skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you point out, I'm not sure how you would do that study without having two otherwise identical countries that differ only by copywrite law.

Still, we can make some guesses what would happen without copyright.

eBook readers could offer all books for free to improve sales of their reader. Amazon already gives books that are in the public domain for free on Kindle. If Amazon doesn't expand this to all books, some competitor will. Project Gutenberg would also expand their collection to include all books.

Physical books wouldn't be free, but there would be no guarantee the author would get any money from them. There'd be zero incentive for printing houses to pay authors. They'd be allowed to sell the books without the author's permission and keep all the profits.

Authors' best option may be to ask for donations or start a Patreon. This works for some people, but in general, you make orders of magnitude less money off donations than actually selling something.

Would less money going to authors stop people from writing books? Probably somewhat. The most popular authors will still have ways to make money. And there'd still be people who write books for free, as a hobby. But it would reduce the number of professional authors.
I understood it to be intended as agreement with emphasis.
Much of the food at dollar stores is the same stuff you'll find in regular grocery stores, just in smaller packages.
Is there a name for believing that figure Google spits out when it guesses the number of pages? A trustgoogle? A googull? I've seen it in so many places from people I'd think would know better.

Go to page 15 of the results (the last page) and it says

> Page 15 of about 142 results

If I "include omitted results" it claims 331 results, but these include pages with the "horizontal" spelling only...
Your metabolism doesn’t use 100% of the energy content of food. It’s actually quite hard to tell the true calories you will get from any give food, it probably depends on many individual factors of both of the human and the food.
This is a surprisingly tone-deaf comment as someone from the same background, and its not even internally consistent.

On one hand you seem to understand that education helped our parents:

> but they were able to concentrate on education and were middle class

On the other you seem to think that menial labor will somehow fix these places, you think we just haven't tried more police (for every sound bite you hear about defunding the police, go look at the YoY expenditure that city actually has)

You also flip-flop on being able to understand that safety is a pretty big part of being able to focus on education for some reason.

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I mean can tell you right now, our parents are not representative of their surroundings.

Yes there are a lot of stories like theirs, but your home country is anything like mine, the stories are almost bi-modal: either a given person from "home" is the hardest working person you've ever met and pulled themselves up by the thread of their bootstraps (tends to be our direct family or family friends so we hear about this more)... or they're borderline dysfunctional, often struggle with addiction as a form of escapism, and probably not trying to better themselves just like the people you're thumbing your nose at (tends to be something you see a lot more if you go home yourself).

Maybe instead of taking the good fortune that we've had with what our parents sacrifices and struggles started us off with and stomping on it with self-aggrandizing diatribes where you proclaim the simple fixes that would right everything for these "poor self-pitying victims"... maybe just take away the lesson that things can improve for them.

Focus on the more positive aspects of that exposure, rather than confusing exposure with experience. Because if you're anything like me, we sure as hell don't have any experience near what these people struggle with, both in the US and in our home countries.
> it won't point out that you're asking the wrong question like an expert human would. (Does it ever?)

I don't think it will - its design doesn't really allow for that. It's generating responses to the prompts it's given based on its trained knowledge, but it doesn't have (enough of?) the kind of meta-reasoning required to step back, gain an understanding of the context of the question, and propose a different solution.
Nutritious food can be very cheap. Others have mentioned beans and rice. Beans are an amazing source of nutrition. Dried beans are dirt cheap and require little work to prepare. Organic bananas from Whole Foods are about $0.50 each. I'm pretty sure you can find a cheaper banana elsewhere. Broccoli costs less than a $1 per head, typically. Organic rainbow carrots are $1.50 a pound. I could go on.

The point is, good food can be cheap. And yes, food deserts exist. And yes, people buy poor quality food from stores like Dollar General. But perhaps there is a correlation here? Maybe (some) food deserts exists because there is little demand for fresh food in those regions.
> But let's not forget - you're paying for everything your landlord is, plus profit. Always.

Definitely not always. Loss is common in business.

Doubly so here when asset values are appreciating. If the landlord thinks they're making bank simply holding property, any rental income on top that helps minimize costs is just gravy. There isn't tremendous pressure for costs to be fully recouped.

In reality, you're paying the least amount you can that still beats the alternatives. That doesn't guarantee profitability for the landlord. The landlord recognizing lack of profits and selling the property is an alternative, but may not even be a tenable one in some circumstances (e.g. a market downturn that leaves potential buyers weary) without taking even greater losses.
You aren't convicted to bankruptcy, that would be too nice if it were just that. In reality no work = no income = evicted or foreclosed and kicked out on the street with no belongings = no permanent address = no way to pass a job interview or get a job = no way to survive and get back to where you were.

