skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What waste does a solar panel generate? Or are you talking about the manufacturing process? So you’re saying building nuclear plants generates less waste than building solar farms? That’s unintuitive
I don’t think Sweden prioritized highly skilled/educated immigrants like the US did. I wouldn’t be surprised if even the “vetted” ones there have fairly high crime rates.
Closest to Indian pickle I know of is Persian "turshi".

It is a mixed vegetable, herb and spice pickle. However unlike Indian pickles, tempered spices and mustard aren't involved.

Makes sense to me as they're close geographically.
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I pay for TG premium and it offers a lot for the little it costs. The value is there IMO. The uptake isn't yet but I guess they're banking on that coming in the future like most startups.
If you're having that problem, look into DDPY yoga, they have a whole section on how to get up off the floor when you're not young and limber.
That's a completely different context.
> Everything else that comes in through the senses can be doubted, but consciousness is the only thing you are in direct contact with.

Every functioning human learns relatively early in life that certain experiences they have are simply fake - dreams, at the very least. Many people who suffer from hallucinations can also learn to trust that their own internal experiences are less valid than what others tell them is true.

Just as much, we may one day come to learn that our internal experience of consciousness is an illusion and that reality is we are all p-zombies. Of course, a physical theory of consciousness has to explain why and how we have this false subjective experience, but it's certainly conceivable that this might happen one day.
Now we need a crackdown on "very unique".

Unique means one.
Before the euro it was somewhere between 1 and 2 francs, IIRC. Now it's between 1 and 2 euros. Checks out.
You think that survivors are not an indication of survivorship bias. That’s too naive for words, congrats.
Todays coffins are sponsored by RAGE SHADOW LEGENDS

...lord take me now
As mentioned in the article though, a middle game would be a stepping stone that provides hands on experience of creating and selling such a game.

You'd most likely be working on a small portion of a bigger game at a salaried job, without really being able to accumulate the needed skillset to jump into a larger game developed on your own terms.
Boiled peanuts are very popular in south Indian food as well. The basic recipe is to pressure cook some peanuts soaked in water and tons of salt, although spices can be added as well. It's one of those foods that must be taken away from me, I can't physically stop eating them.
I do think it is worse in parts of scandanavia and parts of paris for example. But i think neighborhoods in America are fairly segregated and people would choose that even more if possible.(In that sense maybe the government does do somewhat better job by preventing that, idk).
I have never seen anyone tout Amtrak or the USPS. What universe do you live in?
"Authentic X-country food" in US is not authentic. The mildest andhra chicken curry is unbearable for the average American palate. What US has is the appearance of diversity.
It’s very easy to identify it. What happens when you read a work of fiction? Do you have a rich visual representation of characters, if you draw or if you knew how to draw would you be able to draw everything you see? Colors, scenery, light or dark?

Some people don’t get any imagery when they read books. For me it’s so vivid that I read maybe 30 pages an hour if not less.
> (because it somehow dissappears the second they step in Europe for vacation)

To be fair, that is because people on vacation are by definition living out of a suitcase. It is easy to live in a tiny hotel room in a very dense building among dense buildings when all you own (for a few days) is a suitcase.

A lot of people in the US like to have space for hobbies and toys and cars and home offices and yards and so on. Which is difficult in a dense city, but irrelevant while on vacation.
Objective here is subjective. From the point of view of the CCP I’m sure everything is going swimmingly.
Compounding as a way of building wealth and value
Installing Ark: Survival Evolved will just about get you there
> the median food eaten in France is not fresh baguettes and pate

It is. Fresh food every day is the norm, not an exception.
Sweden. Compare its situation to Denmark and Norway.

Allowing unrestricted immigration from very culturally different countries with hardly any income/educational requirements seem to have had significant economic, social and political cost.
The democratisation of media production brought about by social media is a fundamental challenge to the central authority of government, which had previously been able to control or influence the information environment. Legislation like this is an attempt to reassert that control, especially over foreign owned technology-media platforms.
It's weird, in the 90s and 00s the people I met who had never left America seemed to think America was #1. Now, the people who have never left America seem to think it's shit. Ultimately it's just a lack of a frame of reference plus whatever they consume in their favorite media bias channel.
Please enlighten us?
No to be confused with Mesa's NIR
https://docs.mesa3d.org/nir/index.html
The problem is that they have a number in mind, but refuse to state that number.

My parents regularly get into arguments about how many of an item were purchased as my mother will never use a number. It is always some descriptor word like "few", or "several" or "plenty."

