skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That occurred as the North was transitioning from an agricultural-based economy to one more grounded in transportation (railroads), industry (steelmaking), oil (petroleum, first exploited in the US in Pennsylvania and New York), electrical products (motors, generators, telephones, etc.), and more, all in the period 1850--1880. The real take-off of the North was largely post-1900 with automobile manufacture and the rise of New York City as a global financial and trading centre.

The South languished in part due to Reconstruction and being politically repressed by the North following the Civil War, but also for geographic and climatic reasons: it was hot and humid, and would remain hot and humid until electrification and air conditioning arrived ~1930--1950, the oil booms of Texas, Oklahoman, and Louisiana (~1900 -- 1940), and arrival of petrochemical industry (1950--).

Agreed that cotton was a ... weaker thread ... binding South and North than the South would have hoped for.

And whilst we're talking regional economic development, though an unrelated territory: I found it interesting a while back to find that Los Angeles in the mid-20th century was often the second-largest manufacuturing centre across a whole slew of industries: oil, automobiles, aircraft, tyres, among them. I've yet to find a good explanation of this, though my own hunch is that it was a combination of factors:

- Local petroleum sources, that is, a tremendous energy supply.

- Far enough from East Coast manufacturing that a local industry made sense.

- A sufficiently large local population to feed that demand.

This pattern emerged after the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 in San Francisco which greatly dampened development of Northern California, as well as the Bay Area's geographic limitations (a small peninsula, poor cross-bay transport until the creation of the Golden Gate and SF-Oakland Bay bridges in the 1930s), as well as a largely agricultural / timber orientation of Northern California's economy, with secondary strengths in transportation (ports, railroads) and finance.
I was not able to find turbo encabulators on this web page. Other than that, very thorough.
PayPay is one of many competing services. From August they're going to stop letting you use other credit cards with PayPay; I suspect (and frankly hope) that will hurt their adoption a lot.
I will give you a cons.
https://cons.io
Gerbil/Gambit scheme are fully static binary generating alternative to CL.
I hope that people will be able to build agents in a way that makes deliberate methodical progress towards them successfully executing given tasks. Part of this could be tracing alone, which is something that I explored using opentelemetry on my own agents. But I found that I wanted to be able to understand the specific structure of the agent as I iterated on it as well. So Chidori attempts to allow you to do that, while having some properties that I feel assist with managing complexity!

Agents that work 80-90% of the time rather than 30-40% of the time would be awesome. And I think part of that is being able to iterate on specific pieces of the agent's behavior in a deliberate way.
> The repl driven workflow is amazing and the lisp images are rock solid and highly performant.

do people not realize that basically everything vm/interpreted language has a repl these days?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/java-repl-j...

https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

https://pub.dev/packages/interactive

not to mention ruby, python, php, lua

hell even c++ has a janky repl https://github.com/root-project/cling

edit: i get downvoted by the lisp crowd every time i bring up that the repl isn't a differentiating feature anymore :shrug:
So why does the Supreme Court only strip us of our rights on Fridays?
How can you reconcile cheap food being unavailable food? Doesn't make any sense.

I know what food insecurity is, hunger is, and famine. Characterizing the Dust Bowl as famine is hyperbole.

As for high school history books, sorry, but LOL. They're written by committees and mostly driven by popular politics.

A novel simply isn't good enough to be a cite. Here are some of the falsehoods from TGoW:

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-abou...

Here's a cite for you: "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes. A history of the Depression, it does not mention "famine".

If you've got a cite from a real history book there was famine in the US in the 1930's, feel free to post it.

