skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you’re a smart farmer, you’re trying to maximize your yield. Perhaps you have invested in an orchard. Drought year arrives, you do what you can to keep your trees alive (be they almond, stone fruit, orange, whatever).

As a CA resident who drives down I-5, I’ve seen crops being replaced. I’ve seen orchards that get bulldozed. I’ve seen the farmer propaganda. I’ve seen the almonds being harvested.

I can’t blame them, they’re trying to keep the land productive. They’re making guesses about the future. Once they’ve made a choice, they have a big incentive to make it work. But they’re certainly not making choices that are optimal for the community.
This would be a very good time to break out the systems-level thinking and apply it to racism in policing. In particular, the idea that if individual racism is low implies that racism is also low the composition of those individuals is a fallacy of composition.
Have you ever visited Kiwi Farms? The first thing you’ll notice is all the threads and subforums dedicated to harassing specific individuals - many with tens of thousands of messages.

I can’t imagine what it’s like to be targeted by a horde of deranged anonymous 4channers, and I don’t think ignoring it would be much of a solution.
I’m so sorry that you lost a friend to this.

I’m just an internet stranger, but do you have someone to talk to if you want to?
I don't think it's the mask doing the dehumanizing.
Elon changed nothing about price. He's selling a heavily subsidized terminal that will eventually need to be recouped.
Electron is winning because people are lazy, really.

I do Web development alongside native, and would never pick Electron unless obliged by customer requirements to act accordingly.

What to just use HTML/CSS/JS instead of the native OS capabilities?

Use Web widgets, PWAs, daemons/services with local browser UI.

No need to install hundreds of Chrome instances, and have them run in parallel.

If you go with daemons/services with local browser UI, you can even use microservices and a distributed cluster for your app, what about that?

Maybe it is worth of an HN blog post.
Thing about an article like this, it might be completely fake. Made up for clicks. Nothing to it at all, just selling a narrative.

I'm fresh back in SF and have been indulging in a lot of restaurant dining. Luxuriating, even, the food here is really good.

I haven't seen any of this crap. Is it happening? Yes of course any journalist worth their mountain of student debt can call enough restaurants to put together a few anecdotes about bad behavior.

Doesn't mean we have to fall for it.
Linus isn't much qualified on any other topic that software development. For example what he describes as his "take" on GPL v2 and its purpose is at odds with what the people that actually wrote it have written and even a basic reading of the text.

What he is mistating is he liked the fact that you could for practical purposes ignore much of the idealogy that a) he has never cared for and b) has always clearly underpinned both v2 and v3 of the GPL license.

Pretending otherwise is only not a lie because charitably he doesn't know what he is talking about or isn't expressing himself very well.

If you want a useful opinion on law ask a lawyer not a programmer. Linus is not only unqualified he doesn't know he is unqualified.
I was in Texas a couple of months ago, and at least in that part of the state, that wasn’t my experience at all.
To transcribe a meme, Bart Simpson is writing on a chalkboard, scowling; his teacher is punishing him by making him write a sentence over and over:

I will not propose allocation of scarce resources by price.
I will not propose allocation of scarce resources by price.
I will not propose allocation of scarce resources by price.
I will not propose allocation of scarce resources by price.
I will not propose ...

To be a little more serious: If you don't want shortages, then don't give people insane economic incentives. I think that, last time I heard, these farmers either were given rights to the water, or were being charged an insanely low price for it; but reselling the water was either forbidden or impractical; and therefore their incentive is to use as much water as they can to grow valuable but water-hungry crops and sell them. The results are predictable.
look at how active she was and judge for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Haverbeck
> Eight bucks just for the water to draw a bath? No thanks.

That's the cost of living in a desert.
exacerbate [https://www.wordnik.com/words/exacerbate] is the word. No hate here, it’s just a weird word ;)
There's a lot of low-quality Unity games on Steam, largely because they automated the new game system so that all it takes to publish a game is paying $100. There are some legitimate game designers putting in effort, but some 'publishers' have hundreds of these games and are often just copies of each other but with different assets.
A bit from 2016:

Open Decision-Making - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10828326 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)
Does this thing have Thunderbolt? I don't see a mention of it.
Just because the ship was discovered off the coast of Egypt does not mean it has anything to do with the culture and people of Modern day Egypt.
In AWS's defense, their egress pricing covers basically 100% of the cost of networking for their whole platform. VPC, ingress, and many other features and services roll up under that bill. On that basis I have to disagree with the analysis in this post.

