skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical use of plastic is convenient for infection control. Alternatives [1] were sought-after even back when plastic was introduced into the medical field. It was thought back then we would "figure it out before it becomes a problem".

I think our mental model around the deployment of plastic is flawed. The logistical tail of plastics use falls upon an externalized public commons, while much of that logistical tail cost is embedded into alternatives like glass. No one accounts for the cost of disposal management of plastic syringes to the point that microplastics don't end up in our biosphere, while autoclaving glass syringes and recycling chipped glass syringes is tallied up against glass. An apples-to-apples cost comparison can be more closely approached if mostly-closed loop systems were built for all uses, and some kind of target virgin feedstock utilization percentage was set, and microplastics as an acceptable outcome was denied the plastics industry.

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/theplasticfreeprojec...
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For power management you need to install tlp https://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
1 billion is pittance to Walmart
Seems almost completely relegated to .Net shops though, at least where I live.
I would love to see their answer to this but my guess is that it would be: "Nope. See Semantic versioning (semver.org)"
Lack of money prevents you from getting things that help keep your body in good condition. So it this sense money can improve your happiness. Just not directly. Having money does nothing for you. Spending money to improve your health, diet and leave the place that harms you is what makes you happier.

I don't think you can define happiness. It's a primary emotion. How do you define pain?
Nasa's JPL has “multiple IT security control weaknesses”
How do I search files on a Mac?
I know this question might sound dumb but what happened to regular search on Mac? I have an mp4 file called "8 min Abs workout" in my Videos folder and the finder just doesn't show it in the results even if I search word for word. Same thing for Alfred, the app just searches web by default.

What are your suggestions? Maybe I should use a certain app for that?
Another thing to point out is that (dialyzer) typespecs are extremely prevelant in both Erlang and Elixir libraries and especially the core language libraries. So not only does dialyzer precede the others, it’s become a core part of Elixir and Erlang. In contrast, mypy & sorbet appear to be largely second class tools. TypeScript though appears to have made more inroads.
Plastic itself isn’t the problem. However, there are a lot of manufactured items which are the right shape, but made of absurdly inappropriate materials, like toys. Spatulas that melt in contact with a frying pan, or chrome foil on plastic for the edge of a phone, which scratches and flakes at at the merest touch. That’s not to say that you can’t design a heat resistant spatula, or a phone with plastic edges which will be resilient and won’t mark. The problem is the temptation that plastic provides to sell something which looks just about right but doesn't work at all in the long run. If designed properly plastic materials can last for a long time.
What gets me is how entitled many drivers are.

I know a lot of people who drive instead of walking every single time, even when the destination is not more than 200 meters away.

Almost every day I see drivers parked on the side of the road, who, when they need to get to the other side of the road, get in their car and drive. Holy shit, the road is like 6 meters wide, and and crosswalk is never far away. How lazy can they be?

A lot of them find it too complicated to shut their engines when they're waiting for somebody, or when they go inside a store. They don't listen to music, they're not using AC (all windows are open), the weather is fine. This can only be explained by entitlement and laziness.
No offense, but aren't you guys the ones who keep on the hedonic treadmill by constantly changing partners and are never actually satisfied?

The ones actually chasing after that new relationship energy/dopamine rush?

Isn't it backwards to spin the normal progression of a romantic relationship as hedonic?

Are the people into poly some kind of saints/ascets and the people on the "relationship escalator" the hedonits? (this is not meant to be a straw man)
Depends. Treadmill feels like a good analogy for suffering from seeking happiness the wrong way. For hoping that little happy events will somehow change how happy you feel in general.

But that's not a good analogy for the whole effect of events and actions that make you happy momentarily having not much to do with your long term happiness.
Technology Connections is my favorite YouTube channel. He's just so good in explaining the technological intricacies of everyday things, and his humor is so wonderfully snarky. I highly recommend turning on the subtitles as well, he puts a lot of effort in them.
The sun is clearly breaking it apart, and will continue to do that down to the molecular level. Plastic isn't as persistent as most of these articles say it is, if it's out in the sunlight.

Look what happens to plastic lawn furniture after a while.

Clearly, though, we are producing plastic much faster than it breaks down. Stuffing it into landfills ought to work.
First a samsung phone and now this.
This is an advantage depending on the projects and organisation.

For instance if features need to be demonstrated or prototyped on a test env. for some time before they are green lighted to be fully baked, loosely typed languages are ideal. You get the speed of prototyping, and all the heavy cost comes after the main parts have been validated.

It's less painful than having to do prototypes after prototypes in a more rigid language.

