skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirQuality Lab-on-a-Drone: low-cost 3D-printed to detect and analyze pollutants
The argument is that we’re going after the wrong things, usually. Of course we want to improve things across all vectors, but we’ve been disproportionately asking the lower and middle classes to make sacrifices; and have been too lenient with corporations and the ultra-rich. Most pollution isn’t caused directly by the things we’ve been fighting.
Thinking about this one for my sysadmins needs, would like to hear your experience with that machines, thanks in advance!
When watching American TV shows it is already disturbing that people don't seems to say goodbye to each other, just walk away. Guess they found it boilerplate-y too? It would be considered immensely rude here, yet American tourists always complain why the cashiers, or whatever service person don't have an ever-fake-smiling face...

Thx.
To me (and presumably others) those digital modes that are only available via closed source binaries effectively don't exist. I would venture it's one reason why things like AX.25 have such staying power. It would be fun and most constructive to write some compatible open source equivalents but there are only so many hours in the day.
Wetlands capture a lot more CO2 and we have lost 85 percent of them globally since the 1700s.
I got used to it faster than I thought I would, just setting my phone to show me metric all the time really helps.

20C is room temp. 10C is chilly. 0C is cold, anything below -20C is dangerously cold. 30C is hot. 37C is body temp, anything above 40C is dangerous, 50C is summer in Arizona hot.
You're really pushing the boundaries of paranoia. I'm just a good writer. Every single thing happened pretty much exactly as I described it.

Yes, back in the day, unexpected drive activity was a sign there was an active virus. (I have 40 years experience in systems software development and know where to look.)

Creating an empty file with echo: common, standard practice. Hey, maybe it was "copy con: deadbeef.com", so sue me (like I said, I was paraphrasing..) Its also common knowledge that a zero-byte .COM is perfectly executable on DOS ..

5.4" disks - I am a systems software developer who has kept every machine I've ever worked with since 1978, and with hundreds of 5.4" discs in my collection of works, over 40 years worth. This is why the kids brought the machine to me in the first place. Want me to bust out my tape drives and card decks?

76-byte viruses, or even less, were common in those days. Your 8088/MSDOS assembly fu is simply weak. Check the book "The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses" for examples. I may have gotten the exact number incorrect, perhaps it was 67 bytes, but whatever .. the point is the 0-byte .COM got infected immediately.

Anyway, your doubt is entirely misguided. The machine exists, we played with the virus for weeks. In a few months it'll get its caps replaced and be installed in a retro computing museum for kids of the future to learn assembly techniques and generally get exposed to old-school computer viruses in a controlled setting.
I guess react and a webview.
Taking a train isn't an alternative because train tracks were literally torn from the ground. As were tram tracks.

Bikes aren't an alternative because instead of adding bike infrastructure that costs 10% of car infrastructure, the freaking 6 lane stroad needs a 7th lane, because that's going to solve traffic!

Walking isn't an alternative because US cities and suburbs are largely devoid of trees and any sort of protection from the sun or rain along their sidewalks, if they even have sidewalks to begin with. Oh, trees also make for a nice view and protect pedestrians from bad drivers, instead of lawns everywhere (!!!!). Plus trees and some bushes contain the crazy, deafening, ear damaging levels of noise cars make at speeds higher than about 70kmph.
Wordpress is a blogging engine that can be hacked to work as a CMS. Thousands of mostly low-quality plug-ins with questionable security and unproedictable compatibility issues when used with other plugins.

If you want to install a theme and not adjust anything it’s ok-ish. For anything more complicated I’ve found Wordpress unworkable.

I feel myself lucky to have discovered craftcms - well architected CMS with flexible content modeling. Free for a single user.
> We increased crop yields multifold already

With catastrophic effects.

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2...

All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

Most of it is because of animal agriculture - it uses 80% of agriculture land and about half of our crops.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

> Could we breed trees which capture more CO2?

We don't have to breed new trees. The ones we have are enough.

We have enough space to capture 2+x more CO2 than we've released into the atmosphere since industrial revolution.

We could switch to plant-based diets and free an area the size of both Americas.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...

On that land a regular primeval forest, Miyawayki/Amazon/Syntropic style would grow 10x faster than regular monocultures and that would also enable the biodiversity to rebound. We'd get ourselves out of overshoot in no time (given few decades, of course).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food

The overshoot threatens our civilization with crop failures. The only realistic way out of it is immediate phase-out of fossil fuels and plant-based diets.

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471
I was replying to another thread. I repeat here.
My dad has hypertension due to [Conn's syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_aldosteronism). The only thing that helped tremendously was surgery.

