skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat relate to your view as a non-white POC. However, I don't think

> they'll eventually lose the power they had.

would do much to change the situation. Georgia, Virginia and Texas are states that are being fundamentally changed because of the influx of progressives from both rural areas and urban coasts. The fastest way to change seems to be to move to these places and use the democratic process to introduce real changes, and these folks will have no choice but to change their views or retreat to more rural areas of their states (usually its the latter).

The other aspect is that a lot of the southern states do actually have sizeable populations of African Americans...I really do hope that we don't just ignore them as successive generations seem to have done....
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My biggest gripe is that you can't just type the things you're used to typing and expect it to figure them out. Within fifteen minutes I tried to create a multiline blockquote (which you do by typing '>>>'). I was hoping for this:

quote
goes
here

And instead I got a single line blockquote containing some of the markup for a multiline one:

>>quote

goes

here

I can't figure out how to do the things I used to do without reaching for the mouse. And I really hate using the mouse.

Also, as a coder I do everything I can to reduce unnecessary cases of mutable state. The fact that my cursor now has a state that I have to keep track of really gets under my skin.
You're still not correct...you're saying eating plant based diet has essentially zero footprint, which is untrue, especially with food waste. And you're saying driving/transportation choice alone is sufficient, when we know that even if they bought an EV or used a train, those transportation regimes still incur carbon emissions in their production and operation, though admittedly less LOCAL emissions (great!) and potential for lower future emissions as the grid cleans up (great!).

These individuals still can not choose zero-carbon heating/cooling (which is probably 1/3 of American's footprint, which you neglected to even mention), they can't choose how their infrastructure is produced (steel and cement, big time emissions there), they can't choose the actions of their American government, which spends a lot of carbon emissions on its internal activities as well as its foreign incursions.

So no, you really can't "boil down" to zero net emissions as an American unless you stop using heating, cooling, roads, transportation of any kind except walking/bikes, and if you completely stop supporting the US govt and its activities.
Trivial for you, impossible for the likes of marketing execs, lawyers, etc. As far as most laymen are concerned PDF's are completely unchangeable, and even those that know you can edit it, don't know how to do it themselves and tend to ask someone else. That's in my experience anyway.
I'd slightly disagree; the reason I complain about it so much is because there are so many people here who are clearly intelligent and thoughtful and have interesting perspectives. I go back and forth on whether picking gems out of the piles of manure is worth it.

In part, I've been badly spoiled by another forum I participate in that heavily moderates tone (and tries to separate it from content). I wouldn't have guessed it, but it turns out that low-effort intellectual dishonesty and rank stupidity of the sort that annoy me here correlate pretty well with emotional incontinence, which means that the occasional low-quality commenter that pops up on that forum gets washed out pretty quickly.
The IPA doesn't actually describe a sound. It describes what you do with your mouth to produce that sound. Where you place your tongue, whether your lips touch or not etc.

The actual sound that gets produced can vary by context, what sound you made before that and what will come after etc. (And who is saying it off course).

See this diagram: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/1e/ea/f81eeaa4921133c3b67b...
Based on a few minutes on padmapper, I'm guessing about 0sqft in Lower Haight. Certainly doable in the Tenderloin though.
Just FYI the traffic in these midsize cities is ridiculous. Nearly all have seen no real investment in urban planning and infrastructure, but have jumped in size. IMO remote is the only real viable option in many unless you plan to live in very few places that have easy transport access or walking distance. And in those places the COL is much higher.
When I had to deal with Windows 10 recently I got the impression MS has given up on Windows completely. The last notable improvements were introduced in Win XP. Most stuff that came later was just changing the look&view of a few settings windows with the only effect that all consistency was lost and Win looks more like a mess than a Linux desktop where some apps were built for X, Kde, Gnome, ...
It was also funny that SQL Management Studio crashed at the same use cases as it did 10-15 years ago.
It would be interesting if there were any developers working on anything but cloud at MS the past 10 years.
I try to find the time to write a small game for my daughter for so long! I'm jealous. Good job!
U.S. Investigating Universities, Including MIT, over Russian, Chinese Donations
I'm not sure I follow what the author is getting at other than "We should hate MS and do our best to not work with them on anything!".

First it was "MS breaks compatibility on purpose, screw those guys!". Now it's "sure, they're playing nice but they don't have a product in every market segment we want so they must have some nefarious master plan we haven't figure out yet!"

Everytime I hear someone say "just look, they don't support office on Linux!" I ask: and what exactly do you think the market share is of guys who love Linux so much they use it on the desktop, but also would PAY Microsoft for Office vs. just using LibreOffice or Google's office suite? If you think MS hasn't done the math and figured out that solution would never break even much less turn a profit, I guess I'd ask anyone making that claim to show their work.

