skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they do (exist in Europe).

Most companies giving you a credit of some sort (banks, phone contracts, ...) are required to do vetting of you.

To help them do that, they use credit rating bureaus.

In Europe, you as a private person just don't know it and don't have access to your own rating. But you are likely to be rated anyways..

Here is one danish example (at least three exists)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https%3...
> Especially since the heavy trash bags you buy consume much, much more plastic compared to the thin film freebies I was using before.

Seems to be cultural/regional: the bin liners I buy are of the flimsy type, precision engineered to just barely survive the one-way trip from the room bin to the large outdoors bin, whereas the free bags I used to get at the store were almost universally heavily overdesigned as brand-carriers, can't take any chances with a bag that has your logo all over it.
See also: https://github.com/davebryson/bftdb
This is not about amateurs but people acting "professionally" vs. those acting "unprofessionally"...
We should remember though that what this demonstrates is a high correlation between PrEP use and risky sexual behaviour. It does not suggest that PrEP use encourages that behaviour - I don’t doubt that in some cases it does, but it’s difficult to think it does so generally.
I haven't seen that being done in the UK for over 10 years. Wonder why they stopped doing it?
E.g. Sir Isaac Newton who was a professional mathematician but an amateur physicist.

Professionalism to me means a few things:
- you earn money with the thing you do
- given a outline of the project you can judge how long it will take
- you also care about communicating your work
- once you agree to do something, you do it unless you can’t
Show HN: Generate a fake app to replace any addictive app
Sounds fair, as I am required to bag my garbage.
> I think the point is that the quantity of CO2e dumped into the atmosphere when you make a cotton bag has a much worse environmental impact than the plastic bag dumped in landfill.

The reason these laws get enacted is because not enough of the plastic bags end up in landfills.
We can and should act on both; the plastic pollution is a problem where the symptoms could occur only in 3 decades, similar to global warming, there is already a very very large number of symptoms in the ecosystem as plastic clogs up the food chain.

Buy a single cloth bag and keep it for life, atleast in my area, they survive a long time.
As a youngish person this would rather scare me away..
Working on standardising dgraph's graphql? Or working on a managed cloud version?
Innocent until proven guilty means that there has to be a trial, not simply "evidence". The role of the prosecutor is to prove someone guilty, and unless they do so, the person is innocent.

I know this is, in day-to-day parlance, irrelevant. We see the amount of evidence, we form an opinion in our mind. It's not that I think Stadler never knew anything.
But this being HN, the discussion could be a bit more elevated than in a pub :) Plus, "presumption of innocence" is a legal term, I think it is worth discussing it with a "lawful" mindset.
Sure but they literally grow on trees (and from renewable energy as well) and become trees as well. Plastic is only efficient if you discount the cost of recycling (which is pretty much impossible AFAIK so you could say the cost is infinite).
This brings back memories.... At a previous employer we had a product of ours that would just randomly reboot. Standard Windows on an industrial PC, nothing you’d think would be that esoteric. It’d look like a sudden power failure. No crashes, nothing in the logs to indicate anything at all. Similar hardware platform to some other products we had where this issue never arose.

It literally took months to find the cause, while in the meantime the people that didn’t want us to succeed (think big-company politics) were scoring points against us. We did everything we could think of, fixed a lot of bugs, tried stress-testing the system, things like that. Nothing worked. We were met with skepticism when we started saying it was the hardware. They said it can’t be the hardware....

Except this time it was — and we found out almost purely by good luck. One of the hardware guys happened to have an oscilloscope hooked up to a system when the reboot happened. The reboot was preceded by ‘something strange’ on the scope (I’m likely missing stuff here since this is memory from a few years back).

It turned out the motherboard had a bug which would manifest when the system went into a certain lower power state. That’s why stress-testing never caused it. In fact, the testing we did was actively preventing us from catching it!!

Lesson well and truly learned.

On a related note - is it just me or did Intel have a lot of trouble with their power-management implementation a few years back? I’ve since worked on another product that would randomly hard-freeze and sure enough after checking the Intel errata doc for the CPU/SoC in question (an Atom something-or-other), sure enough there were issues with S-states that meant we needed to limit them (to S1 I believe) in the BIOS, which did indeed fix the freeze issue.

To anyone that wants to avoid the long road here, realise that modern Windows, Linux and macOS systems never freeze or kernel panic without a special reason. Part of what I had to unlearn many years ago was the notion that on Windows, freezes and blue-screens were things that ‘just happened’ in the course of otherwise regular operation.

Low-level can get you, even if you aren’t doing low-level work.
> Other users need some sort of mainframe reliability, but that's also achievable on a distributed system running on unreliable PCs.

I don't buy this. Many of our critical systems are on PC architectures. Mainframes don't have some magic sauce, well designed distributed architectures should offer enough reliability.

