skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fashion? Fashion is not the only offender. Huge amounts of clothes that are bonded at the seam versus stitched(hard to adjust size) and we have all seen the billion of consumer items glued/riveted/ultra sonic welded as well as food items packed in multilayer single use cartons = a universal woe that later archeologists might well call the 'trash era'.
This is an existential threat!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#:~:te....

We may laugh at it now, but there are areas of the world that have become dumping grounds for our trash even now. Used clothes given to goodwill etc have exceeded their ability to resell it all in their shops. Most of it is now bought by job lotters who fill containers and send them globally to poorer countries and Africa/Caribbean/Asia and sell them in bag auctions for cash.
Hundreds of people line up to buy these and they sort and sell flea market style.
Some bags are good deals others less so. While it does invigorate a local industry who buy the clothes and then make items from them - huge amounts pile up in waste clothing dunes all over the place, and even then lower order scroungers sort these piles. There are often fires and huge plumes of plastic smoke fill the air.
The time has come to out law these practices = you eat what you make. This can be done with a fee at sale process. Ontario, Canada has one for electronic goods. If you buy a keyboard it has a fee attached and an approved recycler can scrap this keyboard and claim this fee if he correctly recycled it. One major one is Glencore https://www.glencore.ca/en/What-we-do/Metals-and-minerals/Co...
They smelt copper ores, and recover wire/copper/steel from e-scrap. They use the heat of combustion of the printers/keyboards/etc as process heat. Smelting occurs at a high enough temperature that all organics become CO2 and H2O, and other materials, chlorine, soot are recovered by a 'bag house' - in essence a vacuum cleaner bag, and fumes are quenched in recycled water and filtered. The baghouse dust and wet filtered dust in refined for whatever values are in there.
Same needs to be done with clothes - Glencore could also burn them as fuel for the refinery and filter the output. This means a fee on clothed - and any other item, refrigerators, washers etc - make it worth doing and someone will do it for the $$. Nationally this will be a few % added for a permanent solution to waste paid for at source by them that made it!!
If you really want to change your mind, then get a PhD in psychedelics!
Somebody should setup the uncool and reliable brand of male clothing. I want the Toyota Corolla of male clothing. I do not care about fashion. I want to wear timeless long lasting clothes. Don't care about branding either.
Just somebody please setup a shop where I do not have to worry about quality, but is also not a shop that pretends that every item of clothing is hand tailored by an Italian craftsman and costs half a thousand euros.
i mean this is nothing new, it's quite simply one brand aka microsoft trying to keep its share of the market, nothing more :/
I have read a similar book some months ago that was very helpful: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt.

I highly recommend it.
It is true that my brother did the washing up for our mum, but I would argue that a lot of the work was due to avoidable inefficiency (he was a firefighter arsonist; half the kitchen would be covered in oil when he used a pan, and mum would just see the mess, not who made it, and then he'd be get the credit for cleaning it), and that I contributed roughly the amount that I consumed, because back then I would offset the occasional shared meal by occasionally doing the washing up for everyone.
I am finding the choice of braille characters confusing: I would have assumed that one would use the 8 dots to represent the 8 bits, and that seems to be happening for the very high values--like 0xfX--but then 0x81 should have two dots... what is the logic? (I did verify that Unicode seems to have a "full set", as I could have seen them deciding to only encode ones that were "used" or something, and maybe braille had been designed explicitly to be readable upside down or something and so only used half the options, but I found a chart mapping the characters for all 256.)
OpenAlias – Simplifying the World
Mother's maiden name, the street he grew up on, his first elementary school.
This game was a favorite for me and my friends. It always blew my mind taking my low level game and cable-linking to my friends who had a Queen or wizards in their arsenal.
uBiome: The Biotech Startup That Became an FBI Target
You may have a point. I'm going to go reevaluate my entire worldview for a bit.

EDIT: nope, still not buying it. I can only make it work by analogy with bury->burial, archive->archival, and there's not enough there.
Also, This series is good, although sadly, I dont see much new content being added.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lessons-from-a-failed-s...

Also, if I were to give one advise to startup founders. Ignore all advice online about how to succeed. It's mostly whitewashed stuff. Unless you know the founder privately, 1-on-1, it is useless. The only honest ones are from failed founders.
I wasn't able to find a link that would work with Overcast.
I found I get more power from fully owning up for my part in personal conflicts.

Mitigating damage I did clears my conscience. I generally don't expect the same from the other party because I have no control over what they do. Perhaps they'll consider my example and that may potentially lead to better feelings of their own but not everyone is in a place to do that. I haven't always been.

