skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, lets run with that scenario.

I shop once a week, and normally fill 2-3 cotton bags. So I'd have paid off my pollution within a year. Maybe 6 months, as my cotton bags hold twice as much as plastic bags.

Also, not all production of bags is going to have the same level of pollution. We DIY many things in our home, and although we do buy the raw cloth, we sew them together ourselves. I suspect that drops the pollution somewhat.

In which case, I may be in a better place simply by using bags for a few months.

That doesn't sound so bad to me.
> For a department store, it is very clear that you are buying from the department store. They own the physical goods at the time of sale.

Just to bit pick and it doesn't really change your point, but I thought a lot of places basically do consignment now for their vendors and don't own much of their stock?
HN seems to be doing just fine without really being in that particular arms race.

And out in the real world, captchas way too often - not always, but way too often - signal content not actually worth following.
Philosophy has come up empty when it comes to proving god's existence
They do trust their machines, and want them serviced the way they see fit.

But they also want to protect their business with lockout strategies.
Does your body have abnormal electrical resistance or capacitance? To me it seems more likely that you are being delusional than your electrical properties being so far out of the normal range that they are diagnosible.
Those two stores are not the exclusive avenue for customers to play games. Developers may choose to bypass those stores altogether and release their games on disc if they choose.
Hindu Numerals
Can someone pls explain this exchange in plain english? Sorry.
If taxi industry can be killed off and not recover, maybe it was only a matter of time (ie no money to be made).

You may also want to check why Uber ceased operations. Either anyone (like the local taxi industry) would, or they were forced to do that by the government (in which case it shouldn't be held against Uber).
It costs Google almost nothing to carry another electronic news outlet, unlike with physical goods (they probably still cache all of them anyways). Very bad analogy. As an example, the cost difference from picking the best result from 1000 sites or 10 sites is probably not very great.

It just tells me that Google controls what news that you are able to see and that they are not very objective.

edit: of course I am not talking about showing bad results on your prime screen real estate... just choosing the best results from more sources (which is what I thought this article was about).
>In US on other hand, in principle and in theory, a judge or juror

Is that not what appeals and jury selection processes are for?
131 was the number thrown around in other comments. And I replied there as well, but go ahead and add it up - if the bag holds twice as much, and you use 2 bags a week, we're talking about less than a year before you are ahead of the game.
Thanks. I posted a comment update with simple Cloudmarker plugin I tried to get GitHub dump - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19900677

Can you give me Custodian doc or tutorial that will help me do this in Custodian? I saw the Kubernetes link. It has many files to read. Can you give me simpler starting place?
I don't think it's wrong to downvote unpleasant-but-true posts if it appears that the author's intention was strictly to be provocational. Clearly that's not the case here though
Most of those tax breaks have specific empployment figures associated with them.
I often see an indicator on Amazon that the product ships in packaging that reveals what it is, with an option to select Amazon packaging instead.
^ this.

Just because humans can operate a car with vision-only capabilities doesn't mean that we shouldn't use LIDAR. Every redundancy will be highly valued when human lives are at stake, and we've seen many times with Tesla how cameras alone can be fooled.
How about this one:

Succubus/incubus seduction might result in loss of levitation which in turn could drop the hero onto a trap that transports him/her elsewhere; seduction was proceeding as if nothing unusual had happened

That's just crazy! Wear ring/boots of levitation over a teleport trap and let the succubus remove them for you. Who does this?! Love it.
> What happens if I buy a $100 bottle of wine and the rest is small priced cheeses and vegetables for a party? It becomes useless.

Do you find this an everyday event?
> Shouldn't we think about working less, better spreading wealth, figuring out a plan so people don't have to work multiple jobs to barely survive ?

We should but that would put a decent dent in corporate profits. Germany actually followed this for a long time - since the aftermath of WW2 up until the collapse of the UdSSR we had the "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" which is basically what you described. Then after communism fell, neoliberalism took over.
Have you found any support groups or any that were affective? I have taken a cursory glance at some support groups available to me in the past, plus some internet circles, but found them not personal enough to be effective or I felt too detached from the people involved from their day to day problems. But I feel like I, as well as other ADHD folk would benefit from some sort of HN "accountability" partner or group that understands the condition but also the type of work we do.
Did you notice that Mozilla plugins broke the other day because somebody forgot to renew a certificate? The law is the framework that our society runs on and business and pretty much ever other activity is a plugin. So do you really want to set us up for breaking the plugins because the cert (law) has expired when the legislature was too busy or forgot to renew? BTW, like any other organization legislatures have limited productivity (bandwidth). It varies from one to another but we aren't living in the days of Hammurabi where you could write it on two stone tablets. Replacing or even renewing the law for a modern technological society is not going to be a semester project for some script kiddies (legislators).
God that took me five minutes to parse... but after you wrap your head around it, it’s not so bad.

