skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this is done in good faith, but perhaps more as a "screw you" to China. India and China don't have the best relations, nor does Japan wish to see that change in the future.
I use a projector as well instead of a TV but they're definitely not standard replacement for a normal TV in all situations. You need a dark room (so if you like to have the TV on while do you chores or other tasks, it won't work well with a projector), the fans can be a bit loud depending on your noise tolerance, the contrast, color and brightness/blacks won't be as good as a decent OLED TV unless you go for a very high end projector and screen, which is going to be very expensive.

It's definitely worth considering but there are pros and cons to consider, it's not an acceptable replacement in all situations.
I use a Braun Series 7. It has detachable heads for different kinds of shaving (body v/s face) and for different “lengths”. It takes a bit more time than a razor to get a close shave, but no chemicals, no waste and no recurring expenses (except in the cleaning alcohol I guess, but that’s optional).
Considering the soybean industry is a massive environmental and health disaster, I am glad they aren’t able to profit more and would oppose anything that encouraged its expansion.
What are the relative proportions?
Yea...it will take quite a lot of societal change before plenty of young professionals would be happy to immigrate to Japan at least. Terrible work culture and "No Foreigners" signs chief among them.
Having studied and living in the uk, is this likely a LONDON problem compounded by the health board not realising most students finish when funding stops. Given this also isn't a surprise (you would be aware of your peers plans whilst a student) budgeting as a student 'should' cover this. Were getting that the "evil" landlord put the rent up, bit it's very important to know what the absolute value here is... Also id be surprised if a personal career development loan wouldn't help here if all else failed.
First tour groups will be allowed in next month, so that's outdated
You can get a 50 pack of razors for $20 on amazon.

Or a 100 pack of razor blades for $6.19
Also because their economy is undergirded by an exploitative 'guest worker' program
I have to say, that's one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard in my life. Cooking is like playing music, there is no "right" way to do it. No two chefs flavour their dishes exactly the same way, and if they did, I don't think I'd ever eat out again. There is no such thing as: "BZZZZZZ! YOUR CURRY IS INCORRECT! ADD 5MG TURMERIC!", and part of the joy of cooking is allowing the flavor in a soup, sauce or curry develop the way you want it to as you taste it, think "hmmm, needs amchoor/hing/whatever" and take it in the direction you want.
I always wonder as well.

My hypothesis is that population growth is so embedded in the common psyche, from economics to culture and religion, that suggesting otherwise is anathema and rejected by Pavlovian reflex.
I have invested in a complete range of cast iron pans. I really don't care if it's convenient or not, at least I can use whatever piece of cutlery which happens to be at hand (while not poisoning my entire family, which is a huge plus)- oh and they'll last forever.
> Young professionals see 10x-20x salaries in the US or 5x salaries in Germany, Switzerland, Norway. And they make one obvious choice.

If you talk about tech, maybe. But I don't think the salary situation in Italy is that bleak if we look at the whole economy and account for purchasing power parity. Using OECD's number for 2019, household disposable income incl. social transfers in kind, in US dollars/capita at current prices and PPPs for the countries you mentioned are:

Italy: 31.7k

Norway: 40.1k

Germany: 41.0k

Switzerland: 41.1k

United States: 54.9k

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm?co...
It is when you structure government funding as its done in most of the world.
I assume you're a sports cyclist, where I agree that electronic shifting can make sense. For general transport use I think hub gears are a better solution to the "oops" shifting problem. Hub gears let you shift while stationary, as well as being clean and reliable. They won't win you any races, but performance is more than acceptable for shopping/commuting.
I really like the vertical timeline. Lots of stats and charts, great stuff :)
Ah, you're right, thanks for the correction!

The straight razor incidents were pretty traumatizing, so much blood..

Stay safe <3

Edit: I double checked, it actually was with a safety razor. They don't have any buffer to avoid slicing you up compared to a mach3 or modern disposable razor. Please do be careful folks, they are super sharp and a single swipe can cut you up real good.
Cow milk is unhealthy because it is loaded with pathogenic exosomal micro RNAs which are biologically active in humans. Fermentation and UHT eliminate the micro RNAs. Many people drink neither fermented dairy nor UHT milk.
Is it not just because 2g have traditionally been rolled out on lower bands?
Its asif learning to use a straight razor is hard... pick up some iq points and realise when you're ultimately being too consumerist
That's weird that you believe this, because cast iron was the predominant way of cooking for literally centuries, and it works exactly as described. I have some new pans I've seasoned, and I have some vintage pans I inherited that my grandmother was cooking with for most of her life, and then I cooked with extensively after. Both are effectively nonstick, and I don't need much oil at all to cook with them. Care is also way easier.

