skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an organization that should supposedly promote recycling, I think this takes an regrettably gloomy POV. My local newspaper did an article recently on plastic recycling in my home city. Most households already recycle their plastics and plastic recycling containers will be mandated by law for all multi-family dwellings from the start of 2023. The recycling rate for single-use plastic packages is at 41%, which means we are well on our way to the target of 50% by 2025. The recycling rate for plastic beverage bottles is even higher due to a deposit system (0.15€ per bottle redeemable at automatic deposit collection machines at any grocery store.)

After recycling, the plastic still needs to be sorted by its chemical variety. This is done fully automatically using an optical sensor and compressed air. The success rate of the sorting phase has been optimized in co-operation with plastic packaging manufacturers (plastics that are dyed black are more problematic for the sorting process.)

And there is certainly consumer demand for recycled plastics even if it's more expensive than pristine plastic. Using recycled source material allows companies to brand the end product as more ecofriendly. The recycling plant that processes the plastics for my city is already operating at fully capacity, able to sell 100% of their output and looking to expand.

The end product of the recycling process are small plastic granules that can be used just like pristine plastic to make new plastic products. Only limitation is the granules are not food-grade, but then again there are tons of non-food plastic products. Also, if there is ever lack of demand for the recycled plastic it is possible to ban the use of pristine plastic for certain products to increase demand. But as said, currently the organic consumer demand for recycled plastic products already surpasses production capacity.

Commercial link: https://www.fortum.com/products-and-services/recycling-waste...
> Burning it produces all kinds of toxins from impurities and carbon.

Which can be trapped/filtered to avoid pollution.

> if plastics ever become sufficiently valuable - or recycling sufficiently viable.

If that was remotely probable, you'd have banks offering plastic-storage related ETFs already.
I doubt it. Hey is doing very very well; and so is Basecamp, 37 Signals’ other service.
And it's open source continuation - Manticore Search [1]

[1] https://manticoresearch.com/
A new waste processing plant was recently opened near my hometown (Amsterdam) which is able to sort plastic from waste automatically, so we're able to mix plastic and waste in one bin. It's pretty amazing, but plastic packaging can be so bulky that my bin has started filling up much faster than before and trips to the bin outside have become much more frequent.
Why? What do Belters have to do with insects?
How much plastic do you trash per day !?
Right, then I have to relearn my userspace setup... well maybe it's time - but I've been on debian longer long before I met my childs mother, before I even grew a single hair on my chest, before I had a bank account, a job, or a cell phone. But perhaps you are right, it's time to quit it
Environment variables can’t store a TCP connection to a database or a pre rendered HTML string.

In the latter case you could use redis, but that’s a poor, inconvenient, inefficient replacement for a global variable.
In order for that consumer-grade hardware to be that cheap, the vendors add bloatware from other vendors to augment the loss of profits by selling at close to cost, or at least a severely limited margin. This has a knock on effect of making what would be decent enough as a simple daily driver have extremely poor performance.
Why not move the tech bros to Slab City and let the homeless have SF? At least the tech bros can set up air conditioning.
The market is still concentrating wealth into a few select hands, so it is not failing.
Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF
I would like to suggest https://typesense.org/
It has some features that makes it a better choice than Meilisearch
I on the other hand met in person someone from Hong Kong whose uncle, I believe, had been imprisoned during a much earlier demonstration for a different cause.

He didn't exclaim any morally high-flying attitude and said that after the demonstration was over and he was in jail, no public really remembered him, the news didn't write great stories about his heroic deeds and he suffered tremendously as a small cog caught between the wheels of history.

You're attitude also reminds me strongly of pre-world-war Germany where there was also a sentiment that a war with the unjust oppressors is much better than the current rotten piece; you can see where this has lead.

Ending, I don't what to dismiss your positive attitude to oush against oppression, but I want show that there is more to the issue than "live free or don't live at all".

So what you say sounds great - in theory. But letting Mike Tyson answer: "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face".
>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in

that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full threads even when logged out.

>you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.

I've never encountered interspersed comments on Twitter threads. they're visible the way they're visible in the thread reader website, one after the other. other comments come at the end of the thread.
I'm so tired of clicking on posts like this expecting a civilized discussion on how things like this should be stopped, possibly regulated, and instead finding dozens of comments that read like they were written by Apple marketers.
Agreed. Java is great for general purpose programming, I just think everyone can benefit from their systems tools being a little more lean. I can’t tell you how often my teams deal with trying to tune the GC
The free market always tends to fail if there’s a monopoly. A duopoly is apparently also a failure mode, here (regarding phones).

But in the case of laptops, I’m not sure the market has failed. Apple is selling MacBooks like hotcakes. The Framework laptop is attacking at a different angle, and I have high hopes for System76 and friends.

