skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is. Have you quantified this claim? Do you know how little alfalfa is exported?

> 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.

So 96% of all hay and 93.5% of alfalfa is used domestically.

[0]: https://hayandforage.com/article-4300-hay-exports-in-2022-of...
>It's obvious that her COVID infection did something to cause her to go from being an amateur astronaut to being bed-bound

We know that infections cause sickness behaviour (fatigue, depression, etc.) due to the effect of the cytokines on the brain. The interesting thing is that the brain itself releases similar cytokines in response to mental stress, and mental stress also activates the glial immune cells in the brain.

Infections also activate the HPA axis (the body's stress system) in the same way as mental stress does. This is to give the immune system energy to fight the infection, and also to prevent a fatal over-reaction by the immune system. Chronic long-term stress can result in a blunted HPA axis response, and this is commonly seen in ME/CFS.

Patients who have been bedbound with ME/CFS report that they were trapped by fear that there was something wrong with their bodies, and they felt fear when going outside or doing anything, and this caused further symptoms. Reducing that fear, and experimenting with activities again in a calm manner seems to be key to recovery. Looking at some of the tweets from physics girl, it looks like she may be stuck in this state.
I honestly wasn't aware of this - even the official git org is still 'twbs' and I assumed it was still related.

I edited that part out, thanks for pointing it out.
27 support tickets? Like...

1: Hi there! Sorry to bother you but I think I have a winning ticket for the Powerbrits Billions Megapounds but I seem to have received an error at the cashier while checking my ticket...

2: Hi, me again! Yes, in response, I made sure the ticket was for the correct lottery. And yes, the cashier was listening to me when I asked them to check it...

3: Hello, hope you're well! I'm working on getting you that cashier screenshot as well as a picture of my ticket. Just wanted to reiterate I'm sure it's a winner, and there seems to be a bug in the code...

4: Hi there! Sorry I can't take a 'clearer picture with the ticket actually visible and readable' because that's the bug in the ticket I'm telling you about! Yes, again I'm sure it was a winner, I picked the numbers myself! And now I would not like a complimentary replacement ticket for the next drawing, thank you very much! Please don't close this support ticket as completed, too, alright? What I'd like is ...

[[ 21 support tickets later ]]

24: Hi friend! Yes, I'm quite sure the numbers on my ticket are 6-9-11-15-17-21, the exact numbers of the winning draw I'm hoping you'll help me collect! You can see from my recent photo that the 1 is clearly visible in a number of places and if you turn it to the left, you'll see what looks like a 5 and 7 as well. Clearly the rest of the positions have some bug where the numbers become unclear and appear to temporarily represent other numbers, but I didn't write them unclearly in the original (sorry I misplaced that!), so it is clearly a bug in your software! You know what, friend? F--- this, I have been nothing but reasonable. I think I might have to go to Hacker News and tell everybody about the terrible things that have happened as a result of this atrocious run around you've been giving me!

[[ 2 support tickets later ]]

27: Oh, hi, Senior Support Analyst Manager Derrick, thank you so much for your warm and accommodating email! Why, yes, that would be delightful, I will gladly accept monthly part-payments, less taxes, deposited into my standard Bank of Ireland (Maldives) account. Terribly good of you, if I say so myself! You have a fantastic day, Derrick! I'll be sure to fill out that little "Support Questionnaire" you sent me in your last correspondence, too (probably from St Tropez idk). Fantastic stuff!
Fresh look at DNA from Oetzi the Iceman traces his roots to present day Turkey
Why in the world do people cut from the article and respond to something it didn't say?

Here's the quote from the article.

> But Apple reasoned that most people were consumers, not creators.
> Management certainly does not understand what you do.

A good manager should. A technical manager, doubly so, and if you're an engineer, your manager should be technical.

Of course you're ultimately your best cheerleader and hypeman, but your manager should be doing that job too, especially to other higher-ups.
Highly recommended reading about designing human-focused online systems to replace hard-copy workflows: Recoding America, by Jennifer Pahlka. [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Recoding-America-Government-Failing-D... — it was recommended on another HN thread.
I guess it's better not to have a body, since it keeps things uncertain and doesn't give law enforcement cause to get involved.
I learned this the hard way. In any organization, if it is not written down eg emails, word documents, or tech docs then it doesn’t exist.

Make sure your contributions are recorded. Even better is for you to volunteer to take notes and email them to everyone after any meeting or discussion of consequence.
Not sure about the skeuomorphism angle. I'm no UX specialist or anything but I would have thought the best practice would be to use 'standard' (well understood, probably familiar for potential users already) UI elements which are an appropriate analogy for the use case.

