skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In San Diego, went to my local planning board's meetings to push for allowing more density and adding cycle infra. Failed, of course; I was the lone weirdo (and nobody else under 65 could make it to their weekday meetings for some crazy reason).

Moved to Europe (combination of things like wanting more vacation time but also generally lower carbon footprint, and taxes aren't supporting quite as much pillaging)

Cycled or walked to work full time until I got a remote job.

Eat little meat, primarily chicken.

Bought cottage on 3.5 acres of grazing land and have let most of it run wild. 15 minute bike ride from train station.

Renewably sourced electricity

Made tool to help others find homes near public transport and bike routes in my country (Ireland) (why do real estate sites assume everyone drives???) - www.gaffologist.com . This came after people kept saying how lucky I was to cycle to work - it wasn't luck any more than having an extra bedroom is luck. I filtered for it. (I am lucky to be able to afford it, though)

Before I left Dublin, participated in actions involving protecting bicycle lanes with your body (https://twitter.com/IBIKEDublin)

Spend money on subscriptions to things like Dark Mountain, The Times (which is pro-cycling), etc.. Support the green party financially (and by voting of course)

Though my footprint is still not great because I fly too much. I have 2 kids. Of course, replacement rate should be OK, but that's only if we're already where we need to be.

I'd like to find a way to make my _work_ contribute to finding a fix, and not just my lifestyle, but as with everyone else I've got bills to pay (getting a roof rethatched isn't cheap). I spent a few years after college trying to work for environmental orgs getting rebuffed and gave up to just get a regular job after that.

And that's the real problem, isn't it? We push everyone by design into a life where they have some sort of massive financial burden, whether it's student debt or housing debt or lack of prospects, and then they're forced to optimize for cash and not for what they think really matters.
Yeah nice and all.. But it'll be like tv: Even though you pay for the tv service, after a while they will simply put in ads again. The incentives for publishers are simply too tempting.

This is not for me.
Hi! great question. Thanks for asking.

I'm actively working to fix the environment by getting people to reduce their use of wireless tech. and lobbying Government to drastically lower the permitted microwave radiation exposure guidelines.

How so, you may ask - since creating an "app" and using tech is the default way to "disrupt" or "fix" something cultural/societal today.

No offence meant to app creators. I'm a software guy myself. The tech is exiting and developing is fun, but that invisible, odor-free "something" the wireless tech is constantly emitting to facilitate connectivity, is an environmental toxin. Yes, I'm taking about the RF radiation which is a slow acting poison.

It negatively impacts cells, insects, plants, animals & humans.

This isn't an opinion any longer. The science on this is robust.
It would be wise to heed the warnings of a veteran MD and internal medicine professor who gave a crash-course in biological effects of RF radiation to a Michigan committee: https://youtu.be/1Qt5B39LB7c
If you watch the 5 min. clip, keep in mind that its not just one single professor's statement - its a compression of decades of peer-reviewed and published research that's being presented.

Physicists and engineers tend to disagree on a basis of simple energy absorbtion/heating mechanics, but that is irrelevant to the possibility of harmful biological effects given how science now clearly shows biological damage at exposure levels far below heating threshold. The "thermal-only" paradigm with non-ionizing radiofrequency radiation is dead, although Big Wireless' entire business hinges on it being valid still. It isn't. Sound advice is to begin divesting in RF wireless industry and offshoots because its going down. Not tomorrow, but soon enough.

Even the risk-ready insurance industry jumped ship years ago. Look up "exclusion 32 electromagnetic fields". They've seen the future and they don't want to pay out for the "next asbestos". Big Wireless' is on its own when the lawsuits are won.

As natural background radiation, the frequency bands usurped by wireless telecoms were virtually silent during evolution. Now the man-made background levels are extreme in comparison and the effects are showing broadly as mostly neurological problems in human populations, decline in insect biomass, wild animals avoiding areas with transmitters, tree/foliage damage near transmitters etc.

As an interesting development, recently in Denmark, a Lawyer concluded, based on existing science & reports, that 5G rollout will most likely damage the natural environment and contravene a number of European natural protection conventions. See more here: https://helbredssikker-telekommunikation.dk/nyheder/LegalOpi...

We need another kind of wireless. Not RF/microwave based. Its possible, I'm sure.

Thank you for your attention.
It's pretty hard to go back to membrane or scissor switches when one has gotten used to a mechanical keyboard.

When I bough the small Magic Keyboard 2 for use with my midi controller(I needed a bluetooth keyboard), it took me weeks to adjust. It felt like banging on a flat table for a while.
Government in my country will use that to take the shares, then do corruption from inside and fattening their wallets.

Im against shareholder is immune because of bailout, but I don't think government handling business can be better.
> The old keyboards didn't put people into opposing sides, they just were there.

