skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It will be good to know what that will be like from a client side perspective, speed, streaming etc.

Being born and raised in California and, and having been there until my mid 20s with occasional year long long projects and several trips back to see family I can tell you the winter snowfall are definitely lower.

This years crazy January freak me the hell out after having lived in Colorado where it's typical to have a slight snow fall at night into the morning and then have it all melt with near 70F by the afternoon.

We all knew that CA is susceptible to an incredibly precarious situation in regards to water and we were bombarded with a need for conservation since I was a kid in the 90s.

What never happened, however, was meaningful infrastructure investment and reform to accommodate for the rainy years that could be so heavy as to wipe out the roads to Big Sur, or make those celebrities mansions in Malibu fall into the Pacific.

And this is the problem, much like the homeless issue, money can be taxed for the purpose but so many either delay or skim so much that what is left is never going to be enough to actually solve the problem in any meanigful way.

When I was doing a project at the Clim Co-Lab for MIT, I also hung out at Caltech meetups and the topic of water reclamation was all the rage--the goal is to capture the water run off and replenish the aquifers in record rainy years for later usage.

Many spoke passionately about climate change's impact on the way of life in California, specifically in SoCal where we're from. But then politicians got their way with the budgets and it was this kind of non-sense [0] we ended up with to protect the LA reservoir that is a critical part of it's ability to meet the water needs of greater LA (where Caltech is in Pasadena).

I've seen this all my life, and it's why I decided to just no live in CA for any prolonged period; which pains me a multi-generational Californian with deep roots there. But whether it's this, their reaction to the shutdowns, homelessness, crime, poverty, nuclear waste storage etc... it's always the same result.

Sheer incompetence is tolerated far too much at the leadership level, and this is the crux of the problem. California has the resources to solve this critical issue, despite it's frontier-centric water right's issue, but it seems almost intent on gaming this like they did with Enron until it all blows up in their face, again.

Also, Colorado has decided to turn off the tap to the Colorado river due to the massive population growth in the last decade or so as they have had severe water wars due to periodic drought years.

I honestly hope renewable based desalination solves this, but I fear their will be like 20 years of deliberations and red-tape to wade through before anything gets done. Despite Carlsbad having a working plant [1] and model to follow for over a decade now--I was still in CA when it opened as I worked in the area.

0: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150812-sh...

1: https://www.poseidonwater.com/carlsbad-desal-plant.html
I'm a vegan and I try to be respectful to non-vegans and their choices but moral decisions implicitly contain moral judgements. If I think eating animals is wrong and you eat animals there is no way around me thinking that you are doing something wrong. I don't need to harangue you about it, which in any case is not at all effective as a method of persuasion, but usually I don't need to for people not to like it. I expect most of the anger towards vegans is because of that implicit (and to be fair in the case of some vegans explicit) moral judgement.
Actually, there are top of the line athletes with a vegan diet. It's not very popular, but that is probably because being vegan is not popular.
The B12 source argument has recently been solved as well. Most animals source their B12 from micro-organisms in the soil. If humans stop washing their food excessively, this would fix the B12 intake problem.
I'm not really a racket user (more of an admirer) but every time I see an online book created in Pollen it looks amazing.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
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> which I don't think is possible in the current, industrialized world

This is a concern I share.

> there are still humans who are caring for the animals, there are humans who are killing and dissecting them, and they too are affected by the inhumane process, and I think our empathy should extend to them too.

As far as I know, farmers don't suffer any kind of psychological damage from caring for and slaughtering animals, and haven't throughout human history. Again, factory farm workers are a different problem.
I don't think it's only that - there are plenty of ads for medications with no generics. I think it's also because doctors may usually prefer one treatment for an issue, but if you mention another treatment you found (either via ads or your own research) they might be willing to prescribe that instead. Hence the common ad copy "ask your doctor if _____ is right for you."
For every "Big Tech figured out my diagnosis before I did" there are a thousand instances of "You just bought a fridge--I bet you love buying fridges, here, let me show you some".
This is super interesting. I've recently also been working on a similar concept: we have a reasonable amount (in the terabytes) of data, that's fairly static, that I need to search fairly infrequently (but sometimes in bulk). A solution we came up with was a small , hot, in memory index, that points to the location of the data in a file on S3. Random access of a file on S3 is pretty fast, and running in an EC2 instance means latency is almost nil to S3. Cheap, fast and effective.

We're using some custom Python code to build a Marisa Trie as our index. I was wondering if there were alternatives to this set up?
Because a huge part of the tech community lives in a kind of "outrage mania" at this point and is just looking for the next shitstorm to post in.

