skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is sad.

So long as we're going to be making plastics, it seemed that pyrolysis and/or incineration made sense to destroy the plastic waste. Then reduce the amount of plastics at the start of the pipeline.

(Obviously it's more efficient to make fuel directly from oil, but that's not the point. Narrowly from an energy perspective, the comparison to make is (a) make plastic from oil, separately make jet fuel from oil, burn the jet fuel, and send plastic to the landfill, vs (b) make plastic from oil, use it, then turn it into jet fuel and then burn that. Obviously you don't make plastic as only an inefficient intermediate step in jet fuel production.)

But if the pyrolysis process is going to release potent carcinogens up the smokestack, then that changes everything.

The article is a little bit bad, in that it doesn't clearly explain whether the fuel itself is carcinogenic, or if it's a byproduct of the pyrolysis process that is. It also doesn't explain what those chemicals are (I assume they are hydrocarbons, cousins of benzene), or why they are not burned in the process that powers the pyrolysis. Is the combustion too dirty, not high-temperature enough? Are volatile gasses leaking through some insufficiently-selective distillation process? Are products just recklessly being vented to atmosphere?

There are plenty of examples of corporations doing horrible things to make a buck, and the corporate/PR/lawyer-speak from Chevron does nothing to allay my fears. But I assume there are also chemists involved who do give a shit and are not setting out to poison people nearby. We've heard from the whistleblower. We've heard from the lawyer/PR flaks. I'd like to hear from some chemists.
Unfortunately I also want technical symbols Depth, Counterbore, and Countersink and perhaps more.
In the UK I’ve seen this called the “intelligent client” model. Basically a core group of PMs who outsource everything. In my narrow experience of being on the inside of this, it failed drastically as the internal PM team lacked the technical expertise to foresee and plan for challenges, and really understand what was going on. The sea of external consultants all had differing incentives (other than earning money) - and the contracts written weren’t watertight or ever enforced to stop runaway spending.
There's also
https://www.emergentmind.com/
> I happily pay the subscription fees, because this is the only way to sustainably maintain an app.

No, it's not. Sustainably building an app requires revenue. Whether that revenue comes in the form of a subscription, a one-time payment, or multiple payments in return for updates does not matter to the developer. There's this idea that people are idiots, not knowing that they're paying more if it's a subscription. If that's your business model, you're screwed, because it doesn't work that way.

What makes subscription-only even worse is that it's a big burden to keep track of subscriptions and, if you decide to cancel, putting up with all that BS. I spend far less on software as a result of subscription models. I don't have time to play those games.

> And I'd much rather have a few really good apps than a plethora of half-baked ad-ridden garbage.

That's not the choice that's being made.
Alternatively you can stop treating women as venal objects to conquer, dare to reject you, only out to be offered things by wealthy powerful men and just be a normal, well adjusted person.

I regularly strike conversations with the women I met just because as I do with any other person regardless of their sex and some of them even have genuinely interesting things to say. Strangely my dating life is doing fine despite being a very normal 30-something man who is neither a trader nor an athlete.

Reading this comments section, I'm starting to understand why women are tired of dating apps.
Start using a white nor brown noise machine. Noise issues like this are typically because the noise has lots of variation in volume, spikes in loudness, etc. The steady droning of a white or brown noise drowns out lots of that kind of background noise. I just use my phone, lots of free apps available. Ear plugs help too, though they can be irritating sometimes.
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Musician sold their NFT is acceptable. this just like they sold a signed picture, fans always buy these small stuff.
How many are the examples when the federal government was more efficient (as in effect per unit money) than a commercial company? Certainly there are some. How many examples are there when it was the other way around?

Asking unironically, because in a monopsony situation when there's only one buyer, a state or federal agency, commercial companies compete in materially different ways than in a free(r) market.
You’ve now pivoted from saying that the lab is irrelevant in the lab leak scenario to saying the lab leak scenario is unlikely. Those are two very different statements.

Why the need to throw everything against the wall to see what sticks?
A few months ago i worked at a company which estimated 2 months, after 1 year and a half it’s still not done, i quit a couple of weeks ago
But the client, a really bigcopany, it’s angry but stillwaiting, lying to tjeir upper managent to get a few bonuses
I find it strange that AI/ML people would avoid "adtech for ethical reasons".

I really wish the websites I visited made better use of my actual history on those sites to tailor relevant ads to my interests. It seems like an ideal application of AI to me. They could do a far better job than serving me the lowest common denominator stuff they keep throwing at me.

