skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recycling is a economic-cost vs environmental-value optimization problem.

The university I studied at also has a department that analyzes renewable energies and recycling. They developed a system that does this cost-vs-value-analysis for recycling. In the end, you get a number of environmental points for every dollar you invest into recycling.

The core idea is that we have a certain budget to improve our environment. If a dollar invested in plastic recycling is 20 times less efficient than a dollar invested in glass recycling, then we should stop recycling plastic.

The results (for Switzerland): Glass and aluminum recycling works great. Battery recycling is OK, but because today's batteries contain way less toxic chemicals (like Cadmium) than they did in the 80s, it's largely an artifact from the past. They consider battery recycling good enough to keep, but wouldn't start recycling them if the infrastructure wouldn't exist right now.

Mixed plastic recycling is being hyped right now. There are companies that offer subsidized plastic bags where you can throw in all kinds of plastic. According to the study, the environmental value of recycling such mixed plastics in Switzerland is really low and should not be done, we are basically wasting our money which would be better spent on other projects that have higher value. Their summary was basically that instead of recycling plastic and burning fuel in combustion engines, we should convert oil to plastic products and then - once they have reached the end of the lifecycle - burn those in modern incineration plants. The energy gained from that can then be used to heat buildings and to power electrical cars. This way, the energy is re-used, first in a product, then in mobility.

Of course that only works if you have modern, clean incineration plants. If you burn the plastics on a pile, then the environmental value of plastic recycling skyrockets.
I've always found it odd that the free market hawks are so against factoring the externalities of their decisions into pricing.
Both?

So, my street name remained the same, but the physical address numbers changes from 910 to 582. 582 was a prior valid address for a house 5 blocks away.

So, some deliveries and mail comes to my house or my neighbors. It has been at least 2 years and we are still encountering mixups.

Delivery drivers will simply choose a house in the vicinity and leave the package there.

Also, when contacting certain companies to update the address, it would trigger an ‘event’ in their system that we had physically moved to a new location.

Also, billing address verifications for credit cards were hit or miss for a good year.

There was also the issue of a house fire, and the fire truck could not find the home based on the new address supplied by the 911 dispatcher.

Each geolocation address to lat-lon conversion would provide different results.

Zillow is super-messed up in our area now.

So, all on all, it helped nothing. It seemed like a government experiment on citizens’ reactions.
but the effect wasn't primarily economical! After reading the headline I also assumed that the story would be about the economic changes resulting from the infusion of such a 'valuable' resource i.e. I assumed the islanders would become smugglers/distributors themselves with the accompanying violence and risk such an occupation usually carries. The police quickly found and isolated the gang that lost the cocaine so there wasn't the usual violence from the owners coming to reclaim their product. Also the article says the islanders sold the found cocaine locally AND the street value plummeted:

> Before Quinci’s cocaine had washed up on shore... the flow of drugs was usually small and predictable. Often when the police made a seizure, they would make such a dent in the drug supply that local prices would skyrocket. But now police faced an unprecedented situation. As well as the 500kg of cocaine they had seized in the previous two weeks, Lopes thought that at least another 200kg were still unaccounted for... that summer, [the village] became a hub for the sale of the missing cocaine. “People from all over the island came here to buy drugs,”... A product so valuable in the rest of the world was rendered almost worthless through abundance. “They had gold, but they didn’t know how to work with it,”... Other Azoreans “were selling beer glasses full of pure cocaine”... Each one of these “copos”, which were about a third of a pint, contained about 150g and cost €20 (£17) – many hundreds of times cheaper than what it would cost in London today... [a] man had apparently paid a friend 300g of cocaine just to charge his phone...

The effects were mostly cultural and affected mostly public health. There were some economic capital accumulated (used to "build coffee shops") but I thought the article did a good job with the subverted expectations and providing an overview of some long term effects
1. Check out this recent comment thread from a few days ago for an entry point to learning about numerous performance bounds caused by both design limitations and extremely long standing feature gaps in the computer network protocols we nowadays use for global communications (I intentionally avoid the term "Internet" here, because, as one can hopefully gleam from the content linked to there, that name seems undeserving for our "global information superhighway"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808

2. Something important and very relevant to your question which I forgot to mention in that thread:

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201807/D...

This recent ITU slide deck by Richard Li (Huawei):

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201807/D...

From this recent ITU workshop:
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201807/P...

The webcast of which you can find here:

https://www.itu.int/webcast/archive/t2017075g#video (third presentation in the video)

Naturally, given the information from point #1 on RINA, GNUnet & currently network technology issues combined with the fact that the plans presented above don't seem to really factor that information in, I dislike some of the directions the ITU & Huawei seem to go for there, BUT, even so, this presentation basically exactly answers most of your questions (I think the other commenters already did a most excellent job answering what the presentation doesn't), even generalizing them to seemingly "far out"—yet apparently entirely feasible—ideas like 'Holographic Teleports' (think VR on steroids.)
> The mean salary of a doctor in the United States is $294,000/year [Medscape]

So, so committed to providing care... they're practically working for free. Maybe they're even losing money.