Because these are almost always people I have good (or no) history with, I typically develop some genuine regret for being part of their negative experience. It's easy to express regret in an apology.
He also did Jason Molina's Magnolia Electric Co., an amazingly recorded and engineered record that I think accomplishes his idea of "capturing the band's music and existence" as he describes in the letter.
Maybe it's time for a PineTV.
minidisks use polarization
Blue-steel: REST API for your database (PostgreSQL/SQLite)
So `winget` is now installed by default. Nice to see that not everything is about making Windows a worse experience.
I haven't bought a new pair of pants in over five years, the ones I have now have held up rather well. I buy new shirts maybe every year or two. Many of my shirts are over ten years old.

My wife would love to have the same arrangement with her work clothes. I think part of the problem is that women's clothing is made to not be as durable, although I think it could be. Most women would probably be happy to wear a fancy scarf over something basic and call it a day.

There doesn't seem to be a good standard for women's professional work attire that isn't at risk of soon falling out of fashion. Because it isn't 'designed' to last for six months it doesn't.
Uni-Qlo.
> The median household income in 2020 was $67,521

Median personal income is around $36k. [0] Annualized median earnings of the full-time employed are around $52k. [1] Households often have more multiple income earners.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm
>It's probably a bit early to complain about Apple.

Why? Apple mints new silicon by its own design every year like swiss clock work. Google on the other hand, depends on the likes of Quallcomm, Mediatek and Samsung for the silicon, whenever they decide to add AV1 IP blocks, leading to a chicken and egg situation.

Google could probably fore their hand by switching to AV1 before HW support arrives, but then Youtube UX will suck on all smartphones leading to shit battery life and overheating.

Plus, video codec IP blocks are always a hot potato for the SoC vendors as they're tied in various third party licensing and patent schemes they don't like to deal with.
I'd recommend iwd over wpa_supplicant but yes, it's not pretty. That said this still doesn't really answer the question of why avoid it as a layer, even a shitty layer is better than just not having one at all.
Not yet, unfortunately, I've opened an issue in our tracker for slideshow support: https://github.com/vizzuhq/ipyvizzu/issues/102
it could happen if the regulatory environment were "right-sized" with a heavy emphasis on ensuring clear and concise information to potential buyers/renters to counteract the natural information asymmetry that arises in markets between producers and consumers. this is often a key missing piece to laissez-faire flavors of economics that leave markets more distorted and less competitive than ordinarily regulated markets.

that's not the only condition, but it is a necessary one, to create affordable housing without shoveling piles of tax money at developers. the market must also be made fair and competitive in other ways, and there must be enough volume for prices to equilibriate to new information quickly (which also requires new information to spread widely to consumers, as in the first condition above).
A land value tax or exclusive land use fee would fix this.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/land-value-tax-housin...
Very odd to me to see these two stories (late PhD and 'ed') next to each other in HN. Last night I discovered my great aunt's old notebook from her schooldays and posted it on Insta.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb3Y6M1sYW-/?utm_medium=copy_lin...

She was, to my knowledge, the oldest person to get a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (starting in her retirement and getting it in her '70s). In the late 1990s she explained to me how she would go in to the University computer labs and write her thesis using 'ed'. Even then I was impressed :)
A system76 what? Desktop or laptop?

My experience with their desktops has been pretty great. Their laptops however are terrible.
Ah so one should simply pick a field of study that will become relevant in two decades. Why didn’t I think of that?
Sure but its fine for individual parts to fail if the manufacturer will repair/replace that part. Spares of easily user-replaceable parts can even be included with the product, like spare fuses often were.

It's not necessary to achieve zero failures, but it creates incentives for manufactures to use higher quality parts.

I am supportive of setting minimum lifespans for certain classes of products and to expwct manufacturers to be liable for that performance.
On second glance I think that Rust example is needlessly verbose, which is fine if that's what you meant, but the Go doesn't do that.
I'd say something similar to Bilal_io.

In general as a NAS: No every function is already migrated to Scale, there are some quirks here and there, but as a NAS is working OK

Regarding the "Apps": It's too heavy for (really) old systems, but it seems to work OK in newer systems. Although you could in practice, don't expect to "just run a Docker image", you better use their "App charts". The "App" definitions are based on Helm and there is both an "Official" repository and a "Community" repository (Truecharts) of them. You can also create your own repo and add it to your Scale deployment.

https://github.com/truecharts/apps

I have some simple apps (Transmission, Heimdall and some other stuff) running in a E3-1265L 32GB RAM and everything es working well.

