skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water levels supporting much of midwest[1] farming and ranching have been dropping for decades, far faster than the refill rate. Even areas that have formed water-use co-operatives have been unable to convince themselves to reduce draw enough to matter. Even if they zeroed their usage, the co-ops don't cover enough land area to make up for the surrounding areas that are drawing from the same aquifer.

[1] Leaving aside the cultural oddity of USA-ians who think the living not only east of centre, but as far east as any part of Ohio, counts as "midwest".
LOL. In my town there are $2million homes whose front doors are <50 feet from a major highway.
>SSH agent-forwarding and X11-forwarding

Are they enabled by default when running SSH?
So I thought this would be big news, so I did some reading. Turns out that in like the past 5-6 years we've gone from "who knows how many habitable zone planets there are" to "we're finding them all freaking over the place!"

Does anyone have a good blog/news site that covers topics like this? Because evidently I'm missing out.
The concept of induced demand shifts the government from a role where it manages the supply of road to serve motorists, to a role where it exists to manage traffic. The critical differences in that the motorists are no longer meaningful stakeholders in the discussion, but merely as part of traffic.
Have you considered that an approval process is one aspect of a capability solution?

You know, the same way that you ask for code review before merging to prod.
Munger Two Step
> You get less BTC for your money.

Or, you get more USD for your BTC.

> Where is the growth?

In the amount of USD one can purchase with their bitcoins? Literally, that's what this whole subthread is about where someone used their long held bitcoin to do a downpayment. The growth in USD price of a bitcoin is what helped them do that.
This is the way it has always been. The same politicians pushing water conservation and other environmental issues are the ones invested in businesses that are the biggest abusers, but then they go put the guilt on the people using a very small fraction and get them to spend more money thinking it is them causing the problem.
How very magnanimous of them.
20 year old level 11 here :)
I'll film my wife sometimes so that she can spot check her form. She's a better/more trained lifter than me, so I can't exactly offer corrections myself.

And I know at the more serious/smaller gym that we train at, since covid, quite a lot of people do remote training with a coach. This seems to be especially common among the powerlifting and olympic lifting sports. Remote coaching means the coach designs programs, and if you want to pay for more than the programming, you buy a tripod, and send the coach videos so that they can critique and correct your form.

That being said, I'm sure it's probably obvious when someone is doing what I'm describing, versus what you are seeing.
The issue is not that induced demand exists (it exists for nearly every kind of travel) but that the cost-benefit ratio for highways is actually rather low, because highway lanes are so low capacity and fill up fast. (A standard metro line can easily carry 30-60k persons per direction per hour; the figure for a highway lane is 2.5k.) US highway transportation funding is not generally subject to cost effectiveness analysis but distributed according to formulas to the 50 states and funded at a 90-10 federal-local ratio, which is very different from how other modes of transportation are funded.

Quite frankly, it is impossible to build your way out of highway congestion, without totally gutting American metropolitan areas, because there isn't just empty land in the middle of those for new highways. Which is also the root cause of most highway opposition these days, in existing areas; but new areas are not much better, in that usually this results in playing musical chairs with regional development rather than totally new net growth.
One implementation thought I've had while doing something a bit similar (having GPT-3 play Zork): instead of mucking through the game state, you could also just run "look" and "inventory" regularly. Mostly these are no-ops, but it should be simple enough to execute them and then revert the state (though I haven't tried). In some ways this would be more general and perhaps more robust (or maybe not). Though it's also pretty neat to see that internal state of Zork.
It's a cost from the perspective of shareholder value and business productivity.
No, you are ignorant and came up with this nonsense on the spot instead of spending time getting educated on the topic. Read up or at least watch some strongtowns / Not Just Bikes / citybeautiful
I preferred "Human Is"
Ask HN: Do we still value Aaron Swartz in a modern psychiatric paradigm
In the modern psychiatric paradigm, Aaron Swartz is easily dismissable as bipolar. As a Dasein whos internal reality we are not doomed to respect, as fellow Daseines--he is "other".

Do we owe anything to those that we believe to be right, under these other-labeling paradigms?
Regarding 4. Only the "weight" column looks tricky to be honest.
Wouldn't that be nice to just excuse behaviors saying you fired the person responsible for paying rent. I should try that on my rental.
I see this kind of stuff all the time and I'm convinced that Academia is corrupt. While working against a Grad Student doesn't seem particularly evil, rather just a bit backstabby/political, I suggest that it is 'really bad' because it contravenes the basic organizing principle of science itself.

Kind of like a Judge ruling one way or another for personal reasons, or ruling with a heavy conflict of interest.

