skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live here and we are definitely looking toward impending water shortages, and no one care at all. Nestle is in the process of building a 200 acre coffee creamer factory. The major flower delivery services grow their flowers here. We have tons of cotton and alfalfa fields. There are 100s of golf courses and in the wealthier areas everyone has a lush green lawn.
This is an absolutely ridiculous line of reasoning. Tiktok has over a billion users, and about 150 million of those are American. It would be downright stupid to sell all of it just for the US market and it would set an absolutely disastrous precedent.
Fruit Heights Utah uses a 2-party system: The pinecone party and sagebrush party
Disk defragmentation for wet sponges was my intuitive take.
I didn’t realize a game actually used an approach like this, really cool. Reminds me of the simulated MMORG world in Neal Stephenson’s README, where they tried to simulate the formation of the planet to get realistic mineral deposits and topology.
Poster boy for all that's wrong with modern software modularity.
It would set a precedent that is unpalatable to people who sell this stuff.
Great. Hopefully in 50 years we'll have banned most of today's children's cereals.
> He does his homework, though, and his main stories are often apolitical.

His team of researchers and comedians (ex college humor alumns) do the research and it comes out of his off-putting mouth and face.
I'd argue that while Merkel continued them, those policies were taking hold under Gerhard Schröder. One needs only look at his resume to see his opinions on the matter.
Would it be better for them to just ignore the rules if they don't feel that the rules make sense?
From just a short skimming of the docs:

- my biggest issue with concurrency in python (especially with asyncio) is leaking tasks. Pyper should provide structured concurrency support a-la trio.

- I don't see the opposite of branch to collect the output of multiple sub pipelines into a single stage. I need this pretty much always and it is a chore to implement.

- Async need not force the full pipeline to be async. There should be an option to run async funcitons in background event loops. Especially as you already support threaded executions.
Does that mean the US is "ahead" for not allowing bemotrizinol in sunscreen?
This is a neat topic I want to get into more myself

Searching encrypted stuff is what I wondered about, in the past I had to decrypt everything before I could use the standard sql search LIKE

Funny post today about cosine similarity
Because people have done it before and we have something named the internet

https://www.tilleydistribution.com/insights/food-regulations...

https://eatwell.uky.edu/sites/default/files/2024-08/foods-us...
still needs a plain word version of what "norepinephrine pulses" are supposed to be.
How would that work practically if executives are getting paid in equity at various points in time? All the employees get options and RSUs too when the executives get them?
Waymo's approach to autonomy, and robotaxi service, are both very different from Tesla's concept of a plan for general purpose autonomous driving plus an AirBnB-like taxi fleet.

In addition to what will turn out to be a foolish fixation on cameras as the only sensor, Tesla FSD hasn't got nearly as much mapping data, or real-time traffic data which Waymo can source from Google Maps, or in-vehicle monitoring of passengers and vehicle condition.

Elon has his online claque for distorting reality. But reality is still there. That's why Elon wants to buy the whole government to get bigger reality-denial tools.
Sometimes I'm pretty sure people upvote stories just to see what happens in the comments.
In summary: the capitalist class won the class war.
At scale, we can restore the soil the same way it was built up in the first place, through rotational grazing of ruminants. I keep chickens to that effect and am planning on sheep. Very low-effort, highly productive animals, each, even apart from their soil building.
Two points here:

1. Government schooling won't force you to confront other beliefs: it will deliver you a particular set of beliefs. Example: sex ed (which must, logically, be delivered from one or another moral perspective; there is no neutrality). Or history, which in many Anglo countries used to whitewash 19th-century crimes, and now goes to the other extreme of ignoring anything good.

Empirically, it is pretty clear that government schools do not produce, and are not designed to produce, children who are capable of examining things from multiple points of view.

2. Ultimately it's a philosophical question: who is ultimately responsible for the child's development? And, therefore, who has the right to make the final decision on this? The parents, or the state? That's obviously a much bigger question, but it will determine one's attitude to homeschooling.
$12,000 is an out of the ordinary large amount of money - that's why you can note it as a special instance. It's certainly not something you keep on yourself every day, right? I'm not arguing that people should be limited in what money they carry, I'm saying there is a normal range of cash, it's not as nebulous as argued.
This won't help with the dopamine craving. Most peoples' actual friends can't produce enough content.

The sooner we treat it as an addiction the faster we'll think of treatments.
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense than the end of the gold standard. Brenton Woods was hardly a real gold standard anyway. The real gold standard was abandoned in the 30s (for good reasons).

A lot of these charts also actually do seem to diverge at '73 rather than at '71.
Bruh, you're never gonna be a good trad wife as a man. You're just not that pretty.
> It's not consistent with the idea they mis-remembered or lied deliberately at the cost of their own lives.

