skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water management is going to be very important. Smart "grids" of water reclamation perhaps? Desal taking off? Water credits as part of trading or tarifs?

Secondary effects include smarter agriculture and more local ag -- near prolific water and away from central california.

Then there's water safety. PFAS is a big deal, and we're realizing how big a deal it is, and it's everywhere. Now, rainwater is unsafe anywhere on earth. [1]

Someone who can build a small, snap-on, reliable PFAS removal system, or create an energy-efficient system for district-level supply is going to be rich. Hell, is solar distillation effective? If so, why does rainwater contain so much PFAS? It seems filtering might be the only way.

1. https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhe...
A jury is also the people.

Representative democracy is, in my opinion, a significantly worse form of distilling the will of the people into applied justice.

If the task is deducing justice from the will of the people, I’d sooner pick a tiny random sampling of the population to make isolated decisions, than the votes of party-affiliated politicians on laws which cannot take into account individual circumstance.
While I don't have any sympathy about Islamic State at all, I love seeing crypto being taken seriously, especially to bypass US sanctions.

No authorithy, be it US or any other country, should have such a power.

It's good to see this patriotic ideology finally coming to an end.
> HN has strong opinions against Electron

Beware the bias of the loud minority. For every 1 noisy user, there may be 50 quiet users who are fine with the decision to use Electron.

Shipping beats not shipping every time, and if Electron is what you need, then do it. I say this as someone who does not like Electron, but also as someone who knows that writing comments on HN is 100x easier than actually shipping production software.
Forensic Examiner, Detective Wounded in Mexico by Booby Trap
JavaFX is not native, nor can it be made to look native like Swing can be made.
Thanks for your input, this isn't said enough. So many CPU benchmarks aren't effective at evaluating the general use case and yet are held up as this golden standard
I can only use my own color palette, because it is designed to separate features by hue.

In my case, comments are gray, constants are yellow, strings are purple, markup like HTML is green, some parts inside the markup are blue, and the hot colors are for code, red-orange for keywords, orange-salmon for variable names, etc.

No matter the language, I can rely on my theme to identify sections of the code, and it feels safe and familiar.

All the other color palettes seem, to me, a random assortment of colors that completely ignore function, and that makes them unusable, no matter how pretty they may appear.

I don't think anyone else uses my color palette, besides me =)

It can be seen and downloaded from here: https://colorsublime.github.io/themes/Poyeyo/
It's not that people don't like recalls. They don't really care about them very much. It's that they don't like Ferrari (not that they dislike Ferrari, they just don't like them) and the recall is an excuse to say bad things. It's like middle school all over again where nobody actually cares about <attribute> but if they don't like you <attribute> will be used to make fun of you. If this was a Toyota or Honda recall they would be saying "look they care about their customers" or "other manufacturers wouldn't have recalled that". Gotta love double standards.
I think that’s fine, as is the court of law not court of justice line, in context. The court should be focused on the law and process to ensure that it is as fair and objective as possible. However perfect fairness and objectivity is not realistically possible. Where justice comes in is the jury room, and that’s why juries should be free to find whatever outcome they choose, as the representatives of the sovereign citizenry.
I think it's with everything that doesn't have an immediate, graspable impact. Nobody would smoke if cigarettes killed you after a few months with a 50% chance. If they increase the likelihood of a stroke or other complications decades down the line, it's much easier to brush it off, tell yourself you're more of a Helmut Schmidt kind of person. Or just think it's a worthy tradeoff for the benefits you get from smoking today.

Same thing with child labor regarding smartphones, clothes, you name it. It's far away. If you had to buy it right at the factory at a counter where you could see the working conditions, it would have a vastly different impact on you.

And I'm not claiming to be smarter or superior to the average Joe here. This pattern strikes all the time, for everyone.
Take a look at Apptron: https://progrium.com/blog/apptron-announcement/
He probably means something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_o...

> Another study by the same institute found that when a "drunk" (BAC of over .1) zebrafish is introduced to a group of sober ones, the sober fish will follow the drunk individual as their leader.

It's a very fun read.
I grew up in south Florida where all the streets were lined with palm trees. I never heard of a person or car being hurt/damaged by falling palm leaves. It has probably happened, but must be exceedingly rare. Then again, I never saw downed leaves along the roads or any city trucks doing pick up, so now I wonder how and when they were picked up.
I am also not nearly educated enough, and also following this work very closely. With the strides made in the past several years I'm always surprised I don't see it being discussed more (outside of a niche of academics)
Qualcomm to spend $4.2B more on chips from GlobalFoundries
Ok - that makes sense. Obviously being on the dev side of things, I've never worked for a company that didn't have devs (and admins, devops, etc). Sounds like it definitely works in your case.
At my company, I do. As a backend engineer. Guided by the devops team.

It is a nightmare of arcane copy pasting.

