skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the claim to have "offset" all of Google's historical carbon "debt" needs scrutiny.

> The company tells me its offsets so far have focused mainly on capturing natural gas where it's escaping from pig farms and landfill sites. But arguably governments should be ensuring this happens anyway.

Go figure.
Conspiracy theory differs from conspiracy "theory" in what clues you have, without needing concrete, legal evidence that could result in a court decision. In the sense you say it, NSA mega-surveillance was just a "conspiracy theory" before Snowden blew the whistle. If one has IQ over 20, it was obviously not a "theory", despite the fact no court-ready evidence was available. So instead of a blanket statement that every case where no concrete legal evidence exists is equally false, each conspiracy case shall be treated separately. A person with personal ties with Trump getting a direct deal from a Trump driven decision has more basis of corruption and personal relations involvement than Tim saying the government policy eased their entrance to India.
It's cool that you've had a good experience. Maybe if more people spent 3'500$ on a computer, they'd get similar treatment.
General rule: If you're not paying you're not the customer, you're the product ;)

However they contradict themselves a bit by recommending ProtonVPN and Windscribe at the end. So there ARE good free VPNs. But they're promotions with the intent on you becoming the customer in the future.
For many people, the hardware is simply a container for the software. If you prefer Apple's operating system, then there's unfortunately little choice, except perhaps Hackintosh.
The notion of ip is so deeply ingrained in the US, that I doubt you'll see the kind of Chinese bazaar that you really need. The US will only adapt when China gets significantly ahead.
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It was very ironic that Netflix, who once said that sleep is there biggest competition, releases a documentary about how it’s rivals in the attention economy are harmful.

Yes, Netflix doesn’t advertise directly to me, but many of the effects are still present. The way I think and behave can be changed by programming I watch on Netflix. Netflix uses a recommendation engine to keep me engaged. Netflix has implemented several design patterns to keep people engaged, such as auto loading the next episode.

It was specifically ironic for them to attack YouTube for kids while Netflix has a children’s offering, and most of the known downsides about screen time for children applies wether or not advertisements are present.
> The fact that people spend lots of time on social media just demonstrates that they derive something from it, not that it’s addictive or harmful.

I was totally with you until this moment. This is like arguing that people with alcoholism get something out of drinking too much.

It’s one thing to say that you’re comfortable with the amount of information that’s collected about you and how it’s used, but how can you ignore the fact that these companies hired experts in psychology and paid millions to keep people using their apps, just like child psychologists were deployed to TV advertising in the 80s and 90s? These apps are absolutely addictive because they were explicitly and intentionally designed to be.

Spending hours in an infinite scroll wormhole does not automatically mean you’ve derived something important or worthwhile. It just means you were entertained enough by the possibility something might be good if you just keep scrolling, and that’s a problem for some.
What a bizarre non-sequitur.
would this mean you can't build electron apps with deno?
And the bigger ones get a punny name, a logo, an information website with a half description screaming doomsday - and Merch, of course ;)
Quest is a great little piece of hardware that I'd like to buy since my PC is not good enough for VR games, but having to create and tie a FB Account to it just seems wrong.
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> You’re absolutely correct that the SAT rewards those with wealth and resources the most.

What, why?
Not American here, but in the past I was looking into going for university in US and studying for SATs and it's just a test that everyone can learn for...
I watched a little this morning with coffee. I am finding myself wanting to skip the scripted parts and just wanting to watch the interview parts. I'll try again to watch it when I have more time.
Until you get locked out because your account looks suspicious. This used to happen to my burner FB account every time I clicked the "developer" link in FB. I would get locked out and they'd ask me to send a scan of my passport. It was possible to get back by re-doing the phone activation, but I could not do any FB social auth development for customers without sending a scan of my passport.
As opposed to the billions of animals, and millions of people, who die every year due to air pollution and radiation from coal ash?

I'll take those costs.
> Couldn’t any form of bad news make people panic, sleep deprived, and stressed?

Yes... and that's unavoidable but the person I'm replying to is talking about deliberately inducing more panic, sleep deprivation and stress by increasing the dramatics of bad news. That seems bonkers to me.

> I don’t think communicating the science or real world impacts is too hard for people to handle.

I don't think giving dangerous heatwaves whimsical names is any kind of honest 'science communication.'

> We told citizens about Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks and it caused panic, sleep depravation, and stress. Why is this risk different?

I think you've imagined that I wrote 'don't tell people about the risks'. I wrote don't artificially ham it up to deliberately cause additional stress.

What you want is people taking effective action. Panic, sleep deprivation, and stress isn't the way to get there.
It depends what you're using a VPN for.

