skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Our company cafeteria has metal straws for sale for 50 cents, and a thing to wash them out with.

Hygienic issues are the main concern I have with metal straws (e.g. when cafes have them for reuse). I'm assuming the one sold to you came with something like a pipe brush to run through it.

For public locations it's really going to be on the staff to clean this thoroughly as I doubt a dishwasher is going to be enough.

Wood for me would be worse in this regard, more opportunities for things to get stuck on them (or soak into the wood if lacquer fails)
One could also build a business making a printer that prints the company labels on the glass but washes off during the cleaning process. Water based paint or something environmentally friendly. So they could still differentiate their products at the store.
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and sure, it is so rare that it's virtually unheard of; e.g., I'd never heard about smoking being fetishized in the context of it being discouraged (& while I'm not exactly Mr. Club Scene, I do work to keep aware of trends).

It isn't only subtracting the normies from the racist movement, it is also preventing the medium-core bigots from 'practicing', honing, and exaggerating their racism.

If we are to attribute a cause to the rash of current racist murders lately, they are clearly NOT from Reddit recently banning two subs, but far more likely from the entire environment being pushed towards more open racism & bigotry from the chair of the POTUS, to a major Faux News source, to rampant online environments like 4Chan, Voat, etc. Far more likely that these enhanced cesspools and the more approving political environment are the cause than merely one source going offline (particularly since they started occurring before they went offline).
The comments in this thread also don’t account for internships. In CS you can make 20-30k in a summer and it is common to do multiple over your college career.
It says that it "does not yet" run GUI applications, so it seems like they plan on it. Additionally, if no one ever talked about software like this before completion, they'd have a pretty hard time getting enough developers interested to ever reach completion.

As for making the front-page of HN, the HN crowd probably consists disproportionately of technology enthusiasts who find interest in technology beyond its immediate usefulness.
Are Democrats centrist? One of the things I learn the deeper I dig into how European countries are structured is that they’re more right leaning than American liberals assume. Let’s take Spain. If we adopted Spain’s tax structure, income taxes would go down by about a trillion dollars, while consumption taxes (paid for primarily by middle class and poor people), would go up two trillion dollars. Spain’s abortion laws are stricter than any southern state’s (elective abortion legal only up to 14 weeks). On gay marriage, Spain legalized it about 10 years before, but then the government tried to repeal that law a few years later. The constitutional court ruling permanently protecting gay marriage came just two years before the one in the US. The Spanish minimum wage works out to about 6 euro per hour. Like the US and almost all of Europe, many industries were privatized in the 1990s and 2000s, and unlike the US the passenger rail system is in the midst of privatization.
You don't lose your books when you cancel your sub. You just stop getting credits.
Yeah, definitely not an ideal scenario.
> Walmart has a negative impact on local small businesses but is it made up for by making goods available at prices they would otherwise not be leading to increased purchasing power?

I'm not going to let you assert this without challenge.

First, durable goods are probably more expensive. For example, old lawnmowers lasted forever--WalMart ones die in a couple seasons.

Second, if a big box store wipes out local jobs that pay better, how much do prices have to be reduced to make up for that? People at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder spend and have a very high economic multiplier for how much their money drives other money. You don't have to lose many decent jobs in a 50,000 person town if most of them are 2x to 3x multipliers to really cripple the economy.

Third, is WalMart actually cheaper? Big box stores are really good at optimizing prices such that you get one great deal, but lose just a little on everything else. Normally, people put up with it because WalMart is the only choice or is a very convenient single stop.
Schrödinger's Ham (Fiction)
From what I've read the reusables have to be used ~70 times to be more environmentally friendly than the current disposables.

I think the easiest win would be designating between sit down and take out customers. Sit down customers could be given porcelain or some other washable container. However this would increase labor costs for businesses so you don't automatically get a free win.
Great job guys. I want to ask: does it handle Excel upload and basic editing of the Excel file ? The examples on display only show images upload. Do you guys know such library? Like, the one used by Dataiku for Excel upload.
> In fact, many teens are going out of their way to make their photos look worse. Huji Cam, which make your images look as if they were taken with an old-school throwaway camera, has been downloaded more than 16 million times. “Adding grain to your photos is a big thing now,” says Sonia Uppal, a 20-year-old college student. “People are trying to seem candid. People post a lot of mirror selfies and photos of them lounging around.”

What I find interesting is that "making your photos look worse" isn't new at all: it's the foundation of the "vintage" vibe that filters have been emulating since the beginning. So what's actually new here is the kind of imperfections being introduced.

It makes sense: as media capture reaches maximum fidelity, creative expression increasingly involves the purposeful choice of infidelities. Imperfection has always had a place in art, but usually it involves failing to avoid a natural mistake; for modern digital media, on the other hand, it's about subtracting from perfection rather than failing to reach it.

