skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blanket rules completely ignore human behavior, though. If two people want to sleep with each other, nature doesn't really care much about your rulebook (or outside opinions, which don't matter if leadership is keeping office drama in check).

It's almost a virtual certainty that at some point in time, rules be damned, employees will hook up.
Managed hedged funds that put all their money in cash would likely lose money for the investor just from all the fees.
I thought Sweden was burning it for energy, not recycling it.
1-Month Bill Yield on Par with S&P
There's a lot of failure to appreciate a simple fact: "1 share" is not a consistent, well-defined unit. It's just some arbitrary fraction of the value of a company, that fraction varying not only between companies but also over time, because of splits, secondary offerings, and buybacks. This seems like an obvious, straightforward fact that everybody knows, and yet historically, there has been a tendency to ignore it and to think the price of "a share" means something. Companies whose share prices are above $50 or so have been viewed as "blue chip"; those below $10 have been viewed as "speculative". There is thus a psychological component to the perception of share prices that is not justified by the mathematics of the situation; and much of this is a matter of convention. Even today, I believe that to continue to be listed on the NYSE or even NASDAQ, a company must not let its share price fall much under $1. The only effect of AMZN trading at $1730 is to make it difficult for small traders to trade the stock, since exchanges don't deal in fractional shares (they could, I suppose, but they don't).

We see this error in the way that Charles Dow and Edward Jones defined their index back in 1896 [0]. Averaging prices of shares in different companies is mathematically meaningless. But the author of this piece, having commented on this error, goes on to make it again: For example, for fiscal year 2017, Costco had earnings per share of $6.08. Amazon had earnings per share of $6.15. Costco’s market value is $91 billion; Amazon’s is $844 billion. EPS numbers aren't directly comparable any more than share prices are directly comparable. COST is trading around $209, less than 1/8 AMZN. Instead of EPS, we should be talking about earnings per dollar of market cap, which would be independent of the size of a share. On that measure, COST is outperforming AMZN by a factor of more than 8. (Along with juxtaposing EPS numbers from two different companies, the author seems to be committing a second error by suggesting that earnings and market cap should be related; they are not, at least not in any simple way.)
> DannyBee said the amendments were approved 8-0, so presumably that doesn't make them "secretive"

Just because the people who are required to vote on something know about it doesn't mean they are not secret or "secretive." This is the public's business.

> nor is it questionable why they are legal: Everyone who is supposed to vote on those amendments did. In favor.

There are frequently other considerations in whether something is legal than whether the people who needed to vote on it voted for it.
Right. Linus and the author are both wrong. You can be forceful and direct with your language -- you just probably shouldn't be using ad hominem insults.
Are there contracts made so that the relationship between employers and employees is guaranteed/retained over a period of time ?
FWIW, as an avid hypermiler (who also owns an EV and pays for wind power), and works from home, the mpg per person of public transport isn't that great, I have no problem exceeding it, even without passengers (though I usually have passengers when I go somewhere).

https://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10311

Certainly there are plenty of motorcycles that beat it without much effort/technique as well.

So, what am I supposed to be taxed for again? The environment inside a moving box full of strangers, and the scheduling headaches, doesn't excite me much as an alternative.

I wonder how much of the "decline" is because of people who work from home. I don't think uber is entirely the cause, more like uber displaced taxi drivers.
touting the fact that other countries in fact buy their trash. How can we recreate Sweden’s model

Isn't this exactly the problem? Sweden isn't taking care of its own trash, but instead selling it to China, just like the US and many other countries?
http://gmane.org/about/ is more or less what you're referring to, and there are others. But the thing with nntp is not the storage - it's the fact that it is standardized.

It is extremely convenient to write a newsgroup post, and cc: someone in particular, and when they do a "reply all" the newsgroup is a recipient as well. This does not work with any "forum", and works (but not well) for mailing lists.
I think its insane how many comments are trying to deflect from the issue. Sony can and should allow users to bring their accounts and purchases with them to and from their platform.

> It's against Sony's policy to be able to pay for things to be used outside their ecosystem...mostly because that opens up a whole can of legal worms.
I can purchase skins on PC and use them on PS4. So that blows up the legal argument.

This feels like a weird distortion because its gaming related. For example Apple allows their users to bring kindle books purchased outside their platform even though they didn't get a 30% cut of sales. We would be roasting Apple right now if they were locking it down like Sony is.
I've tried doing this. It may be OK for some fields like software, where the cost to entry for materials is low. However, for someone like me who wants to do mechanical and bioengineering, there still is a huge cost for equipment (CNC machines, upkeep, IACUC protocols and a certified lab for some animal testing). While maker spaces have started to address some of these issues, it is still somewhat difficult to keep profitable. It's one thing to learn from a virtual electronics testing tutorial; it's another to physically use the equipment and get exposed to the nuanced details of learning.
Isn't there a lot of desert land in the US as well? and easier access than going all the way to Northern Africa
We could (and maybe should) demand in trade deals that if you ship us plastic, you take it back.

