skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have heard stories of this applying to buildings and homes, as well.

I foresee a future Black Mirror episode about Apple Home: $1m for a $250k condo. When the fridge breaks that’s gonna cost you $990k to repair. Might as well just buy a whole new home.
Thanks for the tip - I'll try it out.
Seize is listed in the top blue call out as an exception to this rule
I found it to be persuasive, but the after-school special vibe of between interview scenes was corny
Different voice-hearing experiences in people w psychosis in US, India and Ghana [pdf]
It's the difference between offsets (use fossil fuels and pay for equivalent carbon capture) versus operating on carbon-free energy.
Yeah, I am aware of them, but most are entirely theoretical, the most interesting one I saw and it came out while I was studying was one where they used the Galileo to analyze near infrared and from there study the rock composition and they believe they found granite which can only form under large amounts of water. But, I haven't seen studies where that discovery has been corroborated with different methods
Do popular tools support creating XDP PDF?
Ask HN: What is the best learning platform to your mind?
Please write its Pros and Cons in a few words
Well, you want to look through the itinerary to not get lost in an unknown city when finding a building where you're going to have a work meeting.
I don't want to fight for name, q was a shortener.

Happy to rename it to qj instead, but the option of renaming the binary it's a good workaround.
I've still encountered cases like that recently — I'm not sure the situation is any worse now (at least with support incidents). It's all just anecdotal.
I also use Fastmail but can’t commit to it due to Australia’s ‘new’ snooper charter: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/auhwq6/australian_...
Looking at Sovereign Email now.
They do to some extent, albeit not really in a measurable way. They could improve the battery usage of their apps, optimize power on Android, and make their services less addictive.
Ways to make money online 2020
If life existed previously on Venus but no longer, how long could phosphine exist in the atmosphere without breaking down due to natural chemical processes?
Don't underestimate this comment. Nuclear war is the expected outcome of a conflict between two intelligent species. Especially if the older species feels inadequate.
Right now it doesn't exist. I want to build it though. Wrote about it here:

https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap
Right, q doesn't support streaming so it will manage a 90GB JSON.

I should specify that on the performance section, Thanks!
Kinetic energy is relative to some inertial reference frame. You can pick any reference frame you want and each will give you different numbers, but conservation laws should still hold in each.

Addition of kinetic energy is pretty unintuitive in this regard, e.g. when throwing a ball, the "work" done by your muscles depends on the reference frame that you pick to analyze the event.
I just swapped from Android to an iPhone for privacy concerns. The other side of the fence is pretty user hostile as well. Google makes you disable a lot of functionality on the phone if you try to get out of their invasive tracking. And they are constantly nuking apps that I use like Google Play Music and Google Inbox.

Maybe check out PinePhone if you're interested in hacking something together!
> The study being referenced compares college exit exams

How can you have a common exit exam for people who have studied different degrees? No two degrees cover the same content.

Is it covering baseline content that you could expect anyone to know no matter what degree they did... well then I guess that explains why everyone would get the same score!
Do we need to make jq faster ? Anyone has issues with current speed ? Is there any specific reason other than "because we can" ?
How I stay motivated working on my long-term project
How do you see the strengths of Hyax compared to Shopify?
Ancient Rome Lost a Battle to Bees: The Original Honey Trap
It's explicitly allowed by the HN site rules.
I'm a behavioural scientist and I work with startups in their first hires, maybe my experience helps: while it is relatively easy to qualify technical capabilities, most interviews fail to qualify the personality traits of the candidates. This means that only after 6 months or so you realise that you hired a Divider while you wanted a Multiplier. That your new CTO has little patience with the rest of the team, and so on.

We work on fixing that, so we implement a process: founders pick some personality traits they find essential for a great hire, we prepare an interview playbook, and they can be certain that the new guy is actually what they are hoping for.

Interviewing for personality (cultural fit) is hard because we (humans) are hardwired to survive so we give answers that we think are in our favour - and not necessarily truthful. Key to our approach is that we use falsifiable questions, meaning that you can't guess what I believe is a right answer.

If this helps any fellow founders here, am happy to lend a hand.
>” its offsets so far have focused mainly on capturing natural gas where it's escaping from pig farms and landfill sites. ”

Currently via offsets above; in the future via carbon-free energy.

I agree. It sounds better than it actually is, but on the other hand it helps mop up others’ sloppiness.
I'd like to know more, if they do more than just their electricity consumption.

Do they include in their carbon footprint their whole energy consumption (from heating to fuel for company cars)?

Do they include other resource consumption from wares and goods, including the production of all the servers they use?
Also, network traffic is about 40% (estimated) of the energy consumption of IT according to the statistics I've seen.
Damn, what a rip-off. Why not stop giving them your money and stop buying any more of their products and services? Hit them where it hurts, their sales and bottom line.

