skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...or burning it in huge incinerators like the one in Chester, which already torches around 3,510 tons of trash, the weight equivalent of more than 17 blue whales, every day."

I love that they compare it to the weight of a blue whale!

"There isn’t much of a domestic market for US recyclables – materials such as steel or high-density plastics can be sold on but much of the rest holds little more value than rubbish"

It's clear to me from the article, does that mean paper and cardboard as well? It seems to be mentioned that China won't take it, but is that getting burned now?
Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon
The pool company does this with chlorine jugs. You pay ten dollars or so for the jug. Or you can bring your own to trade in for a full one.

Beer growlers are a similar concept. Maybe this just spreads to more and more products.
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Or just bigger containers.

If laundry detergent doesn’t go bad, why aren’t I buying it in 25L or 50L barrels?

We buy 10year supplies of other products (the machines themselves), why not their consumables? They go up in price every year too.

That or buying the concentrate and diluting it yourself with the old container. That bottle of windex (spray glass cleaner) is 95% water.

Put a nice big tax on consumables, reduce the lowest rates of income tax with the revenue (or write cheques) and voila.
Would love this or something similar for local development. Currently using the Docker for Mac k8s and it shreds my machine and end up with an hour of battery life. Had similar experience with minikube.
Glass bottles?
This happened to me, but it's because our sysadmin left a firewall port open to the whole world without setting a password on redis, which allowed a random drive by port scan to inject a LUA script. They couldn't escalate privileges, only run the miner and make the server mostly unresponsive.
surf the web with ip 188.184.108.149, ISP CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research..
:s
99.99% of the times you don't want to search for files that are in .gitignore. Ignoring by default is the sane default, as it reduces the amount of false positives. If you do want to search through all files, there's probably a flag that allows you to do that. You can alias your commands to `alias tool="tool --whatever-flag"`.
Some may have misread that comment.
Ten Words that mean something different to physicists
Why Smart, Hardworking People Don’t Become Successful [2017]
For the reasons described in the linked article :)

This is just the latest of many studies that provides clinical evidence for what people have anecdotally reported for millennia: occasional fasting makes people feel healthier and seems to make their bodies work better.
Traditional Face Detection with Python
It might be worth your time to consider the possibility that it is likely that the whole of the mathematics profession is not wrong in this matter. Are there any professional mathematicians that agree with you? If pretty much the whole profession thinks you are wrong about something then it’s quite likely you are indeed wrong.

It’s worth pointing out that your logic on Q = N times N is a bit faulty too. Since you are counting things like 4/4 as different than 1/1. Even so you are correct that the cardinality of Q is N times N. This is because N times N = N.
I've always wondered why there couldn't be standard containers for products like jam, wine, butter etc. where the containers are designed to be easily washed and reused. Manufacturers could still create their own branded containers but would pay more somehow for doing so. Is there an obvious problem with this idea?

It's nuts that if you buy e.g. 4 bottles of wine they all have different bottle designs and if you optionally go through the effort of recycling them there might be some process involved where they're sent to another country, broken down, melted and then reformed it into new bottles at best. Just wash and reuse the bottle...?
I'd be curious to see how this compares with a real-time flight track/noise monitoring system ( https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lax4 at LAX for example).
We could start with the simple things, like reusable and standardised takeout boxes and cutlery. Add a small deposit on the return and make sure that any takeout place is required to accept returns, which they in turn can wash and reuse.
Russia jails top cyber agent for treason
Still not as good as 100% collocated teams
Why would you say the free market has failed? If you're assigning blame shouldn't you be pointing at the democracy which regulates the market? You disagree with how a majority of your fellow citizens vote, so either you were simply outvoted on what is important, or you believe democracy failed.
Hm, I'm no native speaker. In my language, we use the same word for "stories from the past".
Used glass is difficult to transport and not very efficient to recycle. It's a great option as long as you re-use the container locally.
The thing is that 'reduce' and 'reuse' are basically anti-consumerist/anti-capitalist, and thus there is formidable opposition to them.

