skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the State of Amazonas, Brazil on Google maps satellite view, it appears to be largely untouched. Rondonia and Matto Grosso are the states most affected by deforestation. Other large parts of the Amazon rain forest in other states of Brazil and in Peru, Colombia and Venezuela are also intact. Don't take Time's word for it - go look yourself.
Making Mistakes Is OK
The difference is that now we have teams of people specifically trying to make unengaging and unfulfilling activities as addictive as possible. Where before you were glued to the screen because it was actually interesting, now you are glued to the screen because we know exactly which buttons to press to make you come back, even if you don't really enjoy it.

Also, I downvoted you because you complained about downvotes, FYI.
Or buy an electric shaver. Mine probably cost about AU$80, and has lasted at least 6 years. No sign of it going wrong, and I've never needed to replace/sharpen the blades, though apparently replacement blades are a thing.
Dِo you know that Apple is a cook?
Buying the land doesn't do anything unless its protected by armed forces.
Clojure seems niche enough.
Figure out what exactly, the spread of IRGC backed fascism in the region? So far they didn't manage to figure it out even with external help. I doubt they'll do it any time soon. Those who actually advocate such approach, are most likely interested in that fascism spreading for whatever ulterior motives.
So what are the actual changes?
>> Let kids be kids, let them play, let them screw up, and let them figure it out themselves.

I don't think that is what the author is promoting.

"Of course, it’s not really the boredom itself that’s important; it’s what we do with it. When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to respond constructively, to make something happen for yourself. But unless we are faced with a steady diet of stultifying boredom, we never learn how."

I think they are arguing for actual boredom. Not an activity book, not an open acre on which to roam. Not a puzzle game. They are saying that being locked in the back seat of a car on a long trip with literally nothing to do, can be good. They are not saying that parents should allow unstructured play. They are saying that letting kids get actually bored, without any sort of play options, is not an evil to be avoided at all costs.
Im creating something that take this into account; you should have a embeddable/movable entity where you keep your data, api´s and apps. And i tell you its a lot of work..

Was following Sandstorm closely, and despite the fact that im going with different choices compared with Sandstorm, your project was one that i instantly recognized to be tackling in the same domain.

I mean, i think your meditation and problem solving are in the right place, we just need a couple more iterations
, research and efforts to get there.

I will try to give it a shot too, been working on this on a couple of years over the chromium codebase, with a design that was not quite right in the beggining, that needed couple more of iteration and tought, but that in the current incarnation, i think i might have something to show.

I hope i can count with your comments and criticism when i launch it, which i believe, its only a couple of months from now, as i have a great respect for your work and your vision.

You helped to move the needle forward in a domain we need desperately of a solution or else all of our data and freedoms are at stake (not to mention it can even be a better technology than the current cloud-corporate centric vision that are designed to maximize corporations profit and data centralization, where we dont actually own anything, anymore).

So thanks for all of your work, it was really inspiring.
switching those from "search terms" to "topics" tells a different story

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

(and if you keep it to search terms but swap "visual studio code" for "vscode" you see a simialar rise)
https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2019/04/18/fact-sheet-fema...

'FEMA is not a first responder'.
Realtime Hybrid Reinforcement Learning at Scale
Toner doesn't dry out; you only pay for what you actually print.

Beware, however, that if you live in a very humid climate, toner will clump easily. I suspect this is why inkjets are very common in Southeast Asia, whereas lasers are not as popular there.
Unless we as a society return to a simpler lifestyle of living, I see this as an unsolvable problem. For example, everyone in the US is trumpeting climate change and what not. And yet just walk into any starbucks and any supermarket and restaurant - none of that stuff is really recyclable. People generate tons of trash by using home delivery packages via amazon and non-recyclable food containers. Cars everywhere and completely unmaintained public transport. People really aren't willing to make a change but will go on about paris agreement and hate on trump. Their actions and life style say otherwise. What is then wrong with people in other countries wanting a similar life style?
Indeed haha. But look at the situation of the comment.

I had an immediate problem that I wanted solved that day (to prepare for that night). I thought about how I can block light and the only thing that came to mind was a black bag. It worked amazingly well and I guess it ended up being a top comment because it's something everyone can try with minimal effort / investment.

Now that I know it's possible to block out so much light, I will upgrade the trash bag to something less ridiculous looking.

Think of the black bag as whipping up a proof of concept that ended up being quite effective. Switching it to black out curtains is the refactor. That sure beats not taking any action on the first day, ordering curtains without even knowing what to get and if it would work and then having to wait for shipping.

The trash bag isn't a question of being cheap. It's being pragmatic.
Actually you lose quite a lot, which is of course everything that requires a graphical environment. Examples include smooth pixel-based scrolling (see my other reply below), extensive image support everywhere (e.g. EWW/elfeed/GNUS/Org) which includes animations, PDF viewing (native on macOS), true color / SRGB, SVG rendering, better font support including emojis on macOS and multiple frames.

