skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For places with prices in Colones, you can pay in most places with a Visa/Mastercard or sometimes Amex card and you'll get a better rate than paying with cash.
This is the ultimate proof that America is in decline: at its best they would have anticipated it and evacuated the embassy at least a week ago. If they can't even protect the diplomats how are they supposed to protect common citizens?
That would require a project be worthwhile to stick around long enough for an opportunity for someone new to come along, let alone come along and be interested in it. It's obvious that most career programmers are only used to ("interested in"?) pushing devops shovelware onto GitHub and other forms of busywork, so it shows in their bug-handling hygiene.
I just dont understand US. There was this whole big argument about Afghanistan being a lost cause because US military was always designed to fight standing armies and not insurgents, yet there we have a standing army approaching Kabul met by this limp dick non resistance reaction. Put a couple AC-130 on constant rotation and mow down anything moving in the direction of the capital.
Diffused Thinking: A Decision-Making Hack
What’s it like living with a phenomenal memory and can it be learned?
I've read 1 liter water, 8 teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt.

https://www.britannica.com/science/oral-rehydration-therapy
Which is why all these cleanup projects and bag bans are just silly unserious people. Anyone who actually cared should be pushing for improved waste management in the source countries. If it’s aid grants for better trash service or threats of tariffs for not improving things or whatever, but banning straws or picking up plastic in the ocean strikes as nothing but narcissistic public preening.
Dont really want to survive for the post apocalyptic world...but that said....my city is relatively small in the UK. So make it to the train tracks and out of the city with cans and as much water as we can carry and then head for the hills and see how long we last.
Why believe Wikihow and not the other sources posted?
dont know anything about the economics panel/survey but citing Krugman on HN is pretty weak given his most infamous quote:

"The Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...
It’s coming soon https://support.thelightphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/36003112...
Swapping old for new IS meaningless and not the goal. In fact some swaps would inevitably be new-for-old. The company would own both, so who cares. This idea is only about swapping depleted for charged, so you don't have to wait around while it charges. Obviously the only way it would work is if swapping were made easier and faster than charging. As for abnormal or unusual occurrences, if a battery is nearing end-of-life the customer can do the company the favor of reporting it, or the company can find out themselves by testing it. If you demonstrably wreck one, or just keep it, the company has your deposit (which I agree should be close to the price of the battery), and you just bought a battery.

It's early and people still fetishize the batteries a bit, but they're really just containers for the thing we actually want - the charge.
They estimate that a 1000 rivers contribute 80% of the _riverine_ plastic pollution.

But how much of the total in the oceans is riverine versus 'oceanic'? What is the total contribution of maritime activity (freight, fishing, cruises, recreational, military) to a non-riverine/oceanic plastic?
I did my university capstone on transit technologies. It was quite interesting to learn that a lot of route planning was a map and a ruler in the basement of City Hall.
It's just so easy: first world countries just have that "awesome" recycling systems. Their plastic just ends on ships full of plastic waste. China refuses to accept it, so we sell it it to other countries in Asia, which seemingly can't handle it anymore and just dumps it into the ocean. End.
LOL, startup equity is a scam 99.999% of cases.
The cost of the infrastructure is not part of the >50% of taxes you pay. It's in the other part. You'd know that if you read the screenshot I posted.

And saying you have the option of using less electricity. Really laughable, sorry. I guess I'll turn off my refrigerator.
it's not a like for like comparison, Debian runs on many more platforms and supports far more exotic hardware configurations that Windows

I've also never had a Debian upgrade trash a filesystem entirely either, but have had that happen on a Windows 10 "upgrade", when it decided to overwrite the MS dynamic disk software RAID superblock with garbage

(not to mention the random registry corruptions that seemed to plague Windows installations in the not-too-distant
past without even needing to do an upgradep)
I was one of three people working on the project, the other two people on the project also agreed that Snopes was full of it. The one source they used was from a rehash of a blog post. They made no attempt to interview any of us.
Oddly they cover the three things I most want in the FAQ- directions? Spotify? WhatsApp?

The answer is no to all. I'd take a phone without a web browser or anything else if I could have these three.
Are you seeking to drink as much as you can?
One interesting thing that happened was that Costco said you can no longer return toilet paper and bottled water. As a way of discouraging hoarding, it's better than nothing.
You would defend a free market that kills people as long as it makes more money?

