skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you create a product. And you choose the name. And you feel like the name perfectly describes precisely what the product does.

Only problem is, 99% of the public doesn’t understand, and so they keep mis-using your product. And people keep dying as a result.

How is it the responsibility of the media to fix this problem for you?

Naming is hard, I get that. That’s why it is critical to get it right.

When it comes to products for the average consumer in this world, the name is the single most important thing that you have to get right. Nothing else matters if you can’t get the name right.

And in this case, “right” doesn’t mean whatever you want it to. In this case, “right” is defined by the customers and potential customers.
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It still has a multiple week delay before it tests positive...
Are paper bags not more widespread in the US???

In the 90s at least, on TV and film, if anyone brought home groceries, it was in paper handle-less bags.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/127...

Sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), cosponsored by 14 senators (9 Democratic, 5 Republican).
Pretty much. They've been scything employees for as long as I've been working. They've also been in court many times over age discrimination...at least for as long as I can remember.

They had their own decently sized building where I used to live, now there isn't a single employee in the entire state.

IBM is far past the point where they can appeal to younger folks. They have no headspace in anyone under 40, and certainly not with anyone with any talent.
It's more likely that older workers are laid off because..

This is just a list of rationalizations that you would prefer to believe. That doesn't make them true. If those reasons were actually correct then IBM wouldn't need to fire people. They could solve all of them in other, less (potentially) very expensive ways.
Anyone who has read any of my posts here knows that I suffer from an inability to speak concisely. I feel I have a talent for being able to get my message across clearly and this has helped me a lot at work. However, I have trouble keeping the message size small enough so that most people will read to the end.

Does anyone have any advice for improving on this front?
I think the metro distinction is often frequency of trains and usage of the tracks. Ie London runs trains every 2 mins basically from 6am - 8pm on virtually every line vs a heavy suburban rail which will run every 15 - 30 mins, share track with freight or intercity rail and so on.

I know it doesn't look too different to a passenger but operationally I think they are very different.
Americans have been saying that wvr combat is over for like over 50 years. Even the US airforce doesn't believe this otherwise they wouldn't be drilling for wvr combat.

The point is, no one has enough data to claim that the raptor is absolutely the most superior and dominant fighter jet. Making that claim simply based on stealth is foolish.
Source? I find it hard to believe it, I commonly rip plastic bags by having any random thing with not-so-sharp edges (in the tenths of use, nevermind thousands)
I was a bit skittish about writing the name since my point was not to make an ad for them.

It is humankind.

I have just started using their product, so I have no opinion on it except for its packaging.
I have a rule of keeping every page on wordsandbuttons.online under 64KB. And no dependencies so, apart from occasional pictures from wikimedia, no other hidden costs for the visitor.

The number is of course arbitrary, but surprisingly it's usually quite enough for a short tutorial or an interactive explanation of something. And I don't even compress the code or the data. Every page source is human-readable.

So it is possible to have leaner Web. it just requires a little bit of effort.
> Soft drinks, insurance companies, investment advisors, pretty much all prepared foods, all over-the-counter drugs, shampoo, deodorant, desktop computers

Soft drinks / prepared food / shampoo / deodorant I never buy due to ads. Heck, I never buy soft drinks. I drink a beer once a week, usually a special one. I find it by looking around at the liquor store dept. of the grocery store. I have zero brand loyalty in this regard (the amount of choice is a fata morgana anyway). I have a sensitive skin as well, so I can't stand a lot of these deodorant / shampoo.

I go to the grocery store to buy my food. The only time I may differentiate is when something is on discount. Which, true, is advertising, but its a clear deal. I don't follow the "saving" deals where you need stamps or whatever because it creates artificial brand loyalty / expenses.

OTC drugs I only buy when I need them. I'd buy the cheapest of active substance. I don't give a rat about which brand. If its insured, I get the cheapest one automatically cause otherwise I can't get it back.

Insurance, water, electricity, I go with the cheapest I can find. No commercial is going to tell me about which one's the cheapest. Comparison websites will, and there are good ones. My favourite one is the national equivalent to US Consumer Reports. To which I'm also an active subscriber.

Quite frankly, all I get from your post is that advertising is pushing crap we don't need. Cause we don't need to buy the branded versions.

If you want an example of a website which is doing great yet doesn't advertise nor contain advertisements then you're currently visiting it.
I‘m as much against (single use) plastics as the next guy but what’s the alternative here?

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.

I have some cotton bags and they are all produced as cheap as possible and I’m doubting wether they even can be used thousands of times before they disintegrate or some seams come apart.