I can tell you unequivocally the thing holding back the average enterprise from moving their entire business to Linux on the Desktop is NOT Microsoft Office, if it were they'd just tell everyone to use Office Online and move on with life.

PS: I assume all these Linux on the Desktop guys complaining about not having Office on Linux already are subscribed to o365 and use Office Online exclusively, proving to MS there's demand. Right?
Labour Party in the UK just announced a manifesto that commits to rapid reductions in emissions paid by taxes including a windfall tax on oil and gas producers, so we will soon see.
Every time someone on HN says "you don't need x, just do a, then b, then c and you'll get something similar" I'm reminded of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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> Hearing something you might disagree with is part of life and very important to critical thinking.

I believe this is 100% true. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people do not have the skills to handle this. Look at the anger that appears on this site when certain topics are brought up.

So people have a hard time dealing with ideas they disagree with, but I doubt that forced interaction with those ideas will improve the situation.

We can see empirically that the most common reaction is to double down on your own ideas, get defensive, and generally react in a very self-centered and egotistical manner.

That's the current situation. Would banning political ads make this problem worse? I think I can see the logic here - people will only seek out what they agree with.

But it's not like political ads are the only way that they might be forced to see something they disagree with. The only way to do that these days would be to be completely off grid somewhere and never to see anyone else.

It's also the case that political ads probably provide the worse kind of perspective of views you disagree with.

The solution to the problem is to find a way to get people to break out of their ego-based thinking. A lot of magical things can happen when people are honestly committed to finding the truth, instead of protecting what they think the truth is.
About ten years ago in some of the rust belt you could buy a house for under twenty - Detroit comes to mind. Some of the sales had conditions that you tear down the structure and agree not to build so that city services could be removed from the town’s budget. There are still deals all over to be had - I’ve long thought it would be fun to have an Instagram of what $1m or less could buy in different parts of the country. I’ve found things like 200 acres / waterfront and numerous structures in Maine and the UP in Michigan. It all depends on your perspective of a “good deal.” But the days on the $50k house going for $2k are long gone.
Good default, general industry consensus for best option if you have no particular needs.
Thats what I meant. Rajastan is nothing, "Rajasthan" is a place.
Because it’s all a threat to the survival of the planet.
> Then it comes to the question is there is such thing as a true narrative to begin with as narratives

No there isn’t. There is truth and then there is people too lazy to do the investigation that uncovers the truth because it takes real work, real people, time and energy and unfortunately is not profitable.
Ok, I would have called that a UV light. Never heard them referred to like that before.
IMAP, SMTP, FTP, NFS, IRC, and lots of other networking protocols use IP addresses but aren't web technologies.
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That we face serious “tipping points” are not a mainstream scientific view and the IPCC has not said anything along those lines: https://www.science20.com/robert_walker/no_scientific_cliff_...
I think I understand the basic sentiment behind all of what you're saying, and I do appreciate you sharing it. I only have time to respond very briefly.

I suspect there are some (fairly reasonable) assumptions behind your assessment here.

First, my grandfather didn't say much at all. He was quiet and reserved, with only a few friends. He said "...breathing is a good day.", perhaps eight or ten times in the 18 years I lived with him, and the following 15 years I'd visit. And it was always in response to me or someone else complaining about trivial stuff.

To be clear: he wasn't repeating that statement like a mantra.

> Honestly, if the only thing you can be grateful for is "breathing" ...

Far from it; it's a baseline of gratitude, not in any way exclusive.

> During the happiest times in my life, I've never even thought to say "Every day you're breathing is a good day.".

For me as well! And likely my grandfather's perspective as well.

> ...grandfather was dissatisfied and unhappy ... PTSD ...

My grandfather definitely dealt with PTSD for many years, but he was 49 years old when I was born, and there were few signs of it left while I was growing up.

To be clear: my grandfather was far from dissatisfied and unhappy. In simple, straightforward ways, he enjoyed his life, through and through.

Finally, I'll note that I am I just sharing this personal anecdote with the deep understanding that every experience and circumstance is different. It is my hope that your father found or is finding peace.
> Have you been outside urban areas?

Yes. I lived there for well over a decade and am still regularly visiting.

I elaborated on the meaning of the word "feasible" in the sentence "If public transportation is a feasible alternative", but removed that wall of text for better readability. Maybe should have kept it to clarify...?

> More taxes, less freedom, more punishments.

That's what we're already doing for destructive behavior if someone doesn't understand/care that what they're doing is bad. Look back at the last 30 years and tell me we actually learned that it's a bad idea to destroy our planet?
The biggest advice is don't go out expecting to make a close, personal, tell-all-your-secrets, go on holidays together friend. Finding a close friend is almost as hard as finding a longterm romantic partner, save for the fact that you don't have to exclude everyone with close friends from your search.

