skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced because as the article says, it's not realistic to recycle many kinds of plastic, and because I don't see the harm in safely burying garbage. In my city there is an old landfill which has now been covered in dirt and turned into a park, with a sledding hill and a bike park. If you didn't know better, you wouldn't even be able to tell it was a landfill before, and if properly managed none of that garbage will ever leak out - the city uses well water and has had no problems with contamination from the landfill.

If it is less energy intensive to create new plastics rather than recycling (which seems to be the case), why not just safely bury the old plastics and make new ones, it should be better for the environment anyways. Of course you should try to reduce and reuse before throwing out plastics, but if you have to get rid of them landfills seem reasonable.
The resources are effectively limitless, it’s not a big deal.
Yes.

Armed thugs, rape, fired crops, ... everything.
This is not so different from needing a Windows machine or Android device to develop software for Windows or Android.

(I suppose there’s an argument for making VMs available for development like Microsoft does [1] not aware of a comparable offering from Apple.)

[1]: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders [video]
Are there really still places In the US where people actually have to physically manhandle garbage into a truck?!
There are about three problems with the current forced WFH situation:

1. People simply aren’t used to it yet. The self discipline part, knowing when to work... and when to stop too.

2. You do need some sort of dedicated space. I’ve been working from home just fine for 20 years but I have a separate room for that.

3. Especially in tech, management may not have the knowledge to judge productivity. Measuring time the chair is filled in the office is much easier than evaluating a developer’s work based on just what they do.
This isn't a new thing; for instance see early 20th century antisemitic conspiracy theories (Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Naziism, etc). And for a somewhat more benign example, the Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy theories in the 80s and 90s. Some people just seem inclined to believe in vaguely occult lunacy, especially if it involves kids (as all three of these examples do).
Remembering the First TikTok Suicide
I've been rolling io-ts into an app I inherited and have been porting to TypeScript. If you know a little Haskell/Scala type FP, the docs are plenty. I think the lib could definitely have a shallower learning curve for folks coming from Go though (what my back end devs write mostly).
Staying at AirBnBs in the listed cities and working from there is quite likely cheaper than renting office space in Boston (probably even including airfare). So it’s not about “resources” as in money, it’s about being able to be productive working from all these places, especially when taking into account the time zone difference to other members of the team.
The printing press was arguably the foundation of Protestant faith, and arguably all of the other Christian sects. New technology has always been used to form and popularize these fantasies.

Faith has been a foundation of American society, I believe what has happened here is that the same mechanism that allows a person to believe in the fantasies of religion can be co opted to make them believe in other miracles as well.

I would not be surprised if Qanon becomes an actual faith in America, with the Donald as their Jesus. The high level of education in American society, while lack of any political power for any Religion combined with snide ridicule by educated, smart people has made more traditional faiths seem less potent. Thus we have this new “faith”.
> There are performance critical paths where passing a size_t is just unnecessary

You would still be able to declare your function as taking a pointer (instead of an array, which in this world would be a far pointer) if you need to

He's saying to deprecate char[] as a parameter type, not char
This is AI generated spam. Spam itself is not notable, and soon AI generated spam will not be notable either. But it's interesting to see the beginning where it starts showing up in the wild.
You mention easy to use tools for Rust. Can you be more specific?
One of the dairies nearby sells their milk in heavy glass bottles. They charge a $2 surcharge that's refundable when you return the bottle, and they reuse all the bottles they get that aren't damaged. I wonder how many cycles they typically get out of a bottle before it's no longer useful.
Quantifying Racial Segregation by State and City
But they are not “just trying to find the facts,” they are running advertisements next to it in order to make money.

I hope photos of my death are never used to help sell cheap t-shirts and truck bed liners.
Don't be daft, an average US salary will get you an above average life almost anywhere else in the world.
Digimarc have a product for exactly this. Not sure if they do the 1000 categories thing, but machine readable definitely.
In my country at least, the regular vehicle inspections mandated by law are not performed by some theoretical incorruptible government office, but rather by the same mechanics who are willing to perform the illegal modifications. You can imagine how well that works in practice. (Which is not to say that I don't agree with you in theory, but people don't work that way.)
Remote work at tech companies isn't something completely new, it just wasn't the norm. The good companies compensate employees for internet and hardware.
When I compared Elixir/Phoenix vs Ruby/Rails to build a web application a few years back, I ultimately stopped using Elixir because the third party libraries superficially seemed to be more immature and not as well maintained.

Most semi-popular RubyGems are in v1.0+, have contributions and bug fixes within the past few months, and have a feeling of community around them. There’s even huge companies like GitHub, Shopify, and Basecamp behind some libs.

