skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're kind of complementary.

The expanded version of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle has Waste-to-energy and landfill as next steps.

Chemical recycling could fit in between mechanical recycling and Waste-to-energy.

Though if you just let corporations lie about stuff then it's hard for any kind of logical actions to be taken.

Personally I don't mind the mass balance stuff they mention as long as there is a mandated minimum.

Similar to 'green electricity' that all come through the same wires as the coal generation it's fine if consumer brands want to pay a little extra to market themselves as 100% green energy but if you spread any extra cost across every faceless user by forcing them to buy a minimum 1% green energy and ramp it up over a few years then that's a good way to fund the initial rollout of new cleaner options.
I’m just demonstrating that the two categories are different, which they clearly are.

Not that one is trivial and the other is impossible. Of course, if you want to do any task well it becomes nontrivial.
Nicely done Pontus :)
Because Kotlin as a mess language and have poor IDE support.

$ kotlin
Welcome to Kotlin version 1.6.10 (JRE 21.0.1+12-Debian-2)
Type :help for help, :quit for quit
>>> val b=ByteArray(1);
>>> b[0] == 0;
error: operator '==' cannot be applied to 'Byte' and 'Int'
b[0] == 0;
^

$ jshell
| Welcome to JShell -- Version 21.0.1
| For an introduction type: /help intro

jshell> byte[] ba={0}
ba ==> byte[1] { 0 }

jshell> ba[0]==0
$2 ==> true

upd: format
And from here to sorting the trash before it reaches the landfill is just a small step in logic.
Thanks! We're working hard on those last things haha!
The same thing happens in electric fields. The electric field of a uniformly-moving charge points to where it is, not to where it was when the light was emitted from it that is now reaching the observer measuring the electric field.
But the LLM is almost literally "the collective wisdom of real-world experts" rather than a single one. Obviously it's not at that level yet, but I don't see a clear upper bound to it getting there. I'm not very familiar with athletes, but from what I know, regardless of the "human premium", if the AI coach helps their competitors perform better, they'll need to adapt or "perish".
All of the symptoms of ADHD are different areas of executive control. I would argue that all people with ADHD generally also show all of the symptoms, but which are severe enough to cause a diagnosis varies- often due to external factors, like which aspects of executive control are most critical for a particular individual. People also have varying success and abilities at compensation. For example, I don’t misplace objects as often as a lot of people with ADHD, but that it just because I did it so much as a kid, I developed systems to deal with it- like the habit of anxiously accounting for everything I’m supposed to have on me every time I stand from a seated position. You might say I don’t even have that symptom, yet I can’t stand up and walk without checking everything in my pockets like most people can.
Am I the only one who gave up and embraced the messy windows spread all over the desktop? (Used to use Rectangle.) It's kinda liberating, tbh.
Those robots aren't acquiring their own food, and they're not edible by the creatures that surround them. They're playing on easy mode.
And then here is one of the biggest backend JS frameworks (NestJS) clinging to CJS/holding off on migrating to ES modules. https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/13319
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> There are many flavors of this kind of accounting. Another version of free attribution would allow the company to take that entire 30-pound batch of “33% recycled” pouches and split them even further:

> A third of them, 10 pounds, could be labeled 100% recycled — shifting the value of the full batch onto them — so long as the remaining 20 pounds aren’t labeled as recycled at all.

Amusingly reminiscent of CDO tranches.
At a certain size, making sure ones company doesn't destroy whole ecosystems should be a management responsibility.

