skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another unexpected electro-mechanical rotational automotive output device is the sequential turn signal on a thunderbird

https://youtu.be/sd6hwx0h4Ys
Russia lost 1M people last year (they do have a population ~160M so per 100k it's almost the same loss)
Correct - they’re usually designed for always-on signage like you’d see at an airport.
El Salvador is quite literally becoming a case study confirming everything we already know about cryptocurrencies: the average person understands it more than you realize and they see zero value in it. The two most frequent reasons for not using BTC/Chivo being price volatility and not wanting to be tracked by their government.

Above all, one thing is clear: the most successful part of this was the fact that the state provided essentially a free bank account; most people are choosing to bank USD and not BTC in Chivo! On top of this, the majority are either not transacting in BTC or are transacting in BTC and immediately converting to USD. This is a total failure for the cryptocurrency side of things but a rousing success for the fiat side as you could easily remove the entirety of the BTC functionality and still have a working app. It might even do better this way!

It's been repeated over and over again that cryptocurrencies will bank the unbanked, but it's abundantly clear now that cryptocurrencies are absolutely not a requirement for achieving this. If private industry is not going to provide a market solution to the unbanked, let El Salvador show that a government can easily accommodate in its place.
> Why are they only superficially convenient?

Because they're a PITA to clean compared to a regular coffee maker.
Shaving flush with a razor always gave me in-grown hairs anyways.

Between that, "razor burn", and the likelihood of nicks/cuts, it's obviously unhygienic vs. just a close no-guard clipping.

Actually spending money regularly on consumables to do this to yourself is utterly misguided IMO.
Retailer payment method acceptance is regulated at the municipal and state level. There is no federal or constitutional requirement to take cash or retain the option of cash payment.

So for the loophole experience, I would need you to show if thats a viable loophole in the areas where cash payment is mandated
Trivia: the Xerox Star/8010 workstation from 1981 used an AMD 'CPU' of 4 x Am2901 (4-bit bit-slice ALU from 1975).
Interesting about the specific state. Why are the numbers greater from Punjab? Culturally they are different but so are other states.

Policy, lack of space... not desire
This is indeed the first rule. And offer useful feeds too. If you’re a newspaper, hardly anyone will be interested if you offer just one “firehose” feed of everything you publish.

A nice example on how to do it is The Guardian. Basically any category page you can visit is also a feed.
And that can happen with the same person !
Certainly. However it will not change, at least it will not change of its own accord. A Declining birth rate is merely a symptom of cultural anxiety and despair.

The post-war generation is enormous and they living longer than any generation ever has. In nearly every developed country they hold the power and the capital, and they are short term focused in every possible way. They plan to drive the bus into the brick wall at full speed to protect the last few minutes they have to enjoy the ride.

Articles such as are a thinly veiled demand for fealty. Why aren't you having more children? Why aren't you buying into the world order we created?
I did the same in 2020! I haven’t updated the site in a few years and track on Notion now, but it’s fun! https://spaghet.me/bookshelf
> They have their uses. I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil).

A seasoned pan is fine for eggs. I just use a little butter.

I switched to aluminum/copper core from Teflon and eggs are easy with a little butter, or oil, or spray. And cleaning is easier with some steel wool.

An all-clad pan was $100 but is going strong 15 years later and should last a few hundred more. My non-stick pans were $20 and lasted a year or two.
It's confusing why investors haven't pushed harder for AWS to be spun-off into its own entity.
It's interesting, that no one questioned the use of double dash itself.

It looks especially silly, when long options are used to encode some mini programming language (DSL), like in imagemagick and ffmpeg, or when they are used to represent some associative data, like in case of the AWS CLI.

If -- would be a : AFTER the option name, it would look like Objective C named arguments or set-words in REBOL and Red.

If -- would be a : BEFORE the option name, it would look like keywords in Lisps.

As a side-note, shells got quite evolved, actually, but the momentum of the mediocre bash-line prevailed, sadly.

I urge people to learn about es, the Extensible Shell:
https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/

Its ancestor, the Plan 9 rc (which I think stands for Run Command) and it used "; " as a prompt, so u could combine multiple commands easier, by copy-pasting whole lines, instead of fiddling with the exclusion of the varying length prompt.

Both of these shells have a lot better string quoting rules than bash, so they play nicer with filenames containing special characters.

They also follow the unix philosophy closer, by not necessarily providing line editing capabilities, which can be added by running them thru eg. rlwrap or not really needed, when running them from Emacs or Plan 9's acme environment.

I would also highlight, that es is just 163KB, while bash is 1.3MB, yet it provides a magnitudes more powerful, dynamic, garbage collected, functional programming language!
> Is there reason to believe that it won't work? The "smart" TV I have hasn't been connected to wifi for years and still works.

