skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost none of the communities that border these rivers will have access to organised waste disposal

Does anyone have any deeper reading on this? I've spent a few years backpacking and Myanmar was by far the worst offender when it came to trash flowing down it's rivers and streams.

I know they don't have trash systems in place, and they often dump it in piles and burn it. What is happening around moving towards some kind of centralized landfills? Even basic pickup? Trucks and fuel are cheap relatively speaking. How do we move to the next step?

Getting them to reduce is ideal but very hard.
I knew it would be that gif before I clicked on it. It's compelling to watch, in a weird way. Sort of like the reverse effect of watching "satisfying" videos, the anticipation of waiting for something to go really wrong is nonetheless fascinating. I always end up staring at the one for a good minute or two.
The longer view is that if gambling should be illegal at the federal level then congress needs to pass a law making it illegal at the federal level.
For anyone wondering how a Steve-Socrates dialog might be like, I found this analogous bit of history:

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Diogenes was in Corinth when Alexander the Great sent word through a messenger asking Diogenes to come see him in Macedonia.

Diogenes told the Alexander’s messenger, “Go tell your emperor that Corinth is as far from Macedonia as Macedonia is from Corinth. So if your emperor wants to see me, he can come and find me here.”

Irrefutable logic and infinite self-assurance. The last bit can only come from someone who really does not need anything from anyone however high and mighty.

Alexander surely was not used to being turned down. But I suppose being a warrior, he admired courage. So he went to Corinth to meet Diogenes. Diogenes was sitting in his tub and enjoying the morning sun when Alexander showed up on his high horse with a whole bunch of soldiers.

After a brief introduction, Alexander proudly offered to give Diogenes anything that he needed. “Is there anything I can do for you, Sir?” asked Alexander. Diogenes replied, “Yes, you could. You are blocking the sun. Please stand aside.”

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https://deeshaa.org/2017/03/03/diogenes-of-sinope/
Following in the trend of Google Hangouts, Google will eventually split the services back into different products.
Gmail, arguably, has the largest share of email users. When companies as large as Google do redesign, other people tend to blindly copy their design decisions. And the design choices such companies make are often bad/wrong/suboptimal etc.

It actually makes perfect sense to criticise Google's design because 1) they are a multibillion dollar company who apparently can't even invest in a product designer, and 2) they are highly visible and other projects (especially open source ones) will gladly adopt the same approaches. Just look at the incomprehensible mess that is Material design.
Have you considered making it a browser extension? It would be good to maintain the amazon interface I'm used to.

On another note I heard from folks who have tried starting companies like this that it's hard to change habits (hard to get people to stop going to amazon and start going to your site, even if you add a bunch of extra useful info).
HN explicitly allows some resubmissions when the other posts haven't attracted attention. Please don't link to empty duplicates, but only if the current post is a dupe of an actual discussion.
Not for much longer I hope https://github.com/thephpleague/flysystem/pull/927
Small businesses (especially B2B) used to be able to buy small ads in mainstream publications that catered to the target customers. For example, we used to pay over a grand a month to one magazine, but that magazine drove fully-qualified potential customer traffic directly to our web site that easily paid for the ad. Today, we can't even find a decent place to advertise that doesn't effectively equate to lighting dollar bills on fire.
Amazon has prime, and then some services have higher service levels that you pay extra for. Like amazon music has the 'prime' & full tiers. There is one for storage, another for books and probably a bunch of others I don't know about.

I can easily see something similar happening with youtube red for example. Youtube free, Youtube 'one' & Youtube red.
Thanks for this, m8. Never thought I'd see something like this on HN that wasn't downvoted to hell.

I "hear voices" too. They tell me when to eat, they talk me down when I'm upset, they talk me into becoming upset, they tell me what to say in the moment, and many other things. Mostly they are distinguishable-- separate from "me" in ways that I still identify with an "I", but clearly also part of me in ways that I have no identity.

