skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, the effective way to handle these crises would have been to avoid or minimize it all in the first place, but sadly politicians decades ago who could have done exactly that were nearly as corrupt, greedy, ignorant, and short-sighted as those we still have "leading" the world today.

Anyone wishing to debate my view of politicians, first do your research on how many decades ago they had advance warning all these things we hear, read, and see in the news these days were exceedingly likely statistically speaking, but were avoidable with appropriate actions being undertaken to avoid the worst. Pandemics, climate causing weather to freak out, extinctions of entire species, civil unrest, financial craziness. All predicted by many scientists who devote their lives to studying those topics decades ago.
Where do we end up? Anyone who sells a knife is charged for any murder committed with that brand of knife. Does that mean anyone buying a knife has to sign a form releasing the company from legal issues that may arise?
This may be an acceptable attitude to some, but it is a shamefully craven way to make money.

Have a read of the Wikipedia entry for Shell Nigeria. The death and destruction they are involved in (and which the acknowledgment involvement in) is horrendous. Armed conflict has broken out numerous times and Shell has backed some of it by their own acknowledgment.

The ecological and human toll from their polluting is incredible and their own reports show they aren’t attending some spills for significant portions of a year, quite apart from attempting to clean them up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Nigeria
You don't have to make it a bad investment. You can differentiate vacant and non-vacant investments.

I.e. Vancouver's Vacant Homes Tax (11674) http://bylaws.vancouver.ca/11674c.PDF
Desalination plants are vastly more expensive than current water conservation solutions. Solving a problem with tech is sexy, especially on HN, but simple programs like canal lining and drip irrigation are much cost effective for now. It's not a forever solution, but conserving water resources will take a patchwork of half-measures and incremental progress. There does not appear to be a silver bullet.
From a strictly utilitarian perspective, it may not be worth the effort to support agriculture.

That really depends on the economic impact of the other sources of water use, most of which, 50% of total use, is for "environmental" purposes that do not directly impact GDP in the same way as agriculture. [0]

I'm not saying Environmental use is less important: I'm saying that a utilitarian GDP focused policy on water use is probably not the best metric to use: There's simply too little other water-reliant commerce in CA to use GDP as a yardstick here. That just leaves balancing 40% use by agriculture against 50% use for environmental purposes.

[0] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Yeah, BigCo loves drugs since it is so easy to induce addiction and create stable customers. It isn't companies that try to restrict smoking or alcohol sales, if it was up to them they'd sell alcohol and cigarettes to kids. In fact they already do exactly that in poorer countries that doesn't have the means to fight back.
When a billionaire owns the almond trees, blocking their water is a governor-level operation.

Last I heard, a reporter said he was stealing the water for them. That ought to make it easier to get it blocked, but I bet it makes it harder, instead. Better just to drive a truckfull of thrift-store rags up to where he is tapping the canal, and feed them in one at a time.
This reminds me of the documentary Race to Nowhere. They talk about the high suicide rate amongst teens due to burn out from school and how some were brought back from the brink.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_Nowhere
The big issue here in CA is that farmers are growing water-intensive crops that offer a better return (like almonds), but they're growing them in the desert known as the central valley. That leads to water shortages.

As someone living in California I certainly appreciate the huge variety of great produce that's available because of CA agriculture, but even the almond farmers know this isn't going to last forever. They're all in a race to drill deeper wells than their neighbor and make a quick buck before the aquifer runs out. At that point we'll have no reserve at all and the party will grind to a halt.

The better idea would be to grow different crops here, not to stop agriculture altogether. That requires some kind of rationing.
The issue with these is that the other side of the output is hyper-salty brine, which kills pretty much any life it encounters, and that brine does get dumped to the ocean. The ocean has more than enough capacity to absorb the hit, but it still damages the ecosystem at the exit point nevertheless. Israel and Saudi Arabia do it because, well, if they don’t their country pretty much ceases to exist, but it’s much better cost/performance ratio to focus on whatever water California has before we go there.

It’s also that even the most water-conscious agriculture practice uses obnoxious amounts of water just because of the sheer size of land involved. Supplying that kind of water via desalination plants pretty much by definition means having done all prior optimisations to the max before tapping into that stream.

If you’re interested in agriculture from a layman’s perspective, I recommend Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime Video, where Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear figures out how to farm right, long way round.
I really don't think obviousness is obvious.

Just looking at the field of software process, there are things I've been doing for 20 years that sure seem obvious to me and that I thought would be obvious to everybody else in short order. But here we are and the dominant process approach has gone from "chaotic waterfall" to "chaotic waterfall with Scrum jargon and modestly shorter delivery cycles".
I, um, need to refresh my memory on common Polish-Hungarian history.

As for Finland, it's the more superficial things. Wars against Russia, desire to be independent, and Finland fought Russia very effectively in the defensive Winter War. Both Poles and Finns are heavy drinkers.

