skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trend is upward over the last 40 years (about 7% more global forest cover now than in 1982[0]) but I don’t think the data exist to extrapolate further back to, say, the beginning of the 20th century.

[0]: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offse...

Edit: oh god 1982 was almost 40 years ago not 30. Tempus fugit.
> If they think law is dumb or unfair or anything, they can negotiate with Australian government

Or they can just cut off service to that marketplace and let the electorate take up the matter with their elected officials...
don't hold your breath. There are good reasons the X-Serve line doesn't exist any more.
Chrome OS straight up lets you install Linux desktop apps. It runs a wayland compositor.
We use it in healthcare to pluck out named entities that kicks off an email to the person mentioned.
Amazon’s anti-union blitz stalks Alabama warehouse workers everywhere
Wow that's a slick service. Love it
Looks like a fun game, definitely gonna check this out after work
No, that is not my justification for not caring. I said it is the most popular position because I wanted to avoid being downvoted.
It’s true that - as far as we know - no other animal species cares about preserving the environment. But, you could argue that we care because we must. We worsen our chance of survival by messing up the environment to a point where it heavily affects our lives. Maybe, animals don’t care because they can’t do as much damage as us.
What's dumb about the law now? Did America not break up Standard Oil when it got too large and it's reach too powerful?

Aussie here. I don't side with Google and I certainly don't like our government. But at least we elected this government. Google is using its position of dominance as a threat and will deplatform their search to us.

To me that sounds more strange than the government wanting a bit of profit sharing from Google to other media outlets.
I bet they're using some stupid ORM that makes 12000 separate queries.
That's why I choose the `d` EC2. They come with NVMe SSD ephemeral storage and in terms of bandwidth, AWS will beat it anyway. R6 is around 10Gbps if I remember correctly.
http://archive.is/ylOCs
This is an interesting analysis. Did the coup really happen at 4am?

If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.
The obvious - but incredibly difficult to implement - solution is to achieve world peace, through mutual respect, tolerance and trust amongst nations. A lot of people seem to have abandoned that as a goal, in favor of being contented with a perpetual uneasy standoff.

It's a tough goal - perhaps the hardest there has ever been - but it's not impossible.
Tesla Recalls Roughly 135,000 Vehicles over Touch-Screen Failures
"Thanks to a new Vermont law requiring companies that buy and sell third-party personal data to register with the Secretary of State, we’ve been able to assemble a list of 121 data brokers operating in the U.S. It’s a rare, rough glimpse into a bustling economy that operates largely in the shadows, and often with few rules."
If only this were that simple. To make electricity out of the sun's energy and in addition to store it, you need some materials coming from the depth of the earth: lithium, silicate, copper, iron, and I guess dozens of metals and rare earth metals. Have a look at how those are extracted, and the (fossil) energy used in extracting, refining, transporting and fabricating all those solar panels and batteries.
Systemd should also be the libc provider.
I just hate these jurnos man. They need to sprinkle politics just to sway you away from them liying in the past and giving you bltantly overstated news.

Now they see that people lost trust in them and they start writing opeds about how they seemed to slightly say wrong things...

What a joke... What a disgrace... Weak.
A video course on Natural Language Processing. Very likely it's going to be free.
The issue was with the definition of prosperity. I'm sure a lot of tribes in the rainforest are 'prosper' in their own definition.
"a politicised issue (in a sense that facts are neglected by both sides of the debate and are replaced by empty rhetoric and disinformation that is used for political gains and moral high-ground...)"

Perhaps I was not clear enough, which is quite typical for me, BUT I agree with you 100%!
It is important to question and debate this issue through a political system.

What I mean is that the current political culture in various countries has turned this process into a joke and I am not sure if we can even have a civil debate on this topic ever again. Hell, most conversations I have regarding pesticides end up in name calling and ridiculous oversimplifications of reality. I actually gave up on having these discussions altogether. That is my point, I hope I am more clear this time as I do not wish to cause any confusion.

Edit: tone...I unintentionally sounded passive-aggressive
Nice simple idea... woulda worked on most of the use cases I’ve had to build that for.
I'm Australian and I'd rather not be the battleground for this particular brawl. Our Government is incompetent and corrupt beyond measure, and takes its orders from the likes of Newscorp. Google and Facebook are better dealt with in the US.
I haven’t regularly used a library since I was in school. My spouse “checks out” audiobooks online from the local library.
Interesting to see a Flash-style loading bar make a return for these sorts of animated UI experiences.
> Imagine you had a "life changing amount of money," whatever number that means to you. Call that number $X. Now imagine that you instead had $X - $1. And then $X - $2. Even $X - $1000. How much less happy do you feel in those imagined scenarios? A lot less happy? I bet you feel marginally less happy and not sharply.

