skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's partially tied to ethnic affiliation, but that is not an essential aspect of the term. For instance, Trevor Noah's comments on the French football team would definitely be referred to as an anglo-saxon perspective even though the man himself would not be considered as such by anglophones since the term refers almost exclusively to ethnicity in English.

Although the average Frenchman could always stand to learn more about the anglosphere, the usage of the word anglo-saxon in French isn't borne out of ignorance of cultural nuance, but is often invoked and defined in contrast to French or French-inspired values. As such, the term is still popular because it's still highly relevant: whenever there's some kerfuffle about secularism or some other salient clash of values, the anglosphere tends to present the same predictable range of responses whether they are Anglo-Canadians or Irish, POC or WASP, immigrant or Baskerville.

Naturally, people from the anglosphere don't enjoy being conceptually lumped together by outsiders (leading to the misunderstandings mentioned earlier) but in this case it's not just casual prejudice on the part of the French (even though it no doubt plays a role) but a recurrent difference in values that has real consequences. In my view, it is as real a concept as "the West" is for example.
Was King Canute making maximal use of his power when he ordered back the waves, or could he have deployed his army to the beach to reinforce his edicts?
Remember The Last Dance, the documentary about Michael Jordan's last season with the Chicago Bulls? Remember that weird talk show clip where the host describes Jordan as close to a living god? Now, Michael Jordan was an awesome athlete, but I think his mythos owes a lot to the specific media landscape at the time.

That is, media was extensive enough for a person to be a truly global star, but for the most part it only went one way. The media gave you an image of Michael and, for the most part, the image was pretty close to "living god". In contrast, modern media is intensely participatory. There are vicious comment sections and viral Tweets dunking on every person. Nobody seems to stay above it for very long.

There's a famous, maybe apocryphal quote where John Updike explains Ted Williams' decision to mostly ignore fans as "gods do not answer letters". But at this point, fame seems to require answering letters. I think people need to maintain some kind of distance to be the sort of heroes described in this article, but the culture we have seems pretty opposed to this kind of distance.
Related: I finally remembered enough of this to look it up successfully! While it's quite old - as I recall, I first saw it posted, in classic photocopier-samizdat style, on a wall of my grandfather's machine shop, when I was a tiny child and he nearing retirement age - I feel it may have new relevance, in these exciting days of computer-aided design and machining, and so post it here for the benefit of all and sundry.

"The Designer" - Author unknown.

The designer sat at his drafting board
A wealth of knowledge in his head was stored
Of what can be done on a radial drill
Or a turret lathe or a vertical mill.

But above all things a knack he had
Of driving gentle machinists mad.
So he mused as he thoughtfully scratched his bean
"Just how can I make this thing hard to machine?"

If I make this body perfectly straight
The job had ought to come out first rate
But it'd be so easy to turn and to bore
That it never would make a machinist sore.

So I'll put a compound taper there
And a couple of angles to make them swear
And brass would serve for this little gear
But its too damned easy to work, I fear.

So just to make the machinist squeal
I'll make him mill it from tungsten steel
And I'll put these holes that hold the cap
Down underneath where they can't be tapped.

Now if they can make this it'll just be by luck
Cause it can't be held by dog or by chuck
And it can't be planed and it can't be ground
So I feel my design is unusually sound.

And he shouted in glee, "Success at last!
This goddam thing can't even be cast."
Hypothetically, if you are seeking fleeing hardship would you want to convert your assets to a public ledger?
It’s easier to mentally map that the default behaviour undo/redo for Emacs (which is not unreasonable, just complex).

The source for undo-tree contains documentation which very effectively describes the way the library works with examples and comparisons with how Emacs does things by default: https://gitlab.com/tsc25/undo-tree/-/blob/master/undo-tree.e...
What is the turnover rate.

