skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s hardly the only source. And the plastics are already in the ecosystem and circulating for a very long time even if we banned all plastics today - which we won’t and instead every year we produce and use more
note how all of those have a horrifying story

Tell the horrifying plastic story (if there is one)
Um that’s not what second system syndrome is. It’s a simple rewrite.
I don't think it's different. NFTs are not all securities, right? Just because people speculate with them doesn't make them securities just like baseball cards aren't securities. NFTs can be securities, the ones the article is about clearly are.
Going from

> greater electricity use, and pollution and carbon emissions if the grid where the data center is located uses fossil fuels.

to

> dynamically-typed languages damage the environment as they're typically an order of magnitude slower

is quite a stretch.

Do dynamically-typed languages inherently damage the environment? Or is it the fossil fuels?

Not that the appeal to the environment matters, because later on we have this:

> If Kotlin were 10 times slower, I'd be happy to pay that price, since it is genuinely a great language to work with, is statically typed, and developers are more productive in it.
I've been using language model embeddings for this kind of thing with a lot of success recently: the algorithms are effectively the same , using distances between a vector of numbers to find the most related co tent.

I wrote up my related content implementation here: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/openai-embeddings-related...
This has been on my radar for a while. It's so impressive. Bundling electron for all platforms can be a real headache.

The only issue is, it's hard to commit $99/mo for a solo developer to trial a small app. (I know it's pennies for businesses)
You can't code without access to stackoverflow?

Official documentation is still available…
I think that with the advances in refrigeration, materials, logistics, we can safely go back to having bulk food for a lot of our needs. Also reusable glass containers instead of plastic bottles (e.g. for milk, oil, etc.)
Presumably, alive and full of microplastics is still better than just being dead, which is usually what happens when you don't get blood transfusions when you need them.
Vintage Robots: Revisiting the Early Robots of the 20th Century via Old Photos
> The cause was diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug that farmers began using to treat their cattle. Though the drug was harmless to both cows and humans,

It isn't harmless to humans, it causes ulcers (if you take a big dose, like the vultures).
Evolution is working every single generation. Dogs no more or less than humans or anything else.

Dogs were selected, but everything responds to environmental pressures. All the time. Natural ones no different than human-provided ones, right?

And humans have changed more in the last 50K years than in the 1M before that. Because of civilization I have to think. Anyway, off by 2 orders of magnitude there, for really significant changes.
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Take sick leave
You don't think its possible to remove microplastics from water?
Sperm counts have been falling since the 50s, though.
0% written by AI.
On June 20th of 2019, and prior to the open-source release of V on June 22nd of 2019, the creators of competing languages, and various supporters of theirs made very disparaging remarks against V and it's creator[1].

V was falsely characterized and accused of being a "scam", "vaporware", or "fraud" that really didn't exist or its source would not be released to the public. To include, V's creator was allowed to be heavily and repeatedly insulted on the thread.

The creator of one of the languages made a direct plea to not give money to the V project, and instead give that money to himself and another creator[1]. Which, was way beyond the usual lines of civility. This was later added to, with the other creator (back in 2019) making a somewhat similar plea for people to give him their money instead while doing harsh attacks on V, from his website[2].

Surrounding that, was angry talk over how much monetary support V was getting[1]. "He's up to 56% of the income I make on Patreon..., and I've been busting my ass for years..."[1]. This can be viewed as jealousy over the amount another developer was getting, so early on.

Such behavior by language creators, against another, is clearly and extremely irregular. While both creators later on kind of walked backed their earlier statements and attempted to remove themselves from heightened drama and initiating a language war, it was arguably way too late. The statements were walked back a bit, because they were in error. V's creator made an early release for his Patreon supporters, which he has the right to, that was taken out of context. Furthermore, he did release the source for V, 2 days later and in June (as was promised). Despite this, the goal posts were moved, to continually find anything else to attack V on (from when it was an alpha) as a newer competing language.

Over the years, the drama has persisted. To include HN accounts dedicated for the purpose of attacking or insulting V (to include sleeper or newly created accounts), in the frame of an overall wider effort spanning years and various different websites. From time to time, the opposition against V, has also mistakenly or nonchalantly identified themselves as such (can be seen through search). Casual readers on HN or other websites, often don't know of the motives behind unnecessary or odd vitriol, so this can be "hidden" to them.

Lastly, the V language has every right to exist and flourish, as those other languages. V has numerous developers, contributors, and supporters who make it continually better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632

[2] https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...
It’s heavily implied to have caused the brain damage as it was associated with the lesion. Seeing as it is a worm, it would have to have been eating the brain
Is there anything that OP can say to sell this to someone heavily invested in Sideberry (an excellent piece of software imo)?
How does the OS help you there? Does it have "tactile" organization accessible to you without loosing focus by switching to another app?
I like the language, but I never really used it for much.

