skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly is more complicated. The difference is that

1.) it attacks three different problem sources - the carbon already in the air, and the carbon generated by concrete production, and the carbon from steel production. Cement is responsible for about 8% of global CO2 emissions [1], and steel another 8% [2].

2.) it offers profit incentives, since the people using the trees get a direct benefit (unlike people throwing biochar into an ocean trench). Any long-lasting solution to our carbon problem is going to have to find a way to exist on something other than direct carbon-dedicated subsidies. A self-sufficient business can survive shifting political winds much better than a literal money-sink.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our-in...
You're not wrong. However, there are times when CSS isn't enough. For example:

- The Mobile vs Desktop design differences are too great.

- The site was originally created without considering mobile, and retrofitting mobile support is unfeasible.
I know there was heavy censorship of comics for a long time I remember when I was a kid in the 90's a lot of the comics put in anti censorship ads for awareness of it, I wonder if that censorship contributed to this genre mostly disappearing.
There's a 3 settings under layout.word_select in about:config. They unfortunately don't do what you're asking, but there is an open bug for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1706990
> enrolled 431 adults from the general population with SARS-CoV-2 infection

How do you control for people’s willingness to enter a study? If I had a mild case of Covid and no ongoing symptoms, I wouldn’t be too interested in participating in a study. But if I had serious ongoing symptoms, I’d be very interested. It’s a voluntary study, so how in the world do you control for that? If you can’t control for that, it skews the results to make long COVID seem much more common.
I have special pricing and my plan only works in my province. If I wanted to get it today it would be around 32$/2GB, and it would be even worse outside of Québec.

I'm fairly certain the methodology is the same for all countries.
You could charge the battery pack and the phone at the same time. Saves you a cable/brick when you need to charge both.
One nice benefit of long polling is the built in catch-up-after-a-break functionality: When the client initiates the poll, it tells the server the state it knows about (timestamp, sequence number, hash, whatever), and the server either replies right away if it's different, or waits and replies once it's different.

With webhooks, as in the article, you only get state changes; you need some separate mechanism to achieve (or recover) the initial state.
Inflated error rates due to invalid 500 errors is definitely a thing I've seen it at my last 2 jobs. I think it comes from a lack of confidence with developers when it comes to setting the http status code to something different. It starts with a genuine 500 error caused by an unexpected invalid request the app can't handle and is crashing or some sort of bad behaviour, they put in some sort of exception handling so now it can handle it, they now have code that solves the bug that is impacting the server, but they've still got to return something to the clients request which is still not valid. A 400 error would almost always be appropriate, or perhaps another more specific 4xx would be appropriate but 500 is what was already being returned. Anything else is a change which might impact the client in an unexpected way. It takes a lot of confidence to make a potentially breaking change that goes beyond merely fixing a bug even when you are reasonably certain it's the right change.
Once you've got it in your code base a few times to return a 500 after you've caught an exception it starts to set a president that others will follow the example.
I’ve been saying for years that the degradation and eventual removal of their API is inevitable. Their app keeps getting worse, their business keeps relying on the ads that make it worse, and every complaint thread is free advertising for other apps.
My experience with BMWs is that they do tend to have ridiculous flaws, like the main bearing problems in the E90 M3s and the V10 M5s, or the fuel pump issues on the E90s in general. But BMW will set them right.

The reality is BMWs just have a lot of stuff on them and so it is a numbers game. Things are going to break. Cars are a hostile environment. This is compounded by the fact that it is a BMW. I expect everything to work. If it was a used Corolla I may not complain as much about the seat mechanism not working perfectly every time.

Additionally BMW also expects the car to work perfectly and the car is eager to tell you any time something is abnormal. This creates something of an illusion of unreliability. An old Toyota also has a lot of problems, you just don't notice until you go looking.

And finally, dealers are predatory. They take advantage of the reputation of BMWs as expensive unreliable cars and sell unnecessary services, which perpetuates the expensive/unreliable reputation.
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Many of the recommendations are vitamins and minerals, that are common deficiencies (magnesium is a notorious one, because of soil depletion etc.). It's reasonable to suspect that recovery from an illness finds one in a nutrient-depleted state.
Ever since having COVID back in March 2020 I haven't been the same. I still have regular fatigue but my biggest issue is chest pains.

For the past few months I have had worsening discomfort/pain in my chest. It was so bad a few weeks ago I ended up going to A&E thinking I was having a heart attack. They did an ECG, sonogram of my heart, chest x-rays, bloods, etc. My heart was fine so not a heart attack.

They put it down to either a panic attack (possible) or a gastro problem so I am going for an endoscopy next week however I have a feeling I will end up needing a CT scan or MRI as I had high lipase levels in a blood test a few weeks ago that makes them want to look at my pancreas in my detail. It isn't urgent as two blood tests since them have shown normal levels and it isn't getting worse.

