skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't address CAP or Active Management Areas. You can't talk about Arizona water without talking about CAP and AMAs. There is a real issue of water usage outside of the AMAs. There has been since I left AZ in 2007.

But yes, it is correct that the vast majority of water in AZ goes to agriculture. California has a similar issue. Developers are required to provide 100 year water plans before moving forward. Another thing at play that would surprise a lot of people is that just 18% of land is private.

I guess I would say... True, Arizona and California produce massive amounts of produce and other agricultural output for the US (it's sunny, the climate is great, other than the lack of water). But what is it costing the environment? We all know what it is costing the environment. No one is protesting. Sadly.

To say that Arizona shouldn't exist (that we shouldn't have population centers in the middle of the desert) is laughable. Ok, Las Vegas is cancelled. Cities north enough that require massive amounts of fossil fuels to stay warm enough to be livable are cancelled. While where at it, flying for vacations (or anything not of existential importance) is cancelled. Ocean freight is cancelled.

My first job out of college was as a management and lobbyist assistant in Coconino County (Flagstaff). I read this from cover to cover when I started my job (I still have the marked up copy on my bookshelf):

https://portal.azoah.com/oedf/documents/08A-AWS001-DWR/Cente...

Water use is very, very carefully considered and scrutinized in AZ.

> "...it's a calculated risk and choice by the people living here whose lives are built on agriculture. "

Sorta. It's calculated by a subset of all stakeholders. Water rights in Arizona are slowly being purchased by developers to meet the 100 year water plan requirements. This reflects the state's move from primarily agricultural toward a more common mixture of agriculture, industry and residential. That mix doesn't have any impact on the amount of water available for use. The legal rights to CAP water, the legal rights to ground water, are already fixed and are now just being transferred from one party to the next. As AZ becomes less agriculturally productive, you can no longer argue that "we've chosen this to farm". And the shortcoming of lack of regulation of water usage outside of AMAs is still not addressed. Which I think is the point of the article.
Microsoft banned all Iranian users. And crimea if I recall correctly.

Financial support of open source is a nice thing, but folding open source into the world of US political choas seems so wrong.

I for one will be moving my projects elsewhere. Not sure where yet, probably a bitbucket server.
We have plenty of github alternatives and gitlab is among my favorite. What exactly excludes gitlab from your list of alternatives?
This describes AdSense in general - the original point was some text ads.

But as the article points out, we acclimate to stimulus, so any ad that's welcomed and successful will lose engagement over time. Which is why we get either very creative compelling advertising or advertising that attempts to trick us.

The entire thing is fundamentally broken, of course, and nobody seems to have a monetization strategy beyond subscriptions or the perpetual cat and mouse game of blockers, blocker-blockers, blocker-blocker-blockers and so on.

In an industry full of innovation the monetization aspect is stuck in the newspaper model created 150 years ago.
A TV Maverick Is Going All-In on a New Wireless Bet
Fighting cancer with exploding antibody-filled bacteria
The tourism angle mentioned is the real deal killer for these regulations.

If you outlaw this, people like me (who think inflicting stupidly and ill-health on their children by withholding these technologies is morally wrong) will just fly to Singapore. Even if you could enforce this, not every country will. 5+ standard deviation increases in many traits is on the table: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#iterated-embryo-selec...

If we make this illegal here, we will be as children compared to those in China or Singapore.

The potential increase in IQ is so high that any country that defects from a global ban, even a smallish one like Iran say, would quickly be producing the vast majority of all genius-level intellects.

A global ban is just is not a stable equilibrium.

From a balance-of-power perspective, we would expect huge shifts in future power to those countries that embrace the technology. An absence of taboos against human enhancement may be a more important factor in this than current scientific achievement for predicting global leadership in the next couple generations.

In islamic culture, traditional scholarship places the point of ensoulment anywhere between 40 and 120 days after conception. Our western taboos around this topic, likely even our western secular taboos, derive from a belief in ensoulment at conception.

This simple doctrinal dispute may end up having huge consequences. And may allow islamic cultures to return to a position of scientific power, likely shared with China and other Asian countries who similarly do not share our taboos.
The Encryption Debate Is Over – Dead at the Hands of Facebook
Not when the User Agent is built by the world's largest online advertiser.
What’s So Disturbing about Microsoft’s OpenAI Investment?
In dense cities there's simply no need. There's restaurants, convenience stores, food trucks, and bodegas everywhere. And the restaurants will run the gamut from multi-$100 many course meals right down to $5 will get you a meal fast food. Many of these restaurants are on the first floors of apartment buildings anyway, so it doesn't even look that different from a shared kitchen/dining space anyway (it's just not exclusive to the residents of the building).

