skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think can be done to accelerate this? Is there anything we in the West can do?

I've seen some petitions targeted at the Brazilian embassy here in my country - but not sure of its effectiveness, as it seems Bolsonaro doesn't really care what the West think.
The dry season just started.
In Canada, or at least where I am, cremation is a much more common method of disposal. We do ceremonies in a funeral parlor, sometimes there is an urn, sometimes not. There isn't attachment to the corpse. I don't see why composting would be disrespectful.
Just to be clear, I did not mean that the EU regulations are offensive, but that refusal to even serve your site without tracking is.

A website, by default, is available everywhere. That they go to great lengths to exclude certain people based on ip geolocation is extremely offensive.
None of them support Mercurial. Everything is open source. You’re behaving incredibly weirdly.
> shower curtain will billow towards them in the shower but no one has managed to prove why that happens.

This is an embarrassment to science. It's why people don't trust scientists.

This is a serious issue, how can we seriously not decide on the solution to such a simple problem involving fluid dynamics?

Is science really this broken?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower-curtain_effect
If you are seriously concerned about climate change, 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.

Expecting poor people to voluntarily give up on the opportunity to make money because you are threatened about your children's future but can't even be arsed to reduce your own consumption of beef is wishful thinking at best.
From the articles about article (since the original is not available in EU):

- FCC requires the test to be done at a distance no larger than 25mm
- Apple tests their devices at 5mm
- Chicago Tribune did the tests at 5 and 2mm, the 5mm test is marginally different from what manufacturers report.

What I find weird is that the test is not completely standardized and that it is allowed for manufacturers to self report? When we needed to have some Ingress Protection markings we had to go through a certified body.
In a way this is worse .... We've gone decades with no one even trying to check these results. And the phones are approved with "faith" the business wouldn't lie for profit.

The FCC should be testing the major phones and a random sampling to ensure companies don't just lie on the paperwork.
As long as computers are only used for training, what will change with improved AI?
That’s the point. That’s the point for half of the Internet.
Aesthetically speaking, GTK is not ugly. Check Ubuntu 18.04 which adopted gnome3, thus has a Gtk+ UI.
The Bystander Effect: Myth or Fact?
Ok never mind then.
Does it matter if you can afford lawyers?
Here is an upvote... not sure why you're being downvoted.

We should definitely invest more in vertical farming and the reforestation fund also sounds good.
Same speech, same jokes, same anecdotes, even many of the same answers ... to different questions.

I've looked up presentation / lectures by people I've personally attended, though at different times and locations. The similarity will come down to timing and intonation.

It's far easier to appear polished when what you're delivering is a frequently-repeated performance, than when doing a one-off. The frequent advice and/or pressure for creativity and originality all the time and under all circumstances is also actively harmful. Far better to get the basic framework right, perfect the delivery, and then tweak or adjust slightly as you go, than to try to randomly toss out something wholly novel at one go.

The fact that practice (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20771763) is a major component also makes drastic changes expensive, and hence, not generally a good idea.
Surely people don’t use computers WHILE playing? So it’s like having the coach ride in the car, yelling at the runner while he practices. Quite innocuous.
Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet, pocket, or purse
There is naturally more than one way to skin this cat, and we could argue over the finer points of this question all day but the basic process looks like this:

1 - Some business process that assigns a customer an API Key and allows them to setup a Webhook destination on their own server ( mapped to their domain name - such that IP address management is a customer burden ).

2 - The customer hosted Webhook destination the user inputs is what your platform uses as a callback to inform the users system of some change.

3 - Requests to your system are made via HTTPS POST such that the API key is included in the body of the POST request ( likely some JSON ).

4 - The request is processed on your side, the API key is validated and used to look up the customers Webhook ( callback ) URL.

5 - The requested action is performed and some JSON structure is POSTed to the customers HTTPS Webhook ( the JSON format is a documented agreed on data structure - the customer is expected to parse this ).

Note that:

Customer API Keys are assigned by you, stored in your database such that they can be mapped to a customer hosted URL. An API key in this case might be a CustomerID and some significantly complex auth token such that the two of them in combination represent a significant burden to guess.

Customer API Keys are presumed to be stored on the customers machine and are NOT publicly accessible ( not stored in /var/www/secret_keys/myApiKey.txt ).

Customer API keys are sent via HTTPS in the body of a POST request - they're not getting logged anyplace and the data is encrypted during transport.

The use of a Webhook ( callback ) is not strictly necessary - but since you don't mention how long a request might take its worth considering making the whole process asynchronous.

The customer request could just as well return the resulting output over the same connection that initiated the request in the situation where the request takes a reasonably short amount of time.

A good example of something like this in action is https://www.twilio.com/sms - the Programmable SMS product. This product makes use of a process like the one I describe here and it's a great example to emulate.

For a learning experience, the docs are good, the API is clear, its cheap to play with and generally a nice tool.
You're a software developer, so learning is something you're doing constantly without even noticing.

Sure the youngsters have an advantage in sheer symbol ingestion power, but you have experience and probably some intuition as to how to work with information, knowledge and systems thinking which they won't have. Just be open to new tools that go with the territory.

My concern in your case would be the ability to find relevant employment afterwards, as it is somewhat rare to change field mid-career. Certainly that, depends on both the job market you'd be targeting, and your willingness to take an "entry-level" job.

And if all else fails, you still have your developer skills to fall back on.
Buy a canning funnel!
I would guess Singapore wants to encourage a local electric vehicle industry and will shelter it from competition in the early years.
So basically you're not allowed to trade with foreknowledge, it has to be a lottery?

Stocks always seemed like legal gambling to me. If you can't predict it and you can't use any edge that others don't know about, then doing anything but using index funds is gambling, or am I missing something?
Cool Animations with Anime.js
Composting seems like a mixture between cremation and natural burial. At the funeral ceremony, the deceased disappears into a machine, as with cremation, but eventually the body will feed the soil, like with natural burial.

I think it's mostly a slower, cleaner version of cremation, though.
> Until then, it’s fear-mongering for clicks.

And money, don't forget that lawyers always capitalize on anything for which they can drum up popular support. https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/22/apple-radiofrequency-ra...
Surprise: Bees Need Meat
"The Amazon is on fire in order for Brasil to be able to provide cheap meat for western countries."

The largest markets for Brazil beef are, in order, Hong Kong, China, Russia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Chile, and Venezuela. I don't think this qualifies as "Western Countries". A very small amount, relative to those consumers, goes to the EU.

Close to none goes to the United States or Canada -- a minuscule novelty amount -- both of which are entirely self sufficient with beef, poultry, etc, and are net exporters.

There is a point where "blame the West" just isn't constructive as a go to.
How many specifically?

I'm at 252 posts, presently, just checked. That seems to be a complete log.
Remember that your process is not the only one running on the CPU or core. Most of the time, at least, and even if it is via some artifice you get to call kernel code for syscalls and C library too.
So what? It's still bad. There was a lot of effort on reducing deforestation and fires in the previous governments and now it's climbing back up.
When I'm annoyed with something I've received on any given platform, I find it cathartic to type out a really sarcastic/vicious response to then just delete it all and reply with something a bit more balanced/respectful. Live updates make that impossible.
>so they were forced to seek riskier assets

By using erroneous assumptions about future investment gains, corrupt investments causing losses, and governments choosing not to invest any money into the pension fund in the first place. All self afflicted, all avoidable if people would acknowledge that they don’t have the ability to predict investment returns 20+ years into the future.
Hambach Forest
I'm using Textadept and Notecase on Windows. I personally like the Win95 aesthetics, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
The capture includes JS, so this should work for most JS-dependent sites, with the exception of scripts loading other additional assets.

Tbh, often those are superfluous, or egregious examples of bad web dev, so it seems a reasonable solution for most cases.

SingleFile is a different approach, but it's a lot more involved/less convenient than a cli, and loading in something like WebDriver on the cli for this would be overkill, unless you're doing very serious archival work.
I for long searched for a way to use GTK from nodejs. There are some proof of concept level bindings, but none exposing any much decent amount of the underlying functionality.

Same for Qt I think
What do you not like about Qt? Are the apps or the Widget themselves? The apps are the job of the developer to align and padd things properly. The wdidgets are designed to look as default platforms Widgets, so on Windows you get the buttons and progressbars to look native, in Linux it will use the theme you set. Where GTK apps by default look horrible, they do not use the platform icons and styles or dialog boxes, I assume the reason is that Qt is sold as a cross platform toolkit where GTK is a Red Hat project and RH is focused mainly on GNOME
There was some info in Wikipedia:

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

So production CO2 impact is bigger (no only because of the battery) but total lifecycle is somewhat less than gasoline.

Best option is obviously no car produced.
They could have built it much less dense than they did. It’s a very green city.

It’s also hard to imagine a place with better public transportation.
Tangential: does Chromium have a native widget abstraction? Are there any projects that extract this layer and expose it?
Letting a body burn, rot or being mummified isn't any more respectful in my eyes.

I'm not too concerned about the transmission of diseases after composting (the presence of pathogens in the resulting compost will have to be assessed, but I don't expect them to fare well in soil. Prions may be harder to get rid of...).

My main concern would be about the plastics and metals from prosthesis and tooth fillings that would end up in there...
Your example is unnecessarily tame. The value of n need not be known as compile time, e.g. it may be input by the user at runtime.
The Sun. But that's not a great example because it also emits other, actually harmful, radiation.
No, it's not, and I for one get fed up with this constant self-shaming, or "riich western country-shaming" attitude.

The problem is the entire system.

Of course there is demand, but there is also supply.

Each side must maintain standards, rather than just choosing the cheapest options.

And both sides must hold each other accountable. Consumers must verify that production is sustainable, etc, and suppliers must insist on prices that support that, and reject quick-money offers/undercutting-schemes that undermine standards.

In this particulr instance, I think there is a case (even an imperative) for "the west" to try to impose eco-tarrifs or eco-certifications etc on Brazilian beef, in order to pressure for more sustainable production practices.
If they have wealth, it’s typically going into broad stock market index funds or ETFs such as VTI, or target date retirement funds which are the same mixed with some bonds.

Probably the right thing to do given that money is concentrating in a few large companies, and the government will bail them out no matter what.

$9 out of $10 goes to Vanguard, as of 2017:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/business/mutfund/vanguard...

And their total stock market index fund sends 25% of that money into the top 10 companies:

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/overview/VTI

The money is going to the equity value of all of these companies, with the biggest getting the most, hence the high pay due to stock options at FAANG:

Microsoft Corp.

Apple Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Facebook Inc. Class A

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B

Alphabet Inc. Class A

Alphabet Inc. Class C

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Visa Inc. Class A

Procter & Gamble Co.

Bank of America Corp.

Walt Disney Co.

AT&T Inc.

Mastercard Inc. Class A
Regulation is going to make it worse, by picking winners and losers, and will leave states with weapon-grade AI hidden from the public. The only way to fight this is with open technology, like this, publishing state of the art models for everyone, and creating open datasets. It is only a problem today because AI is siloed behind FAANGs and openAI. We need more openness, and i think it will come.
So you are doubting the integrity of a company that circumvents captchas, which are supposed to prevent fraud?

> Wait, is this a real company? What employment agency (sort of) promotes their service by showing how easy it is to ditch their workers and visualises that by shooting them down?!

The buff guy wearing the mask and cape is supposed to shoot the cheaters, not the honest workers. On the other hand, at your command, he will shoot the second guy who is clearly filling in the correct answers. In other words, if you just want to see the world burn, he will be your willing henchman.
Open source + standalone, it's not standalone.
I've done similar to replace my todo list - a directory of symlinks with numeric prefixes for ordering.
Geneva Freeport
But it's not standalone so everyone can use it privately, it only works for your service.
Knowledge Representation: Knowledge has played a pivotal role in the development of civilizations. The 21st century has become the century of explosion of humans knowledge thanks to the development of sophisticated communication systems. This indeed provides a great opportunity in front of the human being. However, proper representation and management of such a huge amount of knowledge is a challenging task. The other challenge is to reason over such a knowledge to get new knowledge. Knowledge Graph (KG) properly addresses the challenge of representation of the knowledge obtained by human. The KG represents knowledge in the form of multi-relational graph where entities are connected by different relations. This indeed more consistent with the essence of real world knowledge where the things are connected to each others.
I had a similar experience when switching from JS to Dart.
I am not using any framework just plain old DOM as my projects tend to be smallish.
But programming in Dart is a real joy.
I don't see the deviation from FCC test definition it regulations.

Regulation:
* distance for test no greater than 25mm
* MUST NEVER exceed radiation limit.

They tested below 25mm and found it broke the limit. They then put it into "lab testing mode" after advice from the manufacturer, but that's exactly the same problem as car emissions cheating. It's still over the limit if a sensor isn't tripped. But regulation doesn't say it can go over the limit in any situation.

I'm not basing Apple here (they were not the only ones breaking the rules)... Just pointing out that the phone manufacturers adjusted the testing definition, not the lab. Manufacturers decided they only need to follow the legal limits if the phone is close to your ear. This doesn't appear in the test definition.

I'm also not saying the regulation is bad, I'm not qualified to say what radiation limit is harmful. But if that's the issue, manufacturers should push too raise the limit... Not cheat on tests because they think the limit is to restrictive. The FCC is HUGELY pro-business right now.
hi, european here. Never heard about composting here.

Those are not vaults. Those are just holes in ground with a cover on top. It's mostly decorative and there so that you don't walk on top of the coffin.

We don't usually own these also. Usually city where you live has a cemetery that must provide a place for the coffin.
It started in July.
On the one hand, I totally get the business explanation he gave in the second half of this post. That's a perfectly fine reason and if this is how he makes his business run for all these years, that is impressive and more power to him.

On the other hand, he should have led with that, and probably also kept it to that. Because defending this style as if it's somehow a valid choice design-wise ... yeah no. It's pretty obvious that the guy has no sense about design, colour use, or the aesthetic aspects that make retro look "cool", how they differ from the aesthetic aspects in old games with good art versus those with bad art, and how to make choices and combine that knowledge to actually celebrate the look of retro art that he loves so much.

Saying it looks like this because he likes the look of retro art, is kind of dismissive of .. well basically studying graphics design in general. Because he somehow equates not spending the effort on making it look good, to the aesthetic of these old games. But a lot of effort was spent to make them look good within the limitations of those machines/displays.

Just applying those limitations isn't going to get you the quality. It's just like those furniture stores that sell vintage-looking stuff, that is actually just things made badly (crooked) with artificially aged wood, pretending to be a porch on a beach house, I dunno. It wants to be vintage cool, but it turns out to be vintage crap.

But I get it for the business reasons. I just hate it when people come up with the excuse of "actually I think it's prettier this way" ...
Citylab is owned by The Atlantic media Group.

The Atlantic was sold in 2017 to the Emerson Collective.

The Emerson collective is a philanthropic endeavour of Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of late Steve Jobs.

Literally this article was published by the wife of a silicon valley tycoon.

This is why I only read IPCC Studies and pay attention to them. If the world burns out because of global warming, it'll be due to Scare-articles like this one.
The Battle of Alesia
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And where do those countries and the west get their soy? The top export of Brasil are soy beans (for cattle feed), it's a 26 billion market - https://oec.world/en/profile/country/bra/#targetText=The%20t....
The title would be better as "SuperSQLite: a supercharged SQLite library for Python".
But if they don't exist, doesn't that meant they can't pay the million euros?
I'm getting very tired of being Nigerian.
I have a decent amount of friends. Of the ones who live nearby, none play chess.

There are some chess players in my city, but I haven't the time for that level of commitment.

Playing online via an app with up to 24 hours per move and in-app chatting is best for me. Sure the person can cheat, but I assume most would rather play fairly and win of their own accord rather than a meaningless win via cheating.
I think the way you're using hg's web UI is slightly different to the uses I think of for sites like GitHub, BitBucket or SourceHut.

A web UI is fine for being able to see the different commits, and files at different points in time.

But people also make use of GitHub as a hosted repository for sharing code with others, as an issue tracker, and for doing code review etc. -- for sharing things outside a local network, there's the understanding that either you're paying someone else to host it, or you're making effort to host it yourself, so "requires setup" isn't much of an issue.

"sourcehut competes with bitbucket" puts more emphasis on the latter than the former.
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Not naming the Recompose "Product" 'Soil-End Green' is a missed opportunity.
Wouldn't that incentivize them to sell more cattle to create more tax income and in return more proceeds to them? Also you are saying

> people living in the amazon basin

are the ones producing all the beef or rather some big land lords?

I concur with the taxation but not paying the money to some other country - rather invest in alternatives.
> If you are seriously concerned about climate change, 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.

But if the income they're receiving is coming from a tax on beef, wouldn't they want to produce more?
Without context, this article reads like something generated by machine learning.
It depends which region you are looking at - Amazonas (for example), is much closer to a record.

https://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html#amazonas

It is the biomass burning season, so you do expect some fires anyway - I am not clear quite how this year fits in overall.
Thankfully there's a good choice of natural and forest burials in the UK now. Surprisingly it can be the cheaper option. Actual composting is but a small step from there...

Burial at sea used to be another natural option. A body sewed into sail canvas, weighted with rocks (or cannon balls), which continued beyond WW2. Now it's a whole damn full size coffin, and regulations for the minimum amount of weight bolted to it - steel or concrete!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/burial-at-sea-fur...
> If you are seriously concerned about climate change, 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.

Wouldn’t this incentivise beef production? They would be indirectly paid for beef. Or am I reading this wrong?
> SQLite is extremely reliable and durable for large amounts of data (up to 140TB). It is considered one of the most well-engineered and well-tested software solutions today, with 711x more test code than implementation code.

I keep seeing this statement. Why is it considered one of the most well-engineered software?