skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... Out of silliness. Consciously repeat a single word, say "blueberry", over and over and over and over again until you're sick of it, then try to visualize your actual house.

This is a mind quieting exercise that I read about in a book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Many people will get stuck when drawing, only making the crude symbols of the thing they are thinking about because they are thinking with the linguistic part of their brain. Much of the spacial processing tends to take place in the opposite hemisphere of the brain.

Repeating that same word over and over and over will exhaust the language processing part of your brain, allowing the non-verbal parts to do do their thing more effectively.

Relevant book:
https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...

Bonus bit: The concern you have with the intrinsic link between language and thinking is exactly why Orwell was completely justified to my thinking to be concerned about manipulation of language as a mechanism to control thought.

The escape hatch, as it were, is that language as a concept transcends any of it's concrete implementations, and is intrinsically bound to the act of being. We are immersed in the business of being, and one can imagine a mute, illiterate thinking being nevertheless existing and thinking, without spoken, written, or heard language. Their language would just be to point at what it is they are trying to describe, or recalling the memory of it. Our words as spoken or written, are just a shorthand that allows us to communicate with one another and evoke a shared experience of being.

Everything is language. A language can constrain your thinking within the context and grammar of that language, but another language lacking the same constraints need not necessarily constrain thinking in the same way.

Wittgenstein thusly posits that the very act of Philosophy is constantly engaging in language games, in which we experiment with changing up the rules by which we communicate in the attempt to forge shared understanding.

In short: Communication is really hard, and once you start thinking about, you'll really start having to wonder whether anyone really does deep and meaningful "we're saying the same thing about the same thing" level communication a lot less than we think we do.
Speaking as someone who grew up in a neighborhood with brick streets,...

They're insanely slippery when wet. A freeze-thaw cycle tends to make them move, eventually leading to weird dips and ridges. They're expensive to install and more expensive to maintain.
sea water + quicklime was known to be the "secret" for concrete for a while, this is a 2017 article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2... can we put this to rest already?
A variant of this comment comes up every time someone expresses tense situations.

I used to live around the corner from homeless services in the greater Seattle area and commute by foot after dark regularly. I never got physically assaulted but certainly would have if I didn't have my wits about me.

Are most homeless folks problematic? Absolutely not. Is there higher prevalence of mental illness, drug abuse, and other things that lend themselves to irratic behavior among that demographic? Absolutely.

It's ok to be both compassionate and recognize that there is a real safety/health issue. We don't have to minimize someone's experience based on "the numbers"
That isn't what the article says. It says Walgreens is walking back their anti-theft measures because it's costly and ineffective and the customers don't like them.
No. A tiger is not 10x smarter than a house cat.
Early on, I had zero compunction about piracy. It took going into business, and having a competitor insult me in a very public fashion, because I had used pirated Windows on a customer's machine - that he had previously dealt with. I was mortified.

Piracy is theft. Full stop.

When you pirate, you are stealing from someone else. Big bad corporation, or small mom-and-pop shop...

They worked to create those bits. If we're not paying, we're stealing.

The reasons why don't matter.

After getting called on it, I never did it again. If I can't afford the solution I want, I work to find something that I can afford.

As an aside - I would rather pay for a product, rather than get a free version of something and BE the product.
> The ability to add capacity to a pool by adding a single drive at a time

zfs supports that now
I haven't spoken to him in a while, but I could ask. I think he's mulled it over before and spoken of touring to the local area (Hamilton) permaculture guild, so he might be open to it. I can try to reach out.
> (especially Nordstrom)

I might be missing the point but aren't you talking upwards of $200+ per outfit (shirt, pants) when shopping at stores like this?
A nice square gets me 77%. Good enough for me.
The HN-as-customer-support-of-last-resort thing is pretty equal-opportunity, i.e. non-YC companies and YC companies both. e.g. there are tons of these for the inscrutable googolith. The difference is just that we downweight the submissions less when YC startups are involved (because of the
principle outlined here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

However, there have been so many of these recently that we're tweaking our approach to downweight them more—maybe not quite as much as non-YC-related cases, but more than we used to. That's because we're starting to see a community allergic reaction to the high quantity of these, and that's as close to a hivemind verdict as we get here.

Recent explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190090 (Dec 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745192 (Nov 2022)
No need to apologize for removing clickbait.
> but farmers will be among the first to really feel the affects of a dying lake ecosystem.

How is this so in the case of the Great Salt Lake?
I don't think "systemic misogyny" fits here.

If YC is trying to interview a certain number of under-represented founders per batch (quota), then that seems like an earnest attempt to change their demographics.

