skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reduce is deflationary. And, atagonistic to profit so no entity driven to profit (sell) is going to emphasise it. Rationing is not held in high regard even when its socially useful. Those "only 2 rolls of toilet paper" signs come to mind, and how people acted and felt when told to be reasonable.

Reuse is expensive to implement because it bigs up the cost of packaging to make it capable of reuse, demands reuse collection, and processes. Or, shifts in sales to allow bulk -> own-container which does exist, but it has all kinds of little niggly problems. It's still the least-worst option (after reduce) but it does not always appeal. Manufacturers at scale struggle with accepting full life cost of re-use, milk bottles aside. The old school distribution and dairy coop model worked well and maybe we should stop driving to least cost, and re-explore locavore for packaged goods?

Recycle is broken. everyone knows this. It was broken at birth because under the sheets a lot of recycling was bad, dirty, polluting externality to poor nations but unwinding recycling is also broken because again least-cost wins hard.

I still support the triad, the order is right. Its just harder than people think and I believe (perhaps wrongly) corporates have exploited the guilt elements in recycle to avoid reduce/reuse costs they'd wear as impacts to profit.

TL;DR yes. the article is right.
This is extremely shallow Youtube content that amounts mostly to a stream of stock video shots with a voice over.

Blackrock and Vanguard have the largest market weighted index funds. By definition they simply hold the market. They are completely neutral in terms of investment quantities.

Nothing in this seems to support the title conclusion at all. In fact the speaker seems to imply that they have very little, if any, influence on countries like Russia and China.

Most, if not all, of the actual claims made in this video are not supported beyond being stated. No references are given, nor are their sources, interviews or anything else. This should not be considered "journalism".
Well, that's what I mean. The revisions and edits are what show that you wrote it, rather than copying from an AI line by line.
Well, I hope your monitor is ok.

You're talking about the popularity of Linux as an alternative, I'm talking about its viability. It's viable because it runs web browsers just as well as Windows and that's all the average user cares about.

Regardless, the point is that any alternative, Linux or not, will be dead in the water once WEI rolls out. Doesn't matter how good your OS is, if it can't access the mainstream web it will die in obscurity. The same way that Windows on phones died because it couldn't get all the useful apps.
Any successful virtual shopping assistant?
I'm sure someone has done this well, but I can't seem to find it on Google. I'd like a virtual agent to help me find the right items either on Amazon specifically or across online stores.

I'm specifically facing this issue with finding the right furniture. There's a specific type of cabinet I'd like with specific dimensions and looks. Searching across all furniture sites is a massive pain.

Does anyone know a good solution for this?
Google Docs already does have this level of revision history.
That's what you get for believing anything they say.
What was the first meme? A critical question, answered (sort of)
temperature itself isn't (directly) a threat to most macroorganisms, but marine life will not "be just fine". The real threat to them is the rapidly acidifying oceans
They are basically the same
The dawn of everything? I loved that book :)
This is very near on the roadmap, and we agree it will be awesome!

As of now, if there are collections of definitions that you frequently reference, you could save them in the system message, or write custom slash commands that let you prefix your prompt with these definitions.
I've seriously given some thought to do exactly this. It's not particularly difficult. You need a valid business entity (Which you can create for about $100 a year in some states), and a car paid for in cash. Then any LEO running the plates through ALPR will have no idea who identity of the driver is. Literally millions of small business owners do this so it's not particularly unusual.
Chrome has nowhere near 95% market share so it would be hard to make the same case against them.

Given that it's open-source and anyone can roll and distribute a tweaked version of Chromium (and many have, notably Microsoft), it's really hard to see an argument here that Google is acting anti-competitively. If anything it's very pro-competitive to give away your secret sauce to your competitors.

Just because their browser is more popular than you would like, and you don't like a feature they're adding, doesn't mean a judge is going to stop them from adding it.
Isn't this just all psychics?
To be fair, they're padded in a lot of machine code contexts as well, even if you don't explicitly write `int_fast16_t`.

