skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know that the site being considered significant is tied solely to belief in Hawaiian cosmology? I don’t know much about Hawaiian culture but couldn’t it be the case that a wider proportion of the population considers the site significant for varying reasons? This article looks to imply just that: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/7/24/20706930/mauna-kea-...

“Inseparable from Hawaiian culture is a love of the land, ’āina. For Hawaiians — who thrived in the islands before foreigners arrived at the end of the 18th century — care and attachment to the land is central to their identities. The term “aloha ’āina,” literally meaning love of the land, has long been a rallying cry for Hawaiians.”

I don’t have a horse in the race but feel there might be more to it than “...a bunch of contrarians opposing the construction just to have something to feel self-righteous about.”
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For me, the alternative is to use something that already exists in my house (my backpack, a bag that was already given to me, etc) rather than consuming multiple plastic bags on every trip. Not everyone is going out and buying cotton bags to replace plastic so this seems inaccurate. It’s more about changing habits.
I have never been able to get split screen or slide over working on the iPad. I have yet to find a single app that supports either.

I’ve made sure the multitasking options are turned on, but I guess not even Apple wants to implement any part of multitasking on my iPad Pro.
There's valid points here, but the impact is lost in the disjoint laundry list communication style.
Here in the UK the trend now is to use stronger plastic bags that are more easily reusable as opposed to cloth. We have several in a drawer at home, and I keep one in my rucksack at all times so it gets a lot of use. But I'd be interested to know how much more efficient it is than the cheap thin plastic. While I do my best to reuse it, I'd be surprised if it lasts 100 shops.

But what I think the article fails to mention is that it's not about stopping the use of plastic bags, but more about encouraging their reuse instead of just throwing them away. The idea being that if fewer are produced, fewer are likely to end up in the environment.
I didn’t believe it was about energy use. Cotton bags don’t kill fish and break into micro plastics. I’m yet to see a cotton bag floating down the Thames.

Like most of my friends, I’ve taken to carrying a rucksack around, with an additional bag-for-life inside. I don’t recall the last time I had to buy an additional bag. I guess I’ve saved around 300 bags in the past year.
I’ve noticed in SF that places are giving me slightly thicker, “reusable” plastic bags in lieu of traditional plastic bags. I don’t know anything about plastics - would those still be LDPE? Because that sounds like the perfect medium
Yes, that's all true.

Regarding the algorithms on small data, I even made a quiz about that: https://wordsandbuttons.online/challenge_your_performance_in...

Of course, Python or C++, if you want performance, you should design with performance in mind. Measurements and profiling are implied.
It seems to me one of the best ways to protect a sacred site would be to put a serious telescope upon it.

As it restricts access for a host of other activities for many miles around to keep light polution amd vibration to a minimum.
That's the beauty of it. I am left with real friends, not those who were hanging around me because I used to throw cool parties.
Why not use something like Amazon SES?

They know how to send emails and, most importantly, how to collect complaints and bounces feedback from email providers.
What's the mitigation for OOMs triggered by someone dumping records into the system?

Not someone trying to overwrite existing records, just constantly inserting new records.
While Ireland has certainly lead the way in the plastic bag tax we’re still doing poorly when it comes to waste management. There’s still a culture that accepts fly tipping in picturesque areas of the countryside, litter is still a problem and public bins always seem to be full to bursting point and never emptied.
So would be any other water based vehicle.
The ELT will be complete five years before the TMT, and has a forty meter aperture.
>Stunning fish with electricity is a common practice when it comes to counting the population or tagging them, the department explained. The stunning does not kill the fish, only temporarily shocks them so they can be counted or caught.

You don't. However, you can count them afterwards.
There are reasons for every ordinance. The enforcement resources dedicated to them are incredible, though, especially when neighboring municipalities can barely keep up with violent crimes short of murder.
Ok. So a space telescope would be prefered and this is the second best option, limited by budget?
Judicious editing.

I think the Blaise Pascal quote about not having the time is relevant; making things concise takes more effort, particularly if you are not already in the habit of doing so already. Start with your communication, remove redundant or unnecessary words, then think about ways to compact things down even further by removing or rephrasing sentences.

Going through "Elements of Style" by Strunk & White wouldn't hurt too.
There is one and only one difference between professionals and
amateurs. Professional make the majority of their income doing the thing they are professional at, amateurs are doing the thing on an unpaid basis.

That's it. End of story.
I always wake up to this message, and have to do it manually. I don’t know why.
I think your message asking for such advice is itself of a suitable length where the problem is clearly stated without deviation or distraction.

Taking your message on it's own, you have the ability to keep the message size small.

