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In March 2019 storm water released 135 tonnes of rubbish from a landfill on the west coast of NZ, spreading it across a 64km area of otherwise natural beauty. It was touch-and-go on declaring it a national disaster but in the end it wasn't, and it fell to volunteers to clean up the surface evidence of the spill, at least what hadn't made it down the fox river and out to sea.

Quite a bit more of that kind of thing expected with the increase in extreme weather events from climate change. In Westland alone there are another 12 at-risk old landfill sites. It's estimated that the cost of preventing further spills from the one already-open landfill alone is ~2.3M. In an economically depressed region like Westland it won't be funded, and they're far from the only region in NZ that's facing this problem. Just the first to have experienced a spill event.
> Arguably it was achieved first and foremost because increase in productivity caused by capital investments actually made it economically possible.

> I mean, I don't deny that 19th century capitalists required a little bit of a "push" for it to actually happen, but it's debatable if it was actually necessary and wouldn't just happen naturally.

Well, given that, with the subsequent increases in productivity since then, the work week could could easily be reduced by another day (32 hours work week), but no such change has yet happened naturally, I don't see why you would believe that it would have happened then either.

> I just don't think labor organizations help with anything. What helps is having more options (competition), better social mobility (access to education and knowledge) and general economic prosperity that allow entrepreneurship (taking risks). Labor unions typically work against all of it.

And yet, before mass labor organizations you had children being forced to work, and everyone working longer hours for 6 days a week, with no worker safety laws to speak of; and, with the hard struggles of labor unions (which included getting shot by US military forces!) you live in a world with worker safety regulations, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, etc.

Basically, I think your post shows exactly what class-consciousness does for you. Most working-class people can see very well how stacked the deck is against them, and have few illusions about how explicitly the current system is working to keep them down (their biggest illusion is that they can't do anything about it, or that it's foreign workers' fault - both of these the result of explicit propaganda/PR efforts). But if you manage to move into the capitalist class, your perspective often changes, as your seems to have, and you start believing the system as it is works well, and actually start to work for it - like you are here, trying to convince people that unions would be harmful for our own interests.

To be clear, I am in no way accusing you of not believing what you are saying! I am just pointing out that it is exactly an example of class-consciousness at work: since you are part of the capitalist class, you believe more in the good of the capitalist class as the one likely to bring the most benefit to everyone. Myself, part of the working class, believe that the good of the working class will bring more overall good in the world.
> And if a thousand people avoid harming themselves because of this approach and one still does, is that a failure?

That’s why we have trials and regulations to assess this risk. Is 1000:1 a good ratio? I don’t know. But I know it is not up to us to make that call.

> But the risk of this won't stop me from looking for better answers to these problems because the answers we have right now aren't good enough.

Current answers we have for covid is not good enough either but it doesn’t mean we get to experiment willy-nilly in the public space.

I admire your self-experimentation and I actually like your tool but you can’t make money out of it while advertising in association with the claim that it fixed your depression.

You’re a small enough operation right now that neither FDA or FTC would care much about it, but the very least if you are sincere with your intentions you should put out a bold banner saying “I am not a professional, this is not intended to diagnose cure any problem, if you need help see a professional” everywhere on the site.

Also you should be careful with collecting psychometric data, not that it would put you in HIPAA land because you’re not a licensed medical professional, but it is still highly sensitive data so you should be explicit about your data collection.
We have a lot of codegen in our codebase right now and I can't wait for the day that generics are finally added.
When that solution is possible, sometimes project requirements make us use tools that we rather not, but have to.
That's some impressive documentation - did you write (and update) it all by hand, or is it semi-automatically updated from the CLI help page?

Shameless plug for people who are just interested in the bookmarks part: I've created Static Marks [1], an open-source tool which turns plain-text YAML bookmark collections into a shareable HTML web app.

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/static-marks
They didn't tell us how many patients. Could be important, could be noise. Also, there were two serious reactions to infusion of one of the drugs.

It's progress. A few months ago nothing worked. It was just ventilators, supportive treatment, and wait to see who survived. Now, some treatments sort of work. Management of the disease is becoming possible.

