skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The average household spends an inordinate amount on takeout and that figure will only grow [1].

Is it really inordinate? From the source you cited:

> According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average U.S. household spent an average of $3,459 on takeout, in-restaurant dining, and fast food meals in 2018

That's $288 a month. The average household is 2.5 people, so that's $115 per person per month or $3.79 per day. Assuming 3 meals a day, that would come to somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20% of their meals.

Personally, I'm at $133.96 for this month, from 15 fast food or take-out purchases (14 meals, one snack from the convenience store at the gas station while getting gas). My typical month is generally one Jimmy John's sub and cookie a week, one McDonalds burger and free fries (every Friday if ordered through the app) a week, a Jersey Mike's sub and cookie 3 times a month, and a McDonalds breakfast once a week, with maybe the odd Wendy's or Burger King or Arby's tossed in once or twice a month instead of one of the sub places. That seems rather modest to me.
To be fair, obscenity laws don't seem (to me) to be in keeping with the rest of the laws surrounding freedom of speech in the US. They are shockingly vague and have been used to prosecute people for artwork (!!!) in the past. Court verdicts for such laws seem to be mixed - sometimes they go along with them, sometimes they side with freedom of expression.

> offers to engage in illegal transactions

Just to clarify, that means "offers to engage in crime". Other than the aforementioned obscenity laws freedom of expression is generally quite well protected in the US so there won't be a crime in the first place (and thus related transactions won't be illegal).

> If it's illegal to posses something, the government can ban offering to sell and distribute it.

I think you misunderstand slightly. If it's illegal to possess something then it is _already_ (to the best of my knowledge) illegal to offer to sell or distribute it. The question is what the government is and isn't allowed to ban possession of.

Interestingly, in the case of "obscene" materials possession itself isn't banned. Only import, sale, and distribution.

The issue with "People who create and distribute these stickers knowing their purpose should go to prison." is that such a wording seemingly bans them outright regardless of intent. That is an affront to freedom of expression. If I want to craft adversarial examples I shouldn't need to justify my intentions and seek permission up front. An action should need to be justified as illegal on a case by case basis, not the other way around.

Note that it is already illegal to deface street signs so by extension if you create and distribute stickers with the express intention that they be used that way then presumably you are already violating the law today. On the other hand, such stickers are not (currently or ever, I hope) inherently illegal in and of themselves.
If this particular failure mode is so easy to crack, why is testing specifically for this failure mode not acceptable (ie via continuous integration testing)?
Dont use max hardness, you most likely are not strong enough and dont have good enough technique enough for that. Reduce the damper setting and watch some technique vids on youtube.
"Not all users named rektide are missing the point"

Look, I didn't say it, it was just a joke I quoted someone else saying, so now you can't respond to me as if I said it,
or the fact that I quoted it. And anyone who points it out or responds to it, especially users named rektide, are radicalized.
(Though I don't think this is uniquely a rektide problem.)
This is a very well reasoned article. The central thesis is that if culture follows economic realities (a notion I first encountered in Sapiens but have come to strongly believe), then readers (seems the audience consists of US cultural conservatives) should focus their efforts on changing the underlying economics, not waging the culture war.

> No amount of snappy YouTube videos decrying the “degeneracy” of current elite trends, no amount of influencers selling the “trad lifestyle” to Instagram followers, no amount of pithy arguments aimed at defeating some imagined foe with “facts and logic” will affect these issues in any meaningful way

> In the struggle between tradition and economic reality, tradition simply ends up being destroyed, excepting the few parts that can be adapted to serve completely new ends.

I would posit that a 3rd option exists that the author dismissed, but it would be to move to a new system (which is self-sustaining, unlike birth + immigration that the author dismisses) to match the new realities. I get that conservative thought is that it's safest to cling to that which we know, but with all the changes so far (and to come with automation), it might be as fruitless as running a knowledge economy like a feudal monarchy.
Self publishing fiction is definitely a business minded approach and if you want to get in it I recommend checking out podcasts/YouTube videos covering it. It’s a lot of marketing and churn and hype.
watch Elon Musk respond to this question on a panel talk, in front of Oil executives, in Norway .. master class in diplomacy.. hint "just stop" is not a winning position, no matter what outcome you favor
thanks for baking, mate, its not all about the cash. its nice to have food too.
I don’t know, there are only two randomized controlled trials for early treatment discussed in this paper. Neither had statistically significant results, but the review authors speculate that better statistical power would confirm the trend anyway…

I tried looking for something more recent, but I only found this actual meta analysis that I don’t think covers early treatment, but is not favorable for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449662
Where I live planning rules are set on a national level. The whole notion of incorporated and unincorporated land seems like a weird US-ism.
Why do you feel it's a good idea to shove networking into the standard library? Doesn't your choice of network library depend on other tech decisions regarding things like sync/async IO?

And moreover, if you want a java-like standard library that's good enough then you already have a bunch of options like Qt, Boost, POCO, etc.
There is a project to solve that, they aim to bootstrap an entire Linux distro from under 1K of machine code plus all the necessary source code.

https://bootstrappable.org/
Disclaimer: I dislike iostreams and in our environment <iostream> is completely banned.

However, in C++98, how else would you handle when you have an arbitrary number of things to print in a type-safe way? e.g.

cout << myInt << ": " << something << " - " << otherthing << " - " << etc << '\n';

printf is not type-safe, nor supports user defined types. I'd rather not write 8 lines of functions calls for the same thing either.

I think it made some sense C++98, though it is an awful API in 2021.
My experience is that not only are the panels generally worse, support for things like color calibration or Dolby Vision is almost impossible to find. Which is understandable because it's not obvious what advantage HDR would bring to digital signage.
I just meant it as an example where a large group of humans will follow what a computer tells them even when it is pretty clearly wrong. It's not hard to conceive of possibilities where the danger wouldn't be obvious until after person blindly follows the instructions.
My understanding of wasm (which could be very wrong) is that it's a stack-based virtual machine (like cpython), rather than a load/store or register/memory ISA.

You could probably visualize the operand stack and opcode sequence, but it wouldn't be quite as "flashy" as x86's state transitions look when visualized here.
The thing holding many people back from doing this is health care - Americans predominantly get their health care through their employer and the options on Obamacare are not cheap. Another reason socialized health care would benefit this country - it would boost the number of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Socialized health care desperately needs a rebranding - instead of "Socialized Health Care" or "Medicare for All", it should be called "Entrepreneur Focused Health Care" or simply "Freedom Care".
I thought about it but the recruiter said the feedback was positive, so much so that another hiring manager saw it and wanted to talk about another position.

Even if that had happened, ghosting would hardly be a good course of action, but I’m biased.
I think the idea is that if the employee is bound to the code of conduct, the company shouldn’t be able to force the employee to act in a way that violates it.
FIRE movement is largely a result of crazy high salaries and a booming stock market, it wont last forever.
There's an ongoing theme with certain non-rare industrial materials like Aluminum/Aluminium, magnesium, and not-so-rare "rare" earths elements.

The materials are abundant in nature, however it's the ability or willingness to process those materials in country which is rare. For example, rare earths are dirty to process so developed countries have outsourced their pollution to China.
Where? Where in the US can someone live on blue collar salary and afford a mortgage?
It would be good to see some breakdown of "real" flows of stuff vs valuations. A lot of east asian exports are low margin, and a lot of US assets have crazily increased in value. This may make the US appear more self-contained, but doesn't reflect the actual material self-sufficiency of the place.

The mythical "cost of embargo" can tell very different story.
grocery gift card?
In that case, it was AWS.
Welcoming to the tech interviewing world, this is unfortunately a common occurrence.
As an aside, the documentary on Atari describes the workers getting their teeth done and having happy smiles when the company was profitable and the wealth trickled down to the ordinary workers.
Id say don't use this. Their patches cripple many of Chromium's security features.
I just stopped clicking on Twitter links
I don't think it is valid to say that the difficulty of running large successful companies buys moral leeway for their CEOs. They get payed the big bucks for a reason, let's hold them responsible.
Up to half of Earth’s water may come from solar wind and space dust
The US Supreme Court is within spitting distance of wading into these waters. See Justice Thomas' concurrence in the grant of cert for Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute[1]. "The similarities between some digital platforms and common carriers or places of public accommodation may give legislators strong arguments for similarly regulating digital platforms."

See also https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984440891/justice-clarence-th....

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040521zor_32...
Health Freedom

"Freedom Care" sounds like an oxymoron. If you need "care" you are not "free".

It's not about "care", it's about risk mitigation. You are not sick now, but you have no idea when you or one of your dependents might become sick and need $$$.
I think a big part of the anti-digital backlash was due to the fact that many early Compact Disc albums sounded terrible. They had a big budget for their original analog production, but the record companies cheaply repurposed their back catalogs to digital media for a quick buck. Albums originally produced during the CD era sound fine in digital.

Not denying that there is a lot of hogwash to go along as well...
Technically, it was March 31, but I think he was in a different time zone. :-)
Actually, a recent metastudy found that masking reduces transmission by 53%, which is huge. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211118/mask-wearing-cuts-n...
> To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.

Is a manager-of-managers ever a very technical position? I am one and almost nothing I do as part of that job requires any differentiated technical ability. An Excel pivot table is as a complex as I’d need to get by.

(I do technical items on the side so as to not lose my mind, but I’m not surprised by the hiring loop not being very technical.)
The theory that a huge percentage of Tucker's audience is watching it knowing full well that Tucker is a full of shit zero-content "satirist" just isn't convincing at all. Unfortunately, though, it has been convincing to some judges but like I said I hope that will change.

That said, I now a bunch of people firsthand who are getting brainwashed on Tucker and Alex Jones. They really do believe the crap.
> You may find that some of us on the left are trying to call out this bullshit too

You should take a look at this video by John Oliver [1]. I find it hilarious how 9 years and 2 presidents later it is still relevant. You refuse to admit that _you're the one spewing the bullshit_. Any thought that you could be wrong is just inconceivable to you.

[1]: https://www.cc.com/video/slfmox/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
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> To be fair, there are people who call themselves feminists while being toxic, such as Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists. Mainstream feminism decries these groups, as evidenced by the backlash against J.K. Rowling. This kind of exclusionary behavior is _not_ acceptable.

But they don't reject the "kill all men" people. That is just a harmless joke apparently. And I bet you will defend that statement right now, since way too many feminists have defended it and if you accept that the phrase is bad then you admit that you are wrong. Maybe we need a "MERF" terminology, Male Exclusionary Radical Feminists to denote the bad apples you say aren't really feminists? But until that term appears and the movement actually takes a stance the movement wont be for everyone.

> I'm defining feminism, as defined in literature such as _Feminism is for Everybody_

Right, just take their marketing material. Also, you know, Trump really just wanted to make America great again, that is what he said, why should we look at what he actually do instead of just listening to a slogan?
I mean antidepressants don’t really rank that high in the grand scheme of things. They’re basically the rarest “common” ailment that people see a medical doctor for. Limping all mental illness together like you’re supposing makes as much sense as a category of “physical illness”.

Mental illness has such a weird stigma associated with it like it’s somehow represents the ales of modern society or something but blood pressure and acid reflux are just things that happen. I really hate the perception of antidepressants and stimulants for ADHD sufferers as “opiate of the masses” and not “look how many people have had their suffering gone untreated for so long and getting relief.”
> Is federal obscenity law enforced?

It seems to vary. Typically not, and when attempts are made court verdicts seem to be mixed. But unfortunately sometimes people do get convicted and the convictions upheld. For example, United States v. Whorley. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1431669.html
That does not seem to pass the smell test for me. Do we see a greater percentage of entrepreneurs from Canada or Europe than from the US? I didn't look up hard numbers but I doubt it.
Editors vary. A good editor can take something rough and polish it, retaining the voice of the author. A bad editor can suck all the life out of the writing, never having noticed the author’s voice in the first place.

It seems to me there has been a decline in the quality of editing by major publishers in recent years – though it may be that I have become better at noticing prose that would benefit from editing. Self-published stuff is normally worse, but it’s no surprise: hiring an editor would turn many self-published books from a modest profit to a heavy loss.

The thing is that writing can be bad in a multitude of ways, and a good editor can fix at least one of those — and, at the very least, help ensure that the ideas on paper are written according to the norms and conventions of the language.
Meanwhile, I'm over here wishing that they actually applied their terms of service uniformly. Instead of making exceptions for famous people.
If your goal is personal monetary profit, maybe. Is it the case of Jack? Why want more when you already have too much
The privacy features are why I won't use it. Same with librewolf. I am sick and tired of all of these web breaking alterations being the only independent forks available.
As built and as normally used measurements being the key here. Very small new build houses in the damper western parts of the uk often have problems with mould growth because of actual in everyday use ACH below building regulations design levels. It’s particularly an issue in new build social housing. People don’t open trickle vents, they turn down the extract fan timer because of fan noise and buildings are often more airtight than regulations expect and the minimum standard details are a compromise between the convenience of old conventions and prevention of cold bridging. In my experience it’s more common to fail the airtighness test by being too airtight to vent only with trickle vents than it is to come anywhere near 10@50pa. 2-3@50pa being common which drops you below the 0.4 guaranteed ACH of passive house. I’ve never seen a result over 4 @50pa. According to your calculation methodology 2-4@50pa could be anywhere between 0.07-0.4 ACH. Also, this air circulation is not designed so it just vents randomly, some rooms in the house could have very stale air while others might be quite good.
> Have you tried a C/C++ lsp server like https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls?

I never tried it and to me that's not acceptable or desirable. I want an IDE/text editor that works, and not adopt yet another tool that needs maintenance and configuration and attention.
What the author refers to "Prussian" education is hardly the Western tradition, quite the opposite.
Wow. I read your book way back in college and it got me really interested in Network security.
I was given a nice TV with no remote. Used Bluetooth remote app to control TV.
I thought it was a sneeze.
I don't believe men's genetics are more "varied" than women's. In fact I think that's the result of men being promoted more than women and in more disciplines whereas women are expected to be lovers, child-bearers, and live casual lives.

I do believe that it's much worse to be a below-average man than it is to be a below-average women, simply because people are usually more supportive of women. If you're a woman who isn't particularly smart, attractive, or talented, you still have the support of other women (who are usually more friendly) and men (who want to be your boyfriend/husband and take care of you). If you're a below-average man, nobody supports you - women just aren't interested (and you would be expected to take care of them anyways), and other men aren't interested because men are usually less friendly.

I don't think any of the above is very controversial either. In fact most people realize there's an issue with many many miserable men. The main controversy is how to fix this issue. Some lonely / ugly / socially-awkward men are really aggressive and dangerous towards women, and it's hard to tell which ones.

I absolutely agree with you that it would really help if men are less cold around other strange men and try to talk / learn about them. In fact there's not much reason not to be friendly towards other men, or to be scared of them. Unlike with women, a strange man can't necessarily overpower you, and he's unlikely to be creepy towards you, his interest is more likely to be genuine. The main issue IMO is that lots of men just don't care much about talking with strangers, and can't really tell when someone needs human interaction.
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You make good points on how bitcoin could grow to use a larger share of generated energy even without increases in its exchange price, but don't forget Andy and Bill's law: "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away".

More generally, the Rebound effect suggests other expansions will consume a sizeable portion of efficiency gains (or possibly exceed it). Video gamers will want higher res VR devices, they'll want richer worlds with better physics, animation, AI units and high fps high resolution graphics. AI software is absolutely guaranteed to use up any 100x gain in efficiency and more will be demanded of computers.

A backfire effect is predicted as possible if new capabilities once discarded as infeasible open up (ala aluminum smelting, constant use of AC) and when new economic activity generated by gains in efficiency results in a larger number of wealthier participants. Such effects from efficiency gains are fine so long as they're focused on energy and not say, polluting fuel use efficiency.

Buckminster Fuller proposed ephemeralization as the manner in which prosperity could increase given growing population and finite resources. This takes place because as material use decreases; information, computation and energy use intensity increase as more activity is displaced into them.
Honestly, does he really owe the public a reason? I am no Jack Dorsey fan, but it would be unusual for any CEO of even a moderately successful company to expose any internal business with the public.
I'm not misunderstanding, although I agree that all this is largely beside the point.

It's not obviously true that the illegality of possession automatically implies the illegality of the offer to sell. Consider for example a case where the seller doesn't actually possess the item, but merely offers to sell it. In this case, the supreme court upheld a law making such offers illegal. Without the ruling, you might argue that the mere offer is protected speech.

The point of all this is really indirect though. I'm just saying that in cases where "speech" concerns illegal items, like nuclear weapons, child pornography, and drugs, sometimes the government is given more leeway in controlling speech related to items.
I assume the tradeoff is probably panel quality, right? I doubt they have OLEDs on the level of an LG or Samsung TV.
Agreed it seems a paradox.

Maybe it really is socialism kills entrepreneurial spirit. If you can be an artist or a 35hr/wk public servant and live well, why bother being an entrepreneur?
Plenty of places in the Midwest/South if you're a tradesman. Obviously a McDonald's worker or Starbucks barista is probably not going to be able to afford a mortgage.
Stakers are landlords in the same way that miners are. They have lower expenses, but they also get less revenue.
an extra special dick washer.
Maybe he just wants to do something else.
I don't think that even the few rich authors kicking around nowadays enjoy the same kind of celebrity status that Hemingway did. His memorial monument has a bronze statue of his head on top of a column next to a reflecting pool, and the NYT devoted a 22-paragraph article to the news of his death: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/04/s... https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-hemingway-memorial

Today, 60 years later, people write articles about going to visit it.

I don't think anyone is going to build a monument to George R. R. Martin five years after his death.
I agree except the current employer part. Current employers are weird. I’ve found they didn’t take me seriously till I was gone. Find past employers who liked you and would want you back, offer to consult on their most pressing issues (I only work on high priority gig value problems. You’ll get a lot of value). Moonlight for a bit to build momentum, quit your day job, reach out to your whole network.
don't suspect there is any legal case -- this is just someone calling someone else out for being a piece of shit.
My rain dance has a >50% success rate! It's part of my Seattle morning ritual.