skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the veracity of this particular story, but I've seen something like that denial before.

Someone accidentally stepped on the toes of some lawless dirty-tricks entity. They realized this after the fact. But when they seemed to get neutralized with very evil but textbook action, they said, in desperation (close from memory) "But why would ___?! I don't have any enemies!"

I'm not sure, but I think, if they would've been asked just then, they might've contradicted what they'd just said, to tell you who probably did it, and why they might get any of that party's attention. That might've been some powerful psychology speaking just then.

I suspect they were verbalizing reversion to their self image, and how they wanted the world to be. Something like this just wouldn't happen to them, and they're not in that world of stepping on the toes of characters like this, and don't want to be.

(Also, in case of this journalist, note the bit about the German official with poor bedside manner, when speaking with a potential victim of a heinous crime. Maybe the official was interrogating, or angry, or that was just their manner. The journalist spoke of shame as a reason, which I guess might be the journalist's cultural upbringing about being tough and not being the oppressed, but the German also seemed to be shaming.)
It’s the additives that leach from plastics, this is now common knowledge. And yeah chromium and nickel are bad for you too. Aluminum is bad for you too but it forms a stable oxide layer. Cast iron is the way.

Can we stop the whataboutism or are we all smokers here too?
No, he's talking about country/government, not people. I was born in Moscow and spent most of my life there, and I completely agree that people who live there would be much better of without the current government and most likely without the country in it's current form too.
If you don't need a certification on the results then cyclopure[1] is probably the best bet for reasonably priced testing.

I live in NYC and had the state do lead testing and cyclopure do PFAS testing. Was very happy to have both come back clean / zero detection.

[1] https://cyclopure.com/product/water-test-kit-pro/
I would prefer you stop equating the two.
Is that the same growth that was contingent on lead in paint and CFCs in the atmosphere?
> Building arbitrary scale SaaS data services, complex cryptographic platforms, more recently AI stuff, all are replete with unknowns.

I think we can all agree that the vast majority of software work does not belong to the categories above, and is therefore relatively predictable.
Except this, apparently.
I don't think you read the article, or if you did you didn't understand it.

The idea isn't books themselves are good or bad, it's that the same book can be good or bad depending on who you are. Maybe that's a surface level view, but it doesn't relate to the second half of your comment?
You're wrong about that.
I might consider barbelling my gfund with some 30y treasuries, but I now think ageInBonds is bunk. I don't think they provide nearly the diversification benefit they used to. If a friend asked me for asset allocation advice, I would not recommend they have more than 20-30% in bonds.
Do you have a source for that? Because the story as told seems vanishingly unlikely. Maybe nothing could be proven but that they were there illegaly?
Politicians don’t allocate funding into specific diseases. They allocate large blocks to places like the NIH, which then have scientists determine where to allocate funds.
There's a simple political way that's been successful several times. The political decision is made to buy the water light rates and then the state owns it.
Out of curiosity, do you use react or use any components in those projects? The general consensus seems to be people who are practicing atomic design with components love Tailwind, and people who don't dislike Tailwind.
I don't think it directly has to do with taxes as much as take-home pay. Waiters are paid very little (below the minimum wage, which is itself unlivable), so the idea of "get rid of tips" is not usually accompanied by "and triple/quadruple their hourly wage."

FWIW there are more and more restaurants in the US (especially high-end ones) that have gotten rid of tipping but this is a labor-friendly decision made by management and puts the restaurant at a menu-price disadvantage to its competitors.
As far as I can tell, there are four things that can happen to the water:

- it runs off or trickles away - probably negligible here

- it evaporates before it's absorbed by the plant - mostly due to wasteful irrigation practices. Unless you're doing drip-irrigation or similar, this is where most of your water will end up

- it's absorbed by the plant and used in photosynthesis to make sugar and eventually other molecules - this is what's on the truck, but by mass it's negligible

- it's absorbed by the plant and used for nutrient transfer - this is what happens to most water plants consume. In simplified terms, capillary action drives water up the plant, bringing nutrients with it; evaporation removes water at the leaf so that new water comes in

According to Wikipedia the last effect (Transpiration) accounts for 97–99.5% of water actually used by the plant [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpiration
> And does my face compare to the ones in the dataset.

Yes, exactly! You're fine-tuning something with more data. How do you fine-tune adult porn models to create CP without CP data? If you do what you're saying you'll have adult bodies with child faces.

> That's not something I can easily train for you ahaha

Can you show me any example where such a thing has worked? I don't believe such an example exists.
It is widely accepted that one of the court's jobs is to determine whether the legislature's laws are in line with state and federal constitutions. This mechanism exists to make sure that the majority cannot infringe upon the rights of a minority simply because they control the legislature.

