skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...[China] which had handled nearly half of the world’s recyclable waste for the past quarter century."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-i...

It very much is true. In the context of this discussion, the bubble barrier works on plastic pollution, so we're talking about plastics and recyclables.
You do write it down for exactly that reason, but it doesn't make it permanently available in the way that you describe - much of generational knowledge transfer happens by living and working side by side, not just reading books that the elders wrote.
Do you think this game is going to explore that question in a way that changes or challenges you, or is it going to simply make a facile nod & gesture, while portraying some kitschy logos.

Do you think its actually going to attempt to challenge corporate culture?
Stripe and Square are more expensive than the prior regime. They’re more convenient but more expensive. It’s not clear there’s a benefit to consumers.
level 35 POM boss. residing in nexus!
Could they not hold an auction? Surely some other company could put them to use.
I found myself rolling my eyes a few times, but the core content was good so I didn't find it all that off-putting.

"Update: I have been arrested." did leave me slightly confused for a while though, probably due to the verbosity making me want to scan read.
They’re really easy and actually fun to get into. And of course Facebook and YouTube’s recommendation algorithms help a lot. You get to speculate about what’s going on behind the scenes and what not without so called rationalists ruining the fun.
Journaling as a Problem-Solving Tool (2004)
I work closely with a government agency. It's nearly impossible to sue (expensive, no punitive recovery) and yet still it's impossible to get them to admit any possibility of mistakes. They'll double down on the BS and circle wagons to protect individual actors and move folks around to ensure they still get pension. And this isn't even some front of line law enforcement stuff, it's boring small department stuff. Legislators and Governor are too busy to give any attention. (Even after I spending many thousands on campaigns and lobbying)
No-version is incredibly dumb for the simple fact that vulnerabilities exist.

If you make it hard for tools like Snyk to work with your language I'm not going to recommend it to anyone.

I actually like Golang in specific circumstances (backend simple micro services, anything docker, and utility binaries) but they picked the versioning scheme as the, "This is the dumb hill we're going to die on," that every language has in some fashion (ex: no case statements in python, perl 6 coming soon, it's 2001 and we like it that way for php, java... just, all of it).
With experience I have learned to stop relying on how the interview feels, but look more at the facts instead.

Some companies who did feel strict during the interviews actually were really good companies.

The opposite is true, I interviewed a company that seemed open minded and fun.

The interview in appearance was quite enjoyable, but with huge red flags. The CTO was always talking (super fast) and just wouldn't let me speak. I could ask only one question (during 1h) and was rudely interrupted in the end because he had no more time.

The CTO also said something like "If you join this company you will work with very competent engineers, smarter than you". To which I humorously answered while defending my pride, but probably ended up looking like someone full of himself.

Clearly this is not someone I would enjoy working with on a daily basis.
You can see it work in this video: https://youtu.be/n_KwF-gf0S0
For anyone curious, Bill Gates is 5'10", his father was 6'7". That's an inch taller than magician Penn Jillette.
https://amirarticles.com/trump-will-do-to-america/
Everyone knows what is happening in the USA now, but what will happen if Trump wins again? Its a common question in everyone’s minds including Americans and also the whole world. Our article What Trump will do to America explain many important points that are discussed on the base of what will happen if Trump wins or lose the upcoming elections.
When you use it to hide the breath of an alcoholic, yes.
Yes and no. It was the pinnacle in a series of bizzare behaviour from Tony while he was the Prime Minister. Certainly its the one people most remember of him. Keep in mind he ate it with the skin on as well. I think its also something people look out for, with the previous PM Kevin Rudd being somewhat infamous for eating his own ear wax on live TV.

When I was working on an archive project for the ABC, "tony eating onion" or some variation was the most common thing people searched for in the system when they first started using it.
Figured the least I could do after reading the article was crack the puzzle, and felt good that I did since I usually fail at these kinds of things.
Why?

Because they have the CEC name on them, and any company trying to use them in now on the hook for every CEC ticket ever issued to potentially be redeemed.
I recommend becoming familiar with the theory and making the decision for yourself.

My personal preference is pretty much the same as Tratt's, except I never had an aversion to LR grammars to begin with. I always found them intuitive. I had used them before understanding the theory.
Worth mentioning that there is https://crates.io/crates/rocksdb which Rust bindings to RocksDB.
These tickets have literally no other possible use that they need to be destroyed for 2.3 million dollars? Really?
Had my sons birthday at Chuck E Cheese a few months before the pandemic.

Surprisingly the pizza wasn't too bad.

