skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people spend a majority on sweets and alcohol, but even if we think about 'non essentials'. For example, you can buy flour and make bread. premade bread is essentially discretionary.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it makes people less economically productive. Having my wife stay home and do home-made everything would certainly reduce our total grocery spending, but she's quite likely to be less economically productive spending her full time doing household work.

given that we're also getting rid of our dishwasher, washing machine, fridge, and everything else. if my wife would just roll up her sleves we could save even more money!
> There's nothing that would prevent Apple to hire thousand developers who will just spend their time fixing old bugs

1. Find a thousand people who are capable of doing this job

2. Find a thousand people who want to do this job

3. Spend $300,000/year total keeping each of them employed ($3 billion)
You mention how Cypher is not much of an improvement over CTE in SQL, I was wondering if you could expand on this point a bit if possible?

Some part of me is considering using Apache AGE graph extension for postgres, but another part wonders whether it's worth it considering CTE's can do a lot very similarly.

I'll definitely be following the progress for Cozo though, sounds great on the face of it. Definitely will have to consider potentially using Cozo as well. I wonder if it could make sense to use Postgres and Cozo together?
Any you recommend?
As a non-cyclist, a lot of us don't particularly care what keeps you safe if you behave erratically and not according to the written rules. We want you to behave in a way that keeps everyone safe. A lot of cyclists - and a lot of drivers - do not.

The right thing to do is to follow the rules as written and lobby for change rather than to go about doing things that the rest of us don't understand because you perceive them as safer.

I think the Idaho stop is actually a good rule as long as you have to slow down to 10 mph/15 kph as you go through the stop sign - I have lived in NYC and nearly been on the receiving end of an asshole on a 20 mph bike several times.
That's exactly how Signal and Keybase work, and nobody has any problems with that.
I am confused. "Code gen" is a fuzzy concept once you have a virtual machine because you can do it at runtime. This is how mocking works in Java and C#. What you describe already exists in Java and C# -- decorators for web frameworks. I would not describe Java nor C# as dynamic. I describe them as "stricter" (types) and Python as "weaker" (types). To quote Norman Ramsey: "Every time I see a question about "strong" or "weak" typing, I kill a kitten." :-)
what if they complain about it chronically?
are you then justified to offer unsolicited advice, or do you have to just listen (i.e. be their outlet)?
> Therefore, no need to trust anybody, as long as the software is open-source.

Demonstrably untrue. You must trust that the contributors are trustworthy, they have implemented a strong security posture for their project, and that the code is reviewed by people who are trustworthy. Many open-source projects have been, and continue to be, compromised on a regular basis.
Yes, I'm in the Uk and it sounds the same as you describe in the US.
Inflation rates are very variable depending on the product.

From memory, in my local supermarket for example,

tea is still about 0.90/1.00 a box.

Freshly squeezed orange juice has gone from about 1.60 to 2.20

Butter has gone up a lot (don't have numbers)

chocolate biscuits not much increase (why not?)

milk prices are higher for organic, not so much increase on non-organic.

Fruit and vegetables a bit higher maybe, but not that noticeable as yet.

I can't think of much that's gone down, but it might have done.

edit: found and correct juice price 2.30->2.20
I am relatively highly paid and short of shamefully I never really paid much attention to prices when doing a shop (I live by myself, only occasionally have friends or girlfriend staying over so shop was never huge % of my monthly budget)

Recently i've been shopping a few times and when paying i've thought "holy shit _how_ much did X thing cost". Cheese is the big one.

One also noticeable thing is security tags on food items that never had them before, meat, the aforementioned cheese, even some deserts.

Seems like a lot of items are shrinking too. I never drink Lucozade (a sugary drink here) but when I walk past it I notice the bottles are only about 90% filled now.
From the abstract, this is an unexpected asymmetry:

...we find significant information flows from bot-like accounts to non-bot accounts with behaviour differing between sides. Pro-Russian non-bot accounts are most influential overall, with information flows to a variety of other account groups. No significant outward flows exist from pro-Ukrainian non-bot accounts, with significant flows from pro-Ukrainian bot accounts into pro-Ukrainian non-bot accounts...

Their results don't reflect my experience online, though. I observe heavy activity from pro-Ukrainian accounts that are clearly not bots.
>A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining.

everthing was on a razorthin margin, just a minor floods or droughts could kill double percentage of the population and they werent that uncommon, hence the monstrous birthrate. An analogy in animal realm is population of animals dependent on variable inputs of "food sources", their population graphs are always a rollercoaster
Go figure out key exchange and use this as transport for encrypted messages.

