skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's still intended as a pun as Hertz (the physical unit and the name of Heinrich Hertz) and Herz are pronounced alike.

Wikipedia and Wiktionary also have some suggestion that the name Hertz is etymologically related to the word Herz, although they disagree about exactly how.
The argument is not whether they react to stimulus we consider painful, but if they feel it in a way that mature humans understand as pain. Babies take months just to understand that they have hands, they're incredibly simple minded, so the question was whether they even had a real concept of pain beyond "stimulus and instinctual reaction". Similar to how an insect will react to pain but it's just doing what it's programmed to do, there's no higher level thinking associated with it.
Same as any security: making an attack more expensive to mount means people are less likely to try it. If high-resolution timers allow you to mount an attack in the three minutes the target takes to read a listicle page, then rounded timers require the target to keep the page open in the foreground for 3000 minutes, or 50 hours. That's much more difficult to do.
How do you know it didn’t work out very well for them and they keep it quiet just so the competion doesn’t gain the same advantage? There is that possibility or it could be that the same team would be capable enough to change the stack and paradigm and get more or less the same results, with some twist and a different flavor. It’s hard to know for sure I think.
I'm also amused how the blogspam author didn't realize the image was from the original release of the "demo" twenty years ago.
>> if IDs are not created by a single source, don't rely on auto incrementing IDs.

Data design outlives programs, and environments by a long time. Circumstances change.

So when I designed the db, there was a single database. But 30 years later we live in a world with smart phones.

Making design decisions because of _current_ circumstances can bite you hard later on.

Reading parent /child. Yes there are ways to mitigate the issue, but it's extra work and code to do so. Ultimately you need the parent id before you can add the children though.
We call them “desalination” plants, but the salt doesn’t just disappear. The more fresh water you have them produce, the more salt (brackish water) you need to manage as well.

So even while you may imagine the ocean as a limitless supply of water, there’s only so far you can scale desalination.
I like the idea and started filling out everything for my side project, but then after I clicked submit I was told to sign up to continue.

That is a dark pattern and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tell me upfront that I need to create an account. Not in small font, on the first page.
40k gallons per second is on the order of the capacity of the Edmonston Pumping Plant of the State Water Project, so it's likely doable with existing technology.
Cough... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power... ...cough
GCP incident affecting GKE, GLB, Cloud Filestore across zones
'Staked Ether' Becomes Focus of Crypto Stress, from Celsius to Three Arrows
> Is there a rash of homeless people running chop shops? That seems shocking.

It's true, especially for things like bicycles or small engines.

> Tools are expensive - where do they keep them?

Some of the camps are quite elaborate.

> Are they dissecting cars under bridges?

yes. It's been getting worse around Sacramento for several years now.
"We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud Networking at us-central1 across multiple products, beginning at Tuesday, 2022-06-14 06:00 US/Pacific." - Is the idea behind using zones in a region as failover mechanism not valid anymore? Too often I see GCP incidents affecting entire regions, sometime multiple regions.
And what percentage of those agriculturally grown calories are you going to cut out from your diet to reduce those usages? How much more do you want us all to pay for food?

"Eighty percent of California's water goes to agriculture" is very literally saying "Eighty percent of California's water feeds people". There are cash crops that use a somewhat disproportionate amount of the water, but that is in no way reflected in your comment.
I was about to say, we host and feed cats in every corner of the globe yet they have us run around to fetch their stuff and both the ancient Egyptians as well as modern day internet user revere them like gods. If that's not intelligence I don't know what is.
Notwithstanding the farm and ranch lobbies, what part of raising prices isn’t a simple solution?
> That's approximately 1000x the annual generated power of the largest nuclear plant in the world.

Put another way, it's almost 40x the annual generated power of the State of California.
What is so complex about eminent domain? Just force the sale of water rights back to the government for a fair price. It will sting a little bit, but sting far less than pretending like only 15% of the water in the western US actually exists.
That’s another form of the “both sides” type of fallacy. Desalination is an extreme unnecessary compromise to deal with obscene waste in agriculture.
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (2019)
Loved my TG-16. Bomberman with the five controller turbotap is still a tough experience to beat.
It's interesting that they withdraw them officially; the US has replaced its currency a number of times (the "new swelled head" 100s, 50s, 20s, etc) but the old ones continue to be accepted basically everywhere. You can even find silver certificates wandering around, though they can't be redeemed for silver anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_certificate_(United_Sta...
It doesn’t need anything more recent. This has been a known issue for decades regardless of climate change.
Francis isn't the Pope: Benedict is.
My side project is to generate ideas for how I want computing to be and try implement algorithms that do so. My vision of computing is so far away from how computing works in this era, it's more like Xanadu and The Mother of All Demos. I am a DevOps engineer interested in parallel programming and distributed systems amongst other things, see my GitHub.