In fact LDPE bags have the lowest environmental impact of them all. Unbleached paper and bipolymer bags come close after that.

The recommendation for end of life is always to reuse them as waste/trash bags by the way, recycling plastic bags has a larger environmental impact. So best to use LDPE bags a few times and then reuse as waste bag seems to be the best option.

[1] - https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

[2] - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/life-cycle-assess...
"Mainstream hiring processes are biased towards those who went to great schools, had high GPAs, are native-English speaking, have worked at brand name companies, are extroverts and great networkers, etc. But there are so many talented people who don't fit that profile. We're excited to work on ways of hiring that give them a better chance." This really struck a chord. All the best!
One of the product idea I had, but no skills or real desire to implement it was - a key chain which holds 1-3 cloth bags. Biggest behavioral change people have to do when moving to reusable bags is - remembering to carry. Most people carry their keys. You can use build a key chain which stores 1-3 bags for such times.
Nice! Go write that web framework and let’s benchmark that.
The lf.zerotier.com node is just another node. It's just hard coded as a default so people can use the CLI right away. It has no special status and could be taken down with no effect on other nodes.
I've rarely found that GUI code is ever the bottleneck. Usually it's only a problem for mousemove handlers and code that runs directly in the event loop. Most GUI apps don't even have those, unless you're writing a game.

The big problem with Python GUIs is usually that the GUI framework is often written in Python. (Or it's that things like network & parsing code gets written in Python.) The framework does a lot more heavy lifting than the app does - in particular, it's responsible for converting the system events into clicks, drag&drops, submissions, etc. for the app, and for rendering components into bitmaps. If the framework is written in C++ and just exposes a Python API, there's no problem. That's how wxPython and PyQT do it.
You are literally making statements that don't make any sense and I'd bet you can't back up anything with a primary source.
There are lots of other problems piled on web development that is strictly not their fault. The aging network infrastructure hasn't seen updates in sometimes decades, despite billions and billions of tax money poured into it.

You really should be able to get more than 3mbit/s in 2019. Pictures should be allowed to be more than a handful kilobytes in size.

Datacaps are a ginormous moneygrab with no basis on technology. Abolishing corrupt corporate brotherhoods would do much more good than inventing yet another band-aid compression/surveillance point to the mix.
Almost all the plastic bags sold from major supermarket chains in the UK were bio-degradable. After a few years they literally turned into dust.

I actually had one of these single use bags long enough in a closet for it to degrade to the point where it was basically dried paper mulch.
Good marketing move - building a distributed ledger not on blockchain and without tokens, positioning it as a key-value store. Kudos.
Those numbers over 20k are only for organic cotton though. Standard uncolored cotton as is most common has to be reused 7.100 times.

And the best end of life for plastic bags is not recycling but repurposing them to trash bags.
I was curious what IBM still makes that people use since they sold their Thinkpad division to Lenovo years ago, so I googled it:

> IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2019) for 26 consecutive years.

What on Earth are all of those patents for?
If IIRC && this refers to the same research I heard about earlier the it compares the main driver for resource usage for a cotton bag is watering.

According to that research the best option was a sturdier, reusable plastic bag.

That said, I think we should be happy for people that use and reuse cotton bags. This is people that want to do the right thing.
You can create your own database/network easily. There is even a command for it. This is just the default.
With the help of transport compression like gzip, the total size can still be reduced by almost the same amount even if you don't minimize it.
They won't be replacing anyone in the US, despite what they say. They are in a decades long quest to get rid of jobs in the USA and give them to people elsewhere.
I don't think that I have a stable psyche, and I have experimented with psychedelics a lot of times in my life, but I can't imagine doing something like that on LSD or shrooms.

What have most likely had happened is that he was sold some other psychedelic, like NBOMe, or 2CB (which are often more easily available than LSD-25).
It is insane! In Norway it is absolutely free!!
Sales people pitch it to executives, shows some fancy demo and then sign a contract that's "appealing" in cost and "savings".
> They did a comparison to cloth bags here. you have to use a colored clothbag about 30.000 times before you break even with a plastic bag.

That study (https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...) compared the resource consumption of:

1. A plastic bag then reused as a trash bag before discarded.

2. A reused cotton bag where you then also buy separate plastic bags for the trash can.
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Old programming languages never die, but they very rarely get used, except for very minor tweaking of decades-old programs.

Some of my own rarities: BASIC, Pascal, 8080/Z80 assembler, 8086 assembler, COBOL, Java.

It's been pretty much C only for me since the mid-90s, with a little SQL thrown in for good measure.
We're talking about IBM here. It's "System Z."
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Over 54 open PRs, some going back to 2015, sure — it may not be dead, but it sure looks sick. What can we do to help? Can OpenJS Foundation be doing more? Why isn’t it listed as an “Impact Project”?
This is so true. You can maneuver within client expectations, and you certainly can optimize every particular features but marketing tools are often non-negotiable.

From the user's stand point - they are pure overhead, too. For my own project, I decided to ditch them completely. Including the analytics. Well, it would have been nice seeing all the nice plots but at the end of the day they just show vanity metrics. The real impact is immeasurable.
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I'd ask you to cite something that demonstrates evidence for that claim but you'll just post a link to a website funded by the plastics industry.

For example - "Paper bags have a much higher global warming potential (GWP)." (http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html) but when you scroll to the bottom of the page you see "Content compiled by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association.".

Paper bags are not 250 times worse.
I believe that the ban on bags isn't about plastic but rather bags themselves. They are easily carried away by wind, get stuck on trees, suffocate animals, etc.
The books of the mentioned author on that topic:

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742525221/drugs-oil-and-war-the-...

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742555952/american-war-machine-d...

Author's page:

https://www.peterdalescott.net/q/
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Is this true for health insurances paid by the employers too? I am just curious since people say if you have a tech job you have nothing to worry about healthcare in the US.
It's planned as a general purpose observatory. Bigger mirror than any ever used would allow sharper, better images.
Ummm that's a really good point. Though numerically, the numbers are probably debatable.

Taking for instance a full-frame Canon 5D II and something like a Huawei P30 Pro on the back of a napkin. A full-frame sensor is 864mm2 and a 1/1.7in sensor is 43mm2. Huawei with a RYYB sensor has an ISO of 409,600 vs 6,400. The phone aperture is /1.6. Realistically, /1.6 glass would be too heavy, so let's call it /2.8.

The ratio would then be 20 (sensor size) * 0.0156 (ISO) * 0.57 (aperture) = 0.178x before AI kicks in for, say, another 75x more exposure time ~= 421x more usable light on the phone.

Based on super unscientific anecdotal experience between the 2 (since the human eye is logarithmic), it seems about right.
This about sums it up for your average Melburnian - '“A MAN who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself a failure.” So Margaret Thatcher is reputed to have said in 1986'

Buses are for pensioners and school kids.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2006/09/28/the-wheels-on-t...
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> what’s the alternative here?

Reusable plastic? Or even reusing the same 'single-use' plastic? Or just carry stuff with your hand when you're capable of doing so, even if it's mildly inconvenient. I already do that and I'm glad I don't get a plastic bag for no reason when it's just a handful of things I can carry.
I know it's a surprising result, but this is a well studied topic, so there actually is a lot of evidence out there, and the scientific consensus seems to indicate that paper bags have a much higher impact than you might expect. You should plan to reuse a paper bag three to four times as often as a plastic bag to even out the impact.

Total impact analysis can often be really counterintuitive.

http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplasticstudies.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726035361/why-banning-plastic...

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

PDF https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

EDIT: Was trying to answer the question asked in as polite a way as possible, with links demonstrating the scientific consensus. Sorry if I offended someone?
> But drug-resistant HIV might develop when people interrupt treatment, she suggests.

[...]

> People living with HIV might go on and off the drugs for several reasons.

They didn't mention the fact that in most countries for most medications people just don't take meds as they should. We see this for meds that are crucial to keep the person alive. Many organ transplants fail because the person fails to take meds correctly afterwards. We see this where patients need to pay for their meds and further treatment (the US) or where they get free meds and further treatment (the UK).

This isn't a few percent of people who take meds. It's over a third of them, maybe about half of them.

It's a big problem.
How do you make sure you affect only the carp and not all fish species?
I always saw the tradeoff more in terms of developer time: Python is faster to write but pretty much always slower to run (unless you're doing a lot of IO or mainly writing wrapper functions around compute-intensive compiled code).

I don't think a lot of people would actually use asymptotically slower algorithms when using a different language.
I would much rather do a day of work than jump through abstract technical tests and non real problems.

You could add a point for each of:

1) quick setup

2) selected a bug and started working on it

3) wrote a test or two

4) solved the bug

Extra points:

5) made the codebase better

6) asked questions

7) etc.
Perhaps an alternative is the "old way".

bring your own bottle to be filled with milk / wine / oil.

Buy meat from the butcher wrapped in paper.

Buy bread from a baker wrapped in paper.

