skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large part of this is the new rules on contamination that exclude a lot of material. 0.5% is China's new limit, while a average city with curbside collection could never meet that. Think about your typical recycling bin: You put in some newspaper that is prime recycling material, but then a milk jug or soda bottle that hasn't been fully emptied or rinsed gets tossed in and the paper gets soaked and is now unusable for recycling. Same with pizza boxes that have grease, stuff that gets rained on, people putting stuff in the bins that isn't recyclable in this manner (including electronic components and such [0]), and suddenly you're throwing away (or burning) a huge amount of material.

"China, once the biggest single processor of recycling, said in the spring that it would no longer accept loads of recyclable items — such as plastic, glass, cardboard, and metals — that were more than 0.5 percent contaminated. Officials said they were trying to cut down on pollution from processing dirty recyclables.

Philadelphia’s contamination rate is anywhere from 15 percent to 20 percent. That meant its previous contractor for recycling, Republic Services, had to find other markets for processing or begin disposing of portions of contaminated loads in other ways, such as in landfills or by incineration.

As recently as the first quarter of 2012, Philadelphia was getting paid $67.35 a ton for its recyclables. By summer 2018, Republic was negotiating a new contract to process recyclables that would cost the city $170 a ton."[1]

[0] "Reduce, reuse, incinerate: Why half of Philly's recyclables aren't recycled" (Feb 11, 2019)
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/657780675/the-why

[1] "At least half of Philly’s recycling goes straight to an incinerator" (Jan 25 2019)
https://www.philly.com/science/climate/recycling-costs-phila...
The Greater Toronto Area has added more jobs than Silicon Valley in the last year.

Vancouver also has a strong tech scene. Microsoft and Amazon have setup shop here. Apple also has a small team here, and are growing their presence in the next couple of years.

There are also lots of other tech companies such as ACL, SAP etc, as well as other local companies such as Unbounce and Hootsuite, and myriad other smaller tech startups.

Pay scale in Vancouver is good, and certainly lower than the Valley. Not sure how Toronto shapes up with both of those areas.

Rent is expensive in Vancouver and Toronto, and that can prove a barrier to entry here unless you find a good realtor to work , and depending on the needs of your team.
From the land of 'Been there, done that'

2 choices:
1) Wake up, find a new job, before you get laid off too.
2) Wake up, find a job working on their product, before you get laid off too.

I worked for a company that had about 3000 employees. We were bought by a competitor. Layoffs came often as they tried, with some success, to convert our customers to their product. But many liked ours better. Eventually to kill our product and force acceptance of theirs, they laid off all the developers. The only ones not laid off were the cool aid drinkers who switched.

Myself, I was taken out when it went from 200 people to 100. The next year they closed our place. It put my career back a good 5 years.

Smart people left early on their own, not laid off, and found much better jobs.

All the while as we were being squeezed the place kept getting more and more depressing.

Another friend was in a company he loved on a product he loved. The parent company just outright killed the project. He and a few others quit and started working on the project. He worked another job to feed his family. He works 60 to 100 hours a week. Has recently found out the others are screwing him and if it takes off he gets nothing.

Moral of the stories: do not fall in love with a project so much that you cannot walk away.

2nd moral, get it in writing.
I think more often they just don't get the tickets. I've had Uber and Lyft drivers complain to me about tickets they got and it seems like they were paying out of pocket for them and it was a very huge and noticeable expense.

Pretty sure one $200 ticket can wipe out 2-4 days of hard driving profits.
Not at all. In my experience European financial regulators are significantly less likely to tolerate companies trying to argue technicalities as Musk's team has done in response to the SEC's show cause order. European regulators expect compliance with the spirit of the law while U.S. regulators tend to expect compliance with the black letter law. Certainly pros & cons to both approaches but Musk's behavior certainly wouldn't fly under either regime.
In Canada too.

http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/packaging/bags-of-...
Author here, there is also one in python, one in C# and one in rust. And today I learned that there is one in swift (but based in gimli).
> has now finally caught up to Chrome on stability and speed

Arguably, with its market share dwindling fast, it's not enough to just be technically on par.

