skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a Plastic Emissions Index for measuring which products are responsible for the broad environmental pollution upstream, with textiles, tires, packing, and other contributors ranked extremely poorly / highly.

And you need a Plastic Ingestion Index for ranking foods and consumables that are more directly ingested as well.
Fossy 2023 with Richard Littauer
I'm yet to read a positive review on Snap, and while traditionally speaking I would just go with the flow, I can only tell that my experience with the Snapcraft has been infuriating. I simple cannot make the product work for me because my bandwidth is too limited, and unreliable. I struggle to install anything from Snapcraft... I know what you're thinking "that's your problem, buddy", and I partially agree, but sometimes I wish these decisions would consider a bit more than your average city slicker! (same story with Apple, always a struggle to keep a connection going to their servers)
And where the workaround is "have the humans not forget to do something" no less...
AWS will not do this. I've heard of Azure doing this more than once. GCP I have no idea but if something does happen on GCP good luck talking to a human, better luck them not just telling you that you did something wrong.
The majority of those government hires were locals, so you get part of your preference.

To get the rest, you'd need to come up with an alternative for people who don't have others who personally care for them, or know them, or are invested in their lives.
Re-read my post. I am saying cardio is needed if HR isn't below 70bpm. Being concise for clarity, not to be rude.
abstra is awesome!
I suppose you'd have to prove that they knew the algorithm was bad. They'll just say "we're trying our best, but it's hard". And the truth is that it probably is hard. The question is whether knowing that your algorithm is imperfect is equivalent to intent to harm.
> these new front-line drones have changed warfare forever.

Beyond true. I'm in a telegram of the Ukraine war and there is so much drone footage of them literally dropping bombs on the heads of Russians, it is insane. All of this caught on 4k video.

There is one video of a guy sitting in the dirt... he's pointing at the drone to show where his friend is... drone bombs the friend, right on the head... and then comes back and bombs him. I'd link it here, but I think it is just too extreme for this site.
I think it’s part of humans success. When part or parts of society decide differently this gives us an element of diversity, which overall I think makes us stronger.

If humans blindly followed all authority I don’t think we would be where we are today. We might all be praying to some weird god and offering our first born as sacrifice.

Basically even at a cost, we need people who don’t follow the masses and rebel. Some die, some cause death and others discover the world is not flat, or that earth is not the center of the universe.
I've considered more than once stocking up on good condition used 13 minis, just in case mine breaks or apple stops replacing the batteries
People are people! Precision at its best!
Nah , It would be easier and cheaper just to stick tiny regular cameras everywhere.
> Yasser Arafat's letter…

Very good, now you can make your point about your dismissal of the real map in the real logo of the real PLO which shows no place for Israel while you have brought some school map as argument in the first place portraying it as ‘typical map’ which turned out to be map for children of 2nd and 3rd grades from one book and was 1 of 10 maps in some post in quora that clearly stating that children are exposed to variety of maps according to their age (https://www.quora.com/What-borders-does-Israel-show-in-maps-...).

to avoid duplicating it’s summarised here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38831687
Honestly a bit surprised on that one, usually things like that get handled.

Then again, modern moderation is provided by the most bargain basement person or AI capable (and as it moves to AI it will be amusing in a horrifying way how people get around it).
> Can you code a million games per day?

Is there a market for thousands of custom games per hour? Games designed without clear design goals or quality control? Games where the player is the alpha tester for mechanics generated with no guarantee of consistency or even functionality?

It's like our modern mobile game landscape, but worse. I find such vision somewhat revolting, tbh.
After some searching I found a patent I think may be related to this https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020225109A1/en because it uses the phrase "Holocam", is German and was filed by Audi (the press release mentions automotive applications as the primary initial use case). It's a translation from German which makes it a bit tougher to parse than the usual patent.

The total lack of any deeper information beyond the bold yet vague claims in the press release is frustrating. The PR makes it sound like a miraculous breakthrough destined to change everything. The source release on the Zeiss site only adds two bits of info.

> "The transparency of the holographic layer has only a minimal effect on the brilliance of the image reproduction. It is also possible to detect spectral components as additional information to complement the visible image. The resulting data provide insights into environmental contamination such as air pollution and UV exposure."

However, experience shows that in reality bold+vague claims like this inevitably come with significant trade-offs and constraints which limit its applications (little things like cost, power, fidelity, size, speed, etc). This is especially true in early implementations of new tech. That said, it may still be both interesting and useful. Unfortunately, we have no way to even think about how it might be useful because Zeiss marketing has chosen to play 'hide the ball' instead of just releasing a technical explainer outlining relevant trade-offs, limitations, etc.

