skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>most packaging is very cheap

...in part because the manufacturer doesn't pay the cost of plastic pollution, or leached persistent organotoxins, or microplastics.

Is the solution as simple as a tax on all plastics (funding ocean/land cleanup of existing pollution), plus a universal per-item deposit to ensure that future plastics get separated correctly and returned?
Private Equity Liability Under European Law
Is that website related to https://notabug.org in any way?
Presumably if these kind of multi-day offline issues become the norm, we actually will see these investments being made?
It definitely is. I didn't mean to sound dismissive of his work, but I can see how it does. My intent was rather to inform those who haven't realized, OP seemingly included, that the shell can be very efficient to work with. I can't see myself using this tool and being more productive than I already am with the shell, but I can still appreciate the effort and generosity in making it available to the world.
>any stranger who tries to talk to us

But again, that isn't the case. If you talk to someone in line at the bakery, most will be very friendly. If you look at someone and make a b-line towards them while they are walking down the street, you will weird them out, no matter the country, culture, whatever.
Phil Haack has a nice set of aliases that I've grown reliant on: https://haacked.com/archive/2014/07/28/github-flow-aliases/
Just to put those WER numbers into context: the LF-MMI Kaldi paper from 2016 had 4.28%, this readme mentions 7.1%.

Still, looks cool!
Some Reflections on Musical and Legal Interpretation
To add on, I also have to do the 2 dress types but for the winter because I get extremely uncomfortable in jeans in the office and so I'll wear those to work once it gets unbearable to wear shorts, and then I just switch to shorts once I get to the office.

So, pick your poison and while it may be just that the grass is always greener on the other side, I would definitely prefer to run on the colder side than the hotter side especially since I prefer to wear jeans and a sweatshirt/jacket over shorts and a t-shirt.

Edit: My girlfriend said she would rather be like me and be too hot than be too cold so maybe it is just the grass is always greener on the other side.
Probably right. But my guess is that the actual ability of current satellite photography is highly classified.
Earlier today I wrote some documentation on setting up WireGuard on macOS, it may be useful: https://www.timdoug.com/log/2018/08/04/#wireguard_macos

Happy to answer questions if anything's unclear.
I think they can do a lot better

Without electricity?

78 is tolerable with a breeze (and moderate humidity).

I live in the Seattle area without AC and it's fine. Open the windows at night with a window fan to bring in cool air (I don't have a breeze-inducing courtyard), close the windows and the blinds in the daytime to keep out the sun.

Even in 90 degree weather outside, the bedrooms on the third floor stay under 75 degrees and by bedtime it's typically cooler than that so the fan keeps it cool.
Thanks for the response. I didn't want to come off as a curmudgeon, but there is far too much content on the internet to just read longer form articles without any context at all(beyond being posted on hn). I'll give it a shot.
Details wrt the first paragraph, please.
Exactly, even if you have closed loop geothermal heat pumps (which more efficiently exchanges heat from the thermal mass of the ground and the refrigerant pumped through a heat exchanger) you are still limited in the amount of heat the refrigerant can exhaust into the ground before you've heated up the ground where it's not possible. And vice-versa in winter where you can freeze t he ground solid by doing the opposite. Still a good idea, but has scale issues especially for high-density areas.
That's 48.3°C for those who prefer the metric system. Weather reporting is one of the cases still quite stuck with imperial one.
>our brain doesn't have an internal understanding of 4d objects
I agree and I think it will never have. We can certainly speculate but ultimately it'd be like an animal with monochromatic vision trying to see colours.
At great additional cost.
Title needs a (2016).
Temporary workaround: Everyone should perform manual download of their data once each 6 month or so. https://www.wikihow.tech/Back-Up-Your-Gmail-Account
I'm not disagreeing with you but you might be interested to know that there's a distributed WiFi password cracking project. You can upload packet captures and other people will extract the handshake(s) and volunteer GPUs to crack them. The passwords aren't made available but you can see if someone managed to crack the password.

https://wpa-sec.stanev.org/
> They are almost equivalent choices in terms of return of investment.

