skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll have to account for driving water to the desert. Desert soil is fine (for desert-aware trees), but trees like water, and large trees like lots of water. In my country, Australia-native Eucalyptus is doing well.

http://www.kalanit.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_000...
Article says "The United Nations’ Trillion Tree Campaign has planted nearly 15 billion trees across the globe in recent years."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Tsunami

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Abstract:

A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine - the index - from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public infrastructure open to everyone.
This is called "manufactured spending" and there are people who do this big-time, if you look into the credit card churning/points area.
If you were to start selling BMWs/Audis/Mercs, you might also find your reputation suffering if/when things go wrong shortly after purchase. You're probably better off sticking to reselling the more reliable brands.
It's very different - one of those people is lying.
Uh “Each year Americans plant at least 1.6 billion trees or about 6 trees for each one we use.”

- according to 5 sec of googling
I fail to see what's 'optimistic' about that. By those numbers, independent-minded people are outnumbered 2:1 by tools. Those numbers are likely way off the mark given both the tiny number and relative homogeneity of subjects in the original study, and the decades that have since passed with all the social and cultural changes. But the fact that so many populist politicians choose to predicate their campaigns on increasing animus towards some marginalized social group suggests there's quite a lot of people who either don't want to think for themselves or select for authority figures that will permit them to indulge their worst impulses.
College admissions have to be part of the discussion. Elite American schools wash our aristocracy with a whiff of merit. If Harvard and Stanford want to maintain “institutional advancement” and “legacy” admissions preferences, that’s their right. But then they should lose their non-profit status. (And the “donations” cease to be tax deductible.)
At a previous job we had the choice of buying a library for a couple grand from a field expert in said library or spinning one of our Senior engineers who clearly costs the company more than a few grand a year on rebuilding the same thing. Hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted (think about the management time, not just the employees own time) to build something in let's say a year, where said developer could of used the few thousand dollar library and done much more productive work to generate something of value.

Now they have to maintain a fork instead. What's worse is they likely wont know how it works in a year's time, imagine in a few years when they need him to update the library.

Sometimes it's better to buy a library than to waste resources reinventing someone else's tried and tested wheel.
It would be impossible to hit my target level of quality live, without heavy investment in the environment, lightning, video equipment, and honestly the help of someone when filming. If I can't hit my own targets, I just don't do something.

The videos would also be too long. Part of why ChrisFix is so well known is he has high-quality, edited, to-the-point content that packs everything into a concise high-quality video. I could not do that on Twitch without great expense, lots of advance planning, and helping hands.
For reference, there’s about 500 trillion square meters of land area on the planet; so even if trees are crowded together one per square meter, this is talking about a 500th of that.

But perhaps we can find a way to make the Sahara into a forest? That’s about what it would take.
You’re correct, but for reasons different than you may think.

Economies tend not to be zero sum, but they do float thru it. Here’s what I mean:

As a whole, economies either need capital (countries like Mexico) or produce excess capital (the US). Ignore that hey are neighbors here, that’s just a coincidence.

Countries that produce excess capital are not zero-sum. Countries that need capital can actually be zero or negative sum.

However, what you’ve seen over the last couple decades is an aging demographic curve that had shifted the population for producers to spenders over time. When you retire, you become a spender (you are no longer producing capital, but are spending it). As a result of this shift, many of the countries we think about as developed, are stagnating, and that looks like a zero sum situation. It may be, but it is only temporary- although temporary might last up to 3 or 4 decades.

For a quick reference, Japan is the most obvious example here, dealing with fundamental stagnation. Germany is about to hit that too (they probably already have, but it usually takes a few years for the everyday economist to have the documentation to call it as such). China will follow a couple years later.

The US has some of the same. Gen X is smaller than the baby boomers. As such, it’s hard for the generation to pay for the retirement of the previous generation. Hopefully Millenials will be productive enough soon enough to offset this.
Totally! Do you mind sharing your contact info with me, so I can keep you updated when I figure out a way to charge less than $20 to ship to Europe?
The sharing economy is going to innovate us into the Victorian Era
The one I’m working with _now_ is very low tech: daily Python processing data from GCP, and writing back to GCP; a handful of scripts that check everything is reasonnable. That’s because we serve internal results, mostly read by humans.

The most impressive description that I’ve seen run live is described here:
https://towardsdatascience.com/rendezvous-architecture-for-d...

I’d love to have feedback from more than Jan because I’m planning on encouraging it internally.

