skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The obvious side effect I can see is that plastic will no longer be super-durable and plastic goods used outside may now start to "rot".

When left outside, most plastic goods degrade after a few years of solar UV exposure. Not well enough to remove the plastic from the environment, but sufficiently degraded that it breaks and is no longer fit for purpose. Like an old plastic lawn chair that becomes brittle and eventually shatters when you sit on it.

Indoors things are different. But indoors, wood furniture and whatnot can last hundreds of years.
> Also, can I create and sell the NFT of the theft itself?

There's an opportunity here - a comedy about someone losing their NFT and going to hilarious lengths trying to get it back.
Which brings me back to:

>If there is no company then why don't individuals become felons when a company is convicted of a felony?
A swarm of drones to lift the cable is exactly what I meant: basically a cable with a set of thrust motors spliced in every n length units that can be coordinated to make the cable levitate. The total length of the cable is kind of irrelevant, it all boils down to how much cable (length and transmission capacity) you can levitate per dollar, and per watt.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) compares with flu as a cause of death
Because anyone trying to perform brain surgery still needs to have phenomenal understanding of the (brain) matter at hand. Sure, super-accurate robots to do the cuts and whatever are really cool, but I'd reckon they still have to be operated by someone who knows what to do.....
why not shop at produce-prioritizing grocers like Sprouts (if it's available where you are)? they are VERY much aligned with your priorities, and, in their focus, are cost efficient.
> That’s not how we build cities; modern cities have urban planning departments, traffic engineers, zoning etc.

Yeah... Modern, already existing, cities. That's not how cities are "built", in the sense of a city coming to exist where a city hadn't existed before.
Re 1)...

Im genuinely interested in understanding your first position because I still don't get it.

I would understand advocating for a universal tax increase + huge benefit while donating in the mean time, just not why it isn't worth it to you today.

If you think (X harm)(number of taxpayers) to save (Y lives)(number of taxpayers) is worth it, shouldn't that hold just as true for your personal case of X(1) and Y(1)?

I get that advocating that it would be better if everyone were to do it, just not that it is not worth it individually as well.

The harm you suffer is the same either way, and the benefit you provide to society is the same.

Is there more to it than the competitive disadvantage? Is the competitive disadvantage so great that is not worth giving any any amount to a Noble cause, even $1?

Re 2)....

>Progressive taxes are applied to all equally (accounting tricks and such aside—the intention is equal application).

This is a separate question which I doubt we will be able to see eye to eye on.

It reminds me of the famous Anatole France quote:
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

A law can be applied universally, but still target specific individuals. A law taxing the top 1% can be applied universally but obviously only harms the 1% and not the 99%.

That is not to say that a tax on the 1% isn't a bad idea, but I do feel it is disingenuous for the 99% to say that we too are equally subject to the law, as if they are equally harmed.

A more honest description would be "we want to harm the 1%, because we think that the majority would stand to benefit"
It doesn’t need to not be exposed to microbes at all, but rather just not reach a critical mass / density to become a viable and readily available food source.

Recycling and incineration come to mind, albeit impractical and environmentally harmful.
“”””But the BENEFITS from these enormously productive technologies only seem to go to the richest of the rich””””

You misunderstand how labor productivity is calculated. It’s simply the the total amount of wealth generated by a worker per hour. So for instance, a worker at a McDonalds restaurant generates $150 in wealth per hour, and gets paid $12 per hour on average.

Total wealth is created by productivity and is then divided between labor and capital. Where labor unions are strong, more of the total wealth goes to labor, and where labor unions are weak, more of the total wealth goes to capital.

It’s the total wealth per hour that has seen slow growth in recent decades.

If you doubt how much computers destroy productivity, then simply visit a hospital and you can see it with your own eyes. My mom was recently in the hospital so I got to see this myself. Mistake after mistake because of bad information either put into the computer, or codes being misinterpreted.

In the old days, an army of secretaries kept the world in order. Despite your intuitions, they did in fact have ways of quickly finding one file out of millions of files. And secretaries offered a flexibility that we’ve lost with computers.

It is the loss of flexibility that causes computers to damage productivity.
Not really; if Vantage works as advertised it's basically free money and it should be multiplicative with any savings due to app changes.
I believe the following post is about the same thing.

Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model (gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31484562

923 points | by keveman | 22 hours ago | 596 comments
there was a story on HN a while ago in which someone stored unlimited data in Google Sheets!
One of the most insightful things Alan Kay said in my opinion is that simplicity is the result of choosing a more complex building block. Intuitively I feel there's truth to this.
I didn't sleep for 2 days and finished my MVP
Last weekend I decided not to sleep for 2 days. Literally, no sleeping, only coding.

