skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're getting rid of something and it doesn't seem worth selling, give it away. Platforms like Craigslist and Facebook marketplace are great for this. ime you'll find a taker for anything that's not complete junk.
Presumably only after the point when it becomes true, whenever that may be.
Recently also discussed, a great article about Verne Edquist, Gould’s piano tuner: https://www.glenngould.ca/verne-edquist/
Always love hearing from Boom. By far the most impressive YC startup I know of. In a sea of interchangeable SaaS and mobile app ventures, they are out there doing hard things and actually trying to make a reality the kind of future we all dream about. Inspirational. They certainly have some daunting challenges to overcome but hope they pull through. I'm rooting for them.
Look at how Caltech went from 15% women undergraduates when I was a student there in the '80s to 45% now without discriminating on the basis of gender in admission.

Rather than making gender a factor in admissions, they concentrated on getting more qualified women to apply. They would contact high school women who were very good in STEM subjects and their parents, and send someone to visit them and try to convince them that Caltech was the place to be.

Once they applied, gender wasn't a factor in deciding whether or not to admit them.

The top tech companies could do something similar for both race and gender. They have the resources to draw from the entire country. It wouldn't work so well for companies that only have the resources to recruit locally.
Can’t that be expressed even more simply as:

1/3: you picked car, switch fails

1/3: you picked goat, monty ruins. Not included

1/3: you picked goat, monty open goat. Switch wins.

Of the two non ruined scenarios, half win

We can also demonstrate by using the 100 door example. Monty opens 98 of the 99 doors you didn’t choose. 98 times out of 99, monty ruins the game.

So random choice dramatically changes things.
> input hypothesis

Definitely seems to be the case in machine learning. Flexible models trained on huge amounts of data beat older hand tuned grammar rule models every time.
I think it should be illegal for waste disposal to be as intransparent as it is now. I live in Germany and always considered our Recycling Practices as highly valuable, until I was contracted to build a project for an industrial waste processing company, which led me to realize that our system is 60% virtue signalling, 35% political corruption and 5% useful.

The problem, as they've described, if you were intellectually honest is really not about how much you can recycle, but more about how you can burn things cleanly by sorting stuff as best as possible.

Have two bins, dry waste and wet waste, everything else should be handled at the waste management plant, as they have to sort anyway, but wetting materials that could otherwise burn cleanly and efficiently raises the price and makes automated sorting much harder and more expensive.

If the waste management company can recycle anything for profit, they will absolutely do so, but forcing them to do so at cost for materials that nobody wants to buy because the material is in low demand just shifts the problem in the pipeline to the landfill after you've spent energy on trying to recycle it.
I think this is exactly why "communication" crops up so often and why "talk to your customers" is the number one advice for founders.

I think it's a really underrated / underinvested skill in the industry (from my experience) with a lot of complexity. For example, there's so many levels of listening. It's one thing to understand what someone is saying but yet another to pick up on meta messages (facial expression / body language) that signal true thoughts / feelings.
Glass is also 100% pointless to recycle. The planet's crust is made of glass, it's not exactly a scarce resource, and old glass is environmentally harmless.

And in the real world it's virtually never recycled, instead its crushed and used as landfill cover (they cover the trash each night to keep down vermin).
Unions seem to be great for generally interchangeable workers. Where there's room for personal achievement (or non-achievement), I cannot imagine any good use for them.

E.g. I'd like to do more work and be paid more and rewarded more, with none of the union pay grades BS. I'd like people to be fired based on incompetence, not seniority.

The only situations when I can imagine my outlook changing is if I become incompetent at my job, or lazy and useless (e.g. I've coasted at a job that I disliked for 6 months or so once, and then left; I imagine for some people it might be cool to coast for 6 years instead under union protections)
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Except his name wasn't mentioned in the headline, just 'Nobel'.
I think the list of board members of major companies that have lost their seat due to real or perceived racism is extremely short, unless you have a long list of them lying about.

I seriously doubt a whole board was strong-armed by a single person, and if it was a plurality of board members that suggested this, then that's how boards are intended to work.
Trees (grown for wood fiber) pretty much aren't irrigated. I'm sure there's exceptions, but not on a significant amount of land used for fiber production.
It's even harder now with smartphones and internet. Any info you want or need is easily accessible in your first language. For example imagine you want to look up info to get some work done. Go back to 1990 and you'd have to ask your colleagues in the new language but for the last 20 or so years you'd just go online and check in your first language.

For the last 10 years, getting around you can just use google maps in your native language where was 15+ years ago you'd probably have to deal with native maps.

With streaming, even TV/Movies can stay in your first language regardless of where you are in the world.

It's also free to call almost anywhere in the world now so calling back to family and continuing to talk to friends in your original country is trivial. Go back to the 90s and the costs were high enough that you'd likely rarely do it.

