skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Colorado, Utah and Wyoming - the states with the upper tributaries - were drawing water out at a much lower rate than they were entitled to by treaty, until about 2000, at which point the wheels started to come off.
My n=1 observation is that these bogus listings cause me to either find a well-known brand and/or go somewhere else that has more trustworthy listings.
This does indeed seem like the unfortunate confluence of being exposed to someone shedding the vaccine-strain and community transmission. Which is exceedingly rare in the U.S., but is entirely foreseeable in low vaccination rate enclaves, which are growing more common.
Qualifying out makes sense, but I don't think the companies are making the right decision. I was recently looking at a web UI that visualizes the output of your team's Bazel runs. No pricing information. That seems like a product that is going to be $X/developer/month, and when that's a lot of money, sure, invite them to a private Slack channel or whatever and charge an extra $30k/year. Otherwise, it's basically free money.

The outcome of the no pricing information is that three options were listed on the Bazel website, so I looked at the other ones instead. They did the hard part of getting me to the website, not to mention typing in code to implement their thing. Now I just want to type in a credit card and use their thing.

Not everything is an Oracle database for a Fortune 500 company. The long tail is long, and contains a lot of money.
Typically water delivery is done to several 'tiers' of customers, where the top tier is consumers. Farmers sit below that and industry below that. This sort of thing will have massive effect, especially if it lasts longer than a few days or weeks, at some point vegetation will die off, cattle will die and people will start moving.
But Kelo didn't get it back.
That essay is pretty much this epidemiologist's take too.
No it doesn't? Maybe you have the wrong link?

The link you provided is just a standard vaccine efficacy over time study using data from Sweden. These are a dime a dozen and all show two things: 1) you are less likely to die when vaccinated, and 2) immune response reduces over time so you need boosters.
Sorry but I think you’ve read my comment wrong - this writing style may not be popular everywhere: "you" in my previous comment is figurative, interchangeable with "one", as in "one may think...". It's not referring to you in particular.

Rephrasing, I think people don't care because they are only thinking of their own "personal secrets", and don't realize the big-data aspect of this type of data collection (which is understandably a bit hard to grasp for people outside of tech). Their lack of concern is simply a reflection of the lack of perspective, not a valid counter-argument to privacy protection - needs a lot longer legs to become a position worthy of consideration.
HVDC or interconnects (losses are tolerable with enough renewables generation, considering existing curtailment), battery storage, and renewables generated ammonia for on demand combustion (chemical storage) will meet these needs. "Build, Baby, Build", with my apologies to Sarah Palin.

Edit: with 1200GW of renewables capacity, the US has produced 20% of its energy from renewables this year, more than nuclear. Based on the interconnect queue, extrapolate future generation mix accordingly.

https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/renewables-do...

> There was a total of 1,400 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in interconnection queues across the country as of year-end 2021, of which 1,300 GW was solar, wind and energy storge capacity, according to the report, Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection. The installed capacity of the United States is 1,200 GW.

> Although not all the projects are likely to reach fruition, the total still represents a milestone. “The sheer volume of clean energy capacity in the queues is remarkable,” Joseph Rand, a senior scientific engineering associate at LBNL, said in a statement. “It suggests that a huge transition is underway, with solar and storage taking a lead role.”

https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/queued_up_2021_04-13...
Yeah, if that's the first thing that comes to their mind, then they need to look themselves in the mirror real hard and wonder whether they're the ones perpetuating xenophobia.
audits, soc 2, and all the other bs hoops the industry jumps through… for what?

when stuff like this exists it’s pretty clear that large enterprises’ idea of security and risk management is all made up to sound good and lacks teeth.
Maybe a tech cooperative were you and your partners are all treated equally and there are no bosses would be a good choice for you?
WordStar
That article doesn't make things sound much better. It seems to pin the blame on persistent drought. The tactic of water being released from reservoirs upstream was used in the past as a band-aid over the symptoms of the drought, but isn't possible this year due to the water debt they have to Texas, as you mention.
> Conversely, living on top of a hill, the wind absolutely screams in winter. After two or three days of constant howling wind, sometimes I feel like I'm going nuts.

Indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_(novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_(1928_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_(2018_film)

Novel, film based on the novel (starring Lillian Gish!), and a much newer re-make.
that IAM and vpc stuff? imagine not having to know it to deploy your stuff.

imagine just having a repo of your web app, and just committing via git is enough to get it online, and scalable.
Maybe it’s different in each country? I’ve used Amazon in the UK and several European countries, and you can get tons of major brands sold by Amazon (Apple, Dell, Samsung, Gardena, Bosch etc)
> Replace the T with a roundabout

On the side of a hill? That's a ton of earthwork.

