skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reforestation is not a viable solution to climate change. This should be a wake up call to anyone who thinks planting trees will fix anything. As global temperature rises, these kinds of wildfires will become more and more frequent and we are not equipped to stop them. At this point scientists aren't even sure if forests are a net carbon sink or source after accounting for increasing wildfires.

At best, forests are not carbon sinks, they are carbon stores. The only way to turn them into sinks is to cut down fully grown trees and do something with them that will prevent the release of their carbon content back into the environment. If they burn or if they rot, they release all the carbon back into the environment.

The scariest thing about climate change isn't the deniers, it's that most of the people who identify as activists, are active towards ineffective measures. If global climate policy doesn't involve a massive rollout of nuclear to power electrochemical sequestration alongside a steep carbon tax, we might as well just roll over now.

An average of 5 billion people has spent an average of 100 years burning various fossil fuels to provide their energy which brought Co2 from ~300ppm to ~400ppm. There's no way to solve climate change without repaying that energy debt.

https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7....
>should buses

No. They are generally safe and people NEED to get around to live. They don't NEED to get high though.

>cycling also be banned? How about alcohol?

Yes, definitely. Both things are risky and bad. But that would be hard to achieve. Since weed has never been legal (at least here), things can go on the way they are.
With 900MHz and 32MB RAM it is more powerful than PCs when Doom launched (around 50MHz and 8MB RAM), so I guess it should be capable running Doom.
That's in EUR, 90k EUR is ~100k USD.
Another similar idea is mission hedging.

If there is a company that you believe is causing some harm, you can buy shares of that company and donate any proceeds to a charity that cancels out that harm.

For example, if you are worried about climate change, you can buy shares of an oil company and pledge to donate the proceeds to an organization lobbying for a carbon tax.

If the oil company does well, the carbon tax lobby will need more financing, which you'll be in a position to provide as a shareholder of the oil company.

This idea was developed by economist Brigitte Roth Tran: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2017042pap... .

Hauke Hillebrandt also has a great write up: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iZp7TtZdFyW8eT5dA/...
I'm a Windows user 10, and have never even heard of this feature before.

The standard search feature in the start menu is atrocious, at least as bad as it was in Vista and 7. I actually stopped using it years ago, because it just.does.not.work. I honestly don't know how such a terrible feature has been allowed to remain in Windows for so long.

At least from the linked article, it sounds like this might solve the problem - really keen to try it out!
Wanted to state the same. I get angry when I have clients talking about their "major release days" every three months and how its a good operating procedure to have this dedicated day to change all their systems at once.

Robust IT needs decoupling and small incremental changes. This will outperform any coordinated release scheduling in terms of reliability, if implemented correctly.
Haha I like this sly plug
This is the bread-and-butter of what Linux distributions do. A large number of larger software are slightly altered in order to integrate this or fix that, but they are close enough to the original that there's little confusion in practice that e.g. Debian's Mesa is still Mesa, and Debian's kernel is still Linux, despite alterations.
It still does the same thing, but now in a non-general, distro-specific way. Hundreds of distributions customize their software like that: for example, I believe it is actually more common to find gnome-terminal with patched-in transparency than the vanilla one without it.
I made a course on how to turn Figma designs into native app with Bravo Studio
The job of a good manager is to balance the needs of the company (represented via their manager) with the needs of their team.

When its top-down only, something's unhealthy.
It seems that's literally his job and this is a hobby. Some people paint, others make business cards that run Linux :)
I've been in the IT industry for close to 20 years now. Outsourcing as a factor is not significant in project failures.

Also, most outsourcing companies have been around for a while and are doing fairly well.
is there any study or experiment that goes with this story?
Interested why the author would fuzz out the phone number on their business card?
I have been out of big bank IT for eight years now. Clearly I don’t miss it. For one programme we had to produce upfront estimates. Clearly anything we produced would be wildly inaccurate. But we tried. The IT director then cut the estimate in half and added another hundred people to it. Cue complete chaos and a massive delay. That was the calibre of senior management back then. I doubt it’s much better today.
There is plenty of point, especially in GPGPU world. Register pressure by approach you showed would absolutely trash the performance.

There is no silver bullet for this. You must balance performance and accuracy.
AR/VR is still the next big thing. The hardware only recently became good enough to host a killer-app.
What Is a Service Mesh, and Why Do You Need One?
>It's not conventional thinking, but this is how trade works.

Trading cars for migrant workers is exactly how trade doesn't work.