Side note: Google is bizarre. You can tell what words Google thinks are effectively synonyms by typing one word and then seeing which words are bolded in the results; I searched "median earnings of a doctor in the usa" and it bolds "mean" and "average"...
Indoor fish farming seems like a much more practical approach to solve the problems inherent in catching wild fish to eat (and the pollution that outdoor fish farms cause), and a much more logical next step for seafood than lab-grown muscle tissue.

Lab-meat makes most sense for beef, which is an incredibly inefficient and habitat-destroying food source, and is also often served in a processed form anyway, ie as minced-beef in burgers, bolognese, sausages, etc, etc.
Hmm what can hackernews find negative to say about this?
They are also probably not awkward moving this stuff in a vacuum of support. If there are millions at stake some people are getting paid to look the other way.
I remember good old Skype from like 3, 4 years ago that didn't use to suck at this so much, at least on the audio side. When the network connection was really bad, it used something like phone quality, when it was good, the quality was closer to Face Time. You could hear the quality shift dynamically when network conditions were changing (i.e. someone starting a download). I really enjoyed talking on Skype back then, I knew I could depend on it and get the best I could, whatever the conditions were. Now it's much worse, the quality is average, it doesn't handle bad connections well and it doesn't fully utilize the good ones. I don't think we have anything as good now as we had back then. There's Team Talk which is amazing for audio, but much more cumbersome to set up.
It is well established, from what I gather, that in many species, most (=more than half of the) ancestors (of the extant population) are female. For most of human history, most women had children, while most men did not have children. So, that is something that happened in real life.
The cobra effect seems to be the theme of the day.

From the other article on the front page today, "Why Recycling Doesn't Work". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19889365

> When they were first introduced, blue boxes on Canadian driveways and sidewalks seemed almost revolutionary. People were “extremely enthusiastic,” says Dan Hoornweg, a professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. They “really wanted to recycle.” But the box came with conditions—an unfortunate compromise between environmentalists, government, and the soft-drink industry that created the perfect conditions for an explosion in litter.
That exactly what his study found.
Do I misunderstand you or do you suggest that the customer object should include the list of all invoices? That does not scale. Imagine if it is something more common like transactions where a user can have made thousands or tens of thousands.
Reputable brands that passed FIPS testing have also been hacked in the past. https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/business/vulnerability-i...
There we go, another bubble.
"I mean, the 80/20 rule is seen in all kinds of places"

Sorry, repeating the same point won't make it any more true. Still haven't seen any evidence for this stat, only American stereotypes.

It's hard to track people's sex lives for obvious logistical/ethical reasons, but the most accurate study I've read on that was about teenagers in a high-school in a small rural town, so a closed environment that's easy to control. Forgot the link, will track it down if you're interested. But basically the "sex encounter" graph was fairly evenly spread and evenly balanced between men and women. Sure enough there were "clusters" but they were engaged with each other, not monopolizing 80% of everyone.

As it turns out, if your social circle is made up of sociosexually unrestricted people, everyone involved is going to have lots of sex. If it's made up of restricted people, few people are going to have encounters. But one person or two keeping all women in a sort of "serial monogamous schedule" while they do liteally nothing else? That doesn't make sense and I've never seen it happen, nor have I read any actual scientific study about this.
And they can also be found on the High Seas...
I hope you don't find this too patronising, but I thought I'd offer you some feedback:

> Adults won't get the same treatment like children.

I'd render this as "Adults don't get the same treatment as children".

> He speak

Should be "He speaks"

> we are engineers, not the language teacher

This should probably be "not language teachers", but the whole phrase doesn't make a great deal of sense. I'd probably say "not copywriters".

> If I correct every minor quirks of him, he got a feedback

"If I corrected every minor quirk, he'd get feedback"

Generally "got a feedback" should always be "get feedback" - the tense of get was wrong, and feedback isn't countable, so it doesn't take an article.
>Because if you imagine you are "talking about me," then you have absolutely no idea whatsoever who the hell I am.

Making a point in a discussion is not about the personal circumstances of the one we're talking to. Doubly so if they're an outlier, and triply so if we don't know their circumstances to begin with, because the discussion happens in an online forum.
Why don’t Vancouver penny stocks go on bull markets every couple of years, setting a new all time high with each one?
Would you mind showing any platform's solution to the problems that java EE solves?
I have yet to see any competitor technology solve transaction management as elegantly as EJB's does.
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> One thing that seems clear is that there needs to be a standard interchangeable format for storing PRs and issues, so that it's not just the point of origin that's decentralized, but the data itself (in case the maintainers vanish).

