skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true as is the nature of "food deserts" in the poorer neighbors, at least where I live – there are higher concentrations of convenience stores, drive-thrus, and gas stations that feature items like tobacco products, alcohol, and lottery tickets that similarly exploit the local populations impulse purchases and eat up what little income they earn from two or more low-paying jobs.

It's viciously cyclical and those sin-taxed items all promote bad habits, harm physical, mental, and spiritual health, and perpetuate check-to-check living and discourage savings. It makes sense to me because many folks in these communities rely on public transit and/or walk to where they need to go, so they buy from what's available.

This is the dark side of liberty where we see that people do not always choose the best options from those available to them when impulse buys are offered , or sometimes, there is far less to choose from for certain populations to begin with.

I recognize I'm oversimplifying and probably have committed more than a few gross stereotypical statements, but I am distressed to see the conditions in a lot of these neighbors, not for me, but because of what I imagine it must be like for a lot of folks who don't have the same opportunities to rise up simply due to the circumstances of their birth.

There is absolutely no good in the lottery and it should be abolished. Any alleged good for education or other programs is more than countered by the harm it does to the lower income populations. Education should be paid for from taxes, and just raise taxes if necessary. My guess is that the money that comes from lotteries don't usually end-up benefiting that much.
I cut up broken trees as a volunteer emergency responder. I'm always fascinated by these puzzles, in that every tree is different in species, condition and nature of the fault. The aim is to make the tree safe for the public by getting the broken bit on the ground then cut up into manageable chunks. in practice it requires more time thinking than cutting. There are heuristics like remove unsupported bits to remove weight, avoid rolling etc but it often seems that you end up at a dead end. Then think, discuss and move forward (maybe). Could make some sort of game, where the top levels are branches suspended in trees, e.g. a bit of tree A comes off and lodges into trees B and C.
With all disagreements I see in this community, space has never been one of them. This is a beautiful image. Kudos NASA.
If it makes your friend feel better, lottery winners more often than not destroy their own lives.
The problem is that they are spraying it on the product that is consumed, such as soybeans and wheat. It should only be used to eradicate weeds before the crop is planted, where the residual glyphosate is consumed by soil bacteria after eight days have elapsed.

The Roundup Ready series of crops should be banned from consumption because of contamination potential, and for being genetically engineered.
What Should Be Done with India’s ‘Man-Eating’ Tigers?
Au contraire, it's very useful. If you want someone to lose weight, calculate their BMR + their rough activity based cal burn, and give 'em a 15% deficit. They'll lose weight. Not just water and glycogen. They will burn fat.

If you want someone to gain weight, do the same calc, tell 'em to eat 100 more calories. Not gaining? 200. Really not gaining? Wow, fast metabolism, shock 'em with 500 extra. Anecdata, but the only time I saw someone not slowly gain on 200 extra, there ended up being a lot of walking we weren't accounting for in our maintenance cal calculation. Our O in CICO was off. For reference, 200 cals is like a 16 oz of coke, or 2-3 apples. Decently precise.

The variance between a fast and slow metabolizer isn't 20% of daily calorie burn, maybe 10% on the high end. Guesstimation, probably more like 5%. Well within the tolerances that are used for weight modulation (up or down).

If it weren't the case, why are so many body builders (natty or enhanced) able to run repeated bulking and cutting cycles? Are they genetic outliers?

Can you calculate it 100%? Nope -- so many variables, probably tons we don't even know about yet. But it's accurate enough to be very effective, and very simple to implement.
and Backrub.
Maybe it’s just good luck, but I haven’t encountered the type you describe so that just didn’t compute for me.

And I agree that not all roads lead there. My position was founded entirely on the stated desire to read this book, and the implied desire to learn from it.
Quite possibly that is coke.
>I can't remember anyone saying that viruses don't mutate.

In 2020-21 there were plenty of articles claiming stuff like:

"The coronavirus is not mutating significantly as it circulates through the human population, according to scientists who are closely studying the novel pathogen’s genetic code. "

You can google the phrase for the source.

That phrase quickly "mutated" into "Coronaviruses don't mutate" on social media. I have examples, but I don't know how to link them while maintaining privacy.
Actually, I'm aware of the deadly mistakes that go on in the medical industry. A friend of mine's mother was killed in a hospital by administering the wrong drug. They could learn a lot from the aviation industry in how to minimize human error.

The software industry could also learn from the aviation industry, I've blathered on about this for years :-/
It's interesting to note young children learn to throw long before they can learn to catch.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...

> Truck owners might protest that they are slightly less likely than owners of other categories to use their vehicle as primary transport (83% vs. 95%), limiting the miles and gallons. And they might also protest that trucks provide capabilities that other vehicles lack. But, as it turns out, a significant portion of truck owners never use their trucks for these capabilities. According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.

