skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History may not repeat but it does rhyme. Harappan civ thought to have declined due to less water. Petra once thrived due to a system of dams, cisterns, and water conduits, but never-repaired damage after an earthquake and increasing aridity meant it less and less supported urbanism and so declined. The Soviets overexploited the Aral Sea which has yet to (and will likely never) recover. It is now spoiling the surrounding region with dust storms carrying with them pollutants from industry that settled in the drying lakebed. Owens Lake in California once fed LA, but when it dried up it too caused polluting dust storms.
Gov't has not learned from this history. The western US's water rights are outdated to the point of creating utterly backwards incentives. For example, Utah has use-it-or-lose-it water rights and the lion's share of water in the Great Salt Lake's watershed gets used to grow alfalfa. Alfalfa itself isn't necessarily a bad choice if you're going to grow stuff in an arid region, the issue is more how much of it is grown and in a wasteful way (little to no drip irrigation and no incentive to start using it, instead farmers are incentivized to flood areas during times of heavy rainfall or risk losing water rights). However even city and residential water use (a much smaller %) is still per capita wasteful compared to nearby Vegas which has done a much better job of becoming efficient in its water use. Utah got lucky this year in its snowpack, potentially buying some time to change, but is that gonna happen? No, they're praying for moisture and thinking their prayers got answered. Any guesses how long it'll be before the Great Salt Lake becomes the US/capitalism's Aral Sea? 5 years, 10, 15? Any techies wanting to move out here might think twice, homes without water and with seasonal arsenic-laden dust clouds probably won't have much resale value.
The thing is, most people outside the "larger ethnic group" in the US couldn't care less about their data being funneled to the CCP.

The anti china/russia/<insert anything that's over GMT+3> seems to really be a WASP centric pathological obsession.

Just my 2c
We just don't know anything about what the economics look like right now. It could be that they're running GPT4/3.5 at a loss right now.
No, it doesn't, but people love to show a big difference between gross and net and forget to mention retirement moneys.
ChatUML – Your Copilot for Working with Diagrams
"It wouldn't work 100%, so they won't do it." Most naive argument ever.
I used to have a habit of running 'killall -USR1 dd' to get the status of a dd process.

Then I switched to using sddm for my display manager/login screen. It didn't have a USR1 handler. If you kill your display manager, you're forcefully and suddenly logged out of your session.

I stopped using 'killall -USR1 dd' for dd status.
Ask HN: Shittiest Hosting Experience?
I have been waiting over 12 hours to have the power cable plugged into a server GPU that I started renting about 24 hours ago, and haven't once been able to use it, nor does it currently even boot.

So it makes me wonder who else has had shitty hosting experiences.
Thanks and thanks for the sources.
iCloud is hosted in Azure
I used it a lot (didn't miss the progress bar though). With it's options to control caching, it can be used as bare-bones single-threaded performance test for sequential access. Won't replace more elaborate test suites, but has its use as sanity-check.
Global warming. Warmer air holds more water.
It should be possible to allow access to all files, or allow picking a single file. The weird intermediary where I need to first select that I don’t want to allow access to all files, then select the files I do want (the single file I’m posting/sending), then select that file again from the app’s custom picker from amongst the files I’ve previously shared with that app, is absolutely awful. Steve is rolling in his grave.
I actually just did a variation of experiment for fun after reading your comment...

On a flat surface, the eggs were steady with nothing on top of them too, even when bumping the table quite hard...

Conclusion: reality is more complicated :)
What about propaganda outlets like Newsmax and OANN? Many would argue they've had far more harmful impact on the USA than Tiktok ever could. Where do you draw the line? It has to be domestic propaganda? Can you prove that those don't have foreign links?
Not even noon and Colin is already roasting. Reminds me of [0], also by him.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared (2021)
It’s not in the hacker spirit to raise a stink about injustice? Now, back to my retro computing project.
Not saying this is related to your issues at all, but in case it ends up being helpful for someone - my uncle was a postman and lived with RSI for decades, early on they even gave him carpal tunnel surgery for it which just made things worse. After that, I think he gave up on doctors to a large extent but as he got older and was having more health difficulties, his daughter "made" him go see the doctor about them. Turns out he has multiple sclerosis and they now think the rsi may have been an early symptom of it.

Editing to add: I have dealt with RSI as a software developer myself. It started during a months long flare up of new digestive problems (which I didn't connect it to until later). I had to quit programming for years after being unsuccessful at finding long term relief, fortunately if I wasn't doing things that exacerbated it too much I would mostly feel fine and every once in awhile I would test things out to see if I had recovered. Close to ten years later, I found that I could begin working on the computer again and after some accidental experiments I realized that what was keeping the rsi under control was taking probiotics that I had begun taking for other reasons (and had kept taking because of the notably positive effect they had on my mood). When I stopped taking the probiotics for a few days the nerve and joint pain would start up again and recede when I re-started them. Eventually I had an antibiotic (which was not the first time in that time period I had taken antibiotics) and afterward don't seem to need the probiotic anymore <shrug>.
What should Google be doing with it?
FWIW, RDF does enable a lot of research into useful things, so even though those cases are "academic", they aren't w/o practical outcomes as the subtext of the question implies.