I remember that all happening as a child

But that was expensive time consuming and frequently unhygienic
While reducing our carbon footprint is certainly the most urgent problem we are facing, the footprint of creating a cloth bag isn't very large. This is a case where one has to ballance very different impacts onto the environment of two options. If we had a way to ensure that no plastic bag reaches the ocean and all of them get properly disposed of, this would be different.
It also is a good idea, if those cloth bags get created somewhere close instead of being shipped around the globe.
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I agree but large swaths of forest are a good thing. In most cases trees are a crop. If we want more of them, then the farmer needs to be able to sell them to someone. By increasing the usage of tree products, we increase the number of trees in existence at any point in time (because the farmer converts some land from a different crop to trees to meet market demand).

Also, efficiency isn't everything. If you make something more efficient, then often the saving is passed on to the customer. The customer then spends the money they saved on something else that will have some environmental impact. Or worse, the classic example is plane flight. The industry got a lot more efficient. As a result people can afford to fly a lot more. The environmental impact went up hugely. (Thinking about this now, the efficiency of plastic bags is what made people use so many of them).
> I meant that UEFI doesn't have a BASIC interpreter (though probably someone has written one).

You wrote something else:

> Yes, BootOS very much in the same space as MS-DOS, although leaning even further on the "less-is-more" axis. It does the same basic things (though I suppose it doesn't do the BASIC thing).
I've seen several studies about the supposed "compostability" of these bags. They appear to be vastly overstated.
I had someone from IBM service my Lenovo P50 Thinkpad last week so they still do that apparently.
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"For a cotton tote to have less environmental impact than a plastic bag, it has to be reused 7,100 times. So why do tote bags have such good PR?"

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2019/07/ho...
No. I would assume if this was such a big event that the original article would cover it.
I guess it was that big that they did not need to add any details.
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To be fair, MS did not revolutionize computing when it was founded. They didn't make anything that everyone else wasn't already making. I'm trying to think of a single thing that they did before the company was worth a billion dollars that was in any way revolutionary, technically. I can't think of a single thing (lots of stuff since then, BTW, but I think that's a bit unfair ;-) ). They executed well, both in development and in business and they had a good combination of good business foresight and lucky breaks. They were also pretty ruthless.
Turkey recently went the same way (plastic bags are charged ₺0,25 — ~5¢; ₺0,15 — ~3¢ is tax). Plastic bag use dropped by 75%.
It wasn't built to be a cryptocurrency but to serve as a data store for a decentralized network backplane. You could theoretically build a token on top of it I suppose.
Rephrase, simplify, eliminate. For example, your comment could be written as:

> Frequent readers here know I write verbosely. I communicate clearly, but few people finish reading my messages. Any advice?

William Zinsser's book, On Writing Well, covers this topic. I recommend it.
I think you've misunderstood. The point isn't comparing to reusability of plastic and cloth. Cloth obviously wins. But if you compare cost per use, plastic is so cheap relative to cloth that its a better to use plastic (assuming proper disposal.)
Your link 1 makes reference to Ireland introducing a tax of 37 cents. As far as I'm aware it was 15 Euro cents, and it doesn't seem to match up with either USD or Indian Rupee amounts, so what currency would you expect that to be, or is it just wrong?
The larger the mirror of the telescope, the more light it can gather from a given source.

The expanded light-gathering capability of a thirty meter aperture combined with the great conditions that exist at the top of Mauna Kea because of its altitudes will allow for a lot of observations that would've been impossible before because the data produced wouldn't have been clear enough.
This is the kind of logic I use on my astrology subscribed mates

Women so surprised I’m not immediately ridiculing their belief system that they listen to my rationale on basically anything, as long as its tied to a sun, moon and rising sign.

Your idea could work as long as you get a Hawaiian spiritual influencer to say it for you
Using Earth's magnetic field for attitude control is already a thing [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer
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I mean, they're very clearly offsets into the HANDLE table kernel space.

And can you WFMO on user space only HANDLEs?
> what’s the alternative here?

Not using disposable bags, plastic or not. I live in London and I see a lot of people at my local Sainsbury's with e.g gym bags to carry their stuff.

Sure, if you had to get a plastic bag do use it for rubbish, but even then there are biodegradable ones.
Exactly! In many situations, plastic actually is the most environmentally friendly option. If by banning plastic bags the use of paper bags rises, that‘d be counterproductive. But sure, the best thing would be to simply carry groceries in a backpack you already own.
That's obviously true, however a minimized version will require less memory and slightly less cpu-cycles* to compress and, on the client side, it requires slightly less resources as well

I do realize how insignificant difference that would be
* then again not much of a difference since the DOM tree itself would consume orders o magnitude more mem.