skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can absolutely be built economically, but they are hobbled by excessive regulation due to public fear.

This argument is akin to when congress accuses the US Postal Service of losing money and being uneconomic, when in reality congress itself mandated that it must be run that way.
While it's better than burning oil for energy, that's still a loss for carbon emissions, though. And you still need fresh oil to produce more plastic.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but this is not the end game. The end game is either:

~ 100 % reduction in plastic use.

~ 100 % recycled plastic

Those two goals are not mutually exclusive either. Yes, it might cost a lot of energy to recycle plastic. As long as that energy comes from a clean source, it shouldn't matter much.

Obviously, only the first goal reduces the amount of plastic in the ocean, soil, rivers, etc. I am hopeful that bacteria will develop that can ingest plastic, which would both get us rid of the waste, and limit plastic usefulness, but it can't really be counted on in the short term. And plastic waste has a mostly local, short-term effect. Carbon dioxide has a long-term, global effect. So I'd prefer it to be buried until it can be recycled.
Venus is Russian planet, Russian space agency director says
Cloned testicles let goats father the offspring of another male
Even though there is a book on Functional Programming in Go, I'd say, the entire idea really bends the language into an odd shape. Certainly one could implement map/reduce/filter (I think Rob Pike actually did create examples on his GitHub at one point), but the idiomatic paradigm of Go isn't FP. It's definitely not hard to beat in that arena! Now Kotlin or Scala on the other hand....
> Worst of all it normalizes the idea that one political party is smart and rational, and another is stupid and illogical.

Donald Trump is a single politician, and not the entire Republican Party. Having an opinion on one is not the same as calling an entire party stupid and illogical.

> the idea being repeated more, another swing voter who could go either way clings tighter to the Republican party.

If someone is a swing voter, and unsure which side to pick, why would reputable sources offering well reasoned advice lead them to cling tightly to the opposite (you said “tighter” here, which I assume was a typo, since you previously claimed they were a swing voter and so Therefore wouldn’t be clinging to either side yet).
This comment perfectly encapsulates what makes ham radio is so much fun. I'd argue that WSPR is even more fun than this.
I completely agree, yacc/bison are my goto tools - the big different i]s that you are building trees from the bottom up rather top down - if you're building an AST it probably doesn't matter, however a bunch of things (constant folding, type propagation) tend to go in the same direction so sometimes you can combine stuff.
I would argue that measuring productivity is only possible if you’re trying to detect the lack of it. Ie it’s definitely possible to see if someone’s slacking behind the rest if whatever output they’re expected to create is way less than the average of all colleagues, but at some point you have to accept that the confidence intervals are pretty vague.

In a situation where workload is at least sort of randomly distributed, which it normally is given time, there’s no other good explanation for statistical deviancy than simply less “work” being done.

But again, this only works for detecting problems. As you point out, and I agree with you, as soon as you attempt to measure “change in productivity” you’re on very thin ice.
Kim Kardashian Urges Others to Join Instagram, Facebook ‘Freeze’
Everything Apple revealed at its September hardware event today
A. CD Projekt Red is really good at telling stories, period.

B. Open world 1st person games are uncommon, especially big-budget ones

C. The Cyberpunk style universe is pretty uncommon as well, especially in real-time RPG/action games.

Yeah the universe is a little "standard" cyberpunk, but I think this is good simply because the standard view of this universe is very under-represented, and there is a lot of room to tell some very interesting stories in a real-time format.
This is a really bad idea. Tech companies are very aggressive about chargebacks, and it's common to find your account permanently banned in response. In Google's case, that might cost you all of your email, all of the paid apps on your phone, and all of your personal photos.

As a general rule, do not try to initiate a credit card dispute or chargeback with any company you ever intend to do business with ever again.
I'm hoping he's not the best (or least bad) option then...
I think it might be easier to just have machines learn to recognize the top 99.9% of all things thrown away and leave the rest to a a small group (or landfill).
You do pay for the electricity cost. Assuming the Rpi consumes 10W and is on 24/7 and your electricity cost is $0.15/kwhr : 365d * 24h * 0.01kW * $0.15 = $13.14/yr in electric costs.
I might be in the minority, but I don't read you as being a shill. It's a reasonable framing of the problem, i.e., not as a problem of production but of disposal. We already have markets, taxes and subsidies around the waste disposal lifecycle. What if we simply left it to waste disposal firms to run?

