skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because the cost of labor is cheaper, and those countries have bad waste management practices...

If you are running any kind of business, say house insulation, you take money to fully insulate a house, don't insulate 90% of the house, and then attempt to mislead the customer into thinking the job is done, you have commited fraud or embezzlement.

If these companies are paid to recycle but recycling is not happening, then someone has commited fraud. Also the contract does not say 'you can dump unresycleable stuff into the ocean' - they are suppose to dispose of it properly.

It is their job to audit their supply chains and to make sure the job is done. If I know from public sources that majority of plastic that goes to their contractors in Turkey are commiting fraud, then a company with an army of lawyers knows it too.

If they continue using contractors in knowledge that their contractors are fradulent, but are telling me that plastic is being recycled, they are defrauding me. When major western media publishes a video of masked armed men chasing their reporters in Indonesia for investigating 'recycling', it should be clear to anyone that this is massive organised crime.

You don't get to blame this on 'those countries' because our countries are not doing shit either. We created the problem and we outsourced it by contracting literal mafia in Indonesia. Your taxpayer dollars are used to pay mafia bosses and to bribe Indonesian officials, sponsoring corruption in 'those countries'.

This is not just my opinion, there have been multiple investigations and convictions for recycling fraud.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/brothers-sentenced-for-14...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/18/uk-recyc...
I created a platform[1] to more conveniently write and share bookmarklets. I’ve only ever mentioned it when I see bookmarklets shared as raw code with nasty URL encoding obfuscating things. Costs me a buck or two per year so I’ve kept it around. Seems the only folks who use it are some Twitch streamers from SK. No idea how they may have heard of my little site.

[1] https://bookmarkl.ink
Where are the neurons that correspond to "inspiration?" It's algorithms all the way down.
The problem then is if the brand cashes in on the reputation while moving production to China and using cheaper parts whilst charging the premium price still.
Lafayette was a major general in the American revolution at 19, he had plenty of leadership skills in his 20’s. Not saying it’s _common_ but historically it seems at least possible.
I'm not using this stuff professionally, it's just my own home lab's virtual machines with little services implemented as freestanding C programs. Not doing anything fancy right now, much of it was just to see if I could do it.

I've seen other people commenting here on HN saying they're using the same approach in production so it's defenitely not my invention. Hopefully they'll see this thread and reply.

I published some of my work in the form of a liblinux that I use to make system calls:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux

I'm not developing it anymore though because I found out the kernel itself has a superior nolibc library:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/...

It used to be a single header but it looks like they've recently organized it into a proper project!

I wonder if it will become some kind of official kernel library at some point. I asked Greg Kroah-Hartman about this and he mentioned there was once a klibc:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/fx5e4v/im_greg_kroah...
In this case, the power drill actually has a torque limit feature (normally used for putting in screws, without stripping them). If the blender attachment gets stuck, the drill "cams out" and does not get damaged at all, unlike plastic gears.
Does status matter in a social network?

I am almost zero social network status and I can:

1. Find people on LinkedIn and talk to them.

2. Have meaningful discussions on Reddit.

3. Talk to friends.

4. Chat to a random interesting person on Twitter.

The only thing I can't do is make a million dollars from my audience. But surely most users don't need that.

You can't get rid of status as long as you have people. People will prefer some people to other people. Some will be popular.

So I think it is a bit of a non topic. Privacy, security and avoiding addiction and bias are the interesting topics of what we do with social networks.
Here's my favorite example -- in the form of a story.

A bunch of friends visits a young guy who recently moved to Las Vegas. "Here's how we get twenty bucks in Las Vegas," he boasts to his friends, putting $20 on the roulette wheel for black. When it comes up red, he puts down a $40 bet, bragging that "I'll keep increasing the size of my bet until I make back my money -- plus another $20!"

One time he'd had to double his bet four times in a row, but he's convinced that his system works, and does it every time company comes to visit.

Do you see where this is going? One day he hits a horrible streak. Five times in a row he's lost the bet. (So, $20, $40, $80, $160, $320.) Now he's got to bet another $640 -- and hope that he wins. (It's getting awkward, with all his friends watching him lose, feeling bad for him...) At some point his wallet is out of cash, and he's slinking back to the in-casino ATM machine. (And the bank balance isn't infinite either...)

Conclusion? This particular strategy has an asymmetric downside. More often than not, you'll walk away with $20. But the casino knows that sooner or later you'll have that one very bad day where they'll get it all back.
but why is it then so many BMW have issues? I have to go to my Benz dealership quite frequently too. Toyota/Lexus - zero issues.
Well said. I also think it's worth remembering that everyone involved in the production of Hollywood movies are likely doing so at least partially because there's an immense amount of worldwide prestige in working on them. Similarly to how I feel about Tesla employees working 16h days, I don't imagine the thousands of people behind every big budget movie were under any delusion they'd be working a comfy 9-5.
make/kati is another example, Meaning lose/win in Japanese.
What am I missing? This is easy.