And if you can't swear when people are fucking dying then when would be more appropriate?
I had some issues with typegraphql years ago. I tried to split resolvers between modules and it behaved weirdly during unit tests. We also already used graphql-compose at job, so I wrote my own typescript decorator based solution on top of graphql-compose (https://github.com/captain-refactor/graphql-compose-typescri...)
My module worked as expected, and I tried it on my personal projects. Then I realized, how my projects code became confusing and result api was really bad. I abandoned development of the module, because it had flawed design from the start. The code-first approach doesn't really work well and result graphql schema is ugly, which makes it a bad solution. Generating typescript from schema gives better results. When you think about it, it makes sense, because your graphql schema is your applications api blueprint and it should be designed in advance, not generated from the result product. Also when I wrote idiomatic typescript code, it generated bad graphql schema structure. It's hard to create consistent api when it's scattered over many files filled with implementation details.
If that were true, it makes the epidemiological case for an aspartame link clearer, because you'd simply be able to compare cancer incidence between countries by aspartame consumption and see the evidence. It's the most studied additive in the history of the food industry, and that link has not been found.
Very true. We need to find a way to subsidize "good journalism" or to convince people to care about it.
Man, your region couldn´t barely stay alive in Winter due to hard power shortages. The issue in Spain it´s like a Texas ultra-light version of that.

As I stated in the tread the Spanish goverment regulated power contract is the cheapest option compared to the ones in the free market, and companies have to comply by law so they can offer a regulated contract to the customer. It´s mandatory, but the sad story here is that not everyone is aware of that and power contracts are hard as fuck to understand. Now they even printed math summatories to ¨explain¨ the power spending to the ¨common folk¨ as if everyone got a pre-calculus diploma. Kafquesque.
Only in regular caffeine consumers right? Seems like an “it depends”
> There was this whole big argument about Afghanistan being a lost cause because US military was always designed to fight standing armies and not insurgents

No, Afghanistan was a lost cause because the distraction of the Iraq War led to bungling most of the first decade or so of occupation, which is a nonreversible problem.
I would argue that these are the wrong questions. As this article, and those papers referenced by the article point out, this has to do overwhelmingly with inadequate waste disposal systems. More interesting questions for solving the issue might be:

What types of items end up in the oceans?

Are they dumped legally or illegally?

What are the reasons that certain countries don't have the infrastructure in place to dispose of waste?

How can wealthier countries do their part in supporting countries who need to develop better waste management infrastructure?

I think that it is better to ask questions that lead us directly towards solutions that are actionable. The data strongly suggests that ineffective or nonexistent waste management is the root cause, so I think we should direct our questions towards solving that issue.
> I was wondering how fish juice is defined

I once stayed at a Caribbean resort where they had a chilled machine labelled "cow juice". I assumed it was milk, but was not brave enough to try it.
Well, let’s talk about that. These bloggers are taking part in a type of traffic generation that either generates direct revenue, or indirectly generates leads via branding (let’s say they get paid for their reputation).

What actually keeps that business model going? They have to write newer and newer shit about newer and newer shit. That’s the whole game.

Very few of them ever write mea culpas - ‘Hey I pimped something to you guys for awhile, and it turns out that tech really sucked’ or ‘Woah, I’m so sorry about espousing this pattern or framework, it’s not that great’.

That destroys credibility. I don’t really think they are sincere, the same way the media broadcasted everything Trump did to make him popular, followed by broadcasting everything bad he did because he’s the wave they needed to ride.

The insincerity is not even close to being bad in tech compared to politics, influencers, etc, but it’s there.
Also, if someone looks down on you because of the kind of car you have, that's exactly the kind of person whose approval is irrelevant to you.

Trying to impress others with one's car is a game you can never win, in some sense.
It's a lot more than gossip. Ira Glasser (founder of the ACLU for those who are not rayiner) says the organization is at risk of losing its way for exactly this reason:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/the-aclu-would-not-...
My reading of the Nokia phone I linked was that it was a pretty minimal system, so no I wouldn't say that phone was a smartphone. Ever used a system with Windows or macOS running in kiosk mode? Where it's really just an embedded system to let you look up train times or find a book in a library? That's not a general purpose computer anymore, even though it's running on the hardware and OS that would produce a general purpose computer. It has been constrained to the point that it is now a specialized feature computer.

I'd draw the same line between feature phones running a "smartphone" OS and actual smartphones. If you constrain the OS so that it can't run to its potential, at some point you cease to have a smartphone (even if technically it could be). Just like an iPhone isn't really a general purpose computer. It could be, but in practice it is not, because of the constraints placed on the system via iOS and the App Store.
Small leap - corporations that sell goods packaged in single-use plastic.

