skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employers don't reward long-term employees because they don't need to. Even though everyone knows you make more by job-hopping, companies are following a rational strategy because too few people "walk the walk" despite wanting more salary. Arguably unethical, but rational.

At the cost of losing a minority of job-hoppers they retain the cheap majority that:

- finds job interviews exhausting, or is anxious about being rejected

- dislikes conflict or negotiation

- has good relationships with colleagues they don't want to lose

- has a comfortable commute or WFH arrangement they don't want to change

- is proud of becoming an expert / go-to-person in some part of the business and doesn't want to lose that source of social capital

- is proud of product or service they have made a big contribution to and wants to "see it through to the end"

- believes leaving would place an unfair burden on other team-members or would be disloyal to a manager they consider a friend

- (US only) cannot risk losing healthcare

It's possible that in the future the ratio of job-hoppers to lifers changes and companies find they need to switch strategies. But until that happens the job-hoppers will have the upperhand compared to the lifers.

It's the same reason why your phone/insurance/whatever provider puts up the prices year-after-year: although some people leave, enough people simply put up with it that they make more money this way. "Do nothing" is an easy choice and companies are banking on enough people making that choice.
Substitutes like reusing shipping boxes like they do at Costco?
But that's the whole point. It doesn't do what they claimed it would
Good idea! But unfortunately the reason I always have more bags is that I forget my bags in the first place.

Maybe you get a few cents back when you return them?
> you just take the containers back to a drop point.

If someone drives to drop off the container they have uses way more resources than they would just using a disposable. I suspect this idea is just greenwashing.

> thicker paperboard

Which again uses more resources, and emits more CO2, than plastic.
In my area, one of our grocery chains has "Compostable Bags" which they package the "Pickup / Delivery" orders in.

My area also mandates municipal composting so the discussion of "But is it _really_ compostable" is moot.
> Those reusable shopping bags [...] How many times have you used your last one?

This reply blew my mind ... when you realize someone must have the exact opposite experience ...

of course I use the reusable bags,

they are in the trunk, and first step after pulling into the parking spot is to take these out the trunk and head into the store

in the last 5 years used only my reusable shopping bag every time except in a few cases when I forgot to put the bags back in the trunk for some reason (usually, I needed to transport bigger things)
And don't forget that the Houthis recently struck the USS Eisenhower with ballistic missiles.

https://x.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1797732901846692117

(Yeah, @iAmTheWarax's tweet is a shitpost. It's apparently also been quoted in Newsweek as confirming the story.)
The LAM stuff doesnt appear to be real. This youtube had a pretty convincing take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM&pp=ygUGcmFiYml0
Anyone got a link for the actual study paper?
In a sense, it’s trading convenience and stability for compensation.
But that's not the point I think. The point to me is: 10 years ago, this seemed nearly impossible to solve. "Weird, impossible sci-fi stuff". Now I have this exact feature in the Photos app of my iPhone. It not only finds my dog in the photos, but correctly determines its breed. It's amazing! And it works locally on my device, no servers involved. But I'm sure many people would argue that it is not "real AI", because it is "just XYZ". So as soon as we figure out how to do it, it's declared banal. Like LLMs. I'm baffled by the people who think it's "just" this or "just" that. That little word "just" buries years of research and several breakthroughs. Somehow, AI is always what AI can't do yet. It's always the next thing. The noise of goal posts being moved is sometimes deafening. And people don't even realize they're doing it.
It does not do what it was purported to do though.
It was supposed to have a built-in AI, including an AI to navigate websites that is just a bunch of manually written playwright scripts, and plenty of capabilities that are present in the marketing videos and promised by the CEO that simply do not exist.
Steam updates are often in the order of kilobytes. Clearly it can be done.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/12/community-notes-is-great...

https://x.com/CardQueenEileen/status/1655061481862619136
Some of the advertised features like Uber seem to be super buggy or permanently "temporarily" unavailable. I wouldn't call it a scam per se but it's more of a beta or early access product.
https://book.systemsapproach.org/internetworking/basic-ip.ht...
I think pretty much everyone wants this yet we still use these plastics… we want to end global warming yet we still drive cars. We care but to what degree do we actually care? Not much.

