skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The banana republics created were quite awful, no question there. But current government subsidies are there so that we don't see worse food shortages during times when food production is disrupted. Say, some guy far away declaring war on an area that produces a significant fraction of the wheat in the world, or some country that sells a lot of fertilizer and/or oil not selling it so much any more for whatever reason.

Yes, they're anti-competitive, but they have a pretty good reason to exist in countries that might frequently get into wars, since they would leave a pretty big vulnerability otherwise.

Also, a lot of the food production is sold via futures to stabilize prices and to offset the huge costs of producing it that aren't recouped until months later, but the futures + inflation are kinda working against the producers right now, especially when combined with fuel & fertilizer costs going crazy.

I'm not sure about your assertion that supermarkets have so little to do with the prices, they may not take that big a cut overall, but that really depends on how careful you are shopping given that there are plenty of products where you can pay significantly different prices for similar goods. I do agree that it's probably not responsible for most of the worrying increases, but you do still have to mind your loyalty cards and whatnot.

I think that in large part, prices are going up due to inflation, global shipping issues, disruption of large areas of farmland, energy costs and lack of fertilizer. And those last two are related due to the Haber-Bosch process for producing fertilizer, fuel is not just for shipping or powering farm machinery.

There are plenty of issues, and plenty of reason to worry about how harvests go this year, but I do agree that my worry would be more about the production side, and whether farmers can plant enough, not just the distribution side.

Things are probably going to get worse unless we have really great harvests this year, in my view. The time to deal with many of these problems was months ago, before planting started, but the second best time is now.
I don't.

I know that my mortgage/utilities/insurance/food bill is roughly X% of my take-home earnings.

My savings are Y% of my earnings. X% + Y% is roughly ~90%.

The other 10% is an everything fund that goes to my liquid checking account in the bank. So that bank account is growing very slightly. So the only thing required from me is to look at the bank account once a quarter or so, and make sure it's still roughly at the same level and there were no outlier expenses.
The presence and high score of Jordan Peterson’s book on this list makes me think I’d disagree quite a lot with this person’s reading material.
This reminds me of ESR's Jargon File, which kept defining "hackers" as liking or doing things when it was actually just him.
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen is a great book about the banana industry and government
Reproducible benchmarking can also inform the person/team that their configurations are suboptimal. How are you supposed to know how good your "best" is if you aren't allowed to talk about shakedowns?
So how does this work legally - I bought a product with functionality X, and later the manufacturer can remove that functionality from me?

What if that's the one and only functionality that I need - are they going to compensate me? Aren't they revising contract of sale after the money is paid?

Could the manufacturer start charging me subsribtion for some functionality that was previously 'included'?

What are the limits to how much could be taken back from me after I paid money for the goods? If I bought a car, and the manufacturer updated it to require a separate subscribtion for driving in each state, would that actually be illegal?
cargo-culting is real in a lot of startups.
Well, the frog crabs might indicate that they could both evolve an exoskeleton and then reverse course.

"Whatever the advantages are, they do not apply in all habitats because some groups have also lost carcinization; one modern example being the frog crab."
<CEO firstname> @ <company>.com
This article feels a lot like CEO worship or LinkedIn Hustle Culture to me.

In my view, the main takeaway about respondents vs. non-respondents isn't dramatic or verified enough to convince me that this letter-writing practice isn't just a giant waste of time.

CEOs aren't particularly gifted individuals, they mostly just come from families with ample connections (Bill Gates), stumble into timing-based opportunities (Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace Tom), inherit the company (Herbert Fisk Johnson III, Meijer and Walton families), or are workaholics who climb the corporate ladder. (Tim Cook) [1]

I don't see much of a reason to actively seek out their thoughts.

