skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that how the entire world rolling? There was even a website to buy upvotes on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27580387 (looks like dead now). Luckily, because of the nature of the HN community, buying upvotes here is the silliest marketing strategy. The community smells bullshit from thousand miles.
> and because Big Tech went on a hiring binge during the pandemic, then reversed gears in early 2023

The last company I worked for definitely did this, so the layoff was no surprise, but what I don’t get is why I’m having trouble finding work at non tech companies. 3-4 years ago I could get interviews at F500 type companies no issue even from cold applications. Did they participate in over-hiring too?
> Though plastic bags represent a fraction of plastics produced, they are a unique source of blight, according to Mark Murray, the executive director of environmental group Californians Against Waste. They blow into tree branches, clog sewer drains, wrinkle jellyfish-like in our oceans and tumble across our roads.

Right, LDPE bags are a fraction of plastics produced (and plastic trash), and they were chosen as a scapegoat, because they are highly visible. In a world where we chose to spend our (extremely) limited legislative focus on getting the biggest bang for the buck, we'd have targeted different plastic type produced by or used in different industries, which would have made more of a positive impact. Instead, we did something that made us feel good, but did nothing, and in fact ended up making the situation worse by getting people to buy and throw away far more HDPE plastics. All the information required to make a better decision existed at the time, but pretty much everybody involved ignored it and did the dumber thing.
Both cases are thought control of the LLM, for political purposes. The distinctions you are trying to draw are silly. "Well, it's good when we do it, because we're reasonable people." OK, sure.
I too usually don't use bags in the grocery store. I get most of my groceries at Walmart and use their "Scan and Go" feature (part of Walmart+).

With S&G you read the barcode from the Walmart app on your phone as you put them into your (physical) shopping cart. At checkout you scan a QR code on the checkout terminal, confirm payment in the app, and you are done.

I then push the cart out to my car and load them into the trunk. I've got some reusable bags in the trunk so if I'm going to want the groceries in bags for carrying into my house I bag them then as I load the car.

I've also got some stackable empty boxes in the trunk. If I bought a lot of groceries I might load the boxes instead, and then can use a hand truck to move them all at once to my house.

This works quite well, and checkout is way faster than scanning at the terminal.

Also, the sale is actually processed as if it was an online order. I've got bigger credit card rewards for online purchases than I do for grocery store purchases so that was a nice bonus. It's enough of a difference to cover a large part of the cost of the Walmart+ membership.
When I originally commented a high number of the posts were taking OPs question very literally.

You can scroll to the bottom of the comments to see a few of them.
Assuming you mean iterators in other languages, I have seen folks bit by iterators supporting the "member" functions. That said, agreed that standard use is mostly fine.

The problem with monads, in this regard, is folks try and bend everything to them. I've seen similar with "everything can be iterated" before, and it ended as poorly as you might expect.

The basic trap comes down to the fact that many of us (yes, I'm projecting), really only understand basic algebra as defined with addition and multiplication. But a basic understanding doesn't help you see how that will abstract over working with other real life things. And as soon as you have to start dealing with non-transitive and non-associative things, the basic understanding can hurt.
Again, discount rate assumptions don't directly affect the cost of the pension. The liabilities will be what they will be. Returns will be what they will be, though of course assumptions impact the amount of risk you take as you attempt to achieve the assumed return.

And even with passively managed indexes the pension fund will win. Who's paying fewer basis point for this index fund, you or the billion dollar pension fund? If they achieve similar results then still the pension will have you beat.
That was the intent. More expenses for you, more profits to corporate.
Ah, a new hardcore rigid caste system, the originals and endless clones bearing all the hard and boring part of lives... what could go wrong, right?

A sidenote - if you only had cool and positive experiences in life, that would become a new baseline - everything worse would be a suffering. Not so smart approach for long term happiness.

The best tasting food is after some starvation, even if its just bread... even in literal sense, as some proper mountaineers coming close to dying from starvation can attest.
I understanding that, but claiming that the backscatter energy, or the nodes power usage, is all the ocean life (the context of this comment chain) will see is incorrect, as the previous comment did. They primarily see the excitation energy, which appears to be ~23db greater (harvesting efficiency) than the backscatter, at the node. This is the same as something sitting between an RFID chip and the reader would.

So, the sea life near the transmitter would still have a bad time. The sea life near the nodes would see 23db more* than an active node, assuming the same power could be used to transmit from the node. Correct? This seems logical, since the energy harvesting will come at a coupling and efficiency cost, which means significantly more energy in the water at that node. If you had a battery powered node, you wouldn't need all the extra energy, and instead could just transmit.

