skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're missing the point..

I'm not sure how providing statistics that dispute the point is "missing the point"...

> These forests have been logged multiple times over history, and many were replanted with terrible replanting practices.

SOME of these forests have been logged multiple times over history. The bulk of forests in Canada have never been logged.

Simple math tells you that, 0.2% * 200 years is still a maximum 40% of the forest and, as the original article points out, we drastically increased logging the past decade. If these forests have been logged multiple times that means it's much less that 40% of the forest is/has been logged. Logging where I grew up is ALL being done on land that was previously logged, not old growth forest and the bulk of that logging is on natural regrowth, not plantations.

I won't argue about the replanting practices since a lot of these are no longer done because of the problems you point out. There are terrible pine plantations where I grew up were the pines are 80 years old but only 6 inches in diameter because of how close together they were planted. There are no new plantations like this.

> What all this leads up to is way more fire frequency and a MUCH higher fire magnitude.

Fire frequency increasing is overwhelmingly caused by climate change. Most of the fires this summer were in unlogged, remote areas.
I wouldn't call the linked article click-bait so much as "axe to grind."

And I mean, it's not an axe I'd normally have a problem with, maybe. The forestry industry is questionable in many respects. Alberta has a problem with the oil industry dominating everything. BC has a problem with the forestry industry.

But this is a "I have a hammer and now everything looks like a nail" article.
Good point. It'd be reasonable to find English sources though, what with 'fake news' and the motivations around that.
I find that annoying when colleagues do that because it double notifies me, once for the message and once for the @
The entire world deforests around 10m hectares per year commercially[1]. It doesn't follow that the global economy could support 200m+ hectares of plantations, never mind 200m+ in Canada alone.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
Yes, but I mean it should presumably be very hard to even spend the money for the sellers here, let alone to launder them, which will be needed if you're selling all the time.
But its gotten worse since 2017 and wasn’t a problem until ~10 years ago. Clearly hand grenade laws are not the root cause.
That makes even more sense because the middle seats usually go last!
I have similar issue on Dell S2722QC - when macOS picks YCbCr instead of RGB, the display is flickering (every other frame is dark). Both Windows and Linux always pick RGB, but macOS seems to pick at random. Very annoying, but technically the manufacturer only promises that the monitor works with Windows. I just unplug and replug monitor until it works, but will try BetterDisplay, thanks.
They use Swish: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/hundreds-of-suspected-cocai...
> No, this is simple statistics.

How exactly is an llm different? I'm not sure it is, just more layers.
it said they built a Datomic-like db on top of FoundationDB

sounds pretty cool, but was it really necessary...?
I think this damages all commercial OSS projects. Because after Docker and Terraform, any effort to bring in some OSS project as a dependency will be met with "Sure, it's open source now, but what about when...".
The trade off being that generally Canada pays half as much and most tech high skilled jobs are going to be in metro areas that Canada has few of. Top that with a worse housing crises than what we see in the US.

I also think your argument would be more constructive without some of the strong language you use. For myself it takes away from a constructive conversation and reads poorly.
I think that’s bad phrasing in the article. The paper (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795; open access) talks about equivalent ounces of beef per 220kcal consumed (thus ≈scaling by body size)
As someone who owned a Mustang GT for a few years when I was younger, they weigh a lot because they have large V8s and beefy components to handle the power. They're also annoying to park because they have a much longer hood than most cars, also to fit a big V8.
Interstellar debris fall to the sea floor claim meets sea of doubt
OK but the evidence is extraordinary! We can read the emails where they set up and run the conspiracies, express confidence that it will work, etc. What more do you need? They literally admit themselves that they're doing it.

> Multiple independent reviews have found no substantial misconduct in the issues you've mentioned

If you mean the reviews set up by universities then they weren't independent, were they? Actually independent reviews, by people fully outside the academic system, did find them to be engaged in gross conspiracy. But the system is unresponsive to outsiders, being a perfectly closed circle of mutual back-scratching.

Take a look here to see what academia tried to pass off as an "independent review" - they just ended up growing the conspiracy instead. This is a pretty useful document in general for describing the various controversies in the first decade of this century, bad practices, deceptive and manipulative tricks etc and how outside attempts to report them were all ignored or blown off:

https://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/climat...