I agree with others, the biggest problem is that as an adult you're busy. You have responsibilities and a large set of family and/or friends that you'll generally need/want to do in your first language.
You can reopen a restaurant but can you reopen a human being?
Rust is nice enough, but I'm not sure it's worth a university-level course on safe systems programming. There's a lot more of interest about ats[1]; f*[2] (specifically its 'low' subset); isabelle[3] (most notably used by the sel4 microkernel); et al.

1. http://www.ats-lang.org/

2. https://fstar-lang.org/

3. http://isabelle.in.tum.de/
No one should realize that because lockdowns are to contain and minimize impacts of the virus and the evidence overwhelmingly suggests no matter what the economy gets impacted, this is the way to reduce harm to economic activity the best. Without restricting high spread activities the economy suffers even more as everyone gets sick and hospitals get overwhelmed.

What you’re saying is just like saying evacuation orders for a hurricane cause businesses to lose customers before and after the hurricane so never evacuate.
How many pens per kilogram?

Nevertheless, I agree, and also wish glass bottles were reused like before.
There are people that have it orders of magnitude better than others in nearly all areas. With Warren Buffet it's an extreme example.
Indeed

In absence of any significant stats its safe to assume their decision were driver by this two statements from article.

"There were no in-house Celery or RabbitMQ experts at DoorDash who we could lean on to help devise a scaling strategy for this technology."

"DoorDash had in-house Kafka expertise"
The long term trend of restaurants being closed in favor of ghost kitchens has just been accelerated due to COVID. It's just not sustainable to keep paying for brick and mortar when everything's moving online and to on-demand delivery. Retail is next.
With a bone saw, yes.
I think we're pretty far into the sunk cost fallacy on this one.

The fact that we've spent the past six months like this makes it too hard for many to accept that it might not have been the right choice.
Paintings, sketches, cartoons, etc. of children and of a pornographic nature are legal at the federal level so long as they have artistic, cultural, or [something I've forgotten] merit. Or so I believe - not a lawyer.

Anyway, to make the point in a more straightforward way:

What ought and oughtn't be allowed expression according to the principles of freedom of speech is not a clear-cut thing. There are many different views on it, and to dismiss all those with views different from those who wrote US law is silly.
The reverse actually!

If you account for all the externalities recycling (except for metal) is terrible for the environment.

People only do it because it "feels good".

If you actually cared about the environment, metal should be recycled, and everything else burned for energy.
This is backwards. First, plastic is something like 1% of all oil production. Secondly, oil is the the best way to do sequestration by keeping it in the ground.

Unless you mean turning co2 into oil to make plastic or something? Which is itself weird for the energy requirement.
Does it?

I ask this as a New York resident: how many restaurants is one life worth? I was here back at the peak of the COVID outbreak when there were refrigerated trucks being loaded with bodies because the morgues had run out of space. It deeply, deeply sucks that a lot of restaurants are going to close. I hope that in time others will reopen in their place... it’s an underreported fact that a lot of restaurants close every year, I’ve had it happen to many favorites. New ones come.

To me personally, that loss is a price I’m willing to pay to stop the exponential increase of a pandemic. Maybe you’re right, though. Time will tell. Maybe the economic devastation will ruin NYC for years. Or maybe we’ll get the “v shaped recovery” we’ve been promised. Either way it’s too early to tell.
One word: Transubstantiation.

I was dragged to a recycling plant with a bunch of curious engineers from Google a long time ago. The takeaway was that is was a giant scam- we can't recycle glass, paper is iffy, msot of the stuff is meh, but aluminum is ok. Trash trucks literally pulled up to the plant and removed the "unrecycleable" waste.

We were all so pissed we went into software, when one could literally just put trash into a different container with a green/blue color, and thus purify and bless it, and then send it to a dump.

The part we missed was the ships just taking all this trash to China and Bangladesh.
> Participate in politics to force industries to adopt environment friendly practices and production.

In my opinion, there is no environmentally friendly practice that allows the world to consume at the pace it wants to. You can’t have multiple annual flights to vacation destinations, large vehicles, and quarter acre lots per family.

Not only can the tiny proportion of the world enjoying the above not have it anymore, but to mitigate the damage already done, we probably need to come to a near stop rather than just slow down from 80mph to 40mph.

All while a few billion people in the developing world are looking forward to their children being able to fly to destinations for vacations and enjoy a backyard and nice car.
Thanks! Writing this down, will see what I can do about adding some controls for the audio. The non-written instructions are for times when your eyes are supposed to be closed :)
We are locking down far in excess of simply not overwhelming our hospitals.
Thanks for the catch!

Also, I forgot to mention that all these timelines are in years.

