skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is what’s bothering about these articles (common at least in American journalism) that condescendingly talk about issues in third world countries that are as bad in the US.

Not that we shouldn’t identify these things. But the issue is often not quite related to the country, but a larger issue.

As others have pointed out, for whatever reason, plastic is difficult to recycle and through deception, we’ve been sold the idea that it can be recycled.

The most promising stuff I’ve seen is waste to energy (basically, burn the stuff). As long as we can effectively capture the emitted toxins from burning the plastic, then it seems like a pretty good system. And some countries have already been doing this.
So, in my city, there's a warehouse, they buy Amazon returns and surplus in bulk, every week on the same day, they fill shallow elevated bins ideal for picking through with the items. Day 1 everything is $25 an item, the price reduces each day until everything is $1 on day 7. It is a great low cost (it's actually profitable), probably profitable enough that if Amazon ran these themselves they could pay to process all the waste in an eco friendly way and not lose money.
The past several decades saw a massively booming economy that allowed for big pensions and huge gains on real estate.
Outdoor Retailer Patagonia Tests Solar Windows
If IEEE does that, some manufacturers will just ignore it. Sure they may have to write weasel words like "USB compatible but not USB authorized" on their products, but they'll dominate the market by allowing people to use the largest variety of devices.
Well he still has the Super Bowl ring he stole from Robert Kraft too
AFAIK you don’t need an original print. All versions that aren’t materially different lack copyright and are free to distribute.
https://archive.ph/kBs33
> You can still differentiate yourself. For example, find out what users don't like about competing services or products, and why they don't like it. What other features do similar apps/products/services offer, and what else are users asking for? Offer that.

I think this is true for challenging established or med/late stage startups but I keep running into seed/Series A startups or agencies. I'm less so worried about the agencies since their breadwinner is usually their consultancy service and their SaaS/tool offerings serve as marketing.

> What do you want out of a co-founder? Letting HN know what you're looking for might help you find the right person. Chances are the right person is out there, and very well might be reading your post - but they don't know what you're looking for. Do you want a business oriented person? A product focused person? A marketing expert? Someone with a finance background? So many variables here.

Because I'm not pursuing a specific idea I'm very flexible and it's hurting my chances. I have a chicken and an egg problem between figuring out the business & finding the right people to help me with it. The advice I read online suggests focusing on the people first (since the biz idea changes a lot) but I'm not super sure about it.
Ducky keyboards are the same...
Since it wasn't clear, I was responding to this part of their comment:

> She had 15 years of saving 26% of $250k to only have $250k??? Yikes.

Which was a gross misinterpretation of the text they had just quoted. Yes, it's bananas that making that much she only had $250k in savings for retirement. But that's not what I was responding to. She did not save 26% of $250k for a decade and only end up with $250k in savings.
Maybe in the future a long reply would be the rude thing because that indicates you had an AI write it.
The Reddit post is now deleted.

Saved screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/bchgmm7.jpeg
Ehhhh..... Naive? My point was hypotheticals that Russia would like to achieve disconnected from the physical terminals.

This is the first result when searching for it.

> But Musk says it's been a difficult environment. "Starlink has resisted Russian cyberwar jamming & hacking attempts so far, but they're ramping up their efforts," he wrote(opens in new tab) on Twitter Tuesday (May 10).

> According to a Reuters report(opens in new tab), which Musk also shared, a coalition of countries have said that Russia backed a cyberattack against satellite internet systems that ultimately pulled tens of thousands of modems offline shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine Feb. 24.

> British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the attack against Viasat's KA-SAT network was "deliberate and malicious," Reuters stated(opens in new tab), and the Council of the European Union said the hack caused "indiscriminate communication outages" in Ukraine and several member states. The attacks were confirmed by the United States, Canada and Estonia, Reuters added.

https://www.space.com/starlink-russian-cyberattacks-ramp-up-...

Of course, there is an ongoing effort. Simply because it seems like they have not breached Starlink does not mean it has been cheap to ensure that.

Russia has, like all nations with power ambitions, a history of cyberwarfare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_Russia
> Some day go through your Amazon purchase history for the last decade and see how much absolute garbage purchases you made.

