skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this article is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19910371

> It's "of 57 rivers, 10 contribute 93% of the plastic of those 57"

> Schmidt and his colleagues dug up published data on the plastic concentration in 57 rivers of various sizes around the world. ... > The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

Plastic in the ocean also comes from industrial uses as well as from rivers - about 50% of it is fishing nets.
As I understand it, those features come with considerable DRM limitations. So no, it's really not the same.
Thank you for writing this. As an engineer reading these style of articles, I've witnessed two common reactions: Either the content resonates, and our eyes widen at the site of a simplified and intuitive explanation for phenomenon that we've somehow already observed, or... it doesn't. And maybe that's the source of much of the negativity we're seeing. These engineers haven't worked in domains, projects, or organizations where they could encounter how these lessons play out, and so they're dubious about the whole thing. One reaction to being in that position is to downplay the author and complain about lack of 'evidence'. The other, is to put down our egos, and consider that maybe we're just not there yet to appreciate what the author is trying to tell us.
[My comments are not welcome here, I get it. I have been banned from continuing to post here so I will remove these offending posts to prevent further perceived degradation to the discussion.]
Genuinely curious how it's incorrect?

Is it the word "illegal"? I mean, if a municipality or organization refuses cash for payment of debt... then they're just de-facto forgoing the debt, right? If they tried to bring the debtor to court to compel payment in non-cash form, the court would side with the debtor, no?

So perhaps not illegal but merely unenforceable? (But with the same consequence of it not happening in practice.)
>> In April 2017, a Juul representative visited the Dwight School in New York City to meet with students — with no teachers present — and told them the company’s e-cigarettes were “totally safe.”

this one is pretty damning, but it's only one occurrence. I doubt NYT would have held back if they had any more such anecdotes to offer.

as for the rest of the article, the education programs seem a bit sketchy, but they could just as easily be a poorly conceived PR campaign.
That’s a more reasonable feeling, though I think the polls of popular opinion on taxes, healthcare and guns undermine your argument. I think it really does boil down to fierce defense of raw philosophical ideals for most people. People, at least in America, are not swayed by compromises on saving lives and lay down deep hooks into value systems based on ideals and then believe the defense of those ideals may rightfully entail loss of life and it can be acceptable.

I actually think the left’s dismissiveness of this way of life, spurning sincere engagement on moralistic ideals to try to use government to push compromises on people, is what fails to move the discussion forward, even though I personally subscribe to most of those pragmatic social welfare approaches.
Yes, "A Philosophy of Software Design" is brilliant, precisely because the author supports their statements through the many experiments they performed with students and

The fact that they're the author of a well-known piece of software helps, although we should not use this as the main criteria to evaluate a text.

Offering at least evidence based on experimentation is essential if we want to move past personality cults and having entire teams work based on what someone wrote on a blog somewhere.
I figured it was the tower congestion as I’m in a small town with lots of 1gig backhaul. My company alone has 2 lines running to the closest big city.

And I’m not sure the congestion issue is made up. The saturation levels for 4G are quite achievable.
The bigger problem right now are the tiny data caps. Allowing users to use 1TB a month of 4G data would be a much bigger game changer.
I have a limited understanding, but I think this is just further reproduction of the same science. I believe there's some controversy over non-locality in that entanglement and spooky action at a distance is still a result of hidden local variables. By increasing the distance between the sources of the photons, you would give more evidence to nonlocality. Please correct me if this is offbase.
As far as I'm concerned this paper more or less describes HTTP(S) fairly well. The "3.5" address is the domain name that resolves to a meaningful IP address for the L3 domain you are in.

Folks are already using disjoint L3 address spaces with elements like load balancers providing the bridge between the public IP space and their own private IP space. I don't know if you could ever sell me on having more than one "main" IP space though, as I don't entirely understand what purpose that would serve, other than massively complicating the process of understanding what it is you are purchasing connectivity to.

See also RFC 1925, particularly sections 2.6a, and perhaps 2.11 :p
I know Georg Christoph Lichtenberg wrote something similar, in the 18th Century:
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/868998-i-forget-most-of-wha...
Here is something similar to this in Portugal even, albeit on the sourhtern parts.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/13/pigs-rad...
There isn’t really a story here? It’s just a passing comment.
> I'm poking holes in that hypothesis because there's always n + 1 conceivable use case where the opposite is true.

