skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India should have done this long ago.

Recycling items is way harder than it needs to be.

First companies need to re-engineer their products to minimize the solid waste and maximize recyclability

Second, people need to easily understand what can be recycled and what can not so they can make an informed decision

Third, communities should not have the option to ship out their waste and have someone else deal with the problem. By shipping out their problems they never have to deal with the consequences.

Solid waste is as much pollution as smog has been in large cities. Clean air laws have changed the whole environment in cites like Los Angeles.It's time we start doing the same with solid waste.
Yo! Trusted user from Arch Linux.

>On the other side of the spectrum, I've found that the official binary repositories for Arch Linux suffer many of the same issues described in the article for Debian. Patches being ignored and collaboration or involvement being near impossible.

Well, we still relay on svn internally so things are complicated to say the least. Even if we had things on git (which we are working on), I'm unsure if opening stuff up for outside collaborations like gentoo, alpine, void and nixos does is a good way. You need the proper tooling setup to make sure this isn't a burden on the maintainers.

>Even worse, the few people in charge of the official repositories are allowed to basically remove packages from the AUR with no interaction with the AUR maintainer, for the purpose of "promoting" them to the official repositories.

Which is true. Some people email maintainers of complicated packages before inclusion, and some also gives a headsup in the comments of the AUR. However, this is all done if the packager want to. There is no rules here. The removal is on the grounds that AUR packages shouldn't overlap with official ones.

>This has happened to me twice, and it resulted in what I think is a worse package in one of those cases.

I'm interested taking a look at this if you want :) foxboron@archlinux.org or just type in the comments.
There is a powerful (sub?)culture in the business world based upon proclaiming your company is sustainable. LEED is actually part of the problem in a way.

The metrics are based on unimportant factors like “diversion” (meaning it was dumped in a foreign country as “recycling” rather than safely burned or land filled), and the measurements are almost All estimates.

It will be a long road to change a culture that demands “recycling” simply because a politician or CEO committed to “Zero Waste by 20X0”, and the recycling rate must always go up year over year.
Indeed leaf blowers produc one of the most distracting and annoying sounds when working from home
Sensors fail, at some point that becomes the airline's responsibility to maintain and not something which can be blamed on the manufacturer. Lion Air had reason to believe the sensors were malfunctioning and they still flew the plane unfixed.
Twitter’s ambitious plan to change the way we tweet
I don't have data on flight miles or flight segments by type of aircraft, so let's do a quick and dirty estimate.

Let's say there are 40,000 commercial aircraft worldwide and 350 of these are the Boeing 737 Max [0].

If all aircraft are equally likely to crash, then the probability of a given crash being a 737 Max is 350/40000 = 0.00875.

The probability that two crashes are both 737 Max is 0.00875 * 0.00875 = 0.0000766

It's extremely unlikely that an aircraft representing less than 1% of the global fleet would crash twice in a short period of time unless there is a serious defect with that aircraft.

That's well past probable cause at this point. This aircraft should be grounded until they figure this out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_...
That's not the point the article is making.
We've had CVS for years.
It's evident that GP is referring to the private keys.
I think that it's moving to incineration domestically. Thats the trend here in Australia, combined heat and power is being touted as probably better (the smoke is an issue, the ash is an issue)
No, CT is stupid. Transparency is not necessary for security, but preventing invalid certificate issuance is. CT doesn't even do that. It just alerts you to it after the fact - but you have to monitor it to be useful anyway, so it's actually opt-in security. And it creates annoying side-effects like this public/private thing, or actually preventing CAs from issuing certs when their CT endpoints go down. It's ridiculous. CT is a bank alarm that goes off after the bank's been robbed, that you won't hear unless your radio is tuned to pick it up.
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Is it possible to prevent "Floating Videos"?
Anyone who enjoys this article should check out American Kingpin written by Nick Bilton. I finished the audiobook recently and loved it! Very well researched, great story, nonfiction that reads like a fiction thriller, and great narration. Loved it.
Oh my God but that would be bad because privacy or something! Only some other implementation is okay!
NixOS (Nixpkgs actually) is indeed incredibly simple to contribute to.

It's a monorepo, and packages are declarative. So for most usecases, its just 5-10 LOC describing the source location, dependencies and build process.

After that, if it builds on your local copy of Nixpkgs, it will build on the same Nixpkgs commit as everything is purely functional. A simple PR is all you need.

For updates, there's super low burden too. Thanks to packages being declarative, everything is quite explicit. So a bot can check for source updates upstream, update your package and rebuild it. All it requires is simple maintainer approval.
EPA standards are a joke, designed primarily to avoid panic in the masses and allow the polluters to continue doing their thing.

