skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Godliness bestowed

I'm sorry, who bestowed godliness on whom?

> The facts I mentioned are well cited

You claimed non-Hindus were excluded and went into a tangent about the Ramayana.

> It is also obvious from your play with words - "half minority" that you are upper caste. Eg, Hindu Jain marriages are common

I didn't realise OBC Veershaiva Lingayats were now considered upper caste. Apparently stating the truth was playing with words.

> Lower castes - SC/ST would be irritated by the supplication by Bheem in the end.

Bravo, you reduced Ram and Bheem to their caste. Maybe if you had watched the movie before pontificating, you would noticed something else about the characters and their relationship. And interesting how you lump SC and ST together. If you do want to look at it from a caste lens, what does a Gond have to do with SC's? Or do they all look the same to you?

> conversion of a secular independence movement to a hindu religious paen

How the hell is it a religious paen?! Is this one of your facts?

> exclusion of secular liberal leaders (the father of the nation and first PM) offensive.

Exclusion from a cheesy dance number? Really, this is what is offensive?

> If someone else gets offended by something else, there is something wrong with them.

Offence is always taken, not given.
This fits well with Thomas Sowell's book Black Rednecks and White Liberals

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=black+rednecks+and+white+liberals

which discusses how cultural elements and attitudes were transferred from Scotts-Irish southerners to slaves.
I just want dark mode.
The US has 50 states, and there is wide variety in how each of those states handle counties. In one extreme, you have Virginia, where counties are the most local form of government (and cities are independent of counties, not to be confused with consolidated city-counties); on the other extreme, you have Massachusetts, where counties are basically just administrative boundaries for the state. And in between, you have different levels of county power versus state or more local (city/town/township) control.
Did these water issues arise because of incompetence or lack of funds? I know Flint's crisis was not related to lack of funds. So many comments keep harping on funds.
>There was a recent controversy where an activist named "Keffals" posted something violent and threatening on KiwiFarms about herself, screenshotted and deleted it

There is not a citation big enough for this holy shit

>That said it's not an especially nice site

It's a site that encourages people to literally commit suicide. But you seem to have an agenda in your comment
This isn't Reddit or 4chan. Please don't try to start fights
Just how expansive a concept are your advocating? If you're only saying that aside from not throwing you in jail, government shouldn't coerce (or even incentivize) private parties to censor in ways the government would be prohibited from censoring, then I think you're right. But it's still not clear to me what concept of "free speech" you're actually advocating for.
> thats a ridiculous extrapolation

This person also said that AI porn will destroy all the current porn companies in 10 years and that small groups of people will soon be able to make entire movies, so I wouldn't take their extrapolations too seriously.
Perhaps some internet sarcasm is going over my head, but the lyrics are by Samuel Francis Smith. Its melody is the same as that of "God Save the Queen/King."
Would you mind switching to subprocess with shell=False? os.popen is obsolete and insecure because it passes the command through the shell.

PS: I found it quite easy to contribute to yt-dlp and the reviewers are ultra-helpful and kind, you might want to migrate all of your extractors there.
on the language itself, no. on the community surrounding the language? yeah, maybe. they're people you may have to wind up interacting with if you adopt the language.
It's not a perfect fix though. Even dual band multi network receivers will "jump around" a bit in deep canyons.

Example: https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/garmin-gpsmap-66sr-review-...
Wow, thanks for sharing, I stand corrected.

I wonder what causes these buildings to have such restrictions on plumbing. Maybe it's like elevator shafts where they eventually take up a lot of space if the building is very tall.
I always enjoy how quickly the moon moves across my telescope's field of view.

Really solidifies the motion you otherwise don't notice.
They already showed their willingness to spend money on a cutoff. They could have done a different cutoff instead.
Well if they shut down who else is gonna exchange your worthless pesos for hard currency?
Houston doesn't even HAVE zoning laws.

Companies in Houston can and do build industries like petrochemical processing plants in or near residential neighborhoods.

For example: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/arkema-explosion-r...

You can do almost anything you'd like since it is your land.

Very different culture to California.
Wikipedia is also not a reliable source. Its written by humans.
Lack of funds and incompetence can both exist simultaneously.
I believe this already existed in a proprietary implementation with https://neuraldsp.com/quad-cortex.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(My_Country,_%27Tis_of... Smith wrote new lyrics to the melody from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_King .
As Feynman put it, “what do you care what other people think?” I think the common and incorrect reading is some kind of snarky interpretation. I think the correct reading is to make an honest inventory and realize what exactly it is that gives you reason to care what other people think and what does not.
Honest concern: how do we know that Apple isn't going to secretly share this data anyone who asks for it politely? I know they've been very good at maintaining privacy-first appearance, but where is too much good stuff a bad combo?

