skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's the whole state.

The concept here, which is clearly and correctly communicated by the article, is simple.

New Mexico believes that it has the final say on its water. New Mexico believes that every drop of water that falls in New Mexico is under New Mexico's final control.

For 50 years, New Mexico has been "negotiating" with the Native Americans in their land, by running their own courts and deciding in their own favor, over and over again.

This is blatantly illegal. The entities they are dealing with are soveirgn nations - entirely distinct countries - and we have been very, very clear with the states that they do not have dominion. If you're American, just think about all those casino fights. Every single one, lost. All of them.

Why?

Because *the states are not the owners of that land.* Those are other countries, and they get to set their own rules.

The problem is that New Mexico has been robbing the Native Americans of their water for almost a century, and has become entirely dependant on water that does not belong to them.

Over the last fifteen years, the Navajo have been saying "this is going too far, we don't have electricity or sewage or schools, you can't keep taking our resources for free." So New Mexico offered them about five cents on the dollar for their water, which amounted to about $1.3 billion.

Then New Mexico took three times as much water as they purchased, and reneged on half the money.

The Navajo finally said "enough" and took them to court, because New Mexico in 2019 took so much water that Navajo people started dying of thirst.

New Mexico runs sprinklers on lawns in the open air, while taking away so much water from the Native Americans that they're dying.

Every one of those beautiful trees in the near forest city of Santa Fe is built on the corpses of Navajo who died of thirst.

The Navajo won.

The State Engineer's Office immediately paniced, because more than 70% of New Mexico's water is stolen from the other countries that New Mexico thought it owned. They will all win too, if they try.

The State Engineer's Office went to the court of appeals and said "please let us continue to steal the Native Americans' water, we know they're dying and we know they're another country and we're just a state, but the trees in our city parks are thirsty."

For once, the US courts did the right thing. They said "no, and you're not allowed to raise it further."

It's the whole state. The reason this is important is that every single source of water to New Mexico flows through the land of either The Nuntzi, the Navajo, the Goshutes, the Shoshone, the Shivwits, or the Koosharem.

If they all take the route that the Navajo did, then Santa Fe no longer has a water supply at all.

This article, that you said was incredibly poorly written, got all of these topics correct.

I'm sorry you felt the need to insult the writer. It also makes me feel pretty bad for having brought it up, because I thought this would be worth your time.

In the balance, it seems like you didn't learn what the real situation is.

Good luck to you.
This project also includes wind, which doesn't require sun.

"A week's worth of storage" feels somewhat like an armchair simplification. It roughly sounds on target if we're moving toward the march of nines for real-time zero-carbon power supply, but...that honestly doesn't need to be the target expectation for today. Long term goal, yes. Today's targets really should be to get to 90-95% renewable, since chasing the last 5% will be the hardest and most expensive—and that's probably where we can acceptably use some dirtier backup sources. With the state of the grid today, there's lots and lots of power sources that can be replaced for cheaper and cleaner before we need to chase the long tail of 100% renewable at all hours during every season.

The reality though, is that all of these requirements are modeled, and the operator surely has their install min/maxed for typical use.

At the risk of being off topic, I personally have what energy-wonks could consider a "three hour" system (10kW solar, 15kW/43.5kWh battery, my typical daily energy use is between 25-50kWh, higher if I need to charge the car) and have done two weeks fully off-grid last summer, which included some cloudy weather. (True off-grid: the utility breaker was open to hard disconnect from the grid). While I could probably live full-time off grid in the summer, I definitely feel its better to have my system help clean up the grid where possible. So there's really a lot of flexibility to be had depending on the system's requirements.
It's an interesting read, but the actual answer to what is the afterlife of hotel soap is a land fill...
You can easily add channels in Guix to install nonfree software, e.g. Steam. I don't even have to do a Nix-style `allowUnfree`.
"Standard" Ebooks also make their own non-standard editorial changes to modernize the language of the books. These edits are labeled as such in their git repository, but they're mixed with the technical edits so in practice it would take a lot of work to revert them.

I prefer the Project Gutenberg versions.
I’ve always taken it home. Funny since I always assumed each hotel was just melting it down and recasting them.
The Harvard Book Store (the independent one, not the Coop) has just such a machine! Though I haven’t used it.

https://www.harvard.com/clubs_services/books_on_demand/
Maybe cargo2nix? https://github.com/cargo2nix/cargo2nix
Boring codswallop.
I am actually in Ontario, which is a very pro-tenant jurisdiction.
I feel like it's not been that long ago that I ran into trouble with "standard xterm escapes". As I recall, there are a lot of those, and many of the more interesting ones are at best very unevenly supported across terminals. The last such experience is in fact what led me to avoid doing anything more complicated in a terminal than basic colors and a few emoji.