There’s huge business interest pushing the usage of environmentally damaging products forward because it generates money. This against consumer laziness, progress will be slow
This is just what you get when saddled with a government organization from the 1700s.

After WWII most of Europe reorganized national government into proportional representation. With all parties running nationwide, and receiving a number of seats proportional to the percentage of the popular vote received.

In the US, we're still stuck in 1776. And as the article mentions, this leads to a 2 party system where the overwhelming majority of voters don't find representation for their own political position.

With neither entrenched party being willing to undermine their own position of power, there is very little likelihood of reforming this antiquarian system in the US.

One of the only examples, after the major re-org of Europe after WWII, is New Zealand. Which reorganized into a proportional representation in 1996:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealan...
It's so sad to see these kinds of comments on HN.

A.I. is doing an amazing amount of good stuff right now, and had been for years. Things like drug, protein and materials discovery, financial analysis, fraud detection, risk assessment.

Not everything AI is Chat GPT, thankfully.
It’s like people who say ‘Apple products are a scam’. If you don’t like them and think they’re overpriced, it’s simple: don’t buy them. Provided there’s no deceit, there’s no scam.
Nvidia Has Surpassed Apple to Become 2nd Most Valuable Company – Markets Insider
It’s not unpopular. Its quite popular within the city.

The problem is that it’s unpopular with a tiny minority of suburban drivers but those suburban districts will be key swing districts during the upcoming election.

Essentially it’s the risk of swinging a few thousand votes that led to this being paused.

If it was actually unpopular it wouldn’t have survived 5 years of planning and wouldn’t have been voted in as law in the first place.
The purpose of propaganda, in its broadest definition, isn't to change minds. It is to leverage the existing contents of a mind in a way that makes you perform a certain action that is desired by the propagandist.

The belief that holding strong opinions protects against propaganda is dangerous. Strong opinions is where propaganda inserts its levers.
Hire some freelancer who can do seo/marketing for you.
The FMCG companies will oppose it and have deep pockets.

I have spent nearly ten years developing robotics to bring complex food production to the edge so that perishable logistics can occur instead of distributing non-fresh products in single use plastics.

When consumers shift to better product, change will occur.
> Compare

Looks like wordpress vs cdn.
This is true. The pool of companies hiring is biased towards companies with poor retention.
Ultimately any proof-of-work system has to burn joules rather than clock cycles (because any race on cycles-per-joule is rapidly caught up), and that makes it clearer where the waste is: to be economically stable, in the face of adversarial actions by other nation states who sometimes have a vested interest in undermining your currency so actively seek the chaos and loss of trust in a double-spend event, your currency has to be backed by more electricity than any hostile power can spend on breaking it.
That's utterly ridiculous and highly inconvenient for nearly everyone that isn't proselytizing about reusable sacks or needs to purchase more than a few items. What works for dedicated urbanists doesn't fly for the other 85% of the population.

Reusable bags are nearly universally unsanitary. People let their cats play in them, never wash them, then place them on the same conveyor belt where you put your vegetables.
> Parents generation really dropped the … ball there

Really probably your grandparents or great grandparents depending on your age. Most Americans born after the moon landings had boomer or gen-x parents. All the men who walked on the moon and the majority of those in high office until roughly the 1990s were silent generation, the GI generation or older. They’re the ones who had the power to keep the space program going but didn’t. Once your parents had significant influence the Apollo program was long gone, the know how to build the hardware was gone, they would have had an even harder time than us rebuilding it because the commercial impetus wasn’t there and we didn’t yet have insane internet billionaires competing for launch contracts.
Nvidia overtakes Apple as No. 2 most valuable company
Walmart have made their bags ridiculously small to make you buy more
> Is there a good substitute for cling wrap?