Talking only about myself and not claiming anything about humanity at large:

There is a particular number of USD that, if I have in my account, I feel calmer and non-chalant about losing a job. Let's call it $20000. If I have $19900, it's the same. But if I have $15000 then I'd start feeling uneasy and would revert to trying hard to refill that minimum leisure savings amount.

So IMO it's not a gradual linear function. It's more like, for values between X1-X2, Y remains relatively constant. Then for values X2 to X3, Y is a higher value compared to the previous bracket of X values but also stays relatively constant for the current range of X.

Again, just what I observed about myself.
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Best would be not to use medication in the first place. It can have severe side effects. Better would be learning how to solve the problems on your own like controlling thoughts with meditation.
Sorry Java, WORA Is Now JavaScript
Someone trying to force out the contents of their bowels out? The sound of said contents making contact with the water in the bowl? Etc.
It used to be the case. Online was doing dedicated servers/housing, Scaleway was IaaS. Now they went full "Scaleway", with Scaleway Dedibox being the dedicated part, and Scaleway Elements being IaaS!
I want to be clear that I do not think the US system is a good one.

However, we should not be blind to limitations of a UK style system. There are also in-between alternatives, such as in Germany or to a lesser extent Japan.
I didn't expect it to be hilarious. No wonder it went viral.

But as someone else pointed out, the coup may have happened in the middle of the night at ~4am or so. Is this really showing the actual coup, or just the aftermath?
It is my understanding that Bing is everywhere inside Microsoft and that it a service that a lot of other service depends on heavily. Bing is absolutely a core service to Microsoft
IMO, all of these (from all the subdirs) should be in the top level README: https://github.com/yue/yue-sample-apps/blob/master/auto_heig...

You're asking people to do a lot of clicking to get an idea of what's available.
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In order to support recording on different Wayland compositors (without having to develop tons of other middle layers by yourself), one would need to simply activate their built-in screencasting tool according the specified user settings. This took me a bit of time to figure out for GNOME, and I had to fill a bug-report to speak to one of the compositor developers to understand how to do that, as no documentation was available at all. Even so, some hidden bugs appeared (Quality wasn't too good, audio had to be recorded separately over ffmpeg, and then both audio and video had to be merged together in one file, V9 had a bug that consumes 100% of CPU on some hardware, so we had to use V8 by default... etc).

In order to go further, I had to do the same thing for KWin on Wayland, Sway and other compositors out there in the market and then integrate them into my program. I had to find some workarounds for any bugs that may occur.

Later on, some changes for ffmpeg API broke the Xorg recording (Green Recorder used ffmpeg to record on all desktop environments on Xorg), so I had to do more testing now for multiple versions of ffmpeg and on which distro do they work and don't work.

So I just gave up, as I simply didn't find any particular reason to continue doing that since the only amount of support I received on my then-opened Patreon was $20 per month at its max.

But it shouldn't be said that Wayland can not support screencasting or that it breaks screencasting. It is possible, and the previously mentioned issues are actually on the compositors' developers side, not the protocol.
That's a reasonable request, however, companies should not be forced to operate in areas where such laws exist that are incompatible with their business model. Or even force them to continue operating should the laws change. If the conditions don't fit their expected "operation style" anymore, they should be free to cease operations. In the end, I think, this will only hurt news sites and businesses that rely on google's services.
Is there really someone who believes this video was not planned / manufactured? Are you that gullible?
Watching any video under X is really horrible for me. May depend on settings/hardware?
My email is in my profile. Hit me up.
i think it's a step that cuts it off, does look like it though
Also, first/second in google for
some reason(for relevant keywords)
I frankly expect "smashing them to bits" (or setting them on fire) to be the response in France when self-driving cargo trucks are introduced.

In America and a lot of other rich countries I can imagine a large workforce just sort of slowly dissipating as they are made redundant by the unstoppable force of technology, but at least a few places may strongly disagree about the unstoppability, and put it to the test.
If you want to feel like someone in the movie Passengers Naypyitaw on a national holiday is an awesome place to do it. There is this vast swaths of infrastructure working and rarely a soul to see. Build for 20 million with barely one living there.

Amazing place, amazing people (when you get to find them) and amazing food.
It'd be interesting to see how this compares with other graph systems. For example, Neo4j, JanusGraph?
If you're that convinced that we don't need these organisations, stop using them. Defer buying a house or a car until you can pay cash, leave your pension and invest in gold, become self employed and refuse any loan or insurance.