My Twitter news feed these days:

* 10% - posts of interest from people I follow, i.e. the stuff I actually go to Twitter for

* 90% - Ads and recommendations of topics to follow that I have zero interest in

If it's going to insist on showing ads and recommending topics of interest, you'd think those could be better personalized, given that Twitter has years of my tweet, reply, and like history to train its AI on.

But no... what I get is crypto ads, Hollywood events, celebrity news, sports news, etc.
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This is a really good answer

i would also like to add that modelling in credit risk is not just about yes / no answers around loan outcomes.

There are lots of other goals that are regularly modelled such as default rates, profit optimization, loss minimization, delinquency and payoff rates at specific parameters ... endless options

There are also lot of different ways in which these models are implemented ( decision trees, statistical analysis, ML... )

Some examples of (real life) projects include:

- if our institution offers this card to clients with 750 credit scores vs 790 credit scores, how does my profit move vs my losses and what the factors to limit losses while maximizing profits

- how do I minimize my costs for servicing this card while keeping profits at the max ?

- what rewards options lead to the highest number of preselected / qualifying clients taking up a product at the lowest cost

- what contact strategies are best for specific types of clients if they are late on payments - call or email or text or legal letter? which strategies are the cheapest? which strategies give what this institution considers to be the best response ? which lead to fastest full payment? fastest partial payment? which lead to getting back to a regular payment plan?

- how can we identify clients who have a lending product with us who might be on the market for another lending product in the next 12 months? in the 6 months?, those who might need a limit increase pro-actively? those who whose might need a limit decrease pro-actively?

And, one of the largest area pf credit risk evaluation is real time decisioning on transactions: 'is throwaway201606 really buying $6000 of apple products, in person, at this mall in Toronto, Canada right now when I (the system) know I he bought a daily Wendy's Spicy chicken sandwich 10 minutes ago in Dallas" and should we allow this payment

Some example of how models are used here include ( note that modelling helps establish which transactions to look at more carefully and which to ban outright among other things )

- predict what type of terminals are being targeted: scammers -> we have left bank ATM machines alone and started looked at gas pumps:

- predict where transactions of interest might come from: scammers -> we do scams on site A at Christmas, scams on site B in the summer or we do site A scams with brand Y card and do site B scams with brand Z card

- predict behaviour patterns of transactions of interest: we always test the cards we will use by purchasing a $5 'brand x' gift card online 10 minutes before
mail.google.com showed error messages for me intermittently during the past hour.
I'm just lending some flavor. "Negro" is kind of like "oriental" in that it was never offensive but seems kind of old-fashioned now, which makes people assume it was.
I know it's only a band-aid but have you tried vibrantDeck [0]?

It won't make your screen look like OLED but it definitely helps bring out the colours.

I do hope someone comes up with an OLED replacement screen for it, hopefully with thinner bezels (like the Switch did between the original and the OLED) but I find the OEM one pretty adequate.

[0] https://github.com/libvibrant/vibrantDeck
Lots of changes you can try:

https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/

You might also be a slow caffeine metabolizer, so even one morning coffee can disrupt your sleep for more than 24 hours.
with a six figures job and leaving it at 5PM, you still have a lot of resources most people don't to make something impactful. I think you're just trying to justify your inability to do something meaningful with other people bad decisions. Sorry if I seem harsh, but that's how I see it.
UBI would just socialize the cost which at least now, the private sector partly pays.

UBI is a yearly recurring expense in the trillions.

Lots of people would work less, (remember COVID?) lowering tax revenue.

This means higher demand for workers, who will require even higher pay because of supply constraints and high taxes.

Unlocked demand, decreased labor supply and higher taxes means inflation. Lots of inflation, specially in services.

Businesses will offshore or automate to try and reduce cost, but that will push even more workers onto UBI.

What will the new equilibrium be? Nobody knows. It could stabilize with extreme income inequality creating a permanent underclass, It could drive the United States into hyperinflation, creating civil unrest and destabilizing world security. Nobody knows. It would be a society wide experiment that would be politically impossible to undo democratically.

If you think BS jobs are bad, how about no jobs in a bankrupt United States, sliding into Venezuelan hyper inflation?

Imagine China, Russia, and North Korea undeterred and the death and human suffering that would follow.

The US may not be perfect, but the world is a harsh harsh place and people have no idea how good they have it right here, right now.

So good that professionals not only demand high pay from their employers, but think it's totally reasonable to require "meaning" as well.

Were he still alive, I would pay good money to see the author try and read his essay out loud to Victor Frankel.
Plastic based fuels sounds like petro fuel with extra steps! As for the plastic waste, instead of dumping it into the ocean, we blow it into the atmosphere.
NYC can hire someone to manage adding elevators to stations. The Americans with Disability act passes in 1990 - more than 30 years ago. That is plenty of time for someone to be hired to manage what should (but isn't...) a smaller project of remodeling just one station, and thus get experience. Then you promote those people from within an develop expertise in more complex projects.