Consider a neighbourhood where everyone has a lawn to mow. The lawnmover companies want to increase (not reduce) sales. So we end up with everyone having their own mower, which sits idle 95% of the time, instead of one community mower that's shared by neighbours. It's just a little example, but it extends to everything.
Can we just gather all the trash into one giant ball and launch it into space?

If Dyson sphere has it's place in global solutions space then giant trash ball should too.
Don't Learn to Code in 2019, Learn to Solve Problems
I've been watching a few companies that convert plastic back into oil. it sounds great, but I have no idea yet if it actually works, or is just all glossy brochure.

http://renewlogy.com/renew-energy/
The part walmart hasn't figured out is how to get people to think of going to walmart.com in the first place.

I used it when my printer broke and I needed one. Same day pickup for free. They list dozens of printers, but it was easy to sort on ones that were in stock in my local store so I could get same day pickup. I went just a few minutes out of my way, and had a working printer when I got home from work. Sure on amazon I might have bought a different printer with some nice to have feature, but I wouldn't have got it today. Target is just as easy (maybe easier).

I don't know why anyone would look to Amazon first anymore. Sure for obscure things amazon (or ebay), is more likely to have it. Even then I go to obscureProduct.com where the staff knows something about their products and I can read their buyers guide and get a good brand (They probably are biased to selling some brand which is worth more profit to them, but they at least keep me away from the junk brands which is in itself worth far more to me than a few buck extra profit to them)
Both the seller's expected profit and the buyer's surplus are summed over two periods. The buyer has an expected surplus of 0.25 when the sale is made, but the sale is only made 50% of the time.
I agree. While I think M is a masterpiece in almost every aspect, I tried watching Metropolis several times and always found it to be mediocre at best. I cannot understand the hype around this movie.

Besides H.G. Wells, contemporary German critics were also spot on:

> Thea von Harbou erfindet eine unmögliche Personenhandlung, die in den Motiven überstopft wird. […] Immer wird mit Gefühlsphrasen gearbeitet. Schrecklich. Ein sachliches Thema grausam verkitscht. Effekte, nicht weil Weltanschauungen zu Explosionen drängen, sondern weil der Film seine Tricks will. Der Schluß, die tränenreiche Versöhnung von Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer – entsetzlich.“

Slightly improved Google translation:

>Thea von Harbou (she was the screenwriter) invents an impossible plot which is overstuffed with motifs. [...] She is only working with emotional clichées. Dreadful. A serious subject cruelly made into kitsch. Effects not because the depicted world demands it, but because the film wants its tricks. The end - the tearful reconciliation of employer and employee - awful."

– Berliner Börsen-Courier, 11. Januar 1927

> Nimm zehn Tonnen Grausen, gieße ein Zehntel Sentimentalität darüber, koche es mit sozialem Empfinden auf und würze es mit Mystik nach Bedarf, verrühre das Ganze mit Mark (sieben Millionen) und du erhältst einen prima Kolossalfilm.

> Take ten tons of horror, pour a tenth of sentimentality over it, cook it with social feeling and season it with mysticism as needed, mix with Mark (seven million of it) (Mark the currency, but it may also be understood as bone marrow ("Knochenmark") or tomato puree ("Tomatenmark") in the context of cooking, which is the joke here) and you get a great colossal movie.

– Simplicissimus Nr. 44/1927
Giant trash ball set on a collision course with the sun.
Why would you use a plastic bag for milk? Most of the milk I buy comes in paper cartons.[1] Paper should degrade much faster than a plastic bag, plastic bottle, or glass.

[1]https://www.horizon.com/faqs?f%5B5%5D=field_faq_category%3A9...
Absolutely! One right down the road from here, Pinellas county waste->energy plant. http://www.pinellascounty.org/solidwaste/wte.htm But it's more expensive than selling the rubbish to China.
We used to do that with soda bottles. I think some places still do.
Sure. You'll just have to pay $2,500/kg for your trash pickup. (Probably more for escape velocity...)
Content moderation has no easy answers
The Quest for Implementing a NoSQL Database
Yes: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/en... for an example facility (it apparently also uses treated sewage water as its coolant).

Waste-to-energy tends to be a relatively win-win way of dealing to trash, but a lot of environmentalists tend to be against it because they feel it takes away from efforts to reduce waste.
Some places have local "zero-waste" grocery stores that sell everything in reusable containers that you return when you come back to the store.

For people who don't live in those places, a few online retailers like Loop are trying to fill the gap[1].

1. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/19/loop-to-launch-zero-was...
As it should be. I’d hate if the device side wore out
Aren’t the “fallback” modifiers in Noise a form of negotiation?
http://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html#handshake-pattern-name-s...
I get my milk in sturdy glass bottles, which come with a $2 deposit so you bring them back for a wash and reuse.
We can achieve similar freshness with advanced packaging technologies today. So if freshness is resolved, then a healthy meal based on your dietary profile is always ready for you in 2 min. The idea is to get you the right food at the right time.
This assumes internal politics are a meritocracy with appropriate levels of prototype funding.

I’m not sure that’s accurate — and there’s plenty of ways for organizational structure to strangle good ideas.
The connection between autism and OCD
That's the great thing about these tools. There is no need to serve as fundamental tools of a system that conform to some ancient spec like POSIX. There is no need for that because those tools already exist and work well. So if that's the behavior you want, then just use those tools. They work exceptionally well when called by other programs, like shell scripts, because they have reasonably standardized behavior.

But with these tools, we have the freedom to revisit old assumptions. One of those is smart filtering. I can't tell you how many people tell me that they enjoy that as a good default.

Tools should make the fact that they do smart filtering very clear, because it can be surprising if you aren't expecting it. But otherwise, I'm not particularly sympathetic to your reasoning here because: 1) what I said above about standard tools being available and 2) these tools should have ways of disabling smart filtering. So if it bites you, it should bite you only once. After that, you either learn to like it, learn to setup an alias and forget about it, or ragequit the tool.
introduce temporal component into your prediction model, similar to this:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
If people stopped buying things they just bought, it would probably stop recommending them.
It probably is by volume.

Lots of otherwise empty containers going back. Makes sense to jam them with junk when the ship has to be repatriated anyway.
It's a shame there's no love for small cars in America. Renault-Nissan applied the lessons learned with the Leaf to a subcompact, the Renault Zoe, and it's a great car.
I remember using newsgroups back in college. Unbelievable that we have open protocols for that type of stuff but everything seems to be trending to sovereign news sites.
The inside of that carton is still lined with plastic tho.
Free API for Football (Soccer) Videos
This is already done. Some of California's "recyclables" are transported by rail to large desert canyons in Nevada that are literally filled to the top with garbage. The scale of these landfills are impressive. Nevada is a popular large-scale waste terminus precisely because deep desert canyons are plentiful and cheap.
Exactly. Trajectory must me calculated precisely. We need it incinerated so it can never return back to Earth
50 L is very heavy. You'd then need an automobile (which maybe in your country you already have, but if every human had one, we'd be in worse trouble.)

Instead of bigger containers, reusable containers. I have a 4 L container for laundry detergent that I fill up at the store on my walk home from work, fits nicely in my backpack.
Front End Bootcamp / Days in the Web
Whenever I see stories revolving around this sort of thing, I'm always reminded of the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode they did on recycling (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/). They argue that landfills really aren't that bad and may actually be better than recycling. Of course the entire _premise_ of that show was that you shouldn't just blindly believe everything you're told -- INCLUDING what the show itself tries to argue for. So I have no idea how valid any of their argument actually is.
Devil's advocate: I've seen Redis used lots but by people who mostly didn't seem to know what they're doing: NoSQL bandwagon or other magical thinking: "It's fast". Yeah, but only because it does nothing to avoid losing your data or be HA (the disk persistency and clustering options don't have pleasant semantics ATM, as far as I can tell).

You can use it as a simple cache, and that's fine. But then why not just stick with memcached -- less is more?

There are probably some scenarios where single point of failure and data loss is fine and the additional data structures redis provides over memcached are handy (e.g. analytics), but I've never seen it used for that.
> If EV's do take off, it's likely to be the established car manufacturers

But Elon Musk has said that that's what he wants. He doesn't want Tesla to win, he wants EVs to win. That's one of the things I admire about him.

But be acting flaky and irresponsible, and picking stupid fights, he's undermining people's confidence in Elon Musk, which reflects on his companies, and possibly on his product: EVs. I think it would be much better for his companies and for EVs in general if he ran his companies in a responsible and reliable manner, and he didn't pick stupid fights.
Every time I read about JavaScript I feel like one of those old men yelling at skaters or complaining about motorcycles being obnoxiously loud. IMHO it is an awful language and no matter how much I hear about how good it is from friends I simply cannot see why anyone would pick it voluntarily where you have a choice.
The Ugly Part of React Hooks
The top comment is still true, though. If you have technical knowledge, you can get something better much cheaper.
> So the modern equivalent would be something with a huge budget, flashy production and amazing special effects but with a rubbish story. Something like Starship Troopers maybe (although thats actually quite good as a satire). Or maybe 'Cowboys and Aliens'.

So... Avatar ?
'Captain Marvel' was attacked by online trolls. Rotten Tomatoes took action
It will probably happen. Industry will get on board when they know they won’t have to pay back a lot of those deposits.

I’d prefer a straight tax instead so it goes into general revenue instead of bribing industry.
Lots of good thoughts! I ended up at constructionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theo... and wonder if perhaps that is a key concept? The points about metaphor, authoring and others in your reply are significant as well. As a contstructionist, my next question is how to build a modern hypercard? What would that look like?
And to that Erland rewrite!
Amazon indeed seem to be very proud of their "more of the same" algorithm. It occasionally recommends me useful books but they seem to mix in a lot of stuff that they are just looking to sell opportunistically. They also inexplicably include products that I've bought already; from them. Also they seem confused about things like book series. Why would I buy part 8 of 30 books where I have never shown any interest in either the author or indeed parts 1-7. I regularly use them to check reviews for things I'm interested in. I quite often end up buying them elsewhere; or not at all.

Regardless, this could be a useful service for some but I do think you would need to worry about things like GDPR if you are planning to offer this to amazon. I'm assuming they've thought this through and are providing ways for companies to use this without getting in trouble. For the same reason, I'm pretty sure that Amazon is going to be very careful not exposing themselves to legal trouble here as that could become very expensive for them. So, I'm not so concerned with them trying to grab the data for their own purposes.
God's number is zero and no matter what we do that sum will always be above zero. As we are programmed in our DNAs to survive, sustain and multiply, the average outcome will always be positive no matter how many bad apples. If to the contrary, we were programmed to self destroy, we would've been gone long time ago.
There's a lot of value in removing all the plumbing you typically find at the start of node project to handle basic things like routing. I'm a big fan of moving all that "outside" the app

This might seem silly if all you're use to is working on some startup's big app with a dozen other people, but for small orgs that need to run small programs for a long time it's a mess to maintain that stuff over the long term and to count on lone coders in small engagements to get right.

> Handing the control of everything to some 3rd party component

In the cases I describe, this ^^ is a great idea. Keeps maintenance of the common stuff in a common place. Everyone freaked out in this thread about there being a way to get at files outside the project root. Well the author fixed that in one place and now it's fixed for everyone. How many times does an error like that come up and go undetected and uncorrected when even an experienced node coder has to copy pasta so much stock plumbing for the 1000th time to spin up a small service for a small org?
How about a vulcano?
This is spreading FUD and I'm not sure for what reason.

