skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if that were really true, so many companies wouldn't go out of their way to create an image of something not being made of plastic when it is. It's resin. It's polymer. It's PU. It's felt. It's acrylic. It's wool (aka 30% wool, 70% polyester like don't piss me off). Or my favorite: they just don't tell you what it's made of at all. A recent example of this is when I was looking for key racks. The hooks on the key racks were painted a metallic silver... obviously to look like metal. They weren't metal though, they were plastic. There was no way to find this information easily without first buying the product and investigating it myself. Why not just say they're plastic hooks?

If plastic were truly a selling point, it would be prominent in all the advertising: "$5 value plastics!" or "Plastic/Wool jacket!" It's not. Because they know that, in reality, people don't actually like plastic. It's just that in an environment where you have a selection of items varying in price where the highest-price item is just as likely to predominantly contain plastic, consumers will choose the least expensive option. It is exploitation of information asymmetry, not a true preference for cost-effective plastics.

The other thing is that there are a lot of products that are very expensive that are still made with plastic. When looking for products online, I always try sorting by most expensive to least expensive to get the higher quality products. Still there is plastic, but it's Gucci plastic! See, this plastic junk is better because it has a household brand name on it.

The capitalism apologia for this behavior is insulting too: No, you need that plastic, it's better than using the non-plastic materials! You wouldn't like it without the plastic! We're protecting you! (Again, if it really is better, then make its betterness prominent. Be proud of the fact that you chose plastic for its cost-effectiveness or its physical properties!)

The solution I'd like to try is requiring that this sort of information be provided directly under the price at the consumer's request. In brick and mortar stores, they can have pull outs under the price label or just have a bigger label (yes this is feasible - retail stores already redo their labels regularly for price changes and new/seasonal merchandise). Online, there would have to be a prominent flippy switch to toggle on that additional information.

In all, I find the claim that people prefer plastic to be dubious and think that, if given the information, a lot of consumers would buy less plastic. I think people prefer their time, not wanting to go down a deep research rabbit hole (where one must dodge the companies who infiltrate information sharing spaces like the Buy It For Life subreddit with false sentiment about their products), and are, at best, indifferent to plastic.
You’re not supposed to eat/lick/consume it.
Are there accessibly priced printers to do actual newspaper or magazine style printing? Like if you wanted to be your own small publisher.
Do you realize just how much plastic we use? Almost everything we use had plastic in it (in some form or another)
Not saying we can't go back, but it isn't as simple as "don't use plastic"
For what it’s worth, a significant proportion of the classic Mac OS’s implementation was in rom anyway - you “upgraded” the OS by patching in-memory jump tables to ROM functions.
We've asked you many times to stop breaking the site guidelines, and you've continued to do it. If this keeps up we're going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685310 (June 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33174068 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30327901 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29489619 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359574 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493250 (July 2019)
Cute project, I can see myself getting into building something like it as a hobby project.

Would I pay for one? Honestly, there's no way in the world.
DTS 5.1 CD – I missed this one [video]
In the UK and Israel the left are still against vaccines (not specifically covid vaccines). Prior to covid anti-vax was either religious or leftist conspiracy in the US. It is like how the dnc in the us started to support civil rights as early as FDR, and then the tipping point with LBJ that drove all the racists to the gop. Parties flip flop on things all the time. Russia used to influence the left primarily, now they use the right. The games are visible, but not comprehensible to me.
Odd to read this. Articles are not very specific but he apparently was diagnosed with a treatable cancer in March. I wonder what it was and what changed so rapidly.
> As I browsed HN at home, I found that links to her website would not load

Thanks for mentioning this, because I was having the same issue and I was surprised no one was mentioning that the site was (appeared to be) down. Switching to using a VPN made the post available to me.
I don't get the point of bluesky if mastodon already exists...

why switch one megacorp for another?
A software that fine tunes the whole operating system automatically based on my usage patterns. It would happen continuously, so if my patterns change over time, it should adapt reasonably quick.

E.g.

> RSS reader should update when I wake up the machine, not only when its timer expires
> That menu option 3 layers deep I keep using in application X should be moved to the toolbar as a button.
> While at it, remove the right-justified button in LibreOffice Write/Word, something which I only pressed once accidentally in 1993.
> YouTube's sound should be routed through my headset between 10AM and 6PM weekdays. Afterwards route it through the speakers. All other applications should use the speakers all time.
> Order the task-list in a dynamic way. E.g. when I work, I frequently look up things in the browser - I just Alt-Tab once, then Alt-Tab again to get back. If I use another application out of this pattern, that will mess this up, I will have to Alt-Tab a lot of time, until this app gets back to the end of list (or I close it)
> Etc.
Spray paint
Oh theres a hole, it’s just not the one you’d think of inserting something into… rule 33 aside.
Ok, I guess I had guessed correctly. Though I was curious if I had missed something.
This is not attacking the people on the phone, it's attacking the whole operation. The person on the phone is going to be on the phone regardless of whether they're talking to an AI or a victim. The AI is merely talking on the phone, not abusing the caller in any way (other than perhaps eating into their commission).