Once they sell you something wrapped in minimal cost packaging, they socialize the problem. Rinse and repeat.
Is there a reason a Jupyter notebook wouldn't have worked? Google CoLab makes notebook env's available for free (no install / setup required):

https://colab.research.google.com/
Use it just like salt on all your favorite foods. It looks, pours and measures just like regular salt. But it's sodium free!

http://nusalt.com/

That doesn't sound great for rehydration ?
So would it be possible to make a mini hydrogen power plant from a rain water cistern and scrap aluminum?
This is really what I have wanted for years. Signal is the key app for me to make the decision, and barring that, maybe a Matrix client. If this were to be my private, personal device that only close associates get the contact info for, I'd need those things.

This was the gap that I think Punkt ( https://www.punkt.ch/en/ ) phones had, where they are for voice and minimal texting, with all the right design ideas, except voice as a thing is diminished becase younger people intuitively get that synchronous communication imposes opportunity costs on their time. I'd hypothesize that most people who prefer voice communications do not desire a quieter minimal experience, as they naturally seek the stimulation of a voice interaction and therefore also find the busyness of smartphones stimulating, but more people who prefer asynchronous text will pay a premium for a quiet minimal experience.

Even if the messenger clients piece were done with optional physically removable storage, because I'm suspecting the initial market for this phone is an odd intersection of creative, upper income, either exec or self employed, who are above being subject to tech - so basically tech people. I could see it becoming a status thing, where nothing quite says FU money like being able to afford patience and manage your own time.
That isn't the case based on the data. Fishing nets aside (which are definitely from predominately Chinese-owned fleets), much of this is actually not from the recycling systems, but is instead single use plastics, especially since China stopped accepting recycling from overseas.
In retailing those are known as magnet products and are more promoted within the store.
I've heard of hyponatremia, but not this cult of drinking so much water.
I feel fortunate to have learned this lesson right before grad school… I used to run Gentoo with all kinds of optimization flags. The day of a conference deadline, I mucked up my /etc/ pretty bad. Switched to Debian and never looked back - sometimes you just need something that works.
https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/

we don't.
> I think that it is better to ask questions that lead us directly towards solutions that are actionable.

That will require money.

Who profits from producing the plastic in the first place?

The reason that question addresses your point is that a viable systemic fix would involve repurposing a percentage of the revenue towards waste management.
I mean yeah. In totally against banning single use cups and am totally pro public transport lol.
...even as a jpg :)
Wow, that's... Using a pejorative that relates to what is often an incredibly painful experience for expectant mothers to describe the efforts of a group of volunteers working on an open source passion project. Or, simply, toxic.
2.6g/L of NaCL ends up being ~1000mg/L of sodium, which sounds about right.
Basic seed funding. Every x years anyone who an complete a detailed business plan can get a 50k (adjust ad desired) seed grant. Part of that could be an automatic second round grant application, where the govt takes some shares if they hit some standardized cash flow target. After that let the private ventures in.

Govt shares go into a citizens wealth fund and are setup to require a standard dividend formula that triggers based some formula of certain revenue or funding trigger/ramp up threshold.
I'm not sure it's a question of anyone profiting from waste, it's more that dealing with waste correctly is a cost. Developed countries have comprehensive legislation around waste management that obliges municipalities to deal with it correctly (e.g. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31...)
Not really. Most of this waste seems to be single-use, and if you read through the cited references, the primary factor seems to be the inability to manage waste plastics from locally consumed products. Rivers are tempting targets for waste disposal if you lack a good waste management service locally.
Built-in ms teams
I run Linux on my phone, and it's not an Apple device. Other than that, I completely agree with you.
Yeah, it’s perfect for the use it was put to here, don’t get me wrong.
My dad has a flip phone, and it's really not usable for sms. Group messages are totally broken, anything multimedia shows up as blank, and it's a total mess.

Probably a modern flip phone (KaiOS?) wouldn't be so broken, but I don't think you can even get those in the U.S.
Aluminum (metal) is way more expensive than hydrogen. This is such a waste. Is it prohibitively difficult to recycle this scrap instead?

And if you go with this idea, what do you do with the spent aluminum hydroxide? That's toxic waste,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mud
One I particularly love is the soundtrack of the game Utopia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7RGtHOj8pM
The example you quote uses Newton's laws to model a system with ODEs that do not satisfy the hypotheses of the uniqueness and existence theorems. It is a nice example, but it is not relevant here, because the ODEs for the three-body problem do satisfy the hypotheses of those theorems. This particular problem is totally deterministic.

"I also said that you CAN prove determinism to me by finding a closed form solution that is deterministic. I never said you needed to nor did I say that was the only way."

I agree. One need not give a closed form solution to show it is deterministic. I gave you another way.

"Your examples are for special cases. Can you prove it to me that for N-bodies and all possible initial conditions that all solutions are deterministic?"

What "special case" is being considered by the term paper I linked above? What are the initial conditions you are worried about, to which the ODE uniqueness and existence theorems do not apply? In other words, where you do think there is a loss of generality?

