skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be careful drawing too many conclusions from that dataset. Many if not most forests are managed and logged; not all of that logging is necessarily on the public books nor does it imply complete deforestation; Legal logging typically requires a certain amount of regrowth to satisfy regulations (whether national or to satisfy carbon offsets). However, a sapling is not equivalent to a centuries old giant. Some afforestation targets permit a very, very low tree cover to be considered wooded. And if trees are being replanted; how is biodiversity doing? People have a tendency to pick cheap solutions (which is perfectly reasonable!), but that also means we should be careful we don't misinterpret simplistic coverage metrics as saying more than they do.

I looked (quickly, and therefore poorly, I'm sure), but I couldn't see anything in the ourworldindata sources that tries to distinguish the quality of forest left. I'm likely missing something, admittedly; I'll keep looking, if I find a link to their methodology I'll post an update.

They seem to be gather data from the UN FAO forestry project, and also other sources. I still haven't found any in those sources that account for the size of the trees; but ourworldindata does indirectly include some evidence that size may have reduced - the UN FAO source estimates forest coverage has dropped by almost exactly a third; but the tree number (where tree is defined as being 10cm in diamater at breast height) has fallen by almost half. However, since the sources use wildly different methodologies, I'm sure there might be other causes for the discrepancy, but in any case - it still highlights that interpreting these numbers isn't entirely trivial.

(Incidently, the same caveats likely hold for the globalforestwatch.org site; there too it's not obvious what they're actually measuring, nor how well they can do that, nor how close whatever metric they've got aligns with whatever you actually care about.)
Obviously you have to have an idea of the consequences of failure. In the U.S. 20 years ago, if you missed a flight and there was another one going out that day, they'd just put you on that one.

These days, most airlines want to charge you some very hefty fee if you miss your flight.
I wish they passed a bill to make the switch to standard time permanent. That extra hour of sleep once a year, that was gold.
> The question is whether you want more of it in the morning or the evening, and there isn't a "correct" answer there.

The folks at various chronobiology and sleep study societies say otherwise:

> The choice of DST is political and therefore can be changed. If we want to improve human health, we should not fight against our body clock, and therefore, we should abandon DST and return to Standard Time (which is when the sun clock time most closely matches the social clock time) throughout the year. This solution would fix both the acute and the chronic problems of DST. We therefore strongly support removing DST changes or removing permanent DST and having governing organizations choose permanent Standard Time for the health and safety of their citizens.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

Lots of footnotes here in this paper if you want to get into the details:

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

The position papers of various societies:

* https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/

* https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/dq2nv3/

* http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JBR-D...

* https://www.chronobiology.com/impact-daylight-saving-time-ci...

* https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...

There seems to be a consensus on what's "best", and it doesn't appear to by Year-round DST.

I'd be curious to know what hearings, if any, were held on this topic, and with whom.
I've never really understood the desire to have high level programming environments for the micro:bit - blocks and such. I've nothing against those sorts of environments themselves. My son has hugely enjoyed Scratch and I think it has been educational for him. I just think it's missing out on what makes micro:bit awesome.

With a high level programming environment a Micro:bit is just a very limited, cheap bit of hardware you can do a few fun things with. There's novelty to it but it can do much less than the desktop computer you use to program it.

But the Micro:bit is an absolutely genius bit of kit for exploring low level programming!

AIUI, the Micro:bit has 2 microcontrollers on it, not one. The one you program is actually the less powerful of the two. The second microcontroller, which you can't program, is there to control the USB port, implement mass storage and feed anything you put there to the programmable microcontroller.

This means you have an extremely simple RISC chip, with extremely simple hardware (leds, beepers and stuff) attached that you can control, and you can program it in assembler or C just by copying files to USB mass storage.

I haven't started with this yet, but when he's ready I plan to explore this in detail with my son. It seems like a perfect opportunity to explore how computers actually work and how software and hardware interact, without the huge complexity of more powerful hardware.

I mean, this should be educational for me!

This book looks like a potential starting point (not published yet, though): https://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/baremetal/Bare_Metal_micro:bit
I don’t get this at all. Why would people want the sun to go down in the afternoon? In my time zone it sets at 4:30 part of the year! That’s awful, and sunrise is at around 7:00am. We have way more sun in the morning.
I do wonder if some communities on the border of a time zone will end up shifting from one side or the other due to this, especially if they're in an area where it makes more of a difference in the winter than the summer.
Was it looking out for you or for your employer? There are two things to consider - whether or not your employer needs to withhold versus whether or not you need to file. Lots of states are much more lenient to employers but still very strict to the employee. It is pretty common for a worker to need to file while the employer does not need to withhold or face nexus.
Don’t Use Electron Terminals
Sure, but are you at all familiar with the history of pre-CCP Tibet? Their "theocracy" was likely worse than Saudi Arabias, both in terms of the sorts of punishments they inflicted upon their populace (routine gouging of the eyes, chopping of the limbs, and then hanging up for display) as well as the autocratic (serf-like) structure built up.
Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.
RIP code parsing human-readable datetime strings to determine timezone
I knew at least one of them at least one at one point in time, and I didn't even live in that state then. I would say its pretty sad you're in the same place you were since you were 6.

