skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
high vacancy rate, or low occupancy rate
Vendor lock-in at the level of Google, Microsoft or Amazon is not the same as becoming overly reliant on a single small factory down the road providing a critical sensor.
One of the “fired” has come forward with a clarification to state he was a shite employee for 7-8m before being let go. It wasn’t until the NDA that he piped up about the incident. Maybe he’s dragged other former employers online before. Regardless, wouldn’t be surprised if the company got smart and frontloaded NDAs at the beginning of employment instead of the end.
Though vidalia.onion would be a stylish domain name. It'd be better than vidaliaonion.io.

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"The answer is to stop making the endless flow of single use plastic"

What's the question? Because I can tell you right now that plunging us back into a world of expensive commodities won't be accepted by most consumers. Not in the developed world, and not in developing nations.
Agree with the other comment saying this was fun and exciting to read -- very well written and makes a strong point. I fully hope, when I am able to get off my lazy ass and do something, to sell a simple physical product that people already want. Food's a great example of this.
Read book, type out the code from the book, check that it works. Then I try tweaking the code, seeing if it does what I expect. If it does not, I try to figure out why. Once I've finished a chapter or so, I see if I can do an exercise using the techniques from memory.
The main point I haven't mentally solved in my use of plastic is what to do with household trash. I live on the 30th floor of an apartment building in NYC and there's no other way to dispose of trash other than to throw it down the chute (though we do recycle what we can in separate bin).

Curious to hear what others think / be enlightened. Even if I move to the suburbs, to my knowledge waste management companies rely on you packaging your trash nicely in plastic bags, so I'm not sure what to do...
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It definitely is a bigger issue, but i do think that AirBnB has to be held accountable as well. I would have no problems with AirBnB if it was actually used for the initial problem that it tried to solve. But you do see people buying 2nd or 3rd property just to AirBnB it, and also not renting them to long term renters who actually live and work in the city. Oh, AirBnB completely ignores zoning laws, making it hell for affected neighbours.
>most fruits can't be grown from seeds either. _Something_ will grow, but you aren't going to get Sweetango apples from seeds.

Help me understand this. What will grow from the seed? Why won't whatever grows, produce fruit?
Professional Korean 70/30 Super Plush 500gsm Microfiber Detailing Towels (16x16, Blue)

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In Germany they outfit classrooms with sinks and squeegees.

Over decades I've tried absolutely everything. I see colleagues in earlier stages of evolution on this (e.g. carrying a squeegee and a bucket), but mathematicians are unbelievably stubborn (think zebra) so one learns not to say anything. This is like debating programming languages: If all parties haven't written significant projects in all languages under debate, just learn to walk away.

Wet or dry, nothing beats a Korean microfiber auto detailing cloth. One or two passes damp (not wet enough to drip while walking) will clean a board better than the overnight cleaning staff. Dry will erase better than any eraser.
I wish there was data out there on how much plastic actually gets recycled. It seems like no one can actually tell us. I'm suspecting more and more that recycling of plastic is nearly completely a scam.
Yes! It could actually be both. Ownership over the recommendation system needs to include not just designing it and training it but also making sure that the upstream data that feeds the model remains good. And I agree that a performance indicator is a potential solution, it just needs to be able to catch these kinds of problems.
I thought a big reason for Airbnb's success is they are large enough that they're now the go to site to find short-term housing. What's the non Airbnb site that you go to? They're successful just because everyone goes there.
Singularity heavily relies on capabilities. What if accessing the current wall clock time was a zealously guarded capability? I wonder what percentage of apps could function with no access to (real time) timers at all, or an extremely granular one?

I can't find a link at the moment, but I recall a paper showing even a very granular clock will suffice for Spectre exploits, albeit with lower bandwidth. Also, something else would need to be done about multithreading, as an application could always just spin up another thread counting as fast as it can to make a poor man's timer.
There is a really, really good article from NiemanLab interviewing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) about their use of Apple News notifications. This notification spam is exactly what they/publishers want. The Apple News notifications are used to A/B test what gets clicks against all their competitors running the same story, and they use that Apple News notification clickthru data to tweak which headlines & notifications they send via their own app and on their own website - the platforms they really want you to use.

Stat from the article: nearly 5% of the Australian population have opted in to the ABC's Apple News push notifications.

Australia’s Public Broadcaster Is Using Apple News Push Alerts To Reach New, Younger Audiences

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/australias-public-broadcast...

The full article is really worth the read - especially the part about the notifications the ABC were going to send to target female runners at sunset.
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> but having an option instead of having to do ExecStop=path-to-shell-script-that-does-some-stupid-housekeeping is pretty neat.

IMO this is usually the result of eg a Debian package that also ships sysvinit startup scripts, and thus they share some logic.

