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In The Netherlands we burn our waste or recycle.

I have a separate bin for plastic, food/garden, paper/cardboard and general waste. Glass and clothes are collected at the supermarket. Most glass and plastic drinks bottles are reused, you pay a deposit for them (excellent system!).

Oil, batteries, light bulbs are collected at schools/supermarkets. Electronics can be returned to stores or more often taken to the skip. They're put in shipping containers and I assume sold somewhere.
Glass isn't biodegradable either, but for some reason that's OK. Paper uses more energy (fossil fuels) and pollutants in production than plastics. Taking a rational look at environmental impact of different materials contradicts the knee-jerk anti-plastic attitude that is popular. Unless I am missing something, I can't see a rational reason that using plastics for packaging, then properly disposing in a land fill is not the sky-is-falling bogeyman it is portrayed to be.
Recycling is less help than it looks. Assuming it's captured (big assumption with a lot being binned and straight into landfill) it gets made into degraded products, it can't cycle back to the original use good as new like glass. And a lot of those products are things that look like big plastic dust sources.

And nobody recycles dust.
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They do have those order kiosks at Panera. I don't use them unless the line is long.
> To me it seems that the people in power; either likes to have it in the ass

I'm having trouble understanding how this comment is anything other than homophobic.
> have these bins

Those bins looks pretty nice, although the balance between the comportments seems odd. (The paper compartment (2 of them?) is too large, as is the white one the right - is that for "other"?)

Not sure I'd be able to get that down my stairs though.

> I never transport my trash more than 5 meters.

How is it picked up? Curbside? Curious what kind of truck they use.

Also, do you keep that in your house? Do you go outside in the winter for each item? Or do you stage the trash in the house, and sort it later?
That's a particularly terrible example, but at street level where it's most noticed, it'll look like the original building that fits in with the rest of the neighbourhood, and not like a piss poor modernist building...
> What are the remaining APIs that people need in Electron that are not available in the web browser?

Broad-use network access, including local subnets.

> And what's the timeline to getting those in the browser

Do you want to give RANDOM_EVIL_WEBSITE access to your LAN?
There have seen a few prototype solutions on the web but they all were extremely slow ... on the order of 8 hours to fold a load of laundry.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm pops to mind. again.
Recycling glass is essentially pointless. It costs the same amount of energy to recycle glass (possibly even more, due to transport) as it does to just make new glass, and we're never going to run out of sand.
> driving is subsidized

This seems like such a weird commend given that the top of this thread is advocating making drivers subsidize public transportation to encourage people to use it.

When ~90% of adults in the US drive it's hard to argue that driving is being subsidized by anyone other than people who drive. And that's before we account for the forms of tax revenue used for these subsidies that are paid for exclusively by drivers -- like gas and registration.
This is kind of nitpicking a small point in your argument, but I've been in a lot of free-college discussions lately so I'm curious. Why do you think that an adequate GPA is the correct baseline for maintaining free tuition? GPA is dependent on so many extraneous factors such as a student's major or a department's grading scale that I feel like you would need a more fair metric. Is the cutoff simply a passing GPA (2.0), or something higher?
> because processing it was much easier for me, no hassles, no paperwork

Are you saying the payment was completely off the books? That doesn't seem to match "employees"...
Right, but the experience is largely due to lack of funding. And people being more spread out is partly due to public transit being shit, so they don't build near transit stops and there aren't more transit stops to build around.
That's only a problem because the government doesn't reserve lanes for the busses.
I never understood why Frankfurt is so fond of its unimaginative "cubes". Probably because of its inferiority complex to Manhattan, seen everywhere as "Mainhattan". I recently looked over at skyscrapercity and every single interesting skyscraper architecture was completely purged from initial proposal in favor of another bland cubed building. And their architects are proud of it. No curves like you see in Dubai or in Hadid works, no rich variations like in Shanghai, just stupid rectangular buildings maybe with the middle section rotated slightly to be "interesting". Like they were so proud of all the eyesores from 50s and 60s so that they would love to keep them forever.

I'd rather see a worthy older facade than to look at buildings that ever looked good only on paper and whose materials caught dirt after a single year and looked like from Borderlands ever since.
I disagree. I think some future civilization looking back in time 1000 years (for example) will likely only have physical artifacts to interpret, and it's likely they would get much of it wrong.

Imagine some future archaelogist making the first discovery of the shell of a old floppy disk. Without context, this would probably become the equivalent of "black ceremonial item".
I think what's kind of interesting is if this actually makes it easier to start a restaurant. Assuming at some point, some food robot maker steps up and starts selling the robot itself to independent restauranteurs, instead of selling hamburgers to end consumers, do these robots put the power back into the hands of the small business/restaurant owner?