Someone who asks whether they should learn C++ or Rust probably doesn't know this – otherwise, they wouldn't ask.
Death Valley almost broke the highest recorded temperature ever.
The thing is it’s not just people.

Corporations are shifting copyright law to their favor.

And as institutions they can do things that individuals can’t. Like aggregate content and become forces of nature in their own right.
The Side Eye: Inequality Tower 2018
At work we used Ironports for years until Cisco, as usual,started making a mess. Nowadays we use Mailcleaner with a little bit of tweaking in a VM. It's a little worse than IronPort when Ironport was good, but so much better than what Cisco's systems were doing for us when we shut the old system down.

On a side note, I really don't understand why people say it's hard to run a mail server, it really isn't. It can be hard if you go full postfix+spamassasin on plain config files and configure everything without any help. Since 2005, we've been running:

Exchange 2003
Exchange 2010
Exchange 2016

Watchguard smtp Proxies and antispam
External provider's antispam services
Cisco Ironports (first a dual node cluster with some older machines, then Cisco came and forced us to upgrade to some C170 which were slow as hell)

We've run through countless updates on the exchange servers, we have mailboxes with more than 50Gb of content, about 1Tb of database sizes, the biggest problem we had, came when we had a two node DAG in Exchange 2010 and the RPC Client Access Server didn't correctly change when Outlook 2007 was open leaving some clients trying to connect to the server that was rebooting. We've also changed IP addresses a few times, but if you change your SPF records correctly, and pay for a good IP range you won't have any problems. Sure, you can't have your mail server on an IP range flagged as spam, but you also wouldn't buy a 100.000 dollar car and put 50 dollar wheels on it!
This is so cool! Just one ask: If you have gone through all these trouble, just make a GitHub repo to store your files so people can fork, contribute etc.
I do enjoy when we are all nice to each other.

Semiconductors still blow me mind...eventually we will run out of base silicon to use and are possibly really fucked but its been a fun ride so far.
I believe most residential internet services block outgoing connections on port 25, so you would either need to upgrade to a business plan or pay for a cloud server to run your own email server.
I have a GSuite subscription that I’ve been thinking of canceling. I wonder if there is an obvious way to know if this could happen to me. I have emails from it’s main email address forwarded to a personal account, and probably also have the personal account setup as a concact perhaps. I will have to thoroughly read through the settings. My personal gmail account is 14 years old.
Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented?

In natural conditions, I'd expect people who sweat more to actually be more comfortable with natural airflow causing evaporative cooling. Unfortunately, in modern well sealed buildings with little air flow, this adaptation would be counterproductive.

It sounds like this building was an experiment aimed at rediscovering what a natural air flow would feel like in an office environment. I love my AC, personally, but I'd still be curious to see what 78 feels like in that building, it might not be so bad. I do enjoy working outside on the patio when it's warm out with a nice cool breeze.
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Why does tech have so many political problems?
>then I do try it and it turns out it's a pain in the ass to make it work on Windows and I spend more time fiddling with it than I do working with it.

The first few times I did it on Windows it was a pain (almost a decade ago). You had to install some dependencies manually. But the last few times I did it it really was a straightforward install, with everything working out of the box (except any commands that rely on GNU tools like grep). I may have been using an unofficial port - sorry but I don't remember the link.

My Windows Emacs is almost identical to my Linux Emacs. You wouldn't know you're not in Linux. That, for me, is the joy of Emacs - it behaves the same on both OS's.
Running Docker Containers as Current Host User
I think it kind of proves my point when the solution to not being able to set an editor up is to change your entire OS...

