skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the price of water would not work effectively either. Almonds have high margins and more pricing power than most crops. To say nothing of the obnoxious fact that around 2/3 of the US almond crop is exported (ie California is depleting their water supply to line the pockets of a billionaire almond cartel and exporting their scarce water resources in the process).

And even if the rich almond growers could somehow afford dramatically higher water prices, it still doesn't make sense to allow them to consume so much of California's water - water which is a critical, scarce public good being converted to very narrow private wealth.

The correct solution is to ban the growing of all almond, pistachio and walnut crops in California. The minimum they should do is ban the export of those crops, although that is likely still not enough.
How does Germany manage to export $110.34B to China? Your arguments seem reasonable, but it seems that the ultimate conclusion is that Germany cannot export anything as China would do it cheaper. Does this situation also apply to other countries like the USA? Is not possible to compete with China anymore?
"techies"
Unfortunately those that draw that line in reality are the same people who want encryption banned for consumers but not government agencies because it prevents the sharing of child pornography and terrorism make that decision. Are they right? Is that the only argument that matters?
You're forgetting about the small inventor. If I'm sitting in my garage and come up with a cool idea that takes me 5 years of knocking on doors to get funded, then I'll get screwed by your approach.
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Walmart quality is miles beyond mean amazon quality. Walmart got where they are from brutalizing their vendors, not their customers. Their vendors are punished for excessive returns.
To be fair, it’s a 50/50 shot whether your high school peers turn out worthless or not. For the children of the HN crowd, I give better than even odds that their real lifelong friendships won’t be formed until college.
Right, but there's no natural law that says we need to structure business or our economy this way. We can form collectives that make decisions based on what the whole group thinks is best. We can federate collectives or make all manner of different arrangements. You have to understand, people are freezing to death after sleeping raw because they have no shelter. People are dying because they can't afford medical bills. It's worth asking ourselves if we're really doing the right thing.
If we're talking about Sinuhe, that's on the wrong side of the Late Bronze Age systems collapse. Other than perhaps faint echos found in the Greek epics and the Hebrew scriptures, Mediterranean texts from the other side of the collapse were undeciphered until the 19th century. Ramesses II and Alexander are more than eight centuries apart, with Alexander being on our side of the collapse.

On the other hand, that Greco-Roman culture that was so influential is in no small part Egyptian. Alexandria was a major cultural center of the Greco-Roman world. Egypt was the first nation to convert to Christianity en masse and that influence on Christianity remains today.
Not to mention that we'd need to pump those millions of acre-feet uphill into the various agricultural regions. Some are lower lying but if California is serious about its GHG targets, it won't be building the massive power stations required to pump all of that water in addition to desalinating it.
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My spouse and I have both reflected on our 90s childhoods as periods of functional non-history.
Kaluza's work is mentioned in the first paragraph of the paper. How can you write such an inflammatory critique without having actually read the paper?
Right but apparently that doesn't kill me. The question is what happens to industrial runoff in the water stream and if that has any effect on food safety.
I agree with you — and there must be a name for this kind of thinking. I was going to jokingly call you a "red" but, kidding aside, it's not even close to Communism. You're suggesting something more akin to forward-looking Capitalism.
This is a scary situation. Personally, I would like to see allocation of agricultural water for maximum human nutrition value per gallon: chicken (much, much, much less water per ounce than beef, and much less than pork), soybeans and peas (less than chickpeas), kale, Brussels sprouts, carrots, etc. that take relatively little water. There are good web sites that break down nutrients vs. water used.

It seems like we are approaching two problems: economic collapse for middle class and poor people, and problems with food production. I wish that news media would cover these topics.

The problem is that the only things on the table for discussion by our governments and news media is the promotion of things that maximize corporate profits or otherwise cater to special interests.
Full disk encryption with the key stored in a TPM or something makes sense as a way to enable a quick secure erase. If you clear the key from the TPM, the storage is useless; or if the storage gets removed for decommisioning, it's going to be hard to match it back up to the TPM, even if the TPM isn't cleared.
At the very least, the rationale behind some of the restrictions was poorly and (I think) in some cases dishonestly communicated. Outdoor dining, playground shutdowns, etc., come to mind. It's very hard to stand up and say for the good of all we're going to do things that will cause some of you to lose your businesses. So many politicians simple didn't.

Moreover a number of the people making such decisions didn't follow their own rules. There are so many instances of this in particular that it's probably not necessary to cite them.
JavaScript does not provide namespaces by default which allows this.

Python is built upon namespaces and cycles in dependencies, either viewed as graph theory or kSAT introduce that fun NP-complete problem of version hell.

