skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire

tl;dr: The Cuyahoga river caught on fire many, many times over the years. However, a fire in June 1969 spurred legislative action that finally solved the problem, even though that fire was not the most destructive nor the most deadly. The difference was society had changed, and that fire struck a nerve when the previous ones hadn't.

The moral of the story is: past performance is no guarantee of future results.
He may have insulted you, but not all insults constitute logical fallacies.

Ad hominem: You're wrong because you're an idiot.

Just an insult: You're an idiot because you're wrong.

Furthermore, concluding that somebody is wrong because they used a logical fallacy is itself a logical fallacy. If I said "2+2=4 because you're an idiot" my reasoning would be fallacious, but to conclude that the answer must therefore not be four is also fallacious.
Fair play for being so receptive to feedback!
The people behind this research have a rather interesting Twitter account on which they document many of their finds and glacial archeology in general.

It's called Secrets of the Ice and is at https://twitter.com/brearkeologi

Their main website is https://secretsoftheice.com/

And their own article about these finds has more information and more pictures and is probably a better source if you're interested in this: https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/11/25/prehistoric-arro...
I have my tiny share of a QBasic Story. Please read this with a light heart and don’t judge me.

I was introduced to Computers — as theories in school classes in the summer of 1992. By winter of 1993, my school got computers and I spent a lot of my time there, including many practices during the holidays.

I spend extra effort to learn things that were not taught in the school. I learnt QBasic and started writing tiny programs. My own trick was to use Graph Papers to match co-ordinates to plan game programs. One of them was a game where shapes are draw on the screen and you shoot it with an arrow. You have to hit spots on the shapes to do something - explode, write out names, etc.

I asked one of the girls to try it. She did and finally shoots a “heart” symbol and it burst with her name. I think I coded many things manually to make that happen and not very “programmatic”.

She became my first Girlfriend and we were for about a year. After that, we got drifted apart as we went to different schools in different states. No email, no phone.
It’s a necessary complexity, particularly given that Mozilla predates the existence of Benefit Corporations by a dozen years. As a purely non-profit corporation, having most of your revenue come from business income is a big problem. As a for-profit, director’s fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders can get in the way of pursuing a public good mission. And, collaboration with for profit orgs gets a little less regulatory scrutiny if a non-profit is in control.
The "modern" Second Life is VRChat, which despite the name supports flatscreens too. There are a bunch of mildly eerie/sad maps available, as well as a bunch other varied stuff.
Just gotta love the website for it.

http://amistech.com/msc/
Does uMatrix still exist (maintained)? I remember reading it is being discontinued.

(I occasionally used it for curiosity, but found it too tedious in the long term. I have settled on CookieAutoDelete, which seem to address most tracking. Not many seem to run a completely server based fingerprint database.)
I had this experience in a small city in Ukraine in winter; I liked the daytime working in the office, but at night in those concrete (quite decrepit) buildings, I only wanted to go back home. This building in the game looks much better but the feeling when I watch it indeed is the same.
Exhibit 1. Walter White.
From the article:

> They hate to be wrong, so putting the burden on others the prove them wrong is a stonewalling strategy that makes it time-consuming and tedious to disprove them

From you:

> used by people online to silence anyone who questions lockdowns or masks. Nobody ever(y) responds directly but they use the tactics listed in this article.

This is an irrational object (people online / nobody) you've created to make arguing with you time-consuming, at the least. If you were forced to debate using rational objects in your sentences, you'd get your ass handed to you.

They should have called it Thought-Control Tactics Assholes Use to Confuse!
Yes. For me it was a near perfect “social media” experience, at least for that point in my life. It was high signal, low noise, and really it was a high water mark of internet experience for me.
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plugshare.com sells kiosks that turns any piece of land with power and internet access into a charging port you'd find in a grocery store parking lot?

At a glance it's just a charging location/routing service app.

That's a pretty tiny portion of what my comment was about.
>and no or very temporary logs are kept

If, and only if, the provider isn't lying
This sentiment is backwards. You seem to be implying that the children wouldn't be hungry if he wasn't granted a free franchise to run and profit from. Obviously you are trying to imply that it was the "saving every penny" that made him rich, not the "granted a franchise to run".

But let's be real: You can't save money you didn't make to start with. The above poster is clearly calling out the gift as the reason for his success.
Your pessimism seems unwarranted in this case, per the article, it’s actually one part of a five part art piece:

http://iliamazo.ru/itswinter

> The game has been released as a part of a larger project by poet Ilia Mazo, which also includes a book, a play, a short film, and a musical album (turn on the radio in the game to listen to the music).

