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> You would have to stop the plastic being created at it's source, and prevent it from ever being released into the environment.

Then let's do that! Sure, you can't police a fishing trawler or some guy in a Third World country throwing plastic bottles into the water, but petroleum production and refining are very big, visible, highly centralized industries. It would be entirely feasible and desirable to put a hefty tax on the production of plastic.

And basic economic theory says that's the most efficient way to do it: apply a tax to cover the negative externalities, and let the market figure out how to optimize from there.
Personally I think we'll see these tasks automated after we automate surgery. The value added accomplishing these tasks is low, the cost of robots is high, and the difficulty of a robot doing them is high. It is difficult for robots to manipulate things autonomously, doubly so for flexible objects, and all these tasks require manipulation of flexible objects. Indeed the reason why Creator's robot dispenses burgers in two halves might be that they do not have the manipulation capability to do so. Maneuvering a flexible bun on to a flexible stack of meat and vegetables without damaging the bun or spilling ingredients is very hard. Surgery also involves unstructured inputs and manipulation of flexible objects and manipulation also involves the cutting and sewing of said objects among other things. This makes surgery just as difficult as these tasks, but the value added is much greater. We can now get away with selling a few very expensive robots rather than a large amount of moderately priced ones.
I agree, but only if they don't include the merchant's profit margin in the price, either.
This is what I meant. I suspect the 0.01 probably encapsulates ALL these little sub-optimisations I decide on in a code base, rather than just this one variable swap. CPUs are a lot faster than most people realise. It's usually other things that slow down a program, not whether the programmer uses array.forEach or a basic for loop.

Disclaimer: I do tend to use for loops a lot since they can be quite readable.
Very good point about the Monty Python and the Holy Grail! That is a great counter-example.

I still think this title is hyperbolic, though it grabs readers' attention.
Insert obligatory Ayn Rand quote about how there’s no way to rule innocent people.
That is true for general purpose computing. However, AMD has been diversifying away from client (laptops, desktops). There is a large and growing market for semi-custom designs: game consoles, CPU+GPU cloud computing, DaaS virtualization, embedded systems. Since these are markets with large companies competing against each other there will be continual demand for incremental power and performance improvements that an individual consumer may not care about.
A company that can rapidly mix and match IP to customer needs will have an advantage.
No the store doesn't need a supply chain. The distributor who deliver new, filled bottles can take the empty ones back. Which is quite efficient.

That's how it works in Quebec for instance.
I don't think the EU would be particularly good if it were significantly more democratic. But even so, it not being democratic is hardly a point in its favor. The constitution of Europe would not have fixed most of the problems and would have introduced more of them.
On knowing the value of everything and the price of nothing
> ... than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc

TV news is a pretty low bar to set for yourself.

> I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.

Any decent political site will put out the talking points, but those don't give you much insight into the belief system undergirding them.
I've worked on price display for a large-ish company. The funny thing is that our company, and probably others, would really like to show all-in pricing! It's easier for us because we wouldn't have to do things differently in different countries.

But we can't make the switch unilaterally because if we're the only ones doing it, then we look more expensive than everyone else and lose sales. Even if the final price is the same, consumers tend to just look at the up-front cost when making buying decisions. So we'd need everyone in our market to switch, or nobody can. So basically it would need to be mandated by the government.
They can match up rate to location, but most jurisdictions have their own laws on what items are taxable. There are also jurisdiction-dependent tax holidays. For example, Texas has a weekend in August where certain kinds of items (that are "back-to-school" appropriate) are tax free. So you have to know not only the rate, but also the rules for categorization, and those vary by jurisdiction and time of year, sometimes differently from year to year.
What IPFS software are you using?

I've seen some bugs and issues with the official go server, and didn't feel it was production ready.
> Books and printed photos have survived so well because they do not have dependencies or require maintenance to be accessible to future generations.

A large number of archivists and librarians (no, they're not the same job) just laughed uproariously.
Your comment has won the Internet. Now, let's see you stuff it in a bag and carry it home.
I agree. I think that one reason I prefer to commute by train instead of car is because I had a friend in middle school lose her father to a heart attack during his daily commute.
Sweden has such good waste to energy plants they now have to import waste to keep them at full production. It helps that they recycle a tremendous amount so they don't have all that much to deal with.
PayPal to buy Simility, a specialist in AI-based fraud and risk management
Too many questions to answer IMHO. Can't see anyone using this tool more than once.

Should narrow it down to 5 questions tops to get any value on daily basis
I rely on both for everything. What do you refer to as alternative?
How Markets Co-Opted Free Software's Most Powerful Weapon
Good points.

I always upvote thoughtful responses even if I generally disagree with the overall theme.

