skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a straw man, no one is suggesting to stop growing food on irrigated farmland but to focus on efficient irrigation and grow things more suitable for the limited water, see the suggestions from the SNWA

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22136304/2022-8-15-ne...
Not as valuable as the typical EU fine for these kind of nasty tricks.
There are California communities where people complain about very high water rates, and desalination plants have been blocked with the excuse (among others) that it is unfair to poor communities who can't afford it. But they have a lot of rich neighbors. Not to mention hotels and the like.

It seems like this could be solved by having improvements paid for by people who don't mind paying so much and would like more water. And in a drought, it means there is more supply, as well as people who can cut back on water usage without much sacrifice.
They don't frame it as “hey man, I noticed you guys have more than the bare minimum level of working capital in the bank! How about you give me some?”

It's a "coincidence" that occurs a short time period after seeing the information.
> Stephenson’s worlds are not populated predominantly by Heinleinian larger-than-life characters than can do anything …

Funnily enough I have in Stephenson’s more recent books the contrary impression. The last near future books read more like a love letter to billionaires, all that seems missing is the long flowery dedication to patrons like authors did it in the 1700s. Maybe twenty years ago I was to young or blind to register it but modern Stephenson has just with this trope put himself from my must-read into the meh/maybe category.

(Contrapoint: I can see a structural need for billionaires in his storytelling: He needs a source of financing for the fictional projects. But somehow Stephenson seems to be to unimaginative as to consider other means of realization than the magic billionaire.)
Airline says it's a 'robot' fee for automated bookings made on the site but that errors mean it sometimes gets applied to human customers.
> No one has died or even hurt themselves, not ever, inhaling the nitrous from whipped creme

Sadly, not true (though it's rare) https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/centre-county-coron...
Isn’t Brave just using their own relay?
Not long before this applies to the flight itself.

“Upgrade your ticket now to experience ads customization on your flight, including features such as seatback video dimming and optional opt-out of feedback surveys!”
These generalizations that you make about atheists basing on how messed up the world is are false. Any complex system will have issues, and you cannot compare it to an imaginary one. People may cry about many things but fact is they still do not express any interest in living in existing religious states. So maybe what you're seeing as a cultural myopia is an otherwise excellent tradeoff. It's easy to criticize any system while taking it for granted and not living in systems you're advocating for.
No, we've been asking for a choice between seeing ads or paying. This is both seeing ads and paying. It'd only be what we asked for if people who didn't use adblockers got their plane tickets for free.
No, it is entirely unexpected and labeled in a misleading way. If they had opened with 'we are going to charge you $10 extra if you don't disable your adblocker' that would be one thing (that would likely piss off a lot of people but at least it would be above board).
Black Canyon 100k Race Report
This is an area where typeclasses (as they're known in Haskell) or traits (as they're known in Rust) really shine.
Can someone how understands this give a quick rundown?

Why did mortality jump 40k deaths from 2019 to 2020? AFAIK covid only started in 2020? Or am I reading the charts wrong?
(Just looked at the figures, did not read the whole paper)
Very expensive, and its been done a lot already, see the various large projects in California to bring water from the Owens and Sacramento Valley to socal. There were various projects discussed to bring water from further away but its expensive. Water is heavy and you need a lot of it.
As I've been slowly learning Common Lisp, I'm fascinated by how much Rich Hickey took from the CL community in making Clojure. For example, the names in embedded languages starting with `?`. He uses this naming convention all the time in the datomic docs[1] showing how to query the database.

1: https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query/query.html
They do? Wow, I didn't know. I'll try setting up a workflow.
A 50 page chapter, the book is 304 pages this link is just chapter 1:

https://nostarch.com/open-circuits - also contains a link to this same PDF.
Funny, i have the exact same display and I’ve had it randomly not work multiple times.

Only unplugging everything seemed to work.

Happened maybe 5 times in the many years ive owned it
There's an article? I see a list of blocks with no commentary.
This is a good point and I think pretty well captures the "and what is Twitter supposed to do about it" angle.

To say "well, thus and such comedian is connected to the regime, that's why he has tweeted about me," well, what level of investigation is Twitter supposed to do that they a) disprove the allegations lobbed at OP (working for RAW provocateurs) and b) are able to support the allegation against the comedian's intent, and thus prove that the whole interaction is as the OP says it is?

Doing so goes beyond moderation, it goes beyond fact checking, it's nearly at the level of a personal background check or a trial.

What is being asked of Twitter seems totally outside the realm of what a social media company should be doing. It seems like OP wanted to do the right thing, to speak truth to power, but is now realizing that power was listening.