RDF is great for annotating protein interactions, for example.
New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds
It is behind a paywall, correct?
Evolving the Swift Workgroups
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_(TV_series) :

> premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on November 30, 2022 ... The series will be removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023

That's quite something, to go through the effort of making a TV series, just to delete it 6 months after you released it!
Sounds like life in general frankly. There's also typically a heavy religious influence within prisons including helping people out with necessities. It's complicated.

That's not to say it is perfect by any means. I have friends who have been to prison that form my opinion and what impacts them most is not the prison but the society around them when they leave. They get passed over for jobs and end up on social assistance, social housing (when your rent cap is $376 and average rent is $1200 for a bachelor and your basic needs amount to $300 assuming you get some special diet).
Thanks, that's a lot to go through. I'll give Mastodon a try this weekend and see how daunting it really is.
I'm pretty sure if the average household engaged in basic permaculture we would all start to starve like Sri Lanka.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/15/23218969/sri-la...

I'm an avid gardener and I love the environment but we have to realize the real numbers for how we feed ourselves. It would take about one acre of land to feed yourself on wheat in a year.

>An estimated value of 720 pounds of wheat is said to be consumed by a family of four yearly. 60 pounds of wheat can be got from a bushel.
Since a bushel of wheat can be grown on 0.25 acre of land, you’ll need 0.75 acres of land per person. You’ll need approximately 3 acres of land for growing wheat and grain yearly for a family of four.

https://permaculturism.com/how-much-land-does-it-take-to-fee...
Ghost Kitchens Are Going the Way of the Pandemic
From the abstract:

"A venture predator is a startup that uses venture finance to price below its costs, chase its rivals out of the market, and grab market share. Venture capitalists (VCs) are motivated to fund predation—and startup founders are motivated to execute it—because it can fuel rapid, exponential growth. Critically, for VCs and founders, a predator does not need to recoup its losses for the strategy to succeed. The VCs and founders just need to create the impression that recoupment is possible, so they can sell their shares at an attractive price to later investors who anticipate years of monopoly pricing."

Everyone on HN knows this is exactly the playbook of many fast-growing VC-backed startups. No need to mention names.
Farm runoff normally has the opposite effect, providing too many nutrients causing things like algal blooms.
Why do you think qsort is not nice?

I could imagine that qsort is not an option in FreeBSD for example because it is recursive and there is no stack at that level, or there is a risk of stack overflow. If that's the case, shell sort should be fine I guess.
> The work is meant to give them a routine and responsibilities.

Volunteer, not-for-profit work. Ban for-profit prison labor.

Put that proposal forward and see how long it takes to get lobbied out of oblivion.
Dawson's law strikes again!

> O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invis...
Could you give a concise example of IFNDR in C++? I'm having trouble picturing what that would look like.
The default font size is 16px. You can scale it down to 12px for mobile viewport sizes and up to 18px for extra large and then use relative sizing for everything, including the text size of all the elements on your page.

There's a well known book called The Elements of Typographic Style that deals with text size (among many other things.)

This scale isn't helpful because it's arbitrary and based off of math percentages. And the actual values are just decimal values. 1.25, 1.33, etc...

It's not any better than eyeballing, and could in fact be worse, where a heading size might actually look better at 1.3rem instead of 1.33rem but because you're forcing yourself to stick to math you are using a size that is slightly too big.

And if you are looking for someone to have done this work for you, I'd recommend using Tailwind which has good sane defaults for many elements of typesetting:

- https://tailwindcss-typography.vercel.app/

- https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin
Can't use the standard library in the kernel, though. That's why there's special implementations of a lot of things you take for granted in kernel source, things like "print".
Are you assuming I include various things you have to do during the day that are not exactly social into hours you spend at work? No, these are just hours that you end up spending on such activities, every day, because that’s what you have to do to be able to live

And i’m not here to argue with you how many hours you work or do not work, that’s absurd. I’m arguing from a general point of what schedule is roughly true for majority of employed people. Of course you as an individual can work 3 hours a day or 17, that’s besides the point.

The 34 hours of the weekend is only true for people that have absolutely 0 other obligations, such as children, parents, chores, etc.

