skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two opportunities for the environmental effects of the air cushions.

1) Re-use rather than recycle: What if you could let the air out at home, open up the bag, stuff it with other bags, and the outside of the bag had a postage paid stamp. It goes back to the company that made the bag so it can be re-used.

2) Make them out of compostable plastic. Much simpler than above, probably the better way.

The key is that these air cushions don't need to last (likely) more than a few days. What can we do so that they have as little impact as possible.

They may be better than the packing peanuts or other substitutes, but there is still opportunity to improve.
i hate to admit it, but i agree with your parents.

where I live, a small fraction of the people on public transit are obnoxious, play loud music, talk loudly on mobile phones, put their feet on the seats, eat and drink, litter, and create the appearance of being threatening to public safety. law enforcement agents are practically nonexistent.

because of that the entire experience of riding public transit is, rather than being relaxing, a bit tense. rather than being pleasant, it is often unpleasant.

on the plus side, underground trains get me to my destination very quickly.

if public transport were clean and pleasant, if the stations and trains and buses were safe havens rather than magnets for poor behavior and even crime, i'd get rid of my car.
SRE is a terrible role name both in its abbreviated and in its fully spelled out version! Just because it originates at Google, it doesn't mean it's cool. I am terrified that it gets more and more popular these days!
Risk of appending secret salt to plaintext prior to RSA encryption?
That's definitely not true. I've had the pleasure of working with many colleagues that have, and (since good Scala engineers are thin on the ground) my company will often hire good engineers who're interested in working with Scala. Heck - I myself have picked up Scala and Rust in the past couple of years.
The largest download on the page is a vendor bundle, at 93.2k gzipped (402k uncompressed). So I'm pretty sure it's not.
Nah. The same is possible on phones – the "put every program in a container, and restrict access to any hardware or files" allows exactly that.
I'd die to see the day we could install custom ROMs on an Apple device
> I think it's true that you want everyone to be good at everything

You can't fix unrealistic expectations.
Haha, whoa, I feel like I've spotted a celebrity! I mentor a kid here in rural Missouri and he and his friends play agar and diep. I don't know how they found them way out here, but they did and they love them (especially diep).

Anyway, I've been idly thinking of ways to try to kindle an interest in programming in the guy, since he's very smart and seems to like computers. I played Cookie Clicker with him, and then showed him how to "hack" it from the console by playing with the JS a little bit (it's all local).

But since he loves diep so much I think that would really give him motivation to learn more if he could fiddle with things in that game somehow. But I realize it's harder given that it's a client/server model. I don't suppose you have any ideas of things we could try? Is there a client-only mode where we can fiddle in the console? Or is the server code open source so I could run it locally or something?

Oh, ha, and something that's been killing me... why's it called "diep"?
While possibly true for some specific sports, I highly doubt this is a generality. So +1 to [citation needed].
> Why aren't people claiming that everything you say is recorded on your iPhone or android phone? Or that it's all sent to apple/google?

uh... there's tons of people complaining about that all the time. I don't know about you, but that's a constant criticism of both companies that I see.
Personally, I find the styling of the OP's site much better than that of Vue-HN, largely because of the higher contrast (and less over-emphasized vote counts).

Might be just me, though, as I still find the vanilla HN site the best looking of all, not to mention it runs with no JS enabled, no cross site stuff, etc., and takes very little resources - the best kind of web design, in my humble opinion.
You can do this with Go as well, and have been able to for a while now.

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/building-shared-libraries...

http://blog.ralch.com/tutorial/golang-sharing-libraries/
While I share your sentiment, don't forget that there is a very large pool of prospective employees who may be beneficial to a company in spite of a more narrow skill set, even if they don't grow their skill set. Take college grads for example. They're relatively inexpensive and have a moderate skill set as they begin their careers. Are they useful to hire? Yes. Do they know anything about operations? No. Is it necessary for them to? Not from day 1. They have a lot to learn, and early on, they may be more effective to an organization in a more narrow role. Let's try not to stereotype all engineers who are looking for employment into "already has all skills" and "cannot hire because lacks all skills" buckets. There's a scale, and some set of skills can be very effective for some organizations, even if they aren't quite where you are.

I'm probably being pedantic, but I felt it necessary to highlight the implicit assumption.
I have wondered the same for a while now, and I hope someone familiar with Rust can explain it: in many of the benchmarks Go is faster and/or uses less memory despite the GC. Like you, I don't see much trickiness in the Go code.
I'll add that under the current definition of terrorism, the Sons of Liberty would be classified as a terrorist organization as well, given some of their violent acts / economic terrorism.

