skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my understanding, it's all true that:

- Alfalfa is an especially water-thirsty crop

- The vast majority of Utah's water goes to agriculture

- The Great Salt Lake is rapidly diminishing, endangering over 2.7 million people

- The Cox family owns an alfalfa farm in Fairview

- Cox told Utahns to "pray for rain": https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/06/03/gov-spencer-...

- Cox has come out against water cuts to agriculture: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/16/cox-says-its-ignorant...

To me this makes it clear that the governor probably has a conflict of interest to some degree when it comes to water conservation and it's good that it's being called out.

However:

- He has described his farm as "small" in the past. Is he just lying/being misleading? I can't really find anything written about this. How much of a financial incentive does he have personally tied into keeping this farm running?

- My guess is it's probably not worth giving him the benefit of the doubt here, but I can't find whether or not his farm is held in any kind of trust or whether he is the sole or partial owner of it.

- Utah has several watersheds that don't feed into the GSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Great_Basin_watersheds as well as a significant portion that drains into the Colorado River. Is water usage for the GSL watershed more or less geared towards agriculture?

- Fairview is in the Sevier Lake endorheic watershed, which makes it seem like at least his farm is not directly related to the GSL crisis (which often seems to be an implication).

- Agriculture using far more water than urban use is not uncommon at all, in and outside of the Western US

- How much desert agriculture is ultimately acceptable in order to save the GSL and effectively conserve for the ongoing megadrought? How close are we really to that number? How many small towns would be made infeasible without the income from farming? Zero? 100,000 people?

This narrative about Cox as a kind of alfalfa magnate who stands in the way of water rights seems to be coagulating quite a bit, but I honestly don't know whether it's a useful heuristic to understanding the dynamics at play or a misleading oversimplification. Even outside of what could very well be a huge gubernatorial scandal happening in slow motion, the entire subject of water usage in Utah seems totally underdiscussed. Local news outlets seem to mostly stay above surface level and entirely cleave either to this mostly urban and left-of-center narrative or the farmer's perspective.
Not to be too rude/negative/mean - but it seems like a big concern to me that a "police data" project that's existed for three years, has a couple employees, has some funding, etc - doesn't really seem to have any police data. If I wanted to write a scraper to gather documents off of police websites and run it by myself and store my results locally - I could. What does your project add?

What I would expect to see is something like:

1. Here's what data we want from each police department each day. Here's what value you should use to indicate that data is not available.

2. Here's a list of police departments. Write a scraper. If it passes tests to show it's generating valid data, and code review, we will run the scraper in a daily basis storing the output in this database.

3. Here's how you can query our database.
Note that we specifically chose the Lattice ice40 UltraPlus 5K because:

- It is supported by an open-source FPGA toolchain

- Has an in-package non-volatile configuration memory (NVCM) that is lockable. This is where we'll eventually keep the FPGA configuration bitstream, including the unique per device secret.

After some reverse-engineering work we're also able to program and lock NVCM with open tooling, as opposed to having to use Lattice's proprietary one.
I frequently find myself advocating for better supply chain security. But if I asked developers (or their managers) to review/audit 2,000 NPM dependencies, I would almost certainly fail. No other company they know of is doing that, and asking them to start is predicated on the entire industry being wrong. That tends to be a tough sell - even though I agree with you, convincing others is a whole 'nother ball game!

What kind of arguments do the organizations you consult for find compelling? I find it extraordinarily difficult to convince others. There is a strong bias towards the status quo.
If it is an app built in Swift, then iOS and macOS ship already with all of its runtime libraries, so the app itself can be very small.
While I somewhat agree, the big repair that most people are going to want to do pre- or post- sale is replacing the battery. If that's something that anyone can do now, it'll improve resale value.
Not sure I understand how having an ssh key is "jumping through hoops" though...? Presumably you already have one set up (even if you don't, it's literally just a few seconds of work to create a new one), so just add the public key to your account's SSH keys list, and done. Update your remote urls from https to the git@github.com:yourusername format and push whatever you want to push.

Or, heck, if no build is required: why use git at all, just use github itself. You can edit, create PRs, on new branches, all without ever needing your own desktop. Perfect for small code changes (especially typo fixes).
Android's calculator also has the history, invoked by pulling down on the display part. (Perhaps obvious to everybody here, but after the discussion on how the memory function is unclear to people, I'm not so sure.) Also that history is saved between launches, which happens to be extra useful for me.
Anecdotal, but I did not experience this at all. I bootstrapped a B2B SaaS company to exit, worked for the acquiring company for two years, and then applied to (and got offers from) ~5 companies in the startup and FAANG-adjacent space. Not a single one seemed to consider my experience negatively. In fact, most commented on it positively and it seemed to help make the initial phone screen rounds go quite well (recruiters and hiring managers were really drawn to asking about my experience as a founder).
> there was some kind of static packaging inherent to all iOS apps

There was for apps using Swift. Before the Swift ABI was frozen, iOS apps using Swift had to statically link the Swift standard library. Nowadays, iOS provides it as a dynamic library.