If I was talking to someone from Zeiss my first questions would be about how much the additional components impact the optical characteristics of the glass, what the resolution of the resulting image data is, how large are the components needed at the edges and how far away can they be from the capture zone? Then, of course, how the output of the resulting imaging system maps into traditional camera/lens metrics like f-stops, aperture, imager size/density, gain, focal length, etc. Zeiss is an optics company after all.
This is the entire Amazon store page for me.
The link in your earlier post seems dead, but if we're talking about Nordea specifically (coincidentally, I have worked there many years ago), partial IT outsourcing has always been an option, it has had thousands of external IT consultants, it has used a number of core systems from external vendors in its many banks (in such multinational organizations it's often not that simple to draw boundaries where a department or region or acquisition is often doing things differently with different systems or processes), it had a very large strategic outsourcing deal to IBM in 2017-2019ish, etc.

If you're extremely skeptical that the Swedish government would be OK with handing over the keys to their economic kingdom to cheap digital labor abroad so a company might save some money, then you need to re-evaluate your mental model, because that is definitely happening in reality. They may impose some legal limitations - the exact same limitations as towards any other bank - but they generally act as a normal minority shareholder, demanding the company to be cost-efficient and maximizing profit even if it means outsourcing and offshoring.
Should last as long as Mac's Touchbar
I assume this is a rhetorical question?
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To generalize, systems (and local networks) were not constantly connected. Even “internet-connected” could mean just the ability to exchange data when requested by user or at regular intervals with some other system, maybe even only over certain protocols (like mail), instead of “always online”.

Imagine the pyramid: the amount of time user was interactively connected to some network service — the amount of time user was in front of (any) computer system — the rest of life activities.

Fully featured mail clients, news clients, FidoNet clients had many options to quickly mark message chains for download or export, and deal with them offline later. You could even dump all those updates to a floppy, give it to a modem-less user, then transfer replies for upload through the same “floppynet”. Communities also collected all kinds of FAQs for users to grab first and study offline before wasting time.

Similar solutions were needed for periods spent away from keyboard. If you were on a trip in a different city, you would have all the directions printed or simply written down instead of taking the computer with you.

Some documents were simply more usable when printed than when displayed screen-by-screen in text mode or low resolution. Some services/protocols did not implement live text search, and a glance at paper copy could be easier and faster. Later example of server-side state updates over slow channel is the existence of dedicated normal and print modes in old forum software. By default, a small number of messages is shown on each page to prevent long wait times for each page on dial-up. People who are sure they want to save or print the whole thread can choose much longer page that lacks online-oriented design features.
Just watched that and both of us couldn’t contain it either:)
Are there any numbers on how many megapixels the camera is, and how many DPI the display is? (What are the upper bounds for these over time?)

The demo looks greyscale, and super low res and low FPS.
Apple needs to face criminal penalties for the dark patterns with which they prey upon their users.
I do this too, I write scripts, and one-file apps that solve issues that only I think I have. Like I've been running an InternetReachable.swift [1] manually at the CLI for months to have a nice visualization of when my internet connection is not actually working. I travel a lot by train, and some regions have spotty 3G. I got tired of looking at `ping 1.1.1.1` output lines until the connection came back.

But for whatever reason I get the urge to polish the thing, make a pretty icon for it and publish it in the hope that others might also have the same weird specific need as me. That script above just turned into an app called IsThereNet : https://lowtechguys.com/istherenet

I'm not sure why, but I get a little dopamine hit when I see people learning a thing or two from my experiments. I guess that's why we still do the kind of open source that doesn't ask for money.

[1] https://gist.github.com/alin23/e15b6ffc62a85790096f0228c54fd...
> I'm learning how to not offend while getting my point across

Yup and you'll find that your point gets across much better once you develop the habit of sanding off the sharp edges. The latter scratch the reader and then draw all the attention and energy, meaning your actual point gets lost. Not all readers react that way, but the ones who do will be more likely to get activated into commenting, and discussion quality suffers greatly.

There's an interesting phenomenon I've noticed: sometimes when people are replying to a moderator comment, they explain what they were trying to say in the first place. Often this 'second take' is a clearer and more neutral explanation. That's how I read your second paragraph there.

HN comments don't have to be completely neutral in every way—that would be a bit bland if not robotic—but it's a good idea to err on that side if you're unsure of how you're coming across. Over time you can develop the habit of not coming across as aggressive, and then you can gradually make your comments more colorful if you want to.
I don't want snap, ever. It is really annoying to have to disable it on Ubuntu. I don't think it would be as bad if they didn't hijack apt to install what they think should be a snap.
It’s really cool that you’re doing this for yourself… but reading this also makes me kinda sad that solitaire gets flooded with ads.
Apple does use Swift in their IDE, Xcode. Several years ago they rewrote the text editor component in Swift. It’s taken them a while to get all the features back that the old one had, and has had a fair amount of bugs as well. I often wonder why they didn’t just leave it in ObjC and add the new features they wanted to add, like the minimap or sticky declaration heaters.