I worked for a company where when I joined they had just let go something like half or more of the engineers. Few in engineering except for management had been there more than a year. Apparently the company liked to treat employees like contractors and just wholesale let people go as the company’s finances dictated all the while advertising to customers and potential hires as a stable and growing place to work or to partner with.
> the initial alarmism really shot itself in the foot by making specific predictions (ice caps melting, sea levels rising)

Checks notes, checks on venice and miami watches day after tomorrow, looks at Texas from hurricanes to ice

Which of the predictions are looking like they're not progressing?
And certainly not just domestically either, if you look at where much of the technical expertise came from that set up the modern organization of Saudi Aramco. Houston, mostly.
They need to legalize the herb first.
Postmates Drivers Have Become Easy Prey for Scammers. and Drivers Not Helped
Yes, but if you think they'd put a price on carbon anytime soon then I have a bridge to sell you.

They're a bastion of climate denial, and bringing up their wind power is irrelevant whataboutism.
When I read that timeline, it doesn't sound serious to me. If you're planning to do something in 40 years, then you don't have the faintest clue how to do it now, which means you don't know when you will know how to do it. It could be 5 years or 1,000 or never. You don't know what you don't know.
How can we blame a >1% decrease in life expectancy on a disease which according to the CDC (for under 70's) has a <0.5% infection fatality rate?
Cause these miners can't just load quadro drivers and proceed anyway...

What a waste of time for everyone
I've just started using ZBrush recently, and one of my favorite ideas in this software is their timeline scrubber. You can just drag through undo/redo history to get back to the point in time that you want very quickly.

I could see this being similarly useful in code.
I don't know, I wasn't there.
Yes, and this is the latter.
The nationwide homicide rate has been dropping for the last 27 years. You have switched gears from the nationwide rate which you agree is has been approaching 1950s levels for years to a cherry picked population of cities from a survey you have declined to even name let alone link herein. Given a 27 year trend line I don't feel like I have to substantiate that a 30% increase in some cities during a year that has been in every other way an aberration isn't a trend.
Does doing more than "the common layman" make the conclusions reliable?

I don't have any conclusions, mostly because I'm not confident in a layman's random few searches / ability read them in the appropriate contex could provide much in the way of conclusions.
Great works in Programming Language research
Cancelling NanaGram is as Easy as Using the Product
Uhhh, 2008 didn't happen because banks were lending money out responsibly...
It's not quite a national issue. There have not been regional issues in the Midwest, despite it being considerably colder than Texas, for longer....
I love the fact that you could hear people saying things like "yes yes yes YES YES!" in the background as data came in. Like you say, very infectious
The thing is that you're largely talking about people who have influenced culture, whereas the article seems to define "culture heroes" as people with name recognition across society (presumably including across ages, regions, religions, politics, etc). Not super clear but I read it as "in the US" since language barriers make it very clear that the median culture is very much on the other side of the globe.

I don't think any of those people other than the former (two) US presidents cut the mustard. They might have changed culture, but they're not "heroes" in the "icon" sense.

For cultural icons that everyone across society recognizes, for better and worse I have to imagine those ridiculous segments where they go around and interview random people to ask them who people who I think are comically well known are only to find that people don't know who like Kamala Harris is. Terrifying, but that's what I think the OP was getting at.

Who else might I add? Who would a 15 year old from Chicago recognize as well as a 73 year old in Tallahassee?

Robin Williams maybe? Literally Mickey Mouse? Payton Manning? Elon Musk?

I know I'm out of touch, but I didn't recognize the name for Joe Rogan, Sam Altman, David Goggins, or Jordan Peterson. I have no doubt they have impacted my life, I've even studied karate for over a decade and had friends training MMA and BJJ in class with me; Joe Rogan himself never came up though so while it's awesome that culture now includes MMA and BJJ, Joe Rogan himself is not a culture hero by this classification.
Thats probably a result of superior management of infrastructure rather than “application of enough force.”
You or I could go out today and buy off the counter parts, build a scale model of a pulley system, and use it to store power. We could have done that a century ago.

