skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem in the US is that the seller has to use the method that results in them having the least liability in case something goes wrong.

If they choose to use steel or glass, and it doesn't get cleaned properly, and it ends up causing damage, then they might be liable for damages. Their liability insurance will deny coverage for damages because they knowingly used a method that had a higher probability of harm than using new plastic.

I'm sure there might be some way to ensure cleanliness of steel and glass, but it's probably cost prohibitive versus just using plastic, so it might cause the cost of the product to be too high to compete in the market.
> If it was possible to offer electricity cheaper, why would it not already be the case?

https://carbontracker.org/reports/how-to-waste-over-half-a-t...

> People also prefer personal car transportation versus public transportation.

I suspect it's because many countries don't have good transportation system. You are right, it would be inefficient to build large scale public transportation system in rural areas but considering that they don't account for as much pollution. I think it's an okay trade off for now.

Free public transportation also encourages more development as it benefits poor people (who are less likely to own and use their own vehicles) more.
This is true. You only have rights when others agree to grant you those rights. If everyone agreed it was an inalienable right to kill anyone who looked at you sideways, thus it would be.
A lot of the expense is state and local tax, but it's also costly to create quality. Growing and harvesting good smokeable flower is generally a lot more expensive than just growing biomass for oil. Trimming is also a big expense. If you want untrimmed flower you can buy it by the pound quite cheap and trim it yourself, but then you'll see how much labor it is to create a good hand-trim.

That said 10 brownies for $30 sounds like a good deal to me.
For Keef's "whompy wheels", I think this is more likely.

3. Suspension damage is common in vehicles that have been in accidents.

There are legitimate threads about suspension damage due to failed components and/or improper assembly on TMC, but that's probably not what happened in most of the vehicles in Keef's Flickr account.
Your metal beer cans have a plastic liner in them. Every single one.
> Small government for me; restricted civil liberties for thee.
> but not all such discrimination is illegal or morally wrong.

Tell that to the Asian kid that just learnt that he now has to slave away at his studies because of his skin color.
> Very expensive, for no good reason.

There's no good reason for you, but there's a great reason for them. Taxes.
Colorado has collected $1 billion on taxes over $6.5 billion marijuana sales.

But on the other hand, home stilling is illegal too and you can buy everything you need to distill alcohol at home on Amazon.
> “People are not really worrying about this, because it is inconvenient to act responsibly,” Darren McKnight, who works as a technical director at the aerospace-services company Centauri, told me.

Reading this article about space garbage just after reading the article about plastic garbage also currently on the HN front page was interesting and the quote could have fit well into the other article, too.

Our species seems incredibly good at making things and incredibly bad at cleaning up.
> But having said that, I regularly spend $2-$3 on a single chocolate chip cookie at cafes. Those aren't even psychoactive.

Do you mean at Starbucks - or more like a CBD-only hash-brownie?
I think the point is that, by recycling, one has to use energy to transport used paper, process paper using machinery, store it, use chemicals which are pollutants themselves, etc. All this instead of just throwing out the paper.
I've been amazed by this too. South Dakota and Idaho especially. South Dakota is coming around but Idaho is steadfast in all marijuana is bad, no matter what the THC level, even industrial hemp and cbd oils are fully banned. I'd love to hear from someone who is from the state and in-line with the conservative small government platform explain their position on keeping marijuana illegal.
Buddy of mine works for a company that takes mixed plastic waste and converts it into fuel & feedstock for further plastic reuse. Their goal is to set up small plants throughout the country near plastic production sites, he works at what is effectively their prototype facility in NC. Best news article I found about them: https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2020/06/braven-to-give-plast...

And their about page, they use a form of pyrolysis: https://bravenenvironmental.com/braven-advantage/#advantage
> virtuous cycle

That example would probably be called a vicious cycle, rather than a virtuous one. ;)
Oils from the cheese make cardboard non-recyclable.
Mimetic theory sounds like a very middle class (in the pejorative sense, as an ever-anxious externally-measuring person: in german we would say "spear-carrier", in french "tiny urbanite", etc.) approach to life.
> So with switching, the overall probability is 2/3. Without, its the original 1/3.

Thank you for spelling this out so clearly. If explained in terms of strategies (always switch v. always stick), the probabilities should be crystal clear.

What does the switcher have to do to win? Pick the wrong door first (2/3). What does the sticker have to do to win? Pick the right door first (1/3).
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-3

> the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples.

> example.com
> It’s an online app that can help you tap into your hidden emotions and release them so they no longer influence your behaviour or cause depressive symptoms.

Did you read the article at all?

Here is a quote where they state the app can stop the cause of your depressive symptoms. That clear cut enough for you? Or do you still want to be wilfully obtuse?
>Getting a flu shot is important. Please get yours this season so we can help reduce the spread of yet another deadly respiratory virus that kills thousands of people each year.

