skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kids cost roughly $270k (2022 inflation adjusted from earlier USDA data) to raise from birth to 18. Each child. Can you afford a Supercar or a fancy boat? If not, how can you afford a kid?

an 18 year auto loan sounds like a bad idea. but $15k (nominal) per year is less than state university tuition.
Virtual Private Networks always existed long before today’s internet VPNs or proxies. It used to be known as a ‘Friend in Russia.’
I agree with your sentiment with the DMV, but I would remove USPS from your example.

That specifically is not federally funded, does have alternatives (FedEx, UPS), is under both economic & political pressure to compete, AND outcompetes the private alternatives by serving all addresses in the continental US. In fact, FedEx and UPS often add USPS to their routes for last-mile deliveries when it is economically advantageous - so it is those private carriers who are being subsidized by USPS
> <snip…> the games aren't actually thaaat difficult, they're just uncompromising and they punish mistakes.

I find that phrasing interesting, as I would consider punishing mistakes part of being difficult, since I'm terrible at execution.

(Not saying any particular game should accommodate me, of course.)
Yeah I was there for TextDrive too. That was more of a slap in the face because it was Dean Allen's personality that brought us in, but Jason Hoffman was running the thing, and he was really more interested in playing with Solaris than providing a stable service. The whole Joyent acqui-pivot (or whatever that was) was just the final fuck-you to those of us who thought it was a cool indie grassroots thing.

As far as Svbtle is concerned, this appears to just be small operation downtime which is the poison you've chosen if you go that way. Can't say there's any "forever guarantee" that really means much. The best you can get is that if you sign with Oracle they'll guarantee to ratchet up that dependency to charge you more and more over time. Hard to beat that as an incentive for uptime.
The credit card comparison space is incredibly lucrative-- that is why Bankrate/Red Ventures bought ThePointsGuy. But it isn't really that objective anymore when it comes to comparisons, since if you're an affiliate for a bank, they heavily dictate how you can include their products on your site. There needs to be a simple tool for users to plug in their spending and easily see the best options based on sign up bonuses, rewards, annual fees and rates. The problem is that by being overly objective, you end up alienating the banks who are paying the referral fees.
Practically, what should one do to avoid lead poisoning here and now?

Lead petrol is banned. Lead paint is banned. Lead pipes are a problem in some areas, but let's assume we don't live in these areas.

What do we need to look out for?
Along with iPhones and uBlock Origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard
Depending on your POV, the main "gas" station in your garage for an EV has either extensive knowledge of you, or ~zero knowledge of you. Outside gas stations are for use only for road trips.
Thanks thiscatis, we would be happy to consider suggestions for new features.
There are a number of issues mixed together here so it is easy to attack. However, the main argument: direct cash with increased privatization vs public services is valid and should not be rejected out of hand. This approach could work better - at least it is not guaranteed to be worse.
Not to mention a level pension funding obligations that no other government agency has to suffer through.
Washington is a great place to be! If you start a digital nomad trip from there, your state taxes will be as simple as possible.

Regarding being dual-taxed, the US has dual taxation treaties with almost every country, so you can deduct the taxes you pay to another country from your US taxes. e.g. If you move to France, you'll pay taxes there, and when you file in the US you'll get credit for those taxes paid. There are numerous other complications for federal taxes as well! But you probably won't flat-out pay double.
I actually seem to have the opposite result. I seem to only be able to find documents that were shared with me, or that I accessed myself. I want to be able to find documents that I have not actually seen, yet have access to view. Confluence is a bit like this - i can search all of the spaces and get results from other parts of the org. but drive seems to push results to the top which are more localized to my immediate previous use
Yes to both, also any program that reads keys directly.
It seems to generate an effectively unbounded number of copies of my address, some correct and some wrong. The UI to manage it is hidden and very minimal. The obvious options like telling the autofill my address once, correctly, and with no further automatic guesses are absent.

My general assumption is that, if I let Firefox autofill my address, it will insert portions of my address into various fields at random, biased somewhat but not very strongly toward getting them in the right place.
If people can reasonably afford a (non-tiny) condo but pine after a single family home that they can't afford, there isn't a housing crisis there's economic diversity.
Credit card tokenization is a thing, and commonly used in retail. It leaves the last four digits of the number intact to allow searching for transactions from the POS; but other numbers are scrambled. Credit card data is otherwise stored in the POS systems tokenized. It takes all teeth out of credit card data for PCI requirements.

