skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restaurants that make their money from people looking for a fine-dining experience are a minority of NYC restaurants, especially in Manhattan. Most eateries are serving workers.
Glass is totally recyclable, the problem is you can’t get clear glass out of anything that has color in it, which a lot of stuff does.

It’s also not really saving any energy or valuable resources, and glass is heavy and fragile.
And yet when I suggest that we re-open spaces for the young and healthy, and let the old and infirm decide to quarantine for themselves, I'm called inhumane and callous. The elite of this country have decided this is the sacrifice we will make - sorry for your friends, hopefully they get jobs in a warehouse or manage to get on the government dole.
You and the parent comments have said basically everything that I feel about learning a new language, but I'll still add..

When you're a kid playing with dinosaurs with other kids, you're all saying things like "dinosaurr! Rawrrrr! Dinosaur! Pshhh!" But with adults the conversation would be "Dinosaurs have been extinct for 60 million years, but there's substantial evidence that birds are the evolved form of dinosaurs today." As a new learner you would never understand that, but from the kids you would learn the word "dinosaur" very well.

So as an adult, how do you find other adults who want to play with dinosaurs
mergify - merge changes from a branch one commit at a time
I have no clue why not, but a similiar thing has happened in the rental market. Lots of landlords keeping the rates of apt. the same, and forcing people to move out.

Then, they find out they can't rent at those prices, they still are hesitant to drop prices and just offer 3-4 months of 'free rent' instead.

Many, eventually do capitulate, but this seems to take months or even more (for some, their building contracts have to reset, as there are REITs involved, etc).

It is some kind of human psychology at play. This is similar on how so many tech companies refuse to give meaningful raises, and have employees leave. the replacement is always more costly.
I prefer using Vim (or Emacs), git and grep for things like this. They're everywhere and have stood the test of time. Are there any particular advantages I'm missing here? Either way thanks for sharing; it's helpful to see how other people do notes.
what's the point of you writing hyperbole? all you give me is something to make a rebuttal about why banning cigarettes wouldn't have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths instead when you already know that and are just trying to make a point about substituting lives somewhere else, which also doesn't make sense.

your position - that position - is unworkable.

the same leader helping politicize this non-political issue that has nearly complete consensus worldwide are the same people that tried to quarantine the entire tri-state area before backing off of it. the lack of consistent leadership (being generous there) left all-powerful federal agencies fending for themselves for PPE at the expense of everyone else.

instead of shutting down the economy.... yeah I wish there were other solutions. your supposition is tied to a "not as bad as the flu" "okay maybe just as bad as the flu" "okay barely worse than the flu - so far" goalpost that is required to keep moving and is completely irreconcilable to support the disappointment at shutting down the economy. But now all you have is hyperbole about banning cigarettes for literary effect ONLY, thats all you have.
Git-imerge – incremental merge and rebase for Git
Do you think that energy is free? Do you think that heat comes from magic?
> That 6x reduction is dependent on the p-value, which in turn is dependent on the sample size

No, the 6x reduction MLE is -not- dependent on the p-value, and this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the statistics. That said, the overall distribution of possibilities skews on the "lesser effect" side, so if you had to guess which way the estimate would move with another trial, you're more likely to get a smaller effect than a larger one.... 6x is still the most likely single value.

> It's extremely rare for a treatment in medicine to have a 6x benefit.

All kinds of drugs and treatments for acute disease have a > 6x benefit. We have plenty of conditions that have a horrible prognosis untreated and great outcomes treated.

Have a bad bacterial infection? Odds are abx will clear that right up and you'd die otherwise. Active TB has a ~60% death rate within 5 years untreated, while with normal treatment regimens only has a relapse (not death) rate of a few percent in that 5 year period. Most vaccines have high efficacies. Standard treatments can prevent the vast majority of malaria deaths.
Greenwich council in the London, UK does this. They have the worst recycling of any area in the UK and part of the reason is they burn almost all the plastic they gather from recycling, just 5% by volume gets recycled and the rest is burnt.
Thanks for the link. I wasn't able to download the full article though (couldn't access sci hub either). :-/ The abstract of the article says they are merely making (informed) speculation though.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I thought it would be similar to a more deadly flu or something with long-lived immunity for a given strain once you got it. At this point, I am assuming less and less. We found it wasn't even a lung disease, but a disease of the angiotensin system. We assumed ventilators would help, but often they just mushed damaged lung tissue. There's been tons of snake-oil cures floating around too. People are starting to show evidence of long term damage. Let's measure things before we make irreversible decisions.
This seems weirdly asymmetric: the same intuition that forms sentences also recognizes some of the sentences it hears as incorrect. In the former activity it’s always right but in the latter it’s always wrong?

