skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A family member worked for a number of years at a smaller charity op-shop.

He's got a number of stories about the crap that people donate.

Numerous times he's had to go out and argue with people who are dumping garbage into their 'bin' (it's actually just a donation bin integrated into the wall that is connected to their sorting room.

People will "donate":

- Huge numbers of cheap t-shirts and other clothing that have some company/product branding all over them. Nobody wants crap t-shirts that fall apart in one wash, particularly if they've got some obnoxious branding all over them. Certainly not 20 boxes of t-shirts with "Ask me how to get a lower interest rate on your mortgage!" and a Bank's logo on it.

- Literal bags of garbage.

- Bags of clothing that is/was wet with various fluids. Frequently with a huge amount of mould (because they've been shoved into a garbage bag wet, and then sealed, and left around for a few weeks before being donated).

- Dirty and stained clothing - from light soiling, to very heavy staining, including fecal matter. A whole bunch of clothing from some kind of 'tough mudder' event - still covered in mud.

- As per the article: Broken appliances - not just "not working" but visibly damaged and smashed up items.

When the staff go out to return the items to the person dumping them, there's often an a hostile attitude that boils down to "But this is for poor people, they'll wear/use anything." and frequently followed by "Well what do you expect ME to do with it? I'm donating it to you guys - you deal with it!"

After Marie Kondo's program came out - they had to lock and seal shut the donation bin door for several months, and post signage to tell people to stop dumping their crap. They still got people turning up with carloads of crap that they insisted on trying to dump. The really insistent ones carted stuff into the store, past the signage saying that they weren't taking donations, and insist that someone take their stuff.

One of the worst 'regular' things is when family are cleaning up a deceased estate - they'll take all of the deceased person's clothing, possessions and so forth, bag them up and try and shove it all through the donation slot. Some of the things are worthwhile, but usually poorly packed and broken.

I'd heard plenty about people insisting that certain items were real X - from jewellery to name brand things, and been shocked/offended when the staff point out that "Sorry, no, those beads there are glass, not rubies or sapphires. That gold there is just painted or plated. That bag/coat/etc isn't worth us cleaning, because it's not a real $Brand, it's a knock-off".

Despite all the garbage that came through, they did get a huge amount of really top-notch stuff. Being in a somewhat trendy area, there were regulars (some models and celebs) who would rotate their entire wardrobe every season, whether worn or not.
I don't have a good idea for how opinions polls should or shouldn't ask about costs and trade-offs, or how they should or shouldn't emphasize whether they did.

In this case, the poll just asked people whether employers "should" offer this benefit, and particularly in the context of whether it should be offered to mothers and fathers, only to mothers, only to fathers, or to nobody. With this framing, a majority of respondents said "to mothers and fathers".

You could also imagine a version that emphasized either the legal-compulsion part or the somebody-paying-for-it part, like "do you think the public should pay more taxes in order to fund parental leave?", "would you be willing to pay more taxes in order to fund parental leave?", or "do you think employers should pay for parental leave, even if they have to reduce other employees' compensation in order to afford it?".

But from the priming point of view, all of these versions are encouraging people to think about a particular issue in responding. The version that was actually asked encouraged them to think about the potential unfairness in offering paid leave to mothers but not fathers. The versions I mentioned would encourage them to think about the costs to others, or where the money comes from. Another version might encourage them to think about benefits, like "studies show that paid parental leave improves outcomes for children and families; do you think it should be offered?".

I know that these variants can produce huge differences in people's responses, because thinking about benefits makes people enthusiastic, thinking about removing a perceived unfairness makes people focus on that rather than on questioning the status quo in other ways, and thinking about risks and costs makes people worried about them.

So I'm not sure whether there's such a thing as fair or neutral opinion polling, because it depends so much on what you think is relevant, or what's important for people to be taking into account.
Cali is beautiful, but unfortunately I can’t see myself living there in the future. I wish I could since it’s the state I grew up in, but unless I win the lottery or the equivalent, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

Building more housing won’t help either; it’ll just get bought by Chinese investors.
Bottle/can deposit-refund systems are the closest thing to this in place today in a handful of states in the US. California also charges an eWaste fee for a tiny subset of electronics. Ultimately this isn't feasible at a larger scale since sales taxes are levied at the state/local level, so there are literally thousands of tax jurisdictions involved which would all have to figure out how much every item ever sold would reasonably cost to dispose.
I am not interested as I don’t think voluntary contributions can change anything. This argument goes both ways: why not lowering taxes since people can just donate instead? The next thing you know you don’t have hospitals, roads, police, firemen, army, education, healthcare, oops
> Matrix is simply not accessible to anyone who isn't highly computer literate

I would have agreed about a year ago, but the reference implementations have been slowly and steadily improving, as have alternative Matrix clients. If I still had contacts who struggled with Element, I might look at (for example) FluffyChat.
It sounds like there’s not much to learn except how to survive shitty project.