It was super hard and challenging, coding all the time, and taking small breaks to eat and rest. But I made it, after straight 48 hours of no-sleep, only coding. I finished my MVP.

This was the first time in my life that I did something like that and to be able to finish it in only 2 days. It was crazy!
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What editor were you using? Maybe it had broken indentation?

You should be able to indent the code automatically and then the wrong subordination of the pieces shows up as wrong indentation.

Like, e.g. what you think should be inside some conditional statement isn't intended at the expected level for that role.
Hi, I have two tickets open which are really causing a lot of issues for us:

- Expiration webhooks are not always sent, so customers keep their entitlement way after they should: Ticket 13919 (although it's been spread across a few as it must close them after a while or something)

- A much more urgent issue I opened a couple weeks ago: Customers that cancel and then re-subscribe for a trial at some point in the future have no webhook sent at all. The dashboard says their trial has started, so revenuecat knows the trial exists, but no webhook event is actually sent for it. This is causing a mess of customers who sign up but don't get their entitlements and end up asking for a refund or sending an angry email. Ticket 16016

- I've noticed a bunch of weird bugs, sometimes only affecting one customer so I haven't opened a ticket, but it just makes me question things. For exmaple, we implemented trials in April but our dashboard shows trial signups and conversions from last year. That is not possible, so I question the accuracy of the trial stats as well. Another issue from long ago was that the product_change event on android commonly sends the wrong new product ID, so we just have to ignore it. I was told this is a limitation of the play store though, but it wasn't obvious from the docs back then (not sure if it is fixed now). This makes it difficult to reflect what plan a user switched to within the app, since the product change event can't be trusted. Like most of the issues, the RC dashboard shows it correctly, it is just the webhook that is wrong (which is why I couldn't understand the response that it is a play store bug, when RC shows it right on their end but sends the wrong/old ID in the webhook) Since android downgrades are immediate, the initial_purchase that follows will actually set the correct ID, so that is the workaround for now that I found. (Hopefully I got that right, I'm reading the comments for the workaround we added)

I really want to see revenuecat work and succeed, because it is a great idea and for the most part made implementing subscriptions much easier, there are just a lot of edge cases we keep running into. Support is also not the most helpful, but I understand they are probably swamped. The android bug I mentioned above, the solution was to just use the RC api to fetch the status rather than using the webhook. Why would the API return a different ID than the webhook sent 50ms before? I'm not sure why there is such a disconnect between webhooks and what the API/dashboard returns. It would also be great if you could add a dashboard for support tickets rather than having to use email, it would keep things more organized, as I often need to contact support directly because the community tech support forum is a graveyard. I understand technical issues should be directed there, but they often sit for weeks with no response. Even with these issues I'd still recommend RC in general though. If these issues are happening with a company who's purpose is to handle them, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to implement a subscription system from scratch.
Wouldn't the Java equivalent be?

public static <T> void sort(T[] array);
Maybe not evolve, but perhaps bio-engineer? Brings to mind this awful story - people choose to evolve to eat anything, and it doesn't go well for all other life on earth:

https://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/p...
What kind of consistency guarantees does this offer?
Because they want to be a profitable and cash flow positive company

They don't want to be like most of the other cloud infrastructure companies like Cloudflare that are burning a lot of cash to look cheap. Eventually they will have to increase prices too.

AWS, Azure, GCP get the advantage of having contracts with big technology companies that they can oversell their products too to help make up for the loses they have from basic users. It a lot easier to sell junk to big corporations to increase revenue than it is for DigitalOcean to do the same for SMB and start ups.
>Russian

>these days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
The reasons were related more to accessibility and the data team's ability to fold the orchestration framework into their workflow and not be constrained by it. A lot of that was on me not having the time to make it easy to adopt, but Prefect just offered immediate adoption (being able to shell out, run notebooks, arbitrary Docker containers or k8s pods, in addition to a very unobtrusive decorating pattern) that was too great to pass up.

What Dagster has going for it in this space is pragmatism. It really nails all of the problem points of data ops (with resources & sensors specifically). If I was consulting for a shop that needed data pipelines and they had good eng, I'd recommend Dagster in a heartbeat.
Considering what XQuery does the syntax does a great job of being readable. Every time I look at React components using JSX I'm unfavourably comparing it to XQuery.
Meta: it's on the front page now.
Is Brasilia still the canonical example?
This vuln writeup is extremely well written. Actually quite interesting to read!
This study from 2013 was a revelation about how plastic is colonized and metabolized (!) in the ocean:

"Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris"

Full PDF: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/branco2014/files/2014/...