In this study, the drugs were given early, and to patients who were not sick enough to require hospitalization. Not clear if this helps with the more serious cases.
To continue the thought: This dependent type is expressible, trivially decidable, and has no additional side effect burden:

"This function's type depends on its function name. If its function name is "sqrt", then {check some simple rules about square roots, like if x is 0 then output is 0, if x > 1 then output < x, etc.}"

This one too:

"This function's type depends on its function name. If its function name is "sqrt", then check that it calls and returns a formally verified square root function applicable to its input type that is known to be decidable and appropriate to the floating point math definitions we're operating in right now"
The hype for recycle is due to the fact that it is the only one of the R's that increases profits for corporations.
What does protected speech mean and how does it differ from not being protected if it is different from laws making certain things illegal? And how is legal/illegal relevant to arguing in relation to protected/unprotected since it seems your arguments steers towards that being a philosophical definition.
I think that ballroom secret service box can be seen in Home Alone 2, when the boy is stuck in NYC and goes to see a performance from the attic in the company of the pigeon lady. Photographic memory, but no specific evidence.
Websites that do this should be shut down by the government and the person/people behind it should be charged with crimes against humanity.
If both parties are winning what's the problem here? Do you feel compelled to make one party win at the expense of another? Is that a more desirable outcome on net?
"Cracked button" really doesn't seem like a realistic issue. And they really don't fall off easily. You're free to have your preferences but the reality is still that most physical buttons are incomparably more durable than a touchscreen, especially a large one, especially if it still happens to be a consumer grade laptop screen. Simplicity has its benefits.
The New Science of Strong Materials, or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J.E. Gordon is a great casual introduction to material science that touches on this relation between size and fatigue life.

However, it was written in 1968 before these semiconductors were developed. Do you have any recommendations for further reading on the design or history of MEMS?
Only if you are a language geek, and want to open you mind that C and C++ aren't the only game in town for systems programming.

Other than that, outside Apple platforms is still in a worse state than clang Objective-C + GNUStep.
This "whompy wheels" thing was brought up by an individual who crusaded against Tesla. He even filed reports to authorities under fake names with images of totalled Teslas, he found on the web.

The suspension is a part which can be easily inspected on a car and is one of the parts which is not different on electric cars. Any mechanic can inspect it. How does it come, that beyond that crusader, no one called out Tesla for this? Neither the authorities, nor any mechanic working on Teslas. Check the teardowns by Sandy Munro, who is an automobile expert. He criticised many things about Teslas, but not the construction of the suspension.
I'm not sure the parent poster was calling for continued or increased use of plastics alongside landfilling. We need to do ALL of what you said and ALSO what the parent poster said.

Not digging up more sequestered carbon, and utilizing long-term-stable methods of re-sequestering that which has already been released is needed. Landfilling (after, if necessary for the type of plastic being handled, appropriate treatment/encapsulation) is an appropriate tool to bring to bear.

In terms of plastic in circulation, what alternative handling do you have in mind?
> It turns out the form they built uses some special chrome only API and doesn't work in Firefox.

history repeats itself (or more exactly we humans repeatedly step upon the same pile of stuff) Back then it was IE only APIs. Those APIs of course were for better and richer functionality and user experience. And we all know how it ended.
New Material Developed That Could Help Repair Damaged Nerves
btw I think one of the reasons why they exist is Japanese coins are thicker than most coin slots. Can be annoying if something is foreign made and I can’t find a penny that fits in desk drawer.
"If we don't want BS work rules, we don't have to have them"

Are all states right-to-work?
Then why is this specifically encoded in the first amendment?
Agreed. Which in my view stems from the perverse need to simplify everything. Some things just aren’t simple.

The “solution” of locking someone up and then walking away is easier than it is to help someone, work through relapses and end up with a healthy individual after X years. The latter is obviously better, and cheaper, but it costs patience and empathy. Things that are in short supply these days.
I wrote it already in another posting here, but this individual was in a crusage against Tesla. He even grabbed pictures of crashed Teslas and submitted them under fake names to the authorities.
This is a tragedy ^ and I
Cannot for the life of me
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But does your bmw have a leaky door, sunroof, trunk, or lights?

What about a charger? Or random electrical errors?

I don’t buy the “less maintenance” part. Maybe stuff breaks less often but if it breaks, you’re screwed.

Anyway we’ll see. I’d gladly be proven wrong.

Also, there are other brands. I think everyone agrees EVs will eventually be more reliable, Tesla is just a worst case scenario with their “high volume” “beta release” (model S)
I identify so much with this comment.

I achieved my dream in my 20s by working for Sun Microsystems. The company behind SunOS (then Solaris), and all the hardware I drooled over while in the university. Where I met luminaries like Diffie and Gosling. Where pure magic like dtrace and zfs were born. Java too. A place where brilliant quirky engineers ruled the world. A company that built the best operating system and awesome hardware, how awesome is that? (Spoiler: extremely awesome). The ride of my life.

Today.. what? Most silicon valley jobs by volume (GOOG+FB) are in advertising. Not interested. Most of the rest are in building yet another phone app or social site. Yawn.