If you're flicking through paper, it might be easier to e.g. scroll through records for a specific patient and to have some kind of contextual search. But I think the obvious issue is really that they haven't validated and iterated on the design with actual users or even had somebody on the team responsible for caring about this stuff.
I've never seen or heard of this issue. By any chance, could you send me a file that it crashes on? That or a video showing the crash. You can send them here: https://www.moderncsv.com/report-a-bug/
Maybe there's a market-based solution that works well for them too. Let them keep the water rights, but also let them resell the water. It's probably worth more to someone else. I'm sure there's some obstacle to that too.
> What happened to the idea that you don't need to censor the people you don't like or they said a wrong thing? That if you expose their ideas to debate and truth that they will fall apart if they have no merit?

Thats not how twitter [1] works. You don't drive engagement by presenting people with uncomfortable facts that challenge their beliefs. You do it by creating echo chambers that re-enforce their predudices. Twitter doesnt care about free speech. It cares about revenue.

[1] or facebook, etc
There are a lot of oil producers I consider shameful, but I'm still going to buy gasoline every few weeks.
Apple make more money selling iPads than HP and Dell make on PCs combined [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/07/19/apple...
Knowing this use of color, it is very interesting to visit the California park. You can see the construction and such, but you really do have to focus on it to see it. The strategy they employ works very well, and IMO, should be used elsewhere to make our visual landscape less cluttered and more visually pleasing.
> Yeah. I suspect I'm like most engineers in this regard: staying quiet and focusing on work that "speaks for itself" is my default mode of thinking and working.

It is a natural tendency for a lot of people. I know I tend to do it because I don’t like when my work has flaws, so I spend way too much time making sure everything is perfect before I dare showing something to others. It’s still something to overcome because being quiet in one’s corner is counter-productive in the long run.

> If you come up with a clever solution, you need to promote it. You don't have to "brag" but you do need to tell people that you e.g. came up with an optimization that makes the thing go faster and you probably need to show your manager a graph demonstrating the thing you did.

Exactly! It makes the manager happy because they feel they understood something and it makes you happy because you feel like the value you bring is recognised.

> If you think this is dumb, I don't blame you, but that is how things work.

It’s not dumb, it’s adapting to one’s environment. It’s hubris to think that all the other people around have the same priorities as you. They have other interests, other skills, other objectives, and they also have only 24 hours each day. When you spend time to engineer something, they don’t have the skills or the time to study it in detail, therefore they cannot grasp all the cleverness in it on their own.

That’s not because managers are stupid or MBAs or something. The same is true in a team of engineers. A single person is not able to keep track of everything their colleagues do. So the quiet worker doing their thing in their corner is also missing out. It’s just that they have other things to do. So if you want them to know how clever the thing you did is, just tell them. People respond quite well if you show them something interesting (though, as you say, bragging is bad and is usually seen as a problem, not a sign of brilliance).

The key is to talk about the thing and how it solves whatever complicated problem was limiting, not about how bright you are for coming up with such a solution. It makes for interesting conversations as well, because the other people also have clever ideas every now and then, and that way you can hear about them. Because yourself are not necessarily aware of how brilliant your colleagues are if they never talk about what they do.

> If you want to fight this reality to some small extent, you can work hard to recognize your coworkers' achievements and clever solutions and promote them by word of mouth, to your manager, etc. If everybody did this then people wouldn't need to self-promote so much.

Yes! Another consequence is that this way there is more communication and more cross-pollination, and everyone wins.
I have often thought along similar lines, that the effort involved in building software seems to indicate a level of abstraction that is missing. The general theme of the comments seems roughly what you should expect from a very bold, paradigm shifting proposal. Good luck with your efforts and don't let this discourage you!

I will make one minor suggestion that I hope is constructive. I found the post difficult to read, largely because you rapid fire introduce a bunch of completely new concepts and propose a solution to many problems at once. You make a passing comparison to "just event sourcing and materialized views", although this was the easiest way for me to understand what you are doing. Starting from event sourcing and materialized views puts the reader on a ground they already understand, and moving on from there to why rama is better/what it adds on top, would be an easier transition.
BigQuery is pretty great. The serverless by default setup works very well for most BI use cases. There are some weird issues when you're a heavy user and start hitting the normally hidden quotas.
Exercising at a VR Gym
its pronounced "GIF" with the G as in "Graphics"...

If insisting otherwise gives you joy then great. if hearing it pronounced with the G makes you feel like someone ripstarted your anal beads; then at least you have amused others when you jumped.

edit: this does cut either way. quoth the spec: "spicy", after all. it is ok to disagree sometimes.
I've been getting endless ReCAPTCHA loops on Archive Today URLs for the past few days, as have others (see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136514>).

