skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and not the consequences of carelessly discarded shopping bags clogging up rivers and beaches.

1. plastic garbage winding up in rivers is largely a developing country problem. I don't see many plastic bags (if at all) in my local waterways.

2. why not just responsibly dispose of those bags? It's not hard. They're not going to get lost when you're using them. After that, you're probably home, or at least some place with a garbage bin.

>The best shopping bag to use is still an upcycled bag made from otherwise discarded material, as you are not creating demand for the production of new bags. Sail cloth is a good sturdy fabric, and a bag made from it will literally last you a lifetime.

Are you suggesting people to make DIY cotton bags from scrap fabric they find themselves? You might be able to avoid the high costs of cotton (break even of 7000+ uses), but if you're not into arts and crafts, I suspect the opportunity cost will eat up any savings (if any).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
Using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
15 second skip forward and back are completely undiscoverable.
Thank you for your encouraging comment. It motivated me to make it into an actual video: https://youtu.be/4aK6_0psCW4
You have a lot of power over this. Simply act as if we live in a world without vaccines. For most diseases, we do in fact live in that world.

By the way, we've found viruses that cause heart disease and obesity. There are no vaccines for these. Many viruses also cause cancer, not just the ones we have vaccines for.

Protecting against this is all about your day-by-day personal choices. Do you choose the restaurant with reusable metal forks, or the one that provides plastic ones in individual plastic bags? Do you choose the fruit salad and the veggie sandwich, or do you choose the applesauce and the hot soup? Do you touch your chair and then eat pizza with your hands, or do you push the chair with your foot and then still avoid eating any food that has been touched? Do you ride a crowded subway or drive your own car? Do you go to a movie theater or watch something at home?
I still prefer having the bootloader in SPI - worst case I can just chain load another newer / custom u-boot from TFTP or SD card.

At the moment I've got an unbootable Rockchip RK3399 board on my desk because at some point the bootloader image format has changed and rkdeveloptool refuses to let me boot from or flash the image to the device.
archive.is is blocked in Australia and some other countries, along with many other sites. For Australia this happened in May this year.

Most ISP's just use DNS-filtering to block it, so getting around it is as easy as changing your DNS settings.
I think Job's visionary pragmatism is what made Apple products awesome (past tense) rather than Ive's design chops.
I think this is an expensive use of batteries. But it may be ok in an emergency.

I also think retiring a battery that has limited vehicle range for home use is probably ok.
Anyone who's anything-er than you can be your teacher in that thing, if you approach them that way — even if only in your own mind.

If you bring envy to your interactions with these people, the things you'll tend to notice are those that trip envy. If you engage with them as people from whom you can learn something, the things you'll more often observe are just that: things you could learn. They may even be the very same thing; the intent you bring can color your experience of them that deeply.
Antibiotics are available without prescription in countries like India. Not to blame the people who purchase and take them because the government provided care is a total failure and they can’t afford private care. Even the private doctors prescribe antibiotics even for minor viruses without tests. So no wonder common bacteria are evolving into resistant strains.
how come Asian cities are less prone to change? Look at Seoul, Hong Kong for example.
> I listened to her for almost two decades

Normally that would be part of an endorsement...
Because a lot of people care of recommendations? If you watch news on yt then maybe recommendations are garbage but if you watch videos related to some niche activity or music then recommendations are a godsend.
that must be why the 'x' key is worn out?
Because they want useful recommendations and astronaut is feeding Google bad data?
The problem is that if you did that then you couldn't check regular C programs anymore, since overflow would be valid. Right now we're in the nice situation in which normal C programs are expected not to exhibit signed overflow. Change that state of affairs and suddenly a lot of obvious mistakes become valid.
they also wear all black, and use at least two keyboards simultaneously to hack twice as fast.
Very interesting point of view. I like your thinking :)
Can you give another example?
I use the remote app exclusively for both my AppleTVs and the Roku app to control my Roku TVs for that reason.
That's a well written piece!

As someone with a mechanical Keyboard obsession I have this advice: "Walk away now!". This is a expensive hobby the more you get the more you want. The first fix is something cheap a couple hundred dollars. The next will be a little more bespoke on and on it will go. Until spending $500 on a keyboard seems like an everyday thing.
Yes I am. Thank you!
That seriously defeats the purpose of the site: unflitered discovery, nonjudgement, kismet, etc. Our global culture is deviating towards the norm because our tech encourages that behavior. I love it for what it is.
If there’s one thing enterprising thieves know how to do, it’s ruining things for honest people and why we can’t have good things.

You really have to think like a thief when you want to serve the public because the public provides a cover to the crook and if you let your guard down it’ll bite you in this day and age.
But... That's literally the rest of YouTube, no?