Encrypting stuff isn't hard.
It allows Signal to work similarly to the messaging services it replaces without having to keep serverside contact lists. Those contact lists, which practically every other "secure messenger" keeps, are the most valuable metadata the service keeps, in many cases more than the content itself: they're a record of who talks to who. Signal's phone number system means they can keep those contact lists clientside by piggybacking on the device contact list, which is keyed by phone number.
> fiver a kilo for lamb sounds pretty doable to me

That's wholesale/supplier pricing, not supermarket/butcher.

No idea what GP's point was though so I'm not commenting on/defending anything else!
There are other plausible places to direct the blame (for the energy issue, not the invasion). I, for one, think this is poor planning and naivete. The cold War wasn't that long ago and tensions have been high for years (since the invasion of Crimea at least). Nuclear energy has been ignored.
Definitely interesting to consider how single events have shaped history. Another is the destruction of the library at Alexandria, which was supposedly done by accident, against orders. Had that not been destroyed would we be substantially further ahead now?

There is another thread that attempts to explain history as more closely “deterministic”. And over long time periods this seems reasonable. CF guns germs and steel.
Note: while this is indeed the Japanese standard, it’s not universal: houses of Honshu (the main island) tend to be badly insulated, drafty, and spot-heated. Houses of Hokkaido (and possibly northern Honshu) are much closer to western standards, with insulation and central heating.

The cold is not an issue in and of itself, but it can be a problem depending on other ailments, as well as habits and habituation.
Why not end to end encrypt notifications with a public key?

Both iOS and Android can run a completionHandler to decrypt them using a private key that can be stolen if the app is disassembled.

But you can generate a private key per user, after install, and each mailbox publisjes a public key.

The thing I find ironic is that the actual encryption is done in JS, which is served by a webserver so anyway you have to trust the webserver. Same as you trust WhatsApp to not send your text to Facebook.

Is there a way around this having to trust an app? Seems the only way to do that would be to have a browser extension or several, that you trust not to collude with a website.
Comparing digital receipts from a year ago for roughly same set of groceries, its more like 30%-40%.
Unless I'm now out-of-date, it is the first time a system quite like this has been observed. Quiet star quietly orbiting in a black-hole binary. Furthermore, it is very close to us on cosmological scales -- in our own galaxy, just over 1% of a galactic-diameter distant.

From this observation alone, one can directly sharpen up models not only of the probable number of BH-star binaries in the galaxy, but also models of the number of lonely black holes in the galaxy.

Forty years ago, this might have been a Nobel-winning discovery, as it would have provided new and compelling evidence for the existence of black holes (the dark partner can't be a neutron star because it is far too heavy). That story is now familiar to astrophysicists from many angles. This discovery is still one of the early remarkable results from Gaia -- that dataset is going to continue to shape our understanding of our neighborhood and our universe for decades to come.

It's very cool.
there are a few more, including ones supporting on disk databases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog#Systems_implementing_D...
Brings back fun fond memories, bookmarked, thank you.
Totally agree about tech not always helpful. Maybe this wouldn’t be helpful for folks who are already skilled at echolocation. Maybe it would be a gateway to learn it, or would be helpful for folks who were not skilled at it for whatever reason? Not sure, of course would need to test and work with folks as it’s developed.

But I know I was able to “virtually echolocate” playing a game to navigate a maze with no previous experience and I thought that was cool.
Just follow the money and find your real enemy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2022/11/04/oil-and-ga...
This has me curious: has the UK's gas prices gone up consistently with "normal" inflation, or have they stayed relatively static against it until now?

Gas is already cheap in the US, but it's actually cheaper in real terms (adjusting for inflation and engine efficiency) to drive in 2022 than it was in ~2005. Is it the same there?
Another n=1, everything I buy at the grocery store has gone up in price but it does seem like the more highly processed the food is, the larger the percentage increase in price. There are some notable exceptions, especially eggs and cream cheese but at least in my area, beef and pork hasn't risen in price anywhere near as much as things like Hot Pockets and ice cream.
I won't get into flamewar over Java vs others, but there are some ecosystems that are definitely better suited for large scale development.

The biggest concern for me and my shop is stability over time. We pick tools and vendors that can comfortably support B2B software contracts that are 5+ years long.
I'm sure the App dot net route will work... this time!
Man with Covid Finally Tests Negative After 411 Days
> After all the doom and gloom, I sometimes need to remind myself that all is not lost after 40.

Oh good grief. 40 is young.
It's more nuanced in the UK too, the headline figure is calculated on a "basket" of goods each of which might change in price individually. I didn't find the exact contents and weightings, but there's an article on it here with a little widget that highlights some of the changes at various points in last ~100 years: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti...
Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person
> I personally wouldn't even run a public service for others without E2E encryption.

