skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when I wasn't a fan of the government subsidizing farmers with policies like that, but the cost of underproduction of food is too high, and it's not a problem markets will solve, so it makes sense for governments to step in and overproduce food.
Could be in California: electricity at $0.30 [1], electric resistance heater, house without insulation or even seals in the windows/doors. When I lived in LA I had a gas furnace/gas water heater and spent about $50/month more on gas in winter. I've looked up historic data and it appears gas was about 30-35 cents per therm at that time so I used additional 140 therms per month or (adjusting for the 80% gas heat efficiency) 3300 KWh. If I had a resistance heater and paid $0.30 per KWh it would be about $1000.

1. https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Standard-Residential-R...
I’m curious about what circumstances stop payments to them? Does it require you to have zero income?
> My wife and I will be starting our own business...

Good on you! I dream of starting a home business with my wife.

If you don't mind sharing, what kind of business?
Is it sustainable to give everyone a boat and all of that stuff though? Is this really any different from a walk through of a big off grid estate with rain collection, batteries, solar, chickens, grains, etc?

Just because there is a nice closed loop on day to day resource usage, it doesn’t make something sustainable nor something to strive for to help with climate change.
> It's so incredibly silly how owning a smartphone isn't even a matter of preference any more; people just expect everyone to have one.

Most of society has transitioned now to just being custodians of smartphones -- moving the smartphones around, feeding the smartphones their various diet of information and imagery, tending to their demands for attention and updates etc. Surely it will be an unfamiliar experience to have just a regular person walk among them.
I wonder if they ever got Google docs to print/convert to pdf without disrupting the formatting.
> I don't think the printed money induced food demand

Food purchases are way up since Covid.

https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/food/united-states
There was an article just one or two days ago that indicated that vaccination prevents against hospitalization something like many multiples of times greater protection than recovery from prior infection.
And who controls access to using starlink satellites for research and the cost? The space research is now a monopoly in control of spacex. Whereas it used to be that any one could get started in their backyard.

Fuck spacex and its apologists
It’s worth noting that the Haber process doesn’t require methane, methane is used as a source of hydrogen because it’s cheap and easy to use. Any source of hydrogen could work, but most of them are more energy intensive and thus more expensive or inefficient than just using methane. If you wanted to use nuclear or renewables, you just dedicate your energy production to electrolysis or whatever.

Edit to add: also worth noting that electrolysis currently amounts to about 5% of hydrogen production. You basically can’t remove fossil fuels from the food supply without lots of alternate energy input, so this is not a short term fix short of spooling up all kinds of nuclear reactors.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, and maybe if we need to be dependent on fossil fuels for any one thing then we should prioritize food supply rather than literally burning them (or worse, venting them to the atmosphere as is often done with methane), just trying to set the right expectations for people who might be learning all this for the first time.
This process is the reason Malthus was proven wrong back in the day. We wouldn't be able to support 8 billion people without it.
That’s what I do with my ex but I can’t escape the hurt, depression, and uncertainty during the weeks when they are with my ex.

I think most parents fully expect to be parents 100% of the time once they have kids.

I don’t want, don’t need, don’t enjoy the “me/adult” time at all. I just want to make dinner for my kids, help with homework, watch a show together, take them to practice, play games, watch them grow, have conversations, hear their voices.

I coach everything just so I can see them on my off weeks. I am president of the pta so I can see them more often too.

It’s awful in every way for me. I can’t stand it when they are gone.

EDIT: Add in my ex bringing boyfriends around which makes me physically ill. I don’t sleep or eat. I feel miserable. I just hope my kids are getting through this okay, but it’s so hard to tell. I don’t want to ask if they feel bad because then they might think they are supposed to be feeling bad. So I just do what I can to make them feel happy and loved.
If you are that cocnerned for a small group of people to get decent internet, then vote for breaking the monopoly of xfinity instead of creating a new one
Converted a simple WinForms app for scanning and reordering medications using Xamarin Mac and storyboards. It was relatively painless.
$400/mo invested in some shitcoins and NFTs could easily make you more than $10k/year.
If you are that cocnerned for a small group of people to get decent internet, then vote for breaking the monopoly of xfinity instead of creating a new one comtrolled by a lunatic narcisstic megalomaniac billionaire with no empathy

Everyday a billionaire wakes up and does nothing with those billions but make more of those and hold on to them. They are nothing like anybody else but other billionaires
This is very interesting from an agricultural perspective. According to the Wikipedia article for ammonia, “In the US as of 2019, approximately 88% of ammonia was used as fertilizers”.

