skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
36 billion tons of CO2 came from industry and fossil fuel combustion in 2019. [1] CO2 is about 27% carbon by mass. Cellulose is about 44% carbon by mass [2]. That means about 22 billion tons of cellulose needed to offset one year's worth of CO2 emissions.

In 2014, use of wood products in all notable categories combined was about 1.25 billion tons [3]. Including just sawnwood and wood paneling, it was 0.827 billion tons. Since there's no plausible way to use 2500% as much lumber for structural purposes as we do now, and just harvesting wood and leaving it outdoors will lead to decomposition on short (decades) time scales, people consider charring it and/or burying it underground. Just building more structures out of wood is barely going to put a dent in the problem.

Likewise, dynamically shifting the equilibrium toward wood from CO2 doesn't help much if the wood persists for only decades. The time scale for CO2 to naturally return to its pre-industrial equilibrium is more like 100,000 years [4]. We need sequestration measures that prevent CO2 from returning to the atmosphere over longer time periods than wood takes to decay naturally.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose

[3] https://www.forest2market.com/blog/fao-report-highlights-res...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Long-Thaw-Changing-Climate-Princeton/...
US Strategic Command tweets “;l;;gmlxzssaw”
Stencil is the real deal.
/$.02

Edit: ... if you're getting serious about standard web components per se.
A couple of small somewhat-related past threads:

In search of the original Fortran compiler (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497895 - June 2020 (3 comments)

A 63-pass FORTRAN compiler for the IBM 1401, illustrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289070 - March 2015 (8 comments)
The free software movement is only militant to a degree. They're not the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground. They're not going to destroy proprietary software by mailing nail bombs to Microsoft or beheading Larry Ellison on video. The war they're fighting is a war of ideas and their ammunition is argument. Having as your figurehead a man who doesn't shower, eats his own skin tags, constantly creeps women out and has, let's say, "controversial" views makes the free software movement look ridiculous, hurts recruiting, and gives ammunition to the enemy.

I would ask you to consider the possibility that one can be an idealist about free software, even a militant extremist, while not being a viscerally offensive human being. You're trying to ascribe nobility and necessity to traits in Richard Stallman which bring no benefits to the cause free software, and which often work to its detriment. And a truly militant organization would recognize when their leader has become a hindrance to the cause and put them out to pasture.
> They must have been feeling extremely energetic.

Perhaps even uncomfortably so: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
As a side note rails has released updates with mimemagic replaced.
This is a double-edged sword. I'm definitely in the same boat as you, in that I spent most of my formative years online. But the people I interacted with, and the skills I developed, really had no parallel in the real world around me.

While other kids my age talked about sports, which they'd likely never go on to play, I got some real-world project management experience by helping work on a Web browser.

While other kids my age developed cliques and bullied the kids that weren't in them, I got to help build communities, and facilitate repairing divisions when they did occur. I still do. Community building is important to me.

Very importantly: while other kids my age, not to mention family members, acted with outrage (as per the article) when it came to people's differences, I learned that straight and gay people can be best of friends, there are political leanings other than "conservative" and "Communist", climate change is probably a thing I should take some steps on... The list goes on. These are probably not things I'd have learned if my upbringing had skewed heavily towards real-world.

I understand that your situation might be different - for others, the real world may be more palatable and practical. But I actually see the fact that I did this as a strength.
Perhaps ‘spaced repetition’ tools like Anki might come in handy in organising the memorization. You still need to come up with a system, but the app will then help with putting kanji into the brain. Spaced repetition is suited precisely for things that don't have a prominent internal structure which would lend itself to learning.

Afaik Anki is popular for learning Japanese, iirc even the author did exactly that, so there's probably plenty of readymade material. Though it may be mostly for vocabulary.
Cigarettes are better than placebo at treating schizophrenia.

It seems likely that some recreational drugs become popular because they have psychoactive effects that end up being useful, not just fun.
A defamation case is inherently a question deeply rooted in first amendment rights. You can't really comment about project veritas suing the NYT without it having something to do with first amendment rights.
I think this is missing a critical step - the candidate needs a way to see the result. I don't necessarily trust a random recruiter to be honest when they tell me "Oh yeah 100% it said we're compatible." Could you make a link that the candidate can use to verify the outcome? Alternatively, when I the candidate visit the link that I sent the recruiter (after they submit) it could just tell me (and them, if they revisit) the result.
USA = good
3rd world = bad
Isn't an enemy always imaginary if you didn't experience it yourself? You can only then be communicated the idea of an enemy...
I'm not saying either is trivial or silly though. I'm saying there's different values and things at stake. I never said one was invalid, that was your own take on things, and you're misconstruing what I said.

