skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was much worse in the 1980s. There was serious concern back then that the Amazon would mostly be gone by now. But the deforestation rate has declined since then. It's still far from ideal, and there was a recent surge. But it's not apocalyptic.
> Also some evidence that vaccines are helping with long covid

By what possible mechanism? Does this imply that long COVID is a result of some small amount of lingering virus?

I was under the impression that long COVID was a result of damage caused by the initial infection - not some continuous infection of the actual virus.
Which AWS Lambda language should you be using?
Tinder should also incorporate credit reports and probabilities of future income based on occupation. Can probably automatically generate a forecast profit and loss statement for various scenarios.
No, it's just that there is not as much forest that is as easily exploitable as there was in the 80s, so of course the rate has to go down. We already cut most of it down.

[edit] forest cover is still going down. we are not increasing the amount of forest. the first derivative of forest has gone down. that's meaningless. forest is still going to approach zero at the current rate.
Seems like a bad idea in hindsight! Any system like this should be considering multiple factors, including the shape and size, as well as evaluating the behaviour of other drivers to see if the perceived instruction seems reasonable. After all, that's what we do as humans.
Long covid is not sufficiently studied to indicate whether vaccines help.

Many of the patterns associated with long covid suggest that is a mix of one condition that has a mechanism probably similar to chronic fatigue syndrome and the other is the manifestation of long term sequelae that is common with other respiratory viruses.

My guess is that the vaccine might help with the CFS-like symptoms.
But Tinder doesn't provide sex, barely even catalyses real life sexless encounters.
Does nobody read comments before replying?

My entire statement was “we don’t need an AIDS vaccine to survive as the human race”.

If AIDS was risking our survival than diarrheal diseases should as well?
> an effort with similar funding but a more sound theoretical foundation than being Newsqueak 3.0 could have become an industry game changer.

That's a pretty good description of Rust 0.x. Might ring a bell.
Mobilizing for a zero-carbon America: Jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs
does this take any inspiration from links?

https://links-lang.org/
> Dealing with a global database brings in much complexity that is not essential to the subject matter of this article, which will wait for another piece.

Excellent write. It would be great to know why CockroachDB failed your needs.
I'm just starting out in the journey of front-end development as a hobby and have been doing server-side infrastructure automation for my career for almost a decade now - so please bear that in mind with might seem like an ignorant question.

Let's say I have the client-side pick up the bill for logic/computing for form validation. Now for security reasons would I also want validation on the server-side as well due to the fact that client-side JavaScript can be manipulated? Or am I totally off-base in this line of thinking.

I'm personally opposed to how much logic happens on the client-side but I'm open to having conversation and changing my opinion on that.
> because it's a direct competitor to themselves.

Gonna need a source on this one.
That could be a bit of survivorship bias too. I too have cloths that are 20+ years old. But other stuff from the same era is long gone too.

For me it is one of two things the stitching just comes undone and ends up tearing the fabric. Or the fabric is just threadbare.

I do have to agree though with the quality. It has really dipped in the past 10 or so years I would say. Especially in things I used to consider durable, like jeans. I recently bought a shirt about 3 years ago, elbows blown out stitching coming undone. Not low end cost stuff either...
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Is heart disease risking survival of the human race?
The problem is that the treatments we currently have for Lyme disease only provide temporary relief for a sizeable minority of sufferers.
Freelancer... if there ever was a game I want more of.
I usually split my IDE to multiple planes. A 4k, large monitor helps though :)
Loving what you’re doing here - excited to show this to my non-native speaker SO and give the AI assessments a test drive.
It's only possible to compete as a "climate entrepreneur" if negative externality costs are imposed on existing business (carbon tax or cap & trade).
The lengths of games aren't the worst they've ever been, but yes they are too long. The lengths went up as players and reviewers complained about paying $60 for a game that's 8 hours long. People really wanted to get 40 hours of story driven gameplay out of that $60.

I find it absurd the lengths that games are padded to in attempts to appease this crowd. It ends up causing the game to be a slog if the padding isn't optional.
did you read my comment?

covid 96% status is from an anonymous survey.

Why not just get CDC to provide actual hard data? Surely they keep vaccination records?

Should vaccination status of physician, as verified by the CDC, be public data?
> ...but a mess to write, debug and read in C code. This is especially true if you could have (say) relied on a robust, debugged Python standard library function that has existed for years but instead had to do all of that yourself in C...

Because there are no robust, debugged standard library functions that have existed for years in C?
Only if you can get pure natural fibers like cotton. Having synthetic material woven in ruins the fabric for most reuse.
Very true! It's a great landing page for a language that gets into the meat of it right away with clear examples in code blocks. Nice work.
Is there an example of importing js functions to imba, or calling imba from inside js or ts? I could not find this.