There needs to be much stronger ethical principles around this and an advisor hinting at obfuscating work for such reasons should be up for review.
feedback is really important because:

* it helps event planners improve their events

* gives event planners data points to attract more/higher quality sponsors

Imagine what your local dev meetup organizers could do if they had more funding (free arduinos? Fly out Woz? Hand out AWS credits?)

I designed the feedback form to be completeable in under 15 seconds, while giving good data to event planners. You don’t even need to provide your name. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for an event planner to ask 3 questions in order to provide some photos - photos you can use to build your personal brand, post on dating sites, cherish as memories, etc.

I think it’s a win-win situation for everyone
GPUs are still rare in datacenters, and definitely not 1:1 with end users’ displays. When a backend needs a GUI, I don’t see much reason to choose anything other than local Javascript or Wasm to display it. It’s thoroughly cross platform and hardware accelerated.
A lawyer starts a letter writing process which stretches for months. You will win in the end but it will cost you a lot. With Apples ToS you can't really do much, they are very well protected and the costs would be prohibitive.

From my experience, there are many cases where involving a lawyer makes a hard problem much harder.
Actually, it does, because the trillions of dollars not spent on a useless endeavor can be used on creating alternatives faster than driving. Only when those exist, commutes get shorter.
The existence of lesser-known things like this, combined with the defaults of SSH clients, and the rabid promotion of keypair auth instead of passwords, really makes one wonder whether there is some ulterior motive to make it easier to deanonymise and thus track users...
Instead of mindlessly deploying larger pipes to accommodate more HD video streams in MPEG-2, sometimes you design better compression in the form of AVC/HEVC.
People would just find ways of giving the money to their children, e.g. cash, or setting up a company and employing them at ridiculous salaries. When you have money there are always ways around things. It's an arms race and unfortunately they rich are winning it.
Don’t forget IRC, USENET, and plain old email lists, like Mailman.
> This didn’t happen to Facebook and Twitter. Both attained a scale and durability that exceeded the networks that preceded them. For many people, it seemed like the operators of these services had cracked the nut of making eternal social media.

There is a qualitative aspect to it that is not reflected by numbers yet. In the late 2000s to early 2010s Twitter used to be this cool new thing everyone wanted to try out. Now a significant part of society sees it as a cesspool.
The competitor used fake accounts and stolen credit cards to buy his app so he will get suspended. The chargeback costs are heavy so Apple killed the app receiving the purchases.
Which means that Google makes more than that from them otherwise it wouldn’t be a good business decision.
There seems to be truth in that. Now I'm thinking about Unix. (I may say that, as someone using exclusively a Linux desktop since more than 20 years ;-)).
Goldman Sachs to Cut About 3,200 Jobs This Week After Cost Review
Goldman is doing 6% layoffs this week. They're not heavily in SF, but it shows finance is affected, too.
The cost benefit analysis is a generally accepted way of doing this.

Interestingly enough, transit projects in the US are actually funded based on how competitive their CBA is, but highway projects are not and are funded via formulas defined in law by Congress.
Given that Tech Transfer offices don't make much money at all, and patents are mostly worthless, I doubtful of this theory. There simply is no 'return on investment' on most of the work.
Tell HN: AWS does not require email confirmation for email or password changes
Hey everyone,

I created a new AWS account over the weekend for a hobby project. Tonight I got an email that my password and email had both been changed. I hadn't set up MFA yet simply because I hadn't even used any resources.

I'm just shocked that Amazon doesn't even send a "Hey we're about to lock you out, is this okay?" email before allowing someone to completely take over.

As for the compromise, waiting to hear back on how this happened. I confirmed the password I used isn't in haveibeenpwned. A keylogger seems unlikely since none of my other sensitive accounts have had issues. Just in utter disbelief that account changes would be allowed without any confirmation.
Doctorow is engaging in an awful lot of wishcasting here.
Thank you for your detailed response. I was under the impression that “evolution” suggests a gradual process or development toward a given attribute as opposed to the sheer presence of the attribute “from the beginning of time”, so to speak.
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Also: holy shit I just learned more about macros and the history of Lisp than I ever knew existed.
I mean, I think it is fair to say once these social media companies get big enough it isn't crazy that some of the employees may even be involved in the scams. I remember a while back that someone I knew used to be involved in Facebook scams and they had FB employees helping them.
With a massive wall in between, right? Are you claiming their driveway leads to the freeway? Or to a surface street?
It’s a vibe shift. The hard numbers may not be there (yet?), but the early signs are.

Facebook has been dead for years, unless you count instagram. Twitter never actually caught on with the normies. Gen Z is on TikTok.

