skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>whether it is better to let tree grows on a parcel, or cut grass regularly and let it compost, adding biomass to it.

Of those two options, trees. Compost does not sequester carbon in and of itself. That's a wishful thinking myth that is based on a lack of understanding of soil. Compost is organic matter, in various stages of life, death and decay. We want soil to have more organic matter. So people assumed adding compost to dirt would accomplish this. It does not. The organic matter is decomposed into CO2 and returns to the atmosphere. We need to increase STABLE organic matter in the soil, and compost does not do that simply by adding it to dirt. The only thing that creates stable organic matter is microbes living in the rhizosphere in symbiosis with plants. In order to increase soil SOM, we need more root mass. The way compost can help is to plant a forest or meadow and keep soaking it in compost tea so that the roots get deeper and deeper, expanding the rhizosphere and the depth of the soil. Normal roots will only grow as deep as there are symbiotic microbes, and yet those microbes will only live where there are roots, so there's a catch-22. We can use the microbes in compost, dissolved into water as compost tea, to get microbes deeper than the roots, so the roots go deeper, and then keep doing that. There's people with grass that has 20 foot deep roots from doing this.
I once got some great feedback via the HR person, and gave them some good feedback as well. (I think I might have initiated, maybe that made the difference?) But yeah, it's extremely rare, and I think partly for liability reasons.
Journalists at quality publications (Economist, NYT, AP) still are independent, at least in the sense that they are not accepting bribes from Epstein or the oil industry etc.

The linked site has all the markers of being untrustworthy: conspiratorial headlines ending in "What's really going on"; A fascination with cryptocurrencies; Incessant calls for donations, the name, etc.

FWIW the Epstein angle – that he is a Mossad agent – isn't "buried" by the mainstream media. I have seen this theory mentioned. It is just not featured prominently because there is no substantive evidence for it. It's just a Deus Ex Machina that could conveniently explain the dereliction of duty of the criminal justice system in the case.

Journalists never were supposed to be "activists", except for some universally accepted concepts such as democracy and transparency. There is a memorable scene in a documentation of the NYT called "Page One", where Brian Stelter is filmed asking Assange if he considers himselself a journalist or an activist.

What has changed are the widely-shared "assumptions". It's become a marker of one's smartitude to rail against "mainstream" journalism.
Drug companies might stop selling in canada entirely to protect US profits.
None of this is about saving money. If it were we would be addressing the biggest sources of waste first. These committees are often the only means by which people with competency in the relevant area get put in the room when decisions are made. Cutting back on them is like skipping birth control to save money.
Decomposition. Organisms that feed on the dead tree consume the sugars and O2 and make CO2.
> It seems like the whole Epstein thing was an elaborate professional blackmail operation intended to ensnare the rich and powerful. But who was really behind it, who was really bankrolling Epstein?

Is there any doubt at this point? It was Mossad. It couldn't have been an American agency, the fallout would be too great.

Edit: This has been suspected as early as 1992. This is not pizzagate/qanon bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ch7bnm/the_myst...
Americans definitely keep emergency cash in savings accounts or at the worst, money market accounts. I doubt "Americans" as a generalized entity even have investment accounts, outside of whatever tax advantaged account employer offers.

By and large, "Americans" probably just don't have sufficient cash flow to create a decent emergency fund, and/or they lack the discipline.

I would hope that higher earners and higher educated are trying to keep at least 6 months of highly liquid assets available, i.e. cash in savings accounts or money market funds.
I’m from Europe and would similarly call bs. Literally everyone I know can afford a one week vacation. And that includes a couple on social services one friend who’s on long term sick leave and a homeless friend.... but I live in a bubble on the far right hand of the chart; Denmark, not in Romania or Greece, so my personal experience isn’t that telling. That said I do think they are artificially pushing the numbers higher by including 16 year olds. For jobless teens it’s obvious they “couldn’t afford” vacation, but again every teen I know travels with their parents paying. I think 10% being unable to travel in Denmark is extremely overshooting it. It’s more likely less than 2% in the extreme scenario. As I said I know unemployed and homeless people who still have enough to travel.
This is why large companies need to be split at some point -- a $x billion market is enough to sustain a great company, but a $100x billion company will try hard to ignore it.
I don't quite understand this attitude. Sure there are inefficiencies but the end result is still often better and faster service than in similar offices in other places of the world.

Germany for instance, if city hall in Berlin had to deal with the same number of cases per day that city halls in Tokyo have to deal with they would conpletely shut down.
Also relevant: https://www.zompist.com/kitlong.html
For the record, lemonade and hippo both use stripe.
Increasing housing density should also include more commercial locations, so you don't need to drive as far. For example, in a denser area, grocery stores are geographically closer.
Recently, PhRMA has been buying a bunch of promoted tweets in my twitter feed claiming that 10% of drugs outside of the US are counterfeit. I'm sure the timing is completely coincidental.
you don't wait in traffic, you are traffic.
The trolley extension to UTC will juice a lot of this kind of development.