This Github thread has literal calls for violence, racism and other such things in it and people keep piling on more. Tomorrow we'll have a different thread.
"Insulin is at least twice the price"

That is the government's fault. What's the reason you can't import extremely cheap insulin from overseas? The government has endowed a local monopoly.
C still has it around with the same meaning.
I think the displeasure you feel should be directed towards website developers. As far as I know the "no surveillance" option is there: the person who wrote the website can choose whether to inject a tracking program to the code or not.

People are misdirecting their hatred towards ad-tracking towards ad developers when in reality the people who decide to use ad trackers in their websites should be asked questions.

I understand some giant sites will always come with "we will track you" (Facebook is the easiest example) but even those Facebook spy buttons appear on websites because the developer of the site agreed to it and embedded it there.
I'll buy it for 69 million schrute bucks.
The technology to prevent wildfires is ... to remove the 90% of the trees. The state needs to liquidate 90% of its forests ASAP

(Rolling eyes).

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. This tunnel vision is defeatening. Enough is enough.

This is like claiming that the solution to remove computer bugs is to smash the computer against the floor. See?. No bugs survived.

And now the myth of the good savage.

I don't think that what (maybe) worked for a population of, lets say, 20.000 Ohlone Indians with bronze age tools will be scalable to solve the problems of the entire LA population. Do you think that we have the same complexity of problems, same longevity, or that we use the land in the same way that indians did?

We have better tools now. Ecology, science, knowledge based in facts, satellites without turtles added, scientific police. Maybe we just could try to use it instead?
It hurts. It most certainly hurts. Everyone will evolve into the most perfect beggar. Yes, it will possibly be a slow devolution than what happened at YouTube, but it will happen.

Twitter is bad enough without easy money involved. People call it public commenting, but it's not. Not if you can block some one or limit why sees your tweets. Just another curated self to expose to the world, and the money, as I said, will only make not worse.
It's a soap opera played out as though it's real life and on social media, and soap operas have been popular since the 1930s.

IMHO the reality and social media aspects of it get all the attention and people focus on those and think it's something entirely new and unprecedented, but really they're just force multipliers. Soap + reality and social media. That's it. The things that actual make it engaging are exactly the same as those in any soap, but even soaps are powerful enough that they can bend some people's reality.

I once saw an interview with the star of a popular soap here in the UK. He played a despicable character that manipulated and betrayed the people about him, especially women. He said that at a certain point when his character was particularly nefarious he had to avoid going out in public. Quite frequently he would be walking down the street and a woman (it was always a woman) would start screaming and shouting at him, telling him how horrible he was, and he should be ashamed of himself. Some of them even threw things at him. An actor in a TV show, it wasn't even a reality show, this was long before they even started. (Dirty Den in East Enders).

A lot of people consuming this stuff, even the explicitly fictional dramas, have a lot of problems distinguishing between reality and fantasy. They will sometimes even acknowledge they know it's just a show, while also directing abuse at the actors. Deliberately blur the boundary between fiction and real life, as reality shows do, and the brew becomes even more viscerally engaging.

Given this, things like qAnon become a lot more understandable. There are a _lot_ of people who are just out and out fantasists. If there are enough to make actors hide at home, that means there are some on almost every street in every city or town in the world all the time.

Edit:
https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a27088763/soap-v...
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I honestly believe that the best strategy to take at the moment is to teach people recepies for good and tasty vegetarian food.

I am not vegetarian but my absolutely favourite dish is Blueberry dumplings with sour cream.

I don't care if its vegetarian or not its simply good food.

Its much easier for people to make the 'ethical' choices when they are given good alternatives.

The whole thing with meat eaters are evil killers is counter productive signal virtue pandering to your own tribe.

Instead of picketing and protesting infront McD, create vegetarian cooking classes.
I wonder how can we make assumptions about the bird songs while not taking into account how birds perceive the sound.

For humans it's easier, there were a plenty of studies done in that regards and there is even a separate science field for studying the human sound perception - Psychoacoustics. Humans perceive sound in bands (a band is a range of frequencies), not separate frequencies. And the size of bands vary per frequency so that in the voice range it's more narrow than, for example, high frequencies. The FFT fits very nicely into that picture and codecs were designed considering the human perception.

As for animals, I don't know any studies in that regards. I would assume that the way of perception should be very similar to the one human has, at least on the mechanics level. As for the sensitivity and the size of bands as well as dynamic range - it's hard to say. I'd love to see some studies that dig into details there but it seems that it's very hard to do them. Animals don't give you a direct feedback.
I definitely believe they're correlated, but are there any studies demonstrating a causal relationship?
It's called masochism
This is quite a succinct explanation floatingatoll, thanks for expanding.
I did try it. It was revolting. Never again.