All stations should have a minor remodel every 10 years, and a major remodel every 30 years - just for structural reasons. NYC has enough stations to keep a small department of people busy constantly remodeling stations.
So that in the situation that you get fired (possible based on the attitude you show here), no one else wants to hire you (unlikely I admit), and you have to work for yourself, you can get more done for each hour of your time, since your livelihood may depend on it. At the same time, honoring the fairly recent trend of increasing human productivity that has allowed us to have SIGNIFICANTLY better quality of life than our distant and not so distant ancestors.
I'm still interested by other people's chats, so long as they are probing the limits of the model in ways I haven't thought of.

I don't want to see yet another conversation where someone asks it if it will become skynet or if it can write a haiku about whatever.
> The cost of maintaining different versions of apps for different tiers of payees seems prohibitive. Especially when libraries change constantly.

Perhaps, developers should look for libraries that don't change constantly. That way the could reduce their workload independent from the pricing model.
>The only reason for me to care that it's broken is on behalf of the people that can read it.

The people who can't read it, but who can see that it's broken, will form a lower opinion of your product. It's as if I went to a Polish website and the text was all right-aligned and in all caps. I can't read Polish at all, but I'd still form an opinion about the quality of the site.
briefly looking at a google map, i don't see many rivers connecting near chaco canyon. Maybe there were rivers in that era that could work.
I'm saying it's being shoehorned into the middle of a series of events, in a way that is both irrelevant and unlikely. And I'm positing that the shoehorning is because people are really attached to the idea of blaming a lab, given that said lab is not a necessary or likely component of the story.

I can't prove a negative, you believe what you want.
I remember reading this book.

As huge as gravity is (making everything basically two-dimensional shapes on the surface), the magnetic forces are formidable, too, forcing inhabitants to be oriented and moving only in certain directions.
When I was starting out my career, my father gave me a piece of advice that has turned out to be incredibly applicable and valuable - "Stay close to the money". What he meant by that is work in environments where the work you perform is very closely tied to the revenue of the company - or another way of saying it - "Do work that is directly part of the organization's mission". It sounds like you've applied this to your career with good results.
This is nonsense. TikTok has repeatedly lied about its compliance with federal orders to prevent Americans' data from being exfiltrated to China.

The federal government can make all the privacy laws they want, but they're literally impossible to enforce. How is GDPR enforcement going? You can't monitor an entire company for the data that's being digitally sent out of it.

TikTok and the CCP don't care about US privacy laws, anyway. The latter is involved in incessant hacking campaigns against the US.
>“well but you can give us a big paycheck based on our seniority to do a job a new hire could do”

That's not really how it works here. Pay band for a given job title is strict and relatively narrow, and the way you substantially increase pay is by moving into management or getting a new title, which are both up to management to decide. So, the hypothetical loafer/shirker long-tenured guy may be getting paid 15%-20% more than the guy in his title who's just out of school, not exactly a big paycheck.

>Even amongst the union it seems like you realize the union is inefficient and staffed with layarounds. But when there’s a problem you blame management?

Funny. Most of the "layarounds" we all know about are heavily protected by their management, either they're on very good personal terms or are very narrowly doing the work they're asked to make the boss happy and don't care much about a request from me. I've seen quite a few people pushed out the door here and it's typically not one of them, usually it's those with personal issues with the boss.
I have worked in embedded code bases like that. While some of it is unavoidable for io, I have worked in other codebases where the compile time allocated memory was moved around in a way that would have satisfied the borrow checker except for that first mutable borrow. I haven't done rust for uc yet, so I won't claim it is a good fit, but it didn't seem like the parent poster had either, and I think there is a decent chance it could work well of the tooling is there. Which I'm not sure it is.
That is interesting. I happened to notice that some described ligatures under Dutch aren't appearing for me for some reason. I've been thinking about font rendering in different scripts lately since I like the DejaVu fonts but unfortunately the project was abandoned a while ago and coverage is incomplete in many areas. With other more complete fonts available these days it seems likely to be better to use a more restricted version of the fonts to allow fallback to the more complete scripts, although I'm not sure how well the unicode blocks match actual usage. It is easier than ever to mix languages but still hard to know if you are messing them up. I found out my terminal was rendering Japanese wrong when someone posted this link recently:

https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Now it displays Chinese wrong.
> I worry about niche communities that hugely depend on the internet's ability to connect with like-minded people far away

I guess it depends on how much the niche community depends on people being visually authentic?
This is interesting, but in terms of longevity, how does it compare to carving letters one centimeter high in stone?