It turns out that masks are far more effective than flu shots, so no, I'm not going to get a flu shot. Anyway, IIRC, "kills thousands of people each year" is a statistical projection that doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny. Certainly, it's nothing like COVID-19.

>There was a lot of debate about masks.

There was a lot of misinformation spread because of the failure to stockpile PPE. That misinformation is still doing harm now because the MAGA folks are running around saying "masks don't work"

>I don't know what you're implying by the phrase 'argument by authority,' but we're talking about people who have spent their entire careers in the field of medicine. Normally we call those people 'scientists' and 'experts.'

Unfortunately, medical experts credibility is now shot by spreading false information about masks, and by downplaying the risk of COVID-19 in January and February by telling everybody to get a flu shot. Then I wonder how many people died on ventilators when intubated on MAX ..

As a group you're weren't operating at the level of Dennis Richie or Donald Knuth, so you have work to do to regain credibility.

In fact, you're still not now. You should focus less on evidence-based medicine and more on risk asymmetry. Mask wearing (even of cloth masks) had very little downside and a potentially huge upside. But we had to wait for evidence. The same is true of vitamin-D now. Look for low-risk interventions. If we don't have the resources to mass test the at-risk population, we should encourage those on poor diets to take 1000IU a daythis winter. But we will have to wait until next year for evidence.
Focusing on fossil fuels would handle the plastic aspect, but if we're rewriting tax code I think we're better off trying to cast a wider net.

I'd propose that we tax the hell out of manufacturers' that won't accept delivery of things they manufactured (be it packaging or the products themselves--in whatever state). To avoid this tax they must also meet transparency guidelines for how inbound waste of this sort is disposed of.

This way the "how do we deal with the waste?" problem is handled by the same people who decide what materials to use in the first place.

We use the tax money to set up municipal recycling facilities that use the bar codes on the waste to sort it based on who made it, and instead of shipping it to third world countries they ship it there instead.
OK, so I pick a door, Monty randomly reveals a goat. Your claim is that this information should make me increase the odds that my initial pick was a car. That sounds right. In the normal Monty problem, Monty doesn't give me any information about my original pick, just about the remaining door.

Alright just working through your logic here. Let's say I pick the first door always. I'll write out all the possible configurationss with both possibilities for Monty.

CGG > Monty reveals mid (Goat)

CGG > Monty reveals right (Goat)

----

GCG > Monty reveals mid (Car)

GCG > Monty reveals right (Goat)

---

GGC > Monty reveals mid (Goat)

GGC > Monty reveals right (Car)

So there's 4 worlds where Monty reveals a goat. In two of them, I picked a car initially. In the other two, I get a car by switching.

My prior post is mistaken -- thank you!
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I'm curious what was your stack for scraping this much data?
Glass is more on the reusable side, which used to work great for soda and milk bottles until the companies decided plastic was cheaper.
Absolutely.

As a front end developer your existence is ultimately defined by your grasp of very few tree models, namely the DOM but also the file system and various similar concepts when writing systems automation. It is common for developers to not grasp the concept of implicit relationships, which are a fundamental consideration of tree models.

This is basic stuff, the foundation that defines your career. And still many developers do not grasp it. They spend so much of their careers hiding from the core concepts of their jobs dependent upon abstractions to reframe the technology.

What may begin as embarrassment evolves into stubborn resolution masking extreme insecurity. Everybody can see when you are embarrassed, insecure, and when you fail to understand something. So many times people will try to redefine an important problem to appear less lost or hopeless. When other people are really listening they can see through it. It’s only a shallow self-deception.

It’s okay to not know something and need help. Pretending otherwise is poor character.
> There's very few legal restrictions on offices reopening at this point, but very few have actually come back. The triple of lockdowns, vanishing tourists, and vanishing office workers is just too much for small businesses.

