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I am lately thinking that we are assigning too less value to this fact. We all need oxygen and we should have enough forests to produce it and this means that we should globally subsidize forest keeping. It is not a single country problem. It is a global problem.
I am not excusing the statistic. I think people should be accurate. To me the correct statistic is just as compellingly.
5G is designed to enable the Internet of Things, not just to improve speed and watch videos.
This is per capita. It would make more sense to get total numbers in this context.
Why no one does same against all other countries? Why not make browser, which can by pass all blocks and etc? And why it's not default already?

All these news about Kazakhstan just feels like a farce. Go ahead and do same against China.
I don't disagree with you, but when you said "one should find a job they're good at", what you really saying is "find a job that pays a lot that you can also do well".

I don't think working a boring high paying unfulfilling job inherently makes one happier than "saving the world", but having financial security and good work/life balance is certainly superior to working long hours, living paycheck to paycheck, and flirting with poverty.
Being Fast or Getting Faster? (a.k.a. Build Momentum, Not Velocity)
Ha-ha-broke-your-leg wall would be a more accurate name.
Sure. But long term, the Sahara may green, and "replace" the Amazon. At this point, I'd worry more about the oceans.
I wonder if there were any issues with the STBY button being located where it is. It seems really risky place to have a off key right between other frequently used button.
GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my
The dark ages also saw a huge disparity in education between the East and the West.

Until the 15th century less than 5 people in Europe could do long division. For comparison, Aryabhatta discovered calculus in 5th century India and Madhava made large contributions in the 13th century (Newton/Leibniz were wrongly credited for similar work many years later).
> Had he implemented it directly in C he would be sending checks every day.

He used Pascal maybe not for the reasons you think. Remember it was the early 70s. If you actually look at the TeX source code, I'm pretty sure you won't find the kind of Pascal you envision.

Nowadays, Knuth does use C directly. (FWIW)
Simply have all citizens be able to inspect the process? Where I live the political parties generally take that role since they are the stakeholders and they can request recounts if they see anything weird going on.

And even though we do manual counting we get a preliminary election result the same night, simply by having adequately sized voting districts and then everything is recounted a couple of times for the final certified result.
The point is that in a stable rainforest the amount of biomass isn't growing, so you obviously do burn/decompose 100% of the newly created biomass - otherwise the amount of biomass would have grown. Carbon gets sequestered into the soil in cases where soil is being enriched and is "growing in size" (for example, when a previously barren place gets forested) but in a stable, centuries-old rainforest the soil amount really isn't increasing - so as much as gets sequestered, gets released by decomposition.

As the total biomass of insects isn't growing, the carbon they consume is balanced by the carbon released by decomposition of (otherwise) unconsumed insects; the same applies for animals up the food chain - if at the end of 2019 the total weight of insects and animals in the Amazon is not larger than at the end of 1919, then zero carbon has been sequestered in these insects and animals over a hundred years.
Anyone think that the end game of trump buying Greenland is to turn it into a "Escape from New York" type of internment camp for Illegals?
U.S. voting is extremely decentralized [0], with the procurement of machines procured at the state or even the county level. This mention of "U.S. Government Furnished Equipment" sounds like FUD.

[0] http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electio...

edit: The user's bio says he's on the "DARPA CHERI" team, which is in Cambridge? [0]
The domesday project is much more important IMHO for VHS and Beta captures, than for console captures. Consoles tend to have a stable timebase.

Tapes tend to, especially if copies were made tape-to-tape, be very jittery. These could be almost flawlessly fixed in the domesday software, much better than any TBC.

Since the capture is at the "almost RF" stage early in the tape player, the overall quality is very good too. There is the potential to view VHS in better quality than anyone has ever seen it, even back in the day.
Pretty simple answer really: money. It’s easy for browsers to get public support and brownie points “standing up to censorship” against a small country like Kazakhstan where they have almost nothing to lose. The browsers look like heroes, there are no real financial losses, and everyone is happy.
Wasn't there a second version of AlphaGo that was trained only by playing against itself without external input and turned out to be even better than the first version that was trained with external input?

Isn't that unsupervised learning?
I'm wondering whether another factor that might be at play is that as consultants they may not be at liberty to discuss that kind of detail. Barring that, it would be interesting to have Fowler sit in Ousterhout's class, take on an advanced problem and see what they come up with.
Risk free, until you buy drugs from "undercover" police who arrest you the second you pick up that soda can in the woods!

But for the dealer, it can be quite close to Risk free if they are careful enough.
Weren't a lot components RoHS-compliant intrinsically anyway, without any change in process whatsoever?
> Suppose that you have function that you know only returns fixnum, but isn't declared as such, and you use that result as the input to a function declared to only take fixnum then the compiler has to add runtime type checks.

