skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fresno has a really rich history with regards to water development and I don't understand why it doesn't get more press for that. I also liked the bus system there.

> Meanwhile, Fresno is the butt of jokes in movies and otherwise mostly gets ignored.

I've never cared for the disparaging attitude that many Californians have towards Fresno and the rest of the Central Valley, either, but then I am not a California native, either. At the same time, I'm also definitely guilty of ignoring the place and it's history. I honestly only know where it is on the map as a pit stop before going into the Sierras and Yosemite.

I placed a hold on a copy of Salt Dreams with the library. I'm really looking forward to reading it. The only books I really had any awareness of around this topic were Cadillac Desert and a couple of others that I vaguely recall ever reading.
> In fact, my complaint is specifically that we don't often ask such questions.

But tons of people do, all the time. There has been excessive pearl clutching about making it easier to spread ideas since the invention of the printing press.
In my car, I have to disconnect the battery when the cheap 30$ Chinese radio freezes.
I find the concept absurd as well. If you do something like go back in time and murder Hitler, you're going to be impacting the actions of every single human being alive. Within a few generations there's going to be an entirely different set of people alive than the set of people alive in the universe in which Hitler was not murdered. This idea that you would still have to go back in time because the universe corrects itself makes no sense because there's just no way you would still exist. I'd be willing to entertain the idea that someone else would go back in time for the same reason, but it's all just wild speculation.
I guess you're here defending Levandowski's actions. Because you did. Even though they're indefensible.
Interesting. I didn’t know about the laws in San Francisco. Then maybe better explanations for people feeling “less stressed about getting kicked out of their homes” in Japan than in San Francisco are the more flexible housing supply, made possible in part by looser zoning regulations; more stable long-term housing prices, resulting from a combination of demographic and macroeconomic factors; and different cultural assumptions about proper interpersonal relations, including between landlord and tenant.
I equate it to touch-typing. Do you think about each keystroke or do you just type? It’s the same way with editing when you’ve learned it. I don’t know that it has to be vim but that’s what clicked with me.
"i7 CPU" is totally zero informative for now. It's vary from 2core 1GHz (ancient i7 620UM) to 18 core.
Nice trolling.

You can use general extensions on Android in Nightly, so this is in progress: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

But sure, if you want to "throw away the idea of internet freedom" then
that's your choice.
I want to hear Norm Macdonald tell this joke.
I think a database to speed things up would be ok, as long as the flat text files were the truth.

I wish Linus had veto'd the binary logfiles of systemd.
When you get to the social sciences, evidence is much more easily wished for than provided.

However some of the successes of community policing (particularly when you have neighboring cities, one of which adopts it and another of which doesn't) do suggest a causal link with causality going the right way. Namely that activities on the part of police aimed at increasing trust within problem communities, result in those communities experiencing a decrease in violence and crime.
It's more about installing Debian on hardware where networking requires a nonfree driver. These are sort of available, but not on the official installation media.

This is a hard problem for Debian which explicitly stays away from proprietary software as much as it can. I always solved it by having only supported hardware, but it's a serious limitation.
Sounds like they're describing the Novikov self-consistency principle [1] in a roundabout way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
oddly, here in Australia, for much of the union movement (== left) coal = jobs == vote for rightists, in some areas.

overall, i do tend to agree with the economists soft-left who point out with the cost of capital close to 0, we can do all the economically less "efficient" stuff in wind, solar, batteries, because we can afford to, and actually need to, under the new MMT/Keynesian pump-priming. The same investment in nuclear wouldn't be net beneficial in the same way because less immediacy in the spend, and so less effective economic levers for the right-now economic problem: out the other side, we'd have an amazing modern supply network built out of a mixture of sources, and maybe thats ok?

I see huge correlations being leftist in general, and anti nuclear. There is a small c conservative movement who believe in the integrity of the land and oppose nuclear because its just not how fox-hunting people of tory bent, envisage the land being run. But, they are a tiny minority. Most of the active anti nuclear people are either declared centre-left or lefterward of center-left (IMHO)

I can't speak to the covid question. I haven't explored it.
In Isaac Asimov's "End of Eternity" he posed a similar concept where contrary to the butterfly effect where minor changes ripple through time, time has a mechanism of self-preservation which is resistant to change. Asimov never ceases to amaze me with how prescient he was for his time.
How many users can this server serve
> Also, in classical languages there is a color that is used to describe rust, e.g. "rubigo" in Latin.

It seems worth observing that rubigo is pretty transparently related to the Latin word ruber, "red". In fact, where ruber is an adjective, rubigo is a noun, referring not to the color rust but to the substance itself. (And, by metaphorical extension, to any undesirable thing collecting on anything else, such as mold growing on grain, scum growing on your teeth, etc.)
Narthangai in Tamil is Naranga in Malayalam. Not coincidentially, Naranja in Spanish/Portuguese is Orange. (I think this is an instance of Indian words migrating west, probably via Arabia.)

