skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now my android phone is GrapheneOS with no Google Play Services/Apps. I download everything via F-Droid. However like you said, there is a lot of functionality disabled.

I have a Pinephone and hope that sooner then later that I can use it full time.
In fairness, maybe we just start way too late? I mean, I'm all in favor of debates over the existence of God for example in elementary school, at the same age kids start getting forced to go to Sunday school. But a lot of parents would have fits over that topic in public schools, which is why we can't do it until college, at which point it's unlikely to make much difference.

The formative years of a child are almost completely under control of the parents. It's a chicken and egg problem, because it's difficult to change the public education policy without the consent of the parents who themselves were not raised to think critically. There's near universal agreement that math education is important, but "critical thinking" is controversial at best among parents. A lot of them would rather home school their kids than allow exposure to different ways of thinking.
If there was ever a time to listen to the opinions of skeptical experts, that would be this time (or any other time when such a big claim is made).

I do have to note though that one of the researchers behind the announcement sounds very much like an expert on Phosphine, in particular. This is from the leaked article:

Clara Sousa-Silva at MIT, whose career specialty is studying phosphine, said in a statement:

It’s very hard to prove a negative. Now, astronomers will think of all the ways to justify phosphine without life, and I welcome that. Please do, because we are at the end of our possibilities to show abiotic processes that can make phosphine.

Finding phosphine on Venus was an unexpected bonus! The discovery raises many questions, such as how any organisms could survive. On Earth, some microbes can cope with up to about 5% of acid in their environment, but the clouds of Venus are almost entirely made of acid.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200914003530/https://webcache....

Sounds to me like there's going to be some er, lively debate around this. Or not, I'm not an expert in any of this, lucky me :)
That statement is too bold -- the price of a CO2 offset is not a constant. As the easy methods become exhausted, we'll have to move to more expensive methods, yes. But currently there's still an absolute glut of fairly-cheap CO2 reduction methods that just aren't being done, or wouldn't be done without the offset pricing, so it's still a net benefit to do them.
6 years? This is amazing!

In Germany, it's 2 years of statutory warranty (Gewährleistung), but there's a shift in the burden of proof (Beweislastumkehr) after 6 months, so if the retailer insists, it's up to you to prove that a defect was actually present when you bought the item.

We talk a lot about the throwaway society and about planned obsolence, but six years of statutory warranty could actually change something.
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K-12 is a terrible system in the US which seems entirely reliant on the desperation of people who devoted 4-8 years of education to retain their jobs in a very limited market.
The author is probably getting at Charles Moore's ideas on how to build a system. He is a genius and madman. The man takes a problem and builds his own hardware then software to solve that particular problem as efficient as possible. It's crazy. It also takes a long time, but he gets what is pretty much the most minimal stack from A-Z and understands the full thing.

Obviously, most people can't do that due to less skill and time allowed.
It's patently ridiculous that CBP seized competing products as "counterfeit AirPods", but at least no children were hurt and/or caged in this operation.

I'm ready to give this win to CBP. Keep stifling the free market rather than caging children.
>"We'll do things like pairing wind and solar power sources together and increasing our use of battery storage," he said.

Is Google accounting for the environmental destruction that goes into making those solar panels.
I few trivial searches disqualify your "watershed event":
The "particles" you mention are most probably Highly siderophile elements (HSE) - which indeed only form upwards of 2000°C. That doesn't mean they have to come from outer space, though, as they are also present in earth's upper mantle[0]. Surface HSE presence can therefore also be explained by volcanic activity.

And indeed, a July 2020 publication has shown that the present evidence and thus the Younger Drias Event can also be explained by a series of volcanic eruptions[1].

[0] = https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2008.10.001

[1] = https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/31/eaax8587
People seems to be upset because they misinterpreted an an ambiguous statement.

Google should include the cost of user computers running JavaScript.
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I think the issue is that faulty hardware isn’t actually that common. I have more than 20 Apple devices in my family circle without any issue. But if there were to e failure it would going to be costly and strenuous to repair. So I don’t think customer choice will solve this issue. We need lawmakers to protect the few unlucky ones from these customer hostile practices.
> > and declared that it's all the teacher's responsibility, which is a real and justified complaint.

> Is it a real complaint? I don't see anybody claiming it's all the teacher's responsibility. I don't see that from the parents, or school board, or any government of any level.

