skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General knowledge and popular culture acknowledge natural climate changes. However I think people often overestimate the length of time involved in those changes, *overestimating the amount of time that has passed since dramatic climate changes in the past. E.g. knowing of "the ice age" but estimating that it happened millions of years ago and took millions of years for these climate changes to naturally occur.

It's certainly not a secret that Manhattan Island was covered by nearly half a mile of ice less than 20,000 years ago, nobody is suppressing this knowledge, but nevertheless I think there's a wide gap between public knowledge and common knowledge.
I changed it to English as well but still got all the zoning options.
.. which doesnt really absolve them of responsibility.
They forgot to mention Pizza Tycoon :)
Rather than trying to force macOS to support package management, developers should be containerizing their environments where possible with docker/podman.

The best package manager for macOS is Docker with an Alpine container. Not ruby scripts with git as a backend and questionable permissions.
The representation sure works differently from one’s complement, but it is still called the sign bit, because the number is negative if and only if that bit is set.
> but we also manage to burn down half the state every summer.

That's an exaggeration, and the drought has been really bad for the last few years.

> Today we're in the middle of a power shortage, to the extent that EV owners are asked not to charge their cars[*].

[*] Between 4 and 9PM.
So even if it was this easy and logical, the only logical consequence would be scrapping SLS right now.

Artemis 3 isn‘t just depending on one, but two super heavy launchers that haven‘t even left the ground yet.

And if you put Starship in the critical path, why would you spend billions to introduce another bottleneck that‘s literally just duplicating Starship‘s ground to orbit capability?

If NASA agenda really only was getting the USA to the moon, the only rational choice would be doubling down on Starship all the way.
They were right, but didn't realize how long momentum can last.

51 years ago was 1971.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
AM radio is such a simple modulation scheme that even a piece of grass can be used to demodulate it, with enough power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
If anyone's curious, for a period of several months I administered a GnRH daily for health purposes (Triptorelin)

Don't have down's syndrome. Likely on the autism spectrum. Didn't notice any significant cognitive benefits.
> Why do they have to be federal funds?

Federal/state/local tax revenue is split about 54/27/19. The US federal deficit is another 19% on-top of that.

For whatever reasons, good or bad, the US funnels tax dollars through the Federal level. They're basically a middle man. Which means large projects almost always require some Federal funding.
Not the person you replied to, but I would 100% stop working. Even when I find things I want to do (not work), those rarely last more than a month, usually a week.

Anything that expects me to wake up at the same time every day, or working for a set amount of hours, or prevents me from stopping or taking a break (weeks, not hours) when I get bored of working on it is out of the picture. That leaves zero work options as far as I'm aware.
It is interesting that you feel it necessary to use name calling in a thread about abusive language.
Does Jackson have that tax base though? My understanding is that the wealth is just outside of the city borders
you don't sell discoveries like that. historically speaking, the reward was either some explicit prize, or simply the fame of being the discoverer, and the cost of the exploration, as well as the prize if any, was borne by some deep pocketed entity who wanted the discovery made (the crown, the government or some academic body).
OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring engineers
It absolutely is about regulating content. Just because the content and the people that generate it are vile does not mean an internet backbone utility should play great internet censor about it. I say this as exactly the kind of person (trans) that the community in question loves to attack.
As a Californian, I've been pretty disappointed by the efficiency of our government and the amount of corruption here. Infrastructure is collapsing. It is not a good idea to not criticize your own local and state government, I really don't give a shit what people of Alabama think about California. We need to get our collective heads out of the blue vs red game and just look at the facts of how governments are running. Used to be that local newspapers were popular, not anymore. No one is watching.

For the amount of taxes I pay, I expect way more from our governments. California should have cities that look like Zurich, not SF and LA.
Jetbrains is so good, it scares me they’ll become the next microsoft.
>> While a third of the IMDB ratings are 10, another third of the ratings are 2 or 1

Makes sense to me. For the most part, a review is going to be either "it rocks" or "it sucks".
Tolkien borrowed quite heavily from Scandinavian mythology, especially the epic Väinämöinen from Finnish mythology, and seems to have been obsessed with Odin from Norse mythology. Is that what you mean? Because claiming he based his fictional myths and his fantasy fiction on European myths and history is so vague and technically inaccurate that is must be false. Though Italy is firmly in Europe, describing lasagna as European food is at best misleading and at worst false.

Not for nothing, Europe is a continent. Whether you believe Tolkien based his works on or in Europe, both are false on their face. It doesn't even make sense, so please try to better articulate what you mean. Because you literally have argued that Tolkien based the continent of Middle-Earth on the continent of Europe, then you have waffled and changed your argument from in to on. Either way is nonsense. What you must have meant was Tolkien based his stories, not the element of his story setting, Middle-Earth, but the stories themselves, on history and mythology of the various peoples of Europe.

