skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting a small business is hard in some European countries but not others. Here in Sweden it is trivial. In e.g. Malta and I believe Poland it is hard.

Personally I am not sure any of this discussion is relevant to Europe, especially not as a whole.
There are obviously economies of scale in agriculture.

But there are also a whole lot of benefits to producing food yourself: resilience, diversity of food crops, taste.

Also, people often enjoy the process, which effectively lowers the economic cost of doing it yourself.
oh man, imagine how happy you would be once you start reading good books.
What people ask chatbots about, from homework to sex
The linked presentation also consistently uses "k8"
The same could be said of mail in paper ballots too, which have seen widespread adoption in the United States starting in 2020, so I don’t think this should be a knock against this system.
Recovering my non-booting 2012 MacBook Air
If a system relies on "passwords" (or any similar shared secret scheme) it clearly doesn't really care about security. Yes that includes your bank.

If it doesn't require shared secrets, this isn't scary, the git mechanism works just fine.
The massive STEM graduate exodus – what's going wrong? – John Skrentny [video]
Intelligence, by definition, is a trait that everyone believes they possess in greater measure than others.
Sounds like a good way to burn down your yard but leave the weed alive .:p
Sure, but 2010 to 2012 might as well be two different eras in the context of VCS adoption. Things changed very quickly.

In any case,that doesn't really matter considering that git had big players adopting before GitHub got any sizeable investment. And I'm not just talking about Linux. Rails migrated towards it when GitHub was still in beta.
One does not exclude the other.

And, honestly, these things are connected. It takes more needless work from the developer to maintain the user-visible pleasantness while adding new features. The code is much more fragile than it could've been which means bugs are much easier to introduce and much harder to diagnose and fix.

And I'm not asking for a complete rewrite. Just losslessly restructure the existing code, extract all those custom FrameLayouts and ViewGroups into separate classes, split those 2000-line if statements into separate methods, make some things (like ChatMessageCell) into sensible class hierarchies, introduce constants or enums to replace magic numbers, all that sort of stuff. This will not affect the UX, but it would make bugs harder to introduce and easier to deal with.

I'm generally not a fan of the developer-experience-focused approach to software development (Electron, React, and the web dev "trust me bro" attitude should not exist), but sensible code structure is where I draw the line.
Much of the reason sucky applications suck is because the people who work on them can't change them quickly enough. If you can open up your IDE, grab a flame graph, and chuck out your shitty brute-force algorithm in favour of a dynamic programming one that you thought of in the shower, then one Friday morning you're likely to do just that.
Lasers are even more energy-intensive than pesticides...

Mechanical methods could be better, but just not micromanaging it and using permaculture methods would be the best solution.
It’s going to be fascinating to see what new laser resistant weeds and bugs come out of this.
this is very wastefull and stupid, you can buy a auto prinkler with a timer for 100 euros, and seeding can be done by hand in the same time the bot does it.
If modern farming protocols are to water at the soil, I would be strongly willing to bet that is the best way to water, at least for our particular situation of growing the crops we grow on the farms we grow them on.

Much has gone into studying how to best grow these crops, both at universities and research centers and on the field at farms themselves.
I don't think you can do anything meaningful without domain knowledge. It can only be very limited without I think.
Conversations around AI are almost always unclear and poorly framed driven by a profit-hungry hype train.

We're still talking about AI as though the goal was never actually to have artificial intelligence. LLMs are impressive for what they are, but they definitely aren't intelligent. OpenTextPrediction just doesn't have a nice ring to it and definitely wouldn't be valued at billions of dollars.
CSV is still king because of one thing: inertia

It's just much easier to keep using it, since you're already doing it.

In the meantime, how about XML? /awaits the pack of raving mad HNers
One classic example is JSON.

It is possible to just treat commas as whitespace. It makes implementation so much easier. It accepts missing, trailing and repeated commas. It makes elements uniform. It ignores many common errors that arise from typos or cut'n'paste. It makes JSON writers simpler, by removing the first/last special case.

A JSON parser that treats commas as whitespace can be two dozen lines in most programming languages - if you do not want line/column, chapter and verse, for the remaining error messages.
Against XMPP+omemo
For each person you add to the conspiracy, the harder it is.
But they’re basically guaranteed not to poison your food or local wildlife.
Cups are 236.6 ml. 8 fluid ounces.

But, wow apparently the FDA rounds cups in nutrition labeling to be exactly 240ml “legal cup”, which I agree is super annoying. It’s 1.4% more.

