skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just dump it back in the ocean (at a suitable depth/distance from shore). Almost all of the purified water will eventually return to the ocean so there won't be a net concentration of salt (not to mention the ocean is really, really big).
I dont think its unique to google that companies want to filter out people who are "dicks". Every company i have ever had an interview at has done behavioural interviews for that purpose.
The OP asked for horror stories. I didn’t mean to imply rewrites can’t work, only that I’ve never seen it work (in 40 years programming).

My very first programming job at Nike was what was then called a “conversion,” moving a working code base from one platform (PDP-11) to another (DECSystem 20). Conversions were common rewrite-type projects back then (‘70s) because every vendor and computer model had a unique OS and set of languages and tools. That project succeeded. Throughout the project the project manager (one of the best I’ve worked with) resisted every attempt to expand scope so we could focus on getting the current functionality working on the DEC 20. It was partly automated and then required line-by-line examination of the source code and rigorous unit testing. I wouldn’t call it a ground-up rewrite, no new features got added and we had a working system to start with. It was more like an evolution. I worked on other conversions early in my career and they mostly got derailed when management and users took the opportunity to “enhance” what was working as part of the straight conversion, and/or when the programmers were allowed to get carried away adding functionality themselves.
So... is he afraid of someone pirating his exploit and using it against him? If he isn't, then he's stupid.

Because that's entirely possible.

There is no such thing as a NOBUS (NObody But US) exploit. Someone else will find it - either your network will get hacked and someone will use the exploit. This is how Wannacry happened. A bunch of NSA-NOBUS exploits got leaked and sold off to people who built a ransomware tool with them. How the leak happens doesn't matter, what matters is the fact that the leak will happen. The only ethical thing to do is to disclose so that the exploit can get fixed.
What facebook does is worse than selling your data, but they rely upon people saying they sell your data, which they can deny, to hide what they actually do, which is analyze your data to sell behavior modification products.
Bike Share Toronto nicely offers a handful options to take out a bike: Credit card, RFID/NFC key, mobile phone app.
Because water rights in California are extremely complicated, many water rights predate California being a state.
For a few decades NYC settled into a truce—-things would be good for real estate moguls, bankers, jet setters with 2nd/3rd/5th houses in the city, etc.

In exchange no one would complain that city government, the state authorities, and trades would be fantastically overpaid and overstaffed.

This was also good for people that worked in industries that cater to the rich (waiters, doormen, weed delivery services, etc, etc).

Things were hardly perfect but aside from the very poor and people being squeezed out of neighborhoods due to gentrification most groups were doing well enough to be satisfied.

The problem is that the whole thing depends on a few thousand very wealthy people sticking around. If they no longer care enough about the restaurants, museums, clubs, private schools, house parties, whatever to want to be in NYC pay taxes and spend lavishly then the whole thing falls apart. The worst part is that there’s no way to gracefully dial back—-wages and benefits are sticky.
I was born slightly outside (after) the official years for this generation, but the description for this generation seems to fit my childhood memories much more closely than many "Millennial" descriptions.

Does anyone else born in the mid/late 80s share that feeling?
I mean, "essential" really is in the eye of the beholder, which makes the whole point moot, especially as this quote is often brought up in cases where the "essential-ness" of what is being curtailed is highly debatable.

This isn't an academic argument, either. Just look at the gun debate in the US. Many argue that any curtailment of the right to bear arms, from a pistol to a bazooka, is an infringement of essential liberty. Many others strongly disagree that the right of individuals to own high-powered firearms is an essential liberty.
More like 80% of the water, because IMO the 50% of water use that is "environmental use" -- AKA not drying out all the rivers entirely-- isn't directly used by humans.
Also some POTS provider will accept SMS and either read it to you, or you can read them in some web portal (or the router possibly).
I have two teens and I like to say that they live in an antique arena. This is a large flat place, with high walls.

In normal words it means that they have a lot of freedom and I am not particularly bitchy about that. I tell them they have to go to bed but I do not care too much if they do when on vacation. One day I will get mad and force them to do that, and they know what they did wrong and that this is the"punition". They usually come, beg a bit and I let go.

So they know that there is a lot of vagueness about the "rules" within this area, which they make use of. Also the fact that they have two parents and when they get a "no" from one, they may get a "yes" from the other (and the first one would not care)

Then come the walls. The walls are rigid and extremely strong. They know that they must not try to break them, because terrible things will happen. The most terrible thing would be a loss of trust - something they do not want. They know that we trust them and that the whole flat area above is because of that.