And in not-dense cities, people tend not to live in buildings with enough units in them to even support this. That's why the university thing is kind of an edge case; it's people living in dense housing situations in not-dense places.
Related: A great article on HN member mattmight a few days ago. Matt's a brilliant computer scientist and teacher who was inspired by his son's condition to switch careers and investigate rare diseases full-time.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/25/ai-expert-writing-code-s...
Advertising has also been proven to be bad for your sense of life satisfaction, which is an externality not paid for by advertisers.

"The effect implies that a hypothetical doubling of advertising expenditure would result in a 3% drop in life satisfaction. That is approximately one half the absolute size of the marriage effect on life satisfaction, or approximately one quarter of the absolute size of the effect of being unemployed."

https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis...
Chicago police compiled profiles on every citizen who spoke at public meetings
No, because privacy in today's world is not black and white. Apple is definitely much better than MS and Google, so people that e.g. buy Apple smartphones have better privacy than Android users.

This is not a theoretical concern: I can buy an iPad for my parents, turn of iCloud & Siri, install an Ad-blocker and they will be reasonably safe from cybercriminals and spyware companies like Google.
how about the hubris that we could ever possibly know what the "best" genes are, save whatever is currently desired for our current, extremely limited viewpoint on what "best" is. It's like reaching a local maxima and thinking you found the peak, but in the grand scheme of an evolutionary timeline were a factor of 100x away from what the real "best" was
If Facebook’s Libra is successful, it would benefit every American tremendously by strengthening the American Dollar. Up until now the USA’s main export has been the American Dollar.
> small

Heh, do you really think that static ads would be a small portion of the page?

Look at small local newspapers for what a business driven by revenue from non-targetable ads looks like. The ads take up more than half the page!
Safety critical is by design simple, it is a requirement by the norms to ensure low complexity :)
One issue the article didn't cover, but I wish it did, was the obvious corruption of the FAA by industry lobbying. The revolving door of industry -> government -> private industry leaves any regulation weak and often ineffectual. We call it "lobbying" but the reality is that it's just corruption and bribery under a nicer name.

One specific example to highlight the issue...

Ali Bahrami works for the FAA, lobbies to delegate oversight to the airlines, then leaves for a lobbying job, then is back at the FAA again at a higher position. It's hard to believe he's always acting in the public's interest with so much industry money and connections.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/with-...
> And you think the transition to fusion would be FASTER? My mind boggles at your double think.

No? I just think fusion tech is the future. A clean, abundant, uninterruptible, and independent source of energy that can be used on Earth or on Alpha Centauri.

I don't really expect to see them in my lifetime.

> It's bizarre you think dealing with intermittency would require impossible, or even particularly difficult, changes. If you notice, grids are already becoming smarter, with power markets dispatching on short term prices. The market is going to force things in the right direction, which is renewables/storage and not high cost baseload sources.

Again, that's not my experience. I've seen some countries move towards renewables, but nothing on the required scale. As for smart grids are you talking about decentralized grids, where consumers can send energy upstream or just more efficient energy grids?

And as for the markets, those depend on policies. If Trump says, we're making a renewables tax and tariffs on solar panels, those same markets could turn on renewables.
Tip on claiming 10hrs:

I don't think it's hard for anyone to claim 10hrs on this. Just reading the news/basic research over the last 1.5 years can quickly reach 10hrs.

For me, I also signed up for credit monitoring a month after the breach announcement and have since been getting spammed every week with various credit alerts. If I spent 10 min on each mail and got 1 email/week over the last 1.5 years that would be 13 hours of pondering credit spam.
While I’ve no familiarity with the law in this area, I’d imagine this is surely still illegal too? If one could just openly pass the business to a foreign partner it would somewhat defeat the purpose of sanctions.
You're misrepresenting the facts. In-state rivers (21% of our supply) face the same existential threat of climate change. Furthermore, groundwater aquifers (currently 40%) are not renewable. The Colorado River is Arizona’s largest renewable water supply [1]. The second the Colorado gets slapped with federal restrictions industry and citizens alike will accelerate the depletion of our aquifers and before you know it the Colorado River will be the De facto majority again. No one is suggesting we immediately shut down all agriculture, though we could with the stroke of a pen subsidize hydroponic alternatives, mandate drip irrigation, enforce water reclamation, and cap and trade further agricultural development. I do not blame immigrants either, not sure how that relates to this? I simply do not deny the fact that our current path is unsustainable. Allowing agriculture to continue to grow at this rate will only backfire on those communities and cause them to face even worse economic destruction. Showing restraint now could avoid catastrophe for everyone.

[1] http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
> That's precisely what the government does on sensitive topics. That's why there's no anti-vax and conspiracy theory bs. What "we" want isn't always a good thing for running a country.

