skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution for box waste is recycling or reuse.

In Finland there is RePack https://www.originalrepack.com/ UPS has Express Envelopes. Amazon has Ships in Own Container.

Industry can solve the problem with reusable containers. If you pay small deposit for packaging the first time and you can easily return them it's problem solved. RePack can be returned by dropping it into mailbox.
This list looks very suspicious when the largest company ever, the VOC founded 1602 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company founded is not listed there. Apparently only small family companies are listed, not the big ones.

The 2nd biggest company of those times, the Fugger copper mining company founded 1494, dissolved 1657 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger is also not listed, neither the 3rd largest, the Welser banking and merchant companies. Welsersche Handelsgesellschaft 1490 and ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welser
If you have 50% overcapacity you have completely failed to plan your electricity system - that't not really a measure of success
For those here into German wheat / Hefeweizen beers: Schneider Weisse offer a range of excellent regular Hefeweizen beers as well as an annual special limited edition (named TAPX).

While the regular TAP7 (a Hefeweizen Dunkel) and TAP5 (a hoppy, fruity Hefeweizen reminiscent of an IPA) are fantastic already and stand out among wheat beers the TAPX edition is a very unique treat. The Tap X Cuvée Barrique for example is a creamy and dry wheat beer that tastes like wild berries, figs, and vanilla.

Quite hard to get hold of unfortunately, especially as for the past limited editions.
This is not really of as much significance for self-driving as it is a glimpse into social habilitation issues in SF. I've seen people bodyslam random cars in SOMA before.
So don't you think some of those people would rearrange their lives if they had to face $12k of added annual commuting costs?

You'd probably see some increasing density in nearby areas that are still full of 2-3 story buildings. You'd see some parking lots reconsidered. And you'd see people moving to other cities. You'd probably see a whole lot of other creative solutions, too, to the fact that NYC is now allowing its problem of too many cars to be felt by those driving the cars.
When building our house we learned about the EPA's formaldehyde limits. It's funny that for manufactured homes the levels are higher because poor people don't want to pay for "healthy" houses directly (higher cost of construction). So the manufactured housing companies lobbied for lower standards to keep costs low.

I'm not able to find the original EPA guidelines due to the changes on the website now about the new pressed-wood rulings on formaldehyde.
I run an international Startup as well and we ship stuff around the globe too. It sounds like the author has good experiences with DHL. Unfortunately that has not been the case for us. Too many delayed packages, customs trouble and general incompetence made us switch to FedEx a long time ago. Haven't had a single problem since then.

Although I'm German I can't recommend DHL to anyone in good conscience.
Doesn't seem that uncommon around Seattle: https://www.weihenstephaner.com/product-finder/
“Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.” —Milton Glaser
The problem isn't the day of the week but the fact that it is the day before time off.

If you work weekends then by all means push on Friday evening. However, don't push anything the before your next vacations.
And doesn't work as they intended, the links behind the picture isn't actually click-able.
The article does mention this:

>Finally, even if we end up with entirely open processors, that will not bring an end to vulnerabilities at that level ... Open hardware may give us more confidence in the long term that we can retain control of our systems, but it is certainly not a magic wand that will wave our problems away.

The author is arguing more from a freedom/control perspective from what I understand. When it comes to these kinds of vulnerabilities, an open CPU might be easier to patch or easier to disable the affected components of.

Apart from that, maybe crowd-sourcing and open-sourcing the eventual fix is faster or better than a private org. That doesn't necessarily seem like something the author is saying, but it seems like a reasonable factor to consider. I can see arguments either way that I'm not really qualified to defend.
Now someone just needs to make a backpack designed to carry the Instant Pot.
And illumOS / SmartOS.
Short answer is, they never were. You can't just leave a contract around and say that anyone who gets nearby and/or reads it is now bound by it. It requires some type of affirmative act to acknowledge that you read and understand the contract and are voluntarily entering into a formal relationship. That's what that "I have read and agree to the terms of service" checkbox on most sites is for.

Otherwise I could leave a piece of paper in a coffee shop saying. "Apple stock will go up 5% in the next month - By reading these words you agree not to trade Apple stock in the next month unless you pay me a royalty.". Reading something does not mean agreeing to its terms and if the content does not require agreeing to its terms to access the content, then the terms are may as well not exist until you do.

It doesn't mean you can ignore everything there. If you reproduce the content then you are still liable under copyright laws. If you DDOS the site, you are still liable under tortious interference laws.