Just complaining about it doesn't get you very far as long as you still keep shoving money in their pocket.

These days there are plenty of quality alternatives that are not Apple and lowering their sales should send a clear message to their board.
Like this article says towards the end, I would just recommend ProtonVPN for anyone looking for a casual free VPN service. None of the free services is going to be enough for fast streaming or downloads anyway.

For those who trust the "cloud" and just want (only) a VPN service under their control are capable of logging in to servers and running some commands, I'd recommend Algo [1] with WireGuard.

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
This article is like a joke that never reaches the
punch line. The author does, in one sentence, mention the physically important fact "you must cancel the tangential part of the velocity (almost) completely" but never bothers to say what the delta-V of that mission really is, what kind of enormous mass ratio is required.

Instead there are pictures of real spacecraft with science-fiction-movie visual effects.

We'll either be telling our grandkids that we used to have a world wide web but we lost it because of content marketing like this, or we'll build a culture that sends this junk into the heart of the sun.
How is it a "sales pitch"? I've had it since release and haven't seen anything in it for sale?
> But unless Apple registered something similar for shape or the color of the AirPods, or somehow patented its design, it's not an infringement, and the CBP cannot seize them.

Apple most certainly did get design patents for them. First relevant search result:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2017/09/apple-w...

Not debating that patents are good things, especially in this case, but it is pretty obvious to me (as in, not a patent attorney) that they heavily incorporated Apple’s design IP.
Ask your colleague if he is charging the MacBook on the left or right side, it may be the cause of excessive heat and therefore higher temperatures/fan noise.

Source:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
Nobody said that jq is slow.
Have you seen the movie "Cats" (2019)? I promise you don't want this dream to become real.
This is not surprising at all, the retina screen is one of the most expensive parts of the laptop.

Lots of household appliances are similar to this too. If you have to repair one of the main parts of a washing machine or a dishwasher a new one will be a cheaper option.

Same for a car, a friend of mine flooded his engine by driving through water that was higher than expected. His insurance company just wrote the car off as it was much more expensive to replace an engine than to get a new car.
I'm always suspicious about carbon offsets. From what I've seen buying flights for example, the price seems surprisingly low. Either being carbon neutral is not as economy-killing as some say, or the true price is much higher. Does anyone have more expertise on this?
Show HN: Never got round to using this illustration, here it is after 10 years
This is quite impressive, but it is also somewhat meaningless. I suppose I'd draw an analogy to a cake shop boasting that it had achieved net-no industrial accidents over its existence - a great record, but also not really a particular stretch to achieve.

Carbon emissions aren't about servers. They are about, in order of priority:

* How do we feed people cheaply without fossil fuels (both as fertiliser & for crop transport)?

* How do we extract minerals cheaply (especially aluminium) without fossil fuels?

* How do we maintain the cheap logistics network that gets us stuff without fossil fuels?

The first two are non-negotiable, the 3rd is quite important. If those 3 problems were solved then fossil fuels would just go away quietly. Google isn't involved in any of those things; it is part of the 'these carbon emissions are incidental' category of emissions that we can reasonably get rid of.

But, again, good on them for setting clear goals and achieving them.
> That said, my ideal society is a Star Trek (TNG) one, where everyone contributes how they can, in a balance matter, everyone has free healthcare, everyone has a food replicator and never goes hungry.

This is where I disagree completely. You are basically advocating for socialism. Socialism has destroyed countries all over the world. I come from a country that practices socialism in most policy implementations that concern society (though we are capitalist in every other way) and literally is a burden on the country. Every resource in the World is finite. You cannot have the case of "never goes hungry" or "free healthcare" without someone having to pay for it and resources being infinite. None of them are true. So how are you going to continue this policy in perpetuity?

And do not forget that this is not a one time thing. You would have to account for inflation and disasters that are not in Government control. One pandemic, you have job losses and every bill shoots up. You do not have enough tax payer money to cover every single person in your country when such disasters happen. If it was so easy every country would be implementing it. Even the Nordic nations that tried universal basic income had to abandon it. Free healthcare can be tried out in smaller nations. But do not forget that all these tiny nations that implement such policies are highly dependent on USA. If Trump had enacted a complete lockdown, you would have had all nations that depend on the US suffer big time economically. Then they would be the first to give up socialist policies for pure capitalism.
Recipient markets should bear financial responsibility for pollution generated
Now Nvidia Is Armed to the Teeth
Well if they wouldn't be constantly trying to phone home data and use more static technologies they would reduce users footprint. Although you are right they can't really prevent their users to (ab)use its services (especially if they want to preserve privacy).
You can completely disable Apple Music in settings.
> What I still don't fully understand is why people want to write non-webpage software in JavaScript

Many good sibling answers already - but another thing to note - is that if you want a modern (js) front-end and optional server side rendering (for faster initial load/display and/or to present something nice to search engine crawlers) - you'll probably end up having to execute js on the server side too.

