skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recycling has a limited recovery basis. Over generations, for a recovery fraction r over n generations, remaining material is r^n.

At a 90% recovery rate, after 2 generations, 81% of the original material remains. After 10 generations, it's a smidge under 35%.

The most heavily recycled material in the U.S. is asphalt, with rates approaching 90% recovery.

The most-recycled mineral or metal is lead, with rates of 74%. At two generations, the remaining material is 55%. After 10, it's less than 5%.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/recycling-statistics-and-i...

USGS also have numerous interesting publications on mineral usage and supplies:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/materials-flow
The comments here bring to mind this:
Attorney to witness: What did you see?
Witness: It looked like he was saying "XYZ."
Opposing attorney: Objection.
Judge: Sustained. The jury will disregard the previous question and answer.
—Except: the jury has heard it — too late.
There can be a lot of steps between "help me fix this problem" and fixing the problem. They include qualifying the idea, scoping the request, possibly transforming the request into an abstract form and searching the organization for other people with forms of that abstract problem. Then you get to procurement and you need to figure out if you are getting a specific tool for a specific task or some kind of kitchen sink. Now that youve learned what the kitchen sinks do, you go back to scope and decide if other requests or projects are moving into this one, or if perfect is becoming the enemy of good. Then once your implementation project is done, you need to redesign old processes around it, communicate the change, and offer training.

Saying yes and fixing the problem quickly, without analysis, will often UNDERSERVE your company in the long run, because you only fix a specific problem for a specific person, functional group, or division.
Another way of looking at it would be:

This person has actually thought about the effectiveness of FizzBuzz as test for overall programming skill. S/He will likely be an asset to the company due to having demonstrated a capacity for correctly assessing practices that are broken and having shown a willingness to refuse to continue following said broken practices.
Is there some open source version of something like rsync that is available to just sync between machines on a LAN? No cloud involved.
Right, but in the UK, for example, we don't do resumes, only CVs.
Usually it’s a lot more straightforward. Contracts can be terminated at very short notice if you’re not delivering so it’s not usually worth spending a lot of time interviewing.
Their response won't be to pass a robocalling law, it will be to send the police to your house to arrest you for harassment which is already illegal.
What is your solution, then? The demonstrators should realize the futility of their position, give up, go home, and allow the situation to deteriorate further?

Engaging in whataboutism just encourages the bad behavior you're highlighting here. It's a logical fallacy that leads to learned helplessness and a nihilistic worldview that actually ends up perpetuating the same vicious cycle I assume you wish to prevent.
You're All Wrong about “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones”
If you want a proper dev environment that matches your target you need a proper server to have sql server installed on. I'm pretty sure someone can install sql server on your workstation if you really need it. User permissioning is a dbo task. After that you just have to live with it like the rest of us.
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Explained in detail here:

https://superuser.com/a/879013
Can the Next Wave of Technology Bring Us Closer?
Your comment is being pummeled with downvotes because the human psyche finds it disgusting and offensive to think about human lives in such cold and calculating terms.

However, that's an irrational cognitive bias like any other, and I wish people wouldn't succumb to it on HN.

Whether I agree with it or not, your comment is an interesting and rarely-heard perspective, and rationally argued.
I didn't know it too. How do we define interesting though, given three of the four times it garnered no interest (do we keep on posting until it does)? I'm not sure if GP deserves downvotes for pointing them out at the least.
> The problem with predictions like this is that this prediction will look silly in 4 years when the Earth has not ended

Can you explain why people like you who come here to post "the world won't end in 4 years" consistently do not read the article, and consistently set the bar at "literally the oblate sphereoid we are on explodes" as opposed to "the climate is so radically different it threatens every aspect of human society and triggers even more mass extinctions?"

I don't understand your mentality at all. It seems an awful lot like you're meticulously moving the goalpost of a bad outcome. But surely you have got your own internal reasoning.
How can you be good at writing production quality code, but bad at trivial code?

No one is looking for people who can write fizzbuzz the fastest, or optimal in any way. They are looking for you to clear a low bar filter.
Being a backwards and hostile place is why young people with any potential flee Maine. You can go hard about all those Massholes, but there is a premium on decency to consider that has economic impact, too. If Maine wants to make that choice, that's fine, but they're going to be paying and paying and paying for it.

I didn't much care for him as a governor at the time, but I saw John Baldacci speak around the time I graduated and he spoke of Maine's chief export: U-Hauls, carrying the state's best and brightest away. I've thought about moving back, because there are parts of Maine I miss...but it's neither economically nor politically stable and Maine misses out by that a lot more than I do.
Residual value used car calculator
wouldn't writing events from analytics sub-system into a SQL database put load on the DB even when it is not warranted ? My point is that if you are using a SQL db and most of the database is for business transactions, wouldn't logging events which are not mission critical , unnecessarily consume db resources ?

