skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be true if methane had been higher than we thought all along. That's not the case, since it's not hard to measure the methane level.

What's happening is that the methane level is increasing faster than people expected. It could be from permafrost melting, or leaks from natural gas infrastructure, or various other things.
Source? Because pythagoras never wrote anything down. That was kinda his thing.

This is fake, unless it is from the greek pythagoras who was a athletic trainer, in which case your attribution is still dodgy.

My source: the pythagoren sourcebook.
When you read this article, mentally substitute "nitrate" when they say "nitrogen".
The US has a written constitution and list of amendments; one of the downsides of this (vs. the largely cobbled-together unwritten constitution that the UK operates under) is that you can make arguments that hew to the letter of the law, rather than its intent.

The current situation re: mass shootings and proliferation of guns is that the Supreme Court parsed the awkardly-phrased 2nd amendment as mandating that ownership and possession of weapons be completely unrestricted and unabridged.

Part of it is that the version of the 2A that was passed by the states differs from the one ratified by the first Congress.

The original text:

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The ratified text:

> A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The ultimate solution is to amend the 2nd amendment, but that would require substantial effort and consent of all states.
I should have clarified my point a bit. I'm not debating ones prerogative to do it. But we as nerds know the things we make can and are used by "bad"* actors but typically say it's better for the common good so we should keep it. Things like encryption, heavy math libraries in the world of nuclear physics, rocket science, VPNs, etc.

So when we discover one bad person using our software and subsequently yank it, aren't we being a bit hypocritical?

* I quote that because not everyone agrees that DHS and ICE are bad actors and want to avoid a political tangent
If WeWork fails it will likely be because people don’t need office space (i.e. a recession).
Data seizures of this kind used to be based on probable cause. Now the probable cause is “living on this planet in this time”. Like, “you're a suspect, we just don't know of what yet”.
The exFAT Deception
People have a hard time suspending believe when watching porn.
and for the rest of us there's still M-x doctor
They could put a fee on it, just like they do for cards and in-game items, then share with the publishers/developers.

Sell a game for $10, you take $9, valve take $0.50 and gives $0.50 to the publishers.

I see this working well for games that are no longer available to buy on the "new games" store. For example, the Deadpool game, It's no longer for sale, but I have a copy the I son't play anymore. I could sell it for a few bucks for someone who wants it.
Browser extensions are becoming a notable security vulnerability, with many high profile extensions falling into the hands of (or being sold to!) bad actors. The arbitrary code execution method of ad blocking (e.g. uBlock) is very flexible but it means that without ongoing comprehensive code review using one puts you at risk if the extension ever changes hands or has a backdoor added.

Apple's method avoids this issue by never letting the extension see the page contents, it only provides match lists of what to block that the browser then enforces. Even if the extension became malicious it has no access to private data on the webpages it is ad blocking on.
Think the size of this incident prompted immediate reporting, so I'd trust it to be fairly accurate in scope, but typically statistical sourcing is done by UNAMA (cited in article) and I'd consider them authoritative and accurate.

To your point, typically the casualty verification (which UNAMA is tasked with) takes a very long time. Here's an example of three UNAMA reports stating three widely different casualty figures for aerial operations in 2011:

- 2011 report: deaths and injuries at 305 (pg 24)

- 2012 report: deaths and injuries at 353 (pg 31)

- 2014 report: deaths and injuries at 415 (pg 94)

These reports were released years apart and reflect revised figures for 2011. It simply takes that long to verify accounts and corroborate reports, reconcile conflicting information. It will take years to get a definitive confirmation for this incident.

Here's something seen in the UNAMA reports that's more harrowing than drone weapon releases mentioned in the article. When a drone operator merely reports activity, a typical response to it is that the local forces send out a team to investigate the location. They do this at night. Vehicles pull up, spotlights come on and distorted loudspeakers come on shouting screams at people to stay inside and wait. Disoriented and confused civilians, trying to make sense of the noise, do what any normal human beings do, which is go outside to see what this is all about. At that point, even children get shot because they're contravening instructions. They become a number in a report.

This is death by process.
For those looking for a related alternative/supplement.. consider a privacy DNS solution. I've really been liking NextDNS lately. Lets you customize a ton of stuff:

It launched on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012687

https://nextdns.io
There's more than one cause. A large chunk of the increased methane emissions come from China industralising in a particularly dirty, coal-burning way and releasing loads of methane in the process: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-china-methane-emissions.html
I get that you have a gripe with Saudi geo politics. And it’s probably one I agree with, but I’m really just trying to say that blowing random innocents can vary in the severity of repercussions and that you’re not “falling for propaganda” or following racist ideas if you acknowledge this- and that moral and practical concerns are separate things.
That's one source. The article mentions others. People are trying to figure out which sources are most significant at the moment.
Yep - This is exactly what we are using right now. It is still a bit slower compared to having it pre-installed on something like a persistent Jenkins instance, but it's such a marginal difference that we will probably overlook it assuming that new caching features roll out eventually.
God I hate Oath's awful privacy modal.
Like the other comment, I don’t think that the US gov would set a precedent that you could publicly release many of their top secret programs and only go away for less than 6 years. And that’s also with any public outcry.

