skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upthread someone quoted a study that showed recycling newspaper used 60% of the energy compared to cutting down trees and making pulp.

So like I said, it's a no-brainer to recycle newspapers.
> (It'd also be in nearly nothing, because no manufacturer would want to pay the BOM costs of supporting it.)

It'd be everywhere if manufacturers had no other choice. Mass production would keep the price low.

In that reality, Apple would be actually courageous for switching to USB-C and forcing everyone's hand. The EU could jump in to, and tell phone manufacturers that if they want to switch away from plain old USB, they can switch over to USB-C, but no going back to proprietary connectors bullshit. This would be a much nicer world indeed.
How do you deal with the excruciating slow speed of audiobooks? Even on 2x speed I feel I can do twice as fast by reading with my eyes and get better retention. Anything faster that 2x makes the speech unintelligible, but reading fast feels like things get more coherent.
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None of it agrees with what you claimed. These are all different metrics you are trying to conflate into what you want them to say. Homicide is a tiny percentage of overall crime.

People who are legally eligible to own guns are far less likely to commit crimes because by definition felons, those illegally present, etc. are automatically excluded from that population.
Right, but Perl 6 is also now a different language in its own right.
That would be a productive competition: putting our national pride behind planting trees

“We can’t let CHINA beat US on reforestation!”

Might be the trick
Followup by the same author, "I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned": https://hackernoon.com/i-spent-all-of-my-millions-this-is-wh...
Too many syllables.
You tried to make an element from... nothing?
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Microsoft and Apple do business in China, yet somehow it's Google that's apparently working with the Chinese. These people are honestly out of their mind.
> If American astronauts die this year because of inadequate testing, that will be the last time you see American astronauts being launched into space on a NASA sponsored platform.

And that's why the US shut down the manned space program after Challenger.

> If Americans die because this was rushed, you can kiss NASA's manned space efforts goodbye. We'll pay the Russians what it takes to keep going to ISS.

The lack of recent fatalities with the Soyuz does not mean the Soyuz is "safe". 141 safe launches just implies that the probability of success is p^141=0.5 (since I have no idea how likely this outcome was, I default to 50/50), so 99.5%. (edit: 99.3% with Laplace's rule.) That's very good, but it's also very very far from the safety record of airplanes.
Peter Theil's actions are pretty questionable without your incredible attempts to paint gawker as anything besides a trashy, disingenuous tabloid. I've heard other parts of the company were decent but their bread and butter was the trashy stuff. He can still be wrong to have funded their destruction even if they suck too.
That would certainly mean cutting features. Thunderbolt limits the length of the cable to ~50cm, but that's way too short for a power cord.
Revisiting the Role of the Science Journalist
I find the title misleading, the main reason Earth is getting greener is mainly because of higher CO2 emissions[0]. Saying the earth is getting greener thanks to China and India, is forgetting that ~84% of the increase is not related to these countries[1].

What is truly new, is that human activity in India and China alone is responsable of a 16% increase of leaf area. So, to quote original article:

> now that we know direct human influence is a key driver of the greening Earth, we need to factor this into our climate models

[0] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...
Please don't use HN for partisan flamewar. It's exactly the opposite of what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Given how many Googlers are here on the forums I assume Google is well aware of the problem and we are just collateral in the quest to make Google usable for cats and dogs ;-)
Although in fairness, it would be interesting to make that comparison after accounting for external costs of both. CO2 emissions for gas, and nuclear plant decommission /storage in case ofnjuclear power like here in France
This is including crops:

> Another 32% there – and 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.

And there isn't enough biodiversity to balance damage done elsewhere:

> The researchers point out that the gain in greenness seen around the world and dominated by India and China does not offset the damage from loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions, such as Brazil and Indonesia. The consequences for sustainability and biodiversity in those ecosystems remain.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...
shopping, sex ...
It seems to me that the US is importing people from other countries en masse, so that's not likely to be a problem, especially if said people had lower standards of living and can cope with lacking child care through other means, like large families.
I have been using Blinkist on a daily basis for the past few months.

I'm pretty satisfied with the subscription as it's a great time-saver, in 15mins I either find out that:

- the book is not worth spending hours of actual reading

- I enjoy the summary and it makes me want to read the whole book

- or I like the summary, copy the highlights into personal notes, and carry on

Real people are both reading and summarizing the books, so it's much higher quality than the automatic shorteners.
There's a difference. In most of those cases, you can expect to pull out any fitting cable for that port and the device will do what it's meant to do. There was a little confusion with 3.5mm jack, but the plugs were trivially inspectable (you could count how many connections they had).

