skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Another fun short anecdote: that tramline they're building has run into a lot of problems on the Uithof itself. The Uithof contains a lot of rontgen and other electromagnetically sensitive equipment due to being home to a large hospital as well as several research groups using similar equipment. It has been moved several times during planning processes, as well as have its speed severly limited to not to interfere with the aforementioned equipment.

> 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.

Yeah, I'm not trying to imply that this would be a better solution, because here it clearly is not, especially since the highway going past the uithof is a horrible bit of two-lane highway, which is a permanent traffic jam literally as far as the eye can see (and do not underestimate how far you can see in a land as flat as the Netherlands) in both directions during rush hours.
McDonald's already has ordering kiosks in some of its restaurants. They also have a mobile app that allows you to order and pay before you walk in the door, just show up and walk out with your food.
You are correct, i edited the post. It was 8-2

All the news stories that claim 8-0 are wrong, including

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-net-...

https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/at-t-funded-democrats-in-...

https://www.wired.com/story/california-net-neutrality-bill-w...
I used it a bunch of times, it’s great. Usability is awesome and it’s reasonably fast.
Am in the US, transport my recycling right now as there is no pickup in my county.
How is this a negative China article? No one is implying they are wrong for doing so.
This is honestly worse than just knocking the original down. Look at it. https://www.architectural-review.com/pictures/1180xany/3/3/5...
I have started using the app at DD. Very quick and the turn around time for the order is low.
Which new and unique ideas did Koko personally communicate to you?
I think it will be the exact opposite.

Books and printed photos have survived so well because they do not have dependencies or require maintenance to be accessible to future generations.

Imagine if every book had a special bookstand that you needed to have to make the words appear. And books from different years or different countries use different bookstands. Sometimes a new edition of the book will be released, but it needs a new bookstand that can show this new version of the book.
>Continue ad nauseam.

This is what we did. A great way to spend summer when you are teen.

As for practicing ball skills, the very nickname Pele was from the sound of the can Pele played instead of ball - his family was too poor to have soccer ball.
Why is it so expensive?
Interesting, I didn't see that. In that case, it makes the account lockout case even weaker. There really is no technical reason for it. However, that makes it Epic's issue, since they clearly have means of handling it.
Same, and even when I travel without wifi the data expenses are pretty marginal. If you download your podcasts, maps, and translation dictionaries before you leave, and you don't have to have youtube or netflix constantly playing when not around wifi, it's pretty ideal.
You just reminded me to read the little prince! Thank you.
Although not yet commercially viable there are a few companies trying to address this problem. Algopack[0], a French startup is making plastic like material from seaweed (brown algae) and there are others that are trying out bioplastics made from sugarcane

[0] http://www.algopack.com/algopackgb.php
The market clearing price.
Preventing plastic in Europe would have basically no effect on plastic in the ocean. The problem is people with poor waste management infrastructure tossing their junk into the rivers and oceans in developing countries.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
Certainly trying to use Truth in Advertising was always my first thought, but Truth in advertising laws are pretty toothless and I imagine any attempt to do something like this using that mechanism would get tied up in the courts for a long time.

I would love someone to at least make the case -- it seems like a non-partisan thing, surely the free market types should be in favor of price transparency, while liberals should be against misleading consumers.
Have there been any scientific experiments already to validate this method?
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6246240

If only they didn't break Google Voice if you used it.
> Additionally Sweden is tiny. Trash there is brought to local recycling centers with 6 to 8 or more different bins

Actually a lot of homes now have these bins: http://blogg.tyrens.se/avfallsblogg/files/2017/10/Fyrfackska...

Recycling is simply made very convienient. I never transport my trash more than 5 meters. There's even a box for light bulbs and batteries.
I think it really depends on where you live. Where I grew up in Kansas City, the cops were great. The NYPD has been enormously helpful to me and a bunch of my friends when needed.

Cops in Troy, Albany, and DC seem to be SPECTACULARLY worthless, at best. Cops in the suburbs in my experience are universally assholes and power tripping. Similarly, I've heard horror stories about cops in LA, Portland, etc, except they seem to just not do anything at all (besides beating up black people).

Sounds like it could be cultural to departments?
Just refuse to load for browsers other than Chrome.

Some users wont like it but Electron is a price too high if single browser target is your goal.
> if there's a revenue threshold bake it into the law

There's no real winning there either. If you bake the threshold into the law, some companies may game the system such that, if the cost of total compliance is x, and we're revenue range of x, give or take, to just take a little less money to stay under the threshold.

Not that I'm suggesting that is something that we should care about, or even consider a majority worry, but hard and fast cliffs lead to gamesmanship, or worse, misaligned incentives (such that it's non-beneficial for those on welfare to work if it puts them over a given benefits threshold.)