I’m not here to say that people absolutely must make friends at work, but implying that it’s somehow unhealthy or bad is just incredibly out of touch with how majority of adults live
I mean it's not that strange. I block China, India, Russia, The Philippines and I stopped getting drive-by hacking attempts entirely.
It would be really cool if there was more shared than a blog post with a video. What about either a tutorial, source code, or a link or download to use this ourselves?
> Note that there is no dataflow here: it's just an ordinary state machine.

It sounds like you've converted data-flow to its state-space form. It's still data flow, just in a variant that might be easier to compute.

FWIW you probably need a pair of functions :

next state = F(input, current state)
output = G(input, current state)

Which in the signal-processing/control systems world is

s = Ax + Bs
y = Cx + Ds

Aka the "state space" formulation where A, B, C, and D are matrices, x is the input, s is the state, and y is the output. There are infinite ways to formulate the state space and infinite equivalent signal flow graphs that represent the same thing.
Ask HN: Who wants to create a GPT-first company?
Some years ago I thought it would be interesting to crowdsource company creation. After using GPT4 for software development, I thought why not create a GPT4-first company?

Here is the company: automate the process of architectural drawings for homes.

Currently, if you want house plans your options are to hire an architect, hire a drafter,
or buy stock plans from one of a dozen websites that sell them. The problem is that the architect
takes 6 months and costs quite a sum, the drafter is much less expensive but can't give you their
attention since they are super busy, and the stock plans tend not to be quite what you are looking
for and are an inconsistent hodgepodge collection from various design programs.

We know there is a solid market for this. I don't think the competition is architects but rather the stock sites. (Architects will be needed to design libraries, schools, chic homes, and large glass skyscrapers.) The customer is someone who wants a plan but doesn't need the full services of an architect. There are a lot of jurisdictions, in the US anyway, that do not have any zoning requirements which further narrows down the initial target market.

Why me? First, this is a huge pain that I've experienced. Like many fields, in architecture you see a wide variance of skill and it seems that it matters not whether you went to an Ivy but rather whether you care and are determined to stay up to date with building science and technology. Few of these people exist; good luck finding them and hiring them. If this software existed I'd absolutely have used it and paid serious money for the final plans. It would have saved me headaches, months of time, and money. Second, I'm a big fan of high performance homes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34408123) and think it'd be advantageous to have these elements as design features.

I've been able to successfully implement proof of concept IBC2018 CAD designs in Python using GPT-4. Inductively, this could work! So by "GPT-first" company I mean that the team would explicitly use GPT or another LLM (IDEs and such being developed) as a tool on a consistent basis. There could be other uses of AI like CV for interpreting a customer's drawing or a customized LLM for the user to dictate what they want. Note: there are a lot of projects that are attempting to use GANs or stable diffusion for the purpose of design, and I think that direction is misguided. Interior design may be
an interesting avenue to go eventually, but any design should be discrete and not a non-deterministic result of a trained model.

The founding team should be a mix of ui/graphics designers, generalists, and cv/ml engineers. An architect or drafter will be important for evaluating results. Since there is a high performance home angle, it probably helps to want to have a positive effect on the world in terms of carbon emission.

It'd be a fun experiment. Who is interested?
just tilt your head 90 degrees and it'll be fine.

this is rows/columns from a math/matrix/tensor perspective where they are the arbitrary first and second dimensions of a data-containing object.

it's not rows/columns from a database perspective where you expect columns to define a static schema and rows to be individual records.
Formula One race car drivers tend to blink at the same places in each lap
I was mostly joking, but worst-cases include sorted and reverse-sorted lists. I've seen those happen accidentally, in practice, resulting in accidentally-quadratic runtime. This is why, when I taught that class, I made students compare sorting algorithms on real world data sets.
Still would love to see some graphs of the populations and maybe also nitrogen.
You may doubt it, but installing VPNs and getting software from alternate sources is a basic life skill in a country like Iran where the government tries hard to control what people see online. The old and young alike are doing this.
All of us 'olds' are freaking out naturally but what good are these TLDs anyhow? Zip is useful for what, a few brands where it aligns but it means nothing to many as a word....especially non-english speakers? What is it - a Batman fight sound? Fwack! Biff! Pow! Aieeee!
Some of these TLDs are such a cashgrab and so useless.

And then there's the fact that the younger generation has such little experience with filesystems and files due also to default hidden file extensions in Windows etc, they wouldn't even know what zip was ....

Ends up just down to the browser/OS to block malicious downloads etc if the domains are clicked.
Plenty of mech keyboards feel great to type on.
I completely seriously and unironically find bash to be absolutely beautiful.

