skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on global and legislative initiatives.
Only restrictions on the production of plastic and cardboard (!!!) work.

Personal initiatives are just romanticization and a philosophy that shifts the problem from the producer to the consumer (who has no choice).

Metal is an alternative to many things.
Plastic is only for containers and things with a long cycle of use. It has its advantages. It is more resistant to impact than metal (falls, bumps) and retains its shape.

Glass is not an alternative at all, it is not comfortable, it breaks, leaves fragments that you will not find on the ground or in your body. It is not resistant to falls, shocks, frequent temperature changes (just pour hot into a cold cup, or vice versa).
And it's not pleasant to the touch, with limited use where it really is the best choice.

But this is not a problem in itself, we need to localize food production more so that it doesn't have to be stored for a long time and therefore use a lot of packaging. We need it to travel quickly from the producer to the store to the consumer, without plastic packaging as much as possible.

Over the past 4 years, I have been horrified to see that the amount of plastic waste I generate has increased dramatically, without changing my consumption and habits.
idk, this sounds a lot like don't use an IDE, use vim/notepad because IDEs can be opinionated. Maybe we've had different experiences, but I just think a lot of these arguments are unreasonably absolutist. Granted, some IDEs are terrible, but there's a sweet spot and many older IDEs have learned from it. I think ORMs have matured in this direction as well.
I would say it’s quite uneven: most tools were better than the state of the art when they were introduced.

For many, the world has moved on a lot since, and those tools feel obsolete but so embedded in practices that it’s unthinkable to apply better approaches. One example of that is tracking data sources: legacy is slow, dysfunctional, and even fairly straightforward questions time out because you have to load so much meta-data. That’s because no one really uses it: most of that information is carried by the Data engineers who have built the system, and they are over-whelmed with questions that could be answer with a good system, but derive power over analysts. They benefit from it through comments they copy in their review, so fixing it isn’t anyone’s priority.

Others have evolved because the internal demand pushed things forward. PMs want Deltoid to work, so that system has moved to be state-of-the-art or interestingly unique in many ways: scaling, not implementing MCC, integration with the metric definitions.
You’re free to give up modern conveniences. You’re even free to stop living if you truly feel there are too many people. Or we can keep living, keep enjoying our advancements, and find a way to make it work in a way that keeps the climate stable. Like I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t leave my immediate geographic area. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t have kids. I would rather have kids with the potential that they inherit a destroyed Earth. At least in this case there is hope they inherit something other than a peasant’s lifestyle.
Isn't it always better to get it printed from a local print shop? So we'll get it instantly. (Not from the US btw)
What's wild is some of his painting appear to be thick without using a ton of paint. It's amazing to think that most of his work was done in a span of couple years.
Linux have stable kernel ABI, while BSD changes kernel ABI between major versions.
Insurrection or revolution doesn’t fit either of those options you gave
I know that what I was asking for was "just a program" and not AI (then again, what is AI but "just a program?") but I would like something that can not only run cross-platform but actually runs on multiple/many machines/nodes and presents a unified dashboard.
For me the barrier to working at Facebook is the fact their product is causing so much harm in our world, from elections to the environment to mental health to the breakdown of social capital.

I know I’ll be downvoted for taking an ethical rather than financial or technological position, but ethics matter. Especially in technology and finances.
In my experience, Wizard-Vicuna output at 13b will match or exceed the prose quality of GPT3.5 in smaller generation tasks. I've been using it for a Discord bot to great success.
> What you use to finance those interest payments is what may or may not constitute money printing.

Yes. Exactly.
This is a great little article, and I can't emphasize what a big deal #2 is.
I was immensely disappointed when I googled "13 minute 39 second video" and then the Youtube video titled "13 minute 39 second countdown" was in fact 13 minutes and 54 seconds long.
Yeah, no system is perfect! But I can point to a zillion real-world problems caused by false negatives (nutjobs provided with a platform), and really can't think of any examples of problems that have been caused by false positives (not-notjubs denied a platform). I think we could stand to nudge the slider over a few notches before we start to see the problems you are worried about.

I'd also really like to break up the big tech companies so no single company has so much power.
How do I get past Rule 21 "Your password isn't strong enough "
> Cameras are owned by councils and used to catch minor crimes like dog fouling.[1]

I hate to say it but "not all cameras." A relatively small number of CCTV cameras focused in areas intended to catch and deter specific petty crimes is hardly Enemy of the State stuff, is it? In fact, if you polled the populated, you'd probably not get a lot of objections here.

> Your local police own several hundred cameras directly. [2]

Again, not all cameras. This is really only strengthening my argument about the patchwork nature of CCTV and the practical reality that it's not the all-encompassing Bourne Identity live feed tracking you round the country.