You could of course argue that if he ate a ton of salt, his blood pressure would surge. But I wish he would've taken the surgery sooner rather than trying to out-diet and out-exercise his genetics as the diet/exercise had really small effect.
The CEO gets the money, you get the product, this mutually beneficial arrangement has led to the emission of CO2. However, the CEO can't force you to buy his products, you have to do that on your own.
I’m an adult and I bought an iPhone knowing there are pros and cons. Some cons are more absurd than others and this is one of them. Otherwise I’m very happy with my Mini.
> Kinda but also true that most long pieces have one or two movements that are the popular ones and you have to wait till you get to it.

Is it by design? Was the composer aware that a certain part would end up being that one exceptionally popular one?

The probabiliy that a part not at the beginning is (becomes) popular is higher than for the part at the beginning, because there's more parts not at the beginning than the one at the beginning.
Mail app has its UI deteriorated during the years, but it is still he best email client around. Actually there is no real competition in the field anymore.
"Ask" the pseudo-noun.
You need somewhere to live. He needs to get somewhere.

Neither house nor private jet is an environmentally conscious choice. Either way you've both told every other inhabitant on the planet to suck it, you're getting yours.
> It’s a scheme to extract as much money as possible from insurers. [...] The goal is to maximize the amount billed to insurance companies.

A big part of the goal is being able to bill a profit, insurers generally require significant drug rebates for coverage. So you triple the sticker price of the drug, offer a 66% drug rebate which the insurer can advertise to their client under the guise of fighting for their access, and they cover your drug at essentially the price you wanted for it in the first place (modulo nonsense like prior authorization, and insurance kickbacks).
People online have talked about things like "install bombing", where you install and reinstall a game repeatedly, which causes the 0.02-0.20 price to stack. But tbh I haven't read the new model and ToS fully, so this might be BS.

Also, retroactively applying the new model to already exiting games was also a bit of a bad move. You make a game and decide the business model based on what you know at the time and what you can predict will happen in the future, predicting that unity would change their pricing model like this is near impossible, so the business model you picked for your old games is now unfit.
If you have to put words in my mouth, could you at least try to make them good?

The correct way to read your the parent comment of your original comment in this thread is: Pirating a self-published book hurts authors far more than pirating books sold by a publisher. Because publishers pay pittances to authors.
Do you have an example (incl. evidence) of such coordinated and deliberate action between consultants and hedge funds?
No OpenCL drivers, no interest from me.
Don't worry dude, you're right: https://pearsonblog.campaignserver.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/... (https://pearsonblog.campaignserver.co.uk/tag/house-price-inf...).

Kiwi moved to the UK and housing market is just insane here, not even just London. Not only have house prices outpaces inflation (lack of new being built, housing being used as "investments" etc) but also stagnant wages.

The only reason I'll ever be able to afford a smallish house here is being on a tech salary; take average London wage here...and without generational wealth transfer they _cannot_ buy a house. Even with generational wealth transfer, our London salary friend will have to buy a house _outside_ london and commute (or wfh).

It's not a "hot market" it's just the haves have a vested interest in keeping the prices high for the have-nots. Just look at how landlords reacted to tenants getting some basic rights (that we've had in NZ for ages) "the sky is falling".

And all of this is for terraced houses at best, sharing a wall with neighbours, not detached at all, maybe you get a backyard maybe not. All made out of brick and built in the 40s-60s for the most part - and falling apart because of this. Never have I seen so much scaffolding since I moved to the UK.

There are still a few great things about living in the UK, but the housing market (amongst other things, wage gap, classism, corruption, population political apathy) is an absolute disgrace.
> Why collude when you can just hire grey-market high frequency scrapers to detect your competitors' repricing and trigger your own?

What the thread actually said is this:

> My guess was: tacit collusion, meaning, oligopolic price coordination without explicit coordination.

Which is what you described.
Dear god why? People using ports (even on ::1) is super annoying when it collides with development. Hunting down the offender is not always straightforward and introduces a new failure mode for you (when I’m already using that port for something else). Also, it opens the door for literally any other software (or xss attacks) to connect and issue api calls you may not expect.

Just create a native app. Use something like C# MAUI or whatever language you’re familiar with. Your users will thank you for a smooth experience.
Those "cancellation tokens" from C# are a band-aid.

