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Building housing produces a lot of CO2, too.

So if you suggest all people living in the countryside should move into cities, you are also taking about a huge economic undertaking that would also produce huge amounts of CO2.

Presumably some people are also needed in the countryside, to do the farming, and support the farmers.

Subsidizing suburbs is of course stupid. But simply rolling everything back is not really feasible.

Even in the past when people moved to the suburbs, presumably they did so because living in the city would have been prohibitively expensive.
So they can publish in a deidentified fashion?
Interestingly enough C++ has a recent proposal that converges to a similar design from the other direction (i.e. exceptions).

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...

It's still a lot more implicit than go's design, as it's meant to be compatible with regular exceptions.
> People use Gmail, YouTube, Docs,Google search, Android and all of them are in sync with chrome.

In what way are those sites in sync with Chrome? There's sync of tabs and such across devices, but Firefox has that too.
Wait, are you saying that blog.mozilla.org serves malware?
I continue to see that this issue is dominated by ideology and brainwashing.

I have an open question that nobody has answered yet:

If all of humanity evaporated from this planet tomorrow, it would take 50,000 to 75,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to drop by 100ppm.

We know this to a high degree of certainty because of ice core atmospheric data going back 800,000 years. In other words, way before any of our technology even existed.

So, the natural “no humans anywhere” rate of change is in the order of 100ppm per 50,000 years.

Now the question:

How does your <insert any idea you care to test here> msnage to improve on this rate of change a thousand-fold when it is but a rounding error when compared to the planet without humanity at all?

Simple example: Convert the entire world to the most optimal forms of renewable energy!

OK, if all of humanity LEFT THE PLANET and we took ALL OF OUR TECHNOLOGY WITH US, it would take 50,000 to 75,000 years for a useful change in atmospheric CO2.

This renewable energy shift is an insignificant change when compared to a planet empty of us and our crap. Which means that, if there’s a reduction of atmospheric CO2 at all it can’t possibly happen any faster than 100ppm per ~50,000 years.

Anyone claiming otherwise needs to explain the magical methods they will use to violate the laws of physics as we know them.

BTW, to whoever made the comment: I don’t have to know the solution to a problem in order to recognize the problem as well as to identify non-solutions. I don’t know how to make humans breathe under water, but I can tell that eating more fish is not a solution.
I appreciate the reason for the rule, but in this case, I'm curious who this person was "battling?" Seems like it was a top-level post that didn't argue with the original headline or article, but provided additional context. And I found it helpful since I'd forgotten about the whole "execute prisoners for their organs" thing that was (is) going on in China and that seems relevant.

The article is about a massacre, lots of other threads debated the existence and scale of atrocities in the massacre, and this specific thread just seemed to mention similar atrocities?

Specifically, if they had removed the "evil" and "bloody" metaphor, and phrased it like "Considering the supply chain and trade interactions between the US and China, it's worth considering the significant differences in human rights. For instance, the black market organ schemes of the 1990s and the Uighur concentration camps where millions of ethnic minorities are currently interned." <-- That seems like the exact same content which is completely relevant to conversations here?

(I'm an American with no Chinese connections or vested interest in the conversation, but I'm just curious how it specifically crossed a line, especially given the recent HN conversations about political discussions. I know it's a fine line but for this particular topic, it sparked my interest.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.)
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Ask HN: Teaching your kids about ergonomics
Hi HN,

A health topic that comes up regularly with regards to kids and electronic device use (phones, tablets, computers), is screentime (ie, amount of hours spent in front of the screen).

However, something that is rarely mentioned (and that I've had much personal experience with), is the ergonomics around device usage.

This includes environment, posture, light quality, etc.

How do you handle your kids sitting hunched over devices, in poor light, with faces too close, etc?

How do you encourage them to use them better, and not incur 'body debt' to eyes, necks, backs, etc?

Also, what do you teach them?

It seems to me phones and especially tablets were designed to encourage this type of usage.

I've had most luck with laptops (since they are more likely to be plugged into a socket), where I've shown them to sit at a table under a good light, laptop at arm's length, with a proper mouse. Tablets, however, they will use at length at whatever spot and position they find themselves in.

Any pointers appreciated!
Forums and blogging are for internet strangers; Facebook is for your real-life community. While you of course accept some risk of Facebook content becoming accidentally public, there is little to no intersection between the content I would intentionally share on Facebook vs. HN or a blog.

At minimum, blogging would need a universal federated identity system with reciprocal ACLs, which is already starting to sound a lot like Facebook.

