skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Switzerland we generally only recycle the plastic PET and only drinking bottles (no detergent etc.).

Since most of the trash is burned in Switzerland to produce electricity and municipal heat it doesn't make sense to recycle other plastics.

IMO a bigger focus should be on the additives in plastics and types of plastic that don't burn clean or can't be captured easily instead of banning straws etc.

Other issues such a one time use vapes which end up in the trash containing non removable batteries should be banned before laws like requiring plastic bottle caps being permanently attached.
> it makes provisioning a database even easier, which means people with even less understanding or care of how they operate will be doing so with reckless abandon, which means people like me have even more work to do cleaning up their mess. I am a big fan of gatekeeping things that keep companies afloat. If you want to touch the thing that every service is depending on, learn how it works first – I'd be thrilled to help you

Couldn’t agree more.

Kubernetes and such tools do not make things easier, they just give you the illusion of it.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...

> urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. It's not just hard, but the user experience with it is just terrible. The masses will not use it. If the masses will not use something that requires network effects to be successful, there's no point. These problems may be solvable, but I think I'd trust the opinions of people who have worked on it for years and decided to do something else.
I can appreciate them too, yet I don't find them or the surrounding social aspects that rewarding or drawing.

It's a bit self-fulfilling. Perhaps if I gave two bothers these things would be more interesting. Why, yes, the food is either good or not that good. Things outside of here are happening. Hmm.
No thanks, there are much better ways to support free speech than giving Musk money for his Twitter boondoggle.
At the end of the day law will always be selectively enforced online since you literally cannot afford to pursue every single organization not compliant with the law. In fact, what happened with Twitter was something exceptional. Probably, many other organizations are breaking the same rule, but at the same time they're not as important as Twitter and it's not even worth prosecuting such cases
It was a marketing term that worked both ways. In my company they don’t trust AI because, well, it doesn’t actually work it’s just really good at being lucky. Which is fine for a lot of things, and absolutely horrible for things which aren’t fault tolerant. After LLMs got things wrong on a few contracts the top issues a company wide AI ban (outside of IT anyway, but that’s mainly because they hardly know what IT does).

I’m not sure we really suffer from it. In our internal analytics AI tends to slow employees down and make them less productive. This is in general. The exception is experts using it, where LLMs increase their value output by an ok margin. Especially within our own programming team LLMs have proven a real challenge. On one hand they are fancy auto-complete which will speed an experienced developer up by so much it’s hard to ignore. On the other hand it takes an experienced developer to know when they get things wrong. Not the things that literally won’t work, but the things that will work poorly. I haven’t been too involved outside of our team, but I imagine it’s the same in any field.

Which is where the “hallucination” term sort of back-fired. It was a good way to make people buy into the value of LLMs by making the mistakes oddities almost negligible. The issue is that those mistakes can have such massive impacts that the entire trust in the AI industry falters. I mean, we had one of the CEOs ask if we could switch to Linux now that Windows includes AI… obviously we can’t do that without going bankrupt, but it tells you something about the worry in the non-tech enterprise top.
It can't be legal to put declining cookies behind a PayPal, right?
Twitter is 'banned' in Pakistan for very similar reasons (requiring a local representative, requiring censorship, etc) under the guise of 'national security concerns'.

We are all still using it via VPN. We get all the govt related info from it, and no one is asking, how come the govt dept themselves are using twitter when it's banned?

No one will move to bluesky/threads/mastodon because as I said everyone is on twitter.

Afterall, if I want to know about the next road blockage or electricity outage, I know I need to go to twitter to check, where else would I go?

these are bullship tactics, but they seem to be working, and the internet is fracturing. It was nice while it lasted, but we will no loner have a 'world-wide' web, just national networks with passport controls on accessing external nets.
The solution for this could be creating a review process and gamify that too
> There probably ought to be laws regarding how AIs can be used or not used. There probably ought to be required disclosure when AI is used to create a work of art.

There are such laws:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
Nope, very illegal.
> the US has the First Amendment, which it upholds [...] and while inciting violence is banned

So the US only upholds 1A when it decides it wants to. In other words, no, it doesn't really uphold it.

(And for the record, I'm mostly fine with that! I'm tired of this idea that absolute free speech is a thing, that people actually have it in large numbers, and that if they did, it would actually be a good thing.)
Bookmarked. Hope there will be Thailand gyms soon.
You don't understand anything about reality. For all you know, you're living in Plato's cave. What you kind of know, is just text you read from a physics book. The things your eyes see, could just as easily be encoded as tokens and fed into an LLM.
> Lobbying for convenient rules, lobbying for weakened regulators has given far more advantage to firms, which then use that wealth to become rent seekers. They dont need to innovate, because they can litigate.