With USB-C, whether or not a device will do all, some, or any at all of its functions, depends not just on the device, but on what you're connecting it to and which one of the countless types of cables you happen to have, all of which look identical to someone who's not an EE with appropriate equipment.

Makes me think, maybe I should start selling USB-C cable testers, because if old USB taught me anything, is that you can't trust cable manufacturers to not lie, even if the cable standard is as simple as it gets.
Credit card = Loan

Debit Card = money in the bank.

I am not trashing the credit industry, but when they give me 1% and I give them 24%...

And in the UK I do get a refund for fraudulent purchases (e.g. someone copied my card details from a store and made some purchases of women's shoes from somewhere in the UK I have never veen) - NatWest flagged it, alerted me, refunded me.
Definitely that. Also for a cylinder under pressure the hoop stress is twice the longitudinal stress. Which says to me that vertically oriented rectangular windows are optimal. Probably even more so since the windows are aligned.
If you enjoy the Stormlight Archives I would also highly recommend the Lightbringer series of books by Brent Weeks.

I won't spoil anything besides saying that the series has a number of really memorable plot twists and a very interesting magic system.

Simon Vance does a fantastic job narrating the audiobooks and I'm eagerly anticipating the fifth and final book of the series which is due for release in October.
>When Google leaks the personal data of millions of Americans

Google+ was hacked and leaked the data of users. No one knows how many because Google deleted the logs.
Sony launches ‘world's fastest’ USB hub, new rugged SD cards
Apollo 11 in real time on its 50th anniversary
Magic and Mayhem of Japanese Legend: Don’t Try to Out-Trick a Tengu
This is reposted with some frequency, but it is simply (a consequence of) the fact that people need a base salary to live and that not everything can be automated

You can't automate a "personalized" task (a medical examination, panting of a building, a legal consultation, etc)
The Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adaptor supports nothing except Target Disk Mode.

I tried using it to connect a USB-C SSD to my MacBook Pro 2014, using a Thundebolt 2 M-M wire, and the adaptor plugged into the SSD enclosure. It didn't work, though thankfully it didn't fry anything either.

The Thunderbolt adaptor also doesn't work with MiniDP-VGA or MiniDP-HDMI adaptors. So I would need to buy a whole new set of video adaptors if I upgrade my laptop. Needless to say, I'm not in a hurry to do so.

I like adaptors, and I have a large collection in my bag already for video out/in, phone charging, FireWire/Thunderbolt disk mode, and more. But I haven't even started collecting USB-C adaptors because it would only be for friends ("Sorry for the technical difficulties with the projector...") and I don't know which ones will work.
I pre-checked a campsite I was visiting with my son using lat/long and heavens-above website, and there was a mag -4 satellite transit there. So.. at the right time I said "look up" THE WIZARDING IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE...

But yea, doing this on a public list.. creepy.
How Julian Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling
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Really really cool! I wonder if we can do something similar with programming. Suppose we have a conceptual framework where each module/system is a widget made up of slightly simpler and well-defined widgets. If we can specify what we want, perhaps a system can be devised that would try to build it from a database of widgets. If some of the constituent widgets are not found, the system could recursively specify each one and find/construct.

In this recursive process, the language used to specify the requirements of a widget can be a changing DSL whose grammar and basic constructs co-evolve with the complexity/abstraction level of the widgets.

This seems feasible because we (software engineers) are one such system. Starting from basic transistors, we build ever higher abstraction layers along with the language used to specify them (circuit diagrams -> microcodes -> assembly -> C -> DSLs). I believe multi-layer neural networks are also a prime example of such a system.
>Cargill and its ilk exist, because we changed the rules to make it easier for them to do this.

Changed how? Globalization took off 500 years ago and the rules seem to have changed for the better during that time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
What Is Posix? Richard Stallman Explains
Juniper Commitment to Open Source Software
Not for online, for physical purchases. Another fundamental/SHOCKING difference between Europe vs USA is that when you pay with your card in a restaurant in Europe, the waiter brings the POS over to you, while in the USA the waiter disappears with everyone's cards for 5mins ;)

Not good security is it? They can take their time to scan/photograph the cards etc, while in Europe the card's details are for seconds and right in front of you.
If the goal is to acquire a skill, it's about deliberate practice... I have to come up with a project I want to do, make sure I have energy for it, set time aside for some days, and take a step forward each day (or each other day..)

If the goal is to acquire new knowledge and explore new fields, setting 1h aside each day to read (and study/highlight) non-fiction books works very well for me. I am very strict about this, almost like a second job. For me, it's about acquiring and digesting knowledge gradually. More than 1h a day does not work for me.

