skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These two numbers are only related in that they express volumes of water.

No, these three numbers are related in that they express volumes of fresh water consumed per year for particular uses in the United States. The Mississippi River is dumping 16.8 megaliters per second of freshwater into the ocean. In that context, it's totally inconsequential if people in the US spray 0.2 megaliters per second of freshwater onto their lawns.

> That is significant use of a precious resource by any measure

No, it is not.

> aesthetics. ... a wasteful [use] by most people’s [measure].

Beautifying our surroundings is not a wasteful use of resources by most people's measure; if it were, the mandatory lawn ordinances people are (rightly) decrying in this thread wouldn't have been voted in. We have seen what the results look like when people consider aesthetics "wasteful": Pruitt-Igoe, prisons, concentration camps, Soviet housing blocks, American high schools, battleships, the Pentagon, the bulldozing of forests and mountains to build parking lots. Humans do not flourish in these environments.

Instead, let us aspire to consider things wasteful that cannot be aesthetically justified!

The broader cultural context is, I think, that this lamentation of other people watering their lawns stems from the same misguided Judeo-Christian asceticism that led medieval hermits to never bathe and wear hairshirts, equating happiness, enjoyment, and comfort with sin, self-indulgence, and dissolution. Sometimes you see people from Judeo-Christian traditions attempting to justify such concepts by appropriating Buddhism, apparently unaware of the profound attention to aesthetics easily observable in any Buddhist temple or monastery.

This ascetisism has been twisted into a simplistic zero-sum pseudo-environmentalism—sometimes coupled with a feigned charity toward the poor—that equates material wealth with environmental destruction and impoverishment of others, and so seeks to ameliorate California's periodic droughts with showerhead flow restrictors and more restrictive central lawn planning.

> If the amount of water in Lake Superior or the Mississippi were relevant to the relatively small water consumption for domestic use and agriculture, why would anyone be bothered about droughts?

Probably because you're not building enough canals and pipelines to transport freshwater from the Mississippi (and other rivers) to US agricultural lands. Get on it! A lot of those rivers are already full of fertilizer! Also, it's a problem when half of California catches on fire, even if nobody's almonds burn.
That’s a distinction without a difference. In theory, of course you’re correct. In practice, your parent comment is correct.

The rotation rate in the roll or pitch axis is around 1080 degrees per second - 3 complete revolutions per second. Many freestyle pilots fly higher rates than me.

I can, and do, go from 80mph in one direction, flip 180degrees to accelerate back to 80mph in the direction i just came - a 160mph change of speed in around 5-6 seconds approx.

The only axis i cant turn very fast in is yaw (quads have poor yaw authority compared to other axes) but even then it’s fast enough most people would consider it instant.
> THC concentrations are much higher

It's funny, because as far as I recall, that trope was a cornerstone of anti drug propaganda in the 80s. You can almost extrapolate that all of those poor beatniks and hippies were walking around sober because their weed didn't work.
This is basically just the real world equivalent of a tool-assisted speedrun.
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Our national broadcaster NRK had a series[1] specifically about suicide amongst teenage girls and their use of Instagram. From what they found[2], one suicide would trigger other attempts, often copying the method used.

It seems clear to me this isn't random.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/emne/trigger-warning-1.14739155

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/spesial/det-skjulte-nettverket-1.14739159
I don’t have a source but I personally visited a restaurant that had their license temporarily suspended for serving a minor who turned out to be an undercover cop. Unsurprisingly these places prefer not to have this fact publicized, and it was their first offense, so you’re unlikely to find stories about it in news articles on the internet.
> Consciousness is a property of a being that is aware of its own existence, and is able to contemplate its own existence as an entity distinct from its environment

Unfortunately this definition doesn't help weeding out misconceptions such as philosophical zombies. All you have to do is to say that a system may claim it's conscious without really being "aware" of it's own existence. This definition doesn't help because it doesn't say what being aware of it's own existence mean, offering arguably a circular definition.
Dumb but honest question: If most sales were expected to be in Latin America, why wasn't the game localized in the Spanish language?
i think what your comment aludes to, and is an important point that gets lost easily is, concentrating on race masks the real issue which is systemic economic and opportunity disparity
The new part here is that they have found a way to find the optimal path without using simplifications. So in a way, the true progress of the paper is a new mathematical loss minimization technique.

