skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw that on the Malaysian peninsula. Chinese fishing villages that still speak an old dialect of Cantonese. It's worse in what looks to be the dry season and low tide like you have there.

The other issue is that it's not important to them to clean it up - as it was explained to me. I talked to a local while there and she explained that growing up she never saw it, but years away and she doesn't like it now but knows no one is interesting in picking it up. Partly because they don't seem to care in her opinion partly because they don't have trash service there anyhow, a lot of the trash is put there by the people that live right above it. So it seems like double work to them. Why spent weeks cleaning it up when they're dumping their daily trash there and have been for a hundred years - before plastic it wasn't really a problem of course.

There is another issue that many of these little above water fishing villages do have running water - but no sewage. I've seen toilets and sinks that look right down into the water. You DO NOT want to go down there.

I think an important thing to note was of the trash I saw, none of it had American or Chinese labels, instead was bahas-malay writing, or local brands. So it's a little hard to say "oh how awful! I need to do something" when unfortunately, they're doing a lot of it it to themselves directly or their countrymen.

It is sad thought, totally agree. And Borneo was awesome, but don't tell anyone!
Correct - for instance, we could have diverted all the resources we used to ban straws into educational anti-waste programs in the biggest offender countries.
What I do is first automate setting up an instance from scratch, then launch a variety of instance types and benchmark their performance at the task I want them to perform.
I personally don't like the term debt. It's a simple analogy but it doesn't go very far.

The biggest issue by far around tech debt, which has been covered thoroughly throughout this thread, is that measuring it is tricky.

Measuring financial debt is trivial, you can put a dollar amount on it.
Measuring tech debt is very subjective, as it depends on the level of seniority of your team, their ability/authorization to make changes (in banking, you can change nothing, in a startup, you can change everything), attrition rate, etc...

It's such a complicated equation, that using the term debt tricks upper management (non technical) to think it's easy to predict: it really isn't at all.
So is "the NSA can tap into almost any conversation or electronic communication they want in real time" and "the President(*) colluded with Russia to steal the election", but here we are.
This time is over. Windows comes literally with Ubuntu nowadays via Bash for Windows.
I'm also a fan of LVT, and have only ever found one reasonable rebuttal (at least from the perspective of municipal financing in Canada): https://seekingalpha.com/article/4176102-principles-canadian...
Maybe you should ask Domino's to help with those potholes.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/06/dominos-pizza...
Can AI assistants help prevent domestic violence?
The people funding Mexican drug cartels are the ones who should be ashamed.
That's how I interpreted "uptime really matters". Those systems are definitely built to last.

But even going some orders of magnitude lower about, 85% of x86 servers achieve at least 99.95% availability according to statistics [1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/515441/worldwide-survey-...
Fair enough, but none of those are about items actually in the landfill. It's about the process of getting there. And even with recycling, a large percentage is sent to China, India, and other nations where its custody is uncertain.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood. Whether it's CO2, plastics, CFCs, etc, our individual contributions might be tiny in the grand scheme of things, but together make a difference. The best thing we can do is change the culture of single-use disposables and export that to other nations.
I don't know if the parent comment was complaining of inconvenience.

Straws are a trivial step forward, and I don't think we shouldn't feel better because of it and think we've done something meaningful.

Straw bans are a particularly easy topic to make fun of, because of some internet analysis that Starbucks' solution uses more plastic than using straws.
This statistic shows that as NA or EU residents, what we do basically does not matter. The plastic waste of Asia will only grow.

What we can do is focus on the cleanliness of our local communities as that is the only place where we can have an effect.

But on the global scale, unless if we manage to strongarm Asia into behaving, it's borderline meaningless.
"Heroku automatically manages TLS certificates for apps with Hobby and Professional dynos". It doesn't support free dynos.
Officially, many countries and businesses agree that Taiwan isn't a country, while continuing in practice to do everything that only makes sense if Taiwan is in fact a country. This is an old game that fools no one. I wouldn't fuss about the name, we all know what's really going on, and the name game probably saves millions of lives. You might find this video clip interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AivEQmfPpk&t=2m53s
I’m talking about not-north America. Where non-payment for something can lead to follow-up phone calls before it reaches the debt collection stage.

Sure iTunes gift cards sound strange to you, but the idea of asking for a cheque is unbelievable for a lot of the modern and developing world.

But in North America, I have gotten calls regarding payments from smaller vendors. My ISP likes money, so they’ve called me when my credit card expired. As has my dentist when a claim only went through 90%.
Slight tangent, but I personally don't like the term debt.

It's an attractive analogy but it doesn't go very far; worse, it leads people to think of it as easy to reason about.

The biggest issue by far around tech debt, which has been covered thoroughly throughout this thread, is that measuring it is tricky.

