skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did all that and I like unit files and all the rest that you mention. But there are little things here and there that suck.
Not only is the article not 'pro-totalitarian surveillance hellscape', but ironically, placing people on lists for articles they write is.

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No, it doesn’t work the same way because investors will already take this into account when modeling the future cash streams available. They will say, “in year X we expected the business to obtain $FOO cash flow due to increased usage during a pandemic stay-home order. But this anomalous usage doesn’t mean the company “lost” any growth if it’s numbers aren’t as strong later, instead we expect it to have $BAR cash flow in normal times.”

In other words, temporarily gaining more revenue in a way that does not jeopardize the regularly predicted revenue in other times will not create a “permanent” lack of growth, under any reasonable model of discounted net present value.

The only way it could have an effect like that is if it put some type of limitation or burden that reduced capacity for business later.

For example, consider a toilet paper company instead of Netflix. Everyone rushes to buy tons of toilet paper right now, which looks like amazing revenue growth, but investors will ask if everyone is going to have the same demand later. Eventually there will be an issue between the supply chain to make that much toilet paper and the stored up stockpiles of people who don’t need to buy more. Some companies could go bust during that event, others might have cash reserves or other lines of business, and the effect on stock price will be related to these.
This is like the coding equivalent of Ernest Hemingway's "stop writing in the middle of a sentence" strategy for overcoming writer's block:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335637
But it doesn't break down all plastics, just for PET. The title should match the article according to the HN rules.
Never mind the ligature gag... the source font, Aileron, is lovely. Like a modern version of Rail Alphabet, the Helvetica-derived British Rail corporate font.

http://dotcolon.net/font/aileron

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Alphabet
I think that it decomposes the plastic back into the monomers that it is made up of. At which point it could be polymerized again to create new plastic.
This is not a joke, but I don't think you could've even tried Ubuntu Studio as a professional - seems more likely you sniffed at it as a hobbyist and couldn't deal with it.

I haven't found it to be any hassle to get a working, stable and low latency setup with Ubuntu Studio AT ALL, but then I've chosen my hardware properly: Presonus for everything. Its amazing, and very good latency - exceeding even the results I get when I put a Mac on the same chain.

56+ channels of digital audio, countless external synths and effects, literally hundreds of onboard synths and fx and processing plugins, including some stuff that you won't get elsewhere. (Plus: sources for everything in case a professional engineer in our studio gets the urge to extend functionality between sessions...)

Yes, it works out of the box very well. Far less stress than getting a recent new UAD acquisition going on our iLok'ed Mac DAW, even.

(Catalina, FFS!)

>On Mac I install software and double click it. I plug in my interface.

All you do with Ubuntu Studio is install it and maybe do a package update using standard onboard tools. After this, the system is ready to go, out of the box, without too much fuss - all the apps you need to start recording multitrack professional audio - nothing extra to install, no iLok, and literally hundreds of amazing plugins, fx, synths, and so on to explore, already installed.

Ardour is easily a productive professional DAW, like any other, and REAPER is even native on Linux now, with a very easy single binary to download and double click .. matching your user needs on MacOS, even.

You should really give it a try if you haven't done so yet. Your prejudice for the mainstream might be keeping you from having an honestly astonishing experience.
Some feedback:
- found the image on landing page confusing, expected to be able to click the items in it
- pricing 'free until we launch'. This would scare me off - if people are going to start using your platform they need some idea of pricing levels / tiered plans. No point joining up to something and using in action to find you are priced out
My parents have a neighbor whose house is literally made of plastic, aside from a few structural supports. You could spray this on his house and 10 hours later, goodbye house ( assuming it is PET plastic, I have no idea.)
The original formulation of the statement of “work hard and you’ll make it” was created in the context of 17th-19th c. Europe, where no matter how hard you worked, if you weren’t landed gentry, you simply could not make it. The idea was that any opportunity existed. The universalist position you described is a rosy reimagining of a history that never was.
Either your experience is really not so up to date, or you are being disingenuous about your own professional skills with Ubuntu Studio. Perhaps you have shitty hardware that requires vendor proprietary drivers - I don't. All my digital I/o is supported by Linux out of the box on JACK. I don't have to configure anything to get my 56+ channels of digital I/o (Presonus) working - just wire up to JACK and get on with work.