Terraform is an overengineered mess, a complex enemy I need to beat to deploy my simple changes.
Ok, So. The Drawing App
Casey Newton has been doing this lately with decent results.
No, they were bugs in zig CC. They were things like linking against the wrong frameworks on macOS.
"I use Authy for MFA, which comes with a desktop app"

Fantastic. A lot of banks (at least here in Canada) ONLY have text or phone call for 2FA (which is awful, but welcome to banking).
> PNAS... kind of an odd little club, that journal.

Ironically, you're kind of illustrating the point made in the text you quote. You expect things to be written in a style and jargon familiar to you. That was written in a style and jargon from a different specialty, thus it's unfamiliar. Often these seemingly-odd phrasings are the result of authors trying to be very precise about what they are or are not claiming - especially they are not making the more general, ambiguous, and seemingly obvious claim. They use terms that have very specific meanings in their own field for that purpose. But instead of considering that, you just cast aspersions on the entire organization or specialty. Congratulations, you've done yeoman's work for the Anti Science Brigade.
I ran flash on Android phones of the time and flash absolutely did have a huge affect on battery life.

Given the number of bugs in Flash (and how long Adobe took to fix them), I believe this is also reasonable.

I believe that competition was a real motivator, but it wasn't the only reason.
And tons of people who don’t use GitHub, despite claims that you have no choice but to use it. It’s been years since I touched it.
It causes a complete loss of their ability to brake, but it actually increases their ability to break.
That’ll change when there are more homes priced sub $150k and lenders are desperate for borrowers due to a slowdown in mortgage applications.

Also, being able to buy a house you cannot afford may go away as well if lending parameters become more restrictive, which is typical in a downmarket.
I hope Unity gets a good deal here, but..."AppLovin"? Seriously?
Or cactuses.
This implies compilers are not as efficient as they could be and work needs to be done on that. Style in a binary is waste.

If it's true.

Are they sure it's not from text within the programs or other fingerprints?

I wish they gave examples of the fingerprints. It's hard to even know how to move forward without that.
It's bad news because nobody wants a repeat of 2008.

Even with the downturn in prices, prices are high enough that building new homes is very profitable, and we want lots of people to do it. But even if it is theoretically profitable, if stuff takes too long to sell builders can become bankrupt anyways. And if builders go bankrupt, the number of starts will go down very quickly. And then just like 2008 caused the 2022 crisis, the 2022 crisis may cause the same problem to repeat in a decade or two.
The chaotic joy of Art Fight
if you (or anyone else) is looking for data sync (etl and reverse-etl) please email me, I'm working on a startup that might be of interest to you.
No, you don't need to avoid PMI. If you can, then it is better.
BUS1 Working on “R-Linux” – A Rust Capability-Based Linux Runtime
> Does that mean that the US government could go after people who contributed to the Linux project?

No. You’re comparing money laundering, which has stricter controls, to exporting software, which doesn’t. (If you knowingly provide support to Pyongyang, probably.)
I'm not going to be argumentative here, but the last article you referenced. Clearly coinbase would have a bias to promote userbase.

That said :

> Of that small portion, scams make up the overwhelming majority of cryptocurrency related crime.

How do you think those scams will cash out ? Next step - Places like Tornado.

> From 2017 to 2020, criminal economic activity was overwhelmingly conducted through traditional financial institutions.

This is apples and oranges. But a good number to put on paper when promoting a cryptocurrency exchange for sure.

There is just an incomparable amount of traditional fiat currency compared to crypto currency so how someone would even make that argument says a lot.

> Myth #2: More illegal activity takes place using cryptocurrency than with cash.

I have no idea what sincere person would say that myth was true unless it was said as a joke. So no argument there but again, not adding any value. See above comment.

> Myth #3: Cryptocurrency makes it harder for law enforcement to investigate malfeasance.

And the 'Facts' given ignore services like Tornado.cash. Conveniently wouldn't you agree ?

My personal opinion of the CoinBase article is "Shill out of Ten".
Controlling the EU with Russian gas? Is that the conspiracy theory de jour, then?
I hate to stick my neck up here but looking at this recently, I think that in trying to get cross-platform, you might end up with a lot of pain and not that great results. Instead, I would go for getting 3 devs and writing an app in a native language on each OS. You can refactor the business logic into a dll using some standard languages like C/C++ (they aren't that bad) and possibly Python and then just build the front-end in the native framework.

Why? The only way to get a truly native look and the ability to specialise for each OS. Maybe Windows does threading better than Linux and can be optimised in some way. Maybe Linux has some nicer native UI controls that could make that part better on Linux.

