skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will find this level of alcohol (0.1% - 0.5%) in all kinds of foods and beverages. A study found orange juice that was 0.73% alcohol and hamburger buns that were 1.28%. [1]

The sources and numbers are getting mixed up here but on the topic of the Founders, the small beer George Washington was brewing was probably in the vicinity of 1%. I think it's pretty safe to say that a guy sipping 1% all day might get a bit of a buzz and not much more, especially considering the tolerance he'd build up.

As with anything the dose makes the poison. I've consumed a lot of alcohol over my life, but as I get older my friends and I have mostly lost our interest in experiencing anything beyond a mild buzz. At a bar we frequently order a lemonade/Sprite along with our beers and make DIY shandies [2] which brings the alcohol content down to like 2.5%. It's pretty hard to get drunk at that level even if you go at it for hours. Throw in a water here and there and it's even lower. I only wish society and the industry was more supportive of this manner of drinking, but the bars undoubtedly make less money off of us than the guy who goes full bore and ends up behind the wheel plastered...

[1] https://goodstuffdrinks.com/blogs/the-good-stuff/how-much-al...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandy
Where every other belief comes from: When a mommy belief and a daddy belief love each other very much, they make a baby belief! The more precise question is why do certain beliefs die and others keep going strong? A belief in abundance, like beliefs about justice, karma and God, give us a useful illusion of order and safety in a universe that is chaotic, unsafe, and unjust. Abundance gives us the courage to try new things, to fail, to try again. And so, amazingly, almost mystically, justifies itself, at least to some degree for some period of time. When humans multiply to the point where they threaten to poison the thin skin of life that sustains them, it may be worth reassessing.
The `[[gnu::optimize()]]` attribute is a fantastic feature that clang really should have some day.
"In a series of experiments, the UV researchers first asked participants first to list "reduce," "reuse," and "recycle" by order of efficacy — the correct answer being the same one in the old slogan — finding that a whopping 78 percent got it wrong. In a second experiment, the researchers had participants use a computer program to virtually "sort" waste into recycling, compost, and landfill bins. Unfortunately, the outcome of that survey was even more stark, with many incorrectly putting non-recyclable waste, such as plastic bags and lightbulbs, into the virtual recycle bin."

That doesn't mean that recycling has "backfired". It just means that it's not occupying much consumer attention. Which it shouldn't. It's not about virtue signaling. It's about bulk materials handling.

As I pointed out the last time this came up on HN, the machinery that sorts recyclables today does a far better job than humans. It's not even clear that it's even worth having people sort out trash from recyclables. Here's a plant that takes in ordinary trash and sorts it.[1] About 25% goes to the landfill, the rest is recycled. San Jose has two such plants. Total capacity over 200 tons per hour.

This problem is routinely being solved by mostly boring but useful heavy machinery.
The non-serious players talk about "green" and "eco" and want "awareness". The serious players in recycling talk about tons per hour.

Modern recycling plans aren't that big. The one that does all of San Francisco is about the size of a Target store.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUCHnAzlgw
(1) In theory, QucsStudio kernel simulator might be different to Qucs' one (qucsator). In my experience transient simulations usually converge without problems. The main issues I get take place in harmonic balance simulators.

(2) QucsStudio does not have native installer for Linux. So you depend on wine.
Eva Icons are ok.

https://akveo.github.io/eva-icons/#/
4k screen, but run at the standard hidpi on macOS. I also use it on an m1 MacBook pro screen.

My standard setup is 3 screens: portrait, landscape, landscape. I run the browser on either of the landscape screens depending on what I'm working on.
I use it on my commercial website and I'm happy with it. It's not nearly as full-featured as GA, but it gets the job done in a privacy-friendly way. Getting rid of the cookie banner is a major UX boost.
Given the importance of the "gnôle" (a french word for a often home or clandestinaly made strong spirit in France) in rural parts of France to this day [1][2], I am pretty sure the author is underestimating the importance of spirits in history.

[1] usually mixed with coffee several times during the day, and very often a shot glass in the evening

[2] I've never seen a sober postman when I visited my grand parents as a kid in the 80's and 90's. Back in the days they weren't timed and would be invited for a coffee at every single farm they visited to talk about the news of the day. He really served as a local and vocal newspaper for all of them. The coffee itself wasn't strong in cafeine, but was almost always served with "la goutte", a small but significant amount of spirit.
I imagine there is a rather limited market for fence posts relative to the amount of soft plastic being recycled.
Hah I would call “good” beer one that I can drink 4+ (2L) get intoxicated (so 5% or more) and still be OK next morning.

Different beers affect me differently, sometimes I would feel bad next day from just 2 beers. While it does depend a lot if I was active (dancing) and how much water I took on alongside the beer, the brand itself makes a huge difference. If you experiment a bit you might find that some beers are actually bad. Not sure where this comes from, trace amounts of methanol? Some other contaminants? Not sure but it does make a difference.