You're talking nonsense here. EU has a trade and migration deal between the EU member states, not with India.
Indeed, I think $130k might go a lot further in Salt Lake City than $500k elsewhere
You're surely on to something, but then scope creep (of personal stuff) would put some people out of work :) Otherwise, crap jobs exist for a reason, and not everyone can afford what's optimal for them.
Initially the startup was a service company which later pivoted into customer medical product. Previous contracts were upheld, while new were piling on even after pivot. Note that this is in France, a lot of funding comes from 'collaboration' contracts between laboratories and companies, often including up to 5 different entities. All this means that you are stuck in a whirlpool of quarterly meetings. With a tiny team if your product needs even very little support for each client it piles up. On top of that this was a medical, connected, product, people have different expectations for devices with a stamp on them.

So now you have a team with about 2.5 collaboration projects per engineer, who are at the same time the tech support and SREs. With several new products in a pipeline. All of it wrapped in a bow of medical certification.

One think that startups should have in my opinion is focus. If you have enough funding to go for a moonshot drop everything else and go for it. Don't spend too much time hedging because you will never get to the goal. If it doesn't work out, too bad, but at least do everything you can to get there. Especially when cash strapped.
This was my understanding on how these things worked as well. But again, not a lawyer.

In Kubernetes-land, the code is all standard Apache 2 but the trademark is governed by a custom set of policies the community decided on.

For example, companies must pass the conformance program before they can use the name in marketing.
Impressive work. But I'd ask for a few leds with some easy to use method (can they be a device, like dev/led1 ?). The Arduino has one in port 13 (usually), and it is very useful for useful for minimal projects, like a blinking led.

(Bonus points for a few leds, so you can show the Knight Rider animation, or a 7-segment display.)
Spotted at Anti-CAA Protests, German Student at IIT Madras Told to Leave India
Show HN: Facereplace – Use face recognition to replace faces in images
It is not specific to finance, I would say the majority of IT operations are like this. Why? Because this is a new profession and ignorance.
The only thing more toxic than the mold in the apartment are the comments here.

Yeah it sounds like Trent could have handled the situation better. It also sounds like he didn't and is now pretty screwed. There's no need to pile on.

In the end I just don't think this post belongs on HN but I guess upvotes don't lie.
regarding bleach and mold - tldr don't use bleach on drywall

https://homeguides.sfgate.com/bleach-thing-clean-mold-off-wa...
The importance of Gamedays for testing reliability
Indian Government Is Proposing to Get a Grip on Digital Media and Personal Data
Anything that can be abused is finds its population to do so. Banning is not a solution though, but more research and education on the subject. Think about how alcohol abuse and even sugar abuse are treated by society: people are aware of the dangers yet some can’t stop having them.
should be safe, in theory, sure. But in practice?
Juul is making the vapor device though. The user is free to charge it with whatever liquid he/she desires
Yeah for a while a few years back some airlines would include the camera view of the aircraft from the in seat screen.

With the transition to wifi entertainment that seems to have been lost, but would be pretty interesting to make a timelapse or be able to create a personalized dashboard from the raw data.
well confidence in one's decisions is something many do not have so they start rationalizing after the fact; sometimes just to themselves! Then it becomes a situation where rationalizations never seem to have an end, there is always one more, because they are not sure in themselves.

we all have these acquaintances who must justify every little thing after they have done it because they lack confidence in themselves. Learning to be honest with yourself is the first step in a long line of personality traits that are beneficial for yourself and those around you.

so if you want to try weed, just say you do. If you want to buy that car and you have the means to do so and you know you can afford it, then just admit that you wanted it.
While I agree that this needs to be the future, nearly all current development shows that this isn't the case - worldwide. I couldn't name a country with a strong software industry where it isn't concentrated in one or two large cities.
> Assume hostile users (security-wise).

Ah, a personal favorite of mine which often makes other people uncomfortable.

1. Users are like Marines, if it can be broken, it will be broken. If it's use is not clearly marked, it will be used incorrectly. If it can be fucked (literally or figuratively), it will be fucked.

2. Users are malicious and are actively trying to backdoor everything you do. Why? Because it's the first thing I do with a new product / what I do with the competitions products.

3. It is the developers responsibility to mitigate the above cases.
I don't mean to be negative, but this website is pretty horrible to use. I can't even get to the content that is running off the right side of the page. Viewing any of the trends results in scrolling within scrolling with no scroll bars and, well, just horrible.
This is a fun idea, but it's a shame to see them funding the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is quite questionable.

John Stossel: The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam (https://reason.com/video/the-southern-poverty-law-center-sca...)

Megan McArdle: Southern Poverty Law Center Gets Creative to Label "Hate Groups" (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-09-07/southe...)
IMNAL. How about GNU asks Mozilla for a permission to call any modifications it makes "GNU Rust"?
One can just come here illegally; everyone else is doing it. Seems most of the tech hubs are sanctuary cities, so your odds of deportation are nil.
The doorbell story made me stop and question the article.

You can get a digital door bell on Amazon for $15. It didn’t occur to the author to do so for 9 months?