(Also: no)
Its kind of obscure but the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has a magazine that regularly has mind boggling stories like that that and others.

https://www.airspacemag.com/
depends on how you define "Slaughterbots" any micro drone with a small demo charge can kill a person if it detonates on the skull. Intel has a drone kit which can be pretty autonomous you should be able to train it to explode on heads, you might have a pretty big collateral damage as far as soccer balls and water melons go but it will definitely will detonate enough heads if released into the wild (within it's flight range ofc ;)).

A practical completely autonomous weapon as in one that makes actual decision is pretty far off, however with modern drones pretty much everything is already automated even the weapon release and guidance is machine assisted these days but that is just to help increase the accuracy of the strike as it can compensate for the delay.
That one component out of hundreds didn’t receive any updates for a long time doesn’t really make a point.
Patrick Stewart to Reprise Role as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard
Question: how do you move away from gmail?

Phone providers in the last decade came up with number transfers (I can talk about Europe only), but how do I transfer my gmail.com address? I have hundreds of registrations tied to my gmail (been using it since it was available, more than a decade now), some are for my bank, others are for webshops, countrywide tax management system, ebay, amazon, healthcare, friends etc.

I read how people are not relying on gmail and running their own servers, but how do they do it? How do they cut loose the ties with their past?
I was a die-hard vim+tmux user before switching to Spacemacs.

Now I have all the power of vim’s modal editing with Emacs’ vastly superior ecosystem of packages.
I wonder what this would have felt like since it would not stay humid for more than a few minutes after it stopped raining. Humidity of 100% above 90F feels like 130F+ so this must have been wild.
If bees are dying from this it needs to be banned across the United States for all farming.
Presumably after the fact by linking them entirely within Jira. You could mention the commit in the ticket, but that wouldn't make a back-link from the commit if someone's browsing from that direction.

That said, I don't really mind mentioning the ticket in the commit. It's relevant to what one is doing when one makes the commit.

But then I use gerrit at my job, so I don't have room to complain about others' systems.
How did you get magit to not be slow as hell on Windows?

It’s brutally slow on my windows box and lightning quick on my Mac.
When will we start sacrificing to prevent climate catastrophe? There isn't enough global concern. Especially in the US. Everything else aside no President should be able to deny reality.
Google admits adding UIDAI helpline number in Android version to Indian OEMs
A plain vim or Emacs is trivial to set up and is indistinguishable, simple config changes are also trivial, but once you go deeper into plugins/layers for things like fuzzy file finders it starts to fall apart because they start relying on Linux-only tools or the Windows equivalent tools aren't as good.

Some of it you can get to work after copious amounts of fiddling, but I don't have that kind of time or willpower. While it might not be as powerful the total amount of time I've spent actually making config changes in VSCode is probably about 30 minutes. This is including time waiting for extensions to download! Not to mention that it ships with many features out of the box such as git integration.
I'm surprised nobody's pointed you to the official tutorial[1] yet. It is decent.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/
This is what I've done: sync your Gmail account with a regular mail client and backup the mail clients database so as not to lose any old emails.

Step two create new email address with dedicated email provider, one known to have good customer support.

Step three, stop giving out your Gmail address, and over time update your email address on all the services you use.

You can't take your @gmail.com address with you to a different provider, I think that would break the way the Internet works.
> Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented?

Absolutely, unquestionably, YES! (Certainly for some people). Those sufficiently uncomfortable would migrate to climates better suited to their physiology, if their physiology didn’t adapt to the environment; for example, my ancestors were from extreme cold environments, and I am without a doubt FAR more comfortable in 50 degree F weather in a T shirt than I am in 70 degree weather. And to me with the right clothing, everything down to and even below freezing is quite pleasant.

Prior to much modern technology, just surviving and staying alive as a human was a miserable, painful experience.

We have it so, so good today, compared to our ancestors just a hundred years ago, let alone thousands. Virtually every measure of human suffering (extreme poverty, starvation, sickness, death, etc) is dramatically lowering with each generation.