But outside of something covered by other laws, there is no legal recourse to just putting "no bots" in your terms of service and then suing any bots you find. You can try to _block_ bots, just like you can hide your sheet of paper when you see a cop getting coffee, but you can't sue them for breaking terms they never agreed to. I don't believe there is actually any case law yet as to whether a bot can even agree to a contract. For evidence you can look at the recent LinkedIn case, which, while it is on appeal, turned on this issue.
Everybody's situation is different, but American Express paid the Global Entry fee for me as part of the annual fee I already pay them. I believe Chase Sapphire does something similar. They actually now do the Global Entry interviews on arrival in the US at select airports, so you can just integrate it into your next international trip.

For me ... well, I'm an American but I live in Colombia, which generally meant lots of questions and highly suspicious treatment before I got Global Entry. Now I don't have to say anything more than mornin' when entering the country. Totally worth it to me. :-)
I've purchased stuff from Chinese sellers on Amazon, and it's been sent directly to me from China. Actually, I didn't even realize that the seller was Chinese, until I saw the three-week delivery estimate. And there was no indication that Amazon was involved after I ordered the stuff.
Amazon has been so consistent for me and given me such great customer service that I still buy from them even when they aren't the lowest price. I'm a pretty loyal customer.
"Financial engineering": capital investment and depreciation vs. operational expenses, interest/taxes/tax-breaks on those things, that kind of stuff.
Foursquare Opens New Midwest Engineering Hub
People worrying about paper waste has become a pet peeve of mine. Get your plastic use down first please.
That's simple enough. Execute meltdown and see if an unknown answer pops up. If it does, then you've accessed something you aren't permitted and some degree of meltdown is possible.
Nah, brits will think you're talking tea.
I still buy from NewEgg. Their marketplace has the same problems as Amazon's, but the stuff they sell themselves is generally legit as far as I can tell.
I do see your point. The author is modelling this as a transitional form of a suburban neighbourhood that could later be intensified. Additionally, it should be read with understanding of his previous writing on cities [1]. You'll see he capitalizes a lot of terms (e.g. Really Narrow Street) which are intended as references to concepts he has fleshed-out in other posts. A major component of his vision for cities is the idea that (most) streets should be pleasant, attractive Places (as opposed to Non-Places) to spend time, and should be public spaces in their own right. Rather than have urbanites "get away" from the city by visiting parks, he would have the city be a place that people do not need to "get away" from. A street could

[1] http://newworldeconomics.com/category/traditional-city-post-... He has written a lot on cities. Unabashedly opinionated, but compelling. I especially like his extensive use of photos.
This seems particularly relevant to legislators and politicians, and much of the electorate.
So the dump is ordered backwards, from top of memory to bottom? That seems harder for humans than little endian integers.
Maybe author hears her mispronounced often and it bugs him.
Using high Intensity EM Waves to peer under my clothes, invasive pat Downs, Making me remove Clothing, limiting my ability to carry liquids, and about 100 other policies feels like I am being treated like a Terrorist or Safety Risk or Criminal.

Certainly does not feel like I am treated with Respect, Dignity, and civility that a Free Society should offer its inhabitants as they peacefully travel from point a to point b

I shutter to think what you believe would be unacceptable or "being treated like a terrorist"

>>>> But current screening measures are not unconstitutional.

Only if you skip over and do not read the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th , 10th, 14th Amendments, and Article 1 Section 8
For context, the author is the notable fields medal winner Terence Tao - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao - and finding the lower bounds for this constant has been a long running endeavor in pure mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn%E2%80%93Newman_const...
I think Gnome being the next default for Ubuntu will solve that problem, but mass adoption requires more than that.
From the same place as the money to pay for electricity would have come from... It's a simple arithmetic problem; John has USD 100, he can either spend it on electricity (to produce 1 BTC) or he can buy 2 BTC. Obviously owning 2 BTC is better than owning just 1, so the more profitable path is to spend the money buying BTC instead of paying for electricity to mine at a loss. I hope this helps.
The Day a Soviet Moon Rover Refused to Stop
It's covered in the index, along with 7 different sub topics: https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/z-index#C Alternatively, searching for "climate change" using the EPA site search yields 5,290 surprisingly well presented results.

I'd agree that it should be listed as one of the main topics on the front page given its relevance. Trump's appointee doesn't because of his own personal biases. That's pretty much the end of it. Drawing an analog between it being removed from the front page drop down and China censoring Tiananmen Square is needlessly hyperbolic and sensationalistic.
Bethesda games are uniformly buggy piles of crap that are only fixed after 100s of hours of modded in fixes. Bethesda is only saved as an entity because they embrace modding.