Country lanes don't get roundabouts. There's no money for that.
That was a blatantly ageist comment. The beauty of ageism is one day you are going to be grizzled and have to read through these comments. Actually, worse than that, you are going to have to read these comments continuously every generation of hot shot kids that pop up who don't know they will be old one day. sigh!
Not sure what the problem is but you can experience symptoms. Bad farming practices, poor soil are some of my guesses. How expensive things are that are grown locally.

Just because you cannot identify the problems doesn't mean they don't exist.
What I'm saying is that it would take an immense amount of effort, looking at literally tens of thousands of Amazon listings, to even realize that "this is what everyone else is doing." I noticed these patterns because I personally went through the top 100 items in every leaf-node category of the Amazon store a few months back (because I treat "finding obscure solutions to problems I didn't know I had" as a hobby.) No new Amazon seller is going to do that; and so no new Amazon seller is going to notice every detail of the pattern.

Or, to put that another way: if this were a "marketplace of ideas", there'd be a certain amount of mutation, of copying error, to be expected, from individual sellers not noticing all of the stylistic quirks other sellers use; and instead substituting something random.

But instead, what you see is perfect copying of style, with no mutation or variation, among what are ostensibly thousands of distinct sellers/brands. That's implausible.

(Also, for a bit of a knock-down argument I maybe should have pulled out sooner: when there's an update to the "optimal style" used by these brands? They all change. All at once. Thousands of different brands got rid of the 【】 — replacing it with [] — on the same day, some time last year. Real independent sellers, even if they notice tiny changes in popular style like that, can't react that fast, and don't have time to be constantly updating all their product listings. But a SaaS sales platform with a post-maintenance bot sure does!)
reading through the vatta's war series (fun military sf) at roughly four days per book.
Everyone in that geographic area. We don’t have any ability to move water across the country at present.

Nor should we. There is no reason to build pipelines to send fresh water to the desert.
> The internet provides a huge paradigm shift: a while ago the printing press allowed people to read. That spurred the renaissance. Now the internet is allowing people to write.

This is a great quote. I'm gonna steal it from now on :)
| Is horizontal gene transfer [1] the right term for this phenomenon?

This is "incomplete lineage sorting". There's no need to invoke anything more exotic than standard vertical inheritance, but the existence of genetic diversity within populations after they split/speciate (i.e. it's not a single Adam & Eve that give rise to a new species) produces counter-intuitive patterns of relatedness like this.
California has seen droughts before and is currently more at risk than ever before: https://drought.ca.gov/
The second worst XKCD is the one saying it’s good to deprive someone of freedom of speech as long as you’re not in government when you do it.

Well, and the really old ones that are just him writing passive aggressive comics about his ex-gf.
Yes, let’s choose something that will work with everything, say:

RS232 for any wired data connectivity
110 VAC for any kind of power
802.11b for any kind of wireless data connectivity
…

Now that we have these mandated, let’s zoom to the present day and figure out just how bad of an idea each of those decisions were.

I don’t know what “mandating interoperability” would mean for all cases in the original argument. eg: Does someone need to write software that can run on every single operating system that supports Bluetooth to perform a firmware update for AirPods before releasing them? That sounds pretty abysmal for anyone that doesn’t have the resources to understand/target/maintain a process for BeOS/Haiku/Linux/Android/iOS/Windows/whatever my car’s console is running/etc.

OTOH, you could write a standard for firmware updates to devices over different channels and see who would adopt it. Make sure it is future proof and covers all currently known use-cases. If it’s adopted by enough people, you aren’t using your local government to write something in stone which will likely be outdated in a decade or so anyway.
Promise Caching has a nicer name to it since that's what it is if well-implemented.
I don't think you care about or can empathize with other people being taken advantage if you think weakening encryption helps the victims in vulnerable situations.
How much water does generating electric power waste? Or does the system suck everything dry?
Yeah, this was the initial discovery/disclosure tweet, as far as I know. Notice it was posted two days ago, same as the announcement from Atlassian.
Try projecting it on a surface with curvature. The projected grid spacing will be irregular and follow the curvature.
> I confess to also getting bugged by the repetitive "speaking only in memes" phenomemon

You would have hated it, then, in the days of only one or two TV channels, and in towns where there weren't many newspapers.

Which I suppose is a gloomy point: people have always been like this so it's unlikely to change.
After a couple really bad experiences with product quality (think clothing items that don't last after a couple washes) I no longer buy Amazon branded items. It's going to play against them over time if they keep messing up on quality.
I don't think anybody would be able to differentiate the speedbumps from the condition of all the roads in that area.
> what the family's religion has to do with anything,

Back in the 1980s, NYC shops noticeably run by Hasidic jewish folk were famous for having the best deals in cameras and hifi.

It was not just local, there was a good amount of mail order business, and a large advertising footprint. I think it faded out in internet e-commerce boom, but for older shoppers the association may be relevant.
If the $ per Wh cost from PV is extremely low it's also possible to use electrical heating elements to store heat in tanks of something that melts and stays hot for long periods of time (for building heating purposes).

