skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What people can afford (in terms of money/time/opportunity cost) is primarily overprocessed garbage.

I've heard that, but I'm not necessarily sure it's true.
All of the lower socio-economic areas I've lived in (in Melbourne, may be different in the US) have had an amazing selection of dirt-cheap fruit, vegetables, dried legumes and fish that are easily accessible in the main shopping area.

Often we're talking "cash only" businesses that avoid tax in order to lower the prices further, and they're always offering a ridiculous deal on in-season produce. We're talking, in AUD, $5/kg for fish, $2/kg for vegetables, $1/kg for fruit. The dried stuff doesn't go on special, but it's usually dirt cheap anyway ($15 for a 5kg bag, once you rehydrate it you get something like 20kg of chickpeas or lentils).

Lack of access to these markets is something I miss now that I'm no longer so close to Dandy/Sunshine.
I've always wondered-- is the error between tests correlated? Why does it not suffice to gather all the positive outcomes and test them again, then again and again until you have sufficient power depending on the rarity of the disease in the population? I know that for covid tests for example the test outcome errors aren't independent, which is why even taking several tests you can't be confident you're negative even if you tested negative. But I figured that was a special case and it was because their error comes from variance in viral load or something. But would that apply to these genetic marker tests?
It would also block Wirecutter. Affiliate links aren't the problem, trite SkyMall-like content is...
I don’t want to make it publicly shareable. I want to share the references with a group of collaborators.
Ryanair is an Irish company but Stansted is its largest operating base.
I'd love to do this with a W126 (1979-1991 S-Class) because I think they're the most beautiful Mercedes. Very few electronics compared to modern cars, so I assume it would be possible to keep it running and in good condition.

But in reality, I don't have the energy for dealing with this sort of thing. In fact, sometimes I have a bad dream that I bought some high-maintenance older car and am stuck with it.
You are assuming being homeless has an infinite negative cost. As with most things in life, becoming homeless has a certain risk and a certain downside, both of which can be estimated. Those estimates should plug into your calculation when you determine when to buy a house and for long to hold it.
Used Gsmarena.com to narrow down which Android-based phone would be the best choice.

Ended up with the OnePlus 8T due to good battery life, fast charging and reasonable size.

Still very happy with that purchase, which wouldn't have been as easy without that site.
I did a search for "eternal crusade".

The blob of the ads are still the top results. This is not the "no trash search" I'm looking for.
All news has a bias, even if it's just in deciding what to cover. So the answer will always depend on what you want to support, either because you think it's underrepresented or just that it's doing a good job.

Regarding not pushing a certain view, common wisdom is that outlets with more analysis are more biased (eg NYT), while those that strictly report facts are less so (Reuters). So if that's really your criteria, you could support a news service.

I did some digging a while ago and heard good things about Christian Science Monitor, I wanted to subscribe to try them out but they only let you sign up for an automatic renewal you have to call and cancel, so I don't actually know if they are any good.

Another answer I have yet to really explore: find some independents on substack or elsewhere that you're interested in and support them directly
That's only assuming the lockdowns were effective compared to alternatives.
Flip your question around: how much money does he stand to gain from selling to new adopters? Even if you’re striving to be ethical, it’s hard to stay objective when you have a substantial financial win on the line.
I find myself adding the word “Reddit” after certain type of keyword searches so I can get real people opinions and experience on things.
Maybe you didn’t fit the addiction part of aloholism, but when it comes to consumption, a 6-pack a day definitely puts you in that category, along with associated psysical and psychological risks. I’d definitely mention that level of alcohol consumption to my GP and get all relevant blood tests
They locked down the SQLite database so that you couldn't use it with 3rd party tools (such as your own commands, or to export). I am not sure if this got reversed, but at the time it was what triggered me to switch to Zotero. (Still using Zotero, which does everything I need it to.)

One thing I like a lot about Zotero is that they charge a subscription once you get over a certain amount of cloud storage, which gives me more confidence that they'll continue to exist in the future.
Haha. It gets even better, which I discovered while researching a TV that was on sale and the store said their price was the lowest on some price matching service. But when I checked the service they were the only one selling the specific model! Turns out each major chain gets their own model number for certain products like TV’s and refrigerators. Just to fuck with consumers trying to make an educated choice.
David Attenborough's Unending Mission to Save Our Planet
What's ramen architecture?
This led me down a rabbit hole and a desire to watch the movie. Thanks!
I don’t think there are OTC drugs that are effective against covid. So far we have a couple new drugs, a dewormer that only seems to be effective in countries with high rates of parasites, and an antidepressant that pulmonologists feel really weird about prescribing off-label. Did I miss any?
Only if you want to sync pdfs using the Zotero server does Zotero cost money. Anything else is completely free, including syncing your db (without pdf attachments). If you want to sync your pdfs you can point Zotero to a webDAV server, this has worked flawlessly for me.
Of course the study is trash, but you can say the same about pretty much every bit of nutritional science, from paleo and Atkins to intermittent fasting. Vegans aren't unique in selling snake(plant) oil.
I'm trying to understand your comment about not putting a large down payment in case prices go down.
Whether you buy or not is really the only thing that matters if you think the price will go down.

