skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your "suspect" seems to be based on zero evidence.

A quick google seems to give various sources that say:

* Farming uses about 80% of all water in california.

* Almonds use 17% of that (so 13% of all water use).

Are almonds important enough to use 13% of all water use in an area suffering increasing cripling drought? I'm happy to have a discussion about it, but calling it a small portion seems to greatly underplay almonds.
> The best part of Go is that there is very little magic in Go. If you understand that slices are just fat pointers implemented as a built-in, there is nothing confusing about them.

It's just a tautology. If you understand something, of course by definition you aren't confuse about them. By using the same logic, all languages have "very little magic."
It was when you were using a defective Philips drive that underran regardless of the host, and blanks were $10 each.

(perhaps my first experience with class action lawsuits. a coupon for $200 off another $400 drive, thanks!)
The federal poverty level is roughly equal to the average income in Mexico or China in nominal terms.
Possibly. As mentioned, it's very easy to cache individual endpoints both locally on the client and on the server side with REST. Since GraphQL is so flexible, it doesn't make caching responses very easy. It's a trade-off.
Also I've heard good things about LimeLM

https://wyday.com/limelm/
I’m willing to burn my karma on this to push back on some misinformation. Fasting for 10 days is safe. You won’t get refeeding syndrome. Pretty much any person can do it barring obvious exceptions. I’ve done it a bunch of times and I’ve read all the papers. If you think I’m in error please correct me with a citation and I’ll read it.
Ask HN: How did you learn your favorite programming language?
In theory. But in practice having a lot of facts memorized not only saves you from having to look things up but actually makes you get more out of the things you do look up! See:
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/LookItUpSpring2000.p...

Besides that, the original task Anki was designed for was language learning, and you can't have much of a conversation if every sentence requires multiple dictionary lookups.
Honestly, the last thing a redneck would ever do is wear antlers during deer season.
I'm not sure if you're trolling but I'll bite.

Unlike Mongols, Arab and Muslim scientists are well-knwon to have numerous and extensive contributions to the scientific knowledge. A lot of the novel scientific, mathematics, and other knowledge terminology are based on the Arabic languages namely algorithm, chemistry, alkali, just to name a few [1].

For medicine alone the contributions are numerous from Al-Nafis discovery of blood cirtculation several hunderds years before Harvey[2], Avicennna's book adoption as standard medicine textbooks for several hundred years at Oxford, Cambridge and other major European university [3], Ibn Al Quff the father of modern anesthasia [4] and Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawai the father of modern surgery [5].

Actually I want to mention well-known contributions to mathematics and astronomy by Arab and muslim scientists and mathematicians as well, but I think you probably get the points by now.

If your claim is true about the Mongols I'd like you to come up with similar list just for modern medicine alone from the Mongolian scientists (not ancient China) but I doubt you can and will.

[1]List of English words of Arabic origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...

[2]Ibn al-Nafis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Nafis

[3]Avicenna:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna

[4]An Arabic surgeon, Ibn al Quff's (1232–1286) account on surgical pain relief:

https://journals.lww.com/anar/Fulltext/2010/04010/Historical...

[5]Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi: Father of Modern Surgery:

https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-events/CIS-PM-AQAZFMS
Local elections in May
and general election (likely) next year.
And we’ve just had the Budget

I think there’s plenty of Brexit insecurity still lol

The Tory party has a trashed reputation currently so they’re trying to reclaim some ground
In Arizona, Nestle is building a new $700mm plant to produce 'high quality creamers', and were going to use the local utility EPCOR for water-but apparently EPCOR may not be able to provide enough for their needs.

To resolve the issue, they are lobbying[0] to have the groundwater laws adjusted to allow companies to treat and return their own water back to groundwater aquifers without any oversight.

e.g. they may be allocated to pump 3,000 acre-feet of water/year, but if they pump 1,000 acre-feet of 'treated' wastewater back into the ground /somewhere/ then they are allowed to pump an additional 1,000 /plus/ 1,000 more the next year. And of course those are all virtual credits, they can acquire clean water wherever they like and dispose of 'treated' water into the ground wherever for credits, with little to no oversight.

[0] https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/nestle-...
> What does the size of the US economy have to do with the rate of relative poverty?

A larger economy roughly means that more value is created in that country. Combining that with a higher relative rate of poverty means that the extra value created is not captured in a similar proportion. How are those two unrelated metrics?
Only on Hacker News can you have an article detailing the systematic ways in which America holds people in poverty and have someone respond with a 30-year old anecdote about how great America is. Thanks for reminding me that 30% of this site is never, ever, ever going to grasp the concept of class consciousness.