I posted my idea pages. I figure they are sources of inspiration for this clique of software engineers and makers.

https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0
https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4
https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 (incomplete)

Ideas4 is more data structure ideas and futuristic computing ideas and automated program synthesis.
Everyone always says this, but why? I hear how it is 'dangerous' to anthropomorphize animals by people like Joe Rogan constantly. Can you explain what is 'dangerous' about it? Or why we have to be 'careful' doing so? Genuinely interested.

To me, the only downside is we might have to face the atrocities we commit in our daily life.
Original rust-minidump author here: I started out by doing a pretty straightforward port of Breakpad into Rust, which I had just started learning at the time. I figured that learning a new language by porting a codebase I was intimately familiar with for a content area that I knew extremely well would make it so only the new language was the hard part. (It worked out well!) I did try to make the API more idiomatic Rust in places, since there are parts of Breakpad's API that are fairly C++-centric. I was also using Rust 1.0 originally, so it didn't quite have all the niceties available in the current Rust release.

All that being said, I would choose Rust over C++ for any new development anywhere. If my boss told me we had to use C++ for a new project I would actually quit. I've worked on plenty of C++ codebases (including Firefox) in my career. Sure, you can write bad code in any language, but C and C++ are just bad languages.

(I also ported Mozilla's sccache tool from the original Python implementation to Rust, which was a fun exercise. The Rust version is in production use in a wide variety of places, and AFAIK is still the only ccache-like tool that can cache Rust compilation.)
Any unutilized land should be taxed heavily in dense areas. Empty appartment? Pay the equivalent of rent for taxes.
Back when I did this, loading usually meant querying a bunch of constant data in mod_perl.
TFW your system is so cutthroat that the idea of helping anyone feels like a slap in the face to people who made it through the gauntlet.
Don't need new suckers if you're running the largest money counterfeiting operation in human history.
Water rights are at odds with what society needs now. There is nothing complex here. Make everyone pay equally for water and the problem goes away.

The people that complain that it’s way more complex than that are the ones that don’t want to pay for water.
> childsafe corners

had me chuckle
I know you're being flippant, but I don't know if you mean it, so I'll answer anyway:

It's the same thought problem, because thought problems don't have to be embodied in anyone and it hasn't significantly changed.

Also it's not the same actual thoughts across people, and basically never was.

So there's nothing in here that's been slowly replaced piece by piece. The paradox does not apply to itself.
I'm not sure how this is responsive to the normalization of deviance.

Criminal harassment isn't a "don't like" thing. It's just a misdemeanor crime. Harassment people isn't "just free speech" even if it is speech. Graffiti isn't "just art" even if it's art. There has never been a time in the USA where you could systematically harass someone without committing a crime.
Detective Dupont
No no it's because you are flushing your pee and have a patch of grass in front of your condo. Gotta regulate that first before we talk about inefficient farming. /s
FYI: Sacramento is a natural delta and most of the water you saw still continues on through the water supply.

While one can always suggest more economical uses of water than any particular use/crop, the reality of what’s going on there might be different than your intuitions.

https://rice.ucanr.edu/Water_Use_by_Rice/
I wonder if a psychopaths would make better soldiers. I always thought that people are just different and their path (i.e serial climinal or great soldier or good manager) depends on the environment.

That being said slaughtering cows doesn't seem that bad. After all there are such jobs at slaugherhouses. Perhaps he was just teasing you making it more dramatic.
> Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests.

So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that.

Doing the right thing is really not that complicated, it just requires political will.
Not sure why though, my 5900x has precision boost. Wonder what's different.
This is a naive view of the world.

Most self-made billionaires in western countries exist because they have made something valuable that the public can’t stop buying or investing in. The public are just as selfish humans trying to do what is best for themselves, just like the billionaires.

Think of J.K. Rowling. She is a billionaire because parents are selfish and want to give their kids the best stories to read and watch.

Bill Gates made his wealth because people and companies wanted to use his software for PCs, and investors want a return on their stock investment.

Society can’t stop giving these modern billionaires money because what they have to offer is such a good deal.

The only way to make Bezos stop accumulating wealth is to have everyone stop using Amazon and sell Amazon stocks, which is impossible at this point.
Sorry, it's hard to keep track of who believes what when I get multiple replies to my response to a single person, where there is no continuity of viewpoint between the responders. I don't think one can really have any kind of cohesive conversation that way because literally everyone is arguing something completely different. I just assumed you agreed with OP.

