skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that I have explained it very well and I have put it there as an example why the claim from google is a fallacy.

> 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.

I wasnt clear enough?
1) refuses to operate on stdin; requires a filename argument, which is so irritating.

2) doesn't accept values that jq accepts

% time jq -r '[expression]' < parcels | wc
365 1454 7978
jq -r < parcels 1.39s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 1.390 total
wc 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 1.390 total

% time ~/.yarn/bin/q '[expression]' parcels | wc
q: internal error, uncaught exception:
Yojson.Json_error("Line 56, bytes -1-32:\nJunk after end
of JSON value: '{\n \"OBJECTID\": 155303,\n \"BOOK\"'")
I'm a U.S. citizen, and to be honest I think this acquisition is a terrible idea to approve. The tech world does not need more consolidation, and if nothing else, I don't like the idea of the seeming big push of the U.S. toward trying to get a stranglehold on semiconductor designs, direct or indirect, regardless of our national interest in doing so.

Until our country reacquainted itself with the importance of the importance of firm anti-trust and monopoly breaking again, please folks, as tempting as it may look, don't bloody sell to us.
I hire engineers in Baltimore and you’ve conveniently even put your phone number on your Web site, so I figured I’d see if you were a redeemable teammate who I wouldn’t be nervous about in terms of religious diversity in my organization, before jotting down some notes in case you cross my desk. I got my answer.

I make a new throwaway every time I interact with HN. It’s way more fun that way, because it chaps everyone’s ass and I’ve no interest in a reputation here. I’m also banned regularly, and my latest batch of throwaways has matched a regex for about six months now, waiting to see if the people who operate this site know how to employ a regular expression in Lisp.
so basically company A says it built one solar panel for company B to use.

Company A says it reduced its carbon emission and company B says it reduced also his. So we have reduced emission by a factor of 2 solar panels by using only one? seems smart!
Read Bernays (or the Creel Report if you can find it) for an account of how personalised advertising and manual social graph exploitation worked about a century ago.

Of course, back then, they targeted with much less data. For comparisons from half a century ago to now, consider https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html .
Own a Quest (1), use it nearly daily, and like my Quest.

I won't even be looking at the Quest 2 because they now require a Facebook account to use it, and I have absolutely no interesting in that (from a privacy or integrations standpoint).

I just want to game in peace. When I purchased my original Quest they were making guarantees that Facebook integrations were going to be optional, only to backtrack two years later.
Which predictions are you referring to?
Not a huge issue since it's the AMP version of the article hosted on the Verge, not Google, but in case anyone wants the desktop site: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21435891/oculus-quest-2-l...
I don't think this kind of thing really needs to be engaged with. Let such commenters stew in their own juice. Pushing back only adds flames to the fire.
Maybe the structure in that industry has to change to provide value directly?
Ahh that was it.

But yep that's how we bypassed it.

I think I bought 6 songs before I found a better alternative. Reminds me how I had 1 iphone (6) and would never get one again.
In some ways, that is the genius of Pax Americana. Give people the idea that they have a voice to criticize and to change policy, and forever hold the moral high ground over regimes that don't bother to make that pretense.

Then have politicians run for office promising to address that. Once they're in office, they drop it completely, blaming bureaucracy and 'lack of political will'. Then voters start all over again, with heads held high on the belief that what they want could theoretically be possible with the next candidate. Or the one after that.

The Obama administration came into office on a promise to close Guantanamo, and offer a public option on healthcare. Neither came anywhere close to fruition.
Honestly I dont think most people care about privacy or advertising. For me my biggest argument about SM (incl HN) is the sheer amount of time it sucks for very little long term benefit. I complain I dont have time to visit friends or do exercise but somehow I manage to spend way too my time on my phone, and that even is without Facebook or Twitter.
>It was, but the follow-up action designed to minimize risk of loss when caught by customs rather than avoiding import of fraudulent goods blurred image of your intentions.

It seems pretty clear to me, I think you're missing the point of the post. It's that this person is protecting his business in a way that's effective because the government isn't, and this is what he's forced to do when dealing with agencies that claim they're looking out for his best interests.
No. That would be the case only if essential workers were using their government-issued permit to go to night clubs without mask nor physical distancing, and pretend to not spread germs because others are staying at home.
There's a really good explanation of different loopholes in calculating carbon emissions in the Microsoft carbon target announcement from last year[1].

Eg do you count secondary services your employees use, like food services or emissions from their commute? Do you count partner services, like shipping providers for physical product? These, along with your direct emissions, are categorized into three "scopes" of emissions. Do you include purchased offsets against emissions, and at what rate? This is what most companies (including MS, since 2012) use to be "carbon neutral". Companies are selective about which scopes they include, and they pay for the total in offsets.

