skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like there's a huge semantic disconnect in this thread about the meaning of "rural". You and the grandparent seem to be using it to mean small suburbs/exurbs in economically declining regions of the US (e.g. The Rust Belt), not what it actually means which is farm towns and mostly farm land / private land disparately spread out with primarily county-level governance.

I'm also a big fan of StrongTowns, and I don't think what the grandparent is describing accurately reflects rural life.
Nonsense, its simply that if writers are engaged in social signaling some of that results in much worse shows and that is seriously annoying.

Consider two shows that I watched in the same Week, Wheel of Time and Arcane. Both shows have a very clearly modern perspective, and are very much in line with what we might call 'woke' culture.

Arcane did this in a brilliant way, a great love story between female leads of the show. Genuinely showing lower class struggle, corruption and so on. Both the villains and the heroes (and in between) have a wide range perspectives, capabilities and identities. Great show, well executed.

Wheel of Time had a writer who made it a clear mission statement to transform the source material into a woke version of itself, going so far as to say 'this is how it would have been written today'. The show also has a female lead in a lesbian relationship, but one that feels forced and has little emotional core. Unlike Arcane there is a clear trend where females were powered up to a sometimes a hilarious degree, all antagonists were stereotypical boring men and all the main leading male characters were basically boring did basically nothing and their many story somehow relates to their relationship with a powerful women.

If 'Wheel of Time' was just another show, it would just be a badly written show. However that it is adoption of well known source material shows the writers bias and political message quite clearly.

Almost nobody is against LGBT characters or show that have woke politics in them. Its when it is badly done that it is annoying.

The same in the past would apply to war propaganda movies. If its a very well done and executed it can be great content. But most that produced with that goal in mind is just lame.

To suggest that the majority of people who criticizes shows for 'wokeism' are just LGBT haters is absurd. Its equally wrong as to suggest that all people who object to war propaganda movies are pacifists.

The reality is that these studies want shows with these kinds of messaging in them and that a great deal of content ponders to that political outlook. Just as in the past content providers have pondered to politics as well. It does not mean you disagree with the political outlook, it just means I don't need it to be shoved into my face at every opportunity by lazy writers.
I didn’t know GitHub pages can do e-commerce!
Diamonds are a great example!
Marc Andreessen: “Shut up,” Obama explained
Two places I have lived that you might want to consider: Oak Ridge, TN and Blacksburg VA. Both are small towns with full-fledged rural areas a short drive away, but both also have tech anchors. For Oak Ridge, it is ORNL and for Blacksburg it is Virginia Tech. There is also Inland Motor corporation in nearby Radford, and maybe a few others (it has been decades since I lived there).
Have you ever actually lived in a rural area?
There seems a bit of opposition going on in Russia now in terms of "Fire at a weapons research facility in Tver was followed hours later by reports of a blaze at key chemical plant in Kineshma" and "Reports of water gates having been blown causing severe flooding near Krasnodar Russia." I guess if there are 15 year jail terms for peaceful opposition then blowing stuff up gets you more bang for the buck.
> It doesn't say therapists and psychiatrists can't prescribe social transition, it says it should not be a treatment option, which means that prohibition applies to peers and family.

that's a very expansive reading of "treatment". a health department doesn't have the sort of authority you suggest. and if they think they do, best of luck to their legal teams in defining the threshold between treatment and ordinary child-rearing. like i said earlier, this should get pretty wacky over the next 20-30 years

> "from what I've read"... what have you been reading?

the link that shovel sent me to read.

> Fucking Idaho made it a crime to leave the state to get your kid affirmative care. Who has been splitting what hairs to make any of these seem like they're securing parents' rights?

settle down, i can tell you're provoked without the profanity. idk if you're trans too, but i've outright stated i've been out as a trans woman for a decade, and on top of that i want kids and have friends with kids, so i'd ask that you at least approach what i'm saying in good faith—i've been around, at least wrt this.

remember i said "The pushback on that, post-bathroom-hysteria, has largely been to try to reclaim some of parents' ability to know what's going on and to control their child's level of exposure to information", and you projected that i was talking about legislation/regulation when i was really referring to social movements. for what it's worth, i voiced some criticism of the florida memo when shovel linked me to it.

the comment box is a pretty depersonalized medium, it encourages misunderstanding and hostility, maybe you need a break.
Their streaming tech is a commodity. Any media company can throw money at someone like BamTech (now owned by Disney) and spin up streaming infrastructure.
Then again, one wonders why the Antonov Company of the Ukraine has never built another in the course of the last 30 years, if it was an economic success.