More to the point on antitrust, the quality alternative to Facebook that most of my peers are now using is Instagram, which Facebook conveniently purchased.
Tell that to the banking and medical sector, in the UK NHS would still be using IE6 and WinXP if not they were hacked a year ago with that ransomware from NSA.
It's ridiculous how this article is displaying Valve's strength as a failure. Valve is exactly the poster boy of a successful agile organic company that is run by software engineers. A company able to reinvent itself to meet demands. They have been pioneering the concepts of the app store and micro-purchases making it the most profitable company per employee. Things that Apple and Google get applauded for. What's amazing is that those profits didn't come from the demands of profit seeking shareholders. It came from the demands of the people, the software engineers, themselves who work at the company.

So they stopped producing games. So what? Valve is probably in the most optimal position to quickly reinvent itself yet again if new demands and opportunities arise.

This article is an attack on software engineers. Where non-engineers try to swoop in and take their power positions because they "know" better what a company should be doing. This is where engineers get pushed down in the power chain. It's exactly how great products get killed.
I dislike this proposal for the same reason. Looks like a function but does not behave like a normal one. I personally don't mind the verbose error handling in go and I think it's clear and easy to follow.
> A Java course I took in school had us writing a 'database' command line app that held fake enrollment information. Had that kind of thing been the only exposure to programming that I was given, I almost certainly would not have entered the field.

Me neither. That said, in retrospect, I believe university is more similar to real jobs that people give it credit for - the tedium only gets worse in a typical dayjob. As much as I hate "fake enrollment DB" exercises, they're pretty accurate description of how the work looks like.

(I used to want to go into gamedev professionally; due to various life events I went a different way. Judging by stories from both HN and IRL people I know from the industry, I may have dodged a bullet here.)
The keyword here is 'fraudulent'. High-cpu-loads is allowed, but an automated service monitors for fraudulent activity.
I think the apps you mention are all 3+ orders of magnitude more used than an app like Trips.
I agree strongly. While it's arguably true that to survive in the tough job environment for academics these days, you have to promote yourself, I would say that this inclination towards self-marketing is harmful to the academic community as a whole and does lasting damage to science and the humanities as institutions.
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If I could tune into these 3 combined on a 24hr loop as an internet radio station, I'd listen ever single day while coding. This is an amazing combo.

I set the rain one to 50% volume and it balances perfectly with the other 2.

Edit: It also works REALLY well with this instead of the Bladerunner music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebY7byYOwHI
> ... at a time when we need to change societal opinions on nuclear more than ever.

No, I cannot agree with this. As many others stated, the facts on this show was portrayed remarkably accurately.

The events that happend should be shown as close to as what really happened to honor those who died and to teach those who need to learn from history with the real truth.

Your particular political agendas and idealisms should not be used to nudge the story of what happend to change societal opinions. Misrepresentation of reality to change societal opinions is exactly why stuff went wrong in Chernobyl.

If we're going to be investing in nuclear, we need to be absolutely clear-headed, honest and scared. Nuclear oopsies will impact societies for thousands of years. Thousands.

Besides, think about this, if the predictions that organised human civilization will inevitably collapse in the next couple of decades is accurate, the LAST thing we need is more nuclear powerstations.

There are currently about 450+ reactors running worldwide - what happens when the societies that maintain them take a dip? What happens when even half of those go into meltdown?

https://www.rexweyler.ca/ecologue/2017/9/11/nuclear-power-an...
Yep. There are more cats than owners, one less owner for any reason means one more euthanized cat.
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https://www.softwareheritage.org/

"We collect and preserve software in source code form, because software embodies our technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it.

Software is a precious part of our cultural heritage. We curate and make accessible all the software we collect, because only by sharing it we can guarantee its preservation in the very long term.
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99% of species went extinct before humans arrived. Adapt or die is how life works. Can't survive alongside humans? Tough call.

That's not to say conservationism is futile, I fully agree we should save those Pandas, or various sea mammals, or monkeys and apes. Why? Because they're fascinating and adorable. Not out of principle.

But let's be real, even if it wasn't for humans some of these would've been destined to go extinct with just a minor tilt of the ecosystem.
If they were stupid enough to put that in in an email, forwarding to Trading Standards might get them leaned on. Though I admit these days it's a long shot.

Trading Standards used to be really great about responding to these sorts of complaints, and for larger sites and retailers they'd have their own test shopping as well. Tory austerity means they haven't had budget for years so are almost completely toothless. Only when Brexit stops being the only issue driving UK politics will the systemic destruction of the successful parts of the UK ever get noticed again.
I really don't see the problem here. It's not like there's a shortage of games, or game developers in the world. If one of them has gotten out of that market, to develop a shared platform that everyone (developers and consumers alike) want and need, isn't everyone better off?
I have Evernote subscription and I use that. But lately, I find myself using more and more Apple Notes and it seems to meet my needs as I have an iPhone and MacBook.
On review, the wording is quite vague.