Edit: I didn’t want to imply that the author is lying. Hopefully he is able to get healthy again. But when someone is asking for money and their story has some odd holes in it, I think it’s only natural to be skeptical.
Sample size one anecdote here: Having a child made me more focused, ambitious and productive at work. I had a moment of lucidity where I decided to drop all my tech related hobbies and instead split the new-found time between caring for my child and doubling down my efforts at work.

Having kids can reset your priorities to the benefit of your employer.
Any delay will certainly be considered by the passenger. By _this_ passenger at any rate!
It also costs a good deal less for a band to put out an album than it does to make a season of game of thrones.
You still support the company with buying their shares though. Seems like a stupid idea.
The more I think about it, no - it's not.

For one thing, many of my professors (in fact, probably all of them) were very theory focused, and had very little experience implementing electronics. I think they figured that practical topics like this were too specific to lecture about, and we'd pick it up on the job anyway. I'd have to assume that mindset is not wholly exclusive to my undergraduate degree.

For another thing, I find that commonly, large employers are frequently not doing much to train their new grad EEs, or even let them near much design work. As a result, they miss out on practical experience that would teach them about concepts like decoupling.
>Letting poor people compete with you on fair terms does not increase inequality.

It certainly contributes to brain drain which helps maintain inequality between countries.

That is, unless there are fiscal transfers to India I'm unaware of to help pay for the educations their government pays for and western employers use...
As far as I know University of California system makes a good revenue on the IP they created
DNA works like a dimmer switch, not as an on-off switch though.
Weirdly there is no "git stash pop --abort" to roll back when a merge conflict occurs during stash pop.
Except the GMO data definitely can't be applied to glyphosate. There is no reason GMOs should have the same metabolic effects as glyphosate.
Also the Russian use of chemical and radiological weapons against individuals within the UK.
I agree if by 'beat a bath to your door' you meant - send a battle ship or two, close down all trade routes to and from the islands and declare it a terror state, in need of freedom and nukilear mat extraction. Sounds more plausible.
Trees are also oxygen producers. I'm curious how oxygen would be produced around the world if forests decline dramatically. I think we need to consider more than whether or not carbon gets stored.
Yes, that is exactly the bullying being discussed in this thread
It sounds to me like there were 2000 reported bugs. You likely had better coverage due to smaller scope.
> Another group that the Southern Poverty Law Center smears is the Ruth Institute. The group argues that gays shouldn't have the same rights to adopt. But does that make them haters? No, says founder Jennifer Morse: "I have no problem with gay people. That's not the issue."

This quote from your article seems to indicate it's just people who either don't realise they're bigots, or who think their bigotry is acceptable enough to society that they can get away with it complaining about being called out.

I'd never heard of the Ruth Institute before, and thought they may be a very focused adoption group based on the article. But I just read the latest thing on their website and I can state clearly that they do have a problem with gay people.

In a speech in Uganda she says that the death penalty usually isn't necessary for crimes such as being gay, that gay people hijacked the civil rights movement, that you shouldn't use the word 'gay' as that just plays into their hands amongst other things that have a common theme of a very restrictive view on sexual activity.
Yeah, Zurich or Amsterdam pay more but have you thought about comparing the local taxes and COL before you made the argument?
Insert another coin and try again.

€2k NET monthly in Poland or Romania as a new grad means you can buy a house immediately. How many houses can one newgrad buy in Zurich or Amsterdam?

>Many Romanians and other poor EU immigrants move across Europe for all kind of jobs.

And? What's wrong with that? It's part and parcel of EU membership. Western companies can also come to the East and straight up exploit the population.

Don't like it? Vote to leave the EU?
Worst of these claims are the (almost literal) "snake oil" companies and sellers that are selling 10mg of CBD to people as a 'dose' and implying or telling them it is anything other than placebo at this level. All professional journal studies that have made claims about CBD do studies that use at least 300mg and more often 600mg as the absolute minimum dose and repeat this daily for weeks. Unfortunately 600mg of CBD (with the THC removed down to <0.5mg levels) is expensive. Literally multiple hundreds of dollars. At the typical dosages sold in headshops and the like CBD is a placebo. It is snake oil.

It doesn't even have an significant affinity for the CB1 receptors at reasonable 0.6g doses. The mechanism of action is actually through binding to the serotonin-1a autoreceptor, much like the atypical antidepressant buspirone.

This unregulated wild west of CBD and non-THC pot products is only going to backfire on the charlatans and ignorant users caught up in it. It's going to hurt the legalization movement.
To be honest i'm not impressed at all, is $3700 per month super expensive? In any major city people pay as much or more.

Here in Limassol (not a major city by any measure), a single bedroom is about 1/3 as much (EUR 1000, i'm paying 1100 for bit nicer one), but tech salaries are 3000-5000 net, and 5000 is very rare. Seems to be about same level of affordability: a mediocre developer pays 1/3 salary for a 1-bdr. And nobody is upset with housing costs here, things look just fine.