“For purposes of nutrition labeling, 1 cup means 240 mL, 1 tablespoon means 15 mL, 1 teaspoon means 5 mL, 1 fluid ounce means 30 mL, and 1 ounce means 28 g (21 CFR 101.9(b)(5)(viii))”
You'd think Piketty might have addressed the masses as if there was more than one person in them.

And maybe used a second-person form of the verb. He's French, not Spanish.
Current inflation is mostly caused by fuel prices and that would affect BTC too.
It doesn’t have to be either/or. Plants can both compete and cooperate with each other in different ways.
Respectfully, it seems that your actual problem is that you work with developers who can't be trusted to manually verify SSH public keys/fingerprints, not that SSH is complicated.

Defaulting to HTTPS just because it is easier for them feels like a no-solution, but I could be generalizing. Maybe you are talking about developers in training or L1 levels.
It’s natural to encounter a sublime sentence or passage in a book and re-read and deeply appreciate it for a while before moving on. It’s less natural to do that with a TV show. They’re good at different things, though not without overlap.
I'm not talking about youth pastors. I'm talking about foster care (Germany) and public schooling in the US [1] [2] [3] and lots of other places.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexual...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-...

[3] https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/...
> you would need 100% efficiency to be able to breed your own tritium

How so? As I understand it, the breeding reaction is exothermic (Li-6 + n -> He-4 + T) so all you need are neutrons, for which (as someone pointed out to me two years ago[1]) neutron multipliers would be used.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32224650
I was going to say. AFAIK, no one has worked out a way that you can verify that your own vote was counted, while preventing you from being able to sell your vote.
Awesome!

What editor do you use? I use Monaco for my project, but the editor is ugly for mobile devices... Is it webassembly realization of any Rust editor?
Hmm on iOS I had no issues, but I also don’t have lockdown mode enabled
Psion, Palm, RIM, Nokia, and Microsoft all had their chance before Apple or Google even entered the market, and what did people choose?
> while the primary key of the CUSTOMER table was a single CUSTOMER_ID column, the primary key of the USER table was (CUSTOMER_ID,USER_ID), and the primary key of the ADDRESS table was (CUSTOMER_ID,USER_ID,ADDRESS_ID). There were tables with 5 or 6 columns as a primary key.

Maybe they wanted to avoid maintaining a separate CUSTOMER_ADDRESS 1-to-many table or maybe it was done to make easy reverse lookups.
Lol @ most of you who think this is real. It's a troll post w Sora or something. Turn your fucking brain on. By the time you fuck around with that, you could have done the garden by hand 20 times.
> How many wars have been started by the “print more money until it is worthless, oops I have to start a war to fix it” spiral?

Not many. The more typical case is that you're in a war, and you want to spend more money than you have, so you make some up.
The goal of a voting system is not verifiability, but trust. Without trust elections have no legitimacy.
What union contract allows firing without cause?
I'm confused by this phrase:

> Retriever Training: The retriever is trained to maximize the relevance score for relevant documents.

What does "training" mean here? It doesn't seem to be a fine tuning of llama, unless I'm missing something.
How would you prove that you voted how you said you did?

If you took a picture of your ballot, or even if you filmed yourself putting it in the envelope and putting it in the mailbox, there's nothing stopping you from taking it out later, tearing it up, and going to vote differently in person.
I would expect they don't have full AI - or even chatGPT. They would just have computer vision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision

So they aren't going to get tired of working for humans and revolt.
A point of the post that I didn't see discussed here is this:

> LLVM 11 tends to take 2x longer to compile code with optimizations, and as a result produces code that runs 10-20% faster (with occasional outliers in either direction), compared to LLVM 2.7 which is more than 10 years old.

Yes, C code is expected to benefit less from optimizations, since it is already close to assembly. But compiler optimizations in the past decades had enormous impact - because they allowed better languages. Without modern optimizations, C++ would have never been as fast as C, and Rust wouldn't be possible at all. Same arguments apply to Java and JavaScript.
Honestly it feels like a good idea in principle. Of course people are not rational economic actors and ignoring it has bad outcomes.

1. This is actually a politician’s job, to explain. If you don’t explain well you get kicked out and your electorate doesn’t buy your ideas. Don’t complain about the people being stupid, they are real and wishing they were different or demeaning the people is totally useless.

