skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a moment of reckoning for Wayfair, which has been on such a hiring blitz over the past several years that its employees often wait in line for the escalators up to its offices in the Copley Place mall. The company, which expanded into a second office building last summer, now employs 17,000 people worldwide selling furniture and home decor.

> Yet Wayfair has still failed to turn a profit. Its executives have long argued that despite a long track record of losses, the company has been in growth mode, investing heavily in its supply chain infrastructure and European expansion efforts. More often than not, its board members and leadership team will point to Amazon as their model, which for years funneled its revenues back into growth and failed to turn a profit.

That model worked for Amazon because there was no Amazon to compete with. Why anyone would want to invest in a profitless Amazon competitor is beyond me. The effort seems like a cargo cult.
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AFAIK no C++ does not have checked exceptions like Java does. There's no static check enforcing that a caller needs to handle (or also declare throwing) an Exception declared to be thrown by the called method.
So how are you going to ‘simply’ intercept their resolver requests from multiple locations distributed globally? Not to say it isn’t an issue but it is quite far in the theoretical realm.
You have to go off-hours. It's really nice late night on a weekday.

That said -- that's why it needs answering. It's a walking path that's proven incredibly popular among both New Yorkers and tourists.
I've started recycling at least 1 extra use out of everything, but I'm concerned this will not be sustainable.

Boxes I stack in my (large) garage. One day I will use these boxes again. Plastic Tupperware from various sources, cleaned and used for holding tools and stuff.

I can't figure out a good use for milk jugs.

Is this an issue of "sellers" not meeting "buyers"? I imagine milk companies could reuse this.
> Why does every little thing need to come packaged in its own cocoon of plastic or paper?

It started as security. Packaging used to be way simpler. First, packaging got stronger on medicines and food to prevent tampering, mostly after the incident when someone put cyanide in Tylenol. It grew from there - anti-tempering, anti-theft, protection for rough handling during shipping, as shipping speeds increased. The reasons kept growing, and the packaging keeps growing.

I fully agree that we can cut back. But like most aspects of society, you need to first understand the drivers that got us where we are, and then attack the problem by discussing whether our current solutions are truly the right answer to those problems.
FWIW: you have to be affiliated with an academic institution to get access to most full texts on Hathi. However, one such academic institution is the Library of Congress. I would think anyone reading Hacker News in the US would qualify as a researcher at the Library of Congress; the catch (admittedly a big one) is that you have to present yourself in person to get a library card ("reader registration card" in LoC parlance) -- meaning that unless you live in the immediate DC area you have to travel there. And they're only valid for two years.

Link to how to get a library card at the LoC:

https://www.loc.gov/rr/readerregistration.html
heres the same thing on desmos, my favorite free graphing calculator https://www.desmos.com/calculator/lvespenn07
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On top of that most of the recycling is actually downcycling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downcycling
FYI, there is also a plan for something high-line like
in the area of Kings Cross to Camden in London, also on disused elevated railway tracks.

It seems to be about half as long as the NYC High line though.

https://www.camdenhighline.com/
Awesome. This is something I like about MacOS, and a feature that that Unity had before Canonical switched to Gnome, that I wish was adopted by more desktop environments.
I guess there are at least two ways to understand an inductor:

1. if you disconnect it from power, you'll get a huge voltage spike
2. V = -L (d/dt) I

1. seems like a practical explanation. 2. seems like a theoretical explanation. But an expert can play with both, and (under the assumption of first-order linear ODEs for this primitive components, which is an assumption you can only make after the fact, so... bare with me for the following BS statement), they are both equivalent. (That is, I can't think of another relationship that achieves 1.