I think this is key. For people trying to blame the governor of New York, just look across the political spectrum to Texas. I am not a fan of Greg Abbott in any sense, but I will give credit where credit is due, and I think his Covid policies have been very reasonable and based in science and data. And even with those looser restrictions, restaurants in major Texas cities have still been hit incredibly hard. Downtown Austin is still pretty ghost-town like, and all the businesses that cater to those downtown office workers and tourists have been devastated despite there being relatively few official restrictions left on offices.
Is impersonating not a dependency of forging? You're performing an action usually performed only by someone else, and then promulgating an artifact thereof.
The self-acceptance talked about there is about recognizing where you are and forgiving yourself for mistakes. You could have learned helplessness, but that’s not a reason to attack yourself; it’s counter productive to the remedy.
Trumps America sees democracy and anti-facism as a threat.
I went to university in the US last century, and don't recall an atmosphere of constant competition at all. At least at that time, townies seemed more competitive than gownies. My memories are mostly of us helping each other to drink from the firehose (of both the course load and of life).
Not sure two weeks really work anyway. In a large household with lots of space and people living different lifestyles, if someone was infected at the start of the lockdown, not everyone is guaranteed to get infected at the same time. We could end up with someone being infected near the end of the lockdown and they then go out into public and spread it around while thinking everything is safe because of the lockdown. My brother's mother-in-law lives in a basement suite in his house. She has her own small kitchen, bathroom, and external door. She's the type who could end up getting infected and be contagious at the end of the lockdown. Then one trip to the grocery store and now the town has a cluster of infections despite the lockdown.
Someone needs to figure out how to make weed grow out of the barrel of a gun.
Until I see statistics proving the opposite I don't believe that. Washing bottles hot enough to kill germs really is not hard and we used to reuse lots of glass bottles.
Particles are the hardest parts of the language, often untranslatable by themselves. I have a 100 page booklet about these words which are so few they can sit on one or two rows.
If he dies right when taking the drug, I think it says something.
Laughs in Microsoft by not reading the article
but in all honesty, monopolies are just a side effect of unfettered success supported by capitalism, I mean infinite growth can only be nurtured by a few and if those few start early by carving a niche for themselves and make it big, you have a success story and a problem.

How long will they keep this strategy of splitting up companies each time they reach critical mass and when you fission that with govt policies, you have more smaller companies which will eventually reach that size again through shady joint practices under the radar, this will get scary if all the monopolies of all countries in the world find a way to collaborate and form this super evil alliance and throw us all into orbit with a simulation device hooked to our brains while they enjoy this planet. Imagine earth moving from pay2win to pay2die in the next 5 years once global warming becomes too hard to ignore. 'EA'

Splitting companies will ensue an uncontrollable chain reaction no single government is ready for, sadly the bureaucracy kept in place to have adequate restrictions on the fast moving giants, is also a problem which communism can solve, but leaves a dangerous precedent on the social classes with power to the political elite and leaves room for uncertainty. Let's say congress finally gets their shit together and they have this iron clad policy, yay? These monopolies would've run extensive simulations foreseeing these things and begun to course correct by the time govt enforces those policies.

Now the important thing here is the constant nudge by the govt with morally/ethically aware elected representatives who showcase a level of empathy beyond acting, false promises but rather a part of their moral fiber (they usually get assassinated and replaced) who choose to look beyond '$'signs and more at humanity and the environment as an entity to be nurtured, not to be exploited and taken advantage. This is again subjective to one's place in the social hierarchy pyramid, but let's have this discussion from the bottom rungs of the ladder for dramatic effect.

Governments should never give up, not bend to serve these monopolies through lobbying, they should keep fighting always until the end of time, this is like yin-yang, one cannot exist without the other, so there will never be a future where monopolies do not exist and we have a completely decentralized system in place. NOPE they both co-exist and no one thing can become powerful without the other opposing force. For every ton of CO2 offset, someone-somewhere is planning extensive afforestation unbeknownst to the majority of us and keep this Type 1 Civilization afloat (open for discussion and knowledge)
...for the record, I got that slightly wrong. Australian pronounciation of the initial "Co" in "Cocoon" is more like "Kuh".
> The best thing for the economy would be a trusted vaccine and/or case counts going down.

Disagree. I think the best thing would be better therapeutics. If you get rid of the death sentence (or make it extremely unlikely) that will be enough for people to resume almost all activities.
things that helped me with depression
- cut out sugar and carbs (yes even fruit)
- Therapy
- cutting out ppl that trigger me for a while
- legal psychedelics
- training with my dog
After I got better, there is still the maintenance for low self esteem and social skills
- Therapy
- Meditation
- meetups
- nonviolent communication
> I would interrupt another adult to make the above correction.

I interrupt my girlfriend all the time for this very reason and I wish more people would correct me. Nobody's been correcting me for years so I assume it's-a-perfecto, when it's not.
Labor is the biggest expense for businesses, and anything that increases number of man hours means higher costs.

Plastic wrapped items make it very easy for customers to shop themselves with minimal interaction from staff and for the store to still guarantee cleanliness standards. I can only imagine that people coming in with their own containers will require more staff to follow proper protocols in dispensing items and whatnot, resulting in higher costs.
All the screens in cars I've tried have made me want to hammer a screwdriver through them because their software was so terrible.

Except for one: The Tesla screen. I'd still prefer no screen at all, but Tesla seems to hire software engineers who understand that human factors are a thing, and who seem to have an actual degree in computer science.
This may be a dumb question, but is there really a "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book? Not literally a book with that title, but is there some resource that has a list of these?
No, it's not. It's pretty much what regulation is for.