Just because you have all the information doesn't mean you can solve a constraint system before the heat death of the universe. Otherwise, NP hard problems like traveling salesman wouldn't be so scary.
This is probably a great idea for people in marginalized groups who feel crowded out in group therapy settings.

But how do you address the potential for groups of white men that lack diversity to breed toxic attitudes? I say this as a white man who would be reluctant to go to such a group out of this concern.
“Occupation: Housewife”
the more compelling critique of rent control is that it's a tiny patch on a heavily distorted market--just enough bone to keep the riff-raff distracted from the naked engorgement of capital on real estate. if we had highly dynamic, fair, and transparent real estate markets, we'd have no need for rent control, because a high-functioning market keeps prices just above the cost to create/provide, that is, a fair market price.
Is the as api really free or are there free tier usage limits/non free licence restrictions on the api which aren't compatible with the image license? (Asking as I've seen this elsewhere...)
First time learning about this tool. On Windows systems, my go-to has always been WinDirStat. I've wanted something similar for Linux/BSD, and this appears to fit that need ver well. Thanks for sharing!
> How can a large scale market exist with so few customers who can reasonably afford the product?

Cheap debt. Nobody has the net worth to afford all these places. So the value of the properties are relative to how much people can borrow. For the last few years, that has meant a borroing a lot since interest rates around 1.5%.
If rents are bi-modal, as one of the parent posters suggests, then how can all properties be valued based on the higher end (e.g, tenants with deep pockets) when not all tenants actually have deep pockets? Shouldn't the entire demand curve be considered when deriving the multiplier and therefore the price of the commercial property?

Not everyone can get the deep pocket tenant. The staggering number of empty store fronts reflects that.
No, your epistemological understanding is factually incorrect and causally manipulated by the normative nature of your strategic objectives.
Actually the higher goal of such structural alignments is a regressive conceptualization of the historically ascendant conjunction of the CCP.
In other words, shit mammoth.
I'm going to try to install another distro on it. Is there anything I (or the open source community at large) can do to help test or add support?
That's true, there's a lot of exposure on the typical iPhone or Android device, lots of installed apps, lots of collected metadata.

I was kind of picturing people en-masse becoming upset with this stuff, and having real/better/open tools available for them when that happens - stuff like a slick pinephone running mastadon over matrix over tor, or something, etc.

I guess I threw that comment out there because it seemed like going after the metadata seller that crossed a line leaves all the other metadata sellers in business, and free to push the line further along. I was thinking it would better to address the root cause - giving people better security and privacy.
Given most editors handle absolute imports as good as if not better than relative imports, I don't see any real benefit to using the latter.
There's two main answers. The first one is that CloudFlare reduces overall security by acting as a universal Man-in-the-Middle that terminates TLS connections to inspect all trafic, so for any website using CloudFlare, CloudFlare will be able to see all your trafic.

The second problem is that they use their privileged position to actively block privacy-conscious users/networks as well as homegrown scrapers. Being able to browse and archive the web freely is a fundamental property of the WWW, and a single corporation deciding who gets in (Google & friends) and who doesn't (the rest of us) is a huge problem, whether you approach it from a "human rights" perspective, or a "free competition" perspective.

Website owners who go through CloudFlare are asking a private corporation to strip search anyone who wants to reach their doorbell/mailbox. Would you accept that in your neighborhood? If not, why do we accept it online?

CloudFlare forces people to enable JavaScript, or you just can't get in. This means that people who don't use a modern reputable browser (based on Firefox or Chrome) are often left out (CLI browsers, homegrown browsers, etc). While people who are conscious about security who disable JS for this reason (see for example rowhammer.js as one of the many reasons why running untrusted code from the internet is the worst idea ever) are also left out. While users who have JS but in a privacy-friendly browser which prevents fingerprinting, such as the Tor Browser, will be placed on infinite CAPTCHA loops. I've personally spent over an hour once stuck on a CAPTCHA that i really needed to go through.

Their argument for treating Tor users (and VPN users, etc) badly is that there is a lot of malicious traffic coming from there. However such arguments don't hold scrutiny as most attackers have resources a lot of IP addresses, and there's an entire gray/black hat industry of "residential VPNs" to acquire more for a few bucks. Moreover, as they are already terminating the TLS connection on their side to inspect the traffic, it would be rather straightforward (given a few false positives that could be reported) to block out known attacks and suspicious traffic, while letting obviously-innocent request passing through.

