skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they really sequestering it? If I understand their tech correctly they are recycling it back into fuel which then gets burned and the CO2 goes back into the air? It’s a fascinating process but unlikely to undue our decades of harm.
I recently came across the search engine Marginalia [1], which ranks web sites based on the ratio of text to HTML tags (more text, better score), with a very heavy penalization for JavaScript.

[1] https://search.marginalia.nu/
I'm confused about this:

You can also charge both if you attach your MagSafe Battery Pack
to your iPhone, then plug your iPhone into a power source. You
might want to charge this way if you need to connect your iPhone
to another device while charging, like if you're using wired
CarPlay or transferring photos to a Mac.

Does this imply... if you MagSafe this to your phone, and then connect the Lightning cable to the Battery Pack to charge, the Lightning port on the iPhone cannot be used for CarPlay? Does it get turned off?
That would just artificially constrain supply, driving prices up and making other mining options more viable.
I had bronchitis symptoms for only a week in March 2020, didn't think it was covid, took antibiotics but miraculously this really bad case of Bronchitis cleared up 3 days later.... I get Bronchitis every year or other year... and it's almost ALWAYS a 3-4 week thing.

since then I've had brain fog, fatigue, pain in my extremities, numbness in hands/feet (off/on), body aches, when I stand sometimes I have to sit back down for a minute, my standing HR is about 130...just standing, AFTER getting up from sleeping. My sitting is 90... Walking is just 130-140... Depression, and the worst anxiety attacks of my life, just panic, can't stop racing thoughts, etc...

Most of this stuff stopped a few months ago when I started doing 2 hours of mindfulness per day after seeing some "glitch" in the matrix type stuff which isn't really relevant here...

I can't say for a certainty the weird Bronchitis was Covid, but a lot of signs point to that, and it cleared up after my vaccinations...so who knows...

Feel like 80% of normal, which is way better than the 20% I was feeling just this past March.
There is no silver bullet. It has to be a combination of:

1) Reduce emissions to zero (will take some time).

2) Use more natural solutions (trees, algae, kelp etc. - will also take time).

3) Enhance natural solutions with tech (enhanced weathering).

4) Develop carbon capture tech to reverse the damage done by the fossil-fuel burning tech.
Very true. And customers should always check on things too. But I can also understand how a customer that goes with the flow of a car dealership smoothing through these things (when they should be more deliberate about) doesn't realize what's happened.

That abstract scenario aside, it's pretty bad that the insurance & dealership didn't flag anything in this issue when the Tesla was purchased. Even if they only gave a pro-forma "do you want to keep your current level of coverage?" It's bad... they're the experts on these things and should advise customers appropriately.
I bought a magsafe radial magnet car mount on AMZN for $15
Ask HN: A contractor published all my private code publicly. What would you do?
I own a small company with 3 full time software developers on payroll and a contractor from India. This person has been helping for about 4 months now but we decided to end our relationship because there's a lack of experience so we are spending too much time reviewing and fixing.

Minutes later, Mailchimp alerts us that our keys have been published publicly on Github, and we find a copy of all our propietary code just published on someone's account.

We know this person is from a big consulting firm in india (aprox. 250 developers).

We immediately informed the manager of the firm and minutes later the repo was deleted, but haven't had an opportunity to talk more to them (it's too late in India now).

What would you do in this situation?

I know that what they did is illegal (sharing propietary code from a private repository to the world). Is there any real way to compensate for what they did, or should I just assume they can do this without repercussion with every client they have? Things that come to mind:

- Reporting their github accounts

- Report their contractor accounts in different websites (UpWork etc)
I wonder if there's any possibilities in engineering a quick-growing trash tree that would have a higher percentage of mineralization, or properties that facilitate quick pseudo-petrification, so that it can be embedded in concrete without worrying about rot. They would serve the same purpose as rebar, but with greater volume meaning less concrete needed. And it would be a near-permanent carbon sink.
Are you really shocked that given Apple's massive market penetration, they have enough customers in lower socioeconomic brackets that financing options are a viable revenue stream?
Am I reading this right? Firefox now implements special logic just for Facebook?
Yes, you're right of course. I just felt obliged to do the pedantic HN thing =D
Wirth also did not shrink back from laying out some of his philosophical differences with Dijkstra:

"One of Edsger’s most peculiar idiosyncrasies (after 1970) was his vow never to use a computer."

