skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a watershed in eastern Idaho farmers, conservationists, and outdoor enthusiasts got together and instituted an aquifer recharge program. Here’s how they did it, as I understand it ->

Ecologists studied water temperature and its impact on cutthroat, the great prize in fly fishing. It turns out the cold water (passing from aquifers to streams, versus more immediate runoff) fosters healthier populations. The outdoors people wanted aquifer recharge.

The same ecologists study and publish general watershed health. Seeing the state of the watershed, conservations wanted aquifer recharge.

The upstream farmers have a problem of being required to turn off their water when downstream farmers need to irrigate (water rights). With strong aquifers, that “turn off your water” event happens later in the year, allowing upstream farmers to irrigate longer int he crucial summer season. The farmers wanted aquifer recharge.

So they all collaborated and did it. I believe conservationists initially paid or maybe continue to pay the farmers to flood their fields in the spring. For farmers, I have the impression it is about as easy as regular irrigation.

Aligning interests solves problems. Communication across stakeholders solves problems. I love this story and hope that I did the details justice. If anyone is curious about getting the full story from insiders, write to me and I’ll connect you.
YouTube now has maybe several dozens, maybe more, of full movies available to watch for free "with ads". Where they got the movies, I have no idea. If click around enough at YouTube, can get a Web page that lists just movies, all or nearly all for free and the rest "for rent".

In my experience, the operation of downloading a movie, or any video being played in a Web browser, at least with the software tools I have, to a file is touchy, slow, unreliable, etc. but at times works, but I was able to download, from somewhere, Sargent York. Also I was able to buy on DVD the original King Kong.

Both of these two old movies show, at least to my eyes, that the basic craft of drama, story telling, and, really, movie making was plenty advanced by the time of those two movies (the 1930s). For "York" busy movie music composer Max Steiner in places was plenty dramatic.

From such old movies, I have liked the examples of the basic craft of movie making with simpler and easier to understand movies that don't do nearly as much as a lot of more recent movies with special effects.

My guess is that most of what is important in making a movie popular is the basic craft and not the rest, and in my judgment the craft has not improved much since the best work of the 1930s. Maybe this observation is just Film School 101. Yes, current computer based special effects are amazing, but that is only an indirect approach to the main goal of the basic craft, insight into humans. Having at least some understanding of the "basic craft" is somewhat relevant to my Internet startup.

Sure, in school I was a STEM field major and refused to take literature seriously. But at times literature tries to address a serious subject -- humans. Literature does not always do well with that subject, but neither do the STEM fields.

To my eyes, sometimes literature, ..., and movies actually do well in some respects with humans, at times good enough to take seriously in the goal of understanding humans.
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome!
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The safe systems programming people would rather point out to the list of systems programming languages since JOVIAL in 1958, and make a point that Multics, Burroughs and VAX/VMS actually had higher security assessements than UNIX, primarly by not having C powering their kernels, rather systems language whose security was part of the whole OS design.
Apparently, their practice is to release the funds only when you file your next tax return...

I don't know who told you that, but that's definitely not true. I deal with the FTB fairly regularly, and payments are applied to the oldest outstanding balance in their system (as it should), regardless of tax return filing status.

The primary issue is when payments are recorded against the wrong tax type (i.e., use tax instead of income tax), or when it is not clear what taxpayer account to apply the balance to (such as when the check name does not match a taxpayer in the system, and the taxpayer did not follow instructions to include a tax payment voucher identifying the tax account or did not put their tax id number on the check).
An iterator macro seems fine? You could apply it only during the tests, for example, so it's not like it needs to be exposed in your library.
I'm starting to get sick of the neverending sentiment that Rust is the only option to write secure software, and any remark for security gets dismissed as Rust sales pitch.

Plenty of languages to chose from to replace C and its kind.
I have the impression that this sort of problem is bigger in the US than in other countries. Is this really the case? And if so is it because the US is simply a larger target or do telecoms systems in other countries do a better job of combatting it?
Shipping is more likely to use methanol, which is derived from hydrogen, than anything else. Cargo ships are already in the process of being converted over.
hmm, yeah, it's hard to keep these old Carthaginian jokes straight here.
So an obvious question is, what happens as the oil behind petrodollars loses value as renewable energy takes over? This transition is already happening. The difficulty for countries of repaying debt in dollars and the war in Ukraine has exposed how petrodollars take away economic autonomy which is yet another incentive to move away from petrodollars. One consequence is that the USA will gradually (or quickly) lose the ability to sanction other countries. Another is that Saudi Arabia and other petro-states (Russia, Mexico, Venezuela) will lose power and income. Countries that used to borrow in dollars will borrow in some other currency or at least a wider range of currencies (which may or may not increase their stability). What are the other likely changes? How might this all eventually rearrange and sort itself out?
I remember having to memorize the prologue to The Canterbury Tales in high school and it seeming dreadfully boring. A couple years ago for some reason I decided to read the rest of the text. I was shocked with the hilarious lewdness and also just the generally familiar description of the human condition written so long ago.