Social mobility has been decreasing since the 1970s. To me it's time to drop the hustle and focus on ways we can work and think about work less, not writing letters to CEOs. Less production and consumption, more idle time.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2008/11/09/technology/cook_apple.fortu... - He starts emailing at 4:30 AM
I hope they at least broke the nutrition science section of those courses off and continued teaching at least that much.
Debugger in chrome dev tools is easy enough though as I get older I find myself actually preferring console log, or similar strategies, again. Especially if the function in question get invoked multiple times, printing seems easier
Your link for sabotage says your version of the story is apocryphal.
>"AI" that would reduce or commoditize human intelligence.

Computer generated art (DALL-E~), fiction literature, music et al. It wouldn't really reduce human intelligence, but it will definitely commoditize creative crafts even further. Which I think is what the OP is mostly referring to.
In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)
Marx called this valorization.

"Just as capital, as value valorizing itself, views with indifference the particular physical guise in which labour appears in the labour process, whether as a steam-engine, dung heap or silk, so too the worker looks upon the particular content of his labour with equal indifference. His work belongs to capital, it is only the use-value of the commodity that he has sold, and he has only sold it to acquire money and, with the money, the means of subsistence."
Australia has the best supermarkets in the world, hands down. Why? Because we grow and produce almost all of our fresh produce, dairy, meat, and seafood. There are some exceptions for seasonal things, but the Australian climate allows for almost everything we eat to be grown here.

The solution to this problem in the US and the UK is less globalism, not more.
As a t1d who's been using a cgm for like 8 years at this point, having it there constantly is objectively better, and you normally don't notice the needle (needs a bit of fat though). Fairly routinely, I'll go a couple of days without because the installation is a bit of a pain, and my blood sugar is invariably worse on those days. A big part of it is the reduction in cognitive load devoted to managing your blood glucose. You don't have to estimate what it's doing, just decide on the right action to take. It can wake you up when you're going low, which is much better then waking up in a cold sweat and devouring your kitchen refrigerator from the hunger.

Also, the alternative is pricking your finger so it bleeds, which is much less pleasant.

One thing op doesn't talk about is close loop systems, which automate some of the insulin delivery using the sensors. They're still in the very early days, but they're generally good at dealing with random variation or overnight highs.
No, you're getting it backwards.

The issue is that Indian (or Indian-American) workers are bringing these prejudices into American workplaces. People in Indian workplaces know about these issues, non-Indians in American workplaces very likely don't, which allows the discrimination to go unchecked.
Nobody wants to use a grocery store web page on their phone, and nobody wants to use a computer instead of their phone.
FWIW, I do think it's an excellent email product. However, it is generally not going to be worth the money unless you send a ton of email all the time (exec, sales person, director+ eng leader).
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2314/
Is the UK supermarket the same as the Netherlands?
Who was the blue guy running for US President a few cycles back?
Mapped: The Ukraine Refugee Crisis in Europe
Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I've been using Superhuman for years and it definitely helps me get through the 50+ emails that are awaiting me each morning significantly faster than either GMail's web or mobile client or Outlook on mobile. I'm quite happy to pay for it as it easily pays for itself.

Rahul has frequently personally responded to my inquiries about the product as well as recommendations.

They definitely don't deserve all of the hype or that high of a valuation, but I still think they are a great product.
Right. I get who the rest of the crypto-critics are whilst reading this 'letter' [0] and what they do, but interestingly at first glance I'm not quite sure who exactly the most prominent critics are and I especially mean the ones that are simply left blank like 'Darren W. Seng' and 'Stephen Diehl'. It turns out that they seem to be connected as C-level executives and co-founders of a private blockchain startup named 'Adjoint' [0] that appears to be in direct competition with public blockchains like Bitcoin, and especially Ethereum. It's quite strange to see why that wasn't mentioned?

Given that 'blockchain' is somehow the problem in the letter, why specifically 'public blockchains' [0] why not all blockchains both 'public' AND 'private'? Maybe there is a reason why they are attacking only public blockchains and somehow left out private ones? Another critic seems to attack both of them and doesn't see any difference to them at all. [2] So why did they leave that out in the letter if the blockchain is the problem?