Maybe you don't care about any of these but don't tell me you don't really lose anything.
> ...for pointing a major flaw in CS education.

L2 cache was available in consumer hardware as far back as the '486 in the early '90s; CS students were being taught about the effects of having a memory hierarchy as far back as then. PHK wasn't pointing out a flaw in CS education, he was merely demonstrating how out of touch he was.
Sure, there are always things you can do on a screen that are productive. But you need to way the difficulty of managing these activities with the potential upsides that only a screen can provide.
Thank you to all that contributed to TextMate 2.0 release. I still use TextMate everyday since around 2008.

I am using TextMate as a text editor, coding for Python/Django, and as scratch pad for code.
The area around Chernobyl is another example. If you get rid of people, the ecosystem recovers pretty rapidly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us
I've had a Pebble Steel (original), Pebble Time Round, and Pebble 2. The screens on all of them were very readable, IMHO.
> Simple VLAN-enabled switches don't cost that much any more.

They're dirt cheap and have been for the better part of a decade. If you're looking to upgrade, cost isn't a reason not to.
Hey, I maintained Bugs Everywhere for a while! For four years starting in 2008. It sure seemed ahead of its time.

But also, behind the times in one important way. GitHub has created an expectation that anyone in the world can open an issue against and collaborate with a project. That's incompatible with requiring Git push access to make changes to issues.

I created another project -- GitTorrent -- which also tried to increase the decentralization of software production, and this tension of collaboration benefitting from centralized spam fighting and access control mechanisms was there, too.

Hopefully one day there'll be magic spam fighting blockchain decentralized identity dust that makes everything work with p2p.
I'm pretty sure Brazil would be delighted to receive a regular check from the rest of the world in exchange for defending part of the rainforest. As long as they get their cut, they're going to be happy. Just make the payments conditional on the continued protection of the forest; otherwise they can be expected to renege eventually.

This is exactly what it means to "buy property," by the way: nobody else can use it and the government enforces that if necessary using men with guns. So what I'm suggesting is only a slight refinement of the normal and expected arrangement when buying property.
Flat Earth Conference
It uses the authors' own Revery [0] framework, based on ReasonML and GLFW. So there's Javascript in the stack, but no Chromium.

[0] https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
Just want you to know someone else agrees.
Where do you live that driving over the speed limit is strictly enforced???
I'm not sure, but I think the whole themes, expandability, multiple cursors thing was TextMate first.

BBEdit magic was all through AppleScript, which was always inscrutable for me.
Thank you for TextMate. My Mac-like daily-use no-nonsense text editor, handles whatever I throw at it. Congrats on the release!
Visual Studio released in 1997 pre-dates TextMate. There were also quite a few products based on Scintilla which came out in 1999.

(And you could edit not just C++/VB/Microsoft-language files with Visual Studio back then. It was extendable to support many languages, which they did.)
> There's a delay when trying to hit stop on any of the boxes. It's really quite frustrating.

They all start and stop at the beginning of a measure so that it sounds natural/intentional no matter what you click on and when.
This is clever in its simplicity. I suggest that the votes on the "choose a word" page for your tribe be hidden though, to avoid everyone just piling on the highest vote and encouraging people to look through the list.
It's an easy way to get a de-facto trademark on a name that you want to use. So, in that respect it's pretty important. It does help with SEO too.
Pandora's Star - Peter Hamilton
Judas Unchained - Peter Hamilton
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
> So I'm not sure what you expect me to do. There's no country I can move to that is doing significantly better. The only action I can see is to attempt to change what is happening here.

The difference is that in the western world, you're allowed to make as much of stink as you possibly can about the system you disagree with. Surely, you'll meet opposition, but you and your family aren't going to be whisked away to a secret prison because you disagree with a particularly powerful person or political party.
> Where before you were glued to the screen because it was actually interesting

Rose-tinted glasses. Watching videos is as passive as it ever was, even if social media is a very new phenomenon.

If endless-scrollathons and click bait are specifically the problem, they can be culled away from kids without doing away with screens entirely no?

> Also, I downvoted you because you complained about downvotes, FYI.

Then I wasn't talking about you.
Can friends with more information and experience write their recommendations? Looks satisfactory
yeah, exactly this. you don't need to force boredom on kids. simply set an example. the kids are merely a reflection of what the parents are doing. like how many parents "force" themselves to be alone and be creative for a couple of hours everyday? most of my fellow friends are just binge watching or playing video games in their free time. kids are following their footsteps.
Sorry to trigger your anxiety.