But I have a really old HP Microserver N40L as an offsite backup for my NAS where I've installed TrueNAS Scale too, and although the NAS works OK, if I try to install any apps, the K3S installation plus all the tools overhead is too much for the machine, and keeps it at 100% CPU almost permanently. If you remove all the apps and detach the storage from the App system it uninstalls all that stuff and goes back to work well again.
That workspace switcher applet is an excellent idea. I have to applaud that level of commitment to the concept!
> And it's important to note that WP now sees its main competition as platforms that do offer that.

I don't know about every other platform, but Squarespace for example is doing really well in bringing design consistency.

> But one assumes those features can be switched off by theme editors;

Maybe you can shut the light off but at the moment it is really hard or even impossible to tune them.

> Putting aside the fact that you're basically sneering at users for wanting to make their own creative choices, that is only your call to make when you're managing the system, right?

No, it's not about control. It's neither about taste. Individual users can do whatever they want. There are more complex situations where some random guy will use the largest font size in bold red for things he think are important and you still have responsibility for that output. In general, Gutenberg also broke the WP user capability system, so there is still work to do to fix it.

> If you really think all these things need to be able to be locked down tight: make the case, submit the patches?

Yes and I assure you I'm not the only one, but it's not something you can fix with a patch. There were really constructive discussions that led to the Global Styles concept for example. But oh boy it takes time. There is work on a theme.json standard that is still an undocumented, change-breaking mess.

And then, on the next update they put some 50kb of useless svgs in your html...
I Stayed in Icon's New Luxury 3D Printed Home in Austin, Texas
the internet is more than browsers and http, we have email, irc, sftp, torrents and lots of other cool stuff that I would hate to see centralized in the hands of a few private companies and serve to the masses with browser, mandatory https and google tag manager all in order to track people behaviors.

I feel like promoting alternatives is a better idea than participating in the creation of a dystopian future for the generations to come.

out of question for me to just "let it slide", we have too much to loose here
when I argue with my wife, we always make up in the end with a one or both of us apologizing, saying the words "I'm sorry".

sometimes it takes a day for me to get to saying it. And sometimes it feels like a major blow to my ego when I do finally say those words, even if I mean them.

But I always come out the other end feeling a million times better. And never feel like I'm less of a man or whatever. feel stronger because I'm closer to my partner. and I'm no longer battling within myself.

I have a hard time understanding people who don't apologize, when they know they've done wrong! It seems so stressful.
> The mechanism I described isn't one to disagree or agree with.

And yet you failed to account for the embodied energy in building the product and the fact that maintaining any appliance or equipment requires repairs. So there is quite a bit to disagree with.

It is much more wasteful to build a product with no methods of repair, noting that a large number of components will statistically fail due to variability of tolerances or usage patterns.

A 50 yr product requires maintenance, replaceable parts and access to documentation. All of these are lacking in our modern consumer environment. You can blame this on complexity, or designs towards sleekness or what not but the truth is that product failure after a short amount of time (planned obsolescence) creates a reoccurring customer base, and the ability to pass off cheaper parts that don't need to be able to handle removal (glue vs. screws, etc.).
This seems logically incoherent to me. Maybe I’m reading it wrong. But anyway here’s my version:

Avoid making mistakes that harm others. Be aware that you will make some anyway, and you won’t always recognise them as mistakes at the time. (If you take pride in having a spotless record, you’re liable to deceive yourself.) And when, on reflection, you realise you have harmed someone by mistake, figure out what you can do to 1) fix the harm and 2) prevent it happening again. And then tell them this plan in a way that commits you to it. That’s an apology. This way you make fewer and fewer harmful mistakes over time. The idea that someone can just “avoid mistakes in the first place” to avoid needing to apologise is dangerously lacking in humility, in my opinion.
I guess the major issue with 'plastics' is that they are wildly different. Polyethylene (PE, LDPE - plastic bags, HDPE - pipes], Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene - ABS [Lego, cheap tools shell], and polycarbonate (PC plexiglass, quality tools] would be pretty much the same (just plastic) for most people. Yet, even sorting them is expensive, then the quality and degradation of the source material is unknown, so recycling them for new products is not very feasible.
> There would be chaos and security and that would probably be the end of the event.

That’s the exact opposite of how any televised live event works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_show_must_go_on
You don't want to work at a company with "Company wide except for Pat" policies.
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As long as everyone is arrested for not recycling I am pleased. So if anyone puts one of these products into the trash rather than mailing them back to the original manufacturer they should be jailed.
Maybe because it felt obvious enough to go without saying...I mean ethernet was developed alongside Smalltalk and the Alto at PARC...since message passing is how networks work.