Valve is a very bad example, yes they consistently make above average games, however they don't make many and as a dev studio i'm sure valve is deep in the red, they don't make money on their games, they make money on steam.
Sure as hell does. Here's the boundaries for the elementary school in my area: https://imgur.com/M1bAKEh. People are flipping out right now in part of one of the adjacent school districts, because they might be redistricted into the Annapolis elementary schools, instead of the Edgewater school on the other side of the river. I'll let you guess why.
>Once cryptos are roped off from money laundering, we’ll see the prices fall back down to Silk Road levels because black markets were and seem likely to remain their sole utility for some time.

I don't think that'll happen for all countries.

You might even be able to run your crypto businesses in micronations and/or international waters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
Except that no, earlier detection does not necessarily mean better outcomes. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-cancer-trea...

Dr. Welch is the go-to expert on the problems created by medicine's efforts to detect disease early
Carpool lanes, different tolls for commercial vs personal. I think these are essentially doing that.
Lots of breweries. Belgian Abbeys; Grimbergen, Affligem... Can anyone opine on how similar today's beers might taste to how they did "back in the day?" I'm sure some of the beers are based on the original recipes, and with the Reinheitsgebot, it's fairly plausible that all of the ingredients in the German beers in particular are very similar. But I'm not sure how the process might have changed over the years, or how the ingredients might taste different now than they did a century ago.
Those are for fast I/O, but they don't change the architecture.
The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants
Move to NYC! Problem solved. And on serious note - local pay NYC income tax, commuters don't.
From a software perspective at least, my rule has always been "know that what you're looking at is an abstraction, and know that there's details underneath". Most of the time you can get by using the abstraction (e.g. walking up and down the stairs), but once in a while you're going to have to peel the abstraction back and look a bit deeper to understand what's going on (e.g. replacing a cracked stringer).

I personally took this to an extreme... I learned to program at quite a young age, and dual-majored in EE and CS specifically so that I could understand the systems that ran my software. I'm happy writing Python, but if I need to dig into the CPython run-time to figure out a bug I'm ok with that. And if I need to run tcpdump to figure out why a TCP stream is stalling, I'm good with that. The abstractions are beautiful and work 99.9% of the time, but if you don't know how the abstractions are built, you're going to have a hard time figuring out what's wrong when they break down.
Let’s the robots do them.

Or the unicorns? I mean, as long as we are just handwaving this stuff.
I remember reading somewhere that BE was chosen for IP partly for routing efficiency. As you go from MSB to LSB in an IP address you narrow in on an increasingly specific network segment. That's probably not true anymore as smaller and smaller blocks of IPv4 addresses have been handed out (e.g. instead of a full class C).
Non-C++ Book Recommendations for C++ Programmers
Show HN: Listen Club – Curated lists of podcasts from online articles
"But if you're doing something where you need to people to excel beyond what they've done before, and perhaps beyond what your company has ever done before, then I think it's naive to think that additional testing for things like on-the-spot thinking, creativity, and diligence under pressure convey no useful signal. This is, in my opinion, an extraordinary claim and requires strong evidence before anyone should take it seriously."

The extraordinary claim is that whiteboard testing (or take-home projects, or...well, anything in the current tech interview) does any of those things.

You can't whiteboard-test for excellence. Excellence is both contextual (i.e. it depends a lot on your company, team, culture, etc.), and based mostly on squishy, intangible factors that go beyond "code": picture the brilliant coder who dons his headphones, falls down a hole, and produces a pile of undocumented, complex code of zero business value. It's a cliche, but do we interview for it? No. We ask people to do a graph search on a matrix.

My contention is that we'd do far better with some simple, basic screens for technical competency, and then spending most of our time on communication skills, personality, clarity, organization, planning, business sense and team fit.

...but of course, these are questions with no single correct answer, so engineers are afraid of them.
I'm not a fan of the beer-themed lexicon myself; it's confusing and opaque. Here's a sort of glossary I found: http://tmr08c.github.io/devops/2016/10/24/homebrew-glossary....
The series of books known as "Windows System Internals"[0]

Raymond Chen of "Old New Thing" fame and all his friends[1]

The creator of process monitor occasionally writes nice blog posts about troubleshooting[2]

A lot of historical NT stuff is still valid, or at least mildly relevant today.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-m...

[1]https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

[2]https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/...
China declared world’s largest producer of scientific articles
>I'm not sure if you are thinking of a particular case, but I can't really see how this would happen.

Does Purdue Pharma's decision to push opioids as a safe treatment for everyday pain ring a bell?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...

Oxycontin was certainly profitable, but it was not good for patients with chronic pain.

This is a case where a Pharma company deliberately misled doctors, patients and regulators because doing so was exceptionally profitable.

>The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
For those on Windows, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html does the same using the native firewall (so no 3rd party dependencies, services, or bloat) (though they've ~recently added paid licenses with more features to their basic offering).

