skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a movement now in the West to ban plastic bags and put higher taxes on plastics among other things. This is pointless as the West is only responsible for a tiny fraction of the plastic waste in our oceans.

The study linked in the article claims that "The 10 top-ranked rivers transport 88−95% of the global load into the sea."
Those rivers are:
Chang Jiang, Indus, Huang He, Hai He, Nile, Bramaputra, Zhujiang, Amur, Niger and Mekong. Eight in Asia, two in Africa.

To put it bluntly, these are regions where most people don't know the meaning of the word recycling. This is a cultural problem, not a technological one.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368
Discrimination in regards to all sorts of attributes are illegal. Including one of the most useful measurements for predicting job performance, IQ.

You don't need to select for depression and addiction explicitly, companies implicitly do this by forcing normal working hours on their employees.

Insurance is a stochastic tax on the young and healthy to benefit the old and unhealthy. If it's decoupled from employment I don't see why an employer would care. Also, why shouldn't we use all information to predict costs and risk?

This whole medical data hoarding might be a "what if" scenario on AI and immortality.
> This is SCOTUS throwing down a gauntlet....This is the supreme court asserting itself,

In general, I don't find unified personifications of groups of disagreeing humans to be very illuminating. Do you have any evidence this particular ruling is a coordinated action by the justices of the Supreme Court to communicate anything beyond their explicit decision to anyone? Or are you just speculating?
Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions
And those people who use that as a blanket statement for the entire industry are objectively wrong. There are a handful of things being on a PIP could mean.

1. You're not really trying because you're used to the work being relatively easy. It means you need to actually try, and barring evidence to the contrary, you have no reason to believe you'll be fired if you shape up.

2. You're trying your hardest and the work just isn't good enough. This is a bad sign, and you'll likely fail to meet the requirements of the PIP so you should start looking.

3. Your company is using a PIP to cover their ass for legal reasons. In the US, this makes no sense at all, especially for folks in the $170k+ total comp bracket, because you can be fired for any or no reason (barring certain protected classes). It's unlikely the company is going to spend $100k to cover their ass if you don't fall into a protected class.

I have seen multiple folks at multiple companies put on PIPs both formal and informal, and I have never seen it used as a cover for someone to get let go.
Vimeo Joins the Alliance for Open Media
On the other hand, few US companies are positioned to so easily pivot into sports betting as quickly as FanDuel and DraftKings.
Could Earthquake-Monitoring Technology Help Save Elephants?
There is one for twitter which is https://autotweeter.in which claims to tweet and upload fotos incessantly by reading it from an excel sheet.
Wow - not the sense I got from the series. I'll attempt the books, thanks :)
Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting
...hence the rest of my sentence? Or are you just clarifying for other people?
What's wrong with self interest? That's a serious question.

I don't mean that in a nihilistic, nothing is true, everything is permissible way. Nor do I mean it's ok to arbitrarily pick fantasies to believe, especially if that leads us to imposing the consequences of those beliefs on other people. There are few beneficial delusions. The question is, what do you care about in life and what are your goals.

How you choose to think about things is a tool you can use to help you on a productive path. If a certain way of thinking helps you maintain an even keel mentally, then that can be useful. It doesn't take blind faith, you don't have to exclude the possibility of alternate explanations, keeping an open mind is fine, but if this is a plausible possibility then why not take some comfort from that? It doesn't necessarily mean you're compromising any of your principles to do so.
Or you know....if we're arguing about potential solutions to unhappiness in the universe when the infinity gauntlet literally allows the wearer to do anything they desire, then why not just give everyone limitless resources, or just make everyone permanently happy, or eliminate greed or fear or violence.

I still like the idea of wiping half of life in the entire universe though, it works well from the narrative perspective.
Is that true for the majority? While I don't play myself, it seems a part of the appeal of fantasy sports (at least football) is the drafting/management of your team.
It's not like sports betting wasn't already widely common across the United States. The only difference is that money (and taxes) will be going to US companies directly now instead of off-shore online gambling companies...
The diet described in this article would only have been possible in relatively temperate climates with long growing seasons.

Temperate climates, perhaps like the Mediterranean? Which is where most of the Templars lived?
You're simply making a statement without any proof. I specifically showed how easy it can be to deploy any application on Windows going back over 15 years. Can the same be said of Linux distributions over the same time period ?
Being logical and brutally callous, is not the same thing as lacking emotional intelligence. Quite the opposite, in fact; if I'm understanding the material correctly, it is emotional intelligence which grants the ability to "manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goal(s).", so without this ability, a person who needs to be logical could be prone to sudden outbursts of empathy.
My wife and I own a business in a rather pro-employer state and even our DOL does not consider being bad at your job just cause for denying unemployment. We had an employee use company resources to actively plan opening a competing business half a mile away and still lost our request that he be denied unemployment benefits after we fired him for gross misconduct.