In my friend groups everything that used to happen on Facebook now happens on private WhatsApp, iMessage, and Slack groups.
Hell If I had my way I'd add a "right to root" in the Constitution itself. You should have control over your hardware, period.
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Obviously it's not a hard truth that no capacity improvement is worth it, but the idea of induced demand is describing something that is quantifiably true in many cases. And it's all about cost and physical space - that's why nobody worries much about induced demand in, say, bike lanes or train lines, because the route capacity of those modes is so much higher than car lanes.

The issue at the end of the day is that, assuming a certain population density and a growing population, roads tend to become extremely expensive (because of the required property buybacks, etc.) while at the same time cars fundamentally take up too much space in urban/suburban areas for the number of people they tend to carry. (Obviously this is almost never an issue in rural areas, given the low population density).

So it's not so much the issue that you couldn't theoretically build enough capacity, it's for most brownfield areas, you won't add enough capacity to fix traffic because of the huge cost - not to mention environmental destruction, or knocking down people's houses to replace with more and more roads, etc.. This is of course very different to, your example of internet bandwidth, where you can trivially increase the capacity by many multiples without taking up any more space physically. The closest analog in the transport world would be rail, which uses very little real estate compared to huge potential capacity.

Given that fundamental issue (the cost and space that roads take up, and the fact that cars are one of the least volumetrically efficient modes of transport), what becomes observable is the ironic fact that the cities that tend to be best to drive in are the ones that have provided many good alternatives of good public transit, bikeways, etc. as opposed to the cities that were designed around the car.
> As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook.

No. Given that the number of Twitter users is increasing the premise of this article is false.
I wrote this, and would like to reply to the same comments repeated many times.

Preface: I wrote this as a whim, but understand that almost none of this is acceptable.

However! People claim these are not merely bad ideas, but not doable at a technical level. This is, to my understanding, false. These are merely bad ideas, but can be implemented!

> This does not make things stricter

True! The name was a bad idea, playing off "strict mode". The main thing was about opting into new behavior.

> let/const/var reshuffling can't work with existing code

This could be done at the tokenizer level. If you have "stricter mode" on the top of the file, you swap out the tokens.

> auto-await cannot work because some non-async functions return promises

A non-async function would simply return the promise value! I am not suggesting removing promises. I am suggesting that when a call to an async function happens from within another async function (async function being defined via syntax, not by return value!), at runtime, we insert the await (with an escape hatch via asPromise). This does not require solving the halting problem, and is merely extremely confusing and hard to explain and probably gets in the way of a lot of JITing efforts.

> name => {name} is not possible at a parsing level

It's possible! But it involves breaking the parse results of existing code. Python recently introduced changes that required more complicated parsers than before, and this would also be of a similar quality. Some recursive descent backtracking parser that simply tries to parse as an object literal, and if that fails backtrack would solve the requirement. Perhaps a well-thought out grammar could make this work without backtracking, but I would be surprised.

> foo.await is not possible

This is such a weird one to me. Rust has this! I am not saying "if an object lookup is for the key of await then do an await", but "if foo.await is in your actual code then that is the same as (await foo)". There's a difference between modifying syntax and modifying semantics, and I was proposing modifying of syntax, not object lookup semantics.
Isn't he always?
Hydrogen storage is not particularly cheap either. I would be surprised if a house-scale system can beat batteries in terms of cost.
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I use Homeshick for this, which also allows me to have multiple repos: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick
Does he? I don't recall him ever calling himself an intellectual. And must all intellectuals have read all of these books? Or maybe he's just a guy who likes reading.
Hah! I also built a similar storage system, optimized for whole disk images, for work, around 2007!! I used fixed size chunks as well. I called it "data block coalescion", having never heard of anyone else doing so we figured I invented it and we were granted the patent(!). I used it to cram disk images for I think 6 different fresh install configurations onto a single DVD. :D

Later on I used it and vmware to build a proof of concept for a future model of computing where data was never lost. (it would snapshot the vm and add it to the storage system daily or hourly. look ma, infinite undo at a system level!)

The next version of the algorithm was going to use what I now know is essentially rolling hash (I called it "self delimiting data blocks"), but then the company went under.

> but there were some patents on it.

The patent system is quite silly and internally inconsistent. I'm older now, and suspect someone thought of saving disk space through coalescion of identical blocks before I did in 06/07 but not according to the USPTO!
This is just discussing the typical seasonality. Water levels drop over winter until spring occurs:

> In a large fluctuating water level regime of the Great Lakes, we could say the lakes are close to average water levels now.