That said, if your terminal support is as good as advertised, it probably shouldn't be hard to surface that on your site. (If you really want to sell me on it, let me try it out in a web-based terminal emulator like xterm.js! Then let me package up that test script for download, so I can easily run it locally in my terminal, as many of them as I like, and see for myself how well it works there.) Maybe also include feature coverage in your test suite and even CI, although that's definitely a trickier engineering problem.

As it is, I'd be very hesitant to use the library since doing so would risk incurring a dependency (on the user using a supported terminal) that wouldn't be easy to characterize more closely than "I tried this in xterm, y, and z and it worked, but if it breaks for you I'll have no immediate idea of why, and I'll have to choose between #wontfix and losing velocity on feature work."
Sounds like the ancients had similar thoughts as “We will not declare her dead until she is warm and dead.”:

https://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/sbe0411.htm

From The Zend Avesta, Part I - FARGARD V.

10 (34). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If the summer is past and the winter has come, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do?

Ahura Mazda answered: 'In every house? in every borough, they shall raise three small houses for the dead.'

11 (37). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large shall be those houses for the dead?

Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Large enough not to strike the skull, or the feet, or the hands of the man, if he should stand erect, and hold out his feet, and stretch out his hands: such shall be, according to the law, the houses for the dead.

12 (41). ‘And they shall let the lifeless body lie there, for two nights, or for three nights, or a month long, until the birds-begin to fly, the plants to grow, the floods to flow, and the wind to dry up the waters from off the earth.
If the people responsible for the decision listened to the lawyers, I doubt there will be any written notes on this...
Plastic recycling is worse than a scam - the process actually releases more carbon (mostly co2) into the atmosphere than creating a new plastic item. I've heard that it was widely implemented to "promote awareness". And the worst part? People who drive gasoline vehicles to bring their plastic recyclables to the recycling center.
Because their base consists of people who:

- are severely uneducated. Consider distribution of political alignments in Academia. Consider the fact that antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists are in their overwhelming majority politically conservative and authoritarian. Belief in conspiracy theories is highly correlated with an impoverished interpersonal functioning, such as interpersonal paranoia, narcissism, disagreeableness, insecure attachment and Machiavellianism [1]. Impoverished interpersonal skills signify lack of empathy, which fuels dehumanization, and enables exploitation of others.

- grew up hammered by propaganda and the red scare, where anything that resembles social welfare is considered communism even if they themselves are dependent on such systems. Accepting that one needs help is exceptionally difficult for a person high on narcissism and paranoia.

Furthermore, when threatened, the brain takes "conservative" stances, i.e. stances that preserve the status quo. When faced with an ever changing world that does not resemble anything that they were accustomed to, they cling on to the closest sense of status quo even if the person or structure that supports it only does so for optics.

The lack of education makes it difficult for them to see that they are played like pawns by the bourgeoisie, that they receive preferential treatment through systemic issues [2], and finally they misattribute the reasons for their successes due to their obliviousness [3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282974/

[2] https://libcom.org/library/advance-class-struggle-abolish-wh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_(psychology)

Kind reminder that I stated facts, so please argue, as adults :) .
From what I have seen, depositing before making the commitment makes you much more likely to succeed. Seeing the money leave your account creates a lot of psychological pressure that otherwise doesn't exist.

The verification system is not fool proof. If you put some effort into forging proof you will succeed. However, I do not believe most people who willingly sign up for this would do that.
> whiskey in the basement isn't spying on you

Everyone important in the world already knows my SiL bought it for me, tracked at the point of sale using a loyalty card, tracked via her credit card, her highway pass shows she visited to deliver it to me on my birthday, it probably has a RFID chip somewhere either for theft protection or inventory tracking (maybe in the presentation box not the bottle itself "obviously"?). The bank has a record of what she bought which is probably legally or illegally shared with the health insurance company and/or medical care. Her fitbit tracked her walking thru the store.

But, yeah, the "real" threat to my privacy is people on HN now know I have an expensive bottle of whiskey, LOL. Or my cat-meme sharing account on FB, if I used FB, would know that I have a nice bottle. Because that distractor is the "real threat" not everyone in the paragraph above whom I have zero control over.

If an organization or whatever knows they're going to piss people off, give them a false sense of control. Maybe give them fake elections where both candidates are insiders. Maybe provide corporate oversight by a revolving door between the regulators and the regulated. Its all pretty standard propaganda stuff.
I grant the claim is that it works perfectly in any terminal. I see no evidence of that, and my experience with the complexities of terminals leads me to find the claim quite difficult to credit.
You have to be deep into things to be regarded as a nerd, but they can be all kinds of things. Baseball is mass culture, but there are baseball nerds delving deep into their stats; Oscars is about mass culture but there are movie nerds who don't do the niche art movies but care to know which minor actor was in which Fast and Furious movie; etc - every aspect of mass culture has their share of nerds as well.
>Not everyone can be lucky, by definition.