He’d still be locked up. Otherwise, you’d have a string of other “heroes” leaking everything they could.
> Or is this just one of those cases where we just have to shrug off and say life sucks sometimes?

Uh, no. Unless you enjoy someone snooping your mom's correspondences and social media accounts.

Otherwise, cancel the credit card and act fast to take back her accounts. Get her a password manager and help create strong and secure passwords for the accounts.
Tigers and bears don't seem to have any emotional strife about their position in the food chain. Don't think we should feel too bad about it either. There are real concerns to address about sustainability though.
De-Commoditizing Your SaaS
I used to fancy myself a starving artist (emphasis on "starving").

These pictures suffer from a common newbie-artist problem!

One of the concepts of early stage drawing I noticed is "symbol drawing". This is where a person knows how an eye should look, and where an eye should go on the face, and so draws an eye on a face-shaped oval. They repeat this for the other eye, a nose, a mouth, etc. They are often sad with the results.

A person who practices incorrectly will try to do photorealistic eyes, noses, mouths, etc but use the same 2D composition technique. No matter how realistically they can render components, their composition is off because they are ignoring the structure of a face that causes subtle differences in the shape of each of the components when projected onto a sheet of paper.

Our mind is so capable of 3D modelling that when we look at a face we don't notice the changes in perspective leading to changes in component shape and shading. The great artist skill is to build up those 3D to 2D projections and avoid the 2D composition (except in stylistic choices).

I suspect that the networks rendering these faces, and the underlying biological phenomena they are designed against, are "symbol" recognizers, rather than "structural" recognizers.
uBlock Origin can be configured to do much more than a simple list based filter (like EasyList, etc). [1] It's not quite the same as detecting, but it's incredibly configurable, and that functionality can't be used when list based filtering is all that's allowed.

And I'm aware PiHole is just DNS filtering, but an extra layer of blocking is useful.

1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering
What do you use as a DBA? I see some DBA's turn to Toad, but I'm not a domain expert in that direction so I don't know what the go-to's are these days.

Anecdotal: one of my teammates used AppDynamics to track down that our Oracle DBA didn't enable the fix for the LOB extent allocation bug (#6376915) in our 12c database, which manifested as an application performance issue and the DBA team insisted there was nothing wrong on the Oracle layer. I'm thus interested in what DBA's use to monitor so I can better monitor the databases I rely upon myself.
We have a PM who is filmed responding to a protester in front of dozens of press and TV cameras at an event with "there's no press here", while hearing constant shutter clicks audible in the background. That he's completely tone deaf dealing with the EU, our neighbours or electorate shouldn't be the least bit surprising.

That said, since Irish independence there has been a good degree of desired closeness between the two countries, not least the passport free freedom of movement and voting, which survived the worst of the NI violence. Looking back that can seem surprising. Record numbers of Brits have been applying for Irish passports (a remarkably high number are eligible) since the Brexit vote.
Examining the Expanding Web of Chinese and Russian Information Controls
Ha, case in point. A technical person talking themselves out of a hypothetical situation where they pay, now imagine everyone else.
I've used this and donated anonymously when I could afford to do so, but I don't have the coding chops to actually help you out.
Sounds pretty cheap. What brand is it?
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So what do you mean by "worthy"? Higher market share or some missing features? I'm obviously biased as I never left for competition but I don't have any complaints, neither on desktop nor with the Android version.

On Windows or Linux, IMO there is no competitive advantage on Chrome vs Firefox; However on macOS, Safari has a very big competitive advantage that Apple has done lots of integrations to macOS; it’s not just something like IE where Microsoft used private APIs to be the default browser; but that macOS users tends to have a big bias on native apps developed with the Cocoa API, with a native looking interface.
Both Chrome & Firefox is a cross platform browser that really doesn’t really care whether the macOS version is integrated well, hence having a very outstanding look compared to other apps.
What I think they're saying is that with Adblockers, they can phone home which ads they block, URLs they see, etc.

Content blockers impose rules at the outset and the rule generator won't see what the URLs/content actually is.

The way I would think of it would be like "let me see what you're seeing and I'll let you know what to let through" vs "here are a list of things you shouldn't let through but I don't need to know about what the hit rate actually is".

Although I could be misunderstanding the implementation.
There's already a news on front page at the moment which says bird population is declining in North America. The comments section mention that it's not just North America but also Britain, France and also that it could be due to declining insect population.