Yes, there’s loads of hot garbage, but there are really good alternatives.
The market failed in part because it appears to goose up productivity when you cut team size, outsource, and OKR your way to "measurable performance." Nobody was left with any willingness to call this crap out. Nobody was incentivized to say the bloatware was causing product returns.

How to fix this? It has to come from every CEO, down through management, to empower the people who ask expensive questions like "Why is the bloatware so shitty?" This doesn't happen because most CEOs cannot grasp that that is how Apple gets to charge so much more for their laptops, and that they have to give up managing by the numbers to get there. (Not that Apple hasn't got numbers people, especially on the supply chain side.)

You don't need open source systems to get there. Open source in commercial systems can help, but it isn't fundamental to getting the bloatware under control. Microsoft does it with Surface in part to put pressure on their OEM customers, like Google does with Pixel. This isn't just to be good to their end-users. They would probably kill their OEMs if they could and be more like Apple, if they could.
I feel like comedy as an art form is basically dead outside of small clubs. To be a real authentic comedian is to be a critic of society, but the general consciousness to how fucked we are has reached a much higher degree than the 1990s (I personally blame the crumbling of "respectability" in politics). So any comedy that doesn't have pretty radical undercurrents ends up feelings stale and tone-deaf, but those kinds of acts/movies aren't appreciated by ad-driven execs.

(One solution to this might be to just default to the hyper exaggerated comedy formula of the 90s the author talks about, like Happy Guilmore. if you can't say anything meaningful, at least say something just make everything as chaotic as possible.)
Safest move would be to not actually expose your server from your public IP, but instead tunnel traffic from your home server through a cheap, public-facing VPS instance acting as a gateway host.

To fully automate, you can use a premade tool like autossh, or just replicate it using standard ssh with keepalive option + a custom sysd unit file.
A couple years ago we ordered an "on-demand" printed book from Amazon for an old public domain book. It came misprinted, with a book on "Mobile Solar Power" right in the middle of it.

I took a look through it cause I thought it would actually interesting, and found it to be this type of fake book that looks to be instructional on the surface, but in reality is not actually educational in the least, and in fact dead wrong in many places.

I posted a couple excerpts on Twitter here, 3-tweet thread.
https://twitter.com/zefhous/status/1281679975339274241
Breaking news: we're still just bald monkeys, show us the banana and we'll jump through the loops
Or, it's your turn to plug the hole in a dike.
I didn't know this story, as I had thought sitting for a lunch profile interview with a reporter only signalled the end of one's career.
>Richard Pryor > Mel Brooks > Steve Martin > Eddy Murphy > Bill Murray > Adam Sandler > Ben Stiller > Will Ferrell > Judd Apatow > Tina Fey > ???

the ??? is Dave Chappelle, and some like Tina Fey or Will Ferrell were never as funny as other people oh the list, or part of the comedy heritage that made up future comedy. Robin Williams was a million times more influential than Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell, for example.
Very cool. Please get in touch if I can be of assistance in getting a new run printed (breck@publicdomaincompany.com)
I got a six year old T460, so I'm not really top of the line either. Nevertheless I don't sit in front of the machine for hours each and every month and watch Windows doing its updates.

People like to dramatically exaggerate how long Windows update bind you each month. Probably no Windows users but it's an easy target.
Why? The author of Metasploit was widely seen as a "bad guy" by nearly everyone until security researchers realized it was a net-positive to the security community.

If my system gets hit with a ransomware that's open source (and thereby likely very easy to create antivirus signatures for), I'd blame my system and the attacker, not the author.
How to correctly cache build-time dependencies using Nix
I haven't seen real example of this in real money financial institutions. Haven't followed crypto exchanges though.
At my last company we embedded Metabase as a reporting UI for our customers. It worked reasonably well and licensing was straightforward.
I can't express how much the MS account thing totally ruined me from ever using or buying MS products again. Trying to make a PC have an account for my kids to play MS flight simulator was pure insanity. Never again MS.
Given the way that OpenAI sources their training corpus and the amount of people using GPT-3 I would not be surprised if GPT-4 winds up getting trained on a large amount of GPT-3 output.

Think about it - the best niche GPT-3 has is generating plausible spam. If you just need a lot of text, but you don't care about what it says[0], you're going to write it using the cheapest possible tool. OpenAI's training corpus is sourced through web crawls, so all of that spam is destined to get recycled back into the next generation of GPT.

[0] For example, if you want to be able to post a bunch of political spam that looks like genuine comments on a web forum. See GPT-4chan[1] as a practical example of this.

[1] A tweaked version of GPT-3 using 4chan's politics board as training corpus.
> Also, the problem with bullying isn't bullying itself but that people are receptive to it and don't defend themselves (partly because school rules prohibit defense).