EDIT: Thinking about this further, it's possible that I'm focusing on the wrong thing... perhaps the dominating factor is nostalgia, which just happens to involve "imperfections" in this case because the target of the nostalgia is a medium (photography) which has been undergoing an improvement in fidelity. For all I know, perhaps one day the dominating aesthetic will be driven by nostalgia for "boring" filter-free high-fidelity images!
It's easy to ridicule this, but I wish we would be more open towards "crazy" ideas in general. I believe that every person has something to teach me and contribute to the world, and if I have any strong preconceptions in my interaction with them that severely limits my power to benefit.
I graduated two weeks ago and got a job offer, and am overjoyed by the fact.

I think if I asked myself at the beginning, what's the most you can hope for in going to Lambda School, my expectations were met by the education quality and the follow-through from the outcomes team. It's not perfect but the incentive structure forces constant improvement in the factors that matter most for getting us hired.

People point out it's not a CS degree and they're right. But the staff manages to teach concrete skills to get students hired, and the CS, data structures, algorithms stuff in the curriculum is taught well enough and with enough enthusiasm that it gives students the basis to be conversant with CS concepts and continue growing forward.

It might not work for everyone; some people are going to struggle to become programmers. But Lambda is trying their hardest to make it work for as many people as they can, and their heart is in the right place. And it is structured so if it doesn't work for a student their downside is hedged. Due to the $50k/industry-specific cutoff for repayment, the downside of going to Lambda but not making a career transition will be least harmful to the least advantaged students.
> "This is why a small, passionate startup team can consistently build better products than large corporations."

I am curious if there is a way to test this scientifically, large teams make some very good products.
> To me, these income sharing agreements and bootcamps seem like not great deals when you look at instruction time per dollar.

if that's your metric, universities lose out wildly to all of the free education available online.

> It's worth noting that this is more expensive than many/most universities, which charge less than $30,000 per year

also a meaningless comparison; a freshman year of school alone doesn't get you anything.
You set a breakpoint at the phone-home routine.
It seems to lack any context for the claims. It is true that the distributed Erlang protocol is not something you'd want to expose to other parts of your system with different privilege levels, but it's entirely possible to restrict what connects and how (if at all, it is an optional part of the system).

The main idea behind clustering is resilience of homogeneous components, not between varied applications or security domains. I do find it a bit disingenuous from that perspective. However the video is at least right on a few points:

* if you have control of one node, you can effectively control the connected nodes (if any) as well

* you can dynamically update and load code on all nodes (by design)

* you can connect to other nodes as a hidden node, though it's still technically visible, but you need to specifically look for it and it only is visible to the node you connect to (so be sure to monitor this on all nodes)

* the protocol itself is not designed to be public facing as timing attacks and cookie guessing are problems. (Cookies in this context are meant to prevent mistaken cluster connections and aren't really a security feature.)

* the clustering is a fully connected mesh so a malicious user could DOS a network by rapidly rebooting a node to clog existing communication and burn through ephemeral ports for connections to use (really only applies to very large clusters but it's good to know how well you can handle spurious node membership changes)

Having said that though, undetectable is a lazy claim (there are many ways to address this depending on how you setup your nodes and which epmd implementation you use) and the requirements are to keep the interface/ports open to things not part of the cluster. It's also far from a hard requirement to use the distribution feature at all if you don't trust your ability to setup an isolated network. It'd be the same issue if you had some external untrusted etcd or consul node connect to the rest and start screwing with consensus with similar devastation.

Lastly, there are other ways to cluster Erlang nodes which don't necessarily inherit disterl's problems (disterl = what is built-in but it can be replaced or augmented). Libraries like Partisan look very promising.

(EDIT: formatting)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences.
First, US health care is hardly a free market. Second, the free market certainly isn’t a be all, end all solution. Most advocates of free market economics would agree with you.

It’s just simply better than any of the other solutions man has dreamed up so far, that’s all.
Doing so is not legal in most countries. the macOS T&C/EULA/etc. forbid running it on non-apple hardware. This is a large barrier to entry that a lot of people don't want to even approach.
I wonder if they could use the same model my local growler fill uses. You pay a deposit on the growler, and if you bring it back (don't worry about cleaning it or anything), you don't pay the deposit on the next 64oz of beer.

Maybe charge a $5 or $10 cup deposit?
So you think women die less often from suicide because because they are less competent at executing it? That seems very unlikely to me. While I am open to the idea that different sexes might be better or worse at certain things, suicide seems simple enough to be mastered by both men and women.
https://xkcd.com/2130/

"big vape" definitely falls on the right side.
I ran an in-class test/competition once where students submitted C code to a web server running on my laptop. My laptop compiled and ran their code - then checked it against a test suite and graded it all live.

