skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have strong feeling that in the coming decades we will see strong growth in the re-usable / repairable product market.

It's high time we got more creative in the products we mass produce, we've grown complacent, something as simple as the plastic bag or the plastic straw have caused such environmental destruction yet can actually be phased out with behavioural modifications.

I would also argue that reusability and repairability is a part of the equation of 'long-term economic mass production', at least for day-to-day necessities where sterilisation isn't paramount.

Seriously, just looking at what I have lying around at home, even something as mundane and as simple as a broom seems to have special plastic elements (plastic hook on the top to hang on a wall, plastic lining in on the pole).

There's a lot of unnecessary un-recyclable waste out there and while banning Single-Use plastics is a great step in the right direction, we need a paradigm shift in how we think about the objects we construct.
I believe the point of the article's method is that it allows you to document your script with code comments, and then reuse the same text for help output
For me, racism is about the intent. Sometime, those are words, but most times they aren't about words.

So it depends.
Glad you owned up and shit or whatever. I didn't come in here to knock on Wiki, but, they just get too much money, despite times moving forward and all. Throw some money on the Internet Archive; they always need more drives for their servers. They should set up a duplicate rack, of drives, that would be the project I'd donate to. 2x Internet Archive should be the norm. Utah? Midwest? It'd be good to have a 100%, 200% as such, setup of the Internet Archive. All funded of course. Hawaii would be an option, I doubt the humidity and shit would be the best though. Probably power costs too. A doublet of Internet Archive in Utah or whereever would be fun. Or even in Europe. Africa could be a candidate too.
I suspect Amazon is not in hot water for AWS, there are major competing platforms and AFAIK no sketchy anti-competitive behaviour there. I'd have to guess its for their "market" business.

They've been using pricing data from third parties and their own in house brands to take business from those third parties. There is also rampant illegitimate reprinting of independent book publishers.
>Paper bags do have a larger carbon footprint, but I assume that parent is talking about plastic waste ending up in the oceans

Most of the plastic in the oceans isn't coming from consumer waste[1]. Furthermore, most ocean pollution comes from a few developing countries[2]. Therefore a ban single-use plastics for consumers in developed countries will have little or zero impact on ocean pollution.

[1] "Ocean-based plastic originates mainly from the fishing industry, nautical activities and aquaculture" https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/marine-plastics

[2] https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
I totally get what you mean, but there's the thing where most people know how to use the most common platforms, and youtube is probably among the top, so it's the first thing people try. Go tell your grandma her next service is going to be on Twitch and she'll think you're planning to attend it high.

This does not invalidate your questions, but still it's something to be considered.
Why don't you make it illegal? Presumably because you don't have the political clout to do so. I would bet the EU didn't either (e.g. actions by EU member states like the UK seem to be heavily in favour of surveillance-capitalism, so they would presumably veto any outright ban).

It would also be an incredibly restrictive thing to do. Consider copyright laws as an analogy: they are "all rights reserved", making it illegal to copy, distribute, perform, etc. a copyrighted work by default. That is very different to an outright ban on copying, distributing, performing, etc. a copyrighted work (it would be illegal to show movies in theaters, or to publish books!).

Interestingly, GDPR doesn't allow incentives to be given in exchange for consent. People can incentive publishers to distribute copies of copyrighted books, by providing money (i.e. buying the books). Surveillance networks cannot pay users to give up their personal data. This is a nice asymmetry of GDPR, in the public's favour.
I was in that situation last year (in UK). There was about 2 months we could have claimed for help as I was out of work. I had secured a job though, and we had some (small) savings, so it was going to be messy.

There's lots we could have spent the money on, but we didn't need it - we've had to go without meals before, this wasn't that.

I think one can easily justify taking the money when you don't need it. Possibly the most moral action would have been to take it and help people who couldn't get the help and really needed.

We've had no problem taking charity, still most of the kids clothes are hand-me-downs from other families; and I don't see income support as charity per se, and we take income support of other types not related to being jobless.

The "you've paid in" argument would probably not be on our side either.

Maybe that fleshes things out anecdotally.
The "Silicon Valley Tech Media Diversity Report Card" listed in the article has a column for "Black %" as its only diversity metric.
Agree strongly with this sentiment. I always found it very clunky and hard to use. We migrated to Discord for our recently remote office. So much better. Chat is better. Voice rooms are great. Visibility is great. Granted, we are a small shop, so unclear how it will scale, but big step up so far.
I think that's the same problem we can have on Glassdoor or in the HN's "Who is hiring" page - we have to trust the community and if anything raises an eyebrown, you can report it.

But at least, like in these other apps, you can only leave a comment on GitHub if you're signed-in
You can't prove a god is not real. You can though, prove that the Bible is not 100% historical fact as is claimed by a lot of mainstream religions.