As I digress, if you have to divide up a workload, you can start with a language based on message passing or you can implement message passing in some other language. The danger with implementing it is to not recognize that's what you're doing.
I just hope this doesn't have any (un)intended consequences that will replace natural materials like wool and cotton with synthetic fabrics or something equally ridiculous.
Thread from a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878055
You don't need a link. I can corroborate with my own experiences. Flash memory slowly forgets information. One guy told me that he can't unplug is big SSD array because he's afraid to lose a few bits. He might as well call it RAM.
Thanks for the counter-example. :)

Did your company also license the code?

To explain my frame of mine, I was thinking how it was used in 2007 or later.

In the early 1990s, there wouldn't have been much off-the-shelf/free&open-source options. The GNU Scientific Library didn't start until 1996, for example (according to Wikipedia).
> uBiome was a biotech company that seemed to have it all. Idealistic leaders, a promising idea, and lots of venture capital funding. But eventually, the company had a spectacular downfall.

> This March, uBiome's two leaders were charged with defrauding investors and insurers in a multimillion dollar scheme, and the government says they're fugitives.
> Horribly expensive, centered on financial services, great for hiding money and impossible to immigrate too?

Yes, no, not anymore, no.

And even those costs are relative - sometimes when I travel I end up in places which are definitely not cheaper. And that's coming from somebody living in 1 of 2 most expensive spots within Suisse. Some more rural places are cheaper to live in than most big European cities.
Unfortunately the European Commission is always playing catch up (when it even tries) and it takes 10 years in court to get a fine enforced (if it's not struck down).

If you believe the hype, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will change things. (Or, I guess, Microsoft will need to spend a bit more to buy compliance from the regulators.)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220315IP...
How do you stop the network access for processes?
If you're being served ads on the internet, just install ublock origin.
If you use React, have a look at React Bricks. It has a great foundation for Devs based on React components, but with top visual editing experience for Content editors. To be clear, I am the founder :)
What do you think about it?
I don’t think there is any scheduling. Each connection polls to see if the write lock is available up to the max busy timeout setting.

The connection polls at these intervals: static const u8 delays[] = { 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 25, 25, 50, 50, 100 };

So, if you are using the default 5 second timeout, and you are trying to acquire a lock while an exclusive lock is held, you will wait 1 second, then 2 seconds, then 5 seconds, and timeout. I’m not sure if you timeout after 3 total seconds have elapsed, or sometimes after the 2 and sometimes after the 5.

If you have a thread running many fast queries in a loop you can deny access to another thread that needs a lock. The other thread may get lucky and poll for the lock at the exact moment in between locks from the other thread, but it might not.
Those are very different things — one is a studio movie, one is Broadway play. Both can be appreciated through their own lenses.
Ask HN: Is there a reason for spam accounts only sending a single message?
Every once in awhile, when I get a spam message on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, etc), I chat for a bit just to see what the strategy is, do a Turing test, etc. Typically, I used to get a few messages that mostly ignore the questions I ask, and then send me a link to some website asking for my credit card details or something. Every once in awhile, I'd find that even though it seemed to be a spam account, someone seeming to be a human being would chat with me for days. Once, I found that it was actually an ex trying to stalk me. But lately, I've noticed that a lot of these spam accounts send a single, one word message, like "Hello", "Hola" or an emoji, and then never respond to any messages, never send any links, never actively try to get anything from me at all. So my question is, is there some sort of spam or fishing strategy that I'm missing here? Am I falling for something without realizing it? Are these just lazy scammers?
I haven't tried any other items from them, but I own one sweater from them and I have no bad words to say about it. The quality is superb and it has lasted me a long time. Anecdotal experience, but so far a good one.
These are generally firmware updates, no? One could imagine the same chassis, hardware and drive system with only a few modifications to sensors and the control hardware (perhaps even just an update to the microcontroller's firmware) achieving the same output.
Seems like implementation would be pretty hard to validate with the whole lot encased in epoxy!
I think most people are busy just trying to make ends meet. I have a family member who said, "Obama fixed the NSA thing." I also read where the Patriot Act expires, so they aren't doing it anymore.
Well, there was a revolution in electric cars in that time, so may e not the best pair of dates.
> That's why you see people often saying things like "I'm sorry that you seem offended" and the like. It's a way of clearly stating that you don't think an apology is called for in the first place, without being outright insulting or burning bridges in the process.

Nah it's blatantly insulting for anyone who can hear and has half a brain.

It's not an acceptable "apology" if you even want to call it that. It only proves that whoever said that is self absorbed, tone deaf, and not someone worth interacting or doing business with as they're only looking out for their own bottomline and saving face.
It doesn't matter, Russia has a demographic problem even worse than the US and is going to have a collapse. Something like Japan would be a best case scenario for them but I don't think they have the economy to support it.
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