skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty. Suppose you're working on a cross-platform application, building for web will get even easier, as up until a few months ago there weren't even official WASM builds from SQLite (but some amazing community run ones such as sql.js!). As for why somebody would want that, an example: your browser and everyone's is probably always open when you're at a PC, attrition is next to none compared to having to download an application, it's great for even just trying something out. SQLite really makes user data storage trivial in most circumstances, key:value doesn't.
The US has lost all desire for war post-Iraq. We're happy to arm Ukraine, but in the 60s? We would have absolutely had boots on the ground.
8 weeks max, probably more like 6.
disclosure - I raise meat chickens at a small scale
Very interesting!

I wonder what leads to the gas/electricity price relationship being usually (but not always) inverted here in USA from UK. A good reminder that we think of these prices as being set by "the market", but there is so much policy and subsidy that actually effects them, probably in both/all countries.

Here my electricity is charged in kWh, but gas is charged in `therms`! I'm not sure if I can just convert one to the other to compare, or if differences in efficiency in various places matter, or what.

Let's see what I can figure out...

On my last bill, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, from BGE. (I use standard BGE supply, I don't try to choose a different supplier on "the market", which is possible here in a confusing way)....

OMG looking at my bill, it's a mess. The first so many therms of gas were charged at a different rate than subsequent, then there's also a separate delivery charge per therm, then other fees... But let's just take my actual total bill and divide by therms... gives us $1.88813/therm... which I think google dimensional analysis tells me is $.0644/kWh for gas? Which is GBP 0.053/kWh for gas? Double what you are paying?

Electricity, doing the same with their crazy 5-part itemized bill and just dividing total charge by kWh used, I get $0.177/kWh. Which if I've done my numbers right is in fact 3x what I pay for gas, hm. GBP 0.15 -- same as you are paying?

I am confused and may not have done proper arithmatic.

OP suggests:

> In Connecticut, electricity costs a little more than $0.20 per kWh. Those same electrons cost $0.10 per kWh in Louisiana.

So my electricity rates are right smack dab in the middle there.

OP says of gas:

> In Florida the average price of residential natural gas is about $2. In Idaho it’s $0.65.

If those are therms, my gas rates are to the top end of that but within range: $1.80. Ok that makes sense.

Hm, so OP is suggesting at these prices heat pumps should still work out, which is not what you found...
And laying hens are bred for that specific purpose; all chickens are not the same.
Google Reader went beyond basic RSS by adding social-network-lite features such as friends and sharing lists, and a chat integration, similar (although archaic) to what Mastodon and similar services provide now.
Only the original Pixel gets unlimited.
Not sure but Confuzius propagated a "sense of community". An individualistic China, where the individual is more important than the unity of the state, would have probably looked more like medieval Europe, splitted into various states competing with each other. China may have never formed an united country.

The "removal" of confuzianism happend within the last 100-150 years. Before that it was the backbone of chinese thinking for ~2500 years.
Sounds a little bit like lance armstrong and steroids. If you don't do them, you're gonna lose because every one else is too.

As bill burr said, our athletic roided up guy beat your athletic roided up guy.
Personally Synthetic biology startup, possible getting a PhD first. Visit Central/South America and east Asia.

For you: Live the most life you possibly can. figure out what you want to have done 6 months from now, translate those into "first steps," and set weekly goals. That way, you'll actually do the things you want to.
They also never follow up on any of the reports, nor can they really. The anonymous comment section is less than useless. The exaggerated camera-shake (maybe due to frame rate reduction in post processing) videos of police lights or a fire in the distance are mildly interesting.

