skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree that the statistics I cited have water availability as a prerequisite to improvement. California can simultaneously have water problems and graduate more seniors. They are not mutually exclusive.

Agree in the need to ramp up water availability. Though certainly simple solutions like reducing the number of water intensive crops would provide enough water for decades of population growth without new sources. The key is to allow people to imagine a slightly different California and not panic that there just aren't as many almond growers as there used to be.
On the other end of the spectrum you have items where expert help is necessary.

When I bought my first motorcycle gear, I had little idea what to look for, what I need, or how to verify it does the job. Going to a store that specializes in motorcycles and gear was fantastic.

They showed me how to fit a helmet, what to look for in a jacket, gloves, etc. I could try multiple items to find which brands fit my body, what looks good, and how the whole ensemble is gonna work together.

You can’t replace that online.

Now that I know more about gear, shopping online is faster and easier. But I still wouldn’t buy a helmet online, for example. You gotta test that stuff.

My friend is getting into video. He’s spent 3 weeks looking for the right lens and camera, bought a bunch, still not happy. Hours wasted, edge cases uncovered, room specifics discovered.

1 trip to a specialist camera store wouldve solved his problem.

My butt has also learned the rather uncomfortable lesson that you never buy a couch online. Your butt needs to try it.
"If this is inhumane, how should humane slaughtering look like according to you?"

Have you considered the answer is that there isn't a humane way to slaughter and that's why the people in the video had that reaction? Even if you've grown up seeing this, I don't see how you can describe slitting the throat of something that doesn't need to or want to die as humane. It's even more indefensible when there's many meat alternatives now.
More ELF Relocations
That was.. unexpected. Seems like every project maintainer is on edge these days.
The Chinese government is responsible for pollution that comes out of China. There's no entity responsible for pollution from names starting with a to k, or from bald people.
> It's just so stressful and inconvenient.

So is tending to a farm.

We need some amount of stressors in our lives to keep from feeling bored and stagnant. Exercise is literally an imposition of stress, but increases our well-being. Really a matter of picking your poison.

Farming might be samey, but if something is hard work it's also stressful.
I thought something similar when I found out that the "transparent wood breakthroughs" are, as far as I can tell, all epoxy based.
Kibbutz
Ironically, it was proposed not so long ago to deprecate to_be/to_le in favour of to_be_bytes/to_le_bytes, since the former conflate abstract values with bit representations.
This is from 2018 btw.
No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
I think this is a good approach and I see a few ways to make it even better. First you could overfetch to reduce risk of needing another query. Secondly you could rewrite ids occasionally to reduce gaps.
This is brilliant work! I hope that Apple doesn't hit you with a takedown order.
Does using DNS over HTTPS avoid this block?

Edit: Thank you for the replies.
hmmmm no won is here
See David Fravor's commentary on the videos. He's one of the jet pilots from the Nimitz incident.

https://youtu.be/aB8zcAttP1E?t=9711

Specifically in the Go fast video: https://youtu.be/aB8zcAttP1E?t=9829

The object is shown colder than the ocean; it can't be a bird.
I think I’m the only person who considers online shopping less convenient than just going to a local store and buying it.

In person you just walk or drive over to the store, select the item, pay, and go home with the correct product.

Online I have to turn on my computer or open an app. Type in a bunch of stuff, Search around, click cookie consent buttons, avoid newsletters, log in, enter your address, put in your credit card, etc. you finally place the order, now you have to wait 2 days to get your damn product?! It ships, now you need to sync up with your mailman otherwise they can’t drop it off (I live in a city.) I miss the delivery, now I need to go to the post office and pick it up myself. So I go there, it’s after 5 so they’re closed. I take off work early the next day and wait in line. Talk to some pissed off USPS package and carry my package home. Open it up. It’s the wrong product or a Chinese knockoff. You get the picture

I’m of millennial age. The internet isn’t hard for me to use. It just adds extra complexity for me.

I suppose if you need a very specific thing online is better. But that’s rare for me.
You are misunderstanding (or perhaps misrepresenting) the situation.

Quote from the person who filed the issue:

> I don't understand why you think my behavior is entitled. I genuinely thought it was a bug because the colors didn't look right to me, in the sense that some of them don't match what is expected from their name. I still think that because the colors are distant from their expected neutral form this makes it a poor default theme.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561#issuecomm...

The original bug report was perfectly respectful, and this is a perfectly respectful reply to the revelation that it's "not-a-bug".

