skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately - call me superficial - I can't really get past its crusty look.
It’s called self-esteem and when over abundant it’s awful.
Oxford Professor argues invisible aliens are interbreeding with humans
Right. Hence why GP said it was an MITM attack on the Internet at large, and not on any specific, individual website.

Cloudflare is an existential risk to the Internet, a terribly bad actor with a terribly bad track record. Their actions are, depending on how generous and optimistic you are, somewhere between painfully ignorant and outright malicious. There aren't any explanations for their behaviour that are sensible or charitable.

Nobody anywhere should use their products. Someone does so not only at their own peril, but everybody else's (so they should be blamed, too.) The company and their enablers will face a reckoning once the last good parts of the Internet are done dying by their hand.
As an Australian, I have images of homelessness whenever SF is mentioned. I didn't even know that SF prohibited plastic bottles and I've never heard anyone say that.

I'd also take a position that homelessness is the real issue in SF and not disposable coffee cup usage.

EDIT: reading about the plastic bottle ban in SF[0], it appears that it's very limited

> The new regulations prohibit the sale of plastic bottles at events held on city-owned property. Additionally, government agencies may not purchase bottled water.

> Private businesses such as grocery stores and mini markets may continue to sell bottled water in the city. To date, little data exists on how the regulations have reduced overall plastic bottle use.

[0] https://theecologist.org/2019/apr/03/san-francisco-bans-sale...
Are you thinking about how to create an onlinecourse?
The result itself is unsurprising, but I'm curious of what caused their low bug rate ("code quality" in their term). They haven't looked at the actual code, but I guess that code consistency plays a big role for reducing potential bugs, and it's easily achieved with having fewer developers in a team. Also this is not contradictory to sayings like "a lot of eyeballs make software better" because I believe eyeballs mainly contribute to bug detection, but not bug prevention.

Edit: After posting this, I dug into this problem a bit more. I think code consistency is less important between modules (in a large project). But this requires a premise that these modules are independent enough and they don't need much communication each other. This line of thought is pointed out by this SO question.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1906...
Pricing in externalities by adding a fee for incurring a social cost is a great way to get the free market to address problems. And it doesn't take away from fixing any of the other issues you mentioned.

I'm no solid waste expert, so I cannot comment on the utility of reducing disposable coffee cup waste in particular (as opposed to simply raising the price to consumers of trash disposal).
Something like zscaler's ZIA [0] is in the same ballpark as BeyondCorp, or so I think. Cloudflare Warp is basically a CDN turned on its head: Security and privacy are a huge bonus, whilst low latency and high bandwidth remain its salient features. It is more like the Silk Browser [1], the Opera Turbo/Mini [2], or the Chrome FlyWheel [3] but operating at the network layer, and across all apps.

[0] https://www.zscaler.com/products/zscaler-internet-access

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215778

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

[3] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43447
This sort of authoritarian thinking seems to be becoming more popular of late on HN
What about returning refillable standard cups ? You return them dirty, starbucks/mac do wash them and everytime you want a coffee you get a clean one. It existed in France for glass bottles in the last century, it's still like that in Belgium for beers (and works very well). I don't see any problem to apply it for coffee. You can even think of little stickers of the brand from where you get your coffee, those stickers will be removed in the washing process. So if the big names can agree on few cup design/material and a washing process/logistic, they will have a very durable cup!
I mean, it’s one anecdata point, but I like the new UK McDonald’s straws. Sure they taste different, but they last at least a couple of hours, and they are much stiffer - such that it’s easier to insert, stay where you put them and dont have a leaky bend in.
Easily this one: https://www.thermos.com/drink/mugs-tumblers/genuine-thermos-...
Bars and restaurants near the ocean. Thus, it's people with their drinks that walk near the ocean and are assholes.

Plus, straws blow in the wind by decent and fair accidents.
Why not?

Say, Czech Republic, has a similar budget and a similar population.

Yes, PPP will be different, but, as I said, running a country is different from running a city.

P. S.: Here's more detail:

Sweden is very close to the US by PPP (https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...), it's population is similar to that of NYC (around 10 million) and it's budget is 1 trln SEK, which is roughly $100 bn, so the same amount per capita as NYC.

The point I'm trying to make?

It's not about money.

New York City has enough money to provide its citizens with all the amenities Swedes have, including free healthcare, free child care and pensions. They don't have to tax the rich. They don't need more austerity. They just have to use the money wisely.

Then if we take New York State budget into account, we'll realize this is sufficient to provide all New Yorkers with one more free healthcare, one more free child care and one more pension.
What if the surgery analogy doesn't compare favorably with an entire project. How about a code review comment or an email thread?
My FIL grew up dirt poor in a developing country and was frequently short of food and shoes to wear. His favorite things in America are fast food and Payless.
I guess it is not "terrible". I think the product can be improved in the manner suggested since it's heavily reliant on typing URLs manually, and I'm curious why the current format was selected. I am not discounting the entire product just because I am commenting on a very specific part of it.

