skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for an organization that helps smallholder farmers farm more effectively and sustainably through digital advisory (precisionag.org). Things we try to do are change pesticide behavior (recommend safer pesticides, get people to use only when necessary and in safe amounts), change fertilizer behavior (help them allocate money effectively for replenishing the right nutrients), decrease soil depletion and erosion (adjust tilling practices, increase crop rotation, that sort of thing).

The hope is of course that this results in better yields with less damage, but the Jevons paradox has already been mentioned and it's hard to say what the effect will be in the long run.

Personally I've just decreased material and meat consumption very significantly, and I try to be careful with flying (but need to do so occasionally for my work).

I'm not too hopeful, the main economic systems are fully based on constantly increasing production (which mostly has a physical basis) and effective action would require significant international collaboration (the world does not seem to be getting more united). We will see - maybe once things really start going wrong and we get into crisis mode effective action suddenly becomes possible.
While that observation might be true (I doubt it will change Open Source, nor is it a new problem), what's the security issue in this particular case?

Cisco adding an already compromised (it's on GitHub) private key to their firmware, which sure isn't a smart thing to do. But the only security issue I could see here is that somebody could use it to create a "secure" outbound connection from a Cisco device, that just isn't secure at all (because anyone has access to the private key).
The well-known mathematician M Spivak is amoung those who has suggested 'e' (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun).

Somehow the deliberate proposals often seem not to succeed.
Mozilla has to do this to show they're trying. They're not just about getting everything free. It will be good if it works, but it also works for them if

a) no publishers sign up

b) no customers sign up

(as long as they try hard to make it happen).
There is no solution to species being extinct. They're just gone. No coming back.

And even reducing the rate of loss is likely impossible. Our food supply basically depends on killing insects. Although it's possible to change practices, to kill less insects, that would be logistically impractical.
The comments in this thread are hilarious. I guess some of you all have forgotten about that can of duster you’ve relied on for the last 30+ years to clean the muck from just about every keyboard. I don’t understand the rage...

I use my MBP just as much as anyone, the butterfly keys feel so much better than the old clickity keys and I’ve gotten use to the TouchBar. F Keys we’re useless to me unless they were remapped, and now the TouchBar gives me a lot of options for customizations.
Thanks. I’m awaiting an invite to have my keyboard replaced (means no laptop for a few days, been waiting a week already).

And when it breaks again?
That is the main problem with it.

* It breaks.

* It makes a lot of noise.

* It has almost no travel.

I really dislike #2 and #3 but to their credit it is thin (which I don't care much about). You can argue about #2 and #3 being subjective which is fair enough (the same is true for it being thin). However #1 is not subjective, and doesn't occur in a "few isolated cases". It is a proven design issue.

What I'd furthermore argue though is that #1 and #2 and #3 are together the sole result of going for thinness. After all, the previous keyboards worked great (and I owned 4 MBPs of the 2010-2015 range).

Meanwhile, the prices of the MBPs have only increased which adds insult to injury!

There's this saying, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". At the same time there's "release early, release often". The first version of the iPhone had serious disadvantages. Apple didn't release AirPower. These each had their minus. However Apple has failed to address this specific minus. We've been beta testing this feature enough. It is time to admit the design flaw, and move on (but don't Osbourne the current series).
Look what happened to ‘Cracked’, both offline and online.
I run unzip -l, it tells you which files are how big are inside.
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Hi HN!

I'm looking to port and create a series of tutorials related to Robotics and Robot Operating System that I want to make freely accessible to anyone.

Most of my websites are made with Jekyll and often hosted on GitHub therefore I was thinking abut Jekyll Documentation Theme (https://idratherbewriting.com/documentation-theme-jekyll/index.html).

Do you know anything else that could work well? I want to have a full control over everything and wordpress is a no-go for me.

Any advice will be highly appreciated!
I've always found this argument weird because you're basically telling the environment-conscious people to voluntarily eliminate themselves from the gene pool. Surely there must be more effective ways for a small minority of the population to fight Climate Change than by simply ceasing to exist?
Interesting. Did you use more traditional thinkpad keyboards (back when IBM owned them)?
Boeing was tiny when it didn’t take billions of dollars to design any new aircraft.
Sorry, I still don't understand what the bad consequences of some animals dying are. Aren't all animals we need kept and fed by us? What are these good things some animals are doing for the environment?
Are you actually serious? If so, can you please post some pictures of your genitalia and face here?
Agree the mechanism is really very good. Just keeps breaking, unfortunately.
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Disappointed that it's not responsive...
Neat! Emailed~ :D
What's wrong with usb c ?
Taptic Engine is a very good click emulator. The touchpad of newer MacBooks and tactile feedbacks of newer iPhones are just amazing.

