skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reduction in water consumption is needed.

Agriculture uses 80% of the water - and pays far less for it than other users.

Doesn't seem very complex to me?
Tech experts to Congress: Resist the crypto hype
In Turkey, there are some fascinating scams and corruption going on or blowing up, Turks don't get impressed for anything less than a billion dollars these days. Sometimes I feel for the people who don't speak Turkish and missing out the drama. Now I see that scam exports are happening.

The person in question seems to have some footprint in Turkish media too, presented as the genius Turkish doctor doing cutting edge research in the USA. These people often exploit the patriotic feelings of the people. Any questioning of their claims is viewed as treason by the wider public, so they are usually immune of scrutiny up until the money dries out and someone starts screaming "where is my money".
California is becoming a untenable to live. We had several power outages, roads are awful, had a sewage backup issue that took a month to get resolved, and the price of electricity is through the roof ($0.40/kWH).

The idea of the people have here is to regress into a third-world standard of living through the virtue of environmentalism, depopulation, and general attitude against success/ambition/improvement. Providing ideas and solutions is considered offensive.
Those daily forecasts are highly localised though. I live in a city with half a million people that has its own little microclimate because we're surrounded by large hills on 2 sides and ocean on the other two. A general forecast for even 20 miles around us would almost certainly be wrong.

> As for the next 30 minutes, I have tried AccuWeather and DarkSky. Both get the timing wrong about as often as they get it right for my location.

Anecdotally here the met office is right far more often than it's not.
This is fully misguided. Did you ever maintain a mail server and/or check your spam? SPAM is for the vast majority SPF/DKIM/whatever compliant (in fact, my regular email has less DKIM signatures). The joke was always that SPAM was passing all these checks _earlier_ than real email systems.

Why?

SPAM is mostly sent through illegitimately acquired accounts on big-brand servers now. Add a new check? Well, sorry to break it to you, your spam is going to have it too. In fact, on the systems I manage, 70%+ of all spam is coming from gmail itself.

People conflate SPF/DKIM/DMARC with spam checking.. they're not systems to prevent spam. They're intended to prevent forgery.

Realistically, to protect from the dumbest forms of forgery (which is what spam initially was leveraging on), SPF is really all you need.

If a spam email can leave a system configured with SPF, in practice it's already a problem with the organization that let that message out. No system is going to help you with such a problem, and so they're equally useless as spam filters.
New Mac Pro (2019)
I’m talking about ads, but also if you actually do the search I mentioned there are not really SEO spammers nor any ad results.
I always thought of it more as a reference to the Gnomes of Zürich than to Jewish people.
For some context, here is a fairly good Guardian article:

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
That is poor use of rhetorics.

Because he didn't start it doesn't mean he didn't contribute to the development of the company.

Also, no one can claim that success would have been at the doors without his input.

Note: I'm not defending Musk here as much as I am opposing the rationale of the argument.
Firefox CPU Management
To be fair, this is improving - chromium browsers let you specify a particular search engine with a keyword, even without changing your default. It almost certainly isn't mainstream enough and not enough is known about the competitors, but some of the groundwork has been laid
People do this all the time. I don’t search Google when I’m looking for restaurants near me… I just use Door Dash, Uber Eats, or Google Maps (yes I know it’s owned by Google but it’s a separate product / UI from search) directly.

For restaurant reviews, I go straight to Yelp.

For used products, casual encounters, craigslist or ebay.

For products I sometimes do google and sometimes go straight to Amazon.

For friends, facebook. In fact this site is an example of one that is actually completely non-indexed by Google.

For the certain types of products rtings.com is known for I go straight there… Of course this one only applies if you know about rtings and it’s relatively niche still.

I think my usage pattern is not unique. Many people skip Google for certain verticals already, and often Google’s search coverage is not as good as the other service’s native faceted search. Google’s search is the catch-all last resort for me if I don’t know of a better alternative in the vertical I’m interested in.
1) Write down everything you learned when you started that wasn't written down for you on a wiki page!

Have the next person revise it when they start.

2) Keep a daily log of what you did, errors you troubleshooted, or any other peice of information that might be useful in the future.

3) If your team doesn't do retrospectives regularly, do them for yourself. It's the best way to ensure you make progress towards your personal goals.
The irony being that israel has "solved" water problems in agriculture largely, by reusing waste water and drip irrigation and simply have the users pay for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

This sounds like a typical US thing. Suffering from a solveable problem, while creating the maximum public drama and having the society incapable of reform as a sort of greek-tragedy-background chorus humming nimby.