In my area there has been "compostable" cling wrap available

I have no data about the veracity of the claim
The only grocery delivery service I've used let you return bags the next time they drop food off. I'm not sure how many of them get reused though.
Ask HN: Using a Projector for Programming?
So, I have been thinking about projecting my computer’s screen to the wall via a projector. My wall is like 3 meters away from my computers desk.

1) I would like to do this to reduce eye strain. Would this approach even help?

2) What projector do you recommend? I guess my budget is around $1K to $2K

I have a MBP m1.
Feanix 'Remote Carrier' Aims to Be the Ultra-Adaptable Missile of the Future
In the Coffeezilla videos linked in the post, the scam is that they kind of explicitly said that they're not just wrapping around ChatGPT.

I don't know if I'd call it a "scam", just a bit dishonest.
I get where that comment is coming from. As far as I can tell when asked to generate text what all of the popular AI products are doing is the equivalent of smooshing together the first page of google results for the same prompt, xor'ing the shit out of it, then running the soup through a Word grammar checker, and then slowly typing out the results at like 300 baud and everyone is losing their shit over it.

Asking AI to do anything that requires "I" has it falling flat on its face in a cruel mockery of the word "I" and I just don't understand the hype. Well, that's a lie I do understand the hype and the mechanism by which piles of cash and gigawatthours of energy are being burned through and it makes me sad.

When all of the upcoming virtual brand ambassadors prove to be embarrassing failures maybe a splinter of reality will penetrate the hype-reinforced skulls of all of the "visionaries" funding this nonsense.
> Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint

Only if you insist on single-use things, in many cases. A reasonable substitute for a single-use plastic bag isn't a single-use paper bag: It's a multi-use bag.

> even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort.

I care a lot about comfort, which is why a single-use utensil ban can't come soon enough in the US.
New generation of tech. Same old problems scraping webpages.

> In the linked video below, Coffeezilla shows how actions fail when applications change their graphical interface - like Doordash, the US version of iFood, which altered a small hamburger menu in its interface, breaking the Rabbit R1’s action.
Huh, so you can hear things explode in space, after all. If you're close enough to a warp field doing funny things, the gravitational wave strain would create audible-frequency artifacts, as it wiggles your eardrums at frequencies close enough to the audible.

They derive an equation for estimated strain as a function of distance from the warp bubble collapse. How does strain translate to sound intensity, in the situation where a gravitational wave is driving sound pressure waves, and/or directly wiggling eardrums?
The trouble with Topology Aware Routing:Sacrificing reliability for cost savings
We keep a roll of plastic wrap in the drawer for the rare times it's actually necessary, but we've had good luck with the combo of two things: 1) pyrex containers with silicone replacement lids, and 2) stretchy silicone lids[1] for other containers (or directly on the ends of things like half-cucumbers or melons). We haven't found very many common use cases where cling wrap is actually necessary, but it's non-zero. I'm satisfied with our current state, but my bugbear is alternatives to ziplock bags.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/silicone-stretch-lids/s?k=silicone+st...
Topology Aware Routing is a feature of Kubernetes that prevents cluster traffic within one availability zone from crossing to another availability zone. For high-traffic applications deployed in multi-zone clusters, this can provide significant cost savings: cloud providers can charge for traffic that crosses zone boundaries, and these costs can be expensive at scale...
I mean, it is a bit of a scam though right? I can pay for an NFT, 'own' the NFT, and still have been scammed.

In the case of this device, it told users it has functionality that, plainly, it does not have. It marketed itself based on these features. That is a scam.
parafilm, which is even less reusable than cling wrap
I did some work for findcity.io as a freelancer(marketing stuff)and it is steadily growing.
There is deceit here, specifically that the LAM functionality is faked
Nvidia stock crosses $3T market cap, overtakes Apple
> Pointer Acceleration being the biggest one.