Is sexual and racial harassment the same level as the potato Head thing? No, of course not. But articles like this, put them all in the same bucket.
I think bloat peaked during the Windows Vista days. I had a friend with Vista on their computer and it was unbelievably slow. This was probably late 2007 or early 2008, which was a while before SSDs were popular in mainstream laptops. I mean, things are definitely still bloated now, but fast storage can make up for it.
What I mean is that if you’re operating out of fear, you’re doing it wrong.

The only way rumors kill careers is if we fear the rumors.

If everyone is giving honest, straightforward feedback, then everyone has a rumor about them and it becomes powerless.

But if most people are afraid and one person gives honest feedback and is subjected to a rumor, the one rumor seems significant.

I guess I brought up the legal stuff because I think believing rumors is silly in general. If you’re actually the subject of discrimination, you should prove it in court for the benefit of yourself and society.

I’m not sure that we’re disagreeing entirely. I do agree with what you’re saying as well. Just hoping we can chart a new path.
I have kids. Providing for them is number one, becoming a meaningless casualty of culture wars doesn't help their future at all.
It is still expensive to create widely disseminated high quality productions which will consistently and reliably attract eyeballs.

I can setup a website or twitter handle and get my ideas published out there, but they drown in a sea of similar opinions. I can't compete with the kind of ideological carpet bombing than Fox News, CNN or MSNBC can produce. Money and Capital can buy a much larger bullhorn, so that is what people listen to.
> try harder? have more tact? [...] have a little more awareness?

But isn't the cautious behavior mentioned already an example of this?
GP isn't saying it's a lie, they are saying it rewards liars. That's an important distinction.
>If there are new commits in a submodule, why doesn't `git checkout .` reset it back to the commit the main repo points to?

>If I clone a repo with submodules, why do I need to run additional submodule commands to get an exact copy of the codebase?

`git config [--global] submodule.recurse true` resolves both questions.

As to why is that not the default? I _believe_ there are security concerns, but I'm not 100% sure.
But I think you got downvoted because people don't want to have to advertise themselves as "willing to take criticism". That should be norm.

Agreed, it sucks. But unfortunately in today’s environment, there are enough people creating social media backlash over well-intended advice that it is necessary. Successful people are taking career and social risks by merely speaking openly to people they do not know. The best way to lower that perceived risk for them, and to improve your odds of getting useful advice from a wider array of successful people, is to present yourself as someone who will not crucify them for trying to help.
> If that one person misreads you and hates you, it's not some big career-ending problem.

The problem is that the story will usually be told by the person who misunderstood the argument, and the other side's defense wouldn't have as much reach. "X is a sexist jerk" will gain way more clicks, attention and support than "I thought X was a sexist jerk but actually I misunderstood and we're all good - nothing to see here".

Furthermore nowadays there are plenty of people out there who love the drama and will be more than happy to keep pouring fuel into the fire, either for entertainment or in an attempt to virtue-signal how "better" they are by (appearing to) care about the issue. Worse, entire industries (social media) happily profit off this and encourage it by promoting the divisive content.
> Why would you say something to defend the asshole? In your example, you interpreted the same - the guy was an asshole. Why give them a pass?

It's exactly this line of thinking that is so problematic. You assumed that the asshole guy was "getting a pass".
This is it.

It's only sexism if it happens to a woman, therefore the word "feminism" itself isn't inherently sexist.

It's only racist if it happens to someone of color. White people can't be discriminated against by definition. Anyone who believes in "reverse discrimination" is a "racist" who has "too much entitled privilege."

Be quiet and accept the prevailing, correct opinions and beliefs, or be labeled and canceled. There is no debate and there is no discussion because the ideological mafia has already decided what beliefs are proper today. Oh and anyone who doesn't renounce yesterday's micro aggressions should be forced to resign if they don't apologize hard enough four times.

The left is a circular firing squad that doesn't have any loyalty.
Could this be addressed by a new language ? seriously asking.. a paradigm that put the social variable first.
> One of the really good things for me about hanging on HN is hearing "X happens to me too as a man because (reasons) and has nothing to do with gender."

I was interested to note something in the hiring page for the company wiki where I worked once.

It said the biggest red flag, an automatic no-hire, was a candidate confidently "explaining" things he didn't actually know. This was a big enough problem to be called out in the hiring policy. Interviewers were on notice to watch out for candidates who claimed to know something, but whose explanations were pure bluffing. Happens all the time.

The feminist literature, of course, refers to this as "mansplaining", except that mansplaining by definition refers to an explanation delivered to a woman. How is it different from the ordinary behavior? Well, it isn't.
Some guesses on possible sources of the pattern for you:

1. Criticism is fast and easy compared to thinking up a solution; building the solution; trying to show a solution works; etc. Criticism has the benefit that it can be directed to any sub-part and does not have to, necessarily, take in (or understand) the whole.