Using `need` in Javascript maintains the directed acyclic graph structure, but if you get fancy you will run into the same problems with circular depends in Python.

Karp's 21 and/or SAT will catch up with you at some point if you don't respect the constraints that make the problem tractable.

Note I am not saying I prefer or like pythons choices...but that they had to make one.
Except this is in no way an exploit. Running processes as TrustedInstaller is no different than a user using sudo to run vim as root.
> And I did mention QNED [1] , Nanorod SolidState OLED that drastically improve everything from brightness, efficiency, burn in and even cost. Although that is somewhat 5 years in the future.

Nanorod LEDs are not OLEDs but fairly standard blue leds.

Samsung got a 15 years headstart. I think they are going straight for skipping the mass transfer stage altogether, and growing LEDs on the glass. Their first working blue GaN led on glass was in 2011. 4 or 5 years since they launched the effort.

> There is a reason why even low end Smartphone are switching or planning to switch to OLED display.

Low end smartphone sized OLED screens are actually cheaper in China than decent LCDs from time to time.
More so with whisky than with beer, it's about the flavor, not how drunk it gets you.

And for weed it's more like high concentration of aromatic terpenes == eye watering yummy flavor == health and emotional benefits == also tends to have gobs of THC.

Different strains have different balances and varieties of terpenes and THC. I'd rather smoke "diet weed" with lots of terpenes but little THC, than "crack weed" with no terpenes and pure THC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-terpenes

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-marijuana-l...

Pinene is my pungent favorite, which what makes Sour Diesel smell like a Royal Pine Air Freshener.

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-pinene-and-...

https://www.caliterpenes.com/en/cannabis-terpenes/sour-diese...

https://www.littletrees.com/fragrances/royal-pine
Thanks for these comments. This simplified a whole bunch of things I had questions about.
If the argument is that low individual racism implies low systemic racism of the group then I very clearly mean yes it is a fallacy of composition. I want to disentangle the idea that a fallacious requires implies a judgement of the truth value of the argument. It doesn't. It just means that avenue of reasoning is flawed. There may be other ways of proving that the NYPD is not as a group racist, but by arguing by way of individuals is not one of them.
My mistake! In that case, I just love drones. Also Zurich.
Just as a side anec-note, I’ve seen “NB” far more frequently than _nota bene_ (in fact this thread may be one of the only times ever)
> The execution time overheads for the SPEC CPU2017 and Phoenix benchmark suites were 44% and 25% respectively, whereas the reduction in the throughput for the Apache webserver when the CPUs were fully saturated was 30%. These results indicate that CGuard can be highly effective while maintaining a reasonable degree of efficiency.

Calling this "efficient" is a stretch. There's not many C projects that can tolerate a 30% performance hit.

Apple did something similar with their bootloader: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/memory-safe-iboot-i...
So they make around 1 dollar per 1000 gallons? People rationing their shower time as urged by authorities must be proud that they could save a farmer somewhere a cent or two.
I may be starting to get it. The magic numbers we add to everything or multiply everything with really represents just a change in the viewpoint, origin of the observer. And because it should be possible to change the "location" of the observer (say the voltage we take to be 0 volts) and still get the same theory to hold up, we can discover that it can only hold up if we assume the existence of some new field. Something like this?
A really simple example is voltage. What does it even mean if one cable is on a potential of 5 V? It's always compared with the Ground voltage since the voltage is always a difference between 2 electric potentials. That means you could add a constant to each potential and nothing would change. So in this case not gauging would be quite hacky... (This example has nothing to do with the phase though, but just to illustrate. Almost always when you measure something, some gauging is at least implicitly involved.)

So it turns out this happens quite often that there is some kind of constant that can be divided out. In case of particle physics a whole framework has been developed out of it that has really close relations to Lie group theory. (The experimentally confirmed parallels are just astonishing with group generators and elements corresponding to interaction particles and the normal particles.)
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That's an interesting idea. I think we also need to consider the possibility that some of these areas experiencing drought might be unfit for agriculture. To put it another way, maybe we should be helping the farmers move rather than the water?
I bet this is the first use of large scale desalination. It already takes huge amounts of power to pump the water over the mountains to L.A. so reducing that load could make the desalination power requirements more palatable.
The biggest most successful and best run organizations I've worked for have not worried about hosting their software. They're concerned with delivering value to customers and doing it quickly.

The most fractured and worst run companies have been concerned with self-hosting and frankly they sympathized with a lot of the stuff I'm seeing on here.

But I recognize we still need people self-hosting because it drives innovation and competition. I believe there are ways of doing things well while self-hosting, but I'm not sure what those ways are.
> there will always be security holes and tools to take advantage of them. Shaming the toolmaker does little.