Or to use cheap mid day electric power when the sun is up to generate gigantic blocks of ice that can then be used with cooling loops to air condition buildings.
> Without Elon, there would be no SpaceX, and no Tesla. Musk deserves credit for two great achievements.

You achieve something when as a CEO you sign off a consequential improvement in the quality of life of a lot of people, then you pass the baton and the company is still there.

Tesla is just a car company that jumped early on a quite singular and unprecedented political trend (limiting ourselves for the benefit of people who'd be alive 150 years from now). If the unprecedented trend disappears, so will Tesla.

Space has been driving big entities out of business ever since the Apollo program days, there is no quality of life and no ROI for us up there.

Musk has nothing in the bag as a matter of accomplishments because his companies are not 'in the bag' type companies. Examples of 'in the bag' type companies are : Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Exxon, Shell etc.

He's essentially a politician
More likely game controllers over the past few decades have evolved to be really optimized for controlling the position and orientation of an entity in 3D space which happens to be the same problem for characters in videogames and many objects in the real world, and their ubiquity makes them both cheap and easy to integrate.
Moby Dick & Children of Time, both since May-ish. Slowly going through them, since my book club is temporarily on hiatus and I'm being lazy.
You need synthetic fuel anyway to act as energy storage/buffer.
How is it hopelessly elitist to call out insecure code as being INSECURE!!!

My whole point is the same as yours fix it at the source. You seem to think hacking off the hands of some coders is safer (I may agree). But why not try to EDUCATE THEM?!?

Education costs 1000s of dollars at most rather than your hypothetical billion dollar APPLICATION LEVEL hack.

Why are you so elitist to assume people can't cope with these concepts?

My whole point is that they need to be tought they're running on a Unix server rather than an 1998 SD card. The rest of your complaining is either you don't understand this or are trying to excuse bad or insecure practice as acceptable. If this is your case. RUN THE CODE IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THIS CAN'T HAPPEN. Seriously there are filesystems and options for this.

Calling for these features to be removed from extX, ZFS or other shows you don't understand storage technologies well enough.
Apologies, but in my experience in the IT realm, I find this hope to be so naive as to be dangerous.

The possible silver lining is that there still exist millions of good problems to solve. But never ever expect solutions to be self-evident.
I thought the takeaway was ‘any suitable dictionary word would likely have been taken, or make as much sense as random nonsense anyway, and they’re creating so so many of these pump-and-dump brands hawking junk that it’s easier to just use a literal random character string’
>Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.

Unfortunately this has happened to me on more than one occasion on major US carriers. On one occasion I had already taken the first flight, and while away on vacation they cancelled my return flight without explanation, only to offer me a flight that was taking off 3-days later.
Rant against wokeness all you want, but medicine could use a dose of something, given that physicians often believe weird, biased things like African Americans are more pain tolerant.
https://archive.ph/gEtny
Absolutely. California alone is curtailing enormous amounts of renewables, hundreds of thousands of MWh/month (depending on the season). That is literally clean energy being thrown away (which, depending on system design, is variably tolerable; you're balancing cost, transmission congestion, and renewables offsetting fossil combustion). More transmission, more batteries, more storage, more load shifting (both temporal and geographic)? All of the above.

https://www.caiso.com/informed/Pages/ManagingOversupply.aspx
IJssel river in the Netherlands was lower three days ago than I have ever seen it myself.
good lord, that's obscene.
> I was actually planning on letting the user do some queries as the form data is actually stored in a sqlite database anyways.

That can work, but you should also allow downloading the SQLite database or the CSV, in case you want to do it on your own computer.

> Can you link to your format if it's public? I'm interested.

http://sprunge.us/Suua5t I will intend that my implementation will also be able to store results in a SQLite database.
It probably depends on the person. I'm not sure I'd want to work with people who see it as a negative, unless you're applying for a position where a PhD is required.

You could try rewording: "unfinished PhD" seems a bit harsh compared to say, "PhD studies (incomplete)."

If you're asked to explain, just eschew any shame and be confident:

"It wasn't a good fit for my life at the time, and after changing course I'm much happier. Nevertheless, it was a rewarding experience and I'd do it again."

Something like that, if applicable.

To me, someone who endeavors to attain a higher form of themselves and fails is much more valuable than someone who never tried in the first place.
It sounds funny, but it's true.
It should be in Chapter 1 Section 5 of the 4th edition. It's even in the table of contents.
But that statement itself is very misleading, because it's using an opaque gas cloud as an illustration of an empty, transparent region of space.
I haven’t seen this course content yet, but fully did the 2019 version.

Extremely grateful to have found it. Changed the course of my life.

I can vouch for it's quality.

Jeremy is an excellent instructor. So much clarity in his teaching!