I've heard of some tvs that work that way, rn it is the exception rather than the rule, but there is an incentive for tv makers to move in that direction.

> If you use it as a dumb TV from day 1 I can't imagine why it would randomly break later.

Smart tvs have inherently more complicated electronics, and that means more things to break. If you don't use the smart features it might be less likely for those components to break, but unless the designers were careful to sufficiently isolate the smart components, it still increases the chances of breakage.

> That's seems to be more of a theoretical concern than something that's actually happening right now.

For TVs maybe, but it is already the case for other "smart" devices like thermostats.
Cannabis is... overrated. It is rather similar to alcohol in that it helps a bit, but with prolonged use or regular abuse the downsides quickly overtake the benefits.

It was a bit useful for me for a while, but there are better alternatives out there. And choosing a good strain is nigh impossible these days unless you grow it yourself - the high THC low CBD stuff preferred by sellers even in regions where it's legal is only good for fun/recreational use, not helping with depression, anxiety or pain.
My great grandfather came to the states in 1920 from Kapurthala and he was definitely not an upper caste person. It happened. Get over it.
I've tried three different electrics and in every case the performance degraded over time making them less comfortable to use. A replacement head restored the original performance, but it was not inexpensive. I'd estimate the costs were not very different from cartridge razors for a typical user who would not be able to replace the batteries when they wear out. Options that take AC power or use field-replaceable batteries would be better, but those don't seem to be the norm now.

I use a straight razor now. The initial cost was high and there's a learning curve, but comfort is great ongoing costs are minimal: shaving soap (much cheaper than anything that comes in a can, even for premium options) and cubic boron nitride paste for my strop (this is not conventional).
> Inequality: Yep, this one seems like a consequence of capitalism.

It's not like feudal societies were perfectly equal. There is a genuine question as to whether capitalism tends towards increased inequality over time, perhaps merely as a side effect of its faster rate of innovation, but if you want a reasonable level of "equality" you'll need to look either to pre-modern societies or to ones where redistribution is explicitly practiced.
I always feel like people who make this sort of argument around health care in the US (that the health industry doesn’t want cheap cures because it will reduce their profit from expensive treatments) are forgetting one of the major players in this… the insurance companies.

Health insurance companies love cheap cures, because that means lower costs and more profit for them. They have every incentive to promote cheap cures, and are a huge industry that spends a ton of money on lobbying.
I agree with you and others that it is easy to fall outside the system, and that it is considerate to try to make a point to businesses that dont accept cash at all.
This seems like a win for once. Hard to believe the youth in France would be duped by the right wing hate of Le Pen and her ilk.
All the information comes from the Goodreads CSV export. After I complete any book, I export the CSV file and run make task[1]

1: https://github.com/ananthakumaran/ananthakumaran.github.com/...
How about we as a society understand that not everything written is worth paying for?

People need to treat open source as contributing openly to society with no expectation of return. Conversely there is no guarantee the maintainer has to listen or do anything anyone says.

If people want to support you can charge to support.
> Not eating bugs

I've been reading cutesy articles about this for 25+ years, and the obvious response is just, why aren't you simply eating lentils or beans for protein? Cattle farming may be an ecological disaster, but conventional plant agriculture is about as good as it realistically gets.
Thanks, I'll add a note on the page. I don't know how consistent ordering is but it seems like a good idea anyways.
I have a couple of good quality stainless steel frying pans.

Sticking is often a matter of temperature control. Once you get used to it, there’s very little difference to a teflon pan.

I know that teflon would be slightly more convenient but the health tradeoff doesn’t seem worth it.
It’s where his audience was, and where the discussions took place.

I think saying that moldbug was responsible for the intellectual scaffolding of the alt-right overstates his role.

The intellectual underpinnings of the alt-right world view is more closely aligned with the stuff expressed on Roissy’s blog than anything moldbug wrote. Imo, moldbug was just a convenient associate who was tapped to lend the movement a thin veneer of intellectual rigor.
Analysis: Musk's new Twitter funding could draw TikTok-like U.S. scrutiny
Ironically, the zoning in US is far, far more restrictive than in most of Europe.

So bad, that you often cannot even have a neighborhood café, corner pub, or local shop in modern suburbs. So bad, that you need to take the car to do shopping. For someone from western Europe, this is mind blowing insane: you need to take the car to buy your milk!
This practice should extend to the private sector in my opinion. Protection of location data should fall under the 14th amendment.
You should probably read Vivek Bald’s book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Harlem_and_the_Lost_Hi...
The best explanation for leaving dd in its original form is that it's not really wise to alter the behaviour of a tool that has been nicknamed "destroyer of disks", regardless of that hot new CLI convention.
It's climate change passive aggressiveness. You are provided with a tool which turns useless the moment you start using it. Oh, and nearby there is magazine with ranking of the most expensive yachts in the world, and of airlines by most comfortable first class.
Like a lot of things in the UK this sounds like a totally incompetent training process
A cast iron pan is $19.90 today on Amazon.
> Pay attention to what you buy, especially when you are changing from an old well understood product to a new, more convenient, equivalent.

Key phrase: more convenient.

We haven't been sold products as much as we've bought into convenience matters above all else. Marketers can market all they want. Some times they do well, others not so well. Evidently they've been most successful selling the idea that we as individuals aren't responsible and/or accountable for our (consumer) decisions.

Blame the razor manufacturers. Blame Walmart. Blame Amazon. For what exactly, meeting a need in the market? I'm certainly not in favor of these outfits, but they're not making our collective decisions either.
yeah….. that’s going to happen though

that ship has long sailed

we’re at the bottom of the slippery slope

try to enjoy yourself
looks like population increase is gonna flatline between 10-11 billion, but we just don't have the resources to support that so I expect that by the end of the century with climate disasters and wars over limited resources we'll be back to 4-5 billion which -might- be sustainable with better technology and wiser decisions and a world government enforcing it which might be possible after the resource and climate disaster that the human population will face. Hopefully it will be patterned after western democracies and not Chinese/Russian totalitarianism.
This is a cool idea. It motivated me to stash a list of the books I've listened to on Audible. I wrote a blog post that has a JS snippet you can run against the Audible webapp, which makes it easier to get the list of titles (it just parses the DOM and gives you a plain text version).

https://blog.techotom.com/post/2022-05-07-get-your-audible-b...
Completely understandable. I’ve been configuring stuff with Render all morning and I’m really starting to like this service.

Is there a way to assign an existing Env Group when manually creating a new service? So far I've needed to create and then go back in and assign.
Some departments in the company I work for have frozen hiring but not because of a expected slowdown.

They were hiring on some teams too fast and couldn’t keep up with onboarding.
What about encoding data for image tweets? QR codes are limited to a few kB of storage [1] because they are designed for visual scans, but using higher resolution could get you more capacity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage
It's not your imagination – iPhone users are worse drivers
> The US overuses highways for long haul trucking because trucks pay a lower percentage of infrastructure and externalities costs than trains do.

Source? The US has a massive freight train industry. We have more railroad than any other country - and almost double second place (China). I guess "overuses" is subjective, but we use commercial freight way more than anyone else.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tr...
> Is that what you tell everyone who looses a loved one?

What do you tell the 15 million people who loses a loved one to covid?

Emotion has no part to play here. I'm telling you the numbers. The most serious threat to humanity seen in a century slowed population growth by a few weeks.

If you want to get emotional feel free to make your own top level comment on the matter.

Those are the numbers and that is my comment. Feel free to disagree with what I actually said, I'm happy to debate the facts.
And how about those of us who lost loved ones to causes other than Covid during this time? Are Covid deaths the only tragic ones? How about preventable cancer deaths that were diagnosed too late? Or suicides? And so on?
I’m pretty happy with my Spectre that I bought from Walmart.com. I think it is only 75 inches but 4K with 4 hdmi ports and I think it was $5-600 or so.

It seems up on the latest hdmi standards and it turns on and off with the appletv plugged in.
What is a wook?
Can you link to a public source on this?
same! I also was thinking of enabling such stuff in a browser and not need to click accept on every friggin website... These windows are annoying and I never cared about the text or settings inside these messages. They want my cookies? ok no problem here, just let me see the site because I am in hurry. I don't care if someone is tracking me. My time is more precious and I need the information from a website than reading all the consent first and selecting which cookie I want to enable or disable.

I am using a browser extension called "I don't care about cookies" which is kinda a popup blocker for these messages. But I wish there was something better, like a setting in browser. Right now the internet is broken with these consent popups.
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Yep, I have a small cast-iron pan that I use for eggs. It's well seasoned and the eggs don't stick. The key is you need to get it hot (not too hot, about 275 degrees F is good) then add a little butter and when that has melted, spread it around and add the eggs.

If you add the eggs with the pan too cool and then heat them up, they will stick.
“majority…do wear masks,…” methinks
It’s interesting to contrast this with the recently posted article “Science in the age of selfies” that basically credited a lack of deep thinking due to information over-availability.

The bar for intelligence seems to be converging with higher expectations for computers and lower expectations for people… is this a dystopian future?
At this stage of development, I think those limitations are entirely appropriate and I would want other manufacturers to be this cautious. Self driving is a convenience feature and limitations like this are reasonable. Once they have enough miles/years of experience, they can begin to remove some limitations.
Printers are way worse
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Possible that these things are part of the declining population death spiral.