Otherwise cross-platform mostly means a UI that is not native looking on any platform. Haven't used QT recently but of all I used, that was the closest to what you are asking for (I was using C++ - sorry, it's not that bad!) but I think there are bindings in other languages, although they might well have some bugs compared to the basic C++ version.
MESHCode is a theory about how information might be stored in the brain. Very interesting and potentially has other implications for information storing as well. Check "The Mechanical Basis of Memory – the MeshCODE Theory": https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2021.5929...
But you're cherry picking regulatory areas. The US is far more conservative and cautious around drugs, for example.
I can only imagine this will hurt the engine more and more.
Elon Musk’s Tunnel Boondoggle
I think possibly "perpetuating the fear" was the intent. I'm not siding with OP as I don't use C but if they think it's a bad choice then they probably want to assist other people in avoiding that choice.
Flutter seems like the strongest option right now

Though overall, its not an uncommon issue. I've found myself in the same place multiple times, I've even considered using a lightweight game engine just for their UI features. But next time I run into it, I imagine Flutter will be what I go with

Edit: Just realising you said "native-looking". Not so sure about Flutter for that, I'm not sure such a thing exists.
I have traveled a lot over the past few years, including several times through hostile customs (eg USA). I have never had any of them go through my phone or even ask to see it. And to be quite frank, I don't see what use a border agent or the government would use from my phone that they couldn't get in a different, simpler, less blatant way. I'm not sure what threat model you're fighting against, but it may exist only in your mind.
> allocate a buffer at startup and let the system clean it up when the program exits

This is possible with the lazy_static library or (not yet in stable Rust) OnceCell. It allows you to allocate & initialize any datastructure once during runtime and get global read-only access.
Hah whoops, typo, fixed :)
EDF cuts output at nuclear power plants as French rivers get too warm
Common carrier is a more useful limit function.

Common Carrier <= Monopoly
For people wondering what happens with the ironSource deal, this bid is meant to derail it.

This is AppLovin playing offense to avoid the emergence of a stronger competitor and instead become that stronger competitor.

Unity is not as strong in monetization technologies but it’s a desired asset since it has already a foot in with game developers.

Unfortunately building a game engine is not as profitable as building adware.

I guess Zuckerberg’s idea to buy Unity at certain point doesn’t sound that bad now. Clearly he wanted it for the game engine technology and not to build another ad revenue source. Kind of ironic how things play out in the long term.
Toyota is literally buying back its electric cars because the wheels might fall off. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/business/toyota-bz4x-buy-back...

Everyone has issues.
I am not sure how accurate this is - I have run my Macbook M1 in clamshell mode for the past year and have almost never heard the fans, and never even felt heat coming off of it, despite having Docker / JetBrains full IDEs open
Your underlying assumption is that there is some other hobby that I enjoy, have time to pursue, and have opportunities near me to engage in. As someone with kids, free time is both in short supply and sporadically available.

This is separate from my belief that friendships form via shared context not shared activities: https://billmei.net/blog/friendship
Keeping a daily journal changed my life (+ Notion Template)
Part of the Kyoto Treaty did exactly this. Seems to have been a bit of a mess for various reasons, China and USA opted out, the money from EU got diverted by a recession.

I think overall, carbon fees and getting tech to cost parity via local subsidies, then ensuring corporations/kleptocrats don't conspire in developing nations may work better.
Without this power, the alternative is munitions. Is that the preference? Isn’t the non violence force projection more desirable when considering loss of life?

If your problem is with a superpower having superior force projection on the world stage, crypto doesn’t solve for that. The drone strikes and assassinations would still happen.
Your phone is leveraged so much because it provides companies with deeper tracking capabilities. Most laptops and PCs only geo locate based on their connection points, phones have accelerometers and more accurate location and ID info in them, so many app makers hobble browser-based app iterations to encourage mostly phone use. They also know users are engaged and focused on content more when they are on phones because browsing in multiple tabs is less possible than on desktop PCs. It's ridiculous that we are manipulated in this way, but fandom for certain devices and apps has created powerful companies that dictate how the Internet works, rather than a better world where companies work to provide value and function to consumers first. The customer is no longer right, whatever the company dictates is what is right now, unfortunately so for us.
I mean, the evidence is there all the time, experienced continuously. That is unless you do not have qualia?
It is possible to have two competing and contradictory moral obligations, that does not mean that either moral obligation ceases to exist. I think "save lives if possible" out weighs "follow the law", but that doesn't mean that the moral obligation to abide by the law goes away. I do think it is often moral to break the law, but it has to be in service to a greater morality.