No indeed, it is usually not stated explicitly, just as racism and sexism often are not. But few to no resources are given to teachers, and the first port of call for governmeents, school administrators, and parents looking to apportion blame is teachers, so the effect is the same, even if no one explicitly acknowledges it.
Hi HN,

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There are many candidates for the Great Filter, in fact what you are proposing (it's unlikely to evolve civilization-level intelligence) is one of them.
Curious, any description as to why it's faster? Something intrinsic to Reason Native/OCaml? Architectural changes? Reduced feature set?
A lot of people are going to be spending a lot of time indoors this winter, I think this will sell like hotcakes.
I don't get the analogy - could you explain more?

Disc: Googler.
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The title and initial blurb of the article makes it sound like the rep tried to somehow disguise the cost or downplay it.

But if you read the transcript, it's the exact opposite. The rep warned them the repair would cost more than a replacement before he even quoted them a price, and tried multiple times to explain why. He acted completely professionally, and the situation itself is totally unremarkable too.
The low population density in much of the US drives increased energy usage.

80% of the US lives in "urban" areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...), and that's where most of the emissions are from. It's not geography that causes the low density, it's urban sprawl and culture. Eating might not be optional, but living in a car-centric low-density neighborhood definitely is. It's one of the things our ancestors would consider a luxury, and which our ever-comparing north american minds now treat as a basic necessity.
We ABSOLUTELY need to make people panic about heatwaves. We need to make people lose sleep about it. Get distracted by it. Feel sick about.

Climate change is going to kill millions if we don't act hard, and fast. We need a global, coordinated, war-like effort immediately to prevent the displacement of billions and a new world war.

Coronavirus lockdown is not even going to be a blip on the radar compared to life on this planet if we don't start removing carbon from the atmosphere on a global scale.

The fact that it's inconvenient for your stress levels is irrelevant.
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and sustainable
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I've seen too much science fiction to not realize the dangers of blowing up the moon or opening an unwanted gate on the moon.
This is funny considering that Lem wrote thinly-veiled satire of life in the Soviet Union (e.g. "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub")
I don't work on algorithm-driven platforms, but I built a tool [1] to help deal with them.

I'm very glad to see this reaching the mainstream. Like most people in the tech industry with some understanding of how these things work, I've been increasingly worried about the harms it's doing to myself, others and society at large. Once you've seen the damage it's doing, you can't unsee it. It drives me crazy that others can't see the same things.

However I think this film did a great job at conveying to non-tech people how the systems work and take advantage of them. I think of it a bit like those documentaries that expose the worst of the meat industry, where it's not uncommon for viewers to become vegetarians.

My optimistic outlook is that more and more people will wake up and turn their backs on these harmful things, and the era of Facebook etc will, thankfully, be over.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Unless the super advanced aliens fear they live in a dark forest and decide not to paint huge Dyson Sphere bullseyes on their backs.
The "current narrative" already includes pre-mesopotamian civilizations like Göbekli Tepe (10000 BC), Ganj Dareh (8000 BC), Mehrgarh (7000 BC), Tell Abu Hureyra (11000BC, first known crop cultivation), ...
I broke the screen on a new Macbook 2 years ago, days after buying it. It was entirely my own fault so not covered by warrantee. I called Apple support and was told £800. Since I bought it with an Amex card, it was covered on that insurance, so I made an appointment to get it replaced. I went to the Apple store and was given a formal quote of £645 parts + labour. They went off to get the paperwork and were gone for a while. When they got back, they told me that the part wouldn't be available for 3 months (it was a new release) and gave me a new laptop, free of charge, on the spot.

edited for clarity.
There is no way they can do so without attracting anti-trust scrutiny, not to mention Apple can deploy a very easy countermeasure by changing Safari's user-agent to Chrome's and playing cat & mouse regarding browser fingerprinting defenses.
Who told you going carbon neutral was economy killing? And if it is, why are all the world's governments commited to doing it?

I think you can probably trace that information source back to someone who makes their money pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
Traces of life discovered on Venus
I used Firebug on a work site once to quickly demonstrate a potential change to a website. They got angry thinking I had access to the actual site and that I had changed it without permission.
In case this helps, here is a mapping from Unicode ligature-->ascii for all the ligatures I know of (the ones supported by LaTeX fonts): https://github.com/ivanistheone/arXivLDA/blob/master/preproc...

This is assuming you cleaning up the output of `pdftotext` which in my experience is the best command line tool for extracting plain text.
Sounds like with all those new regulations it will be a limiting factor for new jobs not going to set up my company there if I got to jump through hoops like that.
Very well said.

I wonder (actually I really dont - it is clear that it doesnt) if 0 emission include also creation of silicon resin, PCBs, wiring, electricity,... I am not saying it is nothing, but it is "a tad" spitting into the sea.

The major footprint comes from heavy industry that is creating the materials so google can actually operate and if I would be sarcastic - they actually create a greater need for materials where its production produce large amount of emissions.