What’s happening when I identify a mistake while proofreading my own writing or listening to a recording of my own speech? When I can’t figure out how to make a sentence work because none of the ways I can think to phrase it sound good?

I’d totally believe that the workings of this recognizer are too slippery to conveniently model and study. But I can’t believe that it doesn’t exist or is completely personal. There are definitely communities with broad alignment on some intelligible sentences being good and others being bad.
Even without addressing the majority of the substance that the parent comment is trying to portray, there should be one major takeaway:

Unregulated markets don't work, except in the way that cancer works to propagate itself before its host dies. They're not self-balancing ecosystems. After all, they're comprised of people.

Completely managed and controlled markets similarly don't work, and for largely the same reasons. After all, they're comprised of people.

Humanity has a unique knack for at least these two things: 1) constructing games, 2) cheating those games it has created for itself to play.

It's no longer enough to hedge against the risks of idealized perfectly spherical and rational actors bouncing about. We have to begin to take into account our own complexity and how we subvert the rules we lay out for ourselves.
Pre ordered a model Y RWD around 15 months back. Have received two calls from sales reps to move or upgrade my order to Model Y AWD, and take the delivery ASAP.

Held off on both occasions due to these quality reasons.

The Tesla cars seem like an IOS update ( what they used t be) - better to sit back and wait to see what breaks, before doing it.
Pizza boxes?

A lot of paper is coated in clays, waxes, or plastics, and many inks might make paper unsuitable for use in food grade products like pizza boxes, without heavy processing.

Shipping boxes, maybe. If the structural properties of the resulting board are OK.

But most post-consumer paper is unusable for one reason or another. Recycling of industrial packaging is a slightly different story.
Redux means "brought back", not "reduce".
The kind of answer to this problem that I see most frequently uses logical reasoning. I don't think that's the best approach to start with, because it is abstract and disconnected from reality. It has a high chance of error.

I think people would do better to write a computer simulation of the problem, or, for non-programmers, to design a game with dice that simulates the problem. When you execute the simulation, you pretty quickly realize what's going on. Then you can use logic or formal reasoning to put your intuition into words.

A couple people here have said something similar (ctrl-f "simulation" on this page). According to https://www.mwsug.org/proceedings/2010/stats/MWSUG-2010-87.p... , even the great mathematician Paul Erdős wasn't convinced that switching was better until he saw a simulation:

> Vazsonyi ran the program 100,000 times. Erdős watched the results of the simulation. The simulation results indicated
that by switching, the odds of winning are indeed two out of three. Finally, he was grudgingly convinced that switching
was better. He did not like it but seeing was believing. He could not argue with the results.
I feel like I'm missing something - how is Sony able to sell this for so cheap considering how good the specs seem to be?

The GPU looks perhaps about on par with something like the RTX 2060 which is $350 on its own. Looking briefly online, a mid-tier pre built PCs with similar specs (this GPU, 8-core CPU, 16GB RAM, fast NVME drive) like this Dell XPS costs $1350 [0]. Granted the CPU on the PS5 is probably worse than on that machine, but it's still pretty solid at a 3.5Ghz Zen2.

Not to mention if you you wanted a Mac with similar specs, you really can't compare directly because they don't sell a consumer desktop machine, but you could easily pay $3000 for an iMac with similar specs (plus the screen obviously).

[0] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/xps-deskto...
Bury the trees is good. Carbon sequestration and all that, as long as you replant them.
you were not in NYC in march, were you? Lots of people just refused to go to work, or do outside things when the death toll started climbing in Italy, to the point it was all over the news.

Everyone knew it was a matter of time when it would hit NYC, and when it did, we were blind as there was no testing available to people unless you ended up in the ICU.

My soccer team just forfeited their mach, as team members did not feel safe to play while the virus was spreading. This was way before the lockdown in early march,

I stoped going to the gym too. People just didn't feel safe, and even if things were open, people would just not go out.

Almost, all places were at about 30% capacity. In the long run, they'd still have failed. People just wont/don't like to go out or travel.

You can still go in places like Albania, or Turkey, or Greece, who managed the virus/had low levels of it, yet their tourism is not doing well at all as many folks don't like risking it.
Ok. That's fair. I now understand your point and you're right. Once you bring human and cultural values into the equation the proportions won't work perfectly, perhaps not even close to what the mathematical reasoning suggests.

My idea is that in a world of loud opinions and poor reasoning, we should be able to understand if there are bottlenecks that have nothing to do with culture or interests and more with how society creates equal opportunities for its citizens. Any competent and ethical politician should understand that, regardless if they are right or left. If that was the case policy making will orbit around controlling systemic variables that put minorities in disadvantage and not so much on the emotional vitriol that comes from both sides when talking about diversity and racial equality.

I would hope that a company like Microsoft is willing to create objectives around diversity, not for the optics but rather because they actually have identified said bottlenecks in their own system and understand objectively why this is problematic.