I use Artemis for issue tracking, and that uses maildir (a widely supported standard). I compose issues with Emacs message-mode and render them to HTML using mhonarc.
Are you implying that our ancestors have had only as many sexual relations as they had children?
> I am pretty sure that I can do a high quality FaceTime call with a number of people.

A number of people that could afford $1000+ to be able to use that platform.

I personally wouldn't consider this problem to be technically-solved until an Android that can barely be considered as a mid-ranger can do it.
Do houses have the new numbers on them?

I would expect that, along with the numbers being rationalized (so they increase in one direction or the other), so I wonder what the hell is going on that the mail carriers can't get it right.
> I have been teaching languages for years and the bottom line is the vast majority of adults don't put in the hours.

This is with learning pretty much anything. Adults typically just have less time than their younger counter parts.
Sqlite3 Window Function Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
>American journalist and author Tim Mohr admits that when he first arrived in Berlin in 1992, he was clueless to the reality of what the post-Wall city would look like. “I thought all of Germany was Oktoberfest basically,” he told punk writer Legs McNeil at Brooklyn record store Rough Trade last week to celebrate the release of his new book Burning Down the Haus. “I was shocked when I got off the plane and everyone wasn’t wearing lederhosen and holding giant beer steins.”

And that person, with that knowledge of global culture, was a journalist?

At least in this case, traveling did broadened the mind!
I've had my eye on this. It settled around £3000 for some time. Then lately it became far more active, fluctuating between 3 to £4K and on an upward trend...

I do think media coverage (hype) fueled bitCoin exploding (then imploding). It's not a good thing when EVERYONE starts raving about investments.
Scam! Use an independent blockchain explorer to inspect these addresses: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CSecQ4iExhS6ke7daSya...
In the West the previous system was not arranged marriages, it was just monogamy.

If the "top 20%" (in the example above) married the opposite "top 20%" and this permanently removed them from the pool of available young people, then the matching could proceed on the rest. But if instead they form temporary bonds, then the system is more complicated, and you can have a state where (perhaps) the top 50% of one side take turns with the top 20% of the other. By "take turns" (apologies if it's a strange phrase) I mean both medium term dating and marriage with divorce, both common patterns now (e.g. some people are coupled most years of their 20s, some just a few).
Perhaps it should be called "cockroach-coin," because it has survived again and again and again.

Bitcoin's price rose from $1 to $29 in its early years, then dropped to $2 in 2011... and Bitcoin survived. Price then gradually rose from $2 to $269, and subsequently dropped to $68 in 2013... and Bitcoin survived again. Price then rose from $68 to $1147, and then dropped to $177 in 2015, and Bitcoin kept on surviving. Price then rose from $177 to $19891 (wow!) and promptly dropped to $3625 in 2018, and yes, Bitcoin survived yet again. Price is now at around $7200.

Tensions escalate between the US and China, Bitcoin survives. North Korea launches new test missiles, Bitcoin survives. Venezuela's economy implodes, Bitcoin survives. The conflicts in Syria and Iraq escalate in unpredictable ways, Bitcoin survives. Geopolitical crises flare up. Entire economies implode. Nations may cease to exist. Bitcoin somehow keeps on surviving.

I wonder, could Bitcoin have greater staying power than most nations and currencies in history?
Then your issue is likely with the extraordinary wages of Physicians in the United States.

The American Medical Association is the 3rd biggest lobby in the United States.

Physicians/surgeons in Europe do not make 300k/year.
> How many more of such studies and straw-grasping explanations will we have to go through

I don't follow. If GP's comment had ended with the bit you quoted then it might just be a straw-grasping explanation, but the rest of the comment says the study authors tested whether the explanation was true, and found that it was. That is, they suspected their result was due to sampling bias, found a bias in the data, and found that removing the bias reversed the result. If that's an accurate description of what happened, it doesn't sound much like grasping at straws.
WebRTC is direct peer to peer. There’s a reliance on a STUN/TURN server to provide signaling for things like NAT traversal but other than that it’s all p2p.
> accurately forecast what happens in 80 years.

You can’t accurately forecast what the weather will be on June 28th 80 years from now, for the same reason you can’t predict if it will be raining at your house at 3:29 pm two days from now, or where some molecule of water will end up in the Mississippi River an hour from now. But you can assuredly make less specific forecasts based on current trends. You know it’s likely to rain at some point in the morning two days from now, that the water molecule will flow roughly downstream, and that average air temperatures will increase if we keep putting CO2 in the atmosphere.
No, because the quality of the existing code isn't what affects my interest in the job. The vast majority of software out there has mediocre structure at best. Your responsibility is to improve it gradually, leaving each function or module you touch a little bit better than you found it.

