skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Teltik, which resells T-Mobile Business services starting with plans at $20/mo. It has been an amazing experience so far. I used to be on AT&T MVNOs previously (Red Pocket) and while those are fine, the Teltik experience is way better for a very important reason: T-Mobile lets you use your data and voice plan in Canada and Mexico for no extra charge. Customer service has been superb as well.
These change were, from what I'm gathering, introduced the night before the vote. That's pretty last minute.
Couldn't you use Erlang/OTP for the main parts of the system and for the performance critical parts that Erlang isn't great for (like crunching numbers) you can use something like Rustler to be build a safer NIF? https://github.com/hansihe/rustler
For one truck load, how much sand can you carry per volume, vs. old glass bottles? For the latter, aren't you mostly transporting air?

You don't want to BREAK the glass bottles, since they still need to be sorted, and cleaned.
I am not an expert but I am a PhD chemical engineer and I have though about this issue for years and years.

My 0.02...

Short term

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a) give houses smaller trash cans and charge a lot for bigger trash cans. Town I live in already does this... at first I was like "wtf with this tiny trash can... I can throw away like one, two bags of trash tops per week"... well, now my household of 4 averages one bag of half full bag of trash per week. we do more composting and more recycling.

b) double down on recycling programs and sorting.

Short- to Mid-term

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c) we should be burning 100% of our actual trash in localized facilities. We trade the negative of immediate CO2 green gas emissions but we get:

-- some power in return

-- reduced diesel fuel use (at like 4 miles a gallon)... assuming the trip to local burn facility is shorter than out of landfill

-- huge reduction methane release from landfill,

-- 100% elimination of continued landfill pollution and water table pollution by god knows what (drugs, plastics, leaking batteries, etc.

The CO2 effluent stream can be captured and processed in many interesting ways. The CO2 is so clean it can be used for beverage or biotech service and/or feed for a CO2 to polymer (plastic building block) plant.

Many modern burn facilities burn so hot [and completely] they could be certified to deal with bio-hazard and chemical weapon destruction. They have gas scrubbing systems advamced enough that only N2, O2, and CO2 are emitted from the plant (NOx, SOx, etc. level are parts per billion levels)... no complex chemical species, no metals, leave the plant through the gas effluent.

We were/are doing this... but all this NIMBY nonsense is leading to some collectively destructive group-think... many folks don't want to see burn facilities near their house and there is a lot of money to be made in our current trash mismanagement system. Actually, most of our thinking is collectively destructive group-think so "what's new?"

Edit: http://www.lacsd.org/solidwaste/swfacilities/rtefac/commerce...
I visited that facility in the 90's... it was great. Now it is closing... not sure if it being replaced.

Long-term

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d)We need packaging laws and taxes that address waste caused by excessive/unnecessary packaging... particularly for commercial/industrial use.

e)Society needs to refocus our value system to value simplicity and localized self-sufficiency: local fresh food over packaged/frozen goods, more reusable (and infinitely recycle-able) locally filled glass containers

f) localized recycle-to-manufacturing pipelines. Imagine a future where you could take polyethylene scrap down to a local facility get it 3D printed into something you or someone else can use (or get a spool of PE line to use in your own 3D printer at home).
From who? Parking is expensive, or paid for by business owners who want customers, or paid through the tax dollars of mostly drivers.

And if we're talking about subsidies let's take NYC public transportation as an example: They get $6.2B in fares and $8.2B in subsidies from:

- General fund (state & local).
- Gas taxes.
- Taxes on homeowners.
- Property taxes.
- Payroll taxes.
- Tolls.

So if you want to be gung-ho about killing subsidies you'll be taking most public transportation down with it.
I'd prefer less human touch on my food.
Instagram deleted news footage from ProPublica
Not necessarily. Applications may choose to retry a certain number of times and fallback to another mechanism if the critical section can't complete.