At the end of the day I think the problem is that people always want to pin the problem on someone else, when it's more than clear discrimination happens as a result of an uneducated, siloed sub-societies that are designed to keep social, economical, racial and cultural boundaries. We should design societies in such a way that when a silo is created it can be immediately be disolved to restore the balance.
That's perfectly fine functional code you just wrote. Type system trickery can also be FP but a lot (most of?) practical FP code is written in dynamic FP languages like Clojure and Erlang and Elixir, or just Python, TypeScript, etc.
Why wouldn't she just use your last name when you got married? Seems like a pretty simple solution.
I think it’s just the way American movies are produced. 80s and 90s movies are no problem for me. Starting around the 2000s I can’t pick up half of what they say. I have American friends who use subtitles for the same reason.

I have no trouble listening to dialogue in movies in my second language, so I think comprehension isn’t the problem.
I tried this and really liked it, and found it helpful in the one session I did.

Then, I've not gotten around to doing another in the last month .. and I'm not sure why .. feels like I'm struggling against doing the things that would help me, maybe because they would also change me or something, I'm not sure

I think this app and technique could be very powerful
Plastic isn't very robust. I personally utilise a standard container size and wash and reuse it for my own purposes to avoid kitchen bags and such. But the lids crack as they get brittle after repeated washing and the plastic itself scuffs and looses its transparency and surface. It may actually be problematic to have scratched surfaces for bacteria and cleaning and the containers wouldn't look the same in the store even after one wash and refill.

Plastic just isn't good for reuse, it is not robust.
It's generally good to have an odd number of people on any kind of voting board so that there aren't ties.
It's not like production of paper from pulp wood involves butterflies and popsicles:

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

(the first ingredient is hot lye!)

In general, paper recycling is productive enough that paper mills buy recycled paper as an input. Cardboard even more so.
new, shiny
It's true that the predecessor of the modern piano existed during Bach's time (and that Bach helped to sell a few). But I would argue that it was more of a curiosity at the time. It certainly was nowhere as widespread as the harpsichord or clavichord.

At any rate the pianoforte of Bach's day sounded very different from the modern piano, so playing Bach on a modern piano is still an anachronism. (Whether that's a problem is a separate issue.)
Right, if the consumer put it in the ocean instead of the trash, that plastic wasn’t going to get recycled either.

If you put it in landfill in the US, it’s definitely in landfill. If you “recycle” it, it may get shipped to China (or now Cambodia) and then dumped somewhere.
That’s plastic to-be recycled, not thrown away. We don’t put our trash on shipping containers, we have closed trucks bring it to landfills. We do put recycling on shipping containers and it often blows off into the ocean or ends up in their world countries that get paid to accept it for “recycling” when they don’t have the means to do so and it just ends up in low quality landfills that leak into rivers/oceans.

So that’s more of a reason to just discard plastic.
There's more mercury released into the environment from incandescent bulbs than CFLs -- or there was, when incandescents were still common and so were coal-fired power plants, and the Obama-era regulation of mercury emissions from power plants hadn't come into force.

Now, of course, we have LEDs in place of CFLs, and coal burning power generation is on the way out, so it's all moot.
If it were affordable you could just send it to the sun.
This example has nothing to do with type systems. The same system exists e.g. for Clojure (see Specter).

The fundamental idea behind the approach in the article is the following:

Treat the path through a nested data structure as a first-class thing.

This gives helps us mainly in two scenarios:

1. Allowing for easy field-update-like code to exist for immutable data structures in addition to mutable data structures. This is especially valuable for updates.

2. Unify everything that can be "field-like" under a consistent field syntax.

In most class-based languages we can write something like

myObject.field0.subfield1.subsubfield2

but `field0.subfield1.subsubfield2` isn't a first-class item that we can pass around and use. We can certainly write something like the following:

def myPath(someObject):
return someObject.field0.subfield1.subsubfield2

but (to the first point) if someObject is deeply immutable, we can't use `myPath` to actually update `subsubfield2` and instead have to cumbersomely write out the entire reconstruction of an immutable data structure at every level.

To the second point, even if someObjet were mutable, there are a variety of things that would be nice to have as field accesses, but aren't, simply because they don't fit into a class definition. As an example, consider the bits of an integer.

# Imagine .permissions.bitMask.lastBit to be a path
# through user
set(user, .permissions.bitMask.lastBit, 0)

is so much nicer than the corresponding bit shifting code.

If path access through data were a first-class concept, there's no reason that paths should be restricted to only fields in classes. You can fit the same interface to anything that supports the notion of "field-like" access.
I sure do wanna fly to Mars in a ship built for this man now!
Not the 2020 outback. So disappointed as was looking to upgrade to a 2020 but the touchscreen everything made me leave it behind. Got an ascent instead because they had a deal.

