skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't really stop it, but they raised the quality standards to be so high that no post-consumer plastics qualify. Something like less than 5% contamination.

They do still accept "clean" plastic, like from industrial manufacturing. Think custom molded part containers or similar.

And before you start cleaning your recycling before binning it, that automatically uses enough water and energy to defeat the point of recycling.
What makes left joins perform poorly in Snowflake?
There are a ton of people who turn off updates because they just don't want to reboot (or just because they're incensed that Microsoft made updates opt-out). I have done multiple root cause analyses responding to incidents that have turned out to be out-of-date admin machines.
It seems like a leap from "person who wants to build X" to "charlatan".
Since applications recompiled against the Carbon framework used the framework to access what was traditionally global state on the classic Mac OS, it could have just been to make Carbon applications preemptive and run in their own protected address spaces. The nanokernel already supported that; MPTasks were preemptive since their introduction with the Multiprocessor API.
DNS issues rumors/news always puzzled me (not that I ever made my honest research). Domains name system is to me basically a half-replicated/half-redirected database of {domain-name : categorized-ip-list}. Can someone please ELI5 why can’t we just GET https://<dns-ip-and-its-cert-from-dhcp>/get-ips?d=<domain>, follow 3xx, get json and that’d be it?

This question lies in the same category of questions which I’ve never managed to get answers to. Why fetching email over https is instant, but over imap it may take minutes to “sync” (or what it does there)? Why browsing is instant, but ftp was dead slow? Why all the formats (mailbox, uue, etc), when you could have a proper database with column encodings? I’m
not asking anyone to answer these, cause it would be too offtopic, but these arcane issues have never left me alone.

I understand that most of it is historical, but what the heck, internet.
The Beautiful Experiment
... that would only be an analogous situation if Apple was collaborating in a W3C working group with Google and Mozilla and Microsoft and others to make a more capable standard to replace PWAs, and was already in the process of implementing it. The situations really couldn't be more different.
Regarding builders who jump between solutions to build X, I don't think the issue is ONLY the hiring process.
I don’t know specifically what this person was told, but there was low confidence before the turn of the century on the classic Mac OS side that the NeXT people would developer a consumer-grade OS capable of replacing classic Mac OS[footnote]. So there was ongoing speculative development on various things.

However, by Mac OS 9, Mac OS X was clearly where all of Apple’s resources would go, whether it was any good or not. Most classic work at that point moved to building bridges to OS X via Carbon. Mac OS 8.5 was the last chance to build major new features into classic Mac OS. None of the ongoing work then or later was on the scale of Copland or putting a new kernel under the OS or anything of that sort. Mac OS 9 was known to be a dead end internally, and nothing like that would have been funded.

Footnote: This skepticism was well-placed: arguably it didn’t actually happen until Mac OS X 10.4. (You can argue that 10.3 was usable — or say “but UNIX” — but I don’t want to hear from you unless you actually tried to support that version on the machines of your less tech-savvy family members.)
Why not? If the song is that good.
Our put it another way, of person A makes an awesome song, why should person B make a bunch of money off of it 50 years later?
Curved Timeline in CSS
Clean Loading Animation
The amount of personal data left in chats would be worrying for sure. Not to mention security culture is not really tight here. I’ve had hotels ask me to send a picture of my credit card for payment a few times.

As far as other things being compromised, I’d just deauth line from my bank account.
They missed this at the end:

https://emojipedia.org/milky-way/
It’s often just a symptom of cargo culting at a managerial or even Board level. Google does X so we need to do X.
That one I recognize, yeah. Though in retrospect it's rather similar sounding...
We've used https://github.com/estuary/connectors/pkgs/container/source-... to load data sets in the many terabytes. Caveat that, while it's implemented to Airbyte's spec, we've only used it with Flow.
I think that's a bad analogy. What you're suggesting would be complete chaos for film. Most films adhere to the standard, thankfully.