The San Jose galleon as I mentioned is estimated to have about $17B of gold on it. I don't think very much is going to change about the world when it is raised.
Meanwhile the rain here is used to make corn that's turned into ethanol and shipped to California to run the tractors farming alfalfa to feed the cows. Seems we could cut out some middlemen here.
From Stage 3 Colon Cancer to No Cancer Detected in 4 Months [video]
Who’s paying less than they expected in today’s market? If anything it’s the other way round right now—lots of people are taking jobs for more money than they expected.
Being Entitled in Public
Interesting, I'm vegan and the glucosamine I've ordered has claimed to be sourced from a fungus. Perhaps the fungus isn't edible (hence, it's not a natural food source)
I admit I was being somewhat facesciuos. But clearly If you took credit for the work your computer did running your program, you would probably not get an argument from your computer until the conditions I mentioned were met
The most charitable reading of your comment implies you’ve never visited a large scale warehouse and/or mixed used buildings.

Surely you don’t actually believe the lack of a difference?
An issue not brought up yet (it seems) in this thread is that the HN commenting window for a post closes after 14 days.
The article explains how to redeem them by mail. The form is here:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/...

It includes instructions for people outside the UK.
I integrated Breakpad into Firefox to replace the old closed-source Talkback implementation, we shipped it in Firefox 3. I suspect (but would have to ask Mark Mentovai to confirm) that Breakpad was probably written for use in the not-yet-publicly-announced Chrome. If so, that would mean that we shipped it first. :) I probably still have commit access to Breakpad, although I haven't contributed to it in years.
The question of who owns the water right is important. The doctrine for water usage is different in the western US and the eastern US. Some of this is due to geography, and some due to the history of settlement. Here are a few useful links that discuss the differences.
https://nationalaglawcenter.org/overview/water-law/
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2014/03/an-introduction-to-water-l...

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/whose-water-is-it-...
I’m not parent but I think you’re reading too much into it. There is upward pressure and reducing that can be described as alleviating without any further connotation.
El Salvador's sweatheart deal was FAR from anything anyone in "retail" could ask for. They NEVER would have gotten into Bitcoin had Blockstream's Samson Mow not been able to fenagel a deal to sell them BTC at a 75% discount. Ask yourself, why was this all overseen by the private company Blockstream? Why was El Salvador pushed by Samson Mow and his employeer, Blockstream to issue these "Bitcoin Bonds?"

The basic deal is that Bitfinex owns both Blockstream and Tether and uses the later to pump the former.

Tether needs a nation state's help to look legitimate. So Tether printed and sold fresh USDT to El Salvador for $0.25 to the dollar (or even cheaper). El Salvador used the USDT to buy Bitcoin and then issued goveerment bonds backed by thoes Bitcoin.

You might think Tether is losing selling USDT for $0.25, but remember this is not actaully $1 USD, this is $1 USDT. Tether benefits more from increasing money velocity and supply more than they lose by inflating their scam token. Blockstream's Adam Back helps promote Tether and maintain the Bitcoin Core GitHub repo to make sure BTC is unusable as peer-to-peer digital cash which pushes people to stable coins and competing networks, like Blockstream's own "Liquid, lBTC" token.
Benedict was pope from 2005-2013, after which Francis became pope.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
How is something a cow eats possibly a cash crop?
And if you're doing mega projects on that scale, you'd just pipe water over the rockies from the midwest or divert the Columbia down the California coast.

Or cut into the Gulf of Mexico and flood Death Valley.
Politicians are afraid of getting voted out, and frankly many of their constituents prefer to ban this or that symbolic thing in residential usage that scratches their control freak itch.
Still not sure where the straw man was.
A lot of the weird bits in the Breakpad codebase were definitely from us finding extremely broken minidumps from Firefox users in the wild and then me tweaking the code to see if we could get something out of it so we had a chance at diagnosing the issue.
As long as we're still turning the Arizona desert into an alfalfa field for the Suadis, I won't believe that we're in a water crisis and certainly won't be doing anything that effects my life in any negative way to "remedy" this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/02/453885642/sa...
That's a hilarious code crime! I checked it and it turns out that this works for 64-bit integers too. It's 2^128 - 1 that is the first number that requires five calls to count_ones to work!
If only the cities were before the farms instead of after - reuse of city water for agriculture is a great idea.
What pushes the bank of england to such an aggressive and obnoxious policy?