I guess the point is that we don't know anything about each other and can't make any conclusion really, except that states don't choose anything with any coherent rationale because the individuals are on just as wide of a spectrum of awareness and lack of choice.
The difficulty is that if your account gets suspended, you are unable to do anything - including transfer domains out.
But standard time in the winter means darkness by 4:30 PM around the winter solstice period, which in turn means lots of car accidents as people commute to work. It's a pretty bad idea all around, right?
Ah, there are plenty of employers and industries that don’t have that luxury though. Also, even my 9-5 was not so 9-5 a decent chunk of the time when I was working big corp due to having to work with folks in other countries. It does remove one variable though.
Ooof, I remember that. At the time I was writing shipping logistics optimization software for LTL shipping, and many clients were using ancient warehouse inventory systems (lots of data uploads over ftp, etc) that couldn't easily be modified to account for the time change, uh, change. Very painful.
I've thought about this, being a night owl myself. I vastly prefer daylight saving time, but doesn't that mean I'm just getting up an hour earlier? Which I should hate, because I hate getting up early.

It's made me realize that my being a night owl is less about the actual time and more about how I'm spending it in relation to the rest of society. There's just something about being awake when others aren't that's preferable.
>time stays as it is right now
Correct. We still have a couple of years/cycles before this goes into effect. So starting March 2024 we will "Spring forward" permanently
So you are saying it’s better to alternate Wallet Saving Prices twice a year?
Go is not quite doing this level of expansion: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/generi...

In particular, a single expansion is shared for all pointer types.
Presumably, being late to work or more tired leads to more car crashes. Super anecdotal but I saw two horrible wrecks yesterday, when I normally see 0.
When I was in college I scheduled my classes late so I could sleep in. When I graduated college I moved abroad and taught at a school where I had to show up at 7AM showered in a shirt and tie. It kind of sucked, but I was able to make it work. When I got back stateside, I started a software job where I didn’t need to be in the office until 10 and only had to commute 4 days a week. It was awesome.

Sample size of one sure, but I had no problem developing discipline when I needed it, and was happy to discard it and stay up later when I didn’t. I don’t know what you’re so worked up about here.
Appreciate the idea, but I'm already at one of the lowest latitudes in the continental US.
You wish that costs for renewables were not still plummeting, and for storage were not falling more than twice as fast as for renewables, and that costs for building and operating nukes were not, instead, rising. But they are, they are, and they are.

Pretending that "breakthroughs" will be needed to field storage must be your last hope, but building out storage is just construction. You will continue to be disappointed.
> Parents need to drop kids off before they start work.

I see a comment like this in all of these discussions and I'm always confused: did something change in the past ~15 years since I graduated from high school and school buses stopped being a thing? Where I grew up (Texas, which is generally not the most politically enthusiastic place when it comes to school funding) it was required that a school bus be available within a few minutes' walk of every student's home in the school zone. I thought this was a pretty universal part of American life based on every movie/TV show ever.
I like doing things outside after work, while in the morning I'm always inside working or getting ready for work. Having an extra hour of daylight is a huge QoL improvement for evening activities.
I hope this gets merged into the upcoming Yocto `kirkstone` LTS release branch, since that branch will use the same pinned version for years to come. The previous `dunfell` LTS release branch provided Go 1.14, which can no longer build the latest versions of many projects.
yeah it's definitely expensive but that's mainly because they go to China every year to each farm to find the best teas. they will go into depth on each and every one if you inquire
Unfortunately, that is NOT what the article states. DST (Daylight savings time) ENDS on November 5th (when we change back to what is called "Standard Time"). 2 weeks later, DST (not ST) becomes the law of the land. Which means, as the OP stated, unless they change the implementation date, there will indeed be a 2 week flip-flop.
Not the .app domain but the google apps service(now called google workspace (I think... they change the name at the drop of a hat)).

They basically removed a free tier that they explicitly guaranteed would be free "forever". Because of this people set up friends and family as users using the service. Google then told people no you have to pay ridiculous amounts per month for them to keep any apps they have already bought tied to your account and there's no way to seperate your account once it's tied in. They did this with a 2 month notice period.