The cinemas are meant to be calibrated. People can calibrate their home cinemas the same.
One probably spent too much time debugging someone's shit mountain code base, the original author got to enjoy bog bonuses and bragging about X in conferences and getting hired by similar companies to build another X.
I don't think it matters which is more likely to happen because almost always these stories are considered apocryphal, like this one is mentioned as being by another comment, which is a nice way of saying probably made up
I'm not an expert but I've seem them characterised as "the return of Cray vectors", so maybe yes
There's no such thing as an ethical ICO.
Yeah I think the same. A boat leaking from top.
If you're Google/Apple/etc, you don't want to be relying on some unofficial firmware tweak where the next driver update could completely brick your business and force you to never update the driver again.
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Just for historical interest I wonder if it would be possible for some Copland, Gershwin, or Pink docs to leak.
The comment you are replying to is clearly referring to the codebase containing Microsoft's implementation of RDP.
I’m not taking issue with the valuation. I never short tech companies that could have an unpredictable breakthrough success. For all I know they sell millions of GPUs at high prices to justify it. I’m just saying if you asked what are the biggest companies in the world I would never have guessed Nvidia.
The title does not infer. Only people, AIs, and maybe ravens can infer. The most a title can do is imply. It does.
And 11 of the 13 years since then have been under Cook.
I hear this argument, but eh. You want to write a song, go write on, you don't need to mix someone else's. And if you do, go pay them something instead of just freeloading.

Translations from one language to another I get, but again, if you want to make money translating books, go talk to the author and give them a share. Or write your own book in chosen language.

Unless you have the source code to obsolete abandoned software you can't build on it anyway. And if you do, and it is abandoned, then who's to stop you building on it now?

And again, what _public good_ comes from any of this? If you want to create, then create, don't remix..
Some would contend that preventing perpetual private censorship improves the lives of the public.

Personally, I would be very impressed with any code still useful for incorporation into current things after 20 years. Certainly worth unshackling the original work from copyright.
A lot of this work, such as work done on Smalltalk, is old enough to where any patents on it would be expired. There's a treasure trove of technologies invented in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's that haven't been fully exploited. For example, there are some regular posters on Hacker News that rant and rave about the Lisp machine development environments of the 1980's, some going as far as to say these environments were the most productive environments they've worked in, despite all the advances in editors, IDEs, compilers, and other tools that happened since the 1980's.
i’m on the US’s side, but for the fun of playing devil’s advocate, it could be that the US resisting the assent of Russia/China is the very thing that unifies them under totalitarianism (common threat and all that) - China and Russia might have had their governments overthrown already if it weren’t for the US giving them something to fight against.

Every group turns toward infighting once the outside threat is defeated.
Even with a proper, calibrated surround setup like I have at home the dynamic range is ridiculous - dialog is way too soft and explosions are way too loud.
I once had someone tell me that they could edit text faster with a mouse than I could from the keyboard with Emacs. I should send this article to them. Smh

Emacs’ biggest drawback is that you are never using it to the fullest—an issue this article makes painfully clear to me. I guess it’s time to break out my config and tweak it… for the third time today…
Wait, there is some disconnect here, the last paragraph does not follow at all.

To see it more easily, here is her post but with some specific, made up example instead of "X":

A chocolate factory wants to build a new dark chocolate line. They hire a very experienced industrial engineer, who just recently finished building car engine line for the Ford factory. However, once the new engineer started to work on chocolate line, they found it extremely boring and devoid of challenges. So they somehow convinced management that the chocolate factory needs to start producing car engines for their delivery trucks. This is obviously a bad idea, and many people point that, but the engineer has secured support of one of VPs, so the project goes ahead. Eventually the line is ready, new engines are produced and installed in all the new trucks. They proceed to break down frequently, the deliveries are late, customers are unhappy, and everyone is having a bad time.

Everyone is blaming engineer now and calling them "charlatan", but the engineer does not understand why: They really worked their ass off building the new engine line, working 80 hours a week to realize their dream. It was not easy -- the factory was only doing chocolate before, so switching to heavy machinery was quite a challenge! And the reason customers are unhappy is because of the management -- this project should have gotten way more resources! Then we could test more and iron out all the bugs instead of having to go to production too early.

Rachel's final paragraph puts the blame squarely on the engineer, with wishes that "hiring processes filtered out this kind of charlatan" and "whole bunch of people would have to find another industry to prey upon", but that engineer is not a charlatan -- they have a legitimate technical talent, and they used it to build real stuff. No hiring process can filter them out -- they will pass a technical interview and take-home test, they have great communication skills, they have a github page with open source code, and they can talk passionately about their past successful projects.

