skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unnecessary" plastic that you can avoid with small decisions only accounts for a small proportion of plastic waste. Product packaging often can't be avoided for most people and I don't find it particularly useful to shame consumers for what is largely out of their control.

> Prefer markets that overall use less plastic, even if this might bring you a small inconvenience.

Great. If you can. I live in Canada and over 90% of our grocery sales come from the largest 8 food retailer corporations. The majority of the stock has excessive plastic packaging. Even the vegetables are often shrink-wrapped or in sealed plastic bags.

> Actively refuse unnecessary plastic.

There's very little plastic that you have a choice about. Most people bring their own reusable bags because single-use plastic bags are banned in Canada. It's not enough.

> Homemade alternatives for store-bought products.

It's typically more expensive and more time consuming to do so. If you are not in an income bracket that you have to worry about meeting your bill payments, sure this is great. I jar a lot of my own stuff and I avoid soda anyway. Not everyone has the freedom (time + money + space) to pursue this.

> Reusing containers so you need to buy less tupperwares.

Sure. You can do that. For me I probably re-use 1 in 5 of any single-use containers that I buy and I haven't bought tupperware in years. It's kind of like trying to slow down a runaway train by blowing at it, though.
If you can fix a M2A2 Bradley, you’re qualified to teach calculus?

I’m not sure I follow.
> equally dystopian agenda they’re pushing on kids

Please elaborate.
This is such a great hacker news observation about this ;)
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/19/here-are-...

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

- https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-school-district-bans-...
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Awesome!

A few questions:

1. Is the Tandy mode compatible with Amstrad's PC1512 and PC1640 / Plantronics CGA extensions, or maybe these should get dedicated support?

2. Any plans to also implement "modifications" beyond the ones for the i8088 so it can also run on a Z80 or a ASCII corp R800?
That hasn’t been the case since Lincoln died.

(Not that the other party is much better)
They thought they had a good idea with the fake campaign but actually had a genius idea with the world conquering lemonade. You can get it in Vienna at many places. I will surely tell this trivia to a lot of people.
Women who swim fast head to the Slow track. Men who swim slow head to the Fast
This is the reason I keep a paper atlas under the seat in my car. Ultimate off-grid redundancy.
> (3) If no wage scale or salary range exists, the employer must provide the minimum wage or salary expectation set by the employer prior to posting the position, making a position transfer, or making the promotion.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=49.58.110

Since aggregators aren't "job postings", I am guessing at least for WA, the website is compliant, but if you click through to the job postings, then the salary range is not published there either [0]. Should an aggregator be allowed to publish illegal job postings?

[0] - https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/10up/jobs/senior-we...
Play enough ski ball, get enough tickets, get the big stuffed animal or radio or whatever.

It'll probably take you $40 to get a $10 trinket, but you can get something back.

In a broader sense you're paying to play the games and when you're done you leave; in FTP the game is free, and they have to addict you, and will spam you with notifications to keep your attention.
> Isn't the classic answer to take urgent tickets and allow that to show up in decreased velocity?

It should, but I've been surprised by some companies interpretation of "product velocity" to just mean "how many tickets does each developer complete per 'sprint'".

That's not product velocity, that's just some micromanagement nonsense so they can measure/push devs. No wonder many devs hate "agile" like this.
But they are politicising it and using it for political gain. They are making it a crime. Anyone who still votes for these people finds these things at least acceptable.
Uber? Which division is that?
Are you referring to Amazon fresh?
Have you tried it? It's actually quite refreshing since you don't need to remember what you were doing in the back of your mind. The test is there for whenever you get back to it.
Aren't most of the employees based in Europe? In that case it's more like $100k or less.
Use an app that permanently downloads maps -- I like Mapy.cz and Organic Maps. And bring a waterproof phone case, an external battery, and a charging cable.

And also bring a waterproof paper map because it's lighter, easier to read, more resilient, and more fun.
He said: "...pushes certain non-academic agendas..".

Translation: Teachers are woke and shoving down the kids throat their political agenda.
Agreed.

Generally, I think that the strategy will be some combination of technology, coop ownership, and worker insurance.

Technology, for making corporation killers. Making alternative tech stacks that make existing corporate offerings irrelevant and requiring a sort of ransom to keep the licenses non-competitive. This provides nuclear leverage.

Cooperative ownership to align the organizations objectives with individual workers. The profit is distributed in a relatively fair way without these 100x pay differences, in a manner members can all agree with, and planets away from only caring about enriching investors.

Worker insurance where the coop offers healthcare and minimum income guarantees between jobs with corps. When a member is working for a corp, it is expected the corp pays for their insurance etc. If the member leaves the corp, they seamlessly continue to have healthcare etc.