One of the funnier ones is the Millers Tale (from Wikipedia; spoilers!):

That same night, Absolon comes to the house and begs Alisoun to kiss him. At first she refuses, but Absolon persists, so she offers him one quick kiss. Instead of presenting her lips to Absolon, though, she sticks her backside out the bedroom's "shot-window" (privy vent), and Absolon kisses her "ers" (arse) in the dark. Angry at being fooled, Absolon gets a red-hot coulter from the blacksmith, with which he intends to burn Alisoun in revenge. He returns with it to the window and knocks again, promising Alisoun a gold ring in exchange for a kiss. This time, Nicholas, having gotten up to relieve himself anyway, sticks his buttocks out to get in on the joke and farts thunderously in Absolon's face. Absolon thrusts the coulter "amidst the ers" of Nicholas who cries out for "Water!" to assuage the pain.

The fact that someone took the time to write it in such structured rhyming poetry just blows my mind.
No, you're a bad person and you should be ashamed of yourself. I hope one day someone's lie on the internet will cause you great misfortune :)
I'm afraid you don't understand the problem with questions 7 and 8: informed answers would require in-depth knowledge, with a lot of critical awareness, of a large number of techniques that are described in hard to find primary sources and commonly misunderstood. So it might make sense to ask what practices one has heard about (and from what sources), or what people say they are doing, but asking what a developer is actually doing is to a large extent ill-defined (e.g. how many untested emergency fixes are enough to void a rigorous testing process? How many late night emergencies can fit in a 40-hours work week?) and it requires weeks of study.

As noted in other comments, there's also the issue of your assumptions; for example release cycles with a definite scale, while in reality there are nested or overlapping long and short cycles (from edit-compile-run to formally discussed tickets and other units of work to public releases and updates to grand rewritings and replacements): different practices apply to each cycle.
Not like you do.

I express opinions, and normally pre-fix them with caveats like "I would expect" or "I feel like" etc... that first example is just an outright fabrication. a bald faced lie.

Why did you get through the thought process, and typing it all out and still think that clicking SEND was a worthy and justified action?
I think it was intended to be prejudiced - he was sarcastically saying that the parents don't care about integrating into the culture, they think they can attain success for their children with tests alone.

I'm a child of Jewish immigrants. I had NO planned school/extracurricular activities except for music. I had these requirements from elementary school through high school: (1) Never get less than a B+ on any test or any class, or you're grounded. (2) Read 50 pages of books my father would assign every night, some light fiction, some history, everything in between, and spend 15 minutes reporting what I read to him. (3) No television or video games. A computer was okay as long as I was using it to "work", which could mean writing my own video games. (4) Find a job the day you turn 15, and work every day. Any job you want. Ideally something that deals with the public, like selling shoes. (I went into advertising).

Now, some of my best friends in high school were Korean immigrants. They had a lot more fun than me, but they also studied a lot harder for tests. By no means would I ever think their parents were doing it wrong.

What this sarcastic poster means about the society you live in, is ultimately very shady. The society he lives in is lazy. It doesn't want to study or work. It cries foul when people ask for "welfare handouts", but meanwhile, he is asking for a welfare handout from us the people who work and study harder - by means of claiming it's his culture and we're just here doing all the math right while failing to integrate. That's just not true. It's sour grapes from someone who has been eclipsed in all areas of intellectual and artistic achievement, and is likely to soon be eclipsed in the realm of popular culture as well.

So anyway /rant over. I wouldn't take it too seriously. Just keep doing what you do well.
Microtik is good value for money. All the features of an expensive CISCO at fraction the cost.
If one's ready to take a two weeks sabbatical, hiding tweets with common words for 7/30 days is probably an acceptable compromise anyway.
You can call it a step, sure. But that would imply if you just continue on the same path you’ll get there. But these models don’t do anything for planning or reasoning, nor have a point of view, only proxy embodiment to the extent that humans have written about what that means, nor handle incongruities within its own model due to the many voices it’s trained on. Just adding parameters or more data doesn’t help with any of these fundamental problems.

I think it also can be very difficult to assess what they “know” because of the Chinese dictionary problem… when you get back things that sound like we’ll formulated thought, it’d easy to project a deeper level of understanding on it than may actually be occurring.
Not everyone uses social media to watch anonymous users screeching their opinions at each other. It is a nice tool to cut down on encountering content you don't necessarily care for.
Metformin is also pretty bad when comes to impact to testosterone levels, at least in most men.
The exact mechanism that this happens is that it saps the cholesterol from your blood. This cholesterol would otherwise be used for T production by the testes.
I dont find them better to be honest ive had more than a few, lifetime on them are very short compared to a regular stove.
> In times of plenty it makes sense to put some water back in the ground if you have a short-term capacity.