The entire value here, for me at least, is a) randomness an b) fact they haven't been watched before.

There's so much curatrd stuff (which is great), and all tech companies are trying so hard to send me what they think I'll like / agree with, it's refreshing to step out of that box.

Edit: apologies if, perchance, I missed some subtle sarcasm btw... You never know on them interwebs
Some like me actually appreciate the youtube recomendations based on the previously watched content, but need to be extra careful when watching some kind of content that is likely to be weighted a lot by "power users". Example, I do not follow videogames, but I do enjoy watching speedruns of old games ocassionally, so I need to watch it on incognito mode so I won't have my recommendations flooded with videogame videos.
In fact I would be interested to see if it's possible to protect consumers by regulating marketing of software and services as "free", where it can only done if strict data handling policies are applied.
Yeah, I definitely am not contemplating storing weeks' worth of energy in batteries; 12 hours is adequate, 36 hours is plenty. I am contemplating using enormous amounts of energy when and where it's available and using batteries and transmission lines to enable a reduced level of activity at night and under clouds, a reduced level similar to today's level of energetic activity. Antarctic and undersea research stations probably still need nuclear reactors.
Will that pause recommendations and everything else with the already weak algo?
> The culture of the past feels so unrelatably foreign that it really feels like a fictional world.

One idea for teaching history is to emphasize that which you, as a time traveler, would find startlingly strange ("wait, WAT?!?").

A 1700's British officer, traveling with American militia, is utterly boggled... the American officer, he is talking with his men, asking them what they think!?! A WWII American officer, with not-unfamiliar clothes, familiar language, many familiar ideas, and culture... and then he shares his commonplace views on negroes. A familiar city in the 1950's, with familiar still-there office buildings, in the summer... without any AC (so people sit by open windows to catch a breeze). Making arrangements to meet at highly specific locations and times (at noon under the clock at Grand Central)... because without cell phones, mobile incremental rendezvous is hard. The Sun goes down, so you stop working, because you can't see in the dark - it's been suggested that the greatest US technological triumph of the entire 20th Century was... rural electrification. Small-village farmers in Egypt, part of the Ottoman empire, using strikes and slowdowns to discipline local elites, who fear the attention of "what's wrong here and how do I fix it" imperial officials. Sales guy, eventually to head IBM, is said to have gone into stores with competitors' cash registers... and smashed them with a baseball bat. Fights and drawn knives on the floor of the US Senate. The opulence of Versailles... human excrement is cleaned off hallway floors not once, but twice a day! And so on, and on...
> Forces are forces and any upwards force from the engines can be counteracted by the control surfaces

Only if you ignore moments. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_moment
True. back then a mobile phone was mainly a messaging device.
Others are suggesting practical reasons for having watch history enabled, but I would think that the vast majority have it enabled simply because that is the default.
In the past, I would see peers and think of them and realize wow that's cool they're doing X thing and I'm not. I used to think of how ambitious I used to be and how I wasn't driven anymore.

I may get hate for this because the idea has been touted as a "miracle" by many folks... but I used the framework from the philosophy of Stoicism to approach this problem. At the end of the day, envy alone is a waste of my time. I can't control the world around me but I can control the feelings and perceptions and that in turn can lead to my actions.

I turned that envy into action. I turned to introspection and became very self-aware about my skills, experiences, knowledge gaps, and yes sometimes the privilege peers had that got them ahead of me (like rich family, inherent network, nepotism, etc). By mapping that out, I was able to mirror and compare myself to this ideal version of myself.
"common type" is what people usually use.
I’ve hired a lot of engineers over the years who were better at engineering than me, but I can get 10x done faster because it’s my vision/passion and I work 80 hours a week vs their 40 because it’s my company (I am also full stack). So I say I understand the product and market 5x better and put in 2x the hours, which totals 10x.
I wish you hadn't told me that. I thought I saw something suspicious when I resumed switching and yep, that's a bunch of topless elementary schoolers at a pool party. I suppose it doesn't technically violate YouTube's policies but jesus I did not want to see that.
> Redshift falls over near the 100TB level.

This is based on what? They have stated in various presentations that they have customers using 1pb clusters.
Milorganite is a fertilizer here in the midwest which is kiln dried microbrobes from milwaukee water treatment system,

https://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorg...
Oh my goodness, thank you. I simply had no idea that she'd interviewed any of these folks!
This is interesting because I always thought these "background checks" were just a formality. Like something needed for their insurance or to weed out a few extreme individuals (like those with multiple-DUIs or a heavy history of wrecks on their record).