I love that this is a hands-on course, and there are ZERO hand-wavings. I also really like the top-down approach of teaching. Now, whenever I try to communicate something or teach someone, I try to do it top-down. And I have Jeremy to thank for that.

Currently, I am attending his APL study group and having a blast!

Only question for @jph00 is: second part, when?
Why a soundproof basement with no windows?
A gym membership is pretty affordable if you count the healthcare costs you're going to save down the road. Their fast-food industry is a massive problem. These parasites company do not have the health of their clients at hearth and they should be regulated like cigarettes are. Still, at the end of the day people choose what they eat.
No, I mean that NL is simply much smaller than the US.
On one hand it’s an interesting engineering challenge, but I am always perplexed how covering hundreds of square km of an ecosystem with glass is “good for the environment”. It sounds like something future generations will shake their heads at while trying to dispose of all the toxic waste.
In my limited experience in chemistry, “abd” (all but dissertation) was at best an “eh”. It let to questions about why people didn’t finish, problems with the boss or lack of interest? This might not occur so much now but at least be alert for it.
Same goes for brand names that are completely unpronounceable in English and the fondness for ALLCAPS. Of course people accustomed to a completely unrelated language and writing system are likely to come up with transliterated or synthetic brandnames or acronyms that seem bizarre to English speakers. Buyers make one-time-only purchases based on search result order, price and star ratings, so localising brandname to the market is well down the list of priorities below keyword stuffing and trimming the Alibaba images. Names which look as bizarre in ASCII as Huawei and Xiaomi have actually succeeded in becoming brands in the West anyway.

(Your comment should probably be the top comment for the thread)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083560&p=2
I get sabatier and electrolysis but what is a CO2 concentrator? Or rather how does it work? I thought that was the expensive and relatively unknown part of the process.

Aside: Sweet company website https://terraformindustries.com/
I stopped shopping at Amazon when they kicked Parler off of AWS. I don't understand how any self respecting liberal could celebrate a mega corp censoring the internet along idealogical lines, even those who drank the insurrection kool-aid.
It reminded me of https://www.antionline.com/ which I used to hang out on like 20 years ago. To my surprise it appears to still be up and running.
Weakening encryption this way will also enable many ways to abuse people.

And make no mistake, CSAM producers and consumers will move to networks that aren't under UK jurisdiction. This law will change nothing. It's pure virtue signalling, and you're falling for it.
> The description of the Great Plains soundscape reminds Adrian KC Lee, an auditory brain scientist at the University of Washington who was not involved in Velez’s study, of sensory deprivation or being in an anechoic chamber—a room designed to stop echoes. In those cases, even the smallest sound, like the rustle of clothing or even your own heartbeat, can become impossible to ignore. As Lee pointed out, the human brain will naturally adapt to its environment, essentially turning up or down the volume to better distinguish what’s going on.

This reminds me of a story, I believe it was told by Joseph Goldstein to Sam Harris (but I could be mistaken), about learning to meditate in noisy, urban environments. It makes me think this method and process could illustrate what the author is talking about.

I live in a fairly quiet community. I’ve become aware of people in our community through mutual acquaintances, friends and family, who have trouble sleeping at night without the television on.

From what I’ve read, this is a common problem with people who suffer from anxiety and depression. So I think prairie madness might have exacerbated already existing mental health conditions in a select group of people.

On Reddit this week, there was a popular video posting of a little boy sleeping peacefully on a chair as a loud mariachi band plays near his ears. How is this even possible?
And a lot of so far non existent recycling technologies and resources...
Doesn't that mean mcone is correct, and the water isn't being diverted intentionally? The implication from the original comment seems to be humans are doing this on purpose, but the retort from mcone is that's misleading because there is no water and we couldn't fill it if we wanted to.

I am not an expert on this. I'm just reading the comments.
Yeah, I’m vaxxed.

The point I’m trying to make is that there’s a wide range of vaccine efficacy. Current vaccines against BA4/5, very poor.

Now, my question is, since the current mRNA vaccine is causing our body to create old spike protein, and BA4/5 almost completely evades the resulting antibodies, what’s the mechanism that reduces severe disease from BA4/5?
This is better. Terraform believes they can make methane from the air for cheaper than it can be extracted from the ground, leading to a preference for "carbon neutral" fuels. Part of their thesis though is the requirement for solar to keep getting cheaper and cheaper (as it has).

Excess manufactured methane could also be injected underground, presumably.
Reading Flash Boys by Michael Lewis since last night.
Note that this isn't in default Confluence installations. It applies to installations that have installed the Questions for Confluence plugin, which is an official Atlassian plugin.

The plugin page shows 8K installs when I checked: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211644/questions-for...

Disappointing to see this coming from an Atlassian official plugin. I wonder if they outsourced this to some contractors and didn't review it closely, or if they developed this in-house.