skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have progressive water rates. Everyone gets X gallons of water at the current rate, then the rate goes up by 10 times. Then perhaps another 10x for the top 1% of water usage.

Not doing anything makes the situation worse for everyone, poor people included.

The good thing about a market-based approach is that it might allow for water to be obtained from means that are currently economically non-viable. Perhaps high-volume water users would happily pay 1000x current prices, and at those prices, desalination, or other alternate forms of water collection become viable.

You might be able to give water to poor people for free. If there was a system where a households using under a certain volume of water could pay nothing, in exchange for freeing up water to be sold to large purchasers who pay 10-1000x the per gallon price.
Yeah yeah, typical. "it's easy and popular to point to the worst engineer-designed interfaces to ridicule the design abilities of all engineers."

The general dysfunction of open source design is much broader than UI design and has little to do with engineers in general being incapable of good UI design. You might as well linux bluetooth woes to claim that engineers shouldn't be allowed to write device drivers. Whether it's designing a GUI, an API, or any other system, there will be some engineers who are good at it an others who suck. To get good design of any sort out of engineers you need an organizational structure that promotes talent and weeds out the hacks. The open source scene broadly lacks such structure and struggles to do this.

What you're talking about is a deficiency with community driven model of development, not a general deficiency of all engineers. Put 20 random chefs into a kitchen with no organizational structure imposed on them and your restaurant will be a disaster. But using that to claim chefs can't run a restaurant is absurd.
While you are absolutely correct that there are plenty of problematic issues around water management in the West that would have created a problem like this eventually even in a world without climate change, it is absolutely the case that aridification of the region, caused by climate change, is exacerbating the issue.

This is similar to the issue regarding forest fires in the West cost. A huge factor is mismanagement of controlled burns in the forests. However, years of record drought absolutely do increase the probability of a forest fire.

Rather than falsely say "it isn't", it's better dismiss the false narrative that this is completely unavoidable because of climate change. With much better water management we could have postponed the impact of climate change quite a while.

The bigger issue is that climate change is being used as an excuse to mask decades of mismanagement of water resources in this region. I also agree with your point that the real conversation should be entirely "what are we going to do about agriculture in deserts and regions that are soon to be deserts?"
it was actually 5x, my bad, but here's the references:

Original info being mentioned as a rumour (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYbgcDfM2Ts&t=1631s

Slides for confirmation by Greeg (2017): https://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/AWSreInvent2017_performa...

Talk (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fYOo1V2pA

More discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/547xbx/netflix_found_5...

Original tweet has been deleted, but I have a screenshot here slide 9: https://sh.drk.sc/~dijit/devfest2019-msv.pdf
My main gripe with this article is the equating of networth and marginal market value of assets with spendable currency.

1. Networth is not something you can easily spend in it's entirety
2. Instantaneous networth ignores the fact that liquidation would cause a sell pressure that would cause it's own decline in value. Just because 100 shares of XYZ stock most recently sold for $N , does not mean that the entire shares outstanding could be sold at that price. There is a curve of open interest, a normal daily volume, and it's unlikely you could divest of 100% of a mulitbillion dollar asset in any short order, especially not for the full market price at the start of the divestment. "Billionaires" rarely have close to that much cash available to them.
> I struggle now to keep weight on.

What was the change you made?
The macOS open/save dialog is almost identical to the Finder UI, what would you change about it? The reason it's helpful to be able to drag a file from somewhere else into the open/save dialog is that you often already have the file open somewhere. A common workflow: navigate to a document in finder, edit it in some app, save it, upload it to a web form. Similarly if you have a path to the file handy somewhere, you can hit ⌘⇧G and paste it.

And while I can see how reasonable people can disagree about the virtues of Mac/Windows/KDE open/save dialogs, Gnome definitely has the worst. Personally my KDE experience is limited, but of the other three I prefer macOS by a wide margin.
A Patriot missile - usually priced at about $3m (£2.5m) - was used to shoot down a small quadcopter drone, according to a US general. The strike was made by a US ally, Gen David Perkins told a military symposium. "That quadcopter that cost 200 bucks from Amazon.com did not stand a chance against a Patriot," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940 (2017)
> It's like society has developed some weird way of denying people their agency when it could benefit them but hold them responsible when it is bad for them.

For every task in corporate America there's a Process that defines how the work should be done. The goals are twofold: increase corporate profit, and reduce corporate risk. Both of these are harmful to the individual. Autonomy and innovation are at best limited, at worst punished. When something goes wrong blame is directed at the individual, who can then easily be fired (the cheapest 'solution'). Process benefits the individual worker only to the extent to which it can clearly be shown to increase profits and reduce risk.