If you're looking for anonimity, using a VPS with Algo is counterproductive as you now have a single IP you're always using and that only you yourself is using. This is worse than your Dynamic IP on your home/phone connection. For this purpose commercial providers are better because you're hiding in a crowd.

If you're just looking to encrypt your traffic on an untrusted wifi or trying to connect to your own services, then Algo is great. I use it too for that purpose.
Sure but that is the problem of the growth method rather than the type of produce. The claim was (might have misread it) that the produce itself has a massive difference all things being equal
It's the massively dominant religion of one of the world's most dangerous nations, and I'm "punching down" by calling out the part of its propaganda that can't give up on making a fertility goddess out to be a demon despite having won that particular war literal millennia ago? I'm "punching down" by questioning whether a cult of the ideal death can fairly be considered to have a stake in the condition of the world they seem only too anxious to leave behind for the "life of the world to come"? Okay.

It's weird to me that you think I'm making a joke here.
Weird time to flex, right?
The former, more or less, except different.

The very short version is: They calculated the total carbon emission of the company's activity to date, then paid someone to capture that amount of carbon.

There are two subtle points: Google's past is finite, so there is a total amount of carbon that has been emitted. Planting trees etc. doesn't work (forever) against open-ended ongoing activities, but a specific amount of CO₂ is a different matter. It's possible to buy enough land, plant trees on it and keep ownership of the land.

Of course one can discuss how to calculate a company's emissions. I find it quite laudable that they even tried.
To be blunt, carbon neutrality is indeed not economy-killing and you have been lied to by people who want you to believe that it is.
> Either being carbon neutral is not as economy-killing as some say, or the true price is much higher.

I think the distinction you're overlooking is marginal price vs true price. It could easily be the case that reducing carbon on the margins is cheap.

Going from 100% of current levels to 99% may involve giving up some very low value activity. Especially because in most of the world the cost of carbon emissions is zero to begin with. But going from 1% to 0% could be extraordinarily costly, because it involves the highest value usage of carbon.

Another way to think about it is that carbon offsets may be very cheap, because so few people buy them. If the practice became more widespread, either because of social norms or government regulation, then the demand could easily push up the price to where it does become a significant cost.
I'm sad that people are down voting this, we should start to be honest about it if we want to find solutions to the problem that the world faces.

Through their ad business model, Google (and others like it, you know them) are enabling commerce at a scale never seen before.
Remove the Internet and the world's economy would collapse..

Quick and dirty search - world GDP has grown 420% since 1970, before computers became mainstream.

How much of that is due to computers, the Internet and advertising, I don't know, but I suspect these are major factors.

Through their reach, these companies could have a huge impact, but they do nothing about it except use renewable energy in their data centers.. too little impact imo.
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What does "work for P+L" mean?
The Alibaba RISC-V processor was announced at ICSA'20 [1] if you want more detail.

I don't know about Huawei, I imagine that all Chinese
processor companies have backup plans for when they are prevented from
using Arm -- the writing has been on the wall for a while ... Moving
the RISC-V foundation to Switzerland and setting up Arm China as a
separate entity were all part of the preparation.

[1] https://conferences.computer.org/isca/pdfs/ISCA2020-4QlDegUf...
I can't agree more, a to the point, updated document is the key.
They are very specific changes for my use-cases unfortunately
Yeah, that's what the custom text box on the order page is for. I always specify "please no fake markings, no anthrax spores, no xenomorph eggs and no methamphetamine" just to be in the clear.
i'm sorry to say but all this will do is desensitize people further. it used to be that when they named a storm it was going to be bad and you paid attention. now they name every damn storm out there and it just makes you tune out.
About 4-5 years ago, my MacBook Pro's trackpad would randomly stop working and I would have to restart my laptop a few times to get it working again. Sometimes it would work for a few hours, sometimes a few minutes. I also dual-booted Linux at the time and the funny thing is the trackpad never had an issue under Linux. After quite a bit of researching, it led me to believe that the ribbon cable connecting the trackpad to the motherboard was faulty due to macOS never trying to reconnect to the trackpad if it loses a connection for even just a moment.

I brought it to the Apple store and explained that I had tried everything possible to resolve the issue without opening up the laptop myself, such as resetting NVRAM, completely reinstalling macOS completely, etc. I explained that I think that the ribbon cable is simply faulty and that it probably just needed a replacement. The Genius said that they're going to bring it in the back to do every single one of the things I mentioned that I already did.

