skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because neither Dow nor the Singaporean government are interested in recycling them once they have been able to dump them in Indonesia? This appears to be just a greenwashing scheme which coincidentally reuses a small fraction of the garbage stream.
> Recycling has become incredibly expensive [1] and it's hardly making financial sense anymore

Small quibble with your wording there - recycling hasn't BECOME more expensive: for the most part it was never real. China was taking our "recyclables" that were never actually recyclable, telling us they were recycling it, and instead dumping almost all of it in landfills.

I recently got into 3d printing, and was sucked in by the promise of everything being PLA bioplastic. I've diligently saved up my misprints and plastic scrap, and now that I have a decent amount collected, I'd like to dispose of it responsibly. As far as I've been able to find, my options are: landfill, or shipping it at my expense (and the planet's) across the continent to the one place that claims they recycle filament. I can't even compost it anywhere local. Disgusting.
What does it has to do with Muslims now? Are you even aware of Indian history?

This book will help you give some context though

https://a.co/d/b55ZoJ9
> Security updates: 3 years of monthly security updates

That is such a let-down! If Nokia is serious about sustainability, it needs to make it 5y+.

I get it, it is not easy. But with the proliferation of malware and exploits, after 3y (since release, not purchase) this phone is nothing but a liability.
> LISP is worth learning for a different reason – the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it.

I like Lisp (or rather Scheme and Racket), but I have never understood this perspective. The only thing I can think of that Common Lisp does truly uniquely is its condition system. I feel like something like Prolog is much more profound in the way that it reshapes how to think about programming.
> My brain immediately worked far better than usual as well, but I couldn't direct it. I could socialize more easily, go about tasks more easily, but I was dramatically less cognizant of what I was doing and why. That part was even worse.

It provides a laser-focus on whatever goal is in front of you, but if something catches your attention despite that then that laser-focus gets pointed towards the new thing and whatever it was you were in the middle of is now totally out of mind. You definitely need to realise this if you want to make effective use of amphetamines to improve focus, otherwise you end up with an unconsolidated melange of half-baked projects and aborted deep-dives :)

> The worst part of ADHD meds is the part where I do things without needing to think about it. I can go on autopilot and just get stuff done... But I actually don't have a good grasp on the what and why part. My brain is just like "alright, do do do!". Externally it probably looks pretty unremarkable. Internally it's quite unsettling, though useful at times.

For me the best part of ADHD medication was waking up in the morning and "just remembering" the thing I'd thought of before I went to sleep and had tagged as "I'll think about it in the morning". Our brains are designed to operate things without us having to consciously think about them and that's a good thing as consciousness is a scarce resource, especially for those of us who have to operate under ADHD's working memory and self-soothing deficits. Having parts of your brain start working as intended is pretty eerie in an existential way that I had to work through in my own head, but I think framing the autopilot positively is useful. I mean it's amazing how little conscious thought is required to get through the day if you think about it :)
All of this is super interesting but it's been discussed for a while and I'm still waiting for a "do $x, it will improve condition $y through mechanism $z" kind of prescription and I don't think that's coming any time soon.
Forgive the following joke, however, I feel you may like it:

Spoken dead-pan style in Steven Wright's voice:

-

"I used to have schizophrenia, but they still have it"
People could compare the Nokia to comparable phones perhaps? There are other repairable phones available, although I don't recall any this cheap?

In other news my Ford is not as comfortable as your Rolls Royce, and my Sekonda watch is not going to last like your Rolex....
But is it common for kids to be taught how to code before they come to uni? I would imagine it's not that easy to find someone to teach that sort of thing, so then the only kids who graduate high school with any tech skills are the ones who did it themselves.

Your point about engineering is exactly right. I built a working radio in my first term, having never done anything like it before, save for acing some physics exams with minimal electricity sections. When we came to coding, I had mucked about a bit with a computer, but I also found other students who'd worked at Microsoft. Wide wide range, and a lot of people of course ended up getting that fellow to email them the solution.
Dumbed down without being inaccurate is also often sufficient for anyone with some base knowledge in an area. You can figure a lot out simply by being told the core concept, no need to go into extreme detail.

Extreme detail is great for those that want or need it, but it's far from the only reasonable option for learning things.

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Re the general flood of these kinds of videos: oh yeah, I think it's excessive. I suspect YouTube is pushing that category lately (which is FAR from the worst to push, so I'm largely okay with that). It feels like all the popular, algorithmically pushed ones are making sure to cross the magic 10 minute mark, and try to look like TV/movie editing, regardless of what those do to the content. Bonus points for obtuse video titles that tell you nothing about what topic is covered.