The best structure that I’ve seen is at scale (at a top 10 company) was:

- a service that hosted all models, written in Python or R, stored as Java objects (built with a public H2O library);

- Data scientists could upload models by drag-and-drop on a bare-bones internal page;

- each model was versioned (data and training not separate) by name, using a basic folders/namespace/default version increment approach;

- all models were run using Kubernetes containers; each model used a standard API call to serve individual inferences;

- models could use other models output as input, taking the parent-model inputs as their own in the API;

- to simplify that, most models were encouraged to use a session id or user id as single entry, and most inputs were gathered from a all-encompasing live storage, connected to that model-serving structure;

- every model had extensive monitoring for distribution of input (especially missing), output, delay to respond to make sure both matched expectation from the trained model;

e.g.: if you are training a fraud model, and more than 10% of output in the last hour was positive, warn the DS to check and consider calling security;

e.g.a.: if more than 5% of “previous page looked at” are empty, there’s probably a pipeline issue;

- there were some issues with feature engineering: I feel like the solution chosen was suboptimal because it created two data pipelines, one for live and one for storage/training.

For that problem, I’d recommend that architecture instead: https://www.datasciencefestival.com/video/dsf-day-4-trainlin...
I know he is. But the summary he's quoting is from the company, DataCamp, not the person who wrote this blog, and yet his criticism is direct at the blogger/instructor.
Be careful with stuff like this. Credit card contracts typically require a fee for anything that amounts to a cash withdrawal instead of a purchase. Depending on the exact construction, it might be fraudulent to knowingly breach the contract to bleed the bank. If it’s not worth talking to a lawyer about it, it’s probably not worth doing.
It's easy to be in support of an organisation whose chief activity consists of ceremony, platitudes, and waving, rather than actually governing a country.

The effective head of state is the PM.
Thanks! Yeah it uses GBDK to make real ROMs. It can only make a very specific kind of game right now but it’s early days.
The answer to this is usually complicated.
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This is the crowd that wants to stay in europe- if you get support per square kilometer for farming, and you are a noble with a estate- this is why you want the poor to support the rich.
The Romans built aqueducts that spanned hundreds of miles and they did it thousands of years ago. Why do you assume that today water has to be 'driven' with trucks or something?

I'm sure we could build aqueducts.
Thanks for the reply. There is a clear difference between claiming extra insurance money and what I'm doing: lying to get more insurance money is fraud, while what I'm doing is exactly what the service is intended for (sending money to others for free).

But using your framework of, "if everyone did this, how would this affect the business and others using the business," then I (and many others) are doing a lot of other unethical things. Ad blocking and card counting (in blackjack) clearly would be deemed unethical under this criteria, but here's a bunch of other more tangible examples.

There's a popular pastry place that has 50% off sales on Sunday afternoon because they are closing Monday so they sell the remaining stock at a significant discount before close. I only go there on Sunday afternoons, but if everyone did that, then the prices would go up for all.

Another thing I do is using the books, video games, movies, and streaming services offered by my library and never buy any real media. But if everyone did this, then bookstores, theaters, and streaming companies would go bankrupt.
Was it shot in HD?

The effects could be redone in HD, but I think it wasn't even widescreen originally.
Run the numbers and compare in your next sale. As a rule of thumb if you can get 1% of the sale price per month in rent you’re doing awesome.

And a good property manager should take away 95% of the hassle.
> Trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change”

No, our most powerful weapon against climate change is reducing human GHG emissions.
> But perhaps we can find a way to make the Sahara into a forest? That’s about what it would take.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19557497
this comment is a great example of baseless couch-general type of pessimism
this is not true. the promise of k8s led many companies to believe that individual dev teams can now manage their own infra and it’s been a giant mess. almost no one had the expertise or patience to properly manage their clusters. my company had pivoted back to a central cluster teams can run on that’s managed by real infra people, and dev teams leaning more heavily on PaaS/serverless systems like that they can actually wrap their heads around.
> Why would you stop at two time axes? Why not go for three, or four, or N many?

This question is confused, because it's taking a derived property as fundamental. It takes as fundamental the fact that there are two associated times, rather than as fundamental the fact that there are these particular associated times, of which there happen to be two. If you can't think of a particular third associated time to add, the idea of "going to three" is meaningless on its own.
Size aside, we need to plant some 15 Billion trees a year just to break-even on trees.
That in turn only works if you assume that wood never rots, burns, etc. I don't have any solid information on the annual growth in processed wood in existence, but I suspect that, to the extent it is increasing, this will gradually taper off as population growth slows. Now if you're saying we could bury the wood somewhere where it won't rot, well enough. That does seem feasible. But normally when I read stuff like this, people think just planting and leaving the trees will be sufficient. And it won't.