Maybe this is where the city thinks the scooters will ultimately fit in.
Question, if Canadian drugs are finally OK, why not Indian or anybody's else drugs for that matter?

In any normal country private importation of whatever you want not explicitly prohibited is not a state's f*ing business.
> This is not an overburdened Electron app

I was kind of hoping it was a (carefully made) Electron app, so I could use it on Windows.
You've made my point. It may not incur a personal cost at the time of use, but it incurs a cost regardless.

I have no problem understanding, I am the subject of the article. I have medical debt, and I would prefer a public healthcare system to one that charges consumers thousands for a single ambulance ride.

They call it public or socialized healthcare in nations where it is instituted. There is no such thing as "free healthcare" because workers need to be paid and supplies need to be purchased. Many conservatives will conflate "free" with "undeserved". And yes, personal transport costs add up when you are in that state and every dollar counts. It is deceptive to call something free when it actually costs a lot of money.
While I was able to intuit the the Y axis was FPS, it's not wholly obvious. Labeling the graph (or at the very least, just that axis) would help.
Conceptually it's the same reason it's far easier for Trump to use executive orders to go after healthcare prices & transparency, than to go through Congress and spend years battling lobbyists only to get nowhere (bought & paid for Congress members will sabotage the efforts, or otherwise dilute it to nothing).

People understandably dislike Trump. His biggest legacy is actually not going to be his obnoxious personality however. It's going to be that he has unleashed the executive order as an acceptable method of action in combating eg the ridiculous US healthcare system. Just wait until the next Democrat is in the White House. If you're big pharma or big healthcare, you better put on your seat belt.
Being snarky to someone who is giving cc and stating how they want to give your product a try is a sure fire way to not make me want to give it a try
The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release
A restricted port of a language isn't the same thing as the full language. On a Raspberry Pi, you have access to POSIX, system libraries, filesystems, package managers, etc...

μPython is fine, but typically a programming language is about more than just the language.
I Should Be Allowed to Leave Men Out of My Studies
You stated that it's "because everything is so spread out". So the way to fix that is to build new stuff densely. It won't change overnight but you would need to start somewhere. You can't take the status quo as an inevitability.
Kind of hoping UXKit sticks a fork in RN, myself. (just my opinion)
Nope. Just trying to understand the facts. I know several people on ACA plans, and I do not believe your experience is representative of the majority. Nevertheless, my comments aren't targeted at you. I maintain that half the median income can vary a great deal in quality of life between different countries.
Maybe sounds too much like spouting from the climate change denier camp?

Which I am the opposite of.

There are a lot of flower & daisy soft solutions to C02.

Drive to the suburban forest in your SUV, plant 100 trees that will inevitably be cut down long before they have a carbon negative impact, come home and run your AC.

You're still running 1000/1 in negative C02 balance.

Vs finds ways to dramatically cut use, double down on investigative hard solutions like nuclear and major infrastructure projects like mass transport, car banning, new taxation on major freight (sea and road) to force efficiency adoption etc.

Lots of hard solutions are readily available to solving the problem, but by definition they're hard.
I am not assuming any absolutes. Gold just currently happens to be a marketable commodity with a long history of stability—far more so than promises of labor. Obviously that could change. If you don't care for gold, substitute any other marketable commodity.

Gold could lose all value if everyone, including the owner, stopped demanding it, including for industrial use and jewelry. There is no precedent for such an event but it is indeed a possibility. A promise of labor, on the other hand, can lose all value if just one particular person chooses to renege on the agreement or is rendered unable to fulfill the IOU. That sort of thing happens all the time.
Yeah, this part:
"
We have implemented a system taking a wholly
different approach that we call “slim binaries.” The
object files in our system do not really contain native
code for any particular processor at all, but a highly
compact, architecture-neutral intermediate program
representation
"

is basically the definition of Java byte code. Wikipedia search of the author seems to say he came up with it first, though:
"
His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Code Generation On-The-Fly: A Key To Portable Software"[11] proposed to make software portable among different target computer architectures by way of using on-the-fly compilation from a compressed intermediate data structure at load time. Two years later, the Java programming language and system were launched and took this idea mainstream, albeit using the term "just-in-time compilation" instead of the term "on-the-fly compilation" that Franz had used.
"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franz
Two reasons:

* My account is very old and I'd like to have it back for that reason alone.

