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There was a study [0] in Paris that demonstrates a signifiant positive benefit/risk ration of bicycling even in polluted air: the effect on physical and psychic health benefits largely outweighs…

I clean the air because my lungs capture car particles.

Trees cools down what’s beside not only by their shade but also with evaporation. The cooldown effect of a forest is way stronger that and solar panel shaded area.

That was a great read. I didn’t know that blog and a quick glimpse at the about page made me bookmarked it. Thanks for sharing.

Also, self promotion in comments - often as "shameless plug" - like in any other platform that let you write public text: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&…

> letting my partner have a proper night's sleep I’m interested in this: how’s the CPAP noise perceived by the partners? I don’t snore and usually wake up quickly when doing the "apnea no…

Lest's say you are serious and it's only a lack of imagination [edit: or taste obviously but as the article author points out: it's only on you to choose what you like]: - learn music…

Most traditional constructions in Asia (and to be frank anywhere else in the world) has been with wood, stone and dirt. Steel is only possible since we extract enough iron and burn in with coal, somet…

That’s a great project and kudos to the team, meanwhile : > After the turbine’s thirty year life, what happens to that carbon? Those curved boards are probably mixed with epoxy or another polymer, …

I have to disagree: black tea only had an oxidation while fermented tea had an oxidation plus a fermentation by microbial activity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermented_tea…

I’ll add legumes juices : both raw, fresh blend or the water from a soup that you separate and put in a fridge. Those are delicious. Kvaas contain alcohol, doesn’t it?

That’s true, however I think that story is interesting because is not mimicking real assistants behavior - most probably wouldn’t tell about the blackmail on the internet - but it’s more likely mimi…

Interesting, I read GGP as: If they stopped learning (=including) at march 31 and something popup on the internet on march 30 (lib update, new Nobel, whatever) there’s many chances it got scrapped bec…

Kind of but not in the same way: the MCP option will increase the discussion context, the training option does not. Armchair expert so confirmation would be appreciated.

Wow that’s interesting indeed. Thanks for the links.

They might have/choose to create batterie big enough to retrofit their diesel-electric haul truck first, to start at the beginning of the batteries supply chain. Not wanting to sound defeatist bu…

Just thought the same and removed my edit as you comment it! I wonder if the longer pipeline (rasterization + OCR) significantly increase the cost (processing, maintenance…). If so, some company may e…

Loosely related, would this PDF hiring hack works? Embed hidden[0] tokens[1] in your pdf to influence the LLM perception: [0] custom font that has 0px width [0] 0px font size + shenanigans to prevent …

North Korea ! That article has a short paragraph mentioning it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033310 …

[image of the show with a giant screen beside] https://imageshack.com/i/exQrNAZnj I was like "wow that is a big screen although not very bright". > Each background…

> We have approved a series of musical releases for our employees to listen to while working. Far better than the standard music available on Spotify, we have found that listening to “Whispers from…

I agree, the rarity makes it more expensive today. The only cheap option would to "keep" one of yours/you family but that's not an option for the most, not speaking of the connecto…

Hum, that's fair points but don't contradicts OP's arguments: 1. OP finds it "much more pleasant to use" which I believe includes the aesthetic side. "your modern apparte…

Seems correct. I might not use you average-user-device (iPhone SE 2016) but liked your idea and clicked the link. The page freeze for ~15s for the first load but then refresh only takes ~4s. The anima…

> this is the future For sure! UIs are also most of the past and present way to interact with a computer, off or online. Even Hacker News - which is mostly text - has some UI for to vote, navigate,…

> Anytime I've ever considered something pointless to consider - it's been a trigger to consider it. This is a great motto, probably a root of self-actualisation path. It has been one of …

1. Ok welcome here then. I’ll encourage you to read the guidelines linked at the bottom at the page if you didn’t do it yet, but you probably already know them if you’ve been around as a reader. I rea…

1. I’m not trying to convince you or anyone. In fact people always convince themselves , you only can share facts and opinion with them and they do their own arbitrage. Eat what you want to eat. 2. S…

Well most raw vegan food is already way cheaper that raw meat: Quality organic dry chickpeas, lentils, beans, soy etc… already are around 2€/kg where I live and when you add water they double…