The point of the blog lost is to be clear (and holier-than-thou) about MS's announced goal: to remove more carbon than they produce in all three scopes each year by 2030 ("net negative"), and to remove all the carbon Microsoft has ever produced in all three scopes from the atmosphere by 2050. Actual carbon removal, not offsets.

I have not read this article so I have no idea what google is or isn't claiming here. But I learned a lot from the MS blog post so I thought I'd share.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b...
I could offer some insights: I had my MBP's 2018 batteries recently swollen. Cost of repair is absurd ($800). I was using it as a desktop machine and I decided that was a bad idea. So I moved to Linux. Now I'm shopping for a new laptop (not for any work intensive tasks but just a portable thing) and Apple still has the best devices in the market despite all the problems I had.

This was also my first problem with Apple after 6 years of using different products. So I can tag it to bad luck. If I was having these problems with every device, I'd definitely move to something else.
Lower socioeconomic status is thought to add stress, often in the form of less time for studying because teenagers at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder have to work more. They also can't afford tutors, have fewer books in the house, etc.
I was somewhat disappointed that the movie didn't much discuss the downsides of regulating social media, e.g. censorship, slippery slopes. like other commenters say, I didn't learn anything new, but I'm glad this kind of documentary is out in the open for non-technies to watch and consider.
Couldn't Arm publicly ignore that seal of authority? Kind of like when a certificate expires and you revoke it?

I don't understand how the guy controls anything. Even if say he has all the designs copied in China, Arm Global could just declare those are stolen designs and anyone that uses it without paying the global company directly would be in violation of that and could be sued (in other countries, if not China).

I think the only reason this comical and absurd situation continues is only because - like many tech companies before it - Arm continues to hope for bread crumbs in the "huge Chinese market" and accept being at the mercy of the CCP, even though this has proven to be a disastrous strategy for most other companies that thought like this. In the end, the government just gives your tech to the local companies, that end up dominating there, and maybe even globally later on, with your tech.
Is there a non-subscriber version available elsewhere?
Well there's the Putnam competition, which MIT has been completely dominating recently (https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/AnnouncementOfWinners20...).
In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics (2005)
I'm considering HarmonyOS for my next phone.
Our school district, LAUSD, spent most of the summer arguing with their union and even delayed roll out of the program citing "we've finally come to an agreement with the union about...".

Regardless, I do think teachers are putting up with a lot and likely stressed more than usual while their leaders fail miserably.
I wouldn't expect any government to consider this point before making this decision.
I don't think it's quite 90GB, but I've processed Wikidata dumps in the same order of magnitude before (which are one JSON object per line) with jq, and it could've certainly been faster.
At least in europe, both have happened. A meaningful portion of the gains have been from deindustrialization of one kind or another.

This isn't an indictment of all carbon reduction. Most meaningful policies will have reshuffling. There are no perfect moves.

That said, it's important to try and get into the nuance, be skeptical. In this case, the guts are in the "what does carbon offset really mean?"

Any carbon accounting system (tradable credits, carbon taxes, etc.) is abstract. You can achieve "carbon neutral" by buying credits or by actually reducing carbon. FWIW, I think there definitely is a value to DIY as opposed to carbon accounting stuff. IE, powering your own data centre with clean energy is superior to using gas electric and offsetting that with purchased credits.
Nikola admits to faking video of driving prototype
> Really goes to show how we should get the fundamentals right.

We did for a long time then everyone said that computers had to be used.
I agree with all you have said, but I stick to my point, text is a just a binary format we have agreed upon to decode individual characters then secondary decoders are built upon that. Since we have agreed on this binary format for characters there is a viewer for this format built into almost everything, hence its convenience.

If we agreed upon a binary format that encodes hierarchal nodes/key/values with various data types (raw binary, strings, numbers, dates) then hopefully there would be a similar viewer everywhere and no need for most secondary decoders (json on top of text).

It should also be faster and more compact if sending binary or numbers or dates.

Properly designed it should still be able to handle corruption, but that just has a lot to with the decoder and how it handles the corruption.
Can you please briefly explain what "multicellularity that has enough behavioural complexity" means?

Do we know what were the necessary atributes of those early multicellular organisms without which animals wouldn't be possible?
A gamer buddy really liked the Distant Origin scenario (Star Trek Voyager episode). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin TLDR: Ancient non-human civilization, prior inhabitant of earth, now long gone.

"Where's the hot spots?"

"Um, what?"

"Any industrial, technical civilization would leave their mark somehow thru their waste and pollution. Even if they left millions of years ago and their cities were built on subduction zones, we'd still detect their nuclear waste dumps."

Long pause.

"Well, ya."

Comparatively, I can kind of imagine groups of humans getting wiped out without a trace. The Sea Peoples didn't leave much behind. It's an accident we know about those lost cities on the steppes, which were completely lost to history. There's 100s (1000s?) of habitats buried under the desert, waiting to be explored. Etc.

