skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our family has recently changed to a flexitarian menu, cutting beef almost entirely, with many meals being vegetarian, and others substituting some of the meat with potatoes, tofu, green jackfruit, mushrooms, etc.
Far from a hardship, we've been delighted by the much more varied new menu.

We've also bought some land that had been tropical forest, but was recently cleared for plantation purposes, and we've bio-chared it with waste charcoal scraps from the prevalent nearby charcoal kilns (about 3 tons of carbon sequestered, for the 0.3ha), and replanted it with a sort-of permaculture mix of various flowering fruit trees (we'll add some beehives in a couple of years), and longer-term restorative hardwoods.

We also bought another 5ha, waiting the same treatment, and we've encouraged others to do the same. 2 takers so far, for another 3ha. Biochar is recommended as 1-5kg/m2 so 1ha means sequestering 10tons of carbon

Assuming the science works (and it seems from online sources that it does - we'll see), I think this kind of biochar carbon sequestration could be quite a big help, and it's a very low-tech solution, which also improves yields, so doubly effective for forest.

Of course this is perhaps less-good than if the forest had just been left intact, but what to do?
please enlighten me!
Even "alternatives to google" gives you a card with "Top 12 Search Engine Alternatives To Google"
seeing this more and more... open source projects pulled in as dependencies without auditing, and causing a security issue.

I predict this is going to become more and more of an issue over the next couple of years, and provoke some drastic changes to the way we do open-source software. What those changes are, I don't know...
17-Year Old Bug in Firefox Allows Local Files Theft Attacks
The only reason I passed on the carbon is because of the screen. Apple has spoiled me with their glass screens.
I stick with it because, in only my very subjective and personal view, there's no other OS available that is as streamlined as Mac OS. I try all modern offerings just about once a year, and have yet to find anything better for myself. It's their one saving grace in my view.
No it is not, and it has been easy to run a webserver on Windows for ages (Apache, Roxen, IIS, OmniWEB, etc).

However the barrier of entry is still higher than simply editing a .html file and loading it from the browser with file://

The question is, what is more important? Shouldn't this functionality be optional at the very least?
There's been room in the budget for me to upgrade my work MBP for about 6 months. I haven't considered it. I've got the old keyboard and I've seen what my coworkers have to deal with.

I've also convinced my wife to wait on replacing her decade-old MacBook.
No, I'm suggesting changing laws.

Youtube currently benefits massively from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_... as they are not directly liable for people uploading content they don't own.

I'm suggesting that we only let people have that immunity if they aren't significantly curating their content.

If they significantly curate their content, they should be able to curate copyright too.
It's used in the tab / window heading which is pretty visible I'd say.
Yes but Google search is a search engine, whereas what I’m thinking about is some sort of recommendation engine, along the same lines of YouTube’s, but not limited to a specific platform. Probably it’s not sustainable from a business perspective so it’s just a dream.
this is an area where i think that voting with our wallets as consumers is one of the best courses of action, if not the only, that can yield results
the keyboard is actually awesome, when it works properly. I really love it. The short key travel is great, and using older macbook keyboards now feels like going back to a typewriter.

However, I am also one of those who's taking his 2 months old macbook to repair shop, coz one of the keys just stops clicking and becomes rubbery.
Some of those videos should be government sponsored infomercials -- here's how to open a nationally (USA) used door lock in 1s with a magnet.
It's the page title. It appears e.g. in the tab heading (but yours may be very small).
In the same position. Though I actually don’t like MagSafe that much. It falls out if you’re working on your lap, and the light is inconvenient if you charge at night. I much prefer the sound to notify charging.
Most maps these days are rendered via OpenGL (or Metal) and in those cases you still manually flip buffers and order GPU to render a frame. It's possible to control this process to avoid exessive power usage.

Of course, for most developers that might mean to not update/invalidate() a map view constantly :)
0.5mm travel versus 1.3mm travel, so less than half.
I've moved from a MacBook Pro to a Lenovo IdeaPad running Linux Mint and have not looked back. While it was more for cost reasons than any dissatisfaction with Mac features, I haven't really missed anything from the Mac at all.
I think this is a re-branding of Pocket that they own. Same price https://getpocket.com/premium?ep=1
> Go on then, what exactly "is happening in Germany"?

I actually elaborated on that before I made the comment you chose to respond to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350223

> Germany is easily within the top 10 most influential countries on the world stage.

But that doesn't mean, say, banning swastikas was a decision that came easy or without deep deliberation and discussion. It also doesn't mean we're not riddled with people seeking to control language in all sorts of ways, or that just censoring stuff we "don't consider valuable" is automatically a good idea.