I still struggle a lot with identity because it seems that everyone has one even though I know, theoretically, that's not really the case. Identity is a tool, and it's always seemed to me that other people feel more cohesive than I do-- that they are nimble with the tool and it's natural, or automatic. It feels as though I'm composed of too many moving parts to really call myself one person. For a while there I was trying to find it, but I don't think it's really there. There are "higher" parts of me and "lower" parts of me, and all become relevant at one time or another, and they appear to me when relevant. I think we all get echoes from the past and future, from things that are/were/will be connected to us or are somehow more a part of us-- related to "us" by some common factor-- and so I have been trying to narrow those down. It helps a lot to just listen and to talk back. Maybe ultimately all of these parts culminate to one thing, synchronize in some way on some other level, and on this level here I am working in part to synchronize them. There are some kinks. Obviously the voices/selves/beings are not all in agreement. My ego feels less like a definition and more like a synthesizer now.

Then there is stuff to do in the "real world", and I have to find a way to balance the interests of every consciousness inside me to create something that represents some need, cohesively. And I have to do it all the time.

I probably sound sick to most people, but like you said I don't think I am. I think it's difficult to deal with, definitely, but it's a duty of a kind, and it's a challenge like anything else. There's healing to be done but not in the sense that I want to be free of the duty, but that the duty requires that I heal some parts. I think this is the natural state of things. Thank you for stating your thoughts on this, it's something I don't know how to express or spark in regular conversation so rarely do I get the chance to feel in communion in another way with another human on this.
"and we have to pretend we're designers to work around people like this who have no idea how to hire actual technical people."

I honestly don't know what you mean by this.
Does Argo support recovery? In the sense that if a workflow step or the workflow engine crashes halfway, the last (idempotent) action is retried?
If a website's aesthetics were important to Facebook's users they never would have joined. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-facebook-used-to-look-li...
I could see it being used as a "quick-charge" portion of the capacity. i.e. you have a full-sized battery, but also a small flywheel so that if you're really in a pinch you can rapidly charge enough to get somewhere without waiting for an hour. It'd be like having a small SSD paired with a large HDD.
No, Musk explicitly said that future superchargers for the cars won’t be 350kw.
https://electrek.co/2018/05/03/tesla-supercharger-v3-charge-...
A few observations about this "will the traditional college survive" situation, which I've been following for a long time.

The higher education market feels a bit like the healthcare market in that it's somewhat difficult for the consumer to tell what the actual cost will be prior to purchasing the product. Published tuition rates and other costs of attending school feel like they're abstracted until a long-term commitment has been made and it's too late to get a refund.

It may seem strange that, with the increasing debt being amassed by universities, record-breaking new salaries are being offered by many of these schools to football and basketball coaches. The 25 salaries for college football coaches range from $3.5M to over $11M per year. I'd assume that in each of those cases, the value received from the coaching hire contributes overall to the school's bottom line.

As much of the same information that is taught in college becomes more accessible for free on the internet, it's hard to see how colleges can compete with smaller, more agile competitors who don't have nearly the overhead that universities do. It feels a bit like retail stores trying to compete with Amazon.
iCloud is already at 2TB for $9.99/mo and has been since last year.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
You can still use an ASIC with a PoS coin, it just doesn't benefit you as much. PoS coins still perform work on a blockchain with cryptography, but there is no reward to be the fastest. An ASIC for a PoS would allow you to lower the power requirements(Wattage and compute) of the machine running the PoS coin.
Any chance of 3D-printing lenses?

Yes, it's called "grinding", it's how all lenses used to be made. For like, 500 years.

Next up: can we make lenses on the blockchain?
From the information I've seen, you and the other commenters expressing this are making a serious mistake. Now just pause and consider what that means—what you're contributing to by being wrong in a situation like this. Is that who you want to be? I'm sure it is not.
You're everything that's wrong with San Fransisco.
Working on all the networking & routing was definitely the most fun part for me. Unfortunately, not everyone finds it nearly as interesting. We just don't feel that a distaste for the OSI model should preclude someone from running a great business.