From TFA:

> Shortly thereafter, DigitalOcean investigated the issue and the Raisup account was unlocked and powered back on.

But it's not clear if any data was deleted by DigitalOcean.

The suggestion the account was unlocked rather than re-created suggests it was not, but OTOH there's no reference to erase, delete, restore, or indeed current state of customer data in that post mortem.
Given the privacy features Apple is introducing they could also put some more resources into making Safari appeal more to developers.
No, Profiles are an entirely separate feature that Firefox also has. Setting up separate profiles for every major site could achieve something similar, but that would obviously be unimaginably inconvenient. Containers are like sandboxed virtual browser instances that nullify most methods of cross-site tracking, while also enabling you to conveniently stay logged in to all of your sites. Switching between the containers is seamless, and does not require any conscious user action apart from initially setting them up. Plus, the real kicker is using Temporary Containers as the default setting for new tabs, which can make it as if every Google search or inconsequential browsing session is done in a Private Window instance. This means there's no way in terms of cookies and trackers for Google to obtain cumulative data about your searches and browsing habits, but you can safely keep local records of your history if you want. There's no way to achieve any of this in Chrome with anything approaching the same level of simplicity or convenience.
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Which will be useless given how many places blacklist the ISP IP ranges. You'll still want a email forwarder that can do the MX store & transfer for your server.
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The National Park Service commissioned a font, and it's not public domain? That's total bullshit.
The killer feature with Steam for me at the moment is a combination of,

a) some 300-400 games in my library, picked up over more than a decade, and probably 95% purchased on sales. There always seems to be a sale. This offsets the price of a computer as opposed to a console.

b) Steam Link, which lets me play those games in the living room using a regular Xbox One controller. The Link has recently migrated from being a hardware device to being software that runs on your TV (I have a Samsung TV) and now recently on iOS (iPhone/iPad/Apple TV).

Link works very well and has effectively moved me to the living room for enjoying games.

It has also made my game library available to my wife, who wasn't going to sit down in front of a computer to play games any time soon, but who has found some games she really enjoys playing by virtue of the simpler, more direct interface that is Steam's big screen mode.

While Steam the desktop app is a horrible, ancient mess, the big screen interface is surprisingly decent.
What's the reason? What the heck is Github doing.
No, there's no real provision in email for SMTP to be on non-port 25. You can make it listen on something else, but the only thing a remote server is going to do is look up the MX record, and then try opening port 25 on it.

Since you'll want a forwarder anyway (many many email servers blacklist anything on a known-ISP IP range (ie, home users)), you might be able to find one that allows you to configure a specific port to forward to, but it'd be non-standard.
> why these issues weren't raised when the spectrum was being allocated

Because they are bogus. This is riding on a wave of populism, at a time when journalists woke up to an "Elon's train" and twitter was buzzing with many people who saw a satellite with their naked eye for their first time.

Actual professional astronomers would either realize this is not such a big problem, or would raise the issues during the spectrum allocation, or would raise issues during the whole time SpaceX was showing animations of the finished constellation to all their fans etc etc... there was a lot of time, no way somebody whose project depended on free skies wouldn't be prepared.
There are in fact people who are already trying to "federate" code collaboration https://nth.io/notice/7652
I'll also add, as a regular dota player, that they don't just "get rent" out of it.

First, the game is free to play and very deep as-is. There is no missing feature or add-on to pay for in order to have the full game experience, and the experience is amazing.

Second, they update it every month and managed to keep it interesting through the years. It's an incredible feat.

In the end, it's one of the few places where I'm more than happy to pay micro transactions for virtual hats and idiotic gimmics. Because they do a hell of a job.

Of course I would love a portal 3. But I'm not disapointed of what they are doing right now. They still rock.
When was this? Because almost exactly the same story is what stopped me from moving into the Apple ecosystem, around 2010.

The only difference was that the second, wiped phone was an empty "dev" phone, thankfully. It then caused Apple to ask for a series of upgrades to develop for, starting with XCode and ending with my MacBook Pro.
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No. This is wrong and it is not supported by data.

If humanity and all of our stuff evaporated from this planet it would take 50,000 to 75,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to drop by 100ppm.

These are all non-solutions. Even if we become extinct and all of our technology, buildings and power-plants rot away and dissolve, you are still looking at tens of thousands of years.