To me this is a very interesting and damning fact with regards to current dominant agricultural practices. Yet another reason that it would be beneficial to further redevelop closed loop nutrient systems. For instance, sewage solids from cites in are sold to farmers for use as fertilizer.

Funnily enough Fritz Haber (who developed the Haber Process used to manufacture ammonia) also developed chemical weapons in WWI. Some people claim he is somewhat redeemed by his contribution to artificial fertilizer. I disagree with this reasoning on several levels.
I'll add to this: you don't necessarily have to get married for this to apply. In most (all?) Australian jurisdictions, living with someone for enough time is enough to establish you as defacto - which for almost all intents and purposes is just like being married.
If you want code to be run line by line as written in source file I think you want -Og. O0 means optimize compilation speed.

Wouldn’t recommend relying on either of them for making your build correct. It breeds the false accusation that it’s the optimizations that break your code, when the code is in fact already broken and might fail for other reasons.
Your 4 year old doesn’t understand that at all, they’re parroting what they hear at home. Because they’re 4.
Google (and all the other companies with similar net hiring ratios) use multiple factors to narrow their pre-interview pool; including standard techniques such as resume and phone screening. And then there's in-person interview itself, which involves broader cognitive and personality assessments (apart from in-person LC recitation).

The parent poster was literally saying that LC screening by itself will get you your 99 percent reduction.
> Why the feigned confusion?

This is both uncharitable and against HN guidelines
> What is the critical difference?

Whether the stuff you’re observing can read and understand your observations, and then choose to do the exact opposite.
I think individual action like not buying a new car doesn't really save much in the production process (it saves only on the consumption side, like less gas being used in driving).

A car's required raw material is not going to be mined less because a few people decides not to buy a car - the iron ore and plastics are all going to have been mined at scale (thus, the marginal cost of a few more kgs of material is not a lot). The assembly/production line is going to run, costing energy and thus emissions. The car not purchased is going to sit in the lot - waiting for the next buyer.

only if a lot of people collectively drop their demand for a car would any real effect occur.
Why is depopulation not even a consideration as a solution for climate change?

Surely there are ethical ways to implement it.

Or do the world's largest and wealthiest nations only care for their hold on economic power?
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So, scientists didn't confirmed qwerty or things like that directly cause RSI/CTx...

But lets keep discussing that ! Let's circle from qwerty to dvorak and back again, with some minor route twiks to more exotic layouts...

Pleas stop...

R. is the problem ! 'R' like in 'repeat'. Programmer or pianist or pro-gamer or violinist or baker or whatever !

It's self abuse - Stellman wrote big parts of Emacs, gcc, some OS, other things while using mail and lists. jzw wrote Netscape, screensavers and other things. Other examples ?
It seems to be more at people with real skills being drilled about their Word skills in an interview.

"Well it's nice that you have a few university degrees and 19 yeras of experience in journalism; how proficient are you in MS Word?"

"Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how! You better sit back and relax as this story takes us all the way back to Windows 95 ..."
An example that surprised me: a friend of mine is unable to quit his stressful, unfulfilling high paying job due to alimony from a contentious divorce. Depending on jurisdiction, alimony payment amounts can be based on your earning potential, not your current income. So if you can earn lot you may be stuck in a job you hate.
Evolution is not going to evolve longer-life genes beyond a certain point. Something's going to kill you: disease, accidents, predators. Any gene that would, for example, help humans to live to 200 in the wild is useless. If it did evolve, it could mutate into a broken state and never be missed.
Even if that is the assertion, I still wouldn't agree.

The US spends more on education as a % of GDP than anywhere in the world. And - it has a very high GDP/capita as a starting point. And sends more people on to post-secondary education than most places, more than in most countries were post-secondary is socialized.

Germany, with fully socialized University has to ration it - the end up 'streaming' kids by age 15, and those slots are disproportionately allocated to rich kids, moreover, the number of post-secondary students (in College programs, not internships) is lower than in the US, kind of exacerbating the inequality problem.

To boot, the US has a massive problem with post-secondary debt.

University education itself is not the only key to success, rather, it was historically a status marker of the elite. Since it is not just that anymore, we have to be more practical about who we send to school.

I would argue we have too many liberal arts graduates, and not nearly enough trade programs and internships. While Liberal Arts programs absolutely embellish students with higher order thinking, and it would be nice if everyone could attend ... it's frankly the purview of the people who can afford to pay for it without having that cost related to a job on the other end.

And, given that in the US that basic literacy is still a serious problem for many of those in High School ... do we really think that the quantity of post-secondary students really the problem?

Probably not.

The US does a pretty good job at getting people into post-secondary programs, even when they generally would not be qualified, and it's arguably inefficient.

If this were 1970, then it would be an easy argument of 'getting more people into College'.

