skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have misread the article and that the outcome you think "should have been kind of obvious" is not what actually happened and in fact, could not have happened in one of the two cases.

You seem to think that people used more single-use plastic grocery bags after they were either banned outright, which could not have happened, or were made available for a fee, which you seem to want to attribute to stores having an incentive to increase the number of them that people used.

But that's not what happened. After the grocery bags were banned or available for sale, people did not use more plastic grocery bags, but instead started buying more plastic trash bags. The supposition seems to be that people were previously re-using grocery bags for trash, but when they had fewer or no grocery bags available, they bought more plastic trash bags than they did before.

Whether this is an improvement in any sense is a different question. My point is that your conception of what happened here and why seems completely wrong.
We can compare the rate to countries in more.. stable situations[0]. They'll have a very difficult time getting anywhere with that rate. But we'll see. The world would be better off with all these individuals having no power at all.

[0]
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/starvatio...
Hey, we’re in agreement regarding West Bank settlements, Gaza however —- hard no.
Well plutonium metal aside from the radioactivity is actually poisonous, like most heavy metals. I wonder which would kill you first?
Game theory is indeed a thing. Cool. Let's regroup: this thread started with 'no one wants to work at bankcrupt company as a CEO' - their spelling :)

Call it a strawman, but I'm absolutely certain plenty would be willing - if not thankful - for the opportunity. Even CEOs of successful businesses... if we want to reinforce systems. Nobody can until they get a chance.

Who doesn't love a good story, you know? Great risk comes great reward. Think of the type who becomes CEO, consider how they started. Where they may fall, either by grace or chance.

A company is about putting food on the table the moment it fails to, proverbially and not. I agree with you, we just play the game differently. Don't mistake my position for (in)experience or capability

Everyone has a plan until they get punched, some will do it for $20 million.
I agree. PHP is such a simple language to follow but now with these property hooks, if you dont fully understand how they work then the code becomes unreadable due to the magic.

Worse than that, it is possible to read it wrongly which is going to cause many nasty headaches for amateur developers of the future trying to debug PHP code.
>inept

This is not a place where Hanlon's razor applies. Gov construction is rotten all the way through as matter of course and policy. High volume material industries are the easiest to commit fraud. Especially when the bureaucrat that signs the checks is never going to bother themselves by checking the real world shipments match to the bills. And that is just the easy part to check, checking for fudging numbers requires real work. Its been going on so long that the corruption is now part of the system. Its trivial to look at various costs and see the "$10,000" hammer all over the place. Or how instead of price going down at scale it goes up.

I probably will not convince you of this in a comment though, so do some research if you are interested.
"Imagine YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, and OnlyFans had a baby … and that baby’s all grown up now and hooking up with Substack … their lovechild would be the aspirational Substack 2.0."
I sent in a report sending bikes through a highway tunnel in Boston, took six months but received a message they made the correction.
By that token no company is forced to anything.

For instance if the EU or the DOJ were to require Apple to change their policies, we could say Apple isn't forced to do so, as they still can refuse and "just" pay enormous fines until bankruptcy.

I'm not sure what we would call "force" if we take that definition.
yeah the time line was never quite right for me either. I had a coworker get a "corona virus" in dec / jan and it was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing. It was just like "Did you hear about xyz hes in the hospital with a corona virus." This was in the US for context.
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Accordingly, they issued similar warrants for (what's left of) Hamas leadership on the same day.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-p...

> Or that most aid is going through Israel itself because Egypt still has a blockade against Gaza.

Israel very much prefers it that way. It's a very significant piece of leverage for them.

They signed a treaty in 2007 requiring Israeli authorization of anything crossing the Egyptian crossings, in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing

Israeli occupied it in May, too. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/israel-ra...
The biggest problem was "expert systems and a flood of public money" - that public money led to complacency and a lot of research in unproductive areas. It is private money that has really kickstarted the new systems since Google bought AlexNet
Unusable for me as it won't let me force a specific route. Yes, a car can't drive through that gate, but I can walk through it with my bike. Auto routing is neat and all, but in the real world, cyclists need more flexibility.
I was recently looking for an article I remember reading a bit over a year ago. I could even remember some exact phrases that appeared. I tried to find it on Google for more than 10 minutes, ultimately to no avail. I then went looking through chat histories and was able to find where I had shared it to someone.