What you've been describing in this thread is the storybook version of science. It's how things are meant to work, not how they really do. People who disagree with climatological claims aren't deniers, it's actually the other way around: the people who insist that scientists would never do anything untoward are the ones living in denial. The rest of us understand that they're not only human, but humans who directly profit from their tactics and who aren't being supervised or held accountable in any way.
I believe it is result of a raise in Authoritarian ideology in both technology and in wider society, This streak of Authoritarianism is coming from both "political sides"

The concepts of pluralism, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence with people whom we disagree is replaced with forced acceptance, mono-culturalism, speech controls and a rank intolerance of opposing views often supplanted with a rather obtuse perversion of the "paradox of tolerance" where by intolerant people of both political sides justify their actions actions as morally and ethically correct, as being on the "correct side of history" or other such platitudes
> Also please stop using mongodb

Shouldn't be hard to replace with sqlite
(Not criticising your choices, they’re mostly reasonable and opinionated stacks are very useful.)

I’m curious if you can talk about why you went with mailgun, and especially why mongodb. Supabase is my backend of choice nowadays esp for b2b apps.
Gun violence and these explosions have been going up quite a bit last few years at least. Anecdotal (Sweden here) people in my closest circle feel a lot less safe, and less comfortable in public spaces, compared to a few years ago. Not to a huge extent, but noticeable.
The book does. Have not seen the movie to know for sure but I believe the movie ends around 2008 or 09 at the time of the Storm’s release and before the QNX acquisition.
I suspect that 234.5 million just means: crown land permitted for forestry development, not reflecting its actual replanted vs not-replanted status.
I don't think they are illegal, but barrier to get a permit is relatively high.
Why are we just hearing about this? Should have been trickling this out because I can't see the citizens jumping to provide funding for this. They are trying to figure out how their teenagers can afford food, car, and college while taking care of grandma. Sounds like a first world problem and the message to struggling citizens has been: make do.
hahahahaha, the masters of jokes strike again! :D
You can turn that feature off on Android phones.
You are right, refugees in germany seem to prefer stabbing minor girls with knives. Watch out for ghetto streets, there might be grenades coming soon.
I'm sure he's been well compensated for his hurt feelings.
At that point Sweden was already flush with hand grenades and various other arms. They were closing the barn doors after the horse had bolted.
I was 56, March of 2020. After a mild case of Covid, things have been a bit foggy, in terms of thought, ever since.
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That's the intention, yes. But a live grenade in an active residential area certainly can (and has) hurt and killed people.
Doesn't stenotype also have chording though?
>fish is also old and common enough that tools usually support it

for many years, more than a decade at least, this was not the case. it was a long and hard road for early fish users to get to that point.

and i'd make the claim that todays openness towards alternative shells that break compatibility with traditional syntax is in large part thanks to the groundwork done by fish.

that is to say that if nushell can present a compelling argument with its improvements, then there is hope yet. but for that to happen focus needs to be on interactive usage that is at least as good or better than fish and not just focus on better scripting.

there is a place for better scripting. gluing together multiple tools where input, output and arguments to commands matter is something normal programming languages don't do well.
Is it not a similar issue in the US or UK? In a formal setting, e. g. communication from a company representative to an unknown (except for the name) representative from a different company, I would be using "Dear Ms./Mr. <last name>". If that is the correct way (please let me know!) you have to commit to one of only two genders and sometimes also the last name is a guess.
> can't think of many meetings where I was unable to attend

does this mean you can think of /some/ meetings you were unable to attend? I would assume that "doesn't work half the time" was slightly hyperbolic, and so it seems like your experience is roughly in line with the parent comment despite your response being worded like a rebuttal.

> maybe a minute of kill teams + restart.

lol, okay. so it's basically flawless.
Decades of business logic resides in the mainframe, and the risk of moving that into commodity hardware is in the billions (maybe trillions?)
I agree with your sentiment. The computer should also fly without any extra components.

But I think it's pretty clear that
a) this poses a bigger challenge for which the computer isn't ready yet - it barely beat the humans with its advantage.
b) we could also reach equality by feeding the humans the measurements from the intertial measurement unit and allowing humans to ride the drones. Whether they can make use of it is their problem. Showing that "equal conditions" aren't really possible.
c) The current matchup: "Computer with extra sensor data, humans with lag" presents how the battle will be in real-world applications, like warfare.
I don't think I've ever heard the claim that Sweden of all countries had low drug use. Do you have a source for that claim?