Getting the translations of the other four pieces would be fascinating.
Developers have been reimplementing W3C specs in Javascript. Forms don't work, password managers have no idea what's going on, back buttons are hijacked, and sometimes even scrolling is thought to be better handled by a 4MB JavaScript file than by the browser.
https://archive.is/bSN5W

Modi is a proxy to Brahmin hegemony in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)
Wealthy older women visiting 'dance clubs' spur Covid outbreak in Hong Kong
Confirmed. This is standard fare in business school, undergrad and MBA alike. There’s no academic rigour because everyone passes because the schools treat students as high paying customers who are always right, and then they have a straight shot into consulting or investment banking, ruining the world due to the aforementioned insecurity, ego & entitlement and attraction to exploitation.
Blogging since 2005. Wow....
The environment we're trying to save is large swaths of arable zones for human habitation. Fish are nice, but we need to be able to grow wheat.
Visualizing 50 Years of Gaming History, by Revenue Stream (1970-2020)
I've never heard of that, and your definition of 1 as infinitesimal is incompatible withbits properties (infinitesimal + infinitesimal + infinitesimal is greater than a non-infinitesimal 2?!) and I don't see a mention on Wikipedia, and it goes against the plain read it of "in-finite-simal".

Also, you seem to be conflating "common" with "standard". "standard" is a mathematical term. Infinitesimal are handwavy in standard analysis (epsilon-delta are the rigorous alternative), but exist rigorously in nonstandard analysis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal
Coming from discrete logic, a 5 transistor DRAM cell looks strange to me.. the good old “bistable multivibrator” circuit is just 2 transistors (and a few resistors, but I bet many of them could be eliminated with creative transitor sizing)

I am going to guess this design is better in terms of power consumption or total area?
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This isn’t a solution but it might bring you some cheer: buy yourself a few[1] of these:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-expre...

They have a killer feature: infrared send and receive. Making a network of weird flashy lights is all the joy of computing without any of the “this feels like my job” crap[8].

Press a button and the device appears as a USB drive. You build your project at https://makecode.adafruit.com/ into a firmware file ending in .UF2 and upload it the device.

[1] ...and some battery packs, cable ties, USB A to micro B leads if you don’t have twelve billion already.

[8] You might be tempted by the third party firmware/UF2 called “Circuit Python”, which lets you then code on the device directly in a cutdown version of Python3. For me, that felt too much like my day job :)
Modi regime is intentionally keeping People Poor/Starving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...
You won't be driving a stolen car very far if you have to stay within 10 meters of the owner & their keyfob/phone. Accuracy of <200 meters would already eliminate the idea of being able to drive away with a stolen car by just boosting the keyfob signal.

And modern cars absolutely know how to switch safely to a "limp mode" that lets you pull over safely.
(Huh, today in uploading a video I glanced at it after a while, and: 83%… 84%… 85%… 86%… meaningful percentages and time estimates. Maybe they’ve fixed this, or at least improved it?)
> Company is free to fire criminals if they want

They are not yet criminals though.

> If you're the victim of a crime, report the crime to the police.

and you still dont get it.
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Yes they do on the 16”, after years of complaints from users who didn’t understand the constraint, and which they added the maximum allowable battery size to (~100wH), and it still only lasts 3-4h in moderate use.
> Essentially if you believe in something hard enough then it can become true

a.k.a "magical thinking" iirc
Antirez (of Redis) made Load81[0] for this reason; I can recommend it; batteries included and modern. I did a lot of prototyping on it on the OpenPandora while traveling and a few of my friends said their kids picked it up as easily as they did Basic.

[0] https://github.com/antirez/load81
Isn't that exactly the point? Multiple groups can develop their "right way" and you can pick and choose which way you prefer.

As for being "one update away from breaking" this is an issue on any OS, at least with Linux you have the choice not to update or even roll back.
It's an interesting article - worth reading.

Business chains affiliated by origin like the Calif. donut chain are common in North America:

- Indian Gujaratis and Bay Area motels

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/09/south-asi...

- S. Koreans and minimarts across Canada

(A relative of mine worked in one.)

- there's a couple immigrants with 10+ Calif. gas stations each

https://www.desertsun.com/story/money/business/2015/12/02/ch...

How it works in general is that the business visionary has a close relationship with one bank, and the ability to sponsor a lot of friends and family in the old country.

For example, in the case of minimarts in Canada, a S. Korean immigrant automatically gets a loan in the range of $200k and up at one bank if they can find a location for sale/lease and the ability to sponsor 3 or more family members to work there. It's just a matter of filling out the forms from the bank, and based on the previous successful affiliate history, the loan is approved.

Around 2000, during the Balkans wars, the Albanians funded their war chest from a roofing contractor business in NY that hired exclusively Albanian labor. There's a documentary showing them exporting a 50 cal AA rifle and other weapons to Albania, including considering leasing an airliner (!) to export more. The UN had to limit helicopter operations over their territory.
How is that different than say Debian?

