skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So here's my question: why are we considering making consumers pay for expensive desalinated drinking water instead of diverting snowmelt to drinking water? What we're effectively doing is using expensive desalination for agriculture and making consumers pay for it.

Because the correct answer--"Shut down agribusiness in the Central Valley"--is politically infeasible.

So, we will continue on this path until the aquifers are completely pumped out by the big agribusinesses who will then abandon the Central Valley to its collapse.
Same here. I have exactly 1 friend who I know from university, and the only reason we are still in contact is that I met him one day on the street and we found out we had become neighbours.

I have no contact with anybody else from university. I had a few friends at university that I spent a lot of time with studying and partying, but after I graduated I didn't stay in touch with any of them.
I personally follow where devs are naturally curious.

Where I see devs making cool stuff:

- AI/ML

- traditional coding

Where I don't see devs:

- Blockchain tech

- AR/VR

Ultimately I think what happened is the hype cycle made crypto seem like the next Internet, when it's really just fintech. It's interesting to Wall Street, not engineers.

Even the whole DAAP thing is DoA. Can't think of a single app that is more than a tiny demo.
I'm sorry but absolutely none of those applications need blockchains or even benefit from them at all. If you want to discuss this I could go into extreme detail why that's the case. I can understand being excited about the promises made by them but at some point we all need a good reality check. Having curiosity doesn't suggest any particular kind of acceptance, we can actually accept that something is universally useless and not worth our time. I'm not saying this because I want to crap on people's startups, I'm saying this because they could make a lot better products if they weren't getting wrapped up in this.
I live just outside Andover, KS. Tornado came within about 2 miles of our house. It's amazing there were no deaths nor serious injuries from this tornado.
Fruits are lacking vitamins and minerals, not sugar. In fact, the carbohydrate content in fruits is increasing with increased CO2 concentrations (explained in the article).

Anyway, the reason why this is a problem is explained in the article.

“As many as three billion people around the planet, most of them in low- and middle-income countries, cannot regularly afford a healthy diet, and at least two billion are suffering from so-called hidden hunger, missing key micronutrients in their diets,” Sova says. “These people cannot afford additional nutrient declines in plant-based foods.”

Nutrient deprivation isn't just scurvy and rickets, it is also linked to many behavioural and long-term health problems.
That is one of the most unique mergers of tech and art I have seen in a while. Big ups to the creator.
I do not casually drink coffee or anything like that, so would stay productive as long as I stay within 35-40 working hours per week.
I'm 20 years out of college and have some experience in the world under my belt. I remember having a similar viewpoint in my mid-20's just out of college, but over time those college friendships got more distant especially as people had kids and started families. I've instead formed close friendships through activities and clubs, like hobby and sports groups. Find people doing things you enjoy too and you'll find a new group of friends through it.
The site states that this tests only a sliver of the creativity process, but the comments seem to be taking this as a very hard metric(with a lot of negativity).

Creativity can come from being able to fuse unrelated ideas from different topics into a novel outcome, and it seems like this test just tries to boil that down into a 10 word puzzle, which is obviously not going to be a fool proof method, but could be interesting when data is aggregated.
people like you need to read a little more about the difference between positive and negative freedoms
My CS minor program didn't cover GIT.
> 4~ years and 4 jobs later I now make 175,000 dollars as a senior software engineer.

We've seen such ridiculous "grade inflation" in tech and it's really going to hurt us all at some point. Software development struggles for credibility as real engineering work, and a boot camp, 4 years of experience and a couple of jobs is not a senior level engineer.
The lack of parallelization is also a pain point. When I needed something to test platform specific stuff and set defines/etc, I found that writing something to generate ninja & integrate the define generation (which ended up in some generated headers) into the total build process. This was very snappy.

These days I use meson mostly, but I would love to see a complete build system really get into parallelizing platform checking and merge it into the normal build process.
Surface temperature tops 60°C in parts of north India, satellite images show
I feel like there may also be promise in psychedelic-assisted guidance. I’d like to see that avenue explored for ADHD.
Thank you for the correct analysis of my thoughts at the moment I started Project Alice :-) Often people will think that Alice and the Red Queen is an easy mix and a wrong shortcut to Resident Evil. But indeed, the Red Queen, in the MOVIES, is at the image of Alicia. When RE last part came out, I wanted to include the white queen in Project Alice' mood, but that's not done yet
> used decidedly technical terms like "codec", despite clear instructions not to use technical jargon

Words that are too technical are invalid and not used. Either “codec” is not too technical or it was not used in the score calculation.
"By the way, don’t tell someone who is disabled and was hospitalized several times with a mood disorder that they’re gatekeeping a disorder."

Why not?