An account that publicly exposes your identity is not the right place to antagonize people with machine guns if you are not willing to take on personal risk, and that has nothing to do with moderation policies.
In Europe you have EU261, which if the flight is significantly delayed (hours rather than minutes) means you get several hundered euros in compensation. The exact delay and amount depends on the length of the flight.
They are going to hit them hard and they know very well what they are doing. I really don't know where you got that idea but EU consumer protection authorities have teeth and they bite when it suits them. This sort of stuff will not fly, and I'm pretty sure the various privacy authorities will also want to put in a word or two.
> The high excess mortality in 2021 was almost entirely due to an increase in deaths in the age groups between 15 and 79 and started to accumulate only from April 2021 onwards. A similar mortality pattern was observed for stillbirths with an increase of about 11 percent in the second quarter of the year 2021.

At first I thought that stillbirths would be expected to go up if there were more births recorded as well, but they did control for that and recorded the stillbirth rate per 1000 births.
Yes, society rebase itself on any layer it can; I'm just surprised nobody saw it coming earlier.
If you can't think of a level of transparency that was a hindrance to the company, then the company is not fully transparent.

No company has ever had 100% smooth sailing.
They do use their crawler to source some "smart" results, but the bulk of ordinary results seems to be from Bing.
> You can't realistically have a different guitar or a different saxophone for each and every piece you want to play

Looks quizzically at 44.1kHz-u16 audio sink.

Pretty sure I can, actually; my computer's speakers certainly do, barring a rare handful of groups of songs that were recorded at the same time and place.
Ask HN: Who else can only fall asleep listening to audio content?
What’s your fav audio content to consume before falling asleep?
Doesn't the herpes virus generally reactivate when the immune system is being run down?

I know there is literature to suggest that Cold Sore outbreaks in an individual generally occur during cold and flu outbreaks.
I'm not so sure it would be a disaster (Societally, sure many farmers livelihoods would be disrupted...), would many food become unprofitably expensive or a rare luxury, yes. Would many farms be immediately incentivized to move to more efficient irrigation or even more efficient crops, probably.

Seems like we should subsidize farmers with grants for improved water use instead of just giving them cheap endless water.
That's pretty close to an admission of incompetence.
In Australia, no.

Let’s say you’re an undercover cop, and I sell you what I say is 3g of cocaine, but turns out there is only 0.1g in there. I’ll still be charged and convicted on the 3g.
Video of Chinese Citizens Kneeling as Vaccine Passports Scanned Goes Viral
Bypass Twitter's dark patterns with Nitter:

https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1563667483961176064

https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1563753214838771714
There is no universe where Wizz is earning £10 per visitor booking a ticket through their website. Ads are dollars or parts of a dollar per thousand clicks
> The only reason they've done this is to use our water instead of theirs.

I’ve spent some amount of time in Saudi Arabia and they don’t have a lot of water there for them to use.

I also take issue with the term “our water” like you have some “manifest destiny” to seize someone else’s property rights because you feel you are more entitled to it than the current legal owner. They thought ahead, bought property/water rights and are using them in a way you disagree with. Fair enough, pay them more than the utility they currently derive from their usage and everyone walks away happy campers.
Was that added somewhat recently?
Yes, also, all airlines have ads visible to you. The name on of the airline is a big billboard on every plane. It's not actually necessary. I'm honestly surprised airlines don't put more ads on their planes, but perhaps there is some regulation preventing that.
Yes, I think it is a tradeoff between the two. Since this thread is about individual contractors (not big consultancies), for customer it might be easier to control hourly rate contractor. Because it is easier to spot if someone is creating extra work. As opposed to assessing whether a final project not only works, but is up to customer's quality standards (whatever those might be).
Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data
Three months ago, a new SoCal desalination plant was rejected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Beach_Desalination_...
As I read the post, she takes the fact of a Hot Big Bang (narrowly construed in the modern sense of a homogenous, hot initial state prior to which vanilla GR breaks down, not as a literal singularity) to be a fact knowable by the normal process of science. Whereas the question of what came before that — I.e. what modified description takes over at higher temperatures yet — is placed in a different epistemic category of forever unknowability.

Of course, for any theory that applies within a certain domain, there’s always the question of what happens beyond that domain (“what came before that… and before that… and before that…?”). But this infinite regress isn’t particularly noteworthy. If I understand her correctly, she is claiming to be able to draw a particular line and to say that we can know things on one side of this line but— even in principle — can never know anything past this particular line.

She certainly understands her stuff. But I respectfully disagree with her conclusions — I see no reason to think that we might not make progress on the question through the normal process of science.
Do they actually show ads on their webpage when booking flights? I didn't see any conclusion to that.
I wrote an article about this recently.

I used to write for other people to read it. I learned after awhile that writing for other people diluted my thoughts and resulted in me not having a clear voice in my writing. Something about accommodating the average reader that really suppressed my thoughts. Now I write for myself and if it resonates with others then so be it.