Here's to a sad shout-out to the ever rapidly increasingly incidence of single-family homelessness in the United States, apparently there's an escalating drug use (or whatever you're handwavedly referring to) problem that perfectly coincides with decades of deregulation and defunding of education and social welfare systems, not to mention extreme corporate monopolization and inflation.

America is not yet a third world country, and thus we must ignore documented, systematic failures. Apparently.
> If you had to be poor somewhere, would the US be your first choice?

The millions of folks traveling from all over the world to enter the US, often enough illegally, suggests that lots of people would choose the US.
> For example, I do not see any value of winning the spelling bee in real life applications.

You might if you were an editor. I guess your job probably doesn't have much to do with that so you see it as pointless but there is a different sphere of knowledge where having various things committed to memory would save you time. For instance, if we're interested in learning a new programming language, I guess most of us can understand a sentence like "a string is an immutable sequence of characters," quickly read it, and move on. If you weren't familiar with the concepts in that sentence you'd burn a lot more time before making heads or tails of it.
I've seen Grammarly commercials.

What if I write some paragraphs, and then drag a big Grammarly slider across it, and it's no longer my words, but my ideas are still there, just buffed and touched up professionally?

What's "AI generation" anyway?

I wrote a limerick for a friend last week. Well, I had the idea for it and it was jangling inside my head, but I didn't feel like fleshing it out, so I had the AI write it. I was accused of "cheating". But I'm capable of writing this limerick; I just wanted to see if a computer could put a ribbon on it. And it worked fine. I claim authorship (and copyright) nonetheless.
Then they didn't really memorize them properly, did they?
The owner of nootropics depot has convinced me that, apart from theirs, maybe only 1% of the products in the supplements industry are what they say they are and/or remotely close the stated dose.
Aside from that, the website looks great!
OpenAI CEO, CTO on risks and how AI will reshape society
Qanat: 3,000 BC water supply over long distances
Australia seems to be perennially behind on this stuff. Anyone got any good recommendations, preferably high-quality local manufacturers? I’m moving home this year and am in the market.
LLVM can outline code from across multiple functions at -Oz which could help.
Whenever I have tried any text about category theory, it seems to me that it is a catalogue of one definition after another. I am yet to come across (or perhaps missed it entirely) an example use of any of these definitions in practical terms, other than their use in the next definition.
It is quite possible that one requires a lot of set up before any it can be used for practical purposes (e.g explaining the basis for all of Haskell's prelude), but I have never made it that far. But I would like to ...

I'd appreciate hearing from those of you who are programmers at heart and have hung in there long enough to gain some insight. What clicked for you?
Amazon does have a quality connection with multiple providers blended together. It's definitely better than the cheap networks with only a 1 or 2 lower end providers.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
I have never in my life seen a multi-volume disk.

I have always wondered though; on Windows you could write to a CD-R but not finalize it.

Could you delete the file? I'd test it as blank CDs are dirt cheap, but I don't have a writer...
The is common knowledge with people who have crohn's disease or other Autoimmune diseases. I know a few who do it but generally for one week .

Keep your phosphates ( and other electrolytes) normal and don't break the fast with lots of carbs
Even if Firefox made it the default it would not be widespread because its marketshare is so low.

Also I bet most of the users still running Firefox are quite technical and most likely are blocking ads anyway.
> Nonetheless, a deal, whenever it happens, will be good for everyone. Development will have water to fuel its growth[...]

Maybe we shouldn't be expanding cities and developing new suburbs in such arid regions that don't have enough water?

> More recently, private investors have been buying up agricultural water rights around the state in the hope of reselling them to homebuilders.

So even under the current system, urban/suburban expansion _can_ proceed, but it's disincentivized due to the additional cost of securing water rights? That seems like a good deterrent to building in a marginal location, not a problem.
Do you know of any browser games that use Ctrl as the crouch key? That's the interface under discussion.
>many Americans believe street homelessness is due to poverty. It's obviously not. I've seen street homelessness due to poverty in the country my parents left, and it looks nothing like what's going on in America.

can you please elaborate on discerning different types of poverty based on causes? This sounds like something I should understand
Your observation makes the point. We’re living in a nation almost drowning in wealth, yet many among us see no issue or feel no culpability in bettering the dreadful state of our neighbors.

As a society we like to cast moral failures to circumstance. It’s easy to roll your eyes at the trailer trash and ignore the reasons why those folks are where they are.
USA has secretly gotten ahead of the quantum race.

Part of their disclosure plan is it work with allies on multiple needs.

With fusion on the horizon, we will need batteries.

