skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I move in the wrong circles, but we banned both plastic shopping bags and plastic straws in New Zealand, and I don’t hear anyone complaining about it. Everyone I know uses paper bags (from the online supermarket deliveries) to line their bins.

It’s not plastic bags and straws that make it to the landfill that are the problem - it’s the ones that don’t make it to the landfill. I haven’t seen a plastic bag stuck in a tree for years!
except when you moved to C there was no corresponding increase in fixed time which you must spend on tool setup just to program
There's also Cloud Hypervisor, which is very similar, and based off some of the same crosvm code and ideas.

https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
You don't nee mirrors for a laser; in fact some type of media cannot use use mirrors as the light generation quickly changes to light absorption.

https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasercn2.htm

"An Unusual Kind of Gas Laser that Puts Out Pulses in the UV". C. L. Stong, Scientific American, June 1974, pp. 122-127
It's not illegal if you have a ham license, though. This allows for interesting hacks such as AREDN, which uses off-the-shelf WiFi hardware to run a mesh network, using high-gain (and usually directional) antennas to link larger nodes to each other:

http://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/arednGettingStarted/ared...
It's the coolest looking book I own that I can't read cause I'm too dumb to understand even having taken some university math courses. lol
Agreed. Tags are eyesores!
People on tropical islands don't really use cars. I don't think most of the readers on HN understand the level of sacrifice required from everyone to avoid the worst of what's coming. It's going to require a lot more from everyone than using reusable bags while shopping or avoiding straws/using metal ones.

I agree these environmental laws are simply green washing. But if people think these generate too much resentment they're wholly unprepared for what the moment requires. Like not eating meat with every single meal every single day of the week. Not having two cars per family regardless of whether they're ICE or not. Eliminating short-haul flights and restricting international travel.

US consumers are used to overconsuming. Correcting for that will feel like a punishment to most. I don't see an alternative besides telling people to treat it like a world war. "Victory gardens" and all.
> Was it ever a useful tool? Here and there maybe.

What makes you quantify it like that? I'm not sure I could quantify it, but it's certainly been used, directly and indirectly, extraordinarily widely.
>express and demonstrate challenges with understanding sarcasm, irony, nonverbal cues, idioms, figures of speech, etc.

A common element to these, is that they are either a bit sideways of a straightforward relationship or many times are being used directly to deceive. Basically, my impression is that autistic people and myself compared to others are by default worse at detecting “liars”.

Most animals on the other hand, don’t try to deceive or control their communication methods in order to hide what they are really thinking. When they are happy, sad, or angry, they consistently display exactly those things. This is why I find it easy to emphasize with animals who have a toddler level of intelligence.
Security through obscurity does not work. As soon as deepfakes have proliferated on TikTok for stupid stuff, they'd inevitably be used for this kind of exploits by any adversary that is motivated enough to do a directed operation on a high value target.

The researchers really just raise awareness on where things are going, but ultimately the solution will be to improve process and verify anything that has to do with money through specific internal company channels that are hard to forge - and anybody in a call like this that would not use them needs to automatically raise an alarm by procedure.
>but oh boy did you grow up in a plastic bubble?

Bubble, broke, bad environment. It happens. The closest I had to that before high school (where I'd at least take a few field trips for national competitions) was playing card games or Pokemon battles or whatnot. But this was an era before people would watch other people play those things and see how much strategy building there can be in those things.
In one of my comments on the Stack Exchange answer, I linked to a couple of Xerox Alto cursors with different hotspots:

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/52336/why-is-the-mous...
!!! The following binary packages have been ignored due to non matching USE:

=sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r10 -multilib -stack-realign
=sys-libs/glibc-2.38-r10 systemd

So in order to use binary packages, I either need to switch to systemd, or switch to no-multilib and manually enable all the desktop-related USE flags. Seems too tedious to bother right now.
I loved the dialogues and the poems, with their various translations. The discussio around the "musical offering" is incredible, and helped me learn to appreciate music (not only Bach). This is one of my favourite books!

The math was insufferable, however. And I say that as a mathematician and programmer... I wonder if musicians and poetry translators will find "their" parts correspondingly unbearable?
No, they use two coils around a metallic core. I made a few when I was a kid. I know.
> Last Fall a high school friend and I rode the "Katy Trail" on our bikes for 6 days. Hauled camping gear, tents, stoves, water, food... It sucked right up until the moment we finished — and now I can't wait to do it again.

I don't even need to ride a trail for days, just spending more than an hour on the bike outside is plenty to return me to the 'right' state.
StackOverflow's priorities shown through this gating make little sense to me, and they spectacularly fail at communicating to new users what the norms of the site are, which is one big reason why so many people have a story of a bad experience of it.
I think the goal is to have a language that feels like it was designed for level 3/4 but allows you to break out to level 5 as an escape hatch.