The actual party experience was really well done.
That's most probably illegal to do. It certainly is where I live.
Your advice is good, and I agree that you didn't use specialized software to reverse the blur, but this

> I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel.

is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :)
I wonder how the world would've looked like if companies with valuation greater than 100 billion (adjusted to inflation) just wouldn't be allowed to purchase and\or merge with other companies.
I didn't set out to write a picasa replacement, but a number of PhotoStructure's beta testers are Picasa refugees. It's not anywhere near feature complete, but it's free to try in exchange for feedback: https://PhotoStructure.com
wow hard to believe he didn't get the tall genes, but got the smart ones. :D
That's wholly relatable.
I hadn’t really considered how much environmental waste those tickets produced. Would reusable coins be cheaper and better for the environment?

When casinos gave up coins in the slot machines I think they did themself a disservice. The noise and excitement from dropping coins and the feeling of having a bucket full of them was an important part of the experience. I wonder if patrons of Chuck E. Cheese will care. I certainly enjoyed carrying around a bucket of tickets when I was a kid. And enjoyed seeing what other people were winning. E-points sounds less fun to me...
The author even calls out that hot dog stands are regulated for cleanliness and possible danger to consumers.

Consumers do things not in their own best interest all the time. Think MLMs, rent-to-own appliances and furniture, upside down leases, etc.

For me the point of regulation is when some of these fintech companies start to hold deposits, which some of them represent themselves as doing even though the actual account is with a traditional institution. The consumer doesn’t necessarily know that though.

It’s sort of like regulating hotdog stands that are everywhere at once. There has to be something keeping those hot dog stands clean and the steam trays warm and full, and it apparently isn’t the operator’s good manners and sense of fair play.
PQueuer: Queue-up players; fair and unbiased
PQueuer helps in situations when we need to order a list of participants when they are all of same strength in an activity. No more biased differentiating factors like Order By First Name,Last Name, BirthDate, etc when the people are playing a board-game, per se ..
In all honesty, though, you could just take them all to a landfill, right?
My inner child is cringing at the thought of all those tickets going to waste.
I feel like this buries the lede massively: Qantas' system was run by Amadeus, who also run the booking system for some 200 other airlines [0]. If you could do this with Qantas and get all those notes, you could probably do it to any other airline and get them too. That would be bad enough, but it also appears that this issue (or one very much like it) has been reported widely at least back in early 2019.

So, either Amadeus didn't fix the issue until it was disclosed here (very very bad) or Qantas didn't update their booking system for a security patch (also very bad).

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/amadeus-airline-booking-vu...
Software is the prototype for actual bulshitter vapor ware modus operandi. I wonder why?
This was a thoroughly entertaining read, thank you!
Hey dang, you may want to look into this.

OP seems to have a history of repeatedly spamming their company's posts https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lanecwagner
Couldn't stand it either, since I (probably like most of us here) know about the "scan the 2d barcode to get the booking number, use that and passenger last name to see their flight details" trick. The kid draws out that first bit for too long. Although he did get clever and used the developer tools (again here he goes into boring details) to find the actual passport number as some hidden JSON, and some other internal airline info...
Thanks to globalization, this is no longer an issue! All you have to do is outsource it to somewhere where it is legal to burn it. Comparative advantage at work!
In what way does he still have everything? It looks like he’s got enough to sustainably generate about a median household income in my state. That’s a long walk from everything in my book.
Won’t fight you - I agree. Every packaging system has stupid faults, but I generally have fewer headaches with Maven than the rest.

Say what you want about Maven the build system (I’m not going to die on that hill, even though I also prefer Maven to virtually every other build tool I’ve worked with) - but Maven Central and Maven the Package Manager are solid.
Why do people still say that you can’t expect quality from open source projects when there are multi-million to multi-billion dollar organizations behind them?
Yes, but it would be a good feature add ;)

I’ll email you.
Is there a jurisdiction somewhere where using plastic straws has been made a criminal offence with jail time as a punishment?

Here (Australia) it was implemented as a civil fine and I assumed it would be similar elsewhere. But if that were the case where you live I’d agree that’s awful.

If that’s not true then you’ve just made a straw man argument.

Hell, even if there _was_ a place where they locked someone up for providing plastic straws to customers I’d argue that the issue is that particular law. Not the broader issue of legal ‘nudges’ to foster positive cultural changes.
Because v2 requires you change your import paths.
Namaste Alexa: Amazon signs up Bollywood superstar Bachchan
Passing wealth on to one's children is natural. It has been practiced time immemorial. The Jewish faith is predicated on the idea that promises made to Abraham can be fulfilled by giving the thing promised (land) to his descendants many generations after his death. Take away the idea that wealth should be passed down to one's children and the Jewish faith does not cohere. By extension, neither does the Christian faith.

