skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York restaurant's $200 fries certified as the most expensive
Less work than finishing the project!
good point! :D
Hey, I've done this several times. In the 90's I spent over 10,000 hours on a 2d real time board game similar to Starcraft for the Amiga. In 96 I gave up on the possibility of an Amiga comeback and spent a couple of thousand to build a windows development system to post the game to. Well it turned out to be impossible as the M$ system is so defective.
Once used to perfection it is difficult to program a turd.
Linux was so young that I did not go there and built an ISP instead.
In 2000 I spent a year producing a website in Rebol to analyze the nutritional qualities of foods, did not go anywhere.
In 2014 I started the development of an events website so that anyone can post their events for free, got it working just in time for covid, 7 years, which oddly enough destroyed events. Have a look at GIDOUT.COM if you like it drop me a line.
This is the question inmy mind: an unborn/un conceived child has not experienced any suffering. Is it morally just to expose someone to suffering, even if the alternative is non-existence (or whatever state they are in prior to life)? I did not consent to exist, to think/feel/hurt, but two idiots made that choice for me 37 years ago and now I have to deal with it.
Gratitude for removing him/herself from your life and saving you all the drama that would inevitably end up happening.

I'm saying this as a child of single parent.
Damn that's scary. What PSU + model was it? I might have to cross that off my mental safe list :D
Ercot Report on Generator Outages During the February 2021 Weather Event [pdf]
The “optimal” network was mix-and-matching different apps and services as you saw fit. Fool around on IRC/web forums → Invite people to MSN Messenger as you grow closer, trade email etc., increasing and cutting back on the access of information shared with each person as you saw fit.

Herding as many people as possible into one service and corralling them in there seems to benefit the megacorps more than the users.
I'm a firm believer that everyone should have a skill they can use to support themselves. It doesn't really matter what that is as long as you can't be replaced easily by unskilled labour.

So take the author. She wants to be a ski bum while she's young. I respect that, actually. So the question such people should be asking is: what skill could I gain that is compatible with that?

Example: being a qualified paramedic/EMT. Why? Ski patrols need them. People get hurt skiing. They always will.

I respect the ability to live frugally (as the author did), especially in order to gain experiences. After all, you won't be young forever. You won't be here forever. How much happier will it make you to live in a small house in a sea of suburbia as a billing code administrator for a health insurance company? But hey, at least you have a 401k and dental.

The author has several false dichotomies in here (IMHO). For example, comparing the "dirtbag" lifestyle to the "rich". There's a whole lot in between there.

Also, living paycheck to paycheck is stressful. So is not having options (eg decision fatigue [1]).

Being a journalist is perhaps not the best choice.

The people people live one paycheck away from being destitute varies but usually it's not because they want to be a ski bum. It's generally because they've taken on long term expenses they can barely afford. It's because they've convinced themselves they need to provide certain things for their children and families, often because they didn't have it themselves growing up. Things like paying for their college, living in a massive house and so on.

In providing these material things I so often see people who don't see their children and bring negativity home because they hate their lives. What good does that do anyone?

So many of the decisions people make I find is to have what other people think they should have. Family, neighbours, friends.

I can't help but feel that the author still misses the point.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fr...
Hey, in case you aren't aware, it sounds like you might be depressed. I highly recommend finding a therapist, or if you can't, consider what would need to change in your life for you to feel more active and engaged. Are you eating/sleeping/exercising too little or too much? Is your job/commute/locale draining you? Do you feel like you just need to find a direction/purpose? There's no other soul out there that would take your spot, and even if one could they'd face the same challenges as you.
I don't think it's quite that black and white. In my experience, most people want there to be some divide between things you can say in public and things you can't say in public. As an example, I think most people agree that shouting racist slurs in the street is unacceptable.

There has to be some enforcement mechanism for "you can't say that in public". The government is a poor way to enforce that for a variety of reasons, but there has to be something.

In ye olden days, it was the threat of getting smacked. Banning that left a void that we've filled with canceling people. I don't think it's really an improvement. Getting hit let's you know that you've been an ass, but in a way where you have an opportunity to change your beliefs, or at the very least keep them to yourself.

Getting cancelled is permanent. You will always be "that person" and it's enshrined in public memory. Why bother changing your views if you're damned anyways? And it has a severe chilling effect, because the fear is "what if I ruin the rest of my life?" rather than "what if I wake up with a black eye?".

If I was given the choice, I'd far rather get hit. I'd rather lose some teeth than be digitally lynched.

I honestly think being cancelled is a far worse punishment than getting the crap beat out of me. In our quest to remove violence, we've managed to invent something worse, and I'm really not sure it's a good thing.
Also torrents of activity might be better or at least as valid as drops of water.
At this point, I just assume any commercially successful software game is optimized to extract every last cent out of the target audience through subtle psychological brutalization.

