skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that, absent government coercion, consumer preference tends to be towards buying cheaper groceries at a big consolidated store a drive away, than a more expensive nearby store?

This seems to be missing the point, which has nothing to do with consumer preference. When Robinson-Patman was enforced, suppliers had to offer the same deal to all grocers, so prices were the same at the nearby stores. When it was no longer enforced, the big chains used their market power to extract special deals from suppliers, and thus, "Squeezed by the big chains, suppliers were forced to offset their losses by raising prices for smaller retailers"
It's so bad. Only saving grace is the the total enemy count is usually manageable but I missed being able to just call for a focus swap and watch them melt like you do in WoW.

These days I just play monster hunter. No comms needed but you have to learn a weapon up front.
> Create a startup!

A startup that delivers groceries? Interesting idea...
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You mean, the marketing was all about that.

Even non-technology companies stole a bunch of marketing buzzwords from this era that are still in use today.
Yes.

The article even tacitly admits the solution to the food desert problem is by... making groceries more expensive.

>The problem of food deserts will not be solved without the rediscovery of the Robinson-Patman Act. Requiring a level pricing playing field would restore local retailers’ ability to compete.
Well, in the US some universities even have their own campus police forces, so…?
Not sure where you get 8 miles vs 11 miles (maybe the definition of a rural food desert?).

> Low access is characterized by at
least 500 people and/or 33 percent of the tract population residing more than
1 mile from a supermarket or large grocery in urban areas, and more than 10
miles in rural areas

(source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/45014/30940_er... )

Interestingly enough, this is measured by the euclidian distance, not by the actual number of miles required to travel.
China to give least developed countries zero-tariff treatment
> Hence the takeover of super-markets.

How did you read the article and come to that conclusion? Small towns and poor neighborhoods all had grocery stores, and competed fine with supermarkets, until Robinson-Patman stopped being enforced.
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> By the end of freshman year, I had significantly expanded my musical tastes and unambiguously had perfect pitch… for piano only. I find it highly unlikely that this was due to identifying microtuning differences;

I think the more convincing theory for instrument-specific perfect pitch is that one learns to recognize the timbres of the individual notes, not any minute variations in pitch.

> Don’t learn a non-C instrument

I would recommend against this because it severely limits your options for instruments to play.
I won't lie. I've been dreaming about that Desktop role for a long while. Wish I was at the level to go for it. Must be a blast working at DDG.
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No, it’s a roundabout way of saying that when government bureaucrats decide to stop enforcing a law passed by congress, grocery corporations will actively work to grow larger and close stores in Black neighborhoods. Don’t retroactively assign preference to the mother who walks to the grocery store a block away only find it is closed and was forced to take a bus to Walmart, that mother was not exercising a preference. The preference was clear prior to the ceasing of enforcement. The article said the prices were only 1% higher at the local chains, the customer were exercising presence by choosing to pay 1% more…
There's a school of thought in change management that suggests that a time comes when current stories aren't working for the culture you're trying to move an organisation towards. A few here have said morale was low at FB right then.

At times like that, restating some important old stories and legends, salted with some useful new ones can help to galvanize people and create the culture change you want.

A good example is someone mentioned in this thread is Zuck's beat up old car. That's a great old story for the early days, but probably needed burying at the Red Book time. Clearly he's not going to drive that forever, so you need some more up to date motivational culture lore which embraces more excess while retaining how the Devs are still world-changing hackers who should work all nighters because 'we're all in this together for mankind, team'.
I agree. Letterboxd makes this easy to accomplish with movies, and there's enough people covering videogames out there that you can usually find someone to dial-in on your taste (or find a Steam curator that lists a lot of stuff you love). TV is a bit harder, but you may be able to find a critic with a consistent voice that matches your own through Rotten Tomatoes (not the aggregate score alone) or maybe a podcast about TV where you learn their preference dial vs. your own.

But books? The level of investment to make these determinations is larger, and there's less people doing it. Or maybe I just haven't found the answer yet.

I also don't think it helps that people either like a book or immediately say "bad writing" or "too YA", which then make others that disagree look like simpletons just for disagreeing. Creates a hard place for dialogue.
And people sound incredulous when they hear the likes of Shellenberger’s Public substack asserting that Uncle Sam has been sequestering UAP imagery away from scientific study.

We’re going to be learning what a joke the past century of government transparency has been, and it’s not going to be a pleasant feeling.
China Became the Largest Car Exporter
From the viewpoint of developer culture I think Facebook is better night and day than Google.

Google's culture is hire 15 geniuses from the Ivy League with 130+ IQ and make them fight with a 40 minute C++ build and a balky Kubernetes culture because "we only hire the best"; YouTube and the advertising system are a money printing machine, the team works for 3.5 years at something that get canceled at the last minute.

