skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly run around Molteno reservoir, pictured in the article. It’s been a regular and depressing reminder of the water crisis to see its level titrate down day by day.

Most people here seem to be in denial about the kind of life that awaits. Either people don’t think about it, or believe the official pessimism about the desalination schedule is a scare tactic to delay zero day and hence the cost of the eventual emergency desalinization measures the local government has waiting up its sleeve.

The alternative is unthinkable: a large percentage of the economy of this city is tourism, so imagine what happens when foreign guests cancel their hotel and airbnb bookings en masse.

A few days ago my apartment building installed three massive 5000 liter tanks of water storage. That’s enough to last all the tenants about 10 days at 25l/day/person. If those tanks are filled from the mains it just accelerates zero day for everyone else; if from rain water, well, there’s too little rain at the moment to fill them (and is roof water even potable?). Perhaps the idea is that it’ll be trucked in. No-one knows what is going on.

I suppose we’ll find a way to manage. In a way I’m glad I’m here to experience it, as it’s almost certainly a premonition of things to come in other cities later this century.
What's so really interesting about it? Well, what other term would be so readily understood by people?

Also, I guess with LSD/mushrooms there's usually a lot going on, and you can either go with it or try to resist. Going with it is advisable, but it can get scary - e.g. horrific death/maggot/slime-based imagery. You have to trust in the experience, which is so huge the self disappears.

I guess a similar thing happens in everyday life, but not so unmistakably. A similar thing came up for me when writing orchestral music - I quickly learnt just to be a tool for the music, to follow the flow, never to impose my ideas "I want this to happen here/next" - that never worked; just to write down what I heard in my head. I guess a lot of pursuits are like that.
Equity comp can align incentives on the rule-enforcement level. Like, without equity, your coworker slacking or otherwise harming the company doesn't really affect you. With an equity grant, you're more interested in making sure everyone is working well towards making the company better off.

To be honest though, it's a pretty weak effect with the amount of equity granted. The equity grant gives an outsized amount of narrativium for its dollar value.
2. An electric truck will have way more towing capacity, and the regen braking helps the braking system tremendously.
It's not the full solution but it's definitely part of it. Colour on my phone overwhelms me now (i've been gray since June)
Although it's maybe unwise and not exactly safe not to look around when crossing the street just because you had a green light, it's not you who causes an accident when some idiot drives into you after ignoring his red light.

In such situations (not sure how reliable this source actually is in this case though, looks sketchy), blame Twitter. Blame it as much as you can. At the same time teach people to use e2e encryption, but there's noting to blame them for. You shouldn't have to encrypt your paper mail to retain some privacy and you shouldn't have to do it online.
hahaha thank you for that. I know not everyone hates broccoli as much as me :)
The nvidia article is recent, but the referenced scientific paper is from 2015:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Young11/publicat...

Presentation:

http://ornlcda.github.io/MLHPC2015/presentations/4-Steven.pd...
I finally got around to trying i3 a few weeks ago and I wish I'd done it a lot sooner. I installed it on my fairly crap dell laptop that can barely run windows 10 (windows in unusable on spinning disks) and it flies, everything is instant, alt+enter and the new terminal is just there, alt+d and the searchable program menu appears (windows could take several seconds to a minute), alt+3 and I'm on different virtual screen. The only time I find myself waiting for anything at all is a new browser window or the funky lock screen installed but I'm pretty sure both of those are solvable.

The interface is fantastic, it's the first WM I've used (apart from maybe tmux or vim) that actually manages my windows well. In hindsight the desktop metaphor is such and obviously dead end that we've wasted for too much time on. It will take some retraining, but even things like tabs in the web browser no longer feel necessary, the WM can handle this and give a consistent global interface. MS is kind of heading in this direction too: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/28/16709190/microsoft-windo... .

I started off with the manjaro distro (https://manjaro.org/category/community-editions/i3/), it's got a fair bit of bling that you won't get by default elsewhere but the performance is great.
VNote uses plaintext for all data. The design is you could use any editors to edit your notes even after VNote is obsolete.
we all have different tastes :)
How is this different from a parallel set of EA runs to tune hyperparameters and topology?
Indeed. Apparently his wealth increased 13% last year. He would have to give at much higher rates to actually reduce his total wealth. Perhaps the perception is that if he was giving his money away then his net wealth would go down?
Oh that's cool! going to add that to the iphone part of the website!
I’d suggest that you spend 10 minutes to familiarize yourself with what companies like Standard Fruit Company and United Fruit did in Central America.

Their behavior, from undermining the local government to monopolizing trade to death squads is all activity consistent with what the cartels have done. Cartels have better margins, but bananas were pretty deadly.