There is a /lot/ of bullshit myths around cast iron, like that you cannot use soap for instance, or shouldn't scrub it, both of which are totally fine, but the idea of seasoning and what occurs when it's done properly are entirely true. Most people just want to otherthink it. All you need to do with cast iron is use it and care for it properly, the longer and more often you use it, the better it gets.
Or if everyone was fine with cultural heterogeneity. You just have to agree on one of these.
Unlike Gillette, safety razors do not use proprietary systems for their blades. The consequence is you can use any double edge blade and you can have fun finding the double edge blades that best matches your razor and beard.
Shameless plug: years ago with my brother I made this small site (https://www.razorbladesclub.com) that I presented on "Show HN" exactly to allow people to buy samplers of blades and try them out. It didn't get much attention then but years later the site is still alive and hopefully it still serves people well :)
> I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil).

Fried eggs were a thing long before before teflon. I dont know what you consider absurd about of oil, some oil is needed, but I would qualify it as "normal"
The entire medical system of training in the UK needs reform.

You spend six years (more or less) at university, racking up debt. Once you graduate, you spend two years as a "F1/F2", where you basically get bullied and do clerical work. Once you've completed these two years, you can apply for specialist training.

You are working 60 hour weeks doing 1/4 night shifts (if you're lucky) and 1/3 weekend. Not only that you move hospital every six months. in london this is kinda feasible, else where it means a 2 hour commute. The starting wage for an F1 is £24-36k

After the first two years you can apply for specialist training. However the attrition rate is horrific: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l523.full loosing 64% of your trainees after 8 years of training is just pathetic.

Some of this is government based, but a lot is the medical establishment being utter shits. bullying is rife, the "leaders" have a lot of "I managed it, it didn't do me any harm", there is no incentive to change because everyone rotates every 6months, so why bother putting effort in?
The problem comes in when you need to manage 100's of machines, and there isn't a single shell that is in everyone on the team's muscle memory.
It's important to account for selection bias here: feudalism generally leaves very obvious archaeological traces, both in terms of infrastructure and bureaucratic artifacts (which in turn tend to be designed for longevity.)

Feudalism might not be as common as we think of it; it's simply very visible in the historic record.

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As for why people would choose to live in more egalitarian forms: because we care.

Many forms of organising humans in the past and present have had specific mechanisms installed to prevent single people from getting too much power. (Including preventing them from converting wealth into power -- something we take for granted that one can just do today.)

As a case in point: I live in a condo association. We and all our neighbours collectively own and maintain this building. We vote on big issues and elect representatives for everyday duties. It would be very hard to consistently appropriate large amounts of resources over a longer time period, compared to, say, a small business owner.

We can only guess, but sometimes (at least from native American verbal history) this can happen because the people have experienced feudalist systems and realised how bad that turned out.

I strongly recommend reading Graeber's The Dawn of Everything to start out.
This guys shows how he preserves the ROMs from the Chrysler Electronic Voice Alert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DwKqCZlKnw
Yeah, again, you are imagining something like a Mad Max post apocalyptic scenario where everyone is left to fend for themselves or starve, but we can feed everyone very efficiently without any electricity or heat if we just planned it.
Not saying this is the case as I don't know what dishwasher you have, but one of the points of the video is that this recommendation is often part of a marketing deal and as such shouldn't be trusted. I think it'd say in small print in the manual if this is the case.
I agree that you have to know your tools, the results you want and etc to make an evaluation.

It’s so easy to just say “oh that’s to extract money from you” when you don’t know…
So you are saying Imagemagick is the wrong tool for any job then? (I ask this because the OP didn't reference any particular task). I would disagree with that. Like many media-related command line tools, it does a lot and therefore has a fairly involved command line interface, but I have found it very useful over the years for processing multiple images (and sometimes even just individual ones).
European countries have rich cultures too, but apparently do not have the option to preserve that. Go figure.
> Less people is good for a strained planet.

I do agree with the general sentiment on this, but it's unfortunately kind of ignoring the huge, short and medium term social problems this population decline will bring about.

Specifically, in many places, much of infrastructure (social and otherwise) was designed on assumptions of growth.

Re-engineering entire countries infrastructure to meet these new demographics deals is going to be costly. Even to the "blood in the streets" level in some cases, I believe.
I’d love this in the style of Stripe Press’s page [1].

[1] https://press.stripe.com/
You see those stories about labor shortage, doctor shortage, lack of teachers, nurses, 30 min elevator music on phone to talk to someone?

Yeah, that is what an ageing society feels like. Only in Japan and Italy, it's 10x worse than other places because they had no immigration for a long time.

As we age and population declines more, we will have to assume that basics of society will become dysfunctional as there just aren't any workers to work in those areas anymore.
Why is a thread on electric razors not the top comment on a post about the expense/waste of straight razors?

