skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cited in the documentary "One Strange Rock". That is the only data I have. I am trusting that the documentary is accurate, I have not fact checked the documentary.

EDIT:
You might find this PBS article interesting as well, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/no-the-amazon-fires-won...

"Forest plants produce lots of oxygen, and forest microbes consume a lot of oxygen. As a result, net production of oxygen by forests – and indeed, all land plants – is very close to zero."
You have this Nodejs developer’s upvote.

At this point in my career (10 years in the game), let me simply defend node as the tool that got me here. Using it then to bootstrap my career was just as practical as using SMTP as you describe now.
Logarithmic potentiometers.

https://learnabout-electronics.org/Resistors/resistors_09a.p...
Europe Plans Aggressive New Laws to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
They took a simple device, that was easy to make, and every china basement factory could make, and made it needlessly complicated.

Now we have a chip shortage, and not even a radio with volume control can be made without a chip that is backordered for 1y+
This brings me nostalgia about 2advanced.net, there was some truly creative work in that era!
Definitely true! I am a huge fan of trees. But the wrong tree in the wrong place is a bad thing. I try to advocate for responsible and thoughtful reforestation - which is, unfortunately, a lot more expensive than people want it to be.
MBS is the next generation Saddam Hussein. Just wait and see.
As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our memory
Exactly this!
Ghosn saved Nissan by focusing on optimizing and reducing costs and while that must've helped a lot in the short/medium term it came at a cost in the long term. It's as if Nissan had gotten stuck in the last decade of tech for cars. They went from competing with Porsche and having popular electric cars to basically being an afterthought in the market.
IASIP and 30 rock are both streaming on hulu
Python is a great language but the packaging/distribution story is not ideal. E.g. pipenv being publicly recommended but then not being updated for almost 2 years, pipenv long lock times making it unusable after your project grows large enough, poetry having pretty cryptic errors with full trace printed in output, c-extensions needing to be built, etc.

As soon as your python code needs to be used by others (library or application) things start to get messy and arcane. I will say that if all you do is deploy some python code to a server then a lot of the friction is usually avoided.
We must raise a generation of readers
The scale of these degree programs and the irresponsibility of upscale universities marketing them to those that clearly cannot afford them is evil. Just absolutely ruining peoples lives.

Indeed. The only question is, do you crush their dream now or later? Is more evil to crush their dream now without debt or later with debt?

And the kids? What are the odd they are know and would prefer a fun youth to an ordinary career? If we're talking a world where global warming looks like doom?
Transformations is something we haven't built yet but we have our eyes on it as your are not the first one to bring that up. You can use Hookdeck in front of lamda and to the transformation there, you'd still get the benefit of async processing, retries, etc
There was a great post about gamma and sRGB from 2016 on HN a couple weeks ago[0] with some discussion[1]

[0] http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721094
It's not Saudi Arabia, but the quote from another Arab state,

> My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel
> probably shouldn't keep a scorecard though.

Maybe, maybe. I agree with a cousin comment, that this is more of a canary than anything. I posted the whole of his letter at the top level, in large part to examine how much of his letter you're fixating on. Turns out, it's a very small part -- and he spends equal time on other public notices, and you've left that point unaddressed, so I'll expand on it.

In grief, one's loneliness is deafening, even when surrounded by loved ones. When this internal loneliness is accompanied by external loneliness, the pain is amplified to a degree that I cannot express in words. To see extensive public adulation of minor accomplishments, the lack of compassion is drawn out in painful contrast. All this serves an example of "toxic positivity" -- of which he exemplifies through a clear anecdote -- which is one of several complaints he has about the organization.
Weren't we comparing the rate of incarceration of the Japanese in Japan vs the US?
> They also dont do trial by jury, but inquisitorial judges who you have to prove your innocence too.

Inquisitorial systems are pretty common among civil law countries e.g. much of Europe, and not intrinsically better or worse than the adversarial system usually seen in common law countries -- indeed they are sometimes used by the latter for specific purposes like summary offences and coronial inquests.
That's fair! It's just a DSL with all the tradeoffs that implies (and what lisp is generally quite good at).
For reference, when I went to Columbia for a master's in computer engineering from 2008-2009, it was ~$33k in tuition and ~$14k in living costs. It's _insane_ that's it nearly 2.3x'ed since then.
Because i might want cookies on this page, gmail and reddit, and nowhere else. This would mean me starting a private window, googling something, finding a link on reddit, opening it, either logging in again, or copying the link to a non-private window, commenting, closing that window, and back to search results.
If they don't directly contribute to the bottom line, that's how they should be classified from an accounting perspective. There are at least a couple of ways IT departments could avoid that fate: having internal customers pay for their services independent of the cost or directly managing projects that otherwise contribute to the bottom line. It's rare, but it does happen.
Respectfully a Masters in CS is completely different from a masters in a 'creative field' because CS has an excess of demand for talent and tons of new opportunities.