I have no problem telling you who I am; I currently seem to have the top comment here[0] which makes me probably the prime target of this message.

What about my English is broken? I am British[1], I have been around for a long time[2] and I currently live in Sweden. I have no obligation to any US or China based tech company and no affiliation with China at all (other than the fact I work for a games company that is 5% owned by Tencent[3], but I am definitely not directly involved and I consider their efforts an intrusion).

If you think I'm a troll then I've been playing the long game, I have GitHub commits under this name since 2011.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19261105

[1]: http://linkedin.com/in/jharasym/

[2]: https://github.com/dijit

[3]: https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/20/17144094/ubisoft-vivendi-s...
Doesn't Apache Arrow solve this problem partially already?
<JOKE>
As the author of dump1090 I'm going to change the license to require that it is always used together with Redis Streams and not with Kafka.
</JOKE>
Yes I think you're right, but that may be an even harder gap to close than tech.

Good Marketing:
Crazy genius CEO who is always in the news, builds rockets in his spare time, launches his car into space, smokes weed with Joe Rogan, and constantly thumbs his nose at the authorities. Customers like this company so much that the CEO can ask for volunteers and actually get a response. $0 advertising budget. All marketing by word of mouth. Direct to consumer sales with transparent pricing.

Bad Marketing:
Standard car company. Nobody even knows the CEO's name, and he only speaks publicly in boring prepared statements run through a huge PR team. Massive advertising budget producing totally boring car ads that are indistinguishable from other companies. Sold through dealerships and sketchy salesmen who negotiate a different price for each customer.

I can see the big companies beating Tesla on tech a lot more than I can see them becoming like Tesla as a brand.
Firefox Front-End Performance Update #13
I work in an org that has strong partitions between devs and sysads. Dev can make and test code. They have no access to prod. Sysads can configure and execute what devs make. They have read-only access to the source repos.

Problems with this are as follows (real, not imagined)

1. AWS cloudformation scripts - who makes them? If dev does, sysads can't change.

2. Does dev have the security mindset to maintain configurations in IaaS things like Cloudformation? Who reviews things like NACLs, Security Groups, VPCs, and the like?

3. Scripts - how big or what impact does a script need to be written by sysad or dev?

4. Oncall - normally are sysads job, but when you implement strong gates between dev/sysad, you need oncall devs.
No more coal. Right now the only way carbon is permanently lost from the ecosystem is from ocean crustacean shells being lost to the bottom of the ocean. Interestingly enough, before humans started freeing carbon, the ecosystem was in a period of all time low for available carbon.
Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
EIP ERC: App Keys, application specific wallet accounts
Tetra is expensive. Great for long term storage and backpack durability, but not worth the added cost (read: resources used in their manufacture) for something that must be consumed within 1-2 weeks of opening.

I do buy cheap wine in tetra boxes. They have a spigot to limit air-intake, so you can take your time to finish it.
The Amazon Race: A news game about what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse
A Lisp machine isn't just some hardware with Lisp on top. You can do that today with x86. A Lisp machine is supposed to have support for lisp primitives at a hardware level.
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WorldWideWeb predates UTF-8 by several years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19206433
Cool story bro.

Me, just like Uyghurs, would prefer to be spied on by the evil empire which DOESN'T rule me.

Uyghurs are ruled by China so they'd rather be spied on by us for sure.

I live in Europe so I'm ruled by US, and therefore would prefer China to spy on me.
There's a cement plant in Belgium that burns trash and filters the toxic materials. I seem to remember a figure of 99.99% of toxic materials filtered.
You completely ignored the details of the thing you linked to and you completely ignored my comment to do it. Dillusionment is a part of extreme reactions to phobias.

The details for the spec update you are talking about have already been addressed in these comments: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...

You should read my previous comment if you want any further replies.