skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think reusable milk bottles and subscription vs product are linked together. There is no reason why a van couldn't deliver plastic milk bottles and there is no reason why a supermarket couldn't take a deposit for returned glass milk bottles. Supermarkets already do this, many will take back used sodastream CO2 canisters for a discount on the replacement.

It just happens that these two changes happened at the same time. Plastic is cheaper than glass so glass milk bottles went out but compressed gasses can not be stored in a cheap plastic container.
Not all auto-MDIX ports are gigabit, but almost all gigabit ports have auto-MDIX.
How so many educated, intelligent people seem to think that we (as a species, or even as Americans) are so resource-poor that “space exploration” and “improving the earth” yield an either/or decision absolutely mystifies me.

You want to free up resources for either one? Start with global military spending and the financial sector. Both have their place and both have grown far beyond it.
It's even more amusing when you realize that a reverse engineered open source re-implementation of the Windows userland for *nix systems has better compatibility with legacy software than actual Windows.
You are not legally allowed to sell or install used cats in CA: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/aftermarket-catalytic-converters

I wonder if shops will still install used (stolen) units regardless? Or maybe they are just being shipped out of state or broken down for raw materials.
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Relocate: Yes (you been to PHX in summer?)
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From a public health perspective, the total number of deaths in a pandemic is less important than the timing of the case load. Too many cases in too short a period of time causes havoc in the health care system, and then helps lead to deaths from conditions unrelated to the pandemic (because hospital care is unavailable).

It may sound callous, but in terms of first priorities, reducing the total number of deaths from COVID19 has never been our #1 priority (to the extent that we've had any clearly formulated priorities at all). The implicit goal, as we were all saying in the spring of 2020, was/is "flatten the curve".
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Part-time / casual role: guilt-free and potentially highly rewarding, yet no-doubt insanely underpaid, automation automation / backend / devops / cloud work. Potentially hyper casual over 3-6mths+ (what can you do, how long will it take) / flexible schedule to suit budget (we value skill set over availability) / no juniors, interns at this stage unfortunately.

We're a 21st century conservation organisation for the Great Barrier Reef. Or at least that's the idea. We're involved in a broad range of activities[1], but the big picture is a global conversation about climate change.

Our current go-to is a citizen science / research effort called the Great Reef Census[2], currently in its second year. The project incorporates a whole range of (relatively lo-fi / glue-together yet novel) tech solutions, from remote / vessel-deployed offline servers, spatially aware data submission portals, 3d planning tools[3] (we like mapping), plus an ML/CV angle being developed from last year's data[4]. It's an open project, so all data is being released under CC, similarly code open sourced (as soon as time permits). Everything we can build in house we do. We need a few extra pairs of hands for delivery of the project this year.

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We're also looking for help in other areas: on the web we are primarily vue / node (db is firestore, cloud is gcp / cloudflare). At the same time we do a lot of data-wrangling. We also need to prepare the project for open sourcing, to drive further tech engagement and resource. If your skills lend themselves to any of this, it would free up hands.

We are busy and under resourced and find it difficult to recruit / compete in the current landscape (remote / $$$). That said, the work can be rewarding plus we're willing to accommodate any measures that might make it worthwhile for the right person. Tech is currently a one-person show, but we're trying to fix that. The role would likely suit a senior type with some days spare and a passion for the environment. It is a paid position. If you're in Australia, we also do a lot of diving and there's the opportunity to certify & spend some solid time on the reef as part of the project.

Questions / expressions of interest to hq@citizensgbr.org ~ Thanks!

[1] https://citizensgbr.org/explore/atlas
[2] https://greatreefcensus.org
[3] https://lab.citizensgbr.org/census-map/v2/
[4] https://greatreefcensus.org/api
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Nobody writes tools that only work on brownfield code, and there are plenty of tools that only work if you start a new project using their tools.

Green field code is easy-mode, not hard mode. Nothing is in your way, nobody expects anything from you (yet) because they have no basis of comparison. The real reason people want to do rewrites is that they want that greenfield experience without having to quit. It almost never works.
Even for those non-professional uses it's probably better to put the PDF on a flash drive, walk into Staples and print it on their machines. For anyone who hasn't done it, it's incredibly streamlined. You don't have to talk to anyone and you don't have to wait in line. You just walk up to one of the many printers, put in your flash drive, tap your credit card and collect your printouts.