But then I thought about it and about any human unit of time really doesn't change the numbers much at all. Heck, even measured as units of 'age-of-the-current-universe', the extra 0s just fade into the rounding errors very quickly.

To be clear here, that is stating that however you measure time pretty much has no meaning at these scales.
Great way to sequester it right into a whale's stomach.
Okay, here is the data point: If you get treated by some of the best doctors your country has to offer in an absolute state of the art facility in record time (i.e. almost no delay between outbreak of covid and detection) the given drug cocktail was effective (if we assume they don't lie about Trumps health. In the footage on his return to the white house he didn't look healthy at all).

I'd argue that this certainly is a data point. Just not a very useful one.
I think this might just be off topic here and getting flagged. It's not really tech news is it?
The problem is confusing because it appears that the choices are independent when they really are dependent. That's what confuses people and what needs to be adequately explained (and thus explicitly acknowledged).
This is terrible for sure, but it's worth remembering that 60% of all restaurants close within their first year of operation and 80% within 5 years. The restaurant industry in a city like New York is incredibly cut-throat.
Honest question: What would be the consequence of throwing the plastic garbage in to the space, assuming that It is affordable enough to do?
The best system I’ve seen proposed has proceeds of the carbon tax given as direct distributions to people (each adult gets 1/n the total fund,) like Alaska’s dividend.
Beer too IIRC - you can buy it by the crate and return the empties to get a meaningful deposit back.
Most people find that silly.

Sad thing is, I have no problems believing you actually believe that.

Your head is going to explode when you find out how we've co-opted the word "computer".
You don’t know what you’re talking about. This is a highly contagious virus with long incubation time without symptoms that is most contagious when you’re asymptomatic. It has the ability to rapidly overwhelm areas very quickly. What I’m saying is completely factual and in line with epidemiologists and expert medical body assessments of the disease, of which you are likely not one of and are certainly not in line with.

You simply are wrong.
Don't feel sad. Seek out the truth. As I posted in an earlier comment, I went a to a recycling plant over a decade ago, and the truth found me.

The triad of reduce reuse recycle is true, inasmuch as two parts of it should be emphasized. But consumerism a cruel mistress.
Most of the restaurants by me already seem to use a few standard size food containers. Why do these containers need to be broken down into raw material and then reconstituted? If they were high quality enough, could they not just be sanitized and then repurchased by restaurants directly from the recycler? Seems like there'd be much less waste of material. The big question would be if the sanitation process would be not be more expensive than just remanufacturing the containers.
A restaurant in say New York has to be packed to be profitable. you really have no time for any additional protection measures either.

that mean it has nothing to do with a lock-down at this point - even if everything were to open up you have to convince people to go and get infected at the restaurants.

If even half of the customers take the virus situation serious then they will stay away - and guess what half the restaurants will close.
> we were pretty much paying China to throw away our garbage

This was never true, China was paying us for the recycling, but they wanted to upgrade their economy so they stopped making money on it, and stopped buying the recycling.

It's very common myth that we pay countries to take our recycling: this never happens.
Based on my experience, about 12 years of psychotherapy for depression, the relationship with the therapist is the medium where the therapy is actually performed. Relationships take at least two to build. Even Stuff like the life experience and the personality of the therapist are important. Without the right relationship, you can get support but true therapy requires the establishment of an honest relationship between the therapist and the "patient".
It's an arm cpu dude, it can't run anything other than emulators basically. And the bottleneck there is the cpu, not the gpu
I think, after the James D'Amore case, anyone with 10% of the wits needed to get to FAANG board learned to shut up and nod.

You don't get that high up without playing the political game, and the rules of the game at this point are very clear.
> .. “do not sell or share” GPC signal

What about storing, using for making user profiles, using for targeted ads ?
It's incredibly generous of you to be willing to give up other people's livelihoods so easily, but isn't really worth much until you would do the same of your own.
> I'm surprised how different this is from all the secondary information out there, but ok, you're right.

The secondary information is more useful in practice, because it represents the actual practice, not legal theory.

> I said "could ever not", not "could not ever", but that's a moot point now.

Ah, sorry, I misread, it's my bad.
There is a subtle (perhaps unintentional) sleight of hand here.

60% of all new restaurants close on the first year. That is very different than half of *all restaurants, even those that have been open for decades, closing in a single year.
The article isn't about the ability to learn. It's about the ability to use the language at a native level. You can get "fluent" and still not have a native level of using a language.
> “didn’t write for the modern piano”

I think we actually agree :)
Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market
I feel for her. My wife was in the exact same situation, like almost everyone in her home country she had just one given name. When we moved here to the states she found it highly annoying and even limited some opportunities.

Recently she decided to legally change her name to something that fits in better here. Although it has been an emotional decision for her, she felt she had to as it's very hard to live in the US without a first and last name.

