skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://magic.dev
> It doesn’t excuse it, though

It does. People's actual happiness is at stake. From being able to be with their family and loved ones more to being able to live closer to their families, the places they grew up in and the extremely-important social support networks that those create constitute a survival-level benefit for those people, and they naturally react harshly to sick sociopaths who want to control people and improve the percentage of the imaginary-value of companies that is tied to real estate.

There is absolutely no rational, justifiable reason for rto other than very, very ugly, sociopath-grade reasons. This includes those extroverts who want to force people to 'socialize' by forcing them to move away from their families, relatives, friends and places they were born and grew up in and forcing them to !waste! their lives commuting to and back from work. 'Waste' is emphasized here, because there is no taking back the time that is collectively lost in commuting. Its a gigantic loss for the commuters, the company they work in, the local economy and the society at large.
Probably, but, separating is actually a really hard problem. People do not do as good of a job separating their own recycling as they think they do. Others don't care at all. MRFs are expensive due to maintenance, labor, and other operating costs, and if there's no cost recovered from the recycling there's little to fund their existence.
A actual state-run system has at least some legal accountability.

When a politician gets a loan denied due to bogus data, I'm sure heads would fly. It's probably also subject to whatever their equivalent to FOIA and whistleblowing laws are over there.

The private sector gives us the worst of everything: it's an obnoxious panopticon, PLUS being incentivized to be untransparent and seek out eternal growth.
This is nice. I would’ve used one of those ETH mining cases that support multiple GPUs. Ebay has them $100-150 these days.
Probably because its easy to do with a magnet so someone must be doing it already
Not so fast!

You said: seems to have some explanatory value for the current state of US politics.

——-> Worldwide. Your enthnocentrism was what I was responding to, which you seem to have abandoned without recognizing…
I've been slowly expanding my HTPC/media server into a gaming server and box for running LLMs (and possibly diffusion models?) locally for playing around with. I think it's becoming clear that the future of LLM's will be local!

My box has a Gigabyte B450M, Ryzen 2700X, 32GB RAM, Radeon 6700XT (for gaming/streaming to steam link on Linux), and an "old" Geforce GTX 1650 with a paltry 6GB of RAM for running models on. Currently it works nicely with smaller models on ollama :) and it's been fun to get it set up. Obviously, now that the software is running I could easily swap in a more modern NVidia card with little hassle!

I've also been eyeing the b450 steel legend as a more capable board for expansion than the Gigabyte board, this article gives me some confidence that it is a solid board.
Well maybe you could rent it out to others for 256 days at $0.3/hour, tinker, and sell it for parts after you get bored with it. ;)
But Microsoft even messed that up. The original start button was not in the corner - it was near the corner. Literally just a few pixels removed. That tiny mistake made it much harder and you couldn’t “slam and click” the start button (which annoyed me to no end).

Also, the order of the window buttons for close, maximize, and minimize are incorrectly ordered, so a mistake causes you to click the opposite of what you actually want.
This strikes me as possibly the most profound form of navel-gazing ever developed, wherein the navel becomes a black hole.

If you spend each day remembering all previous days, eventually you'll just be remembering days you spent remembering other days. (Which is what the author is doing: Remembering remembering).

Seems rather maddening. Why not learn a language or something?
Some towns have thankfully realised that charging per-bin is silly and doesn't reflect their expenses well, so they now charge per-pickup, per-volume or per-weight, with recycling bins being generally much cheaper than mixed waste bins or even free.
markmap: markdown + mindmap: https://markmap.js.org/

On why code LLMs should be trained on the edges between tests and the code that they test, that could be visualized as a mindmap DAG with cycles
The point is that the environmental argument has been "Save the planet!", when the actual motive is "Save our civilization!" The planet will be fine, because as apex predators, humanity is going to be one of the first species to go extinct with a major environmental change, and then the rest of the biosphere will adapt to our disappearance. Hell, many individual humans will probably be fine, because the ability to run a complex environment-destroying civilization disappears well before all the individual humans do. However, that's cold comfort to people who depend on modern societal conveniences, or the many people who will die.

GP's point is more about intellectual honesty, but there's also a pragmatic bent to it. Many of the people who most reject climate change interventionism might be swayed by a line of argumentation that goes "You care more about the economy than the environment? You won't have an economy if the environment is disturbed enough."
Made me chuckle :)
> it had the opposite effect.

Are you saying that the annual total tonnage of plastic bags increased?
Aluminum also gets lined in plastic so...

Glass is the idea when we're talking about liquids.
Is don’t understand how the EU got GDPR passed years ago but the UK has this
Let's face it, nobody remembers the Linux Desktop wars. This story is long forgotten and the rich and influental people don't have to do anything.