Is there massive, perfect counterfeiting of existing banknotes?
I did this once. Then all my friends did it after I explained the mechanism. After a while, I realized it was rather morally reprehensible (they later froze low interest student loans) so I paid off the loans. They gave a "discount" on repayment a few months after, but by then I paid it off.

I don't know what the moral is, but I'm the kind of person who feels good about paying more taxes.
>It also continues to annoy me that semiconductor-on-plastic gets labelled as a plastic processor.

It's pretty common to call current processors "silicon chips", what's wrong with calling ones on a plastic substrate plastic chips?
Can you please explain why you believe a CEO should be able to see into the future and correctly account for all of the interactions of the global economy? If you can't, I guess just complain about billionaires instead or something.
Let's rearrange that a bit.

>Why n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ let elected officials representatives decide how best to spend the money?

>Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country?

Regardless of which political party you root for I'd be shocked if your really thought elected representatives do a good job of spending money, especially to the point you think they should be given MUCH MORE money.
Idea I've had, solar power a desalination plant, pumping the water into a pumped storage reservoir, then water crops from it at night to reduce evaporation and produce energy when the sun isn't shining.
Bottled water. Very big bottles.
Here's the worst part: we aren't even growing this for ourselves. These are farms owned by the saudis, and we're growing it and exporting it.
The roots of the practice are not very clear, but it seems that for operating on infants, risk of death from Anesthetic is very high. And historically, anesthetics were given to induce muscle numbness (so they don't thrash around).
You could say the same about pinky toe removal and stubbed toes.
This is actually really refreshing to hear (as someone who is not at all comfortable with the huge amount of debt friends and family get into.)
It refers to both: “Induced termination of a pregnancy with destruction of the embryo or fetus.” As you and anyone else capable of using a dictionary can see, killing the unborn child is a defining characteristic of an abortion and differentiates it from other pregnancy ending procedures.
relevant patio11 anecdote about this

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1536292255983898624
> Do they anesthesize the child in the other 10%?

Other first world countries—the ones with universal healthcare—solve this conundrum by not performing abortions on the 10% that do feel pain.
That may not be the example you want to use for something accomplished completely or without complication.
Do you even use Coinbase? Every time I login I am being swamp by flashy ads of just another shitcoin with big banner telling me that I can make a fortune. Most of these coins - if not all [the judgment is still out] are worthless and will never be more than 5% of what they are now, before they fell 99.99999%.

Whether Armstrong is pushing this shitcoins because he doesn't know better, or doesn't really care - its equally evil.
Cash crop is defined as something that you sell rather than use yourself.

Corn, harvested and sold as corn is a cash crop. Corn, harvested and used to feed your dairy herd is not.
You can spend them anywhere other than the bank.
Relevant: https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
The video was pretty convincing. Looks way more like a scar than alopecia.
Fully agree.

Just one thing like that ruins the enjoyment of the whole project for me. It moves from "oh, cool, someone wants to freely share the stuff hey like" to a suspicious attitude of "what is their real goal here"....
Would be difficult logistically to make a comparable move

"Federal Reserve Board staff estimate that over $950 billion in U.S. dollar banknotes were held by foreigners at the end of the first quarter of 2021, roughly half of total U.S. dollar banknotes outstanding."

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-...
Since the MS acquisition, free accounts can have unlimited private repos.
Whatsapp is now a key part of many people's communications. A full ban is unacceptable, because false positives can be costly to the user. A ban should be limited in scope, e.g. so that a "banned" / restricted user can still send messages to people who already have that user as a contact.
80% sounds like a lot, but is it really? Is it a lot based on land area? Ie is 80% of california land dedicated to agriculture? (honest question, I've no idea.)

What about per-species? Sounds like humans are getting a full 20% of the water, all other species (plant and animal) get the rest. And I feel like you're arguing that humans should get a bigger slice?

What should the right % be? Presumably not 0. Agriculture after all produces food for same humans. So it doesn't seem like closing agriculture is the right option.

So perhaps choosing agriculture that consumes less water? That seems reasonable - but there are diminishing returns in that direction. Sure rice seems unnecessary, but what about almonds? I'm no farmer but does it mean they should all grow the most efficient crop? A monoculture?

Ultimately is the real problem just too many humans in a place with little water? Should humans then supplement that water via say desalination? Sure its more expensive but maybe that helps reduce population growth?
I think the notes don’t last that long. I kept a 10 pound note in my wallet for a few years and it got destroyed far more quickly than US dollar bills. The paper just isn’t as good. I think the notes age out quite quickly.
Niels Bohr said, “There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” And indeed, every conversation is a web of many truths, all worth examining. Ponder upon it, and one day it shall set you free.
Who pays for it though? Market price is way below desalination price.