Perhaps cryptocurrencies like Ethereum (which has smart-contract capabilities) and Bitcoin to some extent are the prime reason why the folks at Adjoint are eternally at odds with the crypto industry and are dedicated every single day to totally getting rid of all cryptocurrencies? Many have tried going down this path and Seng, and Diehl seem to have already deleted their repositories and associations [2] with Adjoint to pursue this terribly long utopian conquest.

After all, what on earth is 'nanocoin' and why was that deleted? [2]

[0] https://concerned.tech

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adjoint-inc

[2] https://medium.com/@johny.codes/private-blockchains-even-wor...
> trained this using /pol/

I wasn't expecting the g in GPT to stand for gestapo
Getting a bit off topic here, but I’d like to learn more about this…

In most cases wouldn’t you need to run a thicker wire to replace a 120v outlet with 240v?
Pure hedonism?
Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google' (2019)
How is thos possible? When the Lidl and Aldi are both in the UK and Germany and what about the Netherlands?

From my understanding the Netherlands is the same as Germany.
I was looking into this the other week, I couldn't find a CGM supplier in the US that would sell dtc. I don't need it for any medical reasons. Im just interested in the data. Anyone know of a supplier?
That's correct, HSTS doesn't apply to IP literals. You can check with https://1.1.1.1/. They would serve you an HSTS header:

$ curl -sS -D- -o/dev/null https://1.1.1.1/ | grep -i strict-transport-security
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000

but you won't find 1.1.1.1 in chrome://net-internals/#hsts, and you can still directly request http://1.1.1.1/, which returns a remote 301 response. Unlike for an HSTS domain, for which you get a local 307 response with a Non-Authoritative-Reason: HSTS header (in Chrome).
It would be hard for me to believe any generalizations about grocery stores in the US. In San Francisco where I live, there are ~5 grocery stores within walking distance that span an order of magnitude in price and markup. Some items are only available at the higher end stores, and items that overlap are sold for up to 10x the price at the smaller, more expensive stores.

For example I can get a pint of heavy cream for ~$2 at the cheap store, or I can get an organic fancy one for $15 at Whole Foods. I can also get a normal brand name (Horizon) for either $3 or $6, depending on where I buy it. Finally, Safeway has a unique ultra-pasteurized product that is way better for me (lasts for months) for ~$4. Very difficult to make any generalizations about service or value.
Iq air or purple has some nice stuff
I don't understand the cleverness here. How else would you start debugging? If you're not a IDE user, print is your first course of action. This is like gufawing about a doctor using a barium swallow or an x-ray.
Ironically, now that they've locked everyone in, they're demanding that you pay or delete emails. Scumbags.
When I was about 15 (this was in the 1980s) I had been hanging out at a local computer shop, trying to figure out what I might want to buy for my hard-earned paper route and lawn-mowing money. The shop owner, who I would guess was in his 30s, offered to drive me to the next larger city to look at some stuff that he could not get for some reason. On the way there (or maybe on the way back) he took me to White Castle for food. We didn't have a White Castle and he really liked their food.

I guess you might say there were red flags there, but he didn't do anything remotely weird, then or later. He was apparently just wanting to help out a kid who was interested in the same stuff he was. Nowadays I don't think anyone would dare.
Would be interested in knowing more too.

Recent efforts have been in the direction of Webinars and product led growth.
Weird to seek out an expensive change with only downsides but the opening paragraph says it all:

> The UK has a long and proud history of using imperial measures and their use is closely associated with our culture and language.

Ah yes, the same pitch that sold Brexit.
I have always wanted to make a ceph cluster with one disk per node, just to see how it would behave, from a performance view point it would suck, but from a fault tolerant viewpoint it would be amazing.
Roving Packs of Robot Dogs Are Coming to the Moon
I'm eternally bitter that webOS died and that we're stuck with Android and iOS now.
Some people simply have better things to do, or don't care about learning a specific thing. For example, I care about learning programming in my CS classes. No, I don't care about learning who died in 1938.
I fear for the future of anchovies.
Surely you are trolling? That's a very, very common setup. Nothing complicated or out of the ordinary requiring specific tooling for the dev environment.