You're a bartender with a recipe you want to keep a secret, so you put black paper over the bottles so people can't see what they are.

Or you keep the ingredients somewhere the customers can't see, and mix it there.

Plus give it a one-off name, like "Freddie's Secret Likker" and copyright that.

If you want it to be a trade secret like Coca-Cola, you have some manufacturer make an ingredient just for you, and keep their identity secret. Also buy all their output and swear them to secrecy.
> Plastic from UK is either burned in Poland to power cement production'

It's basically burning fossil fuel. Too bad about the dioxins though.
> - You can have all the CPUs you want, but they're not going to speed up much. We've been at 3-4 GHz for well over a decade now. Parallelism in languages has improved quite a bit, but it's improved from "it's not the language's problem" to "we have some reasonable primitives now". Not to "as easy as sequential".

Mostly correct but there are exceptions: Erlang/Elixir and Golang in particular make concurrent and parallel code extremely easy to write and 99% of what can go wrong is already taken care of for you. Rust makes pretty good strides as well, and OCaml 5.0, once stabilized, promises to give you an ML language with GC memory management and very good parallel primitives that its community will likely quickly develop further.

It's super strange to me that most programmers actually refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the right tool for the job (not talking about you, you obviously are more open-minded, judging by your comment). That seems to be the bane of the modern programming -- the people and their bias. A lot of us became wannabe council of elders.

And I completely agree that non-Turing-complete technologies are extremely useful. I've been preaching for a configuration language that deliberately omits several important things (like passing functions around or recursion) so you can never hack a system through a malicious config. Alas it seems nobody cares until I sit down and write it...

> - Why does the complexity of web pages seem to grow without bound, despite them not doing all that much more?

Sigh. I'd like to know as well. Likely the newer generation are a bit spoiled and feel they can pile complexity on top of other complexity forever? Or, much more likely, nobody sticks around for a long time in their workplace and they are like "frak that, the next guy is gonna fix it"? Who knows. But it's indeed severely not okay.
We will never use every drop. There will always be some remaining which isn't economically viable to extract. But there is wisdom in leaving some significant quantity in the ground, both to limit environmental damage and as a hedge against foreign supply disruptions.
RadioShack
can someone summarize?
Classic martingale. Never fails to capture the imagination.
Apple is still selling a million iPhones a day.
Yes it does - those people can do something else productive, the US gets the tools it needs to build other things in their economy, and the US has resilience in case of future (extremely likely and possibly fundamental) supply chain disruptions.
>energy savings at the expense of longevity

I think we're in agreement, however, I don't think an analysis has been made either way to be able to make this claim. The old appliances you see could just be due to survivor bias, while the broken ones were unceremoniously disposed of. Perhaps the old appliances were simpler and cheaper to repair, but perhaps new appliances need less repairs in the first place. Without an actual analysis this is just speculation.

A related example would be laptops and cell phones, which have become more complicated, less upgradable, and harder to repair over time (soldered parts, glue etc.). However, cell phones are now commonly waterproof, which has eliminated a major reason for replacement. Laptops basically have no moving parts other than the keyboard and screen hinge now, and stay useful much longer due to chips being really fast in the last decade.
Rightfully so. People still have to physically write.
> Allow for Error short circuits

Is the `try` keyword in the highlight section what you're looking for? You can write `var = try fn()`

Thanks. I fixed the typo when I first saw this hours ago but it's been busy and I forgot to reply
You realize most so-called warranties are issued with the expectation that the overwhelming majority will never make a claim let alone collect on it right? To put it plainly I don’t care a whit about warranties, I just don’t want the hassle of an unnecessary repair job.
Yes magnetic fields and spin are expected to deform neutron stars slightly.
"Deterioration" into profanity? If you'd said this to him on Twitter 10 years ago, he'd have told you to "snort his taint". Profanity is his shtick, so much that his podcast on NPR had a swear jar sound effect.

This is an unusually straight-laced post for him; the profanity is obviously restrained for effect.

He's great, and hasn't really changed a whit (though the world around him has).
Possibly SSL is not something that's quite that easy to set up on ReactOS yet?

Probably doesn't have a letsencrypt client.

Maybe there's no SSL/TLS library that works on it at all.
On Remembering Advice
Daniel Swain is the current superstar climate scientist who was featured in the New York Times and writes a lot of pop science explanations of abstruse climatological concepts. He also has solid credentials and publishes accurate long-range forecasts on his WeatherWest California blog. When Daniel speaks, it's a good idea to listen.
> The drink quality and the experience is more important than the novelty of a drink.