Now the thing to consider, is how much to put down vs how much of your down payment you should invest. With rates so low, it seems better to invest the down payment in the stock market and putting the minimum in the house.
Thanks for pointing out the built-in PDF reader. I use the beta version but was quite busy last term, and hadn't noticed this new feature. It's handy because it lets me highlight and take notes without affecting the PDF file.
Loans for profit seeking businesses are deductible by default. (They're an "ordinary and necessary" business expense.) We can pass any law we want, of course, but I doubt that we're going to see the elimination of commercial mortgage deductibility in my lifetime.
I'm inclined to agree, but when I moved in with my girlfriend that changed. My girlfriend is one of those people who finds fulfillment in busywork. She likes a made bed.

So now I find meaning in making the bed, because she likes it made.
That logic doesn't really apply here, partly because it is not the students choosing what is taught, it's the professor/writer/creator.

Choosing to teach graphics using a cross platform API like OpenGL doesn't force anyone to deal with the inconveniences I listed before. Everyone can use what they already have. And they learned an API that will let them develop cross platform applications as an added bonus.

Also, if we're referring to a course, it's not like anyone is forcing them to take the course. If a Windows user doesn't want to learn OpenGL they don't have to sign up for a course that teaches it. 3D graphics is not a required course in any CS or related degree I've ever heard of. It's usually one of several choices for upper division electives.

If we're referring to creating learning material in general, a book or tutorial or something, again, why not use something that will work for the broadest cross section of potential learners. Creating new content teaching OpenGL doesn't remove the availability of educational content for DirectX or Metal etc.
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This ought to be the canonical example for this sort of thing -- in the sense the unsigned value only* 'helps' if you are already doing something terminally silly.

*to some definition of 'only' that excludes the cases like cryptography, hardware, etc stuff.
OOC why don't you expect ETH to switch? It seems like they're moving full steam ahead.
Are you saying coroners aren't doing toxicology reports, or something else?
>Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense.

My university offers EndNote (plus Web of Science and the Clarivate stack) for free for students and many of them don't use it - they'd rather manually manage the bibliography in their Word documents. The university even ran tutorials to show them how to set it up, add citations, and export the references, thinking maybe the students didn't understand the value of bibliography management software. Nope, even with the tutorials there was almost no uptake.

It turns out the problem was EndNote all along. I tried it myself - one of the worst user experiences imaginable, and I could totally understand why even doing references by hand is preferable. Eventually I told some of my own students that I use Zotero and to give it a go even though we're not supposed to endorse other software. Two weeks later most of them were using it.

So I'm actually quite confused at the fact that Zotero is offered as a free alternative to EndNote, unless the EndNote that I've used is some weird dated inferior version...
> Video games are immensely addictive.

No they aren't, and the suggestion that people could be "addicted" to video games makes a mockery of the concept of addiction.
Because it creates artificial prices. Products disappear from shelves to appear 10x the price on gray market.

Now, price controls combined with quotas (nobody can buy too much of a single product) with good control may for short periods of scarcity or emergency.
...unless you need to reboot to prevent the system from crashing inflight because of timer overflow https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/boein...
There's Nearby Share on Android.
That's generally not true with transaction between countries:

> when countries exchange money for goods in other countries, the gold bars aren't even moved. they bar just gets recorded as belonging to another country

And I don't think individuals or companies make transactions with gold that often.
Wearing gloves to prevent frostbite is a no Brainer too. Telling people in Hawaii to wear gloves to reduce frostbite in Canada is what I think the contentious issue is. A simple solution can be just as brain dead.
The vaccine has side effects. Loss of dexterity from wearing gloves also has serious consequences.
I'm pretty sure it's against code in CA to install an extension cord permanently inside a structure or conduit like that.

When I put all the cables in the wall for my TV, I ran Romex from the bottom junction box to the top junction box, despite the bottom junction box having a male electrical plug. An extension cord plugs into that from another outlet. (Ideally I would have just hardwired the upper outlet, but that would have been another can of worms.)
It figures.