There are certain cliffs in American society where if you fall off you will almost certainly never get back on top without someone stepping in and giving you direct support.
Or if you're not sticking around long term.
What person is going to invest in a shrinking city with poverty and tremendous violence just to pay a little less tax?
Their advertising states charging for links to YouTube, and other hosting sites, which I am willing to bet is a going to violate those sites terms of service. This is in addition to it being a bad idea in general.
Exactly.

Find something that works for oneself.

Keto works for some people. Just reducing plate size helps for some.

Personally I skip breakfasts (I love breakfast, but it is not worth the brain fog that I personally get later in the day) and most workdays I just drink 1/2L of whole milk, preferably cold.

I get plenty enough energy from dinner and now I can also enjoy some snack in the evening together with my family.
What time/price bucket do bananas fall in?
I'm in the same boat as you. I live in Southern Ontario (Canada) in a small town (10-14 thousand people). I have a 1000sq/ft apartment, 2 bedrooms, central air/heating . Moved in 15 years ago, rent was $726/month (Canadian dollars obviously). It's rent controlled. 15 years later, I'm now paying $868/month. Just 15 units/apartments here, VERY quiet building. On top of rent, I pay my own hydro, which is about $100/month, water supply is included in rent.

I write software for a living, and over the last 15 years I've saved (invested) enough money to buy any house in town for cash. But I don't see the need, I'm single, no kids, and I work from home (second bedroom is my office). I'm 56 now, and am on track to retire in 7-8 years, with low 7 figures saved. The more I save, the more cheap/stingy I become with my money. While I could easily buy a new vehicle for cash, I prefer to keep my (rusted in places) 2010 F-150, I keep it maintained mechanically, and it is still purring along.... except for the rusted rocker panels that is. :)

There is VERY rarely any units in my building for rent, all 15 units/apartments are rented by long-term tenants. The only way the landlord/owner can raise the rent is when a tenant moves out. About 5 years ago, the couple across the hall moved out, landlord renovated their apartment, and rented it for $1,800/month (same apartment as mine, just a mirror image).

I don't know anything about the US of A, if there is rent control there or not, but it's almost universal in Canada for "purpose built" commercial rental buildings. Private rental units, like privately owned condos and houses, they can raise the rent as much as they want AFAIK.
I spent far too long in a job where I was supposedly earning around the average salary for my city. But I had almost zero disposable income because the cost of rent was so high. People just one paygrade higher than me were able to afford vacations all over the place, because a tiny bit of extra pay each payday meant more disposable income.

If( (salary - requirements) == 0 ){
You are screwed.
}

If( (salary - requirements) > 0 ){
It snowballs.
}

Luckily I quit, and now earn more than the directors where I worked before. :)
Can you give some examples of this?

I know there exist some humans who may behave in terrible ways like this if given the chance but to think that this is a generalizable behavior among the rich just seems like a stretch.
There are unfortunately a bunch of factors that added up to this.. e.g. for Eggs, there's just normal food inflation, but then there's a massive avian flu outbreak that resulted in ~50 million birds culled in the US alone. It doesn't help but either way, prices are indeed up ~100% since pre-pandemic (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111).

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/11/22/23472207/bird-...
Seems like point clouds -> big voxels -> smooth mesh could work, using smooth voxels: https://github.com/webspace-sdk/smoothvoxels
Really? You're gonna compare artificially scarce imaginary property with real property on the real world like land and physical possessions?
Gonna be fun at the e-gate when I’m both banned and employed by a store/bar/restaurant/mall simultaneously
I guess a tad over 1 year's worth of net income.
You’ve obviously never lived somewhere that salts during the winter. Where road salt is used you don’t see many vehicles that old.
Thr article title is misleading. The figure quoted is the mean reservation wage, not the lowest reservation wage.

I wish they published the median - it would be more informative.

They do publish the 'dispersion', although I'm not sure whether this is a min-max range or certain low/high percentiles: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/labor#/expecta...

It's interesting to compare the above with the chart that shows job offer wage expectations: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/labor#/expecta...

The first chart (required wages) have gone up faster than the second (expected wages for new job offers).
Poor folks find mechanics who will install used parts. Or work for beer.

