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>>The alternative as they saw it was to upgrade their expensive Manhattan apartment or condo and to enroll their kid in an expensive private school.

Those that might have been thinking of enrolling their children in private schools can do so more affordably outside of NYC. As an example, most top tier private school base tuition in the city is around $55K/year/child (not including "suggested donations") while most great private schools outside of the city are sub-$30K/year/child.

>>I think I know one couple who stayed in the city and they were very well off.

Public school is an option too, as long as one can navigate the byzantine DOE processes. From a housing/apartment perspective, if more people flee the city then there is a delicate balance where prices may come down for families to once again find them more affordable.
Sounds like how MongoDB was born. I believe that has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It will be a moot point soon enough when the ad market crashes.
Big agriculture could learn something from lowly modern homesteads.

I'm constantly surprised at the modern science (and old, forgotten science!) being deployed by regular homesteaders. In particular, employing the beneficial symbiosis of animals and plants. The pigs till and root up the soil and manure the land, the root crops go in next year, then grazing and rest.

Digest plants as animal manure are healthier for the soil than simply composting them, according to many people. Sounds crazy but we have remember that animals and plants evolved together in the same space.

The whole system becomes a closed loop where the inputs and outputs of the farm are closely monitored. Pest and disease are kept at by with careful rotation. Nothing is wasted, and the fertility of the soil and health of the animals (and humans) improve over time from this relationship.

If you're interested in watching this first hand, I recommend "100 days of growing food" playlist by youtube homesteader Justin Rhodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpDm5OA-TZE
I've probably always had too much stuff. It's admittedly easier these days to have more possessions be small and digital. But moving has always been a major operation for me. Certainly not something I was going to undertake casually for a few months.
Make sure you soak beans before you put them in the slow cooker. Or else you're poisoning yourself! Uncooked beans contain bad proteins because they are legumes. You either need high heat or to do soak them and pour off the water.

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This brings me back sweet memories of saving my Pygame minigames state to clunky JSON files when I was basically clueless about databases. It worked surprisingly well until it became a huge spaghetti mess :-)
I am sure that was hyperbole.
You can configure an invalid DNS server or set the DNSConfig in systemd-resolved. The DNS server option being set at all causes the fallback to not be used, regardless if it's empty or not.
Why do you need to live in SF?
Hand-cranker here. What we seek is bliss, nirvana, not trying to shove square pegs into round holes. We like F#, Haskell and Rust more.

On a more serious note, Go pisses me off every other day. Just off the top of my head, it's pedantic where it shouldn't and vice versa. I get that commented out usages of a variable are not OK for production, but why don't you give me an escape hatch, like --dev flag? And it won't complain about dead code at all if you stick an unconditional return in a middle of a function! Ugh.
I don't about the other ones, but giving you extra when you get someone else to join is unethical. MCI started this trend with their "friends and family" promotion, and it really pissed people off. People who don't use the system hate being pestered by friends and family to join something they don't want or need.
Has anyone said we needed unbounded stimulus? I don't think so. However, there are certainly economic theories around those ideas though, such as UBI, so I would not say that it's infeasible for a country to continue to run in such a fashion.

That said, given our current economy, inflation is not a concern. If you are concerned about real resources, such as human lives, then that is basically what we're exchanging right now for hypothetical inflation prevention at some unknown point in the future. We have a very real physical threat now versus a potential economic threat in the future. How many lives are worth preventing a few fractional percentage points of inflation?

Also the economy running without restriction right now greatly inflates medical costs, and overwhelms real medical resources. We're kind of in a catch-22, as the medical system cannot keep up in areas that try to fully open the economy, and that just aggravates losses of "real resources"(human lives). The economy is hitting medical limits before inflation is anywhere near a concern.

Affordability and inflation is murky. Even how we measure inflation is iffy. Cost of living varies greatly by region. There are subsidies obfuscating the real cost of goods. Tons of money has been spent on worse things. It just seems penny pinching always comes out when it comes to social programs that help those with the least to gain, and most to lose from the situation.
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Of course they will. All of the "boycotts" but one I've seen were until of the month, and the way it's worded, they probably won't even stop using it, just putting money into their account.
I think companies with deep pockets need to step up a bit. I mean if anyone at FAANG etc are using packages like lodash, they should ideally team up and create some type of a funded group/co-op that funds these libraries and their maintenance and removes dependency from one person. You cannot just "charity" the way out of these situations.
Come on. Threatening to blow up an airport is not in the same ballpark as hurting someone's feelings.
In some ways they have though, at least in terms of time allocation. When Facebook was in its heyday it was the default social network. They dont seem to be adding as many new users and I suspect they are churning old users. They also have to compete with wechat, twitter, tiktok, reddit, twitch, etc so its not obvious to anyone but facebook how loyal the userbase is.

