skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find most interesting is that the standard is defined in nutritional value, not in terms of ingredients (x percent flour, up to y percent egg, something like that).

> Probably though, the solution is to not _completely_ demolish any standard of pasta and let the market solely decide, because we've seen what happens in a variety of other unregulated industries.

A few relevant anecdotes on this topic:

About a decade ago, a Dutch TV-show about food standards discovered that store-bought "guacamole" contains just 1% avocado powder. Presumably the legal standard for guacamole is that it contains avocado, without further specification. So obviously supermarkets, knowing that most Dutch people there haven't a clue what guacamole is, created the cheapest sauce imaginable.

Another story: the process of standardizing chocolate at the EU level was a long one because each country had different national standards. The biggest talking point, IIRC, was whether or not it was acceptable to use non-cocoa fat (keep in mind that adding fat from other sources would often be cheaper). Note that whichever option would be picked, the chocolate industries of the nations with the "opposing" regulation felt like they would lose:

- if added fat was allowed, the chocolate from countries where this wasn't allowed nationally would be more expensive and have trouble competing

- if added fat wasn't allowed, the chocolate from countries where this was the norm could not be exported
That's a bird of another feather...
You don't think things like access to education, medical care, clean water, nutritious food, vaccinations, quality public schools, subsidized colleges, rule of law, minimal corruption, limited impact of religious identify, avaiable reliable housing might have an impact on the outcomes?
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Practically the only reason I accumulate any resources or am productive at all is for the benefit of my child. I wouldn't think twice about committing violence against anyone who tried to stop me.
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It’s becoming nearly impossible to fix map problems with google. I have a bunch of weird one way and foot only pathways near me in London and the routing is always awful for delivery drivers. Telling them to come the wrong way down a street etc. despite having a very good history of submissions nothing is ever fixed in the routing despite opening dozens of reports.
I found this paper from 1987 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1987....

You will also find lots of experience reports and discussions of appropriate light sources on numerous grower sites.
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I'm sure it's the usual ignoring of Eastern Europe.

Google publish data for everywhere. (At least, I see Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia... )

https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
I have suggested the trans Canada trail. 24000 km.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Canada_Trail
This is cool. There’s a few National Scenic Trails missing from the US. You may also consider the Great Western Loop as a thru-hike although it’s technically a loop. There are some popular trails not included in the national scenic trail list such as Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail and Pinhoti Trail to name a few.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Loop

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationaltrailssystem/national-s...
> Or if you need to check if the array has exactly 3 items. How would you do that in TS?

Like that:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/C4TwDgpgBAKgFgJwhA...
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I'm sorry, I did not mean "ban". What I meant was "block". On one occasion I'm pretty sure he responsed to somebody with "virtue signalling" followed by a block, which seemed ridiculous on a platform for exchanging views.
Fair enough, I guess I'm sort of primed to criticize these projects as wasteful and expensive, but you're right that they needed to do something.
Think it’s a re-entry issue

From first paragraph

"We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth's atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere for many years," Takao Doi, a professor at Kyoto University and Japanese astronaut, told the BBC.
Name one way that does not involve theft of property.
> Unequal distribution of rewards (i.e. according to merit) is fine and desirable (as a motivating force).

This assumption sounds nice but isn't backed by psychology research. Extrinsic rewards can motivate and demotivate - and in general contribute to anxiety.
I was once a shell newbie too, I can understand that. But, reinstalling a package every time? For the reason of robustness??
Google Maps is not that great in places they don’t prioritize. They have no ability to handle tolls and direction of roads that are based on day of the week and hour. Local examples from the DC Area: I-66 is marked as a toll road 100% of the time despite only being tolled at rush hour in one direction; Clara Barton parkway is always marked as two way, but it becomes one way during rush hour, I regularly am routed down it by Google maps when it is one way the opposite direction.

I frequently am sent down nonexistent roads in rural Massachusetts, meanwhile there is a paved road in Bristol, NH that Google refuses to route people on; it is used by Apple Maps.
To be fair the crowded functionality in a map is something only Google could pull of since they are tracking all phones and locations. And it still has a bunch of restaurants listed in my neighbourhood that is clearly only containing rental houses and very outdated roads compared to Openstreetmaps.
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That's... absolutely not what I said, or implied. Access to all of that is the boundary between the layers. People in layer n will make sure people in layer n-1 are missing at least one thing so they can't compete on equal footing. People in layer n+1 will do the same to people in layer n.