And since Java doesn't expose pointer guts, struct padding is purely a runtime optimization concern, not a language concern.
I use almost exclusively fullscreen windows in macos. A couple of apps are splitscreen. I like to have 2 terminals side by side. And there is a kitchen sink screen where I put random windows.
I agree with you.

1) Always remember location and size hashed by monitor(s) arrangement.

2) Get rid of "Maximize" and go back to "Zoom" where I can switch between 2 positions/sizes: one is the smallest window that will fit and layout everything perfectly without scroll bars, and the other is point 1) remembered location/size.

3) Simple floating panels/palettes/icons. Nothing jarring. One menu bar:

* Application File Edit View Help Wed 3:59 PM ⏻
Software Update... Switch User
- Log Out...
File Browser -
Web Browser Restart
Text Edit Shut Down
Terminal
hey, how does this works?, i see it a lot...
Other recent Cigna shenanigans: https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
They're not exactly out there buying the S&P 500. They overwhelmingly own treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. They basically buy bonds (which are future money) and replace them with cash (present money). They're basically just transforming duration.

Those debt obligations however remain. That future money still has to be paid in to cancel out the debt, whether that comes from home borrowers or from the Treasury.

This allows the institutions who held them to then make loans to individuals.
*except when they're promising health outcomes
These "fines" are just cost of doing business. It makes no difference.

We need deep changes in the regulation and breaking up of those companies that are "too big to fail" and have too much power.
>Why do you need IT systems for a program that has allegedly been running covertly since a decade before Bletchley Park started building Colossus?

I'm not sure I follow. You would almost certainly need IT. Just because the program (allegedly) dates back to 1930 doesn't mean it has no use for IT.

The IRS dates back to before 1930 and it has IT.
hey, how does this works?, i see this a lot...
A friend of mine was one hit in the crossfire of a maize conference and was never the same. Oddly he was there for a separate echidnae con but the maize folks just… jumped to conclusions and did what maize people do.
For years after that, he talked only of Chapalote alleles. Eventually, he made it back to the duck billed platypus, a much diminished man.
It's not this specific question. It's the fact that any time anything about blockchain tech is posted on hacker news the first comment will be 'b-but where are the use-cases' with the second being something like 'lol scam.' It would be the equivalent of replying to every HN post with 'but why would anyone want to own a personal computer?' That's how irrelevant and uninformed these posts are.
> I don't understand why big corporations find it so hard to see that the real potential in AI is usually in augmenting, not _replacing_, human labor

IMHO because now I have twice as much work: knowing the problem domain and reviewing someone else's contribution. It's like code review 24/7 from untrusted contributors: it requires more focus than just trying to understand and author the original contribution
That's great if it's your hobby but if I value my time at my current wage, darning socks is incredibly more expensive than just buying a pack of new ones. You just can't beat the efficiency of factory machines.
Not so rare.

https://www.shortlist.com/news/the-14-best-covers-of-prince-...
I like the idea of self driving cars as I am lazy and want to do other things than drive.

But on thst note, if we invested the same $billions in trains/light rail we would have great public transport networks that could do the same thing for the whole population...

We don't need self driving cars we want them because they are sexy. Unsexy public transport will be better for our cities.

Edit: spelling
Can't they just return random number for attestation each time.
So happy to see this being worked on. I really hate overlapping windows. It was never a good idea. I think it was mainly done the fist few times because it looked impressive. Then it became so ingrained that people couldn't imagine not having them.
Actually I think the way this works is you have a series of forks. You will have a variety of weirdos who spend a lot of time on their fork of a design which is close but needs some tweaks. Regular people then can choose from a bunch of different forks with different pros and cons. This is similar to design and production in a capitalist system only it takes way less effort to design a similar but slightly different fork. Most vacuum cleaners are pretty similar but each company has to design their first machine from scratch and there’s a high barrier to entry for that. With forks, it’s easy. And we see with 3D printed objects that when someone is in demand you will have a popular option that a lot of people have downloaded, and then someone comes along and makes their own fork, and someone sees that and improves upon it too, and now you’ve got three options but only one person had to design it from scratch.
Take a look at which artists get traction on YouTube....
It's extremely biased by beauty, as the algorithm rewards engagement and if nothing else all the creeps wanking while watching on repeat drive the ladies up the figurative charts....