Further, it is absolutely not up to par on Linux and from what I know, MacOS as well.
I put some thought into this last month. There are not a lot of consumer grade routers out there that support multiple LANs. Once you get into the business edge router type gear, it starts to become pretty easy. There's a few brands that will do it, and certainly a pfsense appliance on an x86 system with a few network adapters will do it. Running a router on an old computer is getting a bit out of style though...

My solution is really quite shoddy but it satisfies me. I took an old router and set it up with its WAN as a LAN client, and its LAN as an IoT network. The router does not have NAT translation on the LAN interface. It does however perform NAT on the openvpn interface. My new IoT network, which is on its own vlan/ssid/however I split layer 2, runs the packets through the vpn and out onto the Internet in some other network, and in theory never shall the two LANs touch. If the vpn goes down, there is no NAT to leak them out my home ISP directly. Sure, I'm doing double nat, but for my IoT stuff, who cares. It's just dye going in the river, just make it go away from me.

I adopted a recurring cost of 3 bucks for a vpn. But I didn't have to get shiny new gear or run an entire computer. My little way for the sake of sharing. Love to hear any criticism of it since I am still thinking about it quite a bit.
When used as a cache, Redis is often used as a 'look aside cache' (vs 'look thru cache'). Generally speaking, Redis does not talk directly to your database. Instead, your code looks to Redis, and then if it doesn't find what it's looking for, your code looks to your SQL database
Who gives a damn if there's a single atom representing a cons or not?

Hipsters?
https://vimeo.com/34419805

The massive corporate centralization of all media channels is the primary source of distrust in journalism now. It seeks profit by whatever controversy, fake news, or distraction that will sell ads, regardless of traditional value.

Being a staunch environmentalist I obviously loathe most Republicans and hate centrist-dominated Democrats almost as much.

But it is clear to me that the partisanship of the country is due to a flood of media desperate for clicks, overwhelming people who have not or cannot adapt to the propaganda firehose.

Here's a fun little experiment: where can you tune in on TV for balanced opinions on issues that will actually account for more that a single viewpoints, coming out of the same mouth? You know, things like "caveats" or saying "granted" about some aspect of the opposing side?

Moderation doesn't fuel emotions, and emotions and radicalization are what gets you constant viewership.

Like all other industries in America, the conglomerates need to be split up.
The HN headline is definitely ambiguous and, I'd say, wrong. Anything is "at risk to hackers" if you include all varieties of cracking (not just remote exploits, but physical attacks, social engineering...).

The site's current headline ("40% of Smart Homes Currently Vulnerable to Hacking") is somewhat better ("vulnerable" instead of "at risk"), but they clarify in the first paragraph ("... are vulnerable to remove (sic) hacks ...").
>Pharmaceutical companies spend way more on marketing than research.

Because who cares if you've made a breakthrough product and no one knows about it?

>why can't US insurance companies, hospitals and consumers buy it for that price

Because profits for future R&D has to come from somewhere? And if everyone is lined up for a discount, future R&D will suffer.
Galaxy S10: Four Models, Countless Upgrades
Between people losing their keyphrase, to software wallets being hacked, to hardware wallets being compromised...at what point is it more safe to just keep your coins on a reputable, insured, exchange? I think the odds of Coinbase doing a Mt. Gox are a lot more slim than the odds of a random person screwing up their own storage solution.
Michael D. Cohen's prepared testimony [pdf]
Not necessarily. The application in question is for the baseband reference frequency in a radio. If the oscillator can be powered down with the radio, and powered on during transmit, it would be a great savings.

A good callout re: low power applications, however.
Now you’ll receive dozens of responses of people saying that Firefox is much faster and leaner than Chrome for them. But that’s not the case for me or anybody I know. Chrome continues being faster for me.
This thread consists of conservatives whining about CNN and others, vs others taking shots at the post and the author of the article.

