skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Store (% of $spent) (# store) % of $spent/ # store
Dollar Tree 0.8 7900 0.000101265822785
Dollar General 1.5 10000 0.00015
Aldi 2.3 2200 0.001045454545455
Target 2.4 1900 0.001263157894737
Trader Joe’s 1 600 0.001666666666667
Ahold Delhaize 4.3 2000 0.00215
Whole Foods 1.1 500 0.0022
Publix 3.7 1300 0.002846153846154
Walmart 18 4700 0.003829787234043
BJ’s 0.8 200 0.004
Sam’s Club 3.6 600 0.006
Kroger 8.8 1400 0.006285714285714
H-E-B 1.9 300 0.006333333333333
Costco 6.4 600 0.010666666666667
Albertsons 4.7 400 0.01175
Amazon.com 1.3 0 #DIV/0!

https://www.factoftheday1.com/p/march-21-top-us-grocers-by-s...

More upscale -> Better margins allowing for not only more employees, but also better overall employee benefits marginal that they are.
Gauging how far they can push in (nuke in Kherson) before backlash.
GDP doesn’t need to grow indefinitely. It measures industrial output, but not wealth or prosperity. Here are economists whose perspectives you may find offer a way out of the trap it feels like we’re in:

Mariana Mazzucato (https://marianamazzucato.com) talks about the spectrum of models capitalism can take in this interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prof-g-show-with-s....

“Betterness” by Umair Haque talks about the need for metrics that augment GDP by serving as indicators of wealth: https://store.hbr.org/product/betterness-economics-for-human... (also available on Amazon, iBooks, etc.).

The David Graeber Institute (https://davidgraeber.org/books/bullshit-jobs/) has done a lot of work to explore how we allocate labor to tasks. The book “Bullshit Jobs” is a worthwhile overview of the Institute’s research.

Edit: “Enlightenment Now” by Stephen Pinker (not an economist) is another look at progress. While Pinker acknowledges it’s possible to be born during a local minima, the book charts how things continue to improve for people across many metrics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
They made emails and egress free because there is a lot of price gouging going on in the industry that stops people from starting businesses.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

Identity as service is another category that's egregiously priced, and it's usually priced based on monthly active users too, which is the worst. It would be great to see Cloudflare disrupting that one as well.
I meant what you’re saying is normal and great; but that’s not the antiwork culture and does not describe it accurately. I have an extremely cynical view of it and I’m convinced that’s people don’t have the best intentions. Not a single comment on HN in last few years encourage hard work and mentally exhausting yourself. Your brain is far more capable than the current zeitgeist tells you. We are raising a generation that will revel in lethargy and smoking weed all day.
The emergence of a shared global culture, especially online, and especially spoken in one language, is momentous historically. After thousands of years of separation by geography, which produced cultural differentiation and foreignness, we are now starting to come together with one culture and one language. This is a stable equilibrium because it's global rather than local.

That's the view from the cockpit. My view from the ground also suggests it's not catastrophic. I'm an early digital native. Twenty-five years after access to the internet, I now have a spouse whom I met online and two children. I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family, which could be better but it's not catastrophic as shown by my ability to create a family and carve out some life for myself. I've adapted.

Maybe I am just an optimist. Really the status quo ante was untenable and we must move forward and make the best of what we have.
Trademark requires defense or it can be challenged. Copyright requires no such active defense to maintain and can be enforced selectively.
> more rights to live outside

What would less rights to this look like just curious.
Hard to believe the last Merb release was 12 years ago. (I was a contributor).

Rest in peace Ezra.
Everyone already has email. Not everyone wants to sign up for yet another web service. Email _is_ the low–friction option. Emacs even has a built–in way for any user to report a bug: just run `M-x report-emacs-bug` and it will give you an email template to fill out right there in your editor. No need to even open a separate program.
Interesting, and thanks for the compliments within. Perhaps you could point me to two or three other personal sites/blogs whose styling you *do* find pleasing or appropriate, so I'd have some idea of the standard(s) to which I should be adhering? Since I've seen many sites with designs not that different from mine over the years, it would help me to know where else I should be looking for look-and-feel guidance, instead. Thanks.
There's a thousand privacy guides and they're much harder to find than they are at risk for getting taken down. The problem with archiving them is that like all technology, privacy tools may become obsolete or compromised mere months after you recommend them. I do like that one, though.
> As for the language, C# is... all right, I guess. It kind of reminds me of Dart

That's right because Google's Dart (2010's) was heavily influenced by Microsoft's C# (2000's) which was heavily influenced by Sun's Java (1990's)

I've often wondered if would have been better if the companies had worked together to produce a standard VM language
> One of these days, when I have enough free time, I want to develop a particle-level simulation of the human body, so that medical students, doctors, and curious laymen can see these processes in action on their personal computers.