P.S. I have a copy of "AP United States History" from the "Research & Education Association, 639 pages. It has no mention of famine during the Dust Bowl.
Same problem with flatpak. How many versions of openssl are on my laptop? I have no idea!
Definitely. Discovering another material besides pyrolytic graphite that exhibits strong enough diamagnetism to levitate wouldn't get your name in the history books like room-temperature superconductivity would, but it would already be a major career-making discovery, with at least enough commercial value to launch a niche company. It would be very strange to tarnish your reputation with fraudulent, easily-refuted claims of superconductivity if you've already achieved such a breakthrough.
Completely agreed. Violating privacy and uploading data to random third party is an expensive thing. They should be charging a lot more.
I've seen estimates that cloth bags are like 100x+ more resource intensive. I doubt that most people get 100 uses from cheap cloth bags.

Of course, there's another option. There are cheap durable bags.

IKEA plastic bags are close to literally indestructible and cost $1USD. Although the smaller version ($0.89) is probably better for groceries. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frakta-shopping-bag-large-blue-...

IKEA might not be great for the environment overall but these bags are an insanely good win. Essentially infinite reuse. Unless you're dragging cinder blocks around in them I'm not sure how they'd ever really wear out.
So hard to do!
https://archive.is/OP4Hr
I'm not comfortable being too specific about where I live, but I've lived in a couple of large cities in Tennessee and been all over the state, and my previous comment applies to all of them. I can say the same for all of the other cities I regularly visit as well.
> I trust the publisher of my base image to keep compatibility even if they update their image

That's how we get hacks like SolarWinds and MOVEit.
The main purpose of using AGPL as the original license is to force companies that have a blanket-ban on AGPL to buy a commercial license or just buy the entire project, as told by the author.

https://gist.github.com/lleyton/9c0b75d065f37333ea9851b6cad1...

It did not workout, so they're switching to MIT.
Twitter Blue was always $1000 for organizations, wasn't it? Only $8 for individuals
An idea meant to lighten the load on sysadmins now means I have seven different OS versions to worry about
From my perspective, what they said (across several comments) was, "I like this workflow, it has some advantages, some of my customers want containers, and in our case it doesn't add much more complexity," which I took to be a mix between a pragmatic and aesthetic position, and in the comment I responded to you said, "it didn't solve all of the problems we can identify, so why bother?" I took that to be a maximalist position.

If I'm misreading you, then I apologize.
My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHNK9EcrAwP7djlwQN4C_tg
My employer was looking into testing advertising on Twitter, and the $1000 cost to entry was a hard stop on that. Seems like a very poor policy.
I Taught a Monkey How to Play Minecraft [video]
> Plus the fact that it's operated by the central bank (trust!).

I'm far from an expert or even knowledgeable about finance related matters, but isn't one of the things HN (in general) fearful of with respect to CBDC's the centralization aspect with the government. How is this any different, if any?
I don't really think that's what I'm paying for though. The features I pay for are well worth the money.
"We'd hate something bad to happen to your business...I'm sure there's a way you can make sure that doesn't happen...". So basically they're adopting the Yelp playbook.
America Already Has an AI Underclass
Google Search could still show ads, but they'd need to evaluate which ad exchange to use, of which Google Ads would only be one option.
I've seen linking take that long or longer when I worked in defense. :)
Neoliberals are not only in positions of power, but they are, in particular, tax-dodgers?
Do handle these carefully, powdered lead oxide is no joke!
I presume it's this? https://github.com/joshcho/ChatGPT.el
See https://archive.is/5zl1U
That, and the many teams of lawyers who aren't allowing AI as is, until the copyright stuffs get figured out, means that I probably won't have AI in my IDE, at work, for a decade.
There are others but I've never seen anyone actually use them. Maybe LINE Pay, and people spending d-points.

And while personally I'm going to be affected by their change in credit card rules, everyone I know uses it with cash to get in on their gatcha mechanics. Everyone is surprised when my payment doesn't have the "roll" to see if you won anything.
Yep, I'm out.
https://kb.iu.edu/d/acqm
Meaning keyboard sequence
Meta-x command
Couldn't agree more—it's worth the extra effort to know exactly what enters the prompt. But control isn't mutually exclusive with removing the need to copy/paste. Continue lets you highlight code with perfect precision, and this is much lower effort.
Covering the US by guessing the names of cities
A simple, no frills, web game where you try to cover the US by guessing the names of cities.
It saved me countless hours, with its far superior refactoring, compared to something like vscode.
Of course people "realise" this. But those REPLs are not actually REPLs. They are interactive language prompts. They aren't actually REPLs. As the joke goes, Python doesn't have a REPL: it lacks READ, EVAL, PRINT and LOOP.