Only after things are purchased will it be revealed that plenty means 16.
In which case, thinking on your feet and fast reaction (skills more applicable to FPS) is probably the order of the day for those types of jobs.
How do HN users go about meeting significant others?
I am curious how other HN members go about finding their significant others. I have little time these days, but I want to make the best of it trying to find someone, but social dating apps seems to fall short. Time commitment is not an issue, but having to swift through endless potential matches is time consuming to the point where it does feel like it's hopeless.
I see this a lot too. There’s a huge misconception on what having kids is like.

Lots of tech folks live in low fertility areas where nobody has kids. So strange ideas just persist.
While you are right in some sense, your position is solipsistic, and solipsism is not considered a fruitful line of inquiry even in philosophy or religion. It is a conversation ender: there is nothing more to add to the conversation if I believe that I am the only thing that exists and there is no objective reality behind my consciousness. Even logic wouldn no longer be usable in arguments in this world view.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I'm now in my mid-30s and I too have written off having children for a number of reasons:

* Having and raising children is expensive (both financially and otherwise) regardless any factor(s). Any parent will corroborate this.

* I do not find life worth foisting upon a new individual; life is nothing but challenges and hardships. I refuse to throw a newborn life into this hellscape.

* Related to the above, I refuse to make my children be witnesses to my inevitable death. I am in that phase of life where I must deal with the eventual passing of my parents, and that is fucking hell. I do not wish this experience upon anyone, and to that end I refuse to have children because to do so means I wish this hellish experience upon them.

* Children as a concept is hypocritical: On the one hand I am responsible for their well-being and that implies I can and will and should have a say in their life; on the other hand they are independent individuals whom I cannot violate, and I refuse to impose my will upon them anyway because that is not my place.

* I find the entire notion of a family far too bothersome for my life. I do not need nor want a spouse whom I won't ever understand anyway and whom I will grow to resent. I do not need nor want children whom I won't ever understand anyway and whom will grow to resent me. I do not need nor want familial relations which will all be concentrated bullshit. I do not need nor want any of that noise in my life, I desire peace and tranquility.
My resting theory is that England invaded most of the world because they just wanted something better to eat.
I think in general we should try to re-assess decision taken early in life. Some of them work some not. I say this from a personal perspective where it took me years to undo some decisions I took early and they were so hard established that it was a long process to unlearn/undo them.

I quite like the idea that when it is about vision or meaning of life we should carefully make the learning or setting in stone kind of process harder. I think when young we are very biased to see the world in some way as we are biased to see it in some other way at 50.

Not trying to convince you to revisit specifically the decision about children. Just sharing my own learning
It really won't. It's targeted at corporations, especially big tech, not open source where there is no money.

If anything, it will likely toss more resources to open source by those very same big tech companies, to protect their liabilities
What's wrong with mushrooms?
Wow, 27 year old open pickle jars! I expected canned food but not like this.

I really should visit India before I grow too old. There's so much veggie food to try. Recently met a childhood friend who, apparently, used to live there for decade. No he has a small Indian restaurant serving food that is nothing like the places I have been to in Europe and the UK. No garlic, no onions (I like both), etc. Love it
> On this I agree. The irony is that rural America, highly dependent on cars, has, imho and experience, radically stronger community than dense urban centers!

This isn't particularly true. There's been many writings on the 'loneliness epidemic' that hits the hardest in the rural parts of America, where people die of drug abuse or alcohol or health issues alone and ignored. The community effort fully coalesces around the religious experience, but sharply ends after Sunday for most people. It's been noted multiple times over that Americans generally trust eachother lower than ever, the amount of close friends has gone down and more.

This is before we get into the community dynamics of rural communities being very exclusive towards certain groups of people.
For anyone who has had their appetite whet for Indian pickles, the book Midnight's Children has pickles as an important secondary plot point, and the vivid description of the pickles in that book have stayed with me for a long time.
I think it’s fair to say that the CCP has hindered that lift more than helped. You could argue that it might not have happened without their involvement, but I think it unlikely that history would be much different. Other than China being a free market economy of course, and maybe everyone learning Chinese instead of English.
> Food in the US isn’t central to our identities, not yet at least. It is still largely a utilitarian and transactional thing— something necessary to get enough calories, hopefully tasty ones, to stop being hungry and keep working.

Food is a utilitarian and transactional thing across the entire world. Especially in countries that have food scarcity.

The writer is bashing food that is 'transactional', when the article is literally about how he's paid a lot of money to travel the world and try diverse cuisine...
Are you claiming that was government organized?
Additional OpenStreetMap Tags&Keys:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcafe

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtoilets

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_supply

One can always make creative frontends for OpenStreetMap data, while participating in the shared crowdsourcing.
Not even that. There is really nothing to discuss if the only thing I believed is that I exist, and anything else is potentially a hallucination. Even p ^ ¬p could be true, perhaps I'm just hallucinating the rule that says it isn't.
> agreed the French cuisine is the best of them both

OK, but that's not what the article is about. The writer is talking about "good food culture", not "good food"
If 18% is nearly a hemisphere.