Right now my fav beer is Hoegaarden for example :-D
Looks like they discovered it just in time to watch it being boiled to death. The ocean surrounding Florida has hit highs of 38℃ in recent days… not much marine life can survive that.
Do what everyone does for this: make a side blog under a pseudonym.
As an aside, I've been using my device's Ygg addresses to punch NAT instead of opening ports or learning tailscale and it's been a pleasure, thx to everyone who makes thin stuff work
Please be careful with the acronyms:

Qucs-S stands for Qucs-Spice. That is different to QucsStudio.

These variants are explained at the beginning of the article.
Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software
Haha, no. Modern PLs have reached parity with Lisps but comparing C and Lisp is apples and oranges. C was fast no doubt but much lower level than LISP and served a different purpose.

And then you proceed to link someone’s comment as a reference?

Nobody is trying to convince you to use Lisp, it’s just free books you could learn from if interested. The hostility is hard to understand.
All valid points but just below that comment someone asked if he/she was reading the new paper (apparently there's an older paper), he/she didn't respond/haven't responded yet.
That Musk want to build a "X" ecosystem, something like WeChat. I hope the privacy watchdog will do its work to avoid to have a close ecosystem like in China, at least here in EU.
Wall squats better at lowering blood pressure
Your query shows 9 items. Most of those 600 have comments by other non-Twitter GitHub users, and are simply closed, because they're obvious trolls. Must be nice to say "I closed 100 issues on GitHub" in your weekly review of whether you're a useful asset to the company.
There are plenty of both. One issue is you can't create static binaries with musl and tcc. If I remember correctly its because musl doesn't supply thread local variables.
Or NightHawkInLight.
I think for me it's about the ongoing nature of the subscription. Everything is a subscription model these days, and I'm quite wary of "zombie" subscriptions that take money every month, but I don't actually use them.

For me financial planning feels like a "once every 5 years" process with possible lightweight annual check ins to see how I'm tracking towards the plan and tweek some details. A monthly subscription doesn't map well to this model. This is why I suggested something like an "access pass" might be a better fit for somebody like me.
> The average person wants a secure device that just works.

I mean, I consider myself a tech person and I also want this for my everyday stuff. I love playing with gadgets and operating systems whenever I have extra time, but I do not want to troubleshoot wifi driver issues or reboot a crashed/bugging window manager when I'm in a rush to check the bus schedule on my phone.

I've been using various Linux operating systems on all my computers for almost two decades, but lately I've been thinking more and more if my next laptop should be a Mac just because I have less and less time to maintain and fix the machines. I want something that just works and I would pay good money to get a fully open and not enshittified phone or laptop, but they don't seem to exist.
> The vast majority of node dependencies are for testing frameworks and other tools that are never shipped to the customer.

So just to test I installed Django in a new virtualenv. I get a testing framework, and ORM, CORS, authentication, data validation, hot reloading and much more. It's three dependencies: django, asgiref and sqlparse.

Part of it is that Django just builds a ton of stuff on their own, but they also have the Python stdlib to build on.

As others mentioned you have things like Boost, the Go standard library, or even libc (of which there are multiple implementations). There's no reason why you couldn't have a JavaScript standard library, or multiple. They don't have to be shipped with the browsers, in fact I think that would be a bad idea. So when you start a new JavaScript project, you pull in your favorite standard library and when you ship your code, the bundler or whatever it's called could analyze your code pull out the relevant bits of the standard library and only include the bits you need.
A boatload of waste containing an amount of toxins come in. At the price of using up filters, a truckload of ash containing a smaller amount of toxins comes out. And you get quite a bit of energy out of the process too.

Sure, the energy you get out isn't worth as much as the materials and labour you put in. If that's a modern plant, you also recover metals from the waste - a roughly break-even process that allows you to recover material that was previously unrecyclable. The ash coming out at the end is orders of magnitude less voluminous than the input, uniform, powder and dry. The Internet claims this gets used in construction as bulk fill and road underlays, but I haven't seen any official materials about that.

All in all the process is economically viable (especially when you have no cheap land to waste, but probably otherwise too, see the case of Sweden importing Italian trash) and seems strongly preferable ecologically.
I’ll add that most hft firms are trying to move to longer time horizons. Some with great success, some mixed, some not at all. There’s not much unclaimed pie left in the hft world
Because Japan's population problem isn't a wealthy nation problem it's a population collapse problem. It's not just that birth rates have gone down because the average Japanese person has become wealthier or more educated. It's also that the lost decades made raising more kids unfeasible for a generation and because of that there's now a large elder population that must be taken care of by a smaler population. Immigration at least ameliorates some of that problem, plus the economy is doing better which means people will have more time and wealth to raise kids.

