skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying there is no cause for grievance - only that it doesn't look like the discussion is being had in good faith.

The urban water districts, especially Southern California, paid for the 444-mile California Aqueduct to get water from the mountains to the cities. During the last half of the twentieth century this had more supply than needed, so they were happy to sell it for cheap to Central Valley farmers under the condition that they don't grow permanent crops like trees, because eventually the urban water needs were going to increase and they'd need to keep more of the water that they'd paid to transport.

What did they actually do? For one thing, planted orchards. (I'm assuming the miles and miles of felled orchards I saw last week alongside the 5 are related to this particular thing.)

Now, the farmers of the Central Valley may have contractual grievances if the State has done as you say -- and I don't claim to invalidate those, but (A) the fishermen who want salmon to still exist have just as much of a right to a living as they do, and the self-serving bias of the farmers is obvious here. And (B) they have no inherent right to that water, as it comes from up in the mountains. I'd say the districts who paid the cost to build the water project should have first dibs. The farmers who are loudest right now seem to see water costs the same way restaurant owners view minimum wage: "It must be low enough to make my personal business model viable, and if it's not, I'm being oppressed." Nobody owes them favorable costs, any more than Apple is owed cheap semiconductors or Tesla is owed cheap batteries. As reliable Republican voters, it's disappointing that they oppose a market economy so much.

As far as I can see, I think that as long as there is a marginal dollar that could be made by the farmers if only water were cheaper, their politicians will be disingenuously arguing that the cities are robbing them of their water and trying to get more. No matter how fair the arrangements are, or how many concessions are made to them.
Okay, thank you for your link. I really did find it interesting.

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Setbacks, yes. But If I can read a graph (pg 15 of your link), the set back of a global pandemic in 2020 took us to 2015 levels. and we're looking to recover to our per-pandemic levels in 2024.

We might be getting into personal perspectives here... but that seems like a reasonably proportionate setback.
This is one of those “but where does the water go” questions that have to be answered to determine the true effect.

Eg - if ten gallons per almond is true, and one goes to evaporation and nine into the aquifer it’s much different than if five evaporate, four run off into the ocean, and one sinks into the ground.
This says nothing new.
This idea was around since the 80s, if not earlier, and used extensively for automatic differentiation textbook.

But, for an audience that seems to think it rides on the frontier of knowledge and that we have just discoveres things (when, in fact, it's our ignorance of earlier research that is the reason that we are re-discovering them), such a medium post might be like a drug :D
How do they calculate those numbers?

I buy materials for $100 and sell them for $120 for 20% profit. My costs rise to $110 so I raise the price to $135. Consumers see inflation of 12.5%. What percentage of that is corporate profit and how much is whatever else inflation is?
I mean, can't we form a web3 dao to perform acquisition of WMF (or a hostile-takeover?), if it works out donors get to vote next leadership, etc etc, drive cost low and make sure things are in good hands, if it doesn't work out then just return the cash back, plain and simple.
Yep, and they're working and being paid for and by us. If they're working for the benefit of the people (or at least their voters), why would they keep secrets from us/them?
As true and as insidious as that is, the problem is much worse in allegedly “socialist” countries historically. Note that I am not really including Western Europe in my definition of socialist, even though they have larger social programs than the U.S. Having a democracy lowers the degree of shamelessness with which funds for a social benefit like free daycare or universal healthcare can be used for things other than their ostensible purpose with no consequence and for a long period of time. It’s all relative. Americans sometimes make bad analogies to their own government (“are we really that much better than X”) and take for granted how our government avoids a lot of egregious abuses that you’d find in socialist dictatorships, regardless of which party is in power.

Of course I’m speaking only of internal politics - American foreign policy is another can of worms and we don’t even have complete information to properly assess it. Are we secretly propping up a dictator who is slaughtering his own people? Who knows, maybe we’ll find out when that information is declassified in a few decades, or never.
> If you see lots of positive or misdrecting comments, it's not necessarily a coincidence (imo).

I like HN a lot but for this type of topic, its consistently, desperately, and annoyingly un-objective (if thats a word). I do get that we humans tend to form echo chambers by ourselves just to validate our viewpoints and decisions however subjective they may be, but I expect a bit more than what I see here from some of the smartest folks on Earth.

Their influence is very visible also in other places, ie otherwise great web for photography - dpreview.com is a pure echo chamber for Apple. Every apple product is discussed in details and glorified, any problems are completely ignored. Most competition is given almost 0 coverage, especially direct competitors or those that currently surpass some of their tech at given time. And we don't talk US-vs-China stuff, many phone manufacturers don't have any China ties at all, or are outright US companies.

