skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you aren't testing your interface with names like Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, you're doing it wrong.

My favorite town is Chrząszczyżewoszczyce, powiat Łękołody: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jaMcIbIWt_4

My favorite country is Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

For the company, look at those sub-sub-subdivisions of state departments. But there's also this cutie: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
Birthrates are down, people are getting married later and divorcing more often, people aren't growing as tall, life expectancy is declining.

Using the measures that don't change over time we are not living better than our parents.

EDIT:

>I'm sorry, getting married earlier has an intrinsic positive correlation with quality of life?

Yes, to the degree that civilizations often experience high degrees of social instability when it gets into the late 20s among the elites/elite aspirants.
You are not taking our water. You will need to move North.
That's the defeatist attitude they want you to have. Same reason they argue against taxing the rich or closing tax loopholes. The world's largest superpower has tools if we had the will, unfortunately lobbyists own our government.
They are among the top consumers in CA. They're going to pump aquifers dry.
I think globalization is in a reversing trend due to freedom and control over supply chains. I also think cheap consumer non sustainable goods are reversing.
If you buy too cheap goods you sell your future freedom.
I understand this is useful for people who doesn't type math regularly, but as someone who write a huge amount of math, `$...$` is so much less friction than the LaTeX one `\(...\)`.

Even in LaTeX, mix and match. `$...$` for normal mode, and `\[...\]` for display math, and it works well for two reasons. Inline math are generally short, less prone to mistakes, so `$` saves a lot of time.
> It would cost

What costs does this $419/acre-foot cover?

(1 acre-foot = 325,851 gallons)

You'd also have to include the cost of transporting that water to every place that's not next to the desalinisation plant(s). That can be expensive, particulaly uphill to the mountains.

And does it cover the cost of handling the byproducts?

Today we pay about $120/mo for about 5000 gallons, so $1440 for 60000 gallons per year, so $2275 for acre-foot. Difficult to believe desalinized water would be as cheap as $419 since it is always described as very expensive way to get water.
What size transaction do you think it helps with? My transaction fees are usually zero, even internationally, with the only exception being trivial costs when I visited the USA. Conversely, when I bought a flat I was legally required to add the much larger in-all-but-name transaction fee of having a lawyer sign off that I and my money and my payment of it and the flat itself and the seller I was buying it from were all legit, and still would have had that even if I'd used BTC.
In several countries you now have to approve practically all online payments with second factor, the bank app on your phone.
> So, they should just say, that, as always, it is a possibility. Which is both true and doesn’t provide info they shouldn’t.

Is there anyone on earth who would not interpret "it is a possibility" as "pack your bags" ?
With great power comes great responsibility, and unfortunately relying on everyone to be responsible doesn’t scale.
Copying off Github and copying off another host is not quite the same. I explained it twice on this thread already. So I'm leaving a link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937705
Not necessarily

Finn Falgout is an ocean-going tugboat owned and operated by Falgout Brothers Marine Company. Finn Falgout has been contracted by SpaceX since April 2020 to tow SpaceX droneships offshore in the Atlantic Ocean for operational missions and trials.

https://spacexfleet.com/finn-falgout/
> The data on the document is just a snapshot of the data in electronic systems. These systems are used every single day

The issue is not with the governmental database, taken for granted. It is with the consequences brought by the electronic system on the user side.
Languages you must know (2021)
mathics seems really cool. I was thinking of biting the bullet and buying a copy of mathematica since I'm teaching myself higher level math and want a a language that does symbolic computation. Needing to pull a docker file to run seems like a bit of a pain though...
A lot of US to US traffic went on foreign owned barges which has been a real concern.

It’s not about the US declaring war on the owner, because then the bandages could be seized. However, if the owner’s country declares neutrality and decides that means they can’t move war material then the US ends up in a tough spot.
The big ticket items (housing, healthcare, education) got exponentially more expensive, but at least hammers and avocados are cheaper.
The impressive card trick could would be the greatest of all time:

Have an audience member shuffle the deck to their hearts content, then place it on a table. Tell them what the top card is, then ask them to flip it to verify. Then proceed to do the same to _the entire deck_
Dr. Strangelove was openly political. It was made as a dark comedy precisely as a way of making its message transparent and enjoyable to the audience. Modern films are quite different.
For those interested in magnets, I cannot recommend Applied Science's video on it enough. He shows how analogous they are to circuits, introduces the lingo and main concepts, and more. I can't remember at the moment whether his video covers the making of magnets themselves, yet for a general introduction it seems perfect:

Engineering Magnetics -- practical introduction to the BH curve (49:56)

https://youtu.be/4UFKl9fULkA
> The thing about libertarianism is it has done more good for more people than any other ideology.

