skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The richest countries in the world cannot even produce enough competent doctors and teachers to fill their current needs.

They can easily produce enough doctors, they just don't. A couple of reasons for this: schools inflate the amount of education required so they they can make more money and doctors go along with it (and a crazy amount of licensing requirements) to prop wages up by keeping the supply of doctors artificially low.

You could be an ICU nurse with 20+ years of experiences. Want to make a jumpt to becoming a doctor? You have to start ALL the way from the beginning of med school as if you an 23 year-old humanities major who decided to go to med school. Your 2 decades of hands-on medical experience counts for exactly nothing in the eyes of medical schools and certification boards. Does anyone really believe this is a good way to run things?
> But mayonnaise, ketchup and countless other items are in plastic-only containers.

One idea is to stop consuming these, given they are not food and are not nutritious in the first place.

Your body (and mind) will thank you.
Chopping wood is no solution - imagine if all the people in a city burned wood for their heating and cooking, it'd be a smoggy nightmare.
The big offenders is serializing huge jsons and chucking small binaries slices from that into an ets table.

Also concatenating binaries. Don't do that, use an iolist
The flip side is, duplication is bad because when you find a bug and fix it, did you fix it everywhere? How many places were there where the bug needed fixed? Are you sure you got them all? It's much easier when there's only one place that you have to fix.
purelymail.com is the answer.
This is true. One thing people have trouble with, though, is committing time to develop a desktop version of their app. So the shortcut is tempting, but you're right that it's not ideal. Often, a poor desktop app is better than nothing.
If working in a solitary codebase, this problem isn't very interesting. Do whatever makes your life easier.

If you're working on any kind of code that serves as a library to other code, don't mutate the signatures of your public methods/functions. Once that signature is released, the only changes to it's output should be bug fixes. If you have a need for two very similar functions, you should use 2 wrapper functions with the common code in the 3rd.
Oh no, there's an online version: https://arcadespot.com/game/elevator-action/
>It's not moral or ethical, but it doesn't make you a bad person. When it's done en-masse, is encouraged, and corporations monetize it, is when it starts becoming a problem.

>If something is not perfectly moral/ethical, it doesn't mean you should never do it.

i think that when emissions are brought up in an argument, it's not usually this more nuanced take (that I also take some issue with, by the way, as it's impossible to do anything not en masse at 8b population)

instead, they are brought up to imply in sort of a smug way that the other party is somehow unethical, and that oneself, having morals as pure as they are, would never do such an unethical thing. hence the other party, and whatever they advocate, is wrong and bad. and the op blog post is a good example of this.
Lucky, inspire people and there are better odds that they support you

Inspire wealthy people and that support may be more valuable
How is Pinterest even still a thing? I’ve never heard of anyone using it and for everyone I know with an Adblocker it’s the first thing to go.
Big brain programmers, “Well actually, the most important part of our job isn’t writing code.”

Big brain programmers when using scrum, “Not like that!”
Yes the theme is very customizable, check the Settings. There's also commands you can use if you double tap Ctrl twice. You can open the command palette and select Light Theme.
That's not at all valid syntax, this does not work.
That sounds suspiciously like a number placed in a style sheet. Have you checked in the directory for your Firefox profile?
The wait for a Toyota, if one wants any say in the options on the car, is quoted at six or eight months where I live. And as my friends have experienced, there's no penalty if the dealership takes longer than the quoted time to deliver a vehicle.

It's weird.
I’ve rarely see stand ups end in 15 minutes. I’ve had stand ups that drag out for two and a half hours. When I say I need to go to get work done, I’m told this is work and you need to stay. So… many… meetings. And then I’m asked why I didn’t get my things done this sprint. Gee? I wonder why?
OK. Have a nice day. Maybe take a little internet timeout and touch grass.
They do: landfill are surrounded by fence and/or buried but most (not all) plastics degrades due to heat, sun, rain, ph of other materials and micro organism. Then all of those little flakes

- fly away with the wind

- are carried down the groundwater by rain. This is called leachate Modern landfills are protected by liners but those have a lifespan and eventually any of them could leak.
> Getting everyone together for 15 minutes each day to ask, "How can we coordinate our work to make sure we are all doing our best to deliver the next piece the customer wants?" is valuable.

But is it more valuable than the work that would have been produced by the e.g. 10 people, working for that hour in the flow every single day, if they hadn't been interrupted by that meeting? (Before/after the 15 minute meeting people are going to go for coffee, read emails, read the news etc., so you're probably losing about an hour of "flow" work by having the meeting.)
The "attack" is use of standard A 1r 'Alarm' signal for Radio-Stop rail system. Signal described in detail in readily available Ie-1 rail signaling manual, official Ministry of Infrastructure regulations, EU regulations (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...) and manuals for rail radio systems. There are multiple YT tutorials going back 10 years. Comments under one of the recent ones from 9 months ago already mention someone being arrested for doing very same thing 3 months prior.