Where are the pure tech companies innovating cutting edge hardcore technology products? I want to dream again.
I don't get the heat death theory. Particles can move away from each other without end. The universe gets wider and wider meaning sparser and sparser. So you could imagine that at infinity there would be nothing in it. But, you can never reach infinity, that's the definition of it. So the universe never becomes "empty" even if it expands without ever stopping.
Can I interest you in incentive-compatible mechanism design and implementation theory? They are well-established economy fields and do work that you proposed.
British society is heavily segmented by class, and you can always tell what class of people you’re interacting with.
I only have an undergrad in biochem with a few semesters of immunology/virology under my belt, so this is my uneducated understanding.

I would assume not for viruses.

Wet markets make zoonotic diseases more probable since they are an intersection for several disease reservoir populations. Novel viruses have more opportunity to jump species since the animals are often sourced from diverse wild populations, and many animals and humans are present together.

A septic system is used predominantly by one species - humans - that are already in close contact. They may aid the fecal-oral transmission route for an existing disease or be a breeding ground for bacteria, but I wouldn't expect novel viruses to arise here.

Edit : I might have misread the intent of your question. I wouldn't have expected these sources to generate novel viral diseases in the time in which they were used.

If you're wondering whether they sequester diseases that have been forgotten by the immune systems of people alive today, that seems quite possible. We're finding all sorts of interesting things in peat bogs and permafrost. If this environment adequately preserves bacteria or viruses, we might find something. I honestly have no idea about this kind of preservation, though.
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Currently in Beta. The idea came to me when my account was deleted due to changes to the customer's security policy. Then the customer had two maintenance nights on the same day and I had to wait until morning to complete my tasks. What was missing is a corporate-wide calendar where you have all events, let it be reminders, maintenance tasks, meetings, etc.
He has said a few times now that he (pretends to) suspect that ballots counted after election day will be increasingly fraudulous and that therefore the earliest estimates are regarded by him as most accurate. Thereby stacking the cards of chaos in his favour, which has been his motif all along of course.

Can't really see how he'll be removed over this seeing he's preparing for and even fuelling this chaos.
I assume they are talking about moving from "working class" to "middle class" (N.B. It's not really possible to move from "middle class" to "upper class" unless by marriage and then it's only really your kids that would move class bracket.

In England, accent/grammer usage is a strong indicator of class (as I assume it may be in other countries).
There are already cases of archaeologists picking up ancient diseases from their finds...

Part of that I suspect is an (unofficial) tradition of licking archaeological finds for luck...
solution is clear: do not use white racist computers to evaluate passport photos.

joking aside - better testing might help
If you don't think the UAW or ILWU bases opportunities and compensation on seniority I don't know what to tell you
Like Jetbrains MPS? https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/concepts/
Bull.

There are plenty driving old BMWs.

My 15 year old Volvo suv with V8 runs fine. No leaks either
Spreadovers vs. SOFR
A benchmark is going to be an order of magnitude faster, because it's not using SATA.

But more importantly the big goal of building in the SSD is so that games can be designed with no load times, which beats any loading time number you can hit.
This looks oddly familiar to the medical field. There they often only test on men (1). Do here we see the classic example of not having tested the product on all possible clients.
Also, if they had known about this flaw, they probably had been able to build a submit for manual review option.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/30/fda-cli...
I've responded to food grade plastics. As I'm trying to stick to Reduce Reuse Recycle, I choose PET and stay away from PP. And we need good HDPE recycling.

There are also ABS, PVC and many others — construction, textiles, shoes, asphalt, consumer goods. But they are not sold as recyclable.

EDIT: can we incinerate trash instead of burning oil? It is a controversial topic.

Would it produce less CO2 than glass? Assuming green energy no, but in such case we could sequence carbon from air. Would it require less energy than recycling? I don't think so.
Increased barriers to entry for SWE?
Clojure and F# are my two favourite languages and I have similar experience. It is much faster to develop F# code because I can rely on the type system to help me handle all the edge cases, pass in the right things and avoid nulls.
Apologies for not being more clear about this in my original comment, but I was not talking about the unfortunate people who don't have a choice. I had the HN crowd in mind when I mentioned my mates, who definitely DO have other options that would drastically improve their quality of life, but STILL choose to stick with the job that makes them miserable.

The jobs I passed on were not bad in any way, but would often require me to sell my soul in one way or another.

Besides that, if for some reason all I could do was an "unskilled menial job", I would still find the one that had at least some element which I could enjoy. I would grow into it and eventually learn to love my job or find another one.