It is a great site and idea, and I think many people have already suggested that.
> As an Australian, I have images of homelessness whenever SF is mentioned. I didn't even know that SF prohibited plastic bottles and I've never heard anyone say that.

Ditto, but I'm from Washington (just a hop and a skip across Oregon from California).
Also be aware that QGIS is written in Qt with a pretty stonkin good Python and C++ API. If you need to do anything beyond basic map presentation, consider using it!
Better would be to say: “the Instagram aesthetics is changing”
Partially true, but partially not. If everyone grows the same crops then yes. However, there is quite a market for farmers to switch in to more esoteric crops that fetch a premium. However, this requires exposure to new markets, risk, and learning new things. Case in point is hemp, which I grow, and is quite a profitable crop. Eventually, it won't be, but for right now it's something that a lot of farmers could be switching in to and making better money.
The simple and impactful solution is charging for the cup. Here in CA, we have to pay 10 cents per grocery bag . I could buy a few thousand of them over my lifetime and it would not impact me very much but somehow I can't get myself to pay the 10 cents, since it's going to end up in the trash, so I carry my reusable bags to the store all the time.

A solution that would really work would be to band cities from exporting their trash to other cities without regards as to how it gets disposed. People would find a way to recycle. But I know it's wishful thinking.
Has become? People are more educated than ever, and mostly what you hear about is people complaining because the current system is unjust, not because they are "shocked " to learn it exists.

When you balance representation against population, the gulf is vast and only growing. This is a compromise that made sense in the 18th century, not the 21st. Ignore it at your peril.
But that is NOT the consensus view of climate scientists. The IPCC reports, for example, do NOT assign any non-negligible probability to the possibility of human extinction caused by climate change. They talk about bad effects, but nothing remotely close to that bad.

For a recent example of a real climate scientist debunking a way overblown alarmist paper, of the sort that seems to prompt this sort of anguish, see the following blog post:

http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2019/04/blueskiesresearcho...
This article was entirely worth it just for this bit of (little-known, at least to me!) information buried in a footnote:

Compostables need the free flow of air to break down. Because landfills are sealed to prevent leakage, even a cup designed to break down quickly doesn't get the air circulation it needs to do so.
Checking; Wikipedia gives dates as 1916 to 1970, peaking 1950-1970, so precicsely within the data period mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_%28African_Ame...
What's in a Name? (1993)
Googling "8chan" is not a high bar to entry. Don't even get started on the information that is shared through private discords and other smaller private communities. It isn't hard to find the community for you in the age of the internet.
This exactly. The folks claiming they are not represented are ironically over represented compared to city dwellers.

As long as Republican voters care more about abortion and gay marriage (and I guess transpeople using the bathroom now), they will not find economic solutions.
Silicon Valley diet or eating disorder?
If you don't think the people who work at these companies care about making better cups, read the following article.[0] There is a big opportunity for making a better disposable cup, but there are many engineering hurdles to jump over.

- The cup has to retail for 17 cents.

- It has to support a lid that is resealable.

- It has to tip over and not spill.

- It has to handle high temperatures.

- It can't alter the taste of the liquid inside.

- It has to be biodegradable.

- It can't catastrophically fail if the liquid is left inside for too long.

Seems like a tough challenge to me.

[0]: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/315159
> But the rest of us better be grateful that they do it.

Why? Why is working in agriculture more praiseworthy than in a service job?
We've got cabinets that open up instead of sideways, which makes it basically impossible to hit your head on.

Downside, if you're short you need a stool to close it.
Right now our marketing budget rounds to zero. We have a growth team that is mostly focused on making sure the admissions funnel runs smoothly, and get about 1,000 organic applications/week.

We have ~80 full-time employees and about 200 part-time. 40 of the full-time and all 200 part-time are dedicated to teaching/career coaching.
Exhibit A: common sense
"Do you really want that? What if you can't take down the website? Daily Stormer is really interesting; we shut off service for it, but you can go to Google and read it."

I don't even know what type of content is on Daily Stormer but I presume it is controversial. I find this quote just a tad disingenuous. I understand Cloudflare is well within its rights to decide there are certain companies they won't work with, but to say this causes no harm whatsoever isn't entirely true.

There are very few CDNs that can withstand a DDOS attack, and certainly very rare for a small publishing company to have that capability in-house. If the content you want is under a DDOS attack and unavailable because no CDN will carry it, then yeah, that would kind of suck.

One can always publish to various P2P platforms that are highly DDOS-resistant, but now the audience has some more work to get to it; it's a barrier. Not an impassable one, but a barrier nonetheless.

