skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't really understand the point about autarky. Sure you can build all the wheel yourself but historically that haven't made competitive industry, rather, it made horribly inefficient state owned enteprise and produced extremely poor product. And it's not like global battery supply is monopolized - you can get battery packs from Panasonic, BYD or LG Chem, and it will be both cheaper and better than whatever Turkey can come up in a few year.
Roughly a third (by weight) of primary microplastic emissions to oceans comes simply from the laundry of synthetic textiles. "Primary Microplastics
in the Oceans", p. 21, https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documen...

Primary contrasts with secondary; the former is emitted directly as microplastics, the latter become microplastics by degradation of larger pieces. According to that report, "in some countries benefitting from advanced waste treatment facilities, primary microplastics releases even outweigh that of secondary microplastics." p. 5.

All of which is to say, if that plastic bag is properly disposed of (and perhaps even if not), the primary concern might be to avoid synthetic fabrics. That's increasingly difficult considering that so many brands are replacing all-cotton fabrics with blends.
> So, if any item is given to a recycling center, if the recycling center can just sell it directly to someone else, then it's much more environmentally friendly.

I think OP's analysis did cover that. You don't have to put it in the recycle mode. You can sell it yourself or choose not to get the credit so someone else can "Recycle" it by reusing it.

I do agree with you that people could still put in the trash, but I also think that's where good recycling programs matter. It shouldn't be hard to recycle an electronic. It should be as simple as recycling paper or glass, especially in an age where almost everything is electronic.
Your comment on purpose-built systems makes me want to ask a question I've been wondering about for a while:

What would be the best way to encrypt something with a lot of files in it (like, say, a home directory), assuming you wanted to access it across the network on multiple devices?

Sorry if this question's annoying, it seems like something you might get a lot.
> recycle them for parts

Consumer electronics are not generally recycled for parts at an industrial scale in the US. (maybe not anywhere?)

Most parts in devices you have are not serious candidates for part wise recycling: The cost to remove the part (much less test it) is greater than the cost to buy a new one... and it's often difficult to figure out what a part actually is.

About the only common part-reusable thing I encounter is 18650 cells from 'dead' laptop batteries. I have a whole drawer of them, scavenged from our old thinkpad batteries. Usually there is only one or two bad ones in the pack. All my flashlights are 18650 powered for this reason.
It's Amazon house brands, but for generic takeout food. In my mind, it's the culinary equivalent of frozen dinners for people willing to pay extra to have someone else stick it in a microwave for them and then drive it to their house. An EDM DJ putting his name on the box just gives me the false hope that I'll be able to get my groove on while eating the equivalent of a Tombstone.
Yes, but put that in perspective. The middle class in the US today is significantly larger and better off than in most dictatorships in the world, and there are structural reasons for that.
You can bookmark http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dont-throw-those-paging-files-away.html instead. (-:
Similar to police and prisons. They are terrible, but they avoid everyone taking the law violently into their own hands.
Ghostery seems to have fallen completely out of favor for this behavior, replaced by the EFF's Privacy Badger, actual ad-blockers, and even some browser built in functionality.

It would be interesting to know which other privacy plugins that sell data. Current recommendations seem to be pretty unanimously favoring plugins which do not, but it is always a moving target.
Good point, I was more thinking Med school / Law school / MBA / masters level study.
Anybody can "some estimate" anything. My guess is that they're using figures from the massive amount of fraudulent PTSD claims submitted to the VA.

PTSD is the easiest diagnosis to get through the VA, and thus it is rife with fraud. As a result, it is quite difficult to get anything approaching accurate or useful numbers for it.
You should use the rear axle as a guidline, not the B-pillar, it's more accurate, and it's how a 2-point reverse turn is taught to be done by driving instructors here.

Driving exams involve performing a 2-point reverse turn with the rear inside wheel not going further away than 1 meter from the kerb, no more than two stops (except for traffic/safety related reasons), no more than one engine stall, no forward movement and no contact with the kerb itself.
What about situational political preference?

Star Trek economy is all well and good and I think it is the eventual outcome, but in a specific time and place, with specific people and their baggage, the immediate best way forward may be something other than what I would prefer.

Didn't Marx say politics went through stages? Feudalism to capitalism to socialism or something? He might have had a really valid point on this. We can't jump from primitive barter economies to interstellar travel.