Both GNOME and KDE had their highs and lows but in general they ended up OK.

Apologies if I was too harsh.
The systems people are just nodding
Although you mention XRepo in the list of package managers, you don't mention XMake in the list of build systems.
I've always had a gut feeling that if the best solution to a pest problem is to buy a $10 spray from Home Depot and spray it around your house in 10 minutes, a pest control company is never going to do it because it doesn't make them look like pros.

I wonder then which other processes are "held back" at a certain level of complexity only because if made simpler, the optics of the process would devalue the people who charge money to do it. Oil and filter changes?
I did this for a few years. I started off listing component volumes and mass etc. Towards the end I was just noting “good” or “bad” (like how I thought I went) on a calendar, then not even consistently.

I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.
Ah, but a "freer market" is itself an artificial institution, subject to the same inescapable law.
From what I understand they want a mix of recycled and virgin glass to maximize the characteristics of the glass.

Once upon a time they used to reuse coke and beer bottles, not just recycle them.
For what it's worth, GNU APL is GNU because the developer chose to associate their project with GNU, not because there was any sort of effort by GNU as an organization to implement APL (see also [0]). It implements what I think is a pretty outdated APL (e.g. dynamic scoping everywhere, no control structures for loops), and I'd say there are better free options now, like Kap and April, and some others listed at [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_packages#What_it_m...

[1] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/List_of_open-source_array_languages
No one is going to get elected for solving a problem everyone today is going to be dead to see the results of.

Although we all might agree that this is necessary, people usually tend to vote for people who promise "real" solutions. As in, short term solutions to problems we've been carrying for decades (which obviously requires policies that also take decades to cement).
The "money agent" acts as a cut-out and delay tactic.

Usually it's combined with a parcel re-shipping scam.

It works like this:
"Sell" high-priced items on eBay, use the local bank account of the mule to collect the money. The victims will trust this process because a local bank account is involved. The mule now transfers that money through irrevocable money orders into a non-extraditory country.

The victims will go after the mule, but the police will take some time, so you get 2-4 months out of a mile until he is arrested.

At the same time, you order high-priced items using stolen credit cards and have them delivered to the mule. The mule repackages them and sends them to the scammers. The shops will go after the mule.
I have the same experience with my product DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com).

I spent a lot of time minimizing bugs and I choose deliberately to have less features and focus ond speed aan reliability.

But website visitors only see that a competing product has 2x the features (at great cost).

I have a customer with 10 million end users, in one year they have reported only 2 bugs, both bugs fixed within a day.

It's also hard to sell another 12 months of support this way, as it "just works". Bugs and imperfection can actually be a way for users to "bond" with your product.

Another downside is that the product does not have a weekly update cycle, as there is not much to fix.

People on github might think the project is dead. In reality, i spent a long time working on the product foundation, but that has no face value.
PicoCSS with Svelte feels like a rocket. None of the bloat and keeping much of the power.

https://youtu.be/-n84EMKIXQM?si=v_xZmZVtAsC39NZj
Same here. I've heard a litany of excuses, but the most common one bubbled up into a documentary (?) I saw a few years ago on YT claiming that it's more cost effective to manufacture new glass than to recycle old glass. Which just seems insane to me but is probably true (colored/dyed glass mixed in with clear? I don't know).

Our landfill had a recycling center for glass for a number of years, but it was essentially just one guy who was a landscaper/glass blower (or some such). He'd come about once a month to pick through what he wanted and the rest would get tossed. I guess he retired or moved, because they don't do that anymore...
Aluminum is not magnetic
Why is XMake not mentioned in the list of build systems whereas XRepo is mentioned in the list of package managers? (subjective: XMake is a great tool if you like Lua).
In the UK, doctors will prescribe exercise, therapy, meditation, group activities as well as drugs if appropriate. What else can they do?

The issue isn’t the doctors, it’s that society, or even just the human condition, often makes it impossible to eliminate the source of chronic stress.
Stupidity is a dangerous insult game to play.

