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The package is not delivered "as normal" - it's dropped via parachute. The parent poster's point is that delivering things via parachute comes with all kinds of risks in comparison to targeted landings (ex. wind gusts during drop, power lines, blowing onto a roof, parachute failure causing breakage, etc.)
> The analysis, published in the journal Science, is the most exhaustive and ambitious attempt yet to learn what is happening to avian populations.

> A team of researchers from universities, government agencies and nonprofit organizations collaborated on the new study, which combined old and new methods for counting birds.

> Kevin Gaston, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter

> Hillary Young, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara

> Scott Loss, a conservation biologist at Oklahoma State University

> Kenneth V. Rosenberg, a conservation scientist at Cornell University and the American Bird Conservancy

> Dr. Young, of the University of California, Santa Barbara

> “If we have two data sets showing the same thing, it’s a home run,” said Nicole Michel, a senior quantitative ecologist at the Audubon Society who was not involved in the study.

> Europe is experiencing a similar loss of birds, also among common species, said Dr. Gaston, of the University of Exeter. “The numbers are broadly comparable,” he said.

So all these people are idiots and you know better?
That should be part of it. Another part should be that the data can't be collected without my permission in the first place.
i think humanity underestimates glass, squeegees & microcontrolers.
Get back to me when beavers are causing the extinction of thousands of other species and arguing about how to warn their descendants about radioactive waste.
Maybe five years ago I observed that Nissan and Tesla were homing in on the same market from opposite directions.

Tesla built the Roadster which is a toy. Then the Luxo Model X and S Sedans followed by the affordable Model 3. Nissan built the affordable but limited range Leaf and just kept increasing the range every other year or so.

They basically started each with one type of suck (Tesla=Price, Nissan=Range) and worked to reduce over time.
Pollution is nothing more than a negative externality.

People have measurably shorter lifespans due to coal emissions. We aren’t doing anything about that, so why do you think property will be treated any differently?
Broadly speaking, "people growing food" is causing these extinctions. Ending capitalism might reverse these changes to the ecosystems, insofar as people suffer mass starvation, are killed in revolutionary struggle / civil war, or are exterminated by a dystopian post-capitalist state; aside from this you should, broadly speaking, expect the inferior yields of collectivized agriculture to worsen the environmental degradation (by requiring more farmland), not improve it.
Sometimes I think "software engineering is too immature for there to be a rigorous standards body and professional engineering certifications" and then I see shit like this and wish there were a way to punish people for gross negligence.
Pseudorandomness is related, but doesn't affect this issue. We can hook up a physically random process to a computer for a source of "true" random bits, then go from there.
on the other hand, it was just the ticket when i had all four wisdom teeth pulled last year!
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How is it a tactical rifle?

Its marketed as a "Ranch Rifle".
It doesn't even have normal scope rails...
The article mentions it briefly, but outdoor cats are also a considerable contributor to bird deaths. Feral cat colonies obliterate bird populations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo...
This is literally Thanos' plan in Infinity War/Endgame. I never expected to hear someone argue for it in real life.
All you did was nitpick my argument and completely ignore the point I was making. Congratulations for fixating on details and not seeing the bigger picture.

> If people paid for more of what is good, pick up litter, and be nice to people, then the world would get better. If everyone reduced their carbon foot print, imagine how many more species would still exist today!

And yet they don't all do that. If everyone on earth just held hands and sang Kum Ba Ya, there could be world peace, but nobody's going to believe that's the way to end wars because not enough people are practically going to do that.

This is why "if everyone did that" can be used in a way that's fallacious, and it's insidious because it's true given that one accept the premise of universal participation. But even during the heyday of digital piracy, most people weren't pirating, or even pirating all of their consumed content. Hollywood and the like didn't ever come close to collapsing due to piracy.

All you need to do is to challenge piracy on a moral level. It's universally agreed upon that taking something without paying for it is a bad thing. Just because there is a minority of piracy advocates doesn't mean that those advocates don't recognize that they are doing something wrong. Saying "if everyone did that" just dilutes the impact of a single immoral act. Sure, I can imagine an off-the-wall situation were everyone pirated content. That image just isn't very realistic or useful in judging whether something is right or wrong. Fires might have been a bad example because, as you pointed out, we did ban burning in many places.
>Outdoor domestic cats, apparently, kill billions of birds annually.

who else is going to kill those billions of old and ill weak and dying birds? In wilderness this is done by a plethora of predators. In developed areas pretty much only cats are left to perform that duty. Without cats it would probably be the rats walking around eating the finally fallen dead birds lying around. Your choice.