Also, assuming that SQL is being used for storing analytics events, would you not cache events in a queue and then flush them to DB in a batch?
No, it's more like someone saying "the sun causes skin cancer, it's been proven. You've been exposed to the sun. You will get skin cancer unless you electively remove your entire skin with surgery. Trust me, I'm an expert."

This alarmism does nothing but alienate. We should be sticking to the science, not dramatizing.
I thought those were jusr their catspaws and the norm for spying was far more sociopathically aristocratic - the official spies have if not holding diplomatic immunity have some sort of official connection.

Executing them is technically legally perscribed but simply not done in practice - instead being kept for prisoner exchanges.

Their networks of local contacts who do the actual work may not even get the benefit of a third world kangaroo court trial.
> Companies will just violate it anyway and get a small fine.

Which is precisely why the GDPR's enormous maximum fines are a good thing, in my book. Minor and unintentional violations can be treated with leniency, but a large organization that's repeatedly and deliberately compromising the privacy of millions can wind up paying for it in an actually noticeable manner.
Thanks. Unfortunately it's definitely abandoned. It looks like it was sold in 2015 to NetObjects and there's been basically no development on it since then and no support responses or updates. Very sad as it looks like a great app. I wish it was open-sourced
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> Life finds a way...

...on precisely one of a dozen planets in the solar system, and perhaps one in the hundreds (or thousands?) we’ve found.

It’s not clear that life can endure indefinitely, and obviously it can’t under some circumstances.

Further, high technology could easily go the way of the dinosaurs, and require “re-evolving”, only to find the present conditions don’t permit as advanced of technologies.
My first computing and programming was on a CP/M machine. It was the 90s, Windows 95 was just coming out and I was just 12, but my family was too poor to afford a contemporary computer. The mother of one of my classmates gave me an old Epson QX-10. Even figuring out how to boot the computer was a learning experience. Among the disks I also found dBASE II, and a book on programming it. I also had a lot of fun duplicating disks and sending files with PIP. Many of the commands and concepts of CP/M were similar to but more orthogonal than MSDOS.
I hire people that can follow the process. I’ve had to establish processes for a department that the cowboy coder in me didn’t like and that I made myself follow.

I’ve also had to implement processes for some type of compliance reasons - most of the time HIPAA. The last thing I need is to be sitting in front of lawyer as Directly Responsible Individual, explaining why we weren’t in compliance.
syncthing?

https://syncthing.net/
Economics simply fails to account for many ecological sourcing and disposal costs.

Hotelling's Rule (still taught despite no empirical support), the Rule of Capture, and law of unintended consequences are only three of the more glaring elements of this.

The dynamic Bernard J. Stern identified of established powers and agents seeking to retain, inflate, or at a minimum prevent devaluation of their assets or positions (this has no general name of which I'm aware) is another huge element. One mechanism of this does have a name: agnetology, a/k/a, manufactured ignorance or confusion, as expressed in the lead, asbestos, tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel industries, among others. See Proctor, Oreskes, and Conway, particularly in Merchants of Doubt.

Fully accounted petroleum would reflect a cost millions of times greater than present market prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_capture

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange1....
Just found this. This is the only site I have found that actually shows you the residual value of a used car after a certain term. Not sure if it's useful to anyone else.
SaaS needs to chill out for like two seconds.

What we’re seeing here is a strategic maneuver by Dropbox to move up the UX stack from a single file syncing tool to a meta/coordination layer between SaaS products. The goal is to own the user experience and integrate all the adjacent or overlapping SaaS tools in a user’s workflow so you can control both the user and the suppliers.

We’re going to see this more frequently and it’ll look weird coming from different tools trying to level up and pull this off (i.e. what will email look like with this?).

One issue is as incumbents partner/buddy-up and competition heats up, we’ll see a bunch of bundling, increasing consumer costs while locking out newcomers.
Rules... like being neutral to customer data on the network?
I would say what you need to consider more than anything is making sure you have the right data, and that the data can be combined.

This is the hard part of analytics for an app that is more back office oriented, understanding what will be needed to get truly accurate and useful information to support the reports people will want in 2 years, 5 years, whatever time frame is long enough for things to really change in your environment.

Try to think in an adversarial way, what question could someone come up with that I can't answer. The user who has seen the most errors? Usage trends by department?