The colonial forces largely employed guerrilla tactics as well, out of necessity when facing a larger, better financed and trained British army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare#American_Re...
Tomorrow will be fine. I suggest adding a comment to the new thread pointing people back to this one, since it's kind of an unusual loop.
I've tinkered with side projects for a long time, but I finally finished one to the point where people can use it.

This is a search engine for lectures; one of the great things is this is something my family can understand and use.

http://www.findlectures.com

I've been really happy with the response so far (The Next Web & Lifehacker wrote nice articles about this)
Most Apple users (including me) don't want to install custom ROMs. Actually, I'm quite sure most Android users don't want either (and most of them don't even know what's a ROM).
Downvoted as this seems highly bias with statements like "he does not have achievements in his career"

You can read a basic overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
I pick the best tool for the job. I'm using pything because right now I'm in a python shop. I'd like to go back to Java though as pythons asyncio is insane. The only reason I'm using pyhton is because the people inheriting my code will only know python.

What may look like "bah humbug I'll use X because I like it" may just be picking a language on concerns not limited to features. Looking at social concerns is important as well. Who is maintaining your code after you're gone? Company tooling for certain languages? Will I get fired for using it (AI winter)?

Lots of big questions
> Currently the only thing stopping big states from mob-ruling smaller states IS the electoral college.

Although the President has a lot of power to carry out immediate action using the agencies under his control, his powers over the long term are extremely limited relative to the legislature and courts. The founding fathers intended that the Senate and Supreme Court be the firewall against the mob rule, not the president or electoral college.

Hamilton's argument for the electoral college in Federalist No 68 was that the electors would be people qualified to be the last firewall against choosing an authoritarian, demagogue, or someone otherwise "not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications" to hold the single most powerful position in the nation. AFAICT he and the other founding fathers considered maintaining a balance of power between large and small states to be a very secondary consideration because that was the purpose of the courts and upper chamber.

> If we fully embrace the 10th amendment and give states the comfortable and regular power to reject federal policy, then this becomes a self correcting problem.

The states have always had the power to do that. From refusing to help federal agencies enforce prohibition to sanctuary cities outright interfering with immigration enforcement to lower courts that routinely ignore higher courts. Even if states could do more to reject federal policy, the Federal government is the only sugar daddy in town that can support their healthcare, social security, defense, and infrastructure habits. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act, for example, didn't set the minimum age to 18 but penalized any state with a drinking age below 21 by stripping them of 10% of their annual federal highway contribution. Now the minimum drinking age is 21 nationwide, despite the fact that any state could have easily ignored the directive at the cost of billions a year in infrastructure spending. As long as the federal government has the money, it has the power to make the states do almost anything it wants.
The article is wrong on so many counts:

1. Closed source apps are not the threat (Nowhere does it say that the dialer, home screen, messaging app, or camera are a part of the OS. All are replaceable, and all replacements integrate just as well as the original, it's not an iPhone).

2. Google controlled Android through legal means - If you want to make your Android phone in a factory, or if you want to use any google app, you need to obey their rules. So if yo want Play store, you have to play along.

3. Cyanogen saw Google as a threat, but Google didn't see Cyanogen as a threat. Cyanogen didn't die because of Google's behavior. They died because of terrible execution.

Remember the spat over split-windows. Google didn't ban the appstore (despite being able to), they demanded that the environment not be _too_ modified.

Cyanogenmod backed down and Google let it go.

The only thing is that they were forbidden to _package_ it, but opengapps is still around.

4. Google isn't closing-source because of Cyanogenmod or other custom Roms. It's bigger threat is Samsung or Amazon.
It didn't used to have the 100 point holes on the sides. The 50 in the middle was the highest.
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> there is something to be said for the concept that anything directed by science or engineering almost always results in better outcomes than what is directed by politicians
True. But in some contexts, communication does matter. A lot.

Some would say that it never matters at all.
I live in Tokyo. Will treat you to beer and yakitori if you make it.

Good luck with Japanese. People often describe it as one of the hardest languages in the world, and you can understand why: three written systems and grammar and vocabulary that changes based on whom you're speaking to and what it's about. But once you learn the rules (and there are many), there are few exceptions compared to English. So it's a lot of work on the front-end. Don't let that discourage you.
As someone interested in Astronomy - but not knowledgeable about the specifics: "Why is this important"? (asking truthfully, not cheeky)
Mailing bags back? What's the transit cost of doing that?
The largest automakers in the world have had the power, finances, and means to progress vehicles for quite some time and have not

No offense intended, but you haven't been paying attention if you think that's the case. For instance, I've read on this very forum how Tesla's driving-assistance technology is a bit dated (camera and no LIDAR, for instance) in comparison to Daimler, et. al.

