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truted2··on Canopy Height Maps v2
I think they were buying carbon offsets at some point and trying to validate that the countries and organizations that were selling the carbon offset were not cutting down those trees, effectively profiting twice.
truted2··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
I agree with you. One counterargument is that producing software was never a path to adoption unless you had distribution and the big companies (OpenAI, Anthropic) have distribution on a scale that individuals will not.
truted2··on Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
> For example, world top-10 youth chess players and later world top-10 adult chess players are nearly 90% different individuals across time. Top secondary students and later top university students are also nearly 90% different people. Likewise, international-level youth athletes and later international-level adult athletes are nearly 90% different individuals.

Motivation if you feel like you're young and failing

truted2··on Find SF parking cops
I know this isn't federal jurisdiction but ever since reading the executive order issued yesterday and the quite vague description of what is Antifa I wonder if this type of interference/obstruction of law will start to be prosecuted.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

truted2··on The Advantage of No Funding (2011)
Since the money has already been invested they probably don’t care who succeeds/fails but they want the unicorn to give returns ASAP so they can be spent before they die.
truted2··on The Advantage of No Funding (2011)
There is also cost cutting. I personally experienced very high hosting bills unexpectedly and then spent a month changing my infrastructure to run for almost free again. I personally prefer these optimization challenges over borrowing money. Self-reliance is important for some people.
truted2··on The Advantage of No Funding (2011)
How does a low interest rate affect investment? In the end you still need to return the principle so is the idea that it just offers you smaller loan payments (ie. More time for your investment to succeed)?
truted2··on The Advantage of No Funding (2011)
You forgot to mention the door knob hole is perfect for cable management.
truted2··on Two new ways of extracting lithium from brine
Think about the timescale that lithium has been a valuable resource. When the first oil wells were being drilled in Pennsylvania for lamp oil no one could fathom how oil exploration, extraction and processing techniques would evolve to mechanize an entire planet.
truted2··on Ask HN: How to find the email distribution list that promoted my site recently?
I’ve searched for my domain on Facebook and LinkedIn and if the group or profiles are public it found the links (mobile LinkedIn search is limited so you need to use the Desktop version)
truted2··on Ask HN: How to find the email distribution list that promoted my site recently?
Similar experience with Instagram. With Facebook I can at least use the search to an extent (if page is public) but Instagram story links have no traceability.
truted2··on Ask HN: How to find the email distribution list that promoted my site recently?
Anecdotally I tried this once and not one of the 50,000 users that visited replied.
truted2··on We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
I’ve seen these ideas pitched on Hacker News but is there any examples of HN users:

1. Starting a business that generally pays minimum wage and attempting to pay their employees more

2. Buying property and renting it out at below market rates

3. Supporting, training or helping people who are unemployed.

4. Going to work as teachers in underserved school districts.

5. Offering university level education for free

6. Buying USA made only

Hasn’t this traditionally been the American way? People going out and trying to experiment and build the things they wish to see in the world? I think everyone wants the things you mention but for some reason we are unable to execute on them and a convenient scape goat is that the government should solve it or that “the other party” is getting in the way. Where is the “You must be the change you seek” crowd these days?

Wouldn’t trying to make a small change in your community have more impact than all the comments posted in this thread?

truted2··on WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
I’ve been developing in WebGL for the last year on a Mac and can’t help but notice that Firefox and Chrome have much better performance (fps) than Safari. I would’ve thought Safari on Mac hardware would work best.

Does anyone know where these performance differences stem from?

truted2··on WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
Let me guess: premultiplyAlpha?
truted2··on Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)
“Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you?” -Seneca

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” -Hemingway

“ No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.” -Murakami

Amazed by how history is recycled perpetually.

truted2··on Lon Lat Lon Lat
In Cartesian coordinates we use x,y notation so lng,lat seems like the more familiar convention for math students.
truted2··on Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
“ It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated.”

Could someone please put a number on “vast majority”? I keep hearing this adage but a majority is 51% and there’s a big range between 51 and 100% that a word like “vast” doesn’t precisely capture..

truted2··on GitHub Projects – Customizable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work
How do you account for the popularity of JIRA? (It’s quite complex)
truted2··on Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." -founding father and first president of the United States of America
truted2··on Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
> to obtain remote, unauthorized access to any of the tens of millions of smartphones and mobile devices utilizing a U.S. Company Two-provided operating system

U.S. Company Two provides a mobile operation system. Hmmm, now who could that be?

truted2··on Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content
As long as they still use a <video> tag does the chrome or JS implementation matter? The tag captures the semantics that Google can now use to show the video in their search results! etc. Using custom plugins like Flash made this much harder.
truted2··on First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
Humans have a tendency to post rationalize their choices. Once you’re stuck with the consequences of your actions you justify it in a way that’s psychologically acceptable to you.
truted2··on First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
“Of all adults ages 55 to 64, 19.6% were childless, compared to 15.9% of those ages 65 to 74, and 10.9% of those 75 years and older.”

According to this linear trend the last child in America will be born in 2045 [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/605/

truted2··on A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason
Would this "fraud" detection be triggered by some unauthorized user trying their account password too many times or a more sophisticated attack?
truted2··on Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes
Looking at the dev tools, auth.enombic.com/authorize is being pinged about once a second. Seems like an Oauth request gone awry?
truted2··on Show HN: Endpoints.dev – Pastebin for HTTP Requests
Are you running behind a load balancer on AWS? You might have to increase the idle connection timeout from the default (60 seconds). I use the max 4000s on hopps.io. Sending keep alive's to prevent the socket connection from closing also helps. Not sure if that's your issue, but worth looking into...