All the same, it's sad to see it go away, like the Howard Hughes "Spruce Goose" back in the 1940s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
You're right that "mah freedumbz" is a derogative whistle. I should have put a little more effort into voicing my frustration than reaching for the easy virtue signal. It's just so frustrating sometimes, though!
On the other hand, remote work (at city wages) makes for a decided economic advantages in a remote LCOL area.

Crime is lower, family activities are more readily available.

If you like outdoor activities, hobbies that require lots of space, or less light and noise pollution, rural areas are nice.

There are advantages for both. You can be happy in either location, so long as you play to the strengths of your locale.
>> The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up".

> The political debate is about language changes (e.g. "LatinX"), access to sex-segregated spaces, participation in sex-segregated sports, what to teach young children, etc.

IDK what this response is supposed to mean exactly but I certainly have people in my life that think that being "trans" isn't "real". And as far as politics goes this is certainly also fairly common position to hear from prominent people.

"what to teach young children" certainly seems to be an issue, an issue where politicians are sheepishly pretending to do one thing while actually doing another through ambiguity. This all seems very easy to understand. It certainly reflects the idea that trans people either don't really exist or their existence is something so terrible that children can't be exposed to even the idea of their existence.
>What motivates you to resist the simple truth that Islamists hate and wish to kill Westerners for breaking their holy law

Because it's a ridiculous premise that you would not apply to any other religion. It's not even a consistent view of Islam; you don't have Islamists in Malaysia (60% islamic) or Turkey (99% Islam) holding the same sort of contempt with to West.

Consider it this way, if a Russian came to you and said "the Ukrainians hate Russians because they are full of Nazis and they hate how Stalin purged Germany of Nazis" you would quickly realize that is ridiculous notion - Ukrainians are currently being bombed by Russian soldiers which fuels their animosity.

The West has largely done the same in the middle east, and not understanding this history leads you down to conclusion that they must hate the West because of Islam. I don't know how you could look at an entire group of people who have been practically waging a war for sovereignty against a incredibly more powerful adversary for almost _60 years_ and come away that their wish to kill westerners comes from breaking their holy law. Yeah, you can pretend Islam is a tiny part of it, but I think a larger part of that hate is having their government overthrown and then having their children blown up in an air strike.
Bravo on an interesting area and a disciplined approach.

I feel like I can relate to this effort.

In 1999 was really curious about the question what is progress? I own and used to write at https://whatisprogress.com/ (most recent stuff focuses on AI, but writing and academia not my strength). I spend my time at startups on in "social impact". It's an easy story to tell about why mental health, ed tech and climate can contribute to humanity's progress.

I've been looking for a definition that's outside capitalism, but more rigorous and quantitative than social science's. Generally, I like Musks' and others definition of progress around maximizing the size and distribution of consciousness and survivable outcomes for humanity.

A lot of startups that "simply" improve transaction efficiency at scale contribute to abundance but get trapped straddling the world of capital and separately social impact efforts. A more wholistic set of principles than a B-Corp or foundation would be good. I like social impact investing as a lever, but the framework for evaluating success much harder than capitalism.
i might be pessimistic but this would be a great bait and switch for some cryptomining, lol.
I think the issue is most people can understand what gay means, because it's a clearly defined thing. You don't even have to accept it "morally" to know that a man who likes men is gay.

Gender identity is intentionally murky & vague. For instance, how many genders are there? How does one transition to/from genders that aren't male/female? I can't even find a coherent and consistent definition of genders. So at this point, it sounds like the new definition of gender is just...personality? So for most people there is nothing else to do than recognize it as such, and dismiss it as mostly nonsense.
A sample of recent departures:

* Notion
* Truepill
* Plaid
* Cresta AI
* Meta
* Plaid
* Meta
* Roblox
* Roblox
* Amazon
* Spotify
* Chainguard

This is just a sample of those who left in April and publicly shared their plans. Also lots of "taking a long break", "going sailing", "retired", "traveling", "riding bike across the continent", etc.
Ask HN: Any Use for a Power Mac G4?
I have an old Power Mac G4 MDD on my hands and I was wondering if anyone could think of some cool uses for it!
Using a perpetual timer to poll anything is a waste of your users’ battery life. Even if the actual computation you’re doing seems insignificant, the repeated wakeups prevent the processor from reaching deeper sleep states.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement/IdentifyingIs...
What part of New Mexico?
Efficient Algorithms
That’s what I thought too
That sounds very weird. Summon is based on the ultrasound sensors. It will refuse to approach curbs and cones and some speed bumps. If anything it's tuned too tightly to be actually useful in practice (it also has no visual navigation, it just tries to head in roughly the right direction at 3-4mph, it's basically a toy). It's very hard to imagine that it missed something as big as a motorcycle.