I'm not saying it's what you're doing here, but it's quite common for sufferers of a particular condition to gatekeep their labels and online communities.

I do it myself!

Typical example: "Everyone is a little bit ADHD." Um, sure... but I can 99% guarantee it is being said in bad faith to discredit actual suffering. GTFO!
Well, it wasn't just that you were passionate enough ...

Doing a port shows that you can work with an existing codebase and work with others. This is vastly more important to a business than pure programming chops.
US trying to get behind the International Criminal Court prosecuting Russian war criminals, while insisting that similar actions against well-demonstrated US war criminals would merit military action against it, is particularly rich.

I am still waiting to see capital charges filed under US law against instigators and eager participants in the torture regime. Just turning the perps over to the ICC, upon conviction in the US, would satisfy me, such that returning them to the US after prosecution there would be followed by their immediate execution. Keelhauling would be too good for them.
Join Sqwok instead! (https://sqwok.im)
oh neat. now we can have variants based different trees.
An amazing project, really fun to play!
I think HTDP is a great way to learn Racket and quite helpful patterns for thinking about programming in general. Also much more entry level than SICP.

https://htdp.org/
doesn't work on my ipad
I've never hired anyone from a boot camp, but I work with a community college that offers a 16 months program and the juniors out of it have been great. a 8-10 week boot camp feels too much like "cramming for the big exam" to me.
This entire thread is a disgusting look at the elitism people see themselves with.
"revolutionary products like kindle or alexa" <-- This sounds like paid ads to me.

The end of the article is also odd and brings up taxes for some reason:

> ... There will be an assistant in each house, perhaps hanging on the wall or moving on the floor, and through it financial transactions will be carried out, we will control the lights in the house, select the music to be played or carry things from one place to another, he posits. Humanistic technology? Or an iridescent oxymoron?One of the richest men in the world is building prodigious hardware (in competition with Samsung, Apple, Google or LG), but what is his social involvement? Should Bezos pay a 90% tax rate, as the French economist Thomas Piketty argues? “I’m afraid I don’t have a good answer to your question,” notes Zehr. “I’m a successful farm-raised inventor and engineer, and I’m very involved with young people. However, as a species, we have to ask ourselves what world we want to live in.” That, perhaps, is the biggest secret of all.
Solana Vanity Address using GPUs (2021)
> One would be eventual consistency.

In the vein of the TFA, this would be a negative shibboleth (which just goes to show how being pedantic in certain contexts is just silly). The reason being that eventual consistency has no guarantee on what "eventual" means. If your replicas converge ten years from when a change is made, you can (correctly) claim to have eventual consistency.
1) No specialised vocabulary
2) Only the first score is valid, as they recognize that gaming the test is much easier after the first go.

So maybe instead of “string” or “quark” you go “physics”. I may be wrong, but I think having very general knowledge over different topics will spur more creative thinking because specific knowledge will be less likely to be helpful in a completely different domain(not 100% of the time obv, but just a personal thought and generalization).
> I aspire to a society where gender expression is independent from societal roles.

Brilliant. We're all in this together struggling to be generous to each other. There will always be tension between men and women and divergent gender roles will always exist, but things can be better than they are today.

There can be less of people of one gender or another demeaning others for physical characteristics, and more celebration of variety. I hope that more people can find it in themselves to accept when an olive branch is held out to them. This huge thread with hundreds of comments is a catalog of anguish showing how much potential there is for us to do better and be better — in daenz's formulation, being less of a "mean piece of shit" — for each other.
Amazing timeframe! I first played D&D in 1983 for a couple years, then picked up again 2 years ago with my sons. It feels like the campaign has had so much happen in 2 years, can't imagine how rich a 40 year campaign would be.
I've been around the block a few times, but I've never ever heard anyone tell me they don't deserve whatever money they've got. And I mean everyone from day laborer to executive to thief; they're all the heroes of their own story and they can always justify their actions.
> Is it really an accurate test when you can look at other results and then score 90+ 5 minutes later?

It lets you repeat the test but only the first one is used in the study.
I stopped for about 6mos. I didn’t notice any significant effects, it didn’t improve my sleeping, I didn’t feel better or worse. Previously 4-6 cups a day, exclusively morning and afternoon. I also have a nice pro-sumer style espresso machine that also got a fair bit of use.

Once I started drinking coffee again, I immediately enjoyed being able to get a little more focused earlier in the morning. I still drink ~4 cups a day, but now it’s half-caf. Love coffee. However, it turns out that under some circumstances lots of caffeine can impact retinal health - no source for that, just a recommendation from an ophthalmologist.
> And throwing off $150B in operating cash flow (6 months). I think stock buybacks are lame but what can they spend this on really? A moon launch and base?

