skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally a big change I’ve noticed about my own grocery shopping habits is that I spend more to get the high quality stuff.

eg organic pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, grass fed dairy, etc.

There’s a lot more of this “premium” stuff than a few years ago. I suspect if it’s included in some average it will look like things are getting much more expensive when part of what’s happening is upscaling of a lot of items.
I'm highly skeptical because there's been lots of apps that promise an external memory - Asana, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian. Most fall short. But the gap between Obsidian falling short and what I'd like it to do isn't worth $99 per year.

There's two productivity tools I find magical:

1. ChatGPT wired into my command prompt.

2. Dash: https://kapeli.com/dash

Both are fairly cheap, but I guess what I need is speed of access over quantity of storage. It's where most notekeeping apps fail, especially Asana, Notion, Evernote.

Notably both of them work well because I don't have to fill them in. Both dash and ChatGPT are prefilled. To remember a birthday or contact details from a business card, I'd have to put that in. Have you tried uploading business cards to Evernote? I paid for that feature but it still wasn't worth the trouble.
So in other words, appending to a slice may overwrite data in the middle of a different slice?
Thank you for that IV;WW. Perhaps someone who actually cares about the topic will write a blog post.
Agreed. All this talk on how Google was supposed to be different, not evil etc etc. Well, are they breaking any US law? No? Okay then, when push comes to shove it won't matter.

USA needs some laws lol

Related (may break american minds):
https://imgur.com/a/dAo1D6Q
In 2019, large cheese pizzas used to be $5 at our favorite pizza place. They’re $16 now. That caused us to find a new second-favorite pizza place, where a large cheese is also $16, but is at least better tasting.

We can make an acceptable pizza at home for around $5, making that our new first-favorite pizza place.
You sort of get to see this in real time on Reddit, upvotes generally goes to stuff that upsets people.
Your email form to follow the book is returning errors to me. And you have no other contact channels I can find. Might want to look into that.
Oh god I have gone down a rabbit hole how. I have a custom font family that I'm probably gonna reuse across my other projects. This is your fault.

Here it is in action: https://xeiaso.net/blog/coffee-isekai
Same. I also remember totse which was such a fun read and there was this book on how to be a professional assassin. It was riveting. Now everyone is on the internet so I guess those days are never coming back.
According to the Cochrane review, we don't have evidence that masks worked. This assertion makes the report less trustable.

Vaccines have high level of evidence.
Closures probably don't have any evidence at all.
How does Chicago thin-crust pizza compare to restaraunt-made pizza found in Italy and (to certain extent) elsewhere in Europe?

The photos in the article look just like normal pizza to me (maybe the topping looks a bit drier than usual).

EDIT: I don't see mozzarella on the photos. Not having it is not uncommon, for instance in France, but it's a must in an Italian restaraunt except for pizzas that don't have mozzarella by design e.g. marinara.
Ah, so you're talking about CPI. Then in that case I agree. It's not clear that CPI == inflation, though.
I actually talked with Jim Ellison who is a historian of Columbus style pizza. He also confirmed the style started in taverns on the south side of Chicago and spread from there, including to Columbus where it took on its own regional differences (particularly swapping sausage for a ton of pepperoni, and using a different style of pan).

We had to cut some bits from the article for length.
Is it the same car, though?

For efficiency, newer cars have become more profiled and glide through the air where older cars were more boxy.
Yep. Depending on how the slice was constructed, not how it is used.

Slices (largely) behave like this in most languages, Go's contribution is mostly that slices and append are ubiquitous, so pretty much every Go coder is exposed to it. Prior to generics, literally any alternative was so much more work they essentially haven't been used. That may change in the future now that we do have (very simplistic) generics, but only time will tell.
Go out in the streets and do what? We’ve protested about everything. Nobody cares. And why would they? We’re not the ones who put them in the seat of power. It’s these same large corporations that do.
I have showdead on, why can't I see fear_and_coffee's post?
In the US, full-time minimum is typically 12 semester hours (credits) - that is, 12 hours in the classroom per week. In practice students often take 12-18 credits, and are considered overloaded at 20+ hours - some institutions require approval to exceed a certain enrollment.

I had multiple semesters while attending a California State University campus where my classes stacked up on Monday-Wednesday-Friday, and depending on lab schedules I'd wind up having Tuesdays and/or Thursdays "off", usually taken up by part-time work or projects. Most of my classmates in the ECE department spent their spare days in a similar fashion.

So, no, I was not attending class on a "daily basis". And personally, I've learned far more from professional development, personal projects and self-teaching than I ever did in the coursework for my engineering degree.
(I think they misinterpreted the parent comment as saying that Chicago thin crust is superior to New Haven, instead of that it's better than the more well-known-outside-of-Chicago pizza style, which is what I think the parent comment was saying.