I come back 4 hours later to pickup my laptop and they tell me that the issue is the motherboard and that replacing said board would cost $800. I asked how they determined it was the motherboard and not simply a faulty ribbon cable to the trackpad, but they wouldn't answer the question directly. After requesting their superior and restating my question a few more times, they told me that they don't have access to replacement ribbon cables and that my only option was a motherboard replacement, which itself would take about a week because they needed to order the board. That was enough for me to take my laptop and leave, even though they still didn't answer the actual question of how they determined what the actual issue was or even confirm my hunch that the issue was with the ribbon cable.

I bought a $5 replacement cable from Amazon, took about 10 minutes to swap it out using an iFixIt tutorial, and I'm still using that laptop as my main machine years later. In other words, they spent 4 hours to quote me an $800 fix that would take about a week to be done for something that was actually only a $5 fix that would take no more than 30 minutes. I've been hesitating to buy a new laptop for years because of that experience as well as the downhill quality of MacBooks as of late, such as the keyboard (although fixed now), touch bar, initial Catalina bugginess, etc.
They have two packages, one with per GB charging up to a cap and one bundled.

The advantage of using a primary plan (possibly augmented with local services from time to time) is that you have a stable phone number, and a lot less screwing about. For a casual traveler that may not matter. For someone who is in a different country every other week (pre-pandemic) it makes a substantial difference.
I noticed you didn’t answer the question and simply continued airing your grievances with Christianity with the faintest shred of relevancy, as if you were waiting for the opportunity, for HN to finally talk about something in the Christian orbit so you can roll in and put those people in their place.

It says way more about you than you think that a random reference to a deity in that religion in the context of naming heat waves made you completely fly off the hateful handle and spend your morning dunking on Christians and their beliefs as if you’re scoring points with anyone instead of revealing yourself to be a deeply unsavoury person to know.

Christians feed the homeless. What work are you putting off on a Monday morning to be here, doing this, right now?
There is a more expensive solution where neither birds nor humans have to die. How do we get to that instead?
Thanks for the good explanation. It befuddles me that someone can willingly pay $55k for a car and just do a Tesla Shrug about the fact that it looks like it was built in a high school shop class. I wish I could come up with a business plan who had fans that loyal.
And so they have an office in a politically stable region: The UK!
You know what happens after a decade of people using rhetoric like there's a war on? You get an actual war.
It's easier to make income tax progressive with tax bands.

It's orders of magnitude harder to do it with consumption tax. The tax authorities essentially have to form an opinion on the "luxuriousness" of each good. That's a monumental administrative pain.

This is a feature, not a bug, if you come at it from the perspective of somebody creating or exploiting tax loopholes (I.e. you're bill gates).
Thanks for posting this- I've not heard of Nick Lane but this thought is exactly what I've considered the likely state of affairs.
That's TSA, not border guards.

As far as I know counterfeit goods seized by the border guards are destroyed.
The answer to "why do people spend so much on Apple hardware?" used to be that they would offer fast easy and sometimes free repairs and replacements at their genius bar stores even when the product was out of warranty. I guess those days are over?
wait until you're in an agile team, you will get a new assignment based on "priorities" almost daily after your stand-up meeting, after a while everyone will be burnt out, not by the raw workload but by the changing tech directions constantly, a context-switch that is so frequently nobody got anything done, and it is purely painful
Gqd, look how that looks like 666, edit distance is 3. Turn around the letters. Here have a timeline: https://imgur.com/a/aQYnKLm
Farmers protest agri reforms, fear exploitation, monopolies
I'm not sure at which "we" do you refer.

Reimplementing a piece of software that is 12 years old which mimics their UX and improves performance and error messages it's more than welcome in my opinion. My purpose was to learn the OCaml stack of writting compilers, so I personally found that I "needed" a language already created.

Thanks for raising those concerns
Your analogy misses a critical component: Your 50 cent stipend is typically attached to doing more than you were doing before.

And while the point of your analogy is clear, your neighbor could only travel the world without remorse if they fund a huge number of new trees.

Offsets are not as illogical as you make them sound.
I fully agree with that, but I think it's a manifestation of a far wider trend that might be far more worrying.

In this age of information overload, where the struggle for people's attention has become nothing short of warfare, I see both advocacy groups and commercial entities ever so further seek to dramatise their message, just to "maximize their reach" and not get drowned out in the sea of other sensationalized/polarized information. While this motivation or a even sense of need is understandable, with everyone "competing" only for their own interests in relationship to everything else, it essentially is a race to the bottom.

The (psychological) effects of it do (already) go a bit further than people just shrugging. On the population as a whole, it (significantly) increases stress levels, general distrust (certainly warranted), and maybe even cause a constant sense of danger or a believe that this world has gone mad. The effects of which should not be underestimated. All of which can cause both individuals and groups of people to make really poor decisions.
Ireland and Malta are both small enough that no one would mistake them for a dominant force in the EU.
Sympy can output to Latex or unicode - either looks good.
You’re saying the alternative is doubling the entire world’s coal consumption? First, we’re talking about one company’s energy (and cooling). Second, what about nuclear, etc?