However, after like 15+ years in the tech world, I've noticed that quota-based targets train people to tune out. I don't think that's misogyny, since it's a pretty natural reaction to check-out if you don't think your input will impact an outcome because there's a mandated quota.

Does that make sense? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but I don't think you're assuming good intent or approaching this discussion with the curiosity I've come to respect on HN.
BTRFS is in-tree so I'm guessing that it is much easier to keep it in sync. Besides that I don't think many distros want to risk the legal trouble of shipping ZoL.

It is both a technical and legal problem.
It's a lot simpler for sure these days. I've built my indie startup with Phoenix Liveview. It's all server side rendered, with liveview sprinkling in interactivity.

Can you tell it's server side rendered? https://www.gamedrop.gg/lists/slymilano/exciting-game-releas...

https://www.gamedrop.gg/game/hogwarts-legacy

I think there are similar tools in other platforms like Rail's and Laravel.
This made me wonder. Is there a not-for-profit SCM host that does act like a library?
A shell of Allston (formerly big Java shop) lasted until last year.
Any of those support crypto and credit card? I added Coinbase commerce to my site as an option but unfortunately it doesnt support Monero.
Air fryer isn’t the best choice for Chicken breasts, so your point is valid for that cut. It will of course still cook ok. But chicken thighs on the other hand, probably better than a frying pan as you can get the crispyness all over and juicy still in the middle, just like deep frying. The fattier the raw product, the more the cooking choice swings to the air fryer.
Target date doesn't solve any of these problems except to shift the investments from higher return/higher risk to lower return lower risk as you approach the target date. It helps with the problem that the market crashes right before you retire but in exchange you lose a percent or so over the lifetime of the fund. And while vangard is industry leading WRT to the expense ratio, right there on their page they note that the industry average is almost half a percent just in expenses. Never mind the lower returns.

And these days there really hasn't been anywhere to run since everything is so correlated. People close to retirement in those funds are going to be delaying retirement just like everyone else. -15% YOY with "safe" low risk/return investments really hurts. https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...

The place I was at 15 years ago when I actually had money in a target date fund had a 1.5% expense ratio that was buried in a couple of different parts, fund expense ratio, and a underlying security expense ratio. And then on top of that the place I was at the "plan provider" or whatever they were called was scraping another .20% off of everything. There was a class action lawsuit, and the plan provider eventually lost. But, of the probably tens of thousands I lost vs just having my money in a IRA with vangard I think I got a check for something like $100.
> whereas construing "white" to mean "white or black" is not how any version of English works.

You know that it's satire, yet you somehow missed that it's satire and think he actually means this part to be literally true about our real-world English. If you read on it's pretty clear that this is from an "alternate world" version of English and not our own. He even says as much in the postscript.
It’s not that version control is the only viable option, just that not using it suggests he’s not doing many other things.

As you say there’s quality of life improvements to be had. If he’s not aware of them I suspect he’s reinventing the wheel in new and interesting ways.
Unfortunately at this point, you've reached the end of my knowledge. I assume California has reasonable mail in voting procedures. That should make the "cost" of voting very very minimal. Do we still see poor people voting less there? I don't know actually.
My backyard faces a farmer who basically flooded his property continuously throughout summer. Every time there's a government plea to reduce water usage I just point and laugh at the backyard.
I think SJ vs SF distinction is not very material to this thread. The OG Silicon Valley of HP and Fairchild Semiconductor fame liked to build corporate campuses around Stanford on cheap (at the time) land. 90's Yahoo, Doubleclick, Google followed suit. In the late 2000's, a new wave of startups like Twitter figured they don't have to stick to corporate code and just move up to a more fun city up north, combined with some tax breaks from SF specifically. How does it matter? It's the same area (i drive up and down every day) with much the same problems.
The article doesn't support your claim. What it supports is the idea that for Walgreens as a whole, shrinkage isn't a make-or-break issue. It says nothing about whether Walgreens will choose to place or keep a store at a high-theft location or whether a mom-and-pop store can survive in the same.

The grocery business is famous for having very thin margins, so anything that cuts in will necessarily cause fewer options for the people of that area. Academic studies have generally shown that this is in fact not a trope but fact.
Water intensive crops accounting for just 20% of gross receipts is evidence in favor of agricultural water reform, not against it. These states can continue to have successful agricultural industries without their disastrous water usage. Just switching the most water intensive crops and requiring efficient irrigation would lead to huge water savings.
"How do you know that? "

I do not know it. I am not an expert and had only limited, (but fascinating) contact with them.

But I would assume, if they would be "way smarter", than they could and would find ways of communicating with us. As far as I know, the research shows that they can communcicate towards each other quite well, but not towards us beyond very basic things.

