skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have a fulltime job, the minimum wage is intended to allow you to survive

This is the issue - the idea that minimum wage is supposed to be "livable" is a modern notion.

Unskilled labor probably shouldn't be livable. If someone can be trained to replace you in a few minutes (i.e. unskilled labor), then the truth is your labor is not worth a lot.

We need more people moving up into skilled labor. It's really hard to imagine someone working 30+ years at a job and not developing skills... yet that is what's happening more often today than ever before.

Highschool and College kids don't need a living wage. They need flexible hours, and schedules that fit their available time (night shift, swing shift, whatever...).
In 2008 the dollar was historically cheap (70% of current), now it's pretty expensive. This swing is the main driver of this whole thing and means that yes, PPP is superior for looking at growth. Not ideal, but much better.

Cheap imports are great for consumers, but a currency losing 20% certainly doesn't mean its economy has magically contracted 20%. If anything a weakish currency stimulates internal economic activity as it's good for exports.

The US economy is also not nearly "twice that of the EU", in nominal terms either - it's about 50% bigger. The (silly) chart is for the eurozone.

Seriously, the US always had a somewhat bigger/stronger economy, but a cheap dollar at the time made nominal almost equal, which was misleading.
Now, the US still has a slightly bigger economy, and has had better growth, while the price of the dollar makes it look like a massive difference, which is also misleading. The true output difference is high single digit. Why are you pretending otherwise?
Aha! I was wondering what the "granitic" aspect was, thank you. These are basically cement tiles, but with the backing cement made with granite sand. These were the final (?) evolution of a line which started with medieval encaustic tiles:

https://www.theantiquefloorcompany.com/short-history-encaust...

As for finding some, there is unfortunately no mention of Threlkeld in the Database of UK Architectural Ceramics Locations:

https://tilesoc.org.uk/tacsdb4/tacsdb__LOCATIONS_list.php
Joint accounts, yes. Only joint accounts, no way. Your parents were right. I wish I had done it that way.
Why not use the weight of DNA?
> $50-70

Economies of scale. If they sold hundreds of thousands ESP32 or Arduinos every day, their price would likely fall down to €1 per complete board.

> why aren't we seeing feature-rich dev boards based on the same platforms ?

Because those platforms are closed as hell and their manufacturers have no intention of publishing enough technical data to allow developers to write Open Source drivers.

That's the reason why the engineers at Pine64 had to design the PinePhone from scratch to make it run a real Linux distribution instead of using already available proprietary boards that would indeed be a lot faster and cheaper, but also would be restricted to run only Android with closed device drivers and the same crappy untrustworthy software that plagues cellphones today.
> - Your access to mRNA vaccines

Ain't disputing that, but that's an outlier because it's a government provided thing, at least where I live.

But look at the rest of those things from a POV of people from lower and middle classes:

> - Your access to cleaner air due to electric car adoption

Yeah someday, maybe; right now it only means my perfectly good car is no longer good, and I have to somehow find money to replace it - and since this tech is new, there aren't many cheap used replacements available.

> - Ditto for energy security and renewable sources of electricity

Energy security? That's not what TV says. Renewables? You mean like those PV scam companies popping up everywhere? Or government forcing me to replace my cheap heat source with an expensive one?

> - Your chance of dying in a car going down due to new safety features

Feels like a pretty remote risk at this point (if it weren't, people wouldn't be driving at all). But sure, nice that safety improves over time, even if I'm always 10-20 years behind on the features.

> - Your access to crazy advanced cancer treatments that are making progress at almost miraculous paces

US: what access? Can't exactly afford it.

EU: what access? The queues are so long I'll die before my appointment comes up.

> - Your much improved ability to work from home, cutting out ~2 hours of commuting each day

That's thanks to COVID dragging the market kicking and screaming into this new reality, and with the pandemic over, the businesses are trying to decide which jobs to force back into office, and which to offshore. Neither is really a win.

(Also, it was hardly an ability - everyone was forced into it. Commute doesn't look all that bad compared to two working parents and all the kids trying to simultaneously remote-work and remote-learn in an apartment not sized for this.)

> By every metric, the world is DRAMATICALLY better today for virtually everyone than it was in 1960

What about it no longer being possible for most couples to live on a single income?

> maybe you're depressed

Funny you should mention depression - yes, support for dealing with it is better than ever, but it's also not accessible to most.
Uber and Lyft kind of did shutdown the taxi cartels across the world in one big grassroots swing.

It took insane levels of lobbying and political power of taxis to keep a hold on some of their biggest cities, and there are now few places where non-uber/lyft style systems are still in place.