With electromagnetic craft, moon trips will be easy.
The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program
Impact of a Public School Lottery in the United States (2009)
I think the root problem is that writing documentation sucks and people just do the bare minimum. I am hoping that AI making docs easier to create will help make them more usable all around.
LAN parties aren't dead, but the people that used to attend them got older, had kids, and now will probably get judged by their spouse for going to one. Younger generations most definitely have LAN parties. Now that computers are once again becoming less popular and more appliances have taken their place (smartphones, game consoles etc), the people who are into PC gaming are becoming a more tight-knit and like-minded demographic.
A hot take here is anything that remotely triggers cognitive dissonance.
Even compared to cloud providers AWS charges more for compute.
I do. It helps with latency when someone hits the "back" button and your queries are page/view based. Instead of seeing the delay of the query, it's instant. Because, well, it probably should be.

Cache times are usually short, < 5 minutes, and are cleared whenever a POST/DELETE/PUT are issued. Works pretty well in my experience.
"Why do one in eight Americans, and one in six children, live in poverty—a rate about the same as it was in 1970?"

Because we keep changing the measure for "poverty".

It's much better to be in "poverty" today than 50 years ago. If you aren't that old, read a book about the time period. Life will never be perfect but it is tremendously better.
I couldn’t make heads or tails of what this would be useful for from the OP (maybe it’s something I should already have known), but this from the official site was pretty helpful: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf
>Almonds use 17% of that (so 13% of all water use).

Ye gads, that's an amazing stat. I heard heard almonds were using a lot water, but never the scale. For a strictly luxury crop, that is an unbelievable amount of resources in a state with 11 desalination plants.
Only some aspects are shared globally, like a lack of affordable housing and labor exploitation. Payday lending, forced storage charges upon eviction, low take-up of available benefits, using the tax code to assist the middle class instead of direct spending to assist the poor, lots of these seem uniquely American.

Of course poverty exists in many places outside the United States, and people in poverty are universally exploited. But much of that poverty outside the US, at least so it seems, to be rooted in much the same causes: poor governance and corruption. This book seems to question how poverty persists in a country which seems beyond such "third-world" concerns.
Learning to play a song or to play from sheet music is, itself, a task that is well suited for rote learning. There's really no way out of repetitive practice if your goal is to learn to play a musical instrument.
I too doubt almonds use that much water but they make an easy target since who cares about almonds right?. Much like not washing your car or not watering your lawn would never make much of a difference yet still people were making a big deal out of that as if that would solve everything.

Farming is needed and I'm all for farming, but that's for fruits and vegetables which like almonds I doubt they take up that much water. If I had to guess it would probably be some type of animal feed that is wasting all that water.

I remember reading a story somewhere where the saudi's were buying up land that had these old water rules to grow animal feed to bring back home. When other countries start using you this way to me is a sign of a BIG problem in your policies.
According to who? For those that have successfully retrained from school teachers and shop technicians and into software devs, more than doubling their pay, I think they would consider it quite good. That they're working in the industry, despite whatever aspersions get cast their way, they're still working there and bringing home the bacon. The monetary specifics of the deal may be sour to some, even the successful ones, as the linked article talks about ($40k is a lot of money, even if you're making $100k!), but $100k is nothing to sneeze at if you were making $50k before.
Los Angeles needs to stop stealing all the water from the Owens valley and allow that area to restore to its natural state.
Last time I used GraphQL seriously, caching was suppose to work. I never really saw it work well. Not like you can predictably cache REST.
Yep. That didn't stop Google from denying that coverage to the people laid off in the article though, and the fact that it's some sort of custom/in-house thing means they probably have the power to cause that sort of disruption regardless of any eventual legal outcomes.
because it's pulled out of, well, you know where.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast
Sure, even for the task that it was designed for, learning Japanese, I mostly pursued a method of just writing stuff in a notebook over and over when I was getting that degree. But the specifics of Anki itself are less important an observation than the main one: despite the widespread conviction that rote learning is pointless it is actually extremely helpful to a wide number of fields of endeavor.
This is disingenuous. People entering the US illegally are often here in order to provide for their families in other parts of the world, where even high paying careers can't compete with the dollar. It says nothing about their lives here vs in other places.
Which is a finite state machine attached to an infinite tape.
How do you have a "deep understanding of the material" without committing any of it to memory?
It gets even more fun across country borders. Most of the water for southern NM and a lot for El Paso come from a giant Mesilla aquifer. Turns out, that extends beyond the border, and Mexico has started hitting it heavily to supply Juarez. Fun times ahead.
Well, i'm not sure a quick google is definitive, but my main point stands on its own. As I said, almonds may not be a good tradeoff for the region, but farming in-general should be treated very carefully, and is indeed life-sustaining and critical. We shouldn't just equate "farming" in the region, with "almonds".