Instead, just focus on finding large social groups you can join without too much pressure -- anything where ten or twenty people get together on a regular basis. It could be anything from exercise classes to night school to volunteer programs to church groups to boardgame meetup groups to renfaire and LARPing to poetry nights at a coffee shop.

Your goal here isn't to find your soul-friend, it's just to make a lot of friendly acquaintances. People you can talk to about your mutual interests, who will engage in the standard small talk about work and family with whom you can complain and sympathize for five minutes or an hour at a time.

Then, settle in for the long haul of having a social circle. Figure out how much you can commit to -- don't try to do everything if you can really only manage a couple of days a week or month. If you want and can make time for daily or nightly activities with ten different groups, great; if you can only handle one or two groups meeting one or a few times a month each, do that instead.

Again, this isn't necessarily going to result in any friends who will help you bury bodies, but a large circle of casual friends is nothing to sniff at.
This sounds like a push to allow a third-party App Store on the iPhone, or at least to allow iPhone users to install binaries not directly approved by Apple. That's not the same thing as dismantling Apple.
For years I've described bugs in Apple's iPhone apps and have been told "it's just me" or to expect long delays between actions.

Or that constant updates and logging in are good things.

I'm no fanboy so it's easy to spot flaws. It blows my mind how quick people are to defend poor quality.
> It's admirable how hard you're trying not to be a part of the problem, but don't make yourself a martyr.

I find myself sceptical of whether this is altruism, or a justifying righteousness to explain fear of embarrassment or rejection.
Or perhaps it’s more wealth => more trees (and healthier food, more exercise, less nearby particulate pollution, etc) => better health.
Why would any Linux shop use SQL Server anyways? Why would they use .NET Core? The only people I know pushing .NET Core are .NET people, not Linux people. My general rule is to never use a technology where your primary platform is a second class citizen. It just makes things a pain: not only could support be dropped in the future because there's no profit in it, its also harder to find answers to problems on the internet.
The problem with environmental scientists is that they fail to recognize just how much people and organisms will adapt to situations.
Sure, maybe some organisms will die out, but new exciting ones will appear to replace them. Humans will be able to start farming in Antarctica.
Some people's houses might go underwater but on some inland properties might suddenly become prime beach-front real estate.

Human population might drop, but then house prices will drop too!

It's not all bad.
or the woman in the dunes
They even went beyond sponsoring YouTubers, and hired a few (like LinusTechTips) to star in ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVe0ysXRjM
Science is all about making testable predictions, you're way overconfident in your incorrect definition. Have you forgotten Einstein's theory relied on the total solar eclipse and the resulting gravitational lensing of our star? He made a prediction and it was found correct, validating his theory. Unless you think Einstein is not a scientist?
SQL Server for Linux is the Windows version running on the NT user-mode kernel. (see Drawbridge)
None of that will have any significant impact on total emissions given growth in Asia, China, and India.

There is no scenario for keeping us at 1.5 or 2C that allows the developing world to start living better lives that doesn’t involve the developed world going net negative in carbon emissions.
I think climate change is an existential threat with a small but not zero chance of wiping out humanity (probably indirectly by sparking WW3). I think those policies would be an existential threat with higher probability of leading to a war that wipes out humanity, not to mention impossible to pass in a democracy.
Where do I sign up for that? I won't have to use windows, will I?
This happens mostly during the summers and you have air conditioning everywhere... This is why so many folks move to Texas despite the horrific summers.
The weird economics of Apple upsell
UK variant: https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/you-qualify-buy-1-house...

(Stoke-on-Trent is a former pottery manufacture town, and is halfway between the UK's second and third largest cities at roughly an hour and a half's drive or 40 miles per google maps)
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No one is saying a company should operate without a leader. And also, no one is claiming that just anyone can be a good CEO. Some competence in the unique CEO skillset is required. Every CEO is expected to keep their organization from devolving into tribal chaos, for example.
Except Android/iOS, everything you listed is dead or dying.

No sane person would pick anything but Electron for a desktop app today, unless you are in a particularly high performance domain (CAD/Graphics/Video/...)
If I owned a house in the bay area, I would be asking anyone and everyone to move there. More money for me!

Rent in downtown Mountain View is higher than Manhattan.
Yes, especially when they can extort patent fees with their patent protection racket from anyone that builds a Linux or Android device.

Microsoft continues to make billions of dollars a year in royalties by accusing device makers of patent infringement.
Regulation doesn't mean authoritarianism.

Is the WTO authoritarianism?
Is a speed limit authoritarianism?