Edit: "Annoying" doesn't even begin to cover her experience. Everything from getting a bank account, to buying a car, to getting a marriage license was a whole process of explaining until we were blue in the face, escalating to a manager, being told basically to get lost, etc. etc.. It left her in tears more than once.
In Trump's video statement he said, "I was treated with Regeneron. Eli Lilly has something very similar they are working on as well. They call them therapeutics, but I view them as honestly a miracle."

That is positive press.
Mine as well in Toronto.
Clearly brain plasticity in a youthful brain helps immensely. My point was just that it’s not that straightforward to compare kids with adults in regard to language acquisition. An adult always has an ‘inner voice’ in their original language at first, so there can never be complete immersion as there can with a child who comes to the table with, originally, a blank slate. Or, at the very least, with an ‘original language’ inner voice that isn’t as robust as an adults. That is, I would suspect that an adult’s ‘inner voice’ has a far richer vocabulary and formal grammatical structure than an 8 year old’s ‘inner voice.’

Stated differently, an 8-year old with English as a native language has and ‘inner-voice’ of an 8-year old: limited English vocabulary and limited English grammar. If you immerse the kid in Chinese, that immaturely developed inner-voice isn’t much competition to what’s coming in through the ears. A 40-year old, of course, has an ‘inner’ English voice that is completely formed and has been in habitual use for decades... much more competition to what’s coming in through the ears. Indeed, as other posters have noted, when learning a new language, one must make a concerted effort NOT to translate the new word in one’s head, but rather to let the new foreign word stand on its own two feet. This is easier for an 8-year old, I would think, as there will be multitudes of new foreign words they are hearing that don’t correspond to anything they’ve yet to learn in their native tongue; that is, there are a lot more words for which they won’t be tempted to ‘translate’ into English as they haven’t even learned the English word yet (or, at least, haven’t known the English word that long.)

I think this may be why it’s easier to pick up food words. I know what ‘burrito’ means as an English speaker, because I can’t translate it into English... the word stands on its own two feet. But, the word for ‘stew’? That doesn’t stick as well as I instinctively translate the Spanish word guisado into ‘stew’ in my mind.
This is especially infuriating if you compare the numbers from Covid with a bad flu season in NY. Twice as bad as the flu is certainly cause to take special preventive measures but not reason enough to ruin your local economy.
> it's super expensive and hard to produce in the large amounts required

It's hard, but less hard than some things. And we've been working on them for the last ~35 years.

Here's a primer if you're curious: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/27/mo...
do you think some pay back from China for the opium wars is part of the dynamic?
Its like seeing how sausage is made, or learning how your favorite politician is a crook. You still want to believe but know too much.
The source was “attached” to the Twitter account but that want his only communication with Fox. He’d been a source for over a year on a number of stories.

The Twitter account may be the only way to identify him ... assuming he didn’t take basic precautions.
its not the restaurant. its the people. its their jobs, their livelihoods that support their families. im not worried about economic devastation per se. im worried about the aftermath. The poverty that will break apart families and ruin kids lives forever. Come out to vegas and maybe your mind will change.
Wait, how is the glass unrecyclable? Glass should be one of the most recyclable bits, along with metals.

Just because plastic is a scam doesn't necessarily mean everything else recycled is. Scrap metal is big business. Old rubber tires get shredded and vulcanized into new products.
So... should we start just throwing plastic bottles in the trash?
Sure, but the same distinction is missing from the city's report. Which half of the city's restaurants are going to close permanently because of covid? Likely those that were on the edge of failure rather than well-established ones.
Major ones? I use FF pretty much exclusively and haven't hit one yet.
Exhaustive. Phooey. My last name of Morearty isn't in there.
We may have to aim for virus extinction. Simply flattening the curve means we are aiming for herd immunity, but there are worrying signs that immunity may only last a few months, making it possible to recirculate. The science isn't settled, but I think until we know more we should be more conservative.

https://bgr.com/2020/08/11/coronavirus-immunity-common-cold-...
I keep seeing articles on HN, along with supporting discussion, that suggests that recycling is mostly a hoax — at least for plastics.

Full stop: what should the average person be doing with regards to recycling? Or is this a big fat unknown?
Question a bit apart from the key features of the product, but how self-hosted open-source product usually makes money?
Unpopular opinion: there's nothing wrong with not recycling plastic and sending it right to the landfill. It sequesters carbon, isn't too terrible for the environment (it just sits there in the ground), and it's not like we're going to run out of landfill space any time soon[1]. I'm all for recycling if it's a net positive in terms of resource consumption, but I don't see the appeal of recycling for the sake of recycling.

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/739893511 "Thomas says we probably have thousands of years of landfill space left in the U.S. And even hardcore environmentalists reluctantly agree that, yeah, we have a lot of space left. But people thought we were running out of space, and that was what mattered."