> We have moderate to severe drought around the Great Lakes now. If we continue with drier than normal weather, the lake levels will soon slip to below normal levels.

While Lake Ontario's outflows do have control via locks/dams, the other lakes do have various dams controlling in-flows from tributaries. No idea how much these other ones are actually used for lake level control:

> Lake Ontario’s water level can be regulated somewhat through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Near a highway or near an entrance to that highway?
> Twitter never actually caught on with the normies.

Does not need to. That's where all journalists look for news. Normies then get their news from journalists. The circle is complete.
As someone who was born a a buddhist and comes from a family of buddhists, I have to say that the western view of buddhism is very wrong. It is marketed as a way to relive your stress, calm your mind and a lot of emphasis is spent on meditation and 'feel good' teachings. Buddhism is a lot more than that.

If you are not getting the answers that you are seeking with meditation, then go deeper. Street relief, take deep breath meditation is not what true meditation is supposed to achieve. Deep layers of meditation, which can achieve ego-death are not calming but rather unsettling.

You should also try to read up some texts like Mulamadhyamakakarika(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%ABlamadhyamakak%C4%81rik%...) by Nagarjuna(who lived around the time of the buddha). There are many english translations of this book ( the path of the middle way) and it takes a logical approach to subjects like time, space, entities etc.
The Smalltalk based OpenCroquet was interesting. This might be too, but if so it is hidden well under the buzzword bingo marketing.
Where do you think more t-bone accidents occur, on divided highways where everyone is driving the same direction, or surface streets with 4-way intersections and people regularly speeding through the first few seconds of a red light?
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Typo: Human-realistic typing animation in JavaScript
You seem to presuppose that people couldn't possibly get around in any way other than by driving, which is simply not true in general.

Obviously most US cities are extremely car-centric today but that's hardly evidence that it necessarily must always be so.

Having everyone use individual vehicles for all transportation needs is generally fine when cities are small but it scales very poorly. That's what we're witnessing here.
Sure, sure probably. But there might be some interesting test, where something that is really AGI, and fails something like a "recognizing yourself in a mirror" test (not that specific test obviously, but you see what I'm getting at--some sort of trick)...that works for intelligence + consciousness but not just intelligence. No idea what that could be, but it's possible it could exist. Again I think we need to separate out that consciousness doesn't imply soul. So we have a few things: soul, consciousness, intelligence, and we are really only interested here in constructing the latter in an AGI.

Just thinking about a nice analogy just now: may be a glib oversimplification but one way to characterize soul, consciousness, intelligence is as: memory, present awareness, imagination. What is a soul if not a memory of all experiences of that soul? What is consciousness if not awareness of the present? What is intelligence if not some sort of sophisticated imagination that is useful/aligns with some model (reality, or another)? Just an idea

Another interesting thing is: if your reasoning is fast enough, it doesn't have to be abstract. You can probably get the same speedup that abstraction/generalization provides to categories of observations with enough parallel processing of specific observations. Obviously from that view then abstraction is like a hack for humans to overcome neural speed limits/memory limits, but it may not be necessary for AGI: I think this is one reason why AGI (or at least its inner workings) may remain incomprehensible to us.
Still in print as far as I know. These days the physical catalog is very difficult to get from McMaster. They probably make them in very low quantities and hand select who gets them, maybe based on lifetime spend / org size, or so I’ve heard.
> "Twitter got bought out by a low-attention-span, overconfident billionaire who started pulling out Jenga blocks to see whether the system would fall over, and when it did, we all got crushed by the falling blocks."

I've spent years mocking Twitter for it's short character limit (designed IMO for the low-attention-span trend) and the siloizing/bunkering effect of Facebook and groups (where never a contrary opinion is tolerated, much like with many of Reddit's subreddits). As an experiment I created a Twitter account for the first time when Musk took over the platform.

It's not terrible but not great either - there are some decent sources of information and interesting accounts to follow, but the search function is still very poor, and there's what feels like a lot of algorithmic optimization of engagement going on. Finding interesting and informationally accurate accounts to follow is a bit of a struggle, but once you do it's not too bad. I doubt it was drastically different in the past.
I agree. But a thriving social network that does not make.
The application of whatever conceptual model was being used here doesn't encompass the biggest innovations of the last few decades, open-source and user-generated content.

Or in terms of the language of the article:

how can we enlist the customer to work for us for free?
We're severly resource constrained in this field. The harder we look the more we find.
Are quantum computers about to break online privacy?
That can be used for good: avoid embarrassment and prevent an unnecessary stop.

But it can also be used for evil: cancel a valid stop that someone commanded and hope they don't notice.