The point is in reference to your extremist position that if only drugs were not contraband and subject to the rule of law, you wouldn’t have the cartels. That position Has been demonstrated many times to be incorrect. Using the Central American model, you can also contrast with Costa Rica, where there is a stable government and the rule of law is more mature.
Time to do some sugar subsidies
I just noticed this also, earlier today. I have a blog entry titled "Highest airports in California" that I attempted to find using Google. Even with the double quotes, and restricting the search to the correct site, it doesn't seem to come up in search results.

The site's robots.txt seems permissive enough. What's up?

link: https://nibot.livejournal.com/1075122.html
Seems ridiculous to me that the researchers chose to abide by telco website dubious terms of service restrictions, resulting in less complete research.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16152194 is discussion of the research this story is reporting on.
> Any studies that support the answer "no" for both questions?

Google had a study that has been linked to death around here which showed the scores hires received on their interviews didn't correlate to job performance ratings. There are of course biases and flaws in that study, but it underscores another separate point: studies should show they do correlate, not the other way around (prove a negative).

> Finally, "and companies use them in spite of that". Any guesses why?

Bandwagon effect, cargo cults, ego boosting/confirmation bias from applying a hazing ritual, laziness all come to mind.
When my 70 year old neighbor who can barely operate an iPhone wants to buy crypto, all I can think of is that scene in the Wolf of Wall Street where they're selling people penny stocks. I do think there is a utility for crypto and I do think some cryptocurrencies will be good investments long term. But I also think the hype is outpacing the utility and a lot of people will be left holding the bag
When the police show up to my door with a search warrant, I tell them to wait outside while I gather the items they ask for. Oh look, no evidence of crimes.
It's not hard to imagine scenarios in which pulling out of a country to avoid providing secret information to that country's government is rational. Canada attempting to collect taxes on Uber rides is not one of those scenarios.
I misunderstood. My assumption is that they would obtain them in a manner similar to Israel, and not acknowledge their existence officially.
If a client rejects my initial quote but accepts my lower one (for exactly the same service), did I also 'pay for it'?
You answered a different question by cutting mine in half... my bitcoin holdings are stab-worthy, I understand why someone would hide their identity.

My question reflects my suspicion of astroturfing. What would explain an anomalously high number of new accounts fighting the claims of price manipulation in bitcoin? It's unlikely to be people just hiding themselves - they would already have accounts.
> 1-2

Doubt it considering all BEVs are heavier. Our Model S weights nearly the same as our half-ton and that's without the frame-reinforcement needing to tow.

> 3

If you want standard truck clearance and bed sizes you're not going to do this without making trucks a lot longer. For reference our Model S and short-bed quad cab are already close in length.

> 4

Easy in theory but massive infrastructure investment. Also if you've ever towed a trailer then you'd know there's some sidestreets where superchargers are where you physically cannot turn around a trailer.

For reference we did the trip in 4 hours, no stopping since the truck has a 26gal tank. I'm as big of a proponent of EVs as you'll find but you also can't just blindly assert that EVs will work everywhere if you want to convince people that you aren't crazy. There are realistic limits and I think applying the technology where it makes sense is the fastest way to drive adoption.
Some people get ahold of tunnel boring equipment and go as fast as possible in the wrong direction. With this mountain in the way we can’t tel if there’s anything cool on the other side, but damn are we hopeful.
The main point of this is definitely to start a "movement"

It's not about me or the app, it's just something that had a profound impact on my life and i'm trying to share that with everyone that might be struggling with this - that's why we include instructions to turn your phone gray natively. The app adds features that have kept some people from going gray even though they really want to (need phone for work and it's too much of a hassle to go menu hopping / navigation apps arent the best in grayscale etc).
Spanner was built for AdWords, so it's handling real money actually. Google is not a bank, but it's handling a lot of money, so it was probably a good decision to move away from MySQL.
I kept reading down this chain intending to reply but every reply added something relevant to my comment.

