skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look on Google Maps instead. What's north of Amsterdam-North? Fields.

It's a political choice, a matter of spatial planning, to live this densly.
Three pots!

That's almost Fry-Futurama level of consumption. Couple more pots and that test subject would have superpowers.
Ski touring is actually something I gave up a few years ago since snow is basically non-existent where I live. That was profoundly different 10-15 years ago.

I do alpine skiing every year but I have no illusion that the tourism severely hurts the environment, although there are a lot of other detrimental factors besides CO2 output.

I mostly ski in regions where your place lies around 2000m and snow is guaranteed. But even this far up you see more and more snow cannons deployed. They also create huge reservoirs with artificial snow to extend the skiing season. Huge waste of energy and skiing on artificial snow is awful, but it probably is financially viable.
Check out `graphql-binding`: https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-binding
Javascript: just, no. Never.

.. dunno where you got that Javascript snark from, nor did I even mention 'raw mats', but it seems you got the picture because you immediately added your own invented mess to the scene. Congratulations, you must be a software developer.
It's not just how zsh displays the completions. The fact that I can complete from the middle of the filename is quite important to me.
I'm not sure which years you grew up in Toronto, but historically there can be pretty large swings in the number of days of snow and inches of snowfall.

A minute of googling revealed this for Toronto snowfall [1]:

year days total snowfall

2010 6 18.0 in (45.7 cm)
2018 13 36.5 in (92.8 cm)

I calculate from the limited data on that web page (years 2010-2018) that the mean snowfall in Toronto is 36.6 inches and the standard deviation is 13.8 inches.

It looks like snowfall is increasing not decreasing. However, such limited data doesn't really reveal what's happening or going to happen in the future. There were only 9 data points given on the page I found. Someone can undoubtably find official historical data for Canada that will be more useful.

[1] https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/ON/Toro...
This is false. Even if it wasn't false, it wasn't what started the fires that was uncharacteristic. The nature of the spread and intensity of the fires is what was so devastating.

We have a bushfire season every year, but we were not able to control these fires. We're seasoned at this, yet it was not good enough.
Here's the full report: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business%20Functio...

And the executive summary: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business%20Functio...
A total runway of 12 months feels short if going enterprise. Though $10 price feels small business. What is your target business size?

Is there anything you can do to stretch the runway to 24?

I don’t think you want to raise a new round with 0-$40 in MRR.
hangouts.google.com will actually launch the chrome app since I have it installed. Also, I only use hangouts for the chatting and SMS features, so all that cruft for video conferencing and stuff really detracts from the simplicity of the hangouts app.
Do you have any references you could share on this? I'd like to read more, thanks!
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How do you validate the passcode if you're not storing it or a hashed version of it on the device?
Exactly. That's software development for you. :P
I see! Thanks for the reference.
According to most surveys, they aren't used as much on real life.

Here 14%, https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/

Here 40 - 55%, https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/12/cpp-status-2019.html

At CppCon 2015 or something, at Herb's question during his keynote, about 1% of the audience as per his comment on the video.
Most extrasolar planets that we have detected. It’s harder to detect the smaller ones, so we haven’t. Future space telescopes will have the equipment to help with this problem.
6 ft so the ground does freeze/melt and the structure become uneven.
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Eugène N. Marais - The Soul of the White Ant (1937)
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Marais1/whiteantToC...
That's the broad idea of Google's Web Capabilities effort, “There are some apps that are not possible to build and deliver on the open web today. We call this, the app gap. The gap between what’s possible on the web and what’s possible on native. We want to close that gap. We believe web apps should be able to do anything native apps can.” https://developers.google.com/web/updates/capabilities
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Reversing XignCode3 Driver – Part 2 – Analyzing Init Functions
Not only the last 5 years, but I digress.
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That's the average house size in the US now, not on the small side. 45 years ago the average house was around 1600 sqft.

For apartments, the average size is 941 sqft, which is down about 5% over the last 10 years.
Probably because there's a dispute over whether anyone was actually arrested, or if they arrested the wrong person, because the journalist who received the video says his source has not been arrested.
I dont think this is sound logic. If humans were immortal design considerations would change. Houses dont live for hundreds of years because the constraint dictates it.
>climate deniers read people making claims like you are, the entire discussion loses all credibility.

This kind of black or white thinking is absurd. Why would disproving some random comment on HN automatically mean disproving all climate science? It's extremely irritating when someone uses disapproval of a weak claim to as proof that a much stronger claim is also wrong.

It is a very common theme to see "scientists failed to predict highly specific event in area X" and then use that as justification to say something like "CO2 doesn't cause warming".

