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That's simply not true. The retirement communities simply aren't why the water shortage is happening. It's agriculture, not residential use. The water usage numbers are well known. You're just assuming that population growth must have caused the water shortage, while ignoring the much greater increases in agricultural usage over the same timeframe.
Random story.

I used to have a pretty intense phobia about returning things, and 90% of the time I'd opt to just eat the cost rather than doing so.

When we had our first child, we bought this automatic rocker/chair thing. I got it out of the box and put it together -- it had these locking joints where like a spring pin would pop into internal slot, such that once put together it was impossible to disassemble.

Once I'd finished, I put our daughter in it, and when turned on, one part rubbed against part of the structure, making an annoying clicking sound. My wife, half mad from lack of sleep, took one look/listen and told me to get it out of the house. (In much more colorful language).

Just then, our daughter, who was still in the chair, who was wearing diapers a size too small because we'd run out of her normal size, pooped. We quickly got her out but there was a quarter size stain on the fabric. We cleaned that as best we could, but it was still visible.

I collected the pieces, which no longer fit in the box because you couldn't fully take it apart, put as much in the box as I could, and took it back to the store. As I stood in line for the return with this overstuffed box with various rods & parts sticking out all askew, I kept replaying horror scenarios in my mind. Like the clerk taking it out of the box and shouting in front of everyone "YOU CAN'T RETURN THIS, YOU MONSTER, IT HAS POOP ON IT!"

The clerk barely glanced at the box. I'm no longer afraid of returning things.
:) i hope htmx is useful to you
Reality is wind today is far cheaper to both build, maintain and decommission than nuclear

The problem with wind is variable supply - especially in regional areas.
Why Binance Is Abandoning Most of Europe
AI-Powered Fuzzing: Breaking the Bug Hunting Barrier
Apple’s Employee No. 0 (2008)
If companies don't want people buying 12 dresses and returning 11 of them then they can easily enforce it somewhere among their hundreds of pages of terms and conditions. Buying multiple sizes, colors, varieties and returning most of them is exactly how most of the world shops online, and retailers are perfectly fine with that, because they are competing with physical stores where you can do exactly that. Using a service exactly as it is intended to is not "abusive".

If you aren't happy with the practice then shop at a site that explicitly bans this and quit your preaching. It's not mine or anyone else's job to ensure that a corporation's profits are maximized. You are free to take any moral stance you want, just don't impose it on everyone else.
Consider Rust for Your Lambdas
On root-cause, I wonder if it’s some variation or combination of “publish or perish” linked to failure averse political and cultural structures? I don’t think the circumstances are unique to SK as you see similar effect globally where success is measured purely quantitatively (I.e X number of published papers for promotion, X% score on a test to avoid military service).
One thing I can’t get my head around is how the surrounding narrative was so bizarre. Particularly the “death bed dying wish”. Is this a result of 20+ years of lead poisoning combined with aforementioned political issues?
HN does use js for expand/collapse, but could be using <summary> / <details> native element to do the same thing. Upvote/downvote could use <input type="submit"> instead, no reload required. These have the same fundamental behavior, no js necessary.

If you need conditional behavior based on the response from the server, see my previous comment. None of that requires js. I say this as a person who does js frontend/backend all day, and I really don't have a bias against js like some devs do. I just wish people better knew the platform.
q & g constantly get confused by Apple's image to text
It very well may be so, but Nature chooses to highlight exactly the "alt-right trolls" aspect of it, and pretty much brings no other possible reasons why it could be happening. Especially hilarious part is when they explain how Twitter is very important because "Scientists could discuss suspicions of research fraud, often anonymously" - when we fully know that Twitter has been consistently hunting down and removing any dissent from the self-appointed "scientific consensus", even about topics that we already know where the "consensus" was wrong (such as the question of COVID origins), and that an anonymous complaint about something that is considered part of the "consensus" would most certainly be dismissed as "troll". Even blue-checks could have been de-checked and suppressed for dissenting take on a "consensus" topic, but an anonymous there'd be no chance. But the important part is that "Twitter helped to raise awareness and accountability for concepts such as scientific colonialism". I mean, this article is positively stuffed with political references and shibboleths (which all lean to one side, of course), it's impossible to take it as any kind of neutral non-political research about what is happening with twitter.
Monopolization of resources (water) by rich business interests is also an inevitable part of capitalism.
If you drink the kool-aid, you'll love it.

It's a tricky question to get a real answer, due to all the vested interests, lack of real research, and differing views of "what is good"

Which is better, Amiga or ST (Amiga!)
It's definitely sad, but until there's some breakthrough in the ability to try remotely, the beatings shall continue.