In Paris, Frankfurt, and Munich you easily pay same amount (3400 EUR a month) for a 1-bdr an no one complains. And tech salaries are completely nowhere like Valley's, in fact it's pretty common to pay the entirety of a mediocre developer's (net) salary for 1-bdr rent. They can't afford living in cities and commute for hours.
I bet this is some stupid personal marketing stunt. Waiting for the “I convinced a bunch of purportedly smart people to give me 50k with a fuck SF sob-story” followup. Hired.
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Once you see environmental problems as, despite each being unique, mostly arising from overpopulation, you can't help substitute for the proximal cause "overpopulation".

> The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong

Becomes

> Overpopulation is destroying the Mekong

You might add "one way is the scramble for sand" though there are plenty others.

Learning about various nations' successful, noncoercive programs to lower birthrate that are as far from China's policy, forced abortions, or eugenics as day from night, and that increased prosperity and happiness, leads you to embrace such programs. The book Countdown by Alan Weiss https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Last-Best-Future-Earth/dp/0... describes several such programs, including in Thailand, Iran, Costa Rica, Mexico, and others.

The most effective solution to the Mekong situation, however partial, is contraception and family planning education.
This reminds me of a book I read a while back. I think it was called The origin of myth or something like that.

It defined a myth as something that people know isn’t true, but choose to believe it is, and act as if it is, because it’s beneficial to them or society.

But then some people forget that they’re only meant to be pretending it’s true and start to really believe it, and very quickly you’ve got religion.
A lot of apps out there using the Koch method which is mentioned in the article. IIRC G4FON also follows Koch.

Note that visual learning is not recommended for the simple reason that you want to have Morse ingrained and recognized automatically when listening, not translate it consciously. It's like learning any other system of symbols for active use: you want to know at once what you're hearing or seeing, not leaf through cheatsheets, even if they're in your brain.
But unlike the multi-generational effort of cathedral-building, sailing always came with the promise that a few lucky survivors might live to see the end of the voyage. Makes me wonder if under current laws conspiring to condemn your unborn children to life in the confines of a spaceship might have legal repercussions while still in earth.

(actually I'm not even sure about cathedrals, to the best of my limited knowledge the idea of starting them as multigenerational projects might just as well be a retrospective fiction. Are there sources that show that they were not just started I unrealistic schedule expectations?)
Going by your logic, EU will have to build their own Coca Cola, Pepsi, Facebook, Google, and what not.

And China or India is not going to buy any of your products.
Is this how you want it to be?

Globalization predicates that capital and goods are procured from places where they are readily available. It is what the post-WWII world was built on. Global trade may break apart to some extant due to the nationalism resurge, but economies of scale is real and smart businesses will leverage that.
I upvoted, but perhaps people don't like the reductionist conclusion: billionaires control the media + politics.

It's certainly an over-simplification but rings true enough to me to not warrant a downvote.

Now the comment is [flagged]?
General aviation Pilots use an app called foreflight that has a ton of flight data. You can use it on a commercial flight. It is very interesting but expensive if you’re just using it as a commercial airline passenger!
I think it's fantastic. I don't typically hand out a physical business card often. So the recipient would be someone that I would feel would generally find the project exciting and intriguing, and it provides a great conversation piece.
It's simple enough to discuss it briefly and mention that for any security-conscious individuals, they can check out the GitHub that's stated on the card and see the code and still have the same insight if not more than if they had just plugged in the device.
For anyone else, the information they need from a business card is all still nicely stated, in a design that's enticing even without functionality. The production cost is easy to justify with the chance of achieving whatever your goal may be, whether it be securing a job offer or generating new business.
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> It should be possible to live in the Bay Area on that, given that the place still has cashiers, cleaning personnel and maintenance workers.

There’s no reason pay for cashiers, cleaning personnel, and maintenance workers can’t rise, or to meet the demand of labor with a little bit of automation also. Making $40k per year as a cashier means $80k as a couple or roommates.
Which fluctuates only within some 25feet range, not bad at all.
Outsourcing to save money is a straw man.

There are countless stories of large scale failures involving non-consultants as well as very well paid consultants.

I wouldn't call it a straw man. There are more complex mechanics in outsourcing situations. Often outsourcing is not complete. They still keep a handful of inside workers supervising consultants. And often those inside workers are woefully incompetent, ruining the work of "well paid consultants". That happens because the outsourcing only saves those with good connections: the idiot relative of someone with power.

I've also heard many managers in the consulting firms telling us to never go out of our way to fix problems. If the customers want it fixed, they must pay more hours. Except of course when the customers get very upset and demand unpaid overtime to reach some arbitrary deadline.