skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: "game changer", I was referencing the comment by war1025 that polyclonal anti-bodies were a game changer.

>Sounds like Trump got a similar cocktail from a different company. The speed of his recovery and the fact that him having Coronavirus isn't even part of the news cycle anymore seems like a strong indicator that the treatment is probably a game changer.

>A lot of really smart people with decades of experience in the field, and a direct clinical role have collected a variety of approaches that seem to work. Unfortunately, none of them have characterized Vit D as a 'game changing drug.'

Sorry - I'm more impressed by a single randomized open label, double-masked clinical trial than I am by argument by authority. Perhaps we can check back here in a couple of years time ...

I can't help remembering how actual doctors in the field were telling us back in February to "get a flu shot", or "masks only work for doctors who've been trained to put them on properly". I'm so happy that I'd already purchased my N95 masks in January while you guys were asleep.
Do you translate English and Spanish into your native language in your head, or can you parse the meaning fluently without doing so?

As an English speaker I lose track of what people are saying in films. It took me forever to learn how much what people say in films matters and isn't just background noise that fills in the space around action scenes. The combination of visual and music is usually enough to derive the meaning and feeling anyway.
I was always a fan of "Nuke the whales" myself.
Someone at the board suggested it, and if anyone else opposed it, they would lose their seat as a racist.

That is effectively being forced.
I read somewhere that a reusable bag emits 3000 times more carbon than polythene bag. No one is going to reuse a reusable bag 3000 times, so having carbon tax is going to have opposite effect on the case of plastic.
No. Participate in politics to force industries to adopt environment friendly practices and production. Be more full proof and apply the same rules to import/export.

This is how oil, fast food, meat, luxury, etc industries want you to behave. Recycle, reuse and reduce was a failure which was proposed the same way you did. Consumer responsibility could be an additional measure but not the main focus.

It's their fault first and foremost.
Alas no, you can' recycle something that was made with recycled material. It gets at most one reuse if it was made out of 100% virgin plastic, everything else is throwaway, the recycled material poisons the rest.
My understanding is that, at least in NYC, the paper is pretty much all turned into pizza boxes.

Which are brown. You don't have to worry about the inks or "substandard" or whatever". And then the pizza boxes aren't re-recycled because of grease.

You suggest we stick to trees instead of recycle, "for paper". But the whole point of recycling is to turn paper into pizza boxes (and presumably also our Amazon shipping boxes, etc.).

It sounds like you're trying to argue against recycling paper... when the reality is it's a huge success, when you realize paper is recycled into cardboard.
We use a milk/eggs/etc delivery service operated by a local farm, we’ve returned 100s of washed glass bottles without breaking any. They’re thick bottles designed for reuse, they’re not fragile. Despite that, the empties are a tiny fraction of the weight of a full plastic bottle. It seems like a pretty a clear, unmitigated win vs plastic with a local service.
This looks great. I'm looking forward to this and swift-numerics maturing.

If you haven't seen it, check out the 2018 WWDC session "Embracing Algorithms" (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/223/). It's worth watching, even if you don't work with Swift.
I have thought about this a bit and I wonder why can't you just have a return fee for the "non-single use" (probably glass) container. This would not be unheard of, if you've ever bought the expensive milks that come in a glass bottle you will get money if you bring the container back to the store (at least where I live). Also things like kegs and propane containers operate this way.

The problem is that this system at scale would require a widely accepted standard of "container", otherwise people would just accumulate an endless number of different containers for different restaurants so nothing ends up being reused.
Exactly, the new stuff is too cheap compared to the recycling option only because we don't properly account for the long term costs of the new goods.

I'd like to see the cost of waste and re-use placed entirely on producers. If you sell something you have to accept it's waste back. I think we would see a big shift to reusable durable containers.
I had a friend who said he would never consider this type of work because there's way too much sitting... and I'm like wow that's actually one of the _easiest_ problems to solve!
All plastic should be considered single use because even when recyclable it only gets to do that once and only for about 1/3 of the material.
Detail info about his treatment been discussed by TViW https://pca.st/episode/015f8d9c-7c9b-443a-a7eb-3bdf06e9602d
Education in China works exactly like that.
Buxiban until late night for _all_ kids (like wearing a cap in korea years ago)... 0 over-generalization.
I'm really sick of this "chinese-cultural-relativism free pass" (with a little paimapi拍馬屁 included)
That 1.3 number is generally accurate, it varies a bit by type of plastic and end-item requirements.

BUT, that 30%, it’s not post-consumer recycled plastic.

It’s the manufacture grinding up the runners, sprues, and bad parts. In the industry it’s called “regrind”. [0]

So if they were trying to tell you it was post-consumer, that was probably misleading.