Being able to type in code and have it evaluated one line at a time isn't a REPL.
Indeed. It's horrible that this is not allowed even if the user wants it.
Naturally, no mention in this article of Michael Aquino, the US Army Colonel who wrote the book on psychological operations, openly bragged about performing a ritual with a Nazi SS dagger at Wewelsburg Castle, and was credibly accused by children in the Presidio daycare scandal, who themselves exhibited physical signs of abuse and could describe details of the interior of Aquino's house.

But I'm sure if anything like that had actually happened, you would have heard about it already.

The thing I don't get about Satanism/witchcraft and the like is, either you take it seriously, in which case is it really a great idea to be cutting deals with these powerful interdimensional entities for your own benefit? Or with Laveyan Satanism it's basically "Ayn Rand with magic." OR you don't take it seriously, in which case it's sort of overly theatric and involved (and hence pathetic) edgelordery.
Popular languages on computers should generally work, though.
> "I don't know whats wrong, it works on my machine"

I had one of these years ago where QA had an issue that I couldn't reproduce.

I walked over to his desk, watched the repro and realized that he was someone who clicked to open a dropdown and then clicked again to select, while I would hold the mouse button down and then let up to select.
I feel that a lot of companies developing closed AI models are trying to overhype "AI Dangers" to reduce competition from open-sourced or permissively licensed LLM projects.
I don't claim she wanted positive attention to her music, to sell more records or anything. Likely the opposite, who knows. But when people protest, they do so to bring attention to some cause, that's the point of the protest. As she tore the photo, Sinead said into the mic on live television "fight the real enemy," referring to the church. But it totally backfired, instead of taking her claims seriously, the majority of Catholics rallied behind the church and the very popular pope, and any investigation into the darkside of the church was likely delayed for a decade or more.
https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereA...

This one's in Korean but there are some plots here that I think several people said were missing.
Do you also think the homelessness problem should be solved by asking local property owners for permission to use any available housing?

So if there's a rule, follow it? It's illegal to be homeless in Texas, but it's legal to ask permission to sleep on a local owner's property. Sounds like what you're recommending. Do you think that is working?

Btw the process for feeding on public property was pursued and made impractical by police due to unreasonable restrictions. The permission process is broken by design.
If you advertise personal readings for me by Barack Obama, and I buy a personal reading from Barack Obama, and I get a reading from someone who is not Barack Obama, the product delivered was not the product purchased.

It doesn't matter that Barack is a certified reader, or that psychic readings are real or fake, or anything else - you didn't give me what I purchased.

Sidenote, something doesn't have to be a formally-drafted lawyer contract to be a contract, either. It's just an agreement. Like one where I buy something you offer and I expect that to be the thing that you offered me
Don't build this.
Don't bring it to school.
Don't show it to anyone.

This is the kind of thing that get you expelled, jailed, or shot.
Polynom – Self-Hostable Quantum Resistant Collaboration Suite
Brought to us by that Demonsaw feller, Eijah.
> Now Amazon just sends me between two different bots that can't help me at all...

I ran into this issue some months back. The unofficial-official policy seems to be to make you file a dispute with your CC stating that merchandise was not delivered. I was promptly refunded and haven’t had any issues conducting further business with Amazon.
> The Crew-1 delays were not mentioned once in the article where Crew-1 actually launched - he just spent the article patting SpaceX on the back for saving NASA.

The article about Boeing finally getting their crewed test done is in the future, so it's a little odd to be mad at a slight that hasn't yet happened.

> Now we have this delay but it's Boeing, and it's all about the delays.

