skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The broad outline of these facts has been known for decades (that spice processors intentionally adulterate turmeric with the yellow pigment, lead chromate). These are sold in the First World as well, and are culpable e.g. for acute lead poisoning in children in the USA:

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2017/high-levels-of-lea... (2017)

- "The study, in Public Health Reports, the official journal of the US Public Health Service and the US Surgeon General, also describes several cases of child lead poisoning in the US that have been linked to consumption of spices, including turmeric."
Well, you have to come up with a reason for why now -- the profit motive has been there forever.

There's also a question of why high margins don't induce new entrants to these markets, or why consumers responding too cleanly to higher prices by buying less. There's been a variety of factors at play and I think if you want to pin it on profits you gotta put in the legwork to rule out or at least quantify the dozens of other factors.

And like, if Nintendo wants to charge an extra ten dollars for Zelda[1], I don't think thats any kind of call for EU/UK regulators to step in.

[1]: https://www.gamesradar.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-is-get...
We don't, but we also check the hike-bike site locations beforehand, grab all the necessary backcountry permits, and also try to hoof it in early to maximize chances of getting a site. Of course since we're on bike we plan a lot more than most visitors in a car (since we plan out water stops, food, clothing changes, etc etc.) We've definitely encountered the occasional ranger but they're usually much friendlier to bikers than drivers in my experience.
at my high school we used to open windows explorer by the file open dialog in notepad to escape the weird bookshelf shell.. i think it was an ibm product.
I cannot comment on other countries, but this is clearly not practiced in the US. The US has not simplified building and zoning rules or made them more permissive. The US follows the third option: do nothing and hope it fixes itself.
Energy costs, totally not a factor in the end user price of any given item. :rolleyes
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Okay, I'll bite... How did you bring up a web browser from XP Calculator? I know there's HTML Help, but I don't see a way to get on to the internet from there.
Wasn't initially planning it, but I'm going to start bulk deleting old comments.

Takes about 2 minutes to arrange by the looks of it. [0]

Wonder if they'll restore it. If they're following their own reddiquette then they won't, but can't say I have any faith in Reddit Inc left

[0] https://shreddit.com/
Yes, but that still leaves the other half. And the phone is always there, not to mention mode modern communication technology.

A parent doesn't need to be around all the time. In fact, they shouldn't be around all the time, otherwise they're "helicoptering".
I do think so. As I said, "adverse" being a clinical term suggests the reader should look for a technical definition if they doesn't know it already (unlike "toxic", which one tends to mainly find spammed across twitter in less-technical contexts). Furthermore the word "adverse" carries a strong connotation of an implied contrast against a benign alternative. It's simply too sterile to be interpreted as emphasis.
I consider continued support of classful networking to be an inet_aton bug. I certainly don’t pass user input to it without sanitizing.
Venture Crapitalists love when the company makes it look like their money is going to go much further because the employees are kept on a super cheap chain.
I'd need to be convinced the punch a hole is actually a good solution. I've stayed in lower-floor hotel rooms on a light well and they weren't great. (Of course, a lot of Manhattan hotel rooms aren't great from a natural light perspective--but I'd almost certainly have higher standards for something I was going to live in full-time.)
Maybe... but if competitors realize that the established companies can just lower prices once they enter the market, it might not make sense to enter the market at all.
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Don't worry. They're too big to fail so they'll get bailed out to further the wealth gap.
I recall we did simple tests like this in school - we had to bring in samples of foodstuffs from home to do the tests, and the school would provide a positive control. This must have been the seventh grade or so?

https://www.vasantmasala.com/blog/how-to-check-adulteration-...
Or try IAM: Identity and Access Management
Competition doesn't work correctly in modern economies because companies are allowed to buy their competitors. If you start competing with another company, they can essentially raise money to buy you and stop what would be the "normal" process. As a result, all theories that people have about how competition works don't apply as they think it should.
Some supplement companies/nootropic companies purport to do 3rd party certificate of analysis with microbe, and heavy metal testing. You can find them on Reddit. Can you believe the companies? I kinda do.
This isnt helpful - they are updating their priors publicly, and your implicit expectation that they should already know is absurd.
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Oh boy, it's here. So soon...
> Installers

I've long held that, at least in developed countries, we should be ending unemployment insurance and moving to guaranteed employment and utilizing unemployed folks for public service projects such as solar installs.

Yes, of course not for disabled or high skilled folks who just need to transition. But for many many cases there's little reason to give someone hundreds per week for no work.
Yes but the name derives from a much older Greek colloquial expression, see al-Masudi for example.
Yes it does, because we're talking about regulations that would cap the size of vehicle classes. You're not going to turn a 6,000lb F-150 into a 2,999lb truck, but you can shave 50 or 60 pounds off a vehicle.