We rarely get this kind of data from developing countries, which means these studies are rarely or not at all performed simply because they don't have resources to focus on these causes. We have no idea how much worse the situation is.

Here we have methane levels increasing fast. There was another news that the third pole of earth i.e. Himalaya is melting rapidly. I am sure there are plenty more that I have missed.

Do we need more evidence to act? What are we waiting for?
I'm going to pass on this one. How is /etc not 'extensible'? You just add a new file to the directory. Reinventing the windows registry, but this time in JSON, is a lateral move that is only going to complicate maintaining systems.

For user level configuration, you already have too many competing mechanisms for doing this already, and this one requires systemd level integration making it much more coupled to the operating system and system in general.
Have a link on installing wsl 2 on 1903? Last I checked it was only on insider builds.
Sure but if all your infrastructure scripts are built with kubernetes in mind switching from one provider to another becomes much less labor intensive than if they are built with Azure or Amazon in mind. At least in theory.
People who grew up in the soviet union might disagree with your self image.
So your are saying that (i) the capital expense of a natural gas plant is cheap enough and (ii) the operating, marginal cost of the natural gas is expensive enough that at times it pays to idle the gas plant and use wind/solar?

I smell the anti-CO2 crowd, subsidies, etc. But even if this is wrong, I suspect that now gas is too cheap since at too many well heads it is just burned off to get the oil and with no good way to collect, compress, and move the gas. When the pipelines are in place, then the price of gas at the well heads will go up to compete with, say, coal, and we will be back to coal and gas and less in renewables.
The first game I could find on Amazon and steam is F1 2019. Its £34.99 on Amazon and £44.99 on steam. The legends edition is £54.99 on both platforms.
I think that's the point..
Thermodynamics doesn’t in the sense that entropy always continues... but that’s not really relevant. Climate change does have undo buttons.

Things like biodiversity loss may not.
> Seems like most kids today (10-20?) are not making that difference, instead

You realize that every generation has said that about the previous one? The details of what they are complaining about change slightly, but the attitude is universal to all generations.
Why so many apps are asking to use Bluetooth on iOS 13
I'm all for such a course, but watch out for region-specific advice. I live in a high-altitude desert, and some typical permaculture techniques work fine, others are complete failures. If the course doesn't get into which techniques work in which environments, I'd encourage you to ask the instructors to look into it more and add it to their curriculum.
yeah they're attaching Bloomberg specifically in a couple of the posts too.

I wonder if someone somewhere has a large vested interest in fossil fuels and is annoyed about the BNEF and Bloomberg's mostly positive reporting on renewables.
Australian Aboriginal Flag Mess Is Getting Worse – All Thanks to Copyright
Tim Ferris has an entire chapter on this in The Four Hour Work Week.
https://epiphany.pub/

My frontend is vue.js

My backend is in a home made c++ framework. I'm rewriting it to achieve even higher performance and concurrency. I think my choice of c++ helps me save server resources, and it can be deployed easily. (just scp a folder of a few binaries)

my database is mongodb for now. However, I want to switch to postgresql.
That sounds bad. Where can I learn more about it?
I suspect the reason digital stores don't want to allow a secondary market is because market forces would actually cause prices to drop. I'd sell 75% of my Steam library for whatever the current bid price is right this moment. Even if I just get 20 cents total, that's 20 more cents of value than I'll ever get from those games again.
http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html

Little tutorial previously posted on HN teaching you how to spot the fakes. The tell is usually around the hairline for me.
It depends on how storage tech develops, but natural gas turbines will continue to play a role for the foreseeable future.

However, that role will increasingly be as contingency/backup for times of scarcity rather than as a continuous baseload. They will only be used during demand peaks that correspond with unfavourable weather conditions, or other unusual scenarios.

This is similar to the current role of the UK's few remaining coal plants.

(I should also note that natural gas use is already in decline in the UK, as is gas turbine generating capacity)
New Huawei Mate 30 Pro Leak
I feel this is almost universal though, though I'll agree London seems especially bad. I generally go to finer hotels to do my business – not only are they usually cleaner and more hospitable, they also tend to come with a decent bar to fill back up again.

Also the lack of trash cans (because terrorists, people tell me) was something that annoyed me to no end while I lived in London.
If you are realizing now that you are doing it - you can see this at any time and adjust accordingly.
I can't believe I have never heard of this before. This is incredible work.
>I must admit the the terminology isn't very clear. A Safari "content-blocker" app sends a list to Safari, and Safari blocks it. A regular blocker (like uBO) blocks content itself. Safari content blockers aren't all bad, they are more secure in that they can't possibly collect your browsing history (not that uBO does), but lack the level of customisation and power that a regular blocker like uBO can provide.

