skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might be other ways of measuring water efficiency of crops, but from a quick google search, most sources seem to consider alfalfa to not be very water efficient. For example:

>...According to an analysis by the conservation non-profit Pacific Institute, alfalfa production in California uses around 5 feet an acre (6167.4 cubic metres) of water, making it one of the most water-intensive crops alongside the likes of almonds, pistachios and rice. Crops such as sugar beets use roughly 3 feet an acre (3,700 cubic metres), and dry beans as little as 1.5 feet each acre (1,850 cubic metres).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado....

>>...Based on USDA data for 2022, only 4% of all U.S. dry hay produced and 6.5% of all harvested alfalfa hay entered the export market.

It is misleading to just talk about the entire US production of alfalfa since in many places water is not nearly as limited as it is in California.

>...Government figures compiled by Putnam and fellow researchers William Matthews and Daniel Sumner show about 15 percent of alfalfa and more than 44 percent of other types of hay produced in the West have been exported in recent years.

>The share exported from Southern California farms is significantly higher than the regional average, the researchers said, because the closeness of the port makes trucking costs relatively inexpensive.

That percentage is from an article in 2017 - it sounds like the percentage today is at least that high or higher.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/09/28/...
Spring of a decade plus ago was fine, it just required a day or two of upstart to configure the whole deal if you weren’t already familiar and had a good project to reference as a basis for bootstrapping.

The tradeoff of today with Spring Boot is you might get bitten down the line with a little configuration mystery, although it’s such a well-blazed path you’re probably in good company and will find your error solved and documented.

In addition, it’s Java so virtually any serious task is done in a well-blazed fashion with numerous open-source options available. In contrast my Node library I used to generate and validate an XML document at work last month cannot read in its own XML output. It’s a boon for efficiency.

The only downside Java really has is that it’s a bit harder to “hack on” a dynamic, evolving JSON structure so it may be a bad fit for organizational reasons if your company lacks a cohesive, mature Engineering staff.
>and removes the problem people.

The problem people is Linus.
Isn't this a false equivelance fallacy? Genuine question, I am not an expert on fallacies.

In any case, would it not be safer to assume the possibility of harmful impact of Chemical X until more concrete data is gathered? Granted, the fear mongering in the media needs to pump the brakes, but err on the side of caution, and all that.

Then again, where does the burden of proof lie; on PFAS not being harmful? That doesn't sound right either.

Bit of a headache, I guess.
I see that over the course of your travels, you developed quite an interest in southeast Asian ladyboys.

Would you say you’re now an authority on the matter? Do you plan to continue your research?
The Maya coveted mercury. It may have hastened their downfall
Tropical Storm Hilary Threatens Baja California and SW US
Could be because the Us have contracting and sometimes oxymoronic requirements.

Some even expect magical abilities from software to turn bad user data in correct data without any work by U. Address data comes to my mind.

Or I want to see all data at once but why does it take so long and doesn't fit on one page and is incomprehensible?
I just think it will realistically take Twitter more than two weeks to come up with this data. Seems like a long time but my experience at companies of 1,000+ is that things move very slow.
Socialism is not necessarily about the government controlling the means of production, though. It's about the proletariat, the workers, controlling the means of production. Government is one way to accomplish that, but that only works if the workers control the government, which was not the case in Soviet countries.

There are also other ways to have workers control the means of production to varying degrees. Labour unions, workers councils, etc share control between the workers and the owners. A democracy in which workers vote for a government that controls regulations is another. Co-ops are a great one.

And of course according to the communist ideal, there isn't even a central government to control the means of production.

The big questions are whether it's possible to reach that ideal, how, and whether it's even stable. Countries calling themselves "communist" in our world certainly failed dramatically. But social democracy has been fairly effective in giving at least some degree of control to the workers. Their big problem is that in a still fundamentally capitalist system, money still rules, and powerful corporations can often either control or ignore the government and take away the power of the workers. That has definitely happened in the US, and to a lesser extent in parts of Europe, over the past half century.
These are actual camouflage patterns, in that solid camouflage has lots of historical and current use by military forces.
Can you expand on this? This sounds fascinating to me.
No game mechanic in Minecraft, Dark Souls, Baldur's Gate 3, etc is new. Their success comes from a well-executed mix of known features. Trying to create a game with a new mechanic is like writing a story with an unknown plot device: theoretically possible but quite difficult and the result likely won't be any better in terms of quality.

Try and name just one game released in the last decade with a completely novel game mechanic.
Something worth keeping in mind when people blame the victim with the classic "they should have complied!" retort.
Do you have a link to Bhattacharya "pushing ivermectin"? And what specific statements about vaccine effectiveness did he make which are misleading?