I only wish it were cleaner and simpler. I don't think the Windows Firewall API is too bad, I should add this to my bucket list of open source software to write that I'll maybe get around to in the next 20 years....
What a US government shutdown would mean for science
It is theft. It's not a scheme, or a game, or a trick. They are stealing money. It needs to be made punishable.

As these frauds get more sophisticated, it won't just be "dumb" money getting burnt. The answer to "someone stole this from me" isn't "well you shouldn't have been so dumb" - whether it is your wallet, a package from your doorstep, or a bit. Theft is theft.
LuLu is a billion dollar hypermarket chain. I think it would be a good idea to rename this project in the beginning if you don't want to get into any copyright issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_Hypermarket
Except many companies pursue an either-or model.
Which may be precisely how they ended up in this mess.
> Why was this decision made and why now?

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
Why is there no East India Company in this list?
Check out pico-8
Maybe other EU countries allow startups to report quarterly or yearly?

In the UK it's usually quarterly, but you have to file separate returns and make separate payments for VAT MOSS and domestic (UK) VAT, which might be out of phase unless your VAT quarters happen to fall on calendar quarters anyway.
Doesn't that only apply if they are competing businesses?
No, it's a symptom of HN not being a place for ideological battle. Users flag such posts, presumably for that reason.

If you want a site dedicated to this sort of disputation, there are other places to find that, and room for new forums as well.

There's a class of users who only want to fight these same fights over and over again, they're a minority, they're not using HN in its intended spirit, and they shouldn't have the ability to fundamentally alter it for the users who do.
How Charlie Munger became an “expert-generalist”
Tell you honestly, I prefer these kind of informative websites rather than nowadays Bootstrap blobs, where you need to full-page scroll several times trying to get some idea but all you get is 3 large icons in a row and sometimes a big green button if you're lucky.
> Except this AI doesn't exist. You're imagining there is such a technology, and this technology will just be able to see all the detail in the world it needs to learn

Obviously I'm imagining it. Strong AI does not yet exist. It's also obvious that it could exist, because humans do it. I'm only making two logical inferences here:

1: Future superhuman AI will have at least the capabilities of the human brain, because we know those abilities are possible, because we do them.

2. A future superhuman AI will have the ability to examine itself in memory and identify things about itself in a way that far exceeds human introspection: we can barely examine out own emotions, much less the actual neuronal contents of our heads.

> And it's also why I think he paperclip maximizer and gray goo scenarios are silly. Maybe it's theoretically possible to create something that would eat the world, but in order to do so, it would have to overcome every obstacle the world throws at it. [...] If you think deep learning is such a technology, then ask yourself to what extent ANNs understand themselves and you'll see they don't at all.

Well first off, they're quite good at it[1], but more importantly that's weak AI rather than strong AI. Arguing that weak AI is unlikely to be superhuman is plausible, but strong AI is definitely self-improving.

What I think you're saying is that you're skeptical of us being able to create strong AI out of current techniques, which is also reasonable. NN are not gonna evolve into skynet any time soon. But believing them to be categorically impossible requires the human brain to be special in some way- either beyond human comprehension or comprising a supernatural component.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
As a portfolio piece, it's great. I don't really care that it's not the most usable thing in the world - the underlying concept is sound, it's easy to see a lot of effort went into the design and execution, and the site looks great! Buuuut that's about all it's good for in it's current form.

Unfortunately, the way something looks is but a tiny, tiny factor in the scope of the overall UX. This totally falls apart as a reference piece that I can bookmark and go back to from time to time. I think this is also compounded by the fact that the content of the site is centered around preaching good UX - but doesn't adhere to it's own advice. I can forgive lapses in UX thinking on software engineering blogs or the latest and greatest crypto forum...but if your site about UX has bad UX, you're in for a bad time - especially on HN.
SEC warns against creation of crypto-heavy funds
Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests
each displayed lines of characters in that twitter image is exactly the same...they only shift their position a bit.

it looks like the black shades over the character lines are the vestiges left by the non-ascii characters at the beginning of the code.

the displayed part is not just ascii hex and apostrophes characters, there are also punctuation characters there...My guess is that if they are displayed, then that means the system has already successfully handled them and their triggered actions have been contained in defined system behaviors...
Can't a retail chain and a firewall can share the same name without issues?
The Synthesis of Complex Audio by Means of Frequency Modulation (1973) [pdf]
Floppy disk ^^. I had to do it for an old Compaq Proliant DL 360 G1 (with no USB ports) back in 2012. It was for an old Intel NIC (e100 driver).
Direct link to the repository, in case my server does not survive HN's hug of death: https://github.com/TimWolla/haproxy-auth-request