I was once asked to join a company as employee number 13, and I would have been the first technical person to join the company. They offered me a salary of zero dollars and one percent, and the founder of the company said in every meeting before he was willing to reveal the numbers -- the stupidest game on the planet -- that he truly understood the value of engineers and was going to be offering very generous pay packages. Haha I actually laughed at the guys on Skype -- funny how they also tried to gang up on me to turn the screws, as it were! -- when they told me the numbers because I thought they were joking, and they weren't. I don't want to reveal too much about the company because they would be easy to identify based on this, but they had this one weird trick they were trying with shares in order to win investors and generate media buzz, which was actually just hilarious and ridiculous. I will say that they were going to issue billions (with a "B") of shares to begin with. They were so convinced they were going to become the next Google. Surprisingly, their website is still up, but all of my contacts from that company are now listed as working elsewhere on LinkedIn. Shocking, I know.
Imagine you're a one of Apple's (very stable) geniuses. Would you rather hear someone say "My computer doesn't work, fix it" or "I can't use my computer because the screen is busted." Yes, high housing prices are a component of poverty in California, but if you make poverty the story, you're burying the lede. The real story is housing housing housing, and that the housing crisis is creating more poverty.
roommates are normal at any age including 40s and 50s
Well now with brexit I say good riddance to dear old England .... may they rot in isolation until they are conquered by aliens to give a taste of their own medicine.
> Exactly which performance would be enhanced by an even stronger upper? Or is it people with undiagnosed ADHD who resort to meth?

I've seen it very popular with people working in shifts doing physically very taxing work, like warehouse workers in logistics, often combined with alcohol as a downer.

I have atypical ADHS and a small line will keep me up (and mentally super focused) for 3 days straight. But the crash that follows is really nasty and can last for up to 2 days. Not something I'd want to go through regularly, I can count on one hand how often I do that in a year.

That's snorting tho, I've heard and read that smoking it is way different and more comparable to a heroin high (short, very intense, mostly fading away). Nothing I would want to do if I want a downer I'm happy enough with some Indica cannabis.

> teenagers in general cause of being unsure as well as having to perform (study). If its more widely and easier available, its also cheaper, and more accepted.

Imho this whole phenomenon of "experimenting teenagers overdoing it" is the direct result of decades-long prohibition and stigmatization politics. Educators and adults keep telling young people "Using this will make you instantly go crazy and addicted, all your teeth will fall out!". But when they try it they notice how it's not that bad, so they underestimate the actual long-term effects and consider them as "just more fear-mongering", which then leads to irresponsible long-term abuse.

The other side of that is the abuse of legal drugs, where people often overdo them as they consider them "safer" due to being legal. For whatever reason way too many people think this whole legal/illegal distinction is made on a scientific basis of the substances actual effects when it really isn't.
Website creator here, thanks for the comment! I do recognize the hate for scroll jacking, however it was the only way for me to set up the website with that effect, do you know of another way? I'd love to make a change (i'll be honest, i didnt know scrolljacking was something that was so despised)

Looking forward to your comment!
There's far more tax revenue than from just the oil itself. All the labour and equipment used for drilling is taxable too.

Nigeria has no excuses.
>shithole

you're tipping your hand a little much
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PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
> How could they reasonably expect Nigeria to pay them back $76M

Oil revenue?
the app may work for you still, if you find grayscale is taking away your ability to take the photos you want - the whitelisting feature would turn it off when you're in your camera (without menu hopping)
Visualizations around "who is hiring". Which locales trending at various times, Remote vs On-site, number jobs posted, etc.
What's the name of the app?
exactly!

People can't look past the egregious* waste of money to see that it isnt a waste at all, even if Nigeria should have repaid the debt or Japan should have forgiven it.

None of that matters! The result matters! Eradicating polio matters!
What will BTC or ETH hard drive usage look like 100 years from now? Has anyone run the numbers?

It seems like the disk usage will become untenable, but maybe someone has a plan to deal with it.
Honest question here:

Why do people use my partner and I, and not my spouse and I?

In all honesty, when I read my partner and I and I assume it is a same-sex couple, and spouse and I as a heterosexual couple.

Did language change when describe couples?
I stopped reading at "Modeled loosely on the connections in the human brain, these do the “learning” in deep learning."
great analogy! It's not about all or nothing but frequency :)
The closest I can remember is there being a guy who was going through customs coming back to the US. His laptop was inspected, and he had left child porn open on the screen. The inspectors saw it. The guy quickly closed the laptop, causing it to sleep, and causing the disk encryption to kick in, requiring authentication. He was held in contempt when he refused to unlock the laptop.

That is a slightly different situation, as the evidence had been seen, and was known to be in the suspect's possession.
I am on the go so I can’t type much, but basically lack of control and insight into your service—why it’s firing or not, what is backing things up, unexpected errors can fail near silently, there’s a lot of tooling we take for granted on servers we control that you start to miss on lambda. Logging is a lot more work. Scaling is completely invisible and outside of your control. Weird OS or runtime bugs can surprise you. I don’t have a bullet list with documentation of each downside, but from experience running at a large-ish scale, it can be a lot more frustrating than you expect and the benefits in cost are not necessarily there. But again it depends on the workload and the use case. I’m not interested in making blanket statements about serverless tech. It has a promising future but the tools are just not there yet, at least not with Lambda. I don’t have experience with the competing services.
>Reddit style