The output that runs in the browser at runtime has its own set of same constraints. Modern browser version, etc.
Self-domestication is a fascinating subject. The term is also applied to other species who may have self-domesticated themselves (cats, dogs, etc.) Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication
Simple, customizable maps for the web – Protomaps
I think this is quite confusing because the word 'Mittelstand' is repeatedly used in a way that doesn't seem consistent with its usual meaning.
I don't get where you are getting the 'insurmountable obstacle' from. I learned about computers from exploring around, typing things, seeing what happened, etc. I loved to know what my computer could do already on its own, without external tools, when I was like 13.

Yes, I knew how to click 'next next next'. Everybody does. That just doesn't have anything to do with learning about computers though - going to a website and downloading a package is not and should not be a prerequisite for learning to code.

Why is going out and finding a python package, downloading it, and clicking 'next next next' a prerequisite for someone to learn coding? I could suggest as well that if you think you need to do that, then you're definitely not ready to learn to code! (Though I would never, because that's silly gatekeeping). Certainly these days you can use a browser to code anyway, without downloading packages at all!

So why is it such a requirement that someone click 'next next next' in order to learn? What if they don't want to? Why is that so offensive that you think they can't learn to code?
I've found tests to be my new print debug.
Too complicated of an internal state to get at what's going on? Write a test. The failing test will tell you the output.
Thank you! I loved working in USGEO - S&T and MapPoint were great - we each got to leave an Easter-egg POI [0]! I even make maps in my spare time[1] :) . W

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryjones/15511609618/

[1]: https://ryjones.github.io/Area29SnowmobileTrailMap/
Breezewood has fascinated me for decades. I have such fond memories of the "half hour of freedom and fast food" on road trips as a kid. It's like a living reminder to just stop for no reason some times and enjoy the plainest things. One day before I die I'm going to spend a whole day there just because.
Isn't discount supermarket a perception. I mean they are all supermarkets.
In my opinion, the dangerous thing about AI is not its capabilities, but that (some) people think it's magic and are fully willing to give themselves up to it if it means they don't have to make any decisions.
Probably sugar
I would buy it. Sure, it wouldn't sell like the next iPhone Whatever, but I think there is a healthy niche.
Yeah. McDonald's didn't have drive-thrus when I was a kid. My mom would take me there once or twice a year and it was always a highlight. I would always get a happy meal with an orange drink. I loved their orange drink.
Waffle House is a billion times better than Applebees. They Cook the food in front of you versus microwaving some frozen shit. AND it’s open 365 24/7 pretty much even when there’s inclement weather. I always know what to expect… the hash browns are the best shredded hash browns around. Applebees is a dying company only popular in smaller areas.
They're cheaper, take up less space, no processed crap from all the goo in the can, you can cook them to whatever firmness you want...should I keep going?
Klein Tools are definitely top notch, no question. But so are Knipex. And Wera.

For thermal imagers, I prefer the FLIR brand.
I ditched Superhuman for Simplify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbm...

It’s cheaper and pretty much the same features without the bugs of Superhuman.
Another issue with tree-sitter is how basic functionality is not consistent across all languages. Want to find all comment text in all languages? Each tree-sitter lang support will have a slightly different behavior for every language. When you extract the comment you'll have syntax from the language in there like `/*/` or `{}`.

Example from a sourcegraph docs generation project:

https://github.com/sourcegraph/doctree/blob/07a2d593fe9855be...

https://github.com/sourcegraph/doctree/blob/07a2d593fe9855be...
The New Fault-Tolerant Execution Architecture of Trinodb
Cracking the glass of a induction cooktop is still a problem. So I recommend carbon steel over cast iron for this purpose. They’re similar in that they both need to be seasoned. But carbon steel is much lighter and it’s smooth unlike most modern cast iron cookware.
Oh, it's not a rational fear, by far.

