skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb

The title of the original article in the National Observer[1] is "Our forests have reached a tipping point" which is much less editorialized.

This new title implies that the management is the problem when, in actuality, it's the lack of "growth" caused by massive loss due to fire, insect, disease etc. I'm not sure why these losses are worded as a lack of growth in the article.

I'm also unsure why the article is trying to imply logging is the bulk of the problem ... for instance, in 2015, we had the following statistics from Stats Canada[2]

3,470,000 km2 total forest
176,318 km2 insect losses (5.1%, bark beetle being the worst culprit)
38,616 km2 fire losses (1.1%)
7,796 km2 logged (0.2%)
360 km2 converted (0.01%, agriculture, mining, expansion, etc.)

Clearly the problem of insect and fire damage (6.2% loss) vastly out weighs losses due to logging and other human activity (0.2%). Both fire and insect damage is increasing due to climate change.

[1] https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/21/analysis/our-for...

[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180314/dq180...
X@domain.com is my address (that was before twitter)
Flagged: CLINTEL’s founders and many of their supporters are affiliated with the fossil fuel industry and various right-wing groups (the main Dutch nationalist party, American groups like Heartland, etc.). There’s a reason why they rely on people without expertise in the field who publish manifestos on the internet but are unwilling to do peer-reviewed scientific research.

https://www.desmog.com/climate-intelligence-foundation-clint...
Figures show large rise in people dying while on NHS waiting list (UK)
That metric is never important. Brands have always lost money advertising. Spending on ads is seen as burning extra budget to stay ahead of the curve and remain relevant

They are simply digging trenches for survival and domination. That is why I believe brands with profits above average should be banned from spending on ads. They polute the market and decrease competition
Because you really enjoy programming and hacking? And obviously are very capable.

The emotional part is critical as human beings. I wonder why we need to remind it again. A lot of human activities don't have anything to do with money.
At amazon in 2010, someone sent an email to everyone on the "all" mailing list to ask if anyone had seen it.
A reply-all storm ensued, and despite several people asking to stop hitting the reply-all button, it continued for several days.

The management had to chime in and sometimes threatened people with punishment if they continued participating to the reply-all storm.

If you ignored the conversation you may not have seen it, but most reply-all storm ended up with someone saying something the line of "we don't care about your wallet".

Anyway, asking people to stop hitting the reply-all button is far from being the latest reply-all on these kind of things...
Has Google broken by anti-trust laws? There is your citation. They've been pulling suspicious moves for last decade.
Diatomaceous earth works externally to kill bugs who are uniquely susceptible to a powder that is only sharp at a small scale (eg to us it’s a fine powder, to bugs it’s shrapnel). This seems similar but for internal use, so more akin to asbestos in that it’s a tiny sharp object that goes inside us with no clear means of removal. Asbestos is so damaging because our lungs are incapable of removing it, so the fibers irritate structures in the lungs until cancerous cells that can’t be handled by our immune system form and spread. The same principle would apply elsewhere in the body if that irritating object can’t be expunged, I would think. If the body can remove these titanium pieces though, it sounds like it could work well with little to no risk.
Years of autocomplete has already made my second language i.e. English poorer. I know words but I often forget to pronounce them because I can no longer remember their spelling. A tool like this would completely obliterate all of my skills.
Import of hand grenades was legal leading up to the series of explosions a few years ago. It has quieted down a lot since, until very recently.
Kanban allows for critical fixes/features to jump ahead of the line and its obvious what work is getting traded off for later. Kanban also flows very nicely with a CI/CD process where when something is tested and ready to ship, it gets shipped. I believe the essence of agile is these two concepts - shipping working software and lean prioritization. Things getting stuck in a backlog is a good thing because that shows they aren't that important (other things keep skipping ahead) and you aren't building, testing and delivering software that is hardly used.

