skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving the earth is a complex aim with so many different areas to prioritise. Synthetics may produce micro plastics, but then natural fibers like cotton require huge amounts of pesticides and water, viscose or bamboo requires a shit load of chemicals. Carbon footprints for almost all textiles are big. Recycled plastic is a low carbon, no pesticide, low impact material with one downside - micro plastics.

Polyester is one of the few success stories around recycled plastic. It’s not like the alternative is to turn your old plastic bottle into a new plastic bottle, plastic recycling is almost always downcycling the material into a lower grade product.

Like most things around conservation and the environment, it is complicated and there are loads of stakeholders - biodiversity, micro plastics, chemical accumulation, CO2 and greenhouse gases, deforestation, waste management, just to name a few.

One thing we can be sure of is the best thing is to not buying new clothes. In fact this philosophy should be applied to every consumer good. Making things is extremely bad for the environment. Patagonia have been pretty consistent around this point, for example as far back as 2001 they had their “don’t buy this jacket” ad: https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/jovanalleshi/patagonia-sustainabil...

This is the elephant in the room that most consumer goods companies don’t want to talk about. They can make things out of bamboo or produce paper straws or have recyclable packaging, but fundamentally even environmentally friendly products have a huge environmental impact.

Ultimately Patagonia’s mission statement is at odds with the reason it or any company exists. Saving the earth isn’t profitable.
In which place am I overly proscriptive? In the paragraph where I say that the vaccines are ALSO intended to prevent people from getting sick? If anything it's the OP who is overly reductive.

At no point did I say that you should not get vaccinated, you are putting words in my mouth. I said that the original intention of vaccines was to prevent infection. It is still the main way that most people conceptualizes vaccines too.
> People don't buy iPhones for AirTag features.

Don’t they? I don’t think AirTag support is a “must have” feature for many smartphone buyers, but I can see it being a factor that makes a buying choice go the iPhone way.

I also can see AirTags being a factor in keeping an iPhone user an iPhone user, especially for users that have many AirTags.
Why not put it on the auction in the first place ?
Brilliant! I use the iPhone for my purposes because it’s waterproof. At least the newer models are. Have dropped it in deep water with no ill effects.
Sure. My assumption was that the "routine" warrants wouldn't have gag orders, but I might be wrong on that. But yeah, if it doesn't, the transparency report might be a better place to put it, and then it might make sense to make the warrant canary specific to warrants that aren't / can't be in there for one reason or another (gag orders or milder forms of coercion / negotiations).

If they are gagging, multiple warrant canaries might work, but I think it becomes harder to argue that you aren't communicating anything if you stop publishing one but still publish the others. Taken to the extreme, you could have many canaries, for example one for every user ("there has been no warrant for your information"), and users might even appreciate that, but stopping with publishing a specific subset of them can communicate a lot of information.

It also removes some of the plausible deniability ("maybe they just forgot to update the warrant canary") that comes with having only one, I think.
This. I worry we will exhaust our genetic engines and deteriorate our bodies by overuse.
This is quite accurate. I have been working in the field for the last decade.
The next post on this substack is going to be titled:

‘I wrote a post using GPT3 and it got to the front page of Hacker News. Learn how you can do it to build your following as a creator!’
The other points you mentioned weren't relevant to the UI or the UX. That's why no one's addressing them.

I get you have some knowledge here and so want to talk about it, but should do so in the knowledge that you're doing so in spite of its relevance, not because of it.

In a similar way if someone criticises the Amazon UI, coming in saying, "But no one's addressed my comments on how hard logistics and warehouse management are" would be a non sequitur.
Given their plans seem to be headed towards making every feature a subscription plan, the only "logical" (from a business perspective) way to do that is an interface that can be updated for minimal cost at any time.
We have customers, or rather their accountants, who refuse our invoice, it has to be a receipt. And an equal number of accountans who refuse a receipt, they want an invoice. So we have a hardcoded list of countries and customer ids when to use 'invoice' or 'receipt' as headline on essentially the same monthly document. Luckily our invoice templates (https://www.quaderno.io/) allow if/else logic and variables.
I assume you mean C++ here?

In any case, in my experience this bad practice comes from Java devs who’ve moved to C++.
The number of things your immune system knows about is absolutely enormous and grows everyday. Vaccinations are a tiny drop in the bucket
I've always wondered whether this has any chance of holding up in court. I know it depends on jurisdiction, but at least in my region (EU/Poland), courts consider intent rather than a literal interpretation of laws. You can try to be oh-so-smart and implement a "canary" that doesn't get updated if you get a warrant, but the court would consider not updating the canary as the same thing as notifying people that a warrant has been served.
Same. Been using :x for about 20 years. Had no idea there was some similar encryption nonsense.
I'm curious how profitable that has been over the decade?
Thank you for the compliment :) I'm glad someone else thinks they are cool.

