dissident in an authoritarian regime? What if I want to help give women the right to choose and I fear violence? What I believe in X God in a country where believing in Y God is the law of the land? What if I'm a medical professional who wants to give gender affirming care in a location where that's resisted? What if I'm a woman who wants to speak up? What if I'm a whistleblower against corporate malfeasance and am afraid? What if I'm speaking out about the cops in a corrupt town and fear reprisal?

Is it just that under your system, my choices are either silence or violence?

> You don't get to be anonymous in real life

Don't you? Pen names to publish political statements that could harm have been a thing for a long time.
Do you have a source for the average capacity factor for a wind turbine or wind farm being 62.5%?
I would also love for you to bring to market a price competitive replacement screen that is somehow backdoored. I don't know why you think that would be profitable at all, but I welcome the price pressure.
Given that this is related to terrorism[1] I'm pretty sure a creative government could find a way to attempt penal prosecution here if they really wanted though (After the terror attacks in France in 2015-2016, French law made “terrorism apologism” a crime for instance, which is a scary law tbh, especially when we've seen how it was applied).

[1] I personally don't like to talk about the Hama's massacre as “terrorism”, as an organized military crossing a border to systematically eradicate civilian population is much more than terrorism: it is genocidal in essence.
Huh? 4 and 6 rotate left/right, and 5 rotates to the central position. If you have a keypad it's even more accessible.
Interesting. Are you sure it wasn't just metal lathe, which is meshed like chicken wire a bit?

My old 1940s had that, and wifi basically didn't work without the doors left open. I do miss its soundproofing, though.
The difference here is you don't need a dedicated device or service, you can just use your existing cell phone. As Starlink is only providing the backhaul and cell carriers their spectrum, service will improve as the constellation grows not whenever the carriers feel like investing in it.
Kyuss
<aside> would be appropriate for that use case in HTML.
I think you misunderstand. On your point about programs not being "provable": it is certainly possible to prove some properties about some programs. It is not necessarily easy, and it very much depends on the program and the property in question, but it is possible.

However, this is not what the article is about. Instead, it talks about an interesting observation that there is a direct correspondence between a certain kind of program and a mathematical proof, and also between the type of the program, and the theorem validated by the proof. In other words, you can think of mathematical proofs as computational objects. The intuition for the correspondence is not hard: for example, support I want to prove that "if A is true, then B must also be true". You may think of a proof for such a property as a program, which takes as input a proof that `A` holds, and as its output produces a proof that `B` holds.
Speaking of LINQ, depending on your use case, I suggest re-evaluating the intuition regarding its performance in specific scenarios. Both .NET 7 and especially .NET 8 have seen a lot of work to improve the underlying performance of LINQ and thanks to DynamicPGO certain patterns that used to be very unfriendly to performance now have (sometimes significantly) lower cost. The speed-up depends on the use case but expect to see anything from 10% up to >200-400% improvement.
The second link about about a print, not the dress itself. Kind of like if someone was selling a dress with Barbie on it. The dress isn't copyrighted, but Barbie imagery is and you need a license to use it.

The second is the only interesting and halfway relevant link you have provided. It says Versace was suing another company for ripping off their designs, on the bases of trademark law, it being a trade dress and copyright law.

They would have had grounds on copyright law, but this company didn't just copy one dress it was copying all of their dresses and designs. In any event it wasn't settled because they settled out of court, which means nothing changed, and still to date you can't copyright a dress.
This seems like a silly point to make. It’s still an emerging technology, and will ultimately be the end-all-be-all technology if humanity can solve AGI. Even if we don’t any time soon specialized models will certainly provide massive productivity gains.

I think people are being unreasonably pessimistic about technology that is almost sci-fi-esque in its current capabilities, let alone its potential.
DSA applies to platforms of certain size and above
fill to boundary color looks pretty sweet
This is exciting! My family has an off-the-grid cabin which has weak LTE service. Using Starlink is possible (and other people in the area use it) but the power demands are quite high. I was going to first try a 4g antenna hooked up to a local hotspot, but this might give us other options. It's a little unclear how it works from this info - hopefully they have a version that individuals can stand up if there's no network operator in their area.
"From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers" by Jack Rusher [video]
Video summary (from yt):

A whirlwind tour of the history of our system of vector algebra — including applications from art, science, and programming — leading to a plea that we trade it in for something even better: Geometric Algebra.
This is a service being provided by your carrier.
How do you think they make em so cheap?
This is a very US-centric take that falls apart the moment you look at the rest of the world.
> Starfleet looks like a great way to give the ambitious and rambunctious something to do

Reminds me of the u/dys/topia depicted in "The 10th Victim" (1965). In a peaceful future, those with bloodlust (or a death wish) can sign up for The Big Hunt. Ten rounds of hunter and hunted. Make it to the tenth and you get a cool million (and hey you're still alive too!). And for gadget freaks there's Ursula Andress's double-barreled bra. And the music, the costumes, the whole production design, it's way way fab.