2. The idea of fostering savings in a time of inflation is really cool, and an original way getting people to buy in your policy. That it did not work sounds like a great topic for research, including experiments.
How are they controlling your life? How are they dictating how your life is suppose to work?
How do people find things they like?
Average wage in Sydney is much higher than minimum wage.
The whole post is low quality simping for war in one more geography pushed by the thin veneer of drum beats of the US military media.

It's the same "Iraq has wmd" Bs all over again pushed by these trash rags.

Of course it will be "low quality and flamebait" for y'all
I think there is a difference though. For most people love of God assumes the existence of God. Its far more important than any feelings about a fictional character can be.

I understand your point, of course, I just want to clarify that there are important differences too.

Love of books themselves gives people help and peace too - it is a sort of healthy escape. You can immerse yourself in a book. I suppose books are like religious comfort in that sense.
> why not gold? surely, you can see that china is continuously buying more and more gold reserves.

I’m not operationally involved with gold markets so take this with a grain of salt, but I wonder if there is enough gold being traded for the market to supply the better part of $1 trillion to a central bank hoard. Markets are adaptable things so I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it sure could get extremely interesting. Enough so that I might have to learn a bit about it and see if I can’t nibble some crumbs that fall off the table.

> At some point, china would also be able to convince the global south to start trading in the chinese yuan.

Agreed. But are the Chinese willing to start running the gargantuan RMB denominated current account deficit that would be required to supply adequate RMB for foreign currency users? Probably not. Instead they will probably try to get foreigners to fund purchases of Chinese exports with Chinese originated RMB denominated debt. It’s going to make the World Bank and IMF look like Santa Claus. I foresee African countries being strip mined for resources just to pay the interest. And, in the end, I don’t see the Indians or other regional economies faring much better.

It really is a shame the US powers that be are running the dollar system into the ground, because while it’s certainly quite imperfect and even exploitative, it’s positively benign to have foreign reserves provided by the issuer’s debt rather than the receiver’s debt.
I tried creating a profile by logging in through LinkedIn.

I successfully logged in (twice), but at the end received an error: <my email> is not allowed to access this application.

I like the idea, will probably create a profile the old-fashioned way.

Update: definitely not a fan of the date picker. Extremely tedious to click my way back through the years.

Update^2: and the date picker keeps converting a selection of January 2013 to December 2012.
I think you can guess where I'm headed :)
Nothing, the whole repo and that post are spam intended to drive people to that e-book repository linked in the readme (which in turn is just a bunch of fake updates and likely engagement as well).
I believe watering at night will generally lead to more fungal rot problems. Better to water early morning, when the water will have a chance to sink into the soil, but will be pulled up into the plant by evaporation of water from the leaves (the leaves’ own water, not water you applied)
So best case scenario we have expensive fission nuclear reactors with marginally more output per plant. Why not just spend that money on fission plants.

Also if all reactors are essentially based on boiling water. Why don't we just dig to depths were water is already boiling? I'm sure there are plenty of those areas on the globe.
The parent post's point is that it doesn't matter if democrats have an absolute number advantage if democracy itself is under risk of being subverted.

Most likely a reference to Trump attempting to usurp the election with fake elector certificates and getting out of it with the supreme court granting him criminal immunity.
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Preventing fake profiles is indeed challenging. We manually review every profile to ensure they are legitimate. We also offer everyone who signs up the opportunity to participate in a quick, optional interview (10-15 minutes). This allows us to refine the profile data with the individual and add a summary. We also use this to mark profiles as "verified," which ultimately makes them rank significantly higher. However, that approach is far from perfect. We need to add proper verification, but I’d hate to have something like LinkedIn, scanning your ID and all. Maybe we could integrate with an IdP that performs this check in a privacy-friendly way.

> integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats

That's an awesome idea. The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.

Thanks for your encouragements!!
Yes, yes, exactly. Thank you for following up with this! I got disillusioned, burnt out, fucking fed up and let down almost all at the same time after reading the comments here. (Especially about how everything is just bad, fucked up, suboptimal, prime broken windows example, and so on.)

The billions required to build housing-first luxury rehabs with hookers and hypnotherapists for everyone are there ... spent on the War on X (pun maybe intended?) and shipped to warehouses where cartel bosses keep their proceeds.

The whole thing is a clusterfuck of neglect, underfunding, and ... in general short-term thinking or more precisely the relatable but oh-so-wrong "hot heads in the soothing sand" policy.

