skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the world burns, Americans buy bigger cars
Wow, thank you! This is pretty easy and without all the acrobatics you usually see people do when dealing with dotfiles.
I skipped the whole git thing. Took away so much time from my activities i just gave up on it. Nowadays i no longer worry about my code spontaneously combusting.
Prop 218 hamstrung the ability to use market-based restrictions. Rate tiers designed to encourage water conservation are substantially harder to bring into force since Capistrano Taxpayers Association v. City of San Juan
Capistrano ruling.
Water rates need to correspond to the actual cost of providing water and anything beyond needs to be 2/3rds voter approved as opposed to a simple majority.
Scala solves this with a syntactic twist: If the (in this case usually symbolic) method name ends in a colon (like say `+:`) it's right associative.

So the following code¹ shows a method call (`prepend`) on the right operand:

val someList = List(2, 3, 4)

val extendedList = 1 +: someList
// As the later is just syntax for a regular method call
// `extendedList` could be also defined with the same result as:
// someList.+:(1)

val otherExtendedList = someList.+:(1)

@main def entryPoint =
println(extendedList)
println(otherExtendedList)

___

¹ https://scastie.scala-lang.org/y55n254oSVOFmw2CjmckjA
Fewer cars in general though than last year.
Tim Hunkin created some amazing films in this vein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4&list=PLtaR0lZhSy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&list=PLtaR0lZhSy...
I am probably not going to make myself a lot of friends here but my issue with Stephenson is that he is not really a good writer.

I liked Snow Crash. It’s a very fun book. It doesn’t overstay its welcome too much. Of course, the ending is awful and the prose average but I could forgive that for the enjoyment value.

I then tried to read Cryptonimicon and the Diamond Age. I couldn’t go further than thirty pages. I’m sure there are interesting ideas somewhere in these books but I can’t really imagine having to plod through the rest to reach them.
Is this self-parody by Boeing? It's very dry wit, if so.
An uneducated take from [2018], which you followed up with another poorly written blog post from 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32617614). This is just low effort karma farming.
Why does this matter? Regardless of the party, my original message stands. It is an irrelevant detail. Not sure what's causing defensiveness everytime I bring up or criticize progressives. My bad I only remembered Diane Feinstein's name from the book, jeez.
Anyone interested in reading more, I highly recommend reading Brad Lancaster’s work on Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. He has a great introductory TED Talk too. I just finished Vol 1 of his book and started Vol 2 today. I can’t recommend his stuff enough.
But, as has been pointed out many times in this thread already, it’s not because of pools and lawns.
If you squint and view the modern corporation as a proxy for "an AI censor of superhuman intelligence gatekeeping the means of content creation" - then that's been happening for a long while now.

Automatic review of content, NSFW filters, SPAM filters etc... have been bog standard since the earliest days of the internet.

I don't think anyone likes it. Some fight it and create their own spaces that allow certain types of content. Most people accept it though and move on with their lives
What if Haskell is my favourite language?
Exactly the same for me, this is mind blowing.

I've spent many frustrated minutes trying to identify if me moving was causing a cable to be pulled or such!
I just ordered the book - do you talk about how you made the cutaways in the book? Very cool! I wish younger me had access to this.
Yet I know of people in Germany actively arguing that subsidizing cars needs to continue, so the state get's more taxes from car sales, people working in the car industry and building roads
That raises the question. What is the economic licensing for StableDiffusion et al? Can I download it and set it up, and then charge people money to run it?
Off topic, but I can't stand the paradigm of "consuming audio content". Some call it listening to music or sounds.
There’s no warning label on the pill bottle itself? I suppose that varies by pharmacy, but mine has a yellow, red, and black label that includes the grapefruit as #2.
Maybe try presenting actual facts instead of tabling predisposed statements then proceeding to attack anyone who point out how awfully biased they were?
Sure, but the dude in the video was talking about over a million gallons. Are you operating on that scale? If you are, kudos for working in legaltech but also playing fast and loose in your leisure time.
Also, codespaces has an option to deploy (your) dotfiles by selecting a repo that will be used. It runs install or similarly named file to do so.

https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes...
It usually is not, depending on what you mean by ‘government’.

Even some of the large metropolises don’t get much water from state sources - San Francisco and the Bay Area for instance is almost exclusively using Water sources it purchased a long time ago. It’s why most of the hills east of Milpitas are private property of San Francisco Water, for instance. Most of the water that feeds LA, the city itself bought control over (and quite controversially so).

Often it is pumped from private wells on private land.

Often when it isn’t, it is part of large regional co-operatives of farmers, who buy land and then sink wells under it for water.

The rare times that isn’t the case, the ‘government’ is the local county water control board, not the state or feds.

The rate times THAT isn’t the case, it’s often overflow from flood control, or part of outflows from reservoirs built for flood control - where the water HAS to be let out or there will be flooding, depending on the season.