Yes, the article about the delays is about the delays. Why is this surprising?

> that's before you realize that Crew-7 is delayed, yes by a few days

If you're going to point out two-day delays, Berger's pointing out two year delays seems eminently reasonable. When they eventually do fly crew, a "after years of delays and additional test flights at Boeing's expense" is probably warranted in the article.

> There's no way you can reasonably turn "we're going to talk to Boeing and announce an updated launch date" in July of 2023 and credibly say "it's entirely possible that Crew-9 will launch before it!"

The last Starliner delay was nine months long. Crew-9 beating the Boe CFT is entirely possible. SpaceX and Boeing both had their first orbital tests in 2019, but SpaceX has flown eight NASA crewed flights (and three commercial) since then to Boeing's zero.

One of these programs is currently troubled, the other has hit its goals and won extra contracted flights. You really can't wish these facts away, and a journalist would be goofy to ignore the difference.
This is the default behavior from the way it is fine-tuned and from its system prompt. But you can always tell it to give you answers that are short and to the point.
It's probably an infrastructure issue. Fixing old water treatment piping for a whole city that is also very old is going to be expensive!
If your therapist is telling you that you’re entirely justified in being angry at humans being humans, seems like you should find a better therapist.
I was able to get something very similar working for Chromium browsers at https://slaymaker1907.github.io/tiddlywiki/plugin-library.ht.... It doesn’t use a browser plug-in or anything, it’s just Chromium is the only engine to support the native file system access API (Firefox, please prioritize stopping actual Google bologna like the web integrity stuff).
I cdr car less about your cons. Seriously though, mad props for being diligent enough to spend your attention on this. There is a lot to learn from people who came before us and build on that.
Because what you are describing is not a smart contract, at least how it is nearly always commonly understood.

What you are describing is simple API automation. Nobody describes what IFTTT or Zapier can do as a smart contract, yet that is literally exactly what you have described.
I tried my hand at pulling data from opentopology recently to use in blender and thought it was an amazing source of data for my country - I later realised that it seems like only the US and NZ are well represented there though (guess I was just lucky - thank you LINZ).
There are limits to how much remediation you can do to river water quality. Not that people shouldn't try, but if e.g. upstream sites leach heavy metals, or biological contaminants deep in ground water, there's only so much you can do.

Brisbane (where I live) the river is affectionately called 'the brown snake' mainly because of silt. Even though sand mining/dredging has ended, the river is silty still. Is that why swimming isn't recommended? No: its because upstream on oxley creek, major industrial and agricultural runoff issues during historic floods in the last 10-20 years have raised contamination, fecal coliform and other problems such that you risk serious antibiotic resistant bugs if you accidentally ingest too much, or get it in cuts (I know because I row, and a rowing colleague wound up on IV antibiotics with amputation being discussed from a deep cut)

When it floods in brisbane, associated creeks continue to leach the effects of 100+ years of industrial waste and effluent into the water. Nearby cities have land which is capped 2m deep over what was septic tank discharge, it is said that shigella is still a significant risk if you dig into the soil. I don't know, I thought it died, but perhaps it persists?

Well.. that and the bullsharks but we're talking about pollution.

Yes, the Thames is coming back to life and significant fish numbers have risen in the last decade, we're miles off "the great stink" which caused Bazalgette to construct the sewers on the riverbank. Is it always entirely safe to "be in" -well no. Sources upstream occasionally dump sewage overflow along the length of the Thames. Its meant to be emergency only, but sewage overflow has to be dealt with pretty rapidly. They try not to. What do you do, when the system is overloaded?

I am amazed Paris has been able to restore river health enough to do this. Well done!
Ask HN: Recent grad, need advice. Please help
I graduated a month ago with a Bachelor's of Engineering in IT. I live in India. The degree is basically equivalent to CS.

So, my problem is that although I've graduated, I'm still kind of a newbie to programming. I know the absolute basics of things like DS/Algo, HTML/CSS/JS, and C language.