Instead, I'd put most of the blame on the management. In a large company, it is inevitable that someone will work on stuff that is useless or could harm the main product. Maybe because engineers lack perspective, or they overestimate themselves, or they just don't care about company's goals and want to do what they find fun. The company should have some mechanisms to prevent this -- maybe management should listen to feedback from engineers, or there should be technical committee, or at least people should not be rewarded when they ship a broken product. If the company has no such mechanisms, it will have problems as described in the blog.
Buying groceries for a nurse is a nice thought but it is not going to erase the misery of working in a COVID ward for months or years.

I really wonder if any of the people here talking about massively scaling up ICU capacity have ever even been in or visited someone in an ICU. It is called an “intensive care” unit for a reason. Extensive resources are required. Putting aside the physical space, equipment and pharmacological needs, the teams of people are specialized and have extensive knowledge and training.
For anyone looking for a TL;DR: The key insights are in the box with the blue text-as-image.

I almost missed them because the box looks like one of these "links to other articles" boxes that's not part of the article. I wonder what caused the ACM, of all publishers, to a) have key parts of the article in an inaccessible image with no meaningful alt text b) use link-like blue for non-links.

The text itself started extremely long winded, and when I scrolled down to see if the article becomes more substantive further down, the first sentence I saw was

"The first sentence of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina reads, "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

I wonder if the summary was added by someone other than the author, and the image was the only way they could smuggle it in without it being considered a change that the author would have to approve.
Why would Huber half-heartedly swing the skateboard?

If he believed Kyle was an active shooter why would he "pull" his punches so to speak. If he didn't believe Kyle was an active shooter than he didn't have any reasons to attack and disarm him.
Cray's were programmed in assembly though.
Have you thought about pushing the links onto a queue and running multiple scrapers off that queue? You'd need to build in some politeness mechanism to make sure you're not hitting the same domain/ip address too often but it seems like a better option than a serial process.
> I will now point out that whether X makes it to production can become disconnected from the notion of whether X actually belongs in production. In one outcome, it's brilliantly executed and things grow. But, this is about the downsides, and in that scenario, it's a stinking pile of garbage and needs to be thrown out, but it gets forced in, anyway. [emphasis added]

She's left the positive case out for the charlatan comment, they wouldn't be charlatans (in this instance at least).
On my AVR you can set how many dBs the mute button attenuates.
Informing Ourselves to Death (1990)
MH370 Probable Location Found
Yep, Phylogenetic boundaries and the clades are entirely arbitrary constructs. Useful, but don't treat them as though they have absolute meaning as they're essentially a discretization of a continuous process with all the limitations henceforth.
Well, perhaps, but it's unnecessarily inefficient.
> Can you describe an environment where this wouldn't occur? What would happen if an organism in that environment was able to hoard resources?

Only in a religious context where they see a benefit to vows of poverty or simplicity.

Wealth as we have it right now is a huge pain in the ass. You have to worry about what some idiot in the Fed is doing, what some senile old man in an office is doing, and what some old Boomer with a printing press is doing. You have to worry about a government that runs with the emotion of a Millenial and the depth of understanding of a TikToker, making that affect your personal freedom, your wealth, and your life. I'm talking about the US in this case, but it's really a mess everywhere. No country has good governance at this point in time.

By all means, wealth is nice to have, but there is a function between increasing wealth and increasing time spent preserving it. At a certain point of wealth you realize that the most valuable things cannot be bought, and it becomes a chore rather than a source of comfort. We are also clearly bad at preserving wealth, otherwise Mesopotamia would be the richest place on the planet.