All else being equal, lighter = less deadly. That's all I'm saying.
Of course! Long term family (or self) illnesses are devastating, especially anything degenerative. Thankfully those are mostly special cases, which I say as someone who's been through it.

Contrariwise, I've heard of people stress out about how large their Steam backlog has grown.
I’m someone who often takes trains when I can, over planes. The scenery is sometimes nice, but in the NE corridor it’s largely just backyards and tree-lined alleys through industrial areas. More pleasantly, I don’t need to interact with TSA, I don’t get the weird derealization that comes to me in airports, I don’t get dehydrated or pressure headache, the seats are larger/comfortable, the internet is faster/cheaper, and finally, the carbon emissions are fewer per passenger-mile.

edit: and when I’m restless the train has much more space for light exercise or walking.
> inflation is not something corporations have influence over

Of course they do. Here's a simple example: if the price of energy goes up, the price of food and various goods goes up across the board.
As a Middle Easterner, we reject that notion.
It's a reality, Posgres' analyze output wasn't designed for the plans that EdgeQL commands can have, given the composable nature of our language. You can just do much more in one op and that balloons the plan. Not in a bad way, but you have to know how to read those things to make good understanding of it. Our goal is to streamline this for EdgeQL as much as we can.
Americans are just terrible and inattentive drivers in general, because the culture is that driving is a necessary thing, and therefore a right. They also like to merge onto highways in the stupidest possible ways, so you "need" 200 horsepower even in a damn corolla so you can accelerate to 80mph from 30 because you don't understand the concept of an on-ramp or smooth merging.
i don't think nonprofits are the right path if you're trying to avoid burnout. you might agree with a big-picture mission, but it's only a matter of time before the low pay and huge workload combine with a sense of futility to create burnout.
Do you still subscribe to newsletters?
Personally, I find it hard to subscribe to newsletters these days because reading them get too burdensome and my mailbox is overcrowded at this point. Is it just me?

What will make you subscribe to a newsletter today?
I pay more than $3462 in property taxes alone. So I'm good? The majority of people in my county pays more than that, so it's pretty clear to me that the city isn't subsidizing us... More likely, we're subsidizing the city in our income taxes (in my state a significant chunk of income taxes are spent on welfare services for city dwellers).
Every time I drive the Merritt, I feel like I'm in the Monaco Grand Prix!

(well, other than when there's heavy traffic)
Yes, I'm aware. I've been programming in Elixir since 2014. I didn't intend to imply that being third-party means these are bad tools, they're not. They're great. But Go people often harp about how much stuff is in the standard library, so it felt relevant to mention.
We need entries for Rust and Zig
Vendor support is pretty crappy. By the time you're done gathering all the logs and running out the response time clock you've usually figured it out. Then at least half the time they do help, it's wrong because you're environment has some special requirement.
Huge thanks for the great feedback, I'm glad you're enjoying EdgeDB!
Well the question they are asking is: why now? Were companies not wanting to maximize profits 5 years ago?
I am just going to quote parts of the paper to precaution from misinterpretation and hasty judgement. I also suggest to read the paper in its entirety — most of it can be understood without any deep knowledge of economics.

> While this accounting identify[GDP Deflator = Unit Profit + Unit Labor cost + Unit Taxes] does not allow for any causal interpretation, it shows how (changes in) the GDP deflator is reflected in profits per unit of real GDP (unit profits), labor compensation per unit of real GDP (unit labor cost), and taxes less subsidies per unit of GDP (unit taxes).

> While nominal profits have increased, this is not necessarily true for profitability.

> [Dhingra (2023) and Haskel (2023)] caution against an oversimplistic interpretation where an increase in gross operating surplus is interpreted as corporate profits being the largest driver of inflation

The paper has to rely on very strong assumptions to come to its conclusion because of that.
> Companies do not price goods based on the goodness of their hearts.

Yes, but let's remember this next time they are whinging about taxes, labor rights, and anti-trust measures, k?
I’m highly skeptical of the core thesis of the “strong towns” link, and cherry picking a few examples certainly doesn’t convince me.

I can cite plenty of small suburban areas that had an influx of demand without “growth” and the subsequent increase in tax revenue.

Even if you are correct, what time frame do you think this will happen? Will hundred of millions of Americans living in the suburbs be in bankrupted cities in 20 years? 40? 60?
Governments can argue whatever they want, workers still demand more pay and (more often) change jobs to where they get paid more. The last years has been massive for worker movements, atleast here in my region.
Intelligent enough to create a grift selling subscriptions to the "Real World" featuring rehashed low-quality dropshipping/crypto/copywriting content, sure. That's not even how he made his money but teaching how to launder money through casinos and adult webcam businesses probably wouldn't work out legally. I have younger friends who are into him so had to do research to see if they weren't getting fleeced.

