skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love his work. Jason has captured some greatness from our recent past, and the remarkable thing to me personally is the sense of distance!

We have come a very long way! Seems an age ago!

His work does a good job communicating the more subtle things. I find I feel more than I expect.

BBS'ing was amazing!

Using the phones to send data between computers was magical! To most of us, each computer is a tool, some island amidst many. And the more early ones worked on the disks, each user leaving no trace for the next beyond the usual human things.

But now the idea of connecting to one far away made all kinds of sense. While the whole thing was not fast, I recall being impressed with it all, wondering where it was all going to go.
Or, just allow farmers to sell their water to the highest bidder. The Coase theorem to the rescue.
Ssh. It’s okay. It can’t get to you now.
How to use Grafana and Prometheus to Rickroll your friends (or enemies) (2021)
The article mentions that premature babies feel pain (not clear how premature, back in 1987 that might have been six or seven months' gestation. My late wife was a neonatal intensive care nurse, and like most such nurses had a great deal of empathy for their tiny patients.

And of course this has implications for the abortion debate, as noted by many commenters further down this page.
Hmm, curious that you bring up "economic inequality" when I haven't mentioned it, let alone championed the quixotic goal of "eliminating" it.

It makes sense to me that someone taking a roughly libertarian position on homelessness would be laissez-faire about birth control.

The approach of offering homeless aid exclusively in the form of personal empowerment coaching still seems to me analogous to abstinence-only sex ed.
Since apparently they've done it a number of times before I assume everyone's used to it, and yes, I suspect counterfeiting is the main drive.

The US hasn't felt the need to enact that measure even with things like the supposed North Korean "superdollars".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
Missed your chance with this.

OP could have been haiku.

Please share your haiku!
This is a very good point. And Australia is not some tiny market and has what appears to be competent businessmen
>So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that.

... with a civil war.

Doing the right thing is often quite complicated, and comes with severe costs and injury to some party somewhere.
American "paper" money is almost a cloth, and surprisingly durable.
Time itself isn't constant, so arguably a constant time algorithm is an oxymoron! But that's a whole 'nother topic.
You watched both?
> around whether the fetus takes priority over the woman it is in.

My understanding is that the question that is posed is: "When does a fetus becomes a living child?"

Since at _some point_, there is clearly a living human shaped and abortion can no longer be performed AFAIK. For example in Canada it's ~23 weeks, other countries have different limits.

Just wanted to clarify, though this is not the right place to discuss it..
Desalination isn't that much more expensive than reservoir water. I wish urban areas would just build 'em and look at farmers and the rest of the country and say "OK now what?"
“This level of evidence” is pretty significant, though the Russian government did a thorough enough cover-up that it’s hard to meet a strict burden of proof from publicly available information. Unless secret documents are someday published, the public will probably never see a convincing conclusion about what happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Rus...

https://www.gq.com/story/moscow-bombings-mikhail-trepashkin-...

> 9-11 in the US was presumably organised and conducted by a joint operation between the Pentagon and FBI

This is not very plausible given the extensive available evidence about the plane hijackers and their biographies. More plausible (though still unproven) is speculation about the role of Saudi elite. Zacarias Moussaoui claimed in a deposition that major donors to Al Qaeda included “Prince Turki al-Faisal, then the Saudi intelligence chief; Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the longtime Saudi ambassador to the United States; Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, a prominent billionaire investor; and many of the country’s leading clerics.” (quotation from NYT) Of course, while he had the access to know about what happened, Moussaoui is not the most credible source.

In the US where free speech is protected, those who made various claims and conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks (Bush did it! Israel did it! The CIA did it! etc.) didn’t get locked up or murdered, unlike the people investigating or raising questions about the Russian apartment bombings. For instance, Artyom Borovik, Anna Politkovskaya, and Alexander Litvinenko, all of whom were assassinated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artyom_Borovik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
A big "YMMV" note should be added.
Citation? I'd love to read more about this.

Edit: ah, I see you linked it downthread thanks.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/02/453885642/sa...
That figure is simple supply and demand. It shows supply staying roughly steady, and demand increasing drastically every year. Climate has nothing to do with that calculation (although it's possible it's exacerbating it, this was going to be an issue regardless).
Keep in mind Finasteride isn't for recession, but for loss at the crown, though it is known to work elsewhere - it isn't approved for that.
I’ve done it in both JavaScript and Rust. At the end of the day it’s just a bunch of lines, circles, polygons, and text.
Do you not believe in the existence of Walmart? I can see no aspect of potential monopoly that doesn’t also apply more strongly to other companies.
I would view such pro-choice people as making the same mistake that anesthesiologists once made about infants: if you can't hear the unborn complain, they must not be complaining. Therefore it's a personal decision of the mother, because you can hear her complain.

