skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nextdoor is so localized, and it seems like that's kind of the ideal use case for decentralized services.

Ideal use cases for decentralized services are also ideal business opportunities. You want to find collective action problems, charge rent for solving them, then manipulate your users to make you even more money from whatever resource is being collectively managed.

edit: I can easily imagine an app started to organize and coordinate people who wanted to volunteer to pick-up and clean public parks 10 years later becoming a app that was de facto required in order to visit a public park.
Yeah. It’s so flexible. I get frustrated at Python (Django) serializers that legitimately need to depend on each other. And the answer on the forums is to create a near duplicate class.
Well the networked machine system would need vastly more sophisticated programming to operate at the same level of reliability. A difference in magnitude could be a difference in kind, though I haven’t actually read of anyone specifically addressing the point.
Does California do reclaimed water?

I ask because experience in Florida (of all places, did not expect but was pleasantly surprised by!). They reprocess waste water back to non-potable, but sterilized standards, then run it out a parallel pipe system for irrigation use.

Makes perfect sense, especially since you effectively get (1) geologic filtration & (2) lower discharge volume treatment effort for free.
Why every founder should cold email (+ some fundamentals)
For one thing, setting that policy merits a malware detection in defender itself!

https://twitter.com/Karunamon/status/1413280394439397376
Thanks again for explaining it so well. Usually me and you do not agree on healthcare issues, but this is one area where we seem to be on the same page.

As for diagnosing rare or very rare diseases, yes, it is possible, as you said. However, if you search for the rare disease I have in PUBMED, there are only 111 journal articles that have been written about it, and some are in foreign languages. The information on it is very sparse. I also doubt that it would be diagnosed by AI, as it effectively looks like "diabetes complications" (I have type 1 diabetes) and even though I had autonomic neuropathy at age 5, the onset of symptoms was very insidious.
That makes sense. Hubris is always what the other person does.
When I was young I really, really wanted a tamagotchi. My parents wouldn't buy one for me with the same reasoning as in that South Park episode. So I wrote one for myself in Quick Basic. Several years later I become a professional software developer. :D I guess thanks mum thanks dad. :)

(Because I never really played with a real tamagotchi I had to figure out for myself what a tamagotchi should do. So mine was a pig. And I had this "game design" problem that every time you feed it it got just a bit heavier. And of course unbounded weight gain is not good, so I added a menu point to slaughter the pig. I even went to the library to research how many kgs of sausage and bacon it should generate per 100kg of raw pig. Turns out real tamagotchis don't work this way.)
Saharan Dust: A Rain of Fertilizer
This paper is seriously flawed. I'm surprised it was published.
I live in Southern California, and the lawn watering rules were surprisingly lenient during the last drought.
It does sound ideal to me, or at least better than the initial proposal.

A and B both need to know about the other's base definition, neither cares about the details about the other's derived classes. Splitting it into three modules shares as little surface area as possible.
There is literally no government in the world that isn't somewhat accountable to citizens.

Meanwhile, there are many multinationals that are not accountable at all to the citizens of countries they operate in.
UT Austin press release: https://news.utexas.edu/2021/07/24/ut-austin-mourns-death-of...
This is a distraction. Autocrats make law that lets them do as they please. The reality is that this software was designed and sold to repress protest and democracy movements, both directly and by creating a climate of fear and paranoia around them.
I share your optimism but I think it it is unrealistic to unquestionably assume that SpaceX will continue to succeed. The very nature of the problems that they are trying to solve is such that failure is always a possibility.

I don’t say this as a slight to SpaceX… on the contrary the risk is what makes them so exciting!
The phrase says "essential liberty" not "a little Liberty".
According to Ray Peat, any amount of PUFA is toxic, but especially so in quantities of more than a gram a day. And most of us today get tons more than 1g. One of the reasons is the desaturation of cardiolipin in mitochondria, leading to instability and dysfunction.
Can we start to talk about massive desalination projects? The Israelis seem to have made it work.[1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...
> with the programming in question being Intel and AMD's proprietary microcode formats

No, as far as I know, the design mistakes which lead to Spectre (and other similar vulnerabilities) are not on the microcode; these design mistakes are on an even lower level, in the hardware structures which execute both simple instructions (which are decoded directly, without going through the microcode engine) and microcode instructions. Most of what the microcode "fixes" for Spectre and similar do, is flipping a few "chicken bits" (to disable or bypass some of the hardware structures), and providing extra semantics to a few of the complex instructions (which go through the microcode engine) like LFENCE and VERW; these changes do not actually fix the problem (which is on physical hardware), but instead give software ways to workaround the issue.