And there'll always be ways and weapons to rob banks and kill the clerks,

so selling weapons to bank robbers is fine then, as per that logic

> Those who are in countries where the people don't control the government really have no recourse

They can arrange protests and other things and try to long term change the country to a democracy. And that gets harder and more dangerous, when NSO and others help the dictators track down dissidents.
It could simply be brand recognition. Visitors to a city will know which chain stores to visit to get what they need, glossing over (or avoiding) unfamiliar stores.

So mom&pop stores get local customers, while chain stores get local PLUS just-visiting customers; multiply by months and years.
There are a few incredibly wealthy family offices buying up most of the apartment building and commercial space in Toronto and across Canada. I'm not sure but the two guys mentioned (Stephen Shiller and Danny Lavy) could be the group I was told are funded by very wealthy Israelis. There is also a German family office that owns about 5 billion (in 2010 money) in commercial space in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. These are just two that I know of for sure through people who own large amounts of commercial real estate in Toronto. In Toronto the goal is to accumulate enough of these store fronts that you can basically demolish a good part of the street block and build a Condo. Politicians are only concerned about tax revenue and not the character of a neighborhood, a Condo brings in far more property tax $$$ than a storefront.

People don't understand how a Landlord would rather leave a space empty than keep it full because 5-50k a month lease (in Toronto) or whatever they are paying seems like a lot but the reality is you're talking about billionaires who are playing a long game and are acquiring land for development and not rental money which indecently is a pittance for them and not worth the effort.
If you read the patent [1], you would see that a lot of the claims are around the process and environment that is necessary to get the proper doping. In particular, it seems to involve some rather specific pressure control within the crucible as well as control of the amount of oxygen in the crucible by using argon as a buffer gas. This patent is less about the use of gallium to dope the silicon as it is about a specific and precise manufacturing process that is necessary to prevent the whole ingot from having too much resistance or having a lifetime worse than a boron-doped silicon ingot.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6815605B1/en
I doubt there is that much demand for table salt. Maybe it could be used to deice roads in areas that have freezing weather in the wintertime, now most places use mined salt for that.
> You're forgetting about the small inventor.

How often will that happen? The existing system seems to massively favour keeping existing big companies big. A small inventor can easily ignored. Meaning, there's quite a difference between being right and ensuring a company does the right thing.

Some products (e.g. mobile phones) are covered by hundreds of patents. A small inventor having a huge benefit from patents? It maybe happens, but I really doubt the benefits outweighs the clear damage that patents are having.
maybe they should invest in c++ to rust tooling.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

-- Cardinal Richelieu
It seems to me that we already do tidal power, so combining a tidal power and desalination plan into an all-in-one solution seems interesting to me.
> By definition, the income from renting a property is greater than the taxes one could have deducted, because tax rates are not over 100%.

I think the issue is more with capital appreciation. Yes, month to month you're still losing nominal dollars for not having a tenant, even with lower taxes. However, that land/building are likely still seeing appreciation, even in markets that aren't "hot".

Some friends of mine recently bought a building to open a restaurant. I'm pretty sure it had been vacant for more than half its lifetime, yet trying to negotiate with the owner was a nightmare. They simply didn't want to budge and were apparently very content with saying 'No' to offers and letting it sit there for well over half a decade empty.
The issue when it's people is it let's parasites enter a lifecycle which isn't complicated. Human feces is more likely to have parasites infectious to humans
I am not arguing with you, but with the expense and energy costs of moving water over mountain ranges, wouldn’t it make more sense to double down on increasing solar and wind power and technology that reduces the energy costs of desalinization?
Why would anyone use ammonia as fuel?
This is a great tool, thanks for telling us about it (actually I discovered that I've bookmarked the searx page before and forgot about it:))
The OP said old devices, but in response to someone complementing support for old software -- you can see where the change in topic might lead to difficulties in communication?

Unfortunately, board support packages from the system-on-chip manufacturer limit kernel upgrades. Even then, Project Treble should make it easier to upgrade to newer versions of higher-level components. But Treble was introduced with Android 8.0, so while newer phones should be able to be upgraded more easily, that doesn't help hardware of the era you're referring to.

In any case, the problem isn't with app developers and older versions of Android -- although I'm happy that many try to mitigate the hardware vendors' lack of support. It's that phone hardware is insufficiently open or standardised (in contrast to x86) meaning that OS vendors can't support it.
> it's hard to connect P with the F sound in photovoltaic

Strictly speaking, it ought to be "PhV" (compare "PhD"), but no one does that for some reason.
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I can only speak to residential, but when I worked in the industry, it was extremely rare for rents to go down because many existing tenants would see the new rate and demand a discount or leave.