As is typically the case, I’m probably wrong and will end up, over time, holding opinions opposed to my present collection, so I try not to stifle divergent opinions.
Ask HN: Suggest resources for writing desktop applications
Adding my support to this. Barrier took a little fiddling to get it working on my 10.9 Mac, but it fixed crashes I'd had with Synergy for years, and seems to have some active devs.
1. Unconsidered edge cases? We'll have to find out... We can always change the _source_ code to eliminate known unhandled edge cases.

2. We ourselves are heavy users of our software, and are likely to be the first to discover "oddities". More serious are subtle numeric differences, and we'll have to create tests against that. One approach to validating the transpiler is instrumenting the code. We could write a Pascal-to-Pascal transpiler that inserts extra code, for example logging the return value of every function. If we do the same for the Pascal-to-D transpiler, and do an identical run, we can compare the logs. And variations of that approach.

3. If a small percentage is unproportionally hard to translate mechanically, we can isolate that and translate manually.

4. I fail to see what you are getting at.

5. Of course we can link code. We think the community is wide enough for us.

6. You mean it gets passed to C.

Thanks for the suggestion. We have a working dual language situation with C++, we don't see that as an attractive option for our other tools. Why would Python be better than D?
Musk emails alleged Tesla saboteur, 'You're a horrible human being'
What is affirmative action?
I like the trend in Seattle personally. We are in a major building boom right now and if everything was entirely new construction it would be jarring in the future. The facadism in SLU particularly prevents the entire neighborhood from being cooike cutter glass boxes and gives some visual variety that maintains the (idealized) historical style of the city.

Go look at Bellevue and Redmond, the cities were obviously built in a series of booms that had very little variety. It's all very stale and boring.
Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier
Like best practices, architecture.

I was thinking about looking at Vs code or atom's code
Relevant link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_v...
> molds and fungi don't feed on it

Yet. This is rapidly changing.
> Well, isn't that what you would want to do with poisons?

Not if something is going to eat the plastic, and I'm going to eat that something, because then I'm eating the poison.
That's also been my experience for long years and 99% on firefox. I could never actually get over the fact you can't close all the tabs without it forcing the closing of the window that happens on chrome. Many other paper cuts exist in browsers not firefox that make it really hard to switch. Anyway almost all the time I see someone saying firefox is bad they are usually using Mac. So I blame Firefox on mac being the problem, not firefox itself.
So am I not allowed to be in US / US company / Any US company top position , that due to my religion and belief is against Gay Marriage, and can not support it ? Are those religion now deemed evil by US ? My / Our way or the high way ?
According to Ars Technica's article, it sounds like there's still opportunity to fix the net neutrality bill (or sink it):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/california-net-n...

> The amendments were passed by the Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee, which is chaired by Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles). The committee approved the amended bill and referred it to the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, which could reinstate the original provisions or make other changes.

So I wouldn't give up until the bill is signed and passed.
I think the white box behind the text must not have loaded on your phone. Looks fine to me.
the main difficulties that people have running software from the 80s (mostly hobbyists, but in the future this could be professional historians; granted it’s an order of magnitude difference but still) is finding, and then getting it off physical media. hardware emulators do a lot of the work. where everything is “upgraded” to modern storage as it is in the internet, this isn’t an issue.

thanks to projects like archive.org, we are in one of the best documented, most survivable ages of human civilisation. digital data can be copied as many times as you like without degradation, so it won’t be “ravaged by time” like ancient inks and paints.

short of a major worldwide event like a global return to the ages of book burning (though even then there will likely be hobbyists that go against the grain and store TB of data for the future), i can see wikipedia, and huge parts of our current society immaculately preserved.

when you have access like that, reading and displaying our ancient formats won’t be that big of an issue for someone who makes it their life’s work to research and write the text “decoding the 21st century facebook”.
Ask HN: Do you work at WalmartLabs/Amazon/Nest/Pinterest?
I am interviewing and I received an offer from Walmart while I am also interviewing for Amazon, Pinterest, and Google/Nest. Any experiences from these places? -Thanks
Does this affect the sale of services or info products sold online?

I run an online business from Canada with American customers and am wondering if I'm affected. All digital products or services.
Yeah Australian GST is a flat 10% and doesn’t allow you to display ex GST pricing to the end customers where it applies.

I recall going to a cafe in India, looking at the menu price, handing over cash then being asked for more. It would be impossible for me to account for which taxes would be applied at what rate to work out the end price before paying.
>There are timeless Brutalist, Modernist, Classical, and Contemporary buildings just like there are ugly, unremarkable, bad examples. The same is probably true of Facadism.