Edit: reading comprehension fail, please ignore my comment :-)
Generating revenue through fees and fines is excellent politics: you satisfy the voters' demands for both low taxes and robust services at the same time. The people who end up paying aren't happy, but they're not going to vote.
Bummer that they could not replicate the results
I'm trusting the upper level comment on the numbers:

> Studies have shown multiple times [1], [2] that cotton bags require far more energy and water to produce than almost everything else and need to be reused circa 7.100 times for non organic and twenty-thousand times for organic cotton until they surpass plastic bags.

And yeah sure, both is better than one. But one of those two is much more important. One will remove , say, ~10% of species and humans, the other will remove, say, ~50% of species and humans.
Redis code quality could be improved significantly, but you picked the wrong file to evaluate it: the first file created, and the one that for the nature of system software will be the less "overall designed", because it is the place where we call almost everything else sequentially. Still, if I had more time, I could improve it and other parts a lot. However to see how modern Redis was coded check the following:

* hyperloglog.c

* rax.c

* acl.c (unstable branch, the Github default)

* even cluster.c

Everything you'll pick will likely be a lot better than server.c

Other things you mentioned are a matter of taste. For instance things like:

if (foo) bar();

Is my personal taste and I enforce it everywhere I can inside the Redis code, even modifying PRs received.

The line breaks are to stay under 80 cols. And so forth. A lot of the things you mentioned about the "style" are actually intentional. The weakness of server.c is in the overall design because it is the part of Redis that evolved by "summing" stuff into it in the course of 10 years, without ever getting a refactoring for some reason (it is one of the places where you usually don't have bugs or alike).
I think these are similar to the 'heavy duty' 'bag for life' type bags solid in my local Waitrose.
At its simplest, displacement. A WW2 battleship was only a little less than a modern carrier at around 4-5x the displacement of a destroyer, and around 10x the displacement of a frigate, with even larger multiples of crew complement.

The least manoeuvrable ship of the fleet, typically the flagship of the pre-WW2 battle group with escort of destroyers sometimes also cruisers, frigates and support depending on what it was up to. A role that has been with the carrier in the post-WW2, increasingly missile world. I don't think any navy now retains any battleships, though most kept them around decades past their sell-by date.

The battleship (group) was the power that was used to project, and could be sent to far flung locations to bombard an inland target 25 or 30 miles away from the ship, conduct a naval battle or blockade a port well over the horizon. This is the doctrine of the late Victorian era and lapsed in the inter-war years. WW2 and Pearl Harbor very clearly put power projection with the carrier group. The job of the dozen 16" (18" in WW1, and Japanese WW2) and dozen or more 6" guns has been replaced post-war by air, and increasingly cruise and anti-ship missiles in the arsenal. A modern destroyer gets just 1-4 6" pea shooters with range only around 10 miles, but a decent selection of missiles, submarine and air defence that more than makes up for lack of gunnery.

Heavy shore bombardment is far cheaper by 16" capital guns than by missile, the last real instance being Desert Storm. In this role a battleship has no peer, it's less accurate than missile whilst flinging an awful lot more weight, but more accurate than heavy bombing. The modern era prefers precision by very expensive munitions. :)
The UK imports all the shitty things from the US, instead of looking at what the european are doing:
- No national ID, so identity theft is easier
- For a long time, no pin code on credit card, so that theft is easier
Basically they keep the stuff which trick the consumer, whereas in Europe they make law to protect consumer.

I really hope they leave the EU and stop bothering us with their shitty ideas, credit reference beeing one
But Coke could be sold for less.
I doubt that's a significant factor in global green house gas production while plastic bags are a significant factor in plastic pollution. This seems like a basic optimization problem. Yes, this approach uses a tiny bit more memory, but a lot less CPU. Running out of memory is a problem, but there are likely other areas where we can save a whole lot more (e.g. eat less meat, don't generate demand for food that was shipped around the world).
Yes, write short.

This is the title of one of the chapters in “Writing without bullshit”, hilariously followed by the first paragraph: “Use fewer words”.

Other tips from the book:

* Edit everything

* Aim for a word count

* Say what you really mean

* Start boldly

* Organize relentlessly

* Prune sections and arguments

* Use bullets or tables

* Use graphics

* Trim connective tissue

* Delete weasel-words and qualifiers
finding a butcher (that is not in a large supermarket) is hard going in urban UK
I have unfortunately seen firsthand projects where the marketing crap was over 70% of the page load time. Put another way, the weight of the tracking software was 2x the cost of generating the entire rest of the page.

Do you have any idea how soul crushing it is to work your ass of on site performance, to have people passive-aggressively question the team's abilities when the numbers are even 100ms too high...