Another thing: in my configuration, REAPER runs better on Ubuntu Studio than it does on Windows - and not to forget that out of the box you have everything in a base Ubuntu Studio install, ready to go. Literally hundreds of plugins, already installed. Tons of usable DAW apps onboard, ready to go. No iLok, no downloads, no Catalina-style upgrade disasters disabling everything that was once working - oh, but we do have sources for everything, though.

Now, what you describe matches my experience with Mac recently, specifically after a Catalina upgrade in which absolutely nothing worked and that particular part of the studio was not production-ready for days of paid customer time until it all got sorted. Good thing we had REAPER on Ubuntu Studio to use for tracking while a junior engineer struggled to get the MacOS DAW back in shape ..
In the case of Ubuntu Studio, you get hundreds of apps and plugins and FX systems and other creative apps, already installed out of the box, courtesy of the distro politics you don't seem to understand .. to get a similar degree of packed install on a Windows or Mac DAW you'd have to, at least, spend a week selecting things and downloading from vendors, getting iLok working, and so on.

With Ubuntu Studio, once you've installed it on your hardware you have TONS - and I mean TONS - of things already installed and ready to go. No further work ready to get your workstation settled - just open the apps and start working. This is a feature not a bug.
The name MrEd was also an in-joke because Matthias Felleisen was notoriously anti-TV, so his students thought it fun to sneak in a TV reference.

Lots of the old subsystems had prefixed-names. MrEd and MzScheme begat DrScheme; others include SrPersist (Sister Persist) and FrTime (Father Time). We built a debugger called MzTake ("when you make a mistake, use MzTake"). My favorite is an IRC client that Robby Findler wrote called MzCommunication.
Because the recent economic stimulus didn't trickle down to the people that needed it. At least 80% of it ended up in the pockets of people that don't live from paycheck to paycheck and a after night sleep they decided to buy stocks instead of letting the value rot on their lousy bank account.
Monomers, the basic building block of plastic. You can then re-polymerize them.
we haven’t really understood quantum theory yet on a theoretical level.

Everybody seems to agree with that, yet it seems most Physicists immediately refuse to spend any further thought on it and go back to modeling what happens if you double the number of particles and then crash them at 100 TeV
You can't fight nature.

One word: herd immunity.
An obvious problem with the general populace understanding specialized knowledge is that we need a trustworthy source to explain it.

Every major news outlet has become blatently partisan in recent years (many long before). NYT eliminated their ombudsman years ago (3 years ago I think), and television media has always been even worse. Is it really that surprising when people don't trust what they hear and gravitate towards conspiracies and bullshit?

The public has become hyper allergic to expertise. The repurcussions of this is pretty scary.
The practical benefit is not in the wrapping specifically. The difference is in it being UB vs not UB; that is, overflow is a "program error" not UB, and so the language defines how implementations must handle this error.

You aren't supposed to rely on this semantic, as it's an error. If the checks get cheap enough, rustc will also check in release.
Also Will Clinger's Larceny.
That’s alarming. Sounds like an effective way to destroy every modern manufactured good.
"An enzyme decomposes 90% of plastic in 10h" is more succinct and readable than the real article title, and it's not wrong. A depolymerase is a kind of enzyme [0].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/depolymerase
From the abstract:

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is the most abundant polyester plastic, with almost 70 million tons manufactured annually worldwide for use in textiles and packaging3. The main recycling process for PET, via thermomechanical means, results in a loss of mechanical properties4. Consequently, de novo synthesis is preferred and PET waste continues to accumulate. With a high ratio of aromatic terephthalate units—which reduce chain mobility—PET is a polyester that is extremely difficult to hydrolyse5. Several PET hydrolase enzymes have been reported, but show limited productivity6,7. Here we describe an improved PET hydrolase that ultimately achieves, over 10 hours, a minimum of 90 per cent PET depolymerization into monomers, with a productivity of 16.7 grams of terephthalate per litre per hour (200 grams per kilogram of PET suspension, with an enzyme concentration of 3 milligrams per gram of PET).