It's perfectly consistent with misremembering or lying or making stuff up for dramatic purpose or creating hoaxes. And we even have many modern examples of this. Thousands of people "independently" provide at least as accurate and at least as consistent descriptions of UFO encounters. You can only imagine how bad it was in a world where stuff got written down only after decades or centuries after it supposedly happened. And written down by very limited number of people because almost no one could read or write. You could have made up pretty much anything in that environments if you had an advantage of being able to write. And people did.
Also note this rebuttal:

https://singlelunch.com/2023/09/13/the-bad-economics-of-wtfh...

With related discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144867
You just say "bingo"
> No it's not - the topic is healthier food.

The topic is also RFK and his views, which include quite prominent anti-vaccine activism.
Perhaps now is the time for me to switch my personal email off Workspace. I don't use it for Docs or Drive or anything, only email.

Does anyone have experience with Amazon WorkMail or similar, cheaper services for email?
With ~2/3 (and growing) of Earth’s land area being arid, you’d expect there to be a lot more interest in reverse-desertification. It’s pretty well established by now that it’s almost entirely a labor allocation issue given that there’s success stories all over the world [1] (including in the US [2]) to just create earthworks that slow and divert water. Water seems to be the biggest single issue and so many deserts actually get enough of it during flash floods. With how much Elon is interested in terraforming Mars why not just start here?

[1] https://youtu.be/UAmai36XJDk?list=PLoU8oWWwU-06BGLH5y7AMbybv...
[2] https://youtu.be/3JyEHdJS94s?list=PLoU8oWWwU-06BGLH5y7AMbybv...
How about the idea that it serves absolutely zero purpose, and could cause cancer?

Maybe that is reason enough to remove it from food? “Some people here” love Europe so much, they banned it for that reason. But, during this election, conservatives pushed for the same so now it’s strange how “some people here” are “pro food dyes”.
might've also used, say, "Turing Computer Services"

Might have? The number of things with Turing slapped on them recently is out of hand.
Why do that when they can sell you even more drugs. Need the glymphowhatever to happily walk down a beach? Try Ambien-G.
How did the oil crisis give them "the go" to start dismantling the social contract? I don't see the connection at all. Unless you mean "a random unrelated thing that they could use as an excuse"? If that's the case, then it's just an excuse, not a reason.
Also, the rise of zionism in america. And the opening of ties with china ( 1971 was when china joined the security council ).

The early seventies seems to have been a major inflection point in history. 50 years later, maybe it's time for another?

Edit: I wonder which part of my comment is responsible for the downvotes?
I found this helpful https://brilliant.org/wiki/lambda-calculus/
What was your method to ace the code? Was it fresh from undergrad / grad school?
You can't make extraordinary claims like that without providing a source. Especially considering Wikipedia has this to say:

> In August 2023, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued official warnings about a new form of phone fraud in which Russians are forced to set fire to military enlistment offices through pressure or deception. The authorities claim that scammers call from the territory of Ukraine and choose elderly Russians as their victims. The Russian government has not yet offered any evidence of their claims. Russian business newspaper Kommersant claims that fraudsters support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and organize "terrorist attacks".

Emphasis mine.

> Now imagine the enemy government has dirt on most of your citizens

You don't really have to imagine this.
According to TSMC:
"To achieve our goal of 90% water reclamation, We will build an advanced water treatment facility (Industrial Water Reclamation Plant) at our Phoenix operation with a design goal of achieving “Near Zero Liquid Discharge”. This means the fabs will be capable of using nearly every drop of water back into the facility."
So it might not have anything to do with regulation at all?
My passing thought is to prohibit advertising and user data monetization and it might solve itself.

We also have regulations on usage, like truck drivers can only drive X hours a day, force some type of consumption limit the networks are required to enforce. We have similar laws regarding where, when, and how people can consume things like alcohol so could also do something like that. Some amount of it is ok, but as you say we’ve now learned it’s so addictive we need to force people into moderation of their consumption.
If there's an escape hatch, I think it's more likely that Trump directs the DOJ to defer enforcement, first temporarily. Some deal will be made where Trump stipulates some stuff about content moderation, including removing TikTok's ban on political ads. Once TikTok has agreed to act like X, Trump can direct the DOJ to delay enforcement indefinitely, but keeping the law on the books as a sword of damocles to keep leverage.
> behind

Is it really a competition to see who can ban the most things? What's the prize if you win?
Although it is not needed, the first line of this article confirms that meaning:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knopf

And the article is interesting anyway.
You know the whole idea of “oh, all of our problems are actually because X, Y, Z boogeyman!” thing? Yeah that. Watching from outside, it feels like political landscape of the US knows that they have lost the global competition and scrambling to get back on its feet. Everyone just keeps yelling “no, no, don’t look what’s happening inside, because everything is so much worse in other countries, they’re about to completely fall down! Those europoors with no ACs, China is about to collapse for the 50th time in the last 10 years, Japan is basically dead etc etc.”.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/

> On July 21, 2022, the USA witnessed the first case of poliomyelitis after 3 decades of its eradication.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outb...

> Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who may become the secretary of health and human services, has said the idea that vaccination has nearly eradicated polio is “a mythology.”

> The virus that paralyzed the young man had been circulating for months, and it was later detected in the sewage of multiple New York counties with vaccination rates hovering around 60 percent, prompting the state to declare an emergency.
Facebook groups is also a decent way to build communities.

Honestly, Facebook without the push for reels / videos isn't that bad. (now you can crucify me)
Reddit seems just like every forum, but with a mostly default skin
Immediate thought --- Danger, danger!

So much so that some states have legally restricted the number of passengers that inexperienced drivers are allowed to have in a car with them.
Honestly I'm fine with this. I look forward to a break from the nonsense until whatever comes next to replace it.
Serious question:
If there's even a slight chance it causes cancer, and it adds nothing to the food other than a slightly more appealing color, why risk it? What is the benefit?
Does this apply to the GPL or BSD codebase?

There are (now) two rsync codebases.

GPL: https://rsync.samba.org/

BSD: https://www.openrsync.org/
That "Show GenAI's made-up explanation" option is one of the best application of LLMs since the hype train started chugging
Ah so that's why he's sucking up to trump now.
That's the Pimsleur method. They have you listen and repeat sentences. You listen to a conversation between native speakers and repeat after them to practice the sounds and get a "feel" for it. Speaking is a physical thing with muscle memory.
we should probably start banning books from China too, for the same reason
According to the article, they are voluntarily shutting down in the USA despite that not being required by the law. So yes, there is a potential shut down. Time will tell is they really do it.
It seems like the Philippine government and WHO are at fault here, rather than Sanofi
Phoenix the city is limited by its existing water rights but the geographical area isn't really that constrained; water rights are just held by private parties, particulaly farmers. ~70% of all water used in the state is used in agriculture. Industrial and residential consumers simply have to purchase those rights if they want to continue to expand in the area and chip making is a high value add industry.
China forced the sale of Uber China to Didi - this is well documented

really?
> https://www.bbc.com/news/36938812
> https://www.heritage.org/international-economies/commentary/...

Let me tell you a cruel fact - Uber is completely unable to compete with Didi. You have no idea how fierce the competition in this industry in China is.

Uber died before it grew up in China
There are plenty of graphs on there that have nothing to do with the Bretton Woods Standard's end. Divorce rates are a good example which are a much more likely result of no-fault divorces becoming a thing in the US in 1970.
yeah, rust copied the dumpster fire that was npm, i shudder to think of the future of supply chain security when people say rewrite it in rust.
Smaller instance can become big. Say you set up a small instance and invite your family. Then family members want to invite their family, or friends, or whomever. How do you manage that?

I think the answer is what we see with Mastodon, etc. and that's federated/distributed social networks.
> It is amusing

Well, the US government has just successfully antagonized a bunch of their citizens...

It's amusing on the "interesting times" sense, no doubt. But it's not something unexpected. They have been antagonizing their citizens for a while by now.

At some point, something breaks and you get either an autocracy or real change. Some people claim they are already there but this is really still not clear.
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1970/

The hippies made a choice in the 60s and humanity stuck with it.

Resistance is futile.
Don't we already have an organization that collects tariffs?
We already have the FDA (most foods and drugs), the USDA (produce, animal products besides milk), and TTB (alcohol). Each one sets its own safety and labeling standards, which is why, for example, mixed drinks containing alcohol don't have to list allergens(!). Another level of fragmentation would be a disaster IMO. We could split the FDA, but we'd need to merge the food regulator half into one of those other existing agencies.
> I'd rather my kids have a few gaps in their knowledge than be traumatized by the school system

I went through a normal school system (the first 8 years still during the communist regime in my country, so take that "normal" with a grain of salt), and the gaps in my knowledge are enormous, in some cases subject-wide. I know literally nothing about chemistry, except the bits you learn here and there from TV shows and such. I vaguely remember some kind of equations, but nothing stuck. Biology - everything I know I know from somewhere else, mostly from that TV show with talking blood cells [1].
Surprisingly, I had pretty good grades, but it had nothing to do with knowledge - I was able to quickly scan the textbook before an exam and somehow it was sufficient, but there was no retention, I forgot everything after the exam. I was forced to learn Russian for 4 years and I remember literally nothing, not even the alphabet.