That is not at all their role. That conspiracy theories are unverified is what makes them theories, that they take a pro-vax stance is based on the data, research and reaching out to experts in the field.

What you're describing is the propaganda arm of a regime, not a media outlet.
Is it really an option? Is Switzerland free to not accept sanctions on Iran by America?
What built-in “GCP stuff” do you mean? They seem to already be using GKE.
If anyone curious about railway modelling, I think, the game "Rolling Line" is an interesting simulation of it, including VR support, it is available in Steam.

https://youtu.be/UjfsRfxOtU8
US sanctions apply to its online hosting service, GitHub.com, but its paid-for on-premise software -- aimed at enterprise users -- may be an option for users in those circumstances

why is only the hosted site restricted, but enterprise on-premises version seemingly ok?

aren't the sanctions supposed to impede business too?
Pfizer in talks to merge off-patent drugs business with Mylan
Both this article and the mayo clinic one say that post Lyme disease syndrome is real and without a cure. So if she did have PLDS and the commenter is correct and that the doctors simply called her "hysterical" and left it at that then it cannot be said that they were correct.
They only block really antagonistic regimes which don’t comply with UN and other international sanctions. It has to be a really rogue regime that threatens regional or world peace.
I do think most of these things (with the exception of IP addresses and caching) are easier to solve than Javascript. I disagree that they are trivial to solve or that combined, they are substantially less harmful than Javascript. Let me try to sidestep this debate though and focus on the broader problem.

JS has a few stupid design decisions, but the fundamental reason Javascript is hard to run safely is because it's a turing-complete language that exposes a lot of powerful features.

You can argue that the web doesn't need a turing-complete language that exposes a lot of powerful features. Can you argue that phones don't? Can you argue that personal computers don't need that?

All of the tracking that happens on the web right now also happens on mobile phones and desktops. Users have broadly shown that the "only download code you trust" security model doesn't work (see recent articles on both the Android and iOS app store for reference). Even something basic like adblocking on Android is kind of terrible -- the best app I know of is AFWall, and that's maybe half as powerful as something like UMatrix because it's relying on static firewall rules.

You get rid of powerful applications on the web, and users will go back to downloading apps like crazy just so they can order pizza from their phone. Since currently, all of those platforms are pretty terrible for privacy; it is very hard to argue that a world where people could only download native apps would be more private than the world we have now.

We could also keep the web and switch wholesale to a SaaS model for everything, which is broadly bad for consumers, and carries its own privacy risks (there are some computations like password generation that I don't want to be done on a 3rd-party computer). Switching over to using forms and remote computation for everything on the web would also greatly increase the prevalence of 3rd-party cookies, making them much harder to block.

The point I'm getting at is that I don't see a world where Javascript vanishes and privacy gets any better. In fact, it might even have the opposite effect if the deprecation of Javascript means people download more Android apps. Privacy is a really hard, complicated problem and there probably isn't any single solution.
It's an 'identity verification' service though, so I doubt it will work very well if you feed it bogus info.
That's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_agent
I can see that given the choice between declarative rules vs. a "onRequest(req)" handler, almost every developer would just opt for the latter because it's more general and open-ended.

And there's no pressure from users to choose the more restrictive but performant option because people basically have zero insight into what's killing their battery, much less which competitor is better in that regard.

Given the gulf between Safari vs Chrome battery performance, I'm not all that convinced that the declarative api is pure downside like HN cynicism and Twitter outrage might suggest.

I can agree that it would be nice to have competing implementations, but that's just the result of browsers being so complex that once your hobby horse feature is removed from one, you basically have nowhere to turn.
> Do you expect Iranian users to have a deep understanding of American export laws

No, but I expect them to at least understand ONE law, since the sanctions affect their country significantly and their politicians talk non-stop about it.

> might follow from Microsoft's acquisition?

This has nothing to do with MSFT. GitHub has always been a US-based company.

> Github as been around for over 10 years, and this never happened before

Because GitHub hadn't been following the law before.
As a counterpoint:

“The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence”

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
He's using it to read the entire files contents into memory, and re-running the lines() method from the now in-memory buffer, presumably to remove any disk I/O from bottle necking the lines() function.

Not the best method to use, probably better to use the Files.readString method.
This is well within GitHub's Account ToS in Section B 3.6. [0] so all GitHub users who are part of the US sanctioned countries list [1] are banned from having an account. Since Microsoft/GitHub are all US based companies, they must comply with US export laws and I'm afraid not even GH/Microsoft staff can intervene in this.

I don't know what to think about this 'message to GitHub' since they can't do anything about this, but I think that migrating off of GitHub and lessening or completely removing our dependence on the service is probably better for those developers and for open-source in general.