(Products that use post-consumer recycled plastic will almost always say so, as it is a marketing angle)

[0] https://knowledge.ulprospector.com/1468/pe-regrinding-plasti...
> I don't see why all the fanboys get their panties in a knot when people point this out.

People keep saying this but I always see way more critiques of Tesla and Elon than the opposite.

My opinion on the matter is people love pushing back on whatever appears popular. Whether or not it's just a few idiots on the internet with little to no real influence and transform into the powerful strawman others love taking down.
I bought the pro version and really appreciate this app.
Result from 1,000,000 games:
Switching wins: 667,299
Staying wins: 332,701
Glass is 100% recyclable infinite times with zero loss. If you shatter it, you can just melt it and reform it again.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24439612
All human actions have resource costs, trees and paper need absurd amounts of water, specially given that companies use pines and eucalyptus as base material for paper pulp production both species are always starving for water

The reality is that the system requires pigovian taxation to internalize their natural externalized costs, capitalism and specifically our modern version of neoclassical neoliberalism loves to socialize loses and privatize profits, we need public action against that

If you wanna hear my angle, I'd go for making Senates and congresses across the world secret, secret ballots, secret voting and secret deliverations and debates

If you wanna know as to why read on James DAngelo's Toxic Transparency Paradox, his congressional investigations on the systemic benefits of secrecy can be found on http://www.congressionalresearch.org/
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Tougher plastic is more valuable. Laundry detergent bottles, milk jugs, yogurt tubs. Picture what would happen if you crushed the item in your hand. Would it crack and splinter? Trash. Would it rebound, unblemished? Probably worth recycling.
It's not. Broad studies and broad claims don't work like that.

There is a lot of correlation between immigrant populations across the board, though.

As for income difference... 1.45 times? How about 4-6 times? Unless you seem to think that they would be going to the mythical average UK income area. And let's not forget that there's plenty of EU countries with high income levels. You can get an apartment in Berlin for roughly 2x the rent of an apartment in Bucharest... and get 4x the income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Here are some things that can be straight up disproven:
* Violent criminals don't migrate en masse with completely open borders
* Economic migration doesn't happen, without severe hardships(drought, famine, etc)
* Asylum seekers aren't invading armies, that seek to expand war to other countries
Sorry, could explain more simply what it is that you are asking?
Where is she from?
> Personally, I am waiting until Tesla's competition gets their act together and starts producing more EVs.

Market share of new BEVs in Germany, January 2020 to September 2020:

Volkswagen-Audi-Porsche: 33%

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi: 18%

Hyundai-Kia: 13%

Tesla: 12%

Mercedes: 9%

BMW: 8%

You don't have to wait, the competition is already outproducing and outselling Tesla in Europe. And all of these car companies have new BEV models in the pipeline that are going to further erode Tesla's marketshare, because Tesla has nothing in the pipeline for the European market over the next couple of years.
You don't necessarily want it degrade, most likely you don't want it anywhere near the landfill. You want it to be recyclable, and this recyclability makes it much less worth keeping in the user's mind.
I see people trying to recycle pizza boxes all the damn time. I just shake my head.

Most people don't know how to properly separate their garbage.

We would be better off if everyone just produced less trash full stop.

Why is everything in the super market wrapped in plastic 2-3 times?
So are you talking about "activists" in HR, or management? I don't know what you're talking about with respect to taking from the "overrepresented" and giving to the "underrepresented". Under- and overrepresentation is unusual wording for salaried employees in an institution.
> Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day

"Microsoft has no taste": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KdlJlHAAbQ

as true now as it was in the early 90's.
I haven't followed much with Seth Rich since a couple years ago. I remember saving these points from a Zero Hedge article:

1. Kim DotCom said he knew Seth Rich and knew he was the leaker. He tried to Mueller to take his testimony about Seth Rich but he wouldn't reply to his emails.

2. "two men working with the Rich family - private investigator and former D.C. Police detective Rod Wheeler and family acquaintance Ed Butowsky, have previously stated that Rich had contacts with WikiLeaks before his death."

3. Friend of the family Ed Butowsky says there's an FBI report "establishing that Seth Rich sent emails to WikiLeaks."

4. Private investigator and former D.C. Police detective Rod "Wheeler also claimed in recently leaked audio that Seth Rich’s brother, Aaron – a Northrup Grumman employee, blocked him from looking at Seth’s computer and stonewalled his investigation."

6. "Metro police detectives claim that Mr. Rich was a robbery victim, which is strange since after being shot twice in the back, he was still wearing a $2,000 gold necklace and watch. He still had his wallet, key and phone."