This is literally what the article is about. Nobody's doing this because they're bored and looking for fun hobbies on the side. California's groundwater systems are being depleted rapidly and people are desperate to find solutions that don't require pulling less water out of the ground.

Even with this that outcome won't be avoided.
Posting under false pretences in order to provoke responses was the original meaning of internet forum trolling, though it rapidly mutated to just mean being a dick on the internet. Neither definition has anything to do with whether you eventually admit you're wrong.
This is always going to be the argument against anything like this, and of course it should be used with caution. Then again, my life is too short to be dealing with (say) bots, literal nazis etc. While their opinions may be interesting occasionally, it's not always worth the energy expended on some people.

> the antithesis of dialogue

Yes, perhaps

> , freedom of speech,

No absolutely not. Not in any interpretation of "freedom of speech" is individuals choosing not to listen to other indivuduals the antithesis of freedom of speech.
For what it's worth -- I agree with you and is why folks are flocking to docker/kubernetes and devops tooling like Terraform. I just think you're missing the scope of it. Say for example, a big box store, they might have 500 locations, and all the sudden they buy a few more companies, and merge all this stuff under a single brand. All the sudden they have tons of systems all over the place, lots of existing platforms that need to talk to each other, and staff that are resistant to change. This isn't "newly designed stuff" it's systems that sort of organically grew over a long time. You're talking lots of different operating systems, networks, front-end/back-end systems, www corperate site, mobile site, rewards sites, all sorts of internal support applications, pos system backends, etc. They probably have 20+ different large database systems and they might not even know all the apps connecting to them. I actually worked with a company like this on a few cloud projects. It was amazing to see the complexity. This is the type of stuff that's running large parts of companies that you interact with on a daily basis.

I guess what I'm getting at, is that sure if they design new things they will follow modern patterns but there is so many things that are not modern. They don't have the time or incentive to just go and rebuild all this stuff. There is zero benefit to them on a bottom line, unless there is some burning fire, a way they can extract more money, or save tons of money. So, they just keep them on life support and run in a keep the lights on mode until something happens. These are the systems all sysadmin's just wish went away and there's many of these types of things all over the place.
It's missing "Ludicrously Large Telescope" and "Plaid Telescope".
"a few minutes preparing the CV"

I think you are confusing a CV with a Resume, or you are focusing on the IT niche.

For example, an academic CV needs HOURS of work to elaborate.
Certainly not AI. There are very few applications of AI that do not tip the scale in favor of more powerful against the less powerful. It enables government and big tech surveillance, mass mind control, smart weapons, deepfakes etc.
Absolutely correct! That's the answer/solution. Not rewrite everything in rust.
Yeah that is a good point, it's bad when you dump hours into something that could be figured out in a couple of minutes.
I suppose you also get lazy cultural analysis like this from armchair patriots...
I think Walter got it spot on by not including any type of macro in the D language.

Personally waiting for his version of "Goto Statement Considered Harmful" but for the macros.
Same here in Norway. It is an offence to make an unsolicited commercial call to a number that has been on the register for more than a month. It can cost the caller 300 USD per call in fines.

I have had perhaps two unsolicited calls in the last five years and one of those was from a number apparently in London, UK.
> anyone have suggestions for my next career move?

I'm keeping my eyes open on circus website careers pages. I reckon I'd have way fewer clowns to deal with if I was an actual clown car driver... :sigh:
It’s a mistake to think of it as an emotional response.

I looked at Mike Solana’s timeline. He’s got nearly 100k followers and tweets about topics like the RNC, mask mandates, NFTs, international politics, housing, and religion. You can bet your ass his tweets attract a ton of weirdos in the replies.

I’m guessing he takes five seconds to figure out whether or not to block you, because he has to make these decisions multiple times each day, and he has better things to do.

It does feel like a big deal the first time you block someone. I remember the first time I blocked someone on Twitter. I was so sick of seeing their tweets in my feed. After I blocked them, I just kinda forgot about them, and my brain is free to do other stuff. Blocking is not a big deal.
The interesting lesson here is that this could have been avoided, including the building by just going and collecting cash upfront irregardless of who customer was supposed to be.
Seeing the domain and the title I was wondering at first what the article had to do with typography.

Mr. Buttericks guide on practical typography is an must read for everyone in print- and webdesign: https://practicaltypography.com/
Ah right, that is surprisingly late, and would likely explain the numbers.
In a world awash with information and everyone optimizing to keep you and me engaged, aggressive defense of time and attention becomes a necessity to maintain sanity. No one deserves to gain your attention by default. If a tweet has > 50% chance to enrage me, I'd rather not see it. Important news and information will find a way to reach me.
I personally would prefer if you didn't do this. It makes my experience using HN worse.