For the record, I like Cloudflare, but I also really love free speech. The quote struck me as overly minimizing.
Syndicated from https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2019/04/jack-do...
US farming is based on labor exploitation.
Let's not forget http://placecorgi.com/

I wear corgi t-shirts, carry a little felt corgi keyring charm, have unicorgi stickers on laptop and tech bag both, my lunch bag is printed with corgis... there's a pattern here.
I’m a bona fide by birth member of this generation and I feel lightyears out of touch with it. Or maybe the way it’s described in so much reporting so often just results in an eye roll of complete jaded disinterest and mild cynicism.

Makes me ponder sometimes if the phenomenon happens across other generations or if the ever present nature of having everyone’s “stuff” so accessible online merely amplifies this sense of generational malaise.
This reminded me of the Microsoft Kinect with the 2 cameras for tracking
During my time at Lambda School, seeing people's quick arguments against it have drastically lowered my priors on how correct "hot takes" are likely to be in general. Sort of like reading a newspaper article about your area of expertise for the first time, and realizing how many inaccuracies all newspaper articles must have.

There are places for skepticism but the actual critiques made are shockingly wide of the mark in my opinion as someone who found the value proposition compelling.
So, basically, whatever Balenciaga has been doing for quite a while now started to catch on. Who would've thought
Check out the sub synth in zynaddsubfx, its really easy to get started with it and makes a great sound.
It wasn't just the pilot. It was also a few people who heard the idea and said that's ok. You can't fix systemic issues by punishing selected few. Aviation seems to be pretty good at that.
Skype (Zennstrom)
Kazaa
Ericsson
Minecraft
This will not happen; each firm will benefit from only accepting their own proprietary cups. Also, what about sizes?
You have committed the fallacy of relative privation.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
It also doesn’t include the full schedule. Break weeks, summers off, semester breaks, etc. - months of the year, all of which Lambda School doesn’t have.
I legitimately cannot fathom how ChatOps is even possible without mermaid, poop and cake emojis.
I’m just arguing that affordable and more education is good.

students in the us often have to take on a tremendous amount of debt to get one.

You seem not to like the word “Socialist.” I think it’s obvious that we as humans should help each other if one of us is doing not well due to misfortune.

For me a country should be evaluated on how much it cares about the ones that don’t have power (homeless, immigrants, elderly etc.)
The project is always x time away, where x is a const. You just stop working on it and ship it as is when needed.
I'm not sure I like this trend. Who really wants to carry around an empty coffee cup wherever he goes? Or a metal straw? Or re-useable bags? Utensils will be next. There is a reason we have so much disposable stuff: unparalleled convenience.
Get something like a Mighty Mug and no more throwing away single-use cups.
Linux audio latency really isn't great, having another layer in between your app and the kernel probably won't help.
Most of the coffee shops that I frequent offer an AUD 50c (US 35c) discount if you bring your own reusable cup. It works well!
Nothing. There's a coffeeshop down the street that has them.
lifetime for as long as the developer decides to maintain the service?
This is where regulation can step in, like how the EU regulated standard phone chargers.
An ag banker I know, has had the conversations with customers explaining that they would be better off taking their equity, putting it in mutual funds and working as a greeter in WalMart.

The problem is one of scale. If a small farmer is underleveraged, its simply not worth the time to farm. The return on equity is too low. If he levers up too much, then every season is literally betting the farm.

(With the caveat that the size of the equity stake and rate of leverage vary very much from crop to crop. Grains are very different than fruits and vegetables)
Sounds like he watched the movie They Live too many times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaE
A reusable straw would be difficult to clean, I imagine.

I'd suggest the first place to start is to just question whether a straw is necessary. I think they're mostly a gimmick, apart from their use by some disabled people.
How is Lambda School going for you?
Yeah, I understand what you are saying. I have a long break scheduled for the end of June where I hope to step back and get a look at the bigger picture...
> taste different

I don't think most people want to taste straws. I certainly don't.
https://www.fillmurray.com/

Bill Murray filler. It does go down occationally.
Excellent example of how nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.

One may think Min of Edu would close schools that ran out of students, lay off unnecessary staff and lower taxes, but why would they when they can round up the old, prisoners, immigrants, you name it...
University is fundamentally a social thing, both between peers and between students and knowledgeable people like the professor.

>- The automated grading of assignments meant that the class could scale to many hundreds of students

When you have things like this why are we paying so much?
The combination of revenue between lifetime and monthly subscriptions actually far outweigh hosting costs after I hit an easily obtainable customer number. Granted I’ll need to scale my server in time this is actually a sustainable business / I understand being skeptical of “forever”. If you were paying $5 a month it would be $60 a year, in under 2 years you’re already making your money back
Intel changed their definition of TDP lately, so actual consumption can be higher than TDP. So it is not trivial to compare energy consumption of last year processors with the older ones.
Simple service, easy to use, gets the job done, good selection of beautiful photos and great documentation on the open source repo. I'm sold
> I find this quote just a tad disingenuous.

