skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now is not the time to burn trash. If you get carbon capture, we are better applying it to natural gas first (AKA, right now), and only extend it to trash once global warming is more under control.

I'm also skeptic about the rarer pollutants. How much mercury and lead are they throwing at the environment? (Surely, it's controlled, but how well is it controlled?) What else is on that trash? (That certainly isn't controlled.)

Proper trash recycling will probably use a burning stage once we get it. And I'm all for experiments on it. But I really don't think we currently have the tech to do it right, and the CO2 problem is a huge one right now.
You, my friend, are grossly underpaid.

Time to start job shopping.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_rates_by_country sweden isnt doing too bad at "normal recycling" (7th in that list).
Thank you for sharing this, interesting read!

$8,277 Colocation costs (space, power, network)
$7,035 Credit card processing fees

Fascinating how credit card processing fees are almost as high as the colocation costs.
Ax-1 Mission – Launch
After reading the comments, I thought back would be undo, but it doesn't seem to do that. It just triggers the game to "reload" to the exact same positions?
> Because things go “puff” and you can’t seem them doesn’t mean the problem is gone.

In many cases it is, because proper incineration leads to chemical degradation of waste to simpler compounds. There are still some ash and flue gases that needs to be properly handled.
Translation: Everyone else's anecdotes don't match mine so they've never 'actually' lived there and whoever disagrees with my anecdote is 'just right wing'.

I mean, you would have to refute the sources in some of the comments about the increasing crime in San Francisco then. [0] [1] [2] [3] If you think they are 'wrong' that is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958359

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958414

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958418

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958554
This has not always been the case, it is a new phenomenon. It was not like this is the 90s or early 2000s
For consideration, "declare variable" is just that; one could still choose to only assign to it after having done the validation (assuming fatal_f causes control flow termination)

struct pollfd *pfd;
if (p == -1 || (u_int)p >= npfd)
fatal_f("channel %d: bad pfd %d (max %u)", c->self, p, npfd);
pfd = &pfds[p];

right?
So not launching anything after all.

If I say "I am having a 50th birthday party" that means I'm talking about an event that's happening in the future. It doesn't mean I'm having it immediately. It's a statement that's in the "future perfect" tense. Besides, people would be very confused. I'm 45.

If Google say they are launching something, the same thing applies. It means they're launching it at some point. That doesn't have to be right now. They're using the future perfect tense.
> “Our recent report found high levels of persistent organic pollutants like dioxins or furans around waste incinerators in three countries"

That would be alarming news in a country that doesn't burn oil or coal like a dioxin junkie.
See in the case of Brampton (and to a lesser extent Barrie) they are actually considered essentially suburbs of Toronto. Someone commuting from Brampton is a regular everyday occurrence that no one would bat an eyelid at here, Barrie is less common but still happens all the time (it's a 90 minute commute via train).

The places where people are really going to take a hit in Canada is in places like the Maritimes or smaller cities much further away from the major metros that people fled to during the pandemic and WFH being the fad. Tons of folks sold their Toronto / Vancouver homes and bought homes in these area's for essentially cash and are mortgage free but they drove the prices way up and anyone native to those places who bought a house and had to use a mortgage are going to be in a world of hurt when those prices fall back down hard over the next 2-5 years.
I don't mind that I have to pay for it. I do mind that it's not free software.
I totally understand your perspective, but I'm the opposite. I prefer native apps that utilize the great libraries provided by the OS and function in harmony with the OS (In my case, things like Scrivener, Kaleidoscope, Bear, Things, Alfred, etc.). I only fall back to using cross-platform apps if a native app isn't available, or if the cross-platform app is done really well (e.g., Logseq, VS Code, etc.).

I think it's a good thing that there are people who want to work to satisfy the desires of your niche as well as mine, so we can both be happy and productive.
Advantages of this platform compared to other challenging sites:

1. For hiring: instead of only relying on the final solution, we analyze the entire solution pathway to get visibility similar to a frontal interview. (for example: where the candidate got stuck, how long each step took them, detect cheating using anomaly detection, and more)

2. A new experience: during the challenge, there is a virtual assistant (interviewer) that gives you hints when needed (for example, if it recognizes that you are stuck). This feature has a lot of advantages, both for practice(learning) and also for recruiters who want to give their candidates a full chance.

3. The challenges: most of the challenges are more realistic and simulate real day-to-day skills.

Take for example the challenge "repache" (https://platform.interway.ai/#/get/play_/ch/repache):

You get a web server with a "bug" in the configuration, and you try different ways to tackle it, while the virtual interviewer sees your progress and makes sure you are on the right track.