On the other side, nothing can emulate a good (even membrane) keyboard, because typing's most important sensory feedback is not touch or sound, but finger travel.

I'm a programmer and use a variety of keyboards. I have an 2014 MacBook Pro, a lowish end membrane keyboard at office and a Logitech G710+ with CherryMX Brown switches.

The winner is Cherry MX, hands down, but MacBook has a very nice tactile travel feel, so I can write way faster for a membrane keyboard.

The promise of butterfly keyboard was sharp tactile feed to enable faster writing speeds, but it proved to be too fragile as far as I can see. I've never used one for a long time, so I cannot comment on it with any authority.
It probably flags it as unsafe and triggers smart screen. Meaning you have to go out of your way to use the file.

As for malware that would be unzipped when using an external zip file; first you would need to trigger the zip bomb on defender but not the external tool, and second defender will still scan the individual files getting unziped by that tool.
Do you still do the other things though or do you use that choice as an excuse not to bother?
In fact the official guidelines here actually urge people to do so.
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Finally!
Now please also admit that the TouchBar is a colossal failure that only a few niche users grew to like and either:

1) Ditch it completely - return the Fn key row back but add button for Touch Id (a. la the new MacBook Air)
OR

2) Invent a better version with Haptic Feedback so that Touch typists get a FEEL for hitting keys instead of moronically having to look down to ensure that they did not F* things up
Technology is intimately related to culture; we simply need technology change in order to recover. We need more efficient energy generation, more sustainable materials, better recycling, etc. We can't all just go back to the land. The cultural change we need is the impetus to make the necessary technological changes.

Where I agree with you is that we need cultural change first, and THEN technological change should follow. A key change, for example, would be reconstructing American foreign policy so it does not depend on controlling Middle East oil supplies to maintain our economic dominance. This holds in place our use of fossil fuels. We need to replace fossil fuel technology with something else, but before that we need to replace our political dependence on controlling fossil fuels with something else.
It seems like there are two camps of people:

Those who are very pleased to hear they will be backpedaling on their updated keyboard designs.

Those who "don't understand" because they actually like the new keyboards (and the TouchBar even).

No matter where you stand, the new keyboards are highly controversial and divisive, and that's not good. The old keyboards didn't put people into opposing sides, they just were there. Sure people compared them to other manufacturer keyboards, sometimes for the worse and other times for the better, but it wasn't a hate or love relationship by the user base. There was no "getting used to it," it was just a keyboard.

I look forward to a return to a non controversial, highly usable and widely accepted as "fine", keyboard. I hope that's what we get.
In theory you could make a json file with all the details and push it to 100 content libraries like YouTube/Vevo/Peertube/Facebook/etc. but most of them want to be exclusive, they're not there to host your content, they want your viewers. There's no way they're going to do anything to help democratise that content.

We need to stop feeding the beast.

I'm still convinced that Opera Unite, which fused distributed social + web client + web server, should have been the way forward to make the web truly owned by the people: if social sites were simply caches of content available p2p or through any social site of my choosing (that the content owner allowed) ...
Alaska has its own sovriegn wealth fund, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund, which is largely funded by oil drilling. It pays out a dividend to residents every year. Threatening that, even slightly or indirectly, is probably political suicide.
It's only bad if the company is working toward some sort of an exit strategy. IBM isn't looking to sell itself, so putting in benefits and pay outs that encourage long-term retention makes a lot of sense.
As I stated, I made a decision to not have kids for other reasons, not because I want to save the environment. But the decision to not have kids will have more of a positive net effect towards saving the environment than any other lifestyle changes I can make right now.
Good idea. There might already be one but I don't know one. Any good name ideas? I'd be happy to help set up, moderate, whatever, but I'm not good at catchy names :)
I'm pretty sure you can do it with karabiner, this page has an example with mapping shift+capslock to capslock:

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/
I'm also pretty flexible in my ways and, can accept maintenance of equipment but, assuming one size fits all is a wrong path to follow IMHO.
> "Since 1982, the traps we manufacture ourselves have been standardised and controlled, all of the same size and the same material, and they are collected at the same rate in 63 locations that are still identical," explains Sorg.