And, to your point, it's nearly impossible to meet the expected KPIs unless you find a creative alternative to the approved Process, or simply work your fingers and mind to the bone in order to keep up.
Interesting. Someone had told me that the Nest figures out if you're home by recognizing the presence of your phone. I wonder if that information was wrong or only applied to a specific version of the Nest.

At one point, I had a cheap WiFi thermostat. No smart features, just allowed remote control via app or web page. At one point, I had reverse-engineered the web app API and wrote a script to implement "away" detection and shut the thermostat off if both phones were away.

The problem was two-fold. First, it detected the phones being away by simply pinging the phone's local IP address. If the phone was in a power saving mode that disabled WiFi, the script would detect the phone as away. Second, I ran into the problem the article author had: If everyone was away, it got cold in the winter, and an absolute oven in the summer, and my aging A/C unit couldn't get the temperature back down until the sun went down.
I've been happily using Clojure for about 9 years and hardly ever have I needed to dip into any Java code. That's not to say I can't grok Java if I need to. Compared with the monstrosity that is Gradle deps.edn is a breath of fresh air.
Ha, I didn't know that one. Will certainly add to my to-torrent list.
The characters are not meant to represent ideological extremes. Rand was a novelist primarily and a philosopher only secondarily. She got into philosophy because she wanted to figure out what humans at their best would look like and be like---so that she could put them into a novel.

In Atlas Shrugged, the characters do come across as ideological extremes and not real people, if you go into the book expecting them to be that way. The book has a lot of depth that is missed by people who go into it for the philosophy.

Within philosophy, Rand was least concerned about politics and the economy, and most concerned about man's mind and emotions and man's relationship to reality and to other men. Sure, you can read Atlas as some kind of political treatise, and the characters will come across as flat, because you are missing the point entirely and not picking up on 95% of what's in the book.

In The Fountainhead, the characters don't come across as representing ideological extremes regardless of your approach to the book, IMHO. Anyway I'd recommend The Fountainhead over Atlas for someone new to Rand.

Agreed that Rand is not a libertarian.
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My point is that if people are fighting something that is so inconsequential to their own personal lives, imagine how hard they are going to fight the things that do affect them.on a daily basis. The very same things that need to be done to tackle climate change.
As someone who has lived in NYC, there's a ton of crime there [1]. It's not at all similar to being a police officer in a town. It's also part of why police don't seem to care about petty crime in the city.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/us/new-york-city-crime-wave-2...
I hope there is a way for Firefox forks to spoof cloudflare to make them think it is the original Firefox browser. It would be useful in case Cloudflare don't do anything to resolve this issue.
Wouldn't a COTS drone be relatively easy to jam or have early warning by detecting its control/video links?

I get why Russia is having trouble adapting (logistics, sanctions, brain drain, paper tiger military) but outside of the Russia-Ukraine war, how effective would a COTS drone really be in a different state-vs-state direct conflict?
> So one can only assume that either Russia's air defense isn't as good as everyone thought

I think a big risk here is thinking that only Russia is less competent than advertised. My guess is that 90% of professional militaries (at least those without a LOT of active recent combat) are Potemkin villages wholly incapable of operating as advertised.

Against any of those militaries, things which really should not work, frequently will work fine.
It feels like you're not commenting in good faith but I'll respond in good faith anyway. As a mechanical engineer, my professional opinion is that trains should not be derailing, period. The trains should be allowed to be as long as possible so that they can safely not derail, and perhaps also not dramatically interrupt traffic in towns. It's hardly a question of "should we ensure that trains do not derail": the answer is unambiguously yes, it is not acceptable for them to derail. I accept that asking "what is the appropriate maximum length for a train" might require some deeper thought, but the article is very clearly stating that the problem is that trains are too long and are derailing, not whatever vague "complexity" you keep going on about.
The central valley, where most of CA's food is grown, is not a desert. It was formerly mostly grasslands.
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Prove it. Start a tomato farm in Tennessee and challenge Musk and Bezos with your fortune. Replace tobacco with carrots in North Carolina and see how it goes.
Once it became possible to force people to pay attention to ads (compared to a newspaper where you can skip ahead and look at what you want) the quality went into the toilet.

It doesn't help that most of the products they advertise are terrible, overpriced or both and even their skipable ads aren't skipable until it has already destroyed the experience of the video you were watching. Premium is not an option because I don't use youtube logged in.

If it wasn't for my adblocker I wouldn't be spending so much time on youtube.
To do this, though, you'd have to resolve the water rights issue first. The vast majority of water consumption is by farmers who are not in the same market as residential consumers. There's little point in making regular people pay a progressive rate for water usage.
> How are those with low/no income supposed to afford it.