Facebook is much more oriented towards greasing the skids with the goal that a fresher developer would be able to push a change to a shared development system the first day on the job.

Look at React vs Flutter.

Like Microsoft, Google is thrashing around looking for "the next big thing", sometimes like a mindless beast. I've met person after person who told me that they went there because they believed they could make an impact and came to the conclusion within a year that they couldn't make any impact at all.

Facebook on the other hand is still run by the founder and it is pushing hard to develop a technology that he believes in even if the rest of us don't. It's a riskier strategy than Microsoft or Google who are likely to stumble on another multibillion dollar business despite themselves.
And here I thought you might start talking about locales.

[Lol this is truly scary I was just browsing that barycentric page yesterday (a day of otherwise not much webby) for my other stuff, thinking about what a Laplacian e.g. in Barycentric coords would look like]

Update: a quick gogling returns this short writeup

https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/deptdb/dept_reports/498.pdf
China is going to replace US imports with those from the developing world. They’re playing to win the future (which is Africa and India, from a demographics and therefore economic development perspective).
"Let’s accept every excuse we’re given and accept the Church never burned anybody just for researching science. Scientists got in trouble for controversial views on non-scientific subjects like prophecies or the Trinity, or for political missteps. [...]

Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible."

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Personal transportation is about 15% of co2 emissions. That hardly explains why the average American lifestyle produces literally 10 times more co2 than the average Indian's
The filibuster can be abolished at any time with a simple majority vote, because it's only a Senate rule, not part of the Constitution.

The truth is that neither Democrats nor Republicans want to solve the problems of the working class and the poor, because both parties are financed by the wealthy.
To the people trying to be pedantic: Yes, computers really always do what they are told. The only complication is that sometimes they are told what to do by a cosmic ray.
The graduation problem: avoid frameworks getting in the way
GOG's preservation program lets you keep playing games after they're delisted
are you same John Spencer that wrote this (and other) articles ? or are you just random account that reposts articles ?
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Are these any easier to manufacture than silicon photovoltaics?
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I don’t understand why this is controversial, I feel like I am missing something, but it seems that training should be throughly fair use, where the outputs may violate copyright.

This all feels like a shakedown.
I could write a similar article "lose perfect pitch in 15 years".

My sense of pitch was cast-iron in college and in the years after. It started to get a bit messed up after singing a bunch of stuff at 415 Hz and (worse) 430 Hz instead of the usual 440.

And then I went cold-turkey on music-making for over a decade. I think it was not playing violin regularly that really did it — tuning and playing an instrument really helps the memory aspect.
> The hard truth is that the combination of institutions that are the remnants of colonialism have a lot to do with unprecedented improvement in material well-being all over the world, over the last 400 years or so.

It has a lot to do with the unprecedented improvement in material well-being in certain parts of the world, namely the colonizer nations and a handful of successful colonized ones. The majority of former-colony states are still struggling, most with the luxuries, many with the essentials, a few with even managing a stable state.

The hard truth is the people in the developed world have only had it as good as they do because so many in the developing one have gone without to a frankly criminal degree for far too long. And they continue to be exploited. If you don't believe me look the shipbreaking yards where barefoot Bangladeshi work with plasma cutters to hack up ships beached there, or the electronic scrap heaps where people set fire to piles of e-waste to salvage the metals within, on and on. There are hundreds if not thousands of these examples where the West continues dominating the global south in clear, unmistakable ways, and precious few where the relationship goes the other way.

As someone who has written extensively on this topic, both on the internet and not, it is frankly just offensive to see this viewpoint shared as though it's serious. Colonialism benefited colonial nations, because of course it did. It wouldn't have been done if it wasn't beneficial. To the colonized it represents an entire category of scars: some on their infrastructure, some on their economies, a lot on the places in which they live, a few on their actual bodies to this day, and many simply as a gigantic, unforgettable one across their collective souls.
It would be an interesting reference to Pandora's Box: is hope a counterbalance to all troubles and misfortunes, or the greatest of them all?
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> When it was no longer enforced, the big chains used their market power to extract special deals from suppliers, and thus

Sentences like this make me realize nobody writing about these problems has any actual experience in the grocery industry.

Grocery store margins are insanely thin. The relationship you have is backwards - suppliers and distributors have insane leverage over grocery stores. Massive brands essentially lease the aisle space from the stores. And stores have to stock the products consumers want because if they can't find the soda they like, they might never shop at that store again.

The only leverage grocery stores offer is volume pricing. Frito Lay would much rather move a truckload of product a day through a Safeway than drive around and stock tiny bodegas.
California is actively working to address this and the data shows signs it is arguably improving the relevant metrics.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-california-top...

