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I'm in e-commerce, and reading through this thread I think many people have the misconception that people make purchases to solve problems and want that solution to last as long as possible.

In reality, and this is something I spent a long time coming to terms with, much shopping is done because it's fun. Spending money isn't a cost - it's the whole point of the exercise.
Poorly, but why keep at the Haber process for another century of historic growth and record mouths fed when we can instead try our luck with legumes?
I'm trying to point out the system can be changed from the outside. That's it. I'm not trying to tell you how to do it. I'm simply pointing out it's possible.
Hello! Urea fertilizer has jumped from $400/ton to $1100/ton in a year. This is not consistent with the price jump being caused by inflation, which remains at much more modest rates.

The prices are higher due energy prices rising in Europe and China, natural gas supply disruptions in Texas due to hurricanes and floods, and sanctions on Belarus. They are a driver of inflation, not caused by inflation.
Have you tried another search engine?
If true, that just makes it worse in my opinion.

Although maybe it’s evidence in my favor? They have to pay people that much to keep doing what they know is wrong…
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Food prices rising means hunger means social unrest. The developed world is not entirely out of the woods.

With low natural gas prices and heavily subsidised food, the poor of the US should hopefully come out relatively unharmed.

It's going to be worse in the EU and its periphery:

- High dependence on Russian natural gas.

- Lots of fertiliser depends on Belarussian potash here.

- The natural gas crisis is halting lots of energy intensive processes all over Europe already.
> What about all the digital artists getting their art stolen and sold as NFTs?

Surely you're joking. Not only can't you steal a bunch of digits; even more importantly, you can't sell them "as an NFT" since what's getting sold is not the thing the NFT is a hash of. At least to my knowledge, there's never been any property rights implications of an NFT transaction in any country.
But... UBI doesn't destroy what might be taken away. That money immediately goes and does work, and eventually it potentially improves the environment of those it was taken from. In the form of fewer social issues. Is the theory anyway.
> Also, 50/50 custody as a norm.

Sounds like the worst possible outcome for the kids. A constant state of chaos in your life, even if both parents are reasonably good at taking care of a kid, interested in it, have the financial means, etc.
Industrial ammonia emits more CO2 than other chemical-making reactions (2019)
Makes me think of the phrase servant leadership that was batted about at my corporate job.

Not everyone in charge has to be some hard charging loudmouth. That's basically style, not substance.
And quite apart from the unit error (W should be Wh) and calculation error (30 × 6 ≠ 160), the figure of 30W is probably wildly off target. The wording implies that figure was looked up somewhere rather than found experimentally (despite the context), and 30W is vastly more than any even vaguely recent and sensibly configured laptop will use for most tasks: the true typical figure is probably a quarter to a half of that, and could be even less for some hardware: e.g. https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/ says of their current latest hardware that it has a 70Wh battery and “Up to 11 hours wireless web” and “Up to 17 hours Apple TV app movie playback”, implying that the entire system consumes about 6.4W and 4.1W (probably a bit more) for those two tasks; a 30W load would be draining the battery in 2h20m—by no means impossible, but not the typical case. In fact, for things with batteries of their own, this kind of power consumption calculation based on battery life is very convenient, generally more so than measuring at the wall (though if you’re cutting things fine, you’ll want to consider that too because of losses in the charging infrastructure).

Later in the article they mention they’re dealing with a 2010 MacBook Pro running Elementary, and yeah, that’ll definitely consume quite a bit more power than a new MacBook Pro running macOS, but I’d still be surprised if it was as much as 30W.
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> MyFun has the type

I hope you fix this, because it is wrong. MyFun is the type. woops has the type because of the annotation.
Dunno about Western maps, but old ‘military’ maps of Russia are now frequently used by hikers, climbers and such folk to plan outdoors routes. There are tons of details on the maps, and I guess nature doesn't change that much in the 60 years or so (until now, at least).

(Maybe something digital is more in use now, compared to ten years ago—but I sorta doubt it, since neither satellite maps nor vector maps tend to mark useful features in the outbacks. Maybe OSM comes close, since hikers themselves put in the routes and markings there. There's also https://opentopomap.org — dunno how good it is.)
I learned today that technically he died years ago. It's not that he was healthy and then today he passed away. Apparently he had a stroke years ago and couldn't walk, use the bathroom, eat, talk, etc. on his own.. everyone had to do everything for him. Definitely a DNR would have been good to have here.

For something that teaches the impermanence of things, they sure tried hard to make him permanent.
The standardizing of support payments that a lot of these countries (and it looks like some US states) do seems like a fair way to reduce the potential exploitability too. The price of raising a child isn't tied to income, so why should the payer's income matter beyond reducing payments (ideally with the state stepping in like the Danish system) for those who can't make the normal amount?
Thanks for sharing this. As a Dvorak typist of 6 years, I have often wondered what my next frontier will be. Stenography seems to have a fast growing community around it, but I'm open to alternative layouts as well. BEAKL has always been on the edge of my radar holding the position of interesting, but probably no. This however is the first time I've seen someone compare it favorably to Dvorak. Seems it could be worth trying out based on what you said! While I feel like Dvorak has strengthened my right pinky finger, it's L, /, and = keys are notably tedious. I wouldn't want to have RSI as a result of that.
Nah, depending on the state, the law permits them to cover nearly anything.
Former van-denizen here. I always used friends' addresses (with their permission, for a limited amount of time) when I needed to get important docs or plates. Usually it's not too hard to find someone to let you receive some mail at their house. Utility bills were always a problem for me, but there are usually ways around. Proof of filing a tax return in-state is enough in most cases, even if you're not "at" that address anymore.
The more I read about string theory, including Brian Greene's books, the more it seems akin to arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of an n-dimensional pin.

If anything good comes out of string theory research it will probably be the development of the mathematical machinery and the computational power that is needed to perform and analyze more experiments and the observational data we are gathering in the study of high energy events out in the cosmos.
I'd say it's a combination of factors, based on:

(1) Most chiefly, the egregiously unethical behavior of nearly all of the "big" players (the rest being merely moderately unethical)

(2) Reports from close friends of the day-to-day grind at these places (literally none have anything more than superficially positive to say about it; some have suffered significant health problems, include one full-scale nervous breakdown)

(3) And the intellectual dishonesty implicit in the LC process also, but only as icing on the cake, as it were.

And independent of all that - it is by no means a binary (either you work or for big tech, or you grind along at for an extra decade or two at middle range). There are high-paying opportunities out there, if that's what you're out for -- they just aren't as immediately obvious to find as FAANG.
My history is a little fuzzy but would we have gotten the Civil Rights Act? From what I understand, JFK was having some serious trouble getting it passed (instead of some watered down piecemeal legislation) but a combination of the state of a mourning country post-assassination + Johnson betraying the people who elected him(he was the good ol boy from the south placed there to represent their 'values') provided the catalyst for getting this difficult legislation through. Unfortunately this also had the consequence of further alienating the south and made them run into Reagan's arms a few elections later.

I shudder to think what would have happened if the Civil Rights Act wasn't passed. I may not have even been born in this country.
Compensation stagnation may be a component, but it's likely only one of many factors. From what I can see, culture shift seems to be the primary driver of the Great Resignation.
WPF isn't dead, it's done.
Ideally the thing you spend time on should be something you can use outside the org. E.g. learn k8s.
In the past I developed a mobile app that was standalone and users had to pay only once.

Users then started asking extra features and down voted my app when I said I didn't want to implement them.

When the app lost its popularity and was making barely no money, I realized that I was working for free. My user base paid for a product having a well defined set of features and kept asking for more, for free.

Moreover, think about a service that needs to rely on an online backend, for instance to synchronize app data between devices, how are you supposed to do that with a single payment business model?
Google receives about 3 million applications per year, and hires less than 1% of them. Not all of them for dev positions, but still probably at least a million. Google is probably the most popular, but even the maligned Facebook gets a few hundred thousand applications per year.

I concur with the parent's point. HN is perpetually complaining about tech interviews, but nobody ever suggests a viable alternative that can cope with such application volumes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/heres-how-many-google-job-in...
I'm sure a marketing firm specifically tailored to such startups looking for a quick exit would be rather profitable.
The maps, at least at the scale of around 1:500000 or 1:200000, are still used by hikers and such outdoorsy folk. (Or they were ten years ago, dunno about now.)
1x would be 1x market rate IMO.

Let’s say your skill is worth $125k avg.

I’m not exactly interested in the people who can be that, and there’s a lot of them. I want the people who can make me feel like $250k is a steal etc.
I'm sure the upstreams that aren't doing these things are also available in the distros you're avoiding, like Debian :)
> If you live in the West, chances are at some point you have stuffed your used clothes into a garbage bag and hauled them off to a Goodwill or the Salvation Army.

Please don't let this article put you off donating clothes to good causes. I know that (for instance) in the UK the Red Cross sells as much as it can, and only the unsellable stuff (ripped, stained etc) goes out to 'rag' with the recyclers. Clothing is even cycled through different shops if one can't sell it. So I'm really not sure that 10-20% figure holds up globally.

Something this article glossses over is that this stuff is not just being dumped - it's being bought. I think it's wrong that (for instance, in the article) the US interfered in law-making in various places to veto restrictions on the trade, of course. But fundamentally, the countries need to get a handle on dumping and start factoring that into the price of doing business.

Yes, westerners could buy less crap, and they could also do more shopping for used stuff themselves. But that's only part of hte picture.
Long-term projects can hurt market cap because investors sometimes react negatively to investments that will return nothing for years and won't pay for themselves until perhaps a decade or more into the future.

Many investors would rather see a $20B share buyback instead of a $20B greenfield project.

All assets do not get priced at NAV by the market, even if the NAV is known. In this case, we don't know the future value of a major fab. We have no way of knowing future utilization and yield for the fab, so it'd be impossible to determine the timeframe for computing the present value of its earnings.

It will be interesting to see how the market digests this news story in the coming weeks. The price of INTC could move markedly; earnings are coming up next week and there's an Investor Meeting scheduled for the middle of February.
Agreed. It is frankly ridiculous how much of our politicians time and effort goes toward picking and fermenting these personal vendettas over international issues that have no bearing or meaning to "US" - The country's interests, but suddenly get clumped into the "Foreign Policy established objectives" . . .

Why?? Because some idiot picked a fight we have no part in. The Bush Dynasty and the endless wars of the middle east, The Clintons and Europe/Russia. Right now in the present, the bi partisan scum skirting the laws of our nation to send Troops and armaments to places like Syria and killing and displacing MILLIONS of people that we as a nation have to carry on our conscience.

This should disgust everyone regardless of nationality, political affiliation or any form of "justification" they may have formed as being the international keeper of peace.

Creating what is essentially a Shell Company in the form of NATO with ridiculous amounts of warmaking powers, whatever cosmetic protections there may be to guard against abuse, and then allowing that entity to run feuds and foreign policy of the United States WELL PAST THE POINT of an administrations tenure should never be allowed.

International treaties should NEVER be allowed to derive in perpetuity, the constitutional powers and duties entrusted to National institutions. And this is precisely what is and has been happening so far.
It might be worth swapping jurisdictions. Some places seem just bad for having any prolonged relationship.
> they’re likely a millionaire.

Almost certainly; if not, it's not because they didn't make enough to be one. Of course, "past performance is no guarantee of future returns."
which WSL version does this apply to, 1 or 2?
It's not that there was some evil master plan from the beginning, it's that GitHub benefits from git/GitHub confusion (such as hosting git.io), knows this (at least nowadays), and passively encourages this by doing nothing about it.
I hate half size arrow keys, why don't make it normal size.
> ...considering the state of things

The state of things is that highly vaccinated countries like mine are experiencing the biggest baddest infection and death rate yet. This isn't the outcome projected when they were nagging, blackmailing, and propagandizing us every day for 2 years about reaching "80% vaccination".

The public did what they were told, and more. We're now above 90% vaccination, but apparently that isn't enough. We need blunt, symbolic tactics now, such as kicking unvaccinated athletes out of the country to "send a message" about vaccination. Desperate measures including mass-behavioral manipulation and psychological tactics dripping in political spin.

> a very strong anti-vaccine narrative chomping at the bit

You're kidding yourself if you think narratives and "chomping at the bit" is exclusively the domain of the anti-vaxxer, and not exercised by those pushing and enforcing mandates.
>The office enjoys the Bully Pulpit and it is valuable to have this arrangement in my opinion.

A lot of good that is doing in the Biden years. :/
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The absurdity I like to point out sometimes (usually with a lot of downvotes when I talk about this on HN) is how capitalism corrupts nearly all. Countless employers sell their employees on the idea of "Learn meditation to help with work stress" instead of "Lets talk about by work is stressful and how we can fix that." The former just buzzword dishonesty, the latter something that could affect profits, and even if only .01% of profits spent to make workers lives 100% better it would be deemed unacceptable in capitalism. Even if the stinginess of the capital owning class could be curtailed, this reform still wouldn't be acceptable because it would be a win for workers, and keeping workers from rising up in any form is a prime feature of capitalism. Remember, the most perfect capitalist entity hires no one, pays no salaries, and only makes money for its owner. The second most perfect form uses slaves for labor. Due to a loss of a civil war, this is no longer possible here, but we certainly spilled a lot of blood trying to keep it for capitalism. Now quasi-slavery is how the game is played by making sure life's expenses keep people in line and making sure wages never get anyone independently wealthy. Some slip through but that's a bug not a feature.

Of course capitalism can't exist without the ego. Everyone here is, as they say, a temporary embarrassed millionaire. Everyone believes in the CEO as this force of nature who does all sorts of things, because the CEO is crafty enough to steal credit from his underlings as self-marketing. Characters like John Galt are seen as realistic and people defend Rand's writing with a straight face. Capitalism is the ego's playground so of course, Buddhism translated here is littered with narratives that protect capitalism.

I also find it a little amusing at how casually we recommend meditation as a self-help tool for workers to be more productive. If done correctly, it should do the opposite.

Also this excellent piece explaining how the Pali canon refutes California Buddhism's "we are all one" belief:

https://tricycle.org/magazine/we-are-not-one/
The history of war is littered with absolute lines that no one considered would be crossed as a certainty that later became distant laughable and naive thresholds.
I would love to have some compile time constant resolving in typescript. I’ve got a project that generates an array based on some smaller input and it would be fantastic to not have to do that every time the script is loaded.

Really exciting to see people exploring new and other idea of where to take typescript.
The U.K. paid $724k for its “Encryption is Bad” campaign. It won’t work
It was a toss up. Some reasons why I went the way I did:

1) I am of an age where risk/reward ratio is clearer. It still isn't so compelling that I rushed to do it, but far better than for college kids.

2) I was (and remain) concerned that the dark-blue city where I live is going to mandate them to participate in normal life. I find this loathsome, but I am not in a position to fight it.

3) It gives me a certain authority when I tell people that I don't believe in vaccine mandates or many of our policies, yet I am 100% compliant with the rules.

4) I thought maybe it would keep me from catching a cold.

Alas, because the universe tends toward maximum irony, a week after the booster I caught Omicron.
It's quite funny reading this sort of myopic bullshit in response to an article about destruction of the natural world due to unregulated commercial activity.

It's not the answer to everything, but it sure is the answer to some things.
> Git submodules is a "none of the above" tool

So in other words. It's a source versioning tool trying to solve an issue that's better solved by a package manager, and the abstraction mismatch shows.

Like trying to perform eye surgery using rockets.

I'd be ok if Git submodules actually worked (not sorta worked, not "run git submodules update and pray to Linus the issue goes away" worked). It's just that it doesn't. It solves one hard problem, at the expense of making everything else more convoluted.
At the office several of my coworkers use a service in which they rent cloths. Kinda oike Netflix was for DVDs. You pick a few you like, they send them over and next month you send them back. All for a monthly fee.

Someone once told me the average piece of cloth only gers worn 7 times before being disposed of. Dont qoute me on that though :)
For ten million units, a penny is $100,000. You could give an engineer an entire quarter to come up with a software debounce for less than that.

That shit adds up. BOM costs are everything for consumer goods.
How do you know this? Any links to read more?
Back in the day I did not autostart the installer when someone put a cd in, because that always pissed me off. A lot of emails on that one!
Actually, it could. If long COVID is a reaction to the spike, given that infection produces multiple orders of magnitude more protein and that vaccination leads to lesser viral vaccination, it's almost certainly a net positive.

If it's because of latent infection, a vaccine that helps stop infection would reduce the amount of spike protein to zero, which would help.

If it's an autoimmune reaction, vaccines generally provide a different immune reaction than infection, and subsequent immune reaction to infection would be different, so it could improve immune reaction.
Maybe write a better toolchain?
At this point, the leetcode interviews are as much of a behavior interview as they are a technical one, no? It makes sense that they're only hiring candidates willing to spend the time and effort studying.
Although I agree cutting oil and natural gas production will in the short term result in more pain and suffering in the world, in the long term the production of oil and natural gas will result in much more suffering as climate changes wrecks our ecosystems. When the Amazon becomes a desert, and the Sahara covers half of Europe, it will be too late to change your mind on what the consequences are of cutting oil and natural gas production.

Most climate change activists are aware that they're making tough choices. They've probably been living their lives in less comfort and more expenditure than the average person for years trying to give the right example.

That neighbour you know, that installed solar panels on the roof of his house 15 years ago? He probably could have taken his family to Hawaii 3 times for the money they spent on that. And he's probably only recovered his initial investment a couple years ago if you live in a northern climate, if at all.
What is it about RADIX50 that makes it incompatible with the C standard? The lack of a reserved null value?
YouTube's search isn't very good.
I hear you. Even “black lives matter” practically invites the response “all lives matter”. It seems like some on the Left (and I consider myself slightly left of center) deliberately push these terms as a sort left wing dog whistle. I have encountered many well-meaning people who truly believe “all lives, including but not limited to black lives, matter” and when they don’t understand/aren’t aware of the nuance of “‘Black Lives Matter’ actually means ‘Black Lives Matter, too’” they are called racists. Way to alienate many natural allies US Leftists.
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The idea is that the wife and children should not experience any decline in their standard of living as a result of the divorce. They are entitled to live the way they would have lived had the marriage continued; if the husband is rich then that includes owning a nice house in an expensive city, luxury cars, private schools, etc.

If the system’s goal were merely to ensure that they land on their feet, it would look very different.