But not being anything close to an archeologist: Hancock's notions are a bit far fetched, circumstantial. Like he's fooling himself into seeing stuff that's not there. Like seeing animals in the clouds, faces in pictures of martian soil, illuminating patterns in numbers.
I've had good success with wxMaxima as well, but none of the equations I've worked with can fill a blackboard. SymPy is very nice as well, but for obvious reasons, it feels a bit more forced when interacting with it.
Resonance between instruments? Do you know a piece or recording, sounds awesome!
Yeah, but there is an "initial surge" of lots of additional people before the mortality-rate signal lowers it (maybe 2-3 generations?) And then you're stuck with a lot of people that are now consumers and generating more carbon than if you just told them "No" in the first place and gave them a good quality of life improvement. We're watching that happen right now, we're many generations in and most of the 3rd world is not slowing down their population growth fast enough despite lowered mortality rates.

Way I see it, any help or financial aid to 3rd world countries (with high birth rates) needs to be coupled with comprehensive and mandatory contraceptive, health-information and birth control drives that is overseen by independent 1st world entities such as the WHO with the intent on lowering mortality rates and birth rates. And if these countries' birth rates don't start following a downward trajectory after a short period, then stop giving fancy aid and switch to bare-bones humanitarian aid. Seems way better than "lending" them the money they need and then making them dependent on the 1st world in perpetuity.
So you never use google, don’t have an iPhone, and never purchase from Amazon or any other online store? Your only footprint online is hacker news? Only cash offline? I think that ship sailed many years ago and you’ve already died on the hill.

For years I’ve thought the hardware is the problem. The experience of all past headsets —- since the Oculus DK1 —- has been good enough to get a feel, or idea, of what this could be, but has never crossed that line where VR can become mass market. Discomfort, simulator sickness, and that “cross-eyed” feeling are something enthusiasts can push through, but the masses still view VR as a tech demo. And until there is a mass market install base, no-one is willing to spend the money creating great content.

IMHO this chicken-and-egg problem will only be solved when there is a step change in the hardware. I hope the Quest 2 is it.
I pay the car dealer $20,000, I get a car worth $20,000. Was the car free?
SSHelper is going away after recent Android changes
I'm an enthusiastic user of SSHelper, a tool that starts an SSH server on your Android phone. For me it is the fastest way to rsync pictures from my phone to my PC. Today I've realized that soon it won't be possible any more. Another recent HN post complained about the lack of Android push solutions that do not require the cloud. My concerns go in the same direction. Manufacturers want us more and more to rely on cloud services, where a more intimate LAN + SSH combo would do the job.

What are the alternatives for the tinkerers of us?
Apple gives Stadia and xCloud the green light to run on iOS
This is all about NVLink in ARM.
TLDR; He was Jewish, his wife was a nazi, told him that his colleagues slept with their daughter, he cut off communication with them without explanation. And Cybernetics died.

Also, he introduced the idea of information as a "thing" and contributed to the foundation of AI.
Sorry - I think I read too quickly (assuming you didn't edit your comment?).
Amdvlk 2020.Q3.5 Released with Four Game Specific Fixes and Sub-RADV Performance
Paying people up plant trees, or to use carbon-neutral sources of energy that they otherwise wouldn't.

Carbon offsets are currently much cheaper than they really should be, because there's a lot of low-hanging fruit like the latter, but that doesn't mean they're not genuinely causing less CO2 to stay in the atmosphere than otherwise would.
I think the goal of startups hiring overqualified people is to prevent those awkward growing pains as you transition from a small startup to a company that has recurring customers. That's right in the middle of their growth phase, so they want to avoid the instability associated with paying down tech debt then.

Whether that's enough to justify paying such high salaries at an early phase, I don't know. If you aren't planning on some kind of hyper growth phase, it's probably not. Even if you are, you might do alright without. Reddit survived its stability issues (although I do think they pay fairly well, though not FAANG).
Thankfully our county did prepare and I’m actually fairly impressed because I’m hearing horror stories from other friends in different counties. It would have been extremely helpful if our Department of Education was out ahead of this, instead Betsy DeVos has been absent while the President has been saying we need to have kids back in person. Absence of leadership is the theme of this administration. I’m not sure how anyone in the world can look at the US as a leader anymore.
Sent to the third world countries you mean?
Do they include carbon cost of the entire supply chain of their servers?
> emissions from their commute

Isn't stuff like this kind of out of their hand unless the state itself tries to fix this.
Given these are two of the least-used characters in English and basically never appear in this sequence, it would certainly help for all the reasons people are mentioning. It'd at least follow suit with like 'rg' for 'ripgrep'.
It’s not about how you consciously choose to spend your time, it’s about being able to choose when to stop.