You have some very good points. I've lost hours on previous projects trying to figure out what my logo should be, I was making it too much of a priority.

Maybe this marketplace can alleviate that for some people.
A sure sign of a well designed tool imo
Are Our Brains Wired to Quiet Quit?
ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly ?? : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-an...

short-term release : https://devclass.com/2022/11/09/microsoft-releases-net-7-spa...
I recently visited an art gallery, where during a tour of the facility the owner shared that he has art appraisal clients worldwide, with whom he works remotely. I asked, "So do you send a photographer to capture high quality images of the artwork?" He simply took out his phone and shared that smartphone images have gotten so good that it's the only equipment they need for the appraisal. Secretly, I was aghast that the professional appraisal of works worth tens of thousands of dollars might rely on a device that opaquely alters raw images. I didn't say anything, but I left hoping that not all art appraisal rested on post-processed smartphone images.
And I never ever said this. You are definitely free to use it, to not care about ideology of people making software.

I think it's worthwhile to note this. As I said elsewhere, my comment wasn't to tell people to avoid Soapbox (nor even to start a pointless debate like some sub-comments had) (and, heck, I even use an instance nowadays which sometimes use Soapbox; even if I personally despise the main author).

The fedi is also quite political, and as others and I said, just barely using Soapbox could get you auto-blocked or auto-judged.
The worst part is that keeping them all illegal drives people towards whatever is available, and some of those choices are far worse than others.

A more flexible approach would see drugs regulated purely based on actual harm coupled with availability of a less harmful analogue (will fentanyl users pick heroin if it's more easily available than fentanyl? If so regulate one much more strictly than the other)

Incidentally that approach might well see tighter regulations on alcohol than several currently illegal drugs.
Also very true! Blunting logarithmic growth is a huge net positive.
If I’m doing a task for the second or third time, I start planning to automate it.

Automating a task, as by ansible or a script, documents the task procedure.

Documented procedures generally can be verified, iterated, extended, enhanced, and reverted.

Invoking an automated procedure should not be more complex or require more preparation than manually performing the task.

Once a procedure is automated, modifications to the procedure should be implemented via the automation, not manually.

I didn’t mean to lay out a bunch of principles off the top of my head, I’ll stop!
Really beating up a strawman. No one's proposing or implementing "dedicated" biomass.

Corn ethanol utilizes the starch from corn, and leaves behind proteins, fats, minerals, and yeast cells which are used as animal feed, where its superior to plain corn.

Likewise woody biomass isn't coming from clear cutting forests, its from necessary thinning to keep forests healthy (thats otherwise burned in slash piles) and mill waste thats a byproduct of lumber production.
Yeah pretty much exactly this.

There are signs and landmarks. Trees, stumps, rocks, corners, etc.

Sometimes people make a mark to make it more recoverable, like a notch in a tree, or a topped tree.

Especially when a big part of my job is figuring out what the terrain and vegetation looked like before disturbance for restoration work. I can see 30-100+ years of history on a forested property just by looking around or occasionally reading old surveyors descriptions and stuff.

Beyond that, after you've seen a few, you start to get an eye for the type of spot people like to choose. People are very bad random behavior generators.
Recommended for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kaqk1wR3SM
The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.
My in-laws refuse to get a flu shot. On top of refusing to get Covid boosted despite only having the J&J. They say they don't need it because they have good immune systems and never get sick. Combined with living in a red state and general internet nonsense causing them to not trust doctors anymore.
It's just a personal preference. I can't tell you why, but I just don't like how all of the programs start with K. I think it looks weird.

It also annoys me every time I try to search for the calculator by typing in "Calc", but nothing is found because I forgot I need to look for "KCalc"

I think at the very least, commonly used applications like "Calculator", "Console", "Mail" should just be called "Calculator", "Console", and "Mail". Not everything has to be branded. The mail application on Windows is called "Mail", the terminal is called "Terminal", etc. They don't call them "WinMail" or "WinTerminal" for a reason. They know most users would find that off putting
Eh, this test is timing how long it took to complete a defined set of tasks in a certain way as fast as possible. While taking longer to do a secondary task indirectly may indicate safety concerns, I’m a little skeptical that it is necessarily so, or that safety was what the test was actually testing

The test did require the drivers to be moving at the same time. I often change things when I want to at natural stopping points anyway.
I bought Quad Cortex quite some time ago, and I don't need amps and pedals anymore. Moreover, sold my over 20 pedal collection and stuff. I highly recommend Quad Cortex, the setup is so much easier now, without sacrificing quality. (amateur guitar player with 20 years amateur experience)
But he address the fact that it's actually worse from a carbon standpoint than gasoline. That added to the other environmental impacts associated with agriculture makes it clear it's still a worse choice than straight gasoline. Not only does it not help, it actively makes the problem worse.
You only want to listen to half of what the CEO of the 2nd biggest tech company has to say about the tech industry?