Agree the connection part would be tricky. But there vast majority of things need to be connected up anyway. We seem to have been fine with building gas pipelines that span huge chunks of the world.
I will give it a try. Thanks for mentioning it.

Can you share more about your workflow? Or point me towards some directions that were helpful to you?
My concern is this might discourage potential authors who wish to share their knowledge and be compensated for their work, leading them to reconsider publishing altogether. Which would be a major blow to generational knowledge sharing.
> Suburbia is literally characterized by being boring.

Not by everyone.

Suburbia is bad for bar crawls, but after my 20s that wasn't a priority. Suburbia is great for access to mountain biking, road biking, playgrounds for the kids, sports fields, walking to friends houses, having space for a yard and BBQs, having friends over (plenty of parking) and countless other activities. It's really pretty awesome.
Yeah. These romanticized threads always give me a kick. Every large city here in Germany has a chronic smell of diesel and dog piss. There's a level of grime to everything that would really bother someone used to an American suburb. Not to mention the majority of apartments are in old buildings with no ventilation or cooling.

Like you said, there's advantages but ignoring the downsides is amusing if you've ever actually lived in a large city.
Look it is probably nothing…but anyway, this is not the time nor place to name and shame, but more specifics.

So… Interviewer specifically asked me to bring my computer, after the initial intro they asked me to show some code I’d written. I said I’d just connect to my mobile hotspot. They looked shocked and said “I didn’t think you’d have a phone here” (it was an overseas fly out for the day), I said it’s fine, I always have a phone. And they insisted I instead connect to their office wifi.

It was the only wifi i used the whole time i was there.

Back in other country I saw my mail had another logged in session, and a private repo post install script had pulled a resource from my server, from an IP back in the country, and another random country.

Only way to access to private repo was SSH key (or GitHub credentials) Only way to access to Mail was MITM cloning session or access to device (more likely - I thought i would have noticed any MITM cert issues).

Incidentally, from the same country, this time another company, I had another fly out interview request a week later and this company also specifically asked me to bring my computer — when I asked if it would be ok if I wasn’t gonna bring my computer because I needed to get it fixed, they got back the next day and said oh, we have to cancel the interview because we it won’t be possible for us to proceed.

To proceed… with hacking?

Hahaha, who knows? I’m not expert enough to know what this all means. Maybe it’s nothing. It’s probably nothing.
> I am in that phase of life where I must deal with the eventual passing of my parents, and that is fucking hell

The life has a way to handle this: children. Not saying you should but just saying that having children makes passing of the parents a bit less hellish. Will not make it easy but children forces us to be in the present and in the local now and contemplate less about about the extended family or past.

Just to clarify: it will be extremely immoral and unethical to have children just to alleviate this. And damaging in so many ways. I am just presenting a side effect here.
So, is this good or is this bad? I thought for years, the argument was that "peak child" is the reason we would not reach a malthusian overpopulation dystopia. I get that people and societies cannot envision a world without infinite growth, but the other end of that was coming against natural limits of resource consumption. Which is it? Was Malthus right or will we naturally reach peak child and that's also bad? Both out-comes are bad?

You cannot believe both, otherwise, you need to explicitly say what that secret third thing of a perspective is.
I know. This was written to provide context to the Twitter war mentioned in the article.
It was a one time thing but I was a background extra in one of the episodes of The Man in the High Castle.
I agree. They have weird food safety standards!

Especially when it comes to the fermented stuff.
Cheese is a good example: most of the good stuff is severely restricted in the US.
Idem for cured meat—they mostly don't allow non-pink salt cured meat.
Cooking temperatures in restaurant settings are also on the very safe side (finding pink pork is rare for example).

All of this contributes to food that is often underwhelming taste-wise.
And here I thought “Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom” (Wikipedia seems to agree). What else should I expect to find in that yeast packet?

As an aside, anyone thinking you need all those ingredients in bread should try baking their own loaf. It’s a very rewarding process and is super simple. A good Dutch oven makes it even easier.