Plus random abdominal pains all over yet an abdominal scan shows nothing out of the ordinary.

Basically COVID has fucked me up long term. When I actually had COVID it didn't feel like a big deal, just a bit of a cough for two days and a little drained. But two months after COVID I started getting a shit load of problems and over a year later it is no better.

37 year old male in [redacted] fyi.
> And I had to explain that it’s probably not possible, except if ios or Android implemented it directly (more so iOS, I’m not up familiar with android).

PDFs with embedded bitmaps can actually do that (and are currently supported widely, but PDFs are a terrible format with way too much attack surface). Same for any other composite html+whatever formats like epub. Standardizing a non-book format name and a spec that mandates nothing more than bare xhtml & image support with no JS or CSS interpreters would probably be quite sufficient.

> duckduckgo

Duckduckgo caches/proxies the images on its desktop site, which is useful when it gives results for sites that are since dead. Often at a lower resolution, but that's what reverse image searching is for.
6. COVID is a problem because of it's virality not so much symptoms, i.e. it's about the network or community affect, less so the individual affect.

I don't know who people have this kind of narrow (and a little bit selfish) idea that it's only about 'them' and 'if they catch it'.

COVID is not that deadly on a unit level. It's dangerous because of how incredibly viral it is, then it becomes 'net scary' for the community.

By being unvaccinated - even if you survive - which you likely will you are passing it to others and you become a propagating agent of death.

Take the purely libertarian perspective of 'my body my choice' - well in that view, you'd have to be responsible for your actions as well, and therefore arguably liable for everyone you infect and all the damage you cause.

It's not going to work.

If we're going to live as a community and share services, resources and spaces ... then we have do adjust our behaviour at least temporarily so that this diseases doesn't kill a lot of people.

It's very troubling to me that this isn't obvious to every adult.
> How about just buying the oil and putting it into storage somewhere

What about burying it in the ground?
Maybe its also because good content is more frustrating to actually get to. Compared to a decade ago there's a lot more friction on a first visit to a site. All the marketing pop-ups, paywalls and surveillance consent boxes are a hassle and page load times seemed to have gotten worse. Maybe we've been gradually conditioned to avoid those frustrations unless its really worth it.
The lawyers are happy to play along but it seems more like "media mega-corps have bought politicians to impose on modern society".

My own personal views, of course.
What I really wanted was something compatible with SQL, but that augmented it (and compiled to plain sql). Like typescript is for javascript, but instead of adding a type system, adding constructs for better composability.

Something like.. BQL http://intelligiblebabble.com/a-better-query-language-bql-la... which went nowhere https://github.com/lelandrichardson/BQL
Thank the lab.
Maxwell's tennis match.
I was in charge of the Twitter data platform team at the time we developed Heron and deprecated Storm. The Mesos component of your retelling is not quite right. Take a look at this comment I wrote around the time we started talking about Heron, addressing the same misconception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10056479
Right, well let's just say that coincidentally I had a viral infection that has the exact same symptoms as COVID, has the same long term effects as are reported in many cases of COVID and which coincidentally happened to be timed to match the first wave of that particular pandemic, but according to you it wasn't COVID when it wasn't confirmed as such with a test.

Consider the alternative: you would have to come up with some kind of viral agent that did the same thing but wasn't COVID.

Which to me seems to be a far more outrageous claim than the one that I was simply one of many. The test does not make the disease, it is merely positive confirmation, but I've yet to hear of some surprise viral disease that ran in parallel to this, isn't COVID but matches the symptoms so well.
Well.. most real estate requires constant care and feeding, and as inflation is seen in material cost increases, labor price increases, utility increases, etc., rental prices will reflect that in the sense that increased expenses are passed on to the renters.

A homeowner bears those costs directly with nobody to pass the expense on to, so this absolutely affects them.

In theory it will make your mortgage easier to pay off - inflation favors the borrower if it's sustained long enough for the borrower to see their income increase. If you have an ARM though, you might be in for a bruising year or (looks at watch) three to four.
1. Hardly anyone in the US pays for their phone outright. It’s a combination of interest free payment plans and subsidies/rebates

2. The iPhone 12 mini is $699

3. Half of the US is not “rich”. But somehow they manage to have iPhones.
Why would they move quickly from a cable connector that has a massive installed base and that works well for most people (or, as you put it, "nonsense") to one that doesn't have nearly as much market penetration?
Yeah, the moment they lock out RIF, I'm done with Reddit.
I have two serious examples of interactions between the "legitimate" market and Bitcoin:

1. The Bitcoin ETF: https://cointelegraph.com/news/debut-canadian-bitcoin-etf-ne...
2. The CME Bitcoin Futures market: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bi...