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/califo...
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> By the time someone actually looks into them to see what's up everyone has already seen the results and moved on.

Yep.
This is inaccurate. The object can fall in. Where the argument fails is that it relies on the idea that an observer will see the object redshift forever. But that applies in the classical GR realm only. However, when combined with QFT (which is required for BH evaporation) it no longer holds.

In the classical approach, the light that the object emits a second before crossing the horizon will take years to reach the observer, at a millisecond it'll take decades, at a microsecond it'll take centuries, etc. But it's always still coming, never stops completely. So in the classical analysis, an observer will always see the object, unboundedly redshifted, infinitely near the horizon, but not quite there, forever.

However, in the presence of Hawking radiation, the black hole loses mass, and thus the horizon shrinks. When this happens, that last bit of light the object emitted before crossing the horizon will now reach the observer in finite time. In particular, the observer will see that long _before_ they see the black hole evaporate entirely; one photon's worth of radiation is enough to do the trick.

You're correct that the object will experience this time dilation by seeing more radiation as it gets closer to the horizon. It'll also start getting pelted from behind by infalling radiation. But nothing will blow up as it crosses the horizon, so it'll safely continue on to experience whatever quantum-graviational phenomena happens at/near the "singlularity".
I'm working on a project where pushing a commit to a submodule runs a CI job which updates the reference on the parent repository. This seems to lead to very few issues.
Couldn't a NAT instance in-front of containers accomplish this as well (assuming only needed for outbound traffic)? The open source project fck-nat[1] looks amazing for this purpose.

[1] https://fck-nat.dev/stable/
you should send off for genetic testing and see!
Similarly, if you've had LASIK and struggle with halos and starbursts around taillights and headlights, try increasing the brightness of your instrument panel. It will cause your irises to close in response to the brighter light, which allows less light in through the uncorrected area of your corneas. Basically: in LASIK surgery they only apply correction to the very center area of your cornea, and the more your irises open, the more of those higher order aberrations you will see.
> When Robinson-Patman was enforced, suppliers had to offer the same deal to all grocers

The law made it so no one had the position to squeeze suppliers for lower prices and as a result, consumers paid more for groceries. If the suppliers were shifting their costs unduly to small retailers, then there was a market for new suppliers. If retailers were a monopoly they would have raised prices, and that hasn't happened. The grocery market remains VERY competitive, with stores popping up and closing down all the time.
I read murderbot as androgynous. I’m pretty sure they even mention how there are no reproductive organs because why would a SecUnit have that? There is even a story where Murderbot befriends a sexbot and feels glad not to have to deal with that sort of complicated hardware.

There are parts of the story where Murderbot passes as either a man or a woman so I figure the body shape must be fairly neutral.
This is false - if people have the option, they prefer the locally grown, locally owned and operated smaller stores that might cost more, or farmer's markets, or ethically sourced food. If a consumer has low income, or is in a food desert, they don't have the option, and the economics of Walmart mean that there's no way for such a small business to compete unless you're basically running it as a charity, or you're doing something (possibly) on shaky ethical grounds to make up the difference.

We could fix these things by legislating big box stores, preventing effective collusion and hostile pricing, protecting smaller businesses with tax breaks, higher taxes on megacorps, and so forth. It is, in fact, possible, for megacorps to coexist with successful small businesses and this hostile and rank antagonism from big companies doesn't have to happen. They just lose out on .005% potential profit, so it's better to lobby for (and obtain) unchecked influence and dominion over American markets.

Community management and regulation plays a part, but food deserts represent a captured audience or market, so the primary goal is to shut down any possible "competition" no matter how little they actually impinge on profit, effectively disallowing competition. Throw in Amazon's racket, and the whole idea of an American "free marketplace" is more of a sick joke than any sort of principled reality.

You will buy your mass produced stuff from China and Nestle and Coke and Walmart, and you will like it. If you don't like it, good luck, because you've been priced out of leaving unless you're willing to be broke.
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A "good" dollar store isn't thaaaat much worse price wise than Walmart or a "cheap" grocery store. It's generally slightly worse across the board, but consistently better than the whatever the expensive grocery store is though the selection is way worse.

It really peeves me I didn't notice this sooner because I'm usually pretty good at identifying bullshit tropes that are really just the middle class fishing for reasons to feel superior and the idea that the poors are getting screwed at the dollar stores one just flew right by because I never shopped much at a dollar store until one opened near me.
I wrote a piece on Sperry-Rand and the 1955 electrogravitics research trend.

https://blockedepistemology.substack.com/p/puzzle-filling-le...

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Warning, the overall substack series is on UAP, a topic which HNers often find uncomfortable. So if the UAP theme offends sensibilities, don’t click through.
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