Presumably you mean political ideology, but I don't really know if I know what "libertarianism" actually means. I would need some citation that the Ayn-Rand-esque objectivist flavor of libertarianism has actually done any good for anyone. Maybe that's not what you mean, but that's sort of the issue with the term.

I might be more likely to agree if you changed the term "libertarianism" to "liberalism". Not the current "liberal" that basically means "democrat" in the US, but the more classical sense.
Would you mind elaborating please? I am not following your point.

I understand cash has this same issue. Assets do not - they provide an actual value to the physical world - which is what my point was in the above statement. A crypto t shirt can still provide value as a t shirt, regardless of the value of the coins it holds. I’ll admit it’s a reach, but just to illustrate the point.
No desal water will be enough for agriculture.

Only multigigawatt nuclear desal can privide so much fresh water economically.
Here in the US, I can go to many grocery stores, and have my choice of kefir.

As an actual Hindu who has lived in a Muslim majority Middle Eastern country, I'm not the tiniest bit offended, because a fermented yogurt drink happens to have a somewhat similar name as an insult based on religious bigotry..
Surprisingly, Copilot worked well with Clojure when I tried it. I don't know if it's because most lisps are very similar, so it borrows a lot of code from other languages while just changing the variable names, but seemed to have worked fine.

More advanced ideas obviously resulted in trash code or sometimes slightly broken one, but for simple stuff and boilerplate editing, it did well.
> P.S. Our grandchildren will wonder why we allowed the free world to export the means of surveillance to the third world. The financial system is a huge part of that.

While I agree with the sentiment, this won't happen. Did the Banana Wars and using the military might to control South America prevent all the American wars in the middle east? Nope. Just as those are forgotten about, we Americans will conveniently forget anything else that puts a bad spot on our record.
That home ownership being more affordable is going to completely disappear as interest rates go up. Yes monthly payments were slightly lower with tiny interest rates but the assets themselves were unreasonably high in price. With interest rates now skyrocketing payments will go through the roof.
I mean something broader than that here; I mean to say that "a generation of new devs who grow up in a world that sees git and Github as equivalent is perhaps likely to be something like a not-useful generation of mindless code drones doing little more than working for the proverbial 'man'" -- which, especially for CODING (in which hours doesn't mean accomplishment, unlike, say dentistry) simply isn't good for the world.

There's some conflating of correlation and causation here, of course.
California can internally counter that problem by giving people a corresponding tax break or any number of policy remedies. For the rest of the nation, there is no obvious cooperative framework to explain to Californians on why they should face the looming risk of a water crisis on behalf of the rest of the nation, especially in such a hostile national atmosphere. California can also continue to provide favorable economic policy to staple crops as opposed to nice-to-have crops.

And it's not just California facing a water crisis. The Colorado river flows through multiple states and it's drying up at an alarming rate.

But we can agree that all available policy knobs should be tuned.
I love this idea, but maybe you can put the picture of what it is right at the top. I had to watch a minute of video to figure it out, and would never go that far for a non-HN link in the wild.
Exactly. Something ever important to hammer on and repeat is that data does not alone make facts.
> OK let me take your projects and make money from them and not give you anything in return, not even credit.

This is one hundred percent okay with me and many other open source contributors. It's a no-strings-attached donation to mankind, and if someone else finds value in it, you don't complain, you cheer. Who needs attribution when people are actually _using_ something you made; you saved someone a good deal of time trying to write a solution themselves, perhaps.
Inefficiencies beget inefficiencies. The money gained by those who benefit from the inefficiencies will be reinvested into developing more inefficiencies. Maintaining an efficient system requires constant vigilance.

The US is a precarious hegemon, for all of the inefficiency it has invested into the MIC it doesn’t seemed to have gained very much.
I agree. This is where the endless affordable housing and immigration political movements fail. People need to live where adequate resources are.
A quick google search says Owen's valley is at 4k feet, while LA is at 300. I assume that reversing that would be incredibly expensive, considering the 570,000 acre-feet/year that flows is 1.5 trillion lbs of water.

So, I think it depends on where it's being pumped from/to.
Neat, although the blog post doesn't make this explicit, the new x86_64-unknown-none target disables the red zone, truly making it useful in kernels where otherwise an incoming interrupt would corrupt your stack.
As others have noted, desalination cause enormous amounts of waste. So then, the next environmental topic needs to be addressed.

I believe there are other, better ways to handle limited water supplies like finding inefficacies in the system and plugging those holes. Changing from mass monocultures to perma-cultures.

Unfortunately, they are much more boring than desalination plants.

There are great videos on this on YT, like [1]. Go and check them out.

[1] https://youtu.be/W-f2genlUZI
In South Africa it’s equivalent to using N word.
I accidently have a few of these 'collectable' games. I did not buy them 20+ years ago to put them on a shelf. I play them.
Sink it, even.

