skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agricultural water and municipal drinkable water are two different things. The farm water does not come from the same distribution system as city water. For example, pulling water straight from a river to irrigate farm is agricultural water. Maybe the cost of agricultural water is too low, it probably is at least in some places. However, it is not clear at all that agricultural uses even compete with urban uses. Urban areas take their water from very specific locations, and a farmer using water from some other source does not necessarily result in any less water available in the location the urban water is drawn from. In many (probably most) cases, if farmers won’t use the water, nobody will, because there is no way to get it from where it is to where it is needed.

People tend to think about water distribution similarly to electricity, which is completely wrong. With electricity, there is one all-encompassing grid that everyone uses, and if some people use more of it, there is less of it available for others. Water is not like that: it is as if there were thousands of independent grids that cannot be easily connected, because pumping water over large distances is most often prohibitively expensive.
When I worked for a rural water provider in a relatively wet climate (so the cattle were grass fed), we allowed around 50 litres per day per beef animal and around 120 litres each for dairy cattle.

Cows do drink a fair amount, especially if they're not shaded in the heat. In the case of dairy, there's also a lot of washing water for milking.
Epstein had connections to a number of top Microsoft executives
Rule of thumb #1: don't. The compiler is probably smarter than you, it can handle things itself most of the time.

Rule of thumb #2: always test low-level performance improvements on real data. This is very similar to rule #1 - the compiler might already be implementing the optimisation you're changing to, so you might be making the code less readable for no benefit.

Rule of thumb #3: sort your arrays. Sorting algorithms are one of the most aggressively-optimised functions in modern computer science, it's a very small overhead compared to regular branch prediction failures. Make sure to keep rules #1 and #2 in mind, but this is probably the most common significant performance improvement to be gleaned from branch prediction.
So many people are making the encryption point, and that seems nonresponsive to me. I mean, the whole point here is a demand for Apple to change their board design. If we're going to do that, it's not at all unreasonable to demand that they also support some form of key escrow or user-managed key storage. The software part of the puzzle is significantly cheaper to implement, especially given that all they need to do is copy one of the gazillion variants already shipping.

The drive encryption design is a holdover from iOS, and... a Macbook isn't a phone. People do very different thing with them (the linked article is by a video producer!) and need different solutions.
I'm fine with ACIC having those three warrant options, since they're still under the watchful eyes of IGIS.

I don't believe AFP should be included directly in this, as we hear of bad apples within the AFP ranks unlawfully accessing various things and disseminating sensitive information often enough to suggest that they, collectively, can't be trusted.

If AFP could request info from ACIC or request ACIC execute warrants on AFPs behalf, I'd be fine with that too, since that sharing of info and warrant execution would still be subjected to IGIS scrutiny.

I don't agree with ACIC claim of law abiding citizens having no legitimate reason to use encrypted communication. ACIC is welcome to all of my communication data, encrypted or otherwise, but I absolutely don't want bad actors having access to it.

I believe the use of E2E is an legitimate application of our government's urging Australians to stay 'cybersafe'.
genuinely cannot tell if trolling or not -- do you not see a security implication to centralizing PII (or similar data)?

to me it seems really bad to mine and centralize PII (note: this PII is also arbitrarily being shared with third-parties, usually without explicit or informed consent from user).

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ie: this is data which is mined in a way, depth and scope of any implication is usually abstracted away from the user or hand-waved away in legalese or presented in such an annoying way users have become conditioned to unconditionally accept that which they do not understand, and therefore they likewise usually remain uninformed/ignorant/naive of any implication, security or otherwise, in order to get to the service asap. and this is something absolutely exploited by these companies.

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do we really want companies, companies who have demonstrated they are not immune to simple mistakes leading to vulnerabilities, or leaked PII, mind you, to be in a position where we the user have no choice, but to trust it won't leak PII to nefarious persons (persons who can then do meaningfully harmful things with even basic PII)?

we are already bleeding enough PII as it is -- when should we truly be concerned with stopping it? if never, and there is no concern as you seem to indicate, then let us arbitrarily share medical information, too.

on that subject, there are also so many instances of arbitrarily collected and shared PII, for the sake of ads, that would almost unequivocally be a HIPA violation in other contexts -- to me it seems asinine to have such well-defined understandings of PII for the protection of the person in some contexts, but yet in the context of ads, suddenly <i>anything</i> goes, and the spiel we always get from the ads advocates is: but it is good for the user and the content creators cannot exist without it, so it must exist as is, unchained.

