skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't we at a point where recycling aluminum is a lot more energy efficient than removing it from bauxite and therefore more profitable for the industry to pull it from trash?
Which abuses specificly do you think section 33 enabled between 2020 to 2022?

Or if its all section 1, do you feel that any country at all has freedom of speech? I can't think of any country that doesn't have something equivalent to section 1, even if only implicitly. Different countries draw the line somewhat differently, but there are none that dont have some sort of similar limited limits to freedom of speech.
Freight -- Ideally this causes more investment into freight rail and more freight to be moved by rail/boat. This might cause short term price increases to expand the infrastructure, but long term it's much cheaper/greener/efficient to move this stuff on rail. Last mile (maybe last 100 miles) will always be by truck, but we have way too much long haul stuff.

Public Transport -- If tax payers are currently paying for the external costs of public transportation (via taxes to repair roads) then it won't cost anymore public money if taxpayers continue to cover that cost. For private busses this is a case of tax payers unfairly subsiding their external costs.
etiolated
The camels in Australia would like to (very impolitely) disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel
That's installing another 3.8 rather than using the system one, isn't it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Basel
Intended consequence would be: cars pay for the damages they do to the road. Even buses. What is wrong with that?
Sorry, what does this mean?
I mean most of that could be emulated in vulkan or dx12, I'm not sure about other apis. I'm curious what the use case would be though. I'm also fairly certain it can be done to a degree, but without a convincing use case it's hard to justify the implementation work.
Can you imagine being next to a bunch of Toyota Sienna driving parents? Those things are even heavier!
No.

You can have freedom of speech, but there’s no country were it’s absolute. You’re always responsible for consequences of what you say.

Article 19

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;

(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
The vast majority of wealth is not traded on a liquid market like the S&P. Your scheme only works in nice divisible liquid assets.

Otherwise, when do you expect the government to actually realize its gains? If I have a house I intend to live in until I die and the govt take 2% of my stake away each year, when would it be allowed to force a sale to realize it?

Do I just lose my house once it has a majority stake? Does it just wait until I die? If it does, how is this better than an inheritance tax that is significantly easier to implement?
Show HN: Best Practices for Using Structured Output from LLMs
Looks like their website is struggling, alt: https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos
Yes, it looks like spotlight math is broken on both.
Thank you for the information. Everyone else on here is doing the aggressive, ignorant, high-minded American routine. I’ll keep reading but it looks like my suspicions are confirmed.
Why do you disagree 1password is good enough for business?
Thanks for this article. I think it places a lot of the gut microbiome studies and findings in context.

As a note for the author in case they are reading - you should do a quick Find/Replace on the article keyed on the word "git". There is more than one instance in the text where it clearly should read "gut microbiome" (or similar) and instead reads "git microbiome".
You should at least admit that this is an American problem. No-one in my family has a driver's license and it's not an issue whatsoever. There's very little reason to own a car in a society with a functioning public transport system.
They're towing cars. You think they bring them back 30 minutes later and leave a friendly note? Unreasonable search and seizure. I'd say the seizure of property worth tens of thousands of dollars as evidence for a crime the owner was not involved in is pretty unreasonable.
Lexical Scanning in Go – Rob Pike (2011) [video]
An infinitely long lever? So in theory you can move absolutely anything, but in practice it takes an infinite amount of time to make even the smallest change happen?

Yeah, OK, could be right.
They're spinning Mustang off into a sub-brand, like Chrysler did for Imperial. We're set to get a Mustang "offroader" sometime in 2027, and there's rumblings of a mid-size CUV to slot below the full-size Mach-E. Marketing loves these rub-off schemes meant to give inferior or fledgling products some of the shine of a halo product. They almost always end up failing, and even when they don't they damage the halo products after the first round of releases using the shared name.
I love efforts like this. The current state of containers where the dominant mentality is “shove everything possibly needed into a single image and treat it like a black box” isn’t the best imo. Only put what’s necessary and nothing else, you don’t need a whole OS to run a single binary or script.
It’s less a question of if they should be managers and more whether there should be formal title recognition. Many companies have “distinguished engineer” positions or similar, and those people are often involved in high level conversations.

In Jobs’ case, his personality was probably strong enough that didn’t matter but broadly it can be helpful to officially say, “this person is important even though they don’t manage anyone”. It helps with fairness so that people don’t have to seek out the “secret” ways of being important, and it can accelerate decision making in the absence of someone like Steve Jobs
We use Bitwarden as well. It seems to offer the sort of fine grained controls that let the right people have access to the right secrets.
> Recycling plastic is a myth, other recycling may be of some benefit.