Keep to the point, avoid distraction, stay focused, replace three words with two where two will suffice, replace two words with one where fitting. Omit needless words, make each word count.
Image of Kayode Ewumi grinning and pointing to his temple

You can't ship a bug that hasn't been identified as such.
I live in east Europe, and there is an IBM branch here, and this may sound harsh, but most of their staff complain about support from their indian colleagues (low quality support and poor communication skills). They are hiring "young" staff here as well, which frankly wouldn't pass a junior level interview - wouldn't be an issue if they wouldn't advertise them as experienced. My take is that IBM is a dying company, cutting costs, and dealing mostly with clients in a similar position. I'd stay away from working there.
- Paper bags

- Reusable plastic bags

Cotton bags might require more energy but they're essentially biodegradable and don't pose such a threat to wildlife
'We have several in a drawer at home'

Same here and every so often we end up with so many that they get thrown away to make space.

Sometimes it's just not convenient to carry a bag around with you, especially not the 'bag for life' kind that are bulky and can't be carried discreetly in a trouser pocket.
The Irish bag tax has been increased from €0.15 to €0.44 over the years.
People are missing the point on why you should be using cotton bags instead. Yeah they are more expensive to produce, and it is doubtful if you will ever be able to use the cotton bag enough to balance out the production costs, but that was never the point. It is trash reduction that is the goal, and the impact if the bag is left in nature. The cotton bags are a lot less harmful if they get end up outside in nature compared to plastic bags.
These are all GHG results not an "overall for the environment" result. GHGs are only one part of the equation. I buy TerraPass, for instance, so the GHG part is going to be offset one way or the other. But if I were to buy plastic I'd be negative carbon but still killing sea creatures.
It is based on their effectiveness as a resupply station which you are completely ignoring.
It's a good comparison, but the use of the words "amateur" and "professional" to contrast the negative and positive points is unfortunate. Amateur is historically a positive word, describing people who pursue a particular field that is not their primary source of income (for the love of the field itself, thus the word "amateur"). For example, Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton were amateurs.
While not trying to defend PHP (well, tbh I'm trying but just a little), but there is a phalcon framework ( https://phalconphp.com/ ) which is written in C and works as a PHP Extension. While the rest of the code still is in PHP, at least the framework bits including a lot of boilerplate are much faster that way.
More power to you and your kind!

I have been trying this model in India, along with a few of my friends/peers - to hire for junior/intermediate roles and found a great deal of success.

Experience and capability, in a way could be seen as having parts - [ ~30-40% {generic tech, domain, soft-skills}, ~70-60%{contextual knowledge and experience on the product/stack/domain} ]

The former comes from past work experience; the latter part - which is more crucial to achieve successful outcomes from intended role, is gained only on the job.

And thus IMO internship/apprenticeship model works really well.
There's only one nasty problem with sucking billions of tons of carbon out of the air every year: WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PUT THOSE BILLIONS OF TONS EVERY YEAR?
There is no evidence of this article mixing that up

No need to copy and paste your canned generation label response just because millennial was mentioned, useful for linkedin clickbait but not really this article

This article just gets a mild chuckle about a company catering to a nearly middle aged experienced workforce because even they find IBM uncool
The fact that they don't last forever is an advantage.
I once wrote (maybe 15-20 years ago?) an html output processor that tried to make it more compressible while still producing the exact same output. It did things like removed comments, transformed all tag names to lower case, sorted tag attributes and canonicalized values, collapsed whitespace (including line feeds).

And some more tricks I've forgotten (some DOM tree tricks, I think), mainly to introduce more repeated strings for LZ and unbalanced distribution (=less output bits) for Huffman. In other words, things that help gzip to compress even further.

Output was really small, most pages were transformed from gzipped sizes of 10-15 kB to 2-5 kB without graphics.

The pages loaded fast, pretty much instantly, because they could fit in the TCP initial window, avoiding extra roundtrips. Browser sent request and server sent all HTML in the initial window even before the first ACK arrived! I might have tweaked initial window to 10 packets or something (= enough for 14 kB or so), I don't remember these TCP details by heart anymore.

I wonder if anyone else is making this kind of HTML/CSS compressability optimizers anymore. Other than Javascript minimizers.
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Pretty broad, if we assume that cpu time is the same algorithms running on the same hardware then PHP is faster than both Python and ruby.

However the framework definitely matters here, PHP’s build the world and destroy it on every request makes a big difference.
I’m not sure why you received downvotes. Looks like people are a bit sensitive on this subject. You are exactly right.
Pilots train and will continue to train on wvr combat because those are the basic piloting and combat skills required regardless of what you're flying. They're going to continue drilling wvr even if they had a hypothetical perfectly stealth unobservable plane just because those are the drills that make a fighter pilot.