Forerunner to The Running Man (1987), Battle Royale (2000), The Hunger Games (2012), ...
A happier happy path in Hotwire Turbo with morphing
I've carefully avoided upgrading Narwhal. I suppose eventually I'll have no choice, and that will be the end of Reddit on mobile for me.
British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast
I have no idea, I've never actually been in any of those places, just noticed the signs walking by.

I know that establishments like this sometimes don't like people hanging around for too long without buying stuff, so it could be the reason that people would just get a coffee and stay all day. But this is just speculation on my part.
> At that point, since a "short video" is really a scene, we are basically at film stage.

But silent films, no? Or where are things at as far as generated audio that syncs to the video? (sound effects, dialogue, music - each of which will have its own challenges)
It’s too bad you’ll still need a “regular” cellular sub to take advantage of this. If I didn’t, this gets me a lot closer to “cutting” the wireless plan cord.

I’m usually in wifi range and being able to have a few kb/s of comms is basically the lifeline I need.

Most of my cell activities are cached on my phone: podcasts, maps, some increasingly out of date weather.

Would be even cooler if it could “broadcast” some regular stuff like news and traffic updates (dunno how that could integrate with Waze…)

The first kb/s gets me a loooot of value and each additional is less useful than the last. Data is very much diminishing returns.
OpenWebMath, a dataset containing every math docs found on the internet
Pretty sure that when we're discussing the othering of certain humans by classifying them as "subspecies", India is not a good topic to bring to the table.
I don't know where you are on the "non-technical" scale, or the kind of ideas you want to implement, but with all these new AI-powered tools, you can create a surprisingly competent prototype with very little coding skills - at least I did.

I'd say that with 6 months of dedicated effort and $20/month of Cursor.so prompts, you can create most basic product ideas you can imagine.
Brian Linkletter's website is one of the best portal if you want to learn network simulation and emulation.

From the provided list, I think the most promising and realistic open source network simulator and emulator is Mininet due to its lightweight approach capable of running off-the-shelf Linux OS and software. In addition it has thriving eco-system that made it unique, accessible and prime for wide adoption for examples:

a) It's currently actively being used to simulate and emulate smart city project by its original author to improve urban networking [1],[2].

b) It has open learning materials resources from open source book (Mininet-WiFi) and open lab instructions manual (Mininet-SDN) [3],[4].

c) Its lightweight feature enabling it to simulate very large number of nodes using the nested containers capability as demonstrated by extensions created by third party simulation tools namely NestedNet and ComNetsEmu [5],[6],[7],[8].

[1] SigComm 2022 Cosmos Testbed Tutorial:

https://wiki.cosmos-lab.org/wiki/Workshops/SigComm2022

[2] Reconfigurable topology testbeds: A new approach to optical system experiments:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S106852002...

[3] Mininet Wi-Fi book:

https://github.com/ramonfontes/mn-wifi-ebook

[4] SDN Labs using Mininet manual:

http://ce.sc.edu/cyberinfra/workshops/Material/SDN/SDN_Labs....

[5] Network Virtualization and Emulation using Docker, OpenvSwitch and Mininet-based Link Emulation:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/985/

[6] NestedNet: A Container-based Prototyping Tool for Hierarchical Software Defined Networks:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9244858

[7] ComNetsEmu: A Lightweight Emulator:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801...

[8] A virtual emulator/testbed designed for the book: Computing in Communication Networks: From Theory to Practice (2020):

https://git.comnets.net/public-repo/comnetsemu
Oh. I use Twitter at least every waking hour and haven't seen that.
> I will say that it does show a vote of confidence to say that Photos, Gmail and Ads use GCP infra,

I'm not sure? I guess I'm mostly not sure what "gcp infra" means there. The blog post says

"Spanner is used ubiquitously inside of Google, supporting services such as; Ads, Gmail and Photos."