Measuring financial debt is trivial, you can put a dollar amount on it. Measuring tech debt is very subjective, as it depends on the level of seniority of your team, their ability/authorization to make changes (in banking, you can change nothing, in a startup, you can change everything), attrition rate, etc...

It's such a complicated equation, that using the term debt tricks upper management (non technical) to think it's easy to predict: it really isn't at all.
This is a hotly debated issue on the Sigma forum I linked to.

The "Merrill" sensors (named in honor of Dick Merrill, an engineer and photographer that did a lot of work on that generation of sensor) are 1:1:1 as you mention - each of the photosites pick up all 3 colors.

The "quattro" sensors have the top, blue-sensitive, layer at the full resolution, with this layer also capturing the luminance of the image (which makes for stunning black and white, even at ISO 3200). The lower 2 layers are at a lower resolution than the blue layer.

I did get very high quality 13x19 inch prints from the quattro ; but have never owned a camera that used the previous Merrill sensor, so I can't give a direct comparison from my own experience.
This photo is surreal. I can't believe a trash filled planet is becoming a reality and we are doing little to nothing to stop it.
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Government sponsored R&D can yield great results. The US sponsored an actual 'moonshot' last century, with well known results. That spawned a lot of industrial activity.

What China is doing here is both smart and strategic and they have been doing it for decades. Their solar activities can be traced back to the 1980s. They are creating new export industries and stimulating economic growth by investing in disruptive things where they believe they can succeed. Meanwhile the US is pretending coal is fine, and the EU is pretending Diesel is fine or that shifting from either to the euphemistically called natural gas is an actual solution. Change is slow there because politicians are not acting to provide the necessary incentive for industries to do what is needed. As a consequence, there are several major industrial players at risk of disappearing or being marginalized. This will hurt, a lot. Politicians are afraid to do what is necessary. This creates the opportunity for China to take over; they spotted that years ago; and they are now succeeding.
Monero's obfuscation doesn't really work as well as the developer thought it did.
Why is Google advertising its own product through official golang blog? It looks very amateurish.
That explains some but not the nile or ganges, mekong, etc. China is “good” about dumping compared to others outside NE Asia.
If you go to [1] you get a random picture from the list. The RNG overlords gave me Pont de Quebec at Night.

My first focus point was the light on the right bottom side.

My second focus point was the details of the bridge where it blends with the sky.

My third focus point was the sun.

My fourth focus point was the rest of the framework I missed in ref point two.

Medium vs medium BPG is slightly bigger. We're talking about < 1 kB here. Small vs small JPG is slightly bigger. We're once again talking about < 1 kB here. Such differences are irrelevant over 2G even, so I'm cool with them.

The quality however, on these 3 focus points, is night and day. As soon as you get JPG to small or tiny, you see block artifacts. BPG not. From this sample, I'd say that JPG medium =~ BPG small and JPG small =~ BPG tiny. So, based on that example, BPG delivers a better quality or a better compression depending on your viewpoint/interests.

Also, browser support is just a temporary bloat issue. But yeah, we'll see which standard takes over from JPEG... there are so many, right? Plus, hardware will have to start supporting that standard as well. Look at how difficult microUSB and 3.5 mm are to replace.

[1] https://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/

[2] https://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#pont-de-queb...
G Suite now lets businesses choose whether their data is stored in US or Europe
YouTube's plan is going to backfire once church groups start campaigning for representation of the truth on videos discussing abortion or evolution or other religions.
Yes. I'm saying in my experience everything but 80/443 are blocked. Completely. 80/443 get redirected.

Edited parent for clarity.
I have had the Canadian IRS call me because I didn’t respond to their letters that went to an old address.
I see we've entered "if you have nothing to hide" territory. I've sworn off travels to that terrible place.
there has to be a perception among the consumers that they are purchasing valuable content. the DRM makes this perception real. No DRM means no profit
I’ve read so many stories about these plans and they all have the same flaw... nothing stops an ex-Navy SEAL from taking all of this stuff from them when money is worth nothing (as it will be in an apocalypse)
The title makes you believe that this garbage comes from somewhere else, across the ocean, but it's actually coming from their own river into which everybody is dumping waste.
> establishments will still have straws on-hand for those folks

Not everywhere, they won't. Santa Barbara just passed a straw ban without any exceptions for disabled people who actually need plastic straws. In other places, it's still legal for restaurants to keep straws around for those who need them, but the restaurants don't all know that.

From what I can tell, reading what straw-using disabled people have to say about this, it's as frustrating for them as if there were suddenly a ban on toilet paper in public restrooms. They absolutely need this disposable item, and they have never needed to carry their own before, or ask about it in advance. Now all of a sudden they're stuck having to be super-prepared at all times they're out in public, or they risk not being able to meet a basic bodily need.
Eleven babies die after Dutch women given Viagra in drug trial
MTA runs as a net loss. It isn't a piggybank if it is dependent on subsidies from somewhere outside fares and ads to pay the bills.
I don't think he ever said that it's worse than nothing.
You are naive, and spreading dangerous infromation. I had a friend whose house got swatted a couple of years ago after another friend sent him money via paypal with the desc "thanks for the guns and drugs". The other friend, Canadian, also had law enforcement show up on behalf of interpol.
> When I think of "investing", I think of taking my own money and putting it somewhere, not taking other people's money.

I think you make good points, but I disagree here: Almost all investing involves pooling money with others, including all banking, most business, and almost all financial instruments. When you buy your own house, unless you pay cash you borrow from the bank, which involves money from the bank's other customers being invested in your house.
any news of EU datacenters? Thx
The margin that a reseller/distributor/retailer has on a product goes mostly to sales and marketing of those products in one form or another (ads, placement in a store, training of staff on the product, etc). If an OEM lets that margin get squeezed by low cost resellers (like a crappy ecommerce only company), their other resellers will also get their margins squeezed and therefore can't spend much to sell that product.

One common response to this is to charge different wholesale prices to different channels, but this can also be difficult to control or subject to price-fixing regulations.

Keeping the margins high for resellers = spending more on sales and marketing for your product.

I don't think non-commodity products in competitive markets should be subject to price-fixing rules in terms of setting the market price, but that's how it is in many jurisdictions today.
To protect their customers (the distributors/retailers), who have different cost structures (e.g., BestBuy, with physical real estate and employees, has higher margin requirements than a no-name website dropshipper). A physical retailer will get annoyed with a manufacturer, and will not want to carry their products, if their products are easily available via other sales channel for much less. And many manufacturers will want to utilize multiple sales channels to maximize overall sales.
> I could throw something on my roof or out my window that could somehow be part of a global network to watch things and making findings as a community.

In addition to the other items people have mentioned, the Center for Backyard Astrophysics is a network of small observatories (most operated by serious amateurs) that assembles light curves (brightness as a function of time) for various types of stars and stellar binaries. It's not a fully automated system, but presumably you could set up a robotically operated telescope to assist with their programs.

https://cbastro.org/
There are lots of reasons that TD happens but regardless of what they are, the easiest way to deal with it is to be open with each other. If the COO made a bad call on something, tell the technical team and work out the best way forwards. Same if a Contractor wasn't as good as you thought or a new framework promised lots but wasn't actually good at some of the detail.

When you can be honest about mistakes, tech people are generally more pragmatic than non-techies might assume.

In the other direction, I clearly communicate the "cost" of short deadlines or the need to finish something that is in a bad state so that the decision can be made with eyes open. If a quick fix now leaves us in a poor state to add new features then the CEO or whoever can accept that so that when they ask for something new, "sorry, system is too brittle".

In reality, there are many reasons things get rewritten so I also try and assure my devs that we don't live with these things forever, eventualy we remove the problems and create a load of new ones! I've rewritten our basic system 3 times in 5 years and only one of those was mainly down to tech debt (although we took the opportunity to update to latest tech etc.)
How so? Go Cloud works with AWS and soon others. That seems pretty mature to me.
tldr: China
Can't you just set PYTHON_PATH="where yoy put python" ?

> all Python packages

That's a weakness in the language. You trade such a simple syntax for dependency hell. Oh, you wanted XML-derp-3.5.2.9.6? Well that requires XML-slurp-2.6.5.9.77 and you only have '75, sorry bud, can't possibly work. Oh but if you upgrade XML-slurp that breaks pycairo-2.7.55-1 and all your GUI code will stop working. Fun stuff.
It's $20/month, not year.
Companies not playing by the rules are fined, shocker.

Guess we will have the same outrage when(if) GDPR hits, despite said tech companies are fully aware they are blatantly non compliant.
Oh you want 5.1.4 Atmos? That starts at $859... select your brand later.
It's intriguing to see rich people feeling just as out of control as the rest of the planet's population. I wonder what that really says about the current state of society? It seems like wealth inequality really benefits no one at all.
Wow - MacKiDo is as much of a blast from the past for me as these codenames are!
Hey man, way better than the 3D scam!
Tracking (or setting, or grouping) essentially means that the higher level groups are freed from the more distracting characters in the lower groups. Great for them, but terrible for you if you end up in one of those lowers sets and end up with a loud, boisterous and violent class for a year.

Teachers are busy and overworked. I'm sure they try their best to put kids in the correct group for each subject, but you could easily end up in the 'wrong' one with no malice on the teachers part.

My mother was a school teacher and when she found out that I wasn't in the higher group for English she fought tooth and nail to get me up there. She knew exactly what could happen in those lower groups.
If you're loosing $20 worth of coins out of your pocket somewhere on the street on a yearly basis you're either dealing with a hell of a lot more coins than the average person or you're one clumsy individual.
HBO totally nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cEaBIDAY4
Good points. However, I think that there is large omission form that economic model:

Non-tax money is not all invested. In fact, Americans have a low savings rate and tend to spend most of their money on consumption.

That's their choice, of course, and doesn't by itself justify government investment. It does create more demand and need for government investment.
My point is that people in the other 49 states are harmed by CA's action and have no representation to fix it due to CA's veto power over diesels.

If a 320d is MORE efficient than a Prius, even though it doesn't have batteries, wouldn't you want it to be sold in the USA?

EDIT to add: it seems that the latest gen of the 320d is sold in the USA, as the 328d. The previous generation was not, which is what my comments were based on.
The NYC commuter tax was repealed in 1999. You still have to pay NY state tax obviously.
> Why don't we just pay the federal government the entirety of our tax obligation and have them partition it out to the states?

That would give far too much power to a federal government that already far exceeds its constitutional mandate. I suggest the inverse: The federal government should get its funding only from the states. Each state can decide how much to contribute and how to raise the money. That would decentralize power significantly.
Not convinced Linux is a viable option. For the average consumer it needs to come installed by the manufacturer and a quick look at dell.ie shows the cheapest Ubuntu laptop @ €1168 ($1365)
Originally posted at MacRumors by winterny https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/optimal-cpu-tuning-sett...
"I don't know why anyone would want to appear to leave."

Because they still want to live there, they just don't want to pay for it.
What I wrote about CHKDSK at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592182 still applies. (-:
I can't understand this opinion. So what if it only negativity affects a few users? How do you feel about ML that produces problematic results for a portion of users? Security is correctness.
People are able to send SWAT teams to houses as a prank. Someone malicious who is stalking another person could use this information to justify their "prank".

What about do-gooders? Someone sees a transaction marked "for drugs" and they call the police because they think they are helping. This already happens to a lot of people holding cookouts, selling lemonade, cutting grass, and more.

Hardly "nobody".
With all costs that goes into building a business (directly in $ or indirectly in hours) is it worth going down the path of saving money to this degree?

Setup heroku in <1 hour for <$100/month, forget about hosting and go build your product.

If $100/month breaks you, I think you’re in the wrong path anyways.
It may be "genius" for the state revenue service, but it is "backwards" in that it fucks over state residents.
Silly you. The rich don't go to jail, you should know by now.
Russia's cyber military is James Bond level cool. There are speculations (nobody can prove it) that they set up their own TOR using onion-like proxies, with a custom crypto protocol, over Shodan-discovered endpoints, through a clever use of tunneling through UPNP systems on the internet, with incredible OPSEC - even burning the whole infrastructure several years after it was discovered.

Some day we'll get uncensored versions of these Ops disclosed by the various governments that run them and get to read about the research facilities and intense personalities that run them.
Oh, you are right. HP products can be bought in stores though but indeed I can't think of any brick and mortars computer shops like Apple.
I agree, I see I was wrong since store vs manufacturer is quite a different relationship than manufacturer vs manufacturer. I haven't thought that well so please ignore those confusing bits.

> Further, Store A is notorious for low wages, and the health costs its workers incur in the physical nature of the job are socialized losses borne by the broader state. Store B may be "inefficient", but it pays its workers a better wage, spends in its local economy etc.

This is a larger issue that IMHO should be solved independently, and I think the EU is doing quite well there compared to other parts of the world (I'm from Spain working in Japan now and I've heard way too many horror stories around here).

> How do you achieve that by allowing the better funded player to sell at a cost that Store B can't match?

Even if Amazon is better funded, they still need to make money per-sale (with few exceptions) so the prices won't be disproportionately different. And you can achieve that with differentiation in many ways, from the sales channels to the support, localization, etc. And that is the whole point, if Amazon innovates and everyone else is protected so they can stay behind then there would be no progress at all. They should be allowed to offer better prices if their processes allow for it and not be forced to sell more expensive because another company is very wasteful.
I find it a bit strange that these issues arouse such strong feelings of patriotism in some posters - to take the example of Apple, weren't they keeping billions of dollars offshore to avoid US taxes, and isn't that a thoroughly unpatriotic act? You could argue US consumers also benefit from many of these rulings.

Also if I were to indulge in a little whataboutism I would point out that many accuse the US of far worse in exploiting vulnerable debtor countries through the World Bank and IMF; the idea of the poor, defencelessness US megacorp at the mercy of the villanous EU is risible.