But conditions have changed and it's a much more difficult situation.

Keep the bars high and objective instead of trying to send everyone to College by virtue of magical thinking.

Maybe we can graduate everyone from highschool as a matter of social equality, but providing kids with projects they can sink their effort into and especially develop the middle-tier apprenticeship programs (i.e. Germany) would be probably a better approach.

I'll bet $1000 that these Intel Chip Fabs require just as many 'trained specialists' as they do College Grad designers.

I'd also bet $1000 that 'Republicans' (at least practically and ideologically) would back that kind of approach.

We could start by breaking 'Doctor' and 'Nurse' into more categories. By making college only 2 or 3 years + 2 years teachers college instead of requiring a 4 year degree. By defining and regulating some types of skilled trades, possibly even software. Etc.

And of course, probably by raising minimum wage, supporting automation and happily moving out non-productive jobs to Mexico and Vietnam where the net surpluses are greater anyhow.

In 2021, it's reasonable for people to take the position that fudging more people through college is just not the most productive or even equitable approach we should approach.
Dude, this is my story about my experience. The context provided above is relevant to what I was doing. This has nothing to do with theoretical possibilities that you are speaking about it. You are in the wrong thread.
Have used Ruby professionally for a few years now and had no idea "then" exists.

TIL (something not that useful)
Yes, this is the case due to the enormous scale of production. Replacing the hydrogen source at similar scales with electrolysis is plausible with base load power generation. The cost increase is a small integer factor, and in the bigger scheme of things is likely something we can adapt to at least for agriculture.

An obvious challenge is that we don't have available green base load power -- nuclear, hydro, or geothermal -- at anything remotely resembling the necessary scale. The requirement for base load power follows from the economics of industrial chemistry, which becomes much more expensive if you can't run your process in a continuous steady-state equilibrium. If we tried to produce ammonia via micro-batching chemistry or similar, those economics may not be practical.

The other unfortunate reality is that ammonia production is often a way to extract value from excess methane that might otherwise be vented or burned. It is a better use than the alternative. It isn't a coincidence that ammonia is primarily produced in countries with a persistent surplus of methane. As long as we have vast amounts of methane lying around, and we will for the foreseeable future, conversion into ammonia is a pretty reasonable choice since that carbon will often end up in the atmosphere regardless.
> - Proper 14" HiDPI screen

I can't stress this enough. The display on the Framework can't do integer scaling and so almost everyone who intends to use an external monitor with the Framework can't do that on Linux without extremely annoying issues such as significantly higher input latency, GUI apps behaving abnormally, and not being able to use an external monitor and the laptop screen simultaneously. I don't care if they release Coreboot for the Framework, it's useless with its screen.
Was going to disagree but ended up coming around to the argument. I guess the difference is at a certain point preparation turns into a wasteful arms race, it’s not just a reasonable amount of effort put into your next gig but too much effort on things that don’t really represent real day to day / reality. Not sure where the line is, but there is definitely waste and it definitely favors those with spare time.

Does seem like there is a growing movement to explicitly not do leetcode style reviews at many places which is good.
There's nothing woke about vaccines.
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I was divorced a decade or so ago. I'm not super rich or anything, regular engineer class well off...

My advice... be amicable if possible. And give the other side more than you, ask them to sign off, and find a cheap attorney to do the paperwork. My divorce was super cheap on paper, even though I lost more than half my net worth. I think it cost about $200.

I had a coworker telling me I was an idiot, and how his lawyer could have gotten me a better deal. Only cost him six figures and many months of time to get it.

Time is your most valuable asset. Get it over as quick as you can.
"Fewer" just means they get spoiled/helicoptered; with the added long term affect that families are atomized instead of larger support networks.
I think there's one caused by blue alge in Canada
Google since Page and Brin bailed has become a highly political organization interested only in short term revenue growth, and is no longer an engineering organization focused on product excellence. Anyone that has used their messaging products over the years has noticed this.

This type of business attracts a different class of talent and nearly all of the old guard has cashed in their stock and left.
Do you have any numbers to back up your “many hospitals” claim?
Seems like a huge risk to marry someone when there is a big discrepancy in income and assets…
Depopulation as in killing people? Or as in the one child policy?

It turns out you don't need to implement a one child policy: people implement it themselves when the cost of living gets high enough.
This reads as he's in the honeymoon phase of startup world. The politics he mentioned get so much worse in startup world the moment the startup hits a road bump
If it was so great why is everyone an ex-employee?
> I've never heard of a heatsink needing replacement

It definitely happens. Usually as a direct result of someone just not taking care of their machine at all, but it still happens.

