skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I hate plastics in water - it's the rising temperature that we have to primarily care about. +5*C will bring devastation to the planet and humanity. The impact of warming is not comparable to the impact of pollution (be it air, water or land pollution).
Francis Bacon was a statesman, and Isaac Newton was a mathematician by profession.
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and as below comment says, if someone's response is "BUT I'M GREAT AT XYZ" then fine, block their emails. In my experience 95% of the time it is someone that says "Thanks! Sorry it didn't work out this time, but I agree that XYZ is something I need to work on. I'm gonna dive into it thgis year and let's chat in 12 months and see where we are both at"

Why are you burning candidate bridges to someone you clearly liked enough to spend over $10k and lots of time interviewing by sending them a one line canned response?
The problem with these studies is that you can't just correct the impact of a cotton bag, you also need to correct the impact of the plastic bags. [For me at least] The estimated impact of plastic bags is also wrong, so two wrong estimates aren't going to lead to a correct conclusion unless you get lucky. While plastic bags might get re-used only once, and cotton bags might be more durable, but that isn't the only thing to consider.

I re-use nearly all of my plastic bags, but only once. They have limited durability but wide applicability. Cat litter, trash bins in bedrooms and bathrooms, and bundling up oily paper towels in the garage. My waste management service requires that I bag all my trash, and I use my plastic bags from stores for this. If I switched to cotton bags for shopping I would still need plastic bags for my garbage, so if I switched I would actually be hurting the environment. There's no way I'm using cotton bags to bag up my trash and cat poop. I wouldn't be opposed to biodegradable bags from the supermarket though, as long as it isn't something that I have to pay extra for.

I know that not everyone re-uses all of their plastic bags, but how many people like me does it take before the world is worse off? Now we're shopping with cotton bags and buying a box of plastic bags to throw our garbage in? What is the loss rate of cotton bags? If I lose one per year am I losing them before getting to the break even point?
I would argue if you make a well designed low end website h2 wouldn't make as much difference.
Their 6th reference mentions Primacy and Novelty as an explanation for the lasting effect, but it is not clear to me that the reference exaple and the current research are directly comparable.

Seems that the 95% confidence interval represents the variance of previous data.
I think the list is more relevant for how it describes professionals, and less relevant for how it applies to amateurs. From professionals we expect a certain level of efficiency and proficiency. From amateurs we generally don't but that does not mean there are no skilled amateurs in a field.
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Many things are delivered to the supermarkets in cardboard boxes.

Many supermarkets leave those boxes in a box or cage near the tills.
Exactly, although some use “amateur” as a way to tell you you are not good at something, it doesn’t actually follow from it’s definition.

It is perfectly possible e.g. that an amateur artist makes better art than a professional one. Amateurs can be better than professionals especially in fields where the market forces you to do the same cheap stuff over and over again without any need to create something truly beautiful.

That beeing said: probably most of the best software out there has been created in an non-professional environment.
It is rarely a consideration.
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They still have their place as there's little substitute for 50 aircraft brought to theatre. With increasing missile and sub effectiveness they may need to be kept back until the latter stages of a war, or used judiciously with an equivalent opponent. But that's been a discussion around capital ships that's come and gone ever since HMS Dreadnought brought in the very idea of a capital ship, and continued through WW2.
>nominally typed structs aren't nearly as good

OCaml structs are structurally typed.

> They also have 3 competing standard libraries.

There is only one standard library, stdlib.
It's a list of generalizations that mor or less apply.

But the cash test up this page is the bottom line.

I may do a rhyme here and there, perhaps well.

But until I sell books of poetry, calling me a 'poet' seems a misnomer.
It's important to understand minimizing does not necessarily produce the most compressible result. You need to give LZ repeating strings as much as possible while using as few different ASCII characters as possible with as unbalanced frequency distribution as possible.
I see a lot this weird reaction, some action is taken so the number of single use plastic is reduced in your country and area so your local rivers and beaches are 90% more clean but people like you can't see this good local thing because somewhere else this measures were not appalled yet.

I assume you are the type that won't clean his house / room if is full of shit unless someone else also cleans it first.
typically they are not wholly deceptive, or else they wouldnt get upvoted
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Is it fair to say that Newton was a professional mathematician and an amateur physicist?
Don't forget about backpacks. No need to carry anything at all if you can just wear a backpack.
> I won't be surprised if 'imaginary friend' thing is probably tied to specific culture/regions.

In my book, a stuffed animal fits the definition of imaginary friend. As far as I am aware stuffed animals are a world-wide phenomenon.