The jobs I've enjoyed the most and learned the most from were incidentally the ones with the worst codebases.

That said, it's probable that there's a certain degree of awful that it's simply impossible to work productively with. As a hiring manager, I wouldn't consider it unusual or a red flag for a developer to ask to see the codebase; and every project has at least some code that isn't too sensitive to share (well, there are probably some exceptions in regulated industries).

If a developer doesn't have the maturity to be willing to work with a codebase that's six years old, where the earliest layers were quick-and-dirty proofs of concept developed without automated testing just to get a startup off the ground, and the latest are better but still flawed, then they're a poor fit here anyway. We need developers who understand that the code exists to serve the business and not for its own sake.
> Is that less regulation? More regulation?

You are suggesting stronger regulation of some aircraft ('upgrades', as you rightly say), without weakening regulation for any other aircraft. So it's certainly 'more regulation'.

> I doubt it matters if it's "less" or "more" since the goal is fewer dead people, not passing an ideological Turing test.

It's a political question, so there's at least some question of ideology. Full-bore libertarians would doubtless find some way to oppose your suggestion.

You said regulation caused perverse incentives that ultimately got people killed. It would be more fair to say that a loophole in the regulations, caused the perverse incentive.
> Bitcoin appears to have greater staying power than most nations and currencies in history.

WTF?
Bitcoin miners pollute just enough (or take away just enough green energy capacity) to tip the earth over the edge. Bitcoin dies along with everyone else.

It's a hyperbole, but seriously, while Bitcoin may survive politics, it must die. Let a non-POW cryptocurrency please replace it.
> Bitcoin appears to have greater staying power than most nations and currencies in history.

I would not make that statement so soon. Bitcoin has only existed for 10 years. Most nations and currencies, at least in recent history, have lasted for much longer than that.
Git has always had integration with email, which makes it compatible with a vast amount of existing servers, clients, credential systems, Web UIs, scripting languages, etc.

As an example I think SourceHut is mostly based around email (which it provides a Web UI for) https://sourcehut.org
This is one of the reasons Bitcoin has won the crypto wars.

Slow and expensive transactions? But it's reliable, only 21,000,000 Bitcoin ever ever.

Fiat cannot say the same.

Here is an anecodete against Bitcoin as a currency. A Friend was buying bulk food from me and for the second time, he insisted on USD instead of Bitcoin. Why? Bitcoin is undervalued.

I had found myself saying the same thing when buying party supplies from a different friend. I asked to pay in USD, because Bitcoin was undervalued. (2019)
No, they are suggesting that the top performing women just aren't as good as the top performing men. A small but important difference.

I believe what they said is right. At the same time, I also believe that the worst performing men perform worse than the worst performing women - males have a wider spread of ability.
Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel
> I would be generally in favor of reusable packaging for comsumables (not just food, but also soap, detergents, ...).

There's an effort to do this by TerraCycle and some big name corporate partners like PepsiCo, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, etc.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/24/18196388/unilever-pe...
> Could Bitcoin have greater staying power than most nations and currencies in history?

"The average life expectancy for a fiat currency is 27 years, with the shortest life span being one month." [0]

[0] http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2011/01/23/time-different-do...
Caching behavior is not only about browsers.
WinRT + coroutines makes modern Windows programming _amazing_ to write and read, and efficient to run. This plus the xlang (compiler? toolset?) system, all open-sourced, shows how Microsoft has hedged against whichever platform will win the next round. Kenny Kerr deserves much credit for pushing all of C++ forward with these concepts.
I don't think the problem is pitching behaviour.

The problem is the fact the MCAS is required to fix the pitching problem.

Boeing tried to fix the design issue with a workaround solution only to then find they had created another, even bigger problem.
Agree! I edited this sentence so it would be a question, which better reflects what I actually intended to write.
I agree that physicians wages may be part of it. The AMA keeps a tight control on how many physicians are produced to keep fees high, but physician incomes haven't really been increasing. Doctors, I believe, generally make less now adjusting for inflation than they did in the 90s, which I've heard described as like some kind of golden age or something.
To add to your anecdote :) an older co-worker decided he wanted to learn the guitar. I thought it was great, but he came in one day and said he either read or some doctor friend told him it's almost impossible for someone over 40 to learn something like an instrument. My response was that a kid may have an easier time, but that IMO it's largely about time available to practice.

He figured out the most efficient way to practice, took lessons, and less than a year later is pretty comfortable playing sets of songs in front of people.
I edited this sentence so it would be a question, which better reflects what I actually intended to write.
Tech workers organize protest against Palantir on the GitHub coding platform
This price rise is likely in anticipation of access to exchanges from popular brokers like E-Trade.