If you know, you can declare it. You can drop a (declaim (ftype ...)) anywhere you want, it doesn't have to be next to the function. You can also declare it locally, near the call site. Finally, you can always use `the', as in (the fixnum (yourfunction ...)), which declares what the return value at a given point is going to be.

As 'juki said, when you add (declare (optimize (safety 0))), SBCL will happily drop runtime type checks within the scope of the declaration. You can do that in as small a scope as possible, even doing something like this:

(defun bar (y)
(let ((x (locally
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)))
(the fixnum (foo y)))))
x))

The reason SBCL will insert some runtime type checks without (safety 0), even when a function is globally declared to accept and return some values, is because in Lisp, you can't assume a declaration will forever stay in force. Your function that always return fixnum can be redefined at runtime to occasionally return strings.
> In 2018, he successfully led a campaign to force the University of Ghana to remove a statue of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

Standing at the empty plinth, he gave the Black Power salute, and called for the recognition of African heroes rather than a man who had once referred to black South Africans by a highly offensive racist slur - and had said that Indians were "infinitely superior" to black people.
I'm also now kind of doing the same thing. I left a high-paying job in NYC/SF and am now applying for remote jobs. The compensation for remote work looks like it'll technically be a paycut from my NYC/SF salary, but I think the freedom of being able to live where I want, work my own hours, and not have to deal with office bullshit will made it worth it - not to mention the cost savings from not giving away an extra #1-2k/month of your paycheck to NYC/SF landlords.
In fact, such lines were recreated without the help of GPS or flight: https://westerncourier.com/41241/news/students-recreate-nazc...
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https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data

I found this interesting if unsettling.
Mass Shooting Tracker
> over geological timeframes, the plant life they contain is the reason we have any oxygen to breath

About 1/2 of the oxygen produced is produced by Phytoplankton, which are not plants (though they are similar).

> And if the amazon currently amounts to about 20% of the plant life on earth now

The amazon accounts 16% of the photosynthesis on land.

> its not wrong to teach that it is doing 20% of the oxygen maintaining.

It is wrong. If you want to provide a nice round, reasonably accurate number you should use 10%.

> does not make a lie of the understanding and respect that forests are lungs of the planet.

Forests are important and and a significant part of the respiration of them planet, but they are less important than our oceans. Our oceans are the true lungs of the planet (edit: and they are not in great shape, atmospheric oxygen may not be an issue, but oxygenation of the ocean is more variable).
The satellite image looks slightly different from the Wikipedia image. In the satellite image you can clearly see an ear, and the man is looking to the left. In the wikipedia image, it seems as if the man is wearing a mask and looks to the right. The band over the head is not visible in the satellite image.
Anti-censorship Chrome extension removed for custom minification
mm. in santa clara, redwood city, san francisco and Los Angeles, Starbucks usually have few places to sit (compared to local coffee shops) - and are usually way busier (compared to local coffee shops) and usually don't offer mugs; they just have to-go cups (or bring your own mug) - while most of the nicer local places give you a mug by default if you say it's 'for here'

I mean, sure, they aren't 'to go only' - but they are impractical places to meet or hang out compared to most smaller coffee shops, just because they seem to have a much worse (or, I guess as an investor, better) ratio of customers to seats; a lot of time there are more people in line for coffee than there are tables.

I'm not saying they don't have seating at all, just that they seem to be optimized in a thoughtful way to sell as much coffee as possible, making them superior (if you are an investor) but inferior if you want a place to meet up with other people or hang out, when compared to the locally run and less-optimized coffee shops.
> people born in Roman Empire got Roman citizenship on Birth

I assume 'people' excluded slaves?
The maintainer says they have to pay for rent. Whether advertising in your open source project is good or not, wanting money to pay your landlord for rent isn't rent-seeking just because you saw the word rent in it. I'm assuming you hadn't heard of the term rent-seeking before and just read the two words and decided it must mean "looking for money to pay your rent".

Rent-seeking is a term with a specific definition [0] and "I need to pay my rent" isn't it. In simple terms, rent-seeking refers to the behavior of the landlord, not the behavior of a tenant. It may even be a term that applies to this situation, but the dev saying they need to pay their rent is entirely unrelated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
But democracy would also open up new ides to run the country that would create an even stronger economy. After all, it was the CCP ceding control ocer much of the economy that laid the ground work for the Chinese economic boom, for most of the CCP’s history it has failed miserably at its job and set China back by decades. There’s no reason to believe it has found the optimal solution now.

Plus, we could maybe see a fairer distribution of wealth and prosperity. Wealth disparity is a very big problem in China.
My Only Shot at Immortality
Rewriting code in rust is new fashion, so for the purpose of publicity anyone writing anything in Rust will put the language name in headline.

