skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The secret sauce of costco is the insatiable demand and seemingly exponentially large customer base. You could realistically be waiting 10 mins for gas because people want the ~10% discount so bad. The lines inside to checkout are also huge, another 10-15 min process. Cafeteria lines are just as long. You can hardly find parking in the lot itself because its packed to the brim. Usually its easier to park in a neighboring business.

The only other business I’ve seen with such a constant flow of customers is In n out. Sure its good to have healthy margin but when you are getting 10x the number of daily transactions as your nearest comparable business in the area, you are playing a different game from them entirely.
Bash knows the exit status of a program. Maybe all is not operational
One thing I've noticed about myself, and I sense some of it in what you're saying, is that I really like the easy part of learning new things. When you first start to learn something new, the "gains" come easily. You get this very satisfying feedback loop, going from knowing nothing to being able do some small thing quickly.

But then, the hard part, the part requiring discipline comes in. In the example of learning an instrument, maybe you learn your first pentatonic box on the guitar, and you get a quick hit of satisfaction when you can improvise something pleasant. But then you start to realize, as you learn more, that there's a huge amount of practice required to take you to the point where you can shred a solo.

This is where I often lose interest in some new hobby, personally. And the truth is, there's just not enough time in a life to truly master that many different things.

With that said, though, I think there can still be value in learning the basics of something new. It can tell your whether you enjoy that thing enough to keep investing in it, and you can often go quite far with basic skills. I'll never be a master woodworker, but I'm happy that I learned the first 50%, because that's enough to do some basic house repairs or build a shelf. I'll never be a great piano player, but I learned enough to be able to lay down some chords when I'm working on some music. I'm not going to be a full time drummer, but I can do a basic 4/4 beat when we're all drunk at the end of a jam session and switch instruments for shits and giggles.

I think it's just important to be realistic about how far basics take you and whether you're really going to invest the time it takes to make learning things worthwhile - or if, like you describe, that effort is feeding some other impulse that's not worth your time.

But it is ok to learn new things just because it's fun, and there's a lot of fun to be had being a generalist. So it's really (just like all things in life) just a balance that you need to figure out how you want to strike.
Ah that is unfortunate. If I can say one thing against Sublime HQ, it is that they are bad at communicating. I assume you are on a business license (thus the yearly) and you expected that there will be releases. Not as frequent but something that will signal you that they are active.

As a "dev" user (the unstable version), I can say that they are active. They have 6 builds just this year. 4 of which are large ones. Unfortunately, they just released those in "stable" last Aug 2.

Previous years are also bad. They released to "stable" mostly before the year ends while "dev" has builds almost every month.

If I were them, I would leverage the "we are so quiet" and provide exclusive access to frequent builds to paying customers. Sure they might be "unstable" but as a paying customer, I would rather have an unstable product than not hear from you the whole year.

Anyway, going back to my point, they are active. I can vouch for that. They are just really bad in doing "company" things. In my purely honest opinion, it is not enough for a business to have a great product if you can't appeal to your target market. They are lucky enough that there are people who fell in love with ST and stuck around.
Also, it's almost never recycled.

An awful lot of things I see people doing with PVC pipe, and it's not very good at it, would be much better done with wood, which nature already understands how to process when you're done with it.
Vegas casinos are still reeling from a cyberattack
Missing: every budget Warhammer/Vampire: Dark Ages LARP weapon in 2000-10s Poland. (speaking from my personal experience here)
JFC America, you are your own Taliban.
Those dimensions are becoming ever smaller with the advancement of A.I.

Now that companies have their golden goose, they no longer need plain humans. After all, A.I. does not eat, it doesn't sleep and it does not get sick.
But often not respected. Heck sometimes the price is just not there… any price!
Sounds like it might be the 5th Kara No Kyoukai movie.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/4282/Kara_no_Kyoukai_Movie_5__...
This already exists to some degree in the form of the HICP [0]. One of the categories in the index is food and they have a neat little tool where you can compare countries [1].

It doesn't cover every single product on shelves though, just a pre-selected set of products that's compared across all countries.