Their business model appears to be some sort of call-for-help button. Idk if buttnugs47 will come running to your aid. Gl with that
It seems the tech world has normalized practice that most consider completely unethical.
Here it is on Google Street View (in 2016):

https://goo.gl/maps/Sc2nxJoyVGDQZmSN8
Thank you, indeed this was Angina, but I have kind of brushed it off and carried on running and it seems to have fixed itself, where the symptoms disappeared. I have few fellow runners who said they all had it, and it usually disappears after crossing a certain theshould in distance. Though you're right, when I read about it online all the warnings tell me not to ignore it.
I would prefer to not give facebook even more power.
Which specific certifications would you recommend?
> I have also found that stressing simplicity as a key performance metric for engineers is a useful tool.

Some of the smartest engineers I've ever worked with produce code that is so well crafted it feels simple when you look at it, but it's actually extremely clever.

I think the conversation about "clever", "smart", "volatile" programmers tends to align the axis of _code_ complexity with cleverness, but often the cleverness is in finding the perfect simple solution.
What's the distribution of fertility rates between rural and urban areas?

Could consolidation and mechanization have reduced the need for labor on farms? (I don't know how advanced farming in India is, but that's been the pattern in developed countries) Or changing laws or opinions on using child labor on farms?
Hopefully he can find a way to keep it updated from prison.
Apparently the app was originally called "Vigilante" before being renamed to Citizen.
As some countries provide near-universal daycare, the numbers can be made to make sense.

In Finland, the requirement is 1 carer for 4 children under 3, 1/7 for full-time care above 3, and 1/13 for part-time care above 3. Assuming 1 year of parental leave, 2 years at 1/4, 3 years at 1/7, and 1 year at 1/13, the average child requires 1 person-year of daycare. Assuming 40-year careers, an optimistic fertility rate 2.1, only women working in daycare, and some overhead, we would need 6-7% of women working in daycare.
Most people who switch to a mostly red meat diet do see a rise in blood cholesterol. I certainly did.

The real question is, does that even matter?

High cholesterol is also associated with longevity. The ratio of cholesterol is more important. The ratio of waist to shoulder width is more important.

Also your blood a1c is more important for bad outcomes than high cholesterol.
Single issue user. Adblocking. Not because of some grand belief in the idea that Mozilla would be a better steward for the web like what many others here are advocating.
These numbers may be wrong in your organization so adjust them as needed.

Every feature has a maintenance cost of about 20% of the initial cost per year. If you have a team that is 100% tasked with maintaining and adding features they will halve productivity (features) in 5 years. So there is the cost of adding the feature plus the cost of maintaining the feature and then the opportunity cost of not being able to add new features.

So how much does it cost to add that feature vs the value? There may be more value in going through the code and removing these low value features than adding them but you will have to weigh that on a project by project basis.
One thing we never seem to consider is that the price of eggs we've become accustomed to is really, ridiculously low. Maybe eggs should cost $5 per dozen. If you didn't know the price of eggs historically, I bet you would consider that a steal!
To me, the #1 reason to use YAML rather than anything else is if you need to embed complex multi-line strings in your document. This is a practical necessity in CI systems: you always end up with at least a little bit of shell scripting to glue things together, and embedding shell scripts into anything other than YAML is an absolute nightmare.

Yes, there are too many options for expressing multi-line strings (In the vast majority of cases, I really don't care whether it has a trailing newline or not). Yes, there are weird rules that don't make sense, like how in "folding" mode a newline followed by two spaces more than the current indentation level doesn't get folded. But it's still the best option for CI, which is why Github actually ditched HCL in favor of YAML after a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647691
I acknowledged that the conversion wasn't complete, but it has gone much much further than the United States nearly everywhere else in the world, so there's something specific about the United States that's preventing it from making even progressing.
Return (exhaust) air pumps just use the heat in the air that was being evacuated anyway. Requires only that you have ducts from those rooms that are ventilated (usually kitchen and bathrooms) to the pump, and from the pump out to ambient. It’s not a lot of ductwork. This is for older houses here which have no forced incoming air. Bedrooms/livingroom just take in fresh air directly from outside. A more modern home would have heat exchange between in/out air to move the heat from the incoming to the outgoing air.