All in all, CloudFlare is not 100% empire of evil and there's a lot of good folks "just doing their job" there who even like privacy in theory. But in practice, they are reinforcing what we privacy activists fight against: centralized surveillance infrastructure and privatization of public information.

See also:

https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare <-- Tor project debunking most of CloudFlare claims
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3-GC62XAAAVbYy.jpg <-- people so annoyed at CloudFlare blocking privacy activists that they actually made Fuck CloudFlare stickers that they distributed at free-software conferences (my laptop wouldn't be the same without it)
I never recall being "so vehemently against allowing other people to make their own decisions". I also am not under any delusions that I have some unique ability of being immune to marketing. Nobody is a moron here and in reality the only way to truly be immune to such things is being literally brain dead. Most people are too busy to absorb tonnes of domain specific knowledge of often questionable relevance to their own lives.

However, it's honestly pretty ridiculous to pretend like marketing does not have an immense influence on the trajectory towards consumer desires or that it cannot lead to worse choices by many objective measures. See cigarettes, fast food, hell, even the stupid obsession with buying bank bustingly expensive diamonds for marriage proposals. There would definitely still be a market for all of the above (and personally I am against any regulations limiting the freedom of purchasing even cigarettes for legal adults) but it was marketing that turned it into a cultural norm, not organic consumer demand.

It also does not need to be something that starts off as a bad thing. Thinner devices are better up to a certain point, no argument there. However, it does start leading to usability and maintainability problems past a certain threshold. We have definitely reached and passed that threshold for many devices.

Customers don't exist in isolation, if you are locked in to the Apple ecosystem, you're stuck with their decision to ditch the headphone jack unless if you want to stick to phones before iPhone 7. If your family have been purchasing Samsung devices predominately, chances are you will just assume that it's best to just get one of the latest one because it's reassuring to get a familiar brand and surely the latest automatically means better, right? Feel free to strawman this as me claiming people are morons but for most normal people not preoccupied with tech, these assumptions are reasonable.

Also, pretending like blatantly unpopular decisions like removing the headphone jack and expandable storage are somehow in demand based purely on continued sales figures is stupidly reductive. Humans don't have perfect knowledge of the market and the leaders of that market will not only dominate airtime, they can afford to absorb bad PR if they deem that an unpopular decision will lead to better profits long term.
The Resnicks are the world’s biggest producers of pistachios and almonds, and they also hold vast groves of lemons, grapefruit, and navel oranges. All told, they claim to own America’s second-largest produce company, worth an estimated $4.2 billion.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...

Edit to add more:

So in 1995, state officials agreed to a deal or, as it has been suggested, a staggering giveaway. The farmers had to relinquish 14 billion gallons of “paper water”—junior water rights that exist only de jure, since there simply isn’t enough rainfall most years to fulfill them. In exchange, they got ownership of the Kern Water Bank, a naturally occurring underground reservoir that lies beneath 32 square miles of Kern County, which sits toward the southern end of the Central Valley. The bank held up to 488 billion gallons of water, and because it sat beneath a floodplain it could be easily recharged in wet years with rainfall and surplus water piped in from the Delta. The Resnicks, who’d given up the most paper water rights, came to hold a majority vote on the bank’s board and the majority of its water.

Adam Keats, senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety, describes the transfer of the water bank to the Resnicks and other farmers as “an unconstitutional rip-off.”

And here’s a key fact to consider against this backdrop: The Resnicks aren’t just pumping to irrigate their fruit and nut trees—they’re also in the business of farming water itself. Their land came with decades-old contracts with the state and federal government that allow them to purchase water piped south by state canals. The Kern Water Bank gave them the ability to store this water and sell it back to the state at a premium in times of drought. According to an investigation by the Contra Costa Times, between 2000 and 2007 the Resnicks bought water for potentially as little as $28 per acre-foot (the amount needed to cover one acre in one foot of water) and then sold it for as much as $196 per acre-foot to the state, which used it to supply other farmers whose Delta supply had been previously curtailed.
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What's clickbaity about it though? Schools opened and suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed. I didn't necessarily think it was causal, but rather a correlation. I mean if you read the article then what they're trying to say is clear in any case. YMMV.
Nextdoor is getting huge. I have family members who are always on it.