Also, it provides protection against hyperinflation for some, be it legal or not:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048

Not everything illegal is immoral. But I agree that there is an absurd amount of energy use and scams in the crypto ecosystem.
Just to add to that, your example would be even worse if you didn't have the macros at the beginning:

F_{1\mathrm{l}} &= F_{2\mathrm{r}} + F_{2\mathrm{l}} \exp (i\,k_2 L) + F_{\mathrm{Br}} + F_{\mathrm{Bl}} \exp(i\,k_\mathrm{B} L)
...

The obvious objection is that of course most people do use macros. But that's the point: every LaTeX document ends up being its own impenetrable language.
> But if that is the case, why does it not charge at 15 watts when not plugged in?

Presumably because of the power draw on the battery, which doesn’t matter if it’s plugged in.
Eliminating emissions would be carbon neutral. The competition wants carbon negative solutions for sequestering carbon in the atmosphere or oceans. Sure there are some carbon negative things like the replacement for concrete that reacts with CO2, but the negative impact is not extensible beyond a specific point without better mining/refining tech.
Well yes, but the important thing is that it's the same methodology everywhere. It really is that much more expensive.

You can get data at theoretically 0$/GB if you get an ungodly expensive truly unlimited plan, so the marginal cost isn't accurate, we have to be at or near the average, and most plans are going to be lower end.
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I didn't say we should use Typescript, I was suggesting a FP dialect which compiles to typescript.
Okay. Then I guess matter is just the wording then. I find the Rustonomicon warning much more inviting:

> Should you wish a long and happy career of writing Rust programs, you should turn back now and forget you ever saw this book. It is not necessary. However if you intend to write unsafe code—or just want to dig into the guts of the language—this book contains lots of useful information.

What I like: (1) the advice not to read this document is presented using the word "should," but in Go's case, the doc first presumes the reader as being too clever and then directly commands the reader not to be too clever; (2) the Rust version acknowledges a basic human trait that is curiosity, inviting those curious enough to explore the guts of the language to dig in, but the Go version does not.

I'm sure you have great intention, but can you acknowledge the wording comes across as off-putting and condescending?
It's got a 1460 mAh 2S/7.4V battery (so ~2920 mAh in the typical 1S 3.7V form factor). And it connects via inductive coupling, which is inefficient, so you won't get all of that charge into the phone.

There are some sensible justifications to those metrics for battery health and charge efficiency. Stopping charging at 90%, limiting battery-based wireless power transfer to 5W instead of 15W, limiting charge levels when the devices get warm, charge management software to protect battery health when plugged in for long periods of time, charging more slowly when you don't need a fast charge, and charging the iPhone before the battery pack are all features with good technical reasons for doing them instead of technical limitations.

The naive approach of always providing 4.2V at as much current as the cell can take is bad for batteries. Apple has the required vertical integration and ecosystem controls to do some of these things that may be confusing.

I'm not disagreeing that it's not an order of magnitude more expensive than a comparable USB battery pack with larger specs.
Twitter does not require a Referer header to return user-generated content ("tweets").

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734

Sending a Referer header does not improve [your] experience. It is the opposite for me. I cannot tolerate Twitter's Javascript, I do not use a graphical browser. I find it annoying when people submit Twitter status messages to HN.

I have a script that reformats the JSON into a simple HTML page with no Javascript. This improves the experience for me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499784
You often know your users. Some people need to be left to figure it out. Those users will call ever day to ask for things they can and should do themselves. For that sub group you should avoid helping at all costs.

Others, if they raise a flag it's time to drop everything and stop at nothing to fix it because you know they wouldn't be talking to you unless it's critical.
The updated video player is unintuitive and difficult to use on mobile, and essentially unusable on a tablet in portrait mode.

It is so strange to see a company making their mobile experience WORSE these days.

Looking at the complaints on the site about the video player UI and the lack of response from Reddit to said complaints, it is speculated that some consultant convinced some Reddit executive that they needed to emulate the TikTok UI to grow their user base. This ignores the fact that TikTok is video-centric, while Reddit is comment-centric, and breaking comment functionality to emulate someone else's video functionality makes no sense at all.
Basically: RSS for anything.
I'm not 100% how to respond to this except that virtually all Americans are enrolled in SS. If you have an SSN, you're enrolled. You need 40 credits at up to 4 credits per year (~ $5500 is required to get all 4 credits). After working about 10 years (even part time) you should qualify for benefits.

According to the SSA, approx 90% of Americans over 65 collect. https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/basicfact-alt.pdf

There are still hardships because it's not a full income replacement, but it's a far cry from 'not all are worry-free rich'.

Edit: The majority of the remaining 10% are covered by state level public employee retirement systems who don't accumulate SSA work credits and private pensions. SSI also exists to provide 75% of the poverty line if you have extremely limited means. Here is a paper by the CRS about senior poverty. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45791.pdf
> If the restaurant has to pay, it's a cost like any other and they charge accordingly.