They're not — they're supposed to suffer and die in a way that's "their fault" or that "couldn't be helped". Bolinas California is a prototypical example of this, where a complete ban on new water hookups has been the excuse to prevent any new housing construction at all since the civil rights era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolinas,_California#Bolinas_Co...
Hum... I totally disagree with the author... Remote work does not means asynchronous work: a call center operator can perfectly work from remote but need to be operational at specific point in time for specific timeframe to ensure enough communication lines are covered on the call center side. Remote surveillance is not different. Banking and insurance remote work might be partially asynchronous but some again need specific timeframe to receive customers contacts who happen to be in specific places under specific time etc.

Surely remote work does not means mimicking physical office like metaverse virtual rooms for conferences, does not need VDI against a central "networked desktops farm" but that's a totally different thing than asynchronicity.

Also asynchronicity is not a remote only thing, for instance some research works demanding certain labs/instruments so not done remotely might be asynchronous in the sense that some researchers just book their use seeing colleagues usage without specific time constraints.

Remote work means being able to work regardless of geographical location, that typically means WFH but not only WFH, for instance certain on(remote)fields jobs are actually remote and definitively not from home nor even from an office.

A "fully remote" company means a company that only have a formal siege as laws mandate but no physical offices, that hire and work normally regardless of employee location typically but not necessary from their own homes. It's a company where you can send a CV via mail, have a call via VoIP, get hired via internet+mail as needed by local laws, start working with stuff you get by some shipping services at home (for instance) etc. But that does not means asynchronously nor "by targets".
Learning computer programming is like having superpowers. You gain the ability to perform billions of calculations per second. You can scrape content from everywhere, build your own stuff, games, visuals.... Anything. To me this is incredible.
End-to-end encryption protocol at Doctolib
Presto classical [1], news on latest releases and the album of the week. And they use the term "boxed set" rather than "box set".

[1] https://www.prestomusic.com/classical
Wall Street’s losses worsen as markets tumble worldwide
Maybe it's better to say that many aspects of gender inequality are the cause of various things. We can analyse the differences between countries and draw conclusions from that. And it appears that countries where people are less likely to be discriminated or face restrictive expectations based on their gender, end up with better outcomes in terms of life expectancy, freedom, happiness, prosperity, etc. It's possible that some of those correlations aren't direct causations, but they're still correlations.
Because Fuck Patents.
The show was great, but the live-action movie was a bit lackluster when it came out. I haven't rewatched recently to see how it aged.
It's a very solvable problem though. At least for countries other than Russia, which might not be technically nimble enough to adapt mid-conflict and under a strong sanctions regime. S-300s/S-400s/Buks and the somewhat rarer western equivalents like the Patriot system just aren't designed to target something flying that slow with that small of a radar cross section. That doesn't mean the drones aren't reasonably easy to detect and target, just that the targeting systems need to be fine-tuned a little.

I doubt NATO would have this problem, not only because Turkey is part of NATO but because US tactics would probably be more effective against similar drones. We rely on fighters to establish air superiority more than SAMs, while the Russians do the opposite. Worst case scenario, F-15s/16s/22s/35s can use cannons and pilots are more adaptable than radar systems. I also suspect that the F-35's sensors at least are far superior to whatever the Russians are relying on.

I am also somewhat suspicious of the reports we have heard about them striking deep within Russian territory. Not because I doubt their veracity, but because I am certain we are not getting all of the relevant information. I wouldn't be surprised to find out if there was some supplementary SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) going on that Ukraine and its western allies are remaining tight lipped about. It wouldn't shock me to find out that NATO has some clever trick for blinding Russian SAM radar in a way that the Russians haven't figured out yet. The Russians would never ever admit the existence of such a capability publicly because it would totally destroy demand for their military exports, and NATO wouldn't want to tip their hand in anyway that would give the Russians an opportunity to adapt.
Sometimes the application doesn't open files you drag onto its windows, and sometimes you want to select a file but not open it.
Sure, but lots of those services already exist, and we continually read stories about people getting screwed by them. GP's point seemed to be "just use a bank", but the entire reason these other services exist is because banks can be hard to work with.

Responding to a comment of "we should try and prevent people from getting screwed" with "people should just be smart like me" doesn't seem very helpful.
Right. We are not in disagreement.
I love that show so, so much. It was the peak on top of a Nickelodeon that was already peaking (Spongebob etc).
I was referring to specific claims. The new ones you brought are unrelated, and are about as substantiated.
Gifted Children, Youth Culture, and Individualism in 1970s and 1980s Britain
You're assuming farmers are paying for water the same way residential consumers do. "Just raise the price of water" doesn't work without first reforming a lot of law.
Arestreet in streetview 2009 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aresstraat+21,+1363+VJ+Alm... walk one step forward, and you time machine into 2021!