In Java, you don't need to initialize those "tokens" manually, because the interruption signal is baked into Threads. Moreover, a lot of the standard library cooperates with Java's interruption, which is why you see plenty of methods throwing `InterruptedException`; and it's also reflected in types such as `CancellableFuture` or the `Flow.Subscription` (reactive streams). Of course, user-level code that isn't well-behaved, can end up catching InterruptedException, or resetting the interruption signal, without actually interrupting. This makes Java's interruption model somewhat error-prone, but it's workable, and at least it's baked in.

Note that interruptions could also be preemptive, as you don't necessarily need cooperation. If you think of the call-stack, or flatMap/SelectMany in reactive APIs, the compiled code could check the interruption flag automatically and interrupt the call chain.

And resource leaks aren't necessarily a problem, if the interruption protocol is well-thought-out. In Java, try/finally still works in the presence of interruption, since at worst you get an `InterruptedException`. It's not ideal because you can interrupt the interruption process, and in truth the ideal would be for interruption to be its own communication channel, complementing that of exceptions. But it's totally doable, and here I am familiar with several libraries from Scala's ecosystem, namely Cats-Effect, Monix, and ZIO that show it (with limitations imposed by the runtime).

Either way, what C# provides is basically next to nothing. In fairness, some C# libraries tried fixing it, such as Rx.NET, but it's not enough. And the aggregate result in the .NET ecosystem is that interruption is not something people design for. Like what to interrupt a network socket? This ends up being a setting, presented as a timeout in case of inactivity, as a configuration of the connection, instead of a higher-level generic function that can be applied on the consumer side. And the probability for resource leaks goes up actually, because in the presence of concurrent races, you really need interruption.
What's the history of cereal?
> Separating the style into a stylesheet gives you global control over presentation and makes you more aligned with how the user is perceiving things.

Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean that the separation through external stylesheets creates a more cohesive UI for the user?

The HTML has its say on layout part, so the presentation is not exclusively on the CSS. Also, the core part of defining the whole UI is usually delegated to some global CSS rules, usually known as the theme in CSS-in-JS libraries.
I don't think having external stylesheet helps that much.
Those don't look like plain Cheerios, but one of the many sweetened varieties.
I don't mind Go's errors.
I do mind the complete lack of hierarchy in that.
Java's exceptions are hierarchical.
I can create an exception that specializes from `IOException` and that I feel is really powerful.
Go added this half-baked and much later.
So, most FOSS libraries don't support it yet.
> It’s kind of a miracle engineers are treated as well as we are compared to most traditional office jobs.

Other office jobs are treated better. They don’t get pinged at random times outside of business hours. They don’t have to attend late night meetings because of foreign time zone

I know a bunch of AWS people and have heard worse things from them

Frankly, I love programming but would rather have a regular office job. This industry is predatory
Sure - save for the geophysical fact that we're not seeing just variation .. underlying the usual flux we are seeing a steady increase in heat energy trapped in the near sea | land layer.

This is an inevitable physical consequence of human activity steadily increasing the insulating properties of the atmosphere in a demonstrable and measurable way.

Sure, right now we're going up faster than our new normal rate of increase due to ENSO flux, and in a few years we'll see our rate of increase drop below the current rate as ENSO swings back (fingers crossed) .. but overall on a ten year rolling average we're seeing steady increases in average global temp. as a direct result of human activity (hence AGW) and it'll stay that way until we reduce the insulation properties of the atmosphere.
This ACME client looks promising, but I haven’t tried it yet: https://github.com/go-acme/lego
https://archive.is/MkKWo
> participating in recycling and watching our own carbon footprints

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

> Ultimately its up to us to convince the policymakers and senior leadership in corporations to make the correct decision

Imagine a nation with the highest consumption of meat, where individual choices and habits have long shaped dietary preferences. In such a scenario, without widespread adoption of plant-based diets and a shift in societal norms driven by individuals, convincing policymakers and senior leadership in corporations to regulate and promote sustainable diets becomes an uphill battle.

It's through our own choices and advocacy that we can lay the foundation for systemic change and address the pressing issue of climate change effectively.
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Graham crackers were supposed to do the same! The cultural impact of puritanical thinking in the US is, IMO, really understated. It's amazing how many stupid things are anchored in Christian masochism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker
So it's like the drum exposure technique but using mirrors on a single CCD or CMOS sensor right?
What if earth is normally like one of those water planets in sci-fi where the poles are all water?
I was making fun of game streaming until recently, didn't understand the use case because latency has to be an issue.

But now I'm a digital nomad with just two laptops, the best GPU I have is a Radeon 680M, and I really wanted to play Baldur's Gate 3. So I signed up for a streaming service and it works great. 9 euro/month and I can play more than I need to over some sort of VDI setup I guess.