As a manager in my org I'm not driving deadlines, that's the PM and they mostly know what can get done and are reasonable. Its expected that if you keep jumping the line with stuff, other things are delayed. One downside that is concerning is focus time on specific areas of an app for developers and tech debt in those areas. Its like they keep hopping around from tree to tree like a squirrel. People that like long projects where they are 95% of the time building new things and don't have to deal with production issues, bugs, etc. this org and work style isn't for them.
Audit of NASA’s Deep Space Network [pdf]
Fair. Another part of it is that I'm more focused on containers at the moment.
This doesn't seem all that lopsided.

A quick rule of thumb I have is that an 80/20 rule translates to the 50/1 rule after repeated application. For example, if 20% of a population has 80% of the wealth, and 20% of 20% of the population has 80% of 80% of the wealth, etc, then 20%^3=0.8% of the population (approximately 1%) should have 80%^3=51.2% (approximately 50%) of the wealth.

According to the ‘Global wealth Report 2021’ from Credit Suisse, 1.1% of the adult population owns 45.8% of the wealth (pretty close to an 80/20 distribution). So distribution of beef consumption is less lopsided than wealth distribution.
Hidden History of the Like Button: From Decentralised Data to Semantic Enclosure
Thank you for the kind words, they are very appreciated! I'll make sure to relay them to the rest of the team :)
Today I learned (after disappearing down a rabbit hole after reading the linked article) that it's actually possible to begin to use & benefit from nushell's structured data pipe feature without changing one's current shell.

Structured data pipes have always been my primary reason for keeping an eye on nushell's development but after looking at the project's documentation again today it all still seemed "too much initial effort with uncertain outcome".

Because I don't want to switch my shell (not because bash is good but because it's not a priority to justify the expenditure of effort), I just want to have structured data in pipes within bash!

Turns out it's as easy as:

nu --commands 'ls | where size > 1MiB'

(Where `nu` is the nushell binary being called from your existing shell prompt.)

Or, as more complete flow of data example:

echo "[1,2,3]" | nu --stdin --commands 'from json | to json' | cat

Now you can fit nushell within your existing workflow where ever it's useful enough for you--without needing to commit to changing your entire shell.

(And this isn't the only or necessarily the best way to arrange things for the communication with bash--there's "^" & "externals" & "command signatures" & "from ssv" etc too.)

And nushell does have some nifty tools such as `explore` with `:try` to interactively build a processing pipeline.

But this information doesn't seem to be documented anywhere in the "book" or other introductory material. It only seems to be documented in the help message of the `nu` binary--which I almost didn't even get as far downloading today.

But then I found the help text in the source, so decided to try it again: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/blob/fd4ba0443d01e67f6304...

If the structured data pipes is one of the main appeals for you, maybe try this approach out?
handy little guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKICKcMU3MU
Link covers a hypothetical 2045 scenario. Researchers have shown that... in future... could..

Parent refers to current situation I think?
It helps that many console devs don't bother with low-level optimisations, because they can get away with a bit worse performance. Just cap the framerate to 30 like most other console games do.

It wasn't an option during the NES era. Every clock cycle counted back then.
For #1: don’t use it in chrome, download the app (it seems like it takes advantage of the wrapper pretty well); for #2, just click on the designer’s name in the top corner to zoom your screen to theirs and let them drive for a second!
This probably won't change much. Slack is priced more than three times higher than what you save by not choosing Teams as part of your MS365 bundle.
Facebook shouldn't be sending you those emails at all, to be honest, assuming you never clicked the verification button.

That said, clicking the "report spam" button should allow you to unsubscribe from such emails without dealing with logins or whatnot. Gmail supports certain unsubscribe headers that'll automate the process, which should make getting rid of Facebook's spam a lot easier.
At scale they do cover countries energy needs. Storage at grid scale is pretty great, are there enough batteries to replace all the current energy requirement?

No. But they can be manufactured much faster than setting up a nuclear plant.