Besides, even though I like certain ideologies, I can't help but see the practical on the ground results of faulty, corruptible humans trying to implement them and it seldom turns out for the good from what I've observed. I have to imagine we will get there over time, perhaps with non human AI at the helm.
Not providing a paging file only disables one kind of paging.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dont-throw-those-paging-files-away.html
No, you are totally missing the point of the recycle mode: the recycle mode is there to gain control of the devices after they have been initially sold to ensure that they will not be resold or given away when someone upgrades resulting in countless instances of good gear ending in the landfill or having to be recycled at substantial cost to society by dangling a small advantage in front of the original buyer.

Recycling effectively is the same as throwing them in the trash in this case. There is no need for this. Sonos could just as easily offer an upgrade discount to people who bought their gear originally but they are scared that this would affect their ability to sell to other people so they create what is called artificial scarcity.

And that should not happen with things that are still serviceable, especially not for a company that claims to have sustainability as their motto.
I just looked at the text of the bill you mentioned and yea it does go much further.

Although, it appears to allow third party websites and apps to process sales. Although such services must keep track of food safety complaints for home kitchen and if more than three report them.

However, there are restrictions on who can deliver food. Aka only family members or employee of the operation. So that pretty much makes someone operating as such unable to use delivery serivces。

Although, i dont see anything stopping a bread baker or some who produces low risk food from using such services.

also not legal advice.
This currently missing are better LSP (Language Server Protocol)[1] (it supports only some of the LSP features), better linter[2] and static analysis, better integration with GitHub[3], and so on. More on the tooling side, I believe.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/languageserver/readm...

[2] https://github.com/jimhester/lintr

[3] https://github.com/github/semantic/issues/382
Erm the environment cost of the fast fashion as an industry is mind boggling.

plastic wrapped t-shirts is literally the least environmentally damaging thing about their business.
Interesting, this is the first time I came across this. Do you have source that factories operated by Toyota, Audi, Honda etc. in China are different in operation by design from their home countries?
And that's how it should have been.
> The default configuration is that this "motd-news" feature is enabled and that it will check https://motd.ubuntu.com for updates. That check is not done at login time, but is periodically done (every twelve hours or so) and the result is cached.

https://lwn.net/Articles/726902/

It runs twice a day, regardless of whether you ever see it.
WKWebView does as well because it too runs out-of-process. You can load WebAssembly into it.
And Pininfarina itself is owned by an Indian conglomerate!
HN commenters sometimes ask why bother with DNS-based ad blocking when one can just install a browser extension.

This is why.

There seems to be one assumption that all online advertisers and telemetry implementers make. They assume the user is not in full control of name resolution. ("Full control" as used here means relying on whitelists not third party blocklists.)
In this case, they assume motd.ubuntu.com will be resolved without any user input. "Without any user input" here means the user never looked at the domain "motd.ubuntu.com" and made a decision whether it was needed or not.
> What problem is this solving that isn't already done by other tools?

It solves the problem of having to use the bloated monstrosity that gpg has become.
My company puts hosts info into the motd (I think via the global bashrc, but it could be a cronjob/deployment utility that triggers the update). It's very useful to find out the vitals at a glance when you remote into a random box.
The recycle credit is 30% off a new Sonos product, which, as far as I can tell, is worth around $100.

The linked tweet says the recycled Sonos would have been worth $250 on the secondhand market if not recycled.

It's extremely doubtful that the recycle credit is intended to prevent a second-hand market, and far more likely accidental. It does seem like a trade-in credit would work better, but nothing prevents third parties from offering a trade-in credit above $100.
Will she never pay them off and then reap the benefit? Is happiness not something she benefits from?
> I believe Julia to be the future but so far the adoption rate in house has been low.

Why do you believe it will be the future, and what do you see as the barriers to roll-out? I ask as someone who is curious about when/whether to start investing in Julia competence
Is it possible to recycle fabric? I know this is worse than just not buying clothes all the time, but I wonder if there is better things that you can do than just throwing away garments that aren't fashionable anymore.
Why, specially, are audiophiles worthy of scorn on HN?

Show some damn respect for others interest.
> One of the costs that is often excluded, if you go the "not college" route, is the toll of physical labor on one's body

That's why, for people interested in technology, software development is an incredible blessing. If you're clever about it, and plan ahead in HS, you can easily skip college and come out making $100,000/yr within 3-4 years, even in small markets.

I've never taken a single computer science class, make well over $100,000 in a highly-challenging software development job, and no one has ever asked me about a college degree (with the exception of one job that I regretted accepted and which I quit in 8 months).

There are other similar routes available to people without college degrees. Several wealthy people my parents know started out in construction, but rapidly moved into flipping houses and real estate, and made a fortune. Their physical labor was over by their late 20s.

