skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water is too cheap to justify long pipelines. Unless you're willing to pay $100/barrel (vs. $0.42). Even the natural "pipeline" of the Colorado River no longer flows into the ocean.
App: Did I take my meds?
I found this from the same Twitter handle. Pretty cool how apple was always innovating. https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor/status/1250759697587597313/ph...
By phase 3 they should have to preregister the study and identify the outcomes they will measure. There isn't much room for p-hacking at this point.

There will certainly always be bias, but it's still a gold standard for good reasons.
couple more data points..

gal I know has a diploma and 25k in debt - couldn't get a job in related field paying more than $10/hour, currently works non-related field which requires no degree, no training, makes 11.50... every year the 20% or whatever of her pay is taken by the gov and handed to the school loan servicers for the school, which has rebranded to a "non-profit" college (to avoid regulations about graduation/employment rates and gov-backed-forced-money) doing the same shit - selling you one a dream and stringing you along until you've attended enough full days for them to get guaranteed paid. They all know you will not be landing a 80k /yr job on leaving - but most the students believe they can.

have another friend who won't get her business degree until her school debt is paid off.. I think she has 4 more years at this rate and has been paying the debt without the benefit of the degree for at least 4 years.. at least that's her story.

watching single parent women lose 20% of their income every year to debts that do them zero good is weird, especially when they are only making 12-$14 / hour in the first place.

They could be making that without being able to speak English or do 3rd grade math. Does it matter if they have the diploma or not?
For another paid SMTP solution, Amazon's SES has been bulletproof for me. They also really grill you on what purpose you intend to use it before letting you in. My mail volume is so low I still haven't seen a bill.
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021): a personal view
Two questions, since I enjoyed the few Stephensons I've read:

1) a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated?

2) that search also brings up that it came out in 2019, but your comment says "It was 2014" w.r.t. something to do with FB (I actually had a lot of troubling parsing the meaning of that specific sentence and am still unsure, but that isn't the point). Can you really say he "called it" if he's reasoning a posteriori?
And, in any case those are also not coding bugs either, but architectural design bugs. Any hypothetical smarter, more suspicious HDL would have been wholly unable to prevent them, because the hardware is working exactly as designed and specified. The designers actually knew all about the flaws, they just thought they didn't matter.
> Agency is power, it's power over your own life.

Life is not something one can "power over", it is something we participate in.

I say this because a good chunk of the interesting problems in life are not constraints that we can power over with willful motion, nor predict or prepare for. In fact it is so common to see people who are stuck in their attempts of willful assertion over things they can't change but can't also see that fact. Others are lost in expending majority of their resources in preparation for eventualities that probably will never come but are still scary for them. Those are examples to modes of loss of agency due to misapplication of power.

In contrast to power, agency also necessitates finessing your way through obstacles and uncertainties when appropriate, in addition to having influence over your environment and conditions.

A mini version of this can be found in an analogy of boxing; punching can't be the only thing in your repertoire, you also need footwork, evasion, blocking. It requires synchrony with your opponent, you constantly adapting to it and influencing it. You can't "power" your way to victory, you have to do all of those things in appropriate configuration to get a chance at it, and even then you might not win.

> You don't need substantial material wealth to have complete agency, but you will if you choose to enjoy the fruits of the modern world and raise a family.

There are two potential problems with this.

Firstly, rationally speaking one would has to sacrifice time for the exact amount of wealth they will require for these goals, and not a dime more, because overworking would just be another way of losing your agency. Not only this equilibrium point is hard to predict, most people are already stuck in wanting the more of it than calculating an approximation of the enough of it.

The second problem is, material wealth is by far not the only input to raising a happy, good family. What kind of a person you need to become to be a good enough parent, is a much more difficult proposition than how much money you need to have to send them to what college. This is again prone to mistakes in trying to satisfy our being needs wit having things. And this inevitably causes losses in agency; as evidenced with many families that had it "all" and still came apart.
UTF-16 was always a mistake[1]. Good riddance. Time to get it out of LSP specification[2] as well.

[1] http://utf8everywhere.org/

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
How to Intelligently Invest in Crypto as a Retail Investor (From a VC)
This is neat, would be cool if you could hear the audio it makes while lifting
We can all suppot aging populations, but that would give workers more power.

If you believe in Keynesianism, exports are hardly needed for a baseline-mostly-closed economy because can boost demand locally. (Tech transfer is another thing, granted.) But it you want to get your elites rich and keep your workers in check, export all the stuff so living standards don't rise so much with the extra work.
for another operating system, we have ~70% of security bugs being memory safety issues (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...). sounds like a decent majority to me.
Can someone explain the issue at hand? I'm not sure I have enough context to understand the problem
> California produces 95% of tomatoes grown in the USA.

