skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am kind of confused by those graphs: how did M1 rise so much but M2 stay approximately the same over the last year? M2 rose by 3T, and M1 rose by 13T(!).
I see. Can you shed more light on lawsuit between AWS & Elastic? I thought from a legal angle - AWS is completely fine to lift Elastic code and offer it as a service. What's the ground for a lawsuit here?
It's both. Yes a lot of fruits, veggies and nuts are grown in California but the nation's staple crops (corn, wheat, and soy) and livestock are grown in many other states.

That is to say, we should be building desalination plants in California. Israel figured out a way to do this economically already. It's high time for CA to follow suit.
I'm assuming the magic is this bit?

https://us-west-2-lambda.kylebarron.dev/usgs-topo/11/335/790...

Which figures out how to return a JPG of that specific 11/335/790 tile.

What's Dynamo DB being used for here?
> Compared to the abnormally wet 1900s-era patterns

This assertion seems to compare historical rainfall averages across the entire nation against just the SW region.

ref: https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate...
The AMO page also links to gitlab

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
> What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here

Same!
Also, there are actual HBD blogs and communities and they're frankly pretty uninterested in the african-american vs european-american thing and far more interested in the movements and traits of all sorts of obscure people groups I've never heard of. While also being interested in things your typical white supremicist wouldn't think about like differences between Scottish and South-Western English peoples.
I don't think that's particularly what's going on. I think it's more just that Julia has a relatively small but incredibly zealous group of users.

If Julia solves your personal version of the two language problem, and especially if dispatch-oriented programming happens to be a good fit for the problems you solve and the way you like to program, you're probably going to think it's the best thing since sliced bread. If not, on the other hand, you may not think it's anything particularly special.
I see your point. On the other hand, wouldn't these companies (Fluent, Opt-Intelligence and React2Media) that fabricated comments on a federal filing from real people, using their addresses, be guilty of identity theft?

Using someone else's identity to influence federal law seems like it would be a crime, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how that would hold up in court.
I worked on the Mindstorms EV3 editor. It was an interesting experience where the technology chosen was silverlight and silverlight was summarily EOL'd 2 years into the project. I still have the old kits and can't wait to break them out with my youngest. But I'm certain I'll be using the communities efforts to deploy code to them, and not silverlight :)
The code is here: https://github.com/evolus/pencil
It is based on Electron. The last commit was 1.5 years ago.
Dude are you intentionally trying to be obtuse. The British data watchdog noticed that a Canadian company, AggregateIQ, was mistreating data relating to the Brexit campaign. It then talked to the Canadian data watchdog, which pursued a privacy inquiry against said company because of its mistreatment of British user data. This is one of the first examples of the sort of extrajudicial enforcement of GDPR that OP wanted to know about, Jesus.
I love this parable because it illustrates the implicit selfishness contained within the implicit anti-capitalism. The fisherman is content with his lot in life, and struggles little - but only he and his family are comfortable. The American, with his outrageous, complex plan is painted as a ridiculous figure; yet, his plan, if successful, would create countless opportunities for those who might otherwise struggle unreasonably to achieve the same level of comfort. It is self-sacrifice. Yet this mentality is painted as absurd, ridiculous, maybe even impossible.
I feel like you're not fully thinking this through-

1. Let's say it's not a superficial "virtue-signalling" change which means it cannot be just widening their selection field as you suggested because that alone IS a superficial change unless...
2. They've decided that the they're going to change standards to make it easier for disabled individuals to gain entry which addresses the actual argument that candidates will be of lower quality and possibly cause worse results.
3. Your argument cannot logically hold water because you're presenting two cognitively dissonant ideas. For it not to be virtue signaling they would need to do more than just say they're opening up the program for disabled people. However, if they do that then #2 comes back into play and you've still lost part of the argument where you suggest it won't produce lower quality results.

The only way your idea holds water is if the disabled individuals are able to pass the current standards, which doesn't really make sense or they most likely wouldn't have those standards against certain disabled individuals to begin with.

>Where is this needless cynicism coming from?

This isn't cynicism it's just a logical thought pattern, stop injecting unnecessary emotions into it. No one wants a lower quality space program just so we can make some people feel better.
makes gambling on twitter much easier
I sort of see where you're going with this, but a large part of the equation missing (at least in your outline; not to suggest you're ignorant of it) is 1) startup capital (they were already wealthy) and 2) a powerful and influential network. Their skill was leveraging these things, of course, so I'm not saying their success was inevitable, but even having those opportunities in place for Kris, Kim etc. to build on puts them far ahead of most people trying to enter the market. Maybe before trying to figure out how to appeal to the mass-market like a Kardashian, try figuring out how to appeal to a small but dynastically wealthy and famous market like a Kardashian ;)
Agreed, my concern is about the trajectory of the product offerings more broadly. Embrace-extend-rent seems a common theme. I hope the case of Mighty has better intentions. Perhaps I am too cynical.