One student asked about security - and we got into a great discussion about permissions and what havoc he could and couldn’t pull off with the restricted user account. I encouraged him to figure out how to write a fork bomb - which he got working after the test. He was nervous about it because he didn’t want to get in trouble. With some reassurances he dove into API documentation and got it working. My computer totally died and needed a reboot. It was a great little teaching opportunity that I’m glad I didn’t pass up
I am a farmer and a physicist by training.

Alentejo, the part of the country where I work, has the greatest suicide rate in the country (~28 suicides/100k in the coast region, 19 suicides/100k in the interior region, when the national average is around 10 suicides/100k).

Some say isolation, ageing alone, the economic crisis and poverty and unemployment are to blame. I suspect alcohol consumption has a lot to do with it.

Just a few days ago someone I knew ended his own life. I was away visiting family, and sadly I could not attend the funeral. He knew my great grandfather. I believe he was sick and didn't want to suffer anymore.
Looks like he teaches language courses: https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/young-hae-chi
> Imperfection has always had a place in art, but usually it involves failing to correct a natural mistake

The question in art is more along the lines of whether you actually want to reproduce, or if you want to interpret. For the vast majority of all history this was fairly firmly on the "interpret" side of things.
There's a couple of startups in Australia doing exactly that (I can't recall their names, though, so I can't say whether they're successful or not).
It's either a FIFO or the message you are #xxxxx on the waiting list is bullshit.
Well done! This is something that can be fraught with edge-case issues. However, it looks like you pulled it off in a slick package. Good job!
How about just trying to do good work and not worrying about identity politics?
I installed 1.1.1.1/warp+ a day or two after April 1st. My waitlist number has stayed at 243635-something for a couple of weeks now.

Anyone know at what pace they’re letting new users in?
I love this. Simple service. It's useful. I hope this goes somewhere.
Occam’s Razor dictates that the correlation is due to increased climate change stresses & temperature swings impacting human mood disorders (the same way it correlates with increased violence)
On the flip side, being open towards "crazy" ideas opens you to DDoS attacks from legitimate lunatics, in the form of you having to spend mental energy analyzing and responding to them.
more like one part of instagram isnt into the "intagram aesthetic" ig is too big for these clickbaity headlines to represent the entire platform
It's literally Nazis.
Interesting, does that mean outward facing security cameras with a view of public roads or sidewalks are prohibited in Oregon?
Many 'crazy' ideas are supported by at least some evidence that is rational and grounded in reality. I doubt such evidence exists for this claim.
So if the VPN providers are not entirely honest about where their servers actually are, what about their other claims, such as no logging?
Link doesn't work
In the right mindset, this article reads like excellent satire.
He is an instructor, that's a non-academic position and does not have tenure. Not having tenure may set him free from Oxford.
True. But in context of: "tests in a CI environment which costs you less than a MacBook", I don't believe anyone would go to the level that avoids those issues. It would take a lot of work and resources to replicate a "real run in clean, real environment".
So the same cycles of fashion and pop culture continue as they always have. What used to be shiny, colorful and crisp should now be dull, muted and soft. What used to be big should now be small, what used to be soft should now be hard, what used to be refined should now be raw, etc., etc. ad nauseam.

One thing we can be sure of, it will be back (before going away again only to return)
People usually cite network effects, or more simply the VC and big money people live in sf and nyc and prefer their workers live there too. How many billionaires live in Boise?
Bitwig has a Linux version now.
This is a very good point.

It is not simply about sticker price.

It is about _risk_. You as the individual burden all the risk if you take a loan (or not) and pay upfront.

Here, even if your analysis is correct that you pay more, you must adjust it for risk. In finance this is your risk-adjusted return, but the same concept applies here.
First heard this term in the danluu 'wtf wtf' blogpost -- so useful. Also 'fast jet performance' is such a cool podcast topic.
Is this an entire story about Warp, which is what I understand Cloud Flare to have named their Rust fork of WireGuard, that does not once mention WireGuard or Jason Donenfeld? Jason is the hardest working person in show business. A "thank you" might be nice, even if Cloud Flare can't work up the class to contribute directly to Jason's projects. Even if they're not using his code, they're using his design and formal verification work, which, in a cryptosystem, is at least as important.
And when you were on the hiring panels, you couldn't affect that?

Maybe you are not welcome because you advocate "diversity aware hiring practices", not because you are a woman?
>Nobody seems to be able to explain why except to refer to the Pacific garbage patch, which isn't caused by us

It's probably caused by us in part. The US ships a huge amount of trash to Asia. [1] In fact, recycling as we know it in many places in the US only works by shipping it to Asia. For example, my city had problems when China created new recycling processing rules, which altered the economics of its recycling program. [2]

Its been shown that shipping this stuff over the Pacific isn't a totally clean process. When trash goes to Asian countries, it can fall off the container ships. And the receiving country doesn't have any standards on processing. Impurities can be tossed to the ocean with the country's regular garbage. But yes, Asian countries count for the lion's share of trash in the Pacific. [3]

[1] https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/05/plastic-waste-ch...