I'm tired of this topic so I will keep it short: Invest in modern technology (it's good for business). Market it as a jobs program. Stop hanging onto obsolete technology. These incentives will always exist whether it's a scam or not.
Take bit of this, a bit of that, string them together to make a tool that will do one thing. Put that tool between two other parts, and glue it in place.

Eventually, you get the house built and - if you're good - it looks pretty good and it keeps the kids warm.

But don't, ever, look between the walls. You won't be happy with all the thorny and spikey bits that are glued in place. And yeah, there's quite a lot of hammers and drills and saws literally glued in place - don't touch a single one. They belong there.
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fake news:

Germany is switching off the coal plants and replacing them with natural gas which releases only 50% CO2 than coal.

The nuclear plants will be switched off without replacement at all. The over all energy budget will be reduced due to better energy efficiency.

See also the thread from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22062968

Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable (afp.com)
I like this a lot.

For a few years now I've wanted something like "No-Bullshit Podcasts" which does the same thing - lists podcasts that are either ad-free or that can be made ad-free via purchase, and that don't require a proprietary player.
Please. The conflicts in the ME have been going on for decades or centuries, but if we want to find proximal causes these are Israel's military occupation, US's support of Israel and ME dictators and US interventionism, with the obvious case of a 2003 destruction of a state on false pretexts.
https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration

Everything except advanced File System APIs are supported by PWAs, including Bluetooth through the Web Bluetooth API. [1]

The replacement Native File System API is in origin trial and is pre-standardization, however. [2]

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-w...

[2] https://web.dev/native-file-system/
I think it is the other way around, a dynamic system is better at lasting long than a static one.

Human bodies are able to regenerate and repair themselves to a certain extend (no single cell in your body will live as long as you). In fact, one of the factors that diminishes our life is a malfunction of our regeneration processes: cancer.

Human body machinery mostly outperforms man-made machinery i.e. there is nor reason to believe that a human heart can beat for ever if we find a way to allow it to regenerate for ever without faults.

Human brains are able to perform medicine which is also a positive feedback loop for how long human bodies can last.

In a nutshell, a dynamic system has a least the chance to reverse or repair damage done to it due to entropy, a static one has not.
For the Economy, Climate Risks Are No Longer Theoretical
Ask HN: How do you prioritise your side project ideas?
For those who don’t know, there was a reforestation done in US west coast in recent history [1]. Also from the details I have read at least a good portion of it was done by a grassroots effort.

If you drive through the highway that goes through the forest today, it is unimaginable it was a restoration project. There is even a cool observation desk somewhere in the middle

> The forest was replanted from 1949 to 1973 in the largest reforestation project of its kind.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_State_Forest
Unfortunately the reality (as always) is much more prosaic. There is no one single clever solution to the climate problem. Fixing climate will require lots and lots of different solutions across the board, including reforestation.
Really wish +HCU were still around today.
From what I can tell, it simply tries to brute force the password (perhaps with some informed suggestion). It does appear to have access to an exploit that bypasses/disables the encryption lock that wipes data off the phone after failed attempts, but it does not appear to utilize an exploit/backdoor to gain access to the device; it gains access the "legitimate" way.
I feel dumb so I don't know if it's a UI thing or just my weird brain, but I loaded this page on my phone, on Firefox and and Chrome, and I incorrectly assumed it was just broken. Where was the list of games?!

Finally I read "choose your platform" and realized it was saying that not for adding games or any other reason, but to see one of the lists! D'oh!
> I.i.r.c. Chrome Apps are compiled binaries specific for Chrome (NaCL),

NaCl was supported in Chrome Apps, but most Chrome Apps are just web apps using the chrome.* APIs, not NaCl.
What has the parent comment not keeping up with? Was it a reference to the ‘11%’ or to C++ being ‘behind ML’? Just curious to see what your objection was.
Juniper Labs | Full Time | REMOTE USA | Full-stack dev
https://juniper-labs.breezy.hr/p/41a201888c41

Tech stack
For web dev: Python/Django server side, React client side
For data engineering: Apache Airflow, PostgreSQL, and python webscraping tools like Scrapy
For DevOps: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform
Looks like your model should be compatible with GalliumOS:
https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility

So you could go that route, if you like. I ended up doing something similar with my original Chromebook Pixel when Google stopped supporting it: I removed the write-protect screw from the motherboard, flashed a normal BIOS, and installed Linux Mint on it.
Fair enough. I quit a full-time job that paid a good salary because I was not fulfilled with the idea of working for someone else the rest of my life. So there is definitely more to it than the objectives I previously mentioned. I want to make a good living, generate a lot of impact, and have the freedom to work on my own terms. I see myself more fulfilled building a product than freelancing too.