I wouldn't put him in the same category as the other three men mentioned who deliver value for free.
One rental I had wanted $600 for “one way” but the guy at the counter told me to rent it for return and call corporate the next day - they said just drop it anywhere for $50 more and never actually bothered to charge me that.

It can all vary.
tl;dr:

Color matters to turmeric purchasers, and turmeric that is more vibrantly yellow typically sells for higher prices. The Stanford University team learned that this color-linked perception of quality may have started in the 1980s, when a flood interrupted the drying process, turning rhizomes brown and moldy.

To mask flawed turmeric, some processors began dusting the roots with lead chromate — an orange-yellow industrial pigment used to color plastics and furniture. From the interviews, Forsyth learned that this coloration step continued for four decades after the flood and that most processors weren’t aware that the pigments were toxic

Even tl;dr-er: they color low quality tumeric with lead-based pigments to make it look like high quality tumeric. Like how China spray paints dead grass green. But with more lead.
Blockchain doesn't solve any of that. It's just coming back to the oracle issue. I still have to trust people putting stuff into the chain, and I don't have any reason to just because you say blockchain.
MLOps basics and diving into Model Training.
The article mentions Fahrenheit (-112f), which means it was -80C, so the first one you found would have been "good enough". A quick google finds a -80C freezer for $14000 [0] a fraction of the $1million they've "lost".

[0] [Fisherbrand™ Isotemp™ Ultra Low Temperature Freezer](https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/isotemp-ultra-low-te...)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/why-japan-low-inflati...

According to this Japan has more price controls. Also seeing that an aging populace has lowered demand.

Do recessions tend to drive inflation? Do you print more money hoping to stimulate out of a recession?
Yeah, a complex rules engine is indeed one of the challenges of such a system. But you can at least handle the most common scenarios and take some of the load off the park. Like in Yosemite, a basic Half Dome permit is handled through recreation.gov, but if you're doing overnight backpacking or big wall climbing in addition to Half Dome, those could be handled differently and outside of recreation.gov... https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm

For a festival, though, I imagine it could be handled similarly to hotel rooms... block off a certain # of sites for the exclusive use of some "XYZFEST23" coupon code or similar. Not sure if recreation.gov actually supports that, but it's not an insurmountable problem.
I'm not sure about that. It's more likely that each of us has a lot of different stuff to care about, more and more as we transition to adulthood, families, etc, and it's not economical (as in time+energy) to care too much about prices and wages as long as we can get what we care about. When the money run short, it changes.
I thought pharmaceutical giants did their R&D these days by buying startups that had already done the hard work? And which in turn had been spun out of a university department that had done the basic research?
We might support SQLite one day (not working on that right now, but there's some foundational work on that going on).
> For those that own a Meta Quest, is this subscription service actually an attractive offer?

Maybe. I think it would be a lot more attractive if you got to keep the games permanently. As-is, it's just a subscription service with 2 games as of today, right? The quality of the games probably matters a lot too.

I personally won't go for it and I've been averaging $30 USD per month on Oculus games for the last 18 months. I didn't even realize I was spending so much buying games that are $20-30 "once in a while".

For me, as soon as it goes from something like one time purchases to a "must spend" subscription service to keep your games I'm not interested.
I don’t disagree with you at all, which is why I believe dense, vibrant cities are the future rather than endless suburban sprawl so that people can have their 1/4 acre with backyard and everyone has their own in-home office. I view WFH as a setback to the climate argument rather than a benefit.

We should be tackling commutes by building denser cities with mass transit, not by having everyone with more space in the burbs.

Another point: it takes a lot more to heat and cool thousands of individual houses to human comfort rather than setting those thermostats back throughout the day and only managing the HVAC for densely packed offices.
Reminds me of the company that sequestered private keys. Some idiot VP went to the vault, took out the master list and email'd it to a friend who had forgot their key. Gutting the entire value of the company and ruining it forever.

People do the damndest things. Critical stuff needs a little extra care put in place or some fool will inevitably do the thing-that-must-not-be-done.

Sometimes I have no confidence that a mature civilization is even possible if it's composed of human beings.
Consider r/redditseppuku
Such is life. We should work to mitigate as much of this as possible, but not having sideloading should not be in the realm of possibilities.

(Yes, I'm aware of the workarounds. Those are not reasonable solutions.)
I don't understand the general gist of this article.

No, it's not too late to reclaim it. I've learned languages in my 30's and see no reason why I couldn't continue to do so in the coming decades.

