skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really well done. If you use this, please consider donating. (I'm not affiliated in any way, I just saw on the about page that it's self funded and costs $200/mo). Here's the patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/trailrouter
Do you have any good examples of how this has worked well for you in the past (ideally, off the job)?
In principle, I agree with your comment, but there is a significant difference in the contributory factor and in your responsibility and duty of care when your job is to participate in the direction of threats, imprisonment and violence towards individuals.
No, they suck. They get soggy after a few minutes. I’d rather not use a straw at all.

Which brings me to my main point. The “paper straws” movement isn’t actually anti-climate-change or pro-ecology, but just virtue signalling. If it was real, they wouldn’t be advocating paper straws, they’d be advocating no straws at all! Hint: you don’t need a straw (the vast majority of people anyways).
I disagree with your last point - this is very infectious and because we can't know in many cases if we are carrying it, it's incumbent on everyone to protect others by wearing a mask. Because many don't know they have it, it's different than the flu where ordinary flu often has clear symptoms before infectiousness starts.
Wanted: someone willing to lie on their CV.
One thing people prophetizing about Apple ARM transition changing the industry tend to forget about: Apple is not a leader, but actually a latecomer in the ARM space.

macOS is the last major OS getting ARM support. iOS and Android have been built with ARM support from the very beginning. The first commits working on ARM support for Linux have been made more than a decade ago. The first publicly released Windows on ARM hardware came out in 2012, and MS has undoubtedly have been working on it for years before the commercial release.

If anything would trigger an ARM transition on a massive scale, it would likely be the work invested in the high performance ARM hardware by the companies such as Amazon and Fujitsu.
Can someone point me to a resource that cuts through all of the jargon that Urbit uses and describe what it does that is new? I've browsed through their website and Hoon, the programming language, and can't find anything intriguing besides a bunch of new names and glyphs for existing terminology.

Is it just new age cabala of decentralized tech to generate hype and intrigue? I've seen a lot of projects fall into this techno-wizardry naming trap, and enjoyed it myself, but I'm starting to get tired of the overhead of such abstractions.
It's a law banning the use of single-use plastic for (a large number of) specific use-cases where it's unnecessary; not a law banning single-use plastics generally.
When this single-use plastics ban was in the news a year ago, there was a ton of exceptions to it.

It seems like in practice this will basically amount to a ban on plastic straws and grocery bags.
Did you read the article in its entirety?

> "Tesla provides express warranties. Under state lemon laws and the federal Magnuson-Moss Act and other provisions of state and federal laws, they are required to ensure that they comply with the warranties, or provide a refund. It appears they are attempting to evade state lemon laws by claiming their so-called 'goodwill' repairs don't count toward the criteria for buying back lemons. In addition, Tesla has been requiring lemon owners to sign onerous settlement agreements that silence them and make it easier for Tesla to engage in lemon laundering: the illegal resale of defective lemon vehicles, without branding the titles or taking other steps to protect consumers."
I see things like this as the memetic equivalent of the Columbian Exchange; the population lacks immunity to the schemes that are endemic in capitalism, so as soon as one arrives the whole population is infected very quickly.
I suspect there will be exemptions. But it is really amazing how much there is left over from medical waste.
> The point i'm making is that in high school we had wood and metal shop. Welding. Electrical. NONE of those classes exist anymore. And with helicopter parenting kids aren't learning them either.

I had woodworking in high school, but no metal shop, no welding, no electrical. And most of the woodworking class was spent hand-sanding with worn out sandpaper from a drawer full - because the school didn't have enough funding to buy new paper each semester.

That said, I am better prepared for doing welding or electrical than my older relatives at my age, because I have access to youtube. It might be less reliable than learning it in school would have been, but I don't remember much from high school shop class anyway.
It’s possible, but there is literally no reason for an airline baggage handler to open a bag. They would need a lot of time alone with the bags to dig through each one looking for valuables without being caught.

TSA gets the advantage of seeing inside of the bags on a screen to know which ones to “pull for more inspection”.
The future of online identity is centralized.

China is already there. At age 16, you get your picture and fingerprints taken. If you get a phone, its ID is tied to your personal ID. Your WeChat account is tied to that ID. If you ride the subway or bus in a major city, or a train, your ID is recorded when you pay. A combination of phone tracking and facial recognition records where you go in some cities. It's even used to shame jaywalkers.[1]

The US is getting there with Real ID. It's been postponed a year due to the epidemic, but soon you will need a Real ID, checked against your birth registration, to board even a domestic flight.

[1] https://youtu.be/ectdRsyj-zI
When China, India, Indonesia and orhers do this we are making true progress.

Though not sure what would be the process to get this thru in United States?
> I see them as highly educated people who excel in relativism and twist ethics and law to achieve narrow goals without regard to principles.