I commonly hear from alcoholics that the problem isn’t that they want 1 drink, the problem is that they want 10 drinks. They lack the ability to moderate consumption and be able to consciously stop.

Social media struggles from this exact same problem. It’s so easy to just keep scrolling, to just keep seeing what’s further down the feed. Maybe I missed a picture that I would like, or something. This FOMO is intentionally designed and baked into the apps to keep people from leaving them.

You can choose to put down the book whenever you want to or need to, and maybe you don’t have a problem putting down social media either. But many, many people do. Just because you don’t feel psychologically pulled in doesn’t mean that it’s not a real addiction.

There’s an easy way to test this out on yourself. Commit to going a whole day without checking your favorite social media apps and add the parental control time limit to those apps. If you find yourself unconsciously whipping out your phone and checking social media, you’ll see the prompt to input your parental control code. If you’re anywhere near the statistical average human, you’re gonna find yourself mindlessly checking social media multiple times that day. That’s what I’m talking about.
Is it a non-sequitur? The same agency here seen seizing competing products for not being Apple products is the same agency responsible for caging and mistreating children unto death.

I'd prefer them stifle competition rather than kill children.
Right, the explanation of Reason - BuckleScript - OCaml is always nebulous.

I used Reason to compile to Native, so using OCaml's stdlib and OCaml's dependencies and compiling it with OCaml, but my source code is written in Reason syntax.
> I hire engineers in Baltimore and you’ve conveniently even put your phone number on your Web site, so I figured I’d see if you were a redeemable teammate who I wouldn’t be nervous about in terms of religious diversity in my organization, before jotting down some notes in case you cross my desk. I got my answer.

Oh, awesome! I never imagined I'd actually be able to check "get blacklisted by an angry Christian" off my bucket list, so thanks for that! I mean, that you imagine I'd want to work for you is cute in the first place, but I really think it's an amazing look in 2020 to yell proudly in public about how you'll refuse to hire a gay man because he doesn't like your famously anti-gay religious faith.

I can definitely see why you made a throwaway, though.
No, that's not how the calculation works.
Post with text instead of an URL have a penalty here so it is more difficult that they reach the front page. It is better to submit the URL and add a comment in case you have to make an important remark.

In this case, I think it is not necessary to make a comment if you add the subtitle in the title. Something like "Memory Pill: passively records the last time a medication bottle was opened"

The guidelines ask to use the original title, but you can use the subtitle in these kind of cases where the title is not very descriptive. I just cut it so it has less than 80 characters.
So can we say that now that the heavy industry has been moved offshore, lowering CO2 emissions won't make as much of an impact on local British jobs?

If so the next step should be to analyze the CO2 footprint of the country and start taking steps in reducing that number instead. Eg. banning ICE vehicles would help big time I guess.
Huh? Instead of charging you the cost of a repair, for that new unit, they just did a swap for you free of charge?
Wouldn't you also in theory be able to get a donor part from someone's laptop which is otherwise busted?
Not that your wife can do anything about it, but...

My daughter has been doing online school for two years now with a school system that has been online only for about 10 years.

Their hack was to give the kids one assignment per day. A missed assignment = 1 absence. An assignment turned in a day late = 1 tardy. The teachers post the weeks assignments on weekend (before Monday morning) and it's up to the kids to determine when/how they will get them done (which is why she attends this school, as it gives her a lot of flexibility to do the other things she is interested in).
I would go so far as to say the NY Times and most establishment media have lost their way in the age of Trump. Too much joust and parry, and not enough charting one's own course.
Nope, I didnt. This was the whole point why I even put the statement there.
They certainly are saying that they think that.
This sure sounds good in a press release and there are certainly worse things to do. But Google’s environmental impact is massive. They can only “offset” so much of that impact.
But a ton of the "clean" power isn't clean. Solar needs to have standby fossil plants that keep at idle or else you get brownouts. Those high end molten salt solar plans take natural gas to startup. Most "wood chip" plants burn the same fast growing trees used by paper mills.

CO2 is a stupid thing to focus on. There are so many other forms of pollution that are so much worse. Factory cities in China that have lakes of toxic sludge waste. The massive amount of plastic particles in the ocean. Colossal e-waste from electronics only designed to last two years.

Real, meaningful changes that will stop environmental devastation require reduction of consumption. Unless Google finds a way to reduce their data center footprints, the CO2 numbers are most likely just cooked books; displacing CO2 with other environmental disaster.

We need to consume less things.
Good old personal responsibility. It's your responsibility not to walk into traps laid out to catch you.

Why stop people from laying out the traps? They're just trying to make a living, it's perfectly fine!
Anyone who can’t laugh needs to go.

You’re literally calling for doom-mongering.

I laugh in your face.