They have since walked back some of that due to backlash. They're now saying that you have a 6 month notice period (July 1st) and that at some inderterminate time before july 1st they'll let you transfer your account to a normal free google account. You will however lose your email address as part of the process.
> It's easy enough to replicate the "wake up in the light" experience in your bedroom

No, it absolutely is not. Light you get from some Walmart alarm clock is the wrong temperature, the wrong CRI, and about 1/1000th of the right intensity.

You can replicate it for the low-to-mid 5 digits: https://www.coelux.com/
Wasn't there a study or two that living on the western edge of a time zone poses higher health risks, presumably because people have to get up before sunrise to get to work.

This why I, personally, would prefer standard time over DST. I really hate early mornings, and DST causes all mornings to be one hour earlier.

EDIT: Googled a quick link about this: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-neurologist-explains-why-dayl...
Question: What do you think of Israel's governance and military?
They have raised prices a number of times though. That can be its own challenge, and something you don't experience with AWS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/fdgblk/google_g...

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-announce
It isn't, and only someone who mostly consumes art but doesn't create it says otherwise. The possible exceptions being artists already regally compensated and upset they aren't making more (e.g. Don Henley)

Take any city of cosmopolitan reputation, and take away their public arts programs and presence, and I guarantee in a generation, they will wither out, as the prestige/tourist status and even business status will decline.

Take a city like San Jose where I live; smaller neighbors Oakland and SF have vibrant ecosystems between creatives and public works that fosters their reputations as places worth seeing. SJ has a small but active community that largely has to scrap for their own, such that its largely overlooked to the point that most of its best talent only gets known after it leaves for cities that will recognize them and provide tools an opptys for them (e.g. Cellista, Peanut Butter Wolf, etc). And even SF is pricing out creatives, such that many are booking for Oakland or out of state to continue.

The arts are poorly funded, and in the few places they do better, tends to be in old bunkers where socialites can 'invest'/launder their money and get a surname placed on a building.
The problem with ALL of these stupid mobile designs is always twofold:

1) The important information is rarely the obvious thing on the page.

Partiful! Yay, party! Where? When? Cost? Oh, that grey on grey blob. Even filteroff, WTF am I searching for? Why does your "Ready for date night" take up 1/3 of the damn screen instead of something useful to me?

2) Interactable objects aren't obvious.

Presumable that stupid double circle is a trendy hamburger menu. Oh, wait, no, I've get a hamburger down and right. Whats scrolls? What clicks? And how do I go back.

As a side bonus, these types of Social Crapware apps (dating, party, etc.) have a special failure mode:

3) Design for these kinds of apps is ALL about attracting to your app lots of the cruise director type--generally a female who is nominally single and probably right in her mid-20s (age isn't as critical as female and nominally single).

Consequently, design for 25-year-old Anya supersedes ANYTHING else. Period. Bar none. What Anya thinks is good IS good and overrides any other consideration. Follow that trend or get kicked to the curb by the company who does.
Is this open-source? Couldn't find anything about that anywhere.

Would be awesome to integrate this with some other libraries made for beginners.
Yes, all those cheap servers and VPS with “unlimited” bandwidth have fair use policies and qos metering that will likely be very similar to vimeo’s. They certainly don’t mean TB of high quality video streaming every month when they say unlimited bandwidth
Yes but unlike say a democracy, you can't vote the theocracy out. You can't be treated fairly if you are not of the official religion. You become an outsider, never to be treated like a full citizen, because of who you are.

Imagine if instead of religion it was skin color, or gender, or hell even height - only people over 2 meters could be in government. Can we whitewash those too? Are they as legitimate as Theocracy? Why not?
"That is literally insane."

What have I just said?

If only we had a word whose express purpose was to avoid ambiguity for those times when it matters to communicate without ambiguity...
well there goes my Hacktoberfest idea
Plus reencoding costs? Hosting the video in multiple formats for different devices?
"Those who study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it"?
Does non OS software usually need to care about timezone?
would you mind commenting on the subject? I never heard of petrodollar recycling.
Yes but you're still only 3 timezones away from California if the whole country switches--while potentially being further away from Europe in winter. (I think :-))
Uh - no. You don’t have to be there to ensure the kid gets on. You teach your kid how to be responsible and a good person so that they get on without you having to helicopter over them for everything.

What the F is wrong with Americans. Srsly.
It's 1/10 of modern Chinese territory, no one is going to give up that much land. Headwaters to major rivers feeding South Asia. Security, see CIA's Tibet program. Unlimited mineral resources.