All these numbers being thrown around are the power usage of the node, not what the sea life actually sees.

* Maybe more, since the signal path is twice as short, meaning your SNR starts higher at the midpoint (node).
My whole comment started with "IF", but you clearly just want to be argumentative rather than taking things in the spirit in which they intended. To be so gleeful and happy about whatever topic to be ignorantly, or worse, willingly to not understand that some changes have negative impacts just make you someone I do not wish to continue a conversation
Let's see. Currently out poor have it better than kings 200 years ago.

(At least in Germany)

I don't say this is fair just that it's easier for a society to increase the base level for everyone
How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated anti-capitalist Burning Man
As an American, I would love the EU to have superpower status as well, just so they would stop complaining about the US every time we fight authoritarian, undemocratic wannabe hegemons.

Please, enable Chinese military and technological superiority. The Chinese government is famously honorable and decent to western European political and social values.

To clarify, do you think it is in EU or Dutch best interests long term to have China on the leading edge of AI and computing?
This is very dubious. Unless paper bags are produced using timber from first-growth forests, growing and then cutting down the trees that were used to make them took carbon out of the atmosphere. When the paper bag decays or is burnt, they become roughly carbon neutral. But things that take carbon out of the atmosphere for a while as part of a cycle are generally good - by the time one particular paper bag has returned its carbon to the atmosphere, others have been made, and so there is some greenhouse gas reduction long term.
"Norton Commander Copyright (C) 1986 by Peter Norton"

https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/ghost-writer/

>I was ego surfing today when I came upon this link to a book “Inside the Sun386i and Sun486i” by Peter Norton and, to my great astonishment, me.

>And it turned out that I was going to have to write a 400 or so page book. For which I was going to be given, I think, a $3,000 advance against royalties. The book was going to say “By PETER NORTON” and there would be a tiny “with John Sundman” at the bottom. Norton was not required to do any writing or editing;
Mojo is available for local download
I don't think either is inherently accurate, honestly. Sometimes a low audience score is reliable, and sometimes it just means some niche crowd has gotten worked up about a particular movie and is review-bombing it.
As a scientist, I did a self-experiment to compare a vegan diet with eating meat
They're blocked in Safari
They want inroads into professional control systems / IoT / etc market. Certainly the hobbyist market can't give enough returns, but it's a hugely important funnel into the pro world.
Legally, it in some ways, it currently is.

Could Texas return to Integrated utilities, and Rate of Return based pricing? sure, but that'd be up to the legislature to deal with.

I think the current system surprisingly (even to me) works well, I think building in market incentives is probably easier than trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
I kinda understand the big movie titles. You want to get the early access and pre-screenings... So you cannot be too critical. But streaming shows? Or maybe they ban Amazon accounts...
What would a mass burn of plastics like this do to an area?
I agree but it’s incredibly hard to collaborate on this kind of projects because everyone has their own take on what should and shouldn’t be included.

Curation is still hard. Also, I personally don’t mind having different curated directories because those will reflect the taste and interests of the curator.
I happened to be stuck in a car with someone that works for recology. I can't remember the numbers that were thrown around, but they sell an impressive amount of compost, so much so that its a net win for them financially - unlike plastic recycling.
In smaller towns in Canada the rent for a 500 sq ft apartment is over $2000/month. And there is the question of jobs in these places that people supposedly can "afford".
I was surprised they are trading publicly.
> Scent of the afterlife? Scientists recreate recipe for Egyptian mummy balm

They went to a grave and took some samples ? /s
>They have over a billion people produce an order of magnitude more engineers per year than we do and print their own money

The semis industry is truly a "globalism" industry

ASML is a system integrator. It uses laser from cymer, glass from zeiss...etc.

For fab like TSMC to make chip require TSMC to develop a node process, chemicals from Japan (the trade spat between South Korea and Japan result in Samsung executes going to Japan) machine from various vendors like ASML, applied material..etc.

i don't think one country can do it all by itself. Not US, Japan, Dutch or China...etc.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/Sam...

edit:

>a billion people produce an order of magnitude more engineers per year

Is this quantity over quality? i was educated in Taiwan up to high school before i come to States. Let me tell you, the way they educated student is call "stuffing the duck". They spoon-feed you info until you're "full" (remember the answers). That kind of education does not produce Steve Jobs and the cram school is everywhere in Asia.
> Much of Europe

Single-use plastic shopping bags are banned or levied in much of Europe.
Working as designed. Won't fix.

<closes ticket "How do we reduce load">
The point is that unless a manager has an actual reason to complain about someone's performance, there is no problem. Believing urban legends about people "slacking off" while WFH just mean that manager or executive should be fired.
I'm guessing someone severely broke their site. I can't even visit https://archive.is without hitting a never-ending captcha loop.
Ivacy has been around a long time and allows it [0].

