skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, while all those global- or continental-scale flooding events did happen, there's only speculation that they are coupled to oral traditions. And stronger speculation that they are linked to more regional floods, eg, from flood-prone Mesopotamia.

We can look at the Great Flood of Gun to see how mythology incorporates more localized floods - sea level rise wouldn't cause flooding of the Yellow River and the Yangtze valleys some 4,000 years ago.

As the paper I cited says:

> While there are a few claims of considerably greater antiquity that are difficult to dismiss—the Klamath memory of the 7630-year-old eruption of Mt Mazama (Deur 2002) is one—most of these are inevitably based on sparse information from which credible arguments are difficult to construct. Most scientists hold a sceptical view of such ‘deep’ oral histories (Henige2009; Owsley and Jantz 2001), a position that is prudent, although there are some who regard it as unduly cautious (Echo-Hawk 2000)

then listing much more concrete examples of how local myths can be tied to global sea level rise, for example:

> Some of these stories recall that the Aboriginal name of Fitzroy Island is gabaɽor ‘lower arm’ of a former main-land promontory that became partly submerged. Another recalls the name of a place halfway between Fitzroy Island and King Beach that is now submerged; its name was Mudaga (the Indindji word for the pencil pine, Athrotaxis cupressoides) after the trees growing there

along with an explanation for why these stories might have persisted:

> the only plausible explanation for the Indindji people of coastal Queensland continuing to tell the story of Mudaga ... for thousands of years after it was no longer visible, is if that story were part of an explicitly taught package of stories inherited through land-owning Indindji patrilines. For the existence of Mudaga, even submerged, constitutes evidence of knowing one’s country, and thus establishing one’s relationship with that country. Without such ritualised framing, the transmission of such stories across perhaps over 100 generations would seem to be implausibly vulnerable to chance link-breaking

The connection between the Gilgamesh floods and global sea-level rise, or the Black Sea, etc., has no comparable evidence.
Agree. That’s how I introduce my cat to his doctors or boarders “he’s trained me very well.”
HN is the target of a ton of marketing groups. They have alerts set up for keywords.
Nice, now I know why west waited with attack on Germany in September 1939.

Because of people like you, with moral relativism.
That's good to know, but still leaves me with the uneasy feeling of if/when this will change. For my taste, the cognitive load of all these security issues on mobile is a bit too high.
Maybe both?

Also there's at least a lot of talk of divestment in China, what impact this might this have had, has it even happened at all ?
I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in scanned documents.

During those years, Evernote has kept getting worse and worse, becomeing slower and more unreliable at doing cores things, while they slap features on it, that I do not want (collaboration, chat and other garbage).

I want to migrate off at some point, but 10 years of scanned documents are tricky to migrate, and frankly I do not know of any good alternatives at this point.
I have used Evernote practically since it's inception and had a similar doc loss to @cconcepts where I wrote a long piece on a plane which was synced with another user. It just disappeared and was a big loss as it was due the following day. I badgered Evernote support with my ZDNet blogger hat on but never got a satisfactory answer or the doc back.

It's a terrific product but I no longer trust it for anything important. I also find the search is increasingly janky which is now a major problem. This is all a shame because it is still best of class to me
They take RDS backups cannot restore them as per:

Can Atlassian’s RDS backups be used to roll back changes?
We cannot use our RDS backups to roll back changes. These include changes such as fields overwritten using scripts, or deleted issues, projects, or sites.
This is because our data isn’t stored in a single central database. Instead, it is stored across many micro services, which makes rolling back changes a risky process.
> I figure the future will be primarily whatever the wealthy minority wants.

Unfortunately, you're probably right. Roddenberry didn't ignore this possibility, the Terran Empire was a warning of what the alternative could be.
This is a myth, true only to some very early(as in 87-89) VGA fixed frequency monitors.
The Infuriating Reality of Traveling with Bitcoin in the World's Crypto Capital
Not sure how common it is but if the endpoint is compromised to the point of having a keylogger installed then it's basically already game over.
Would you turn off all the gas? Are there no other ways to light the metaphorical fire?

