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Ask HN: Is Show HN Dead?
Is it just me or is Show HN not updating for others either? It seems that new posts do not show up? Or are posts manually approved?
That should be read anti-adult-content, not anti-adult.
Different routes go different directions. Try flying from farther north. Also try flying to the western shore of Australia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292476
Why worse? I'd argue that it's less bad, because the salt was already there.

Now, it can still be just as toxic, and that has to be handled. But if properly diluted, then it should be equivalent to the ocean evaporating water, which happens constantly.
>Machines beat humans on a reading test. But do they understand?

I can't link directly to the result, but if you select "co-reference" from the dropdown, and enter the above text, this demo correctly links "they" to "Machines".

https://corenlp.run/
If the toxic brine is purely the extracts from the ocean water, you can toss it back into the ocean (with appropriate dilution). If the toxic brine has a bunch of additives that are a byproduct of the desal, then this is indeed problematic. The article mentions that this method eliminates the need for chemical additives so this could be a pretty low-impact method of desal.
The oceans are big. Like... really really really big. According to [1], humanity uses about four trillion cubic meters of water per year. The oceans, per [2], contain about 321,003,271 cubic miles of water. Adjusting units and turning that into a percentage, we would use 4.154*10^-4 percent (0.0004154%) of the ocean’s water per year.

My guess is we can just dump the salt back in. :)

Edit: actually add sources.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/water-use-stress
[2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html
I suppose that the encryption is relevant no matter where you operate from. Does that protect metadata? I assume that all they can learn is that person X is visiting a site that uses your service, which is pretty unhelpful for spooks. In that case, the main security or privacy concern probably revolves around government data requests and/or data center security
Given the chip architectural changes in the last 6 years, I'd hope to see at least more than one release in that time frame.
I don't think you climb the corporate ladder in the way he did without working long, grueling hours, especially if your career lands you at Oracle of all places.
About Open Banking API
Do you use any FB properties?
Until Americans find Physicians (and Pharmacists) as the enemy, it will never happen.

They(AMA and APA) are top lobbyists that entrench themselves using monopolistic practices.

Sure school can cost 500k, but with 200 to 300k+ per year salaries, they can kill that debt. (This is their common defense)
How could this impact political problems?

My understanding of the Golan Heights and Israel vs Palestine is that it's about water. Will this technology help with that problem?
That's part of it. Plenty of working developers will also omit tests and documentation even without the feature-factory time pressure though. A lot of times, the need for technical documentation isn't even a blip on the TODO radar. If I had a dime for every README where the last change was "Initial commit" and the file only contained

# <PROJECT NAME> Service

This is the new service for <TASK>.

....I could buy a good README.
The only reasonable explanation for this I've seen is that some of these companies are sending 10s or 100s of thousands of marketing emails, so they use large queuing systems. Sometimes these batch jobs are queued up and fired off some time in advance. 7 days give them a window to cover this queue length.

Sure they could add a 'blacklist' check on the send action level, though.
> Using Iceland to get away from the Five Eyes?

Apart from the point about the cables, I'm thinking a re-read of Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" might be in order...
Israel gets 40% of its fresh water from desalination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

Israel went from having severe water shortages if there was no rain (plus environmental damage from overdrawing lakes) to being perfectly fine.

And the costs are not too bad either.

Israel also is the world leaded by far in controlling water leaks, which helps reduce water demand, and they also reuse greywater for farming.

Other places with water shortages could do the same.
It strikes me as rather odd that Mozilla would be involved in such a dystopia extending enterprise. I realize that it is unlikely that not doing this work would not prevent it from being done at some point, but it seems like a worthwhile choice not to engage in it even if it just delays things long enough until regulations, laws, countermeasures, or even technology solutions can emerge, can catch up, or be developed.
This is the third submission this week. Has there been some recent activity that's not immediately obvious just looking at the site itself?

Previous discussion with 48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268579
Over-indexing on performance has nothing to do with technical excellence. It having the the wrong priorities.

Saying people who don't optimize for performance don't have technical excellence is just like saying people who don't get all of their program to fit into 32kb don't have technical excellence.

Yes it requires skills to get a program to run in such a small amount of space, just like it takes skill to perform detailed performance optimizations. But in either case if that's not your job you're wasting time and someone else's time, even if it makes you happy to do so.

A product is designed to serve a purpose, if instead of working on that purpose is developer is squeezing out a few additional cycles of perf or a few additional kb of memory they have the wrong priorities.