There's a myriad of datasets being collected and published by Eurostat.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/hicp/information-data
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/website/economy/food-pri...
Which is interesting to think about the margins eaten up by packaging vs the product itself. Packaging must be a very small fraction the cost of the product I’m guessing.
People's needs change. Technology marches on. My house was built in 1973, next week i'm throwing away a furnace that is still working like new because it is 60% efficient. I don't know how efficient the air conditioner is, but it is being replaced by a heat pump that will be better. If it wasn't so expensive the windows that are working like new would go as well for something more energy efficient. I'm also considering (unlikely but considering) options to make my kitchen larger like what a new house would have as this lacks some functionality of a modern kitchen. Previous owners added a few extra bedrooms in the 1980s. This house was built without cable tv or internet wiring, some of that was added latter, but not to every room (and.with modern wifi probably isn't needed anymore. I haven't tested, but i'm sure the pipes were soldered with lead, the paint might have lead underneath, and there could be asbestos in places.

My house is typical for a house its age. I have no idea what people will want from a house in 2073, but it will be at least somewhat different from today. Some of that will be style of course, but some will be real functional differences.
Articles like these exist primarily to shift the Overton window. One day they will convince you aliens are real. They are not real.
Maybe, but most of what I see people doing is doomscrolling and shitposting. It feels like doing something but the primary output is anxiety.
Also it depends on whose gut the feeling belongs to. To mine it doesn't sound so preposterous that an object falling from space at a huge velocities can cause ejecta which also flies up at huge velocities. Surely doing the math is the key for a proper answer but having a gut feeling can be a useful first order guide on a subject, as long as one remains open to further argumentation to further refine one's intuition.
I have a filter before the water comes in and after it comes out of the water tank.

Heated water is kept in a different reservoir and the piping uses heat resistant PVC.

In Brazil, most times the water has a smell of chlorine so I guess the chances of it having deadly/lethal microbia there are next to null?

Drank water from the tap (where plumbing is done properly) for all my life, never had any problems so far.
Seems like it has potential, try to run it for files in some open source
projects like curl? Pick something gnarly with lots of string allocs.
https://www.project-voldemort.com/ says Hi.
You’re missing my point.

For domestic hot water, for the connection from whatever part of the system stays hot (the header, the recirc loop, etc) to the fixture, the amount of time and wasted water needed to get hot water to the fixture is directly proportional to the volume of the interior of the pipe, and for a fixed length of pipe, it’s inversely proportional to velocity. So you want the narrowest pipe you can get away with. 3/8” PEX has about half the interior cross-sectional area as 1/2”. This means you get hot water about twice as fast. 3/8” PEX loses about 26 psi/100 ft at 2 gpm and much less at lower flow. If you have 40 psi water and you have a short-ish pipe, that’s usually fine. Or if you have higher pressure and a longer pipe, you’re still fine.

The issue here has that, while the 3/8” PEX is near-perfect for this application, the rest of the system is not amazing. Your sink is likely (sigh) “3/8 female compression”, aka non-standard 9/16 UNEF or so, but the flow rate is well under 2 gpm, so this isn’t a big deal - use whatever adapter you like.

But your shower likely has 1/2” NPT brass female threads. To get the benefit of 3/8” PEX, you need to adapt it at the shower.

> If needed anything that required the 3/8 in, I would just use copper because it’s likely a very small and isolated case.

No, don’t do that. From the horse’s mouth (this particular horse very much wanting you to use copper):

https://copper.org/applications/plumbing/cth/design-installa...

> [Copper Pipe] Water Velocity Limitations

> To avoid excessive system noise and the possibility of erosion-corrosion, the designer should not exceed flow velocities of 8 feet per second for cold water and 5 feet per second in hot water up to approximately 140°F. In systems where water temperatures routinely exceed 140°F, lower flow velocities such as 2 to 3 feet per second should not be exceeded. In addition, where 1/2-inch and smaller tube sizes are used, to guard against localized high velocity turbulence due to possibly faulty workmanship (e.g. burrs at tube ends which were not properly reamed/deburred) or unusually numerous, abrupt changes in flow direction, lower velocities should be considered. Locally aggressive water conditions can combine with these two considerations to cause erosion-corrosion if system velocities are too high.

A 2.2 gpm shower head fed by 3/8” copper is out of spec.