The opposite side of this debate is that maybe the unborn do complain, even if we can't hear them. And it's our moral obligation to stand up for them, because they can't stand up for themselves.
What they can see are reported messages. The reporter would be responsible for sending the cleartext message being reported. The encryption isn't being broken in this process, but rather the decrypted result is being sent somewhere else. The same problem exists if you screenshot it or copy the text and paste it elsewhere.

Not advocating for WhatsApp or anything, but it's useful to understand what's actually going on to make informed decisions on what apps you use and how they can be used or abused against you. So in this case, WhatsApp is less of a threat actor, and it's more about who you trust with your communications.

Personally, I prefer Signal.
Should someone be able to dig a well in their own land? Draw surface water from a river, stream, or creek that passes through it? Grow crops in their own flood plains, estuaries, marshes, ponds, and lakes?

The water we’re talking about doesn’t come through a pipe with a meter, and the people who have access to water have practical influence over the use, routing, safety, and quality of that water even if you try to assert legal control over them.
> Why is my browser reporting my resolution to the server

The browser doesn’t need to report anything by default. You can get a reasonable estimate with CSS + JavaScript (e.g. using media queries to modify some observable properties on the basis of the screen width and then report what those properties are via a call to fetch)
> side-projects to me is they often start as "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to others requires 10x the amount of effort to "productize" it

This mentality provided a breakthrough for me and has helped me follow through on a side project that I'm now using daily. I don't care at all whether it makes sense for other people. I know what all the buttons/fields/etc are for and it's serving its purpose for me.
600,000 immediate American casualties (not to mention the slaves) is not a great example here, of something being "simple"
Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops
And the ones that re-entered the atmosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1402
There is no button. That framing is dumb because it implies no risk and no alternative locations where capital can be applied with the same risk and lower taxation.
Maybe this is part of the evolution. A kind of decentralisations of the human species in smaller groups. If we would be one big world governed by the same policies we could all die by the same mistake.

Not to mention that too much empaty would be highly detrimental to any innovation and even survival. You would never fire someone and would use all the reasources to "help the poor" instead to invest into high risk high reward projects(i.e computers, space exploration). You would die of starvation instead to slaughter the cow because you are too empathic.
i see franchising as a form of specialization. The corporate head specializes in branding, sourcing of suppliers and logistics and menus, etc. The franchisee specializes in operations day to day.
> This isn't something cities could or should solve by switching to (expensive) desalination

In 2015, the Southern Nevada Water Authority completed a "3rd straw" into Lake Mead to safeguard water availability, at a cost of $817M [1], which is enough to cover the power costs to desalinate Nevada's CO river allotment for ~23 years. It's been a while since I looked into it, but I once ran the numbers and the cost of that 3rd straw was comparable to the cost of building a solar power plant that would generate enough electricity to cover the desalination for NV's allotment as well.

Notes:

Nevada's allotment of water from the Colorado River is 279k acre ft / yr (actual use is 242k acre ft / yr in 2021) [2].
There are desalination systems available that require 3452 kw / acre ft [3].
Southern Nevada wholesale rate of $.37 / MWh [4].

[1] https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/the-third-straw.htm
[2] https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog/Detail/lake-mead-wa...
[3] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/water.html
[4] https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nv-energy-introduce...
Did your dad also accidentally buy you a second phone line that wouldn’t ring the house’s phones? ;-)
Ok, as a scientist, when I say "never" is too harsh, what I mean by QCs becoming a thing probably isn't what most people on HN think of as QCs but rather being objects for simulating quantum systems. For that, they already have use (that is, those QC systems you keep hearing about on the news that already exist and are being used) and probably will get better to the point (god willing) we can simulate many electron systems. That is _my_ dream. I feel like QCs in HN minds is a lot more towards the "Computer" part of QC, like an actual Turing complete computer that will be able to do Shor's algorithm and break modern encryption, and on that I sort of agree with your assessment that it is between decades to never.

Sorry for that, I have to context switch when I talk to people outside physics. I always forget that. Also definitely the context of the convo was about QCs breaking encryption so my bad.
Several third person verified.
Part of that response seems to imply access to the account was attempted with unsupported software. I imagine if someone used a tool to try to brute force the account it might get flagged as something like that. It seems strange to punish an account for attempted unauthorized access, but maybe it's difficult to differentiate the traffic, especially if it's something like trying a leaked password and moving on rather than making repeated attempts that would look very obvious.
I didn’t actually realize that old 10 GBP paper note is now worthless except to the BoE until reading this. Sigh.