I imagine it was easier to parse out in a monospaced terminal’s font?
Hm, this might be a city-size thing then. I can definitely picture mid-size cities with mediocre bus services looking to Uber as a reason not to invest.

I've mostly seen its effects in big cities (where public transit gets invested in regardless, and lots of people taking buses never moved to more-expensive Ubers), and small cities (where bussing was already atrocious, with no real plans for changing that).
I agree with your abstract vs concrete analogy. We knew bits and pieces from cases like Jewel v NSA[0] but not things like modifying things on the wire to insert malware, or kneecapping standards.

But conversely, it was well that Obama used data analytics to enhance his campaign[1], using techniques extremely similar to Cambridge Analytica's[2].

The important difference being users of the Obama for America app opted into sharing their data for political purposes, whereas CA claimed to be a personality quiz to secretly harvest data for political purposes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_v._NSA
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...
[2] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar...
Interesting, and could be 'fixed' by the trend of leasing cars, where you pay a fixed fee for maintenance and use of cars.
It takes up room on the shelf.

It's a very good analogy.
I mean, yeah? You buy newspapers that you trust, you don't buy all of them.

What Fox News thinks is completely irrelevant to me since I'm looking for facts. I should be able to tell that to someone who's in the business of curating my news for me.
A CS professor at my school graduated after 2000 with a bachelor's in creative writing. She did do her graduate studies in CS, however. So it's still possible to be a professor without studying the field at an undergraduate level.

However, she certainly had formal training in CS, just not at the undergrad level.
tl;dr - scientist proposes solution to the nuclear waste problem: alchemy. With lasers.
Is it safe to eat moldy food if you cut off the moldy part? No
They seem to be trying to convert these lost employees into "delivery companies"[0]. As much as I dislike the Uberfication of the world, seems like a clever way of shifting human capital from warehouse to delivery.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/amazo...
Went through a bad spell last year. Got what I thought was the ideal contract: working from home on (non-game i.e. $$$) VR. Billing more in USD than I had ever billed in CAD. Working with genuinely nice people.

Couldn't make it work. Would get into loops of crunching all weekend to finish the work I'd committed to doing in the week. Became a shitty and irritable Dad due to work stress. Spent hours in loops like "This would be totally doable if I just started now ... but it hurts too much to stop thinking about what I'm interested right this minute ... but it's going to hurt later ... let's analyze all of the ways this is a repeat of my previous fuckups to see if I can figure my way out of this one ... and down the HOOOOOoooooooole"

Confounding factors: (1) trying to do school at the same time. (2) getting served with divorce papers when I thought I had come to terms with things. (3) Sleep apnea treated with CPAP. Impulsivity / exhaustion / obstacles at bedtime results in not using CPAP which results in greater distraction and higher impulsivity -> downward spiral for the week.

I learned a very valuable lesson, though.

You CANNOT fight procrastination by analysis. You MUST start the thing. There is no other solution. Any other choice is procrastination. Mantra: "You need to stop. What's your next action? What's your next action? ... " This seems obvious, but in the throes of an analysis / procrastination spiral it seems like maybe, just maybe you might be able to think your way out of this. NO.

I also started a new medication at the beginning of 2017 - generic Strattera. It didn't prevent these problems, but it has actually been a great help. There are side-effects, but I'm willing to accept them. I call it my "anti fuck-it" medication. It damps down impulsivity without reducing my creativity (impulsivity is the source of creativity). This is suprisingly multi-faceted. I am less likely to overeat (less likely to say I don't need more pie but fuck it!). I can do deeper search in strategy games or planning (less likely to look a few moves ahead, get befuddled, and say fuck it, I'll just do this random action). It also feels like I have another register of short-term memory, although this could be due to sleep, etc.

So ... don't rule out meds, but they're not a silver bullet. Also, the wrong meds can damage or kill you. I still have some interesting minor mental issues from Dexedrine a decade and a half ago. On it, I got paranoid and that almost killed me.

EDIT> One other tip: limit any online discussion to 1 reply. You get one reply, and that's it. Don't keep responding to a thread. It really doesn't matter, and is a huuuuuge time sink.
My understanding is that he did both. He was using library access for a while but it wasn't fast enough.
so, you should be able to enter an mxid (e.g. @matthew:wherever.com) on Riot/iOS & Android and log straight in.

Meanwhile, if you go to Riot/Web on mobile for a custom deployment, you should see a page like this https://webchat.kde.org/mobile_guide/ which guides you through the process.

