skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So just add a significant tax for plastic usage, reflecting an actual damage to environment? All use cases where it's still necessary will still be able to do so, while price-cutters will switch to alternatives.
I'm prematurely dreaming of a browser plug in that can more intelligentl arrange page elements when I am heavily zooming in on text. The ability to select page trft6 enlarge would be great. I miss Opera browsers whole page zoom possible because they wrote their own display layer. Windows has lost so many years spawning graphics subsystems, I can't believe that a distro hasn't emerged for us olds. We'll give you green dollars for it on silver round things even
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The argument that you can express something in an existing language doesn't mean you shouldn't try to create something more expressive.
> Purveyors of such pleasures have proved to be remarkably adept at creating & providing these opportunities.

It feels like this was also the central point the author was making, although they made it more forcefully.

.. these purveyors aren't necessarily 'providing these opportunities'; they are actually the inventors of many of the pleasures in the first instance.

It's not a calculated directive from the top. It's a crystallised consensus from those in a position of influence. Incentive based capitalism, at it's worst (or best, depending on your point of view).
This is me in a nutshell. The only thing that I must do everyday is handle email. Which takes about 30 minutes a day. I can do practically nothing (work related) for months on end and than suddenly work almost day and night to either get a new feature of the ground or rewrite certain parts of the stack. There was a moment where it really hit me that unless I start some kind of SaaS business, I would always have to work for clients and bill hourly to generate income. After that realization all work for clients felt like a waste of time. That was the driving factor to build something that would be able to grow organically and sustain itself.
On Christianism, it's just a metaphor on the first agricultural societies and the fights between
the hunting-hoarders and land workers. You know, the roots of.. civilisation. Solstice is celebrated and so is the harvest times which are exactly the months of Jesus' death.
Oh, and the Virgo placement in the sky matches harvest times, too.
So, all of you Christians are nothing more than secret vegetarians.
I see this as a bigger issue than the use of plastic as a whole. If you properly dispose of it (modern trash burning facility and recycling) , it wouldn't be such a huge environmental issue. Open landfills are a disaster.

The government should focus on proper disposal laws. Banning plastic bags at the grocery store is a bandaid on a blood gushing wound.
It's not a fad. The methodology has existed since the 14th century. It's just like with Meditation - those who firmly believe that meditation doesn't work usually are those who never practice it. The difference here - Zettelkasten doesn't require years and years of practice to reap the benefits.

And to answer the previous commenter,

> How did Zettelkast become so popular out of the sudden?

It has not become popular out of a sudden. Different applications for the slip-box method for taking notes existed long before. Roamresearch has popularized it relatively recently. I guess maybe they've done something right; I don't know, I never used Roamresearch myself.
> Not to be stubborn about it, but wouldn't you agree that while you can certainly be effective with screen readers, that in general it's (or can be) less convenient than "normal" computer usage and comes with some downsides?

Of course. Vision is a higher-bandwidth medium than speech or Braille. But you don't always need all of that bandwidth. And, at least in my experience, sighted people tend to underestimate how well a blind person can compensate for their impairment, in this case by being really good at using a screen reader. That's why I replied the way I did. Sorry if I came off as too accusing.

BTW, I'm not even an especially skilled screen reader user. I have enough sight to read the screen up close with largish fonts, and I used computers that way for a long time before I started routinely using anything resembling a modern screen reader. (I did use early screen readers as a child in school, but didn't have access to them at home.) Even now, I do my programming visually. But make no mistake, there are blind programmers who are very productive programming with a screen reader; I'm just not one of them, at least not yet.

> I found it very hard to get a screen reader running on Linux :-/

Unfortunately, IMO the best screen readers are on Windows.
That joke is wildly inaccurate.

The $100 is vaguely seen in the middle of the street during traffic. Is it actually $100? Maybe it's just a dollar bill. And are you good enough to grab it without getting hit?

Maybe it's true if you come from a rich background and have family wealth to fall back on, which I suspect is where most of these people are coming from.
There are two people A and B. They pay each other $100 every month with net $0 profit. Then A decides, hey I want to do this project that needs $200 to complete, so I will stop buying from B for a month. A now has $200 on his account and B didn't work for a month because there were no customers. A wants to spend $200 on the project and pays B but B can only do a months worth of work. At this point the only way the $200 can represent a claim to 1 month of labor is if productivity doubled or the population grew and we now have person C ready to work on the project.