Being rid of wealth can be extremely freeing, but the communities that see it this way also play by completely different rules than society does at large. You don't see a lot of religious being held up as successes by the current global standards for example.
i think this is pretty misleading. apple silicon started in 2010, it was a decade in the making. how can this be reconciled with "nobody knew what their plans for ARM were"
"Alternative" voices have been saying this about Vitamin D3 since the start of this whole mess. Is it really a surprise that most people living outside of our biological niche (warm, near-equator climates) lack this fundamental micro-nutrient and have so many health problems as a result? No, but what's surprising is how we still lack understanding of basic factors to good health - sunshine, nutrient-rich foods, regular exercise and adequate sleep. Now imagine if our healthcare resources were focused on that and other preventative lifestyle interventions. We might not even have a so-called pandemic on our hands.
No real need for Copland — there’s an entire book about it — search for Mac OS 8 by Tony Francis.
The point is that marriage is a default bundle, which is easier than tracking individual contracts.
I just can't comprehend the fact that this kind of disgraceful, ignorant trash is coming out of a SpaceX Satellite Engineer.
No, “jab” is en_GB equivalent of “shot” in en_US. It does sound silly, but not as silly as citing its usage as evidence that the BBC is pushing an anti-vax agenda.
> First renewal is fee^2. Second is fee^3, etc

What's a cubic dollar?
On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
I agree, the time limit seems arbitrary. And sure there are a handful of works that are famous enough to allow for the creation of new, obviously derivative works.

Not that we are exactly short of original movie and TV content - but now we can have a few more derivative sherlock homes, so yay...

So if finite means a time limit, then isn't any limit arbitrary? Should an author live to see their work exploited in their own lifetime? If we make it say 40 years, how will RMS feel when oracle starts deriving Gnu Hurd code to make a new OS?
I find it astonishing that they're allowed to claim

We have no reason to believe that someone will misuse your information because of what happened

This information would be sufficient to pass identity checks for phone calls at most non-finance companies I've interacted with, including all healthcare providers.
Was this that semifamous Google common lisp project?
Archived: https://archive.ph/RiHRq
Gershwin was always vaporware. As far as I know, no real code was written; it was all planning.

Pink did exist in various forms, and it would be fascinating to have that material available, though.
> When you get a COVID vaccine you are getting COVID. That’s literally all a vaccine is: a copy of the disease you want protection against, so that your immune system can gear up to fight it.

Whoa, hold on there buddy.

You might want to look up the difference between mRNA vaccines and traditional ones.
The short answer: as bad as Pfizer–BioNtech say it is.
Is more like it was unreasonable to do all that work on the client side for a long while.

Then when we could, people suddenly thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.
They get close to take detailed pictures to understand capabilities.
> FDA has killed approximately a million people alone by preventing covid vaccines from being available in the market sooner

This does not seem like a reasonable conclusion.

In a counter-factual where (presumably) the FDA doesn’t regulate much, we don’t have any idea how many harmful drugs consumers would have been exposed to and the damage this would result in.

Nor do we know how many folks would have died of Covid after believing they were protected by whatever ineffective drugs or vaccines.

Nor do we know how many more people would refuse to take effective vaccines due to lack of confidence in them, which is a huge problem even with the current level of vetting.
Apache Traffic Server (no relation to Apache itself) would be an excellent option: https://trafficserver.apache.org/
Archaeologists find partially mutilated Vesuvius victim at new Herculaneum dig
In hindsight it’s easy to say that, but would you have guessed in advance that they would succeed like they have? In the span of a year they have made x86-based products look obsolete.
Well, some people will get rich. Many will lose a lot of money.
If they actually treated their IT team as valuable staff members and not a cost center, and paid market rates, I'm sure they wouldn't have trouble finding talent.
But how do you deal with dynamic pages, i.e. content that changes each time - would you need to pattern-match?
As someone who makes decent income via royalties from my copyrighted work, I object to this proposal.

Purely from a record keeping perspective, the additional work required for my small business would add a considerable burden. And my accountant would probably have to do the math - thus costing me even more in fees.

Large corporations like Disney and MCI are not the only entities who use copyright to protect property and income. A single creator like myself (been in the photo biz for 32 years now) can make a living in this realm.

Yet I fight to defend my copyright every year from infringement and misuse. It is difficult and exhausting enough without additional burden.

Just in the past few years a new breed of lawyers has been cultivating the business of pursuing infringement. I’ll be honest, my income has been boosted from the frequent settlements from the lawyers that now represent my work. I’m amazed how many deep pocket companies expect to use (my) content for free without much worry. My work is incredibly expensive and difficult to produce. Honestly it feels like sweet justice to make them pay.

Creative Commons exists for those that want more liberal copy sharing. Copyright does not need “fixing” from my perspective.