skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the aim is to sequester carbon, then planting trees seems to be only half the solution. We also need to prevent the captured carbon reentering the atmosphere by combustion or decay. It seems to me that it would be beneficial to landfill as much wood as possible to capture the carbon underground and limit aerobic decay, and rather than recycling wood products, sustainably harvest as much new wood as possible. In this case, the best place to plant a tree would be where it could be most economically lumbered, and the best kind of tree would be that most useful for industry.
Depressing to see reviewers waste review bandwidth bringing up issues such as "wasted newline" and "incorrect comment format". Do kernel developers not use auto-formatters?
The fire phone would have succeeded if it was a solid android device on one side, and a solid kindle screen e-book reading device with email on the other side.

This form factor would be revolutionary for many people, and amazon could pull it off.
Hmmm, I think you might actually be right, in terms of how long it takes to replace all existing cars.

In the US, it looks like the average passenger car is 11.6 years old. Since that's the average, even optimistically, there are probably a LOT of 15+ year old cars on the road.

So you probably need to have all new cars sold in the US be electric within 5 years to have a more-or-less complete turnover within 20 years.

(The figures for non-pickup trucks are even worse, with 17 years being the AVERAGE.)
The lack of global insurance policy for actual emergencies is a crime of this insurance system you have in the US.

This is where the government is supposed to step in. Nobody is in any position to predict where they will be taken for emergency care, and copays for random amounts is essentially ransom.
The Mittelstand’s corporate success comes at a cost
ESP32 can run μPython which should make it quite a bit easier for those that know some high level programming language. For me using an ESP32 seems like the more reliable, secure, easier and faster solution but people have their preferences and I relate to it being a bit scary at first.
How do the people you know who have incomes of 0 afford a week holiday?
Why do you use integers to represent monetary values? It seems like $600 is represented as 60000. Or is that a typo?
What does afford mean in this context? Does it mean people self-report that they can't afford to go on holiday or does it mean they did not go last time or is it a function of disposable income?

Without knowing the methodology this statistic isn't really that useful at all.
Alternatively, more people living by public transit makes it easier to invest more in and develop better public transit.
Trolls and bots are disrupting social media – here’s how AI can stop them
That does sound like a pretty insane recurring cost. Doesn't seem like there's any need for really valuable art that requires insurance when murals, photos and reproductions of the same nice art would do it. Hopefully they just replaced that all with something much cheaper.
Spending a week in a hotel in Croatia doesn't seem quite so cheap if your salary is paid in Croatia, which is why although the press release doesn't qualify "holiday" it does provide a country by country breakdown indicating that most Romanians and Croatians and very few Swedes feel priced out of an annual holiday. Agreed that your own index sounds like it would be useful data for other reasons.

The more notable thing is just how sharp the downward trend in the number of people saying they were unable to afford a holiday has been.
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKMA...
> Most health insurance has a profit margin in the vicinity of 10%. They introduce many problems into the healthcare market, but if you think they’re the reason people can’t afford healthcare, you are mistaken.

People see a lot of money flowing into insurers and hear about large profit numbers. That makes it feel like they're the obvious problem.
I'm not claiming it's unmaintained. I'm saying that the maintainer is not active. You yourself mention elsewhere in this thread that you have little free time to maintain squashfs, so that seems fair.

No axe to grind; it's a cool project and that's why we decided to use it. Thanks for your work on it, and we'll send patches if/when we have them :)
An independent activist journalist has been digging into the case and has come up with some interesting and alarming connections and history. Worth a read: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2019/07/08/the-jeffrey-epstein...
Wine is a native program, so yes. But it is a niche facility that Wine benefits from, and other programs that handle a lot of locks/queues also do, but may not directly benefit Linux native game performance.
Nobody forces you to use Visual Studio Code, vim and emacs are still around.

As VSC is vastly successful, the analogy with manufacturing or gaming industry obviously does not hold: the software development 'industry' does not only take a good look at VSC, it has already accepted it as viable product.

So Microsoft is right in investing into great IDE features rather than reducing VSCs resource footprint.

I assume that similar arguments can be made for every popular Electron-based application.
Question to ask is why they're only distancing themselves now?
The S400s you're referrint to are the ones that Turkey just bought from Russia (and which caused all the mess with Trump not being happy about it), right?
But why? You don't know how many decimals you'll need in advance - three digits isn't enough for Windows build number, for example.
They would probably create them less, but suggesting people to sometimes hand-craft HTML tags for less resource usage and more speed isn't bad, is it?
Those costs are lowering with automation, green energy/power, and autonomous transportation.
That's a good point about advisories. All the findings are public eventually in the form of non-hidden bug reports, but not all may have advisories issued. Doubly so if the finding happens before the affected code had first shipped in a release (so buggy code gets checked in, then internal testing finds a security bug in it before it ships, and that bug is fixed).
The Disneyland-like software companies you describe are that way because they must signal success, coolness, etc in order to attract employees to hire, investors to write checks, customers to sign up, etc. In another word, it’s a cost of doing business.