We have not tried to get funding from customers, but I think that perhaps the idea of consulting + finding customers willing to pay for a solution that has not been built yet is a good option to consider.
A bit off-topic but aren't there two Tesla cars in front of that house? If you look closely, they are plugged into an electric charging station on the sidewalk.

When I lived in the Netherlands a couple years ago, I was fascinated by the large number of electric charging stations everywhere. The highest density in the world, as I recall reading somewhere.

I love the Netherlands.
What is the DIU? Is that DARPA by another name?
Well, the main purpose would be to avoid tree death. And even natural death of trees can be allowed considering that an oak lives around 150 years.
Regarding what you say about releasing the co2 they have stored, keep in mind that the tree is not a co2 sponge. It takes co2 and transforms a big chunk of it in other carbon-based components useful to the tree.

I recommend this article that clears some ideas about trees and co2: https://medium.com/the-philipendium/trees-and-carbon-dioxide...

I have to agree with the posted article, even if it is mixing acres and square meters in the explanations.
I think you should put on your sales hat. I know you said that you are the "coder" and your partner is the sales person, but I think you should start selling and supporting them. Trying cold calling and cold emailing. Use some money for a marketing push.

Use the stress of your short runway to push you to sell. Every conversation you have with potential customers should be about how you can get them to pay. Talk past their requests for features or whatever, something like "This is a great feature that we are working on for you and if you sign up for a year's service, we'll discount you until the feature is delivered".
Memory storage for super cold computing – ORNL
Once the forest grows to maximum height and density, it stops being a sink. It keeps being a storage though, which is still a benefit.
I'll miss GetPocket app, despite what the article said it works offline on Desktop. Anyone known about an alternative?
Downvoters, use your fucking brains for once. Look at the world. The majority of people are uneducated and lack critical thinking.

Furthermore, people pay taxes so things get better, no one pays taxes so things don't get worse.

Britain lost billions in lost growth because of Brexit, the majority does not believe that because nothing has changed.

Ask anyone on the street, they believe climate change action means things will improve. They would be extremely surprised to learn it will only slow down the catastrophic results.

Tell me how I am wrong, then downvote. Otherwise you're just a пидор.
Averages are misleading when applied countrywide. Just drive through Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe etc. (all provinces) and you will get a totally different picture.

I actually just landed at Schiphol on a clear day and you can see the country just has so much sparsely populated areas peaking out the window on approach
On January 28, Data Privacy Day Encourages Consumers to “Own Their Privacy”
Brave and the Rising Economy of Basic Attention Tokens
I've heard this tree grows extremely fast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa
My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there!

I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate price range for the NEW hardcovers (the actual listed ones are even more!):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007JVUSK/ref=dp_ol...

It's either a ripoff, or some sort of collector's edition original versions. Though if it were the latter, I'd have expected it to be advertised as such.
Wuhan pneumonia outbreak: A new virus may be the cause
Hmm, I might have to do something about that, yes. Currently it's too much text on that page.
They need to be there to keep the walls from falling over. :P
It provides jobs for millions of people, especially younger folks. It keeps a lot of older folks active when it is cold when they might not otherwise be. Plus, skiing is part of the culture of several places.

I don’t particularly like watching hockey, that doesn’t mean we could do without it.
As a german I am a bit shocked to see, that Germany is often in the top 5 of most produced plastic at all and per capita. Still - I don't see much of it in the streets or elsewhere.

Thanks for the link. Great article.
>Sorry that nobody else got it, but I like that joke.

No, plenty of us got it. It's just not funny right now.

A person is trying to find a real solution to a real problem they have. Every comment in this thread represents a potential hope that someone knows how to fix it. When someone comes in to a serious thread that is spitballing ideas and tries to make it about them by cracking jokes and being fun and clever, it's annoying. I know this because for about 8 years I was the guy trying to crack jokes in these threads.

This is not the time to make some kind of point about the state of modern software engineering - do that in a thread where people are bullshitting, not trying to work a problem. It's not ever really funny. It's noise. It doesn't help anything. It's not too subtle, it's just obnoxious.
I don't think climate risks justify drastic measures such as phasing out the use of fossil fuels. Quoting the article:

"[W]hile estimates of climate’s economic impact are suffused with uncertainty, they don’t suggest any major economy will be pushed into recession, much less depression.

Studies reviewed by David Mackie of JPMorgan Chase suggest climate change could reduce global gross domestic product by 1% to 7% by 2100, assuming “business as usual” (i.e., absent policies to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide). Given that the impact is spread out over 80 years, in which per capita incomes probably rise 300% to 400%, even larger climate change impacts would appear small, he said.