Some?! That's just a gross understatement.

For paper, recycling saves 50% of energy and 66% of water compared to pure fresh paper [1].

Glass saves about 33% of energy [2].

Iron scrap is at 72% energy savings [3], copper at 80% [4].

Aluminium is the most insane example - there, recycling saves utterly astonishing 95% (!) of the energy you'd need to create new virgin aluminium from raw ore [5].

Add to all of that: the more you recycle from these groups of valuable materials, the less environmental destruction you have from mining the ores - and the less chance there is for shit to go seriously wrong, e.g. dam breaks like [6].

The case of plastics recycling is still open, but everything else? It's just so much more efficient.

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/umwelttipps-fuer-den-alltag/h...

[2] https://www.bvse.de/glasrecycling/themen/glasrecycling-schon...

[3] https://www.bvse.de/dateien2020/2-PDF/06-Publikationen/04-Br...

[4] https://www.gdb-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Factsh...

[5] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/35...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster
All is see here is that finding good people is difficult?

Being C level exec in another firm does not guarantee success. In fact, it might even be a dismerit for a startup.
Not me. I am American and I don't even have a license!
They know how to avoid this, because heavy autos are considered utility vehicles. They'll claim this is bad for the economy because small companies need access to utility vehicles.
thank you for the headsup
My takeaway from this article is that Paul Romer doesn’t know how to use the environment feature in anaconda. If he has a problem with dependency resolution speed, ‘conda install mamba’ will solve that.

But really, for his use cases, he should be using Julia (for DSGE modeling) or else R for stats.

Still, I applaud his willingness to try new things, if more economists were like him, we might finally break the stranglehold of stata and matlab in econ.
Electrified thermochemical systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors
"cracked" is a common term (eg) on social media and other informal use and is used meaning the same as "crack" above

(edit) see the urban dictionary definition in the sibling comment.
Some countries do recycling of aluminium well, Japan for example, most don’t.
Issues with contamination, sorting, pipeline, storage, just to name a few make it hard to implement well.
Is it? Well comparing 30 km range to 500 km almost certainly, but what about comparing 30 km to 150 km? Plug-in hybrids basically have two complete drivetrains in one car, which adds a lot of additional complexity, weight, and cost. A large enough battery will still be more expensive, but as battery prices come down the crossover point gets pushed up. I predict that eventually both plug-in hybrids and traditional hybrids will make no economic sense, and there will only remain ICEs and full EVs.
They drive with a discipline / care that Americans refuse to even consider. Perhaps Americans should.
Which would be even more of a reason to standardise an input field that handles web addresses as humans enter them, not machines prefer them. Yet, here we are.
For all the glory Einstein deserves as one of the greatest minds I find more interesting the history of this supposed "failure" in later life, but it's even more admirable his tenacity at trying to tackle the problem at different angles for decades. And boy it must be a hard problem if Einstein himself could not crack it!
Is Matt Damon on board by any chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H1s9gj5DA
This is a very good video. It's quite technical, which is hard for videos. I was able to follow along (liberally stopping and recycling the hard parts) and write a modified lexer for propositional logic sentences.
> Plastic recycling is a myth.

At least for another "eight to nine months from now"

> But given that its operational timeline expects the processing plant to open eight to nine months from now, it means that the company will likely amass more trash before it can even open its doors

They're basically stockpiling until the plant is operational. I'm not sure how they will achieve this mythical process, but at least they have more than half a year to figure it out.
To provide fake info and see if the Russia reacts?
Hmmm, you’re making a totally different point now…

You wrote in essence, “it’s no point recycling plastic because we burn it” – that just does not make sense to me. It’s like saying ”there’s no point braking because we’re driving into a wall anyway”.

Now you’re talking about the fact that paper straw produce more CO2 than plastic straws overall (production, import, etc…) and hence plastic straw don’t need to be banned – which I actually also disagree with but that’s not my question.

My question is, why does burning trash means you don’t have to recycle plastic?
Think this is the best answer. Founder mode should mean you have an unhealthy obsession with your product and vision.

The best example I can think of is the Costco founder threatening the newly arrived CEO who complained they were losing money on the hot dogs.

