skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is a tree, it is composed of carbon it extracted from the atmosphere using sunlight. For that tree to exist, -1 tree worth of carbon (roughly) was removed.

If you chop it down and burn it, or it dies and rots, +1 tree of carbon goes back. But the total carbon in the system hasn’t changed, and on average (if this happens a lot everywhere), the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is pretty much the same.

nothing lives forever, and most things stop growing quickly pretty fast. Unless there is a huge disaster, forests turn over in a stable way generally - new trees always growing, old trees always dying and rotting.

So unless you had chopped down massive forests and stopped new trees from growing, or stockpiled half a continents worth of wood for a century and then decided to burn it all at once, it’s hard to meaningfully change the average amount of carbon in the atmosphere, because it never really stops ‘moving’ or gets out of the cycle.

Fossil fuel is carbon that got pulled out of the system a long time ago - those trees or ferns or peat or whatever got stuck underground, where they couldn’t rot or burn, and on a scale that IS continents worth of trees, for millions of years. We don’t know what it is like having that amount of carbon in the system, because the last time it was in the system was millions of years before we existed.

Once those fossil fuels get burned, even if you plant trees, it doesn’t really reduce the amount of carbon back to where it was, because those trees will die and rot or burn or whatever, and on average, the total amount of carbon in circulation is now higher.

Does that help?
When you work it's really annoying to move every 90 days, the double is a lot more interesting. I'm guessing it's 180 because of tax reasons, that is a limit that many countries have for "you do not need to pay taxes anymore". Looking at the paper work this visa seems realitively easy get, and well worth the time. I do not see this as a competition with other countries, just away to make it easier to live there.
No, traveling as a tourist means you are not allowed to work in the country for any employer in that country. Not you are not allowed to work at all. If it were the latter, you would not legally be able to check your work emails while in another country.
Because the ruby community generally revolves around rails. Stack overflow often has generic ruby questions where answers assume you're using rails (by referencing activesupport, for example). Just to give you an idea, on stackoverflow, there are 222k ruby questions and 330k rails questions tagged.
Thank you but unfortunately only the large discs are readable. I think a sorted datatable might serve the purpose better.
Reasonable conclusion. Without an overhang and gutters it seems like more rain and snow would run off the side of the building than there would be otherwise, keeping the wood wet for longer. But, on the other hand, the green roof might have some characteristics or affordances that prevent that. Hard to tell. I am curious now though!
Heh. Reminds me of this time a startup I worked for got acquired by a big financial firm in New York City - we roll into work the first day and at like 10:00 AM this woman starts ringing an actual cowbell and shouting “Standup! Standup Everybody!” They would literally call the developers into the daily standup like they were a herd of cattle.
You must be watching them on mobile, right? I get 0 ads on Firefox on my Mac, I'm assuming ublockorigin blocks them.
have you considered the blockchain? and/or at least consider adding a language that is not Java, but runs on the JVM.
If you want to carry marshaled data around without knowing what is, carry the marshaled data around. If you want to know what that data is and deal with it, marshal it into a known swift enum.

I honestly think we’re talking about different things… the guarantees a programming language gives you are independent of the guarantees a serialization format gives you.
The source linked to by the wiki article talks about the first batch of laser link satellites being launched but doesn't really go into much depth about it. Does this mean they're wrapping up the testing phase? It would be cool to read more about the practical logistics done to make such a network work in orbit.
I wonder if they ever throw a bit of randomness in there like rand() % 100 * 0.01 * num_ads and he just got the peak value?
Good idea—I just added a percentage column, as well as a row at the bottom for the total count
you forgot: Reinforced.Typings.

btw. most of the time I wish my company used such things or that code would be more isomorphic, BUT!!! most of the time isomorphic models lead to way more problem, especially when it comes to validation.
>>When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?

I mean.....removing pedo or gore content from Youtube is still censorship. Just the kind that we probably all agree with. The way you view censorship(and censors) mostly depends on whether they remove content you want removed or not, and that line can massively vary even in western societies(for instance I love the fact that in Germany any nazi-related content is actually criminal, but many Americans gasp at the very concept - however the line is there even in America, but it's just placed in at a different point).
It doesn't need to be sympathetic vs antagonistic. I think the better dichotomy is scout mindset vs soldier mindset. Are they actively trying to change their beliefs or are they defending some notion? If the person you're talking to is in a scout mindset an analogy would be helpful, but to a soldier an analogy is like red meat. It's the perfect fodder for both sides to dig in and assail each other which is what they really want whether they realize it or not.
It doesn’t feel that great to help a company that’s dominating video hosting to help them muscle into the music streaming business through a bundle offer. But otherwise, yes: we might all be better off if Google made more from subscriptions and less from ads.
The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing
Likewise no offense but I don't think you are getting my point. That's fine.