Facebook is becoming less relevant so yes these companies will most likely be back, but what about 5 years? They might not be willing to pay the same rates. Facebook will kind of be like a personal email client that people check occasionally. Facebook.com specifically, Instagram itself will remain popular for a while I would wager.
I don't follow. It sounds like they know exactly what it is.

In some places, you can be prevented from saying something that others do not want you to say.
Crock pots are $20 in stores targeting poor people.
> that is the free market at work

The economic shock was caused in part by a government-imposed shutdown of economic activity in response to a pandemic.

> There is no promise or guarantee business will keep employees or even remain open beyond that 8 week period.

Which is why another aid package will probably be passed in July. The initial aid package was not intended as a one-time fix. Even as the legislation was being drafted, its key sponsors were stating that a follow-up package would be required in the summer.

> At minimum law makers wouldn't have been allowed to pass the bill, create a brand new business, and obtain PPP loans for these new businesses

Again: businesses had to exist prior to February 15, 2020 and the amount received is computed based upon payrolls from Jan 1 to Feb 15 2020. If people are doing this, they are putting a lot of effort into intentional fraud and are 100% going to end up in jail.
I wasn’t recording anything but TikTok was using the microphone
By Dark Ages, you mean Golden Age, right? (:

Bronze Age might be better, I guess. Nothing wrong with it, just a simpler time.
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let’s start with their names
Web-pack is not an elementary particle. It's a man-made construction. Describing its disk-size as an intrinsic aspect is a categorical mistake.

Webpack is no-doubt a big program with a lot of features. But I have several even-bigger programs on my PC that clock in at just a few mb - so saying it has a lot of features doesn't answer OP's original question, it simply substitutes an easier question and then answers with a "the size is what the size is" tautology.

When a native app links a static library, it performs dead-code elimination. It might have hundreds of megabytes of dependencies, but the overwhelming majority is not copied to the application. When I make a new rails project I don't download the text-source of Firefox or MySQL and all their downstream dependencies into every project root. There's no reason webpack has to do this, except because of arbitrary workflows imposed by NPM.

If no user-complaint about NPM is ever quantified or interrogated, then NPM will fade into irrelevancy.
*can be faster

It can also be slower :)
Well if it fails, and revenue drops, that would be hard to explain to shareholders right? Especially if the test has to extend for months to be realistic. Now they can at least say it's for a social cause.
I wish more HN threads were of this particular flavor!

[insert "can we run DooM on it?" joke]
You're criticizing Bill Gates because he hasn't done enough in your mind?

He certainly did more than you or I, even from a perspective of relative means.

Maybe be a little more generous when you're judging other people, because you have a much lower standard for judging yourself.
> Interesting that the Japanese rising sun flag is mentioned alongside the swastika and the stars and bars;

The stars and bars, while also a Confederate symbol, is not really a notorious hate symbol; the Confederate flags that are notorious hate symbols are the “battle flag” (flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, also used as the union of the second and third national flags; square), and the second Confederate Naval Jack (a similar design, but with a different aspect ratio). The Stars and Bars (the first national flag) never got revived by Jim Crow era racists the way the other two flags did.

> the rising sun flag remains in contemporary use by the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.

It's a slightly different flag, and while there might be some contexts where banning the present JMSDF naval ensign would be problematic, I don't really see how it is in a racing game.
> Isn't there a famous racing car

It wasn't a racing car, and it was in a television show, and so what if there was? If there were a famous car from 1940s Germany with a nazi flag on it, does that make symbolically broadcasting nazism today fine behavior? The confederacy was a regime constructed explicitly to defend the practice of slavery. (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...)
Benchmarks game doesn't do JIT warmup, which is extremely frustrating. The results are useless for long running server applications. It essentially benchmarks which VM can compile fairly fast code quickly, not which one produces the fastest code.