I also think it's extremely simplistic to call the people making the calls "slaves". A lot of the time, they are in facr the perpetrators. Even when they are part of a more organized operation, they (1) are likely paid per successful scam, so they are co-interested in hurting you, and (2) fully aware they are scaring and stealing from someone.

So I wouldn't call these people slaves, I'd call them low-level criminals.
<https://rachelbythebay.com/w/feed/>

(Under the RSS icon.)
So this a new method that simulates a CRT and genuinely reduces motion blur on any type of higher framerate displays, starting a 120hz. But it doesn't dim the image like black frame insertion which is the only current method that comes close to the clarity of a CRT. But it also simulates other aspects of CRT displays, right?

Can you use this method just to reduce blur without reducing brightness, on any game? They mention reducing blur for many things other than retro games in "Possible Use Cases of Refresh Cycle Shaders" but does reducing blur in a flight simulator also make it visually look like a CRT with phosphors?
But they have a minimal viable product! It’s viable! /s
I have been intimately involved with cryptocurrency since 2010
Love your enthusiasm! Our plan is to subsume Rewind functionality into Limitless. Sorry it has taken longer than I wanted. The pendant has taken a lot of our time and focus.
The US is not particularly safe. Various indices put it well below other countries -- in the top half, for sure, but it's hardly a safe place.

You'll have to supply evidence that the US is safe, as that's not self evident.
Trump Reiterates Support for H-1B, Faces Backlash from Supporters
However US PMC's are labelled, they are private groups, not national armies, they are as well resourced if not better than a number of national military regiments of comparable size, and the fact that they operate internationally and often for other non US nations and various transnational companies makes them of greater concern than cosplaying LARP'rs.

FWiW one general definition of militia is:

A militia is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military.

and PMC operate within and without that grey zone; a siginificant number of members are "civilians" that take on contract gigs for a period of time, then tap out to do other things.
> “We have a minimum viable product that’s already being used in clinical trials, and while there’s more work to be done, we’re much closer to a full marketable device,” Shaker said.

I see this a lot. People seem to ignore the “viable” part of MVP. If there’s more work to be done to make it a full marketable device, it isn’t viable in its current stage.

I wish them luck.
What answer do you want? The answer has already been told to you twice. They don't want more people to know who they are. If you had read carefully you'd seen that in the article they say the group already knows who he is and he is on the run. It's natural he doesn't want more people to know him. But you seem to want some other answer that satisfies you.
Hey, I'm the creator of Guten!

Thank you, OP, for posting this, and thanks to the community for all your support!

To answer some common questions/comments/concerns:

- Totally agree with the sentiment regarding screens being a big problem in today's day and age. The main reason I wanted to make Guten was so that I could start my day off reading something on paper instead of staring at my phone. It also helps that you can't doomscroll on a receipt ;)

- I also love Little Printer - it seemed like such a cool product, but I unfortunately never had the chance to purchase one before it got discontinued. This is my attempt to bring back some of the functionalities in Little Printer that I'd find most useful in my day-to-day.

- BPA in thermal paper was a concern of mine as well, but I thankfully found some BPA-free thermal paper on Amazon!
No.

Just kill the fucking dickbar.
How would that help? How would you prove to the insurer that you were scammed out of the money and are not in fact pulling the opposite scam (that is, paying someone for a good/service, and then clawing the money back afterwards)?
> Hyperlinks that do on-hover gimmicks like load previews or charts.

I haven't seen one that shows charts, but I gotta admit, I miss the hover preview when not reading wikipedia.
> This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense.

It boggles my mind that there are people who think this is a good/ok idea. From a human perspective, all it does is pulls the mind ever closer to fictional imaginative world rather than encouraging real life interactions which I believe is inherently wrong no matter what business strategy is wrapped around it.
It doesn't count as a dupe because the earlier post didn't get significant attention. See this recent explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42499547.

Sorry the randomness worked against you in this case! It does even out in the long run, as randomness will :)
The LLM4Decompile project (https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile) provides some open models for binary to C decompilation and Ghidra pseudocode refinement, along with some training sets.

RevEng.ai, linked a few times already, discusses their approach here: https://blog.reveng.ai/training-an-llm-to-decompile-assembly...
FYI it’s not common to allow sick days to be transferable.

