skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.citytosea.org.uk/plastic-recycling-doesnt-work/

"For some products, recycling is an effective solution. Aluminium cans and glass, for example, are infinitely recyclable and can be reprocessed in the UK. But for plastics, it’s a different story.

For one thing, there are so many types of plastic it makes it hard to sort correctly. Consumers inadvertently mix recyclable and non-recyclable plastics in the same box, which contaminates the load and requires there to be further sorting and segregating, which not all collectors do, and effects the value and re-usability of the plastic when it’s resold. "

https://www.insider.com/mit-research-andrew-mcafee-says-recy...

"Recycling plastic uses up a lot of resources, and after all the hauling around, sorting, and processing of bottles and containers, it often ends up getting thrown away or burned"

One 2017 report published in Science Advances suggested only 9% of the plastic that we ever use is recycled, while consulting firm McKinsey estimates just 16% of plastics are "reprocessed" and turned into new plastic goods.

People don't have much use for the small portion of plastic that does get recycled anyway. In the European Union, only 6% of plastic demand is for recycled plastics.
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WeWork’s Loss Balloons to $1.25B in 3rd Quarter
As a consumer I want one cable to do all of it. Sure, like anything else, it will be difficult and slow progress to get there. As developer you sould see it as challenge.
GCC 7.5
...speculation attacks, and outright bugs in TSX, and the fact that even when everything is working it's a timing mechanism that VMX can't intercept. I really hope it becomes architectural (and gains a bit for HLE)!
Hi all, creator of PythonBooks here. PythonBooks is running since 2017. During launch, it was on the front page of HN [0]. Thanks to the HN community for showing so much interest in the website. There has been steady traffic ever since and I have tried my best to keep the website updated with the latest books. Starting this month, there's a new page which lists the best Python books published every month - based on popularity, topic and novelty. I thought that it could be an useful tool for Python developers to cut through the noise and keep abreast of the best recent books. Feedback is welcome :-)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14769317
Why should customers care about making electronics designers happy?

Customers have wanted to charge, transfer data, and transfer display information on one cable. That’s what we want, and you can see that many folks are willing to pay for it.

Everything dealing with electronics is complicated and expensive until one day it isn’t.
What makes an extension easier to circumvent?

Your second sentence is true for adblock plus, but not ublock origin
One of the design goals of game AIs is also that they are fun to play against. If they are too smart and coordinated, they try to throw you off in a way that feels "unfair" to the player.

You have to hit a spot where they are sometimes a bit surprising, but not in a way that cannot be reacted to quickly on your feet. This throws realism out of the window.
Give me twenty billion dollars to make a ride hailing app and I'll show you.

More seriously: they raised tens of billions of dollars to make a ride hailing app and research self-driving cars. Throwing more money at a problem doesn't solve it faster, but it does pay for hiring people, and headcount is seen as a proxy for doing stuff.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Some big start-ups[0] solve this conundrum by investing in adjacent companies to find the solutions they're paid to find. Outsourcing! This still has limits because there's so much money flowing around right now. Tossing a few million at a company with hundreds still won't solve the problem faster.

[0] Start-up definition for this post: a company that has taken funding but hasn't yet found a sustainable business model. That's how Uber is still a start-up with more money than most companies make in decades.
yeh, it is quite a bit cheaper. However, heroku is more aggressive in throttling the cheap stuff. I still use it for ci though. AWS simply offers more granular control and a more robust infrastructure. If you dig down into it, you'll see heroku is actually running on AWS.
No, I mean scientific. What scientific work has Carmack done? I'm genuinely interested, because someone called him a scientist but I thought he was an engineer.
People complain about a notch on an almost invisible place on their screens, having any kind of line running between two screens is very likely a no-no for designers.
Very nice one - thanks for the pointer, I'll even add it to the blog!
Let's talk power:

The USB-C PD charger of my Nintendo Switch does not charge my phone, but it does charge my Surface. My phone's USB-C charger does charge the phone and Surface, but not the Switch. My USB-C battery pack charges my phone, but is charged by my Surface. Yeah, it just works.

How do, say, a battery pack and a Surface negotiate who is charging who over a symmetric USB-C-to-C cable?
I'm using Vivado after having previously attempted Quartus and I can't actually say it's any worse. I was able to eventually find my way around it and in some ways it was more intuitive than Quartus.

I see the pile of ideas they're trying to glue together. But it really just does get in the way more than anything else.