You should argue instead that the programming in question is the VHDL or Verilog (or other proprietary language) which was used to generate the hardware.
Interesting. How do you hold your phone with one hand, in such a way that it is secure, and you aren't accidentally hitting the buttons, or having the meat of your hand make contact with the screen?

My pinky is normally a hard stop for the bottom of the phone,so that I don't have to apply much pressure with my other fingers or the meat of my hand. My thumb therefore can reach the bottom half of the phone easily, but needs to be readjusted to reach the top.

This image leads me to believe that I'm not the only one with this problem:
https://www.apptentive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen...
Reward them for their hard work and responsibility.
> The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes
> Also, can K9 do a "disable work emails outside of work hours" kind of thing?

K-9 Mail has a "quiet time" feature that will not create notifications during the quiet period. It applies to all accounts, though.
I linked a definition above in my earlier comment. Violence involves exertion of physical force to cause damage or injury. The recipient of the violence (be it property or a person) is not relevant. Would I consider your example violence? No. But I would consider someone forcefully breaking into a car or someone committing arson to be violence, due to the unusual exertion of physical force.

> I think if you're honest, you'd say that you prefer property crimes to be treated as violence.

I have the opposite perspective, that most people have a wider definition for violence than just harm against a person. I feel activists who want to excuse low level crime or rioting tend to be the ones who prefer to narrowly define violence. But such a redefinition wouldn’t make sense - we already have terms like “assault” for narrow cases like harm against a person. Violence is something broader.
You can read how Google is going to do it, regardless of what upstream decides to do.

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/05/integrating-rust-int...

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/rustc-interop-in-and...
That's a pretty good idea.
WhatAboutism.

A huge amount of the low price of fossil fuels comes from the tax breaks and other subsidies to producers. Imagine the benefits of halting that, and maybe subsiding clean energy instead.

https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/fossil-fu...

Gasoline taxes in the USA are lower than in other industrialized countries

https://taxfoundation.org/oecd-gas-tax/
And here I was thinking it's always been about money.
Clojure Microservices for JavaScript Developers
The CEO comes of as a callous idiot here. That being said, the obsession with NSO is a bit much given that the real culprits are governments. Yes, NSO is supplying a nasty tool to authoritarian governments when it should not but I don’t see anyone vociferously fretting over NSO showing an ounce of concern for the billions in financing and in actual weapons of war being sold, or the material support of these same authoritarian governments by the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, etc., etc.

France, for example, has officially done a lot more to prop up Saudi Arabia and its cruelty than NSO ever has or will.

The hypocrisy is astounding.
This particular quote includes two adjectives which I'm not seeing on all occasions it is brought up: "essential Liberty" and "temporary Safety". Operating a vehicle under influence and in an unsafe manner does not fall under "essential" in my view.
Even if it is also a link in the chain which makes sure the disparity is broken?

You do realize that it is possible for it to be both right?

The question is whether or not it helps more than it hurts and no one seems to care that it helps the students from poorer areas distinguish themselves.
The costs are out of whack. Environmental externalities are paid for by everybody instead of the person creating them. We need carbon taxes to fix that problem.

This is on top how much zoning craziness distorts the market.
His point is still essentially the same, even if the roles have reversed a bit. Replace Penn family with today's government, and the governor with a citizen about to give up his rights. The governor was going to give up the people's right to tax the Penn family in exchange for a one time payment. The governor would be making a short term sacrifice to help those dying on the frontier at the long term expense of the people. That is more or less how most people use the quote today.

That being said, I don't think most would consider driving 120 mph while snorting coke an essential liberty. The OP makes a much more reasonable point which you refuse to address.
The article seems to focus on "remembering a time before ...<foo>" and a general reverence of non-digital lifestyle etc like that is the important bit.

I guess I am a xenial, and I remember this cross-over period as one of epic excitement and wonder as this "internet thing" took off and became something amazing. I was lucky enough to be online when a 14.4 modem was fast and seeing the internet grow and develop since then at the same time as I grew and developed into an adult was quite the thing to experience. Fuck "knowing the analog days" - being there as the internet took off and changed was brilliant for me. Eager anticipation of genuinely big technical leaps that duly arrived and changed our lives significantly - broadband, MP3 players, smart phones, WiFi, pervasive 3g etc

This was world-changing stuff happening in our hands.

Kids today get what? To experience that time when Instagram/TikTok/<next app> went viral? How underwhelming.
What about laws that are unjust? Should we accept blanket surveillance and the disruption of social movements? Why should we accept a unidirectional concentration of power into a tiny number of hands?
Royal Dutch Shell is headquartered in the Netherlands and registered in the UK, and both countries are part of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention that criminalizes the bribery of foreign public officials.