I think the first step to making something like this happen is creating an extremely valuable piece of tech that society cannot do without. That acts as a beacon to attract workers and provides leverage. With the appropriate legal framework around that, it would cascade from there.
It's unfortunate that Hacker News doesn't support bold text. I would have bolded it if I could - it seems like a lot of people replying to me completely missed that I don't actually agree with any of these arguments, and am just telling people arguments that those on the other side make.
>And that’s also not true. Cooking with Teflon or other types of non-stick cookware based on these types of chemicals will result in those chemicals contaminating your food. In particular, pre-heating non stick pans is particularly bad, as is the use of the wrong utensils which will cause physically perceptible particles of the material to end up in your food.

source? The guidance from the FDA contradicts your claim

>Some PFAS are approved for use in the manufacture of non-stick cookware coatings. These coatings are made of molecules that are polymerized (i.e., joined together to form large molecules) and applied to the cookware through a heating process that tightly binds the polymer coating to the cookware. Studies show that this coating contains a negligible amount of PFAS capable of migrating to food. Similarly, the PFAS used in manufacturing of gaskets that come into contact with food do not pose a safety risk because they are also made of molecules that are polymerized.

https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/questions...
Nice site! May I suggest adding us ;) https://coolaiid.com
"Its reasonable to expect that people in government and the nedia are doing their job to inform the public."

It might be rational to expect that. But as you point out with your example, it's not actually reasonable to expect that. With the track record of screw ups that there are, it's more reasonable to assume that you have to do you're own research.
> Why do you think the majority of Floridians are OK with this?

I don't know. I don't live in Florida. If it's not against the law why should I care?

> Does it matter to American politicians that the majority of Americans are in favor of access to abortions?

Abortion is legal in my state. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
When you invest in a company with this structure you're not doing it to make money, you're doing it b/c you believe in the product, that's why those structures exist, from my understanding.
Intel DDIO, LLC cache, prefetching, shared locks and packet rates (2015)
There was a story in 2014 that Jobs had considered partnering with Sony on projects: http://nobi.com/en/Steve%20Jobs%20and%20Japan/entry-1212.htm...

> Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of golf course holding VAIO running Mac OS" recalls Ando; 2001 is the year,

A German site picked up the story and created that mockup (which wouldn't've fit the story; the X505 shipped in 2003): https://winfuture.de/news,80151.html
Just turn off your internet services if you don't want to engage with differing points of view.
These are good, maybe similar, and have high frequency of very interesting episodes:

- People I mostly Admire (Steven Levitt/Freakonomics Radio)
- The joy of X (Steven Strogatz, discontinued)

Both are in the style that the host talks with an interesting guest about their work. Coincidence has it that in the most recent episode of PIMA, the guest is the host of the other one, Steven Strogatz. They normally don't collaborate but have their similarities.
I know how you feel. I refuse to go to Virginia since they don't accept my CCW permit from Florida.
> teach things that shouldn't be taught to students

What things? Can you provide specific examples, lesson plans, or classes of these concepts being taught?
"Pushing locally"...what?

How is this different from fetch? The author tried to explain this distinction and I read it several times but I still don't get it.
This seems like one of those “unlock greater efficiencies” type deals where both parties earn an effective 0% margin on each others’ business. Both payment processing and cloud computing are very low margin when you’re handling business for a savvy customer who knows how to reduce costs.

From a data perspective, it would seem that there would be some major implications for this particular deal. If Stripe can gain a window into the purchasing habits and volumes of Amazon’s massive customer base (not the actual items, but the size and frequency), it seems like it’d be a major boost to the depth and breadth of its machine learning models. For Amazon to give that sort of capability to another company — which seems to have begun a few years back — seems quite remarkable to me.

On this same line of thought, I would assume that Apple has been working to bring more and more of its payment infrastructure in-house, as it’s a major area of data leakage (regardless of whether the data is merely used to train fraud prevention models, or to do something more “interesting”). Maybe someone with actual knowledge on these matters will comment here…
What countries do you feel are correct here?

Looking across the pond I see people being arrested for mean tweets and memes.

Seems rather further dystopian than a state mandating their public tax funded schools keep content neutral around divide topics - allowing parents to make their decisions.
This article is better IMO: https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/education/2023-01-18/state-pon...

Includes a link to the law that teachers would be violating: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ....
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what I meant. I meant that it is really high for a business that is marketing themselves as non-profit. I have seen similar structures that are like 10x profit caps, which seems reasonable. 100x is a lot of ceiling.
It's not too mind-boggling: we can describe the set as a whole without any issues, we just can't uniquely describe any particular number in the set. That doesn't stop us from generalizing over all numbers in the set, or even over all numbers in a describable subset, such as "the set of all undescribable primes".
I wouldn’t want to base my potential prison sentence on this interpretation
It's basically checking in your OS to git. It never gets crufty and almost never breaks. There's a lot more to it but those are the core ideas and I'm typing on my phone.
Your point cannot be overstated, I find scrum great for new product work, but pointless for maintenance that comes in ticket by ticket.