TBH I think in the US it’s more than anything about how much more competitive industries here are vs in the UK. If X company feels it’s worth the extra cost by allowing unlimited PTO and 2 years of parental leave, etc. the worry is that X will be trounced by Y Company, who is ruthless enough to not offer those things and as such has much cheaper labor costs.

If you take an industry like retail, those companies have a point - Walmart and Amazon offer low benefits compared to what companies once offered. Their lower prices are part of how they killed off most of the department stores and put the rest on life support.

And if you think about a highly paid job, even though our fringe benefits suck compared to Europe style, my impression is that US salaries are higher for equivalent jobs, enough that it makes up for it. So we value the money more than we would the benefits, apparently. Only problem is you can’t use all that money to buy more time with your family (except for by taking breaks between jobs, if you’re good at saving!)
Im sure you’d change your mind if it killed or maimed a relative of yours and you were suing the vehicle operator. It’s irresponsible at the very least.
Game dev in Rust: a year later
Files actually want to be microservices.
This is all irrelevant.

The way these scams work is to get someone to intentionally send money, usually through gift cards or wire transfer to an account.

Some of the common schemes are to pretend these are taxes that they didn't pay ("you owe the IRS a huge amount, send this money and all the penalties won't be applied immediately"), sometimes it's urgent money needed for a loved one (a common one is "your son/daughter just hit someone with their car, send money to this lawyer to try and save them from prison"), sometimes it's promises of future riches (such as the infamous Nigerian Prince who will send his fortune to you if only you send a little money first).
I wish Apple still wrote good documentation.
Substack's UI is fairly minimal and does not appear to have many anti-patterns. My only complaint is that it is not easy to see just the people I am subscribed to.
I'm not condoning some of that in recent rulings. But also ask yourself, is this the first time you noticed it, and that wasn't happening for rulings over the past 20 years for cases where you happened to agree with the outcome? Only sudden interest in applying that principle now, I guess?
I don’t get it, why is a self-employed person paying so much more than others for single payer healthcare where you are? That sounds exactly like the USA where those not employed as a normal full-time employee pay the most for equivalent insurance, so people here definitely do stay at their regular jobs instead of quitting to found a startup. Insurance outside of those group plans is even more expensive than the already shocking normal cost, and of course normal full time employment (what we call W-2 jobs) usually provides a generous healthcare subsidy.
In about a year into glass baby bottles and so far no injuries. They’re quite thick and don’t break easily.
Discussion (64 points, 7 days ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535936
Great! So on top of that, let's create more fake people! Sounds like a good idea.
Figure 6 shows that the emergence of the site has also occurred in many of SARS-COV-2's relatives, and their positions in the family tree indicate that these were independent evolutions, not a trait passed on ancestor-wise.

Do you suppose that the other such cases happened in a lab also? Or could it be that evolution favors the adaptation because it makes for a fitter virus?
Ad-based businesses exist because a lot of people (including many on this forum) refuse to pay for anything. During the late 1990s/early 2000s, people hated paying for anything and demanded that everything on the Internet should be free. Well, that led to the vast surveillance machine which powers Google, Facebook, and every ad-tech business out there. They need surveillance because it lets them serve more relevant ads and more relevant ads make more money.

The bottom line is if you hate ad-based businesses, start paying for things.
Memo to Trump US telecoms is vulnerable to hackers. Please hang up and try again
> Pretty soon, I figured out that if Caroline had trouble understanding something, it probably meant that the design was flawed. On a number of occasions, I told her to come back tomorrow after she asked a penetrating question, and revised the API to fix the flaw that she had pointed out. I began to imagine her questions when I was coding something new, which made me work harder to get things clearer before I went over them with her.

This alone is enough to justify hiring great technical writers (and technical writers with programming experience.)
I don't think it's woke or rage bait. As I said I think it's no real world experience and no common sense and I'm frankly amazed that nobody in a SoMe/advertisement organisation didn't consider how the world would react.
Make your mind! Is it Kominek or Komenik? Mistyping your main character name 13 or 19 times (out of 32 mentions total) doesn't seem nice...
I don't keep a "dick bar" that sticks to the top of the page to remind you which site you're on. Your browser is already doing that for you.

A variation of this is my worst offender, the flapping bar. Not only it takes space, it flaps every time I adjust my overscroll by pulling back, and it covers the text I was trying to adjust. The hysteresis to hide it back is usually too big and that makes you potentially overscroll again.

Special place in hell for those who hide the flap on scroll-up but show it again when the scroll inertia ends, without even pulling back.

Can’t say here what I think about people who do the above, but you can imagine.
My take on why this doesn't exists to larger extent is that if you are going to go through the effort of automating, you may as well take one more step and use short-lived personal tokens instead. In a cloud, this will already be there for you, usually through OIDC. Shared secrets is a dangerous concept to begin with.
Perhaps you should either file a bug with NetNewsWire, or debug NetNewsWire and submit a PR so it works with her blog.
I mean your employment can't technically be terminated because you are taking sick days, unless it's whatever qualifies as long term illness (18 or 28 weeks I forget).

