skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems recycling grease is profitable enough that it's offered as a free service to restaurants. See, e.g.,

> > What does it cost me to be a DAR PRO Solutions customer?
> In most cases, there is no signup or administrative fee for becoming a DAR PRO customer, though depending on market conditions, store location or other special circumstances, there may be a small delivery fee. This would be disclosed prior to finalizing any agreement. Normally, we provide the oil storage equipment and grease pick up at no charge to our customers under normal yellow grease market and operational conditions.

Source: https://www.darpro-solutions.com/about-dar-pro-solutions/faq...

I wouldn't be surprised if a large company like McDonalds is able to recoup some of their costs by selling grease. Alternatively, even if the service is a net cost, as with residential recycling the service fee might offset by what the recycler can make from the waste, and so the recycler might require measures to safeguard their supply. Also, you might not want strangers rummaging through your bins as some of them might make a mess.
You don't borrow and eat the planting stock, you borrow the left over products that nobody else bought.
What a lovely suggestion. Let's start by applying it to UK lawmakers.
Congrats to superamit! Well done with your persistence and I hope Uncanny is receptive to your future submissions. I'm excited to read the story.

Disclaimer: light self-promo. Are others interested in more publishing posts like these? I've documented the journey to publication stories with stats, rejections, and a sense of the work involved for most of the short fiction I've published in literary journals. It's been cathartic and encouraging to share the entire process.

My most notable piece[1] ended up making it into The Best American Mystery Stories[2] a few years ago.

[1]: https://arsenalofwords.com/2018/10/30/how-loathing-travel-pu...

[2]: https://arsenalofwords.com/2019/10/01/how-a-regional-writing...
Not big enough to make it onto Atlas Obscura but in El Cajon California (San Diego County) https://hiddensandiego.com/things-to-do/places/marshall-scot... still intact they tried to open the Go Kart track a few years ago but the church next door put in a tremendous number of noise complaints getting the effort shut down.
> you shouldn't use your (or their) self-made cryptography in production

Absolutely, and that was the very first thing I thought when I saw the title. For some reason I've got the "don't roll your own crypto" commandment heavily ingrained into my brain (even though I've never been in any context where I might have tried), together with "don't let the frying pan handle stick out over the edge of the cooker in case a kid grabs it" (even though I have no kids, nor nephews etc), as well as trigger discipline and "every gun is loaded" (even though I've never touched a gun in my life and have never lived in the USA).
Why not ChromeOS?
They are usually not hidden, so they are at least easier to identify.
Last month I had a client contacting me with a mission that was:

- fun

- twice my usual billing

- easy

They found me because of a Stackoverflow answer I wrote 10 years ago.
If you have anxiety consider getting help, in the form of therapy. Also ask yourself, what exactly would happen if you did lose all of your money, I'd hazard a guess that you'd still be employable, still have people who care about you and would help out, and therefore, it's very likely you would manage. I say this having had similar issues myself, and once I thought beyond the potential loss, I realised it would all probably be okay.
Ok, but how do expect money to keep circulating? Negative interest rates?
The average person doesn’t want to rely on “nearly always”. Especially with how many drivers are on their phones.
US Navy Super-hornet blown overboard
> You really need to look at incident rates rather than totals when making comparisons across categories like this.

Depends on what you want to figure out. For finding out the comparative danger of an individual doing activity A versus activity B, sure. But if the group doing something exceedingly dangerous is quite small, it might not warrant an intervention as far as public health etc is concerned. Scale matters (sometimes).

On the flip side, you can of course argue that the individuals who just happen to be in proximity of the dangerous activity are being unfairly exposed to risk they haven't consented to (if the activity poses a danger to bystanders, that is). We don't let people do whatever they want just because the people it affects are few, either.
> Any level headed person, forget a politician, would want to experiment first,

We are also not doing that here in the West when it comes to pushing almost of our energy inputs into renewables. Also, see the recent Dutch farmers' revolt and the reasons behind them, seems like not that much thought was given there, either.
So how should this relation work in order for you to accept that Uber drivers don't have to be regarded as employees? Should Uber not have the right to stop pairing the driver with Uber's users no matter what the driver does? Honest question.
Active listening is a real pleasure. Qualitatively, it’s a very different experience to having music on in the background while doing some other activity, and it merits listening on repeat.