If you have a combination of wind, solar, hydro and geo over enough of a distance then you can get continuous energy with very little reliance on storage. The main problem is that this only works at scale and some countries are smaller. For this we need marketplaces that sell energy between countries automatically. That isn't a hard problem on the technical level, but might be a political issue and a logistic issue (grid connections, security etc.).

Because of the urgency nuclear isn't viable. The same capacity *with storage* can be setup in less time than it takes to build a nuclear plant. It will be cheaper to boot. The economics of nuclear made sense a decade ago, not now.
> it can only be done if you handle each language/country split separately and the app creators have detailed cultural knowledge for each country/language.

Even this presents problems, as countries like Singapore have multiple overlapping cultures with unique naming conventions. Likewise, India encompasses many languages and even unique naming conventions within those languages.
Evidence and mechanism for the risks in EMF exposure (2018/pdf)
This is a business offering. I don't want to juggle my online banking and a transfer app and and and ... on my phone. I want them readily available on my multimonitor desktop where I can save data to my accounting folder.
Did you take a look at the iOS 17 beta? With the new Personal Voice feature, I would expect an improvement in speech synthesis. Furthermore, users will maybe expect to be able to use their personal voices with your app.
Awesome! I hope you tried all the food items including desert delicacies cooked in sand and charcoal.
This isn't the IRA. There are no warning calls to the police to get people to evacuate. These are the same people who gun down their targets on crowded streets in broad daylight.

The fact that relatively few people have gotten killed is entirely due to luck and the relatively low yield of the explosions (usually hand-me-down hand grenades from the Balkans wars).
There is a reply that directly disputes this.

"Commercial" means that it is privately owned and can possibly be logged. Not that it has been logged and replanted.

Calling large swaths of forest that have never been logged in human history "tree plantations" because they can be legally harvested at some point is, at best, disingenuous.
It also has an endless list of visual glitches, hardware issues even with "headphones recommended by Microsoft", input issues, pretty bad UX, poor integration with Microsoft's own services (SharePoint, outlook calendar..), a horrible "test call", etc.
Doesn't seem to matter anyway, once a Windows shop is captive they know most clients are there for life..
The obvious issue would be if you - for whatever reason - wanted to actually type something that happens to also constitute a shortcut and it gets involuntarily replaced.
UTM is great for basic stuff but performance has been abysmal so not really viable as a workhorse in my day to day.

Nothing beats Parallels on Mac, worth every penny.
Ask HN: What is 2023 layout for Go project?
rust has cargo to setup, python has poetry/pdm to start. both keep semi consistent project layouts. what does go have? seems nothing built in nor really clear from the golang website.
Yeah I think you want some way to clearly differentiate between tags and attributes as there are some cases where there are attribute and tags with the same name. E.g. does

(body (style "styleinfo")) mean

<body style="styleinfo"></body>

Or <body><style>styleinfo</style></body>?
Have you never left a city? The idea that half the forests in Canada are plantations should be ridiculous on its face.
very many

not a new problem

but an increasing problem

through most times targeting property and no people damage
I wish I could read this article or even what it is about, but I first got a modal window "our privacy policy has changed" (as if I care, I'm on the Internet, trying to read an article!), so I dismiss it...

And then, half the screen, HALF(!), got covered with a white panel in what looks like "subscribe or vamos!", completely blocking the view.

If you don't want to be on the Internet, fine! Just sell paper or something /s. I'm sorry I'd like to support quality journalism and articles but this is not the way. You won't see a dime from me with those antics.

I actually wish HN would have a user filter for domains, so I could proactively remove links to this domain from the homepage, because I know it is abhorrently opposing the open web. There is enough interesting quality articles already shared in the open, I don't need this.

Sorry for the rant, I'm sure it is an interesting article, and I wish this author gets paid fairly for writing it. Just... this can't be the future. It's infuriating.

