skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CAPEX for desal plants is not negligible. The San Diego plant cost $1 BN for a daily output of 50 mil gallons. If you intend to amortize the plant in 20 years, it comes at 0.27 cents/galon. So even if you get free energy, you are far from your target of 0.1 cents per gallon.

By the way, thanks for running the numbers. I checked them, amd they are correct, with the small observation that recently the pricd of corn has gone up more than twice.
This decision is disregarding what process? This is the power vested in the Supreme Court.

Edit: No, no law is “settled” and impossible to overturn. The comment said “casually overturned”, not “never overturned”.

It’s how it’s supposed to work

You don’t get to pick and choose what decisions you like and then attack the ones you don’t. If you do you undermine the decisions you don’t agree with AND the ones you do.”

And again, there is nothing stopping Congress from turning around and passing a new abortion law that maintains the status quo.

It may not be perfect but if you don’t respect the process then you might as well throw the whole system out the window.
pandoc comes to mind, one of those pieces of software that “just works.” I’m not a Haskell guy but pandoc makes me wonder sometimes.

Visual Basic (cue the hecklers). Yes the language is awful. But the tool was great. I wish Microsoft (or somebody) would release a new version for full-stack apps with a drag-and-drop UI with js event handlers, easy backend framework, and a one-button “deploy to cloud” button for testing. Then a “publish” button that sets up your CI pipeline for production deployments. I feel like we’ve raised the white flag in terms of what software development should look like in 2022. Writing yaml feels like banging rocks together compared to possible alternatives.
Much of the worst degradation is (somewhat unsurprisingly) in locations with stagnant or declining population. Hardly where in-migration is highest.

And areas with the highest levels of migration tend to be magnets strictly on the basis that they do have more vibrant economies.

The fact that the US saw massive growth in the decades following WWII, and that much of that building stock and infrastructure were built quickly and cheaply, or are just simply old, also contributes. 40--60 year infrastructure, particularly where weather is a factor --- freeze-thaw cycles, salt, and moisture especially --- can beat the heck out of virtually anything surprisingly quickly.

It's also news to me that a generalised opposition to government and community investment is an ideology especially acquired from immigrants, unless you're referring to, say, the Murdoch family.
How do you explain the details of something technical to a nontechnical audience
I'm working on building simple, mess-resistant, data-storage and data-pipeline tools for bioinformatics teams in Boston.

Currently a mix of after work/ weekend projects

looking for other engineers who might want to collaborate
Relatedly, many decades ago, the Z80 was designed with "trap transistors", intended to defeat RE by optical inspection, also based on changing the doping. There are ways to find them, however:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf
Wow, I'm learning from HN that Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned.
Some percentage of our trash stream gets incinerated to generate electricity (then metals etc. are recovered and the remains go into a landfill). I can never find solid stats on what percentage but the claims sound like it's the majority of the trash stream.

But we also live so close to the coast that straws and any other litter in the wrong places can easily wash into storm sewers then eventually the Gulf of Mexico.
as a mobile dev, I have been following the same architecture (redux) for years for both iOS and Flutter.
> The constitution also has no right to privacy

I think it has that, actually. That's generally how the Fourth Amendment is interpreted. [1] Interestingly, the right to privacy was the main argument in the Roe v. Wade decision.
[2]

Also, to your credit, the concept of unenumerated rights [3] supports your argument. Hamilton (the favourite founding father among the left-wingers) actually opposed the Bill of Rights because "he feared it might later be interpreted as a list of the only rights that people had". [4]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_Unit...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unenumerated_rights

[4]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._84
SCOTUSblog’s Twitter has an on point take on the significance of the leak within the Court:

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1521295411545260035?t=...

It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.
I own the copyright to some GPL code. Nothing major or very important, but it's out there nonetheless. If I find out that a company has taken my code and is violating the license, here are the two outcomes I'd want, in order of preference:

1) The violator release their code under the GPL, as the license said they should have.

2) If they refuse my request for #1, I want to forget the matter completely and put it behind me.

If a lawyer offers to represent me pro bono and help me get the code, with no talk of getting paid, I'd accept that offer. I wrote the code with no expectation of getting paid for it. If a lawyer wants donate his labor to the project as I donated mine, that's fine with me. Otherwise, the lawyer can crawl up his own ass and die there. I'd rather have scenario #2 than see a lawyer getting paid to sue somebody over my code.
Not really. First, most beef isn't grass fed. By and large most cows are fed corn and soy, which means most of the land used producing beef already has those bad side effects. Second, if you grow food directly, you actually need less land to produce the same number of calories in plant material instead. So, you'd actually be able to creat more wild grassland without beef than with it.
It's been on every major US news site and channel for about the last hour.
Anglicanism is part of the same historical process, and it led to Puritans--that's Puritans, proudly WASPs, which I am not, given that I was baptized Catholic--colonized America first, maintained power for the most part, and set the tone for religious freedom, with religious restrictions as well.