Or build another one on the other side. He can afford it.
If WWIII started I'm sure the US government would have no qualm about commandeering the ships in US harbours and/or US waters.
I always get a chuckle when people say things like "well a house is more expensive but you have smartphones, the internet, a washing machine, and a blender!"

For a lot of people, technology is a tool to live a better life, not end on its own. If post-internet technology doesn't get me housing as cheap as pre-internet or food as cheap as pre-internet, education/childcare, or healthcare as cheap as pre-internet, then that pretty much crosses off the most important necessities. Not saying this is the fault of technological progress per-se.
The Portuguese implementation of this is quite poor and widely unused. They started to improve it recently but nothing beats the implementation of BankID in Sweden, it is definitely a killer feature.
A huge chunk of Millenials and Gen-Z cannot afford to start families and have children.

That in itself is a major fail for our species, and should tell you everything you need to know.
We finished the research study late last year and it should be published sometime this year. Happy to share the report, email me, mark at movably dot com.

Everyone absolutely should be skeptical. I have tried a lot of chairs, the most recent which allowed me to re-position most was the Hag Capisco. But to some extent it still would interrupt focus. I have also found almost no research studies showing effectiveness of ergonomic chair designs, but would love pointers to any others that may exist.
Nothing prevents Congress from granting them those powers explicitly

I think you're correct, but just to play devil's advocate...is it possible that as society get more complex, it prevents them from doing so? It's jarring to hear Congress talk about passing bills before they read them, but in the context of everything the would have to know in an increasingly complex society, it may be a sad fact that don't have the ability to both pragmatically and judiciously create laws.

Thinking in terms of software; it's easy to come up with hard rules for writing "Hello World" programs. But expand it to a space shuttle with hundreds of thousands of lines of codes, the number of interfaces grows so fast that creating centralized hard rules becomes nearly impossible.
California does not approve of the building of desalination plants, unfortunately. A $1.4 billion dollar plan from a private company to build one in the L.A. basin was rejected in May of this year[1]. Private capital is available to help with this problem, but the people/government of California won't allow it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-reject...
I like that. Risk of losing it, and difficulty of recovery of the same or an equal asset.

Life, for example, is extremely valuable. Everyone loses it, but there’s no getting it back. If you lose the apple, you can probably get another relatively easily, unless we’re talking a post-apocalypse situation…
Which people aren't growing as tall? My cohort, roughly defined--co-workers of comparable age, cousins--often have children taller than they are.
Yeah education especially, it's gone up 520% of inflation, plain extortion.

"Youngest adults" meaning ages 18-25 who include the legal women that don't want to have babies immediately and whom everyone wants to fuck, and the young men who look their best in their "pretty boy" like Ashton Kutcher appearance, because they have the thick hair and best skin and are skinny, and sure enough the same is true for them there's lots of men and women out to fuck them. Or exploit them. So all of them, youngest adults.

They are being harmed. Colleges--meaning not the faculty or the adjuncts who are true to the students but the administrators in the bloated bureaucracies--just charge up the ass. They say the students don't pay for that but they absolutely do, they lump that in with Tuition. It's not Tuition, in my case the money spent on administration was mostly to persecute me (I got lynched).

There should be three categories: tuition (strictly professor salaries, fuck that adjunct status promote them to professors), Room and Board (or better yet call it Rent and let students pay for food on their own), and then Administration. Just like other non-profits.

In some colleges the professors are the administrators, there's no bureaucrats.

And the harsh part is for youngest adults, you need to go through the gauntlet--the time you're told is the best time in your life, when it's really the absolute worst--to participate in the economy with dignity. Otherwise you get a shit job.
It CAN be true if you get outside America.

In South America, considering the past economic crises, we're somewhat better than our parents.
80% of water use in California is agriculture. Even in residential use, ornamental agriculture and lawns are a huge part of the use.

If LA removes it's plants, it's ability to operate as a city should continue. It's California agriculture that's in trouble and California's archaic water rights laws make this worse.

Everything about the crises of today brings up the current memes - "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" + "this is fine".
strong agree! it comes out to just about 7% of the total water though doesn't it?
That requires a population that wants a government that does things. Not very popular in the US.
> Just because directly calculating your exact calorie balance is untenable

It's not only untenable, it's infeasible. The only way to "directly" calculate one's energy expenditure is to either place them inside a direct calorimeter or to use respiratory gas analysis, and to adhere to very strict protocols. And no, fitness bands and watches are not accurate enough to overcome the margin of error.

Sure, one can keep lowering the amount of food they eat until they get some kind of result from it. In that case, there's almost no point in trying any sort of BMR calculation flim-flam whatsoever. They'd be better off just eyeballing how much they eat and reducing the volume and the frequency.