Deeplinking from web into the app is hard, as the only way to do so vaguely reliably is by fingerprinting the browser using something like branch.io, which is distasteful from a privacy perspective. Meanwhile, affiliate links in google play seem to only work about 30% of the time, given the planets have to be in precisely the right orientation for the association to not get lost.

Mattermost might be doing something smarter (perhaps letting you install the app generically, and then getting you to click a custom URI handler link from the web to provision the correct config on the client?) - but would be useful to know which of these failure modes people were falling into?
Are you implying that to protect yourself - that you need to only see news sources that you think will already agree with your idea of how things are?
> unless you’re in an area where they get to charge.

Why don't they do this everywhere? Is it because customers would throw a fit?
John Deere will never go out of business in the manner you suppose. Worst case is restructuring through bankruptcy.
I find Caves of Qud to be an especially good foreground for music. (Or background?) Its character of visuals and storytelling is somehow both strongly stylized and sparse. Serves as blank slate but also stimulates. Music resonates especially well with it I find. Impact of both game and music are multiplied.
One would hope so but evidently not :( I've been trying to exercise more and use exercise videos on YouTube when I can't make it to the gym. People featured in fitness videos usually advocate for drinking more water but then it's crazy to see the majority of them reach for plastic water bottles while they're in walking distance to kitchen sinks in their own homes or studios. I just assume most U.S. and Canadian cities provide suitable drinking water via utilities.
What are the optimizations, and why can't other distro vendors apply them? Maybe this is a way for Intel to rally other distros into adopting the optimizations
No, we have those functions, too :). It really comes down to how people are measured for their work, and how it's directed. Nobody told Emma or Sara to do the things they did. Nor is anyone going to go see "how much pipeline got generated".

DevRel is measured on how many people they reach, but even that only vaguely. Marketing events, by contrast, are more often measured by pipeline. And you can be certain that onboarding (Professional Services) and Sales/Solution engineers are measured on revenue and time to revenue.
The Danish government said they thought it was 20000 times. I guess we don’t really know.

> one study from the Danish government found you'd have to use an organic cloth bag 20,000 times for it to be a better environmental choice than plastic
The Loneliest Species
If you want a much more interesting read about the few brands that dominate google this article is an excellent breakdown.

https://detailed.com/google-control/
It's not about the cost, it's about presentaiton space. A gas station is limited to one fridge (say), and has to choose what to put there.

Similarly, Google has a ~5" device with about 15-20 slots to fill in.

The actual cost of buying a fridge/extra slot is marginal, the issue is the attention of the consumer.
What mental models have you learned from it?
>most people own a good portion of major companies.

Are you revering to the stock market? I don‘t believe this is true. Just because half of adults own stock doesnt mean they own a good portion of these companies. Remember the richest 1% own 35% of the wealth.
Supposedly Fox News has the highest viewership by a large margin, at least according to Fox and Friends last week.

It doesn’t make sense to me that the liberal outlets are “mainstream” when supposedly no one watches them, according to conservative talking heads.

What exactly makes them mainstream then? Hannity was railing on and on last week too about CNN and MSNBC losing their minds because of some Trump story and that it was fake news, but he clarified their ratings are in the can and no one watches them anyway. But then he also calls them mainstream, and you’re here just repeating what he says.

How do you have it both ways? If no one watches these other channels and Fox News has all the viewership, then isn’t Fox News the mainstream?

Edit: sitting at -5 downvotes now. Would honestly love a response.
Oh woe! Where in the world will we find all this money? There is such a shortage of money in the country!

San Francisco was recently reported to have 1 billionaire for every 11,600 residents [1]. Maybe we should start looking there.

1: https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/billionaires-San-Franci...
On the record collecting / dj side, we used the similar term "Tommy Crate Digger". See soulstrut.com!
Kind of like Apple refusing to let an app in the App store that competes with something they make

Well seeing that for every product Apple sells or give away, there are competing products in the App Store, there is an existence proof that this isn’t true....
Or you can simply type "Integer to byte conversion and nil dereference are machine dependent" (or implementation dependent if you prefer, but the point is to have something).
How many garbage bags do you use per week? Just for myself I'd buy I guess ten bags of groceries a week and maybe three bags of trash a week. It doesn't add up.

When living with other people, we always accumulated huge numbers of saved plastic bags over the months. I'd recycle them but by myself I use reusable bags and a backpack that helps me carry them back. I get a handful of plastic bags every now and then when I get something without planning and those I put to use like you suggest.
Gender could be a benign or even beneficial social construct, if that’s what it is, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing.
Kavanaugh agreed with Merrick Garland most of the time during his tenure at the DC court of appeals.
That or it may not have seemed like a valuable trade route. Trade requires both sides to have something the other wants that’s also worth transporting the distance.
Yes, mystery still remains in some parts of the audio world - in particular when we're talking about transducer theory, there are some aspects of loudspeaker and microphone performance that we can reliably characterize with derived equations, but where we still don't totally understand how those models translate back to the underlying physics fundamentals... but these are relatively specific edge cases in speaker design.