> Your police can request access to any public facing camera at any time.

I already addressed this: this would usually be an after-the-fact tape, not a live feed. They can't just take the tape because that's not their property. They don't necessarily have to tell you because the tape isn't your property either. Does the general public necessarily object to the police being able to use available evidence to solve and prosecute crimes?
> Can you define AsBytes for string then?

Yes. However, because strings in Go are immutable and byte arrays are necessarily mutable, you can’t safely convert strings to byte arrays (or vice versa) without copying, so it would not necessarily be a particularly useful interface.

By the way, this was an interesting discussion. I do see your overall point more than I did at the beginning of it, although I don’t think we completely see eye to eye on the costs/benefits of lifetimes.
I’ve eaten the same meal everyday (lunch and dinner, I don’t eat breakfast) for years. I think it’s partially laziness and not wanting to think about it. And it’s probably partially depression: putting 30 minutes of effort into making a 8/10 meal is not going to make me much happier than my usual 5/10 meal.
Unfortunately for fly, us-east-1 has better reliability then their product.
Look at the bright side. If things like that worked we wouldn’t have startups.
You wish

Academics are as unethical as businessmen - and especially the overlap between tech and science research. As long as these researchers are bringing in grant money and getting press coverage (good or bad) they will keep their jobs or will be promoted.
Actually I think both cancer and plastics needs to remain as jargon for their respective fields, and instead media should focus on specifying the important elements that are easily digestible to the public and also not too wide reaching. Somewhat of a lost art apparently.

To stay with your example, it would be like discouraging the media from saying "cancer is cured" when they actually might mean "this specific type of lung cancer has a cure". To bring it back to "plastic", the media could focus on saying things like "teflon coating encourages these negative reactions..." as opposed to "plastics are poisoning us" which is way too vague to matter.
I think you're conflating the ordinary process of trying to make the right decisions in a complex world, with the deliberate disinformation of a political propaganda campaign.

The story here was "broken" by the New York Post, a tabloid newspaper with a deliberate propaganda role. Viewed more objectively, it's not nearly as interesting. A parolee has rights, including the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Bail has been used to deny people that right.

The presumption of innocence is going to lead to criminals committing more crime. We've decided as a society that it's better to live with that than to let the court system be used to oppress people. Especially poor people, the ones least able to make bail.

One crime is not a "collapse". That's precisely what the New York Post and its ideological ilk want you to believe. The fact is that crime has been going down for decades, and that the prison system has been used in systematic ways to hurt people. The New York Post is surely gleeful that the murderer in this case is black -- they don't even try to hide their racism.

That doesn't mean that the right decision was made in this case. It's up to the judge's discretion. You'd need to be there to know what factors went into the judge's decision. It may have been poorly considered. It also may have been simply that the judge felt that the defendant would return for a hearing -- that's what bail is for.

You will not live in a system with no crime. It will not happen. That's not "enshittification". That's the world.

There are various ways to reduce crime, and legitimate disagreements about them. Unfortunately, I don't believe it's possible to conduct legitimate disagreements right now. I'm afraid there's no non-partisan way to say this: I believe that the American right wing is not being a good partner. I believe that they've chosen to allow disinformation to become a major part of their public presentation, making discussion impossible. On issue after issue, they're Just Plain Wrong, simply incorrect on matters of basic fact. In that environment there's no way to discuss sincere differences of values or opinions.

So I believe that there is a "war on normal people", but it's entirely one sided. The other side still makes mistakes. But also remember that bad things would happen in a world even with no mistakes. Do not lose sight of the context of this issue. It does not present a threat to you; it is not the "war" you're worried about.
Definitely not. If anything, it is "Electrifying won't fully solve the problem, so don't be complacent just because you have an all-electric house and drive a Tesla."
Notes on NetBSD/Playstation2
SMBs plagued by exploits, trojans and backdoors
floor and ceil ideas apply to age and calendar years nicely because the underlying value, time, is on the real number line.
The employee/employer power dynamics are clearly very different than in e.g. software engineering:

> A clause in Angell’s contract reportedly required him to pay a £30,000 penalty should he quit in the middle of a project.

I can't imagine anyone signing that kind of contract in tech.

Employees probably have less bargaining power than in tech, since the skills aren't as transferrable. The employers are just contractors being squeezed by the studios both on cost and on extra work, and pass that squeeze onto the employees. And since the VFX houses aren't the ones making the profits on the final movie, running a VFX studio and trying to get the best people (and best product) by promising better conditions doesn't actually work.
That may be the case, but the last few pairs of "normal" shoes I bought had to be discarded after a year or so, not sure if the sole was still ok, but it didn't matter: they were done and because of their construction you couldn't fix them.