Just as much HN style, where top comments frequently bring up old discussions completely unrelated to the article's content (e.g. js article -> js is a mess, blockchain article -> blockchain is a bubble, megacorp article -> this is why i never use megacorp's products)
I think Dart probably has more lines of code at Google than Go has. Purely speculative.
What’s the significance of primes being one less than large powers of 2? Does this mean base-2 is the most natural base?
Why? Locking computers that aren't in company possession is common practice. You have to prove it's obstruction of justice.
This is very exciting. I've been waiting for Go support for a long time now. Thanks to the AWS Lambda team!
The warrant is not for the password, but for the unencrypted data. You do not have to reveal your password, technically, but you do have to provide access to the unencrypted data. Since you do have access to the data, but refuse to provide it, you are failing to comply with the warrant.

There are two cases referenced in this wiki page which are relevant if you're curious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat...
> A more troubling use of the data, not mentioned in the discussion so far, would be query driven usage, for example: Prosecutor: OK, lets query all phones with activity showing X among men in this geography and find ourselves a suspect.

That was long a problem with DNA data.

I don't know how completely they test DNA nowadays in criminal cases, but in the early days and for many many years afterwards the tests did not determine a unique individual. It just narrowed it down. There could be a large number of people in the world that would match the sample.

There were two correct ways to use DNA with that level of matching.

1. After you have narrowed down your list of suspects through ordinary, non-DNA police work to a small number of good suspects, then check their DNA. If exactly one suspect matches it is extremely likely that is the correct suspect.

2. It can be used to nearly conclusively eliminate suspects. (I say "nearly conclusively" because you are almost never sure that the DNA you are testing from the crime scene is actually from the criminal. There are almost always ways someone who was not the criminal could have left DNA at a crime scene).

Then there was the completely wrong way to use it, which, unfortunately WAS often used:

• Keep a database of DNA samples from a small subset of the general population, such as people who have been arrested. When you start investigating a crime and think you have a DNA sample of the criminal, check that against your database, and if you get a single match conclude that person was involved.

This approach of starting by looking up DNA from the crime scene in your database and focusing everything on a single match is only valid if:

A) the database includes everyone who could possibly be the criminal, or

B) your DNA test is comprehensive enough that it does identify people uniquely.

We don't do A yet, and as I said I don't know if the test they use nowadays are good enough to satisfy B.
I am a frequent business flyer, 10+ per year international long haul from Australia. I appreciate that from a north american perspective the 380 didn't make sense either economically from the economy which bankrolls Boeing, or strategically from the economy which has specific interests in international flights homed out of its east and west coast population centres.

I can tell you that for the South Pacific, Japan, India, China the 380 makes perfect sense, and if passenger disposable income choices can direct to 380 flights in preference to current generation 777 and 787, they will. I know, because within limits I can do this, and I do, and almost everyone I know who flies transcontinental at this frequency or better does too.

You're mainly discussing supply side logic around wet leasing, dry leasing, models of operation. I am talking about what the consumer side actually wants: In business, its not 11 abreast pack-em-in which is what the 787 has done. Its not the 777 which is a fine beast, but noisy as hell and getting old (refit costs) We love the 380. We prefer to fly the 380. I've flown it on Emirates, Singapore, QANTAS, China Southern and its a premium quality experience. Its worth it.
Please tell me you're joking
Why is the drop down in tools not enough?
Testing your hypothesis:

https://imgur.com/a/yvo3y
well last time they claimed to be giving vaccines in pakistan it was to collect genetic information against a us target.
Towing capacity is more than just the powertrain. The frame, suspension and brakes make a huge difference. 1500->2500 has a huge GVWR jump but only a small engine size increase. The extra weight from a batter pack is also going to eat into your tow capacity.

You also can't rely on engine braking in cold-soaked weather or at full charge so you're still don't get to omit those things.
Some of these community fiber networks also do financing with a balloon payment at the end of 20 years. That makes them look cash flow neutral or positive on an annual basis while they are actually losing significant money.
> What if its just a ruse and they aren't really cops?

Making a mistake in this regard gets you a obstruction of justice charge. Call a lawyers, but don't expect a judge not to take this badly when they have issued a warrant.

> What if they are cops, but the government is corrupt? What if the warrant was obtained in a faulty manner?

That's for the lawyers to deal with in court. Once again, obstruction of justice on a legally issued warrant is going to be bad news for you.
In another case a district judge ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop. The person did not have to reveal their password, as that might weirdly count as "testimony," but they did have to provide the unencrypted data. It was ruled that the act of production of data does not constitute testifying against yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat...
Ken M must have a new name...