Hope this helps!
"of a reputation for being a He-Man Woman Haters' club"

This is wrong and revisionist to boot. You're projecting your own biases or poor experiences on an entire industry.

Management looks down on programmers because they are not management. When one has real power and status it's easy to look down on others.
I know this has been discussed previously about a month ago[0], but I hope allowed for discussion again so soon given that it is now exactly 50 years ago.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193118
Being hypocritical actually often means you are wrong... or more so that the listener is wrong in entertaining the hypocritical thoughts. That's because hypocrisy is often a form of manipulation. A method of distraction, pointing out one issue elsewhere so that the listeners look away. For the listeners, it means they might lose sight of the true opportunities, so it could be an opportunity cost loss. A good hypocritical manipulation would need to distract the listeners in a plausible way, so maybe there is a point..., but we'd be wrong to let ourselves be distracted by it. (Not saying this is the case here, just that maybe it is, I don't know)
This is also why the protection of supply chains and international trade is essential. The cause of the Dark Ages was the collapse of the security surrounding the Roman road network, making trade hazardous, and subsequent reversion to local production of everything resulting in the loss of technological prowess.

In our current economy, that reversion would be even more painful. In the short term, as much as I hate the US military, their "freedom of navigation" guarantees are essential. In the long term, every nation/bloc should make sure it has the materials to re-bootstrap if necessary.

Here in Korea, we just had to scramble because Japan decided to limit photoresist and high-purity HF exports. I count the scramble as a good thing for national self-sufficiency.

My apologies for going way off topic.
untested hypothesis: binaural speech, overlap spoken words in time, but space them out over both ears
Just don't rush it, and enjoy the experience. You won't be able to read every book in existence anyway.
> It's strange then that most of these games aren't that interesting.

Most dont earn money. It is winner takes all market.

> Who are the players of these that make up the new class of gamers?

I am. A while ago I ditched "traditional" games entirely and are not coming back, ever. I played only mobile games after. Through it is less so now, I did not ditched them and are willing to continue playing them (unlike traditional that I have decided to not play again).
I personally just learn to enjoy it. Listening at 1.3x max.
Yes, the real open web is a magical place of rainbows, unicorns, and developers surviving on the power of friendship.
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The logic is really not too complicated. China is using AI to spy on citizens -- Google is creating and freely publishing state of the art versions of this AI. It's pretty clear that there is a worry here.
None of that is necessary. I built a working electric motor in cub scouts using several feet of wire, tape, some iron nails, some sheet metal cut from tin cans, a wood board to mount it on, and a battery.

Tools required: tin snips and a hammer.

A battery can be made from a jar, lemon juice, and two electrodes.

Believe me, as an 8 year old, my skills were limited to using a hammer to mash my thumb with. :-)

Electromagnets substituted for magnets, and bearings were a dent in the sheet metal that the point of a nail sat in and turned. Simple and effective.

Once you showed this to a medieval craftsman, they could reproduce it and start improving it.
The only cable issue I've run into is that there are cheap MicroUSB to type-C adapters that are sold without a necessary 56Kohm resistor, which limits its functionality. It won't charge at high speed and it also prevents type-C devices from using OTG mode to talk to accessories like flash drives, mice, and cameras. There are also a few quirky combinations, like the fact a OnePlus Dash charger will absolutely refuse to provide power to a Switch while most phone chargers will power the handheld portion just fine if not the dock. A little too well in fact, as I had a RAVPower "40W 3A" car charger melt while using it to power a running Switch in the car.
That too. I'm increasingly strongly of the belief that ensuring the stability of what we have now is the most important thing. We can keep fixing things incrementally, but if we break our civilization now, we condemn the next couple dozen or more generations to medieval life on a severely damaged planet.

That's why it pains me when I see activists crying for correcting the wrongs at all costs, "justice" at the cost of "order". It's ultimately a self-destructive approach that's akin to cutting off the branch you're sitting on, after first setting it on fire.
What does MapReduce have to do with the rest of your post? MapReduce is used in distributed computing - I thought shooters were basically always single servers to keep the lag reasonable.

(I see two flagged posts asking the same question)
Ask HN: Should I invest time into learning a terminal-based workflow?
I currently run Linux and do most things on the command line, except web browsing (Firefox), chat, email (Thunderbird), and text editing (vscode).

I've seen some people do everything in the terminal. Should I learn vim or emacs? Use a TUI email client? Uuse TUI chat clients? Why?