To me that is the single best example of Founder Mode.
Everything heads for the landfill eventually
We do it different in Europe: pay disproportionate by engine displacement. My father's car has 10x the taxes as my mother's car just because the engine is 1.6 times larger (2.5 liters, nothing outrageous). At the same time my mother pays for that car quite close to what I pay for each of my bikes that are 8-10 times lighter and have way smaller engines (300cc and 600cc).
Ok phew, for a second there I thought you were going to suggest that the average American made changes in their lives to reduce their environmental impact.
Looks great. FYI: Story and Sellers links in the header bar don't do anything on Firefox/Linux.
It’s not a myth, Nix is incredibly complicated to get into and is actively hostile towards its users with the abysmal DSL and documentation. Every company we’ve tried to introduce it in has failed to adopt it primarily due to its incredibly steep learning curve
It’s funny, a couple decades ago I studied in Vienna. I was amazed at how great their public transit was! I didn’t need a car to get around. But I made a local friend there, and at first I was surprised she had a car there. Then, yeah it made sense if you still live somewhere other than city center. Buses to metro to something on the other side of the city could still take a long time. Add cargo, a kid? No, this isn’t an American thing. Go look at how many people own cars across Europe. Plenty of people do.
We are talking relativity here, beware with time lapses and Lorentz transformations!
Lego very rarely gets wasted. The second hand market is massive even for random mixed bricks.

Prices start around $15/lb and go up from there.
The question is how to constrain that bureaucracy to upholding competition without allowing it to be captured by private interests or, itself, expand to consume excessive resources.
We used 1Password at a ~6,000 employee tech company and it was fine. Never had any issues with 1Password.
Elon Musk's endorsement of Trump may have backfired
Now this is a real website!
While building Adaptive (https://adaptive.live), I have been working very closely with regulated industries, financial institutions, healthcare orgs. Traditionally, people have been using Cyberark to do Identity management, paired with Privilege access management.

There are some modern Privileged Access Management platforms like Strongdm, teleport, us (https://adaptive.live) and few more in the market that works well with cloud and modern application architectures.

There is debate in the industry whether access should be given or not. There is pros and cons for either of them. This purely depends on the culture of the org in my opinion. But in scenario, you really have to give access, it should have the least privilege as well it should be time bound. Also, all the operations should be audited and recorded.

I believe you should have zero standing access in the org, but there are always use cases like data repair and administration where you have to give access to users. In that scenario, the access should be limit, time bound and audited. Also, you have to make sure you run access review campaigns and checks for over privileged or unused users.
My Hacker News is a little bit prettier
Correct. I should have expressed myself better. They have phones but don't use it to post on internet. 80% of the population don't have internet, and of those that have it, only 5,5% use social media. This is the people that could be recording videos and sending it to the world.

https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-ethiopia
I realize I may be in a minority here, but I'm willing to do quite a lot of sorting as long as someone can promise me that things are at least going into distinct separate holes in the ground, so that my efforts aren't wasted when some future situation makes it profitable to mine them out.
The premium you pay for serverless versus a VPS with comparable performance/bandwidth requirements.
It is quite complicated to understand or to set up, yes, but I agree that it is easy to use. We use it at work for our dev environments. Like two or three of us are able to actually add packages, adjust nix configs, etc. Everyone else just runs `direnv allow` and automatically gets everything they need to build and run out software.
The instagram app desperately wants me to post to threads, see all the fun stuff i'm missing on threads, and just join threads in general.

PS: Nice to see our resident mastodon hater (OP) is still at it, including the requisite smug "told-you-so"/"i totally predicted this!!~" link :D
They occasionally have good insurance offerings, occasionally.
The Dark World of Asia's Golden Triangle
Not this. But I'd care if my neighbour would fix his roof without proper safety stuff like a belt or whatever.
Just want to say that StackExchange is the place to get answers for questions like this (waiting for my downvotes). Is there a better place?
It's worst than that. That judge emitted orders that are breaking the local laws in the first place. It's not legislative and yet he did that. The congress should regulate that step beyond the line but is effectively scared. After this Brazil is not a Democratic Republic anymore. It was transformed into a place with a regime.

This is how a democracy ends killed by technocratic juridical maneuvering of lies about defending it. The electronic ballot machines in the next elections, counted by these very same judges, are going to be as useful as the ones in Venezuela. It's Game Over.
This us making some pretty big assumptions about what the town in question looks like.
City Infrastructure
The world is not black and white... there are shades of grey. Sometimes censorship is lawful and/or justified, sometimes it is not.

I don't know if, in this case, it is justified or not, but it seems to be lawful (the same way that the censorship requests in India and Turkey were), as far as I can tell (I assume a judge of the Supreme Court knows a bit more about Brazilian law than you and me).

Given that Musk/Twitter seemingly has no problem complying with lawful censorship demands (or engaging in arbitrary censorship even without lawful censorship demands), it seems clear to me that Musk has no problem with "more censorship in the world". That was my only point.

