skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article that seems to paint a contrasting picture. https://archive.is/BCd0w

"Commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance, the report acknowledges that the total number of plastic bags declined by 60% since the ban—as its backers hoped. But because shoppers still had to carry their groceries home, they needed alternatives. Mostly that meant switching from the thin plastic film bags to the heavier, reusable bags now sold in many supermarkets.

The problem is that most of these alternative bags are made of non-woven polypropylene, which takes much more plastic to make and isn’t widely recycled. And what about the supposed climate benefits? Well, the study finds that, owing to the larger carbon footprint of the heavier, non-woven polypropylene bags, greenhouse gas emissions rose 500%.
The problem is compounded by the way people use these bags. Though intended to be reused many times, the report says 90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times. So they are piling up in landfills and homes. Think of your own behavior in misplacing bags around the house or forgetting to bring them when heading out for groceries."
This provides yet another reason for a FOSS phone platform.
Requesting Desktop Website also works.
Yes, I meant to say “uninhabitable”
This sounds great, but there’s just something about a shopping experience with plastic bags that just warms my heart. Life is a human experience, and localities shouldn’t legislate away all the fun.
Backblaze is 6$/TB/month with no egress fee, and are a well established company with a good reputation:

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

I'm surprised the don't come up more in a discussion about backup storage.
I also have experienced various delays related to my cpap machine. I wonder how much of this debacle is because people in the know knew that this was coming, and therefore intentionally delayed anything to do with cpaps.
I really like the sights and sounds section on your website
That's been covered here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587923
You are describing moral outrage. The other poster is talking about what academics associate with the fight or flight instinct.

I agree with the other poster anger and other extreme emotions are usually negatively correlated with long term success. Extreme emotions engages our primal brain which prevents our more advanced brain from engaging.
> Subjects were randomized to receive 25 g protein (25PRO), 100 g protein (100PRO), or a placebo (0PRO) following a single bout of resistance-type exercise.

Wait, so the 25g protein group didn't even get to match the 100g group on calories, while we _know_ insulin response to carbs+protein is much higher than from either alone? This seems like a junk study
And if your goal is to eliminate a specific type of plastic bag, that's great! It's also a stupid goal.

if your goal is to eliminate plastic, or fossil fuel emissions, I'm not convinced these bans have been effective.
Show HN: Anonymous iOS Message Board
A decade of SPA-only web development ruined an entire generation of web devs
Show HN: A review after using Rust on embedded in production for over a year
It might not matter in the extreme case as there could always be a sufficiently serious emergency that will force their hand to bypass every policy. e.g. if they get a National Security Letter.
Oddly enough nuclear rockets aren't particularly powerful and tend to be extremely heavy. Their strength is that they're highly efficient, so they can just keep going with relatively little fuel. Chemical rockets, by contrast, tend to be extremely high power but also extremely inefficient. Here's a few comparisons:

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NERVA [1] / Nuclear / 1969 / 246kN thrust / 18,000 kg mass, 841s ISP (seconds of specific impulse - higher is better/more efficient, a little is a lot) / The only completed possibly launch viable nuclear rocket engine, as far as I know.

F-1 [2] / Chemical / 1959 / 7,770kN thrust, 8,400 kg mass, 263s ISP / Powered the Apollo rockets

Merlin [3] / Chemical / 2007 / 981kN thrust, 470 kg mass, 282s ISP / Powers the SpaceX Falcon 9 in a group of 9

Raptor [4] / Chemical / ?? / 2,640kN thrust, 1,600 kg mass / 327s ISP / Powers the SpaceX Starship in a group of 33

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So what really matters in a rocket, for getting off Earth, is its thrust to weight ratio. NERVA isn't inefficient because it's dated (which was part of the reason I included the F-1), but simply because nuclear itself has an inherently poor thrust to weight ratio. However it just keeps going and going and going, which makes it absolutely awesome for travel once you're already in space.

It's even "fast" in space, because of how travel in space works. You don't just keep thrusting in space; instead you make a limited burn and then coast to where you're going, making a final reversal burn towards the end. So even if it takes hundreds of times as as long to reach a higher cruising velocity, it'll end up getting to the destination long before a chemical rocket, for any sufficiently distant destination.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
I suppose it's for the best, but I really miss the vibe and community around mono, running .Net on linux in 2008 was such a good time.
A cable doesn't have the bandwidth of chip to chip so it will be have to serialized/deserialized or decoded etc.
I wouldn't say irrational. They are inexperienced. They don't know the risks, and they don't know what they are risking with some kind of behavior.