I remember my favourite stuffed animal very vividly. It was a cat, hence her name was 'Caty'. When I got lost one day on vacation in (from my memory) France or Spain I kept asking for Caty. People started talking English to me, and they thought I was British, and that 'Caty' was my mother. The truth was I was missing my stuffed animal more than my mother, I was Dutch, and I didn't understand any English yet. This was in the 80s when English was a little bit less commonly used around the world. Also, because Caty got completely ragged in the washing machine from ample amounts of bouncing around 'n around my parents bought a new, unragged Caty. It didn't fool me because Caty was Caty; she was ragged and I liked her that way. Did she smell great out of the washing machine though!
Ugly, unfriendly and complex is par for the course with enterprise software in my experience :)

Having said that, TSM (what they called it before the rebranding) was the only commercial offering we found that would reliably back up and recover our systems...
I like the idea very much.

We have a shop in Hanover, Germany, where I live that sells a lot of groceries without any packaging at all.

You just bring your own reusable containers to fill with whatever you need.

They have a lot of inventory like pasta, oils, grains, beans, detergents.. They themself buy everything from factories in reusable containers so no waste anywhere.
Everything he said makes sense to me, and I'm just a lowly software engineer with a single unit of RF background back at uni.

What part are you confused about?

There is no such thing as a perfectly directional antenna. Radiation profiles consist of multiple lobes which generally point towards a single direction on 3 axes, but there are always side lobes, like so: [1]. You can't hide these, therefore they can be detected and targeted.

There's a whole class of missiles that simply look for RF sources and head that way. The only way to avoid such missiles is to stop being an RF source. But if you do that, you're also unable to target the attackers or defend against those missiles. You also have to turn off your data link and lose situational awareness.

The S-400 is the best air defence currently fielded, but it is by no means magical or invulnerable.

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/wirele...
A battleship didn't typically travel alone either. It generally had an escort of destroyers, sometimes cruisers and support vessels. Tirpitz had between 4 and ten destroyers escorting, yet was still mainly kept back.
Until it does, though, the air from the fan will bounce off the sail and go (mostly) backwards, propelling the craft forwards (for the same reason, albeit much less efficiently, as if you had no sail and just pointed the fan backwards. You've basically made a thrust vectored device, badly).
> Amateurs think in absolutes.

So amateurs are Sith. Sorry for this comment, but I cannot really take this post too seriously (yes, yes, this is probably just an amateur comment and I take the blog too personally).

The difference is probably just that professionals earn their money in the domain in question. That often has a positive influence on experience of course.

Having worked at least a few years in industry it quickly becomes apparent that magic formulas are quite rare.
I’m much more cynical:

1. It was probably a tax write off.

2. It was probably also both a community service project AND a reflection of lower expected insurance payout.

3. Maybe the straight-A students are correlated with insurance payers that would rather pay the repair known 1-off payment (or skip doing anything at all) vs the unknown recurring increase in insurance payments?

(Source: drove a dented-up pickup for over a year after a short romp along/into an orchard)
Yes, cities like Budapest, Prague, Austin, Medellin, Tbilisi tick those boxes.

If you don't care about humidity, the usual nomad hot spots come up like Chiang Mai, Ubud etc.

If you don't care about humidity and don't care about it being a bit crowded, you also get Canggu (which can be busy now), Bangkok, Taipei and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

Asia is just very humid.

My personal challenge is that I don't like sweating all day, even if A/C is available. I want to live somewhere where it's moderately mild/warm and where you can walk outside without getting drenched in sweat.
Amateur physicist, astronomer, author, and theologian.
That, or representatives tacking on pork barrel spending to legislation renewal when their vote is needed to pass it.

"Oh, you want to renew the "Don't put lead in milk" law? Yeah, you're gonna have to set aside $50m for this project I think is super important.."
Why is this drivel on Hacker News? What’s next? “See how these 20 celebrities have changed over the years”?
Why does RÓI have to be negative? Do you think that if marketing has good ROI then whatever money they put in they get back, meaning it creates a positive circle? Am I getting this right?
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There used to be quite a few different mainframes on the market. HP/Tandem had their Non-stop systems which was perhaps the most distinct competitor - but there were quite a few companies competing in the space.

However, IBM has dominated this market for as long as I can remember and today I believe they are the only ones making mainframe computers.
Who's working on a bunch of low climate impact stores? I'd love to buy things indexed for climate impact and waste, but I don't think I've ever seen any options like that.

Side effects like 'no bubble pack' and most things being made down the road would be amazing advantages I would think.
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Point #2 isn't weak, because it scales with the number of users. Slow sites waste not only energy and money (through electricity bills and device wear) × number of users, but also user's time, again, × number of users. If you want to count human time, then that extra second or three your thousands of users have to spend waiting for your site to load easily adds up to justify getting an engineer to muck around your site with a profiler for couple of hours and identify hot spots, and then more hours (over next days) to fix them.
I've interpreted "amateurs" as people that are not good at what they do. People that have a job or a main activity but don't try enough and don't have the mindset to give the best of them. The whole list made sense from that point of view and less from "amateur" as a person that has a hobby.
Umame, in a nutshell. Hard to really quantify, but I recommend trying it!
> There are clear and real incentives they are just more visible in the cloud where you pay for your hardware.