If AI taxi's are cheaper and more convenient, there's no way they won't just completely replace human taxi drivers. Cruise and Waymo have huge incentives to undercut whatever Uber would try to do. So I don't share your optimism that it will happen slowly over decades. If this self-driving system is easily repeatable elsewhere, it will likely be fast and swift.
I dunno about a week, but it only took me about three weeks to switch from regular soda to diet soda, back in the mid-nineties, and I really didn't like the taste of diet soda when I started. After 2-3L a day of diet for several weeks regular Mountain Dew tasted sickeningly sweet and I no longer wanted it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I own alot of vintage computers but this is one I have never even seen for sale.

Much of my nostalgia for vintage machines has faded but I still have a twinge for this one.

I first saw one some time in the 1970's when I was < 10 years old - magic.
Goroutines and channels aren't intuitive either. You learn them and become familiar with them over time, at which point they become intuitive __for you__.
Was horrible but also started my web dev career, so…
I suppose what I meant is if the quality/convenience/cost of the alternatives are good enough, many people will choose not to use a car, e.g. to avoid the stress of peak-hour traffic or because they believe it's a more productive use of time (even if it technically takes longer door-to-door), or better for the environment or whatever. And there can be real $ savings if this choice means a household then only needs 1 vs 2 cars.
There are a bunch of natural carcinogens that occur in unpackaged ordinary food, some of which have clear epidemiology, which is something you can't say about any artificial sweetener, or even drinking pure RoundUp. Avoiding packaged food can be a good rule for other reasons, but it's not a divining rod for carcinogenicity.
Was the UK included then excluded from the data? Perhaps explains the stagnation in the data

How much does the FED has printed vs the ECB?

How much of EU's economy was affected by the US extraterritoriality legislation?

https://www.rferl.org/a/1095057.html

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1665370246126125060
That’s impressive. Perhaps AMD pushed good power features into the kernel. Great news. Hopefully the new one will work likewise.
When those 5+ kids move out of the house, that's when those guys tend to have their midlife crisis.
That seems very much to be the case given the comments here, all the comments that think joint accounts are bad seem to be people that ended up being divorced so the marriage itself wasn't going well.

I can see how a bad relationship is going to get worse with mixed finances.
Definitely thought you were talking about Newfoundland and Labrador until your footnote, thanks for that
That is atrocious current draw, I didn't know that. Much more edge gateway than unplugged IoT endpoint...
Despite a shrinking economy. If we’re measuring economy size we’re not measuring purchasing power. I cant tell if you recognize this and just think we shouldn’t care about economy size or if you are actually conflating PPP with economy size. Mainly because you keep presenting it as a rebuttal to claims about economy size.
Attacking them for what? This isn't theoretical, I'm connected to giant global database where the public availability of this information is well known. Attacking them for what?

If your moral compass is "someone was mean to me on the internet, now I don't support abortion rights for rape victims" then there was no causative effect, you're just doing what you were going to do anyway.

Because it makes the priority pretty clear: these aren't hard to find stories[1]. The victims aren't "the far left" they're just people[2]. It isn't hard to empathize with them, but apparently the conclusion you reach is that they deserve what's happening to them, because an unrelated group of people might've been mean to you on the internet.

"People are mean to me on the internet" is a lie used to deflect from the data. Because someone is always saying something shitty on the internet. Because someone, somewhere on the far-left might tell someone they're an asshole. But then the far-right will rock up to what they think is Obama's house[3]. But then here you are, telling me the only reason conservatives don't support my issues is because someone is mean to them. I don't know who that person is, I don't know why they were mean, but because they were that's all the justification needed to support denying healthcare to women.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/16/rightw...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/15/1135882...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/30/capitol-atta...
Could be that it's snagged somewhere, flattening the twisted pairs?
A gram isn't a unit of weight.
"The Met said it does not believe it has investigated damage to Ulez cameras."

Well they sure as hell will now. This guy/group have forgotten the #1 rule of crime, shut the fuck up about it.
What if one person has significantly more money than the other person? Prenups exist for a reason
Think you're intentionally misreading what I'm saying, thanks for that
Its just a schlage or kwickset?

The pins in new locks have pretty tight tolerances for the first couple years until they wear a bit. Its likely they are just using older equipment which isn't sufficiently precise to cut them. Get a key that is exactly right, and works with a bit of wiggling, use it as your primary key for a couple months and it will work just as well as the originals. The slight variations in the key ways/etc will knock the edges off the pins with enough use. Assuming the key is cut correctly from the right blank, you might just need a bit of lube/oil on the key. If you can see variations by eye in the ramps/etc its likely the key is just wrong.
I used to drink a fair amount of diet and mostly quit because of the caffeine and the possibly tooth enamel damage.