Basically, plastics are polymers (many units) of repeating building block monomers (single unit). The single unit is terephthalate, a " dimethyl-ester that is a major starting material for polyester fibers and coatings." So you're breaking down the already formed polymers into the building blocks that can be redeployed.
So it's a Windows and MacOS bug then? Ie, no shadow should fall on io_uring really?

That said, nice dig figuring this out. These type of bugs can be really frustrating to round up.
How many people know what PET is? I'm not sure I would have got the reference. The original title has too much jargon.
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There's a couple points you're missing. Even if there's no dividends, as long as the shares represent legal control, they can be purchased by other companies or individual to gain control of the profits, direction, or assets of the company. This gives the shares value independent of dividends.
I'll try it out later today. Would be interesting to see actually because, completely anecdotally, GitLab seems faster than sr.ht in my daily usage.
Hate Speech vs Freedom of Speech
My point is that literature will be just fine without the participation of the 90%.

Penny Dreadful existed because Netflix wasn't there. So it will be gone - again, is this a huge loss to the civilization? I don't think there's a sadness that people aren't reading more literature of the Penny Dreadful kind.

And as I said, it's not a slippery slope: you don't need the 90% for great literature to exist.

Most people will read fewer books. And it's fine.
That's a bit different. Guy Steele's first Scheme compiler was called RABBIT (it ran fast). The Yale T project created the Orbit compiler. This set off a *bit trend, including Gambit and also Will Clinger's Twobit.
This. Always see so many "I've been doing X lately and I'm so productive!"

How long you been doing it?

"Oh, about 2 weeks"

I'm guilty of the same thing. We probably all are. But it makes me all this stuff with a sceptical eye.
There were plenty of n95 masks sold for industrial use. Some of those were the plain dust mask style masks. Just search Home Depot. Are you saying that those will be more dangerous than no mask? Also it is a bad argument to argue that people will behave more foolishly with protection therefore they should not have protection. Just educate people.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cordova-N95-Approved-Valved-Part...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-N95-Professional-Multi...

The two stories below are in opposition to the hypothesis that n95 protects others rather than the wearer.
Also this:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coro...

And

https://apple.news/AiNlYrpSfTq-cJVSXNB8vJQ
It does not multiply like you expect in a movie. So the amount it can decompose is limited by quantity of the enzyme.
I'm glad that works for you, but the implication underneath is that no one "needs" to use swear words, and that they somehow make you a less interesting person. Again, glad that works for you, but everyone's needs differ, and making subtextual judgments about people's lack of ability to be creative without swearing is a little below the belt.

Personally I tend to mainly swear as an exclamation, and try not to use them when describing things or especially people. I don't think that's specific to swear words, though... I prefer not to trash talk people using any kind of language, though I'm certainly not perfect and I do it more often than I'd like.
Clickbait for software engineers.
How and Why to Incorporate AI into Web Development
https://sci-hub.tw/downloads-ii/2020-04-09/c8/10.1038@s41586...
That includes people who think they can control what others decide.
Which projects that you follow moved from GitHub to Gitlab? None of the ones I keep an eye on have moved.

I don't really see the point. GitHub has only improved since they were acquired.
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the article only says hydrolase. which means using water to break bonds. breaking bonds in plastic gives you smaller plastic.
I got this reply on reddit (on a specific question on scaling up the manufacturing of the Oxford vaccine):

Oxford is making an "adenovirus vector vaccine" Effectively they are using a adenovirus with some DNA inside it that will make the spike protein of the coronavirus which the immune system will then attack. No eggs involved.