But I believe this trend started with Go lang and later picked up by rust community.

It's nice to see some F# code. I am happy a lot of new programming language innovations happening, I did not pick up rust, because the programming paradigm is similar to other programming language with focus on memory safety. I will try F# may be later, these days more busy with learning lisp as many people recommend it to become a better programmer even though it's not popular as Go and Rust.
Vimer – A simple tool to open new files in existing instance of GVim/MacVim
Why don't voting machines have their own specialized operating system? There's no need for all the extra baggage that comes with a general purpose operating system since all voting machines do the same stuff. I would think that, even if the source code was leaked, there'd be fewer vulnerabilities for the hacker to take advantage of.
That's just bragging in disguise. "Look, I'm so smart, I can't understand how you make it so complicated".
If someone's experience with frisbee were being forced, day after day for many years, to throw a disc through increasingly arcane set of hoops, and God forbid they try to throw it to another person, then you'd have a lot of work first explaining to that person how frisbee can be fun.
Interesting. I have a webm media website where I've migrated hundreds of thousands of videos about that size from s3 to b2 with thousands of additional per month with almost zero issues. I didn't even have/need retry logic until I was on horrible internet from a beach for a month where long connections were regularly dropped locally.

Felt TTFB and download speed were great too considering the massive price difference compared to s3. Though also used Cloudflare workers anyways to redirect my URLs to my b2 bucket with caching.
Proving diagrams commute with abstract nonsense is not going to help the average programmer. At most it's a formalism that will help people who design programmer's tools reason about their system, much like relational algebra for databases or Hoare logic for imperative programming, or UML.
> The author argued no such thing, You are making up claims adn attributing them to the author, so perhaps an even closer reading of the blog post would be beneficial.

Please go read the article again. That's exactly what he's saying. He is saying that Amazon rainforest O2 production and consumption are in equilibrium.

> The paper you cited is talking about carbon dioxide, not oxygen. The net effect on global O2 levels of carbon sequestration is minimal and not significant on human time scales. That same carbon sequestration has a significant impact on global CO2 because there is much less CO2 in the atmosphere.

For heaven's sake, please read the study. If you'd rather not read the study, then just Google until you find a satisfactory source that explains that net O2 production and net CO2 sequestration strongly correlate with one another.
Stay out of the shadows ;-)
For the period being described, the Roman Empire did not include Western Europe, they did not speak Latin nor did they view the Papacy as the head of their religion. Yet they were still the Roman Empire. That's why Western Europe is not Rome.
Who's "you"? The US? Not me, anyway.

>judged for what you actually did

Which is what exactly? I don't think they actually got around to doing anything before it was leaked that they were discussing the idea.
If you have a group of children you can make a microscope out of a low power laser pointer, a syringe, a wall, and something to hold it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHSys_pIEA
They claim 4 hours endurance, which would give it nearly 400 NM range. Not bad, if it works. The 4 seater can carry 800 lbs. Wonder how long charging takes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Aerospace_Sun_Flyer_4
The original title is "Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#." I don't know why the F# part was removed either. HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.". Having read the article, I don't think the "in 100 lines of F#" part is misleading, nor is it Buzzfeed-style clickbait.
That's technically true also in my country (Spain), but if you talk with polling station presidents they will tell you there's a lot of allowed fraud and fake votes. Usually, they're not evil, but if you sum up one here and another... My friend had to invent two votes because they were missing in the ballot box, the political parties there agreed to do that like if it was normal. He was also very angry because there was no anonymous vote, he couldn't put all parties in the secret rooms, so you were only able to vote for some parties in public and not so anonymous rooms.

They all seem like small things, but you sum up... This year we had the most fragmented political spectrum and small differences make big changes. In Leon, a polling station made a mistake and put the votes for a party in a different row. Nobody there noticed the mistake except the far-right party Vox. One simple polling station mistake changes the mayor of the city because they were enough votes.

Another problem I see is the mail vote. Mail vote is extremely popular in Spain (4-5% of total votes) and it's very easy to manipulate, not able to be inspected.
If you don't want to pay for the Shopify app you can always write it yourself..
Yes it does. Especially in the dry season, although those fires usually are less severe than those caused by humans.
Burning the amazon down is something to worry about. Not afforesting widely and extracting timber from the amazon ecologically so it sequesters carbon and supplies materials replacing demand for carbon intense alternatives - is tragedy.

The advice that amazons contribution is "zero", hedged under this safety-net word "effectively" is false to the understanding of geophysics and natural history. I hope the professor will clarify his language after consideration.
The problem with trying to find meaningful work is that 1. the pay is generally terrible, and hours will likely be long 2. if someone is paying you, it's still a "job", with all the implications, responsibilities, and power dynamics that go with that. You still take orders from a boss all day. And if it were so damn fun, then they probably wouldn't be paying you for it.