If you place someone who never set foot outside of a major urban center and place them in a forest, they will do a lot of stupid things that can get them killed. If you take someone who always lived in a temperate climate and place them in either subzero temperatures then they won't even know what to wear without risking at least frostbite. If you place them in a hot environment they won't even know they are risking their life with heatstroke or dehydration.
Using drugs as such isn't a crime, you're hurting nobody but yourself. An addict may steal to feed their habit, but it's their theft that's the crime, not having shot up that morning. It's clear that the act of taking drugs, however hard, is victimless.

The enforcement of laws against victimless crimes attracts bullies to the police force, and that's a huge problem. As bad, if not worse, than the damage done by petty thieves feeding their habit. Because now we have a culture where the drugs are a crime worth breaking into strangers' homes, guns a-blazin', to punish and prosecute. And it's hard to convince the public and the lawmakers to reverse course when the common argument is that people should be able to do drugs if they want to, or that maybe some are ok because they aren't as hard, etc.
In defense of the late resistive touch screen
The iPhone changed everything forever. The stylus was a thing of the past; now, one could simply use their finger without any need for pressure or effort. The capacitive touchscreen was intuitive in ways most people had never even considered. Gone were the days of the missing stylus, the finnicky dance of using your fingernail to poke at miniscule UI elements seemingly designed for office PCs. Unfortunately, this spelled the end for most forms of precise pen input in general.

In the past, when you had a device with touch input, it was taken for granted that you could touch a pixel on your display and expect exactly that pixel to light up. You didn't need a fancy active stylus, anything with a soft plastic tip would do fine. Multitouch was unthinkable, but inputs were responsive and did exactly what you told them to, every time. Now, if you need this functionality, your options are expensive proprietary solutions such as Wacom, Apple Pencil, or Samsung S Pen. There are some free solutions such as USI pen input, but between anemic device support and lackluster critic and consumer reviews, citing issues such as poor latency, connectivity issues, and subpar software support, it hardly seems like a legitimate option.

Not too long ago, a piece of plastic stowed away in the side of your device was enough. Every application on this sort of device was designed to work perfectly with this interface, and you could always count on it to perform. This post is not meant to disparage capacitive screens; I understand that for the majority of today's applications they are in fact better. But I do believe there is still a place for resistive touch devices in our digital culture.
It's a bit of that, but it's not only that. Some things of the Amiga we still don't have in modern computers.
Only if said plastic bags are used as trash bags and incinerated.
Covid revealed a lot of things. Essential workers discovered they were disposable. That the rich would lock them into their jobs and out of public parks and spaces to protect themselves. Then to add insult to injury prices on all basic goods went up 30% so yeah poor people are angry and they are driving like they got nothing to loose. There is basically no hope of owning a house for anyone in the bottom 70% who doesn’t own one by now either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Gap by Charlie Stross features this kind of concept.
I likewise have a fairly sunny perspective of Apple development, I even like XCode (since SwiftUI, at least… could never get the hang of Interface Builder).

But the fact that he got in to work on a music app is illuminating. The Apple audio APIs are an absolute mess. Media Player, AVPlayer, Core Audio, AVFoundation, AVAudioEngine… it's like competing teams dating all the way back to NeXT kept writing their own libs and somehow they all persisted through the iPhone era.

I spent about three months of the COVID lockdown trying to make a Shoutcast/Icecast player, it was excruciating.
The story distinctly says the sea monster uses a pouch for small kids, so they wouldn't have to fear it as they get older if that part is explained
I'm going to write about my own experience starting a B2C SaaS.

I think it is much easier to build something complex in a short amount of time now than before. For example, you can use something like modal.com and have a very powerfull AI backend very fast, and you only pay when your services are active so you don't need to have deep pockets at the start. It was much harder (and expensive) just a couple of years ago.

On the other hand, this means there are much more people building things now than before, so it's much harder to stand out.

But the most important thing, I think, has always been your personal situation: do you have the luxury to dedicate your time to something that might not even work out in the end?
Lol! I can't tell if that design is a parody. That's seriously the best they came up with?
Hi! Author of this short post here. Thanks so much for this comment. It's been 'on my list' to do a much longer post on Control Data and Seymour Cray for quite a while. This has convinced me to bump it up the list!
> One would think that of all the leetcode certified staff…

I’m sure they left shortly after finding out all they’ll actually be doing is putting fields in structs and waiting on CI/CD to see if it worked.
I figured out how to build chromium with -Oz in guix:

In chromium.scm, I edited

(cons "--enable-custom-modes"
,flags))))))

into

(cons "--enable-custom-modes -Oz"
,flags))))))
Fwiw, the analogous logic in musl libc[1] uses log_ident set to the empty string if openlog() was called with NULL ident[2]. It also formats twice to buf[1024] without checking that the first format's length isn't in excess of the stack buffer but that's likely always safe given how short the stuff printed in the first format is.