Uuuh, none? I've gone through 2 years and it was literally either a consumable (dog treats) or some kind of hardware tool that I still have and will last me a lifetime.
It's an easy mistake for people to make. Even identifying something as "polyethylene" is ambiguous. If it's polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or "high-density polyethylene" (HDPE) then it is very likely recyclable. But if it's "low-density polyethylene" (plastic bags) then in principle it is recyclable but likely isn't through normal curbside pickup.
I’d quite happily go without a Saturday post delivery

Who knows why the UK Gov seem so keen on keeping it
I hope macos can get rid of .DS_Store in 100 years
Anki supports linking cards when they're different facets of the same information (e.g., each language source/target for a given vocab word): https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html

More precision isn't that important-- at worst, you slightly over-review some information, but that's no different from using a flash card's information in normal life outside of a review period.
Lol, matrix arithmetics and scientific programming in Go
I must have been away the day we learned of "The Velveteen Rabbit".
I’ve got a pair of cheap Bluetooth headphones that do that too — they only work with a usb a to c cable, not with a proper usb c power supply and cable.
My fairly anodyne conspiracy theory is that the government actually just missed the ball completely — didn’t want to admit it was going to be a big deal, etc, so they gave the “masks not necessary” advice. Then as the narrative was developing it became less embarrassing to appear manipulative than wrong and so here we are.

If they really wanted to save PPE for the hospitals, they could have made some calls to Walmart, Home Depot, and friends to pull it from the shelves. If it were an attempt at manipulation it would have been executed more smoothly.
The negative impact of Postel's suggestion ("be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept", AKA the "Robustness principle") is worse on end users than developers in cases like USB.

USB is silently super backwards compatible. This is really good in a pinch: I need to get the data off this drive and even if it takes six hours because I only have a USB 2 cable I'm better off than if I couldn't do it at all.

The problem is the opposite case for users: They have a fast USB-4 drive (potentially 40 Gbps) and a USB 4 laptop but pick up a USB-2 only cable. Hard for most people to diagnise, especially as such a cable won't have an e-marker so the laptop can't even query it. Or a slow charging cable for their device, so they fancy laptop doesn't visibly charge, or only charges overnight.

Even for me these cases are hard to diagnose. And harder to understand than, say, using an inferior cable with your monitor so you et no signal at all.
> "precise in what you send, flexible in what you receive" is basically evil

I think it's a matter of where you apply it.

For a purely software construct such as a network protocol, probably ok.

For something like negotiating current and voltage where making the wrong decision can melt a cable or fry a circuit board, as stated in TFA, obviously it doesn't fly.
If one uses an offline password manager then you want the stored passwords to be approximately as secure as memorized passwords.
So how do you deal with emergency family access to memorized information in the deceased person's brain? Same deal.
Citizens of other countries have no rights under the US constitution.
I agree, it was miserable for people who couldn't get any and retailers took way too long to respond. It absolutely could have been handled better. I was glad to see stores refuse to allow returns and crack down on price gouging afterwards at least. Even the justice system got involved

https://www.today.com/news/brothers-who-hoarded-17-700-bottl...
Concurrent requests. 5-6k without returning errors with Go.

wrk -c 6000

I doubt you had 65k concurrent.

Rps around 200k
Yes, exactly. Simplicity is what prevents fraud, not more complexity. Our systems need to be fundamentally redesigned for simplicity at the core.
Scale and the small business (freelancer grid)
Well no I don't have evidence of that. On the contrary I know for a fact it did, but that's not a necessary premise for my position.

Again, CDC did not say masks aren't effective. They said we don't know if they are. This was and largely remains true. For your other solutions, you think instituting a nationwide rationing system was a more accessible solution than saying "we don't know if they work [true] and medical professionals need them more [true], please don't buy them?" And yes, we very obviously should've invoked the Defense Production Act pretty much immediately on testing and PPE. Quite indefensible that we didn't.

"Has foreseeable negative consequences" != "is stupid," especially in emergency scenarios where you're picking between bad options and worse ones.
Sure, but consumers use tiny amounts of metal that can be recycled. A can a day is like 10 pounds a year or about $4 worth of scrap. It borders on pointless and certainly is with the associated negatives of the way recycling is done today.

So yeah if you want to collect all your metal scrap for a year and bring it to the local yard then yeah that's a net positive. But skipping a single plane trip is probably worth an entire lifetime of recycling.
But when you are quickly iterating on products you don't know every permutation ahead of time on how you are going to use data?
I watched starship troopers a few weeks ago.

It's one of those movies that I've maybe seen 2-3 times but mostly while it has been on TV, punctuated by adverts.

Finding it on [Streaming platform] and watching it properly all the way through with zero distraction was bliss. The satire is still as great today as it was when it first came out.

If you watch some of the in-world adverts, they remind me so strongly of the live-action cut scenes in the command and conquer games and they have a similar humour.
I want gift cards banned not because of scammers. Like pay-day loan services, gift cards are based on the fraud of profound information asymmetry. Gift cards make liquid cash worse in almost every dimension. It's tied to one supplier. It can be lost. I forgot the stats, but I'm positive billions spent on gift cards are never redeemed.