The owners are in for a huge payday.

I don't get the allure of the site. The site seems to attract complainers. That is not my point though.

I am interested in decentralized sites, like Mastadon.

Does anyone know of a good site that would walk a developer through building a rough clone of Mastadon?

I know it uses Ruby on Rails, React, etc., but would like a detailed walkthrough.

I did a rough search, but didn't find much on the programming of a decentralized social website on the technical side.
This is interesting... I hope they can make it feasible in the long run. There is another interesting application for this oxidation phenomenon.[1] They burn iron dust to create a C02-free furnace. Imagine replacing coal with iron in concrete plants...

[1] https://newatlas.com/energy/bavarian-brewery-carbon-free-ren...
Commercial loans can also often be called - unlike home loans - so if you go underwater the lender can say “cash. Now.”
My understand is that commercial real estate loans require additional collateral for lower rents than what was agreed to when the mortgage was created. Building value is basically (monthly rent * constant).Accepting lower than when the mortgage was written will trigger provisions that value the property differently and require the building owner to add principal to get back to 25%.

If lowering the rent by 10k a year lowers the value of the building by 100k, the building owner may have to add 25k that they don't have to keep the building from falling into default. If you have a completely empty building and you accept a lower rent in one of ten units, you could need to put down 250k it of you have many building under one loan they may want millions because of how it changes the loan valuations.
More information in this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9814873/Scie...
IMHO it should be by specific designation and the tax should be like a fine - for not using it. Say, you can buy a train station but you are going to have trains stop there. Buy a gas station and you are going to sell gas. Buy a store front and there shall be a store. Own farm land? Then farm? It should be like that even if local politics doesn't want it. Anything else makes a mockery of city planning and it could destroy decades of work.
> Audits rarely needed (hopefully).

This seems highly optimistic: if there’s money involved, cheating is inevitable. Since this inherits Bitcoin’s protections for successful fraudsters, it seems highly unlikely that people wouldn’t just try to dodge audits until the challenge window closes and their transactions can’t be reversed.
No. I don't know what that is.

UncleMeat is a Zappa album title so I'm certain that others use it as a handle.
There is a command you can send to the drive that will erase all data including from those extra bookkeeping areas. "ATA Secure Erase". The drive has to support it of course.
While I sympathize with your unease about making time a privileged coordinate, even in conventional quantum mechanics an operator for time seems difficult. What would that operator measure? The time at which a given object "is"? The whole point of physics is to describe the dynamic nature of reality, parametrized by time.

Speaking of which, time(-of-arrival) measurements in quantum mechanics have recently attracted quite some interest: The classic Copenhagen formalism doesn't seem to give an answer here (or at least not a unique one – it depends on how you perform the calculation). Meanwhile, Bohmian mechanics does seem to make a precise prediction. It will be interesting to see what experiments will yield.
How does vanilla SQLite 'create index' fare, with correct pragmas e.g. cache_size?
I believe iOS handles this by ensuring all flash-written data is encrypted with an on-device key.

A 'wipe' then definitively erases that key - making further overwrites of the freed data unnecessary.

If the crypto is strong, and the key never exfiltrated, then this may be even better than an explicit overwrite, which on some media (like magnetic drives) may still leave trace hints of the old data that advanced techniques could recover.
It's still read-only on Android these days (there are multiple partitions for A/B stuff). Root can modify it, true, but I don't think anyone is storing any secrets on there.

With file-based encryption on the data partitions, Android hard resets should make all files inaccessible even if they're left on the drive.
Capitalists love quoting Adam Smith until they encounter someone familiar with his views on usury and landlords, at which point they want to drop him like a hot potato.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-trouble-with-adam-smith...

I'm broadly in favor of a land value tax, think landlords deserve no special protections, and generally have a 'use it or lose it' attitude. I strongly support the idea that squatters can gain tenancy and even property rights through mere occupation, and reject the notion that landlords should be able to have court decisions enforced by police. Though no doubt a small number of decent and kind small landlords exist, they are outnumbered by the much larger number of rent seekers.
But it doesn't help, it's just security theater like the TSA. Meth makers are still making plenty of meth. It's like the war on drugs, a complete failure. It's just an inconvenience for legit people using theraflu/sudafed and in no way slows down meth production in any meaningful way.