Nice catch on the PPPoE. Our gear didn't support Option 82 at the time, but now that it does, we're switching to DHCP. PPPoE is definitely a pain in the butt.
According to their on-boarding questionnaire $25,000USD
Eh, I’ve seen it work well at the director level too, at least for a while until the VPs figure out that you’re the problem, not everyone under you. Sometimes that takes years though. Strategically throwing those who oppose you / see through your BS under the bus is elevated to an art form in corporate America.
U.S. Department of Treasury Solicitation: Bitcoin Investigation Software
In the future I want to learn to stop writing my projects from scratch and start learning how to confidently host and contribute to existing projects.

However, as of now I'm hosting:

On a VPS:

- Personal websites (career and hobbies, built on a custom PHP framework)
- Websites for groups/friends (communities, file sharing, built on a custom PHP framework)
- HAM radio contact log (Web based map and historical logging, built on a custom PHP framework)
- Game engine projects and demos (built on a custom JS game engine)

Isolated on my LAN:

- Network of pi's with webcams doing motion detection (using Motion + custom shell scripts + rsync)
- A server to view those pi feeds on (nginx + custom site on custom PHP framework)
- NAS
- Small "media center" (tried a custom site, now kodi)

On a different VPS:

- Minecraft server
- A web server to view the world map (nginx)

Some things I'd like to add in the future:

- Google docs/drive alternative
- (Or otherwise) a shared recipes/shopping/photosharing to use between me, my gf, and/or my family
- DDG/Google/Bing search alternative
- Network ad blocker
- Firewall
- Public transit schedule/map display for my commute
- A safe way view some of my LAN-based tools remotely

I'm also interested in learning the best practices for data storage/backup/recovery. Taking my data out of the hands of other providers has made me increasingly worried about hardware or software issues losing my files.
For established non-profit schools? Or new, mostly for-profit schools?

I find it hard to believe any reputable, 20+ year-old, non-profit schools are losing money. They should own their assets outright, have extremely low interest rates on any outstanding debt, pay close to 0 taxes. Wages for non-executive staff are not keeping pace with inflation. How are they losing money?
Try telling that to Microsoft.
What language is the author trying to write in? Not off to a great start, with that headline.
> they would gripe about that technology all day long; if they can't complain about its shortcomings and pitfalls, they didn't use it.

I have literally baited people I interview with this type of thing. Asked about things I know everyone who has come in contact with has cut themselves on and been upset about.
I think in most applications this is important but in my email, I value density above all else.
I don't see how that comment was indicating how optimal action is ruinous; but more importantly its words ring true at face value.
Fun tidbits: a) I bombed, like, 6 coding interviews whilst writing this article. Two of them were related to string processing, too, which I thought was funny. (In a depressingly ironic kind of way.) No point, other than I seemingly suck at the "leetcode" coding interview style companies seem to rely upon these days.

And b) there are at least two Easter eggs in this post that no-one seems to have noticed.

Oh, and c) perk of religiously keeping line length to <= 80 characters... the code is surprisingly readable on mobile devices!
Citation needed on Steve being lower class. Lower compared to what?

Based on the little I know about how he grew up, it seems he was more middle class than lower, and also happened to grow up in the best place to grow up to rise with the computer industry. Middle class kids in Iowa don't live 20 minutes from Stanford, for example. So, I'd say "middle class with unusually good opportunities".

I'm really not trying to say he didn't accomplish a lot, because he did, but let's not pretend he was seriously disadvantaged.

Carmack seems to have more claim to being disadvantaged, although I have no idea if he is interested in making such a claim. According to some articles I just read he was arrested while trying to steal his first computer, and spent a year in juvenile prison, which generally doesn't happen to affluent people.
This could honestly warrant an entire separate post on its own.
Session Buddy – Save and Resume Collections of Chrome Tabs
> it seems quite natural that a time-related action would be setting a reminder.