There are many paths that skip college and don't end up working physical labor after a decade or two. But you have to be clever and proactive (if you're on HN, I'm going to assume you're at least the former).
There is a line of thinking that college tuition should rise until the ROI on higher education drops to zero, using some twisted Pareto logic. I would consider such an outcome to be neither optimal nor efficient.
You didn't go to uni in the USA and the paper is by the St Louis Fed on USA grads.

You took your degree in a country with far lower inequality and better inward education investment, and then jumped over to work in a country that doesn't tax people enough to support USA students.

I'd imagine that is pretty good value.
Thank you for the input. It's interesting, and hey, it might be the case down the road. But my main philosophy behind my seemingly naive post is this: I don't mind what happens. I'm of the opinion that it doesn't matter what is but how you think about what is that matters.

Edit: I saw your edit, and again, thank you for your input. I would just like to note that I'll be graduating with ~12k in debt - I went to a community college first while living with my parents and transferred to a UC, and California's higher education system supports low-income, first generation households fairly well - to which I owe great gratitude to.
CEO of Shopify says long hours aren't necessary for success
1) It's a visible hand now. Adam Smith was a while ago and much has changed across economics. Enough that what you'd think are timeless truths have also become false.

2) We have a name for this hand - the federal reserve of the united states of america. If you saw the last Mr. Robot season, there's an episode where Mr. Robot says "behind every great fortune lies a great crime, this is the corporate motto of these United States". He was only slightly wrong. Behind all great fortunes since the advent of central banking lies the hand of the federal reserve.
Ivy League matters if you want to be in finance or white shoe consulting.

Everything else, you just work hard at your first job and nobody gives a shit. I went to a big SUNY school and was a mediocre student. We all made out fine.
That's actually untrue, building a consumer vehicle _profitably_ is much harder than building a nuke or other weapons.

Weapons just need to work, a consumer vehicle need to be cost effective, your 80s style Soviet radas are not going to sell at all despite relative ease of production.
It's possible if you provide the migration tool, something like Rust's `cargo fix`[1]. Apart from small obvious warnings, it can apply the migration from the Rust-2015 edition to Rust-2018 one[2]. Introducing the new R edition and a similar tool could help with this.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfix

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/edition-guide/editions/tra...
Even then, depending on your speciality the economic return from a PhD is iffy since you're losing 5+ years of industry wages and experience.
Skilled manual work. Cannot be outsourced.
This is neat. A quick browse through the code, looks like it uses DJB's chacha and polyxxx underneath.

I've been waiting for a worthy replacement for "crypt" for a very long time, and gpg, while it can be coaxed into doing that with much effort has simply become a bloated abomination at this point.

Hope this gets vetted by the crypto community and gains popularity.
Ah, nothing beats slippery slope fallacy...

"Legalization of lies". They are legal by any legal code in existence. Nothing to support here. Criminalizing lies implies totalitarianism, it's as simple as that - because either enforcement is selective, leading to its usage to suppress dissent, or it's total, implying total surveillance and massive police state.

"Fraud" - fraud is not a free speech issue because it's a form of failure to adhere to contract: when I form a contract with somebody I expect honest description of what I get in exchange for fulfilling of my contractual obligations.

"Vilification" - it's legal. Just turn on TV and watch news for five minutes.

"Threats" - ditto. In US it's called "diplomacy". In private life _credible_ threat is considered a pre-cursor of violent action, to which pre-emptive defensive response is considered appropriate.

"Child abuse pornography" - again, the issue here is not images but the violence against children which was inherent in production of child porn. The current state of the art in generating photo-realistic imagery has decoupled viewing of such images from the actual harm to the children.

"Yelling "Fire!" in crowded theatres" - here is confusion is between speech and action. Yelling "fire" in a theater has a predictable and immediate consequence of having people to panic, and is a deliberate action. Yelling "fire!" on a movie set when playing a role isn't - it will not trigger panic as everyone on the set understands that it's a part of the play. Yelling "fire" on the same set when not playing a role is the same as in a theater. The difference is intent and immediate causation of harm to others.

"abandonment of copyright" - it is de-facto abandoned by millions of people and mega-corps like Google. In fact, the very existence of Silicon Valley media and search tech depends on willful violation of copyright law AS WRITTEN. In any case, copyright is a very bad idea to start with and amounts to little more than socializing exclusion costs while collecting private gains in the content creation line of business.

"spreading of state secrets" - like complicity in mass murder of innocent people? This is one very slippery rationale for suppressing right to free speech.

"insider trading" - ditto. The crime of insider trading is basically the crime of having better information sources than others. If legal, insider trading will change trading behavior to compensate - i.e. people will be looking at what insiders are doing. As they should, but naive "investors" rely instead on the illusion of government protection.