In the linked case, the car's windshield hit the prodruding tail of the jet, which was maybe 1.5m above the tarmac. I'd be more willing to believe that this is an edge case of the sensors (they aren't tuned for overhangs, and I've heard of people scraping garage doors for presumably similar reasons). But... a motorcycle, really? Are you absolutely sure it was on summon?

Likewise I don't understand why you were dealing with the other driver's insurance company anyway. This is what you pay your own insurer for; making you whole without having to do the work yourself is literally what you pay them for.
It seems people forget that actual leftism is an economic theory regarding how labour relates to capital. The fact that it's conflated with angry twitter wokescolds is very convenient for those who want to turn people away from leftist economic ideas.
> We’re talking cows in pastures and dark skies.

Can you actually see the Milky Way anywhere in Oxford? I was never able to when I lived there.
Sante Fe County, south of Santa Fe.
The transportation from China probably isn't the issue. Google suggests that moving a 40-foot shipping container across the Pacific Ocean costs several thousand dollars. You can fit a whole bunch of anvils inside a shipping container [citation needed], so the cost for this part of the journey may be pretty low.
Automatic place and route on the board level is a neat problem to think about, but the practical usefulness is somewhat questionable. For 6U eurocard sized boards with sea of random MHz-ish SSI/MSI logic it makes some kind of sense, but who does that today. The board is either going to be so simple, that the placement and routing is obvious or so complex, that just even capturing all the constraints is more work than doing the layout mostly manually.
I think the surface of the strength and beauty of functional lenses has barely been scratched.
My guess is they feared it would pollute the brand. SNAP's key demo is high school and college aged kids.
Thanks, Do I need a WordPress site prior to using WooCommerce?
I used to swear by APC but they have really gone down hill in the last decade. The first rule of a UPS should be, don't burn down the house. So when buying a new unit this year I went with the brand whose consumer PFC-compatible model didn't have several reviews about it catching fire: Cyberpower.
> The tasks aren't arbitrary. They're meant to be a proxy for some universal concept of competence.

I’ve seen absolutely nothing suggesting this. It’s explicitly about task competency; no particular task is specified nor needs to be specified.

> That's why DK is a well known effect, it claims to hold true for anything even though they can't test every possible task.

Yes, they claim it holds true for everything because it’s how human beings introspectively experience being poor at a task. It’s really not necessary to have some Platonic ideal of Task Competency … which is then specifically restricted to logical tasks for reasons known only to you.

> Logical reasoning was chosen because: It’s objective.

I think there’s a kernel of truth in this, albeit assuming by ‘objective’ you instead mean (as people often do) something like “people almost always agree in their evaluations of this quality”. You need that for a good experiment. I’m still not sure how it relates at all to your point here. Personally I would find it easier to just say “I was wrong, it’s not explicitly about logic, I just associated it with that because it’s commonly adduced in silly arguments about logic/intelligence on the internet” - but ah well, it’s an interesting theory so I’m happy to discuss it.
A much more practical use of nuclear waste is to make traditional RTG. Nuclear waste could also be used for medical isotopes. There are lots of other interesting things in nuclear waste.

This talk from 2010 is really amazing at understanding what 'nuclear waste' actually is and what it will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE
This counterargument is cute, but realistically if ever comes the day that slave feels like an appropriate term to use for my machines, I think I’ll still be a bit queasy.
A PC is ideal as long as there is only one. Once you start adding machines, it is time to move to a rack. Otherwise you end up with a giant ball of wires. Racks have rails like drawers, so the units are easy to service. Thats not the case with a heap of ATX towers. Also, your "collection" remains self contained and doesn't grow. Past some scale, you start to also make use of other rack mountable accessories like UPSes, PDUs, patch panels and switches. In the past, you had to move pretty early because older consumer machines like Pentium4 could only do so much, so you needed many of them even for a basic setup like a LAMP server or render/compile cluster.
> The basic logical unit of Git is the commit, which is a set of changes to multiple files.

In some circumstances it's helpful to think of commits as sets of changes, but Git's commit are snapshots and not changesets. Converting commits into sets of changes is done on-demand.
You can get large pieces of tungsten (well, tungsten alloys since pure tungsten isn't very machinable it isn't that widely used) pretty cheaply by contacting a machine shop directly.

People putting listings on amazon are exploiting what a particular market will pay.
I wouldn't necessarily call it introversion. It borders on misanthropy. Collaboration and communication require sustained interaction with other people. Management requires even more than that.

You can only get so much done by working on a Jira ticket in complete isolation. While it might work well enough for a mature group, it fails completely when bringing new people up to speed.

