skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soil erosion is a reversible process but it will require a little effort and planning. When it works it's an investment that actually pays off.

Here's a nice example of the Chinese restoring some soil: https://rethink.earth/turning-desert-to-fertile-farmland-on-...

I've seen a documentary with some before and after video footage. Quite amazing difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI

Planned grazing is another approach that has seen some success: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19...
This is provided by some of the "mainstream" "press"; Brendan O'Neill in Spiked, for example, can be relied on to produce the absolute worst, most controversial take on something that's just happened, manufacturing a whole load of outrage.
Through a series of costly and humiliating mistakes
Everyone has to learn about things "for the first time" at some time, but this is a concept that comes up on hn pretty frequently.

Maybe there should be a bot that periodically posts important articles.
The CIA aren't going to give up their lucrative drug business that easily
Sure. But monitors don’t move around, so who cares what ports are on them? A VGA to whatever adapter can just hang there.

I fully understand that there’s a network engineering / hacker group that goes place to place hooking into all manner of legacy hardware, and that this laptop is a welcome sight to those who have been left behind by the push towards simplicity.

However, the implication (in other comments) that VGA is a necessary laptop port for the mostly desk-to-conference crowd is a bit absurd. Docks are fine.
Asus is generally pretty good at updating the BIOS. My Asus X370-F gaming has already been updated with support for Ryzen 3rd gen.
Wow. Thank you for sharing that.
This story always comes back every year. With some ground knowledge on this, as I worked previously for Portugal Ministry of Health (Regional Subdivision). All this is price, and the programme works because drugs go where the money is, i.e. not Portugal, goes to the UK and Germany.
On the other hand, Alcoholism is a massive issue in Portugal, and there is no Government action.
Are you trolling? It would seem obvious that such things are distributed exactly the same no matter what ones social status or ethnic background is. It would be very surprising if it wasn't.
Yes, this one! Just read pages 1 and 2 of the pdf (I was writing from memory and my explanation is not exact).
Triangle TR3b or UFO Seen Flying over Germany
Choosing not to put in effort is still a choice. And a more significant one than people realize. At some point I imagine that those who wear swag t-shirts daily had to come to the realization that it was acceptable to do so. In many realms (mine included) there is explicit signaling in choosing not to put in the effort, to the point where I see people vying for decision-making positions by dressing down.
> with Minneapolis’s warmest month shooting up from around 80 degrees Fahrenheit on average to more than 90F in 2050.

They're saying it's the warmest month, not the whole year. I guess that makes sense, the mean might increase just a little but the variance is what is going to increase a lot.
Essence of calculus – visually explained (3Blue1Brown video series)
I'm actually really surprised these have made an in-road at business focused hotels (which they have). Working at a large company, we have to book through a corporate travel agency that enforces all sorts of travel policies, negotiated rates, etc. on the booking. Yet, I've occasionally seen resort fees even then. You'd think that the travel agency and policies would wise up and include that in the calculation.
there is no guarantee
> His definition of linear is also wrong in my book.

There are two variations of "linear function". To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_function:

> In mathematics, the term linear function refers to two distinct but related notions:

> - In calculus and related areas, a linear function is [...] a polynomial function of degree one or zero.

> - In linear algebra, mathematical analysis, and functional analysis, a linear function is a linear map.

I personally prefer the terminology "linear function" for the former definition (polynomials of degree 1 or 0), and "linear transform" for the latter definition (a linear map).
Why is only sensible drugs policy called radical is the real question.
For stitching I recommend Hugin. If you resolve grain, it should have no trouble aligning, and you can easily script it.
How is that fixing the issue of incompatible configuration changes? This is typically the reason why I see boot or start problems, i.e. I have made some changes to some configuration and the format, or some option changed with a package upgrade and I suddenly can't boot into the gui anymore. In contrast I can't remember when I updated a system and something stopped working because 2 libraries were incompatible. To me this is really solving a non-issue.
That's a really interesting and well-done mine -- thanks for introducing it to me!

This project proposes mining at a scale that is cumulatively about 8,000 times greater than Glensanda. But if they could all be done so sensitively, then indeed, perhaps it could work.

I've still got a lot of cognitive intertia about the impact of open-pit mining, and would definitely need more convincing about this. But I'd be open to being convinced.
A lot of business have your niche or micro localization. It don't become a unicorn, but can make money sufficiently to be a life style business. As some saas are like grocery store.

Maybe the author is talking about this type of "local/nich tech business"... No?
In India, the book has "Philosopher's" and the movie has "Sorcerer's". I learned only recently America had "Sorcerer" in both book and movie, I thought the Americans renamed only the movie.
Withdraw reflex also doesn't preclude learning. We see learning in all sorts of reflex arcs that get over-triggered and thus become downregulated. So the fact that the fly "learned" to be more sensitive to noxious stimuli does not rule out a reflex mechanism at play in its behavior.
Unfortunately those in power are not nearly as badly affected by the drug epidemic as the poorer people. Even if they develop a habit or some complication related to it they will have access to the best care and treatment options.