So don't? seems like everyone got what they wanted.
Born RISC, Died CISC

Will happen to RISC-V too, dontcha worry ;)
you must try my cousin's healing tea!".

"Healing tear"?! Is it a specific tear, or all of them?

Such as, cousin watched a beautiful sunrise, on the same day as seeing a baby being born, while discovering donuts are actually good for you.

That tear, that tear of joy, was saved, and here's a microgram of it, try it, it heals!

(Don't read HN before the focus of coffee, lest this)
You shouldn’t need data, it’s common sense. How long does it take a car to go from stopped to 30mph? Five seconds? How long does it take a cyclist to go from stopped to 10mph? Certainly not less five seconds. In those scenarios, average acceleration for the car is 6mph/s, for the cyclist it’s 2mph/s.
It is an UnifiedPush distributor, so it can replace FCM for applications supporting it. Here are most of the applications supporting UnifiedPush right now: https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/
I hope these articles and the number they say is something for you to cherish and prepare for your upcoming years of successes;

- The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45. https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

- 45 is the median age of billion dollar start-up founders. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-age-of...

- Entrepreneurs have successful exits have an average founding age of 47. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/average-age-successful-entrep...

- Research Shows Average Age Of Successful Founders Is Older Than You Think. https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhall/2018/10/16/age-of-succ...
More accurately, corporations are a special class of people that can never be jailed or executed (at least in all but the rarest cases) for their misdeeds, merely fined. That's the real problem, they want the rights of people without the punishments of people.
I like 12tone, but I still think a punk fanzine from '77 nailed the spirit better with

"This is a chord. This is another. This is a third. Now form a band"
and milk products
One really noticeable thing is the shrinkflation.
Packets for everything getting smaller in supermarkets.
I read that in Erlich Bachmann's voice.
We just can't address the instability/fragility of correspondents with one-off word play.

Neuroticism, which we all have, is the most important personality/communication style factor and it's the one that the HR approved courses rigorously ignore...
It’s not a typical binary. The money quote is 2/3 of the way down, essentially saying this is a bog standard G-type star with no obvious means to end up in this configuration that doesn’t involve complex interactions, up to and including a black hole wandering by and capturing the star (and probably sending all its planets spinning off into the universe).

Your typical binary like this is in close orbit, with far higher radial velocities (ie they are spinning like a top), and they show the effects of having been within shooting distance of the creation of their special friend (ie they got fried in a supernova).
I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last.

I set up Tasker on my phone such that when a specific low-priority (no visible/audible alert) message from pushover, containing only a hash key, is received it picks it up and does an HTTPS request to my self-hosted server to retrieve the actual notification text.

I have a bash/websocat client connected 24/7 to wss://client.pushover.net/ as well that I should probably put up on git for other people.
It sounds like a trade. I give you a patent, aka cause of action, and in return you cut me in on your winnings. But if you lose you're on your own.

It spreads downside risk directly. It also makes unraveling the real interests harder.

It's a clever, evil hack of the justice system. It's very cool this judge uncovered it. I hope they get nailed and I hope we close these loopholes.
FWIW, that's assistant secretary for health.

Also, Harvard and Tulane educated, residency at Mount Sinai, faculty at Penn State, Pennsylvania's physician general, then Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania (unanimously confirmed by the Senate) before Biden's nomination.

Why do you think that background wasn't an important part of her nomination, and only her trans status?

> has tried to force states to allow or even provide medical/surgical transition to minors, in some cases without parental consent, etc

I ... do not believe the assistant secretary for health has the power to force states to do something.

By "medical transition" you mean hormone therapy, right? Hormone therapy is associated with a lower rate of depression and suicidality in minors, and transgender youth have a high rate of suicide than non-LGBT youth. https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/full...

Which is, as I understand, why hormone therapy is part of the standard for gender-affirming care for minors, as set by (for example) WPATH and the Endocrine Society, and supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and from the American Psychological Association. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/29/1095227...

This shouldn't be so easily coupled with a "/" to surgical transition, which as her department's fact sheet points out at https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/gender-affir... is "Typically used in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence".

Gender affirming care also includes Social Affirmation and Puberty Blockers.

> From what I can tell the evidence for who and when and how to treat is still unclear and ideologues are trying quite hard to suppress any debate

From what I can tell, those standards of care come from evidence-based research and been around for a while - long before the current political decision to make a brouhaha of the topic.

Here's the WPATH Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People - https://wpath.org/publications/soc

It's the "7th version of the Standards of Care since the original 1979 document." It's about 10 years old. The NPR link says a SOC should be coming out this year.
Major crypto coins slide as jitters on FTX exchange rattle markets
Open Letter: Make DMS Safe
That was exactly my point. Finance was booming in New York City, but the valley would not look at junior hires. So many cheap mid-career devs (with a mortgage) were desperate for a job! I had no chance.