Now my process is: Verilator + CMake + CLion + SystemVerilog plugin for CLion (excellent but $$$); then when it runs well in verilator I bring it over to Vivado, fix any warnings it gripes about and try it on hardware.
Pascal's Mugging (2009) [pdf]
The open ended simulations, similar to earth conditions, might general enough to sprout some artificial general intelligence. Put multiple intelligences in a massive multiplayer online world and have them compete for shelter and resources. It's an environment that we know has produced intelligence.

It may be a brutal struggle, but perhaps that struggle is important. Perhaps having a simulated tree fall on you is more meaningful than being reaped by some objective function at the end of an epoch.
They own an astounding chunk of the popular culture. They dominate the list of top-grossing films. There have been times over the past couple years when I couldn't see a movie in my local megaplex that Disney didn't own.

They are apparently also licensing the Nintendo reality-distortion field technology.
Joe Rogan might not be the most knowledgeable, but he has a key characteristic that a lot of people lack. He is willing to admit that he is wrong when shown evidence and will adopt the more reasonable view as his own. While a lot of "smart" people will defend their views beyond reason just because admiting fault goes against their "being smart" persona.
I think you missed a key section in the article where he talks about how miss-steps with a franchise can build, and that Disney made many miss-steps with Star Wars. He wrote a whole article about it [0], which he claims they:

- rushed the films out

- lacked singular vision to keep them consistent

- subverted audience expectations in a bad way, re Luke Skywalker

- retread too much of the same old ground leading to inability to generate momentum (ie. killing off characters in Rogue One).

0 - https://redef.com/original/star-wars-fatigue-is-a-myth-but-d...
So the internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped
That's an interesting point. I was actually thinking more that _the virtual task will become the task we want to perform_, i.e. that almost everything we do will move into VR.
Same here. I cannot stand the size of phone's today. Mine is 6" and I hate it. My old Motorola G3 was the perfect size. I'd still use it, if it didn't eat SD cards (and only have a 4GB hard drive).
Interesting! I'm curious about this because I didn't see anything rendering to the pixel buffer array. Do you know where that code is? I tried looking for it.
In chrome, open developer tools then in "Application" tab, "Clear Storage" subtab, click "clear site data"
Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft Are About to Eat Telco’s Lunch
i wonder if this comment thread has been posted by a bot or not.
If the only thing in the process is the untrusted code (+ interpreter) then there's nothing to pwn.
Unusual Aircraft Recovery Procedures
That one on Stamford Street was there for decades as a very grand frontage to a car park! It was quite weird walking past it. The new building behind it doesn't 'work' with it at all, really.
You can! Swift runs on Linux and Windows. Thanks to IBM and others.
... and updated.
If you're the only person that's bothered by those persons' odor, it might be more practical (in social terms) to deal with it from your side.

Is there anything you can do to reduce your sensitivity to bad odors when at the gym? (Serious question. Not a problem I've looked into before.)
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I think this is the incident that Captain VanderBurgh describes somewhere in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21535214
Just a little side note to correct your facts: no, the x2 extreme gen2 does not have ethernet.

And if you think a trackpoint is any kind of substitute for a real trackpad, well, that's a joke.
Congratulations on the managed ArangoDB release. Have been waiting for this for awhile now, amazing job guys! Firing it up right now.
I would never pay that much money for a phone without a very good camera. A cheaper phone with mediocre camera, why not, but a $1500 phone must have a perfect camera.
Can you elaborate? I can't tell if your post is a joke.
The question of landing choice highlights a number of concerns, all well-addressed especially in McMahan's account.

The region is California. Considered landing locations were San Diego (a notoriously short and crowded field with a difficult, over-city approach), Palmdale and Edwards AFB, both closed, Las Vegas and Phoenix, both requiring high-altitude flight over mountains with potential turbulence, and LAX, with a long runway and over-water approach.

I was surprised other inland fields, say, Bakersfield, weren't mentioned, though I'm also not a pilot and don't know the runway lengths or airfield situation generally.

The thing about a disaster is that you're operating under greatly increased constraints, and limited options. The question to be addressed is "what is the next best option?".

Given the circumstances of this incident, instrument approach to LAX still seems like a reasonable option. The principle fault lay in controls, not instruments, time-in-air was a risk, avoiding overland travel, and preserving the option of a sea ditching, were both prudent considerations.

It's possible that McMahan could have inquired as to viability of a Palmdale or Edwards landing with ATC, and it appears he didn't. Given his and crew's workload, that's understandable.
We don't want to turn cars into horses. Have you ridden horses? They sometimes do stupid, dangerous things with no notice and it takes an experienced, attentive rider to stay in control. Like I saw a horse panic and almost buck her rider off when she was startled by a snake. Another horse seriously injured a friend of mine when it freaked out in a horse trailer and started kicking.