So there is very little cost to being 'tough on drugs' until the effects are also felt at all layers of society. Portugal, a country that is a lot more relaxed about many things than the USA had a much easier time to acknowledge this. The 'war on drugs' will never be won, and the victims are predominantly poor. In the meantime, American jails are overflowing with people who should have been helped, not incarcerated.
> But there's a good axiom: the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Very true. Thats a good lesson for this site and the expectations of internet detectives. People think they can just say “source” and the lack of immediate response serving as an indictment to nullify whatever statement.

The reality is that a lot of information isnt digital or resolved at all.

With regard to CBD amongst other alternative medicine, I mainly look at WHY there werent conclusive studies. For CBD its the legality challenges and I can accept that. For many other alternative medicines it is the incompatibility to any scientific method and impossibility of having peer reviewed repeatable results, masqueraded as preventative treatment.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Deep Learning with Ludwig
Some stats from https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/waste/municipal-waste/munic... which show that landfill is decreasing in popularity here in Europe:

1. The rate of municipal waste landfilling for the 32 EEA member countries fell from 49 % in 2004 to 34 % in 2014.

2. Overall, the rates of landfilling decreased in 27 out of 32 countries. Between 2004 and 2014, the largest decreases occurred in Estonia (57 percentage points), Finland (41 percentage points), Slovenia (41 percentage points) and the United Kingdom (41 percentage points).
A lot of comments about why decriminalization of drug use is a no brainer. I'd like to point out that it's not that simple. From what I understand from different "experiments" like Portugal, it's a lot depending on context (eg culture) and how it's done. For example, easier access (lower taxes) on alcohol caused a rise in alcoholics and alcohol related deaths in Finland). Not everyone living in Colorado is happy about the outcome there either (sorry for no references, but please look it up if you'd like).

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done but like a startup venture, an idea is worth very little and the environment/market + how it's realized makes all the difference!
Just reminding everyone that you can trade energy efficiency for lifetime.

This bulb produces basically no light, i.e. very poor efficiency, so the lifetime is very high.
I'm on twitter, I'm on HN, I read the news. I see some outrage, but I wouldn't qualify it as 'mass-produced' or 'engineered'.

I see things like migrant detention, police shootings, discrimination against minorities (and especially the targeting of trans people), climate change, etc. Those things get a response on the internet, sure, and some folks are outraged over them.

But calling it 'mass produced' and 'engineered' is the same thing as saying they are 'virtue signaling'. You are saying, "Those people don't have genuinely held opinions." Implicit in that you are saying, "... but I do."

Additionally, outrage serves a really important role in our democracy. It is a critical tool that can be used to address injustice. It's not the only tool, obviously, but it is an important component in raising the voice of those who are the bottom of our society. Many of us live in relative wealth and comfort and wouldn't otherwise be made aware of how bad it is for the poorest among us without outrage.

It's definitely not the only tool. We should also be engaging in debate and advocacy and charity and organizing, etc. But calling for the elimination of outrage is calling for the silencing of voices that have no other means to effectively engage with the system.
Do you know that no permission was obtained?
If you include the ad revenue from links to Google Search (which you should), then definately yes.
So in order to use them you have to flip away the plate? How is that going to be legal?
What if we all used dry / compost toilets ?
I am multilingual too, and I am quite amused about all the magical superpowers monolingual people ascribe to us. Heh.
Commenting so I can check back in 30 years.

When I look at the big cities mentioned in the article on Google Maps, about 50% of what I see are roofs.

I wouldn't be surprised if we also put roofs on the gaps over the next 30 years. So whole cities become indoor areas.

Living in an outdoor city might become as unusual as it is to live outdoors today.

Additional guess: Most of the roofs will be made of solar panels.
Watched a talk that the CEO gave, and he describes it by analogy to YouTube.

Before YouTube, it was difficult and expensive to broadcast video. YouTube made it effortless, and therefore a bunch of people showed up and created all kinds of things... Some are stupid and weird, others are very lucrative for the creators.

He says that Koji wants to do the same thing for code/apps/interactive content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22bQuiY874
Yes, but there are some subtle advantages [1][2][3] to buying the VTSAX fund over the VTI ETF if you can meet the minimum.

The analogous fund for BND is VBTLX.

There are some big caveats to watch out for with target date funds like increased expense ratio vs holding the underlying funds directly and the glide path. I avoid them personally, but they're not all bad.

[1]: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=116581

[2]: https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/vanguard's-...