That's my point here: the way you and I and 99% of people live day to day relies on billionaires to fund things and speculators to keep markets liquid.

This is the core cause of a lot of our issues and the ultimate reason for things like bailouts. If we didn't need speculative finance to fund house building, we wouldn't have had to bail them out. So all we have to do is start buying houses in cash and that need disappears an we can stop bailing things out.

But the dirty truth is that as much as people hate bailouts, they hate paying for things and saving and being responsible far more.

This is why (for instance) Germany, with a high savings rate and minimal consumerism has so few billionaires and didn't need to spent much bailing out banks.
Stadia could be a way into gaming for crowds who cant afford top-notch machines.. which is 5/6 of the population on this planet.
There is no prosperity if natural catastrophes destroy our homes.
These are not the droids you're looking for.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/apple-spent-90000-lobbyi...
Just in case someone RTFA and gets worried: this is breathless FUD and could be handled much more usefully in some other fashion that invites discussion of pros/cons (such as is happening on HN but I doubt the gist will be updated...). Wayland is an 0.99:1.00 replacement for x11. I would appreciate a succinct "Wayland changed X, Y and Z and that will affect applications A, B, C" but TFA isn't that.

Much like systemd, Wayland sounded as though it might have some serious wrinkles but those, as with systemd, never really materialized for me (a power user on a powerful machine). Most issues I experienced were transient as applications caught up with the switch (mostly screen sharing). Even though it's not too important to me, games (wine and native) are working better than ever on Linux (and Wayland).

I think the two persistent "issues" I've seen are: graphical ssh (X-over-ssh); and, maybe, others screen drawing on my screen in Slack calls.

I trust the arguments from the x11/Wayland developers and, AFAICT, Wayland has been a Good Thing but some eggs were broken to make the omelette...
https://github.com/akavel/dali was one (a fully hand-written non-Java, non-JVM assembler for Android .apk files); I managed to write a rudimentary flappy-bird-like prototype in it and did a presentation about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9X5NCwPlI&list=PLxLdEZg8DR... but it's on a shelf now, didn't get much attention, and I don't feel bad about that. Had some roadblocks, but managed to overcome them, and I'm honestly surprised how the core effort was basically easy to implement and how the formats were open and relatively simple. (The main real issues I had were that debugging via adb logs was tiresome when something was not working.) What was funny about this project was that I started it with basically a thought of: "there will be probably some annoying roadblock at some point that will make it unviable to continue; I accept that and will be ok with stopping once I stumble upon it; but I don't see one clearly from the start [I did some quick initial research how the formats & the bytecode look and they seemed rather simple], and I'm really curious how far I can get if I decide to not think about this possible roadblock". Turns out I was able to get all the way to the end :D
The fact that it is newsworthy to say something like this seems to indicate that Google is at least a de-facto monopoly in the search sector. It seems hard to argue against that when folks cannot even agree if there are any viable alternatives at all.... This is a huge problem that is only getting worse. I don't really see any way to fix this outside of government trust-busting. (But I have little faith in the bumbling of modern politicians in Australia or anywhere else...)

Personally, I use DuckDuckGo for searching and find the experience to be better than Google, but YMMV.
AOC Says She Is a Sexual Assault Survivor as She Recounts Capitol Hill Riots
Otherwise she had to place the camera on the road. And road views are fine specially when the background is the White House or the parliament building in this case.
why doesn't it gain more momentum?

It has plenty of momentum. The two main desktop environments have wayland ports. Several distros ship wayland by default.

without providing a compatibility layer

Wayland does provide a compatibility layer, XWayland, which runs an X server that does all the internal processing that Xorg does, and then send the final frame to wayland to put on the screen. It works very well, just with some quirks around mixed-DPI setups, which X can't handle well to begin with.

When people complain about wayland breaking their set-ups, they're talking about tools like xdotool, which Wayland deliberately does not allow because they're security risks. Old applications, the kind that put a window on the screen, rather than manipulating other applications' windows, work just fine.
Those are MRPs. Amazon will be giving heavy discount to large customers anyway
yes, that would be my guess, too
Source for 4am caravan-to-the-capital?
"Twenty-five years later, the once distant deadline is here."

But first, before we get to the results, let us pad this story out to 5000 words :/
I think that the reasons go beyond this one issue, tbh.
Well I'm suggesting more clojure things because I know clojure, I've used a little of racket and it was fun, as well as done very little common lisp =)...

I'm not sure what you mean by practice day to day? These are all things that you could work on in various ways on a daily basis if you want?

Or do you mean kata-like things?