Return (or exhaust) air pump: https://assetstore.nibe.se/hcms/v2.3/entity/document/121339/...

Those are cheap as hell. Handles all the hot water, space heating and ventilation in my home with a $5k device which has a COP similar to a wall unit + works when it’s really cold outside too.
Contra, from Noah Smith, 3 days ago:

>China's industrial policy has mostly been a flop

> China’s attempts to promote specific industries are relatively recent — in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, China did very little of this. Barry Naughton, probably the premier Western scholar of Chinese industrial policy, explains this in his short book The Rise of China's Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020, which you can read online for free here. He discusses how from 1978 through 2005, China essentially just focused on liberalizing their economy — if the government targeted specific industries, this was done at the local and provincial level, as in the U.S.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/chinas-industrial-policy-h...
> Nowadays I tend to compare Gemini more to things like Pico-8 or Markdown rather than think of it as a web competitor

That's also how Gemini thinks of itself. I'm a fan personally, I'm all for projects that just go and do their own thing and do it well.
> If Whatsapp is replacing radio equipment in the trains and does a satisfactory job, then it should 100% become the official way to do it.

WhatsApp is consumer-grade software. Using it to manage a transport system is like using a $50 home-oriented manual espresso machine in a busy cafe instead of a proper commercial unit with automatic grinding, multiple nozzles, and a support agreement in place.
THAT is a ridiculous belief and a great example of confirmation bias.

You don’t need to monitor crimes happening around you. Go meet your neighbors and build community.
> (the odd thing is that there is little dirigisme for healthy foods like broccoli and spinach but a lot for mass carbohydrates such as corn, sugar,...)

Mass carbs are how you feed people in the kind of emergency that might make having a strong domestic food supply extremely nice. People can always backyard-garden some greens. If you've got enough corn, wheat, rice, and/or potatoes (maybe), the rest will sort itself out. If you're lacking in those, people are gonna die.
For anyone who doubts the above, have a look into which countries in the world produce the most coffee, and make by far and away the most profit from it.

It's just a little suspect those countries have never grown a single bean, and they're able to buy raw coffee beans from undeveloped countries for a steal.

Why do countries like Ethiopia and Guatemala sell them for so cheap? because the IMF would call in their loans if they didn't, sending their economies back to the stone age overnight.

The free market on a global scale has always been entirely fictitious.
I think what you're referring to is called "nominative determinism."
Is HN sort of the same phenomenon but for tech? As I was reading your comment I found myself realizing the same description (as a "panic fetish tool") applies to a type of HN thread that's fairly typical.

Take this exact response to the tech that you had: I don't know anything about Citizen, nor anyone who uses it, but based on the article title and your comment I find myself getting anxious, my pulse is elevating slightly, I'm now more worried about the world and what tech is doing to it. All this despite the fact that I have no hard info other than a suspicion based on my biases and can do absolutely nothing about it. Perhaps some users do use it in the unhealthy way you mentioned, but perhaps the vast majority don't. In any case the article and exchange are fueling a need that HNers obviously have for reading about dystopian tech, and clearly it goes beyond what is materially useful to them and into what is perversely entertaining.
All countries have historically had tariffs. So, “broken” would mean a break from this free trade cultism that happened after large economies espoused the Austrian School of economics type free trade.

And US had no reason to break it because until maybe 2005 US was the biggest beneficiary of this system.
Hence the quotations. Usage has plummeted since the initial Twitter migration, because people are realizing that the tradeoffs Mastodon presumes they care enough about to have a worse UX aren’t accurate.

For example, people generally don’t care about data ownership, and that’s one of the main reasons Mastodon is designed the way it is, and causes to problems it does.
Probably an unpopular opinion given that most suggestions here are "take it easy": Start a business. Ideally web-based service that can scale without you - except for marketing focus. Try to monetize it.
+69.4% is the EU-wide average (AFAICT):

* https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/9bc4caf3-c1b0-4a79-9196-4de1f...