One place this might lead is wanting to put a way to link request/error logs back to an application level user account (in a way that respects security and privacy), this can become great debugging info too.
A team I worked on tried to buy browsing histories for specific sites about 10 years ago. NetZero was selling them from their free dialup customers, but the data was not that useful as the demographics of users was super skewed. All the ISPs that people tend to think are evil absolutely refused to even entertain the idea. One of them even lectured our PM on privacy and ethics for a few minutes before ending the call.

You can buy advertising profiles (or access to them) but this not really useful for things that are not directly advertising as it is super aggregated. In general the ISP data is less valuable since so much of the web has moved to using SSL.

I don't know much about how this has changed over the last couple of years but maybe someone else can chime in.
Will Storyboards still be alive?
No, no. You're the crazy one for thinking the world might not be ending. Remember?
Oh, we can't destroy the planet, but we can make life for humans much more painful and/or impossible. (Along with lots of other species, but humans are the ones I care about most).
It's not necessarily brutalism, I own a maximalist site that doesn't have any Javascript on it, only CSS, HTML and images.
For a moment I was so excited. I thought my favorite road trip oddity made it to HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(roadside_attraction...
Assuming some break with history or loss of cultural memory, after 10k years of photodisintegration and absorption into the biosphere, there will be no Garbage Patch.

Our descendants would then be left to wonder at the odd adaptations that life must have made to accommodate complex polymers into their biology, and where those complex polymers might have come from.
For every thing the American judicial system does wrong, China does a hundred things worse. The conviction rate in China is well over 99% (if they want to find you guilty, they will). You can be detained with no access to a lawyer or family indefinitely. There is no separation of powers (the legal system isn't independent of the political system, and the constitution isn't worth anything). Torture and forced confessions are common. Roughly a million people are currently being held in concentration camps without any trial.

I know it's popular to be critical of America, and it's good to shine light on the darkest parts of America, but there is no comparison between it and what goes on in other parts of the world.
Wow, that takes way too long to load. SPAs killed the internet.
How valid is the argument that states can't regulate interstate business? Any business that operates over state lines is immune to all local law?

Also claiming that this infringes on ISP free speech? Like Citizens United, applying ideas of personhood to cooperations is just gross.

I'm with the Chamber of Commerce in that the bill doesn't go far enough. Why should giving away our privacy be a prerequisite for doing anything online?
Thanks for pointing out. Nice to see progress in this direction.
99% of client-side rendered pages would provide a superior user experience with server-side render. SSR is what the web was designed for after all. CSR is merely fashionable, not better.
Ah, I'm Windows user, I didn't even know that you could run KeePass on non-Windows systems.
Well, until they run out entirely.

https://time.com/4017476/a-town-without-water/
From their website: "It’s pretty amazing how much technology helps us accomplish at work. Things that used to take days now take hours, and many small tasks—like updating a spreadsheet cell—are as easy as they should be."

Let me fix that for them...

It's pretty amazing how much constantly changing the UI and workflows slows us down from getting work done. Things that use to take seconds now take minutes, small tasks-like finding a file-take longer and require more cpu cycles because you need to use search (assuming you know the file name you're searching for) rather than using the previous, familiar directory structure UI which either a) no longer exists or b) takes several extra clicks and minutes to reveal again.

As I mentioned in another comment: I contacted support a few weeks ago because I couldn't find the file(s) I was looking for. They keep changing the UI. They told me to use the search feature. That feature is lacking and it doesn't help that I don't know the filename since it was an uploaded photo from my phone. I left them feedback that the UX sucks and that they need to stop changing things for changing sake. Things are/have gotten worse regarding their UX. I think their devs are thinking and selling themselves on their ideas of what improvements are rather than current customers. If they want to try new things, leave the existing product alone and a launch an entirely new(er) product like DHH and basecamp do without disrupting their own existing paying customers![1]. Don't upset happy customers and give them a reason to re-evaluate your offering and other options.

[1] https://businessofsoftware.org/2015/10/david-heinemeier-hans....
Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

I use Slack and Zoom often, but I have never once thought — gee I really wish I could just open up this presentation in Dropbox directly into my Zoom meeting. I just don’t see the integration working in that direction.

Sure, Dropbox should make sure that it’s available as a provider to save/open files for other programs — that make sense. The integration with MS Office makes sense — where Office is aware when you’re working on files that are stored in Dropbox.

This just seems like they are trying to do too much. I can’t see the strategy...
Is there some inside joke to the blog name? I really don't get it...
Be a little more supportive, and make suggestions.
Is there a good alternative to Dropbox that also does block-level file syncing?
The "dumb" here isn't even limited to "block Dropbox." Lots of my customers have blanket "block everything that could plausibly be used for file sharing" policies, and explicitly include services literally AIMED at corporate/B2B data exchange like Citrix's ShareFile.