2. Criticism is, generally, perceived as "socially safer" than creation. For example, it's easier to say "I don't like X or Y about something" than it is to say "I think that X or Y should be changed to A or B." Proposing the change exposes one to criticism.

3. Criticism, in many ways (thinking of many college courses here), is what folks are often trained in as compared to creation. I think an outcome is that we learn to "see" faults more than we learn to "see" solutions. To be clear, I think folks learn to create in their vocation, but outside of that, necessarily, limited sphere, folks are most often trained as critics, rather than creators.
Angelica's candied stems are probably among the best candidates for the "once popular but now forgotten" list.

In this case there are good reasons to not consume it. Very similar to poisonous species for the untrained eye.
It must be one of those old timer acronyms.
> When you hike? I'd have thought doing it in nature would be fine (considering all the animals doing the same)

I assume it's because sometimes there's enough brush that you don't want to squat more than you have to, exposing your privates to plants, insects, etc. On top of that, you need a lot less privacy to stand-and-pee than you do to squat: if someone comes across you squatting on a trail without much cover, you probably wouldn't want them catching a view of either side of you.

Perhaps it's just not-totally-rational squeamishness, but that's my understanding of the thinking behind it.
You fix the system by going after the miscreants and holding them to account, one by one, and accumulating a record that can be used to provide more general laws and regulations for the future. Lawmakers do that by investigating specific companies for specific reasons.

You have, by my count at this time, 14 posts in this thread.

What is it that you might have left to say that you were unable to put in to words in the first 13?
It's easy to see all the change caused by a union; it's harder to see all the change that didn't happen because of the union.
>All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people.

Source? Specifically, what's the hotel capacity "45 min around and in DC", and what's the the normal occupancy rate (ie. last year, or in the weeks leading up to the protest)?
You might find the documentary The Red Pill illuminating
I’m also curious what a successful complaint means? Did the other person have to go through mandatory education?
Tomopteris Deep Sea Worm
I really appeeciate everything about LibreOffice especially the way it handles CSV files . Excel tries to re-format fields it has no business reformatting.
I mean, that's still something to start with
a) Which just further proves my point that you shouldn't lump NFTs with Bitcoin. In practice however, all of the valuable NFTs are on Ethereum (afterall, NFTs are only as valuable as their underlying security)

b) Not sure what your point is. Global climate change is by definition a long-term problem, and yet you're fretting about a couple of years. Right. This sounds more like a personal disagreement with Ethereum than a genuine interest in supporting green cryptos.
"If you drink it, we'll reverse the ban."

Edit: "Monsanto Lobbyist Claims Roundup Is Safe To Drink – Refuses To Drink It" https://youtu.be/AbfJ4VwHIqw
My initial motivation for my (small) projects was always to scratch my own itch. Beyond that, it feels really good when someone else uses the code. For my current side-project, I keep up maintenance because it's interesting work and because I can plausibly benefit from bug fixes. It's neat to see how other people adapt the code and open up new use-cases. For that reason, I love high-quality bug reports and treat them with some urgency.

For projects I lose interest in, I unsubscribe from everything and either mark the project as maintenance mode or try to find a maintainer. To find maintainers, I've had good success granting write access to anyone who lands a few good PRs and telling them they have free reign over the code.
> If everyone is giving honest, straightforward feedback, then everyone has a rumor about them and it becomes powerless.

But this leads me back to my previous comment: this isn't a feasible solution because it means basically asking people to self-sacrifice until the "rumors" lose power.
Thanks so much! Interesting idea to set the political leaning info based on country. I have heard many say that the US center is right of what most people consider center.
Heroes to zeros: how German perfectionism wrecked its Covid vaccine drive
>Yet, I find it extremely questionable that the authors of <https://rms-open-letter.github.io> decided to throw in an accusation of transphobia with no apparent basis and for no apparent reason.

They clearly explain the basis (Stallman's beliefs about using pronouns.) You may disagree about their reasoning, but it's disingenuous to act as if they "threw it in for no apparent reason."
Something sketchy is going on with these US judges handling the case. It's hard to conclude otherwise.
I see a business opportunity for somebody here: AI software to counter AI surveillance software.
No one is condemning the drivers for anything.
Hilary Hahn herself has been doing '100 days of practice' again recently - she's on day 87 now. Another example I've been enjoying lately is the German pianist Annique Goettler practicing sections of the Moszkowski piano concerto - sometimes she does split screen and also plays a reduction of the orchestral part (on Instagram, also her YouTube "Heart of the Keys" account). She's a pro but has a sense of humor about the ridiculous amount of messy work and frustration it takes to get things polished. See her recent "1 Min, 10 Min, 1 Hour Challenge" for the last movement of the moonlight sonata.