The ruling in this case is weirdly hard to find, probably because it's not a supreme court case yet, but the reports say that all the judge did was strike down one provision of a law that the legislature passed, according to a pretty reasonable interpretation of this provision in the state constitution [0].

[0] https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0000/article_0090/part_00...
In Rust each crate can be compiled with a different edition. If we had this in C++ you could compile one file/module with C++11 and another with C++20. The compiler defaults could change for new code, but be kept the same for old code. Nothing breaks. You opt-in to the new standard one file/module at the time.
> your point of view is very, very cynical

Yes. It is also informed by a 40-year career that has included a pretty even mix of working for both small and large organizations. Cynical != wrong.

Here is another cynical but informed observation: part of the modus operandi of large organizations is specifically to prevent any one person from becoming too important to fire. So as soon as someone starts to significantly outperform their peers, the organization actively moves to squash them because an individual contributor at 3 sigma is an existential threat to good order and discipline.

This is not speculation. This actually come up many years ago when I was interviewing for a CTO position. I was asked: what would you do if you had an engineer who outperformed everyone on their team by a wide margin, but who everyone disliked. The answer it turned out they were looking for (I learned after the fact): fire them. That's not the answer I gave, and I didn't get the job.

I've also tried both strategies (work hard, and slack off) over the years when I've worked at large organizations. I've consistently gotten much better performance reviews when I slacked off.

(This is absolutely not true at small companies BTW, which is why I vastly prefer working there.)
Person with Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder here:

You know, doctors told me for years that the pain in my chest and back was all because of my mental illness, even though my brother and mother both needed spinal surgery for Anklysoing Spondylitis by the time they were 60.

They dismissed me till I told them I wanted an MRI of my spine and chest and there it was, Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, the precursor to AS. So not I can treat it so it does not process into AS. They all told me there was " physiological cause to symptoms".

There is a HUGE stigma in medicine against any pain in people with mental illness, it is their best excuse to not even look. That is why there is no progress.
I could imagine a pretty simple social network where, if someone posted a beheading video, many people would report it as being objectionable. If enough of the people I connected as friends reported the video (or, perhaps, enough of the ones whom I marked as trustworthy) then I would never see it.

Instead the way the social network is designed is that some freak who is a friend of a friend posts a video of a person's head being chopped off and a guy in Kenya has to delete it, because everything about the internet is profoundly insane.
The community also includes moderators such as Dang, as well as various automated systems that act on behalf of the encoded norms. This is a fairly well known aspect of HN?
A reminder as always that the ideal number of jobs (i.e. labor cost) needed to produce adequate energy to meet consumption demand is 0.

Yeah, yeah, this is startup cost in many cases. But jobs are not (or shouldn't be) the goal of an energy policy.
>Algorithms already can construct pretty accurate models of a person’s preferences based on physical activities, including typing search terms or tapping to “like” a photo. While there are high hopes that reconstructing words and music from neural activity could enable applications that promote mental health and social connection, reading and interpreting thoughts is regarded as the next privacy frontier.

Uncannily, this reminds me of a popular German cartoon from 1819 titled "The Thinkers Club" (Der Denker-Club) [0] which had the slogan: How long will be thinking allowed?" (Wie lange möchte uns noch das Denken wohl noch erlaubt bleiben?)

It was meant to satirize the clamp down on liberal and nationalist ideas by restricting the freedom of assembly and press as a way to follow through the European Restauration after the Napoleonic Wars.

In the current asymmetry of giant tech corporations (in bed with government) I find the idea of further breaking any privacy walls whatsoever by trojan horsing it with mental health and social connection and declaring it a new frontier just totally backwards. I think as with liberal and nationalistic ideas back in the day we should value privacy not try just to let it go for ultimately what? Dissolve ourselves into AGI superseding Gaia: Le monde, c'est moi! But maybe I'm the old-fashioned one, here.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_Decrees
There's a load of software needed, but it's really not sexy, or it requires relatively esoteric languages like MATLAB. I know of at least one ubiquitous system, PSCAD for simulations, that still relies on Fortran
Don't shield people of the horrors caused by mad men, for they will be their next victims.
global inequality fell. local inequality increased in many places. These are somewhat two sides of the same coin.
the Vue compiler does do optimizations you can't get if you were to write the components by hand, most of the time.

I did only use `v-for` as an example of sorts though, and in the common case, `v-for` vs a regular `for` loop are similar if not the same, IIRC, but in some cases where your children may show or hide based on downstream data, it can be more efficient
Some staffer probably has the job of doing tweets for multiple accounts... I wonder how many? Are there legitimate sockpuppet tools for such cases?
There’s relatively few coal jobs left. Nationwide in 2011 it was already down to 91.5 thousand coal miners by 2021 it was 39.5 thousand, again nationwide. https://www.statista.com/statistics/215790/coal-mining-emplo...