(un)ironically this is also a psychology presented by abusive relationships where the abuser keeps the abused thinking they need them, and the abuser establishes itself as a (survival) dependency in the abused's mind.

idk, i'm pretty skeptical of the claim that ad tech and the ad industry has good intentions, and i am becoming increasingly of the opinion that most of the advertising models advocates are trying so hard to convince users to enable, are just fucking profit-driven-at-all-costs cancer.
"systemic racism" is intentionally deceptive language. I think you'd be hard-pressed to constructive uses of this jargon where people are actually trying to solve specific, well-defined problems.
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Any recommendations for books about how new ideas happen?
The keyword was always there, but it meant something different. In modern C++, it tells the compiler to perform type inference. In B, it told the compiler to dynamically allocate a variable on the stack, as opposed to assigning it a static address, or a register.
Most advertising spend on Facebook or IG is actually tracked on click and conversion based performance, it's not subtle at all.
Probably easier to reason about as a programmer, at least in my opinion
Digital cash saw no uptake for decades either, between Chaum and Satoshi. This may turn out similarly (and it's not as if it's implausible for digital cash to be a prerequisite for micropayments to take off, in practice).
Exactly. The world population is expected to peak in the coming decades and then start declining slowly thereafter (presenting its own set of challenges).
>Okay, I may have exaggerated a little

I really feel motivated to digest a blog post where even the writer admits that the title is click bait.
I’ve come across this a few different times over the years... always seems enticing and potentially useful, but I’ve never found a real use for it. I suppose it provides a library of well-prepped datasets to test ML models on? Anyone ever used this for any practical purpose beyond a sandbox-type use case?
too long. lost interest halfway through the article
As a remain campaigner, I’d still say there are many common sense reasons to leave the EU for many countries. Considering Britain got what it wanted regarding immigration, trade, and fisheries it’s hard to argue otherwise.
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EDIT: WOW! I found it!

It turns out the precursor to Mindstorms, and what I was remembering - is something called LEGO 'Dacta' -

http://www.blockcad.net/dacta/

I was actually able to even find an MS-DOS copy of this software by Googling it; and, sure enough; right down to the parallel port connector this is what I remembered. :)

The MS-DOS port:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?G=4109...

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Okay, I just looked it up - and this is bizarre.

I recall something extremely similar to what you see here as labelled the 'RIS' software:
https://scitechexplorer.weebly.com/1st-generation-rcx.html

However - this was in MS-DOS, and rather than these, like...arrow; things used to stack together to write the program, they had actual literal different-coloured LEGO bricks that you dragged around to write your program, and the entire engine certainly ran off MS-DOS and spoke through, I believe, the parallel port.
Eh, tornado chasing "thought leaders" and "influencers" can only get so many people interested in a product before reality comes knocking. After the gimmick is gone, it's just another poor product with little to offer.
SMS 2FA doesn't require purchasing an additional device that's only used for a 2FA application (and has crap battery life if used as a phone).
Yes, that’s why you’d get consent before hand
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They mean 196K, aka 196 thousand. You mean 192KB.
this was a collaboration between between corporations like Google and Netflix that want to hamper their competition and leftist who aimed to nationalize the internet. this was the vehicle by which they essentially wanted to seize telecom companies.
docs, drive and photos are pretty packed for me at least
It's certainly quite possible. However

>It's in your TV shows, your news articles, your Instagram feed, your word of mouth, your everything unless you are in the forest

I think I, and some decent percentage of HN readers, may kind of be "in the forest". I don't watch TV, I don't read news articles, I've never had an Instagram account or any kind of social media account (besides more "pseudonymous" social media like HN and reddit), I have comprehensive ad blockers, etc.

I also don't really buy products. I buy food, maybe I'll upgrade to a new laptop or phone every 4 - 5 years, but otherwise I don't think I really "consume" new things.

The only thing I can think of that ads have consciously made me do is pay to get rid of them. For example, I pay for YouTube Premium so I can never see ads. (Ad blocking gets tough for mobile devices and casting to other screens.) They got me there, because I watch a lot of YouTube (which I acknowledge is kind of "the new TV") and in some ways it's the best $12/month I've ever spent. It doesn't cover video makers including sponsored content, but I use crowdsourced browser extensions to identify and skip those.
> Audio and Video can be saved for offline mode, for playback when you don’t have internet, but they cannot be downloaded and moved to a separate device.