However, their main point is well-made, its a lopsided agreement that traps customer's data where in some cases its just not affordable to leave. Its not well known to customers until they face the bill... there was a story of a giant data project at NASA where they were planning to store hundreds of petabytes of data on AWS, but neglected to account for the costs of egress which through the entire project into peril: https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/19/nasa_cloud_data_migra...
Absolutely. In most other areas of life, you only ever get to meet people who've passed the filter of your friends, families, acquaintances or even employer. Working in customer service basically means one gets a ~perfectly random sample of the population which is really not a great experience. It certainly builds character, though, and makes you forever appreciate other people working in customer service.
So what? The staff wearing masks are somehow Untermenschen? You get to be a dick to them with impunity? You see them wearing a mask and just can’t help it?
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Not just many cases but also some of the most prominent ones hailed as an instance of unjust policing. For example, in Seattle there was a situation where a woman named Charleena Lyles called in a fake incident to lure police, with an intent apparently to kill them because she is thought to have had some kind of fear that they would otherwise come for her. When the police responded, she cornered an officer in a kitchen with knives in hand (https://www.q13fox.com/news/seattle-officer-in-charleena-lyl...), and another cop had to shoot her.

All this took place in 2017. Activists initially tried to turn this event into something but it didn’t gather momentum because it was clearly a defensive police action after they had been lured with an intention to do harm. Come 2020, this incident was dredged up after George Floyd’s death, and suddenly it gained lots of news attention, activist vigils, and so on. And despite how clear cut this incident was, activists claim the police were wrong and that responses to the mentally ill don’t require armed response.

Meanwhile, the fact that Lyles had just recently been arrested for harassment and obstruction of police has not been scrutinized. The truth is she was let off with no consequence, a byproduct of Seattle’s restorative justice policies, and went on with her mental health issues / intent to harm police officers.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM INTO NAZIS!?! ISN'T THAT JUST AS BAD AS THE PEOPLE ON A WEBSITE DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO CYBERBULLYING!?"

Really?

Really?

What the FUCK is wrong with you?

Look, I know it's considered bad form to call out people on HN in the way I'm doing here, but seriously. What the FUCK is wrong with you?
Creating a monetary incentive to judiciously use a scarce resource seems to be exactly the kind of problem a market solves. Or in the case of a command-economy, perhaps the policies of the party running the state for the last decade should been more effective in addressing basic problems like "how do we feed ourselves?"
Also read the adventures of Wen Amun
At a guess, a super-rich teenager in the Netherlands lives very close to a wide range of shops (i.e. in a city centre), and isn't at all price sensitive. If he wants anything, he walks or cycles to a shop in under 5 minutes and buys it.

His family or father might use a PA for some purchases.

(I am much more surprised when people here say they make online purchases several times a week. I make an online purchase about every 3 months.)
You'll own nothing and be happy about it as the life motto goes.
Trying to bootstrap the metaverse, bear with me.
In my head, lobbying in US is already the same with bribing. Unless this lobbying things don't associate with money to certain people or organizations.

Sometimes I wonder if we include lobbying in bribing, where would US government rank in most corrupt government in the world.
I think OP wrote .25¢/gallon, not 25¢/gallon.
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Maybe the opposite. People feel they can be extra rude because you can’t see their face?
Regarding (2), I think it illustrate the more general phenomenon of the global shift of blue collar vote to the right, against their interests.
It is related to the cost of construction. I paid 600k+ for a nice condo with concrete slab between floors. I never heard anything from my neighbors. Wood construction might be a different story.
... which is very helpful to have when someone is committing violent crime.

I for one am glad there's police presence in my mid size town (61k).
LOL what a joke. That's why you should always use a VPN. also, judges are corrupt.
Instead of guessing what other people may need, try creating a product that you need. Unless it’s super niche there are probably other people who need such a thing too.
Is your assertion that only white people can uphold an inherently racist system?
Somehow this brought to mind the Netscape Lore of their CEO issuing the edict:

“If you see a snake, kill it. Don’t play with dead snakes. And everything looks like a snake at first.”

I think it was intended in a different context to decision making, perhaps more ideas in general. But it came to mind non-the-less.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? We've had to ask you many times. If you keep it up we're going to have to ban you. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So, the NYPD is hiring a most of their workforce from minorities, who are then banding together to support systemic racism, because I am making the fallacy of composition?

I'll admit my argument here isn't proven with academic rigour, but the NYPD isn't the racist actor in the current narrative.
I feel any crime involving physical force (such as breaking and entering) constitutes violence, whether it involves a person or property. From the American Heritage dictionary (https://www.wordnik.com/words/violence):

> Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.
I'm not but many people will interact with people wearing mask differently (knowingly or unknowingly).

Besides, the staff hate the mask but they have to wear because of the policy.