And it's conceivable that the sun will not rise tomorrow, or that the law of gravity will pass an inflection point and reverse itself. Also based on "set theory and computational algebra", and the impossibly of testing each possibly.

What's your plan for tomorrow, and does it depend on gravity?
Poker is zero sum. Adversarial. The only way to win is for someone else to lose, so of course we try to sow confusion.

A market is supposed to enable trades that benefit both sides, because otherwise who would dare use it? Selling means I need money and I'd rather have the share price now, buying means you have money and you'd rather have the income in the future, and it doesn't have to be a regrettable mistake for either of us.
Yes, for instance Life of Brian itself contains a scene which mocks transgenderism.

It seems that we haven't outgrown blasphemy. We merely go from one regime to another regime. And specifying the new blasphemies can itself be blasphemous.
The ecology of our planet doesn't care about the political leaning of whoever is burning their forests or polluting the planet. Global environment changes exactly the same when it was the hard-left of Lula and Dilma burning Amazon, or when it is now the hard-right of Bolsonaro doing the same.

The real problem here, is that some people are only interested in hearing nice words from whoever is presiding a country, not in what consist the actual concrete actions of a government.
None of that has to do with being non-profit. Google is a trillion dollar company. Yes it can make less profits and still survive.

Whether people would pay enough to get anywhere near the costs however, is probably unlikely given how little they pay for far cheaper content on the internet today. Wikipedia is not comparable since the vast majority is unpaid volunteer work and user-provided content.
You don't actually need to know anything about Java to be productive in Clojure. At least that was my own experience.
> but they could just as easily be a poorly conceived PR campaign.

We have decades of experience with terrible tobacco and alcohol companies and that's pretty persuasive that Juul knew what they were doing and didn't care.
Spread of disease is unavoidable in a society of public restrooms and shared infrastructure. Sick people contaminate their environment at points of contact like handles, toilet seats, keyboards, the air around them, etc. The damages caused by sick people at work are poorly estimated at $150B (https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/11323-cost-of-coming-to-wo...).

I could imagine micro terrorists or psychos who actively try to spread disease. Sick people who go to work do the same thing, just without evil intentions. It would be relatively easy to cultivate bacteria or viruses and spread them across the human environment.

Examples:

- Go to the airport and mist some Norovirus around

- Enter a couple stalls and drip some E-Coli on the seats or contaminate a whole role of toilet paper or drying paper

- Contaminate a few ketchup bottles at a restaurant or mist the silverware bucket

It would be extremely difficult to pinpoint these people as the damage is anonymous, random, and highly distributed. Damages could dwarf any previous terrorist attack or serial killer. It's likely that such people exist.
>I just want to ask where the fuck is the father in all of this and why isn't he helping?

You're assuming too much intellect from the bottom of society, as someone born unto poor parents. They are ignorant beyond all comprehension, you get people who are religiously fundamentalist, quasi mental headcases, and fathers that are dumb as a post.

The people at the bottom of society are basically injured by the system itself and of course they end up making bad decisions, they get the worst education and are in toxic cultural environments like religious cults because they come from families who were historically poor to begin with.
But wait, how is the company getting "destroyed" if nothing really happens to it?
Interesting take and I agree. I always thought of it as a labor-relations issue rather than a crime. However, the article states, "a single day on Skylab was worth about $22.4 million in 2017 dollars, and thus any work stoppage was considered inappropriate due to the expense". Makes the Apollo 15 scandal seem like peanuts.
The report that you've cited is more than 10 days old which is like an eternity for a spreading wildfire. Here is a more recent report from the same source [1], published on Aug 19th. Here is the relevant part:

>At this point in the fire season, MODIS active fire detections in 2019 are higher across the Brazilian Amazon than in any year since 2010. The state of Amazonas is on track for record fire activity in 2019.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145498/uptick-in-am...
Why? How should we decide to spend the resources it orbit Neptune? Why not Saturn or Jupiter; why not land on a comet? Why not put a human on the moon again or perhaps spend the money or medical research or nuclear fusion. What about Neptune seems so compelling to you? I would never have thought it an important or memorable goal and just want to hear why Neptune is so alluring.
That doesn’t happen now though - the video doesn’t download comptlelty as fast as possible, it downloads 30 seconds or so ahead of the play position.