> So what do people actually like about trucks? According to Edwards, the answer is counterintuitive. Truck drivers use their trucks very much like other car owners: for commuting to and from work, presumably alone. The thing that most distinguishes truck owners from those of other vehicles is their sheer love of driving. “The highest indexed use among truck owners is pleasure driving,” says Edwards. Truck drivers use their vehicles this way fully twice as often as the industry average. “This is the freedom that trucks offer,” says Edwards.

> “When asked for attributes that are important to them,” Edwards says, “truck owners oversample in ones like: the ability to outperform others, to look good while driving, to present a tough image, to have their car act as extension of their personality, and to stand out in a crowd.” Trucks deliver on all of that. At a price.
Unfortunately, the writing here presents scant literary values to support its own message. This is itself an example of writing that could have better been conveyed as three bullet points on a powerpoint slide. It’s “three things not to do”, not any one compelling reason to write (e.g., because it’s a transcendental experience and illustrating why that is).
If it's so wrong - what's your reasoning for why such neighborhoods end up the way they are?
The same Youtube channel also tested the Lightning against a Ram 2500 diesel going up and down I-70 at the Eisenhower Tunnel [1] while towing 9600 pounds and they were absolutely amazed at how well it did. It's an outstanding truck, but yes, the range is not great.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQQsWK3wLg&t=25s
Try third party clients like infinity.They are better in these things.
Gotta know your order of operations on the beat.
> If this works well enough, we will no longer see the Nevada tunnels being empty, and finally be dedicated to what it was designed to do.

Is this a reference to the Yucca mountain nuclear waste facility?

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_rep...

Do you mean they will be used for waste processing?
It’s honestly shocking how many facets of American culture are predicated on addiction for profit. Alcohol, food, social media, gaming, opioids, cannabis, nicotine, gambling. It is extraordinarily difficult to find a sense of perspective independent of the influence of these industries.
Reminds me of this video [1] by self proclaimed Minimalist Matt D’Avella who also counted all their possessions.

Fun stats:

- Between him and his wife, they had 1600~ items

- The average American has 300,000 items in their house [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/BB8o8-EdZY0
[2] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2014-mar-21-la-he-keep...
There's a simple answer: Offer a lottery with a high payout rate and flatten jackpots to the extent they don't cause a shift into other worse sorts of gambling. The total amount of money transferred to support government programs makes up less than 0.5% of total government revenue; it's trivially replaceable.
So you want to go to graphic design school
I've been experimenting with it.

All I can really say is that there is some utility in its completions. But I found that you still have to go through everything it comes up with, because there is a lot of cruft out there that it will happily give to you.

As long as you are really precise with your comments and how you structure your code and comment prompts, it seems to do really well. Almost like magic. But it easily goes off on tangents, quite like how you can get your cell phone text messenger to produce crazy sentences by prompting it with a word and accepting completions as-is.

Also, it is all too easy to send it into a loop where it continually repeats lines or complete code sections it has already produced.

All the stuff about it going against licenses... I don't know if that is actually the case, BUT it is important to note that Github has standardized licenses for the repos, and therefore there is absolutely no excuse if co-pilot isn't obeying them. They're part of Github's work flow!

Until I see something that I know came attached to a license that wouldn't allow it, I'm not falling for that particular claim. I would expect them to obey the individual licenses that Github provides each repo.

Is it worth it? Not yet. But I have no doubt it will be. I have another month to try it free. But I have a feeling I'll just let it slide as a novelty item I once worked with. I see its potential, and I think it is an amazing toy. But if I was developing co-pilot, I would handle it considerably differently.
If she breaks a plate, does she take two photos?
There's an interesting theory that the solution to this is to subsidize the lottery and improve the odds significantly. Take to the extreme and you could essentially implement UBI this way.

I also don't think poor people are wrong to think a chance of getting a life-changing amount of money is a worthwhile luxury spend compared to the other available options. They may be wrong about the probability, but instead of fixing that with education, we could fix it by making the probability closer to people's intuition.

Given the well-known issues with means testing, randomly assigning the payouts instead might be a significant improvement.
I think of it as taxing hope.
Not with this generation of telescopes. We’re talking about a few pixels worth of data.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR_8799_Orbiting_Exo...
Coming soon: Gary's Mod - Lumberjack
I've had similar luck with sqlite, of all things. Unless it's envisioned to handle huge user loads, sqlite does a pretty amazing job of FTS, all contained in a tiny binary that runs when I want and only when I want. I find it very useful for finding nuggets in titles and descriptions, spanning across thousands or millions of records. the index is often double or even triple the size of the database, but its worth it for a query that returns in a heartbeat.
Drink a glug of olive oil. You'll probably be very regular on the toilet the next day, but your body will still ask for more calories, despite the 500+ you just consumed.

