skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People just don't seem to realize that greasy cardboard can't be recycled

I think a lot actually do realize it. At least where I live, the garbage bins at residences are about 1/2-3/4 the size as the recycle bins (glass has a separate bin). A lot just use it as a garbage bin, because the recycle bin is usually "free" and some pizza boxes don't even fit in the actual garbage bin (without taking time to break it down). A pizza box can take up a lot of room in the actual smaller trash bin, and they'd rather fill it with other trash. I'd attribute it more to laziness and convenience.
Notifying your employer, that's giving you 2 months of severance, what you're in the middle of doing as to prevent everyone else on your team from having the nightmare of trying to figure out what you were doing as well as providing you with access to counseling and a job placement service is terrible?
The fact that humans evolved without access to sunscreen is just a starting point, when someone is considering whether to use sunscreen or not. You chose to take issue with that one sentence, while ignoring everything else in the article. And the article suggests that if you actually want to optimize for a 100-year lifespan, you certainly shouldn't douse yourself with sunblock, every time you go outside.
Patents are national, so I guess there are many countries where they do not apply.
The purpose of the benchmark was to see the relative performance of the two databases.
But, the impact of glass wastage is just landfill volume.

I get milk delivered from a farmer in resusable glass bottles. We lose like 1% a year, which represents probably 95% less waste than buying disposable plastic or cardboard containers.
If someone gets inspired and find alternative ways to do things, do patents apply ?
Knitted Radio
> Any operating system worth its salt will save the changed address and reload it before/while bringing up the network drivers.

Yes, but in the event that someone were reported to the police, any reasonably competent police force is going to check the device MAC independent of whatever operating system boots on the system, and so being able to falsely accuse another does not seem like a big danger here.
Cows, too.
Yes, some police and other authorities were not at all restrained from extremes of violence. But national mass media comprehensively reported civil rights protests. Although I'm sure that there was some censorship in local media. And it didn't take long for the federal government to intervene.

Coverage by national mass media generated widespread public support for federal intervention. And arguably, federal action wouldn't have happened without it.

And indeed, there's quite the contrast for the establishment of homosexual rights in the US. Because there was, for some years, virtually no coverage of the matter in national mass media. I mean, most people arguably considered homosexuality to be far more disgusting than racial mixing.

It was the fight against racial segregation, and the protest movement against the Vietnam War, that set the stage for establishing homosexual rights. And increased coverage in national mass media played a huge role.

So is Patreon comparable to the national mass media? I think that it is.

And yes, I get that those fights for civil rights were "good fights". And that racists and Nazis are "bad people". So it's supposedly just fine to censor them. But that's a dangerous game. It's the old "whose ox is being gored" thing.

Edit: Yes, I'm wrong about "didn't take long" for civil rights. It did take decades. But the main point stands. There wasn't much progress until the national mass media started covering it. And it did take maybe a decade longer for the national mass media to start covering the fight for homosexual rights.
It should be noted, Australia and New Zealand also have the highest skin cancer rates in the world, at nearly 3x the incidence of the US

https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/data-cancer...
Oh of course, anyone that disagrees with you must be an idiot taking the perspective of a bad boss, even when they're talking about their experience being fired.
I chuckled at that thought of `git clone energy`
The concept of plants (or fungi) "sensing" or "thinking" is contaminated by new-age quacks. When someone says "plants can hear", what they mean (other than that they're not interested in sticking to common meanings of words) is that plants exhibit some kind of intelligence or thought based on sounds. That's where the analogy breaks down. A higher animal with a central nervous system can learn in interesting ways, depending on the complexity and structure of their brains. A CNS in a primitive animal is probably not much more than a biological-analogue of a DNN stuck in between nerve inputs and outputs, the sorts of thing you could (and people are) training DNNs running on graphics cards to do.

Anything without a CNS, like plants, are a clear step down in capabilities. That doesn't mean they have no capabilities. It doesn't mean that they don't have capabilities that we aren't aware of yet. It only means that their processing of environmental signals is going to be less capable than a lot of insects', and certainly reptiles' and birds'. If someone has set their expectations artificially low, however, then the news that plants can do anything other than sit in place and grow could be amazing and newsworthy.

It shouldn't be surprising though. Even single-celled organisms are amazingly complex biological machines, that we only understand isolated parts of. I mean, it took us until this decade to identify and really start to understand CRISPR. If single-celled organisms have mysteries like that (and many more no doubt left to discover), why is anyone surprised if plants have interesting things about them that we haven't discovered yet? That doesn't make them intelligent, and doesn't mean they can sense in colloquial way that animals can (and react quickly to, and learn from, what they sense).
Open sourcing your design gives other people a chance to work on your project, improve it. If you design gains traction then you will earn way more from patents.
I think parent meant living in the tree.
Introduction to Deep Learning and Sentence Classification
The tools I use:

- Notes: Workflowy (https://www.workflowy.com)

- Tasks: Taskade (https://www.taskade.com)

- Journal: Daylio (https://daylio.webflow.io)
Its really apparent. Look at anyone who has played tennis without sunscreen for years. They'll look a decade older.
Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles
Well don't insult the people that fixed it and kept it from being a giant problem.

It wasn't a non-event, because it took a lot of effort to make everyone aware of the need to fix the bugs.

It's like routine maintenance except that every single device involved is going to hit problems right about at the same time, with almost no signs of trouble until the exact second it falls over. So it's not harder to fix, but if it's not fixed then it hits vastly harder.
From the preface to the first edition:

> we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs...

The whole preface talks about how the aim of the book is to get students to think with a programmer's mindset. Scheme is only incidentally the language the consider best for the task, due to its near-absence of syntax.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
Oh man, the Nordic nations. I remember studying abroad and being the industrious-borderline-alchoholic I am, taking the empties from any classmate I could, so I could re-up the beer supply for free.

Here in salt lake, however, we actually have to pay extra to have a glass collection bin at home. There are a dozen or so sites in the city that one could dump the glass, if they were so inclined, or into the general trash bin it goes. We certainly don't get paid for our our glass.

It's extra disappointing because local...legal strangeness, has been encouraging a bit of a local brewery boom. I'd love to return the glass to the brewery for cleaning and reuse, but that's not an option here.

All that said, there's a ton of plastic that goes into single stream recycling that isn't barcoded...
IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku
I call it Font Disease. Once afflicted, you will start noticing fonts, and for anything written you can control, you desperately want to find the best font possible--the default will not suffice. When you find a good font, it's very satisfying, and the action of you choosing that font is like scratching an itch.

Sounds like you don't have Font Disease. Lucky.
I use a Slack plugin [1] for Textual IRC I wrote. It uses SlackKit [2] which needs a bit of work.

[1] https://github.com/rectalogic/TextualSlack
[2] https://github.com/SlackKit/SlackKit
Nobody is going to do that without a deposit, and that is hard to push through.

IMO use tax policy to drive it. Put a $5 tax on plastic clamshells and they’ll be gone in six months.
Lol I used Venn diagrams to explain joins just a week or two ago. It does the trick but doesn’t account for many to one joins
Web sites are not maintenance free nor cost free. Sudden traffic spikes, hardware failures or new vulnerabilities can easily make web sites down. It need manual human intervention to restore. If that human intervention is not possible due to the law, It's best to just shutdown.
I recommend Capital One Spark Business, technically you can also use a 360 account (for personal use). However, for businesses use a business bank account (aka spark). They weren’t accepting new accounts at one point, but I believe they are now (not 100% sure)

Great customer service, easy to manage, nice web interface, no fees.
It's still used among video codec discussions, especially with the MPEG group.
Those poor necks and ears. At least use a little sunscreen.
> We were fortunate to do our mourning and grieving over the life we imagined for our unborn baby while he was still unborn

Hi, another father of a young child with Down's here. Our story was a bit different to most, as we didn't find out our daughter had Down's until she was almost 2 years old (rather odd, I know).

In some ways I think we were fortunate to know our daughter as 'just a typical child' first, then mourn and grieve over the possibilities we imagined she might have.

Of course, I can't know how things would be if we found out pre-natal or at birth, so it could be I've just convinced myself of this :)
I don't want to work with people who insist on butting their heads into my personal life in order to avoid "distancing themselves from their actions" and "dehumanizing" their colleagues. I want predictable behavior that's limited in scope to the business tasks at hand.

If your boss needs to take into account the personal consequences on the employees they fire, then now employees have to start playing a bullshit game of convincing colleagues how precarious their personal situation is and how much stress and uncertainty is in their life and how their family depends on them. The stoic professionals who just get things done at work are effectively getting punished for focusing on delivering value to the business.

Like, I get it, professionalism definitely has downsides. It also has advantages. People know how things are going to work and can focus on things that are more relevant to the core business. It's a trade-off.
This is really beautiful and expressive.
This is very interesting! I had no idea plants could communicate through vibrations and send airborne, chemical signals to warn relatives of danger.
Do you think the majority of tech SV workers look down on the homeless and poor at a greater rate than say traditional blue collar workers do?
The plastic wrap should be recyclable along with plastic bags. Your local supermarket may take them.
Summary: I have no citation but my understanding is that measuring insulin levels needs to be done from a blood draw, so a Freestyle Libre-type device wouldn't work.

The Freestyle Libre and regular continuous glucose monitors measure glucose in the interstitial fluid under the skin - not blood. This is why the numbers can be wildly different to a blood glucose test done via finger-prick.

From what I've seen while researching very low carb diets, insulin levels are incredibly important and influence a lot of body chemistry. For example, someone without type 1 diabetes can have a normal blood glucose but only because they're producing an enormous amount of insulin. A large amount of insulin in the blood will cause fat to be stored, so the patient puts on weight.
I talk to so many people in tech who stick with jobs they’re unhappy at or underpaid at who stay out of loyalty the company. But that company will fire them in a heartbeat if things go badly for them.
Absolutely agree. As an employee there's a whole different social contract, but I still think directness and forthrightness is the best way.
While a 135k sounds great, now consider they have to pay for their fuel, they are independent contractors generally. Then taxes on top of that. when truck drivers attempted to get a loan at a previous employer the conversation of "but I make a 100k a year" happened several times. No you really make 50k.
I think this a great example of why the “great filter” is ahead of us. Our quest for knowledge seems to grow faster than the dampening of our urge for violence.
There definitely is, just not using that name. In Germany, it’s an explicit law.

It just doesn’t apply in this case, because it hinges on bad faith. Incidental evidence found while following some other legitimate trails is admissible.
No one gets paid for returning bottles in Nordic countries. They get the deposit back that was paid during purchase.
I know what you’re talking about. I have tried a seemingly endless number of fonts. I really liked Hack and IBM Plex Mono, especially the latter. For a short period, I even coded with F25 Bank Printer - what a fun!

Currently I use the Golang fonts (monospaced serifs).
If there are multiple services which provide national weather, the ones which offer the best service at the best price will succeed - if they can stay in business. The point is that they must be profitable, or at the very least break even. If people knew the precise cost of the weather service, they could make their own choice about whether or not it is worth funding.

Government is like a conglomerate and each area of interest is like a subsidiary. The problem is, every single one of their subsidiaries is constantly in the red, year on year. They're completely bankrupt! The only way they survive is by lending more money and collecting more taxes, instead of operating like for-profit businesses which create wealth, rather than take it away.

You can still have community funded enterprises, but they need to be affordable, in the sense that there is not an infinite pot of money they can keep pulling from if they overspend. A fire-service, for example, could charge residents of an area a small monthly fee for operating in that area - and those not willing to pay the fee would simply be deprioritized in the event of any fire on their property. Business owners could pay a premium to have a higher priority. Ideally the fire service will operate in profit, and such profits can be used to improve the service or even partially reimburse the creditors if they've 'overpaid' for the service.

This kind of system obviously can't operate together with the public service if taxes are forcibly collected for the latter. People aren't going to pay for something they've already paid for. To put these systems in place, the existing public services need to be privatized (joint-stock where the users of the service can be part owners), and their tax needs to be reduced by at least the amount they were previously paying which contributed to the former loss-making enterprise.

The overall point is that this system can be self-correcting on a per-service basis. You don't need to wait 4 years to pick between two companies to perform all the services if they're doing badly. If a service is doing badly, and there is a demand for something better, somebody will fill that gap. The mere presence of a big monolithic government is a hinderance to innovation in any service that it provides. The only way the services get improved are from the inside - there is no outside pressure to innovate - much less so if it means that the people inside might be risking their own jobs by making the service more efficient.
The case for adopting Chinese as next global language
It’s a good system, but the main problem comes from the same source, the fact that you’re dealing with a pool of molten salt. Maintenance on a reactor vessel is never without challenges, but the problems with servicing a molten salt (or something like a Pb-Bi eutectic) are still a financial and practical roadblock to widespread adoption.
It isn't about products it's about opaque lids mixed with clear bottles. Films mixed with stiff boxes. Plastic mixed with food residue and stuck on labels. A tiny contamination can massively lower the value of the batch by making it difficult to work with/have limited usefulness.
The powers that be are in crisis population control mode
Food security is still not a reality in the United States. Millions of people struggle with poverty and face hunger.
At least it seems like they're being honest about the fact that it's a cool-looking gimmick. I expected some audiophile nonsense about isolating the record from seismic micro-tremors and using levitation coils to cancel electro-audiophonic interference from the Earth's magnetic field.

Looks cool. I don't know why anyone would spend so much money on such an outdated technology, though.
Okay, this won't be the clearest answer here because I didn't have a system I am extremely happy about right now. However, I have tried alot of the other suggestions here. I will try to offer my opinion on a few tools / systems.

1. Getting Things Done: The flow chart he provides is the key feature of the book. Most of the other advice is mediocre, in my opinion. https://lifedev.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/gtd-workflow....

2. org-mode: It is incredibly powerful, honestly, the most powerful productivity / todo app. However, I found that this power slowed down my process, and I find that kills my productivity. If you love powerful, complex tools, org-mode is for you.

3. Todoist: it is an adequate list app; if thats all you need, it works well. Also, it has an open api, but I never used it.

4. Todo.txt / Markor: this is my current setup. Markor is a really nice android app; https://github.com/gsantner/markor . I generally like the philosophy behind todo.txt. It forces you to simplify your todos. My main problem is that notifications aren't a part of the programs at all.

I hope this is useful to someone.
High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence
I'm not an expert in this at all, but a friend of mine from college is; he's working at Argonne National Lab doing liquid sodium research for nuclear reactors--so I know enough as you would talking to a guy over beers about his job.

As said above, the chance of a meltdown is slim as sodium is a solid at room temp, therefore you don't have to worry about it ever boiling off. It would have prevented a Fukushima type meltdown, but sodium is extremely reactive and had the sodium touched water, you would have had huge explosions. Their test loop in Argonne had to go through extreme welding checks to prevent possible humidity from getting in. Salt also has better heat transfer properties than water. Interestingly, research in this area really stagnated, and its only recently gotten attention. The US went all in on water due to the nuclear navy.
Recycling and trash separation would be a great a project for a "moonshot". You need big advancements in robotics, computer vision and probably a lot of other areas to make this. I wish some billionaire would throw some money at it. It would be more helpful to humanity than flying to Mars for example.
It's tough to recycle glass. That's why I suggested we focus on reusing glass bottles. Use deposits to encourage consumers to return bottles to retailers, then send them back to bottling plants to be washed and refilled. That actually used to be common in the US but doesn't happen much anymore.
Could someone look up what material is being used for the molten salt plumbing itself please? I believe corrosion of these is one of the key issues that's so far prevented their viability.
Is Ikea actually providing that service or are they merely reselling local logistics companies? When I had a kitchen installed "by Ikea" here in Germany,
it was done by contractors who have every bit the impression of being completely unaffiliated.
A Destructive Collection
Oh my God I thought he was kidding. How did it get to this? And how do we solve this?...
I think this is coming. Straws are getting banned in EU next year and many countries already implemented the ban. Where i am from they got replaced with paper ones and in bars etc with metal / glass ones that get washed like regular glasses. Plastic bags cannot be given for free so you have to buy them and many chains are transitioning to paper or more durable ikea style bags.

The big problem in my eyes are trash bags. Don't know how to replace those.
When your coolant can go up to over 700 °C without gassing then you might also be able to cool the reactor using convection only in emergencies, which would do away with the necessity of emergency coolant pumps.

On the other hand, working with a big pool of radioactive liquid that will literally explode and catch fire if it comes in contact with water and still catches fire if it comes in contact with air may also be ... challenging.
Of course these decisions matter, but not in the way you mean. The biggest hurdle to learning programming is not the syntax, not even when you're starting out with C++. It's learning to think like a programmer.

One needs to learn how to take apart a problem and put it back together again in a way the computer understands - to get rid of all the ambiguities and phrase the solution in terms of conditionals and loops. When one starts to deal with bigger problems, one needs to learn the use of abstraction in order to deal with the added complexity.

This is the skill that makes somebody a real programmer, and it stays pretty much the same across languages. The differences between OOP, FP and all the rest pale in comparison to that first great lesson that needs to be learnt. (Having started off with Java, learning Lisp was a huge step for me that I really struggled with at first. But it still wasn't anywhere near as difficult as learning programming for the very first time.)

This is the skill that SICP tries to teach.
IRC is still there while all the other fads are gone.
I got out of serving by going to a college with Военная кафедра [0], but I think we're saying pretty much the same thing -- USA and rest (or most, anyway) of the Western world has non-political Motrher's and Fatrher's day, completely separate from the International Women's Day (let alone Defender of the Fatherland day, which is obviously USSR-specific), while back in the USSR we had a generic women's/men's holidays tacked onto March 8th and Feb. 23rd respectively.

I don't remember them ever being even positioned as specifically Mother's/Father's day; I am sure that you have also given gifts to your female classmates even in elementary school on March 8th, and received some on Feb. 23rd, even though becoming a parent while in school was an extremely rare occurrence.

[0] For the benefit of those who did not have to deal with it, something similar to ROTC in the US, but available only in some colleges/universities, and mandatory in those where it were available. Instead of being drafted for 2/3 years upon hitting the draft age, you'd receive training there, spend some reasonably short time in the armed forces, and get a reserve officer's rank.