Also, as pointed out by others, when again and again these stupidities benefits the bottom line there is good reason to ask if someone somewhere doesn't have a bonus that goes up with every mistake.
It's not that it doesn't work, it is just prohibitively hard. The other comments here pointed out GEDI which is a LIDAR payload on the ISS. But it's resolution is only 25 m. This is compared to the resolution of the Umbra satellites of ~0.5-1m. So with something like GEDI you could see large ships. But you would need a larger telescope and/or more powerful laser to get better resolution.
Before Node had any/experimental module support (April 2019, https://nodejs.medium.com/announcing-a-new-experimental-modu...), I'd been using std-things/esm loader for Node.js, which seemed to have no problem allowing CJS and ESM to interop, require and import each other. In my experience it worked flawlessly. https://github.com/standard-things/esm

It's wild to think about: esm has taken nearly a decade to be feasible for folks to use, without heavy encumbrance; it was the key feature of es-2015/es6!

It took many more years for import-maps to become a thing, such that we could start using modules in a modular fashion; we've had to use bundlers/codemods to re-resplve dependencies, unless you've been going to go Deno's original path of just hitting absolute urls wherever they be. There's still no standing proposal for how we get import-maps on service-workers & shared workers; modules still are not a ubiquitous feature of the core web & JavaScript ecosystems. 9 years latter. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2

It's been hard being a webdevs, when the future remains so partially implemented.

The article's exploration of the bomb ecosystem is telling. And is much of the reason I hope JavaScript Registry (jsr) project might succeed. Npm will never escape it's past. CJS is going to be in there for a long time. Being on a registry where everything is esm & typescript, that sounds divine. https://deno.com/blog/jsr-is-not-another-package-manager
If brain without language would suffice, a single human could rediscover all we know on their own. But it's not like that, brains are feeble individually, only in societies we have cultural evolution. If humanity lost language and culture and start from scratch, it would take us another 300K years to rediscover what we lost.

But if you train a random-init LLM on the same data, it responds (almost) like a human on a diversity of tasks. Does that imply humans are just language models on two feet? Maybe we are also language modelling our way through life. New situation comes up, we generate ideas based on language, select based on personal experience, and then act and observe the outcomes to update our preferences in the future.
Do you have a script to set the custom modeline?
I say LLM when Im talking about LLMs, I say Generative ML when I'm talking about Generative ML, and I say ML when I'm talking about everything else.

I don't know what AI is, and nobody else does, that's why they're selling you it.
There isn’t one way that is better for everybody. EasyOS might not be for you.

For the group of people who want to use an app but not a computer, I think something closer to the iOS model is probably better.

For my work computer I want something more traditional but for my personal computer, my phone, and my game console, I want something more appliance-like.

Both of these ways of doing things currently exist (and there are others) and I would guess that will continue to be the case for a long time.
Can one invert the consensus of VC? It’s not binary/polar right? I don’t think investing in all VC’s throwaways would be a good investment strategy.
Are you taking about the open unsoundness bugs?
Nobody is going to extradite you for not having a cookie banner. EU can't _actually_ make laws like that.

The reason gambling/child porn/fincrime/etc are enforced across national boundaries is that everyone (at least, in the western world) respects those laws and absolutely will extradite. Cookie laws, anti-encryption laws, anti-(adult)-porn laws are not like this.
Many companies don't concretely define the kind of remote work company they want.

GitLab talks about being completely _asynchronous_ culture, where literally your teammate could be 12 hrs apart timezone wise, and you collaborate via PRs, docs, etc. Like an open source project.

OTOH there is a more interactive, synchronized remote work culture where pairing etc are very central to the culture. Timezones matter, and people are expected to have more synchronized collaborations.
Bought a "proper" light sensor last week but would've fit my needs. D'oh!
Third party reviewers seem to say the M3 mac does pretty well:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/macbook-pro-m3-and-m3-max-bat...

Maybe yours is a lemon and/or should be replaced?
You may also be branded far-left too. The authoritarians in the 'center' are also afraid of a strong leftist movement taking their power and money away, not just a rightist one.