If so there's 4clojure[0] or codewars[1], which does racket[2] and clojure[3] alongside a host of other stuff.

If instead you're looking at a suggestion of what to work on, just pick a small project and regularly work on it, I've done lots of small data processing tasks, as well as developing small games, pick anything that interests you and play with it.

I mean Mazes for Programmers[4] is a great book, perhaps rewrite it in any language that interests you?

If that's not quite what you want, can you please clarify?

- [0]: https://www.4clojure.com/problems

- [1]: https://www.codewars.com/

- [2]: https://www.codewars.com/?language=racket

- [3]: https://www.codewars.com/?language=clojure

- [4]: https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/
The enclosure itself is a giant heatsink [1] so I imagine it is fine if you only run 2 NVMe SSDs in this with a bit of case flow.

[1] https://youtu.be/ApXsJkUKDGI?t=341
This is a fantasy that sounds good in practice, but sucks in reality.

You’re dying of incurable cancer. Do you have enough or do you want more economic growth so we can try and cure it?

If you're willing to die from stepping on a nail, then ok. I'm not.
> That's the difficult part. You are welcome to try, though!

I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, and creating a program to do this change for these toolkits externally without changing them at all is a "hack" (despite the fact users likely want to do this, as evidenced by Windows offering this setting); but on the other hand throwing everything away and changing everything to support an entirely new display server protocol with its on set of problems is ... a nice, clean solution?

What I see is another manifestation of the "backward compatibility is a hack" mentality. Well, this annoys me to no end, but what can I do.
Coup news takes time to reach the media. If this is not fake more likely this video is from the previous day afternoon, when they raided the parliament.
According to J.M. Jancovici in order to keep climate change under 2ºC in 2100 we would need to contract the global economy by 5% each year for about 20 years (IIRC). Basically, an additional Covid-19 crisis every year.
Virtue signalling.

Apple is here for the money, they don't care about anything else. I don't blame them for that but I'm tired of seeing how the wealthy are trying to give us moral lessons while they do exactly the opposite.

They want justice but they don't mind their products being manufactured by slave labour.

They tell us to stop polluting while they have private jets and yachts.

A good marketing campaign but you won't see them talking to people from poor neighbourhoods too see what they have to say or what are they daily struggles.
I never noticed it in that either. I played plenty of action games on my Linux machine twenty years, going back all the way to many hours I spent with the Loki port of Unreal Tournament, and I've watched plenty of videos in the last twenty years as well: but it just never registered for me. Maybe I'll notice it now that I know what to look for, but I'm the kind of person who is pretty happy with 1080p (or even 720p) too, so I suppose my brain is just not very good at picking up these kind of visual things, or something.
I mean...what is the precise moment when a coup happens? I would argue that a military caravan to a central govt building is still pretty coup-esque.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/100005518668726/posts/1569283416598...
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Let's take a step back. Stadia, as a product and service, has been out for over a year. It has tepid publisher support, and tepid consumer support, without any inkling that it's growing and now we have an announcement that Google isn't going to bother releasing games for the platform (even though they went to the effort of buying and setting up full fledged gaming studios to do just that - which isn't cheap).

So I'm not sure what we're arguing about here. That publishers are clueless and don't realize that Stadia is a goldmine waiting to be tapped? That consumer don't know what they are missing by not buying into the platform? The platform is clearly failing.
This is a very valid point.
To clarify, the fact that WhatsApp wasn’t free (but very cheap) was a positive in my mind as well. I didn’t intend “not free” in my comment above to be derisory.

Also, to add some nuance: WhatsApp wasn’t free (ie it was a subscription based app) mainly in US / Western Europe IIRC; but was in fact free, as in no subscription charges, in some lower-income country app stores, eg India.
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What resolution is allowed to share with public?
I've worked on this in the past too (not as rigorous as it sounds you are). My main problem: how do we define our optimum function, and how do we quantify the variables going into it? How do you do it? I assume you're not sitting there and tasting, comparing and scoring 25 salad samples every 3 days...
OK, glad I'm not alone in this: I completely shut off when asked to do things in which I find no interest. This especially becomes a problem during interviews. If the problem isn't appealing, that's it!
Nah, that's what consoles are for. You don't even need the latest one sometimes. Consoles have existed before Stadia.
Yeah, given the continuing issues with Apple Maps, never mentioning how many enrolled members work at Apple in any capacity, and just generally ignoring any TCU when designating community colleges for Swift training; I am a bit skeptical.
Medical records in a public blockchain? That seems like a bad idea to me. For studies maybe it makes sense for preregistration of studies.

Tamper evident logs would be useful though for medical data.