One of the big problems here, and the lobbyists do this on purpose, is that they promote the false notion that the issue is the quantity of regulations and not their substance. Quantity can be an issue when the number of regulations becomes excessive and their sheer number thwarts competition by creating high barriers to entry, but "incumbents want fewer regulations" is not only misleading but typically the opposite of what really happens.

Incumbents want to get rid of regulations that protect competition and add regulations that inhibit it. What we need, of course, is the opposite. Which isn't as simple as "make number of regulations go up/down", it matters very much which ones and what they do.

> Compliance costs ensure fair play between entities of unequal strength.

This is completely the opposite. Compliance costs are generally fixed costs, i.e. every entity has to hire a lawyer and pay them $250,000. For a megacorp this is negligible and they don't even notice, for a small business they're now out of the market because that amount of expense would bankrupt them. The more rules you have, the higher that number gets. This is the sense in which the absolute number of rules matters.

But it still depends what they are. Even if you only have a couple of rules, the incumbents will want rules that only they can comply with. Conversely, you can hypothetically have a lot of rules and still have them easy to comply with, though this is certainly easier said than done. What you really want is to have a small number of rules, but the right rules -- the ones the incumbents don't want and their smaller competitors do.
Great product, website and marketing. Really focused on a specific need and market and made it accessible

Small note, it seems the beta comes before alpha? Usually it’s the other way around
I'm not sure why you're agitated. You and I and simply stating opinions and preferences.

> I can use the same set of shortcuts across all applications on Mac, such as copy paste as was pointed out earlier, or exit, or preferences, etc.

Literally the same with Linux. There's no difference.

> And just because they’re more “consistent” in your head, even though they’re not, it doesn’t make them any less awful. Using Command key for every OS shortcut is far superior than using mix of Control and Option.

Okay, let's see:

- New Tab: Cmd + T vs Ctrl + T

- Switch Tabs: Ctrl + Tab (Can't use Cmd + Tab) vs Ctrl + Tab

- History in browser: Cmd + Y vs Ctrl + H (H is for History)

- Downloads Page: Cmd + Shift + J vs Ctrl + J

- Swift through words: Opt + Left/Right vs Ctrl + Left/Right

- Select words: Opt + Shift + Left/Right vs Ctrl+ Shift + Left/Right

- Change windows: (Cmd + Tab and then Cmd + `) vs Alt + Tab

- Open directories: Cmd + O/Down Arrow vs Enter

- Copy Text: Cmd + C vs Ctrl + C

- Copy Text in Terminal: Cmd + C vs Ctrl + Shift + C

- SIGINT: Ctrl+ C vs Ctrl + C

- Delete file: Cmd + Opt + Delete vs Shift + Delete

- Backspace: Delete vs Backspace

- Delete: Fn + Delete vs Delete

You see how consistent Linux is with Ctrl? You don't need to use other keys most of the time. Everything's fixed. Terminal is literally the only app where the difference comes up because Ctrl + C is used for SIGINT, thats literally it!

Inconsistency is not an issue for those who have learned the shortcuts. Everybody has trouble adapting to new keyboard shortcuts so that's not the main issue. Mac objectively uses way more keys in shortcuts compared to Linux which is what makes it worse.

> Just one most obvious example: copy and paste between windows.

Always the same, Ctrl + C/V. Except for the terminal because Ctrl + C is used for SIGINT, even on Mac. So instead of having to invent a whole new key for copy/paste in terminal, Linux uses an extra Shift, which imo is much better changing the whole key.

Let's not talk about Cmd + Tab, Alt + Tab on Linux is much better than Cmd + Tab + Cmd + `. I use the Alt Tab app on Mac too, it's way better than the default, unless of course one likes to use more keys to switch between windows for no reason.

I use both Mac and Linux for work. It's not me who has issues. I'm able to work on both just fine. I just mentioned why I think Linux is better, because the keys are consistent within the Linux + Windows world and they're much easier to learn. Of course you're gonna have to adjust to the difference when switching to Linux, is that even something to be angry about?
The longer people will call it communist plot and insist on not paying taxes, the higher is the probability of having the actual communist plot and being exiled to the Moon by a popular vote.
The license is one thing before 2028-07-01 and another thing afterwards. That’s the license you get right now, they’re not changing it after the fact. To put it more accurately, there’s no license change in the future, it’s simply one license with a set of terms before a certain date and another set of terms after it, they’re only calling it a license change because the set of terms afterwards constitute a well known license. Contracts like this are absolutely valid. If it still doesn’t make sense to you, think of a trial license.
Engineering is something you calculate and get expected results with some acuracy. E.g building a bridge without trials and errors (hopefully). I would prefer prompt “tailoring” which is more like you start with something general and try to fit it to your desired output with many many trials and errors.
a very big amount of european news websites are doing this anyway and it seems it's not being enforced, so i think it's more grey area
China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows
For the sake of it. I find it just cool
That's if you skip the part where 80% of the shit we transport shouldn't even exist in the first place
These fucking braindead articles about hiring. Holy mother of god. You go to a company to work in a specific field and get money for it. End of story. You do not give a flying fuck about that company until you are in. You might give them ideas and more of your time if the people and the atmosphere is AOK there.