Obviously, you can do whatever you want. But you asked for my opinion :)
Your comment, seems to me, is almost entirely composed of vague and ominous phrases, errors, insults, false assumptions that I don't consider worth responding to in any detail. Your intent was seemingly mostly to insult and enrage. If you want useful exchanges on HN in future, with me at least, I suggest not writing like that.

p.s. I notice that your page on HN says only "All comments are a work of fiction.", and one of your most recent comments starts "My favorite tactic is to intentionally write down overly constrained or even "obviously" wrong tickets or issues or what have you, to provoke a disagreement".
Unix philosophy has plenty of problems: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
> In the US the receiver pays so there is no system in place to verify who the caller is.

What? That's bonkers. Why on earth should the receiver pay?
And technically his family, the gens Octavia, was a plebeian family, albeit his branch was rather wealthy by the time of his birth.

Speaking of his mother Atia though, she was the niece of the Gaius Julius Caesar, himself from a patrician family.

The formal distinction between the family orders waned in significance over the centuries preceding the fact. That said, people always find new ways to feel superior to other people so it's not like there were no class distinctions, but the term plebeian was quite more complicated and nuanced than our modern re-interpretation of the word.
> anyone have suggestions for my next career move?

Because it works against the viral rage amplifying feedback loops that the advertisers and shareholders demand...
Amazing work, about amazing devices. I owned Psion Siena and Revo and both were much ehead of the competitive devices. And i remember installing some tool for keyboard localization, that used some low level hacking to achieve that. What a great time .
Does the GDPR mandate usage of English? I know orgs that will allow antispam eat any communication not in the local language.
Loads of other people do, as I'm sure you're aware. I don't, and I don't think there's anything positive or redeeming about it. You're just lowering the quality of hn for everyone else.
I agree with the IoT stuff, would never trust or want that...

Taking hands off steering wheel. Depends on where done, but straight or slightly curving highway with no significant other traffic sure. Why not try how well it works, just be ready to grab and correct if needed.

I even try how well my car goes straight line in similar conditions...
How would fault tolerance help with privilege escalation?

Would it not just mean that you have more computers to update in your redundant/tolerant cluster?
PC engines APU2:

https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
How many intelligent entities (say humans) that have been exposed to the same level of knowledge as GPT-3 would call this a trick question? None. The author’s assertion that GPT-3 has no knowledge of the real world despite being exposed to huge amounts of text about it seems pretty well supported by the examples shown
From the artcile: "The numbers were small — 13 metformin-exposed boys were born with genital defects. But after the researchers adjusted for factors including parental ages and maternal smoking status, they found a 3.39-fold rise in the odds of a genital defect. “The rate per se was surprisingly high,” Wensink says."
There are too many TRPGs to count them. Tanks of freedom is free by the way.

Also, a lot of TRPGS tend to be hellishly difficult.
I agree that some very small subsets aren't worthy of attention, but I don't understand how any person would willingly isolate from the views of "vast subsets of humanity".

How can you be so sure you got it right? How do you check for blind spots if you don't regularly expose yourself to opposing viewpoints?

I ask this because some of the best decisions I ever made were only possible after I considered the "other" side. Most of the time their views fail apart when subjected to scrutiny, but sometimes my view is the one that is found lacking.

I think fuzzing viewpoints with honest dialog is crucial for a healthy society.
Stories like this make me belive that we might actually have a chance to not screw up a lot worse then we did already! Thanks for sharing!

A side note: This approach works in a lot of cases, e.g. across company functions. It's incredibly hard to achieve, impossible for me I'd say.
Gotcha, makes sense. I'm not on twitter so I wasn't actually sure what to put for that.
I'm not sure "an archive with all the data" is what you really want either. At some point you'll hit the limit of how much data does your filesystem allow in one file. Not sure if your browser is that good at resuming failed downloads too.
What are you calling distribution in that context ? What does it spans ?
You'll want separate access points anyway. WiFi evolves faster than Ethernet.
I mean non-geographic within the country. As far as I know, the US practice of assigning mobile numbers to 'area codes' is unique.
Induction cooktops are wildly popular on solar powered sailboats, do you have any sort of information to back this claim up? There are tens if not hundreds of sailing vlogs on youtube who are exclusively using induction cooktops because they don't want to carry propane onboard.
My impression was that something about naim in particular triggered their wrath, since as you say, Gaim and Trillian rarely provoked ire. But their support was unhelpful, and it happened a couple times to more people than just one user at once, so _something_ about it was clearly rustling their jimmies.

They did eventually seem to back off though, as the sibling commenter said, because after a certain point I stopped randomly getting banned ever again from then until the end of AIM as a service.