I relayed this story to a friend who suggested I try Kagi. It was on the first page on my first attempt. I was also able to use it to find a different article I was sure I read even longer ago, that I didn't have as clear memory of.
My experience is that 99% of the work related to geters and seters is handled by the IDE
That’s amusing. Not anywhere near the same but The Last Ringbearer has Mordor as an industrializing society unfairly maligned.
Yep, it was House Resolution 1449 if anyone is curious. Really scary times to see our freedoms eroded like this:

https://x.com/RepRashida/status/1859362185178439786
Now this is a cool hack lol
Why would that matter at all? All others are in decline, so we should be too? What a defeatism. Exactly the issue with this society here.
This comment is not responsive to mine. I am talking about minimizing muscle loss during weight loss, not losing weight and putting on muscle at the same time. And bodybuilders do exactly what I said during their cut phases -- to minimize muscle loss. (Most people losing weight on these drugs are not bodybuilders.)
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Russians deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Russian territory,

You're playing word games here to avoid acknowledging the commenter's perfectly valid point, and it's really quite silly.
I perceive this as the kind of think tank scare piece which motivates politically irresponsible paranoia.

We all know every API can be traced and logged and tapped throughout the physical internet. It is regardlessly plain that human incompetence and neglect are the leading causes for vulnerabilities in our infrastructure of everything.

I suppose those efforts to recruit the new generations into opsec and infosec are more inspirational.
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Let’s be real - the CDC are the important ones in that situation, not the restructuring of the National Security Council.

And preventing panic in the beginning isn’t a terrible idea, as we say from the toilet paper debacle. Whether or not it was warranted in retrospect it’s hard to say, but it’s not like the CDC’s messaging was clear or accurate for quite a while.

When Trump tried to lock down travel from China the democrats called him racist. The Obama administration depleted the national stockpile of PPE and didn’t restock. I’m sure there are a bunch of stupid little fingers to point here and there but the fact of the matter is the US had about as many deaths as you’d expect with our demographics that ran in line with other similar countries. The Trump administration also was responsible for Operation Warpspeed, without which we would have almost certainly gotten vaccines later.

The only way it could have been stopped was in China, early. Whether that would be preventing a leak, if that’s how it originated, or from an immediate local lockdown. Certainly keeping international organizations from investigating didn’t help.
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> multiple other manhattan project people had already told him he was going to die if he kept doing it

To me it seems quite reasonable that the people hired

to work on a bomb intended to kill 150,000 people in one go

against the backdrop of a war where 70-85 million died

might not place the greatest value on health and safety, and the sanctity of human life.
Since this is getting downvoted, I'd sure like to hear why you think an app like this justifies a $10/mo sub.
True that unless ssh tunnels the pasteboard nowadays ;)

GP was doing this using GUI and TUI so it's a case of having two terminals open to two different machines I assume.
Absolutely. There are a ton of industries where people conduct physical site inspections and turn those into structured documents; as in construction, those take a long time to make! We've actually had some inbound from civil engineers, and if we can be useful to folks in your network, we'd love to connect with them.
https://archive.ph/5Csmm
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Nice, I didn't realize this! Thank you for going into this level of detail.
Complex numbers and (Pauli/Dirac) matrices not required if you use Geometric Algebra. I highly recommend the book by Doran and Lasenby [0], or you can get the details from their papers, notably [1].

[0] Geometric Algebra for Physicists, CUP, 2003

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0509178
They had chosen two others, but Israel killed them in the meantime. Who should they have chosen?
Haha I tried the “I solve the case” as the first thing, didn’t think to do it 5 more times though
Calyx is good but not officially available for as many devices. LineageOS is the most supported one. I don't trust random forum builds of smartphone OS - and they're too old/never existed anyways in case of my devices.
already tested 2 years ago, quite nice
You can call me what you want, but you have told us all who you are, and that's all I need.

We move forward together, usually with the loudest and most ignorant leading the way. Same as it ever was. The important thing is which side we each take. I side with compassion, justice, honesty, and science, which puts me in the minority, thank God.
Funny, I graduated middle and high school, paid attention in class, and have never heard of him. It's almost like different states and school districts have different curricula.
> Courts are political entities but this is one that Israel chose to accept and recognize the authority of

As far as i am aware, this is a false statement. Israel has been opposed to the ICC since its inception (originally because the first version had a judge selection mechanism they thought was biased against them, although i am sure there are other reasons they object, especially relating to their settlements).

Perhaps you are confusing the ICC with the ICJ, which are totally different things.
We would expect the number of sold plastic trash bag sales bags to increase, because as the summary points out, some people use the free bags as trash bags.

However, I believe that simple comparison is incomplete.

One of the environmental reasons for the ban was how the light-weight free bags get blown about and stuck in trees, clogs up the drains, etc., while the heavier-weight ones I could buy for 5 cents are more likely to be disposed of in an appropriate waste facility.