I've emailed the site admin about that, though response in the past has been slow.
There's massive population in the desert now, but that's not where the water is going. The vast majority of water is used by agriculture, which has also expanded massively in the same time frame. It's a red herring that natives and early settlers farmed in the same areas - the water they used is nothing compared to modern agriculture.

Efficient water usage (e.g. drip irrigation) and not growing comically unsuitable crops like alfalfa would solve this problem, even in the face of climate change.
The advantage of 1gps and more is that you can talk to multiple other hosts at their max speed if they're all a fraction of your max speed.

But realistically for most consumers the only difference between 100Mbit and 1Gbit is how fast their games download on their consoles.
>Especially when 90% of those asked didn't answer the survey at all - upset users are probably more likely to respond to the survey.

Alternatively: many of the 90% didn't answer because they have already left Twitter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-st...

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-highest...

https://www.illinoisloop.org/salary.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/06/04/the...

Seems that the "educators" in Illinois are very wealthy.
A couple of years ago I discovered a way to make my modern Macs produce the “bonnng” chime on boot-up. It’s actually still there but hidden for some reason. IIRC I had to enable it via the Terminal, which seemed really weird. But it was a total joy when it sprang back to life.
They put it like having a work-life balance would be negative... "oh look they don't live to work for us, how inconsiderate" I can hardly believe I get to read such a thing.
In the conclusions section, there is reference to "three conjectures on how one might enhance energy-
momentum to spacetime curvature coupling" - which might be shortened to something like "e-m gravity coupling", but that EM is not the same as electromagnetic EM.

Idk, it's kind of cool, smashing two plasma rings into each other, and not implausible that that might push the obtainable energy densities up by "orders of magnitude", but it's hard to see how this is about electric/gravity interactions.
The problem is that laws are an approximation of safety and well being. When laws were all we had, the delta between the laws and the actual thing we want (safety) was not something we spent a lot of time worrying about, because we couldn't detect the difference. The law couldn't be enforced anyhow.

The problem is as we get perfect enforcement, the delta does become visible. The reality is that when a road is set to 55 mph, that is not some sort of pronouncement from God that that is the one true speed that the road is safe at. It was just an approximation. But then we set up a camera that treats it as rigid ground truth, and now you can be nailed with a ticket if you're doing 56 miles per hour.

But does that help anyone? Was anyone unsafe because you were going 56 mph rather than 55? No, of course not. 55 was never the point. Nominally, safety was the point. Safety is not about going a single speed. There are days and conditions when 65 is practically as safe as 55. There are days and conditions where 65 may be safer than 55 (e.g., everyone around you is doing it on a multi-lane road, you're safer following along than stubbornly insisting on being 10 mph divergent). There are days and conditions where the safe limit may well be 15, or even 0. That's the real thing we want. But that's not what computers and AI give us. They give us rigid enforcement.

As society develops the capability to enforce laws rigidly, it will need to figure out that rigid enforcement isn't what we ever wanted. The laws were not themselves the end goal.

Unfortunately, this is going to be harder than it should be because this rigid enforcement creates and/or reinforces a power center in the people who will benefit from this rigid enforcement, both monetarily and through the additional power to selectively pardon people for what is de facto a brand new set of crimes, in the sense that the are a whole bunch of convictions that could never have occurred in the past. Modestly clever use of the pardoning process will allow them to hold on to that power for extended periods of time by using it to cover over the worst and most socially costly offenses (see also "Support via working out how to raise enough of a Twitter fuss to get the company's attention"; you can suppress outrage and even look magnanimous by pardoning the things that get into the news while hammering everyone else).

We will, of course, have to learn this the hard way.
the margin naturally sharpens to fit a razor. Do you think that if we slightly taxed alfalfa more that nobody would grow anything on that land?

No, prices of whatever they switched to would adjust, and farmers would be back to razor thin margins just like anybody else. Thats how a market do. Except this time there would hopefully be a bit less of a massive externality
> the good of the rest of society that needs to deal with the burden of caring for unnecessary injuries

I understand that point of view but I do think it can be tyrannical to not let people live their lives even if they are making decisions that are bad for their physical health. In the US, obesity is a far greater burden on our health care system than people not wearing seatbelts. I still can't get behind fining people for overeating or something like that.
Water rights in california are so entrenched that taking them away from farmers would certainly lead to massive court battles and probably many billions in takings clause payments. There's just no political will for that when combined with the pr/media battle the farmers will put up.
Yeah, this also reminded me of plastic recycling: Convince people that recycling is actually a good solution for dealing with waste, to the point of shaming people who only have a single garbage can. Then have plastic companies claim their products are recyclable, to the point of putting those 3-arrow-triangle symbols on their packaging, so people will dutifully sort out their waste into different bins. And then promptly take all those bins and dump them into the landfill anyway[1]. When the real problem is that there is too much single-use plastic created in the first place.