No that doesn't mean go to the other extreme, but choosing to not spending unnecessary time on performance or size optimization is entirely unrelated to technical excellence. And any senior engineer knows this.
> I think the truth is, most people don't care. They just go to the supermarket and throw in their shopping cart the cheapest option, and that's about it.

sure, all I'm saying is both can be true. most people can not care and just by the cheapest stuff and you can have upmarket suppliers for whole foods and farmer's market.

obviously this is not a solution for all the animals. that probably does have to be some sort of law. good luck to any politician who campaigns on pricing poor people out of meat.
Additionally,

> and it's not like most of these criminal sorts haven't had 18 years of second chances and resources being thrown at them

A lot of these kids _haven't_. You're assuming everyone grew up in a middle class neighborhood with good teachers and was never pressured by gangs and never mistreated by authority. That's simply not the case. If you examine the personal history of many imprisoned people, you'll find a common pattern of poverty, limited chances, and family issues. All of which aren't the fault of the individual.
Also, the water created through desalination will end up back in the ocean eventually.
> having a specific URL for each function

Which also results in each function having its own comment section, where users can post further examples and pitfalls with that function. These often end up significantly larger and more informative than StackOverflow.
Since we are dumping sewage back into the ocean (after treatment), can't we dilute the salt back into what we are putting back?

Of course if you go down that route much you realize that the output of sewage plants is safe for human consumption there is no technical reason not to put it back into the water supply and greatly reduce the need for makeup water.
Per the article, "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox".
List of software that has free tiers for developers
Couldn't they just point cold air down and warm air up?
A Deeper Look into the Life of an Impressionist
Isn't this splitting hairs? The real achievement it seems to me is continuous operation within spec. The watchdog timers (whatever they are) are part of the design that enabled this. I don't think it lessens the achievement at all.
This is a great debugging tool for deep learning. Often your code might have been running for 20 hrs on 16 GPUs and you just don't want to restart from scratch again.
OK, so when

- a DHS official in March 2017 floated a policy of family separation and said that "we are trying to find ways to deter the use of children in illegal immigration." [1]
- Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors "to adopt immediately a zero-tolerance policy for all offenses" related to the misdemeanor of improper entry into the United States [2]
- John Kelly justified the new policy by saying "The children will be taken care of—put into foster care or whatever." [3]

and subsequently more than 2000 children, some as young as 12 months old, were separated from their parents,

That was all a liberal smokescreen. They weren't changing anything! Actually, this was always Obama's policy, DHS and DOJ just waited to enact it until after he left office and the guy who campaigned against his record just happened to be around when those separations actually occurred. And all of those political appointees saying that they were changing things were just deep state plants.

> The Trump administration didn't change anything

They told us they would do new things, many times, and then they did the things. It is really bizarre that fervent Trump supporters like yourself are so shy about taking credit for MAGA. He's delivering on his core promises! Why are you so insistent on giving credit to the usurper that came before?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/politics/dhs-children-adults-...
[2] https://www.voanews.com/usa/sessions-announces-zero-toleranc...
[3] https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-ho...
Very interesting. "a trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data". Google Sheets IIRC caps at 5M cells.

The HN mod DG built something pretty awesome back in 2009 called SkySheet, perhaps if he's reading he'll let us know what the limits of SkySheet were back then?
So, I guess Imgur has now just about announced their inevitable death. If you uploaded pics there, I suggest getting them before they end up gone.
What an incredibly Cool-Aid guzzling piece. Manages to get historical time line right but has totally out of kilter understanding of the reasons why. And thinking Apple can supplant CUDA with their own proprietary tech is completely delusional. The lack of an nVidia GPU is a significant drawback to using it as a workstation, and Apple is foolish to have gone the AMD only route.
If only USPS had similar regulations, but instead they are proud to sell your information to companies for spam mail.
So you mean ... the government that enables such licensing, monopolistic behavior, and moat building?
How would reverse osmosis filtration (the dominant desal method) "dry up"?
This site should be added to the list of non-trustful sources. TASS is a propaganda agency. Two last "S" are for Soviet Union (Sovetskyi Soyuz in Russian) - this agency was made by communists as a propaganda tool and still plays this role.

This news article, in particular, is a bs without proofs, without scientific magazines citations - they post such bs to create an impression of "positive news".
Getting into Playboy these days means that the model is able to find a sponsor that pays her appearance in the magazine. It is an achievement, but of a completely different kind than most people would have thought. Source: I am a photographer, know some of their models and they told me.
And do we care if they do the job?

Especially if they share the same trait of being so complex and dependent on Byzantine treatment of data that they need to be regulated and governed in a different way from something that can be groked via a single ppt slide?

edited for the second clause.
Clicking https://i.imgur.com/nZHfzdV.jpg yields "Sign in required - This page may contain erotic or adult imagery. You'll need to sign in if you still want to view it.".