Really.... how have you not noticed?
I've converted to a tiling window manager person after using Amethyst on MacOS. It's buggy and crashes but I absolutely love using a tiling manager to handle the common scenarios of two windows side by side, or a primary window + multiple windows tiled on the second half.

Once you find a setup that works for you, this ends up being super easy to work with.
Being able to run self contained postgres with a single command is an easy ergonomic win. You don't necessarily need to be an engineer or write code for containers to be useful.
Do you see the ambiguity with saying it how you suggest now?
The perfect embodiment of that pithy phrase "true rebels walk alone". What a hard life, but what an amazing example of not compromising on your principles. Few people have that kind of strength.
> Why does my http site, which has nothing important on it at all, get flagged by chrome as "insecure"?

Because an attacker can inject JavaScript code on it, and use it to attack other sites. The most famous example of that is "Great Cannon", which used a MITM attack on http sites to inject JavaScript code which did a distributed denial of service attack on GitHub. Other possibilities include injecting code which uses a browser vulnerability to install malware on the computer of whoever accesses your site (a "watering hole" attack), without having to invade your site first.
>all that remained to do now to take over their server is to upload a base64 encoded php webshell using the uploadPhoto

Reading this it felt nostalgic with all these hacking techniques, it’s like 2007 all over again with c99 shell!
Unremarkable and forgotten.
> we eliminated the risk of bankB running away with money

This isn't a real risk with correspondent banks. Instead, it's counterparty risk: bankB failing while it holds the funds in transfer. That risk can be mitigated with smart contracts, but it's not eliminated. (Correspondent banks also take a portion of the client bank's fraud and AML risk.)
I mostly recycle because my town charges more for a larger garbage can but gives you a huge recycle bin for free. I could even request a second giant recycle bin, twice the size of my trash bin, for free if I somehow needed it. Even if it all ends up in the landfill (I try to follow their guidelines to avoid this), recycling saves me money every month.
I have keybindings that go directly to the workspace that I am interested in. Fifteen years ago I dedicated 10 workspaces to fullscreen tasks I do daily and now I can go to my browser with a keybinding or to my code editor with another. I have been on workmates computers with tens to a hundred windows open and I am dumbfounded on how they get anything done.

A task should operate on one workspace and there should be keybindings to go directly to that task. Of course I am a pro power user and normies would be horrified at my workflow. Gnome devs try to consider everyone and sometimes miss the mark and make everyone unhappy. So I am going to volunteer to use their concept and provide feedback.
Uh I understand where my comment went wrong. My mistake, sorry Hackernews.

I meant the Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet crowd who were very forward with their views about how religion kills people and is responsible for many violent acts and bad things, and the general combative sense, how Hitchens would push forward an argument (particularly with Islamic people).

It is difficult to go on daydreaming about things when imminent threats like that appear to be clear and present dangers.

Total idiot move on my behalf to just leave that comment without further qualification.
My screen is 4 and a half feet wide. I use Windows Power Toys on Win and a Tiling windows manager on Linux. Each app goes to their specific location. The center 1920x1080 is for the main focus and the rest is for peripheral/supporting apps.

Here's what my development desktop looks like[1]

1: https://keeb.dev/2022/06/12/I-made-a-keylogger/desktop-full....
I assume by "literally" you mean "literary" ?