[0] https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-terms-of-service#...

[1] https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-and-trade-control...
I don't see how the study is establishing causation. It does not prove that advertising is creating an externality, as you claim.

In fact, it explicitly says that it does not show causation and recommends further research.

It's easy to come up with theories to explain it that don't have anything to do with the one you proposed. For instance, higher advertising could be caused by weakness in the economy that doesn't show up in other data (or at least not GDP) but which leads to less satisfaction later, which wouldn't show up in their controls.
GitLab is a US company. Although you can self host an instance wherever you want.
Having your tuition paid for does not equal getting the best education. Lots of dummies graduate from the world's top schools simply because of pedigree.
It works the other way too. Many people still believe in Google’s abandoned motto; but that motto has been dead for quite some time.
I don't want to be the one to invoke Godwin's law, but there are ways to remain within the law and still resist in a meaningful way when the stakes are high.
How much is higher intelligence corelated to being able to manage wealth well?
> because ads are used to make people consume more than they need

Not necessarily. An ad for a restaurant doesn’t necessarily make you eat more. An ad for a hotel doesn’t make you go on more trips.
No, they don't have the power...
I think that's an anecdote for someone coming up with a system that works and not deviating. Obviously most people are very bad at that.
That implies that it has to do with genes in the first place. Perhaps there's an argument there. However, I would also consider that the size of an estate may grow, but not exponentially (at least not indefinitely). Yet, the size of a family tree does grow exponentially.
But such people with connection can often be found employed in powerful organizations.
That’s the same thing they said to Einstein and look at him.

Edit: To clarify, I meant the bagel chain founder, not the physician.
In some sense DG is the foundation of all modern AI/ML/DL approach. The bar is just too high for normal people
> when the stakes are high.

The stakes are not high here.
Now that’s an idea. If you own a business in an un-eco-friendly field you have to use a litter box.
That page has a list a mile long for criticisms on it's attempt to be editorial independent. The ABC Board is appointed by the Governor General with the Federal Parliament.

If they own the corporation and can appoint board members they want, even political ones as listed on that wiki page, then they have zero incentive to actually raid the place to get anything done, they can simply do it.

So that takes away intent or motive for the "removal of rights" angle. They have a right to run the company as the government sees fit already. The raid may have been done for legitimate reasons, the simple fact it happened isn't enough to say that there was excessive foul play involved and we should distrust the face value story.
Space Shuttle Launch Abort Modes
There are so many underlying threads here: the revolving door between government and industry, the influence of lobbying, lack of competition within critical American industries, deregulation, lack of funding for regulatory agencies. All sums up to regulatory capture. Sickening.

Time and time again regular people are getting screwed by the same patters, the previous paragraph basically summarizes what led to the 2008 financial crisis as well.
And the catch was it's not the same family.

People sharing a last name today can't be traced back to specific family which existed in past.
The author has made no efforts to hide the fact that he's a China apologetic and CCP propagation puppet. The fact is that the majority of the country's rice and corns are imported (from SE Asia or N/S America), which are Chinese main calory source. Another often overlooked fact is that China has built a vast crops storage network across the nation, for the fact that a small interruption in food supply chain could cause huge humanitarian disaster, and the new crops will rotate out old stale crops, which are barely eatable but sure, they're better than nothing. Most Chinese even have no idea of this, that their daily rice supplies are usually 5+ yrs old, unless you pay a premium to buy them from Whole Food equivalent super markets in China.
Is it safe to look up your name on the look up tool? It is demanding access to recaptcha, which I avoid these days.
Some podcasts do algorithmic auction style ad sales with targeting based off geolocation on the downloading ip address. This works by generating a new audio file for each download. I think the industry calls it "dyanmic ad insertion".
> In the middle of the Max’s development, two of the most seasoned engineers in the F.A.A.’s Boeing office left.

> In their place, the F.A.A. appointed an engineer who had little experience in flight controls, and a new hire who had gotten his master’s degree three years earlier.

This is how you grow an army of YES-men without any substantial backbone. The type that makes good middle managers and keeps the process moving smoothly. Unfortunately for these engineers, they might ultimately be responsible for the system they signed off on.
Laying off senior Boeing software engineers and outsourcing their work to India for $9/hour is really paying off for Boeing.
Reason is one of our most important faculties, and we must protect it from be
You probably can trust your doctor, but look at his situation. You're one of how many patients he's seeing today? You're a valued customer and the Doctor even likes you, and still he cannot give your problems a fraction of the attention you do.

I find it puzzling that so many people's first (and often only) reaction to health problems is "see what the doctor says," never granting themselves agency or permission to conclude they're actually sick or try a treatment that someone else didn't recommend.