Those are mostly just anecdotes - I am sure that modern schooling can do better than rote memorization in a toxic environment. What I want to say is that motivation, a friendly environment, and fun learning are a lot more important than how well the teacher knows, say, chemistry. It is entirely possible that your kids will retain more knowledge, not less.

I am only talking about elementary school, college was different - I loved it and learned a lot.

[1] Il était une fois... la vie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/
Similar thing with my wife and bread. In the US she developed/discovered/exposed a gluten intolerance, to the point that she removed it from her diet entirely, but bread in France is ok for her.
Y Combinator on How to leverage AI in your startup
Guilty as charged. To steal a phrase from Reddit, "the true LPT is in the comments"

The true insightful discussion comes in the comments.
You are correct, but the introduction of the algorithm is indeed just as if not as significant as the introduction of the feed
Only because I heard about it recently. Alternative title: we figured out how the brain gets rid of junk while you sleep.
This is incorrect on several points.

Firstly, Node's `require` syntax predates the modern JS `import` syntax. It is related to some attempts at the time to create tools that could act like a module system for the browser (in particular RequireJS), but it is distinct in that a lot of the rules about how modules would be resolved were specifically designed to make sense with NodeJS and the `node_modules` system.

Secondly, although path imports are used for local imports, Node's `require` and `import` syntax both use symbolic names to refer to third-party packages (as well as built-in packages). If you have a module called `lodash`, you would write something like `import "lodash"`, and Node will resolve the name "lodash" to the correct location. This behaviour is in principle the same as Python's — the only change is the resolution logic, which is Node-specific, and not set by the Javascript language at all.

The part of NodeJS that _does_ enable this behaviour is the scoped module installation. Conceptually, NPM install modules in this structure:

* index.js (your code goes here)
* node_modules (top level third-party modules go here)
* react
* index.js (react source code)
* node_modules (react's dependencies go here)
* lodash/index.js
* vuejs
* index.js (vuejs source code)
* node_modules (vue's dependencies go here)
* lodash/index.js
* lodash
* index.js

Importantly, you can see that each dependency gets their own set of dependencies. When `node_modules/react/index.js` imports lodash, that will resolve to the copy of lodash installed within the react folder in the dependency tree. That way, React, VueJS, and the top-level package can all have their own, different versions of lodash.

Of course in practice, you usually don't want lots of versions of the same library floating around, so NPM also has a deduping system that attempts to combine compatible modules (e.g. if the version ranges for React, Vue, and Lodash overlap, a version will be chosen that works for all modules). In addition, there are various ways of removing excess copies of modules — by default, NPM flattens the tree in a way that allows multiple modules to "see" the same imported module, and tools like PNPM use symlinks to remove duplicated modules. And you mention custom importers in Python, but I believe Yarn uses them already in NodeJS to do the fun things you talk about like importing from zip files that are vendored in a repository.

All of the above would be possible in Python as well, without changing the syntax or the semantics of the `import` statement at all. However, it would probably break a lot of the ecosystem assumptions about where modules live and how they're packaged. And it's not necessarily required to fix the core Python packaging issues, so I don't think people in Python-land are investing much time in exploring this issue.

Basically, no, there is no fundamental reason why Python and Node have to have fundamentally different import systems. The two languages process imports in a very similar way, with the main difference being whether packages are imported in a nested way (Node) or as a flattened directory (Python).
RFK is anti-vaccine. It's a pretty short, straight line. No conspiracies needed, no mental hoops to jump through.
USEO
Careful, you're going to trigger the conservative anti-thinking brigade's thoughtless criticism by undermining their authority!

https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/27/opinion-critical-thin...

>Opinion: Critical thinking is authoritarians’ kryptonite; let’s use it.

>The culture of MAGA Republicans is antithetical to critical thinking. Which is exactly why the rest of us need to insist on it.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/texas-gop-no-more-c...

>Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking in Schools

>Teachers, you may want to be sitting down for this one.

>The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself:

>"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
No.

Booking.com, Priceline are owned by Booking holding

Expedia, Kayak are owned by Expedia Group

TripAdvisor is owned by Liberty Media

Airbnb is private.
Sounds like a resource that isn't appropriately priced
3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show
Unlike the U.S., Germany has no natural resources. U.S. LNG dependency means that it has another master. Except that the previous one never dictated anything to Germany, just like Saudi Arabia never dictates anything.

They are not naive with security. Either they fully defend themselves and get nuclear weapons or they keep the status quo. Buying useless F35 (possibly with a kill switch) from the U.S. just enriches the MIC.

Germany should have build up a "high tech" Internet industry so it could control which parts of the narrative get flagged and which ones stay up.
Ok, well then, I’m sure no Americans are eating high levels of foods that contain dyes. So, surely there are long term 20 year plus studies on cumulative effects, right?
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mutualfund/05/mfhistor...

index funds