Aggregate changes in GDP, though, can be misleading. As global temperatures climb, the probability of extreme temperatures and events and the associated economic consequences should rise more."
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Prior 2015 discussion with good comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10285140
Where is this magical place where it used to be snowy all winter long and is now averaging 50-60 degrees with snow now being a rare occasion?

Ignoring your 50-60 degrees, this matches The Netherlands quite well. When I grew up in that magical place, snow was a regular occurrence (not all winter long, but snow happened every year, as did ice skating on rivers). Now, when it happens, it is a rare exception.

I actually found a graph for it, but can't account for its veracity. It shows the number of days per year with complete snow cover, over the past 60 years: https://www.weerwoord.be/m/2466231
It seems a bit rich to claim that Brave cares about privacy when just one year ago they were spoofing identities to commit charity fraud.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Wouldn't shallow pools of algea in a greenhouse be much more efficient than trees?
I think the issue in Dubai is more about the inconsistency of enforcing their laws.

They look the other way almost all the time - until they don't.
Parent as I read it isn't suggesting that having your cake and eating it too is possible, instead they're attempting to establish a dual-scale demarcation of viewpoints with one scale being "Prohibition or allowance of fossil fuels" and the other scale being "Fixes or does not fix climate change".

This is useful because polling has discovered many US Republicans will actually vote for climate solutions _if_ they employ new technologies that would result in new industries.
My take.

Believe it or not, I don't think the landing page for fastify makes a compelling value proposition. You would think that "fast" sells, and it appeals to me, but when I have test marketed "fast" I've found people don't respond the same way I do.

At the bottom of the page I see a whole bunch of logos and names that look like the logos and names of trendy modern companies except I don't recognize the names. It just doesn't connect to me.

There are so many web servers and frameworks out there that it's not easy to stand out, particularly in the Javascript world. As excited as people are about Node, and as much as using the same language on the front end and the back end is a "holy grail", most of the people I know who write front ends based on React and that kinda technology still use Java, Scala, Python, Ruby or something else on the back end.

Other than that, HN is not really a pure "technical" forum. I think it uniquely covers people who are interested in both technology and business so if want to get people's attention you have to show people something they haven't seen before and that they recognize they haven't seen before.
My speculation is that it maybe tries to crack the hashed value and input that to the phone instead, rather than interfacing with the password screen.

in other words: the encryption/wipe code may be a function of the password screen, but the phone may accept a hashed key as a valid unlock attempt through a different interface that does not contribute to the failed attempts limit.
I was in shock to discover how empty and barren Ireland is. According to Wikipedia it is one of the most heavily deforested countries in Europe...
Thanks for this. From the article:

> "An acre of empress trees can absorb 103 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. Once the trees reach maturity, farmers harvest their wood for use in houses or musical instruments.[12]"
Agriculture, countryside management, waste management or the like are probably areas where you could personally make a real difference. IMHO we have far, far too many clueless virtue signalling activists and politicians that are capable of nothing more than spouting the empty platitudes their handlers feed them, and far too few skilled engineers and technologists figuring out how to boil down these nebulous aims into practical, smart measures that can succeed without the need for draconian legalistic enforcement. It's extremely rare to see any of the latter groups actually dig deeply into a problem and persevere with developing solutions that make a change; for example they'll bleat on about the patriarchy and how we need more women in IT, but will they actually ever really learn anything about IT themselves to inform their thinking and help bring about the change they claim to want? Not a chance.
This looks interesting. I was wondering if it's due to poor build tool support. In real life I found rr + sanitizer as a strictly better choice than plain gdb.
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Our platform is actually aimed at small and medium sized businesses, hence our pricing model. Having said that, we feel the platform has the potential to go after the enterprise as well, and could adjust pricing accordingly. I do think we will need to stretch runway, hence my question. I was wondering if outside investors were an option, but based on other comments, I am not so sure.
Charles Eisenstein:

"MacKinnon illustrates this phenomenon, known in psychology as “change blindness,” with an anecdote about fish photographs from the Florida Keys. Old photographs from the 1940s show delighted fishermen displaying their prize catches—marlins as long as a man is tall. When present-day fishermen see those pictures, they flat-out refuse to believe they are authentic.

Human beings tend to be blind to gradual changes in their environment, assuming that the way things are right now is how they always have been and always will be. We do not miss the former beauty of the world, he would say, because we have never known it.

I am not so sure that we don’t miss it. I think we do miss it, but we don’t know what it is we are missing. We feel a void, a sense of poverty, a hunger for something unidentifiable. Transferred onto money or consumer items, that hunger drives continued cycles of destruction. Transferred onto drugs, gambling, alcohol, it drives the unsolvable social problem of addiction. Perhaps the degradation of nature is not without its consequences after all."