The egg-based vaccines we have work by taking a human virus, letting it evolve in chicken embryos until it is more adapted to chickens and poorly adapted to humans, and then using that weakened virus as the starting point to make a vaccine.

Interesting overview of covid-vaccines here

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-...

...

But I guess my question remains: Can we scale up the manufacturing, packaging and distribution using existing (private) infra, or do we need do build this stuff from scratch?
> they're just dumping their cheese now at extreme discounts, and are focusing more on their webshop

How about a link to the web store? I'd buy some.
I presume you refuse to play tennis, then, solo calcio.
So? It's not for all plastics, there are so many different kinds and they're all different! This is basically only used in food containers, not products like your TV or phone case.

Also, that's a false argument. We shouldn't dumb things down to incorrectness just so people understand them. It's not hard to look up 'PET plastic', and I see enough complex article titles on HN that I don't think that applicable to our community.
Nice anecdotes! Here’s some more. Everyone I know who’s “made it”, top 10% came from poor or lower-middle class beginnings.

Probably more a factor of where you came from, who you know, etc.
90% PET plastic maybe. It seems PET is not the most common plastic.
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We use the above mentioned services and I don't agree with the assessment as we are cloud native and use lambda heavily and we think its an amazing service to use to move faster!
Do you think a typical middle class American would rather be living in the world as it was 40 years ago though? Or today's world, full of technology and infrastructure that was funded by the rich?
I've been using the 4K 43" Viewsonic VX-4380 for several years; it's been great. It uses flicker-free backlighting unlike the Dell 43". Unfortunately it appears COVID-19 has disrupted the supply chain for these at the moment. Keep in mind that many 43" 4K displays use TV-like BGR subpixel layout instead of RGB, so subpixel antialiasing for font rendering in general won't work unless you either switch your OS to BGR or disable it. (Windows and Ubuntu/Gnome, but not Mac OS, have a way to set BGR layout. But all three let you disable subpixel AA.) I always disable subpixel AA anyway because my eyes can see the color fringe when it's enabled and I don't like. Another poster said you can use a TV instead but I don't recommend this. Using a TV over HDMI can lead to color quality issues unless you are certain your model of TV won't be affected. (Many TVs use a compressed color signal because it's good enough for watching TV and movies but certainly not good enough for rendering detailed artwork). And TVs can have overscan issues (edges of the screen image missing), image ghosting issues, etc. A TV works OK for fullscreen gaming or for a powerpoint but isn't necessarily the greatest as a general purpose monitor.
Gonna replace the screenshot with a video. I'm a little overwhelmed by the attention right now haha.

Fair. We'll update the pricing section with some numbers tomorrow.
If your argument is that new things are worth keeping, then it applies just as well to reading blogs instead of books. Or watching TV, which seems to be going away. Should we fight for the preservation of the TV culture?

My point was that great literature doesn't need involvement of the masses (unlike democracy).
Like we have for all the other coronaviruses that we know as (a big part of) common cold?
I remember reading that they also ran the benchmark in Germany and got similar results when first reading about this here on hn.

Anyway, it suffice to use gitlab, github, bitbucket and sourcehub for a few seconds to notice the slowness of the three first sites compared to the last one.

We didn't really need the numbers to be convinced but I hope they will produce some pressure to be faster.
You know it's also the name of a sporting good, right? There's this game called tennis. Quite popular, can be fun to play and to watch. You should check it out.
While Linus is a really good programmer, Linux is what it is only because he merged the contributions of many other good programmers..
Why did these programmers contributed to Linux?
Because Linus came at the right time, with the right motivation.
Even if you're a better programmer, the question is why would the other programmers contribute to your OS instead of Linux, *BSD, SeL4/Genode, Haiku?
I'm a software developer/consultant.