Vat-grown meat may have a future, but fake meat does not.
So explain the drive to eliminate test based admissions at heavily Asian NYC and VA public high schools
I have indeed seen horrible things done with overloading andnto a much lesser extent copy consteuctors. But don't forget inheritance or partial template specialization. There are so very many ways to make subtle problems. In C you basically have evil macros and bad casts, which are bad enough.

Are there any languages since C you think have gotten it right?
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But isn't legal name official name?

I mean, I can claim my name is whatever I like, but when the police pull me or a bank clerk ask me for an ID to identify myself before withdrawing the money, what stays there would be something different.

I am surprised that in the USA one is even allowed to present himself in the official context by the "non official" name. Is changing a legal name there so complex? Yes, it's a lot of work to change all documents, but does it really take five years?
Raspberry Pi Pico sizecoding competition
Where is a podcast? I find only text... Is it just transcription of podcasy like https://audext.com/?
As long as there are 2+ people involved, it doesn't seem possible to stay away from some kind of politics.

How you deal with problems depends on how bad it is. If it's really bad, you'll probably have no choice but leave. With the caveat that there is no ideal place out there, you can always try starting your own.

Otherwise, the best strategy I think is to let your skills speak for themselves, get things done and be so good (or good enough) that they can't ignore you. They don't have to you like you but they should respect you for getting things done and being invaluable.

And then there is always the option of talking to your manager or HR if the problem is serious enough. HR isn't necessarily your friend but it's in their best interest to keep good people to protect the company so they should be able to help in case of serious faul play.
> Iraq, in other words, is doing well. Some will argue that this justifies America’s invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein (which we supported). It does not. Too much blood was shed along the way in Iraq and elsewhere.

That's not an apology, that's disclosure. If they didn't add that you would get a stream of people saying "which you supported" everytime they talk about the war.
I dislike it because chromium is almost a monoculture and Google controls it. I’m not diametrically opposed to chromium based browsers but I might be more hesitant to switch.
This is interesting. I would have said the opposite.

My opinion was that the Guardian is only worthwhile because it occasionally does some very good journalism, and that just about outweighs the pointless bullshit.

I don't really have anything to back that up though, just a general impression from reading it. So it's interesting to hear some evidence to the contrary. I have no idea if the Pulitzer is actually a good measure though.

A point of comparison: look at the Economist, which does basically no investigative journalism, but does produce fairly sensible opinion pieces (of course from a particular viewpoint, often a bit limited in their vision).
Mass vaccination should be the top priority
Cellphone industry? No. The smartphone industry? Definitely. There are two major OSs for phones. One by a hardware-software company and the second from an adtech company. Guess which one is the cheap/free OS and which one is the more premium product of the two. :)

Android destroyed its competition by having excellent support for Google's "free" software and because of their huge ad income they can pay to develop it further.

So yeah I believe the modern phone industry has to thank the freemium adtech world for pushing Android into the world.
I don't think you can entirely blame unethical, predatory behaviour on the government that enables it.
every one of the fake meat products upsets my stomach. I think TVP is the culprit. If I ever decide to forgo meat, I would just skip the fake meat products entirely
Would be good to have a function which outputs all stdout from a sub command in real time, rather than after it's finished.

I generally use "spawn" from child_process instead of "exec" (which this tool uses), which can pipe output to the terminal as it happens. Great for creating build scripts.
I use Vivaldi, but on most browsers there is an "Accept Cookies" setting that is tri-state: All, Session Only and Never (third-party cookies is a parallel setting). You can change it to "Never" then set up site-specific exceptions for the sites you do want to allow cookies on, e.g. Hacker News.
>there are plenty of debates and discussions that don't need every single one of the billions of people on this planet as potential participants.

But WHO decides that? It is just like here on Hacker News, you cannot down vote until you have 500 upvotes? I may have a new novel idea or frame of reference that could benefit the world but I get downvoted on everything I say it never gets out.

So who decides? The one's in control of the platform. And that is horrible. Look at the trouble the woman who invented the mRNA vaccine went through!
Still possible the Iraq war could turn out to have been the right course of action. Probably not, but unclear at this point.
Patients and doctors need to know about a medicine to prescribe it. In order to increase brand awareness, drug companies can either advertise to or incentivize (free trips to conferences, consulting gigs) doctors to prescribe a drug or get patients to directly ask their doctor for a drug.
I don't have an argument I find perfectly convincing myself for this either. I can mention that the ultimate value of life is propagation and survival, so most likely this is the consideration that gives me this feeling, but I explicitly called this a feeling and haven't claimed it is a clear rational argument.