> Oh, "we as individuals need to decide" on whether or not libel or aggression "have value" as constitutionally protected speech?

No, I simply said the way you phrased it, it's an euphemism at best. Individuals make decisions. If you want to be able to say "we as a society" as a shorthand, meaning the people you agree with, minus the people you think you can simply declare unpersons, then you need to be actually able to point to a process where said society had that serious discussion.

> Based on your argument upthread, I suppose you think it should be put up to a vote then?

Why are you shifting the burden to me? You talk about "we as society", so what do you think how would that go? Just doing it? I mentioned it wasn't done nilly-willy in Germany for the swastika etc., you could look into that for a start.

> Even America has decided, in principle, that certain kinds of speech are not protected.

You initially said this:

> The US is one of the few countries that believes in a radical, unlimited right to free speech. Most other countries, it is not tolerated, and this has not lead to a slippery slope.

How you just shift from Alex Jones to Nazis is also noted, but not accepted. To just say "certain kinds of speech" is not good enough, and if you start like that, you can just expand nilly willy. I even already said Germany is better for having banned Nazis -- but the way it's going in America, where people who act like Nazis, want to see people lose their jobs at a drop of a hat for example, I wouldn't buy "let's ban certain kinds of speech" combined with the double think of "oh, it's just a private platform, we're not banning anything". If you want to talk Nazis and don't even see how that shit has red flags plastered all over it, I just don't know how to help sorry.

If you want to make something illegal, lobby to make it illegal. It's not as if in Germany you can do the things you cited in real life, just not on the internet. That's the elephant on the couch in all this. It's just technocrats using somewhat agreeable examples to get their foot in the door to circumvent all that pesky supreme court stuff, and that's closer to the Nazis than Alex Jones will ever be, as foul as he is.
You can buy a trackpad with buttons to replace it. It is compatible with the X250 trackpad I think. Or was this only the case with T440s and T450s?
I have an old car that came with a crappy radio, so I bought a cheap Pioneer one, that kind that looks like a brick. One big knob for volume, for everything else it has raised buttons that are easy to find by touch and hard to press by accident. I rarely have to take my eyes off the road to use it.

IMHO, all car radios should be like that.
> The last elections in Germany were massively impacted by a polarizing video from a blue haired Youtuber

I'm gonna have to say [citation needed].

It is true that the video went viral and was very controversial, but the only effect was that the green party gained about 5% in the 18-29 age group, according to polling statistics. All other age groups were unaffected [1].

Also note that this election was for the parliament of the European Union.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/rezo-effekt-hat-e... (German)
I had people point at laugh at me in a hotel bar once because of the size of that book (I could tell from their hand gestures it was the book and not me they were laughing at!) - a good read though.
I'm making a trello card with a "reach goal" of saving things in 8.4 bits right now.
Is this considered to be “evil” that google said it would not do?
It's a double edge sword. Without speculation and extrapolation, things get dull quick.

OTOH, communicating degrees of uncertainty is not something that we typically do well.
I'm pretty sure it gets old real fast when people with bot followers keep asking you for freebies.

Are there legit ones? Yes. But there are far more fake ones that game the system.

That's why there's a "backlash".
Not the OP but yes I’ve used it and yes I hated it. 95% gimmick and frustrating as hell to use. Had to return my laptop and I’ve been desperately waiting for them to remove it for a 15-inch pro.
I'm amazed by my iPhone 8 home button. It's not a real button, it's just an imitation, but its feedback is so real. I don't know whether it would be possible, but I think that it's a possibility: to imitate an entire keyboard with just flat touch panel. That would solve all problems with those movement parts that always failing and there would be no holes for dust at all!
People in the west already aren't having children. You really want to target everyone else on the planet, the people having 3+ children per woman. Sadly the West is encouraging it's own population to go sterile, but inviting others to live on welfare and giving incentives for those people to have many children...
The headers are a part of the Windows SDK, its license is typically located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Licenses\<version>\sdk_license.rtf

>Are you free to distribute them?

No.

>What about distribute and modify?

No.

>I believe WINE and mingw have their own version of Windows headers but I'm unsure how those came to be.

Yes, MinGW headers were developed independently and most of them are either in the public domain or were released under some permissive license.
It’s one of the reasons we moved out of there. Moving day was an ... interesting experience: lots of planning to minimize downtime, and everything that was actually planned went relatively well. Unfortunately, what we thought was a 90% plan turned out to be more like 50%. Several people pulled all-nighters on that one.

