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koverda | 8 days ago | on: Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation

Ran by this dude "Russ George", they dumped 120 tons of iron dust off the coast of Canada into the Pacific, created a massive algal bloom, and subsequently had the 2nd biggest salmon harvest on record (219M): https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=pressreleases.pr1... despite a forecast of 54M https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/PDFs/commercial/s....

He got fired. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_George

koverda | 8 days ago | on: Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B

Thank you for the feedback, I'll take it into account. Much appreciated!

koverda | 8 days ago | on: Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B

Pretty certain from this that it's a US asset: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/111460...

koverda | 8 days ago | on: Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B

Mine seems to be a bit more focused and comprehensive on the financial expenditures by the US government, and open source. Also iran-cost-ticker.com seems to be "on hold" when i visit it.

koverda | 8 days ago | on: Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B

I made a site a couple of days ago to track the cost of the iran war. It's open source, feel free to submit a PR or open an issue: https://github.com/koverda/iranwarcost.com

koverda | 9 days ago | on: Iran War Cost Tracker

neat! I made (vibecoded) and deployed something very similar yesterday https://iranwarcost.com

koverda | 2 years ago | on: Weak-to-Strong Generalization

spam?

koverda | 2 years ago | on: Normal Operating Sounds

what do you mean?

koverda | 2 years ago | on: Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups

cart rescue campaigns technically qualify as "transactional" campaigns, rather than promotional campaigns. that's why that happens

koverda | 2 years ago | on: Reddit has disabled copy/paste on right click

there's also no mention of this at all on reddit.

koverda | 3 years ago | on: LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night

Regarding the quoted e-book study:

> Third, in the present study, the LE-eBook was set to maximum brightness throughout the 4-h reading session, whereas, by comparison, the print-book condition consisted of reflected exposure to very dim light.

Yeah, max brightness is probably going to make an impact. I bet if you were in a room with a bright light reading a book, with an equivalent amount of lumens going into your eyeballs, you'd probably have a tough time sleeping. This study seems like it was set up to generate a certain set of results. I wonder how it would look if the quantity of light was controlled for.

Additionally, the comparisons to the incandescent spectrum and the freaking out about the blue peaks (which seem pretty small) was over the top. The incandescent spectrum contains blue, and the "peak" of the other spectra would contain an equivalent integral of blue light as compared to a slightly brighter incandescent light.

Just turn the lights down low at night and get some warm spectrum bulbs and you'll be okay.

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)

We can just store the fuel for carbon capture in that case, right?

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults

Any sources on that?

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Facebook Down?

down for me

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Facebook Down?

facebook's status page shows up, downdetector shows an issue.

https://metastatus.com/ https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

koverda | 3 years ago | on: AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)

Sure do, i wonder if these new ones have fixed that. The talk about a microphone update on apple's site...

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't we comment on “X is Hiring” posts?

I noticed the opposite, there's a lot of people leaving positive comments on a lot of ads.

koverda | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Cloudflare down – Error 1016 – Origin DNS error

also seeing some issues ...

koverda | 3 years ago | on: 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

managers are employees too

koverda | 3 years ago | on: More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

beans, $700 / metric ton [1] rice, $500 / metric ton [2]

a meal of 65g dry rice and 55g dry beans per person.

700m * 3 = 2.1b meals per day 115,500 tons beans = $80.9m 136,500 tons rice = $68.3m

Total $149.1m/day

I'm sure at these quantities you can get much better prices of rice and beans, even just browsing on alibaba. I'd guess we can probably get that down under $100m from alibaba. Probably even lower at the quantities we're talking about.

1 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-s...

2 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Gra...