Some countries more, some less.
Thankfully we have a professional police force to avoid all these problems.
> If you can't have a house, you can't have kids.

I mean, yes, you can have kids without a house in a condo/apartment, people do it every day in cities around the world and the US. The American obsession with single family detached housing where you think you need a big house that you use 20% of and a yard that your kids spend almost no time in is what got us in this mess in the first place.
saw that too. It's a fuckup.
For absolute maximal single-threaded power current crop of Intel desktop CPUs are probably the best. But they pay tremendous price in power usage for this. A passively cooled M2 will get you around 80-90% of that single-threaded performance at 1/10 power consumption or so.
I don't think that is unreasonable to expect that government pay in a world where the government is a welfare program with a governing hobby might have less purchasing power than UBI in a world where we prioritize effective governance over beaurocracy. It's not a zero sum game.
College for my kids is projected to be $110K each in today's money ($240K each at the time). A home for a family of four costs $550K+. Plus me AND my wife had to pay off OUR college loans for years to even get to $0 of wealth. Each kid's birth was $10K and more for all the appointments before/after that.

Food is incredibly expensive, vehicles have gone through the stratosphere, and wage increases haven't kept up with inflation let alone gone up in real terms. We're also told we're meant to save for retirement and my question is: With what leftover money? I'm in the top 20% of income earners, and we're barely getting by.

You want to know why people aren't having kids? That's a start of why. But we have a record number of billionaires and millionaires, so I guess that makes up for it...
I would spend a lot more time outdoors and doing sports. I would also have more energy for my kids when they are at home. I’m such a better dad when I’m not burned out.
In pre-covid 2020, some grocery stores around here would have eggs for $0.80 a dozen from time to time. Typical prices were $1.00 - $1.20. Now it's not uncommon for them to be $5.00 a dozen. At the stores here they are be about 2x what they cost last year - not 60%.

I've put off getting chickens because eggs have been so cheap, but it's probably something I'll be doing soon.
Yeah. They gave railroads the initial land — in 1872. There’s been a lot that’s happened since then, like the bankruptcy and near-complete collapse of functional passenger rail transportation in most areas in the 1970s-1980s, as it faced stunning new competition from cars and planes.

But the argument of “is this justified given the history?!” should take a back seat; certainly Congress is able to force the industry’s hand whether or not it’s justified. The first question should be whether it’s a good idea in the first place, since rail is doing useful things for the US economy, which would ultimately shoulder more costs for it than the railroads themselves as a business.

Damaging the supply chain and raising prices across the economy while putting more trucks on the taxpayer-funded roads emitting more carbon dioxide is a steep price. Incremental improvements to the reliability of seldom-used cross-country routes through the sparsely inhabited West at speeds of about 60mph aren’t worth that price.
China only copied the model adopted first by Germany to catchup to Britain pre WW1, then by America, followed more recently Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Friedrich List was the first to really come up with a theory of how nations should act for the benefit of their citizens. You go to China, Japan or Korea and you'll find his works translated and common in libraries and second-hand bookstores.
Could you link this? Not challenging I just haven't heard it before.
We had a similar spike due to bird flu in 2015 and the price went back down after that. [1]

I think there are normally ~400 million egg laying hens in the US and they've had to kill at least 44 million (filtered by 'table egg' and summed) [2]

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000708111

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/data-map-commercial.html
Seeing that brings back a lot of nostalgia for the old PC Paintbrush that was once ubiquitous on DOS machines. The images it turned out were really great for the time, and I sometimes miss the aesthetic of those dithering patterns.
Free trade, comparative advantage, etc are mental models for thinking about trade. They make about as much sense as an ideology as having an ideology of frictionless pulleys or spherical cows.
I'm working on a near-future sci-fi novel that revolves around automating food to the point that work is no longer a necessity. Would greatly enjoy your thoughts on the subject.
> These aren't the actions of countries that think Russia is in a losing position

