skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A subtle point that is often missed is that only a growing plant population and ecosystem will have a positive oxygen balance and negative CO2 balance (trapping CO2 as tree biomass at ever increasing volume). Stable ecosystems reach an equilibrium and the carbon cycle stabilizes and net oxygen/CO2 production consumption becomes zero.

To increase net oxygen levels in the atmosphere and reduce CO2 levels we would also have to eliminate a lot of the microorganisms that help recycle dead trees and go back to the Paleozoic era and before when these organisms didn't exist and the Earth witnessed several glaciation events.

Adding more stable forests to the world does not reduce CO2 levels or increase oxygen levels (relative to after it becomes a stable forest). It just speeds up the carbon cycle.
I’m confused. Wouldn’t it be way too cold to grow anything? And there wouldn’t be enough sunlight?
I agree. I went with a 2015 chromebook pixel (running guix system) just because I wanted a 3:2 screen ratio.
Leather workers should see a small increase in demand.
you discount that so many people don't wash their hands after using toilet, and they cook your food later... especially in fast food restaurants... and yet we survive...
Great observation. My thinking is that management cultivates emotional attachment to work as a means of motivation, which is important to productivity, which is important for growth. Until your comment, it did not even occur to me that being emotionally attached to your profession may not be a good idea. Worth thinking about.
> You can't beat Google or Amazon or Apple starting from the money Apple had at its times, or Amazon had when they started (adjust for inflation).

And yet Apple beat IBM, DEC, HP, etc. which nobody anticipated. The same things you're saying today were said about IBM, etc., in the 70's and 80's.
The F-35 program could have sent every child under the age of 18 to a trade school, professional training, or college. I'm not saying we _should_ do it unconditionally.. just pointing out how we can fund an insurmountable project by not wasting money on what the big government contractors want more than our armed forces or the taxpayers
At some point you have to examine yourself and perhaps see if you have a psychological problem:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_anxiety_disorder

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_(psychology)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

It is prudent to set aside some number of months' worth of expenses:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/emergency_fund.asp

Per another comment, this is why you have life/disability insurance, health insurance, social safety net (welfare, unemployment).

And what "unexpected" thing are you worried about? You could be hit by a car Monday on your way to/from work and it won't matter any more and all that cash will no longer be useful to you.
Globalisation not to blame for rise in inequality, research finds
Giants Kodak, Sears, IBM, etc., were all unseated.
I never thought of that. And it makes a lot more sense in that context.
Except there is no evidence here that women are treated unequally.

Well, that isn't actually true: the evidence is overwhelming that women are treated preferentially, and that this preferential treatment is now not just accepted, but actually so expected that not giving out this preferential treatment is seen as hostile.

Which is quite incredible, when you think about it.
Since both the Wiki article and the source essay(s) are a complete hash, the four questions concern how to explore or analyse phenomena, features, or circumstances, in biology and numerous other fields. They are, best I can make out:

1. What is the function of the phenomenon? How does it provide some beneficial adaptation to circumstances?

2. What is the mechanism of the phenomenon? How does it achieve the functional effect?

3. What is the phylogony of the phenomenon? How did it evolve from earlier, other, and/or more primitive capabilities?

4. What is the ontology of the phenomenon? How does it develop as the organism (or other studied entity) grows and evolves.

A useful framing, yes. An abysmal presentation.

Even for a Dutchman.

NB: If one is going to frame your model as "four questions", one might consider enumerating the four elements and framing them as questions. But that's just me.
This is why I tell my Android friends to install Signal. It’s close to the iMessage experience but multi-platform.

I don’t like sending SMS because of reduced image quality among other features. However iMessage isn’t the only way to remedy that.
From what I understand, Salsify requires a unique connection for each device being served a stream. Therefore (like WebRTC) you can't cache frames in a CDN; and each viewer requires a connection to the origin. This gets a little expensive (which is one of the reasons why WebRTC isn't very common relative to HTTP streaming). Have you explored any kind of multicast or cache-friendly variation of Salsify?
I don’t think anyone need to “memorize and rehearse” Fizzbuzz, the whole idea is it is so trivial that one can solve it on the spot without prior knowledge.