>making them a profit

It's mostly not, spending billions on high speed rail and other infra linkage to control restive region and the entire western theater command security network is expensive. But wealth + new military capabilities makes taming this frontier feasible. Military forces in Tibet can reach huge strategic areas of South Asia while Tibet itself is buffer from core PRC territories. The richer PRC is is, the easier exploiting Tibet becomes, and the more there is to be gained. Serious mining started just 10 years ago.
True, that's the normal process but if the President vetoes the bill Congress can override the veto by 2/3 majority in both chambers.

IIRC the Senate passed the bill unanimously. If the House passes the bill by a large majority it predicts a veto would be overridden. In such cases even if inclined to veto, the President typically acknowledges defeat and signs the bill into law.
Speak for yourself, you certainly don't speak on my behalf.
Haha, that article is so good. It’s probably my single most frequently used frontend dev resource.
Every abstraction tool will get misused, especially early on. I bet the Go community will figure out how ways to mitigate that in the long run, given it’s culture around readability.
iPhone 14 leak lays bare many things we hoped wouldn’t happen
The idea that war is a crime at the international scale is underpinned by the threat of war, just as the idea that murder is a crime at the personal scale is underpinned by the threat of murder. We fully intentionally put a lot of steps in between because it turns out that dying sucks a lot,[citation needed] but the fact that they stand between radical disruption of quality, er, quantity of life is what gives those steps weight.

That is to say, war is not other means. It is the primal means of diplomacy from which all others spring forth.
Common in my Bay Area suburb. People will even sell their houses when their kids get to elementary school and pay half a million more to move a mile away, so that they don't have to deal with drop-off.
What is a false negative when it comes to fake news claim?

I agree that NLP cannot always detect novel fake news claims, but it can be used to filter the badly engineered ones.
Thus proving that they are robotic idiots designed specifically to annoy people. What exactly did that accomplish????
I certainly didn't ask that question from a political perspective. I'm not delusional to assume that Tibet and its people stand a chance against China.

And this was also reflected in their answers.

They're mostly concerned with ensuring that people have a safe passage out of there (having the ability to go to India and lead a life without oppression), while trying to negotiate peace deals for sacred locations and the deep Tibet. But I do think that this has been consistently falling on deaf ears. And, of course, they are hoping that the Dalai Lama will choose to reincarnate again to keep the "fight" going.

Getting out of Tibet is not exactly a walk in the park. Though, it is a walk. A long and gloomy walk through treacherous mountains which in 70%+ cases leave people with frostbite and other injuries.

I befriended a yoga teacher who was teaching an authentic Tibetan practice, and he sometimes had people over at his studio who had the day prior arrived to Dharamshala, from Tibet, through the mountain passages. It's unreal.

It's not like they have the luxury of an empire conglomerate like other modern countries, but India has been good to them.
Just as a side thought... if you look long enough at any country's history, you'll surely find horrors and terrible individuals. But that rarely means that country or its modern descendants would want to be "liberated" by a foreign conquerer, whether that's China or the USA. Forced assimilation is a form of genocide and people would almost always choose to be oppressed by one of their own rather than a foreigner...
OK boomer, thanks for the info. For a moment there I though you might have something novel to say. Enjoy grinding all these axes until your blessed retirement.
All other domain registrars out there have probably started thinking about their "transfer back your domains from Google Domains" for when whoever at Google loses interest in this and shuts down.
The first thing I looked for was a "download all" button. Does anyone know if there is a script to write for this?
Too little too late. The 5600 should have been out from the start. I've basically wasted 100 bucks on the X version I didn't want.

Only went for AMD so I could reuse the motherboard. But next time I'll go back to Intel.
We have artificial lighting now and the older method just means more car accidents as people commute to home after work.
I guess you're used to it. Making that change for people who were born and raised in early morning sun will probably not be good for them.
I wonder if our interconnected world will make this different. I’m guessing people are more adversely affected by DST than previously.

Also from your link:

> In the state of Florida alone, at least six school children were killed by motorists due to the dark mornings created by the new law.

I wonder how in the world they attributed that to DST?
Cool. Teach your kid to not run into the middle of the street then?

Provide pedestrian pathways/walkways? Idk maybe make walking a good thing?

Many ways to do this instead of, “children can only be outside when the sun is at high noon!!”
> since it's a lot harder to wake up with no natural light

In much of the world, and presumably some parts of the USA, people wake up in the dark just fine. Yet everyone in the USA has to deal with daylight savings time.

It's fall where I am, we are still on daylight savings for another few weeks, and I woke up just fine in the dark at 7:30am this morning.
We were on vacation, driving on 89 from Page to Kanab, which crosses AZ/UT state line. Several times our phones switched to different TZs. It was annoying
By those criteria, the Benelux region would be more suited (two large cargo ports, dense road/rail/canal network, top universities in the field; plus: proximity to ASML and imec)