If it’s not that case I wonder why the cleanup can’t just be handled in the unit directly.
I agree that the safest thing to do is nothing. Which is why if I'm about to change lanes, and I spot this kind of behavior coming up rapidly from behind me, I abort my lane change. Even if I was moving to the Right lane (you never know which way these jerks are going to go.)

It is absolutely something a car company should worry about. Avoiding obstacles from any direction.

If a power line is falling down. If a construction crane is swinging wildly.

It's Defensive Driving.

Also, note, I said "closer to 140 MPH". I actually just saw another one on Sunday. Crotch Rocket motorcycle, in the far right line on a 5 lane freeway. No helmet. Hey, someone's got to be an organ donor, right?
Mortal Kombat 11 is a game nearly 30 years in the making
I cannot disagree more. As someone who has dreamed of, and even build electric cars when I was younger, most people love the idea. However the way we use cars, and how electric cars must be uaed, is not compatible for most people. I drive a lot, and do not have time to seek out charging stations, wait for charge, etc.

For someone who takes short trips, never leaves the city, and has no friends in the suburbs, they are amazing. But road trips are more proof-of-concept than enjoyable experinces. ICE are still superior for energy density, aka range.

Add to that the myth of 'less complexity' that I hear parroted and its a no-deal. Modern evs have differentials, active braking, huge cooling systems, extra heating systems for the cooling systems, extra motors for ac, power steering, etc. They are as complex, if not moreso, than any ICE car, before I even bring electronics into the picture.

EVs are cool as hell. They are just not practical for many, if not most americans yet. Our country is just too large. Very few people, even naysayers like myself, harbor some need for pumping stinky dino juice into a burnig chamber to get coffee every morning. Its mostly practical, even if it looks a bit backward from a distance, much like americans.
Absolutely not true, maybe look into the matter and data first before commenting?
I suggest you watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Xv_g3g-mA and rethink your life
Are you retired or otherwise financially independent? Sounds like the average day/week of a workaholic retiree (or stay at home parent - with nanny).
I thought that Clojure was losing its buzz in recent times. Perhaps it is that even though the core language is elegant its ecosystem of leiningen, maven for dependencies, etc, and the whole brittle emacs-cider-nrepl chain is detracting from its core strengths.

And poor startup times, and unhelpful error messages (though I hear there has been some improvement in recent versions).
> I doubt we’ll start using Erlang though, it’s just too risky when you can’t hire anyone

Can you train them?
I brew mead. There's no way I could make money from it. However I can make enough to get myself and everyone around me blind drunk. Free mead quickly stops a lot of arguments.
He rolls his eyes at "hierarchies". Libraries do make the difference.

Somebody else interjected Design Patterns. You can define a design pattern as a weakness in your language's ability to express a library function to do the job.
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This is awesome. Always great to read about someone's hard work and dedication paying off. I love a good onion, but am not within the 48 lower states, so unfortunately I'll have to wait for the international delivery option :(
I'm not sure why we thought chalk boards needed replacing.
White boards seem generally inferior, and even worse is this newer trend of large computer based boards.
So far, he lost more money in his funds than he ever made.

But he makes $1B+ a year just from fees.

This is a very twisted idea of "winning big"
The amount of people posting how "plant-based plastics" are the solution goes to show just how out-of-touch most of us are with being poor or stuck in an underdeveloped nation.

It's easy to spend more on "sustainable" alternatives to plastic when you have more disposable income than you know what to do with. But if you're a low-income working class family, commodities like single-use plastics are a godsend.

I'm not saying pollution is not an issue. I'm not saying the plastics industries don't have an agenda to make more plastic. What I'm saying is, you're all blind to the solutions that plastics provide to people who ARE NOT rich white Americans.
It isn't as if I'm ignoring what they put out. We're not in total jingoistic denial of reality territory here :)

Regarding China's moon landing, their being a totalitarian government with a propagandistic focus matters a great deal. A lot of bad science has been foisted upon the world by similar regimes - look up Lamarckian inheritance in the USSR for instance if you haven't heard of it.

In this case though, we've got pictures, we know the rocket launched, etc, etc.
This isn't a complicated problem. State election agencies are underfunded and have to cut corners in order to survive. A simple federal cash infusion would solve 70% of this problem. The other 30% is coming up with sufficient election machine standards.
I prefer high-quality markers and whiteboards. As for "toxic cleaning chemicals," you can use your own recipe to make a mild cleaning solution. Far less toxic than lifetime exposure to chalk dust.
Polar seems like a neat project, but I worry about things like this that are supposed to take on my whole digital life. At one time in my life, I trusted Thunderbird. It got slower and slower, until simple actions (rendering the preview for an email) took thirty seconds or more. At a small scale, this is all well and good, but a lack of foresight around performance means that the biggest power users get punished.