1. To clarify, some recycling definitely is a great idea and makes sense, like recycling of aluminum cans. But it rarely makes sense when there is not a positive economic outcome to do so.
> Last December, after much consideration and several experiences of fighting misinformation on climate change and COVID-19, Jarochowska closed her account, feeling that her reputation could be at risk if she kept using the platform. She felt that Twitter was promoting provocative discourse over facts and encouraging a type of controversy that “is not what scientists should be associated with”, she says.

I could understand an argument saying that twitter has become less convenient to use - e.g it may shove Elon's tweets into people's faces, or not populate the feed properly; or that it has become impossible to use with custom clients. I would totally get that. But the argument they are making -- ooh, Twitter allows people to spout nonsense about covid or climate; aah there is misinformation on Twitter -- vexes me. There is a ton of misinformation on the internet in general; and yet no-one is arguing for going off the internet, or is embarrassed to be "associated" with the internet. Why is it so different with twitter? Why aren't people advocating for choosing your friends wisely and not getting into arguments with unpleasant people?
> The reason there isn't a delay the second click is because the redirect is cached locally in your browser.

No, because it’s not an HTTP redirect. It’s an HTML page that redirects you using a meta tag, something that the browser doesn’t cache.
What's the metal on it? Lead?
When was this study done? *All* of the discussion around LK99 was on Twitter.

Social networks are very much about the users and then obviously getting the right posts to the right people. Facebook does a terrible job of showing posts from accounts you don't follow, or with trending hashtags. Leaving Twitter still as the clear front-runner.

Until the comedians, academics, news networks and nonprofits leave Twitter, it will hold its spot. Unless Musk actually crashes the thing.
Man this fact just points so heavily to a natural part of human nature. If we're given more than we need, but are threatened to lose some or all of it if we don't use it, we'll find ways to use it whether we need it or not. Seems like it's also human nature to make those threats.
I work as a web analyst (think Google Analytics).

One time I ran an A/B test on the color of a button. After the conclusion of the test, with a clear winner in hand, it took eleven months for all involved stakeholders to approve the change. The website in question got a few thousand visits a month and was not critical to any form of business.

This organization does not benefit from real-time analytics.

Now that's an extreme outlier, but my experience is that most organizations are in that position. The feedback loop from collecting data to making a decision is long, and real-time analytics shortens a part that's already not the bottleneck. The technical part of real-time analytics provides no value unless the org also has the operational capacity to use that data quickly.

I have seen this! I have, for example, seen a news site that looked at web analytics data from the morning and was able to publish new opinion pieces that afternoon if something was trending. They had a dedicated process built around that data pipeline. Critically, they had a specific idea of what they could do with that data when the received it.

So if you want a framework, I would start from a single, simple question: What can you actually do with real-time data? Name one (1) action your organization could take based on that data.

I think it's also useful to separate what data benefits from realtime and which users can make use of it. Even if you have real-time data, some consumers don't benefit from immediacy.
In that time frame I was building very complex applications (semantic graph editors, decision support software for sales teams with 10,000 salespeople, etc.) in frameworks like GWT (Java compilers to Javascript) this wasn't long after the firstversion of Google Docs came out.

Javascript was fast enough back then to make much more complex applications than most people were making back then but the complexity was mind-numbing, particularly considering that you didn't have tools like async/await to help manage asynchronous communications.

I built frameworks for managing the flow of data in that kind of application and didn't feel it was so catastrophic when Microsoft banned synchronous communications in Silverlight... I knew what to do.

Having had that experiment I tend to laugh at today's Javascript frameworks because they work really hard but aren't suitable for the kind of apps I built back then.

Sometimes it seems there is a lot of "lost" technology in software like the production rules systems of the 1980s, CASE systems and Lotus notes from the 1990s, Google docs in the 2000s that are like Stonehenge or the Egyptian Pyramids seen from the state of programming in 2023.
I get what Frum is saying, but he is getting quite a bit of mileage by overly conflating "conservative" and "Republican". I think the people he is referring to are the Conservative Nationalists, who have struck a tacit deal with the fossil fuel extraction industries (someone let me know if there is a pro-renewables Conservative Nationalist of any significance out there).

From a small-c conservative point of view, renewables make imminent sense because of the low cost and the fact that they literally conserve resources. This fits very much with the conservative tendency to save and not spend frivolously.

Observing this contradiction really demonstrates to me how much big-C Conservatism in the US is really more about institutionally prolonging and cementing the long term viability of fossil fuels. Everything else seems in service to that goal.
It's better to go somewhere where your colleagues and hopefully management are intelligent enough to recognize loud laboring as vulgar and an anti-signal.