A good client was asking if I could do something for a cheaper rate. I explained that neither one of us was a "commodity engineer" [we both have 3 decades of experience]. And that there would be some jobs that just didn't make sense for us to do economically speaking. They are still a great client.
"Polyethylene" might be a good compromise, I believe it's in more common usage outside of the US and would still be fairly understandable (and searchable) to those within it.
What are good Kafka alternatives? There got to be some Go written one somewhere ;)
Haha sorry to confuse you. We'll work on the keywords.
I'm not understanding what about this is patentable? Greenhouse as a geodesic dome surely isn't (and isn't a particularly important design detail anyway). The trellises just look like standard hydroponics to me - is there something novel about their design that I'm missing?

This doesn't seem any different from growing <arbitrary crop> in a greenhouse using hydroponics and automated climate controls. Not novel, just not previously economically viable (as far as I know).

Is it the fact that the trellises rotate?
What are these numbers actually taken from? I'm betting the vast majority of this is counting the sale of a home or a one-time windfall (e.g. small inheritance, gambling winnings) as income for "a year", but I'm not going to buy the book just to see.
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DynamoDB is fine as long as it fits your use case.

The trouble is that without a time machine, it's very tough to realize that your use case isn't the one DynamoDB is good at. The docs and Best Practices certainly suggest that anything is possible.

Do you need God Tier Scale (and understand enough about DDB to achieve it (and have the $$$))? DynamoDB is awesome! Otherwise... maybe consider a few other options...
I didn't have any trouble understanding it, but I guess we'll just dumb it down into the factually wrong message...
Don't make the same mistake that I did! Save your results and share them with the class. :)
I suspect the global illumination is running at a lower refresh rate than the rest of the scene for performance. I've seen other Godot demos that don't have this jerkiness.
You guys are showing a callous disregard for reality. Read about all the societies that have succumb to tyranny, it has happened many times. America is no special exception, and it's making all the same mistakes. Keep singing Kumbayah and see where it gets you.
They have to sell something only if the Fed don't give them money (and dilute the share of the lower 90% as a side effect).
Hmm.
1) their VPN solution is overly expensive
2) Mongodb document database similar
3) Lambda I want to use but other than the sns/sqs connected tool I agree as an api endpoint google's offering is better
4) Cognito horrible docs...
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Depends what you mean by "embedded," but almost every set-top box and TV has a 32 bit ARM SOC. These run software under active development: web browsers, Netflix, etc.
Just because you believe the government won't let the airlines go away doesn't ensure that the bonds are safe. Sometimes keeping a company in business involves a restructuring such that those bonds won't pay out as you're expecting.
Ok, we've debunked the title above.
> cash: eaten by inflation.

americans haven't had real inflation since the military backed greenback. it will be very interesting to see how much that outdated system can hold after being stretched so much by the feds (fed and federal govt).
The productivity argument can be had about using an IDE vs. not using any at all. But it doesn't really work to explain how the IDEs get larger and slower while not offering commensurate gains in productivity (and arguably, being slower creates a loss in productivity).
Enzymes are proteins. They're applied to powderized plastic in a bio-reactor. It's unlikely that they'd be able significantly attack bulk plastics before they themselves get broken down.
Was it 3-D printed?

I was going to say that it probably isn't PET, but a bit of Googling quickly turns up articles about people making houses out of recycled plastic. If that's what it is, it could well be PET.
Ah yes, those have also made their way onto kitchen countertops (e.g. the NutriChef Oil Press), but I'd agree that they'd be in the "advanced machinery" category.

Most small batch chocolate makers don't bother with pressing their own cocoa butter because of the scale required to make it worth it. There's only so much cocoa butter you can press from beans, and then you need to figure out what to do with the remaining cocoa solids. (As an exception, Goodnow Farms is one that did invest in one for, I think, $50000; they sell the cocoa solids to restaurant chefs.) As a result, most of this is still in the industrial realm, even if the tech itself isn't particularly new (it hasn't changed much beyond what's in the linked video).
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