Problem is its a simple signal consisting of three standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selcall tones. Its same as https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/04/12/dallas-s...

Solution is adoption of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R
Could you please also add a button to sort the tabs by domain? I don't want hierarchical grouping like some competing extensions offer (to me such UX feels like additional complexity), only sorting.
what special interest benefits from showing negative impacts to mps? you've got to think who has the most to lose our gain. This is a more trustworthy study because usually showing negatives about huge entrenched products is fought by the special interests like plastic/oil companies, or DuPont in the case of Teflon aka forever chemicals.

Though I think worrying about it is fruitless as we're more likely to solve global warming than get all the Chemicals and plastic out of our blood globally, and that's worth the worry because there are at least things we can do to mitigate things(assuming political will ever signs)
We got the gayest frogs that you ever did meet
I picked it up pretty quickly as primarily a JS dev at the time.

I’ve also worked on several projects where I’ve pair programmed with a dev new to the language. They’re usually pretty productive within a few days. Not writing their own DSLs or going deep into OTP, but productive in terms of writing application code.

Phoenix is pretty straightforward for those who have experience with Rails, Laravel or a similar full-stack web framework.
I can't help but feel that a website named sustainable plastics might have an ulterior motive for criticizing current plastic usage. This isn't to say that current plastics are somehow good, but rather that, perhaps the people talking about the best ways to fight fires ought not be the fellows with a vested interest in fire extinguisher sales.
I'm in tech, at a nonprofit and find it fulfilling. Because we're a small place I get to do sysadmin stuff, sales stuff, support stuff, a little programing... a little of everything. It's fun, interesting, and I work with a bunch of smart and dedicated people. And no, the pay doesn't suck.
Thank you!
Exactly the starting point I was looking for.
No, but it was still cathol-ic.
I dislike code duplication. But do you know what I like even less?

Giant functions with 12 keyword arguments passed up and down a call stack, because those functions have many callers which want slightly different things.

Choosing the wrong abstraction often leads to endless kludges and special cases. Two warning signs are functions with 12+ keyword arguments, and strange class hierarchies full of callbacks that only interact with a few functions.

The problem with all programming advice is that it needs to come with George Orwell's classic advice to "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."

If programming advice makes your code look obviously gross, ignore the advice.
I'm a UX Designer and I despise scrum. It's a useless bunch of practices pushed by failed project managers to justify their salary. It does orders of magnitude more harm than good in software development.
But the great lakes.

Unironically.

I mean, sure, conserve, but until those lakes drain, the US should be solid.
You could already do that with Unified Memory which has existed for a while and IIRC supported paging and swapping, assuming you `cudaMalloc` and `cudaFree` appropriately for your allocations.

This is not a change to "features" but a change to the programming model. You now never need to ever write cudaMalloc or cudaFree, you can just use any allocator or tool. This means more off the shelf code will just work when used with CUDA. So now your io_uring buffers can be shared with the GPU trivially, for example, or mmap'd pages that a library gave you, or whatever.

The programming model is one of the things Nvidia does significantly better than any competitor. Single source model + HMM is a big step up from something like OpenCL in productivity and correctness.

On Grace Hopper chips, HMM is granular down to the cache line (64 bytes); on x86 systems I believe they said it's (of course) a 4k page granularity.
Uhh no. Lead, mercury, radioactivity, thalidomide, and asbestos poisoning are not detectable as “my child put a toy in their mouth and their tongue fell off.”

These were uncovered over the course of years by statistical analysis, prompted by suspicions created by (noisy, often non-human) information about the mechanisms.

Similarly, we have tons of data supporting a bunch of theories of micro plastic harm in the lab. The waiting revelation isn’t going to be “omg all these people are sick and we didn’t know it,” it’s going to be “all these people have been sick and we didn’t know why.”

Which is exactly the form of the sperm quality/fertility theory as well as obesity. We know these compounds cause fertility and metabolism issues in cell cultures and in animal models. We know we are facing civilization-scale problems with obesity and fertility. Drawing the connection between these types of observations is always extremely noisy because there are obviously trillions of variables affecting “does a specific individual become infertile or obese,” or “does a person have an elevated risk of birth defects.”

I’m not necessarily on the side of an immediate and total ban, but this “we’ll see the problems if they exist” attitude is profoundly ignorant and arrogant. The historical examples appear obvious to you because you saw the results of extremely deep study prompted from initially low-quality suspicions.
Plastic food containers aren't even close to being the largest source of microplastics.

