skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what prevents them from bottling locally? It's cheaper and better for the environment. It feels like industries can always circumvent these one off laws. They should think of a whole framework of laws.
Orders of magnitude are important. Post consumer recycling involves extra transportation and thus greenhouse emissions. Except the energy savings can more than make up for this.
Paper straws were never actually better for the environment.
To provide a convenience to customers that didn't bring a reusable bag and don't want to spend a few bucks on a bag they'll never use again and has an environmental impact 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than a single use paper or plastic bag.
It's a completely backwards way of thinking. A "business" or "entity" can afford to pay x for service y. If x is too low for you, don't take the job. That's it.

It's pure fantasy to assume every employer could pay a living wage. For example, take house cleaning. What if some pensioner can spare 30$/week to have their house cleaned. How are they supposed to pay a living wage? If somebody steps forward and says OK, I'll clean the house for 30$, fine. If not, tough luck. But to demand the pensioner should pay a living wage (like what, 2000$ or more to have their house cleaned), or call them evil for not paying enough, is backwards and absurd.
Chinese government acknowledges outsourcing to countries with cheaper labor as a threat, and works on combating it. For example, their "Made in China 2025" plan is centered around establishing China as the global technological leader in a number of high-tech industries and a source of skilled labor, not as the world's cheapest manufacturing plant it was a just few years ago.

It still remains to be seen how successful they would be, but at least they recognize this situation as a problem in nearest future.
Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year
All of the patterns and default code referenced there were things I wrote or helped write or reviewed, and while a certain “java patterns” mindset was common in early devs, I can assure you we didn’t transcribe it from Java, we simply used patterns we were familiar with from previous languages. None of the open-source Kube project was “transcribed from Java” to the level being described here.

Kris isn’t wrong, but the details are far more nuanced than that. This talk is a non-primary source :)
You call it vendor lock-in, I call it avoiding dealships, eliminating shady warrantee programs, and eliminating the hassle of finding reputable 3rd party servicers
I'm having a really tough time following this article. what are they actually alleging here? What is a "goodwill repair"?
> The experience and intelligence of the recruiter has almost zero correlation to the experience and intelligence of the people you'd be working with.

How do you figure? If you're perfectly qualified for a job and they don't seem to recognize that, what are they selecting for? You don't think that incompetence would have an impact on the quality of the team you'd be joining?
Not having alternatives to replace them with?
Hacker News Compose – Starter HN Client Written in Jetpack Compose
Used as a code-along repo to introduce the topics of Jetpack Compose, Hacker News Compose is a simple Hacker News client that demonstrates the basic concepts of Jetpack Compose while also making real calls to the Hacker News API to display Top Stories.
Or she will have no symptoms at all. You have no basis to expect that it will kill her, or that she will even manifest any serious symptoms.

Remember the vast majority of people have mild symptoms, the CDC stated that the actual number of cases is about 10x of the reported ones.

It is hard to believe but 30% of nursing home residents infected with the disease were also asymptomatic. That in turn was one of the early confounding factors that made the spread in the nursing homes so hard to identify.
Calling people vile is terrible persuasion. If you actually care about vaccination rates, you should come at it from a more empathetic perspective.
One way to reduce consumer plastic pollution could be decrease the use of small bottles.

If water came in 1l bottles instead of 20oz bottles people may not just forget about them after a sip. Plus, the volume add uses less plastic than the structural elements of 2 bottles.
If you pass a string-typed var to a func with an int-typed parameter, it will not fail at runtime. `python the_file.py` will not even emit a warning, much less a failure, because there's absolutely no runtime difference between "has types" and "does not".

That's not optional typing. It's just a standardized magic comment (which the reference implementation ignores). It's far from useless, but it's not adding typing to the language.
"In Demand" as in "can't find as many people as you want to fill the jobs". Unskilled work usually doesn't fall in that category.
Sure. The issue is, it’s something that people run into very early when they try to actually write code. They won’t go through the whole Tour before trying to do so. They certainly don’t with the book :)

Anyway the author should do whatever they want. I’m glad folks other than me are writing docs! I haven’t managed to actually go through the Tour yet myself, this is just a riff on the observation made in my parent’s comment.
they're not waterproof (or at least, lose structural integrity when wet), and they have worse climate impact than plastic bags.
Why do the majority of people need to use a straw anyway?
The current reminder that hating the 4th amendment is bipartisan.
Awe drives scientists to make a leap into the unknown
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I think there is an assumption that Apple will release products at lower price points without the Intel tax. This is somewhat supported by their greater focus on services and lower cost products like the iPhone SE.