Mentally separating out the different voices in the composition, listening for how they enter and exit the soundstage, how that layering of sound builds up the texture of the music, not to mention melody, harmony, dynamics, pacing, phrasing, repetition, structure, timbre, rhythm, and the interplay of all these factors.
Often optimizers will frustrate efforts to zero out sensitive data. It can be arbitrarily hard to make sure it happens. Your source code says "zero it", and the compiler, or even the CPU itself, says "nah, waste of time", and doesn't.
I've seen managers get fired for performance. Not "laid off" though.
Where's Li'l Abner's "Dogpatch USA?"

https://abandonedar.com/dogpatch-usa/

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

Li'l Abner is where the Skonkworks originated, later "Skunk Works" when used by Lockheed Martin used the idea.

Li'l Abner and Pogo were both edgy anti-authoritarian cartoons worth remembering.
Sorry, from your comment I did not understand why Norway is not part of the EU. Would you mind clarifying?

Are you saying EU membership could affect Norway's agriculture?
The evidence for WMD's was based on the fact the British had sold them to Saddam in the 70's or 80's and he'd used them on some Kurds in Northern Iraq.

If you survive the first 24hrs, you'll probably be ok, be careful with water and things like that. So whilst potassium iodide tablets are handed out to protect the Thyroid, I'm surprised copious amounts of nicotinic acid arent handed out, as the prostaglandin flush helps rebind DNA in the cells, which is one of the things the radiation attacks. Glutathione is also increased in the Liver with Nicotinic Acid which will also help the body in a nuclear attack situation.
> You mean the ones on Amazon are fake?

That’s unheard of!
I have debugged the kernels of Windows, Linux and now iOS using internal tools. Windbg generally works, and is far superior to the equivalent tools for other kernels. Like vim it has a baroque syntax and a steep learning curve, but it also has a gui with big buttons to compensate. Yeah, you can get yourself in bad situations, especially in early boot, but I miss it.
Incredible name
2/3rds of truckers in california are owner operators, which is good.

The bad, Lease Operators are being abused, its basically the company store, not enough money to pay the bills. Basically micro-management, buy gas from the company, company repairs, not allowed to run their own loads. The companies started making their main revenue off lease operators.

So the trucking companies put lots of political money to get AB5 passed (while Uber was excluded), its a profit model for them.

Instead of making rules for lease operators to not be abused by Trucking companies, the state included all owner operators.

The end, Trucking companies just excluded CA based owner operators, and are hiring out of state LLC (Most likely South Dakota), end run around the law, and keeps their lease money. Simple, bypass the law.

So truckers can

1. Become an employee

2. Become an owner operator and do your own freight

3. Owner Operators will move their LLC out of state and keep working.

Also AB5 isn't just for Truckers, its for all gig workers.
Ha! that was funny, I wonder though, getting fed tons of code, couldn’t Godbolt leverage code—-> Compiler Obj —-> Assembly as a mean to train an AI decompiler ? Food for thought.
But Paris already has amazing public transit that is only getting expanded more (line E to Mantes through La Défense, Grand Paris Express, line 14, a bunch of trams, etc.). And the point of the road closures was to make walking and mostly cycling more enjoyable. You can see that it worked, because places like Rivoli, quais de Seine, bd Sébastopol are full with bikes. Making driving more of a pain thus inciting more use of public transit or bikes is just a bonus.
Why? Do they like paying for their own healthcare, repairs and working for no benefits?
“Likely pregnant” can also be dangerous these days
Hahahaha. No.

But people after volume break-ins might consider it obscure enough not to bother with. "State actors" are often more comprehensive, because they don't want to get blocked from a designated target by such incidentals.
Great work! There's a long history of similar dials listed at https://24hourtime.info/ - perhaps yours can be added there!
Surreal how quickly it can all collapse.

I was there in December 2021. There were some extra long queues at petrol stations, but nothing too out of the ordinary.

Incredibly beautiful country and very generous, friendly people. Hope they see better times.
What do I think about network states?
The point is more about assuaging doubts than about giving motivation, but I do think that it might be a slightly toxic way to view things.
I know it's partially out of context, but to read about the CEO of a trillion+ company talk about "more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days", with focus on the word "hunger", is kind of neo-capitalist dystopian. Especially right now, as more and more people around the world are actually experiencing real hunger, not the made-up "hunger" meant to bring in even more profits for said trillion+ company. Completely tone-deaf.
I believe EU regulations lead the way here. Basically, part of crash testing now involves impacts with pedestrians. My understanding is that the primary effect is on the front-end shape of vehicles. When striking a pedestrian, you want them to roll up onto the hood, into the windshield, to spread out the impact as much as possible (in area and time). More recently, systems like automated emergency braking have helped too.