They also know that they can come to us with questions, to which they will always receive an answer. Some of which they will agree with, some not. There are no taboo topics (though some were complicated, when the older one asked me what a whore is (or later, what cunnillingus is) at the ripe age of 10, and the younger one (8 at that time) ran with a chair from the other room to be part of the audience...).

They also know that they can talk with us about things they will do someday - and how to do them safely. Sex is an obvious one, but also alcohol. The younger one (14) told me today that he would like to try how it feels to be drunk when he is 18. I told him that they are risks and that he must be very careful. To what he said "at home of course! with you around just in case!". I hope it will be this way but I listed the risks anyway.

Now that I think of it, we do not even exactly know what the walls are. Certainly things like theft, but they are so remote from our ethics that we do not list them.
Don't get me wrong, there are still occasional problems. Most of those I've encountered have been applications misusing MySQL. We can debate whose fault that is.

But at least people stopped doing REPAIR TABLE after hard restarts of MySQL. It's been a long time since I last had to do that.
Good question. Why isn't Norway under the same threat?
Unix domain sockets are cool and awesome.

It's all fun until some local application decides that it should bridge a third party server and some service on your system. Do you want your browser to facilitate Google talking to your docker daemon? What about your dbus?
Water is a recreational drug. It cure many ills, is used as a primary ingredient in many medications, and people go swimming and surfing and boating in it all the time.

Using electricity power to pump water should be illegal.

Pumping a recreational drug using electricity is beyond criminal.

We need to start charging for electricity AND water based on type of usage.
I think it’s a bad assumption that most governments would see this as something needing fixing. Even with the current public blowback this will probably just “go away”.
I thought Docker containers weren’t meant to be secure sandboxes, but more of a convenience? It seems they did additional work but perhaps the role of the docker container has changed over time?
Since both gallium doping and PV panels predate this patent application by several decades I think that it is incredibly ignorant to think that this was obvious. Like a magic trick, once you know the secret it appears obvious, but until someone shows you or tells you how it works you have no chance of figuring it out. This whole 'anyone would have eventually figured it out' argument is the equivalent of saying 'draw the rest of the damn owl'; if it could have been done as easily as you suggest then it would have been done earlier.

Gallium (as GaAs) was being used in solar cells in the mid 60s. A quick search finds papers from the late 70s describing different effects of boron and gallium doping of silicon for solar cells to extend the life of satellites (the effect of the patent in question is to extend the working lifetime of panels so that solar radiation does not damage the panel.) So apparently this was so obvious that the first person who happened to encounter it missed it. It was then missed over and over and over again for at least 20 years and possibly 35.

Yeah, definitely something "likely to be invented by the first person who happens to encounter the problem it solves"...
I've got news for you: wild animals shit on your food crops all the time.
Oops, not Ganymede or Triton. Not enough atmosphere.

But the planets beyond Jupiter have surprisingly gentle gravity.
Lego's magic number is 37,112
I wonder if robots could help. Design some to go through the forests and mulch all the deadwood. They could work in geographic bands to create large fire breaks so the entire forest floor would not have to be mulched. There would be some environmental effects I'm sure (insects, mice, etc would get mulched as well) but that seems better than the devastation a fire causes. This seems like a limited enough problem that current technology could handle it with some human supervision in the field.
This is huge. Even the Raspberry Pi doesn't have open schematics or firmware.

The Amiga era was the last good overlap of "you can know everything about the machine" and "the machine can do useful things".
You just get into a twist of not being able to renormalize if you create a dependency chain like that. The same reason quantum gravity is such a problem - gravitons emit gravitons..
If the import system allows your code to run instead of the ‘import’ statement, and to produce the module however you want, then of course you can do whatever: load code from Google or StackOverflow results, if you wish.
Can you give some exaples of a typical popular profile targeted at your demographic? My Insta feed is currently filled with only machining and related topics, but I also don't check the "what's hot" or things like that.
No word on the street that the big box stores had moved in and captured all the local business?
Yep! Not much point in buying new hardware for running basic services at home, especially since used business stuff is so cheap, it can cost 1/10th the amount for similar results of buying new.
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>Has there been any discussion about the impact of EVs on less wealthy people on the basis of their lifecycle cashflow due to battery replacement?

Has there been any discussion about the impact of global warming on less wealth people?
just curious how many anti-NSO group people use amazon ring devices and are just ok with that cause those devices do enough bad things (still many use them)? In the same spirit I think we should start putting pressure on Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other companies because they literally produce mass distraction tools that do way more harm than NSO made tools. IMHO tools that NSO builds can do good and bad depending on what hands control those tools. I am not sure though how exactly NSO can control what its customers do.
This article just reports on https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/22/nso-g..., which was discussed a couple days ago:

‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920055 - July 2021 (48 comments)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
1) the 'nothing to be afraid of' statement is just PR, and nothing else, so not going to dig into that.