Writing, Journalism, Fashion, Fine-Arts, Film - all of these master programs are producing legions of high-debt students with bad prospects, which is the point of the original article that the start of the Twitter thread.
> Do I want Firefox to have access to my Contacts? My Photos? Do I want Facebook to have that access? To all of them, or just ones that I select? Should my disk utility have the ability to send data over the network? My IDE? My IDE plugins?

Modern security on Linux is hardly dependent on the POSIX security model.

Linux just got the Landlock feature[1] in the kernel[2] that does just this. Along with Landlock, features like cgroups, seccomp, AppArmor, Firejail and other sandboxing features go far beyond the traditional POSIX security model. Even parts of the ChromeOS security model are based on modern Linux sandboxing features, and don't rely on POSIX security.

To address your Firefox example, I use these features to sandbox Firefox so that it runs in a container, and limit its ability to run code or make certain syscalls, and it's only allowed to touch its profile and a dedicated Downloads folder. D-Bus can't even reach it.

> This has nothing to do with "stores"

I didn't say anything about stores. It has everything to do with Apple, Microsoft and (slowly) Google forgoing OS-level security for centralized control of what can and cannot run on their operating systems. This is not just enforced with "stores", but with certificate systems like Apple's Notarization and Gatekeeper programs and Microsoft's certificate program.

Instead of relying on the system to provide security, we're relying on Apple, Google and Microsoft to decide what we can run, or can't run, even though Apple is responsible for distributing 500 million copies of Xcodeghost[3], and Google's Play Store is the #1 vector for malware on Android[4].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/703876/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/700607/

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bbmz/the-fortnite-trial-is...

[4] https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-store-identified-as-main-...
The problem solving part is perfectly fine for me. Not getting rewarded financially for my hard work is a huge issue. Unfortunately I don't see that changing anytime soon (if ever). The people running companies often don't understand developer value at all in my opinion.
Just curious, would you say the same about Joe Biden and the recent assassination of the president of Haiti?
> The Amazon rain forest is not net zero because of animals. It's net zero (actually net negative last I heard) because humans are burning it to make way for agriculture.

According to the documentary "One Strange Rock", which I admit I have not fact checked, your statement is absolutely false. The documentary claims 100% of the oxygen produced by the Amazon rain forest is used up by the animals that live in it.

EDIT:

Also this PBS article backups the claim. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/no-the-amazon-fires-won...

"Forest plants produce lots of oxygen, and forest microbes consume a lot of oxygen. As a result, net production of oxygen by forests – and indeed, all land plants – is very close to zero."
worst real-life one I saw was shaped like a knob. You had to move the mouse in a circle to move the volume up and down. I don't recall what software now, I think it was some random MP3 player crapware that came preinstalled on a computer.
Part of the issue is that there is no mechanism to discourage universities from doing this.

It's very specifically the loan companies that do this and the universities just sell their stuff. But stopping would be good, yes.

Best disincentive: Debt forgiveness. Forgive those "unforgivable" and people will think twice about ever doing this again.
The worst is newer versions of android. You turn it up full, suddenly it's down to 3/4's full again and you have to acknowledge you want to turn it up, then turn it up again. If the headphones unplug, you gotta turn it up again.

The same thing happens with brightness too. Turn it up full, suddenly, down to 3/4's again until you acknowledge yes, you really do actually want to turn your brightness up full.

The first time it happened I was outside in the sun and couldn't actually see my screen to figure out why it dimmed again, i kept trying to brighten it and it kept dimming, I finally noticed the popup on the bottom in the brief second of lightness I had after the 4th or 5th try.

I really hate the way devices try to control you rather than allowing you to control them.

On my old rooted android phone from years ago, I had alsamixer installed and could turn the volume up however I pleased, even above the artificial software limits present in all android versions.

I miss those days.
China develops military shark drone
> The scale of these degree programs and the irresponsibility of upscale universities marketing them to those that clearly cannot afford them is evil. Just absolutely ruining peoples lives.

50% agree, and I'm not in the US (UK) so our experience (and reality) may differ.