Unfortunately not clear enough. Compute is cheap enough that company can easily run 10 or 100x less efficiently than it could with little extra work, because the cost barely registers when compared to revenue or salaries.

(Even working in a small company I've seen situations like someone asking, "are you folks still using the XYZ VM, because it's burned a kilodollar this month", and we're all like "a what machine? sure, shut it down". It was needed once, then forgotten about, and it took a while before anyone noticed.)
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Makes me sad that anyone chooses to self identify into marketing buckets like this.
If you wish to sell a writing service,it would be best to not have missing words and run-on sentences on your landing page.
Probably the core of the issue here is that VMS and derivatives tried to hard to fit everything into a generic handle/fd interface while UNIX historically came with a smaller core with many important API surfaces (like signals or timers) only relatively recently getting absorbed under the unified handle/fd interface, giving the impression it's an afterthought.

It's also not something that works on all Unices (e.g. afaik macos has no timerfd). But in all fairness, that problem only exists because OS speciation, as it's biological counterpart, is not as clear cut a concept as one would desire.
"Ireland: The country introduced a plastic bag tax of 37 cents on purchase in 2001"

So its talking about when it was introduced.
I've been working with ayahuasca for about a decade now, off and on, myself, have done a number of dietas, and been the guy blowing smoke on people who are falling apart in ceremony or helping them to and from the bathroom or whatever. While there is absolutely a lot of what you describe and worse (like blatant predation) in that world, there's also just a lot of superficiality everywhere. Some people just won't see through their own bullshit well enough to offer anything but superficial, and that's probably going to come across particularly sharply once you can see it.

My own experience, since we're swapping anecdotes and beyond confirming that stuff exists, is that the people I've kept in touch with from that world aren't like that, whether they went to Peru once, or a dozen times, or never. They have reliably grown in ways they can't imagine themselves having done, without their work with the medicine. Since you can't A/B test someone's life, you can never say, but having seen however much of these people's lives, they all seem better off, in so many ways.

But selection bias is a thing, obviously. And dueling anecdata is interesting. Just probably not very useful.

EDIT: Phrasing
Its kind of crap not to expect any feedback when he points out:

"Each of those four wire-to-wire interview processes took between 40 and 60 hours"
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IBM Global Services in particular have left a bad taste in my mouth and many others. That sort of bad blood is going to be hard to overcome. But the kids are for the most part unfamiliar with their... exploits.
Claims, based on rat/epidemiological studies.

[1] - WHO Says Meat Causes Cancer?:

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/
> In a war against a real opponent,

...defined in a way in which all the opponents we've fought real wars against in the last 7 decades are not “real opponents”...

The strategic nuclear triad tends to ensure that the opponents you consider “real opponents” are not our real opponents in the real wars that happen in the real world.
Well, Microserfs was written in 1994, just after IBM's 1993 cataclysm where Lou Gerstner was hired to save the company and immediately fired 160,000 people. That was very much a one-off event.
It's a false equivalence to claim that we can only care about one but not the other. Plastic pollution is threatening entire species and food chains. We need to tackle both problems simultaneously.

Not to mention that everyone just assumes that fewer plastic bags sold = many more cotton bags produced without providing any numbers. Maybe plastic bags are mostly being reused more? Maybe people remember to bring a cotton bag they already owned anyway to the store more often?

Also, that 7100x number is for ozone. For climate impact, it's 52x, and that number doesn't include disposal. See hannob's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20581751 and the point in the tweet chain here: https://twitter.com/arthurhcyip/status/1115749691566821376
My local grocery store butcher tends to put meat in a plastic bag, then wrap that in paper.
It's better to protect one party than neither party...
> in ML style languages because they do not make use of inheritence.

Except for OCaml and Scala (or any other ML supporting subtyping), where you could simply define type's variance.
And the other Americans, in cities, are sick of subsidizing their commute.
This. They stopped selling single use bags.

Now I just have the option to buy a "bag for life" or nothing. Bags need to be priced at £1-2 to get people to get in the habit of carrying a suitable bag to the shop.
The platforms I mentioned simply don't exist any more because all people made for them were "drink beer" apps.
This is absolutely not true, and it’s irresponsible to spread this kind of obvious misinformation.
Better small improvement then no improvement at all
The main competitor isn't other mainframes, but PCs.

A lot of mainframe users never needed a mainframe, they just didn't want to get fired for not buying IBM. Other users need some sort of mainframe reliability, but that's also achievable on a distributed system running on unreliable PCs.