Do I believe that something, likely humans, is doing damage to nature? Yes.

However, give the above, I have to ask: couldn't the argument be made that collecting less samples is natural selection at work? That is, the insects that aren't trapped - for whatever reason - will pass those traits on and so on. The survivors breed more survivers. Those that are trapped and die, well so does their DNA.
Or it could do the same as Safari, open "safe files" by default (which for zip archives means "decompress them").
Does brute forcing still work these days? I thought the wild-west free-for-all scanning days would have ended, as ISPs (or someone in the routing chain) would block such attempts? I haven't tried since the 90s because I'm slightly paranoid about being classified as an evil hacker. Somewhat relatedly, my bank recently wouldn't let me login (cryptic error message) because they started using a "trusted IP scanner service" in the UK which had marked me as a proxy, probably because I was running a Tor Relay last year. I had to send multiple unblock requests, all of which were denied with canned responses that no, they won't reclassify my IP. Only when I mentioned that I couldn't login to my bank account did they finally unblock me. Point of my story is that it sure feels like more gatekeepers are being implemented to stop "nefarious" operations.
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer. Voting with your wallet is part of the ideology that destroys public power, creates short-term selfish thinking and behaviour. So I don't think counting on wallet voting makes much sense in reality.
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We started a web development agency two months ago that focusses on sustainable and green web development. It's called surfgreen.dev - https://www.surfgreen.dev/en

We are based in Bavaria, Germany, and focus on sustainable frontend technologies for websites and webapps as well as on green cloud computing.

Right now we are working on a web application that's analysing websites focused on performance and hosting topics. This web app generates a sustainability scoring based on several factors and will be deployed this month.

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Been kind of my experience too. Bought my wife a rose gold entry level MacBook a couple of years back and, it’s one of the nicest laptops I’ve ever had. I have a MacBook Pro for work and the touchbar doesn’t bother me. Screen is beautiful, plenty powerful.

I’ll throw one crit out there though: the wireless mouse on my iMac Pro. When it runs out of batteries you have to plug it in, but it plugs in on the bottom. Wired mice have existed since the invention of the mouse, so it’s pretty frustrating that you can’t just plug it in to the front and have it act like a wired mouse while charging. This was clearly done so that the mouse could have its svelte shape. Sigh.
Data is considered stolen when it's duplicated without consent. Hence, "made publicly accessible" is incorrect. It was never "public"...people browsing the web couldn't have stumbled upon it, any more than people riding a train could accidentally have wound up on the moon.

The moon thing is a great analogy. Everyone knows the moon is there, but the process of getting to it is an enormous task beyond the reach of all but the most determined, skilled, and well-financed parties.
This is like the movie Brazil, no longer funny because it has come true. If I was sure it was intended as a joke instead of a showcase of "best practices" it would be funny.
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The cookie approval dialogue was quite snappy though. Better than most implementations I've seen. Didn't reload the page. Didn't display a large spinner once you made a choice.
This is Australian. Presumably, they are required to provide a back door into the quantum fluctuations.
> The best way to improve a complex human interaction task like a vehicle is with experimentation and incremental improvements.

You have to be careful to differentiate between improvements vs. change. You need to know when to stop (or at least slow down the rate of change) otherwise it's just a random walk.
Non-profit doesn't mean non-revenue.

Any organization with a list that large should also be able to raise enough funds to cover the cost of hosting.
To be fair to them, they have to start somewhere. If they had to get every single site on the internet onboard as a prerequisite (as you seem to be suggesting) they'd never launch anything.
I work with food and beverage companies to reduce GHG emissions from food production in their supply chains through modeling/data analysis of farming systems and software development. Related to this, I'm working on research to understand soil variability that can drastically impact the measurement of soil carbon sequestration.

Also considering starting up a local grains and storage vegetable farm to reduce food miles (while acknowledging that it isn't always more efficient).

On a personal note, I've switched back to being a vegetarian (with occasional fish), and am trying to switch to carting my young daughter around town on an ebike instead of a heavy car.

I haven't done much politically but think it's probably far past time to dive in since much of the changes will need to be made by legislation.
Thanks, I hate it.

It's like a horrible fractal, the closer you look at it, the worse it gets.
> Google has the resources to make better products.