Surely there are exceptions, but it's like buying from Amazon: it takes too much work to sort through the ripoffs. The fun is spoiled because it requires constant vigilance and active resistance to avoid spending too much money.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." — War Games (1983)
I think people is the wrong metric for this statistic. A large number of just-barely-affluent nouveau riche could drown out a handful of old money robber barons that own the world.

The much more interesting statistic would slice it by dollar: What percentage of dollars are owned by first-generation wealthy versus old money?
I think the relevant skill would be the ability to pitch this cash shortfall of yours as an investment opportunity for some other unfortunate fool
It suddenly costs a lot more than the garage.
Also, outdoorsy stuff is where many rich kids spend their money. So there are poor models to follow wrt money.
>> Current VR headsets focus at a fixed distance of about 2 meters, which...

Is no different than the vision problems most people over 50 have. In fact, I dont need my progressive lenses to read up close in VR.

Are variable focal length eyeballs part of experiencing the 3d world? Yes. Can we live without it? Yes, and you will too some day.
Ranked-Choice Is Bad for Everyone
Powell Admits RRP and Collateral Scarcity, Still Unaware of What It Means
Mandatory Vaccination is in violation of the Nuremburg Code.
I am not sure what you are driving at. Of course we all can do with a detailed interview with all nuances explained but obviously given the sensitive subject matter, it would be almost impossible to do/get right. Given that the interviewer is not a professional journalist/investigator (i.e. any editorial limitations, legal or otherwise, he might have been forced to work with), he has done a commendable job of highlighting a very important problem in Japan and that too from a authentic Japanese source who speaks good English. I did not find any problems in comprehending the main points.

Every tourist to Japan who might have a tendency to "let down their hair" needs to watch this video.
It’s true that a lot of things take an investment but I don’t think you should be so prescriptive about some things like when you say:

“Cycling shouldn't be about the gear itself. It should be about, well, getting out there and cycling.”

People can of course enjoy a hobby or activity and get something out of it that’s not the thing you think they should be getting out of it and that’s awesome. It’s okay if the fun is in spending the money, and it’s okay if you have a $1200 bike and don’t care about that stuff. They’re both equal ways of approaching any given hobby.
> This approach creates a fully new personal computing category, specifically for the hybrid world: the Cloud PC.

Cloud computing is the antithesis of "personal computing", you lying asshole.
> In switzerland they are without fridge in the store and then go straight into it at home. No idea if and how this makes sense.

Same here (Italy). It might be due to them having a relatively long conservation life compared to other food. They stay no more than 4-5 days at ambient (albeit cooled) temperature at the store, but their marked life is usually about 2 weeks. Fresh natural eggs, those we sometimes get from relatives who have a farm in the south, last a lot more, often well exceeding 3 weeks after travelling over 500 km by car.
I don't think I would say "everything happens for a reason" to someone who is suffering, but all the same for me and other people of faith it's a simple reality. But for people who disagree or struggle with the premise, it will offer no solace. They would probably feel like it dismisses and trivializes their suffering, and worse, they might attach other, unintended meanings.

History attests to the terrible condition of the world, and the Bible is very clear about that from the earliest parts of Genesis. There is so much pain, as a constant through the vastness of history and before. Saying everything happens for a reason doesn't necessarily deny that. When applied properly, it acknowledges the cruelty and struggle to find meaning, but that the reality is as it stands. Someone who does not believe may very well reject the notion of meaning, and see only the path of improving the situation as the answer. In the end, both types have among them people of goodwill, and we must be charitable to each other.

A sibling comment to yours mentions Candide, which takes "we live in the best of all possible worlds" very cynically. Voltaire disagreed with Leibniz's premises. But of course "best of all possible worlds" has lots of room for argument as to "best" means, and it certainly does not mean the best of all of _your_ possible worlds. As the joke goes, both the optimist and pessimist believe ours is the best possible.
Which ones other than firefox don't? (And firefox has a config option)
It really depends on where you’re drawing the line for wealth. The Millionaire next door set it at what most would consider a healthy retirement. Looking at the 100M level and things are different because unlike say 3M people can’t really just save up that kind of money, it takes leverage not just time and budgeting.

Further, it’s questionable what counts as inheritance vs hard work. If you turned the family business from a 5M dollar company to a 500M dollar company that’s difficult, but easier than starting from scratch.
^^^ This.

My dad regularly shit-posts disproven right wing conspiracy theories on FB.

Whenever I call him I get the latest cliffnotes version of whatever Hannity or Tucker are lying about.