But, in fact, other than Scandinavian epics and myths, and specifically Finnish and Norse epics and myths, that is false.

If you can support your claim, you'd be more convincing. An example of some very similar non-Scandinavian European story found in Tolkien's work would drive your point home. But I am unaware of any example of, say, Italian or Romanian or Polish or Swiss or Danish folk stories or myths being borrowed by Tolkien. And we need not be so vague. Europe was never a single culture, but always many. And Tolkien was not writing to give Europe a history and mythology; that purpose was only for England.
I guess your idea of America is from movies - immigrated here 24 years ago from a so called third-world country and I can tell you it’s rather unsettling when you see the bowels of America especially in the southern parts (I live in Louisiana).
some European countries, the Netherlands, Germany and France for sure, have not two but three pillars of employee company relationship: unions, works council and individual contracts.

the works council (aka 'company codetermination') involves employee elected colleagues in company leadership decisions like during, hiring, reorgs, raise distribution, working hours, shift planning guidelines,
... while the unions focus on salary and compensation negotiations
As wealth inequality grows in our capitalist society, I worry the common people simply wont control enough wealth to have their concerns considered. The common people do have the ability to vote, but more and more votes are bought with money and divisive advertising.

The bottom 50% of American's control 2% of the nations wealth. Helping the plebs simply isn't going to be profitable. All that to say, yes, I worry about crumbling institutions.

I first thought about this while considering the rise of SaaS software. Software sold with a one-time cost, an honest transaction, is dying. Perhaps common people simply don't control enough wealth to make honest software worth while. Instead, companies want our data they can sell to other wealthy entities. "Common people are out there, they don't possess any wealth to speak of, but we can spy on them and sell the data to other wealthy people."
I think you can appreciate the difference between not letting former criminals (released from jail) starve and helping them integrate back in society, and actively providing them tools that they use to do terrible things, including crimes.
The first bloom of the rose being marginally better than current antidepressants is a bad sign, seeing as right now it's going to be getting the most biased and cherry picked selections of studies it's ever going to get. SSRIs started off as miracles before they became possibly no more effective than placebo. Psychedelics are starting as marginally better than possibly no more effective than placebo.
> the State of Mississippi received $75 million to upgrade drinking water systems across the state

$75mm is about Jackson, Mississippi’s annual tax take, not including $40mm for sewers and water [1]. Apparently they need $2bn to modernise their water infrastructure [2]. Financing that at 8% is about $160mm a year in interest alone; unaffordable.

This reeks of overbuilding. The solution has to involve reducing the infrastructure footprint.

[1] https://www.jacksonms.gov/meetings/presentation-of-fy-2021-2...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120166328/jackson-mississipp...
> There are so many rights taken for granted by Western European employees

Most of these rights are given by employment law, not union contracts, so unions are less relevant.
In addition to what others have said: There's more to software than typing out the code. There's figuring out what it should do, and how to implement that. That's the hard work, and you can do it anywhere.

And sometimes I think better about those things when I'm not in the office. I've done design/analysis work with a pad of paper while sitting on a rock, or with just my brain while walking.
This article is aggressive but does it really point out a flaw? It alleged a few problems but didn’t substantiate anything (doing so would likely have helped the author learn why the security point is mostly theater) and the bulk of it was describing how it was more work to use an unsupported configuration but still relatively easy because the Homebrew authors documented how to do so.

That seems like an appropriate title would be “TIL: how to install Homebrew in a custom path” rather than the hyperbolic one he picked.
Well, this article [0] shows a guitar FX pedal design that can be used as a radio receiver. Maybe you could get a shortwave radio signal?

[0] https://acidbourbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/a-74xx-defined-...
It really just boils down to priorities. Politicians at all levels (local, state, federal) seem to always have money available for their personal pet projects but can't seem to find money for basic necessities like water, roads, safety, etc..

I lived a couple years in a small town just outside of Jackson. Going into the city never felt safe. You had to even look over your shoulder while golfing at the local course while wondering when you might get mugged.
On a clean system it’s rare to have things break so if you’re an open source developer you prefer people use the current release of something rather than re-reporting bugs you fixed 3 years ago.
Adjustable optics aren't optically good. It's a challenging enough optical environment, being compatible with prescription lenses is a good step.
What you see on the front page, and at the top of the comment section, is a result of direct democracy deciding what is worth reading.
A good software engineer in SF with ~5 years experience takes home more than 3 years of top tier French pay in 1 year, so 3 years of parental leave doesn't sound so good to me.
how much does one need to spend to become an enterprise customer?
Whenever there is a heavy rain in one of China's cities (e.g. Beijing or Wuhan), the whole city simply floods...like up to your head. It took a country like Japan to dig huge drainage tunnels to figure out how to avoid that problem in that region (so I would conclude, Japan is the most powerful country if judged solely by infrastructure quality).
Majority black town in the poorest state in the union, which is also a Republican state.