Look, the bottom line is we need to understand how the phenomenon works so we can replicate it and harness it. My thinking may or may not be wrong, but what's certain is that it's not testable. Can't wait for an explanation that is :-)
though likely much less than he'd earn if he quit today and went to the private sector.
Nice try, but there cannot be any test for zombie.

Of course the zombie would pretend they experience SE and some will even loudly disagree with the referenced article.
I love the idea of shitposting in protest.
Because it's so different, and takes some time to get used to the different ways that you can move pieces and slot them together, I think that it would be helpful if there were a practice mode that disabled the auto-falling, to remove the time pressure element.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-bank-governor-andrew-...
Yes, the article is great from a rational standpoint, but much of it fails in practice. I've definitely found providing more detail rarely helps with the situation, unless the other party is willing to receive it. In problematic conversations, the latter is often not the case.

The article doesn't address the emotional problem at all, which is likely over 50% of miscommunications I've seen at work. Things like:

Junior person talking to senior person: Senior person assuming the junior person doesn't know his stuff, and simply not processing what the junior person is saying. But if a fellow senior person uses the exact same words as the junior person, he listens. Nothing in this article will help.

Person A is unsure person B will agree with him, so speaks very defensively (e.g. repeating the same stuff over and over, even though it's clear from B's responses that B understands). As a lot of communications books have pointed out, the way out of this is to have B repeat back what A is saying and ask A if his understanding is correct. This problem is so common that I default to doing this regardless of who I'm talking to.

Person A doesn't trust person B or doesn't really like person B's ideas, and will act stupid intentionally (not too common but happens often enough to need to be aware of it).

And there are others.

Being precise is the least effective technique I've found.
With Android, you can at least enable "Install [insecure] apps from 3. parties" or the like. You can then install whatever you like. Just like on most computers. Remember to disable the option after install .
> Another case of apple ignoring Google in favor of their own preferences.

Fixed that for you.
Eugh yes. This is getting worse and worse so rapidly. If your search term happens to also be a currently popular song or artist then you may as well skip ahead a couple of pages.
I swear the more I see of such things the more Gemini appeals.

Principle of minimum privilege and execution.
Yeah but then you have to use Windows. This way you can use Linux and just run windows in a VM. The good way. The privacy respecting way.
The word "app" has changed in common usage. Most any program you ran on your computer was called an Application way back when, but now it's come to mean... whatever it's supposed to mean now. Whoever wrote the Github site is probably old like me and is using the old vocabulary.
It’s a Eastern European name. Countless Americans have it because they are of Eastern European origin.
Completely agree.

I'm not a Rails person (just because I've never had a reason to learn Rails), but I'm a .Net fan. And oh boy how easy it is to create an app with it. On the back end, I pretty much doubt there's anything better. On the front, Razor is great.
Why do people in the US always feel compelled to add their state?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?

(do_something_else . do_another_thing . do_thing) some_array
Couldnt clear one row but am loving it!!
I test it occassionally and regularly see 3 or 4 ads, but not as much as the OP. That is pretty crazy as a result. Normally though I have 2 or 3 layers of ad protection.
any feedback on this blog is appreciated
"I've been interviewing someone for the last 5 years. The person doesn't even know" is peak LinkedIn
To clarify, I don't need it, and I'd agree that any library interface using monkeypatching could in principle be redesigned to use refinements. What I'm suggesting is in practice, I suspect it's doubtful anyone would undertake the exercise of reframing ActiveSupport (and thereby the entire Rails ecosystem) to use refinements instead of core extensions.
It's an interesting experience where you live in a place to pick out the usual constellations like you mentioned and get used to finding them with ease, but take the trip to the dark sky spots and be blown away how those seem to disappear in the noise of the rest of the sky. It always takes a wee bit for me to get my bearings. And I love having to do it each time as it reminds me to slow down and enjoy being away from it all to where that view is possible.
Did I miss something, or did they not talk about fax machines at all?
Thanks for the catch. Czechia should show now.
Europa Universalis: Magna Mundi
I am not sure it's ethical, but I don't think any laws would be broken - if their customers don't like paying for imaginary services, well, they can go elsewhere... or can they?
I hear JavaScript is the new hotness.
I have seen no credible evidence of violence, this is a smear campaign. Canada seems to be run like Cuba. While the Castro lineage is officially denied, this article contains some instructive allegations of close ties:

https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-just...
These Two Are Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, for Starters
> Ad blockers are piracy and kill jobs, same as downloading movies or books.