Given how many configuration languages eventually end up with a half-assed level 5 (Greenspun comes to mind) it strikes me as, at least, an experiment worth performing.
Side note: I reeeeally hate web pages that implement "sexy" active-scrolling behaviors, because it completely breaks my track-pad use.
As an example of the difference directly related to k8s

"Security settings that you specify for a Container apply only to the individual Container, and they override settings made at the Pod level when there is overlap."

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/sec...

While there are other Byzantine faults like this CSV, that should give you a hint.

The problem is that containers depend on good actors dropping privlages on a shared kernel.

Where VM's have a natural abstraction and their own kernel, containers require proper configuration of seccomp, apparmor, selinux, dropping privileges, etc... to reduce the attack surface.

An easy demonstration of this is to launch a privlaged container and run insmod with some random kernel module on the host OS.

In namespaces, you start with no isolation, and you add whatever you want or more realistically remember to add. They are not jails where you start with a reasonable secure baseline.

In fact the k8s 'baseline' pod security standard still has MKNOD caps which can result in issues like CVE-2021-25741. While /proc now has filtering /sys doesn't and you can find the major minor numbers of the hosts root filesystem and read it from a container.

It is not that containers can't be made reasonably secure, but that they aren't inherently secure. They are default allow all because they are inherently just namespaces implemented basically through value remapping.
The size of the payload is still a significant problem if your enemy is close with many drones. This video [0] shows a Russian missile cruiser being sunk by Ukrainian drones recently in the Black Sea. The problem these boats have with drones is that they are slow all around compared to a rather nimble drone which can react to its operations. As can be seen in the video multiple drones are used to sink the large ship.

Edit: A better article around the situation and effectiveness of the drones is at [1].

[0] Video Russian missile cruiser "Ivanovets" destroyed by sea drones at January 31/February 1 in Black Sea - https://v.redd.it/hevs3v05hyfc1

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/ukraine-sea-dr...
Conversation analysis has many applications, from Silicon Valley to medicine
Such an effect may even highly discourage ranged combat in the first place. I'm sure you'd still have ballista but bows? Probably crossbows. But there's definitely a butterfly effect for sure.
I used to swap hands with my mouse every month or so. I don't remember ever noticing the tilt.
Use Troff – a set of macros and tools to use troff efficiently (2018)
Yeah (and apologies if I get this wrong after 30 years) with a rolling airframe, you can have two fins on the same axis that "wiggle" back and forth at the same frequency as the rotation of the missile. Direction control comes from the phase of the movement, so the fins are pushed in the direction you want to go when it rotates to that point.
I loved this book when I was young. Like 16 years old or so. I am still very interested in things like formal systems and automated theorem proving and that started with this book. However, when I now look at the main idea of the book I find it quite cringeworthy, because, besides when he is speaking about real mathematics and science, much of it is very speculative and probably just false. At best it can be thought provoking, but I think it is just not very nice to immediately answer the some very real questions with highly speculative answers. It snared up the admiration of my 16-year-old self pretty effectively, though.
What has always blown my mind is the lack of documentation/open source projects. With such powerful data we come across while browsing the web, it would only make sense to me there would be more tools to use an extend in this space. Browsing history is especially under valued. Even though the data technically exists, it is quite difficult to retrieve pages that have been visited, imo because of poor UX. Most people keep every Internet journey opened in hopes they will remember to return to it. I have been taking a stab at improving the UX with a history browser extension [1] which I have found myself legitimately finding value in using (a first for my personal projects lol).

[1] https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain/tree/main/js/exten...
MIT Course on GEB: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lWZ2Bz0tS-s
> Write your app so it can run on bare metal, install with apt, yum or your tool(s) of choice for your org.

If it's running on bare metal, why are you using apt or yum? Those are parts of an OS you wouldn't have if you're running your program without an OS.
The boustrophedon has one more rule that you omitted and it’s extremely natural, – when you write from right to left you flip all the letters! My little daughter intuitively writes in this system even though no one taught her that nor did she see it somewhere. She explains that that way you know how to read longer passages that need to wrap over.
> I believe such person exists when I see one. All that I see around are people claiming they did that, while ignoring some huge issue with their style that inserts some really nasty bugs on their software.

The real question is, of 100 bugs in a real-world application, how many were caused or at least influenced by the language, and how many are application level errors. In my practical experience bugs due to C++ behavior have just not been a thing. Maybe your world is different.
Yep, perfect city lol

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Sao-Paulo
“Giraffes are full of optimism” snort
There was a friendly drone returning to base, so their defensive systems were turned off.
UI/UX is costly. It's not enough to be "good at design", but that a mature API is a prerequisite for frontends that aren't a mess. Most projects never get to that point.