I wonder if the pitch deck had the same value proposition we are getting or if it said "lets own consumer virtual desktop starting with Chrome". Both are valid.

Feels like a bait and switch.
Just because there is a Dr shortage in the US due to having a limited number of medical schools, there are still thousands of students who get their degree and can't find a residency:

>.... The matching challenge comes as the U.S. faces a physician shortage. The nation could be short as many as 139,000 physicians by 2033, according to the Times, which cites Association of American Medical Colleges data. Despite this shortage, thousands of medical school graduates are consistently rejected from residency experience, rendering their MD or DO "virtually useless," according to the report.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-rel...
Agree that robots make the most sense for space. But the robot route seems to lack the ability to push people to fund science. I’d be happier with the robot route if it compelled people the same way as sending people does. People are seemingly going to give a person being there a lot more attention than robots.

Or we need to retool and try to get robots to mine the asteroids for us-cus money.
Seems like a lot of taps to send a tip.

I was expecting an experience closer to Tippin.me [1] where there's a click to tip, and another to confirm. Tippin.me, happens to be built on Bitcoin's Lightning Network so maybe Twitter will leverage Square's (also run by Jack Dorsey who's keen on Bitcoin) CashApp to do something similar in the future.

I could see the tip jar functionality go in the direction where a user deposits some amount of BTC to Twitter (opens up a LN channel with Twitter in the backend) and then a tap or click on the tip button results in a preset 100 sats tip.

[1] https://tippin.me
It is a very lazy and ultimately harmful way to introduce the concept of bias. There isn't really a perfectly pithy way to cover such a complex topic, but much better than winners writing history is writers writing history. This is more useful than it initially seems because until fairly recently the literate were a minority, and those with enough literary training to actually write historical narratives formed an even smaller and more distinct class within that. To give a few examples, Genghis Khan must surely go down as one of the great victors in all history, but he is generally viewed quite unfavorably in practically all sources, because his conquests tended to harm the literary classes. Or the senatorial elite can be argued to have "lost" the struggle at the end of the Republic that eventually produced Augustus, but the Roman literary classes were fairly ensconced within (or at least sympathetic towards) that order, and thus we often see the fall of the Republic presented negatively.

Of course, writers are a diverse set, and so this is far from a magical solution to solving the problems of bias. The painful truth is, each source simply needs to be evaluated on its own merits.
I didn’t say it was all futile and hopeless. I have a lot of hope, but maybe in a different direction than you do. And my opinions on these issues have developed significantly even in the last year. I’m always open to new understanding.

But the US has been at war my entire adult life, and it has a very long history of brutality abroad. I’m pragmatic about what changing that will require.
Most modern distros are 'kitchen sink' distros in that they cater for the majority of cases. And in doing that, they work very well.

However, they don't cater for every situation, every computer that exists. So somebody will be needed to cater for those few cases that aren't covered by mainstream distros.

Now, that somebody has to have good knowledge of Linux and be able to recompile/rewrite whatever is needed for that idiosyncratic distro that works for that particular edge case.

If a few people insist on using an uncommon computer, they have to take on the responsibility of keeping mainstream Gnu Linux working on those particular computers. Or else be satisfied with the older versions of Gnu Linux that were working previously on those computers.

ASIDE: I like making emulators of old 8-bit computers. But I don't try to make those old computers use modern software, they use the CP/M software that was extant at the time those 8-bit computers were made.
Line breaks only shorten lines, they do not change the reading direction. Yes, you can start at the bottom and read upwards, but that's unnatural for most.

Compare:

something.first().second().third()

With:

(third
(second
(first
(something))))

The end from read must you to understand, and it gets more complicated as your code does. No wonder Clojure's threading macro is so popular, as it would allow you to write it as:

(-> something first second third)

Fun fact: Lisp was never supposed to be written with S-expressions. They were intermediate representation, for bootstrapping. McCarthy designed M-expression, with function notation, inflix, and sugar'd cond and list; but all that was omitted due to lack of time, and we were left with S-exps.
Have you seen this desal operation in Australia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms#/media/File:1604...

It's a farm in the middle of the desert that gets all its water from desalinated sea water powered entirely by an array of mirrors.
My strange, multi-decade quest for rural broadband
Changed from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/06/business/stock-marke.... Thanks!
Berkshire Hathaway just hit $429,496.7295
I'm sorry you lost your father, cancer is a terrible disease. I lost my mom to cancer.

The vast majority of victims are of sound mind and body, they aren't legless. If your legs are crushed by a drunk, you have my sympathy. If you were playing on the freeway at the time, my sympathies would be a bit muted.

> Got COVID?