That's how I see most lawyers.
visibility * skill * demand = value , if your function as SE is to increase value. There isnt good answer , pick the role which has best as aggregate of all three. if its a leadership role in a small popular company thats worth more than a senior leadership role in an other company , offcourse all of these variables are subjective and to truly know you would have to talk to lot off people.
You'd have a bunch of currency that isn't really in circulation anymore, if my understanding of the Canadian penny is correct!
> Trudeau did not specify the products to be banned, but said likely candidates include plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and stir sticks “where supported by scientific evidence and warranted.”

I don't think legitimate medical uses of single use plastics are at risk here, as long as no reasonable alternative exists.
OK. FWIW in my apartment building fully 50% of the spaces are occupied by Teslas, with no charging stations on site.
I see some links in the article that indicate this:

https://insideevs.com/news/403631/tesla-sells-used-model-3-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17036426/tesla-lemon-cars...
Well, Facebook has cash to lose. Further, VR, at least as Facebook and Zuckerberg see it, would be less about games and more about social interactions in virtual worlds. The monetization model would be different than directly selling software I reckon (most likely ads - to a hammer, everything looks like a nail). This would then be an engagement play - something Facebook already excels at.

Doesn't sound particularly feasible at the moment honestly. But you never know. I'm not writing it off at least - the people who do like VR think it's the greatest thing ever created.
This effect operates on the very simple logic that vocals tend to be the only fully centre panned channel in the mix. The same approach won't work for anything else, and won't work on older stereo recordings where hard left/right panning of vocals was a lot more common than nowadays
The 1 million deaths are a big deal only because it may include rich white people or even, gasp, you and I. This is the only reason this number is quoted with such an incredulity.

Throughout history we have had and we continue to have far bigger problems than that.

Did you know that 20K people DIE every day of hunger (9 million per year)? And this has happened like so for the past twenty years? Where is the counter for that? Why aren't we locking everything down until we fix that?

I tell you why, because you and I are at zero risk of dying of hunger. Stating that 1 million deaths is a big deal sounds extremely hollow.
Is labour a big proportion of their costs? I was under the impression that modern foundries are highly automated.
By having nuanced legislation and regulation?

This isn't a formal declaration of rule making, or legislation, simply a declaration of intent from the Prime Minister. There's no formal weight behind this (except probably to start getting internal government bodies working on policy).

There's lot of time and room for sane (or dumb) rules to come out of this.

Medical (and similar) use exceptions are common. For example RoHS initially had a medical device exemption (and still has an implantable device exemption).
“For me it feels like I hit a point at which there is no more work to be wrung out of me, no matter how long I sit in a chair.”

This sentence made me laugh a little bit to hard. I know where you are coming from.

Don’t forget to do a small weird dance every hour or so. To move those muscles and the keep blood flowing to all corners of body.
What would be the point of offering paper bags, when they can instead sell you their high-margin reusable cloth bags (which are common in Canadian grocery stores)?
And for the other direction (C->sed): https://github.com/shinh/elvm
I'm surprised that BrightID or 3BOX aren't mentioned for decentralized solutions:

https://www.brightid.org/

https://3box.io/hub
The "biodegradable" plastics can still take a _long_ time to decompose if not put into a city compost collection bin. The city has to "biodegrade" them via a method different from what you would do at home (throw it into a heap). Wikipedia has a list of plastics that are approved for "home composting" here[0].

Plus, these plastics still take a lot of energy to produce.

I definitely think that multi-use plastics make the most sense, if we can build the supply chain to get there. Sort of like how old glass milk bottles worked: You left them out and they were collected by the milk man.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic#Home_com...
The Win10 sandbox requires win10 Pro or Enterprise (see https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-windows-sandbox-windo...), so Win10 Home users will want Sandboxie.
So the headline is just absolute bollocks and means nothing when you start to interrogate it? Oh ok.
Magnesium Glycinate Lysinate seems to work well for me. Also, magnesium l-threonate seems to work well for insomnia.
Did want to mention one thing: I had an Amazon link to one of my sisters, who had been an illustrator of children's books, but another woman from England, with the same name, suddenly shoved my not-so-famous sister aside, so I yanked the link from my father's bio page.
Whoa interesting stuff
I would imagine that cargo planes will have to safely fly on fully remote controlled aircraft for a number of years before airlines start thinking about opening themselves up to such liability...
I don’t find this argument particularly compelling. You can hear up to 27kHz if the sound is loud enough, under laboratory conditions. However, from a psychoacoustic standpoint, you are unlikely to be able to hear those frequencies under normal listening conditions, and typical program material doesn’t make use of those frequencies anyway.