Hospitals (I’m assuming you’re describing public European hospitals) aren’t subject to those pressures - instead, they have to fight for the tiniest bit of budget to replace/fix things that should have been replaced years ago, or to hire enough staff.

If you go to fancy private American hospitals, you will also find that they have the latest TVs/trendy furniture/etc, because they have to signal to wealthy people that they are worth giving their money to.

When you look at how inflated costs are for the latter, I’m not sure it’s a desirable thing.
In Lewisham there is a group of volunteers doing excellent work planting street trees (Street Trees for Living - https://brockleystreettrees.blogspot.com/p/welcome2.html)

They work with the council and have organised the planting & maintenance of over 600 trees since 2012 (including the lovely Himalayan Birch outside my house which I sponsored last year).

I have also helped out here and there and created a 'tree map' a few years ago which has information on all the publicly owned trees in the Borough - http://maps.catfordstreettrees.org.uk/ (I actually happen to currently be in the process of updating the map with new data)
That's true of most of the stats you see.

For example looking at incomes. If you're a college kid making $5K over the summer, you're counted as being below the poverty level.
Congrats, you just made that password unusable…
...Only if there is a connection to Trump. The media didn't care about this till the connection to a Trump cabinet secretary. Certainly if Hillary were president Epstein would be out and free as a bird and probably frequently visiting his pal the "first husband" Bill in the White House.
Most of the people who go on sea voyages to this side of Antarctica are retirees (because it's expensive and you need five or six weeks of free time), and they do perfectly well for themselves. The physically hardest thing about modern Antarctic travel is Zodiac landings.

My issue with bringing kids is more about their inability to consensually weigh the risks than their physical capacity.
Some years ago I thought so too. Now I'm just used to it.
I thought this was going to be some typical blogspam type article, but I was wrong.

I really enjoyed this piece - highly recommended.
We've realized that years ago..that's why we launched: https://POPteam.io

There is no better feeling than seeing all those boring spiritually sterile hallways magically transform into a kaleidoscope of humanity.
I come at this from a slightly different angle. I’m not a socialist, I’m a true believing dyed in the will capitalist, but still believe a robust social safety net including single payer health care is essential infrastructure for a healthy nation.

I cane to this fur the same reasons many other conservatives like me did in the UK in the inter-war years. To have a prosperous society we need to be able to defend ourselves effectively, and have a healthy educated work force that is fit for purpose. The fact is, centrally administered health care through national insurance, state education and a professional military are three essential pillars of a stable, safe and prosperous nation.

The US gets by simply by being huge and wealthy. Britain hasn’t got those advantages so we can’t scrape by as a society with cobbled together patch provision for these essentials. The world wars weeny a distant foreign adventure, they were existential crises that brought us to the brink. The same applies to the rest of Europe.

I hope the US can learn that lesson without going through such a dire experience.
Legally, you'd probably have to structure that as "contract to hire". Otherwise, "fire fast" is probably going to open you up to lawsuits. (You may win those lawsuits. They're still expensive.)
> The question was simple: why do gift cards have to expire? The answer that nobody wanted to say: because we don't want to leave money on the table.

My understanding from working on online game time / game bux cards (a little different from gift cards but not really) is that it makes the accounting much easier if your gift cards have an expiration date. Because you can't properly recognize the revenue until the gift card is used / expired, and if there is no expiration date, then you could potentially have revenue sitting around forever that you could never recognize. Terrible from an accounting / finance perspective. So it's not really greed it just makes things much easier to deal with and makes your books more sane.

That is my understanding anyways. I could be wrong.
There’s Too Much Damn Content, and Slick UX Design Is Making It Worse
Did you try reading any of the links people have added in this thread? Schools and government offices were closed. This was a big event that was planned for months. 10% participation sounds absolutely plausible if not lower than I'd expect.
Churn equals progress. Burn the infidel.
I think it's somewhat obvious that this is a native application from the screenshots, but that might just be me…
Oh jeeze. My employer obviously uses this book as well. We get these survey questions all the time and now I know where they came from.
I think you could deduce that no pieces would be of substantial value. No one would loan a valuable piece to a hospital knowing that it's likely going to be put in a public hallway and potentially touched or damaged many times a day.
Articles like this are interesting when compared to what the wealthy are doing with the world’s most inspiring art: keeping them locked away in port boxes to function as wealth management assets.

