skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Added to what you said is the fact that the most commonly used plastics like polyethylene are biological inert. Thus most plastic is about as harmful as sand which only really harms life in a mechanical way if at all.

I think it is a mass hysteria fueled by social media. Plastics are not bad for the environment in of themselves and certainly not worse than chopping down trees to make paper or burning coal to make glass.

Solar produced polyethylene could be a terrific carbon sink if there was not a mass hysteria about "plastics."

It is so fascinating how the general public can demonise something they don't even understand.

"Plastic" in general is harmless to the environment. That is because it is chemically inert. Plastics are used every day in medical proceedures and medical devices. Plastics provide habitats for small organisms. Ever find a discarded plastic bottle that has been sitting in the woods for years? Usually it is teeming with life, from algae to spiders, to worms and other invertabraes.
Well, the slogan should be something like "Save diverse fauna, flora and funghi which goes through a natural life cycle inside of a vast forest with trees of varying species and ages", but that doesn't fit on a t-shirt :).

Edit: Apparently all living organisms are collectively called "biota", cool.
I don't know how useful this is in HN, but if github had something to sent a direct message to someone it would be very helpful.
This is a common refrain, but I doubt many who say have actually actual experience as an employer. In many businesses the inability to staff leads to existential threat to the entire business.

If you're a restaurant and can't seat customers or a SaaS startup and can't keep your service uptime, you'll go out of business very quickly. That represents millions in enterprise value. In contrast an employer who gets fired, but is otherwise competent, might be looking at a few weeks of unemployment and a couple thousand in lost income.
Please add a way to subscribe to further updates and/or a newsletter. Your work is highly interesting, but it's easy to lose track of everything you want to keep tabs on over the years.
True. Perhaps one possible confounder though is that parents who are attentive enough to think about lead paint and test for it / paint over it / remove it are also more clued in on other matters.
You can still disable this via some chrome://flags tweaking

2 column tabs sadly no more...

Why they think this is better UX is beyond me
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Link to website: https://tic80.com/
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You'll need an account to share your "carts" or comment on "carts" on the website.
Even though games are the most popular "cart" category on the website, there's also plenty of demos that show the capability of the console.
I hadn't heard of this, but the WHO seems to have indicated that this is no longer a variant of interest, let alone a variant of concern.
Ah, for the days of /., when you would know why you were being downvoted (or upvoted), because there was a drop-down menu to choose from (plus meta-moderation).
Cancer really isn’t one disease. It’s thousands if not millions or maybe even billions of diseases that share some similarities. The odds of a silver bullet cure are effectively zero, but there’s plenty of opportunity to help sufferers die with rather than of. It’s a game of incremental improvement so it’s likely that greater investment would produce reasonable returns.
People who are interested in the topic: I just found out they have open meetings about the parent project and seems like anybody could join - https://braid.org/

Great way to share progress. Kudos! :)
I wish you explained which one of the 5000 propositions in that article was in disagreement with my opinion in your opinion instead of throwing the whole article out there.
This isn’t a consumer product. It’s not as simple as blaming whichever company manufactured the individual parts. It could be Tesla’s fault. Or it could be caused by some dingus damaging it during transport or offloading. We don’t know. You need to resist the urge to make assumptions in order to satisfy your preferred narrative.
I purposefully adopt different writing styles and spellings and misspellings on different platforms to thwart this.
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Something I've never seen recommended - while more information is better up to a point, error messages that are oddly phrased, not uniform with all the others, etc. are kind of a good thing, because they're easier to recognize and search for by a distinctive fragment.

In effect, good writing can have negative returns.

It doesn't happen that often, but sometimes I get frustrated searching for an error that shares its wording with way too many unrelated issues.

[I am thinking more of runtime errors, but still]
I learned touch typing some 15 years ago with "The Typing of The Dead" from the dreamcast era. This game was full of drills to make you practice every aspect of typing: accuracy, speed, etc. Also it made you practiced your worst keys which was very helpful for me.

I would have liked to see this kind of game used to learn other skills but I never saw anything like it.

I also hoped that AI/deep learning could assists us in learning new skills but it's not yet a thing apparently...
I’m not making an argument, I’m pointing out one alternative to suicide, which is what a lot of people choose in this situation.

Perhaps you have better solutions, in which case I’d encourage you to share them - you might save a life.
Then shouldn't they be working more personally? Or shouldn't they no longer be in business? (And yeah, I'm well aware how much many small restaurant owners work. See door number two.)

People around here talk a lot about unsustainable business models. I don't think it's really any better if it's offloading its unsustainability onto its workforce, which is what's being described here.