So I would argue that you can prove a religion is false/incorrect by comparing the claims of it's holy book to the available historical records. If they don't match, I think we can agree that at least one set is false.
Cool! If the OP or anyone wants to try this across all US caselaw (as opposed to just Supreme Court) we recently released a data set of citation data at the Caselaw Access Project:

https://case.law/download/citation_graph/

I used that data to build a visualization of how often states cite each other, for example:

https://case.law/exhibits/cite-grid
I don't think gp was claiming that all religious beliefs are false and all religious videos should be removed under this standard; or at least that's not the claim I'm making. I'm saying many religious traditions explicitly promote falsehoods as facts, and videos that espouse those teachings should be removed, if we follow this standard.
> That said, what's there to pay to be a member? Why not just stay in there like everyone else?

I don't know how much it costs, but there's also the signaling part of being in it (we are implicitly signaling support by being part of the group). That being said, leaving in the middle of the pandemic seems like an odd choice.
Really appreciate the thoughtful response.

> Obviously: medical stuff. The needs of trans women and cis women are not aligned when issues of sexual health come up. Trans women don't have uteruses, for example, and healthcare for trans women differs greatly from assigned-female-at-birth people. Here, the interests of trans women, AFAB women, trans men and AMAB men are all somewhat unique. Note further that in this situation men (specifically trans-men) and AFAB women can have significant overlaps in needs.

That makes sense.

> Do you mean more in social spaces, where women as a group are interacting as women and not as females? Because as a society we don't often differentiate between female and women's spaces, and in general we seem to apply the label "female" to many things that are really "women's".

> Offhand, I can't think of many social spaces where women interact as females, and not just as women. Perhaps spaces devoted to motherhood? As for the women's spaces, those being trans exclusionary is, imo questionable in most cases

A nursing mother's room does seems like it would be fairly uncontroversial. But if a majority of females would prefer to have a female only space for something else (bathroom, gym, etc.) to what extent are they obligated to accommodate trans women in including them? How do we arbitrate between those interests?

> Although I did see a trans person I know recently point out that they are able to relate with trans women's experiences often more deeply than with cis women's, so the reverse would also likely be true.

Interesting. Could it be that having spaces specifically for trans-* people might be more beneficial for social harmony and individual comfort than turning "female" spaces into "women's" spaces?

> I agree the terminology here is weird. But implicit in your framing is that someone is assigned a gender based on their sex. One is not assigned "man/woman" at all. Or, insofar as a trans woman is AMAB, they were also assigned woman at birth (but this assignment is mental), that's why they chose to transition their appearance, to better align with their gender.

I guess it depends upon who is doing the "assigning" here. My assumption is that "society" is the assigner. So far as I understand, biological sex relates to the role one is able to perform in the reproductive process, and cannot be assigned at all. Gender, being the social construct, would be something that is determined by societal norms. When assigned at birth, would be driven by the biological sex of the child.
This measure is more of a symbol than an effective way to reduce carbon emissions. Attacking symbols is a always nice, but isn't it a little bit late for that? I can't wait the day where EU will try for real to follow Paris agreement.
This not only looks to have a good overview of difficulties in EAs and work going on, but also looks to offer an interesting perspective on the fields daily work.
It's under copyrightish in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Copyright_s...
> You are forgetting to price in some minor features that Aurora provides

That's true and fair, although in both directions; skimming the docs it looks like aurora prices include 2 replicas? But backups aren't free (to store), bandwidth isn't free, and iops aren't free. Also, my difficulty in figuring out a fair pricing comparison highlights another point: a dedicated server has a fixed price. Other than more servers for more instances/replicas, you're never going to pay more, and even then it's a simple "adding another replica will increase our costs to X*(N+1) per month", not a "scaling out will add X to our costs, but if we use more I/O than expected we'll add Y to our costs, and exporting data will cost Z in bandwidth".
I can remember my friend patiently explaining to me that House Harkonnen didn’t actually have invincible troops just because the guy said “our invincible Harkonnen troops” in a cutscene. I was all like “we should play as those guys!”
> It's pretty backed up by evidence (and honestly attending a Trump ralley), that the average voter of Trump is less educated, much more prone to misinformation, and simply holds a ton of trivially wrong beliefs about the state of the world.

This is just as true of your "average" Democrat. The "average" person is woefully misinformed about most things. It's probably safe to say that nearly everyone, myself and the majority of the HN crowd included, is misinformed about many things that aren't critical to our day to day life.
That view of Thiel is common but also very wrong. Decentralisation is just as useful of a tool in the hand of dictatorships as centralising technologies, and funnily enough China has actually extended power over its population using both.

it's no accident that Xi himself is heavily pushing for China to dominate the blockchain space[1]. On the currency level it gives China autonomy and freedom from the dollar, which like the Pedro, is a pretty trivial case how dictators can use decentralisation, by avoiding international ties and creating completely sovereign spaces. (the same way individual bad actors can use crypto for harmful activity).