Even if it were not, I struggle to understand the purpose of your comment.

Do you mean to say that it's morally justified for Shell to bribe Nigerian officials? Because it goes unpunished by governments? Or because the citizenry of Nigeria that do not benefit from such bribery are unable to punish such transgressions? Or is it just a nitpicky "gotcha" that adds nothing and isn't even correct?
I agree with everything here except I’m not sure that value will necessarily result from focusing on cost.

I think if you focus on cost alone, you’re going to build poor neighborhoods and jump start a cycle of poverty.

I think the key is to build diverse neighborhoods. You want poor, rich, and middle income housing all in the same place. The segregation of incomes is how we got into this mess to begin with.
Precisely correct. I got into a fascinating discussion with a Hydrologist from UC Davis who was studying water transport (the whole evaporate -> rain -> run off cycle) and their thesis was that mechanisms that entrap water (reservoirs) that are based on gradual rainfall over months, are not the ideal water catchment solution for water that comes sporadically in very large dumps. The Mayan's had an extensive network of cisterns[1] that captured water for later use when it wasn't raining heavily.

Anyway, the practical upshot of that is that different infrastructures do better at capturing and releasing water and they have to be tuned to the water transport mechanism for optimum effect. Changes in the climate that change water transport are likely to invalidate existing infrastructure "design rules" and existing infrastructure built for a different water transport cycle will be less effective resulting in less net water delivery.

Wild right?

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/technology-rainwate...
The abnormal is normal with ag production. There’s always a drought or a flood somewhere or over or under supply, market forces and bad predictions. Volatility is normal when you are beholden to the weather, pests, and shifting demand.

People choose what to plant or to plant at all in marginal land, they choose cultivars targeting specific weather patterns that are right or wrong, or a weather pattern makes a great year or a terrible one. This is all situation normal.

A lot of market analysis is just filling space with words or inventing attribution.
NSO is not the problem, secrecy and lack of public awareness are the problem. This scandal is good because it's shining light on the power that governments can wield in the shadows which most people are unaware of.

The solution is to keep shining light and putting pressure on technology makers to improve security, end-to-end encryption, and keeping the power in the hands of individual users. The pressure piece is critical since the natural business incentives to centralize and collect more data make us more vulnerable to centralized surveillance and compromise.
That's not a counterargument, just an example where it happened to work out.

In many places, existing train track isn't suitable. E.g. there's only a single track in either direction so a fast train can't pass a local one that makes every stop, or the track/signaling isn't designed for high speeds, or a combination of tracks with incompatible gauges would be needed, or a million other reasons.

Just because it works in one place doesn't mean it works as a general rule.
> "The people that are not criminals, not the Bin Ladens of the world— there's nothing to be afraid of. They can absolutely trust on the security and privacy of their Google and Apple devices," Hulio said.

So is he saying that journalists are the Bin Ladens of the world?
No they are also a problem.
Reduplicative Paramnesia
I run Docker Swarm on my homelab, but I honestly wouldn't touch it for production because it's lacking features that I find critical and doesn't show any signs of developing them soon.

For example, Swarm secrets can only be exposed as files, not as environment variables. You can argue this is more secure because file permissions are more granular than env vars, but IMO that's a silly argument in a container context because containers are almost always single-user to begin with. Moreover, the vast majority of containerized applications expect their secrets in env vars, so you have to resort to fragile entry point wrappers if you want to make use of Swarm secrets.
The Oculus Rift definitely had more than what you’re talking about, and it was the first oculus
It's the greatest generation. I wish Wikipedia would call it Oregon Trail Generation rather than Xennial, since the latter sounds hideous like a Xenomorph or something.
Not necessarily. If the copyright owners of a license believe that the license is to be interpreted one particular way, to the point of making public statements about it, that can be construed by a court to have amended the license. At the very least you probably could argue estoppel if the owner changes their mind and decides to start suing.

In other words, if Linus says "GPLv2 doesn't require kernel installation on hardware it gets ported to and sold on", then GPLv2 doesn't for the Linux kernel, or at least the parts of it Linus owns. (In practice, a good chunk of the core kernel dev team believes this and has said so, so this also applies for them, too.)

That being said, you are correct that interpretation-related estoppels and/or implied license amendments probably wouldn't save most Android vendors, since their violations are not limited to just Installation Instructions. I know of nothing that Linus has said that would make statically linking all your drivers into a kernel with no source release OK. However, the post I was replying to was specifically talking about locked bootloaders; not that.
Are you asking if social ostracism amongst teenagers is a thing?
The first oculus is the rift though
Make it easier to build new things, and people speculating on a nearly fixed supply of existing structures won't be able to gouge their tenants as much.