2) government has and will always use whatever tools exist, trust Pegasus is 1 out of many...

3) from a realistic standpoint it is up to 'Apple' is anyone to fix this issue from a technical standpoint, there will always be security holes and tools to take advantage of them. Shaming the toolmaker does little.

4) the real solution is the people have to control the government, only in those scenarios can you put 'ethical' constraints on this kinda thing... Those who are in countries where the people don't control the government really have no recourse
Depends on the initial use. Water treatment is a surprisingly interesting (to me at least) rabbit hole.

You don't really control the upstream: someone flushing their toilet, or a laundromat dumping solvents down the drain?

But it's a solved problem to continually test the incoming water supply for the basics (pH, TDS). Plus intermittent checks for full workup (heavy metals, etc).

After that, it's a question of working it through the appropriate steps to get it to the state you want. Sort of like a continuously operating manufacturing line, except you get to blend the product at the end and only have to QA the blended result.

As someone quipped, "Dilution is the solution." Given enough volume and time, you can dilute even an arbitrarily large amount of lead to safe levels.
Not license and not produce ones of their own?
Indeed, I'm suggesting the brain may do a kind of quantum computation, but the intrinsic knowledge a given brain has of models of biases toward risk/reward that resemble a father's behavior originate as genomic information modules from his genetic material, which the brain loads as models to do runtime computation about sensory stimuli on.

e.g. Consciousness is not some higher dimensional super or substrate, it's code, compressed into and transmitted by dna, running on a quantum computer in a brain, learning and processing according to initial weights in the dna model.
Of course it's in the eye of the beholder. The quote is just one man's subjective opinion. It's a pretty way of stating one person's opinion as to the relative importance of essential liberty and safety which many people agree with.

It's a matter for debate what liberties are essential and different people believe different things.
NSO would argue that the software in question is only intended for use against terrorists and criminals. Gun companies argue that they’re not designed to take human life. Who draws the line on when a company is lying about the intended purpose of products? You?
Yes, an offer under duress isn’t a real offer. It’s an attempt to not lose more.

This reminds me of a rape case where the girl asked the guy to use a condom. Getting raped was going to happen. She wanted to at least not get AIDS. In court, he argued it wasn’t rape because she asked him to use a condom, therefore consented. The court of course wasn’t having it.
One interesting use case of overwriting `builtins.__import__` I've encountered was the automatic hooking by ClearML [0] (experiment tracking, ...) into all sorts of common libraries like Matplotlib, Tensorflow, Pytorch, and friends.

The implementation is surprisingly straightforward, once you've come to terms with the basic idea, see [1] and the rest of the `clearml.binding` package.

[0]: https://clear.ml
[1]: https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/master/clearml/bin...
The breakage described can only occur if there are dependency cycles, so topological sorting can't fix it. If there are no cycles, then the order of imports doesn't matter.

edit:
Actually I'm not even sure what kind of error we're talking about here. If two modules import each other and they both need access to the other's contents upon initialization, there is no ordering that will work. And if at most one needs access to the other, it will always work, no matter in which order they are imported. So I don't really know what the OP was talking about.
EM is math. LOL.
After referring to them as flyover states, they might be reluctant to send California any food.
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You mean that you can override the import mechanism, which means that it allows you to do just about anything, including making it work with other languages.

That doesn't sound cursed to me, just flexible.
Yeah and on top of that many of them had their loan interest federally subsidized to build out their private infrastructure. The original 160 acre limit per farm of the 1902 Reclamation Act at least made sense in this context. Despite that, many of the multi-millionaire farmers flaunt that rule entirely even with it being raised to 960 acres in 1982.
In my (humble) opinion only URL makes much sense in the context of the web, since URI could be almost anything addressing something (in the internet or not).
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Cool! But why not just throw the code a package with a version dependency on tornado?
Yeah, it was a marketing gimmick: I remember buying "tie sticks", which was marijuana tied to a stick.

Speaking of trained botanists, here is a wonderful episode of "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" called "Tony Santoro's Trackside Botany/Ditchweed Tutorial".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG29eXY8e3A&ab_channel=Crime...

And here's another enlightening one about magic mushrooms called "The Ethnomycology of Ugly Landscaping":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHRgY8fZNv4&ab_channel=Crime...
They are still a trick because they are used to propagate a particle exactly where it needs to go in order to exert the force of the field. So the field is everywhere, but is pretty much invisible except for when virtual particles mediate it.. No efficient simulation on a computer could operate in such a manner. It's explanatory but not a constructive proof. I can't build an efficient simulation of our universe based on the virtual particle paradigm.
My father was in livestock pathology and always had a chuckle whenever spinach or (insert product here) would claim field contamination.