So yeah, bias. I'm not at all convinced this is a "both sides" issue. You can find errors in coverage and examples of bias, but the scale of the Murdoch/Mercer news empires really has no match from the center. The actual left wing is pretty well unrepresented.

The big problem I have is their obsession with ridiculous fact checking now. Not checking how many bodies are actually in the morgue, or whether or not a statue was removed. I mean the bullshit pedantry. Donald Trump says in the state of the union that the US has been at war in the middle east for almost 19 years. The NYT "fact checks" that as "actually it's only been almost 18 years". What does that accomplish? Is anyone more informed? Is there any story there? Is there any commentary on the state of the union, or just a summary? Does it matter at all? Is their fact check even accurate?

My problem with it is that this has replaced any sort of quality journalism with just a mass of worthless fact checks and the important stuff gets buried.
Understanding Search Query Syntax
> It's like complaining that developers are increasingly shunning other OSes

Except that web apps are easy to make OS-agnostic and always have been[1]. If your webapp isn't, that is because you chose to make it that way, not for a technical reason.

Pretending that's OK because these other things have to be that way isn't going to convince anyone, but you can get away with that for enterprise-development or captive audiences. Just don't try to gaslight people. For me, I'm just going to close your site when it breaks and not come back. Seems that tradeoff works for you too, so that's good, at least.

[1] Sure, that thing that never caught on, and IE6. Thanks.
I don't buy it. It's one jump to method definition away, which even an editor without IDE capability should be able to manage. But also, this is what dynamic languages look like, and people still manage to be productive.

(I'll agree it can be a bit tricky with LINQ and anonymous types in C#, but I think `var` usage is worth that trade-off)
>- I can't inspect WebSocket frames in anything except Chrome.

For what it's worth, WebSockets show up as type 'Other' in the inspector, and the frames are listed under 'Preview'.

Edit: Safari.
This is exactly what I did. I have an IoT VLAN and I also limit the ports accessible to those devices. I just wish this setup was available to the average consumer that doesn't know how to do this.
> I think the current friction in free flow of medication across borders is not unwarranted. I'm thinking of Thalidomide as an example.

That's a completely different situation.

Currently, if an American pharmaceutical company produces a drug in the US and exports it to another country, people in the US cannot purchase it from foreign suppliers, even though it's both FDA-approved and produced by the same manufacturer. This dramatically raises the prices of drugs in the US.

Allowing imports of FDA-approved drugs from both domestic and foreign manufacturers would reduce prescription costs in the US greatly.
Shouldn't the app maker have to prove that the new version doesn't have the same problem?

It's not justified, it's just a way to swindle consumers.
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Heh, good catch.
Construction costs are not the same everywhere. AFAIK the ground Berlin is built on is not suitable for tall (=heavy) buildings.
My question was slightly sarcastic, but primarily sincere, in that I want to hear first-hand accounts from cancer patients in other OECD countries.

Rudy Guliani said this in a campaign ad [1] when he was running for U.S. president in 2007-2008. I also recall him saying this in one of the Republican debates. When my (now) wife, who is German and has also lived in Denmark, heard this she couldn't help laughing.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani-ad-chances/
That claim isn't surprising even if it came from a company with no vested interest.

Most people who have those smart devices aren't really in the technical field. They won't have VLANs segmenting their network, or sniffers watching, let alone a proper firewall.

Look at Mirai; took over smart devices and instead of gaining footholds into everyones network; just used all the outbound traffic.

I wouldn't dismiss the claim just because an AV company said it.
Yeah, I remember that Quartz was far more advanced than X. My favorite at the time, e16, never supported translucency or transparency very well. But I love that it tried.

It's probably nostalgia talking, but I miss the gnarly desktops that used to be so common.

https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/e16_screen...

http://nova.polymtl.ca/~coyote/picturesd/linux/enlightenment...

https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/scaled_full_803a5625...

https://joindiaspora.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/images/scaled_...

http://i.imgur.com/SIvEH.jpg

I remember when Hulu came out in 2009, the default reaction from the community was to release python scripts that auto-ripped it and piped the video into mplayer. Today, the reaction is to compromise our OS by supporting Widevine DRM or some other nonsense.

It probably did more to advocate for Linux when we weren't afraid to be different, or break the rules for the user.

Maybe it's egotistical, but this used to be the experience of using a Linux laptop ten years ago:
https://xkcd.com/272/

Linux actually felt more capable than Windows in a lot of ways, except maybe some hardware support.

Today, it is:
Oh, you're using Linux because you couldn't afford a Windows license, right? Linux is to Windows as OpenOffice is to Microsoft Office?
I am an Iranian (Technically West Asian) and I can totally relate to this article!

What I find challenging in yogurt making g is to keep the yogurt culture from drifting and in its original state. After a while my culture becomes more acidic and less thick. I think its due to other local bacteria invading my culture, which I try to keep pure by sanitizing anything that comes in contact with it. I find it surprising that it is not an issue for most people in the article.
The iPhone’s next 3D camera signals phase two in the AR race
> If it works as intended on Chrome, it’s ready to ship

A great step Firefox could take in this space is improving the transparency and performance auditing of its own engine. Debugging rendering performance issues between browsers is still an absolute nightmare. If Firefox can provide a better developer experience than Chrome, it might increase the likelihood that web developers would use FF as their first-choice development platform for simplicity and utility of tools. If it doesn't, it may still decrease the odds that when faced with a nasty performance bug, developers will throw up their hands and say "Chrome does it right; I guess FF still just sucks for performance in this corner case."

FF has been making impressive strides in this space, but their toolchain still feels clunky and slow relative to Chrome Developer Tools.
I don't particularly like the manifesto style of this post. The author attempts a hard sell by first admitting that the world needed Chrome and then after it succeeded he suggests throwing it to the depths after the wish came true.

> Chrome is effectively everywhere you look. And that’s bad news.

Why? It's the dream you wanted 10 years ago, but it comes with Google now. Ooops for you if you dislike Google, but the vast majority of people doesn't care. Use Safari, Firefox or anything, but calling out ditching Chrome is for the greater good is ridiculous.

H mentions 60% as a dominant position which is not how I would describe it in my dictionary.
> An ecosystem that doesn’t seem concerned with performance, user experience, privacy, or pushing computing forward.

What? Chrome was more performant that any browser at the time it was released and it's still pretty good. It also became the gold standard for browser UX so much so that all other browsers copied a lot of it. Chrome also brought with it multi-process tabs and the V8 Javascript engine, how is that not "pushing computing forward"?
> with all your smarts why aren't you building search engines

It's a hard problem, especially if you factor in keeping your servers running.
If health care for all reduces prices and total cost, then yeah. Otherwise, the cost will cripple the government, and by extension taxpayers. Right now they can declare bankruptcy and just don't pay (at a great cost, no doubt) but the government will have to pay. Cancer is a fact of life,38.4% will get it in their life https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics and unless costs are dramatically lowered any plan will be bankrupt.
Don't see Google pausing Chrome's development for 4 years like Internet Explorer.
Thinking back, there was a noticable difference between the computers I "played" with and those I treated more carefully

Smalltalk environments try to capture some of this spirit. If you do something really bad, you just re-start the image and replay the change log, leaving off the last entry.
> Cancer and other life threatening diseases rarely bankrupt Europeans, Canadians, Australians, Kiwis, Japanese etc.

Sure, but they're also dramatically less likely to survive the cancer than Americans are at a population level. There have been multiple long-term studies on cancer survival rates that have demonstrated this.
Related: entire self-contained 'villages' for dementia patients: https://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-...
I agree with the author's sentiment but Chrome/chromium is just so much better than the alternatives. I've tried to switch to Firefox many times and always came back.