So in the Supreme Court of former eras you see them discussing for instance the Common Book of Prayer, as a book that was an instrument of dominance through religion in England. That specifically led to the notion that public schools could flat out not ever teach religion, for a great many good reasons. Including classroom suasion--the teacher, the authority, subtexting he would favor those who did worship as he/she did--to getting children to worship as they would not without that suasion. A subtle form of requiring adhesion, and very insidious, it allows telling that child about the place called Hell. And how to avoid it, what he must do, and must never do.

And the religious restrictions the Puritans imposed? No polygamy. That was where they drew the line, at that point religious freedom within one group stepped on the toes of religious freedom of another group. And it came into play with the Latter Day Saints, who were many imprisoned (there's famous pictures), and who some of them then migrated away from America, into Mexico. Like the Puritans emigrated in their day, to practice polygamy, in accordance to their religion.[1]

[1] Polygamy is a neutral term, it's not pejorative per se, just means plural wives.
Not in MEEEXICOOOOOOO
I agree, they are delicious
> Assuming that requires full team meetings, on a team of 8, it requires 8 times as many meetings for 8 people and each meeting taking up 8 times the number of people's time (~64x time loss).

Wait, I don't think that's how work and meetings work. At least, I really hope not. It hasn't been in my experience, thank goodness!
Assuming the plastics started from atmospheric CO2 in the first place, noting.
Thanks! I remember Texas Universities HPC Lab released an online book a few months ago but couldn’t find it no matter how hard I looked, you don’t know the one perchance?
I recently took a new job after posting to a "who wants to be hired". They had previously posted the position on "who's hiring" thread, but they did not list remote-only as a possibility. If they had, I would have applied sooner, but they probably did not want to offer that to just anyone.

If you have a unique set of skills that are in high demand, I recommend putting yourself out there. Be sure to use an anonymous forwarder that you can later disable, as I also received a fair amount of spam during the window between posting and getting hired.
Justices can be impeached. I'm not saying they would be, but it's possible. Why risk it? The opinion is going to come out anyway.
I meant each author who accepts their offer and assigns their copyrights, not each contributor to an individual project.
I don’t believe there are any financial instruments that are even close to yielding 9.62% risk free. That’s why it’s limited to $10k annual. Though they should raise the limit to $100k something more “average” for investment savings and bonds. Anyway, I digress.

I also have a savings account at Goldman Sachs and it yields a whopping 0.60%.
> This decision is disregarding what process?

Stare decisis, aka precedent.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/is-roe-v-wade-settled-la...

"During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins that he thought a woman’s right to an abortion was 'settled law,' calling the court cases affirming it 'precedent on precedent' that could not be casually overturned."
The number of moving parts & the number of technologies is clearly only one aspect of complexity. The actual complexity and dependencies of each particular technology also differs. My point still stands, I've seen far too much resume building to have any other perspective. Obviously sometimes a company does require complex tools to deliver a product. That's fine. Often they don't, but they still end up with complex tools. That's not so fine.
Mobile's deficiencies in UI and networking were bad enough when they were just mobile's problem. But now people just assume everything should be gimped so that mobile can keep up.
Does this make Meta AI more “open” than OpenAI? Oh, the irony.
> If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany.

Yeah, it'd suck if the US had higher life expectancy, more political stability, better civil rights, better healthcare, lower unemployment, lower inflation, lower crime.....

What a nightmare scenario!
Well… I don’t think the web will ever, ever again be like the web of 1993.
I've had similar experiences. I find some people use attention and the doling out of validation to establish control and eventually manipulation. They don't have to be sociopaths, even average narcissists often play such games.

It's very counter intuitive to question someone's motives when their external presentation is so disarming. Undoubtedly this keeps you from some genuine relationships as well though.
But he _forcefully_ and _linearly_ made his prolonged point.
I don't read any major US news site regularly.
Were "we" hoping for smartwatches? They are a very niche product, IMO.
I don't see how you can say "Prop 47 isn't a problem and it's not even a symptom." and "SFPD doesn't even bother making misdemeanor arrests anymore" in the same paragraph like it's a coherent thought. It makes more things misdemeanors instead of felonies. Misdemeanors are unpunished. But it isn't a problem?