I get that they have some downsides, but if we’re talking about the expense/waste of straight razors, then it would make sense to consider electric razors.

I’ve seen so many ads about companies trying to “invent” the most effective, lowest cost straight razor and it still confuses me, given we already have electric razors that will last literally years before needing to be replaced.

I’ve been using my current electric razor for probably close to 10 years, and while the blades could probably use to be replaced (still on the original), they get the job done about 98%, which is completely fine given the expense, waste, and mess of straight razors.

Edit: the article itself doesn’t even mention electric razors (as a solution to the expense/waste of straight razors), almost as if they don’t even exist. And before I posted this (after 3 hours of comments), maybe only one or two other buried comments referenced electric razors. So genuinely curious why so many don’t even give them a second thought?
Japan is one of the oldest populations on the planet, getting older. Just about everything in how society runs (in Japan or any other developed economy) assumes that old people get to retire, taken care of by young people. But, this requires a minimum ratio of young to old. Eventually, and Japan may already be getting there, you are putting too much strain on the economy of young people, so they cannot get enough resources to have children of their own, and you enter a downward spiral. You either end up with old people having to work past the time when they can really do so, or old people facing a declining standard of living as there is not enough working population to take care of them.
> My best advice is to never wash the pan ...just wipe it down with a paper towel.

Eww... You can and should wash your cast iron pans. Dish soap is no longer made with lye or other harsh chemicals, just use a bit of Dawn and a blue scrub pad (same you'd use on nonstick) and properly clean it, make sure it's very dry afterwards and put a very thin layer of oil. Also don't use paper towels on cast iron unless it's a smooth bottom pan, the modern style cast iron will cause shreds of paper to get embedded in the pan which will burn and get nasty (also paper towels are bleached and that's nasty).
Git on Twitter then
Sounds eerily like the US
> Importing immigrants en masse is likely to cause a lot of social instability and isn't a decision that should be taken lightly.

Look at it as an experiment. See what happens if you allow mass immigration. If you don't like the result, do what you'd do with any other policy - change it. ...Although I guess you'd be stuck with the immigrants you already imported. And they'd probably vote to continue immigration, as they have in the US.. in that sense, this is one policy choice that is largely irreversible.
>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).

It requires proper seasoning. Once you got that, egg away!

>Also, claiming that they "seem to be poisonous" without any qualifiers is a little misleading. To my knowledge they're only poisonous during manufacturing (ie. the precursor chemicals) and when they get too hot.

Agreed - they're not poisonous to use, but the manufacturing chemicals used to produce them are, and those chemicals are often dumped into the environment - they're also known as, "forever chemicals", which reek some havoc on well: us.

https://www.ewg.org/what-are-pfas-chemicals

>Why are they only superficially convenient? They seem pretty convenient to me.

The plastic waste they produce still have the inconvenient problem of what to do with them. Like many conveniences, the problem is just offloaded to someone else.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/k-cups-keurig-inventor...

Some feel microplastics in our blood stream is a worthy compromise to easy-to-make coffee.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla...

I dunno much about TVs (I've never owned one), but sounds like subscription over ownership which, grumbles over Adobe
> meet a local, get married, the usual

Think that number is incredibly small, only a couple thousand at most.
Why can’t you guys just make India not suck and live there?
>But the ingredient still obviously makes it way to the final product

Plastic is made from oil. Do you think there's literally oil in your plastic water bottle?
I can normally fry eggs in a cast iron in about a tsp (5 ml) of oil.

I also make scrambled eggs, but tend to use a tbsp (15ml) butter, but that is more for flavor and texture than to keep from sticking
But still seems to integrated circuit digital tech too? What a strange transitional period in technology!
Enlighten me in quality. I am using induction to heat a skillet bottom to desired temperature, how's the material and production method changes anything?
This number feels way too low. It is clearly the tip of the iceberg as many individuals and organizations clearly have strong incentives to hide the shame and scams ranging from reputational damage to embarrassment to insurance premium increases.
It's lenient for certain sectors--programming, engineering. Niche STEM stuff where English is expected as the uniting language. But for anything else, it can be very difficult to move there.

But that leniency only comes into effect when you prove without question that it's near impossible to source local talent to fill a job, and the Japanese are extremely educated, so you're usually going to find companies will hire domestically before gambling on someone from the west who's used to superior salaries in USD.

Even if you're the world's best, your salary will drop to about 1/2 or 1/3 of what you can make in the US.
Is it another "tax the rich" scheme, where the rich take their money elsewhere and your country's businesses are left without investors?