[2] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Can-sputte...

[3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768
Honestly, if someone were to look at at all the science and evidence objectively it would be scientifically unsound to conclude that intelligent life doesn't exist elsewhere in our own universe or even outside it.
Oddly specific claims also:

"Dr Chi believes that there are four types of aliens: small; tall and bold; aliens with scales and snake eyes; and finally, insect-like aliens. The latter of these seems to be the highest in the hierarchy, he said, and gives orders to the lower ranks."
He's right -- they're called ideas.
What was the worst part of Lambda? What are we really bad at?
> Ah ok that's the misunderstanding then, because earlier you said "If there's lust involved, it's by definition not unconditional", which is obviously something different so I got confused.

I didn't really say anything different, I was replying to an OP who said that he is participating in a love which is both unconditional and lustful, and I said that it can't be both. You can't simultaneously lust for someone and love them unconditionally, the lust colors the fact that you give a damn about them in a first place. Even after the lust disappears, you still have the shared memories, experience and identity that bind the relationship and form the basis of the love. These are all that condition the love.

> But now that you've provided extra constraints and context (where sexual attraction is a pre-requisite, and that you are speaking from your individual experience) I think the confusion is cleared up.

These "extra constraints and context" you point to are explicit and implicit if you read the post I was replying to, I did not provide any new modifiers to this discussion. Nor am I speaking from individual experience.

> Exactly, as is saying unconditional love is not possible in the presence of lust - it would require a means of knowing the emotional feelings (something notoriously difficult to measure) of all people who have been in love throughout history.

Why do you need to know their emotional feelings? Is it not enough to know that lust causes attraction?

How are you defining unconditional love anyway? My definition: love which is not based on conditions. How can the presence of lust NOT condition any resulting love? You can't reject basic cause and effect.
That, Final Cut, and the occasional need to use Xcode.
Returned cups practically scream "biohazard" in all caps.
Apt quotation: "Do Not Be So Open-Minded That Your Brains Fall Out" [1]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/13/open-mind/
The human-alien hybrid thing is straight out of The X-Files. If he is correct, life imitates art.

NB: I do not find his conjecture remotely convincing.
When I've been involved in such things, the phrase "Dear Mister Coroner" has come up regularly.
This is siiiiick. I had heard good things about app scripts but didn't realize it was powerful enough to do stuff like this. Will have to check it out.
What a load of crap. Someone had nothing better to write than a counter argument to a non-argument.

Instagram is a good product and it's gotten to where it is now being a good and clever design as is. Making changes for the sake of being hip is what would send it to oblivion, like many competitors have done and fell.
Maloader[0] is a similar (smaller, easier to understand) project that runs in userland. It's a nice code base to read and there's this nice presentation about it[1].

[0] https://github.com/shinh/maloader
[1] http://shinh.skr.jp/slide/ldmac/000.html
W6LG made a lightbulb dipole and got 750 miles with FT8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSy271C07b4

FT8 is really something. I built a cobweb antenna and got Japan from Massachusetts on my new IC-7300:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ciefcobDkiTrawsB9

So here's a funny thing: FT8 was written by a Nobel laureate in Fortran!
Pro launched! :)
It's a neo-nazi/white nationalist forum. It's still active I believe behind Tor, but not nearly as accessible, far fewer people actually participating. We're in an era where young men radicalize each other on message boards like these until one of the truly unhinged members heads to a synagogue to murder people worshiping. As we've seen so many times in the past year, they'll often post before they do it, leaving behind a manifesto and a crowd egging them on to get a "high score."

I wish this was actually an outlier and not very common, but unfortunately if you monitor these forums you'll see men working up the courage to commit a mass murder of their own every single day.

In my opinion we should try to put as many barriers we can in front of these types of communities, and it sucks that cloudflare is still working with some of them.
For France, I'm pretty sure that bottles (coca-cola and beer bottles) are reused in bars, with the same delivery bringing the full bottles taking the empty ones away.
I met the founders of a Startup last month that are doing exactly that: https://www.tcx.org/
I loved this class at CMU. Recently I did shell lab again in Rust (trying to learn Rust) and used the test scripts for sanity checks. 213 helps me to this day :)
Actually, I said: "I invented the term "object-oriented", and I didn't have C++ in mind".

In other comments here I explain why "object-oriented" was a too quick and bad choice for what I thought I was doing ...
Have you never drank from a glass or eaten off a plate or used cutlery in a restaurant? Seems like a solved problem.