In Scala js, this interoperability is quite painful, so I wanted to see how easy it is in imba.
"In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good." No they were not, these three organizations have always been in the business of top-down centralized information control where a few rich and powerful individuals use these organizations to control and subjugate the powerless masses.

Since the social media revolution we now have alternatives to these centralized control structures. The push back to their loss of centralized control of information is labelled as "disinformation" and it is a disingenuous attempt for the cabal to maintain their power over us.

Hundreds of millions of people have been killed by this cabal of ruling elites and their thirst for war and power. ABC, NBC, and CBS are the real sources of disinformation in this world from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to a Kentucky Gun Show misrepresented as Syrian warfare. By breaking their oligopoly on information we are for the first time in human history achieving real freedom and this is scaring the elites who seek to maintain their power over us by writing articles like this one.

Break your chains, block out corporate media, seek real truth, and you will find it. And when you do, come back and we will fight side-by-side together against our corporate overlords and we will win our freedom.
Indeed. I love Padé approximants -- they're very underused. Another really fun trick for approximations of expensive functions are turning them into Chebsyshev functions, like Nick Trefethen's chebfun package. You can trivially differentiate, integrate and compute chebfun approximations of really horrible special functions (e.g. DE solutions) with fantastic accuracy. Criminally underused.
I was remembering a time during the fairness doctrine when the news media seemed more fair and balanced but as I have watched various news broadcast s from the past I found that what I remembered was just the way they wanted me to see them. The news has always been very opinionated and they would use facial expressions and tone of voice to influence your opinion.

It is quite disturbing to watch the old news and see that things are not as I remember them.
Anecdote issue aside, there’s an observation bias at work here. People who have no plans to change their living arrangement tend to not talk about that on social media. Meanwhile unhappy people talk a lot more about their intention to change.

Also, I’ll note that the ratio of people announcing their intent to leave, and people actually leaving is nowhere close to 1:1.
It comes down to power. power doesn't need to explain itself. Why expend the energy? just turn off their mic, ban their Facebook, disappear their YouTube, kick them off patreon, put them on the credit card block list, remove positive takes on them from search results, refuse to route their domain, then mock them when they complain.
There have been dozens papers like this for years spelling out exactly just what 5G is good for.

It should be understood that there are papers about how to do both device free localization and identification with mm wave antenna arrays. Some of these papers explicitly mention that their methods are compatible with off the shelf 5G hardware.

From a marketing and business perspective, what do you think "edge computing" is all about? What do you think "internet of things" is really about? "Smart cities"? These slogans are all but bold faced exclamations of what was intended by technologies like this.

Where I live, last summer during the protests, the first place 5G towers was in the areas the protests were happening, in the midst of the protests. Why? Why did protestors in Hong Kong decide to cut them down? Why are the five eyes countries so concerned about the security risks of Huawei 5G hardware?
> cars don't actually contribute to climate change that much, which is not true

I couldn't find some ready numbers, so I tried some estimations.

26% of all energy goes into transportation[1]. Automobiles are about 60% from that, so about 15% of total energy is spent moving automobiles[2].

1 https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...

2 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...

This does not include land use and agriculture emissions.

Looking at it another way, US has close to 300 million vehicles, and the average automobile emits 4.8 tonnes [3] of CO2 a year. It comes down to 1.5 gigatons of CO2 each year. Total US emissions are about 5 gigatons. This would make it a 30% part of CO2 emissions. It's higher than the number above because that was based on European values of 60% of all transportation emissions coming from automobiles. The US automobiles are bigger and consume more.

3. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...

I think it's safe to say it's somewhere in the ballpark of 15-30% of all CO2 emissions are from automobiles.

I don't consider the manufacturing of the automobiles, because people will need moving regardless. It's either a battery powered car, plane, train etc. Those all need manufacturing and maintaining.
I wonder why there isn't a "Buy now" button, they're already charging your credit card, they'd just need to hire someone to run the item from inside the store to you at your car. Add some sensors like body temperature monitoring; Sweating person who looks like they like their sweets? "5% off this ice cream if you hit 'Buy!' within the next 30 seconds!".