Go ahead, get your "just fine" tap water tested by a lab, it only costs a couple hundred bucks to do a full array.

Then, consider how misleading the "parts per million" metric is, considering Avogadro's number.

Just because all this shit does not lead to immediate and perceptible illness doesn't mean that it is not putting a strain on our immune systems and causing DNA damage left and right.

Each of those ppm requires an immune cell (or multiple) to bond with it, sacrificing itself, and transport it into the kidneys or liver, where it sits around also causing damage, and so on, until it is broken down into more hazardous substances, or finally leaves the body, if ever.

If you are not frantically getting filters installed in all your loved ones' homes, I think are just not paying attention. And I'm not talking about Brita either.
It's coming out this year https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/motorcycles/future-veh...
Yeah this one area where SF and Vancouver aren't comparable.

Vancouver like any city has its yimby tinges, but it has always built lots of housing. Multi-unit development at the moment is at all time highs.
Why Social Network Analysis Is Important
I've posted elsewhere wondering along those same lines. With these types of people, it isn't so much that they're straight up crooks in the way that we would think, but that they seem to have a worldview where they're entitled to greatness and no physical laws can prevent them from doing something if only they want it enough. When you take this worldview in a high dose, and combine it with genuine intelligence, skill, and a bit of luck, then you get Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. and all they've accomplished. Take out the intelligence and skill, and you get Anna Delvey and Holmes.

I can even kind of see that, from a VC's perspective, this trait may be even more important to them than the intelligence and skill. Their business is built around investing in 20 crazy-ambitious ideas with the expectation that 19 will fail, but the other one will go big enough to pay off the loss of the other 19 and still provide huge gains. Better then to stick with the delusionally optimistic rather than reasonable and sane business plans that will probably make decent money but will never grow 1000x.
An F-35 Pilot Explains What It's Like to Fly the Joint Strike Fighter
Location is everything. If trading firms are willing to spend money to position their towers slightly closer to the trading endpoint, the town where the endpoint is located should approve construction in geographic order, allowing new towers to be constructed closer to the endpoint in a way that maximizes tax revenue to the city.

Ideally this would keep a lot of tower-construction people continually employed and paying taxes, building new towers ten meters in front of the old ones every month or two.
I like the Arch/AUR approach too as you don't even have to host your own repo. With a good AUR helper that system is quite convenient for maintainers as well as users.
So like in any other country? Except for the forbidding, of course.
This reminds me of the Noahpad, one of the sillier ideas to come out of the Great Netbook Craze of the late 2000s. That thing looked like an ergonomic nightmare and RSI waiting to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FovGyv96a30
>> I'll remain in the control group.

Sorry I chuckled

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_terrorism#LSD_thr...
I just switched to an electric mower. It cost about the same as an decent mower, is lighter weight, always starts, is plenty powerful, and has about 45 minutes of charge on a swappable battery. I could buy more batteries if I wanted more runtime. I can also swap that battery with other equipment like string trimmers.

I've overhauled my last temperamental gas carb. The end of gas lawn gear is indeed in sight.
If I want, I can go down to my polling place before it opens, inspect all the boxes to be empty, watch as people put their ballots in, then watch as the boxes are emptied and the ballots counted. If I'm not allowed to do all this, I can't trust the vote unless I trust the people that administered it.

Electronic voting always requires trust in the administrators.
This. This so hard. Data captures existing biases, so models will likely lead to more of the same outcomes. We see this already with crime statistics in the U.S., not to mention college acceptance rates, home & auto interest rates, even job offers.

We may have gone to the moon, but by and large scientists of today are just as susceptible to mistakes as prior generations that had "solid evidence" like how European ancestry correlated with higher IQ. As good as it feels to wrap ourselves in the warm fuzzy blankets of "being woke" and thinking we're somehow different, I'm going to keep remaining skeptical of the results until I know exactly how they were reached (and the black box of deep learning makes that a little tricky).
So, the different path lengths implied by internal reflections don't contribute anything to the smear?

By the way, the uncertainty principle doesn't say we can't have a narrow pulse. Frequency versus time can be used as an analogy to help explain the uncertainty principle. If we know a precise frequency, the signal is poorly localized in the time domain. If a signal is narrowly localized in the time domain, it is poorly localized in the frequency domain. The uncertainty principle is something else, though: it revolves around not being able to make certain related measurements simultaneously, at the quantum level. We can be quite certain about the frequency content of a transient pulse and its exact temporal shape, if it's not something from the quantum domain.
Well I gave you an example: childcare in nursery is widely accepted. You however got upset to hear a straightforward answer to a question expected to demonstrate your moral superiority.
Nearly half of older homeless people fell into trouble after age 50
Extra note, Roscomnadzor also writes non Russian companies hosting content they have issues with and request that non .ru providers take it down to “protect” Russians.
A GAN eating its own tail
Decent 4 stroke ones are pretty clean and quiet IME, maybe just ban the 2 stroke cheapos.
Anyone have a list of these mansions that are being rented, google searching isn't showing anything?

Sounds like a place to go for the summer now.
Media queries are ways to only apply a bunch of CSS on clients that fulfill some conditions.

If I write:

@media (max-width: 500px) {
p {
font-style: italic;
}
}

It will turn the text in p tags italic on small screens.
I had a VTech "PreComputer 2000" in the 90's, a kids toy. It was battery powered, with a 2 line display, had word games, etc. One of the games was "BASIC", which was like a typing game that beeped a lot. I finally read the manual and found out that BASIC was a pretty good game once you understand it.

I'm glad the creators of that toy computer made it into an actual computing device, more than the mere toy it appeared to be, and that they included a manual which actually taught how to program.
> Then there is a ton of documentation on creating packages but which 300 page guide is the right one to use is unclear. And which set of packaging tools should I use?

I've run into the same problems, though I've only wanted to build packages for my own use, or company-internal use.

I think I've understood now how packaging is supposed to work, and have written a guide, shameless plug: http://leanpub.com/debian/c/hn (coupon link to get a free copy; feedback would be appreciated).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355185
I could easily see it go either way; it really depends on the bug. Some obvious issue, like "this button should do X but it does Y" can be verified by almost anyone. But some issues need the attention of the original author to really verify the bug. Maybe what needs to be done is someone in QA needs to attempt to verify the bug, or "pre-verify", and then it goes back to the originator for final verification, who can also verify it, or simply close it if they feel like QA did a good job.
I agree with you completely. Imagine if Libraries didn't already exist and the US Government tried to implement a Public Library. Fox New would have a field day.
Huh? Whoever likes oligarchs in Russia?

If you mean the popularity of Putin then propaganda and general low level of education of populace.
The switches are right here in the middle of all 737 consoles and instantly disable automatic stabiliser control:

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2018/11/15/lionair-737...
Yeah, it is stupid. I used to see this all the time.
Watch General Chuck Yeager Break the Sound Barrier
I moved from SF to NYC last summer and I'm starting to really like it.

Prior to being in California I was in Chicago and it was a big upgrade for me professionally being in the room with just tech folks for a few years.

Now that I've moved I appreciate more the blending of other industries.

It's also cheaper to live in Manhattan than SF these days.
Normally you want to keep your random number source secret, but this has a good application for trusted timestamping[0]. You can use the random output with a signature to proof that you had some information before a specific time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Let's not overgeneralize. There are many recycling that do not export garbage elsewhere and they are profitable. Recycling metals is easy and works well for example; it is not inefficient nor dirty.

Avoid producing waste, reuse, recycle, incinerate it, final disposal (or reuse in concrete etc): that's the chain to follow, and each part is important.
or you misread the headline, price reverts and you end up with losing position. i am genuinely curious, how feasible this headline trading is.
Flat keycaps means it's not really suitable for any prolonged used. The newish mac keyboards solve the key homing problem with large gaps between keys, but it's still not great experience.
Am I missing something? Most Bosch tools for instance use their universal battery packs, they fit nearly all old tools and it's a pretty safe bet that they will fit all the new ones too. There's plenty of 3rd party replacements on the market, but there's almost zero chance that you won't be able to buy a replacement battery for your bosch leaf blower in few years.

That's their standardised battery pack - it fits dozens of different tools:
https://www.bosch-do-it.com/gb/en/diy/tools/battery-pack-pba...
Not really since there is little chance for this to work well without additional software which likely would limit its functionality, also it doesn’t seem to matter that much for a couch keyboard and if you want smaller there are smaller keyboards.
I'm inclined to disagree with you at first. But I think Pareto's Principle applies here - this is the 20% that has 80% of the impact.

I've worked with people who run the sales part of things, and even they try to avoid conversations with strangers when possible. It's easy to hide behind "social media marketing".

Just be careful not to practice selling "anything" like many people start out. A big part of sales is being able to explain why something is useful to someone else.

Sales is simply finding a stranger whose problem you can solve, and explaining to them how you can help.
> If you're lucky they still make the battery, but it costs as much a whole new tool.

Aren't most companies working on a standardized battery (at least within their brand) so you can swap batteries between your drill, blower, trimmer, etc? It would seem that if that's the case, changing battery form factors would be a real bad idea.
ICE makes more arrests at decoy university; some detainees being deported
> Until we can objectively test the likelihood of humans that have never been taught a language, like "feral children" [0], to spontaneously develop a coding system on their own, can we really compare innate intelligence in these areas across species?