It also contribute to shortage of worker: its already a hard job and now with added mask!
What’s your point? Some an anecdote means that people working in the service industry shouldn’t earn a viable minimum wage? That they have to resort to essentially begging to earn a living? Tip culture is dumb, they provide a service. If they did an amazing job maybe add it on top. If they did it awfully, well complain, and it can work like any other business where someone is not up to standard.

What is your job? Software engineer? Do you want to be tipped for lines committed to git? Alleged higher skilled jobs you aren’t treated like this. Good human interaction does actually require skill. It’s not like some
glue programming job that can probably be replaced by a neural net.
Word of advice: Everybody (I know) who developed a contentEditable editor moved at the end away from it or came to the conclusion that a event based editor is the technical better choice. ContentEditable looks only good at the beginning and has many nasty little and bigger flaws.

All problems start with caret placing and multi browser support and ends with undo or collaborative editing (when you go deep into the rabbit whole).

When I think about it: Never develop an editor on your own ;)
Sure, at their own peril.

Ban speech we, collectively as a society deem hateful, no problem.

Ban speech that is critical of those in power .... well, good luck with that. History is not on your side.
>The police are not really interested in helping people, rather just blindly enforcing the law, and let's not even talk about prejudices.

Broad generalization based on a few bad apples is the definition of prejudice and fueling more prejudice is not exactly helpful. Many police choose that career because they have been victims of crime or known victims. I've personally witnessed police help young, old, black and white in situations that have nothing to do with enforcing the law. And when enforcing the law the vast majority of times the enforcement protects others from further robbery, assault, domestic abuse, rape, murder, property destruction, car accidents, etc. Good police far outnumber the bad actors.
Thanks! This comment made my day. Certainly knowing which directions not to go in is a big part of my efficiency, and something I'll point to whenever I get asked that question in the future.
Marin is probably an outlier (no Sierra snowmelt water) and the issue does seem quite dire there. I'm not sure most of the reservoirs were ever dug, they were just dammed. You'd have to move the water to dredge them at this point.

Seems like further conservation is needed, I think Sonoma has imposed further restrictions as well. Desalination could meet the human demands but likely at extreme cost the small county couldn't really afford, it would need to be shared with the rest of the urban area but with continued (although diminishing) cheap water from rivers/mountains that seems unlikely.
I think I'm okay, but thank you for the offer. I've had dozens of people, friends and strangers alike, offer to talk. <3
I appreciate your positive reply. We could all honestly use more of that.
Amazon Netherlands only launched on March 10th 2020.
Here we mostly use bol.com which is so ingrained that Amazon long time did not see a reason to compete.

https://digitalfront.nl/amazon-launch-netherlands/
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. That's not what this site is for, regardless of how wrong someone is or how bad another comment is, or you feel they are or it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Congrats on the launch!

Question about pricing. I picked a random course (guitar) and it said it was $15 for a course with a ratio of 1:6 for 60 minutes. So from the kid's perspective their parent is paying $15 for 10 minutes (assuming 1 on 1 time is distributed equally). This gives us a 1 on 1 time hourly rate of $90 / hour. In NYC a high quality piano teacher (for example) is $100 an hour for 1:1. An average can be had as cheaply as $50.

Can you explain how the value-add is higher here compared to my example? Seems pretty expensive IMHO.

There was actually another startup introduced today in the other thread that did something similar for therapy, but in that case it was actually slightly cheaper than therapy with insurance, albeit their therapists weren't as qualified and the group sizes were larger.

I'd either increase the group size and decrease the price or demonstrate on your site that it's worth more than in an person experience somehow.

Edit: oh not all the classes are the same ratio. Most seem to be 1:6 so I’ll leave my comment as is. Guitar specifically is 1:3
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Your estimation of "very likely" here is entirely made up, imaginary, based on nothing but your own preconceived notions.
Hello there. Public rooms sound nice, so you can join in with random people. Thanks for the idea.

Although we do want to keep the focus on this being a social game. Something you play on discord or at work with people you know. So a bot somewhat takes it away from it.
This assumes that consensus is achieved by cutting or subtracting from the original idea rather than adding/enhancing it.
Looks great but how it is different than AWS config?
You have just assigned zero or near-zero value to software, art (prints etc), music recordings, video recordings, books, sheet music, etc. Most copyrighted works.

