skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems more complicated - industrial actions, technology, and personal preferences have intertwined roles.

The most effective thing we could do would be to tax beef (and other meats on a sliding scale), because this would decrease the acreage needed per person. People would howl because they like meat, consumers would also just absorb a lot of the tax instead of actually changing behavior. They'll break out arguments about inequality and social justice (but in truth they like the taste).

Vertical factory-like farms seem very promising to me. These will only target certain groups of foods, which tend to be very leafy and healthy. Government policies can play a big role in advancing this tech because economics are challenging and it needs some more scale to drive the cycle to further cost reduction.

I'm sure that direct farm incentives to reduce pesticide use could help. But there's a reason they're used, and there needs to be a game-plan that doesn't assume the farmer will make massive capital investment into the alternatives.
First comment:

>has to be planned. it would only be on msm if it was planned. it would only come right after warnings of a 'cyber pandemic' and 'dark winter' if it was planned. change my mind.

That's... an opinion. Is this satire?
Even when people ask for specific gifts (think wedding registries... baby shower gift lists...) I still just gift them cash/Venmo with a personal message, usually double or triple whatever the gift ideas recommended. I do not care about the cultural strings attached, because if I was in the situation of asking for gifts- usually caused by a taboo of directly asking for money- I would be thankful for the cash.

I see commenters here on HN talking about how 'thoughtful' a gift card is... no, a gift card is selfishly deciding how someone else should spend money that was supposed to be a gift.
Because time and time again google insists it knows what we want better than we do.
Interesting find. It's really amazing how much has changed since then.
North Chicago, or really any of the nicer parts.

Chicago is a weird place for various political and economic reasons (I’m from Minneapolis, so just a neighbor), and was not growing pre-pandemic. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that trend reverse given its relative LCOL - especially with the Denver/Austins of the world no longer being very affordable.
>"then why are you going through all the rejections with the associated pain which makes me suffer so bad?"

you've assumed the premise without even knowing it and it's doubly ironic because it didn't occur to you exactly because of what you represent in your first comment.

here's the answer that didn't occur to you because you just assumed you were right: lol what rejections and terrible suffering and pain?

i'm recently married but during all of the time i dated (>15 years since high school) i had maybe one or two rejections at all (and none to speak of that were painful). and i had 2 relationships a year over that time (on average - college was college...).

you know why? well for one because i did exactly what this person you responded to suggested: never objectified women and was always confident about my merits. the other thing i never did was treat dating like some kind of obsession or game, so never did i "swing for the fences".

>Cam Newton

coincidentally enough i went to college at UF and my time overlapped with Cam Newton's. if he's the guy that is a symbol of success for you (even metaphorically) in this domain then ho boy you have bigger problems than just dating.
Hello all, it appears that a large portion of this article is based on this study:

https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...

There is a lot of data and a lot of charts.

This study has a data table that just makes me confused about the Economist article:

> V. Change in Gross and Net Flows for Metro Areas with Populations Greater Than 500,000
My one visit to Hawaii was kind of eye opening in how there were so many cars just abandoned on the roads. They are just left there to rot in the salt air. The gov't doesn't remove them. It was just such a bizarre thing to see for a not-3rd world state.
An unexpired turkey that has not been safely stored is far more dangerous than an expired turkey that has been safely stored.

A dumpster is NOT safe storage for a turkey.

I've seen damaged turkeys in stores; I hope that they throw them out, regardless of expiration date.
Pinterest does not belong in this category. It belongs in the “Internet cancer” category.
It is hard to preserve a trademark
You have to differently fight it. Your post a good example. The first one is killing the Kleenex trademark that is why the lawyers say to use the other statement.
We have a ton of words that used to be trademarked. Elevator, escalator, zipper to name a few.
>Don't ever take dating advice from women. What women think they want and what they actually want are two different things.

man i guess if you really want to know what hn's values are then just broach dating. jesus.
> The point of this story is not that cynics were wrong but that one never would have survived his ordeal

It's interesting you'd use that story to make your point because about 2,000 years earlier Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism, was supposedly captured by pirates on the Mediterranean and sold into slavery. Not only did he survive but the man who purchased him was so impressed that he appointed him to run his household and tutor his children.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosop...
I just thought I'd come back and let you know in case you hadn't seen. At least one employee did want to do exactly that, but they were not allowed to leave https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-worker-not-allowed-le.... Then it's a harder decision, livelihood vs increased chance of danger.
Said service is called “taxation”
Seems like several others here felt the same way as me, and this isn't a long comment thread:

> This might be the most boring thing ever written about writing.

