skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I think their point is that the big manufacturers are just going to waste the water you saved, too.
If everyone is personally familiar with the effort that goes into sorting trash/recycling, then they may be more likely to reduce their trash usage.
At this level, do you have "premium" access to Microsoft support? At some point the company actually listens to you, right? What happens when you contact them, get ahold of a person, and say "yeah we paid you $300k in license fees the last 3 years. This pretty basic feature of your product doesn't work. Can you fix it for us?"

Do they really just tell you to go pound sand when a corporate client asks them for support?
There's a pretty stark difference between organic internet communities as they were and what is emerging from federated platforms on an already connected planet.

I was on an emulation forum for several years in the early 2000s that had people from every walk of life, every stripe of politics, on essentially every continent of the planet, yet the number of regular users was still within Dunbar's number, for years. That's not going to happen nowadays. If you can reasonably attract ten users, you can and probably will attract several
hundred, or more, in much smaller timelines.

This is borne out by looking at Mastodon instances right now--there are ~200 out of ~3000 that fall within reasonable estimates of Dunbar's number and
there's no guarantee that any of them will be stable even in the short term. It's a Great Filter for comprehensible human communities.

Secondly, the notion that by federating or centralizing, you can avoid or generate discursal control is pretty unfounded. The 2016 US Presidential election and
Brexit are more than enough evidence of that. People can and will use any capacity within their reach to influence discourse, regardless of who owns or doesn't own the infrastructure.

I'd argue that federating generally allows for more pernicious discursal control by monied and
corporate interests, solely through the lack of singular points of control. If you can automate contact and distribution, which is already trivial, you can spread
whatever you want as far as you please as much as you like, knowing that if 90% of administrators
remove it, you still have 90% possible impressions and 10% of instances that haven't removed it. If the content is even remotely infectious, it'll immediately spread back to the 90% by the 10% of users, anyway. Chain-letters are great examples of this in action (and in their more modern forms "upvote this if," "retweet this if," and "like this if").
Hmm, names are tools, I agree. Could you give some sources? I'm curious.
Lol in London you usually get 18k for living expenses as a PhD student.

Meanwhile, undergrad halls can cost as much as £200 pw in London

does not compute
> If the problem is "keep plastic out of the ocean", then solve "why does plastic get in the ocean" problem.

But then how can someone start a KickStarter so you have to carry a thick metal straw around with you all day and then have to think about cleaning every time you use it, and in between different drinks if you don't want to have your first drink contaminate the taste of the second? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/908228738/finalstraw-th...
Single-stream recycling is a good alternative to this, and has been implemented in Austin. They essentially take your idea to the limit - if someone has to go through it anyway, why not just put it all in one big bin and sort it out later? So they do. Mostly works?
My G4 iBook was amazing at suspend/resume, but each revision, it has gotten progressively worse.

I am afraid of my brand new MBP w/ touchbar. I use it with the lid shut as a powerful Mac Mini.

It is too fragile to move frequently.
Yeah, except you can pull the policy levers to change the results.
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There is perhaps a pragmatic argument for being a dictatorship if your goal is to climb from backwater to "developed" nation very quickly and then to transition to a democracy, but the authoritarians in charge have a history of nixing the second part of that plan.

We thought this was what China was going to do until their new emperor emerged and made himself president for life.
I've used it in the past for an office phone system with DID delivered over IAX, Linksys SIP desktop phones, and no usage of the API.

Also separately for an inbound call centre with simple routing based on customer type and language(s) spoken by team members. It worked well, and I remember paying $50 or $100 or similar for a license for an add-on which displayed the live status of each queue in a web page, which we put up on a large screen. It worked well for many years with very minimal maintenance. I experimented with some basic outbound auto-dialing features: take a CSV of phone number and customer ID pairs. Dial each number until one connects, then transfer the call to a member of the team, and pop up the customer ID on their screen, so that they can paste it into our CRM app.

Today I only use it for my personal conference call server. Not using MeetMe, but whatever the newer conference bridge is called.

I like asterisk, and glad to know it now has a REST API.
Not spying on me and not transmitting unknown to me personal information to unknown parties would be a killer feature.

I treat any windows machine as if it has a keylogger and submits all my activity to all major governments (maybe only one today and “all” in a few years when my data gets sold, shared or stolen).

This is a serious issue for me.
Since ZBrush is a widely used 3D program, it may come as a surprise to many that it barely uses the GPU, relying almost exclusively on the CPU to render millions-of-polygon models at interactive speeds. ( https://pixologic.com/zbrush/system/ ) So there are big performance benefits to tuning ZBrush to take advantage of a particular processor's features and avoid its weaknesses.