Masks are harmful, so that one isn't really misinformation. I mean, if he was saying the higher CO2 is bad for you or something that would be pretty dubious, but the idea that there are absolutely zero downsides to extended public masking is risible.
one nit pick, Spring is more than Spring Boot although when people say "Spring" they're likely talking about Spring Boot.

You won't regret using it in 6 months except maybe for the fact that your backend will be just working and doing its thing and there's not really much else to do except watch it work.
Wikipedia doesn't mention that Ian was apparently adversely affected by psychiatric drugs.

Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide (theregister.co.uk) [July 7, 2016] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050263

From the first comment [0] on that discussion: "They found chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, temazepam, and oxazepam in his bloodstream, which could have had some terrible interactions with alcohol. This sounds more to me like a drug overdose that caused a psychological episode than just the alcohol-fueled suicide they make it out to be."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050481

"Chlordiazepoxide, trade name Librium among others, is a sedative and hypnotic medication of the benzodiazepine class" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlordiazepoxide

"Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazepam

"Temazepam (sold under the brand names Restoril among others) is a medication of the benzodiazepine class which is generally used to treat severe or debilitating insomnia." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temazepam

"Oxazepam is a short-to-intermediate-acting benzodiazepine." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxazepam

That's four benzo's. The whole class of drug is known to be degenerative: they perfectly treat anxiety for 2-3 weeks, then you need to up the dose just to feel normal. Looks like Ian was on a benzo spiral.

The anxiety tragedy is that there used to be a very safe GABA supplement, GHB, in supplement stores, but this supplement got scheduled because it's also useful as a date-rape drug. GABA itself doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, but GHB does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid

Allopathic psychiatry is an obsolete tragedy: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/malignant-gooderism/

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Well you have some odd settings. My nieces and nephews can download and play games on their switch hundreds of miles away from me using my profile. Whenever I get a new game they are excited because now they have that game as well as long as they use my profile on their account.

Nintendo does a lot of stupid shit but this is one of the few things I think they have been really good about.
It is unreasonable to expect a judge to be a subject matter expert on every case they preside over. That's why they ask questions. That is a reasonable question considering there are ways of paying for twitter and ways of getting verified on twitter.
I suppose it depends if you're trying to build the perfect website, or just want to get something launched fast.

I usually build websites to solve a problem, or to try out a business idea. The structure of the HTML and whether I am using a web framework are not important to me.

The main thing is, can I get this finished and looking great in a few days.
yes, a good example for a bad question.
You'd do well to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- all that baseless assumption and disingenuous false accusation really isn't in any way civil or useful... but then when you're cheap enough to bring the Holocaust into a discussion about data protection legislation, you're really not in a position on ethics - or indeed anything else.
There's https://ghostarchive.org and https://12ft.io
Spring before spring-boot was an unreadable sea of unique xml. Spring-boot is a guardrail that steers you into the correct usage of the spring framework.

spring => configuration over conventions

spring-boot => conventions over configuration
The article refers to a Reuters article where this quote comes from: https://www.reuters.com/technology/iraq-unblock-telegram-app...

What you "think" doesn't have any value to me. You are some anonymous person on the internet who might be just another Telegram fan. Meanwhile, a reputable source states what I said above and since it's not the first time Telegram works with Governments, I'd say it is very plausible that they did so.
> ERP systems that are nothing but databases with front ends.

I’d love to see the face of anyone operating under this belief when they get to the tax code of any country that is not the US.
A bit like how we discovered sticky keys from hammering 'Shift' while playing full screen games on Windows 98. Cost me more than a few lives...
Yeah, maybe it's expensive to pay people to drive around and climb windmills, but it's nothing compared to waiting out the half-life of nuclear contamination of a major city.
The report this article is based on seems to say as much. From the article:

> "The Tech Job Recession is Over," the Bernstein analysts declared in a recent email to clients. "Tech layoffs have slowed to a trickle. When will the hirings start to reaccelerate?"
As noted in the linked article, people in urban areas are paying many times the price for water that farmers are. If farmers had to pay municipal water prices, it's much less clear whether their farming would be profitable.
Reviewing 30 LLMs by asking them a simple riddle
Both are inhumane.

The proposed solution is a sacrifice of your older body in favor of good times when you're young. For some people, that's ideal.

This idea also doesn't work for those who do not have the financial means to take advantage of a sabbatical. This idea becomes one for the "wealthy" (relatively speaking). The underclasses continue to be subservient to money.

Are the underclass not worthy of this 'benefit'?