[0] https://www.ivacy.com/port-forwarding/

(They're based in Singapore)
The Texas and UK power market are actually very similar in construction and operation.
To be fair, that American ethos has diminished significantly in younger generations. However, the American ethos of abusing a good cause for political gain or private profit remains firmly in place.
Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux
Here is an article from May 2023 from the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), who are on the forefront of technology, and employ moral theologians and scientists to make sense of rapidly-changing research and medical practices.

https://www.ncbcenter.org/making-sense-of-bioethics-cms/colu...
It would make driving suck so more people would take trains.
What's new with Postgres at Microsoft in last 12 months
> To kill or imprison someone who had no choice about their actions would be unjust.

That is not the problem under discussion. The question actually sits in the definition of "choice". You seem to believe that something constitutes a (moral) choice only if the agent could do it or not without regard to its entire life of experiences up until that point. The more common notion of (moral) choice is that it constitutes any act which an agent takes without being coerced completely into it by some other agent. If my whole life up to this moment caused me to shoot you, that was a moral choice I made. If a dog bites my hand and pushes my finger into the trigger causing me to shoot you, then I didn't make a moral choice to shoot you (however, if someone is holding a knife to my throat and telling me they will kill me unless I shoot you, I'm still making a moral choice if I do so).

I should also note that laws don't typically make any mention about whether you had a choice in your actions. A related but extremely different criterion, used in insanity defenses, is whether you understood the nature of your actions at the time of committing the act. This is obviously fully compatible with a deterministic universe: I can understand the consequences of my actions even if I am fully compelled by circumstance to do them. Conversely, a person who is suffering from severe hallucinations, even in a world with strong free will, might shoot you while believing, say, that they are choosing to shoot a water gun at a painting. They made an explicit choice by any definition, but it's not a morally evil act since they didn't understand what they were actually doing.
Stock based compensation means that the value of the compensation is based on the stock market's assessment of the company's value, which may change over time.

However, the notion that any increase (or decrease) in that assessed value is the result of the work of the executive in question is almost always false. So, if the stock gains 10%, the stock-compensation gains 10% ... but non-stock compensated employees, who may have been just as responsible for the 10% gain, if not more so, likely see either no gain or a smaller one.

Stock-based compensation for any employee that is not available to all employees is just allowing the ones who receive it to free-ride on the back of the accomplishments (or failures) of the entire enterprise.
I know complaining about a site's layout and color isn't useful, but this is unreadable without reader mode for me.
> how about startups then?

The business model of a startup is to work everyone you have beyond their natural limits, this doesn't scale to an entire economy.

I know a few startups that laid off most of the revenue drivers in sales and marketing, but kept expensive founders and coders. They are on paper leaner, but not necessarily more efficient.
What a petty reason to reject someone, what sort of place filters people out based on their haircut?
That’s not the reason, it’s reputational and liability. Screen shots of Bard screaming racist language would damage Googles brand in a measurable way, even if you really like racist screaming. They provide a service to all people, and almost all people don’t like hate speech. The lesser evil is to refuse to do things that would embarrass google and diminish its brand value, even if you feel not being racist is “woke.” But it is definitely not political, even if a political party has decided to take up the mantle of defending things most people consider embarrassing or hurtful. It is a calculated business decision that protects their brand value.

On the other hand, I think I agree with the subtext behind the semantics, an unlombotomized model would let you discuss whatever topics the mainstream culture deems hurtful or embarrassing that a service provider would not allow, and that in itself is a good thing. You’re entitled to be you, even if most people strongly feel your opinions are hurtful.
I think we are here talking about organic ads (sponsorship, …etc.) not YouTube as platform ads.
For anyone else confused, RTO = "Return to Office". First thing that came to mind for me was "Recovery Time Objective."
First Mullvad Browser, now this. Mullvad's been making moves. Love to see it.
I think the vision was just that it was baller
> Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

Extinguish.
Shame you have to pay double if you want to use Mullvad inside and outside Tailscale.

I hope they work on integrating the services both ways so I can bring my Mullvad account number over.
If government was serious about plastic pollution reduction, they would force the bottled beverage industry to go back to glass. Otherwise, it's just political window dressing.

Coca Cola pollutes the environment with every product they make. Go after them, not the human just trying to carry groceries home.
> The Swedish national police attempted to search Mullvad once, but since there was no data to seize they left empty handed.