The Qassam rockets are basically the same as an Estes model rocket, if constructed from steel, with a TNT warhead. They have a ballistic trajectory, arcing high into the air making them visible to radar, are fired from a location limited by the rocket range (under a few dozen miles) and their exact location at each time until they explode can be calculated and fed into an Iron Dome to intercept. It’s very difficult to coordinate the launch, difficult to launch more than a few simultaneously, and very difficult to get them to land in the same location at the same time. For the defenders, it’s easy to identify where they were launched from (responding with a Hellfire from a waiting Apache), and easy to detect on radar - meter long metal pipes have a much different radar cross section than a bird.

The drones I’m suggesting are possible would have a 1000 mile range. Instead of launching a couple dozen Qassam rocket to be shot down in an evening, the same group could build hundreds of drones, and then launch them over the course of an entire night (or two), from throughout the Gaza Strip, flying not to their destination immediately, but out into the Mediterranean, where they will spread out to fly at a few meters off the ocean until they need to head back to land for their detonation. At that point, these hundreds of drones are all converging on a single location, at a single time, from many different directions. Some high, and some just 50 feet above ground level. They would be very difficult to detect due to their size, altitude (low to avoid radar, or high to avoid human perception), dispersion and speed. From a radar perspective, the metal engine components could be small enough to be outside most radar wavelengths and shaped to minimize radar cross section, while encased in basically a plastic/wooden frame. From radar, it’ll probably look like a bird.

Unlike with the Qassam, it’s not just Sderot which is in range.
It was not a coup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash
I've found a lot support most of the standard modes / commands but not vim scripts (and partial ex mode quite often) . Which is often fine as extended functionality often comes through the host editor/ides native capabilities. The advantage being they can leverage things that just don't exist in Vim.
>I guess that's the opposite of @QuinnPig's thought, but seriously, what was the charge for? Someone running their own crawler on EC2 so I paid for internal DC-DC charges?

Yes. Other customers accessing your publicly available resources pay the internal AWS fees.

Which is nice in that it saves you money, not nice in that it's not super intuitive so if you see it you think you've got some resource sitting around somewhere that shouldn't be.
What Is Topology?
Perhaps I’m just a particularly slow thinker, but 20 minutes is not enough time for me to read 6 pages of highly technical documentation and consider all of the implications and consequences of the proposed technical design. Even a full one hour meeting is insufficient. I need at least a day. I don’t want to come out of the meeting and two hours later have a “L'esprit de l'escalier” about a flaw in the design I just approved come up.

If I’m being abusively frank, if you can’t be trusted to read a 6 page document the day before a meeting and put some serious thought into it, you’re not doing your job.
It's a tough call. And he did the right thing in the end.

But it took him way too long, unfortunately.

Had him realized he couldn't move the project forward and open sourced it earlier, it could have been a different story.
RetroArch v1.7.8 (v4) Released
This argument is entirely pointless. You’re proposing to purchase land - crucial natural resource - from a sovereign nation(s). I can’t begin to imagine what a fair price would be, if there is such a thing. 300 trillion dollars? Who would pay? The rich nation taxpayers? Would the population of these benefactors countries be happy with increased taxation for no direct impact in their lives? Private investors? What would they recoup their investment from,, “responsible” exploration of the land they are ostensibly saving? Not to mention the political and cultural implications of attempting to buy a resource from a nation, after the purchasers have used up their own for economical and geopolitical gain. I ask for forgiveness if the tone of this message is overly cynical, but we are past the point of thought exercises over the fate of this planet.

If a solution to preserve the Amazon is to be found, that will involve helping Brazil rise above the cesspool of corruption that its been steeped in for the past decades. Assistance with education and economic incentives for alternatives to heavy reliance on beef and grain exports. Heavy tariffs or outright ban of these products on the international markets. Punish the large agricultural and cattle business that are decimating the forest for gain, give the people alternatives for subsistence. Until that happens, little will change.
> The neat thing is that Bentley's string could probably be reversed in cache today.

Yeah, those big Zen 2 Epyc CPUs have 256 Megabytes of L3 cache. Now. That's more than like, either of my first two computers had in RAM.
And one from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20272346
Fermat's Little Theorem
Since the elements of the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis date back to the 1930s, you can safely assume that it will ebb and flow according to each sides’ capabilities and willingness to seek advantage in the absence of a formal accord.

As for the fantasy of Saudi Arabia stopping intervention, they bombed a Houthi site in Dhamar less than two weeks ago in continuation of their bombing campaign of the last four years. That attack, which killed around 100 people, was merely the deadliest in this extremely dirty conflict, and likely sparked the Houthi reprisal.
HP lost my respect and recommendations for anything consumer level or that could be consumer level years ago, but I did like their largish printers (M600 series). Maybe not up to the standards of the older business LaserJet printers but still pretty good.