Live in the US. About 5 years ago I got into the habit of leaving tomato off my sandwiches because they just started tasting bad across the board, no matter where I got them from.

I wouldn't mind trying some other places tomatoes.
No, bless your heart. You don't believe the story? It's a simple one.

No applicants, advertised $15 an hour, got 1,000 in a week and the bottom line isn't affected, less turnover and happier employees.
Author of the Damn Interesting post here. Internally we worried that there would be some fallout from abandoning our Facebook page--by the numbers we had more followers there than any other social media platform, by far. But the response from our audience has been almost 100% positive, even from our Facebook followers[1]. It put only a tiny dent in our site's daily traffic. It resulted in many new subscribers to our email list. There was a flurry of new donations, with attached supportive comments about the amputation. Facebook was exactly the gangrenous thing it appeared to be, and we are better off without it. If you will permit me the indulgence of quoting my own post:

> Some call it a “necessary evil,” but if that’s the case let’s do all we can to make it unnecessary.

For any organizations considering the same move, I cannot recommend it enough. It feels like cutting off contact with a toxic acquaintance--equal parts relief and optimism.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/DamnInt/posts/10158097374656961
I LOVE SUCKING DICK!

I'm so happy that Hacker News is so open to faggots like us that can suck cock and talk about covid.

I want to smoke Fauci's cock. You think if we get quad-vax'd we could have a big gay orgy? I'd like to pound you all in the ass!

Man, there's so much cock-sucking in this thread - more than the Castro and the Folsom combined.

Suck Cock! Study Covid!

I love lockdown. I love fucking people in the ass.
Can someone change the title to “to hell with facebook”?

It took me a while to figure out...
It all sounds like ineffable cultural projection. Ask 10 self-identified punks for a definition of "punk" and get 10 different answers.
> The distribution is designed to be maintainable by a single person. There is no infrastructure and the entire distribution is merely a few Git repositories.

A very clever approach, mirroring the way FreeBSD, OpenBSD have traditionally managed their core competencies.

I am a lifelong Debian fan but it has always troubled me that I can’t check out a copy of the OS’s metadata — that which is packaged in all of the DSC files or `debian/` directories — in one place.

A monorepo containing all of your business logic is a successful tactic to getting things done. There are some great pieces of behind-the-scenes Debian infra to support this — with SVN, and later git, and internal projects like Alioth — but the first class citizen of the project is still a deb-src apt entry. Inherently a one way HTTP link from the vendor to me with only a published Changelog to track changes. A solid and stable technology for a venerable project, but git-log / git-blame it ain’t.

(Of course, the success of giant open source projects and especially Debian is often because there is no central coordination. The technical and other committees were social constructs to try to keep everyone on track. Do they still function well?)
You don't need one to work in Starbucks
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"personalized results are the only reason, i ... use google"

Bing and some other search engines offer personalised results, too.
I like seeing people acknowledge the problems that come with self-hosting. I tried to self-host a few years back ended up lasting only a handful of months before going back to letting others host the services I use.

I didn't run into any specific issues, but instead I ended up realizing that I had to monitor the services myself to ensure that they were still functioning properly and that they had security patches applied. That's not a responsibility I want to deal with.

And as strange as it sounds, I also noticed that there actually were privacy advantages to not hosting stuff myself. Maintaining multiple identities when self-hosting is only possible with a domain per identity and not reusing the same machine for services across identities.
Fauci's 80 year old dick in my mouth never tasted so good.
Please someone fuck me in the ass more!
crosscode uses haxe (kha?) : see https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossCode/comments/g0hqhs/how_cross...

they use nw.js because the haxe code base can compile into javascript (and the rendering framework Kha has a webgl render backend for it).
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That same Wikipedia page also states:

> There is a rare alternative definition for the bus factor, namely: the number of people who are indispensable for the project.[2] In other words, it is the minimum number of people who are a single point of failure. If using this definition, then a high bus factor is considered a bad thing (since the loss of any person included destroys the project), and zero is considered the ideal bus factor.
Having been on several different company hiring boards and reviewed literally thousands of interviewer feedback posts, let me assure you that interviewers happily ask leetcode questions: even when they've been told expressly not to ask leetcode questions by their company.

The fact is that most software engineers just don't think interviewing is an important part of their job, so there's no impetuous to improve. They were probably asked leetcode questions when _they_ were interviewed, so that's the established norm.
Yes, I think that’s how I first read the headline - closer to a basic easy to use distro than an LFS style roll-your-own.