They were just unprepared. There was plenty of data to seize, but it was in RAM. They just needed the right equipment to do a cold boot attack [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

[1] https://wootconference.org/papers/woot23-paper3.pdf
Assume I get 4 reuses out of a paper bag, and I use 4 bags per week. I don’t think I could replace 4 bags worth of paper per month that I would have bought otherwise.
AtariAge and Atari
Misleading title. Grindr is likely trying to remove everyone who was talking about unionizing and doesn't think they got enough of them in the first round of constructive firing measures.
>AI risk is a spectacularization of a new source of wealth

Only if society allows the use of AIs that have been trained on content for which they didn't have the legal rights to use for that purpose (basically theft).
I think the picture isn't supposed to imply she's going to shoot herself, she's just holding a gun and she doesn't care that she's doing it in an unsafe way because she's an actor and it's a prop gun.
Being that the job market is currently favoring employers over employees, I'd say they'll likely have no trouble finding new staff that has no problem with working in the office. They still have enough staff to get the new folks trained up. This would have hurt them a few years ago, but not now.
> Staffing is the “single biggest cost” after fees paid to app distribution platforms like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to Arison.

This is a hilarious quote. It's a software company! What other major costs are there besides the staff to make and manage the software? I think I even find it a little disturbing that fees paid to Apple and Google are higher than salary paid to staff.
I was told by someone who works for the waste district. Admittedly it's unverified, but he said the only stuff that is reliably recycled are the aluminum cans and steel. The market for plastics and other materials is usually such that it's cheaper to just dump it.
> I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance

The employees were planning to unionize, and the RTO plan "conveniently" came up right at that time. These are pretty classic union-busting techniques.

I'm actually pretty nervous for users from a security perspective. The Grindr data is essentially a blackmail gold mine - combine a ton of disgruntled employees with the loss of expertise to maintain app security (which had a number of issues in the past), and I don't think it bodes well.
Buried lede. The RTO requirement was in response to the staff attempting to unionize. Either retaliation or a clever method to clear out the workers who were most in favour of the union without breaking labour laws.
The headline says 'plastic recycling' whereas the GP's claim was about recycling and yard waste in general.
In practice, the maintenance side eats up far more man-hours than the R&D side.

Every software project has a shelf life except for a handful of very low-level ones that have survived the ages.

All projects need maintenance until they reach their deprecation date.
A thing that doesn't usually change (although it is not unheard of) is the number of floors in a building.

If I were to design a modern elevator interface I'd probably go with backlit physical push buttons and small screens next to it.

This way you can communicate disabled floors, what you find on each floor, etc. The push button light (brightness and color) can be used to indicate the current floor.

The push buttons still need braille for the floor number tho.
This is an interesting post and somewhat more technical and informed than many Wayland rants, however, it's worth knowing that in 2022, some of the problems that it describes have already been solved. For example, fractional scaling is now supported.
I took an entire box of IKEA plastic bags years ago, they had those nice thick plastic bags. I used those for years.
"unpopular", "one term", etc.
Oh never stop HN. I should never use anything except 30 year old gnu tools because they've definitely never gone through development lulls, or changed ownership. Etc. "They'll still work in years", as if exa doesn't still work just fine. People here just say the stupidest shit without an ounce of consideration of how ignorant it is.
Which ones of those fonts are best for reading on a CRT screen? Considering software has a lot of text, like a text adventure.
Not to make money? Is that true in the US? London UK does just that. In toto, the London Councils (2018-2019) took in more than 700 million pounds and spent around 270 million running the service.
Having side projects in other tech could only help
There's a ton of metalwork techniques that don't require heat at all. Some can even be done with only a few hand tools. I started with Chainmail when I was 14. If you're not coiling the wire to make the rings yourself, you can make a ton of things with only two pairs of pliers.

I highly recommend one of those pairs be parallel pliers.
So how do you leave the "others" for garbage collection if you're not using bags?
I reuse produce bags, ziplocks, sandwich bags, and the like by rinsing them lukewarm water and hanging up to dry, occasionally using a bit of soap as needed. It's a bit of a hassle and there is a likelihood that I am exposing my food to more microplastics via direct contact as the bags get worn from use and washing. I have no clue how quickly the bags start breaking down, it probably varies due to numerous factors. I wish there were more and better options for silicone, beeswax coated muslin, etc as alternatives. Unfortunately plain cotton bags don't keep veggies from wilting otherwise I'd go for that.

I've got a pair of giant silicone bags for this purpose but the shape and thickness means they can't hold many veggies, take up more space than they should, and are generally unwieldy. They were also $20 each, which seems a bit high (I assume because they are a specialty item in a niche market). Come on free market, solve this problem for me so I can ditch single-use plastics!