(and having a stable ABI is quite an accomplishment for a language like Swift. See https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/)
It's against the site guidelines to use HN for political/ideological/nationalistic battle, and your account seems to be doing a lot of that.

We ban accounts that use HN primarily for this—regardless of what they're battling for or against—so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it. You've also posted good comments, so I don't want to ban you.

Note this guideline too though: "Don't be snarky."
No, he's not accusing Jews of "running the world" or anything like that. It's a fact that Madoff focused on finding victims of the Ponzi scheme in his community, which is not at all unusual (MLMs often encourage their participants to sell to their friends and acquaintances, for example). As a well-off American Jew himself, Madoff went after his community of well-off American Jews, calculating correctly that their in-group trust would make them easier targets.

It's also a fact of the world that the rich are generally better able to pursue legal action to recover money that they've lost than the poor. The fact that these rich people were Jewish doesn't make much of a difference here (not to mention that the Madoff scheme was extremely infamous after it imploded, so it was more likely to receive resources to rectifying the wrongs that Madoff dealt as compared to an equally-damaging but less well-known scheme).
I keep seeing sentences like "MV3 is approaching", "when MV3 drops in x months", but the reality is that MV3 is already here and affecting extensions!

New extensions that use MV2 have been prevented from being added to the store since last January [1] and this has already affected some extensions which, as a result, have to be installed manually [2][3]

The time to switch to Firefox is right now.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv2/

[2] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect/issues/45#issueco...

[3] https://libredirect.github.io/faq.html#chrome_web_store
Hong Kong? Taiwan?
This being HN, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that they could build an OpenCV system to watch a match in progress over a weekend.
I'm sorry, China is not to the US as Russia to Ukraine. Your comparison is ridiculous.

The US backed coups d'etat and interfered with democracies in my part of the world, so you're wrong: it's very much a matter of national security for us.
They obviously do not have "equivalent" regulations. Can you please answer the question instead of engaging in ideological appeals?
I could eat a knob at night.
> Propaganda, just as disinformation, in the long run results in mistrust and cynicism.

The notion that facts which are unapproved by the government are disinformation, is the propaganda.
R. Crumb was authentic.

That said, I think “canceling” has more meaning behind it than you might think.

Bill Cosby was an inauthentic and visible symbol of the black middle class and “canceled” among media types because his messy real life persona clashed with his clean cut image. Age didn’t factor in. I think many also had an ax to grind.

These days, to be “canceled”, I think you have to be profoundly inauthentic and ultimately accept the blame when the Twitter mob comes. Plenty of media figures have woven their careers to even embrace the image of fighting the Twitter moral police.
Okay lets make sure China can't do this through tiktok.

Then lets make sure that domestic political groups can't do this through facebook, instagram and reddit.
I'm not saying what they did was ok but I understand their thought process.

In their minds they had done everything right, and every year they raised more money. They figured they had the fundraising round in the bag so they could move forward with their spending plan and they money would be there. Obviously it didn't happen, and (now in denial) they figured they would delay payments until next month, and the board members who weren't in denial saw the writing on the wall, disagreed with the companies decisions, and left.

I think there were certainly issues with wrong priorities but this seems more like a classic case of denial than a CEO who's trying to scam his employees. He just couldn't accept his billion(?) dollar company was actually worth nothing, and frankly I'm not sure if I could accept this reality well either
This is a really interesting concept. I can't read the article (paywall), but maybe some others can explain the pros/cons for employees/InstaCart/early-investors/IPO-investors to me?
I think he means like this:

"Facebook says it can sway elections after all—for a price"

https://qz.com/922436/facebook-says-it-can-sway-elections-af...
I'm so fucking tired of coming into these threads and seeing people false flag, shill, whine, moan, complain, strawman...

We need to start by banning these god awful threads. Then we move onto TikTok, then onto gutting Meta and Twitter.
Tiktok generally collects the data like video watch list, duration etc. How is that even a national security?

Even if they know behavior of people, how is it even a national security. People generally don't send message over tiktok, so with your logic we should be blaming facebook/google more.

Also, we should be holding liberal values and make same rules for everybody.

With your logic facebook/google all should be labeled national security in Europe.