Agree. The worst things people do are to themselves. If you're trapped in an abusive situation, it'll fuck you up. But if you're receptive to that kind of abuse and stop seeing it as an inherent wrong, this is where people go from being abused to abusing themselves.

This is the difference between someone getting bullied vs someone becoming an emotionally scarred shell of a person
A coworker of me never switched from DOS to Windows (he told me he tried it a few times but... meh), recently i helped him getting his new(-ish) Lenovo workstation set up with FreeDOS 1.3.

So... it IS possible to stay on a system where you are comfortable with, if you are willing to make concessions...
Thats basically what Europe does and a few pioneer US states are doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili...

Similar to renewable power, we basically already know the answer but we like arguing about problems more than solving them so progress is slow.
The supporting circuitry & equipment - to get 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s) to & from the transmit/receive chips they demonstrated - will be a bit $$$extra...
I agree with you, with one caveat. Why is one year not enough time to make an impact?
Isn't a key in agile development the iterated development? Wouldn't a year have plenty of iterations where a developer could build out tooling, ci/cd processes, ship many multiple long lasting features?
Sure thing. My point was just, that I focus on living before death and yes, his death sounds like the life he had before was quite nice.

But I know there are people who actually care a lot about the moment of their death (like the vikings), which I do not.
By that logic, we should have cut down a lot more. We'd have so much more land to regrow!
I always choose rust, because the tooling and language feel thought through and it's easy to write once you learn it.
I recently ran into this setting up a laptop for work and how user hostile this step had become made my blood boil. There is no option to setup an initial local account unless you intentionally provide bad input to the Microsoft login page, I ended up just wiping the machine and installing Windows 10 from scratch

I'd really like to able to send invoices to Microsoft and other companies like Dell who pull this bullshit for wasting time in my life to work around this stuff (and I wonder how much potential productivity is used up by these practices)
The Metaverse Is Failing, but This Is One Investment That Will Not Die
You might want to check Redis-Stack - https://redis.io/docs/stack.
It's a stack on top of Redis, which come bundled with RedisTimeSeries, RediSearch, and RedisJSON (also includes RedisGraph and RedisBloom).
Within the next decade they are "meh". Within the next 5 decades they are dire.

Read the IPCC report. Please.
Has it actually decreased, or is it merely under-reported, as a significant amount of it moved off school premises and into social media?
You get paid depending on how hard you are to replace. This kind of labour can be done by basically anybody.
Damn you can’t say no ?

I learned to let the users pick the right time for update on my first job. ( by having to drive and fix my mess )

But we were a tiny software shop. No MS I guess.
Mowing itself is the problem. Fast growers are just the first step in a recovery process that takes place when a previously stunted ecosystem is allowed to heal. Other types of plants follow in subsequent years, leading to a much more healthy ecosystem than when you mow it all down to hell.
Markets rather optimize for the most efficient usage of resources.

And increasingly, consumers have become resources rather than market participants.
I agree with this as a general solution - if it's easier/cheaper to do the bad thing, then we use law/taxes to change the incentives.

Here's a couple counterarguments I hear a lot:

1) "Personal responsibility - if people choose to do the wrong thing that's on them". I think we've seen that choices are influenced by the environment and not largely within the control of any random individual. People are rational actors relative to their situation but that can often mean choices that aren't rational in a larger context.

2) "Too expensive - some people need the cheaper to produce products". I think this is where markets are useful, we should be able to switch up the landscape and have the gaps filled. I think the big risk here is not having appropriate social safety nets in place to cover people while there are still gaps.

3) "Laws should be about what's 'right', not a way to control people". This seems like ultimately the same thing, someone decides what's 'right' and then makes it a law so other people will do it. We generally agree murder is wrong but it get's a lot more hazy with stuff like taxes and clear that it's a way to incentivize behavior.
There are many entire fields of software achievement that have not been realized yet that are just "take this common idea/technique from field X and apply it to software." Limiting your own intellectual exposure to only currently existing software methods seems like it will cause you to miss possibilities for orders of magnitude improvement from time to time. Assuming you are including quantum field theory, cladistics, chemical engineering, history of societies, mathematics and linguistics as part of that non-sense. We live in an epoch of more learning than anyone can absorb, so there are fortunes to be made in moving learnings around.
Our buildings are making us sick
"Everybody else does it" is not an argument.
> His character Borat was a sexist Slav who had a bit on Da Ali G Show.

Ah yes, the Slavic Kazakhs.
Security is not binary. Setting up firewall and using 192 bit basic auth password for all your web properties is however going to stop maybe 99.9% of attacks that wildcard cert + subdomains will stop and takes like, 2 hours. If you can do both, sure, go for it. But there is certain truth in applying traditional normal approach first
Ants are certainly smarter than mice.