That's true only for people who play the same game, the same time. But life is a series of countless games, so both the law of probabilities and observation of people around make me think that nobody can be unlucky forever.

Having luck and taking advantage of that luck are different things.
We need to seriously stop treating having kids as some kind of accident that just happens. It's extremely simple to not have children. American society is free, which means you are free to fail and fuck things up. If someone has 4 children the only person to blame is the parents. If you can't control yourself, get yourself sterilized. We don't need more of your insane lineage that can't prevent themselves from having 4 children on this planet.
"we will track your ass via other means"
No, auto-reject what the sites let you reject. Because surprise surprise, actually necessary cookies like you describe don't require consent.
I strongly believe external motivation kills the inner motivation. Maybe that is the goal here, by killing it completely so you can't ever think of depending on it(?). For me personally, I always found these kind of tools that helps trick one's self into doing or not doing things, very soul crushing. It's almost like trying to beat yourself into submission, disowning the part of yourself. If you can't make yourself to do something, maybe you shouldn't do it?
For most woodland herbivores: acorn comes before shite.
> If you need near memory access and have constant loops over arrays of objects then Java will be slower than that when compared to C++ because of the memory layout (Valhalla will improve that).

In a former life we used Scala magic to pretend we had an array of structs. Otherwise, yeah, this is a huge issue facing JVM apps.
That's because they can't build nuclear reactors. We can.
Curious if anyone came up with the idea to build a Linux distro based off heirloom.
> We do not make anything from the contracts because it seemed wrong to profit from our users failing. We want our incentives to be aligned correctly!

I assumed that the monthly fee was on top of a percentage fee on lost bets, which other platforms charge. You should make this more prominent on the site — aligned incentives are great!
Nolan Bushnell and Chuck E. Cheese
Not low latency, but onion-adresses/services are actually ideal for this.
You only need to know the onion adress, to know that you connect to the correct node.

* encrypted
* automatic NAT punching
* complete location independence
* use 0MQ with tor as transport if you want a queue on top .

Or if it has to be fast and low latency: 0MQ with eliptic curve encryption.
But in this case, the two were being worked on literally at the same time. NRL flew the experimental precursors to GPS in the late 1960s and early 1970s. NTS-4, the first operation GPS satellite, launched in 1974.

In NRL's case, the challenge would have been that the engineers were in different divisions. Radar ranging of the moon was done by Space Sciences, and Transit and Timation were done by Spacecraft Engineering.
The Post, Doxxing, and Stalinist [Social] Tax Burdens
I'm really excited for koka. I still need to dig in and actually try writing some code but it looks so promising. At a minimum I hope that it inspires other languages to look at these features.

There's definitely bits I don't love, but they're nothing I couldn't get over.
Life in lockdown held back progress of under-fives
> I would agree in any free society, where you can trust institutions to fix such mistakes when they happen, this risk of irreversible transactions is not worth the reward.

> But when the alternative is a dictator arbitrarily seizing/taxing your money, devaluing it through poor economic policies, the risk doesn't seem so bad eh?

I'm skeptical that reducing (at the margin) the pressure to transact via (and thus expand use of) free society's institutions is a particularly good side effect.
You can do that by looking up which one ships with less RAM installed. I believe the common wisdom is still that it's not Android.
To be fair, the DNT launch was botched from the beginning, starting more as hack than an industry-wide consensus [1]. While it eventually got implemented by browsers, it lacked adoption, and had risks with fingerprinting [2]. The nail in the coffin was when Internet Explorer 10 decided to enable it by default [3], completely disregarding user intent.

[1] http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/01/history-of-do-not-track-...

[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removin...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...
Somewhat ironically, the US birth rate is propped up by Hispanic immigrants that do have traditional Family Values

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db318.htm
cool! (I gave the example of Julia, but because it's the best GC implementation (it's not), but because it's the implementation I know).
Be sure to check https://www.textualize.io/what-we-do
Just an FYI, you and the person that's responding to you are talking about the same people but use two different words for them. A real leftist ideological group doesn't exist in the US; progressives are not that for certain. To the right, however, a leftist is a US progressive.
A lot of us know what's good for us... doesn't mean it's always easy to do. This is just another way of making it a little easier to actually do what you know is good for you.
> This sounds like brexiteer project.

Given that the UK has left the EU, couldn't you call every trade deal or cultural exchange with a non-EU country a Brexit project?