I have personally seen copper tube fail when used with plain water at excessive velocity. It’s not pretty. Fortunately it was outdoors. Don’t do this inside your walls. Most vendors seem to think 8 ft/sec in PEX at 140F is fine, though.
>horcrux. Looks like somebody beat me to both the name and concept, however this repo doesn't support thresholds of horcruxes

"this repo" I wonder if they mean "that repo." I realize it can be read both ways, but that is a bug, not a feature, in this readme. If the author is here can you please clarify?
I should tell the story of the PM (also at Uber!) who demanded our web app be "faster than Excel". I couldn't make it up if I tried.
Fellow Austrian here. Nice price comparison project, but the elephant in the room is that grocery store prices in Germany are 20-40% lower for the same product. Explanation from the supermarket chains are shady at best (more stores per capita compared to Germany, they are forced to buy from more expensive Austrian distributors etc). I heard similar things from Belgium (higher prices than in France)

My point is: we need a Europe-wide price comparison if the situation should change.
>We’ve got a tendency towards hero culture as a society, in which we expect one person to solve the problem. That fails on almost any problem of reasonable size and impact - you yourself cannot solve, say, climate change - and it leads us to feel like we’re not doing anything if we’re not doing everything.

Being a hero is far more exciting and feels more "action-oriented" than the actual solution to most problems: consistent concerted effort over a long period of time. But it's the latter that actually works, whether in something as personal as healthy living or something as broad as national policy.
Of course the supermarket also does shrinkflation but I bet they never put the stickers there.

> Consumer groups say “shrinkflation” is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their private label products.
Ask Alsace about the desirability of being coal- (and iron-?) rich in the middle of a continental landmass...

(I would have added "on a frontier", but the question then is "which frontier?")
The world keeps turning: me and the Luddites
Ah, fair point. I should do something like that for my own setup then. My current setup may also be vulnerable to that failure mode.
They already acknowledged this in the faq fwiw.
I second that. I grew up in a commie block that was just painful to look at, but within 10min walking distance with only streets without through-traffic(because it was either impossible or just pointless) there was:

A school, playground, clinic, culture centre(which doubled as a movie theater and a regular theater), supermarket(s), pharmacy a dentist an indoor pool (still active, even though it's tiny) and several other things I won't bother mentioning because the list is already quite long.

But to me the most important part of that experience was that there was space between the buildings - green space at that - and the buildings themselves had mostly a total of four(including ground) floors, with a few higher units here and there.
Well, they cannot really disabled it remotely (it's not like that functionality exists in the current code base atm, maybe in future Unity version).

But they could kill your license so you won't be able to build your game using their tool anymore (however you could also just grab a new license under a different name).

What I wonder tho is if they are going to go to the length of asking platform holder like Apple / Google to delist your game and would they actually comply with Unity on this?
The other way to look at it is that browser settings are the perfect way to express lack of consent for non-allow listed entities and get rid of the ridiculous piecemeal approach we have now.
That's great!

and of course Microsoft Teams (preview) breaks it.
While the trend they're highlighting is absolutely real, it looks like the math in their first example isn't quite right:

> For example, Carrefour said a bottle of sugar-free peach-flavored Lipton Ice Tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 liters (0.33 gallons) from 1.5 liters (0.3 gallons), resulting in a 40% effective increase in the price per liter.

Assuming the price per unit stayed the same (which is the implication), this is a 20% effective increase, not 40%.
>Now if I over you something that's worth $5, or alternatively something that's worth $10 but that for a short you can purchase for just $5, which item do you choose?

I have no reason to assume that simply because you tell me something may have sold for $10 in the past, that it has any bearing on the relative utility per dollar of that item in the present.

I only look at the price I would be able to buy at, and search a few other retailers on my phone, and determine if it is an acceptable price.

People prefer discounted items because of ego. They like to feel like THEY got a deal.
Very cool! It's always refreshing to see the "OS in the browser" projects that try and actually make something functional. I've been working on one myself for nearly 3 years now, called daedalOS (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS).