Good point about the experience being about far more than the recipe/drink quality. One can prove this simply by drinking great wine out of a wine glass and a mug or plastic cup.
I disagree with this. An entire business day is a long time to do nothing. I've always loved jobs where there was enough strategic direction to know what to focus on but enough latitude where you could actually do it. I can't think of anyone (not suffering from pure burnout) that didn't devour meaningful work that had well written requirements.
I find Crypto/web3 does this weird thing where it sells itself on what people imagine it is (freedom, privacy, decentralization, more fault-tolerant applications, etc.), rather than what it actually can do (same as web2 but slower and more complicated).
I built a ‘phone book’ of sorts for QR codes, where people could upload any QR code they wanted and tack on a Google friendly description. My main motivator was to allow for more transparency and cross connectivity among WeChat groups, but the only one that was enthusiastic about the project was me. The URL is wodeqr.com (Chinese for ‘my QR’), but I think today the domain is some spammy nest of filth. I don’t even want to type it into my browser.
> What am I missing? This is easy.

I'm curious. How often do you go out to the fancy cocktail bars ($20+ per drink)?
As a veggie I love this stuff.

Despite all the new meat replacements coming out, I still prefer Quorn pieces to most of them.
> Why do non-Western elites send their kids to Western countries for university educations?

So that they can plug themselves and their kids into massive, powerful, prosperous, global alumni networks.
I believe that it already did, honestly.
The output and range of Dalle-2 and Stable Diffusion is unmatched by any human artist. I am not only talking about quantity and range - the best illustrations generated by Stable Diffusion are honestly unbelievable and could totally get on the front pages on artstation on their own. The digital paintings, the 3d renders, landscapes, portraits, concept arts, character designs - I've seen too many world class examples of those generated by AI. The best human artists can usually be world-class at a single style or a genre, while Stable Diffusion is world class at hundreds of them.
There's of course no way to judge art objectively. And there are at the moment a lot of gaps that AI is not the best at. Still, if there was a single human artist that could do the things that stable diffusion can do - he would be the best artist that ever lived, no doubt.
The DAO didn't "cause a fork". The fork happened because there was a community consensus that the best solution to mitigate the hack was by migrating to a chain where the bug could be fixed. IOW, it was an example that governance is more sociological than technological thing.
Is compressor not evolved from 50s? Looks hard to believe. Isn't modern refrigerators use inverter compressor? I suspect that some other improvements exists.
GE appliance repair guy told me not to give up my 2006-era washer/dryer when he was replacing the drain hose. Unfortunately I had to. A year later an LCD screen went bad and would cost $1K to fix. So I bought a new LG.

The problem is they aren't built to last well nor be economically repairable. I'd take one or the other (or both!).
Yes, I would like to emphasize the last point.
Yeah, I was "flight software" on a control shift for a Dragon space capsule when I was 26, and the "mission director" was probably a year or two younger than me. Other shifts had older directors though.

Flight software is a fun role because they're the first person anyone asks when something goes wrong. "What's causing that sensor to glitch out, is it a bug?" "Uh no, probably not. Hey I'm just a software engineer, but is it possible the pyrowhatzit is actually melting right now?" "Oh crap"
> this thread is addressing a practical problem with consumer goods

The problem of selecting for quality is exactly what I am talking about, and it is very simple to accomplish. I do it myself routinely, so I know that it takes a bit more than 0 effort, but it is a very simple problem to manage, and anybody can do it. The actual immature complaint is that not enough people have the same preferences as you do. Which you just have to get over, and accept that you live on a planet with 7 billion other people, and a lot of them (no matter what they say), actually don’t care about a little bit of slave labor in the supply chain of their new TV.
What blenders do professional kitchens buy?
Another possible cause: Do people even know how to make high-quality products any more? Who are the top 1% of refrigerator engineers, and do they still even go into refrigerator design, or did they become wall street quants instead? This is the same thing I wonder when I eat at crappy restaurants. It's not like the staff knows how to make good food and they choose not to do it. They don't know how!
> they are areas were Windows is still popular

those areas where Windows is still popular account for a tiny percentage of the devs who responded to that survey. The majority of responders define themselves as backend, frontend or fullstack developers - which are web development roles https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#developer-roles-dev-ty...

TL;DR nowadays, most developers are web developers.

PS the reason why the total of all responses is more than 100%, is that this was a multiple selections response.
Deadmau5's while 1 < 2 - though a few tracks are a bit harsh.
I don’t disagree, but I think there’s a productive middle ground here.

Docker has cleared become popular because it drastically eases application deployment and cleanup.

Static linking also solves a huge number of these problems, and in a generally better way.

Docker has overhead, an associated attack surface, bulky artifices, etc but it yields very nice benefits for workload isolation (env configs, storage mounts, etc) as well as cross OS/arch builds.