Since you seem to like this kind of books: Timothy Snyder is an US historian specializing in Eastern Europe, and he's especially fond of Ukraine. He also has good lectures on youtube, although I think he's trying too hard when he's commenting modern politics.

Norman Davies is an English-Polish historian with a particular interest in Poland. He speaks the language surprisingly well. The books I'd recommend include: "Red Star, White Eagle". He described an unlikely outcome when in 1920 Poland won a war against Bolshevik Russia, and delayed the onset of communism in Europe.
> how do we get neighborhoods to “evolve” in this direction naturally?

Get rid of cars and people will quickly find they like walkable neighborhoods.
And when you do this they go ahead and convict you for that instead often much easier than whatever they were trying to get you for in the first place.
The EU imposed minimum import price restrictions on Chinese solar modules for 5 years from 2013-2018:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/08/31/eu-ends-mip-against-c...

As I see it, there are a couple of reasons German manufacturers couldn't regain competitiveness during this period:

- The scale of their operations is too small. The largest Chinese manufacturers operate at a different order of magnitude.

- Making comparable products at the same scale, Chinese products would still tend to cost less. For the same reasons that you can get a made-in-China toaster cheaper than a made-in-Germany one.

At its peak, leading German manufacturer SolarWorld had capacity to produce about 1,400 megawatts of modules per year:

https://www.printedelectronicsnow.com/contents/view_breaking...

Leading Chinese manufacturer Longi shipped 24,500 megawatts of modules last year:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/22/longi-crowned-king-of...

The only profitable American solar company, First Solar, is also the largest, with 8,000 megawatts of capacity targeted by the end of this year:

https://www.pv-tech.org/first-solar-adding-series-6-module-c...

That's smaller than the Chinese behemoths but still large enough to compete internationally.

What I have seen from the EU is that even ambitions for new solar gigafactories are too small -- 1000-3000 megawatts of annual capacity. That still won't get costs within spitting distance of First Solar or the big Asian manufacturers. Part of the reason for the limited ambition is that there is no EU-wide consensus favoring "European" solar products. Germany wants to boost German solar manufacturing. France wants to boost French solar manufacturing. Spain wants to boost Spanish manufacturing. Individual countries only care about the EU policies so far as they favor that country; neither Spain nor Greece is particularly interested in policies boosting European solar manufacturing if the manufacturing ends up regionally concentrated in e.g. Italy. So these smaller solar manufacturers are stuck in a local maximum where they survive on political considerations (at least for a while) but can't grow to scales where they would be internationally competitive.
https://www.amazon.ca/ZTE-Z557-8GB-Android-Smartphone/dp/B08... That's about 50 USD. Same day delivery, too! Devices can be found even a bit cheaper sometimes, as little as 35 USD. I see such devices in corner stores, grocery and drug stores. It's a bit of a clunker sure. But it'll stream porn or display Instagram just fine. (That device actually has a faster CPU, though less RAM, than my present smartphone, from 2018, which I have seen no need to upgrade yet.)

A prepaid data plan will set you back about 25 a month here, but Canada has infamously high mobile fees. I know people in the EU who pay about $10 a month for unlimited mobile data.

And yes. They will sell one to an unaccompanied minor. Sure, maybe not a 6 year old, but if a 14 year old comes in with the money, that's a sale. There's no law against it (at least here). And unlike with a 14 year old trying to buy a giant butcher knife or spraypaint or whatever, society doesn't seem to have a "uhh, wait a minute" catch on this particular one. It's just a phone. Every kid has a phone, right? They probably just broke their last one. Again.
Books Like “The Phoenix Project”
the value of the building might be dropping but the value of the land keeps going up. eventually somebody will buy it to tear down and build condos.
Postfix on BSD is bulletproof.
How will you objectively measure "amount of work required to come up with them"?
That sounds rather infeasible.
"Hindsight is 20/20 vision." - Everyone's Uncle or Gran'pa Ever
Pharo has some new syntactic additions. Cuis smalltalk is closer to Smalltalk-80, if that's what you're looking for.
Prob collapse of local ecosystems. Anywhere there’s a river with fish it’s prob gonna be an important source of food for the animals in the area. Also extinction of certain species would be possible.
> The claim was about `x[6]`, which does not appear in your program.

That was C code. The rust code for that was provided by drran.

> The point is that `[]` is always bounds-checked, and the bounds-checking cannot be opted out of even with `unsafe`.

I don't think anyone is hung up on whether you use std::ops::Index or not. You can access arrays without bounds checks.
If the rendering pipeline adds multiple frames of latency, it seems like that's a separate problem that should be fixed and it would help a lot without raising the frame rate.
Ah, capitalism working at it's FINEST!!!!!! /s
'Noisy' gene expression's key role in development may help improve therapies
some consider it the golden era
I have to imagine this will increase global food costs, but there’s opportunity here to make farming high water crops more efficient:

- reclaim runoff

- more efficient growing methods

The capex and research are there. I wonder how the Boise startup scene is handling it?
It will take legislation to cut off the golf courses.