If you don't have access to schooling and someone else does then that's something that will make you always start with a handicap when competing with them. The boundary, whether education or medical services, is there so one layer feels safe from the inferior one. People want it there even if this means they start off with a handicap compared to the superior layer. Most people are more afraid of losing what they have than they are keen on winning something they don't already have.
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Something like fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering?
> We find that in the absence of credit constraints only 2% of households would be best off doing wage labor, while 97% of households are exclusively reliant such work at baseline. Conversely, only 1% work in livestock when 90% would do so if they had access to the same asset wealth as the middle and upper classes. Overall, this implies that 96% of households are forced to misallocate their labor.

So the authors suggest that currently 1% of the labor pool is working in livestock, but an optimal allocation would be 90% of the labor pool? Ridiculous.
Yes, hence it's a matter of personal preference.
It's actually much harder to prove that your conventional collection is worth what you think. Sure it might be a pretty collection but maybe only for the collector himself. With bitcoin it might be easier to lie but it is also easier to verify the lie.
Then, can I suggest to put the email question at the beginning and make it optional?

That would give the privacy conscious people the right vibe about your site without need of you explaining anything.

Great site, by the way!
> My recent favorite feature is the live estimation of how crowded a store is, very useful during the pandemic.

Unfortunately it's been completely useless in my area. I wish stores just allowed access to the cctv cameras on their parking lots so I could estimate for myself.
Are you sure? I believe that rather than notions of status the main factor that determines salaries is supply and demand of workers.
So you are emailing and then deleting the email address from your system?
Heard about Bucatini for the first time, went right away to the big Italian supermarket and bought some. Thanks!
My wife did her bachelor thesis on Grameen bank, Muhammad Yunus and microfinancing. That was like 2009.

Is microfinancing still a thing in Bangladesh? What are the effects since then?
The latest MBPs have the same, and outperform it. This isn't really debatable at the moment.
> The solution may ultimately be a one-child policy, as demonstrated successfully by China.

It turns out that most Chinese couples were allowed 2 children:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

But there's wide reporting of females being scarce, so some families were involved in female infanticide, which will cause long-term demographic issues.

China is currently facing famine, so we'll see how that affects the population. (It turns out that although China is a communist country, they didn't/don't provide welfare for the flood victims, tens of millions of whom are farmers.)

A more regional problem is that China is damming the Himalayan head waters, so the downstream countries (India, Pakistan, etc.) will face drought on a large scale. Usually that leads to war.
I agree that there were great policies established under the new deal. I would caution advocating for blanket rescuing of the economy from market failures, though. The recent stimulus provided by the US congress to the airline industry is a perfect example of executives taking advantage of taxpayers. I would also push back against the idea that the last 50 years have been destructive economically.
the key to growing a green thumb is finding a plant that actually interests you. For me that plant was Cannabis. Doing my own micro grow in a 22x38x64 [cm] box forced me to learn about all sorts of things of relevance to a plant:

- light intensitiy, spectrum, sources

- fertilizers

- soil types

- watering patterns and methods

- vermins and how to deal with them

- plant physiology and developmental phases

- water quality, pH levels

also I think that it's worth starting from seed. this makes it more personal.

another interesting plant is cactus (in my case San Pedros to be specific). though, they are much less of a hassle compared to Cannabis. but that led me to asking about how cactusses anatomically relate to regular plants, needed to learn yet another watering pattern, looking forward to grafting.

vegetables are also cool. I personally don't find much interest in plants which are just standing around, serving no purpose - pretty much exactly what I'd get from those suggested in the article.
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An example of a market failure is climate change, or at least many market failures are contained within this problem. Are you suggesting the government take a hands off approach to that? At the end of the day the government is necessary to the functioning of capitalism, we need to help people out of poverty so that among other things the economy can actually improve. That's all I'm arguing for, and I think there is undeniable proof of it at this point.
Not sure why but the first thing that came to my mind was making HamsterTV set for your hamster.

I don't even own a hamster currently and haven't owned one in few decades.

I think I'm watching way too much random youtube makers.
"It's always puzzled me that this idea of meritocracy,"

Nothing puzzling about it. It's a "just so" story designed to make successful people feel good and justified about their success.
What I miss the most is System 7-9. The architecture was of course outdated and needed to be scrapped (no protected memory, cooperative concurrency, etc). But what I miss is that the OS directory was meant to be accessible and modified by end users. To install a driver, all you had to do was to drag and drop the driver extension onto the extension folder and reboot, and the opposite to uninstall it. No complex command lines, things left behind that still affect the OS. You could do the same with application settings, fonts, etc.