The interview process is just plain nonsense. Multiple rounds, you have to start from scratch every time. They don't even have a common platform where they can evaluate your language and other basic skills. You have to prove every time that you are able to speak in whatever language, can code, although you have 20+ years of experience. Some even want to see what you code and how you do it. And they make you do tricky things, that you will never fucking ever do in the role.

And they ask you if you have any experience of tightening screws. Well, you're not a trained monkey, you're an engineer who has to fasten all kinds of screws, but they ask if you've worked with stainless steel screws and if you haven't, then sorry, they can't employ you.

The HR process is laden with layers and layers of bullshit. Most of the HR people and their process is all about control, to make the expert go down on all fours (yeah, humiliate the person) and do circus stunts, so they can insert you into their braindead process and evaluate your stunts based on their totally braindead metrics. All of this, so that HR can exist as a "profession".

For example you are someone who is an expert in a specific field and yet you have to learn this completely useless, filler bullshit, because who knows what the HR might think. Well, fuck them peasants. They are nothing more than gatekeepers. Very dangerous ones, because they are who decide in the first place who gets in who gets rejected. So if the HR is compromised they send the company the saboteurs and reject the proper people. Abolish HR monkeys and their idiotic hiring process.
The US has no allies, only interests. It interests us to be adversarial to Russia. It interests us to "bomb brown people". None of which is done out of some moral duty.
Take a closer look at Starbucks CEO's contract, which covers his commute by jet
The URLs are different (threads.net versus instagram.com).

So pretty easy to tell in the analytics which site the user is on.
That's about to change with macOS 15
The main thing I learned from this book was about LSMs and it solidified my understanding of B trees. I think I'd mostly overrated tho.
Oh, true. But the problem is that Musk, rich has he is, can't run Twitter indefinitely without revenue (more than he's getting today, and it's likely declining). He needs it to perform financially if it's to continue to be a going concern.
The US already spends more on healthcare than just about every other country and the inefficiency of that spending is an obvious problem that should probably be addressed before throwing any more money into the fire. But if it was addressed then the amount of spending needed would go down rather than up.

That other stuff doesn't even cost a significant amount of money by comparison and could be well-funded from the savings.

The government doesn't lack for revenue, it lacks for efficiency.
This is a local supplier of Dyness batteries, 15kwh for under 4.5k

https://midlandbatteries.com/products/dyness-15kwh-dl5-0c-ba...
Compared to this, 15kwh for under 5k https://midlandbatteries.com/products/dyness-15kwh-dl5-0c-ba...

Needs an inverter though, but if you have solar you already should be ok
Show HN: Creative Problem-Solving
Addressing news (the problem) with research (the solution). Most efficient way of being informed about what’s happening in the world.

Brutalist design was the goal, reducing the redundancy of cluttered content or ads.

Find people that share same interests by bookmarking contents that interest you.

Give me a critique please.
Overlooking complaints of lack of backlighting, the Panic Playdate's screen IMHO is its stand out feature.

It's a "Sharp Memory LCD" which has the appearance of e-ink and shares it's ability to continue to display an image when unpowered, but has the active refresh rate of a more standard LCD.

It's frankly stunning to see in real life, and it's hard to describe how crisp it looks. Videos do not do it justice. It's truly unlike any other display I have seen.

I would absolutely adore a kindle sized e-reader with the technology, and am hopeful the future brings one.
I think it's strictly inferior to a junior dev because it has no domain-specific knowledge, and even training it on your org repo does not really help it seems (ironically, a junior is doing it at my org as upper management want us to use GenAI, so maybe he fudged something)
Musk's lawyers "describing" something isn't evidence.

Given Musk's personality, I would not be the tiniest bit surprised if he's suing without any actual evidence, just because he's angry and because he can.

I mean, remember, this is the guy who tried to get out of buying Twitter, and then refused to pay out contractually-obligated packages to many of the former management team he fired. (I'm not the biggest fan in the world of golden parachutes, but this was pretty egregious.)
I've been using this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/qrcode.

Works great and it does svg too. There are a few alternatives to this around as well but this one seems good enough.
> I mean, it COULD work if all people were sound and reasonable, but that's obviously not the case.

But community notes works well. That's evidence that reasonableness emerges when you boost content that a diversity of people appreciate, regardless of whether people are sound and reasonable.

> What you describe is a flamewar maintenance algorithm.