In other words, 20 kHz is good enough.
Not seeing huge demand for ochre or limestone these days...
I remember reading somewhere that some bottled product replaced plastic with glass, which weighs more, which led to an increase in trucks required, which led to more of a carbon footprint, which is also bad.
Thank you for your feedback! I have made a note about think about how to engage people who don't already use a good bookmarking service and integrations with Push to Kindle services.

I see what you mean about signup visibility; I'll take a stab at improving this a little later in the week.
Likely major swings in demand combined with supply chains being affected. Change is tough during normal times, but toss in a global pandemic and...
Here in Gibraltar plastic bags have been banned for a while. You can buy more expensive reusable bags at the grocery store counter.

First it was pain. But it took only few months to adapt and now everyone are bringing bags to the store with then.

Fruit and veggie sections have paper bags, but also those sections offer canvas bags for the eco aware.
That entire article is an appeal to authority and doesn’t address classifying warranty repairs as goodwill. If the author wasn’t claiming to be working directly with a warranty accounting expert it would have nothing to say.
Fully agree. I've had the opportunity to work on identity at 2 former employers. We tried to push things in this direction as part of exploration work including discussions with Mozilla around Persona and much more. Unfortunately every time, we met a fairly insurmountable problem - most users just don't get it, and even if they get it, they don't care.

I agree this is where things need to move, but we need to make it so simple that users who don't care can still use it and those who do can get the most out of it.
I'm a black engineer who disagrees with you. I appreciate seeing colleagues and peers make an effort, however small, however symbolic, and that helps motivate me to ignore bullshit and continue working in a team and company where i'm a visibly underrepresented historically oppressed minority. That in turn leads to others seeing me and - people have literally told me this, this isn't me guessing the impact of coming to work - feel like this is a place where they too may be able to survive if not thrive.

This change barely moves the needle on Black representation in tech, but I think it does, however little. Improving Black representation in tech /barely/ moves the needle on racism, but I too think it does, however little (these are good jobs and I know it's helped me and my family close some of the racial wealth gap).
A list of many such claims made by Elon Musk can be found here: https://elonmusk.today/

Ctrl+F for "tesla".
To me this mostly sounds like someone from the airline scored a free tablet that day.
> So what? That was years ago, and that says nothing about the present state of affairs.

You overlooked my second point, about Fortnite leading to the Epic store gaining traction, which is the present state of affairs. Also look at EA Games launches their store in the past by using their AAA games as leverage. All these gaming stores and trying to use games as a way to get their foot in the door, so I think you're wrong by saying it's no longer a valid approach. In fact, it's the only approach that seems to work.

> No it isn't, because you are missing the fact that the gaming market is not a zero-sum game, fix-cake that you can only get a share of. It's constantly growing, and new games create new public the whole time.

It's very much a zero-sum situation when these stores sell the majority of the same games. When you spend your $60 buying Grand Theft Auto on the Epic store, that's a $60 loss for Steam, because you're not going to buy the game twice. When one store wins your sale, the other loses it.
His mother's grief is heartbreaking. Prosecutors in the US are almost as lawless as the police.
Can we all agree that plastic packaging has gotten ridiculous? If I buy toys for my kids they're 90% packaging, 10% toy... It's baffling. Who's the consumer demanding this?
FWIW the ability to send a SIGUSR2 to reload certs has been there for awhile.
Thanks, interesting points. I haven't seen the Szizek/Peterson debate; I'll check it out.
The path of least resistance and cost will always be taken.

So if I can sell you a product in a multi-use container, pass the cost to you, and you decide to throw it away after a single use, that's what's going to happen.

If instead it's more affordable to use compostable plastics or non-plastics (e.g. aluminum), then that's what will be done.

My hunch is with low oil prices and the high cost to manufacture biodegradable plastics, the first path may unfortunately become popular (biodegradable plastics runs for roughly 10x standard plastic.)
..and high performance athletic achievements are typically beyond the bellcurve of health over activity.

i.e. if you draw health as a function of activity/performance, it forms a bellcurve of some sort, and high performance athletes sacrifice their long-term health in order to perform at a higher level than most people are able to. (Marathons lead to ruined knees, heavy lifting lead to explosive increases in blood pressure, throwing arms come with wear and tear on elbows and shoulders, etc. )
So BCAA supplementation being another trade-off would not necessarily be a deterrent in that respect.
Everybody's needs are different, but zstd is so fast the lack of multithreaded decompression doesn't matter very often. I've only ever found parallel decompression useful with bz2 files (which are insanely CPU-intensive to decompress), using lbzip2.

Zstd also has experimental code in the `contrib` dir for parallel (and, more importantly, seekable) decompression: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395
Gotta try it out
This is what I see in California with the bag ban. People use multi use bags once, resulting in a net increase in plastic use.

This is a hard problem. A ban will not fix it and may have perverse effects like increasing usage and pollution.

