skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious what bags would need to cost to change that behaviour, as for all the complaining about inflation, many clearly don’t miss 3-4% a shop buying cloth bags here.
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I always use my reusable bags,

On the other hand, I found that sometimes I run out of plastic bags when I need them at home.

In some situations, a plastic bag is super useful: store a wet paintbrush overnight, wrap something that needs to retain moisture, lock up some smelly stuff, etc.

In those cases, I go to a store that still has plastic bags, then buy some stuff there and generously pack them into plastic bags.
You know what's the worst -- paper boba straws, especially for kids.
Lots of medical supplies are single use plastics.
Do you have a source for this?

The comments I've found from Fauci about the lab leak theory are as follows:

> "If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,"

You also have to remember what else was going on around this time. Namely, that the president was claiming to have seen evidence that it was a man-made virus from the Chinese, and suggesting it was a weapon, calling it the "Kung Flu", the "Wuhan Flu", etc. There were significant sociological impacts from this, including a dramatic increase in violence against Asian-Americans.

Context matters.
It's wild to think this is true for anyone under the half century mark.
Poorer parts of the world have (typically) much worse problems with litter.

Poorer nations typically have no/few refuse collection services, and people often just pile up and burn their own refuse or dump it in rivers to take it away.

That means poorer people see directly the litter rather than an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach.
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64% of the people surveyed in the US "agree" or "strongly agree". Maybe it's because I spend most of my time in less affluent parts of the country, but I almost never see people bringing their own bags to the grocery store.

Checkout clerks usually seem surprised when I pull out my canvas bags.
they said they have a large action model, but allegedly they just have playwright scripts that break as rideshare apps update

they said they are faster than chatgpt, but allegedly they are a chatgpt wrapper
https://www.cybercom.mil

how competent they actually are at this, who knows...
I don't know if I completely agree with that summary; ChatGPT (and Claude and Gemini) also has some degree of memory and context as well. It can at least to some degree remember what I and it typed and adjust things based on that. I would consider that some level of "intelligence", even if it's kind of baby intelligence.

ETA:

I should point out that it doesn't just "smoosh google results together", and it can actually do pretty interesting transformations beyond a simple "Grabbing the first result". If I ask ChatGPT to give me ten unique Java homework assignment problems, it will give me exactly that, and from my experience they actually are unique, at least they don't show up immediately when I search for similar things on Google. I can then ask it to give me those questions in LaTeX so that I can render it into a pretty thing. I guess you could argue that that is just an AST, so fair enough, but I think it's pretty easy to see why people are losing their shit over it.

It also has for more than a year hooked into Wolfram Alpha, so it addition to usually correctly parsing your problem, it can then send that parsed problem to a more objective source and get a correct answer.

ChatGPT has been an immense timesaver for me. It's been great to generate stuff like homework assignments, or to summarize long text into something more palatable. I don't automatically trust its output obviously, but it's considerably more useful than a Markov chain.
It needs to make the loop thing more obvious so when you press the button it’s obvious you’re adding to a sequence
I kind of agree. I feel like the word "unnecessary" in that sentence guts it. Of course we should ban unnecessary and wasteful things. If the question was "should we ban plastic bags completely in favor of re-usable ones" might get a very different answer. I would definitely say yes to the first question but I also sometimes forget to bring my reusable bags to the store and then definitely always get the disposable ones if it's more items than I can carry in my hands.
Kind of like that "4 out of 5 dentists" claim from back in the day - it involved some very heavy editorializing:

https://nowiknow.com/who-was-the-fifth-dentist-that-didnt-re...
Hi, I wrote the article. I see a lot of opinions here and I want to thank everyone for taking time out of their day to read it.

I'm not the OP though; I was informed that the article was shared here, so let me explain some things that I think weren't clear.

Nope. I've never applied to FAANG and never will. And yes, I do know how to revert a binary tree and run zigzag level order traversal from memory using bare C without seg faults, not using JS/Python. But I don't remember other things, and if I have to invest time to train my brain, I better get a good ROI.

I did not call everyone slaves, and I'm not calling anyone a slave, including people working at FAANG. I'm just saying that from the perspective of big corporations, that's how they see us—not just tech corporations, but all corporations.