I mean if you’re beginner and you don’t have anybody to give you deep feedback - only by accident or extreme talent you can migrate it to good architecture and learn valuable lessons along the way.
NIMBYism regarding more housing really only pertains to metropolitan/urban areas. How come the rest of the state can’t build housing consummate to the demand?
You can pick up homeplug signals from other houses if you're on the same phase. And the encryption isn't really the best.
I also eat the same dinner ~6 days of the week, largely for the same reasons of practicality. Being able to prepare dinner on Sunday saves loads of time during the week.
You're getting a bit semantic in defending what you certainly know is ad hominem misdirection. But if you want to double-down on it, it doesn't faze me. Your contention is that it is more important that I, a random commenter on the internet, am psychoanalyzed than to consider the substance of the argument I made. Your concern was how it was presented, not its content. I'll take that as a concession that the argument had enough validity that you'd prefer not to address it.
Indeed, especially because you're not supposed to get them stuff that's actually useful, like a decent oscilloscope or a proper set of cone wrenches.
My parents come from a place that is the polar opposite of America, and eating the same thing repeatedly would get you sent to a mental asylum, based on how my family life revolves around food.

The idea of not using an innumerable number of fruits, vegetables, meats, and spices available is crazy to me. We’re even excited to go back to the city try at various times of the year because different seasons bring different foods.
I only use WhatsApp to talk to my mom.
"Opt-in won't work, because most people won't opt in." Ask yourself why this might be, and you have your answer. Also ask yourself how you, or more accurately the devs here are ethically justified in forcing this on people when they don't want it.
For those wanting to clear tetris's. Trick is leaving that square empty if you try to keep clearing the lines. And if you clear the screen, you can see I saved myself twice using the same starting move with that Z others were complaining about.

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An open source project with a closed source mentality.
Cause of problem: Missing Middle Housing. Not everyone needs the concrete beehives or the single-family-home. But there's been very little built in-between in recent decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing

I could live in very little space. Not into owning a lotta stuff, entertaining crowds. 15x25 is more than enough. Noone's building cottages these days. Let alone on nice streets with trees, away from traffic, walkable. A couple of US cities have opened that up. Neither is in CA. My family of 4 was once quite comfortable in one apt. in a quadplex. We did this to ourselves, and invested in a lot of infrastructure to be locked into.
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If you cook the pasta in the soup, it will significantly shorten its shelf life.

Better cook it separately and add it to the current portion you are eating.
One of my favorite used clothing stores is The Garment District in Cambridge, MA. It’s actually an outgrowth of a recycled fiber company that makes janitorial wiping cloths. The good stuff goes to the vintage clothing store upstairs, the somewhat-junky stuff goes to the “dollar-a-pound” floor downstairs, the leftovers get made into rags.
The GP wrote "Signals two day outage with zero explanation killed a lot of their momentum at least with my contacts. Few months later 80% are back on whatsapp."
Sometimes you do just need bodies to move dirt or spread mulch or stuff envelopes or whatever. Obviously the phenomena you describe is real, but please don't write off volunteering as a whole.
Wait, why would digital currency remove physical bank notes? They could still exists, just be liabilities of the central bank rather than private banks, right?
Not true, some CBDCs are retail CBDCs that target end consumers.

Settlements can already be real time with RTGS systems (real time gross settlements) but

1. Not all central banks have that

2. Not every country has a central bank and not every central bank has an account with the central bank of central banks (BIS)

3. Even then, not every bank has an account with your central bank

A CBDC is a thus a more modern protocol that is easier to integrate (and that has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies) and a more secure system where no single point of failure exists due to some degree of decentralization (that’s the part inspired by cryptocurrencies).
But the funny thing is, the California "countryside" is languishing because of a lack of people/jobs

But instead of going there people prefer the big established cities elsewhere
Welcome to Latvia where I have to think hard to find someone that doesn't use WhatsApp.

I find that whatever number I call from the "local craiglist" where people sell items, I find them on whatsapp.

Nearby "home depot" accepts orders over whatsapp. I can even send pics for what I want!

Kindergarden - all parents and teachers form a group and communicate there, ask questions, make announcements. Teachers may share pictures what kids are doing.

School classrooms form groups.

...

SMS unfortunately cannot share pics and videos, and location which is sometimes handy and cannot form groups.