Which is part of why I like his. They almost never hit 10 minutes, or even close. There's little fluff, little drama, little algorithmic gaming - videos today look very similar to several years ago.
the terrible thing about economics is that it's very complex - "the parable of the broken window" is only a parable. the entire field of keynesian economics says that yes, you can break a window and then pay someone to fix it and increase net economic activity, as long as it's not crowding out actual economic activity that would otherwise have occurred. the "burying jars of money in the desert and paying people to dig them up" is precisely a broken window, economically speaking, and that's just a parable too.

in the real world domestic workers don't all go on to become farmers (oops that's dumped onto by subsidized western businesses too) or some other business... some degree of protectionism has consistently worked well to the extent it's arguably necessary*. And don't take this as me defending sweatshops either ;) but a moderate degree of protectionism and public investment has very consistently allowed countries to move beyond the absolute basic "we have sweatshots and scrap out old electronics and recycle garbage" stage of development. Neoliberalism and free trade will suck away any public investment you give it the opportunity to, and engineer around any comparative advantage you can find.
I’m not arguing whether or not grift exists universally. I believe it does.

What’s not universal is the near-idolization of it. That’s uniquely American.
Actually, you are right. In an ideal world, managers wouldn't need to resort to letting things fail to highlight an area being understaffed

Likewise, in an ideal world, heroes would be compensated according to their performance

But we don't live in an ideal world, so your point is valid
> I'm recently on my 4th Android smartphone in 12 years (Galaxy S, Moto G, Pixel 2, Pixel 7) and would be still on the Pixel 2 if not for lack of updates, as it's still completely fine hardware wise. I guess if I had been an Apple fanboi, I would've had at least 1 fewer phones in that time period. Really made me think this last time.

In regards to longterm OS support, iPhones have been getting better and better[1]. 6-7 years is pretty darn good for the last batch to fall out of support (6+, 7, and SE). It'll be interesting to see when the next batch (8 and X) of iPhones falls off the cliff.

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1. https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...
Coffee's the seed of a berry fruit. You're not really contradicting me so I'm not sure what the motivation was for your diatribe except that you're triggered someone doesn't like the horse piss that you do. Taste in coffee isn't "rationalized", by knowledge of it's origin or otherwise. You either like it or you don't.

Enjoy your swill.
There's PyTorch, which even Google seems to prefer over TensorFlow.
Shows up fine for me
In their performance review they can say they spat in X mother's faces this quarter
A new conspiracy theory claims that the government or whatever is lying about the distance from the earth to the sun. I think for less intelligent people the size of the universe and its objects is too much to handle
I’m not really sure you can separate the two. The UK parliamentary system doesn’t require the PM to campaign, and never has. I don’t think you can call PM “unelected” when the system doesn’t, and has never, required them to get a direct mandate from the people.

Many would argue that the recent trend of PMs trying to appear presidential, and running general election campaigns based on their personal brand, as problematic. As the PM isn’t meant to be an important part of a persons vote. They’re voting for their local MP not the national PM.

Also every PM had to campaign in a general election. They need to be an MP to become PM, that requires them to run in a general election and win their seat.
We are still fixing stuff in Wayland, stuff that Microsoft and Apple had figured out 20 years ago.

So defeating.
There are a couple things:

- Most distros seem to like wrapping functionality and having you use their own convenience functions to get things done. For example, for AstroVim, astrovim.<function> is all over their config files. This is fine if you were a distro developer and you were trying to make things easy for yourself but I do not find it easier for the user when neovim already has simple lua based functions. It is another barrier to entry as you have to learn how the distro authors put things together.
- The config for LazyVim is will thought out. For example, it has 2 directories: /config & /plugins. That makes it simple to figure out where things should go. keymaps go in keymaps.lua, options go in options.lua... it kind of makes sense.
- The plugin config for disabling a builtin plugin is the same as where you would configure your own plugins. It is literally:

return {
{ "github/plugin.nvim", enabled = false },
}

vs

return {
{ "github/myplugin.nvim", {config here if you want}},
}

- There are no weird plugin loaders and most examples you see from plugin authors are copy/paste into that bracket section.
- The LazyVim website is decent. Not perfect though. https://www.lazyvim.org/
- The starter is a great place to start your setup. https://github.com/LazyVim/starter
- The plugin manager, lazy.nvim, seems to be a lot simpler and well thought out compared to others plugin managers (like packer). It has autoloading, caching, a UI, etc.
- Folke, the distro creator, has written many popular plugins and knows quite a bit when it comes to configuring plugins. That seems to be paying off in the design.