This was all in response to the person who made the claim that "you should not love your job", which I simply don't agree with. But in his edit it appears that it's mostly an issue of semantics. "Love" has a lot of ambiguous meanings in the English language.
It is a First Amendment case though, in that the discussion is all about the principle that “non-party disclosure is only appropriate in the exceptional case where the compelling need for the discovery sought outweighs the First Amendment rights of the anonymous speaker.”
Then try to see how much of it is possible as mobile Web, specially if it is just a CRUD application at heart.

Android's NDK is quite limited, its main purpose is to implement native methods for Android Java/Kotlin, outside games, there is very little you can achieve without going through JNI or Android IPC into Java land.
How do you know that the same Indians advocating for more open immigration in the US are the same ones advocating for anti-immigration acts in India?

India isn't one person that holds all these opinions.
There's a big difference between learning a language to a useful level and learning like a native speaker.

I am fortunate to live in a multilingual country, and it is obvious when experts and politicians are speaking in their mother tongue[1] versus in one of the other national languages or even in english. However, we judge them by what they have to say and how they express it[2], not by their accents or minor solecisms.

For what it's worth, the US State Department has ranked their experiences with teaching languages to anglophones going on foreign assignment, which corroborates my (and my friends' and colleagues') experience of closer to 2 years than to 30 for an 80-20 knowledge:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677256

[1] which is not necessarily what the academies and middlebrows of other countries would consider the "correct" form of "their" language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351229

[2] Somewhere I heard the joke that french politics is full of dull people attempting to sound intellectual, but english politics is full of educated people attempting to sound common. Our politics is closer to the former than the latter. I just heard an interview with a train driver on the radio, and although her vocabulary revealed frequent repetition, she did her best to speak with a "langage soutenu" (a refined style, as opposed to the "langage de la rue", of the streets).
Whoever schedules the agenda can game the system by arranging the token to be in a preferred holder when there is a important decision to be made. Might happen ones in ten years, but bitterness does not have half-life.
Why are their salaries so low then? I'm not seeing the advantage here.
What flavour CTO does your business need?
> if your code compiles, it probably works

I'm always a little frustrated whenever I see this aphorism perpetuated since I think it gives the impression that a static type system is doing more than it is actually doing. In type systems that are used outside of academia, the main thing your static types are doing is checking whether the shapes of your data and functions all line up. With some small exceptions, that's it: the compiler will tell you if your LEGOs fit together, but not if you've built a knife instead of a fork.

I know what this aphorism is getting at, which is that in some domains and circumstances a lot of your bugs are "shape" errors, and it's gratifying when you're writing OCaml or Java and you can, say, refactor without hesitation, knowing the compiler will find even the most unused paths where you need to modify an invocation of your function. But it's been my and others' experience that there are many times where this isn't your most pressing concern, and could in fact be a pretty boring concern that you don't even want to pay the type annotation tax for. (I also think there's something to the idea that a static type system can instill too much confidence and encourage the pursuit of bad abstractions like 18-arg functions that can no longer be effectively reasoned about by an unaided human mind, but that's another topic.)
Why do tech unions in other countries not produce the same pay level found in the US?
Getting Nespresso into Michelin-starred restaurants is one of the most masterful pieces of product marketing ever, and I would love to know how they achieved it.
Nobody who ever tasted really good coffee would think Nespresso compares... But many chefs have never tasted really good coffee. (I guess that does sound like the "no true Scotsman" fallacy though ;))
Can someone with facial recognition experience chime in?

I always thought that it's just harder to extract facial features from an objectively darker image.
Or is it real bias in the algo or the training set of photos?
> Dark-skinned women are told their photos are poor quality 22% of the time, while the figure for light-skinned women is 14%

That doesn't surprise me even a tiny bit, given that the problem will already present itself in the camera - exposure settings are calibrated for white-ish people, and automated photo booths don't have a human to correct it or offer multiple different exposures to the user. Scanning the photo has the same problem.
Wait till we see the alien stuff...
off-topic: how/why is medium still around with their very aggressive techniques? They started as a minimalist blogging platform, and once they acquired the content, they started putting paywalls in front of their users' content.
> I always thought that it's just harder to extract facial features from an objectively darker image.

Amateur photographer here. The key thing is to ask why the image of PoC is "objectively darker", and the answer to that is because exposure meters/auto programs in cameras are calibrated for correctly exposing white people.
> Just don't confuse them with your friend, because they aren't.

Exactly what I wrote. The naivety of the public is telling on social media, and that's why they are so easy to manipulate as seen here.
Yup, I’m in the same boat. I must have reduced my coffee intake from several bad cups from an automatic vending machine to only 1.5 moka (6 cups each) per day.

Still quite a lot of coffee, but it tastes much better.