Less people => less economic opportunity => weaker economy => lower wages.
Aging population => greater healthcare need, less people => taxes raised to make up the program revenue shortfall.

In Canada the Atlantic provinces through the 90s-00s emptied out for various economic reasons with young people going elsewhere for economic opportunity. It's remarkable to see that their sales taxes and income taxes in the area are much higher than BC, one of the economic powerhouses of Canadian federation.

Very hard to get out of this. I think the only solution really is to open up the taps for immigration. Eventually the relative affordability of the declining area can help this. Nova Scotia just pushed past the $1M mark. The relative affordability of the area, growing acceptance of WFH policies and absurdly stupid expensive real estate everywhere else likely helped.
Thermal protection is entirely built into the hardware; the OS doesn’t generally do anything. It is possible for the OS to take over running the fans, so that you can adjust the fan response curves, but if the temperature for any reason goes above the CPU’s limit (which is almost always 100°C), then the CPU will throttle itself down to a very low clock rate so that it can cool down.

This is in contrast to older CPUs where overheating them would have immediate and fatal consequences to the CPU.
The actual waste here is that while the European Parliament normally meets in Brussels, it is still bound by a 1992 decision to have a monthly session in Strasbourg [1]. This creates a huge and unnecessary overhead (shuttling 705 MEPs back and forth, maintaining separate offices in Strasbourg and other unnecessary duplication of efforts), of which this additional flight is just a small part. This could be fixed by deciding that the European Parliament meets in Brussels year-round.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...
You can say what you like about razors, but I like shaving foam. It seems it has some additions to reduce sensitivity and to stop bleeding. So if you blades are dull, you will feel nothing. No more need to overcome pain or to run to a store early at the morning for new sharp blades. Or if you manage to shave off a bit of skin, you will stop bleeding in seconds. No more chewed paper bits on your face to stop bleeding. I really like this.

Though I totally agree about tea bags. Wildly bad tea, I cannot drink it. Did they boil tea for ten minutes to make it as bad as coffee? I think brits in any case boil their tea, so they probably do not know better. But what a waste of tea.
Slightly off-topic, but this reminds me of the Bill Hicks skit about tripping in his dad's talking car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42n5AejB7po
On a high-gravity world with a thin atmosphere it'd be harder to float, fly, or orbit. So high-speed rail and automobiles would be the pinnacle of land transportation with ships being the only way to cross the oceans separating continents. On such a world, a global internet could easily arise before flight.

As to whether those inhabitants would be better off than us, I believe that's much more to do with their socio-econo-political systems than their available modes of transportation. Slower vehicles means germs and goods travel slower, and culture too until said internet is built.
Probably depends on when the existing agreement with Sky expires.
Income taxes are one form of government revenue. Sales taxes, VAT, duties, etc, also raise income, and scale with consumption, not population.

Also, many people have pensions that are based on their lifetime savings, investments, etc. Not all pensions are paid from current government revenues.
Puting yourself in a situations where you have to do it helped. I increased my workout by habitually going to the gym. I wouldn't even think about it. So once I was there I would have to workout. So the goal is to physically get yourself, without thinking about it, to a point where you have to start. The key there is not thinking about. Make it a habit.

Also make sure it's outside your home. If you're able to do other things, you will. And dump the phone somewhere where it's outside your quick use.
For my part, I don't much care about the data sharing. My issue is that our smart tv has ads and the default software is terrible. I can't believe I spent so much money only to have a measurably worse experience. I ended up buying a Roku just because the software is easier to use than the junk that LG shipped. I use 2 other HDMI ports for different games consoles, so the "smart" tv is just a source of aggravation, and I feel insulted whenever it ends up in the default software and they show me a goddamn ad.

Maybe I should have gone with Kodi.
When quotes change meaning
No it's not. Capitalism is a form of universal exchange and nothing more, it has been brought under control in some reasonable countries. American capitalism is a long term guaranteed failure though, but it's a boom and bust cycle and could go on into perpetuity. Doomers always underestimate human ingenuity. Money will move around to different “growth” industries until they collapse (like tech social media is right now, only so much you can grow).
They do mention that they have a hiring freeze so I wouldn’t be surprised if they also started rescinding offers.
If you want to not appear unhinged, I recommend avoiding calling obviously innocuous things evil unless you've already given your reasons for doing so.

There are very real risks a food truck faces in accepting cash: fomite diseases, counterfits, armed robbery. I'm guessing you're fine enforcing the truck owners bear these risks.
Autocomplete from history is something I really enjoy from my config. I can live without the nice colors and data. Though having the execution time of the previous command has been very handy a few times