If I told someone I’d found a simple distro, I wouldn’t expect them to prep to compile their own kernel
High-density flash memory with more than 1 bit per cell, like in SSD's, withstands usually just a few hundred, some times only one hundred, write-erase cycles.

You can easily compute this value by dividing the guaranteed endurance by the SSD capacity. For example, an 1 TB Samsung 980 guarantees only 600 TBW / 1 TB = 600 write-erase cycles.

This computation works because the wear-leveling algorithm used by the SSD controller distributes the writes uniformly over the entire SSD, ensuring approximately the same number of write-erase cycles for every cell.
Yes, it seems they want to use UTF-16 strings.

I’m confused why they can’t just switch their (nascent) language to UTF-8, and if so why the alarmist attitude? I didn’t think they were mature enough to claim no breaking changes, for example.

I probably prefer we drag the web (and .Net and Java) platforms towards UTF-8, to be honest… but maybe that’s just me.
My comment on this isn't very helpful since I just started paying a few days ago, but smooth sailing so far!
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YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will show you ads
YouTube did it. It managed to get me to subscribe. With loud (way louder than the videos), repetitive, unskippable ads that has nothing to do with me, I figured YouTube was trying to bully me into paying, so I did. I payed, so I could enjoy videos without being interrupted every 5 minutes. But you know what? YouTube is still not happy. Today when I opened the app on my phone, it still showed me an add. It is infuriating at least. This won't probably make it, but I needed to share.

https://imgur.com/a/BM7XoTe

The image above is an ad inserted in the middle of the recommend content, but before that there was a full page ad about the same crap, which I could not get a screenshot.
That does not absolve those who responsible for the problem of any culpability. Whataboutism isn’t valid response. The problems with unemployment aid were bipartisan. In my State, the Democrats own that mess because they created it. That isn’t a partisan assertion, that is a non-controversial observation of reality.

I’ve never been a conservative but I am not so much in denial that I will pretend that the comedic failure of execution at the State level by Democrats was actually the fault of some nebulous “conservatives”. The conservatives were never involved. The Democrats own that failure, and you would hope they have the self-awareness to recognize that.
I deleted all my social media accounts in 2008. I'm not here to say "I told you so", because I didn't actually tell anybody anything. Just my choice.

But, here is the one weird trick: If you think something is good, do it. But, if you make up your mind that it's bad, stop doing it. Following that rule would have kept a lot of people off these services.

To my knowledge, nothing people say about social media today is fundamentally different than what they were saying in 2008: it destroys privacy, it destroys discourse, it consumes attention, and it puts control over your life into the hands of corporations. And people recognize this: I can't even count the number of times I've heard someone say (or write) "social media sucks" and then kept right on with it. My only advice is, if you feel like something is bad for you, don't do it.
I used to produce one for the NES: https://github.com/jareklupinski/chip-maestro / https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jarek/chip-maestro-an-n...

Though if you're serious about using it for music production, I recommend popping the CPU out and dropping it into a dedicated board so you're not dealing with stuff like cartridge grime issues in a studio: https://github.com/jareklupinski/standalone-nes-synth
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't cross into name-calling or ideological warfare either. We're trying for something else on this site!

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.
It’s too late IMO. I left that cesspool of Facebook a long time ago. If people haven’t left yet, I don’t know what would convince them.
That's true, and in fact I'd prefer it if that was the mainstream definition. Given that it isn't, there may be better replacements for the headline, along the lines of "maintainable by one person".
This looks really cool. I think there's a definitely need for a lightweight onboarding/CRM tool that non-technical people can easily start using, without having to dive into something more intimidating like Salesforce or Dynamics 365. I love the design of the website too!

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but the "Try for free. No credit card required" panel towards the bottom of the page looks like it's covering some of the sample use cases.
Right? I'm excited about this the way I was when Plan 9 first came out. It's always fun to get in deep to the details and learn something new, particularly when they've reimagined something like Unix. Google is hiring evangelists and have released it to their Nest Hub, so they must be close to wider use. Wondering if we'll see this on the Pixel 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic... (Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles: Places with planned fossil-fuel vehicle bans)

Note, you don't have to ban combustion vehicles everywhere, but only in enough markets where there is no point for automakers to make them anymore for the remaining smaller markets. Once supply chains are reconfigured towards EVs, and light vehicle petroleum demand is on the decline, the death spiral for combustion vehicles is locked in. They're even half the cost per mile to operate versus a combustion vehicle (per the US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center).

Suppliers are already contemplating what the future looks like [1] [2].