I'm just not convinced that having the ability to print in color at home is worth the huge expense in ink cartridges or in a color laser printer. In fact schools have just had to learn to accept digital submissions due to COVID-19 so printing at home probably won't be necessary at all anymore. When our black & white toner printer dies we will probably not replace it and just go to Staples for whatever little printing we will still need.
Yeah, I’m sure the Uyghurs would much prefer the US treatment, namely being murdered from safe distance, over the Chinese genocide, which is essentially a youth correction facility, but for adults.
Hate these things. Companies don't have culture. Every single one of these is the same, no matter what company it is.

Makes me wonder how much money some person with a BS job is wrting all this stuff.
You seriously dont think email, search, or direct-messaging services sound _anything_ like the telephone or the postal service or the radio?
You may well be right. I'm reading between the lines and could be wrong - but I'd guess the interviewee gave those answers in a frustrated tone. This specific interviewer could have just been a jerk.

There does however seem to be a lot of criticism of FAANG interviews which seems immature.
Interesting. Can you name some of the apps you've been seeing advertised?
Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant
Prions are the simplest naturally occurring replicating structure I know of. Maybe there are resilient prions around, maybe they occur naturally in other very different environments... maybe there are alien prions.
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A few of those + lots of money / support headcount. Which is why it hasn't happened.
The vaccines are/were a path out of a pandemic.

That's something to strive for, but extremely different from "elimination"
Even if you discount the semi-canonical explanation that the Alien was a mixture of human & "entirely fabricated" DNA, Giger's Alien was shaped the way it was for literally- and metaphorically-painful sexual artistic reasons, not as a serious hypothesis for alien life.
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> there's something actually happening here.

because those people dont want to take the vaccines?
You said that GP "clearly" intended one thing, yet I've seen you in two other threads with people who did not share your reading of those words.

It's fine to state your own reading of what they said and respond in kind, but dictating that your reading is universal when your comment is directly under evidence that it is not is a big leap.
Which apps are being advertised?
Classical FUD.

> For example, do public eyes actually catch and did more Linux bugs than three letter agencies?

Is it so important, who found a bug? TLA can find a bug, and then it has a choice: TLA can use it to spy on other countries, or TLA can fix it to protect their own country.

Your TLA may choose to leave your country unprotected, but it is the problem of your country.
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We make desktop CNC machines and the software used to create designs and carve them with those machines. We have several roles open in our software engineering department. (https://www.inventables.com/careers/positions). Feel free to hit me up with any questions. I've been working as an SE here for 5 years now. I wouldn't still be here if it weren't a great place to work.
An unexpected but welcome bonus for being an EV owner - no cat to steal!

(The lack of oil, and brake pads that last the life of the car, are also perks that don't often get discussed.)
That's the primary content of the article.
They are preparing for Screwdriver as a service.
This is just a rephrasing of "it's not okay to be intolerant to the intolerant"
They were sent, not by choice = not spacefaring! /s
There were also articles that ran counter to popular gender theory/politics.

This is off memory but I believe their stats showed that men rated women's photos on what resembled a classic bell curve, shifted to the right slightly. Ie, dudes were generally reasonable if not a wee bit overly kind.

Women were exceptionally brutal in ranking men's looks. Women's ranking of men was a triple-diamond ski hill with damn near most of the userbase falling in (I believe, again, this is from memory) the bottom third. "Women are held to unrealistic beauty standards" seems to be more than a bit of projection.

Funny story: I got banned from OKCupid once for calling out other volunteer flagmods (people suckered into wasting their time policing OKCupid user photos for free) for body shaming and transphobia (the latter almost exclusively toward transfemmes, but both coming almost exclusively from white, straight women.) Hilarious.
“We're looking at Billions of People not being able to Survive”
Plug the printer into your WiFi router - instant WiFi.

Cheaper, and much easier.
Controversy flare over informing research subjects of incidental genetic finding
It's interesting that such "provider" (I assume corporate network, rather than consumer ISP) allows traffic on WireGuard UDP port.
There's been some studies on the effects of this which have been mixed for-or-against [1-3].