There is no way in hell Apple is not pouring tons of cash into ironing their fuckups, or just errors in judgement, infrequent as they are, and HN is way too visible and important to not be part of such an operation. To skip it would be a very junior mistake, and there are no juniors in this space in 2023, not with richest company globally.
> That said, I’ve read people here saying[1] that overlapped I/O on Windows also works by scheduling operations on a thread pool

The _kernel_ thread pool. Eventually, most work has to be done in an actual thread, after all.

> [2] https://support.microsoft.com/kb/156932

It's a bit misleading. What they mean is that some operations can act as barriers for further operations. E.g. async calls to ReadFile won't run until the call to WriteFile finishes (if it's writing past the end of the file).
I love finding useful strategies and tactics from nature, and applying them in my life and work.

Another example:

Redundancy. We have two lungs, two nostrils, etc.

Anything that I'm stressed about breaking or not having enough of, if it's practical to get a second one, I do, that way the stress is gone. Not always practical, but great when it is.

A helpful way to remember it: 3 is 2, 2 is 1, and 1 is none.
The way that China has handled this is that they view those razor thin margins as an opportunity to move up the value chain.
1) Foxconn opens an assembly plant
2) Supporting infrastructure is backfilled into the area
3) There’s now a geographic industrial concentration that can support domestic electronic designers
It's good to know the full story, but it's reprehensible? I don't want to cast stones but a really easy connection to make is that wistron took the contact knowing they could only "be profitable" by not paying their labor. So I'm supposed to hate Apple for doing what a business is supposed to do (and frankly being excellent at it). And I'm supposed to champion Wistron for what they did? That's reprehensible if we're throwing the term around.
Though I loathe Cox for several reasons, in my neck of the woods, they offer wifi with excellent coverage over the neighborhood. Captive portal can be logged into with Cox account credentials.

I've used it several times as a backup, e.g. during power outages. Not a bad perk.
I can't shake off the fact that Western powers won the cold war but imposed a victor's peace on Russia.

It's more of an assessment than "fact". But still, you don't need to shake if off. You can obsess about it all you want, in fact.

What matters here is that the current conflict not just entirely one-sided -- but utterly, completely insane. And that that there are absolutely no historical circumstances which explain, contextualize or otherwise minimize the aggressor's actions.
> I hope they're politically neutral.

WMF is definitely not politically neutral, neither is English Wikipedia (don't know much about the rest).
Soda: An End-to-End Open-Source Hardware Compiler for ML Accelerators [pdf]
> I would guess it was a type of "don't tell me, I don't want to know, plausible deniability and all".

Imagine something like due diligence laws for making business contracts, so you can't really blame plausible deniability anymore.
Damn, he should have stayed and at least gotten a severance package.
It's a lot easier to move water than it is to move sunshine and soil.
> If that were a feasible option I'd think we'd be seeing at least some already in use

First you'd need enough customer traffic to fill the vehicle. There is no point in buying a vehicle that can serve 12 customers if you never get more than 4 at once.

Space to park doesn't seem like a huge problem when they're making deliveries. The mail truck is bigger than these things. Buildings with tight parking commonly have a loading zone or a space with a 15 minute limit specifically for deliveries, and it's big enough for a light truck.
> That is definitely not what most people are talking about when they critique facebook.

A whole lot of people are talking more about data privacy than free speech on Facebook, though. Is one discussed more than the other? I don't know -- but I suspect most are talking about neither, and which group appears to be the majority depends on which group you tend to hang around more.
Yeah, I think to me the line between “competing by making our product better” and “competing in a hostile way” was crossed with WSL, because Microsoft is literally taking other people’s work and slapping it into Windows. I mean at this point I consider Windows 11 with WSL to be “Windows and Linux”, not “Windows”. It doesn’t make Windows better. To me, it’s comparable to Walmart driving small businesses out by undercutting them on price. The product isn’t better, in fact there’s plenty of “Great Value” stuff I wouldn’t feed to my dog, but nevertheless the inferior product wins out in the end. What’s good for Windows is bad for Linux, period.
Everyone is trying to squeeze everyone else, including you. This isn't about sociopathy, this is just the human condition.
I ran a small side business for a while - at the time I had a fitness tracker style watch that would vibrate every time I got an email or notification. At first it was thrilling but after a while as the workload got too much I realised every time it vibrated my heart rate would increase and my anxiety would spike. It felt like I was on 24/7 on-call.

Now I don't receive any notifications. I check my messages too often still, but at least it's on my terms.

I still wear a fitness tracker but now it's just a watch.
Good for them. I was visiting Dublin this past summer. One early morning, I stumbled across a guy having alcohol withdrawal seizures (according to his friend that didn't have a phone, so I called 112 for them). Later that day, I watched a guy pass out drunk in the road. Construction workers came from a nearby site and placed cones around him so he wouldn't get run over.