My last pair of quality leather shoes held up nicely for about three years and it's now relegated to construction and garden work. My current pair is spotless after two years. The soles on these are synthetic, but they degrade about as quickly as the tops. Not sure where you draw your experience from, they don't match with mine.

EDITED TO ADD: Of course quality shoes can be refurbished with new soles, so even if a leather sole would only last a couple of years, you could simply get a new sole slapped on.
Copy the strong emoji in the rule three times
No, it's an editor, not a immutable website for consumption. The whole goal of them is that you can switch fast between editing and the rendered result. In that sense they are like word processors. But yes, adding an option for locking the document can be important, and usually they have them. I mean it's not even hard to implement. But probably not something people are mindful about.
Why rods? Use one of the Natural unit systems, for example, how about one of the systems where c = 1 which makes matter/energy conversions much easier, as now Einstein's equation simplifies to E=m justifying insistence on the same units for measuring how much electricity you used last month and your target "weight" at a doctor's appointment :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
Why is Fly.io so praised here? couldn't run any production workload on them cause of all the technical issues they have.
R.U. Sirius: Mondo 2000 History Project
Human psychology is a huge consideration for long term missions. The article is light on details but if they are indeed isolated and have to be self-reliant for a year then this experiment is way more valuable than you give it credit for!
> Get your employer to buy you an ergo keyboard.

… if only it were so simple! Employers are incredibly stingy¹.

But what I was trying to convey in the previous comment is that I already have an ergo keyboard. (So do many of my coworkers. It is also mine, purchased with my own money, because of the above.)

The point is not really obtaining the keyboard … it's transiting it to-and-fro the office, day-in, day-out, in these hybrid RTO plans. "Hotdesking" is inherently incapable of supporting this as the desk is no longer dedicated to a specific employee, but nobody in power making these plans appears to have thought it through.

(¹but frankly, a part of me would rather just say "give me that in cash as part of salary" and I can make a better purchase & management then than trying to deal with what amounts to being partially paid in keyboards. This extends to more than just keyboards: employees should absolutely not forget we bear costs in order to be employed for the company in the form of depreciating hardware costs)
Stuck on Rule 21 "Your password is not strong enough "
>>It was a really interesting scheme that Apple clearly put a huge amount of thought into in order to maximise privacy.

No. They appeared to put in this effort, but at the end of the day they built a system which could be used for scanning any file on your device for any reason, saying "oh it's only for files uploaded to icloud" was obviously the first step. And then of course the fact that if anything was deemed innapropriate it would have been submitted to their own verification centre where someone would actually physically look at your pictures and then forward them to law enforcement, without you being notified that this has happened in any way - that doesn't sound like maximising privacy to me.

>>but I wouldn’t be opposed to the scheme Apple wanted to implement.

I would. It was a horrendous implementation and any on-device scanning should always be opposed to the maximum extent that you can bare.
Another huge aspect is the CRI/CQS of your light sources. CRI (Color Rendering Index) and CQS (Color Quality Scale) try to quantify how faithfully colors are represented when a subject is lit.

Generally a higher CRI equals a higher quality light source. A halogen/incandescent lamp has a perfect score, 100. High end LED sources are usually in the range of 95-98, but that number can be gamed, which has lead to the creation of CQS.

https://blog.1000bulbs.com/home/is-color-quality-scale-bette...
Are you all discussing web development? Then, I assumed that most web developers use ORM. So, I'm purely surprised by the number of people here who are against it.

I agree that abstraction can be leaky, and it's true that you often end up writing some SQL-like code.

However, isn't writing raw SQL potentially dangerous, considering aspects like security, access control etc?

I want to learn your thoughts!
Famine. What you're asking for is famine and war.
My point is that ebikes do not fit into existing city infrastructure. Ecars do, because they were designed to fit in exactly. They are exactly like cars except for their energy source.
> “They spy on them because they care”
> I didn't say this at all, so please don't put words in my mouth.

Third party here, but this reads in line with what you wrote imo.
Ask HN: Laid off, need advice on next steps
Hi HN, I’m a long term visitor/contributor here under a throwaway.

I was laid off last week from my job as a Product Manager at a company I’d been with for 2.5 years. Prior to that I was a PM with 2 different startups over a span of 3 years (i.e., about 5 years Product experience with 3 different companies).

I was really unhappy in my last position, and frankly view I the layoff as a thinly veiled blessing. I was planning to leave anyway, they just expedited the decision for me. My mood in the last week alone has been so much happier, lighter, healthier, than the last year or so of corporate misery.

I hope to relax and regroup over the next couple of months. But I am still not sure what my next steps should be. I know I should keep the momentum of my career in Product, and try to land a comparable position at a better-fitting company. I have about six months of runway before I will need to start earning an income again.