Should such topics be removed similar to us-healthcare to give important topics with actual solution discussions more room?
Setting limits is important, but it always has been. Kubernetes nodes typically don't have a swap so without setting container limits, some critical process can OOM. With swap enabled, memory grows > pathological swapping ensures => caches get dropped making disk performance suck, and all the while your system is shuffling pages between memory and disk. So of course load hits 50+ and the machine turns into a 'black hole'. I've even seen a single VM do that, and cause so much disk IO that it took out the whole hypervisor (which had a single RAID volume)
Spot on, and that's why Amazon's ad business is booming.
Let's see 100 tax something, where have we heard that before and have a working economic model?

Oh wait, in the USA taxing smoking products do to health risks.

But the devil in the details is that they are not similar but dissimilar.
No not that direcly. Even with mac + intel chips the situation is the same, the hardware not really the main barrier.

It's just a different software stack (OS, Drivers, Window management/UI, Sound, Networking, file access). It has similar barriers/differences in Linux. It requires extra build/compile pipelines at the minimum and most cases it means some refactoring of your code. In the worst case your gfx/audio/netcode is just plain incompatible (hard coded for a Windows/DirectX stack), meaning you have to rewrite quite a bit to abstract away the differences. This counts even in unity, it just helps here and there with making it cross platform and enforcing an opinion. These guys didn't use much of Unity and seems to use unity just as a rendering pipeline.

People who buy macs tend not to game on them much, they buy it for other reasons. I think people who owns macs and play games, tend to have consoles or even a gaming rig (since they can most likely also afford those to begin with).
If you want one, it would be trivial to have one made, along with custom software to make it extra cool, and custom hardware to interface with it.

I've thought about building one for myself, but unfortunately I have no idea what I would do with it. They look so cool, and I have a prop making background... but there lots of other creative and decorative possibilities for that much money. It seems super niche, since so many just... aren't practical for most.

Maybe a more marketable version would be a cyberdeck shaped tablet dock. Sized to fit a tablet with a rugged case. Instead of a true "cyberdeck", a device that looks like one, and fulfills the real life role that they have in the movies.

More of a "Tech center", a portable WiFi hotspot, with some wireless charging docks, solar, a NAS, a Home Assistant hub, convenient tablet controlled place to dump your digital photos onto the NAS, maybe 5G hotspot, etc.

Maybe you could skip the keyboard completely, and not even try to be a device for extended typing. With the tablet mounted, it would serve as a smart display or kiosk.

Maybe they could serve as Meshtastic hubs too, along with WiFi mesh nodes.
"Fuck" is said randomly and arbitrarily without really having any meaning except to emphasise something. "Fuck, this is good" means that this is really good. "Fucking pirates" means that they are really annoying pirates.

I understand that there's a whole world where swearwords are a big no-no, but half of them are jokingly used between adults: as long as people know when or how to use them non-threateningly, I don't think it's a big deal.

"Dumb", on the other hand, is almost never used jokingly, though it can sometimes be used in a self-depreciative way.
Interesting tidbits

> On average, victims of East German doping die 10 to 12 years earlier than the rest of the population. And here's another alarming statistic: A victim of East German doping falls ill 2.7 times as often, and for psychological illnesses, we have calculated a factor of 3.2.

That's fair enough

> Against this background, calls to legalize performance-enhancing drugs are naïve and irresponsible.

Maybe, but this is a bit of a non-sequitur. Especially as the drugs were given unwillingly and with no consideration to individual conditions (and in excess doses)

It was more of an experiment than anything else.
Not just fidelity, it can also be a strain. I'd much rather, as in hundred times more preference, sit in an open office situation than have a zoom/meet/teams open for a long stretch.

I think it's something with not knowing where people look, and the unnatural feeling of not actually seeing someone in the eyes even if I'm looking at that person and they are looking straight into the camera.

I frequently just look away from the screen, out the window instead, when meeting with teammates. Some may interpret this as disinterest, but 1-3 hours of staring into the screen on meeting is really hard on physical and mental terms.

That said, no problem at all IRL. I'm mostly quite social.
The premise of using the keyboard to jump to an entry was already a given. I don't understand what motivates your reply.
This is mostly true for the sound of the instruments – the emulations are very good these days – the folks writing them often sit with the original instrument and an oscilloscope and adjust the software until the outputs are the same.

But there are two things primarily that you get with physical instruments:

- A bunch of limitations. You're more likely to dive into deeply understanding your instrument if it can only do a well-defined set of things. This is counterintuitive, but absolutely true. If you're using VSTs, you should similarly force yourself to use only a small set of them, and to swap them out very rarely.

- A tactile interface. Generic MIDI controllers just don't do as well. There is a gap in playability between the two.