Anyway, novels are not "effective." A pamphlet is effective. Propaganda is effective. Editorials are effective.
... In the sense that reality will become more like it is in video games?
Naive question: is that the original content of the application from 2021, or could it have been updated later? Is it the same material as LK-99 in the published paper?
Scale is the problem but I can't think of any easy way to put in writing how much scale is bad. Has anybody been genuinely harmed by this?
Sometimes I tell people the best Expo apps have custom native code and it is a really useful skill to know Kotlin and Swift in addition to React and JavaScript. Glad to hear you have found Expo and EAS so useful! One of the features we'll be previewing during launch week is something Pinterest has been needing for a long time, and we'll make sure you hear about it.
Your example for how the US is becoming more like China is… a crackdown on copyrights? Haha
"Exceptions that prove the rule"

You've heard the phrase before right?

Why could you pick those names so readily? Because they're the exceptions...
> I used to refuse to stand for the pledge of allegiance in high school

I almost never participate in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I took the constitutionally-prescribed oath* in the Navy (I'm a third-generation veteran) and also as a lawyer, and I pigheadedly feel that society doesn't get to keep demanding more and more proof of my patriotism and fidelity, thank you very much — that way lies trouble, as we've seen happen elsewhere.

* To support and defend the Constitution of the United States
Safari is not only leading browser in mobile, it is the only choice any iphone users have unlike chrome where user has choice to not use it. I would be more wary of safari changes than chrome changes.
Funny you say that because the most popular 3D printer firmwares are open source. Does QA’ing 3D printer firmware sound fun to you? No? Great well you don’t have to do that someone else is literally doing that right now because they thought it was fun.

By the way this is a decent job for an apprentice under supervision. It’s a good way to learn with minimal risk and young people are often willing to do this kind of thing. Then the veteran comes in and makes a few improvements to the QA system and hopefully it’s good for a while.
I am surprised that data scientist did not appear at all in the list of jobs similar to economist.
Because of our reliance on cars. If most people could walk or take public transportation home we could lower the drinking age.
The Case Against Zeros in Grading
I don't know of one individual who has just remained consistently happy 100% of the time, but in my experience it amounts to communal humor and innate stability.

As far as a happy lifestyle, for about 4 months I lived with a family in the American Midwest that was poor. They were all very happy due to a sprawling, thriving ecosystem of diverse positive social contacts. Some of that can be attributed to the church, whose benefit is the social opportunities it creates.

As for individuals who are outliers in their positivity, they typically come from a healthy, supportive, funny, and interesting family.
Holy cow, I had heard all of those acronyms but did not even realize QUCS-S and QucsStudio were actually different, thank you for pointing that out. (This also necessarily shows that I didn't do a good enough job reading your work here).
COVID, Climate Change, War, reduced job prospects. Social media and smartphones certainly don't help but they're a side show compared to the rest.

There is a serious argument to be made outright ban smartphones not just for teenagers but for everybody that can't handle having a non-stop distraction device in their pocket. But that argument will fail because we tend to allow people to do stupid stuff as long as it doesn't affect others.
now I'm just worried if pop-OS's gnome extension ever goes away. arc-menu, pop-shell, & dash-to-panel are my jam.
The huggingface release works in A1111 directly, there is nothing to convert
This is something I've been trying to fix with PingQuick[0]. I got tired of spinning up containers, dealing with backends and setups only for it to be broken somewhere along the line, which then turns into me 4 hours deep in googling docker commands. I just want my code somewhere that someone else can ping it with no setup - that's it.

[0] https://www.pingquick.dev
If you’re that stupid, you deserve to be swindled.

The victims included mentally compromised people, the elderly, people who later committed suicide, etc.

It's hard for me not think this sort of behavior is anything but criminal.
When they introduced labels they claimed threads were a thing of the past. I didn't even know you could still have them, Google certainly didn't advertise it (since they wanted us to use labels instead).
Many treated wood fence posts have a lifetime warranty, though you might reasonably expect 10-20 years out of them.