To the best of my knowledge, fusion only demonstrated net-positive energy production this decade, and hasn't yet reached ignition in a man-made device.

They're not the same.
Oh hey, I've built this! My version would watch code files and snapshot a diff every few seconds. It took a little work to tweak the constants to keep the watching performant, but it was super neat being able to replay code. The main problem I faced was that changes often occur in different places in the file, so the history replaying jumps around a lot. With some proper editor integration, I could see it being pretty useful.

My version is super incomplete because I kind of lost steam when I couldn't figure out a really great reason why someone should use this, but hey, maybe it's worth another try: https://github.com/nicholaslyang/codemkin
Squashes the pyramid
SSL handshaking is definitely a bottleneck. I can’t speak for the benchmarks but with SSL typically this scales via using persistent connections (keep alive), and SSL session resumption (much lower cost to setup vs a full handshake).

In the end you want to measure perf with and without SSL so you can identify the real bottleneck. Otherwise you might just benchmark your SSL implementations handshake performance and not what you really want.

As an example, I found that Kubernetes nginx-ingress can’t cache SSL sessions on the upstream side (nginx to your app). So request bursts can really hurt your application unless your pool has enough open connections to handle the burst (keep alive and keep alive requests). Without benchmarking my app in different ways I wouldn’t have figured this out as easily and might have just assumed my app was slow.
Thanks! :)

It does technically require chording, but honestly not much more than a normal keyboard. Just a few extra "shift" keys, more or less. And normal textual input is pretty much all non-chorded.

I'm a tiny bit biased, of course, but I do find it quite usable. Even (or especially!) for gaming. But yeah, I've been using a datahand, and then later my lalboard as my primary keyboard at home and work for probably going on 15 years now.
It's weird that the link provided talks about El Paso failing but El Paso outages were as far as I can tell limited to short term outages similar to most other parts of the country under similar conditions.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2021/02...

West Texas near El Paso is not on the ERCOT grid and they winterized properly after the last big snow storm so it's absolutely possible to have been prepared for this in Texas.
As an occasional woodworker and carpenter, I can tell you having evenly divisable (inch) measurements makes mental division a whole lot easier. It's just a case of using the right tool for the job.
When I was in grade school, in fifth grade, in the most clean cut suburb imaginable, one of my very close friends told me one morning as we walked through the neighborhood to our elementary school, that he had started adding some of his dad's vodka to his morning orange juice and asked me if i wanted to try it.

I did not, and I was completely stunned, but he said he knew he had to start now because then he could be strong like his dad. And he treated it purely like a chore, drinking every single morning for the next year and change, when we parted ways.

This guy was brilliant - his 4th grade science project was a to measure the lift of different airfoil shapes using as a testbed a hand-built, full-on wind tunnel made from a discarded cylinder vacuum cleaner. I think he dropped out of school in highschool.
The article you provided are from the same people who deny global warming(The Heartland Institute). Dr. Henrique Schneider is a conservative Austrian (as in the school) economist with loony ideas about science:
https://ecaef.org/the-anthropocene-fallacy-learning-from-wro...

So allow me to be quite skeptic about the quality and validity of his "research"
Nice idea, though it looks very incomplete so far – I guess that's why they're recruiting people (on HN and elsewhere) to help finish it up!

I tend to think that simple, self-contained programs and games like this can be a nice onramp to computing. Also it's remarkable that a very small program – such as these BASIC artifacts from the 1970s that managed to run on something like a 1MHz, 8-bit microcontroller with a few kilobytes of memory – can still implement an (arguably) interesting and/or fun game or simulation.

It can also be a fun exercise to write the same program in different languages and compare the results.