That said, I usually explore on a physical synth and often end up using a soft-synth in finished tracks. A physical synth is a lot more fun to jam on than a MIDI controller. It may be possible to build a physical controllers or modular controllers that captures more of that feeling (and a lot of high-end physical synths these days are just ARM systems running real-time Linux), but the run-of-the-mill MIDI controllers are not that.

(Reference: have worked for two companies that produce VSTs, including the biggest of them)
To many folks, it probably reeks of the horrible RPC frameworks of the early 2000’s, which couldn’t be further from the truth, unless they roll their own server like many people seem to be doing for no reason.
Study suggests that most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong
Im not going to claim that everyone needs live access forecasts all the time but to claim that there is no benefit to having live access to forecasts is just silly. Sure you were fine, but that doesn't mean that what we have now isn't better.

> 's forecast on TV after the evening news and/or today's forecast on the radio before the morning shower

I don't know about you but I certainly don't want to watch the news or listen to the news and traffic reports to get the weather. I'm _very_ glad we've moved past that

> And before that, it was mostly looking at the sky and listening to our intuition.

Really, your argument is that things were fine before we had instruments so we don't need them?
Do you mean for religious pilgrimage to Mecca? That’s different from what the OP is talking about.
They can get aggregated information as a free service. They don’t have to buy it from anyone, thus not breaking this law.

Aggregation isn’t the real problem. Honestly it’s the crosstabs that are killing privacy. Remove the correlations, and no one gets hurt.
I’m finding this more useful as a reverse search!

“Paid, supported, professional alternative to”
Ivies spend about 5% of their endowment a year on operating costs, so endowments have to increase each year enough to keep the school running AND beat inflation.

If you tax Harvard’s endowment 80% from $50B to $10B, suddenly it’s spending 25% of its endowment per year, so its endowment would need to increase every year by 25% plus inflation — clearly impossible. (So it would have to cut spending, fire faculty + staff, and offer less financial aid to disadvantaged students.)

University endowments aren’t just shoved into a treasure chest somewhere. They are actively reinvested into the economy to generate a return. For example, universities are some of the best VC LPs. They’re actively funding innovation and economic growth.
I've never once used a dating app, and I frequently meet new people, make new friends, and date new women. I'm in my early 40s.

Prior to ~10 years ago, different story... I was miserable, depressed, and socially isolated. I had a series of LTRs, so I was rarely alone. But I couldn't make friends to save my life. I always felt like an outsider.

I'm actually poorer than 10 years ago... Definitely in better shape, fitness wise, but also my face is 10 years older.

The thing is, I devoted a lot of time, energy, and attention to becoming a better person. Therapy, 12-Step meetings, volunteering, and spending a TON of time doing physically and mentally challenging stuff outdoors... And I actually AM a better person for all of it. Not perfect, but I used to be kind of a piece of shit.

At first, I was just meeting new people in my hiking & climbing circles... But after a while, with practice & effort, you develop real skills at talking to people. Nowadays, I can chat up random strangers at a grocery store, if I feel like it, and end up with at least a new FB friend, or maybe a date if we have anything in common.
After reading that article, what really blows me away is that the stock is down by only ~30%. I fully expected to see a penny stock by now. I wonder what short position Hindenburg has taken...
I totally agree on that. The USSR was completely halted and lost in a humiliating war. There's no debate here, and the insane Soviet losses speak for themselves. What I was saying is that it's still not really clear if Stalin actually wanted to take over Finland. Or just thought he could easily steamroll them and take the territory that was in dispute.
In many cases, you can only disable it on your end, meaning that you don't see when others are typing, but they still see when you are typing.

That actually works out fine for me, because after I have had it turned off for a while, I forget that the software even has the feature, so although other people see when I'm typing, I don't know that they see it, which is what matters to me!
You wait for hurricane, typhoon and/or cyclone for quick travel.
Researchers claim quantum device performs 9k-year calculation in microseconds
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Maikeru jooji and Donarudo Toranpu would like to have a word.

Refuse to write names in correct order? How about refusing to open a bank account for you because they won’t allow YOUR country’s conventions.
Google cache of the page:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QWRpEuC...
By the mid-80s the analogs were seen as last decade's sound for last year's people. They were immensely unfashionable, and by the beginning of the 90s they were being sold off for bargain prices.

The low end of the analog market had been captured by budget polysynths from Korg and especially Roland which had most of the sound at much less of the price.

The problem wasn't the cost of digital R&D, it was commoditisation which turned a high-margin super expensive boutique professional market into a low-margin semi-pro and amateur commodity market with cheaper, less exclusive and less prestigious products.

The high-end market essentially disappeared and so do its distribution and promo channels. What was left supported a much smaller number of companies.