Personally, I did everything I could to reduce my risk, and am now vaccinated. 2/3 of Americans are not vaccinated, yet one can now just walk in and get vaccinated. I'm respectful and sympathetic to the health workers and essential workers who put their lives at risk.

But today, when vaccines (in the US) are trivially available, I'm not so sympathetic to those who do not get one, and then get Covid.

I had a conversation with one person who said she wasn't getting the vaccine because God would look out for her. I replied that God looked out for her by making the vaccine available.

The overwhelming majority of people in America are of sound mind and body.
If you look at the current trends, it seems that people are realizing the problems of typeless. Look at the effort to retrofit types onto Python.

I think strong typing with type inference hits the sweet spot of providing the safety of types, while also cutting down on boilerplate.
Stubborn. Interesting choice of adjectives here.
You are right that realizing that the wavefunction lives in configuration space is a big leap that is hard for people, but there is another leap which is more difficult IMO. It is that quantum probability amplitudes are not like classical probabilities: they have phases and can interfere with each other in ways that classical probabilities do not. This explains the weird interference patterns in the cool animation in the article. In my experience, understanding the idea of a distribution over configuration space isn't so hard. But getting an intuitive grasp of the behavior of probability amplitudes that can interfere with each other is hard.
My boss would never allow me to optimize anything, the only thing that matters to him is write the fastest you can and just make it work and make the client suffer until the client crys and threat to leave the service
Cambridge is a nonsense story that people who know fb ads at all laugh at. It didn't impact the election or any election in any way.
Which do you think is more likely?

a. A $300 billion dollar industry is based entirely on a delusion.

b. You are an outlier.
We already are [1]. Obviously we need more, though. I'd much rather have a sizable desalination plant for LA County than most of the boondoggle projects that get funded by propositions.

[1] https://www.sdcwa.org/your-water/local-water-supplies/seawat...
I had an english prof who'd take a mark off if you ever handed in anything containing "utilized". Now I see it every where.
What impact do you think complete liquefaction will have on people and buildings?
I view it more as "sound = correct, unsound = incorrect" (where unsound code is code that breaks Rust's rules and/or allows LLVM to generate malfunctioning code). The design goal of the language is that all code without unsafe is sound, and unsafe code

I also feel "moralistic" about soundness, and I do see that in the community. You could argue that such moral thinking is misguided, IDK.

And there are cases where people deliberately use UB to improve performance, like https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/bit-wise-reasoning-for-ato... and https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/unordered-as-a-solution-to.... I'm not sure how the core team, or community, views such situations.

Additionally, async fn desugarings and Tokio's intrusive linked lists (self-referential objects that can create &mut references) are unsound under Stacked Borrows (Rust's currently popular "formal memory model" for deciding what code/optimizations are sound), though I've heard promises that Stacked Borrows will be adjusted to declare these as sound.
Is there a way to link to the Tip Jar, or do you have to direct people to your profile? When I've seen people offer tip jars, it's at the end of a long thread and takes people to a payment service. I wonder how "Tip Jar is on my profile" would perform against a link in a tweet.
Well, I'm guzzling Nano like cranberry juice. Here we have a currency written in C++ that inspired another group of developers to port it to Rust. That's got to be worth something. Also one of just two currencies that use BLAKE. The other is Siacoin — which I'm also monitoring, but from my experiences in the community, I feel Nano is going to massively prevail.
Exactly. I don't want to feel like I'm acting amorally when I want to water my garden. If I go over my allotment of naturally provided water, then I should start paying desalination rates, but I should not feel bad because I'm not "saving enough" compared to my neighbors.
> I took it as a given that we could agree that there was an explicit system of racial hierarchy in the United States.

When you think it's explicit instead of implicit you are in a minority even amongst social justice adherents. Social justice started focusing on "implicit" bias and racism because the instances of explicit racism in the 2000s were not numerous enough to support its activist objective of tearing down the system and replacing it.

The whole concept of "systemic oppression" is based around this realization, where social justice argue that capitalism fool people into being happy and content so that they don't oppose an implicitly oppressive system that traps them in a false reality.

> Call that social justice dogma if you want, but I’d consider it an objective fact.

The examples in my previous message show that it's neither descriptive nor factual.

Social justice prescribe a totalizing worldview that use an every-increasing set of politically motivated identity groups to further an activist objective. The objective is to tear down the system and the promise is a utopia once everyone agrees with the utopic vision.
That's not a feature of advertising as a business model, it's just a feature of growth-focused businesses. The same forces apply to products that you pay for with money. For a very obvious example, just look at Candy Crush.
The difference is that the IPA tells you how to use your anatomy to create the right sound. Someone with the right knowledge can look at a word in IPA and know how to construct it to get an accurate reproduction.

