skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, I haven't heard of theis "plastic pollution treaty" it sounds super promising! I think one of the things that makes this issue so popular is just how obvious it is to see plastic trash all over the place. Climate change and carbon emissions can be a bit abstract, but plastic pollution is everywhere, and extremely visible.
Why don't you use reusable bags? I have a couple that fold up and go in my back pocket.
I don't think I can even leave my neighborhood. I hate it.
See e.g. Brexit
> How many times have you used your last one?

Every shopping trip for 4 years now. It tore, but my partner was able to patch it since it's made of pretty good quality fabric.
I have a vacuum sealer, but their bags are plastic. Is there an eco-friendly Food Saver bag that doesn’t require commercial composting?
How do they choose people for these surveys? And can 24k people from 32 countries (so, 750 in each) be representative of 8 billion in 200+ countries? I know only a minority locally who could support a plastics ban, due to low awareness.

Certainly a guesstimate in other countries I can think of who are likely responsible for high plastics pollution, would be far lower than 8 or 9 out of every 10 people, as it's a contributor as to why the issue exists in those places, surely?
You are throwing away durable, reusable, functioning products after one use? .. Why?
Can you speak more to your perspective? The only way I can understand your take is to say that the West Bank is rightfully Israeli and therefore its residents should be citizens with voting rights. Are you opposed to an independent Palestinian state?
Strange rabbit holes?

How about Twitter having a preexisting, clear Terms of Service that ALL users must abide by?

Don't forget that Twitter was at the time and remains a private venue that was not and is not a government run organization or application. The Supreme Court has ruled time and time again that private businesses have the right to refuse service to whomever they wish for whatever reason. The 1st amendment covers what one can say in public, but explicitly does not cover private repercussions for said speech, ONLY government repercussions. Twitter is not public, and was not public. Private businesses and entities can and do control speech on their platforms and premises all the time, and have numerous laws protecting their right to do so.

How about this one:

User: Hi, I'd like to sign up for an account.

Twitter: Sure, you're able to do so. Here are the rules we've established for our platform. By signing up, you're agreeing to our rules.

User: OK, I agree. deliberately breaks rules

Twitter: You can't do that. We are warning you. This is a private business, and you agreed to our terms. Your actions are in violation of the terms you agreed to.

User: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah muh free speech deliberately breaks rules again

Twitter: We're not joking. You can't post that sort of thing. It's against our rules. Do it one more time and we will be forced to ban you.

User: deliberately breaks rules again

Twitter: we are fully within our rights to ban you, and we're doing so.

User: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah political persecution waaaaaaaaaaaaaah I'm going to sue you!

It has nothing to do with who the user is or was. Private businesses have full legal right to exercise control over their platforms. You break the rules, you are banned, simple as that.
But Star Dingy doesn't have the same ring to it.
Those numbers are so highly skewed it seems improbable.
People are already in power to ban single-use plastic, they can buy stuff that is more expensive or less convenient to get.

This gives a signal to the market that if a lot of people does it, they should move in that direction to meet the demand.

However, this is not what it's happening, and that's because people appreciate that something is cheaper thanks to single-use plastic of because they are not so interested in single-use plastic that they are willing to do an effort to go around it.

Basically, what people reveal when in the everyday use is that they are fine with single-use plastic, and if they say otherwise is to signal some kind of virtue because they decide not to put effort into it.
Unionize. It is the only way to obtain agency.
Such is the nature of life. FTEs who invest the considerable amount of time to continually do a job search are investing a lot more of themselves into their work than guys who stay in the same SWE II role for 10 years straight. They also, pretty much by definition, have more bargaining power even if they stay in their current roles - because they have other jobs on the table to credibly bargain with.
I've run into this too, hopping from one FAANG to another. In fact, the second company's comp offer was so close to my current comp (about 0.1% over), it's hard to imagine there wasn't some covert information sharing going on.

The "job hop for a salary bump" conversations always seem to assume you are early in your career, where this works. My first job hop was for about +50%. My second one was for around +20%. 20 years into my career, job hopping does not seem to increase my comp at all. The plateau is real.

After a certain point, you have to change roles and/or move into management.
I see these studies as a first step in a Bayesian inference. Trust comes with more evidence but you have to start somewhere.

Edit:

Actually this is the third step. From the source:

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...
I know them and am pro a ban... So: ex falso quodlibet
I would love for it to happen since if it were to finally just happen maybe enough money will be pumped into figuring out the alternatives.

But it would need to be done with a hard cutoff date but far enough for those things to be figured out.

There are still some areas that we seem to not quite have an alternative. Or the environmental impact of the alternative is not quite as rosy as it appears.
...incomingpain writes, on one of the more heavily moderated of the current internet forums.
This argument is so absurd. I have reused my reusable bags more times than I can possibly count. It's really not hard or unrealistic. How does everyone else seem to have such a hard time with this?
You use foil instead of cling wrap? And you do this for environmental reasons?

I'm struggling to understand here, why in the world would you do that? Foil consumes thousands of times more resources than plastic wrap.
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I was skeptical of whether it was representative of 85% of the global population, or just the first-world.

I've often thought (and heard that) environmental concerns are secondary to economic, and that people in less prosperous countries don't care as much about environmental concerns as people in first-world countries who are secure in most areas of their lives. Surprisingly, this data says the opposite!

Sample size was:
North America: 2000,
Central & South America: 3500,
Europe: 8000,
Africa: 3000,
APAC: 7700,

On banning unnecessary single-use plastics being 'important':
Australia: 87%,
South Korea: 86%,
Mexico: 94%,
Uganda: 93%,

This may be obvious to some, but I really had the opposite notion until seeing this data.
I fully agree, however if you're the kind of person who orders groceries, then what ends up happening is that you start collecting reusable bags that you have no way of reusing. I hope that someone starts some kind of "reusable bag recycling" system so I can give the scores of bags I have to a good home
What do Americans think about plastic waste in 2024?
I was thinking websockets; though, I thought those largely hit the same criticisms? That is, tons of things moved to them specifically to avoid any firewall rules about what they were allowed to send over a network.

I'll fully grant that that seems to be the norm for everything browser related. Policies got difficult to install new software, just point your browser to this url and call it a day.
It is better to leave the job and get hired again, than be loyal to the same company.
> IDF after the initial shock is doing great

From an outside perspective, this doesn't appear to be the case.

It's like that old management consulting saw: "Strategy without execution is useless — execution without strategy is aimless." Israel's actions appear to be entirely reactive; they're on the back foot, and they don't have a clear set of strategic objectives. Execution without strategy.

In essence, they're responded to one chevauchée raid with another chevauchée raid. It's only going to end in tears for all involved.
> I feel Twitter’s community notes function is actually pretty good at combatting false info without creating a centralized source with the above issues.

I agree, it's pretty good. Except when it gets applied to one of Elon's posts and then mysteriously disappears.

https://x.com/CardQueenEileen/status/1655061481862619136
I can't imagine it would be too much, depending on how it's worded it could show that the applicant has a 'wide range of experience'. Plus I kind of wonder if HR would already take that into account, it's not just software engineers and salespeople doing it, it's everyone, HR and Execs included
Free speech doesn’t survive contact with AI slop guided by disinformation prompts.

It isn’t that it isn’t worth protecting or caring for, it’s that it disappears under the noise floor. The bad actor doesn’t have to silence the free speakers, he just needs to amplify the bullshit so nobody can hear anything that makes sense.
I don't think calling it "feudalism" is quite right, because feudalism as a system depends extensively on personal loyalties at each step of the chain of authority. The death of feudalism came from monarchs developing enough administrative power that they no longer had to depend on the loyalty of their vassals to control areas outside their personal domains.
SMT resistors in bulk are a fraction of a penny.

Tester time FAR outweighs any gain you could get by binning.
My city banned bags once and had to immediately figure out how to unban bags because it caused outrage. They talked about it for 2 years and people supported it. Until the day it took effect that is.
> All of the food packaging that is plastic needs to go away

Most of it can be swapped to bioplastics with minimal loss of utility.
Seconded. Plastic bag bans here in Colorado have been fantastic from my view. Far less trash everywhere, and we use better bags that can carry more without failing catastrophically in the parking lot.
I'm not American so I can't comment on US politics but I feel like there's a small difference between "daring to say anything negative" and asking for arrest warrants (without jurisdiction as well). The Arab lobby seems to have plenty of power, e.g. it looks like they managed to make the US stop (or at least pause) shipping weapons to a long time ally that's being attacked and is at war.

There's list of different PACs here: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

AIPAC is a lobbying group of Americans that think the US should have pro-Israeli policies. It's operating within the framework that many other lobbying groups are operating in. It's a large and influential group reflecting the large number of Americans that believe in pro-Israeli policies. I guess it's "normal" in any sense that US politics are "normal". Ofcourse Americans are more than welcome to pass laws to limit the influence lobbyists can have, like many other countries do.
I don't get this take... what is the scam part? It's a real device that people can buy, and it does what it was purported to do... maybe it's not as amazing as people hoped, but does that make it a scam?
I haven't yet but I'm contemplating streaming work on Twitch / Youtube.
How does this work, practically, at the grocery store?

Many foods are sold in a disposable plastic wrapper. Cereal, meat, frozen foods, etc.

What is the alternative? We bring a bunch of tupperware and everything is sold in bulk?
It's not sexy, but the number one way to reduce plastic pollution is to build landfills and proper waste management systems in developing countries. Plastic bans are largely performative and often counterproductive. Instead of bringing their own bags, a lot of shoppers just treat the "reuseable" bags the they buy a the supermarket as disposable.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2024/01/22/new-j...

https://www.latimes.com/environment/plastic-bag-ban-waste-40....
This gets into "salary vs. equity," and it's a fair point. On paper, Cisco turned me into a millionaire over a decade. However, when 2001 occurred those gains were wiped out. I was left with a lot of tears and a big tax bill. Hence I am near 60 and still planning on working for a good while to come.

A Cisco-like or Nvidia-like unicorn lifetime achievement is what everyone hopes for when they sign up for a Silicon Valley startup, but you can see the misery index rise when the stock is underwater and it make take years, a decade or more — or never — for those stock certificates to even be worth the paper you'd print them on. I've been at a number of startups where you can walk away after 2 or 5 years partially or fully vested and your options are not worth optioning.

Some people are indeed early Cisco millionaires. Many others only get in after the stock tumbles and are just really grinding away for salary.

Nvidia will also eventually find its natural limit. Joining Nvidia in 2024 is totally different than having joined it in 2014 when this article was written.

YMMV on this, widely.
> always seem to assume you are early in your career, where this works

hah to be fair..2014 was early in my career. So maybe it was due to me rather than a sign of the times.
How do you prove the sterile field hasn’t been broken? Also glass is a big hazard in a hospital… it will get dropped and shattered.
I just want to live long enough to see a human walk on Mars.
We're not going back to the days of glass bottles for IV bags. The end.
I'm actually pretty curious how they conducted the survey - you can't usually get 80% of people on a phone to admit they use the bathroom, let alone agree with a complex policy proposal. The attached report is high on charts but low on details.
Yah, I'd like to see the actual survey wording. All the weasel words they put in there make it seem kind of fake.
If the grocery store made plastic bags that didn't have holes in them all the time, they make a good pooper-scooper bag and thus reusable.
I get the impression from the parent post that they have no control over compensation and therefore are doing the best they can, with what they have, for the people around them.
As a manager, it seems true to me. It's much easier to convince HR to pay $X for a new employee than to give a current employee a large enough raise to hit $X.
The plastic bag ban in Colorado has been awful. I would much rather go back to before.
The EU have a new directive for that which comes after the single use plastics directive: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240301IP...

In my local area I'm seeing a move towards returnable containers.
Spain has a huge amount of unnocupied property. It doesn't need new development as much as for those to just get filled
I bought re-usable vacuum seal containers from Foodsaver. I hate the thing. It cannot keep a seal and will always slowly let air in, in a few days.

I keep looking for alternatives since I vacuum seal a lot and I hate using a new plastic bag for each, but have yet to find a suitable alternative that doesn't defeat the entire purpose.
Obviously that's not how they're meant to be used, but you bring up a good point about the interaction of policy and behavior. These policies cannot be made without consideration for what behavior they will incentivize. In the case of disposable grocery bag bans, requiring that said disposable bags be made of more sturdy plastic so as to technically qualify as reusable is only going to harm the environment more as consumer habits won't change. The solution, of course, is not to throw up our hands and declare that nothing can be done. Banning the sale of these technically-reusable bags at point-of-sale very well might solve the problem and cause consumer behavior to shift as the sustainable practice of bringing your own bags becomes the most convenient one.

Some people find utility in these sturdier plastic bags, so a general ban would only do harm. They just specifically shouldn't be sold at checkout like disposable bags used to be.
Even if "banning false info online can improve discourse" that wouldn't make the required censorship OK. Either we're an Enlightenment society, or we're not. Which is it?
In Germany, I've seen a multi-use container system implemented by at least some delivery companies and restaurants.

But even just reducing the staggering amount of single-use plastics in regular restaurant/bar contexts in the US would be a start. The amount of restaurants serving plastic cups, paper plates, and plastic tableware is absurd, and I'm not talking about festivals, outdoor food trucks etc – regular sit-down places with proper plumbing and enough space for a dishwasher that really have no excuse whatsoever for generating that amount of waste.
What a load of shit, paper straws cant even get through a single drink. Come up with some kind of useful alternative before just doing random reactionary dumb things
Dxvk is notoriously bad on moltenvk. I have tried and have completely given up running it.
And metal!
Thanks for taking the time.-
Observing how the brain processes negated adjectives
That is a 14 year old HN post linking to a dead article, the comments on which say things like

> This is not the 'hacker news' ranking algorithm, this is the ranking algorithm distributed with 'ARC', which is the basis for the HN algorithm, but definitely not equal to it. The biggest missing ingredients are flagged posts dropping off quicker and posts that contain no URL dropping off quicker but there are quite a few other subtle tweaks.

Not really "public".
The only situation where OP isn’t an idiot is food delivery. If you get your groceries delivered, I don’t think there is a formal feed back mechanism. (Though your grocery store would almost certainly accept them back.)
> No one should be banned for content that isn't illegal

It is almost essential for the protection of free speech that private entities can and do ban people for content that isn't illegal.

When you've only got two categories of speech, (1) legal speech that is allowed everywhere and (2) illegal speech that is banned everywhere, there is going to be a lot of pressure by the majority to expand #2 to cover speech that is currently not illegal but that the majority things is repugnant.

By allowing private entities to ban speech that they don't want to have on their platform even if it is legal speech we have a third category between #1 and #2. That reduces the pressure to expand #2.
That's basically the whole game in politics right now. Spread lies to your base, then when called on it, turn around and say "Well, 50 million people believe this is true. We need to respect their opinion."

And I'm not saying both sides do it equally.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

The US hasn't been especially loud about it, but it's been a dominant force in 'internet warfare.'
Caution: you might get paid 50% more to work at a company that is 500% worse managed, and therefore is hemorrhaging employees so fast that the only way they can maintain staffing levels is to offer a hefty premium above normal market wages to get new suckers to take a chance on them.

If you're nihilistic and believe all employers are rotten, then jumping ship every 2 years might be a decent game strategy, but I tend to believe that good employers do exist and are just somewhat rare. So if you find a unicorn, I would recommend holding onto it.
People bought lead paint and asbestos in droves too before those were banned.

Just because something is cheap and accessible doesn't mean people understand how it impacts their lives. With studies coming out routinely showing the dramatic damage microplastics are causing to our environment and even inside our own bodies, it's only a matter of time before we come to our senses and stop it.
There's this pesky concept called free speech...
That and being a bit more conscious of our consumer choices. If you jave that much left over, try keeping a food journal for the sake of getting a better idea of how much we actually consume in a month, then adjust your purchasing weights and quantities.

My wife and I did this about a year ago in effort to make some dietary changes, but it also happily resulted in less left-overs and slightly lower grocery expenses.
It's really a farce. The old bags were really, really thin. Now, they're reuseable, and so they have to be much thicker, but they're still only used once. This just means that we're making more plastic waste.
There are so many things bad about this contentless article.

- It's not a scam, I paid $199 for the device and I have one

- The hardware is nicely designed and fun to use, the UI for interacting with the LLM is better than other options (my grandma could play with it easily)

The action model idea for training UI usage as a mechanism is an interesting idea.

The author is just so incredibly wrong about the shift in capability from prolog and GOFAI to now it's almost a caricature.
That is something I was just thinking about a few moments ago. I've haven't watched any of Hector latest stuff if he is still streaming. But between Hector, Alyssa, and Asahi Lina, they all 3 are pretty motivated and pretty excited to share. Which is great and something I wish we had more of. It helps to demystify these systems some. For many, GPUs and graphics APIs are just black boxes of magic and it can be hard to get past that. But content like this helps to remove the black box and make it more approachable.
money is quite simply not inherently commercial

free speech is a legal concept, and ROI is not a legal concept; when debts are enforced by courts, they frequently don't even enforce interest as if time value of money doesn't exist.
Why? I haven't used a disposable plastic bag in a decade, and don't miss them in the least. What issue do you have with it?
I would argue it is extremely effective.

Take a look a r/worldnews vs any other subreddit discussing this topic. r/worldnews is controlled. Negative comments towards Israel get comments deleted and users banned. Any other subreddit, there are people arguing from multiple directions. On r/worldnews, you only see dissenting opinions for the first hour or so until the mods "clean up the thread".

Obviously, this is anecdotal information and probably slightly biased.
There are hard plastic containers, like regular reusable food containers, that have good seals and little vacuum pumps on the lid. You actuate the lid pump a bit and it removes enough air from the container to keep food for a bit longer.

It's not magical, it won't keep food forever. But neither does cling wrap.
I have IBD. Any sensible doctor will tell you that there seem to be no link between diet and IBD, apart from certain food possibly aggravating symptoms.

No use whatsoever to blame oneself for something like this.