Thanks. Would appreciate feedback :)
We do; We use levers and pulleys.
That is overall crime rate. If you look at the things random people are most likely going to be impacted by like property crimes you will see that SF is near or at the top. Also in many cities there are the areas where violent crime is high, but it is primarily gang violence back and forth with each other. These are weighed in the overall statistics.

For someone walking to work, getting their property taken, and aggressive harassment that is not reported in crime statistics makes them feel unsafe. The quality of life issues that SF has and are not in official crime statistics are what are making people feel that their city is a dump and they loathe walking down these streets. Human excrement, aggressive pan handlers, petty larceny through the roof, and pervasive open drug use.
Holy cow. I thought the parent comment was gross, but this really out-did it.
Hey! In case you missed it, Turborepo launched 1.0 a few months ago[1].

This 1.2 release is important, as it includes --filter[2] (highly requested). You're able to much more easily filter tasks, instead of the previous --scope, --include-dependencies, --since, and --no-deps flags.

Happy to answer any questions about Turborepo or monorepos in general (recently wrote an entire post about them[3]).

[1]: https://turborepo.org/blog/joining-vercel

[2]: https://turborepo.org/docs/features/filtering

[3]: https://vercel.com/blog/monorepos-are-changing-how-teams-bui...
It can tolerate disconnection very reliably, and it will automatically reconnect to synchronization and forwarding endpoints as soon as possible.

Its synchronization algorithm in particular (which is essentially a (repeated) three-way merge with rsync-style differential file transfers) is designed for safety and robust tracking of the changes that it has propagated. It's also capable of resuming file transfers once it reconnects.
Recordable ones use dyes which fade if exposed to sunlight and temperature.

The pits that represent data in factory manufactured discs are laser etched, so if the polycarbonate layer doesn't decay in 50 years it should be OK. Betting they would as long as kept from moisture. Even if the reflective layer is compromised I think it would somehow be possible to reapply it to the polycarbonate layer which has the pits.

Below is an excerpt from https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec4/#:~:text=Among....:

CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs are similar in that they are replicated discs-that is, the data are physically pressed into the disc when it is manufactured. ROMs are generally mass-produced and contain music, video, computer applications, or interactive games.

ROM disc longevity is determined by the extent to which its aluminum layer is exposed to oxygen. Oxygen, including pollutants, can migrate through the polycarbonate layer or the hard lacquer layer (CD label side and edge), carried in by moisture. Oxygen or moisture can more easily penetrate through scratches, cracks, or delaminated areas in the label. Oxygen can also be trapped inside the disc during manufacturing, although manufacturing improvements have reduced the likelihood of this.

If left in a very humid environment, moisture-and oxygen-will eventually reach the aluminum, causing it to lose its reflectivity. The normally shiny aluminum, which resembles silver, becomes oxide-dull and much less reflective, like the color of a typical aluminum ladder. The combination of high humidity and increased temperatures will accelerate the oxidation rate.

The life expectancy of a ROM disc therefore depends on the environmental conditions to which it is exposed over time. Generally, it is best to keep ROM discs in a dry, cool environment. If the disc is removed from a humid, hot environment to an ideal condition before damage has been done, it will “dry out” and should be as playable as if it had been kept in ideal conditions all along. Other contaminates, however, such as inks, solvents, and pollutants, have the potential to irreversibly penetrate and to deform, discolor, or corrode the disc, causing permanent reading problems for the laser.
I've been on the hunt for the right USB-C hub...

---

I have a flagship Omen 15 gaming laptop. Great guts, horrible case.

Has (1) RJ45, (1) SS-USB-2 [The Blue One], (2) USB-2 [The Black One], and (1) USB-C.

The USB-C doesnt produce enough power to connect either of my USB-Only AOC Monitors... but all the other USB ports can power them.

So, I needed more USB ports, and I bought several different USB hubs; one that is a 4-port-USB-2 hub as well as a USB-C multi-port hub (SD,MMC,USB,HDMI) however, it doesnt have a USB-C port on it. It has a USB-C POWER poer on it (meaning to feed topower to the hub, plug the USB-C female port into a male USB cable to a USB-2 connector and then plug THAT into 5v power and THEN you can power a USB monitor off of this hub.

Total wastes of money, as I have several USB-C External SSD drives I want to use, but this (1) USB-C port on this machine is a joke.
I don’t blame you for having a hard time, as that snippet you’re showing is not legal C (you can’t assign to a cast). --(char*)x is not legal C. Old compilers were more permissive though. unfortunately, you are going to have to both become a proficient C programmer and then figure out what the intent of that code was and rewrite it to legal constructs.
I promise, this is real—I've got parts in the bulding—and it's going to launch soon.
To a close approximation, all of the "rough" homeless (i.e. the ones you see on the street) are mentally ill or addicts, not people down on their luck who cannot afford to rent or buy a home.
Yes, but the US uses drivers licenses the same way other countries use ID cards. I’m not aware of anywhere that takes more than a month to deliver you a drivers license. DC for example says two weeks.
What you say is true, but the alternative used by neighboring countries right now is that the garbage is buried in the ground while gas, oil and coal are produced or imported and burned in the place of trash.
The operand of -- must be a modifiable lvalue. The result of a cast is never an lvalue.