But there's google-internal spanner, and gcp spanner. A service using spanner at Google isn't necessarily using gcp. (No clue about photos, Gmail, etc)

Granted, from what I gather, there's a lot more similarity between spanner & gcp spanner than e.g. borg and kubernetes.
Having to quote escape a “timestamp” field at least once a week, I was _extremely_ surprised to see it excluded from this list.
Seems like allowing arbitrary names for the variables would have been the sweet spot between concision and explicitness. So:

things.each { puts _thing }
pairs.map { _x * _y }

It's kinda insane, but in the beautiful way that Ruby is.
Nah, this has nothing to do with the quality of management.
good point! i'm sure there's someone out there who's just spamming referrals for fun though. mostly all upside (perhaps there's the social cost of looking bad if one of your referrals totally bombs an interview)
If you want something lighter than k3s, k0s could be worth a try. I recently switched to k0s and noticed the controller, and the various kube processes consume less cpu resources compared to when I was running k3s.
Using BMI, I am considered obese but those who know me will tell you that I have never been "fat".

What I am is muscular --- I work out. Everyone knows that muscle weighs more than fat but BMI only loves gurly men in skinny jeans.
Curse you - it's an apple collection not a collection of apples!

I loathe plurality in table names because it's hard for ESL developers due to the plethora of irregular pluralities (like the word pluralities) in english. If object/entity names and table names are both singular you can do a lot of stuff on autopilot.
A lot of smaller SaaS companies avoid k8s like the plague and only start using it once they scale to a certain size. K8s might be ubiquitous past a certain scale, but there are many jobs operating below the threshold for which the complexity of your system with k8s outweighs the complexity of your system without k8s.
I've always seen the big "NO WIFI" signs as a "polite" way of saying "you're not welcome to work from here".
Twitter had to move away from Rails because their high-volume read/write pattern of unrelated data doesn't scale on rdbms and that made ActiveRecord a poor fit for tweets.

They famously and stupidly blamed Ruby and everyone ate their blogpost up because this industry is full of cargo cult behavior patterns. Everyone acts like lemmings and just assumes BigCo knows better than they do.
Log does not work great in heavy computational video right now. It was the case with RAW on phones till manufacturers find ways to bake computated (i.e. stacked, stablised, etc.) data into RAW, like xiaomi, huawei, pixel, and apple.

That's a weakest point of phones as by exposing to log curve, you exactly showcase the poor latitude of phone sensor. With the price and additional rigging required (and cooling), just save and get a bmpcc.

The argument of getting out a phone and handheld for night photography (first saw in Huawei P30) or slow-motion and get really great image is valid.

The argument of randomly getting out a phone with cases, cooling, external SSD, mounted battery, matte boxes (especially for strong glaring on iPhone), and a camera stabliser (because a phone stabliser is not tailored for this weight), will be over 1.5kg. That does not sound like valid.

Log is quite useless other than controlled or professional shooting as exposure matters a lot more, and lack of IRE exposure (false color i.e.) makes it not feasible.
There is state-sanctioned industrial espionage happening to a number of Western companies manufacturing critical software. Some countries influence emigrants to steal corporate secrets (including code). They are instructed to download company data using whatever means possible. I know of a company that began isolating parts of the business located in those countries to minimize the risk of data exfiltration.

One theory I've hard as to why cloud development environments are becoming more popular is that it's easier to monitor nefarious activity in a cloud environment versus a work-issued computer. For example, flagging large downloads of entire repos to one's local network. These environments reduce the attack surface vector and make it easier to set up monitoring for the remaining surface.
Many people don't feel comfortable in local libraries as homeless have taken them over.
Asphalt-related emissions are a major missing source of air pollution (2020)
Potential price hikes are also a factor.

Back when I was still renting, even though I had more than enough income to cover increases, I'd feel immense stress every time the months leading up to lease renewal rolled around. Keeping housing costs below a certain threshold is a critical part of being able to stick away some cash for a rainy day or even having anything left over, and accomplishing this usually meant moving every few years, which meant periodically returning once again to the grueling search for something with vaguely not-horrible value for the price, which is exacerbated if you're anything but a perfect model renter who doesn't have pets or kids — even making substantial use of the kitchen is prohibited in some rentals. A lot of landlords seem to want tenants who only ever come home to sleep and are otherwise ghosts.

Ever since I bought a house a couple of years ago, mental bandwidth I'd lost to this stress has been coming back to me. Housing costs being essentially fixed in perpetuity and there being no possibility of being forced to move has done wonders for cutting down on stress and anxiety.
People have no clue how much tax cuts out at higher income rates.