None of these things, individually or collectively are better than humanity not being on this planet. Which means they can’t possibly produce results any faster than that.
Hacker News posts about the iPhone in the first half of 2007
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the author to be provided an explanation when the repo was taken down.
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean, other than quants and insurance companies I'd consider all of these "tech jobs". Or does "tech" now mean "webdev"?
This is one of those realms that is hard to penetrate with traditional hypothesis-based scientific study. I doubt we will ever get to a point where we can do some type of double-blind study as to the efficacy of shamans and shamanism. The data will largely be anecdotal and will thus easily lead to speculation.

The result? I'm not entirely sure. Perhaps it's one of those things we will have to explore on our own, individually. Each of our experiences will be unique, and more likely than not, in contradiction with one another.

I applaud and respect those, particularly in academia, who can both acknowledge the boundaries of their knowledge, and yet be open to the idea that there remains a lot beyond our understanding currently. And those that partake in these substances, via anthropological study or for personal reasons, can let the experience speak to them for what it is, beyond the need or reflex to break it down in an academically rigorous, scientific manner.

The author of the article tries to make some analogy between shamans and financial money managers. I don't think anything could be further off. It's speculation like this that results in the ill-informed decisions that lead to potentially life-saving treatment modalities being branded as Schedule I restricted substances. In any case, an academic trying to make sense of the ancient healing mystic wisdom traditions is like Einstein trying to make sense of a Dali painting. Maybe you can get somewhere, but you're not going to really get it until you voyage there yourself.

Anyhow, whether it's Golden Teachers, or Bufo Alvarius, may your experience be enlightening, magical, and transformative!
How so? This is exactly what personal profiles do. Keeping a separate cookie jar, local storage, history, extensions. Basically only the browser version and OS related stuff is left to track you. Ok, except if Google tracks browser usage directly. I've been using separate profile for each of the evil websites I have to use, no cookie leaking.
Uncharted is a "don't think, enjoy" kind of game, and a pretty good one at that.
This is fantastic! I got into cryptography with books like this when I was younger, but they seem to be few and far between nowadays.

Also, kids don't seem to like books anymore ;-)
What's interesting from my perspective as the parent of a US teenager about to start senior year of high school: it's hard not to notice that schools are concurrently less and less friendly toward in-state students. They clearly enjoy those sweet out-of-state dollars. I have a friend who's daughter is captain of the gymnastics team, has a 4.something, all the STEM AP courses, and still got rejected by every UC school. The UC system might as well hang a shingle "Locals, keep out".
It's worth noting that non-fatal shootings still make up a large part of gun violence, in addition to gun homicides.

From EveryTown: https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-cities/

> "In San Francisco, there are 165 nonfatal shootings, almost five for every gun homicide."

Overall, the Bay Area of today is not the same Bay Area of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Times have changed, populations have changed, statistics have changed. There's tons of variables, causes, and effects in motion such that determining "The Reason" is like deciding if Sasquatch exists. Reducing gun-related crime is a big effort that takes a huge coordination of groups and circumstances.

The only reason this is worth mentioning is because addressing crime is more than just putting up a line chart of 'number of homicides' for a geographic region and then calling it a day as long as that metric is decreasing. It's easier for people (including local policymakers) to over-credit themselves with fixing problems, when the problems may not have gone away, only traveled somewhere else.
Surprising how someone with the screen name "gaywonk" seems to have such a thin skin.
I'm just curious why you think a Taiwanese company should stop selling to a Chinese company based on statement/policy of a foreign country?

It is obviously in their best financial interest to sell to Huawei. Why should they stop?
Gitlab has a feature to copy an entire Github repo including issues and issue threads, etc.

You can also enable options for it to act as a mirror or to make GitHub act as the mirror for Gitlab. I'm not sure whether there is a mode to keep the issue threads synced as well without manual intervention. That'd be full data portability.
I used to work on a kids-friendly app and gave it up after 2 years. But I still own kidsfriend.ly. If anyone feel it's a good name and is interested, pls let me know.
How can SEC charge a non-US company?
I got a PS4 for last christmas with The Last of Us. What a game, really good story telling. The game is over 5 years old and even today with a lot of great games, this is one of my all time favorites ever.
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What would "fraud" mean in this context? Are they talking about customers who don't pay their bill to DO? (If so, seems like the account should just be temporarily suspended until the bill is paid.) Or are they talking about fraud to other parties, like phishing sites? (If so, I don't see the connection to crypto mining.)
With this I can agree, mostly due to the fact that cows form (I believe) family bonds.