skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One source [0] says Texas is 4.2% public lands. Although that's near the bottom of the list, it is equal with Ohio, and ahead of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Rhode Island. (These are 1991 figures though, so maybe things have changed in the last 30+ years.)

You mention as comparators Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and California – those are all what are called "Western public land states" – the federal government acquired most of them by armed conquest or purchase of Mexican territory, and hence is the original landowner for the majority of the state (the US recognised some pre-conquest/purchase land ownership, so some land titles go back to Mexican or Spanish land grants, but that's a minority of their area). Congress then organized those areas into territories, and then admitted them as states – but the federal government remained a major landowner post-statehood. And many of these states still have significant federal public lands to this day. (There are also the Eastern public land states, whose lands were acquired by the federal government either through being ceded by the 13 original states, or by such events as the Louisiana and Florida purchases.)

By contrast, other states are what are called "private land states", since the federal government was never a major landowner in them. This includes the original 13 colonies. It also includes Texas, because Texas declared independence from Mexico, and then after some years of independence, applied to enter the US as a state. Mexican public lands became public lands of the Republic of Texas, and their ownership was then inherited by the Texas state government (The Texas Lands Commissioner), not the federal government. All the federal lands in Texas have been acquired post-statehood, either by purchase or eminent domain. Similarly, although Hawaii has extensive public lands, they are mostly owned by the state not federal government, since the Kingdom of Hawaii's public lands passed to the State of Hawaii not the federal government, making it like Texas a private land state.

Private land states tend to have significantly less public land than public land states, but it varies – both Nebraska and Nevada are Western public land states, but over 80% of Nevada is public land, Nebraska is near the bottom of the list. I believe that's because the federal government decided to sell or grant most of the federal lands in Nebraska into private ownership, but decided to retain most federal lands in Nevada.

[0] https://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentag...
He is grossly misrepresenting Arxiv. It is not an appropriate place for a copyright fight.
Really? In the past four years, did we get land reform? Housing reform? Healthcare reform? Something that addressed wealth inequality? Police accountability? Worker rights? Anything to address the mental health crisis? Anything to tackle the problems people with drug addiction are facing? Any change to the trajectory of climate change, as opposed to just kicking the can down the road? Affordability of childcare? Cost of education? I could go on and on.

We aren't 'divided' on how to deal with our issues. The right doesn't see any of the above as issues, and doesn't see any need to address them.

Your perception that things swung left does not match the reality. The right echo chamber has driven itself into a frenzy to try to manufacture this perception, as justification for their reactionary politics.
Your example of a leftist that can win in a red state is...Bernie Sanders? Kamala won Vermont by 30+ points. That's not a red state.

Everything else you said was hypotheticals and wish casting. The DNC cleared the way for Dan Osborn and he still lost. I'm sorry that the state senator you like got beat in the primary. That's politics. Leftist got beat in SF in 2025. If you can't win SF I don't think there is hope for Kentucky.
Hi Charles! ;)

Remember how the players were totally freaking out that their Sims were dropping dead due to them not taking good care of the guinea pig? (Not that the cause/effect relationship was at all obvious!) It was the first downloadable object for The Sims, with an actual communicable deadly virus! I think that was one of Will's twisted ideas.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Illness#Guinea_Pig_Disease

I wrote more details about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22599872

Something Is Killing the Sims, and It's No Accident. By John Markoff, April 27, 2000.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/technology/something-is-k...

The Sims Pie Menus: SimAntics visual programming language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs&t=743s

Soon afterwards, we issued a downloadable painting of a guinea pig that would immunize your whole family against the deadly Guinea Pig Virus. Kind of the opposite of the tragic clown painting, which if you looked at it would summon that poor depressing sad clown character to torment your family. (Another of Will's twisted ideas, if I recall.)

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Tragic_Clown

You could also get Poopy Pants if you ate from the buffet table when your hygiene was low. Another valuable life lesson!

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Illness#Poopy_Pants

Irk's posted some great videos with his memories and artwork:

The Sims Animation Basics Video. Stories, events, how's, why's of 2000 Game the Year by Will Wright:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXSAT-4GjNQ

>A basic Primer and stories from the Crypt on the animation of The Sims PC Game of the Year from the year 2000. Two years of heavy toil, fear of cancellation, game industry politics, real & artificial personalities, and Silly Little Computer People. How we provided scads of content over a very short amount of time to help make millions of people happy. Using old techniques of acting to give life to artificial beings. What was at the core of a phenomenon when it came to building the style and the substance of a something special. The Sims, The Sims PC, OG Sims, 24th Anniversary, Will Wright, Maxis, Electronic Arts, TS1, The Sims 1, irk, animation, fun, joke, whimsy, Eric Hedman

irk says, the Sims Livin' Large is special. for many reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-Fy1SENbc