It’s the same with various other languages I’ve wanted to use, for example Ada. I sit down to work on something, fumble around for a bit, and realize it’s easier just to go back to using C or some other common high level language for whatever I’m doing, even if I think some other language is conceptually better.

I did apply to a job earlier in the year that piqued my interest because it mentioned D. Unfortunately brining that up in the interview seemed to kill my chances at the job, as the vibe swiftly changed and they started talking about how they were trying to get rid of it (mostly an issue of hiring people familiar with it).
I haven't ever seen an organization focused on "doing Scrum" that gets good results. However, some teams trying to deliver working software iteratively for their customers do find Scrum lets them deliver better than what they were doing before. But when Scrum becomes the goal and takes precedence over delivering software, it becomes a liability.

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. Showing the customer what you built over the last week and asking if it needs any changes is also really valuable. Occasionally taking time as a team to discuss ways you can improve? Again, very valuable.

But the value comes from the collaboration each activity enables. Just because you have a 15-minute meeting you call a standup, a demo, or a retrospective doesn't mean people are actually collaborating in a valuable way.
Cargo is quite bad at true monorepos, so in some sense I agree, but I think there’s often a sweet spot between the two where this makes sense. Some projects are just inherently larger, and breaking them down helps, and spreading the repos out hurts. Just depends.
That depends. If you're willing to put up with bureaucracy, lower compensation, and all sorts of other hassles, you can go into public service or work for a non-profit of some kind that does meaningful work.

My personal strategy is to just work for the most morally acceptable for-profit business I can find. Then I do what's necessary to keep that job, but I don't invest myself in it. I don't care about it. I just spend as little time at that job as I can and get fulfillment with all the other hours of my life that aren't spent working.
This is how they do it in Germany. Most working Germans I know of eat at the work canteen and have a small bread meal at home in the evening

Weird that you're getting downvoted for this. HN is on a weird one recently
> I don’t see how it can be said, without qualification, that duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

I mean, this statement IS qualified. The word "wrong" is doing some heavy lifting. Part of what makes an abstraction wrong is when it is expensive to use as tiny differences emerge in the requirements.
Yep, it looked like it was from an ingredients bag that was cut open. Thats my best guess.
I tried to find a citation and it was sort of mixed in terms of results -- it doesn't seem like it is the primary cause of it dropping across the board:

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-745766
Perhaps related to microplastics interfering with the endocrine system. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newslett...
Agree, which is why I wrote "or similar".
You mean the search engine that NEVER EVER gives me the documentation I'm locking for, but always goes for a vaguely related blog with hundreds of ads?
This is the predominant tactic used by Russian fighters near Ukraine. They don't want to get targeted by SAMs, so they do long range missile shots against Ukrainian aircraft.
It literally is a big lobbying conspiracy.
It was disgusting with too much sauce so I looked. How do I know it was plastic...because I have eyes and it was plastic.
Yeah, but then it wouldn't be career driven development, with a nice blog post.
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The Flynn effect reversal has a pretty simple (but unpopular) explanation that has nothing to do with microplastics.
Frankly I am seeing that as a myth, you seem to have made up your mind some time ago or judged by 1-2 occasions.

I am on ElixirForum every day and worked with Elixir for 7 years and have never seen anyone "perpetuate myths". I've seen some people willing to "increase adoption" which was always met with resistance by the wider community -- we believe growth should be organic.

Pretty sad stance from you though, I have no idea why people get so ticked off when another programmer wants to tell them about a secret weapon.

If you are not willing to try it, that's fair. Say that. Claiming you know stuff about the ecosystem while a guy who is there every day is not seeing that at all comes across as... strange. Biased. And not arguing in good faith. :(
Have you considered moving to the other address? /s
I feel like once upon a time, "blanket the world with a mesh of pollen sensors" would absolutely have been Google's approach.
First - people usually point out that it might be depression, so look into that.

Then you could consider joining a startup (a real one. small team, tech focused).
You could also consider taking on new challenges - new lang, new role (devops/fe/be/pm/arch).