I love pointer acceleration, and won't use an OS that doesn't feature it.

I _like_ being able to perform pixel-precise movement of the cursor on a ~20MP desktop without also having to drag the mouse across the entire desk or modify mouse DPI to get from one corner to the other.

The disappearing scrollbars are awful though. I have a feeling Apple made that a default to get people to stop clicking on them out of habit.
How much do you pay for them?

For bags, there is no reason for a store to give them out. You had to pay for a wallet to hold your cash and cards, a purse to hold them if you don'f have pockets. No need for bags to be a cost center for a store.
Yup, and you can't recycle food stained foil, nor compost it like a pizza box
Can anyone explain to me how this works in practice? Eg if i now buy meat or cheese or pre-cut vegetables or bread at the supermarket, it’s in plastic packaging. What do legislators propose we replace that by? I understand (and use) reusable shopping bags but keeping sliced ham fresh sounds less practical. For clarity, I’m not skeptical, I’m all for the strictest plastic ban that’s remotely practical. But I don’t get how it would work. Do we all take tupperware into the butchers?
I think people are skeptical of the 50% figure. New employees joining a firm might make more than the current employees at the same level, but do they make 50% more?
thousands, really? that seems unlikely; it certainly isn't thousands of times cheaper
Box86 can't run on apple silicon. There is no 32 bit support.
If we could get the total cost of product disposal built into the checkout price. I think single use plastics would solve it's self along with a litany of other garbage disposal problems.
Thanks, I expected that deleting the conversation on my end would have no effect on a permalink but I was wrong.

Nothing I can do about the blank, however, it works for me.
Writing an engine from scratch is debatably more complicated since you need to do a lot of guesswork around what capabilities you actually need and how badly the artists and gameplay programmers will break everything - assuming your not doing it all solo.
The nature of the strawman you've stood up to to represent my "proposal" (who knew I had a proposal?) suggests you're not even familiar with the history of the legal debate in the United States surrounding the 1st amendment and political donations. So I guess I would propose you read up on that.
The response rate is so low as to be entirely meaningless. If you're content with sampling only 0.000001% of the population, you can get any results you want by simply selecting for the people who care the most by taking a bunch of time to lecture the individual if they seem like they'd vote the other way (oh no, you have to leave? but we didn't even have time to submit your vote yet... :( ), and wording the question in such a way to make the answer you want be the only reasonable response.
>> In the AGI scenario, the employers that are dependent on consumer sales will wither and die, as consumer buying power shrinks due to unemployment.

> Why? People will find ways to exchange value.

Sure, but they'll have increasingly less to exchange among themselves. They'll have nothing to sell that the AGI-powered economy wants to buy, except truly limited legacy resources like land that can be gobbled up in one-time purchases. Eventually the AGI-powered economy will monopolize the resources that are useful to it, in a way that likely conflicts with the needs of now-obsolete workers (e.g. converting vast amounts of farmland to solar power megaprojects).

That's the end-state of automation, in our current social system.

>>> What's more likely - not that AGI is likely, but still - is that people move into other jobs.

>> Not if the AGI can do all those jobs better and cheaper than most people (or even just good enough and more obediently).

> What does this mean? By AGI do you mean...

I mean intellectual automation that can do at least what a typical person can do as well as they can or better. Eventually it means the automation that can do all the jobs (or even just enough of the jobs). Eventually you won't have a new job to move into once your job is replaced.

AGI will eventually mean there will cease to be a practical necessity to using human to do labor to operate capital. The capital will be able to operate itself on behalf of its owners. Once that happens, under the current system, the owners of that automated capital will eventually accumulate all the wealth of the economy, because they'll be able to sell without paying wages. Eventually they'll pivot to vanity projects and B2B sales among themselves.