4 spoon fulls of peanut butter may or may not register. That many calories in a very short time frame often does not.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/k4tTH
Any effort spent building nuclear for the 2040s is effort that could build 5x as much solar and wind for 2025.

Plus transitioning to nuclear just builds another set of kochs and saudis.

Plus it makes your entire economy beholden to one of China, Russia, France, or the US.

Plus it just kicks the can down the road. If you consider direct thermal forcing. We are exactly where we were in the late 19th century with greenhouse gases. There is no option but to transition to a steady state economy, and starting a bunch of projects that only pay off if you use as much energy as possible from them (and even then, solar + storage will be a fraction of the cost by the time they open) isn't the way to get there.

Plus those same five countries won't even let half the world have nuclear power plants.

Plus the world's uranium reserves won't actually last very long if you carry on with exponential growth (doubly so without reprocessing and breeding).

Then there's all the usual risks people mention.

The solution is the same as it has ever been. Degrowth, stopping waste, and renewables.
I’m in the same spot as you, more or less. What has allowed me to settle down is picking all the milestones I want to accomplish before I die. House remodel, travel, health/fitness, personal hobbies. It’s then fun to talk about these with my, finding out what her milestones are, and grinding together to achieve them.
I retired a dedicated Solr instance and replaced it with PG full text search in a couple of days. The sync inconsistency was creating a ton of support inquiries.

Never missed it. It’s the feature that hooked me on PG.
photograph of the photograph. sets which can't contain themselves. Maybe a mirror shot?
In 2010, we applied to YC and got into the in-person interview.

After demoing the prototype, Paul Graham commented that our thing doesn't have technical depth. My immediate response was "twitter doesn't have technical depth either.", He was pissed by my answer... That concluded our interview.
play 1000 times, probably win $1000.
it is a work of art
To da choppah!
language and culture is a much bigger factor than tax. Tax is solvable by throwing money at accountants and lawyers.

Language and culture, you cannot force to change. Something people love in Germany, most likely will not fly in Spain or Greece.

To drive demand is much trickier than solving tax issues.
These lists are almost always useless for comparisons since the definitions between countries vary so widely.

edit: Digging into the sources, the US has 6.4 unsheltered homeless per 10k, but Sweden doesn't even track unsheltered homeless, the most acute category (at 4.5/10k) also contains people in immediate access shelter/hospice.
Discuss the actual predictions from mainstream climate science rather than the unlikely doomsday scenarios, like a hothouse Earth. And include the adaptability of humans and the potential of technological solutions. Weigh that against realistic scenarios in a cost/benefit analysis. Proclaiming society is doomed and humanity is going extinct is not only unlikely, it’s chicken little and ends up turning well meaning people off.
Here's a helpful trick for those of you who might need to get some firewood going but the chainsaw gave up the ghost.

It can be kind of tricky and kind of dangerous for the foot if you aren't careful; but you can split a log length wise using only your axe and some torque. Carefully work your way up the length of the log slamming the axe down into the wood in a straight line, or as straight as possible. Depending on the tree and your strength; this may take one or two passes to get it splitting apart nicely.

Worst case scenario is you start cutting off small chunks on the side; but honestly you gotta be wailing pretty hard to get that happening on a strong log.

Otherwise, once you have your first pass done, start bringing the axe down harder to finish the split; twisting the axe each time to help spread it apart. If you did it right, you should end up with two long halves of a full log. Once that is done, you can do it again with each half; and then buck it down into smaller pieces with a hand saw.

Yes, you could use the hand saw first; but this is a much faster method. Or at least I think it is. I can get through a full log in about 5 minutes or so. 10 minutes tops. Never timed it; I just know how long I can stand outside chopping wood with a pair of jeans and t-shirt in -30c weather.
Not OP, I'd say the answer is lottery spend is less irrational than you think. A dream you know deep down will never happen might be more satisfying than a candy bar. So I think the solution is to subsidize and tweak the parameters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32065211
Some % of people don't vote because it's too much hassle. Not voting doesn't send a message, or more accurately it sends whatever message the receiver wants to hear.

I think voting is too hard, so it tells me that voting is too hard.

I'm a Conservative so it tells me the liberals aren't turning out because (as I know) their message is weak.

I'm a Liberal, so it tells me the exact opposite.

I think all politicians are bad, so frankly I don't care who wins.

You get the point. Not voting doesn't send a message. It sends every message.

Incidentally, if you care about the nuances within a party, then voting in primaries is where the real difference is made (traditionally also the voting with the lowest turnout.)
I think the biggest difference from Starcraft vs AoE2 is that AoE2 has random maps.

So while a map archetype has preset elements (ex: Arabia always has 8 sheep, 2 boars, 6 berries, 4-woodlines, 3 gold groups and 2 stone groups near your start), you don't actually know where they are.