Quite the opposite. When sharks smell blood, there’s a feast. Or as investors would say, when things are down, there’s a good deal to be made.
Two general things: Build cabins and teach woodworking/welding/electronics/aviation. I would also like to learn another language or two.
CCP is the government, WeChat is merely an extension of it.
>limiting the synchronous APIs to just workers seems like one too many layers of indirection

An unresponsive script is slowing this window down - kill process ot wait?
This person has made a similar remark and purposefully looked into my post history - which doesn't make any claims about my knowledge or skills - lied about it, and made a sarcastic remark, see "everything".
I think this is one of the better, well my dad can beat up your dad type of stories. I know you absolutely didn't mean it that way, but there's a part of me that read it that on the second reading of it.

Oh yeah, well my dad...! kind of thing =)
If the dev is reading these, just know that a lot of us here _do_ quite like this. I'm in the "market" for a small internet browser these days, and this is one I very well may get good use out of.
> Who knows what this dude would have done

Probably nothing. If he's on the run, "and also stop for some reason to kill or injure a random person, as a treat" can't be high on his priority list.
Not even Apple cares about design beyond the low bar of looking slightly more polished than the competition.
If I had to pick an "iconic" contemporary computer, it would be a naked Raspberry Pi.
I didn't realize us Canadians had it so good: agriculture oligopolies have kept our prices so much higher than the US that when we get similar absolute jumps the percentage increase doesn't look so bad. I don't think I've seen 6 bucks for 24 eggs in a decade. Same story for just about every basic.
I actually did add this as another prompt. Thanks again for the great idea.
Depends on two things 1) what is being electrified - it’s not just about cars and 2) how the power is generated.
Farm vegetables in my garden during summer and woodwork in the winter. Travel to all the small towns in America.
It isn't a waste. Think about how many Electron apps you can run simultaneously now!
I have been writing lot of small libraries as a way to flex technical muscles. Small as in “finished in a day” small. It might be worth considering. Also, learning a new language or tool is always a good idea.
I wish the pub down the street served UK pints :(
Those used to be called "junior engineers." You should always try to hire smart people, right? The "academic-seeming" ones are probably fairly fresh out of college.

What they're lacking that the grizzled old vets have is experience.

So is your question about how to give them experience?

Let them experiment and fail in small ways that would hurt everyone else. We learn best through failure. Give them cordoned-off pieces of things to work with. Work with them on how to plan work - what factors matter and why. Do frequent check-ins with them to see how they're approaching things and what problems they're facing. Ask lots of questions, provide advice, but don't offer too much of that advice unsolicited (because failing is a better teacher than you are). Mentor them!
The Nostalgia of Transitions
No we don't. Especially given China is a potential military adversary, and they're on the opposite side of a giant ocean from us.

Also the US military budget is not standing in the way of increased domestic spending. We just need to treat other areas of government with the same reverence as the military, and we partially do (look how badly every attempt to cut Social Security fails).
I should look it up in my notes, but afai can detect, we're just getting gouged to hell.

Fed claims on flour prices: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000701111
I would have more time for exercise and I would probably spend more time sailing.
Unfortunately for the chickens, a government is supposed to serve the interests and well-being of its citizens, not that of its livestock (insert joke about there being no difference).
I thought it might be about dithering used in HyperCard, but nope, very different approach.

I wonder if Apple ever tried this with its early CRTs for the Mac?
Buy and live in a houseboat and sail up and down the Pacific coast from the top of North America all the way down to Mexico, Central and South America stopping and living at various ports along the way.
What exactly does "sustainable rare earth metal mining" mean and look like? Are there any actual examples of it?

Also not all minerals are so evenly spread. For example, it's estimated that half of all cobalt reserves is in little old Democratic Republic of the Congo