The industry provides more jobs for mechanics etc, but any community dependent on coal workers has already been devastated.

Oil and gas are very separate as solar or wind isn’t displacing them anytime soon. In 10+ years EV’s might start to reduce the need for oil, but it’s going to be a very slow transition. If 100% of new cars are EV that’s still decades worth of existing vehicles plus boats and aircraft.
Technically the translation is off. But you're probably being downvoted because others don't think that is reasonable.

Ideally both types of vehicles should be able to get along, but the reality is that both types of drivers have irrational emotions.
Quite the atmospheric reverberation.

It would be interesting if they picked a hummable tune like Peter Cottontail.
who limited the conversation to end product?
When we pay $1,000+ per pill for our newest cancer drug we are not paying $1,000 for the few micrograms of active ingredients. Same in agriculture, when we say, "It takes 5 gallons of fuel to produce 1 gallon of soybean oil" we don't mean of course that there is ANY fuel IN the soybean oil (WE HOPE!). Same with water, we say it takes about 1 gallon of water to grow 1 almond, again, there is not actually 1 gallon of H20 in each almond.
Grew up on DDR back in the early 2000s as part of my workouts. Loved it immensely but when ITG came out, switched over immediately. I understand why Konami did what they did although I wished they didn't, because it killed the genre. ITG had better UI/UX, better tracks, better graphics, and equally important - better content. I was good enough that 10-footers like Max300 and Legend of MaxX were not cutting it, so when ITG came out and tracks like Vertex and Vertex^2 had a 12 foot rating, the game was really challenging. What wasn't to like?

Still have a version of the old StepMania running on a Mac I bought in like 2002, with the ITG patch and probably 500+ songs. I bust that out from time to time. Still great fun.

Honestly I miss that whole scene, my local arcade had 10 or so guys that were really good and the online community was great too. Wish rhythm games made a comeback.
Nero Burning ROM still seems to be available from its original developer, Nero AG: https://www.nero.com/eng/products/nero-burning-rom/

The modern packaging doesn't show the iconic "coliseum on fire" icon, but I'm pretty sure it will be in there somewhere once you install it. :)
I mean this in the nicest, most sincere way possible. I don't know you, but I've met you a thousand times. As a middle-aged white guy, I was also a young white guy on the internet.

I encourage you to broaden your horizons. Get off the internet and read some long-form books. Your position isn't profound or even interesting. Your basic assumptions are wrong and no matter what flowery language you use to dress it up, it's still a silly juvenile argument.
> Every dollar we spent on building DACs is a dollar we don’t spend on building green energy.

Correct, but at some point you need to start with developing CCS, and I don't think we have the time to postpone research and pathfinder facilities even further. Solar and wind power have gotten to a point where the current solutions are already mostly commercially viable, so public money doesn't have to be spent on that. If a small portion of it is instead spent on CCS solutions it could significantly reduce the time to net-zero and then time to 1990s-levels of atmospheric CO2. Solar doesn't remove emissions from difficult to replace chemical processes, but (expensive) DAC can compensate this while other solutions are being explored.

We do need negative emissions, and the buildup of wind/solar is not that. DAC can be one solution, olivine weathering another, but ignoring the buildup of CO2 while rushing emission stops may still result in too much CO2 over too much time.

> And b) again it’s easier to “remove” CO2 from the atmosphere by not putting it there in the first place.

That doesn't solve the issue where we've already put in too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
Amazing interview clip by Patrick Collison on his reading strategy (as well as John's) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkh3BHP6KJ0

Very much echoes some of the sentiment from this article.
Reading the article, four of the seven paragraphs are direct quotes from the Governor, two more are simply summarizing what he said, and one relays reporting from the Honolulu Civil Beat. It all seems to be fact-based reporting
Ralph's Open Source Blog: Little Quick Helps
The often serches little helps with open-source programs to successfully continue
Food production should move to where there's sufficient water to grow things economically.

About 20-60% of US agricultural value is exported, mostly in unprocessed form, so there's little danger of the US becoming dependent on food imports. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

High-water use crops are only economical to grow in the southwest because water is mispriced.

Absent that, farmers would grow something else.

They'd probably make less money, but that's something we address via subsidies (gradually phasing out).
You can see how that's not quite the same thing, right?
"Schlussstrich" is probably more "deduction stroke" or "inference stroke".
It's evolutionary psychology. It doesn't need evidence.

(I honestly think that "a group with members who both seek novelty and avoid it is more likely to prosper than one that doesn't have a mix" is probably true. It's just impossible to prove).
One of the first apps I got for the iPad.
Where "less growth" is a euphemism for "horrific die-backs" ?
Visually building an onboarding flow with 1-command deployment
The movie was outright wrong in some other details that seemed to contradict congressional testimony / public knowledge of 2008 as well.