It's pretty obvious what the problem is. If the value of the money is kept stable while the real world deteriorated (through unemployment) then A becomes a leech on productivity or productivity growth. I.e. the way he is maintaining his savings is by exploiting the slack in the labor force. Thus anyone who wants to save in USD is dependent on an underclass that willingly sacrifices their labor. I don't see how this benefits poor people. I can kind of see how this benefits a middle class founded on exploitation. I definitively don't see how reducing the savings until they reach their real value benefits an upper class. They are the ones that want their money to be stable because it means they can extend debts arbitrarily long into the future at their own whim.
Fair enough. I tend to feel most free with a lot of resources at my disposal and just enjoying my life and the world. And I'd agree that a lot of work is joyless. I think the difference is more that I tend to enjoy things "locally" and not "globally".
Programming Rules to Develop Secure Applications with Rust
Weird how Colemak is still less popular than Dvorak in our industry.
I think that, instead of saying "you're not lazy", we should take the stigma away from laziness and say "you are lazy, but don't feel bad". Laziness is a character trait present in all humans, some more than others, and we should acknowledge it and work to become less lazy, without punishing it or being ashamed of it.

You are "lazy" if you don't do something that would benefit you because it's too much effort. That sounds reasonable, right? Except according to this article, you're not lazy, you have "internal resistance." Or in similar articles, you're not lazy if you have depression or ADHD, because it's your mental illness.

But then, who is lazy? Where do we draw the line when someone is depressed vs. merely sad, or ADHD vs. merely inattentive? Moreover, since you can't always tell of someone has a mental illness and you definitely can't see "internal resistance", you technically can't state that anyone is lazy.

Now, I don't want to attack people with mental illnesses. If you have depression or ADHD or burnout or are overwhelmed, you're not a bad person. But you are lazy. Calling it something else is just beating around the bush.

Instead, we as a society need to change how we look at laziness. Just because you're lazy, doesn't mean you should punish yourself, or consider yourself "worse" than someone with more discipline. Don't even try to just "power through" the laziness. None of those things work, and often actually lead to more laziness. Honestly, the author does a good job explaining what you should do. But - if you're lazy, you're lazy, and calling it something else like "internal resistance" is just sugar-coating it.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Seems some of iCloud is end-to-end encrypted.
These features and their data are transmitted and stored in iCloud using end-to-end encryption:

* Apple Card transactions
* Home data
* Health data
* iCloud Keychain
* Maps Favorites, Collections and search history
* Memoji
* Payment information
* QuickType Keyboard learned vocabulary
* Safari History and iCloud Tabs
* Screen Time
* Siri information
* Wi-Fi passwords
* W1 and H1 Bluetooth keys

Things that are not e2e: photos, iMessage, Notes, Mail, Contacts, and others.

I'm wondering, are the Safari cookies e2e encrypted?
People are also unlikely to return because they don't realize tracking exists. The iPhone permissions is a perfect example of this. People "knew" these apps were tracking them but didn't internalize them. When the UI changed to better highlight the tracking people did internalize it and denied it.

At the end of the day it's a team of psychologists, computer scientists, and super computers against one human. It's not a fair fight. There are plenty of dark patterns to make you not internalize the tracking. So while you're technically right, no one expects to see this happen in practice because your model isn't accounting for this.
Most decimal numbers cannot be represented exactly by floating point, so there is error in decimal to floating point conversion. You can see how this conversion works using this calculator: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

Most real numbers cannot be presented exactly, including most decimals and some larger (positive) integers.

The smallest such integer in single-precision floating point is 16777217. This number cannot be represented exactly: the next floating point number after 16777216 is 16777218. Above that number you can no longer represent whole numbers.

Even at one decimal place of precision most numbers cannot be represented exactly. For example, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 cannot and 0.5 is the first positive number that can be.

At two decimal places, there are virtually no numbers that can be represented exactly (0.25 is the first one that can be), so there's always some error and therefore the possibility of rounding errors. Even if you accept that, after 131072.01, some numbers cannot be represented exactly at all even with rounding: 131072 can be represented exactly, but the next number is 131072.015625 which rounds to 131072.02. No single-precision floating point numbers round to 131072.01.

Of course I'm using single-precision floating point here. These same problems exist for double-precision but at much larger numbers: the first integer that cannot be represented in double-precision is 9007199254740993. Either way, using floating point exposes you to the risk of errors in your calculations.

Hope that helps.
I’m in the same camp, often staging is easier to handle with a GUI, particularly if you want a partial staging.