The result is that my articles have hit the FP multiple times since the mental switch.
That’s be great… but I’m imagining even trying to explain ‘ad blocker’ to a typical civil servant.
CBD does the same as grapefruit. I don't know if it affects all the same medicines but I'm on a med affected by grapefruit and found out CBD has the same effect and my pharmacist confirmed what I found.
Why do you think people live in the cities in the desert near the CA central valley?
Or multimethods (as found in CL/Clojure/Dylan/Julia)
Can’t you solve this particular issue with extension methods the way Kotlin and C# do?
The ad revenue is worth pennies, and the "choice" of using an adblocker vs paying 10 pounds extra is pretty invisible.

Neither of these are what anyone asked for.
It identifies passengers that are not price sensitive. Price sensitive customers are subsidized in all airlines by overcharging customers that are not price sensitive (e.g. business class).
More ads?

“We ask that you pay attention to the security presentation - which conveniently is now bookended by ads that of course cannot be skipped and since audio comes out of the plane’s PA, everybody has to put up with”.
Where today it takes some far-from-Jesus deviant artists a whole day to draw a picture of Harry Potter making out with Draco Malfoy, with the power of AI, billions of such images will flood the Internet. There's just no way for a young person to resist that amount of gay energy. It's the apocalypse fortold by John the Revelator.
If anything the Avout are the scientists.
> against israel = antisemitism

Being anti-israel against an illegal Apartheid occupation has nothing to do with being antisemitic.
The year you bought your own for the first time, most likely. Or as soon as you got to college. That would have been the mid 80s for a lot of the first wave of 'PC' owners. And shortly after that, when we all realized any machine more than 2 or 3 years old was a dinosaur, and interchangeable replacement keyboards became cheap, that's when. So I'll say '1990' to be arbitrarily precise.
> Perhaps a 3rd option is to go on the attack, and find some angle from which to sue Twitter?

Sueing twitter isn't likely to go far. Twitter doesn't have responsibility for their users' speech (with some very specific exceptions that don't include libel or defamation), and doesn't have a legal obligation to operate its moderation system. I don't think there's much to pursue there, unless there's something very unusual in the TOS.

You'd need to sue the people making the claims, but there's jurisdiction issues; if the alleged corruption of the government of Pakistan is the case, suing in Pakistan would seem to be unlikely to result in the desired outcome. On the other hand, a court in the US, where the OP resides, may not be willing to assert jurisdiction over speech by someone in another country, and the speaker is unlikely to participate in a US case.

In any event, such a case is likely to take years, which doesn't address the immediate nature of this issue. But I don't know how Twitter could really evaluate truthfulness of claims like these.
And the added benefit that Amazon is by large the heaviest player so masses are sucked into the habits of ordering there. It's a sad waste.
The strange thing is that this order is still not published (and has a date of tomorrow): https://www.rtr.at/TKP/aktuelles/entscheidungen/Uebersichtse...
Having played around with Clojure and Scheme for a while (but never got too serious), I always thought homoiconicity and macros were extremely cool concepts, but I never actually ran into a need for them in my everyday work.

>Now, if we agree that the ability to manipulate source code is important to us, what kind of languages are most conducive for supporting it?

This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is that it? On occasion I have had to write DSLs for the user input, but in these cases the (non-programmer) users didn't want to write Lisp so I used something like Haskell's parsec to parse the data.

The remote code example given in the post is compelling, but again seems a bit niche. I don't doubt that it's sometimes useful but is it reason enough to choose the language? Are there examples of real-life (non-compilers-related) Lisp programs that show the power of homoiconicity?

Same goes with the concept of "being a guest" in the programming language. I have never wanted to change "constant" to "c". Probably I'm not imaginative enough, but this has never really been an issue for me. Perhaps it secretly has though, and some of my problems have been "being a guest" in disguise.
>My understanding of Yandex was that it's just another user-information-is-primary-income search provider this time HQ'd in Russia, neither of which exactly appealing to the typical DDG crowd.

A Russian company having my data given the current state of relations between it and my government is less worrisome than Google having the same.
I can live with almond milk going up 50%
I tried searching "nude" prompt. Instant regret.
AXS already stops working outright in the middle of buying tickets if Apple's Private Relay is enabled.
Or you know, you could just not use solid rocket boosters at all. Solid rocket booster make absolutely no sense at all, they are only used because they represent a political interest.

Note how there was no attempt at using them for Apollo and no new rocket company uses them.

The only reason so many countries relay on them because it sharing costs with ICBMs.