The missing download and export function seems like an obvious and very annoying omission.

Hopefully it can be added in the future.
> "Also, history tells us when companies say they wont be evil... they mean "not yet". It is a middle man power play pure and simple."

That's factually incorrect that, that always happens and I am not sure why you think we're grouped into that without any evidence or a basis of reasoning.
The interview is with a Tel Aviv University researcher about studies performed only on people from Israel, so whatever they say about Jewish identity they quite clearly mean it about Israeli Jewish identity and non-Israel Jewish communities/identities are "out of scope".
Consider old Russian system

After 8 years of school there were exams (written and spoken) where person would be selected to go to 2 more years of school (equivalent of hi school) or if he performs poorly on exam, he can go to professional school for associated degree.

The person who goes to 2 more years of hi school, take exam again, and receive diploma.

Then the person can apply to any university, but to get there it was require to take another 4-5 exams, (entry exams) based on selected study subject. For example, if person decided to go to math/physics, it was required to pass 4 exams (2 for math, written and spoken) and 2 for physics.
Based on result, (average score from all entry exams) the person either accepted or not.

If he not accepted, he can repeat it next year or go for associated degree or some lower school.

It was very nice system, where everybody have a shot based on brain and knowledge, no matter from what school person was.
"AI hype is the tech equivalent of a land war in Asia" - that's quotable! i did a web search on this phrase with several search engines, and it appeared just here.

i am still not convinced about ML winter, as it has found its killer app with advertising (i mean previous AI generations didn't find an equivalent cash cow).

Also: why don't they just specify that this ML model has been trained with this type of medical equipment? Couldn't they make it part of the SLA to use the same type of equipment in the field as that of the training images?
I'll keep using it because the inconvenience of the occasional sign-up is trumped by the convenience of searchable datasets.
Men don't want strangers to know their address either.
In some countries, like France and the United kingdom, the educational pyramid is even more skewed. In the United kingdom, graduates of Oxford University and Cambridge University are in a class of their own. Oxbridge alumni are overrepresented in politics, business, and the media. In France, the same phenomenon is at work with the École Polytechnique, the Écoles Normales Supérieures, and a few others. This creates sharp social stratifications and popular resentment among working people that "elites" (defined overwhelmingly as people with significant economic capital, political influence, and elite pedigrees) are detached from the reality on the ground. Donald Trump's election in 2016 has been dissected and explained hundred different ways. But it is undeniable that his victory (despite the fact that he lost the popular vote by approximately three million) is attributable in part to popular resentment against political and business elites.

Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK.

This is only going to get worse. The ruthless competition to get into elite colleges is both a cause, and a product of, economic inequality. The article mentions that the graduates of law schools ranked in the top 10 earn 50% more than the graduates of law schools ranked 21-100, and that investment banks recruit mostly from a handful of targets.

If prospective law students were confident they could earn 90% as much, or 100% as much, as graduates from T-10 law schools, if they attended lower ranked schools, there wouldn't be so much competition to get into the same handful of elite schools.

This winner take all economy is stupid, and it's making us sick in pursuit of success. People should act in their best personal interests, and this competition is the result. We can't blame parents for wanting the best outcomes for their children. But everyone deserves a bit of blame, some more than others, for helping make American society so unequal.
> Because humanities degree holders are the true carriers of our cultures.

Do you mean by putting themselves on a pedestal without having experienced life _at_all_ and living in nothing but theories. Yeah, sure.

> These people are the ones that work with the primary sources, sifitng them and passing on the highlights.

These days, they are more the people re-writing history to fit a narrative, against any hard evidence.
"Also, the Linux kernel doesn't always enable delayed ACKs -- to reproduce this I actually had to write a Python program that explicitly turns them on. I haven't been able to find a clear explanation of exactly when delayed ACKs are used."

Delayed ACKs can be enabled on Linux kernels 3.11+ with ip(8).

ip route change ROUTE quickack 1

On MacOS and Windows, delayed ACKs can be configured through sysctl and the registry, respectively.

Delayed ACKs may be used in response to congestion.

For example, in bulk, i.e., non-interactive, transfers with large packets, delayed ACKs can be useful.

This is covered in Chapters 15 (15.3) and 16 of Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1.

This draft suggests delayed ACKs are useful during TLS handshake.