The idea that you think needs to be defended - inheritance - lies near the root of Western mores. It is fine to question it, but it is the sort of thing that one cannot refute without a very, very strong argument.
Well, misreading the title as "God's" and clicking the link left me feeling somewhat disappointed.
Agreed! I played the star wars opening track on the conclusion of a script I wasn't sure would terminate. Very exciting. But turned out to have been triggered on an unexpected error case :(
Damn that sucks. I thought HN had better anti-spam methods.
I was so confused by the headline until I read the article. Was there really a parent out there with 7 billion tickets? Why would they destroy them instead of redeeming them?!
Clever, as usual. But, this could have been done in far less code in a language that already supports term rewriting, such as Mathematica.
> It was designed as "This is one of the simplest possible programs one can write.

Weeellll, I mean it doesn't totally succeed in meeting that design criteria. Fizzbuzz weeds out three kinds of candidates:

- candidates who are (currently) unfit for any programming job
- candidates who freeze up during the interview
- candidates who have never used the mod operator

I fault fizzbuzz a bit, because there are candidates in that last category who have several years of experience successfully duct-taping together libraries to meet product requirements, yet panic because they've never had to find the remainder of division in their language of choice. They might be fine for the rec you have open.

A fizzbuzz with fewer false-positive rejections might be something like "implement multiplication without using the multiplication operator".

edit: Oooh! "How many ways can you implement multiplication" would be a much more interesting warm-up/weed-out question! Allows the quality candidates lots of room to shine.
Isn't it fantastic to have zero ethics whatsoever?
I know the paper recycling industry is basically a myth but doesn’t anyone want a mountain of clean paper to pulp?
Why is it illegal where you live? Burn ban?
> Yes, all proprietary software vendors are stereotypical mustache twirling villains.

Markets force businesses to act in certain ways. You're making the fallacy of assigning personal malice to normal organizational dynamics. The goal of a good regulatory regime is to have businesses operate in the public good (from a 100,000 foot view).

Yes, if we legalized slavery, we'd have slaves and plantations again. If we legalized arbitrary pollution, businesses would kill the environment. If we got rid of employee safety protections, people would start losing limbs. It's a free market economy. That's what happens. If I produce a product for a buck less than you, I'll stay in business and you won't. That drives low prices and high efficiency, and then regulations constrain that to prevent those from happening.

My own opinion is that anything which isn't open ought to have a 2% sales tax on it. If my microwave ships with source code, mechanical, and electrical schematics, Walmart can sell if for $49. If not, they can sell it for $50. I think that's actually enough to push the economy to where everything which can reasonably be open becomes open. Mice, keyboard, printers -- all the basic stuff.

And the stuff where closed is the secret sauce would stay closed.
What about waste vaporization? There are far fewer things that are sensitive to being vaporized (meaning far less sorting needed) and the outputs are far cleaner.
I think it's unfair to only blame developers for this bad culture in our industry. At every layer of the stack the same things happen. At my local government they reformed child benefits and needed a new IT system to handle it, of-course we ended up with the over-engineered enterprise architecture of micro-services running on kubernetes, communicating over an event bus with CQRS, continuous integration and continuous deployment all day everyday, managed priorities with using agile on a scrum board, for a specification that did not exist because the law hadn't been finalised until half way through the project, all to get people money on their account. But did anybody in charge bother fixing the situation where their are 5 different commercial and not-for-profit institutions handling the money, acting as intermediaries
and thus profiting off the tax benefits for people to help them raise their children, No.
All successful companies, and these instruments are: 1) bonuses for successful work, which includes ability to resolve conflicts peacefully; 2) option to fire employees who don't work well, in particular, those who don't get along with the team and hire a replacement.

> I've never seen one that had specific systems for keeping tensions in check

It does not work perfectly, for sure. But in free-time opensource project, if you don't like something, you can always express this loudly, or just stop caring about this project, because leaving the opensource project is not a big deal.

Unlike employment, when if you quit or fired, you get a lot of stress, you are seriously motiviated to get conflict resolved.

Long time ago I read an interesting article about how hard is to be a manager in a terrorist organisation. You don't pay people money, at least not a lot, there's no contract, employees goal are likely very different from yours. They quit randomly, they do whatever they want, and it's hard to achieve some discipline. I think this is kind of similar environment as in open-source project (except, open-source contributers don't blow themselves up).
Alt-Left and the One’s That Left
I agree that intent matters, but insofar as a state governs with the consent of a majority (leaving aside questions of whether that consent is real), then taxation (incl. the level of taxation and its distribution e.g. welfare vs warfare) represents a broadly agreed mechanism of the state to provide the kind of safety net that OP described as levels 2 and 1.

Personally, I live in such a state (not the US), that has a safety net, and am happy to contribute via taxation. Not all my fellow citizens are happy to contribute and I accept that. I earn a decent wage and don't jump through hoops to minimise my tax. At the end of the day, people vote for governments that are more or less taxing.
I'm thinking about this song by Meat Loaf:

https://www.songlyrics.com/meat-loaf/everything-louder-than-...

"If the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back!"

"And I sure ain't in it for the wealth!"
It’s simply the (game theory) logical conclusion of capitalism and globalization
Eh, I immediately understood it meant CEC's holding company, I didn't even get the "pun" until I saw this comment.
France’s Exponential Case Growth
the economically disadvantaged shouldn't be missed in San Francisco? who will live 5 people to a house in a bad suburb to make sandwiches for tech workers? so much for the California dream.
I think it’s mostly paying the vendor who manufactured them.

The tickets were created, the vendor wants to get paid, but CEC doesn’t want the product and is in bankruptcy so they are trying to pay ~$1MM less than full price to settle with the vendor and keep the tickets from being sold to someone else.
This sounds like debugging with printfs.
Just to point out, these are just recreations of the logos that will be found in the game, so all credit to the artists/designers at CDPR, but I agree! It's such a cool diverse world that I'm really excited to see through my screen. To geek out on one thing in particular: I love the fact that they've built up old and new versions of some of the logos to add a sense of foundation to the corps in the game. All Foods, for example, has 3 logos, 1 that is old, 1 that is the older rebrand, and 1 that is their newest rebrand (maybe they're trying to hide something!) and it helps set in your mind if an area is older or newer due to the design found in an area. Such a smart detail that is so well realized.
The issue isn't Amadeus, it's that some airlines don't bother to use accounts with lower levels of privileges for operations which don't need full access. There are a number of different levels which are intended to be used for different purposes: for example, the credit card numbers are not visible to booking agents but can be accessed by the anti fraud department.

Some airlines just use a single "god mode" account for their whole e-commerce platform because it's cheaper / more convenient for their developers / vendors.
For comparison, China added ~30GW of solar in 2019. To make the GW of solar more comparable, one must adjust for capacity factors, which round to 1 for nuclear but is ~0.25 for new solar.

So China added the equivalent of 7 nuclear reactors worth of solar TWh last year.

They are also great at adding HVDC, which the US desperately needs.
It's not "company time", it's time in a human being's life.
Tesla Patents Metal-Air Battery Pack
Intellectually I understand the comparison (politically motivated destruction of businesses) but it's so tone deaf.

The scale and consequences of Nazi Brownshirts and Kristallnacht - 7k businesses destroyed, 30k Jewish men arrested, by a racist state that would eventually kill them - are incomparable to what's happening here in Seattle.
You may want to see dokku: https://github.com/dokku/dokku
Another thing to bring up is that even the Apple apps on other platforms still help increase Apple's mindshare. Which in turn may influence some people to go Apple on their next hardware purchase
Help us fix startup pitches
Gawker, Peter Thiel, the Brittle Grip and the Case of the Century
It's nice to live in a country where not only do various parts of the government actively try to help someone with a really bizarre issue, but no one got arrested (or shot) for bullshit trumped-up hacking charges. I can't think of many other countries responding well to 'hi I'm some random person and I used the PM's boarding pass and found out all this secret stuff'
Misleading claims of pulse oximeters on ecommerce sites in India
Hell, they're so not FAANG, they're not even in the acronym.

But I get it. If I were slotting tech companies into eras, they'd be before Facebook/Google, but after the real old school guys like IBM, AT&T, and Xerox.
> But take an objective look at all the other responses on this page. How many of them contain the hidden assumption that Republican voters are stupid? I see a few. You might not be able to see it right away. You have to read them a certain way. Some have been downvoted and are light gray. But they are there.

I'm not going to accept a couple of downvoted outbursts as evidence of a problem. it's hard to guess who might leave such comments & whether they are even authentic. I'm not even going to judge a lot of these people even if they are authentic & being mean. I don't know what they have experienced & perhaps they have some good reasons to be so upset as to have become uncivil.

> So, yes, this article has unleashed a new wave of hatred in the world.

That you don't like how they feel & seem scared of it is not what civics is about.

You are right though, that mentioning this kind of deeply politicized mistreatment of science will stir anger in some people, often anger people already harbored. Perhaps some of that hate is due. Perhaps uncivil forces are acting with greed & profiteering, destroying earth's resources & legacy, plundering our shared inheritance.
Setec Astronomy: https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-...
And even if they did want to destroy them, why would they need permission to do so?
They article mentions that they have the Chuck e cheese trademark on the tickets (which I took to mean they couldn't be sold)