There are some users whose use is genuinely deeply entwined with features mainframes provide, but those are dying out.
This makes NASDAQ and NYSE available to Revolut Metal customers in Europe after an app update.

Sounds like a great way to execute trades identified by the service we showed HN yesterday, TradePath.app.
Having to wait 30 mins for a build to run sounds like the real issue here. How would you push out an an emergency release in a timely way for example?
As I‘ve just mentioned in another comment, we have a special store that sells groceries without packaging, bring your own container and fill it.

Also some supermarkets in Germany work on removing packaging from fruits and vegetables where it’s not needed, which is nice to see.

Coconuts, water melons, ginger and such get brandings with a laser.

German supermarket giant EDEKA seems to be the leader so far, they have pilot projects where customers can bring reusable containers for products. [1]

[1] - https://technology.risiinfo.com/packaging-technology-137
In Italy all supermarkets and grocery shops now use biodegradable bioplastic bags. They are not very strong so you need to use more of them, so you don't fill each one too much. You can then use them to collect compostable waste.

I have no clue how much energy producing them requires, but if they work as advertised they seem to solve the after-use-pollution problem.
Even better than hemp, raffia: https://m.alibaba.com/product/60477650237/Waterproof-PP-Wove...

If my very poor grandparents could afford them 40 years ago in Communist Romania, they must be cheap. I can vouch for them being practical, well woven ones last decades.
I read [2] because that seems to be the one that discusses the numbers you present.

The number of reuses for cotton bags that you need to make up for climate change reasons is 52 for conventional cotton and 149 for conventional cotton.

The 7,100 number for conventional cotton and 20K for organic cotton is for impact to ozone depletion alone. If you remove that, then the next biggest impact is for water usage which is 1,400 for conventional and 3,800 for cotton.

I do not believe that the ozone depletion due to the production of cotton is an issue that is causing a problem. A google search of "ozon depletion cotton" turned up only this paper for me.

Water usage of cotton processing is a concern and it is well documented. However, I have cotton T-shirts. In fact, I have more cotton T-shirts than I really need. If we need to reduce cotton usage (and I think that's a pretty good idea), then we should aim at that directly. The increase in cotton production from carrier bags will have a minimal impact on total cotton production. If we are going to reduce cotton useage let's do it for things that are less important than reusable carrier bags.

Finally, I have a carrier bag that my wife made me 5 years ago. It is still in perfect condition. I use it every single day. I expect to use it for at least another 5 years , if not 10.

From the paper:

"The number of times for “all indicators” refers to the highest number of reuse times among those calcu-
lated for each impact category. For light carrier bags (LDPE, PP, PET...) the high numbers of reuse times
are given by a group of impact categories with similar high values. Conversely, for composite and cotton
the very high number of reuse times is given by the ozone depletion impact alone. Without considering
ozone depletion, the number of reuse times ranges from 50 to1400 for conventional cotton, from 150 to
3800 for organic cotton, and from 0 to 740 for the composite material bag. The highest number is due to
the use of water resource, but also to freshwater and terrestrial eutrophication. Results for the number of
reuse times for each impact category, minimum-maximum ranges and average number of reuse times
are provided in Appendix C."
Those are some nice tips, but I have to question the use of bold font, it seems to come off as too aggressive.
> a sane syntax

Define sane syntax. C-like abomination? At least unlike C it's unambiguous.
To cut this short (own silicon, sand, etc.), we should just create a universe first.

FPGAs are fun, though. Saving 12 microseconds (assuming gigabit and "standard" frame sizes) of latency by sending ethernet frames (that contains frame data CRC!) before you even have all of the data to send and then modifying data at the end of frame to match with whatever CRC we sent ~12000 bit times (= 12 microseconds) before.
"we'd have billions of dollars [1] to spend on something useful." - If companies stopped advertising tomorrow the people doing those ads wouldn't go building space rockets.
Selection bias... I used those bags for garbage too, but the number of bags I received to the number I used for that purpose was not comparable. There was already an abundance.

PlanetMoney said you needed to use a bag 131 times to be equivalent, not 7k. I see numbers floating around but no sources.

In any case. Reusing a bag not only reduces the bag usage the first time it's used but every subsequent time too. A reusable bags isn't preventing a single plastic bag, it's preventing at least one, probably two, maybe three and possibly four plastic bags each use considering how durable and large they are. Which is to say, you could fit (at most) two double bags of groceries into a single reusable.
When I worked at Boeing (my first real job) I learned an awful lot from the older engineers. But when I switched to the software biz, older ones didn't exist and I had to pretty much learn everything the hard way.
and alchemist, which commanded the majority of his curiosity and written output.