I do a lot of photography and this is a conundrum that many in my circle are aware of. My solutions:

- Use a (pseudo)rangefinder camera like a Leica or Fujifilm X100/X-Pro with an optical viewfinder. Even pre-digital SLRs would subject you to, in the moment of photographing, looking at the photograph. With an uncoupled optical viewfinder, you look at life [4]. While the photograph is a powerful simulacrum, it is not life itself; the wall-sized print of the sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji that hangs in my living room is merely a visual paraphrase of the experience.

- Shooting film and the friction that goes into handling, developing, scanning, and (hopefully, eventually) printing brings some of the Benjaminian aura back to the visual record [5].

- Reading about Japanese aesthetics, specifically the notions of imperfections and impermanence, has helped me be more present and aware of the transience of the moment [6].

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976135044...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22113...

[3] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/74825

[4] https://youtu.be/kueqi8A3LQc?t=254

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...

[6] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/911856.A_Tractate_on_Jap...
Mattermost CEO here, what are your thoughts on this page? https://mattermost.org/

We go back and forth on whether we should have a .org and a .com, curious as to your thoughts.
Is anyone surprised that the Fed printing a LOT of money and sending it out to people wasn’t going to increase monetary supply and thus cause inflation to rise?
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If we charged industry fair costs for dumping pollutants into water, land and air on Earth - we would have no uncosted externalities.

If we then pointed out that in space or on the surface of a lifeless rock there are no costs of pollutants there might be a bit of incentive to move.

But you are correct, those companies would need to be self-sufficient in gathering all resource inputs and be able to ship finished products back where they are wanted. Much more complex than renting an industrial unit in an industrial town.
yea i dont need remote internet connected power tool that needs to call home to work. fuck these guys.
An estimated 126,869 people in SF aren't vaccinated. What do we know about them?
Nice videos! It's really sad to see how little this guy recovers from the cats in the second video.

That's a Honda Element in the first video, one of the more popular targets.

Here's a rough list of the most popular:
Toyota Tundra
Toyota Prius
Toyota Tacoma
Ford F-250
Honda Element & CRV

It's easier to steal them out of trucks and SUV's because of the ground clearance.

Learned about this a year and a half ago when my GF's cat was stolen from her Element, parked in front of my house in Los Angeles.
The type of regulation you are suggesting is consistent with what I am talking about. All utility services don't have to have the same exact rules. You can always be banned (even from driving on public roads), but just not without being given a stated reason and the chance to appeal it to an actual human who has to follow some set of consistent rules or due process.
My point is that the legality of it would stop mattering much. And even then, set up a siren that can do 160db, that will cause immediate hearing damage. With a bit of know-how, you can also have it fuse off some of that power to drop it under 130db after the first use to make it appear legal.

There are plenty of places in CA where if you're stealing a cat., and the owner catches you, you might find yourself getting pushed off a tall mountainside in the boonies.
UK compulsory workplace vaccination rules cannot apply to vegans
It’s sad to think a tesla might fall into this category.
Canada did prop up this program for quite a long time. It never achieved its sales goals. Moreover the money that they dumped into it was ruled illegal by the WTO. In true Trump fashion the White House overreacted and put 300% tariff to kill the program. Airbus rescued the program.
yes, def.

will be curious how you fared after you hopefully come out of this in a few months/year.

i would think we would have a better solution for this by now, but i guess if i had to offer a concrete solution as someone who's been there and literally does not have any idea, i would say:

1) lower expenses
2) get roommates/live-in/rent the garage/etc.
3) sell the house/etc.
4) go to therapy to start (really, prob won't help, but also can't hurt)
5) find any other job (which will help you appreciate your old job)
6) search HN to see how others dealt with it.
Historically, all three of the examples you site (Industrial revolution in the UK, Chemical manufacturing in Germany, and current commercial space industry in the US) are exceedingly rare*. The vast majority of both countries and time periods show a total absence of new technological development. Roman agricultural productivity was under 0.1% for the entirety of the empire. [1]

You're siting 0.1% historical outcomes when you look across all of the active civilizations across all of human history.

The conditions in the US currently, and Pax Americana more generally, are extremely rare in the history.

[1] Joel Moker's Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. I'd also highly recommend Moker's "The Gifts of Athena"
This may differ between countries, but locally - knowing a specific app exists. A clinic buys software that fulfills the requirements and knows nothing about the license. As long as someone can install it, operate it and provide support, it can be literally anything.