But of course that reminds me of an old joke:

A donkey and a dog on a farm are talking to each other in the evening and the donkey complains that he has so much work to do, but would like to become a writer. The dog asks: why don't you tell the farmer? The donkey answers, are you crazy? If he finds out, I can read and write, I will also have to do his bookkeeping.

Meaning, maybe whales and co. could communicate with us, but choose not to.
But if this would be the case, their reasoning would have to include some very astonishing things, as whales are still hunted - which they likely could almost completely stop by telling us exactly that.
I also strongly disagree with this. In most places, the wealthy have the political power. The power in voting is diluted significantly when the choices are gate-kept by the wealthy.
> Whales, dolphins, and orcas are damn smart, and I think there's evidence enough that we cannot conclude that they aren't more intelligent than us.

Where's this evidence?
What exactly does "more intelligent" mean to you? Do you think a dolphin can learn to play e.g. Chess? I doubt you can teach them to play even tic-tac-toe.
Yes. I suggest the book "The Chinese Greenhouse". A very straightforward look at constructing a partially sunken greenhouse.

Chiras, D. D., Chiras, F., &amp; Rao, A. (2020). The chinese greenhouse: Design and build a low-cost, passive solar greenhouse. New Society Publishers.
In my case I have exceptionally drafty windows. The rooms with new windows all have CO2 elevate almost linearly with time human is in room.
In the US or in Chicago? I doubt 50% of homeless people in CA are employed… but I could be wrong.
I did something similar. Ikea tabletops for the desk surface and back, two legs I found on Amazon to support the very ends, and a bunch of brackets from the local hardware store.

Biggest bonus was being able to set the height of the desktop to fit my short legs. Having a desk top at 26" looks somewhat comical, but now I can sit with my feet flat on the floor, knees at right angles, thighs resting on the seat, elbows and forearms resting on the armrest and hands resting on the desktop/peripherals. Nothing bent at an odd angle and no pressure points. The difference has been way more than expected.

Second best part is having a big L shaped desk with nothing to bang my knees on from one end to the other.
We're excited to see how the open-source Lago (https://www.getlago.com/) develops. Does anyone here have experience working with it?
It's not "their" city/neighbourhood. It existed before them and it will exist after. What gives someone a right to move in and create laws to make it harder for other people to do the same thing they did? I understand they actually have that right, it's just shitty to have that kind of mindset.
> I can't go back to normal toilets now, its that good.

Getting nature's call outside the house must be hell...
Have you thought about creating a micro-saas? I'm wanting to do this, but I keep having failure/fear of launching, though chatGPT has gotten me a lot further lately.
It’s different in that the text that’s displayed in a chatgpt response never existed anywhere before you asked the question.

That’s what « generating » means, in that context.
https://www.damninteresting.com/

A WordPress-based site I established way back in 2005. It's all non-fiction stories from history and science, plus I curate links to other interesting content.
This has been happening for commercial/residential cases, but most agriculture is based on water shares - a right to a certain amount of water that someone purchased a long time ago, so you can't really raise the price on them.

One solution I've seen kicked around is spending a bunch of money to buy back those shares at well above market rates to conserve the water.
Are these already baked then frozen, or raw pastry? I used to work in a cafe where we'd bake croissants from frozen (raw pastry) and they were pretty great.
I guess my lack of ability to think of anything is a reassuring sign that I spend critically enough. I know the expensive graphics card I got once was absolutely not worth it. My iPad probably got enough use over it's lifetime that it ended up being fine, but I wouldn't buy another one.

I hate being burned by mediocre food though. It happens occasionally.

Also my Fuji-XT10. I do like it quite a lot, but it's one of those things I bought because I had aspirations of developing a hobby, rather than improving one I was already engaged with. I've got some use out of it though.

Plenty of things I don't buy though because I know they'll end up this way. Never owned an iPhone despite exclusively buying macs, though I appreciate their handfeel. Also won't ever spend more than $600 CAD on a phone. Doubt I'll ever buy another car, but I'm always on the fence about a practical used one in the future, it would have to have a very clear purpose. Any kind of business-casual clothing has also been completely worthless to me, and I would need a very good reason to buy more.
Justin Guitar is what finally worked for me.

https://www.justinguitar.com/
You’ll be happy to learn that the attorneys received 78 million
Please rethink your statement. You cannot get more motive energy than the energy put into the propeller.

> I can make a car use 50% less fuel an infinite amount of times

No, you can't. Conservation of energy applies.

P.S. I didn't "add" them, either. 90% x 115% => 103.5%
I have both consoles from this generation and I wish the PS5 went the same design route as my Xbox series X.
Building more housing is tossed out as if this is a single dimension economics problem, like widgets in Freshman econ.