Your idea of a "trick" has mostly to do with 1, I think. And it's an essential part of understanding an inductor, and it's also most likely how humans discovered inductors.
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That's a bit ahistorical. The "September that never ended"[0] (aka "Eternal September") was in 1993, the Canter and Siegel Usenet spam[1] was sent the following April. The DejaNews acquisition[2] wan't until 2001.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups
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What people aren't taught is good financial sense and what to prioritize in life. We can't pretend that every child has educated family members to teach them this. And ignoring this means perpetuating a cycle of pain and suffering because the uneducated poor have kids too, and they'll be the ones teaching them how to live their lives. There were no classes that could've prepared me to invest into appreciating asset X instead of depreciating asset Y, which is a trap people fall into far too often to just ignore as a fact of life. There's nothing in the typical school curriculum that could ever teach some people that money should be prioritized toward important needs (housing, good food, etc.) instead of frivolous wants. Especially considering that entire industries are based around trying to part these people from their money year after year. Horrible from an environmental standpoint too.

Not saying you're wrong btw, just throwing something out there.
There seems to be something like this in play, there are discussions where I can't downvote, but I've never dig up to check why
Well, maybe. I would not be willing to claim it without showing that some practical workload was bound by memory throughput.
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Highly recommended video by Iquilez, in a similar vein:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNR4n0i2ZlM

Watching the guy hack away at graphics is super enjoyable
I feel like an in-between/better option than bootstrapping or VC investment is going for an accelerator or incubator. You get the all important human connections, a bit of elbow room for money and a nice way to interact with other fellow founders.

It still is a bit of stretch to get into an accelerator especially if you are before product market fit or if the product is in an very "unsexy" space (like supply chain).
> I'm not so certain the advantages are entirely obvious any more.

What was it about Mastodon and Diaspora that caused you to reconsider the benefits of decentralized networks? Genuinely curious as I haven’t used either very much.
A Klingon nudge, then.
Glad that this topic is important to you, too! I should be able to follow up on your comment soon. Because the article is long, I want to make sure I have time to give it a thorough read.
Strictly, I'd agree it is better to preload all content for the article. Sadly, that shouldn't include pictures there just for space. Would be a neat audit to do daily. How many images downloaded contributed to your stories or day?
With a reciprocal flare :-)
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Mako was a great learning experience for me. It is wonderful to hear that you got something out of it, too!
The snark isn't helping him as far as I'm concerned. I've filed a couple dozen FOIA requests and I would never write anything like he did. I would consider FOIA requests to be similar because the agency you're requesting information from typically doesn't want to give it up.

Ruben would do well to cut the snark and figure out which regulator he needs to contact. I've had quite a few FOIA requests not get anywhere until I file an appeal. I don't think appeals exist in the GDPR, so contacting a regulator is the next best thing. Ruben has kept reasonable documentation so hopefully it'll be easy for a regulator to send some inquiries to Facebook that could get the request fulfilled.
>The only way

Way to start with a false premise. The main way on HN is efforts, both by mods and by users, to buoy up good content, and push down bad content.

>[is to] remove some of the anonymity

Not even close. Preventing cheap creation of new identities isn't inherently tied to identification of users; there already deployed alternatives.

One example, TeamSpeak uses proof of work - a computational process that's expensive to perform and cheap to verify - to protect identity creation. Works wonders, and allows anonymity just fine.

At any rate, the thrust of my argument is different, and cuts deeper into your idea:

any automated process, any guaranteed outcome, will be subverted and put to bad ends. To grow & maintain a good community you need active management by intelligent agents (ordinarily, people). And not just by selected mods - it helps when typical user is well aware what is up and able to fend for himself.
That is part of it for sure (recently a prankster was licking ice cream tubs at a grocery store, so it’s still a concern) and there was some copying of Japanese packaging aesthetic to mimic or to convey the idea of premium product, high class product.
I don't know, but it seems to be a mostly us problem. Many European countries are quite a bit better when it comes to recycling.

The most important thing is to separate the different materials as early as possible. Aluminum, paper, cardboard, PET and other plastic bottles and glass has to be separated by the consumer.

Waste that can't be recycled can still be burned to gain energy and reduce the impact and space it uses. Landfills are much worse and probably cost more over the long run anyway.
Where is 8? I flipped the sample like 100+ times. Didn't encounter a single #8. I guess Haskell bytes back sometimes.
Well, if one would go by Betteridge’s law of headlines, then... ;-)
But you’d think containerization would’ve reduced packaging requirements a bit.

Put everything in your container and the container keeps it secure until it’s at its destination.
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We found a source for local milk that comes in glass bottles that are then returned for a refund.