Anyway, the shadow economy always finds a way. Most probably there's just a cash-only sub-economy that you personally don't participate in.
Life is what happens to you when you are building your own feature flag solution
I don’t see how that’s a decent metric to compare it with. Of course it’s less lopsided. It’s not like 12% of the population drink half the milkshakes or eat half the Big Macs, either.
Migrants in Sweden are far over-represented in crime. Especially violent crime.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338563093_Migrants_...

All of the bombings are gang related, and gang members in Sweden have a disproportionately foreign background.

There is nothing to gain here by pretending this isn't happening. People are literally dying. No one mentioned any races, and conflating "immigrant" with any particular race is misleading at best.
Broadly speaking, violence has been up in Europe post-lockdowns. Something about having a lot of people with few ties to a community, having no economic prospects and strained welfare systems. Then add the EU's self-destructive path in order to "stick it to Putin".

For Sweden in the particular, I believe they also have an idiot compassion problem in their judicial system beyond even most "progressive" justice systems. So for example, if you're under 15 you cannot go to juvenile jail in Sweden because it does not exist. End result, gangs were recruiting 15s and under. I'm not entirely sure if Sweden ever got around to changing that.
> do the various airline systems expect the name to be split into separate fields depending on the locale

Bingo. I've had this problem dealing with insurance carriers. They want a very wide degree of name formats, and to make it worse some don't support unicode, some don't support apostrophes, and some don't understand names longer than 22 characters (had multi-hour discussions on exactly which part of the names I needed to cut out in this scenario). They were bewildered that these were problems for data which could include anybody in the US...
Well the concept of IP property is just an unilateral decision from those who want to use that as a commercial weapon.

Nothing else.

It doesn't mean the concept is universally accepted.
I didn't take it as an insult. I truly want other people to not want to come here. The downward pressure on IT salaries is impacting all other sectors of the economy and denying people here access to the economic ladder.

Canada wants to keep their wages low, that's why their immigration is so wide open. If it wasn't mostly Arctic tundra, they would be inundated with immigrants by now.
I think many start-ups use open source mainly as an argument for adoption in the ecosystem, and they have to consider the consequences. Many projects avoid choosing AGPL or GPLv3 licenses to facilitate easier enterprise adoption ('Hey, we can use X and create SaaS without hassle') without generating revenue, while being funded by venture capital and without getting contributions back. Then, when they are adopted, they complain. While the contributions from corporations like HashiCorp are impressive, the overall situation is complex. There's a reason why Linux is still around and growing.

From my point of view: Stick with a real, copyleft license that has less adoption by other enterprises and focuses on organic growth instead of VC-driven hypergrowth. Alternatively, be prepared for the consequences that Amazon or other hyperscalers will attract a large number of potential customers using your product without giving anything back. In that case, establish another source of income right away. One has to be realistic: Competing with your open-source product's SaaS against a SaaS by Amazon or other hyperscalers will not work out if that's your only way to make money.

Edit: typos, grammar
Indeed, Postgres may be wildly popular these days thanks to being $free, but it's far from being the most intelligent relational database engine on offer.
This has to be one of the best design systems I ever looked at...
The murder rate is still 4x higher in the US. Guns are far more effective than bombs.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Sweden/Uni...
The principle of indigenous forestry management and controlled burns is great, but the bulk of the areas we're talking about that are burning this summer are in places where even pre-contact indigenous population density was extremely low.

I don't think most Canadians, let alone people outside this country, actually understand what the north is like. We're talking tens of millions of acres of muskeg (peat bog), granite, mostly stunted spruce, lakes, lakes lakes, and mosquitoes, with few to no roads.

In interior BC (where there are also fires this summer, as always), yes, I think indigenous fire keeping and forest floor management through controlled burns could be key.
This kind of data is good to have. The post is admirably restrained for such a sensitive topic. But I would urge the original poster to reconsider the wording they used in the RTI query for the IITs. The query says "category of reservation", which is different from caste. People of all castes are allowed to apply in the "general category", while the other categories are "reserved" for their respective castes. The data would be much more reliable if the query said "caste declared by the applicant", and not the category they chose to apply in.

EDIT: s/cast/caste/
You're just hearing about it because it's now in pop-sci.

Congress has been hearing about it forever. DSN has been a constrained resource for a long, long time.
That's because most emulator users are pirates. Few people bother dumping their games themselves.
Your product is cool. Now what? How would you monetize it, or sell it?

If you did, what's the competition like? Can you carve out a niche for yourself?

...Now that you're properly discouraged - can you overcome all those challenges? If you can, calculate how much effort(look: money) it would take to do make your product into a money-making product; something you can sell...