The Surprising Science of Alpha Male Chimps, TED Talk by Frans de Waal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal
The existence of template metaprogramming is an argument for macros, not against them. It shows the lengths to which programmers will abuse and misuse a feature so that they can reach their goals.
One cool project that uses eBPF is Cilium. It allows restricting network traffic to / from containers in Kubernetes. Many of the problems it solves, in my opinion, are better solved via user-space solutions, e.g. service-to-service traffic is better controlled via signing / encryption, but overall Cilium is a pretty cool piece of technology.
this doesnt mean a single 2.3 kilobyte patch.

this means an enormous suite of more than 2000 individual patches
Ask HN: How can we replace iOS on an iPad 2 with Android or any Linux OS?
How can we replace iOS on an iPad 2 with Android, or Debian or another Linux OS else?

It is preferably to be like PC side by side multi OS installation (multi partitions)
Is this (https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools) the Bookends you referring to ? I don't care about citations. All I need is a PDF organizer have categories / tags and can add notes / make annotations.
Perhaps i t would make more sense for Go to be modified for you to be able to specify an upper memory limit.

Then you could do testing to tune that limit for best performance.
Agreed. "Indexing the world's information" sounds like something that can't go wrong.

It's only in the last year of trying to index and organize information within my own company that whoever controls the index holds a _lot_ of power to index it poorly.
You do, but you also have to pick a risk profile you're comfortable with.

If I pay off my mortgage I can afford to take on more risk in the market. I can afford to attempt entrepreneurship.

It took me a long time to get to the point where I truly believed it was worth attacking my mortgage.

I prefer to have as little debt as possible for my own peace.

It's possible for me to get totally debt free in a year or two. Then I can focus on building a portfolio for retirement.

I'm also choosing to remain in my first house and not spend lots on my standard of living.
I'm in the same boat as you and taking the same journey. Expanded my spirituality outlook after I stopped being active in the Mormon church. Also thanks to my wife who started a really interesting podcast. You may recognize some of the topics in your spiritual journey.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RealLaurenLive/videos
All news sites are biased to different extents either by design, corruption, ideology or by moles.

It is better to support something that you agree with.
There have been mortgage products with less than 20% down for a long time now. I bought a house in 2016 for 3.5% down, I had at least 3 separate lenders give me a loan estimate with those terms.
This is needlessly nihilistic. Increment is key. Stopping cold on learned habits and sensory comforts is neurologically difficult. At the first sniff of strife we reach for them as comfort. Incrementally changing input over time is the only manner compatible with how we work.

You didn't dig yourself into a metaphorical hole with a single bite of a shovel, so expecting to step out of it in one go doesn't work. Steps in and steps out.
Then one day someone cuts up that decking with a sawzall and gets an unexpected surprise.
Nearby Share is the Android equivalent.
it's a Dacia (I think the "Spring")
This is something I didn't do early on and feel some level of regret around it. Again this is my personal opinion and you'll need to research / customize for your needs.

I've used Eric Tyson's "Personal finance for dummies" and "Investing for dummies". Both are excellent resources.

Basically:

1. Invest in your 401k and max it out if possible. The advice I've seen is use the Roth 401k instead of 401k. That way withdrawals in retirement are tax free.

2. Move money and invest actively (mostly mutual funds but keep some for speculation as well).

3. Look at a source that can provide additional income passively. E.g. Dividend shares, Real-Estate, etc.

4. If you plan to have kids research 529 plans. Some states provide a tax deduction on the 529 investment. You can setup a 529 even if you don't have children now and add in the beneficiaries later.

5. Estate planning - setup a trust. Makes it really easy to transfer money to heirs and other beneficiaries.

6. If you buy a house (and plan to have children) buy one in a good/excellent school district even if they're a little expensive. The houses hold value and appreciate much better.

It's a rather convoluted topic and finding good financial advisors is hard. I'd welcome suggestions and corrections.
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That's Nearby Share for Android.
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Just cheap, low cost hosting. I didn't expect the tool to take off so I was just hosting it on Cloud Run. I host it on fly.io now.
> ...Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency that derives its value from some underlying external asset, like the U.S. dollar or the price of gold...

That, doesn't seem very decentralized if it has to pinned to something controlled by one entity?

Ok, so self-custody is that you've not got an account with a bank (a "vault" to keep all your money in) that they ultimately control, you're walking around with a wallet, one with a very secure clasp.

That argument kind of makes sense? But a central authority can still squeeze on you just as much, by targeting who you would trade with though, right? The ledger is public, they know who you traded with, they can make life difficult for them until you're not a customer.

> Why is everyone here so focused on NFTs?

Because that's all we here of {$coinname}Coin and blockchain currently, it is the cultural zeitgeist and the face of the tech to the broad public.