Gift cards are just slightly less evil than payday loan services. They take advantage of a (positive) human need to give, and a (negative) human need to not work hard, picking out a gift, and a (negative) need to appear to have purchased a gift when one, in fact, has not. What makes it even more evil is that because it's a gift the loss is not seen as important for the giver (they gave it away after all) or the receiver (they weren't expecting to have this thing). The burden on the receiver, to carry around this extra piece of plastic, having to remember to use it, possibly even altering your behavior to use it, makes it even more nefarious.

I don't think my position is particularly common. Certainly gift card industry fraud is low on the list of societies pressing problems. But it is a problem and one that I wish was better understood .
There's Vorta: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta which I quite like.
In theory yes, but the risk associated every account is not equal.
If you take your posting seriously it's easy to know if you've been shadowbanned. If you're just letting off steam and writing offensive stuff that barely gets replies or engagement anyway, it may take longer.

Browse HN with showdead on and check out some of the shadowbanned posters. You can find many with long histories of "dead" comments that keep posting anyway.

On e.g. Twitter you can find all sorts or people saying random stuff and getting zero likes. They wouldn't necessarily notice either.

And try reading the comments section of a Fox News story. No way most of these people know or probably even care if they're banned, it's more like a tic than actually engaging in a conversation or even real trolling.

Shadowbanning is effective at increasing the SNR against essentially casual vandalism. Against deliberate trolls, the kind of people who are regularly checking from a logged out browser to see if their posts show up, not so much.
Interesting point! I was thinking washed away germs remain in the gene pool so they aren’t selected out, but I guess the odds that they creep all the way back into the hospital to reproduce with the general population is quite low.
They have packages for pretty much every platform except Debian.
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies
None of that is news. What would be news would be a success but afaik they haven't managed to do so to date. All satellite operators face these challenges and none of them see that as an extra burden but basically the kind of thing that you should expect if and when you start operating this kind of service. Inmarsat terminals have a ton of tricks up their sleeve to deal with signal jamming and other attempts to interfere with the downlink/uplink.

If anything, SpaceX/Starlink has an easier time of it because their signal levels are much higher and the satellites can use phased arrays to pinpoint the receivers (in fact, they have to because they aren't geostationary and very low).
Most modern landfills have power stations that burn off these gases for electricity or heat for local consumption.

The ones that don't can be GHG emitters, but that just means there are less emissions somewhere else (where trash was collected from), because you just concentrated a bunch of matter in one place. It's not a significant net emitter.
Didn't blow mine, even though it involved a howitzer! It's obviously operating on a higher level than "what was the previous word" but doesn't exactly feel like high level reasoning: when prompted for similarities it elides "inflated" with "blew up" to seed a paragraph (rather than to crack a corny joke, which is the only context I can imagine a human in possession of knowledge of what a howitzer and a beach ball doing likewise!), adds some sentences consistent with sentences in its corpus with "blowing up" and "loading" as the respective verbs and appends a sentence which states that it's tenuous, because howitzer and beach balls and inflating and loading verbs aren't often found in close proximity in its corpus (and caveating stuff clearly was well rewarded in ChatGPT's training; it's almost comically quick to do so in every single non-trivial answer)

Impressive that it does so in coherent English, but I'm not convinced it's in any danger of understanding firearms or fun beyond realising sentence forms those words would be a good fit and poor fit for.

I posted an excerpt from ChatGPT a couple of days ago where it stated - in an identical format to its previous two correct answers - that 355 was a prime number because it wasn't divisible 5, and that's the sort of problem that Turing machines are known to be able to completely and accurately model
I had to setup a quick backup to s3 storage to replace an aging rsnapshot setup. I looked at Borg, but Duplicity (https://duplicity.us/) was easier to configure and connect to S3.

For syncing S3 storage across providers, I went with rclone (https://rclone.org/). Note that using rclone to sync across providers (e.g. from Amazon to Wasabi) does require the files to be downloaded to the client machine and then uploaded again. Not ideal, but if you have extra bandwidth it is a convenient setup.
Thank you for the data point. From this we can extrapolate that there is no problem.
I wasn't really meaning this exact case. But, so much time and effort being spent on _cookie popup windows_! I imagine 99%+ of users click accept regardless (even if reject is just as easy to click).
Speaking as someone who was mainly a "developer" for a while, one frequent problem I see from developers is that they assume they can excel at everything because they are good at coding. Since coding is a hard task that not everyone can do well, they think this talent applies to everything else.

Just a few weeks ago on here, there was a developer complaining about not getting any attention through his efforts on social media, and from what he said he did, it was easy to tell he did not know what he was doing and severely lacked the sophistication needed to succeed. Instead of paying for marketing, he decided to do it himself and was about to give up without even thinking about paying someone else to do it.