As usual, the solution is the same. Let people build more.
If only it were that simple. So now your supposedly "fast" direct train is stuck waiting behind a local subway that makes every single stop, because there's only a single train track in each direction.

Believe me, if the job were easier, it would be done everywhere already.
Yeah in some parts there's no law... law-abiding has no meaning.
So am article explaining why a comparison of statistical metrics is incorrect by introducing more metrics and patting yourself on the back.

The justification is rather tortured to put it mildly I was hoping this was attempting to correct for the life expectancy for older people based on the life expectancy for them at the median of their lives and comparing how this drifts between generations.

Unless I'm misunderstanding why the goalposts have been moved here, how is the given starting statement inaccurate based on the Ons data?
(serious question here BTW...)
The issue here isn't physically exporting the water but exporting the externality. It's like investing in a heavily polluting industry is "exporting pollution" - the product itself contains trace of the pollution, but the local damage was done on behalf of the product.

I mean, once used this water ain't getting back to the aquifer anytime soon! If it were, we wouldn't be talking about aquifer depletion and there wouldn't be any concern regarding its use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrafting
Yup, these kinds of things are definitely on the agenda as we integrate the core ideas here into Hazel. We kept things minimal in Tylr to focus on the core ideas with minimal "magic".
You and the above poster are overstating your case. Your post boils down to "don't u believe in science lol?"

I agree with this comment: https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control...

I think that if rent control doesn't hurt housing supply, it's because of various regulations that are distorting the market. Enacting rent control instead of reforming those regulations seems silly to me.
So A/electromagnetism is a natural consequence of the universe having a free (complex modulo 1) parameter/field in addition to just the wavefunction Ψ. ?
Sorry, the top of whatever our bracket was was my point (that this is a marginal income decision, meaning marginal bracket analysis applies).

It was the 33% bracket federally, which wasn’t the top bracket overall, except perhaps in years with exceptionally good capital gains.
> since Nigeria is the African superpower, there is little that anyone can do about it.

There is little anyone in Africa can do. Other countries can do plenty, but after the nation building demonstrated in Iraq and Afghanistan by the western powers, belief in their prowess must surely be non-existent. So much damage has been done with those fiascos.
It’s expensive to build and takes time, but is feasible especially if we have nuclear energy to meet increased demands. Sam Diego built a giant desalination plant a few years ago and hoped it would supply more of the city’s needs, but it is only good for about 7% of their demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...). California the state would need a huge number of these.
The automaker example is awful in this case. This is a drunk guy going into a car rental and asking to take it for a spin. NSO being the rental company says do you have cash? Drunk guy gives a pile of cash and rental company gives them a car to drive. Drunk driver kills someone. Is the car rental company liable? We just rent cars they say as a defense, but know they are selling to someone who is dangerous and isn't known for abiding by international (or perhaps western) norms of behavior.

You cannot have it both ways, if you're going to sell the software to awful regimes who target people like journalists, you're responsible for the outcomes. The fact they found it was used on Khashoggi family phones would seemingly implicate them in the murder of a journalist. Did they kill him? Probably not. But if their software is being used by governments who did kill him, then they contributed.

I hope they get criminally held responsible for assisting in the murder of Khashoggi if they are found guilty and we need laws and norms to catch up to a place where this kind of business is more restricted/limited.
Note that light isn't particularly special in this context, what is special (very special) is the speed of light. Other things travel at the speed of light, indeed everything massless is forced to travel at the speed of light. Other things that travel at the speed of light include gravitational waves and gluons*.

Basically "the speed of light" should be called "the speed of massless things" or possibly "the speed of causality" or something. We just call it "the speed of light" because light is the first thing we discovered that travels at this special speed.

*the star is because everything about quantum-chromodynamics is terrible so gluons don't really ever exist as particles themselves. If they did they would travel at the speed of light.
If you look at the references in the patent this doesn't appear to be the case.
I think that discussion about "suburbs" tend not to accomplish much because the word isn't really defined. I mean, in common parlance, but also in the US government I believe that things like the census divide everything into urban and rural.

I live within city limits, in a multifamily building. But the edge of the city outside of which is presumably "suburban" is literally a few dozen feet away. Also, my neighborhood has a layout and look that I think a lot of people would consider suburban. No businesses, mostly no sidewalks, mostly a cookie cutter development. On the other hand, it's super quick to go from where I live (by car that is) into the middle of the city where I work, which is kind of against the stereotype of suburbs. It's also much cheaper than the "actual" suburbs, probably because it's part of the city school district.