Well, maybe I don't want to watch ads so that binary-tree-inverting MIT/Stanford graduates could get their 6-figure compensation packages for participating in a natural monopoly?
I don’t know I feel like gRPC did you know it’s used at Google?
Because it’s on 4chan
In Facebook, you can target people based on groups they're a member of. In Google, you can target keywords which, of course, can include keywords related to mental health.
I cannot stop laughing! Was the standup even about stuff developers would care about, or did they force you to listen to entirely unrelated financial status updates?
> Do they map WiFi spots accurately?

Yes, there are a number of companies that maintain BSSID->Lat/Long Databases. Skyhook is probably the biggest commercial one, and https://www.wigle.net/ the biggest open source one.
Host here. Serenity is amazing.

But also big props to Andreas for speaking so candidly about the back story of Serenity. I feel like there are certain things we don't talk about in tech and that can change.

I love the idea that programming, esp side projects, can be a therapeutic thing.
Because you can construct experiments where the proton from source A ends up at location B, and the proton from source C ends up at location D, or A ends up at D and B ends up at C. (Or some other possibilities.) You find that the A→B, C→D possibility's amplitude sums with the A→D, B→C possibility: i.e., that they're the same indistinguishable final state.

If swapping two things around gives a result indistinguishable from not swapping them, that's fungibility.
The meat lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008091680/climat...
Designing the UI and User Experience of a Machine Learning App
Stack rank the board of directors too for good measure

The only time stack ranking was a force for good was when the French applied it to their ruling elite in the 1790s.
Nope. Kotlin does everything I'd want from Java, but better.
Why do the ambitious, best and brightest Canadians land in the US?

And after the covid lockdown tyranny, the successful Canadians are planning their exit.

This country has a gdp and population smaller than California.

With wealth taxes happening.

Canada’s future is socialist and broke.

The US has many geographic and cultural options to choose from.
No, most of my friends are old enough to be killed by the plague, or the latest variant of it. We'll be meeting online forever, I fear.

If the plague actually does end, I might join PS:One in Chicago again. They've got a Tormach I'd like to get to know. Even better is the community of interesting folks to make cool stuff.
Started by Andreas Kling, now built by the rapidly growing SerenityOS community with 600+ contributors! <3

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/contributors
Not. One. Inch.

You'll claw my privacy from my cold dead hands. Tech will tend to centralize over time and be incredibly attractive to those with an authoritarian bent. The world must respect that no, not even the entirety of the rest of the world wanting to be privy to the content of a communique is an acceptable reason to crack open a pair of people's shared comm over a technological link.

The price of Liberty is vigilance eternal; and home of the brave means nothing if we're too cowardly to allow others tge right to organize and think without forcing an in for the authorities in every technological medium.

There are lines, and I, for one, will not budge on this one. No matter the price.
Although in principle the author is probably correct, what I don't understand is the value of his argument. Instead of saying ActiveSupport is bad, use native Ruby, why not take all of that time, energy, and more importantly understanding of the ecosystem and make AS better.

When giving directions, we don't say: "please proceed forward for 17.84 ft, while reducing your speed, come to a complete stop, and then gently accelerate while turning 90 degree." We just say: "go to the corner and turn right."

Certain abstractions and improvements to the way we communicate make a lot of sense. Why fight it? Sounds like the author has the perfect mix of skills to improve the core of Ruby to a point where it's useful by the rest of us who don't know and don't have the time.
Even better: shadow banning. This already happens. I think the problem is that HN needs more moderators. It relies too much on self-moderation.
It continues because we live under capitalism and the upper class wants to divide working people amongst themselves at all levels, because it keeps them on top. It really is that simple.
What are you basing tour thoughts on? Also, what do you find fair about ad free youtube (which BTW I pay)?

I am paying the same for youtube, which is a platform that takes content created from others, adds ads to it and the make me pay to remove them than for Netflix, which partially produces its own content.

I sometimes think that youtube premium is the best idea to make money without doing anything else than make you think that they are helping you to clean the crap they have created.
Twenty trillion, thirty trillion: it's just splitting hairs.

There is NO WAY that debt will ever be paid back. Sure it could be 'monetised away' by hyperinflation, but that amount of value in 'real dollars' (whatever they may be !) can only be evaporated away and lost. Glad it's not me that lent that money to Americans. And don't think those people that did lend that money will be dumb enough to ever do it again.

Things are going to be 'poor, nasty and brutish' for Americans, but it won't be 'short'.