It was surprising the amount of concerned friends who were convinced the stuff would kill me. I really looked for any hint of evidence that it might, and aspartame keeps winning.

I'm off it now anyway, but it does seem to just be nicely flavored (slightly acidic) caffeine water.
Makes sense, ie why there can be the centralize well water depots etc. I'm thankful that it's not something I have to rely on indeed.
I know people who lived in the USSR in the 1970s and missed it.
I thought the circumstances you describe are what leads to the typical midlife crisis. Not always, but people wake up and realize they're trapped in a life (kids, obligations, job) that sort of crept up on them, and feel like they need to let off some steam.

A lot of (perhaps including the article's authors) modern "mid-life crises" are more what I've heard of as "quarter life crises" - you finish school, get a job, you're in a rut where you don't have an obvious next step and you're starting at possible decades of the same, you get depressed. But now a lot of people are like 35 at that time so it almost overlaps with the 80's version of a midlife crisis. This happened to me, I accomplished roughly what I'd planned professionally at about 30 and then realized it wasn't what I wanted and had no idea what to do next.
Isn't the stereotypical midlife crisis the Dad whose kids have all moved out? I don't think that has anything to do with modernity or secularity, it's more to do with a large change that triggers a revaluation of your life. That could happen to anyone.
Some good points, and I appreciate there are two semi-disparate domains here. Local interface monitoring addresses a different problem than network monitoring.

I'd argue your advantages perhaps - you do need local root, or at least net_admin / net_raw (I haven't looked to see if TFA drops all but these - perhaps you have?) which raises some security questions. In Linux you may also hit some challenges with promiscuous mode, or capturing on wireless interfaces.

The 'energy' to configure netflow is probably comparable to that required to install and configure this tool. If you don't have the feature on your network hardware, then, yeah, sure, it's moot.

I accept that this, and other existing tools, that let you correlate local processes with local network interface activity can be useful. In my experience it's rare to have to dive into that level, but definitely handy.

In a previous life I would frequently be flipping between Wireshark and Riverbed's Packet Analyzer (nee Pilot) which gives a higher level view than Wireshark. It feels like Sniffnet is aiming to be more in this category, so it's great to have a free software alternative.

For traffic that doesn't traverse routers, you may not know that switches can send netflow. Also, your favourite GNU/Linux distro can send flows.

> (And it actually exists unlike the hypothetical netflow version.)

I don't get this bit.

Are you asserting that netflow monitoring tools don't exist?
a mac mini is not a laptop.
the ULEZ is in London
Sugar alcohols are abundant in nature and have been a part of our diets for pretty much all recorded history. They are well-understood and probably don't warrant the kind of intensive inquiry that is appropriate for a completely novel synthetic compound, such as aspartame.

There are more papers on aspartame than on potatoes, but that's not a reason not to avoid the latter, right?
For people who will not get divorced this is a good idea (as long as each has some slush money).

For people who will get divorced this is a bad idea.

For people who might go either way, if you come into the relationship with similar amounts of wealth and no kids, then this is a good idea as everything you make going forward is a result of your partnership, no longer just you yourself.

For people who might go either way and who come into a relationship with a wide disparity in wealth or existing kids it is more complex.
I think this strongly depends on the couple.

My wife and I have had separate checking accounts for 20 years, and a shared savings account, and a second shared checking account we use strictly for transferring money back and forth (we can’t use savings for that due to stupid banking rules).

We also have split the hills according to our relative incomes. I make a lot more so I have the mortgage and a few big ticket items, she has several of the other bills plus her own car payment.

We make joint decisions on big things like vacations, or more recently, private school for our kids.

I know other couples do it completely differently. Some have totally shared accounts. I know husbands on a strict allowance.

Do what works for you.
PPP cannot be used to measure growth at all on any level.

https://www.oecd.org/sdd/prices-ppp/purchasingpowerparities-...

Also GDP, GDP PPP and every other economic benchmark is calculated using CID - constant US dollar; specifically to avoid skewing results due to fluctuating exchange rates.
> 50% of people who are contributing less than they take

Do you have a citation for that broad brush number for what they take?
> Thinking to my religious friends who have 5+ kids, a rich spiritual life and deep engagement with community, it's very hard to imagine them going through one.

As someone who grew up in a religious family/community, this comment made me burst out laughing.
Grid batteries are exposed to the full range of temperature swings of whatever climate they're installed in. Protecting a battery from the local climate is expensive and power intensive. Not a deal-breaker, but this cost needs to be factored into the cost of the battery, and any active cooling/heating needs to be deducted from its efficiency.
And a strong difference in quality health care outcomes for people of all ages.
"Sola dosis facit venenum." Only the dose makes the poison. Everything is toxic. There is nothing in the known universe that is not toxic.
Don't merge your accounts together. You have the right setup - accounts-wise. Changing it to joint likely won't solve issues, and untangling from joint is difficult.
If the price was a major problem I had selling my product?