Sims Unleashed Object Story My Corgi's Distant Cousin Hachiko's Statue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4kAQRFS98

This The SIMS image helped keep the project alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-NOVzJ9ds

The Sims "Wild Bill" Big BBQ is not for cooking babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGXu4uE0kQ

Also: Juno Birch the delusional alien diva just posted this delightful tour of the re-release of The Sims 1 -- she really loves Jerry Martin's music:

The Sims is back! Juno plays the Sims 1 for the first time in forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4A00YPJpUU

Jerry Martin's Music:

https://boombamboom.com/

How The Sims Made New-Age Jazz Piano the Soundtrack of Our Lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpVUi9TQ8U

The Sims Soundtrack CHEATED. Here's how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMds3jT7c8
Yeah, that's a data point as well. I found a model that was good with citations by asking it to recall what I published articles on.
>Why carry on doing that for so long?

Because her publisher told her to! "It's important for authors to have a social media presence!" "You can't have unprofessional videos, viewers won't like that!" ...and other falsehoods.
I said arms and back (I had to double check I didn't misspeak). The arms stick up higher than the seat. So the concave surface defined by the back and the arms is most of what will limit you getting through the straight edges of a doorway.

There are a few couches where the seat sticking out past the front of the arms causes problems, and a few handrails in stairways that you can sneak between the arms of course, but probably nine times out of ten it's just the obtuse angle between the back and the arms that is your constraint. And that angle plus the rest of the couch around it looks a lot more like the cutout in the linked article than an L. Which is kinda the reason I brought it up.
Cheers! Interesting you liken this to Typescript because I've recently gone back to TS after trying my best to stick with js. Any warnings about what I have to look forward to with TS?
I own DeepCQ.com since early 2023 - Which could do "deepseek" for financial research. Maybe I just throw this on the pile, too.
Yeah, the pads lasted that long. It was a manual and I did engine break pretty often.
"Let's check the military" is the latest thing, so you might get a reduction in the military budget now, who knows. Perhaps in relation to things like throwing Ukraine under the bus. Is this a very left-wing thing, a small military?
Setting request quotas per natural human. However, that has some problems to solve:

1. Who gets to decide who is a different natural human? I'm working on uniquonym (https://lemmy.amxl.com/c/project_uniquonym) that will leverage governments to decide this; other solutions include https://proofofhumanity.id/ and Worldcoin.

2. How do you avoid this becoming a supercookie tracking solution that badly impacts privacy? Zero-knowledge proofs provide some help here - there are ways to create an ID that changes on a certain frequency and is different per site, but different IDs can't be correlated, preventing long term tracking and cross-site tracking, while still providing enough to rate-limit per natural person.

3. How do you stop people selling their identity to scrapers? This is a hard one to solve, but there are protocols that make it harder without giving up sensitive information or being interactively involved on an ongoing basis.
Linux sounds like a super toxic place now.
Politics has been discussed here for as long as I can remember.

And I’ve been a member for a pretty long time now.
Isn’t this illegal? Discussing work conditions and policies is protected by labor law.

Also something about Dimon’s aggression doesn’t sit well with me, considering the position of JP Morgan is entirely dependent on the public since banks rely on regulatory capture, are too big to fail, tied to the federal reserve, and so on. He pretends he and the company are above their employees in an undeserved way.
I have never heard of someone on the streets directly for marijuana usage. Opioids are actually cheap to produce, expensive to buy.

The poverty is quite related to the costs, and I think that's where I challenge your take.

That said, the most compelling take i have heard in the first half of 'In the realm of hungry ghosts' by Gabor Mate`. He points out that we need to consider the fact that some people may be much more predisposed to opioid addiction, by either default wiring or by life experiences. In this case, is the freedom of the majority of folks to take what they want worth the risk to those who would suffer from it? I don't believe he supports the criminalization of the drug use, but he makes a good point that we need to think about this reality of different-risks.

The reason why I come back to legalization is that I cannot tolerate the fact we have such massive funding sources for the cartels (and police) in the illegal trade. It is deeply compelling to me that we would be better off without funding that society destroying business.
While I think some lifestyle changes are a good idea:

There's so much we can convert to renewable and electric power without any meaningful lifestyle changes or even a particularly large amount of money relative to the size of the industries involved.

And for the rest, it would cost money to keep the same lifestyle, but GDP per capita keeps rising and if you hold lifestyle constant then that gives you lots of money to spend on big goals.

What's utter nonsense and fantasy about that?
This is not unusual in this district of London.

The remains of London’s Roman amphitheatre are beneath Guildhall, in the basement of the public art gallery:
https://www.thecityofldn.com/directory/londons-roman-amphith...