Noone's giving a simple explanation that makes sense and gives the killer app features. It's all marketing hype or five dollar words. It took me a good while to realize that "Stablecoins allow you to self-custody dollars" means "bank can't lock me out of my account"
> Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares

Yeah, at least then people might learn the lessons of war that society should already know.
iOS hardware is super locked down. There's not a practical way to do this and probably never will be.
What started to degrade specifically? Did you try a new battery?

This was my first ebike, so I wanted to test the waters with something cheap. If it starts falling apart, I'll probably build a custom one or two and spend more money since ebike riding's been working great for me to get consistent exercise and go on trails more conveniently.
“In many ways signed integers are the null pointers of integers.”

What a great article.
I did not know this, and for some reason it really annoys me. Why are our process contexts littered with useless little synchronous properties? How many other tedious and slow bookkeeping tasks does the OS have to do just to meet some outdated spec that was probably just an ossified implementation detail in the first place? I feel compelled to make it so that new fds are explicitly randomized just so you can't do this, like how Go randomizes map iteration order.
Where is your next song coming from?
Do you subscribe to any streaming service? If you do, how do you navigate the zillions of songs you might listen to next?

If you don't, that would be informative too.

I recently got 6 months free APple music with airpods, and I'm trying to understand whether I want to keep subscribing to it. It's nice to have potential access to any song ever, and another thing to actively use it, or to know how to navigate it.

I'm not sure I want to stop buying individual musical works, or to stop owning my own collection. It is conceptually fabulous having an infinitely large musical access. But that's finite if I stop paying the rent on it...

Right now, I'm listening to Talisman, from Moon Safari by Air, from my Mac, prompted by a friend who mentioned that track on his blog. Then the CD kept going, so now I'm listening to De Matin La.

But if I'd dialed up Talisman on Apple music, the next song might be something else. That something else might be determined by... a trillion dollar corporation. Is that weird? Good? Or is it up to me to take this into my own hands? Or turn it all off and reconnect with silence?

I suppose it's neither here nor there what I do, as far as anyone else is concerned really. Just an individual choice... but if everyone is in this boat, that's kind of a different society to the one I grew up in... isn't it?

Or is it?
That's far too simplistic. Google must also compete or they lose their free users followed by their paying users (ad buyers). I also think it's a multifaceted challenge that failing some genuine ingenuity won't really get solved.

Like I said though, maybe they are just riding their wave (dominance) at this point, but then I'd expect to see better results from a scrappy competitor already or soon. Here's hoping, but even as a discerning user, I haven't yet.

I'm confident that even if Google doesn't solve it, for whatever reason, someone else will eventually. In the meantime, results continue to degrade and the desire / reward to fix it will increase.
Now your comment above is the first search result for "3 hole punch" on NTS!

Nice SEO campaign ;)

If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name (myfirstnamelastname dot com), the Big-G has hated it seemingly since even before I acquired it > ten years ago, even though it's ad-free and totally benign. Good thing I mostly just host go pkgs with it and use it for my email.

p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
I am having a really hard time thinking of cloud-relevant macOS APIs that don't have comparably-easy-to-use Linux equivalents, other than for building and testing macOS and iOS apps. Which ones do you want to use? Core ML?
"see the numbers?" This story is from a life insurance company. It doesn't say "the death rate is up overall". It says "our policyholders are dying at an astonishingly high rate."

And it is indeed a very high rate.

The insurance guy was civilized enough not to complain that his company's incurring lots of losses -- getting hammered by writing lots of checks to survivors. But surely that's how an insurance company knows what's going on.

It makes no sense for an executive of a mutual insurance company to sling bs about this kind of loss. Because auditors.
None of that is relevant to MAD. Boomers still provide a survivable second strike deterrent. Even if an adversary can defend their lunar weapons, it won't matter because their earthly cities will be smoking craters.
Thanks! Quickly looking at the rules, it doesn't look to me like the issue is whether you're connected to the grid? If you have high-voltage wiring (50V+) it looks to me like you still need to get that permitted and inspected?
Yup, that kinda was my point, and where you say "at least" that is also a good point why setting up some complicated static system to maintain limits is not practical. Hence my philosophy has been for a long time to set the physical constraints that just have to be decided (and do that as best as I can). And then to not worry (more than a tiny bit) about statically deciding the rest, or it'll end in a nightmare.
Try a few alternative search engines. Google has other priorities these days.
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Somewhat related but I find many nonfiction books could easily be condensed down an immense amount (talking 20 to 50% here). I don't know if it's me getting older or simply not wanting to put up with filler content anymore.

A book that does this terribly is the "The Checklist Manifesto." ~250 pages of filler when the original article was 20 pages, the exact same information but distilled down to its essence:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

I haven't read Atomic Habits, but I did get the audio book but after reading this summary (which is very good, and much appreciated) I probably won't give it a listen.

I'm curious if people feel the same way about other books?