Same sort of thing as the fear of being mugged by a Spanish dwarf or being eaten by an Orca.
Ive always wondered this: has a species have an evolutionary history where they originated in land but adapted to living in water and then adapted to living on land again?
No, only if you increase the amperage of the circuit breaker. Doubling the voltage just doubles the power you can deliver over the same wire. To keep it the same, you can actually use a thinner wire. That's part of the reason long-distance transmission lines are at many thousands of volts.
> Seems like a lot of the interest in these bans is coming from new research like this [Stanford study](https://news.stanford.edu/2022/01/27/rethinking-cooking-gas/) showing gas stoves emit more methane than previously thought.

Actually, most of the interest I see is in the indoor air quality impact rather than in the global environmental impact.

Gas stoves emitting particulates wasn't a big deal back when houses were drafty as hell. However, now that everything is sealed up for insulation, indoor air quality is a much bigger deal.

And gas stoves are terrible for indoor air quality.
I’m quite sure I remember Charles Darwin already observing it in The Origin of Species.
It is worrisome. People are quick to give up freedom if it also means they can give up responsibility. I can believe that our descendants in the not too distant future would accept whatever the AI told them unquestioningly. In the same way that now and in the past people will lie to others and themselves to conform and not stand out. Question the judgement of a multi trillion neuron cybernetic brain? Try to form an independent thought in the face of such might?
> there's always enough connected plants when you consider the whole country

Did anyone claim this?
> If it turns out that 90% of (you name the group) are not discriminated against, but 10% are, does that mean that we should ignore that discrimination?

At the very least, it might mean you don’t bring in an activist that antagonizes members of the majority group, as was allegedly the case here.

Activism undertaken on behalf of a minority group affects the relationship between that minority group and society as a whole. All members of the group have a stake in the overall relationship between the group and other groups.
> I cook on a Viking.

Wouldn't know what that's like. I cook on what you call "el cheapos". Was speaking to those models, as they're pretty ubiquitous among most apartments.

> You have to learn to correlate the flame appearance with cooking results.

Dude, that's essentially what I meant. Sorry for not detailing that one should look for color, size, etc of flame, and how one's brain interprets what works and what doesn't.

And no I have not used an induction stove, but am curious.
I was in a gift shop recently that had what looked like oil paintings for $40-100, all imported from china or somewhere they were made cheaply, all of some uninspired beach or flowers or something. We also have muzak, we have online "content" that's really just some outsourced minimum to try and do seo. It's already all a commodity. Having ML that can streamlines that changes nothing. It's still not doing anything creative.

Even the Kermit pictures I joked about above were really "made" by the person who thought of the cool prompts for the model. It's that creativity that's the human part. ML can be an idiot savant, like a calculator can multiply numbers fast, but it doesn't "create" the ideas or inputs.

So it could change the economics of listicles and lower-end gift shop art, etc, from off-shore to computer generated. Maybe for some people that will be enough to call it a kind of industrial revolution. But there is no risk to creativity, anymore than a loom was a risk to creativity in fabrics.
Containment boards don't work, but my recollection is that /pol/ was nevertheless created with the intention of being a containment board. /n/ and /new/ had already been banned for racism, but it metastasized across the rest of the site. /pol/ was created after banning boards for racism failed.
No one is ever to blame for anything in economics. The ad industry isn’t a person or thing with any ethics bound to it. It’s just a creation of the market. You may as well try blaming the air for being responsible for tornados.

The only solution is to try to build a new system that can’t be abused.
Adopting Open Source Firmware Approach for Intel FSP
Blue Origin also does not get handed free money by NASA and FCC.

Which is not to say they should get free money. Rather, I should.
Sounds made up, by either Luckey or Forbes.
Someone should make a GPT from the SCP wiki.
Common counterfeit foods and how to identify them (2014)