skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The environment in the Venusian atmosphere isn't actually particularly extreme high up. At 50km up you could walk around outside your vessel in shorts and a breathing mask. I'ts just CO2 instead of N2/O2 and has about 1/10th the amount of water vapor as on Earth. And a little acid but well within industrial safety limits.
Doesn’t “all-time cumulated carbon footprint” make a bit more sense?
>"Sure it does, mainframe language environments and .NET have long supported C and C++."

What is a "language environment" in this context? What would be some of the mainframe language environments that support C and C++?
Would be interested to read that if you have it available online!

I was really disappointed when I first learned about Cybernetics, to read that it had fallen out of favor, breaking into a thousand discrete disciplines.

"Cognitive Science" seems to be the closest modern inter-disciplinary topic. I suppose it comes down to the reality that the practical applications of a true "cybernetics" discipline would be so narrow that it would be a tiny field.
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2 days before, the CBD confiscated a pile of real "fake airpods": https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-seizes-...
so this is clearly a thing.

Unfortunately OnePlus have got caught in the crossfire.
Yes, you can reflow.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reading-pdfs-reflow-ac...
How certain is that, given that according to previous predictions the Earth should currently be uninhabitable?
For my part, I've always wanted a tool that just replicates PostgreSQL's JSON syntax. That way I can have only one syntax to remember.
It's complicated.

For one, yeah, those offsetting companies calculate very generously. E.g. I once looked a bit into this and they make arguments like "we don't consider construction of the airport, because it's already there". The calculations for the offsets are also often calculated very generously, e.g. they often use the same mechanisms as the so-called Clean Development mechanism (which is part of the european emission trading system), which is known to overcalculate savings enormously.

The other thing is they offset things the cheapest way possible. That works as long as there are cheap ways to save carbon. It doesn't scale.
Your argument is also cherry picked. You care about Muslims? Name me the Top 5 countries which are responsible for Muslim deaths in the last 10 years. Spoiler alert, China is not on that list, guess who is though.
I like the hack. Kudos to that teacher.

Reminds me of the “space pen” urban myth.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
But at what cost? Alphabet pressures local governments to let them drain aquifers to cool their machines¹, and powers them using vast swaths of bulldozed former habitats of endangered desert tortoises and focused beams of light that literally burn alive thousands of birds:

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one “streamer” every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator’s application to build a still-bigger version.².

1: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/google-s-controversial-g...

2: https://www.sbsun.com/2014/08/18/emerging-solar-plants-in-mo...

"Once built, U.S. government biologists found the plant's superheated mirrors were killing birds. In April, biologists working for the state estimated that 3,500 birds died at Ivanpah in the span of a year, many of them burned alive while flying through a part of the solar installment where air temperatures can reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit." — https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-tech-solar-projects-fail-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility#B...
What can you accomplish wirh RISC-V that can't be done with ARM or x86?

Are there any other benefits?
Having an aging economy didn't stop Japan from becoming the world's most advanced economy (based on economic complexity: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/jpn).
> Or has their parents/local community's faith simply spent a lot longer on convincing them it's true.

As I get older, I dont think its about people really thinking it's true, but more about the consequences of opposing the "truth" that your community, your friends, family, have merged into their identities. If you look it it through network effects, virtue signaling, social status, adopting the communal view of the world will have more benefit to their every day lives than taking a rational view of the world.

If the people around me were convinced the sky was orange, and they determine my status, my access to community, my job, my safety net, I would think maintaining their trust in me as more important than proving to them and myself the sky was actually blue. Our human needs are much more immediate than science and facts.

Even science faces these communal effects, needing new generations that arent tied into that network to push forward true revolutionary ideas.
SpaceX SN8 to launch and fly to 60k feet next week
I am no CBP fan either, but has anyone considered the case that these are counterfeit AirPods in counterfeit OnePlus earbud boxes? If you look at the opened box picture in the CBP memo, you will notice the earbuds do NOT match the picture on the OnePlus box and look much much more similar to actual AirPods.
I obviously agree and loathe the fact that Facebook is now tying the Quest to a FB account.

However I enjoy VR too much so I think I’ll just bite the bullet and make a burner FB, covering my tracks as well as I can.
First thing they're going to do is install their slow and really difficult to use BI tools and the db that takes hours to download.

It's insane when I tried installing oracle db and BI tools on my laptop. It was the worst software installation process in my life.
I'm not sure there isn't a middle solution? What about a screenreader emulator? I go to a website and it offers me the ability to upload a pdf, link to a website and then shows it to me like a screenreader would.

There may already be good tools that do this, but until it's super easy to see and "everyone" knows about it, then people won't think, "better just give it a quick look in the screenreader". Obviously a next good step to more adoption, is clear feedback about how to easily fix whatever issues the person is seeing...
Smells a bit rich, doesn’t it? ;)
FYI that website is both alienating in its rhetoric and gives no clue of how it solving the problem it alludes to.

The idea that the Moderate is the new third party is novel though. But it's too early to tell if that's true, since Democrats are mostly still moderate and if the Trump Republican party collapses, the moderate wing of the Republican party might resurge.
> It really isn't.

The assertion was "$10/m they'll need 5x customers to reach same revenue"

Revenue = Price * Quantity Sold.

Let x = Quantity Sold, and y = revenue

$50 * x = y

$10 = $50/5

$50/5 * x = y/5

$10 * 5x = y

OP stated a fact, and you said it was incorrect. I'm just trying to say the disagreement is actually about how elastic the price is (i.e. a change of x% in price results in a y% change in the number of customers).
Here's a wild, crazy, dangerous idea for discussion: how about we start curtailing globalism, and encourage people to live less carbon intensive lives by building economies based around what's available nearby?
> Android devices are more open than Apple devices, have more capabilities

and sucks on privacy much more.