Isn't it interesting how you admit that the lives of so many depend on natural resources they don't control?
Have nearly finished Domain Driven made functional by Scott Wlaschin, highly recommend it. Have to disagree with the conclusion of refactoring legacy system to an event driven one. Subscribing to events makes it implicit and thus hard to follow what is happening. Being explicit pays off.
There are a few cults :D

- Notion Nation

- Roam Legion

- Zettelkasten Zealots

- Bear Bros

PS. Add more ;)
Sure but these are regulated and insured by these bank's said central banks. That does not apply for Eurodollars.
A race to the bottom is exactly what society wants for housing. Fat margins should be eliminated.
I disagree with your assertion, though I recognize that it is one interpretation of responsibility.
What I really want is something inbetween this and a full fledged browser. Something that will basically allow me to browse the web in Reader mode, with support for images and native video, but without any JS involved.
TL;DR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Bourgoin
There are two cults:

* those who appreciate effortless UX that doesn't ask users to dedicate their lives to learning arcane systems i.e. CLI UIs but allow focusing on life outside computers. Notion is indeed a step forward for the industry for them.

* those who appreciate the responsiveness of CLI and don't mind the learning curve since the investment for them is worth the price. For them, Notion probably doesn't give sufficient control over their workflows and data.

These are justifiable value choices. Calling each other cults only erodes the discussion into name calling. So please don't.
I'm not sure if I agree with all of this. People forget flash kinda sucked.
One of the most significant ways in which flash sucked was the performance. Imo, the most famous flash game of all time is Binding of Isaac, which basically couldn't achieve a respectable, consistent frame rate even on the most powerful rigs. It's native rewrite, Rebirth, never had performance issues.

>You can't do pixel-perfect rendering

Sure you can, with canvas, and if you want to have absolutely perfect control, there's WebGL (and nice stuff like PixiJS)

>No nice pipeline for integrating vector animations/art into games

You can render SVG sprites into bitmaps, and use them in WebGL or canvas, as you mentioned, you needed to do this too in flash as well if you wanted decent performance.

>easy to make fancy + good-looking interactive UIs

If I remember correctly, most fancy game UIs were built with some framework, like flixel, which used low-level drawing primitives and built-up the UI from scratch. Alternatively you could use the full power of HTML+Js frameworks to build arbitrarily complex UIs and overlay them on your game scene.

>many of the html runtimes for new engines (Unity for instance) feel waay heavier/more sluggish in the browser

True, but they are meant to be, and meant for bigger games than flash/html5+js is. But for modern engines, HTML5 export sucks, there's no doubt about that. But that's a failure of execution, not technology. I remember Epic citadel a decade ago, which ran by compiling C++ to js with emscripten, and it worked pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV32Cs_CMqo

Also, there' a few Electron based indie games, most notably CrossCode, which is a fun, and technically pretty well executed game, and by the devs' own admission, it's built on pretty ancient tech.
Nice! I might even steal a few ideas if/when I ever get round to updating my attempt at something similar: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/gush :-)
While I cannot comment on what changed in Evernote, eventually someone unhelpfully will ask you "WHAT? You didn't have backup?!", which is kind of a legit question.

Until then, on Evernote's Tos [1] scroll down to "What Else Do I Need to Know?" and read point f) of section "YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE That".

In summary, it says they are not in any way reaponsible for your data loss. Reading in-between the lines, it basically says, they will have outages, disruptions, or buggy updates and your responsibility is to defend yourself against these events.

[1]: https://evernote.com/legal/terms-of-service

I think you already assumed all these. I only elaborated on it because I saw this many times, even (especially?) with the largest providers like Gmail, AWS etc. And this will continue happening.