Elixir mix packages felt abandoned. Most were in the low digits 0.0.x, no commits for over 6 months, and the docs seemed to have a lot of notes in them that it’s early, not maintained, don’t use in production, etc.

Has this changed recently? Can anybody speak to why the Elixir ecosystem feels more empty?
No not good, not everyone can or want afford paying for content.

You should have the freedom to choose to pay by having ads.

At least as long as it's a actually free and fair choice, i.e. the non ad payments are not overpriced.
Ominous map shows the entire West Coast with the worst air quality on Earth
Who is "the establishment" in this case? And who is "we"? I suspect the answer to the first question consists of direct or indirect Google shareholders. Some opponent.

Most small business would benefit from more competition for ad-placement and consumer eye-balls. Their savings would be passed on in the form of lower prices or greater investment in new products. Hard to see that as a loss for anyone.
Blockchain, too.
This one is a little peculiar to me. It looks like this person was just taking what "Q" wrote on 8kun and adding it to a website. It wasn't a discussion board or place where theories originate from. Though it looks like he took the website down on his own.
Is that everyone the same 2 days a week? Because its a problem if everyone chooses different days you still can't get those interactions.
Maybe this will accelerate RISC-v, we'll see
Thank u very much. Yes indeed it is the one!
Infinite jest by David foster wallace and only forwards - forget the author name off the top of my head. Infinite jest is pretty popular these days. The other I have yet to hear anyone say they have read.
Not sure what is intended, but it seems to have some bugs?

https://assets.opentoken.com/sha256/N1ShZ7kcVmH_-auZEGaGOS_b...

Ah nevermind, it's matching the curve against template fields so it makes sense that it would show the best match even when the match is poor.
Is it possible that folks substituted their commute for extra work hours? There’s really not much to do, socially, when everything is locked down. Some people might take it as a chance to be a workaholic (with the possible burnout not in mind). In the office, I am pressured by folks walking by into leaving “on time” (they don’t realize I often start later than them).
I would have thought Apple was a better strategic fit for Arm and likely to be able to pay bigger bucks too.
Remote work is massively inefficient for some things, even if it is much more efficient for others. Smart firms will do the efficient thing in the most efficient place and see gains across the board as a result.
What is meant by “both are valid”? What sort of validity is this talking about?
Exactly, I have a 1 bdrm apartment (in law) that I share with my wife. We alternate working at a desk in the living area, at the dining table or a folding table set up in the bedroom. I used to commute 20min by bike in the SF East Bay. I very infrequently go in when I need to do something in the lab (biotech company, not everything can be done remotely).

When I found this place I never intended for it to for it to be full time wfh space for 2 people.

If I knew I'd only go to the office once a month I could live in Minden, NV or something.
There is a difference between lies and conspiracy theories though. Lies have a lifespan after which they are exposed. Conspiracy theories are like lie factories, more lies will be manufactured to rationalize previous lies ad infinity.
I see. Well, I'm not as inclined to use uncharitable labels such as "scams" and "flim flam" though you are certainly entitled to your opinion based on your own values.

My view is that he has his own methods which clearly work for him, and he has achieved a level of fluency that I can confirm is quite good (I speak several of the languages that he does), so there's something there.

I think his general prescriptions are correct and track with my language learning journey. As to the specific prescriptions he makes, like the use of mini-stories on LingQ, I've not found them to work for me. Or his prescription to read and listen a lot before attempting to speak -- I don't agree with that, though it seems to work for people with his cognitive style (i.e. more introverted rather than extroverted). I don't think either of these detracts from the points I made above though.

As for self-published books, I'm not sure I have such expectations of self-published authors that I would be affronted if they didn't deliver on their promises, but I haven't not read anything by him so I can't assess.

He has a business (LingQ) but I don't get the sense he's really peddling it any more than any other business (most YouTube creators do the same -- self-promotion on YT is just part of the game), but I guess perceptions differ. Again you're entitled to your opinions, but I do feel they are rather strong compared to my own assessment.
guess you are stupid, since it works for pp, hdpe, e waste as well (i literally do that for a living)
Uh, if you think the article is about discovering the falling man's identity, then you didn't really read the article.
Separation is another step that needs to be taken somewhere else if not done by the consumer. The person throwing out garbage is the person responsible for the garbage and also the person that has the item in it's hand so they are both the best suited to sort it and the person that we should incentivize to do it.
A Good Text Is Like Good Wine
Try something pre-2010. The 2010s aren't really representative of his other work nor, to be honest, quite as good as his earlier books.
Hiring managers in tech need to realize they are working with high level learners. An expert in JavaScript can easily learn React, TypeScript, etc. Somebody who knows the ins and outs of Linux can easily learn Docker and Kubernetes.