Amplifiers and DACs have much less mystery about them - the math is solid, extremely well understood, and tested extensively in related fields like radar and sonar where the tolerances tighter and incentives for getting it right are stronger.

Marketing absolutely drives specs (and especially specs without tolerances) when pushing gear, but that doesn't mean that the measurements are somehow invalid. Just expect the specs to tell you how close to the goal of a "wire with gain" you're getting, not to tell you specifically how the measured performance deviates from that goal. It also gets a lot more complicated when you're dealing with devices like headphones that have widely variable impedences - an amplifier that measures relatively flat into a medium-impedance load might fall apart when given dramatically higher or dramatically lower input impedance, and impedance matching is still a somewhat overlooked issue in the industry.

The elephant in the room is always that some people just don't want to admit they think colored sound is better, so they convince themselves that there must be some aspect to audio performance that the science can't quantify - in reality, they're just avoiding quantifying a warm EQ curve, or nonlinear distortion, etc. I've studied audio electronics and DSP for audio at length, write plugins for audio software, have worked as a recording engineer, etc... and have no problem saying that mild nonlinear distortion and a bass boost sounds nice. The industry knows what "sounds good" and uses it to sell gear, but consumers think they want accuracy, so they get marketed to with terms like "transparency" or "resolution", and explain away unpleasant results with terms like "synergy" (or lack thereof).
Ask HN: How do you keep up with latest Computer Science/software breakthroughs?
> We have to ask why we are forcing people to evacuate

I guess that maybe is for things like that:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2915/2004/1600/belarus.jp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
I suspect you're being sarcastic and I agree. The US has been a tough place to be a farmer since the 80s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/14/us/farmer-suicide-rate-sw...

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/07/the-cdc-just-retra...
Oh ya, well, most programming today is akin to the macro programming that was done in the 80s in languages like Visual Basic. There is essentially no difference between that and the imperative languages like C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Swift, etc that have captured the market.

VHDL and Verilog aren't really imperative languages. They're functional programming (FP) like spreadsheets, Lisp and languages built on FP like Elixir, Clojure, Julia, Haskell, etc but with ugly syntax.

Another way of saying that is that a digital circuit is analogous to a spreadsheet (which is FP). So we could use referential transparency and other analyses/optimizations from FP and apply them to circuit analysis like Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, but at scale.

Sorry the copy-on-write (COW) thing was a little obscure. What I was getting at there is that buzzwords like Map Reduce and big data are hand waving over the central concept of data locality. So for example, a CPU-RAM computer might store a database on an SSD and use a bunch of fancy algorithms to load, cache and process that data. But a multicore computer could slice up the database and store a percentage of the data locally by each core. That's what Map Reduce and Erlang/Go and the Actor model do.

At that point, we can use concepts from the web like content-addressable memory and have an abstraction that frees us from the micromanagement of caching things. Basically we wouldn't have to worry about finding the fast path anymore, because with 1000 cores, anything we do is fast. We'd just have to keep the cores fed with data.

IMHO this core issue is why multicore computers that connect to a single RAM have generally failed. We need multicore computers with data locality, so that each core kind of acts like it has its own OS or is a node in a cluster. That would allow us to build on supercomputer algorithms that are well-understood. Then with those basic building blocks, things like running genetic algorithms and protein folding and physics simulations become straightforward because we're able to use simple algorithms running in parallel rather than increasingly complex algorithms running serially on CPUs whose performance have stopped improving.
Given that this is C, can the compiler prove in any case that two pointers are distinct? When you're dealing with a structure, it could still be the case that A = B + sizeof(structure.x) (+/- padding).
My favorite startup metaphor (originally applied to Groupon) is that the basic "get users, then improve margins" model would justify selling dollar bills for $0.50. After all, there's tons of demand, and it's clearly a real business opportunity because the users all stick around as you move towards profitability! Then you hit that final price hike to $1.00, and discover just how nonlinear demand can be...
Yes it does: it costs space on the page and a lower clickthrough rate, since people aren't going to click links from sources they don't recognize as often.

Should Google start preferring some CS undergrad's uncited poorly-formatted blog instead of stackoverflow as well?
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your SaaS payment system?
xonsh does the same thing for sh and python.

http://xonsh.org/
One might argue that the money saved on sock purchases will be spend on other things, thus creating jobs in different industries.
What is the root cause for the difference?
Is It Finally the Year of the Linux Desktop?