"The US has made many mistakes,"

Are you really trying to justify the US mistakes by bringing in China? How many countries have China ever invaded compared to US. How many times China have stolen oils from other nation? China have done all wrong things to their own people and US has done more wrong thing to other people. So, your argument doesn't hold water.

"Freedom"
Well, I agree US has more freedom. Freedom has different shades. But, being able to walk without fear of guns is also important to me. Being able to walk without seeing sexual assault in every room of school is also equally important. When I first came in US, the first instruction was "Don't walk alone during night time".
You've cherry-picked 2 outlying low-margin, high-velocity products where there is a race to the bottom. I counter your gas with smartphones, where Apple and Samsung are ratcheting up the price year over year, while competitors like LG are bowed out. Why couldn't LG compete at lower prices, and chose to exit the smartphone market entirely?

How does your perfect competition theory explain why tuition prices have been going up over 5+ decades, vastly exceeding inflation?
False dichotomy. You can be concerned about both.
> I'm more concerned about my government having my data instead of a far away government tbh.

I presume you aren’t part of the crowd on HN/Reddit who are (still) upset that Russia used social media to “influence” the 2016 election? Imagine if say, a certain Asian country had detailed information about the habits and desires of millions of Americans, do you think they could do something similar in a future election?
Many of the puzzles are illogical, or only make sense in "video game land" type logic similar to how Looney Tunes cartoons work with their own rules. So yeah, intelligence is not necessarily that important compared with obstinately trying everything. I was pretty good at them, but mostly due to being stubborn.

Personally though, I always had the most fun with these as a bunch of pre-teen friends standing around the computer throwing out ideas. I really struggle to play a lot of puzzle games now that I'm older since I miss that dynamic, and tend to stick to more straightforward ones like Tametsi/Hexcells (think Sudoku/Minesweeper).
Surprised that someone is willing to give these loans. What collateral is there other than the idea that future earnings may improve? It sort of is implicit support for the idea that taller men do better.
>As I said earlier, harping on the cosmetic differences sidesteps the very obvious question of 'does this look like a nazi rally to a casual observer?'

But to an casual observer, what makes a rally a "nazi rally"? If you go around saying that a politician just held a "nazi rally", what pops in your head? You seem to think that the answer to both is something along the lines of "collective, coordinated, and directs attention toward an individual on stage", but I doubt most people believe that. This sort of behavior isn't limited to just political rallies for white supremacists, it's used by basically everyone. Calling right-wing or even white supremacist rallies as "nazi rallies" makes as much sense as calling left wing rallies as "Bolshevik rallies".

>The broader right wing authoritarianism that obtains in multiple countries at present can be generally described as fascism without any loss of precision or clarity

You don't see the problem here? You just equated "right wing authoritarianism" with "nazis" and "fascism". What does "right wing authoritarianism" mean, anyways? Is it just people who are more right wing and authoritarian than you by some arbitrary amount? If a politician is called a "nazi" or a "fascist", his policies could be anywhere between "more funding for the police and stricter immigration enforcement" and "round up minorities and send them to death camps".
"I dare you to use this."
The thing is, this is just a decorative way to write “o”. It’s not a specific letter by any definition.

I can’t speak of other letters that were added in the same batch in 2007. Some of them seam meaningful, I donno, I don’t speak old church slavonic (although I am told it sounds like Croatian, which I understand a little)

http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf
Indeed, it's a solved problem on iOS too! This story isn't about someone releasing a new app into a desolate marketplace without any calculator apps (and hey, turn that iOS default calculator sideways for some fun), it's a human interest story about someone releasing a new app into an already-crowded market with a slightly new twist, and finding success there.
I can be on board with that. If you don't like the software I provided for free, then I'll refund every dime that you paid me.
YouTube etc. hold the same power.
A single OpenType font file is limited to 65,535 glyphs. Nothing stops your font from being implemented as a series of .otf files (besides what people think of as a "font" when it comes to usage on computers).

But yes, time constraints are the limiting factor. I don't think anyone is going to dedicate their entire life to making a single font.
There's no "prevailing argument"—these are divisive topics with people on every conceivable side—the community is large. Jumping to overgeneralization about it is a marker of a low-quality comment, so please avoid that.

Also, please don't break the site guideline which asks you "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

I've posted about this elsewhere in the thread if anyone wants more explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32904632.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The first few times police interviewed him he thought they were going to go after him on drug charges. After he had a plea deal and a lawyer his story was pretty straight. He even pointed out where the evidence was. And this is the testimony that was offered to the jury and scrutinized on cross examination.

The entire sub-plot in the podcast about his testimony was somewhat misleading on Serial's part.
> If you ever run for office or hold a position of national security interest, your personal data will be a great source for blackmail or honeypot operations.