The reverse is also true - lot of words in Kerala which had sea-trade with Portugal and Spain, are close to their Portuguese/spanish equivalent, more than in other Indian languages. They are very closely related to the Iberian terms

- papaya

- sabola (Malayalam) versus Cebolla (Spanish/Portuguese)

- kashuandi (Cashew nut)

Other related terms like kappalandi (ship nuts - i.e. peanuts) indicate sea trade and that they were not endemic to India.

Looking at Malayalam terms gives a good indication as to which foods came to India via sea trade, possibly from South America, since the South was often the port of call. The only major exception I know is Mulaku (chillies) - even though chillies came from South America, the word does not indicate that.
Q: Why does the sun always rise east in the morning and set west in the evening?

A: Just leave it alone and don't mess with it.
Yes, there are many contributing factors.

But in both theory and attempts to measure real-world data, rent control is a big factor.
The bartender asked if all of them wanted a drink.

Logician number one does not know whether logicians number two and three want a drink or not, so he can’t say yes. If he did not want a drink though, he could say no because then it would not be true that they all wanted a drink. But he wants a drink. Therefore he says he don’t know, because it will depend on whether the other two want drinks or not.

Same applies to logician number two. She is still missing info about the third logician and therefore says she doesn’t know.

The third logician now knows that both of the other two want drinks, and so can answer that all of them want drinks.
How many IBM 360s does it take to execute a job?

Three: Two to hold it down, one to cut its head off.
"Please be gentle with me."

That guidance wasn't needed, really. It's refreshingly free of trendy design, and straightforward to use. And other things, like the ads not being in the way of the content. I'm sure you've got a list you're working on, but what's there looks great.

One minor suggestion...there are some paths that lead you to a "muscle not found" page, like this: https://musclewiki.com/Barbell/Female/Calves/. Some way of preventing landing there in the first place would probably be more intuitive. Like a popped hint when you hover over a calf if Female/Barbell is pre-selected. Or some semi-transparent overlay to suggest Calves can't be selected, etc.
I don't think you can travel back in time so it's moot as far as I'm concerned.
trillian, Messenger Plus, Franz, WhatsApp Plus.

they all eventually die out. Either they use unofficial hooks or just the web app of the service.

:(

also: i am living in Thailand and here everybody uses LINE Messenger. they removed the webclient and the platform is not famous enough outside of SEA for any western multimessenger dev to reverse engineer and hook.
From the book description:

> We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.

What a bizarre claim. Even the most cursory glance at historical documents would reveal this belief before the 1930s.

One such example (among innumerable others) is from Princeton Seminary professor Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, published in 1895.

> Proof that this is a Christian and Protestant Nation

> The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian
and Protestant nation, is not so much the assertion of a principle as the statement of a fact. That fact is not simply that the great
majority of the people are Christians and Protestants, but that the organic life, the institutions, laws, and official action of the government, whether that action be legislative, judicial, or executive, is, and of right should be, and in fact must be, in accordance with the principles of Protestant Christianity...

https://books.google.com/books/about/Systematic_Theology.htm...
The article makes it seem like "the timeline corrects itself." What the scientific paper actually says (as best I can understand it) is that, if the universe is entirely deterministic, the conditions necessary for time travel can only occur when the time traveling wouldn't cause a paradox. As the authors note, this isn't super relevant to our universe because:

- the conditions necessary for time travel probably don't exist

- the universe probably isn't totally deterministic
Relevant webcomic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-02-09
I have to agree. The year.month scheme, and the predictability are things that make ubuntu easy to adopt for corporate users.

I think if debian augmented the toy story names with dates, that might help.
Hahaha. Didn't even notice. Er, I mean, this comment is now for sale.
What is the evidence? Seems hard to have evidence for anything billions of years ago given we don't have historical records past a few millenia. It is all guesswork past that point, and the patterns of organisms and their complexity makes an earth origin of DNA extremely improbable if not impossible. Try reading through a graduate level book on bioinformatics to marvel at the sheer ingenuity, for lack of a better word, of what our dna is capable of far exceeding anything our best engineers can do. I find it impossible to believe mutation and natural selection can do better, even given billion year timescale and all of history's biomass. Just look at how ineffective genetic algorithms are in computer science.
If all are revealed on Sunday, and I have several hundred friends that would creates a overwhelming long feed right?
There is something called kickseed, which is documented on the Ubuntu wiki and seems to be available in Debian too, possibly in the Debian installer as well.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility
Charity isn't collectivist, but it is anti-capitalist. Giving away wealth and property to those who haven't earned the means to purchase it, and without making a profit from the exchange, undermines the entire premise of capitalism.

A capitalist Jesus would have offered loaves and fishes to a few followers then opened a restaurant after the buzz spread.
Though I'm having trouble finding the source, I believe there to some degree an idea published in a public fashion becomes un-patentable / public domain after a given period (something like 6 months). Hopefully someone can chime in on details about publicly shared ideas and patentability.
If gloves are an option then there are lots of mechanisms that can deliver tactile sensations of various types.
Show HN: Test Eyes at Home
most people don't have different weaknesses or special needs. in order to have a pronounced weak point, you need to have strong points, and untrained people aren't strong.

highly individualized beginner training is like making minor corrections to a lump of clay. you don't even have a sculpture yet - there's nothing to correct.
Some of it is meta commentary on the whole game of convincing wealthy patrons to fork over money for these things.

I once saw an piece in a Boise gallery that consisted of a cardboard box filled with opened tubes of squeezed paint. Many people would walk by dismissively but upon closer inspection the entire thing was a ceramic sculpture.
Maybe the problem is that you are not supposed to rely solely on hjkl for navigation? Not sure how others use it, but for me most of the navigation are performed with <C-d> / <C-u> / search (long range) or f, w, b etc (shorter range, usually with modifiers). hjkl are almost always used in combination with these to adjust the initial / final location of the cursor.
Hm, Vietnamese has the same word for the color and fruit as well. Since Vietnam is relatively close to the origin of the fruit, I presume they had oranges long before direct European contact.

So one wonders if the idea of having the same name for both arose independently in both places, or if Vietnamese didn't have a name for the color until they established trade with Europeans, and decided to follow their lead in using the same name as the fruit?
Co-Grow! Use the heat, light and CO² from the power plant directly to power the (growth of) plants, by arranging them around the fire. Use some technomagical glass boiler for that.
Does Capitalism Work?
What's the difference between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg?

One's a human trying to conquer Mars and the other is an alien trying to conquer Earth.
I suspect this is a reaction, not something planned a while back.
> sign a federal mask mandate (done)
> President Biden signs an executive order implementing a national mask mandate on federal property.

I wouldn't consider that done. Maybe I don't understand the dog whistle property, but I always assumed that a federal mask mandate was like a normal federal law that was legally binding on all US land not just the capital, white House, and such.
I don’t think it’ll be an issue. This isn’t exactly new ground. We know the results from other languages. There might be some such abuse, but there’s a lot of other ways to abuse expressions and they don’t happen often because it’s just not worth it.
Aww, I wanted to find about that little shin muscle that makes the quads and hamstrings looked balanced in comparison, and which is absolutely needed for the base drum and hardly remarked upon for anything else, but it didn't show up.
Mobile Safari does hold the Web back. Examples are easy to find:

Safari doesn't support the standard unprefixed fullscreen API, while Firefox and Chrome have for years, so Web developers have to write a bunch of compatibility crap or accept fullscreen not working on iOS.

Firefox and Chrome have supported WebGL2 for years, iOS Safari still doesn't.
It’s impossible to create a paradox, because the events that led to you being able to go back in time were created by whatever you did in the past in an attempt to change the future.

If you did successfully change the past so that you never ended up going back, you would not live the life where you go back in time to make that change. But if you did find yourself even going back in time it means your efforts already failed anyway, so might as well not even bother.
Having to enter email to get the results of the fasting guide is unacceptable. It should be illegal to waste people's time like that, and it should be required to say something along the lines of "to get your results, you will need to enter an email address" prior to wasting precious time. I closed the site after.
It's in German, I don't know what that says. Assuming it says "Thuringia postponed elections" I guess sure, lockdowns in Thuringia past the term of the existing government were not democratic. That is, if Germany has statewide Covid restrictions, rather than national ones.
Complete C++ Hessian2 Codec
> The article covers this. Empirical studies suggest this effect does not occur.

That study doesn't deal with long-term neighborhood revitalizations. It's dealing with new developments in New York generally, though if you read the study it still mentions that the amenity effect does occur and could increase rents. It says that this is offset by increased supply, but that's looking at things in aggregate. The increased demand from a few new restaurants in a already developed area isn't going to come close to the transformation of a burned out crime ridden area into a prosperous one. Anytime spent in gentrifying neighborhoods (or time spent looking at how cities have been trying to develop these) will show you that, unsurprisingly, the impact is much higher there.
Perhaps it’s the paradox that makes the travel
impossible rather than the physics with the infinite loops settling/converging on the scenario where time travel is not discovered / possible.
Exactly. The article mentions the grandfather paradox, but doesn't really address it at all. Can't "self correct" shooting your past self in the head.
Why would it be impossible to travel back in time?
Please Stop Encrypting with RSA Directly
The dpkg roadmap mentions a metadata tracking proposal, which seems likely to provide something like the database that you want.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/MetadataTracking

Personally I vastly prefer the flat file version, it is much easier to inspect and modify and maybe less likely to get corrupted.
Why time travelers in sci-fi also move to the position and rotation of the Earth at the given moment? They should end floating in space.
> Take the bible, leak random pages and one will say live a joyous life, love each other.. where a different page might tell you to sacrifice your only child. Unless you've been privy to all of the information at the right scale, you've been sold a piece, a piece that paints a narrative.

This line of argument seems more in line with Scientologist’s protection of “Zenu” stories thru cooyright than “the Bible,” which has substantially available to read since Gutenberg. If only the security apparatus was more like Jesus than Mr. Hubbard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Underappreciated; was a new one for me.
Time travel violates the law of conservation of energy. By travelling back in time, you yourself are injecting more mass/energy into a system. So it's great as a science fiction trope, but if you're going to talk physics, that needs to be addressed.
Paradox are happening all time, they are just not logic.
But universe doesn't give a crap about what you can or can not understand
It’s a short circuiting conjunction. Consider `aliceWantsADrink && bobWantsADrink`. If Alice doesn’t want a drink, she knows it’s not the case that both of them want a drink. Since she says “maybe” instead of “no” she signals to Bob that she wants a drink, and so he concludes they both want a drink.
But it can go to war and get married the past 3 years!
Jaw-dropping ways machine learning is revolutionizing recycling
Such is also the underlying premise in Poul Anderson's Time Patrol universe.
I sold a Chrome extension I wrote in the early days of extensions (for a lot less than $120M and with a lot less users, but meaningful numbers for both). It wasn't clear then just how bad the malware problem was.

People still blamed me.
Yes, they only mention pre-destination, as if the reader will know what that entailed and how it worked, and how protestantism evolved towards individual expression, thought, and control from there.

In our case here now, this is an example of the liberation of information and thought continuing to progress right up to the invention of the internet, and then HN, and now this thread.
Was it downstate Illinois? The brood in northern IL is Brood XIII, due back in 3 more years. The early-13s came out last summer.
This is all just a bunch of nonsense, but I enjoy discussing it regardless.

Why bother going back so far? Let's think of what would happen if you went back 30 seconds. As soon as you arrive in the past, take a baseball bat to the time machine. What then?

And then let's take the article's scenario at face value. If you went back 5 minutes and somehow events always led back to you successfully using the time machine, your consciousness would be stuck in a permanent 5-minute loop. Maybe you could spice up those 5 minutes but you'd be right back where you started soon enough. Wouldn't the same be true if you went back 5 seconds? That would be hell.

But that's not the end of it. If you went back in time, why would we assume you'd displace to a new location? One of two things would need to happen: A) you'd need to teleport AND erase a blank area of space perfectly sized for your arrival, or B) you'd rewind like a tape playing backwards.

I like to think of the B scenario. If it were true we would never know it. The effects of the time machine would never be observable. We could have working time machines all around us right now for all we know. As I sit in this chair I could be at the destination of a trip through a time machine which I will one day invent. And when I finally enter the machine and flip the button, nothing will seem to happen. A pointless device.
This is wildly under developed, mathematically, but eventually with enough FP and category theory and things, we will get back there.

The problem is everyone wants to write little nodes and "just" wire them up. But all the real complexity is not in the nodes, but the nature of the wires and their composition.

We'll get there though, stay tuned.
The question is "Do you all want a drink?" They're all answering with the logical meaning of "all", where it's yes if and only if every single one of them wants a drink, not the common meaning. Their responses are the value of the predicate `(A wants a drink) AND (B wants a drink) AND (C wants a drink)`.

If either of the first two didn't want a drink, they would be able to answer "no". They each started off knowing one of the terms in that logical AND above. (They know their own preferences are either "yes" and "no" but they aren't yet aware of the others' preferences, and they each know the others know that.)

For example, if (A wants a drink) is false, then the whole predicate is false. So if A didn't want a drink, A would've said "no". But instead they say "I don't know". They could only have not known if they actually do want a drink but are unsure whether both of the others also do. But after the first two people each say something that reveals they do want a drink, the third person "C" knows that:

1. A wants a drink (or they would have said "no")

2. B wants a drink (or they would have said "no")

3. C wants a drink (knowledge of their own preferences)

and finally has enough information to conclude that the overall predicate is true.
> maybe I'll donate it

Did you end up doing so?