And in the basement of Bloomberg’s London headquarters, there’s also a reconstructed Roman temple dedicated to Mithras. It's free and open to the public. Interestingly, after it was discovered, they dismantled it, moved it elsewhere, then later rebuilt it piece by piece:
https://www.bloomberg.org/arts/advancing-the-arts-around-wor...

Finally, the Roman baths at Billingsgate are open to visitors on weekends:
https://www.thecityofldn.com/directory/billingsgate-roman-ho...
I don't know her or her content, but the theme that comes up over and over in that post is the elusive 'big deal' from a streamer or network. I get the impression that she thought this production approach would lend itself to that kind of transition. Her background seems more 'traditional media' than 'DIY native', and I would guess that framed her perception of what a production looked like.

In contrast, somebody like Maangchi took the opposite approach. Her earliest videos are still up and you can see the truly homemade approach. Granted, she was in early and it is surely massively more competitive now.
Seems like they ought to use a lower-level system. I hate to see the day when someone's smartphone-based pacemaker or whatever crashes or gets hacked and kills the person attached.

You could have a low power system like ESP32 or STM32 act as the artificial pancreas and transmit data to a smartphone over BT
Pascal was bothered by it. In the Pensees he said “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.” Maybe you’d enjoy this blog post about it: https://www.steelsnowflake.org/post/pascals-terror
I’m not really bothered at all. Something like us may exist many times over in the vast universe. We may never know. And that’s what is exciting, IMO. The idea of dying with all the answers is not that exciting to me. But to die with some of the answers, knowing there is the excitement of discovery, for future generations, is precious.
False dichotomy.

https://cliffberg.medium.com/the-false-dichotomy-of-space-ex...

https://www.universetoday.com/131376/shouldnt-fix-earth-firs...

https://www.marssociety.ca/the-fix-our-planet-first-fallacy/

Not sure what you mean by "tv" being fake.
Recursion was a filter topic when I went through computer science training. Some people couldn't get it.
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Yes, you keep making this assertion about "tax relief", but you have yet to provide a concrete example of it. (Other than the ludicrous claims about EU exports being exempt from corporate taxation.)
I have it the same! But it’s not common. People are always puzzled by this lack of episodic memory.
The reason I'd use Jellyfin is to stream things to a non-Kodi client (a web browser). If I have a Kodi client, I would just read the files as-is.

I don't believe that mkv supports bd-j menus. Happy to be proven wrong on that if you have some further reading I could do.
Is it safe to publish your life in public? Even at a weekly precision? What about privacy & security? Genuinely asking. Could anyone take advantage of it?
> The easier explanation is a higher power seeded life here. If you find a functioning phone on a beach, you don't just think a bunch of silicon molecules just evolved into a phone over millions of years. Someone is manipulating those molecules via complex processes.

You should read The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins as it directly refutes your claims. This is not a new debate in the field of theology.
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Yes, what I've got is like a streaming service, but at much higher quality and with a selection that doesn't rotate out as rights lapse.

The stuff that Jellyfin would provide - being able to watch from a device using just a web browser and no client install - is nice-to-have, not need-to-have.
There's been a resentment brewing in the leadership/ownership class for a few years about this. My theory is that the isolation of lock down kind of drove a wedge between these guys and their employees, and now they're majorly out of touch and fundamentally aren't interacting with the regular people who work for them, resulting in cruel policy like RTO and mass layoffs even at well functioning and profitable organizations. Just a lack of respect or knowledge of what their employees actually do.
In Tolkien's Silmarillion, the creator of the palantiri had a great foe, Morgoth. Join the resistance side of the Lord of the Rigs meme war at http://silmarils.tech
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Tell that to the OP
> America has ideals and values that are worth fighting for, such as free speech, civil rights, (mostly) free markets, and so on.

"I say the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... by force!"
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LISPy REPLs are awesome.

Babashka is another amazing tool for interacting with a shell with clojure (or a very close dialect thereof).

https://babashka.org
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Though no longer affiliated with YC, Sam Altman is stumping for Trump [0] [1].

Andreessen is also no longer affiliated with YC but has been a very vocal advocate for Trump lately [2] [3] [4].

I don't follow YC's current administration or board very closely but I would be surprised if the current lineup weren't in lock step with Altman, Andreessen, Thiel, Musk and others. Please let me know if I'm jumping to conclusions incorrectly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZrLDMA56E

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWnPOKh_S0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTeZXw-ytQ
The title here is false, although it matches the article’s title. The actual quote from the interview is:

> Elon Musk doesn’t defend free expression. His social network curates the discourse of the extreme-right. Appropriating a noble cause — such as freedom of expression — when what you really do is the opposite is very dishonest. I’m not a fan of Mr. Musk. And I would love for him to be the first man on Mars.