I'm not saying it's the dominant factor. I'm not saying it's a big problem for the whole state. It definitely added to SF's long list of problems though.
Everywhere around here has one line per register. At the beginning of social distancing one large local store built a barricade and enforced a single line so people weren't standing so close together. I went there once during that time and the line wrapped a quarter of the way around the store, ending over in the freezer department. It went faster than it looked, but that store also tends to have enough checkouts open and staffed with efficient, motivated workers.
Well, at that point, you could use the CO2 to make more plastic rather than releasing it to the atmosphere. My point was, this is how nature recycles biomass every year. Plastics are currently manufactered from natural gas feedstocks; you could make plastic from CO2 just like trees make lignin from C02.

Then, if you buried that plastic (made from atmospheric CO2) in a landfill after use, that would plausibly be removing CO2 from the atmosphere, not adding it. Assuming it doesn't break down in the landfill and leak out as methane or something.
A bit meta, but if 2015 reddit was still around this would have never been shared to HN.

I miss deeply 2015 reddit.
SCOTUS picked their team 21 years ago
I'm not at all surprised. Though I wonder if the risk of leaks going forward might act as a normalizing force on "hot take" court opinions (in either direction).

I'm looking forward to a post-leak Supreme Court, at least for now. I can't foresee negative outcomes yet so I'm open to a counter-thought to the one I presented above.
Why is it a “wow” that you find it here, in that case?
Given the absolute destruction this will wreak on internal institutional trust at the Court, there is only one sitting Justice that would really risk nothing at all by leaking it.
Maybe they mean "OS"?
EDIT: Sorry, I was looking at the wrong article, this one: https://www.ans.org/news/article-1882/nuclear-power-becomes-...

This technology uses polyethylene fibers coated with amidoxime. A quick look at Wikipedia reveals that oximes are commonly used as ligands and sequestering agents for metal ions [1]. I wonder -- are there useful amounts of other metals captured by these fibers? Gold? Silver? Rare-earths?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxime
It talks about the amidoxime-coated fibers.
Not surprising at all since OpenAI is basically run by Microsoft now.
It's funny my first reaction was to wonder how the other people involved feel about this:

I wonder how the defense attorney feels about this. The July 2021 GQ article says "Chin, now retired, declined to answer questions for this article, citing client confidentiality."

I suppose Detective Conley has seen the news too? ("Detective Conley told me through an intermediary that he wasn't interested in talking, either. He wanted to enjoy his retirement.")

But on further reflection I guess those people … really don't matter? They're no longer working, they can't hurt anyone else. What is Mr. James going to do now?
It's not contradictory, the UI is single threaded but on the dispatched events you can perfectly have long running tasks that can perform parallel work and affefct common memory.

It's also my understanding that if you stick to async/await and don't create your own tasks, the synchronization context will be the one of the UI thread thus never run in parallel. However, this doesn't prevent you from doing so.
Couple of js alternatives

tensorflow.js
https://www.tensorflow.org/js

and Microsoft onnxruntime web
https://microsoft.github.io/onnxruntime-web-demo/

Both of them support React Native
To stay on point by your own definition is there a slave master partnership between Europe and US because US kept killing millions of Iraqis and Afghans and Europe also shares those values or does Europe not share those values yet still keep partnering with US because they need US protection against Russia?
This is pretty much server side includes, SSI, and it's amazing and still in your server binary's today. It's a tiny, negligible, attack surface with just enough power to include bits of html so you can do templating and single file edits of the entire site.

It's old tech but it's really at the sweet spot for power versus complexity. I still use it and recommend others do as well. It makes a static site much easier to maintain.
Unherd of before rulings, but this is the big one.

But they’re just warming up. Obergefell v. Hodges, Affirmative Action… a lot of unwinding in the next generation.

Remember, both sides are the same. /s
> Yes, I feel like this is somehow still massively underappreciated.

No, it is overhyped (not by Apple), and it worries me. Apple's platform jumps are impressive (and this last seamless platform switch is more about macOS, good decisions NeXT made a very long time ago, developer empowerment decisions), but let's not confuse that with how bonkers every user of M1 and family are going. We have a bit of anecdotal data coming in, no one can believe, and I quote 5000 new M1 owners, "how snappy" the M1 is.

But look at the benchmarks. Each M1 model is a typical and negligible increase in performance over whatever most recent previous Intel model. We are talking about 1.05x performance increases! For example, take the 2018 6-core Intel Mini with the 3.2GHz processors and compare performance to the 2020 M1 mini, and it is immediately apparent, the 2020 M1 mini is really only a little bit more performant. And this is not bad news, it just means everyone is out of their minds, but it is typical of new Apple releases. The new models are always just a little more performant than the last revision (except 2010-2012, when models doubled in performance 3 years in a row and did not double again until 2018).