There are lots of these.
Tactical Communications Antennas
>The most corrosive idea in our society is the notion that someone somewhere is getting slightly more than they deserve, just slightly more than you think they earned through their god-given talents, and that it’s therefore worth trying to correct at huge expense, because we certainly can’t have that tiny bit of unfairness in the universe.

Maybe. But this is how America works. We wont let you starve to death. If you're truly physically disabled, we won't leave you to die. But beyond that it's up to you. And in exchange, what's "up to you" is limitless and celebrated and compensated endlessly. Other societies make this tradeoff in a different direction. But I'm happy there's at least one place on earth that doesn't.
Warehouses and employers with benefits (like healthcare, 2-4x minimum wage, retirement savings, and scholarships regularly offered) are definitely a way out of poverty.

There's a book written about how healthcare at Starbucks kept a man from poverty and changed his life from cancer.

What's been missed is that Chick-fil-A, in and out,McDonald's, Targets, Walmart, Publix jobs have some of the most opportunity for college aimed people. But sometimes the small local (without scholarship, or pays under the table) is a quick win (scholarship applications take additional effort and require 6+ months in the job).

But yet, universal healthcare, even Medicaid/Social security expanded to not have such a steep cliff would make stark difference.
Coming out of a spell of intermittent contract work, I found a job a 30-45 minute commute away. I rented a car from a shop that offered older cars for decent rates for the first few months before taking a loan for a new car.

Because I was enrolled in a car sharing service for a few years before, I had an insurance record and got a good rate.

If you don't have a daily commute, car sharing services can be a very good deal.
What are the biggest Red Flags when interviewing “non engineers”?
This seemed strangely familiar.

Nice writeup though! I like the way it derived the logic rather than just presenting the solution.
also note that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian.

"Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great."

So, inasmuch as she thought about the pyramids, it was as a colonizer.
It is worse than the bar chart implies. If you are rich and your housing is costing $5k a month, because you want to live centrally, or in a massive house, you have the choice to downsize and put up with living not so centrally, or a smaller house. The poor person might already be in the cheapest accommodation it is possible to get.

In Australia for example, if someone gets a government allowance due to unemployment, it will cover renting a room, and then maybe $10 or $20 a week for food or something like that. Basically it doesn't cover the cost of living. They can't downsize. To what? There is a base level of accommodation cost.

Similarly there are a bunch of other jettisonable features of the rich person's life. Their health insurance is better, they buy convenient and funky food that is delivered fresh, they have nicer cars and so on.
62 centitrusses by my calculation.
The police in Oakland are not always a force for good. They are under federal supervision essentially for being too corrupt. it's not clear that hiring more of them will help.
> We probably will not follow up on this study at 6 months and 1 year, since the average weight loss was so small. It seems unlikely that 0.89 lbs of weight loss will be statistically detectable several months later.

Don't waste your time following this diet, there are better and more effective ways.
(Disclosure: I fully support all reasonable measures to make housing more affordable)

On the contrary, government backed mortgages provide an opportunity for buyers to become homeowners competing against institutional investors and cash buyers.

They are a subsidy, but that’s not a bad thing if desired policy is to encourage home ownership. I would very much like to see your data that these mortgages are what cause unaffordable housing, versus lack of supply, institutional investors buying up residential real estate, restrictive zoning, and most recently, a real estate asset bubble due to Federal Reserve zero interest rate monetary policy (which caused real estate prices to skyrocket when money is cheap).

> Would you wanted to underwrite a 30 year loan for 500k a couple years ago at 3%, knowing that rate could only go higher?

Tangentially, the bond market seems to be a peace with 30 year mortgage terms, probably because the life of a 30 year fixed term mortgage is typically under a decade (while being amortized over said 30 years).
Additional point, mant people are not mentally or physically capable of doing vehicle maintenance.
As someone who IS deaf, but has a cochlear implant I have been telling companies for years that it's not only people like me who get use from it, it's people that can read English, but may find oral/listening harder. It allows them to reach a wider audience especially if they have the captions translated. The last couple of years I told people that a lot of phone users for example will be browsing their phone in public and if your video requires sound people will continue scrolling instead of taking the time to watch.

I did manage to get Air NZ to caption videos too, but not sure if they still do. Their marketing person changed years back and they didn't bother continuing with it (for a time anyway - with uBlock and such, I don't see any marketing from them anymore), even though the metrics that came back from the captioning experiment were incredible.

Then I got on an international flight and the safety video had captions for every language... except English. Ha.