I buy a bunch of stuff on craigslist, where I know I won't be able to return. However I negotiate as much as 80% off the brand new price. Until I get similar discounts I would never bother with an online store that won't let me return.
You have to (though in general we’re expert on a couple of classes of compounds rather than just one). The literature is just too vast to follow otherwise. Particularly in fashionable fields with loads of funding like high-temperature superconductors, battery materials, PV materials, fuel cells, things like that.
I see a few comments going both ways here - punish the returners, etc., but I don’t think punishment is really the right concept. When places like Zappos encourage people to buy extra just to return the excess, you can’t blame people for getting used to online shopping this way.

That said, I do agree with the general idea that serial returners should bear some of the additional costs (just not via punishment). I can’t recall the retailer, but I remember buying something from a brand that had the option of “free returns,” which, if selected, would add a small percentage onto the overall price. If you didn’t select it, returns would be even higher out-of-pocket. I think the idea was that not everyone who selected the option would actually return items, but having the option was a premium lots of folks would pay for.
Because people are really, really expensive to employ. The fewer people it takes to generate 1 kW of energy, the cheaper that energy can be sold on the market, and to a first-order approximation, economic growth and increase in standard of living are mostly because energy got cheaper (and these things stop happening when energy stops getting cheaper). Note that for most other goods, it's uncontroversial that the reason people can afford it now, thus bettering their standard of living, is that it takes fewer people to make them than it used to (because of automation).
> Plus I don't think it's really relevant to what I'm saying given I'm not making a claim about how any specific individual or group reacted, but that it's odd when there's people who treat an optimistic outlook as an error.

An optimistic outlook without a semi-plausible basis that you can convincingly elaborate on, or link a vaguely credible source doing so, IS an error, at least going by HN norms.
The transformer model was introduced in the 2017 paper “Attention is all you need”, which applied it to machine translation of human language.
please note that the comment you are replying to says the opposite of what you are implying it does; it says 'my objection is not that mass graves, (...) are too sacred'

the comment you are referring to, for anyone who is interested, concerns the question of whether or not there is a higher standard of morality to which legislation can be held, or whether legislation itself is the ultimate moral authority, or whether there is in fact no objective standard of morality at all. anyone who is interested in that kind of thing can read it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305
Improving LLM chatbot UX by utilizing a stateful Markdown stream processor
AFAIK+IMO, perfect equal opportunity turns out is a terrible goal, and is unreasonably impossible - you can't even get close, and getting close wouldn't end up being a good thing anyway - for pretty much the reasons you point out. Birth circumstances (genes, parents, etc) mean that the opportunities would never be equal, and (IMO) you wouldn't want them to be - people deserve to be able to be different.

AFAIK, "equity" is what you actually want. [Here's](https://interactioninstitute.org/illustrating-equality-vs-eq...) the usual explanation I see. Interestingly - I think "fairness" here is going to use the same definition as used in AI/ML, which (AFAIK) is "these inputs should not affect the outputs". Or, as it usually get encoded into English inside my head - find out what each person needs to succeed, and then give it to them. Now you have a lot more people succeeding than you did when their circumstances had to be a good match for the opportunity.

I do think there's a bit of legitimacy in the reactions against all this, in one very specific way - I think a lot of times it's assumed that this or that member of "privileged" life circumstances has had some specific need met - aka "the white guys don't need any help" - when a specific individual might not have. Personally, I really would have benefited from any mentor at certain crucial times of my life - college in particular comes to mind - and I think people assume I had them, or had access. I didn't, even if people "like me" did.

(side note - that's also why rule #1 is: don't make statements about other people's lives, only ever ask questions)

> differ

Near as I can tell, your definition limits "equity" to only concerning itself with outcome - and specifically equality of outcome - instead of (overly simplifying) methods plus outcome of maximized and/or sufficient success. That is - "equity" as I understand it doesn't need everyone to reach the same degree of success, it's more about making sure everyone reaches enough success ("to see over the fence") and beyond that to reach as much success as they each person can.

As freakin' always, here's the best tirade on "means vs ends" I've ever seen: https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-112-2/
> The planet is fine, it's humans that are fucked!
—George Carlin
Highly recommend people read Dr. Christy's congressional testimony from 2016 [1]. It gets disparaged as "climate denialism," but if you read it (or watch the recording), you'll see that he's arguing from a factual basis; not some kooky hyperbole.

[1] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY00/20160202/104399/HHRG...
Definitely, and dealing with malingerers is infuriating.

That being said, when in doubt, I thin that doctors should trust patients (defendants are presumed innocent, patients should be presumed to be sick).