Source: work at independent repair shop.
You can use purchasing power parity differences to check it out. Find like-minded first world people to pool a fraction of their income and you can offer UBI to a third world village or town.
I've been burned too mamy times. Once a product realizes that x% of its free tier uses only feature X they suddenly put that feature behind a paywall. Now I"ve got to research and setup an alternative or pay 20$ for some minor convenice I set it up for.

Most free tiers requires a card on file. I shudder to think at having to check dozens or hundreds of such services regularly to make sure they have not sent out an email about how we are now charging you. Then I don't notice for 6 months and find out I spend $150 on something I could have setup myself in less than an hour that will never charge me.

I have had hundreds of such products subscribed at work. At least every year or so an entire day gets burnt updating credit card info from logging in and looking up the bespoke way every single site requires the updates to be done for payments.

The services that suddenly shut their doors and again require me to research and setup an alternative.

Services get acquired all the time then switch to pay only and they have your CC on file already for easy billing.
The founder's destructive behavior wasn't the only factor mentioned - in fact it was the least of all factors mentioned.

... acted like a sociopathic in some people's opinion?

What's with the attempt at dissimulation here? The issue is what the guy did. Not "some people's opinion" of what he did.

I can't see that affecting someone's employment.

I can't see how the founder's ethical standards (expressed not just through what they did 16 year ago, but in the present day) wouldn't affect your experience working at their company.

The fish rots from the head, as the saying goes.
Internal search can often be scammy though. If you search Google for products, you'll land on an Amazon page, but if you do your search on Amazon instead, they will sometimes only show you more expensive versions of the general product, as if the cheap one that you were looking for doesn't exist.
I came across similar anecdotes of build quality and turned my nose. I found myself wishing I could hold a Framework laptop twist it like I was ringing out a wet rag. Surely this is a good test of build quality, I thought to myself. But in a moment of clarity, I realized this and other pseudo signals of build quality that Youtube reviewers and other armchair experts were attempting to use to draw comparison (to a unibody macbook pro) were either irrelevant or pedantic. Why is a unibody the pinnacle of build quality? Shouldn't longevity be?

I checked my Apple elitism at the door and I put my name down for a Framework in September and got it in October. Happy ever since. It's a great little laptop and would highly recommend others.
Technically, the most revealing experience has been to lie absolutely still, eyes half-open, not even blinking, staring at a fixed point in a static, blank scene such as a wall while following each seeing/hearing sense-impulse’s travel through the nervous system to the point where the different signals meet.

This eventually leads to strong open-eye visuals and complete oceanic boundlessness out-of-body experience.
> This is largely why GB, one of the more oppressed nations in terms of response has now completely rolled back govt restrictions/mandates.

Well, that's more to do with our current PM flailing about under a whole swathe of self-inflicted wounds trying to a) gin up support from the right wing criticising the lockdowns/vaccines, and b) distract from said wounds by creating a lot of noise about this kind of policy. It is basically nothing to do with scientific consensus or sensible policy or anything like that.
The article points out that ammonia generates far more emissions than any other single chemical compound [1] but it is still a fraction of cement [2].

[1]: https://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/97/24/WEB/09724-industri...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02612-5
Hitler made the rather peculiar decision to declare war on the US first, a few days after Pearl Harbor.

Supposedly it was pointed out that their agreement for mutual defense with Japan didn't require them to declare war if Japan was the aggressor. But that was ignored.
> You're describing the Thinkpad T14S.

It doesn't seem to have a proper 14 inch HiDPI display. 1080p on 14 inches usually needs anywhere from 1.2x to 1.4x scaling and 4K would need around 2.5x scaling.
Weird I feel DDGs search quality has also gone down recently. I find myself jumping between google and DDG and sometimes to Bing when both are broken.

It is like search is broken on all the major providers. Not sure if they are copying each other or if SEO spam has become a lot better.
Do they pay the same salary?
> Work is a place to get work done

I can understand that it is annoying and I haven't been to the US for a while to understand how things became but I think you are missing that for minorities and women work was never just a place to get work done, but also a place to have to fear discrimination, sexual harassment, glass ceilings and power balances tilted to old white men.

I think your discomfort with corporate measures to somewhat balance this might be a tenth of the discomfort of the old days even when they didn't affect you.
Tom is being disingenuous here. And he's well aware where the sleight of hand lies.

The VPE today is getting more equity but the startup is overvalued and won't exit to the public market at the save growth rate. 10 years ago, you'd get less equity but the valuation is also lower so your multiplier is significantly higher.

Case and point, Peter Thiel's investment into FB at 5m valuation at today's market is likely a multi hundred million dollar valuation. Which VPE do you think is getting the better deal?
I very much have a love-hate relationship with computers.