I have to imagine a big complication in starting an independent restaurant is the overhead of hiring/managing/supporting employees (i.e. wait staff, cooks, dishwashers, etc.). A large employee base probably requires a large franchise with economies of scale to distribute the cost of centralized HR over many restaurants.

Without that overhead, entrepreneurial restauranteurs can focus on differentiating the food, the location(s) of the restaurant and the ambiance.
Later stage in general. The earlier the company, the less structure or resources available for the support and mentorship needed for new grads. Exceptions always exist though.
Ask HN: How does HN select the submissions for the front page?
I have noticed that apparently the number of upvotes in a specific time-frame is not the only criteria used by HN to select the submissions for the front page.

There are submissions in "Newest" with way more upvotes in shorter time than some of the news on the front page.

Why is that?
No, I clearly said no such thing! (You're putting words into my mouth, which is a form of lying.) In fact what I said was that a particular experiment - one which was apparently falsely claimed to be easily replicable and had been done successfully dozens of times - was in fact not replicable when done in a careful and public way. This is very different from claiming that CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas.

That phrase though - "greenhouse gas" - is a misnomer. Actual greenhouses don't operate the same way that atmospheric greenhouse gases do, but the phrase has stuck so now we have to live with it.

And yes, there was much discussion among "skeptics" of the actual experiment and the supposed others like it at the time, and of the fact that problems with it may have traced back to what I just said above. But in the end I don't think anyone was convinced that these experiments necessarily proved or disproved anything, much less that they had been successfully replicated dozens of times.
Deserts aren't inhospitable. They're still ecosystems for animals that perhaps do not want their groundwater (perhaps) tainted by a landfill. Problems are already happening with pretty terrible materials that have been dumped,

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/25/radioactive-...
If the regulatory environment is anything like in SF, it's less about cheaper permits and more about not getting into a years-long battle with the planning commission and NIMBYs. Many people simply give up.

Realistically your only choices are to hack the system or don't touch the property. The only winning move is to not play the game.
> Now let's imagine, if riding in a bus was a great experience, maybe more people were more forgiving to how much time it takes ?

That's rail / light rail. It makes a difference.
The new syntax for dynamically-dispatched traits, “dyn Trait”, is an example of Rust’s persistently excellent consideration of what should be explicit and what should be implicit. Python’s mantra of “explicit is better than Implicit” mostly captures my general feeling, but you can’t make everything explicit. Back before impl Trait existed, just Box<Trait> seemed very clear. Now that there’s an important thing to differentiate it from, it seems better to have dyn Trait and impl Trait both prefixed with keywords.

It also makes for much easier googling. ;)
The one thing these burgers got on in-n-out is the freshly-ground beef trump card.
The ever-present, and simply accepted from constant impression, bias in political reporting and maneuvering is remarkable. The headline reads "lawmakers", and the net-neutrality group complains ""California Democrats work[ed] with Republicans to gut [the] net neutrality bill."

Yet, if you read the article all the way through then you clearly see that the committee is composed of 7 Democrats and 3 Republicans. Any bill desired can be passed by a simple majority - all it takes is 6 of those Democrats to agree.

This kind of slanted reporting results in misplaced conclusion, and this kind of trying to hold the "opposition's" feet to the fire for the deficiencies of the majority party to live up to their espoused mantra is why nothing good ever gets done - only that (I'm looking at you, "high speed" train) which scratches all the backs, expense be damned , is what makes it through the political system that exists in the (once) Golden State.
I appreciate the work that you place into this. But again, what exactly are the startups you with* looking for? If they are hurting for talent wouldn't they take more risk in acquiring the talent just like they are an unknown company with a 90% failure rate?

You must have a rough idea of what the startups are talking about from their point of view. Just like you are trying to bring clarity into the startups maybe you could provide clarity into the recruiting/hiring.

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> That said, of course with change of policy some people will be hit and some poor people will be hit the hardest, so there should be mitigating measure.

No it won't hit poor people at all if you fund it with progressive taxes and ticket sales. Car ownership on the other hand is not only expensive and unreliable (if you can't afford to buy decent cars), its ridiculously dangerous, increases stress and decreases well being. A well designed public transport assists the poor by making it much safer, cheaper and faster to come into the denser areas (typically with better/higher paying jobs) for work while living in lower COL suburbs.