NO. Those are just regulations, because as systems get more complex you need more rules to manage the scale.
it must be hard being you.
Besides have you tried moving a modest amount of stuff across the country these days? Unless it’s literally the clothes on your back, $10k is barely enough to move very far.
This makes the definition of "politics" meaningless. Besides, it's a lot easier to nail down an objective definition (at least for Google's purposes) of what falls under a specific subject (ads are sold on keywords) than it is to nail down an objective definition of "truth".

You can exclude ads that mention or are paid for by any PAC, candidate for public office, or are advocating for or against any particular public policy decision, or mention the topic of elections or voting.

This would eliminate the majority of them, leaving bad actors that don't care about Google's requirements anyways. Another option would be to simply make certain keywords unpurchaseable.
I'd rename it. Tamagotchi is still a trademarked name, and someone still owns it and produces toys with the name.

Ignoring that, it seems a fun little thing. I have trouble understanding the faces, but I assume that just takes practice.

It's pretty neat, fast, with the all-important cute animations that trick you into caring about a state machine.
Wow, 'mtgx are you really hellbanned? No one is safe...
I can't really follow the article. Too much paranoia, or negativity, I guess.

All I care about is having a usable Linux shell and Linux tool on my Windows machine. What else can you expect from Microsoft? Yeah, they are doing it so that people don't switch over to Linux completely. What more can you expect?

Is it even Microsoft's job to establish a standard for 3d Graphics and what not? Or is the ball in the park of graphics card vendors and game developers?

Why do I have Windows on my machine? I don't fully trust Linux to achieve the same level of power management. I can play games. I have a dual graphics card, which would be a hassle to use on Linux.

It would be notebook vendor's job to release Linux notebooks with good power management. Chip vendors to release specs that enable Linux developers to create such drivers. And so on.
Yeah it's really the startup lotto ticket. I "won" at one company, and it's big enough to justify any increase in CoL I paid to live here.

If you just want to work at the Big G then might as well move to Seattle with lower CoL and no state income tax.
Hm. MS started to support React, especially React Native project lately with their react-native-windows and AppCenter, but I honestly have no idea why would they do that instead of going with something like Electron, since they started to invest in Chromium and V8 anyway.
How is Linux a second class citizen for .Net Core?

Have you ever had a problem with .Net Core on Linux that you couldn't find an answer to?
> my impression is that the US opened its arms to free trade and the rest of world shrugged and took advantage.

The rest of the world also took hits in some industries - US farm subsidies destroyed corn farming in poor countries

Different US industries fared differently - without globalization, Silicon Valley (and American tech in general) as well as Wall street wouldn't be as globally dominant as they are

> I think it’s probably a bad policy for a democratic republic.

I think it could work great for a democratic republic with sane corporate tax and safety net policies to more evenly distribute the upside
They could easily pay someone else to handle all that stuff just like we do with HTTP servers. We're not talking about the service, we're talking about the protocol.

> maintain their own fork of an IRC client in order to implement inline code, images, website previews, etc

These already exist. No need to maintain a fork unless you want to add features that don't exist in it. And since IRC is so trivial a protocol, that's not even hard.

> break IRC's protocol in their client and server to allow text in excess of the maximum line length

You don't have to break shit. Just split lines into multiple messages and piece together messages from the same user when they were also the last one who said anything, or use a character that means "message continues", or any of probably a dozen other ways you could implement that on top of the already existing protocol and that will still gracefully degrade on clients that don't support it.
The comment only makes sense if you are aware of the English language idiom "shooting yourself in the foot" which means to accidentally hurt yourself.

So the comment is saying that while-loops are generally a feature of object oriented languages, which have many tools (they use the term "foot-gun as a joke) that make it easy to accidentally make mistakes, so writing your own while-loop in Elixir isn't as crazy as it might seem.
Go look at the stock history, the moment Ballmer became CEO in 2000 the price stopped growing, lulled back down into the ~20-30's and stayed there until he stepped down in 2014. He did "exceptionally well" at keeping it where it was...
I'm a Linux person who likes .NET Core. I like C# quite a bit, and I don't think Linux is a 2nd class citizen for .NET Core.
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Does anyone know if this will affect the desktop client as well, or just the browser interface?

Personally I prefer the browser interface because I find the Desktop notifications and the Angry Red notification icon very distracting. But it sucks to lose markdown.
> Climate science tells us what will happen to the climate, and it is based on the same concepts as the most fundamental and rigorous science: thermodynamics. If more heat enters than leaves a system, the temperature will increase. There is nothing unscientific here.

The climate isn't that simple. It's unfathomably complex. There are an infinite number of inputs and outputs. What repeatable experiment can accurately and repeatedly recreate this?

So your simplistic argument is just handwaving.
Many small towns have downtowns with good walking infrastructure (though often in poor repair). The problem is almost everything has closed down because the strip of big box stores located out on the highway bypass on the edge of town attracted away all the customers.