Both players also start in a somewhat random position (players know the general area to scout), but the game is one of discovery. You need to scout the map, understand and explore, and then decide where to place strategic castles (or other defensive buildings), and where / how you'll fight.

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Beyond that, AoE2 has a lot of bonus damage, especially compared to Starcraft. A Halberdier normally 6 damage, but will deal +32 bonus damage vs Cavalry (for a total of 38).

Unit matchups are therefore more complex than Starcraft (sure, there's bonuses like Banelings vs light armor, or Immortals vs armored enemies), but nothing quite as gross as the bonus damage you have to memorize. (Skirmishers beat Archers. Scouts beat monks. Halberdier beats cavalry. Swordmen beat trash)
It’s just like any other index.
Indeed this seems like a fairly accurate account so far.

Also, while the section 'What are synonyms for open source software?' later clarifies what is meant by Free Software, the FSF would likely avoid calling OSS and Free Software synonyms, even if by implication:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Ask HN: How to stop my addiction to social media?
I am starting to notice that social media is having a negative effect on me. I get value from places like Hacker News and others. There are some good information on the internet. The problem is that I seem to be addict to it and I need to stop. How do you control your urge from checking social media websites often? Do I have to leave my phone at home?
really this is a thorough study in upper-management-ese
They must have been filming the sequel to Fletch.
I came to the US from Russia at the age of 11; it probably helped me recognize how fortunate I was. Later, learning about the extreme poverty that exists in the world (far surpassing what I saw in Russia) I realized how much more fortunate I was to have had the luck of being born where I was.

One way to conceptualize things is that you are a consciousness that has won the birth lottery - being born into a well-off family, or at least a family in a rich country. I don't believe in souls - this is just a way of thinking; a hypothetical to imagine, akin to "what if I was born a minority, or a member of some persecuted group". The realization that you could have been unlucky may help empathize with those less fortunate.

Branko Milanovic, a world economist focusing on income (inequality) points out that 3 of the biggest contributors to one's income are (a) the country you are born into, (b) the income/wealth of the family you are born into, and (c) the gender. Note that all three are not something one can choose. So the "lottery" of life I describe isn't just metaphorical.

I don't think I would be willing to give 10% of my income if I didn't learn about how cost-effective charity can be. For example, with a $0.50 donation to SCI a child will be provided an anti-worm pill - curing and preventing parasitic worm infections for about a year (see GiveWell to learn more).

I recommend reading the short but super-influential essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" by Peter Singer. And after that, read some books by him too.

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/videos-books-an...
>Visit. No one can live there. Parts of the earth are off limits because of nuclear errors. And there will be more as long as we continue to use nuclear power.

Lithium mines, rare earth mineral mines, and other mines which are used for battery technology and electric motors are contaminated, forever, with ground water contamination which is much more dangerous than the solid spent nuclear fuel of a Reactor. Those sites will never be livable for humans.

>Nuclear waste is deadly for millennia.

Extremely long half life's mean that a material is extremely low in radioactivity. Meaning that it's actually quite safe to be around. It's short half lives which you should be worried about, but those also become safer more quickly. Given the nature of depleted nuclear fuel, it doesn't have a risk of leaching, nor does it have a risk of accidental ingestion. You are much safer near it than you are near a coal plant.

>Lastly, that you try to claim that battery production waste is worse than nuclear waste is beyond absurd. You have bought in way too much to nuclear industry propaganda.

Nuclear waste is the only toxic waste in the world which becomes non toxic at some point. That's a miracle. And the fact that you only need about a coke can volume of material to provide enough power for your entire natural life is a second miracle. Compared to the literal tons of lead, lithium, neodymium, and other materials that will be required for your alternative, the numbers start stacking in one side's favor.

> Lithium Ion batteries can be recycled today. Not some hope that a promising idea will become viable in the future. Today.

Lithium ion battery recycling is more expensive than new battery production. The toxic batteries are melted down to extract lithium from them. But let's say that it's the same price, or even half the price of new batteries. That's still an enormous amount that will have to be spent remanufacturing the batteries. Just because your car or laptop still operates with worn down batteries and you don't mind lower capacity doesn't mean that will scale just dandy to a grid solution. The failure case of your laptop dying prematurely is not nearly as big of a deal as brown outs or black outs because it's not sunny or windy enough.
Yes.

https://www.utne.com/arts/new-pepsi-logo-is-a-joke/
Thing is... if your methods work well enough to help you avoid the thing you wish to avoid; does it matter if it's right or wrong? It works, right?
End the Madness Around Productivity
Nearly agree -- you would want the level of sophistication that this pretends to have. That it tricked management into thinking it has? (pretty damning if so)