skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of misleading and false statements in this article.

They claim plastic recycling doesn't work. It's true that most plastic isn't recycled, but that's because of lackluster government involvement, not some technological barrier.

British Columbia has the most sophisticated recycling equipment in North America. Two plants there first use lasers to identify different types of plastic (PP, HDPE, PET, etc) in the incoming stream and then use air blasts to categorize it.

These streams are then separated by color. The material then goes to a plastics reclamation facility where the material is shredded, washed, dried, melted and forced through a filter, and turned to pellet.

The result is that 74% of plastic beverage containers in BC are recycled. Why isn't this done elsewhere? It's because BC has a tax on plastic packaging, and this tax money is then used to subsidize the loss from converting recyclables into new plastic pellet (the cost is higher than the revenue). And other governments don't want to do it, partly due to lobbying from plastics packaging manufacturers.

Plastic recycling does work when society wants it to. But instead we turn to paper. Paper produces double the CO2 emissions of plastic, and it requires vastly more energy: a European study showed that switching to paper in Europe would consume 57% more energy and 61% more greenhouse gases from packaging than are produced today. In a world where human existence is threatened most likely from runaway climate change, this seems like a bad idea.

And while we're so focused on transitioning plastic packaging to paper, we ignore the real problem with plastic in the oceans: plastic netting dumped from illegal fishing. Plastic netting wraps around animals and drowns or suffocates them. It can also drag along a seabed, killing the seabed life.

But this is considered a difficult problem to solve (international waters, policing is difficult, etc) so we ignore it.

The idea policy would be:

1. Tax plastic packaging. Use the tax money to pay for recycling that works, which has been proven to work.

2. Develop international treaties and enforcement mechanisms to prevent illegal fishing and find ways to reduce fish consumption.

3. Implement carbon taxes that reflect the cost to human survival imposed by any kind of packaging, or other activity, in accordance with the degree of GHG emission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Natural_occurrence

Not sure what they're referring to by unrelated plants in 'temperate climates', which I suspect parts of the midwest might be generously described as.

I bet you could grow some of the linked items in a garden or smallish greenhouse, though.
>existing lewd stuff out onto a new platform, not starting a PornHub alternative

These are the same things.
In most (all?) US localities, you can't legally shoot someone for stealing stuff from your store.
A while back I paid Apple $99 for the privilege of compiling an open source emulator and side loading it to my iPad and then having to re-load is after some period of time. It was not worth the effort.

For the average user, it is not even within the ballpark of their abilities.

I would argue that the reason is less form factor and more computational power. The M1 brings best-of-class laptop performance to a tablet, combined with a keyboard and a Linux distro and I would have a much more powerful platform than my current laptop.
If someone proposed a conspiracy theory for why the rapid application development tools of the middle 1990s became extinct in reaction to plotting by corporate interests in perpetuating the value of consulting services and the high salaries of CS graduates, I would buy the hardback edition immediately.
VB, Visual Age, Delhi, Genera on Tru64, RDB and RMS and DEC TM giving you schema less (noSQL to taste) wan -clustered ACID time series transactions programmable in BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN C and DCL on any two of three architectures (VAX, Alpha and Itanium - currently available for running unchanged on x64 VMs) and the OS/2 subsystem bundled (plus the first free beer transaction manager NT provided working with CICS, a feature that I truly believed was capable of giving Microsoft the corporate game by itself) which provided a VBA front end to legacy systems alongside local OS/2 tools running atop the kernel thru W2K.. the day I in place upgraded my overloaded think pad in a hotel room in Köln, and I realised when Slashdot loaded in Netscape 7 that Microsoft couldn't get any respect for anything even as impressive as W2K truly was –

Edit : large part cut for brevity

I really should have composed what I just said, much better than I have done -/so I have cut the bulk from my first too enthusiastic version / I mean to describe how much you can get running with just BASIC language skills and, at least atop of VMS, and buying the right licenses, that answer is "anything almost anything that you can imagine from a power station to a stock exchange ". Stack Overflow and POF running tiny amounts of hardware under Windows Server aren't rare cases of the potential for leveraging commercial tools. If VMS is more palatable than Windows (and certainly I will not compare the two for TCO) and the Intel architecture pricing for RDB holds up I totally believe that SAAS on VMS can be a viable alternative platform capable of making a minor industry of positions for the experienced programming talent for whom ageing has become a invisible barrier to retirement or even employment and if that's possible, then there's right there the environment wherein a generation of younger engineering minds can both take respite from rat race technology change and learn from direct experience to write the reliable systems for replacing what I fear is a current batch of the most fragile infrastructure building in modern history.

