skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a reference for that claim? Starbucks seem to claim that this is true for some stores[1], however that same document also implies that some stores _do_ recycle.

[1] https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/environment/recycli...
It's also great for correcting astigmatism. The nearsightedness that I got corrected was reasonably well managed by glasses, but my astigmatism was compensated for by my brain. I got noticeably more well-coordinated after laser eye surgery freed up visual processing ability this way, and I've heard other anecdotal evidence of this phenomena as well.
Dr Dale Bredesen reverses Alzheimer's for at least 5 years and in his view there are 3 different causes of Alzheimer and hence patients need to get one of 3 treatments.

There is nothing mysterious about the treatment of Bredesen: he optimises the functioning of the whole body with optimization of 36 parameters. Varying from sleep, exercise, Magnesium, Zinc, to stress management.
Same, down to the metal shop! In the 10 years we owned an apartment, we didn't get to know any neighbours except that asshole who had a habit blasting music 2am on Saturdays. Life is so much more mellow in a house.
Hot drinks at Starbucks already don't use straws, so I'm not sure if the high heat thing matters.
Author learns a lesson as to why we regulated the hospitality industry.

Turns out rules are kinda necessary.
Gross behavior on the part of AirBNB. I'm half tempted to post a "ban-me" review of AirBNB's HQ to Google and friends.
You may want to try the audiobook version of Gardens of the Moon. I've been listening to it and have quite enjoyed it, but can definitely see how reading the book might be a bit of a slog.
There's a lot of posturing going on, talking about how powerful so many characters are, that it remind me a bit of dragonball z.
In there they say "we have experienced challenges in consistently executing and tracking our for here serveware use in stores", so the new goal is "customer brings the container".
Source Code Released: World's First Pro Free/Open-Source iOS Synthesizer
The Black Mirror third* season social media hellscape episode starring Bryce Howard Dallas seems a more apt reference than the Jon Hamm as sexual deviant episode.

The smallest breaches of protocol snowballed into her becoming a persona non grata all while trying to please a system that doesn't actually care.
5 Reason Why Security Operation Needs More Than a SIEM
This paper [0] seems to contain information you would want to do it yourself with a common medium power CO2 lasercutter.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003039929...
Many of the rules were in fact created out of racial animosity, as a way to deal with the fact that explicit discrimination in housing was made illegal. (You can tell this is true because Euclidian zoning arose long after industrialization. The common law of nuisance handled the "metal smelter next to the elementary school" negative externality situation just fine. What it didn't handle was keeping black people out of white neighborhoods.) That they may now have vitality beyond their initial racist origins is a different assertion.
It's still both.
Well, it was only a joke to begin with. I couldn't stand the complexity or ambiguity of YAML and one night I had a few drinks and banged out my thoughts on something better. When people started writing implementations, I realized that TOML might actually have legs and started tightening it up and removing the snarky bits. I guess these projects felt the same pain I did about config files and presto!

I think the moral of the story is: just put your whacky ideas out there and see what happens. You never know when you'll hit a chord.
I don’t understand the “call to get a quote” sales cycle. I bet memsql has a sales time the size of their engineering team trying to get those fat Enterprise deals but in the grand scheme of things why should I care?

It doesn’t have a free tier, I can’t use it easily and just seems like a lot of hype without any 3rd party to back up their claims. Its the kind of things mongodb used to say to gain mindshare.

Most popular databases like MySQL and Postgres gained its mindshare because they were open source and anyone could verify they did what they said. Only a couple closed source databases have won it big. Behind them were huge monoliths like Microsoft and Oracle with armies of sales teams.

I’m not saying MemSQL will die. They are probably quite profitable. I work for an analytics company with a custom database. It’s just the average joe doesn’t get much from it. The cloud based dbs gets the average joe very far.
Her son, Michael Nesmith, was in the Monkees.
I'm very curious how this story develops. Usually, a tech company ending on the front page of HN for messing up is shamed into fixing the mistake, often quietly and without providing any explanation to the victim.
I have no particular opinion about the facts of the specific case in question. But there is something weird about the way customer service is set up these days:

1) Company: Doesn't like dealing with problem users/clients.

2) Company institutes policy saying that they can do whatever they want with no explanation. This makes it more efficient to handle the problem users.

3) Sanctioned users are now more frustrated than before because they aren't even given any explanation of what happened.

4) Users who are tech savvy take to social media or use personal networks to get special dispensations (see: every time someone posts on HN about a problem with their Google account and gets special intervention).

5) Company: Is happy because there is still an informal workaround for dealing with sufficiently motivated users or weird cases.

6) Users: Are left more powerless and potentially frustrated than when they had more sane tech support channels, but the company doesn't have to care about this.