Another example of physical savings in fiat paper being demonetized away by the state.
> Setting cost aside for a second, is there any reason not to do something like this?

The cost would be so massive that, even if the answer to that question is "no", we shouldn't do it.
>> Tools are expensive - where do they keep them?

> Some of the camps are quite elaborate.

They are. However, tools are expensive thus need to be locked securely. Think: storage unit, not elaborate connected tents.

>> Are they dissecting cars under bridges?

> yes. It's been getting worse around Sacramento for several years now.

Hey, I live in Sacramento too!

I've never seen what you're talking about. Where in Sacramento can I see that?
> salt discharge being pumped back out into the ocean and raising salinity levels around there to significantly damage ocean life, would prevent them from approving the plan

Offshore oil platforms with annual spills coating the beaches? Go for it!

Massive ports with dozens of container ships anchored off shore dumping who knows what for months? Perfect, ship it!

Putting salt back into the ocean after taking it out and producing water for people to drink? Nah man, what if the ocean gets too salty?
How many consumer OS crashes can be attributed to RAM errors?

How many corrupt files, strange bugs, or quirks can be attributed?
Military Madness is also an underrated example of turn-based strategy. Granted, the computer would just outright cheat in places, but it was a very fun game.
Protecting Microservices
Example: You need to know how whether an operation takes 30 or 31 milliseconds, but your timer is rounded to the nearest 100ms, so you just get 0 or 100.

If you repeat the operation 100 times and time how long that takes, you should either get 3000 or 3100 milliseconds.
Most people are familiar with the sound of a baby crying, and they think that's the worst sound a baby makes. It isn't. A normal baby's cry sounds absolutely nothing like a baby screaming in agony, which is a fact I discovered the first (and last) time I saw a video of a circumcision.

Today we look back and can't imagine how people of centuries ago saw things like slavery and religious oppression as normal. Sometimes I wonder if we are equally blind to our own failings, and whether to the people of two or three hundred years hence we won't be known as the people who wrestled with racism or late-stage capitalism, but only "that civilization who mutilated a third of their infants".
I did the same, persevered, and threw away 11 years on a company I should have thrown in the rubbish after 1. The only thing that saved my career afterwards was family nepotism.

It's often investors who push the "never give up" thinking because those 11 years just come out of their LP's bank accounts, not out of bedtime stories with their kids.
> Note: We don’t provide support for unsupported apps, devices, or versions of WhatsApp, or jailbroken or rooted devices.

Sounds like doing any of these could result in a one-way ticket to getting permabanned. Folks here should consider themselves fairly warned.
We can start by rolling back the modern entrenchments that have only made it worse. I would be absolutely shocked if this were only a 200 year old problem and there wasn't modern legislation basically gifting free water to special interests.
If it's a 2019, make sure you're charging on the "correct" (right) side of the machine. Doing the opposite can cause overheating.

https://www.imore.com/heres-why-you-should-probably-charge-y...

(This is before anything Zoom-related, of which it would not surprise me for there to be more there)
this jump may have just put us out of being homeowners in California, even with a full 20% down in cash. wow.

the issue we're seeing locally in Sacramento (your market may vary) is that there's still a lot of Bay Area WFH salaries moving our way that outbid us, and the house flippers are most definitely still in the market. Our local salaries in healthcare haven't been adjusted, and at this point, we're basically screwed. :/ I can't pull another $100k out of a hat.
There is a $3000 cap on capital gains loss offsets. Useful for the middle class, but useless if you're Jeff Bezos.
One of the few remaining cases where the USA is truly the best in the world. Full backward compatibility for your currency is an awesome thing.

I guess these days it's kind of an expression of strength that the US has the resources to hunt down and stop counterfeiters, and pursue them through the world's financial systems if necessary.

Meanwhile, given that the UK is reportedly bringing back imperial measures [1], they will probably do something silly like deprecate another set of existing coinage and bring back shillings.

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[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-wants-revive-imperi...
The government, the biggest billionaire around.
> amazon got billions in subsidies just for opening second headquarters

Because it’s going to spend far more there. Nearly all large commercial builds get similar deals in tax deferrals because having employment is still a big net win for the locality.
DAO just voted to “refund” one of their investors in breach of contract (thread)
Not wabi-sabi specifically but the book "How to be an imperfectionist" was spot on and really helpful for me
So change the laws.
> shouldn't a proclaimed top-notch company be able to embrace engineers w/ less than stellar skills?