No, we don't have an internal FTP site. No, I won't set one up for you. We use Sharefile for distribution so we don't have to do that. Your IT blocks it? Yeah, that's dumb. Go talk to them; it's not my problem. We're not going to do customized delivery channels just because your halfwit CIO decided to block every site with an upload button.
Crash reports often include memory dumps. Firefox automatically reports these to Mozilla - there's plenty of other software that auto-reports crash data as well. If that crash data includes in-memory credentials, that could lead to your master password being compromised.
It may be designed for 10,000 years, but it will fail at year 3000 because the gears will get clogged from the blood of human sacrifices.
Yes, definitely it would be far less cruel than subjecting them to the penal system for the best years of their life. Especially if it is a quick, painless method of execution.

It's sort of too bad that there aren't many mostly empty wastes that we can exile people to any longer. Remove them from society, but give them the chance to make what life they can under the sky.
Which countries China has recently invaded and currently wages war against?
WTF is going on at Dropbox? Are they losing so many users they now need to make this ridiculous integrations?
Thanks, but that's just split full-screen, which is limited to only 2 apps and also hides the menu bars (which I usually need when I'm working).

macOS definitely does not come with a general way to tile applications.
Is it possible to sync your passwords with other devices?
Those are manufactured by Foxconn and running software by Google.
> I can't help but feel you are dancing around the question, and are not really comfortable with the direct outcome of your stance, which is: You are arguing that killing innocent people is OK sometimes. You don't really seem willing to examine that head-on.

I have the totally opposite impression. That commentator is very explicitly making the point that yes, in fact, sometimes policies leading to the killing of innocent people have benefits that outweigh that cost.

Where did you see any equivocation or "dancing around" ?
MIT-Incubated Project Is Reimagining Privacy in Blockchains
Except nobody was crying wolf. If we took the problem seriously back then, we wouldn't be fucked now. The reality is that we're living through a mass extinction driven by climate change. Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s.

The fact that people are looking at the world today and asking where's the problem is beyond belief.
> For the most part, I'm now Google free. I don't despise Google as a company but I believe that their core business model is incompatible with privacy.

I like that closing line. It's something I can relate with. I appreciate Google's products, use a Pixel 3 which is a sin I probably shouldn't admit on HN, and I'd love to use their whole ecosystem - Google suite, the Chromebook, Google Home etc - for all my tech needs. The issue is, Google in my eyes is a data analytics company first and foremost. No matter how much I like the design and functionality of their products, if I want to maintain even a small semblance of privacy I can't in good faith support them.

Only problem I have now is that their phone is too damn good to ditch...
\tangent Can you serve a website from your phone?

My mobile data provider seems to block incoming packets... (but I can receive if initiated from my phone (as in ftp), so maybe it's just that my IP address isn't known?) I couldn't work it out.
> AFAIK the only thing it protects you from is generic malware that scans process memory for passwords.

Apparently it doesn't even do that: https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-mana... (section Keepass)

Possibly because keepass uses the wrong flag? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.... seems to say that the memory segment can be decrypted by either:

* all processes running on the box

* all processes owned by the same user

* only this process

Alternatively, might be because C# and the memory protection primitives don't prevent the GC from copying its data out of the protected area? IDK

edit: ah, or they might be using ProtectedData rather than ProtectedMemory, that only has the "same machine" and "same user" levels of protection: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security....
But at the point of the interview, I don’t know you from Adam.

There are three levers of power in an organization - relationship, expert, and role - in that order. If you don’t know how to build relationships and prove expertise and come into an organization like a bull in a china shop, you aren’t going to be effective - you are going to be disruptive.

I want someone who questions the effectiveness of broken practices, but you do that after you get the job, you have shown that you have a better way and you have built the relationships to push your ideas through.

I self demoted (responsibilities not pay) from a dev lead at one company to an IC at my current company. I have to bite my tongue repeatedly about things that could be done better but aren’t worth the effort to fight for. But on the other hand, I have to use “soft power” to change things and convince people about the things that are important to the organization.
I seem to recall that Dropbox once tried to become a platform, and failed miserably.

Is this the second attempt?

I'd prefer it if they just made file syncing easier.
The best description of building something that lasts I've seen in recent fiction is Cixin Liu's Death's End [1] where he writes [2] about mankind's museum (a forever tombstone).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_End

[2] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nUkoCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT539&lp...