The thing that made me decide against HP products was the change on server firmware updates (bios, management controllers, etc) that basically requires an active warranty or service contract for updates. I'm just waiting to see a wormable iLO exploit that's easy to patch... As long as you're a paying HP customer.
"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM."
That sounds reasonable, where you may have more luck with something more accurate is if you had to run the blower for a shorter time, or maybe pulse it to lower the wind speed (I'm not sure if that's possible).
Ah I see, thanks.

In which case it's true if only by dint of tautology, but in any case isn't pertinent to the point at issue (whether "Very few" older folk can so work).
Then Paul should do something about waaaaay to many links on Hacker News to paywalls. It's killing this site.
Ableton works how my brain works for music. It's lovely :)
Fair enough. I'm glad you fixed it.
Most of the other answers to this comment are at least a little bit ignoring the “… which only works if the other kids in the neighborhood haven't already tuned their habits to the popular chat app and won't bother dealing with the weird kid who uses anything else” part. Which is in turn its own mirror of the adult world…
My first thought was, "why not a pulsejet? Didn't that crazy guy in NZ use one to build a DIY cruise missile some years back?" Well, it turns out pulsejets are horrendously inefficient [0]. If the missiles were fired from northern Yemen per the article's map, there's no way a pulsejet could have even gotten close to its target with the same load of fuel.

I'm led to wonder whether piston engines could've made the trip, and whether Saudi air defense could've shot such a (slower) drone down. Giant-scale RC plane engines exist... anyone know how big these have to get before export controls kick in?

EDIT: forgot source link.

[0] https://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/jet_efficiency1.shtml
Typically a 6 Pager is:

1 Page of Press Release and FAQ

2 pages of arch overview

2 pages of business justification

1-2 pages of appendix

Or some mix thereof. 20 minutes is a bit short but doable. Generally at 20 minutes the person running asks "need more time" and it can go longer.

For a design review I ask for at least 2 hours for the meeting. Or more.

Doing everything in the meeting greatly respects everyone's time. It's a thing I'm trying to get evenly applied at the subsidiary I work at as often we don't as people have trouble scheduling the meeting.
What's hard about it? Can you share some more details? Are you using a led strip on the keys?
Worth noting that Glassdoor is less usefull for large companies as it's essentially pay to win. It's really useful for mid-size companies though and will generally get you a good idea of what systemic problems exist within the company.
Serverless Inference on AWS Fargate
The problem with ElasticSearch is that it does multiple things at once. It indexes documents. It stores documents. It searches indexes. It serves documents. The indexing and searching should be separated from the storage and serving at any kind of reasonable scale.

But, ES makes it “just work” at the proof of concept and low volume stages, and you can’t easily back out of it when you reach its limitations.
This is probably true to some extent, but the kind of real time retargeting, A/B testing etc is miles beyond most adults ability to fight. If I have kids I don’t know what I’ll do, but I expect leading them in the direction of a healthy relationship with technology will be a challenge.
Ask HN: What are some good places to find junior programming jobs?
Most of the programming job ads that I see are for senior developers. But every senior programmer started as a junior programmer, so junior programming jobs must be out there. What are some good places to find them?
Sure seems like a coup if you look at the behavior of prosecutors colluding to jail their opposition's leaders on trumped up charges.
>It would be expensive

It's just Brazilian farmland, I don't see why it will be expensive. It looks like the conservative cost of a productive acre of farmland in Brazil can cost up to 1500 USD an acre, so taking the 2.124 million miles^2 area of the Amazon basin we get a very conservative 2.03T USD to purchase every acre of the Amazon basin at generous upper-end of Brazilian agricultural prices regardless of productivity.

The real problem is... how could you trust Bolsonaro's government or the criminals they've enabled and emboldened to respect your property rights?
I am fascinated by tarantula hawks, the first time I saw one flying I thought it was a black humming bird! I’ve watched one hunt a tarantula and drag it 25 yards across a yard to it’s layer. The deep blue black and contrasting copper wings are visually stunning. Oh yeah and the second most painful sting right behind the bullet ant, right in my own middle American suburban back yard!
Also there is nothing stopping developed nations from protecting what they have already and actually regenerating forests.

I guess most people in Western Democracies are more worried about what everyone else is doing while our own politician ruin everything.
The judge that presided over Lava Jato has been shown to be completely corrupt via the disclosure of his Telegram directions to the prosecutors, which completely violates judicial neutrality. The Intercept Brazil has been covering this story.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/15/watch-glenn-greenwald-ex...

edit: corrected WhatsApp to Telegram.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-ca...
Actually both - the custom size and almost all the options in the non-advanced drop down search.
Depends on what you mean by "native". The core is compiled to a native binary. But it doesn't use macOS native text editing or UI idioms beyond the level of windows and menus. If you don't want to use TextMate, you might as well use Visual Studio Code instead, which is closer in spirit to the native Mac idioms and is easier to configure.
Real-Time surveillance will test the British tolerance for cameras