skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to be specific to an absolute fault. People aren't machines. A compounding approach in practice would likely just result in English constructions similar to Dutch or German - eg Krautsalat -> Cabbage Salad (Coleslaw).
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Yes, it was hyperbole. The "dumpster" is an area in the office where employees can grab surplus hardware and supplies -- it'll be picked clean pretty quick if video cards show up there...
Considering for cities like NY and SF the majority of seafood served is not what is advertised, despite existing legislation to the contrary, I think enforcement is the problem.

I imagine the only substantial course of action would be to ban ocean fishing vessels from the entire coast.
I worked with MIPs for 8 years and commercial solvers have always been several orders of magnitude faster/better than open-source solvers.

This is generally true for domain-specific software -- unlike general purpose software, incenting a small pool of specialized talent to make open-source contributions is always hard.

The key to high performance in MIPs comes from having good heuristics, not necessarily from improving the basic algorithms (the algorithms are pretty standard -- simplex or interior point). Finding effective heuristics is hard and tedious, but they make a significant difference in solution speed. For instance, naive Simplex may take 40 minutes to solve a problem but with heuristics the solution time might be 5 seconds.

That said, Cbc is competitive for smaller problems, and here's the thing: many production sized problems aren't that big -- it really depends on your problem domain. I've deployed commercial solvers on Cbc (30k variables/constraints) and it was more than adequate.

I don't have any details on this, but Gurobi (a best of class solver) also offers an on-demand cloud SaaS which you can pay for on demand [1]. The economics of this may work out for some types of problems.

[1] https://www.gurobi.com/pdfs/user-events/2017-frankfurt/Gurob...

Also, if you're in academia, you can get Gurobi/CPLEX licenses for free (yes). My research group in grad school didn't spend a cent on these solvers, and we still got a taste of best-of-class solution performance (that's how they get you :).
I have a company in Bulgaria while working remotely for a high-salary EU country, and it's almost shocking to realise how much you spend on taxes in most European countries when you see the difference in your bank account.

It's quite a good deal if you want to be a digital nomad since it's an EU country and you can get a really small apartment for almost nothing to use as your official address while travelling. (You'll have to be at least fiscally resident there)

Feel free to PM me if you want some tips on how to get things set up there.
Cost reduction sounds like a natural thing for a business in a healthy market economy.
Can someone explain the RCE part? I understand the double free bug but not the exploit part.
You can search for a string verbatim, but you have to remember to escape special characters. Is that what you mean? That the special characters have to be escaped?
> there's no way to "point fingers" and say "Look at what this company is doing!"

What do you mean? The fact that different people may see different things in their feeds doesn't mean you can't point out differences in (for example) social network's policies (sometimes this is more of an unwritten policy) on media that depicts children's bodies.

I personally don't have TikTok but I have never found a single video of half naked children dancing on YouTube, Facebook or IG that wasn't a reposted TikTok video (I have read about videos like that being on YouTube, though). And I don't think it has much to do with the fact that I don't like to see this kind of videos in my feed. It also makes sense given the demographics of TikTok app.

I don't have any serious citations to give, this is of course anectodical as it's my personal experience and I don't even have TikTok, but anyway I don't think one can dismiss worries like this just by blaming the algorithm. Most of the time that content shouldn't be there for the algorithm to recommend it in the first place.
While it's possible to make 10k/month, he's in a rather small percentile of people doing so. The average salary in the IT industry is around $1800-2000.
Which is still quite a lot, considering the cost of living.
Wealth isn't identical with money, or with capital accumulation. If you create an app that lets 1000 people do something they couldn't do before (or that lets 1000 people do with ease something they could only do with difficulty before), then you have created wealth for those 1000 people.
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." -- EB White

Nonetheless:

> Is it suppose to profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress?

The idea is something like that, I suppose. Just because one wants to muck about in the water having a good time doesn't make one unintelligent. With the added humor of summing up the collected achievements of mankind as "the wheel, New York, wars, and so on". Exaggerated understatement is funny (and particularly common in British humor, though I am not British myself).
Microsoft's 2019 Hardware Event live-stream
A few years ago my bank had a mini-branch in my local chain grocery store. They had a counter and some tellers working behind it. I went to it really often because I was being paid in cash at the time waiting tables. The employees were super nice, they all seemed like they were friends, and I kind of became buddies with them over my time of being a regular customer. Not all bank tellers are pleasant customer service people, but this group just had a good vibe I guess.