Even if you can't reverse the population decline you can at least not make it a dramatic collapse and go through all the human suffering that entails.
At least in Latvia use of qualified electronic signature is completely free of charge. And you can use government provided service or a 3rd party one backed by banks.
It used to cost something for each signature since they have to run the time signature server but they quickly reallised that it made no sense to charge for it.
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> I guess that the chances to obtain cheap energy, which would be vital for further industrial development in the areas involved, could convince local leaders to not mess with the projects, also with the perspective of cashing in public political support when time comes.

That approach hasn't worked out for other African infrastructure, including already existing infrastructure. And one of the biggest ways to build political support is to promise to confiscate what non-Africans have. "Expropriation without compensation" is a major political slogan in South Africa. Things are similar elsewhere.
So did QUEL, as implemented in Ingres circa 1976. Perhaps this is what happens when you go back to basics and take a good long look at Codd's relational calculus (or, equivalently, relational algebra), to which SQL bears only a passing resemblance.
Nice post - treemaps are great!

My friend and I made a codebase visualisation tool (https://www.codeatlas.dev/gallery) that's based on Voronoi treemaps, maybe of interest as an illustration of the aesthetics with a non-rectangular layout!

We've opted for zooming through double-clicks as the main method of navigating the map, because in deep codebases, the individual cells quickly get too small to accurately target with the cursor as shown in the key-path label approach!

If anyone's interested, this is also available as a Github Action to generate the treemap during CI: https://github.com/codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action
I do seem to have more plastic waste now then 10 years ago in my food shopping, one I find particularly annoying is what used to be loose fruit and veg is now packaged in set portions, which seems to double the waste, not only do I have to buy more than I need and have to throw some away (to the compost disposal), but they seem to use even more packaging
I think two decades on and with " instagram " and other social media people have lost their innocence if you will call it that. Every image or camera shot is now curated , chosen from multiples and even post - processed at the moment of its inception. I used to wonder many years ago that if you could record all of your life in real time as a film from conception to the end. What that might be like to watch ? Self - image on social media is very much like that , an endless performance to a great invisible crowd ..
> a flourishing society that isn’t based on continual growth.

How will a society without growth be flourishing?

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that economic growth requires an increase in natural resource use, pollution and waste, when a lot of economic growth in recent decades has come from increased efficiency and services that have not led to more natural resource extraction.

The idea of humanity without a desire for progress and growth is romanticized by environmentalists and parts of an "intellectual elite", when in reality it will lead to a complete collapse of society and standards of living.
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>That depends on the person

Yes, that's the fallacy/issue I was addressing.

It's a market, and we try to evaluate it as a market, and talk about its characteristics.

Not about whether "if you're the next Brad Pitt you'd make millions".
Thanks, they're beautiful!
However, I would need it to be bundled as a font.
Which is irrelevant when evaluating a job market.

Some are succesful in any crap market, where the chances are that most will go under or utterly fail, and where the conditions and average salaries and profit margins and such are attrocious.

"Some are succesful" as some kind of retort basically translate to "I don't care about market conditions, I have confidence in myself and I know I'll be one of the succesful ones".

Which is all well and good, but it doesn't say anything about one's chances of success, or that job market's behavior in general. Besides, historically it's what every fresh-eyed kid fresh off the bus from Nebraska, still waiting tables 20 years later, believed too.
Abundance and scarcity are both evidenced in deep time by feast and famine qualities in the archaeological record.

We believe in abundance because it happens often enough. Extreme lack of abundance causes survival bias: dead men tell no tales.

The existence of tools which demand time to make and primitive stone tool factories suggest abundance: division of labour is necessary to invest time in tool making for future benefit. There has to be a relative surplus, more food than not, less time for survival only, to make tools work.

We believe in abundance because of millennia of life experience incorrectly or not.

In modern times, most scarcity problems are supply chain not actual exhaustion, diamond mines and gold not withstanding. Rare earths aren't rare. Uranium isn't rare. We aren't running out of lithium. Erlich/Simons explores the reality of abundance in the earths crust.

Things may get expensive or hard to find from time to time but our brains are mostly tuned for optimism.

Extreme pessimism in a species is neither pleasant nor useful. Why live a life of fear, reality not withstanding? Stoicism, that's beneficial. Some hesitancy to optimism? Useful. Unremitting black depression and Calvinistic preordained hell on earth? That's jonestown by another path (Jones sold salvation in the afterlife but you know what I mean)
Even the most obscure technical subreddits (such as bikewrench) are now reduced to users posting a photo and asking "how to fix" or "what is this". Reddit is a dumpster fire and barreling fast to its death. Quality of discussion is abysmal.
I hope they get all trademark appropriation lawsuits they deserve.