All of the headline synth companies went under at that point, no matter what tech they used - Sequential, Oberheim, Moog, PPG, ARP, Ensoniq, E-mu, and even Fairlight and eventually Synclavier. As well as also-rans like Octave, Gleeman, Crumar and Siel.

Korg also went under and were bought out by Yamaha.

Yamaha survived because it's a huge zaibatsu with deep pockets. Even with the DX7 the synth division is a sidenote on its bottom line.

Roland are also a huge corporation - mostly immensely profitable while also having street-level cool - and weathered the 80s and early 90s with some functional but clever hybrid models at relatively affordable prices.

Around 2005 the boutique market started to reappear, but aimed less at professionals and more at now-affluent collectors and dabblers who "always wanted one of those", and/or are willing to drop $$$$$ on something spendy just to prove they can.

So you get hipster-toy module makers in the Eurorack space, wildly overpriced Veblen toys like the OP 1, remakes of Classic Brands™, and various clones and reissues in both hardware and software form.

It's very nostalgic and backward looking, and I suspect there will be another shakeout before the end of the decade.
Sentry is among these products that are open-source but hardly self-hostable.

I mean, unless you fancy an Ops team to run your error reporting. But generally speaking, unless you have extreme privacy concerns, the economics favor SaaS subscriptions.
Just a small tip for Mondays. I stopped going to the gym on Mondays and essentially got rid of any miserable activities for the evening, clearing it up.
I still dread Mondays, just a little less because I know after work I can just relax and cook a nice meal.
I reckon helium is not "consumed" by using it in the airship. Eventually, it may leak to the atmosphere, but it is not destroyed or lost.
I think there is big opportunity windmill blade transportation now how to transport blade is the limiting factor and airlifting those huge blades to construction site would solve this. https://www.utilitydive.com/spons/wind-turbine-blade-sizes-a...
Minor nitpick - the ESQ1 and related SQ80, Mirage and SDP1 are hybrid, not digital. They use digital wavetable oscillators fed into analogue filters.
I am leaving a workplace after less than a year. And this is a major contributing factor. We work remotely but the company culture is to spend all day on Slack with synchronous responses.

When I started setting my status to DND they would keep messaging. If I don't respond within 5 minutes, they grab my lead to do the thing. I'm not repremanded but it just feels bad.

I started just exiting Slack for a few hours in afternoons to get through my work. So they started calling my cell. And if you don't pick up they call and text again.

I'm moving on because it makes my head hurt and I feel like I am getting nothing done as a result.

Slack is just part of the problem but I really think it encourages such culture.

I started my career and remote work with email and a VOIP phone on my desk to talk across borders. As crap as those tools were, somehow the Slack culture has made it worse.
"Move fast and break things" would be an appropriate and fun motto, though.
That preemptively termination with severance package was an incredibly smart move.
I quit several times before but I never thought I could just not do little until a performance review and then be fired. Most likely that would have never been triggered as performance reviews have never been serious in my experience and everyone is informally happy with my performance.

Back on topic: I make similar money post tax in a cheap LCOL in Europe and the boredom is real.
Building easy crap you don't care about. It's a grind and it wears you.

I think once I finish building my house + save enough for kids' school, I'll move back to only do small projects I care about. No client work, just shipping and outsourced customer support.
BAR caters more towards the slower pace, with a lot of base-building PvE modes. Its hard AI is quite relentless and will give SC2 players a decent fight.
> The Empire State Building has airship docking capability.

This photo shows a much less tall airship mooring mast.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/mooring-mast-1930s/

It doesn't look like that kind of mooring would be up to the modern safety standards, especially when you add high winds that are common at the top of skyscrapers.
I'm not sure how it works at first glance. OK, let's search for "Word". I'd assume LibreOffice and the like would come up - but instead, I get "WooCommerce" and "Wordle Global, Open Source Alternative to Wordle".

I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?
I kinda get it, and I don’t wanna justify pointless pressuress - you are paid top percentile - there’s some expectation to work accordingly. The remaining 99% of population would do anything for such money.
The OSI definition for open source includes the right to use, modify, and redistribute it.

Of course, not everyone necessarily agrees with that definition, but one would typically use the term "source-available" for code that is publicly available with restrictions.
I always find it even more silly and matronising and insulting that other countries don't adopt the way country calls itself. If that one would be relatively simple and easy to do.
What if you are able to set your own fee, so before sending mail you lookup the difficulty level for the receiver. People can just keep raising the dificulty until they stop seeing spam.
If well written these would be very good for selling the game.
You might want to add some tags to the Vaultwarden entry - I was just in the process of submitting it because it wasn't tagged under password managers, when I stumbled across it by accident when looking for the original Bitwarden entry.