skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The values they teach at school mean nothing when the people who actually run things are shown daily to profit by flouting them.

Max Stirner saw though this in the early 19th century[0].

> How is it with mankind, whose cause we are to make our own? Is its cause that of another, and does mankind serve a higher cause? No, mankind looks only at itself, mankind will promote the interests of mankind only, mankind is its own cause. That it may develop, it causes nations and individuals to wear themselves out in its service, and, when they have accomplished what mankind needs, it throws them on the dung-heap of history in gratitude. Is not mankind’s cause – a purely egoistic cause?

> I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?

When somebody talks about teaching "values" to you or your children, you should ask yourself which values they mean to teach, and who benefits from their inculcation. Chances are it won't be you or your children.

Also, stop posting shit from Medium. The content there is neither rare nor well done.

[0]: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-i...
The methodology seems very weak. The author looks at stats but none of the statistics clearly have anything to do with whether science is hard or not.

The whole piece is, imo, pure speculation masquerading as analysis.
And we seem to be throwing away the best opportunity that we've ever had to reduce driving quite significantly - by giving up on WFH and forcing people to commute again.
>Poor people have smartphones

Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat. Also while there is penatration of smartphones into poorer countries, it is hardly 100%

>However, compared to other markets across the globe, India’s smartphone penetration rate is still relatively low. [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/4600/smartphone-market-in-in...
> trader joes is lacking many of the non-food goods that other grocery stores almost universally have.

It's almost like their business model is “don’t devote lots of floor space to stuff you can get anywhere so price competition drives margins to zero”.
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Agreed. People seem to think that anything that allows for any accident at all (irrespective of frequency or severity) is better than the status quo of 40k fatalities per year, which is pretty wild considering how otherwise rational this forum tends to be.
This is great!! Last week I took out my old Pre 2 and Pixi to show my kids. It brought up great memories. I can’t wait to spend the weekend going through this.

How did you find everything and put it together?
What are the repercussions?
What are you using the dried black beans for that a can won’t suffice?
a lil confusing that the screen is that thing
Arkady Volozh Resigns as Executive Director and CEO of Yandex N.V
I have to say... as much as I don't like them... WalMart does the online shopping properly. I had to switch to delivery / pickup for a while during 2020 and found them to be the best. But I think this is because the people shopping for your food are paid by the hour and not by the job. They are regular employees of the store. They aren't rushed to get your order, and 50 other orders, checkout, and drive around town burning their own gas for a paltry fee. I never had shitty produce delivered, and substitutions actually make sense.

How bad is it when WalMart is treating its employees better than most?
I added instructions to the README.md. Let me know if you anything isn't clear.
Can you tell me by looking at this photo what section I am in and what else I might find in this aisle?

https://i0.wp.com/www.dailycal.org/assets/uploads/2021/09/TJ...
Yes, pretty strongly so. Their GAAP profit was $5.5 billion in FY 2021.
Something about comparing the US to other rich nations rubs me the wrong way when, in my opinion, servicing a country as large as the US is very different from servicing a small island like the UK. The post talks about difference in margins and regional squeezing, etc. However, how much of the cost difference comes from transporting the goods? The post also mentions how large stores are, and how large of a selection there is, in US stores. That seems like it'd drive up the cost, but I don't hear Americans complaining about too many options. Honestly, I think it's an achievement that an American can eat as healthy for the same price as the French, they are very different countries geographically!
Or the people who have smartphones and are sick of it and pine for the old ways, but feel compelled to keep one by society increasingly expects that everybody have one and capriciously install invasive apps on it, even for things like buying groceries!
Android is applying tons of dark patterns. It's almost like the OS was created by Facebook and not Google.
I discovered a few years back when visiting OH, SoCal, and VT that my Safeway card works at Vons, Acme, and Shaw's.... and that the store layouts and much of the contents are basically identical as well.
No mention of health food stores? I live in a small county and there are at least 6 health food stores that have abundant fresh vegetables, fruits, and dry goods.
I've never been too familiar with the whole "rationalist" sphere or whatever but assuming what you're saying is true, does this mean that now, the mere act of pointing out the fact that someone is using emotionally-charged language or otherwise indicating an emotional appeal is being made, cannot be done without immediately triggering a "lol typical 'rationalist' take, such dispassion, very sophist, wow" type of response?

if so, that seems like a net loss for everyone.

these days I am always on the lookout for indications of the existence of heuristics that allow people to dismiss things out of hand using surface-level analysis, and I attempt to be as mindful about these things as possible, in order to most efficiently pursue Truth by attempting to let such things cloud my judgement as little as possible. hopefully this doesn't make me one of these apparently hated "rational" types...!
Apropos of nothing but F-4 Phantoms still look badass and gorgeous.
I don't get your comment. 1) Both Aldi and Tesco are European. 2) The point is that food shopping in the US is dominated by large stores like Wall Mart, Target etc, while in Europe stores more akin to Aldi, Tesco etc dominate.