(More precisely, we have a unique solution up until any collision takes place, if it does at all. But this is not a problem with determinism, it is a problem with modeling the bodies as point masses. We could imagine them as hard spheres and then this issue would disappear.)
'Quake': The End of the Original Id
On the subject of cultural resignation, I'm totally with you. It's not a good way to go about life. Though I don't think it's required to come away from my comment with that conclusion. There's plenty of space between "things will never be perfect" and "things will never be better". Software can definitely be better, it's just important to not worry too much about perfection - it really is the enemy of the good.
Funny thing is, there’s a lot of the psychology that is sort of in our control. There are innate aspects, and depression seems for some reason to be a more common response to things wrong in the brain/body than happiness/mania, but grit and community orientation have a large input from the others around us.

As long as we orient around grit and community needs more than “the planet’s f&$@ed, yolo” in our response, we could weather this ok for a few generations.

I wouldn’t bet on it without taking significant odds.
While those things may be helpful, they aren’t good advice because they aren’t easy to do nor are they actually required.

Investors want to make money and they very frequently invest in people who do not meet that criteria. So it’s helpful to too how people were successful without the nepotistic criteria you outlined.

In general your post just complains about privilege without being helpful or insightful.
But is there an easily spottable army? Can't they just disappear into the populace when they know the Americans are coming? It seems like they've been hiding amongst that populace anyway. And they've had another 20 years' time to gather and train recruits.

If I were a war general tasked with solving this, maybe just track all the baddies' pickup trucks via drone/satellite when they "disappear", and send the firepower to destroy them..
Replit, potentially. No need to install anything beyond a web browser and once the project is setup, it really is just pressing play to get it running. Then things like version control can be added on later if there's interest, but even without it sharing projects is sharing a link. This also can make it easier for the learner to take this home and not just do the work in class or the classroom setting.

There are probably other solutions out there, but I've mostly been liking it as a way to help people (especially remotely) but at work and just in general with exploring programming. Especially since I don't have to walk anyone through installing anything, which is a PITA.
So various political entities mandate recycling, but do not create a payment mechanism. Then they pay Asian countries to get it off the books.
I know nothing about that. I just liked DXX-Rebirth more because it preserved the „dull no-BS industrial look“ of Descent better. I also wasn’t a big fan of some other, similar games (looking at you D3, Forsaken)) which looked more like the lovechild of a lightshow and an architecture competition in comparison.
Tl:dr; it’s rarely worth learning an exotic or underused language specifically to get a job in that language.

Focus first on being a good developer, then find a job willing to take you in without experience and then you can be paid to basically learn and get up to speed with whatever language they want.
Too late. Taliban have already breached inside Kabul suburbs in record time, 4 miles from US embassy. Nothing tells you your government is incompetent like seeing reports of "90 days possible to take Kabul; 60 days; 30 days; 72 hours" when all along you could tell ANA wasn't resisting and that it was happening in real time.
Scenario 3: Fund Managers are very interested in making money, and also realize that (1) advancing the culture of and maintaining their position in elite backscratching networks has payoffs for that outside of portfolio returns, and.(2) the same networking and nepotism factors are at play for many of the other business deals besides venture capital that a new business will need, so just from an investment perspective weighing those factors heavily makes sense.
Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/7025017...

Plastic garbage from Trader Joe's and an AARP card are peeking out of hillocks of plastic trash piling up in Indonesia.

It's a sign of a new global quandary: What should wealthy countries do with their plastic waste now that China no longer is buying it?
Manufactured is probably less important than where it is consumed and disposed of.

We know the Philippines take in recycling from the rest of the world as they had a diplomatic spat with Canada over being send household waste rather than recyclables.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/trash-talk-phi...

The data point that the Yangtze, Xi, and Huangpu rivers are no longer the biggest sources can be simply attributed to China banning the import of recyclable plastic; it now likely goes to the Philippines and Malaysia instead.
The best software was written in the 90's - Delphi - everything else is still catching up. All web frameworks are awful, because the browser is awful. There, I said it.
We have to accept some risk of Covid-19
It looks like installing a Linux distro on an m1 Mac requires a special installation package, rather than a standard iso. So Asahi is going to be a distro packaged/distributed specifically for m1 Macs, but changes to the kernel etc are being upstreamed, so other distributions should be able to build their own installation media for m1 Macs too in the future.
Sure but I feel like it's just low hanging fruit which is why is so foregrounded
From what I've seen, the only oceanic activities that add much is fishing, which seems to be currently estimated to produce around 20% of global oceanic plastic waste. I believe the link may have mentioned this. If not, some of the references at the bottom will.
No, but I prefer to drink water with rehydration salts because of the taste.