What is so damn bad about paper? Paper is mostly renewable (or can be) and is very biodegradable. Why not just make better paper bags
How to secure a multitenant application architecture
I appreciate knowing my colleagues have virtues. How is that doing nothing?
Re-read the part where they said "western courts".

Also, that 93% number is Federal only. As per the link, the state numbers range (roughly) from the low 60's to the low 80's.
Yeah, I am not sure that I trust the average database with transactional schema modification or nested transactions. You have to be very careful about your database's settings and choose the correct isolation level. (This is more important for your actual application than whatever your tests do, but the tests are where you're doing weirder things whose implementation details are likely to raise your eyebrow.)

Personally, what I do is create a new database at the beginning of the tests, and have the tests use that. There are some downsides; if you use a random database name, you can run as many tests as you like in parallel, but some percentage of test runs will never run the cleanup code and you will have stale test databases around that need to be cleaned up. (You can simply not retain files written by your database after the CI run, of course, but then you can't debug the failing tests as easily.) If you use a fixed database name, then you will only ever have one copy of the data and won't need to clean anything up. But you can't run tests in parallel -- "go test ./..." or whatever does run tests in parallel by default, so you will see conflicts between tests this way. (In the past, I've done things the second way, but upon writing this comment, I would probably do things the first way in the future.)

Overall, I strongly agree with the advice to run your tests against an as-real-as-possible database. You detect a lot of issues this way -- queries that don't parse, database settings that affect the results (things as dumb as time zones, for example), and you get actual error codes. For example, I used to run all of my queries in a block that retried them 3 times on retryable errors, and gradually built up a list of non-retriable error codes; "syntax error", "column doesn't have a default", etc. This list is easy to build while directly developing against a database with the same settings as production, but will never work when running against mocks or sqlite. (In theory, your database vendor should provide some client library that does things like this... but nobody does.)
The idea of "checks and balances" is that the state absolutely can and should bring justice "against itself". Or rather that there are multiple branches in the state, and whenever one commits an abuse some of the other branches will pursue justice on behalf of the victims.
Some comparison points. It's not all about hard benchmarks but what workloads you throw at the devices.

1. The A12Z in my iPad has 2 more vortex cores than the base A12 and 4 more GPU cores.

2. I'm comparing to my laptop, a T470 with i7-7600U in it.

3. My (I did explicitly say that) laptop's modern equivalent, an i7-8565u, is dog shit compared to the iPad still and costs 100% more.

Some benchmarks if we need them:

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i7-8565u

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2898525

Now if you do any video processing on the ipad, it'll chunk through 4k like my Ryzen 3700X does if it's HEVC and barely even get warm, but that's the T2 ASIC in it.

The point being, if you compare a modernish "professional laptop" with an i7 in it, to an iPad, the iPad will rip it a new orifice.

ARM + ASICs for other functions (ML/security/codec) run rings around any general x86 CPU on performance per watt for sure.

Comparing as you did to a Xeon with 165W TDP is comedy but illustrative yes.
* front-end — react

* styling — ant design

* backend processing — app engine, functions (nodejs, typescript)

* external services — postgres, firestore

And GCP though I do have some stuff running in AWS, too.
The driving factors for lockdown was driven by the need to manage hospital resources, and had they not had a lockdown, many who would've needed hospital admission would of not got that and the mortality rate would of escalated much more with people who would of survived with intervention being cut off from that support as it was saturated. Once you get to that stage, people lose hope, panic, riot and it would of been far worse IMHO.

FWIW I worked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Judgment_Project for the COVID project, so seen lots of data and projections.
Sounds a lot like IndieAuth, but with keys and math instead of "centralized" DNS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieAuth
Opaque Return Types in Swift
Left my Kindle on a Southwest Airlines flight. Filled out a customer service form on the web, they sent back that they found it. I just had to pay shipping and they mailed it to my house.
I don't think this happens in a bubble. You have to look at the incentives. What's their reward? Political capital? Quotas?
>likely candidates include plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and stir sticks “where supported by scientific evidence and warranted.”

speaking of, what is the scientific evidence like for banning single use plastics? eg. the uk and denmark government found that single use plastic bags aren't worse for the environment than paper bags.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> It appears they are attempting to evade state lemon laws

"Appears" how? Where is the substantiation? I came away wit the same concern. I can see the "onerous" terminology in the settlement agreements, which is standard lawyer CYA in these kinds of disputes.
What justifies from keeping anyone to not implement the ban on single-use plastics right away? Is it just the loss in revenue and labor from the petrochemical industries?
Like I said these were problems early on in the production cycle of Model 3.

But I will take a Model 3 with panel gaps over a Skoda or a Corolla without them 10 times out of 10.

BTW the long term costs are equivalent because of gas and maintenance savings and the lifetime of a Model 3 being 3x longer, and it also keeps your family alive unlike the Skoda or other cars which are not as safe.