At any rate, if that's what the research is getting at, they probably need to title it differently, or explain early on that merely planting the trees is a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve the wins they envision.
Two people on a bike?
Disposal already costs; either you pay directly, through taxes if your local municipality organizes it, or your rent if your property owner organizes it.

The cost of disposal varies by where it is disposed, not where it is purchased or made. It makes no sense to add an arbitrary cost to a product when the receiver of that money is not the one dealing with the externality in the first place.

The same goes for carbon emissions; a properly managed landfill that captures released methane is in fact a method of carbon sequestration. Adding a carbon tax would merely create a new slush fund or dump into an existing one.
Find a group that makes this happen in local parks and forests. Help them.
> The problem right now is a people problem, corruption

No, I don't agree. I've done a lot of traveling in Africa so I know what corruption looks like, and what we have in the West ain't it (yet). The situation we're in is a result of people acting rationally within a set of rules that were predicated on some assumptions that are no longer true, like that the demand for labor is essentially infinite. The rules are also based on some assumptions that were never true, like that societal well being can be objectively measured in terms of GDP or ROI or something like that, and that infinite growth is possible.

To fix this problem we need to fundamentally change the rules of the game to better align with today's reality, and more importantly, tomorrow's likely reality: machines can do pretty much anything that humans can do, so the market value of labor is almost certainly going to plunge. That's good for buyers, but bad for sellers. But sellers are people too. We can't just discard them the way we do excess horses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_Need_Not_Apply).
That's only 160 trees for every man, woman, and child on Earth...

It doesn't seem like a particularly practical solution.
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Both options seem radical. Either penalize success or forcefully take things from people their families have, possibly, owned for generations.

If you compensate the owners of the land and take your time building the government institutions that will manage it the second option seems possible. Maybe something like what Scotland did in the 90's (I think it was) when they abolished the last parts of the feudal system.

I don't see how that would be possible in the US though. US politicians are typically funded by corporations and corporations own land. Besides, from what I understand, the right to own their own land is very important to quite a few Americans.

Put differently: I'm pretty sure an adult American in the 80's would scream "communism" at your ideas. Some of those work as politicians today. :-)
My gut reaction to suggestions like this one is that it seems so hard to do stuff that is as geographically distributed as this. I mean, to plant a billion trees we need to find suitable locations that have an enormous area (twice the US per some comment here). The odds, I'm guessing, are that this will be spread among many/all the continents over multiple countries, involving so many local stakeholders and potential nimby/yimby-disputes.

In my mind a solution needs to be implementable in a meaningful way by single actors. I'm not sure about the state of the art of direct air carbon capture, but for me it seems like a much easier solution. "Just" push X billion/trillion USD into an enormous plant somewhere in a dessert with access to solar/nuclear power and suck it up.

Maybe negative emission solutions will turn out to be not feasible anyways, and the best we can do is to focus our efforts on reaching close to zero new emissions.
An interesting idea I had. Obviously it’s destructive but maybe still a net win?

Go through every forest on earth and cut down every third tree and sequester it so it won’t decompose and release the carbon. Then the forest rengerates itself and pulls all that carbon out of the atmosphere.

Or an idea for a billionaire. Buy out the entire worlds annual output of lumber and sequester it.
This has no added value over the article it links as the source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3006817/lei...
I wish there was a way to release free software and also charge money for it. This team deserves more than just congratulations and donations for all their good work
Turns out there is a video online:
https://vimeo.com/18758609

Ok, in all seriousness, WTF allegedly happened? Was he 'grinding', or whatever they are calling it nowadays?

Did he grab her ass? Did he grab her tits? Did he 'Trump' her?

Because there is a big difference between the first and the last items.
Hm, and why storing so much information redundantly? Why not providing a tailored index structure... basically snapshotting page-trees efficiently :-)
> which bits of the Soviet projects were targetting making everyone equal

Private property of means of production and accumulation of capital were outlawed. It was the best attempt to follow Marx tenets.

> It strikes me that in all cases a portion of society wanted to impose communism, those who didn't want to give up their supremacy (of power or wealth) perverted that system.

No. The latter were massacred in 1918. Then the remaining ones executed and sent each other to GuLAGs in several waves. Separation of wealth (even if minuscule on the scale of developed capitalism) appears to be an emergent property.
That might be because he wasn't Welsh, but a Jamaican-born son of an Englishman.
Do you find any variance in the 7.5 hour 'sweet spot' with the seasons (assuming you have them) or with your activities?
Followup question: How often do you all re-tune your hyperparameters? Automatically whenever your training ETL runs? Only on first deployment? Somewhere in between?
This occurred on a dance floor which seems to be useful context, but is a detail which TFA and other bloggers have called “victim blaming”.

