skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some insight from NASA:

"In the Amazon region, fires are rare for much of the year because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity typically increases due to the arrival of the dry season. Many people use fire to maintain farmland and pastures or to clear land for other purposes. Typically, activity peaks in early September and mostly stops by November.

As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data."

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...
US is the largest soybean producer in the world
> our people have a taste for populist presidents

Not just your people, they're everywhere
Yes the business reasons were perfectly fine, and he didn't explicitly argue against artistic integrity, it's just that he didn't display any, while making arguments about artistic choices.
The things that a government can do to its citizens are worse than any corporate.
Do you manage Kubernetes, personally? Did you manage the VMs?
> it would be constitutionally permissible for them to criminalize faithless voting, would it not?

No, according to the court's opinion ("slip opinion"), starting at p.73 of the PDF [0]. I've posted excerpts in a top-level comment.

[0] https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18-1173.pdf
Then what do you do about the old version of the mutated object? There will still be references to it in other parts of your object model, which will now be out of date. I think that the concept of objects preserving identity is central to OOP, which simply contradicts immutability.
Bielefeld native here: Good luck!
If you have a disability, then the right to work remotely is covered as an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Otherwise it really depends on the employer and manager.
> pressure your government to impose a large tax on beef and pay the proceeds from that tax directly to the people living in the amazon basin. That will incentivize them against deforestation.

Typical HN comment: "never seen a problem which couldn't be solved by more taxation"!

Why wouldn't I avoid the said tax and use saved money to buy couple acres of Amazon forest and employ private security to keep everyone off my land?

It's pretty insane to assume that multiple layers (local taxation plus redistribution to other countries) of incompetent and corrupt government employees can do a better job of protecting property than actual owners.
It is worth noting that at a helium balloon's upper altitute, vacuum balloons would be more feasable as the air pressure allows thinner materials. Some sort of hybrid for say weather monitoring might be feasable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769955
it's right there in your link (to China) - https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/bra/show...
> Kubernetes is an amazingly helpful abstraction for any amount of load on any larger than trivially tiny set of services/storage/etc.

Abstractions have a cost. You either pay the cloud provider or you pay the Ops team that runs the cluster.

If you're fine with that and have evaluated the costs correctly, great!
The US is a net exporter of soy as well.
What's the going rate for a medium yield nuke?
I gave up trying to use native libraries for UI on cross-platform desktop programs.

I'm playing with the idea to create a Web UI and launch it automatically from the Rust server by opening a browser and pointing it at localhost. No electron bloat.

Has anyone tried this, any thoughts?
Update: Coincidentally I just saw a news item about a US equivalent of Climate Earth: https://earthjustice.org who seem to have considerable history and track record. They just launched a law suit over the Endangered Species Act.
> Managing a VM vs a managed Kubernetes cluster?

So the win is not having to manage something :-) How is that a fair comparison?
You seem to disregard that in many countries the alternative to "sweatshop labor" is becoming a beggar.

A dollar an hour can be a good income in some parts of this world, believe it or not. If you can't compete on price like that, don't bid.
>Bielefeld native here

Impostor clearly
"..und sehen wir uns nicht in dieser Welt, so sehen wir uns in..."
Since you've edited your comment to now be about soy, the US and Canada are both entirely self-sufficient with soy and are major exporters. The EU does import soy from Brazil but it is a tiny consumer (and dropping) relative to China.

Again, not the West. What's next? Adam Smith and the creation of capitalism?
Fuel consumption in boats is usually measured at some speed relative to the waters surface, not the earth.
Definitely depends on the platform. On Linux it's probably great, but on macOS at least, I've yet to see a GTK app that doesn't feel super clunky. GTK breaks lots of expectations about how things should behave on macOS (shortcuts, standard menus, buttons, etc). Gimp or Inkscape are good examples. On the other hand those are examples of what a "native" app is expected to look like:

https://www.sketch.com

https://paw.cloud

https://www.pixelmator.com

Note that the apps above are not implemented with Qt or Electron either, they use the official Apple frameworks.
He also says his games look like crap because that's how old games look to him. Yes he has business sense, he also has no taste.
Again, the US is a significant exporter of soy beans, and most of the rest of the west consume fairly little. China is by far the largest importer of soy beans, importing about 30x[0] more than the next largest. Aside from the US and Canada, many western countries are net importers of soy beans, but not in anything like enough quantities to demand anything like the vast amounts Brazil exports.

0: https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/1201/
Read the documentation in either:

- https://blog.budhajeewa.com/a2way-docker-base-laravel-a-dock... ,

- https://hub.docker.com/r/a2way/docker-base-laravel , or

- https://github.com/a2way-com/docker-base-laravel

as the long text doesn't render well in HackerNews.
The US trade wars with China is one of the main reasons why the Soy bean production in Brasil has increased in recent years - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-grains/brazil-ride...