Even if we take your googled numbers as fact, it's a relatively small minority of the total farming production in the region.
Yes, the US is more expensive to live in than Mexico or China
Yes. I think the top 1/3 of Oxford undergrads are on par with the top 5% of Harvard undergrads.

This is not true of other places which award Firsts.
I rather disagree and think this discourse is both beneficial and necessary. This comment really feels dubious and is the exact definition of the Noble Lie.
You are most definitely smart enough. And your instincts are correct. Category Theory is not an efficient thinking tool for thinking about software. You can use it for that of course (monads were originally modelled in CT) but there are much better tools out there that will get you there faster (Abstract Algebra, Reduction Machines and State Machines for example).

There are a few (usually Haskell) people that love to make claims about the need for you to learn CT. They are wrong. It’s that simple.
Infinite time is too much of a “get out from jail” card, because during infinite time anything and everything will happen by definition
This seems like the important point:

> they enrolled because they were attracted by the high job-placement rates in tech. They allege that the school had false and misleading information about job-placement rates on its website and on CEO Austen Allred's Twitter account
15k/day is quite a lot. Why do you need that much and how did you determine the dose, if you don't mind me asking?
Yes, I wrote that in my original response above.
All of us talking here are probably adults, probably substantially higher performing on average, living in the age of the internet where information for study can be trivially obtained, and discussing a test that was a benchmark for 8th grade education. What percent of incoming 9th graders today do you think could perform at all reasonably on that test?

Most people know that college education has become dramatically "simplified", but fewer seem aware that this is also true of nearly all of our education systems. And it's all for the same reason. When education was not required nor expected, what education that did exist was able to excel and push a group of people who genuinely wanted to learn in ways that are not really possible today, outside of things like elite preparatory academies.

And I think this lesson is extremely important when beginning to think about how education might be reformed. It's easy to say that secondary (or even primary) education should be more sophisticated, without considering the implications of that on the student body. You can't really have widespread exceptional education standards and the expectation that most people should be able to achieve those standards. This is why reforming education is a far bigger task than the current idea of 'throw more money at it' could ever solve.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
Your parents moved here to give you a better life. They most likely sacrificed a way better life they could have led wherever you're from.
> Where left gets it wrong is treating children like adults when it comes to gore and sexuality and adults like children when it comes to free speech.

And denying the primacy of objective reality (as best we know it, subject to intellectual inquiry and criticism) over subjective experience (which they say is inviolate and unquestionable).
Note that Desmond has been widely criticized for focusing on a poverty measure that does not include the impact of government transfers. If you include these anti-poverty programs, rates of poverty have declined significantly since the 70s: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/10/23632910/povert...
Who wants to debug a program written by an AI? I mean, can you imagine how inaccurate the annotations might be in such code? While it can be terrific at certain tasks of reproduction it's level of knowledge could still be considered superficial.
The stigma of not going to college is going away.
Yes? Why is someone's existence or circumstance de facto an obligation for someone else?

No one lives their life completely accommodating every random stranger's needs.
Yes, the old hedonic index theory that since a new TV is much bigger and sharper and has more channels than a TV from 1970, it counts as more than 1 TV.

Libertarians love that one. Get ready for the chart where TVs are cheaper.
It seems to be that much of this could be solved by pricing water at its actual price rather than through some politically set price. I could see an exemption for private household first 100 gallons per month or so to make sure everyone can stay hydrated.
> the prosecution appears to have a strong case here. Controlled Digital Lending is a controversial legal theory, not something that has any clear statutory basis.

What is that based on? If you could share an expert analysis, that would be great (or do you have expertise?).
I was literally the person that just wanted to play Ultima (Underworld). But when things didn't work because the sound card didn't have the right jumper settings, or there wasn't enough free ram, or I just didn't understand how to start the game up in the most optimized way, I had to figure that stuff out, without the internet. Ultima jump started my IT career.
I use store-bought pitas, sliced in half (thickness-wise, takes some practice). Very easy, and gets nicely crispy.
That is what I was thinking too as I read it.

If poverty is defined as percentage of people in the bottom 20%, then this must always be fixed.
California, where Google is headquartered, has the WARN act, which kicks in in for big layoffs (> 10%), which requires 60 days notice to affected employees. So sign mortgage on Monday, laid off 2 months from Tuesday.
It sounds like you don't have any understanding of sound engineering if you think modifying the default behavior of this kind of API with no fanfare is okay because "we are elaborately refactoring". Whether there was a specific intent or not.

This is absolutely horrifying.
What's your review workflow? Do you pre-generate extra takes?

I've played around with doing TTS narration for some webfiction authors, reviewing some of the more wild outputs for Tortoise's occasional demonic weirdness can be quite time consuming.
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