Rebranding and repositioning Twitter might be a "good" plan, but more effort at choosing a name would have been necessary.
I think the posts came out about the same price as treated timber - maybe a little bit more. But they're easier to install (because they can often be rammed straight in where wooden posts would have to be dug in, and because you don't need to put concrete around the tip), last longer, and don't leach anything into the soil. The latter is particularly important for organic farms, where treated timber posts are a non-starter.
How would you power 4 of these boards from single power source? I mean without using 4 separate power "bricks" using 4 wall outlets which is quite wasteful. I guess using regular ATX power supply and attaching 12V rail directly to power inputs of these boards would work, albeit being a bit messy on the looks.
The thing is, virtually every single incineration plant also generates electricity, typically at smaller scales than dedicated plants to serve smaller regions, but distributed/decentralized generation is a big win for resilience of the grid overall.

Also please provide at least one citation where "maybe we'll totally reverse the negative effects of this thing we put into our environment" has been fulfilled. I can only think of failures to live up to that expectation: PFAS, microplastics, oil spills, etc.
They mean his blog bio: https://gavinhoward.com/about/
Thank you, although, after reading the Eclectic Light article I get the impression the resolution continues. My experience with iTunes match and iOS to Mac sync'ing means I left iCloud sync for serious usage prior. Too many times Apple launch untested services on us long term Apple hardware users. Music industry. I concede things have improved, but they would, wouldn't they - and couldn't (stand to) be any worse.
>From an organizational-design perspective: That's the whole point.

There's more to it than that. Unlike most other projects, these kernel teams were working on the Linux kernel, which is an open-source project not under the control of any one corporation. These teams were simply maintaining their own kernel forks (which are undoubtedly optimized for their use-cases) and developing features/patches which they might try to submit upstream. And a lot of the work was undoubtedly device drivers for the particular hardware they used. Since they were working on very different projects (datacenters, Android, ChromeOS), with very different hardware, there was probably almost no overlap going on here.
Unable to zoom out on android
What is this even saying?

I saw nothing mentioned that was backfiring, even less so spectacularly.
> One way to avoid feeling mediocre is to stop measuring life in only one dimension.

Quite true. I think it all relates to stop comparing yourself with others. It's quite easy to be one dimensional when doing so without realizing that everyone you see, even the ones you think are "successful", have their own unique challenges.

I also think building confidence is important. The more confidence you build, the easier it is to focus on yourself and not others.
What's special about Llama2?
I assume you are talking about a Windows/Linux PC. I have done that and got a Threadripper with 32 cores and 256Gb RAM. It runs any llama on the CPU although the 65/70b are quite slow. I also added an A6000 (48Gb VRAM) that allows you to run the 65/70b quantized with very good performance.

If you are going with the GPU and don't care about loads of RAM then a 16 Zen CPU will do just fine (or Intel for that matter).

If you are only interested in llama only then an M1 Studio with 64Gb RAM is probably cheaper and will work just as well.
Looks like it's mostly just a wrapper for a proprietary build SaaS
> Landfills. Jesus.

The US is a very lightly populated country.
You can use the `--local` flag to build on your own computer/CI/VPS. `eas build --local -p ios --profile production` can locally build you an iOS bundle. Don't expect it to work out of the box, though. Your machine should have all the XCode tooling correctly installed and configured. Works for Android as well.
Depends on how many old wooden posts you have - in a country like New Zealand, there's a lot.
Several years ago, they (the soft-plastic recycling company) did get too much plastic at one point, and had to pause collection for several months while they sorted out new suppliers, and found new uses for the product. I think they have now exceeded the original amount being collected, but they roll out new collection areas cautiously to ensure supply matches demand.
It helps that we're progressively banning some types of soft plastic too (e.g. shopping bags are already gone).
If you only look at the past it's nearly impossible to tell a sigmoid curve from an exponential.
I tried porkbun. Really wanted it to work. Tried to transfer two domains to them from Google. For some reason, their payment system kept declining my perfectly fine Chase Visa card. It wasn't a problem with Chase. The transaction didn't even show up. There was no fraud notification etc. Gave up and moved to CloudFlare. I suspect they might need to fix payment services first.
yes there are more and more people who believe everything they read on internet
We bought our outdoor furniture from this company in the U.S. (https://lolldesigns.com/pages/sustainability), which states on that page "All Loll outdoor furniture is made with recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the most commonly used plastics in the U.S. <snip> Loll’s recycled material is sourced primarily from single-use milk jug containers".

It wasn't cheap, but it looks great and has been very durable (had it about 5 years now out in the sun and still looks like new).
No one, because it's illegal.
Taken from Simon Thurley's book, they washed but avoided baths, and used rainwater only during the sweating sickness outbreaks:

A school of though existed at the time that believed that bathing was dangerous and a time that “allowed the venomous airs to enter and destroyeth the lively spirits in man and enfeebleth the body” (Thurley, Pg. 171).