There’s no amount of detail that can cast a fully revealing light onto something like this that happens out in a public space.

I used to think a video of the incident might explain what happened, and then you have cases like Convington where people can see remarkably different things happening in the same sequence of frames.

What amazes me is the tarnishing of the entire company and brand which stems from this kind of PR campaign being run against the company.

Is this Just Another angry Internet mob going after someone, and why is a private matter between two adults at an after hours workplace sponsored event turned into an existential crisis for the entire company?

If there was an assault, shouldn’t someone call the police? Everything else it seems is trial by the court of public opinion.

You want to believe this entire campaign isn’t the result of two people bumping into each other on the dance floor back in 2017, but in any case I’m still left wondering why the company itself has become the target.
Can't find the paper but hasn't this been found to degrade the nutritional profile as well? Using large amount of water works both ways.
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Building a Target shouldn't have side effects. But things to may want to do with your build system might have side effects. Bazel for example supports with with the bazel run command, as opposed to bazel build.
It's a great list and by now a fairly standard list. You can find variations and extension of this in many places. I recall one of Feynman's standards tricks was seeing if he could get a desired result without going through the expected stepped. I think Douglas Hofstadter's analogy project was aim to construct an AI using this (an approach that hasn't gotten the attention (or research grants) it deserves imo).
Would it not be better for these idiots to simply apologize for Tienanmen Square and promise not to do it again? And also stop all their asshole human right violations?
They could sell CDs with it on. They could sell T-shirts etc. They could sell fancy graphics / avatars etc.
> The yoga teacher recruitment model is strikingly similar to an MLM (Multi Level Marketing scheme; think Avon and Amway

Whatever a business model there is, there is a difference: yoga is a real thing that actually improves your health, beauty and psyche you actually get with you wherever you go while the most of the other MLM projects are consumerist bullshit.
People wonder if we have the space to plant these.

How about creating giant floating tracts of mangrove trees. They’re naturally able to live in saltwater.

Maybe make the islands out of waste plastic.
If you really want to crash a Firefox browser without JS, there's this: https://fan-pages.herokuapp.com/

It basically keeps sending iframe's with data URL's for download, see code: https://github.com/wybiral/crash

On Chrome it blocks request popups after the first but FF usually crashes (even Tor Browser).

The interesting thing about this is that you can keep the connection open as long as you want and then send the iframes on command.
How is "Japanoid" pseudoscientific language? It is standard practice in linguistics and archaeology to add -oid to X to denote languages that the historical record shows were related to X, but were not necessarily the same as X. (Another example are the dialects further north in the Balkans in the first millennium that were related to Albanian but not necessarily Albanian, hence Albanoid).

> Given that their language is not even in the same family as any of their neighbors.

Again, Japanese shares the same family with neighbours they had on the Korean peninsula before the Korean peninsula's demographics changed. Almost no one disputes this. Longer-range connections like Altaic or Martine Robbeet's Transeurasian hypothesis are more controversial, but still within the scholarly mainstream.
>Going along with your point though, it might be best if everyone received some designed size plot of land (large enough to build a small family residence on at least).

It wouldn't work. Building codes and permits would make it too costly for the poor to ever do anything with it.
My go-to model that might work is:

- Plant heliostat molten salt reactors in desert coastal areas (the concentrated solar kind)

- Use generated heat to desalinate water

- Use desalinated water to provide irrigation

- Plant (potentially GMO'ed) bootstrapping organisms to create a soil (greening)

- Plant trees

- Rinse repeat.
> The government struggles administering drivers licenses.

What do you mean?
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You'll have to nudge the F-Droid maintainers for that. They grab the source code and compile it themselves. The app developer isn't really involved, they just provide the source code and ideally ensure that it can be easily built by others.

Though you may want to give them a week or two before you go nudge them. They might build it on their own when they find time for it.
> It's easy to test if a password algorithm change fails, not so much for CSP.

Probably a bad example, because the former is server-side. But why is CSP harder to test than any other client-side change, like rewriting your login page/component?

> And yes it does pretty much need to be "domain level" to be effective.

I meant to say that you can add it as a XSS prevention to example.com/app/ and not worry about example.com/static/ or example.com/blog/
The swindling shape example is needlessly pushing it by swapping colours.
I havent tried yet but https://gitpay.me looks like something which pays(not much) and is related to code..

Would appreciate feedback if someone has experience with this.