You can tell because different pro-surveillance arguments are concocted depending on the audience: for conservatives they say "think of the children, Islamic terrorism, drugs, etc." for leftists they say: "toxic content online, disinformation, right-wing-terror, hate crimes". And because everyone is terrified of the other side, and the Internet and mainstream media can be used to target these messages, we have what we have today.
Lots of people from Andhra/Telugu people have many names, and are known by initials or drop them if they come to the US. That sometimes includes optional caste names or titular names that come at the end, with the family name leading (as in China and Japan). My uncle, for example, had a four-word given name, formally introduced his given name in India or in temples as the latter two, and then dropped the first of the two, and swapped family-first for first-family when he came to the states.

For example, if you ever fly into Bangalore or Mumbai, you'll see GVK on their airports. That's for Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy, who goes by GVK. Gunapati is the family name, Venkata Krishna is his given name, and Reddy is the caste name.

Other examples are NT Rama Rao, P.V. Narasimha Rao, and my favorite, is a person I know of who went by KRKVNS Sharma.
Thoughts on Desktop Operating Systems in 2024
Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
Do you have a favorite?
Theoretically a valid risk, and when the first person gets arrested over a cookie banner, I'll take it more seriously.
72 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=max3bL3bTbg
Struggling to find it now, but one of the crazier scams I’ve seen was for an NFT company who was making, IIRC, cards.

A person joined their Discord claiming to be a former Ubisoft 3D designer and was confirmed by other former coworkers. They began to ship actual, high quality 3D work as a contractor and earned the trust of the channel.

…and then ultimately tried to drain their wallet at the end. Best they could guess was that the scammer(s) paid freelancers and then presented the work.

Vetting people online is really hard.
When I first met him in 1978 and asked for his last name, he replied "Arvind is my name". He was very deeply against the caste system and felt that using last names (IIRC, which also indicated caste) was something that he refused to do from high school (his high school diploma name is just 'Arvind'). It seemed that this was a hassle his whole life, but one he continued because he felt so strongly.

He said that after 9/11, the US government came down very hard on MIT to force use of last names and that is the first time I ever knew what it was.

Deeply thoughtful, highly caring and warm to all the people he met, he will be deeply missed!
Show HN: DM Storm – Send Slack DM's in Bulk
Hey HN!

I created DM Storm, a Slack app designed for sending DMs in bulk. The aim is to enhance communication with your co-workers by making messages feel more personal, instead of relying on generic group notifications like @here or @channel.

The app is currently in the Slack approval process, so gathering feedback and gaining users is crucial. Your insights and suggestions are incredibly valuable and much appreciated! :)
I prefer the Indian singer Kunal Ganjawala. Also shoutout to the Tobaccowalas and Daruvalas!
Thanks, this makes sense. I guess I should look up the difference between gyroscopes and reaction wheels next.
Woah, this is a marked improvement. I just threw a relative complex coding problem at it and 3.5 sonnet did a really good job across several language. I asked it to rewrite a Qt6 QSyntaxHighlighter subclass to use TreeSitter to support arbitrary languages and not only did it work (with a hardcoded language) but it even got the cxx-qt Rust bindings almost right, including the extra header.

Curious to see how well it handles QML because previous models have been absolutely garbage at it.
> The proposal, Initiative Petition 17, would establish a 3% tax on corporations’ sales in Oregon above $25 million and distribute that money equally among Oregonians of all ages.