Synthetic fibres in clothing (like that cotton-poly blend shirt you're most likely wearing) and motor vehicle tyres are some of the bigger sources. These both also release particles directly into the atmosphere allowing them to get absolutely everywhere, unlike plastic in landfills that probably has a harder time escaping into the wider environment.
Obviously US automakers want all the margins they can get, but in the past they pursued margins _to the extent of making very low-quality cars_ (then had their lunch eaten by foreign competition; it did not work out well for them at all). They largely don't do that anymore; their quality is more comparable to foreign competition than it used to be.
I sometimes wonder what the total emission cost of these non-native developments amounts to.
Thank you for the kind words. I wouldn't even know where to start. There's a lot I can code and do, but making something into a product is something I have no experience with.

What's your recommended approach? Even if open-source, curious to learn.
The victims? Of course they can't be blamed.

The people who drive huge cars can be blamed, but it's pointless because you'll never get people to voluntarily stop driving huge cars if they want to drive huge cars. You can, and should, blame the government for allowing manufacturers to sell huge cars and people to drive them, if the problem is so huge.

If there's a point to your comment, I did not get it.
>It feels to me like there is something besides diet changes happening to us.

Cars?
Yes, this is what we call in the industry as "overhype"
Yes, of course. Existing bodies of freshwater can be put to use. Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
Citation needed.

These comments read like Reddit/TikTok. Lots of frantic fearful hand waving, not a lot of evidence presented.
I’ve wanted to give GraalVM and its native-images a try but haven’t yet. Do you have any experience with it?
Premature optimization is a recurring theme in Elon-land.
I think that's still the case; though I assume you're talking about Linux-on-Linux vGPUs, the same is true of e.g. WSL2 where unified memory isn't supported. Sucks, because it's a great feature.
Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
You have to have a good alternative first. Paper items sprayed with harmful chemicals is not a good replacement.

https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/24/paper-straws-harmful-for...
At the very least, regionalize the production better. Throwing out the way we currently do water rights and putting sensible limits on how much can be used for ag production would go a long ways.
Where does that return come from? It doesn't materialize from thin air. That money was generated by a laborer before it was shuffled to the various shareholders.
> It feels to me like there is something besides diet changes happening to us. That's part of it, but I wonder if microplastics or some kind of gut biome disruption is playing a role as well.

Based on what many people have in their shopping carts and the sugar water many people are constantly chugging, I see no reason to think anything other than excess calories is the cause. And lack of exercise as an exacerbating factor.
Out of sight out of mind.
humans rarely react to anything unless they see it. If microplastics caused us to bleed out our eyeballs, things would change quick.
I live in a country where, despite 70% water (I know, seawater) and lots of rainforests, most urban people drink bottled water (single-use and refills). Talk about selling ice to Eskimos. Probably because the ice outside is polluted, and it's easier to buy instead of fixing the root cause.

Anyway, ignoring the effect on nature since we clearly don't care about it, how damaging would the effect be to people who consume water that way, daily?
>Also I dislike FUD spreading so there's that

Hype and FUD are different sides of the same coin
I already forgot the details, but I tried some solutions like this I could google up. Yes, I remember changing some numbers in some files in the profiles. Nothing worked. Apparently these were only meant to work with older versions.
I don't think I have ever felt that only a website feels unprofessional. Anecdotal, but still. A well built, well designed, responsive site is all I need to know that someone is on top of it.

I'd rather see them do 1 method very well than 2 methods haphazardly
> Plastic food containers aren't even close to being the largest source of microplastics.

Can you give me some citations? I know that microwaving plastic containers is about the worst thing you can do with regards to microplastics, because it releases tons of them right into your food:

https://www.wired.com/story/for-the-love-of-god-stop-microwa...
As Buckminster Fuller so eloquently illustrated, it's not a problem with resources, it's a problem of distribution.

Plus we pollute the Great Lakes like there's no tomorrow.

I see no way around this except to continue to build large cities in the desert.
Key point is that no uniform policy works on global scale. In some places you need to seriously limit use of ground water. In others you don't really need to care. And this can change over time.
With so many references to Hume, Hobbes, Leibniz, and others, I find the lack of appeal to Descartes odd: "Extension in length, breadth and depth constitutes the nature of corporeal substance" (AT VIIIA 25, CSM I 210). Our author considers his leg "no longer part of anything...Nothing and Nowhere" and yet he still "[regards] the leg as ‘a thing’." The notion of thingness and nothingness stand in mutually destructive opposition. His leg may have the property of nothingness from the persective of his Humean chain of perceptions, but how can one hold both observations simultaneously? It must be resolved through the words of Descartes: "nothing else but thinking substance itself and extended substance itself, that is, mind and body" (AT VIIIA 30–31, CSM I 215). Our author's leg has lost all mind qualities, and the body-qualities of shape and extension that remain are too novel to be reconciled with his former state of being.
They've infested Google's image search for years.
> It feels to me like there is something besides diet changes happening to us.