To be fair, there are some design decisions that I don't agree with when it comes to the LazyVim layout itself. Putting everything in editor.lua or ui.lua instead of per-plugin config is not how I would have done it. It was pretty easy to figure out where the plugin settings were though because they match the categories on the website.

Note: I mainly switched to Neovim as I am find that there just seems to be much more development in the ecosystem and the number of amazing plugins coming out is staggering.
Sounds like capitalist "overreach" if anything.
Do you know how many calories you’re getting with this?
how do you know it is from eating vegetables and not just dialed down with time or other factors?
Peripheral and central serotonergic systems are both relevant:

> Because 5-HT cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, the peripheral 5-HT system is functionally separate from the central 5-HT system. — Diabetes Metab J. 2016 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27126880/
It always seems slow until you’re on the right hand side of the elbow
Can Black Holes Create Dark Energy?
> How so? Apple iPhones have one year warranties, are notoriously difficult to repair ...

I think your parent was talking about OS support.
Could be wrong (please correct me) but i recall hearing that allowing a customer to change a battery (e.g, 3rd party) on a chargable device can change the safety of the product/UL rating or whatever, so it could simply be a certification thing.

Not exactly the same thing, but I have a Garmin heartrate chest strap with a replaceable battery (no charging) -- in the US the cover swivels open to change, but in Australia it requries a screw, for child safety rules. I Thought that was interesting
> it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll.

That may be so, but an honest journalist would report both justification and conclusion, not just the latter, and let their readers decide.

> To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known

If their experiences are negative, disregarding them is celebrated:

The ideal white response to non-white predation came from the Tibbetts family. Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2018. [..] [Her father] emphasized that his daughter would find anyone using her death to criticize illegal immigration as “profoundly racist.” The family was lionized by the press. - https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-...

> take the results of one poll

You think he should base his views on more comprehensive violent crime statistics instead?
Where did you find these German native speakers to practice with? And you said "such an app already exists", but not for German and Japanese. Do you know the name? I have a lot of experience building language learning services so am very curious to hear what you feel is currently missing in your current tools to learn German/Japanese.
Corporate executives literally control the UK government.
Isn't kombucha way less than "moderate to heavy alcohol consumption"? Besides, small amounts of alcohol form naturally from stuff fermenting in your gut. To be honest, I would be more concerned about my tooth enamel degrading from heavy kombucha consumption (as it is very acidic) rather than the alcohol content.
Somehow this very important use case is lost on modern phone makers.
This looks great, but I am a bit dismayed by one "will not tackle" feature: qmake support.

Why make this call? Most qt projects default to qmake by default. Making this a will not tackle acts as a big barrier to anyone looking to port their projects over to LeanCreator.
> For reference I'm using sway. swayidle is an idle daemon, where the maintainer doesn't think that it matters whether its connected to power or not. You're supposed to create your own scripts around it that handles ac connect and disconnects.

> There's a tool to do flux like color warmth setting. One of them doesn't allow you to toggle, so you have create your own toggle script that kills or restarts it. The other one is controllable, but doesn't actually account for time or timezone.

I used to write little tools like his and my ~/bin is still littered with scripts from 10 years ago

Nowadays I want this functionality to work by default and I won't settle for a less usable system
Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS
No. There just isn't. It's a shame there are so many wheels for artistic rendering ray tracing with amazing performance, but simply no one bothered to invert camera as sources and objects as detectors, add more geometry and a tiny bit more of physics, and make a opensource non-sequential ray tracing engine suitable for optics design.

Commercial tools like Zemax cost a leg (> $13k, and they were changing to subscriptions even before being bought by ANSYS) and have a rather steep learning curve. There are newcomers like COMSOL offering a ray tracing toolbox, haven't tried but they are offering generous free trials and the price seems to be more reasonable.

Edit: maybe the abadonware Beam4 mentioned by another post worth trying.
But this is better to reuse them first, right? Instead of consuming energy to convert them into other materials.
Or keeping the price up on the second hand market?
This, a company to find skilled workers in a niche technology is expecting too much.
How so? Apologies for not being specific, I was referring to support for security updates.
There exist general purposes OSes that don't just fall apart randomly, you know. For instance if I have a problem with my Kodi box, I just reboot and choose the previous generation in the NixOS boot menu.

Judging by the threads on those proprietary embedded devices, I think my setup passes the "just works when you want it to" test even better than those appliance things, which market an illusion of stability but are doing the same mutable update dance behind the scenes (with the added complication of corporate whims).
I think I've had 3 phones in the time my wife has had 1 iPhone 7. Every time I buy a new phone I'm like "but Android is cheaper", but I'm fairly sure the lifetime cost of "phone" is in her favour at this point. I think my next phone will be an iPhone.
A telescope isn't a remote viewing device, it's photons hitting my eyes just the same as if I were standing directly in front of whatever I'm observing.