Don't get me wrong, I love horses. But they're living creatures with minds of their own and you have to always treat them with a certain wariness.
Basic Attention Token Moves Up a Gear with Brave 1.0
Just wanted to mention that there are indications that universal constants e.g. fine structure constant, gravitational constant etc. are time varying [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-variation_of_fundamental_...
You could be right, and for the record I upvoted your comment for the contribution regarding you experience with high level chess players. I think the downvotes you’re getting are regrettable.
Where I work many people have a docking station with a USB-C plug and a power plug molded into one connector. One cable to plug in, can safety deliver more power than USB-C can alone. With a bit of work engineers could have standardized an expandable cable. You have your basic USB-c cable with one fast (display port?) lane, one usb-3 data lane, the - basic cable in the article, enough for phones and light use. Then the larger connector that can supply more power for laptops and has a few more high speed data lanes for more monitors. It is a bit of work to make the connector work for either mode, but it is a solvable problem.
These should only be legal if that facade is integrated into the new building, not just a mask in front it. Yes, it's more work for the architects but otherwise it defeats the whole point of the exercise.
Tesla delivers a record 97,000 electric vehicles in third quarter
Good for you. Please don't send any more "s__tstorms" my way, deal with them yourself, thanks.
Year after AMZN HQ2 announcement, here’s what happened to house prices in NoVA
I've built RemoteHub in PHP on Laravel. There's also some jQuery written (you can call me oldschool) – I should maybe switch my JS framework. But I'm used to jQuery, hah. And what's wrong with jQuery?

I mean, yes I've played around with Node etc, but somehow I've sticked with PHP. Maybe because it was the first language (computer language) I learned.

And I really like Laravel. It's actually so cool that you can use frameworks like Laravel for free although a lot of people have contributed a massive amount of their time into these open source projects. And then you come and just built your project on top of it!
>yup, there’s a McDonald’s in Venice

Imagine, a place to eat in Venice that isn't a rip-off tourist trap restaurant. Free toilets as well!
Your text message history was rather private
Install Karabiner-Elements. Go to the "complex modifications" tab. Add "Change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone".
This is awesome. I wish I could take the time out of my daily routine to start building something like this. I liked these since I was a little boy. But there's already too many unfinished after-work and weekend projects around the house so that I just can't justify starting yet another thing.

But I watch Luke Towan on YouTube every now an then to compensate. :-)
I think people do both. You learn the rules in order to play a game or perform a task, but with practice you end up training a task specific system that "knows" how to do it without thinking about the rules and perhaps without knowing them.
Overfitting is about being too precise because of the sample inputs, such as if "downward angle" + "brown blob" (one specific dog breed) + "leash" + "lots of green" (grass) was required to identify a dog. GP's example wasn't that, it was just identifying the wrong thing.
It would be hell on earth if you had to perform the same actions with multiple ports. If I had to choose between curing polio, and not having to use multiple ports, it'd be ports every time.
I bought a couple of these and installed nes and SNES emulators with a full library of roms for my nephews. They loved it.
> I am an outsider, but the impression is that the thing is exploding.

To be honest it's the entire architecture that's exploding. There's a reason why ARM has all but taken over the smartphone market (and it's not just power efficiency), the only thing keeping x86 alive is the massive demand for backwards compatibility. Good riddance to x86/x64 once someone makes an ARM core capable of current Ryzen performance and attaches a runtime binary translator to it.
We’re talking about a specific Swift library, which does not.
Cool, thanks. Added to my todo list!
A nitpick but thunderbolt never had its own port. Versions 1 and 2 used mini display port plug and, version 3 used USB-C and well, USB-4 is just renamed Thunderbolt 3.
U hirin?
I mean even if both Tesla and SpaceX close tomorrow, he already achieved more in both companies than most of the current "unicorns".

He successfully made popular mass market electric vehicle, and dragged whole auto moto industry behind. There were other electric cars before tesla. But tesla made it cool, and made the rest of the industry trying hard to catch up.

SpaceX also is not the first private space firm, with their own rocket, But it's by far the most successful one, and lowered the cost of entry to space by significant amount.

Also It's probably the first private space company that has rockets that can compete with most government ones.

I am not rich enough to be buying individual stocks, so I have no personal stake in this.
On Facebook, fear of parasites push people to post feces, pursue dangerous cures
Winter was not off. You still have to care about animals and you still have to care about tools and you still have to cook and care about toddlers and babies.