I’m not going to reply in kind, but rather point to the science of supermassive black holes being the “glue” allowing the spiral galaxies to exist at all…
REDUCE. REUSE. Recycle.
I agree that lawyers shouldn't fix coffee machines, their time is certainly more valuable. But they should know how, in a pinch. Flexible, adaptable analog thinking is an important human trait. I'm reminded of a related quote by Heinlein: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." I don't agree with all of Heinlein's views, but on this point, "lowering oneself" like a lawyer fixing a coffee machine provides a certain humility or awareness of one's shared humanity that is helpful for social cohesion.
I call it bullshit. PET used in plastic bottles can easily be depolymerized or even used as fuel. I live in a poor ex-USSR republic, and plastic recycling is a popular business; it were a scam no one would do that, as government neither mandate nor sponsor recycling.
I maintain a small MVT rendering library for Leaflet - I'm overall satisfied with the performance on modern devices, but usually point greenfield projects at MapLibre instead, unless you need some very specific Leaflet plugin.

demo: https://protomaps.github.io/protomaps-leaflet/examples/leafl...
repo: https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet
Yea it fundamentally changes the error bounding calculation. We explicitly learned about this in EE where they covered 754 and other similar things.

So there's a lot of rigor on containing exactly how big your errors can be in floating point calculations, and that old intel bug made it (rarely) invalid.
Even actual computer "hallucinations" aren't so great.

"Wargames" (1983): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71k7-dGhNFQ&t=4m8s
I don’t know where you read that.

To quote wikipedia:

> Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_recycling

Which cites this article from The Economist:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2007/06/07/the-price-of-vi...
Diversion and repurposing on an individual and industrial scale also happens with milk crates and especially with wooden pallets, and probably also with plastic pallets.
When you start using Samsung 4 nm are you switching from SRAM to HDM? If yes, how's that going to affect all the metrics given that SRAM is so much faster? Someone said you'll eventually move to HDM because SRAM improvements is relatively stalled.

I read an article that indicated your Bill Of Materials compared to NVidia's is 10x to get 1/10 the latency, and 8x BOM for throughput if Nvidia optimizes for throughput? Does this seem accurate? That CAPEX is the primary drawback?

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/groq-inference-tokenomics-spe...
The fact that capitalists and misogynists have gotten too powerful means, to you, that we should abolish unions and feminism?
Our World of Text
This phenomenon (institutions helping to preserve their nominal enemy) has been omnipresent on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. For example:

> Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.

- Benjamin Netanyahu, 2015

> The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto. … I’m not sure at all that given the current situation, given the current fact that the central playing field we’re playing in is international, Abu Mazen (Abbas) is costing us serious [PR or political] casualties and Hamas in such a situation would be an asset. I don’t think we need to be afraid of [Hamas].

- Bezalel Smotrich, 2015

https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-sup...
Glass recycling is very efficient, but manufacturing new glass is just cheaper. So without a government subsidy, it's usually not worth it for the recycling plant.
https://archive.is/PahNP

Online grocery ordering + delivery ftw
It's not about what you say, it's about how the article reporting on you describes you.

"We could do these changes at Google to make it a better place for women." "So, what you are saying is that women are biologically incapable of working at current Google? Our female colleagues at HR department are so triggered they literally can't stop crying!"
Is that the sliding context window size? Because I didn't have good results with sliding context windows in the regular Mistral models.
That's not true, the GGUF quants aren't great but there are exl2 4bit quantizations floating around that are pretty sweet.
Exactly what I had in mind. In the case of the DoT, I wonder what could be the solution there, some exterior safeguard? reducing fundings?
>those bad guys you mentioned should be gone by now, right

I dont follow your logic. Isnt this a bit like saying if doctors were doing their job, cancer should be gone by now? If police does their job all crime is gone?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_radio

(I’d assumed this was a global thing, but it seems to mostly just be the UK and Ireland.)
What country do you live in if you don’t mind me asking?
Candybars

Im old enough to remember foil and paper wrappers. Im old enough to remember wax paper.

It all comes in plastic now.

Get a bag and put every piece of plastic for your week in it. Bottles, wrappers... bring it all home. The ammount of it is obscene.
You can get paid for scrap of various kinds, and by the amount they're willing to pay, you can roughly see how much it is "worth it".

Ignoring gold, platinum, and silver, copper comes in quite high, followed by aluminum and then at the bottom is steel and iron.

Most places will pay you over the CRV for aluminum cans, and they will usually also pay for bulk aluminum, more than they'd pay for steel or cast iron.
'Game of Thrones' Bosses Confirm Execs Asked Them to Film Vertically, for Phones
Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known
And for that matter, I did my fucking around working low stakes jobs in packing warehouses and going to house parties. Goofing off does not require 1%er priveledge.
I think something like this is really on people. It isn't really hard to use your same bag hundreds of times. It also isn't hard to just not use a bag (I regularly just wheel items out to the car, put them in a box I have there, then take the box inside).