4G is perfectly fine for that, but if I Street watching a 40 minute video before I go on the tube, I can’t finish once underground
"best frisbees" - in their envelopes, or opened up?
You can argue whether Lisp is a functional language, but Clojure certainly is. When written well, the bulk of your code will be pure functions taking and returning immutable data or passing around pure functions. https://clojure.org/about/functional_programming
Imagine entangled data transmission... having a matrix of entangled particles, using known truths to illuminate what has up until now have been unknowable things.
Wow, it’s an amazing time to be alive.
> Software Engineering is not an engineering

For those who refuse to practice engineering, casting that self-fulfilling prophecy over and over instead, yes, what they call "Software Engineering" is not engineering.

They are tons of people who practice Software Engineering as proper engineering for decades, as most people (everybody?) should do.

At least take an other word if you want to designate your practice related to software development that is not engineering, and define it in detail.
The reality is that universal healthcare or infrastructure spending doesn't actually need to be "paid for". The negative yields on sovereign debt all over the world and with no inflation in sight shows us that the world has been overly pursuing austerity. Rich economies like Germany and the Netherlands that are obsessed with running fiscal surpluses have held back growth EU-wide. MMTers have been saying this for years but even "mainstream" economists like Larry Summers are coming around to the view that fiscal spending needs to go up [1].

Deficits and the debt aren't the reason why tax policy needs to be more redistributive. It's to actually do something about wealth inequality which is ultimately corrosive to democracy. Having New Zealand citizenship or a hideout in Big Sur won't save you if we run the current regime to its logical conclusion.

[1] https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1164490326549118976
You're free to open your cashless business anywhere else, where it's legal.

Just don't count me in as a customer. I may not even necessarilly pay cash. But I try to avoid doing business with assholes.

And a physical store not accepting cash is, in my book, pretty high on the asshole scale.

edited to clarify: I'm not refering to the parent as an asshole, but to physical busines' who won't accept cash.

If you still find this outlandish, downvote away.
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I like your style. If you haven't written before you should keep doing it as I can see that this is your first post. I agree with the overall sentiment as well. Although I'm driving to work I spend a lot of time with creative activities and they greatly enhance my life.
Article under that link does not say anything about whether people can help themselves or not. It just says most don't scream, because it is hard with throat full of water.
> I'm at the point where I'm serioulsly debating writing something more substantial on how actual software design works at tech companies

If you need a little push to do so... I dare you
The diagrams helped clear it up for me (I think.) Yes, they are entangling them on Earth and this seems to be testing the idea that an atom created here is the same/similar enough to one from the sun for this to take place. "Figure 4: Entanglement fidelity measurement of the entangled photon pairs with no common history." It's something I would have assumed as a novice but it's interesting that they thought to test it. If you couldn't entangle them, what would that mean?

It looks like the keyword in the title was light "sources" that are 150 Million Kilometers apart. I didn't catch that at first.
In OPs defence, Winston Churchill, a European hero, is dispised by some in India for having no regard for his British East Indian subjects. Rewriting of history by the victors has, allegedly, untarnished his name significantly, even in the Indian subcontinent.

Exhibit A: 3 million people died of man-made famine in 1943 for which Churchill is widely held accountable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Similarly, not all Third Reich officers are demonized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz#Later_years and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#Posthumous_honour...
This is really interesting to me, because I have the opposite problem. I'm a total lurker/consumer-only of HN.

My comment here is a very rare response to something and I think I chose to reply because it is so meta and as a member of the community it felt natural to reply rather than just observe.

If my feelings can be juxtaposed next to yours, I'd say there is probably a common thread despite our opposing actions.

I started reading HN and other forums and blogs around 2009?, but didn't register an account here until 2012 when I needed one to actually apply to YC.

You act the way you do because of the role you've assumed in the forums you are on. If you want to assume a different role then do that. Maybe start by logging out or creating a new account. Maybe even delete your account. That might reset the way you interact.

Counter question... how do I become more involved in the community?