My personal opinion on whether there is higher or lower need for censorship in the world is rather irrelevant (since I have no power or platforms to censor), but I certainly see no problem in actively censoring terrorists, bots, spammers and scammers (for example).
And it fits the definition doesn't it since it tokenizes inputs to compute them against pre-trained ones, rather than being based on rules/lookups or arbitrary logic/algorithms?

Even in CSS a matrix "transform" is the same concept - the word "transform" is not unique to language models, more a reference to how 1 set of data becomes another by way of computation.

Same with tile engines / game dev. Say I wanted to rotate a map, this could be a simple 2D tic-tac-toe board or a 3D MMO tile map, anything in between:

Input

[

[0, 0, 1],

[0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0]

]

Output

[

[0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 1]

]

The method that takes the input and gives that output is called a "transformer" because it is not looking up some rule that says where to put the new values, it's performing math on the data structure whose result determines the new values.

It's not unique to language models. If anything vector word embeddings are much later to this concept than math and game dev.

An example of use of word "Transformer" outside language models in JavaScript is Three.js' https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/controls/TransformCont...

I used Three.js to build https://www.playshadowvane.com/ - built the engine from scratch and recall working with vectors (e.g. THREE Vector3 for XYZ stuff) years before they were being popularized by LLMs.
The statement you are replying to is "the government in Brazil does not like X because users are critizing the government." Why are you talking about what Musk did? What does one thing have to do with the other?
His audience is not programmers.
Big heavy pedestrian-killing trucks are just one facet among many of popularizing selfish, oafish, violent, thoughtless individualism as a culture underlying political beliefs that otherwise lack a connection to culture. Anti-vaxx, and other quack medicine is another such phenomenon. You only need to consider the 12 lives lost for every life preserved to see how shortsighted this is: unless you plan to live in your giant truck 24/7, you could be one of those 12.

It's disturbing to see comments that celebrate and excuse wallowing in that subculture.
Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose monitor in the U.S.
https://archive.ph/n1eNl
I haven't read it, but based on the examples from the book in "Goodbye Clean Code", the author is one of those extremists.
Where are we with robot solo musicians ?
He was implicitly referring to what Chesky did recently at AirBnB (personal involvement in lower-level decisions eg product design in his case as it’s his forte).
If the good of the society is irrelevant to you, you are by definition a sociopath.
> It keeps all operations in GUI-land, which most users consider more safe.

Which is unfortunately exactly what enables so many tech support scams, so I'm not sure it's a pattern worth reinforcing.

In addition to that, while it might still be helpful for completely non-technical users, I really don't think "avoiding the terminal and edits to files" is a desirable goal for anyone studying either Python or data analytics.
What we did at our job was I set up a nix config for myself, because I wanted it. When new people onboarded, they had two options: install this list of software or install nix and it’ll all get installed automatically. Enough people chose to use the nix config over time that it became the de facto standard.
"If you teach a course that requires Python"

"Many of these students have not used the command line."

I'd suggest that we are failing to teach students learning to code, the basics of how to use computers. Pre-requisite should be a class on how to use the command line.
I think stack exchange would delete the question because it is too vague and open to opinion.
Man you say that but many people simply do not understand that a command even is. They don't know to hit return after pasting or how much of the command to copy. Or they'll paste it in a text editor.

There's just a lot of people that did not grow up using computers the same way as many here. Whether it's they grew up on mobile devices or have only ever used a GUI.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect a developer to not understand command lines but plenty do not. There's whole populations of very junior programmers that have zero experience on the command line. Hell I know people with decades of Unix experience that don't know basic CLI stuff or reach for the GUI to install packages or manage things.
Last time I checked modern aluminum alloys made it very hard to recycle aluminum waste efficiently. That's still the case, apparently.
Does anyone build their own computers from motherboards and other electronic components these days, say by soldering them on, or connecting them into slots?

I don't have the background to do it, and not planning to, but am just interested to know. I used to read the Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE long ago, just out of interest, even though I didn't have any knowledge of electronics.
The US does not have an "ultra-capitalist" healthcare system. Its healthcare system is heavily regulated and subsidized and many of those regulations are bought and paid for by the incumbents to prevent competition, i.e. the thing that allows private systems to be efficient. You can't just call something "capitalism" while regulating it into market concentration and expect that to work.
Although Nix seems to be becoming more mainstream, I still have yet to encounter a (forgive me for lack of a better word) normie that uses it.

I feel somewhat blessed that I get to work on tools at a company that can support a dedicated tools team. We are free to use the best tool for the job without needing to worry about popularity contests, and nix has truly been a game changer for us.