[3]: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/ETFs_vs_mutual_funds
Your post is very vague, but Agda and Coq use types to help you gradually write definitions. Agda has "typed holes," where you specify the goal type and the IDE (Agda Emacs mode) will show you the relevant bindings in scope. Then, you gradually refine your definition, filling in the hole while creating new holes. Thus, Agda lets you "fill in the blank" using types as a guide. Similarity, Coq has a tactic language that builds terms, and you can see what goals there are left to fulfill and write tactic programs interactively.

Agda and Coq are pure functional languages, and their type systems are a consistent logical system. They are more mathematically oriented and may not be what you want.

Agda Emacs: https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6.0.1/tools/emacs-mode.htm...

Coq Tactics: https://coq.inria.fr/refman/proof-engine/tactics.html
TECO (Programming Language)
I've tried Clojure.

I prefer a programming language that allows me to pick and choose which paradigms I want to follow-- whether OOP or FP, mutable or immutable, etc. I don't need Clojure to do that for me.

Personally, I am trying to figure out why a closed source language is producing such activism-- trying to increase the popularity importance of the language... despite the fact that it's a privately owned language-- not really "open source"-- everything flows through one man & his company, which come first & above, regarding the language's development.

Rich Hickey: [Paraphrasing] "Open source isn't about you. I created this, it's mine, and I'll change it when and how I choose."

Clojure Community: "Hey, let's try to get more people into Clojure! Let's increase this community!"
JSC on Android can use JIT, but some choose to disable it because it uses more memory than it’s worth.
The cartel required 1,000 hour lifetimes, but do note that they could not do anything about the physical reality that higher lifetime = lower energy efficiency.

People talk about it sometimes as if they made bulbs worse, but they didn't.
Considering that Fox News was basically founded by Roger Ailes to profit from right wing outrage, this shows what it is worth... more than many software companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-28/fox-ne...
The parent poster specifically said tax appropriately for externalities.
For an similar perspective from an American farmer, check out Joel Salatin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Salatin
Mexico is less of a problem to the United States than the other way around. With the US drug habit and guns and funds export Mexico is helpless to do much of anything about this. This would hold for any country where the illegal economy is larger than the legal one.

Legalizing the drugs would rob the cartels of a vast chunk of their income and that in turn would allow the Mexican government to finally do something about them that will not be a country-sized game of whack-a-mole.
1Password silently removed major features on iOS
> So it's quite a lot in absolute terms for a led inside the case that I'll never see.

Then turn them off? The whole point of RGB lighting is it's controllable. That includes setting it to off.
I mean, to answer your methane question - after our local landfill was filled up, it was covered with foil, then several layers of soil and finally grass - it's a public park nowadays. The methane is collected at the highest point of the hill that was the landfill, I imagine the layer of foil forces it to go up to the single outpipe at the top.
Watched a talk that the CEO gave, and he describes it by analogy to YouTube. (he was formerly at Google, CTO of MySpace, and founder of Veoh (an early YouTube competitor).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-shapiro-a2b1/

Before YouTube, it was difficult and expensive to broadcast video. YouTube made it effortless, and therefore a bunch of people showed up and created all kinds of things... Some are stupid and weird, others are very lucrative for the creators.

He says that Koji wants to do the same thing for code/apps/interactive content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22bQuiY874
Here are some figures off the top of my head, as a user of Hasselblad V (film) systems for approaching 15 years. All the work on my site (link in "about" page) is shot with Hasselblad film cameras. Mostly with the 6x6 V cameras.

A top spec Epson flatbed+negative scanner will cost you in the region of $500. This will allow you to scan medium format film at a quality more than adequate for web stuff and also for printing up to 50x50cm.

Film costs are now in the region of $7 per roll for quality B&W and $15 per roll for quality colour. That's good stuff by the likes of Ilford and Kodak.

Development of B&W is trivial to do at home, and will cost you around $3 per roll. You can economise by reusing chemicals or by doubling up (two rolls in a tank for example) to bring this down to $1 per roll. Chemicals will last in the region of one year if stored in air tight light proof containers.

Development of colour is slightly more involved but can still be done for around $5 per roll.

Printing is where the expense comes at you. Depending on paper, sizes, inks, etc, this can set you back anything from $5 per print for a cheap mass-market lab style print for 20x20cm, to $30 if the inks/paper are better.

All in all I don't think it's that much more expensive than using a digital camera. You shoot less, you shoot different photos, you see different things. I average around 50 rolls per year through my Hasselblad.

FWIW I wrote about my experiences with Hasselblad cameras a couple of years ago : https://leejo.github.io/2017/03/08/ten_years_with_a_hasselbl...
Yup. Fuels + coals are directly killing a few millions per year because the storage is the atmosphere. There is no green source of energy, but some sources (hydro, nuclear, renewables) are several orders of magnitude more letals than other sources, whereas some sources are several orders of magnitude cheaper than renewable energies
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents)
How to make AMP look good ? Ostensibly degrade the experience without it ...
As far as I'm aware pathogens in meat aren't the main issue- it's the compounds formed when the meat is cooked.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...