His verdict: 9/10 it's rat feces at the processing or packaging plant.

But from a marketing perspective, field crop contamination is an act of God. Can't be helped.

Plant contamination would actually mean someone was at fault. And would require (expensive) changes.
We need a national water grid.

I suggested this in another thread and got a mix of responses:

- You can't touch the Great Lakes.

- You can't steal another region's water.

- Pumps consume electricity.

- Grids are a security vulnerability.

to which I'd say:

- Water would be drawn from a number of sources, and having a grid would allow the draw to be distributed, lessening the impact to any single source.

- No one complains that the rest of the US is stealing CA's agriculture. If there is an exchange of funds, there should be no objection to an ecologically responsible exchange of water for local funding.

- Desalination also consumes electricity. Shipping imported food from other countries also uses energy(and has inherent national security risks above a certain level).

- Insecurity is not an inherent quality of a grid. Poor implementation of our electrical grid is not sufficient evidence against a national water grid. In fact, they enhance regional security by allowing us to cope with climate change and unforeseen weather events.

We could draw the water from regional flood control systems and the mouths of great waterways (St. Lawrence, Mississippi, Columbia, etc). We could leverage a larger system of reservoirs for gravity based energy storage systems.

I don't know, it just seems to make perfect sense to me. Right now, we treat water as a regional issue and have an antiquated system of treaties and agreements that favors entrenched parties and fails to serve the needs of society.
Very interesting.

Here in New Zealand we saw the very quickly crowd-sourced mashup called Student Volunteer Army(SVA) in the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes.

THW appears to be an organisation more thoughtfully designed and more generously funded.

I had the chance to meet with SVA founders.

This type of org is low cost, medium reward.

Very cool with lots of scope for building more resilient communities.
This sounds selfish, caring about your holiday not about infecting others, but the way it's written it also seems on purpose? I can't tell if this is flamebait. In case you're serious and don't find this selfish, what would be even better for (everyone's, and thus also yours) holidays would be no more pandemic. We'd get there with fewer extensions (mutations) if we have fewer hosts for it to breed resistance in. More immunity is more better as far as I know.

I'm also not fully on board with letting regulations or social things pressure you into doing a medical thing to your body for reasons other than because you believe it's the best option for your personal health. Not that I think you made a bad choice, it's probably also the best choice for your own health, but it should be a fully free and informed choice for everyone.

I suppose that, whatever the thought process and reasoning here, I'm happy you went with the option that benefits everyone. Keep it up and maybe one day you can't pretend to be a selfish person anymore :P (if that was, perhaps subconsciously idk, the goal here in the first place)
I grew up during the transition into the internet era and don’t recall feeling cynical about digital or analog. I was intensely drawn into the internet, software, programming, but never thought “boy I’m glad stupid analog is going to be replaced”

But now we’ve got cynicism everywhere about both analog and digital. Old analog technology is stupid and obsolete but new tech is clearly ripping our society to shreds in a variety of ways.

So I guess I miss being happy with what we had AND being excited about the future.
Right now, many farmers spend under $100 per acre-foot of water; 80% of non-environmental water goes to agriculture.

Water prices in urban areas are $1000 per acre-foot of water, because distribution is expensive. Desalination of brackish water can cost $1200-1500 per acre foot, and moderate improvements in costs could make desalination economically viable for urban water.

But it would require a truly massive improvement to be competitive for agricultural water use, and because most use of water is agricultural, we can only reap small benefits from desalination.
>there's no reason for such excessive energy waste from transportation

Shipping by air, land, or sea, has radically different costs. Since time immemorial transport by water has been tremendously less expensive than the alternative.

I was curious, so I looked up some figures, which probably aren't very precise, but shipping a ton of stuff from Shanghai to Los Angeles (if you can put 29 tons in a 40-foot container) costs on the order of $500. By air, maybe $20,000.

People say shipping things around the world is wasteful, but 25 cents is completely different from 10 dollars a pound. Going inland can easily exceed the cost of a leisurely trip across an ocean.
The owner is still paying property tax and not taking any income from those buildings...their value would have to be growing aggressively each year for that to be remotely worth it.
One thing you could do is desalinate water in Los Angeles, and thus keep the water in the central valley rather than pumping it over the grapevine. I'm pretty sure agricultural use of water in CA dwarves urban use, so maybe it wouldn't make that much of a difference. (Maybe someone can find actual numbers, sorry I can't right now.)
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Just pay a fixed % gross income to the patent owner.