In this case, the tokenization is the measure itself.
Is there a way to fast track being able to try out Copilot? I put my email down a few days after it was announced and haven't heard anything.
Concurrency in JavaScript is simple because there are usually just 1 or 2 event sources. Event sources that are mostly idling, too.

It has nothing to do with threads v. no threads.
War is unfortunately real, if you read the papers. Our spending on stuff that isn’t people is massively kickbacks and back-scratching.

Look at wasted energy inputs and unrecyclable materials as the true wastes, and the offshored/oligarch-concentrated money as a time bomb for when it gets actually deployed from its base in Virgin Islands.
No, I have used a few accountants in the past when I was a nomad but never found someone I'd recommend. I'd love to hear from any others here if they have someone they'd recommend, since I could use a new one myself.
HN link on the Steam bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186
You were smelling the rosin in the solder burning.

All of that lead exposure likely pales in comparison to what was happening driving in a car with windows down (when AC wasn't common) and all the cars around you were burning leaded gas with zero emissions control equipment like catalytic converters. You were just getting blasted by air full of lead and other combustion products.
I don't find it super convincing that our version is better because we merely aim to install a friendly government rather than annexing territory directly. We already did that. There isn't much more to annex.
Had some time to read the comments on DownDetector, appears to be mostly Spectrum customers...like there's a Spectrum <-> Google peering problem perhaps.
I'm not sure if this will help explain the culture or not, but this is from the NTT (the Japanese telecommunications company), so probably they thought that everyone knew what BGP is (since that you probably won't encounter this otherwise).

Also, they have a Rust version: https://github.com/osrg/rustybgp
another one: get your soil tested, don’t wear your shoes in your house
Short-term given the current political situation burning coal is better than burning oil or natural gas. Coal is distributed much more evenly among countries than oil and gas. Wars like in Ukraine or Yemen are only possible due to money Russian or Saudi Arabia earns from the energy export. And pollution from wars may offset any savings from supposedly cleaner energy sources. Plus coal transportation is much more distributed operation making it resilient in case of natural disasters or terrorism. Plus the latest coal plants approaching 50% efficiency with proper capture of bad things in coal are not that bad.

Longer term wind and especially solar are way better precisely because they allow very local production, but full switch to those is a far future especially with the current realization that cloudy sky with no wind can lasts for months even in supposedly sunny places.
Truly so, I can totally visualize George Costanza just sitting there and nodding.
The old "there's no clear line therefore there's no difference at all" trick.

Of course anyone can "become an American" (or in other words, the definition of American can be broadened to include anyone). That doesn't mean adding large numbers of new "Americans" each year (~1 million/year, for more than a decade now, even during Trump) won't change the character of the country, or increase conflict as different groups pursue their ethnic self-interest.
This is why I don't have it anymore, now I just wait longer until i have the 29€ (Germany) total.

But sometimes I want to order something for less and I just put it in the cart or get it elsewhere.
I still don't understand what's wrong with writing eg spec files and letting yum/rpm manage the packages. That's what we do where I work.
Doesn’t follow. Show some actual proof of carbon being offset? High school science can show CO2 emissions. Oh, a tree that has existed for 100 years is offsetting carbon? It was offsetting carbon for 99 years already before you started paying someone for it. When it burns, do you get your money back? And show me any proof that 10 different parties didn’t each adopt this same tree and are each paying for it.
Btw, solder fumes are not lead, but flux.
Public APIs Situation, a collective list of free APIs
So am I right in understanding you aren’t saying photography isn’t “an art”; just that it isn’t “fine art”? In which case I think you’d see much less disagreement here.
Forking ubuntu by yourself and launching a competitor would take Terry Davis levels of insane determination
Don’t be lazy, do your own research.
You aren't...attacking anything. :) That's my view too! Allow households and taxpayers and consumers to make their best choices on which services they like, even if it's private. Let the best teams win!
While I don't doubt other manufacturers have taken steps to charge better at cold temperatures, since theoretically you can do this if you have the charger warm the pack up to temperatures above freezing, this isn't just an issue with my Chevy.

All battery chemistry suffers from degraded performance in cold temperatures, because they all rely on chemical processes that are hampered by cold. Lithium batteries are in some ways more susceptible because they are just a more finicky battery chemistry overall, being far more sensitive to charging currents, temperatures, and voltages.

There's tons of articles and references out there about the cares that must be taken with batteries of various chemistries, and they all talk about the low temperature issues.

- https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2021-08-24-how-extreme-c...

- https://www.fluxpower.com/blog/the-importance-of-industrial-...

- https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-410-charging-at-hig....

- https://relionbattery.com/blog/the-best-battery-for-cold-wea....
It is absolutely rude and breaks down the conversation that was being made in good faith.
If you haven't gone too far into the stoicism rabbit hole yet, I really recommend "Life of the Stoics", by Ryan Holiday. It's a compilation of the history (and probably myths from their time) of all of the biggest minds of stoicism.

Shows that they weren't always perfect, some of them were assholes, but others (notably Marcus Aurelius and Catho) lived the live they preached, and fought many battles (including literal ones) in ways that were different from their time.
Impro by Keith Johnstone, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Momo by Michael Ende...
that is the job of browser vendor to sandbox on the front-end side
Yes almost there keep going.
At the store I worked at 15 years ago, any 4xxxxxxxxxx code would give you the loyalty program. No reason to authenticate, they'll give you the "discount" (hint its not really a discount) even if you just ask.
Meaning we couldn’t look straight out and see the back of our own heads. Eventually we would run into a point of the universe before time had any meaning (the opaque plasma) and there would be no looking past that back into the present.
I wouldn't call it so much the implementation of ML but rather from when they decided they were an AI/ML company.

The Amazon recommendations engine, the poster child of ML in 2014 isn't any good at recommending products that I actually want to buy either.
> In CA, the most crowded state, There are more acres than people!

Oh, well then, we'll just assign each person an acre, problem solved.

Which one do you want? Apparently you'll be fine with one -- maybe even two -- in the middle of nowhere, as your comment seems to assume that each has equal value, independent of either natural or social geography.
QE prevents deflation. Asset bubbles, college costs, housing supply are all well outside the ability of any central bank to affect. And 2007 gold bugs want their talking points back. We very obviously don't need any other country to buy our treasuries and yet they trip over themselves to do so. Nor do we care how oil is priced. Those are barely valid criticisms of USD but USD isn't the only fiat that's been extremely resilient to disruption. EUR, GBP, CHF are all stable through a series of disasters. What do honestly think would have happened if BTC was the standard currency for the last 15 years? We'd be on the barter system by now.
I used fish for a few years and finally switched to zsh. I wouldn't consider myself a super shell power user, so eventually I got tired of trying to make standard things work (such as nvm and similar helper utilities). Yes there are workarounds and solutions but I just wanted plug and play for stuff I'd find in the wild. Turns out that zsh with ohmyzsh has much of fish's functionality (that I utilized anyway), so I'm happy with it.
Russian cosmonauts arrive at ISS in colours of Ukraine flag
It is astonishing to me how poor our literacy of software licenses is as a community. Also, reading the comments here, there are two wholly independent things happening that most people are conflating as the same thing.

Software licenses are LEGAL DOCUMENTS. If you are not a lawyer, who has a specialty in this specific area of law, don’t go fucking with them.

1. Fuck Russia. This is the only right answer to the question.

Entirely separately is #2.

2. If you change the terms of a license, it’s a different license. The changed license was not the Apache 2.0 license, and was additionally a breaking change in every sense of the phrase.

I appreciate that @antonbabenko recognized this and fixed it, but these two issues are entirely separate. What Russia is doing is terrible. That is an absolute fact. But the new Terraform variables that were added in that commit have absolutely nothing to do with making the software work in the way that it was intended to, therefore, they do not belong.

This has nothing to do with being anti-politics. I’m very heavily political, and I fully support Ukraine in this case. I also have strong opinions on both “free software“ and also “open source software“, and I apply them at the license level by selecting a pre-existing license without making custom modifications to it.

But things like `var.putin_khuylo` simply don’t belong in the software itself. Nor does it belong in an OSI-approved software license.
Oh this is interesting. Sometimes I make unrelated changes and then I want to tease the things apart at commit time. And when I do I find that I don’t just want to stage or skip staging. Worth a shot but I’d prefer if I could put it into secondary staging and post-commit the first of those becomes staged.

Probably doable and shiftable to a git-splitpatch too.
It’s been a while since I attended a talk about lithium ion batteries, but there were several issues in the chemistry(which I’m sure have changed in the last 20 years).

One talk covered how you had an expected total number of cycles more than anything else. So you wanted to start between say 85% and draw down to 10% before charging.
Thank you. This is a good point. I have not had a FAANG interview in ages (have done a few mgmt interviews and some principal engineer roles at mid-tier companies). I should just do it and see how it goes. I recognize I need to study seriously for it and that has made me hesitant to respond to those recruiters until I felt I was ready.
That’s likely because of the usual music industry bullshit. They are probably asking to be paid for a “continuity license”.
A bit of clarification that was something that didn't occur to me immediately from the title:

The article is that half of the living US population was exposed to adverse lead levels as a child, not that half of US children today are exposed to adverse lead levels.
> Is it even possible to pay cash and not have your car identified by the charger in a significant number of stations?