"you name it" - you named it, and none of that holds water on closer examination.

"It's not surprising that few dare to advocate it" - yeah, because people get mobbed immediately by the fascist gang pretending to be progressive just because they express their views.
Mostly niche groups. HN isn't really the right target market.
Hopefully the US can take a page from the Germans and institute vocational schools. We look down on plumbers, electricians, etc. We constantly couch our praise of them with phrases like, "Wait until your knee gives". I have a MSCS from GA Tech. I've got about 18 years official experience. I get paid $95/hr. Plumbers? $120/hr. Electricians are about the same. We need them. Let's teach them. Maybe with apprenticeships.
If I had infinite time I would procrastinate a lot more
This is happening with education, healthcare and housing.

It's a logical mechanism of near unlimited credit creation to absorb all productivity gains for capture by rentiers.
Not an expert, but AFAIK that is how most "remote attestation" schemes work, so it seems like a viable approach.
How can we know there's no backdoor in it?
> We want a language that’s open source, with a liberal license. We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that’s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell. Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled. (Did we mention it should be as fast as C?)

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia

I've been playing around with it. As a Python/MATLAB guy, the syntax is very friendly. I can see it displacing Python in production code where you need speed and might avoid some of the heavy Python DS libraries. Overall it seems like a thoughtful combo of a lot of good numerical programming features.
When I used R in University (majored in Applied Mathematics and Statistics) I was always awestruck at how every sort of novel modeling technique from GLM, to Beta Regressions, to GARCH, is all easily accessible for free, with proper academic paper and documentation, and with a cohesive standard support.

It was really useful to be able to apply most theory I was learning to actual research datasets. This is what I miss the most since moving to Python.

What I don't miss is R's terrible packaging system and how it made collaborating with colleagues near impossible. I can't count the amount of times I had to debug dependencies on others' script just to be able to move forward with some team project.
Do You Really Need Blockchain?
Extra steps but no extra hardware sounds like a pretty good trade-off to me.
The 2010s Were an Economic Tragedy
Go to college. Get an engineering or other high paying job. Save and invest. You'll have a couple of million by early 40's, maybe late 30's if you're lucky.
This 5 minute video by Wickham was eye opening for me regarding the lispiness or R.

https://youtu.be/nERXS3ssntw
It seems you can read the source code?
Right, but if for each of the past 100 years you tracked people who put money in the stock market and held it for 45 years and averaged each of their returns you'd get a 7% YoY return after adjusting for inflation.

Some would end up lower but some would end up higher.

Nothing is guaranteed, but neither is a job.
You need some better contractors. I have multiple plumbers with same day service for $95 service calls. My garage door was installed for $400 and it took an afternoon.

Obviously prices vary.

I can make a living with a trade skill, but data shows I’m more likely to make a lot more with a college degree. You have billionaire dropouts and baristas with phds. But on average, degree nets you a lot of lifetime income.

Maybe that will change.
It's OSS?
Also relevant and interesting: http://pmonta.com/blog/2012/06/04/gnss-firehose/ (plus associated github and additional blog posts)
Yeah, unfortunately there are some really big issues nobody has a workable solution to yet:

- There is a vast income discrepancy across the world. For some people $1000 for an Ubuntu copy would be cheap and for others $10 would mean going hungry. Not to mention all the people who have no good way to pay online, such as people without a bank account. (And without a bank account, how do you even get started with cryptocurrency on a minimally powered machine?)

- Ideally the price would be as much as it's worth to each user, but there's no way to determine what each user thinks it's worth (except in a utopia of perfectly honest customers, which presupposes perfectly honest businesses).

- As much as I hate ads they are probably one of the easiest ways to get a relatively steady income stream no matter who the users are.
You don't correctly understand when the script is being run.

* https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/tree/deb...

* https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/tree/deb...
Massachusetts has the lowest rates of uninsured residents in the United States at 2.8% [0]

California is 2.6x higher at 7.8% [1], is not improving, and is a much bigger state numerically, so we're talking about ~3 million uninsured people. Prior to Obamacare, California was at a dismal 16%. And note: CA had Dem supermajority rule for years prior to Obamacare's implementation, and can easily pass the healthcare legislation it's constituents want and deserve. They, unlike Massachusetts, have chosen not to.

Massachusetts has less uninsured because they go beyond the bare minimum provided by Obamacare. California Democrats can, and should, do more.

[0] https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/08/20/uninsured-rates...

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/articl...
Because the decline of RSS stops people using RSS. I still think RSS is the best way for news and blogs. I don't want go to each website regularly to check for any update.
Encrypted LVM, or any other block-device-level method.