This summary and what I can read of the paper don't touch on those other effects, which https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/dallas-new-plastic-bag-fe... implies were part of the reason for the short-lived ban, with: "In Dallas, the bag charge was a result of plastic bags’ toll on the environment and the general build-up of litter."
I’m sorry but this brazenly wrong and a form of propaganda; you need to provide evidence for your claims. Hamas-employed Gaza police shoot at gangs that rob the aid containers with the implicit protection of Israel. Many videos have been posted spuriously claiming without any evidence that the individuals highjackimg the aid “are Hamas” when all documented evidence points to the very opposite.

Just two days ago: Gangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say

“Officials said criminal looting has become the greatest impediment to distributing aid in the southern half of Gaza, home to the vast majority of displaced Palestinians. Armed bands of men have killed, beaten and kidnapped aid truck drivers in the area around Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing, the main entry point into Gaza’s south, aid workers and transport companies said. The thieves, who have run cigarette-smuggling operations throughout this year but are now also stealing food and other supplies, are tied to local crime families, residents say. The gangs are described by observers as rivals of Hamas and, in some cases, they have been targeted by remnants of Hamas’s security forces in other parts of the enclave.”

‘An internal United Nations memo obtained by The Washington Post concluded last month that the gangs “may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from the Israel Defense Forces. One gang leader, the memo said, established a “military like compound” in an area “restricted, controlled and patrolled by the IDF.”’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting...
You are corect that the docs read much clearer. Why would they muddy the concept in the release post?
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No, I'm not saying that. How did you come to that conclusion from reading my comment (and the linked article)?
Exactly why the entire institution of policing needs top down reform. Fat chance of that happening in the modern era, however.

ACAB because policing is broken. Fix the system, and cops will no longer be bastards. You can't fix a sufficiently broken system from the inside, no matter how hard you try.
As the article goes into, China was exactly cooperative during the outbreak so those 30 people almost certainly wouldn’t have made a difference.
What most people mean by gravel road is macadamized road, which is a gravel/aggregate material bound in crowned layers from larger rocks to smaller on top often by a tar or asphalt binder or at least through compaction. There are true gravel roads in some rural areas, but, thankfully, I've rarely encountered them.
I've been using EmailOctopus to add an email list to my blog. It's pretty good! That said there's no monetization option so perhaps it's not a Substack alternative after all.

I'll get my coat :)
While you are correct the majority of Google services internally are Stubby-based, it isn't correct to say gRPC is not utilized inside Google. Cloud and external APIs are an obvious use case but also internal stuff that are also used in open source world use gRPC even when deployed internally. TensorFlow etc comes to mind...

So "not used much" at Google scale probably justifies 40 people.
Out of curiosity, can you identify any pro-Israel stories that have been unflagged in the past year?
I wait until I need a new feature, or if there's a security issue. I still have PHP 5 apps in production.
> Germany, the second biggest sponsor of mass slaughter (presently and historically) also claims to be bound by this court, but for some reason ignores it when it is in Israeli interests to do so.

When has germany ever ignored the ICC? I dont think there is a single instance of that, whether involving israel or otherwise.
Surely there is a parallel with standardized testing asking the most needlessly ornate prose of its students and then most writing having more value the pialner it is written.
Surely there is a parallel with standardized testing asking the most needlessly ornate prose of its students and then most writing having more value the plainer it is written.
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I just checked the code samples from the article/post.

Property hooks look awesome, they fix something that's my main pain point in PHP nowadays.

All these getters and setters manually coded make it feel like Java. Just completely boring and unusable without some fancy IDE that types all that boilerplate.

It is one great feature of C# that I'm glad PHP is adopting. This code is also easier to extend than the Java-like sea of getters and setters.

(I don't consider any mention of JS code as a valid comparison, if anything we are better ignoring JS existence unless forced to do some frontend)
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Sure, I just was giving it as an example because I think it's a pretty funny bible verse out of context, and even a little funny in-context.

Still, the old testament in particular has pretty much every single theme that parents clutch their pearls at; Lot has incestuous sex with his daughters (and it's decidedly not condemned) [1], a man murdering his daughter because she's the first person to enter his house [2], prostitutes getting murdered, butchered, and mailed to her suitors [2].

If the old were accurately made into a movie, it would be right next to Se7en or Saw in categorization, certainly not appropriate for children.

I know that this stuff is probably wrapped in layers of metaphor and social context, that's fair enough, but I don't know why similar charity isn't awarded to books that aren't the bible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_(biblical_person)

[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+11&versi...

