skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really an interpretation. This is what the word "sustainable" means. This is the way the author is using the term sustainable. When she says "a key independent labeler of sustainable seafood..." she's referring to a stamp using the term this way. It's even used this way in legislation, diplomacy, etc.

Past a point, I find the semantic discussion boring. This is just how language works. Words have multiple, often related meanings. It changes over time. You are not encountering it for the first time.

I was just pointing out that the evolution of the term has a logical etymology to it. There's a logic to "environmental harm" having acquired the near synonym "environmentally unsustainable." That has nothing to do with the author though. The word just means what it means.

Why does the author need to argue that the bycatch is causing target fish populations to collapse? That's not what she's writing an article about. She's just using the english language how it is spoken, especially in the context she's writing within. She didn't invent it.

Anyway... I kind of feel this is going in a silly direction. The article is about something important. The top comments are me and you having a stupid conversation about the history of words.

If you disagree with the author, you should have argued with what she has to say.. as opposed to the semantics. I'd say that onus applies more than the other way around.
If the driver has enough potential deductions for that to be better than the standard deduction (or with that low of income is sufficiently aware of alternative filing options) -- and even then quite a few miles are "effectively" not deducted since you're trading the standard deduction for those.
OK maybe, but Elon promised 1Gbps speeds. 11Mbps is very, very far cry from that.
I see that, but the best candidate of the current generation is not necessarily the best candidate ever seen. Reproduction and mutation can lead to the best solution of a given generation being worse than the generation before it.
How detailed was the profiling on this? Reason I ask is I’ve faced this myself and had to spend a lot of time on both query and serializer optimization.
It doesn't really matter for Epic whether only they get a cut, or if everyone else does too. I imagine the former would be preferable to have an edge over competitors, but it's also unrealistic and they'd be unable to play that card and have a chance in court. Epic isn't being altruistic here.

> An App Store without competing stores and payment systems ultimately hurts the consumer, because Apple is not forced to compete on quality and price.

Apple, as a payment processor, shouldn't have to compete on price on the App Store. The fees from the App Store/IAP subsidise other operations. If they were competing solely as a payment processor it'd be impossible to charge more than 3% frankly, so they'd have to hike up prices elsewhere to make up the loss. App Store payments accounted for 6% of their 2019 revenue. I think Apple is entitled to decide on the pricing structure to fund its operations. There's only a competition issue when it comes to Spotify v Apple Music, or Netflix v TV+, or other competing products.

That said, 30% is a little ridiculous, imo, and it should be lower. Still, Apple isn't unique in charging merchants a %, which is done by many orgs from the Steam Store to the payment networks themselves, and fixed charges are even more common in many B2B situations.
It wouldn't have the same vibe without a complete redesign specifically for CPC. Especially the keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment
I think it's because there's 10 things to work on at any time and adding a screenshot can be useful but the documentation will constantly change as the project is updated.

Then you finally feel like you're done but now there's 100 different things that you have to document and you get overwhelmed.
Everybody who is dumb enough to use his crap is electing him. Monarchs do force you to obey, nobody is forced to use FB.
If Mozilla could maintain and develop Firefox then they can also maintain/develop a complex Chromium fork.
What new habits have you picked up? I've picked up a few handy ones, but I am running out of ideas, and some were very 'fragile' in that a shift in routine (e.g. a vacation) completely broke the new habit.
I agree, this is why I choose to focus on portable and provider agnostic solutions.
xorg, but I'm open to wayland in the coming years.
I voted for him in 2005, when I started using Facebook. Since then, user base has grown substantially. There was even a movie about Z-Berg. We’re all aware that using Facebook empowers this diminutive, oddly humanoid unit. I think it’s all very charming, and it couldn’t really be any worse than putting faith in ultra-consolidated corporate media. At least this way, people are mislead by their own shortsighted group-think, rather than outsourcing it to an NYC boardroom.
USPS warns 46 states voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
Man that's bad, here in Switzerland my Line was upgraded to 10Gbs from 1 and i was mad that the router just had four 1Gbs and one 2.5Gbs cable ports...so i had to buy the business model router with fiber LAN (witch i like much more..thinner cables).
So the theory is that this is part of Google's evil plan to make it impossible to tell the difference between an AMP page and the real page because the next step is to remove the URL bar.

Given that this change makes it plainly obvious what domain you're on... Now tell tell me if this is a genuine concern or a conspiracy theory.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17708-1. Thanks!