This is the kind of thing that in the old days you would only see if you hung around a musician's house. I used to have an older pianist friend who would say "look what I'm working on!" and then crash through some crazy virtuoso piece that months later he would play perfectly. Most kids don't have direct access to musicians at that level, so I really appreciate this trend of practice videos. Plus, seeing behind the curtain makes the music even more interesting.
This isn't about "freedom of assembly". I'm extremely pro freedom of assembly. "Unions = always good" is just as harmful as "Unions = always bad" as "Rich man evil" or "Rich man good".
We've banned this account for trolling. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. Doing that will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Completely agree, in the face of a person who is possibly hostile, or just in general a person that generates a lot of uncertainty what incentive could you give me not to stay silent?

People need to think about it in terms of incentives, what incentive do I have to try communicating with an incredible mindfulness and scrutiny that I might then fail at. The failure to do so properly could have potentially endless downsides? The default incentive is always going to be avoidance as much as possible. Not because of any desire to be sexist, but because is the instinctive path of least resistance.
The kind of people in France who have negative feelings towards America because of 'woke culture' are not Gen Z or Millenials, but largely conservative or upper class older cohorts, like say the French arts community. The kind of people who think of the US as prudish and would go out and defend Polanski, that kind of stuff.

There's no significant difference between young Europeans and young Americans or even young Chinese when it comes to social issues, and trying to shoehorn cancel culture in there is just a bad attempt to hijack the discussion. No youth outside of the US things the US is too left-wing, lol.

The reason why the Chinese youth nowadays is more anti-American than their parents has nothing to do with cancel culture in the US, they don't care. The reason is that they're tired of being caught up in another countries dream. Many older Chinese still can't shake admiration for the US and liberal values out of principle. When they grew up, the US was the only game in town. Newer generations are more ambitious. They want their own culture, they don't feel like they owe anything to the US, and they perceive liberal democracies largely as a dysfunctional mess. They didn't witness cool Britannia and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Do you have evidence for that? (that these words came from French)

Your other claim doesn't seem right either, about most (let alone "almost all") words from Latin in English coming from French. Stats[0] seem to give about equal numbers of words in English from Latin and from French, 29% each. As for

> There's not much historical reason for English to pull vocabulary directly from Latin

"English has also borrowed many words directly from Latin, the ancestor of the Romance languages, during all stages of its development. Many of these words had earlier been borrowed into Latin from Greek. Latin or Greek are still highly productive sources of stems used to form vocabulary of subjects learned in higher education such as the sciences, philosophy, and mathematics."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Vocabulary
The matter is whether Chevron did spill oil, or did not spill oil.

A case of evidentiary fraud to dismiss that in it entirety? How that works?

Man A killed man B, caught on camera, red handed, with wittnesses. Man B's family pays off a wittness to testify, but get caught. Man A claims fraud, racketeering, that the whole case is "tainted," and throw it to the garbage bin. A zealously officious judge then happily complies using every technicality imaginable to cancel an overarching issue.
It's also relevantly the "C" in the ECA stack (ephedrine, caffeine, aspirin), which is a well-known supplement mix for bodybuilding - one specifically intended for fat burn.
If you're new to the Culture novels:

* don't worry about sequence / chronology, they're great in any order

* absent other guidance, try "Player of Games". This was my first (and still, I think, my favorite) of the 6 or 7 I've read

* the unabridged audiobooks on audible are (other than the drm) fantastic; world-class narration, if you want to explore them that way. I love bouncing between modalities, using whispersync to keep in sync across kindle, audible and phone...
I remember some comedian pointing out, racism (sexism in this case) drives people crazy. Because it's subtle. Very rarely are people nowadays blatantly racist/sexist, because they get called out for it. But imagine that every time you have an 'off' experience with someone, you end up wondering whether your race or sex had something to do with it. It only takes a couple instances of finding out that that 'off' feeling did in fact mean racism or sexism for you to suspect that you just experienced discrimination every time it's possible. This understandably drives people f*** crazy.
Do you have a link to the video? Lifetime parameters and their placements are the one bit of rust syntax that I still can’t get my head around :P
“ Updated to add

On Thursday 26 March, mimemagic was updated again to v0.4.1, which restored the MIT license and removed the GPL covered code – theFreedesktop.org Shared Mime Types database. Users must now provide that themselves. Versions 0.3.6 and 4.0 have been yanked, to the dismay of many.”
This, however, is a hypothetical. For example, when the Linux project introduced the Code Of Conduct, such threats were made, however, at least as far as I am aware, no such departures have actually happened. Please let me know if I am incorrect.

We have multiple reports on people leaving open source or not starting because of RMS. And other toxic people like Linus Torvalds. Like me.
Maybe.

That's not how muscle gains work. It's exponential decrease per year with steady training: 13-18 lbs the first year, 7-9 lbs the second, and so forth until about year 5.