This simplicity and accessibility of the internals of the OS is what I miss (and I moved to Windows when OSX scrapped that).
I usually hear metric for nutritional measurements and imperial for bulk food measurements so I am assuming that’s what’s going on
An simple outlandish claim doesn't make constitute a joke unless it's referencing something. I think that reference is what GP is asking about.
How is "being smart" a genetic lottery? Are you serious? That brings up all sorts of implications with race and whatnot. "Being smart" is often a proxy for the things the GP mentions: strong stable family, access to good schooling, and a sprinkle of luck.
> Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch...

The table from IBM[1] in the middle of the page says this number is in gigabits (not gigabytes) per square inch. This is obviously impressive nonetheless, but I wonder what else this article got wrong.

[1] https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2020/12/ibmtale.jpg
The JIT efforts for Elixir/Erlang apparently offer 30% speed up, worst case, and while I'm way out of my depth here, apparently it's a relatively 'naive' implementation. I'm very curious why there isn't as much of an improvement for Ruby. Is it something to do with the extreme dynamic nature of the language?
It works out because there are always going to be new dollars entering the system but very little bitcoin. In that regard it is like digital gold. It's about network effects and convenience. You can use any element as a store of value but storing say oxygen will require huge tanks to store very little money. Gold is small and easy to handle.
It is natural to pass resources onto your children. You can’t expect people to just see their children as individuals who must go fend for themselves. A stranger might just regard your children as mere “people”, but a parent see’s their children as extensions of themselves, and have a vested interest in ensuring their happiness and well-being.
I was shocked when I found out that the current most effective therapy modality, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is only successful in 50% of patients.

I'm very hopeful for the future of psychedelic therapy, as it seems to be very effective after just a single dose and non-toxic.
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Then add in a tax system which aggressively taxes labor while leaving capital and inheritance untaxed, if we stopped taxing labor that might be enough to pull a whole chunk of labor out of poverty, just having work is no escape from poverty in a world of high rent and high income tax.
Good news for Bristol. It’s always been a tech hub for hardware and that continues to this day.
Google map is amazing in India (a poor country albeit with higher usage).

It is not uncommon to see cab or auto (tuk-tuk) drivers use smartphones to navigate the city roads.

Map technology in general has become a great leveller, where it enables outsider to start driving cabs in complex cities roads (which otherwise would be almost impossible without direction from passenger).
The paper identifies one threshold at ~500 USD. That is, in Bangladesh, those with more than 500 USD assets tend to accumulate more assets, while those with less than 500 USD assets don't.

As people in Silicon Valley have more than 500 USD assets (citation needed), I don't see how this paper applies to Silicon Valley at all. There can be another such threshold, but the paper doesn't provide any experimental support for one.
I've met him in person a few years back in a Linux event, he is a genuinely very nice person, very generous with his time!
Isn’t that similar to what dandelion is doing? https://dandelionenergy.com/
Looks nice, but why the separate database? This seems like the sort of thing that should be using OpenStreetMap's database as a backend. Most long distance walks will be in there already, so the site could just pipe that data and add some more photos.

This could be another "special interest" map backed by OSM, like OpenInfraMap [1], OpenRailwayMap [2], OpenTopoMap [3], etc.

(Edit to add, because otherwise this comment might come across as unintentionally negative: this is still cool and could become really useful with some more categories and sorting tools. Good work!)

[1] https://openinframap.org/

[2] https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

[3] https://opentopomap.org/
Plenty of people are isolated here in Tokyo, where the city is easily walkable, and you naturally bump into countless numbers of people everyday.

I agree though that it's annoying that going out = spending a lot of money.
> i.e. it produces something

Bitcoin does produce something.

It produces "facts" that everyone agrees on (entries on the blockchain). Facts that everyone agrees on are somewhat rare, and this provides value as these facts can be used to prove things.

Whether the value this provides justifies the current price of bitcoin is an open question (I doubt it) but anyone relying on the blockchain for keeping a record has an interest in ensuring the value of bitcoin is not zero
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Ahh yes the iMuffin. That design still holds up. It could be rebooted.

I find the old iMac still attractive too but the form factor makes no sense without the CRT.
“enables the worst of the worst people in the world.”

Exactly.

“A financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.” —I wish I never bought bitcoin; https://www.quitfacebook.org/file/greed.html.
computer being tuned for nice paved roads is not really the problem. If the army needed they have the money to put into developing a car computer specialized in whatever terrain they needed to.