Be prepared for a salary cut.
they used to not support unified memory in their vGPU drivers. it was a major deal breaker back then.
I’ve worked in buildings with both systems. And the ones with the floor selector in the hall are way better!
Considering the alternatives are metal and glass, I'd assume that the cost difference would be exponential, especially if the most common alternative is banned and transport will be much heavier.
IMO this is more a Google problem than a Pinterest problem. Google does the same thing with text search (returning results that have few if any of your search terms), possibly over relying on opengraph tags and other such metadata.
Does it matter though? By banning plastics, we would increase awareness and move one step closer to solve this.
Retrieval Augmented Generation

Customizing on your data.
> In case you need to hear it: do not (TW: suicide) seek out OpenAI’s services to help with your depression. Finding and setting up an appointment with a therapist can be difficult for a lot of people – it’s okay for it to feel hard. Talk to your friends and ask them to help you find the right care for your needs.

In US healthcare including therapists are quite expensive.

Back in the day I was an indie dev and that was really hard on me. In my lows I thought I’d seek a therapist but at $500/half hour appointment that felt like a gut punch. Didn’t have any insurance then.

ChatGPT is instantly available and free. Yes, it’s not perfect but it’s better than nothing.

For a large part of US, mental therapists are not really accessible when they most need it.
Making Financial Calculations Transparent and Efficient with the Finance Toolkit
The purpose of this project is to increase transparency and simplicity regarding financial calculations. This is why this project contains the formulas of over 100+ financial ratios and indicators of which each has a seperate function. You can not only see how each metric is calculated but you have the complete freedom to decide what data you put in and how you use each metric. Here's why.

Browsing financial websites, I often saw that the same financial ratios can vary greatly per website. Because the timing or underlying calculation can be off, finding a single truth can be difficult and even if you did want to figure this out, you often have to pay if the data is even available. I wanted to change that.

Introducing the Finance Toolkit, an open-source toolkit in which over a 100 financial ratios, indicators and performance measurements are written down in the most simplistic way allowing for complete transparency of the calculation method. This allows you to not have to rely on metrics from other providers and, given any financial statement, allow for efficient manual calculations.

The goal remains making any type of financial calculation as transparent and efficient as possible. With these new additions, I believe we have taken a major step forward in achieving this goal. I want to make these type of calculations as accessible to anyone as possible and seeing how many websites exists that do the same thing (but instead you have to pay) gave me plenty of reasons to work on this.
Of course, the local trivia about San Carlos, which is just down the street from Redwood city, previously Oracle HQ, Is that its IATA code is SQL.
I just explained the nuance in my previous comment, so I'm not sure what you're still confused about.

It is true that the interests of the CEO and the interests of the owners do not necessarily align. This is exactly why CEO compensation is often in stock: the theory is that if CEOs are compensated in stock, then their interests will align more closely with the interests of the stockholders.

Still, CEOs can be fired at any time, so they need to look out for themselves, and CEOs do have a kind of union, because they often sit together on the boards of directors of companies, and of course the boards of directors decide on CEO compensation (a massive conflict of interest). This is why CEOs often get massive golden parachutes: it's CEOs protecting other CEOs.

Even including the CEO, though, current employees typically own only a very small % of a corporation's total stock, which is exactly why they can be fired.
If you look at it from the German perspective, I think a person who is in/from Germany and has a small online hobby electronics shop would not be impacted by this the same way you are - thus, I believe the side effect you mention could be seen as biasing the market in favor of domestic small entities, as opposed to international ones, which might be good for a self sufficient economy. Feature not a bug, basically, is my suspicion. Although I suspect the intended target is more likely to be on Aliexpress than Tindie.
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Well, I would say it's the most common. But it still seems like a vast minority of people eat it with any regularity. I'm not sure what that measure would be. Something like once every few months. As opposed to "I tried it a couple times." kinda thing. I eat it a couple times a year maybe which I think is more than the average person.
> That’s hardly the only source.

Sure, everything is multi factor. Saying things are complex is a way to ensure there is no action taken ever.

> And the plastics are already in the ecosystem and circulating for a very long time even if we banned all plastics today - which we won’t and instead every year we produce and use more

Sure, but the sooner we act, once we know for sure this is a significant contributor, the sooner we stop making the problem worse.

I want my children to be able to have children, don't you?
That is unless they sell it to Philippines who promptly dump it into rivers, which is exactly what happens. https://www.dw.com/en/german-plastic-floods-southeast-asia/a...
I gotta say, I'm not super convinced by a lot of the points on here.

> Native notifications

Web browsers already let you create these.

> Auto updates

Browsers usually already do this too! And also they will fetch your app fresh on each visit by default... So I'm not sure why this is a problem we need to solve for web apps.

> Native installers

So, more friction? Just visiting the webpage was too simple?