At the time PAIX had a reverse-billing setup: the more data you transferred, the cheaper your connection charge was; we managed to get all the way into the cheapest billing tier within the first billing cycle which was basically unheard-of at the time.
You could plant some fast growing trees, turn them to charcoal and bury it. That's good for the soil and captures the carbon for a few millennia.
... but still the touchbar.
The first common usage I remember was type-ahead autofill search suggestion type things (on google.com iirc). Such a small commonplace thing now, but it was pretty impressive at the time.
less humans means less human impact on the planet
Telling someone that wants to have a kid that they shouldn't is much less effective than explaining someone why they should to vegan most of the week. My experience is that no many people already tell me "they don't eat much meat anymore", so it's not unfathomable.

I dunno, it's like life's main directive to reproduce, and not having children means than in 30 years we have a mostly aging population and no youngsters. And besides, there are people that already have kids and to those I say: cut back on mean and dairy.
I can understand, but please appreciate that the task the program has to perform to process typing is quite complex, especially because some delay is needed to allow keycombinations. Anyway we plan to improve responsiveness in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
I have to disagree. Target is awesome. Their iPhone app is far better than Amazon's (which feels like an embedded webview).
Given that chicken is reasonably good from a CO2/calorie viewpoint, my guess is that avocados flown in from the other side of the world are worse, but I'd also be interested in sources.
Arguably those people would be able to form new, competing, companies with their know-how and a degree of investment. They would, naturally, have to start out small and grow from there - but Boeing was tiny once, as was McDonald Douglass, Lockheed etc. etc.
Can we start Reddit community for this?
Pine resin is pretty amazing stuff. I once made pine pitch glue out of pine sap chunks I collected, and it's amazingly strong for something that's not available at Home Depot. ;) You could easily mistake it for epoxy. From what I remember, I basically melted the sap and mixed in some ground dried grass and a little bit of ash. I honestly forget what exactly it was that I was gluing, though. At one point I was making an atlatl, so maybe it was for that.

As an aside, pine sap is also an amazing fuel in its liquid state. Once it gets going, it burns like gasoline. They're natrue's waterproof fire starters, and as there were neanderthals who used fire, I imagine they might have used pine sap to help start them.
Like I say we have to force law makers hard to punish polluting companies to the extreme where its unprofitable to pollute. Pretty much whole coal&oil industry would have to be nuked, thats why its SO HARD to do anything about it. Corporations lobby politics we choose to harm us - citizens.

Next 10 years will be a huge battle between little ppl and corporations. Because single person actions do not matter more than 1%
I've recently put some time in setting up zigbee2mqtt (http://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/) which lets you use all these smart home things without their proprietary hubs. So I can use all the chinese smart home stuff, without needing to use their hub, so no risk in it phoning home.

It takes some work to get going, but it's amazing. Cheaper (no need to buy all those different hubs), more flexible (you can use node-red or any programming language to do exactly what you want), and way more secure (nothing leaves your home network unless you want it to).
jeff-at-amazon.com used to be the fast-track, even for missed book shipments. Of course there's a whole team of assistants reading and routing those emails, rarely Mr Bezos himself. Another option might be to find a AWS developer evangelist, like tweeting to https://twitter.com/jeffbarr
I guess the reasoning is because humans are the worst thing that have ever happened to the environment, therefore by producing less humans, we produce less environmental damage.
In such a case could anything actually extract that malware and run it?
that's not cynical. this is cynical: http://www.vhemt.org/
Absolutely, I don't think we are in disagreement at all. I just wanted to mention the availability of simple web servers (on Linux, as you rightly state).

On topic, I agree that this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A compromise would perhaps be an explicit whitelist of allowed directories to serve via the file:// protocol, set by the user (while disallowing traversal upwards of these, of course).
I personally don't. A lot of the same crowd that uses ancient Thinkpads uses Coreboot or Libreboot. I used an x220 for 3 years before buying an x230 last month, and I flashed Coreboot (plus me_cleaner) on both of them.
I've never heard this before.

For several years (after the ThinkPad brand got sold to Lenovo who promptly started shipping it with spyware) there wasn't really a PC laptop brand with a rock solid reputation for high build quality.

Lots of companies were putting their badges on inch-thick, mostly plastic 15" laptops with mediocre touchpads that never delivered the battery life they promised. And if your employer issued you with a Windows laptop, that was what you got. Remember laptop bags, when moving a laptop needed padding and a shoulder strap and pockets to carry your mouse and power brick?

That's not to say there weren't some good products out there - there were some well designed Vaios, some pretty daring early tablet PCs and so on. But there wasn't a brand where you could say "Just buy an X" and know that you'd get a good quality product.

Of course, in recent years a lot of PC manufacturers have stepped up their game (or maybe I'm just spending more money?) while Apple has had a few stumbles.
I enjoyed it, but it was elementary school reading for me. I stopped in 5th grade.