NASA own internal investigation suggested the same thing, but politics is more important.
Wonder what the cost would be.
> how unreliable and rent-seeking web2 can be

The whole point of "web3" stuff is systematically to make everything a tradable and scarce merchandise, so it seems a bit twisted to oppose it to what you call web2 based on this "rent-seeking" property. Concerning reliability, I think that we have more than enough cases of things going wrong to be able to strongly affirm that it cannot be considered a fair selling point for "web3" stuff.
I don't know if I'm crazy but it matches the definition of a system. Coupling different parts together. These are just high level systems, and unsurprisingly when people see 'system programming language' they want to see high level assembly like C; but it's misplaced reflex in this case.
My flight wasn’t delayed, instead they announced as we were taking off that they needed to fly a detour and stop there for 40 minutes to refill the plane because they apparently couldn’t calculate how much fuel they needed.
138 journalists killed in Pakistan since 1990

https://www.dawn.com/news/1595257

At least 39 journalists killed in US due to their work...since 1937

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_i...

These risk levels are not alike.
This guy has found out the benefits/features of free social media. I don't know why he bothers to mention the name. It could as well be Meta(FB, Instagram) or TW. The last part is really laughable...

>> There is also the matter of lack of consent, as children are sometimes too small to understand what is going on ....

That being said I believe in the EU at least they will have to change a few things.
Dealing with SwiftUI recreating Views too often can be a challenge. I would have liked to have seen more details on how this guy setup his models.

In my experience, you definitely have to minimize work done in Views and maybe avoid `@Published` properties on your model in favor of more explicit calls to `objectWillChange.send()` to signal when you really are ready for the Views to be updated. SwiftUI does not seem to do a very good job of coalescing by default.
Just because they disagreed with you doesn't mean they are bad.

> I think GCP makes a superior product

Exactly. They do.

The rest is mostly just conjecture. The loudest wheels get the most notice... there are plenty of other people, like myself, who have been using GCP for a long time without any drama. It just works.
"Upgrade your cabin pressurization now! If more than half the flight pays to upgrade the pilots will lower the cabin altitude from 15,000ft to 8,000ft!"
I believe that fraud charges would be in order.
Not sure at all this will help, but wireplumber is supposed to be the replacement for pipewire-media-session. So this is something easy you could try if your distribution has a package for wireplumber.
Eh, back east water isn’t life and death - in the sense that for the vast majority of the east coast, everyone has plenty unless you’re a gigantic super metropolis.

In the west, water is scarce and the most limited resource in most areas - and literally life and death.

An old saw here is, ‘whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over’
Someone at Wizz skipped the statistics lesson on variance. There is no way an adblocker accurately identifies price sensitivity outside of qualitative handwaving.
So they put that code on the drive controller, detect when f3 is being used, and generate the pattern dynamically in the drive controller.
> Insinuating "other developers are careless"

OMG, nope. The person in a parent thread asked a very specific question: what's tricky about CMYK support and why it didn't come earlier.

How can I answer that without explaining that CMYK exporting almost happened years before and saying what went wrong there?

Of course, it's your choice to think the worst of people.

> some of their maintainers have even been banned from twitter.

Are you referring to me?
The most advanced AI in the world isn't advanced enough to solve that, just yet. Either that, or it's not worth it for them to use it to do so.
If housing isn't the solution to homelessness, what is? Telling drug addicts to get clean before they get a home?
I'm sure it's really easy for people with drug addictions and mental illnesses to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and conquer those while sleeping out in the cold, especially in Skid Row where you're living around 6 drug dealers. Housing comes first, social work should follow. If the government doesn't absorb the costs of property damage when housing the homeless, they're going to absorb the costs of policing the homeless on the street.
I will admit it was inconsiderate of the homeless to take bed bugs with them to the hotels. They should have just chosen to not get bed bugs when sleeping in blankets they pulled out of garbage bins.
Ask HN: Any book recommendation on finance for startups?
It could be books from basics to intermediate level. Founding, valuation, equity and other concepts useful in special when you're preparing meetings with investors
> These will annoy people: ... hungarian-identifiers-pcsnsi

What does this mean? I have no idea what pcsnsi is, or why this is "Hungarian."
I consider the entire bit about Sumerian history in Snow Crash to be an unnecessary aside.

I actually really enjoyed Cryptonomicon. For it being a long book, I thought it moved pretty good.
One oddity for me (and I haven't played with a lot of AI art, so maybe this is normal): every time I try to describe a person, it generates like four to seven different faces.
I don't know anyone that likes scrum. If everyone hates scrum because its "being implemented wrong", then wouldn't it follow that scrum is fundamentally broken in some way?
Fans Are the New Creators
Well its ready to fly as in, one test flight. It will take 2-4 years until it will fly a second time.

One of the biggest issues with SLS (besides cost) is the launch rate. It will limit the NASA for a long time.