If you get unemployment benefits denied, especially in a very pro-employee state like California or New York, you certainly did something to justify it.
Try storing food that way for a few months. The results aren't pretty. What survives are carbs. All the vitamins are gone. You have carrots suitable for pottage, not salad. Seeds (peas, nuts, grains etc) can indeed be stored but they too are just blobs of carbs. When we talk about "eating vegetables" we don't mean porridge and dried nuts. Scurvy was a thing for a reason.
Thank you yes this makes perfect sense, this is indeed the sawtooth pattern you see with AIMD. Cheers.
I can't speak for police, but for military, i could see this being an actual life saver for an infantry rifle platoon or medical emergency. It could run in with extra ammunition or medical supplies enough to stabilize any injured. This same thing could be used for civilian emergency situations or disaster relief for hard to reach areas that a normal vehicle might have trouble reaching.
The whole first half of the article was about the knights living longer than the average peasant.

The very first paragraph of the article:

>For even wealthy landholding males, average life expectancy was about 31 years, rising to 48 years for those who made it to their twenties. The Knights Templar, then, must have seemed to have some magical potion: Many members of this Catholic military order lived long past 60.
An alternative maybe of interest to your friends? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
"The iBOT has a number of features distinguishing it from most powered wheelchairs: By rotating its two sets of powered wheels about each other, the iBOT can "walk" up and down stairs, much like a cog railway or a rack and pinion with the two wheels as the "teeth" of the gear. The wheels can roll slightly at each step to compensate for a wide range of stair dimensions. When stair-climbing without assistance, the user requires a sturdy handrail and a strong grip. With an assistant, neither a handrail nor a strong grip is required. The iBOT is capable of tethered remote control operation, useful for loading the wheelchair up ramps into vehicles, or "parking" out of the way when not occupied. Custom software receives data via various sensors and gyroscopes, allowing the iBOT to maintain balance during certain maneuvers. For example, during curb climbing the seat remains level while parts of the chassis tilt to climb the curb. It allows the user to rise from a sitting level to approximately 6' tall, measured from the ground to the top of the head, and depending on the size of the occupant. It does this by raising one pair of wheels above the other to elevate the chassis, while a separate actuator raises the seat slightly more than usual. In this configuration the device is on two wheels, and the 'iBALANCE' software and gyroscope signals control the iBOT to maintain equilibrium, balancing much like the Segway scooter (which was a spin-off from the iBOT development). The user may also travel in this "standing" configuration. It can climb and descend curbs ranging from 0.1 to 5.0 inches, according to the manufacturer's specifications. The limits are determined by the rider's technique and risk tolerance. It is capable of traveling through many types of terrain, including sand, gravel, and water up to 3" deep."
So you're saying that in a free market no one could get the capital without the IP? I'm sorry, but I feel that's ridiculous. They could still have access to popular actors, directors, screenwriters.

Franchises aren't everything. Otherwise the highest grossing movies wouldn't be Avatar and Titanic :)
There are some biodegradable plastic bags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_bag#Biodegradable_plastic_...
> So the question is, can cryptocurrencies provide a solution? I'd say it's too early to say.

Well the stated goals of the bitcoin whitepaper are pretty narrow in scope, but setting that aside... Can cryptocurrency tokens provide a solution? I think the question is undeniably yes, the question then becomes, is the solution practical and do its tradeoffs represent a net benefit compared to the status quo? In this case the answer is clearly no. "Too early to say" is always true in technology so it's essentially meaningless. It's like if I said it's too early to tell if Diaspora will transform the social media landscape... sure, something unforeseeable could make that a real possibility but just like with cryptocurrency all the hype and fanfare has amounted to technically interesting novelty without much substance.
I certainly didn’t wait til I turned 21. Going to bars was a big part of the social scene at my university, and fake ids were quite common.
It is that much waste. I suspect you underestimate the size of the fishing industry and fleets of boats. In 2004 the estimate of commercial fishing boats was over 4 million. As an example
of the impact of their waste consider the great pacific garbage patch: “the patch is 1.6 million square kilometers and has a concentration of 10-100 kg per square kilometers. They estimate there to be 80.000 metric tonnes in the patch, with 1.8 trillion plastic pieces, out of which 92% of the mass is to be found in objects larger than 0.5 centimeters.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch Obviously, it is not all fishing vessel waste, the belief is that the majority is, particularly discarding fishing net creating the body that all the other waste gets trapped in.
Many of them (if not all) simply nap during those hours of meditations and prayers.
Old digital photocopiers are an identity thief’s dream
I use BioBags, which are compostable. They are a little flimsy, however, and break down quickly with wet trash or food scraps.

http://biobagusa.com/products/retail-products/
My impression is that SV and ycombinator types are completely unwilling, or ambivalent to this problem, and mainly because these grey market like-bots only make their platforms look more popular, and give content creators a pay-to-win process towards what appears as social media success.