Likely you wouldn't need/want a particle level simulation, but a kinetics level model. Just with kinetics you could draw simulations of "particle concentrations" or other fun things to show medical students, etc, but without the need to simulate the actual chemicals. Though eventually hopefully we could do that too! The AlphaFold breakthrough is a huge advance toward that IMHO.

> If I combine that with an affordable at-home blood test/diagnostic system, we will have a mechanism to bring affordable healthcare to every single person in the country. And perhaps a reliable method to find the true cause of a patient's depression, before prescribing them SSRI's or other psychiatric drugs.

Just getting all the kinetics together would be amazing. You could essentially do what you're talking about of calculating most likely causes (not just correlations). Though brain chemistry != entirety of depression or whatnot. Still just getting even the top 20 chemical cycles mapped from blood tests could be pretty awesome and help bring light to a huge range of conditions.

In my opinion, medicine currently is at a 1.0-1.5 order effects level. As in we can diagnose first order ailments pretty well. But second order effects? Not really, though I said 1.5 in that medical researchers and doctors are slowly figuring out some limited second order effects, like "X medicine with Y gene" or "X medicine with Y medicine" can have good or bad effects.

We're certainly not talking about 3rd order effects.. We have the math, we have the statistics, but it's just hard maths and stats.
My web server is not exposing file system paths to the user, it is deciding on content programmatically and it’s purely an aesthetic coincidence that the url path looks like a file system path.
Sure, those can be priced in too, and the negative externalities of renewables should be priced in to those calculations as well; building solar panels isn’t itself carbon neutral. But I don’t see these calculations in either direction listed.
I downvoted this flamebait before I read the article, but I was wrong.

> Moscow's concern that Ukraine could detonate a "dirty bomb" - a device laced with radioactive material.

> Previous Russian assertions that Ukraine might resort to using banned weapons such as biological arms have stirred concerns in the West that Moscow might be preparing to stage "false flag" attacks and blame them on Kyiv.
These articles are written by the ad industry who are still pissed that Apple is the only vendor around with balls to actually speak up for customer's privacy and implement App Tracking Transparency.
You should try to live in an actual low trust society (where people can't trust institutions and instead revert to their family or clan)

This is the definition of trust unless I am missing something. Trusting your family or clan is social trust.
Regarding technology as a savior—it isn’t, but it can help.

Steve Jobs described the computer as “a bicycle for the mind”. Bicycle technology allows a human to move faster than a cheetah (https://www.travelwriter.nl/english-blog-faster-than-a-cheet...). Computers help people think and compute faster than an organic brain. However, the human must *choose* to use the technology. That’s a social choice. Human problems are social problems. I do believe we have adequate technology to bring the world into an age of prosperity. But it will only happen if we choose, as a society, to do it.

For a variety of reasons, I don’t think giving up technology to pursue a low tech / no tech society would be helpful. Often, low tech solutions actually make things worse when applied at scale with as many people as we have.
> So, all in all, gas power plants produce about 12% of the US's emissions. And the trees absorb each year about 13% of the (gross) US emission. More than gas power plants emit.

You should ask yourself, where do trees put this "absorbed" emissions?

The answer is in themselves when they grow.

A forest at equilibrium is carbon neutral, not carbon negative. Your comment suggests that US trees are growing significantly year over year. However all evidence would point to the contrary.

We would need to plant (and keep alive) a significant amount of new trees every year in addition to not removing any existing ones.

That just isn't doable long-term.
As a native Hokkien speaker, I am shocked to find the AI does it so well.

However, a significant part of Hokkien is from classic Chinese which has written symbols, and the other part is from some local dialect in Fujian.
Not really. It's just a another round of Russian propaganda trying to plant rumors to blame mythical Ukrainian supervillains for Russia's actions.
Honestly these are my favorite PRs to receive for my open source side projects. They are easy to review and approve. The smaller the PR the less time consuming it is for me to deal with them. Big PRs that add complex new features are also appreciated of course. But setting apart time to review them is often hard given other responsibilities that I have. And often I personally don't even need the feature that's being added.
FIDL, powering Google's Fuschia & I think Zircon kernel.
The SE has a button at the bottom and it is the entry level product: I don’t think most people in the US would call it a luxury good. I expect the majority of SE customers buy the SE because they want an Apple but can’t afford something better (product price discrimination), with many other SE customers wanting something cheap and not sensitive to fashion (the SE looks outdated). Of course, there are some other SE buyers for other reasons (size, like the button, less stealable, etcetera). A very useable Android is still cheaper (although obviously not the flagship models as you point out).
> My mother has no formal education and when she was given an Android she struggled to do basic things.