Technically they are not obligated to continue to pay you and the govt sick pay is like 100 quid per week.

in the us they can fire you the day you don't show up
How to Make i18n Properly
Yup: “An attorney whose legal services to a health plan involve access to protected health information.”
They do mention that it does reduce brightness. The selling point compared to strobing sounds to be less eyestrain. I'd expect it to lose more brightness than strobing, considering the lower relative pixel on time.
What about this research indicates to you that it doesn't address the accuracy issue?
Yes, of course. I was just describing what most existing engines currently do.
If a browser does not support modern TLS (SSL), it probably also has unpatched security flaws. Unpatched browsers should never be used on the Internet because they will get hacked.
Yes, it’s the individuals’ fault. Google, FB, and the rest need to spy on us! I feel just awful for those poor companies.

No. If your business model requires you to do evil things, your business should not exist.

Anyway, I do pay for services that provide value. I was a paying Kagi customer until recently, for example (not thrilled with the direction things are going there now though).
Wikipedia shows Wind was generating 29.4% of electricity from Wind in 2023 and UK is expected to double the Wind Farm capacity by 2030. Apart from storage I dont see any reason why UK can not be entirely powered by off shore wind.

If only we could stating working NOW on projects beyond 2030 and continue to try and push some of these date forward.

Add in a few more Nuclear SMR.

I am also unsure why Pumped-storage Hydro Electricity doesn't get any attention.
> There's something essentially wrong with Meta and Google where they can do tech but not products anymore.

I'm listening to "Masters of Doom" on Audible. It's about the creation of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, etc. Great book.

Something that's interesting about it, is that Id Software seemed to largely reject the idea of having a game where the players 'connected' to the characters or the story. They were laser focused on:

* Carmack creating a game engine that was the best in the world

* Romero and crew making the gameplay as fun as possible

But it sounded like they had folks on the team who wanted to make a story where the players could 'connect' with the protagonist. He was fired.

Some dude named "Tom."

Facebook, weirdly enough, seems to have the issue. Which is particularly odd considering that's their product!

I haven't played games in ages, but when I saw "Half Life" for the first time, it felt nearly as "revolutionary" to me as Wolfenstein 3D was.
Fiction is a story that an author wants to tell, for whatever reason. It doesn't necessarily follow rational rules, it follows the rules of story telling. Fictional people do things because it makes the story more interesting, not because they have some internal logic to their actions.
It requires a GPU in the same sense that windows 3.1 or dos or whatever else requires a GPU to convert the contents of a memory buffer to a signal that a display can actually display.

But you can also just encode the result of your composition to a h264 stream and send that over the network if you so desire. no GPU required in this case.

> The simplest means of getting pixels from client to compositor, and the only one enshrined in wayland.xml, is wl_shm — shared memory. Simply put, it allows you to transfer a file descriptor for the compositor to mmap with MAP_SHARED, then share pixel buffers out of this pool. Add some simple synchronization primitives to keep everyone from fighting over each buffer, and you have a workable — and portable — solution.

https://wayland-book.com/surfaces/shared-memory.html

> [weston] Available back-ends:

> drm – run stand-alone on DRM/KMS and evdev (recommend) (DRM kernel doc)

> wayland – run as a Wayland application, nested in another Wayland compositor instance

> x11 – run as a x11 application, nested in a X11 display server instance

> rdp – run as an RDP server without local input or output

> headless – run without input or output, useful for test suite

> pipewire – run without input, output into a PipeWire node

https://wayland.pages.freedesktop.org/weston/toc/running-wes...
You don’t have to. It would seem it also leeches through your fingers.
there is no such thing as rehabilitative justice, which is just secularized christian theology of redemption; there is only keeping dangerous or destructive people away from the rest of us. if they manage to reform themselves all the better, but the stats don't indicate any persistent institutional success despite decades of effort and rotating fashions. the thing that actually brought crime down after its tremendous mid-century spike is mass incarceration, ie taking the pareto tail out of circulation
Glass tires!
Maybe everyone of the 28 AI "people" represents one of the team members, but that doesn't make it any less of a bad idea in my eyes. As a father of girls I've seen full well how representation matters in media, but I suspect that AI "people" is the one area where people will want as little representation as possible.
and the first demonstrable success story would get $20,000 and the kudos of being the winner of the challenge

There are many "MCU break" services in the Far East that specialise in this sort of thing as their core business, and $20K USD is roughly at the high end of what they'll charge (for physical work), not mere voltage glitching.