Yeah, I would.
I once heard sociology research described as the field that proves with statistics what everyone knows with common sense
You do it at the Planck temperature (1.4e32 K), obviously, giving one Planck mass (22 micrograms) per nat, or 15 ug/b. This probably has some physical relevance, but I'm not sure what.
Pretty sure 1Password has the same constraint. Lastpass did not but well... they dont have the best reputation anymore.
This looks to have better software with it though. I get that you can probably port between but i'm happy to pay a few dollars to save my own time here.

We're talking $4 vs $16 for a board for engineers that cost much more than that an hour. Pick whatever you like. In fact go buy both and play with both the above and this. The cost is literally nothing. These boards are not what goes into a large production run product.
My observation of couples with split finances (my wife and I merged ours long ago) is that it doesn’t seem to prevent the kind of problems it nominally solves, and adds extra stress to the mix.

If you are married to someone whose financial decisions you are incompatible with, there’s no escaping the fact that you’re going to be impacted by those decisions one way or another no matter what. Hiding them in a for-his/her-eyes-only account creates more stress because now you’re constantly worried about what invisible bad decisions they might be making that will impact you later.

It feels like a bandaid fix to the underlying problem of financial incompatibility, and that failing to address the root problem creates stress and challenges down the road.
I am probably about in the same spot that you are. I've been slowly working my way through this course from Andre LaMothe, I think pieces of it might be applicable for you. It's a Udemy course, so it goes on sale for ~$20ish pretty often, I think it's really well done and I've learned a lot so far.

https://www.udemy.com/course/crash-course-electronics-and-pc...
I hope I don’t have a midlife crisis. I would view that as somewhat of a failure. I had like 40+ years to figure out what I wanted my life to be like. Feeling the need to change course after so much time would be a little lame.
Off the mind, the newsletters I subscribe to: Console dev, Bytes, Changelog News, Hackernewsletter, Matt Rickard, Ben Evans, Stratechery, Unzip dev, Browsertech, Command Line, This Week at YC. All of this takes 2-3 hours reading weekly which I catchup on a Sunday night with no Read Laters.
I view the stereotypical midlife crisis as the dad/husband who decides to buy a sports car and act 25 again possibly cheat on his wife.
Apple's P/E is around 30. Which is a bit high but completely within reason. Very low compared to inflated stocks such as NVDA at 230 P/E

Apple is just crazy profitable.
> It was economical to buy the Russian gas delivered by pipeline.

see I can understand this logic pre 2014, but post 2014 (i.e. Crimea), absolutely not

the euros paid to putin were used to re-arm and those weapons are now being used in Ukraine

and if he wins then Eastern Europe is next in line

but yes germans saved 2% on their gas bills for 10 years
Optimizing for AI Architectures in an Age of Scarcity
Yeah of course, there’s advertising. There’s also advertising for cigarettes.

Stunningly false is a bit strong.

What I mean is: no one thinks consuming alcohol is good for them. At worst they might think it’s health-neutral in the amount that they drink, but the majority of people know it’s bad for them.

It’s been effectively communicated, by laws and culture around booze, that it’s a thing for adults to choose to do, and accept consequences from. (Hangovers, drunk driving, abuse, and many other societal ills that are pretty cliche and well known) Just because the people making it, leave off the consequences, doesn’t mean everyone is brainwashed.
> left-wing politics is the one advocating for less kids.

In no way is this true. No left-wing organization is advocating for this, liberal organizations and activists are.

> Left wingers are the reason women now have so much education and careers that they postpone having children til their 30s.

Oh you're one of those people.
Only if you have good insurance.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation and if there is correlation it doesn’t imply the direction.
In many places, you don't. Washington State all property is 50/50. Half my income is my wife's, even though I make 800k and she makes nothing.

I dunno, the idea that you are willing to make a commitment to someone for the rest of your life but also try to hold back money from them is so alien.
The monetary union is flawed. It won't last another decade unless they somehow federalize the member state debt.
You can say this stuff all you want, but not only do the facts not support it but also the analysis of the facts disproves these statements.
Feeding people laxatives isn't exactly a killer answer to this problem.

They also still contain calories that you're best off not ingesting.

I also found this study that says sugar alcohols cause blood and liver cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7072169/

Alcohols generally have been abundant in our evolutionary history and are still terrible for us.
You can - if you can tolerate the taste.
You could be on the right course but still unsatisfied with your achievements. This is probably pretty common.