I'm not trying to do some new-agey "everything is valid" thing here. If I, like the photons, travelled from the source 671 million miles away to Earth at the speed of light, time would not have advanced for me at all. I would be telling you that what you are seeing is happening right this instant. And I would be right!

And of course time on Earth has advanced considerably while I was traveling, from Earth's perspective. This is also true.
Seemingly all businesses of any size are using applications in production that are no longer being developed.

Yea, I can take that application and upgrade that library... Will it work? Might crash. Might work fine. Or in the worst case silently corrupt data in an almost unnoticeable way that we don't notice for till 10 million transactions down the line.
Yeah there isn’t randomized controlled trials or systematic review on any of this stuff so your company is glorified snake oil and you really should be ashamed. Get the evidence first before trying to take people’s money (AND data!).
YeSvelte: Svelte UI Component Library
> How many miracle weight loss drugs have come and gone over the last decade?

Realistically, none. These are the only ones that have ever been found to actually work, everything else is either homeopathy or has terrible side effects. I agree that having food that tastes better is the main culprit for the obesity epidemic, but I don't think the answer is making tasty, addictive, food harder to access. Those foods are popular because people like them, they bring people happiness. It absolutely is a lot of work to eat right, but it doesn't have to be with these drugs.
It’s administrative/sales/etc work for the consulting business, not for the client.

There’s something fishy about the $3,000/hr rate, though, because the high-end consultants I know—and I suppose I count myself among them—don’t charge hourly. Many charge a daily rate, and the higher end ones charge a monthly retainer. I personally do fixed-price work with the occasional monthly retainer.

(This is excluding consultant mills like McKinsey, which are a separate breed.)

I’m not going to share details, but with some mental gymnastics, I suppose I could find a circumstance where I earned thousands in an hour. But that isn’t reflected in my yearly revenue figures, because it excludes the time in spending on marketing, figuratively waiting for the phone to ring, and other non-revenue-generating activities.
I agree. I muddled through it because the non-technical 25% made it worthwhile and the writing was very nice.
When my "genius" boss first heard about ChatGPT etc., he was convinced that this would end up replacing all the developers in our org. I told him that the more likely COA was that it would replace all the middle managers who just collate TPS reports to push to the VPs.

He was not amused.
https://archive.is/HH9iI
And Microsoft figuring out how to make Windows even worse with every new day!
I'm not really seeing how giving preowned shoes to folks is not "recycling" them.

When I was young we'd take glass soda bottles back to the store to be cleaned and refilled and we'd get a little money back. That was "recycling".
Your landing page takes forever to load
some of them are too easy. yet, still fun
Maybe a useful skill but it's not a CS skill so it's slightly odd to teach it. Same with Emacs tbh. Students could easily use VSCode (and it would probably be better for a CS class).
What LISP has, uniquely, is its macro system which, unlike text-based macro system like C, operate on the abstract syntax tree level.
Like what? At least be specific.
This is about as helpful as saying the solution is to pray more. You're not wrong, but very few obese people are willing/able to do it.

> Medicating obesity is like taking pills to make smoking healthy.

This is wrong though. Eating is not unhealthy. Overeating is. These drugs stop people from overeating.
On that vein, I recently joined home-barista, an old school web forum for coffee geeks.

That site is seemingly frozen in time from the early 2000s. There are no trackers - there's no need, since it is already filled with a self selected group. The ads are just simple banners. And best of all it filled with a group of passionate, kind and helpful folks. A simpler site from a simpler time. One of my favorite haunts on the web.
This is a buyer beware of some security policies.

I just want to point out that this entire described scenario, by a company with decades and decades of security products being shoehorned into "just good enough" cloud infrastructure....

Sure the security folks will say hardened infrastructure with fine grained least privilege is doable ... if you're at greenfield ... maybe. But the issue with lots of IT orgs is that they are MESSY, and fine grained least privilege is fragile. Messy + fragile = not good things.

I agree with least privilege as an aspiration, but security is a top-down authoritarian entity in organizations, and fundamentally they don't care if their policies disrupt your daily work process. IMO this is because most security orgs don't provide solutions.

Specifically, by solution I do not mean "picked an enterprise security product bam we have a solution", I mean you have a security architecture and then have the people with bandwidth to help boots on ground devs get the job done quickly so security isn't a blocker).