You would think we could find a way to improve the situation.
I think most people in the places that I frequent have very similar training on customs pertaining to personal property and ownership as I do, and that differences in how they act on that training is less to do with different customs and more to do with allowing yourself to shape your moral framework to match your desires rather than the other way around.
Tethered Human Things
I agree. Nobody is poor in Europe.
Valve's post suggests that they believe this to be the case, although they didn't explain the specific details.

> We think that if this feature (or an equivalent) was adopted upstream, we would achieve efficiency gains by adopting it in native massively-threaded applications such as Steam and the Source 2 engine.
I wasn't actually talking about people using Chrome.
I think the point in time that you see the LPs started being used as a political tool depends solely on how long you've been at Amazon and the level you're at.

Some people truly believe in the LPs. Some people truly believe they can be used to get ahead and justify whatever actions they want to do. I've never worked directly with Jeff, so I have no idea what his approach to them is.

The Fire Phone? That best analogy I've heard for it is that the Fire Phone is to Jeff as the "Homer" car is to Homer Simpson[0].

[0] https://imgur.com/a/o0Q6fw6 and https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
The blog post announcing this is quite informative: https://blog.dgraph.io/post/how-dgraph-labs-raised-series-a/
They are doing more than vscode/slack though, so it is understandable that lots of ram is needed.
Across major payment processors and subscription management systems like Stripe and through most of the stack, integers are used to represent how much to charge in the smallest currency unit. [1]

With that said, it's better not to reinvent the wheel here and follow the flow, and it's also the safer option— it's better to charge a customer $10 when you meant to charge them $1000, than it is to charge them $1000 when you meant to charge them $10.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/object#charge_object-amo...
119 Years Old and Winning Marathons–Or Not?
Unfortunately not much of a defense against bubbles. It depends more on how you are choosing the sample rather than how representative it is on 2 dimensions.

I personally know people over a wide range of wealth and income brackets across several continents, including unemployed; but I don't know anyone who is involuntarily poor, because none of my hobbies or social circles would bring me into contact with a person who was struggling to get by.
I need one of these, but showing my upcoming meetings. Then I need it to start blinking when I'm supposed to be somewhere besides my desk.
What part of the process I discussed requires a robot?
I did the same thing recently (bought a bunch of networking / wireless gear and only kept the best one) and I noticed that after the 3rd or 4th return they started charging me a small restocking fee. I think it was related to having too many returns in a short time period.
I believe most of it, but one thing that's got to be "oversold" is this:

> No defects present, thanks to the constant improvement.
http://www.biyubi.com/eng_ventajas.html

> without vulnerabilities
http://www.biyubi.com/eng_ciencia.html
Purely off the top of my head:

- Better fingerprinting resistance (AFAIK Firefox is the only browser currently uplifting Tor features).

- Tab containers. They're still reliant on extensions, but get past that and they're incredibly handy, even if you don't care about privacy at all. Tab containers allow you to have multiple different sessions running at the same time without switching profiles, so you can be logged into sites with multiple accounts at the same time. If you've ever used private browsing just so you can log into something twice, tab containers let you do that faster and more flexibly.

- Built-in screenshots. Yes, your OS already has this, but Firefox's screenshot tool is integrated into the DOM, so it lets you select a DOM container to screenshot, or screenshot the entire page, even if it's not all visible. It's a tiny feature that I regularly use, and I appreciate not needing to install another extension to get it.

- Better SVG performance. There are some parts of the browser rendering process that Firefox just does better than Chrome. There are some things it does worse, but my (subjective) experience has been Firefox is usually faster than Chrome at non-JS heavy tasks like browser repaints. Chrome is investing heavily into JS right now, Firefox is investing heavily into repaint/CSS performance.

- Keeping with that theme, Firefox dev tools have a bit of an edge when it comes to HTML/CSS editing (better rulers, font selection, Flexbox/Grid editing, stuff like that). Chrome dev tools are still better if you're doing heavy Javascript editing, but I prefer to debug CSS and do page layout in Firefox.

- Better defaults on small features like autoplay-blocking. Chrome allows videos on inter-site navigation to autoplay, Firefox doesn't. Chrome uses a behavioral algorithm to whitelist sites, Firefox doesn't. Just more sensible defaults in general. Chrome suffers from the same problem as a lot of Google products, where they're mostly sensible, but you'll occasionally run into really quirky design decisions that just seem like no one thought them through enough.

- I know you're not looking at the future, but it is almost certain that the Chrome Manifest V3 changes are going to go in for extensions in the near-ish future, and that happens Firefox will also be the best platform for Adblockers. I'm including that just because it's a relatively certain change that isn't very far off and that will have a very obvious effect on day-to-day browsing experience for a lot of people.

- Speaking of adblocking, if you're on Android, Firefox supports all of its desktop extensions, including ad blockers, which IMO is a killer feature -- extensions like UMatrix will save you a ton of mobile data. And if you're already using Firefox on Android, you might as well use it on the desktop as well so you can maintain the same extension-list or sync bookmarks between your devices.
> the £350m pledge is now shown to have been accurate.