Opening the same URL by copying and pasting it to the address bar shows the image without needing to sign in.
A friend of mine who worked for an energy company also mentioned that some of their solar panels got stolen often enough they had to factor that into their costs.
its not really about water. this will help alleviate water problems in coastal areas - israel already desalinates water but making it cheaper is better.

But the issue is far more complex than just water and the scope of this technological fix will not really affect it.
A relevant quote from Pink Floyd:

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
and they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
it's the only connection they feel
I didn't ask about the business owner, I asked about the employees.
In fact, §230 was meant to reverse prior legal decisions that pointed in this direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
> My understanding of the Golan Heights and Israel vs Palestine is that it's about water.

It's not. Golan Heights has nothing to do with Palestinians, and is about Israel not being shelled from mountains.

Israel vs Palestine is about land, not about water.

> Will this technology help with that problem?

Israel already gets 40% of its water from desalination (see my post elsewhere in this thread). So been there done that :)

Israel also works with Jordan on water issues, so they are using water as a kind of water diplomacy.
People are resilient. Earthquakes are nothing compared to repeated terrorist attacks experienced by people in places in Israel and Palestine, but yet the endure:

https://www.economist.com/international/2016/09/03/learning-...
The difference in experience browsing the web in the UK vs Canada makes me think the EU made a mistake with these regulations. The end results is basically making things a PITA for the end user. [Edit] I realize I didn't answer the question, the answer is: too much.
While I understand not wanting any useless eye-candy for functional purposes, I think there is also pleasure derived by simply "looking at pretty things".

It does not need to involve any external motivations.
I don’t know any pharmacist making $200k, and their pay is getting crushed right now due to tons of supply since there is no limit on the number of new pharmacists. Anyone currently pursuing pharmacy is in a poor ROI situation, especially if they’re paying for school.

Their pay is in now way comparable to doctors, who have a structural advantage due to the limited number of new doctors each year.
I watched a documentary once that described how corporations will hire people to eat Subway in public places or to talk loudly about things as a form of marketing. It’s profoundly dishonest
I've spoken with a few oceanographers about this and the brine can be easily pumped back into the ocean with very minimal impact as long as you are smart about it. The effluent from a normal desal system is only twice the concentration of the source seawater. The key is to place your plant so you can reintroduce the brine into a fast moving and deep waterway.

One interesting ancillary benefit of having a source of brine is that it makes extracting desired minerals and elements from seawater much cheaper and easier. I have personally seen a system that extracts uranium from seawater. Current implementations yield yellow-cake at twice the market rate. There is ongoing work to tie it into a desal plant and bring that cost down. There is also work to combine it with lithium extraction.
> Africa, most of Russia, and Northern Europe are volcano-free as they're not near fault lines (except the ones in the atlantic ocean and meditteranean sea)

The East African Rift Zone is both an emerging plate boundary and a locus of volcanic and seismic activity.
I often read comments where people say something along the lines of, “X is considered impossible with current technology but I bet the intelligence agencies have had it for years”.

It seems reasonable that incremental developments might have been made sooner by government than academic researchers or industry. Indeed, there are examples. But leaps like quantum computing?

I’m not ascribing this to you but I’ve noticed that there’s often a crossover between people who, on the one hand, believe government is pretty much incapable while, on the other hand, having some near magic ability to make huge technical leaps.

Wartime is different, as then it’s pretty much all hands on deck.
it'll definitely help, israel already uses a massive percentage of it's electric generation to desalinate water. (since the country grows quite a bit of its own food)

from wikipedia "By 2014, Israel's desalination programs provided roughly 35% of Israel's drinking water and it is expected to supply 40% by 2015 and 70% by 2050.[18] In recent years, Israel's annual use of water from the Sea of Galilee has shrunk from 513 million cubic meters (in 2001-2) to just 25 million cubic meters (2018–19) as desalinated water has taken its place."
That it came 4 years after was, in good part, thanks to the "agriculture only in Germany" Morgenthau Plan. The subsequent disclosure, possible extension of the war[1] with Goebbels making broadcasts against it in 44 & 45, and US media, politicians and public turning against it thankfully thoroughly poisoned it. It took a while to spin up a workable replacement (and one that would pass Congress), though the sheer extremity of the Morgenthau Plan undoubtedly helped that along. I have never got the impression Bretton Woods contributed to the demise of Morgenthau/rise of Marshall, but I can't rule it out. I haven't enough of the detail of Presidential and Congressional machinations. It's always read like Marshall was result of reaction to, and fallout from Morgenthau, as well as the inconvenient truth that a bankrupt Europe can't trade much at all. :)