The WASM kernel idea is very cool and I hope one day to be able to add something similar to my project. I think you are onto something and I am excited to see your progress as you implement the GUI.
> I belive in using the right tool for the job

And more of these tools (RDBMSs) are able to perform more jobs. There's definitely use cases for correlating parts of documents with traditional relational data. Quite often there's no need to choose between a relational database engine and a document database engine when the engines support both and more.

Hybrids tend to blur the lines for definitions.
There are no guys in the other room 99.999999999% of the time. And it's mostly out of scope.

This is completely irrelevant. As I said, the comic is talking about the situation in that comic. Physical presence, force being used, device and person in same room.

You are instead blathering on about all sorts of other scenarios, and failing to see that the encryption is utterly useless in that circumstance, because the point is you will give up your password, period.

You fail to get this truth, and the joke, and I cannot help you sadly.

But by no means, are you making a sensible argument against the author of the comic.

Good lord man, it's a comic, it's meant to be funny. Are you German??

There's something about German culture, or maybe just growing up with the German language, that trains minds to miss some types of humour.
> The remains of this 5000 year old capital of Lord Krishna

From Wikipedia, with citations[0]: “Archaeological findings suggest the original temple Dwarkadhish Temple dedicated to Krishna was built in 200 BCE at the earliest.” Any reference to Krishna further back than that is mere legend, and considering that the name Krishna is etymologically from a language family that did not even reach India until more recently than five thousand years ago, your claim is preposterous on its face.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarka
Most people never had a deep theological understanding of religion.

Mass Literacy only became a thing in the 20th century.

There's a reason why folk religions and customs exist (eg. Folk saints in Mexico and Southern Europe, the entire Chinese Folk Religion, Pir Darghas and Dervishes in Islam, etc)

Also "Hinduism" is a broad term for general folk religious practices in the South Asian subcontinent. For example, in the Himalayan region I am from you will see people revere an Iranian origin Muslim preacher who came to the area in the 13th century (Lakhdatta) despite also being "Hindu" or "Sikh"
The second team I was on at Uber fired (with a capital F) six (6) PMs in five months for pushing back on product requirements that came from the CFO. For whatever reason, engineering rolled up to the CTO and product for this team rolled up to finance. The solution for disagreement? Pips!
Async creates race conditions and even if you show me a proof that says there will never be a deadlock or other unexpected behavior I generally will believe that either there is an error in your proof or the actual executing code is different from the algorithm you've proved correct in some significant way.

Doing previews in a non-blocking way sounds really cool though, I'm not ragging on the concept, just saying I am mistrustful of async.
> NATO's direct involvement was for a brief period in 2011.

And USA's direct involvement in Nagasaki Japan by dropping Little Boy was for a brief period on August 6 1945.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/little-boy-and-fat...
As an Austrian dev and consumer who has closely followed this throughout the year: it's soo frustrating to see how we're ripped off for no good reason, but nothing changes and nobody cares.

Hats off to Mario for sticking with the topic and not losing his mind over this infuriating madness.
Austria's real problem is that it's a bad business environment with high taxes and tons of regulation. It means that there are only a few players in that space that ultimately dominate it. Small companies could not even enter that space because the regulation does not give them any space to innovate (for instance free selection of products, other opening times).
> This is a super privileged opinion and wildly out of touch with the less fortunate classes of society.

I roughly remember the sku price, I will notice if the milk goes up 15c

but I am not going to remember that last week it was 490g if they silently reduce it to 480g

this is why they do it... because it works

> Also, if you don’t commit to price comparison

I do price comparison at the point of purchase

but I don't remember the price/ml week to week
There was a post about shamir secret sharing recently by levchin (and chaos that it caused at paypal): https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-s...

This is 100% one of my favorite algorithms, but I have to say I've started to wonder if I just have an academic fascination with it and the practical use cases are more limited (limiting?) than I think
Seriously. Here is a thread of a person tracking the changes of supermarket prices in Austria: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

Building a food price database is not something that one could easily do from the looks of it.
Hey, thanks a lot for the response. ML Collective looks really cool!
I'm mostly interested in Computer Vision but NLP is cool too.
And they world agree since we never adopted search engine and stayed on web portails with index of sites.
I peer-reviewed your nitpick and it is indeed a 20% increase.
It may not get sick, but it does hallucinate. ;)