Everything about Cloudflare is disingenuous!
Remember the bullshit they pulled with Tor and then tried to blame it on Tor being a DDOS vector (defying all logic).

I have more than once got into a debate about how many bags of dicks that Cloudflare sucks, only to find out near the end that the person was a Cloudflare employee and just kept that point to themselves the whole time.

I really wish some company would overtake them in that sector and send them packing, just on principle.
FYI, Postgresql also has DDL statements that are not transaction safe. The list is quite small compared to software like MySQL, but they still exist. I lost the list I had gathered from a handful of their developers in IRC once, so unfortunately I can't share. Just know that Postgres isn't 100% safe with DDL statements.
Why Software Projects Need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100 Projects)
Seems to me its mostly a case of kids being kids. How many 15 year olds are going to have "hauled DSLR cameras to the beach and mastered photo editing to get the perfect shot."

There's the usual counter culture vibe of trying to be different but if you tried for a bad pose with a bad filter that's not any different than trying for what was a "good" photo 5 years ago.

tl;dr 80s pop is out. Its all about 90s grunge.
> She says wall photos had become boring to her audience anyway, who are more interested in entertaining Instagram Stories than flat photos.

So it seems like the goofy Snapchat posts have taken over Instagram walls organically after Stories was introduced. Bad for Snap I guess.

To elaborate, Snapchat was all about My Stories, with no way to add still pictures to a wall. Now, look at Balenciaga's Instagram profile, which could as well be snapshots taken mid-Snaps.
They want to prerelease the features for some trial set of users, while only having one binary in the store.
If cabinet doors could slide sideways, that might be a good solution as well.
The elegant art of not giving a shit
Worth noting that outside of this bubble, macOS has less than 10% market share. Not every software needs to run everywhere.

There are other working solutions, JetBrains seems to do alright with Java runtimes.
I have used paper once or twice (albeit not in Florida, just some random place), and it didn't take long to get soggy. Drove me nuts. I feel like businesses will love this; forces people to drink quickly.
Plastic is hard to recycle since there are multiple types and there can be multiple types in one product. Also generally the recycled plastic is not as strong and usable as the original type and it's more expensive. Recycling plastic is not the answer.

Most of the recycling claims by companies with the exception of aluminum is used as a way to make consumers feel better about using and trashing a product.
Just a late addition to anybody who sees this, I tend to think of `if let` and `if var` statements in Swift as syntactic sugar for:

switch someOptional {
case .none:
// whatever
case .some(let x):
// do stuff with x
}
HK is slowly-but-surely heading towards full Orwellian Chinese rule. The handover was the beginning of the end, and all promises would be unenforceable and breached. It doesn't matter about petitionings through some international bodies, China could care less.
One of the listed features is direct uploads to S3. I haven’t looked, but I’d wager it’s either supported or easy to add uploading to other S3-compatible services!
At UNSW we had a similar system. The marking was a test suite, and each passing test would give you a portion of your grade. The system had a couple of simple smoke tests which were ran on submission time (to catch issues that would make the entire test run fail erroneously). As a TA I spent a fair bit of time fixing trivial issues - eg, sometimes a student would get 3/10 on the auto marker with a basically working solution because of a typo or something. I would dock a mark, fix the bug and rerun the tests - leaving the student with 8/10 or something.
So the over-edited atheistic is over, but the fake candid atheistic is in? But the true content stays the same - more beautiful people trying to convince others they need to buy products to become that beautiful. I've used ig since the beginning and it's only getting younger, thinner and more on the nose. A lot of my friends have serious body images because of who they follow (even their own friend circles have a weird competitiveness about it).
Owning code is an entrepreneur’s nightmare. This is why
Carrying around a straw will cause you to end up with a sticky mess if you drink anything but water. I guess the option is to carry it to a bathroom and wash it after every use? No thank you.
It's worth pointing out that the obvious alternative, reusable to-go cups, need to solve an additional set of challenges:

- Must NOT violate sanitization of the work area; cups provided by customers should not pose any health risks to workers or other customers.

- Should be durable enough to survive repeated visits

- Either the reusable cup must conform to a standard size, baristas need a way to measure liquids consistently without in-cup guides, or coffee could be sold by volume...

- Reusable cups should not introduce enough delay to appreciably disrupt the flow of customers

Disposable cups have the great advantage of being standardized by the company and solve a lot of these problems, especially the health problems. This is just off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing some other great points. This is a much harder problem than it appears on the surface; the devil's in the details.
True, but you should probably do something about the bigger problem first because there's no point in re-carpeting if the house is on fire
Finally a global warming story that has at least some chance of being true
Some Ryzen (not Threadripper) motherboards have on-board 10gbit Ethernet
And tenure shall set you free!