Maybe my experience was abnormal, but it was shocking.
this gives me some 'what does ja rule think about this' feeling, like if they asked bill nye or neil degrasse tyson
> imperative that we have access to the data

What makes electronic messages be different to other forms of private communication that they need to be provided to the government automatically? And in the case of Spain in particular, there are reports of Pegasus being used to spy on Catalan politicians [1][2].

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/spain-pegasus...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/spain-pegasus...
You seem to be implying BBC is not biased. I have bad news for you in this case.
Or bottle it. appleSiliconRunoff would sell like … bottled water!
Not always fast enough. Automerge with 32MB of JSON to parse is... painfully slow.
Makes you wonder about the credulity of these news sources. Like the average person I consumer news every day, and this post on HN at nearly 5:00 PM local time is the first I am hearing of it.
They are rather good cars. More interesting than a Tesla too in my opinion.
I know its a bit of a pipe dream, but why not raise taxes and pass a 1930s style infrastructure spending bill to compensate? Would help with the downturn that feels like it'll happen at any point (in earnest, for better or worse) by providing good jobs and solving problems all at the same time?

We could do this with desalination, green energy projects, and other public infrastructure. I'd even love to see us subsidize fiber to homes and businesses en masse and allow ISPs to share the resulting infrastructure like they do in Europe
Russia still has lots of nukes, too. Probably even more than you. They still discovered the international backslash, after blatantly breaking international law by invading ukraine.
> Can someone steelman the argument against one-party consent? I literally can't think of any reason anyone would want it, other than wanting to be able to lie about what they said later.

Are you actually asking hackernews, in a thread about banning encryption, why "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" is not a good justification for being monitored without your consent?
Self-Driving Cars vs. the World’s Worst Drivers
Sorry I was one of many who spammed you with the answer
You mean by installing the suicidal protection net, Foxconn barely makes it? Foxconn has 1m3 employees. If they made just 137m in profit - that's just $8 profit per employee a month.
Who is making life hell for the Republicans, other than the Republican Party itself?
Mastodon Isn't Web3 and Has Nothing to Do with Cryptocurrencies
Boston Marathon legend Rick Hoyt dies at 61
The entity that wrote it clearly lacks a world model :)
> The antidepressant effect doesn’t require full blown dissociation

I'm not sure, isn't that kind of what's being shown by this study? Or like, is there levels of disassociation that you're distinguishing between? Are you able to enumerate those levels for those of us who are unfamiliar with disassociation?
Yes.

Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.

But again, if you can get a place in the border areas of Phoenix proper, I think that would be the ideal for the average person who lives in Scottsdale. We are from the Midwest, so.

I suspect the water under Phoenix is at least part of the reason developers got to places like Biltmore and Arcadia so many years ago. They're always one step ahead. But there is also the north Phoenix area bordering Scottsdale. I'd recommend that for the well off, but not wealthy. Still close to Kierland Commons area, and Scottsdale Rd is right there. (Although I'd bet even that area will still run you close to a mil for anything decent right now. And the prices there will only rise in the future if the water issues persist.)
Real Open AI lab.
Show HN: Distillr – Use ChatGPT to get concise article summaries
I've made a web app where you can provide the URL to an article and get a summary that aims to improve clarity and readability, often times cutting the length of the original article to <50% of the original.

Of course the ChatGPT API isn't free so I do have a pro tier, but otherwise you can use the app once a day for free (hint: use different browsers if you want more free uses).

I'd like to make iOS and Android versions (I'm already using React Native for the web app), but they don't seem to like that I'm scraping third-party websites so... maybe a browser extension in the future?

I'd love to get any thoughts on it, thanks!
States are not banning books and talking about gay and transgender people. Not sure where you got that info from. As I understand, what they are doing is removing non age appropiate books from elementary and middle school libraries, some of which include LGBTQ content. I would not call this "banning a book", in the same way that not being able to watch violent movies in elementary school is not "banning a movie".

I would suggest you look into the content of the books being challenged and come to your own conclusion as to whether they are age appropiate or not. After all, the term "age appropiate" is subjective.
Apache 2.0 as of... 18min ago?
Running Ubuntu LTS and that was the version from the official repo. Will try a newer version then.
not sure if this was wordy to be ironic
Fraud has certainly increased as people find new ways to exploit the internet across borders with no accountability. It's not just online either, even kids are playing at misappropriation in doing things like soliciting donations from family to their college tuition funds and then just...not going to college (or taking one class at a time to look like they're actively attending, and pocketing the tuition).