I suspect there is criticism in two areas, one in that putting the costs on consumers is either unreasonable or impractical. I don't agree it's unreasonable, but concede that it may be politically undesirable. The other is that waste disposal firms are likely to continue to do harm in the form of dumping waste into oceans (or similar approaches), which I see as fair. I'd be in favor of pursuing disincentives to such practices.
Yeah, I wish we had a president who actually cared about this and made it a priority, instead of tweeting bullshit.
One thing I don't often see in the discussion of parser technology is what stage in the development cycle you employ a certain strategy.

A serious compiler will inevitably use a hand-written parser. Once your language needs mature IDE support, you will need a parser that not only produces good error messages, but is also error tolerant, e.g. a local parsing failure does not result in a global cascade of errors in your editing environment.

But that's not the stage where grammars and parser-generators shine. LR(k) grammars accept the complete class of deterministic context-free languages, allowing you to produce an efficiently parsable language with no ambiguity. The grammar itself can be easily modified to introduce new syntax, just by updating some production rules, and it also serves as documentation to incorporate into your language specification.

Sure, sometimes you have to deal with shift-reduce and reduce-reduce conflicts (akin to static type errors), but once you get the hang of it, parser generators become instrumental tools in language prototyping. Moreover, current advancements in LR parsers address a lot of these drawbacks.
I'm waiting for Try and Either in Java. Multiline text blocks are good but not enough.
I mean, without knowing anything about you or your company other than what you posted above, it's hard to say. But in my experience the industry could use more morality based hiring standards, as well as morality-based repercussions for bad behavior. Kudos to you.
They could give the members of the trade-in program an additional discount for not including the charger. It’s not a reason to make the charger an add-on cost for everyone.
Even this assumes that people will bother to even transport the heavier alternative. There are places in the world where goods just won't be available anymore. Doesn't affect me, but not every place on the planet gets to make choices like "just switch to glass".
Another project, called Cloakview.ai, is an effort to build technology to outsmart Clearview AI’s facial recognition system

Long Tran, 17, built a tool to help protect people from harassment on Twitter

I mean this at least gives me some hope that there's awareness within GenZ about the negative dynamics of social media.
If you’re writing code like this I can highly recommend http://www.jooq.org/
Your point about multiple points of failure is well made, but one of the problems with the constant focus on the admirable efforts of the Internet Archive here and elsewhere is precisely that the many other archiving and digital preservation efforts go by relatively unheralded and underfunded.

Having said that, the spotlight on the IA does give opportunity to raise the profile of web archiving and digital preservation generally; we just need to be careful not to invest everything in any one initiative - as the parent comment fairly points out.
The DMCA process with GitHub and most hosting sites is very straightforward and mostly automatic, I don't see why it would be a problem. With most older works it's nigh impossible to figure out who owns the copyright anyway.
I think that is the point? To reduce legacy wealth and force each generation to compete on a level playing field
Ask HN: Full-content index sites? (recently posted)
Looking for the full-index search tool for _content_ of sites linked on news.ycombinator.com. I've searched hn.algolia.com extensively, but can't quite sift through the noise of other posts. (It turns about all the keywords: machine learning, index, hacker news).

What are the two hn, full-content-indexing sites (.ml domains, I think) that were recently posted to hn?

Once I find the full-text index, I'm looking for an article (3-7 years old) about one man who balances turbine blades for ~MW steam generators by hand, in his backyard in southern appalacia.
Sorry about your submission. I too felt it could, and should, be discussed in objective terms. I was uncertain about posting it, however, because I feared it could trigger the worst behaviors in our community.
To have an economist leading off with a moral argument tells you how strong the economic argument is. (not strong)

A view toward growing the economy would prefer the riotous living, because it moves more money around. Note that in almost any other context, Friedman is concerned with impediments to economic activity. Yet here, we are led to believe that high levels of economic activity are bad or immoral for some reason?

And of course "riotous living" throws off all sorts of tax revenue in addition to revenue and profits. And since such tax revenue is realized earlier than the death tax, it is more efficient.

The irony of this letter is that Friedman gets it right--the death tax exists to encourage the expenditure of wealth during life--but somehow thinks that is a bad thing.
I think Kindle has proven that people are fine with paying less for something ad supported. I think the better option is just more businesses giving zealots the option to pay more for the same thing without ads.
You probably feel that way because the tabletop game that CD Projekt's game is based off of kind of defined the genre.

Calling Cyberpunk cliche is like calling Lord of the Rings cliche; it makes no sense because they invented the cliches.
> We should build reactors like airplanes instead of airports. You get your airplane design and factory approved, then you can churn out thousands. That's the hope for microreactors.