As long as the decision makers know something is available and actually provides value (and the decision makers are not stubborn and set in their ways for decades), it will be implemented.

Caveat - people writing most medical/billing software don't have any incentive to release it as FOSS and they have more money for promotion than any FOSS project.
As Walter Bright mentioned in another comment, they used to be “dime stores” or “five and dime stores.” The dollar store label worked well for several years, but you’re right that it’s hard to sell a lot of merchandise for $1.
Without using a mock framework, assuming User#say_current_time isn't a private or static method then:

final Date testDate = someFixedDate;
User testUser = new User() {
@Override
Date say_current_time() {
return testDate;
}
};

If it is private and/or static, you can get around it without having to change the code, but if you own the code, you should just do that... Often the change will be as simple as replacing some method's raw usage of Date.now() with a local say_curent_time() method that uses it or some injected dependency just so you can mock Date.now() without hassle.

But your point further down that in Java you have to think about your code structure more to accommodate tests is valid. I think it's easy to drink the kool-aid and start believing that many code structuring styles that enable easier testing in Java are actually very often just better styles regardless of language, but you're not going to really see the point if you do nothing but Ruby/JS where you can get away with not doing such things for longer. Mostly it has to do with dynamic languages offering looser and later and dynamic binding than static languages (which also frequently makes them easier to refactor even if you don't have automated tools). One big exception is if your language supports multiple dispatch, a lot of super ugly Java-isms go away and you shouldn't emulate them. The book Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a good reference for what works well in Java and C++ (and similar situations in other languages), it's mostly about techniques for breaking dependencies.
The largest coal mine union strike in 40 years is happening very close to the Alabama Amazon facility, and started just after the Amazon vote. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...
They never expire. Source: am OKCupid user.

As mentioned in another comment: this is one of the reasons I laughed when they made a grab for everyone's phone numbers, claiming it was to prevent people from haxxoring your account.
Except then you need to put your router in the same odd location as the printer or run cables.
IMO users who push flat-out lies like that should be banned. HN should not be a source of disinformation.
It was outside in front of the warehouse, I think it was one of the blue mail boxes that you drop letters off in to send them. They put the mail box up so that it would be easier for employees to mail in ballots on the way to work (this is all iirc from the articles when they put up the mail boxes at back when, but almost positive I read this).
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I've had my Brother for well over half a decade, never needed to change it's original in the box toner... and it broke and doesn't feed paper now. :/
I am willing to participate in a blind taste test to resolve this issue.
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It'd be a really cool if there was a browser plugin that showed you the provenance of any news you read. Like first appeared here, then here then here....
Some people just take good pictures.

My sister was voted best looking at Redwood High School. The same school our governor graduated from. It was a hugh graduating class.

When she was younger, people used to tell her she should be a model. Well after watching Brook Shields endlessly she decided to give it a try.

She got my dad to fund a professional photo shoot. Something my cheapskate dad never forgot about.

Anyway, I always thought my sister was ascetically very pretty.

I thought she was a shoe in.

Well we got the photos, and it was a huge no.

While being literally breathtaking in person, so didn't photograph well.

Years later, I was with her husband while he went to a modeling addition. Every applicant's picture was taken at the door with a Polaroid.

I asked a photographer why. He stated some people just don't photograph well, and without that picture we would be wasting time.

Anyhoo--Personally I have never liked being photographed. Why--because I'm homely in life, and pictures just confirm it.
I am actually in a very similar position to yours and agree with most of your points. I also assume you are in tech. I don't know what the immigration situation as a whole is, but I'm not sure tech is a good example of immigrants driving salaries down. Also, isn't it technically illegal for a company to pay the immigrant less? Rather than imposing limits on immigration, which I think is what the average conservative mindset would push for, I'd argue that companies should be punished for exploiting their workers -- regardless of where they come from.
Strong shades of Brexit here. The vote was clearly influenced by a concerted anti-democratic campaign, and while a second vote might be fairer, the rule of law lends heavy weight to the first corrupted vote.

Irritatingly, once the vote is corrupted, then that's basically the end of the democratic process. We know this from studying over a century of modern totalitarian states.