The article’s false title aside, this is just an unhinged take from Rushdie, with a weird claim about a social network “curating” discourse with zero evidence. Twitter/X is far more supportive of free speech now than it was before Elon took it over. The prior ten years were one big censorship machine aligned to progressive politics. They literally banned a sitting president with very weak justification. That’s unthinkable today.
It does require conspiratorial thinking because it’s a conspiracy theory.

It’s not a particularly old one either, it started showing up a year or two before Covid if I recall right.
It was mentioned later in the text. Sponsorship deals. Overall it was about break-evwn, for whatever reason she didn't include sponsors in the financials.
I remember making a calculation that a 4 year PhD is about 200 weeks.

This means every two weeks you are 1 percent closer to finishing.

That got me real productive.
I presume the monkey got fried.
Thinking = resuming.

Eeesh.
> Private land states tend to have significantly less public land than public land states

How are they off for "peppercorn rents" as defacto public lands?

Here, Western Australia, an initially British colony, there are several major urban parks the were deeded to the city in exchange for a peppercorn rent subject to usage constraints.

These are in a murky area, many are currently listed as public owned, owned by the city (or specific city council), but have been "conditionally gazzetted" and might revert back to original owning families (after several intervening generations) should the land usage change (eg: building apartments on land conditionally gifted for public gardens).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)
Are you familiar with everyman's right in Nordic nations? I think a balance can be struck that provides a relief valve for those who need a dwelling while providing access to rugged wilderness. They could be recorded as covenants under the deed.
Agreed. She approached it backwards. A YouTube channel doesn’t have to be like a VC startup where you lose money until you hopefully make it back later. Just start small, DIY and then hire help later if it’s making money.
> Democracy is a means for empirical truth finding that’s resistant to manipulation.

That's wrong in a number of ways.

1. Democracy is not, in any way, a means of truth finding. That's not simply what it does: propositons of truth are not an output of democracy.

2. Even if you create some mapping of the outputs of democracy to "truths" about anything other than "this is what this particular democracy produced at this particular time", popularity isn't empiricism.

3. Democracy is extremely sensitive, rather than resistant, to manipulation.
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Thinking of surveillance as necessary is treating a symptom. If a country feels it needs surveillance to stop criminals it needs to investigate what problem crime is a viable solution for. If it is to thwart terrorism, then what is motivating the terrorists. The problems here are crime and terrorism, not privacy. However, if you want to say privacy is bad then how could putting surveillance in the "private" sector fix the problem? This attitude feels like it's coming from a place where problems are quantitative (about making or saving money) and not about reducing suffering or otherwise solving qualitative problems that affect larger parts of the population. That said Industry isn't going to save America (Silicon Valley or otherwise). Corporate interest has been pretending to take the place of the new deal for 80 years all while digging a hole the country will never climb out of. Dreamers gonna dream, I guess.
with Medtronic, I am always concerned about the tube as you've to carry it around and with kids, it becomes difficult, so we're opting for Omni Pod. I hope they make it tubeless some how and CGM + Pump in 1 system . With Med, you still have to manage the dose prior - no ?
That's definitely more serious than I had heard clear reports of, thanks for the details.

Unfortunately this kind of comes with the territory when granting power to an authority - jobs can be created, they can also be taken away.

Whether this is "right" for our country is probably a matter of perspective, but I do feel for everyone impacted directly. This is a pretty shitty situation to find yourself in and I don't know what the job market will look for them short term - if its anything like tech the last year or so its pretty miserable.
there is no way to cheap out on the device. I went with SE3 too with a simple case. Rugged one are heavy
Show HN: The news in the last 30, 14, 7, 3, or 1 days
I made this for when I come back from vacation and want to catch up on news. It's a bit of a simplistic LLM transformation on headlines and URLs that I store from RSS feeds. So it bugs out sometimes. But I think it might be useful to me. You can check out some of the prompts in the "debug" links. What do you think?
Nothing to do with that, they just have a head start in the right direction along with enough money to fund many iterations before it landed on Desktop or become accepted by 95% of people.

Qualcomm's current Snapdragon Elite Oryon 2 on Mobile, and ARM Cortex X925 or previously known as X5 are already close to Apple A17 level performance. So this is no longer something unique to Apple.

I just wish both design are more widely available. And for x86, Intel and AMD still haven't quite caught up. At least not in the next 2 years.
You can monitor it remotely. Like your kid may be outside with friends or at school or anywhere else.
But only if you're adult. Hopefully there's a treatment :)
If you ever wonder what you could actually do with a nice arm… well, I had one for a while, and the following is the best I could come up with at the time. A fun little video:

https://youtu.be/-UzOfwHeV5k?si=0eK8H3_3aO3yzs44
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