I know that the US is self-sufficient in meat, both in terms of raising the cattle and the soy and corn crops that feed it.

Actually, a large portion of the US is dedicated to meat production, both in pasture land and feed crops - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

Which is insane if you ask me, a horrendous waste of resources.
Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture
Easy: Don't collect/store personal data without opt-in consent (which I think is totally reasonable). Like... if it's your hobby website and you don't store personal data without telling your users about what you're storing and what you're doing with that data... you're fine.

Also if they ask you "what data do you have on me?" and "can you delete the data you have on me?", you respond and respect their request like a reasonable human being - it's their data after all.

It's... really just not a big deal for small-time projects. The whole total compliance thing is a CYA thing but in reality even if you did anything wrong, you'd be contacted about it first in order to resolve it. You could then deal with whatever issue came up (didn't tell users about X? start telling them.) and move on with your life. It's only if you ignored warnings and kept being shady that it'd escalate.
And, even more generally, it needs to be promoted and sold, money collected, customers supported, taxes paid, partners engaged with, events attended, people hired, people managed, their expenses reimbursed...
Anyone familiar with a low carbon footprint meat brand or certification? Seems like an interesting market opportunity. I didn't find a source for child comment re "the West" not being a primary market for Brazilian beef exports, but it doesn't sound unreasonable. Nevertheless, my understanding is that the entire beef supply chain has a massive carbon footprint, and I would think that there is a market for upscale US-raised carbon neutral beef.
France and Ireland are on the brink to block ratification of the Mercosur free-trade treaties so there's that. I believe Germany (and Scandinavian countries eg. Norway has already cancelled paying into the Amazonas found, though not sure this is counter-productive) could be pressured by public opinion as well.
Beef is like 2 % of humanity's emissions. Gasoline-based transportation and electricity (mostly from coal power plants) are together like 60 %.

It's obvious which one we need to focus on. Stop it with the beef already. We need data driven approach. We really really don't need hysteria based approach where something (like beef) is declared sinful.

(see https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...)
Even an occasional site crash is ok. I'm not saying it's a good user xp, and avoiding it is both better for the tech team and the marketting one.

But the cost of a 500 is always to be balanced with the cost of going full throttle with micro services.

As perfectionists, it's easy to fall into the trap of choosing the later by default.
Most public companies have an Investor Relations link on their homepages.
"It takes twenty years for a female beluga to mature, and at that point she can weigh as much as 1,800 pounds [...]. Such a fish could yield twenty pounds of eggs [when killed]."

That's got to be one of the least sustainable things I've ever heard of. I tried caviar once. It didn't taste like much, and I didn't see the point.
Someone pointed out recently that the route of the former Great Central Main Line [1] could be relaid with track to increase capacity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Central_Main_Line
OMG dude, just let it go. You've dug your heels in so much that HN won't even let me reply to your latest comment because you've hit a depth limit.
This is just a marketing page. It wasn't sent to you as an email. Nobody erected a billboard outside your house. It's on the internet, where people are free to create and ignore stuff as they please.
Do you really think you're bringing something to the table at this point or are you just trolling for fun?
The scientifically invalid point was in addition to the straight no. :)

To expand: I still think it should not be used or even acknowledged. You're on untenably thin ice, ethically speaking. "people were forcibly experimented on or killed, but we got some great data" doesn't pass the most basic ethical sniff test.

The results should be case for the prosecution, not for citation. Citation should have you hauled before an ethics panel. Find a way to conduct the research that's achieved safely with willing consent, find an alternative methodology, or find an alternative career.

It gets greyer if you go back far enough into history that we hadn't established those ethical and human rights standards. You can't really hold standards and laws against someone in a time they didn't yet exist. Given world history, that probably means pre-Nazi and eugenics eras.
Pro rata is considered fair. On the same way that overtime pay is considered fair if you have to work extra hours.
Automatic line rewinder makes kite retrieval a breeze. 3D Printed
YouTube axes anti-protest channels as US MiniTruth battles China over HK
> "Ah, the ever present fear of non-ionizing radiation."

On the cdc.gov resource you provided, I clicked on the link about "NIEHS research on possible health risks from cell phones". There I read this:

The NTP studies found that high exposure to RFR used by cell phones resulted in:

- Clear evidence of tumors in the hearts of male rats. The tumors were malignant schwannomas.

- Some evidence of tumors in the brains of male rats. The tumors were malignant gliomas.