From where I stand, as somebody whose career can be described (cynically but not incorrectly) as largely rendering people unemployed, there's a tension here that's only going to be resolved through the acknowledgement that there isn't actually a need for everyone to work to make the whole thing "go", and unsustainably poor work with poverty as the retribution for refusing to participate (as well as the reward for participating) is not a politically stable position.
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as Stephenson describes, almost no one is fit to judge. those who have had the revelations know, and those who critique without having immersed themselves, those who defend their gaudy high end consumer drills: they speak from false positions. they speak without having glimpsed the greater truer thing.

it does describe both unix & the unix enthusiast. we get to know our tools, there is apparent & unadorned solidity to them and a truthfulness in interactions & capabilities beyond what the gussied up consumerized product could create.

but yeah. upvoting ya for sure.
It's nearly perfect. Just wish Ergodox would support Bluetooth.
But have you tried? I read first page I got, and it says "it depends" https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/51595
Then you had a different experience from me. Some teachers in e.g. elementary school forbade binding our loaned books with plastic and had us use paper instead even though that broke much too fast and we had to redo it all the time. This was in Germany.
Unless it’s our plastic waste that’s ending up in the ocean I’m not sure this matters.
I think there are so only so many possible solutions, the first researcher will choose to researcher the possible solution with the highest probability or working. As you add more researchers they will research less probabil solutions. It is the law of diminishing returns.
Yet the very same aerospace industry uses almost exclusively, the very unsafe C to write software instead of using something with more safety guarantees.
I grew up in a smallish university town (USA) and have lots of fun memories biking around. It was three or four miles to downtown along a river with a trail through the woods most of the way there. Thinking back it was awesome to be able to go down to grocery store or the downtown when I was 12-16.
Because the US is not the problem.

The lobby is So strong against US that even if we take photos, investigate where is the problem people will come and say:

"The evil US made they do it."

Because maybe the US Pay and ship a fraction to be recycled outside US. But still US is blame for other countries corruption too.

It really does not matter.

"Green" will became a hidden tax on middle class to power elite.
The friction with typescript is the build environment (speaking as someone who also prefers it, and uses it all day).

If someone else is handling that work for you (and in most companies this does essentially become a core responsibility for a few critical maintainers) then yes - Typescript feels great.

If you have a small, single person project - there's enough real overhead there that I'm not sure typescript is the right initial choice.
There's no point. It's just a blend of laziness / hoarding / fomo
something like this: https://sdgdata.gov.uk/2-3-1/

look at the table of labour productivity, it has been growing consistently and has almost tripled between 1973 and today
lol people don't understand that science at gerard 't hooft's level is just as petty and vulgar as your local bar.

what i mean is very accomplished scientists brag and sneer and bluster all the time - they feel entitled to and we worship and empower them to. examples abound; read any of feynman's books; landau had a scale by which he measured other scientists; von neumann would chew people out who couldn't keep up with him; the cat fight right now around Mochizuki's proof; etc etc etc. if you've never been around these people you think they're saints when in fact they're almost universally assholes.

it's not unlike ultra-wealthy people competing with each other for the greatest monument to their wealth...

i'm sure someone will respond to me to say something like they need to be this way to accomplish (just like with the slavish worship of the ultra wealthy) what they've accomplished and to this i always present to them john bardeen, who won two nobels and still managed to be a good neighbor.
Oh, I missed that one. But the frontpage used to be full of posts like that.
I agree, I have always thought that these biggest CPG (Consumer packaged goods) companies, oil and plastics companies should be required to have a larger % of their packaging as glass, paper, mycelium, etc. and they should be required to accept any and all used products containers and recycle them themselves.

We think of milk men and the reusable coke bottle programs as archaic in the day of instant gratification from something that you then just throw away after single use.

Milk companies, and the coke cleaning recycling program (in the Philippines) for example are good examples of a more closed loop packaging solution.
I've had a number of jobs in technology and I also mention asking about how people use their free time. I however would like to understand what targeted roles are out there, in case I find one that's a good fit for me.

Of course you need experience to be an effective activist, otherwise you're much more likely to simply be a microphone for someone else.
What is the top of the line, publicity available (open source) OCR engine now available? Tessaract still? Not interested in proprietary cloud solutions.
Virtual reality may be our only way out of a climate/energy/resource crisis. If experiences can be simulated, and people can stay inside 8 foot hovels eating gruel while virtual reality makes it feel like Versailles and filet mignon, we could reduce resource consumption dramatically.
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The Grim GUI Landscape
I live in NYC, we actually have tons of beaches here in the metropolitan area, and they're certainly not covered in plastic waste. Nor are our forests -- the hiking trails around here are great. And I'm talking about the single most populated metropolitan area in the US.