> The problem is (imo) that he's writing for himself and not an audience. It reads like a stream-of-consciousness journal entry, not a thoughtful attempt at relaying information to another mind. A good start would be learning to self-edit; the length could be cut significantly with no real loss of content.

> There isn't much more to this article than an author clarifying for himself how he thinks about things. He succeeds at that, sure, and is better off for it, but it's dreary for the rest of us!
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LibreOffice with Client Side Decoration
Self-maintaining code is a very rare thing.

In general, if they were truly seeing no uptake on it, they could just be justified removing it to decrease their security surface (https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugi...).

I'd have to know which NGO and what their circumstances are to have a more concrete opinion. With no additional information, I can construct a hypothetical scenario where a reasonable site admin would yank RSS.
Well, considering that a user can't view the image, Pinterest is showing images to Google differently than to the average user. What Pinterest does by hiding the images is specifically against Google's policy. There's no question that Pinterest deliberately went out of their way to create the currently existing paradigm, to suggest their hands are tied and they are somehow a passive victim of Google rather than an actively malicious actor is ludicrous.

It may well be the case that this is Google's fault and they are a malicious actor here as well as Pinterest, but Pinterest is blatantly malicious and does not draw within the lines.
Pixel prevented me from calling emergency services - three years ago
Will check it out. I'm about 4 years into hledger with manual entry since few of my banks and cards have csv instead of pdf only statements. Hope to see some good features in your book. Thank you for the effort that went into this and for documenting and sharing your work. Are there good quarterly reports that follow sensible standards? Do you have good examples of collapsing our super detailed sub-accounts into just the right level of detail for the reports? Re: expenses:gas:Exxon and expenses:gas:BP
Fun with File Formats
There is flight from major metropolitan cities right now. All the problems are the same across these cities. While I'm in the honeymoon phase of my recent move from the city I love and grew up in. I was tired of many of the things you listed.
Why the hell would you think your raw ingredients were higher quality than a KING's?
San Francisco is where reactionary conservatism is couched in the right sort of language and gets passed off as Progressive (the capital P is for the political faction). Any true progressivism that may affect the wealthy homeowner class is rejected with flowery but nonsensical arguments:

> “Zoning is racist and made by people like me who live here to increase my profit on my property. That’s [pro-housing activists’] line…tell that to the folks in Bayview-Hunters Point, the largest single family home owning area in the city.”
>
>It seemed to be lost on the group, which consisted of eleven white people over the age of forty, that minority homeowners might be clustered in that area in part because of redlining and racist zoning laws that restricted access to other neighborhoods.

https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/the-sierra-club-fi...

The politics are truly cursed in SF and nothing makes sense, and all rhetoric is hidden behind several layers of misdirection and retribution for long-held grudges.
Until communities embrace mixed-use zoning everywhere in their cities little will change. My suburb is chock full of duplexes, townhomes and apartments. Pretty much all of them lie a mile or more away from shops and employment centers which are located on very bike/ped unfriendly roads. The result is that every adult needs a car and parking becomes a nightmare for everyone in those areas since the city will waive parking requirements to encourge "density" but does nothing to change the mix of development types. This problem is not unique to my town.
I'm not familiar - for what do you use sqlite Fossil?
3D printing for prototyping part 2: embracing failure
I think it was particularly egregious when macOS Big Sur came out. It was abundantly clear that they no longer cared enough to even apply a basic sense of unified style in their artwork, with a weird mix of 2D-ish and 3D-ish icons, every color combination imaginable, etc. And on top of it, so many of the “new” icons were just plain ugly and some were outright weird, and many had really basic problems like improper shadow effects. Frankly they should have delayed the entire OS release by two months just to fix the icons, and it’s still in that bad a state.

It is even more frustrating that the OS is slowly being locked down so much that you basically can’t “fix” UI annoyances anymore, not without rebooting into Void My Warranty mode. You can’t fix bits and pieces of apps because they’ll no longer pass code-signing and fail to launch. In the old days you could pretty much hack any cool icons you wanted into any part of the system, and it was really amazing what people came up with.
> I'm not sure that it's entirely regular programming, there may be some training of models there

I doubt it, not anything serious at least. Machine learning isn't at the level where it can be used to navigate environments better than human coded algorithms can. Maybe if you had a datacenter worth of computing power to do it, like AlphaStar, but you don't have that in a car. And even if you had that I still doubt it, Alphastar had a perfect representation of the game and could simulate the effects of moves perfectly.
> What we really could use are content management systems that can publish directly to the open web and then be interacted with by compatible systems.

That was once called RSS, RDF or Atom ...
If I read the post correctly, is the poster saying that the big issue is the Apache HTTP webserver is vulnerable? As far as I understand it, Apache webserver is written in C, while log4j is a Java library / framework, so I don't see how the two are related.

Still a pretty big deal with a lot of java-based web services (including some other Apache software) open to the web in various forms (which possibly use log4j) but the specific HTTP webserver itself I think is unaffected, or is my understanding off here?

(edit to add - probably means though that there's now tons of curious developers scouring the logging layer of their favourite software to see if similar exploits exist).
I find very little to be actually progressive in San Francisco, unless it's for national level politics. Anything that affects local political power hierarchies is extremely regressive.
2430 A.D. by Asimov.

"Earth has established a totally balanced and ecologically stable underground society (similar to that portrayed in Asimov's novel The Caves of Steel). But one man, Cranwitz, regarded as a deviant and eccentric because he keeps a few animals as pets, refuses to get rid of these animals, the last non-human inhabitants of the planet.

He is finally persuaded by his sector representatives to exterminate his pets, but also commits suicide. This leaves Earth in 'perfection', with its fifteen trillion inhabitants, twenty billion tons of human brain and the 'exquisite nothingness of uniformity'."
Idiots engage.

Reason doesn't.
Cruise and waymo can go tens of thousands of miles without safety driver intervention.
Guess there's no accounting for taste, it's clearly an ugly developer designed UI. All for maximum UX but prefer not to spend most of my day looking at something so aesthetically displeasing.

Cool nostalgic retro project though, looks similar to first Unix OS's CDE Desktop I used 20+ years ago.
> I unsubscribed from Quora emails because I was troubled by all of the engagement manipulation in what they sent me and how well it worked

Exactly the same with me. Each time I received a Quora digest mail, I thought that I cannot get manipulated to open these spammy questions. But normally I clicked on multiple links leading to those answers.
> some people are morons

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What the Modi Twitter breach tells us about hackers
NAT isn't a security feature. It's forced on users when their ISP only allocates one IPv4 address per site.
Key point here!
Roads alone cost $2-3M/mile and last 30 years. Amortized, that's on the order of $100k/yr/mile.

In a city, that would be $100k / 10 city blocks, probably 100 parcels with 100-1000 low-to-mid rise housing units. In a rural area it might be just 10 housing units, at the cost of $10k/yr/parcel. And productivity in rural areas is 2-3x lower, so it's even higher as a percentage of per-capita GDP.

Add on top of that electric grids, water supply, sewage, emergency services, hospitals, etc. Bottom line: rural areas only survive due to subsidies from productive and overtaxed urban Americans.
The author sounds like an apologete of "Four temperaments" theory. He believes cynic == someone who believes in "no change" and complains a lot. Then he labels people as either "cynics" or not. It is as simple as that. (BTW, that is not the definition of a cynic at all)

Human personalities are extremely complicated, and the best you can do is correlate traits given a huge amount of data which he probably does not have. So we have him boasting a theory, that is likely based on the fundamental attribution errors in his experiences, and people, who vote his post up, who happen to have a similar sentiment with a few anecdata (who would also probably disregard any anti-anecdata in this thread).

So is the nature of most Internet posts about psychology.
It's not satire, it's a far right wing forum.
Heh. No. You really don't need macroeconomics to explain Toyota's decision making here... not everything is a nail, and that's one hell of a hammer you're holding.
Still believe you need AGI for viable SDCs
Here's the crash report:

"On October 28, 2021, after turning right onto Fremont Blvd from Cushing Pkwy, the Pony.ai Autonomous Vehicle ("Pony.ai AV") performed a left lane change maneuver in autonomous mode. While performing the lane change, the Pony.ai AV came into contact with a center divider on Fremont Blvd. and the traffic sign that was posted on the divider. The Pony.ai AV suffered moderate damage to the front of the vehicle and the undercarriage. There were no injuries and no other vehicles involved. Fremont Police Department were called to report the incident and the damaged street sign. Pony.ai has subsequently worked with local authorities to resolve all issues related to the damaged sign."

It's not a serious incident, but it is a fully autonomous vehicle under good conditions going somewhere it was absolutely not supposed to go. So DMV revoked their license for full autonomous operation without a safety driver. They have to go back to testing with a safety driver.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/pony-ai_102821-pdf/
DARPA did that in 2007, testing autonomous vehicles in realistic urban conditions using an abandoned Air Force base in California.
Thanks! I'll look into that. Is there a good way to track a "to watch" list using youtube RSS and MPV?
It’s a QAnon site, so yes and no.
Here's Biden's Plan to Create 500K New EV Chargers with Universal Standards
Yeah, it's a bunch of misinformed people talking QAnon all day over there. The post is nice and off base as you said, par for the course.
> table stakes for progressive utopia have to include universal health care

Is this close enough?

> Healthy San Francisco, created by City Ordinance in July 2006, is San Francisco’s health access program for the uninsured, the first of its kind in the nation. Healthy San Francisco is not insurance, but provides uninsured San Francisco residents access to affordable basic and ongoing health care services, including primary care through a medical home, as well as specialty and inpatient care, diagnostic and mental health services, and prescription drugs. All uninsured adult City residents who are not eligible for other public programs are eligible to enroll in Healthy San Francisco, regardless of immigration status, employment status, or pre-existing medical conditions.

Source: https://healthysanfrancisco.org/wp-content/uploads/Kaiser-Su...
I wish people could see the value of issue politics more rather than participating in the tribal chicaneries meant to divide us.
>Almost all modern-niceties have been commodified to even the outer regions of the hills.

It's hard to commodify a large economy of local businesses like you'd find in a large city. I can't imagine anything worse than being beholden to a handful of chain stores or the amazon catalog for all my wants and wishes. I've been doing all my shopping lately with local businesses, hard to do that in smaller areas that lack the customer base needed to support all these different businesses locally.
Isn’t the better term “pump and dump” then? That’s basically how penny stocks operate.
The article goes on to say that two other drivers who said they had autopilot on also crashed into fire trucks… How many fire trucks do Teslas need to crash into for it to be considered a problem?
For those curious about the term "held out data", it's a modelling / validation method.

https://people.duke.edu/~rnau/three.htm
Firebase App Distribution can work for this, except a) you would need to manually invite all 50 testers via their emails and b) updates aren't installed automatically - the user must download the update themselves (either via an email notification link which takes them to the App Tester web UI, or they can download the App Tester app itself).

The first part probably isn't an issue, but depending on how non-technical your users are, getting them to successfully install it and then manually retrieve updates may be a bumpy ride (I'm thinking back to what I read about the Iowa Caucus disaster).
Sure, but try finding that in Berlin. I think the point here is that availability has dropped for many/most people.
And sometimes you don't know the answer to the question before you start writing, but in the process you learn something new.
It's interesting, I wouldn't have described Dan's writing vs Paul Graham's writing in that manner. Dan tends to be rather affect-less, with a very neutral, almost scientific tone. I agree that PG is more authoritative but there's also this contrarian, almost Pauline Kael-esque quality to his writing. Phrases like "Nerds don't care about glamour, so to them the appeal of New York is a mystery." aren't just authoritative, they're provocative and almost purposefully insulting.

I'm a little surprised that Dan wrote this otherwise very nice post on writing and didn't mention the counterbalance to writing: reading. If you want to write, read a lot. My writing owes a lot to writers such as James Baldwin, Robert Caro, Calvin Trillin, etc. Specifically, read published works. I love reading a blog post as much as anyone else but there is a marked difference in quality between a blog post and a book or a high quality newspaper article.

One could argue that reading leads to aping but I disagree that aping is necessarily bad. Experts do not always have good ideas on how to teach because they understand the deep, universal theory and therefore think that everybody should learn from the deep, universal theory. In truth, beginners can't and won't learn deep theory. You have to start with imitating your tennis instructor's serve and then move onto the underlying concept of how a serve works. Complaining that beginners don't know the underlying theory and are just imitating is essentially complaining that beginners are beginners. Plus mimicry is a good way to learn. When I fenced, I remember that some fencers would mimic famous fencers as a joke. But it really did help them find their own style by letting them play with the different styles and think outside their own conventions.

Thus my advice: read a lot of books; imitate as much as you like; and write a lot.
The issue is that it's impossible to test this functionality. It's not like you can have a test that calls 911 since that would be illegal. It only makes sense that untested software would have bugs.
And that's fine. You hate his writing (style) so you don't read it. Others feel differently, enough that he has many, many readers. Clearly there's room for many different styles of writing to find an audience.
It is true. It’s very hard to find now, and it was not hard to find in the past.
I'm pretty sure people were posting "Climbing for Dollars" on Twitter in response to this