If one is concerned about people memorizing answer, it is pretty simple to change the question a bit to make it non-recognizeable,
Spending more could be done by converting all those coal plants Germany has into renewables, or building better mass transit, or doing R&D for its industry, or providing better benefits for parents to raise its abnormally low birth rate, etc. Having money to spend is a good problem to have.

More generally speaking, Germany has excess saving and insufficient spending which creates problems for the other members of the Eurozone. Excess deficits are bad, but excess surpluses are also not good.
He died in 2008 at age 82, from Parkinson's disease.
> They provide shitty jobs for a lot of desperate people.

I know many millionaire employees of Amazon.
>Here’s a sample of what his handwriting looked like

wow that's clean AF. Respect
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/25/inventor-and-detective-creat...

This is three really nice hiding places for Chips. I was looking for something easier and came across the OP article.
Sure, but you'd have to capitalise the 'knowledge' after the colon. :) If you're willing to make two edits rather than one, then yeah, either would work.
Radium is ~500000x as radioactive as uranium.
https://www.notdepressing.com/ and filter for positive/science
Open Source Web Builder Framework – Templates Without Coding
I've read that in feng shui what you describe is called the "command position".

I'm not able to work with my back to a crowd. That's a recipe for anxiety. I quit a company when they moved my desk so my back was to a hallway, and refused to compromise on this issue in any way.
Binge watch Terrace House. Best source of natural, spoken Japanese.
5g has higher capacity, but shorter range, so cells will need to be closer together, i.e. greater density - therefore location tracking precision will appear to improve, so the big corporations will be better able to finely tune targeted ads in HD to a more specific demographic of consumers.

5G offers:-

- bigger numbers and promise of a brighter future for consumers that are impressed by that kind of thing and are happy to trade their privacy for perceived benefits / status.

- And probably some more tangible benefits for those who would attempt to track or advertise as much as possible to monetize the masses.

- And as you clearly understand, nothing particularly beneficial to the rest of us, but we'll join in when eventually forced to through one upgrade or another as usual.
In the true DA tradition I recommend the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy - Read the fourth one.
This is absolutely the worst kind of analysis. Find some results we don't like, then work backwards using bogus inputs (that are easily refuted, as tzs did below, or which themselves may have been biased, faulty, outdated, not directly relevant, etc) and arbitrary math to determine, yep, the process was biased! I just proved it! Let's call out these bad people! There's no possibility that I am wrong, it has to be those bad people!
The company with Aussie roots that’s helping build China’s surveillance state
Counter-examples would be welcome. Was Singapore authoritarian enough?
Oops I missed that, you are correct. I agree, I do not think quotes are a good idea.

However, I think my other points still stand.
I’m not talking about every employee. I’m talking about certain jobs amazon offers that are anti-human.
We have a similar culture on my team. When I was a junior engineer, being able to poke my head into any open office that sounded like it had an interesting conversation going on was really an invaluable way of learning.
Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds
A trillion is a big number. Space station big.

Personally, my expectation is that the F35 is America's $30,000 toilet seat -- financial cover for our secret UFO program of much higher performance vehicles. Building parts in 50 states is, of course, good congress fodder, but it's also a good way to make sure no one knows what they're building.

It is this lie I tell myself to continue believing in America's technological superiority :)
Also cosmonauts smuggled Armenian cognac during Salyut 7. This was just before the dry laws of Soviet Union, when they started cracking down on drinking on the job.
I agree with this. I wonder what prevents there from being more co-ops in diverse industries? Capital requirements? In banking there are credit unions. I wonder what the tech equivalent of credit unions look like.
> Why doen't bank to that internally and offer risk-free, variable rate investments for their customers? The expected stock return is 5-7% p.a., why can't banks offer 3-4%?