FAANG companies need to conduct whiteboard interviews because, as I mentioned in the Google section, they have no choice. You're mostly going to be using some tech you've never used before, so they just want to see how you solve problems. I still don't approve of this as it's lacking; it's still a pattern recognition game. I can solve the hardest questions without training, but it would take me time. Expecting me to solve a new riddle my brain hasn't seen before in 45 minutes is just a numbers game. It's pattern recognition, not problem-solving, which needs a more creative aspect.

It's like knowing how to play a song on a piano by memorizing the keys versus composing your own music. Memorizing a song is one thing, but creating your own requires deeper understanding and creativity. Companies need both types of skills, but relying too heavily on memorization leads to a lack of true innovation.

Also, asking veterans how to use a specific function/class/method in library X or framework Y is not it, chief. I often forget most of my own libraries' APIs, let alone other people's. You think I really remember what that method was called? Unless I worked with it recently (within ~6 months), I need a refresher.

However, my problem is with cheap startups and "enterprises" that still use jQuery and Java -1, acting as if they're Google. You're not. You don't make the software they do, you don't pay as much, and working with you sucks.

If you're running a startup and you ask me for take-home assignments and expect me to spend two months relearning patterns I’ve forgotten, you need to pay me as much as FAANG does, or you need to humble yourself and see reality for what it is. Your software sucks, your management sucks, y'all suck. You're not that guy, pal. You're not that guy. If I'm getting a good ROI, why wouldn't I brush up on basic algo manipulation techniques? I'll gladly do it—I'll consider it an investment. If I'm going to be a good slave from your point of view can I at least make good money off it?
Which ever is more profitable.
those studies mostly show the dramatic presence of microplastics rather than dramatic damage, which is still mostly speculative. most of the microplastics inside our own bodies come from washing synthetic clothes rather than from single-use plastics
AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini are 'irrational'
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Not much point sending robots to go look at Moon rocks if there's no pretext of sending people there. I mean, you could make some PhDs out of it I'm sure, but would that be worth the public expense? I don't think so.
At least in my tech circle, most people understand the limitations and treat is as a good tool (which it is imo). In many cases it's better than google if you are even somewhat familiar with the domain and can spot the occasional bullshit. No clue what the average people think, some are convinced singularity will come in 2 weeks but most probably have no idea
I took one of the problems that gpt4o got wrong, and asked gpt4o what tools it could use. It suggested and wrote prolog for me that (with one pass back to get things defined in the right order) which correctly worked out the answer.
> can 24k people from 32 countries (so, 750 in each) be representative of 8 billion in 200+ countries?

Yes, assuming they are sampled randomly. If they aren't, a bigger sample size won't help anyways:
https://sample-size.net/confidence-interval-proportion/
It's an inconvenience to actually reuse the bag that is inevitably covered in rancid meat juice. Calling people idiots isn't constructive, and besides, one may not be an idiot for simply not caring about burying a few plastic bags in the landfill. It's just different judgements about what's important.
My city talked about banning "Single Use Items" from drive thrus and such, but what they failed to communicate was this also meant "Paper Bags" like what McDonalds would hand you out the window.

It was _that_ part which sparked outrage. The overly-simplistic definition of "Single Use" items included items which are _actually_ recyclable like paper (or compostable if covered in food-stuff).

They undid the ban "for re-evaluation"
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You're assuming I'm driving it back to the drop point as a dedicated trip. A: I typically keep the containers until I order next time, you have a month to drop them off. So just drop them off when you're picking up your food. B: The drop off point is a short walk away, so you could just, you know, walk.

I'm not worried about resources or emissions here, I'm more concerned about trash in the rivers/oceans, and microplastics. There are more metrics to account for than you are allowing for.
Ironically, the "stochastic parrot" could very likely put together a better argument than this ridiculous comparison with Prolog and 2011 tech.

Sure, markov chains are also picking the next token, but so am I when writing this comment. Am I just a "stochastic parrot"? Or is it the author that is parroting other people's opinions without giving them any thought?
Yes, but the claim is not "US and Europe is so much ahead of everyone else in tech, space and automation that it's not funny anymore" but that China is. So, while the answer to your question is "of course" it's not relevant to the claim.
When I was in New Zealand, they had a single standard reusable metal cup for all their coffee shops. That is, you can pay to refill the cup, and if the cup is dirty, any coffee shop will exchange it with a clean one for free. Consumers pay a small deposit for the cup, and can get the deposit back by returning it.