If individuals can't be bothered with simple things like this, is there really any hope that any law will help?
This reminds me of the IRS phone scams. The IRS does not have an actual voice actor record their phone messages or phone tree, they just use a text-to-speech system that is commercially available

So, the scammers just use the same system so the phone messages you get from them sound like the same voice you hear if you actually call the IRS

For just a little extra money they could pay someone to exclusively record IRS messages and the voice would never be the same as the scammers (at least, until someone replicates the real voice with AI but that's an issue for another day)
My answer to this question would go along these lines.

SOLID is a flawed attempt at packaging "clean code" into a formula. The military sounding acronym itself is a stretch, as only the first principle is really of importance. Producing clean code in practice is going to be leaky. That's just a fact of life. It relies heavily on experience and tacit knowledge. I think it's the reason many senior programmers tend to repudiate (consciously or unconsciously) SOLID as their craft matures, and embrace instead a set of guidelines to produce code that (in more or less that order) works as expected, is bug free, is reasonably efficient, and is maintainable (i.e. is legible, understandable, testable, etc).
> Not nonphysical: just not part of the physical degrees of freedom that can affect things like how die rolls come up or how well a given treatment works on a patient.

For a dice that is not a concern (unless animism is taken into consideration), but when humans are on both side of the equation, how do you get rid of all the social and psychological effects that imply, including placebo and the desire to see the study bend in some direction, be it at some unconscious level?
They just live out lonely existences in cheap apartments or trailer parks under government assistance if they can get it, or freeze to death on the streets if they can't. In the USA we don't really care about our poor citizens; if you don't have money you're basically invisible and disposable and the most the middle class and up will care about is making sure you're not in their neighborhoods. Out of sight, out of mind.

I'm friends or family of several elderly people and it's really not a pretty existence at all. Basically you just work if you can, combine it with some government assistance, and eke out as much of a living as you can until you die.

Seeing them in these situations makes me really not want to grow old in the USA.
This winter in my neck of the woods I hear a lot of people saying "oh, what great weather this year", because it's warm and without snow.

If they had taken enough math to understand chaotic dynamic systems, they would need be as anxious as I am. It's less that I can tell you exactly what's going to happen, although there are definitely things that we are certain of, like riskier hurricanes.

What keeps me up at night is that farmers have no idea what the next season will look like because we have altered the conditions of the function of climate, and therefore will enter a new state. We do not know where it will land and what it will look like getting there, and that very likely means reduction in food production.

Sometimes fear is justified.
Thanks, fixed. It didn't copy it
It's a favourite German pastime to drive to the Wertstoffhof (recycling centre) in your car to drop off the collected plastic for recycling. Now there are some bins where people can put some specific plastics like yoghurt cups (mostly cleaned by people, probably with a lot of hot water). Some are plastic foils with aluminium, styrofoam but most of it goes into the "mixed plastic" bins. There's all kind of stuff in it, some of it dirty. Who in their right mind would think that any of this mixed plastic stuff could be recycled?
Ask HN: Could a Visa/Mastercard merger ever be approved?
It's hard to imagine, but just following the trend line of modern capitalism to total consolidation, could it be conceivable to ever occur? I think it would mark the logical conclusion of our current course. Although there remains the possibility that they would stay forever seperated federally a la Fannie/Freddy.
In the U.S.:

"Liberalism": Broadly, what other countries call social liberalism, i.e. liberty, individual rights, equality, all rooted in Locke's notion of the social contract.

"Libertarianism": An American revival of what's formally called classical liberalism. Broadly: Small government, strong individual rights, free market capitalism, etc.
Of course it didn't have the opposite effect. It's now very much the norm (where I am) for people to bring these bags to the supermarket / grocery to pack their goods.

And to back up my claim: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/governme...

"Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows"
If a company invites you to a discussion, it means you are invited to listen (and politely applaud when appropriate).
I would be curious to know what Paul Vixie thinks of things like DKIM and DMARC. Both of them turn DNS into a database of convenience for every major email provider on the planet, while neither of these technologies seems to make any useful impact on spam itself as the former is as often ignored as the latter is misconfigured. for relaying to Google, one must take a prescriptive and religious approach by accepting both these gods as a precondition of your delivery.
The fact •you• don’t see substance doesn’t mean it’s not there…
They produce wealth for their executives. The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless received 122M in 2023. In 2021, the CEO made $313K. The top 6 people make over $200K a year. All of this from a non-profit.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/840...
https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/colorado-coalition-for...
Just a thought: This is very difficult to navigate without a pointing device (e.g. using the keyboard.)
Who knew there were so many Good Samaritan car thieves out there, huh? I guess everyone enjoys a chance to show off their skill set a little!
> I just got my hands on a mining rig with 3 rtx 3090 founder edition for the modest sum of 1.7k euros.

I would prefer a tutorial on how to do this.