And then when you're done some nosey assholes go and add over 2 seconds to your page loads just so they can do something ethically questionable. And the fact they waited til the end to add it on just proves that they knew it was going to be bad news but they did it anyway.

It sucks. It kills trust for the organization, and it kills respect for everyone in the decision chain.

My coworkers and I joke from time to time about running an ethical advertising network with reasonable software. Well, they're joking. I don't think they know I'm not entirely.
Google ad bidding requires 200 milliseconds to run the ad auction. I could send a packet all the way to Australia and back in that time!

If you're trying to make a page load instantly (100 milliseconds - the edge of human perception), it isn't possible with Google ads, even the text only ones.
> If this logic is correct

It is not.

If canvas bag costs 7000 plastic bags then you have to use it 7000 thousand times like you would use a plastic bag to get the same impact. It doesn't matter how often you use it.

If you divide 7000 by 50 you are just saying you have to use canvas bag like you used 50 canvas bags, 140 times. Since you got 5 years of groceries out of those 50 bags you'd need 5*140 years to get 140 as much of utility out of canvas bag.
I haven’t even thought about those wooden woven baskets!

But I suspect you‘d need two of them to equal the storage of a single standard plastic bag. And more than two baskets should be hard to carry.
It just takes five years to get citizenship in Portugal, then you can.
> I’m yet to see a cotton bag floating down the Thames.

>> When they are widly used you will.

But all those cotton bags you see quickly disintegrate back into the biome, while the plastic ones stay plastic for a million years...
As someone else pointed out, the problem with plastic bags wasn’t resource usage but littering. This study is irrelevant.
I like his recommendation to attach cat pictures to the Post Scriptum of every message.
The cases you're describing sound like cases where Python is cheating. The thing that allows Python to even be considered useful for any kind of heavier computing is that a lot of standard/popular libraries are FFI wrappers to C code.

It's an excellent deal for scientific computing, where your logic is trivial and almost all work is done in C. But it's not so rosy for user-facing applications, where it's the logic that dominates.
My canvas bag had thick plastic lining. You'd definitely would see it. Selling point of those is multiple use not biodegradability.
Thank you for sharing! I remember reading about this years ago, and it's nice to rediscover this article.

> "The aim from the beginning was to play non-dance music, whether it's jazz, prog-rock, experimental and avant-garde," Shimizu says. "Nobody understood this kind of listening party at first, but we just continued doing it. Then a few years later, some younger DJs began to follow our lead, and they started similar parties at the other venues."
Their advertising and billing practices are, at worst, indistinguishable in terms of being more misleading.

Whataboutism is a pretty weak argument to make. Poor behavior on the behalf of Comcast and Verizon does NOT make Sonic's behavior excusable.

All the voice line taxes might be a surprise to people, but Sonic isn't pocketing that money

It's not surprising, but Sonic IS pocketing some of those "taxes".[1]

I won't argue that the world would be better with greater pricing transparency, but so would world peace and eradicating homelessness. But there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to single out Sonic in these regards.

First of all Sonic is not being singled out. People complain about Comcast and Verizon all the time. But there's a very good reason to complain: just because some of Sonic's behavior is better than Comcast should not give them a free pass.

That $50/mo rate? The increase was snuck into a footer in the monthly invoices just like you'd expect Comcast to do. After a few decades of few surprises I got out of the habit of checking everything with a fine toothed comb. No heads up to existing customers.

Or how about Dane agitating against municipal internet access? Apparently San Francisco has enough competition for internet access. Sonic is a for-profit business, of course, which means they're not altruistic as much as their talking points might lead you to believe. After all, Google bought into "do no evil" for a short while.

1: https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3804
Cool article. I was fortunate enough to experience some places similar to these first hand during a visit to Tokyo. One of the most impressive things to me was the bartenders’ uncanny ability to pick the perfect next song. In a sea of old, unidentifiable records, they were able to pick out exactly which record and subsequent song they wanted. And the timing of their transitions between songs...incredible. All while serving you drinks.
i agree, politicians should stop focusing on jobs as a goal and focus on fulfilling the goals that people need jobs for in industrial age
Have we provided any tools that managers are capable of using to see page weight and explore on their own? Or are we making graphs and showing them charts?