Random anecdote: One thing I remember moving from SF to NYC (in that era): Instantly lower quality of life. I know, I know, that was a long time ago! The weather in NYC is awful compared to SF. I could walk to supermarket without a coat for 11 months a year. And no endless police & ambulance sirens or loud garbage trucks! And housing was more expensive and much lower quality.
Thanks for sharing (this goes for everyone adjacent too; I figure it's better to say once than spam)!
I like to use the word "just", but find that it frequently makes my writing worse.

Furthermore, I find that it is often easy to write a sentence that contains the word in order to get a thought out of my head and then simply remove the word.

Just give it a try someday... ;).
Nah, mostly just trying to scare them and put them in their place.

https://www.bikelaw.com/2017/07/punishment-pass-defined/
There have been better backup programs for Mac than Time Machine for years. I don't really think it's a reason to use or not use macOS on its own.

I think the issue is Time Machine much more than the underlying file system.

If you use Time Machine as a "convenience" backup instead of a critical file storage backup it does the job well. It's the fastest and simplest way to restore an exact image to a new computer, when it works.

I don't think it's wise to depend on that type of local backup for critically important files in the first place when you've got free or trivially expensive higher reliability and durability services available (things like S3 and B2 or even just plain old consumer cloud storage that is professionally managed).

E.g., my free tier Dropbox that I've kept miscellaneous important documents on for over a decade has never lost a thing, and it also stores the folder locally for an automatic second/third location on each of my systems. It's really brainless and consumer-friendly with reliability that I'd call "good enough for the layperson."

I can't say the same thing about any of the local hardware I've put backups on, regardless of whether it was Time Machine or some other backup method.
Quite the opposite, this was carefully planned. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
That's easily resolved with an ensureCapacity(size) method, or the other way around with shrinkToFit(size).

maps being magic without a real interface means exposing new API surface is difficult though.
This is probably good, and for no good reason other than it being posted here, I was expecting mycelium packaging to be mentioned. I'm quite excited for mycelium packaging, but I honestly struggle to find a perfect use case for it, which OUGHT to temper my enthusiasm, but doesn't.
You're assuming that the statement vacuously means "money is never made," which is not what it's getting at. The point is that nobody has ever become a billionaire without manipulating markets, exploiting employees, misleading investors, or otherwise abusing the fabric of society to squeeze wealth out of the rest of the world. The guy who invents the thing isn't the one who gets rich. It's his employer who profits off of it. It's not hard to make money, but it's impossible to make a billion dollars. You can only get that much by taking it.
That might be a good faith reading, but it's not the most plausible. The most plausible is that the writer means that most other voters but himself is a moron
The 14.6% "Food and non-alcoholic beverages" explicitly excludes alcohol.

"The largest upward effects came from bread and cereals, meat products, and milk, cheese and eggs, where prices rose between August and September 2022, but fell between the same two months in 2021."

"Alcohol and Tobacco" has gone up 5.6%.

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bull...
That’s how I interpret this as well.
I go with "my first impulse is to suggest..." which IMO adds the diplomatic nuance of admitting an incomplete understanding of the problem and/or the person experiencing the problem. You either get a "good suggestion, I'll try that" as a response or you get "you might think it's a good idea but I already considered it and XYZ problems occurred" and you can work from there.
From Java code AOT compiled into native code, better learn about compilers instead of being rhetorical.
Greek Hoplites, Han Warriors, and Heavenly Horses
> Butter has gone up a lot (don't have numbers)

Was pretty stable (over years) at:

Country Life - £1.40-1.60
Waitrose (supermarket) own - £1.30-1.40

Now:

CL - £2.65
Waitrose - £2.20

and that's where it's settled, was pretty volatile (up to a pound or so higher) for a while.

What's curious to me is that milk & cheese don't seem to have gone up so much nor been so volatile.
I've noticed this for "junk" goods in the US (e.g. candy and chips), but less so for normal groceries (since most things are sold in common sizes, or have distinctive shapes). Is it your impression that shrinkflation is happening uniformly, or is it isolated to particular goods?
I have no idea what you mean here. Data races are next to impossible in safe Rust.
"Precisely one" may cover many of the relevant situations.
Sendmail wasn't really the first per se, but it was the first that worked well. In the early 80s there were a lot of competing email protocols and systems and implementations, and Sendmail could talk to all of them, in a "bug-compatible" way. This is also why sendmail.cf is so bewilderingly flexible and complex.

Later email systems like Postfix and qmail in the 90s had it much easier as they operated in a much simpler ecosystem.
Not sure what is special about billion dollars in your statement.

If no one ever made 10^100 dollars, there would be no money at all.

So ... there is no money?