It will probably be a long time till I'll have another opportunity to invest time into something like this.
This goes for a toss when correlated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
A broken cpu might produce a correct answer but you shouldn't trust it.
Hypocrites are not trustworthy even when they are right.
Spectre Mitigation Performance Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen 3700X/3900X Against Intel
How is one more real than another? Shadow from the Moon falls on Earth - you get solar eclipse. Shadow from Earth falls on the Moon - you get lunar eclipse. It's all relative (consider for example observer on the Moon).
It’s different because the DBI wouldn’t return an object for a nullable table record. Which is what we are specifically talking about. Sure other parts of your code might fail if you’re trying to use a scalar as an object (or such like) but that would consistently fail regardless of nullable types on the database.

So I’m not going to argue that Perl doesn’t also have its own hidden traps (a great many of them in fact) nor that it’s interpretation of OOP isn’t terrible but the scope of this discussion was about nullable types and not anything else you now want to draw into the argument.
You can't call your cable a USB cable without getting it certified, their IP is protected. Does your average Aliexpress seller care, no. The comment above theorizes making non certified cables not work, which for a passive cable is not going to happen, but with active USB C cables could be a possibility.
Thanks. So it really has to do with Google's / Youtube H.264 implementation rather than the codec in itself.
Why are you in such a rush? Relax and enjoy the experience. Would you go to an opera or play and then ask them to rattle through it as quickly as possible so you can get out again?
Not OP, but I'm guessing in the same sense that communist activists used to (still are?) be considered treasonous. Like any active promotion and support against a free democracy and towards another means of organizing society, so fascism, dictatorship, feudal, communist, etc., could be seen as treasonous in a way.
Why did you stop using vim?
Yes it is, it's just the start of it is a wall of long descriptive convoluted sentences which feels very off putting to modern sensibilities.
I looked it up, people knew how to make wire then. From that you could build a working telegraph system, even a telephone system, with what was available at the time.
No need to overthink this.

There’s really no point in designing additional failsafes into a launch vehicle when it disintegrates which can happen for a variety of reasons beyond anyone’s control — RUD is really just an euphemism for an explosion.
For such a small price drop wouldn't it be better to buy a used 2018 then?

Better specs for cheaper...
Alright, thanks for sharing.

Feel free to join the upcoming launch list: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/2aud-io
It's one thing that I love to get a hold of from the BBC, things like the HHGTTG radio play and others are just fantastic. I'm not fully aware of a lot of others but there's some podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale and the other productions that the group does that are also wonderful. I think that's where a lot of those kinds of things have ended up because it can reach a much larger audience and is easier to fund because of that (from ads and from sales and donations depending on how they do it).
I think tramp is the only one of those for which vscode has an equivalent.
actually, i like "Michael A. Hiltzik’s Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887309895/) much better than the wizards book.

it is quite a long read, but is very good.
In physics courses, it's pretty clear that perfect balls and frictionless planes aren't actually real. OTOH, I recently had a debate with an economist that nearly insulted me because I doubted that infinite GDP growth was possible in a finite world; you "simply" need to infinitely enhance value of goods and services, which is perfectly possible because it hasn't been proved impossible. Plus it's taught in Econ 101, so how stupid should I be to doubt such a little thing?
So are a lot of other people. We are in yet another AI bubble. It is far, FAR from the first, and will not be the last. Thiel is just yet again trying to paint the ordinary, boring daily activities of his ideological opponents as somehow bad and use the military-industrial complex and national security apparatus of a country he defected from to try and violently suppress them. Another right-wing terrorist isn't news and we should stop giving their insane ramblings coverage.
Where the idea came that anyone needs PhD in psychology to be motivational speaker? Many if not most successful ones don't even have basic degree.
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James is a fantastic person and an excellent teacher. Jimmy, if you're reading the comments, hello and thank you!
> URI not very RESTful
> Your URI does not explain whats going on, simple like that.

In REST, URIs aren't expected to carry meaningful data, the context in which links are presented conveys the information about what the link is doing, the URI isn't required to do that and can be an opaque identifier (you might use a URI pattern that provides information in the URI for various other reasons, but it has nothing to with being RESTful, and relying on the URI as the main carrier of information is definitely not RESTful.)

> Hurting Idempotency
> No matter how many times you call GET on the same resource, the response should always be the same and no change in application state should occur.

Idempotence is defined in terms of application state requested by the call, not results; DELETE is by definition idempotent, but the definition of idepomtence is such that whether you return a 200, 404, or 410 on a subsequent DELETE, idempotence is preserved.
https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el is really good.
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