How I happened to fall into this situation is depression and suicidal thoughts. I'm still pretty suicidal so as a last resort I'm selling help from here.

My college years coincided pretty well with the pandemic. My life wasn't going all that well, which lead to me entering a cycle of procrastination where I avoided doing basically everything. I passed the exams as they were almost completely theoretical and required rote memorization.

I also kept myself from actually programming because I kept getting RSI pains in my arms from time-to-time which scared me a bit. Procrastinated incessantly here.

The college also was a pretty low quality one where the teachers didn't actually know anything, taught from PPTs downloaded from the internet, and couldn't actually explain why concepts.

I've graduated now and am now in a pretty strong need of a job due to poverty. Horrible situation to be in, I know. I also know that I'm pretty much incompetent so it's basically nigh impossible for me to get any practical job. I'm kind of caught in a clutch and my mind isn't working, so I'll be grateful for any advice I can get on my situation.

I'm not sure what to do from where I am and am feeling pretty devastated over where I've ended up.

My city is bad in terms of jobs. I see at most 6-8 jobs at any time and many of that are for Senior posts. Metro cities with good jobs are like 1,000 kms away.

I also get strong RSI pains in my arms. I can't get diagnosed for it because I don't have the money. I'm afraid I won't be able to work well due to this limiting my career. This is the part I'm most worried about.

I'm being hammered by the constant issues caused by the severe lack of money and RSI in my arms that keeps me from upskilling. I want to make something out of my life but every moment feels as if I can't.

Please help.
I agree that there is an assumption that the data are well described by a distribution on R instead of some interval [a,b]. I don't know how well justified this is.
The assumption of well defined mean and stddev is weak and better supported each time you collect more data. If your stddev is ill defined then you'll find your sample stddev will diverge (increase) as you add more data points.
The above user has spent the past few days doing nothing but astroturfing on this topic while failing to declare that they are or were employed by the company proposing the standard.

Your personal opinion may well be that ‘this is fine’ but by failing to declare that bias and having never posted much of anything else it is difficult to interpret your actions as a good faith contribution.
Ask HN: Active tech, software, and maker blogs?
looking for active blogs run by individuals not corporations. a lot of blogs in old posts on HN seem to have gone dormant.
You can do it with Chromium browsers using the native file system access API. Unfortunately, I think Firefox didn’t actually read the whole spec and Apple doesn’t like it because it cuts into their App Store revenue.
Its already overturned the entire art world.

1.2 years ago if you claimed that an AI will just come out and make artists mass panic you would be laughed at. Now art is somehow just 'solved'. Progress is continuous and massive from Midjourney v1 -> v5
I came here from that event, but I’m your stereotypical left-wing atheist redditor. I guess the site is pretty heavily sectioned off, but I assumed that was the bulk of us.

Editing to add: this site has been so much better for my mental health. Still plenty of bad news about the environment and large corporations, etc. but I focus less on it, and much more on topics that rekindle my passion for science and technology.
Crystal sets are remarkably sensitive, though early radios were not very selective, which describes most of the issues with the first 20 years of radio.
The repls you mention are not like lisp repls. You're being downvoted because your comment makes it sound like you've never programmed a lisp but have strong opinions nonetheless.
>> liberal European country letting a river stay so contaminated

> You may not want to look up if swimming in the Thames is safe.

The Thames is in England

They said "liberal European...". As much as (some of) the English might hate it they are European...
Thats false, you can spend $20 if you want, you just wont get the gold checkmark
A REPL isn't just a REPL. You are comparing modern day Toyota Corollas to a Spaceship sent from the future to the 80s. One is just different level radical.
At least when it's baked by SLY or SLIME
the resulting phrase just makes you think "this is neither sexist nor true, and the person making it has a chip on their shoulder"
I'm Brazilian and Pix is great. No reason to use anything else. Our government is terrible, but our central bank is actually quite competent. Credit to where it's due.
There are many layers of terrible software and many terrible products involved.

John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.