EDIT: This might be use of generalized lvalues: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/Lvalues.html - latest gcc manual doesn't mention it though, so perhaps it's been removed?
Don't mistake this as a sign of altruism by Google: they can see that the Right To Repair movement is getting stronger, more organized, more funded, and is hiring legislative consultants to draft, submit, and pass legislation. While the main thrust for now is the right to repair agricultural tractors and cars, as this gains momentum it will eventually apply to iPhones and MacBook Pros as well. Google is just getting ahead of what is coming -- and trying to flex for PR points as well, because why not?
Commercially manufactured CDs have an extremely long shelf life, assuming they are properly handled and not exposed to UV light or extreme conditions. They will probably outlive you. Short shelf life is mainly an issue with cheap CD-R and DVD-R recordable media. The dyes tend to decay over time.
What’s a better metric?

Anecdata and eye witness reporting can be misleading too.
nobody picking up 911 isn't 'cops suck', it's 'systemic failure of emergency handling and law enforcement'
Seattle has, until recently, tolerated encampments on public property. The city council spends great chunks of money on outreach nonprofits that have dubious effectiveness (there are organizations doing good/effective work, to be clear).

The Seattle Police Department is woefully understaffed and has given up on responding to many quality of life and public order calls. In addition to drug use, car prowls, etc there is a thriving shoplifting-fencing business going on in spots throughout downtown. Enforcement has been very limited, so the problem has gotten out of hand. I have no clue why the Target near Pike Place remains open - they must be locked in their lease.
Maybe that's the contributing factor, but I really think it's more of an economic decision.

There are far more JavaScript developers out there, so it's easier to hire people to work on an Electron app and have crossover between other teams working on web-based projects. Write-once-runs-anywhere is also a part of it. JavaScript is also extremely forgiving and has possibly the easiest debugging experience of any language I'm aware of.

This isn't to say that JavaScript developers don't often do things that completely subvert the advantages of writing web-based apps, but those advantages are nevertheless on the table regardless. Writing a truly native application will always be more challenging than writing a web app (or even something like a Python-based app) and will always require some amount of specialization no matter what anyone says (as has been observed with React Native and I'm guessing that will inevitably happen with Flutter).

UI is also one of the hardest things to do right when writing cross-platform applications. Business logic is usually quite portable, but UI introduces geometry and fundamental incompatibilities between widget toolkits. The web, with some exceptions, ignores native widgets, thus the problem of writing UI code mostly goes away because there's only one toolkit to work with.
> I didn't say anything about crime or crime rates, I said cities are dangerous places. As in there's danger in cities

You said:

> No one has ever been brutally murdered in your city?

You are aware that murder is a crime, right? You are aware that you’re participating in a discussion about violent crime?

> “We shut down Kraken’s global headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco after numerous employees were attacked, harassed and robbed on their way to and from the office.”

Violent crime rates are an extremely reasonable measure of danger in a city.

> Literally my friend's mom just went there, and her favorite story was about all the American guys she met there taking sex holidays.

This is an extremely unlikely story. Singapore during the pandemic has been a difficult place to go for any kind of holiday. Tourism to Singapore essentially disappeared over the past two years. And for sex tourism specifically, venues that would ordinarily host that sort of thing are closed. You literally couldn’t even buy an alcoholic drink in a bar past 10:30pm for the past two years, give or take a week. Nightlife venues like clubs aren’t going to reopen properly for another couple of weeks. Are there some people flouting the law? Of course there will be. But nobody would choose Singapore for sex tourism at the moment given the restrictions on nightlife.

I can’t help but note that the first section of the Wikipedia page on crime in Singapore mentions sex trafficking. If you weren’t aware of the local situation regarding pandemic restrictions, I can see why you might think that “all the Americans on sex holidays” is a vivid and plausible story to suggest that Singapore is a dangerous place. But I’m sorry, it’s just not.
Its funny that gaming industry has settled on the idea that Windows won the desktop-game, reasoning that Linux is and will remain trash, and that macOS can't deliver comparable performance.
This is not meant to show that some opinion is better just highlight that people have narrow tunnel vision on what is in front of them and tend to ignore other options without consideration.
Good.

We don't need offices at all, with the exclusion of some hardware testing.