[1]: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/misc/syslog.c#n...

[2]: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/misc/syslog.c#n...
Superficial is good in this case. One of the worst things about plastic bags is that they end up wrapped around every roadside bush in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America.

I’ve never seen one of those beefy reusable carrier bags blowing around on the side of a road.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...

Single use plastic may be more friendly environmentally.
Microsoft fucked themselves hard having basically no upgrade path from legacy ASP.Net Framework to what there is now.

It basically dead ended the large million line app that ran the company I worked for and forced a costly rewrite away from Microsoft. Though many parts of it still exist today, still on 4.8.

For a company, Microsoft, that prizes backward compatibility and typically provides good upgrade paths, I felt very betrayed having trusted them as our platform.
The Last of the First: The Magnavox Odyssey 500
Maybe if you're only looking at the environmental impact angle. From a utility angle paper bags don't handle moisture well, the handles aren't as strong, and are more bulky than plastic bags.
problem is you can't sell them.
spearphaking?
Not even new ways, just old ways repackaged and reorganized based on a developer’s ability to get 15 minutes of fame.
No please check Alipay/aliexpress for prices. You can also get usb keys nowadays for 32TB or more for less than USD 10. Maybe they are mostly scams, but if I were to extrapolate from price trends of a few years back when I bought drives more regularly either these prices are possible soon or we hit tech barriers I’m curious about.
Vanilla OS: maybe the future of Linux on the desktop
All the evidence point towards the GP's goal being more realistic than fixing just that intermediate step.
> Why wish for people to be imprisoned?

Because they're the disposable element of the population who does hit-and-run accidents.
By the time enough people had a 486 to play games, Amigas were faster than a 7 MHz 68000 and had more RAM as well. You are unfairly comparing a 1988 computer to a 1993 PC, you might as well be comparing C64 to a PS5. Apples and oranges. A 1988 PC couldn't do it as well as a 1993 PC either.

Amigas by then also had the AGA chipset which could do 256 colours from a palette of 16.7 million colors. Your memories seem to be out of sync.

Lots of Amigas in 1993 had hard drives. Your comment is a really poorly researched.

The Amiga had a GPU which could throw pixels around without the CPU needing to do much, but for 3D games, lots of floating point calculations had to be made. The Motorola CPUs often didn't have FPUs while the 486 had it built into every one. The 486 came out at just the right time for Doom to be workable.

Commodore failed to get the AAA chipset done because Irving Gould defunded the R&D department years before.
Apple would be free to work on "more elegant" common standards instead of trying to force people into their ecosystem by using proprietary garbage, which then has to be forbidden by the EU yet again.
Same concept with more charitable framing: Apple has built an ecosystem where users don’t want to mess with tech and are willing to pay for value.

But yeah, there is no morality here, it’s just business.
I went through the same experience as the author. What put the nail in the coffin of my 1200 cca 1995 was not Doom, but Comanche [1]

The incredible 3D graphics were just too much and I caved in. PCs were getting faster while my 1200 could not keep up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--FbZZlUvM
You left out that they lock down anything that isn't those things. I tried developing an app of my own on macOS, not using Swift and their tools, and it's a huge pain. They have deprecated and version locked OpenGL for no other reason than to push their own tools. Trying to just get an external DLL to load was nearly impossible. Anything cross-platform needs to be converted down to their tooling, such as Vulkan to Metal. MacOS is even more of anomaly and special case than all the Linux distributions.

It's crazy how much easier development on Windows is. And Microsoft's is almost all cross-platform. None of those things you mentioned allow you to work in a platform agnostic manner. Whereas Windows supports their own stuff like DirectX but still allows direct running of Vulkan, OpenGL, etc.
A culture of fear and mindless subservience has strong social rules. Would it work there?
Depending on the age/location, this is most likely life or death (e.g. a toddler falling into freezing cold water), probably growing to an age where the fear can be understood more rationally is a better outcome than doing nothing losing a child.
AGA was much too little, too late. The premier AGA model, the A1200, even shipped without even a sliver of FASTRAM, making all programs compete for cycles with the graphics chipset. An Amiga games with even, say, 64 kbytes of FASTRAM could have put compute code in there at twice the speed and even made use of the (rudimentary) instruction cache of the 68020. The A1200 was welcome and I loved it but it was a half-assed attempt and it showed.
Yeah, unless you bypassed the bounds checking with unsafe{} for performance reasons. (The is an unlikely place to do so.)
I used to be interested in Cyberdecks that packed essential compute and comms in a small rugged form factor. Now I realize the term means small cool-looking fully-functional possibly impractical prop. I like these too but more as an observer than user.

I like the exoframe of this one--it's like a laptop with eye level screen.
ASCII was often 7-bits on these machines, since you could efficiently pack 5 characters in one word.

But C used 9-bits for chars, for better compatibility between word and char pointers.
The Amiga 1200 was certainly a gaming target and it was out for 2 years before they went bankrupt. There are quite a few AGA games for it.
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-4

Fill it out correctly and your employers will do the right thing.
I think there is a disconnect between huge tech developers like these two and many of your rank and file devs. My whole career has been building internal apps for hundreds of people to use.

I think it's only fair that people might bristle at added complexity and a whole new paradigm to solve problems they don't have and I don't know why big tech devs like this guy have to get so personal and insulting about it. especially when the react guys played a huge role in creating the spa dominant front end eco system.
The general shift to infrastructure-as-code is tied to a number of new trends and requirements:

1) Code review (config code can be reviewed by humans)

2) Automated pre-submit checks (config code can passed through automated pre-submit checks - such as preventing huge changes, or giving you a nice diff to look at

3) Auditability / history-tracking (you can look at the history of a config file to see who, when, why changes were made - this may even be necessary for compliance reasons)

4) De-duplication (you can extract common components into templates/functions - this supports variation across envs/regions/customers and repetition across tasks/machines/DBs)

All of these features help build large-scale systems in modern corporate environments.
That's so Reddit, this here is Hacker News.
More context: this was a Flash game that was popular in my social group 15 years ago. In that version, you started on level 1 and had to clear X obstacles to move to the next level. Then when you cleared X obstacles on level 9 you won the game. (I don't remember what X was, specifically.) You had five lives across all levels and when you crashed out the fifth time, you had to start over on level 1.

This modern remake seems to pop you into level 9 with practically infinite obstacles and just one life. Makes sense since most people who got good ended up fairly consistently reaching the end of the game. I'm sure they would have wanted to play only level 9 and compare with each other how far they could get.
Yeah Seattle I see so many people driving without plates now. Lack of enforcement is a real issue. They are simply not enough police as they all quit after the Riots
The big trend of the last 20 years has been the leveling of the playing field. Everybody has access to all the same information about what (not) to do. On how to raise money. On how to build products. That’s not to say that everybody has equal chances, it still matters where you’re born for instance, but it’s more equal than it has ever been.

This is good for most of us because the leveling works in our favor. But entrepreneurship being easier and more people doing tech startups also raises the bar for everybody. More competitive markets favor people who are better and work harder.

People demand meritocracy but don’t like what it implies: having to compete with the rest of the planet.
When bit rate was really at a premium, we didn’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#Character_set:

“The cells marked as reserved for extensions (which use the LS code again a second time—just after the first LS code—to shift from the figures page to the letters shift page) has been defined to shift into a new mode. In this new mode, the letters page contains only lowercase letters, but retains access to a third code page for uppercase letters, either by encoding for a single letter (by sending LS before that letter), or locking (with FS+LS) for an unlimited number of capital letters or digits before then unlocking (with a single LS) to return to lowercase mode.”

In computing, using such ‘shift’ codes complicates programming, though, as it makes it hard to compute string length or to index into a string (similar to the problem with UTF-8). Worse, if you see a given code sequence in a larger sequence, you may have to go arbitrarily far back in the input to figure out what it means.
Can’t say that holds up to scrutiny personally
What size drives is reasonable to get started something like this?
"We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead."

-- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Working in the Vision Pro [video]
The total scientific establishment in the world in those days was a few hundred people at best, and the output of the most prolific ones was very impressive. These people were true polymaths, usually equally comfortable with the state of the art of mathematics, biology, physics and astronomy of their age.
Misplacing bags in your home is unlikely to continue indefinitely. If nothing else you would run out of room.

So it’s likely for someone to have many bags used a few times and lost and the remainder get used a great deal. Therefore what’s important is the average amount of reuse not simply what happens to individual bags. A single bag used 1,000 times makes up for a 9 used a 2-3 times.