That's no coincidence. EDIT: as in the town is being intentionally poorly maintained by the rest of the state.
So many assumptions in one entitled comment.
A bit more than 1 in 10 Americans don't get their water from a communal source; most of them have their own wells. And about 1 in 5 American households have septic tanks instead of connections to sewers.

This is mostly due to people living in rural areas. Even with all the money in the world, why would you lay a 10 mile sewer line for half a dozen people instead of digging some septic tanks?
In the US, cities tend to run their municipal water systems. That's why they're called municipal.

You're welcome.
I think it’s easier to maintain the bottles for two different architectures at two different paths, and the /usr/local path take over was a recurrent complaint, so the devs took advantage of the new arch to change the path.
Part of the problem is that engineers have all moved out of these cities.
The MIT Lisp Machine had a version of Emacs written in Lisp called ZWEI and later called Zmacs.

The Lisp Machine window system had tiling features in its window manager and also a split screen feature in ZWEI. The 1980 sources of the Lisp operating system had that, but it might have been developed earlier.
Noopept and some of the racetams measurably improved my cognitive performance.

I've tried most everything under the sun and used my body as a walking science lab. Most things don't have a noticeable effect, but there are a handful of things that do.

(Also, YMMV, personal chemistry)
Gerrit is pretty strongly opinionated, but it is not mailing-list based. Review notifications are sent via email, but otherwise everything needs to be done via the web UI (or other tool using the API).
Very hard.
This is not writing of any substance.
So here's the thing - in reality black slaves actually existed. So if you cast a white guy to play a black slave then yeah people would be a little bit confused. Dwarves are a fictional species which have never existed, and even if all dwarves have been described explicitly as being white in the books (and I don't think they have) there has been enough artistic license taken in the various recent films that straying from this is really not too outrageous.

I think you're kind of revealing a bit more about own feelings on race than you realise.
The followup appears to confirm that this did in fact happen. Tavis Ormandy didn't claim that Matthew Prince personally lobbied the FTC.
Actually, Detroit cut them off before the new source was ready to come online.

"The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department sends Flint a letter terminating their water service contract, effective in 12 months, or April 2014, which means Flint must find an alternative source of water until the Karegnondi construction is completed" [1]

In addition, the water was not polluted. When they switched to the Flint River source, they failed to add corrosion controls, so the accumulated corrosion in Flint's existing lead pipes quickly dissolved, allowing lead from the pipes to seep into the water.

[1] https://www.freep.com/pages/interactives/flint-water-crisis-...
Honest question: Why are you talking about something you haven't seen for more than at least 20 years?

Linux is the desktop with the least amount of WTFs. With a big margin!

All other OSes break with every update.

Even the perpetual "beta"-system Debian Testing is much more robust in day to day use than things like macOS or Windows (and that holds even while installing whatever daily Debian updates come along without thinking)..

On a (semi-stable) Linux (like Testing) there are never "conflicts between packages", btw. This can only happen if you make a mess and mix up different distros…

Please don't spread FUD in the future if you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks.
I think the road systems are pretty badly designed pretty much everywhere.

Cross walks that cross 3 lanes (each side)with traffic going 40mph and no signal.

Stop signs that doesn't tell you if the intersecting direction stops or not.

Half-assed painted gutters for bike lanes.

Places with 4 signs to indicate when you can park, each with different (sometimes overlapping) times and conditions.

the list goes on.
Op here.
So my arguement is looking more at fantasy TV/movies in general rather than a particular focus on lord of the rings per se. But it is part of a wider discussion on representation in the European fantasy genre.
As you know, what I am arguing for is that, I think it would be good to continue to have some shows which are 'diverse' and other shows which follow a more tradional casting. Do both.
My concern is that there is political/media pressure to push always for diverse castings in all European fantasy shows. And this could go against good storytelling.

If I'm watching a story about a Japanese Fantasy story - it will feel less immersive if you introduce a blonde character. Likewise with an Indian, or African story. Everyone would think this reasonable.
What some people get upset about, is if we also say this about European fantasy stories. And I don't agree with this (the point that a tiny tiny fraction of people living in Europe may have been nonwhite in the 1400s and below I find mute quite frankly).
I also find it... Not considerate to call someone racist for making this point. And quite frankly its a great example of where we are right now. Film and TV studios terrified in their casting decisions and feeling like they have to please the media etc. Nor am I convinced that global audiences want to see themselves in European fantasy stories. I don't want to see a blonde white guy (or black or Indian guy) in a Japanese Fantasy story etc. etc.