Easy to enforce? I dunno - why not require country of origin for packaging?

But assuming that won't happen - sounds like an opportunity for US jobs.

Plastic might make decent bricks for building.
By max, you mean that once I burn through six gigs, the remainder is free? Or that after six gigs, I'm out of data for the month?
Based on the typical technical skills needed: almost nowhere.

Based on the typical compensation and culture: you describe the kind of employee they target.

And that is in a nutshell exactly what all the comments in the previous thread distill down to.
That 80% number is very misleading though because of the broad way the US Census categorizes urban. According to the census, my 7,000 person town is considered urban even though myself and my two neighbors are collectively on about 100 acres of land.
Welcome to Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. Just round the corner someone has kept the most ludicrous, skinniest piece of brick facade; meanwhile an acre of land is being cleared behind it for what will presumably be an ugly behemoth of tiny units that everyone hates.

I’d love to know how much keeping that facade cost. It’s shored up with a couple of tonnes of steel girder.
I think this is called an emergent property.
Phil Condit lost his CEO job at Boeing for the same reason. It was a mess -- his wife kicked him out (he was living in a hotel), Boeing fired him, and then his secretary sued him for sexual harassment.
With the exception of IE/EDGE, all major browsers use an open source rendering engine.

It’s a lot easier to argue that a web browser is an essencial part of an OS this way.
There are many different types of plastics. Some end up in nature as tiny pieces like you mention and are indeed very bad for the ecosystem. But it's also possible to set up a proper recycling & valorization system. Northern Europe already does it: over 98% of consumer plastics are either recycled or valorized through heat (producing power or city heating).

Despite that, there's an effort to address the low-hanging fruit of plastics that end up in the oceans and waterways, specifically single-use plastics: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/plastic_waste.htm
Is it me or there's been recently China articles with a negative bias recently on hacker news?
> Sweden has had incredible success with recycling in recent years

That line is more false than true. For the most part they are not recycling their trash, they are incinerating it.

Additionally Sweden is tiny. Trash there is brought to local recycling centers with 6 to 8 or more different bins, and people are expected to sort their trash.

How would you do that in the US? Trucks with 8 compartments? Where would you even keep that many different trash cans? The US is very large, you can't expect people to transport their recycling.
Efficient access to thread-local data, maybe.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8884
And unless you are extremely familiar with local tax law you have no idea which purchases are even going to be taxed. If you go to the grocery store and buy the following:

tampons

raw chicken

rotisserie chicken

prepared sandwich

bread and cold cuts

toilet paper

condoms

20 oz soda

12 pack soda

juice

milk

prepackaged donuts

donuts from the bakery

cat food

beer

DO you know which of those items are going to be taxed and at which rate? Me neither!

>Note that the disaster area that is US regulatory overlap means passing a law like this is probably impossible without constitutional amendment.

I actually don't think so. The FTC covers truth-in-advertising laws.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advert...
Notes to My Activist Self
Three quarters of poor people in America have cars [0]. While the poorest people do not have them, car ownership is very common among poor Americans.

https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/under...
Your “high bar” is wrecking your team
You have valid points. A good example, here in Stockholm, is Gamla Stan (Old City) beautiful buildings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_stan) and the "Norrmalmsregleringen" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redevelopment_of_Norrmalm) with an example https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8hlk9r/the_grand_h%... . The ornamentation was removed to "sanitize" the building.

It similar to clothes fashion. There is nothing stopping us to create 1700s style clothes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700%E2%80%9350_in_Western_fas...). But these clothes are not fashionable anymore. Nothing stops Europeans to dress in traditional Korean clothes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbok) but it is not happening.

Brutalism is a style, it is a choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture).

Official buildings are way uglier nowadays than they used to be. It is probably related to cost and speed. And it is probably a good decision. But that does not mean that the buildings are beautiful.
> So, what am I supposed to be taxed for again?

The societal benefits of poor people being able to get to work every day.
> plastics are now drowning the ocean

Virtually all of that comes from just a small number of nations that dump trash in rivers, and the rest from lost fishing gear.

The ocean plastic is not from household plastic use/trash in places that might recycle it. So instead of working on recycling, maybe we should work on getting those countries proper trash service.
For a while I've been scavenging devices. So I have my eyes on people's waste quite regularly.. I'm thinking of starting a recycling factory. If people just threw all their waste in my yard I'd be rich.