[1] https://europe.autonews.com/suppliers/bosch-may-close-german... (Bosch may close German factory amid move to EVs, report says:
Demand for the plant's electric fuel pumps and injection valves will decline)

[2] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2021/04/27/... (An advocacy group representing auto suppliers urged Congress on Tuesday not to back a speedy phase-out of gas-powered vehicles, arguing the shift will cost up to 30% of supplier jobs.) (my note: overlaps with this thread's article, but still has some novel information)
This is cool, but we have had cycle-accurate emulation of the SNES S-SMP sound processor for years. Aside from the fun factor, what is the advantage of using Super MIDI Pak to play MIDI on a physical S-SMP versus doing the exact same thing in software?
You probably wouldn't want to hear the sound of carrying a vehicle or something of that size (assuming the tech can scale of course)!!
Does that mean foreign English teachers in China just lost their jobs?
This was 20 years ago, but my wife went to a public school in China and never learned calculus or linear algebra (and had only the faintest grasp of trigonometry).
One thing to keep in mind is that often times those products are serving a real need for niche communities (such as those with disabilities), and marketing them more broadly is simply a way to recoup the costs.
I think we should all take a moment to reflect on the true poetry that is that quote.
Counterpoint: not all of this is actually going unused. Yes, Debian popcon is going to show the vast majority of users on x86 and ARM; but that is primarily consumer use cases.

When you get into embedded, you will start to see all sorts of weird arcane setups that actual businesses rely upon. Case in point: this commercial kitchen appliance that is actually a DOS PC built with modern parts. [0]

Not to mention the startlingly high number of large businesses running off of IBM server hardware. Much of that is actually legacy stuff that's been rebranded and massively upgraded over the years. A company that bought into System/360 in the 80s or AS/400 in the early 90s will almost certainly have backwards-compatible zSeries or System i hardware running literally 30-40 year old programs.

Point is, there's lots of business critical crap running on things other than x86 or ARM. I only used retrocomputing as an example because I had a good anecdote for it. Businesses treat computers as if retrocomputing was also somehow mission critical and they pay handsomely for the privilege.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSJgoP2a88
If there's a fear that lowering rent would cause a problem (by letting others demand the same, or by lowering the assessed value of the property), what we need is model "turn-key" regulations to let them put the land to use without touching the shared lies.

"Yeah, this normally vacant 400-square-foot unit in the Junkie District is worth $8250 per month, but we're donating use to a local non-profit, and when someone is ready to spend $8250 per month, we can boot them with X days notice."

Plenty of groups (budget-constrained charities, maker spaces, educational programs, hobby organizations, political groups) could make use of idle retail spaces, even with the weight of a "we can drop a 30-day eviction notice on you at any time." And then when people walk down the street, they see "Oh, it's the Libertarian Party HQ and the local woodworking club's workshop, what a vibrant neigbourhood!" rather than "Here's a vacant store and you can still see the outline from the sign when this was a Fazoli's!"
> that the scientific community is under-selling and under-discussing the risks of the vaccine.
> human tendency to extrapolate small edge cases as more significant than they actually are

No. That is not at all what I am trying to say. That is not even my impression from this. And I have tried to make it clear by these comments.

>Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?

I would, if I come across them.

For the same reason we remember war heros and similar figures who had done a great service for the world/country that costed their very own lives.
Thanks for that correction. However they are functioning like journalists here. Notice all of the judgemental, ideological, political one-sided narrative. They fail to apply Hanlon's razor as they claim at the end "[they] know exactly what they are doing." It's paranoid talk. The case for/against ivermectin is very complex and this short diatribe is not helping anyone.

They also clearly are Americans who seem to think this is an American issue. Ivermectin use for COVID-19 is worldwide and isn't aconsequence of "rejecting American Institutions" but was a desperate attempt by caregivers to keep their patients alive. They think they are seeing a pattern - that it works. But humans are easily fooled and see patterns everywhere, so we need better data. In the meantime, those doctors will continue to use ivermectin, and an upcoming Oxford study will get us some better data.

Might I also add that the evidence in support of Remdesivir is much much weaker than the evidence in support of Ivermectin, that the WHO recommends against Remdesivir, and yet in America it's widely used and nobody is bitching about it. Hypocrisy.
They do. It may not be a legal duty, but it's a moral duty that I know many police men and women recognize and aspire to.
> 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.

Self-hosted organizations that I think of off the top of my head are Google, Facebook, Amazon, Backblaze, Microsoft, Stack Overflow, and possibly Wal-Mart & CloudFlare.
Solution: youtube-dl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube-dl)

Download the videos, and the only ads/interruptions you get will be the ones the creators directly recorded in the videos.
I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. Maybe naming the state would help?