Give me a way that I can press a button on the screen after reading the slug, and I make a direct transaction of 5 cents to read the full article. Boom. Done. I'd do it for the stuff that probe my interest, because I'll never pay 50c a week. Everyone is saturated with subscriptions now.
You should get a mac laptop, you can run figma all day without even needing to plug in the laptop to charge.
Replace "Hello, $reason_for_this_message" with "Hello, $acceptable_level_of_polite_preamble; $reason_for_this_message", then.
It's sad too, mitchellh used to be fairly active in the HN community but it seems he is not able to for likely professional reasons after the BSL fiasco.
The disaster they meant is russia.

Ukraine could use a cheap AI tracker module to take over those last few meters when drone is too low and video feed breaks.

https://nitter.net/666_mancer/status/1696881141691625640

https://nitter.net/wartranslated/status/1696923734286778786
There's probably a good reason they aren't operating in the US.
You are implying that gangs bombing buildings in the city center is 'okay'-ish because people weren't targeted intentionally?

Were the buildings evacuated before?

TBH mentioning gangs would paint a very accurate picture. Because it is gangs, they are fighting for drug control, blackmail, rape and kill.

And to go one step further: It would be even better to name the cultural background of these gangs and that it's a direct consequence of a misdirected immigraction politique
https://chat.openai.com/share/d9d64cf5-3ad5-4491-97a1-43fa01...
Not sure the "tip of the iceberg" argument is correct. My understanding is that a large part of the problem is an excess of fuel on the forest floor. Indigenous forest management would take care of that with controlled burns carried out when there is snow on the ground [1]. Once the fuel is burned up, there should be less fires because the rest of the wood is tied to living organisms.

So, while it is the tip of the iceberg numbers wise, the bulk of the rest should be more fire resistant than what has already burned.

Of course there is a caveat that the major uncontrolled burns have increased the susceptibility of living trees to being burned.

I think this is an important thing to know because it points to some different solutions, like more indigenous land management.

[1] - https://www.alieward.com/ologies/fireecologyencore
Update:

It seems no

> This is my understanding: every six months the ML1 has a hard-coded security check to cloud query for authentication. If this doesn’t pass, the device cannot be used. If the cloud service shuts down, there is nothing to authenticate against, and the device essentially bricks out.
https://twitter.com/slukas/status/1697060352146715052?s=20
Docker Is Four Things
At first I do think this site is being sensationalist again (3rd story from 404media I've seen on HN lately), but for the stereotypical guy meets girl, guy stalks girl, storyline:

I can imagine a guy working in a store seeing a girl he finds attractive, getting her CC number through some sleight of hand while she was paying, or something like a camera pointed at the payment machine, and then using this number to figure out what station she usually gets off on at what time in the evening.

I wonder what protection can be built in. An online CC transaction needs the exp. date, CVV and ZIP of the customer, could OMNY ask for these values before showing people the ride data associated with the card? The people might be wary "wait, what are they making me buy?", but maybe a big fat warning that they just need this info "for your protection" is sufficient...

Then again, those values are also easy to buy from "criminal marketplaces", and the guy above can just tell the girl that the store is doing a survey where their customers live, and what her ZIP is (the other info are on the card he took a good peek at)
Gang bombings is accurate because thats what they are. How would people learn gang bombings in Sweden usually target property not people if you dont run stories about them?
For one thing: more than 120000 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide started paying for a Zoom account in early 2020. As far as I know, most of these congregations still pay for Zoom accounts until now.
For the Switch specifically, it has an ARM CPU so an ARM emulator is still necessary on x86 systems, but on native ARM systems it's possible to run CPU code almost natively, and this has already been done (a now-dead emulator for android called Skyline did it, and apparently Yuzu will also implement this feature in the future)

The bigger problem is the GPU, it's an Nvidia Maxwell GPU but uses its own custom API made specifically for the Switch (internally named NVN) so a full translation layer including shader recompilation is still necessary.
The funny part is Teams doesn't work half the time anyway.
We have a similar explosives surge in the Netherlands, all gang related. It seems like blowing each others shit up is a bit of a trend in those circles.