That the US was going to be the new hegemon was clear in hmm, probably 43, perhaps even late 42. It just wasn't yet remotely palatable. Thus it wasn't unexpected that was the stance of the US going into Bretton Woods. The US had been pushing against European empire since earliest talk of lend-lease before Pearl Harbor, and obviously pre-war with less consequence. Even going back into the era the US still spoke overtly of an American Empire. Of course there was GB reluctance to accept their new role as junior partner - and some degree of not realising the actual implications of this. One easy example of that being famously difficult Monty during Market-Garden in 44.

Some parts of the UK political spectrum has still not recognised our place in the post-war scheme of things. Cough Brexit cough. More among some who voted Brexit than the instigators necessarily. Suez was merely the first concrete demonstration of France and Britain's new lowered significance. Not accepting UK decline has been something of a post-war Tory party theme. By Suez, the US absolutely had the strength, politics and attitude that their wish was prime. Course UK Labour had the very overt post-war policy to shed Empire in this period. So during Labour administrations, far from everyone having to fight off colonial masters, some were positively pushed, somewhat reluctantly and surprised out the exit... Which is another can of worms far too complex to play out on HN. In France I don't think de Gaulle ever got past having to ask the US for the 45 loan.

So in summary, yes, it's hugely complex. Had the US not been the only nation not near bankruptcy, the power dynamic of negotiations would have been very different. At the very least with more balance the World Bank and IMF would have looked different. Yet even so, the hope in Europe was it was still a better model to avoid 1929-1945 ever again.

FWIW Post-Suez under Nasser didn't turn out at all well for the Egyptians. Let's leave that one unopened though. ;)

[1] We'll never know, but there's a very credible case to be made that the proposed toppling of Hitler in 44, and subsequent surrender would have actually come, but for the publicity around Morgenthau. Being sent back to an agrarian age made surrender pointless, even though they had obviously already lost the war.
If you support OpenBSD in spirit and love what they do, consider making a donation to help the developers out. Most devs work for free and every little bit helps :)

https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
I think you're stumbling on a root cause of America's healthcare crisis. I think most American's don't understand just how much physicians make--and where did you get those figures because clinicians I know make a good deal more than 200-300k
>The problem with this family of tooling is that they are essentially fill-the-blanks forms and that all the surrounding ceremony is generated indiscriminately of wether the blanks were actually filled or not.

Still better than 90% of projects/libs at the time, who didn't have any reference documentation at all.

Just seeing the signatures and packages in an organized manner with cross links (e.g. to parent class, implementing classes) etc, was a vast improvement...
It's probably not black and white, some of those harmful mutation may have necessary benefits in some other function. It's like drinking a poison that will kill in the long term but you need to live in the short term.
It’s possible that there could be some boutique secondary private insurance market, like what compliments the NHS in the UK, although I think given the vast, predatory behavior of US health insurance companies, it’s better that they’re just done away with. It’s not as if they haven’t show themselves to be bad actors, preying on the vulnerable as much as is legally possible, time and time again.

Costs and the barrier to care they impose are primary problem in the US. Mixed systems perform far worse at controlling them (look at the history of South Africa’s transition to a mixed system as an example).

Given how far things have gone with costs in the US, I don’t see how a “public option” would resolve them, short of the kind of literal government price setting as is done in Japan, in which case, a single payer system is more efficient anyway.
I recently encountered dietlibc while trying to debug a segfault in integrit [1]. As packaged in Debian, integrit is a static binary using dietlibc. For some unknown reason I found it completely impossible to get any usable stacktrace out of it with gdb and the usual tools and after a few days of frustration I gave up on finding the cause.

[1] https://github.com/integrit/integrit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU

NTSC video signals offer a lot of bandwidth but very very few promises about the quality of the reproduction of the stored waveform
They're not deleting content, just forcing you to log in.
The thing I realized about OpenBSD is it’s made by and for the developers. They are going to do what works for them and fits their priorities. Not what works for the widest possible audience.
Ask HN: Rotating Chairmen for Startups
I recently heard of Huawei's rotating chairman policy. I was curious if any startups or tech companies in the US adopt this ideology. Does anyone have experience with this, and has anyone done this in the early stages of a company?
Well, the issues are fundamental to the calculation of their error statistics. These models and their error rates are, well, crap. If any of the people in my group came back to me with this as an error assessment, they'd be re-doing their work.