I would even claim, that they would do far more if they would stop showing ads. The electricity footprint on world wide scale must be enormous.

I can claim 0 emission for myself except from (sorry, I just had to say it :D), farting and breathing. But once I start to count in how my food was produced, how the goods I am using were produced etc. this is just not true. Anyway as a decades long vegetarian and strictly driven on public transport or bicycle I do my best here.

This is just publicity stunt from google and it doesn't really mean anything.

But looks like it worked. BBC cached it and is doing an article about it.
Could you give any examples
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> But you can't disable play store and framework(s) without losing a ton of integrated facilities.

But can’t those basically be considered part of the operating system at this point? I can’t disable Apple frameworks on my iPhone either. Mind, iOS of course does less user tracking.
Enchiridion of Epictetus: https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/dep/dep102.htm
Is the climate crisis creating a mental health crisis?
For what is worth, I had an iMac 27" out of warranty and Apple replaced the screen for free.

It had started having an issue (condensation) after 3-4 years of use and apparently the part number was from a run that could display was issue and had free repair even if out of warranty.

The iMac cost like $3500 (corresponding local price), and the repair part was listed as costing $750 but given for free.

Another good experience is when they fixed a MBP (charging adapter) from free in a totally different country than the one purchased. Bought in Europe, fixed in an Apple Store in the US.

That said, the first case is 7 years ago, and the other is 6.
I collected a list of arguments in favor of maintaining the status quo on iOS and I’ve yet to see anyone offer a good solution to these:

---- The problems with letting all apps advertise external payment systems:

• Someone may publish a free app to avoid paying anything to Apple, and then charge users [an asston of] money to ""unlock"" via an alternate payment system.

• Users may not be able to see a list of all in-app purchases (and their guaranteed prices) as they can on the App Store, without downloading the app.

• Sharing your payment details and other information with multiple entities, and having to continually trust each of them (e.g. to not abuse or leak).

• Confused users may clog up Apple's customer support with complaints related to third-party payment systems.

• Angry users may demand Apple to offer refunds for shit that was paid for via third-party payment systems.

---- The problems with allowing third-party app stores on iOS:

• How will iOS sandboxing be enforced for apps delivered via third-party stores? Will those apps still have to be submitted to and signed by Apple?

• Third-party stores would need the privilege to write binaries on your iPhone. How will that privilege be regulated to prevent abuse? e.g. what happens if a store starts writing malware?

• Users may sometimes have to wait longer for an app to update on one store than on others (as already happens on Steam vs GoG).

• Developers would no longer be assured that they will have access to literally all the users that iOS has, by publishing on just one store.

This is the biggest kicker for me as an indie dev. You would have to submit to each store, wait for approval on each of them, update for each of them... to come close to the userbase that you can currently access by just publishing once on the App Store.

• Developers will no longer all play by the same rules. One store may allow some content while another may prohibit it.

• Controversial content like porn may still ultimately be bound by Apple's ruling on such matters, rendering moot the freedom of third-party stores in what kind of apps they may offer.

• iOS Parental Control and Screen Time restrictions may be ineffective on other stores (and browsers too if third-party rendering engines were allowed).

• If an app or game is exclusive to a store that a user isn't already using, they would have to create a new account and maintain an additional app just to access that one exclusive.

• Not all stores may be compatible with the iOS backup and restore system, or the APIs for app-thinning and on-demand resources.
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Okay, but - "programmatically determine the users name" is one of the classic foibles of inexperienced programmers. It's not that it's a hard problem, it's an impossible problem that people shouldn't be attempting, yet somehow still do, not unlike validating an email address with regex.
You buy casualty offset from licensed companies.
...Wait, HN does polls? I've never seen this before.
Some US metro areas could grow all needed food locally, estimates study
Some years ago I had the tech at the Apple store replace a single damaged key on my laptop for me completely free, he had a drawer full of keycaps, it took him five minutes, he was just like, no problem, bye.

Times have changed. :(
Jq appears to have its own hand written json parser and requires flex/bison. I suspect something about the hand written parser is slow for large data sets.

I was somewhat surprised it didn't use an existing json parser library.
- If people are overworked and the employer can get away by burning out every employee, then the unions are not doing their job properly.

- If less people are required to do the same amount of work, it means you're automating sucessfully, and that you should tax automation to compensate. Having an automated robot/script working 24/7 shouldn't relieve the company from its inherent social responsibilities.