But of course this advantage disappears when working more in small waterfall iterations, where everything is basically set in stone from the start.
And those who live in places where credit cards are a common thing.

Here, most people have so-called credit cards with no actual credit lines tied to them

And no, they aren't debit cards. Those are yet another's thing over here, apparently.

Nothing to do with the original subject, but does anyone else feel like opacity is the core of retail banking's business model?
Amazon operates a payment service, and eBay used to. Using Amazon to pay doesn't mean you're buying something on amazon.com, just as using PayPal to pay doesn't mean you're buying something on ebay.com .
try with CMD + Space
And if the biological Homo sapiens is 250,000 years old or even older that leaves at least another 200,000 years for sapiens or other Homo x species to have built a boat.

Just because the fossil record lacks evidence we are pretending that modern humans weren't just as smart for 94% of their existence as a species (since animal husbandry, writing etc. seemingly only developed in the past 15,000 years).
>that the only recourse is for the landlord to turn to AirBnB to turn a profit.

Just playing devil's advocate, but that assumes that the landlord didn't factor those things like eviction law into their decision of what type of property to buy and where to buy it.

Maybe the landlord made the decision between buying a rental property in a suburb and buying an AirBnB property in a city center and decided that the former case was infeasible due to eviction laws.

For instance, you can buy a small apartment building in metro vancouver for 2-5 million CAD. Same price as a couple of luxury apartments downtown.
I gave up on Finder finding things years ago. Set up your own local "cloud" the moment you have more files than you can personally remember accurately.

Run your data life the way a corporation would. After 10 years of compute, you surely have a corporation's worth of data, and probably 10 partially and/or randomly updated and forgotten versions of a lot of it.

It'll just keep growing and frizzing out if you don't maintain it. Just like the rusty panels under your station wagon...
It's really not genuine to label a language "useful" if it's the only option you've got.
This is the biggest question in Existence. I don't think I have the right answer in 300K years of Homo Sapiens history.

But I would say:

1. reproduce, have kids
2. keep what your ancestors gave you and make it better

Be a doer and a thinker. The Admiral was also right.
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Nvidia Built One of the Most Powerful AI Supercomputers in 3 Weeks
Well yes, I think can both agree that this kind of behaviour is gross and unacceptable.
Link doesn't seem to be working.. Do you think they've patched this?
I have a slight physiological twitch-like reaction to the feeling of chalk on my fingertips. It bothered me so much during my learning years that I did my best to avoid coming to a board at all. If anyone knows a correct term for this phenomenon, I'd be glad to read more about it.
Beluga and narwhals are surprisingly tolerant with each other [1] but whales have "cultures". What mother eats is eaten by the offspring. A different diet points towards a captive animal. Hybrids in dolphins happen with relative ease in captivity. Maybe related with beluga experiments by Russian navy, maybe the former inhabitant of a zoo.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhGf7S4cSQ
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> wouldn't you want to tap the local church's congregations?

I'm assuming they do both. I don't know about the US, but around here Catholic schools accept non-Catholics as well, and those may not be connected to the church.
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Android In-App Updates – Common pitfalls and some good patterns
I just don't know why we stopped doing this; the barrier of entry to HTML is just extremely low for basic markup.

I still keep my personal blog written in plain HTML with a wee bit of CSS to give it personality. It just works so well!
Can you expand on your answer, please? What do you mean by a “local cloud”? How will that improve search?
And when you remember it positively, would it not translate to written autobiographical accounts to be biased?

Won't there be a correlation?

Or am I missing something?
Your examples are flawed. In two of the cases, the "assets"(children and dog) are specifically not deemed responsible due to their lack of maturity/lack of understanding of societal norms - so we instead find the "owner"(or more properly named, parent/guardian) at fault - they are supposed to keep the children or pet in line.

In the case of a loaned car, you are not liable for damages that the person you loaned the car to causes(perhaps you're confusing it with insurance liability?). I don't know about the contractor case.

How is your "practical and effective" solution any different from a fine? You fine the company $300 mil, or you seize $300 mil of shares and sell them.
Meaningless.

It’s essentially a form of psychological warfare against the remaining drivers
It is not surprising considering how similar Vancouver and Seattle are and considering that the Vancouver mayor openly brags about how low tech salaries are [0]

[0]: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/city-of-vancouver-criti...
PCI Express Bandwidth to Be Doubled Again: PCIe 6.0 Announced, Spec in 2021
Interesting site, but why is it necessary to do it with such low class?
>I produce music for a living - FIVE days without my computer is unacceptable

Then get two computers as a backup?

While here it's Apple's issue, it could just as well be your fault that the laptop died (e.g. dropping it).