Seriously though, I love iPhones as the next guy, and find them very convenient, but are we trading convenience for carrying an unbound GPS tracker in every pocket, and if so, how do we change course? Is it even possible these days to unsubscribe from Apple/Google without feeling like one's living back in the stone age?
>Zig lang developer is saying "Let us exists"

If you follow Zig and Rust closely on HN you may have more sympathy as to why they think that.
I have a similar flow in a similar solution, when designing or reviewing a design, if I come up with thing that might be a problem later, I stop and think, if I come up with 1 solution within a minute, or 2 within 5, then it's not going to be a problem and I just go along thinking through the rest of the design. If it takes longer then there may be a big flaw there. I've saved times both ways with this, stopping working on a majorly flawed design as well as saving a lot of bike shedding. This is generally more for future proofing, things like "how do we make breaking schema changes"
Mushroom killer* app
Then you have to use your voice a bit more.
That’s text mode with graphics characters.
The current US military budget (#1 highest globally) is fitting for a country who is currently at war with the next 5-10 highest military budget countries. And since theyre allies with most of those countries, and at war with none of them, and since both political parties' #1 marching order is to increase that budget, I for one would enjoy seeing that faction be used to aid domestic infrastructure.
https://archive.ph/59CDv
God forbid 1 movie among 1000 misses Gandhi or Nehru in them.

If omitting a subset of leaders is right-wing bias, then every other movie made in India should be considered congress propaganda.

I agree that there is a streak of revisionism in the air within both academic and pop history in India at the moment. However, it is not clear if this simply a long-overdue correction to 75 years of propaganda or if somehow, all history written by the prevailing powers of the last century were perfectly unbiased.
I've always wanted to try the following process (hopefully powered by solar): fast growing plant (hemp? bamboo?) -> charcoal -> plasma -> diamond
I was responsible for the Turbo C (later Borland C/C++) run-time library in the late 80s and early 90s.

Tanj Bennett created our original 8087 floating point emulator. It was real mode, 16-bit code, that kept an 80-bit float in five 16-bit CPU registers as a working value during its internal math calculations. If you ever coded for the PC you will appreciate just how precious register space was on the 8086/8088.

It's been a few decades and my memory is fuzzy but I don't recall any critical places where the registers had to be saved and restored. He choose math algorithms and code paths specifically to keep all five live at all times. Tanj's code flowed with an economy of motion that brought to mind the artistic performance of a professional dance troupe. I did not have the math skill and could not have ever created it as he had. It brought me genuine pleasure just to read his code.

Eventually, it came time to port it to 32-bits (real and protected modes.) I wrote new exception handlers and replaced the instruction-decode logic with a nice table-driven scheme but did not touch the core math library. It still ran in 16-bits under the hood exactly as Tanj designed it.

Tanj, if you happen to see this, I have fond memories of your emulator. It was beautiful.
I can’t wait to move into the Salesforce Tower
You could argue that having more children, leading to a larger national population is also a 'lifestyle choice'
Same as to how video is used today. Works wonders for propaganda.
ML research isn't focused on art but image generation. Art is simply what people are using these models for.

supervised training of large models requires a large amount of data. The only realistic source for this data is the internet, so text, images, audio and video.
Are you accounting for the fact that Asians overwhelmingly live in blue states? 40% of Indians live in just California, New York, and New Jersey. The latter two states have no federal or statewide south Asian politicians. California has had four, but none in statewide office. (Not counting Harris, who identifies as politically Black.)

Red state desis represent a small share of the overall south Asian immigrant population—they mostly come from an earlier wave of migration that has since been vastly outnumbered by post-H1B immigrants to coastal hubs—but have seen outsized success in appointed and elected positions.
Find a few events in person or online to attend every week or two. If you can’t find one, consider starting one, there probably are others just like you in your area. I was lucky to do the latter and start a small group in my city about 10y ago and it has become a great group of friends who were acquaintances or strangers that has experienced exits, marriages, babies, first house purchases and moving to different cities.
Way to double down on the elitism. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Your "well studied scientific opinion" is nothing more than propaganda of a more refined form. Or at least it flatters you to call it "refined."
> Those are not provided by GNU grep, they are an Arch thing

No, they're a GNU grep thing.

GNU grep 3.7: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/src/egrep.sh...

GNU grep 3.8 (with the warning): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/src/egrep.sh...

And you can see that the Arch package isn't doing anything special to add it: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages...

In general, Arch avoids doing Arch-specific things and prefers to provide vanilla upstream packages, a lot more than other distros avoid doing distro-specific things.
I really hope Zig could reflect on Rust, and adopt a No Hype, No Zealots, and no Evangelism, Show, dont tell, Good old fashion engineering philosophy. Zig already has enough spotlight with a few high profile usage like bun. It doesn't need any drama to gain reach.