Also, there's the hope of being able to re-use code for business logic, like validating data - you can (should) validate client side for better ux (quick feedback on misding/wrong data) - but since you cannot trust the client you have to validate server side.

Obviously it seems attractive to write that validation code in one place, always having it in sync between client and server.
Cockenzie power station near Edinburgh has pretty much completely gone and the huge Longannet plant is in the process of being demolished.
Cimate acconting is much like tax accounting. You find a loophole, then magically slush all your profits through it.

I don't want to be too harsh on Google as at the very least they project they care if not more. The sad reality is that once 'compensation' was on the books, this led to the worst ecological whitewashing imaginable.

Right now Europe is being deforested at an unprecedented rate because the timber and coal industry managed to get their extremely polluting wood burning practices declared 'carbon neutral' and 'renewable'. Then they went all in on pro-fines for Eu countries not meeting renewable deadlines, forcing them to allow strip mining of the few forests Europe has left.

In 'renewable' Excel spreadsheets all is dandy. In the real world we are looking at ecological genocide.
> I don't think Kraftwerk were ever quite that psychedelic, abstract, or naive. (Meant in a good way.)

They were kind of abstract and very naive in Organisation and in the Kraftwerk albums before Autobahn, IMO.

Before Autobahn they were also still learning their equipment, and sometimes even building it. Due to their limitations, they were probably unable to "channel" their influences and be as psychedelic as them. In the end that was for the better, of course. :)
You don't know if an unknown route to phosphine generation would be simpler and more likely, you would just find such an announcement more mundane, which you mistake for it being more plausible.

Invoking Occam's razor to compare two unknowns makes about 0 sense.
I remember one of the first times I tried installing Linux software in the wild. The bash script asked for your password, sent it to their server using curl then returned you the script with the password hard coded into it, run itself with sudo, all over unencrypted http. I was 17 but even then I stopped to think if this was a good idea.

It wasn't.
I don't think it's TSA policy that water bottles are too dangerous for anyone to posses - they're merely not allowed through TSA checkpoints.
Depends on where the repairs are done.

Today, I'm returning a leased car. I had a small crack in the front bumper (trailer hitch in a parking lot). It isn't one of the new sensor-packed bumpers; just a vanilla one.

It cost $1,000 to repair, because they replaced the entire front bumper, and the paint cost more than the part.

It also had to be done at the dealer, because of the lease requirements. The body shop down the road would have done it for half that. I have since found out that the dealer sends the car to a body shop anyway, and they probably only charged half, so the dealer pocketed the difference.

I am never leasing a vehicle, ever again. This was my first, and last time.
Great! Now improve the syntax!
As long as we're half-joking: future headline prompting mass-murder if your suggestion taken up - Local Church announces NOAA aligned with Satan, heatwave caused by federal government trying to hasten onset of the antichrist!
The underlying thread model have always been 'async' in some form under the hood, i.e. at some point there is always a multiplexer/scheduler that schedules continuations. Normally this is inside the kernel, but M:N or purely superspace based thread models have been used for decades.

Really the only difference between the modern async model and other 'threaded' model is its 'stacklessness' nature. This is both a major problem (due to the green/red function issue and not being able to abstract away asynchronicity) and an advantage (due to the guaranteed fixed stack size, and, IMHO overrated, ability to identify yield points).

At the end of the day is always continuations all the way down.
Creating a Minute with 100 “Seconds”
They want you to subscribe
the url should be: https://luketully.ca/macbook-screen-replacement-costs-as-muc...
Tmpmail: A temporary email right from your terminal
My thoughts on Haskell in 2020
Yeah, this is actually ignoring how most dictatorships explicitly have an underclass. If you want total control you don't want your country to be strong and prosperous. You want a few blessed elite sectors and let the rest wallow in suffering and poverty so they neither have the ability nor will to fight back.
Simple Habits Will Help You Stay Focused All Day
Not key, just not an impediment.
When you finish a book you can review it, or assign shelves. The default shelves are to-read and read but you can add many custom ones too. The shelves work like tags.
Once you have a decent amount of books with tags, goodreads will start recommending books based on these tags.

For example, if you have a 'non-fiction' shelf, goodreads will give you books others have rated high with the same tag at https://www.goodreads.com/recommendations/shelf/non-fiction

It's much more specific and for me works better than the 'because you read book X, you might like book Y' which is often very random.
Pricing carbon emissions is tricky, obviously. A recent analysis put the cost of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 at between $34 and $124/tn[1], depending on when you start the pricing. I was surprised how low these prices are.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/new-carbon-price-foc...
the right to repair movement is fascinating because it has no political alignment (it includes city folk + farmers, for example), has passed legislation in a lot of states, and implicitly comes with a bunch of other digital rights (because repair is power)

it's also easy to understand -- there's no generation gap. Unlike privacy, the harms are immediate and most people have experienced them.

repair.org is IMO doing as much good as EFF / ACLU on a way thinner budget
> xml-abuse

Bad programmers, as usual, frustrated by their own badness.