For specialized papers it's generally better to submit the highest-quality third party description and link to the paper in the comments. Exceptions would be fields like computing where the bulk of the audience is able to read the specialized paper without much trouble.
I work at Facebook, and I even work in storage, but even that might not make my experience as complete or relevant as you might think. You see, I work on one storage system. There are others that get primary data before us and still others that get it after us (for longer-term backup). There are systems above us that do their own replication on top of the service that we provide. There's a system off to the side to do all sorts of analytics on that data, which often involves copying some pieces of it. In fact, that system is our biggest internal customer, even bigger than the one that sits in the "normal" I/O path. There are systems whose whole purpose is to move data around between these others, which naturally requires some buffering.

You're probably starting to see the problem here. It's that the data actually exists in many systems, big and small, all of them with different processes and staffed by different teams. So deletion is really not a single operation but a coordination of many actions, relying heavily on a complex system of attribution and provenance to find all the places that each piece of data (among literally trillions) went.

All of this infrastructure is huge and it's active. I've been pinged many times while oncall to provide information or take actions in support of it. Every log stream, every database table, has to be carefully scrutinized to see if it could possibly contain user data, no matter how remote that possibility might be. It really is something we work hard at, and I know we're not perfect but anyone who says it's because we don't care is talking out of their ass. We're merely human.

That said, I'm hard pressed to explain the particular scenario in the OP. It seems to me that, no matter what other mechanisms are in place, there should be an egress filter to provide that One Last Check on data leaving our custody, and that should have kicked in here. But I have almost no interaction with Instagram from where I sit, so I can't speak for them any more than anyone else here can. Nor should I try. Probably said too much already.
This is awesome, I've been locking into this for such a long time.

I am using notion now and everything is there so if there was an integration with it I would 100% use it
RethinkDB 2.4.1
The practice of going through case studies and learning essentially a history of failures and successes in business was extremely valuable. The frameworks can be a little academic at times, but showing people how to think about business problems from multiple perspectives is very educational and useful when you actually have to solve your own business problem.
Meanwhile, as a touring cyclist, I got a lot of cold, hostile service from the staff at my LBS. When I finally complained to the owner, he said "Look, you're a tourer. You know how to do most of your own maintenance and you buy low-margin gear. A bike shop needs to focus on the racer and clueless commuter crowd to stay in business, and serving you probably is probably a net-negative for us cost-wise".

This really opened my eyes to the importance of margin on bikes and bike parts; it is no wonder that shops like to sell the latest carbon frames, because the margins are huge.
Speaking of spontaneous combustion - ammonium nitrate will spontaneously ignite in the presence of some impurities.

Ammonium nitrate plus zinc powder is a mixture that only needs a drop of water or just sufficiently humid air to ignite.
Charity navigator has many weaknesses, but I still find it helpful. Especially with situations where there are shells or special structures. I wish they would cover stuff like the corporation. But I would never donate to an org with stats like Mozilla.

Both from bad governance perspective, and doubly so because the board knows how this appears and doesn’t care. I expect because they have stable donations and don’t rely on “retail donors” who need to use these cheap due diligence tools.
I am with one of the world’s biggest telcos, Telstra, on a fully owned and operated fibre-to-the-premises network. I live in a decade old estate half an hour from the centres of the third and sixth largest cities in the country.

The maximum upload speed currently on sale on that network is 1 Mbps. And it’s a monopoly. Inequality in Internet access aside, that maximum is below the average fixed upload speed of 170 out of 170 countries listed by Speedtest.net.

1 Mbps. I did three months of complaining and got 5 Mbps. The local regulator doesn’t care because even though they’re not actively selling it, said monopoly network is “capable of 5 Mbps”.

Contention aside, this and 5G will be important for those jailed by infrastructure monopolists. Here an extreme example, but the same is true across North America too, for instance. Rural users sure, but this can extend beyond that.
I Passed AWS Solutions Architect Associate
https://m.twitch.tv/rseding91/profile

There are no past videos there but you can follow him.
The constellation is moving but they are moving in a formation. Meaning you have a rotation of 2-4 satellites above your head at any give time. Each satellite can service a radius the size of Wyoming.

So you have a limit on the number of satellites and the number of customers per satellite.

The article says 5 million in the USA. That makes sense given what I'm thinking. That's about 100,000 per state, but it's not going to work like that. It's a good ballpark for the service they'll provide.

My main point, is if it's 100K per (1/50th the US) there will be less bandwidth in cities than in rural regions.

This is a HUGE boon to rural areas and will be amazing.