It is a wonderful thing that modern advancements allows us to be comfortable, which then further frees our minds to pursue even greater and more wonderful endeavors.
The CodeLens feature in VS2017 is really similar, it's the only reason we pay for the pro license instead of just using community edition.
You ‘just do it’.

Don’t host your own email server unless you want maintaining it as a hobby. Fastmail, Kolabnow (my nerd-deluxe choice; OpenPOWER CPUs, 100% Free Software and green energy, Swiss jurisdiction) etc. are great.

Buy a domain, gradually move accounts over when you use them at a desktop, it takes about 30 seconds. Or, even better, just let them die and set up a new one if you ever need it.

It’s not instant, but it’s very possible, and not even that difficult.
Google's nightmare-bad UI strikes again.
Ai always gets attention from inside the country and he has been there for a long time. Waves of such people left or disappeared in public's view. He's still there. Someone can stay and do a lot of opposing things and get and be able to keep constant public attentions is like a miracle. Why he? Why not others like him? He's like collecting those badges every time the government did something to him. And he's doing good and better. If you know China and know what people act like him could have faced, he is such an odd spot. I know westerners like him, giving him a lot of high quality badges. He has a quite rooted network to keep him safe and do a lot of fancy things delivered to public and shows this off. All sides seem to need him.

Sorry for the rant. As a Chinese, I just hate those people with very special privilege to show off in the name of some symbol impressing outsiders and has nothing to do with all those truly matter.
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That's not really hard to do. Setup your email an a publicly accessible server. For all the services that you use until now, change your registered email address. That's PITA once, but after you are done you don't need to change it anymore. For friends, keep accepting emails through gmail but reply from your new address and the conversion will happen progressively.
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I got to step 5

> You have no services enabled for which data can be exported.

What? I've had this (paid) GSuite account for years. That's a bit discouraging.
No longer using paper is also a factor.
Maybe we are used to be comfortable. Also, consider that not everyones body works that same and is perfectly comfortable at the same temperature. There is a reason crime is correlated with temperature: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-crime-heat-analys...
psychology as a discipline is not looking so hot these days
>lazy sarcasm

I took it as anything but. Ethical issues aside, it's a proven, low cost solution that does scale. Why should a more coordinated solution be superior (see: planned economies)?

Label everything, put bottle deposits on everything (an idea which greenwashing groups like KAB hate and fight strongly against), and the return rates skyrocket and contamination rates plummet. It's the only proven formula.
Simple, I use the park and ride. I still drive to do all these things on the way to and from the P&R, and it's really quite convenient. I totally understand this won't work out for everyone, though.

Just like that office, it may not work out for you to work in such temperatures, but you can't necessarily extrapolate to conclude that others will be miserable. I've lived in Seattle since the 80's and having AC everywhere seems to be a pretty new thing here. Until recently most houses and schools didn't have AC since the climate is so mild, and I never thought it was particularly uncomfortable in the summer as long as a fan was running.
I keep hearing the same over and over from sysadmins. Is this too difficult to automate?
Imagine having online exchange auth to be based on the lost email. Indeed, a horror story.
48!?!? That’s insane. I wonder how that would impact the plants and other life
I wish I had done this in 2015. I lost the only pictures of my now deceased dog in Google Drive when I was locked out for no reason. Except I didn't regain access because I didn't make a popular Reddit or blog post.

Apparently Google's "customer service" runs as follows:

1. Don't provide any customer service email address.

2. Don't provide any contact form.

3. Don't provide any phone number.

4. Don't respond when people resort to sending snail mail.
(Yes really I tried and I'm not the only one).

5. Provide a forum where 999/1000 posts don't get a response.

6. Suddenly respond if it affects public relations. (ea. a popular Reddit post).
When I lived in Canada everyone in the building industry used Imperial.
> It is absolutely not set and forget, you'll need to baby it daily indefinitely.

That sounds like you were doing something very fundamentally very wrong.