Ants also have a complex range of psychological responses. (Not sure I'd call them "emotions" since we're obviously too distantly related to them to have a meaningful reference here, but whatever.)
Same reason why obese people keep eating junk food and smokers have a hard time stopping, we're still monkeys, if you know which buttons you have to press you can make us do really unproductive/negative things

We're still competing for food, attention, mates, &c. it's just that technology made it so convoluted and "unnatural" that we somehow don't even make the link anymore
The current agricultural land in US alone can easily feed by various estimates at least 2 billions people. The trouble is that most of it is used to grow corn etc. to feed animals in the industrial meat production.
My happiness would go down for a while.
Society is a compulsory prison too, and even in adulthood you can't always run away from a situation, so being able to survive in a suboptimal environment is a worthwhile skill. Even if we assume you had unlimited money and could literally buy an island and live on it, you will still have to deal with bullies - just that they will generally have much more resources and will be less shy in resorting to violence or significant crime.

Not saying this is right, but you can't change the world (neither as a parent nor as a kid), so adaptation is the best strategy.
Sure; companies have long gotten away from dumping their externalities out on the societies that host them. Criticism of this sort of thing isn't arguing that it's not legal; the argument is that it's bad.
youtube shorts are making this reverse. What used to be a long form platform now has many creators who post tons of 30 second clips that aren't interesting or informative. The shorts are all skippable because if you can hear it in 30 seconds you can read a sentence about it in 5.
Apple and Google already do this. In fact, Google is so dedicated to the cause that they will ban you from their services even if the police think you did nothing wrong!
It is somewhat ironic that this is posted on Twitter, where if I try to read it, once I scroll down too far Twitter demands I create an account to keep reading.
I used to read arguments like this and find sense in them, now they just make me sick

It's possible to nudge proper behaviors without causing physical (or emotional) harm to a person. That kind of violence is never necessary, and the thinking that justifies it is hideous complacency at best
I still remember when I bought my first sony vaio in about 2004, running on Windows XP in Japanese, I was just appalled to find that a whole family of useless crap softwares pre-installed. There was an app that notifies me when the battery was fully charged with a dolce female sound "Batteri no shuuden wa kanrio shimashita". I tried to reinstall the system with the recovery CD, but all these softwares were also installed.

Years later when I visited in Japan again, I wanted to buy another sony vaio, and asked the people to give me one with clean windows system. They did not have one with clean system, but they showed me that there were only a few harmless pre-installed apps, and they were easy to remove.
I'm a hiring manager (not at a tech company, FWIW) for college-degreed, relatively senior professionals. If your resume shows a short job, say, less than a year, I won't care. If the last five jobs you held down have been for less than a year each, it goes in the circular file.

Maybe I'm missing out on good people, but I have more candidates than I can handle already, and it's a pretty abnormal pattern in the field.
I never understood it either. If you haven't taken a Software Engineering degree, and you haven't passed the requirements of the professional engineering regulatory body in your jurisdiction, then why do you think you should be calling yourself one? If you're a bridge builder, go ahead and say so. But don't call yourself a Civil Engineer just because you build bridges.
> Google can remove all they want from their Play Store, installing APK is easy.

Please, let's not act like this is a real solution. It's definitely better than not having that option at all, but:

- 99.5% of users don't even know it exists or how to do it because it's intentionally hidden away

- Because of the above fact, it's generally not viable to develop an application that can only be sideloaded, anything that gets removed from the Play Store usually dies

- Google has recently been moving away from the traditional APK format and towards their new "split APK" structure meaning you cannot sideload apps that were downloaded from the Play Store without a third party app to handle it
As far as I can tell, yes, this is correct.
I doubt it, I have been close to death already and I know it can happen fast and allmost any moment as a surprise. Or it can come after a long, lone suffering, whis is of course the scenario everyone would likes to avoid.
My 2015 MacBook Air just got the newest MacOS update.
And that's the reason why I love Linux. Even though I complain a lot about several of its shortcomings, I am a happy user. I just recently installed Mint it in a 2011 Macbookpro , and it is great.
>Yes but they get points for trying.

Sorry, but trying an obviously populist measure that further sinks housing availability and makes thing worse for everyone does not get you any points anywhere.
Or a Chromebook. If you don't need rich client Windows software, a cheapie Chromebook will meet all your needs. It will be fast out of the box and will stay fast.
Unfair blanket statement. I've been really impressed from everything I've seen coming from XMG
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Aside from his caustic opinions, I find his website full of very interesting explanations and animations about old tech. Worth bookmarking it.
Learning how to learn.