I'm also curious what the exact issue was, but given the scale of improvement, I wouldn't be surprised if it is some sort of cache contention between threads/processors. A cache miss in the inner loop of an algorithm can be catastrophic, and apparently Ryzen has pretty different cache behavior versus other CPUs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x7oaq/ryzens_memory_l...
In Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, in order to apply for a marriage license you have to go to a government website where you enter your social security number into a form served over HTTP. When I saw that, I refused to use the online service and instead drove downtown, where it said I could apply in person.

I was put in front of a computer with the same form pulled up, served over the public internet.

Thanks to Equifax, it probably doesn't matter anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just so we can have all parties involved here, this morning I had the same issue with a Dell notebook running Ubuntu (and nvidia graphics which are probably to blame). Couldn't get my external monitor to work until I rebooted.
There is non obvious trash, like "paper" coffee cups that are not actually recyclable.
Those earlier launches were as a two-stage sounding rocket. The three-stage variant capable of putting a payload in orbit first launched in 2017; it made orbit on its second flight earlier this year.

SS-520 is a one-off experimental project, not something they intend to put into regular commercial service.
thanks for the detailed points. again - merits to all your points but i think it's worth trying to think objectively about how to change and eliminate the imbalance.

we're not charging job seekers for the "hope" of getting the job. we're charging them to get the information that can begin to remove that imbalance - so they get the same information that insiders have on how to progress and penetrate elite careers.

if you don't think that's worth paying for, then it's the same as saying that paying for a private or Ivy League university is also wrong, because by attending one of those schools you become an insider and those in 4th and 5th tier schools are condemned to forever be outsiders.

If some novel solution doesn't creatively start bridging that gap - then what would you do to fix it?
> This is a "something". it's a concrete, monetizable, and useful application of their AI work... They can make money off this quite directly.

The interviews I've read point to an 80% success rate - hugely impressive, but 20% of interactions requiring human intervention is still a _very_ large, expensive staff hungry contact center to run when you are Google scale, for a product that ultimately doesn't really bring in any direct revenue. Each time Duplex fails in its current form, a human operator has to step in to finish the call.

Even Google are telling us not to expect this to ship in anything anytime soon.

From Ron at Ars' demo:

“We’re actually quite a long way from launch, that’s the key thing to understand,” Fox explained at the meeting. “This is super-early technology, somewhere between technology demo and product.”
I mean with scrap metal or whatever it's one thing, but your weekly trash? Unless the cost is exorbitant people are probably just going to pay to have the bags for their trash. Like I think in Japan they were about $5; I'm not going to start trucking my fish bones to the local stream to save five bucks.
This is a very bad idea, because people will just throw out trash in the environment. It is a thousand times better to have trash thrown in a proper dump rather than on the street, in a back alley or in the wilderness. Most of the plastic trash that is causing problems is improperly dumped trash.
I’ve stopped upgrading when Apple introduced the kernel panic feature in Yosemite...
reinterpret_cast in C++ should be read by the programmer as "UNSAFE CODE HERE!!!" It is prone to aliasing issues and all kinds of other problems.

In C code, any cast at all, of any kind, should be viewed with the utmost suspicion.

That's why unions have been chosen as the correct way to alias pointers. Because it is unlikely that a programmer accidentally used the wrong type or that code changes made a type cast obsolete.
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I remember the exact same “conversion attempts”. In the late 90’s just after getting out of undergrad, I lived in a 55+ seniors community (different story...), and right away I Subscribed to the local cable internet service. Everyone else in the community was on dial-up AOL and I couldn’t understand why. Broadband is so much faster and you get all of the Internet! I even helped a few of them move over to what was then high speed Internet but each and every one of them went back to AOL within a month or so.

You can see the same thing looking at people glued to social media today. Same mentality. I don’t care about Internet, I want [Facebook / Insta / whatever].

It’s scary. If FB was an ISP that offered Facebook-only for $5 a month, I bet a lot of people would ditch their existing internet/data service.
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> so they can enrich themselves

That's the only thing I take issue with here. Characterizing this as intentional misconduct muddies the waters. The line between cutting costs and benefiting from an increased share price is long and winding. Don't blame people; examine systems.

Where most of the money goes is back to keeping costs low for consumers, the same ones that are conscientiously keeping the tap water off.
One downside to disabling optimizations is that it confuses the meaning of "valid C++". If your code is only correct with optimizations X, Y, and Z disabled, is it "valid C++"? Or is it "invalid C++, but valid C++-noX-noY-noZ"? Do the definitions of X, Y, and Z necessarily tie your project to a specific compiler?
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Had the same issue with one of my monitors with my MBP this morning. It's rare, but it does happen from time to time.
So much this. The one at my previous office wanted "clean plastic". What's "clean plastic"? Is an empty soda bottle clean? Is an empty salad container clean? Is cling wrap from a sandwich clean?

I'm an environmentally conscious nerd. If my demographic can't figure out how the system works, what do you expect from the general public?

Of course only the trash bin was full at all times.
I'm interested to know how others feel about browsing through random issues on some open-source project like this out of boredom. As someone who struggles finding the time to commit to entire features in my spare time, knowing there are lurkers who could piece together a PR from commits to abandoned forks or getting intouch with developers on discord (for example) is quite inspiring!
Tangentially relevant: Microsoft .NET was 50% slower on Skylake (some loads) due to changes by Intel to the pause instruction interfering with poor spinlock implementation by Microsoft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17336853
Sleep isn't supposed to lose any application state, but I've certainly had many issues before with applications freaking out after waking up from sleep, on both a Mac and Windows machines. Sometimes it seems like more of an issue with the way the application handles sleep/network interruptions etc, but the end result is still the same.
> I have a version of this argument with my wife every few weeks.

You make some good points here no doubt, but recycling is definitely not worth arguing with your wife over. Be loving and overlook her (perceived) faults.
Like unsignedint mentioned, the altitude requirement were removed a few years ago, and I think the speed limit was relaxed a bit. Even before then, GPS receivers were only required to stop providing positions when the speed and altitude exceeded the limits. Unfortunately many manufacturers implemented this as an "or" check instead of and. Some receivers (I think ublox does this) achieved compliance by only checking one parameter (always work below certain altitude regardless of speed, never supply position when above that altitude)
Is ActivityPub-based federated Git part of that future?

https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub
The far greater long term trend is to require a diminished, corporate-approved life form to show up every day. I suspect most people on this forum are too young to know any different way.
Well, in Japan the trash all has labels telling you what category it is and they're much more fine-grained (you might have to peel off one part and throw it away separately from the rest, for instance).
Didn’t Netcom bundle Netscape (good ol Mozilla Nutscrape) and Trumpet Winsock together in a shrinkwrapped package to get people on Windows 3.x online?
There’s tmux, abduco, & screen for that on Linux.
I think 'else' shouldn't be shunned where appropriate, I usually like a lack of else whenever checking function pre-conditions while as I'll include an else (even with both branches returning) if the two branches represent comparable operations. English can be horribly abused to fit anything, but usually saying it out loud can help "If the user id isn't numeric - we're done. If the user doesn't have access - we're done. If the user wants to view the resource in purple shift, let's format it like so and give it back to them, otherwise we'll use a yellow shift and hand it off."
It's still a negative indicator of reliability. I'm sure the breakage rate for other devices also includes software related issues, and I would expect less windows update issues on a Microsoft device than a third party manufacturer device. The difference in hardware reliability might even be greater than it appears accounting for the possible software compatibility advantage.
Actually GNAT builds on the very infrastructure of one of these C/C++ compilers, since it is part of the GNU Compiler Collection.
mosh doesn't support port forwarding. There is a $400+ bounty for the feature.
I've noticed this problem across all of my DisplayPort based monitors regardless of manufacturer of the display or the driver.
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Winsock is the first thing I learned that felt legit in some way. Made an IP chat app, 1998 or so. That rush led to at least a million dollars being made... it kept me from smoking pot with the losers. Programming in general was the escape, tho indeed a chat app was a claim to minor fame 10 years later! (Nothing against pot, but in high school that’s pretty much the case).
First thing that comes to my mind is will any of these calls violate part of an employment agreement.

Consider a tech company that has unique problems for candidates to solve. A service like this could encourage an employee to get paid to release these problems to the public. In theory you'd hope an NDA stops this type of thing, but in practice a bit of money could incentivize people to do otherwise.
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I just stopped using straws a couple years ago when I got my tonsils out and couldn't use them – never went back.

Just drink like you would from any other cup. You don't need a straw. And honest to god things taste better without a straw. You'll drink less sugary trash and appreciate it more.
You're not wrong, but home diversion isn't entirely pointless. The best tax-funded downstream sorting system is no match for the moldy lasagna covering the scrap paper in your OmniToss Multi-Bin™.
We have been using asterisk snd freepbx on a vm for 6 years now in our office and are very happy. We have about 40 extensions using sip and use call queuing, conference lines and call recording.

I tip my hat to the creators of asterisk but I do not personally want to -vvv. So a tip of the hat to freepbx as well.
No real disagreement.

Some combination of the license (and existence of the LGPL), other things the FSF has written, practice, and history suggest that somewhere between statically linking your program together with GPL programs and shipping your program on a disk alongside unrelated GPL programs, you go from having to comply with the GPL and not having to comply with the GPL (for your own code).

However, much of the space between those two points is a matter of conjecture, legal theory, and opinion.
Massive Security Issue with Bitbucket Pipelines and CircleCI
Yes, Google’s Phone-Calling AI Is Cool. But Why Does It Exist?
I have an older friend I help from time to time. When he or one of his family get a new computer, when something breaks, etc.

His wife is still on AOL to this day. Their ISP is Comcast, they all use the newest windows and she has a few applications installed other than AOL. But 95% of her time on the computer is on AOL. She just can't see doing it any other way after using it for over 20 years.

I learned way more than I ever wanted to about AOL under the hood helping her through a few hardware upgrades.
Exactly- email would be nothing without outlook and gmail, http might have fallen without netscape.

We need products on ActivityPub that beat real products
Ask HN: Unicorn job offer after years of freelancing, need advice
I’m a programmer with ~6 years of experience. After years of freelancing, I’ve found myself with a job offer from a unicorn in SF. It's a prestigious company; few get in. My hunch is that it would be foolish not to pursue, but there are lingering questions that I’d love to talk through.

To list the obvious pros: the pay is great… the team is smart, diverse, friendly… the tech will touch many people… the subject is one I’ve been interested in… and the company will be a badge of honor on my resume. Relocation isn’t a problem.

But, I’ve been immersed in 1-off projects for 3+ years now, mostly centered on web, UX, front-end. It seems this new job will be low-level, CS-heavy, and involve major architectural decisions. I have a CS degree and I'm confident that I can learn on the job, but I’m worried that my relative lack of experience in these areas (plus corporate experience in general) will make me a slow starter. Can systems design be picked up over months? Is it easy to adjust to an office when you've never had a meeting or even asked for help for years? The last thing I’d want is to disappoint my team.

I’m also concerned about the policy wrt personal projects. Nothing you code outside work is cleared for public release. Normally this would be a nonstarter, but the rest of the job is so good that I have to consider it. On a pro level, I fear my skills will stagnate if I can’t build cool stuff for others to enjoy. On a personal level, it feels wrong that the company will own my entire output. There’s a chance I’ll feel chronically depressed over it.

Finally, I’m not sure how to switch my thinking from «free indie dev» to «corporate worker». I’m very interested in the job, but I’ve defined myself as a free spirit over the past few years, working out of cafes and building stuff that tickles my fancy. How do I transition without feeling crappy or losing myself?

Have any of you had to deal with these kinds of questions? Would appreciate advice. Thank you.
> I guess I don't see why I wouldn't talk to my coworkers about things I like and care about? Some coworkers don't like to talk about these things so they aren't in those discussions - that's also great. We also have a code of conduct but it doesn't curtail debate it's just pretty much what you would expect - I imagine very much like google's

I think part of the problem with the forced socialization at a lot of these companies is that it creates cliques that in turn introduce a lot of bias into the workplace. If I'm not interested in whatever you want to discuss but a majority of others are, this can potentially have a negative effect on how I'm perceived and also compensated/promoted while having zero to do with my actual work product. After work socialization involving drinking is another example. If my lifestyle for whatever reason does not accommodate that, I might be seen as not a team player, no fun, etc.
There is only one answer, ban all consumable plastics. Absolutely no reason to use them when alternatives exist in every application of them.
Not the original commenter, but I do everything else in bash, and zero things in PS. Why would I want to remember which shell runs which program best?
That's not even my second objection. My second objection is the rate of Entropy of the computer that would be using to make that computation, the amount of mass of the computer that would be required to use and how long it could continue to make computations before the heat death of computer. Also you would have to consider the fact that as performing multivariate calculus of the expanding universe that is completely gravitationally bound would require that the computer that is performing the calculations that govern the simulation to expand at a rate faster than the simulation that it is computing. Eventually what ever the rate of Entropy is in the Universe of the computer that would be simulating our Universe is would exceed the capability of it to exchange information from one end of the machine to the next as it eventually starts to expand faster than whatever the equivalent of the speed of light would be in the simulating universe.
I didn't get taught derivatives, functions or summation in the UK at GCSE-level (16 year old).

I believe it was covered at A-level (18 year old) but you could only pick three or four subjects for A-Levels at the time, so you had to be selective about the subjects you picked depending on what you "want to be when you grow up", and what you thought you were good at so that you got good enough grades to go to a uni you liked.
The system could be gamed easily. How do I know the jobs are real?
It should be more expensive to pollute. The problem is that clean-up costs are not factored into production.
This is also an important distinction which I forgot to touch on.
I see this a lot across British Columbia Lower Mainland, but rather with old mattresses and soft furniture. It's relatively expensive to recycle those, so people just dump them in bushes and even on random people's front yards.
Wasn't that mostly stategic, as a counter to Microsoft?