A problematic case that was brought up on LKML was the interaction with debuggers and unexpected page faults, see this comment:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738119/
According to this site, 71% of graduates in 2012 had some kind of student loan debt [1].

I think it's probably more accurate to assume that the number of CS students is pretty close to that number, instead of assuming that your anecdotal remembrance from 10 years ago is universal.

[1] https://ticas.org/sites/default/files/pub_files/Debt_Facts_a...
US cities are denser than Swedish cities.
> Between this and similarly far-reaching laws (e.g., GDPR), it's becoming increasingly burdensome for small players

So you're saying that these laws are achieving their intended purpose?
>free college for all students who maintain adequate gpas, no more federal loans. impose cost controls on universities that take federal money.

You could probably do all this, but then you would have to clamp down on all the freeloaders, "irregular immigrants" and other people draining the public coffers.

Cutting into defense spending WILL NEVER HAPPEN so don't even suggest it. Yes it is a perfectly viable place to get all the money you could ever want, but regime change isn't free, and the US pays Israel 38 Bln a year in outright cash or arms. The money the US gifts Israel alone would likely make all your student loan debt disappear (for Citizen students with good GPA's).
How do English speakers know to read "fah-sah-dism" and not "fah-kah-dism"?
"Could be" is the key word. I made a dermatologist appointment a couple months ago to get some moles checked out. Couldn't get the doc I wanted as they were booked, so the receptionist asked me if a physician's assistant would be okay or if I would like to see a different MD.

"Will my copay be cheaper if I see a PA?", I asked.

"Absolutely not" was the response.

So why would I pay the same to see someone less qualified?

Incentives in the American healthcare system are extremely screwed up.
GOP Senators Accuse National Science Foundation of Funding Climate ‘Propaganda’
Vault/Consul vs. Keystone/Barbican for Secret Management
Newbie to OpenStack. Used consul a bit before. I found this video from Barbican developer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wTJFGfRyCc which compares the tools. I would like to hear opinions and experiences if anyone has done some performance testing on these tools.
One thing electron offers that is not mentioned is a predictable platform for your application. Users can use different browsers and even today this is still a problem. But distributing an electron app you know at any moment what apis you have available and how they behave.
> $100k of South Dakota revenue is either an almost exclusively local single-owner business or a much larger internet shop.

Note, though, that for South Dakota it is $100k in annual revenue or 200 transactions per year.

Consider a company selling a subscription product/service for $5/month.

If they had a mere 17 customers in South Dakota, their South Dakota annual revenue would be a mere $1020, but they would have 204 transactions per year.

This assumes each re-billing on a subscription counts separately. If it could be counted as a single $60 sales that is merely being billed in 12 equal parts, then they would only have 17 South Dakota transactions.
And now with Electron we have, "This application is optimized for libfreetype2.8-0. Please downgrade your system package until Electron catches up."
Yes with the glass bottles please.

In the Caribbean Soda use to come in glass bottle with a $0.50 deposit.
You would never find a bottle on the side of the street, kids lamented losing their deposit if they broke a bottle(also ran the risk of getting yourself cut if you did) so they made sure to hold on to those bottles with both hands.
Now soda comes in a plastic bottle with no deposit on it and isn't recycled on the island.
The side of roads and nearby bushes are filled with these plastic bottles. Drains are clogged with them. Its an absolute nuisance. I dont know why the government even allowed the switch over to plastic....Ok I lied, I know. the glass bottles were costly to the breweries and they are the government biggest campaign supporters.
what are the fees all-in? just buying the thing is say 1% then you have miner's fees of 0.3%? something like that?
The Spacetime of Fine Art
Depending on which kind is used to make glass, we actually are running out of sand.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

http://www.businessinsider.com/world-running-out-sand-resour...
This is cool, even if edgy. What are some other interesting licenses? Is there a fascist only license? What about anti-communist licenses, or licenses only for communists?