One day I try go to the bank and the counter was ripped out and drywalled over, and in its place is a giant ATM machine. It's like an ATM machine on steroids that can do anything with your account. And if you had issues there was a screen on it that would connect you to a call center in Bangladesh or wherever.

Some corporate bank employee was posted next to the machine to explain the change to people who had questions. When I walked up a group of people were standing around listening to him talk, they looked ready to pull out the pitchforks. He assured us that all of the tellers were still employed, they were just working "behind the scenes". I didn't buy that at all, and neither did anyone else.

I continued to use the machine to deposit my cash, but it really sucked. I mean the machine worked absolutely fine. But it sucked to imagine how those tellers felt to be replaced by it.

Now that I don't get paid in cash, I don't even go to a physical bank at all. I deposit checks on my phone in the rare occasion I need to do that.

I'm still not sure how to feel about this. I want to hate it but it feels a little irrational. Maybe all of those tellers went to a coding bootcamp and now make triple their salary designing the ATM machines? Seems like that's how the story is supposed to go. But probably not. Nothing I can do about it anyway.
I love that site. Use it all the time.

We shouldn't impose on every website the requirement to support the whole world. This website is probably just run by a guy/gal on their free time, for fun.

I'd love that more people in other countries also created more websites like this, localized and specific to their market, without feeling the pressure to escalate to the entire planet.
Saudi Arabia Events
The photos itself are also very nicely done!
Can't put a coin in a g-string...
I think the social utility of wealth, for the owner, is an under-discussed concept; capitalists have convinced society that it’s impossible to even discuss it, it’s a natural law that all accumulated wealth belongs to its holder.

I, like you I suspect, disagree with that framing.

Nevertheless, I think trying to redefine wealth (which has a pretty clear economic meaning, regardless of your beliefs about appropriate distribution) isn’t really a good conversational gambit.

The accumulation of wealth can be destructive, no doubt. But defining away liquid societal resources with broad based utility, because they happen to be too expensive for the general populous, doesn’t strike me as a way to convince people of the merits of a different distribution.
But the default state is to use the dns provided by your isp so nothing really changes.
He is doing full time for a local company. Given that he is in his very late 20's (almost 30). He started around 1200Euro but built his way up to his current salary by jumping companies/roles every 2 years for a salary boost (similarly to how its done in the states).
While I agree that salaries can be a pain, especially all the compulsory stuff like health care, social security and so on, for the employer a company that is unable to generate enough revenue or attract enough capital (loans, investment whatever) sounds more like a hobby to me than a viable enterprise. Sooner or later you will have to pay all that anyway, so better get used to it rigzjt of the bat.
Plastic straws are such a red herring for climate change. If you want to make an impact on your individual contribution, then you can get an EV (at very least a plug-in hybrid) and (if you own a home) get a solar roof or a heat pump instead of gas (everyone has pretty much replaced their incandescents, which is the cheapest thing to do). The marginal costs of these things are relatively low to neutral (and sometimes can save you money), and all of them have several orders of magnitude bigger impact on climate change than straws.

And it's contagious. Several of my peers (who aren't ultra-green types) bought electric cars or installed solar roofs after I talked about my EVs, and even some of their peers bought electric cars after talking to them. Individual action builds consensus on the importance of political action, too, as it is tangible proof that a transition to a low-carbon economy isn't just possible but attractive.

As far as plastic waste:

We can just replace drink straws with biodegradable plastic of the same performance. Techno solutions work. It's how we fixed ozone depletion.
How to build a game-learning machine and then teach it to play and win (1962) [pdf]
> This article is trying to suggest that equity incentives are somehow especially and unfairly (!) singled out by European tax schemes but I don't see any meaningful argument to support that.

From the article,

> A few years ago the Dutch capped bonuses for bankers, money managers, and other financial professionals at 20% of their base salaries. Entrepreneurs must navigate onerous tax rates and restrictions that often make equity sharing and options more trouble than they’re worth. When employees in Germany exercise options, they have to pay income tax on the difference between the fair market value and the strike price, and that rate runs from 14% to 47.5%. They also have to pay a 25% capital-gains tax on additional profits when they sell their shares. [End]

> If you want to make the arguments made by this article, IMO you have to first make the general argument that taxing wealthy people heavily is a bad thing.

Silicon Valley startups have gotten a reputation for being a way to get stinking filthy rich. What happened as a result? Tons of people, many of which visit this website, are out there everyday foregoing traditional careers, trying to make something new and something people want to buy.

The argument is that it takes a big carrot to get people to take big risks and work really hard to make something from nothing.
>There are a rapidly increasing number of Teslas, a decent number of Jeeps, a bunch of Chevy/Opel rebadged cars, and even the occasional Ram pickup truck where I live in Switzerland.