Stiffing the ill to spite possible asshats is a bad societal bargain.
Wow. 16,000 characters of memory (max), 11.5 microseconds cycle time, so 0.087 MHz = 87 kHz frequency.

Wikipedia says $25k/month rental in today's dollars, which I calculate as being $34/hour. I could buy that much computer today with the loose change under my car seats.
Isn't it a success when you can build something that lasts 10+ years?

Enterprise has been relying on Java's compatibility promises for decades. It means the business decides when to invest, not the technology. The cost of re-validating and re-integrating a new system far, far outweighs that of re-writing the software, so you only upgrade the software when you're already having to upgrade the system.

Mark Reinhold managed to move Java to open-source, to frequent releases, and to supporting alternative languages (Kotlin for Google) and deployments (graalvm for containers) -- all while maintaining compatibility. He entirely effaced the notion that change means breakage.

Compare the breakage story in Python and C++ in the same time period.
Objects are instances of classes in CLOS. Classes, Methods, Generic Functions, ... are also instances of classes. Classes support multiple inheritance. Instances have an identity, slots and a class.

CLOS does not use methods attached to classes, which can be invoked by message sending or similar. Instead CLOS uses Generic Functions which consist of one or more Methods. Methods are dispatched over classes, using possibly multiple arguments. Generic Functions are themselves objects and they are defined outside of classes. When a Generic Function gets called, all the applicable Methods are combined to an Effective Method that then will be executed.
My favorite thing is stumbling upon a piece of project documentation, exclaiming "who the hell wrote this crap?", then discovering that it was me.
As a neutral observer, I’m fairly certain Musk doesn’t pay them.
Dell’s website went downhill when the dropped WebObjects.
Gotthard Base Tunnel to remain partially closed for months
In this case, I think the excitement and hopefulness was not dangerous or wrong, but I do see a risk to this kind of preprint hype in other contexts.

During COVID there were multiple cases like this where a study got a lot of hype and discussion from non-experts and turned into "the science says X", when in fact the science was as of yet extremely unsettled. Sure enough, as the experts came to a consensus it rarely matched the public's initial perception, which led to a lot of confusion, conspiracy theories, and fingerpointing.

Science-as-spectator-sport is fun, but I worry about the impact it will have on society as a whole and on the execution of science in particular. How many research decisions will be influenced by the possibility of going viral? How many bad decisions will be made as a result of pressure from millions of non-experts who briefly become armchair X-ologists?
Yeah. Not surprising. My Master’s supervisor did, though he branched out after a while. I know people who’ve spent almost their entire career on iron.
Last year I thought I had something like CFS but it turned out to be "just" a Vitamin D deficiency.
I could have written your comment verbatim!
A little surprised there's no mention of Nordstrom since their return policy is famously generous.

I worked for Nordstrom for a few years and one stat about returns that I heard was absolutely wild. Apparently something like 80% of all dresses sold got returned.

A lot of this was because people would buy an expensive dress for a single event and only want to wear it once, but people would also order a few sizes and just return the ones that didn't fit.

We worked on a few different things to make the latter process a little better for the consumer and cheaper for the business. A fun solution was allowing you to set up a reservation for a dressing room at a local store. You would choose a bunch of items and then "reserve" them to try on. Once you made the reservation someone in the store would go pick the items in various sizes and get them ready for you. When you arrived at the store, a dressing room with your name was ready and (if I remember correctly) you could just walk out with the items you wanted and leave the rest.

I'm not sure this experience ever made it outside of a few stores in the Seattle area.
Did it "obfuscate the truth"?

The truth was only discovered because the hype made a lot of scientists investigate the material.
Yes, that's what I was saying is unlikely to happen, not impossible, certainly.

The top players are generally recognized as people to be supported, put on high-value projects, and kept happy.
The comment says the opposite happens, which is that the top engineers are not put in a position from which they can do the best work, but in one from which their productivity declines, the high-impact project is not done or deployed, until eventually the top engineer leaves the company, for, presumably--since why one company should be different from another?--another company where they will find the same frustratingly poor use of their talents.

One of the problems I see is that many people see themselves as high-level engineers (or athletes, or professionals), but are not seen as such by others. In some cases, others are "dumb"--we have all been there--but in other instances management, which is not made up of all "dumb" professionals, may not see the talent that the alleged top engineers think they possess.
How does this jibe with all the news / media hype about Startups facing impending doom and the big squeeze to focus on profits vs growth (which means cutting staff):

[0] https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/monthly-vc-funding-recap...

[1]https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-venture-survival-p...

[2] https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/unicorn-sector-investor...