Influencers celebrate and encourage this stuff, because everyone older than you is just selfish and deserves to be scammed. Great role models. Being in my stepdaughter's life has been like watching the development of the human incarnation of the Fraud Examiners' Manual. She used to be listed as a beneficiary of my life insurance policy. At this point the only (and I mean only) chapters she hasn't attempted are the ones requiring abuse of one's own assets or credentials (kickbacks, arson, etc.), which are impossible schemes to execute when you've earned neither.

The mental health awareness stuff has scaled with it too. It used to be you moved to the big city for work, and when it got to be too much to handle you'd migrate out to the suburbs or country. But the internet made it so big-city, in-your-face hustle culture follows us literally everywhere. Everyone is out to fuck you. There's no peace or escape from the madness anymore. No wonder everyone has anxiety.
> They would've if they took the Chinese approach to gradually improve the standard of living organically through productivity improvements and education.

Well, since the topic is authoritarianism, note that the Chinese approach resulted in a few tens of millions dead, which is worse than what the Saudis have managed so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
If this war has shown one thing it’s that the thing that matters most is mass:

Massed artillery fire, millions of shells, thousands of armoured vehicles, and so on.

A couple of glorified regiments, green ones at that? That’s not it. No matter the quality of the gear and training.

The West is not prepared for industrial warfare, and inexplicably to me they are barely trying to change that. Massed hot air but not much to show for it.

(And besides, the fact that in Bakhmut the Ukrainian army with plenty of Western gear and training got beat by Wagner plus artillery support alone should get you to question the notion of qualitative superiority. And I just don’t understand how people can come to the conclusion that the Russian forces in Ukraine are depleted when they’ve at least doubled in size, and gear just keeps pouring in.)

Ultimately, we don’t have to fight here, by all acounts Ukrainians are going to show us in a few days what they can or cannot do. And then we’ll see.
Having to be constantly on guard about what you say in case someone's recording you and can play it back for others, or in court, often out of context...

Basically, some expectation of privacy especially in a 1-on-1 conversation, even if it's via telecommunications tech rather than in-person.

Some people adopt a more filtered, cautious way of speaking anyway as a defense mechanism. For them it doesn't matter so much. Other people talk informally with less of a filter, and for them it matters quite a bit.

Given that recording is ubiquitous now anyway, and voice deepfakes are about to render even that irrelevant, there probably isn't a good argument against 1-party consent today.

(However, government officials, outside of a foreign policy context, deserve no privacy for anything related to their official duties. The argument that they need to be able to talk informally with their peers, without fear of public judgment, works against the public interest far more than it works for it. That helps build rapport, but no politician these days would fully trust someone they're just building rapport with; that kind of thing may be valuable for diplomatic relations and spies, but not for regular government officials. Privacy and secrecy among ordinary politicians is little more than a recipe for corruption and side-dealing that they know the public would be rightly upset about.)
Primate City
I suspect the information asymmetry is as big a factor as the scale difference. In most negotiations, Walmart can fundamentally affect the bottom line of the counter party in a way that just isn't true in the other direction. They are more than happy to use this to the counter party's detriment, and even sometimes the consumers.
This looks like a promising idea, and potentially solves a problem I’ve faced recently.

It’s been a challenge getting my SaaS app connected to fragmented APIs belonging to many of my customers, each with their own use cases.

One of the biggest hurdles I faced was Asana’s API. A customer wanted us to hook into an Asana webhook: when a task was added to their project, they needed to push the data to their account on our platform (and vice-versa).

But because Asana is so “flexible” (ha!), all the field names in their API responses were UUIDs. It was a total nightmare to figure out which key/values were the ones we wanted. I’m not sure if/how Psychic can figure this out.

Secondly, maybe it’s just how your landing page is phrased — but this feels like “IFTTT for AI tooling”, rather than “IFTTT powered by AI”.

I see a lot more commercial value in the latter direction. To most prospective customers, your headline “Easy to set up” doesn’t mean a React hook and Python SDK. Just give us a REST API! :)
I won't name any names or make any specific advert but I bought myself a printer with refillable cartridges and it's the cheapest and sanest printer experience I had in over 25 years.
Superintelligence is not a "sci-fi" notion. That would be like saying, a few years before the Wright brothers, that human powered flight is a sci-fi notion. The last ten years have seen massive progress in AI, and another 10 years of such massive progress could very plausibly lead do superhuman intelligence. It's not sci-fi at all.
I can recommend John Wilkman's Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles, cited as "further reading" at the end of this article. I'd never heard of the St. Francis Dam disaster before reading it, and it's a good popular history-style look at the event.
Politicians are the most surveilled people, and sometimes vote for things like this for fear of or as the result of being targeted by their own or other countries' intelligence agencies.

If the CIA wants Spain to ban encryption, they're not going to be bothered by the resistance of some Spanish MPs, they're going to fix the problem.

We (the citizens) need to ban secret police and secret courts.