On the whole, I agree that selective enforcement is bad, if not wholly terrible, but its absence isn't a panacea either.
To be fair, building with quarried stone is monstrously expensive compared to glass and steel so its hard to say if the builders would have bothered if they had the option.

Like my home inspector said when I wanted to convert a gas fireplace in my 1930s house back to wood: "if they had gas when this house was built no one would have chosen wood-burning fireplaces"
What's the habitable area of Sweden? No way it's as much as the US. There is very little farmland there. Look at the size of Canada, and most of it is useless beyond the southern greenbelt area.
My parents have reached the same conclusion.

On a side note, I've had no small amount of schadenfreude watching them run head-long into the regulations they've spent the last 3 decades cramming into every nook and cranny of the economy. They thought it was funny irony when kids got visits from authorities for selling lemonade at the end of the driveway... now they've got a metaphorical truck-full of lemons, a squeezer, and a hefty reality check.
Is that true of the +4 zip codes as well?
Who's buying from the Chinese? It's not like their fault that other people want to buy their stuff.

Look to the supply chain of who's putting plastic spoons/forks in restaurants in the US/EU and you'll probably find lots of profit from non-chinese companies.
A lot of the time you can substitute paper, glass, wood, wicker, wax, natural fiber cloth or string, the things people were using at the turn of the 20th century before any plastic other than rubber had been commercialised.

There are also bioplastics that degrade quickly, and those could cover some of the remaining gaps.

I don't think even long use products are good uses for plastic, TBH. Long in whose terms? Plastics will hang around for longer than we have had agriculture. Imagine if the Sumerians had made plastic. We'd still have their plastic temple tat, ox yokes, obsolete plough parts etc littering up the Iraq desert.
Grim look at Civil War surgery unearthed by new pit of limbs, bodies
Pray tell, how do you know the sexual orientation of Intel's CEO to confidently state that it could have "switched"?
I think GP meant to say that Sweden is buying other countries' trash: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling...
No one is talking about morals here. They are just limiting how much of someone else's garbage they are cleaning up.

They are creating it, that's true. But the buyers (i.e. developed nations) know very well that the stuff they're asking them to produce is harmful for the environment, so their hands are equally dirty here. When demand goes down, so will supply.
Serious question: how would it be door to door and high density at the same time? So far, all self driving car proposals I saw looked just like cars, or vans at best. Compare this to a fully loaded double-decker bus in e.g. London. So much more efficient use of road space.
Personally, I expect there will always be a need for high throughput fixed line transit in some areas. But, to answer your question, if some portion of the population requires transportation subsidies to participate in society then the best policy answer would seem to be to provide them with subsidies directly.
Western nations aren't the problem, it's developing countries with poor waste infrastructure and industrial vessels.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
I don't really understand the appeal of these restaurants. While living in Boston I went to the MIT "automated" wock-esque' restaurants a few times. It wasn't even that, "automated" per-se outside of the wock-cooking. Humans still handled a majority of meal prep, stocking machines, and dealing with payment problems.

IMO I'd rather have spent less money at the neighboring Chipotle for better food.
Well I'll be damned.. not sure what lead me to think this.
I wonder if (solar) pyrolysis of plastic for turning it back into fuel would be feasible.
Yes, I think you are right, the race to the bottom is inevitable unfortunately...
It makes sense though.

Microsoft already sense this (and have done for a few years now), most of their 1st party titles for XboxOne can also be played on Windows. Going forward it sounds like they want to further employ this strategy to essentially make the Microsoft ecosystem the place to play games whether that be via a console (with its plug and play ease) or on Windows, or streamed to a mobile phone or tablet.

Nintendo are the outlier here though, but it will be interesting to see where Sony is positioning themselves in 5 or so years
So any service that makes it easier to do business is a “rent seeker”? Does that include Square? AWS? Every site that does e-commerce web hosting?
While you are correct in that technology like Hyperloops can solve the following issue, public infrastrucute, like the housing problem, is a political and social problem too. Take Chicago, for example. Musk and Emmanual talked about a Hyperloop between O'Hare airport and downtown. How is that going to benefit the average inter-city commuter?
"Plastic Recycling" always seemed like such a scam. Very little of it can be turned into the same thing it was, before. Most of it can only be downcycled to an inferior product (and then it's mostly the end of the line). To think we've simply shipped it off to another country to deal with the problem is criminal. Another part of my childhood where the details were far less idealistic than the big picture.
This handles the transactions really well, but now you get 40 people standing around the cash registers waiting for their order grumbling about how this process sucks. It feels like a bread line.
Microsoft No Longer Plans to Bring VR to the Xbox One
This site is for substantive, intellectually interesting discussion. The guidelines aren't rules (or else that's what they'd be called), they're there to help guide us in that direction. When commenters repeatedly post unsubstantive comments from which we don't stand to learn anything, that's not using the site as intended. If there isn't any insight in your comment, don't post it.
I don't feel this article is particularly negative about China except title, but the negative tone in comments are surprising considering HN being tech and business focused.
> Linus seems like a jerk

Linus is a jerk and he gets away with it entirely because apologists like you make excuses for him at every turn.