Just a flat tax into a flat stipend. I wish all taxes were this straightforward.
Pricing is actually insane for those benchmark results.
No, it means that those who want it did not manage to trade enough compromises on other topics to those who don't want it or do not oppose it at least. If let's say a french economy sector benefits from policy A while a polish sector might lose from it, and Romania is neutral. In such a situation France might promise Poland their support for policy B which is beneficial for the pols, and they might promise a smaller favor to Romania to make them form the majority. If the pols are unhappy with the trade, they will bid for Romania's support against policy A. The show is funnier with 27 participants and fields that span through dozens of policies and over decades.
I wonder if this has to do with limits being set below the detection limit of existing technology.
The 10x developer makes their whole team better
I always use YouTube in Firefox because it allows one to disable autoplay. For the past week I've had frequent issues with buffering/stuttering, but reloading the page tends to fix it.
How to Save the Tech Industry
Byline: Silicon Valley needs to get rid of overpowered managers and put builders back in charge.
See previous discussion from ~12 hours earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734057 Eating cheese plays a role in healthy, happy aging – who are we to argue? (newatlas.com)
Securing our software supply-chain better with reproducible builds for enclaves
A Judge Made Houston the Top Bankruptcy Court and Helped His Girlfriend Cash In
Ask HN: Is there a part of your routine that other people might find helpful?
Jerry Seinfeld to NYT: The first thing I do each morning is splash water on my face. I got this idea from the movie "The Hustler" with Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman. This act helps me switch from lying down to standing up, much like a curtain drop between acts on Broadway. As I look at my face with water dripping off, I clap my hands and say, “All right. Let’s go.” It makes me feel energized, like Muhammad Ali on a coffee-table book.

Inspired by this, I want to ask: Is there a part of your routine that others might find helpful right now?
When I first read the title I had in my head that it said multi-petabyte. When I think Multi-terabyte, I think 'yea, that is mostly in RAM'. 4TBs of RAM is sort of the new lower norm in DB machines, and GCP and AWS have high RAM machines at 12TB and 24TB. Not that these are not good ideas about scaling to multi-terabytes.. it is just interesting how much data has grown in size.
> we need to delete modern dense cities...

This is more of an argument for remote work than an argument against dense cities. Living in a "remote spread" is not great otherwise: long distance travel, limited public transport because it is not worth it due to the low population, cars are pretty much the only option. You don't have more time, again because of long travel time because of long distances. You can stockpile, but you have to take conservation into account, and plastic packaging is, maybe unfortunately, a great solution for conservation.

Dense cities are quite efficient, and not particularly reliant on small plastic packaging. Many cities have markets at walkable distances that sell products in bulk. And from my experience in living in tight spaces, I think it is actually a good thing against plastic use. For the simple reason that you have less space for plastic. You have to think twice before buying something, because where you are going to put it is always something to consider, and packaging takes space too. A tea ball and tea in bulk takes less space than individual tea bags for the same amount of tea for instance.
https://archive.ph/iVOYm

Gift link:
https://www.wsj.com/finance/bankruptcy-court-houston-jones-f...
What youth sports can teach us about teaching coding
Says “Acast, the world’s largest independent podcast company”.
This gets to the quick of one half of the matter, and in another post you acknowledge the other half too -- the incentive that exists for healthy people to "game the system" (whether it be to get access to stimulants, or "just" sympathy).

I agree with almost everything you've written here, and have the same sympathies, except that I don't think it's legitimate to criticise the style of argument you criticise just because it's often used to subtly question whether people are "actually" suffering (and I agree that it is often used that way).
What Gives You Energy?
It's fairly inherent. Talking more slowly wouldn't make it more accurate, since it's a next-token predictor: you'd have to somehow make it produce more tokens before "making up its mind" (i.e., outputing something that's sufficiently-correlated with a particular answer that it's a point of no return), and even that is only useful to the extent it's memorised a productive algorithm.

You could make the user interface display the output more slowly "when it is unsure", but that'd show you the wrong thing: a tie between "brilliant" and "excellent" is just as uncertain as a tie between "yes" and "no".
No one mentioned wanting to see them until you..
I'm sorry this happened to you. If you were my dad, I would have thought you showing me QBASIC would have been the coolest thing ever.

It kind of reminds me of my dad when he built our first whitebox 486 PC in 1992. Getting to sit on his lap while we messed around in DOS and some games from the era really stuck with me forever. He also loved to mess around in a BBS and would show me how cool it was that we could communicate with other systems at a long distance via modem. :)
The Open Source Ecology folks have been working on this sort of thing for a while --- check in with them?

https://www.opensourceecology.org/
I agree. But the thing about trash is, biosphere can't handle much of it. Chucking it into a high-tech hole lets you manage the decomposition, releasing contents over time in form and quantity that the biosphere can safely handle.