I think one of the original goals of facadism was to blend a new, contemporary building into its surroundings (which would be older historic buildings). As more facadism gets built, I think they stop blending in as much. Combine this with the likely phenomenon of developers pursuing a hot new trend and now suddenly all of these buildings stick out like a sore thumb.
Future generations are going to laugh/shudder in "horror and derision" at many, many, many things in our present day before they get to architectural facades.
I don't have a brand recommendation, but if you are handy, it is possible to convert an existing bike by adding a motor and batteries. For a bike like experience (as opposed to a light electric motorcycle experience) the components can be had for between $500 to $800 depending on how much battery you need. Some resources:

- ebikes.ca - Informative website, sell high quality items with a lot of the problems worked out and with support. Prices are fair given the added value. Motor and trip simulators for calculating speeds and feeds etc.

- bmsbattery.com - Chinese vendor of cheap but mostly functional components. Not much support and shipping will add 30% to prices, but very inexpensive if you can make it work.

- lunacycle.com (US), e3emv.com(China) - Sell high quality battery packs

- endless-sphere.com - massive discussion board full of good information leavened with the usual opinionated know nothings, but mostly civil.

Assuming you need to go less than 25 miles and don't need to climb long steep hills and intend to pedal lightly I'd say you are looking for a small front geared hub motor rated for 250-350 watts and a small controller rated for 20A or less along with a 48v battery between 350-600 watt hours capacity. Target speed should be around 18 to 20 mph. Start with a nice used practical commuter bike, older mountain and road bikes and hybrids will all work. Get something that started out as a decent bike, not big-box store "bike shaped object".

I've built a few now and am pretty happy with the process and results.
save you a click: there's a book about Lincoln that analyses his sense of humour, and this article is from the oldest conservative book review publication in the US. No jokes in it
Heh. You can barely move your mouse across the screen without some layer in the architecture executing some SIMD instruction. It's everywhere, and it's going nowhere.

Everything from counting the length of a string to rasterizing the text you're reading right now.
I think they misuse the term 'repeatability'. Their demo shows it moving back and forth 50 microns, with minimal backlash (which is cool). But repeatability means you should be able to send it to the same coordinates and get the same position ± 50 μm every time. Anything made out of plastic will have far more thermal variation than that. Even in a controlled environment, the motors heat up.

There's an official standard for measuring it: ISO 9283.
The "new" Opera has nothing to do with the old one. What else did you expect?
> So, I was thinking of canceling all AT&T services over this. Does anyone know of good alternatives for cellular service that don't do the same crap?

Well, at least for not doing it in the same political direction as AT&T, et al., CREDO mobile might be an option.
> [when] you can't rely on a GPU being there (e.g. embedded)

Also, most servers have only very basic GPUs (if at all). Unless you're on a dedicated GPU server for machine learning etc., you're going to work with the CPU only.
Divergence and curl – Fluid flow with complex functions - Blue1Brown [video]
I think you've got the wrong idea on "self-hosted". That just means the compiler is written in the language itself. Rustc is written in rust, so it is self-hosted (even if it has an LLVM backend). And likewise, all three D implementations are written in D, despite having either baked-in code generation, a gcc backend, or an llvm backend. You can check the repos on github: all three of DMD, LDC, and GDC are written in D-lang, so they are self-hosted.
Show HN: The GitHub/Facebook star beggers.
It seems we're living in a really fucked up world.

As if it weren't enough the ugly people on facebook trying to get stars to inflate their low ego.

Now we experiencise it even in the world of software development. I came accross to a really pathetic situation when checking someone's project.

https://imgur.com/a/b55pQu0

Screenshot taken from: https://vibora.io/

Amateur developers nowdays add their projects on github in the hope of getting stars like the ugly girls on sexy clothes do usually on facebook.

It is really sad that software engineering has turned into such a nasty circus with the help of github.
Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Board Games to the Boardroom
I am unconvinced by this argument. I would like to believe it, but I can't, I would need some numbers, for example, how much of the available terrain do we cover with trash each year? I think I'd instinctively agree with you if landfills were everywhere... but they are not. They actually seem to be pretty constant in proportion to the space human population occupies, and if this is so, they aren't a bigger problem than human spread and encroachment of wilderness.
I'm Quitting Indie Hackers
Just like any extension you are using.
I'm sure next week will somebody will publish the discovery that actually no one should be drinking coffee.
I'm not sure of how universities are funded in other countries. If for example the government says they will provide a fixed amount per student (yearly adjusted for inflation, etc) that might be a good example of price control. Another thing is many university administrative staff are used to paying themselves outrageous salaries and pensions and they just feeds into the rising costs.
Real-time audio processing is bound to CPUs forever. It's the opposite of the data that works with GPU computations : very small chunks of data (generally between 64 and 512 floats or doubles) that you have to process sequentially. For those, SIMD is particularly useful - I got a ~7* increase in throughput recently when porting an effect from naive processing to AVX2 intrinsics - which means that artists can then put much more instances of the effect in parallel.
Good story. True if you had a working network, which was rare outside of college campuses. Must have startled personal PC users!