Long running VM's like Hotspot in "server" mode do a lot of expensive optimizations over time. Benchmarks game makes no attempt to warm up these VM's, so it doesn't actually measure how fast a VM is in practical hosting scenarios.

Anecdotally, I have heard that Java is still faster than C# in most benchmarks when both VM's have had time to do a full JIT. I've also heard that Golang is much slower than C# and Java when their JITs are allowed to fully warm.

I've been meaning to build a "warmed up" version of benchmarks game specifically for testing VM languages but never got around to it. If someone else wants to pick up the torch I would be eternally grateful!
Feudalism only had about a 600 year run.
Depends which users. A lot of teenagers are "mostly on Instagram" or "only use it for Messenger". And teenagers are apparently an important population to marketers.

I know FB owns Instagram but the point is, Facebook as a platform may be past its prime in NA.
Which European nations have rules against mere "hurting someone's feelings"?
"Temp code" is fine. In fact, I'll go a step further: it doesn't matter how shitty a piece of code is if you never have to touch it again.

The way you deal with "temp code" is to slightly improve the aspect you are changing, each time you change it. Maybe you did something weirdly hacky with magic numbers everywhere - when you need to add another magic number you refactor that aspect to no longer use them. Or maybe if they're starting to look more like types you do a refactor to enums or classes.

Then the places that can be shitty remain shitty. The places that can't are fixed up over time.
AT&T monopoly, thus Unix and C.
SML, D, etc., are compiled GC languages but not in wide use. These days you can make a good argument for .NET/Java, although the traditional implementations are not compiled.

The compiler does “guide you” in memory management in Rust, but its “guidance” consists largely of refusing to compile buggy programs. Getting the program to compile e.g. doing the memory management correctly, is still a difficult matter, although this varies a lot by experience and program requirements.

To put it another way, if you are interested in shortening the time between writing a program and having a crash-free version, Rust will improve your situation. Although it will be a long time either way because bug-free programs are hard to write. If on Theo the hand you wanted to get something running your machine by this evening, Rust will spend a lot of time complaining about issues you are unlikely to immediately encounter.
And compete with the homegrown Ola? Severly doubt it.
My problem is that cooking requires you to wait between 30-70 minutes for the food, disregarding any actual work you have to put in.

I don't even eat oven-cooked premade meals because pre-heating the oven and cooking it takes so long by the time it finishes I could have driven somewhere and bought + ate food already.

This might sound terrible, but since I was 16 and living on my own I've never eaten food that required cooking. Came up with entire mealplans of stuff you can buy that's pretty much ready to eat.

Okay, ready to get grossed out?

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Breakfast (~$3.00, 600kcal, 50g protein)

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- Eggs, cracked on a plate/bowl and put in the microwave to cook over-medium, with salsa and cheese

- Greek yogurt/Cottage cheese

- Oats with milk and some sort of fake sugar and flavor extract (vanilla, almond, pumpkin)/cinnamon, etc, sometimes with whey

- Fresh cucumber with no/lowfat italian vinagrette

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Lunch/Dinner ($4.00, 500-800kcal, 60-80g protein):

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- 12oz Canned chicken breast + turkey chili + cheese + tortilla chips

(OR)

- 12oz Canned chicken breast + canned field peas & snaps + green beans

For years I also only owned a single plate/bowl and spoon and eat every meal with it, then washed it and put it back when I was done to avoid having to do dishes.
Bad take. These companies are using FB as a scapegoat to reduce ad operations during this pandemic/company budget reductions.
Does that make a difference then? Facebook's going to continue tracking the users all the same, their ad formats will just be different
Maybe?

Part of the leverage is going public and saying it's about some principle.

For experimental control, executives tend to think simple is better. The more complex, the more room for fudging.
Spite incubator...a la Larry David

https://youtu.be/P2k0VFX1FUw
I really doubt there's more than a handful of instances in which protesters use violence against the police in a context that's not self-defense.
For performance I think this scheme is fairly common for W^X JITs.
There aren't too many experts in macroeconomics on HN, but lots of people with a story or viewpoint they want to push. I'd take most of what gets posted here with a grain of salt.
Also, it is being done during one of the craziest markets and climate ever to occur so it would be difficult to really get good numbers.
> that kale tastes fine with dressing.

