skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Dollar General is the bad guy so much as a symptom of a problem. As it is, they're often in low income areas and have a high markup. Grocery stores have low margins that prevent them from entering these markets (hence food deserts). Dollar General fills that niche - but as a result low income people who already spend a disproportionate amount of their income on groceries have to pay that higher markup as well. Meanwhile I can go to Trader Joe's or something and get much better stuff, cheaper too.

I remember living in a rural area where people couldn't afford a car, but could walk to a gas station and pay 3x the prices on everything compared to if they bought everything at grocery store - it just helps keep them poor. And often, I think people see "dollar" in the name, and think that automatically means cheap, but being poor doesn't mean being financially literate.

If people weren't segregated into rich areas | poor areas, or maybe grocery stores found some other way to be profitable in low income areas, or some other thing, this wouldn't be such a problem. But as it is right now, they are filling a need, granted with negative side effects.

Edit: I realize the article focuses more on Dollar Generals causing food desserts, rather than being a response to them. Guess I'm focusing on more what I've seen.
There's also:
- Tensor = the SoC for the Pixel 6 + P6 Pro
- Tensor Processing Unit = co-processor on the Tensor SoC, and as a dedicated chip on other Google Phones,
- Edge Tensor Processing Unit = a dedicated device (USB/M.2/Chip) for edge compute device (R-Pi Style)

(Disc: Work for Google, not on Pixels)
I would give 50 upvotes if I could for the Pratchett reference.

And a good explanation to boot.
Its a piece of paper that literally says "tag applied for". If you buy a car from an individual/non dealer you get a certain amount of time (couple of weeks to 30 days depending on state) to get a new tag for it. Until that point you can drive it basically unregistered.

All the ambiguity involving that means you can basically just take off your license plate whenever you want and police dont look at as a particularly unusual or noteworthy thing to run across. Even if you dont put "tag applied for" at all most cops just assume thats the situation and wont pull you over for just that unless you are having some other violation going on.

I had a coworker who was robbed earlier this year and the person left in a car with a you guessed it "tag applied for" paper on the license plate section of their car.
> Potentially improved privacy

On a Google device I would say the potential is reduced to zero!
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I built a machine to try desktop Linux last year. I wanted it to double as a gaming machine, so I got an ATI/AMD card that's supposed to be well supported.

1-2 crashes from both Wayland and Xorg on two very different distros, per day. Unusable for any purpose.

Win10 on the same machine is perfectly stable.

So I'm back to Win10 for gaming and macOS for work. I ran Gentoo on a Thinkpad and later an HP laptop for years, but I just don't have time for this shit anymore. I doubt I have a work-losing crash on my Macs more than once a year, if that.

I also had to manually intervene with my old Gentoo skillz to get Debian to install on my boring, old (used) home server. It couldn't install Grub, on repeated attempts. All I did was drop into a shell and do exactly what the installer should have been doing, with no changes to config. Worked first try.

Ubuntu on an early home server managed to render itself unbootable after an update. No idea what happened with that but it solidified my mistrust of LVM (who knows, may not have been its fault, but life's getting too short for me to want to find out)

My experience is that desktop Linux is only tolerable (stable) in a VM or on extremely conservative hardware.
Wanted to categorize and search tweet bookmarks easily, hence I made https://bookmarklite.com , it is a twitter bot, you can DM it the tweet you want to save with the category name, then you can access it from the website.
This reminds me of a scene from "Yes Minister":

> (Sir Humphrey to Bernard)..subsidy..Is for art, for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want. It is for what the people don't want but ought to have! If they want something they'll pay for it themselves! No, we subsidies education, enlightenment, spiritual uplift. Not the vulgar pastimes of ordinary people.
I dunno man, you ever seen the genZs play fornite? Not sure it's a waste of time so much as training for some weird future in the computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKd2KpGkFJ4
Ha, yes I certainly did mean that. Sometimes I type HN comments too quickly.
Languages are Semitic, people are not. These categories are outdated to the extreme.
> "Unit of work" is not really a thing for anything other than repetitive physical labor.

Declining marginal productivity by hours worked per unit time definitely applies to repetitive physical labor past, too.
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Evolution by Baxter
> Switching to manjaro resolved 95% of my issues and steam out of the box ram games much better.

Was that just due to a newer kernel?
Don't you still need collective action for a business? It's even got a name "boycott"
Because we went from living in a world where information about the world around us was hidden, to suddenly having access to all of it. It's surprising, jarring and overwhelming and it's probably going to take multiple generations for people to figure out how to use it effectively, ignore the noise, and deal with the social issues created by it.
I'm curious what the author would think of Pop_OS by System 76. I've been using that as my main distro for a couple years now and love it. When paired with one of their machines (I own a Thelio and a Lemur Pro), things are pretty smooth overall.
I for one will go with them. :-)
Hopefully they'll sell it to Pinboard, lol.

(https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...)
A good point to recall is the author mentioned they stopped using linux around 11 years ago, which is when there were hardware issues. I see the exact same comments that get upvoted here about how they used linux in 2010 and how suspend didn't work/wifi didn't work/xyz didn't work.

Long gone are those days, now the issues are primarily games and...I think that's it? Although games often don't work on macos either.
Blind is good for this. Being anonymous/pseudonymous lets people get real about money a lot easier. And other topics too.
From An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries[0]:

> Among our most interesting findings is that only 27.2% of
> vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are cryptographic
> issues while 37.2% of vulnerabilities are memory safety is-
> sues, indicating that systems-level bugs are a greater secu-
> rity concern than the actual cryptographic procedures.

These libraries were developed by security experts and even they made some serious errors.

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04940
PBS Principal Counsel Michael Beller Incites Political Violence In Radical Left-Wing Agenda saying we need to throw Molotov cocktails if Trump got back in office 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1r2rdmWsPE
Our playground will let you put whatever you’d like..

However we are approving every use case manually to make sure it’s not crazy.
Well the first part of what you said seems just completely untrue. I don’t think if someone was starving and they needed to eat an animal to survive that anyone would say they acted immorally.

As to your second point: no. Those animals lack the moral reasoning ability to make a choice between eating meat and not eating meat. We don’t, though.

If I ever meat a bear who is able to make nuanced moral considerations like the ethics of eating meat, and who has access to a plant based diet on which they can survive, then sure I’ll hold them to the same standard as you and me.

I don’t think Im ever going to meet a bear like that though.
Dollar General specifically also goes to places that have no local community retail. There is one three miles from me that was built a few years ago in this exact situation. Yet we won't see any quotes about that in articles like this that are just focusing on the negative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzxLPvjTgLE

Wall Street Journal has a really good video explaining the strategy and economics of Dollar General.
>Did they commit more crimes?

As I quoted earlier:

>Black children are more than twice as likely as white kids to be arrested, even though they’re not committing more crimes
It sounds like you don’t completely support freedom on speech.
Even in the 90s you'd be glued to the local weather report on TV and get maybe 30 minutes notice before the bell whether school was off or not. I remember them not even calling sometimes and having to see the anchor announce the closure.
We've banned this account. It's a pity, because you've posted good HN comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978491 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27176286, but vandalizing the site like this after we specifically asked you not to is seriously not ok.
Welcome to the developing world
Sort of, it depends on how common various forms of proto life are. If their very rare and the first one to happen wins then you might expect silicon life of some form to be out there.

On the other hand if proto life is extremely common then silicon proto life might always be out competed by more efficient alternatives. For example the fact Silicon dioxide is a solid where carbon dioxide is a gas is a major advantage or using carbon.
A colony is the establishment of a new state on or in territory occupied by someone else. This is as textbook a case of colonialism as there is.

> And even if it is "the definition of colonialism", what does it have to do with anything now?

It’s literally the basis for every problem we’re discussing. Israel didn’t magically become not a colony, it’s enforced its apartheid state since it was created by western superpowers.
Please refrain from an aggressive style of argumentation.

Climate is not weather, and weather is not climate.

I never said there was a sneaky conspiracy. There was definitely a name change, and my organization at the time (one of the leading data producers for what is happening) changed all of our naming at the same time this occured, in both the media, and other places.

Our models are wrong. Deeply flawed. We know this. Just like our HCN siting has been deeply wrong too (the data that is the premise for it occuring). We know that in certain cases ASOS data was incorrectly used in the climate record, and also, in the weather record. That is completely inappropriate use of a data set that was never intended for generalized observations.

The process of fixing these things, and making changes to improve them, and iterate upon them - we call that science.

This is why the legacy HCN now has been updated by the release of the reference network.
I don't think I've ever seen that.
c.f. "Second System Effect". How many examples of successful rewrites of large systems can you come up with?

The new design will only be better if there were actual lessons learned, which probably at least requires that it be done by the same people.

Also, compared to incremental development I can attest that a big-bang rewrite takes a lot of grit to do all the grunt work again, replacing perfectly working and now rather boring infrastructure. It's very hard to suffer through it, even if some other parts could be substantially better.
I like the idea. Re: API, you could just add/remove entries to/from /etc/hosts or swap between two versions of the file
The Rust compiler essentially automates all this. Nobody is saying you can't write good C. The argument is that the data suggests a memory-safe language eliminates an entire realm of possibilities available in C. This is an attempt to push the general impression out of "hypothetically safe languages are safer" (which tends to be the talking point ad nauseam in language flame wars) to "we've established theory that safe languages empirically result in fewer CVEs by at least 65%". Safe Rust doesn't really let you introduce concurrency bugs either, which you admit show up even in well abstracted C.
"Bredoux added: “It takes a bit of time to realise it, but it’s extremely unpleasant to think that one is being spied on, that photos of your husband and children, your friends – who are all collateral victims – are being looked at; that there is no space in which you can escape. It’s very disturbing.”"

Welcome to the future! It's pretty much the same as the past, only more effective.
If you’ve passed by working class communities in a big city, all you would see throughout the pandemic are food lines. Even with the stimulus, the working poor were lining up for food. Not ready to serve meals, but literal eggs, milk, bread.

I am not surprised at all thriftiness is back.
They don't have their full content there... only a few episodes from various shows.
FreeBSD underpins a fair number of commercial producers. Junos from Juniper perhaps being the most famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Fr...
Yeah, I had a fairly large (about a year of solo dev work) app that I maintained both Clojure and F# ports of, doing a compare and contrast of the various language strengths. One day I refactored the F# to be async, a change that affected like half the codebase, but was completed pretty mechanically via changing the core lines, then following the red squigglies until everything compiled again, and it basically worked the first time. I then looked at doing the same to the Clojure code, poked at it a couple times, and that was pretty much the end of the Clojure port.
Installing Xcode with “not enough disk space available”
Not remotely true.
I remember back when I got my first digital camera, people would routinely ask me "ok but how do you look at the pictures? Do you just print them out?". Looking at them on a screen was almost unfathomable.

Nowadays, a physical album seems to have taken the place of your camera in the 90s. Not quite a luxury item, but you'd have to be "into that" to go to the trouble of making a physical album.
Scientists Invented a Simple New Test for Creativity, and You Can Try It Out
The real question is: why did the Chrome developers create their own, totally incompatible bookmark syncing system instead of using the already established Google Bookmarks service?
Kioxia Demos HLC 3D NAND and Talks About OLC NAND
Biggest datacenter in Chicago has more than 3 hour network outage and counting
Seems like that they have stopped replying to all clients and those with on-prem backups might have lost the ability to recover to another location.
I think that Walter was trying to say that D gets by doing the same things that people use macros for, but without macros. I interpreted this as meaning that D uses CTFE in those same situations. Am I wrong?

What does D do, then?
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Do you feel rhetorical questions that ignore everything previously said while speaking to a straw argument contribute to discussions?
Regarding photos:

People our age only have a few childhood pictures, and they are warped by time on analog media. Those pictures of us as a kid look really old because they are naturally filtered. Soon people will wonder WTF old-pic filters are for, and some historian will have to explain why it's blurred and the colors are faded. Also why did people have clothes for each decade?

Our kids, by contrast, have had pictures taken of them every week at least. With metadata so you know where you were. And they're digital images that won't fade. When our kids are 40, they can look at an archive of how they looked pretty much every week of their lives. Not only that, they can already search the archive for particular situations.
Is the price per kg competitive to the conventional cements?
> that's way more work for dubious gain

Oh, have I heard that before. Here's what happens, over the years, to such code:

1. #ifdef's on the wrong feature. For example, #ifdef on operating system for a CPU feature.

2. Overly complex #if expressions, that steadily get worse.

3. Fixing support for X that subtlety breaks F and Q support. It goes unnoticed because your build/test machines are not F and Q.

4. People having no idea what #defines to set on the command line, nor what the ones that are set are doing (if anything).

4. People having no idea how to fold in support for new configurations.

5. Code will #ifdef on predefined macros that have little or no documentation on what they're for or under exactly what circumstances they are set. If the writer even bothered to research that. gcc predefines what, 400 macros?

> Just because conditional compilation CAN lead to a rat nest doesn't mean it MUST.

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Ooh, using the National Guard for SWAT-ish activity is a really interesting idea. It puts military gear and tactics back in the hands of the military. It would give more oversight to the decision to call them in as well.
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Currently it means that we don't have enough information to say one way or another.

Being wrong means being convinced that it happened or not. It is wrong position because we don't have enough information and no reasonable position should jump to either conclusion.
Great article, love Clojure, unfortunately couldn't find any work with it when I tried, I managed to flop in the only interview I got :(
Still, I miss it sometimes when I'm writing C#.
The philosophy of Lisp encourages writing your own libraries because it's so easy to do. You're expected to know how to program if you use Lisp; not to depend on tiny prewritten functions in the npm universe that may or may not solve your problem, that may or may not be written in a secure or efficient fashion, and that possibly pull in a million transitive dependencies you don't need.

That said, Common Lisp itself includes many of the more useful but difficult-to-write features like hash tables, sort/merge, bignums, complex numbers, etc.

The most-used stuff that's not in Common Lisp itself like multithreading and sockets are well-covered by external libraries. The lesser-needed stuff is also quite well covered by the quicklisp library infrastructure [0] as well.

So the statement "libraries...do not exist in the Lisp ecosystem" is plainly false and it marks the speaker as someone not very familiar with Lisp.

[0] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html
The Cold War Fashion Showdown
Pretty sure the person you are responding to was not suggesting continuing to use WhatsApp, Telegram, whatever. Getting off those was kind of the point.
Kind of a strange article. There's Feynman, answering the question. Then there's the author, interjecting commentary as if somehow Feynman's answer isn't clear. Baffling.
Would be very interested to know!
Why would that be a good thing? One is free and the other requires a subscription and is closed source. There are a few different good open source Pinboard alternatives.
PBS Principal Counsel Michael Beller Incites Political Violence In Radical Left-Wing Agenda saying we need to throw Molotov cocktails at government buildings if Trump got back in office 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1r2rdmWsPE
China saw how the tech companies in the USA have too much power to influence conversations. They want no part of that, they want absolute control and if they have to destroy part of their economy to make sure it happens then so be it.
I am launching my platform soon, do I need to incorporate as a business yet?
I am launching a my platform soon. It is a discovery network, that helps you find different workers online (similar to upwork).

It is just a discovery network no transactions at the moment. Users have their individual profiles that describe what they do, thats about it.

I would love to hold off and keep things as "project" for as long as possible while I work through the product more.

Do I need to incorporate as a business at this stage ? Am I at any type of risk if I don't incorporate? Any thoughts?
Please list the specs of this impossibly crashy machine so we can avoid at all costs. You found a unicorn of failure.
Graham Hancock is an utter charlatan who willfully manipulates and mispresents the truth for profit.

There are so many gaping holes in his theories he purposefully ignores because addressing them would require him to completely discard his profitable pseudo-scientific nonsense.

I get it though, I too went down the rabbit hole of the whole "Lost ancient civilizations" thing, but the deeper I got, the more I realized the whole notion is utterly missing any kind of real scientific underpinnings.

YouTuber / archaeologist Stefan Milo made this pretty comprehensively damming rebuttal video to Hancock's so called "Theories" that does a far better job explaining the specifics than I ever could, and I highly recommend watching it.

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