Also in general, unsafe things are usually best kept concentrated and supervised. Spreading them all around the environment isn't solving the problem - it's just another way to put the issue out of mind, while future generations suffer from a slow-brew, large-scale disaster.
I won't argue with that, and I would certainly like for Matrix to get good enough to use as a primary messaging system. Right now, I think if I tried to convince non-technical people to use it, they would find the experience unsatisfactory.
ESM (as standardized, not necessarily as implemented in Node) treats import specifiers as URLs. That alone would inherently be async because network requests are async across basically all JS runtimes. ESM was also later extended to support top level await, making module execution itself async.

Node has recently taken a more pragmatic approach, by treating local specifiers as potentially synchronous, allowing sync require() of ESM… which then fails if the required module uses top level await.
I love little webtools like this that save state in the URL for easy sharing.
They don't care for a couple of reasons.

The first is that it was already obvious to anyone who has worked with large-scale networks even before firing up traceroute. It was already widely known that North Korea has bad peering, because nobody but China wants to peer with them. The US is where most of the major cloud companies are headquartered (i.e. resources can be commandeered), and the defense budget would support an _enormous_ DDoS attack without even flinching.

Secondly, denial of service attacks are worth much less to governments. They have the capability to physically break infrastructure either obviously with bombs or clandestinely via who knows what. They don't _need_ a DDoS to deny service, and it's certainly not their most effective way to cut off communications.
What you call 'incentive' is direct threat of homelessness and starvation.
And that makes it enjoyable to read if you are inclined to that style
I think its sad that single use consumerism culture is so pervasive that anyone would actually bemoan a thing as extremely niche as a cutting edge scientific instrument getting over tens years of use.
> I understand some people will keep complaining, but probably those are the same people who never even put a bit of effort to try and understand the concept of the new gnome desktop.

Is it not possible that they understand GNOME just fine and still don't agree with its design decisions?
I find that it varies between language and task whether GPT-4o or Claude3 Opus will be better. I usually try both now.
It's pretty common to run analytics workloads on a fixed schedule. I've setup anlaytics workflows that ingest data every day/week/quarter and generate a report once a day.

With workflows like that something like DuckDB can be amazing
For coding Claude Opus-3 provides far more mature code and good at finding bugs (when present with the error code) compared to GPT-4-Turbo and GPT-4o. Last few days I've been using both for some python+pyspark project. Not sure how come in their comparison GPT-4o is showing that good!
> If/when American law mirrors it or we sign a treaty, it applies to me. Until then, it doesn’t. The penalty could be “shoot on sight” and it doesn’t matter as long as I’m outside their jurisdiction.

Try ignoring the GDPR, they will get upset at you really quickly.
This is defeatist and wrong. Technology can be used to cross political barriers and solve issues, that's what the government intends to stop. They like the App Store and Google Play store, because if dissenting apps pop up they only have 2 companies to call to get it removed[0]. They like people perceiving an iMessage/RCS duopoly because that's only 2 secure channels to backdoor[1]. Threatening you with jail-time is all they can do for escaping their ire, but that's an unjust and disproportionate response from any state-level actor.

The "average consumer" has been joking about their 'FBI guy' and freaking them out with weird porn or spurious Amazon carts for a decade now. We've hit the peaks of disillusionment, we've started down the road of exploitation and most of us are starting to worry that this trend of technological limitation is specifically intended to make us politically weak.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/17/navalny-g...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-india-sikh-activist-kil...
Auto sign-in in order to see even a landing page seems like a dark pattern...
That's super interesting. Do you use DCGs to read your data or do you call external libraries? How do you generate C code? Do you use a template system?