As for wild populations, I'm not sure, but my understanding is that most cows have been bred to produce more milk than their calves eat, and that their udders become painful if not milked; and that sheep's hair tends to similarly grow much more than in wild breeds, leading to major problems if they are not sheared by humans. I may be wrong, and even if I'm not they may still live long enough to breed and perhaps reverse these artificial adaptations in a few generations.
> that I need to search fairly infrequently (but sometimes in bulk).

What do you mean by search ? Full-text-search ? Do you need to run custom code on the original data ?

> A solution we came up with was a small , hot, in memory index, that points to the location of the data in a file on S3.

Yes, it's like keeping the block-index of a sstable (in rocksdb) in-memory. The next step is to have a local cache on the ec2 node. And the next step one is to have a "distributed" cache on your ec2 nodes, so you don't query S3 for a chunk if it's present in any of your other nodes.

Come to think of it, I searched and didn't find a "distributed disk cache with optional replication" that can be used in front of S3 or whatever dataset. You can use nginx/varnish as a reverse-proxy but it doesn't have "distributed". There is Alluxio, but it's single-master.
Of course I'm sceptical - but given other accounts of the times that I have read I haven't seen anything in his account that seems fundamentally wrong.
Oh, OK, I didn't see it and I went straight to "GUess the problem" or whatever it was called.
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I remember there also being an fluxbox/blackbox DE for Windows with this name.
Money will always change people's behavior. And I have never seen a time it changed it for the better, unless they were giving it away.
an IT dept is not going to do all this manually on hundreds of laptops.
As is the past form "shat" in English, for that matter.
Very interesting! For some reason I find search engines fascinating...

How dependent is this on AWS? Can it be ported to another cloud provider?
I don't think this category is entirely new. Drama and gossip always was a prominent topic among people, even before global media was a think. But what shifted over time was the quality of content that was allowed to surface in media. In the 80s and 90s cheap trash-content became a think, to feed the growing demand for content, and to lower the costs of production, but also because people learned more about the culture of modern media. And with this movement, many types of content which were former just local stuff that people did privatly, became professionalised for TV and pushed to the whole world. So it really was just a matter of time till even parasocialicer made their appearence.

And with parasocialicer I mean the type of people who's main effect is to be someone who'se existence people can enjoy, without delivering anything actually skillfull outside of social interaction. Similar to cat- or dog-content.
Where do you get your b12 then? It’s excreted by bacteria and cleaned off in processing. Then, in most functional foods, put back in place as cyanocobalamin. But that produces cyanide when your liver processes it.

So again, where do you get your b12? Is it cyanocobalamin?
Masochists like being hurt, and sadists enjoy hurting others which means doing so is in their interest.
Infantilizing babies helps them learn language (2020)
This is not honesty, it's just being delusional. They're not capable of assessing their own blind spots. It's like the guy who shot Lennon writing a memoir in which he reflects sadly that he made a mistake, that he really should have shot Ringo instead, and people applauding his honesty. It's not useful to hear assessments from delusional people about their delusions.
I didn't say it was the problem causing the obesity epidemic. Donuts being worse for you doesn't make eating fatty red meat so often healthy.

Also, while super sweet fruit can be problematic, it's far from one of the biggest problems. No one is getting diabetes from eating too many bananas.
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Other than in your comment where it's apparently a fabricated quote, I don't see anyone saying that no investigation is necessary.

My assertion is that where it started is unlikely to yield real solutions because I don't think that's what caused it to turn into a giant and ongoing global crisis. I would like more focus on solutions and I don't think finding someone to pin the blame on is likely to move that needle at all.

My life experience suggests that finding a scapegoat tends to do the opposite: After someone's head is on a pike and calls for "justice" have been thereby nominally satisfied, the problem will rage on. Meanwhile, people may make less effort to solve it because they got some sense of satisfaction out of watching heads roll and justice get loudly declared.

Putting heads on a pike won't stop the spread of the virus. It's what many people want because millions have died.

It's not what I want and it has nothing to do with politics. I want people to live and be healthy and I simply don't think this is how that is most likely to be achieved.
Like "Rebelius" - a diabetes treatment for all the rebels out there.
Russian Spy Team Left Traces That Bolstered CIA’s Bounty Judgment
The accelerometer patterns and activity duration are very different for basketball vs sex.
just your obligatory comment about the uselessness of this and the environmental impact of PoW crypto passing by...
I often use https://audext.com/ for work or study. I think the same application can be used to transcribe audio notes. Thus, you can even write a book