So the hype on M1 is overwhelming, and the M1 and family are not at all under appreciated. People seem to think M1 is miraculous, and I admit I think it is pretty neat... even after comparing benchmarks with previous models and realizing this is not a quadrupling or even doubling of performance; the increase in performance with Apple switching from Intel to ARM is... merely incremental. This was a lateral move, and not a giant leap forward, not yet. Go look for yourself. But don't be sad about it, again, this is entirely typical of Apple new releases... the new models are always just a little better than the last revision. Of course, performance is not the only metric.

So the hype says M1 walks on water, but misses the truth, that M1 does what x86 does with less power. Again, M1 isn't what a lot of people are saying... it doesn't blow Intel out of the water, it merely keeps pace with Intel, and that is impressive enough... but add the efficiency gains, and what we have are chips as good as Intel's (more or less), but use less power. Anything evangelized beyond this is crazy hype.
Aka a chilling effect (a phrase invented in high court opinion) on justice, if unpopular
You're not starting at zero. You have proficiency in other languages and are probably good at them!

It's often about getting to a point where you're used to cargo/Rust borrow checker stuff/etc. Removing the lifetime syntax stuff makes it much easier to transpose your existing knowledge and rapidly get up to speed.
> By well established California law legal resignations include an end date, she did not ever specify an end date when threatening resignation, and thus she never legally resigned. She was thus fired.

What law is that?

Either way, I'm confused about what the issue is here. California is an at-will state, so she could quit at any time, and they could fire her at any time. When you make an ultimatum, you're saying you're ok with either outcome and are letting the other party decide. This is an outcome she was ok with, so what's the problem exactly?
I don't like "available on request". I just want to download it and see if I can get it to run and mess around with it a bit. Why do I have to request anything? And I'm not an academic or researcher, so will they accept my random request?

I'm also curious to know what the minimum requirements are to get this to run in inference mode.
"Open" in OpenAI is like countries with "Democratic" in their name e.g. Democratic People's Republic of Korea

https://petervojtek.github.io/diy/2015/05/19/countries-with-...
That is extremely unlikely. There's nothing to be gained by breaking the trust of the supreme court justices by leaking a draft of a decision you are in favor of.

Now, the justices will be facing intense public discontent from those who want a different decision to be made before the draft is finalized (not that I suspect anything can realistically be changed at this point).

If you favor the decision, then it also speaks to money not getting a significant motivating factor (taking money to leak would betray someone they are supporting, which seems less than likely).

By this line of reasoning, I am assuming it was done by someone who deeply opposes the result.
Lawrence and Griswold may be on the chopping block, as well.
MSVC has a good amount of C++20 support now https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20.
That is the problem with religion, there is no single source of truth.

"Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta
Definitely thought it was open source in my brain…maybe I’m wrong though.

Now I don’t actually see the code…so my mistake. At least with markdown files you don’t have to worry about accessing your notes if anything ever happened to them though.
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Don't worry, I'm sure they have some nefarious plans down the road. They're just being "open" to corner the market first.
I never said humans can eat grass.

The vast majority of ruminants are fed corn and soy. If they were all to eat grass we'd be able to produce much less meat than we currently do, and also use much more land
This type of positioning by the SFC is horrendous.

Why do I have to follow the SFC rules / interpretation (by the way very flawed) when I write my own code.

Seriously, what gives them this right over my code. I reject this, even if GPL licensed.

Of course, I get the argument you and they are trying to make. By releasing stuff with GPL software I may have written, I've somehow bound myself to release my decryption keys, unlock my devices etc etc. You are making my point for me, that is NOT what most authors of GPLv2 licensed code want or agree to. And just saying "because lawyers" doesn't make it so.

This is a good example of the hazards of involving lawyers I think. Wet becomes dry and dry becomes wet.
To recap, you contradicted drewmal above, who said:

> it leads to loads of herbicide usage (glyphosate). The process of desiccation also leads to loads of glyphosate being used just prior to harvest, on non ‘Roundup Ready’ (glyphosate resistant) crops

You replied "Ummm no, less herbicide actually".

The Nature study you claimed supported your assertion said herbicide usage was steadily up, and more was used on non-roundup-ready crops.

I don't know if you meant "no" to reply to one or the other of those claims or both, but it doesn't matter because they both agree with drewmal.
My point is that the GPL should include a clause that if you sue for a breach of contract and win, then the violator of the license needs to pay your legal fees. This would (theoretically) allow a lawyer to sue with your permission and on your behalf and get paid while still forcing the infringer to respect the contract and release their code.