Even if it is, what is wrong with that? The people of Britain voted for Brexit and now need their elected officials to deliver, which motivates projects like these

Edit: to clarify, i live in London and i didn't vote for Brexit. Regardless of the outcome, I consider it a national security issue and a productivity boost to have cheap energy collected from a diverse set of sources from solar plants abroad to domestic nuclear energy plants and off-shore wind turbines.

If you live in Britain, would you really prefer Britain stop investing in projects like these, just because there was an election result you disagreed with?
I've used Thunderbird for years with minimal requirements beyond just email but over the last year, I amped-up my needs.

I needed more integrations for calendar and contacts with my self-hosted Nextcloud. I had to leverage plug-ins for Thunderbird and they were problematic but kind of worked most of the time with caldav and carddav data sources.

Earlier this year, I reset my Thunderbird profile and tried the updated non-plugin setups and it has been great. I know the overall roadmap and updates have not be dramatic but I can say the stability and core functions have really improved.

You should at least give it a shot.
"JavaScript Free" pretty tired of the JavaScript hate. It's not going away, and if you make a browser that doesn't support it, no one will use the browser.
>Many of us have lost a sense of community and place we once had. I don't know what about our culture has done this, but it's bad.

Every community is a social organism fighting uphill on an energetic gradient. Therefore in order to survive a community always has to have a boundary. If you cannot delineate "These people are Us and those people are Not Us" then you cannot store energy in social bonds. People watch their cultural and societal investments get cracked open and poured out for the benefit of outsiders. Then they stop investing and turn to rationalized materialist systems that are more reliable. And then you do not have a community.

Here's an effective strategy if you're part of a materialist system: at every turn, make a moral argument for why the investments inside a target community are actually evil and must be cracked open. Mount a massive and continuous campaign to redefine the core concept of community (loyal in-group preferentialism) as an exploitive world-historic injustice. Then coordinate this as a basis for reward and punishment at scale. Now you can watch people trip over themselves to leave their community and seek material protection inside your system.

Rinse and repeat et voila, you've perfected technological metabolism of human culture. Bye bye, sense of community!
if you're into this I highly recommend checking out Bob Grieb's work[1]. He has reversed MCUs on many vintage synths and has a website dedicated to his explorations. Really impressive stuff...

[1]http://tauntek.com/synthesizerinfo.htm
Another nice idea is removing obsolete river dams to give fish access to their former breeding grounds upstream.

>The removal of both dams, in conjunction with active stocking of alewives into lakes and ponds upriver and in other parts of the watershed, has helped the river herring population rebound dramatically. The number of alewives returning to spawn jumped from 78,000 in 1999 to 5.5 million last year.

And the downstream estuary has reaped rewards, too.

When those billions of juvenile river herring leave the freshwater lakes and rivers, they head for the sea and may spend between three and five years in the marine environment. There they serve are a food source for everything from cod and haddock to whales and seals.

“They are really a kind of keystone ecological species for the Gulf of Maine,” says Burrows.

https://therevelator.org/edwards-dam-removal/
That dependency was a large part of Nestle's strategy in providing baby formulae in Africa. They would supply each new mother with - if I'm not mistaken - one month or three month's worth of formulae. Just enough so that she would stop lactating, but require them to now purchase many month's worth of formulae at prices that they really could not afford.
I'm talking from experience, my drive to succeed helped me to take an opportunity when it came. Otherwise I'd probably be selling weed on the corner.

Or you think its better to evade temporary failure by embracing permanent failure?
How to I delete my HN account?? (not this throwaway account, but my real one)
This seems to be rooted in the notion that the liberal upper class benefits by having cohesive families while at the same time saying that divorce doesn’t matter and, in fact, celebrating it. I can’t help but ask you to support that, because it seems like a bizarre claim to me. The only type of person that comes to mind for me when thinking of people that celebrate divorce are people that have been divorced.
Sometimes it’s not a contradiction, but our old friend nuance. eg

Ideally, everyone should learn to take a literal or figurative punch to the face, shrug it off and refocus.

However, that doesn’t mean that someone can’t be severely traumatized or injured by a single punch to the face. The context matters.

So the ideal of ‘just learn to take it and toughen up’ is flawed because of the very real effects of trauma. And the ideal of ‘no one should ever get punched in the face’ is flawed if we never train ourselves for hardship.

It can be really unintuitive to figure out the middle path between the two.

Sometimes it should be obvious. Stuff like, kids should be made active enough to occasionally scrape their knee, but sanding a scrape into your kids knee is horrible abuse.
> explain the environmental and carbon benefits

I'm extremely allergic to seeing these "for the environment" claims, because it's usually obvious they're doing it mainly to save costs. I have no issue with them doing a sensible thing, but I consider lying rude.