Debian's tools are kinda clunky, but I think the funny thing is that you can ONLY use Debian to build a Debian ISO. Or Debian packages even. How else would you do it ???

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Looking at the original suggestion, I don't think it really makes sense.

Without downloading additional packages, a Linux distribution that can also run as a continuous integration server and build server. This means that the desktop can build .ISOs to distribute itself. The desktop can also build any package that is available in package repositories.

Every operating system can do this, but none of them do it without downloading packages, for good reason.

And "downloading packages" is vague. Windows and OS X do not come with C compilers, but Linux distros do generally. You can build many packages with a C compiler and Make, but not all.

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Aboriginal Linux was supposed to be the smallest Linux distro that can rebuild itself: http://landley.net/aboriginal/

However once you add "real" functionality to it, the size of the build and their transitive dependencies explodes. Like to build a 300 MB .ISO, you'd probably need 2 or 4 GiB of tools.
No schematic, no expansion slots, and a case sealed with security screws.
1. One should always find one’s “place of the heart” wherever it may be.

2. If your only two places of consideration for that are New York City and San Francisco, I recommend purchasing an atlas and taking a drive.

Imagine an old woman on a rocking chair in the mountains, declaring the only places she’s been, and wants to be, are her cabin and the county seat. The author isn’t that culturally, psychologically and aesthetically removed from Granny in the sticks.

It’s a big wide wonderful country and planet. Might be nice to see a little more of it. But if SF is your place of the heart, your querencia, then you should and will stay, because what everybody else says won’t matter.

But if it is mattering to you, you should probably consider other options...
I've heard similar tales here in Michigan when Dominos and Little Caesars were getting started. A worker gets a franchise and in a couple of years he's got a dozen.

In Lansing Biggby's Coffee got started. Right now they're in a dozen states. I've met the two founders, one of their first employees who was a recent immigrant now owns over 100 stores.
I never used macOS until OS X and most definitely did not copy it. Nothing about Growl was a copy of that.

Growl was inspired from being project manager on Adium and worked with the people making colloquy. The devs on colloquy were working on notifications and so we’re we and I thought it was smarter to make it a separate tool.
This is why, among some of my close friends, we have a game to see who can pay the bill first, without anyone knowing.

The surprise comes after the host leaves the paid bill on the table.

It’s gone so far as to put a card on file before arriving with no limit, which leads to folks not picking a place to meet in advance, and a lot less predictable locations to meet :)
Fimbulvinter (a long winter) was a sign of Ragnarök. Ice giants was not a sign.
Yeah, we also found their unsubscribe feature set a little disappointing

But it will do for while and we will wrap our heads around it when we get there :)
In my teens and twenties, I would've been like "what a lovely gesture."

Now that I'm in my thirties and we've gone through various social movements, I think "whoa, what a creeper." Specifically the whole jumping into her bedroom. And the whole stabbing himself if they broke them apart. Then I had gave a gut check: they were kids. In my teens my mind was definitely in that realm of ambitious gestures.
One implied question is whether the franchise opportunity even exists today.
The word franchise doesn't appear in the article. It's light on detail, but I think it's more likely he completed a management training program, and was then given a store to manage. It's not uncommon for a manager to receive a percent of profits as compensation. He then saved enough to put a down payment on his own store.

I.e. he worked very hard, continually leveraged his assets to expand, and was (for a time) successful.
Not GP but not being able to run Linux is weighted pretty heavily in my criteria when looking for a new job.
Is there any help from Please on building TypeScript projects faster?
I personally visit "a great many websites" daily, and rarely have this problem. Maybe it's uBlock doing it's job, or maybe it's the kind of site you go to?
Most people do care, they just don't have any alternatives due to Facebook's network effect.
How do you know rulers of China, Russia and USA aren’t best friends ever and share information at top levels? You simply cannot trust a third party vendor anymore, no matter where they reside and this includes your cpu too.

Any information that needs security from nation state level requires physical data diodes.

I guess you can use the method you mentioned for protection against lower level actors.
> It’s an ode to the commode, a throne room lined with 104 toilets from around the world, arranged inches apart in three aisles beneath national flags. Tanks and filters in an adjacent room replicate the water conditions in different countries, and above each bowl, mechanized plungers test the toilets at different flush rates.

I think they’ve missed an opportunity to find the best toilet. But I suppose that wouldn’t be good for their product’s sales.
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020
After 7 years of what? 7 years since someone opened a random issue on a random repo?
Haha that’s funny, yeah! Yours looks pretty interesting too, I’ll check it out in more detail later!
I never really understood beeminder. What's to stop someone from just lying so they don't have to pay?
The most important thing about blogging is to just get started and make it low energy.