Damn, I think this is an idea. At least for developing countries, were labor is cheap, the runner is the expensive part of this concept.
They're referring to fringe sources (in contrast to the mainstream sources that were Good).
Bad luck mate, male profiles there have negative worth.
>Indeed, it’s possible that the Establishment needs the theater of social-media persuasion to build a political world that still makes sense, to explain Brexit and Trump and the loss of faith in the decaying institutions of the West

Pretty good conclusion, especially in light of the absolute disaster that is Afghanistan. Easier to blame social media for "disinfo" than acknowledge that decades of horrible leadership are what has caused lack of trust in institutions

a few days ago the military said Kabul would hold for 90 days, within hours the Taliban was sitting in the Presidential Palace. US leaders either flat out lied or were horribly wrong, not sure which is worse. Either way, why would you put much faith in these people after being horribly wrong on so many decisions?
> On the other hand, a growing population means more demand for wood products

In the US, increased demand can be met with renewable sources of lumber. This has the side benefit of modest carbon sequestration.

Population growth is also slowing, which may actually pose a more serious problem for labor and innovation. Immigration helps, but it won't be enough.

In other areas of the world, the problem is one of economics, as the parent mentioned.
95% of the things you wanted to do were never covered in Microsoft's help file.

The help file covered all the "building blocks", but there's a long tail of use cases requiring combining those building blocks in non-trivial ways.

If the Houston Chronicle happens to be the one covering one of those long-tail use cases then that's amazing. Because no user manual could ever be large enough for them all. And even if it's not for "your version of Excel", adapting it is probably the easy part.
ExxonMobil, Shell and BP among oil companies paying negative UK taxes
I'm all for more safety and would be happy to use this if it wasn't for the fact that Tinder is a typical Silicon Valley "growth and engagement" operation that does not have your best interests at heart (if you find a partner, you stop "engaging" with the app).

My concern here is that this kind of verification will become mandatory and will then be used to ban people from behaving the "wrong" way from a company perspective - not "engaging" enough with it, avoiding the dark patterns, not giving it the permissions it requests, etc.
The first big project. After that there will be movies explanations stories expectations all that stuff. And to some degree it's already out there. We have those things now related to travel that's not faster than light.

And tell somebody put something together for real, FPL is just a whole lot more sexy.
Phase 1 is not the difficulty here....
I don't think the problem is complexity as much as it is opaqueness. I have played other games that are also very complex but yet still very enjoyable because the complexity is open to be examined.
Even the seeds of modern "journalism" were yellow. Hearst didn't just build a crazy castle in California, he essentially drove the US involvement in the Spanish-American war - and that was not mid-century, but at the beginning of the 20th century.
Whatever point you're trying to make, the contents of a headline is never sufficient evidence.
> we are nearing a technological plateau

Max Planck was famously discouraged from studying physics by one of his professors because "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes." [1]

Having studied physics myself, my opinion is that we may very well be at a similar point right now. The big advancements of the last century in physics (quantum theory, relativity, chaos theory, etc.) brought us an era of swift and sweeping technological progress, and now the easy fruit seems to have been plucked. But there are still plenty of known unknowns, dark matter and dark energy being perhaps the most prominent one. Who knows what unknown unknowns are hiding behind those known unknowns?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_von_Jolly
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The authors of Imba care a lot about education and are working on Scrimba.
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My wife doesn't know WTF Electron is, but definitely notices when a pile of Electron "apps" are slowing her computer to a crawl.
No, but I'm an avid follower of American politics.
There are two main fundamental things that cause problems with LFS:

LFS makes a 'centralised' assumption about Git usage. Git is designed to be decentralised, even if that's not how we use it, whereas LFS requires a single central object store. An example of where this is a problem: we do a lot of development for clients. It's very convenient to be able to mirror the git repo to their Gitlab and git usually makes it very easy. If you have LFS in your project then you have to jump through a lot of hoops.

The second problem is that LFS copies its data exclusively via https. This creates some security complexity if you normally authenticate via SSH.
"In total, the increase in leaf area over the past two decades corresponds to an area as large as the Amazon rainforest. There are now over two million square kilometers more green leaf area compared to the beginning of the 2000s. That is an increase of five percent."

https://www.warpnews.org/human-progress/nasa-the-earth-is-gr...

As the article notes, it's not all good news and deforestation needs to decrease in certain regions. But it's also not true that we already cut most of it down. There are more trees today than 20 and 100 years ago.
Numerical analysts are definitely familiar. Library authors may not be unless they took a course in function approximation.

Personally I prefer chebyshev approximants like chebfun but pade are really good at the cost of a division.
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I’m sure I’m guilty of doing this, but it’s mostly mental laziness. When I’m sorting stuff for donation I’m mostly thinking “keep” versus “donate.” The third category of “throw away” is there and their is a pile, but it’s not one of the two defaults, so unless I notice the article is quite bad I don’t toss it there.