For plastic milk jugs:
— fill with water, use as weights
— make compost tea in them for your garden
— use them as plant watering cans
— rather than buying packaged drinks, reuse with powdered form
— store cold coffee for later / iced tea?

Just a few things off the top of my head - agree, they start to pile up and become a problem, which is why our best option is to eliminate them.
I always try to squash as much of the complexity as I can with some well tested tools or libraries.
In this case I'd use imagemagick's convert to resize and convert any of the possible file formats to the type of image I need. Solves a lot of points on this list.
For the download part, curl would also solve a few points (ssl, redirects).
Of course it depends if you're writing this for a SaaS product, a desktop or mobile Application.
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Cut the top off milk jugs leaving the handle and you have a decent container for screws or other odds and ends. Also works as a scoop.
The word you're looking for is "dialect".
Yeah, if you own a house, you pay for maintenance. If you rent, your rent pays the landlord for his cost of maintenance, and if you're lucky, the landlord will actually do some. You pay either way.
It's not just Wayfair - if and when there is a recession there's going to be a complete annihilation of most of these overvalued, unprofitable companies. Most of this behavior is only possible because of dirt cheap money.
I feel like sentiment around soundcloud is a little mixed these days, but I'm glad to see that they're still financially viable enough to attract capital. Would be pretty bummed to lose all my playlists and likes if they went under.
As an academic library user, it would be especially helpful if one could read obscure/old titles stored offsite in digital form; currently one has to have it shipped to campus, pick it up, and maybe realize it doesn’t actually contain the needed info — a waste of energy on multiple parties.
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The place I worked at before my current employer had a bizarre attitude to remote work. Our manager was strongly skeptical of work from home, but half of our team was distributed in branch offices which were effectively remote work! I worked in one of these satellite offices, so I had all of the collaboration difficulties and none of the upsides (still had to come in. To an open plan office.)

After a bunch of people left I got promoted to lead developer, but I was the only one left in the branch office. The rest of my team was concentrated in HQ a couple hours' drive away. The manager and software architect (his right-hand man) still micromanaged technical decisions. I couldn't get ahold of them for weeks at a time as they were so overbooked, but my team members could occasionally corner them for hallway conversations. So I'd get asked something, have to make a best guess judgement since I couldn't ask them, someone else would corner them and they'd tell them the opposite of what I decided. But I wouldn't find out about this until we went to integrate something and found the two halves had been implemented to different directions.
Out of curiosity - actix seems to be very performant compared to actor frameworks implemented in other languages - would it be a good fit to implement a database using it?
For example mapping worker pool and workers to actors?
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Desmos is the best thing ever! I'm certain I would not have passed Calc without it. I always struggled with math and put it off till the last year of grad school (funny enough, you can get into grad school for CS without it).

I only ended up doing calc because with it work could pay me ~$20k more.
The FCC (like everyone else) claims to measure worse case scenario only. The top article talks about the FCC measuring at 5 mm distance rather than against the head. There is more distance from reality [pun mine] in the iphone 4 manual.

"...to be sure that human exposure to RF energy does not exceed the FCC, IC, and European Union guidelines [...] keep iPhone at least 15 mm (5/8 inch) away from the body, and only use carrying cases , belt clips, or holders that do not have metal parts and that maintain at least 15 mm (5/8″) separation between iPhone and the body."

This laptop is amazingly slow but I'm sure you could find the iphone manuals online, the fcc (and other) exposure and measurement documentation, perhaps the actual measurement lab report mentioned in the article and lots of RF exposure research.

If you want to know if your brain is getting fried that is. If you don't want to know or if searching is to challenging it is probably to late already :P
I do like the simplicity of the design, and the filters by type of company.

But I also feel that we're at maximum capacity for aggregated job boards. We see a new one posted on here every week. So even though I like this better than many of the others I've seen, the job board market has exploded to the point of absurdity, so I'm not sure what to make of them all.
I find it funny how amazon will ship in a box or padded envelope, while random Chinese sellers on AliExpress will use something slightly thicker than cellophane.
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The writing and interactive examples are really amazing. Would deffo read the entire series of articles. Gonna bookmark it.
This mirrors my experience even beyond the hobby stage. I was quite a bit luckier because I had access to the internet and various dev boards as a kid and could work with them as a low level programmer but trying to move into schematic and PCB design was downright impossible. I couldn't wrap my head around any of the online resources and like you stuck to programming.