I understand (and a bit scared for) that most of the people don't even know how unsafe their data is, however, on HN I would expect everyone is (paranoid enough to) back up their data.

I hope you can recover your notes, and regardless of your success in doing so, please spend an afternoon looking up ToS's of the services you use.

(disclaimer: I worked a bit in the backup sw industry, and yes I have multiple full offline copies of my emails and notes for the past 20+y)
Big red buttons abound: "Try notion for free" that lead to "Sign up with....".

I'm interested (especially as i tried evernote previously and found it to be 'not for me'), but where's the pricing page [supposed to be]?
They are often intelligent enough to actively resist intelligence tests, unlike too many humans who click through any and all "only some% know this, do you?" marketing/pii-harvesting rubbish.
> The only population subgroup with a clear majority against a boycott are AfD supporters.

Seriously, what is it with far right groups and Russophilia ? One would think they'd be against the menacing nationalistic foreign power. Like the various quislings, it's funny how they square their nationalism with cooperation with another people's nationalism against their own's.

Or maybe it's simpler and it's just a matter of money. It's well documented Le Pen was saved by Russian loans, who knows if AfD aren't also on Russian payroll.
Evernote have been walking a slow death march for 5+ years.
I’m a big fan of Joplin

https://joplinapp.org/

The sync works with a bunch of different cloud services and I’ve yet to have a problem with it.
Yeah, that kind of died the day this was published:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/corporate-market...

Gitlab said out loud what we were all thinking: companies have automation in place to follow big communities such as HN and notify their developer evangelists and marketing teams and have them reply and create "buzz". Aka, shills :-)
If you're into tensor algebra i can only recommend the beautiful piece of Software Cadabra is:

https://cadabra.science/

We wrote an article with it once, 40th order in the Lagrangian, perhaps 50k pages of calculations when all printed. Amazing tool! Thanks Kasper!
Yeah, I'm using Notion a lot but offline support is really a missing feature. Whenever I'm on a train and want to use it I just can't, it's a real issue, but it's still a good piece of software. Though I'd really like to find a self-hosted alternative that is just as good..
I don't know if using your own keymap in a howto is a great idea... I'd stick with the defaults or just name the commands.

And yes, w3m rocks.
> After all, American expansionism is what got us into this mess.

Absolutely not. American expansionism got us into the migrant crisis mess, but Russia invading Ukraine is 100% on Russia.
MMT is a description of how money actually works.

Ultimately we all create money all the time because it is just a promise by of something in the future. .

The difference is that government can force you to obtain a particular promise via the taxing powers we give it at election time.

No trust required.

Banks then leverage that. For a dollar to be called a dollar there has to be a transitive clearance link to the entity that owns it.

Otherwise it is just a liability of the bank in question - like a share or bond
You're just rambling... I can't even tell what you are trying to say. Slow down
I highly dislike the recent changes in Evernote, so i just tried importing my notebook into Notion, and uh, it's kinda horrendous. The massive amount of margin (going from 850px of usable width to 600px is unconscionable), having to click three times to open a page, having to click another three times to see my list of pages (that used to be 0 clicks), how it handles newlines.
No one really knows? If the counter-part is held, say, in T-bills, then these are as good as dollars. But it could be anything really.
> read up on modern monetary theory's theory/description of central banking.

any recommendations?
I thought the pack dominance hierarchy concept for wolves, that the article mentions, was observed to be a myth?[1]

Wolf packs are generally a monogamous pair with their recent offspring.

And feral cats certainly form colonies, though it seems like what research there is has the primary cat social groups being a female and her young and extending from there to multiple females and their young.[2]

Really for both wolves/dogs and cats it seems like environment strongly influences social behavior and there is a large amount of variance.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-dont-alpha-males-females....
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149619/
Just a normal, very old 3D CAD model. See http://www.persepolis3d.com/bbc_english.html

They made 2 documentary films out of it, the first as interviews with the archeaologists, and then this one 2006 as a 12min 3D rendered walkthrough movie. The Getty WEBGL version is just taken from this old model, with better resolution and lightning. They are constantly changing the colors, due to ongoing internal fights/theories.