It would be great if they could spend a bit of that (dunno, 20B? 40B?) in fixing bugs and improving documentation.

It's not cool or fancy, but would surely help cement Apple as an even greater development environment, no?
https://www.rezi.ai/rezi-ai-resume-editor
A CS course might cover the architecture of git, or the technical underpinnings but probably shouldn't teach you how to do the basics. In my program this sort of skill was expected to be learned on your own, or maybe a single optional tutorial session with the TA
This is an entertaining podcast even if it’s a little over the top sometimes.
Thanks for the clarification, I wanted to put this out there, since I have seen the issue from both sides.
I think its status as a productivity booster has been massively overblown. Yeah, one might be slightly more awake at 2 AM when an epiphany occurs, but its not the magic elixir that will always bring one about.

I don't get addicted to things generally, so I don't think my work would even notice. Using other drugs to gain that edge has sharply diminishing returns.
I disagree with this. I've made plenty of friends outside of college. None of my friends are from college. A very select few are ex-coworkers, but most of my friends I have I found from shared interest groups or meeting them randomly. If you struggle with communication then I can understand the point of view. If you only experienced play dates when they were arranged then you never learned the social skills of walking up to someone who is doing something interesting and say "Hey, what is that? I'm curious to know more". Sometimes people will be annoyed. Sometimes they'll be thrilled you asked. The issue isn't that you aren't making friends after college. The issue is you have forgot how to talk to people (and likewise people have forgotten how to respond). If I'm doing something I'm interested in and someone comes up to me and asks me about it with genuine curiosity then I'm definitely going to talk to you.

Obviously I'm using a figurative `you` and not literally, you.
Your intentions seemed clear to me; I found the commentary here quite confusing.

Thanks for the entertainment value.
> Hanging out with a bunch of people who share similar interests with you for 3 - 4 yrs and living with them, fashions these strong bonds of friendship which are not made after this period.

You're speaking about a very particular set of colleges. A lot of the colleges people go to these days with 40,000+ students are not like this. You're one of potentially thousands of people in your given major. I've had many classes where I did not have a single overlap of students from previous coursework. It was very common for me to not see the same faces in my classes as I progressed. Yes, some series of classes I saw SOME of the same people but it was little overlap. Add in that my classes had zero social components, grading on a curve with insanely difficult coursework, and no incentive to ever help each other and you've got all the more reason to never get close to anyone.

A lot of students also don't live in dorms, live with other students, etc. I lived alone my entire college experience (6yrs). I have zero friends from college due to little class overlap, extremely competitive and cutthroat major, and very anti-social populous overall. Even the clubs were absolutely terrible. It was always a bunch of socially awkward nerd kids and I never found the clubs where cool kids were (guess they weren't in clubs!). It didn't help that the people who were most open were also people who had no intention of ever leaving the city that the college was in. I was in the mood to leave immediately. And I did and never went back since.

I did end up making lifelong friends outside of college though during those years - but that was because I was quite actively social outside of college too.
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My commute goes past a velodrome that sits next to a short, steep hill. Every day there were new times on that hill that would be difficult for some cars to achieve. It was pretty obvious that many people forget to turn it off, and never bother to trim the data.
I don't want to work at a sweatshop with a ridiculous interview process & hordes of spammy recruiters.
I've been working on removing blame or attribution from phrases both in work and in social settings.

Some examples are:

"Oh you did this incorrectly" --> "This was incorrectly done"

"Why did you make this decision" --> "How was this decision made"

My thinking is, once you remove the attribution or the linking of identity to action, the other person doesn't hear this as a criticism of them or their skill, but rather on the issue or end result.

My hope is this makes them less prone to be defensive in the discussion and hopefully achieve a more productive end result while minimizing negative reactions.

As other comments point out, a lot of the replacements in the article are corporate ways to say fuck off. I think these responses are generally rude and make me less interested in having a working relationship with the sender.
yea I don't know what he's talking about. the haptic feedback is so good, I'd never guess there wasnt a physical switch. I had to power it down just to be sure. apple knows how to deliver a solid tactile experience.
There's probably a nuance to be found here between the 2 parent posts... when a person is "judged or victimized"; is that for:

- the behaviour they've been exhibiting, or

- the actual label/diagnosis of ADHD

I feel like hirvi is talking about the former, in childhood years, whereas michael perhaps is about adult life and the latter?
I did a few lessons on Standard ML from it on Coursera. It's brilliant. Thank you.
Use cmake-gui and it lists all the options for you. Or for the manual method, search in the project's cmake sources for lines starting with "option(".
Staying in contact with friends is a lot of effort. As people start jobs and have kids you have less and less time. It gets harder to schedule meeting meeting people. In high school and university spending time with someone was as simple as texting "Hey wanna come over?". Now I have to schedule things days or weeks in advance and half the things get cancelled because the kids got sick or something.