Because banks are banks and investment companies are investment companies, and there are generally regulations about mixing the two (the removal of those regulations helped along the Financial Crisis). And just because something is "expected" does not mean it is guaranteed, further those expectations are averaged out over several years.

If you want safety, you will have to pay for it:

> Of course, all this exists today. If you want to hold gold and watches and sentimental things at a bank, you pay to rent a safe deposit box. If you want to hold oil or grain to use it or sell it next year, you can pay for storage in a tank or some other facility. [...]

> Well, it’s important to remember that money in the bank isn’t really something you have. It’s something that you are owed. When you log into your bank and see that you have $10,000 in your savings account, what that means is that your bank owes you $10,000. [...]

> In other words, to store money at a bank requires the existence of some other borrower who will pay the bank. As such, just as you’ll pay more to store grain when grain is abundant and warehouse space is scarce, you have to pay more to hold money when savings are abundant but demand for borrowing is scarce. [...]

> In the meantime, there’s lots of money out there and a limited capacity to store it all. So increasingly, savers are going to have to pay for money storage services. And although it’s not much consolation, we can at least remember that whether it’s fees for oil tanks, safe deposit boxes, security guards, insurance, or wealth managers, there's nothing unnatural about being forced to pay to preserve your wealth. [...]

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/the-non-w...

> Sure, there are different fond/stock based alternatives - but they often carry risk.

If you want more return, you will have to take on more risk. Buy a portfolio of 10% stocks/equities and 90% bonds. Vanguard actually offers an ETF very close to this called VCIP in Canada: only 20% stocks/equities.

If you want safety you will have to pay for it, with low or negative rates. If you want returns you will have to take some risk.

Suck it up.
What are the best beer ones?
Even crazier, she just used Perl and SoX to extract the data. It's MacGyver-like stuff. Amazing.
Markets and free competition don't have to be synonymous with capitalism (private ownership of economic resources). I think that's a historical accident. The recent book "radical markets" has examples, such as common ownership self-assessed tax (cost) where nobody owns any private property, each person rents everything they use from society, rates are set by competitive market mechanisms, and rent is redistributed. Just one extreme example.
Ideas are ten a penny but execution is what counts. When it comes to SpaceX, there was no rocket company/government agency creating a reusable rocket. None. Not only that, but no one thought it was even realistically possible. He was ridiculed by senior managers from ULA when he first started trying to do it. I guess they are not laughing so much now.

Tesla is interesting because his innovation was to create an electric car that actually looks nice and had great acceleration making it actually desirable to drive. All the ones before that were butt ugly and sold on their environmental credentials. Not sure if that will be enough to make them profitable in the long run. Oddly, the big car makers are still unable to make an electric car that is not ugly. Baffled as to why.

His 'The Boring Company' seems like a non-starter to me as there is no innovation except making smaller tunnels than usual. Cannot see how that is will work out, but time will tell.

His 'Hyperloop' idea is not original and seems like a dumbass idea to me. Maybe that is why he has not actually put any money into it and merely encourages others to develop it instead.

He is an entrepreneur so some or even most ideas will not work out, but with the occasional hit. His PayPal was a hit and so is SpaceX. If he has no other hits that is still two more than most people.
So can all the other forms of welfare.
The best depth before you hit the knee in the curve is undergraduate-level textbooks. Sometimes you have to go deeper, but that's the level that is presented in a form that's easy to grasp and can be quickly applied without using too arcane language and abstractions.

Also: Handbooks. For instance, the Art of Electronics. And I recently picked up a mechanical engineering handbook, and the breadth of the topics covered at a level I can quickly understand is very refreshing. (I'm a physicist, but I mostly do mechanical engineering and technician work, with a bit of aerospace and electrical engineering and material science.)