Good there are some people with a sense of safety and this is not the case. A nuclear reactor is not a plane.

Maybe you should question the opinion of a lobbyist first before you start repeating their ads.
This is another once-in-a-lifetime event. It seems they are happening more and more often.
I'm not looking for an apology, or remorse, or a sudden revelation. But an understanding of the work they do and WHY it might receive that perception is a "passing" answer, IMO.
It's a sure sign of a public school boy, which I associate more with being posh than being very rich.

I wouldn't expect someone from "new" money to wear red chinos.
Alas I'm not one either. I would love to make my own language. But I definitely don't have the skills to do so at the moment. For now I've decided I'm better of contributing change requests to existing languages.

Edit: I would like to add that I once had your optimism and enthusiasm for my projects. I didn't quite manage to achieve them, but I got an awful lot further than most would have predicted and I learnt a great deal in the process. So all power to you.
Not OP, and I'm not sure I advocate for drawing such hard lines, but I hold a similar enough view that perhaps this will be of interest to you.

I do harbor similar opinions about people who have previously or currently worked for the government, or any organization that behaves in a way inconsistent with my ethical framework. I strive to see things as close to the shade of gray that they really are and act accordingly.

I more or less believe in free will and thus the responsibility for one's actions is one's own. The world is complicated and actions must be viewed in context. My opinion of someone who works for Google as a lead on their ad-tech will be worse than someone who works for Google X or someone who's on their first job out of college. My opinion will improve drastically if they leave Google on ethical grounds, or show remorse for their time there as an ex-Googler.

I think that on the surface level there are things big tech does are positive for society but the second and third order effects are frightening and negative in ways that are hard to bound. There's no way I can see to disentangle that from your personal responsibility for your actions that serve to advance their aims.
I'm not sure there's really a meaningful discussion to be had about a tweet. Not least because Y Combinator (in my opinion) isn't innovative in terms of its contract terms (although maybe someone can correct me - not sure anyone around here knows about that sort of stuff).
But Government is owned by its people, who are effectively shareholders of a corporation.
If safety costs were not high, then suddenly the boogie men might be correct about the dangers?
> Are you going to force products to use higher cost and higher impact materials like brass and aluminum?

The post above you didn't suggest using higher impact materials like brass and aluminum, they suggested making manufacturers pay for externalities which would be the case for plastics or metals.
I find it somewhat odd that Peter ascribes the valuing of stability and backwards compat to some weird Google-specific mindset, unheard of in other circles.

Instead, you can observe the same thing with many other ecosystems/platforms once they have reached a certain scale.
Ask Microsoft's Windows team or the Linux kernel maintainers about the importance of keeping existing programs running. Or maybe the stewards of other programming languages like C or C++ can tell you about the difficulty of evolving a language when you have a gazillion lines of pre-existing code to consider. How long does it take the world to phase out support for obsolete SSL/TLS versions, even in the presence of well-known weaknesses?

It seems to me that the more users something has, the more thought has to be put into how not to break them.

Isn't programming in the large exactly the kind of thing Go set out to tackle? Placing a high value on stability appears only logical then.
> Nobody claims to be working class

I think "Working class" is a distinct thing from "Lower class."

At least here in the US, I know a fair number of people that would claim the label "Working class", though I doubt any of them would claim to be "Lower class."

"Working class" is a synonym for "Blue collar" to many people.

"Middle class" is less of a synonym for "White collar", but I think that distinction exists for some people.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf]
> That is to say, all things equal, the interviewer has most likely more incentive than the interviewee to go straight to the point, and thus perform a technical check early in the process.

I would think that any "straight to the point" hiring process would be "straight to the point" because it avoided the technical interview process:

A) there's not much you can do to entirely avoid problems with work performance and B) technical knowledge can only be sussed out so far in an interview, period, before actual work performance in the context you're hiring the person for can be evaluated.
One option is to work for academia on pure research, but you have to avoid defense applications which is tricky. :-( It's not for everyone though.
Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox (jan 2020)
They clearly lied about things that are relevant to the stock. And when he was directly speaking to investors.
"The fraud cycle follows the business cycle."
Not sure if it was the case for Chuck, but a small percentage Christians strongly believe that charity should be anonymous because it actually says as much in the bible.

I'm not a Christian myself and definitely not rich at all, but I do prefer anonymous donations.
"immediately"? In nuclear terms it's not earlier than in 10 years. Later being more likely just like more expansive.

Luckily nobody besides the Michael Shellenberger Fan Club is falling for this line these days.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china...

https://www.wired.com/story/since-chinas-ban-recycling-in-th...