Then you wouldn't have any laptop, but also no justification to demand an immediate replacement or deem not receiving one "unacceptable"...
It all depends on the local waste management. In most of western Europe, plastic is either recycled or burned in a waste management facility to recycle energy.

The impact of plastic bottles is probably lower than for alternatives like glass. Glass is heavier and causes more CO2 emissions because of the increased energy use for transporting them.
> I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts.

Doesn't everybody? I mean unless you are building a case from scratch. I also don't know of any plastic desktop cases, they're either steel or aluminum.
Guess you don't run Intel either due to IME
I guess you need to ask for a comment and publish spokesperson’s reply, but shouldn’t there be a pushback on “We’re always experimenting with ways to help people more easily find, watch, share and interact with the videos that matter most to them.”

We know that YouTube pushes on to users content which they would have not otherwise gone looking for.

I.e from the 2nd list in the queue for a clip from, say, an intro to Clojure, I see a long list of pure garbage clips, which are guaranteed to make you 100% stupider just from being exposed to their thumbnail ... and of course the “very useful” for the user “autoplay” feature. Not at all designed to create addiction.

Please pushback against spin and don’t let them always get away with this. YouTube is not about serving content that “matters to the user”, it’s about creating addiction from which revenue is generated.

When I’m watching a lecture about Clojure there shouldn’t be anything in the queue to play next that’s not about Clojure or programming - logged or not.
On the US side, I've learned that the infrastucture for each industry is clustered in specific cities.

If you want to participate in that industry, you need to live in one of those cities or have the luxury caveat of remote workability.

Want to work in tech? Good luck buying a house for cheap - anywhere that property values are languishing will not have useable broadband internet providers.

Got a chemistry degree? There's a short list of cities to move to, where you specialize in either medicine or petrochemical plastics. The option to do either rarely exists in a single city.
Also see the brilliant anime Terra Formars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Formars
In Germany that callback would likely fall under unsolicited phone calls (around 2k€ or more if it's B2B).

Unless you have a commercial relationship with a customer, don't assume you can email them anything or phone them up.
This seems to be the third posting in recent days, HN can spot if its the same post, however if the title is too long it doesn't recognise it.
> Python is definitely better for matrices (because of NumPy)

How so?
What R&D and production at ISRO is like (2016)
Just rumors on /r/AMD, who knows?
I'm sorry in advance if I'm taking too much of your time.

#2: coding is my hobby and have been writing well designed apps for a long time, so thats not an issue

#3: ISLR is teaching how to do ML algo in R, so there goes that point

#1 is what I'd like more information. Good important is the maths to work as a data scientist? I'm planning ISLR and then maybe ESL or some advance course

A few of my friends work on Data science and they said that maths isn't that important as in, one needs to know the formulas and why things work the way they do as in not rote learning the math.

It'd be great if you can list down intermediate courses, the learning market has drowned good tutorials and books with not so good guides!
Thanks, I was looking for it for ages
If you travel by tube, a lot of that is sloughed off dead skin.
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Also known as “low business activity zone”.

If you totally destroy economic activity it is possible to achieve a 100% reduction in human-generated CO2 emissions. Maybe we should give it a try?
I'm no salesman, so ymmv, but I use Nextcloud, and a network hard drive for all my media. My backups are literally taken from only those 2 points. Everything is in its place, or easy enough to get there when it isn't.

Edit added: Everything is where I expect it to be from the start. And I even have a Misc directory tree for new things I haven't classified yet. As for apps, I keep a file listing what I install, but don't bother backing them up. Fresh software smells better. If my desktop fries, meh, get a new one and install everything on that list and then get back to the cloud. All my systems share the same data, so no duplicates outside of the backup.

This doesn't help your current issue, but it'll make sure it never happens again.
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> Most of the time I have no idea (and my IDE neither) what methods and properties are available on variables and function parameters.

If I am really this lost with a piece of code in Python or Ruby, I usually start an integration test with an added line to call the debugger.

With introspection you can then easily see what methods a given object has.

> And what's the most insane to me: I'm sitting next to people with LOT of experience in Python and I see them losing as much time as me when maintaining and debugging some basic piece of code they have written not even 2 weeks ago.

That is insane. What kind of code coverage do you have and what kind of tests?

It is true that you have to write more tests in a dynamic language than in a static typed language but as tests often convey the information of what was intended to be done much better than code, I don't consider this a drawback.

But if the tests are lacking, you are at a much greater loss than with static typed languages.
I was reading that in recently PCs have become bandwidth limited, I imagine this goes someway to remove that bottleneck.