And combined with youtube and Wikipedia, you can learn a lot very quickly.
For just networking sure, this approach also covers all other permissions though.
Maybe. But they were doing web filtering, so I get it.
>> It would be farcical to take people one way to transit and then abandon them for the ride home.

Like every day I have to work a night shift? All sorts of buses are eager to give me a lift when I want to go to work at 1500 (3pm). Where are they at 0230 when I want to get back home? One-way options are not unusual when it comes to realworld transit systems.
Listening to or participating in technical conversations is just regular business, but the proposal of looking over someone's shoulder sounds very distracting and unnecessary...
> This is why the struggle to set information free is not just a technical matter—it has to involve a broader political struggle. The challenges faced by the original free software movement are merely the tip of the iceberg. If you take the core tenets of free software to their logical conclusion, you end up with a desire to reverse all kinds of commodification by transforming property rights in their entirety.

The whole idea of information as a property is unnatural. Copying and sharing the information is how humans and other creatures communicate, learn, share the knowedge, ask for help, warn each other, organize.

Imagine that you broadcasted some information to a public... but you still own it. You can choose what everybody can and cannot do with your information. You can even shutdown it globally. Even if somebody created an exact copy of your information it is still "belongs" to you because you created it first.

This is a current reality. It is surreal and absurd that keeps generating more absurd every day. This is possible because there are might-makes-copyright laws in place.

Government is incentivised to have suble censorship in place. Info-merchants want to create an artificial deficit and exclusivity of their "goods" using government repressive mechanisms.

There is no easy way out of it.
The article claims natural tanning methods result in an inferior product. I believe this to be false. The reason nasty chemicals are used is because it is cheaper, especially if the toxic waste can just be dumped in the environment.

If they are "looking" for a natural method, look no further than Chouara tannery in Fez, Morocco. It's an open air tannery that has operated continuously since the 11th century, with the techniques handed down through the generations.

They use cow urine, pigeon feces, quicklime, salt and water in the tanning process. It smells about as bad as you would imagine. They give visitors a sprig of mint to hold in front of your nose. It helps, a little bit.

The end result is gorgeous leather that stands up very well. I have a pouf that is dyed with saffron, it is still soft a decade later. If you get a chance to buy some of this leather, I would highly recommend it. I'm sure it is available online, too.
If you really want to avoid updates and viruses, you need to go static. There's hundreds of static site generators out there.

I recommend [1] hexo, for it's simplicity. You can write in markdown files and generate a static blog for static hosting.

But [2] Gatsby is another similar framework, but it uses React.

[1] https://hexo.io/

[2] https://www.gatsbyjs.org
I didn’t appreciate how durable leather was until four years ago when I was recommended some quality men’s dress shoes on eBay.

The shoes were $100, because they retail for $400-$500, but when I purchased them they were 10 years old and in good condition. I have since been wearing them quite regularly, and they still look as new as the day I got them.

I used to spend $100 a year on typical men’s shoes, not realizing how wasteful it all was. Leather is an amazing material when it is cared for, and it can be a very eco-friendly clothing solution to our throwaway culture of petroleum products.

I am now sold on quality leather shoes, because they are in fact cheaper and better for the environment than any petroleum shoes when properly cared for (for the simple fact that they can last 10 to 20 years).
Let's say I go into my wife's room and find her purse on the floor. Do I know she left it there? Yes, barring bizarre circumstances. Is it just an unfounded supposition? No. Do I have irrefutable proof the next day? No I don't. I didn't have any reason to generate it.

Perhaps for some odd reason, a bunch of Germans thought it'd be funny to make up a city, claim a conspiracy theory to cover it up, and posted some things about it to the Internet. Perhaps there's more to it than that and there's a great government coverup. Do I really care? Not so much. There's a bunch of people pretending there's a city. I don't know why, and I don't really care why. It's somebody else's problem.