- If the above is not happening, the people in charge are failing their job or acting in bad faith, and should be replaced and held responsible in either case.
Correct me if I am wrong, but from the blog post, Google is claiming that they have been carbon neutral from 2007. They just took care of offsetting the emissions before 2007. The 2030 aim is to be carbon free. Not sure how it compares to Amazon.

disc: Googler.
Using ML it is possible to parse PDF pages and interpret their layout and contents. Coupled with summarisation and text to speech it could make PDFs accessible to blind people. The parsing software would run on the user system and be able to cover all sorts of inputs, even images and web pages, as it is just OCR, CV and NLP.

The advantage is that PDFs become accessible immediately as opposed to the day all PDF creators would agree on a better presentation.

Example: A layout dataset - https://github.com/ibm-aur-nlp/PubLayNet

and: SoundGlance: Briefing the
Glanceable Cues of Web Pages for
Screen Reader Users http://library.usc.edu.ph/ACM/CHI2019/2exabs/LBW1821.pdf

A related problem is invoice/receipt/menu/form information extraction. Also, image based ad filtering.
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Being blind to politics rarely ever means politics isn't going on.

Pretty much every company out there has a concept of 'promotion packet', its basically building a case for one's promotion. Of course in a company the budgets are fixed, and so are promotion cycles(yearly in most places). You miss out a turn, you could lose an year, or even risk losing two. In that case its fairly common for managers to build a list of accomplishments(file/packet), and rival managers to build a anti-case/defence for the same. Stack ranking eventually is all about a combination of merit+advocacy+lobbying+counter-lobbying at so many levels that I'd say the engineer who cried wasn't wrong at all.

This is the case in nearly every company. We just wish to delude ourselves that politics is absent at some places.

This sort of power play comes with the territory in a large people structure.
In Linux, pdftotext works pretty well for the basic extraction needs I've had over the years. I have many times used this extremely simple Ruby wrapper https://gist.github.com/rietta/90ae2187606953bee9735c00f3a6e....
It seems to be that they discovered life on Venus
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1305112714956529666
jq’s in C do probably not anything intrinsic. Not to mention I don’t think the ocaml compiler is an optimisation beast.
It's right in the title...CARBON footprint is 0. That said, it's becoming more and more clear that wind/solar are less damaging than coal on a non-carbon basis as well. Nothing we do has zero impact...the goal is to minimize it. The only way to have zero impact is to wipe out the human species (and even then there will be some impact!!).
I don't understand how that can be possible. Is Google planting trees to remove carbon from the air ?

I mean there are hundreds of google employees who take the plane everyday and therefore emit carbon, how this carbon emission is removed ?
We want effective solutions.

Panic, sleep deprivation, making people feel sick and stressed is not the way to get those.
Some of these sound like double counting too.

Like you can fund an already-built wind turbine plant - the capital is already built, so even without your funding this is going to stay open...

But even if we forget that, the people buying energy from these plants will be buying a 'green megawatt' - so surely that means each megawatt will have been both offset and sold as 'green energy'?

And then to add to that - these power plants are also claimed against national emission reduction targets (at least the one in Indonesia is) and were actually built as part of a government fund - so then it's kind of triple-counting too!

(i.e. well for every green megawatt we sell, the company we sell it to gets to say they have a green megawatt, the offset company gets to say that they offset a megawatt, and the government gets to say it's generated 1 megawatt of green energy! In reality no actual carbon was saved other than the government intervention)
It was a Subaru. The lease was very cheap. When I went to the body shop, they were the ones that told me it needed to be done by the dealership.

All in all, it was quite cheap. I probably saved a lot of money, but I don’t like surprises. I’ll gladly pay more, for no surprises.
The only question is whether you continue using, yes or no. Scratch your chin as you like, but does the little engagement metric hovering just above your head go up or down?
It’s a bad buy unless they plan to use this to leverage a better position. Your argument is that ARM is essentially worthless to NVIDIA or at least extremely high $40bn bet. I guess only time will tell but I think NVIDIA intend to make their money back on this purchase and that won’t be through the current licensing model (as your own figures show).
I think you can use replication to accomplish this.
>When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 Billion, did you expect Oracle

Yes, yes, and yes. This is Oracle we're talking about. Of course they'll invest more in lawyers than tech. The only reason they still invest in Java is the lawsuit potential. If only Google had the smarts to buy Sun instead...

As for NVidia, their play probably is integration and datacenters. At the moment, going after other ARM licencees will hinder NVidia more than help (they're going after x86, no time to waste on bad PR and legal issues with small time ARM datacenter licencees; Qualcomm and Apple are in a different segment altogether). Of course, we can't guarantee it stays that way.
Did you try sourcing adaptors without fake markings?
Of course they do. They'd just rather they didn't and no one else did either, thanks to their god's hangups as codified by a Roman with some pretty fierce hangups of his own. Hence all the interest in cloning and brain uploading and so forth.