I do feel that including a multicultural diverse population in a European fantasy story does have a large risk of less immersion and I don't agree thats 'racist'. You can do it, but it's a different world and a different experience. What I'm arguing again, is fine do that. But not everything fantasy driven needs to be like that.

The lord of the rings trilogy was not diverse and quite frankly was astounding. Game of thrones was not diverse, and was astounding up to the final season.

The latter was savegly attacked by woke groups for not being diverse and I just so disagree with that view point.

Let's have diverse stories and let's have traditional too. There are lots of good fantasy stories by Western authors that do include diversity (fifth season, and Ursula la guin Wizard of the sea story etc.)
> Urban decay

Aka "the white people moved out of the town and the rest of the state doesn't care about it now"
I don't disagree with any of this.
The health care industry would be overjoyed to administer psychedelics to you for the rest of your life, and politicians and media will be happy to be paid to allow you to do it, to subsidize your doing it, and to convince you to do it.

Whatever bizarre conspiracy theory that would convince you of the opposite is evidence that there's already lots of money being spent.
“Go big or go home” comes to mind. Most people I know would take the 50/50 chance. In the worst case, nothing in their life changes. If they take the million dollars, something is going to change :)

I’m also reminded that “people are happier when a choice is made for them” or some other thing I’ve heard thrown around.
Maybe they can use some of that Ukraine money.
Open Source and Rip Offs
Which is society's fault because... It can't be mine, I'm a great software engineer creating great value through my innovation. My dog massage scheduling app is valued at 10 figures.
been using syncthing to represent my entire "state" for years now

it's not perfect, pretty much needs a central server you manage

I've tried every combo of solution that involves mounting Google drive and they all end up being glitchy
Nope, I was talking about classical scooters,

https://www.piaggio.com/en_EN/piaggio-world/news-piaggio/pia...

From my point of view cargo bikes are the two wheel version of trucks/bus, and only suitable for transport inside of city traffic, whereas with the other ones they are as usable as any motorbike.
The chats, calendars and CI/CD into one is top for our team. Really can help us stop using multiple tabs and tools
Mississippi was the most confederate of the Confederate states. Jefferson Davis was their Senator and then President of the Confederacy. After the civil war and the end of reconstruction, it was a hotbed of reactionary violence. There maybe a robust tax base, but you have to ignore the entire history of the state (which is majority white) and city (which is majority black and the descendants of slaves). I'm not as familiar with MS, but there is a great video on how this works in Lousiana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

Historically (back to reconstruction), the Federal government is the guarantor of Black rights in the South and they provide significant funds to the majority black/liberal cities to make up for the fact that the state governments do not provide. Generally the state government is funneling money out of these areas.
pass, will end up in electronics drawer in less than one year
Big tanks are a big part of why SLS is financially inefficient.
Aspiring YC founder – Can you get into YC without a technical cofounder?
Hello all,
I wanted to get your opinion on how likely is it to get into YC without a technical cofounder if one has a competent tech team in place?

We've a good tech team consisting of my college juniors, friends (working full time but have other future plans) and hired advisors (who execute as well). We've built a consumer product which currently has 500 users with 350 MAUs and 160 DAUs.

We're 2 cofounders as of now, where in I can code decently given the situation (can figure out things and make them work).

Should we apply to YC? Or should I wait until I get a tech cofounder with us in the journey.
I was really bummed when Intel shut down its smart glasses project. That seemed like really promising technology that hasn't been picked up elsewhere.
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> People screw up and make mistakes, no need to insult them for it.

One could just as well argue that GP commenter screwed up and made a mistake, no need to instantly ban them with no recourse to even apologise for it.
Hormones are kind of the wires in the “rewiring the brain” analogy.
Enough time has passed that Agatha Christie’s books have started falling into the public domain in the United States. She published a new book (sometimes more) every single year from 1921 until her death, so every January we can look forward to another expired copyright. I’ve read all of the Standard Ebooks editions (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie) and can recommend them.

She died in 1976, so in life+50 countries, all her works will become public domain in 2027 (84 will still be copyrighted in the US); in life+70 countries, the year will be 2047 (34 will still be copyrighted in the US). The copyrights will continue to expire in the US until 2072, when the the last book published in her lifetime falls into the public domain.
It's what gets the clicks.
GM makes a move to squeeze out as much money as possible before dying