Wut? It's today's news that the government has already spent £ 4 billions to brexit preparations, with the prospect of spending more from here to October and beyond. There won't be any "dividend" from brexit, let alone 350m a week.
Since this is a point-to-point tunnel, you can get by without assigning IP addresses to the tunnel endpoints and route by tun device instead. It saves some `ip addr` configuration and reduces two NAT (once on leaving local tun and once on the server) to just one NAT (on the server only).
Very true comment, "self-select themselves out", ie enterprise sales people want to make money, usually immediately, and not have to desperately work hard to close. If people aren't already BUYING, you have to be SELLING - these aren't the same thing. Most successful enterprise sales people are given a pipeline and simply facilitate the buying process - most are not hard closing.

1. You'll want to become much more visible, attend networking events and hone in on the right person. Don't just talk to irrelevant people, asks questions to filter out the wrong people, politely exchange cards and keep it moving - get to the right person and then have the lengthy conversation. BUT BE PREPARED, have a 20-30 second demo video ready on your phone, nail down your elevator pitch, etc and sell them on wanting to sell your product.

2. Demo your product at events, demo days, venture capital or investment events, contests, etc so that you get eye balls on your product. The person you want is either in the audience and will find you, or you'll get an even better unforeseen opportunity.

BUT all of this will take much longer than you think. Good luck!
13. In the last two years, has my salary increased more than my costs of living?
it's not about whether or not people _own_ a car, it's that they won't have to _use_ it every time they go out to do something
Honda Motor Company leaks database with 134M rows of employee computer data
Are you saying a poor American can go work at Burger King in Sweden? That's revelatory.
On my first gig as a freelancer, I had the misfortune to have such a non-paying (almost) nonexistent company as a client. Worked almost two months without getting paid. I almost abandoned freelancing after that.

Since then, I have a rule, that only failed me once: before working a month for a person, work a week or less, get paid.

There are smart scammers who are really devious but those I have met had all kind of pathological problems they were in denial with. I think that most scammers live in a fantasy world.

By forcing them to prove they have money, are ready to pay you and know how to make a bank transfer, you are pruning a lot of them.

Also, and especially in my case where I have several international clients, the "I dont understand the bank transfer got refused" excuse is very common (and sadly, very believable). Having worked through all the troubles of making a payment from their accounts to yours already sets expectations about normal delays.
I think the relevant distinction that should be made is that a bloated hardware project is only going to be seen and experienced by one person, whereas a bloated website is slow for all.
If it's so valuable, why are they living paycheck-to-paycheck?

I'd say that their skillset is defacto not valuable enough for their wellbeing.
I personally work out five days a week and have a skin care routine. But my comment still stands: female beauty is valued more highly than male beauty. I did not say male beauty wasn't valued - I'm saying it's valued less than female beauty.
YC, Alphabet: New Models for the Company of the 21st Century
Do you have money to spend on Promotion? Invest on (converting) Ads

Do you have no money to spend on Promotions? Get Creative with how you promote stuff. Reach out to Instagram/Twitter pages that post related to your niche and aren’t that big that they would like to charge you for it.

Get your friends, family to actively talk about you.

Reach out to anyone who buys from you your site and get as much info as possible. When you understand who your customers are, where are they coming from and why did they buy from you you will have the right amount of insights to get a gut feeling about what, where and how to get your next set of users.

Also reach out to people and ask for help, sometimes it’s all that it takes(as long as you value their time and be respectful) :)
A couple of questions from a civvie: does one physically separate the radar from the (manned) station using it so you only get borked cheapish equipment rather than dead people and expensive ground-based station wrecked? And isn't faking a few radar 'lights' a good way to use up the opposition aircraft's missiles? Naive I know but it's not my area.
>I've generally been opposed to the whole concept of animal "rights", as opposed to having laws that prevent humans from abusing animals, which I support. Animals having "rights" would seem to imply that we have a duty to protect animals in the wild, which we can't do, and, more importantly, don't want to do: many conservationists would be strongly opposed to us preventing predators from killing prey in the wild.

I recommend this paper:

https://was-research.org/writing-by-others/legal-personhood-...
40-60 hours for an interview process? Do people really do that?

For my current position, I had a half-hour phone interview, then a 2 hour in-person interview. My previous job was about the same.

For out of town interviews, I've had to fly out the evening before, then a whole day process, so maybe 30 hours total even if you count the time I spent asleep in a hotel. I have never had a process take more of my time than that.
Mind the sarcastic quotes in the title.
The Big Mac index is completely unrelated to savings in a country. You may not understand what these are telling people but that only makes them meaningless to you.