This is hubris that is commonly seen in developers.
If it's made from an American POV, it's basically equivalent to a race.
>That includes when new data is being fetched and you don't want to show the old data

This only really happens when you have race conditions

> Or when you want to not refetch data if the conditions for refetching are not met.

This only happens when you fetch based on state update on the same component

> Or when you want to cancel an in-progress data fetch if the data shall no longer be shown after fetching it because the user closed the component tasked with showing the data.

you can do this with certain conditionals and a cleanup function

over 3 quarters of my data fetching is just a simple fetch on onComponentDidMount

do you mean to tell me I have to bring in a library just for that?
That's why I mentioned long term, as you expand the time horizon you consider it over, landfill for plastics gets worse as it starts to decompose compared with incinerating with energy recovery or recycling.
Borg works great. I used it at a shop that had lots of servers, but didn't have any real backups-other than when someone would remember to go swap external USB drives and hope they actually ran.

Set it up on a bunch of servers with a simple cron job, the initial backups went quickly, and the incrementals were really fast. Made great use of an old Dell server that wasn't doing anything else and had lots of slow disks in it.
Yes and no, they certainly buy fuel in bulk and several weeks/months out, but they're still not flying for a week, so their yearly fuel cost is going to be less than projected.
Whisper is still cost prohibitive at scale.
Great, but this news item is about the government of the USA demanding rights over the personal data of people in other countries. Not being citizens, the US govt considers them lesser people with no Constitutional protection.
Ah, this takes me back to that time I had to add a USB-2.0 adapter inline with an all USB-C signal chain in order for the operating system to recognize the device.

And that charger I have which is USB-C but only works in one orientation.

And those expensive OpenFlow/P4 compatible switches in the datacenter whose management interface is serial (as in RS-232), but the form factor of the connector is USB-mini.
If you have numeric code that's too slow in Numba your next stop will likely involve a big multi-language effort and GPU specialists and none of that would be in Go except maybe a wrapper for your apps.
I agree that vim is one of the best editors available and use both vim and vim keybindings in other editors/IDEs. But that doesn't mean that Canon-cat didn't have some very interesting ideas not present in vim (or pretty much anything else, sadly).
I built one of these before, it was lots of fun to learn how to apply PID to motors. I started with an ESP8266, which worked great, then an ESP32 which hung when wifi and the encoder read happened at the same time, and then ended up porting everything to Python running on a raspberry pi. It's definitely impressive to see a non-realtime computer doing realtime-enough to keep itself balanced. From what I can tell, if you get it working well, you can "drive" around, including turns, with just simple mods to the control settings.
actual *real* lasers ?
Does anyone know how this approach of adding decorators to numerical functions compare to Elixir's Nx approach of compiling those functions through a specialized macro for numerical computations? Would Numba benefit if (PEP 638?) macros were added to python?
The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage.

Plug-ins are not necessarily compatible
Perhaps we've ended up full circle on this again as the current leading theory is H₂O actually forms the cation H⁺·(H₂O)₂·(H₂O)₄, where the H⁺ forms a hydrogen bond to two H₂Os which form two more hydrogen bonds to two H₂Os each: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946644/
Current autopilot is basically in maintenance mode for at least 2-3 years.
They are probably preparing to switch to a single stack fsb beta 11 as it was announced. Could be the reason.
I have a USB recharged LED lantern with the same problem
It was Mobileye who dropped Tesla because Tesla was making claims Mobileye was uncomfortable with.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/tesla-dropped-by-mobile...
Let's say hypothetically, Facebook buys Signal. They get all the code and signing keys, then use those to push a new update to the Signal app. This update decrypts your messages using the key on your device, then sends those decrypted messages to Facebook.

What are you going to do about it? Call your senators, who are now in love with Facebook for giving the federal government access to these previously private communications?
The Anki FAQ goes into the reasoning a bit: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html

>Some people want to extend this link between arbitrary cards. They want to be able to tell Anki "after showing me this card, show me that card", or "don’t show me that card until I know this card well enough". This might sound like a nice idea in theory, but in practice it is not practical.

>For one, unlike the sibling card case above, you would have to define all the relations yourself. Entering new notes into Anki would become a complicated process, as you’d have to search through the rest of the deck and assign relationships between the old and new material.

>Secondly, remember that Anki is using an algorithm to determine when the optimum time to show you material again is. Adding constraints to card display that cause cards to display earlier or later than they were supposed to will make the spaced repetition system less effective, leading to more work than necessary, or forgotten cards.

>The most effective way to use Anki is to make each note you see independent from other notes. Instead of trying to join similar words together, you’ll be better off if you can determine the differences between them. Synonyms are rarely completely interchangeable - they tend to have nuances attached, and it’s not unusual for a sentence to become strange if one synonym is replaced with another.