- Some evidence of tumors in the adrenal glands of male rats. The tumors were benign, malignant, or complex combined pheochromocytoma.

I get that this study involved higher levels than what my cell phone should be exposing me to, "mice are not humans", etc., etc. But then here come some journalists saying my phone emits much higher radiation than I thought... are they really just evoking a bogeyman and nothing more? I'm not sure.

It takes a lot to win over my skepticism on a variety of topics -- particuarly when large corporations stand to gain or lose billions of dollars hinging on whether their product is GRAS or not -- and I suspect many others are the same.

I'd be very grateful for links to additional research on the topic of cell phones and non-ionizing radiation, if anyone has good ones to share.
> Because even those, substantially heavier than a balloon, would go off in random directions due to their susceptibility to wind from the low weight.

Just be sure to keep in mind that while zepperlins, dirigibles and aerostats are subjected to non-negligible amounts of buoyant force due to low density, that does not make them light, nor easy to push around.

If you carry 20kt of cargo, plus the weight of the vehicle (including the weight of the lifting gas), I don't think a wind gust would blow you away, regardless of how strong it is.

Try to push around a big buoy, that gives an idea of the challenge.

Moreover, spheres are one of the aerodynamically poorest shapes (if not the most), actually worse than a flat sail. That's probably the biggest reason for Zeppelin's shape (or the rugby ball, for that matter).
Birmingham Central isn't 50 miles from Birmingham Interchange. More like 10 miles?
Not in Rust, but that's my approach with .NET Core Desktop Apps: https://docs.servicestack.net/netcore-windows-desktop

It also supports a super bloat-free option where entire Desktop Apps can be run from Gists. All Apps are run and share the same executable (and re-use its dependencies) so the Gists only need to contain their App-specific scripts and dependencies, giving each App tiny footprints:

https://sharpscript.net/docs/gist-desktop-apps
OpenAI is the google of the new ML era. Except that they went from "dont be evil" to typical greedy corporate in less than a year.
Answered above in another comment, AFIK the Amazon is being torn down mostly for cattle feed crops, soy and others.

A lot of the soy is exported all over the world, to china due to the trade wars with the US, to western countries which need cattle feed but don't have the land to produce those crops.

Developing nations have limited meat consumption still, the biggest consumers of meat is the west in general. The cattle feed needs to come from somewhere, a lot of it comes from the Amazon.
The only thing I would say you are missing is differentiating index funds. Also insurance companies are basically bookies.
There is a way to buy it back, but it is very expensive, with time and a lot of thought and even more of actions.

I do not expect this title has anything to do with reasoning about people's choices at all. Nor with the concept. I think it might have more to do with dismissal. Its opposite.

What irks me is that talking as if "people/science cannot understand" is a different kind of hubris. Not humility.

It's only that this limited quant approach is not enough. Too reductionist, too simplified. World is much richer than such spherical cow models.

To falsify this idea, consider when people thought men flying on daily basis was impossible. Yet here we are. And we can do, as a whole, so much more.

The idea that something is unknowable is not productive. It may make you feel good or accept your limitations, but there are so many other ways of doing that which are not regressive and do not apply your presumption on state of knowledge, humanity or the world on others.

Respect is a two way street. Lacking in the USA lately, while forced and faked in the some Asian cultures.

Respectability is a separate matter stemming from it.

Dignity is a word of many and inconsistent meanings, mostly undefined. Excellent way to hide what you really mean.
Employers and teams can choose to work synchronously which means timezones are important. Remote doesn't necessarily mean anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Burnout – All-in-one workspace for startups
JavaScript Type Coercion Taken to an Extreme
No, it doesn't make up the deficit, it does end up slightly better than a ICE one after the projected life cycle of 12 years.

The problem is that unlike ICE cars Teslas are much less likely to be reused for 12 years, as far as other EVs go it's still an open question.

If the only two options are an ICE or an EV, it's likely better to have an EV despite the likelihood of PCO2E being underestimated in the supply chain especially when it comes to rare earths.

But if the option is to have an EV or no car and use public transportation or communal transport the latter is always better.
Which at the end of the day is kind of useless until you have fundamental insight.

Maybe it can help theorist to more efficiently identify what is fundamental insight.

The link to reverse engineering is great. I wonder how well it has worked with fission and making a star in my backyard.

Techniques aren’t to be dogmatic or pragmatic. They are to be explored and reinvented. Whoever came up with don’t reinvent the wheel just wants to soak up as much profit from the current paradigm as possible.

Think of Tesla, Elon said something like x > 50%(don’t remember it wasn’t like 97% I believe) of pets used had to be redesigned and were not factory standard or template.