Maybe we are missing a plugin with a mileage gauge.
I went to a place like this in Sasebo. Very cozy venue, warm atmosphere, and quiet conversations amongst the jazz in the background. I didn’t realize there was a term for “Jazz kissa”, so thank you to the author for providing a stepping stone to research more pleasant experiences like this.
There's a world of difference between being and partnering with AT&T.
Something that can be listed as (intangible) assets on their balance sheet as well as for use as defensive/offensive weapons against other companies. The majority of them likely have very little actual value.
The question is whether the reduced plastic pollution will make it worth it to slightly increase CO2 output on grocery bags. Given that the absolute cost in CO2 equivalent for a cotton bag is only 3.9kg according to the study you linked, I'd argue that it is negligible compared to the costs of plastic pollution. Ultimately, this seems like a tiny contribution to climate change, but a huge improvement in terms of pollution.
Sorry, I edited my comment after/while you posted yours. The 7100x number is totally misleading because it's the maximum over all factors they considered, which turned out to be ozone depletion. But the study didn't communicate that well and apparently nobody who reported on it saw the footnote. The number of reuses required to get the same climate impact is 52x, excluding disposal. See the last paragraph of my edited comment.
Good for all those immortal millenials... Seriously, if that isn't just a specious ground to justify firings, I think management at IBM is just completely incompetent.

> [...] much more innovative and receptive to technology than baby boomers.

Not sure whose head has accumulated chalk, but I doubt they will find anyone creative that doesn't immediately recognize the downsides of these perspectives.

I don't think IBM is badly positioned in general, but their lacking competition to bigger tech corps are due to strategic failings, which should be attributed to management. If that cannot take responsibility, I don't know why I should want to work for them.
I recently emailed the Guardian (UK newspaper) to tell them that an element of their website caused one of my CPU cores to spike to 100% utilisation while it was in view. It happened on my laptop, work desktop and phone. If you're a visitor, it was the graphic next to the podcast banner which looked like a sound wave.

They've removed the element now and sent a very nice message saying they'd investigate.

I really think/hope that the next "big thing" in software engineering will be energy efficiency in some form or another.
A test exists. It's good but not perfect. If you have the disease it will return positive 99% of the time. If you do not have the disease it will return positive about 1% of the time. About 0.1% of the population has the disease. You take the test. It returns positive.

What are the chances you have the disease?

People on HN may be able to work this out, but I guarantee that many people (including doctors and nurses) can't.

See Gerd Gigerenzer's work on this in Reckoning With Risk or Risk Savvy.
William Strunk would shout to his class:

"Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!"

https://www.brusselslegal.com/article/display/2563/Tip_2_Omi...

https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html#13
The item you shared is apparently polypropelene. And Google turns up exotic handbags.
This is my complaint about the styling issue, that the important technical notes get lost in the 'noise' of styling issues.
I agree and I've been using italic instead of bold font for this reason. It's like you're whispering something which makes people listen more intently and hopefully read more intently.
Hackeroo now has an own algorithm that combines Hacker News from around the web
Don't want to participate? Then don't ask for a loan.

The Bible tells us that Jesus drove the money-lenders out of the temple. Which means that loans predate credit reference agencies by thousands of years. Therefore we have historical record that they are superfluous.
Adding links and plaintext emails are not mutually exclusive. Hackernews comments are a great example where commenters often embed a [1] tag in their comment and at the end of the comment have a section like

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com
The Coop supermarket is replacing single use plastic bags with compostable ones. This seems the best plan to me.

source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45612315
... at a time when alchemy (chymistry) and science were not yet fully distinct. Also, only a tenth of his written works deal with alchemy.
Right now these are planar devices. If you stack you can get orders of magnitude more. That's why you can get absurd memory capacities in things like nitrogen defect diamonds [0].

[0] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600911.full
In France we don’t have credit scores and credit monitoring companies, but everytime you take a loan you are asked for a ton of proof of solvability, and basically give your full bank statements to the credit lender so that they can check your incomes vs spendings (and see what you spend on btw). Don’t know what’s worse.
I've been using my bag for >12 years. The brand is "Freitag" (which should date it for those in the know), and it's made from up-cycled truck tarpaulins.
Did the rate of marijuana use meaningfully change, though? It's been abundantly available on the west coast for decades. The only thing that changed is who you buy it from, and to a certain degree who you have to hide it from.
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ddd/
We can re-word this to make it easier.

1000 people take a test. 1 of them has a disease, and the test will probably return positive for that person. 999 of them do not have the disease, and the test will return positive for about 9 of them.
Given the scale of environmental challenges facing the planet, that some people are so ignorant that bringing a bag to the shops with then is too much hassle really boils my piss.

It's really not hard. I have a couple of bags in my laptop bag and always carry a reusable folding bag in my jacket. We have a few in the boot of the car. That accounts for 90% of time I might need one.
It's a strawman only if you ignore the historical/nutrition data, unless you believe that barley and legumes are processed foods full of added sugars.

"Gladiators, it seems, were fat. Consuming a lot of simple carbohydrates, such as barley, and legumes, like beans, was designed for survival in the arena. Packing in the carbs also packed on the pounds. "Gladiators needed subcutaneous fat," Grossschmidt explains."

https://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.htm...