This has also meant I’ve kept clothes that really should have been tossed as well…
> Most people don't care that it takes an extra 10-100 milliseconds for the UI to react compared to a native app

You can tell this is true because people keep complaining about it, and developers keep reminding us that we don't actually care about how slow apps are.
I hope it's cheap enough to deploy large volumes to Africa. Desperately needed there.
Super smart, yeah. BTW if we're gonna replace tons of gas pumps, can we make it illegal to play TV/ads on them? Lord I hate it so much.
That "zero-carbon America" would create so many jobs is actually a sign of the inefficiency of renewable energy compared to hydrocarbons. Also, jobs will be lost in manufacturers that depend on cheap and reliable electricity. You could also create a ton of jobs by banning farming equipment, but that would make you much poorer.
ÅF - Fibonacci in 05AB1E that are less than the current number on the stack - Good tip for when you get THAT code interview and can pick the language. Just need to know the code for Å if you are not from Denmark.
"The subway-cars can become a place to forni- and deficate for the homeless for weeks, making it unusable for citizens. But critique cannot make a dent, becaue it is guilty by association."

this is the type of stuff people who don't live in NYC say. guess what, I use the subway all the time and things go perfectly well! it's definitely got its problems and there's a real homelessness crisis in NYC (although nothing like the west coast tent cities exists here), but to say it's 'not usable'? you're out of touch.
My intention was not to justify it but to state the probable reason it happened. I agree it's insane to shut the entire country down. The gov in NZ is panicked because it means the end for them when the population figures out their medical system is shit and costs them a fortune. It's the same story in Canada, the lock downs were to prevent a garbage medical system from collapsing after 100's of billions in tax payer dollars. It would have exposed how little the people get for their money and a system that can't handle emergencies. I'm sure the Governments of both those countries have other excuses for the ridiculous lock downs.
I guess I have a very different experience. I consistently found that online dating (especially Tinder) felt, for lack of a better word, fake, and weirdly like job hunting only worse. The only reason I ever bothered was because nobody seems to do the kinds of things where people used to meet their significant others anymore. People can't even be assed to make plans these days for fuck sake. Personally, I find the whole thing so tedious and terrible that it isn't even worth it.
> Since the social media revolution we now have alternatives

Yet ABC, NBC etc all have a Twitter feed with just as much contrived BS on their accounts
Ok so out of all businesses you can do alone, that example is harder, yet not impossible, but that doesn't mean there aren't a million other opportunities to successfully make a living as a solopreneur. You probably don't see many doing this because it makes no sense and it sounds like you made the right choice when things made sense, but that doesn't discount the entire premise of being a solopreneur.
I think Kay's complaint about engineering rigor ignores the explosive growth of programming. Sure, bridge-builders have rigor; there's also probably about the same number of them today as there were 50 years ago.

The number of programmers has grown by at least two, maybe three orders of magnitude over the last half century. And more importantly, almost anyone can do it. A kid whose closest approach to structural engineering is building a balsa bridge for a weight competition can also write and release an app for Android or iOS that will be seen by millions. Even if it's not a success, it's still just as real a program as MS Office.

That level of access guarantees amateur-level code, and the rigor Kay is suggesting would kill the software industry as we know it.
It did for awhile, until commercialization really took off. Then the incentives became skewed.
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Absolutely. However, palm oil is a much smaller cause than the animal agriculture (like 1/10).
I will tell you at right now even if it has a recommendation for all people many will not in first world. HIV still is "gay disease" to most thinking and many will not want to admit risk of getting it. This is largest problem to solve if you are wanting to remove HIV from population. I think maybe best focus are bi sexuals, they are representing "cross over point" from gay population into straights where it maybe can spread more in future.
We may receive that education somewhat directly and immediately through covid, and failure to vaccinate people.
That's just a syntax over map() and reduce(). There are no new / different primitives in J, just a new syntax that emphasizes the use of arrays.
I've got a couple of questions: Do you plan on developing a no-code interface soon? Before learning to code, Stripe on my own landing page was a no-go. Do you help in completing the integration after your own or should I do a proper Stripe integration after Plug?

Congrats on the launch anyway, I'm convinced that your solution makes sense for early stage company. You'll have to provide more value in the future to keep enterprises in the long run I guess.
From the article, "A major survey in the UK six years ago found one in three young women considered garments “old” if they had been worn just twice."

I'm like you, but I think there's a pretty big disconnect between us and the average person into fashion.
Lisp is already at the pinnacle of evolution, and can easily morph into whatever it needs to. That's both its greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
> They'd rather just ban the people who disagree with them than address them in debate.

The anti-vaccine crowd doesn't engage in a fair debate, because they don't understand the rules/parameters of a debate or in some cases because they're not interested in a fair debate.