HOWEVER;
The counterpoint would be if you are doing new product work and your priorities are changing faster than a week or two you have either an exceptional situation or this should be a canary that you have something really wrong with your priority directions.

In the latter case scrum is being a useful tool in bringing this to your attention.
It is designed that way.

Instead of taking property tax money, pooling it, then evenly dividing it across a state. The way most states are designed is that property tax is given to the local school district, meaning that areas with cheaper homes get less money than areas with more expensive homes. This is made worse by demographic problems associated with poverty which makes teaching poor kids more expensive than rich (e.g. ESL, food poverty, unstable households, behavioral issues, untreated mental health problems, etc).

There're three tiers: Private education, rich area public, and poor area public education.
House GOP keeps up attacks on IRS with bill to abolish the agency
Right. My understanding is that it's very common to have fake oxycodone or heroine that's fentanyl or carfentanyl, and the short half-life of fentanyl and carfentanyl means that addicts will get withdrawl symptoms in just a few hours. My understanding is that heroine and oxycodone have long enough half-lives that many people can hold down jobs and generally be pretty functional by taking small doses before work (and maybe mid-shift, not sure). My understanding is that it's nearly impossible to do something similar with fentanyl/carfentanyl.

Though, I have little exposure to hard drug culture, and get most of my information from headlines.
Politicization of schooling, particularly party-political school board elections, is setting up conflict between teachers (who are seen as a natural liberal constituency) and some people who seem to have drunk particularly deeply of the anti-woke koolade.
How did you find ordering in English or do you speak Japanese?

Also, why are the ratings out of 7? Is that a Japanese thing?
For the downvoters, probably deep state far left anti american globalists beaurcrats, the Census themselves admitted to a deeply flawed count. Even a google search reveals this.:

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/censu...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3494167-southern-st...
Great engineering. Elegant solution while solving the general case - usually these avoid the general case
Thanks, Jorge! I think the nix3 interface and the Flakes solve a lot of UX problems. Maybe we could do a bit of a user study, to see where you get hung up?
Unfortunately the linked article includes a screenshot of a parent stating that teachers have barred students from bringing their own books/eReaders out of fear for liability.

That's the problem with policy that makes failure at a job function a crime. People will be overly cautious because they don't want to be charged with a felony.
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It doesn’t violate the 1st amendment because government is allowed to censor their own speech.

But certainly it is censorship.
Yeah, currently the top companies are 10Up, Academia.edu, and Aragorn; so it is alphabetically sorted, in other words, arbitrarily.
Ask HN: Is GPT the new thing for tech business to grab a hold of?
I saw it with the term "The Cloud." then it happened with "Blockchain." Then "AI Powered." Now I'm starting to see "AI Powered" getting taken by the different GPT terms. Are people grabbing on GPT and using it as the next big marketing term?
"Go" matches to many things unrelated to the programming language. Golang is more likely to match specifically the programming language.
Just being able to know which way is "north" is probably sufficient.
The layoffs are a precursor to a new layout
> Zero to Nix is opinionated because it advocates learning and using flakes and treating channels as deprecated.

I think I need a “Channels to Flakes”. I have an existing system configuration that seems to work fine without flakes. What am I missing out on?
What does the phrase “surplus elites” even mean in this context?

I don’t see how making a large salary as a software engineer makes one an “elite”. Is this just a clunky term for a rich person?
And how do you propose we get all the users vaccinated with the fentanyl jab? Another round of mass vaccinations? Make all the kids in school do it? Forced vaccinations for anyone in jail or rehab? Honestly, all of those seem like bad ideas.
If you are building a complex system with a large number of cascading dependencies then nix can literally save your sanity, however you have to get over the initial steep learning curve.

If your work tends to be more isolated and self contained on stable unchanging mainline or mainstream versions of any dependencies you have. Then it’s not worth your time and you won’t appreciate or understand it’s value.
Teachers regularly have their own collections of books in classrooms, separate from those held by the school library.
Scrum with 1 week sprints mean you spend a considerable amount of time in useless meetings (retro, planning 1 + 2, and so on).
The Fisher space pen was developed outside of NASA. The Soviets used a pencil, but it came with the very real downside risk of graphite particles migrating everywhere.
People forget there are more than one kind of freedom.