(If they _were_ actually saying that Chicago thin crust is in fact better than New Haven thin crust, well then I don't need to try this pizza either to know that it's not. /s))
They're not all that low. Tyson's cited in the article:

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tyson-foods...

> The average price for Tyson's beef surged 31.7% in the quarter ended on Jan. 1, while the unit's operating margins jumped to 19.1% from 13.2% a year ago. Average prices for all of Tyson's products climbed by 19.6%.
I buy mostly unprepared foods (raw meats, raw vegetables, coffee, milk, tofu, eggs, ...) and I've seen my grocery bill double in the last 5 years.

Looking at random fast food places I go to, I've seen those prices nearly double as well.

Pizza prices have nearly doubled to where a $20 pie is now close to $40.
NEVER attach yourself or your soul to a company. They are paying you to do a job. Do your job and kick ass but that's it.

I recommend you sleep on this for a week. Your first reaction is almost never the right one.
The rise and fall of French cuisine (2019)
I had to parse a database backup from Firebase, which was, remarkably, a 300GB JSON file. The database is a tree rooted at a single object, which means that any tool that attempts to stream individual objects always wanted to buffer this single 300GB root object. It wasn’t enough to strip off the root either, as the really big records were arrays a couple of levels down, with a few different formats depending on the schema. For added fun our data included some JSON serialised inside strings too.

This was a few years ago and I threw every tool and language I could at it, but they were either far too slow or buffered records larger than memory, even the fancy C++ SIMD parsers did this. I eventually got something working in Go and it was impressively fast and ran on my MacBook, but we never ended up using it as another engineer just wrote a script that read the entire database from the Firebase API record-by-record throttled over several days, lol.
Eh, maybe. I'll hazard that my preferences for business technical operations are more informed than those of my users. I seek only to help them.

Side note, I'm quite surprised that somebody in this form is so staunchly in favor of spreadsheets.
Ezra Klein lost his credibility long ago. Sad. Vox is a rag.

Anyone here remember Wonkblog? I often miss the heady days of the early 2010's.

Funny how we thought we were living in tragic times back then after the 2008 financial crisis. And sure, we were. But there was so much more in store for us, wasn't there?
I just recently set up my 2nd Dell XPS. The last one I switched between Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Windows as my itch to tinker kicked in from time to time.

I had minimal issues with any distro I tinkered with. Ultimately, the ol’ girl had some failing hardware components so I upgraded to the newest XPS model and will continue to do so until their quality declines. I absolutely love the machine.
> what you want; it simply doesn't exist.

Once the patents on Apple's trackpad expire, then we'll see.
Usually the hacks don't have the potential to irreversibly blind someone.
I dropped out of college after 2 years about 20 years ago. I have never come across the same social interaction since then. The value of education on some degrees is certainly over stated , and there are areas that can be self taught. There is a lack of social learning though that doesn’t come outside of education and school.
I didn't say it could not be produced locally. I was just providing "an actual example of what these "enhanced" spell-checkers provide over basic ones that run locally." I'm merely speaking to what is, not what could be.
>The worst days dealing with idiot product management and never-ending Jira tickets don't compare to unloading a truck in a hot warehouse or kneeling in a crawlspace for hours re-piping a sewer line.

damn i can only imagine
Thanks for the advice, I've used Linux on my own computer for twenty years.

What I don't know is if I can get legacy LabVIEW code, hundred thousand dollar equipment with drivers designed for windows XP, and obnoxious stuff like microscope camera drivers and software to work.

No games thankfully (or not, I suppose, games on Linux work fine for me).
Same here in Switzerland. Apprenticeships are called “Erstausbildung” (First education) now. It’s regarded as a stepping stone.
As a millennial, the advice we often received was "just go to college, it'll almost always be worth it." Now, the advice I give to those younger is "go to college but only once you know what you're trying to get out of it." While colleges can let you explore subjects that you're interested in, they don't do much to help you explore careers you might be interested in.

Paying for a degree before you know roughly how you want to use it costs you time and money. I'd say 3 out of 4 people in my peer group graduated college without a clear idea of what to do next, which delayed many of them several years in starting their career.

About half of those 3/4s bumbled through different fields trying to find something that clicked, and some ultimately went back to school for a different, more specific career. The other half let inertia win and started grad school immediately, though many of those ultimately dropped out anyway. Even of those who stuck with grad school, few have landed anything stable even 10 years later.

However, those in the 1 out of 4 with a dedicated end goal (engineer, doctor, professor, etc.) have fared much better.
Monopoly increases the risk of greed-fueled inflation for sure. I am of the opinion that the inflation that we are seeing now started off with fundamental issues with the economy (oil production and prices; COVID-related government programs; too many years of cheap money provided by the government), but it sticks around because of greed.