He's a dictator. he can say no and leave it at that. He can say no and explain. Acting like a jerk is not a necessary part of this process.
I always assumed A player meant worked 60-100 hrs per week, but they expected you(not directly) to write 40-50 on your times sheet. And only paid for 30. But, don't worry your changing the world.
LA also seems to be building a ton of rail. The Expo Line to Santa Monica was completed recently, and they're currently building the Crenshaw Line to LAX, the Purple Line extension into Beverly Hills, and a new set of stations downtown with more in the pipeline.
Announcing Rust 1.27
I like rich neighborhoods more than poor neighborhoods. The sense of security is nice. For some this may not be true though
Actually, yes.

Glass jars/bottles and metal cans are great for recycling (sometimes even reuse if standards are high enough).

Paper bags are also a great technology.

I could see a standardized beverage container format (including a paper wrapper lightly glued on) and cheap reusable metal 'silverware' that is also magnetic (because we're a nation of idiots and this stuff is going to get in to the waste stream) working out.
> you can't expect people to transport their recycling

Why on earth not? The majority used to haul their own garbage to the town dump a just few decades ago (and some still do in smaller towns). Ubiquity of curbside pickup is relatively new -- doubly so for recycling. And recyclables are a heck of a lot more pleasant to carry in the car than rotting kitchen scraps.
I mean, we use it despite it's glaring problems because the material is essential free, being a byproduct of oil refining.
Another counter point is the USSR excelling in hockey. They even had star players : i.e. Vladislav Tretiak.
If no one was buying it, would they still be creating it?
Mechanism of how caffeine seems to help the heart
Interesting. The London system is ancient, creaking, lacks modern conveniences like mobile coverage/wifi/aircon, and has comparatively small trains that get horribly overcrowded at peak times. It it probably a worse experience than most European metros (unless you're using one of the few new lines). But it does get a decent amount of investment and fundamentally it works. If only we could get a comparable level of investment in the rest of the UK.

Regretted systems: guided buses. Both Edinburgh and Cambridge regret theirs and Edinburgh built trams over it instead (with massive disruption and cost overrun, but not actually regretted yet).
> signed by Nintendo in a way that isn't reversible to anyone else.

Well, now you're just challenging people.
My personal ask for the language designers is somewhat similar, but not quite this (it seems). I'd like to have either the language support for builders or setters where after creation an object becomes immutable.

The options we have right now are bad: the long constructor arguments are too verbose, the setters are causing non-immutability and builders are worst due to lack of discoverability and standards.
Oh please... People are just realizing that startups aren't all that glamorous and at times attract a special breed of shitty egotistical workaholics.

By the merits of this article we should wait to see Paris or some other benign socialist hell-hole become "the next startup hub". I can assure you that won't be happening anytime soon.

Silicon Valley is an incredibly un-sustainable incestuous bubble. The future of startups will be distributed, not in one place.
FWIW, I believe the most recent versions of Pages and Keynote both support inline LaTeX.
Should we ignore the escalating amounts of waste, mainly from single use packaging, in the developed world meanwhile?
The Five Stages of Hosting (2012)
That specific implementation won't help the average intercity commuter, but that doesn't mean that the tool is not useful for heping intercity commuters.
How We're Migrating Our Configuration Management System
Hmm, always 30% or sometimes 8%?
In my area there's a market around finding used items at Goodwill outlets, fixing them up, and reselling through Craigslist/Offer Up/neighbors/etc. My wife and her mother find a lot of useful, inexpensive things at Goodwill outlets, including nice furniture, kitchen utensils, decoration, and electronics I now use daily. As someone who used to shop by hunting down brand name products in big box stores when I needed anything, the realization that used, nearly-free items are both readily available still functional was surprisingly profound.
Facebook is testing subscriptions for private groups, as much as $30/month
Glass is a terrible material in a recycling sense, as it's weight makes transport costly and wasteful (fuel). The raw material is essentially sand (silica) which we're not going to run out of, soon. Burying it in a landfill won't make a worst landfill - it's essentially inert.