Perform a capacity utilization study of all available housing, where Capacity is the number of room days of housing available and utilization is the amount it is actually occupied. Then tag each of these housing units (room) across multiple dimensions including cost, location, house, apartment, condo, etc..

Find out how existing housing is actually being used and how much it is being used. Then adjust the financial incentives to change the usage to what you think it ought to be.

I live in an medium to high cost of living location and the number of underutilized properties due to second homes, opportunistic rentals, and basic investment properties (downtown condos) is substantial.

If someone can point me to a city that has performed a Housing Capacity Utilization study, I'd like to read it.
Well, I live in the midwest, a small republican town in flyover country, with no fancypants private schools nearby :) The kids here go to public school. I thought I can help them out. So I volunteered my "math services" to the public school teachers & set up a side project website, weekly 1-1 math sessions. Long story short - this year three 6th graders I work with ended up acing the AMC 10, which is a contest that American kids take in the 10th grade. One of them even made the AIME cutoff, which is the top 1% i.e. top 3000 of the 300,000 contestants. So I'm thinking of increasing my efforts in that direction. Maybe host a math contest forum for working adults where we can work on interesting integrals & suchlike :) Lemme know what you think, perhaps we can collab.
Normally, the prop on a Bonanza is made of aluminum. Based on observation of prior incidents, I would expect no or negligible damage to an aluminum propeller in the same circumstance. However, even if no external damage is seen, some engine manufacturers (and insurers) require a complete engine teardown and inspection in the event the propeller contacts an object while the engine is running.
Ah yes, croutons are another fantastic thing to use it for.
Housing costs, which are proportional to average population income, force us to compete in a Red Queen's race - everyone's earnings have to catch up with others'.
Make sure to drain out the oil pan drain plug every once in a while to get the small shavings which should be stuck to the plug — it’s magnetic to hold on to them.
https://leadership.garden/
My (engineering) leadership blog. Currently, running on Ghost.
> So there is some precedent that courts do look at the "utility" or "sufficiently transformative" aspect when weighing copyright infringement.

Curiously, from the article, copyright infringement is not alleged:

> As a final note, the complaint alleges a violation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for removal of copyright notices, attribution, and license terms, but conspicuously does not allege copyright infringement.

Perhaps the plaintiffs are trying to avoid exactly this prior law?
The title stuff is in the site guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's also a giant pile of additional title lore in the mod comments.

@dang doesn't do anything but there's emailing which does work.
As a tip: what it's really checking is for a circle centered on the dot in the middle with the radius equal to your initial click's distance from the center. You could make a mid sized perfect circle which is slightly off the center of the dot and lose to a square that fills the play area.
You just missed the distinction. Talk to people who work with “street people” and they will tell you almost all either suffer from mental illness or addiction. This is not the same as people who are housing insecure.
Flash commonly uses 2-bit, 4-level cells.
Eminent Domain allows government to adjust such rights, just like it can just take your property to run a freeway through it.

The government can also tax it.
Similarly, I got a Combustion Inc. predictive thermometer: https://combustion.inc

Looks similar to the meater, with more sensors. Having insight into the true core temperature of meat has been a step change in my cooking ability!
It’s really the opposite, they wanted to gain too much from it.

If your city wants to keep it’s style of residential density, fine, limit commercial growth, stop adding jobs to the city if you won’t add housing to match it. And that would be fine, plenty of other places would benefit from spreading the tech wealth around.
Would it be acceptable to do a part-time (i.e. community) college or take college classes with an internship? If not, I strongly recommend look at a college with co-op and internship program.

I agree that the computer science knowledge, even some of the deeply theoretical stuff, is heavily underrated. Classes like OS, networks, programming languages and compilers, and computation theory have taught me stuff I use in actual software development. Plus, learning how to look up stuff and understand research papers and take measurements and form experiments (you will need to read heavy documentation and measure things in industry).

Without knowing the fundamentals of CS like data structures you may miss out some concepts and end up doing things inefficiently (in both development effort and inefficient programs). Webdev alone won’t get you that knowledge.

As for the “college experience” personally I disagree. I’m of the camp (as an American) that it’s mostly a glorified American thing. As long as you have some friends, who you can find in college or industry or your local town (if you don’t move), you are set, and you’re not missing much (as having some friends and hanging out basically is the college experience).

But also, as someone who went through college I think it greatly helps to have experience in industry. Because while you miss out on purely industry, you also miss out on purely academia (cue: academics who are wildly out-of-touch, papers on deep theoretical concepts I doubt will have any real-world use). It also really helps with finances (read: not going into college debt) and "getting your foot in the game" and making connections early is extremely useful as it will let you graduate with experience on your resume and skip entry-level jobs. I think that the best solution is both, hence join an internship-focused college or take college classes and maybe lab work while doing an internship