I think this highlights that everyone potentially has a different understanding. That wasn't obvious to me, or the article's author. Personally I would expect a reminder button to have a bell icon.
Also check out cqparts which builds on cadquery and add the concept of parts, assemblies and mates to cadquery

https://github.com/fragmuffin/cqparts
looks good. would love to see more !
If I'm being frank, then you need to be up front about that in the job posting. "Cultural fit" and other PC BS won't cut it - be honest about what you need.

"We need someone who can design and implement frontends alongside our product marketing group." Not, "Looking for a JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, React, Node.js, Mongo, and BerkleyDB rockstar."

Because I've personally watched several people who were cultural fits and great talkers be PIPed and fired purely for the lack of an ability to execute technical tasks.
Great! This has the potential to help a lot of Americans (and more people, even).

Quick question regarding your business model. Do you intend to charge forever, or is there any option for your customers to get out after the setup if they decide to grow their business with their own resources?
The problem likely is that he can continue to do this basically forever, and probably even get promoted along the way.
Odd, for a site calling itself “editfight” you sure are quick to ban people. Maybe you need some kind of interstitial or landing page if you want to explain what your idea is (it’s clearly not just for people to randomly doodle).
Since I love your post, I want to tack one more thing to the bottom of it: please, for the love of all things holy, don't split out "key projects" and skills from your employment experience section. If I can't easily scan your resume and tell what you did where, it's useless to me and I will almost always bin you. This seems to happen more with candidates who aren't in purely technical roles, but it's infuriating.
I had a similar experience, and at an engineering university no less. The career center was very good if you were a mech/civil/elec engineer wanting to work for a big co, which was maybe 70-80% of undergrads, but that wasn't me. Very glad I turned down almost all their advice and stuck to my LaTeX resume.
It seems to me that the only human response is to express respect and offer what support we can.

I agree with you about the unhelpful replies and am attempting to respond to them all. If you notice one I missed, it would be helpful to send a link to hn@ycombinator.com.

People don't do this kind of this kind of thing intentionally, but because their interpretation of others' comments are distorted by cognitive biases that unfortunately nearly everyone is aware of. It leads to inappropriate responses, and occasionally cruel and even dangerous ones.
It’s always a combination. Most of us work in “old” tech. I use 10-20 year old tools, languges.

But good practices and clean code habits are older than that.
Blood products made up a remarkable 1.6% of American exports
Non-existence is complicated. In an obvious (and trivial) sense future itself does not exist, so one cannot tell whether someone in particular (e.g. another Einstein) is not born "yet" or "ever".

On the other hand, one might argue that (for example) wasted sperm and eggs should count as "not born". But even that can be seen as too limiting, because - perhaps, somewhat paradoxically - to be completely objective one should be considering statistical parameters rather than a physical measure.
I sent an email to Jonathan Blow about Jai once, and I was surprised that he sent me a thorough reply.

Russ Cox never got back to me about having GUI apps take over the terminal window in Plan 9 from userspace, although my idea was fundamentally trash so I don't blame him
Doubtful that eggs were expensive on terms of cost per calorie compared to chicken.

A 4 pound chicken will get you about 2000 calories after it is cooked, whereas the same chicken would lay approx 5 eggs/week, each @ 75 calories, or 375 calories/week. So, it would only take 6 weeks for a chicken to output as many calories as exist within it, and chickens lay eggs productively for 4-5 years.
I wouldn't say that it's only x86. MIPS does the same thing, but doesn't even stick the result in the GPRs, you issue a multiply, and the result ends up in the hi and lo registers that you have to mfhi and mflo to move back into GPRs.
About "reality distortion field": https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distorti...
And neither has the NSA or "Five Eyes" or whatever the hell those assholes are.
TBH I have never been impressed by any technical recruiter I've met.