Sure there are a few strewn candy wrappers or something, but there really isn't any big problem. It's all quite nice.

What country do you live in that your beaches are so bad?
One of the studies I'm thinking of relies on the boundary effect, where children who tested with 100µg/dl of lead in their blood were all treated and those with 99.99µg/dl were not, and this threshold (I'm not sure exactly what it was) is way too high.
This was a great read, thank you. I wish there were more explanations of the "black magic" part of Yjs. I'll have to dig into that.
Does the author really expect for computers to make writing novels by hand way more productive?
This is such an edge case and the productivity increase is there (spelling, navigation, version control, there is dedicate software that helps you to make sure your lore and timelines are consistent), but until GPT can make consistent books no technology will help him with the core task: engaging story.
In most other areas of human endeavor technology does increase productivity, no bluff there.
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I guess that's an issue if you move states. I'm in the UK, and I know someone who moved 8 hours away to a different part of the UK. Would never have even been considered pre-covid, but the evidence that they could work productively from home was there: they'd been doing it for a year already! They're a manager too, so regular collaboration is a given. It's just all online now.
Personally, I don't mind the UI changes.

I hate how Firefox _forces_ me to restart my browser when it arbitrarily decides to update. Makes webdev a headache.
Well, if that's true, you should get vaccinated against COVID:

"The incidence of CVT in the two weeks after a COVID-19 diagnosis was ... significantly higher than in a matched cohort of people who received an mRNA vaccine"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

"an 8 fold increase after diagnosis of COVID-19"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3886421

https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1421087092155813895
The Plastics from the North America is being shipped to south and southeast Asia, probably. So what good it does to them.
What you do is more important that how quickly you can do it, unless you're very slow and doing the same thing most other people are.
My understanding is that they were doxxed by piecing together multiple news stories. I guess journalists each giving away pieces to the puzzle.

Looks like Murray has been categorized as not a journalist and gets a prison sentence.
The whole falling productivity meme is more of a myth and or overstated.

It doesn't mean anything. Look how well the stock market has done over the past decade. No one losing sleep over a .1% reduction in total factor productivity or whatever.

What matters more is if technology is advancing, are living standards rising,is the economy growing. The answer seems to be yes for all of those.
Paperless – an application that manages your personal documents
But that’s rarely been highlighted. Plastic bags in grocery stores are banned but I’ve always reused them multiple times. Now I just buy bags to replace the ones I don’t get now.

If the message is “be diligent and minimize use of materials” that’s a pretty agreeable statement to most.
Agree on your first two points. That’s what I mean about helping developing nations. We shouldn’t be exporting billions of pounds of plastic waste to places that cannot ensure proper disposal.

By focusing resources on waste management and international cooperation we would be focusing on 90% of the ocean plastics problem instead of directing our resources at well managed waste streams that do little environmental damage by comparison.

Being pragmatic is very different than being indifferent. At the end of the day a plastic bag in a landfill is a way better outcome than a plastic bag in a waterway, and also arguably better than spending 43-250x more energy mostly from fossil fuels producing paper/glass/aluminum instead.

When there are no perfect solutions, you must choose the least harmful.
Quite a few. Spelling and pronunciation are quite different, and also a bunch of words and idioms that don't match.

Not enough to prevent mutual understanding, but it can get close. As an American, if I haven't watched any British TV for a while and try, there's a good few minutes where I have to listen to most of it twice to be able to understand what was said.
Moving the athletes is effectively trivial for these completions. It’s the spectators and facilities which represent most of the pollution. Olympics is a huge outlier in terms of athletes and it’s still 100 spectators in the stands per 1 athlete.
I agree but I think a lot of the problem also is that there were/are many businesses that are not finacially viable and cheap labour has carried them along thus far. Now the tide has gone out they are facing reality.
There's a buck to be made:

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268362
Plenty of paper bags don't really break down either. From the 'inks' which are actually a plastic coating, to the plastic based glue, to the paper itself which seems to rot far far slower than wood fibers, presumably because of some additive.

Try it today - put a grocery store paper bag in your compost, and watch it still be there in a decade.
Hong Kong. Beaches are littered with plastic garbage including bottles, bags, and wrappers for about 5 meters off shore. After that its microplastics. This is across the street from the Ferrari showroom.
> From The Epoch Times:

Not disputing any facts in this article, but man, The Epoch Times? Much better outlets of record than that.
GDP doesn't take into consideration public debt.