My mother is 84, she has an android phone that after 3 years still cannot manage to do anything other than make and answer calls. She hates it. Six months ago I gave her my old iPad Pro. Spent an hour showing her the basics and now she zooms with her Bible study group, manages her email, browses the internet, FaceTimes her grandkids, watches streaming, listens to music. She loves it. She asked me recently if iPhones were similarly easy to use, a let her use an old 8 we had. She’s getting an iPhone in a couple months once her phone plan is due for an upgrade.

What I think people need to realize, despite the power in smartphones nowadays, they are consumer level devices and with a consumer level device, you need to make it usable for the lowest common denominator users (like my mom). This is where android fails as compared to iOS IMO. A walled garden sometimes is a good thing.
probably the best frame: https://i.imgur.com/WU6iVwu.png
- I love the keybindings, but the draw for me is mostly in the way it handles splits. Being able to say "split this window horizontally/vertically with this other file" in very few keystrokes is the best thing since sliced bread to me

- That said, I do love the keybindings, and I've not found a single vim emulation that doesn't feel wrong within a few minutes of usage. It's very, very difficult to get a realistic vim emulation mode, to the point that I'd rather not try to use it in another editor
I did this while it lasted. Just enough to reach minimum spend tiers for credit card promotions, though (e.g. spend $5000 in the first 3 months and earn XX,000 miles). There were definitely people doing it on a much larger scale on forums like FatWallet (RIP).

And if you had good credit and lots of credit cards already, having one or two cards occasionally nearly maxed out didn’t really hurt your credit score much.
> 10 years when I visit China I could probably have an in-depth conversation without ever knowing Chinese

Doubt it. When you learn a language you learn a lot more than the translation, you learn thinking and connotations that require a broader understanding that never get captured regardless of the translation quality, because they require knowing history and seeing previous uses in context that can't be captured in the translation.

"Good" translation will do for language what wikipedia has done for knowledge. Everyone will get a superficial understanding, some will pretend that reading off a definitions is the same as actually knowing something, and the world will get a lot more shallow, empty conversations.
Girl: she moved away at the end of grade 6 (I think to the US) and this was in 1992 before the internet so that was the end of that.

Distancing from computers and regrets: worked well, and no regrets. Had long hair and listened exclusively to heavy metal and almost all of my friends in high school were girls. I remember the computer guys where we lived tended to just hang out in the computer lab and not a girl to be seen in there. (I'm sure they got fantastic jobs early on, of course)

Though in 2015 when our team at the pipeline company got packaged out I probably would have properly learned to code if I had gone straight with F# instead of Python and then trying everything else until I ran out of time and had to find a job instead. Or Rust though version 1.0 would have just come out then and not sure if there would have been enough resources to pull through.
Sure. Marxism doesn't compel their current behavior, and neither does any sane nationalism - however a shame culture (as China is) and nationalism can make for a volatile mix, as we've seen of late. But the CCP won't change it's current mix of stripes any time soon. Vietnam has gone through similar spasms, back and forth. They're assuming an existential threat from democracies that just isn't there. Internal division (which is a feature) prevents it, even if an elite class wanted an all out war of conquest, which they don't.

They will experiment with their society; they might find a useful course. But I vote with Walter Kerr, that no society can be both very well ordered and very creative/innovative. Which really limits China on its current course even if they somehow avoid all the traps that human leaders' unconscious selfishness has set for them.

How Not to Write a Play by former New York Times Drama Critic Walter Kerr came out in 1955 and is the best history of innovation I've ever read. It make it quite clear that periods of true innovation are quite rare, don't happen everywhere, and require disordered societies (to tolerate a writer who isn't going to pander to the prejudices and powers of the day, whatever they are.) Highly recommended.

He was also the husband of the person who wrote "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."

My guess is that the best-of-both-worlds society, and therefore the most likely society of the far future will be both Yin and Yang at the same time: having a large disordered creative enclave within a much larger well-ordered society that is isolated from the creatives (free speech within the enclave, only.)
Error: type mismatch.

Expected: currency/time,

Got: currency
> I wonder how many years of evolution it took for tunas to target the back end of a shark instead of the front.

I would not be surprised if they can think and learn by observation. Then there would be no need for evolution.
I think the world is now learning that the biggest problem with natural gas is its non-universal availability. This introduces very dangerous dependencies and exacerbates geopolitical corruption.
It's anthropocentric to say a language can only be preserved by live humans rather than AI natural language models and digital corpora. No one use Latin any more but we can still figure out what Roman text meant.

It's also counterproductive to let humans learn a language of limited content resources and use cases.

Taiwan people are highly educated and urbanized. It's much harder to use Taiwanese in Taiwan compared to High German in a Pennsylvanian Amish village.

I don't know how to express clearly in Taiwanese "GPS in my neighborhood has a 100x lower accuracy because of radio interference" or "move this MOSFET up by 15mm to balance the PCB thermal stress". If you still have to switch to Chinese or English from time to time, why not just use the popular languages?

Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions.
It sounds like a misunderstanding on his part. Maybe he misinterpreted something you said. Have you brought it up with him?
Eh, I dunno. XDG is just some group or whatever, dropping config files in .programname is the de-facto community standard. If people want to follow XDG that's fine, but I can't blame anybody who wants to ignore all that noise.
Why is it a psuedo problem? I deal with its effects every day. Your excessive aggression seems to be symptomatic of the anti-social, terminally online.
I'm in agreement with the need for some NG powerplants, but it totally lost me with the need for residential dependence on NG. Their previous writeup on this topic is full of nonsense about heat pumps like:

> The COP might be four at 50F, but it could be less than one at 0F, which is why many heat pump systems have emergency resistive heating elements.

There are no heat pumps that I've ever seen that will even operate if the COP would fall below 1. Moreover, even basic, 'American' (e.g. Goodman) heat pumps from a decade ago are around a COP of 2 at 0F. The more modern 'Asian' heat pump/mini split systems tend to do much better than that.

Most heat pump setups that rely on electric resistance heat backup is done deliberately to avoid massively oversizing the system. The strips work in parallel with the heat pump, to provide the little extra 'kick' needed on those cold nights. The result is a COP that still averages above 1, again, only for the coldest of the cold periods.

Furnaces can last 15 years or much more in some cases, so it makes sense to think about this at the time of construction/replacement. None of the carbon-capture/scrubbing technologies mentioned apply to a residential furnace spewing carbon or the aging, often-leaky residential natural gas infrastructure.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584210067003318272.html
> And the trees absorb each year about 13% of the (gross) US emission. More than gas power plants emit

Unfortunately, these future trees are double booked. Airlines, shipping, cement, steel - they are all hoping to use tree / bio-fuels instead of more expensive solutions.

So yes. Lots of PV/wind. Keep gas for backup. But it is a temporary crutch!
Everyone still blames tech support for everything and I think that will likely continue indefinitely regardless of correctness and quality of software.
It's more pernicious than that. If someone sends you an address, iOS will turn it into an Apple Maps link. Apple Maps specifically.
I hear you, but honestly I'm not sure this is a reasonable request for an article of this scope. Pricing "negative climate externalities" is hardly a simple task.

I appreciated this article for its cogency, but also because he clearly is aware of the climate-related impacts of burning natural gas, and attempts to address them pragmatically. (e.g. the sections about carbon taxes, and carbon capture.)
He was punished only because he got greedy and under reported taxes on his legal grift.
I will answer in good faith, cautiously.

1. The fallout from the Iraq War. As to why Vietnam or Watergate did not do the same, well I wasn't alive then and children are credulous.

2. It's not about choosing the right authority. It's about first, creating a trusting culture backed by truths so the trust is well-placed, and second, about designing institutions that are fail-safe given what I now know about the nature of power and the people it attracts.
The only way I got my weight under control was to limit calories and eat less junk. It's way harder than it sounds, but I used a lot of tracking (just a phone app, any diet app with a food journal should work). You have to learn to eat "all over again" as my dietician said a bazillion times. It took a few months to break the old patterns. I stopped eating anything sugary (except one day a week), I stopped eating out more than once a week, I learned to have options at home (quick options that tasted good but were still healthy). I stopped obsessing over fats or carbs. I ate a lot better, cut my calories down to 1600-1800 a day, and took long walks every day or two. Most importantly I didn't beat my self up when I messed up, but I did write it down in my food journal and marked the day as "red" on a spread sheet. At first I had a lot of red days, but I didn't give up, then I started getting almost all green with an occasional red day over time. I picked Saturdays as a "day of rest" where I relaxed my moderately strict dieting requirements, but still kept calories under 2400 (which figured was my break even). I lost about 50lbs doing it this way and learned to "eat" again probably 80% good stuff and 20% questionable stuff these days. I weigh myself on the weekend and if I've gotten above my goal weight by a couple pounds then I watch it for the next week, and that's been enough for a couple years now to maintain my goal weight
> IMHO the only reason "the old ways" went away wasn't because the new way is better, but rather we humans have rather lazy, addictive personalities and so its easier and simpler to utilize the new tech-based ways even when in the long run we are much worse off for it.

I think they are clearly better, at least in principle. Extending civil respect to LGBTs, for example, is one of the outcomes of moving away from how things were in the past. We are in general finishing the project of the individualistic society, and any institution that is holding that back (religion, traditional gender roles, etc.) is losing ground.
Well, the RIAA would probably disagree the next time they issue a DMCA request. That's just not how copyright law works. Your opinion is not uncommon, though; I don't know why people adopt such a defeatist approach when corporations fuck us up.