* I don't know what would happen if I created another one without first finding out why my previous one was disabled.
Openvpn takes some work to setup, but it works over proxies very very well. I can vpn into my cloud vm over the corporate squid based proxy (barracuda and plain squid) from my linux desktop, over port 443. But yes, things could be much more simple to setup for the average user, it shouldnt take hours to lean configs and setup.
Canada doesn't get lower prices because they can import drugs as individuals. They get such low prices because the Canadian government is the insurance for the whole country and has the negotiating power to actually get lower prices out of drug companies. Medicare part D in the US can't even actually negotiate for lower prices in the US!

Allowing import from Canada is just a bandaid to make it seem like they're doing something about the actual problem and will only work as long as we assume the supply of Canadian drugs can absorb both it's own demand and the US demand.
I like the emergence of these cheap, fun, single function computing devices. Sure, it is useful to have a smartphone that does everything, but that doesn't help develop your internal map of reality in the same way as things like this do.

Ubuiquity can only be stretched so far in a single tool before the benefit you derive from adding yet another feature is outweighed by it becoming very slightly worse at everything else it does. Smartphones are great, but as a backup computing device, in much the same way keyring multitools are. And the best of them are still measurably worse than the best non-smartphones at actually being mobile phones.
> if you have no money, and no savings, how are you going to move?

If you have no money, and no savings, you probably have nearly no stuff too. That means, if you can get a days work at minimum wage, you can afford the cheapest bus trip to almost anywhere on the same continent.

If you want less risk, and can get 3 days work at minimum wage, you can afford a return bus trip incase you can't find work at the destination.

People don't move because they don't want to lose friends and family, not because they can't afford to.
Yes, this is a well designed system that letting the "poors pay for riches". All the customers pay for the system, and only high incomes can easily use the benefit.
There simply aren't medical facilities in a lot of remote / regional Canada. If you need a fairly complex or specialized surgery you're essentially going to a big city or regional hub.

Keep in mind that Canada may be huge, but has less people than California, and most of them are concentrated in a handful of places.

Anecdotal: my wife's wait for an orthopedic surgeon was 3 days... but was in a city 1.5 hours away.
Preferably in a state with no state income tax: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0210/7-states-wi...
I think number fudging goes on all the time, China probably a little bit worse, but then in the end the number has to come from somewhere. It's easy to fudge a single year worth of data but then it gets progressively harder. So while we should take all numbers with a grain of salt, the long term number will eventually reflect reality.
Strictly speaking, this is not true. The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board does set prices based on comparable prices in other countries, but the actual purchasing happens by a wide variety of public and private payers. Most working Canadians have private insurance that covers pharmaceuticals, and each province maintains its own separate drug insurance scheme for low-income citizens.

In response, pharmaceutical companies inflate prices of new medications, then negotiate confidential deals that make it difficult to get a realistic comparison for the purpose of setting prices. Because we don't actually have a single payer for pharmaceuticals (there is no national pharmacare program), this program fails at price discovery, since the review board does not go about the actual purchasing of said drugs.

The net result is that Canada has the 3rd-highest per capita drug spend in the world (Switzerland is #2).
This looks to me like the main change is to make it easier to create mutexes with timeouts.

Isn’t a mutex timing out an indication that:

a) a lock wasn’t needed in the first place or

b) the program is incorrect?

It feels more like they just want the api to match win32 better but most of the multithreaded programming I’ve done lately has just used go’s channels so I totally could be missing something.
I didn't downvote, but I suspect those counterpoints are second-order and very minor compared to the sequestration rates of a tree itself. I can't bring myself to believe that because of those counterpoints, every new tree on average sequesters zero carbon. The important stat is on average, how much carbon does each new tree sequester; that's what drives the models.
Of course I did.

How do you expect one determines an area to be low-risk? To do so requires assessment from all stakeholders who could deem it not to be low-risk.
Not snarky at all, thank you for considering our product!
Once upon a time, yes, I think that was the perception of journalism. Activists in the sense they sought to expose the public to interesting information for the good of transparency.
It doesn't work when wearing a balaclava, motorcycle helmet or ski googles, which is slightly annoying, but in those cases you'll likely wear gloves anyway. Sunglasses work fine for me.
The price ($2,500+) seemed very high. I was wondering if there are specific technical issues that required the bump up in pricing.
To be clear, this is a report by Joëlle Gergis, an IPCC contributor, one of Australia's expert contributors to the IPCC. She is reporting on new interim developments on the IPCC's simulations across Europe, Canada, the US and other modelling centres.

Basically, the last models and sims were run in 2013 and reported in 2015. They have since been updated (and will be officially reported in 2021).

As we have updated our scientific models, it looks like the old ones were quite optimistic. Seems very newsworthy.
Thanks for the insight!