Has any of this changed or been questioned since then?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/contradictions-set...
She made those statements well after the story was run and the fakes had come to light.
It's an example. And as a Tesla owner - Tesla is shit.
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This is incredibly sad. My favorite restaurant in the world closed in San Francisco - its such a tough time for that industry.
oops not that anyone cares but i realize my comment might be misleading. i owned the aston for years, and loved that car more than anything, but once i bought the tesla i owned both for a few weeks, then decided to sell the aston because the tesla was so superior (for me).
If you don't account for the externalities of climate change, this is true. The true cost likely makes recycling economically productive.
Just 6 should be fine, the rule is "not over half", so half is ok.
The first is not well defined, the second is and as long as we are talking countable infinity, it is not. (In the uncountable case you are running into problems with definitions again.) As a matter of fact, you will not hit almost all numbers. However, you will almost surely have picked a point in any fixed interval, and that is meant with order reapers over long enough timescales.

For illustration, you are almost guaranteed to not win the lottery, but when you play again and again, then after something like 14 million times playing (for the German Lotto) you will win, and again after something like 28 million times playing, and so on, so you expect to often over long enough timescales, and you can start to impose additional constrains, for example winning with consecutive numbers, or the first few primes. And after a long enough timescale you start to win again with these additional constrains.
You can also recycle broken glass, creating new glass from melting glass prices costs less energie then creating glass from scratch.

Through there are limits for white glass this is much less the case for brown and green glass.
In addition to replacing single use plastic bags with heavy weight reusable bags. We can't reuse bags any more due to covid19. So now we are single using heavy weight reusable plastic bags.
I have done so for a pretty long time and no, such behavior is not common for non-dickish people. If anything, people in the countryside tend to be a lot more relaxed and the situation forinti describes sounds like some old grandma who thinks the youth these days can't do anything right.
Which one? But yeah I don't think we are going to fair any better.
When it comes to track times and races. A win is a win. That is an absolute fact.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bgxie8/electri...

It's also funny how you claim it's PR. When it's actually physics at work when it comes to low center of gravity.

http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/centre_of_gravity.html

http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/age11-14/Mechanics/Statics/te...
Yeah - I think that drive to learn and improve also directly relates to what peter norvig touches on.

I think a big part of _keeping_ that drive if you have it (or cultivating that drive if you don't) requires a sort of being able to experience delight / happiness from learning new things. Even the little things.

Like today, I learned a tiny shortcut in writing rails routes. Not a huge game changer obviously, but little things like that make me smile!
Instead of just using an actual good language?! Go is the problem!
We’d be better off burning our trash at peaker power plants when the sun isn’t shining, the wind isn’t blowing...etc.
> you should be able to break it down to it's constituents and refine it to something indistinguishable from the normal feed stock. Woukd it be horrendously energy intensive ? Most likely!

Or ... just burn it for energy, and thereby pump less oil.

Sure you'll need more oil for more plastic, but you come out ahead because by burning the plastic you save some oil.

This whole plastic recycling stuff makes zero sense.
A metal pen isn't going to have a particularly adverse effect on its environment the way a plastic one is; thus, it doesn't particularly matter if it degrades.
You and your Stockholm syndrome.
> the practice disenfranchises the majority and subjects them to the rule (=taxation, among other things) of a minority that is hostile to both their interests, and, indeed, to their way of life

The taxation argument rings a little hollow given that so many of these ostensibly disenfranchised Democrats face negative effective tax rates.

Whose way of life is being threatened? What's being forced on you? Which blue state is being hamstrung in its attempts to bring utopia to its people? If liberals would be more honest with themselves, they'd concede that the GOP poses no obstacle at all to their progressive plans for their own states. The only thing the GOP is obstructing is progressive plans for red states. But that's just another way of saying those voters have rejected what you want for them--and once you concede that, your complaint isn't about democracy any more.
And lest this sound myopic! At least in Portland, the pizza boxes can be put into composting bins, including the plant-waste bins that we put out next to garbage bins.

So the paper does, eventually, go to the landfill and become sequestered in the typical fashion.
Good question, I believe it depends on the landfill?

Bacteria probably need the right conditions to efficiently break down materials, cellulose is quite tough.

Some landfills capture the released methane and burn it (to avoid atmospheric pollution), which seems like a decent solution (even more with power generation). Some of the material will remain undecomposed (or take a really long time) so it is a net carbon sink. I think this depends on properly sealing landfills and arranging extraction infrastructure.

Seems like a good resource:

https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-ga...

Another idea would be to curb methane generation or decomposition somehow. Apparently aerobic decomposition reduces or prevents the release of methane:

https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-...

Burning trash directly is also an alternative I guess, though one I'm not very comfortable with due to trace elements contained in everyday items -- surely some mercury and heavy metals will sneak into residues? (and then into the atmosphere and our lungs)
Where did I mention tech?. Seems that you're equating my statement to saying that 13% of the tech jobs should go to African Americans which is far from what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is that the proportions should always match if all citizens are receiving equal opportunities.