If public debt is up 100% and GDP has barely changed - I don't think that's cause for celebration that GDP / hours worked = we are more productive.

I'm not saying this is the case. But people use GDP a lot to make points like this - and it's important to talk about how much public debt is increasing GDP.
I am constantly distracted by others, by technology interruption products, and by life as I WFH.

I have to attend too many zero value meetings which I generally ignore.

I have to field questions constantly from people doing busy work then others wonder why I am not more productive.

Technology might make process more efficient but the gains are filled with more distractions which prevent progress to providing real value to the widget I'm working on.
> Today, it seems one would still have to transform that data to a large flat string underneath, and implement an editor that only performs edits that maintain the integrity of the higher-level object, while the flat string provides collaboration features.

Lots of people think this and have mentioned it over the years, but its a dangerous idea. The way concurrent edits are handled makes it really easy for the automatic merging algorithms to mess up the syntax of your XML / JSON content. And thats really hard for non-programmers to fix.

The right answer for this stuff is to just make CRDTs which support other data types, the same way we did for OT with ot-types[1]. We need CRDT code for lists + text (working now - text is just a list of characters). And rich-text and JSON. And that'd cover 99% of the use cases. I'm tackling strings first in diamond-types because its probably the hardest case; but I want to have native support for other data structures soon too.

Yjs and automerge already do this. They have support for plain text, XML and arbitrary JSON structures.

The simplest implementation for JSON structures + tuples is probably shelf[2], which is so simple you can implement it in about 25 lines of javascript. Shelf doesn't support lists, but combining shelf with the list code I already have in diamond-types is probably going to be good enough for most applications.

[1] https://github.com/ottypes/

[2] Shelf's description + code is here: https://braid.org/algorithms/shelf . Or you can watch the video of Greg (shelf's author) discussing the algorithm here: https://braid.org/meeting-8 . Kevin Jahns (Yjs's author) is in that recording too, and he's super jazzed about how simple and beautiful shelf is.
https://trimread.org/articles/42
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COBOL may fit your bill (and then some).

Now, on a more serious note. Codebases are too big and complex precisely because business rules are a mess. Disabling composition, modularity won't help you in the slightest.
> After talking to the potential buyer, Mr. Settle saw that the Biden administration wanted the higher capital-gains rate to be retroactive to April 2021. If that happens, he plans to hang onto the property indefinitely. Anything close to $400,000 won’t be enough to retire on, he said, especially if he inherits his father’s longevity.

It's a war on saving and hard-work.
https://archive.is/5uo8v
C language is the Hole Hawg, IMO. UNIX is just the hole(s).
Is this about productivity measured as economists usually define it (so - value added divided by hours worked)?

It is a very misleadingly named indicator. If you're a barber working in a small village in a poor country you cut hair for 8 people a day for 3 USD and pay 100 USD a month for renting a place and other costs. So your productivity is 20*24 - 100 = 420 - 100 = 320 USD / 160 hours a month = 2 USD/hour.

If you go to a big city in developed country you now take 30 USD per haircut and still do 8 of them a day and pay 1000 USD for rent and other stuff. That results in a productivity of 20 USD/hour. You had become "10x barber" just like that :)

It has nothing to do with how well or fast you cut hair or how "productive" or distracted you are. It's all about the price of labor.

If that's the productivity we're talking about then the answer is "Great Averaging". Every job that could be moved to low-income countries to lower the costs - is. So the cost of labor goes down. Meanwhile land prices and patents and brands remain in high-income countries. So the relative cost of labor is lowered (or at least its growth is artificially slowed down). For people in low-income countries (like me) the "productivity" goes up, for people in high-income countries it goes down. Great Averaging.

A good physical analogy would be 2 containers with water. 1 with hot water and 1 with cold water. When you connect them the water in both changes temperatures in opposite ways. And you can extract work from the temperature difference (that's what the millionaires who do the outsourcing do).

It also increases local inequalities (you get rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries), but decreases the inequality globally.
Idk, my empathy for middle income people struggling to buy a home is tiny in comparison with the empathy i feel towards people living in their cars or tents. I can’t see a way that we would get to full housing without radical changes to the way land is used and commodified, that would likely have upstream benefits that would help with home affordability
If you have a team of programmers who always miss their deadlines, will increasing the headcount necessarily make them a team that always meets the deadlines? No, because other than having more people means more distractions and need for communication, there might be other problems, such as technical debt, or miscommunicated requirements, or inexperience, or outright unreasonable demands.

The only variable that increasing the headcount necessarily improves is the headcount itself.
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The shortage of lorry drivers in the USA is caused by Brexit too then?

I think you have fallen victim to journalism?