Most likely it will need a ballot measure, because what legislator is going to vote for cutting off the golf courses?
Given how many of them receive absurdly subsidized water from the Bureau of Reclamation, I'm going to say no. Take Arizona, where the already subsidized (though not nearly as much as some BOR water projects) cost is ~$200 per Acre-foot from the Colorado River (via the Central Arizona Project) compared to the $2200 per Acre-foot price of Desalination water.
> visual studio addiction

For me, rider is quickly replacing visual studio as my daily driver for programming.
> The biggest difference to explain that, I would say, is that a scientific/engineering advancement can deliver value magnitudes greater than development cost

Nothing fungible will come out of this Jupiter mission and you know it.

If this was education budget or brain research I'd totally be onboard with it.
I wonder how much more costly it is to produce solid salt bricks instead of brine? I like the idea of a New Las Vegas made out of salt.
I know someone with only two watering days allowed in Santa Cruz County in CA.
>The owner still has to make mortgage and property tax payments

they don't have to. if there is no demand for the property in its current state, they can redevelop to a use for which their is demand, or they can sell the property to somebody who will redevelop it.
Both are to blame but there is a long history of the "blame free" variety of African leaders getting assassinated or "regime changed" by external forces if they don't cooperate.

I wonder how Norway would look if they were constantly under the same threat.
training once vs. millions of inferences. And tomorrow inference may naturally include incremental training. Human brain consumes 20% of the body energy. I don't think AI will come to human brain energy efficiency soon, and thus i think AI (and its accessories, ie. like 3d/AR/VR model spaces where and what AI will be operating with) will be a major, if not main, energy consumer going forward. When Google self-driving car passes by the main sound coming from it isn't the engine nor the tires :)
This is having a chilling effect on my use of all digital services. I no longer keep my phone on. I think about whether I should click on links that might contain content I would not want associated with me, even though my interest is in learning. I treat every news article I read like clicking on it is a vote for or against something. I add all kinds of extensions to my browser to protect privacy. I use a VPN to keep my ISP from spying on me. I download all my email and delete it on the servers so that theoretically I'm the only one who has a copy. It has made my life more difficult and uncertain. I've done research in computer security so I have some idea of how to protect myself, but I still find some data leaks out. I know all networked computers are vulnerable and have little faith my home network is secure though I've locked it down as best I can. Computers and networks have become a pain to use and their benefit to me keeps going down. I would not be surprised at all if things like ransomware attacks destroy any remaining public utility of computers. Heaven help us if the USA actually gets into a blatant cyberwar (instead of the current semi-covert ones). The longer the USA goes without any kind of data privacy laws the more it looks like that is intentional.
> This paragraph for instance is a bunch of true-ish sentences but overall is gibberish:

>> The metric tensor of spacetime tells us how lengths determine in spacetime. The metric tensor also thus determines the curvature properties of spacetime. Curvature is what we feel as "force." In addition, energy and curvature relate to each other through the Einstein field equations. Test particles follow what are called geodesics—the shortest paths in the spacetime.

Could you elaborate on why you think this is gibberish? I mean, I agree that the article is giving off a pseudo science vibe and the authors should work on their style. (Instead of presenting their results in a matter-of-fact manner, they should rather dedicate more time to explaining their assumptions and their reasoning in a step-by-step manner.) But the paragraph you quoted seems perfectly fine.
Some counties (maybe Sonoma?) are restricting residential irrigation like you described. Maybe even a complete ban.
The value of the building drops all the time. The value of the land is also dropping, as described. Loss of foot traffic is a blow to the value of the land, not the building.

Who wants a condo in the middle of nowhere? The replace-it-with-condos plan requires the area to be growing, not shrinking.
There’s no contradiction between your quote and the headline: schools opened and suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed, but the relationship isn't necessarily causal.
I have one sitting next to me. It doesn’t have positional tracking… you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#Development_Kit_1
Cloudflare. Their performance, pricing, and Workers platform means you can build whatever you need.
When you buy any phone with cash it’s a legal requirement
SoC BSP support is your answer. It’s not a conspiracy.

Dollars to support vs user base size / revenue / contractual obligations. The devices were cheap in the first place specifically because there wasn’t going to be a 20 year BSP support contract.
Irrigating non food crops hopefully? Idk anything about water filtration so maybe it’s fine?
Monterey county uses reclaimed water for agriculture, I'm sure there are others as well.
Raw speed in what way?
Experience in Apple and Microsoft platforms, among others, shows otherwise.