What is wrong with the Swiss? Jeeps and Rams are literally the worst, most unreliable vehicles made by American manufacturers. It's pretty well-known that any pickup truck is better than a Ram. If you have to have an American pickup for some odd reason, Fords and Chevys are both much better. Jeeps are also terrible vehicles. Of course, both Jeep and Ram are made by Chrysler, which has the very worst ratings of all the mainstream car manufacturers. Why are the Swiss picking the very worst American brands?
I wouldn't be surprised if, like TES, this causes neurological tradeoffs.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/10/4482.abstract
From https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/governance...

As a co-operative enterprise, in organisational terms MONDRAGON is divided into four areas: Finance, Industry, Retail and Knowledge, which operate independently within the framework of an overall strategy, all in line with the strategic policies established at the Co-operative Congress.

As far as the different areas are concerned, Finance includes banking, social welfare and insurance activities. Industry is grouped into twelve industrial divisions engaged in the production of goods and services. Retail brings together the retail and food and agriculture co-operatives and businesses. And the Knowledge area includes the network of MONDRAGON technology centres and R&D units, our university, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, as well as a number of vocational training and education centres.

Co-operative bodies

General Assembly. this is the supreme body in the co-operative and is the vehicle for expressing the social will of all members.

Governing Council. the representative and governing body of the co-operative. Members are elected at the General Assembly.

Social Council. a consultative body, which represents members as a whole internally within the co-operative.
Monitoring Commission. a consultative body whose purpose is to pass judgement on correct compliance with accounting principles and any other areas which require consideration.

Management Council. this is the managerial and executive team that comprises the manager and managerial members, and is responsible for the executive management of the co-operative.

MONDRAGON bodies

Co-operative Congress: its function is to establish the strategic criteria by which MONDRAGON is to be administered via the planning and co-ordination of its business units. It is made up of 650 members who are delegated by the co-operatives, and it meets on an annual basis.

Divisions: these are associations set up within the framework of MONDRAGON between co-operatives operating in the same area, which coordinate the management of their co-operatives.

Standing Committee: governed by delegation from the Co-operative Congress. Its basic function is to promote and control the implementing of policies and decisions adopted by the Congress, by monitoring the evolution of MONDRAGON on a permanent basis.

General Council: it is responsible for drawing up and applying corporate strategies and objectives. It coordinates the policies pursued by the different Divisions and Co-operatives.

Industrial Council: it is the co-ordinating body for the Industry area’s Divisions.
In my experience, 2 years with the Apple Watch, it is primarily used for notifications and fitness related activities. It does those very well, for everything else it’s easier just to take the phone out of my pocket.
Awesome, downloading now!!!
Ask HN: Thoughts on a Climate Neutral OSS License?
I've seen a growing interest in developers about doing something about climate change. It seems, particularly in the context
of a big company, the engineering department doesn't really have much leverage, even if they wanted management to do things differently.
What if we had a "green" open source license? It would mandate that the companies that use the software, offset their pollution, and become
climate neutral?

It could suddenly make going carbon neutral a net positive, rather than just a cost.,
We could have conversations like "If we become carbon neutral, for the price of 20.000$ a year, we'll have access to software that can save us 100.000$ a year in work we don't have to do"

So HN: What are your thoughts on a "green" open source license?
Looking for Lurkers: Co-Orbiters as SETI Observables
I really detest the "if you find value in x you're living your life wrong" argument.
Yep.

They were quite durable 20 years ago too. It's just back then clock speed and performance was increasing very rapidly and it had a huge effect on the usability of your machine (especially if you were a gamer). You would likely upgrade and retire a working machine for the sake of a drastic performance boost every 3ish years.

Nowadays you could happily be using a 5+ year old i5 for full time development and moderate gaming with no issues at all. I'm personally at 5+ years now and I don't see myself upgrading for quite some time because everything I do still feels very snappy.

But compare that to something like a Pentium I at 75mhz (1994) vs a Pentium III at 1ghz (1999) and the performance difference was crazy. Over 10x the clock rate, but it's not just a "paper" boost. They are so different in performance that you can't even compare them. They are in leagues of their own.
> Why a fish

I find this confusing. It’s an alien species from a humorous book, why not a fish? I’m sure it’s intended to be a little bizarre.

Explaining humor always ruins it, but I think you do get the joke, he’s listing human accomplishments and then turning them around to appear silly. It’s also a little dark that he would include war as some kind of achievement.