If only a senior dev could get a job in which a11y is a priority. It is something I wish to specialise in more so.

I've found with NZ companies nobody seems to care (because there's bugger all legislation in NZ for this).
Whoops, guess I messed it up by having a child with someone not from my "nation." I think I'll pass on ethnonationalism.
Maybe as a ticket entry system?

Bar with a cover charge puts a QR code on the front door. QR code leads you to a paid link, you pay for access, it shows a thumbs up, you show the bouncer, they let you in.

Let's the venue track how many people showed up, doesn't require a whole account situation, and also reduces the need for people to deal with card processing or cash at the door. Also let's you come and go without a wristband or stamp or something else to verify you already paid. Trivial to change the URL each day so you can't use a previous day. Or let it ride for weekend access, etc

Not sure if better solutions already exist though
Field comparisons of antennas is tricky to do correctly- you really want to use the same location, ideally far away from human settlements (who knows how much background noise was there on a particular test day) and ideally under the same weather conditions.
I do like pre-commit for enforcing linted and typed code but the speed (or lack thereof) does hurt.
Which builder out of curiosity?
La Niña is happening more often than it should
Sure, because the bank probably doesn't charge customers for the cost of the replacement card, so customers could get a free smartcard for other purposes. What do these cost nowadays?
might also be hard to find the time to cook when you got two kids and three jobs.
In the last two years the price of eggs have easily doubled--a dozen large store brand eggs are over 3 bucks now vs maybe 99 cents pre-pandemic.

Food in the US is insanely cheap. Wow.

$4.78 USD at the cheapest store here, and this is on special.
I have observed that many small landlords are speculating on a longer term payoff of the property greatly increasing in value, are not present but planning on moving back in at some point, or own outright and have out of date ideas about market rent. All of these lead to situations where they may take losses of varying sizes in the near to medium term. Combine one of these landlords with someone who is not planning on sticking around long term and you've got a match made in heaven.
Create more then. Society is not obligated to provide life time rent for you and your children just because you made something years ago.
As they don't return to the same place, don't return to a single place, and may (if not caught) not actually return but instead take down the entire thread, I think it's reasonable that for some purposes it might well make sense to treat exceptions as something other than "a form of return." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

However we're treating them, however, I agree that they are a part of the interface and should be documented (and, where relevant, checked) as such.
I’ve experienced this first hand. When all your colleagues only deep work and you’re tasked with some necessary grunt work, your productivity will plummet when you’re trying to move fast.
One thing the post didn’t touch on with regards to health care - it’s tied to employment.

On one hand, we have tech companies covering all out of pocket expenses, and on the other, we have service industry people who can’t even get health care from their employer.

The same can be said for childcare, free meals at work, etc.
Tell HN: We are being trolled by rdrama.net
See e.g. https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/124650/orange-site-bravely-discusses-the-erasure where users from there will create accounts here to write divisive and upsetting posts and comments.

Someone should do something about this, it's not right.
> What time/price bucket do bananas fall in?

Somewhere well below frozen burritos and pizzas: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/
It's like you didn't read this subthread. You can't keep them from making sure that customer devices have this sort of hardware, not without resorting to legislation that you'll never get, so getting to at least have an opt-out is a lot better than not.
people are not poor because they spend too much on groceries. There's already a non-trivial amount of effort spent on making groceries more affordable for those with limited budgets (e.g. food stamps, coupons, offers, etc). Were it simply a case of buying cheaper food then we would have already solved that problem. Rather; it is more complex and opportunity is a more significant factor.

Regardless the article discusses many grocery issues that poorer people suffer such as more expensive supply (along with limited access to superior supplies), less choice, inability to buy in bulk as well as restrictions on cooking or being time-poor.
The UK is irrelevant.

It's doubtful we know anything about what actually goes on in European courts, since they don't have PACER equivalents.
But the receiver has to know the encoding to be able to detect it. Maybe the aliens are using a different type of spectrum spreading technique that makes a lot of sense to them but is unknown to us.
I always got the impression that it was largely things with a long shelf life, to minimise waste. Which doesn't discount what you've said, but just worth asserting that it's a subset (not always healthy) of regular grocery stuff AND in smaller packages.
There are certainly critics, but their opinions, if consistently opposed to the hype cycle, get either sidelined or lambasted. Just sort any post on some new ML application by controversial comments and you'll find the critics aplenty.
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
I don't think most rich have an explicit goal of encouraging crime in poor neighborhoods or harming the poor, though it may be a side effect of them pursuing their own interests.