Hire them, give them a week to catch up, and their off; or wait months to find a perfect match? Any developer with a few years experience knows how to pick up the next piece of technology, the same way everybody else does: read docs, search blogs and forums, ask StackOverflow, etc.
Pretty much everything on that list was the right-wing propaganda of it's time. You won't much if any factual reporting supporting any of it.
This is a weak argument. If you can’t shell out $100 a year then you don’t really care about your Apple customers.

The argument about needing Mac hardware is only slightly stronger, but again if you’re serious about the Apple market, you’ll find a way to get some kind of hardware at a price point that works for you. Unfortunately some developers think that price should be $0, perhaps simply spoiled by the idea that building software is some noble pursuit that should always have no costs associated with it, only pure profit. Nevermind that the true biggest cost is the ever increasing amount of time that must be spent writing and maintaining code, which can easily run in to the tens of thousands of dollars if you go by the average developers salaried rate.
A fee up-front like _taxes_ (VAT)? It is the government that subsidizes the disposal, and does it through the taxes that they charge everyone, so in fact exactly what you are saying it's happening.

If the tax depended on e.g. volume of packaging vs volume of content, or weight of packaging vs weight of content, that might be a different story and more useful. But even then not all trash is done equal, a paper envelope or cardboard is way better than a plastic one, even if it's bigger/heavier.
Do Apple actually work with Arm currently or is all their Apple Silicon stuff completely on their own? I don’t actually understand the issue they have with Nvidia but they seem to have one.
The thinking behind this sentence is the cause of the disease, but also the cure. If everyone would teach their children that this is how some people will try to fool you, the world could be a better place.
For Latin, the go to resource to start learning is the book Lingua Latina [1] which has an easy conversational style. You can understand a good percentage of the book without any a priori (see what i did there? :) ) knowledge of any kind. Concurrently with that, you might listen to the Latin language videos by Scorpio Martianus [2] who also does some videos in Greek.

[1] https://books.google.com/books/about/Familia_Romana.html?id=...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRllohBcHec7YUgW6HfltLA
And the CO2 ends up in the atmosphere, rather than getting sequestered in the ground...
How many engineers?
I didn't read their post as an argument against WFH, just that they happened to like their routine. I happened to bike to work, about 10mi per day. I rarely get on my bike now, sure I could, but I liked the routine and it really helped me get exercise. Like the OP I'm not saying everyone should do that, just that it worked for me. If I had to commute 2hr in traffic by car I would absolutely prefer WFH.
I don't think Apple would be allowed to buy ARM, there would be serious competition implications.
I think the separation between green and brown is more common in places where a lot of the glass is from beer bottles which usually come in those varieties.
No. I'm saying many (most) firms will still require offices. The shape of the office will change as firms realize which business functions work best in the office and which are best remote. This will take many years to shake out because not every firm will correctly identify these functions.
off topic: can you elaborate what a pattern account is? (not a native speaker)
Interesting piece. I wrote a similar one recently about the effects of an office exodus on central London property. So far some of my predictions have come to pass, eg paradoxical mini property boom outside London

https://zwischenzugs.com/2020/07/25/the-halving-of-the-centr...
As a paying customer of Freshpaint, my perspective is they are building a great product with a clear value proposition.

The steady stream of product improvements tells me they are still very focused on product development.
As I understand it, Apple has a special perpetual license for the architecture thanks to it being one of the companies that founded ARM. This deal shouldn't have too much impact on Apple.
Well... on the bright side I like what Tegras have been able to achieve. The Shields and the Switch are neat machines. Maybe we'll see some more ARM designs that can compete with Apple.
> I'd love to see a class action lawsuit keeping the people who lied accountable for the amount of additional waste in effort, resources that are used to separate and collect these separate streams.

The minuscule punishment that can be visited on the people involved in things like this won't clean up a molecule of the damage done, and won't be a deterrent for people who would do it in future (or who are doing similar things now.)

Revenge isn't a cure, executing murderers never brings people back to life. The problem is a system that gives a small number of people the power to cause such widespread damage for a relatively tiny amount of personal benefit. The amount of damage that has been done for a $10K bribe, or to keep a $150K/yr job, etc. is immeasurable. It's not scalable to track down or filter out people who will put their personal security or comfort ahead of yours, or your entire town's. We have to accept that the way that power is distributed is dangerously uneven, and consciously prevent that.

Also, let's not kid ourselves. This story will fade and be forgotten, and the practices will continue. The ability to stop powerful people from doing what they want to do isn't dependent on the consequences of what they do, but on the power that you have to stop them. Power comes from solidarity. They have it, through their command structure, and we don't. The American mind has retreated into various competing fantasies and myths; there's no chance for solidarity among the victims of these types of material harms.
Rust is very niche within FB and not used by the overwhelming majority of teams. It is less important to FB than C++, Python, Objective-C, Java, Hack, and Ruby.