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[In Seattle] People walking by homeless camps have seen bike "chop shops" there, but the police won't do anything. In the police's defense, on the rare occasions they do arrest homeless people for theft, the county attorney will just drop the charges.

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Oakland PD is the D league of police in the Bay Area. It doesn't have adequate funding and the population is the most hostile. So most A tier cops avoid it, while OPD gets rookies and the leftovers. Then there's the fact that they have half the police they should that similar size+crime cities do. Guess how many police are patrolling at one time among 430k people in the crime that Oakland gets? 200? 100? It's 30! 30 officers to respond to whatever mayhem is going on. One officer busy filing paperwork and driving 2 hours to Dublin jail for every 40,000 people...

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https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/details-that-you-should-inc...
There is no reason for folks to explain why they flag, but consider that if it was flagged but then remains available with the flag indicator (with the flags overridden), someone thought you might find value in it.

I’m personally drawn to threads contentious enough to be flagged, but that have been vouched for by folks who have the vouch capability (mods and participants who haven’t had vouch capability suspended). Good signal imho.
When you try to sign in with LinkedIn it asks permissions to:

> Create, modify, and delete posts, comments, and reactions on your behalf

Why?
Why Is the EdTech Industry So Damn Soft?
Laser has only 3 moving parts though
Which is such a tragedy. Hg is such a simple pleasure to work with.
Depends on your coordinates. In regions with less sunny days the requirements for storage are huge and if you don't have some hydro to spare, may as well consider building some nuclear ppts with a closed nuclear fuel cycle
BBC starts removing Huw Edwards from archives
> ITER hasn't been the "International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor" for a very long time now. Why does it keep being called that?

Because that's its name? You can't choose how other people refer to you.

Similarly, when Kentucky Fried Chicken officially changed its name to KFC, nobody cared, and KFC continued to mean Kentucky Fried Chicken in every context except the imagination of some executives.
Yeah, it did look like they're just passing the data to groq and... That's it. Flagged.
Saw this after opening my 12th "we regret to inform you". This seems like a solid alternative, considering recruiters won't even open up your resume anymore before running it through a machine.
Back when I was doing live-streaming the primary reason I wanted it was to eliminate (or reduce) the need for a CDN to deliver chunks to the end-user viewers. I fantasized about a protocol adapter like this that would act has the "host" peer that would stream the video from e.g. RTMP source, which would then translate to WebRTC for all the viewer peers in a P2P fashion.

I don't know if this actually works like that, but it's fun to think about this being the missing link I wanted all those years ago.
I’ve only used Copilot with the option to use open source code disabled. It’s taken the boredom out of dealing with boilerplate heavy code and manual copy/paste - stuff you could already handle with templates snippets and keyboard macros of course - but as you say it’s not really much good for anything else, and I’ve seen plenty of code that is hard to review because an LLM created it.

In terms of what the article calls skill atrophy, this is probably why I limit my usage to snippets on steroids. I tried GPT4 more directly a few times and while it was all impressive at the start, it’s all surface level and the hallucinations are bad but incredibly subtle.
Same goes for cooking your own food, doing your own laundry and picking your own clothes. Efficiency has its place in times of scarcity, but there is a cultural component on top. Part is education, part is carrying and renewing traditions, part is the ikea effect, sure.

These robots will not help avoid famine, but they will help rich first world people be more cognizant of food and agriculture. Which in turn will help them make better choices with the food they buy. This can only work against calory-dense inudstrial food, which arguably is the larger problem than efficiency in large parts of the world.
@author: s/defile/define/ ;)

Also: s/necessary/necessarily/
There is a link to the presentation but yeah, there's not much substance in it either, a lot of nuance is skipped over, to the point where I'd consider it just wrong in places.

Some examples:

"Service object - Grouping object that gives you a stable IP (virtual IP) for the pods that have a certain LABEL": yes, you can use a Service to give your service a "stable IP", but that's just one type of Service; and yes, you can use a Service to target pods with a certain label, but selectors can do more than just that. (Also, what is a "virtual IP"?)

"Containers (Docker)" containers != docker

"Containers in a pod share the same IP address (localhost) and port space" this bit has been cribbed from "Kubernetes in action" (chapter 3 "Understanding how containers share the same IP and port space
": "they share the same IP address and port space") but for some reason they've inserted the "(localhost)" bit which is incorrect.

You can probably find better introductions on YouTube. The k8s docs are also quite understandable in themselves.