"Edsger had contributed significantly to a well-founded, rigorous approach to programming, in establishing it as an engineering science. I therefore awaited eagerly the appearance of a textbook, a fundamental guide to programming from his pen. But he had lost his interest in this endeavor, and instead concentrated exclusively on mathematical treatments and theories."
Also, planting trees sequesters co2 into the biosphere. That is not good enough, we need to be sequestering co2 into the geosphere if we want to remove it from the equation
I'm sorry but Covid wasn't in Osaka in November 2019. You definitely had some other disease like the flu.
Could all this be attributed to heightened cortisol levels throughout training which are supposedly toxic?
And it has only one connector - lightning. Brilliant.
Good question, and one that I would like to have the answer to too. I also wonder what the effects are on longer term immunity, apparently there is some evidence that if you had a more serious case that your immunity will be longer lasting but I have yet to find something that is conclusive.
Trees follow a slow-fast-slow pattern for capturing carbon.
Small new trees don't capture much.
Middle-aged trees capture a lot as they grow.
Old-growth trees don't capture as much as they reach the end of their life-cycle.

As others have said, trees are only temporary as they eventually die and need to be replanted. They're also slow to start, and need to be maintained (which costs carbon as well).
> UA Client Hints proposes that information derived from the User Agent header field could only be sent to servers that specifically request that information, specifically to reduce the number of parties that can passively fingerprint users using that information. We find that the addition of new information about the UA, OS, and device to be harmful as it increases the information provided to sites for fingerprinting, without a commensurate improvements in functionality or accountability to justify that. In addition to not including this information, we would prefer freezing the User Agent string and only providing limited information via the proposed NavigatorUAData interface JS APIs. This would also allow us to audit the callers. At this time, freezing the User Agent string without any client hints (which is not this proposal) seems worth prototyping. We look forward to learning from other vendors who implement the "GREASE-like UA Strings" proposal and its effects on site compatibility.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#ua-client-hin...
Do you happen to work in a biolab? How do you know you had covid in November 2019? The first known cases in Japan aren't until January 2020. And the first reported case in China is November 2019.
Thanks!

I should get at about 2.16 charges then (based on 8000) got only 1.5 which seems pretty dire! I’ll take a cable next time!

The other thing I found was I couldn’t use the phone while changing. That seems to be a weird oversight for wireless/MagSafe charging in general.
That's really cool.

As long as we don't end up with monocultures (also bad for the environment) they should be part of the solution!

We could plant fast growing bamboo and turn it into biochar/bio-oil? Or use it for sustainable housing?
If you cut down trees (sustainable forestry with selective, not clear cutting) and use the logs in durable housing construction, furniture making etc you are taking that carbon out of the loop for a hundred+ years if the housing/furniture is well looked after. Most housing could be built with timber. It might be temporary but buys us time, and trees are amazing CO2 capture machines that are cheap to scale up - they run for free on solar energy and look after themselves.

Stopping deforestation and massively boosting reforestation is one of the most effective things we can already do at scale. At this point we also need active carbon capture and significant reduction in emissions too, though - a multi-pronged approach.
With polling you have to make sure you finish sending data for the current in-flight event. If you don’t then the client doesn’t receive that event, unless you also send them events from the past 30 seconds on first poll.
Qi charging losses are around 20% in the best case scenario. This is pretty dumb for a portable battery pack imo, since you'll only be able to effectively use 80% of the pack's capacity.

Bring back replaceable batteries already. Nobody likes carrying around an external battery bank when their internal battery starts to lose capacity after a year.
This is a lovely comment! I just came by to say thanks for it :)
Notes on Designing a Search Engine
When my first daughter was born in 2018, I had a respiratory infection. It lasted three months before I went in to the doctor. I hesitated to seek medical advice because it was clearly viral. But the cough was so bad it was causing the newborn to wake up.

The doctor (at a walk-in clinic) told me viral respiratory infections can last months and there's nothing you can do. Just wait. HE gave me some pills to stop the cough since it was interfering with my life.

That was it. It was about one year later that the cough finally dissipated. It got better after about 5 months, but it took many more months for all symptoms to go away.

I guess my question is... why did my doctor tell me that viral respiratory diseases can last for many months in early 2019, when according to what I gather here, doctors are surprised that COVID may do the same?
I'm less worried about current biodiversity than I am about the risk of significant population centers becoming uninhabitable over the coming decades. Some due to inundation, others because human bodies can survive high heat or high humidity, but not both a the same time.

It seems potentially worthwhile to fight a figurative battle for stemming climate change in order to try and reduce the risk of setting off a chain of events that could lead to a literal war.

That said, I suspect that fretting about space tourism also wouldn't make much of a dent. Maybe more than worrying about straws, but I bet we would get a lot more out of, e.g., allowing the real price of meat to rise back up to what it was 50 years ago.
I bet you'd still be able to do this in a local municipal biogas plant more efficiently. It would also scale better should you wish to run more than several mopeds like this.
This is myself as well. HN is a kind of a National Geographic of technology to me.
I think we can wait to argue about who gets the space resources until we can reliably get to space. Currently the resource being exploited by the "charlatans" is pretty views from upper atmosphere. As long as they don't leave trash in orbit, which this is very far from, they can do it all day long for all I care.