...And then decide whether it might just be worth trying, even if the chances are small, even if you need to buckle up and work like a horse.
They realized:

- More chance of getting away with it vs (attempted) assassination, since you usually don't cause bodily injury or death (so police divert less resources to the crime) and you are well away on your scooter when the explosion happens. Lately more have been getting caught however. Still the punishment then is less than with (attempted) murder.

- More kids willing to do it, because punishment is lower, and chance to get caught is lower.

- Besides the intimidating effect, it creates pressure on the victim by the neighbors and the government, because they now suspect the victim is a criminal and want it to stop. It can even lead to eviction.

All in all in pretty good way to pester your enemies without escalating to murder.
You’re kind of saying that a horse is the best car because nobody needs to go more than a few miles.

Today, the word “phone” means always-connected handheld general purpose computer. And while *you^ may not need that, the market suggests you’re in a minority.
The higher salaries in the US probably has to do with the concentration of highly-successful tech companies in the US. Not just FAANG et al, but the many small high-revenue-generating companies in the US. There probably isn't as much of a concentration of high-revenue successful tech companies in Canada. The lower salaries in Canada probably has more to do with that, than with Canada being more welcoming towards high-skilled immigrants.

I used strong language in my comment earlier, since I've lived in the past for over a decade without basic rights in the US, and since moved to Canada. So this is real and personal to me. Whenever I talked about not having rights in the US on HN, many individuals on HN responded with intense hatred saying things that effectively amounted to "get the fuck out of this country you brown piece of shit", "we hate you", "you don't deserve to have any rights", "you have no right to expect to have any rights or freedom in this country" etc--and, no, they didn't use those exact words--I am paraphrasing their sentiment--but they expressed an equivalent sentiment / level of hatred using politer words. You can dig through my comment history to find those comments. To me, it was oddly reminiscent of the hatred white Americans must have shown black people during the Jim Crow era, or Germans towards Jews after the Nuremberg laws had been passed. I just didn't expect such extreme loathing and hatred toward immigrants to be so incredibly prevalent on HN.
> there should be a multiplier on that fee for any company which lays off US citizens with that skill in the past N years

Under that proposal I would probably not hire a US citizen at all if a foreigner is available. Sure the foreigner might be more expensive (that is: if I am not reducing his salary to compensate for the H1B fee), but at least I don't have that Damocles sword hanging over my head. Especially if the firing happens in a time of hardship when my finances are already strained, that could be the straw that breaks the camel back.
And again the same question: I have a friend who had to physically go to the restaurant to get a confirmation that he in fact had paid about $250 for dinner for six people and they then swished him back. How will you explain hundreds of transactions a month when you don't even have an official source of income?
Simple, import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world, what baffles me is that it really takes 10,20, 30 years of live experience for some people to start understanding (much too late) this very simple fact.
It's not exactly fair to compare a bloated luxury model with what's fairly described as a minimalist car. Compare a BMW 330i with a an i4 and you'll get a much better idea of the battery penalty involved, it's closer to half a ton.

I do agree with you that large SUVs are the problem but EV SUVs are really worrying. Rivian's trucks are over 3 tons and the new Hummer EV is nearly 5 tons!
In my experience that bit is more forgotten in protestant countries rather than catholic ones. As in, in catholic ones rich people aren't seen as model of virtue and everybody knows that "hard work" won't get you there.
Problems with the DSN? This is bad! Let's launch a bunch of CubeSats to fly over the antennae and monitor them for issues!
I use Notepad2-mod as well, didn't even know it wasn't maintained anymore! Thanks for mentioning Notepad3, I need to look into it.
When I try the app, tapping "sign in with google" gives an error:

You can't sign in from this screen because this app doesn't comply with Google's secure browsers policy. If this app has a website, you can open a web browser and try signing in from there.
I revived my instagram account that was dormant for 5 years and I'm surprised how little my network posts. With ~100 followed I see about 3-5 posts per day before "I'm all caught up". I see about 10 "stories" per day.

The rest is just a sea of ads and public posts that I absolutely don't care about.
There's a special place in my heart for people who still do longform YouTube.

Like, say, 2 hours of Battletech lore: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c71x68uWd5k

Or an 8 hour serialization of the early-90s Aliens comics: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Js5pJZN4Mkl-n7Ktk6h6A...

Because at some point? Do what you love. Screw engagement metrics. People who care will find you.