I’ve lived in California my entire life, and I’ve only gotten water from anything state owned on very, very rare occasions (aqueduct) and it’s terrible.
More like 3-4 x as much.
You’re begging the question. They are only offenders at all because the law against residential use has been passed. The claim is that it’s a useless law, and your response is to say that people should be punished under the law.
> lovingly-commented

Yeeesh! Sorry don't want loving comments, just meaningful concise ones where needed, thanks.
This is borderline misinformation. It's well known that the Texas grid suffers because of budget conscious corner cutting that the choice of technologies powering the state. It was actually natural gas power generation which failed due to the cold because Texas decided to save some money during construction.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...
An in progress book about AI ethics, and free top Design System book on Apple Books: https://mtrees.io
This is some peak moral panic material, mixed with a healthy dose of irrational nationalism (which was planted into your mind with intention, just a hint).
Oh man. I used to have an Asus monitor that would crash if you connected a sleeping MacBook, then woke up the MacBook. You had to unplug the monitors power for a few seconds to reboot it.

My current LG 34BK95U had an issue where MacOS would sometimes refuse to send the correct resolution or even aspect ratio. The workaround was to force it to DP1.2 instead of 1.4 (over thunderbolt), but then my Windows machine couldn't send the full resolution/refresh rate over DisplayPort. LG eventually put out a firmware update to fix that.

On the other hand, they still haven't fixed the false claim on their website that it supports a 75hz refresh rate. It's identical hardware to their 34WK95U, including the 60hz maximum refresh rate.

A previous LG monitor I had falsely claimed 60 USB PD laptop charging on their website. The hardware only supported 7.5w. It was the same scenario, where the consumer model has correct specs, and the business model has identical hardware and falsely inflated specs.

I think every single 4k/5k monitor I've ever owned, from LG, Dell, etc. have had useless HDMI ports that were unable to drive the monitor at the correct resolution and refresh rate. You had to settle for either 30hz or a blurry low-rez picture.
The time and effort I'd have to put in to make it successful would interfere with the stability of working for Disney. In my 40s with a family, mortgage, etc., stability is more important. I do wish I had been more serious about starting a business when I was in my 20s.
Any nice movie about this?
What I wrote wasn't simply a poorly specified product requirement document ;) Instead it was a general idea.

Better and more granular documentation in a form that can be interpreted by humans and also machine readable would be a desirable outcome for any system. Especially true for systems in which the builders and operators are being replaced or EOLed

Better?
Right, the genetic engineering approach is what this reply thread is about…
Estimates are that half of those deaths are suicide. (That doesn’t mean the drug’s side-effect-free, but does mean labeling likely wouldn’t be effective.)
Me too. It probably isn't precise enough for multiplayer FPS or RTS games but for single player experiences I've been pretty impressed.
I will second the others who have recommended Lenovo: I have a Legion 5 I originally bought for gaming but the keyboard is so good I find myself using it for nearly all my development.

Additionally, the Dell Precision line (the business workstation-replacement line) is exceptional for development, but those can be as expensive as equivalent MacBooks. Stay away from Dell's pure consumer line: the build quality is absolutely awful.
Previously (with comments; several other appearances with no discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660464
Why does it matter? The money has already been spent and frankly the Senate Launch System is a jobs program, so the value has already been delivered.

The real risk is it works and leaders are tempted to throw more money at it until it has a chance to kill Americans, like the Shuttle it is replacing.
The key to solving the halting problem is realizing that you don't need to solve the halting problem.

Problem : Code C has to run in finite time T, Solution : put a call to a watch dog routine at every loop start, at every subroutine start, and every n linear instructions in C. If the watch dog decides T has passed, it never returns control to the program (calls exit(-1), throws a special uncatchable exception,...). This can be automated by the compiler.

This is why AWS can give you a limited time for a Lambda or why every single multi-tasking OS can terminate an unresponsive process. They are not solving the halting problem.

If the language C is written in is bytecode-interpreted, you don't need to modify the guest program itself to achieve the described effect, you can make the interpreter itself keep track of T and refuse to evaluate further when it runs out. If the execution environment is preemptively concurrent, you don't need to modify the host program as well, simply make the watch dog preempts the guest at T.
Watching from the East Coast I’m a bit baffled that more measures haven’t been deployed or have only been deployed as of late. Stories of municipalities that don’t even meter water.

Back in the 2000s we had a significant drought here. (1) Maybe it’s not that bad. We saw many wells run dry and entire neighborhoods without running water for weeks. Some things I remember at various stages of the drought:

- lawn watering went from staggered days to none allowed

- must request water at restaurants

- restaurant flatware and dishes were replaced with disposables

- car washes were closed unless they used an untypical water recycling system

- tiered rates either steepen or added

- gray water lines were laid in new development areas

- old quarries were bought by municipalities for water storage and lines run to them

- codes updated for low flow everything

https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2015/11/nc-extremes-2007s-drou...
There are people at the FDA who do this day in and day out.