They gloss over points like this: "The risk of realizing that the internet is massively manipulated is that the cognitive overhead to process even the most basic interactions increases, suspicion increases, polarization potentially increases."
This is a fantastic resource! Thanks.
On a scooter your choices are hunched over, or sitting up straight going under 25mph or getting knocked over by wind.
A patchwork regulatory framework. Take a look at what's going on with online poker. Any poker site that wants to operate in a state that allows it has to comply with that state's regulatory framework. One of the most notable things about this is that states generally only allow you to play players within your own state (I think some states may have compacts that allow inter-state play with other specific states). They may also require the company to be operating within the state itself. So, even if Draft Kings starts a normal bookmaking operation, they can't necessarily just offer those services to players in any state that allows it. A lot of it will depend on how states settle on their regulations.
Cleaning up an S3 bucket with the help of Athena
Don't get much air pollution through 50 miles of rock.
Ok interesting to hear :- ) And I understand better how it's different from the others. Ok, $7.5.

Have you found any payment handler that deals with Value Added Taxes "everywhere in the world"? I feel I don't want anyone to pay anything right now ... because I'd just mess up things with the tax agency :-P

My project: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (it's in my HN profile). Vision: Building a discussion tool, that [people who change the world or their neighborood] can use to find ideas and solutions, and pick the right things to do. There are HackerNews like discussions, ... I think they work well for finding the important things and making decisions.
Not to mention the fact that the correct handling of garbage (so it ends up in the appropriate processing plant or landfill rather than the ocean) is vastly more sensible, effective, and economical than regulating plastic use.
What about custom plugins (developed in house by your customer)?

For your point about security, that could be solved by asking them to whitelist your resolver IPs at the origin. Or you could even host the “origin” for them, in a closed network.
Can the mods put [annoying video web app with almost no text] in the title? [avwawant]?
Um, there is no assumption here. I guess I could have clarified "Organic foods are an absence of many herbicides, pesticides, and narcotics."

Non-organic simply has them all.
That feels like a very small number to me.
If your application requires multiple servers running multiple domains, you're probably better off with a microservice architecture.
Let's summarize the situation:

Abstract: S/MIME and MUAs are broken. OpenPGP (with MDC) is not, but clients MUST check for GPG error codes. Use Mutt carefully or copy/paste into GPG for now.

- Some mail clients concatenate all parts of a multipart message together, even joining partial HTML elements, allowing the decrypted plaintext of an OpenPGP or S/MIME encrypted part to be exfiltrated via an image tag. Mail clients shouldn't be doing this in any world, and can fix this straightforwardly.

- S/MIME (RFC 5751) does not provide for authenticated encryption, so the ciphertext is trivially malleable. An attacker can use a CBC gadget to add the image tag into the ciphertext itself. We can't expect a mail client to avoid exfiltrating the plaintext in this case. S/MIME itself needs to be fixed (or abandoned).

- OpenPGP (RFC 4880) provides for authenticated encryption (called "MDC", see sections 5.13 and 13.11 of the RFC) which would prevent a similar CFB-based gadget attack if enforced. GPG added this feature in 2000 or 2001. If the MDC tag is missing or invalid, GPG returns an error. If GPG is asked to write the plaintext as a file, it will refuse. When the output is directed to a pipe, it will write the output and return an error code [1]. An application such as an MUA using it in this manner must check for the error code before rendering or processing the result. It seems this requirement was not made clear enough to implementors. The mail clients need to release patches to check for this error. This will create an incompatibility with broken OpenPGP implementations that have not yet implemented MDC.

- Even without clients enforcing or checking the authentication tag, it's a bit trickier to pull off the attack against OpenPGP because the plaintext may be compressed before encryption. The authors were still able to pull it off a reasonable percentage of the time. Section 14 of RFC 4880 actually describes a much earlier attack which was complicated in this same manner; it caused the OpenPGP authors to declare decompression errors as security errors.

Net-net, using encrypted email with Mutt is safe [2, Table 4], though even there, opening HTML parts encrypted with S/MIME in a browser is not, and double-checking how it handles GPG errors would be prudent before forking a browser on any OpenPGP encrypted parts. See the paper for other unaffected clients, including Claws (as noted below) and K-9 Mail (which does not support S/MIME). Otherwise, it's probably best to copy and paste into GPG (check the error code or ask it to write to a file) until this is worked out.

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/06031...

[2] https://efail.de/efail-attack-paper.pdf
On a very expensive bed.