True but for the past 5 years or so they have been interested in making more money not better products.
Well I'm no groth hax0r like OP, but it shouldn't be too difficult for them to sit down and write an actual comment. Like you just did, and like I'm doing right now. Who cares if a lazy spammer has a heart of gold?
Anyone remember Google Contributor back in the day? How does this compare?
If it would only run flawlessly on Windows, I would gladly run Postgres. It doesn't though, so I chose MySQL for my project. This was two years ago however, things might have changed.

*edit: I recognize a lot of what you mentioned though, and MySQL sure has its draw backs. Still it seems to work fine for a lot of people.
I gave up my car for over a year now (although a job change is msybe putting this in jeopardy).

We barely buy any meat, keep it for special occasions mainly.

We buy as many local fruits and vegetables as possible.

I participate in organized tree plantings and have planted some on my own.

I won't have more than two kids (got sterilized), although not just for the environment.

... and it's not nearly enough.

I would want to work in something truly helpful for our species rather than making more money for the capitalists but it's tough with a family to support.
Plastic waste looks like a very small problem compared to CO2 emissions. Cutting CO2 emissions is much harder than acting on plastic waste, and we no longer have time for small actions. We need to radically lower our consumption of goods of any kind.
Smart shouldn't be used for this, the sata transport layer should be updated to allow indicating it, syscalls should pass this information along, so filesystems can react to it.. otherwise we'd need a new smart field, as the semantics of the existing fields are insufficiently described, and reacting to them would require adding a smart-query to every filesystem call that touches disk.

thing is, "iffy" depends on what firmware decides is iffy.. Maybe a firmware relocates a sector the very first time it fails to read, maybe it relocates after try 200. What we want is to be notified, when we request a sector, if reading it was 100% painless. Depending on your demands for reliability, maybe it's okay to re-read a sector a few times, and still not reallocate it, but maybe your filesystem would like to gather these stats from the disks anyway.
This is the real point. A keyboard IS AN INTERFACE. The point of it is to move information between two things: the computer and me. It is a means. If I notice it at all, that’s a negative.
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They're related, but not exactly the same. Individuals or organisations may charge fees for services with or without the expectation of profit.
Yes, and the infrastructure we ended up building for them has made horrible changes to most cities and had extreme negative effects on the environment
Yes but the HN guidelines also lets the submitter use some judgement if the title is misleading:

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

But I'm not going to nitpick this thread's title. If "Ad-free internet" is the best representation for HN readers because Mozilla itself used it, that's fine too.
CTO of Yume Food here (https://yumefood.com.au), a startup in Melbourne, Australia working to divert perfectly good surplus food from going to landfill.

Our team identifies at-risk stock (packaging issues / overproduction / close to code) and uses an ML-based engine to match the produce with suitable buyers, and offers up to 80% discounts; stock is saved, buyers get discounts, no ecological issues, everyone wins.

About to hit 1MM kilos of saved surplus stock, gaining some good buy-in from big name food producers, which is really promising.
> every amazon echo on the planet simultaneously playing 'fuck the police' by NWA

I wish I were a hacker capable of such feats.
Also did this in cryptography + coding theory class back in university days.

Our final exam had a practical code breaking test where we had a bunch of utilities and had to crack 3 different cyphers. I've always recounted it fondly.
I think the sentiment in this comic applies here.

http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=346

That is, even if your videos are in-the-clear currently, there is no reason Youtube couldn't decide to interpret its rules more strictly in the future. Maybe your video's genre just hasn't gotten any bad press yet.
Government-mandated or capitalism-mandated? What's the meaningful difference?

Well, maybe, historically, many governments have proven time and time again a meaningful capability to not simply turn Evil for many decades, centuries even. For corporations it seems utterly inevitable; they either grow and become evil, or they don't grow and die. Which happens over the span of one or two decades at the most.

Clearly, we should prefer government censorship, if anything. ...
this is way off topic, but what the heck. i read your name as doing a gambit, playing a gambit, or something along those lines.

risking your google account by making a report, as you observed, is a gambit :-)
The trackpad on macbook pros work the same. There's a big issue there though: on a keyboard you want and expect travel at the physical level, that travel is a significant part of the feedback. One of the issues in the butterfly is many people hurt after typing for some time, the lack of resistance before smashing into the hard stop is a source of physical trauma.
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