I definitely wouldn’t call Swift a 10x improvement in efficiency, and I like coding in Swift. I do advent of code in it each year, but spend a fair amount of time just fighting with the compiler–after all these years, it still emits strange or just flat out incorrect diagnostics.
The snooze key/process quits working, and it just keeps beeping until you complete the turning the app off process.. probably. (Not OP)
John Oliver did a whole bit on the FDA recently. They are very stringent and professional, but massively underresourced for the amount of ground they have to cover. And they spend most of their resources on drugs and far less on food.

https://youtu.be/Za45bT41sXg?si=LiW1DD4hGJAT5OOh
A DSL lib is a subset of “all possible function libs” and there is no such thing as a function library which is a host language primitive by definition. You can’t be a primitive of a language if you’re implemented in a library for that language.
Yeah, but nothing he said supports the idea of having rules applied automatically unless they configure rubocop. Everything he said supports an opt-in methodology (and maybe it will be, by requiring a flag when starting a new project), but putting every programmer and team in a place where they have to configure rubocop on their rails projects is counter to the tone and points he makes in the article.
Make a native command line wrapper. No one wants to type java -jar
People care. At the individual level. In the abstract. But there are two obstacles that keep them from doing the right thing.

One is that without discoverability of those docs (in a non-legal sense ;) it's a doomed effort, because ... there are too many docs. Even if everything is woefully underdocumented, it's still too much to just find the right thing. (There are simultaneously too few docs in most orgs, so the corpus you could train search on is too small to be truly impactful for any ML solution).

The second missing part is a set of clear expectations that folks do this, and rewards if it's done exceptionally well. Or, really, a culture around document, though these two are the skeleton you hang a culture off. And if that culture doesn't exist, most people will not write docs - the org is sending a clear signal it doesn't value them, and it takes a lot of effort to do things you know won't be rewarded or valued.

The second one looks like people don't care. But really, it's leadership sending a clear signal of "Please don't care, this is not important to us".
Sure, but the content of Bluey is not going to understandable to a 2 year old. I would guess 3 is when some basic understanding starts, but 3.5 to be safe.

In my experience, below 3.5 or so, more sing song-y and basic repetitious stuff is digestible. Bluey episodes have a plot and lots of dialogue that has to be followed.
I recently have been building in Swift and indeed this seems to be the case. It's endlessly frustrating. Also privatizing variables seems to be quite aggressive in standard libraries and I often find myself wanting to use that internal stuff.
"McDonald-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money." Such a travesty that a once great engineering company is now a bean-counting corner-cutting garbage culture. They just never learn.
Passing larger objects by value is allowed or even encouraged if it lets you avoid a copy (e.g. if you’re about to move the object)
> Three Franklins and three Jacksons per year + whatever for an external drive for your offsite backups.

I know you're just following the theme set by the parent commenter, but there are a bunch of us folk on HN who aren't US residents, and have no idea how much those presidents mean in terms of currency.
because apple won't let me make phone calls on my ipad
I'm pretty bummed a lot of people left because of their hate for Elon (or support of their friends who hate Elon). What I'm still looking for is what exactly he did that drove the people away? Was it just the layoffs and his personality? The site seems to be operating mostly the same.
Oh, yes, install Windows 11 with these simple steps.

Honestly if I have to open PowerShell and mess with the registry just to install an ad-full upgrade of my OS, I'd rather install Gentoo. At least I'll learn more and won't get ads by building from scratch.
1 social demerit.
Because everyone loves brand marketing on their keyboards...

Microsoft would incur far less wrath if they would stop letting their marketing department run their company.
> Money can buy many of the things, and if it doesn’t, then the fault is ours.

Yes. Get rid of some of the fluff, and it is more plainly correct.
However, that second comma is extraneous.
We briefly looked at it. We decided to just move everything to Ubuntu. It's been a lot of work, and taken a lot of time, but ultimately we feel that it's been worth it. Ubuntu isn't without it's own problems but we're much happier today and feel that we're more future-proof for it.
Hmm hope this isn’t the version that mixes in web results and web advertisements into its AI response. Hope it’s not limited to certain number of back and forth responses and essentially sanitized and neutered.
> Also it influences your lifestyle. Impromptu camping etc is not a concern.