And don't forget another aspect - rats eat bird eggs imparting massive damage at that stage, and the only predator available that can effectively control rats in the areas inside and surrounding human developments is cats.
A quick look at the documentation and I'm impressed and a little jealous. Do you know if this is a proprietary API doc generator similar to Swagger?
I really really love Airbnb, and I've mostly stayed at Airbnb and ignored hotel in the last 5 years perhaps. I now find hotels dirty, impersonal, and a chore to stay at to be honest.

Now, I've become increasingly irritated by Airbnb's pricing tactics. They are blatantly lying to you when it comes to how much you're going to pay.

I have two recent examples if you are not used to booking Airbnb:

* 99$/night room end up being 159$ for a night [1]

* 150$/night room end up being 500$ for two nights [2]

And these are not exceptions, but pretty much the norm nowadays. The final prices are ALWAYS way higher than what you would expect.

[1]: https://twitter.com/cryptodavidw/status/1173775045606301696

[2]: https://twitter.com/cryptodavidw/status/1159574818661867520
Interesting quote from the (long) transcript:

"The USGS tracks, I believe, 72 different materials. I think all, but six-ish of them are now on a downward trend. The biggest exception is actually plastics, but there’s something interesting going on there as well. Overall plastics consumption used to grow even more quickly than the economy did. Plastics are super useful. We use them all over the place. Now, plastics use is still increasing, but it’s increasing more slowly than the overall economy is."
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What kind of data is being sent?

Devices that need to legitimately phone home for something tend to do so by requesting servers within or close to the country they were developed in.

Imagine people getting riled up at the thought of Apple phoning home to a US-based NTP server..
Isn't it in fact easier to fit a scope on a Mini-14 Ranch than on a "standard" Mini-14?

The Ranch Rifle is, as I understand it, simply a civilian branding for what was designed to be --- and has seen wide use professionally as --- a tactical rifle.

The big confusticator here is that tactical rifles --- and I'll keep calling them that, because that's what both the Mini-14 and the AR-15 were designed to be! --- turn out to be pretty well suited to sporting and some kinds of hunting, and have pretty much taken over those markets. So in observing that there's no meaningful difference between a Mini-14 ranch and a military tactical rifle, I'm not saying that a Ranch Rifle isn't intended for shooting coyotes or range shooting, or even that that's not what they're mostly used for.

But public policy should focus on the weapon's capabilities, not what their packaging suggests they be used for. The people that play the Ranch Rifle card in firearms debates seem to believe the packaging is dispositive --- or not? I never really understand what it is they're trying to prove. But of course, to regulators, there's no distinction to be made here.
Highly accurate.
I wonder how long pretending literally nothing is a "growing economy" can continue before something bad happens. I have a feeling I won't have to wonder for long.
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That is an excellent analogy, but in this case it is like going from 'the joke is so funny its literally killing me' (as in I'm laughing too hard) to prosecuting the joke-teller for murder. Or possibly if a clown kills someone not prosecuting that clown because "obviously that clown is literally killing someone but literally doesn't mean literally".

There are a range of actions that are appropriate to take when dealing with an unwanted subsidy. If we redefine what 'subsidy' means then the range of appropriate actions changes and we have to talk about what the new actions are. It would be far easier to use the right word, so word and action line up without the need for analogies.
So far the spherical cow model of climate change that Arrhenius used, with better numbers for absorption spectra and so forth, have historically out performed computer models without disagreeing with them by a huge amount. We can hope that the most recent computer models are more accurate but we won't know quickly. You do need to model that CO2, while weak, blocks a spectrum of infrared that isn't blocked by the much more influential water vapor. But that still doesn't require looking at feedback loops, much less cell modeling.

To be honest that uncertainty about exactly how things will turn out is what makes me most concerned about global warming. Better to play Russian roulette with 6 blanks that'll ruin the hearing in one ear than with 4 blanks, one entirely empty chamber, and one actual bullet. IPCC forecasts are bad but they're not unbearably bad. The real danger is that thing'll go far worse even if we can also plausibly hope that they'll be far better.
> There is no way plastic BBs are considered ammunition.

"Under Chinese law, one should be given a criminal penalty if he or she illegally owns more than 20 military bullets, 1,000 pellets for air guns or 200 non-military bullets." -- https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1903040562/

For more on how strict Chinese gun laws are see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#China

> But if China does they better stop the illegal export of BBs and airsoft guns to the USA[...]