But then again, there is always git add -p
I understand that no one is perfect. What bothers me is the hypocrisy: making it seem like they care when they really don’t. Did they spend $100k to sponsor that conference? I’d prefer they spend that money actually training people to care.
Yeah; back in the day it used to be wooden toothpicks to spear stuff, and small wooden spoons for things that couldn't be speared. I can only assume things moved to plastic because of cost, which is nauseating.
What languages did you speak before learning Finnish and what level are you currently at?
HDMI 2.1 can already do 8K @ 120hz with only 48Gbps, using DSC, and DisplayPort 2.0 is supposed to handle two or more 4K/8K screens @ 144hz. I think we'll have more trouble getting a GPU that can drive that..
That Phillip Greenspun book changed my life.
Many economies that were considered developing during the Kyoto accords are now large economies but still pretending that they need to be excluded from such climate provisions.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

They’re explicit in saying how they will use information.
Forget the suburbs, the 'exurbs' are the place to be
Ask HN: Let's talk about empathy towards others
So I just read yet another article about HN users using their own views on science and logic to rip into someone else because of something they didn't agree with. I won't link or mention the article here, but this is a repeating pattern. You have to remember that there are other people in tech who do not necessarily have the same opinions or conclusions on data that you do. And that is okay.

What isn't okay is showing up and attempting to coerce someone to believe the same things you do, in the same ways that you do. I stopped going to HN regularly for this reason a long time ago. But with your lack of empathy and obvious lack of respect for original human thought and emotion, I decided to come back and post this. What you are doing is hurting people and is holding this industry back. You contribute NOTHING by arguing with someone like that. Being online behind a username does not give you a pass to treat someone less than human.

I strongly encourage anyone who reads this to look at themselves in the mirror and try to understand genuine human empathy. Stop thinking of things in strict fact and logic (like, eg, Spock), and learn to be sympathetic to other individuals’ feelings and emotions. Remember that you don’t have to agree with them, but you still need to understand their perspective at the very least. Learn empathy. Be a human being.

One final thing: I say all tof his as a person with a diagnosed autism disorder. If I, of all people, can be empathetic then so can you. There are ZERO excuses for this sort of behavior. Fix it ASAP.
Pre-jitting in Lambda (using CrossGen) to reduce .NET cold starts
It looks a bit more blurry because it _is_ a bit more blurry. As another commenter explained a little, Windows' font rendering attempts to 'cut off' at pixel boundaries for straight edges, making characters appear sharper. This is at the expense of being less true to the font design.

I used to prefer the Windows text rendering for this reason, but since so-called 'Retina' screens, everything looks the same to me.
> Unlike right-wingers (I gather, anyway)

You could, like, go speak to them and find out what their actual opinions are, rather than pointlessly speculating about what their opinions are. I'm sure you would be able to catch one in the wild nursing a cold beer at any good American pub.

Also you need to take a breath - quite literally - that last paragraph is almost entirely one sentence.

> right-wing militia nutters trying to bring their own brand of authoritarianism

If this is referring to a certain January 6th incident, for the most part the uproar was caused by a belief that democracy wasn't respected.

Don't get me wrong, people who want authoritarianism are out there, they just probably look different from the ideas people have in their heads.

If we're completely honest, many people in Urban areas purchased guns around the same time the mostly peaceful BLM protests coincided with random arson events and shootings. Everybody seems to support it right up until the point people are on their streets with pitch forks, at which point it gets real.
Ask HN: When do you last use XSLT?
I'm cleaning off my desk and just found an old dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's XSLT pocket reference. I referenced in frequently ~2006-10 but haven't touched in awhile. It's got me wondering... when did you (the HN commenter) last use XSLT?

Also, are there any actively used APIs (obviously SOAP, but also REST) that only return XML?
Scanning networks in range does actually reveal your location, if you know where those access points are. There's public databases and I wouldn't be surprised if printer companies have a more complete/accurate list. So while you're right that people are confusing the two I'm not sure it is meaningfully different in terms of potential outcome (i.e. can you determine my GPS coordinates).
In the US the way to influence politics is campaign contributions to politicians. In Europe that kind of blatant influence is frowned upon, but it seems like companies are still trying to take a page from the same playbook by influencing politics through academics instead.
> Now how do I explain all of that to a less technical user?

"You need that expensive cable labelled as USB4 to do anything other than charging your phone".
imagine a world where your inexperienced take gets amplified unceremoniously

and here we are
That argument feels a little disingenuous. Like when people drive a big truck every day because once per summer they haul a boat.

We can eliminate or at least improve a lot of single use plastics outside medicine and people with special needs.

At my local farmer’s market, for example, all prepared food from food trucks and stands comes in unlined cardboard containers. When you’re done, you throw it in compost because cardboard is compostable. Works great and disadvantages nobody.

You still get plastic cutlery but it says to be made of compostable plastic. I don’t know how well compostable plastic works but I sure hope it does.
But only 55% of Americans believe it to be human-caused. From the actual report [^1]:

> A majority of Americans (55%) understand that global warming is mostly human-caused. By contrast, only about one in three (32%) think it is due mostly to natural changes in the environment.

The remaining 13% presumably answered "don't know" -- so there's at least some hope of reaching up to 68%.

However, even if that 13% is won over, there's still another big barrier to meaningful legislation: Anthropogenic skepticism is over-represented in congress.[^2] Every state gets 2 senators regardless of population, and the more populous states tend to already have senators that believe it is caused by humans.