Mazda is the only company doing it right these days.
The funny thing is, if everyone "virtue signaled" like the "liberal women" do by cleaning plastic and putting it in the right bin, recycling might be somewhat less money-losing by virtue of being better-sorted. But yeah, fuck 'em for "virtue signaling" while they sip their lattes and go to yoga, right? It's better to see the lie and do what they don't want you to do. /s

I get it, plastic can't be recycled profitably and we should be using way less. But one of the reasons its so terrible to recycle is because of how poorly it's sorted.
I believe you are conflating me with another user. I never said any of those things, all I said is 10x flu isn't that bad.

Name calling isn't gonna win you any friends and I'll leave it at that. Have a good night
I’ve only just started doing this - but my understanding is that the lids go into compost. The bottoms shouldn’t because the grease turns to a yuck sludge in compost bins.
At 1000$/tonne of CO2 (Air capture!) burying a soda bottle (2L - 42g) would cost on the order of 5 cents, or conveniently what many states charge as a bottle deposit, so no. You would have to be burying 5-10 kilos of plastic to approach even $10 worth of carbon dioxide emission mitigation.
It is going to break down into small microplastics and potentially leak out into the water supply and then the wider food chain. What happened in the oceans is mostly about dumped fishing gear and all the "ask no questions recycling" sent to asia to be processed finding its way into the oceans rather than the landfilled material but it is still breaking down in a similar way and needs to be dealt with properly
That was six months ago. As far as I’m concerned, the leadership in NYC has been completely ineffective and incompetent. The rest of the world is basically moving past the virus, while New York is considering even more restrictions.
People with resources travel by air regularly, and they influence others. Also, people like to believe they will one day live the jet setting life, so taking that option away could be perceived as a negative.

People also prefer personal car transportation versus public transportation. Public transport requires living in high density environments, which means no personal backyards, no driveways for your 2+ car households, etc. Fossil fuels without the accompanying tax make cheap things possible, like household supplies and convenient packaging. Making fossil fuels more expensive hits everyone's quality of life, and we can see that when fuel prices go up and now everyone is complaining about increases in prices of food and materials.

>Most people won't notice inefficient coal powerplants getting replaced by other better options. They want electricity at cheap and they will get it.

If it was possible to offer electricity cheaper, why would it not already be the case?
I would say that even clean plastic bags are better to be given away for reuse than recycled or trashed.
There is more than one form of pollution. This is like complaining about aicd from an Uranium mine. True but hardly the biggest issue.
Great guy your cousin. Would do business again 10/10.
I'm not sure what you mean. There's no perfect strategy, only tradeoffs - how much are we willing to spend and how much are we willing to sacrifice for what degree of suppression? The ideal scenario is for Covid-19 to end up something like tuberculosis or HIV, a serious public health issue but not one that the average person necessarily needs to think about day to day.

If someone tells you that they have a plan to stop the coronavirus from being a public health issue at all, they're misinformed or untruthful.
It was very established ninth circuit case law at that time that APIs weren't copyrightable. This exact point came up today during oral arguments, with Oracle not denying it but instead saying that the terms "interface" and "API" weren't intended to apply to something so massive as the structure, sequence, and organization of the Java standard library.

Additionally, the contract is public. http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/USLsettlement.pdf Point 9C on page 14 has the university declaring that as far as they know, no AT&T IP is present in 4.4BSD, despite it clearly having a UNIX compatible API.
Last I saw, the FSD suite did contain enough autonomy and safety features that it was the leading electronic safety packages on the market. Have other automakers caught up yet?
Well, let me explain you that when you migrate to a new country, apart from dealing with your work Visa you need to deal with driving license, SSN registration, bank accounts, rental, car, new language, new work culture, new life...so yeah I should have known back in 2007 when there was no glassdoor, blind that I was underpaid by that much and company registering me as X when my company title was different.
"Good" is meaningless – there is no absolute measure of the relative value of one programming language over another. C is not "better" than Python, or vice versa, just different tradeoffs for different problems and programming styles. The same is for Go.
The roof is glass,not metal.
How much carbon does feeding the pizza boxes to the composting process release into the air, as a percentage of total carbon present in the pizza boxes at rest (ignoring construction costs)?
I can't imagine a worse time to launch a new aircraft. The airlines are all bleeding hard due to Covid.
To the century of humiliation starting in 1839 with the opium war [1]. I’m told saving face is very important in Chinese culture. I could see it being quite easy for people in China whose job it might be to prevent the export of fentanyl or fentanyl precursors to only do the minimum to keep up appearances. not nearly as blatant as the British but were but we aren’t getting any help from China in preventing the deadly drugs from being shipped here. It would be better if they would just send actual heroin instead of having casual mdma and cocaine users dying from fentanyl.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation