skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. "Fires are common" - means Brazil should have been ready to tackle them

No, they are common because historically it has been impossible to stop them giving the limited reach of the government in the region. For example, not a single word coming from state governors about the problem. There are 8 of them all silent. Why? What happened to the "local authorities" that should be working on issue since day 1?

> 2. How do you know the alarm is due to the "hate on the President"?

Because we saw no alarms to previous presidents in the tenures. Fires were orders of magnitude larger due to lack of interest or attention to environmental causes in general. So, yes, it has to do with the pressure groups' desire to damage this President's image, specially abroad (hence Macron).

> 3. If it's illegal and damaging, why are people and corporations doing it, and doing it much more this year?

Which corporations? Any names? Are they equally exposed in a negative fashion by media? Any boycotts? Why aren't they sharing headlines with government names in the news? The justice minister and half the congress love to play the good guys who go after corrupt corporations (does Car Wash Operation ring a bell?). They have put a dozen CEOs from the most well known Brazilian corps in jail already. Not a single one from crimes against the environment. Why?

> 4. it seems the government is trying to avoid enforcing these harsh laws

Law enforcement in continent sized developing countries is VERY difficult, let alone in distant isolated parts of the territory. The level of violence and corruption in those places is beyond mind boggling even to locals that were borne and raised in the culture.

For outsiders like us -- looking at the problem from various angles and distances -- the environmental issue in the Amazon is equally complex as the ones we see in the middle east, in
the Gaza strip, in hunger regions of Africa etc. This is something that may drag on for decades without a definitive solution, which is a sad thought for me as a Brazilian.
I am anti housing projects. To me, creating a housing projects is like sweeping the problem under the rug. It concentrates poverty and crime into the area in/around the projects.
Consider the following task: you have UI widget and you will need to draw something on it. Something that cannot be trivially expressed by CSS means.

What will you do in native application?

You will put custom drawing code (C/C++/Rust/Go) in WM_PAINT/onPaint/onDraw method of the widget. If in Sciter[1] then you can do event_handler::handle_draw(graphics* pgfx) - Sciter's applications are native ones.

This will be fastest and most lightweight way of doing such things.

Now, what will you do on Web platform (browser or Electron)?

Calling server (over TCP - browser, RPC - Electron) for providing a drawing is clearly not an option.

So you will make some <canvas> element where you will draw that thing. <canvas> is a bitmap based thing so you will have that bitmap allocated as in CPU memory as in GPU memory. Plus you will have some nontrivial setup to position that <canvas> where you need it.

Therefore you will have at least memory requirement increased for your app (if to compare with native/sciter app).

Note that modern browser uses separate process for each tab. So you will have at least 3 processes running your application. That's also about memory and CPU consumption needed for RPC between them all.

And what if that thing that you will need to draw is not that trivial - will be heavy for script to handle...

And so you will start to add JIT to your script engine. That will need more memory and CPU (at least for bootstrap). Otherwise some smart people will propose you to use WebAssemble for that, so you will load WebAsm VM into your application...

See where it goes?

To create obstacles for yourself to overcome them heroically, right?

If that is for you personally then you can do whatever you want. But you want to put that burden to your users ...
And so as many users as many machines converting that needles payload to heat without doing anything extra of what native applications can do already …

[1] https://sciter.com
Microsoft's CEO lobbied for a progressive income tax that mountain residents voted down.
Seattle PD knows this so they take days to file basic reports. If you wanted to report the somebody broke into your car you could be waiting multiple days for someone to take the report.
But this is true of everything, everywhere, all the time. The world is a complex place, and we have to make do with the knowledge we have at hand. It doesn't mean that we should be brash and unwavering in whatever our current judgement is, but we also can't endlessly refuse to form own judgements simply because we don't know everything there is to know in the universe.
And why not? The constitution says that the states can choose their electors for President any way they see fit. They can be named directly in the law if the legislature wanted them to: "Our Electors are Joe Bloggs, James Jameson, and Person McPersonface". There is no constitutional limit on how a state can choose its electors.

When states started switching from the original plan of "electoral districts" to "winner-take-all", Hamilton and Madison decried it as contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, but recognized that they couldn't do anything about it because the text of the constitution says "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct", and Hamilton's amendment to strike that clause and replace it with an explicit by-district electoral process failed.
If they keep their mouths shut and are good at their jobs, I don't see why they should be fired for their private views.

If they want to run their racist mouth at work, they might be fired for it.
I definitely disagree. The oscillation is not out of actually wanting to be addicts, it is because they lack the coping skills to deal with trying to get clean and dealing with the world on someone's terms other than their own. There is a big difference between wanting to be something and feeling like you have no other alternatives other than to become that something.
The contracts often say that. In practice, it's never used and vendors generally behave pretty reasonably. I work for a company that has made numerous acquisitions over the past few years. Sometimes it's not an acquisition and the other company has dissolved and the key people have accepted positions with us without transferring any assets or liabilities. I've never had a vendor forbid us from transferring licenses in either case. In fact, they usually reach out pretty quickly to update the name, contact info, etc. With some of the niche enterprise stuff, it's good business for them because the alternative probably means losing a customer. They'd rather let us keep using the software and likely pay for at least one annual renewal than try to hit us up for new licenses and we tell them to take a hike. Even huge vendors will do it though. Microsoft has let me transfer licenses before.

That kind of language in the contract is basically to prevent you from selling/transferring the license to some other unrelated company.
Not even HN is a safe place anymore. This is a perfect example of the targeted users in Brazil's last elections: little care for facts, fond of over simplifications and dichotomies.
Please go ask the lifers at the May Day riots how they feel about the effective management of the city before all these darn transplants showed up.
>> has been steadily declining since the 1980s

And it'll "decline" further after this now that petty theft and shooting heroin in full view of the public is not a crime. Abolish all laws and it'll go down to zero, woo-hoo!

I fear that the secondary effect of this will be to attract even more homeless heroin addicts from places where these things are still crimes.
These are man-made fires driven by large-scale deforestation. Calling them wildfires is misleading.
Well the nsa has been doing that on intercepted cisco devices for literally three decades.

Basically you need to assume no privacy whatsoever but at the same time, still stand the fuck up for free speech.

Fu k all authoritarians.

Recall when jetpack (reddit founders) were trying to sell sentiment manipulation to the government?

Where the fuck is palantir these days?

Twitter is the shithole of the internet.

Reddit is now compromat by tencent

Voat.co is compromised

8chan is gone

4chan is also uselessly trustworthy (although i admit i have been impressed over the years as to some of the things they have accomplished) ((my secret conspiracy on that is there are many intels on 4chan that know how to post true-anon and reveal shit))

I personally feel really bad for all my interest in the cyberpunk future i thought we were heading for - but instead we built digital 1984.
Poor chickens.
Does this mean that you could dehumidify a room very quickly by just vent-ducting a blower fan to your dehumidifier? Or is there a point of diminishing returns where the air must linger for a certain time within the dehumidifier to actually have any humidity extracted?

(Yes, I'm aware that such a set-up would be impractically noisy; it's just a thought experiment.)
So don’t use it. I won’t use this, but I _will_ continue skipping most sponsored segments in videos. I feel no moral obligation to watch sponsored segments, sometime I will and sometimes I won’t.
Having had to deal with issues in Seattle myself and having had family members that were the victims of crime in Seattle I'm sympathetic however can't we do a better job of dealing with the violent and deal with addicts without throwing them into an oubliette?

Regarding the idiot trying to throw women over the overpass. Your statement is in error. It's a crime to try to harm people as well and he has in fact been arrested repeatedly.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-trying-to-...

The problem is they keep dismissing the charges because he is incompetent AND not locking him up for everyone's safety not that they haven't arrested him.

They are currently trying to figure out what to do with him this time now

19-1-02095-1 SEA
STATE OF WASHINGTON VS WILSON, JONATHAN JAMES
Criminal - Active

https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/405/2696881/F...

Lets hope they decide to do something smarter this time.
Shapr3D was the game changer for me - although you need an iPad pro for that one
Google Puts Curbs on Political Debate by Employees
The fires are larger than on the few previous years. They are still well bellow the historical average. The recent trend has been of growth.

A lot of this year's fires have been on a natural preservation area that in theory can not be used to agriculture. Some people claim the area got out of equilibrium due to global warming and the fire was unavoidable, some claim it's a criminal fire caused by people that want to plant there. Honestly, I have no idea how to assess media claims anymore, most likely, both are false and it's something else.
Nothing is perfect, but ultimately everything comes down to aggregates. Most systems don’t care about you or your profile (it’s all automated), and generating noise will make your profile quirky for sure, and your ads will match who ever else has accumulated a similar aggregate behavior. I’m not in the ad business so what I’m saying is only based on my proximity to it, so take it with a grain of salt.

One thing that ultimately breaks through the noise isn’t what ads you see or click on, but what you actually buy. If you buy things and aren’t completely blocking every ad network, you’ll massively boost the signal. Also any real browsing routines will still be in the data, and I am assuming a lot of ad networks are informed by out of band data they purchase and things like ISP data they buy.

Ultimately the proof is in the pudding. You should experiment with various approaches and then see if you are served relevant ads, if you aren’t, you’re winning :)

FWIW I get a ton of irrelevant ads because of retargeting. I visit a lot of my customer’s websites in doing my job and they’re not usually sites I’d go to, so most of the ads I see on FB and Twitter are based on retargeting from those sites.
The office is called "President of the United States", not "President of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan".
> and at certain points how you refer to a person is political because they are trans

Not any more political than them requiring you to address them and treat them as a gender they are not.
Clearly you need to check your privilege and share your stuff...
How to return to the flow faster
Also if we can't discuss politics over disagreement in a civil way seeking to learn from each other even where we find the other points of view difficult, then all hope for a better future is lost. Nobody ever learns from mere agreement. Disagreement is a precondition to learning from other people.
FWIW, the book seems misnamed: hundred years is hardly a marathon from the Chinese perspective. Maybe not quite a sprint, but a medium distance hike. Their historical perspective encompasses millennia.
Just FYI, prime tos prohibit its use for ordering items intended for resale.

I would have done the same for my business, but I didn’t want to risk getting a huge bill later when they figure it out.
I know that part :) What module is it referencing?
Quitting civilization to live on a self sustaining farm is a perfect way of limiting your political influence. It's the exact opposite of what you should do if you want real change in an issue where everybody needs to do something.
> It’s unclear what legal authority Trump would be able to use to compel U.S. companies to close operations in China or stop sourcing products from the country

By unclear, they mean no legal authority.
Do you have statistics to back up this claim?
I think "Punch the monkey" was the tipping point.
Wendover has the most obvious, telegraphed segues. On top of that, the sponsorship is left at the end of the video. Linus on the other hand I completely agree with.
The city’s approach is a shameful failure
Cryptool is similar and I think older. At least I remember that I have used the desktop version in the 90s.

While I appreciate that they made a web version I think they scattered their efforts to create different versions too much so that the project suffered regarding features and quality.

[1] https://www.cryptool.org/en
And we can also use Germany as an example demonstrating the ineffectiveness of suppression: the Nazi party members were repeatedly imprisoned, yet this only reinforced their movement. The primary Nazi party newsletter was raided by police over 30 times. The attempt to shut Nazis down did not work and was likely counterproductive.

The Allies may have reinforced aversion to Nazism after it was defeated. But political suppression did not successfully stop Nazism in Germany.

> The idea is not to change their minds. The idea is to prevent them from talking, and changing the minds of others.

They'll still be talking to others, you fundamentally cannot stop that. The only difference is that we are depriving ourselves of the chance to challenge them on their bigoted and hateful beliefs.

And lastly, you're making the dangerous assumption that the people deciding which views are getting suppressed agree with you. There's a good chance many of the views you hold dear are ones that a significant portion of the population want to get rid of.
It's hard to just pick up and switch when you are so entrenched.

That said, I would love if more US companies built stuff here in the US. Yeah, prices might be a little higher, but at least we aren't exploiting the labor of vulnerable people in foreign countries anymore.
The article is satirizing sentiment reflected in data gathered by Seattle U and reported on by the Seattle Times[1].

This was linked in that Needling article.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/mean-world-sy...
Statkraft acquires German electrical vehicle charging business
Huawei’s First Commercial AI Chip Doubles the Training Performance of Nvidia GPU
Oh, that's for sure.

However I think there's a huge incentive problem here: The people who stand to gain from foreign money coming to "save Amazon" (Brazil's general population) is not the same people who stand to gain from its destruction (businesspeople).

Second, a large chunk of the current government ideologically believe there's nothing wrong with deforestation, or deny it, or deny climate change. Hell, some of them are flat-earthers.

It is common in the Brazilian right to associate environmental causes (include climate change) with leftists, and the current Brazilian government treats the left (any kind of left) as the worst possible enemies. So a sure-fire way of not being heard by the right is... talking about environmental causes/climate change.

So, in the end it should really be an astonishing amount to make sense for the current government to change its course.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."

- Banksy
This article isn't so much "cooling a house without air conditioning" - it's more "here's some designs for houses that can be cooled without air conditioning".

This has very little to no help for existing homes unless you have a large budget to demo your existing home/yard/surrounding-infrastructure. For a perpetual renter such as myself (bay area lifestyle), this is useless information.

Where I live in the bay area - we live in a greenhouse of an in-law unit. Only solution to cool it without AC would be to tear it down and build something different. I can't even keep the top room below 80F on quite a few days with a window unit I installed. That unit is rated to do over 2x the size of the room too but it can't keep up. On days we know it'll be 95+, we leave the AC on all day. Otherwise, the heat soaks into the walls so much that we can't cool the house down after we get home and it'll still be 85+ in our bedroom past midnight. Opening windows has no effect since we can't get an effective cross-breeze.

I feel bad about it but I don't have much of an option if I want to be somewhat content. I get quite unbearable to be around if I am suffering in the heat.
Yes, that's the point I'm making. Their identity and their claim is a political statement, so banning politics at work puts being trans in a confusing situation which I'm curious about.
One thing I learned in Europe is to discuss politics over food.

Food is like CS Lewis said about smoking a pipe: It gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth.

What that means is that people get to spend time thinking before they respond and that makes a big difference. When I did a contract in Denmark we used to discuss all kinds of politics -- immigration, cultural differences, which parties were insane, etc but always over food. And it meant we could discuss and disagree without feelings getting hurt.
> If they want to run their racist mouth at work, they might be fired for it.

That's all we want. For people to be fired when they mouth-off racist views in the workplace.

Aka: being intolerant of intolerance. We can't be thought-police, no one has a mind-reading device. The best we can hope for is to kick people out when they demonstrate themselves to be an intolerant person.
Would you be interested in an option in this extension to not actually skip the sponsors, but just show them in the seek bar? Then, you can be prepared for them, but choose yourself whether to skip them.

Follow this issue: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/131
Dude, the Electoral College takes sovereignty AWAY from the states, and concentrates it in only 4-5 states where the race is close.

If the Electoral College made every state matter equally, then candidates would be campaigning for support in every state equally. It is a fact that that's not what the Electoral College does.

Also, the Electoral College in its current form was not "designed". It was a mistake. The people who designed it, Hamilton and Madison, tried to get rid of it with constitutional amendments after they saw how it was being abused with "winner-take-all" laws.
Amusingly, it's entirely possible that the deepest problem is cleanly illustrated by the other two replies to your comment (throwawaysea blaming liberalism and allana blaming wealth inequality) as we talk around one another's preconceived notions of how the world works until we drive off a cliff.
Quoted from some other comment's quote:

> At one point in 2013, some Amazon employees began scanning randomly selected third-party products in Amazon warehouses for lead content, say people familiar with the tests. Around 10% of the products tested failed, one says.
We do steam clean the streets in Downtown Seattle (and have been doing that for decades), its part of why Seattle is so much cleaner than other cities.

Our new Park Ambassadors are here to help make the parks more inviting to be in: https://downtownseattle.org/about/careers/park-ambassador-pa...

The root issue, severe wealth stratification leading to hopelessness and escapism via drugs is something no city can address on its own.

We need national policy change to provide opportunities for the majority of Americans. Short of that, this problem will continue :c
> "I don't have data, but there's no way that the Mac developer ecosystem is worse off than it was in the 00s."

I don't have hard data either. But ask any old Mac developer on Twitter whether they're doing better now than ten years ago, and I bet a majority would disagree.

For one thing, the rise of mobile app stores has destroyed the perceived value of software. A $50 app now seems very expensive to most, whereas it was mid-priced back in 2008. Yet the Mac App Store has failed to bring in the mass audience that would compensate for the lower unit prices.
Main energy gain happens because of the radiation.

I think that the best combination is high thermal mass structure followed by the insulation inside. This way the heat is not easily transmitted to the inside and the thermal mass can cool off to the outside during the night.

Of course when the heat finally does get inside then it is trapped because the house will act like a thermos and only way of cooling would be the by circulation of cold air.

Problem of windows can be solved by outside blinds (or shutters but blinds are better) and IR reflective coating.
I heard from some friends in NYC that there was drama over the lego flag sculptures, where the Taiwanese lego flag was mysteriously smashed several times and the rebuilt flag hidden behind a larger PRC lego flag.
Amazon is AliExpress with a domestic retailer's markup. At least with Walmart I know that when they stock something on their shelves, they care about liability and bad PR.
I don't know. People in developing countries choose to work long hard hours because it's better than what they've had and they all want to better their condition. It's not perfect, but better than the alternative.