edit : incidentally, I think the entry level salaries the FAANG group is paying is a coincidentally perfect match for the price for a consultant from IBM or whoever and I don't think this is a accident by any means, only it didn't seem to work out how the old big firms would have wanted things..

edit, again, mea - my conspiracy being IBM et.al killed the good development tools in hope for being able to bill for consultation only they didn't count on the ability for big tech competitors to dismantle entirely other industries to feed paying salaries at the level of consulting rates and monopolizing the talent in that way.
I don't think so, and readability is overrated. It often sacrifices performance and reusability, just to have things in a specific syntax, so that some people can grasp it quickly. I would rather have code that is performant, and reusable, but hard to read instead.

full disclaimer: I like pure FP, i.e. Haskell/Idris
This isn't rocket science. We know the solution to homelessness is to build sufficient shelters. NYC did it in response to shifting opinions about letting people freeze to death on the streets. Utah did it for religious reasons.

From what I see in my city, and read about in SF, the real crux of the problem is people blocking the construction of shelters. Very loud NIMBYs show up to every single neighborhood association meeting about this topic. They don't care about stores closing or ultimately solving the problem because they don't shop at places like Walgreens.

I wish I knew how to shift the political deadlock on this, but I simply do not. In my city there's a small amount of progress towards camps with permanent shelters, but it's still just a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed.
People want schematics and parts available for purchase, as well prohibition of companies from going out of their way to make devices harder to repair as opposed to having to work with design constraint.

It's not that complicated or costly to enforce.
This is the kind of insanely exaggerated catastrophizing I never want to debate in the workplace.

I have work to do!
Love the product, this is incredible!

- Is it possible to set an API request header to include the Firebase ID token?

- Are you able to embed a webview on a page?

- Is there a pattern yet for in-app payments?
Right. The backup function will require the house be set up with a transfer switch and the appropriate inlet setup, just like a whole house generator. The interesting bit is just the fact that the truck has a 240v split phase inverter built-in and ready to go.
There is a company that makes a couple of hardware logo turtles. They've been at it for quite some time too:
https://www.terrapinlogo.com/products/robots.html

edit: there's also a very good three-book series for beginners called Computer Science Logo Style, by a UC Berkeley prof whose name I can't recall... Brian Harvey maybe?
What vaporware has come out of Google Brain? In fact, they've been publishing ground-breaking research after ground-breaking research that's completely changed the entire field in recent years.
Epic winning wouldn’t only let Epic do things. It would let any one. Though why not be interested in what the company doing the fighting is doing? Versus Steam that only has a good rep because other app stores in comparison seem worse. Even though Steam’s fee is crazy too and they only did one recent change because of competition.
I've seen it happen - I'm just curious why? Don't think it's fireable or anything, just... weird.
I think on an individual level we should be “blind” to race but when it comes to solving some of the big problems of society we have to recognize the role that racism plays in those problems and
People have argued that the only value of bitcoin was for drugs and piracy and yet it has seen serious money invested
I started my career as a PHP dev in 2003 (mysql/smarty/adodb ftw) and I became a Rails dev around 06. Since then I have, for various reasons, switched back and forth between PHP and Ruby. The interesting thing that I've noticed in that time is that Ruby is, for the most part, the same language (and ecosystem!!) it was 15+ years ago and that is a good thing. PHP has tried hard to not be the language and ecosystem that it was 15-20 years ago and because of that it feels pulled in a lot of different directions. You encounter code that mixes 15/20 year old functions with more enterprisey OO conventions that came out of the post PHP5 era. It can feel weird to switch to that from a language like Ruby that more or less has had coherent approach since 2003.

I'm sure it's nostalgia but I think the PHP 4 -> 5 transition was the best era of PHP. Codebases at that time mixed OO and C-ish function based programming in pragmatic and easy to understand ways. That weird shitshow of objects, functions that accept pass by reference or pass by value, request scoped global state, etc was fun and anarchic and, for whatever reason, totally made sense to a self-taught programmer like me at the time.
I think part of the problem is copyrights don't apply to plain recipes by themselves:

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#:~:text=....

"A mere listing of ingredients is not protected under copyright law. However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a collection of recipes as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection"

Basically you have to add a bunch of literary expressions around it to make it copyrightable.

I've also read that people add all that stuff around them to help with SEO.
Do you really believe that setting profit margin for an industry is the government’s job? I am not libertarian, far from it, but this sounds excessive.
Take time off from the side-project, whenever necessary.

Sometimes, I will put that side-project away for an extended break in the region of weeks, or even months, before 'the side-project battery is recharged enough to continue'.

[Come on, surely you have more than one side-project on your todo-list if you can't find a non-development task or two.]
Reminded me of the (possibly untrue/exaggerated) story of the sewing machine needle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dreams#The_sewing_ma...