This seems really suboptimal and the OP's comments on power imbalances seem on target. [edit: formatting, wording.]
Comma.ai's driver assist system is a robot chauffeur for the rest of us
Visual Studio Code's performance is impressive versus Atom. However, there's always room for improvement and I really hope with the Github acquisition that this next generation Atom project is incorporated: https://github.com/atom/xray
> There are no options that are suitable for disabled people.

Here's an article from a disabled person, who breaks down the (as they say, mostly-online debate) of disabled people and reusable straws. They then test a variety of options:

https://themighty.com/2018/05/review-reusable-drinking-straw...

I really am not understanding the problem. If the goal is to reduce single-use plastic and waste, allowing disabled people to use whatever the hell the want/need to do normal everyday tasks isn't incompatible.

Just allow restaurants to have some straws for people who ask for them, and clearly have a right to use them (pass/amend a law if you have to).

Done.
I disagree with you on "Measure What Matters" book. I was really looking forward to reading John Doerr's book, and I stuck along with it longer than usual, but had to ultimately abandon it before hitting the 100-page mark. It seems that just reading GV's blog post[1] on OKR's will teach you as much as reading the whole book.

In addition, the book is one content chapter, followed by a few success stories chapters written by founders themselves. These chapters are written in a very uninspired tone (almost as if they wanted to write something and get it done for JD, not because they wanted to share their story) and barely inspire you or bring in any new insights over the meatier content chapters.

This is not a criticism of the OKR system — arguably it's one of the best goal setting systems out there. But does it need a whole book to understand? I think not. It just seems to be a vastly missed opportunity to me. John Doerr is pretty much a legend in the valley, and maybe my expectations were sky high hoping for a book on the same level as High Output Management or Hard Things About Hard Things.

[1]: https://library.gv.com/how-google-sets-goals-okrs-a1f69b0b72...
>Yet that appears to not be the case either - as buildings get taller and more dense, costs seem to increase outside the direct supply/demand system [3] and those units which are built are typically more expensive then low density options.

This is a correlation/causation error. Prices rise beyond marginal cost of constructing an additional unit in the presence of supply restrictions and increasing demand. Those conditions are often true in areas with high rise buildings (and the second is rarely true in areas without).

Separately, the marginal cost of construction is higher for a unit in a high rise than a unit in a single-story building.
Same reason someone would be willing to rent a pod with barely enough room for a sleeping bag and shared access to a toilet across the street: price

That aside banning people for external reviews is nonsense. What’s next, banning someone for speaking (literally talking) about their negative experience?
To be completely clear - I want these decisions to be made at the local level. If a local government choose to implement a plan like the one discussed, so be it, that is a local choice and voters can vote accordingly or move somewhere agreeable.
I'm teaching an intro distributed systems class and would like to share this with my students. I was wondering about how general the linked interview prepwork is. Are the Anki cards and sample interview questions mostly from large companies (FB, Google, MS) or also applicable to interviewing at smaller places?

At first look, seems like these are fairly general questions, which is great.
Therapy experience is associated with negative changes in personality (2017)
> If we want affordable housing...

There is no “we”. Non home owners want affordable housing. Home owners want appreciation and have the power to make brown lawn regulations a reality.
Eh, they kinda do. My local Starbucks only has a handful of “for here” mugs for hot drinks, and nothing for iced drinks. The mugs are mainly for show as you must know to ask for one. Plus you know they don’t want to create glasses to clean.

To add: I used to bring my own reusable cup, but more times than not, they’d make my drink in a disposable plastic cup, then pour it into my mug, and immediately toss the disposable cup. Now I mainly make my coffee at home using a moka pot. Saves money and plastic. I still buy Starbucks when I travel, and just feel bad about the wasted plastic.
Look at how roman politics evolved.

The use of violence to kill one political opponent spiraled into private militaries taking over the city.

I think you either misunderstood slippery slope or my point.
If a majority of the populace supports your position, you'll have a much easier (though by no means easy) time doing the above.

If a majority doesn't, then it's a feature of democracy rather than a bug that you probably won't be able to do it.

But lets assume you've identified a real winner of a platform. You don't have to start from zero to make it happen — there will be existing candidates and organizations looking to achieve the same goals as you, and you should just join those campaigns.

For example, many American cities have YIMBY clubs. Join yours and they'll have lots of great input on how you can put your finite volunteer time to effective political use.
AWS Kinesis with Lambdas: Lessons Learned
Not mentioned: In America, owning a home is considered the most important investment you can make.

Who would've thought that mindset would lead to unaffordable housing!