I live in Norway but have lived in the US and Netherlands while visiting a lot of Europe on vacation naturally. There is most definitely a very different way in which food is sold in general. The article points out pretty much the same experiences I have had when comparing.

In fact this has been remarked on for years as a difference between Europe and the US: The US is about really large stores where land is cheap and you can store a lot of products. In Europe one tends to follow the opposite model: Smaller stores with more limited selection which has rapid replacement of products.

Automation is also quite different. I was also surprised by the kind of old fashion way checkout works in the US. Like how they meticulously pack your bags. I would say in Europe scanning is generally faster or one uses a more self automated systems where shoppers scan, pay and pack themselves.

Of course there are stores of all kinds of sizes in the US. The same applies to Europe. There are Wall-Mart style shopping Europe as well. It is just that there is a difference in what is more common in each region.

And of course saying "Europe" may be quite inaccurate as there are such large regional variations in Europe. Broadly speaking smaller stores in central areas is more common in Europe than in the US, but once you get into the details then each country tends to do things in quite different ways.

For instance I loved shopping groceries in the Netherlands but kind of hated doing it in Germany.
HEB is loved in Texas (suspiciously absent from NE Texas), but has a pretty great line of private label foods, competitive prices that are usually at or below Walmart's prices. For example, when meat prices spiked because national meatpackers had problems, HEB's Texas meatpackers didn't have such high costs (less of a spike).

They have to be doing well financially with a decent markup, but the quality is pretty great and other chain grocers usually don't have the same draw that HEB does in markets where they compete.
TJ’s may be lower margin on what they carry than Safeway would be on comparable items; they achieve that by avoiding carrying lots of the low-margin items every other grocery store spends lots of money devoting floor space to.

(But those are things people tend to also need a lot, so TJ’s ends up being an extra shopping trip, instead of a replacement.)
Tesla is a scam, Elon is a fraud. It’s just obvious if you’re not a Musk fanatic. Wake up. I’d be more worried for the IQ of Tesla fanboys.
Way off topic here, but Anna napoletana tipo "00" changed my life.
Just PHP.

Plain old JavaScript.

Bootstrap for CSS/HTML tho.

Maybe I’m old, but learning frameworks doesn’t speed up or simplify anything for me.
Makes sense! Will edit when I'm next to my laptop, I promise.
> Python async/await (which is also a mess)

This! There seems to be a move to (somewhat) "async everything" in Python. But it just results in bad developer UX, it's verbose and unneeded 95% of the time.

I wish Gevent had been adopted as the starting point for an official way to do "none threaded" parallelization.
You can interpret the phrase in several different ways but it doesn’t have any specific generally accepted meaning.

Aka “Does America use LSD?” Is presumably different from “Do Americans use LSD?” but it’s not clear what it’s asking.
Interesting, I saw a wendy's "Food truck" doing that near me. I suspect it was for delivery only, not even takeout.
Fusion will never be used for large scale domestic power generation. There is really no way to make it cheaper then advanced fission.
Yep, for sure.
Hilarious. The Corn Hockers lie and say:
"We take this as EPA's position that biofuels continue to play a critical role in mitigating climate change and, most importantly, today in lowering prices at the pump for drivers across America," Kakesh told the Washington Examiner.

But then later in the article industry experts say it will add up to 30 cents a gallon.

At the end of the day, it's expensive, and the corn lobby is STILL lying about it to our faces in the media.

I would be interested in the alleged carbon reduction that this ethanol corn blending does.
For me, I’m currently running a Rust webapp and a Python webapp on a server; both are of similar complexities, and I’m probably a bit better at Python. I keep on having to fix the Python app, because of both OS upgrades and problems with the implementation. The Rust app has been working without any issues for the last three years.

For a relatively simple web server, where I don’t need to collaborate with anyone, I’m choosing Rust.
> Show me any example of one claiming to eventually be without err or irrationality.

Interact with them long enough and you'll come across a whole lot who act like it.

What do you even think I'm strawmanning? That comment is a defense of Scott Alexander and rationalists generally.
> Whole Paycheck has certain products they can't find anywhere else easily.

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> Seems like a good deal for a premium, healthier item.

Last time I shopped there I paid nearly $4 for a bottle of lemon juice that looked and tasted like sewer water. Down the drain it went, as did my money.

That store exudes an Apple-like reality distortion field, and it seems to be working pretty well.
One of my personal bugbears is the DeWitt Clause for Datomic, especially because knowing the performance profile of Datomic is very important for understanding whether your app will be a good fit for it given some of its peculiarities.
Typescript: Sveltekit + Supabase

Svelte is king in DX, development velocity, and quality for the vast majority of web projects. I can build a JAMStack website in a day and an app in a week.