I think it can be a real hit for a lot of games, to a lot of people, but some games obviously are best played locally.
Nothing can be done.

Greed and self interest trumps all.
What’s the point of money if everything costs in proportion to how much you have? Then everything costs 1.
https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-natural-cycle.ht...

https://skepticalscience.com/internal-variability.htm
When my sons were 5 and 7 I liked to do what we called "reverse day" once every few months, where they have dessert first in morning with dinner. Then lunch and breakfast at night. Quite a hit and helps think outside the box.
The problem is not that they wanted a cut. The problem is that they want to retroactively apply to all games that have ever been published and even those that aren’t using the most recent engine.

Also, there are cases where a developer might squeeze $100k out of sales and then get a game pass deal where they get another $100k that would result in them getting 5 million downloads. That would result in the fee being $1 million because they’re on the lower tier subscription.

They are doing this for two reasons from what I can tell:
a) they want a cut of game pass volume
b) they want to worse high volume micro transaction games onto their own ad network (if you sign up to their ad network you don’t pay the fee)

The biggest problem is them attempting to bill people who have already released games and might still get the odd download. It’s crazy cause these developers never agreed to the new license AND it’s highly doubtful this would be legal anyway because contracts need consideration. “We just want more money” probably won’t cut the mustard.
Huh, "most people"? Maybe in your community, but most of the planet probably don't care. And even if they do those things, only to a degree of inconvenience that they tolerate.. separating plastic/metal/etc? Easy. Missing out on European vacations? "But it's been my life dream to see Italy! It'll only be once in my lifetime!".

And the little plastic recycling they do has the effect of making them think "I'm helping!", when in reality it moves the needle very little...
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I know fedora will inherit the kernel changes the Asahi team is doing, but will the Asahi team fully switch to fedora?
Trees are a way to temporarily store CO2. If you just plant a massive forest and do nothing else, today's trees will eventually die, rot, and re-release all that CO2. That forest will regenerate itself if left alone and be a store of CO2, but any individual tree is lifecycle approximately zero.
There are a lot of things that aren't defined as rights. Are you fine with the State going after those as well?

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, some things that aren't rights, are:
- Gay marriage;
- Abortion;
- Self Determination of Gender;
- Education above the fundamental level.
Yeah, you can list 100 such cases.

Let me tell you the most common scenario.
I have a fairly popular FOSS CLI tool written in Python.
I cannot use the features from the latest version of Python or else I will alienate ~50% of the userbase.
This problem does not exist with Rust or Go.

This problem would have existed for Java on Android except Google took the burden of "desugaring" the Java 17 code -> Java 8 compatible bytecode for the old devices.
I think it’s the mixing of HTTP and HTTPS that most browsers doesn’t like.

If you develop locally and it’s only HTTP with no HTTPS, then I think it works.
Yes, personally. Instead of my employer paying for my healthcare (and that being factored into base salary), I would rather receive that money as salary and pay higher taxes. The idea of employers paying for health insurance in the US only came about in the first half of the last century as a way for companies to attract employees without having to raise/compete on salary.
One of those is not like the other...

lineCount is literally perfect meanwhile sliceIndex could be anything.
Statistics do.
I was really hoping they'd offer a space engineers type experience where you can fly your ship from space down to a planet and lan anywhere (with damage if you crash into buildings/terrain etc).

If it was fully free roam like all their other games it would've been so much better; their other games have so many little fun things to find even when you're in the middle of nowhere, lots of little stories created just by sticking a few props in a location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnl70CeiJP0 carhenge in FO4

I didn't buy it in the end, and idk if I will. Just makes me scared that'll screw up the next ES.
Ah shit okay, thats bad. Thanks for getting me up to speed, their original announcement didnt make that clear enough for me to get it!
Your two quotes don't follow:

> We increased crop yields multifold already

With catastrophic effects.

> Most of it is because of animal agriculture.
> [..] another comment sequence

void alloc1() //[ .alloc result; ] // it allocates!

If the annotation opening block is always `//[` you have intuitive C comments within that line (either another line comment or a /* / section inside that line. Multiline /*/ comments starting on that line wouldn't be allowed but that would be following the established C preprocessor rules and thus won't surprise any user nor editor/syntax-highlighter.

That said, I do agree with your concerns around first-class-ness of syntax annexes for language extensions.

The main advantage of using some form of hack exploiting comments is that the existing ecosystem (syntax-highligters, code formatters, auto completion, ...) would keep working. But how code auto formatters would work depend on the details. E.g. I didn't try how would popular auto formatters handle the example above.
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