Last time he had to let me go because The Five on Fox was starting.

It's like losing him to a cult.
WarOnPrivacy wasn't saying that this person was someone who wasn't making much money; they were replying to the rational for this not being "abnormal": most people who live paycheck-to-paycheck--not this person, but most people--simply don't make much money... they aren't "bad with it".
This is pretty well documented. The main point is that older generations had access to much cheaper housing, they bought it instead of rented it, and it went up in value. Millenials by and large rent instead of own, and the rent increases have been outpacing wage gains for a while. Along with housing, education has vastly increased in price increasing student debt a lot, which was basically non existent in my parents generation. Medical expenses have grown an extreme amount relative to inflation as well as childcare. The net of it is that your boomer uncle can buy a new boat for the lakehouse he bought 30 years ago, but you're spending all of your money on daycare.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-century-pric...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-than-5p...
> How was I ever going to afford a kid’s college fund? How was I ever going to afford a kid’s college fund?

Uh, lady, you’re 37 years old. If you seriously want a kid, you need to approach finding a spouse with the same seriousness and intention you (admirably) now approach finances. Otherwise, it ain’t gonna happen.

But I guess that’s another article.
What Is the Point of Profits in a Negative-Real-Junk-Bond Rate World?
Case in point:

> Inspired by a detective novel, Basil Thomson’s The Milliner’s Hat Mystery, Fleming is credited with proposing Operation Mincemeat, in which Naval Intelligence attached an identikit of fake documents to a dead body and released it from a submarine into Spanish waters; the Spanish, as expected, passed on the false information to the Germans, causing them to leave Sicily unprotected against Allied invasion.

I did not know this really important operation[1] was Ian Fleming's brainchild. Just this one is enough success.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
US per capita energy use and total water use peaked around 1980: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1407626765799878660

Total non-renewable energy use seems set to peak soon. Even ignoring tech improvements, economic growth comes from services, which means trading imaginary things between each other.
It can hardly be true that 78% of Americans can only afford food, shelter, usually a car (any car!) and perhaps health insurance. A hint is that they live paycheck to paycheck, i.e. the spending just "happens" to match the earning.

Don't get me wrong, of course there are genuinely poor people. But not far over half of the population.
We should have a Bay where we can store all these torrents! We should call all those who create these torrents Pirates! because pirates are cool.
Kafka's key based log compaction can be applied to this.
I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it.

You usually aren’t born needing to pay $100, and having $80, there are probably decisions you make that put you more or less likely to be in that situation, some obvious, some not.

Sometimes you do get shit luck, but I think there are always ways to mitigate the negative consequences of bad luck, and maximize the consequences of good luck.

We have a lot of control over how our lives turn out here in the US, though not complete control, and it’s worth remembering that.
Everything changed for me when I moved money to savings automatically on every paycheck. You kinda just figure out how to fit your life into what’s left.
I agree that that's a major point. Still, I'm consistently utterly surprised by friends/family/colleagues with similar income but a very different predicament.

I was raised on welfare myself and started out my early twenties with minimum wage jobs including factory work. Yet I always had savings, the idea that I couldn't cover a $1000 emergency would be insane to me, especially structurally.

Did that mean I had to live with my parents longer than I'd have liked to? Yes. I also didn't have a car and took the bus. I had a cheap Android phone. Wore secondhand clothes. I rarely ate out, and in my first 25 years of my life I never, ever, just went somewhere to get a coffee.

But I did have a home, transport, clothes, a smartphone, food and coffee, and also savings.

I don't want to victim-blame, there's certainly many who're trapped in a predicament. And it certainly helped being young, healthy, flexible, without kids, there's an immeasurable privilege to that situation versus the contrary (old, sick, with dependents). But I also saw plenty who weren't trapped and spent a ton on a way too expensive lease car they didn't need. Or who always had the latest iphone, and also had a minimum wage job. Or who rented a place downtown, instead of 20 minutes commute for a 30% discount. Those are lifestyle choices, which is completely fine to make, but not unconditionally. Once you have an emergency fund and you prioritize the short term over the long-term, it's simple a personal preference. But if you have no emergency fund, or if you have long-term goals you want to meet, you need to manage it. I have lots of friends who don't even spend the 1 hour a week to make and monitor a very basic budget for example.