Fast forward to my 20s when I could afford to take a short sabbatical to apprentice for a practicing electrical engineer (self-taught as well). Within four months I went from basic breadboarding and soldering skills to designing high speed digital PCBs from start to finish and began contracting as an EE immediately. There was a little math but mostly just a bunch of specialized calculators for impedance matching high speed traces, capacitance, and length matching high speed buses.

I went back to software for the pay but when I designed a small control board last year, the whole exercise from inception to sending off to fab and assembly took four days for an 8 layer PCB. Between all the online parts databases (with footprints and schematic components!), reference and open source designs, and software like Altium and TopoR, electrical engineering has never been easier and involved so little actual theory taught in schools.

It hurts my heart that I haven't yet found a resource that just dumps people into the deep end with a proper focus on the engineering instead of the theory.
Do you have any recommended reading on the 'history of packaging'? That sounds really interesting.
Yes, sure, but that's like saying that country clubs are diverse because members have different hobbies. If they really want to, anyone could join, it's just easier for some than for others.

My point is that it's a diversity of opinions (maybe; they tend to be closer together on the important things, too, demographics predict politics fairly well after all) and of hobbies or interests, but not of backgrounds, i.e. where the rubber meets the road. I understand that people usually do not mean "the conservative child of lawyer A and the progressive child of investment banker B chat about their shared interests with the apolitical child of entrepreneur C", but "the child of a lawyer, the child of an office worker chat with the child of a day laborer".

Again, I don't mind it not being or having been like that, I don't see any intrinsic value in diversity by itself. Calling it diverse just sounds like a misrepresentation of what it was.
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Irreproducibility is not a sign of failure, but an inspiration for fresh ideas
but if the underlying primitives in the problem are vectors/matrices, then it seems like you are reinventing the wheel in a very substandard way that doesn't aid in understanding in any way and results in something that isn't beautiful, isn't high performance, and is confusing for someone to read

You mean like...both of the languages you listed?

There's an obviously superior, faster, simpler language when working with vectors (APL), but people are obsessed with new languages.

If you really think it can be done in Python better than in Haskell, why not demo it in Python? You'll get internet points, and if you're right, you'll have something to show for it.
How would GPL prevent anyone from being sued in a way that a permissive license wouldn't?
Cycloid gears are used in roots-style superchargers. I learned about the shape back in college when I thought I was going to build one from scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots-type_supercharger
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The title is misleading because the submitted link is to the third section of the review. A link to the full review was submitted last Friday [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266386
It should be scary and the Fortnite vulnerability is a perfect example.
I just checked the 3, your library was really really easy and friendly to understand for newcomers than the others 2. Of course, the newcomer should learn well the core, but the question is if they feel the necessity when the API is abstracted way more friendly than others ¿?.
dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled = true is the about:config flag
Nice but, completely off-topic, how is it possible that with uBlock Origin and behind Pi-Hole I get two banners on the right? This is the first place that I remember where it happens!
> Waste that can't be recycled can still be burned to gain energy and reduce the impact and space it uses. Landfills are much worse and probably cost more over the long run anyway.

Can you explain / expand on this? From my point of view, landfills are like making oil, whereas burning trash is like burning oil.
C++ has a concept of "friend" classes which help a little in explicitly marking some of those relationships.
This is ridiculous. I have never even heard of NeoTokyo, but this soundtrack just blows me away. Thanks, man. I love stumbling upon completely random recommendations like this.
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Is a coffee shop really the modern version -- in context?

I think the whole relevance of the "coffee house" in the Enlightenment was that it was a space where different people were talking to each other and sharing ideas.

Does that happen in coffee shops anymore? Do strangers talk about more than pleasantries, if that?
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They never said that and in fact it is still not a requirement. You can use the same control click to bypass it that you always could.