By 5th grade, I had a small portable TV I had hooked up to cable, so I could watch A&E’s ‘An Evening at the Improv’ after official bedtime.

By 12, Saturday Night Live was also a go-to.
Barnes and Noble probably needs to realize it’s core value is the in store experience of leisurely browsing at a kind of “third place” away from home/work. Honestly I don’t know anyone who has bought a book on B&N online, but know lots of people who just want to hang out at a Barnes and Noble and read/explore. That was the appeal in the 90s, that’s still the appeal. Nook and e-commerce are just distractions from that main differentiator.

I wonder how many other places are just being bad amazon clones when their core value is something different...
Many people I've met through environmental activism agree with you and have chosen not to have children.

However, I think that giving up meat is a lot easier for people than not having children (reproducing is a pretty strong biological imperative). It also has the possibility to amplify your impact by encouraging those around you to make the same switch - that way you can impact many many lives.

Interesting that you find it taboo - talking about "population control" is definitely taboo in my opinion because it sounds like eugenics or forced sterilisation etc etc, but I've never heard people respond badly to personal choices to not have children.
This year I felt exactly like you. I'm a freelancer for now, but can't bring myself to apply to any of these hip tech companies. I wanted to work for someone doing something that matters.
I have much fonder memories of the magazine.
I personally don't do much, but my dad's company does. I'll just leave a link here, since I think it's pretty cool software (obviously I'm biased).

https://www.homerenergy.com/
Some are good, but that Lupin guy... geez. I'd like to think I'm a lot less elitist than I was when I was so (I assume) young, but he comes across a bit "racisist" himself.
In systems like this, you tend to want to maximise some other outcome than revenue (like clicks or conversions). In general, both GOOG and FB make money out of DR advertisers who care about this, so you tend to make more money if you optimise for the thing they care about (revenue goes up as a second-order effect).
Natalists are going to natal, they are biologically-wired to do so and their intellect is not strong enough to overcome their carnal desires.

Just watch them delete this post and ban me.
Didn't the crew save the airplane because there was a third person there to help manually trim as the force required was too much for two people alone, whilst also having to pull back on the yoke with massive force?

That means it was dumb luck (a third person being there) and not due to following procedures if those procedures are nearly impossible to follow, or require superhuman strength.
This is a silly generalisation, but women want to live in a female world and men want to live in a male world. Male thoughts and drives are not acceptable in a modern mixed environment – at least openly – so the rules of mixed environments really become the rules of female conversation and social behaviour.

Oppression conjures images of physical force, so perhaps intolerance is a better word than oppression, by a small but very vocal group of women. You can control others without taking part in a hierarchical structure.
Signed up.

That said, this is a practical implementation of some patterns that belongs on https://userinyerface.com/game.html ;-)
>What is right? How can a person know?

We watch, we experience, we learn, we read, we ask around, we interact.

Same as with any other thing. If I stole your wallet you'd immediately knew it wasn't right, wouldn't you?

>I don't think that principles are much more than oral tradition.

Well, I don't think oral tradition is not a good basis to base principles on. It implies historical experience, communal values, the test of time, and so on.

It might not be perfect, but then again, it need not be.
You are so right. Insects are mass breeders, and it's common for the numbers of any given species to veer wildly from year to year. We may or may not be seeing a serious setback for insects in general, but given a chance, they will bounce back within a few short generations. And so will their predators, albeit over a longer stretch of time.
For what it's worth, nature seems remarkably unperturbed up here a little north of Germany. Some counts up, some counts down. Two years ago, we had mice everywhere, this year hardly any. But then a recent infestation of butterflies, and the bats are doing extraordinarily well this summer, as are the spiders apparently - hardly indicative of any extreme dearth of insects.
Or a significant increase in repair work. It'd be hard for them to know that I'm waiting to upgrade my 2013 MBP until they switch, but easy to count the number of service appointments for keys blocked or sticking due to tiny amounts of dust.
so Firefox will play the gatekeeper role now ?
Not really trying to fix anything, but I started bee keeping and have always kept a garden.

Suddenly people mention how environmentally friendly in being, so I guess I am.... really I just want to make mead and like honey

Bee keeping is fairly easy, but will cost an initial investment of maybe $500. Technology includes wood you build a box out of, some wax guidance for the combs, and some aluminum flashing for the roof. Oh, and bees, which they can ship anywhere in the US via USPS
Loading walmart.com on most of my machines reminds me of loading image heavy sites in the early '90s over a 9600bd modem...

I am unsure how they reach this "achievement." I didn't think any close to modern website could act like ESPN in loading 32453235 scripts per page...

And please... Fix it so I can search for in-store only items.
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