As for other aspects of progress, I don't know what you're looking for. Within my lifetime alone we've gone from vehicles that need constant maintenance (ignition points and 5K mile plugs, anyone?) to appliances-on-wheels. My Mom's '16 Corvette puts out 450bhp, still gets 25mpg, and I'll bet you could put your nose straight up the pipe and die of boredom before the exhaust fumes get you. And, unlike something of equivalent horsepower from the 70's, you can drive it in town.

Large brands made hybrids, EVs like the Leaf that made an EV "everyman's car" before the Model S and loooong before the Model 3.

So to play it like Tesla's the only one with the guts to do what needs to be done just means their marketing is working.

Signed,

Owner of Many Shares of TSLA
Anybody else get the feeling that Germany is joining the newfangled "fake news is really bad" brigade because Merkel is now being roasted mercilessly online due to recent events and Germany has elections coming up soon? It wouldn't be hard to manipulate public opinion if you literally decided what news would be allowed to be displayed on social media.

Who decides what news is true or not? Is that healthy for a free country? What realistic option is there for companies to immediately comply to any government demands or face financial death?
Amazon owns East Dane/ShopBop, clothing sites which do always use plastic bags. I guess for mainline Amazon they don't care enough about to differentiate what they ship products in.
I'm super happy for you, both for finding a drug that works for you and for changing your life to fit your vision of yourself. Way to go.
Show Up, Kick Ass, Go Home
I am sure there is a rich mathematician out there who would match any bet size.
Many custom ROM's are/were based on the CyanogenMod source code. Without CyanogenMod/lineageos, custom ROM chef's would need to rely exclusively on AOSP [1] source code instead.

Certain custom ROM's such as ParanoidAndroid [2] used AOSP as a base prior to CyanogenMod getting shutdown so these ROM's would not be impacted.

The nice thing about CyanogenMod was the wide variety of devices they supported. This meant you could get a newer version of Android/CM on what would have been an otherwise unsupported device by the OEM/Wireless Carrier. CyanogenMod was generally the model project for other third-party custom ROM's.

[1] http://source.android.com/source/index.html
[2] http://www.paranoidandroid.co/
Hey,

For Diep.io, it's completely server side and very little happens on the client side. That is intentional as Agar.io had a problem with "private servers" popping up which were actually people ripping (read stealing) the client side code, putting their ads in there, hosting it on their own website and pointing it at their server emulator.

It comes from an old game I made when I was a kid called Diepix. There's no reason for the name "Diepix" other than sounding cool.
Hayek is generally considered a Libertarian and he argued for social safety nets.

If you get your libertarianism from cartoonists ( and they are extremely plentiful ) then you'd of course think it a caricature. Any libertarian that basically denies all public goods is simply not to be taken seriously. I think Rothbard is generally the source for most of that.

We've had plenty of people helping your "unfortunate dying in the street" under various regimes. Some are government, some are not. The peak brightness for the sort-of New Deal approach was LBJ. You may or may not agree, but Charles Murray is at least thinking about this, takes social welfare seriously and has an idea or two.

My argument to other libertarians is that SSI and SNAP are simply in the noise of the general economy, have massive velocity and seem to work fairly well. They're "low load" - they will not prevent you building that new plant because of them ( indeed, it might be just the opposite ).

I'm skeptical of claims of mass technological unemployment. That's partly because machines made stoop labor uneconomic, and stoop labor sucks really hard.

We don't know what our problem is right now.

Now - where are they right? There is a lot of load. When people complain.... Trumpishly ... about regulation , they're not kidding. They're not wrong. Some of it is a rock in the shoe; some of it is better founded. That's not an argument against regulation. It's an argument for better engineering of regulation. That's very difficult and even proposing it confuses people. And it fits the anti-elite narrative that's popular these days.

After all, a libertarian is just someone who values liberty above simple face value - they think that liberty has emergent properties that create additional value.

What must happen is that there must be dialogue between conservatives, liberals and libertarians. But the shouting continues...
I like it. What do you see terrible with it? why, and what would be in your opinion a better role name?
200 Years of the Stirling Engine
What about Oxygen?
If all athletes are doping, none of them benefit.

I would disagree; the more superhuman the feats, the more people are likely to watch. See, e.g., Cristiano Ronaldo.
Finding a balance is hard. Should you define SQL? DB? HTTP? where do you start and stop defining acronyms.
> Here in the UK Amazon seems to have switched solely to paper inner packaging. Environmentally I prefer this.

It's not clear to me you should (perhaps you should, the balance simply isn't clear to me).

A plastic air cushion weighs almost nothing, so shipping it to the merchant and then to you uses almost no fuel.