Of course one chooses one's nutcracker on the nut you're trying to crack...
Funny. In my college days, one evening after a one too many drinks, my pals and me formulated what we called "Theory of constant happiness", and its core postulate was that perceived happiness was not proportional to satiation of individual needs, but to the derivation of such satiation in time. It was of course promptly forgotten.

It is nice to see there was a grain of truth in our theory.
Then how can you apply rights usually reserved for people to a abstract concept?
Uh, adoption by the community at large? The best program is the one you didn't have to write because a package existed for it already. Just because a language has a foreign function interface doesn't mean it's easy to interact with other libraries.

R, Python, Matlab, and C++ are the big dogs in scientific programming, and the inertia behind having a large community behind than will continue to drive adoption.
> I also don't know of any plastic desktop cases

I have many in the basement housing older desktops.
Keeping it plugged in also increases the chances you'll forget it there when you go to the bathroom. The NFC version of the keys is the best solution to this, imo. You can keep the key attached to your body and not worry about ripping it out when you walk away
London is different. Unless they work at an awkward position where they’d have to travel into central then out again to get to work, driving is usually never quicker.

And the schools they attend tend to be in a catchment area, meaning they’ll live near enough to probably not need a car and can walk at the very least.

There are buses that go down almost every road in London, with varying routes. I can only imagine it’s worth driving when in the outer boroughs, but for all intents and purposes I’m assuming we are imaging someone driving an SUV in a very congested area, where public transport is prolific. Unnecessary.
I did, thanks for the tip. Luckily, I have no interest in Stadia anyway.
Does the find command work on the Mac terminal?

On Linux, you could just run:

sudo find ~/ -type f -name "*8 min Abs workout*”

And it would give you the full path, once you have that you could use the open command.
Fwupd works on all recent thinkpad generations, but you need to run without bios emulator
They can't guess, which is why they all offer `__builtin_expect` to control them (which people often wrap in LIKELY/UNLIKELY macros).
Yes it is. Utility in a language doesn't only exist relative to other languages that target the same platform, a language can be useful on its own merits.

In the case of the web, the utility of javascript comes from being able to script the DOM and execute code in a browser. If there were other languages which could also do so (as was the original intent implied by the <script> tag,) those languages would also be at least as useful as javascript.
Marine grade plastics maybe ? or UV coated plastics.

Or maybe just no more plastics but cellulose based :)
Microsoft's two year-long cover up of customer data breach in India
My contacts ping and tell interesting update from India. Some team in Cloud division closely watched by CEO Satya Nadella and other company heads followed poor to no security practices causing lapses exposing personal Aadhar data, location, name, age and god knows what else of millions of Indian customers more than 2 years back - I hear it was in 2017. Surprise, surprise is way this never got reported by anyone in Microsoft to press and all folks got promoted and pat in the back for helping this coverup. I mean no Microsoft employee or contractor was punished for for this incident caused in some state located in Southern portion of India - was it Telangana or Andhra Pradesh - which is stranger than fiction. Come on Microsoft folks, be bold and accept screw up.
Yeah, professional mindset grants for backup plans. Unless you like walking on wires.
> Ruby is fine just as it is.

Which Ruby do you mean? 1.8, 1.9, or a more current one?
This looks so handy, I am not sure how much a cruise ship docked in London makes though
There was a time when you had to know how to write HTML - also FTP - oh and Fax letterheaded paper to register a domain

Looking back now - MS Frontpage was way ahead of its time dealing with this abstraction of generating html - you saw the source change which the browser (unfortunatley just ie - but that's what we had) would render when you made an edit
Not surprised at all seeing China scoring the lowest.
Many Chinese people would gladly do extreme harm to other people just for personal financial gain, which is unimaginable to foreign people.

Gutter oil, toxic formula, rat meat, etc. Many Chinese people are numb to these selfish actions. The general culture is that people who don't seize the opportunity to take advantage of other people are considered stupid.
I assume you're suggesting to bring up a Finder, which really doesn't fix the problem after I search in the Finder.
I always figured, why not leave that crap for an after-checkout form? Z% discount if you sign up, or whatever. It’s worth something, after all.
The Foldit protein design paper
What does PWA stand for?

As an Android developer I am kind of wary of how they push Kotlin for Android. I'm sure it is good, and I enjoy learning a new languages, but I already have a code base that I am worried they are going to make me rewrite.
If a working MacBook would really be as strictly needed as he states it (earning his living with it). He could have simply bought a new one, not able to work for a week may be more financial damage.
And Apple has a 14 day return policy, he is absolutely overstating the impact a missing macbook has for him!
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