First part of abstract:

Plastics are the most abundant form of marine debris, with global production rising and documented impacts in some marine environments, but the influence of plastic on open ocean ecosystems is poorly understood, particularly for microbial communities. Plastic marine debris (PMD) collected at multiple locations in the North Atlantic was analyzed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and next-generation sequencing to characterize the attached microbial communities. We unveiled a diverse microbial community of heterotrophs, autotrophs, predators, and symbionts, a community we refer to as the “Plastisphere”. Pits visualized in the PMD surface conformed to bacterial shapes suggesting active hydrolysis of the hydrocarbon polymer. Small-subunit rRNA gene surveys identified several hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, supporting the possibility that microbes play a role in degrading PMD. ...

The pictures are striking. It really looks like the plastic is being eaten. The 2013 study only covered floating debris, though. High density plastics that sink to the benthic zone arrive in an environment with much slower biological turnover and different organisms than the near-surface environment. This current study is interesting in that it sampled enzymes from different ocean depths, not just the surface, and found elevated degradation signals even at depth.
Solar Fryer (Four square meters of truck mirrors, 346.1 degrees F, 2009)
Tracking all tech startup layoffs
Beyond this, one thing I have been putting thoughts into is removing integer promotion and the implicit casts (except for void*) and use explicit static/dynamic casts (not with the horrible c++ syntax).
I also thought about static and dynamic consts, but if I understood well, constant folding would be one of the easiest optimizations to do, then that would not be worth it.
I still wonder what typedef/typeof/_Generic are doing into C. They may be "cheap" to implement, but could lead to excessive generalizations with a strong smell of Rube Goldberg Machine (happening in the linux kernel).
The Illusory Arbitrariness of Deploring
I for one welcome our plastic eating overlords.
> Master Yoneda says: “At the arrows look!”
If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care. We train doctors to have a very deep knowledge of their discipline because when they do encounter that edge case, they need to know immediately what to do.

Medical care is sometimes extremely time sensitive and you don't want the doc to have to ask his superior how to stop your bleeding.
When contributing to uutils (the coreutils written in Rust), one of the bigger pain points with cross platform support is the way that in Unix, everything, including arguments, is just bytes, while on Windows, arguments are semi-opaque text strings. E.g., the -t option in sort, join, etc. takes an arbitrary byte (other than null, which is supported via \0), so you can sort, join, etc. binary inputs. However, the -t option will not let you use a multi-byte character, even valid Unicode characters like é, which, if Unix actually used text for everything, you would expect it to. Meanwhile, on Windows, uutils still doesn't support non-ASCII byte values for -t, because Windows doesn't provide a way to represent those.
Consider bullshit jobs. Yes, there's "work" being done, so it's "productive," but is it really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
I’m not saying it wouldn’t produce energy, and it would probably also contribute most of the year, but the time where I need the most energy (heating and light) is also the time where it is least likely to produce any.

We have an annual power consumption of 6-8k kWh, with about half during winter (heat pump, yay). More energy is required during night time due to dropping temperatures and it being dark, so realistically, I could probably save about half.

At normal energy prices of €0.3/kWh, that means I would save €1200/year, and that’s without taking into account reduced electricity taxes for electric heating.

Taking those into account, all electricity used beyond 4000 kWh/year would be around €0.12/kWh. Taking that into account, I could save €480/year, still assuming I could save 4000 kWh/year out of 8000 total.

A solar panel installation _without_ batteries is about €13500, and saving €480/year means it would take 28 years to get back the investment.

I’m aware batteries can change that equation somewhat in my favor, but it’s ever harder to calculate anything usable with those as it depends if the battery can get charged during the day. In any case, a solar panel installation with batteries is around €20000.
https://boards.4channel.org/biz/

https://rekt.news

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Ipfs is decent enough or better with free pinning services
borrow APY variable for USDT on aave on Ethereum is currently 3% apy.

If you can stomach the various risks involved (e.g. smart contract risk, exposure to ethereum 51% attack or something) then acquire any asset that AAVE has (e.g. USDC, Dai, ETH, BTC), deposit it, withdrawal USDT & sell the USDT thereby naked shorting USDT for 3% APY at current rates.

Those rates are low enough that it just doesn't seem like the market is that spooked yet.
You're looking for Ask.Metafilter [0]. The "Popular questions" [1] section is usually full of gems:

- Seeking a Paradigm Shift: What is an article or essay that you have read that caused a dramatic change in your thinking / perspective / life? [2]

- How to become a person who just goes out and does things? You: a person who goes out and does things, just because. Things like hiking, going to the farmer's market, casual day trips to nearby places, checking out local events, etc. Nothing in particular really, just things outside the house. What does your thought process and mindset look like? How do you decide when to go out and what things to do? How do you keep track of what events are going on in your locale so you remember to go to them? How do you trick yourself into going places when you are feeling ho-hum about it? [3]

There's a wide gamut of questions. I've asked some random things before and gotten good responses.