[1]: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/201...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/us-senat...
How is it price fixed? Interest rates go up and down, different lenders offer different terms, etc.
Heat pumps that only heat or only cool a house are still cheaper to build than heat pumps that do both.
Not really. USB-C 3.0 cables are $10-20 while Thunderbolt/USB4 cables are $30.

A SATA cable is $2-3 so replacing SATA with Thunderbolt would increase cable costs by literally 10x.
"All Joy and No Fun"
That's fair, though you need people to understand the facts before you can even start the discussion. And it doesn't help that it's a partisan issue in the USA's broken two-party system, ensuring that the discussion gets nowhere.
Try Gitless or Fossil - they are less complicated.
What really baffles me is that this remote work thing has been possible under similar terms for more than 10-15 years yet ppl kept going in the office, even the smartest of them. Why?
When they say "blue will be in fashion next year"

"They" being the Color Association of the United States.[1] Which had a lot more clout when the US made its own textiles.

They also used to manage the consumer electronics color cycle, from grey to black to white to colors to putty and back to grey again.

[1] https://www.colorassociation.com/
1) its not your data if it is not on equipment you own

2) this is the cost of free services
When google makes arbitrary decisions we hate on google. When hn makes arbitrary decisions we say thank you. And we wonder why the tech industry is so fucked up. Imagine how even more pathetic this site would be if dang paid you all 6 figures.
> I don't know what the total amount of time saved is, but I'm almost certain that it's at least hundreds of times more than the time I've spent working on the tool.

To me, this is the entire point of software and automation. To give time and money back to people, because I want to make the world better. I see software being priced to just barely be worth it for the buyer because it saves time (e.g. Mailgun and Auth0). When I write software, I want to price it so that it saves them so much money adoption is a no-brainer. "Free" pricing would be included in that, of course. Unfortunately, I also don't write much useful software.
Even with the key the transaction cannot be deleted. The eternity of the soul is a perfect fit for an append-only ledger.
I think I agree with you?
For the specific project of making this remote browser accessible, my wild guess is that if Cloudflare were to hire me to work on the project (no, not available at the moment), it could easily take a few months, but probably not more than a year. They could probably cut down that time if they hired away someone from the Chrome or Edge team who's actually an expert on Chromium accessibility specifically; I admit my main expertise is in Windows accessibility.
Reinventing X Server protocol?
Not to rain on your parade, but all these "little things" add up to ... a little thing.

Cling film and aluminium foil are both incredibly useful at ridiculously tiny thickness/weight levels. One roll of 30m of either easily lasts a year or two in my kitchen. A glass tub probably has way more embodied energy, I'd need more of them, etc. The full life cycle analysis might not be as clear cut as we'd like.

Those "cardboard" foot containers are usually lined/sealed with stuff containing PFAS and goodness knows what else.

In days of yore, butchers (etc) would use wax paper for wrapping food. Which is ... paper ... and paraffin wax. A hydrocarbon usually derived from, you guessed it, petroleum.

This war on useful food packaging is silly and maybe even counter productive. A box of individually wrapped chocolates is pretty stupid. But a pallet full of those boxes is often wrapped with more plastic than all the other packaging combined, and then some!
How isn't it a bargain?
> Don't be fooled by the contemporary contempt against finance. It's still the most important reason that explain the constant improvmements in prosperity and peace of recent years

I think the contempt comes from the fact that financial instruments have a tendency to concentrate those benefits in small proportion of the population. Low-cost mortgages are an excellent example: these have enabled wealth gain for those who were able to get them at a certain time. But that gain has come almost entirely at the expense of those who weren't able to (or simply didn't) get them, who now face greatly increased rent and house prices.
> Heck, Microsoft has completely changed the way of writing native Windows apps in the last 10 years more ways than Javascript frameworks have introduced new stuff.

No they haven't. You still write them in Delphi or Free Pascal / Lazarus just the same way you did ten years ago.

Oh, you meant "the way of writing native Windows apps" with Microsoft tools? Yeah, well... Heard the old joke about the guy who complains, "Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this!"? My answer is the same as the doctor's: Well, don't do that then.
Through a browser addon from https://2read.net, then I pin the IPFS path on my own IPFS node to make sure at least one copy stays alive at least somewhere.
i dont know.
i.moved a lot of services and functionality from aws to self hosted and open source and my monthly bill reduced to 100 bucks.
from multiple k's
> Then when you look at plastic pollution and see that for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem.

As someone who was struck by the magnitude of careless resource use when visiting the US this felt wrong when reading it. But I thought commenting did not help anyone.

Ironically not even a day later the first link on HN is titled: "U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds" [1]

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/us-pl...