It's nice that random extensions can't peek at your browsing history, but on the other hand, you have to trust that Apple won't decide to ignore any block rules. What if one day they make a deal with Disney and now all Disney ads are on the permanent do-not-block list?
You can't drop nuclear as if that's an averagely priced alternative that you're comparing to.
I'm not saying it's free. Sheesh. I'm saying that there's some point on the price curve where it becomes cheaper than nuclear, even for base load. Now, that point may never happen. Or maybe it's already happened, and will be scaled out over the next couple of decades.

The cost of PV solar has dropped over 80% in the past decade, and we don't know what the bottom is yet.
I wish some thought would be given to alternate widths for monospaced fonts.

Once I got used to the narrow width of Iosevka[†], all these other admittedly wonderful terminal/code fonts lost their appeal to me. Everything else just looks fat now.

[†]https://typeof.net/Iosevka
Executive Coach or Therapist? It’s Getting Harder to Tell the Difference
The more I think about this, the more it sounds generally correct to me. It should be proper that a "no resale rights version" is offered at a cheaper price compared to a higher priced "this is an asset you can resell" just like an N64 cartridge or etc.

There are benefits to both models and the user and company should have the freedom to offer both.
Why is my comparison absurd? Let’s say that the Chinese drone operators thought they were targeting an ISIS cell. (This is, in fact, what I had in mind.)

Anyway, I don’t have to imagine. There are, in fact, lots of people in this country who want to kill people for having the wrong birthplace or sexual orientation. One of them massacred twenty people just a few weeks ago.
The website is pretty transparent about what is paid. The features page has some features listed as part of the "pro" subscription. It seems that the only paid additions are automated rule updates, a whitelist, and early access to new features.

https://www.magiclasso.co/#features
> We can't keep pretending this is still a Democracy when we have a completely unaccountable NSA/CIA/FBI that seems to repeatedly hide their mistakes and the dubious legality of their sources & methods behind the classification and national security walls.

And people still call Snowden a traitor for revealing this kind of practice in 2013.
This is morally reprehensible on several levels.

I cannot in good conscience use Chef now.
Sadly this legislation largely enjoys crossparty support, i.e. it's the mainstream view at the moment. That sort of thing takes generations to change.
> Cooperating or not, by being in Russia, he's helping Russia, which is why Russia has agreed to put him up.

How is he helping Russia?
This is from 2014. I know several VoIP companies today that are using Stripe successfully.
C with classes, which would be comparable to pre 1.0 rust, started in 1979, so 40 years ago. The first commercial C++ and the book were in 1985 and 34 years ago. I'd guess that's a good 1.0 milestone, comparable with rust's 4 years.
It would be interesting to mix in real photos then have another AI try to pick out fakes from real ones. They can learn from each other.
I'm assuming "the demographics of the people we hope to hire" means demographics that match the population at large. They should have been more clear about what that meant.

Nevertheless, if the demographic profile of their hires doesn't correspond to the demographics of the population they're embedded in, it's reasonable to question whether 1) they're unfairly excluding people and 2) the extent to which the people they're excluding could have contributed.
We should act on the insect apocalypse and do things like ban neonicinoids, etc. But connecting this to climate change is an extreme stretch considering species decline has been happening for a long time before the industrial revolution. It’s simply not attributable to CO2 and greenhouse gasses
Paris is pretty bad. I was busting at the Austerlitz rail station, the only public toilet was pay to use and I had no cash and limited language ability. I ended up walking to a nearby McDonalds. London is very similar, what limited public bathrooms there are tend to be coin operated.
Because they’re a communist regime?
Ask an electrical engineer not me.

The basic idea is you go to high voltage DC at the generation end, run a long ways (across states), turn the DC to AC and then run that through a transformer. It isn't as efficient as a transformer, but it isn't far behind so you more than get it back by the smaller losses in transmission.
"I hope everyone in this thread jumping ship to Firefox in a panic enjoys their shorter battery life."

10 hours on my Chromebook using FireFox Focus and uBO vs 7 hours using Chrome.

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring in Toronto. All Eng Roles. React/Node
I completely agree! I came to Iosevka for the looks, but now I don't want to leave because of the width. :D
I think this is part of the answer to free speech absolutists. Even someone who isn't ideologically bought into this stuff is traumatized and damaged simply by exposure as a researcher. It is not possible to treat this content, even the textual hate screed rather than graphic form, as part of "the marketplace of ideas". It has effects.
That's true for infrared radiation of a frequency that isn't absorbed by CO2 (or other greenhouse gasses). But a photon at a CO2 absorbtion frequency makes it only a few feet at ground level before being absorbed again.
Think of mixing colors.

If you mix 50/50 red & blue, obviously that's purple.

When it's 80/20 red & blue, that looks more red than blue but looks purple but not the same as above.

When it's 20/80 red & blue, that looks more blue than red but looks purple but not the same as above.

It's a classification using a gradient, not an integer so yes, the boundaries are hard to tell but are still there.