So getting out of whatsapp is, well... big inconvenience. No one has even invited me to Signal.
Yes, have been evangelizing people to Signal for some years, no I can't do that anymore, people laugh when I argue for Signal.
Relatedly, here's a GSM cellphone in a package only slightly larger than a normal USB plug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676737
Mostly I think it's a smoke screen to collect data for advertising (and hey, if an alphabet agency wants in, they can always join the party too!) There are a lot of people that seem to buy into "Telemetry is the only way to find bugs!" though.
I can kind of see the advantage of having one outfit. Eliminates all decisions about what to wear. But if I did that, I would not have a closet full. Maybe a weeks' worth, to get from washday to washday.
It seems you may have misinterpreted my comment.

The point is you start with context specific examples, and high level naming. Teach concepts in plain english. After which you can re-cover the same material in progressively more generic and low level forms.

It's much much easier to understand the generic form of something when you actually understand contexts where it's useful, and see practical examples.

I think you misunderstood my slider comment. You have a textbook, but slider adjusts the level of abstraction that it teaches you the concept at. In what way is this incompatible with flicking to a page?

The TLDR; version is Explain like I'm 5, then ELI10, ELI15... and so on. There's a tendency in the hard sciences to look down on presenting concepts in a simplified form, so I understand many here will disagree with this approach. You have to struggle through the seminal 1000 page textbooks from the 70's to truly learn!
Group chats just plain don't work in SMS.

Telegram, Signal and Whatsapp have tools for handling tens or hundreds of people in a group. (Telegram more than the others).

Also, everyone here has (near)unlimited data, so using a non-SMS communication tool is free. SMS have either a flat budget (1k SMS per month) or cost per message.

Oh, and sending pictures/videos over plain SMS is just horrible.
Appreciate the tip. It does seem like a really good dieting food. Definitely going to buy some tomorrow.
This like of reasoning is absurd.
I’m assuming you drive a modern car, yet can do nothing much of value in running your own software on that computer.
Or your fridge, or TV, or toaster…

In fact, I’d hazard a guess that the large majority of compute capable devices you own, you do not “own” according to your definition of ownership.
Those problems are somewhat unique to the US; most other countries just have a national tax.

But yeah, practically it's not necessarily easy. Still, we need to do something IMHO, and this is the best I've been able to come up with thus far which still respects free markets and consumer choices, but also doesn't just shrug off the many very real environmental costs (or leaves it for the government to clean up, maybe). Overall, it seems like a fairly nice balance to me.
He's content, I admire that.

Not much curiosity when it comes to food, but it sounds like he's interested in nature.

And to say that he is rejecting the other foods is a bit of a stretch, I mean, for example, are you rejecting a career as a sheep farmer? You might love it.

Or maybe you're content with something too
You could use UPB to signal over the home wiring to another device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_powerline_bus

(Well, I guess there are several different protocols in this area, with their respective transceivers available. I used to use X-10, which has a much lower data rate.)
It does. Though this is a gray area, do they really need the consent for this feature to work? I guess this is their argumentation - which is allowed.

Data protection agencies opinion is you do not need ad consent to view news (media companies argued that way), but it's open for other features.
-Public healthcare is something every industerialized country has. Including the white ones your racist leader wants immigrants from.
-at the time masks were in VERY short supply and needed for medical experts AND people were stealing them from hospitals and it wasnt known that cloth masks would be as good as N95s.Even now the actual N95 supply isnt that good, normal public can only get up to KN95 for the most part not the official N95.
- this is why i will ignore anything else you have to say. You just want to be put into a comforting blanket and told that there is nothing bad you or your anscestors did or that you didnt benefit from today. Sorry but Ghengis Kahn and Timujin and Ottomans happened in the 13th century to the 18th, the last Ottoman atrocity was the Armenian genocide. Meanwhile, colonialism ended less than 100 years ago. There are people currently alive who were born in French Algeria or British India. People older than MLK and Malcolm X are still alive(eg Betty White). School segeration was a thing even in Kamala Harris's time. The historical attrocities other groups did dont have nearly as much bearing on the world today but you want a blanket and cookies and you want to get told "there there you are a good white boy and only your group is good and everyone else is evil" while the rest of us do the hard work of growing as people.
Hah this is a great set of analogies. Thanks!
Wow, you're good at this game!
I believe there is probably a balance to be struck.

I am from (near) Rome, and am familiar with the phenomenon of people visiting the city over a weekend, or even worse, on a day trip.

That literally means you cannot experience the city, you can at most put some checkmarks on the 3 most popular sights. In a month you may spend a weekend in Paris, Madrid, Rome and London, but I believe it would be better to spend a few more days in only one of those. This is still different from, say, spending six months in a given city (which is what some people do to really experience it!).