Today's coders want us to use Jackson Pollock Object Notation everywhere for everything.

> We ain't ever going back.

Not so, friend. ODF and DOCX are XML. And these formats won't become JPON anytime soon.
That's practically slander. Honestly, I don't think Christians even deserve to complain about climate disasters, not with all the effort they put into worshiping an incredibly priggish and unbelievably prudish deity for which weather-powered slaughterfests have always been such a go-to. And I mean say what you like about Ishtar, at least she gets that people are gonna fuck.
Ah yes, the old ".j.k raze read0`" as a separate app
Top Java Libraries in 2020
I have mixed feelings about this. It’s wonderful that Google is making progress on their emissions. But I wonder if their business model is at all compatible with a 0 carbon world. Their entire raison d’être is to convince people to buy things they don’t need. They even have a very targeted flight purchasing service.

This type of behavior we’ve grown accustomed to—of unbridled consumerism and excess—seems like it’s gotta be dialed back if we’re to make any meaningful progress on greenhouse gas emissions as a planet.
Well this is just dumb, but it might be cheaper than any advertisement OnePlus could have done to increase their brand recognition.

I have had a OnePlus3 and a OnePlus 7T, both of which were, and are still, fantastic phones.
Recently my iPhone XR stopped working after only a few months of usage. I thought it shouldn't be much of a problem since the device still had warranty. But I was very wrong... dealing with Apple Support (Germany) was one of the most frustrating customer support experiences I've ever had.

My local Apple Store sent the phone to the repair facility 3 times but it always came back with the comment "Couldn't replicate issue" although the issue was clearly documented and reproducible by me and the Apple support staff.

After a lot of phone calls, email back and forth, the manager of my local Apple Store said there's nothing they can do about it, the only option that I have left is to trade-in the defective device to get a gift card and then use it to buy a new iPhone 11. Since I need a iPhone for my job (software-testing), that's what I did. I was tired to fight for my right to get a replacement device or a repair.

It's completely ridiculous. Apple's "warranty" is basically useless. But somehow they can get away with it.
I'm using Music app without Apple Music subscription. They are not obnoxious, I think that's an overstatement. Yes, they remind about Apple Music, but that's quite a rare event.
Ah didn’t know this! Thank you!
Against Boots Theory
Something is wrong with your colleague's machine, or something else in his toolchain, because that's not normal.

The keyboard issues were really jarring precisely because Apple had, up to that point, a really great reliability reputation - in my experience, on par with the super-overengineered late-90s ThinkPads (IBM, not Lenovo).

I retired several PowerBooks and MacBooks at 6 or 7 years old that were still physically fine, but no longer appealing to use for Moore's Law reasons.

My wife's using my old 6 year old 13" Pro, and while I now find the keyboard weird, it's utterly capable of anything she needs to do with it -- which is pretty much a regular human duty cycle (ie, she's not running virtual servers on it like I was in its initial life).

We then passed on the small Air she'd been using for like 8 years; it's in daily use at a friend's house now as a spare platform (which turned out to be a big deal, given quarantine). My guess is that Intel Macs are about to hit a gate with the shift to ARM, and you won't be able to get 8 years out of one purchased in 2020, but I could be wrong about that. (I mean, I definitely am if you have relatively simple needs -- even if you get stuck at the last rev of Intel-friendly OS X, there's software for you there that will keep working.)
* Hot code reloading - you can modify an existing running system with a new version of code with no downtime.

I don't use Erlang, but that runtime feature always impressed me. The only other are system I know can do that is updating a stored proc on a running DB, and that can be pretty useful.
They have removed the video teaser already but there is some more detail here :

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 leaks in full via official promo videos
A full launch of the headset is rumored for later this week

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/9/14/21435891/ocu...
Context matters. I don’t see a problem with a job lot of chef’s knives, but I definitely wouldn’t want somebody to carry one as cabin luggage
Ask HN: Are we as hackers blind to the God
I may sound like a weirdo, I am sorry in advance, but I don't think that our current, rational, understanding of the world is fully correct.

I want to propose a theory contrary to the atheist belief so often propagated here. I think there is God, that universe is full of life, we are just protected from it. Like I protect my cats from outside dangerous worlds, there are higher beings, that protect us. Maybe dark matter is hidden matter, maybe dark energy is hidden energy. Just food for thoughts. But current corona crisis can't be explained completely rationally without existance of God.

I don't have any credentials except that I'm finishing my second stay in psychiatric hospital and God proved to me that He exists. Atheism isn't rational anymore to me. Now let me get back to my life and consider it yourself. I won't write TempleOS.