Just ignore the Rust people's comment. It gets ugly in a hurry.
Use android AOSP, and only specifically control what application controls you give, you can turn GPS access off on android and it is truely off.
There's some natural laws in the area. You can't win infinite money forever by one piece of good information, it's going to get priced in or the other traders are going to get wiped out.

Rational expectation/efficient market hypothesis works better than people think: https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/economists-do-they-kno...
maybe this https://chust.org/repos/racket-protobuf/dir?ci=tip
As usual, Europe is complicated…

Some of Europe fluoridates tap water. Much of Europe has adequate fluoride levels naturally. Some countries supply fluoride in table salt instead of water. Some have insufficient natural fluoride levels and do nothing. Some have too much fluoride naturally in their water.
I don't know if the rules have changed (or if it was a state or federal rule), but when we lost water pressure due to a hurricane, the boil water advisory had to be maintained for 72 hours after pressure had been restored purely for regulatory reasons.

(This isn't a knock on the regulation--it actually makes a lot of sense. A loss of water pressure means that groundwater can seep into the water pipes where previously clean water was leaking into groundwater, and it will take a couple of days for any such intruded groundwater to be flushed out of the water pipes. This is merely me trying to point out that a boil water advisory being maintained after a pressure loss doesn't contradict the possibility that the problem has actually been fixed.)
> If we are close to short form video being a reality, then we are almost certainly close to long form video

No, because a short 5-second clip requires mostly pattern matching that can be learned from existing training data that's in-sample, while long-form content requires symbolic reasoning that's out-of-sample.

> Yes you probably won’t be able to just write one sentence and out plops a cinematic blockbuster. But you will be able to write “Tom and Hannah discuss the death of Charlie and what it means to them whilst eating food in a diner” to spit out part of a script

I agree with this, but that's not how I understood the original question, which was having an AI model generate a movie script. If you have humans in-the-loop at every step that need to fine-tune and iterate on each part, that's different and I agree it's not nearly as far far away. But then you can already do something similar today by crowdsourcing the whole process behind a bunch of API calls. AI models will make this process cheaper, perhaps you can get a 10x reduction on workers, but you still need a huge amount of human input for the final output. Nothing wrong with that, I just don't think that's what the OP was asking.
> corpses were being found in open drains

Let’s see multiple legitimate sources for this one. Police reports are public too. I’d like to see this confirmed. regional language sources are also fine.
Is there an issue there with plants containing nutrients that may be lost when burried.
>Plants use the atmosphere carbon to grow and that carbon is then released when the plants die and is decomposed.

Plants do not melt into thin air when they decompose. They compost, become part of the soil, feed bacteria, fungi and other plants. Some of these processes release various gases, but it's nowhere near 100% conversion. If it was, there would be no fossil fuels to begin with.
> but at the strategic it feels off.

The problem with a reactive layout is that, if you're not going to just ask the user how they want to display things, you need to both read their mind and get it right 100% of the time.

Nobody can do that, so your web site shifts into mobile mode when I only give it half of my 3' display.
>Why is so difficult to get safe drinking water in the US?

There was a fire at the water treatment plant in Jackson about a year and a half ago. It took the main water pumps offline, leaving the city with only the smaller emergency backup pumps.

The city refused to repair the damage. The EPA stepped in, but a bit too late.

>Jackson has 45 days to tell the EPA how and when it will repair damage caused by a fire that broke out last April at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant.

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of noncompliance to the city for failing to repair or replace a damaged electrical panel at the plant.

In addition to telling EPA when and how repairs will be made, the city also must meet with the federal regulatory agency to “show cause why the EPA should not initiate legal proceedings” against the city as a result.

The notice comes about nine months after a fire broke out at the O.B. Curtis plant, shutting down the plant’s high-service pumps.

During a November 8, 2021 inspection of the facility, “the pumps remained out of service, with no target date by the city to put the pumps back into service,” the letter states. “The loss of the pumps has caused multiple elevated tanks to be low or empty and has caused certain areas of the distribution system to have sustained low water pressure.”

https://www.wlbt.com/2022/01/28/epa-cites-jackson-failing-re...

The emergency backup pumps eventually failed too, and the city had no water.
So, a new medium comes along, and society changes as a result. I generally agree that this is a thing that consistently happens. The details are interesting, and strong parallels to social media could be drawn.
"Most notable is the Tinder-like feature in the “Discover” tab that allows users to meet people around the world by swiping left or right..."