That said, yes, it’s used some, but that reflects a few random teams having decided to use it (most notably hg and Libra), not some grand strategic decision.

Source: I worked at Facebook for four years, until one year ago.

(Incidentally, I’ve spent the year since then working exclusively in Rust for my day job, and I love the language)
According to Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens", it's as old as humanity itself.
Yea, the missing ingredient is darker dark matter :]
> best match even when the match is poor.

Yeah, a real application could have a score threshold.
Does this include plastic bags? I find that barely anyone recycles 7 or flexible plastic, so I'm not sure stores are gaining much from collection in terms of image.
If you are looking for more of magical realism Murakami has become known for, I highly recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. But really anything 1Q84 and earlier is good IMO.
Hah. I knew someone would take it super literally!

I’m just meaning without the in the ground stuff!
To get the neural network to do something useful you need to formalize some way of training it too?
On the other hand, packaging (and thus plastic waste) in Japan is next-level ridiculous. A fancier food present will be often wrapped in at least 3 layers, and I've counted u to 5: bag, present paper, normal box, group package, individual package.
There is at least https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee "An attempt at a viable alternative to Goodreads", in active development.

Blog post from yesterday: https://robbie.antenesse.net/2020/09/11/one-year-of-readlebe...

Edit: oh, there is also Bookwyrm, as mentioned in this megalist: https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
Hasura (GraphQL-on-Postgres)
How do you draw your 4?
The one I used is the "one stroke" 4 where you draw it from left, top, and then down.
You just stick out as somebody who's always complaining, mostly on the official forums.
Typo. He meant Patreon.
A lot more since you have to prepare for the interview / interviews. So there's several hours to prepare at least.
A very capable 2020 MacBook is $999 new and $849 certified refurbished.
Seems like good journalistic news would write:

* Pentagon said Iraq has a stockpile of WMD

* White house reports Japanese-American citizens will be rounded up.

* You don't need to wear a mask, so don't go buying them up, surgeon general said in press release.

* Collage is a wise investment, according to College administrators.

* You should fear $those_people because they will kill you, Senate discussed last night.

* Congress argues: Some civil rights are outdated and you don't need them anymore.

It's not news if it's opinion. It's news if it's a writeup of things that happen.
Why are we always blaming the public for being easily deceived and not the people who invest large sums of financial and political capital in the deception?
The Disinvitation
Much less demand, way back in the olden days of… 2005? Just after the horse and buggy. :-D
Do you have counter arguments to what was said in the thread or are you just projecting your own bias? It is pretty well known what kind of shitty things MS did to get where it is, if someone sprinkles insults on top of it on twitter does not make it less true.
If this goes through, I expect Nvidia to become the new Intel - a humongous, anticompetitive chip monopoly. Today, people refer to Intel as Chipzilla; tomorrow Nvidia will carry that moniker.
One suggestion I was given, and am putting into practice: develop a large vocabulary, something like 1000 words, in your target language. You can do this without knowing grammar or verb tenses, or anything and it will give you a leg up on any conversations, lessons, etc.

How to learn 1000 words? I'm using the Leittner method, aka Spaced Repetition, as implemented in the Anki flash card app [1] , and beautifully explained in [2].

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/

[2] https://ncase.me/remember/
I wish they went public. I’d love to invest in them long term
What does the emptying collection process look like for one of those barrels? I can only assume someone comes by, manually opens the lid and by hand takes out each of the smaller containers one by one, and empties them into larger segregated collection containers. Is that true?
Typo for Patreon
Yes my whole team will decide the two days to come in and meet.
I couldn't really talk to random people at a coworking space unless they signed NDAs, which would be hard to enforce. Lots of IP and other secrets. Do people really discuss their work with strangers at coworking spaces? I've never worked in one so thats interesting/surprising. Maybe some more generic programming challenges could be discussed vs product/research specifics.
It’s weird to think if we hadn’t had fossil fuels at all how badly it would have hampered human development. Could we have even got to modern development level without so much free power? It doesn’t seem likely. Perhaps the challenge would have forced us to come up with more imaginative solutions - I mean there’s oceans full of hydrogen for starters. And the sun would still be shining and the oceans still full of waves!
That's right, nothing is taken away from the user with my proposal.
Companies don’t compensate employees for the cost of their commute either. I don’t see the big deal here; the marginal cost of working from home is often pretty close to zero.
Most of people are "dumb enough" to believe what TV says, because they expect the government should put in jail everyone who openly lies for profit.