If you really want to make the dichotomy, "nerds" are excellent at communicating if only they didn't have so much to say to so few people. It's really that the "normies" aren't interested. You get them interested by having said so much to so many that something eventually got their attention. You must leverage that they only hear what they want. That's the trick. That tolerance gives you the chance to get to know your audience so you don't bore them, but never stop communicating. Point that firehose to as many audiences as possible. "Normies" have to do this with only a garden hose. Imagine how tough it is to be in sales, but I digress.

You need a lot of observations to figure out what is commonly interesting and what isn't. You have to also accept that the more prolific you are, the more you will have a long tail of useful yet underappreciated ideas.

In other words most "simple" apps are actually full of a ton of features, but they're well placed instead of vomited out to the user. You need both a fully-loaded API and design skills to get there. An immature API leads to weirdness. You'll be putting features front and center that are incomplete or hard to use simply out of guilt.
This is cope
Great synopsis of the book and an excellent synthesis of its real-world implications.
This is implemented now. It will skip stories you heard earlier in the day. Will add a feature to relisten to everything hopefully this evening.
There's more to them than meets the eye.
yes it’s that bad. i’ve written some webexts and if you ask for all data it really is all data... otherwise how would it work if you needed to change something on a page? i keep my list to my own bespoke one-off extensions or only the major big names or i audit the code manually.
The NFL has an exemption from the Sherman antitrust act.

Therefore, we need not argue about whether they are or are not a cartel - or are engaging in anti-competitive behavior: our government has already defined them as such.
> the core elements that basically define western cuisine, meat and dairy is everything

It might be more accurate to say 'meat and dairy is everything in northern French cuisine', which Bourdain was a product of. Many Mediterranean cuisines are considerably more vegetarian-friendly: consider simple and fairly traditional Italian dishes like cacio e pepe, carciofi alla giudia, sugo all'arrabbiata, spaghetti aglio e olio, parmigiana melanzane, and pizza margherita/napoletana.

That said, I get your point, and I wouldn't go to a steakhouse demanding good vegetarian food.
My favorite response is to ask deadpan if they've finished reading the book. There is only one appropriate answer, IYKYK.
The steam deck has a keyboard that supports input from both trackpads at the same time. Always surprised me this is not really supported by most desktop environments.
I am old - my first work experience was on Unix machines in the late eighties and I just find Linux a lot easier to work with if you're spending a lot of time with a CLI. You have more default tools at your disposal (bash, make, sed/awk/grep etc) which all have to be installed manually on a Windows machine.

Powershell tries to be everything and ends up being too much, badly implemented. I have dabbled in it for Windows/Microsoft specific things (Outlook manipulation) but while you can write a PS script that tries to do something like delete all yesterdays mail with a particular characteristic, in practice it often doesn't work due to the impedence mismatch between COM and PS. I like the idea, I really do, but it's just not as straight up practical as the Unix tools.
When you have unobstructed line of sight, a 5W handheld can reach all the way up to ISS without problem. It's very different on the ground, though, especially on high frequencies, where much smaller objects can prevent propagation.
> I am of the age where more and more aspects of society become laid bare, I'm a bit slower than most. So I'm not sure if higher ed was always this nakedly bankrupt due to bad incentives, or if it has genuinely degraded substantially.

Maybe it's neither; you're assuming the degradation is not a matter of perception, but some underlying reality. Cui bono - who benefits from that perception? It seems to me, the same people who benefit from destroying every institution that stands in their way - education, all scholarship, government, journalism, etc.

In fact, if we apply the tools we learn in higher education, IMHO the situation is clearly a matter of perception.

(All human institutions are flawed; a common approach of sophists is just to find the flaws in the institution they want to tear down.)
Personal freedom is weighed against the freedom of others. That is why you cannot dispose of your waste in a water reservoir that supplies drinking water. The life of any product has an impact on shared resources that your work has not earned. Policies that aim to protect these shared resources are a logical solution for people who care about their country and the people in it.
They turn your IDE into a distributed system with parsing and serializing overhead for every action.
This is a global thing, and it's started to receive more attention in the UK [0]

One thing I find blinding is those "auto-dip/intelligent" full beams which people don't dip. They simply don't work as well, but people don't bother dipping.

I accidentality forgot to dip the lights in my 2005 yellowish micra the other day past going past some traffic. In times past I'd be flashed, but I wasn't. So I carried on. Not a single flash over 12 miles. To me that suggests that normal car lights is about the same level as full beam lights from 20 years ago.

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/headlight-glare-is-getting-worse-...

[1] https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/driving/2024-01/modern-car...
Do you really need an extra bedroom? Do you really need a car? Do you really need that extra pair of socks? Do you really need that coca-cola? Of course not. People obviously want it. Quite the slippery slope you're walking.
I'm left handed, use the mouse on the right, and even use my right hand for a laptop trackpad. I keep my left hand on the keyboard while mousing, and use modifiers in concert.