EDIT: I'm approaching this from an American POV. I can't speak for how Europeans live/take vacation/retire.
Gzip compression will eliminate the repetition on the wire, but smaller uncompressed bundles will parse and start executing faster than larger bundles. For us this is most noticeable on Android which has the slowest hardware on average of all the platforms we support.
Imposing a protective tariff on goods that are against our interest to sell isn't at all comparable to a 200% property tax
Same for HP and Lenovo. Those sites are such a disaster and I'm surprised that nobody in their sales orgs are raising hell. There has to be lost sales due to not being able to easily find things. Those sites are incredibly slow as well.
These reasons are why Snowflake is building hybrid tables (under the Unistore umbrella). Those tables keep recent data in an operational store and historical data in their typical data warehouse storage systems. Best of both worlds. Still in private preview but definitely the answer to how you build applications that need both without using multiple databases and syncing.

https://www.snowflake.com/guides/htap-hybrid-transactional-a...
Good notes. I see a lot of these as symptoms of adjustment pains. Once a driver's expectation is that they will get a ticket, they will treat yellow lights as designed. They a notification to slow down, not speed up.
> So now I need to make endpoints for every little UI element that I want to be updated by user interactions?

What's the alternative?

You want interactivity that users can trigger. You'd need to call an endpoint in some way or another, giving you updated data, no?

> And somehow keep it styled and matching all of the UI elements rendered on the frontend?

Wait, how are your other UI elements rendered? How are they styled?

Somewhere in your code, you'll have a step where you generate HTML with CSS classes. It's popular to use React for this step, or some form of SSR where you render HTML templates.

With HTMX, you can simply reuse the same backend SSR templates that you were already using, and extract some parts of it which you want to be interactive.
These will be rendered whenever you trigger an action, by HTMX fetching that part of the template.

If you want to strictly split frontend and backend development for some reason, you can totally do it: You'd have a business logic layer that provides data to the view layer within your app (be it JSON, or POJOs), and the frontend team styles that data in the view layer however they please.

And the benefit is that you'd all render it on the server. No need for the client's browser to do anything anymore. It's all coming pre-rendered, cacheable and indexable. Done.
That sounds like evidence it's an important factor in treatment, but it doesn't mean we can be confident it's the cause.
That’s a blatant fabrication. Here’s a state-by-state, claim-by-claim refutation of your entire narrative.

https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01...
It's a joke.

Trump once claimed that he understood technology better than anyone.

And security.

And the proper way to milk a cow (probably).

Depending on the subject, he's the world's greatest expert, even if he can't spell the subject's name.
In the 1970s it was suitcases (or backpacks) full of Levis jeans and/or American rock / blues / jazz albums.
Alright, well drivers are still killing cyclists and pedestrians, so let us know when you have a better plan to make roads safer for those not in the one-ton metal boxes.
> ignoring the hockey puck mouse!

The mouse was the first laser mouse I ever used and I believe it connected with USB, which was novel at the time. It was probably the most impressive thing about the iMac for me personally.
I've been to a few off-Broadway productions which made me want to feign death to get out of them too. Granted Suetonius wasn't exactly a fan, but I'm guessing Nero's narcissism and fecklessness was pretty well developed without anyone needing to propagandize it.
I'm a Suave Serf, expertly and smoothly suppressing my inner convictions - and the occasional anxiety attack - that my job is utter bullshit while I whip my underlings into a frenzy of employee engagement, pleasing those above me in the food chain. Truly the employee personality type cut out for these challenging times of deprecating real estate and WFH entitlement.
The shortcut isn't shown though, possibly at least in part because it's not a shortcut to that option. Try selecting the Normal speed, then holding Ctrl, and activating the menu - note that the Normal speed is still highlighted. And yet the display is still paused!

(Of course, just because it's not a shortcut to that option specifically, that doesn't mean that the current solution of not showing this shortcut anywhere is the right one.)
Where is the market for water rights in the US West?
No, I just find the thought of a legal aide trying to open a comically huge .csv file in Excel humerous.
How a half-trillion dollars is transforming climate technology
Haha - I enjoy tailwind and have no idea what plugin your talking about. What is the name?
True, but they often know the mechanics of the system and a hint that there might be a coupon would be almost zero work for them but incredible benefit to the recipient.
People in those towns have family connections going back centuries in some cases. They wouldn't even take a buyout, because they know everyone and it would be like losing family. If you haven't exper it, it doesn't seem like a valuable thing to worry about losing, but it is the world they know, and we shouldn't be surprised if many of them fight to keep it, potentially in a literal fashion. I don't know what the answer is, but buyouts and financed moves will be seen as authoritarian, while ending subsidies and just letting places fail might be seen as a faceless market force, even if itbis worse for those involved
I started with an apple keyboard. I bought a Das in the early 2010s. When the das quickly ran into issues, I got an HHKB pro 2, which I’ve taken in my bag every day to every job I’ve had and I use at home[0]. Your comment just made me realize that USB hubs aren’t on every keyboard!