If it were really that "painful" you'd do something about it.
Wait, we're allowed to sue business who have junk fees?
I'd mention the DEC PDP-1: most of what is not batch processing and many software tools with some linage to things still used today starts there.
>capturing information about what you listen to in your car

Awesome- another data vector to make advertising across platforms and devices even more creepily uncanny.
Crazy thought, why not use something like super cooling or pressure get things aligned and then just prevent them from returning back? In other words prevent it from “de-aligning” or returning to the unaligned state? It seems this would be easier.
"...after a while I am still exhausted but have a closet full of kitsch."

That sums it up.
Maybe generics have fixed this, I threw in the towel on golang before they released them.

But as an example, if you wanted to have any sort of higher-level management of goroutines (for example, a bounded number of background workers) you get to rewrite or copy-paste that code every place you want to accomplish that. A library couldn't exist to abstract away the idea of a pool of background workers because it can't know in advance what types you want to send over your channels.

Again, I wouldn't be surprised if post-generics there's a library now to do this for you. But for years if you wanted anything higher level than raw channels, you're basically on your own.
That can only go on for so long; if people see companies buying out competitors people will jump to create more and more competitors for the easy exit.
> Some of these higher profits will be passed on upstream

Profits by definition are not passed upstream, as profits are what remains after you take out costs from revenue. Anything that gets passed upstream comes from costs
> I need window queries and subscriptions

We'll get there.
At least the rich people will have power. And if their solar and batteries are down for a while, they'll likely also have their own personal Generac whole-house automatic diesel, gas, or propane generator. Individuals who can afford it will have reliable power.
Businesses are always greedy. The fact corporate profits are up is an effect of inflation, not a cause.

A good essay on the topic is: https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/greedflation-lets-try-this-...
They always want to maximize profits, but they don't have this opportunity every day. They will increase their profits if there is a convenient reason like "inflation".
That really isn't how it works. Most real-world competition by far happens in a context of product differentiation where suppliers are only imperfect substitutes for each other's products. So you can raise prices and not be "outbid" in such a way anytime soon. Your market share would only suffer gradually over time if you kept your prices higher than the market.
Yes and these buildings are awful to live in. Paper mache boxes with no sound isolation. If you are going to live in an apartment in the US, it's very important to live in a tower, even on a low floor, and not a mid-rise, because extreme engineering and exotic materials (relative to US construction norms) are necessary to make multifamily living tolerable.
They could have just asked.... Most who grew up in the subcontinent know this.
> It was meant to be a blackout to show everyone 'this is what reddit is like when the people you depend on leave'

Sorry but this is just revisionist history. If this was the intention them the mods and third party app users would have just taken 2 days off. They didn't do that, they set their communities to Private. It was a protest.
From the linked article:

«Officials have not yet named the employee of Unifi Aviation, which Delta Air Lines contracts for ground crew operations.»

«"From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi's operational processes, safety procedures and policies," the company said.»
Both are on our list to start working on soon.
If I went on a holiday for two weeks and came back I wouldn't be able to tell you if there's still a reddit. That's how unimportant reddit has become over the last couple of years.
Yes it does :)
No. My inbox is already hell even with filters and rules.

And I love how we were going to not be so independent on email when slack and others came out and now I have to be logged into slack, MS teams, and 2 other apps as well as email due to the different apps adopted by various customers.
This gives me

"Not Imported You haven't imported this file yet. Import it first to use it."
I appreciate AC enough that I bought a window unit and a gas powered generator to ensure that I don't have to do without. Probably not a net positive for the environment, but I do have tentative plans to switch it over to solar plus lithium iron phosphate battery. One nice thing about AC is that the need for it is pretty correlated with sunshine.
Bro, look at that guy's splenius muscles. He is so ripped. Must be using the gen 1 model.
How could desire for profits possibly be an explanation for _rising prices_? Were companies not seeking profits in the 2010s? Did they only become greedy in recent years?

It seems obvious to me that if companies could have raised prices more previously they would have. Therefore companies pushing price is just a proximate cause of inflation, not a root cause.
Insects understand the world on a much different scale, it makes it impossible to communicate with them effectively. An effective and humane manner would be to direct them by some means, via RF (maybe?), light, or chemical signaling, to outside human dwellings. As it currently stands, insects come off as aggressively uncooperative. I don't know how I feel about crushing things that are just unconcerned about my suffering--as the more developed being, the burden is on me to try to mediate things. The tricky part is I don't want anyone around me getting sick, so killing them is often the option.
This is taken into the account by the paper published by the IMF.
It works just fine in Seattle - I speak from personal experience! Rooftop solar is popular here. Direct sunlight is not a requirement; PV works fine in overcast conditions, and cooler temperatures offer an efficiency advantage.
Pleased to know they exonerated themselves.
I used Redact, which was excellent

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A newsletter that had pertinent and interesting information that I’d’ve not already seen elsewhere by the time it arrives is something I enjoy.

I have one - the newsletter for https://www.centipedepress.com/

Anything tech or major news related I’ve already read heavily about.