I think the architecture has more to do that every individual plot allowed owners their own design & development.
Rabobank? Yes it’s nice but I always find it a pain haha. 60€ wow, when they were first send around they very easily gave me 2 extra to put at work etc.

What about N26, I don’t remember needing the app and I can log into a website. Not sure though…
Flares from black hole binaries: black hole shadows via light-curve tomography
I love the little “Easter egg”-y details like this.

Others of note:

- A detected server on your network will, if it’s not a Mac, display as an ancient CRT monitor with the blue screen of death [0]

- TextEdit.app’s icon used to have the transcript of “Here’s to the crazy ones…” [1]

A few others, which may or may not still exist: [2]

Apple is slowly stripping these out - the little glimpses of the personalities of people who made them - and it makes me sad.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/l5ft60/macos_easter_...

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/media/macrumors-png.232193/

[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/mac-os-x-easter-eggs-2013-4
> Why would this be considered a good outcome?

Because it minimizes stress and let’s them better explore their interests be that dinosaurs or dolls. Even little kids find reading and arithmetic useful.
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As I had to search for the SNL avatar papyrus thing here it is:

https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
Looks really nice!.

Feature-request: Would love auto-suggest as I type. one of my favorite example(s) is Algolia's doc search https://www.algolia.com/doc/
I believe the basic idea is that people need a value store. We just saw billions of dollars of oligarch money held in Western institutions disappear in a poof. The Ruble is way up as it's no longer safe to keep money out of Russia. It's unsafe to keep money in Russia. There really aren't safe value stores. Anything can be confiscated by aggressive government (and money inflates).

There's a huge market among rich people for:

* > $1M paintings are portable, and a ready store of value

* > $100k watches are enough to start a new life on, in some random part of South America, Africa, or Asia, and fit on your wrist

... and so on.

I can now have a USB stick with a value of $100M, and relatively untraceable if I'm careful about it. If I had $100B, that'd be a handy safety.

Rich people aren't just Elon Musk and Zuckerberg. They also include a lot of people with ill-gotten wealth (e.g. crooks), questionable individuals (e.g. African oligarchs), or people with properly-gotten wealth that might be fragile in future political changes (e.g. Arab nobility).
Unsettling Futures – The Failure of the Long Tail
No, they seem to be saying that people eligible and interested in railroads probably smoke weed at the same rate as the general population. There’s nothing to indicate that people who would be open and qualified are far more abstinent than the population at large.
I think it filters through multiple layers. So Greeks had a bias both engaging/naming locals rather than people from outside -- so much that we know a ton about Greek 'lost works' but notice that their sources when they learned from their travels weren't named in the same way.

The Greeks, whether willful or lazy, didn't seem to reliably understand with much precision the cultures they discussed. A favorite example of mine is how we hear of the "Hanging Gardens of Bablyon" (edit: instead of Nineveh) seems mostly to be from the Greeks not caring much the difference between one city and another in the Middle East.[1] (where it also seems "Archimedes' Screw" should also be attributed to someone else).

These sources mention they're not original, but both contemporary all the way to modern secondary sources then reference the Greek or other 'Western' person that introduced this concept. Even when conscious of the more complicated origin, it's justified by having a common reference or more easily pronounceable/culturally relevant name.

As a ~sibling comment~ (edit: your comment) then mentions, later secondary critics become skeptical that the author really had a past attribution or were they trying to give better authority to their own ideas (or in Kondiaronk's case, to add deniability for possibly heretical or treasonous ideas).

And then modern glosses use the excuse of summarizing the Western intellectual history -- so what if Al Kindi came up with the first correct understanding of how optics works -- what matters is what Europeans read in Aristotle and later in Newton, etc.

Credit and real history are available, but they are discussed incredibly rarely -- when the idea of a scientist in the Middle Ages is evoked, it's not someone that has learned Arabic or depends on Arabic translations to learn, but in popular media, only the original (or locally original) things are favored (lens-making, etc). Those are often genuinely great things, or genuinely changed something in Europe.

In science discourse, itself, we often favor the first named person we know that introduced a concept, but which names have been preferred goes back to that erased history that includes all of those biases.

You might swim in texts that credit the original civilizations that we know discovered these texts, but in secondary education and popular accounts they're completely erased.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CG3JMD0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

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That's the phrase I was trying to think of writing that comment, thank you