[0]: https://ask.metafilter.com

[1]: https://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorite12

[2]: https://ask.metafilter.com/354882/Seeking-a-Paradigm-Shift

[3]: https://ask.metafilter.com/355442/How-to-become-a-person-who...
I have maybe too many keyboards.

I've scratch-built keyboards from disparate parts. I've put kits together. I've flashed keyboard firmware. I know how to solder and de-solder.

I'm not super plugged-in to the community but I do consider myself an enthusiast.

I don't care about hot swappable keys; soldering is easy enough. I don't really care who makes the switches as long as they feel good enough. I would prefer standard stems but I know I'm not really likely to swap any keycaps.

I'll probably buy one of these when I get sick of my current work keyboard's lack of a numpad.
Aqua Security’s Trivy Security Scanner Can Scan Anything Now
What value does "cryptocurrency" add to a centralized currency? I can see that we'd be better off with a standardized protocol for sending money around, but plenty of countries have done that fine. The US is stuck in a technological backwater, yes, but I fail to see why "cryptocurrency" would decrease the number of problems.
No, it’s not, unless every participant individually and permanently grants a license to their content for this use before they’re permitted to speak in any channel that’s being archived by this integration.
The Witcher 3 scratches that itch fairly well to tide you over, if you haven't played it, although it is a bit different.
I believe this is how The Andromeda Strain escaped from the lab. Time to stock up on Sterno.
>China denies the event.

It never ceases to amaze me how people still believe things like this.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-Chinese-citizens-particularly-...

> Are you seriously arguing that response is better than the US?

Are you seriously not realising that you're making a huge assumption here? But please, tell me how putting the prime minister in house arrest for the rest of his life is a worse response than ignoring the whole thing altogether and not even pretending to prosecute.

(Also: thousands? Estimates, eg Amnesty International, say few hundred up to a thousand; funny how those numbers somehow keep growing when it's about China and not US, isn't it?)
I don't think AWS has ever been low-margin and the pricing even looks deliberately complexified in some cases, like it was designed by some kind of quant.
Why is it not good at separating content from style?
The whole occupation of Palestinian territory and treatment of Palestinians in the region is wrong - https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/israels-55-y...

This incident further adds to that list
They didn't solve our problem, but they did solve several manufacturing & engineering ones. Touchscreens & microcontrollers are versatile & dirt cheap. It is easier to order a batch of them from China than to CAD, fab, & install a variety of bespoke knobs, sliders, & gauges. I hate it, but it is what it is.
They do for their cloud instances [0], but not their dedicated server offerings.

I've seen on their custom solutions page [1] you can pay extra to have your own private interconnect or manged switches, but I've never used them nor heard much about them.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud - see "FEATURES"
[1] https://www.hetzner.com/custom-solutions
UST trading only halted on some centralized exchanges. If you are willing to expose yourself to DeFi then trading continued.

You can short USDT on AAVE for 3% APY at current variable rates.
Thank you; we might disagree on moral judgement of CCP (I'm not sure if I even have any consistent opinion), but the reason I've asked is that knowing about that semantical difference - bordering on mistranslation - makes it much easier to make sense of the situation, and I found it non-obvious.
The S-300 Fort installation practically implies it, as this is an area air defense system and not strictly a self-defense or point-defense system. With three layers of air defense, anti-air is a primary mission of these ships.

Compare this to a contemporary like the Sovremenny, which carries only medium range SAMs and point-defense.

I agree that the primary mission of USN cruisers and USSR ones are different, but the Slava-class is designed for area air defense, bot for itself and for the rest of it's surface group.
"Slack handles this well" That's questionable… ':) — Though I get it now. And that's indeed a need! Reminds me of when we needed to setup IRC bouncers to not lose history. Thanks.
Agreed, trial & error with YAML sucks. People hated it so much that Amazon created CDK, a tool that basically generates/executes Cloudformation templates.
When is program synthesis worthwhile?
>The entire topic of this thread is the disclosure of official documents which, like the Wansee Protokoll, expose the regime's real goals and practices.

Again, can you show me where said document says so?
No, I don't work for YC. I do get value from this site and would prefer it not be a cesspool of ignorant conspiracy theories when possible.
The already use PVC on cable insulation. If this because a problem then everything would switch to using that instead of a mix.

Also, I've seen nothing to indicate these enzymes can eat nylon, which is the most common insulation other than PVC.