But the fact that they can ease up on background checks and see an immediate large bulk of car thefts is damning evidence that the background checks were truly having a real impact on preventing theft. It really is fascinating.
Direct link to archive.org copy of catalog: https://archive.org/details/nextsoftwareandperipheralsfall19...

From page 110 (https://archive.org/details/nextsoftwareandperipheralsfall19...) on Xanadu: "The Xanadu Server will be released..." ;)
Jobs made Ive, very publicly, which made Ive untouchable. I think what you're hearing is a mix of catharsis and a hope that someone in Cupertino will actually take note of some of it. The 2012 retina MacBook an the various iPhones were probably the high water mark for the Jobs-Ive collaboration. It is well known that Ives proposed and Jobs disposed. Lacking the disposer, the increased rate of fails was just half a notch higher, but that was the half notch that sent a lot of folks over the edge.
I actually like that feature. It forces you to see the video as the author intended, kind of like watching live TV.
Solid point,
Not OP, but I also want to point out that OP seems to enjoy his working term (no commute and all), but enjoying the work doesn't have to make an impact on you.

It's just a fucking job, yes, we make other people rich, yes, but it's also the kind of job that I wanna do.
I also don't commute, and also have more time to meet with my daughter compared to most dads, and I really glad about this term.
> is a public company so they have to keep the investors and the board happy

No. The US courts have held that company managers have wide latitude in how they perform their duties. Managers don't have to do anything in particular, since you know, they were hired to manage the company.

They do not have have to "maximize shareholder profit" as HN commenters always say.

Having said that, the board or large shareholders (more than 5%, or a large group of shareholders) could influence mgmt. if they wanted to either via the board or the courts. But the onus is on them, not mgmt., to make that effort.
Reminds me of a Youtube recreation of Vine's original incarnation, VinePeek.

https://i.imgur.com/QE9U5tJ.jpg
This is misleading as all get-out. "JavaScript assembler" is WASM, I assume? Running it in a browser still includes the overhead of a browser. The slowness is not from the wasm runtime (which has been implemented standalone and is fast), but in the browser-y gui stuff (which is what electron is good for). Also, WASM has less tooling etc. around it than JS, so JS is used for now. And jS is slow, but it's what is used by electron.

Your saying "electron could be made faster if we did all these huge things" is like me saying "but the c could be faster if we did great threading, really efficient code, inline ASM, and used intel's crazy compiler for maximum optimization". I get there's hope for the future, but not currently. In any case, implementing a custom graphics stack (like the web) will always be a heavy-weight task compared to one application.
According to another comment in this thread[1]: pretty low, assuming you have a rail/sea connection.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435310
bitwarden_rs might be a good starting point
The thing is, most people don't actually need 4K.

In fact, I believe most modern films—including big-budget blockbusters—are still being mastered in 2K (with UHD Blu-Ray discs being upscaled from the 2K masters). My question to anyone for whom spending $300 on an NLE is a big deal: does your project really need more image resolution than titles like Jurassic World and The Hunger Games? Keep in mind that, in addition to spending the $300 on software, your image processing and storage requirements have now quadrupled.

For a close look at the impact of image resolution on cinema viewing, I highly recommend Steve Yedlin's excellent Resolution Demo [0].

[0] http://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html
It was this section of the posted article which caught my attention:

“The problem of rubbish polluting the sea, rivers and land can be most cheaply addressed by improving rubbish collection and making sure everything gets to landfill.

Almost all of the litter that escapes into nature, especially the sea, comes from poorer riverine countries with bad rubbish collection practices, such as China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Rich countries like the UK or US have rubbish collection rates approaching 100% and are responsible for almost no new waste reaching the oceans.

Focussing on recycling is a distraction from making sure everything gets collected and cheaply buried underground — something which many countries already do successfully.”
...which makes me wonder if this could ever happen again today, given that all of our data is being pushed into tighter and tighter silos with less integration than ever before (I'll admit Reddit has been better in this regard with its API and abundance of 3rd party clients). It seems like a lot of social networks rely on the network effect more than their actual features, and in the worst case they can just e.g. implement features from other platforms gaining traction (Facebook is infamous for this, stealing circles from G+ and stories from Snapchat).

Reddit usurped Digg because it was technically superior. Could another technically superior website overtake Reddit?
Alternative to Go, the ease of talking to C could get simple, V language which transpile into C code with minimal overhead, still infancy at this stage, the end goals is to translate C source to readable V code.

https://vlang.io
> We don't care about any of the use cases in your comment

Hey, everybody has to make tradeoffs, and it's certainly conceivable that the margins of disability don't matter to you, or that your phone support is your non-visual UA, or even that you don't care about search.

That's only half the contents of my comment, though, the rest is about engineering benefits. Perhaps you don't care about those either?