Spend a couple days learning a flight combat sim like DCS and it will become crystal clear that stealth is not only an advantage, it is almost unbeatable by a 4th gen fighter without additional support. If you're in a 4th gen fighter, your offensive options are pretty much nonexistent against a low observable fighter. The best thing you can do is dodge the first 1/2 fox-3 it throws at you, turn off your radar, and get out while you still have a plane. We're not even talking about standoff weapons yet.

Even if you somehow got into a wvr dogfight against an F-22, you'd still lose because it's one of a handful of fighters capable of supermaneuverability. [1]

There are 187 operational F-22, they've been in service for 14 years, and they've had zero losses. Go ahead and try to find anything that comes even close.

"The F-22 achieved Full Operational Capability (FOC) in December 2007, when General John Corley of Air Combat Command (ACC) officially declared the F-22s of the integrated active duty 1st Fighter Wing and Virginia Air National Guard 192d Fighter Wing fully operational.[151] This was followed by an Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) of the integrated wing in April 2008, in which it was rated "excellent" in all categories, with a simulated kill-ratio of 221–0.[152]"

Given the fact that there have been 0 losses and those planes haven't been sitting idle in storage for the past decade, it's a pretty good bet that their real world perf is better than the simulated 221-0.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJO0KzTgcMI
> The extra engineers needed to make a Java/C++ backend need to eat/sleep/consume and have their own environmental cost.

Engineers are not VMs in the cloud, you don't provision them on demand. They exist as human beings, and eat, sleep and consume anyway.

> $$$ is a good first-order proxy of environmental cost, and lower server costs probably don't make up for engineering salaries.

If you run it through a heavy low-pass filter to remove all the sales-related price shenanigans. And discount salaries, because taking on an engineer at $X doesn't mean you've just increased your carbon footprint by $X.

You could actually see how taking into account salaries might be a cause of the problem. Say you can hire an engineer who'll get you a basic backend working in Python or Ruby for $100k, or an engineer who'll get you that backend in a more efficient stack - say C++ or Java, or even a more polyglot solution with hotspots optimized - for $150k. In the first case, your yearly costs of cloud servers are $20k, in the latter $5k, reflecting the 5x efficiency difference.

From the monetary point of view, you should take the less efficient option - after all, you're getting $35k ahead. From the environmental point of view, your service uses 5x the energy it should. And you're not the only company with this dilemma. If everyone chooses the cheaper option, then the whole segment of industry becomes 5x less efficient than it should be.
In fact, that’s exactly what LightSail is using to control its attitude: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20160418-lig...
Start marking unwanted emails as spam. These spam complaints would quickly put your email address into "Do not send" list of every bulk email sender who is capable to send deliverable emails.
Too bad like 90% of plastic in the ocean from land based sources comes from the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, Nile, Ganges, Pearl River, Amur, Niger, and the Mekong.

So this basically does nothing at all to address the issues we are after.
I actually thought about that. Not a framework but an ultra-efficient web-server. Going reductionist, a static serving web-server is just a key-value storage accessible via HTTP.

So I can run a Python script that gathers all the key-value pairs (names and pages), makes an optimized search tree out of them and spawns is out as an LLVM sheet of code. Then I only have to embed it into a trivial HTTP "answering machine", assemble it all under the target architecture as part of the deployment - and that's it.

I have more fun things to do right now, but my hosting contract expires in a year or so so I'd look for the alternatives by then.
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I think most of the points are invalid.

Amateur means something more like "doesn't get paid". Professional means "gets paid."

Consider amateur marathoners. Some indeed "stop when they achieve" their first marathon. Others dedicate years to participating in marathons, and running culture. But they are all amateurs.

Some amateur marathoners "have a goal" - do a marathon. Some "have a process."

Most amateurs runners do not "think they are good at everything".

Many amateur runners have coaches, and join running clubs, and read advice books, all to get feedback and coaching.

Go down the list, and pretty none of it applies to dedicated amateur marathon runners.

Nor does it apply to other fields, like dedicated amateur birdwatching.
> I bet you close the bathroom or stall door when you poop though.

I do, but not because I'm shy someone might see (a glimpse) of me being naked; I do it so that they don't attempt to enter a toilet already in use. I find myself often not closing the toilet in after hours. In fact, I don't close the toilet at home cause I know the people who can enter won't. Except when I poo, I might, because I don't want them to smell it.
It is likely that you provide more context than necessary. For example, you could've asked:

"My emails tend to be too long.
Does anyone have tips on writing concise emails?"