Example: I believe states should be small, physically, so their laws are relevant locally. But since several megacountries do exist, I prefer those countries to have "freedom" in the sense where locals can do whatever laws are relevant to them, even if those local laws include censorship or other nonfree things.
The same Zero to NixOS would be highly appreciate.
Isn't this just common sense?
This plus a Boy Scout level knowledge of orienteering (glorified triangulation with a $5 compass) can actually be useful in an emergency situation.
Point taken, but it was five years, not twenty.
> git fetch foo

updates your local origin/foo, not foo. Pushing locally pushes to foo.
The best engineers come up with the simplest solutions.
That’s not the concept behind “a feature not a product”. The entire idea is that a major company can add streaming as a bullet point to their ecosystem - like Apple and Amazon - and doesn’t need to be profitable by itself.

That is the “DropBox problem”. DropBox is trying to be a sustainable company while Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe and Amazon just throw it in as a feature in their portfolios.

This is the same with the movie studios in 2023. In 2006 when Apple first approached the movie studios, the idea of VOD digitally was new. Now the studios have a standardized process for it. There are a dozen VOD services with the same library because the industry has standardized licenses.

VOD = Video on Demand where you pay to rent or buy each individual film.

There are only three major record labels and if you can get deals with those, you cover most of the music people care about.

The smaller labels will come along
Not that Canadian authoritarianism makes this FL issue any less ridiculous, but since you brought it up, I am kind of amazed that no one in a "modern democracy" (what I thought Canada was aiming for) had any problem with the alarming weaponization of the financial system against anyone who even donated to the trucker protests. In my mind, it was somewhat equivalent to a Republican-controlled US government freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated to Planned Parenthood and then was protesting the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade. It was an alarming abandonment by Trudeau's government of the principles that I would've assumed they were trying to uphold.
From my reading, the crucial difference from a QoL POV is not needing to have the branch you're targeting checked out like pull/merge requires.
There's nothing called "CRT" being taught to grade school kids. Teaching math using statistical examples from the Implicit Association Test is problematic how?
Closing in on 20 years of existence doesn't really qualify for fad

I'm just starting a serious learning journey with Nix after flirting with the idea for a few years. Mostly because I find myself endlessly working on tooling to support the projects I work on that Nix already does extremely well.

The feature I am most sold on is the ability to invoke clean complex development environments, that bring themselves to existence automatically as I traverse directories. If you work in code or in DevOps, Nix is totally worth a look.
> So, the question becomes should we keep schools neutral or not?

What is the role of school? Is the role to prep kids to go to college? Is it to drive social change? Is it to teach what kids need to perform common jobs? Is it to teach kids how to have skills to operate as adults (like managing their personal finances)?

These are questions we don't agree on as a culture.

A bunch of debate is rooted in disagreement as to what these should be.
Amazon Flex. It's more like Uber Eats or DoorDash.
I feel like I see one of those remote job boards every week on HN.

There must be more job boards than jobs at this point.
>Their vision maybe didn't happen, but that doesn't make it wrong, or that the current technological trends are right.

Nicely put. Perhaps the smartphone era will be seen as a odd blip in a long history of gadgets. Who knows what the future might bring?
Indeed! I was going to dual boot, but Windows 10/11 now has WSL (Windows subsystem for linux). So I've been using Ubuntu, Debian, and other distros and also can launch (Wayland and x11) apps natively like Remmina and other Linux only apps: https://i.imgur.com/299XJvv.png
I love maps, and I'll admit that my wife and I have a bunch of map art hanging on our walls, one of each city or state where we've lived, but they're not like actual maps that you could fold up and take on a road trip. I hadn't thought of hanging up that sort of map. I'll also admit that I haven't bought a paper map to put in the glove box of my car in over a decade. I have printed Google Maps before a trip, though.

This is coming from a career Army officer, so I'm quite used to looking at maps on the walls of operations centers, and doing serious map-and-compass navigation exercises.
Kind of what happens when your school funding is based on local tax revenues
>> you really can't see any difference between thousands of people being laid off and making a bug in a code review??

Thank you for engaging. I intentionally picked something small like a production outage because - unlike hiring/firing 10k+ people - it's something more of us can relate to.

The topic at hand is - what does it mean to say "I am responsible?" I am using the relatable examples to explain it - it means as an adult I am saying "I am not blaming someone else, I am the one in charge here, and this happened on my watch / I made the decision."

This is in contrast to saying things like "the market is forcing our hand, I am powerless here" or "people under me made bad hiring decisions, I had no idea" - you are acknowledging that what happens on your watch, good or bad, is ultimately on you.

It's a separate concept from punishment. If you keep making bad decisions, your employees can chose to punish you by quitting, your boss (the board/shareholders) can punish you by asking you to resign, etc. Acknowledging responsibility over the decision doesn't imply you have to fire yourself.