Plenty of other great dreams * on that page.

* I know you weren't dreaming exactly, but why let that get in the way? :)
How about chicory? It's naturalized to the US. Easy to grow perennial with pretty flowers that would look great in the garden.
And I offered one place to look for an answer: one’s own purposes for engaging in this very discussion.
There are European cities have been around for a long time without experiencing those cycles. So clearly it is not inevitably.
Being able to dual boot or virtualize Ubuntu and windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro with 16gb of ram and a touchscreen would be great.

Parallels already runs on m1 it wouldn’t be very hard to enable on m1 iPads.

It is honestly a better form factor than the laptop as you can just plug in a thunderbird dock and get expanded ports.
Sorry but I can't abide the scientific ignorance being displayed all over this conversation.

(1) The first article you cite "Microplastic particles now discoverable in human organs" only announces that some scientists made a technique to discover such particles. The only ones they found were ones they inserted on purpose to verify their technique. That headline leads people strongly to incorrect conclusions like you have made. That's one of the main techniques of fake news.

(2) Fertility rate has nothing to do with how many people can't get pregnant who are trying. It's just a variation on birth rate.

(3) Mother Jones - here cited many times as factual - shows a picture of a bird with a plastic mesh around it. That is not what "toxic" is. Maybe powerful lobbyists got Canadian legislators to pretend that plastic straws are "toxic", but again that flies in the face of scientific fact.

Plastic is an amazingly inert substance that is unlikely to cause harm outside of physical constriction. In honor of this thread, I'm going to go eat a Lego. You can rest assured that I'll be back tomorrow to collect my downvotes.
And use what? I didn’t use iOS until Windows Mobile, then webOS, then Windows Phone died out in that order. Not much choice any more.
Standard knowledge for a easy start on a new server was to roll a female elf and unequip everything and dance on the mailbox at the capitol.

I preferred cornering the thorium market on the weekends.
> FWIW I think this provincial gov't is mind bogglingly incompetent, and also a bit malevolent.

Sounds like we're on the same page then :) I'm confused about the rest of your comment - healthcare, and whatever emergency powers they have unconstitutionally used to try and get us to stay home, are the responsibilities of the provinces. Does the federal government have a role in this at all? Are they somehow setting the overall vaccination policy?
Well, at least one major adult cam site banned streaming games a few years back due to copyright concerns. Not sure about other sites but I suspect they'd end up having to do the same thing if it caught on there; the plausible deniability of being on a games streaming site is important if you want to be able to stream games, since it's at best a bit of a copyright grey area and developers don't have the same incentive to permit adult streamers as they do plain game streamers.
Yeah, that’s a much more legitimate issue than arguing about 15% vs 30% and where the line in the sand should be.
It's also correlated with the change from the US military Soldier's creed, to the "Warrior ethos" [0].

The differences are quite interesting: The soldier swears to always act in ways creditable to the service and the nation, recognizing it as a honored profession not to be disgraced.

While for the warrior the mission always comes first. Honor, credibility, disgrace? Not even in the vocabulary, replaced with "deploy, engage and destroy the enemies of the US, in close combat".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier%27s_Creed
I think the parent commenter is not saying to write your one time use query in elixir using wrapper modules with Ecto, but tried to show that queries generated by Ecto are pretty clean and understandable in compare to other popular DataMappers/ORMs
Afaik there is no caffeine in chicory, if that's a meaningful discriminator.
Can you expound? In what ways do you find them weak? I can think of many but curious on your perspective
I think we're in a much better position to change the culture at Google by having a discussion here on HN than Google is to improve the Palestine/Israel situation by making a statement.

I would even say it's a noteworthy possibility, given that many people who are or will be influential at Google read HN.

But the distinction here about having a discussion vs. making a demand is also relevant. When someone is demanding you make a statement for seemingly no purpose, the real purpose is to assert control over you.
A different take on the story:

https://blinkinlabs.com/project/moma-cm2
> He ran around the backyard using sticks as guns.

Since sticks (in nature) have none of the function of guns, this is certainly a learned behaviour from social observation.
>. But at least it makes it easier for me to intentionally find attractive women in swimsuits who are streaming their sexiness unintentionally,

...do you honestly think it's unintentional? The issue is twitch are open hypocrites. They take a cut of money people 'donate' to these sexually suggestive streamers. They don't need the advertisers on those streams because the money is already coming in from the viewers.

The issue is that they're full of it.
Legality is not the same as morality. Remember that slaves were not a protected class at one point. A coarse analogy, I admit, but it's true: we can change this to include politics if necessary.
Yep, and anyone who thinks SF's homeless situation is bad needs to take a trip down to LA. LA's a step away from favelas.
Or as the case may be, "parrot the left politics"...

(Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.)
Good times make weak men, and all that.
Android and Windows devices don’t necessarily have the same OS-level security provisions, so this isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison. It’s probably true that iOS as an operating system has had stronger security from the start, but that’s not related to the app distribution channel.
> The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs.

Absolutely not, and for a very clear reason: the aims of the entrepreneurs are to make money and reduce costs. My aim, in asking for raises, is to increase costs. Are you saying this is inappropriate?

I am at work because the company and I came to a mutually beneficial arrangement. They need things done that are better done if I'm there; in exchange, I have a number of demands of them, starting with a sizable chunk of money. They're willing to meet those demands, so I work.

If I make political demands of my employer, it may be novel, but it is not a fundamental change of a relationship where I am already making financial demands of my employer. If the employer doesn't like my demands, they are free to try to find someone else, and the process works the same in both cases.
That's good! Deadly force should only be used to prevent serious physical harm. It should be pretty easy to trace those people and put them in jail. But I'm sure the SF police didn't even bother.
> We're not like Germany or Sweden, where the means to simply exist are widely accessible outside of work, and where work ends when it ends, on the dot

This is a curious fantasy that many Americans hold.

After having spent the best part of a decade working mostly in Sweden and Germany, I can tell you this has no basis in reality.
Thank you for this, I added that book to my reading list.
Depending on how one stores and scoops, there can be a 25% weight difference between what is on the recipe and what is on the bowl :/
Just for a fun question: were the kids exposed to societal pressure in the form of, for example, other kids or YouTube or movies, that may have had an impact?
in New York City

where it gets colder

and they are hunted by their own

kind, these men often crawl under car radiators,

drink the anti-freeze,

get warm and grateful for some minutes, then
die.

but that is an older
culture and a wiser
one

- Bukowski, 1973
Historical note: in the days before supermarkets, all the inventory was kept behind the counter. Someone had to come up with the idea of letting customers browse the shelves and that shoplifting was an acceptable loss.

Maybe it will move the other way again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly
Critical race theory applies its lens to everything.

School is racist, police are racist, government is racist, of course work and the office will become targets.
> When will we acknowledge that one of the most noble pursuits

Christ, this Superhero CEO bullshit has to stop. It is beyond absurd. Is the multi-hundred X income multiplier really insufficient, they need their egos stroked constantly, too?

I have co-founded a startup, and otherwise have worked at them for almost the entirety of my adult life. I know how much work, risk, and pain is involved.

But this apparent need for Glorification of the Supremely Worthy Job Creator nonsense is just cultish and gross.
there's all sorts of criminal activity that has nothing to do with acts of desperation. perhaps you meant most people shoplift because they are desperate. but that doesn't even seem to be the case either:

> These clusters comprise a typology of shoplifting, including Loss-Reactive (28% of the sample), Impulsive (20%), Depressed (18%), Hobbyist (18%), Addictive–Compulsive (9%), and Economically Disadvantaged (7%) types.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979
There are only a couple of US states that have something along the lines of "or political beliefs" appended to their workplace discrimination laws. In most US states, it's perfectly legal to announce that you're firing all Democrats, effective immediately. In those couple of states you wouldn't want to announce that, though you could still lay them all off and dare them to try to prove it in court (very difficult unless you've explicitly announced).
This is just yarn spinning. Stuff you like is good. Stuff you don't like is bad, and you fit the adjectives to the story. I dare say those hippies in Seattle were fans of your Lockian ideal too, they just used different words. And likewise trying to replace police with this private goon squad[1] looks an awful lot like "tearing down existing institutions" to people like me who think it's a shit idea.

That's not an argument, essentially. Words don't make truth. Either this trick is going to make people safer or it's going to get someone killed.

[1] See what I did there? Words are fun!
A long overdue report came out that prompted a long overdue state level response, in less than 2 years

A perspective.
My perspective on this is you don't lob any sort of infographic about genocide at somebody without meaning to tarnish them. That's escalating the seriousness of a conversation drastically. Making fun of people named Dickinson is not remotely cool, but bringing genocide into the resulting conversation seems way over the line.
Having some political views and expressing them at the workplace are different things - that's the whole point of this thread.

If your views are that extreme maybe it isn't a workplace that should be taking action? Just a thought
"Blind to race" claims often go along with smugly ignoring systemic racism in society and acting like it's a solved problem because a black man was elected President.
Arguably the other switch required is that between US and UK Imperial units, and SI. In particular, I've always found cups rather hard to use, especially if a volumetric measurement of something like butter is required.
You’ll never have any issues as long as you stay between the lines, that’s the point.