Unfortunately, common-sense solutions like this one require tremendous political coordination to even get started. In most countries, environmentalism is far less creative - levy new taxes to change consumer behavior (e.g. single-use bags), or ban something entirely without consideration toward the alternatives (e.g. paper vs plastic straws).
Also, most foils are coated on at least one side with a petroleum-based wax anyway.
I would be interested to see this after switching every 2 years for a couple decades.

It goes up 20% each switch, but there still has to be a ceiling where the company can just hire 2-3 young people for the same price.
What’s wrong with paper?
Just because the device exists and appears to work doesn't mean it isn't a scam.

For example, if someone sells you a machine that they claim is powered by magic but actually there is a hidden physical mechanism, you can claim the machine still performs the function, but they have misled you about the workings in a way that has huge implications on the capabilities of the product.

That is what is going on here. Look at MKBHD's review, the main potential he pointed out was the LAM functionality and the possible future uses of that. It turns out that entire thing was faked, and the "magic" that was the LAM is a "hidden physical mechanism" of duct tape'd together manual automations
> you start collecting reusable bags that you have no way of reusing

I use them as trash bags for the various small trashcans in the home (office, bathroom, etc). Works great.

Also fantastic for any trash (like fish) you have that you don't want stinking up the big trash can for several days and needs to be taken out asap.
IMO as someone who has done hiring at a FAANG and many other companies, short answer is no, if anything it's the opposite. As long as you hit a sweet spot of staying at each place for at least 9-12 months with no gaps in between jobs--in reality, this means "it doesn't look like you were fired"--switching jobs not only makes you look more motivated, it also gives you a wider breadth of experience to draw from. A senior engineer at Amazon for 8 years knows how to do things the Amazon Way. A senior engineer who was at Google, Meta, Netflix and Amazon for 2 years each knows how to do things four ways, and as long as they can intelligently compare and contrast the way those four companies operate and the pros and cons of each, would be an extremely valuable asset.

The only time this would maybe not apply is director/VP level roles, though if you're switching at that level you presumably have a pre-existing relationship with someone near whatever role you're trying to move into.
Reusable metal straws do exist. They don't solve the problem for takeaway, but I assume straws are the least to worry there.
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...

"These are the results of a survey conducted by Ipsos on its Global Advisor online platform [...] they are more urban, more educated, and/or more affluent than the general population. The survey results should be viewed as reflecting the views of the more “connected” segment of their population"

So basically it's people who have internet and accepted to be paid to answer surveys.

Like a Twitter poll.

It's nowhere meant to be representative of the population.
I can have more confidence that my calculations are correct using a calculator compared to doing it by hand, even if I don't know the exact right answer beforehand.
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Sure. I've done similar things myself, though the "advanced languages" which I'm expert in do not include Scala. This is a good example of what I'm talking about in the last paragraph of the comment which you are responding to.
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Before we had PFAS paper there was wax coated paper. So long as you aren't using something like paraffin wax, it'll happily decompose with the rest of your trash.

The focus needs to be on containers that decompose in weeks/months/a year. Not thousands of years.
Yeah positive incentive and/or negative deterrent is just not strong enough for people to act on it over the current convenience. If "reusable" bags cost $10 at the store, but you get it refunded if you bring your own, I bet people won't forget to bring their own. The laws just arent strong enough
I don't know about anybody else, but the words "doordash", "hamburger", and "menu" made that sentence difficult to grok. I thought "How can altering the contents of a hamburger (food) menu (list of foods you can order) in a food ordering app break the device the app is running on?"

Edit: yay for downvoting me for being unable to grok a sentence on the first try. That's truly the spirit of HN. /s
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Well said. The root cause as I see it is the nature of money used by the people. If money were gold or bitcoin or a similar limited commodity, with a sufficient layer of anonymization, also with global validity and use, then many of these problems would not happen because the governments just would not have so much money to waste. The governments use their guns to enforce that we use their money instead which is prone to heavy inflation and excessive taxation. Reasonable taxation can still exist even with gold/bitcoin via property taxes. We do not have financial freedom.
these days, is the way to win in the industry to basically pour money into the popularity contest of your own dev kit vs. Nvidia's and others?
What would you estimate the cost to be? In my locale, bags are charged at $0.25 each.
Nice, I imagine you're using your own product? I got "LAUNCH SALE $100 OFF"

1. How do you provide consistent banners to an individual? or a device?
2. Are you aware of anyone doing this for Saas products?
> Because that's utterly ridiculous and highly inconvenient for nearly everyone that isn't proselytizing about reusable sacks

No

Here in Aotearoa they are completely normal

> Reusable bags are nearly universally unsanitary...place them on the same conveyor belt where you put your vegetables.

Golly. Given the habits of growers you really should wash your vegetables before you use them. Pesticides
Nope, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.

Thought Experiment : Let's say the world unemployment is 25% and we can build a magical nuclear reactor that produces near infinite clean energy, but it costs $50 Trillion to build.

Are you going to wait for the world to save $50 Trillion (which may take 50 years) to build this reactor or are you going to print $50 Trillion give those 25% jobs in creating the nuclear reactor?

The only precious commodity in the universe is time. If you don't print $50 T, you are wasting the time of 25% unemployed people.
> Secrets and everything.

I guess you had to import the secrets, too...
Only if they are 100% bioplastics, and 100% biodegradable in nature, not just in an industrial facility, or else you can end up with the same microplastics pollution problem. Although different chemicals are likely to have dramatic different impacts on the environment, hopefully by now we've learned that "dumping a bunch of microparticles into the environment and hoping everything is OK" is a bad way to go about things.
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It does not matter much how they do in a landfill. What matters is what happens when left out in the environment, aiui they weather and breakdown pretty fast.
What’s stopping you from helping to build it? Jobs in space tech exist. They need smart motivated people.
Mexico City implemented a ban on single-use plastics on January 1, 2021, which has been almost completely ignored except outside of corporate chains such as Walmart, where indeed many people just buy the recyclable bags.
Butchers used to use wax paper. Many still do. A wax paper without a petroleum based coating can compost.
Yet tools like GPT4o can do this.

It's not a trivial problem, taking a human written description and rewriting it as a prolog program.
Question: there's a lot of hands-on learning resources on the construction of a simple microcoded processor, or an in-order pipelined processor where the most headache-inducing thing you have to deal with is forwarding results – but is there one on the essential elements of "modern" superscalar OoO, e.g. the circuits that check for hazards and delay dispatching etc.?

It's not that it's magic I would love to learn about: it's that I'd like to know what happens behind the scenes when we say that (for example) "results get reordered in the reorder buffer"!
You're assuming the bag actually makes it to the landfill. MANY do not. Also, the rancid meat juice issue sounds like a problem specific to you. I certainly don't have that issue.
they could sell you a glass jar with the food in it; in rich countries the extra cost of the disposable single-use glass wouldn't be significant to most consumers, although it would produce more pollution, hazard, and waste than the plastic alternatives. we've had returnable coke bottles since they started bottling coke
More importantly, the folks who take the time to response to these surveys in poorer countries are much more likely to be the affluent class who spends time in the kind of areas the surveyors are willing to visit, and has spare time on their hands to talk to people.
Glass jars and tin cans were the old solution.

Perhaps some modern deep eutectic chemistry can improve on the old energy economy of glass.
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> an inconvenience to actually reuse the bag that is inevitably covered in rancid meat juice

Why do you have rancid meat juice in your grocery bag!? Why do you have rancid meat!

> not caring about burying a few plastic bags in the landfill

I don’t particularly care about this. I still have a couple reusable bags in the back of my car that I use to transport food from the grocery store home. (I never have to deal with bags breaking. And my town charges for single-use paper bags, which I think is a fair compromise.)

When rancid meat juice raises its head, it’s rare and immediately dealt with by cleaning out the fridge. I’d be worried for a friend citing exposure to it as not only a regularity, but inevitability.
> Poorer nations typically have no/few refuse collection services, and people often just pile up and burn their own refuse or dump it in rivers to take it away.

Would it not make sense then if they had a container with which to collect and responsibly dispose of the refuse? A plastic bag perhaps?
> 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.

I'll play devil's advocate on this one. Are they investing more into their work or do they care less because they'll be gone in a year anyway?
A hamburger menu is a specific UI element (the one in many apps that reveals an app's functionalities and is rendered as three stacked horizontal lines). Now that I've told you that, you should be able to grok it.
> 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.

They have an excuse; they don't want to pay someone to wash dishes.

This is why a ban is necessary. Businesses will always look for the cheapest way to operate.
Jeff Geerling has a video up on this (of course he does):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589424

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIMJbN0DS0
What is newsworthy about this?
I think bags would have to cost $10-$20 before the most people started remembering to bring one to the shop.

People simply don't think far enough ahead to plan to take a bag to the shop, and prefer to 'pay for convenience'.

Plenty of people pay $30 to avoid having to turn their oven on to cook something.