I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you here. I've eaten kale raw, cooked, dressed, spiced, dehydrated, blended, and it still tastes foul. YMMV
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You do realize that regulating Facebook and other social media companies in order to force them to limit speech on their platforms would expressly violate the First Amendment? And, thank God for 1A, given the enormous amount of interest people have in limiting speech.
Last two things I got from FB Ads:

"Smart" Wallet in Nov 2019: Never arrived. Owner now keeps posting dramatic posts without issuing anyone a refund.

Bamboo Socks: Never arrived. No email after the first order confirmation last year. No nothing.
FWIW the founding fathers did not want to be idolized and probably would not like the idea of Rushmore. I'm not sure I see why its outrageous to think that people want to remove statues honoring pieces of history they think ought not be honored. On the face of it, nothing is owed to the past and society does evolve. I don't feel particularly strong on preserving or removing imagery of George Washington from public art. But the gut wrenching feeling of those who feel its spitting on their heritage, well, they're gonna have to learn to cope with the awareness that a country is defined by its people, not its history. For ages 18 and under, whites are no longer the majority in the US (or very very close last time I checked). The aspects of heritage that the country chooses to celebrate are going to change over time.

This is the gist of democracy. You don't get bonus points for historical relevance. You may not agree with the angry mobs of protestors, but the same change is happening in formal government, albeit slower.
I could see some niche uses for this. Anywhere you want a quick and dirty local db for demos and hacking. That said, I think you'll get more mileage out of SQLite. It is generally my go to for these use cases and far richer and more powerful.
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Right, because humans in fear always carefully consider all aspects of a situation under time pressure, with perfect recall of details they read in the news. I'm sure you'll appreciate people splitting hairs to critique your rationality and recall under pressure next time you react to something.
Just blame it on the 'rona or geopolitics.
My own thoughts on this, not really a contradiction of the article: http://blog.barrkel.com/2005/10/how-to-be-happy.html

The point about writing down to help memory is good. Though I wonder if forgetfulness of bad times isn't part of hedonic adaptation.
> At least the new cheap foods of Victorian times – such as fish and chips and imported oranges – added more protein and nourishment to the working-class diet. The cheap foods of today add mostly an excess of refined starches, oils and sugars.

Anyone who visits the grocery store knows that the cheapest item is a can of corn.

I just visited my grocery store yesterday. A 101 Oz. can of corn was on sale for $5. 101 Oz. of peas was $5. Etc. etc. The cheapest foods are canned vegetables, by far. 16 Oz cans are 60 cents (store brand) to $1 (brand-name)

People eat refined starches, oils, and sugars, because its tasty. But if you actually were buying the cheapest thing in the supermarket, you'd be buying corn, peas, potatoes, green beans, kidney beans, tomato paste.

By weight, corn and peas are cheaper than bread ($2 per pound of bread, $1 per pound of corn / peas / carrots). You can create a very sustainable, and healthy, diet off of $2 or cheaper food items.
Why not replace whole bottom part with x230 one?
Seems synergistic with what I said, no? Reduce budget and do some testing at the same time.
I doubt you can make a joke about blowing an airport on any country regardless of your religion and don't expect a visit of the police. It's a very clear exception to freedom of speech.
On a related note I just saw someone on Twitter mentioning this report that was just released that does a real deep dive into how the problems associated with hate speech have played out on the ground in India. [1]

It's grim reading and I think it is a huge slap in the face to that ridiculous corporate propaganda piece they released the other day saying that they don't profit from hate speech.

I'd encourage people to have a read of this, I often see these Facebook threads become extremely abstract and quickly becomes derailed about principles of free speech and the conversation just runs around in circles.

Instead this is a very concrete instance of a problem that is really happening and in concerning numbers around the world (i.e. the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar) that is directly aided by Facebook.

I want to instead have the conversation about what should we do about this particular problem and it's variations? Should brands factor these kinds of problems into their marketing strategies?

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58347d04bebafbb1e66df...
As far as I can tell (haven’t read datacamps legal complaint and it’s not clear anything has been filed), some members of the named groups tweeted and posted blogs with links to the buzzfeed write up.
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Japan has very much not treated homes as an investment vehicle though.

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...

I do have some recollection of commercial real estate being bonkers there for a while, so maybe they've managed to treat one as an investment and the other as something necessary for people to live in.
It's all fun and games until this ends up in somebody's production environment.