I have been consciously trying to cut down on the expenditure on snacks, food (like eggs) and other items like laundry detergent that obviously have gone up significantly in price (more so than inflation rate) and/or have been shrinkflating noticeably. It is not easy, but that's the best I can do to send a message (I know, me doing alone is inconsequential) to some of these producers that they have a limit on how much they can raise. I am also 100% aware that a lot of people (esp. the ones with families) don't have the luxury to reduce consumption like myself though.
Would you be willing to elaborate on what you've seen a bit? I'm on the last semester of my CS degree now and have definitely seen a lot of similar effects as a result of Zoom courses and general isolation during COVID lockdowns. There's generally less willingness to reach out to people than there used to be, and people seem to prefer dividing up tasks and working independently over collaborative work (e.g. each person in a group project having a "role" rather than working jointly on a large segment). There's also a general preference towards working at home without any external interaction whatsoever and a lack of willingness to form study groups. As I start moving into the job application phase of things, I can definitely see how these traits can be seen as off-putting to hiring managers, and I'd like to avoid falling into similar traps. Is there anything else you've noticed that would be worth avoiding?
yeah - all manner of agricultural and urban poisons .. without complicating it I went with the simple "destruction of common ground"

Silent Spring is here
Nah we haven't protested. The French are protesting. When you can see fire, that's when you know you're protesting. Marching with banners does fuck all.
This has been quite widely studied, actually. Many papers conclude that it’s a mix of causation, there is (unsurprisingly) some amount of actual learning of skills in college, and also (unsurprisingly) some amount of credentialism in the job market.

What does it matter though? Parent was presuming to argue from a students’ perspective. The amount of relative causation might be pretty irrelevant to a student who just wants to know what do to to maximize their chances of having a decent career. From a student’s perspective, lack of causation might even be a stronger reason than otherwise, it potentially means they can enjoy a more lucrative career with less work.
> there's no way forests can significantly sequester fossil carbon from oil, gas and coal combustion at any meaningful rate

Not true. In the US, forests remove about 10% of the greenhouse emissions. Can we get more? I think we can, without implausible efforts, increase this to 15% (see note). But even if we can't, this 10% is still very important.

Why? Because it means we need to reduce our emissions by only 90% to achieve net zero, not by 100%.

This might seem insignificant, but it isn't. People like to point out to parts of the economy that appear nearly impossible to de-carbonize, and then throw up their hands and claim that we'll never achieve net zero.

An example is airplane emissions.

But a much more important example is the intermittency issue of solar and wind. Batteries alone can't solve this, not if they don't become 100 times cheaper, and this will not happen in the next 3 decades. But natural gas peaker plants can solve this.

Fun fact: right now the total carbon sequestration provided by the forests is almost precisely equal to the total greenhouse emissions of the natural gas power plants. If you keep these plants, or just a small fraction of them, and use them only to smooth out the electricity output of solar and wind, then the forests will sequester many times more than the peaker plants will emit.

So, all those who say solar and wind can't take us to net zero are wrong.

(Note about potential additional forests sequestration: there are about 600 million acres of forest in the US. There are about 30 million acres planted with corn that is used to produce "bio"-ethanol. If we discontinue that subsidy, and plant the 30 million acres with forests, a simple rule of 3 would indicate that we'll increase sequestration by 5%. However young forests sequester much more carbon, and release much less, that it's quite likely the additional sequestration could be 50% for a few decades. Not forever, but we can buy 3 decades of sequestration, and that's what we need).
Oh, I remember a show which took place in an apartment in a public housing project - "Good Times". Takes place in Chicago. Two parents, three children ages 11-17.

OTOH, the TV series "227" took place in middle-class apartment complex in D.C. (Wife, husband, 14-year-old daughter.)

"One Day at a Time", working-class mother with two teenage daughters in Indianapolis.

I haven't watched much TV since the 1990s. A friend suggests "Wizards of Waverly Place", with a family (two adults, three teen children) in an apartment in Manhattan.

Anyway, at least on TV it does not seem like apartments are associated with low-income ghettos. They are much more strongly associated with cities.
The quoted 10% is a mean and doesn't imply that all prices are affected evenly.
Lots of places do all of those things. It does not need to be just one or the other.
Perhaps one of the local or browser-based IDE companies could take this on too.
Are there any online/remote hackerspaces? Seems like a good idea. Being physically together is too much time and energy sometimes.
macOS now has 30% market share in the US. Surprised me.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
The way I think of memorization is as scaffolding. Rote memorization is very different from the skill or understand you are trying to build, and for this reason, many people are skeptical about the value of it. Why practice rote memorization when what you really want is very different? But this is like trying to construct a building without using scaffolding.