I definitely don't need to touch my mail server daily, nor any of the mail servers I manage for others. It's just doing its job, security updates get installed automatically, and every few years I need to do a debian upgrade, and possibly deploy some new security/anti-spam features. In between those upgrades, it's running unattended for many months with absolutely no problems. On average, I touch my mail server maybe once a year.
Yeah, I've never thought rain could be that hot.
I expect Beijing has laws determining how the property of an evicted tenant can be handled just like NYC does, and I imagine those laws were broken in this case.
You might need to check with your administrator (or if you yourself are managing it, you need to log in with admin account), there is a option somewhere there at admin.google.com to let your users export data.
Fair enough. However, the home I lived in for 20 years (on the Eastside) was built in 1990 and had no A/C. Such was the case for most homes I visited. When I moved to Phoenix, the home I lived in, built in 1912, had A/C.
> keeping us out of the spam blacklists, keeping things patched up, ecosystem changes (e.g. new DNS records every few years, new security requirements, etc) and filtering incoming spam/malware/philishing attempts

It is so easy to forget how much noise and junk gets passed around via email when I've had Google doing it for me for all these years...
Carr Fire Reportedly Started by Sparks After Flat Tire
At least Canada uses kilometers and kilometers per hour on the road signs. US is still stuck with miles.
Ask a Parisian what they would think about an apartment that didn’t have heat. Those Parisians are sure spoiled and fragile! My wife’s family in Mexico doesn’t have heat in their house. I guess they are less fragile than Parisians.

Your comment is absurd. People in the places you mentioned don’t choose to be without heat or air conditioning because they want to, it’s generally because either the climate is less extreme and more comfortable or because they can’t afford it. Ask a family in Monterrey, Mexico if they’d like to have air conditioning if cost were no object. Very few would decline such an offer.
Status Hero was used this way at my last job. My manager would have it opened at all times in his office. And I just got fired, so I guess it "worked". The only way to accomplish the tasks fast enough was to work weekends, and once I quit working on weekends (which I was told "of course you don't have to work weekends!), they got rid of me within a couple weeks. Really terrible place to work.
It sounds like their power output is 100 watts per kilogram - it doesn't say anything about how much energy they had to consume to provide that. It's unlikely that they are as efficient at high speeds as they are at lower speeds.
So, the downside is that you need to install Debian's unattended-upgrades?!

Yeah, you better do release upgrades manually--but that is once every few years.
No matter how many layers I bundle my idle torso in that arctic stream of AC just freezes my nose and fingers.

For most office spaces it's not so much the temp that freezes me it's the breeze while I'm sitting in a chair typing.
> Is it fair that Ai can just stay there...perpetually - holding up 99 extra units on the market because he can't be bothered to move out?

Of course he can - he is an activist, he doesn't need a rental agreement or title of land, he owns the place where he wants, he is an activist! as clearly stated by the article, the lease expired last fall, almost 1 year after the expiration of the lease, he just have too much stuff stored in that place, how that is not a strong enough reason to keep staying there? why the landlord can't just give him another 3-5 years rent free period so he can slowly move his stuff as he want?

He is an activity against the Chinese government, he is entitled to do/own anything he wants. You are brainwashed if you don't agree with that.
I want to see what some other commentators who are more knowledgeable about the field say. This is a pretty striking attack against a central theory in... Scientific American? Without citing a wealth of evidence with detailed citations? I find the logic of the argument appealing, finding no inborn bias towards gain nor loss outside of what could be derived by reason would be a very nice thing to say about the future of humanity.

I read D. Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow a number of years back and it did present some pretty clear looking graphs demonstrating loss aversion of 2:1 iirc. I've since lost my copy due to a friend's "borrowing". ;) Certain other elements of his book have come into question, including priming. I'm eagerly waiting to see how the cookie crumbles here.
Experts claim pills made from plants can prevent pregnancy
calling dang...