Plenty of companies make money selling software, and purchasing hosting and support is often not possible or not required. Your own company even does this, I see you sell a lifetime license to the desktop version.
I actually think that we're nearing peak China. They have a demographic time bomb getting ready to kill GDP growth in the next 2 decades. Coupled with increasing cost of living, inequality and falling social mobility, China will have a similar problem to the west sooner than you think.
Ink in its current form/design has a few fatal flaws, mostly around poorly conceived syntax and semantics. I didn't notice it in design because I was new to designing a PL, but noticed them as I wrote a lot of software in Ink. These are pretty fundamental to the language so re-doing them would constitute a hugely breaking version change, but those changes are necessary I think for me to be confident telling other people to try it and use it. Some of these "flaws" I found are:

- I want real lists/arrays rather than Lua table-style data structures

- I need either pipelines (->>, |>) or class-style methods for ergonomics

- Testing and module system stories need a lot of work.

- Syntax quirks makes some kinds of nice constructs syntactically impossible or verbose (e.g. calling a fn defined on an object requires parenthesis to override the default order of operations)

I recently started hacking on a sort of "Ink 2.0" that preserves a lot of what I like about Ink (minimalism, lispy-ness, value rather than reference types, match expressions) without many of the design flaws. I might share and push that more publicly once I feel it's getting ready.
I use kj to save time. ;)
I've never been to the site, no, but I'm somewhat familiar with what they're all about.
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Stephen Hawking didn't seem like a sex pest either. It's too bad about them.
The original Lemmings level editor
Not sure if this is what the OP intended. But Toyota famously distribute the decision making process in a process they call Nemawashi[1] which only after they know they have 100% buyin do they officially make the decision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemawashi
I fully support laws that criminalize doxing and targeted harassment.

I'm also a big fan of helping people deal with such toxic behavior. Through good support networks and the ability to block out groups such as this.

Just as I want violent crime to be punished but also want people to be able to protect themselves.

In both cases not everyone can be 100% protected but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea to help those you can.

In both cases you can criminalize certain behavior but you can't prevent it. Because evil people will always be present in society.
The "tivoization" was not the only change in GPLv3. It also has patents related changes, which I think is what scared apple.
Even normal people barely use Amazon since it only recently launched last year there and we have other well working alternatives online.
And yes Dutch also like to order a lot of things online. It is just easier to set up services like Amazon locally in such a densely populated country with good infrastructure that we did not needed Amazon to compete.
Meters on wells make a lot of sense.

However, using satellites to measure crop growth and using that to infer water usage is counter productive. It doesn’t incentivize efficient use of water! (For example, if you get charged by crop yield, not water usage, so why bother switching from flood irrigation to drip?)

The law should be amended to disallow satellite-based “metering” by local municipalities.
Almonds could probably still be profitable with buried drip irrigation as the water usage would be drastically reduced, they are still expensive and prices could likely go higher before you stopped selling them. You'd price out low value crops like alfalfa that feeds livestock.
> KiwiFarms exists thanks to Cloudflare

Should cloudflare spin up an editorial board to decide what platforms to drop based on complaints? What about cases of poisoning the well, I can get my competitors taken offline by making ugly comments and complaining to cloudflare. It’s untenable, if a customer is breaking the law, let the law seize their servers, until then the service providers should not be adjudicators.
I was hoping to see few more pictures of the ship. Does anyone have a better link?
Good, er, catch! URL changed to that from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/facing-warming-wat.... Thanks!
Stratospheric sulfur dioxide injection is one option
Uncontroversial speech does not need protection. Sentencing someone to prison for 1/10th of their remaining life span for publishing hurtful words is barbaric.
Architectural Digest is doing paid advertorials now?
Agreed, But FOMO home page content can be still be overwhelming as the rate of change of new content is high. Thankfully HN has 'best stories' feature.

So to reduce the addiction by slowing things down further, I started reading best HN stories on my kindle. Apart from sweet e-paper goodness it also allows me to assimilate the knowledge in comments which we all know is the real gold using clipping.

I've hosted it as a service too[1].

[1] https://hntokindle.com
In this thread we aren't talking about violent crime though. We're talking about mental health.
I think this would still be massively more expensive than the current cost farmers pay for water. Just increase prices and let them reduce usage before trying to grow crops with expensive desalinated water.
If you use 3,200 per bath you should be in jail. That is seriously a ridiculous waste of water per bath.

That’s years worth of baths for most people - average cost per bath at 0.25 cents per gallon would be 7 cents.

Realize farmers use water measured in ACRE feet
> Some of the techniques used in building the warship are clearly Greek, like the mortise-and-tenon joints (ones in which a tab from one piece of wood fits into a slot cut into the adjoining piece) that hold many of its timbers together. But other aspects of the ship’s design and construction are distinctly ancient Egyptian. Those clues, combined with some timbers that had evidently been salvaged and re-used from older ships, suggest that the warship was built somewhere in Egypt.

Everything is a remix…
Tell that to the Columbia River basin.
Equivalent of a chest x-ray