Well sure, obesity is a result of a lot of factors, some genetic, but a lot of it is the food environment surrounding people. The lack of easy access to healthy foods or education on how to buy and prepare them, plus economic pressures all play into this.
Already added to my notes. I'll likely implement it. Make it pin+normal tab aware even, like only sort normal, pins, or both.
This is the truth. Mid market has always been sketchy. Nobody lives or hangs out in downtown SF. Downtown is for the “bridge and tunnel” crowd. Like why would you ever put it here and not in one of the neighborhoods (ex Sunset, Richmond, Glen Park, Soma).

That being said the 5th street area losing Nordstrom is a big blow. Things there have certainly gotten worse recently as it has started more and more resemble Market street on the other side of Seventh.
> (age > 18 and age < 20): "LOL teen emoji amirite?",

In Python you can write this more concisely as:

(18 < age < 20)
Scrum is an industry. Its primary goal is to make scrum your focus. It transforms your team to a process oriented shitshow that squashes innovators and elevates morons who cling to process.
It is well known that zinc, like all metals with low melting temperature, flows slowly under high stress.

So this failure was easily predictable. I assume that the cables have been designed for a much shorter lifetime, so it was expected that either the cables would be replaced or the radiotelescope would be decommissioned many years ago.

Nevertheless, the choice of pure zinc for the cable sockets is somewhat weird, because it guarantees a short lifetime. Had a zinc alloy been used, like ZAMAK (Zn-Al alloy), the flowing speed would have been much less and the lifetime of the cables would have been greater.

Alloys are much more resistant to plastic deformation and flowing than pure metals, because the atoms with different sizes cause defects in the crystal structure that prevent the easy slipping of the atom planes over each other.
Well, plastics that end up in the environment will degrade by the elements into microplastics, and rainwater will carry them to the oceans (or salt lakes, but I know none in Germany).

There are differences in statistics between EU countries, they might tell something interesting.

EDIT: "considered to be at risk of missing one or more material-specific targets, with plastic being the most critical material:

Plastics: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...
A lot of enraged engineers are here arguing about the claims, ignoring the real problem at hand: Pinterest still exists. WTF is going on with people still using Pinterest?
Unsolicited praise - we've been using ToDesktop at Kitemaker for a while now and we're super happy with it. The team is always super responsive to our requests and the product has been very stable. We were rolling our own Electron app before and it was an annoying headache. Just having a tool that takes care of all the updates, Apple signing and is consistently adding new/useful APIs for us to tap into is a big win. I get that some teams aren't interested in having an Electron app, and that's cool, but if you are, give this a shot because it'll for sure save you time.
I was making the point that this is new tech, not available to us at all a few mere years ago, so assuming a constant cost when making predictions is difficult. Assume inference prices will go down, not up.
The point of abstraction is to reduce the number of concepts in play. If you're still tracking which old concept is "really" being used every time, you haven't actually abstracted over anything, you're just naming things badly.
Does lead exposure have a "horrifying" story? It has measurable effects over years and decades, but very little acute effect.
Thanks. Sounds great.
Well then there are two straightforward questions:

- are the overall costs of plastics (namely pollution and its environmental and health effects) higher than the costs of banning plastics? Seems like a clear yes.

- what are the redistributive effects? Seems like: consumers are net winners (lower health effects, some or all financial costs of switching away from plastics are passed down to consumers through higher prices); some firms are losers (mainly those who produced plastics or used a lot of them) and some are winners (newcomers, producers of no plastics solutions, transporters).
> Personally, I go by the definition that "right" means "more hierarchies" or "more static hierarchies" and "left" means "fewer hierarchies" or "more flexible hiearchies"

Interesting take. Not sure I agree with it, but interesting.

Personally I'm a fan of pizza/radar charts for politics, because things are so much more nuanced than a left/right sliding scale could tell. Ecology, foreign, internal, economic, social policy, etc.
How does this relate to the technology that Improbable[^0] have built? I gather that their core tech is a massively distributed object graph designed to support the sort of interactions necessary for an MMO game to operate a global instance rather than shard worlds.

Improbable seem to have gone a bit... off the rails(?) in recent years, diving into Web3, metaverse, and defence contracting, but I assume the core tech is still there.

[^0]: https://www.improbable.io/
> Do CNP transactions not require you to authorise via a second factor in the US?

Do we even need to ask this question when cards there are still using signature-only verification (or even sometimes not even asking for signature nor PIN)?

In all seriousness, they're dragging their feet in implementing 3DS2, do not have a rule like PSD2, and from time to time will even accept cards with nearly everything wrong except for card number and expiration. Even Stripe literally has an article titled "Charge succeeded despite CVC or ZIP check mismatch" (https://support.stripe.com/questions/charge-succeeded-despit...) for merchants in other countries because that's how lax US banks are.