Can I license my project ONLY to one ethnicity or religion? I know you can be discriminatory for clubs, like YMCA used to be, or the JCC, but can you be for IP?
Might have been, we only know parts of the history.
Physicists show it is impossible to mask quantum information in correlations
Rendering a Triangle with Apple's Metal API, Using Go
Because they don't have burger king scale and need profits to expand quickly before their idea is copied.
Why would a company care about people who only play Fortnite? They’re not going to be buying anything other than those games, and when the fad dies away, they will too. It’s one thing to cater to casual players, who will buy lots of different games, another to Madden/COD players who will buy yearly installments. Pandering to s single fad that will be replaced within a year though is crazy. People will get tired of Battle Royale, just like they did with Hero shooters, and the fads before that.
To be fair the industry is LITERALLY developing for Chrome and Safari first.

Google won. Everything people hated MS for in the 90s Google has actually accomplished. Resistance is futile.
Your idea of "earnings per dollar of market cap" is essentially the same as "earnings yield", or inverse of the P/E ratio, which is indeed much more meaningful than EPS

Earnings yield is a measure of how expensive a unit of earnings is, and can be compared across companies as a heuristic for "cheapness".

Another metric is free cash flow yield: free cash flow / market cap. Using operating free cash or operating profit like EBITDA gets you the cost of operating cash flow excluding non-operating stuff like interest, taxes and non cash depreciation expense

You can also use enterprise value as the denominator (market cap plus debt less cash) to capture the full picture of a company's capitalization

By buying groups of stocks based on these metrics, rather than just index funds, you can blend aspects of passive and active investing. This is called "smart beta" and is an interesting emerging strategy

A good primer is "the little book that beats the market". The strategy is to buy "cheap and good" stocks and just hold them. Cheap is defined by high EBIT / EV (lots of earning power per unit of capital) and good by high ROIC (the business can turn money into more money). So you filter by these two metrics, then buy the top x companies, buying one stock / month over a year to mitigate timing risk, and hold
There's a whole range. Companies are hiring for new grad software engineers up to senior engineers and CTOs. There are also many roles, from full-stack web to back-end and data science and many tech stacks.

I'm particularly excited by how many companies are hiring for deep-tech roles like machine learning, computer vision, and embedded programming for hardware.
Open source licensing is vastly too complicated. IMHO it needs a menu-like system similar to the Creative Commons options. I think OSI should bite the bullet and lead the way on this change: work with the community to define the options and then say that all future licenses will use the menu system.
> Finally, it should be mentioned that buildings are owned by private companies and individuals, and generally have a right to do whatever they want to them!

For better or worse, that's just not true. Since at least the 1800s American cities have used building codes to limit and control construction. Historic zoning rules are far more recent but the courts have been unwilling to draw lines to delineate legitimate from illegitimate public interest policies. The only real limits have been due process-related, so effected owners are at least nominally given notice and can't be singled out. However, courts have been unwilling to even enforce those protections, which is why in major American cities quid pro quo systems (exactions for permits so the city doesn't slow walk your project) have metastasized. And SCOTUS has been hesitant to jump into the fray because even they fear the wrath of NIMBYs flooding the courts with decades of challenges if courts take up the mantle of arbiter from local commissions.
> The US is very large, you can't expect people to transport their recycling.

It is common in rural settings in the US for people to transport, themselves, both their trash and their recycling to a central drop off point. So there are lots of US residents that do exactly this periodically.

Curbside pickup is typically a system found in more urban portions of the US, but it is far from ubiquitous across the entirety of the US.

Edit: Adding this URL: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.0802698,-82.5981852,107m/dat...

This is a google satellite image of the local, central, trash drop off point in a very rural portion of southern Virginia.
You must be Chinese spy! Get him!
What's wrong with putting it in landfills? The world has no shortage of wasteland. If we can afford to ship it to China, can't we spend the same money driving it on trucks into a nearby desert or valley?
Regarding "Instead of EPS, we should be talking about earnings per dollar of market cap", isn't that what the P/E ratio measures? Although, strictly speaking you are suggesting the reciprocal - an E/P ratio.

I believe P/E ratios are far more widely used for comparing companies.

EPS isn't a completely useless measure - it can be useful to shareholders in the specific company to provide some anchor for judging dividend policy and for comparing performance over time for that particular company.

But I agree that EPS is a useless measure for comparing different companies.
Context. If I saw the word alone with no surrounding context, I might pronounce it the 2nd way. Or at least be unsure.
Entering into a business relationship with an employee bears its own responsibilities; however, all parties know that it's a business relationship. Everyone understands the limits of the responsibilities associated with that relationship & employees always have another employer they can go to if need be.

The same can't be said for a family.
China’s plastic waste ban will leave 111M tons of trash nowhere to go
Like a lot of things in English, you just learn it, doesn’t always make sense. It’s similar to facial.
I had pretty low expectations when I opened this, but was pleasantly surprised. It's not that the advice was that helpful (I enjoyed the reminder, but I've heard that all before), but simply asking me questions like "can you do successfully do this, once you start?" helped adjust my thinking.

By choosing "I can do this", I remembered that I can
I actually liked Frankfurt. Would not go back there though, as there are more places to see.
I always thought robot-made burgers would be depressing, but this actually looks...not depressing.
I am not sure what your point is.

The second you start claiming things about how the world is through language I can access that and analyze it through ex. a postmodern lens.

You can certainly experience all sorts of things that is beyond language to express but then they are that personal experiences and highly subjective.

What Objective truth can be expressed through language? If you knew the answer to that one you would win a Nobel price and I would certainly do whatever in my power to make sure you got it cause that would be a big deal and fundamentally change EVERYTHING.

Which is why no one has taken me up on the offer to formulate such a truth. It's simply not a useful way to think about what language expresses.
Implementing Time Windowing in an Evented Streaming System
Lately, I've been using https://playnoise.com/ with the following settings: Brown noise > More Options > Auto volume osc, slow, small.

Also, My "Code it and Load it" Playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/bawigga/playlist/08wdT51daeQwc...

Finally, more brown noise/rain storms in my Focus Noise playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/bawigga/playlist/1u2c1lK4YSnL1...
" no way that an insurance company would reimburse for any untested therapy which by default would keep costs down"

Wrong. The patients just get second mortgages and/or crowdfund it. And people contribute because they don't know they're paying for the person to be subjected to useless quackery.
I don't know how you would define employees, contractors etc. But the hard details of the deal have always been strictly an amount of payment for work completed. No more and no less than that. No written contracts, no sick leave, no government insurance, no paid holiday. All those expenses are their responsibility, and they know that.

But the real situation is a little softer, because of course I will be more flexible if a contractor seems to be good and of course they will be more flexible if I have been playing reasonably and fairly with them. Decent people feel happier behaving this way, and wouldn't we all be damn stupid if we didn't behave like decent humans? I try my best to avoid doing business with stupid people.
My arbitrarily guesstimated number would be 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.

Students who scored under that at my alma mater (U of Idaho, go go State School!) really had issues of one kind or another, whether it be health, disinterest, family, etc. Over that, yes, issues occurred, but it didn't make me sideeye and wonder if they should withdraw and save themselves their time and effort.

I expect other people would adjust that number. I'd probably also cut the funding for a full-time undergrad after 6 years. That number is also debatable, and I acknowledge that one could come to different numbers with solid justifications.

I also would fully fund grad student tuition, room, and board, with somewhat adjusted numbers depending on the program.

Note that this isn't merit-based, but a eh, you're giving it the ole college try, we're not going to defund you, along with a low-pass filter to remove pure leech behavior.