I'd still like to see a "write code" button in browsers that opened up a tab where you could easily write (JavaScript) code like this (and maybe even simple graphical games as well, e.g. with a simple canvas/svg + audio + controller API.)
Re: 2) For a single user, that's fine. What if you are trying to fetch posts for N users at a time? Issue N separate queries?
(I'm a Caltech and Ruddock House alum). Millikan is also on record writing in a letter to his wife in the 50s that if blacks in MS reached a majority of the population democracy there as we understand it would cease to exist. I say it's time for him to go.
Nuclear, yes, but hydro, no. Hydro simply isn’t scalable, once you build out practical sites, you cannot get more of it. This is doubly true in flat and dry places like Texas.
The point wasn't missed, because the predicate of global warming is not in question here.

> And where else in the USA has been a bastion of oil/petrochemical industry climate change denialism, than Texas

This is a ridiculous statement.
His humility is definitely one of his appealing attributes, but I gotta say, it's not necessarily enough. I've gone through a couple cycles of thinking I was careful enough about my thoughts and being gently but forcefully humbled, and probably have a few more to go. You can still make mistakes without being aware of the possibility if your humility doesn't look at the right areas of your mind. On the original hand, if someone has to trawl through reactionary trash, I can't think of anyone I would trust more, including myself by a long shot.
One thing I think would help this is a dual repo setup with the local dev-only repo automatically committing on save (or if your watch is expensive committing unsaved editor state on pause). The repo could be short lived if you prefer (eg new per baseline repo branch or editing session) or a long lived series of stashes. But its history would be built into the editing experience and separate from the normal version control flow. I don’t think it would necessarily work for everyone but it could certainly fit how I work in exploratory mode without breaking my editing flow.
In most cases a consumer of live music first needs to be aware of the artist before paying money to see them live. That is/was one of the benefits of making and marketing music - building awareness that then drives ticket sales, merch, etc.
I still have a G1 around somewhere rocking JFMod v1.51! :D
Agreeing to bad requirements makes you a bad business

You can reference the Texas power outages. Just because the requirements were to fail in cold weather, doesn't mean it was a good choice
A rolling blackout in Iowa isn't a regional issue in the Midwest.
What's that Gloria thing?
Personally I think the meatball is just as beautiful and timeless, just not in a minimalist "sci-fi" way.
Well, the primary costs today are water and labor. Fertilizers and such don't really cost much, which is why we always just overfertilize and now are causing runoff problems.
There is no way this is the outcome, but I’d love to live in the world where ChessBase get a proper commercial license to Stockfish to sell to people who don’t want to click three buttons to set it up themselves, in exchange for permanently opening up their database to the public.
CloudFlare seems to be having issues
Discord is down with a CF related error message. Many other sites seem to have 502 errors and all use CloudFlare.

Edit: New updated incident (Apparently is only Chicago but seems its effecting a lot of other people?)

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hf8lpnp0yh5j

Edit 2: From some testing at least their CDN services seem to be funky right now
Just buy from scalpers and mine for however long to make back what you overpayed.
Let's do something easier. Let's erase from history the names and contributions of any white male born before the year 2000.
Yes I too was surprised to learn that many of Germany’s eugenicists were inspired by people and ideas in the United States.

Eugenics used to be a very respectable field of study. Highly intelligent people believed that unless the “feeble minded” were stopped from reproducing it would lead to the decline of the human race.

Institutes were established, Nobel prize winners wrote in its favor. It was seen as doing humanity a favor somewhat like how climate change is discussed today.

Take any random figure of western history who is widely admired. I’m not taking any names but odds are they believed that the rest of the world needed the guiding hand of western civilization to attain modernity.

Colonialism, Slavery and imperialism were seen as justified expressions of the natural order. Skulls were assembled from around the world and brain volumes meticulously noted down to “prove” this.

From this was born the ideology of the Nazis that humanity is a collection biological races constantly struggling for evolutionary dominance. And the duty of the superior race was to help this along by vanquishing the weaker races and sterilizing the feeble minded.