How do I know that this won't get dirt slow after the first 1000 (10k? 100k?) documents? Will it lock up my phone trying to crunch through a full text search of a gig of data?

It's almost never the case that I see a project like this and have distrust for the mission/philosophy/model/values. But if it can't do what I need it to reasonably, it'd might as well not exist. And I'm not willing to use it for years at a time to find out that it doesn't scale to the point where I need it to. And to be quite honest, I'm more than willing to pay someone to keep a server running to make sure that it does scale and doesn't melt my phone, but that rarely seems to be an option for projects like this.
I used Shotcut to get me through my film certificate (video essay class, short film class, etc.) and it was difficult to work with. Random freezes and crashes left me very frustrated.

I switched to Flowblade [1] and it was so much better for my needs. I could do basic color correction without crashes and editing audio is much more powerful. All in all a better program (for my simple needs).

[1] https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
Post your python to go urwid port gcla. Well done!
There are many things that could easily switch to being packaged in paper/cardboard, and reusable glass containers with a deposit fee for quite a few others.
That’s not entirely true.

Women are actually more equally represented (or over represented in the case of medical sciences) in STEM fields, the discrepancy in computer sciences is where the unequal representation is most apparent.
Chip makers never “broke” anything. Resistance to side channel attacks was never part of the protection model. Remember, these protection models were designed when if an attacker was running code in your address space things had already gone completely sideways. To the extent anyone is at fault, it’s the folks who designed browsers with in-process JS engines without realizing that they were assuming the hardware was providing protections that the hardware didn’t claim to provide.
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But that's the problem with renewables - no one talks about utilization / MWh produced per year. Instead you quote "peak output" and hope nobody notices it's not a valid argument. I heard about 0.12* being utilization factor for Czechia (right next to Germany), but you can't really google this as everyone spams about installed capacity, peak output and other useless figures.

* that would mean 17.5MW/sq km. So yes, better than GP figure. No, still not usable (improvement of only factor 4.5).

EDIT: Quick calculation based on numbers here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#/medi...
gives me solar utilization factor of 9.5 for Germany in 2016.
The rust code in question is not using reference counting.
Some of these comments from today might help brighten your worldview. Human beings do feel love and and act on it, regardless of how virulent your perception of capitalism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727156
I'm not sure if you've picked up the main point of what I'm saying or are just performing some deflection of your own, but it stands nevertheless: you've got a reasonable argument that I get behind, just make your argument without using misleading examples.
You absolutely should use a VPN. It is ALWAYS a good idea.
Concurrency plus mutability is hard. And idiomatic Java works by mutating state. A language where immutability is idiomatic can be appealing even to somebody who knows that java.util.concurrent exists and has a handy reference to the relevant book.
> babies and bathwater

This reasoning is repeated for every new technology.

"People are using [new thing] for [dangerous, speculative, immoral, hyped, trivial] purposes. Therefore [new thing] [will fail, will ruin civilization, should be banned]."

I've witnessed this way of thinking with laser discs, VHS tapes, personal computers, modems and BBSs, fidonet email, Usenet, Compuserve and AOL, graphical web browsers, mobile phones, the internet, online shopping, video games, strong encryption, Google search, Facebook, ephemeral messaging, cryptocurrencies, machine learning, IoT and bioengineering.

Maybe there were similar arguments about movable type, radio and television, I don't know.

I used to be a Cassandra about new things but I've learned from my mistakes to ask different questions now.

"If I ignore the [dangerous, immoral] uses of [new thing] is there still something worthwhile about it?"

"How might the [hyped, trivial] uses of [new thing] change how we live and become important in the future?"
This story brings a tear to my eye.

I'll see myself out.

But seriously, this is the type of side projects I dream of. Not the next soul sucking social network, but rather something meaningful and real.
This was really fun, so I checked out the site

- Least expensive order is a 5-pound box for $34.95

- Runs on Shopify

- As they're seasonal, there are some built-in scarcity aspects I hadn't thought of (which is kind of neat business wise).

Two aspects I might try if this was my business:

1. Some kind of "Chef/Restaurant" option

2. An option to send 1 beautiful onion (ala the referenced Harry and David's)
How to create value in your org with ML
Internalized capitalism.
Rust's mutable/immutable is better thought of as exclusive/shared. But in any case, the interior mutability is not causing problems, because the compiler still largely enforces it's used correctly (e.g. no matter how deeply RefCell is hidden, code using it won't be able to share it with another thread, so you don't need to worry about getting a data race this way).
Please don't. That entire line of reasoning was ill advised.
There _is_ a difference between forking and cloning. Forking is always allowed by the github license:

> other GitHub users have the right to view and fork your repository _within the GitHub site_

^^ That's from the github website. Note that they only have permission to fork from within the website.