To each their own, some people do prefer broad & shallow to restricted & deep, but I think these days we do tend to over-emphasize the shallow side.
We used a Google spreadsheet for our gift registry ten years ago. One of my friends, a sheet metal worker, gave us a really decent toolbox. Still using it.
The beatings shall continue until advertising revenue improves
> I my mind, the difference is that in scenario A. the use wants to be free of ads, in scenario B. the user doesn't mind ads, just not the ads you have chosen to show. And Brave is making money from that.

Or it could be that in scenario B the user does not mind ads if they are done in a privacy respecting manner.

Alternatively, the way I see it is that brave ads are entirely separate from the content you have requested. I'm honestly not sure exactly how the ads are displayed in brave but as far as I'm concerned, brave could show ads on a blank new tab page with no content whatsoever and still make money from it. It makes no difference what (if any) content is loaded at any given time.

And back to my original message - even if Brave the company was "only" blocking ads - it might not be directly monetizing someone else's content, but by blocking the ads they are still benefiting as a company by gaining the good will of their customers by blocking those ads (or we could create a hypothetical scenario where eg brave blocks ads that happen to be for google chrome or mozilla firefox, in which case they have not directly benefited in a monetary way but have suppressed their competition).

Don't get me wrong - I see how it looks grimy given a certain framing. I guess you could say I just don't particularly care given the overall situation.
Better than hatetris, but I'd much rather the TGM randomizer.
The problem is that people try to invest their money, it’s worth than saving and end up making markets like real estate an investment asset as opposed to a human right. People always need to get richer.
Having spent a bit of time in China using Alipay and Wechat to pay for things, the biggest difference is convenience. The QR codes that drive those systems are literally everywhere and much more convenient than NFC chips. Its much faster in a lot of cases to zap the QR code than wave or hold, or hold and wave your phone over a terminal that seems to require you to hold your tongue at a particular angle before it works, and then the sluggish performance of the actual payment is painful.

Alipay and wechat are really fast. Plus in a lot of cases the vendors have no need of a terminal at all, just a printout of their QR and a phone to initiate the transaction.

It might seem primitive compared to apple pay, or google pay, but its incredibly sophisticated and offers a much lower barrier of entry to vendors. When I got home I missed it especially for small purchases.
“Not even a question that should come up” is a pretty sour attitude to take in general, and I don’t even think you’re right.

Fiber does have a health impact as you say, and having good health is one of the main ways known to delay death. And what is survival but the delay of death?

My point is that by eating a larger variety of nutritious food, you are less likely to suffer from poor health due to a lack of something you need.
I just recommend Telegram to people. I do like Signal for all the work they do, but their UX needs some work.

Yes, Telegram chats aren't E2E encrypted, but they Just Work. You can have the same chat history on your phone, tablet, laptop and desktop without any issues. With beautiful native clients too.

Also the bot feature is killer in my book.
> wish I could convince the few people i talk to on there to use something else

You can use Watomatic to give these people an auto-reply each time they send you a message, and tell them about the better alternative you prefer to communicate with.

https://github.com/adeekshith/watomatic
I think that people who achieve great things definitely have some kind of unrest inside them. "quiet the constant agitation of their souls" is a clear description of that. I like to call it "feeding the little monster inside you"

I'm not making a judgement call to what is better, being at peace where you are, or never be at peace and always wanting more.

It reminds me of when some interviewer asked Elon Musk: "How can people be more like you?", to which he answered "You don't want to be me... I'm not sure I want to be me".

My theory is that you have 2 things inside you: the individual and the DNA. The individual can be at peace, but it will be at the expense of the survival of the DNA. The DNA pushes you to be the best and find the best partner to reproduce. The DNA makes sure you are always at unrest and want to achieve more, get better, etc.

I think this story illustrates it well, because he is a peace even though he never married, and so will not give his DNA setup to a next generation.
Thanks. Medical insurance paid by company? What is a normal amount people put in a retirement plan? Is that contribution tax deductible? If it is say like 20%, it seems easily 50% of your income are acounted for.
I think there was some law in the UK that forced every bank to implement a common API. Not sure what the name was but I think the US could use some of that.
Why not consider a different way, in addition to that?
He's had 'several strokes.'

Who knows when his first stroke was? His sister's history of stroke as well could indicate that there is something more going on. He could have had multiple microinfarcts over the years leading to a mild form of vascular dementia with cognitive impairment or something.

He probably isn't holding the secrets of the universe in his noggin, but cut him some slack. I'd have tea with him. Sounds like a chill guy.
You sound like this was a certain thing, whereas nutritional science is very complex.
Is this true? Wouldn't it mean any JIT-based language would not work on Apple Silicon? I must be misunderstanding you
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