Maybe the same advice applies and I should start over a new account to assume a new identity/role. I don't know. I think I miss a lot of these types of posts by sticking to page 1. I also think that my opinion on typical news stories doesn't really matter so there is no value add. Even differing opinions on HN seem to fall 1 of 2 ways so it's basically the echo chamber with the same back and forth across any topic.
Avoid arguments or trying to prove points on twitter, the character limit thing means that it's impossible to be totally clear and guarantees people will respond to fragments of the overall point

Focus on expanding your own world view, focus on expressing your points over dismantling others.
Ask questions, try to find a place the other person is coming from that you can agree with, if you can't find this it's going to be hard for a consensus to be reached.

Acknowledge when you're talking to someone who isn't willing to entertain alternative viewpoints and bail. Don't bother with any kind of "I don't have the energy to continue this nonsense" style exit.

If possible try to avoid outlets where there can be a metric by which to determine a winner (e.g. likes/retweets) but if they are there then try to not factor them into your discourse.

Maybe keep track of when you do these arguments too. I always find I'm wayyyyy more argumentative online when I'm looking for excuses to kill time, which is a pretty crappy starting point for me to be coming from even if my points are valid.
Amazon Joins Walmart in Saying Tesla Solar Panel Caught Fire
> Instead, they treat commenting as writing notes about the topic at hand.

But for what purpose? Or is it just a way of tricking oneself as a coping mechanism?
I think if all you are doing is reading files line by line, reading a database dataset etc, then your choice of language is probably irrelevant. Choose whatever you prefer typing.

But here's CLojres read a file line by line and print it out:

C:\\foo.txt
"THis is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3"

(with-open [rdr (io/reader "C:\\foo.txt")]
(doall (map println (line-seq rdr))))
=>THis is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3

A simple function to read a specified file line by line

(defn read-file-line-by-line [file-path]
(with-open [rdr (io/reader file-path)]
(doall (line-seq rdr))))

(read-file-line-by-line "C:\\foo.txt")
=> ("THis is line 1" "This is line 2" "This is line 3")

To read the line by line and convert them to upper case

(map clojure.string/upper-case (read-file-line-by-line "C:\\foo.txt"))
=> ("THIS IS LINE 1" "THIS IS LINE 2" "THIS IS LINE 3")
A few points:

1) I wasn't narrowing the discussion to speculators. Spoofing hurts all valid market participants.

2) Speculation does not imply gambling, although that is a common misperception. Speculation is merely placing an order in the direction of an anticipated future price move. It oftentimes counters the current price trend. Informed speculators make trades because they understand something about the market that many others do not. Bringing this information to bear on prices is beneficial to the price discovery process. Informed speculation adds stability and accuracy to pricing. Uninformed speculators are gamblers. They are often harmful to markets and they tend to not last long due to losses.

3) Reacting to perceived near-term supply and demand is not gambling. Are you a gambler if you wait for a buyer willing to buy your house at the price you think is fair? What if someone lies to you saying that the supply of homes like yours is much higher than reality and this information causes you to accept a lower-than-fair price? Would you consider that beneficial to your selling process?

4) You seem to be arguing that the price you want should not be affected by the true prices that others want. Nobody knows enough to price every asset accurately. The markets pool information from many sources to provide this service. Allowing false information is counter to the process.
Word2Vec Models Revisited
> Yesterday, he said the Amazon should be monetized. With no other business plan besides a vague desire for increased ecotourism, the fires are the first step towards monetization

Mind sharing the source?
Creation of health.

Unless you're actively consuming something like watching tv or reading a book while you do it.

When it comes to more passive consumption like listening to music while you exercise for background noise, I would still argue it's at least neutral. But if you're listening to an audiobook or podcast (something new to you), then it feels consumption again.
The common subset of C99 that compiles in both C and C++ is basically "C90 with // comments".
Good thing tornado warning is now a loud mobile phone alert.

I'd expect people mostly listen to radio because they are bored while driving, which has about as much "importance".
The standard practice is to quiz based on algorithms and data structures. How is that quantifying anybody’s performance? I knew a smart young algorithms guy once who could solve anything, but he still liked storing all his data in the global scope until he was told to stop it.
Preventative measures: quarantined society, minimized travel and human contact, private or limited use facilities, increased isolation, enhanced and more frequent sanitation at point of use, and enhanced air treatment.

Sanitation is currently done by chemical (Clorox), heat (autoclave or flame), light (UV, X-Ray, gamma), filtration, or pressure treatment. These are highly functional, especially when used in tandem.