I’m 35 years old, and also have an unprecedented level of freedom. I’m single, no kids, though I do have a dog. I live in Southern US. If there were ever a time to make a big move and start over somewhere new, I believe it’s now.

I’d love to know how others have approached this type of life situation. Do you have any advice for me? How should I think about this stage of my life? How do I decide where to go next, what to do next? I don’t want to squander this period, where I feel unburdened, energized, and optimistic.

A few other facts that might be relevant: I’m LGBT, I’m creative and have recently dove into some new passions: painting, writing, and video making. In my dream world I would make a living out of my creations, though the pragmatist in me doesn’t see how this is possible in six months.

Thank you for any and all advice you might have for me.
The main differences are that we're only doing product analytics and are focused on building a product for B2B SaaS companies. Our users are product/engineers/sales/success people looking at product usage and are too small for A/B tests to make sense.

Posthog's value prop is that it's all-in-one, it's open-source and it's built for engineers.

Additionally, in my experience when a company wants to self-host their analytics June, Amplitude or Mixpanel aren't even considered as an option and Posthog is the go-to tool.

As much as our products cover similar use cases, in the day to day we don't really see much overlap in terms of target customers
> The ads thing sort of happened by accident.

idk, i've definitely heard from people with low employee ids that larry & sergy had the idea of ads from before day 1.

Perhaps they didn't realize how much money it would be but they didn't develop pagerank and spend years _wondering_ how it could be monetized.

I think somebody submitted a blog year ago to HN that goes into this. Maybe somebody from doubleclick side that turned down an offer from Larry?
Wrong. Pollution per person is extremely unequal across the world. There's a significant fraction of human population living in a completely sustainable manner and another fraction that is destroying life on earth.

Don't try to blame the first group for the sins of the second.
Technically, all that's being claimed is that the USA has whistleblowers. Grutsch has said before that other countries also have UFO retrieval programmes. So if we suspend disbelief for a moment and assume there's real craft flying around, all it'd take for this current set of events is if the USA had a monopoly on whistleblowers.

Given that most famous whistleblowers in recent years have been American this doesn't seem unlikely. Five Eyes has five governments in it, but only the USA had someone who went to the press. The US Government is both very large so more people can leak things, and very well funded, so more chance of secret programmes, and (IMHO) has a civic-minded culture in which people are more inspired by things like the Constitution and stated cultural ideals than in other countries.
> BlockSuite (pronounced "block sweet" )

Is there any other way that "BlockSuite" would be pronounced?
Oh that is a bummer for sure! Hopefully they can get someone in the US as a distributor.
It shows the current head of Autopilot Software, Ashok Elluswamy, and Elon Musk faking Tesla’s self driving demo as admitted to in Ahsok Elluswamy’s deposition on Page 70:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23574198-elluswamy-d...

During filming the car crashed at least once. They fully mapped the route ahead of time and ran the route multiple times until it did not crash or require intervention.
I don't see it making a comeback. The pandemic accelerated greediness across the board. The people here are exploited way worse now in all ways because people just decided everything could be charged more for, even after supply chains regrouped.

This town makes high earners feel poor. I can't imagine what the people scraping by endure.
"Why do startups write announcements like these?"

I've been at a bunch of companies with a bunch of raises. 100% of the time, the announcement was an excuse for press. If you can come up with any excuse to get an article published in a bunch of tech press (other than "CEO arrested for embezzlement + harassment at the same time"), you get a bunch of free advertising. Bonus points if your target customer tends to read tech press.

There's nothing wrong with that, to be clear! I'm just surprised they acknowledged mercenary reasons without mentioning what I've seen as the most common one.
I have no scientific basis for disagreeing, but from my own experience, I can definitely tell with >50% accuracy whether a game was build with Unreal or Unity, especially for indie games. For Unity it's something about the materials and lighting that seems to give it away, for Unreal stuff like over the top focus effects and such.

Technically, from what little I know about these I don't see why you couldn't make a game look exactly the same in both. But I guess what's easy to do and what the respective community commonly does have a notable impact? Or maybe people self select for one or the other based on what games that align with their sense of aesthetics use one or the other?
E2EE messages aren't encrypted until they're sent and are decrypted on the receiving end. Scanning can be mandated to happen at either or both of those points.
I forget that's an option. I really dislike that and prefer for new tabs to open in my home directory. So having my `tab` alias that I use a couple times a week and opening the other 100 tabs in my home directory fits my workflow.
You can do other things concurrently, you know. I find it not hard to both draw and write and make music along with the programming. Most knowledge and skills development in those areas happens subconsciously in my experience.

Viewing things like this as zero sum is a bad mindset imo and not one I want affecting my art.