This will probably not affect you if you are urban or even suburban.
Where? UC doesn't handle it that way
"...that said, we’ll make sure Starlink has no material effect on discoveries in astronomy. We care a great deal about science." Elon Musk

A long exposure of Comet NEOWISE by Photographer Daniel Lopez:
https://imgur.com/a/rDI1Onn

N.B. The white streaks are Starlink constellation passthrough trajectories

Starlink currently has 597 orbiting satellites they plan for more than 12k to be deployed. Amazon just got an approval for their own constellation of another 3k low orbiting satellites. Facebook and Alibaba will probably join this trend.
I'd rather live in an urban area during a pandemic. It's counter-intuitive but the access to testing and hospitals is very important.

https://theconversation.com/rural-america-is-more-vulnerable...
Yes.

It's funny; when people say "American ingenuity", I'm not sure what reality they're living in because it often seems like they're claiming we are somehow... inherently brilliant. Do they think we're genetically superior? Or do they think it's the water we drink? It's really a head-scratcher.

As you said: the real answer is of course that we attract talent.
My feeling is the modding scene as a whole and the people in it were much less mature in those days. See also fights between mod authors breaking people's worlds for unsupported combinations or attempts to block use in specific modpacks etc. And the ubiquitious overly modular mod so they could put each component behind its own adfly link.
It’s my opinion that underutilization is because of application rather than any more ephemeral thing like appearance. QR codes haven’t had a killer app yet, and they tend to be used for marketing rather than any critical tasks that rely on the qualities that make it a useful technology. My guess is this will change as it’s become more or less a requirement to have a cell phone to function in western society.
I would say, hot work reveals unsafe situations.

Unsafe situations cause lots of accidents.
>Government probably didn't know what to do with it.

Move it to somewhere remote? Anywhere but in Beirut would have been better.
>whereas the async frameworks are all pure Python.

No it's not pure python. It's a combination. The underlying event loop uses libuv, a C library that's makes up the underlying core of nodejs. The marker of "Uvicorn" is an indicator of this as "Uvicorn" uses uvlib.

Overall the benchmark is testing a bit of both. The event loop runs on C but it has to execute a bit of python code when handling the request.

>If it's being done via a database on the local machine, and the communication with that database is not being done by something like Unix sockets, but by direct calls into a database library, then that's obviously going to cause latency problems because the worker can't yield during the database call.

I am almost positive it is being done with some form of non blocking sockets. The only other way to do this without sockets is to write to file and read from file.

There is no "direct library calls" as the database server exists as a separate process to the server process. Here's what occurs:

1. Server makes a socket connection to database.
2. Server sends a request to database
3. database receives request, reads from database file.
4. database sends information back to server.

Any library call you're thinking of that's called from the library here may be a "client side" library meaning that the library actually makes a socket connection to the sql server.
Been thinking about this in various contexts recently: if corporations wield enough power to be country-like [0], would it be fair to say they can only be democratic if the workers have the power to elect and replace the board of directors?

[0] not necessarily in all regards: “monopoly on violence” will be absent, but having the power to define rules and ban sub-communities or to actually negotiate with governments rather than just do what they are told
My experience on a 9 speed bike is that you can safely get 8000km/5000mi out of a chain in a flat dry place like Texas. For me that was about once a year, and lubricating it 3x a year.

Once you add in bike racks/panniers, trailers, hills, rain, snow, sea spray, sand/grit, etc you may need to reduce service intervals.

There are different schools of thought about cassette wear etc. If you have a 10 or 11 speed bike, which have very thin/lightweight chains (9 speed chain is considerably larger/beefier) then you probably need to shorten your service intervals even shorter. 11 speed chains in particular seem to be very expensive and have relatively short lifespans.

That said, changing a chain on a bike takes about 2 minutes with the quick release links they come with now. It's probably more effort to take the bike to the shop than it is to do it yourself.
You can report a comment by flagging it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or, if it's really egregious, by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
> When things were done that way, surveillance was possible but it was expensive.

Yes, I mean I didn't suggest otherwise. What you're describing is a difference in degree, not kind. In principle not much has changed.

> It is extremely unlikely that your national postal service was routinely opening all of the correspondence you sent to a wide range of other parties, reading and analysing it, comparing it to who knows what, and using this information to their advantage but not necessarily yours.

This is historically incorrect: the US government is known to have used its vast resources on expansive surveillance, even before the age of information. The FBI was known to listen in on telephone lines, and was known to have run a sophisticated operation of deploying surveillance vehicles all over the US. If your argument is that surveillance was once more expensive, the counterargument is that state actors have always been the entities most capable of bearing this expense.

On the flip side, today, in the age of information, the market has produced tools that allow us to communicate via end-to-end encryption that has finally become somewhat insurmountable by even state actors. This is why the US government is actively[1] trying to outlaw warrant-proof encryption.

> PCI-DSS is violated all the time by huge numbers of businesses, often without them realising.