In my opinion, mostly just based on seeing a wide variety of plastics in outdoor uses, 50 years seems very ambitious.
How you inform your backup system where to get backups ? How you set pg_hba and other configs? Few other "how?" and you're doing what you'd be doing on VM anyway
AWS CloudFormation adds support for Fn:ForEach
"500 notes per second! Irish dance is the winner!"
It's never going to be against the economic interest of search engines to show ads, they can sell spots on their front page which are always going to be valuable.

This should be against their tactical interests, because it hurts their accuracy driving away users, but absent a significantly more accurate competitor they'll get away with it for a long time.

Regarding Google search there are some hopeful signs. For one some people report Google's accuracy dropping, and Google keeps switching up its idiosyncrasies to avoid spam but in doing so they devalue the effort people put into SEO and into refining their Google-fu. These might be the same thing however.
"Lady Gaga isn't winning any pageants"

How does she look in her breakout hit? (Poker face)

Yea... that's right, she definitely looks "good".
Go Developer Survey 2023
Who thought that there would be right wingers who join local organizations in the fire department
And even if you do get a VPN, the inconvenience and network effects push everyone towards censored Chinese alternatives like Weibo and Youku anyway. One thing I've seen working is western countries investing in high-quality media that caters to Chinese audiences. It's an uphill battle but it seems like a promising way for us to bridge the divide.
Seems like the key shared characteristic of these examples are small communities where people care about each other. As you say, it works at smaller scales. But free rider problems are a lot tougher in a community of millions or more.
I don’t know why people are saying FB (the product) is dead.

People still use it. Yeah my feed is mostly crap, but I still see friends posting and sharing stuff. Groups especially are very popular.

Whereas on Instagram they just post a story once a month and have next to zero permanent pics. It’s mostly the messaging feature in IG that’s useful, for people you’re not actually friends with.

Nobody I know uses Twitter.

Tiktok is strictly for kids and is pretty much a joke.

Friends are 20-40 years old, non-US. Within this demographic, social media isn’t what it used to be 10 years ago, but FB is still the dominant platform by a mile.
Downpressor Man
I use yt-dlp to keep an archive of videos I don't want YouTube to disappear (mostly music videos). What would be nice is some automation to allow yt-dlp to subscribe to channels and pull down the latest videos for you. I have to imagine it's been done by someone already, but maybe I'll take a stab at it too.
For me, it solved A LOT of cases where users said "your software install fails", "the software doesn't run", or similar claims. They tend to be complicated to troubleshoot: people try setting up new software in an already customized development environments, and all sorts of mistakes are done.

It was refreshing being able to say: this works perfectly from a base Ubuntu 20.04 container, launching this and that commands to install and run the software. Anything that diverges from there, you're on uncharted territory and/or is a problem in your system, not a defect in the software.
You seem smart and it always amazes me how popular communist concepts are with smart people on HN.

Didn't you have some assigned group projects in school? Perhaps some people are easily satisfied by carrying the burden of other people who they don't know and who don't appreciate them, but I'd wager a ridiculously high majority of value producers would not be. Humans are social animals, but we're individuals first and foremost and self-interest will always be the best motivator.

Is there some future where humans are engineered to be satisfied with a predefined role and purpose, amongst other traits? Sure. But until we get to that point, commune-style living is an absolute dud.

By the way, I recommend you visit and try living in an actual commune. My girlfriend told me it was the most disgusting living situation she's ever seen.
This is so infuriating to me. It's also shocking to see how not shy TransUnion is about promoting a service like this.

How long is it before anyone can find out the location of anyone else in real time? It's usually only a matter of time before things like this drop in price and become consumer tools, which is a scary proposition (not to downplay how scary it is already.)
You nailed it, its a maze, too many services and below par UI/UX but it does the job.
And for caja to stop being so buggy.