Manufacturing with an export license isn't the same as private ownership. You may be interested to know that the US exports a lot of arms you're not allowed to buy privately.
There was once a thing called Google Wave which would have got pretty close in it's proto form, and had it continued being developed probably would have allowed this and more.
Sure, but it’s not a cut and dry full exoneration of Coalfire, like everybody is claiming. They clearly exceeded the bounds of their contract if this is true.
As far as I can tell, Stripe invented this type of documentation that you see everywhere else now.
Our drone with deep learning noticed your front door has an old style doorbell with no camera. Would you like us to notify Amazon to ship you a Ring doorbell?
> State government agencies can only override county governments when there is specific state law allowing them to do so.

I think that's only true for a few old states with some oddities dating back to grants from The Crown.

For everybody else, I'm pretty sure the local government is mostly at the whim of the state government.

Now most states don't do that because it screws things up badly. However, there have been some high profile cases in Texas, for example, where a state judge comes with the Rangers, displaces the local judge and starts arresting everybody.
> I hope that's an accurate summary of your view.

It's not, really.

I object to data about me or my use of my machines being collected without my permission at all. Past that, I object to it being shared with others. What it's used for is beside the point.

Marketing companies come into it simply because they are the most egregious bad actors when it comes to those two points.
If you stopped subsidizing corn... meat price will go way up.

This is good for the environment.
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> ... but it floated as high as 1.26 in 2013.

Just before they abandoned the peg as too hard to maintian.
>Again: the notion that a weapon is an "assault weapon" due to grips, sights, and flash suppressors is an artifact of a political fight from the 1980s, one the firearms lobby won handily.

You might want to check your facts: the federal assault weapons ban was passed in 1994 (with a 10-year sunset clause) and prohibited guns based on grips, sights, and flash suppressors.

The firearms lobby certainly didn't "win" this one; though you could consider it one of their victories that the ban wasn't renewed (which it has been in perpetuity in certain states).

>given a history of opposition from firearms advocates.

You are aware that it's the opposition to firearms advocates that continue to parrot these definitions, correct? You'd think that if they were wrong (and they are) that they'd've wisened up in 30 years, but since fundamentally this is about what voters themselves think that "assault weapons" are rather than what they actually are, they have not.
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It isn't polarized, it's just an IR filter.
1) Was the beetle introduced to the area by humans (which is the case for a number of pests)

2) Were the trees killed made susceptible to the beetle because of heat stress, possibly caused by human driven climate change? (this is the case for some large scale infestations)

Overall, the point is; yes, where imbalances in nature are triggered by natural causes, there is no issue with that (earthquake, hurricane, long term climate oscillation).

Where imbalances in nature are triggered by humans, (IMHO) we should quite naturally regard that as a negative since a) we are intelligent enough to find ways of avoiding environmental degradation and b) Environmental degradation has both consequences to other forms of life as well as other humans.

I guess you're playing devils advocate here, but you're hardly adding to the conversation.
No it's not between two trusted parties. If those parties disagree, they have recourse to the blockchain, and so don't have to fully trust each other.

The lightning network couldn't be built without having a lower level trustless party. Bitcoin actually lets us bootstrap trust.

More thoughts on bootstrapping trust:

https://www.nemil.com/crypto/why-cryptocontracts-matter.html
Some disabilities are not black and white--you may be able to drive a car only 20 minutes at a time due to a disability, but with say adaptive cruise control/lane keeping you could drive it 60 minutes at a time.
The world's largest, most expensive military does not make mistakes. If they admit a mistake, it's to cover up something far more nefarious.
I don't think we can conclude that at all. Firearms advocates have loudly and coherently pointed out just how nonsensical this all is to anyone who'd listen. It's your country's gun control activists who think these rules make sense. They're the ones who grab pictures of scary-looking black .22LR bolt-action rifles and write tweets about how terrible it is that 18 year olds can buy them, then get their media pals to smear their opponents for mocking this. They're the ones who contrast those scary guns with the old-fashioned wooden rifles their relatives used to use for hunting. They're the ones who blame the repeal of that nonsensical assault weapon ban for mass shootings. They're the ones who outright take pride in their ignorance about guns, to the point that I'm not sure it's possible to be accepted as pro-gun-control if you actually care about whether what you're saying is accurate. American gun control laws are the way they are because of the American gun control movement.
Yea, I had two public companies as clients for my consulting business, one had the largest UniVerse install I had ever seen running literally their supply chain, inventory and invoicing applications. They were running ~$5 billion/year off it, but I know talking to IBM at the time that was far from the largest install. Their original argument was similar about concerns of performance, reliability etc. A lot of that was coming from their UniVerse/Pick engineers that didn't have current skills sets talking about how Oracle and SQL was slow and horrible etc. They were just out of touch with current solutions and partially burned by an Oracle applications project gone horrible (don't they all), all of which is why we were brought in by the CTO's office.