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-stenberg-httpbis-tcp-03.html

Also, socat allows for setting TCP options via setsockopt. No need to write a new program.
for all the crying, none of the doomsday scenarios people were claiming would happen have happened at all. and the internet is the same as it’s ever been. tel me why i should care now
I agree.

I would like to add luck to the theatrical world too.

I look at movie stars, and it seems like a very exclusive club.

If you can read lines, have a bit of charisma, and get that ever so lucky break--it almost seems like you have to work at getting kicked out, and even if you gain a bunch of weight, and fry your liver, and kidneys with drugs; in many cases the actor just gets more opportunities.

It seems like a couple hundred actors get most of the jobs.

As to the Kardiasians I believe it was luck, and a good product. I can't believe I wrote that last sentence. I never thought I would put "good", and "Kardasians" in the same sentence.

I kinda get the success of the Kardasians though. The ladies look multiracial. They are of all ages. For so long the fair skinned starlet was the desirable one.

Now--it's changing, and I like the change.

I'm still baffled by the younger one's financial success in makeup, and what not. She is worth over a billion dollars. MBA programs should be studying her business moves.

Selling to women is an art. If you can crack the mystery you can be a billionaire too? I remember hearing someone say selling to men is easy. Give them a product they like, and they will come back. She said selling to women is more nuanced. I always have that advice in the back of my mind.

I have a very pretty sister who moved to Los Angeles. She skipped college. She felt it was a waste of time, and she was probally right? She used networking to get jobs. She then decided to make, and sell shoes. In a few years, she had multiple stores, and is very successful. (Sadly we are not close. I will always love her, but the greed got mixed in family stuff. I guess that happens a lot?)

I remember looking at her first prototypes, and didn't get it at all. I wished her well though. She got a tiny bit of financial help.

She didn't need any advice from me though. She knew what would sell. She literally started off making the shoes in her garage, with minimal materials, and tools. I was always encouraging. I knew fashion was way out of my wheel house though.

(I really don't have a point? I rambled all over the place? Looking at my writing I hope nothing is considered sexist.)
College is a mix of virtue signaling, a proof of analytical and other abilities, a learning environment. Employers want smart and capable people, best colleges produce the smartest and often most capable people. Roughly speaking there's a good match.

If we were all identical droids, authors like this would be most satisfied. That would completely eliminate inequality. And would ensure 100% (or 0%) social mobility, depending on how you look at it.

Too bad we aren't identical droids.
True. I don't see how you can possibly deny the existence of systemic racism in a country where all the top educational institutions actively discriminate against asians.
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It wasn't always this way, in the early days there was genuine excitement around the technology. bitcointalk.org was a hive of ideas and opportunities. Bitcoin was used to transact internationally to trade goods, it was a payment medium as it was supposed to be. Even the bitcoin subreddit was good, but that turned first. Then all forums became dominated by price. I shudder at the posts I read these days about newbies to bitcoin. You are right it has become all about greed, nothing about the technology. When BTC hit $20k I remember telling a friend that while I was happy with the price it was ridiculous, bitcoin hadn't changed sufficiently to be worth that, but I also knew that if it hit $20k it would hit $50k and $100k, but I alway thought it would take longer because I assumed it would come from adoption of the technology. But it is all speculation now, you only have to love at dogecoin to see that. It is a virtually limitless coin, if it hits $10 it is through sheer madness. The same things said about bitcoin are being said about dogecoin. "It will be the payment medium of the internet, you can buy a coffee with it etc. But every post in the subreddit is about Lambos and moons.

It's a real shame.
So it’s like “defund the police” where they don’t actually mean defund the police?
New article. They have direct recorded evidence of an attack.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/us-intelligence-g...
The web, even as it is, functions exactly like this. You make a request to a domain, that domain says "here are some trackers". The user's browser then has a choice about whether to load them. My browser (and the browsers of many here) just ignores the request to download scripts that I don't want, because that's what I told it to do and the browser is my agent.

The big problem is that most people do not use a browser that is truly their agent--they use a browser that is an agent of an advertising company. The result is entirely predictable: Chrome acts in the best interests of its client, and loads the ads and trackers.

If we want to change the status quo with regards to advertising, we don't need to change the technology at all: we have to change the way people see a web browser. We need to help people to make the paradigm shift from "Chrome is how you consume content on the internet" to "a browser is an agent that acts on my behalf in the digital realm".