"you want to do things "efficiently", why rathole capital into hololens?"

I'm not sure if you've heard, but there were/are/will be billions of dollars being poured into AR and VR technologies by many companies, Apple included.

"Are x86-jammed unprovisioned data centers really efficient?"

Are your talking about their cloud computing services? Considering AWS is expected to bring in close to $100B in revenue this year, I'd say "x86-jammed datacenters" are a worthwhile business segment to prioritize.

"Presumably this is why capital has flowed to Apple"

AAPL stock has dropped 25% in the past 12 months and MSFT dropped 28%. So that particular data point doesn't show any significant outflow of investment from Microsoft and to Apple.

"it's ridiculous to hear their CEO yammer on about margins"

He runs one of the biggest publicly traded companies in the world. You're surprised he's talking about a metric investors care about?
No to mention that without boosting, immune memory fades over time.
This is probably a "Pro" feature because I can't find it on my iPhone 13.
Because “Best Practices“ and “Interface Ergonomics“ guidelines provide excellent parameters for legislation. Why would we want anything other than the best functional design/interface for something as important as our vehicle controls?
I’ve just gotten started with Python, so this is perfect timing. Thank you!
No it really doesn't. I've seen tons of Qt themes that break apps. Their theming system is similar to the design of GTK's, so it has most of the same problems. This isn't a technical problem, it's entirely a social problem: users want these themes but the same users are also under the false impression that you can ever have this type of theme that won't also break apps. When that isn't technically possible and it never will be.
To me PHP is still a great tool to do these sort of stuff. Not to do a whole application, it was not what it was designed for, but for simple stuff it's great!

And it's improved a lot PHP, nowadays it's not that bad language...
If you fly Ryanair, 20 minutes is like 100 years.
My understanding was that both heat and steam are bad for waterproof electronics, just be careful mate

Edit: Aww HN strips emoji, should have seen that coming lol
This is a bit offtopic . Is it possible to wipe that memory? Sounds like it would resolve all Autoimmune disease
Biomolecular condensates within cells found to have structure
> It's not surprising that you did: a lot of the messaging at the time really counted their chickens before they hatched and painted it as a miracle prophylactic.

This is exactly the issue. There was so much just bad information out there.

> Our immune just aren't that great at it, and vaccines can only stack the deck there so much in our favor. I believe that the (observational, hard to rely on) evidence suggests that the covid vaccine reduced the incidence of infection, but only by about 25-50%.

I like to think this .

> A world with the vaccines is unarguably less hostile than that without. But it's not a miracle, and it's always aggravating when people engage in the nirvana fallacy about it.

It's really disappointing that attitudes towards COVID vaccines are spreading to other vaccines. It's sad when I hear parents talking about MMR and other proved vaccines using the anti-COVID talking pointes.
In part because Python is often used as an OS language (Debian has it in the base system and a bunch of OS subsystems use it) so if you upgrade some library at the OS level it affects more than just your own code.

In part it is because Python has modules, not libraries. Modules can have executables bundled with them.

In part, it’s because Python modules packages don’t exactly care about backwards compatibility. By and large, people who put out packages will keep a changelog but not keep the same API going for years. So slightly different version of the same package can give you different results.

Lastly it is because Python does not have a clear definition of a project. If at the language level I could say “this is the root of my project. Do not use any OS-level libraries. Here are my library dependencies and they are to be stores in $PROJECT_ROOT/libs/“ then none of this would be required. I have rarely found that the version of Python itself was a big problem for me, but having the ability for multiple versions to be installed at the OS level combined with the above mechanism would entirely eliminate the need for virtual envs.
Alan Perlis' version:

> Optimization hinders evolution.

Still my favorite of all his epigrams.
Wait a reasonable delay, like one month.

If they don’t comply, it’s time for a DMCA request to GitHub.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...
Safari seems to have been getting more developer attention this last year. This is good but also has resulted in a number of bugs and regressions as they move fast. Same is happening on Chromium.

I likewise have been involved in a similar bizarre bug. We wrote up a very detailed report with a reduced test case but sadly it has not received much attention. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247020
I find this absurd.

The idea that those on left dont also have their own norms (which they police ruthlessly) is ridiculous.
> Is there any way for users to construct their own multiple stage tutorials?

I really hope some kind of GUI to do that can exist one day, but it's definitely a complicated feature that I'd need help from contributors to build. Same for graphical output.