You know how they say the "cloud" is just some other guy's computer? Recycling can often be some other guy's landfill.
`|` is bitwise-or in many C-style languages.
Nobody gets paid for the value they bring. People get paid by how much it would cost to find and onboard a qualified replacement.
PS in case anyone stumbles on this and wants to look deeper, I just recollected one of the pioneers of this sort of treatment:
The Gerson Institute - https://gerson.org/
There's a whole research field about doing that actually.

Here's the reference book on the topic: https://sonification.de/handbook/ (PDF is on the right menu)
I know them. Maybe I'm just an old fart and "set in my ways", but it's not even "nice to have" for me when it compromises the general haptics of the environment, as in dragging it down with sluggishness.
Hollywood’s Tenet Experiment Failed
The right balance would be to let nuclear meet the same safety standards as other power sources, instead of far higher ones.
Wouldn't care, its hardly dangerous.
It's much easier to collect trash in dump sites in flood-prone areas for example than from a river. Concentrated trash in a smaller body of water won't be much easier to collect than the status quo given how much concentrated trash there already major Asian rivers, especially when you consider how much maintenance a great bubble barrier would require.

We don't need new solutions.
Developed countries have already solved the problem of river trash with waste management, but since it's not glamorous enough, people only fund these well meaning flashy projects that could create more environmental harm than they prevent.
You may be confusing “right direction” with “my direction”.
I fear climate denial and the anti-science attitude of the current administration will have enduring negative effects in the American economy.

I am sure we can and should discuss politics in objective terms. This is not about political parties, but about a single person.
Not to mention the fact that California is still emitting far more CO2 then it should in order to keep the climate disaster at bay.

Any comparison between current carbon savings and emissions of natural disaster would be an exercise in irrelevance.
The D700 was not very operational as they didn't think it through very well. Cooling was an issue as was the software loaded on. Lots of bugs. This new IORS discussed in the article addresses much of that. What has been working tirelessly are the two Ericcson HTs.
UniFi BeaconHD and Smart Power Plug Review
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amounts generated are manageable and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
Is this like....a rhetorical question? Of course no one actively wants them, but it's just a thing to transport like any other. I also don't want sewage or slaughterhouse waste transported next to my house(very smelly) but it has to be done at some point.

Let me ask you a question then - have you actually seen those railroad casks for nuclear waste? They are incredibly resilient, I'd be far less worried about having those travel through my city than living next to a 70 year old chemical plant(which I do).
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Sure, nuclear waste isn’t sent for long term storage until it’s spent many years in a cooling pond radiating away the fastest-decaying and thus most dangerous components. After that it’s much less dangerous and frankly no more worrisome than plenty of industrial chemicals that are shipped around in traincars.
I believe anyone saying hyrdrocarbons are inexhaustible is saying one of two things:

According to economic theory, as we deplete known reserves, hydrocarbons will become more and more expensive, until it is so expensive we stop trying to pump it, thus, we never use the last drop because it is too far underground.

OR, they're talking abiogenic or "deep gas" theory, which supposes the earth produces oil without having to go through the trouble of millions of years of dead algae. Apparently oil has been found with abiogenic origins, but never in commercially significant amounts.

Either way, oil fields do on occasion recharge themselves and it's disputed why this occurs. Modern theory is "I guess there's a reservoir below the reservoir" and deep gas theory says "The earth is the reservoir and it will keep us topped off"

There does seem to be a pattern where the theory you subscribe to has to do with your economic theory. If you think there is plenty of oil, you will sell what you have now at a cheap price. If if you think oil will run out, you keep reserves untapped until the price goes up. Interesting gamble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Formation
True civic engagement is inherently bipartisan or nonpartisan; it pursues moderation and consensus. Taking a position for or against a candidate (as in, not just e.g. a few policy positions from any given campaign) is the very opposite of actual, genuine civic engagement.
Yeah, wish more educators had this point of view
https://www.founderquestpodcast.com/episodes/what-is-penetra... talks how they (SaaS) went through the process.
> Have you ever burned ordinary plastic? The smell is horrific, there are some truly nasty poisons being released.

Only if you don't use enough oxygen. Except for PVC plastic does not have any bad atoms in it, if fully burned the exhaust is completely safe (it's just water and CO2).

A proper, hot, incinerator will burn plastic very safely.
No, energy won't be free with "enough solar panels". There's this thing called night. And seasons. And transmission losses.
Not sure if it's reasonable to expect people to badmouth their current employer in an interview, especially when you don't know the result of the interview.