The second one is in the radical transparency that blockchain offers by having a complete history of every transaction, undeletable out in the open. For a dictatorship, that's the best thing ever. It's a complete inversion of traditional privacy, where one connection between user and wallet can expose everyone.

In the political space this is obviously true too. Since the 80s China has radically decentralised. By some measures the case can be made it's the most decentralised country on the planet. But it's no less authoritarian. Centralized power is strong but also accountable and blind to detail. Decentralised power is haptic, it gets into every little corner, and it doesn't even require a specific actor.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/china-looks-to-become-blockc...
Because it's not clear why the channel was taken down in the first place. I don't have any insider information in that regard. I don't have access to the system that would tell me the reason.

It's possible (however unlikely) that there was a justified reason for the take down. Has anybody heard from the original creator?
When did it stop? I saw it this morning from something that I had started writing last week.
We don’t want to convince each other, we want to destroy each other.
Does this also apply to medical devices? Some are disposable (like syringes) for sanitization reasons.
If anything I strongly prefer it
Yeezy as well
It's a delicious breakfast but, served for dinner.

I love the mechanics of it. Most of what you describe is the result of having waited ages before implementing it, and the resulting prolonged migration period, exacerbated by the relatively decent (but not perfect) backward compatibility with pre-modules code.

Prior art isn't perfect either: I'm happy somebody tried something different from centralized naming systems or almost-but-not-quite federated artifact collections (such as the various maven repos). There is already a global system to get hold to unique names: the domain name system. For better or worse, that's a solved problem, let's not create new naming arbiters
So no, but really yes. It's just as racist as "black list" and "white list".
This administration is using the WHO as a scapegoat for its mishandling of the pandemic. But I am for increasing funding to NIH.gov instead of politics ridden WHO. WHO has made this crisis worse with confusion, misinformation and incompetence.
Why models fail to deliver value
Burn Down Target Buildings with 3D Printer Exploits (Coalfire IoT Blog Part 3)
Why don't you have access to pattern matching in your Lisp day job?

(There is at least a coffee machine, health benefits, and a halfway ergonomic chair to sit on, hopefully.)
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Give or take every international organization (and most parts of the US) will have the same reaction if you pressure them to acknowledge Taiwanese independence in that fashion. Excepting the cases where they are not required to interact with PRC at all, or are explicitly setup to deal with that issue.
> so that the help documentation doesn't overwhelm the initial viewing of the actual code.

That is a very strange argument to me. You find that more cumbersome than jumping around to random functions?
It's a pretty fine line you're treading here. A lot of the reason the competition is so expensive is that they are licensing the data in bulk. There's lots of litigation in this area, see the Meltwater cases in US and UK.
Maybe. But most channels I'm in devolve into multiple cross-team chats that are interspersed and impossible to navigate if you aren't reading the messages as they come in.

Hell, searching for topic of discussion that happened more than a few days ago is pretty much impossible in Slack.
Just for discussion, do you think Microsoft's dominance has increased or decreased since they last had antitrust action against them in the 90s?
Oops good catch. I should really stop writing posts on my phone. That’s especially sad since their docs are so good. I can’t edit it now, but: https://spacy.io/usage/spacy-101

Bonus—An excellent interactive Spacy course from Ines Montani (also includes a template to build similar courses!):
https://github.com/ines/spacy-course
I don't mean to toot my own horn too much here but I'm ecstatic to see how much of my cramming and memorization in college seems to have actually crystallized. I'm doing better than I thought I would have on these as I follow along.
What you can do to ensure high-performance, intelligent analytics on Snowflake
Are you talking about sodium thiosulfate? It's less acutely toxic (oral LD 50) than table salt in animals, has no known chronic health risks, doesn't persist in the environment, and is non-flammable.
The idea that academia is "risk-free" is frankly hilarious, given the state of the academic job market and the pay lines for most grants.
Is carbon emission reduction the goal? I didn’t see that mentioned, but rather an attack on “throw away culture.” You might possibly increase carbon emissions, at least in the short term, to accomplish that. However we’re drowning in plastic in our oceans, raining micro-plastics in our protected lands, and likely consuming a lot of leeched chemicals in the process.
Some do, you just have to pay for it.
Sorry but you make it sound like its four independent actions which lowers the overall probability. While in reality this whole sequence of actions is a very common thing for a user to do.
Slack Apps for Remote Developer Teams
> I guess you can argue that paper bags are compostable, but I'm not sure whether that matters much. Plastic bags that are sitting in the landfill doesn't harm the environment, and their bulk is negligible due to how thin/light they are.