Perhaps this both explains why I've never quite understood the aversion to mice, and also why I prefer smaller (TKL or smaller) keyboards.
Delivery, call center, government jobs processing some applications or similar, any dirty job, any harmful job etc.
Woman with rare medical condition gives birth to 44 kids by age 40
There's ample room to criticize either OS, and given the opportunity I'd avoid either both. Nobody I've ever met will unilaterally defend stock MacOS. You criticize Spotlight, they say "buy Raycast!" You mope about window management and they tell you to install Rectangle. You get jumpscared by the Apple Music popup when you put on headphones, and a concerned user will always chime in with the registry command to disable it. It's a jack-in-the-box of modal advertisements and sophisticated service clients.

On Windows, I get the APIs I want like Vulkan without arbitrary software restrictions. It's also a ghoulish wasteland of service integration and user hostility, but at least they let you do what you want. That sort of immediacy is probably why a lot of users prefer Windows even if it's arguably poorly-designed.

> Maybe you don't feel that, but it is a fact.

Facts normally come with citations. Do you have anything better than your opinion to cite?
yeah emergence and strange loops are weird :)
Or, well, just let them friggin' open the thing at their own risk. Grrrrrr.
My favorite is this series from 2015 by Ian Osband:

https://iosband.github.io/2015/07/19/Efficient-experimentati...
The book Hatred, Emptiness, and Hope by Otto Kernberg (a key Object Relational scholar) goes over all the latest advancements. Some people also are talking about Cloninger's phylogenetic origins of human consciousness and connecting it to these topics as well (e.g. personality organization from the Object Relationals - psychotic, borderline, neurotic)
"This is happening"

"It's not, where is the evidence"

"Here"

"Just goes to show how strong the nuclear lobby is."

Er no. The nuclear "lobby" is incredibly weak, which is why, against all reason, Germany shut off perfectly fine nuclear power plants and almost all the world barely built any nuclear in the last 20 years.

However, reality is now starting to assert itself again.

China solar is 5%, wind a little more than that. Coal is at around 60%. At those levels adding more unreliable energy to the mix is OK. But you also need stable baseload power, which is why they are also massively expanding their nuclear capacity.

It's not a competition, we want all clean energy to stave of climate change, and we'll also almost certainly need additional energy to get all that CO2 out of the atmosphere again. Solar and wind is great for consumers that are OK to be turned off. But a lot of electricity consumption in an industrialized society isn't like that, particularly if we're also going to electrify a lot of the other primary energy consumption, for example heating. I'd rather not have to turn off my heater in winter because it's dark and there's little wind.
MKBHD mentions in his review that the elastic strap is more of a marketing gimmick to make the headset look unique. The solo strap makes it really uncomfortable for long periods because all the pressure goes to the front of the face. They actually include a traditional double strap VR headband with it which is much more comfortable.
This book played an important role in pushing me into a career in software. During the recession in 2009, I lost my industrial design job. And GEB started me down a rabbit hole learning more and more about software and learning to code. That turned into a great software career. I've also read hacker news just about every day since.
> The MBAs have laid waste them.

How did the MBAs turn these non-profit institutions, with missions to develop and disseminate knowledge, into seeming profit-seeking organizations? What do they say the point of the revenue is? What is their argument for it?
Because you don't need your eyes when driving? The thought of people driving around and multi tasking with their AR goggles gives me the heebie-jeebies.
> The company’s platforms have been used to fuel the spread of terrorism and violent extremism, mass violence and online harassment. Meta’s core products – Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp – enable human trafficking, drug trafficking and the illegal wildlife trade, along with the proliferation of child sexual abuse material and child exploitation. People use Meta’s social media and messaging platforms to spread propaganda, disinformation and information warfare, undermining the integrity of our information ecosystems and elections around the world.

I count about 14 claims in this paragraph alone and no context, argument, or justification for why it’s true.

This article seems to be a gish gallop: make claim after claim of how Facebook is the cause of all the world’s ills with little justification until the last paragraph, where you conclude by saying that Zuckerberg shouldn’t be able to do something that nobody was suggesting they do.
I agree with you, it's one thing to be lying for 'fanciful' things - "Santa is bringing you presents" versus "We're your family and love you very much and want to give you things", the Easter bunny, etc, versus "We're in the Artic Circle. If you fall and trip in this water, it means hypothermia, near drowning, or death."

As you say, children struggle with the concept of death, as any parent who has had to explain the death of a pet to a young child will attest. Depending on age, no matter how you attempt to describe, there's always that "but they're coming back, right?"
That gives me a bit more hope wolverine, ignorance is something that
can be fought with education and patient, sincere messaging.