Veribility in the back envelope may give false positives which can hinder progress is all I’m saying :)
Thanks for the link. Seems interesting!
It depends. If the original study was published only because it had a positive result (significance filter, usually true), we expect the effect to be smaller in a larger replication. It's called Type M error, with M for magnitude. And, yes, large scale replications typically show smaller effects or no effects. See this paper for details: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916145516...
UniFi from Ubiquiti Networking is the ultimate prosumer home networking solution
And ends in November. My chart reading skills are notoriously bad, but I interpreted the linked chart as "year to date", not expected outcome.
Dos the oath include not creating nuclear weapons?

Can a farmer work after s/he made the oath?

Can a doctor test drugs in mouses? (Why you excluded bacteria from your list?)

Is the oath pro-life or pro-choice? (Notice that there are more than two option in that debate.)

Who is going to make the rules about what is fine? You? The Pope? The Tweeter mob?
It might be a good idea to read the article before attempting to add background to it.
The etymology of the Portugese "marmelo" is clear, from Latin "melimelum", itself from the Greek "μελίμηλον", meaning "sweet apple". The product was famous, so the word was borrowed to sell orange paste, later orange jam.

I already had a glimpse of the story thanks to a chance reading of the etymology of the French "marmelade", but I enjoyed reading the whole story.

https://www.littre.org/definition/marmelade (~1875) / https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/marmelade (~1980)
Because simplicity was an afterthought.
There is no need to train the model, they already provide the parameters. These transformer models , like BERT are pretty adaptable to reuse.
Part of the problem is that the rest of the world moves too slowly. They were using containers and SDN at planet scale when nobody even knew what that was. App Engine has been a PAAS product for over a decade. But everyone wanted IAAS instead because of inertia. AWS has first mover advantage. MS profits because of their existing enterprise relationships. GCP is making big moves and is growing quickly.
data source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bKBFiVXNzrgtW95j66Tp...

chongqing planed to have 500k camers in 2011. The auther believes that number grows 20% YOY. So it's 2.6 million now.

I have no words.
That doesn't answer anything. Brazil's meat and soy exports are overwhelmingly to destinations that are not the West. China did indeed shift a lot of consumption from Canada and the US towards Brazil. That's not Canada and the US' fault, and is 100% the actions and malice of China in trying to be punitive.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ would be another perfect place for this. The site already provides a few of these stats, but not nearly all of them – and crucially, not broken down by degree program like you propose.

Here's the entry for University of Washington (school-wide): https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?236948-University-of...
From your link:

>The top exporters of Soybeans are Brazil ($25.9B), the United States ($22B), Argentina ($2.82B), Paraguay ($2.19B) and Canada ($1.91B). The top importers are China ($36.6B), Mexico ($1.72B), the Netherlands ($1.6B), Japan ($1.41B) and Spain ($1.31B).

It would appear China is the one with the insatiable appetite for soy, not the US and Canada.
Every "wallet voter" is in a kind of "prisoner's dilemma" with each other where it won't do anything if they stop unless everyone else stops too. But if everyone else stops then they can continue. Everoyne is aiming to be the one who can continue while everyone else stops thus nothing happens. Every collective downside of any consumption (and because of requirements for infinite growth there is always collective downside no matter what) will always go away if someone is the only one doing it.

So you cannot see or understand the system by looking at an individual. System that divides people into making rational individual decisions (called free market economy) without any real way to conspire co-operation is always going to result in something that is irrational for everyone as a whole. Everyone has to "defect" and for every person you convince against their self-interest to "co-operate" there will be 10 more "defecting". If you want best possible overall result you need entirely different system like centrally planned economy which for example walmart and amazon already uses.

If you attempt to fix the system instead changing it entirely you will just end up making it worse because of regulatory capture. The fault I described cannot be fixed because it would be contradictory to the very foundation, so instead of actually fixing anything it will make the system even more unfair and perverted.
Post your projects on reddit: R/Datascienceproject Is Live
Really? And was NYT one of those 49 sites? You don't say!
Regardless of emissions, beef production is contributing to this specific problem. From the article:

> Much of the deforestation binge is being driven by farming pressure: The Amazon basin is the largest exporter of beef in the world, with about 200 million heads of cattle. And all those cows need a lot of space to spread out.

Did you not read before telling us we need a "data-driven approach"?
Beef is a large part of the reason why the Amazon is cleared for land.
This was really helpful, thank you! As far as short term capital gains, the stock recently cut in half due to an awful quarter—-I think with the bump from this news I’m still down 20%. But it’s okay, glad to have recouped some losses.
Before reading the article I thought this was going to be PR for a grant/fund of philosophy research.
I heard anyone whose documentation shows they're from Bielefeld is actually an undercover BND agent.