If this is the case then the problem for Microsoft is losing Windows market share to macOS.
I agree, this article was extremely hard to follow.
Because we definitely don't want to remove malicious packages as the software supply chain finds itself under increasing attacks
Or sugar that used to come in cardboard boxes for decades now coming in plastic bags. And so many glass jars replaced by plastic.
Here's the recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763265
They can afford to take a long holiday at the very least. Compared to other workers, certainly. Or maybe they prefer to live in expensive housing instead of paying for spare time. Why shouldn't it be their choice?

As for factory workers, are you sure the issue is factories not paying enough? Or what exactly is going on in the US economy? What is so expensive? Why is there so much competition for jobs?
With S3+CloudFront, has anyone been able to get www->root redirect to work with https? I like the setup otherwise.
I'm comparing to mobile U-series in my (explicitly stated) laptop which is a T470. So for me an i7-7600U. But if you throw a T490 on the table with an i7-8565U it'll blow holes in that as well. As well as I'm sure nearly all mobile CPUs.

I'm sure the A14 or whatever comes along, with higher core count and better thermals for desktop use, will do the same for desktop CPUs.
Right. Criminal prosecutors, like many other criminals, are the product of their environment.
As the article mentions, centralized trust has proven that it reaches a certain maximum before being plagued by political, legal, and corruption. I don't know much about the China's state ID system, but based on other systems they've rolled out, I'm sure with enough money and the right contacts you can wipe, fabricate, or change your ID (which is also true for the US). Centralized systems have to also undertake the same problems as decentralized ones, like ensuring records are kept updated, which is no trivial task when providing identity for millions of people(1)

(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/06/25/irs-stim...
Urbit does seem to have an over abundance of weird jargon and glyphs that reinvent existing technologies, it just reeks of techno-alchemy.

As to your second point, I'm curious if any decentralized system will ever allow for full deletion of information once it has been replicated by another client. Any gossip protocol, or decentralized CRDT document system has to take into account that a client will go offline and retain information once it has been released into the wild. Whether or not a request to "delete" or hide that information is followed through with is almost impossible to regulate. It's perhaps more important to realize that what we publish, may always exist out there.

That being said, clients could randomly ask for "tombstoned" information to verify that other clients comply to a delete request, but it will likely always exist somewhere.
That’s like the perennial “year of Linux on the desktop”.
Interesting that they are so many birds, when I only ever eat chicken, turkey, and very very rarely duck.

Not to mention turtle/etc! Also curious that beaver wasn’t mentioned, I’d imagine that to be a delicacy.
During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7 ka), the sea level rose by a total of about 100 m, at times at extremely high rates, due to the rapid melting of the British-Irish Sea, Fennoscandian, Laurentide, Barents-Kara, Patagonian, Innuitian and parts of the Antarctic ice sheets.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise]

Setting the sea surface to -100m on https://www.floodmap.net/ shows a very different world: walking dry-shod from Ireland to Helsinki.
This looks more like a caching solution to me, not a way to skip integration tests with your DB. I can't seem to find how you invalidate the saved interactions, but I assume it must either detect changes or you manually clear the cache.

This seems like a reasonable solution to speed up integration tests when you need to run them frequently. Particularly useful when adopting legacy code that that only supports integration testing due to poor design.
I didn't put my e-reader back into my backpack after passing security in Heathrow. Two days later I received an email telling em they had found an e-reader configured with my email address. They asked me to describe it, I mentioned which was the book I was reading at the time, and they sent it back to me. My only complaint is that the fee was quite high, almost as much as the reader itself. Still better and less wasteful than buying a new one.
Maybe they should check their privilege. Is drinking through a straw more important than the climate, which is the world? /s
Tax haven status, plus the mere location -- being an port in that (very important) area, with ties to two very important countries...
My understanding is that bottling and container manufacturing are fairly localized. Each large city will usually have a set of bottling plants, to reduce transportation cost.

I think it is easy to underestimate how optimized production and distribution are.
Elon Musk is unethical and it’s amazing how he has gotten away with so much simply by associating himself with positive trends. People see him and they think about clean energy and space colonization, but they ignore his casual disregard for human life evidenced by misrepresenting autopilot’s current and future capabilities, leading to at least 5 deaths at this point. He has also promised to cure autism via Neuralink, a baseless claim. He claimed that a monkey has controlled a computer at Neuralink, almost certainly untrue. He has destroyed his skeptics through questionable tactics, Fossi, Martin Tripp, skabooshka, Vernon Unsworth. The man is a disgrace, but his fans defend him as if he was the Messiah. How people can rail against Trump while supporting Elon Musk is mind boggling.
1. When you open a win10 sandbox it appears as a fresh install of windows. Only Microsoft Edge is pre-installed. If you like to tweak privacy settings etc then you'll need to re-tweak them every time you start up a win10 sandbox (as they too get forgotten)>

2. Everything gets wiped when you close a win10 sandbox (so installations can't survive beyond a login session).
In Sandboxie you appear to get a copy of your existing OS, and the copy is only wiped when you choose to wipe it (so it can survive across login sessions).
The win10 sandbox is wiped when you close it, and you have to close it to turn off the PC.