For iOS and Android testing I'd rather drop 2k of my own money on test devices than have to deal with living in California.

People are still catching COVID, I personally feel comfortable in my 3 vaccine shots, so I'm going to concerts. But we shouldn't force people back into the office.
That does ignore the PPP loads available to many small businesses. There was a forced shutdown, you could get funding during some of that shutdown with this and used correctly it did not need to be paid back. We can look back and say what should have been done, if restrictions went on too long but there wasn't a crystal ball - and there certainly were deaths happening due to covid. Business's with razor thin margins that couldn't operate during shutdowns certainly couldn't stay around once PPP went out. As far as cali and any of its excessive fees for business, that is a different story.
How does this compare with direnv and psenv?
It is interesting if these events happened on company property, Federal OSHA laws would be involved since it is illegal to ignore unsafe work conditions - including violence and harassment on the job.

If a municipal government can not make it safe for your employees to come to and from work, you have an ethical duty as a business to protect your employees and not support that government with continued operation in their jurisdiction.

There are plenty of municipal governments that have solved the problem of safe travel on public rights of way, in fact the majority of local governments have solved this problem.
Proper landfill management includes capturing and burning that gas, that gets trapped there and is toxic if you let the pressure build up enough for it to escape.
The page w/ photos linked from the article appears to be suffering some traffic slowdowns. Here are the images archived:

https://archive.ph/GEp9S

https://archive.ph/7kpzV

https://archive.ph/8m4AC

And the article itself https://archive.ph/ekjAq
News are a flow, any news might matter at any point in time, of course, but news are most useful to elicit trends, know what's up in the world. Scoring by super-interesting thing is useful to learn, not to follow actual state of thing, witch means it's useful for a student who start learning something, not for a "pro".

IMVHO that's why modern scoring is bad: the good scoring must be personal, like reading news (usenet) with personal scoring, saving things that interest you for future analysis and to pass them summarized to third parties wishing to learn.

That aspect is often ignored by many but we aren't (unfortunately) the Borg, we are a society, but not "a collective" witch means we can't pass knowledge directly and any of us have metabolized just a certain part of human knowledge, that's why mere scoring "following a collective recommendation engine" does work a bit but not as good as a similar personal engine.
> You claimed the reason why Blu Ray won was mostly because it was bundled with the PS3

And Sony's partnerships with media companies, yes. Both of these are true.

> PS3 sold about 87.3 million while xbox 360 sold about 84 million

I was referring to sales when xbox been on the market twice as long (2 years) as the PS3 (1 year) at calendar end (2007). If the 360 had an early-to-market advantage, it became irrelevant real quick and never recovered that sales advantage in any meaningful way once a competitor emerged. [1]

> a HD DVD accessory was required to play HD DVD content on the xbox 360.

Yes. Further cements what I was saying about the PS3 being instrumental in BR taking over HD-DVD as a consumer entertainment format. it also further highlights my original point of how "cheaper" doesn't necessarily mean better value, or better selling, or better adaption. There's more to it than "first" or "cheapest". BR/PS3 were more expensive and later to market than their HD-DVD/360 counterparts, and yet both when on to be as successful if not more so than their cheaper first-to-market rivals. The original question of this thread is how important "cheap" is to a technology attaining success. This is a clear example of "it doesn't". There are plenty of instances however where it absolutely helped. This was just an instance where it did not, or at least, not enough to outweigh other factors against it.

1. https://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php?reg=Global&ending...

EDIT: Changed 2017 to 2007 because oops, holy hell it's been 15 years since PS3 launch?! I'm old ffs
In my experience, if it doesn't happen continuously, it simply doesn't happen at all until something breaks (and then there's a bunch of finger-pointing at upstream even though downstream didn't update). Your first line of defense is that downstream tests are run before anything that affects downstream is merged. The next line of defense is stuff like canary deployments which allow you to minimize blast radius and roll back quickly. Obviously this depends a great deal on your risk regime--if you're SaaS this is probably fine, but if you're embedded this is a non-starter.
I am suggesting to use it to throw exceptions. This narrow purpose is subtly hinted at by its name.
They do know how to "solve" them, they just don't agree on the true problem in the first place, due to different value systems.
> Sadly even if you leave a sign that nothing is inside and car is unlocked they still break the windows.

Leaving the sign leads people who might be considering theft to believe that (1) there is something inside that you are trying to protect, and (2) the car is locked and wasting time trying to open the locked door will set off an alarm and reduce the chance of them getting the thing you are trying to protect before being noticed. So, yes, of course it has that effect.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30907731
A local realtor in my hot market on the west coast indicated to me that it was as much as a third of sales they saw in the last year FWIW.