skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this is ripe for abuse, but I also know enough about the CA water ecosystem to know it's a welcome development from an agriculture capacity planning perspective. There may be some speculators, but overwhelmingly the people trading this product will be water utilities and large farms who need multi-year planning for in particular tree crops. It looks like it's purely a cash backed contract and there isn't delivery, so it's going to just be used for hedging. Privatization of water is a huge issue especially in the developing world, but this isn't the same problem.

EDIT for clarification : water is a basic human right, but pumping 1 million acre feet to grow almonds and make bank is not.
Interesting. Are you sure the firewall prompt comes when the server is listening on 127.0.0.1 as opposed to 0.0.0.0?
There never was an open-source business model.

Among the thousands of open-source projects, the ones championed as a successful business make a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm.

Meanwhile the SaaS business model continues to eat the software market. A model that gives users less control than the desktop software model.

Open-source software has been critical to the success of the SaaS model. You could argue SaaS is the true success of the 'open-source business model'. Just not the way open-source advocates expected it to be.
Not everything chases the latest and greatest though. If you run containers anyway, wouldn't you want the host running those containers to remain stable and predictable? Would you gain value from running your databases on rolling-release distributions?

It may be that your application benefits greatly from always running the latest versions of whatever technologies you use, but there are tons of use-cases for a more slow-moving platform as well.
Check out the Public Domain Review [0]. They have an excellent collection of free and public domain resources as well as a print shop with loads of really interesting art.

Also, as a shameless plug, I sell high-quality giclee prints of a small but growing amount of public domain art on Etsy [1].

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Impressive that CD Projekt accommodated them. In the bigger scheme of thing proton is decidedly niche
It's really fascinating - I had always assumed digital cameras had different sensors for different light colours like eyes do.
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Why would you need ICU capacity? There is no working medication, no cure, no regime. The only treatment (intubation) turned out to outright kill patients. The only thing you will get in a hospital is oxygen to help you breath while 50% of admitted die.
Yeah it really reminds me of the end of "The Big Short", where the character played by Brad Pitt starts following any news like this related to water.
Earth is populated by humans, not by a human.
Current price is just under $500 for an acre-foot of water, and you have to buy in increments of 10 acre-feet. If you are unfamiliar with that unit of measurement, it’s pretty much what it sounds like. It’s the amount of water needed to cover one acre of land in one foot of water and is equal to 325,850 gallons. It is standard in agriculture to measure water output to crops in inches and feet because this makes the calculations for water usage much easier. For additional context, almonds use about 4 acre-feet of water per year and over the last ten years have generally been able to gross from a low end of $5000 an acre to upwards of $15000 depending on yield and price. Considering costs remain essentially fixed regardless of gross in almonds, this water price would therefore range from ruinous to fairly inconsequential.
I think the question is how is this drawn on a canvas. It's not trivial, if I draw 6 shapes successively, one will be on top and another at the bottom, you would not see the tip of one at the top and the other part of the same blade at the bottom. Nicely spotted, interesting question!
> What makes you think that type annotations will be added to JS? I think it's far more likely that browsers and other runtimes will natively support TS as a separate language rather than JS evolving to become TS.

It has already been tried with Dart. Dart was made because JS lacked a type system, preventing further optimisations.
Support for Dart was added in Chrome.

Another popular JS transpiler is CoffeeScript, most of it's syntax is now in JavaScript.
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There's a possibility that this isn't the big deal people think it could be. It all depends on the day to day stability of Stream. Red Hat distros already have a testing repository channel for example. If stream updates are QAed through something like this the resulting platform may well be stable enough for many use cases. It would be no different to enabling the 7x/8x repo in the current releases.

In many respects I'd rather have a slow trickle of updates than the current flood of each point release. We've had lots of experience of dealing with all those changes landing at the same time breaking things.
Exactly.

As of today, you can also buy on gog.com and stream from Geforce Now. Gog releases DRM-free versions of games, so that's worth supporting.
Any nation is effectively an island if they close their borders.
I agree with you, but I don't see Occam's Razor applying here. There really is no more likely point of origin with just a cursory look at the situation. There's a bio testing lab at the point of origin, but there are also numerous examples of viruses jumping species.

Looking at the behavior of the virus and the arguments of some evolutionary geneticists (and I'm not well versed in genetics so I'm trusting their credentials here) changes things a bit of course.
Do you mean, how it was drawn using canvas?

I'm guessing they drew overlapped part of the last blade twice
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Examining the stolen equipment might yield insights into encryption used by the Russian military, perhaps even recoverable keys. This of course leads to all kinds of further information potentially becoming recoverable from prior intercepted communications. Or it will just be sold for scrap.
You can say the same thing about Sony devices. This is just ecosystem games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Steel
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/HMINEZ:KS

Steel making and mining, talk about vertical integration!
Very good idea to use a simple code that can be handwritten on the envelope.

I often print postage here in the UK and it's a pain. If I could just write address and stamp code on the envelope that would be really great.
It's truly amazing to me how someone can be this talented. The text, the animations, the style. It's all high quality.

I'm in awe.
Awesome article and blog, as an amateur photographer this is highly educational and fun to read!
Wow. I had no idea. On Amazon.jp, sold by Amazon.jp, Persona5 anime is broken into volumes, each with 2-3 episodes: Volume 1 is ¥5,958 and has 2 episodes, volume 2 is ¥6,695 with 3 episodes, etc. It's priced like you're buying a limited edition movie as 3 episodes might be roughly the same length. Browsing other ANIPLEX releases on Amazon.jp, it doesn't appear to be all that unique to Persona either. SAO Alicization appears to be similarly priced and released in small 2 episode volumes. It might be somewhat unique to ANIPLEX but I do see other anime sold this way. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season One) is only broken into two parts, ¥5,198 and ¥6,061 each on Amazon. This seems more reasonable. In Canada it retails for roughly CA$50 each part, though reviews complain that the boss fight isn't over until you watch part 2 of the season and reviewers say they prefer buying a box set with the full season rather than just one part...
Nominal returns. Unfortunately, none of us are average. You can gain 100% many times, but lose it only once.

It's going to be fun when the "just buy an index and you'll be fine" strategy falters (in this case a cap-weighted, large US company index that buys shares at any price).
The S&P500 isn't diverse like they talk about in finance textbooks. There are quite a few years in that article you linked where hedge funds beat the index (2001-2005, 2007, 2009, 2010). It's almost as if who beats whom is random...
Consideration doesn't have to be monetary, in the case of the Windows EULA Microsoft are receiving someone who may or may not go on to buy other Microsoft products, while the end-user is receiving a copy of Windows they can use for the period of the trial.
Yeah, I went off and had kids since Mars wasn't an option in my 20's. Now I want to be where they are.

Of course that leaves me free to become the oppressive Earth-based space industry tycoon who owns all those comet mining ships and belter stations :)
Looks like so, with a clever rotation, clipping, and drawing twice (had a cursory look at 'lenses.js', look for 'draw_blade')
Sure, but privately owned water and all the problems you describe existed long before these contracts came on the market and I don't see how futures contracts make them any worse.

In fact futures contracts could in theory even take away a little of the power they have since, in effect, they won't be able to raise water prices on you over night, but you can have a 3-6 month warning that a price rise is coming and can plan accordingly.
Key sentences for the urban myths about C being the first systems programming language.

> Earlier, Thompson had written Unix for the PDP-7 in assembler, but even in 1969 this was not an ideal way to write an operating system. It worked for the PDP-7 because that computer was fairly simple and because Thompson wrote the operating system primarily for his own amusement.

> Any operating system that would be maintained and updated by multiple programmers and would run on the more sophisticated hardware available at the time would need to be written in a high-level programming language.

> Thus, when Bell Labs purchased a PDP-11 for the department in 1971, Thompson decided it was time to rewrite Unix in a high-level programming language, as he told Brian Kernighan on stage at VCF 2019.
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2 years ago, I could order 4 entrees from a local Indian restaurant for $50 + $20 tip. The same restaurant is DoorDash only now and the same order is $70 with no tip.

I don't order delivery anymore, for $20 I'll pick it up myself.
I think you missed the elephant in the room.

China: 0.0003%

Ok, you may argue that the numbers may be fake, but is there any reason to believe that the ones for the countries you cited are any better? Anyways, even if the numbers are off, there is no denying that China is doing much better than others.

Side note: I think by SK you mean Sri Lanka (LK), not Solvenia. Slovenia has a global death rate of 0.02%. Relatively good for Europe, but not particularly remarkable.
It's also worth noting that in sys/queue.h double-linked containers have an elegant trick where 'prev' is not the traditional pointer to the previous element. Instead, 'prev' is a pointer to a pointer, it's an address of 'next' pointer in the previous element (or the head).

As a result, remove_element() is as simple as
*(e->prev) = e->next;
There is a large amount of FCPs open, and I think part of the reason is the large number of stabilizations that are targeted to become part of the 1.50 release. Things like:

* fold_first/reduce

* min_const_generics, arguably the biggest feature added (Edit: I just saw that the FCP hasn't started yet... this will be tight, maybe it'll only make it into 1.51)

* backtrace capturing and formatting as part of the standard library

* or_patterns might also make it into 1.50, we'll see

So I think it will be quite a big release!
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I foresee a fork. Nothing stops concerned party to create and maintain their own distro from RHEL source.
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And here were are in the midst of a plague and it hasn't helped! I was hoping we'd get UBI out of it!
If it was possible to open source the Flash player, Adobe would have done it back around 2009 when they stopped charging licensing fees for it.
I found a rare D-Link hub that supports it[1]. However it only supports it for a while. After a few port commands the hub crashes and only a hard "reboot" of the hub will fix it. In effect no.

[1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/usb-per-port-power-swi...
Flat earth conspiracies has not poisoned any well. When Mythbusters tested some of the theories we also gained as society a bit by showing the scientific process in the face of conspiracy theories.

A corner stone in science, which goes far back in history, is trust. In order to understand anything we have to put trust in established facts, in experts and common understanding. Part of building science is building trust, and censorship has a strong negative impact on trust. If we go back to the analogy of poisoning the well of knowledge, censorship destroys people trust in the water itself.

To take an example of why this new Youtube policy might be problematic, could we still have a video about the risk in Postal voting? In the UK election in 1990, it was estimated that 50% of postal voting arriving from Ireland was fraudulent. Trust in the voting system was at an all time low. As a response the voting system was changed and identification became a requirement in order to vote. Trust in the election system went massively up, and suspicion of fraud went down. A decade later the UK government removed some parts of the requirements, but for Ireland the requirement still remain today. Should an opinion that the US could learn from the UK past experience with postal votes and voter trust be censored, or would it poison the ability to discern fact from fiction?
The timing of relight probably means there is a zero-tolerance to a flame-out like this when going from two to one engine. A heavier ship might be able to run more at minimum throttle so if one flames out there might(?) still time to throttle up one of survivors that is already lit, from three near mimimum to two near maximum or some combination. These things are moving literally tonnnes of fuel per second so even throttle-up inertia might lag too much unless they can predict failure really early.

One engine didn't have the grunt required(?) but SN8 might have been doomed due to fuel supplying both lit engines. Ho hum.

This was as much a test of the Raptor engines as it was the bellyflop and landing manoeuvre, perhaps more so. They've got data from literally hundreds of Merlin engines regarding failure modes etc. A long way to go with Raptor and many more explosions to be livestreamed!
Is it better than gnash and lightspark?
I am challenging that assumption that markets are so easily monopolized.

Markets are more robust than you give them credit for.

One argument is that rather often governments themselves are trying to monopolize markets with all their regulatory might, but grey and black markets usually spring up rather quickly.

Trying to monopolize a market as a private participant (even a big one) without the government on your side is even harder.

I do agree that monopolies are an important consideration when designing regulation. But mostly in the sense that your regulation has to be careful to avoid supporting monopolies. Especially barriers to entry are often overlooked.

For example, regardless of content, complexity of regulation itself can be a barrier to entry. Compliance takes a lot of lawyers and accountants. (Eg most agricultural subsidies around the world go to really big farms. And financial regulation's complexity essentially forces banks to become big.)

If regulators were really interested in combatting monopolies, there are a few straightforward strategies to try first:

* Encourage foreign competitors to enter domestic markets

* Encourage companies from different industries to branch out (eg Walmart tried to offer banking services a while ago. Lobbying by banks kept that competition at bay.)

* Encourage start-ups. (This is much harder for governments than the first two points. One way to encourage start-ups is via simplifying regulations. But there are lots of other popular ways that don't work well.
See eg all the government funding available for tech startups in Europe that sadly doesn't seem to produce much by and large; but it feels good to hand out money.)
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Why would the other participants continue dealing with you?
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FYI there are digital sensors which aren't using bayer filters. Some are classic sensors missing the bayer filter (leica monochrome for example) other are based on different tech like Foveon sensors [0]

Many people also debayer their cameras themselves, especially in astro photography [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor

[1] https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/166334-debayering-a-dslrs...
This was my introduction for the FOSDEM IOT devroom:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/iotwelcome/

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/986006653605687296

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZ4KMM94yI
I agree that tree crop farmers can really benefit from access to this type of product. I am a little concerned that this will only encourage even riskier nut development when the aquifers are already stressed as much as they are. I am still hopeful that California will consider something similar to cap-and-trade for water rights, but for now I guess we just have to wait and see what all those little SGMA districts come up with instead.
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There isn’t a good flash alternative either, but that’s gone too.
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My company got burned badly by this move but to play a little devil's advocate: there's no such thing as free lunch as it turns out sooner or later. Free/Open source != free as in beer. You either pay it in financial support or sharing of development and maintenance of such projects. Sooner or later.
> Population management is a bigger part of the solution than pipes and dams.

"Population management" is a road leading straight to ethical catastrophes, to murder and other horrible forms of suffering. There have been many of these - genocides, "Lebensraum im Osten" aka Nazi Germany invading Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, China's "1 child policy".

The best way a society can handle population management is fact-based sex education and safe, cheap access to contraceptives and medical abortion, and general access to healthcare and a social security network so that people don't have to have half a dozen children if they want one or two to survive to adulthood and care for them at old age.
This is a good point. It got me wondering how effective it would be to try and get rid of those biases in the first place, e.g. by eliminating certain TV shows, or fixing Instagram culture, and why this idea doesn't seem to get much traction.
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> It's easier to refer to modular systems using the one guaranteed common element, in this case, the kernel.

but, it's not. you can use e.g. debian/kFreeBSD or debian/hurd and the actual day-to-day user experience is pretty much exactly the same
And often the "native" build is using the developer (or porter) closed source buggy wine-like compatibility layer (sometime seven using Windows PE binaries directly). Wine is usually superior especially in the long term.

Some native ports are high quality though, like everything Croateam does and a some of Feral ports.

At the end of the day the only thing that it is important is support. Community supported wine/proton is vastly better than an unsupported "native" version.
Alpha Draco was testing body lift in the fifties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Draco

Robert Brulle has a fascinating memoir https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_...
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if you use WSL1 you have all of GNU and zero Linux for instance
I really hope they call it `fold_first`. If they call it `reduce` I will forever be thinking "which one takes the initial arg again?"
"Independent", Satire right?!
Haven't you heard of PRISM? or 'patriot act'?

The biggest concerned, i believe, most people have with censorship is that "they censor and at the same time claim to be a 'platform' not 'publishers'".

It would be 'ok', if they say who they 'are', not pretend to be open and at the same time silence voices who they disagree with by pretending to 'fact check'. 'Fact check' what? Peoples conversations? For what reason? Then it should, at least, be voluntary. You see the concern people have, right?!
I have a question for the more knowledgeable:

Color filters on the sensor split the light into three wavelength ranges - red, green, blue. Then photosites measure intensity of light, which means that sensor only knows that the incoming photon is "roughly green", but doesn't actually recognize its precise wavelength.

So e.g. when the light is pure orange, it falls down into red wavelength range and is counted as red.

Based on this I would expect that cameras would often produce pretty incorrect colors, but they are usually pretty good (after correcting for stuff like white balance).
Disclaimer: I have zero professional crypto experience.

That said, my hypothetical crypto curriculum looks like this:

1. Cryptopals challenges as a guide to what to learn and pay attention to (which I suspect tptacek would probably recommend as well since he had a hand in making it :P)

2. Serious Cryptography as an introduction to core concepts

3. Applied Cryptography for encyclopedic reference
Well, did it ever close?

I live in Germany and there are a few bars here that are open around the clock. Many of them hat to close for the first time in years because of the Corona lockdown.

There's an anecdote about the "Elbschlosskeller" in Hamburg: they didn't have a key for the front door at all, so they had to install a new lock to be able to lock up. Before that, the pub was open continuously for about 70 years
Most capital is invested in businesses, it's not piles of money in banks, but it's embodied in factories, jobs, products, research efforts. The vast majority fo the wealth of billionaires is tied up in the businesses they control, and that's fine. That money is doing useful work. We don't want to take it away from people who have proven they are effective leaders and managers and hand it over to bureaucrats. Let the people who built the businesses and created the wealth manage it. Tax them yes, that's fine, but at a proportionate level.

The feedback loop in Capitalism is to direct capital towards people who discover more efficient way to provide goods and services, or provide better goods and services, to help them scale up, or give people with a proven track record more resources to devote to new enterprises. This is exactly what we want.

There are three main issues with this picture.

The first is rent seeking behaviour, where simply having capital enables growing more capital without productive activity. This is what we need to tax punitively. Capital that is not being used productively is dead weight on the economy.

Secondly, monopolistic behaviour is closely related to rent seeking, it's using market power to extract rents or exert unfair influence.

Finally inheritance is a problem because it's un-earned wealth. There's no reason to expect that those inheriting wealth are likely to manage it effectively. Inheritance taxes should be high, without being overly punitive after all one of the main incentives to work hard and accumulate wealth is to provide for the next generation. You want to allow successful business owners and investors to benefit their families without facilitating excess waste of resources.