3. Win10 sandbox seems not to like making the camera or microphone available to apps (eg zoom, skype) whereas Sandboxie is happy with making them available.

4. Because of the above, win10 sandbox is probably more secure than sandboxie, but there is no indication of where the sandbox state was stored, so it isn't possible to secure delete it like you can with sandboxie.
It's not meant to be purely democratic. The founders were students of history and recognized the inherent instability of pure democracies. There were no human rights recognized anywhere in the world in 1776. The imperial era was still a thing and Kings and queens still had vast influence over European politics, with various other centralized power structures in virtually all parts of the world. I get that it's easy to point out the hypocrisy of the phrase "all men are created equal" when slavery was still a thing in half the states, but it was a very tenuous situation to go against the crown of England in 1776. It was far from guaranteed. A lot of people see the human rights we have today as some sort of inevitable outcome of progress, but China is case in point that progress and time do not necessarily yield more rights for more people. China is 4000 years old and they still don't even have basic freedom of speech there.

All of human history is filled with bloodshed, tyranny, endless wars, conquering, slavery, piracy, vandalism, raiding parties, human sacrifice, religious battles and authoritarianism, with just a few punctuating moments of anything resembling democracy and recognition of human rights. That goes for every race, country, tribe, continent and creed. No heritage is innocent of that. That's the truth. 1776 didn't have to succeed. It very much could of ended with being squelched by the Crown and then where would we be today? Perhaps the Nazis would of won. Perhaps the Soviets would have developed imperial ambition in the absence of a strong US to keep them in check. Maybe the world would be a darker place. I suspect that without the U.S. that it would be, since that's the rule of history and not the exception.

Interning the Japanese Americans was of course wrong, but when you're fighting a world war and tens of millions are dying at the hands of Japanese (they slaughtered Chinese by the tens of millions)...it's very touchy isn't it? The lesser of two evils in that particular war was certainly the U.S.

Again, prior to world war 2 the world was still filled with imperial forces itching to conquer and enslave other people by the tens of millions. This is just 80 years ago...not that long ago. There was no where else in the world living up to the high ideals we seek to achieve today back then. The U.S. was that place for so many people to escape to. The Jews being one group. The Cubans being another. The Vietnamese being another. The Koreans being another. If you're going to paint the picture, paint it in the context of the world at the time and the subsequent actions in the wake of those problems. I think individuals deserve forgiveness after some time, and the same goes with nations, given that their behavior is corrected. There's nothing wrong with the movement towards more civil rights. But expecting things to go from millenia of imperialism to utopian democracy overnight, especially one saddled with so much legacy from that era, is naive. Again, it didn't have to go so well. It could have very gone south and ended up worse off for everyone.
I think over the course of his life he became more confident as accolades and successes grew
I'll help contribute. The food you talk of -- sure you may have some good food at the top of the scale, but for an every day person's budget, food options in the UK pale in comparison with most any country in Asia.

As for Brexit, the additional economic fallout (already, and coming) from that self-inflicted problem will be worse than the general downturn for most other places.
We tell ourselves that to help us sleep at night. We'll think of a good excuse for Taiwan as well.
How have people's experiences been with Consul in general? Any pitfalls? We're rolling it out shortly for service discovery and some limited key/value storage (and a separate cluster for Vault storage)
If curious see also

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5997034

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098282

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886900
OTOH...

As someone who grew up in a medium-small city, moved to a large city, watched it get larger, and then moved to a small town (and who has no kids), I desperately want to stay the hell away from large cities. The sheer unrelenting friction of everything would kill me. And it's cheaper here.
Doing that only solidifies the transition to endemic.

Until we have meaningful treatments, living apart and doing all we can to limit the spread is the best move.
TIL firing a weapon toward others is "avoiding conflict"
> Before these experts gave us the lemon laundering perspective, though, the most likely explanation for the goodwill repairs was an article written by Montana Skeptic, a famous Tesla short-seller. He claims that labeling warranty repairs as "goodwill" is a way Tesla found to cheat its financial results.