It was perceived as cheaper to have a few vacant units at $2000 a month instead of renting them for less and lowering the rate for anybody renewing their lease.
> I wonder if you can even reliably measure a 0.4 IQ point loss.

Which is why one never ever trusts an article or paper with a bare number as claim. Confidence intervals, p-values, standard deviation, whatever it is, there are ways to tell whether it's significant or what the odds are that it's noise.

I haven't read the article btw so I don't know if it does, but since we're talking about a bare number, the answer to your question is that it indeed by itself doesn't tell us anything about measurability even if it had been five points.
I feel like this could have only happened to people in this very specific age range:

In 1995, when I was a freshman in high school, they trotted my English class down to the library for a lesson on how to use "the information superhighway." For the next hour or so, the librarian dispensed wisdom to us about how to open Netscape, type URLs into the address bar, and that kind of thing.

Put another way, they had a woman who did not know how to use the Internet try to teach a few dozen teenagers who did know how to use the Internet how to do something they did understand by reading them a book that she did not.

I didn't learn anything about the Internet that day but I feel like I gained an appreciation for Kafka, even if I didn't know it at the time.
The Pixel 5 camera is so good that I've ditched my mirrorless cam when traveling
Sea salt is filled with mondo micro-plastic particles, so I think this would be that, plus other "stuff" thrown in. EG, leakage/contaminants from the desalination process.

The best table salt we can currently get, it stuff mined from old oceans. No contaminants, no plastic, etc. For example, Windsor has huge mines in rural Windsor, ON, Canada.. and doesn't just supply table salt, but road salt, water softener salt, etc, the supply has been used for 100 years, sold internationally, and shows no sign of exhaustion... from one old-sea underground deposit.

(There's plenty of table salt, no shortages...)
Discussion of the referenced article, Inserting a billion rows in under a minute:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872575
Cant go wrong with Quick Pick.
Sharks are extremely old, ~450m years. They are older than dinosaurs by ~140m years.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17453-timeline-the-ev...
California has huge desalinization plants.[1] 11 in operation now, more being built. Water price at output is US$0.005/gal. But that's $1630 for an acre/foot, very expensive for agriculture.

[1] https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/
There may be other factors besides what they nominally "want". Depending on their source of financing, landlords changing the rent on these spaces can be both logistically difficult and may cause a huge negative cashflow shock because of the way it effects capital requirements on commercial loans. Louis Rossmann covers it in a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfmMB1E_qk) based on this reddit comment (https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/nearly_twothird...).
To be fair, Google's python avoids ~99% of the complexity of Python's import system by making all imports absolute and doing most things through blaze/bazel.
What’s flexible for a dynamic scripting language is often cursed from a static perspective. Knowing what imports resolve to statically can be nice.
We are about to pass a trillion dollar nebious Infractructure Bill passed, which I imagine is filled with pork.

I pretty sure most Californians would be happy if they got a few strategically placed desalination plants.
IDK. I love roasted almonds as a snack but they are pretty expensive. If they went much higher I'd cut back or stop buying them. As it is I only buy them on sale.
My company recently migrated from OTS 3rd party apps hosted on their clouds that had frequent downtime and high costs, and self hosted a highly touted and battle tested solution instead. It's a disaster and costs us far more time in developer hours than we spent before.

It turns out infrastructure isn't free and paying someone else to care about it scales very nicely.
You're trying to check that all of your logic is correct. That's the point of doing tests. If your test doesn't check for certain input combinations, then you haven't tested your logic completely.

The point of branch coverage is to show when you missed input combinations for your logic. Artificially running all of the branches and then throwing away results just gives you a false sense of security about how much of your logic you covered.

I mean, technically, using bitwise instead of short-circuiting logic doesn't have branches at an assembly code level. But this is pedantry because we're actually trying to check the logic is correct, not that our compiler can correctly translate && into the same Boolean result as &.
Start with Ubuntu if you are not caring about latest and great or Manjaro if you do.
That depends on the runtime that the containers are using. At my company we explicitly do not consider docker + runc as a security boundary due to the shared Linux kernel - but you can hedge against this with technology like gvisor, or executing via kvm + firecracker containers (kata containers do this iirc), etc.

So it's less about "docker" and more about the container runtime. They could also be leveraging seccomp or some other mechanism.

It's unclear in this case if they're relying on just default Docker. If they are, that's concerning to me.

They do mention apparmor, gotta dig in more. This also relies on a path traversal, so it may be reasonable.
I agree with others this article is pointless. However I found the PDF of the paper here:

http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ScienceRobotics21_Foehn.pdf