"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." - Thomas Hobbes
Before Apple's App Store popularized a specific meaning of "app", "app" was shorthand for "application", which perfectly fits a .exe file and any number of executable files/formats.
I don't think Chinese government told anyone to abuse the children. They are rational actors and it would be extremely bad for them. You will have thousands of extremists. What if someone would fly a plane or try to blow up one of the damns on Yangtze river. That could kill a milion of people and bring the country to their knees.
The minerals in rocks can change in response to their environment. There has to be something that it feels like for that change to happen.
“Worth the cringe”, ha ha. That sounds like a slogan Don Draper would save the day with in an episode of Mad Men.
Oh yeah, I am not recommending people use Windows. I find it absolutely miserable. Just trying to play a bit of devil’s advocate I suppose.
The biggest problem facing open source is that most of the people making OSS, and the loudest of the people using it, want very different things.
> until we figure out why nature keeps blocking us

A quantum computer only behaves like our mathematical ideal quantum computer if it's sufficiently isolated from the rest of the universe: otherwise you don't get the “indistinguishable states” thing and the amplitudes don't sum, and the computer stops computing and starts being a regular ol' physics experiment.

It's an engineering problem, as far as I understand. Get things cold enough, get things isolated enough, so they stay entangled with each other and not with the rest of the universe.
They might simultaneously not want to let too many outsiders into their tribe, for whatever reason.
Should make this a top level comment so it can get voted to the top.

Edit: appears you did already!
The trick may be in "the workarounds".

It sounds like you're a pro, maybe I'm just not that good at configuring teh vmwares / virsh / xen / qemus.
I want to like Viper but I always find it’s behavior really strange.
In my browser (Firefox on macOS), the buttons to the left of the game (pause, music, etc) don't work when I click on them directly--it just makes pieces rotate. It seems that I have to click just to their left in order to use them.
You assume, without any argument, that my message is wrong. Obviously none of those zero arguments convince me.

> You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves

I'm not! I'm saying people should spend their limited energy on improving things they can actually change. This is usually things in your family, workplace, neighborhood. The average person can make a real difference for people that way.

Trying to personally change the global climate will achieve nothing, while the people around you miss the help you could have given.

BTW, in hindsight, the Arab Spring was a disaster that ended with millions dead, and no real improvements, aside from maybe Tunisia.
Well this explains why my TA deleted my LinkedIn recommendation I left him a few years later
Two things:

* You don't want your house to be the juiciest target. Having lights prevent it from standing out as a place where someone could just hide in the shadows.

* Lights make your cameras more effective.

I'm not really living in a bad area (town homes go for around $1 million here), but we are close enough to a large unhoused and/or drug-seeking population that we still get a lot of property crime (mainly smash and grab on street-parked cars, but you see people going around looking into houses as well). So while everyone on my street is fairly wealthy (and can be relied on to let you know if something is wrong), we still have to do our due diligence (lights, motion lighting, cameras).
A fun one I ran into is that breakpoints don't work on .NET 5 Blazor apps running in WSL. So Microsoft not having proper support for even their own products, as per usual.

Not sure if it's been fixed yet, this was about 8 months ago.
Give ShlinkedIn (a LinkedIn parody) a try @ https://www.shlinkedin.com
Wasn't able to email the address in your profile - nevada.und.edu doesn't seem to resolve. Feel free to shoot me an email at nick dot price[@]nightowlrecon.org!
In my opinion, it's because a lot of work culture behaves like kingdoms and these people are either trying to pretend they have a kingdom, protect their kingdom, or signal that they'll be good servants.
> I think your argument is unsustainably idealistic

While I have not actually been arguing for any specific changes here, yes - that is the thorn and the true reason ag-gag laws exist. I don't have good answers.

But when I say "call a spade a spade," I mean that we need to admit that the livestock practices of factory farming is something like animal cruelty. Even if, as I again have said, it's a practice perhaps needed today. The scenario can be both.

I do not agree that life confined to a metal crate for 10 months is one better than that of a life spent in open environments for far longer. Pigs specifically are social, active creatures.
Because their product sucks?
I understand that Melinda Gates is looking for different charities to invest in.

I wonder if she'd fund researchers to attempt to replicate crucial publications / studies.

I expect that she has enough money to put a serious dent in this problem, at least if she focused on some specific area.
YES! AMEN!

It reminds of the time I was going to a job interview, saw a homeless dude and went for a coffee with him. Turns out he wasn’t homeless, he was just CTO of a funded startup. The same startup I was interviewing for. We rebuilt the whole app over coffee and they named the company after me.

(It’s not directly named after me, but the company name and my name have vowels and consonants.)

Remember to ask homeless people for their three favourite programming languages before you give them anything.

#qualifyLeads #ROI #winning
I am not a physicist but from high school physics I've got an impression that the DC power is VxI, and AC power is less than that (averaging the instantaneous VxI value) so the 220Vx16A is going to give at most 3.5K watt, right?

I've checked the specs and my stove's burners are 3 x 18K and 3 x 15K BTU/h. Which is approximately 5K and 4K watt. Even one of the small burners is more powerful than the entire stove you mentioned.

I am sure an induction stove does not waste any energy and everything goes only in the heating the pan but I don't see how can this account for an order of magnitude in power difference.