I've worked with more than a few people like this. Perhaps they get all the social interaction they can handle at home and just want to be left alone at work. Or perhaps they just dislike their co-workers. Others find working in groups of more than two people to be difficult. I don't think it's strictly a personality trait. It's more of a cultural thing in some companies.
Nice, I used to use one of those at work! That was a weapon of mass creation back in the day. I don't know what counts as cool to you, but to me just using the thing as-outfitted seems pretty cool :D
Yeah, I generally either mock them or go into malicious compliance mode. Once they realise I really don't care about losing my job they stop pretending to care about this stuff
I have used this site multiple times over the years to show to non-devs who say they want a carousel.
It's extremely important in a lot of policy positions to be able to use things like "a decision was made".
>I'd argue you need to think about climate change and whether the US will continue to subsidize rural life.

Not to fault you, but you're a seriously urban-centric thinker. Rural productivity is vital to urban concentration. Raw material does not come from the depths of the subway system, nor do the land and seaports magically produce goods. Food, fiber, fuel, etc come from the rural reaches. Flip this on it's head and we see that rural communities are providing a huge subsidy to urban communities in the form of labor and commodities.

There is a gross misunderstanding between urban and rural citizens of the complexity of their interactions, and it's near the core of our current political polarization.
Enterprise servers make no sense at home, but they are more fun to play with than old laptops. It's a hobby. After a while you appreciate buying good tools rather than making do, like any other hobby.

Old HPE servers have jumped in price though. Last year you could buy insanely powerful stuff for under $200 but it's all $400 and up for the same gear at the moment.
It would reduce gun homicide or all homicide?

Trick question - there is not even any correlation between gun homicide and firearm ownership rate, let alone all homicide: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-...

So even by the myopic logic of taking away rights because the first-order consequences are desirable, it doesn't work out.
Friend of mine has a nice scrape across the side of his model 3 where it rubbed up against a pole in a parking garage during summon
It's not just "some" cultures, either. Long-term affectionate bonds, along the lines of marriage for people of different genders, or other forms of quasi-affinal kinship (e.g. sworn brotherhood, compadrazgo etc.) for same-gender pairings are effectively a human universal. Sexual orientation doesn't even enter into this all that much, the ubiquity goes beyond that.
Before the standard was changed, I spent a while trying to get one of the prototype silicon sphere kilograms-- slightly misshapen would have been fine-- without success.
I was running Wok + Kimchi + gingerbase on the HP, i'm now using proxmox instead. Short of having lights out management (out of band) built in, i haven't noticed much difference between the platforms being "a server" and "a desktop"; make no mistake, 5950x is a monster chip, but it's still a desktop with two few PCIe lanes for me to consider it "a server" - luckily i only require enough PCIe to have an old GPU and extra SATA ports. If i was building out stuff to do more research i'd want more pcie lanes than the Ryzen Desktop supports.
Cities and villages can be dissolved by the same mechanisms by which they're incorporated. The process is peculiar to the state in which the corporation is held.
> The "culture fit" excuse is a tough one, though. That framing can be used to unknowingly discriminate in all kinds of ways.

Just an imo here, but anyone who talks about "culture" at a company broadly needs to be called out. 9/10 they are likely leveraging some form of discrimination. Culture cannot be mandated or even controlled in any succinct way that it causes you to use that as a logic branch.
And here I am lead to believe openrgb was consolidating all of these Voss attempts to get all rgb working in one application
I like this post because I feel like I don't see a ton of I.T applicable posts on the site. Thanks!
The main reason isn't that they push responsibility to the owners, it's that they're risking getting the entire sector crushed just because Elon needs to prop his lies to keep the stock up.

> “In the U.S., things are legal by default, and in Europe, they are illegal by default,” Musk said last month during the opening of Tesla's factory near Berlin. “We have to get approval beforehand, whereas in the U.S., you can kind of do it on your own cognizance, more or less.”

This sums it up. Elon is gambling the entire autonomous industry on the hopes that these crashes never go too viral. That it's never a slow news week when FSD happens to drive like a blind teenager and cremate the driver and murder innocent bystanders.

If this ever happens it's the end of autonomous driving. The regulation will be so punitive and the hoops so plentiful that it will be over, for everyone.
There are some rural areas that fit your description, but many that do not, and are quite nice places to live.

Also, urban areas generally have very high concentrations of uneducated, addicted, and poverty stricken individuals as well, and the proportion of the population that fits this bill has increased dramatically in the past few years.
In this case, their definition of CRT is completely in line with Christopher Rufo's redefinition of CRT, which is "anything I don't like"[1]:

> Christopher Rufo, a prominent opponent of critical race theory, in March acknowledged intentionally using the term to describe a range of race-related topics and conjure a negative association.

> “We have successfully frozen their brand — ‘critical race theory’ — into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions,” wrote Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. “We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’”

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/29/critical...