> Also there will be a floor of jobs not worth doing with AGI because of the energy and maintenance requirements. AGI is not a magic wand. It's a specific thing.

Probably, but I expect even those will eventually disappear too, at least on the mass scale needed to support billions of people, during the later stages of the economic transition.

> ChatGPT being able to spit out a decent but generic essay doesn't suddenly mean that all the crazy numbers of jobs everyone does will vanish.

I'm not talking about ChatGPT, I'm talking about the utopia the AI folks want to create.
> we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them

We’re in the crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics.
My original assertion was that being a moral person is not orthogonal to being a moral king. I added that how a king rules is a huge factor in their moral standing as a human.

You asked: "So do you think then that power doesn't corrupt?"

My response was that power corrupting is irrelevant to judging if a person in power is corrupt or not. I dont think that additional challenge lowers the bar for morality.

You brought up the Mansons, social expectations, ect as examples of mitigations to consider in moral judgement.

I have doubled down on the idea that the moral standing of a human should be based on their actions, not on their circumstantial considerations or mitigations.
Maybe an edge-case in some codegen?
I'm skeptical. As it was pointed out to me, what percentage of things going in those plastic bags is already wrapped in a plastic bag, 90%? The single most useful plastic bag on the outside seems negligible in comparison.
Sadly it looks like DeliveryZero is still using plastic. :( I'd really love to see some companies using non-plastic takeout containers, especially for hot foods.

But even with cold foods, every study that has come out has shown microplastic shedding even from water bottles.
We've tried it. I wouldn't call it a cling wrap replacement because it's a wax-coated paper and therefore not watertight/airtight in the same way plastic wrap is. It's fine for some things, but we never found ourselves choosing that when we could use a rigid container. It's very good as an external wrap for a sandwich you first wrapped in wax paper, though.
Here you go:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07501-1
Yep, similar experience at about 15 years into my career. Not to say it'd be impossible to increase, but the opportunities are few and far between especially in a cooled off market. And the actual job might be a lot worse/more stressful.

Always be reevaluating, though, the situation could change in a couple years. But until then I sleep well at night knowing I'm paid near top of market at a decent company. Not worth chasing those last couple percentiles, personally.
I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had something to do with it. Context matters!
Our neighborhood has a stretch where people park and dump litter profusely. I go out once a month and clean it up. (Soooo many vape pods)

I think the biggest change is mostly in perception. Old plastic bags were lighter and blew around so they were very visible. The newer heavier "reusable" plastic bags use a significant amount more of plastic - they are heavy enough to stay near where they get dropped and sink to the bottoms of puddles. You don't see them floating around in the wind but they still get littered a ton.
I don't want a ban, I want a tax on them. There's a strong use for single use plastics - medical goods being one of the important ones that I highly suspect people don't want a ban of. They define these as "necessary" versus "unnecessary" in their poll (ie the 85% figure is specifically for "ban unnecessary single-use plastic products, e.g., shopping bags, cutlery, cups & plates"). Things get murky really quickly when we bucket items. Are single use water bottles bad? Probably. Are all plastic liquid containers bad? Almost certainly not, you wouldn't want to store a corrosive acid that eats through glass in a glass bottle.

So either the option is create a giant database of what is/isn't single use, which then can be gamed in its own way, or simply tax all single-use plastics such that necessary cases still leverage them, but it quickly doesn't become cost-effective for the main offending category of them.
Don't tell that to the Hyundai Ionic N.
What to expect from WWDC 2024: iOS 18, macOS 15 and so much AI
Not OP, but a decent RDP alternative is my major blocker. None of the alternatives comes remotely close in terms of performance and features.

I also don't like the backup situation. I really like doing (incremental) full-disk backups due to ease of restore in case of emergencies. But I think ZFS-on-root will scratch that itch.
There should be a version for the terminal which looks like logs.
Sterilization doesn't solve all. Prions for example survive an autoclave.