The relationship is that the employee works for the company, not the other way around. The company isn't obligated to employ anyone who doesn't meet their needs.
But this article makes the same mistake so many make: blaming this on climate change. It's not.

Sure, you have a whole host of local disasters caused by local mismanagement (agricultural water use, failure to prevent fuel build-up in forests, etc). And the local mismanagers point to climate change to say "don't blame us".

However, when discussing these things in the large, you have people pointing to the local mismanagers and saying "don't blame climate change", which is pretty much the reverse sort of bullshit. Of course climate change has made these already bad problems worse. Of course, the first way the problems of climate change appear is this making bad problems worse thing. What else would you expect? That climate change appears in a nice, neat way that lets you exclude other causes? Ha (except that results aren't funny at all).

And this mutual finger-pointing works well to prevent anything being at any level.
How did Bill Gates grift anyone? I think you have some sort of moral chip on your shoulder. People aren't perfect, and I don't know enough about Bezos or Buffet, but I'm sure they've done some shady things in their past.

But the reactionary response is just very odd. I'm too busy, worried about my own life, plans, goals, etc. to so vehemently hate some random billionaire who doesn't even know I exist. If it was personal, I'd understand, but it just seems to be part of a certain zeitgeist to hate on the guy, and everyone does it without question.
The complexity is to find a way to do that politically. Lots of powerful interests benefitting from the current system.

If you or I were Emperor, it would be easy. But the current US system is different.
iPhone as well.
>> If that's not intelligence I don't know what is.

Maybe it's just luck. If they were to taste good their faith could be different.
But that doesn't explain why they would put an expiration date on the existing bills.
you'd think the cost of money going up so sharply might cause home prices to decrease, but I suppose this effect will take time to materialize.
Is it a security problem on a single user gaming computer or a laptop?

Generally not.

If your production system is managed competently, I'm certain that there are engineers that can assess risk vs. performance and whether spectre and similar issues warrant those mitigations in your specific environment and make the appropriate design decisions.

If on the other hand your system is managed by "best-practices", distro defaults, and what "some-guy-on-the-internet said", well then you have much bigger problems.

Also, best website ever.
This is an interview with Fred Evrard, author of the book "How My Immune System Beat Cancer." His background is in, naturally, martial arts.

The interviewer is Dr. Eric Berg, who sells pseudoscience to desperate people hoping to improve their health.

I have zero idea how reliable this site is and thus don't vouch for it, but I have seen links to it on HN: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_Berg
> Maybe some HR managers believe that empathy and "EQ" are more important than IQ?

> Maybe they even think that intelligence is a social construct invented by the Patriarchy for the purpose of oppressing people who are not "cis white males"?

Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the person you replied to?
Desalinated water would have to be pumped uphill along way for the coast. Desalination makes much more sense for coastal communities in that regard, but it won’t be that useful for agriculture.
Python for Data Science: A Hands-On Introduction
Anecdotal, but I had a conversation about smoking with a med science professor many years ago. He said something along the lines of “as long as you don’t eat seafood your risk is low”. I was baffled.. looks like there is some truth to it.
To me it is plausible that in a time of great social and economic change, the odds of behavioral confounds in observational studies might increase. Non-stationarity everywhere.

That said, a meaningful result here would be welcome.
N = 1 here but I have an (uncircumcised) friend who was born around 1987. He told me that his parents were planning on getting him circumcised but changed their mind when they were told that the procedure would be performed without any kind of anesthetic.
> But this article makes the same mistake so many make: blaming this on climate change. It's not. It's simply usage.

See "Characterizing Drought Behavior in the Colorado River Basin Using Unsupervised Machine Learning"[0]. The journal article states: "The range of possible climate change considered here, regardless of ESM model, does point to a hotter CRB [Colorado River Basin] with large changes in the timing and magnitude of runoff, evapotranspiration, and soil moisture that will present challenges in managing water resources in the future."

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EA00...
The loans have to be paid. No matter how many times you refi, there is a massive tax bill at the end.
There are just not that many dispositions the government can have towards someone’s housing situation. You get left alone (status quo), complimentary unlocked housing (moderate cost), or complimentary locked housing (very high cost). Locked housing is off the table anyway because of the whole due process thing. Laws against public camping are unenforceable if you’re not offering complimentary housing. But if they were enforceable, you’d still be offering complimentary housing, just a more expensive form of it.