> (It looks like we can do single questions)

I think you're talking about the question wizard. That's for helping people to write good quality questions about their own struggles to post on StackOverflow and similar sites. It's not for making 'challenges' for others to solve.

> Incredibly generous of you to make it open source!

Thank you! I'm really trying to improve the state of education and make the world a better place. I hope that in addition to directly helping users, I can inspire other educators, raise the bar, and help them build similar products. To this end, futurecoder is powered by many open source libraries that I've created which are designed to also be useful in their own right:

Debuggers: these are integrated in the site but also usable in any environment:

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/birdseye

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/snoop

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/cheap_repr (not a debugger, but used by the above two as well as directly by futurecoder)

Tracebacks:

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/stack_data (this is also what powers the new IPython tracebacks)

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/executing (allows highlighting the exact spot where the error occurred, but also enables loads of other magical applications)

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/pure_eval

You can see a nicer presentation (with pictures) of the above as well as other projects of mine on my profile https://github.com/alexmojaki

Libraries which I specifically extracted from futurecoder to help build another similar educational site https://papyros.dodona.be/?locale=en (which does have a canvas output, at least for matplotlib):

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/sync-message (allows synchronous communication with web workers to make input() work properly)

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/comsync

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/pyodide-worker-runner

- https://github.com/alexmojaki/python_runner
My carpet fitter tried to sell me on recycled plastic underlay.

They only want to sell it because it’s dirt cheap and lightweight.

Zero cares about what I’ll be breathing in for 10 years
Sibling comment nailed it. It's just a brief analogous category error.

Someone thought SAP was bad and messed up an implementation, therefore people who think SAP is bad mess up implementations.

Someone thought snow was white and killed 50m people, therefore people who think snow is white are mass murderers.
I'd say you need to make the vector. They are simple enough that a tracing program could do it with high accuracy, but any graphic logo I buy definitely needs to be scalable and clean at any resolution.

Very nice though!

Are you feeding in particular words to the generator? Do they have meaning, where it might be valuable to include keyword searches? I'm interested in the area and how these were created, but guessing you don't want to share too much.
Well it's in the terms that you may not do any of that, but of course there are always bad actors out there.

Wouldn't someone have that issue with a regular logo as well? Wouldn't the same recourse be followed?
Great looking tool!
I’m going to try this
Just wait. The same people are hard at working implementing them for JSON.
(There is already a JSON Schema definition at https://json-schema.org/)

Like you said - standard XML isn't terrible. Adding on an XSD isn't terrible, because now you can enforce structure and datatypes on files provided by outside parties. Creating an XSLT is much more of a mental challenge, and probably should be left to tools to define.

Anything beyond those technologies is someone polishing up their resume.
Aha, you weirdos are using light mode. That's why you see loli girls all over the place. /s

(Seems like something about the site's CSS bugs out in dark mode, causing the image to not show up. Or maybe it's intentional because of bad transparency or something like that)
Knowing is a human construct for a set of interactions in our brain, so I am not sure it is meaningful to ask if a LLM "knows" something.

Do the atoms that comprise our brain "know" or do they "interact"?
I am not describing sterilizing immunity, I am saying that the original, and the most common understanding of what a vaccine is is "something that you take that makes you not get sick". That is exactly how most vaccines have been advertised for years, and how most people think of them.

I do not need to need to be educated about how vaccines work, I know that there is a secondary effect of vaccines that primes your immune system and makes the disease easier to fight. But it's a secondary effect, otherwise we would call more things "vaccines", as we know that for example "exercise helps with immune response".
If they aren't following the license you released your work under, then they're infringing your copyright, and you could send a DMCA to GitHub to get their repository taken down.
Anecdotally, this seems to line up with the migration from iPhone 11 -> 12. I notice that in photos of anything including the sun, it would throw off the sensor/software stack. The even funnier/frustrating thing is that, because the HDR post-processing is done after when the photo is taken usually the end result is much different than what you see in the viewfinder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Epidemiology
Are the patties high in iron and are they making that claim? I don't know.

Orange juice is also high in vitamin C and makes that claim so low information consumers think it's ok to have their children drink litres of the stuff since it's "healthier than soda". The problem you're highlighting has far more to do with the negative aspects of a capitalist food system (marketing and branding) and is far broader than whether these particular patties that are primarily selected on the basis their contents didn't die in terror surrounded by the stench of death with a boltgun through the skull have insufficient zinc or whatever.

Like sure proper labelling and branding is important, for all foods, but I'm reacting to the perceived broader campaign on behalf of the meat industry to single out meat replacements on the basis of them not being, I don't know, as healthy as a prime cut of wagyu beef prepared in the healthiest oil with a side salad of greens (no dressing).
My previous experience says that it will take several years to fix it.

Just like in IE, you need to make silly workarounds.