Yeast are amazing and useful organisms. Quite a bit of cool content on home brewing/etc. out there.
Back in the early 2000s when I was growing up, I wanted to increase my IQ. Image streaming was actually one of the techniques that came highly recommended. Mega genius would also suggest this and similar other techniques. Bit nostalgic to see this here.
The thing you're missing is that McDonalds (and indeed, most fast food franchises) are far, far better in anywhere else but the US. McDonalds in Japan for example is leagues ahead any McDonalds you could find in the US and that's because they're often using higher quality fresher ingredients with stricter food standards.
When you look at pictures of the planet from space. How much land can you see? Are there places you always see land? Put the panels there.
There already exists rules for certainty in law. After all just because you were seen by fourteen witnesses found with the murder weapon and admitted to the crime doesn't mean you are 100% guilty.

It could have been your identical twin doing those things as a silly example.

That doesn't mean the prosecution loses.

The goal is to meet that certainty which is by definition below 100% but high enough that society accepts it.
Thanks for the encouragement! But oh I’m not sure what you mean with Amazon. I didn’t say that was the company and for the record Amazon wasn’t involved as far as I know.

Also i didn’t think the original article was referring to Amazon but i could be wrong about that, sorry.
Catholic voters are generally evenly split between the parties. Opposition to abortion is probably the primary thing drawing them to the Republicans, they don’t necessarily share that many values with the evangelicals/loonies (not that they don’t have their own set of problems).
One word: earplugs. It changed my life. Yes it's weird at first but sleeping like a baby beats any minor and temporary weirdness.
> The west carries a big part of the blame

I think the moment you say this you kind of lose the ability to say that you have a balanced view of the conflict.

The west is often to blame (e.g. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel), but this is one of the few instances in which the west didn’t instigate anything.

Pre-war Russia was a hair away (one different president) from being accepted by the international community.
It's not new information that this kind of content is illegal, in many countries even if it's only computer-generated.

The issue is that hash-based scanning will be rendered irrelevant by AI-generated images because there could be an unlimited number of them, and they could be produced by general-purpose image generating software that isn't itself illegal.
There's a saying in gourmet circles that a reliable way to find a good French restaurant in France is to look for one with a Japanese chef. So I wouldn't be surprised if the second best French were in Japan...
Sure, good example of that is r 3.4 out of 5 on the Japanese restaurant review site Tabelog is miles better as a signal of good food than any number of 5 star yelp reviews in the US.

My larger point was that LA and NYC (and specific communities in other cities —SF, Houston, etc) have a subculture that celebrates true renditions of various cuisines as cooked by an self-sustaining immigrant community large enough to not require external validation by Americans lacking in food culture to stay in business. You have to get lucky in most of the rest of the states.
They don't?? I've never been to the US but popular culture is pretty full of sex workers.

I remember this documentary about a club called the bunny ranch or something. It was definitely not about rabbits. Or the "call girl" series and movies..
What, you don't enjoy German dining where the vast majority of restaurants serve food made in a factory? What an unsophisticated palette you have. /s

https://youtu.be/wzc_VNh42HM?si=ngrOt5nHsadPCRuR
But funnily enough I remember people complaining about DoH and how it was bad for privacy, etc...

As a start, moving away from UDP is an improvement
Just wait till they realize mushrooms are fungi…
Agree. That’s the tricky bit. But it’s also just straight up solvable engineering challenge. Which we’ve proved as a species we are pretty good at those.
Nice content post and a gentle reminder that using a subset of any language allows all these complicatimplementers to keep at it without ruining our day.
They just seem to be fine with putting dissidents into normal prisons these days?

Something even the USSR was pussyfooting around in its later stages…
Interesting. What makes work provided computers better suited for coding?

Me, I don't recall using company hardware for anything even remotely personal in many years. It's stupid because they are loaded with all kinds of spyware.
I totally agree with the message but I want to raise a few points:

Cost of living.

The market is saturated. The market being saturated pushes it to be (even more) hit-oriented. 'Saturated' as in a sponge held at the bottom of a full bathtub. You can keep releasing more games but the people you want to buy them (let alone play them) aren't going to quit their second job to find the time to buy and try your weird little games.

This is not the middle. The author is talking about small games. It may be the middle of indie game development, but across the whole landscape, the "missing middle" would seem to refer to the "single-/double-A" studios/publishers/games that died out between the launch of the PS2 and the release of GTA IV.

id Software is an exception and makes a poor example to follow. Studying wild success stories is not without merit, but is -- if you are interested in how to do the thing successfully -- ultimately a trap. id was (among other things) in the right place at the right time. There is very little opportunity today for any team (let alone individual person) to push the boundaries of the technology in a meaningful way. You cannot make a game as radical and captivating as DOOM was. You will not attract players to your (now generic) platformer by getting it to run at 60Hz. You might say there was very little opportunity for any individual to do so back then as well, but then we are back at exceptions being bad examples.
And the preponderance standard for civil cases is "over 50% likelihood". That's not very strong.
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