And for info, Android Treble drivers are mostly C++, although Java is also an option.

Ah and Fuchsia is a mix of C++ and Rust at it lower layers.
I have been teaching European history (with an emphasis on the history of ideas) at university for almost two decades. In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age.

As to the ancient Greeks: I am extremly impressed about how fast and innovative they had become from the 6th century BC onward. But in almost all fields their culture rested on outside precursors: Their mythology includes many stories and aspects that can be found in earlier stories or pictures from Asia Minor; their alphabet is an advancement of the Phoenicians, probably adopted via Cyprus; their early sculpture and metal works clearly shows Egyptian influences, etc.

History in my view is a discipline to tell interesting stories in anwsering interesting questions. And part of this story telling is to tell the stories of the terminology of the very question. So if someone is asking whether the Greeks are the start of the history of the Western world, one has already a lot to think about all the concept included in the question.

What defined being Greek in those days? -- Interesting story: the center of the early Greek culture was the west of Asia Minor which become incorporated for the first time in the Persian empire in the middle of the 6th century BC. Refuges went to southern Italy were they settled in close proximity to Etruscian towns. The Etruscians adopted their more sophisticated craftsmenship for luxury items. They traded it with the Celts from north of the Alps in exchange for iron. The economy in Italy benefited. Larger political units formed. After many struggles Rome emerged as the most supirior.

When does history start? -- Interesting story: People argued that it starts with writing and all else is prehistory, because it is writing which provides us with so much more knowledge about what happend in the past. But in recent years we have seen extraordinary progress in archeology. Both in an extraordinary number of new interesting finds as well as in an extraordinary advancement in new or improved research methods like in dating or genome analysis. In view of this, is the distinction between history and prehistory still appropriate?

Is the concept of the Western world in this context really so relevant? -- Interesting story: There has been a long standing story in Europe about a so-called 'translatio imperii', a gradual movement of the cultural and political center from the East to the West. But a similar story can be told about a movement from Greece towards the East: Alexander, the Sasanians, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (in todays Afganistan), the Indo-Greek Kingdom. And the cultural influence did not stop there. The art of the Greek statue and especially of the high relief was adopted by the Buddhist and Hindu art of India and Southeast Asia and even influenced Chinese art indirectly. If Greek culture travelled both towards the West and towards the East should we not put more emphasis on the Greeks as something that unites Europe, Africa and Asia instead of claiming them primarily for Europe or a Western world?
Could not access the article but it appears to reference this CDC MMWR from June 18, 2021:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7024e1-H.pdf

[I've included the link to the CDC report above and the summary below because this information is important and should be accessible (i.e. should not require allowing fbcdn.net trackers). I also prefer the source to somebody's interpretation. If the original article provides additional insight I'd like to see a non-FB link to it, my admittedly quick scan of the comments did not spot one.]

From the SUMMARY of that report:

What is already known about this topic?
During 2020, the proportion of mental health–related emergency department (ED) visits among adolescents aged 12–17 years increased 31% compared with that during 2019.

What is added by this report?
In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, ED visits for suspected suicide attempts began to increase among adolescents aged 12–17 years, especially girls. During February 21–March 20, 2021, suspected suicide attempt ED visits were 50.6% higher among girls aged 12–17 years than during the same period in 2019; among boys aged 12–17 years, suspected suicide attempt ED visits increased 3.7%.

What are the implications for public health practice?
Suicide prevention requires a comprehensive approach that is adapted during times of infrastructure disruption, involves multisectoral partnerships and implements evidence-based strategies to address the range of factors influencing suicide risk.
Doesn't the NSO group have a PR department? Because PR should tell him to shut the f*k up for (quite) a while.
There's the rub. What is a "license", what is a "liberty", and what is an "essential liberty". People disagree on this.
What Zig shares with C is orthogonality, with a large power-to-weight ratio, meaning it's a small language grammar with powerful range.

But Zig also improves on C's safety in many ways, not least checked arithmetic enabled by default in safe release modes, along with bounds checked memory accesses, function return values that cannot be ignored, checked syscall error handling, explicit allocations, comptime over macros, a short learning curve and remarkable readability.

It's hard for systems programmers not to appreciate any of these qualities in isolation.
So, do we think this is "real", or is this just lawyers lawyering?
They released a dev kit that was called the oculus rift that came out before the one you are thinking of.
KeePass and use it's password pasting feature.
For learning, traditional smalltalk environments (with a gui browser) are vastly superior. Everything is live, so the learner can witness the immediate propagation of changes made and follow them through as deep as desired through the debugger.
The Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square
Well in that case surely someone would have challenged the patent and got it invalidated.
If a shared experience is toxic to the mental well-being of my kids, then they're not going to share in the experience. I'd rather my kid hate me for a couple years as a teenager for not letting them engage in harmful things than never getting out of their teenage years.