I remember interviewing for a place and the recruiter thought he was an expert coder since he knew some buzz words. He was saying they wanted someone with SPA experience AND was able to build REST API's. I spent thirty minutes trying to convince him that NodeJS runs on servers and I've been a back-end JavaScript developer writing large REST APIs and back-end services. He was convinced JavaScript only runs on browsers and I was full of shit.

That was at a big-name tech startup (one of: Lyft, AirBnB, Uber, Github).

Other times I've been told by recruiters things like "Sorry, we want someone with at least 5 years of Ember3 experience, not Ember2". Stupid stuff like that.

I don't know if the talent shortage is real, or if companies still haven't figured out recruiting. I think it's probably actually a combo of both.

I now write my resumes full of fluffy buzzwords, my GitHub is full of animated GIFS and pretty pictures and I adjust the buzzwords based on the job posting. Much higher conversion rate.
Check out the last few posts on my blog! I use this method a few times to help demonstrate points:

http://www.tylermw.com/visualizing-a-reddit-hug-of-death-and...

http://www.tylermw.com/soma-water-filters-are-worthless-how-...
I think it's actually kinda straight-forward:

* If you have sales/negotiation skills, but no technical skills, you do sales/HR/whatnot.

* If you have both sales/negotiation AND technical skills, you do consulting or start your own business.

* If you have good technical skills, but poor negotiation skills, you go work as a software developer.

So yeah, an unwritten requirement for many technical positions is having poor negotiation skills. And no recruiter will obviously tell you outright that "you know, we're just looking for a sucker to take a crappy deal and you don't look like one, so move on", so instead they will use the politically correct "culture fit" to make themselves feel better.
But Tesla limits supercharging after too many cycles:

https://electrek.co/2017/05/07/tesla-limits-supercharging-sp...
I had an engineering manager candidate drop this bomb on me in an interview last week.
This is the weird part. Sure, Outlook 2007 and Apple Mail are vulnerable, but if you are really parsing untrusted HTML with these clients you probably have more pressing problems (running arbitrary code, perhaps).

From a quick test it seems like a completely standard Thunderbird/Enigmail not only checks the error code from gpg, but also doesn't render HTML by default. There must be something more to this, unless something was fixed quite recently, in which case that would seem very relevant to the announcement.
Most of their costs are self inflicted. A cynic would say that colleges have an incentive to keep their their net low to justify ever higher costs. Look at things like the completely bloated administrative and managerial structures which are now also regularly paired with bloated compensation. And something that happened at my universities, which I expect is typical, is that there was massive and widespread construction. They were constantly building up and tearing down things, even when what they were tearing down was completely functional. It was nonsensical, at least if you assign any value to money.

You can even just see things on a macro level. The product that the universities are offering has not meaningfully changed or improved, yet their costs have gone into lala land.
Am I the only one thinking it should be something along the lines of "We should not collect user data without an explicit consent?"
Obviously they need larger football stadiums to bring in that TV money.
When someone resets their router, it clears the auth details and their internet stops working. With DHCP, it'll "just work" when the device comes back up. You just need to be a bit smart about figuring out which device belongs to who. DHCP Option 82 is a tagging mechanism that allows you to do this without creating a hard dependency on the physical address of the customer's router.
One reason is that you get Revision history, branches etc. using the VCS of your choice. Much more powerful than any PDM system in my opinion
> This system stores the current in stationary flywheels

Well, rotating flywheels.

It amazes me just how much energy you can story in a flywheel. They're really neat devices.
Actions that have arrow-like things in mail: forwarding, replying, moving mail to a mailbox. We need better ways of saying these things.
Hi! Author of https://startyourownisp.com here. Thanks for the mention. I've talked to the folks at Necto and I think what they're doing is great! Hopefully my guide will be helpful to people building networks whether using Necto or not. There is certainly more to the business than what I've been able to add to the site so far.