This is probably not really in your area of expertise, but do you know why they can't design a system to pick up everything larger than a sparrow and going faster than 50 mph? What about wartime makes this harder? Thanks much.
As a total PI noob, it's great to see such clear and simple to follow instructions for something actually practical. Also liked the specific recommendations for the case and such - it would be really easy for someone to replicate.

Been meaning to get a PI and do something with it for years!
Calculus Series: The Exponent Rule for Derivatives
One possibility is they were stolen by an intelligence agency - if so you'll probably never hear about the investigation
They can change their radar signature since the true signature isn't much of anything. They can mimic the signature of other planes and even move the signature making it seem like the spoofed aircraft is closer or further away than it really is. If you move the spoofed signature much closer to a radar installation, they might fire off a missile from another location that was previously hidden. Make the spoofed signature large enough and they may not see the anti-radiation missile heading towards them. There are also expendable versions of this tech that can be dropped from a plane like chaff, further increasing the distance between the spoofed signature and the true one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio_frequency_memory

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16726118...

https://www.c4isrnet.com/electronic-warfare/2019/05/15/can-n...
Regarding health care in practice what has actually been accomplished by said executive order? Seems extremely likely to be a whole lot of nothing.
This is actually not true. Healthcare is a provincial matter in Canada, not a federal one, and there is no broad-based pharmacare program. Many Canadians have private insurance covering the cost of pharmaceuticals.
Congrats on funding round, we need more options in this space. I'm a Neo user today, and I've said before that while I don't think most people will switch to graph databases, at some point I do think most new projects will use them. I chose Neo precisely because of py2neo.

The decision to adapt GraphQL instead of supporting Cypher, what would you say were the big trade offs?

As a startup, your price point is in the 20k/y ballpark, but GrapheneDB/Neo comes in a lot lower. What would I get for paying that much more?

I find that the audience for something that operates at the level of abstraction that a graph does tends to be different than the user who makes decisions based on lower-level features. e.g. design level problems vs. optimization problems.

Would you say more that you can get Mongo and Redis (+redisgraph) users to switch to Dgraph, or instead more that the main customers for graph databases are still in school right now and deciding what tech skills will underpin their careers?

Fascinating space and looking forward to trying the product.
I believe helath care is an issue, like housing, that needs especial attention from additional local,state, and federal policies
Done.

And on reflection, I get that what I'm talking about isn't all that uncommon. Just torture, hanging, decapitation, cannibalism, etc. Some of my favorite fiction features all of that. Burroughs, Abercrombie, Morgan, Stover, and lots of older stuff.

But still, mixing that with S&M disturbs me.
Overpopulation, Not Climate Change, Caused California’s Water Crisis
> The popular news heading you see about Americans not having enough savings are...meaningless.

How do you figure?
"Data can be resynchronized" - yeah, that means you send it again. Not exactly once.

"Exactly once semantics" is semantics. It's at least once with idempotency, which may or may not be able to be guaranteed on the part of the system depending on actual implementation details which the marketing fluff will invariably leave out if they're saying "exactly once". And that's a major problem when relying on such 'semantics'.
We've gotta get past the argument pattern of "don't reduce consumption; sequester!" and "don't sequester; reduce consumption!" A lot of both are needed.

I agree with the point that planting 100 trees should not leave anyone feeling they've done their part. Repeating the math until we're blue in the face is what helps there I guess.
Ah I see. This bill seems to only deal with social media / entertainment though (Facebook, YouTube), (unfortunately) not with those super-annoying autoplaying videos on news websites.
Even though the report seems speculative, a second study in the past/future with the same yard-stick paints a better picture.

2013: 39.5%

2018: 28.3%

That's an impressive circulation of money.
>Today's Japan does not smile upon children. If you take your kids to a restaurant, or take them on the train, or really try to do anything with them in public, then grit your teeth.

Maybe very small children. But in Japan, kids are pushed to walk themselves to school around 7 years old or so. Here in the US, parents would be arrested for that, and in a lot of places kids aren't allowed to be outside unsupervised at all.

>That's not easy in America either, but not impossible like Japan. It would be a massive shame for her mind and education to go to waste.

Aren't there a fair number of foreign companies now operating in Japan? This might be a possible solution to this for some people.

>Compared to my in-laws in Japan, my parents here in the US are younger, more able, and far more supportive in general. We're getting way more help with our kids here than we would in Japan.

I thought it was much more common in Asian cultures for grandparents to help with the kids. In fact, looking at many of the home plans in Japan, I noticed that many houses are specifically designed so that a younger couple with kids can live with their parents; the parents get their own floor or side of the house, to provide some privacy to both sides, but it's very easy to go from one side to the other. In America, people just don't live near their parents much any more because people (I'm talking college-educated people here, like the HN crowd) move around the country so much for work.
Dolphin mom adopts whale calf – a first
So... people DON'T have savings, but they can travel, so there's really nothing to worry about.