The under currents of this movement exist to this day. It has been rebranded as “Human bio diversity” to escape its Nazi past. Some writers hailed as truth telling heroes by people here have been recently revealed to have sympathies for these ideas.

These days it’s couched in extremely vague sounding dog whistles that are very hard to decipher. “Welfare bums” etc

By cutting our links with it we are not necessarily erasing the past but sending a message to those lurking beneath polite society that these ideas that have led to some of the most horrific massacres in history are unwelcome.
Buried cables tend to have a higher lifetime cost, which is one reason why Seattle has stuck with aerial cables in so many neighborhoods.

West Seattle neighborhoods have more buried cables than most, and they're facing some very expensive reliability issues due to IIRC dielectric breakdown.

If Seattle wanted to squeeze better reliability out of their aerial transmission systems, they could move to a four-year tree clearance pruning cycle, like Portland. Last I heard, we're still on a five year cycle and every time changing it comes up, it's seen as cost prohibitive.

We get the reliability we're willing to pay for.
> Are there really editors where adding actions that aren't changes make sense?

Adobe Photoshop is one. Selection changes don't modify the document at all, but they are part of the undo stack. That's because selecting a part of an image isn't as trivial as selecting text.

Sometimes I wish the current selection could be automatically saved in the file too so you could start where you left off if you were halfway through making a complicated selection (I know you can manually save selections, but that's an added step).
Frankly that would be tough, given my limited PL knowledge, but it would also be a good way to brush up on same. I'll take it under consideration.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge

C-f squash

You can compress a series of commits into one with squash in git.
One of my personal static sites are fine all dynamic ones I’ve tried are not responding.
Yeah I have Discord issues and cannot connect to
1.1.1.1. I'm in CA and I know that someone from IA is also having the same problem.

EDIT: This being a Chicago problem and me being in California could probably be explained by my ISPs strange routing.
Pigeon Guys Face Tough Times: ‘Who Has the Money? Who Has the Roof?’
That sounds like a miserable way to live. There's a whole world outside of NYC.
Cloudflare Service Degraded in Illinois
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hf8lpnp0yh5j
I didn't say it was left or right. I was responding to your comment, which was petty partisanship.

Anyway, your attitude is unscientific. If there were no unusual weather events for 5 years, it wouldn't "prove climate change wrong". By the same token, it's moronic to say "look, climate change!" every time there's an unusual weather event.
The propaganda against climate change did a number on awareness of climate change. Blaming people for not phrasing it perfectly is a secondary cause at most.

FWIW a better phrase would be "climate destabilization".
Hawaii Senate Panel Approves Bills To Legalize Marijuana And Increase Decriminalization Limit https://www.marijuanamoment.net/hawaii-senate-panel-approves...

"Lawmakers in Hawaii voted to advance two marijuana bills on Tuesday, one to legalize and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and older and another to increase the amount that is covered under the state’s existing decriminalization law."
> The belief is that every American should have uninterrupted access to electricity. The fact is that we are woefully under investing to keep that state of affairs. You can have your own beliefs, you can't have your own facts.

The belief that the best way to get every American to have uninterrupted access to electricity is through public investment in infrastructure is belied by your admission that hasn’t happened. Which is a fact.

> For some reason people who want to spend less money on infrastructure don't mention that they wouldn't mind if 50% of people don't have access to roads, hospitals, or electricity.

For some reason the people who want to spend more money on publicly funded projects insist on casting aspersions rather than introspecting on why they’re always dependent on expropriation for basic things.
I guess it's a personality thing. I actually love that whole experience - both when I switched to dvorak on a normal keyboard, and then again when I switched to a datahand.

I love the process of developing muscle memory, the mindless repetition, and that feeling of improvement. And especially once it really starts to click, and your fingers start going on autopilot.

If you want something to make it a bit less of a drudge, you can take a look at the Amphetype software, which lets you retype ebooks -- so you can basically read a book while practicing typing it.