The biodegradability of paper bags is the whole point here. You've seen the sides of the roads. You've seen the streams and rivers. People get done with their garbage and just throw it wherever. With garbage made out of plastic that doesn't break down, this is a big deal.
Yes, that is a great use case! Let me know how it works for you. Feel free to reach out to me at tjchear over twitter/linkedin/gmail.
I found it also helps with the hardest problem in software development: naming things.

Without knowledge of the theory it can be hard to come up with a descriptive name for some data structure/algorithm you created to solve your problem.

With some knowledge of the theory you can more easily put a name to what you have created, making it easier for other people to understand and giving them something to Google if they're unfamiliar.
Our organization was recently forced to switch from Slack to Teams. In Slack, there was a sense of spontaneity and fluidity to the experience, allowing for countless types of emojis and integration with services like giphy that made collaborating fun.

With Teams, it’s all business. No more #random channel or water cooler chats. Not sure which of the tools actually is better but personally I really miss Slack :-/
> is this an issue that informs your voting

My views pretty much depart from the mainstream, so if you mean that is discourages me greatly when I vote, then yes.
A deep-dive into WinUI 3 in desktop apps
I stayed in a hotel directly across from this once. Neat piece of art but there's not much else to do in that district unless you really have a fix for Taco Bell while in Japan. Perfectly cromulent hotel, however.
Paper bags is what you’ll find in SF in addition to more reusable bags brought buy people into the store.
Which grocery stores? I live in Austin.

At H-E-B you must pay for the thicker bags at $.24/ea, which incentivizes people to bring their own. I bring the same ones every time now.

At Central Market, Wheatsville & Whole Foods they give you paper bags.

Not sure about Randalls or Sprouts though
Out of curiosity, has there ever been another point in time where a dominating culture has made efforts to represent non-dominant races/cultures proportionally in the upper levels of society? Were there lessons learned from that? This phenomenon seems relatively new so I'd like to learn more about how it works in practice.
The games, sure. But what about the tooling? Behaviour trees, fsm visualizers, debug tools, better linters, multiplayer frameworks, ecs implementations, or even just tech talks. Outside of game dev, there are so many tech talks all the time on every possible subject, sharing knowledge. In game dev, there is GDC and a few others, but it’s just far less common
> Aren't we all going to catch this sooner or later...

Not necessarily. China and most of Europe have done a pretty good job of reducing spread to the point where it's likely that most people won't get it, assuming we get a working vaccine eventually.

In the U.S., we've flattened the curve but whether we end up with the "herd immunity" scenario where most people get it or one where we get spread under control and it slowly dies out depends on our actions in the coming months. (We also might get different outcomes in different parts of the country.)
I believe that's why the parent comment had used quotes. It's not a loan, it's a subsidy. Calling it a loan is misleading, because loans are meant to be paid back, and this isn't.
The use case for a Singleton is that you want to use a global variable but don't want to admit that you are using a global variable.
But handling args isn't that bad in bash.

while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
case "$1" in
-h|--help)
do_help
exit
;;
-v|--version)
do_version
exit
;;
-d|--debug)
debug=true
shift
;;
-a|--arg)
arg_value=$2
shift 2
;;
esac
done
Yeah, Microsoft has become huge, but if you want to avoid MS products or services, it's very practical to do so these days. That wasn't the case in late 90s/early 2000s.
Yes, good point. That makes sense.

EDIT: I thought it, but I think AWS might at least get mentioned. To your point, I also spent some time writing external pricing engines for an e-commerce channel push up to some of the marketplaces. We optimized pricing for buy box participation, but it'd be easy to write the whole thing off as unbalanced by disparate forces, Amazon itself being the most obvious. We re-priced based on the data we extracted from Amazon.
How many people are on this site?
Very on brand for the sitting President, I would say.
AWS is in constant competition with Azure and to a lesser degree GCP clawing it's way back.

The competitors have both the resources and the aggressive commitment. AWS may be the leader, but it not a position that is easily maintained.
If I give you $80,000 and loan you $20,000, the semantically important part of my action is as a "gift", not a "loan". Why do you want us to ignore the $80,000 and only pay attention to the $20,000?
I would say it's actively harmful. If I accidentally notice that it's happening, I'm going to start actively downloading things indiscriminately.

Or maybe I'm just annoying.
It's far too easy for people new to this to overlook the importance of the Free Software Foundation.

The original RMS email announcing the project is a nice read. When placed in the context of his personal frustration with commercial software it can also be seen as a line in the sand.
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