Obviously your post was not an email, so the additional, narrative context you provided is welcome. In emails you should aim to provide just the key info, and to elaborate on any context in other forms of communication/documentation. I typically try to aim for just 2 lines of content. One is a statement of fact or a problem, the other is a question or a 'call to action'. I break this rule often, but I always pause to think if there is really a good reason to stray from that rule or if I'm just ranting/chatting.

Often if people want context they'll come find you or call you.
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Assembly? Thats for amateurs, we should move right to FPGAs
After reading through the results of parent's [1] I'm wondering: Are they simply comparing environmental impact of the bags?

If so the numbers might be misleading because if someone buys a plastic bag the number of reuses is very limited. Let's say you buy 10 plastic bags a year for 5 years as compared to reusing 1 cotton bag in the same time period.

This would mean that in order to compare the environmental impact of both scenarios over that timeframe you'd need to divide the numbers of the cotton bag by 50 (10 plastic bags for 5 years) to get comparable results.

If this logic is correct this would mean that you'd need to reuse a conventional cotton bag 142 times and an organic bag 400 times over 5 years to get the same impact.

These numbers sound quite reasonable/realistic to me, assuming other people use their cotton bags as often as we do.
https://freeroam.app (has BLM overlays)
Bringing refillable containers is also being trialled in the UK and seems to be working well, but it’s very early days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49183051
Having pursued my interests/passions for most of my life and making various amounts of money from each, I pretty much completely agree with that perspective. :)
I'm curious, how many real competitors are there to IBM in the mainframe space? From what I've seen the majority of the products in use are basically IBM only.
Why not? Are you so ashamed your your body? The worst thing I can imagine is something involving cameras. But that would be probably prosecutable.
Your meat from the butcher isn't wrapped in paper?
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

It's best to have a steam catapult that works, even if not so well than an electromagnetic catapult that doesn't work at all.

Ditto for the elevators.
That’s actually a better question than you think. The answer is “we don’t know”.

The light gathering power will be greater than any current instrument. The spatial resolution will be better than any current non-interferometric system. The adaptive optics are in a new league, and the mirror coatings will allow a very broad spectrum to be sensed.

But what will we discover? We honestly don’t know. It’s been a bit of a bone of contention as many in science would argue that you should define your goals and then devise the experiment and apparatus - but cosmology and astronomy are a bit different, as most of the huge discoveries have been utterly unexpected, and have “just happened” as a result of better telescopes and observations, from moons of other planets to heliocentricism to other galaxies to red shift to the Big Bang to quasars and pulsars - we didn’t expect any of these things, we just found them.

So that’s the improvement - hopefully new science, new discoveries.
So often I assume a process is totally automated, but a lot of the time I should be more empathetic, because there is a person in the loop and they are usually just trying to keep the system they inherited from blowing up. They have no time to fix it.

This illustrates something that I think a lot of us in the "computer industry" often misunderstand. We see a mass email system (or anything happening at scale) and assume the whole thing is automated, because that's how we would do it.

Too often a system is cobbled together, only barely works, and is only semi-automated. Even something that is 99% automated but generates thousands of actions per day ends up creating a high workload for a human.

I've even seen where my email address was clearly hand-typed from a form (not even copy/paste), because I usually sign up for website accounts using Gmail's plus feature. I created an account at Website A with the address "myemail+websitea@gmail.com" and then received an email a day layer sent to "myemail+wesbitea@gmail.com" which Gmail still delivered because they ignore everything after the plus sign. The only way that error happens is if someone typed it by hand. [Plus emails are a great way to find out which companies sell your info to spammers. Most of the time nobody bothers to run a regex to fix "plus" addresses into the original address, so the evidence of data selling ends up right in the email header.] I feel sorry for the person that is eventually going to have RSI because they hand-type the entire list from their web form into their email software.
So therefore we should imprison everyone that happens to have it on them, use that to bar them from employment for the rest of their lives, remove several of their constitutional rights including voting and discredit everything they say

Okay, chief

I would prefer responsible use, predictable ingredients, supply chain transparency
> 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.

This "7000 times" number is based on a misrepresentation of a danish study. See here:

https://twitter.com/arthurhcyip/status/1115749675762581504

tl;dr 7000 times worse is for one category (ozone depletion) of the overall impact.
I think this is one of the reasons why all those blog posts about Python going to replace R are just plain wrong. R really has a unqiue community, and R-Ladies plays a big part in it. But i think it's also the fact that R is not seen a traditional software engineering language, and that makes it a lot more accessible for people that would be scared away by a regular programming language like Python. Which does not take anything away from Python trying and generally succeeding in being as approachable as possible.