Their problem is being easy to repair.

Most of the regular people can take their cars to a shop that will have the really basic in stock (ie. oils and filters) and can order most of the rest from a distributor to have delivered same or next day for most cars. You will only take longer to get specialized parts or parts for unusual cars. Also most people can work around not having a car for a few days even if it is a hassle.

While army base does have specialized mechanics to properly fix the trucks, if one break in the middle of a mission after engagement the team in that truck need to be able to patch it up and get it going on the field.

So the army need trucks that people that are primarily soldiers and not mechanics can patch up "easily" in the field without tons of specialized training, without access to special or weird tools and minimal to no access to parts.
It's not money because the few people who bought things with it always regretted it. People prefer to hoard it which is generally something that is not done with money.
There might be a benefit to it. If 1 disc corrupts you only loose 50GB. If your hard drive fails, you loose all 5TB at once.
In countries such as Spain, it is very easy to understand why the country took the lockdown so seriously. For most people, it was easy to choose to stay home when the alternative was to get fined by police, who thoughtfully were patrolling the streets looking for dodgers.

More than a million people were fined by police during the spring [1]. So many fines, that we are still seeing news about judges taking decissions on these fines, so it clearly overloaded our justice system. Surprisingly, many of them are being rejected by judges because of not being fair.

Police officers can fine you if they believe you are infringing the law, and civils have to take their word as granted until a judge makes the final decission. People were fined in the spring for things such as driving to pick up groceries in a store different than the one closest to their homes [2], or because of walking the dog (one of the very few exceptions to leave the house) "too far from home", despite the law having never settled an official maximum distance [3].

[1]: https://en.as.com/en/2020/05/20/other_sports/1590007192_2854...
[2]: https://www.niusdiario.es/nacional/tribunales/justicia-claro...
[3]: https://diariolaley.laleynext.es/dll/2020/10/29/se-anula-la-...
Heritability of IQ is >50%, and IQ is a good measure of smartness.
> Some jobs are assigned greater monetary rewards than others even if they are essential to the functioning of society. Much of that comes from our notions of status.

It does not. It comes from supply and demand, and how important that job is to the cash flow that will end up paying for it.
I am afraid the real world journalists don't care too much about Wikileak. I am afraid that's how I feel this way. To me, Wikileak is the real meat journalists, no speculation, no opinion, just information, data for people to process. But we don't want it, we want to read tldr;, one sentence is something I am interested to read about a topic. Journalists know that, they rather publish unchecked facts, as long as it grabs eyeballs. They want to force opinion, ideology to people. Can news be news, not opinions? I don't know. I am not going to anything related to this on mainstream news media I am sure.
> OS X generation is completely unaware of how Apple used to be like

I think they would be more accurate being referred to as iPod and iPhone Generation. The vast majority of people today only came to know Apple ( and Mac ) only after using those products.
"we have enough resources for the population, we just don't know how to distribute them using free market models. "

That strikes me as improbable. Globally, you might be right - there is, for example, enough fresh water on the planet for many more people than are alie today.

But moving a lake from thinly populated Canadian wilderness to Niger or Burkina Faso, where the needy populations are, is not technically possible.

And vice versa, Sahara would be a perfect place to generate solar electricity, but the North European populations that would gladly consume it in the winter are too far away.
That’s valuable data for sale by other vendors.
That kind of lookup seems like a great use case for a graph database. These kinds of queries are trivial and reasonably fast there.

I think where such a system would shine is in background banter. The player has to observe the NPCs telling each other these facts so he can appreciate it. That also opens the door for the player stepping in to prevent the spread of information. With the right setting that could be a major game mechanic
Which is culturally solvable, but would require require people to give up their children to be raised by the state and never be allowed to know who they are. That sounds horrible, but I submit that said horror is largely driven largely by a culture of possession and selfishness, i.e. people want to raise their own children because they want to shape who they are and ensure their genes have good survival odds. Assuredly there is a biological component that drives us to take an interest in our lineage, but we know that this can be directed towards similar goals via adoption and pets, so it is conceivable that a society could direct it not towards one's individual children but children in general. Of course, the whole 'raised by the state' thing is also a pretty uncomfortable thought to any society that has enshrined "freedom" and most people who lived through the soviet union, however I think it is possible that without the concept of genetically-bound inheritance of property and status that the corruption of such structures might be less likely.

Not that I suggest any of this in serious mind you, it's just the kind of thought experiment day-dream that gets me through my workday. What this one has taught me is this: nobody actually wants a meritocracy.