Have you ever spoken to a thinkpad advocate re: chiclet keyboards? The previous mac keyboards were absolutely controversial. It took years for the previous keyboard to be 'just a keyboard', which I do acknowledge happened.

> I look forward to a return to a non controversial, highly usable and widely accepted as "fine", keyboard.

Honestly, this will never happen for two reasons:

1) people's needs are diverse enough where that's simply an impossible job. I happen to _really_ like the current apple keyboards, but the reliability is bad enough for me to want a change. The consensus where I work (100ish mac laptops) is that the keyboard is awful. Someone is going to be unhappy, and it sounds like it might be me :(

2) There's some segment of the technology world (non-unix people?) that will latch onto any criticism of apple - fair/deserved or not - and shout it endlessly.
Ah, it seems very restrictive beyond developing Windows programs internally.

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But gender has a much more significant affect on how someone acts than their height, and significantly affects what kind of relationship you could have with that person.
Oh, it's definitely true.

I've just bought one after holding out for 6 years since my last MBP. Everyone's wishes will be granted imminently.
Excuse this hot-take, but PSA for all: If you values environmental sustainability, work on getting WOMEN INTO MORE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.

If you're still with me after the capslock... :)

We've known since the Hofstede leadership study (commissioned by IBM) that countries that skew toward feminine side of the masculity--femininity axes, are more likely to have general populations that values environmental sustainability, whereas countries that embody masculine leadership qualities value economic growth much more highly. Just google "Hofstede environmental sustainability femininity". It's been replicated in many studies. Some examples:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327419590_The_Effec...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csr.1329

This is reproduced over and over. The key to environmental sustainability is not an invention or a product, it's a reorienting of leadership away from the risk-taking, growth-oriented masculine styles of leadership. That's not to say men can't contribute to that work (the leadership style is not only accessible to women) but that there's less teaching/re-education to do if we accept the best approach to be GETTING WOMEN IN POWER.

Nothing else you build or work on will contribute to reorienting ourselves away from this growth-mode death sentence (nor will it do it in such a sustainable way) than SUPPORTING FEMALE LEADERSHIP in corporate and government institutions. That's where the sustainable recalibration will take place.

I'm grateful for any consideration you might give this.
I can also infer race from visual appearance with similar accuracy, but if I say "Can you hand this to that black person" would be super weird and quite likely objectionable, even if I was correct that the person was black. And nobody would want abbreviated pronouns on race - "I talked to whim and whe said to talk to blim" just seems sort of ... overly concerned with people's races.

It's a linguistic quirk of English that "Can you hand this to [that female person]" is accepted and natural. On first principles it shouldn't be.

(It is interesting IMO that Japanese has a pronoun for "she," and it's a compound word that literally translates as "that woman." It only developed as a pronoun in the last century or so, from the influence of Weatern works which had he/she or equivalent pronouns.)
How did you signed up if no one can yet ?
Seems like a bunch of publishers that have a leftist bias. I wonder if they'll give The Daily Wire, TYT, The Daily Stormer, etc the same opportunity or if it'll just be neoliberal outlets.
Remember this next time someone is confidently asserting to you that you have some condition X and need drug Y. Anyone can construct an ontology from the muddy soup of human behavior.
In my personal life, i was vegetarian for more than a decade, i recycle/garden/ride a bike/never buy new cars/prefer previously owned equivalents to new purchases for all products/turn off lights, computers, monitors, speakers, amps, etc.../avoid using air-con/never buy leather/capture and release houseflies & spiders/advocate among my associates to live as sustainably as they can.

My first engineering job was for SolarCity... it was so great!

Until i realized it was just scheme for tranching solar incentives from the gov't into financial devices for JPMC & CO to buy, supporting the credit cycle for the growing business... then i quit, and moved out of SF.

Next was software for a mmj operation... turning raw flower into dabs/wax/etc. If anybody ever asks you, Dabs are drugs... m'kay.

Then I worked to build a product that captures browsing information to creates shadow-profiles of sovereign wealth fund managers, to target them for investment advisories.

Today, I'm working to make off-shore oil&gas field development-planning a more efficient process (it's incredibly old-school, currently). That means meetings with the biggest "climate destroying" companies on the planet, and chatting seriously about how to frack better.

All in all, and really ironically, it feels like this current role is the most environmentally (earthship environment, social/cultural environment) responsible job I've ever had.
Well, the continuous fraction for e is pretty well known. Doubt they discovered anything new here that can't be obtained from the original formula.
On the other hand, the continuous fraction for pi is irregular, so it's interesting to see what they discovered... but I can't really find any pattern in the "conjectures" for pi. Take the first one:

pi/−4 = 1/(−1 + 1/(−4 + −2 /(−7 + −9/(−10 + −20/(−13+...))))