You really need to compare it to the classical greek architecture (the Artemis temple of Ephesos from the same period), and the very similar older egyptian 1000 column halls, and the babylonian/assyrian palaces.
As a long time Evernote user I can say that the move from Evernote 6.x to the 10.x version has been a bit of a rough ride. I still use Evernote everyday because I did not find any other note taking tools that fit my workflow. And changing workflows ingrained over many years takes a lot of effort.

Then again there are some very irritating things in the new Evernote 10.x versions of which I am constantly thinking: "are they using this feature themselves or am I the only one?".

For example:

* try to move a note to a different notebook. You would thing that the obvious thing to do would be to click on the current notebook name that is shown above the note and then it drops down a list. But no.... You have to hover over the current notebook name, then a _hidden_ button becomes visible, that you have to click and then you can move the note.

* copy&pasting you tube links always shows a videoclip preview. I never want that, I copy and paste a link because I want to save a link thank you very much.

*search through a stack of notebooks still does not work. You can only search through one notebook at a time or through every note.
It's even worse than I thought
>famous picture of John Carmack sitting in front of some SGI workstation

Not Quake. Not 1995. The picture

https://preview.redd.it/x3kqn3bjvb351.jpg?width=557&format=p...

is from Doom3 development, as seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbEdWF1e-I There is Blue G3 on the picture after all, released in 1999.
Interesting. My knee-jerk reaction was "what a decadence". Then again, it might benefit somehow, just wondering how...

A quote from the project page:
"This project is not just about being green, it’s a whole systems approach to design, construction and habitation. It will demonstrate that change is possible and has many advantages for the planet, our cities and business."

Sounds vague.
Is it worth sacrificing a small speed increase for the myriad of plugins omz offers ?

I am not really sold on the idea of why I should switch.
You could argue probabilities, causation vs. correlation, etc. - but the data on which countries have had their military trained by the U.S., vs. which countries have had military coups is fairly black-and-white. And the WSJ is not exactly a left-wing peacenic paper, to have knee-jerk or click-bait reasons to oppose U.S. training of foreign militaries.

> The US wants stable governments...

That line of argument tends to assume that the U.S. is both monolithic, and highly competent in the planning & conduct of its foreign policy. Vs. looking at history...
They can just start making hardware. They have the money for it.
Obsidian Ocelots?
A lot of CLIs don't ship with fish autocompletion :/
> earthquakes, screwing up water tables, or leaking gas and other chemicals out of the ground

You seem to be describing fracking which is a completely different technology.
Maybe this is just me getting old, but I feel like Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago. Back then it was just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities - perfect.

These days they have added all these extra features which I don't need, and which have made the whole app slow and terribly clunky. When I use the iPad app it takes several seconds to load notes or search, and the UI keeps jumping around if it hasn't loaded completely yet. Terrible experience.

The icing on the cake is that they changed the welcome page of the app to no longer show the list of notes - and if you want to edit the page to get that list back, you have to sign up to their premium subscription! And I'm already paying too, just not for the right level of subscription apparently.

I have been meaning to find an alternative for months now, so if anyone has any suggestions please do let me know! The most important features to me are note syncing across iOS/Mac/Windows and the ability to import my notes from Evernote.
Has this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back to making the same mistake.
If you want to find out how chips are actually made, this documentary filmed inside an Intel fab in 1978 is excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down You can find the full thing on iplayer (in the UK) or various video sites.
I am just interested not trying to argue, found this link.
https://wiki.segger.com/Raspberry_Pi_RP2040
The RP2040 includes a boot ROM which needs to be executed after reset in order to guarantee proper functionality. In case of a valid application has been detected in the external QSPI flash, the boot ROM copies the first 256 bytes from QSPI to SRAM5. In the RP2040 user manual, this code is called "flash second stage" (2nd stage bootloader) which is not part of the boot ROM but is part of the application image thus can be adapted by the user. The J-Link performs a device specific reset which halts on the first instruction at address 0x20041F00 of this so called "flash second stage" (bootloader).
Is it under active development?
Electric heaters don't go down the sewer shortly after being turned on, and Europe is not embargoed to not be able to import some in the coming months. Surely, the price is going to jump up.