It is rarely recycled but instead become sequestered carbon in a landfill. For me, they are convenient to recycle in Palo Alto but this article says, to my surprise, that that's uncommon. I'm not sure of the carbon impact of recycling PE.

While paper uses a lot of water and chemicals to make, and involves cutting down trees. It's also very heavy so costly in terms of fuel to transport and recycle.

Aesthetically, I agree that paper is much nicer.
> (just like a month ago they wanted to get rid of the Go subreddit in favor of a solely Google owned option of Google groups)

Wow, really? Do you have a link to that discussion? That's wild.
It's not that unrealistic, as long as you have a wide enough definition of "good."

I don't think you want to hire someone for an SRE role who doesn't understand algorthims well enough to do detailed analysis of the codebase, including, say, rudimentary big-O analysis of the code. Good SREs read quite a lot of code and if they're debugging a performance issue and the code contains portions that are obviously exponential or factorial in time, you want them to be able to see and recognize that quickly as a potential cause of the problem being debugged. The same is true of problems caused by bugs or anything else. Likewise, good understanding of what's possible and not possible with software is necessary for area to file (or potentially close) reasonable PRs for the codebase.

The person who thinks in terms of page faults and systems analysis may take a little more time to find the optimal algorithm for an abstract problem than someone who only thinks of abstract problems. But they should know enough about software and computers to recognize the limits of their knowledge, and that's the hard part.
> but still a proof that what OP wrote is not valid in all cases.

You are not proving anything until you post your Go code, which you don't seem to have done (please correct me if I'm wrong, I am legitimately curious to see for myself how Go and Rust stack up against each other for this problem). Until then, all you're doing is making vague claims backed up by precisely zero evidence. Why should anyone take you seriously?
Very promising looking project. I was looking into it last week and read through some code, but it seems somewhat fragmented. They're undertaking a lot but don't appear to have a large active community.

Still there are a number of projects and they look to have a full GUI running. Impressive, perhaps it speaks to the productivity of Rust.

All in all, hopefully the project continues forward. It'd be great to try!
I should've known better than to bring this up in a thread concerning gaming.
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This is great! I feel like there is going to be a strong opposition to autonomous vehicles as they become more mainstream and widely available. We need more videos and examples like this that show the benefits. I understand auto pilot isn't fully autonomous but these are good building blocks.

I'm really going to cringe when people want to hold on to their super charged car/truck and drive it recklessly in the name of freedom. We can't publicize enough the current dangers of driving.
No milestones.

My health is crapping out at me ignoring it for so long and I have a 3 month old daughter.

My focus is on taking it easy, being there for my kid, and actually trying to enjoy a year of life, without become an obsessed workaholic like I usually do.

To keep me sane with a slower pace of life, I'm trying to hook up some Arduinos into something that vaguely resembles a computer.

But that's it.

My milestone: Enjoy, don't do.
Polyethylene is inert so I wouldn't worry much.
I made service that allows anyone with a domain to create their own private email server in less than 10 minutes: https://sealmail.net/

Using Postfix, Dovecot and PostgreSQL, you can read your mail securely via IMAPS on your phone and your desktop mail client. If your account gets hacked, you can just SSH into the server and reset your password yourself. No more getting locked out of your email account in an endless GMail password reset loop (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/HjW2Pj5...)
Generally speaking, yes.
tldr: A framework to implement the Linux userspace in Haskell. Different design goals than HalVM.

Not sure from the code on github: If you want to replace the userspace including libc, then what do the RTS parts that need libc do?
An experimental Minecraft-like docker client, built using voxel.js
They should just ship with reusable boxes. Better boxes with inner protections, where you would get some kind of credit if you post/bring it back empty, or reuse for personal mail. Maybe we should only be allowed to send packages with these boxes
Within 7 days, I had dropped five pounds.

Using just scale-weight changes to pronounce a diet a "success" is folly. Any glucose-reducing diet will produce considerable water loss.

I lost 13 pounds in less than 36 hours the first time I went keto. I then lost virtually nothing in the subsequent 3 weeks.
It's hard as hell.

Stay strong, reach out when you need help.

People in all the unexpected places will be there for you, even if those you rely on don't always.
Yet those who are regulated cannot be expected to simply salute and execute. There kind of has to be a dialogue. And as things get more "competitive", the allure of seeking rents in the capture of regulation shines brighter.

I think autonomous vehicles mean there won't be a transportation industry, per se. There would have to be some barrier to entry that's not readily apparent now. After all, "Uber for self-driving semis" under an Amazon style aggregator ...
LineageOS (CyanogenMod official fork)
Try shane tully's example code. Its simple and works well.

https://shanetully.com/2014/09/a-dead-simple-webrtc-example/
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