Restaurants have way too few employees so it would not "even out".

> They can do that because all restaurants are charging a bit more because they all have to pay

That is not what will happen.

I'm sorry, that would be nice, especially here in Germany food quality comes way after trying to save a penny (not my random Internet opinion, an Italian friend of mine representing Italian food makers arranging sales here in Germany said they sold the good stuff to Spain and France and only then to Germany - not because of bias, but because to German buyers the price matters more than anything else). I've got some money and quite a few diverse contacts in the restaurant and hotel business here. What do you base your argument on? It sounds idealistic but not very realistic. Even if you could avoid those small businesses not hiring anyone that could be a "danger", somehow, which restaurants would be impacted would be extremely uneven, only a few would have to pay.

Their margins, at least here, are already atrocious. Germans just stay home and get the cheapest stuff even if it's objectively bad food. I lived abroad, for example in the Bay Area for a few years, and that was paradise for going out (ignoring all the posh restaurants that want to appear to be better, when a lot of "ugly" places have far better food and atmosphere) for food, now I'm in the 3rd food world.

> Personally I'd prefer it to be funded via taxation.

Yes, indeed.

But your idea that trying to force the small restaurant would work even remotely as well - no, it won't. In large companies the laws of large numbers start to work and it averages out, the variations in tiny businesses, who ends up with a parent that has to be paid, who doesn't, are different. Only a few will end up with that cost but much of their competition will not. Those are not exactly life-long employments when it would even out over time because most employees would be impacted at one time or another.

Maybe you can Google-translate, it's in German, how it works here in Germany for small businesses: https://www.personal-wissen.de/7414/arbeitsrecht-in-kleinbet... -- The business does not have to pay it, it is paid by the state, in summary (also see - again in German - https://www.arbeitsrechte.de/elternzeit-gehalt/). Over a third of workers only work part-time though.
For the accessories I've used, it's been the texture of the materials providing most of the static friction, leather/rubber both have high static friction combined with the amount of force pressing them to the back glass.

I have a magsafe car mount, and I'm pretty sure I could get in a car accident without it moving, but with a fairly simple twist I can pull it right off.
Did you mean to write $4k? Because I will absolutely buy your 2004 BMW 3 series for $4.
The giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest-growing plant in the world, living mostly on the Pacific coast, off the shores of California and British Columbia. It had economic value at one point, so kelp farming was a major industry in the early 20th century. Though, I suspect if CO2 is all that matters, simple algae is easier to manage than large plants.

Sadly, the natural kelp forests are in really bad shape. I haven't seen the stats on giant kelp, but the bull kelp forests have been practically been wiped off the map by sea urchins and warming waters over the past decade or two. The natural kelp forests probably didn't provide much in terms of CO2 absorption, as dead plant matter would decay quickly in the ocean, but it's been a huge loss for aquatic wildlife.
Indeed, and Freedom Mobile might get bought out soon. It's why I'm so pessimistic.
If you want to claim that the article is "vastly, deeply incorrect", you should be able to supply counterexamples.
Autopsies are showing micro-ruptures in the brain. It’s not surprising that the brain damage takes so long to heal and has such strange side effects.
It would massively simplify the job of proving the upper language more correct. It may also be possible to proxy the type system in order to make use of existing tooling.
Because your doctor is right. Serious viral infections are no joke. Long covid asserts that people with very mild symptoms are also likely to suffer long term. This is controversial.
i want freedom from starving to death and exposure, while having freedom to do whatever sounds interesting or meaningful, or just relax that day.
I just want to add a bit to this. While there is a lot of snake oil supplements, there is a also quite a bit research on some supplements helping.

I'm speaking from personal experience here. I suffer from a mild case of Erythromelalgia. During typing my fingers and hands would get red and feel warm. My case is most likely secondary caused by some nerve damage from a medication I took. There is a doctor who had severe case of it and has done some research on using magnesium/ala and it made his condition 95% better and he was able to return back to work. I have been following his protocol for about a month now, and it has made an incredible difference.

Anyone who is suffering from an annoying illness, that is not aggressive and require immediate treatment, should try research possible supplements and diets. Clean/healthy diet is always good.
Yes, you can easily see symptoms that arise well after the active infection is over. Personally I had complete loss of smell and taste that slowly came mostly back over a two month period, only to suddenly go bizarre at the tail end. Six months later I can only assume something between my nasal membranes or olfactory bulbs healed wrong because my sense of smell is just as good as it was pre-covid, it's just incorrect. Feces, beef, chocolate, and french fries all have the same stale/burnt grease smell. I've essentially lost hope the problem is going to correct itself.
Yes, I feel they've done that bit, AskHistorians is a brand in it's own right now. Seems like contributors could form a coop, have a subscription model, use it to fund research, etc..