Binge watching Netflix on the other hand is easy. I can do it whenever I want.
Everybody says the only hire the top 10%, or 5% or 1% but this conveniently tip toes past the fact that the top 80% are rarely looking for jobs and the true top 25% never applies after their first job.
Runs a nice counter to the thread the other day about getting hired past 50.
The lack of hiccups is mostly by training the user base to assume that things will just stop working eventually. It's part of the deal with apple; if you're a legacy software enthusiast Apple probably alienated you long before the M1.
I think the geography factor is a major one and often gets overlooked. My sister went to NYU then stayed in NYC after. She ended up with tons of lasting friendships and a huge network, since a high % of NYU grads do the same. It seems far superior to going to university in some college town where everyone scatters to the four winds after graduating.
verbatim and popular break the noun rule.
I like those same types of things when I bake bread. You might give that a shot, if you haven't, and two of those activities sounds better than one.

Bread aroma vs coffee aroma...maybe up for debate, but I'll take the bread.
Just going to college isn't enough. This only happens for the right people going to the right college under the right circumstances.

I went to college and lived there. I was far enough away from home that I could not return home with any frequency. I was a nerd at a college full of nerds and other like-minded people. I intentionally put more effort into making friends by participating in various clubs, social groups, and activities. I put more effort into that than I did into my studies. I did just enough schoolwork to graduate. Indeed, I did form lifelong friends during this time.

Now compare that to the story of another person I know. They went to community college while still living at home. After a year or two of that, they did leave home to go to college. However, they were at a state school with people studying various things and having various interests. There was not a group of like-minded people there. Lots of the students there were commuters and not living in dorms. This person focused on their studies, not on socializing. This person's social group today is largely still comprised of their friends from high school.

This scenario that OP describes happened for me, and presumably for OP as well. It doesn't happen for all, or even most, people attending college. It only happens for the right people who attend the right college in exactly the right circumstances.
Adderall has been one of the most popular recreational drugs since the 01960s, despite causing multi-organ failure in common recreational doses, which are higher than the therapeutic doses. If it didn't work on neurotypical brains, it wouldn't be popular.
Could you kindly elaborate on the latter? Are you suggesting Amazon could outsource more of their SDE jobs to India, a huge fear of mine as an engineer in the west
It's existence isn't secretive just like Apple's Special Projects Group is publicly known about. However what projects are in the works at Lab126 is a secret. But that's true for most physical product companies
So that might be the cynical motivation that some people have to care, but at its core ADHD makes it harder for someone to choose what to focus on, and that's quite objectively a bad feature.
And yet, meson just routinely doesn't work. Sure: if you are just trying to do some trivial local compile job it seems fine, but it keeps having issues with even trivial cross compilation cases (which are used even on Linux as you generally want to do a Linux-to-Linux cross compile to control your glibc target) and linker detection (as it is assuming way too much direct control over the linker that it should frankly be delegating to the compiler) that make you have to jump through ridiculous hurdles to make things compile (and that's assuming you aren't on one of the commonly-deployed semi-recent versions of meson where it is a truly lost cause). In contrast, autotools always works: I have never had a blocking or serious issue compiling something that uses autotools, no matter how complex the scenario.

Here are a couple issues I have run into (one being fixed, though too late for some key versions of Ubuntu; and the other just languishing, as I guess "working" is asking for too much).

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6057

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6662
> 4. Perhaps the most egregious missing weakness from TFA is acknowledgement that configure scripts are horrifically slow. It's 2022 and developers have their time wasted by configure checking whether printf() exists.

I'd say on some platforms "horrifically slow" is an understatement. At my day job we were building software in Cygwin on Windows machines infected with Symantec's virus scanner which adds hundreds of milliseconds to every process launch. The configure script for Protocol Buffers took something like half an hour to run.

We eventually switched to CMake but not without a lot of pain first. For what it's worth, CMake fixes the speed issue but not much else. It still has its own totally esoteric custom language, it still discourages globbing source files and requires re-running upon adding any file or changing anything, and it has even more insane default settings than autotools (for example file(DOWNLOAD) from an https:// URL by default ignores certificates!)

There is something wrong with all of these buildsystems. I don't know what the solution is but I feel we are very far from it.
The Google style guide is public: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

I think reading it would convince you that the statement Google doesn't use modern C++ at all is false. It talks about modern features like CTAD.
Perhaps it's just a matter of time.

Here's a good overview of the technology:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211207-the-tomatoes-at-...