I can go on and on. Maybe for the MAFANG's life is going .. ok, but it seems in startup land, the sky is still falling? Or is this all a head fake?
You both did the math in kelvin then converted to C. You knew what you were doing.
>Americans are being kicked around by their corporations, and now they are being just as big assholes back.

It might be systemic.

American style capitalism leads to individualism and an environment where most people cant afford to care for other people.
The idea of rights can be seen to emerge in large part from multiagent decision theory. This should not be surprising because moral intuitions arose as humans evolved living in groups. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.htm...
No as on most phones you cannot set up static routes.
I don't think the bundle size will shrink too much, especially if we include the morph-style merge, which is somewhat complicated

yes, I think you could do a stripped down htmx that doesn't support a lot of the stuff htmx does, particularly life cycle events and more elaborate swapping mechanism

for example, most response headers could be just done as the HX-Trigger response header + some client side scripting

history support and form-value gathering is likewise a source of complexity and code that could be omitted or done less completely
Low sample size has the potential to increase variance, but it isn't necessarily true. Also, you're comparing each group to the average of both groups, but we could instead compare them to an objectively determined value of what that job/role/level is worth to the company, regardless of how it compares to the employee average.
While a bit less convenient, Alt+V, U, P/N (and Alt+V, R) are discoverable.

The bigger problem I see is that Microsoft programs don't come with adequate documentation any more like they used to (which was called "online help", though really offline in today's terminology).
> Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny.

Ah, so "with htmx you can use any language" is true because its users are no longer using a programming language per se for the front-end, but instead are defining logic with htmx's DSL?
noooo you need to sell out your countryman to the unwashed masses over zoom calls until even you, the middle management, gets replaced
Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours
Thats the first news that really torpedo this sc claim.(a Cooper sulphide expert recognizing the main claim of 104c of a resistance drop was in fact a know property of a non superconductor). It’s too much of a coincidence plus the guy wouldn’t lie.
Reading the bloated HTML when using Tailwind is less painful than dealing with all the cascading crap of CSS.
Or better yet, school our children to be intelligent human beings that know how to use their judgement rather than implement some dystopian horror future where we are monitored by the all seeing busybodies assisted by AI.
It is about making barriers between information and readers.
The sentence before it with “an”
| and have an attachment to the land.

This is understandable, but does not always make sense. After all, these towns were created by European immigrants who left their homeland of hundreds of years, their language, customs, foods, climate etc for a better opportunity. These towns had sizable black populations who left southern towns for the same reasons.

Before Europeans, north america was settled by many different tribes who had migrated from eurasia . Not to mention different groups of humans also migrated from Africa all over the world, because they saw good reason to do so.

At some point you have to cut your losses, or seek a better life. Not saying it is easy, but this option should be pointed out to anyone in untenable situations.
Yes! It can run on any home server or cloud server.
And the coldest July you will probably ever see again
The good ones work at liquid nitrogen temperatures. One of the previous times superconductors were the rage there were articles about a new one discovered, that only worked at 8°K or some such.
Except it’s not expensive.
Shouldn't be too surprising after the lessons learned from JC Penny. The emotion of feeling like you're getting a deal is motivating regardless of the truth of the matter. Buying on the secondary market inherently gives you that feeling, which apparently is worth a significant markup.
What are you talking about? What harm is he doing to others, and why are you profoundly sad rather than just regular everyday sad?
The Gateway stores was the example given by every analyst on CNBC for why Apple couldn’t have a store.
The Race to Develop AI That Can Identify Every Species on the Planet
Still being sold:

https://www.amazon.com/BookFactory-Black-Inventors-Notebook-...

for example.

Notice some of the features: pages are sewn in, so it will be obvious if one is removed, tamper-evident archival paper, space to sign each page.

Paper documents I think still have the most standing as evidence.

This doesn't look like size for a full notary seal but space for a witness to sign. I suppose a notary could stamp it someplace.
This has nothing to do with capitalism.

This is price discrimination/segmentation. You want to sell the same product at different prices to different people. And because it is medicine, you do not want (too many) poor people to miss out on getting it, or at least you want plausible deniability for trying to make the product available to poorer people.

Enter manufacturer coupons, PBMs, and myriad government and health insurance reimbursement policies. The whole system is an emergent phenomenon of trying to deliver different quality/quantity of healthcare to different populations, but for political purposes, maintaining plausible deniability that society (via its elected leaders) is okay with some people getting less healthcare than others (or paying more or less than others).
I agree with all your points except for ZIRP being strictly needed for tech to recover. I think there's such enormous leverage from the application of tech to business problems that we haven't seen anything like "peak tech".
It was kind of like thinking about winning the lottery—the fun is in the fantasy of it.
Really, they use Vercel AI SDK?