Your argument is a straw man.
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Google would need to build its own grid to have it only use its own wind and solar. That is not reasonable.
> Probably the UK government won't do anything because due to Brexit they desperately need trade deals and new partners, so they need to lick the US's arse and avoid angering Donald Trump

That doesn't mean they need to approve the purchase - it just means they have to stall until they know the outcome of the election.

There's no chance of a trade deal being done before the election, and waving the sale through to earn Trump's favour is pointless if it's Biden they're making a trade deal with.
In technical spaces, creative work seems to largely consist of combining ideas and seeing if the combination already exists and/or if it's likely to work in real life.

In my experience, the few times I've the most creative ideas, I had them in the bathroom -- and usually after I've been turning over ideas (writing and rewriting in Google Docs) for days. (Writing helped with converging -- it's not as useful for diverging. Talking to others usually helps for the latter but it's hit or miss.)

Oblique Strategies cards sound like they would be useful for certain artistic domains. When I was taking creative writing and storytelling classes, I had a lot of trouble generating story ideas. I used similar randomizer aids (as writing prompts) to see latent possibilities.

There are similar tools for generating startup ideas but I wonder if anyone's ever executed on any of these:

https://breue.com/good_startup_ideas
This is ridiculous propaganda. 'Carbon offsets' are rubbish unless they are literally pulling CO2 out of the air.
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No, Arcturus is CDNA (the Compute rather than Render architecture).
Still with the Radeon VII EOL it would be good if they had a consumerish ROCm card, so RDNA2-support would be great.
FWIW, I have owned _a lot_ of Apple products over the past decade. They have been almost universally reliable and overall pretty great to use. I _did_ have to send my 2018 MacBook Pro in for the dreaded & common keyboard repair. We also have a 2014 MacBook Pro that recently has had its battery inflate, but that was after years of service.

The keyboard thing was a real (and sucky) problem that Apple should not have let go on as long as they did. But the very small number of problems I've had through the years of using Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, AirPods, iPods, etc. gives me an overall good impression of their products.

Apple's customer satisfaction rating is industry-leading: https://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
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So you can play wirelessly some stuff with onboard chip and storage?

Correct me if I am wrong, but it doesn't seem like you would be able to do much with that. Since VR is such a power hog - say 2x 2K display at at least 70frames with onbard chip?
> And if it is, why are all the world's governments committed to doing it?

Committed is not the same is doing. Everyone was more "committed" for Kyoto too.
In theory a business that was paying somebody $8 to create $800 of value would have an incentive to pay a lot of people until either the $8 increases or the $800 decreases. If they didn't do it, somebody else would.

Vice versa a business that paid someone $8000 to get $800 worth of value might be able to sustain it (it can divert $7200 from something else) but won't be able to scale it.

People who want to sound reasonable might talk about figures like $790 and $810 but that guarantees you will be in the weeds because you never know exactly where to "charge" things. For instance, a firm invests in equipment for a worker, worker B fills in the gap when worker A slacks off, etc. Even in areas where it is widely believed you can measure productivity (e.g. sales) this is problematic.

I have been looking in the macroeconomics literature but haven't yet found any exploration of the following:

what if an organization has a nodal structure such that at each node somebody can divert X% (say 1 for the hell of it) of what goes through the node? The salary of the top man is then basically proportional to the size of the node, so to get mega-rich, a bank president in New York might buy a bank in New Jersey. The node in New Jersey remains, but a buyer of the bank in New York now gets to skim additional cream.

A corollary of that could be that the "competitive advantage" of "productive" urban areas is in theft. In Ancien Regime France you would set up at Versailles because that is where you had connections for thieving. In post-2008 America, Washington D.C. has boomed because it has "comparative advantage" if you want to bribe politicians to help you steal. Certainly in a country like Equatorial Guinea you are going to settle in the capital because that's where you can steal.
Parts and labour cost
the cost of parts and labour.
This is laugh.
Yes, the difference is he switched from being against higher capital taxes to in favor.
Jonesforth is just an absolutely incredible piece. For me it was both an introduction to Forth and an introduction to assembler and somehow managed to be fairly effective at both.
I spend lots of time reading. Is reading an addiction? I don’t think spending time on something is necessarily an addiction. Can social media be an addiction? Sure, in the same way videgames can be an addiction. I wouldn’t go as far as saying video games are harmful. Social media is also different in that it’s a means of communication. It does have utility for communicating whereas video games or drinking doesn’t.
Curious what benefit you get from using Apple Music compared to any other streaming music service?