The maintainer is being aggressive and looking for a fight, venting their frustrations on some person who is trying to be helpful. All they had to say was, "Sorry, this is the default color scheme, we prefer it this way and I'm not concerned that the color isn't exactly green to everyone's eyes. Thanks for your interest!" and close the issue.
Regardless of the whether or not the filer is correct the maintainer did not need to respond the way he did. It was unnecessarily hostile imo.
Changing compilers is a pretty regular thing IMHO; I use the compiler that comes with the OS and let's assume a yearly OS release cycle. Most of those will contain at least some changes to the compiler.

I don't really want to have to take that yearly update to go through and review (and presumablu fix) all the UB that has managed to sneak in over the year. It would be better to have avoided putting it in.
You mean from the guy who opened the issue? It started with a simple “the colors don’t seem to be right” in search of comments. Reporters cannot tag issues as bugs.
> My guess would be part of his negative experience was on him being a negative person.

Maybe you should stop accusing random people on the Internet of pretty grave character issues when all that is stated are factual circumstances which I won't apologize for. I can also just randomly assume that you are some white knight seeking validation by defending ephemeral descriptions of people you have never met.

It just happened to be Indians in this case and idk under which rock you live, but shitty restaurants trying to ride the hype wave of certain cuisines isn't a new thing. Getting served sushi by an Indian by itself doesn't mean shit but in combination with all other factors it matters.
I take the view that it's more optimistic, and our impact is felt in many ways, parenting being one of them, but I take your point.
I will give it a try, nice idea
We are just used to this for “computers” because of how the industry evolved but it really is the exception and not the norm if you think about it. Even for early cell phones and pdas most ran their own OS and didn’t seperate the hardware and software layers.
Your tax dollar at work.
Nope. Because https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
I'm sorry to hear that. I'll reiterate that if someone was rude and hostile to you, that would probably be considered a code of conduct violation, and it would be appreciated if that was reported so it doesn't happen again.
The ide experience should definitely help in pairing during tech interviews.
Arguing about colors is literally bikeshedding.

https://bikeshed.com/

http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/
The guy who stole my ideas would have done anyone dirty. He's just like that. But I'm confident he got away with it as long as he did at least in part for a variety of reasons rooted in my gender.

It's a small town. I post online under my real name. There's limits to how much I'm willing to say for the sake of an argument with an internet stranger.

You have a great day.
According to Wikipedia she's a Kazakhstani citizen, not Russian.
Absolutely. I saw that website were Bezos’ wealth was measured out in pixels. He could easily eradicate a disease, wipe out all student debt or something else you can dream of, but afaik he isn’t doing that.
The title should be updated with the fact that this is from 2018.
Totally unnecessary comment targeting other people's "behavior". Just say it's part of default coloring theme and you are welcome to create your own. Isn't this enough?
Perhaps we should pass a law that no utilities / infrastructure should be attached to the internet. Private networks are fine for this purpose.
There aren't a lot of options out there when you are a maintainer. You either stamp out anything that you know you are probably not going to be able to sink time and energy in to (either by ignoring it and letting the issue/project die a silent death or by commenting a $WONTFIX message) or you burn out.
I like this piece, even though it’s pushing a message.

I think about this a lot. Every day I go to work. The men and women I work with don’t look like the sleek 23-year-old product managers that adorn the promotional material, or the immaculately groomed Real Business Leaders, or the space alien Zuckerberg types. Far from being a monoculture of bro-y white men, there is a vast diversity of backgrounds - national, cultural, and person. I wish the media would show it more. The people who work at these companies are just people, with all their good and bad. They are not The Enemy; they are just white collar professionals struggling to get by like all the dentists and accountants and process engineers. Sure, some of them get lucky and rich, and some of them leverage themselves to the hilt to buy property here. But for most of them, a decent house is out of reach too. The real enemy is the gerontocracy.
I don't think this is "drama" unless people make it into "drama". Maintainers have a difficult job. The open source world is still young and its social norms are evolving. A sober ongoing discussion thereof is very warranted and seems quite on-topic for Hacker News.
I wish i could think of interesting solutions to problems like this and others.
or iCloud
> there's no difference between a massive forest fire, periodic controlled burns,

I believe the way it's performed elsewhere is a controlled burn after the older trees had been felled. The burn is for the undergrowth.
I don’t see entitled behavior ... but I do see someone on the verge of burnout, making feedback about the software about themselves, and lashing out. I wouldn’t want to work with such a person.
How do you ensure you're not tracked? That your location history is not sold to every bidder?
I also find cooking enjoyable, but I would hate it if it just became an extension of work! One of the reasons why I continue to cook dinner every night despite having a fairly minimal life in other aspects is because it's a set of physical actions that helps to get my brain out of work mode. This is especially important during pandemic/work-from-home era because there is no commute (I used to cycle).

But this experience of finding value in cooking is not really universal. I have some friends who legitimately, actively dislike the process. It's not that they're bad at it, they just consider it a waste of time. For them Soylent, or a food delivery service might be just fine.