If you only use Anki and don't do anything else, it's like building scaffolding on an empty lot, and then building more and more scaffolding without using it to build anything else.
I have some pretty unique insight into this since I work with AOSP a lot and have worked with a few engineers on Android's core system apps:

Google's engineers working on Android at a system level regularly break basic functionality in the "userspace"*. Google's engineers working on Android apps get early access to the Android versions and work through the resulting bugs, bubbling them back up until they get fixed.

(*userspace being used loosely here, it's all userspace vs being in a kernel, but it's interfaces that are implemented at the OS level and consumed at the app level)

Like Google is large enough that I'm sure someone will take offense to implying that such questionable engineering takes place there, but this isn't a story I've heard just once. People working on apps that are part of every GMS enabled Android image have confirmed this completely bizarre setup on multiple separate occasions
I know so many people who don't keep in contact with high school friends, but still meet up with college friends from time to time. There's just something special about throwing a bunch of people of the same age into this melting pot that they chose to be thrown in to that creates these social networks that last a lifetime. Military friendships also seem to mirror this same effect
Crinkler Packing
The edge browser feels like such a weird mix between a good browser and the shadiest toolbars / extensions in one package.
They don't need to come to an agreement. It's in all their benefit to keep raising prices, so they can keep doing it while knowing that everyone else is also acting in their best interest.
The challenge is what to pay to the people who pulled out all their assets hours before the bank failed. If the people who pulled out all their assets fast enough keep 100% and the people who didn't keep 50%, this is wildly unstable and we see constant bank runs, as was common in the early 20th century.

If the people who pulled out all their assets fast enough keep 100% and the people who didn't keep 95%, and normal people are banking, this is slightly unstable but most people aren't going to bring down the financial system to slightly reduce their risk of losing 5%. The system has been working like this for 70 years.

The current batch of Silicon valley/new york financial types would stab an orphan in the face with their mother's fine silverware, to avoid losing 5%.
It's been known by SEO types for years that Google is gameable. Just setup several Wordpress blogs, add a few SEO plugins, build lots of backlinks, and then...wait. It helps if your content isn't thin and actually helps people though. Google knows that and incorporates that as part of their algo. (Hence, content farms)
The Command Line Is the GUI's Future
My impression is that in Europe we quite often tend to go for a kebab in such circumstances:)
LAN parties grew into eSports and once the internet took off, local network gaming became a bit redundant (outside couch play on consoles). Still a thing at nerdy conventions, too - with all the sweat. ETH Zürich still has the PolyLAN society which is alive and well [0]

[0] https://polylan.ch
As an uncle told me many moons ago:

Do more in college. Write a rock opera, spend a week curled up in the union learning about black holes, be good enough to tutor.

Don't just graduate with nothing but a taste for bad jazz and cheap beer.
In the general case, CPI is how they measure inflation.
Voting is meaningless if the system is only able to produce lawmakers who do the bidding of the ultra rich (and the corporations they own).

There can be no revolution against this without a peaceful march of 1M's or 10M's.
I’ll second Jet’s for Detroit-style, get the 8-corner or large deep dish. Tall, crispy edges. Little Caesar’s gets a pass on their Detroit-style, but Pizza Hut’s recent take was just disrespectful.
The author in this case is an expert in AWS billing and runs one of the most well known and respected AWS finops consulting firms in the world.
oh nice -- will look into this. Thanks for sharing
So you're saying that grocery prices today are mostly the same as they were in 2019?
Porn Spam: Zero to Zero
He’s also a big fan of Conrad’s, who resigned from corporate software startup Zenefits amid accusations of skirting regulations and ultimately settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

“I would shout from the rooftop that this is a person who operates with high integrity,” Mehta said.

Lol. Seems like another Sequoia style fanboy in the making.
DNA treatment could delay paralysis that strikes nearly all patients with ALS
Silicon Valley Bank is dead, long live SVB?
In college, you will also be constantly surrounded by people making poor life decisions that look fun and being encouraged to join in. That also happens at most law firms, on Wall Street, and at many startups.
> ATDT

Ah. Brings back memories of talking Hayes commands directly to my modem via HyperTerminal, or maybe VB5.
A monolithic AI also becomes a single point of epistemic and pedagogical control.

Whichever side or instance you care to consider, think of the capabilities of someone hell bent for leather on defining what is, or is not, included in an educational curriculum, at the primary, secondary, post-secondary, graduate, or professional degree level, and their ability to influence, overtly or covertly, through persuasion or coercion, what that is.

Even under present conditions of proscribed curricula and textbooks, individual instructors, libraries, librarians, and others can go against some imposed dogma to some extent. A world in which only a small handful of AI originators provide the direct interfact between each student and their education is a grim prospect.

I've noted several commentators in recent months discussion a similar situation in terms of popular culture and entertainment, most notably the influence China now exerts over cinema and sport. The notion that AI will continue to be largely a product of Silicon Valley, and subject to US or even generally Western influence, may not be a valid one.
We had plenty of fires during BLM. Little changed.