Are you saying my idea will increase flamewars? I believe it should decrease flamewars, and that's why I want to see it implemented. Again I point to community notes. If a diversity of people like content, it's probably level-headed, and that's why community notes works so well.
Yes, and they chose to stop packaging it, again on their own accord.

Except this time, they seem to have made the decision because upstream was bothering them too much.
Where would one read about how the system works here? I’m not understanding why a lending body would lend against the theoretical value of a buildings rents
rather than the actual
maximum monthly rents over the last ~3 years.
Pretty much all recycling goes to Municipal Waste now since China and Southeast Asia stopped taking our plastic recycling in 2015. The vast majority of recycling programs in America are just vapor.
Well, he's come a long way from being a horrible chemist to being an average chemist. Took him a few years to realize that chemistry is tedious work and you can't take shortcuts or it doesn't work, unless you spent a lot of time on the new procedure. It's nice to see that he now follows through with his work.

His literature research skills are still pretty mediocre. In this video I would have liked some info what influences the bounciness of the amorphous metal. Maybe there's an even bouncier one, that doesn't even need beryllium. He just copied the one he got from Steve Mould.

Of course doing somewhat dangerous stuff (and then exaggerating the danger) is kind of the theme of his channel and works very well on youtube. He surely is very talented at playing the youtube game and has a very pleasant voice.

But really, if you're amazed by his technical competence you've never worked with a truly competent chemist.
This is a Justice from the brazilian Supreme Court, they are the highest position in the court system, and allowed to make individual rulings and apply sanctions like this.

These decisions hold until ratified or rejected by the court as a whole (which they all eventually will, but it's not fast) or successfully appealed. Appeals can be made only to another Justice or to the court as a whole - no expedited process, because there's no higher authority.

Besides, who'd make the appeal? X has no representation in Brazil (that's why it's been suspended), and there seems to be consensus on that specific point, of legal representation being a requirement by law, so the general attorney or other officials will not question the main decision.

The side decisions are a different matter, that about VPN apps and app stores had been withdrawn. The fine for accessing X is more controversial: hardly enforceable (for just browsing, at least), ongoing hot debate in the country about it being within the Justice's power.

In fact, the Court will probably expedite a whole court judgement on that, and apparently there's no consensus across the Justices on that.
Thanks, that is helpful. :)
That's what sites like GitHub and Twitter already do. When I push to GitHub it's signed by me. When I tweet about something I did, that's a signature too. Would you like to be bold courageous one who writes a browser extension to block everyone and everything that's anonymous on these services? That's basically your vision. Google tried to make that happen with Google Plus but the service was sadly shut down.
C Course Online
Refactor the police into micro services.
An epidemic of falls on the 'mean streets' of Athens
> I've always said people should be able to directly allocate where their taxes go within the government expenditures, or be able to file an objection based on religious or philosophical beliefs to having their tax dollars fund morally objectionable things.

Members of Congress often propose things like this because it sounds good but in practice it's meaningless.

Suppose that Democrats don't want to pay for bombs and Republicans don't want to pay for makework jobs, so they both say they don't want their tax money to be used for this. Then the government takes the money from Democrats they didn't spend on bombs and uses it to make up the shortfall in the makework jobs programs and takes the money Republicans didn't spend on makework jobs and uses it to make up the shortfall in the military, and nothing changes at all.

The only way it could actually do something is if you got the money back you didn't want spent on that thing, instead of letting the government spend it on something else. But then most people would do that with large chunks of government spending because they'd rather the money than the programs.
I tried Onyx Boox Tab X e-reader (13"). It cannot be used directly as a screen, but it runs Android, so it's either some sort of screen sharing or SSH client. Onyx Boox series has its own custom refresh technology that does smart partial refreshes and thus is quite fast.

So I tried actual coding once with SSH+Mosh option, just to see if it's viable, but nothing serious yet. I remember that typing was okay, but more interaction (like copilot autocompletion and tooltips in nvim) wasn't comfortable. But gonna give it more tries for sure.
There won’t be. Talks given to YC batches are off-the-record, to allow maximum candidness.

This essay by pg is the closest you’ll get to a blog post discussing its main points.
Laravel does this (or at least has a config for it). You can disable lazy loading in non-production environments which will throw fatal errors whenever a model is lazy loaded.

The nice part is, in prod, that code _allows_ lazy loading since application stability is more important. Hopefully at that point you have a good performance monitoring tool that will alert you to that problem. Laravel also has hooks to more granularly fire events about lazy loading if you want to roll your own notification solution.

So I disagree with your assertion. Lazy loading is ONLY for production. While it is possible that such a feature could potentially bring down your DB server and therefor your app in general, if the feature is turned off locally, then hopefully you’re catching it well ahead of time. And if you’re running small app with no users, meh. For large apps, hopefully your team’s standards are enough to keep the monsters at bay.

Lazy loading is a sharp knife that requires skill to use appropriately.