Also this whole focus on the billionaires is misguided. Up until very recently only large nation states could afford to have a space program that is any more ambitious than delivering a satellite to orbit. Now it's eccentric billionaires. Tomorrow it'll be small cap companies. Elon Musk is not getting Mars, don't worry.
Interesting. I wonder what makes the share-sheet feature so hard to implement.
My personal experience of having bamboo on my property is that it seems incredibly dense. Bamboo is a actually a grass and has root systems similar to grasses, it grows very close together. here is another resource about the carbon sequestration of bamboo: https://drawdown.org/solutions/bamboo-production
Firefox is more like 8-9% of the desktop market. It’s hard for alternative browsers to hold share on mobile where the defaults are set by the platform owners.
In what concerns C++, there is yet no other environment that matches the RAD tooling of C++ Builder.

However thanks to Borland mismanagement only old timers or devs working at enterprises are fully aware of its existence.
That wouldn't be an obstacle. Expensive drugs are profitable drugs; drug manufacturers love those. For example, the antiviral that cures hepatitis C costs $84k-168k for a course of treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir

It's just harder to make effective ones. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-its-so-hard-t...

> In contrast, viral pathogens live inside our own cells and depend on our proteins for most of their needs, so they offer no such easy targets. And few natural antivirals exist, so scientists need to invent them from scratch, says Kathie Seley-Radtke, a medicinal chemist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
No, I haven't and reading that I immediately picked out one more symptom: reduced appetite. I have lost significant weight, and in fact I'm still losing weight (but much more slowly now). Down to about 68 Kg, 1,76 meters tall.
This would certainly explain why I feel great during the winter (aka ski season) and like absolute shit during the summer (when I spend 99% of my waking hours in a chair or on the couch), despite equally terrible sleep habits year-round.
The numbers were self-reported, so it's not going to be very accurate.
I don't know about 1 in 4 but it sure seems like there is a lot more of it than their used to be, just in my experience. Younger people living with constant worry about "health care" that I've only ever seen before among the elderly. When I was in my 20s the last thing I or any of my friends worried about was health care.
And the law also only requires you to ask the user if they want to be spied on.

It's not tightly bound to cookies in any way.

And vastly misunderstood.

There was a predecessor which was somehow tied to cookies but even then you didn't need to ask for setting purely functional cookies.

But somehow everyone ended up interpreting it as such.

Maybe because most sites don't have many purely functional cookies or fingerprinting, as they always track you for other purposes, too.
Maybe you are right and it was something else. But, it was very similar and the timing is quite close.

I just feel to share it if it may help someone to build a timeline. And, as I have said in another comment, Osaka has many many Chinese visitors and I was in a very busy airport. I doubt that it took a lot of time to jump from China to other Asian countries.
Tesla Releases FSD Beta 9, but Neglects Bigger Picture
Interested in knowing how this statistic changes for a vaccinated population
The problem is that you have to give your tracking consent freely, which means, that you should have no disadvantage if you don't consent. However, being awarded the right to read the news for free after giving your consent can hardly be considered 'freely'.

I don't care much about this case in particular, because I don't use their pages much anyway, but from my understanding, the correct approach would be, to simply use ads without tracking for the people who don't consent.
People don't get to make the rules.
It means if you’re using CarPlay, you can charge the phone and the MagSafe. It’s trying to say that it’s safe to charge your phone while plugging the cable in for purposes other than explicit charging.
If you're performing a rigorous experiment, then you have a control group, and your null hypothesis is that the experimental group will be the same. In actuality you will find that many null hypotheses hold true and the experimental design has no effect on the outcome, at all. Of course in some fields, like psych, most everything has some effect. But it's absolutely not correct to blame p-values for helping you distinguish between no effect and astonishingly small effects. They're functioning correctly. That is a secondary problem to solve, usually by stating a minimum effect size.

Of far greater problem is False Discovery Rate related things. Where you test 20 different things at once, and by chance identify one of them as significant even though the true effect size is 0. This is another area where increasing your sample size can help avoid problems, but even still you need to acknowledge your tools are imperfect.
Burn it at the site of extraction. That way, nobody will be able to use it !
For me varicella-zoster was the causative agent. I had a lot of trouble being taken seriously by friends/some medical staff after I said that I had serious issues after a bad infection with it, because of most people believe it to be a relatively benign disease. I think it's the case that most viruses will cause chronic disease in a small subset of people.

> “If Covid didn’t cause chronic symptoms to occur in some people,” PolyBio Research Foundation microbiologist Amy Proal told Vox, “it would be the only virus that didn’t do that.”