Back then you're looking at 1 MBps in the mid 80's and $100 (IPX) - $1000 (IP or Tokenring) per network card.
Holy shit, now I’m pissed. Been playing this on PS4 & pretty beyond annoyed to learn that stepping foot inside their garden is having effects outside of it.

I think Epic should pull a power move while they have the most popular game in the world and pull it from Sony with no notice.
Your example is misleading. If Foo is a trait Box<Foo> and Box<dyn Foo> are the same thing. Impl Foo is for static dispatch.

Illustrating the need to dump the old unqualified syntax.
> I'm sure if you made everything in thin cardboard with minimal markings, they'd be angry.

If only some things had minimal packaging, those vendors would be a competitive disadvantage, but if everything had minimal packaging, maybe consumers would be angry for five minutes, but then they'd get used to it. In other words, this is exactly the kind of coordination problem that governments were invented to solve.
> For the most part they are not recycling their trash, they are incinerating it.

Actually, they are doing both. They have an incredibly high recycling rate, what is left they largely burn. Over time they have increased their recycling to the point that they have large spare capacity. Which is why they now import a comparable amount to what they burn.

Really it's remarkable.
It may be worth noting but it also could very easily be a mistake of identifying an effect as a cause. Once the body is unhealthy all kinds of organisms use that opportunity to stake a claim.
Thanks, but I care more about what a person with autism says than somebody who simply knows one.
I see and work on a lot of content marketing pieces. This is an example of content marketing executed _reeeeallyy_ well. Massive props to Boss As A Service.
doesn’t have to be held in place by rubber gaskets. stone is pretty drafty! i’m sure you could make a steel, concrete, and glass construction that lasts as long as quarried stone and is still cheaper... the reason we don’t is not because we don’t have the ability; it’s just... why would we? what benefit does it serve?

in many ways having buildings degrade and get rebuilt is a good thing, because you can build them taller to account for city populations that expand enormously over the years, with modern upgrades that are more difficult in old buildings.
Ask HN: Which tech “ecosystem” do you primarily use?
By tech "ecosystem" I'm referring to something like Apple, Google or Amazon's suite of interfacing products. I've been flip-flopping back and forth between Apple's and Google's lately. I use Google's services for many things like email, maps, cloud storage. But I feel like Apple's devices are superior quality and are more stable/secure. I've also noticed that committing to an ecosystem can sometimes make purchase decisions easier and guarantee that your gadgets work well together.

I was wondering if anyone had any perspectives on this? What ecosystem do you "belong" to? Is putting all of your eggs in one basket a bad idea? Or do the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
> But how do you parse it without Lua?

You wouldn't, but the language is lightweight enough (according to Wikipedia, the interpreter is ~180kb compiled) that including it as a dependency probably won't matter. It's less overhead than an interpreter for JSON or YAML at least.

>Is a parser library available for mainstream languages?

It's used commonly in game development so yes for C and C++, and the site[0] mentions "Java, C#, Smalltalk, Fortran, Ada, Erlang, and even in other scripting languages, such as Perl and Ruby" as well.

[0]https://www.lua.org/about.html
Yes; the title should probably include the word "efficiently."
Oh, I'm not saying anything about how humans think, or model the world. FOL is a formal language. It can express the same things that natural language can express and you can do reasoning in it (actually- let's say "inference" because reasoning is a bit of a loaded term), but I make no claim that it's how humans really think.

I mean, I don't believe that is true any more that I believe calculus, or linear algebra are the way we think. Those are just formal systems that we can use to get various results about the world- but is that how we really think inside our heads? I kind of doubt it.

I'm just talking about the expressive power of first-order predicate calculus here, not about whether it's a good model for human intelligence.
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What about debt/liability?

I guess you might be referring to Enterprise Value ( EV ).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/enterprisevalue.asp

Ultimately, the value of a company is what someone is willing to pay for it. So you could argue the value is EV + Premium.

Keep in mind that there is a bazillion ways of valuing a company. People look at growth potential of the company, the growth potential of the company's industry, the competition, external risks, buyout potential, etc. It's part business, part mathemagic and part voodoo.
Thanks for the info. Please note I never said anyone was fired, perhaps you meant to direct that to the comment above mine?
I quite like it.
Beware of casting a float to a boolean. Yes, every group of humans has some degree of toxic competition and hierarchy, but some much more than others. It makes sense to look at the ones that have less, and ask what they are doing right and how to emulate it.