Now, would I go to Europe for 1.1 million dollars? Sure. If I knew I'd get paid. Everything here screams I won't get paid. For the possibility of getting paid, I might even generate proof next time I'm traveling in that part of the world. But at the end of the day, I'm not dropping work deadlines on a few weeks notice for likely not getting paid.

This will absolutely not prove that nobody can provide evidence to support the conspiracy theory even after having 25 years to collect it and $1.1M to motivate them to present it. It will prove no one decided to drop everything in their life and spend a couple grand for the possibility of maybe getting paid by some marketing ploy, con artist, or otherwise.
IP Address. We have “servers” that get created and destroyed nightly based on how many items are in the queue. All of our web servers are behind autoscaling groups. Even the ones where we have a min/max of 2. If it doesn’t respond to a health check it gets killed and another one is brought up.

Ideally, none of our servers are special.
I'd thought of adding a few cases in which disruption does or has happened.

Changing regulatory environments is one. Tobacco, freon, lead paint, asbestos, and numerous other concerns are lo longer with us, or are vastly diminished.

Changing fundamental technologies. Vacuum tube to transistor, transistor to IC. This is a classic Christensian Innovator's Dilemma: do I cannibalise my own existing product base, or wait for someone else to come along and do it for me? To an extent, RCA lost out as television and radio became electronic and flat.

Labour outsourcing is another major driver, especially in labour-intensive activities. So long as the product can be moved, odds are good that the manufacture of it will be as well. Textiles, appliance manufacturing, auto manufacturing, electronics manufacturing (RCA again), and more.

Patent expiry. RCA was itself formed as or in conjunction with a government-mandated patent pooling, one of several such instances.

Reaching the end-run of some fundamental technological capability. Steelmaking, xerography, film-based imaging, instant film-based imaging, telegraphy, various other chemical-based processes, a whole slew of 1960s "-onics" and "-tron" firms, etc., have their day in the sun and then fade. Finding some service or capability and continuing to serve that by some ongoing set of means seems to be more durable.

Long and slow carve-outs from underneath. Television and Internet are finishing the eviceration of print news which began in the 1950s. Television and radio are themselves being undermined by packet-switched, on-demand, streaming, and App-based alternatives. Lower cost and greater flexibility or ease of use (even for a manifestly worse product or experience) very often (though not always) wins. Getting hung up on quality is generally a Bad Move.

Social, economic, political, and cultural changes can drive major shifts. Wars have been known to markedly delimit "before" and "after" phases, likewise economic turmoil. That the two not infrequently go hand in hand doesn't soften the impact but amplifies it.

By mention in Google's Ngram database, RCA hit its peak about 1982. That corresponds to a few of the trends I've described: the 1980s recession, the Reagan Revolution, the beginning of mass-consumer microchip-based electronics (if not computers), a switch from broadcast to cable as a predominant television transmission mode, and the growing dominance of Japan, with lower labour costs and higher quality reputations, especially from Sony, JVC, Panasonic, and other brands, which were competing on their own home turf and with the benefit of the Japanese focus on a active and deliberate government roles in economic and business policy and activity.

I didn't even realise that the company went defunct (acquired by GE) in 1986.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=RCA&year_start...

(Now to do some reading on the fall of RCA.)
The Apple IIe on a Card [video]
An excellent book and insight into a slice in time.
Just to break out 1/2 a bit more:

1a) Employee not being given clear guidance of what they're meant to achieve

1b) Employee being micromanaged intolerably

1c) Employee being told to take responsibility for something while not being given the power to fix it

1d) Employee not being allowed any autonomy or scope for creativity

1e/2a) Employee being forced to spend their entire working life cleaning up others' messes with no chance to work on anything new and interesting ("because you're good at fixing problems!") while those same others go on to trainwreck each new project

2b) Corporate goals limiting employee's ability to build the best product they can build (through some attempt to avoid competing with another product line, for instance)