I think the key is to aggressively optimize out the things in your life that aren't working for you. We shouldn't feel like we "need" to do things just to have a "normal" life, I think that's one of the causes of stress and unhappiness for a lot of people.
"WONTFIX, sorry" would have been more respectful, much faster, and much simpler than this.
Don't forget censorship -- the ability to restrict people to only spending their UBI / "benefits" only at (e.g.) approved food and clothing retailers.
He's the one who extrapolated the context, my point is that the explainer does it for reasons that have nothing to do with the gender of the receiver. And this is one example
>I was born in 1990

You're an older millenial. Barely one, as a matter of fact.

The folks born 10 years after you were are in an entirely different headspace.
> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life

MMhh OK, lets not ignore the fordable settlement that literally wiped out the majority of the wealth of the steppe and and killed or starved to death up to 50% of people while inducing severe starvation and malnutrition on the rest of them.

It basically was basically genocide that attempted to destroy a whole culture.

And then forced to do basically forced labor on state farms for the next couple of decades on low efficiency state farms.

The elites of those groups were moved to the gulags in large numbers as well.

I understand that your experience are from a decades after that and a lot had changed.

But while the mass death of Ukrainians is in the news often because of Crimea, the much higher % of death Kazakhs is basically ignored.
Where can I file for my damages as a reviewer? I have lost more than 2000 hours reviewing papers for for-profit publishers and they never gave me a single penny.

edit: Heck many of them they did not even give me free access to their journal to check references from the papers I was reviewing for them. I had to rely on SciHub to do so.
> and ghasp talk to real people, potentially a few, at different stores, to get what you need.

That's really an issue: if you aren't the hard-boiled, super unemphatic negotiator type you'll likely buy the very first thing a salesperson has invested face-minutes in, if it just gets the easy 80% of requirements/desires right. "Thanks for your time, but I'll go see if there's another offer that is maybe 3% better or 2% cheaper" isn't something that feels good to all people. The asynchronous experience of online shopping (and before that: mailorder) is a huge enabler to people who aren't the haggler type. And because the haggling mindset is a learned skill, I'm afraid that it will only get worse the less people grow up shopping face to face. To future generations, every shopping experience that isn't online or at least highly formulaic self-service like in a supermarket will feel like the haggle scene from Life Of Brian (and just as alien as the one after that).

But obviously a total amazonisation of all buying would be terrible nonetheless. What I'd love to see: a site like those price comparison directories but not so much focused on cheapest but on local availability. Current stock, proximity, opening hours and price, they are all important.

Actually I should have gotten my ass up and looked for funding years ago, or at least part-timing it on the side (I'm not the haggle type, right?). It would all hinge of course on integration interfaces with whatever systems local dealers already use for managing stock, because those claims world need to be reliable or else it would all be futile.
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Then install it to brave browser instead
I think there are/has been negative interest mortgages in Denmark[1]. And actually, after the first shock, when you have thought it through, there is not that much interesting in negative rates.

Unless you have so spotless opsec that you dare store a mortgage's worth of cash somewhere for decades (and you get that much cash in first place in negative rate environments - I doubt banks are giving you that without really good excuses), you need to invest the money somewhere. Bank accounts? Of course, you get even more negative rates there. Stocks? Well, it is not that different to positive rates, you take quite some risk there. Houses? Well, that's what mortgages are for. But assuming a 100k mortgage, is that really so fundamentally different if you need to gather 99k instead of 101k from somewhere in 10 year's time?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-la...
The original purpose of copyright was to encourage people to create works. The theory being that of others can simply copy something where is the incentive to do it at all.

IMHO, there’s something in that for some classes of works, so I don’t think no-IP is a good idea universally. It’s certainly questionably for scientific papers though.
That's not true. Afropunk was a response to the question you pose. White people stole the rock from Black kids the way Ancient Greece stole the Hippocratic Oath from African culture. It is almost the same. Today, it's almost impossible to know Bo Diddley, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and other Black pioneers created rock in almost it's complete form. "History is written by the winners", they say, and our cultural memory is like a hard drive which has been written over. Show the typical rock fan footage of Black women going hard at a rock guitar in 1955, and they will profess shock. The re-writing of history has been successful. The "analogous new rock scene" you are searching for is called rap. It is rock music without guitars and for years in the early days, without white people. Think about Run-DMC in 1982, and how "punk-rock" they were with the stripped down sound and hard lyrics. Black artists were hounded out of rock music by racist promoters and a hostile music industry, and their answer to it was hip-hop. The history of Black music has been of flight, an attempt to escape white cultural aggression stealing their music and style without accreditation or compensation. Promoters defunded and starved out Black performers, and the answer to that is two turntables and a mic on the underground, sound systems plugged into street lights - where they can't get defunded, have control, and have no white people. The Beatles up until 1964 were almost identical to the Isley Brothers but racism in the US was so entrenched that Americans had to re-import the music on their doorstep being made at home through 4 white kids from Liverpool. How ironic is that?
WHAT IS YOUR DISPLAY?