It's literally better to NOT recycle glass than to recycle it. Reuse it.
This is basically the TCS version of a clickbait headline. It's a separation of BQP and PH by an oracle. Certainly a nice result, but to put it into context, we also have a separation of P and NP by an oracle. Yet, we are very far away from actually proving that P and NP are distinct.
Myself I'm more plagued by the horror of fә KAHD ism caused by leaving out the cedille (ç). Or maybe it's FACK ә dism.
This is me as well. My brain is useless until close to lunch time. After lunch I start feeling productive and this feeling begins to steamroll into the evening. When I am allowed to structure my day I don't even plan to start work until 6pm and can maintain great focus from then until 1am. Admittedly I imagine my ADHD has much to do with that and the habits I formed to cope with it as a child.
As a fairly on-and-off gamer, I can't really name any exclusive IPs from Sony.

I know Microsoft has Halo, and Nintendo has enough exclusives to make Smash Bros.

I vaguely recall Sony making their own Smash Bros a few years back, but none of the IPs featured in it have had any recent entries, nor are really that prominent.
How did you procrastinate during your final university year?
I don't know why you're being down voted. China, India and Africa are responsible for 90% of the waste in the ocean. All of them are smaller consumers of it than the US. (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/891361/Plastic-waste-po...)

I can't stand these various doomsday scenario stories. Yes, it's certainly wasteful to have single use plastic products. Consumers like them, though, and they're sometimes the only way to comply with various regulations about cleanliness. For example, washing and steam cleaning glass to sterilize it uses more energy than just making a plastic bottle.
Mathieu's (patch author) main motivation was removing atomic operation from the LTTng userspace tracer's hot path.

In that case, the per-cpu data is the 'reserve' and 'commit' counters that must be updated when the tracer saves an event to the per-CPU buffers.

Other uses that I'm aware of include memory allocators that maintain per-CPU arenas.
Historical preservationists may be the worst people. Almost no buildings are worth cementing history in place and destroying the natural cycle of destruction and renewal.
Jesus, why would you throw that kind of power and money away for that...

Regardless of your gender, orientation... whatever... keep it in your pants regarding the workplace!
No, such limitations would likely be illegal (without additional compensation, beyond the wages, also being stipulated for the period where the employee couldn't leave / couldn't be let go) in many states. I have never seen such a guarantee / requirement in an employment contract, such a "key man" provision would likely be reserved for someone who is in possession of some critical knowledge to the company and company is willing to pay for it.

It's a double edged sword. It's easy to be let go (basically, pack your stuff and get out while escorted by security, just like in the movies), but it also makes it much easier for companies to take a risk and hire you. In Europe, hiring someone is a big risk and companies are extremely careful to hire since they're taking on a big responsibility. As a result, permanently contracted positions are even more common in Europe than the US as a result in my experience.
I found this interesting, I've heard nothing but good things (from a vocal minority :P) about CF so far, except the steep learning curve.

Now this post seems to pinpoint exactly this as one key reason to migrate off of it.
A useful post. Have you read the Adam Minter book Junkyard Planet? https://jakeseliger.com/2018/04/10/junkyard-planet-adam-mint.... It's a deep and excellent look into how the junk supply starts in the United States and goes (went, now, I guess) to China.

"Waste" made sense for China when the country was poor and desperately starved for raw materials. Now the country is less poor; we are going to have to somehow subsidize the recycling of waste (expensive) or landfill it (terrible for the environment).
Bit rot is a real problem, but HDD are consumer products with very poor sensors. Assuming similar levels of technology Data should be recoverable for hundreds of years.

File formats in general are fairly straightforward at the bit level. Languages would be a larger issue except they are also stagnating with slower drift over time as population sizes increase.

On top of that we are still producing vast amounts of written material that is likely to survive. Net result future historians are going to have far more to work with than current ones do.

PS: Remember even 1 in 1,000,000 files would still add up to a lot of information. That said, encryption is likely to be a larger issue.
Depending on your political leaning, you wouldn’t want the same laws in GA as in CA.
The nature of the thing is that there's a chunk of per-architecture work required (maybe 20-30 lines of actual kernel code and another 700 lines of userspace/testcase support, judging by the diffstat). What's gone in to start with includes support for x86-64, i386, powerpc and 32-bit arm as well as the common code. Maintainers of other architectures can then add support on top of this at some point. Support for new syscalls not being perfectly in sync across all kernel archs is not uncommon, I think.

The other not-yet-there part is how userspace libcs are going to expose this usefully to applications; there's some interesting discussion on the kernel mailing list about that. (It needs some libc support because the kernel only supports a single registered restartable-sequence area, so if multiple libraries try to do it they'll tread on each others' feet; and libc will want to use this feature itself.)
Not really.

We design the products and the packaging as part of branding. The Chinese ship us what we order.

When was the last time you bought a star wars action figure, pair of rollerblades, computer, or smartphone where all that design work was done in China? You likely haven't. We design and order, they manufacture and fill the order. Not making a moral judgement here. It's just that right or wrong, that's how things work currently.

We order the plastic, China is now saying that we have to keep what we order.