[0] the swappable USB cable is so handy! Just leave one plugged into each machine.
That's not really a huge improvement over just making a sparse array though, is it? Looks more confusing to me. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure e.g. Array(1000000000) does not actually allocate much.
It’s only invalid if you the have the cash to fight an expensive court battle.
Snowflake is capturing a large market share in analytics industries thanks to its “just works” feature. I’m a massive fan.

But in the end, snowflake stores the data in S3 as partitions. If you want to update a single value you have to replace the entire s3 partition. Similarly you need to read a reasonable amount of s3 data to retrieve even a single record. Thus you’re never going to get responses shorter than half a second (at best). As long as you don’t try and game around that limitation it works great.

Materialize up here also follows the same model in the end FWIW.
Considering that his murder case was tossed because of eyewitness testimony from a foreign country that happens to be quite poor and ripe for corruption, it may not be that far fetched to think that he paid off some people to lie in his favour?
The term "real-time" is much abused in marketing copy. It is often treated like a technical metric but it is actually a business metric: am I making operational decisions with the most recent data available? For many businesses, "most recent data available" can be several days old and little operational efficiency would be gained by investing in reducing that latency.

For some businesses, "real-time" can be properly defined as "within the last week". While there are many businesses where reducing that operational tempo to seconds would have an impact, it is by no means universal.
> OpenAI's careers website listed 60 open roles on Tuesday afternoon, for instance.

Yeah, that's one company -- whose product is contributing to the layoffs. Not to mention, 60 engineers is a rounding error compared to the layoffs.

> Meta shed 25% of its workforce in multiple rounds of cuts that ended in May. Now, dozens of those workers have been rehired, mostly since June, Insider reported recently.

"Dozens" is a tiny fraction of that 25%.

> Amazon laid off 25,000 employees in January. By February, AWS HR VP Ian Wilson was telling staff that the company was looking for ways to rehire some of the laid off workers.

So they were "looking for ways to rehire" 6 months ago, and that's it? Come on. It's impossible to take this as a sign of the job market coming back.

Anyway, it's really telling that these tiny little things are what the article presents as signs of some kind of tech job market recovery. FWIW, depressing as it is, my money is on the tech job market as we know it being a ZIRP. A huge chunk of the tech sector is dead in the water without infusions of VC cash, as we're now seeing, and I don't think things can go back to the way they were without interest rates dropping to near-zero again (and that seems impossible in the near future).
I put a second desk in my office. One for my work laptop, the other for my personal desktop. I roll my chair between the two if I need a quick non-work browsing break.
Besides being false, the problem with making the scientific certainty the bar for whether to ban these chemicals is that the default action is to keep them, harming people for decades before science catches up.

The bar should be for proving safety, not proving harm
> That’s trivial to figure out.

Elaborate.
I don't understand this refute at all. Coal cannot stay confined to Montana's borders in any real sense. The coal is mined to export, and it is then burned in coal plants, which are very bad.
We are much better at optimization.
A friend started his profile with a very visible "if you are a recruiter contacting me for a job I will mock your attempt in public". It was a bit cringey, but proved the point that many recruiters didn't look.
> I'm not a serious person. Please disregard my opinion on everything.

Ok, thanks for the heads up!
Like toyg says, I really enjoyed having a familiar working environment both on servers and on my workstation. When big changes would come around (like the transition from SysV init to systemd), I'd start getting hands-on experience early, and upgrade production with more confidence.

Between testing/sid/experimental you also got the choice of running "somewhat stable" vs "bleeding edge"; I'd usually stick to testing (except around the freeze leading up to a release).
You don't need to do a state to do either of those things.

Arming and teaching every resident how to defend themselves and each other and how to organize a resistance against invaders is entirely sufficient to "defend against outside threats" and requires less firepower than a standing army capable of achieving the same (especially against, say, the United States). Of course having a geography that makes a land invasion difficult is a plus, historically.

You don't need a carceral system or police force to "deal with" internal problems either. It might be worth looking into the concept of Transformative Justice (which is distinct from Restorative Justice). I recall a historical example of a culture in which when a "crime" happened, the community would gather and instead of expressing their grievances and the harm of the criminal's actions, the group would give examples for positive things the accused had done in the past. The idea being that the act must have been an aberration, not a defining trait of their character. It was then the offender's mission to demonstrate they were the better person they had been in the past.

Of course a lot of "crimes" that exist in legal systems only exist because of hierarchical control (e.g. most offenses committed out of jealousy/impotence), desperation in inequality (e.g. most offenses commited for financial benefit) and lack of support structures (e.g. most drug-related offenses). "Murder" doesn't really exist in isolation and it's absurd that we should treat it as such.