Or parents telling their children that they won't be able to live near their parents because... well... investment! Like this guy: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/999364778907914245
I have a single dependency on Google for my business and I would never take on another one voluntarily. All the horror stories you've heard about Google support have been true for the 10+ years I've been dealing with the Google Maps team. Every year they find some new way to screw up their customer support.

And that's before you even get to your legitimate concern about Google's long-term commitment to any of their offerings.
RE: the stairs, sitting on stairs anywhere is sort of bad manners in Japan (considered to be rude), but in most places it would be excused, especially for a visitor who doesn't know better; temples are a different story though. Same thing for sitting directly on the ground IIRC?

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Amys-Guide-Best-Behavior-Japan/dp/161...
At some point they will be regulated like utilities. Which they might as well be in the future.

In the meantime imagine your electricity provider cutting your power because you gave a bad Yelp review to one of the people individually producing solar power and distributing it through the provider's grid. Or some other similar scenario.
Take up drinking
To me it seems like a lot of people are more interested in absolving themselves from guilt than actually coming up with legitimate solutions to plastic waste. Like the article says, straw waste is negligible, it's even fairly obvious that straw waste is negligible, but banning straws will give faux-environmentalists an "easy win" in their minds. There's a dozen better ideas (all listed here on HN recently), ranging from taxing corporate plastic generation, to better recycling filters, to charging extra for plastic products (like some states do with plastic bags). It's unfortunate that this non-solution has gained traction, but "Ban Straws!" acheives a simple-minded satisfaction versus "0.5% tax penalty for large scale corporations exceeding x tonnes of consumption grade plastic!"
Used to be called "INI file" in the past...

In any case I'm glad to see it in several open source projects (Mailtrain for example). It's so much easier to read for humans than JSON.
No, not unless you replicated the VMs accross different data centers manually. Which actually isn't that difficult using docker.
Okay, I thought he meant a product that scraped Google sites.
> Couldn't you argue that instinct doesn't "intend" anything - it's just adaptive, because evolution selected for it?

You can argue that if you want. I'll argue the opposite: If a dog growls at me when I reach for his steak - but doesn't bite - I take that as him intending to inform me that he doesn't want me to take his steak.

It may be instinct, it may be adaptive, but it sure as hell was intended to get a message across to me.

Communication is about sending and receiving messages. A car tire cannot send or receive - it cannot communicate.
Do hotels have a regulation that says they're not allowed to ban customers?

Or are you just taking the opportunity to get on your soapbox to complain about AirBnB?
This problem is solvable, but not by a single person acting alone - we have to build a movement, and being the actual candidate in office is far from the only role. Getting sympathetic candidates elected is one of the later steps in a long process. Before that, we need lots of people working on movement building, small fights, activism, research, organizing... there's so much to be done!

I'm part of a group working on this problem in NYC. If you (or anyone else reading this) are in New York and potentially interested in helping, shoot me an email! (my HN username at gmail dot com)
> It's an anti-intellectual stance.

It's not - it's a realization that life is short and much research is just writing.
It's well noted in the article that rolling out new software or introducing changes to existing software systems requires to prepare organization and its employees to this change. It happens that business owners do not have a clear vision of how new software will be integrated in their existing business processes and believe that it should simply start working as expected right after installation or upgrade. But this rarely happens so, besides employees often don't like changes and use new software reluctantly.

I read a nice article (https://anadea.info/blog/erp-and-business-management-softwar...) where a former roll-out engineer shares his thoughts on how to better organize the development and integration of new business software. He emphasizes the necessity to keep employees aware of the reasons why new software is being introduced, involve them in discussing required software features and using their feedback to better adjust software to their needs.

Gathering employees' feedback, analyzing it and turning it into instructions for developers requires quite a lot of efforts and specific qualification. That's why an organization should assign (or hire) a dedicated specialist to perform these tasks. This person should be responsible for success of the project and should have enough power to ensure seamless integration of the product.
I didn't even think of music stuff. I use Logic Pro at the moment as my primary mixer for the video stuff I do (mostly because the remoting capabilities are nicer--Logic Remote is a lot nicer than Lemur or other OSC stuff) and...well, now I'm a little queasy.
I'd imagine that version of the story would have some statistics about how much of the recyclable plastic in current lids gets recycled and what the ratios of drink order sizes are for drinks that are getting the new lids. Then it would do the math and show the actual difference we should expect to see in how much non-recycled plastic Starbucks will generate.
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Do you enjoy your job? Could you find another one that would be more fulfilling/less stressful?
They do use paper cups in hot drinks; only cold drinks use plastic - although both use plastic tops, and cold drinks use straws. I'm sure there's some sort of coating on the paper cup.

I'm not sure why cold coffee served in plastic... but it may be a flipped problem - you probably don't want to serve hot coffee in plastic, as the chemicals will leach out of the plastic itself (yum)
Pay attention – how the brain performs a background scan to help focus
I recall Google Cloud engineers trying to assuage concerns over their longevity “we’d give you s years notice before we’d shut down”.

Other commenters asked if they still had jobs after saying that.
They are not recyclable in my area (served by Waste Management).
How is "we are not obligated to provide an explanation" a valid reason? Of course they need to state why you were banned? Dystopian nonsense. Stop using AirBnB.
I would think owning your place of residence would be a pretty good long term investment most anyplace. It's practically a fundamental rule of the market; more expensive to rent than own long term.
Have you tried to take a break? A 2-3 week break. By pausing your life you’ll free up more space in your brain to think about what is next for you. Quitting could be the solution, but there is a chance that it might aggravate things. Surround yourself with family and close friends too. Communicate with them, talking about your problems with people who really care about you will help.

As a first step though - Go back to your therapist ASAP and tell him/her the meds don’t do anything.
> commits need to have changes

Ah, yes, I remember wanting to be able commit the identity transformation (_i.e._ no change) at some point. I don't remember why. It might have been a matter of principle.

PS: I just learned about the `--allow-empty` flag. [0] I'm happy again.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#git-commit---allow-empty
A ledger of hashes doesn't prevent someone from publishing a new version of a package with the stolen credentials.

What you advocate in this thread is setting aside defense in depth. Could the attacker have used the stolen credentials to pivot to other machines and ultimately gain access to the GPG keys? Maybe, but it's a hurdle, and not a small one. The more hurdles we can place in the way, the less likely it is that small mistakes cascade into total system failure.

There may be legitimate reasons to not to use package signing, but this is definitely not one of them.
This really greately depends on the kind of work one does. Many people working on websites prefer developer, while people working on mobile or desktop apps prefer engineer. As someone that writes mobile apps for a living I greatly prefer engineer. I don't simply develop an app I engineer it. I do greatly think that the term developer also is looked down on in the industry by many. We do a lot more then just "develop" an app. We engineer how everything goes together, the tools to build it, the tools we use to write code. Also the title engineering usually comes with time for many. You start off as a developer, your job is mainly to write code based on another engineers design. Eventually you get good enough to do the engineering bit yourself.
Airbnb isn't on your side as a guest. That's the reality. I had a situation where the owner was lying in his listing and the person maintaining the house told me Airbnb had warned him, but hadn't followed up to make sure he was in compliance. Imagine driving 2,000 miles only to learn that Airbnb knew about many serious issues plaguing a listing.
Hey man thanks for the response.

I'm sorry you feel that way about our product. To us it falls in the category of productivity and management tools in general. As a crude example, you ever have a boss that proxies engagement by time logged on slack, github commits, etc? Those seem like crappy examples, and at previous firms I saw it encourage the wrong behavior. We figure at least in the physical work world there ought to be much better ways to track output.

The main use case is definitely more machine oriented. We've had some good trials for simple human labor and human-machine collaboration. One user said they wanted to try and use our system to interview job applicants. So there's definitely a positive side for people too, which is rewarding high performers and helping find the right people for the job.
You took the words right out of my mouth:

>>To summarize, it seems like they made some mistakes, microed their services in a knee-jerk attempt to alleviate the symptoms of the mistakes, realized microservices didn't fix their mistakes, finally addressed the mistakes, then wrote a blog post about microservices.

I read the article a few days ago and was struck by what a poor idea it was to take a hundred or so functions that do about the same thing and to break them up into a hundred or so compilation and deployment units.

If that's not a micro-service anti-pattern, I don't know what is!
Does the equivalent Intel platform suffer to the same degree of performance degradation when not using all 4 memory channels?
Blockbuster had a DVD by mail subscription service similar to Netflix also, probably to compete with Netflix. I used it on my first deployment in the Middle East because at that time Netflix wouldn't ship to an APO AE address.
That has to be the straw on the camel's back.
I'm sure this isn't the only person affected by this "mistake."
Maybe you would have to post a sign on the door saying "by entering this location you are hereby consenting to Amazoogapple recording you; If you disagree, please leave".
The question is: are you getting the down-votes for wanting emoji, or for the suggestion that you might want to move away from Slack?
It would be great to have improved zoning, but switching to Japanese-style zoning in the US doesn’t solve the problem of US housing being an investment vehicle for Global Capital.

In Japan, land itself keeps its (high) value, but still mostly grows/tracks with inflation. Houses themselves are seen as disposable with an approximately 30 year shelf-life.
Almost everything has a schema. Whether you explicitly write it down or have it in someone’s head.

If you really want schemaless then use JSON type in a relational DB.

Also with huge memory and risk machines, one could go multi terabytes with a 3 machine cluster on a relational database.