I sincerely believe that impediments to more public transportation in the US is not chiefly financial; I believe its mostly due to what was before racism, and now is just NIMBYism. People don't want a bus stop or train station in their neighborhood, which will attract the homeless/poor/lower classes etc.
As of 2 years ago, there were more than a dozen clinical trials. Evidence is preliminary -- populations are small, and measuring how autistic someone is is not easy.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2016/03/25/transcranial-ma...
Yeah, we're the problem. It's OUR plastic that China isn't allowing in anymore.
They create the plastics for those who buy them. Don't act like anyone has the moral high ground.
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Put another way, letting people live in comfortable homes, free of noise, light, and smell pollution from neighbors, has transit costs. Having a miserable home in order to get fast commutes isn't a trade everyone wants.
I think people's point is that if a small business HAS to hire an outside service like TaxJar to comply with the law (pragmatically, if not legally), then it's a bad law.

Imagine if filing your personal tax return was, by law, so complicated that it was impossible for an individual to do it without hiring H&R Block -- that would be bogus. And to many of us, it seems awfully similar to what's happening here.
SIMD on stable is very exciting news. SIMD unlocks the power of the GPU-esque parallelism that is already inside your CPU. While compilers do try very hard to take advantage of this automatically, it’s not always predictable and can make performance fragile. This is what people are talking about when they refer to “low level control”. Don’t expect that with Rust 1.27 you’ll need to understand SIMD to get anything done. Do expect various libraries to just get faster on stable. For example, BurntSushi, the author of the regex crate and the ripgrep tool, has already enabled it if you’re on Rust 1.27 Stable. [1]

SIMD is another notch towards never needing to use nightly Rust. What this really looks like in practice is that less frequently will a user encounter a fast-mode and a slow-mode for a crate depending on whether they’re using nightly, with all the unstable features enabled, or not.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/pull/490
Is landfilling truly terrible for the environment? It seems to me as though if a concentrated area were used for landfilling, that area is ruined, but overall the surface is small in the grand scheme of things, so it should have a relatively small impact. Can anybody expand _why_ landfills are bad? It certainly seems better than simply leaving junk everywhere.
Shouldn't rather the entity importing the plastic take responsibility for disposing of it? As you say it might even create jobs, but I'd say it should befall the consumer to take care of the waste they produce in any case, instead of simply shipping it away.
If you want to get rid of minimums per building look at the upgrade path.

Parking /silos/ owned by the city, right at transit transition hubs, at the edge.

The use case is driving in from the 'savage lands', having ample (free (paid for the same way roads are)) parking, and transferring to the local rail/bus/people-mover-belt system of the dense urban core.
It's the response of a dominant player.

Microsoft had the exact same stance when they had the 360 while Sony on the struggling PS3 wanted cross play.
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Yep. We designed the products, and the packaging. Then ordered that exact combination to be manufactured in China.

You don't get to order a balsa wood table, of your own design, from a woodworker, and then complain that they won't take the balsa wood back when you want to throw the flimsy table away. Especially when you specifically asked them to make the table from balsa wood.
Drivers and Parkers get a huge free real estate subsidy.

People who don't drive are subsidizing drivers by not joining traffic.
Hey, if you know a method to tell which years are better to keep money in cash than stocks (in advance), please, let us know!
I am glad we agree! I also 100% agree that the SAP500 may have performed better than plenty of funds 1998-2008. I'm sure we could even dig some up that did horribly. There were even funds 2008-2018 that liquidated during the Buffett bet :)
$6 is a lot for a fast food burger. I can get a really good burger at dozens of places for less and isn't made by a machine.
I'm on my phone, so it's hard to search and link to articles. Here's the result of a quick search:

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/oxytocin-spray-boosts-soci...

Hopefully that serves as a jumping off point.
>The address of jump target abort_ip must be outside the critical region

Seems like an odd requirement, isn't the whole point that we want to restart the critical section, or at least part of it, over in the case that it's interrupted?
The developing world has their own problems - how is a developing country going to deal with these problems without first getting the infrastructure needed? Let's focus on our wasteful selves - we're the one's who've been benefited from the consumption of cheap, throwaway products.
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> Saying it takes 1.5-2 hours to ride a bus from the east side to the city ignores the fact that it takes more than an hour to do so in a car.

But, that's a key part of the problem. It's easy to compromise and take public transit instead of a car when the public transit saves you time. For many trips between popular commuting destinations, Seattle doesn't have that yet.

Seattle doesn't have good public transit because it's getting better, it is getting better because it has so much catching up to do. Right now we're pretty good at filling busses with riders, then jamming those busses up in traffic.

There wasn't just a critical lack of investment in the 60s and 70s - the 80s and 90s didn't make great progress with infrastructure either. What did Seattle have to show by 2000? Less than a mile of monorail, a downtown transit tunnel, and a few retired streetcar lines?

Seattle's first light-rail line opened in 2009. By comparison, Portland's MAX opened in 1986 and had over 50 miles of light rail by that point.

I'm optimistic that things are getting better and heading in the right direction, but am sympathetic to the argument that Seattle's system is poor - because in many ways it is.
Rich and poor do both. Poor people have longer trips on BOTH transit and cars.
sure. from a technical point of view their approach sucked (and the market "punished them" for this, right?)
but at least at a philosophical (how things should work) they did the right thing in helping you move your licenses over.
I suspect that something like a heap implementation could use this. For concurrency, you want different cores to use different pools to avoid atomics. In practice, this means per-thread pools are used today, but this rseq feature seems like it would allow using per-core pools instead. That would save memory and probably be even better for cache locality when a core is shared by multiple threads.
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I think these kinds of machines could potentially be mainstream someday, at least in fast food, and I see a lot of potential in both cost-savings and food safety improvements.

One thing that struck me as humorous though is the founder's comparison to self-driving cars (from Bloomberg's article): “What you’re watching is a technological feat. Self-driving cars need a lot of mileage before they become reliable. You’re seeing something similar here”

Not to dismiss the challenges with automating burgers, but its pretty straightforward compared to self-driving tech - there's basically no unknowns!
Plastic is already everywhere already - is this just a push to increase it's usage?
I think in my culture back home (Pakistan/India), asking for permission is really just to show respect and usually easy to obtain.

For example, here in the US teenagers usually tell their parents that they are going out. In my culture, teenagers usually ask their parents if they can go out.

And I cannot remember ever been denied when I was teenager. I think if I had simply told my parents that I was going out, they would have stopped me to ask more question or even stopped me from going out.
It's actually much cheaper to recycle then make from fresh due to dramatically lower energy costs.
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I'm in a similar boat. I hated it too until I learned it was supposed to be the Unix language of choice that sits between needing Bash/Awk/Sed & C/C++. At that point the odd conventions and philosophy make more sense. I still use Python most of the time for my scripting needs, but am glad I can switch to Perl every now and then when I need it. The one liners are great too for terminal work.
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How far are you traveling? It's very very very unlikely that what you are doing is actually good for the environment, unless you are making a trash run only every few months.
To be fair, .NET has the capability to release applications with all the pieces required in a single exe. At least core does, anyways. That's a pretty big selling point for golang, as well, in my mind. Electron is the same thing in my mind, just on a much larger scale. Maybe it's too large to be sustainable in the long term, but there are definite benefits to having a single, self contained package.
>What are some alternatives? Should we go back to glass bottles and paper bags?

Yes. Beaverages from glass bottles taste better. This is probably just ones own taste.
> When ~90% of adults in the US drive it's hard to argue that driving is being subsidized by anyone other than people who drive. And that's before we account for the forms of tax revenue used for these subsidies that are paid for exclusively by drivers -- like gas and registration.

You need to look at the problem a little bit more. Designing a car-centered city and suburbs is expensive. You not only have to build highways to handle traffic, but your building options are limited because you need to build enough parking ; which results in sprawl, leading to less efficient use of the land. The higher costs due to this sprawl are undeniably borne by consumers. There are many other such hidden "subsidies" that have allowed such an overwhelming car-centric culture in the US.
Technology never solved human nature related problems tho, and in public transport we have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons.
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I don't understand why it's better to not recycle glass. Yes transporting used glass is costly, but isn't collecting and transporting sand even more costly? And while we won't run out of sand, good sand is limited. Or can you use any sort of sand to produce glass instead of a specific type of sand? Doesn't refining sand into glass take additional energy compared to melting existing glass?
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You are missing the point. I conceded your point in the thread below.

Anyone who says "just stick it in the SAP500 and you'll make some money" is hiding the fact that even with a 10 year time-frame, that statement is not always true.

1998 - 2008 was a blood bath for many, despite the fact that you had 2 legitimate booms in there.
I always ask for paper bags. Environmentalism aside, they make great free trash bags.
And if you don't have a car? Or are not strong enough to carry lots of trash?

Or the dump is far enough away to make transporting recycling counterproductive?
> On PC, you're using Epic's payment platform.

I don't see how this is different from Xbox/iOS/PC/Switch all sharing digital purchases. Sony is the only platform that has "legal hurdles" preventing this?

> My point is that weird technical and legal hurdles

I don't think their are any technical challenges unless you insist digital licenses must be sandboxed. Epic has accidentally removed the technical blocks previously.

> It's Hacker News. If you want to rage against Sony for not allowing cross-play go to Polygon.

I'm sorry if it feels like I'm raging but I strongly believe users need to fight for fair digital licensing. Sandboxing purchases feels like a fine technical workaround but I'd prefer platform owners change policy to match users expectations.