The majority of the charging you do will be at your home, where you already pay for electricity. Unlike gas stations, which you go to every few weeks, you'll "fill up" away from home only infrequently, only when traveling multiple hundreds of miles away.

When you are away from home, it's sometimes possible to charge anonymously like you describe. RV campgrounds/RV parking often has a dumb electric outlet (which you'll need an adapter for) that can charge you quicker than a regular household outlet. Any place that has regular electric outlets can "trickle charge" you.

That said, you're right that EV charging when you're on a trip is more tech heavy and less anonymous than filling up at a gas station.

If your threat model doesn't allow for certain private companies to know your rough whereabouts when you're on road trips, then yeah, don't get an EV, don't use credit cards, don't use a phone, etc etc.
Most people's threat models are perfectly fine with this though.
I disagree unless we mean, in a very narrow sense, "peer" challenges. Clearly the US hegemonic status went largely unchallenged for a while, but I don't agree with your characterization of the period as more peaceful than previous times, and therefore warranting a radical break with the past to preserve.
> They promote democracy, but not human rights.

A point of contention: Democracy is the surest way to safeguard human right long term in a nation. Historically speaking, there isn't even a second place when it comes to other forms of rule operating effectively on the necessary timescales.

Promoting democracy is promoting human rights the same way promoting exercise is promoting health and well-being.
> The dual blower is completely non-standard, as well. Goldberg says that the engineering team found that by splitting each impeller of the blower by a divider partway up its height, they were able to make adjustments using the disc that allowed for different pitches of the blades above and below the divider.
“That results in drawing different amounts of airflow from each section of the box so we can tune for the thermal performance based on the cooling needs, adjust the height of that divider, adjust the the pitch of the blades and each section and then kind of optimize for thermals and acoustics at the same time,” says Goldberg.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/apple-execs-on-developing-...
I understand your concerns, and many share them. However, stability is an illusion. Everything changes, and more often than not, that's a good thing.

Healthcare is important, everyone deserves that, kid or not. - Europe has that figured out more so than the (richer) US. But you don't need a massive house to raise two kids (although a bit of garden would help).

I'd say to wait for a state that you could call "stability" may be imply a wait until it's too late; your decision making should incorporate other factors such as your biological age, your levels of energy and support potentially available from grandparents where still applicable. If you map all of these out over time, you will see that while jon stability may or may not improve most other facctors will worsen irreversibly.
The CA DMV is way better now than it was a few years ago (it was horrible). Nearby, there's a massive driver license / renewal center and you can do more online than before. And some positive stories here:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/16/grieving-parents-get-...

It also doesn't make sense that you need competitive elections to fix something like the DMV. There are humans in the seats of government and why wouldn't they want to do a good job?
> Honestly, the model where families stayed together longer and aging parents lived with their kids as they got older is probably the closest thing to sustainable out there.

Paraphrasing a quote from memory: modern society took an integrated solution, then divided it to create two problems.

The original context was something about factory farms. In the past farms were diversified, with animals being raised next to crops, and their waste being easily used as fertilizer. Now it's all specialized and separate: animals being raised at such density that their waste is so concentrated that it can't practically be used for anything; and crops being raised away from animals so they need chemical fertilizers that have to be produced separately.

In multi-generational house, raising young kids is easier because the grandparents can do day care, and being old is easier because the younger generations can help you once you're infirm. Separate that out and you have to pay mega $$$ for all those needs.
It went down svbtly
Excellent satire (or prophecy?) but my immersion completely broke with this part:

"I get to my office building ..., I have an extremely high-paying, creative-class job writing catchy jingles for advertisements."

Surely this person would be 1. working from home, and 2. an AI.
Paint chips are the main thing. Don’t needlessly demolish anything and if you do, do it right, with containment and wet cleanup. And, ideally, a trained and licensed crew. Don’t let your neighbors DIY exterior painting, scraping, or demolition, or do it with a fly-by-night unlicensed contractor and no permits. Don’t let your kids chew on the window sills. Don’t garden for food without thinking about it first.
Putin continues begging for WW3
You believe immigration reduces the bonds of kinship? That it erases the millenia of shared history from before they immigrated?
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