> If our JavaScript doesn't work in your browser, you are a security risk

What? JavaScript fantastically useful, but it's a vulnerability surface, not a security feature.

Maybe you meant to say HTTPS/TLS? Because if you meant to use JS as a proxy for TLS support, oh, man, I have some bad news for you. Both about security and about the relative utility of engineering around proxy tests vs engineering around tests for specific feature support.

> Ux Engineering manager here for a fortune 100 company.

I'd love to know the name of the company. Don't worry, I won't try to get you in trouble or anything, it's just clear that there's opportunities to rise well above one's competence there.
The N95 sold well and was a solid great phone for the time.

However, the Nokia N95 suffered from a small screen 2.6 inches relative to the iPhone’s 3.5 inch display. It mostly sucked for web browsing, which seemed less import because all phones sucked for web browsing.

What separated the iPhone was a useful touch screen enabling large screens, an acceptable web browser even if it lacked flash etc, and an unlimited bandwidth option. If anything it was really bandwidth that changed how people used their phone.
I believe the parent was referring to Gross's recent two part interview with Stern. It's actually reveletory to hear them discuss interview technique (for example, interviewees are physically present with Stern and are not with Gross) although it's not a major part of the interview.

One observation: Stern was not always as effective an interviewer as he has been in recent years.
That's Apple trying to save you!
they probably log a 'shadow view' but recommendations seem to be directly based on your watch history since your recommendations are lost when you completely clear it.
> The stupid little ball is so small it's basically impossible to scroll to boot.

Are you claiming to have just bought a new Mac with a Mighty Mouse?
Never underestimate how much cleverer than you people will be when it comes to money. They spend their full time on figuring out how to use the system in ways you didn't expect, whereas you don't even spend full time on getting the things to work the way you barely took the time to think they would.

Secondly, take away the lesson that there's a reason that banks/stores/merchants don't lower their standards and go into certain neighborhoods, in the name of "lowering barriers to entry". (or demographics in this case) It comes with a lot of crime/fraud/loss, and unless you're actively fighting it or have figured a way around it, you will lose.
And that's a bunch of app hits. It makes me sad how many people caved.
I used to never ever get rid of gifts, even if I no longer had any use for them and they were just contributing to clutter. It seemed so ungrateful.

Then I had to get rid of a lot of stuff during a very fraught move, and I thought: someone gave me this because they love me and want me to be happy. Would that person want me to obsessively, guiltily cling to something that doesn't benefit me anymore? No. They'd want me to get rid of it.
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The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, aching, coughing, stuffy-head, fever, so you can rest medicine.
Isn't that a bit like asking how many pedestrians you can hit and still keep your license? The right answer is to try for zero.

The dilemma you're describing isn't due to the law itself, but rather because the difficulty of writing law results in only the absolute worst abuses being criminalized. The abstract safe answer is to not engage in group-based discrimination at all, regardless of it seeming quite lucrative to hire a compliance department to analyze just how far you can get away with stretching it.
This book was a huge influence on me when it came out.
Conceptual artists
That sort of implies that there was some river of theft intent that they were keeping dammed up.

Which, could be the case, or it could be that announcing the policy change was the equivalent of announcing your upcoming month-long backpacking tour on Facebook after posting your address and photos of most of your valuables.

(It might be less declaring open season on theft, than a perceived increase in vulnerability triggering a surge in attempts to exploit it, more of which succeed than usual due to some actual increase in the odds of successful theft, complicated by the additional security risk posed by the confusion associated with a major policy change.)

You'd really need to dig into the surrounding data to find out which model is valid and in what proportions.
The people who designed the war on drugs, did so with a target. It is to this day blatantly targeting certain communities, for example, sentencing guidelines between crack and cocaine.

Your logic is faulty: If you follow your line of thinking making the Kippah illegal would be fine since the 'vast majority of us' wouldn't have any trouble abiding by the new law. Oh, you did put in a condition: as long as enforcement is 'perceived by the ordinary person' to be non-prejudice. I'm not sure why you put that condition into the logic, or how that changes the reality of the injustice... but ok.
I'm typing way faster when I'm typing code than when I'm writing text, because I know most of my IDE's keyboard shortcuts and hence can type 5 lines of code with very limited key strokes.
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I think it's also due to having a population that has nothing to lose.
Maybe the idea is that banks should have an incentive to find some better data that isn't a proxy for race? That is, getting closer to the ideal of judging people as individuals instead of as a members of prohibited groups.
Do you have any citations for what seems like an extreme claim in your second paragraph?
Somebody should write an article on how to do this Monaco, the editor framework that powers VScode, so you can build your own flavor of vscode for fun.