> This would happen because warranty costs are included in financial results as "Cost of Revenue," a number that affects gross profit and net income, according to that article. Instead of naming them as such, Tesla would say they are goodwill repairs, so these expenses would appear as "Operating Expenses," which get diluted in the company's results for as long as the car is under warranty.

> If a company labels a warranty repair as goodwill, it may claim in court that it was not due to a defect, but rather to the way the clients used their cars. In short, it could not be framed as something the automaker had to fix, according to lemon laws.
It seems to me that being constantly on guard for these incursions is a losing strategy: We will eventually lose, maybe as soon as the next emergency omnibus package gets passed in response to a crisis...it might be a better strategy to push for new legislation that explicitly enshrines these rights to encryption, privacy, so forth, into law as an extension of the 4th amendment.
Thanks for posting that. More than 4 million dead already from hunger this year [1], that's an even more horrible statistic. Yes, we need to continue to fight that. I'm that typical person in the west who, might send money to international food aid charities, but doesn't know what else to do. I think increasing democracy around the world could help and fewer wars can lead to stability and improved lives. 9 or 10 million a year is such a large number it's unbeliveable. The fact that it's improved tremendously over time [2] doesn't excuse continuing to work on it to help our fellow humans. I'm mostly just fortunate to be born in a prosperous country, through no action of my own.

1. https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/Famine-death-rate...
Yes. There is a lot of (in my opinion justified) resistance against the policing of language. There is no reason to assume those who oppose these changes would also oppose certain meaningful structural changes. (For example, I strongly oppose all of those trends and I think of myself as progressive and I will resist the destruction of reasonable progressive politics in Europe by what I believe to be irrational, aggressive ideas as long as possible.)

And just to be clear: It‘s fine to use primary and replica. There‘s no problem with the decision itself. The problem is the idea that caused this change and the people in this thread who just stop short of calling someone a racist, because he would reject the idea that the terminology was racist in the first place.

edit: I‘ve not seen such fluctuating votes in a long time if ever than in this thread.That shows how divisive this topic is. So I‘ll call it a day. As I said elsewhere, I can wait 30 years or maybe 50 and see how things played out. But one thing is for sure, these ideas (that is: the current approach) will eventually disappear by themselves without leaving even a trace.
We won't die because of that - pollution has gone down anyway, whether climate change will really become catastrophic has yet to be seen.

But even if you believe it will - what's the point to anything? In the end everybody dies, no matter what you do.
Where are the aggrieved and why don't they ever show and speak for themselves in these threads? I've seen exactly one comment in many thousands from a person who stated outright that they were a female minority and... She ranted that these language changes are coddling... I've spoken to a few minority, female, and homosexual friends (in tech) and colleagues and they share the same sentiment (I understand how ironic it is that I, too, show up with nothing but anecdotes). How does this reconcile with the 100s/1000s of comments that amount to, "but some people find this stuff offensive!"
Here’s my understanding.

Let’s say you want to resample from 32kHz to 48kHz with a filter that has N taps. The sample rate ratio is 3:4, so you need 4N coefficients total. Basically, what you have is four N-tap filters, where filter K has a delay of K/4 samples. With higher values for N, you get lower ripple and lower aliasing.

Resampling 44.1kHz to 48kHz, the ratio is 147:160 so you need 160N coefficients. This wasn’t a problem for very long, but it was inconvenient in the 1980s.
I doubt it, it does look uglier than modern C but it looks like it's written to work in ANSI-C/C89 entirely without any language extensions since then. That's going to shape things quite a bit (in particular the dense bit of variable declarations at the top of every function) simply because a lot of the things like being able to declare variables later on in the source code just wasn't a thing in that version of the language.
A goodwill repair is something the manufacturer decides to repair even though they aren't obligated to. It counts as opex instead of cost of revenue like a warranty repair. It might also not count towards repair attempts for lemon laws.

The article alleges that Tesla is repairing issues that are covered under warranty as "goodwill repairs" instead to help the balance sheet and circumvent lemon laws. As an owner, you might not care too much since the issue is getting repaired either way.
We do this all the time. Our tests run against SQLite (I use Mariadb in prod).

Each parallel testrun gets its own path in /dev/shm/xx so everything is in ram as well.
There's a certain subset of the tech community that doesn't get that speech and action are different things, and that either all speech is protected or none is.

Government is different from the private sector but as we rapidly move towards a future ruled by megacorporations, the application of rules and laws becomes ever more important.
It would be hilarious to see the US using their resources to help some (often wealthy and highly educated) people across the fucking ocean before using them to help the poor in their own country.
Paper/jute bags and multi-use plastics have been in circulation for quite some time now.