display = XOpenDisplay("unix:0");

WHAT IS YOUR COLORMAP?

cmap = DefaultColormap(display, DefaultScreen(display));

AND WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?

favorite_color = 0; /* Black. */
/* Whoops! No, I mean: */
favorite_color = BlackPixel(display, DefaultScreen(display));
/* AAAYYYYEEEEE!! */

(client dumps core & falls into the chasm)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...
Kind of a tangent, but I've noticed a recent tendency to compare people's writing to GPT-3 output as a way of saying something like "I didn't understand that" or "I found the style hard to follow".

I gotta say, I find it rude. It's one short step away from calling someone a name, eh? "You sound like a inanimate algorithm imitating a human." Mean.

Consider that the unpredictability of a message is a measure of it's information content, eh?

In this case, sure, the language is flowery, but the underlying meaning is clear, and the subject is, arguably, important. (So, not to put too fine a point on it, in this case, saying it sounds like GPT-3 kinda makes you sound, um, less sophisticated than you might be going for?)
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I did say in an ideal world.
I thought the same way and referred to modern classical music as symphonic music or composition. But a professor friend and composer taught me that modern symphonic music is referred to as classical music.
Probably because the approach is a classical one, even if the composer is Stockhausen.
I don't get it, so you think I don't want to live in a place like Barcelona? Seriously? Of course I do!!

I can understand people having different preferences. What I can not understand is refusing to believe that people don't love living in a place like Barcelona.

> who on earth wants to live in tiny terrarium that costs $4000 a month

Why not ask the people that live there rather than pretending they don't exist or that their desires don't deserve to be allowed? Seriously, this is a strange way to think of other humans, seeing that they are right in front of you but trying desperately to pretend that they are fundamentally fooled, or nonexistent, or don't deserve to exist, or something. People pay waaaaay more than $4000/month for a detached home, and far less than that, but only they exist as people with valid desires, somehow?

I don't think it's clear at all that Americans "culturally value" space more. We have done lots of top-down planning to prevent density, disallowing it in nearly all places. But it's hugely in demand, and far more people want it than we allow to live in it. This despite nearly a century of media, law, and political movements on both the left and right vilifying cities as places of disease, crime, and inherent poverty.

If people didn't want to live in these types of places, why is it necessary to ban them? We should definitely legalize missing middle, but also legalize far more dense walkable urban areas, at least enough of them so that they are cheap to live in rather than the most expensive form of housing.
Everything is bikeshedding until it isn't.

What if there's a product requirement to paint the shed red?

That's literally what happened here, something didn't look green when the user expected it to be green, and the user thought it was a bug.
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Same here - Firefox on Windows 10. I only went about three deep but... neat!
Fossilised remains in the sediments on earth are all that remain of the species that have come and gone before us. Many species are lost to time, because they weren't fossilised or their effects preserved. And our fossilised remains will be lost to the cosmos as well. You experiencing humanity in the midst of it might make it seem substantial. But we are a genus a mere 2 million years old and a species as young as 200000 years. For comparison, the dinosaurs roamed the earth for 165 million years. All of human history is 200000 years, again seems of consequence to us because we are participants in it but on the grand scale really isn't.

Does that mean we shouldn't just bother, absolutely not, we are given this gift of experiencing life. Something rather than nothingness...etc. But we can do with a little more perspective on how utterly inconsequential we are in the grand scheme of things. Having kids seems consequential in the context of human existence, but when human existence is inconsequential (there is no lasting impact or transmission of information beyond our temporary side-effects on the environment) it puts our existence into perspective.
Don't you think 'Aparently the defaults are poor' was an extremely aggressive way to put the point across? Calling someone's work 'poor' is nasty.
Sounds offensive that one's compatriots could be given to another country to be put on trial.
I've always secretly hoped warfare would move to the digital realm soley.

We have some shades of that happening already, but I imagine a future where instead of sending young people to die,warring nations wreck each others economies remotely... which again isn't too far from current day.

While there'd still be casualties it wouldn't be nearly as barbaric as current wars, more developed nations would finally have as much skin in the game as disadvantaged ones, etc.

The way I see it, the best way to discourage war is to make it unprofitable. If war just becomes directly hurting each other's ability to make money I could see war, or erm excuse me armed conflicts, getting a lot more unattractive.