Let's say for example, we tried doing that underground on Pluto.
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Agreed. Good tertiary sources like analysts are also sometimes OK. But all primary sources all the time is not reality
"I think it was bad."

I was that person. Stopped it, better off for it. I realized how annoying that behaviour is. Nowadays i respond: "Ah, okay." Whats the value in disagreeing about taste? Negative. I remember how hurt i was in the past, when i showed people music i love and they dismissed it.

I even stopped wanting to be right all the time, since i grew tired of arguing over trivia. I think i disentangled my knowledge/smarts from how i feel about myself.

It's different with Hatespeech for sure.
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Beautiful. I've been noodling on exactly this same idea. So far I've explored using SQLite but it would be ideal if there was no SQL between me and my relations. Another direction I've taken is adding STM to JavaScript and implementing a JS api for querying relations.
I worked as the technical half of in a sales organization selling a big data solution so I've caught a whiff of what the blog post is talking about. A handful of organizations interested in/using our solution were doing, what I gather, meaningful work. A larger number - my guess, being an outsider and I could be totally wrong, but just based on signals I caught from the people at these organizations I was working with - were not. The ones which were not were those places where there's some sort of data arm or data scientist team with no clear mission and were more than willing to sink hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars into big data solutions on a short sales cycle.

The industries where I felt that data was being used tended to have data as their core competency. The companies I worked with that were probably doing something useful were in the pharmaceutical, gaming, and data provider spaces. (Okay, so gaming space core competency is not big data, but their data team handled everything associated with microtransactions and other sales.)

I also worked for a short time at a PAC-adjacent company working with voter and demographic data. Because that company's core competency was data, the work was meaningful - but it is extremely important that if you do that sort of work your politics match.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that
> In other words, this filter doesn't look "realistic" to me at all.

It doesn't, but sadly this is early days.
So Black conservatives can't be peddling anti-Blackness because they're Black. Four cops who kill a Black man can't be practicing anti-Black racism because they're Black. But the White owned media with overwhelmingly White staff can be racist against whites. Certainly no hypocrisy in contemporary conservative thought.
This affected us starting at 4:57am US/Pacific with a significant drop in traffic through the HTTPS Global Load Balancer across all regions and Pub/Sub 502 errors but there was nothing on the status page for another 45 minutes. Things returned to normal by 5:05am from what I can tell.
> I could lay in my bed and play switch games for hours without issue, but with the deck, I need to introduce some resting device to not lose feeling in my hands.

Interesting. I never found the Switch good for that. I don't find the Deck good for that either. I'm not really complaining though, it's just a generally uncomfortable position for almost anything except sleeping. :D

> Also, its awkward for me compared to any other contoller in terms of trigger reach.

I find the triggers pretty good. I need to twist my hands a little to press the bumpers though. Otherwise I find the ergonomics quite good!
China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores
Another fascinating Neutron star life story : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(novel)
I really love my Steam Deck, until it suddenly died a few days ago. Couldn't even get to BIOS menu and just a black screen with CPU fan and haptic on, tried everything from reseating battery, putting in battery storage mode, replacing the NVME or even running fsck on another linux machine, nothing works. It seems to be a common issue with the Deck :( Now I have to find a way to RMA it, which will take months as they don't sell it where I live.
> I am just interested in what they want and how effective the process is at getting it...

What they want and what union leadership wants may not be the same.
We received a ton of feedback since our last HN post regarding many aspects of Infisical. We've had to prioritize user feedback in the last month, and one of the decisions we made together with our community was to move robust testing to March in order (see roadmap here: https://www.notion.so/infisical/be2d2585a6694e40889b03aef96e...) to address some other feedback first.

In terms of stability/security, I'm happy to say that we made HUGE improvements to platform-wide security, primarily revamping cryptography dealing with managing private key encryption/decryption operations (adding a protected key mechanism and Argon2id KDF - happy to elaborate more if needed) and adding MFA. Now that we're done with these updates, we'll be adding robust testing going into March and discussing it along with our community.
Thanks for tracking down the links.
You honestly think that the federal government would be more effective at managing consultants? The majority of additional costs in any underground job fall into one of two buckets: third party disputes or differing site conditions. A national agency will do no better than a local agency at managing these and will probably be worse because they won’t have any relationship with the locals. At the end of the day an infrastructure project has to be built locally, not in Washington.

I won’t even touch the fact that most infrastructure jobs are only partially funded by the federal government with the remainder funded by local tax or rate payers. The federal government has no interest in cost controls beyond their own money and the residents of State X have no interest in funding more of the infrastructure of State Y than they already do.