My friends and I go improptu camping on a Volvo V60 in Sweden all the time. You don't need a truck to go camping.
Guess they're worried the public is already forgetting the previous MAX crashes so they're preparing for the next "PR campaign".
Honestly, my initial reaction to this was my typical jaded, cynical, anti-MS self, but after consideration - and the key fact that they're replacing a key, not adding one necessitating a new layout - I'm honestly okay with this. does anyone use the menu key (the key that allegedly this will replace)? It's certainly one of the first to go in enthusiast keyboards using non standard 100% layouts, As long as it's not some stupid propreitary implementation and can be remapped to something useful for those of us not interested in a copilot hotkey, I'm fine with this.

Sidenote, what do people do for push to talk, because if I can disable the copilot trigger and just make this a PTT key then that's great, but I suspect a proper PTT button is one those things everyone else has solved and I've just been under a rock.

EDITED for clarity
Are you working in TextKit 2 or TextKit 1?

What is your flow for accommodating new OS changes (some being quite dramatic)? Do you make list of broken things and new opportunities, then devise a complete solution? Or do you address them incrementally?

Great write up. Thank you.
It feels really crummy to be accused and convicted of an "offense" by an algorithm, especially without any recourse.

I once had my account with a major cloud provider terminated for "violating our terms of service". After contacting support, they then claimed that someone had gained access to my credentials.

What evidence did they have? None. I just updated a VM's metadata too frequently (about once a minute). This tripped an ML model, which caused them to automatically terminate my account and send an automated email saying that I had been a bad boy.

This took down a key part of my business for about 5 hours (while I navigated my way through layers of customer support and ultimately temporarily moved this functionality to another cloud provider). Customers were not happy.

It took about 2 weeks and multiple support tickets for the full story to come out. I got them to refund a few months of charges (amounted to several hundred dollars at the time) and restore my account. There was never any recognition that they made a mistake.

I get that companies need to resort to automated means to handle fraud or abuse. But they should also own up to it, add some humility in their automated outreach to customers ("our automated system has detected possible X" instead of "you are guilty"), provide clear escalation paths to talk to a human, and provide a way to "shield" your account (identity verification, upfront deposit of $X, etc) that forces them to contact you before any enforcement action.

In my case, I upgraded to a paid support plan ($100+ per month) in the hopes that their system will be a little less trigger happy with my account in the future. I don't use support at all, it's purely a lame form of insurance that may or may not actually protect against anything.
And they said the antichrist isn't real.
It's kind of incredible for a person to be aware of surveillance capitalism and also store "151 thousand emails" unencrypted on a third party server.

The same emails could be routinely downloaded offline for archiving and removed from possible prying eyes elsewhere.
But the rate of consumption of cigarettes has declined in the past 100 years, likely due to public awareness of the health risks. I'm willing to wager as more people realize addiction to social media is against their best interests, companies/governments/people will make changes. We're kind of already seeing that.
> aren't they all important?

Not really. Some dikes protect millions, some protect a vilage, and some protect only a handful of people. The Netherlands is currently experiencing minor flooding, and a dike failure in Maastricht led to a dozen house boats needing to be evacuated.

> see what happens come morning

There really isn't anything else you can do. Natural disasters are unpredictable, and the situation can drastically change from hour to hour. When your country is prone to this kind of threat, it'll have dozens of scenarios worked out, planned, and practiced. It's mostly a matter of grabbing the right playbook, working like hell, and hoping it doesn't get worse. If it does get worse, you simply grab the next playbook and carry on.
Strangely enough, there seem to be a lot of hidden references and callbacks in Bluey.

Just one source I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/ipi4ft/a_thread_for_...
No. That would be monoculture farming.
A more apt comparison would be alcohol vs illegal drugs.

Coffee vs meth or heroin does even come close to ringing true. What are the individual or societal costs to consuming coffee? Both approach zero.
I've been writing code for more than a decade almost every day. The pros for learning vim is not about writing code fast, it's about streamlining it. I do not want what I'm doing interrupted by moving the cursor with arrows keys or using the mouse. That's why people put hours into configuring their emacs setups. Not for speed, but to resolve annoyances.
> If there are food shortages coming down the pike, as many keep predicting[1], perhaps this isn't such a loss for India and the world

Indian agriculture is inefficient, coming in for total-factor productivity alongside Malta and Azerbaijan [1]. That's fine, it runs its sector as a jobs programme. But it means this increase in agricultural labour is unlikely to materially increase production.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-agricul...
The original Pokemon games (Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green in JPN) were also full of notorious programming idiosyncrasies and glitches. I'm not sure how safely you could insert new data into the game without poking the bear too much.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_(Ge...

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_battle_glitc...

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_overworld_gl...

The 1/256 glitch is a fan favorite because to this day it still fucks over people who play Gen 1 competitive PvP battles.