The most fun internships/jobs I've ever had were all unpaid, because I could come and go as I please, and literally work on whatever I wanted. The second you're getting paid, your personal interests are thrown out the window, and your job is now to take orders from your boss.

Of course there are exceptions. I'd imagine that being a tenured professor would be pretty sweet (though getting a job like that these days is extremely difficult and competitive), or if you're a doctor then helping save lives in Africa or something would probably be extremely fulfilling. Being a politician seems like it would feel meaningful, and they get paid solid six figure salaries.

But overall, the search for a meaningful job that also pays decently and doesn't require crazy hours is like searching for a unicorn, so for most people with the talent/luck/opportunity of working high paying jobs, achieving financial independence first before seeking meaningful work is probably the smartest move.
Have you looked at the population spread of the Roman Empire? Rome had people, the rest of the empire was predominantly to the East/South. Rome was Mediterranean, not Western European.
Yes, Achilles complains about the turtle's 'degenerate' answer, which would have to have been 'A'. Not really a word in German. Wonder whether there could have been a better equivalent, but presumably the translator spent some time on it. I don't have a German dictionary on hand to try the trick in the article.
I mean, I haven't been paid off by anyone but that's exactly how I feel about it too. HN has a lot of memes -- you probably just agree with most of them and don't notice.
Nobody teaches to picture the story though. Mostly what we read are some actions, almost always. Actions need to mentally pictured to get involved and have a superior understanding. Without lack of this skill, we are distracted by our vision.

Half the time my brain is thinking of other things while I am reading something. There is too much distraction in your while you are reading something. Even your own eyes will give you unnecessary visuals like "wow look at the font and the color and how the corners of the phone is rounded, the url of chrome changed to a new round url bar" "https is just a symbol of lock in black color"
Yes but it's a kind of bad one. There are many ways you can lose or change your phone number. Email address is a better identifier.
But in your case there is also a moral dimension, not just self-fulfillment: Financial speculation is parasitic and socially harmful without actually providing anything of actual real value. So, IMHO that's a switch worth making for essentially any decent job.

Also, about working harder - that depends on how hard your old job was; and some of that hardship is sometimes due to working on something you would rather not be doing.
The way I heard it, Aryabhatta and those who followed discovered some of the ideas behind calculus and a few useful results, but not calculus itself, neither the basic ideas like derivatives and integrals nor the vast conclusions that followed from those.
I don't think there's a lot of hate. It's just a quirky language that is at the heart of web application development.
Based on its history, it has a lot of compromises. And not good ones.

It could be vastly improved with a proper REPL-based development (i.e. think developing within the browser dev tools, kinda, sorta), but instead we are now going the other way: Adding types and a compiler and making it harder to mis-type things, but also harder to work as productively.

I guess overall it has a few more ways on how you can shoot yourself in the foot compared to cljs ;)
Building a Slot Machine Game in React Native (Part #1)
Simply share the fact you know, be prepared to explain how you know that it's reliable, what are the implications of the difference.

In my experience people listen to people who can explain things, not just claim that something is wrong/false.
Over 14,500 Pulse Secure VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 (critical)
That's a modernised version! Because the original isn't easy to read, I guess. Punctuation, spelling, letterforms, the alphabet, have all changed since then. Pronunciation too. The original is something like this ('f' is the closest I can get to the old 's'):

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears:

I come to bury Cæfar, not to praife him:

The euill that men do, liues after them,

The good is oft enterred with their bones,

So let it be with Cæfar. The Noble Brutus,

Hath told you Cæfar was Ambitious:

If it were fo, it was a greeuous Fault,

And greeuoufly hath Cæfar anfwer'd it.

Heere, vnder leaue of Brutus, and the reft ...

https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/image/74391696-b1e6-4b56...

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/JC_F1/page/13/
I'm the author of the course, thanks for the kind words! This man of impeccable taste does indeed have no connection to me, learned of this comment because I checked referral logs after I was getting a bunch of signups from Hackernews :)
They aren’t
The Week in Tech: Facebook’s First Step Toward Treating Our Data Better
Some of these points need context. The point on truncating needs to also say that if you have foreign keys it will fail and that truncating really is something to think about since it’s not logged. In a replicated environment the truncation will not carry over to subscribers.
Probably incorporate their concerns when they vote. Choose representatives, leaders, groups you support (parties), that share your concern, that try to have an efficient foreign policy that cares about these things.

Naturally, this includes some marketing to support the message and to try to persuade as many people as you can.
For me, if full state of each of my neurons can't be transferred in realtime to a server, we don't have enough 'surveillance'.