Here, this wikipedia page gives an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehi...
Maybe these superhuman marketers with perfect understanding of human behavior exist, but since I've never met one it's hard for me to picture. What does it matter when the cycles are? Is it to try and sell pain medication for the low percentage of women that suffer during it? Whenever these stories are told you'd think someone is achieving world domination, but my suspicion is that the large majority of companies can't even do anything very interesting with this data that they collect unethically.
Yes, but it depends on where you submit. I've seen literary journals pay in contributor copies (aka nothing), token amounts—a few dollars, a rate per page, or a fixed rate up front. Genres like sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crime or mystery are more likely to pay per word. Not sure why that is.
wikipedia can't be trusted. The fact CNN, or MSNBC is not on that list is clear bias.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Enforcing laws against illegal use of sensitive data sounds cool, except that only the most incompetent ones will ever meet that bar federally. HIPAA’s privacy protections are so weak that companies can just shove things like this in their EULA[0] and they are good to go:

> Any information in the FollowMyHealth Universal Health Record is considered PHR Data. PHR Data might include, but is not limited to the following:

> Your name and contact information, such as your address, phone number, or email address

> Your medical history, conditions, treatments, and medications

> Your healthcare claims, health plan account numbers, bills, and insurance information

> Demographic information, such as your age, birthdate, gender, ethnicity, and occupation

> […]

> Allscripts may use your PHR Data for marketing and advertising purposes, including sending you customized marketing and advertising communications whether on our behalf or on behalf of third party partners with whom we may engage.

As a postscript, if you are curious how some Allscripts subsidiaries used PHR Data for marketing purposes in the past, the answer is to get doctors to push opioids[1].

[0] https://www.followmyhealth.com/UseDocuments/PrivacyPolicy

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/electronic-health-records-ven...
Breast milk is not sterile.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643565/
> "Ugh... REST is too much work! We'll just change the meaning to suit us."

See also: Agile. DevOps.

It's pretty common once you look.
We solve a different set of problems. But people here have different skillsets. Cadence of release is also faster.

I enjoyed my time in the Windows team the most.
Dead people don't need privacy or most other human rights.
The living ones need them. And we need to separate between public interest and mining information about every individual. It is fine to show the Rajapaksa's bedroom on TV, because it was paid for with stolen money that was taken from the people.
If that’s true, why does anyone run a business? Deals don’t matter and you might as well hire some guys willing to break your competitors kneecaps rather than engage in due diligence when selling.

Elon getting away with walking off this deal unscathed financially is in no one’s best interested but Elon’s
They use ChromeOS as well, this article focuses on those people who want to use a mainstream Linux Distro at Google.
Exposure time on Webb is complicated. The sensors are different, the sampling techniques are different, and you can get the on board systems to do integration within sets of exposures for you.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/understanding-exposure-times
Very honestly, it might have worked out fine - organic produce fetches a much higher price overseas. If its already a somewhat niche product like tea, organic produce might go even higher and make up for the loss in yield.

For Sri Lanka, it was the perfect storm of covid decimating tourism AND overseas demand for their produce.

Without Covid, they might have been able to stay afloat on tourism dollars until the organic farming thing started showing results.
Glad to see that they're planning on contributing more to the upstream. But considering the size and budget of Google, and the amount of free work they're getting from the Debian community, it would be utterly irresponsible not to. Not blaming the team that's doing this good work though - I'm sure they're working hard enough as it is.
>Perhaps a dumb question: why does every little country need its own currency? Are they all just addicted to printing money?

Because money has a liquidity premium that allows you to disregard location, to make money less liquid you have to bind it to a national economy, otherwise buyers might decide to only import products from a handful countries. Look at Greece they run a trade deficit because German products are cheaper, this means Greek debt is impossible to unwind until Germany starts importing from Greece.
Wow sweet! How do you find cool coworkers like these?
Have you seen the Short Story Substack[1]? I appreciate how forthcoming the editor is with the stats.

[1]: https://shortstory.substack.com/
The proposed spec is to have an explicit tail call instruction separate from the regular call instruction for which resources must be used.

I think this would be the correct design even if tail calls were desired from the start. It makes for a better debugging experience and allows language implementations more control. (A trend in some functional languages is to require explicit annotation when tail recursion is desired, both to improve debugging for regular functions and to allow the compiler to check that you don’t accidentally stop being tail-recursive)
So the Police choose what laws they enforce according to their own agenda, and with PartyGate back over Xmas, the Scottish Police decided to arrest/prosecute someone who tweeted Nicola Sturgeon's residence address as a Scottish Hogmanay party was arrested under the malicious communications act because Nicola Sturgeon's residential address declared for political reasons is actually a relative's of her's.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-arrested-for-organising-st...

Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.

On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!
Likely because these are not end-user machines but developer machines. Most Google engineers don't checkout/write/build/test/run code on their machines (they either do these tasks through a browser or SSH to another machine).

I believe gLinux can be installed on trusted machines that you connect over SSH as well as client laptops (where you can't checkout code etc).

That said many engineers/non-engineers at Google use ChromeOS on their client laptops (same with macOS).
I didn't know the US has a monopoly on the term paid time off.
What? Japan, South Korea and China are examples of planned industrialization.
My MacBook and Mac studio make pretty good general purpose computers.
Yeah I think the advice works for academia or the more research or open source areas of tech but for large classic institutions it can definitely arouse suspicion, simply because you’ll be the only one they know of that does these things
"But this gem of musical dervish-ness"

Hits on the key point, in my opinion. Repeating songs, phrases, rhythms can by hypnotic and put the listener/performer into a trance-like state. Something that can be quite enjoyable and even addictive.

I find that listening to music with lyrics simply won't do it for me. It must be instrumental only. Something like Keith Jarrett, Earthless or a good Frank Zappa vamp. Time no longer has meaning. It's wonderful!
The irony being that having actual WMDs & transport capabilty reduces the invasion risk to near zero and the antagonizing of the general populus on tv to also zero.

Proofen by North Korea. Should name them "LeaveMeAloneBullies"-Weapons.
Heathrow imposes capacity cap of 100k daily passengers
Not true about India. We had a spike in inflation but its now going down. Our latest print was 7.1%.

India also didn’t print much money in the pandemic. The effect is clear now. We only had a short lived inflation spike after the economy reopened and its now getting back to normal.
the times I've typed .. dicker or focker, ducker ... or the combination of the last two .. bleh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phieTCxQRLA

Last week tonight did a video about truckers. And it sucks a lot.
Yes, privatization was heavily pushed by the IMF in Latin America and Africa as a condition for receiving loans [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment
Twitter Lawyers Say They Can Prevail over Musk in Just Four Days
The thought alone of playing Dark Side Of The Moon on shuffle makes me shudder. Why anyone would butcher albums that way is beyond me.

Even my own playlists (of electronic music, which doesn’t tend to be released as albums) very quickly attain a ‘canonical’ order to my own ear. It’s jarring when the anticipation of the next track is disrupted.
You can peg your currency down but you can't peg it up without external energy i.e. debt.
Really I should have just said that the rate of injuries in cars is irrelevant to safety considerations with skateboards. If there are dangers in skateboarding that can be reasonably reduced with better safety, that would be a good thing to do. Likewise with cars. If one is more dangerous than the other, it's not a logical reason to focus solely on that one.
Those other mantras work but the crypto one is dangerous because it actually implicitly discourages people from playing with it and learning about it
Appease shareholders. Do something so they don't sell because of recession fears. No one is in recession now
7 Stages of Getting Nerd Sniped
BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape Antibodies elicited by Omicron infection
Northern Italy drought threatens olive oil, risotto rice and passata supplies
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In 2007, six nuclear cruise missiles were "accidentally" loaded onto a bomber and the plane flew with them from North Dakota to Louisiana. But wait, it gets better: the plane sat on the tarmac, completely unguarded, for at least one night. The level of incompetence involved here is staggering, with probably dozens of people fucking up, and systemic issues abound:

The USAF attempted a coverup, classifying the incident as "no press interest anticipated."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

We're also extremely lucky no rogue Air Force generals or the guys in the bunkers just said "fuck it" and launched missiles. Until Permissive Action Link system was set up, there was no presidential authority required on a technical level.

When PAL was set up, the Air Force set all the weapons to "00000000." I wish I were making that up. They did it to subvert the PAL program because the generals resented having to ask for authority to launch nukes in event it was necessary.

We're also extremely lucky there haven't been any nuclear incidents involving the team that transports nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material. They're reportedly underfunded, underpaid, and overworked. They've had numerous incidents involving team members getting drunk, as well as losing their service weapons.

The US nuclear weapons program, at least in the mid 2000's, was a clown show.
How to write a promotional article about functional programming and not talking about Ocaml. Strange.
Sadly, the enjoyment of popular music has been so decimated by dynamic compression that I rarely repeat a song mastered (or, heaven forbid, "remastered") since the mid-'90s.

What should be very catchy music is now a fatiguing wall of noise that you just don't want assaulting your eardrums any more.