It's easy to design a tax system, it's hard to predict its long-term effects.
Unless, of course, there were some let's say ideology that would make people chose to uphold restrictions on immigration even if it weren't in the rational interest of the country.
The word they use is Gaijin. It means foreigner and it is based on race.
Depends on what you call open source. In my view, it's open source if the source code is open for viewing by anyone. That doesn't say anything about the cost of using the code in a commercial situation. Anyway, you could start a new movement and call it "fair source", where programmers are properly compensated for code used by large companies who make millions using it.
wouldn't this divide the world into 1. population production centers like india/africa 2. population absorption centers like usa, japan.
Oh whoops, good pickup; I'd like to say I tried to simplify it for the explanation and brevity, but I completely overloooked that 1xn = n.
Myth 1: as long as there's a way to opt out, it's ok.

Truth 1: opting out has to be exactly as easy (or easier) then opting in. The buttons have to be the same prominence and equally accessible, so having to click through is illegal, as is de-emphasising the opt out button in any way.

Myth 2: People who use illegal banners don't know this.
There are some of us who are interested in this type of subject, for example I do happen to have read books written by several of the authors mentioned in this article during the past year or so (in my case that's true for Mazzucato, Perry Anderson, Immanuel Wallerstein and I did try to put my hands on Brenner's Merchants and Revolution [1] but I was too lazy). The transition from feudalism to capitalism is a very interesting subject, even the discussion itself of said transition makes for an exciting piece of late 20th century (in fact the 1970s-1980s, to be fair) intellectual history.

Back to the article itself (which, I admit, I hadn't finished reading until checking the comments in here), I would have personally also added a quick mention about the Asiatic mode of production [2], but seeing as I'm not a specialist on this maybe I'm talking bs. More generally speaking I fully admit that this type of discussions can be quite boring for those with no prior interest in them.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Revolution-Commercial-Polit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_mode_of_production
The problem is not degrowth but the transitional economic ramifications of demographics that skew increasingly towards the elderly, decreasing labor force participation rate and GDP while increasing the burden on social services.
Then maybe those models aren't as good?
I think it’s because no one ever bothers to support it.

You declare that we have “too many people” and “need fewer humans” — but don’t demonstrate that’s true. It seems more like an article of faith among a certain crowd.

But to people who don’t think that’s true, saying we need fewer people and enacting policies to achieve that seems dangerous: you’re trying to destroy other people’s families for no reason but your religious beliefs.
I didn't really understand the significance of this?

Does it only make sense if you believe what the top commenter believes:

“So when I see stories like this, it confirms that all this climate change nonsense is just that - nonsense. If it was really an issue, these flights wouldn't exist."
Moats: Durable Competitive Advantage
People used to resharpen safety razor blades. Not worth their time. DE razors are fine as long as the blade is sharp, but you have to change it 50-100 times per year, and there's a decent chance of cutting yourself.

At least on the first few shaves, the three bladed ones have a lot of research behind them, and are technically superior to the single bladed ones; there's a lab in long island that pays men to test razors that has evaluated this.

Whether the increase in quality and reduced effort is worth it is a personal preference
> The wiki says Apple Chip Macs use /opt/homebrew

Oh good, you pointed out another problem with homebrew, that it immediately abandons legacy systems, and apparently is inconsistent with those legacy systems.

MacPorts has been using /opt since 2002, works on Tiger and anything newer up to current. Homebrew came into existence superfluously in 2008 and only through fanaticism grew, and for no good reason, as it merely duplicated some of MacPorts functionality, focusing on binary installations. Eventually, Homebrew could also build from source, duplicating more of MacPorts functionality. Then I suppose in 2020, homebrew tried to wallpaper across MacPorts and use /opt, 18 years after /opt/local priority was established by MacPorts.

FWIW
/opt/homebrew does not actually conflict with /opt/local/

and if homebrew never honored system permissions, what makes you think it's going to start?

> Also. Why not use both scripts? Both of them will miss stuff. Like when apps create weird random files to track licenses or trials.

No, my script will uninstall everything the installer installed, because everything the installer installed is listed in the Bill of Materials. Any other files which were not installed by the installer can be considered documents. Uninstalling an application should not delete the documents, you can do that manually, including anything left in /Library or ~/Library(/Application Support etc.) that the application may have created but the installer did not install, because these, again, are documents, and should not be uninstalled, but instead manually deleted if desired.
The most violent culture shock is the switch from living in Italian tourist bubble to living in Italian societal and economic realities. The moment you realise that people yell and gesticulate not because it looks cute, but because how infuriating is the daily life there.
I don't know if it's just me, but I'd always nick my face using multiple-blade razors (Mostly used a Gillette Mach 3). This pretty much stopped when I switched to safety razors. That, and the price, is why I've stuck with it.
What is cultural homogeneity?
This is just not true. Not even if you have a single egg on super large pan. And you can also use smaller pan or more eggs, that way it will be even higher.

Just because you have drowning eggs in oil does not mean everyone does it that way.