PCI-DSS is absolutely not violated "all the time", that's a really bold and baseless claim. Yes, you're right that from time to time, it can be violated, but quarterly unannounced audits are the norm.

> In any case, card payments are insecure by design, so I don't think citing them as an example of good policy here is a great idea.

I'm not sure that I agree. The EMV standard for payment cards is fairly robust.

> And of course PCI-DSS only affects card payments, not the many other payment methods used routinely by billions of people around the world.

This is...factually incorrect. What "many other payments" are you talking about? Outside of cash, card payments (either physical or card-not-present) constitute the vast majority of payments for the billions of people on the planet. If your argument is that most people use cash, then that's orthogonal to a discussion about the risks of digital systems.

> I'm not from the US, so HIPAA isn't much use to me. From various criticisms I've read, it might not be as useful as they think to those who are from the US either, which is a separate issue.

Then your beef isn't with the "Tech Giants", all of whom are American companies, under US jurisdiction.

[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-c...
Given the cost of burying lines is mostly in the labor/right-of-way stuff, we should be incentivizing fiber all over the place.

Helps that pesky Huwawei/5G problem the US keeps complaining about as well.
To fully spell it out, the causes of a company don't always align with those of everyone else. Profit motive alone is not sufficient to adequately align companies with the interests of broader society.

Which is why a market that is completely "free", where actors are not beholden to any laws or regulations, is not a good idea.
Here's a playlist where I was login my progress developing the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgjByP-EhdA&list=PL3pnEx5_eG...
What is interesting is how much power the owners of the newspapers in the past had. William Randolph Hearst of "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war" literally got America involved in the Spanish-American War.

More recently, the NY Times was a big proponent and probably helped drive a lot of the consensus that got America involved in the war in Iraq.

Compared to these, where Zuckerberg is not actually pushing an opinion but refusing to censor opinions, Zuckerberg is an amateur.

I think a lot of the hate that Facebook gets is from the old media that are seeing their influence wane and are blaming Zuckerberg.
Forgot the people who thought it'd be a good idea to contract welders to do the work knowing what stored nearby.
There once was a gas-man named Peter

On a dark night, asearch for the meter

Touched a leak with his light

He arose out of sight

And as anyone can tell by reading this, he also completely destroyed the meter.
There are ways to get unlimited service still, which is what my parents do. It's just a bit... hacky. Basically you get an LTE modem and SIM swap to it. The ROOTer mod of OpenWRT is specifically for using LTE modems and works quite well. There are some drawbacks, but it's certainly better than the 1.5 Mbps DSL alternative (which they keep as a backup / automatic failover).

On AT&T (technically a tablet plan) it gets deprioritized after 22 GB, but that's never been an issue for them, even the one month they did 500 GB. I've never seen their speeds affected. Costs about $20 or $25 / month. This is a riskier plan, in that AT&T could check the IMEI and shut it off at any time if it doesn't match (as they've done in the past).

The Sprint plan (hotspot plan with a public routable IP, $41/month effectively, but prepaid for a year at a time) does not get deprioritized, but it's probably not worth it unless you can get band 41. If you do get band 41 you'll see some very nice speeds though, at least download. But T-Mobile is beginning to shut down Sprint's band 41, and to my knowledge this plan is not permitted to roam onto T-Mobile yet. It's keyed in their system as a mobile broadband plan with a 20 or 25 GB bucket of data, however it has unlimited overage. I done hundreds of GB on it no problem. It exists only because of the licensing arrangement for Sprint to use the EBS band 41 spectrum.
The end result would be indistinguishable from excluding those others. They could even just do it with words on paper with a statement like "We're accepting 100 fewer students next year." followed the next day by "We're accepting 100 extra students from our preferred races next year".
>explosive fertilizer

Seems it may have been made for use as a straight explosive rather than fertilizer:
https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/12907955327014256...
The type of selection I was talking about is called "fitness proportionate selection"[1]. I prefer it, mainly because I am more familiar with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_proportionate_selectio...
This is tangential to your point, but it’s funny how sometimes the amount of information on a topic can ultimately be a detriment due to the dilution of truth over time.

I’ve been spending my free time working with an experimental library. Google stops returning relevant results for searches on this topic around the 10th result. While this is often infuriating and leads to countless hours deep in indecipherable library code, it is equally likely to stumble upon an in depth discussion among users about pros and cons of various solutions. This context is rarely captured for mainstream tools, and when it is, those authors are lauded for their ability to contextualize the problem.

What is most disappointing to me is how often we document “what” but not “why” when most of us NEED the context of “why” to make comparisons across different tools or approaches for our use cases.