Edit: wow lots of people responded while I was. You’ve triggered the fan base, haha.
Marketing materials, any eyes on the site could translate to viewing more of the site. Viewing more of the site will slowly increase page rank.
>CPU architecture between Intel and AMD can't vary much since they both target x86

Yes they can. Instruction sets are just that, a bunch of op codes and "things" for a processor to do. How a processor actually performs them is open to implementation.
The World's First Managed K3s
I spend a day or two every year cleaning up a beach on a island off the coast of China. Its location relative to local sea currents makes it a natural garbage trap. It has been a radicalizing experience but maybe not in the way you would think.

Anecdotally about a third of the trash I pick up is fishing related - some nets, some buoys, but mostly thousands of small plastic sardine sized fishing net floats.

About a third is one-time use food packaging related - soda and water bottles mainly, but also so many bags for snacks, or tangentially cleaning bottles for hands/dishes. We could do better making less plastic waste with each meal. Straws are a very small part of that and a weird thing to fixate on relative to all the other one time use food waste we generate.

And the last third is various forms of hydrocarbon foams. This last one kills me because I see foams everywhere in the supply chain for consumer goods. TVs are shipped out in white styrofoam. Chips are shipped in with pink styrofoam. If it’s fragile lab equipment it gets shipped in a box three times it’s size full of packing peanut foam. Every product in the room you are in probably generated an equivalent volume of foam during its production. The foam lasts forever. I refuse to use it for anything we package and glad to see it phased out.

I would much prefer biodegradable paper like pulps to foam. As I understand the chemicals used to make hard paper bowls and straws may be their own kind of nasty endocrine disrupters but for all other packaging purposes, yes please. Less foam, more paper. Especially if some tweaks we can make packaging a carbon sink.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1903/1903.09582.pdf

Abstract: A recently discovered group of nearby co-orbital objects is an attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth while not being easily seen. These near-Earth objects provide an ideal way to watch our world from a secure natural object. That provides resources an ETI might need: materials, a firm anchor, and concealment. These have been little studied by astronomy and not at all by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) or planetary radar observations. I describe the objects found thus far and propose both passive and active observations of them as possible sites for extraterrestrial (ET) probes.

Published in The Astronomical Journal, September 2019.

The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society and currently published by IOP Publishing. It is one of the premier journals for astronomy in the world. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronomical_Journal)

See also:

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-lurkers-seti.html

http://astrobiology.com/2019/09/looking-for-lurkers-a-new-wa...

https://earthsky.org/space/alien-lurker-probes-co-orbital-as...
I see the author and I share a naming convention for our miscellaneous scripts, and `do.sh` appears prominently in both our work.

I subsequently branched out to e.g. `do-backups.sh`, where despite the `do-` being superfluous, I quite like the aesthetic.

Slightly more on topic: I really enjoy blog series like these, with plenty of detail on esoteric topics I really have no idea about, or on the face of it much interest in. They're a fun way to increase the breadth of topics I have a superficial knowledge of.
The banks already broke free of the government. Facebook just wants to get in on that action. What other business gets to make money out of nothing through fractional reserve banking and gets trillion dollar bailouts at taxpayer expense when it regularly overextends itself with all that newly created money?
This works if you are in a position to sell the stock to pay the tax. If the company is not publicly traded you need to find a buyer, and because you really need that money before the tax returns you might have to sell at a lower price than the one you were taxed on, if you can find one at all. This makes it harder for startup employees to exercise their stock options before an exit or the company going public, unless they already have cash at hand.

Source: Have exercised stock options in a Norwegian startup. I was lucky enough to have enough cash at hand to pay the tax.
I thought Y2K was calm because it was a well-understood problem that had hundreds of thousands of pounds invested in fixing and mitigating the effects? Brexit is an unsolvable political problem that was created out of absolutely nothing but the desire for power.
You forgot the part about being able to conjure money out of thin air, loaning the conjured money and then collecting interest on the loaned money.

Decentralized, open ledgers are the future and these folks are terrified their Golden Goose's days are numbered. And of course there's the implications the current system, and the push to get rid of cash, has on personal freedoms.
It's not hidden. It's what the OP is about. It's right there in the title - ocean plastic waste, not coastal. Pollution on or near shore is absolutely an important issue, but there are thousands of important issues that are not germane to this conversation.
I think the real problem is with words that already had meanings, but the meanings were not preserved. So I see some place selling Middle Eastern food in Toronto, go and buy some only to see that it is some unholy deviation from the original. If only we could be a bit more Cognac about preserving our food names.