CFCs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

Asbestos:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law

Lead paint:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-based_paint_in_the_Unit...

Leaded gasoline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ba...
Code generation is also rather popular in Go.
Burmese women (she's Burmese) aren't used to changing their names at marriage and she found the practice demeaning. We never really considered it beforehand. But, I think if she had fully realized at the time how hard it would be to live here with one name, then yes, she would have taken my last name. You live and learn.
My apologies, but I believe that this theorem applies to a subset of possible systems with certain properties which are called "conservative systems," not any arbitrary system.
The idea was to get an efficiency law passed and now we have a huge move to LED bulbs as a result. So, no, it wasn't a mistake, the CFLs were a stepping stone.
I believe in practice you learn how to speak by listening (input learning) and only use grammar in a post-facto fashion to check your phrases. So grammar is just a critic, not an artist.
However, as soon as you sell any amount of those plants you are committing a felony...

No one in the US is free to do whatever they want with cannabis.
Zero Hedge does not provide factual information.

"...we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information that routinely denigrates the left."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/
We could just as well choose to burn biodiesel in today's jet aircraft.
How convinient for the state to prosecute citizens spreading "fake" documents. I mean what could go wrong.
Putting effort into sorting better is throwing good money after bad. Even if you sort perfectly it's still virtue signalling; far better to spend that time on something productive and donate the earnings to something effective.
No IMO, but Apple (iOS, macOS not so much) development is still an incredibly lucrative niche, and will continue to be so until the United States collapses. It might even still be useful after that.
Bach is definitely unfashionable. Compared to Bach written for other instruments (Chaconne for violin or Cello Suites for cello), his solo keyboard works---Two- and Three-part Inventions or his WTC fugues---have a reputation for being polyphonal rather than emotionally moving, because piano is uniquely positioned as the instrument that allows an individual performer to exhibit counterpoint. Compared to other composers such as Chopin or Debussy, the difference in emotional response is stark.

Unless they are trained in music, the average listener has listened to monophonic music their entire life and isn't capable of appreciating the nuances of polyphonic music, so it takes a talented pianist to make Bach's music leave an impression on the listener. Absent the appeal to emotion, one must appeal to the listener at an intellectual level. I've heard the Two- and Three-Part Inventions referred to as music that would appeal to a music professor, which is not exactly drawing room fare. These two factors: (1) monophonic style used in pop music, and (2) Bach's solo keyboard works being predominantly contrapuntal rather than emotionally moving compared to his other solo instrumental work might give Bach for solo keyboard (amongst casual music audiences) a reputation for being "boring" and "unfashionable" (which I think is completely undeserved).

Exceptions of course exist such as WTC preludes, which might appeal more to an untrained listener.

For example, Prelude 8 from Book 1 WTC (one of my favourites): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTvjRpaU38

Funny anecdote: Freeman Dyson wrote an excellent essay about Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, playing this piece. It's included in his collection of essays, Disturbing the Universe, which I'd highly recommend.
I still can't possibly see them competing against Atari without the power of the blockchain [1].

[1] https://atarichain.com/
Any more details on this?
Will they use captured co2 to make the fuel?
Its on the north end of the Strip in a pretty run down but slowly improving area. Its far from all the more popular and attractive resorts starting at Wynn and all the way south to Mandalay Bay.

Vegas is moving away from theme type properties and moving toward modern (CityCenter, Wynn) and cultural/experiential (Resorts World). The Enterprise would've been more likely to be successful in the time it was being considered, when families were the primary target and more extreme themes like the Strat, Excalibur, and Circus Circus were attractive to that demographic.

I personally feel that Vegas will slowly become irrelevant to regular people over time, unless they keep bringing in more big yearly events to sustain tourism like EDC. In two words, event exclusivity. The focus for the last decade or so has been on just that, building more arenas and venues like MSG Sphere to host events in ways and capacities that are mostly unmatched elsewhere.

Everything else that worked like gaming, clubs, Cirque type shows, restaurants, and some conventions are slowly becoming bigger draws elsewhere over time. Vegas still has all these and is a leader, but they have been in decline IMO. Other destinations have been able to compete because Vegas resort corporations have price gouged to extreme levels like resort fees, parking fees, and $400/night rates. Historically, Vegas was cheaper for those things with better perks for gaming or staying at certain resorts.

Anyway, it makes sense to me that the Star Trek Experience happened at the scale and timeline that it did. It was pretty well done but couldn't really advance or be revitalized in any way worth the investment. You'd be more likely to see $ spent toward something involving Marvel or Star Wars but guess who bought those up already and doesn't operate in Vegas.