Is there a solution that combines the best of these options? A super-slim docker for statically linked apps that combines the ease of deployment with a much smaller footprint?
Casinos also usually have bet minimums and maximums to thwart things like this
This is IMHO a really good question. The real question is - how can you easily migrate your data to another service.

OP, there are some tools that we use to backup gmail accounts. Look up tools like movebot.io, bittitan, etc.

These services also help you move data from Google's cloud.

Also in my experience, its easier to move stuff from your Google workspace account, and its actually harder to move from your private gmail account.
Beethoven's compositions are in the public domain because he died before Mickey Mouse first appeared on screen, but specific copies of his works may still be covered by the editor's copyright.

For the benefit of non-musicians: Editors, especially of older works, routinely correct mistakes (and sometimes disagree about whether the composer made a mistake!) and depending on how verbose the composer was may add their own indications of speed and volume; in some cases you get instrument-specific annotations as well, e.g. fingerings and bowings in violin parts. The Bach solo violin partitas are immediately recognizable as the Bach solo violin partitas no matter who edited them, but if you're familiar with the editions you can definitely tell which one a violinist learned!
Don't say! I think we have a Sherlock Holmes here.
A title is meaningless without context. Knowing he was a major general does not tell me anything about his leadership skills.

Often at companies (And I presume in other situations as well), people are thrust into higher level positions purely because they happened to be in the right place at the right time and someone above them left.
> in the past

what changed? Hard to believe that can't be done today.
>>> Really? You wouldn't prefer that it was all free any everyone got access to it?

>> "On the other extreme are degrees that, like GP identified, were never meant to be economically sound. They focus on intellectual ideas and curiosities, rather than skills actively needed by the economy. Government subsidy here would be little more than subsidizing hobbies and other activity that do not provide economic returns."

>The risk of defunding these programs is that you can't confidently say whether many of these subjects might become useful in the future.

Why do the options have to be either "free college for all" or "defund programs that don't have direct economic benefits"? The option that you're missing is not giving free college for all, but still providing some merit based scholarships to subsidize the most promising students.
The other thing is that in Las Vegas at least casinos are private property.

So if you keep winning they have the legal right to just throw you out.
How much more energy efficient are they really? How much are you actually saving?
capture a regulator and have them put your competitors out of business

bribe politicians to use your countries armed forces in your companies interests

get the government to cover any downsides of your product

be the child of a politician and offer consulting services

found a central bank

there are lots more
Major floods in the Sacramento Valley take place every 100 to 200 years according to sediment cores. Based on this evidence, scientists predict that the next major flood event in California is due in the next 40 years. Los Angeles streets will be under water, tornados will destroy Santa Monica pier and there are sharks everywhere.
Sounds great, but Consumer Reports definitely has a checkered past. Read about the Suzuki Samurai debacle, in which they methodically manipulated their tests (strictly for that vehicle, and not any of the others in its class that they were simultaneously evaluating), with the goal of destroying the vehicle's reputation.

https://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-report-a-black-eye-for-co...
In 1965 Margaret Hamilton was in charge of all of the Command Module software for Apollo at the age of 29. It wasn’t just young underlings led by experienced engineers.
It's probably because the new models have incompatible boards and there is a small stockpile of that model left.
Engineering doesn’t change. If it was learned by one it can and will be learned by another. Manufacturers know how to make quality parts, they are just not able to, or choose not to, for whatever reason. Aftermarket parts business is a large portion of an appliance or vehicle manufacturer’s bottom line, so they make decisions to augment the profit of that business, including sacrificing quality on the appliance or vehicle.
I've done a sport which is like orienteering in rougher terrain and generally for a longer period (24 hour events). You're navigating by moonlight or with headlamps for a reasonable portion of the event. I've never felt that the compass and map aspect is the difficult bit that defines the top competitors - they win because they run for longer, pick a better overall route strategy, can freelance by reading contours in rugged terrain, etc. You usually get lost because you make personal interpretations of landscape (is this the fourth watercourse since the knoll, or the fifth?) rather than mess up with the compass.

You compete as pairs or more, so you always confirm compass bearings with each other, then confirm a target on the landscape.

Up thread, someone talks about low visibility in fog, but it's probably not too different from using a headlamp. You pick a bush or a stick if you have to, and try not to take your eyes off it.
Wow, interesting. I’m an ML researcher creating models for music generation and I can say with certainty we are pretty far from generating human level quality music.
The team was not particularly more effective after doing the Retrospective ceremonies for many months. The themes that emerged on day one were the same every sprint and the same as for any software org: more communication needed with users, more alignment with stakeholders, faster feedback helps, etc. Every team I’ve worked with has strived to improve on these, but I never saw any actual improvement that I could trace back to the Sprint Retrospective.
Correct. I chose the words “significant” and “experience” deliberately.