- Tons of cardboard
- Tons of batteries
- Tons of partially working devices
- etc etc

The thing is, 'you' buy the packaging most of the time. People are stupid, they just follow the stream of 'nice' from nice looking store, to nice looking brand name, to nice looking package. I'm sure if you made everything in thin
cardboard with minimal markings, they'd be angry.
chrome --app="https://www.google.com"

Gives you all of that, shame it's not better known.
Since AT&T gutted this, and in such a fashion, its even clearer that they should NEVER have been allowed to merge.
This is actually great news. Western people will have to get innovate about avoiding garbage, plastic in particular. Oceans will intake less waste

(Yes, I’m optimistic about this one)
I will candidly admit I've only had 5 years of context, but in those 5 years, while bus ridership may be increasing, my perception has not been that it's proportional to population growth, and a brief look at the data seems to back this up. (comparing % growth of ridership to % growth in population over the last 10~ years) [0][1] I don't want to come across as to criticize growth and progress, I don't have enough knowledge on what was done to address that. I just don't find the results to be sufficient; as you said, population growth is a huge factor, and that's what renders this a pressing issue.

I agree that we're probably paying for a lack of investment; to the point of my comparison with Philadelphia where the infrastructure was in place. I'd reference my other comment questioning governance, since while you say a few notable but not critical exceptions, I find massive build-out times (Overlake Transit Center, for instance, will be closed until 2023, assuming I'm not confusing dates), lack of funding (discussed this issue at a local city council meeting, apparently it's partly a state/federal problem), and mismanagement (see other comment) to be quite prevelent. I may well be seeing a small slice of this, but my slice's commute is looking anywhere but up, even considering future development.

I'd also add that I didn't ignore that it takes an hour in the car. I'd agree, it takes an hour in a car. But you're in your own car, which many people see as a positive despite the mental overhead of driving, and that's still less time, variance, and inconvenience than the bus. I can only speak to the # of cars I see in the lots at work, these are clearly sufficient dis-incentives to the bus as it currently exists, and we can't ignore that if we want to improve the situation. (I'd also note that your mention of "less than 5 miles of downtown" makes me think we may be looking at very different strata of things; perhaps I should have said initially "Seattle Area", the trains I was referring to in Philly go 20+ miles out in many directions)

[0]https://www.kingcounty.gov/independent/forecasting/King%20Co...
[1]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qyj31NiW1kc30GX9PCNr...
Batteries boom enables world to get half of electricity from wind/solar by 2050
If that really becomes an issue, the telcos and cablecos have extensive experience with getting municipal internet outlawed: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/28/15404/how-big-tel...

See previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15655548
The amendments weren't approved 8-0, are extremely hostile to the bill as voted on by others, were introduced in a very unusual way and were not negotiated - they just cut out like half of the law including some pretty critical parts.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xht...

Normally (I think) the committee would just refuse to pass the bill and propose amendments that would make it passable, and there would be negotiations. Instead they introduced huge changes the night before the vote and passed a massively modified version of the bill that does not at all reflect the intentions of its authors.
Unanimity is a shield. They can all mutually defer their reasoning for supporting the bill to everyone else who voted, and say that their vote against wouldn't have made a difference. Any vote against would have put pressure on all of the others.

AT&T came up with a deal that pleased everyone, and therefore immunized everyone. There were only eight; it's not hard, and politicians are notoriously cheap.
Intel’s CEO Resigns Due to a ‘past consensual relationship’
After six gigs it's free. It's great, my average bill is $30 because I'm on WiFi at both work and home.
Ironically Aramco in planning for future with less petro-derived fuel, is planning on making other things from petroleum, mosltly more plasticky stuff... Can’t blame them much since that is the source of ~80% of their revenues...
Actually if you think about it, books have survived through centuries better than physical constructions. There has been occasional losses, libraries burning or being sacked. But we have an incredible amount of antique texts even when the physical location of some of the cities they mention has been lost to time.

I assume it will be the same with today’s knowledge. It will be cheaper to preserve the storage of our digital life than to preserve the physical monuments we value the most.
Plastic is an amazing material. You can thermoform it, it's a great insulator, molds and fungi don't feed on it, it's incredibly strong (e.g. UHMWPE rope a.k.a dyneema) and so on.

The trouble seems to be we don't really respect the environment enough, so we use it in terrible ways, like single use products. We often don't need those nice properties in single use products, yet we use it anyway because we don't pay due respect to the long term consequences. So we use things like plastic containers, forks, cups, bottles and spoons.

What are some alternatives? Should we go back to glass bottles and paper bags?
I don't think the Pantheon is actually much more durable than a steel-and-glass skyscraper; neither one would continue to stand without substantial human intervention.
I spend $1000/yr in effort and fees on my federal income tax return. There's nothing especially practical about letting the feds take care of things.
Who is going to pay to ship it there? The whole recycling supply chain is based on selling waste to China.
Being possible and being a good idea are different. I have also driven a car w/o brakes. Or a motorcycle w/o a working clutch.
If feeling like the world is riding on your shoulders changes your risk-adversity quotient maybe founding a startup isn't such a great idea. Instead of 1 mortgage (yours), you're now responsible for 20 (your employees').
Two Islamic knife attacks in France in two days: I’ll kill you”
Duty-free for example!
That seems like a half-cocked assumption, because a discovery of a hard drive that's hundreds or thousands of years old is not going to reveal anything to anyone, unlike finding an old scroll will. At the very least, no if a civilization far into the future is able to read those, it will have maintained substantial continuity with today's world and will probably have a bunch of the buildings you imagine becoming ruins.
Haha, If I had a bone to pick with someone or wanted to threaten them I'd sneak in under the dead of night and remove the sliver. With a ransom note made of newpaper clipped type and everything.
Interesting write up on this, I think there are plenty of opportunities for better engineering and big private/public projects. Like you said though these are non-trivial for sure.

What I can say though is imagine all of those people at that University driving cars everywhere and parking at the Uni, and it quickly becomes a dystopian hellscape like LA. We should not let the perfect become the enemy of the good and forsake all public transit because it is difficult or expensive.
China is the one creating the plastic in the first place. Don't act like they have a moral high ground.
i use the snapshot version as my default on mac and it's definitely usable (and then some). you do run into the odd bugginess, but anything major is usually fixed within a few days.
I totally agree this is the root of the problem. You wouldn't be giving out 50k loans for degrees that are looking at making 30k a year.

I think the big problem with this approach is that it disproportionately effects poor people. If person A studies underwater basket weaving but their parents cosign and have great credit and income, that's much less of a risk than person B who is studying engineering but has no assistance. 18 year olds have very little credit history or net worth so you are mostly looking at their parents situation. If there is a way to overcome that aspect, I would totally support the ability to discharge loans.
Anything that could be done to make a separate application space run safely could be done to make them run safely on the existing web, couldn't it?

Yes, but you could tighten things down and treat the modern web as a transient application delivery system. Where users have to explicitly grant access to each application, and grant it whichever specific permissions it needs. I also wouldn't be against having two browsers, one for running applications and one to browse the web.
Why has this 3+ year old issue continued to be ignored https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/2905

I bought Synergy when I need to work with a windows and mac (Mac being my primary driver) and it made my mac unusable. I used to love Synergy but this made it useless for me and I had to get a refund.
Marie Antoinette's fake rustic village is still held up for scorn I think.
IF this is as burdensome as it sounds, I think Amazon will create an even-larger competitive advantage for their marketplace and start collecting and remitting taxes for all sellers in all states.

Since January 2018, Amazon has started collecting and remitting taxes for all orders / all merchants in the state of Washington and Pennsyvania, and Oklahoma will join in July.

They already do it. Why wouldn't they expand that program?
Do you expect us to speak kindly of their social credit system?
Cleaning the laundry is essentially solved. Folding what's been cleaned is where the gap remains.
Oh whatever. Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood's cast iron facades are beautiful and historical in their precursorship to the island's pioneering of the skyscraper. When they were erected, they were called out as cheap imitations of stone frontage. Now they're revered.

Another reputable facade job is the Puck Building [1], which had its ass cut off by when Elm Place was widened into Lafayette. Also, I'm not sure if the Hearst Building [2] counts as a facade, but I personally think it's a neat union of old and new.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_Building

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Tower_(Manhattan)
I have the same browsing habit. How to you manage tabs on FF?
Sync has been live in the snapshot version for quite some time. it's planned to be released to the stable version in Vivaldi's next major update.
The Oregonian has a better article than any I've seen posted here so far:

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2018/06/intel_...
America’s Housing Crisis Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Barge access isn't the problem so much as deep-water port capacity is as most waste is transported via cargo container. It takes years to build up the infrastructure needed to handle the increased garbage and transport it to massive landfills, even if you've got cheap land for them. I'd expect that it'd stress existing African port capacity, even if we're only talking about a portion of the waste that was previously sent to China.

With luck, we'll see improvements in recycling technology and investment to compensate. In the meantime, the bulk of it's already going to landfills with all of the problems that entails.
China threatens to go after Dow index giants next in trade war
I can't wait.

One reason I don't like eating out much is who is touching my food?

That burger looks pretty good and $6 sounds pretty good.