What exactly am supposed to prove here? The denominators are an arithmetic progression but numerators (1, 1, -2, -9, -20, ...) are just some bizarre sequence without an obvious pattern. The thing with continous fractions is that every number has one, so the fact that pi is presented as continous fraction is not impressive in itself.
I thought it was Gmail?
The first alternative to Android is LineageOS, the Android distribution?

JMP seems interesting, anybody have experiences with that or know of a better alternative?
Apart from reliability concerns (mine hasn't failed yet), the macbook 12" butterfly incarnation has become my favorite mobile keyboard now. Other keyboards, like my old-gen macbook pro feel mushy in comparison now, and at least for the ultra-svelte macbook 12" the obsession with thinness and lightness does pay off. I wonder if we will see a wave of butterfly nostalgia when the new design comes out.
Are you referring to railguns?
Kicking someone in the face is illegal too, but there a million - or more - YouTube videos showing you how to do it, and most towns in my country have more than one class you can go to to learn how to do it (TKD, BJJ, Karate, etc.).

"Well you can use it for defence ..."

White-hat hackers are a thing too.
No; the third crew member on prior Lion Air flight (043) is the one who diagnosed the issue as runaway trim and cued the flight crew to execute that checklist. I've read nothing to suggest that they participated physically in the response (despite having read quite a bit on the topic).

The excessive force on the trim required in the Ethiopian Air case was a consequence of the crew leaving the engines at high power, the trim having run farther nose down, and the elevator being held nose up, resulting in loading the horizontal stabilizer thus making the trim difficult to move. (Though I'm critical of their decision to restore and leave power to the trim system without commanding aircraft-nose-up after correctly diagnosing runaway trim, I don't really fault them for leaving excessive power in. That's a reasonable response to the initial indications and by the later time they realized it was a trim issue, they were pretty well loaded up struggling with the airplane that was well out of trim, so undoing their thrust command [which would typically result in a descent that they didn't want/couldn't afford] probably isn't reasonable to expect.)
FDA names dog-food brands with potential link to canine heart disease
I wonder how much this change (if true) is correlated to Jony Ive's departure.
"It" just seems so dehumanising. But perhaps with increasing popular usage that will fade.
What you describe sounds like an excellent sci-fi movie that I'd like to see, but in reality being slightly below replacement rate is a bit different from "not having children".
There was me thinking the city occasionally travels towards the North Pole but never quite gets there.
strange that the locals don't benefit at all
Not reproducing does not mean you cease to exist. Also, consciousness about the environment does not transmit through genes.
The Anne Pro 2 is mechanical and has bluetooth, maybe an alternative for you?
The conclusion that this will lead to the eventual extinction of insects as a whole also does not pass scrutiny. Even if 99% of insects are extinguished, the remaining 1% that are adapted to the new conditions will populate the now-vacant ecological niches and diversify. That's how evolution works.
Haven't they already taken some big strides down that direction?
Personally, I don't necessarily mind ads, unless intrusive.
I mind:
- tracking
- javascript being used everywhere (IMO, for pure viewing, javascript should be optional).
We're nearly the same age and I, too, was a huge fan of Mad during it's hey-days years in the 60s. I especially loved the satirization of current TV shows but what made the magazine so delicious was that our parents hated it (albeit, let us read it, anyway) and it was considered to be subversive by adults. How could it not be successful? I haven't read it in decades but it is a fond memory of my youth.
I just tried Walmart.com (with uBlock Origin). It's 2.4MB, with 32 scripts loaded.

Amazon.com (logged in) was 12MB, with 28 scripts.
Isn't that pretty much what happened with GM? The stocks and bonds were all wiped out. And then the new GM was owned by the government / union until they did an IPO a few years later?
Ah well! I thought that there had been some new tech breakthrough :)
I'd totally forgotten I wrote that!
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, not the Linux kernel. It's from a completely different lineage of operating systems.
Meanwhile in all counties outside of the US... Amsterdam? Hanging clothes. Argentina? Hanging clothes. UK, France, South Korea? Hanging clothes.