You might be able to hear an unfamiliar word and try to reproduce it, but in a lot of cases you will only get, at best, a rough approximation unless you also know how to shape your tongue, where the sounds come from and what the accent is.

English is a very forgiving language, generally speaking, but highly tonal languages (like Vietnamese and Mandarin) won’t let you get away with simple mimicry, at least not without a lot of work to nail the pronunciation.
Interesting! I didn't read that book but a book derived from it, by Christopher Booker, titled Why We Tell Stories. I disliked much of it, it was very pretentious and reductionist and went as far as to suggest stories which deviate from the hero's journey are somehow flawed.

Maybe I should go to the source, thanks for pointing out there's more to it.
This is an ad to make AI advertisers look positive.
This thread is glowing bright green...
Uhhhhh... so you took under a month off? That's not a strong argument. If unlimited is actually unlimited then I would be taking 2 months a year at least.
Better membranes and renewable-powered desalination plants are not going to do anything about the waste problem. Has there been any progress on that?
Self-control: Governing one's behavior and reaction.

Mastering one's emotions: Feeling the emotion, understanding it, and developing skills for overcoming negative feelings. Also, the ability to choose not to act based on strong emotion.

In a crisis, or in critical or chronic situations, possession of these two related skills usually yields superior outcomes.

It isn't "wrong" to feel the feelings. It is wrong to let the feelings dominate you to the point of paralysis or drive you to harmful behavior. Children can't help going through phases as their brains develop where they're overcome with emotions. You help them by teaching them it is OK to feel sad or angry. Then you help them by teaching them how to cope through action, or focus on something else like goals.

Having negative emotions is normal. Coping with negative emotions, mastering them, is a valuable skill.

Words do not inflict physical injury. You teach that. Words can inflict emotional pain. You also teach that this is so. Words can inflict mental injury, and you teach that, too. But you start with the far simpler formulation of "sticks and stones" until metaphor and nuance are available tools.

It's like teaching children about strangers. There are exceptions to every rule, but if you value their safety when they're small, you teach them the rule "Do not talk to strangers." Young children don't have the social context to parse exceptions until they're older... when the teaching has to add resolution and detail.
Wow you’re right, have to slow way down to get there
From this point on I shall lean into my turns in my car
Organic mentions are the best ads; aside from that dedicated niche review sites which I’ll hit to look at the review and the comments.

On the other hand, brand recognition I do believe has value but is hard to quantify.

I also never click on an internet ad EXCEPT if it links to a price -not to buy.
The case of the missing SIMD code
Ask HN: What do you wish you had known as a teenager?
Do you have any regrets from high school? Anything you had wished you had known at the time? What do you miss the most? Any advice would be appreciated.
>Anyway, it's on Wikipedia and is fairly fascinating

It is, and the best playground for any OS dev...boot time is also fascinating :)
I agree the proponent seems rather strange, but this fungus claim is pretty fairly modest and falsifiable.

My immediate hunch is that it might be some sort of liquid condensation which then freezes and merely resembles fungi (ie tiny hailstones) but even if wrong it's interesting.
Yeah pretty much.

The backend needs to 1) find the S3 urls of the relevant images that intersect that XYZ tile index 2) read the relevant portion of each of them (removing the map collar as necessary [0]), and 3) composite them together to minimize areas of missing data.

In this project there's a static, pre-generated index used for 1. Essentially a mapping from tile indexes to an array of URLs. And I use DynamoDB under the hood for that fast key-value lookup. In a more production-ready setup, you'd have a Postgres database in the backend, so that you can handle arbitrary date ranges or other query parameters from the user.

[0]: https://github.com/kylebarron/usgs-topo-tiler#removing-map-c...
Digital marketing performance is increasingly measurable and there's more data than ever proving that it can be extremely effective.

You can certainly waste a lot of money doing it too. Getting the right message in front of the right user at the right time is a lot harder than people think it is.

The above is where there's a lot of smoke and mirrors in ad tech. But for advertising as a whole, it's not a massive industry because it doesn't work.
Right, no senior programmers understand how to size integers. We need institutional knowledge for that.
Hello. I’m honestly loving this conversation. Thanks for engaging seriously about it. It also means a lot, dang, that you took the time to both understand my points and also to counter the narrative, all these years after I commented.

As much as I appreciate your thoughtfulness, I really don’t mind the commentary. I’m long past being frustrated about being misinterpreted, and I learned a lot from it, anyway.

As I’ve stated since[1], I was an undergrad when I made those comments. I know how much I’ve grown since then. It feels like someone else said them, and everyone is talking about “not me” when they remark about it today.

I definitely appreciate the love, though. Thanks!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661824
> We'll often do it at the level of namespaces, where a namespace will describe a particular workflow or data transformation, and namespaces tend to be 500 lines or less

Are there any open source Clojure projects that are structured this way? I'd like to see a working example.