Let's imagine a theoretical population somewhere where 80% of the people are white and 20% are black.
Let's say 50% of all the population studies some tech related career and following one of your examples 10% of the population studies odontology. Let's assume the rest of the population studies or prepares for something else. Let's assume for a minute that unemployment is at 0%.

Then 40% of tech employed population should be white, 10% should be black.

8% of the employed dentists are white. 2% are black.

The rest of the employed population is 32% white and 8% black.

That's it. That's all what I'm saying. I'm not even remotely trying or interested to argue politics here. I'm telling you in plain layman's terms that populations should downscale proportionally in an organized, civilized society.

You're talking about whether or not this is a problem in other industries, and honestly I couldn't care less about that for the sake of this argument. I'm just telling you how society should work if it was unbiased and logical, not whether or not this works with whatever belief system or preconceptions of race or professional competency you have (or anyone has).
It's a lot harder to measure how welcomed specific groups are than to measure diversity in general, but it's my (anecdotal, limited) understanding that they're reasonably welcomed. It's worth noting that South Carolina and Louisiana are the only states outside the West Coast to have elected Asian governors.
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Back in 2007 I had an acquaintance with a new 2007 Z06, who had the carbon fiber roof skin come unglued and fly off on the interstate. Seems like this is only news because it happened to a Tesla.
They are worse than you can imagine, at least from my anecdotal experience. Someone I know is a teacher and wanted to do clean up invasive plants overtaking some parts of the school grounds with kids, as a field trip for Environmental Science where they were studying invasive species. Alas, they cannot do that because the union of whoever is supposed to do that will not allow it. Only they can do it. Of course, they themselves haven't done it in years and have no plans to start.
In Germany you can buy milk in glass bottles in some super markets and they don't brake easily.

And not only can they be reused, broken glass bottles can still be recycled.
This data from Yelp is pretty stunning:

"The restaurant industry continues to be among the most impacted with an increasing number of closures – totalling 32,109 closures as of August 31, with 19,590 of these business closures indicated to be permanent (61%)."

https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update...
The problem is, conservatives and others worldwide oppose this because it imposes costs on business in just one country, leaving businesses there with a disadvantage in world markets. Policies like these need to be coupled with import tariffs to countries with dirty industries, else we just end up legislating all our industry away and instead buy from countries who have no problem with polluting the environment.
At my local waste management facility I witnessed trucks dumping all collected recycled material into the landfill. I asked and I was told this is standard.

Since then I don't recycle.
It work like a charm, thank you so much :)
Just a work permit.

An equivalent of what you get in Singapore in 7 days is H1. H1B takes at absolute best - 6 months at 33% success rate.(If you miraculously get to file on March 31st and get to start October 1st.)

Permanent residency in US takes years. Even Diversity Lottery takes at least 18 months.
The https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython master branch has support for it now!
Milk used to be delivered on electric milk 'float' vehicles in the UK in glass pint bottles. The milkman left pints of milk sealed with a foil top and took the used bottles left for them by the customer.
I used to watch the bottles being washed and sterilized on a conveyor through the factory window as a small child.
Today we have Tetrapak waxed paper boxed milk or plastic jugs. the Tetrapak website is classic wooly green washing https://www.tetrapak.com/us/sustainability/carton-recycling
Plastic jugs are already being discussed here. How on earth did we get to this low point?
I do assume that their friendships weren't as fulfilling as mine, considering the high rates of violence among them, and the speed with which they broke their friendships. I don't criticize them for validation though, as my group and activities provided me with plenty.
At what point will people realize that the lockdown causes more harm than the virus?
> It seems like a pretty a clear, unmitigated win vs plastic

Did you use hot water to wash them?

Probably yes. Last time I did the math making them out of plastic saved energy vs heating water to wash glass (it was a close call, it depended on if you used a dishwasher vs sink washing).

So it might seem environmental friendly, but if you run the numbers it's not necessarily so.
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The major red pills in approximate order are

1) I'm being misled systematically

2) I've been misled since school

3) They are fully aware of what they are doing

4) Given the choice, they would prefer me dead over defiant

I welcome you to red pill #3. The next trick is overcoming the Gell-Mann amnesia effect for all the future stuff they tell you.
I think the point dumpsterdiver is making is that determining what is falsifiable or not is context/time dependent. As our understanding of reality changes over time so does our definition of what can be falsifiable.
This might be a naive question, but given that plastic is made of oil, and that it doesn’t decompose, isn’t it a great way to perform carbon sequestration?

In other words, isn’t the use of plastics replaces potential carbon emission via burning of oil?