But are 'upscale [up-market?] universities marketing', or are governments and people with votes deciding that everyone needs a university education (because people with degrees have higher income and correlation is synonymous with causation) and when 'everyone' inherently isn't interested in.. 'traditional' subjects, we end up with this? Vocational degrees not even leading to the vocation.
*Enough companies reinventing the wheel to spinoff new Apache distributed stream processing libraries.
Even setting aside reliability, the Nissan CVT is so awful to drive. The power delivery in every car I drove with one (always a rental) is incredibly mushy and the constant-RPM engine drone grates like a fly buzz.
Honest question with no agenda for recent non-tech grads here: did you assume that merely getting a degree in something assured you would get a job? Even when I was a college student 40 years ago I never thought there was a causative connection.
Building Adaptive Apps – Flutter
how would you prevent people from creating carbon just to remove it?
Closer to a very high level of abstraction in a quite restricted language. Array-based languages have lots of advantages for certain problems for those who have put in the requisite time (certainly not me!). They're one of the languages that'll expand the way you think of programming.
"It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, denial of truth (doublethink), and manipulation of the past" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian

Emphasis mine. Or are you trying to imply a single incident should encompass all those descriptors, before qualifying as Orwellian? If so, wouldn't that disqualify most incidents in 1984 itself?
Mazda got this right on the CX5 (at least in my 2016). Not only is there a knob, but it is on the center console where you can easily reach it without looking. Same goes with the controls (the touch screen is disabled when the vehicle is moving)
that's correct. it would be market forces pushing down on tuition.

that said, it also makes it harder for individuals to make big bets on themselves until the market corrects (assuming it even would)
My ex wife was clearly a student of his work
I just bought the Planetary omnibus because I love Warren Ellis and it doesn't disappoint. Lots of comic book concepts taken to new places.
Yes, the "magic bullet" mentality typical of media, politicians, and dumb Americans just isn't going to cut it. BEVs + wind + solar + storage. Tree planting. Efficiency. Insulation. Nuclear power. Synthetic fuels. Carbon taxes. Sequestration. Olivine. Seeding the ocean. Vegetarianism/cultured meat/fake meat.

We don't need to wait 100 years for maturation of the wood in forests, the nice thing about wood is that you can use it for paper and construction, and that effectively sequesters the carbon.
What about loan companies, who definitely issued the loans, being on the hook? It's a lot simpler and it follows the chain of moral responsibility.

Note: All it takes is changing the law back to the way it was before - debts forgiven in an ordinary bankruptcy.
For something like art history though, is that really so bad? Isn't the mission of history to keep history alive generation after generation?
Sly injection of American politics by the above poster and entirely bullshit. Biden’s administration has embraced Saudi Arabia just as much. In fact, if you actually look at history, you will see that the US has embraced Saudi Arabia for many decades (since at least the 80s). This is by BOTH parties.

Secretary of State visit

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/09/saud-j09.html

Brother of MBS visits and meets with Secretary of Defense

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/07/saudi-arabias-p...
It's a rich environment where you can build relationships with world class faculty. It's also an excellent launching pad to work in finance. There was, when I went there, a tight relationship with IBM Watson. I remember taking a course with a guy who helped design the Cell processor found in the PS3.

I don't know if I'd do it today given how expensive it has gotten. But it made sense when I went there a decade ago.
Well people have been shitting in the desert for centuries, but there’s no jungle yet, so something appears to be missing.
Did you even read the HckrNews rules?

“Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree that reducing emissions is about will, but I'm frightened that we seem not especially willful. And that does seem like a matter of culture, which could be changed. We just don't have a robust framework for deliberately creating those changes. We gave a portfolio of expensive one-offs.
I have absolutely no knowledge of physics or mechanical engineering.

that being said, is it possible to just send up a vacuum into space with two very long and wide hoses and a solar panel into lower earth orbit and just have it literally suck out the carbon and blow it into space?
1) It's not applicable for this kind of drive. Isn't?

2) It's an unsolved problem, which waits for a correct solution.

3) Next time, please read what you are posting, please.
DevFinOps and Cloud cost efficiency is a thing. As more orgs move to utility based pricing, understanding and optimizing spend and accurately projecting are becoming much more valuable.

So, I’d say go for it if it’s something you think you’d enjoy.
We need technology, but more important is business and government. We have all the data on what is causing the problem, but we are not making value judgements, and taking action based on those judgements.

Until our technology catches up and provides net carbon-neutral energy, we have to pollute less. And that may be and doing less, and "consuming" less. And that will require force. Public pressure, social pressure, and regulation. No business will do it voluntarily, and no government will make itself unpopular voluntarily.

Long term we need green energy technology. Short term, we need technology is to help force change in our habits.

Do all the other stuff too, sure, but it seems like most of the pollution currently comes from Industry, Agriculture and transport. Things that enhance human quality of life. We need to decide which enhancements are most essential, and cut back.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
Goldfish up to 18 inches long found in Minnesota lake
federal loans are limited in total lent and interest. federal loans are also much more forgiving at repayment which protects student credit.
Many.