Or for the employees on the lower rungs, by pretending they aren't being horrible
I think you must mean the smaller trash bins sprinkled throughout your house, right? Because a kitchen (main) trash bin is typically too large for little shopping bags? In any case, have you looked into compostable bags? I tried a bunch of different brands and a lot were not very stiff/strong at all until I got a 100pack of stuff that's almost indiscernible from a regular trash bag, except green.

I'm not sure how it works in your house, but in mine the small trash cans throughout rooms are almost entirely filled with compostables like paper towels, tissues, floss, and tampons (I've gotten in arguments about whether floss and tampons will actually compost - that experiment is currently running in our backyard). So you could just Chuck those bags straight into the compost bin, if your city has it. If it doesn't, maybe not a good idea cause the bags will just disintegrate at the landfill and blow trash everywhere.

Really the answer here is convince local government to do recycling and compost collection and make an effort to purchase and cook in such a way that as little goes into the landfill bags as possible. I recently visited my childhood home in Texas and felt super gross when my only option for a can of Coke I had finished was chuck it straight into the bin... I've been thinking a lot lately about how stuff just is accumulating in landfills. Maybe it's my SF instincts screaming "that's a couple square miles of great real estate if it wasn't full of trash!" Lol.
Fuck the drinking age, christ you people. This is the unraveling of the United States itself.
Honestly I've never heard of a college that respects these types of boundaries. By its very nature if you're taking 15+ credits of academically challenging coursework you're going to be working 60+ hours a week.

My school recommended 3.5 hours of work outside of class for every 1.0 hour of lecture (roughly equivalent to credit hours with rare exception). For the minimum full-time load of 12.0 this equated to 54 hours a week (12 hours of class, 42 hours of outside). 18 credits was 81 hours a week all in, and this was expected. 100-level classes were typically less but my junior year particularly it was pretty much spot on.
It's a start. You can't ask poor people to have a discipline and behave in certain way when you are infinitely richer person don't behave like that.

But yeah, bulk of the effort should go into areas around those rivers. Education, paying small fees for bringing in plastic waste (in same fashion metals are collected, not enough to abuse the system but enough to motivate), and more education.
This decision doesn't legalize sports betting. It allows the individual States to do so if they wish. DraftKings is (was?) operating under a loophole in Federal law that allows fantasy sports, and had, until now, the advantage of actual betting being illegal while "fantasy sports" were not.

Now that states can allow betting directly, they can do things like require a gaming license to operate, require a physical location, etc. Many may still prohibit online gambling. Federal law that prohibits online gambling can still also prevent straightforward betting over the Internet.
Normal human beings put 0 effort and attention into walking.
They stumble about until it works. A toddler learns to walk before they have most of their conscious brain development.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know this? Is it some kind of measurement you made yourself, written on Intel docs somewhere or something else?

I've been wondering about how much instructions cost lately and would like to be able to know this without the need of asking others.
You realize that verified accounts don't get all their followers legitimately, right?

All those folks you constantly see following you? Yeah, they're not doing that because they think you're swell; they're automated follows in the hopes you follow back,and then they unfollow soon after or some time later to lower their following count.
All true, but of course the point of the idea we're discussing here is that there may not be any reason to assign special weight to the value of things in the present or the future, over the value of things in the past.
Metropolitan Police's facial recognition technology 98% inaccurate
In a couple hundred million years the Earth will regenerate, new species will evolve, etc.

I do think we have a responsibility as self-aware beings to pick up after ourselves, but at the same time the Earth will be fine long-term. You could even say it's fine now. Yes, species are going extinct at an alarming rate, but we came from the Earth too and are not the only contributing factors to Earth's various disasters. I'm not about to throw trash out the window because of that fact, it's just that I don't have so much anxiety about totally destroying the planet. Maybe we will destroy the planet inasmuch as we can't live on it anymore, but that's our own damn fault and it's almost nothing compared to the longevity of the Earth.
We do. The main bottleneck is merge resolution when unifying your copy of your room with everyone else’s. If the room starts to fragment due to netsplits or unreliable servers then this can get incredibly resource intensive. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/3122 is the fix which switches the algorithm from roughly O(N) to O(1).

For context, a typical synapse actually only uses around 300MB of RAM. It only spikes up to 1-2GB when trying to resolve state on big rooms like Matrix HQ, and then python doesn’t relinquish the RAM.

We do cache responses in JSON to avoid serialisation overheads.
East Africa's universities are not engaging well with the extractive industry
While I generally share your sentiment, there's plenty of evidence that gambling is addictive in nature. It's not just a matter of "unwise spending" for those addicted, in the same way an expensive hobby might be.
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I'm not sure if there's really a place around for an IM network that's moving forward about as fast as HTTP, SMTP and TCP/IP are :)
I wouldn't say that is overly adversarial.

Insurance fraud is a career for some.

I suppose if I worked in insurance I'd want to work for the gold standard that pays out and does a good job, while aggressively sniffing out fraud.