You still need to sew cloth, create shoes, create candles, feather-bed and what not.
> But without that understanding, giving those people a UI of functions they have no understanding of is just a recipe for disaster.

I can see use of the UI in a classroom setting to bridge the learning gap for people that are pretty proficient with the utility libraries like pandas offer, but lack the experience with Python and reading documentation at this point in time. I honestly fail to understand this critique, that sounds like saying we should ban Excel because people could use it to calculate something that doesn't make sense. It's not like pandas does something magical and every half decent Excel user understands the functionality behind the buttons I see in the bamboo demo linked here.

> The market for analysts who aren't also software engineers is shrinking to 0.

While I certainly get where this perspective might be coming from, I find it unlikely to be true. The recent acquisition of Tableau and growth of similar no-code tools shows that it's untrue from a business perspective (just read one of the HN threads on these topics, plenty of non-SE people making good use of them). Even from the code perspective, outside of production most of the data analysis code I see hardly shows any signs of good software engineering practice and yet fulfills the task it is written for.
I think you’re on a potentially productive path, but it took 2 billion years of evolution in a staggeringly vast environment like that to produce results. The question is really how to shortcut that process, but training environments may well have a role to play.
How do you get the data? I know one company in the list and the numbers/countries are completely wrong.
But in this classification, isn't "general intelligence" just a meta-single-problem-solver, solving the problem of which single purpose solver to bring to bear on this task?

I think I think, but might I just be using a single problem solver that gives the appearance of thinking?
This is really exciting. All I'd like now is Prisma integration, and pricing info : )
I also recently bought a monitor with USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) which I can plug it's single cable into my DELL XPS and charge it, output 4K@60 to the display, and have my mouse and keyboard which are connected to the back of the monitor.

The downside is when I want to use the same kb/mouse with my desktop, I have to unplug them from the monitor and plug them into the desktop.
Why cant you remote login to the server? From your phone?
Well, if you look at the spreadsheet linked below https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9... Anker did have one model of cable that was recalled because it was dangerous :)
I forget where I saw it but they predicted in the future films would just be called Disney's. Hey what Disney do you want to watch?
That article desperately needs better screenshots!
I wonder if there is space for a web-ring type solution. Have a discovery service that an author plugs at the bottom/footer of their posts that can link to similar labeled articles. Now you have discoverability and control of your content. For monitization, you could go with ads and/or subscription.
Well given that we breath some through the skin it not being permeable to smells would be weirder really.
Seen this a lot in Perth Western Australia in the last 10 years or so.
Switching Power Grid to DC Could Boost Its Capacity
>Really? What cultural affinity is there for Avengers? For Force Awakens?

The Avengers is a part of a comic franchise that is almost 50 years old, and Star Wars basically invented the science fiction movie blockbuster over 40 years ago. Both have been deeply influential on generations of people and on the way their respective genres have been portrayed in all media.

To question whether there is cultural affinity for either is to fundamentally misunderstand modern Western pop culture, because these properties are more influential to it than the Bible and Shakespeare.
Cue is intriguing. The flexible typing mechanism is very powerful. Alas, the documentation is lacking. There is quite a bit of musing around the type/value lattice semantic and how the core operation is "<set of nodes>: <constraints>". Then the first realistic example [0] introduces a whole bunch of new features that are neither explained, nor motivated.

* Templates: deployment <Name>: ....

* List comprehensions: [ "-\(k)=\(v)" for k, v in arg ].

* Conditionals: targetPort: Port if port != Port

* Special templates: expose port <N>: .... What does 'expose' mean? Doesn't look like folded struct.

* Some form of comprehension/conditional composition: for k, spec in deployment if len(spec.expose.port) > 0. Can we nest two comprehensions? Can we zip? Can we reduce?

* Side note: What are the debug capabilities? One major usability issue with GCL circa 2010 was that debugging required sifting through MB [or was it GB?] of intermediate struct expansions.

* Side note: I wish they used Python f-string syntax: "-{k}={v}" instead of "-\(k)=\(v)".

[0] https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/e5d8d09b3ba2e4f48c84a3b5...
Another one is Crystal Nights by Greg Egan. Full text here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090604111226/http://ttapress.c...
I would like to block facebook but I'm on debian. Last thing I tried to block was reddit through /etc/hosts and it didn't work.
See also: https://2018.bloomca.me/en
why you consider full size left and right arrow bad?
Legal names aren't critical but would be nice. I think that if the business posts the name that would be close enough.

Very interesting idea - many thanks!