Your are equating the morality of opposing the Holocaust with the morality of opposing sanctions in that you assert that they both out weigh the moral obligation to follow the law.
Managing nuclear spent fuel: Policy lessons from a 10-country study (2011)
Terraform really takes Conway's Law and manifests it in the real world, but I don't think terraform itself is an overengineered mess. It's quite simple when you boil it down. However, if your team structure and communication is bad, you're probably going to get bad terraform code. I've seen both, large teams writing extremely well-written terraform, and small teams writing a mess of spaghetti. Like anything in software, it mainly comes down to the people.
>I have not come across any manual EVs

ICE vehicles aren't going anywhere, either. It will still be decades before we are even at 50/50 in the US.
I mean, how native are we talking? Cross-platform native? Or platform native? Platform native UIs require you to actually read things like the Apple HIG, or the Windows Design Guidelines, and then create language-specific bindings to those operating system controls.

If you don't actually care about creating platform native UIs, you'll always be creating something that is a second-class design while putting in first-class effort. Why?

Frankly, you're better off just learning the operating system platform native UI programming language and get over yourself if you want to create something that looks like it was actually designed for the OS you're using.

And really, it's immature and insulting to call languages insane. Suck it up, these are peoples' professions here. No one wants to read that.
Go outside! Put down the phone. Turn off the TV and go outside. Many cities are full of great places to enjoy being out in the sun but many people don't take advantage of them and the benefits go beyond just vitamin d
How do you feel about North American urban planning? Suburban sprawl, miles and miles of asphalt to build roads, concrete and wasted space for parking lots, large and inefficient single-family homes... these are far more wasteful than someone running a computer at home. Worse still, these things are subsidized by all taxpayers, unlike a miner's electric bill.
Because it's not just system boot time that matters. After you do that you then have to launch half a dozen to a dozen applications that all have varying startup times, that will all randomly draw focus during their startup, and some will require you to do logins during all of that.
The same reason why they haven't banned Tor. We both know they can't and they know they cannot. But they will focus and chase after the privacy coins instead.

So perhaps it is time to accept and admit that some cryptocurrencies are here to stay and reject the delusion that is repeated here that all of them are going to be totally banned 100% entirely.
> “I used to begin my presentations by talking about temperature data and heat-trapping gasses, but now I begin most of my presentations in the same way: by asking people, ‘How do you feel about climate change?’” said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization, during a panel discussion. “I get the same words everywhere: anxious, worried, frustrated, concerned, devastated, overwhelmed, angry, hopeless, horrified, frightened, heartbroken, and afraid.”

When I ask the same question, the answers I receive is totally different: "What climate change?, This is a statistical fructuation, volcanoes did that, Earth survived even more carbon level, and Greta is a EU's project for taking even more taxes".
> why are these sanctions here in the first place?

Initially they were a response to the Iran Hostage Crisis. Since the Clinton administration, the reasons have been Iran's nuclear program and support for groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

> It’s apparently ok for the US to have as many nukes as it sees fit, but not ok for others to have the same.

This isn't just a US goal. 190 countries have agreed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
I think at least the Ferrari 488 GTB that drove into the pond actually doesn't, it has an "electric parking brake" that you can activate somewhere on the dashboard next to the steering wheel, but not a normal handbrake. I can imagine not trusting this or forgetting where the button is if I were 2 seconds away from driving into a pond.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/900232/Ferrari-458-Italia....
I wonder if ants dream as well. I've spent some time watching common black ant types sleep and they will twitch at times, especially as they are waking up.
Try to present a foreign ID without your visa to a US police agent and let me know how it goes.
Sure. He would know more about those conventions than I.
for starters i think it helps to accept that the ideal partner doesn't exist. everyone has flaws on one way or another. the problem is that when you meet that seemingly ideal person some day, that person only looks ideal because you haven't seen their bad sides yet. i think it really helps to keep that in mind. better to deal with the devil you know, than starting over with an unknown.

for your problem, i would want to look closely what it is that makes you feel ambivalent after a few weeks. try giving it more time to see if you still feel like that. get to know each other better, plan your potential future life together to get an understanding what each of you want from a relationship. love alone is not enough.
3x5 card, one to two sentences. It works.
I believe that it was meant that each of the 2 receptors is not tuned to a single frequency, but its spectral transfer function must have an approximately triangular shape, with the peak at the nominal frequency, and the slope of the spectral transfer function must be such that the transfer function does not become null before reaching the nominal frequency of the second receptor.

In such a case, it is possible to determine both the amplitude and the frequency of any electromagnetic radiation, e.g. light, with a frequency intermediate between the 2 peak frequencies of the receptors, from the 2 values provided by the 2 receptors.

However spectral transfer functions of such a shape can be approximated only in a narrow bandwidth. Therefore both in animal vision and in artificial vision, a larger number of receptors must be used to cover a large bandwidth, with approximately equal spacings between their peak frequencies, in order to be able to determine not only the intensity but also the color (i.e. the frequency) of incoming light.
The Cybersecurity Poverty Line – impact on secure remote access to the cloud
You're simply saying that you assign a lower probability to an AI apocalypse than them. Which is fine--so do I--but you seem to be more or less conceding that if they're accurately assigning the probability, they're acting correctly.