I mean let's be frank, median household income is $64k in the US. It's about the richest in the world, especially if you exclude the tiny rich states that have a few million people like Luxembourg there's nothing to really rival it. The idea that <1 week of median household income is an emergency for 4 out of 5 households is statistically not in line with 'for most it's just their predicament, not related to lifestyle or financial planning or management'.
If you can somehow run it through github actions and output to styled html see: https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html
not sure if it would fit on the screen.

alternatively you could export to gopher put he file/files on a gopher server and read in the gopher client app on ios https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gopher-client/id1235310088
I was surprised to find Twitter doesn't block their crawler.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109101219/http://twitter.co...
For seven thousand dollars you can get a computer that will make a saint weep (you can get something about 99% as good for like two grand if you build it yourself or four if you bought it prebuilt). Computers are insanely cheap joy boxes when compared to nearly every other form of entertainment - for that cost you're getting a piece of hardware that will be nearly top-of-the-line for three years or so now-a-days, and probably passably performant for a decade. So I entirely agree that, working in a field where video games are seen as a reasonable and normal past-time, the cost of renting skies for a weekend can seem outrageous.

Money is freaking weird - food and essentials are also a complicating factor here though. I like to eat well so my food budget is about 150$/week which is about three times as high (for two of us) as my parents paid for three of us.
Cloud storage is doing a LOT more than what you describe: for example, to compare with S3 you'd be budgeting for at least 3 disks in geographically separated locations running a secure always-online service with things like guarantees for immutability and bit-rot detection/prevention. For backups, you probably also want to compare things like the infrequent or cold storage tiers.

You can still beat that, of course, but it's assuming you have time and skills to do so and don't mind spending that time playing sysadmin.
They will charge your account which you pay monthly any refunds will go back to the account.
>>I'm usually all about investigations like this but the repeated claims that obesity is, for sure, not caused by diet is a leap.

I think authors list convincing arguments:

1) the diets on average not working for weight loss

2) experiments with overfeeding causing a little of easily revertible weight gain

3) lipostate theory with understood possible pathways
Really depends on what you’re trying to use the number for. If you’re trying to study wealthy people, it makes sense to use stats that are counting people filtered by wealth. If you are trying to study wealth itself, it makes sense to use stats that are weighted by dollar.
Note that (and I don't have a proper comp for this, but would be interested in one) 58% of wealthy people being first-generation wealth does not mean (or, with the way wealth tends to follow a power-law distribution, even necessarily imply) that 58% of the wealth held by affluent people is held by first-generation wealthy.
Finance policy makers aren't smart enough to navigate finance policy.
At least in Japan for their UFO Catcher and similar games, it's still pretty fun because you tend to be able to get childhood memory goods (pokemon/digimon/etc. stuffed animals).

Plus while there can be a rigged factor to the machines, you can still pick up some mechanics that help you shortcut to getting the item to drop. Of course it costs money and you don't always "win" but if you can pick up the pattern, it does become a bit of a fun challenge.
Yes, I'm a Mountain Biker and have been for quite sometime now. I've had people ask me about getting into Mountain Biking on the cheap, say sub $500. I've told them to try hiking, it's far cheaper.
It was never normal to let say a 3 year old walk unsupervised to a park which may have roads and vehicles on the way. You have simply been misled into the idea of that safety is synonymous with fear.
Do people who consider themselves “outdoorsy” tend to pursue employment opportunities that pay less than their potential earnings, had they pursued employment that maximized the value of their skills?

It’s like a “pursue your passion” dilemma. If your passion is whitewater rafting, employment in that field will pay differently than, say, many kinds of employment facilitated by a computer science degree.

Same dilemma goes for clergy, who often have marketable and lucrative skills they leave behind to pursue their calling.
Plenty of people adopt
Yeah, my career.
My guesstimation is that we're just trading modes of failure and it'll roughly be a wash in the end.

Gas cars have leaky oil and combustion happening (my old high school car caught on fire under the hood). Users are regularly handling gasoline at stations.

Electric cars may be a bigger problem parked or at home. Overall less maintenance that might cause a fire but batteries so far seem more susceptible than gas tanks which are dangerous but don't generally ignite. Users are installing charging stations (although should be covered by electrical codes). Fire suppression in the garage and at charging locations might become popular (encouraged by insurance discounts).

Yeah, batteries are "dangerous". We're all still carrying them around in our pockets and purses.
Star Trek's Warp Drive Leads to New Physics
Do you not think that left wing pundits are trying to stir up rage? Did you not watch as they justified burning cities to the ground this summer? The leftwing echo chamber dominates Twitter, Reddit, HN, etc.

FB and Youtube are kind of the last bastions of the right currently.
Back in my 20s, having spent HS and part of college running track and cross-country, I’d pass guys all the time in their bikes that cost more than my car in my $200 used bike that didn’t even have clipless pedals.

Those days are long gone now, but it was highly satisfying to see the look of panic on athletic, rich banker’s face when some punk kid in a t-shirt, shorts, and cheap bike passed him going up a hill.
Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites