skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is usually demand driven and it certainly is in the current case. It is the result of INCREASED consumption. U.S. consumer spending (adjusted for inflation) is significantly above the pre-pandemic peak https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-spending
"Why I killed the Windows startup sound" by Jensen Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUBjM2LNJU
I have gotten lost in a particular woods where the space seems like it should be square but it is really a triangle.
Not sure you can say Columbus has negligible crime, unless you mean Dublin or something. Columbus has had around 200 homicides this year. SF, with swhichlmist identical population in city limits, looks like it's had fewer than 60. Columbus is only marginally (25% or so) less murderous per capita than Chicago, where I live, and certainly nobody says we have negligible crime!
Yes, I agree, this can go on forever. "DeFi", "web3", and then something else
You don't need to be using KDE. Just have KDE Connect installed.
Personally, I keep my file on Google Drive and download it wherever it's needed. It does require a bit of manual tracking to ensure I've got the latest file, but I've only got about a handful of devices that I need it for, and even if I don't have the latest version of the file, it just means I might be missing a password for a particular service, and I can quickly download the latest anyway.

Obviously it's not as nice as having a cloud service, but it's open-source and doesn't require trusting a third party, which I like.
> It can still be done today in most US states.

If by "most" you mean 4 or 5 US States (California, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and maybe West Virginia). That's 10% of states, although more than 10% of the US population (but still a very small minority).

Meanwhile, anyone can represent themselves in court, and with sufficient facts on their side have won. However, the Supreme Court no longer allows people to represent themselves. This means, in the US there are many cases where you cannot take on the government yourself and win.
This entirely depends on what you're after. If you have a predetermined number that you want to meet, lettergram's approach is better and will save time. If you instead want to get the company to pay you the most they can, delaying may be better.

If you're generally aware of what companies in the market are paying, quickly filtering out those that pay below what you want (for example, by saying "I'm looking for a total compensation above $500,000, and I know that there are companies in the market that will compensate at this level") is likely to save you time.
Also, hardly ever do you get the thing you started with. Clear glass bottles are not recycled into more clear glass bottles. IIRC the recycled class glass is not clear enough and you end up with lower quality glass. Car tire rubber get recycled into other things (unless they get retreaded). I think aluminum cans are one of the few things that get recycled into more aluminum cans (minus some % loss).
Scary thing is, I’ve seen non-profit public and private universities start to act like for-profits.
The idea presented here is that consumption is not actually correlated to quality of living. Yes, to maintain a certain quality of life you must necessarily consume, but I think as a society we are past the point where we should feel morally justified to consume without limit and without regard to the sustainability of our consumption habits.

It's possible to maintain a certain quality of life without over-consuming.
Yes, especially the ones that become politicians.
Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas.
What article is saying: - "go back to caves, don't buy anything, it is stupid but you should believe in that". This is not people want.

I used to live in a country tried to build communism. I do understand and support clean energy, ecology. But this kind of calls remind of ideology over natural order of things.

People will always want to live in a warm house during winter, surround themself with comfort etc.

Only science and technology can bring us to the end goal of 100% clean , renewable everything.

Some examples:

Why do we need all this rockets, going to space, mars, lets solve problems on earth first:
- with this mind set no boom of Solar Energy, since it's been designed for space

- no closed-cycle tech also developed for space first

- even CO2 from air was developed for space and military goals first

Creating tremendously complex goals of going to the space, other planets triggered lots of tech with autonomy and limited resources in mind.

Another example, electric cars. Hey lets reduce consumption of cars 50%:

- People will keep using old, inefficient cars, that produce more pollution,
- Investors will invest less money to EV, so slower transition, less charging infrastructure

- No cheap EV in a forceable future

- No cheap battery storages to keep solar, wind energy

Keeping demand naturally as it is pushed gasoline car to museums by 2030-35. That itself will cut humongous amount of co2. So that we can focus on producing more clean energy for more efficient EV's.

Another example, lets limit to heating to 60f (15c) and cut the emission from heating:

- Consumption is high, pricing for keeping the house warm jumped? Good, people will install geothermal, solar etc.

As you can see consumption triggers progress and provide with playground for better tech. All you need to provide restrictions in the areas like plastic etc. Economy will find it's way.
> You could make a good argument that ISPs should be treated like regulated utilities who would have to service everyone, and service everyone equally, because of the importance of internet access in modern society - however, this is not the situation right now in USA.

Yeah, it absolutely should be.
> 1. They ask for a raise and don’t get it. You lose a team member when they leave.

Yes and that should be a lesson to pay the whole team more.

> 2. You can’t get a raise because your boss is forced to give your colleague a raise and doesn’t want to have to hand out raises.

Your colleague wasn't paid well, asked to get paid better, and got it.

Now you're said because you can't continue to get paid more relative to your colleague? Lose your greed and grow some empathy in its place.

> 3. Your colleague stews and resents you. People say it won’t happen, but I have heard a ton of complaining about how X earns so much and they don’t deserve it from co-workers.

Then work with them to explain how and why you deserve more than your colleagues. Otherwise, they might be right about you not deserving it. You getting what you don't deserve means, by your own logic, that they're not getting what they do deserve.
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This is a bit of non-sense. If you have n pairs (x_i,y_i) with all x_i's and y_i's different, then you can always say that y is a function of x: you simply take a very wiggly function that passes through all the pairs. So this new "coefficient of correlation" should always return 100% in such cases. Of course, such a coefficient would be useless, and fortunately, this one doesn't do that. The point is however that in order for such a coefficient to not be trivially 100%, you need extra specifications, more precisely, you need to specify some type of desired smoothness (or tension) in the class of functions you are looking for.

Let's make this more precise, and use R-squared (which this coefficient appears to be in some shape or form, since it is between 0 and 1, not -1 and 1). You look for relationships of the type y_i = f(x_i) + epsilon_i, where f is in some class of functions. Then this coefficient would be the ratio of the variance of f(x_i) and the variance of y_i. If you allow the class of functions to be arbitrary, there's no residual epsilon. So you need to specify somehow that class. In the case of the Pearson correlation, that class is the class of linear functions. If you want to generalize the Pearson correlation, you need to think of more general ways to specify the class of regression functions.
Rationale for the startup sound for an OS may have been the considerably lengthier time from power on to login screen, which has reduced to seconds nowadays.
Copyright applies to the entity doing the distribution. It could be violating of DMCA though I am not a lawyer and don’t fully understand the law.
Christmas is a good example. A couple years ago I threw out all of my DVD's.

We watch the same ten or so movies every holiday season. Now we scramble to find them on streaming services and pay $3-5 each to watch.

At one point I had them all downloaded on a portable HD (along with others) but it failed, and why back up what you can just re-download?
I assume that's mostly indicative of the rights they were able to grab, vs. seeking profit.
ZSpotify
I found that KeepassXC is a nicer, multi-platform client https://keepassxc.org/
There is such an enormous amount of slack in the system. 2% of the workforce is involved in agriculture, and it used to be 90%. What did the other 88% do with all that free time?

A lot of the Web3 and game economy is just people massively overpaying for entertainment.
could you perhaps give a short guide on how this is done? i have plenty of programming experience but simply have never tried my hand at this. a linux solution would be nice
I love Chicago and Minnesota but the Google offices in the MW tend to be data center jobs which I see complaints aren’t really “tech” jobs so much as supporting be data center. I recall a lot of the jobs were even sourced through temp agencies.
Yikes. Go hiking sometime.
“adroit”

Isn’t that term kind of handist in that suggests lefties lack womanization?

https://blog.oup.com/2010/09/left-hand/
Just a few days ago I wanted to set up a service that would allow me to receive notifications on my mobile phone that would alert me when the very long processes that I neeed to leave running at work unexpectedly crash, saving me from the burden of having to monitor them continuously.

I was reading some guides to understand how to configure Firebase and deploy all the the necessary parts on an Azure server. But now, thanks to this, I can get everything up and running in a matter of a few minutes. You have saved me a lot of time. Not to mention the ability to easily integrate it with the other command line tools I often use. This is huge. Thank you so much for this, I'm going to get a lot out of it.
People play games for all sorts of personal reasons. “Boring” gameplay is apparently in demand. If you don’t like that kind of game, don’t play it. If you don’t understand how anyone else could possibly spend time on it, then maybe you should open your mind and talk to some of these people to try and understand what is undoubtedly a much more complex phenomenon than you believe it to be.
About your Disney+ example, I do wonder why it seems that a lot of content like that isn't available on the platform.

Are there streaming rights issues? Are they holding back content to drip feed content drops for as long as they can? Did they determine that some content isn't worth digging up the tapes and preparing for streaming?
> If we went back to 19th century urban planning and transportation solutions, compact cities, apartments, bicycles and trains, we'd massively cut our CO2 emissions while having no real negative impact on our standard of living.

That’s a bold assertion that may, in fact, be true for you, but it would clearly, substantially, and obviously negatively impact the standard of living for millions of others who would find being crammed into sardine can utopia anything but utopia.
Thanks for the recommendations — John Cho was also great in "Searching" (a thriller about a Korean-American who tries to find his daughter who disappears). Old classical literature from China (especially "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" about the power struggles in the fall of the Han dynasty) has been a good source for positive role models, too.

I wish the Wolf Warrior movies could be a way to guide China's government to what it could be (a positive geopolitical force that can help). They're more fantasy than reality, though; I can't ever trust them as a Canadian, after they arbitrarily detained two fellow citizens (the two Michaels) [0] for over 1,000 days as part of a geopolitical game [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58687071
https://archive.fo/HXY8D
Thanks! I missed that thread, so I came back to this one. I'll check it out.
If you want to know how easy dating will be in a city, just checkout the gender ratios.

LA has one of the worst for a straight guy. This means someone like myself would never find a partner. Imagine two cities 4000 miles apart.

In PoorCity unemployment is 45%, and due to bizarre zoning laws a 1bdrm is 3800$.

In GoodCity, unemployment is 3% and a 1bdrm is 1100$.

Which city would you rather live in ? Where do you think life will be easier ? You can read a dozen books on finding a job, won't really help if your in PoorCity. Likewise dating books are essentially useless since I've never seen one address gender ratios.

I've had no trouble outside of LA. In fact I dated a girl who took the initiative to introduce herself. She was beyond great! More than worth moving for !

Did I mention I really really hate driving ? I'm saving so much money now that I'm car free.
> You don't know what kind of person you have until you talk with them.

I disagree. I'd say that you don't know what kind of person you have until they've put in a few months of work.
See also samizdat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
> Have a better future than you do?

I’m not sure if you’re serious or not but yeah- that’s the entire point of this discussion. “Wealth” is pointless if there is no habitable place for our children and their children to live.
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

-St. Antony the Great
For what it’s worth, the flaws in the reporting related to the pre/post invasion involvement with Iraq were acknowledged: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-new-york-times-wmd-cov...

There are many more related articles… The NYT has, to my knowledge, never avoided correcting fact-based inaccuracies or misreporting.
Most people drive too. So whatever distinction you're trying to draw between car insurance and medical insurance is bogus both in theory and in practice.
You haven't lived through communism so you are forgiven for not getting the joke even if it was pretty obvious one.
Yes, Other Countries Do Housing Better, Case 2: Germany
To put it into perspective, I’m in that later category. I know what the high end of the market is and I basically just ask for that plus X%.

I’ve been burned too many times waiting. Not worth it to get to the end only to be 50% over what they can pay.
It is hard to believe that there is no safety against these kind of stuff.
Totally agree, Carbon taxes will push free economy faster. Reducing consumption will never solve 100% the problem. It will only postpone bad things for few years.
Here is the obit from the Nevada Independent.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/harry-reid-former-s...
It's not completely unheard-of for $1bn to be spent on oil and gas projects that never actually get sanctioned.
I'm from Northern Ontario, and I agree that wood smoke can be killer, especially below -30°C (-22°F) when the smoke stays near the ground. Oven stoves, according to the article, address this. The section "Complete combustion", is all about this issue:

> Wood can be burned without too much air pollution, but then the temperature has to be high enough: 1100 to 1200 degrees Celsius. In that case, 99 percent of the wood is converted to CO2 and water vapour, almost without smoke. A metal wood stove, however, only reaches a temperature of 650 to 700 degrees, with an incomplete wood combustion as a result.
Why not just list that entire “wider” band? How would doing that “compress” the payscale further?
I’ll never forget him sawing through a turducken with his bare hand on TV as he explained what it was.
I also live in Cleveland currently. I don't necessarily agree that it's 8 months of dreary skies. Winters can be some of the best and most beautiful months here.

I also don't think they Solon is a nice suburb (the downtown truly sucks) though.
There's Christopher Lee

Pre-1970s: Dracula

1970s-2000s: Scaramanga

2000s: Count Dooku/Saruman
If you give everyone what they want, well, there’s not enough beachfront, pizza, makeup and recreational drugs for all. What people want in a consumption culture and what can be sustained are completely different.

I’d agree with the idea that targeted areas of restriction may be fruitful. But I think the real issue is expectations and ethics.
> People in the south have been able to live without restriction, as if covid doesn't exist, and the result is pretty much the same.

That might have been true pre-Delta. The delta wave was about 4x worse in deaths per capita in Texas and about 7 x worse in Florida than in California or New York [1].

Overall, New York has 2 bad months at the start of the pandemic, and then has done pretty well in the subsequent months. Florida, Texas, and California have been doing worse than New York for most of the time after those first couple of months. Florida and Texas were substantially worse that California for about 2 months of the late summer 2020 wave. California was slightly worse than Texas, and Florida was the best of the 4, for a month during the early 2021 wave. This was enough to put Texas above Florida on deaths per capita, but not enough to unset California at the lowest deaths per capita of the 4. Then delta moved Florida to near New York totals and moved Texas to about 60% of the way between California and New York [2].

On other words, statistically if you survived the first two months of the pandemic and then had a choice between New York, California, Texas, and Florida until the present the chances of dying from COVID were lowest in New York. In California they were about 28% higher than New York. In Texas they were about 35% higher than in California and about 73% higher than in New York. In Florida they were about 12% higher than in Texas, 52% higher than in California, and 93% higher than New York.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
> Not Iraq was examples, that was reporting on false intelligence not NYT providing the false info

No, the stuff Judith Miller was actively involved in manufacturing (and whose publication was controversial inside the paper even at the time) and laundering sources for (e.g., claiming propaganda she received from the Iraqi National Congress was intelligence gained by the military unit she was embedded in) was not merely “reporting on false intelligence”, though that's how Miller repeatedly tried to spin it after it destroyed her career as a credible journalist.
Were you living in year-round gorgeous weather areas alike I mentioned? (Coastal Southern California)

> It's generally not "they really aren’t interested in housing" but "they aren't willing to accept the terms on which that housing is offered."

What’s the difference? Being “interested” in something means being willing to pay its price it in order to reap its benefits. There exist plenty of folks who aren’t willing to pay the price of “work all day and live in a less desirable area” to reap the benefits of “have an address” when they can pay the price of “live as a vagabond” to reap “do as they please 24/7 in some of the most desirable regions on earth”.
And let's not forget the oldest of them all, Star Citizen. Bet another pandemic will come and go and that game will still be in alpha
Are obese people starting off as obese though? I would think that they have to eat a lot to become obese to begin with, which suggests that eating less prevents one from getting obese[1].

Eating less is both prevention and treatment.

[1] Excluding metabolic disorders
Just a heads up: the article mentions that people were reporting a "Something went wrong: A" error after trying to delete their account. I got that error but my email address no longer works to log in to LastPass, so I think the account deletion went through anyway. I haven't used LastPass in several years, anyway, so no loss.

For what it's worth, I got an unidentified login email today with an IP in Canada. I didn't see that login attempt in my LastPass access logs, however, so I don't know for sure if they used the correct master password. I did check, and it said that my master password was last set in 2015, so it's possible I was impacted in an older breach.
Ask HN: How does Reddit suggest local ads despite disabled location access?
Look up rocket stoves, and rocket mass heaters. Properly built, they effectively produce only co2 and steam, even all carbon monoxide is consumed.

Of course, since each rmh is custom built, you need to actually test the exhaust of every one to ensure it works as intended.

Mine is pretty swell, albeit a tad annoying to keep going if we leave for a few days and the whole mass cools. With that said, it uses about 1/10th the wood of a new high efficiency wood stove we use in a different building.
My impression is that modern economics has no playbook for something like this, and with the undue influence economics has on high level geopolitics these days, it seems very unlikely to have legs.
I highly recommend people read David Graeber's latest book, published after his death called The Dawn of Everything.
(I work at YC). We do offer equity-like ownership in YC to all employees. Unfortunately we can't share the details or numbers publicly. But philosophically we think it's very important for all startups to offer generous ownership to their employees, and we follow this philosophy ourselves.
DMCA would be a violation, but more importantly, it could potentially be argued that you are copying it to your hard drive permanently when you wouldn't need to have an archival copy.
Im saying recycle can probably be dropped altogether.
> Now, if I had comprehensive coverage, they'd be facing my insurance company — because one of those has to pay up.

You don't need collision coverage to cover collisions that are the fault of other drivers -- just uninsured motorist coverage.
Because when you list the entire band, people naturally will demand being at the top of the band, of be insulted if you offer them salary at the bottom of the band, even if it is warranted.
I think we’re going to see a lot of shrinking consumption, but not directly because of climate change, but because of pure economic costs (some of which will be due in part to climate change).

Everything is getting more expensive. More and more people (especially youth) can’t afford a house etc. Some of them will choose to consume less, some will be forced to.

Costs of goods is a real behaviour changer. As externalities like climate change affect costs, behaviour will change. Will it be too late though?
> spent decades of effort on futile attempts to refute it.

They did just the right thing trying to refute it. They did as much good as those who spent their time trying to prove it. That's how science works by trying to prove it and disprove it.

They didn't get the glory of being right but their work was very important to show that QM could not be proven wrong.
If we started reducing emissions in the 90s it might have worked, but at this stage we need to go down to net zero emissions to succeed. And we can't reduce to zero.