They seem to be doing something right.
Yup. I'm using Firefox on macOS as well and suffering from the same bug. If you use your Macbook with the resolution set to 'scaled' Firefox absolutely murders your battery. On top of that there's a bug where H264 video doesn't get properly accelerated. Both these bugs have been in Firefox at least since FF62. Both have alternatingly been marked 'priority 2' or 'fix-optional' which is absolutely baffling to me considering how crucial battery life is in today's portable world. I've even gone into the Firefox IRC multiple times where the fix has been promised to be in a 'point release' since FF63..

I get that they have limited resources but it makes getting people to switch (and stay) on Firefox increasingly hard if it cuts battery life of their laptop nearly in half.
He's a narcissist. He believes his own hype and he thinks he's untouchable.

That and they have about a billion dollars in debt coming due in a few days. Gotta keep that distraction going.
I didn't spell everything out. I never suggested you store the electricity in batteries. The electric heater would be used to heat some mass, like a tank of water or bricks. I look at this impeller and I see a custom mechanical design, with seals that are prone to failure. You replace that with an off-the-shelf DC motor and a resister bank in a tank of water, and you can put the tank of water in your basement or wherever you already have the heater for your hot-water heating system.
yeah....Apple, thats the solution to ending corporate ownership of the web. :smacks head:
Yup, not saying that if Coinomi was open source this wouldn't have happened...but, chances are someone would have caught this if it was.
From what I understand, it had to do with how fast Apple was upstreaming their changes/patches, a big part of which would require Apple to accept the modifications to Webkit core.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/googl...
We can ban different shapes, and the company will have to manage without this "differentiator".

Soda supplied to bars and restaurants in Denmark is usually in returnable bottles, including Fanta and Sprite (which elsewhere have shaped bottles). Coca Cola has a shape, but perhaps they sell enough to make it worthwhile to sort these from the usual shape.

https://www.bevco.dk/vand-og-mixer/sodavand/filter/flaske_ty...

(I drink close to zero soda at home. I know supermarkets sell cans and plastic bottles, both single-use but with a deposit. Possibly they sell the glass ones too. Most Danish beer is sold in a reusable bottle, foreign or microbrew beer just has a deposit but the bottle isn't reused.)
Doesn't it also have the disadvantage that, unlike physical cash, it can be stolen electronically? At least with cash someone has to mug me in person to take it, which reduces the attack surface quite a lot.
>they also demonstrate solutions that are now possible thanks to Rust

This seems specious. If I started a grep implementation from scratch in C{,++}, it isn't clear to me that I couldn't achieve the same (or better) results as ripgrep. Comparing a totally rewritten program to one designed decades ago and concluding 'without Rust, we wouldn't have this faster program with better hardware use' doesn't seem quite right.
My standard is the browser ~95% of my users use. It's the only meaningful one.

I still fix FF bugs when they come in (it seems to be a bigger offender than IE recently) but developing for Chrome first is the only approach which makes business sense.
You wait for them to do so, and are vocal whenever this happens.
Google's motto used to be "don't be evil," and there was a time when people honestly believed they meant it. Hell, I think there was a time when Google did honestly mean it.
Honest question about glass, from someone who also wants glass everything:

If we swapped back to glass containers for everything, would there be significant increase in CO2 emissions from the added shipping weight?
It's not likely to taste better because it's older. It is more likely to yield a more consistent flavor that can't be readily acquired from elsewhere.

Over long periods, this kind of tradition can yield unique flavors in yeasts. You can see the results of this in the many different yeasts used to make beer.
The difference is "hidden from the public" vs "hidden from every human being every living". If there is a perpetrator/victim, there's at least two people that can break out of the nd/hush scenario.

And, well I'm a little surprised on the teacher angle (and even firefighter).. Have teachers really abused children and simply been "reassigned to different positions with pay"? Is this a common occurrence statistically?
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