And obviously no US company would release such information to your political opponents, their ethics are pure. It takes a dastardly CCP plot.
When your future Senators have hours of compromising TikTok video in TikTok servers, you will be under their jurisdiction.

China is magnificent at long term thinking.
Absolutely true; but, for example, YouTube search results also employ a variety of finely tuned parameters that uprank or downrank certain videos, with zero transparency or oversight. YouTube Trending and Twitter Trends are heavily editorialized, and nothing shows up before it is manually approved by an employee. You might have even seen Twitter "trends" that, when you click on them, only show you 5 tweets by a single verified Twitter account, and nothing else; no discussion is shown. Twitter Search results (the "Top" tab) show popular tweets mixed in with 60-likes tweets, to prevent you from accurately gauging "the mood" or the predominant opinion. These companies feel perfectly entitled to decide what you'll see.

Every social media is founded on an algorithm, and they are all black boxes. TikTok constitutes unique challenges (if they want to dumb people down, they can), but most of the criticism is true of every platform.
It’s interesting but the duplicate sets of buttons are a big waste of space. My favourite free calculator app is Desmos Scientific (by the makers of the graphing calculator) [1]. This app gives you as many entry lines as you like and they all remain live. You can also define variables and functions in one line and use them in another. In effect, it’s like a single column from a spreadsheet.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/desmos-scientific-calculator/i...
There are definitely CCP members born in both those places. Tibet and Xinjiang too.
Serial is the original true crime podcast, and IMO, nobody since has done it as well as they did.

And holy shit. What an incredible piece of news. I think, though, that if the state vacates a conviction, then they lose the right to prosecute you again. Being let out and then having to relive your nightmare trial with the possibility of going back? That’s sadistic by any definition.
Apologies for my ignorance but how is this going to police the police? I read the original blog post, there was lots of inferences/could and might be's/etc made but little in the way of proof of anything. What's to stop the police saying it was just circumstance that provided your results?

I'm not here defending the police, or denigrating the project, just playing devils advocate. What happens if the police just ignore you?
There's a difference between not forgiving someone and trusting them. Just because you forgive someone for cheating and telling lies doesn't mean you should now trust them and forget it ever happened.
Or license your work under GPL, which is kryptonite to most businesses. The mega-globo-corp I work for makes commercial license deals with some open source software vendors who dual license their software with GPL and a commercial license.
I'm not trying to be flippant, but where do you draw the line of "never use anyone else's code"? You're writing that software using an operating system and editor someone else wrote. You're compiling it with software someone else wrote. If you're deploying it to users, it's hosted on someone else's code and will be run by someone else's code in that runtime.
We are currently living in the worse case scenario. We are burning about as much oil, gas and coal that is possible, while at the same time have energy prices being several times above of what any carbon free alternative cost.

A big explanation for "why it (cost of nuclear) went up" in EU is that in the 1970, the energy sector went through several major changes. Utilization of hydro energy reached 100% and few new plants got built. Fossil fueled power plants became massively more effective and cheaper to build, and prices for fuel were initially very high but then began to free fall. Nuclear power paid off very well when fossil fuels costed a lot and nations were rationing the worlds supply of oil, but when that oil became cheap and plenty then those nuclear power plants started to look expensive to build and people opted to build fossil fueled power plants instead.

The best use of our money right now is to break off from the fossil fuel dependency that previous decades built up. Energy prices are already in EU way beyond that of the most expensively built nuclear plant that anyone can imagine, with prices expecting to rise around $2-3 per kw/h later this winter. Solar/wind/hydro/storage/nuclear/anything-not-fossil-fuels is currently operating on a massive profit margin compared to the costs of producing energy.
You're question isn't relevant. America has a more permissive regulatory environment because we believe in freedom. A company can be a natsec threat without violating regulations and saying "but they didn't break any rules" is not a strong rebuttal to "maybe we should make rules to stop shady behavior at the behest of hostile foreigners". Are you arguing this is not possible?
If they have evidence, why aren't they publishing it?
I think that's part of the recipe.. All the editing and cleverness of This American Life, a crime and then enough open questions to let you feel one way or the other and wanting more.

I don't remember my exact feelings on his guilt or not but I felt really strongly that the system hadn't worked correctly. Makes you wonder how many less charming guys are in prison because they didn't get a fair defense. The other thing that I also strongly remember was that the prosecution, the victim's family and some of the police were 100% convinced of his guilt. I don't know if it's good or bad but Serial showed that clearly and it created doubt; there was clearly some evidence that suggested misconduct but then the state steadfastly seemed to ignore that.

I don't know what it is, maybe suburban white man fear or something but being wrongly convicted of something like that is a strong and resonating fear for some of us.