We replaced their solution with Postgres, proper caching and clear separation of concerns/layers and they went from queries taking 3-4 second average (some being 30-40 second normally) to being done in 500ms-1s average. Another thing we fixed, some of their data had to be batch processed overnight everyday for like pricing adjustments on the UniVerse system, because concurrency was a major problem for them. After our changes they did real-time pricing adjustments along with a bunch of other similar things. We built them a proper OLTP data solution with a data warehouse with cubes for detailed analytics & reports.

I don't envy anyone having to still work in one of these systems, so many times simple things you could do in a modern system in short durations will turn into a nightmare and a huge drawn out project in Pick/U2. I definitely don't agree with the performance argument, I fought that one for years with different clients and vendors who felt U2 was so fast, and with a properly designed RDBMS I always could beat their performance, especially when concurrency was a key factor. Locking on U2 systems is a complete cluster most of the time for high concurrency systems.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Prepending 4 spaces is intended to be used for posting source code, where automatic line wrapping is undesirable.
I think you've misread me. I acknowledge that the FAWB was based on those irrelevant details. My point is, that's because the original proposals were beaten back by the firearms lobby.
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Changes to management: today's management and team structure may be friendly towards remote engineers and/or a distributed team, but changes to management or caused by team growth may create a situation where being remote is harder. I've been there: a fully remote team started hiring everybody from the same 2 different cities, then split in two teams where the majority of people on each team was local plus they had a few old-timers being remote.

Processes: things work great when all the process are remote-first. When you have processes that are local-first but have exceptions for remotes, things get worse. For example: one of our meetings used to be phone-only: everybody would dial in, even if they were in the office, since there was no room reserved for it. It worked great for remotes, since everybody was remote in that situation. As soon as things changed and the team was mostly concentrated in a single office, they started reserving the room for the majority of the people and then dialing through the Cisco thing so remotes could participate. It turns our a lot of the communication started using non-verbal channels such as gestures, faces, sometimes people would talk too quiet for the microphone to pickup, so the whole experience for the remotes was very downgraded, to the point they started being second class citizens in the meeting. And from that, things escalate very quickly to 'remotes are second-class employees'.
Ask HN: How do you tag AWS resources?
How do you tag your resources on AWS (EC2 instances, S3 buckets, users, etc)?

Any recommended tools or techniques (e.g. IaC like terraform)?

AWS recommend a standard format shown here: https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/aws-tagging-strategies/ but I was wondering if anyone has alternative standards or best practices..

Thanks!
That is their behavior although, including laws passed in california against 'assault rifles'. It's an equivalent to banning body kits and spoilers on cars because it makes them look more scary.
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I loathe to point out that birds which never existed cannot suffer more than birds that do exist.

Perhaps a better measure would be genetic diversity? A more diverse gene pool is more likely to survive the unexpected.
The Wizard and the Prophet, which I highly recommend, had a good section on the history of our worries about global warming. As per the article we've understood that increasing atmospheric CO2 would cause global warming for a very long time. What people thought for many decades, though, was that the CO2 we produced would mostly be absorbed by the oceans keeping the atmospheric concentration from getting too high. Figuring out that no, secondary effects would cause the oceans to re-emit that CO2 back into the atmosphere took many decades, into the 1960s I believe.
We did export significant amounts of production while reducing new infrastructure investment.

But even taking that into account it actually happened. Electronics, lighting, and appliances got vastly more efficient. Aircraft, AC, and automobiles improved though to a lesser extent. Even when you look a fossil fuel use per lb of food grown you see a huge impact. Further, many services like medicine are simply not major energy consumers.

PS: This is really a continuation of a long term trend. Humanity has always harnessed most of it’s energy extremely inefficiency via plant photosynthesis. However, the amount of food per acre has steadily grown across thousands of years.
Definitely less than not letting their cats outside.
Note: on HN, just two spaces marks off code.
Nope, I used to work there on non-ads, so I know that they are not doing anything nefarious and also that targeted ads have higher conversion rates.

I often have packages stolen or undelivered, so Ads and advertising companies are like #9999 on my list of things that I'm worried about when I think about deliveries.