So, no, it's not "objectively" awful. At most it's "subjectively" awful for some people.
Fixing this. We ran a few benchmarks (and some were much faster than 37x), but this was a more typical case. Not our goal to inflate numbers.
> the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame sucks for not having inducted them already

The Rock and Roll Hall of fame sucks in general - they have inducted a ton of pop, rap, and country stars but have kept out some of the legends of rock, especially in hard rock, punk, and heavy metal. The actual museum is also a bit boring too IMO; it needs more experiences with actual music.
See the World's Unsold Clothing in a Desert Pileup
macOS has built in head tracking & control with expressions or additional hardware switches
advcpmv[1] shows progress by default for `cp` and `mv` commands.

[1]: https://github.com/jarun/advcpmv
Note that Privacy Pass is not a Cloudflare product, it's an open protocol which Cloudflare supports.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-privacypass/
Me too and ... it's still working on the factory batteries!

There are many reasons to love the HP calcs, but I think the keyboard doesn't get enough praise. I have never found another calculator as satisfying to use. I heard from owners of the Swiss that it's not quite as good.
> There is no reason that the US can't do this. The US is a wealthy country.

Besides being wealthy, isn't Norway pretty culturally/ethnically homogeneous? That may be a pretty important factor that may contribute to making their policy choices work.

Similarly, isn't it a welfare state? That could also play a pretty significant role, too.
Yep. Google started out running a search engine but now it is something else.

Their “evil” business model is one reason why they have been blindsided by chatbots. To maintain their business model they need a chatbot to answer whatever the highest bidder wants. The answer to “Is global warming a problem?” is “Yes” if Greenpeace spends the most and “No” if ExxonMobil spends the most.

People accept corrupt Google search but insofar as they personalize a chatbot and chatbots have a certain power to seduce, they won’t accept a chatbot does the same, if “search” is replaced by an honest chatbot, huge amounts of revenue will disappear overnight and advertisers will shift their spend elsewhere. Microsoft can jump in with both feet because they don’t make a lot of money with Bing.
He could reveal more info on USA's inhumane practices obviously.
I doubt that e.g. mobile carriers have the infrastructure in place to do state-by-state website blocking. Of course we can conceive of the mechanism very simply in the abstract, but that doesn't necessarily mean that implementing it will be simple for them.
Eh...given that Instagram Reels is virtually an identical product, I have a feeling kids will migrate over there. On a side note, Meta is probably signing praises for Montana now.
Why do ya’ll think I am socially inept or something?
I don’t think that average speed is the relevant measure here. Top speeds would still be noisy.

But even at average speed you’d see no noise reduction from electric cars since 20mph is the point where tires are as loud as the engine. So the average would need to go down.
Meta bets big on AI with custom chips – and a supercomputer
It is you, if you're an American citizen. Same way current Russian invasion isn't "Putin's war", every Russian is partially responsible.
N3 (Notation 3), a superset of Turtle, can represent quoted triples.
UI functionality seems broken on firefox 113
> How hard can you continue to advocate ... That's natural numbers, not reals!

I didn't mean to advocate at all... Just explained that I never peronally felt the weirdness of it.

The point about integers is taken but Python style also gives you len(range(n, n+k)) == k and len(range(n, k)) == n - k which is very convenient at times.

> To the contrary: the support of base elements of major functional spaces used in measure theory textbooks are always compact.

You can take either type of intervals to define Borel sigma algebras.

Half-open intervals, however, additionaly form a semiring while finite unions of half-open intervals additionaly form a ring - the starting point of Caratheodory's extension theorem [1] which is kind of essential at least in some expositions.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%27s_extens...
Yes of course the relationship between volume and area depends on the lake depth, are you suggesting the paper implied anything else? The Great Salt Lake has dropped rather dramatically in the last ten years, so much so that it has already changed pretty much all recreation and commercial activity on the lake - the primary boat dock closed because the marina was completely dry and by last year the shores had moved inward, by kilometers in some cases. Unusual precipitation this year has brought levels up a little, but this might only be a blip in the downward trend. The known reasons include drought conditions, unusually high temperatures, and greater upstream use. The Great Salt Lake’s recent history very much backs up the claims of this paper, no?
Probably true. My question was "how often is this run?"

I assume it's not just once when I first turn on my laptop from fully off. Is it once every time I restart a Docker container? (Assuming FreeBSD images.)

Is it something that runs a couple times a day, a dozen times a day, a thousand times a day? Fifty times every time I open an Electron app?

I suspect this doesn't matter and is more a curiosity, but I wouldn't be shocked to learn otherwise.
People use water directly and indirectly. And water is "used" and "used" - it's not as simple as measuring a pipe, you need to know where it goes.
I recently saw a color breakdown of Bob Ross videos on reddit: [OC] Color Frequency in Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1330smg/oc...

And then when looking for some other items found a Tableau report of all of the elements: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/calloni/viz/TheJoyofP... (which has the additional neat feature of linking to the corresponding videos that make use of that element)