How long until people use this as another sugar daddy hookup site?
Oh interesting I wasn’t aware they had an invoice service.
Not to mention the time it would take to rebuild the industry that is between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That combined with the fact that the major shipping route to deep water ports to export ag commodities (corn, wheat, soy) to the rest of the world would effectively be halted for probably a year would mean a multi-trillion dollar arrow to the knee for the US.
Well we just got a CNC plasma cutter at work so I will have to play with this!
So, Hershey is tight lipped about this, partially because recipes, but also because openly admitting you sour your milk intentionally is bad PR.

The speculation is that during WWII, the milk supply wasn’t particularly good due to war rationing so this was naturally what happened, and then after the war it turned out American consumer preference had gotten used to and expected this from Hershey’s.

However, this isn’t good if, say, you’re a British expat in the US, you expect British Cadbury chocolate and get the Hershey-licensed sour stuff instead.
> Despite having almost 150 desks there is a limit of 3 sinks, 6 stalls, 2 urinals, and 6 hand washing sinks. Full stop.

Who instituted the limit? Was it in the lease terms, city ordinances, or something else?
That would be much appreciated. I'm interested in learning even if it takes me away from things that seem intuitive. So as I've mentioned in my article, light from more distant objects could be shifted red, not by a dopplar effect, but by its interaction with space debris or just propagation itself over extremely long distances. Where the expanding universe theory seems to "go wrong" is by violating the cosmic speed limit.
There's also https://github.com/servusdei2018/GladiatorPits-MUD, which is a really well-written program dating back to 2000.
The fact that the Army Corps of Engineers can fix a municipal water system has absolutely no bearing on whether or not said water system was inadequately funded or incompetently managed.

It's not a "smart or not smart" thing: wealthy areas demand (and receive) adequate attention and funding for their public utilities. Incompetence on the municipal level is a symptom.
I highly recommend daily walks with your SO or cofounder to talk through whatever issues you’re working through at the time.

There’s something about the different context and a stroll while explaining something to someone else that can help lead to clarity.

When things are in beta, set up a chat room or forum asap. The PhotoStructure forum and Discord have been invaluable to me, and to my users.
Thanks. Sounds interesting.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_Stat...
Homelessness persists for reasons outside of local attitudes. The weather can kill you in Dallas. Political opinion does not care.
This might be pretty controversial, but the Chromium source code has been a pleasure to work with for a few years. I was working on a proprietary fork of Electron and it was a delight to work with that code base vs some of the in house code I integrated into it. The web code search was also awesome to use.

https://cs.chromium.org/
i think it's clear that digital goods are things that don't have any physical manifestation. "Useful" means someone would pay money for it - aka, utility. The more money paid, the more utility that goods have.

Bitcoin is a digital good that has some utility (as people pay money for it). Some people assign some sort of morality/ethical aspect to bitcoin, claiming that it isn't useful. The gist of my argument is that those claims are wrong, because utility can only be demonstrated by the person paying (aka, the act of paying for a goods is what demonstrates that goods' utility).
You get somewhere there if you apply it recursively; "and of the top 20%, 20% have 80% of the 80% sales" and so on.
I was just about to comment this as well,

I think that 66% selling under 1,000 is just as damning as the "less than 12 copies" thing making the rounds from the DOJ interpretation

Books ain't it!
Thanks - yes I did hear that, but sadly it isn't an option for me for some specific reasons

specifically: I moved countries in between and now they require entry of a credit card even though they would supposedly not bill it, but they decline all my credit cards (which they are not going to bill) because the billing country has to match the account country ... as usual the support options end in a dead end / python script etc. Which all just points back to, I'm dealing with a giant borg too big too care and moving is probably the right thing any way.
Clara, the sensational 18th century rhinoceros
Not quite a temporary sink, not in every case. Both carbon and nitrogen are captured by plants, then what? Plants get eaten by livestock or people.

So these atoms get captured and enter a large and complex cycle forward.

But if you are talking about natural areas (non production), then the plant won't die anytime soon, essentially trapping carbon and nitrogen for a very long time.

And once they die, not all of it is released back to the air, I do not have an exact number now, but a lot of it is incorporated in soil.

We have several fields in animal science and agricultural science that are based on these exact mechanisms, for greener production and also for traditional production but with increased yields.
These are connected factors: a lack of adequate funding belies insufficient municipal interest in utilities, which breeds an environment of incompetence.

And yes, Flint's water crisis was absolutely connected to a lack of funds. It was directly precipitated by the city's declaration of a financial emergency[1], which in turn caused the city to seek cheaper water sources.

[1]: https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2011/11/former_acting_mayor...
What a brilliant use of all that satellite imagery.
You could also look into "regenerative agriculture" which also builds topsoil by capturing huge amounts of carbon, increases water retention, and nearly eliminates the use of industrial inputs like pesticides.

The fundamentals are, NEVER till the land, always have a cover crop, manage it carefully, and graze animals on it in a well managed manner.
If you happen to come back to this comment when you're not on mobile, I'd love the links!