> Even with growing awareness about long Covid, patients with chronic “medically unexplained” symptoms — that don’t correspond to problematic blood tests or imaging — are still too often minimized and dismissed by health professionals. It’s a frustrating blind spot in health care, but one that can’t be as easily ignored with so many new patients entering this category, said Megan Hosey, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

https://www.vox.com/22298751/long-term-side-effects-covid-19...
I hope this is taken the right way, but have you tried "vitamins" (broadly speaking)? Some I have seen with specific effects: Niacin, Black Seed Oil (Nigella Sativa), Magnesium megadoses, etc. etc. Don't dismiss these as "quack medicines", I've recovered from severe chronic illness thanks to some of these... I could expand if people ask, but really it's quite easy, especially for the HN crowd, to level-up rapidly on healing yourself or at least giving yourself the best chance to do so.

The greatest concentrator of such info on the whole internet, is, as far as I can tell, https://twitter.com/grimhood - follow him and get a feel for the info he's spreading, he has very valuable information on all sorts of healing protocols.

Lastly, one that will no doubt be most controversial, but also has promising anecdotes: Ivermectin.

[edit] here come the downvotes, for those that do, note that downvotes, at least on HN, are not meant to express disagreement, they are meant for content that is objectionable for other reasons.
Seems interesting.

> ‘Only by getting “up close” and drilling down into the “infinitely small” details of the revolutionary process’, its author insists, can the day’s course and outcome be understood.

Sometimes history is inevitable, and small details do not matter. Sometimes the small details make all the difference. The assasination of archduke Ferdinand may or may not be such a detail. The fall of Robespierre seems like it could be another, from what I gather from the article.

What are other examples of when the course of history have balanced on a knife's edge?
Forests are basically carbon neutral once they're mature, peat bogs would probably be much more effective as carbon is continually sequestered underwater.
There were people promising to implement it. That's a lot better than nothing.
Sounds interesting/almost too good to be true. Do they have a working system?
A pattern that I like to use in toy projects is to have an events endpoint and just send the newest event cursor through a notification channel (e.g. webhooks) when a new event occurs. You get new event quickly, you don't have to keep connections open for long-polling, and you can keep polling with a low period in case the event channel stops working for some reason.
I want to ask the commenters in this thread who have long covid if they are overweight/obese or have a medical condition. But... I don't want to get flagged.
Sounds terrible. Did you (and u/mygoodaccount) have loss of smell among the symptoms? I recall reading somewhere that it correlates with protracted recovery.
Hm? The battery pack charges with Lightning, which is a point of contention in your fellow top-level comments.
What is this species of tree that can grow without water or nutrients?
In 2016, the US burned 728 million tons of coal: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coal-works

That's one country, for one year. The world has been burning coal for more than a century. To get back to preindustrial CO2 levels, all that coal needs to be unburned and buried again. That's the scale of the problem.
Just carrying on the tradition then I suppose.
Yes, it says so in footnote 1 in the article. It's also not the benchmarked code so it doesn't really matter.
Tramp can use FTP if you tell it to.

And it's still transferring files. It's not remotely editing.
Supposedly, the risk of long COVID is not correlated to the severity of symptoms.

That’s a bad thing.
So you were never tested for covid? How do you know if it was covid ?
I've seen screenshots of his GitHub Page, and I'm not sure why he put the n-word in his GitHub status so many times. As a thinly-veiled joke?
Well, most of the carbon in the ground that we're burning are long-buried trees, right? I wonder what it would take to just bury a lot of trees and let them regrow naturally.

This paper has some interesting ideas: https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...

My approach would be to find the best CO2/$ types of trees, buy them straight from the lumber industry, and sequester them in no-longer-used quarries. Just need to figure out a scalable way to ensure anaerobic conditions to help prevent CO2 release on breakdown.
I'm guessing they scrolled down to the generic MagSafe promo above the product info section and thought the MagSafe wallets (that have been out for a while) were battery packs
That puts it pretty damn close to the 50-55% wireless efficiency figure I keep seeing thrown around. Yay! Wireless!
How about paying a $1m/head bounty for every dead oilman the local militia can bring me? Seems more economical.
Meanwhile, in Carrot Weather on iOS, you get an achievement award for experiencing a temperature of 69F.

(I assume it would do the same in Celsius, but have been unable to test.)
> The rat in the race doesn't know what to do when the race is over, because all the other rats are still in the race, and he's never been outside before.

Enlightening. Thank you.
Yes, it's totally possible.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210615-a-fifth-of-as... claims it's 20% of asymptomatic cases that develop Long Covid. Even if the number is off, it's unlikely to be actually zero.

Good luck and speedy recovery!
I googled daily transactions and it was in the 200ks whereas before it was in the 300ks.

Meanwhile, there are 109 million credit card transactions a day in the US alone and who even knows how many wires or cash payments (or what happens when you go beyond the US).
The iPad Pro will charge a phone plugged into it via a USB-C to lightning cable.
You would probably also want to watch the video about it that goes into more detail:

https://youtu.be/ZCYM2HW2Ayw?t=321