Could there be any particular reason why this has become more popular? Is gang violence up in general? New release of the anarchy cookbook perhaps haha?
I hate that prominent sign up, hidden sign in pattern so much. Is it simply that a tracking system "discovered" the sign in button isn't statistically used that often so someone concluded you don't really need it?
Wait, "usually"? This is a usual occurrence in Sweden?
The article mentions "Just after 1am local time...All four blasts were at residential buildings". Which makes you wonder if it's just luck that nobody was hurt.
> I've been getting wrong Gmail emails all the time for years because a woman in Saskatchewan keeps getting her email wrong when signing up to stuff online.

I have the same problem but multiplied by 25x due to having a <first initial><last name> gmail address from 2004 when it was still invite only. It’s really annoying that there’s so many services that don’t verify email addresses…
The only way I see possible a $3 fee on a $1m FX change is if you send the flow to an internalizing HFT, a bit like Robinhood does. So the HFT is the one actually subsidizing the exchange, because they want this kind of "non-toxic" flow.

Am I correct?
Interfacing with external systems which require first/last, I suppose.
Yes, the date I added in the title was the date of the re-publication of the article. Searching;

'GPS Spoofing'

Shows many times GPS spoofing has been used, the concept and equipment have been around for some years;

So have modern means to circumvent such action.
I can see the most potential for this type of product where it had access to multiple company systems. You could ask a whole bunch of stuff. Have we ever done a customer survey on x, where can I find the results, who wrote the report, summarise the findings, do they still work here, what’s their email.

I get this product looks like it’s single db, not yet connectable to knowledge systems, file stores etc. but it doesn’t take much imagination to see it going there. Having an interactive company brain would be useful even if you don’t want to trust it to answer more specific questions like “what percentage of our customers are x”.
It wasn't always that way on gmail. I have a long-lived account and someone else has in the past had a working address of the same words without the dot but always used the @googlemail.com address.

Note: my bit of research into this taught me that the googlemail.com domain is used by Gmail users in Germany, Russia, and Poland where the Gmail trademark was already taken 1. In each case, Google was forced to use “googlemail” and therefore googlemail.com instead. As of 2012, the situation with Germany was straightened out and new users to Gmail there get assigned a gmail.com domain.
> "a finding that may help consumer groups and government agencies craft educational messaging around the negative health and environmental impacts of beef consumption."

One problem right here. This pernicious narrative that eating beef/meat is bad in absolute terms.

There is no negative impact of eating beef. The negative impact always comes from excess. When it comes to human impact on the environment this is compounded by the excessive population on this planet.
You're missing the point..

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

1. Monoculture, with a focus on economic species. This means that fire-resistant Alder (deciduous) that helps mitigate fires, are not planted.

2. Glyphosate bombing. Yes, we aerial bomb our forests with Glyphosate in order to kill of the Alder which fills in much faster than the desired economic species. I bet you didn't know that..

3. Trees were planted WAY to close together. Many of these forests looks like matchsticks, because that's what they are. At the time it was thought that closer-spacing would lead to faster harvesting and more biomass(money), but what you end up with is a giant tinderbox with small trees, TONS of deadfall.

What all this leads up to is way more fire frequency and a MUCH higher fire magnitude. Large healthy trees, with their canopies way about the forest floor, are naturally resistant to fires, even without Alder around. Once the fire reaches the canopy it will spread fast and far, and likely kill the tree.
It wouldn’t have been hard for the author to title the video “installing Mac OS 9 on the Nintendo Wii”, but then people like me wouldn’t have watched the video expecting “macOS”. Obviously getting OS 9 on it is much less difficult and much less impressive.
Yes. It will raise wages for everyone.
It will use emulation, which is slow.