Movie was a movie. It bothers me that the attention span of Americans is so short that they can't be bothered to look up the known and public facts of 2008 before making opinions on it.
Probably the governments that grant the permits and collect the taxes for these foreign farming operations
> I believe both React and Vue have the capability to scope your CSS along with the components.

While that's true, it also means you need to propagate all of your exceptions for support of old browsers. And you still need a ton of global styles so your application can be re-themed or white-labeled according to your customer specifications. And god forbid someone applies a color directly in a component and you have to grep the codebase looking for the errant code.

After 5 years of tailwind on several complex applications, I can say that it's been easier to maintain, especially as engineers come and go, than any of the applications I worked on before. Frankly, every company I've ever worked for wound up with something like their own bespoke tailwind anyway, but instead of having it well-documented, every new hire had to learn whatever naming system whoever wrote the global design styles decided on.

> I believe both React and Vue have the capability to scope your CSS along with the components. Modular CSS has been much easier to maintain over years than fixing when Tailwind updates or finding (again) that one !important that happens to conflict with a new released component set.

In my experience that's empirically false. Maybe if you only care about Chrome, but CSS is hell to maintain when you need to keep support for browsers like pre-blink Edge.
I would expect this to take some time, but not minutes. I'll see if I can make it quicker and if not, I'll have to add a progress bar.
Well, water isn't really "used". It eventually always evaporates and falls back down to earth. It's only used if some chemical process alters the molecule in some reaction.

The problem is 100% of the original water is no longer where you need it, not that some percentage gets into the plant or not.

The cost of water is all about moving it and/or filtering it. The analogy that it's a water export oversees applies when you think that they'd have to move that water from somewhere else otherwise to grow that alfalfa. Not that the alfalfa "has" the water.

Also, moving insane amounts of water to the desert for an incredibly water hungry plant, because desert land is cheap, and the moving of that water is underpriced... is kind of insane.
For anyone who doesn't know this already (I didn't), I looked up NED's website and it says it's a private organization, but that it is funded mostly by the State Department. So, not intelligence agencies.
“Neither am I a pedophile myself, nor do I know anyone who is“
Glad you cleared that up for the readers at home.
Yeah, I switched too, but the task manager I use now is a bit of a letdown compared to windows.

It always shows the same processes, just the base os and the apps I installed and expressly start or autostart. There are no new obscurely named processes constantly popping up after every update. There are no rogue processes using 90% cpu, no programmes hanging and crashing the window manager.

It's just all so predictable and.. well, boring. I almost miss the excitement of never quite knowing what I would find in the window task manager.
The West prefers more refined tactics like missiles- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleima...
As I understand it microplastics are harmful in and of themselves.
It is good to be thorough with this stuff, and sometimes that means things go more slowly than we’d like. But the end result is that nobody reasonable could think it is a partisan witch hunt. It might be the case that a significant chunk of the populace is unreasonable, but that isn’t something that can be solved by changing courtroom procedures.
Matt Parker did a great video on this recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYkmIxS4ksA
Yes, and many are concerned with the biggest issue from beef production, not how much they consume but how much waste they produce, mostly methane.
Japan's demographics are a horror show. As is most of asia's. Heck, as is most of europe's. About the only places with decent demographics are latin america and africa and they're going to face outsized problems with global warming.
Yes, interestingly it's not even notably good fan fic. So this suggests that there was an underserved audience.

That is to say there were a lot of people (mostly women, statistically) who wanted to read about this messed up romance where the very rich guy with mummy issues treats our heroine poorly and she's ok with that because of the money. In some larger cultural sense that's not great, but nobody else was writing the stories they wanted to read.
Facebook work with cops all around the world, might as well be an official request from russian internal affairs.
They aren't really. There are faster Intel and Ryzen CPUs for far less than what Apple asks for an M2 Max. You can get an Asus Vivobook S with an Intel i9 13900H, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, HiDPI 15" OLED screen for $1100, the same price as a 13" M2 MBA with 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The i9 13900H will outperform the M2 Max too. Really the only place the Mac wins is efficiency and against Intel rivals GPU performance. And if you don't care as much about having as nice a screen you can usually find something with a better discrete GPU at the same price.
And we exported $2.56B according to that source. If you have leave people guessing on what your statistics mean, they’re useless.

We have a harbor, everything that goes to Europe is counted as import and export. What does that mean for these numbers? Nobody knows.

And the beef that is imported is probably from Ireland and the UK. Do they have deserts there? So even that number is useless.

You’re just another example of someone repeating statistics that only lead to irrelevant discussions.
I disagree.
A doctor better understand the economic impact the drugs they are prescribing to their patient.