Fish cooked at high temperatures is also not good.
Seems to me that your two points oppose each other. If the cost of repair is too high because of labor costs, that indicates that it would create jobs, not destroy them.
Scary article. Also scientists believe the maximum capacity for earth is about 10b.

When people start running out of resources in hotter zones we're in real trouble.

Population control, not only climate change!
Agree. Thank goodness for reader mode.
The contents of /etc is rolled back when you boot into the previous deployment.
I have multiple Kaby Lake boards which haven't received any BIOS updates in > a year. It depends upon the model line and as far as I can tell they will not tell you how long support is before you buy one.
Summary: burn lots of fuel to go to periphery of solar system, dive back toward the sun and skim it very closely to maximize velocity and use a bunch of fuel next to the sun at max V (oberth maneuver) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect and then go hurtling out of solar system.. main challenge is solar shielding.. the deeper into the gravity well you can go the faster you can go due to the deltaV performed next to the sun..
Not to mention, with RES on old reddit you can turn the Javascript for specific subs off. Not sure if that's even possible on New, which I hate. The JS is often just overcrowded and too much, so I'd prefer it off.
Paul Graham the founder of Ycombinator was a Lisper.
I think you're right about this. I'd much rather read LISP for Poets or LISP for Future Presidents than something with a title that is insulting or degrading. There's probably a considerable market for books that educate and respect the reader.
In our case we know we're running on "quantum bare metal" because we can do quantum mechanics experiments.
I think you’re on to something when it comes to discovery, but if you have a known audience with a need/want to fill, driving down the cost of development opens up the huge world of situated software [1], where the ROI rebalances itself to enable developers to add niche value again.

[1] http://shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/situated_softw...
Edge Complexity to Grow for 5G
A good reason for the drop of electricity use is the increasing price of electricity due to fuel increasing prices for extractions + investments in renewable energies
The cost of keeping this product going would be in the low millions which is far from bleeding money.
Demystifying Consciousness
Everyone using the same split doesn't make the split non-arbitrary. Aren't small-scale hydro and large-scale hydro rather different things? Is large-scale hydro really "renewable", given that reservoirs fill with sediment, and their creation leads to lots of CO2 being released? Why is nuclear power "non-renewable"? It's renewable on any reasonable time scale, and doesn't produce CO2 during operation. Surely photovoltaic and thermal solar power are rather different technologies?
The argument is disingenuous. No one is complaining about hotels rolling the paddle boat rental into the room cost. If Marriott wants to move to a more inclusive model, that’s perfectly fine. The issue is that if it’s a mandatory part of the cost then it should be a part of the main advertised price.

It’s in my opinion unfortunate that tax is listed separately in a lot of places but at this point that’s water under the bridge. But for money that’s going directly to the vendor (also looking at you telecoms) it’s inexcusable.
There's an animated GIF on this page showing his process:

http://www.andrewdegraff.com/moviemaps/#/lord-of-the-rings/
>>> Almost all of the litter that escapes into nature, especially the sea, comes from poorer riverine countries with bad rubbish collection practices, such as China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Rich countries like the UK or US have rubbish collection rates approaching 100% and are responsible for almost no new waste reaching the oceans.

... Yea, b/c the developed nations of the world don't send their trash to "poorer riverine countries" to get dumped in the ocean. /s

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/treated-...
Google doesn't embed a decryption key in their URL. AFAIK, they are just long lookup keys that are unguessable.

The difference between that and local encryption is if you trust the storage provider. If you were a journalist in China, you wouldn't want your documents accessible by your hosting provider.

In the above scenario, you obviously wouldn't want to submit a decryption key to the server as part of a URL/POST. Look at how services like mega.nz are designed. They popularized an approach where the decryption key is in the URL's label, which is not submitted to the server. The files are decrypted with javascript locally.
Why are keyboard keys staggered?
Stayed in a Marriott last year on business and was really blindsided that they’d take this tactic and not get blacklisted with the companies.
And yet most people in the USA know a victim of gun violence, yet we are unable to copy even a portion of the regulations used by a majority of our allies. There's also a point beyond which a problem is so endemic that people consider it the natural state of affairs.
Why do newspapers do it?
They aren't typically found in nature in the form in which we consume them. They require human processing (even if it's much less processing than what goes into making a frozen pizza).
Yes, we'll have support for that, including handling sync conflicts when you get back online. It's not gonna be a great experience since Dark is really really designed for working on production, but it should work ok.
I don’t think that’s analogous. I suspect there are numerous examples of landfills they don’t hurt the environment, and lots of well studied best practices for how to achieve that in others. The equivalent in software is a sort of spherical cow theoretical construct that nobody has seen, let alone knows how to systematically create.