Nicaraguan Sign Language[1] developed spontaneously among a group of deaf children.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
> dpkg -S path/to/file

In the case of config files, this only seems to work sometimes -- maybe if it wasn't modified by the user? Or if it came from a package directly, and wasn't generated from its {pre,post}inst scripts?

$ dpkg -S /etc/hosts
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/hosts
$ dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/resolv.conf
$ dpkg -S /etc/bash_completion
bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion
Really? The official images have been quite solid and up-to-date in my experience. Has that changed since last year?
I get that arbitrage helps set the price, but what does HFT do, beyond deciding which of the competing nano-second enabled traders get to edge a profit in an artifact of how information flows?

I don't see this HFT as being information-worthy arbitrage. I have an intent to set a real-world price, I declare it, and in the increment of time it takes my packets to flow, somebody edges in the queue and inserts trades to make me have to deal with them for some increment of price. I wind up paying more, and the original source winds up getting less, or some other event.

its like re-intermediation, in a world heading to dis-intermediation.

What is the real-world, wider economic "good" here? If my pension fund is routinely profiting from this, I am not sure that is a wider good btw: We could probably make more money selling Heroin, if we're going down this 'whatever it takes' track...
Yeah the packaging part of NixOS/Nixpkgs is very pleasant. You write a "config" in the Nix language (example[1] of vorbis-tools, it's <40 LOC), open a PR on Github and it'll be submitted provided you follow the CR feedback. As a user you'd later download the built binary from the NixOS cache so you don't have to build it yourself.

[1]:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fce8f26af6ef8209c7d282...
Sure, some property owners will luck out in the way you're describing. Their lot will be bought out to develop a high-rise.

But it's just as likely that the lot next to them will be bought for development, and theirs will be passed over for the foreseeable future, or that the only reason anyone lives in their suburb is because of unreasonable prices where people actually want to live.

Now their property value will plateau or fall as demand for housing falls due to new development happening elsewhere.

In the long term it's likely that everyone involved will win, but many property owners just have a 10-20 year horizon before they'd like to sell, and might correctly foresee that a deregulated zoning policy might lead to a growth slump in that time frame if the supply doesn't continue to be artificially restricted.
Why burn gas to push leaves around at all though?
It always amazes me how close to this sort of thing Szukalski was, with his "Behold! The Protong!!" .. I mean, he was an artist who saw all these ancient signs and signals as a porto-tongue throughout all human culture.

Does anyone know if Szukalski has any credence among these researchers? He is definitely in the lunatic-fringe/crazy-guy sector - but maybe he was right that there is a common human language throughout all ancient art?

So crazy to see his claims being investigated now and confirmed by mainstream archeologists ..
> But some folks just Won't Let Theranos Go. It comes up again and again and again as some kind of existential moral statement instead of the one-every-few-years business scandal that it actually is. And as far as I can tell, the only reason for this is that some of the early investors (that's right, the victims of the crime) were Democrats.

What? No... it's because we'd never seen the Silicon Valley Startup Hype Machine ramped up to it's fully glory before like Theranos. Also svelte young blueeyed blondes are catnip to media, combine that with "youngest self made female billionaire" and it's mandatory reporting and guaranteed spotlight in the public eye... throwing the fact that it was all a scam and renewed interest and modern popularity with TrueCrime genre and modern scammers like Anna Delvey and Fyre Festival and .... kaboom, here we are. Didn't hurt that Bad Blood was also excellently written and well-researched. All in all an excellent story.
Quite a lot I think - setting your own hours, picking what you work on, picking who you work with, picking how you work (tools, meetings, 100% remote etc.), being able to work on side projects you can profit from without them being owned by your employer, potential to earn a lot more since you're working directly with clients, not having a boss to answer to (you have to answer to clients but not in the same way especially since you have multiple clients) and lots of freedom around vacations (which I'm guessing is closer to "unlimited vacations" than you'd get from an employer).

Unstable income, having to market yourself and more means it isn't for everyone though.
I'm pointing out a curious trait of the tech industry as a whole -- the ethos of the community.

Whether or not the names listed currently work as software engineers, or whether or not they all have autism, is inconsequential.
People in the commodities business are used to this, it’s not as big a problem as you’d think.

The bigger factor that makes recycling harder to justify is that it’s very easy and cheap to make new stuff.
Much the same can be said about America's own heartland. I got out as soon as I could afford enough gas to make it across the physical, ideological, and mental borders.

Somebody else can stay and "advance" things. Life's too short.
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The cost makes it hard to use biodegradables. They are way more expensive so companies won't buy them if they don't have to. Industries like fast food restaurants survive on a very tight profit margin so a few cents makes a difference. Also, if they aren't properly handled so they can decompose they are just as bad since they won't break down.