If I had to use something else, I would reach for Astro for static sites and the latest version of Nuxt for an app.
Thank you for doing this!

I haven't looked deeply enough, but does this course use a higher-level 'package' such as OpenAI Gym or teach at a lower-level? (Is lower-level stuff even possible...)
What you are looking for in a restaurant is not the same as everyone else. There are plenty of people who are more than happy to have their same comfortable meal over and over, these places are catering to those folk. Repeat business is better for profitability than always having to acquire new customers, and this model encourages that repeat business for the customers that it fits well with.
I can get behind the general recommendations outlined in this article (with the caveat that they're only to be used if you don't need every last drop of performance, you're not writing a library, and you find the current async situation difficult) except for the complete cop-out of implementing each handler routine as not just a function (which could at least be nested/local) but as a completely separate type implementing a trait.

That's fine if all your transforms are strictly defined, often reused, and you're just choosing between them but if many of your transforms are just one-offs then that's an insane amount of boilerplate and a very clunky approach. It's also antithesis to the OP's claimed "just get things done" approach since you'll always be second-guessing whether something should be a separate transform type or if it should be extending an existing one, etc.
Does America use LSD? Hell yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
This is interesting because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers_Distributing went bankrupt and afaik never came back. Sometimes I wonder if capitalism has any memory.
i rma’d a 10tb drive (or something) to WD using their Advanced RMA process. WD support gave me a huge nightmare over pictures of the drive. i couldn’t pull the drive without risking down time and data loss. wd support basically told me fuck off. i emailed David Goeckeler and explained the situation and he took care of everything.

i will always be a WD customer as long as he’s around.
There's also a particular method to get the coin in a tilted spin that looks (and sounds) _remarkably_ like a real flip, and is I think going to be more repeatable than what you're describing.
They were serious (which you can see in flagged/grey comments they keep leaving.)
I think you're right. For example in EU supermarkets you will typically find, separately: white onions, brown onions, sweet onions etc. In the UK: onions. Maybe sometimes also 'large onions'. Same goes for most other produce.

It's chicken and egg, as the demand for this won't materialise without awareness and the awareness won't arise without the knowledge there even are different types of onions, I imagine most Brits are clueless.
Well, I live in Berkeley, so I'm pretty damn spoiled when it comes to cheese shops. But I can see that being helpful if there are no cheese stores, import stores, or specialty foods stores in your town.
Use is present tense.
> You can't expect too much in a relatively cheap, low-volume device.

We certainly used to be able to expect that baseline level of workmanship.
The viral aspect is the thing which really annoys me as well about it: I have some apps that make one or two single requests to DBs in certain configurations, and I've had to end up using async for those parts (up to main() obviously, although not all code in the apps needs to be aware of async thankfully) due to many crates needing/using async now for this (which may well be good/fine for other peoples' heavy usage, but not really for my usage).

However, it means that even when these requests are not being done (and might never be for the running of the apps, as it's user-configured what the apps do and whether they make DB requests occasionally), these apps end up having some (it may not be much, but it's somewhat noticeable) overheads, i.e. coreCount threads are always created by the async infrastructure (despite being a single-threaded app in one of the apps cases), call stacks are deeper even though async is not really being used (although due to main() being async effectively that changes everything), meaning more memory usage for those threads's stacks (which is somewhat ironic, as that's one of the points of utilising async for heavy IO requests - reducing memory usage! - but in reverse it hurts my use cases a tiny bit).

Edit: I tried to use things like pollster (in an attempt to significantly isolate and limit the async usage to just where it was needed), and it wouldn't work for my use cases.

I'm on the verge of splitting the apps into two parts due to this, but due to the shared state, that would involve additional complexity (RPC or something), which I don't really want to stomach.
The staff use these to communicate. There’s no intercoms so this is how they know when to open more registers, come to the front of the store, etc. Don’t ring the bells, they will not appreciate it.

Source: past TJs employee
> I believe most of the engineers working at big tech should be happy about their position.

I'm unhappy because I'm still spending 40+ hours a week making rich assholes richer. I'll be happier when I've saved up enough that I can afford to stop working. The nicest job in the world is still a job. Having a boss sucks, no matter how good your boss might be.
In Germany you're more likely to get "reverse brake checked" - with an M5 3cm from your rear bumper signaling to pass... :-)
For example weather ("weather <location>") didn't work when I was starting to use Kagi but now it works.

Unsure about stocks/translations/directions, how do you use them with Google?
Anyone have a suggestion for a JS/TS based framework where you manipulate the DOM by ID instead of generating HTML?

I work on a small custom site that has a particular workflow - a HTML/CSS guru creates the very-custom pages (no two are alike) in Webflow, then I jetpack in at the end and hook up the dynamic bits. My work is 90% hiding/showing elements and filling in text.