However, I was using wordpress for ~5 years and it was rotting under my feet. It served really slow. I also feel much more secure not having my content in a somewhat difficult to decipher xml file. I feel like if you don't have your content in a relatively straightforward form like plaintext or markdown or html, you're gonna lose it eventually.
I was considering going raw html, but Jekyll ultimately does have some convenient features while still keeping my content accessible to me forever in markdown.
It is also very convenient to serve from a github.io.

http://www.philipzucker.com/i-moved-my-blog-from-wordpress/
Seeing this post and replies makes me feel like I'm part of a qbasic reunion, which had such a wonderful and enduring effect on me. Reading this article brought back that feeling of having my imagination captured and a whole world opening up to me.
Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm, Expressed as One-Liners
Growl is some of my favorite software. I still have a 'what if' I think about from time to time. What if Apple had adopted Growl.
They're going onto e-bikes that will never be pedaled under human power.
>We're about to enter a trusted computing dystopia. You won't be able to run software on your laptops or desktops, and everything will be tracked.

This situation is entirely the fault of web developers at large tech firms who have been pushing "the web as app publishing platform".

It used to be that you'd install a program and run it locally but of course javascript developers didn't want to learn C++ and here we are.
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Huh? Notifications that pop up in the corner aren't a "great design innovation". They are an obvious one.

Just because there are some non-obvious great design innovations out there, doesn't mean every little interface component is one. Some things are just the logical solution to a problem.
The crazy thing is, it's been like that for YEARS.
I find this very interesting, because I feel like it's one of those 'outcome' driven projects, where no real consideration is given to any kind of maintainability, and you quickly throw together a buggy prototype in a few months.

...and no one ever touches it again [1].

That was never the goal though, and as they point out in the retrospective [2]:

> We were asked whether the project would have benefit from a stricter testing phase to developing, with each code iteration requiring some testing, and we believe the answer is still no. While our engine could have used more testing, the project's mission was to learn, and we wouldn't have been able to learn as much by being more methodical.

> What the Isetta Engine allowed us to do was see the whole picture of a game engine, what it takes to build one, and how the engine development process works.

To be fair, it did that... but it's a pity they had to learn the hard way, by making something they poured their hearts and souls into and then... just, never touch again.

> We weren't being given explicit feedback about the engine we were developing from our faculty or others, and we were no longer spending even the majority of our time learning game engine development. At some point near the end, the project pivoted from its original goal, and we had to do something that was no longer learning. And it just became a slog.

[1] - https://github.com/Isetta-Team/Isetta-Engine/commits/master

[2] - https://isetta.io/engine_postmortem/SoftwareDevelopment
If anyone was ever alarmed by the GOTO et al within BASIC, it's worth remembering that the 'B' stands for "Beginner's". I think the language serves an excellent role in firing the curiosity of an amateur, whether young or old.
The problem is that residential charging is slow. An L2 charger will only add 20-25 miles of range per hour. No-one is going to leave their car at a random place long enough to get any meaningful charge.

In fact, I think L2 chargers should be banned from retail businesses, as they're just a gimmick and for vanity only. The average customer stays what, 45 minutes to an hour, netting maybe 20 miles of range?

I don't even bother with L2 charging except at the office. At home I just use L1 as an evening/overnight charge is enough for me.
Thanks. I'm using the latest Firefox, and for some reason, this Javascriptless site isn't working at all because I can't see anything.
"modern" browsers seem to ignore caching directives, and you can forget about pulling up a page you just viewed 5 minutes ago if your connection is off now.
Hi, long time reader but never posted before. When I started working with computers in my first job in 96, I discovered QBasic. Then by just following a sample program on how to play music notes, I was able to make the PC play a custom song. What an exciting discovery!
Too bad the program could only play beeps and didn't support polyphony. Then I think this was my first "hack" into programming: I created a version of the Christmas Carol "Joy to the World" that sounded like 4-part harmony by simply making the duration of each note comprising a chord to the be very very short, and then between notes (chords) I added a rest (silence) so I could distinguish each separate note from the melody. It sounded like arpeggios. Fun experience, but too time consuming.
This is totally untrue when you start building an application and care about superior interactivity and sophisticated UI/UX patterns
I had one like that then kept shrinking it until it was basically a single list of names that autohid on the right side of my screen. It took a couple years to unlearn the muscle memory of flicking the mouse over there to see activity which is now a bunch of notifications and icon badges and phone buzzes.
I too used to take this view until I worked on a system which was on a limited storage budget of roughly 500MiB. Shared libraries go a long ways on a system like that towards making the entire thing fit. The other option was linking multiple binaries together busybox style, which also works wonders, although it forces release coupling so there are tradeoffs. Not every linux system is for desktop or server either.