Packaging is all approved by the FDA. Grapefruit interactions are a concern but so are a dozen other pieces of info.

When I’ve gotten a prescription with a grapefruit interaction the medicine had a colorful sticker with a picture of grapefruit on it.

That certainly caught my attention.

https://shop.gohcl.com/default.aspx?page=item+detail&itemcod...
Indeed, part of the work being done by the team working on the genetic engineering approach is breeding Darling 58 with the Chinese backcrossed version.
Notable Individuals Buried in Space
Could you explain the logic there? I understand the first statement, but I don't understand how the current military dependency on petroleum for land war blocks mass adoption of EVs in the civilian market.
Everyone knows that cali puts its water into fruits, meat and veges then sells it to other places by the tonne. Its simple
I’m always amazed at how polarizing part 3 of Seveneves is for people. I loved the whole book, but part 3 was among my favorite of any NS book. My only complaint is that it wasn’t longer.
That's the government forcing corporations to do that
> "making a product people desperately want and will you give you money for"

That’s all pmf has ever meant though, right? It’s just fewer words to have a label for the concept.
Mandatory vaccination has existed and still exists in the USA, as opposed to a universal health care system.
Fair enough. Looking at this: https://www.oregon.gov/owrd/programs/WaterRights/Pages/defau...

It would be interesting to see if they got a permit for it.

The other thing is that, if the water design helps increase available water downstream, then the downstream water right holders who are able to fully fill their tanks have no reason to demand shutdown upstream (assuming the downstream has senior rights)
1. fly from one of my 4+ seaside mansions to davos in personal private jet

2. discuss with my fellow swells how many bolotnikovas i'll have to pay-off to point the finger at bubba & the soccer moms

3. get dumb proles to pass carbon credit legislation

4. sell my allotment (in finance/media/advertising/mgmt consulting; didn't need them anyway)

5. +brokerage fees transacting carbon credits for other industries that have to actually produce things.

6. mansion += 1; bonus = not as many filthy proles clogging up the airports, highways, beaches;

7. life is good
yes, there is a "behind the scenes" chapter that goes into some of the methods we used, including photographic techniques.
Basically, it's banning the for-professional-use-only pure N2O cartridges, not your home kitchen instant whipped cream.
DahliaOS Linux 220222 (Feb 2022)
People only tend to see dotcom successes. Most small startups soak money and never deliver an ROI. Finding a niche which has sustaining business, even to on-sell is notoriously hard.

There are a million clone apps on the marketplace for any successful game, making 2c per view ad revenue. I don't want to succumb to that model of income stream any more than I want to be a passive income landholder invester/landlord. So this goes to the second reason I dont have my own company: It can feel like 'rent-seeking' when you live in the OSI world, and then chose to use the free stacks, free tools, free cloud, to develop a product you then make others pay for.

Ie "motivations differ"
Mhh most space company don't go public that aggressively. Some did with Spec, but VG was worth for more and was marketed more aggressively.

So I think while your statement is partly true, partly that inherent in space, and partly VG is worst of breed.
I don’t want communication platform organizations taking any stands anywhere ever. That sounds dystopian and horrible. Deleting these Tweets won’t change a damn thing and might even be more harmful (what if the author didn't know they were being targeted because Twitter deleted everything, then they hopped back home because Twitter made them feel safe and fuzzy, and the got detained and tortured, for instance). What will change things is people getting off their keyboards and taking stands. You cannot pwn the responsibility off on Twitter moderators. Only the truth can hide the lies.
Don't worry Apple will roll out a "new" feature that has been around for years on android and the masses will cheer how innovative Apple is.
True, although the total ends up being about the same since they charge a higher base price.

Still, it's probably the right place to order from for folks in the US.
At least it sang a song, slight improvement over the fleshy police.

On a serious note, can Amazon (-> MGM -> Orion Pictures) make them stop calling this thing “RoboCop”?
As someone that did do exactly this, it is an arbitrary and useless question.

The answer is simple and uninformative. Because it is the sane/rational thing to do.

It's like asking anyone with a career why they haven't started a business in their field.

It makes a lot of assumptions, ignores a lot of constraints, and treats all aspects of executing as trivial.

Right now, I have two years of experience in trying to do this. And I can sum up my experience as reality is an unpredictable bitch. I'm amazed there are as many crazy people trying to do this as there are.

The only reason I did leap is that I was frustrated and spent more than 10 years waiting for someone else to write the software I wanted. Now, after two years, I see I wasn't wrong, but even with a clear vision, this turned out to be 10x as difficult an area to make progress in than I had anticipated.