Anyone have suggestions for this kind of workflow, where the HTML is the source of truth about the layout/structure and I just fill in the data? The goal of the workflow is to allow the HTML guru to complete their portion + get it reviewed without eng help, and minimize the coordination needed between HTML and eng.
I've been looking for this exact thing for years! I just wanted to an easy way to spin up a web server for hosting a simple HTML page on a home intranet, and didn't want to mess around with configuring Apache or something needlessly complicated.
Naturally there are far more IPv6 /60s than IPv4 /32s. As a spammer, though, you don't get to pick just any /60 prefix you want—it has to be allocated to you.
Farmer's markets are the way to go for produce if you have farms in your area. Some are overpriced and upscale, some are cheaper than your local chain grocery store. You can also buy grains/beans in bulk at lower prices, often direct from farmer's coops, and have it shipped to your door. Get a pressure cooker for beans, a rice cooker, save on the gas prices as they're electric, and use an induction electric stove. If you want meat, well, that's going to get more expensive. Eating less meat, but higher-quality, is going to be healthier anyway (boycott the factory farms, grass-fed beef is probably best).

However, you have to learn to cook. This is a barrier for some people. To me cooking is relaxing and I've got a lot of low-effort high-speed methods, but then I have a background as a wet lab researcher and that's about 100X as painstaking, where you're tracking every single thing you do in a lab notebook, mixing up solutions with precisely measured masses and volumes, adjusting pHs, running timers and working in this high-pressure environment where one screwup can waste a whole day's work if not a whole month's. Cooking in comparison, I don't use recipes, it's just pure fun. Get a decent collection of spices, that's important. Learn to clean as you go, and you can take most raw ingredients and go right to a great meal in half an hour.

If you've never done much cooking, a course isn't a bad idea. Indian cooking classes are great for teaching you how to cook a wide variety of grains/beans/veggies. Baking is more of a hassle as you have to measure stuff out and be more careful with temps and times, and tends to take a bit longer, but has the benefit of being able to make larger dishes for more people in one shot.
100% agree. It drives me nuts when people use the wrong tool for the job.
Safe trailing distance is determined by safe driving expecations. If everybody in the world started doing hard and sudden brakes, then the safe trailing distance would be extended.

While ideally everybody would always leave enough space for hard and sudden brakes (eg in case a deer runs across a road), the reality is that driving has a lot of loose rules, and you're expected to behave rationally and similarly to the other drivers on the road. For example it's usually fine to speed a little in the left lane if most people deem it safe to do so. And there's no strict definition for "reckless driving" despite it being illegal. Driving is an intricate social dance with millions of actors, and if you are the one acting way out of line, you are liable, and hard + sudden brakes for no reason, is definitely out of line.

(That's not to say this is the best system though. An autonomous system with well defined behaviors, less ambiguity, and less social guesswork, would probably be safer. But such a system would require full participation, not just one or two tesla drivers choosing to let Elon take the wheel)
Permaculture
Second this, his talks are very elaborate, has great pointers to reading material/coursework - as if you were sitting alongside the students in UCL.
Very involved though - if you have a 'day job'.
I have an audiobook of my book, "Inventing the Future." You can see me and my narrator talking about it at [1]. I auditioned about 25 narrators before picking him.

If you have a lot of dialog, like I do, I think a narrator can bring it to life, by inhabiting the characters. If you're reading the book, you might well be imagining the author talking to you, so an audiobook narrator becomes the voice of the author.

So no, they're not mutually exclusive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGchbES0DhU
> I will gladly pay a premium for someone to offer me I real VS Code alternative.

https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

Spoiler: telemetry is also on by default
Have you ever encountered a situation where RL solved a (IRL "people paid me non-research-grant money for this") problem for you faster than classical controls engineering and/or planning? I have not.
From personal experience, if you want to run some software that uses SQLite or similar...
I've always wanted a PDP11 but having never used one I'm overwhelmed when looking for them. I have no way of knowing if I'm buying the right parts or how to tell if they function.

Are there any retro recreations of PDP machines? All I've ever been able to find are emulators.
Not OP, but the texture is different. Soak some black beans overnight then cook them, and compare them to rinsed canned beans. The latter are slipper and spongy, the former are lighter and have better texture.
I like Aldi, just not for produce. For produce I usually go somewhere more premium like a Whole Foods, Fresh Market, or a local specialty grocery store. Or Costco, if I want a lot.
React is really grinding my gears, lately.

Do you use something t like Redux with Svelte or is the approach different?
In this thread:

1. People thinking it's amazing (me)
2. People thinking it's not creative enough e.g. "It’s using what already exists, not conjecturing something new."
3. People thinking it's too creative e.g. "This looks nothing like Kermit"