Regardless, my point stands. Suggesting that the answer is to "simply" intake ~150 fewer calories of energy per day is to suggest that the vast majority of people are equipped with the skills and knowledge to even get close to that kind of accuracy in any sort of calculation. Maybe one can get lucky and see results from such a "simple" calculation because of their individual biology and eating habits, but the margin of error is still very high.

Let's set aside reality for a moment and pretend that calorie counts on packaging were perfectly accurate and that the Harris-Benedict equation works perfectly for everyone. That still wouldn't matter the inference of calories of food are/were measured as heat in a bomb calorimeter (i.e. setting food on fire and recording how much heat is emitted). The calorie count that appears on a food package is a guess based on the composition of macronutrients. With the exception of fiber, the calories of fat, protein, and carbs are combined together to form the single count based on how they typically burn in a calorimeter. This introduces more inaccuracy depending on the type of fiber since it may be fermented into digestible substrate.

The human body is nothing like a bomb calorimeter. It treats different forms of energy differently, and different forms of energy are utilized to varying amounts, and are even utilized differently in the presence of one another. If you take a dump, let it dry and then light it on fire, it will burn because there's excess energy being passed through and not converted to heat by the body. Food may pass faster or slower depending on what it's composed of. Fiber can not only do that but also prevent the digestion of nutrients. A diet that mixes lots of fat and carbs together facilitates the storage of more energy as fat than if either of them were eaten in isolation. Protein has more of a thermic effect (the body emitting more heat) than either carbs or fat.

Point being, if one really does not want to lose weight by actually choosing to eat foods that are appropriate for their digestive system, or to eat food that is low in energy density (ex. leafy greens), then they might as well cut down on food to such an extent that they would be able to notice it without punching numbers into a calculator. A substantial amount would have to be reduced from the diet to have a reasonable amount of confidence that one is indeed eating less energy than the body is expending in a day.
Imagine if the key performance indicator was happiness or life satisfaction, instead of how many blueberries we’re eating
Sea Corals Found to Be a Source of an Elusive “Anti-Cancer” Compound
Guess what the CH stands for ;) I just haven't seen it used in context like that and would encourage people not to use abbreviations when possible.
what are the second-order effects of having a plurality of consciousness framing processes

The primary effect I would expect is that none of them will adequately frame the layperson's expectation of "consciousness" and will thus likely be dismissed as meaningless hype.
YouTube keep setting my videos as shorts, how do I stop it?
I love Github. It's been the best thing that happened to promote open-source software collaboration since the invention of version control. Without a centralized place to find and share open-source software, a million products would not exist today.

Not sure why Github itself should be open source. Since microsoft has bought github, I see usability improvements and new features every month. In 13 years of working with it, there have been very few problems with it.

They have carried open source for a decade now, without breaking even. It seems fair to me that they're trying to earn some money with it. So far their plans and offerings are reasonable and there are plenty alternatives.
Paper Abstract:

Diterpenes are major defensive small molecules that enable soft corals to survive without a tough exterior skeleton, and, until now, their biosynthetic origin has remained intractable. Furthermore, biomedical application of these molecules has been hampered by lack of supply. Here, we identify and characterize coral-encoded terpene cyclase genes that produce the eunicellane precursor of eleutherobin and cembrene, representative precursors for the >2,500 terpenes found in octocorals. Related genes are found in all sequenced octocorals and form their own clade, indicating a potential ancient origin concomitant with the split between the hard and soft corals. Eleutherobin biosynthetic genes are colocalized in a single chromosomal region. This demonstrates that, like plants and microbes, animals also harbor defensive biosynthetic gene clusters, supporting a recombinational model to explain why specialized or defensive metabolites are adjacently encoded in the genome.

Paper URL:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01027-1
Yes, metric is nice.

In the meantime, the acre is the standard unit of area for farms, fields, residential property, other property, parks, and certain other uses of land. A house on a quarter-acre lot generally has a backyard, and would fit in most suburbs. A house on a half-acre lot has a big backyard with plenty of room for your kids to run around. A full acre is getting pretty decently big — it's more like the size of a small field that you'd use for growing crops (which is the origin of the measure: 1 farmer-pair-of-oxen-plow-day.)

Rain is measured in inches and feet.

Just multiply two values people use in practice and get another that they can use in practice: acre-feet. Are you forecast for three inches (0.25 feet) of rain, on your forty-acre property? That's 10 acre-feet of water you can get from the sky instead of the irrigation authority. Like most things customary, it's easier to use in some ways, harder in others.
Parts of Nevada are below sea level so the total energy expenditure to move water should be "minimal". This would be after making aqueducts.
My thinking is, if the Romans could move water over mountains without pipes, so too can the Americans.