As a software engineer, you can ignore almost all of that. Life seems simple, but that's only because you have a literal army of people doing everything else.
Respect to the guy for dogfooding it and trying it at his house. I also like that they say it's not intended to be punitive, just practical.
Ah. Yeah, that makes sense. Would be devastating to be broken into if your whole life is packed into one van
We need agriculture. We don’t need lawns and pools.
I think you'd really like the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian. Surprising amount of history-of-science in his historical fiction.

For straight up history of science, Simon Winchester is pretty great.
But there is a lot of gradation between the USA and totalitarianism, and the EU is quite far from totalitarianism.
Their vaccines were not only used by emergency approval.

Maybe we should ask Assange about freedom of speech.
To clarify, I’m talking about private fields in each object/struct. You could say all functions defined in the same module get access to private struct fields. That works until you want a more specialized version of some of those functions — essentially, a different module that has access to protected fields.

Here’s another example. You’re writing a function `g` that accepts an object of type `Foo` and calls function `f` on it. You have a default implementation of `f`, but you also want to let the caller supply their own implementation. If you have some way of attaching behavior to a type — classes, typeclasses, etc — this is trivial. If not, your function has to explicitly ask for every single function from the caller.
As long as its "motivated attacker has to physically get to your laptop and hit F1" its in a specific risk class. If by running Lenovo auto updater I can be exposed to the risk of my UEFI being blown, I'd be worried.

I do realize that ideating this as "just a windows problem" is probably wrong because the UNIX world now increasingly allows the pre=boot/UEFI state to be updated at runtime (I am reading about tools in FreeBSD this week just gone)
That makes much more sense to me. Thanks for explaining.
It is a fundamental mistake of logic to assume that "I don't know how to do X" implies "Nobody knows how to do X."
One of the animations in this is deeply disturbing. Its a stick figure repeatedly falling and getting up, holding its head like its in existential agony.
Yeah people don't seem to realize that Lawrence Waterhouse is kind of an unreliable narrator.

Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books, but I also once described it to a friend as "one very long dick joke".
What are your best prompts so far?
One potential drawback of doing that is that every directory under ~/ that is not itself part of another git repository becomes part of that git repository, which could make some programs act weird, particularly project auto-detectors in IDEs and such.

To avoid that, one can rename the `.git` folder, effectively disabling auto-discovery, and run git with the option `--git-dir=<newname>`.
The problem is the carbon footprint. Those paper bags have the carbon footprint of 5-10 plastic bags. Re-usable bags, depending on the material, are 200-1000 plastic bags worth of carbon.
It’s not just about the futility of it, it’s also about correctness. Are breasts unsafe? According to Open AI they are.
it turns out that whole "don't covet" thing is going to be our downfall
So this is really interesting, when a fundamental fabric of the internet is run by a single company, and said government wants to target them, unilaterally or otherwise, some dark stuff can happen VERY fast.

it doesnt matter what the issue is behind this blocking, it matters that we have no safety nets for gov blocks on thought.
My town banned single-use plastic bags and I went from picking 1-2 out of my yard every week to pretty much zero immediately. It definitely didn’t solve every problem, but I agree it definitely made a problem a lot better.
I found I got some pretty clear writing by starting considering the thousand most common words free for use and carefully considering before adding an additional word as available for use. In part, it stopped me from talking about one thing with several different words, because I would need to consider whether I had added the word to the allowed list, and would find that I could use words already added to the list.

I think the idea actually has some merit, if you start there, introduce words carefully, and define introduced words from only introduced words and the otherwise free words (or just add a standard English word where it really carries its weight).

Takes time. Obviously, I didn't do it for this comment, and it shows!
Huh, I thought touch-typing refers to not needing to look at the keys. How can you tell he isn't touch typing by just looking at the video?
No fuel, no fight.
I have held a trumpet, and an oboe, and every other instrument I cited here. Bending notes a little bit (which you can do on almost every instrument with varying amounts of effort) is not equivalent to playing in an unequal temperament.
"Totalitarianism is when we fix social problems". Thanks for providing an example of people finding it offensive to fix social problems.
I dont think calling published data scientists "yahoos" is such a good look, especially if you at the same time frame the interaction with papers as a matter of trust.

edit: I would also think its also worth reflecting on the fact, that two of the most vocal and derogatory posters in this thread not only share the same opinion but also a show a blatant misconception of how to interact with papers. It is not a matter of trust and not a matter of belief.
Even if you fully believe you are in the right here, is behaving like this really productive? Especially with the major concern most people on the fence on this topic have being the influence of people acting exactly like this on the scientific process?
There's a threshold in the cost-quality trade-offs past which it's indistinguishable from fraud.
Why are you trying to white wash the civil war? It was fought over slavery. That is what the declarations of independence signed by the confederate states actually say. They spell it out.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...