I can think of a dozen people who got schnookered into 3+2 business/mba programs. They graduated with $150k in the hole (this was in 2000) and ended up in retail banking or working for the government in some civil service job that required 15 accounting credits.

The classic example of this phenomenon is art majors, who are basically unemployable in a “job” outside of teaching, and those job openings are usually cyclical.
Nobody cares wether you're offended by bad language when the fucking house is on fire.
I get something like this even from a relatively light exercise (~40 minutes of pilates reformer). If I do it after 6pm my body feels very hot and I have trouble sleeping even 5-6 hours later.
The way I've viewed it for a long time is that they're a spin of the roulette wheel for wealthy young adults. You expect to lose, but there's a slim chance you'll win big, and even if you don't, you've not lost that much, relatively speaking, and may be able to keep playing. The problem emerges when the player is unwittingly risking more than they can afford to lose.
Crowd sourcing has nothing to do with funding, it's about how they gather information. I'll copy a paragraph from they article where they explain it since you obviously haven't read it:

"In 2014, he used a Kickstarter campaign to launch Bellingcat, an online platform for citizen journalists to verify and publish research that taps into the hive mind approach to worldwide, Internet-era collaboration and open-source sleuthing. Whereas traditional investigative journalism—commissioned and published by newspapers or foundations or blogs—is only as expansive and wide-ranging as the team of reporters assigned to any given project, Bellingcat is more like an online meritocracy of ideas à la Wikipedia: Start a thread or page or investigation or project, and if it yields something good, some will read while others will contribute. Get enough people involved, and things can even start to snowball."
Another reason not to raise a public fuss is if you intend to do future business in India. It can come across as your word against theres, and nobody watching the fight really would know who is right. Then you might have future trouble with getting good work out of an Indian contractor.

It might be worth even being forthright with the manager in a tough convo when asking for your money back along these lines, depending on your level of trust, desire for a future relationship.
Abolish federal loans for degrees. The insane cost of college will solve itself literally over night.

Letting 18-22 year old children take on six figures of debt that can not be discharged via bankruptcy is insane and downright immoral.

If the government wants to give away Pell grants then please do so by all means. But federally backed loans are causing irreparable harm.
I understand the motivation. A user might set an app's volume low and raise the system volume very high to compensate. But then audio from another program, likely Teams, might blow your ears out when it starts. In a vacuum, I like the idea, but given that the standard on Desktop is in-app volume control Teams' behavior sounds worse.

In iOS I've never seen an in-app volume control (I assume its forbidden) and all volume adjustments affect the system volume.
Hmm, that's not what happened.

It's not the newspapers that forced google to publish their content, it's Google that found value in publishing news publisher content for free.

Google made money from this with ads on the pages that showed article excerpts and pictures they had no rights to, not just links.

The decision paper from the Competition Authority has all the details of the claims and it doesn't really look good for Google. It's clear Google tried hard to muddy the waters and evade their duty to negotiation and neutrality in how they present information to force the news publishers into signing unfavourable deals: either give away content for free or nearly free or get deranked.

The purpose of the law is to provide a level playing field so Big tech can't just enforce whatever suit them to the detriment of those they benefit from.

If they take your content to provide service to users and make money from it, I find it fair that there should be some type of compensation in place.

I think we've accepted whatever google does as being holy for too long. It's allowed the corporations to benefit from other people's work to provide value for their own services without really sharing in the profit.

It's a shift in thinking but I think it's not necessarily a bad one.
Works for me.

Note that networking changed a ton in Big Sur because Apple doesn't allow kernel extensions anymore (or, its too user hostile for vendors to do it). The VMware networking stack switched completely to HyperVisor.framework's networking stuff, which doesn't support a bunch of "advanced" features.

I only use it for a hostonly network + NAT and this works fine.
College didn't used to be the same as technical school or apprentice programs. They were there to let folks become educated.

To decide that a career is the only use of a degree, is a fairly modern conceit.
> I wonder what such stories, if true, teach us for the future.

That if you're looking to maintain [water] quality, you need to have monitoring in place.

Switching to the new provider was a good idea, not a bad idea. There is no way to keep track of everything that might have happened in the past that might be affected by unspecified changes in the future, so there can't be an expectation of doing it either. But you can watch what kind of results you're getting.
It appears gearpump was retired in 2018
Also see the ergo planck layout: http://thedarnedestthing.com/ergo%20planck

Moves the letter keys toward the outside and the enter/esc/tab/etc keys to the middle so you (theoretically) don't have to torque your wrists as much.

Can't vouch for it personally (I don't have a Planck), but it's at least an interesting concept.

There's also the Preonic (only available as a DIY kit AFAIK) if you'd like a row of number keys, too.
So does raising and lowering the layers change something visible on the keys or is it that you just have to know?