Anyway some of the other stuff like messing with the dock icon and badge is unique and maybe good. But I genuinely do not understand the appeal of shipping new copies of Chrome for each web service. The browser lets you do everything you need, 99% of the time. The install friction and increased trust burden of native apps is actually a downside that normally would be justified by something like "the app is faster and leaner than a browser". But when you're just shipping a browser that fetches JS and HTML from your server, what's the justification?
Or use an open-data approach from the millions of hobby/scientific weather stations.

That would make it harder to sell the data though so why bother ?
I pulled a collection of photos off an old CD-RW for a friend a year-or-so ago. It took some effort but we finally got almost a full copy of everything (just a couple of the files just wouldn't read at all). I ended up trying several optical drives, the disk was most readable in one but some parts it couldn't get we successfully read with a different drive.

A few files seemed to read without error reported by the OS (though slowly and you could hear the drives retrying the read a few times) on more than one drive but had corruption from one of them, we manually compared different files of the same name to pick the best. Considering this, I'm surprised how much we did manage to read successfully.

There were other things on the disk, MP3s and other such, though we didn't bother trying to rescue these (only the photos were of any significance) so I'm not sure if they were in any better/worse state.

Mildly interesting observation: he no longer had a CD/DVD/other reader in a computer at all. No desktop PC and his laptop has no optical drive. The only optical drive he has is a DVD player hooked up to his TV and that is hardly ever used, as most of what it would be used for he has access to via a streaming service or two. I suspect this is not uncommon.
And if you use fine tuning and RAG you can cut the cost by an order of magnitude. Also, how much did it cost 2 years ago?
Not to mention when you have a problem the AI hasn't been trained for.

With humans you have a chance to escalate. With a chatbot, you might as well take your business somewhere else.
> It's exactly the same as fossil fuels and climate change, plastic

Moreover, the main ingredient in making plastics is derived from fossil fuels (specifically crude oil and natural gas).
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>behind some tracking redirect

Put there by mozilla btw
Which is ironic as to the fact that fatty products are normally encased in toxic plastics.
Also the metabolic syndrome/obesity epidemic. 40% of US adults have obesity. By 2030 about half of US adults will, and in 29 states more than half of adults will be obese.

We see obesity becoming increasingly normalized. People feel powerless to stop it and that we should just accept it.

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.
I love my Tesla and I too hope that other automakers get better at producing EVs. Competition is great and the whole world wins when everyone gets better. I'm looking forward to being able to get an electric Audi, Volvo, VW, etc. and be confident that the software, updates, charging infrastructure, etc. is be better than Tesla's system. That day is not today, but I hope it's soon.
Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory
But don't go into game development!

Seems every engineer I meet these days is learning Unity and is working on a game (myself included :D ).

Don't think there's much income potential there.. but it is fun for sure!
How Mojo gets a speedup over Python – Part 2
This is an important point. Sometimes when you need to do a major rearchitecture of a system it can help to choose a language that is more appropriate to that architecture. The Elixir/Erlang ecosystem has a better story for Actor Model development so it makes sense to choose them for the new architecture. It depends on the team and the specifics of the new architecture because the devil is always in the details. It may be that the new language isn't enough of a win to justify the switch and sometimes the win from the new architecture is big enough that sticking with the current language makes sense.

But a knee jerk response of: This is mostly just good because they rewrote/rearchitected it, ignores the benefits of using a language or technology that fits the new architecture better.
We watch mostly Hollywood movies. Local output has a pretty low market share. Both due to low budgets and the fact that Hollywood can make a lot more movies per year.
Banning DDT was also incredibly inconvenient for farmers as DDT worked amazingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

Human ingenuity knows no bounds and it will be a market opportunity for new entrants and innovators.
I think there are plenty of jobs in industries like HealthTech where you can be contributing to initiatives that help save lives.

And for those that are fulfilled from technical challenges, I think you basically have to go to a larger company that is running into scale problems.
How was the exit on your end
Did you have a background in cybersec beforehand, or just as a software engineer? Cybersecurity interests me, but no background in it (beyond being a senior engineer with a fair amount of cloud experience, and the security stuff you'd be expected to know as one)
> The harm should be obvious to the layman IMHO in order to be legislated away. Otherwise, it should be left up to personal choice.

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm but if it's not, this is really the peak of anti-intellectualism ideology, i.e., that if a thing is not immediately obvious without studying then we should remain ignorant of it. I don't think that kind of opinion is a good fit for this forum to be honest, which has learning and information sharing as an important goal, so I will have to flag your message, which is an extremely rare thing for me to do (actually this may be my first time ever)
Obesity itself is oestrogenic. It's the calories, stupid!
"I am tired of my career in tech"

Well have an unpaid job instead!