IMO, one of the big issues with massive extraneous issues hitting a student is that if you withdraw without a degree, you still have the debt, but no degree to help you pay it off. The incentive is to stick around and squeeze out the degree somehow, anyhow. Which is a perverse incentive, since profs, employers, fellow students tend to prefer people who want to be there and do well. So when you drop out early, you end off in a worse financial state than if you'd not gone to college at all (modulo whatever learning you picked up).

n.b., my perspective is that education is a socially provided benefit to improve society. It should not be a market good like a house or car. We all benefit from a more educated populace (and one with less debt, too!). I recognize there are other perspectives, but I think they lead to worse systemic ends.
I mean, that's the theoretical value that you should pay for it, but markets don't always exactly match theory.
Instead of theoretical ideas about what would happen to the food industry or your anecdote about being fine when eating food that was unregulated I am going to point you to "Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
Nuke China.
That's because you asked the company to ship it there. That's the company collecting tax on your friend's behalf. If you buy it and ship it to yourself, and then ship it to your friend, there would be no tax, because then you bought it and they have no way of knowing it is going to your friend.

Technically, your friend had to pay use tax when they got it from you. But they probably didn't. Which is why they want the retailer to collect the tax for them.
You can't just acknowledge that your evidence is anecdotal and then still use it for the basis of your argument. Your anecdotes are not data and they prove nothing.
Did the telemetry arrive in CCSDS format? Did you consider directly logging all of the CCSDS headers?
Our best devs are consistently people who don’t have CS degrees and have good creativity, patience, curiosity, and who have some code to show that isn’t buzzword-chasing nonsense.
Thanks. I'd swear that button only gave me a menu when I clicked on it before.
The Speedup numbers named in the commit [0] are impressive on arm but don't look very well on x86. On the other hand they add a thread-local write to every context switch and add a bunch of code. Add to that only 1.2 speedup on the LTTng benchmark.

To me as a non-kernel guy this doesn't sound very impressive..

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d7822b1e24f2df5df98...
> These changes look OK, but I'm not sure about the rationale.

That's a weaker statement to me.

"The changes look OK, but I strongly disagree with the rationale" sounds better.
That's exactly what they are measuring though, people are considered "educated" in those statics for receiving those higher level degrees. Not a bad thing you don't fall in that bucket, but that's just the facts of what they are surveying for.
it was inspired by the Japan Kwantung Army vast fortifications in Manchuria where the older brother served in the years after WWII. There are a lot of other places in Russia which do feel like Stalker though.
No we're not the fucking problem. We are the good guys.
Dude, obviously I struck a nerve here and you seem to be losing it, so please calm down and try to keep a civil discourse! I will make no further comments to you on these matters until you at least make an attempt to track down some of the info for yourself. (Note that I intentionally didn't spill the beans here just to see if you were in fact up to the challenge.) And if you don't do that, then I can only assume that you simply have no willingness to do so (because it might challenge your current worldview?) or maybe even lack the skills necessary to do so!

And I'm not saying that anyone has "missed" anything here. Rather they have full knowledge of it and simply choose to ignore it (because they want to stay "on message"), or maybe they have dismissed it as being relatively unimportant. Not everybody looks at this stuff and comes to those same conclusions, though.

BTW, "almost 40" in not 50, and the actual timeline here (which I'm probably at least somewhat more familiar with than you are) is not quite what it has been made out to be. In fact, in recent legal proceedings Judge Alsup (I'm sure you will recognize that name) has already called BS on a lot of it, and if I'm not mistaken some other judges in other jurisdictions are headed down this same path.
Isn't that a problem that could be solved with law enforcement and cleaners like what developed countries do? That still seems to be cheaper than glass bottles.
"Pharma conpanies want therapies to work because billing insurance companies at scale is where the money is"

Small-scale quackery scams can be highly profitable even if there's never any move to large scale production. It doesn't cost much to run a clinic giving coffee enemas, but you can charge an arm and a leg. At that rate a few patients a year can keep you riding in Ferraris.

"hey at least they will die with more money right?"

Their kids might appreciate not being left homeless by an unethical fraud.