How can this be so triggering in the US.
Creating a private key for test purposes and putting it in a test folder of an open source project is a quite reasonable thing to do. I am guessing the email-address is there because the tool used to create the certificate asked for it.
I am surprised the inverted yield is not the natural state of affairs. In the options world, short expiry contracts pay a higher premium than long term contracts. Long term loans are like wholesale as short term loans are to retail. Shouldn’t short term interest rates be higher ?
I'm on the exact same boat (Air then 1st touch bar Mac). I've resigned to using it docked only both at work and home.
Professor Kuper, thank you so much for pushing the envelope on new teaching ideas at the school. With the over enrollment in the program, personal interaction between the professors and the students is sometimes lost. I commend you for helping to engage the students on a more personal level beyond grading scripts and crowd graded assignments. I hope you continue giving creative assignments in your classes to help combat the assumption that Computer Science is a field where creativity is not valued.
They have explicit public access blocks at both the bucket and account level now. These override any permissions granted via IAM or bucket policy.
Yeah that’s crucial. I’m still using my 2012 MBP. I clean it once or twice a year, more for aesthetics. It’s great not having to worry about where and how I use it (outside of extreme environments) every time I use it.
Oh my god, the captcha at the end is so good. Is it even possible to get through?
Why not directly buy the charcoal? It's not that expensive and you can get it done quicker than waiting for trees to grow.
Most stuff people use USB for still have the good old USB-A adapters: mice, keyboards, USB sticks/other drives, card readers, LTE dongles.

The things that actually need the massive speed benefits from USB-C (10G network adapters and PCIe enclosures) can have USB-C, fine with me, but please don't force users to buy and especially lose adapters just to be able to use their existing stuff. And no need to make shit ever more expensive and complex, a mouse won't ever need anything from USB-C.
A couple weeks ago I stood in line right behind a group of “influencers” trying to get their meal for free at a new restaurant. They succeeded after a 20 minute delay for the entire line (that went out the door) while the manager was fetched and tried to decide what to do. It was quite rude of the influencers but I wondered that the business would make the whole line wait for the sake of these people of questionable value. Btw this was a new location of a very popular chain; they weren’t struggling for promotion.

I walk by the CVT ice cream truck in the article about once a week. Maybe my same influencers tried him as well. I hope so.
install termux, install youtube-dl, define a "handler"-script, share the link with termux
I wish you would summarize every article on HN because as one of the only articles I read this week (since as you mentioned it really was click-baity), my interpretation was pretty much the same.
does church in your opinion has the right to ban certain types of books too?

regardless of answer, please elaborate.

do you see the slipperness of that slope?
Avid user of Apple gear for many years and so happy they are throwing out that garbage. Ive never had the displeasure of actually using the butterfly keyboard on my daily driver (holding out with mid-2015 MBP 15) and dont plan on upgrading to a new Apple laptop if I have to deal with the touchbar/keyboard non—sense.

You’d think with the thousands of skus they ship today they could figure out most people would be happy with a refreshed 15 with 2 USB-A and 2 USB-C ports (I can live w/o Magsafe)
> This begs a question is he responsible?

Well yes he is. It doesn't matter that much what his original intentions were (not that we will ever learn true intentions of these backdoor deals, politics is dirty at every level), the result is what it is. And this meeting was the decisive push for it.

Will he stand trial for this? I can't imagine it happening. Can he claim to be a good moral person who did only the best possible choices for mankind/US citizens in his life? Absolutely not.
I've bought the non Touch Bar model after using 2 months the TB one. I have never regret this decision.
That makes it relevant for stories like "I met him at a bar and we shared a few drinks," but not "I sold her a cup of coffee this morning" or "She's interviewing for our team."

Gender is also kind of a useless differentiator in many contexts because of the way that gender correlates with behavior: if there's a group of mothers or Catholic priests or even schoolteachers or venture capitalists, I'm much more likely to find pronouns for short/tall useful than for male/female in communicating about specific members of that group.
The entire article summaries why there is probably going to be a bailout.
Not currently detected by anyone, according to VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/d98f43e8a91f1ddb4980d4602...
That's why I like Adblock Plus, even if many find their position to be highly controversial. i.e. to charge advertisers to be whitelisted as "acceptable ads" if they respect certain criteria.

When left unchecked, advertisers are to websites what kittens are to furniture.
I’ve held off buying a new mbp until they fix the keyboard/Touch Bar. I know of plenty of others like me.
Fibers reduce the risk of 4 major diseases
I don't see how any of those behaviors are wrong. It's just a standard that MATLAB elects to follow.
This is just the alt-text associated with the image and is there for accessibility purposes. That text is always part of the page even without the "glitch". This to me is a good use of AI as it provides a richer experience for those who can't otherwise view the images.

I suppose it might make some people aware, who weren't otherwise, that their images are being processed for content.

Much more interesting and readily available though are the "interests" Facebook assigns to you, which everyone can access: Settings | Ads | Your Interests. These hint at much deeper analysis that is being done with data, and data from other sources beyond just analyzing pictures for content.

This is the golden goose from Facebook's perspective. Their whole business is based around having a giant ontology of subjects and slotting you into this giant graph, then selling access into that ontology.

That has been the basis of targeted advertising since well-before the advent of the internet, but now the ontology is much, much richer and the people are providing the data used for the AI-driven slotting all on their own.