My point being, it's not about individual heaters and house heating. That would be a solvable problem – an expense. However, making that expense is a different thing, since now you'd gotta convince your citizens that they must – not should, but must pay up in taxes for that solution to be enacted. And why? Because some other country got invaded and that pro-o-o-obably might cause something bad in the future for your country.

The other side of the coin being that some things are harder to solve: you can't import on a short notice a replacement for, say, chemical plants that need gas and everything that's connected to them.
It is quite unfortunate. Around 2013-2014, I started systematically saving everything to Evernote and even got a paid plan. There were two issues:

1. Their app was getting buggy to handle on mac/win. The migration was terrible and they had a custom container format for export which was pretty useless. It became like the Hotel California of software. You could bring your stuff in, but never leave due to the lock-in.

I eventually migrated everything out of Evernote by saving printing emailing and started using plain Git on a local server for document save / version control.

2. There was no app for Linux. They made a lot of efforts on windows mac, and then ios/android but left native Linux support completely out of the picture. Evernote in 2015 had a hard time with Wine for emulation.
They all started from a much less developed and connected economy. The average Russian has a smartphone, access to Internet, uses YouTube, etc. It's part of their daily lives and it's no longer there ( or severely restricted). Contrast that with the average Iranian or North Korean, who had limited interactions with "western" products that matter.

And that's just for the people and the hope they'll rise up. The Russian economy is also very dependent on imports of high quality stuffs they can't replace. Including their main income source, natural resources ( they use Western tech for sensors and whatnot around extracting and transporting oil, gas, etc.).
Also the:

- Evernote Evangelists

- Orgmode Promotion Society

- Plaintext Patriots

- Joplin Javelins

- Obsidian Organisation

etc etc etc
Is Platform Engineering the New DevOps or SRE?
I do think I saw this in the front page 3 days ago.
There are more independent dogs too, like Shiba-inu or Akita
I don't see this

Where I work we have everything in Azure and Azure devops, but most developers don't care for configuring the cloud objects, or deployment pipelines, or deployment life cycle...

In practice the complexity is the same for small/medium companies for setting up, maybe easier for long term maintenance, even if not as reliable. But because things keep so much changing we always need the same people available

Although a lot of tech companies are somehow hiring at the moment. Not sure if investment fund money. So it seems that at some point there will have to happen a tech companies crunch
Sent you an email. If anyone else wants to collaborate maybe consider doing the same, perhaps we can get something going as a group.
While the sourceforge project is staled, there is an active fork maintained by the Debian maintainer at [0].

[0]: https://github.com/tats/w3m
No, it's because all advertising really IS bs... Advertising is nothing but psychological seduction and manipulation. "You're Satan's little helper, kill yourself."
https://fsnot.es for macOS/iOS ;-)
Worked for national PC parts distributor in ~1999. We were regularly having shops trying to return CTX monitors because of the "bad lines" :)
Cathode Ray Television (1933)
What sort of scam would mention Jesus or God in the description?
Here is some criticism of the Gravel Institute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGQI8P9BMg
Without a law like the GDPR, nothing stops them from using data collected for 1) and 2) for 3). Which they will do once some PM realizes it's worth something.

(There's even 0), data collected for functional purposes like 2FA. Multiple companies have taken data straight from 0 to 3 once they see the possible revenue.)
How Reddit built the backend infrastructure for r/place – A short thread