So such a restriction serves as a legal barrier - it leaves no legal way to copy the code.
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As someone typically working with others startup units but sometimes writing my own, I appreciate a declarative format that allows user-overrides and has pretty standardised ways of doing things.

Sysvinit scripts showed us what happens when you give startup authors more power.

Even if you hate systemd’s politics/etc the actual units themselves are objectively better IMO because they’re declarative.
Cloudy Nights is one of the Good Places on the Internet. An intense, expert-but-amateur community of enthusiasts sharing a wholesome interest. The software is kinda old fashioned and unique, they've been around since the year 2000, but that adds to the charm. It is the place to go if you want to connect to a community and its wisdom and knowledge built up over the years.

I don't know what an appropriate penalty is for vandalizing a place like that, but I'm glad there is one.
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He's not investing. He's laundering money at scale.
Thanks for adding the source for all the code snippets. I'd also be interested in the LaTeX (if that's what you used) source for the book itself if you feel like adding that.
We could vote on paper for the same people we've been voting for, and we'd still end up with the same problems.
Installing Guix in a VM has its own section of the manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Instal...
Yes! This was an odd read (in a good way), and I definitely enjoyed. No cruft. No BS. No "one weird trick" hooks. Just a person stumbling into a business opportunity and taking a shot in the dark. Kudos.
Strange. It's very impressive, but it feels less impressive than the demo that released in 2016 [0], because the 2016 version had significantly more time on non-freeway roads. I skimmed through the latest video and didn't see any pedestrians. The 2016 video does have interaction with pedestrians and cyclists [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG68SKoG7vE

[1] https://youtu.be/VG68SKoG7vE?t=479

[2] https://youtu.be/VG68SKoG7vE?t=97
Awesome site I never heard of, ty!

Worth noting that coming in at #4 is the one we can all contribute to right away -- https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food/plant-rich-diet. The amazing thing is your dietary choices impact those around you as well so you end up having a > 1 person impact!

My partner answered a TON of vegan questions, worth checking out if anyone is interested or has questions: https://www.wikiful.com/@MsKapow/the-vegan-inquisition
If benefits/pay and intelligent colleagues is what really matters to protesters and they are not looking to cut down on luxe lifestyle that Google job affords them. In that case they are really bullshitting about ethical issues because they have no qualm in partaking money that Google generate by ethically dubious decisions.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720753

Alternate source:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725623
I don't think that tone will help you.
Nicotine use supposedly causes "altered development of cerebral cortex and hippocampus in adolescents." That seems very unhealthy. [1]

Also, the liquid refills can contain an acutely toxic concentration of nicotine. Enough to kill a small child with as little as half a teaspoon ingested or absorbed through the skin. [2]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=25794473

2. https://www.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/12/12/aap...
This chalk is easy to erase.
Tesla releases video showcasing full self-driving
No, we're trying to build a car that crashes less than humans.

If you want a car that doesn't crash, never build the car let alone drive it. Then it'll never crash.

The point is both reduction in fatalities and increase in human quality of life. Not an impossible perfection.
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Leisure + stress = worries
Aluminum makes sense to recycle for many reasons:

- Extracting aluminum from ore is very expensive

- That makes recycled aluminum cheaper than fresh aluminum

- Aluminum is a metal, you can melt it down to burn off or separate any impurities

None is those is true of plastic.
First time I heard of WT and was sad to see it ended in 2016. Was any info ever given as to why? Was unable to find an answer on the site or searching.
I like Elixir overall as a language and love it as a platform. That said, the metaprogramming feels passable for me. I would much prefer to write and read things in a Lisp but it works fine in Elixir
> (rand() % (b - a)) + a;

This is no longer uniform, because it introduces a bias towards small numbers.
Yes, I know how you code are obliged to code at Google. It is astonishing that anything works.

The "strictly enforced style guides" strictly enforce '90s coding habits.
You are mixing "fancy tools for mature language" with core capabilities of another (that will enable even better fancy refactoring tools in future - tools that can make more complex refactoring tasks fully automated). If anything, the fact that what used to be an external tool has migrated to core feature in Rust is a testament to how forward looking the language is. Imagine what that will enable in tools to come!
I can't speak about lein or maven, but it is in no way a requirement to use emacs as your editor. In fact, there is really interesting work going on in other editors like Atom with proto-repl[1]. For the web, you can spin up a Gorilla REPL[2] which basically gives you a Jupyter notebook but for Clojure.

[1] https://atom.io/packages/proto-repl
[2] http://gorilla-repl.org/