[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+19&versi...
Most people have an above-average number of legs.
This encapsulation style for OOP is standard; the language should support it and not require additional design patterns or IDE tools.

An argument could be made for adding a sigil so the class user knows this isn't a dumb field, but then if someone wants to upgrade a dumb field to this, as Python encourages, they would need to modify every use.
> One is that math nerds at school insisted on intimidating for the win and I just hated it.

For me the worst part was the teachers that encouraged that behavior and did the same.
Thanks for the references, those papers looks great! Will dig into them this evening =)
Might be because we're funding this genocide ourselves...
Glad to see PHP still chugging along after all these years. It's the language I started with as a freelancer more than a decade ago and I still remember having books on my desk learning the proper way to do things, as you had to work around all the unsafe things the language would let you do and which unfortunately led to it getting a bad rep.
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It’s worth mentioning that, brilliant as Dirac’s “sea of filled negative energy states” picture was, no one believes that interpretation now. The Dirac equation is better seen as the classical equation of motion for the Grassmann-valued electron field (just as Maxwell’s equations are the classical eom for photon field). There are only positive-energy states (=quantized excitations of the field). I do think popular accounts should begin mentioning this in order not to keep reinforcing the old Dirac sea interpretation.
For how many years will it get support, security and bug fixes?
I guess it possible that these were just terrible artists, But it seems more likely that they just didn't know what a lion actually looked like. Afterall, if you were an English medieval monk, how likely were you to see an actual lion? They were no photos to go off.

Check out this Cambodian lion:
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-guardian-lion-281362
The craftsmanship is quite impressive. But it doesn't look anything much like a lion IMHO.
This is textbook whataboutism. I live in the UK. I'm outraged by how much time/money is spent on Israel and Ukraine issues than our own. Similar to yourself, I have to wonder why UK govt chose to help one side with weapons in these specific conflicts. The difference here is of course, protestors are there on their own free will (for the most part, I guess?), whilst I don't have a say in how my tax money is being used.
Citation needed, Windows is probably still bigger as Macs are expensive.
I'm only seeing a blog post with a single link to another 1 sentence page about enabling jmalloc. Are you sure this is the correct link?
Constructive feedback: (i am on mobile). The map pulls up somewhere in Europe, even though I am in the bay area. I can’t really see for sure because the side bar covers the whole map. I cannot zoom in or out at all. When I clicked to add a point, it just adds it in a random location. The map is really zoomed out so a few pixels is like 100 km. There is metadata displayed such as the length of my route, but it seems I cannot input a length and have it create a route for me

I have personally had good luck with my Garmin watch. If I start out near a major trail, it tends to suggest routes along that trail. I’m able to input a desired length such as 10 miles and then it suggests multiple routes that are close to that length and use major trails. My biggest complaint with the Garmin is that it tends to suggest the same routes every day.
These comments make me very sad about scientific literacy. 342 comments and 'control' appears 12 times (before this comment).

Without proper control you could also say that weight loss is associated with loss of heart muscle mass.
https://deferentialgeometry.org/papers/Doran,%20Lasenby%20-%...

page 28, equation 2.36. Thanks a lot I'll take a dive into this

Note: my inquiry was motivated by this:

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-tra...
For sure! Every new idea we grapple in our minds is a layer of complex world view our minds are prepared to scale to. Fiction is also a great playing field for our philosophies. Maybe also to ego stroke ourselves (modern?)
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The ternary tree contains all primitive triples (where the GCD of the terms is 1), where a<b<c. So it contains (3,4,5) but not (6,8,10) or (4,3,5).
Israel and Iran used to be BFFs.
"What we should be teaching children is HOW to learn."

Absolutely correct. And that begins with getting their interest, thus their attention; and that's a whole subject in and of itself.
Oct. 7 was incredibly useful for Israel give it the casus belli to destroy resistance and settle Gaza. Lebanon will be the cherry on top.

Why kill one guy when you can kill all resistance and (future possible) resistance and tada you have a bunch of land and can expand your borders.
I don't know. I think Hyrum's law should not prevent the project from advancing. If the user is so dependent on non-contact behavior of the API, they have to expect that some logic might break even on minor version updates.
Even if Israel did not exist, the regional Middle East governments would not agree on much. And definitely not form a bloc.
No, and that’s because we are talking about relative positions. Every query can have its own set of keys. From the perspective of token 100 token 3 would be squished down, but from the perspective of token 3 it is still at position 3 and can see tokens 0,1,2 without them being squished.
And how would you call the students in the left tail of the Bell curve if not bad students?
Dead men don't travel.