Also about 'more open' - sounds like 'more good' or 'more pregnant'. So, here's two ways only - open or closed.

"Android is open source" - only the marketing slogan. You can run open source Android only in VM.
I pay $60 for t3.medium on N. Virginia , without any EBS volumes attached. An additional $2 for Route 53 also. (VAT included)

The average traffic consists of:

- 2 people heavily using it, video streaming and stuff.

- 2 people using it every once in a while per week, mainly for social network sites.

This much data usage only costs $0.11 as of August 2020.

A much smaller instance would work if it is gonna be used solely by this container. I believe you can get away with as cheap as $20.
Isnt this effectively what all governments are doing?

Paying people to stay home so that other people with essential roles can carry on with less chance of spreading covid?
Funny story about antenna lengt , I got a new job and was excited that I could at last upgrade my airpods to airpods pro. After a very frustrating couple days, I learned that my head is too big/dense/whatever for the airpods pro to reliably sync across my head. They would only work if used one at a time, or if I really cranked them at an angle such that the tails were far off my head which was unwearable.

I have long earlobes, I think the extra little bit of length of the non-pros gets it past my lobes and allows a connection that the pro's can't make.
I was surprised that given where the movie went, there seemed to be little discussion of the idea of banning personalized advertising. While it would be difficult to stomach for the companies who've thrived on that business model, the social consequences and business incentives of personalized advertising are corroding our society.
I can't wrap my head around Apple customers, most of the people I know that use mainly Apple products had a surprisingly amount of major issues with them but continued to buy Apple stuff only, it's like an addiction.. For example screen stopped working in a 3-year MacBook so what did the guy do? Bought new one because fixing was too expensive. Another one had a problem with the keyboard in MacBook which is one of the most important things in a laptop, his solution - do not part with a can of compressed air and wait to buy new one. Next example - brand new iPhone was randomly loosing WiFi connection so the guy sent it for a repair and had to wait 2 months (note that this was in eastern Europe but anyway) to get it back.

I could go on and on with such examples and I can't believe that people pay so much money and don't see a problem here. I never had any major problems with any devices I use and they all cost several times less than Apple equivalent.
They aren't displacing factories to third world countries. They're displacing dirty power with cleaner power. Obviously this won't be sustainable forever, but it's a good start.
On my third try I got google.com. What is the chance of that!
What Makes a Great Friend?
You could try out LineageOSformicroG.
(Basically LineageOS + microG + signature spoofing patch)
It's not 100% of the user experience, but most things work well enough that it's worth it imo. (Running this daily on my OnePlus 3 since last year or so)
NetBSD-current now has GCC 9.3.0 for x86/ARM, with ASan, TSan, UBSan and LSan
My comment was well thought out. If you cannot find a better (in every way) earbud at the price that airpods sell for, I think you are misinformed.
AAC is just a different format, and a superior one at that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding)

Maybe you're thinking of the DRM'd files that couldn't be played back by other players, and even iTunes on other computers without your iTunes store account. In that case indeed burning a CD and ripping it would be one solution. They stopped selling DRM'd files completely by 2009, though.
And there's also this 'q':

http://harelba.github.io/q/

Query CSV with SQL
This article misses the elephant in the room: The emissions created by the use of a companies product.

Google, like all large cloud providers, has lately heavily invested in collaborations with the oil industry:
https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-au...

Their whole emission calculation just ignores that factor.
Right, I found q cute... but I'm thinking to release new version with the name query-json or just change the name all-together. Any suggestion? ^^
The co-author (Janusz Petkowski) stated:

> This means either this is life, or it’s some sort of physical or chemical process that we do not expect to happen on rocky planets.

> We really went through all possible pathways that could produce phosphine on a rocky planet. If this is not life, then our understanding of rocky planets is severely lacking.

So it's a matter of probabilities, not absolute certitudes.

My question is, why couldn't our current understanding of rocky planets be lacking?

Because "must be harboring life" rules this option out unconditionally.
Why I built Sheet2Site alternative?
The audio quality is not good compared to other similarly priced buds. And the latency with Apple is exactly what I mentioned, it is an anti-competitive move by Apple.
Smart man, smart solution
Building a “Motivation Bot” with Tensorflow.js
I made an animation last year using text from the cards:

https://www.lukehale.com/oblique-strategies

It was mainly an experiment to see how changing character spacing could create different forms, and then loosely relating those forms back to the prompts.
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.

If you can get the shipments split, I'm sure you could also get them to not send the power adapters at all. If, however, you needed power adapters, you need to import proper ones - not just for legal reasons, but for the safety of the end-users.
In terms of privacy you should be mostly fine if you stick to F-Droid and use microG instead of Gapps.
As someone who (used to) travel a lot, the TSA have signs plastered throughout the entire security line to remind you to look through your belongings and make sure you don't have any banned items (they included what they were and had pictures of them too). If you went through airport security with a banned item (such as a knife), what they did was offer you three choices:

- They let you go back outside of security and come back without it (the idea being is you go back to your car and put it back)

- They had a small mailing station where you could mail it back to yourself (you had to pay for mailing, IIRC it was like $5-10)

- You let them confiscate it

It's not like what they consider banned items on airplanes are a secret. They even have a Twitter https://twitter.com/tsa/status/862098615472455680 and facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AskTSA where you can ask if an item is ok to go through security!

I am genuinely curious as to what they should do better.
It’s a mass market set of products now, so different problems. Still, they are better than any competitor I’m aware of.

Their staff are more empowered than most companies though. Usually I’m able to get what I want with a minimum of fuss, you just need to go in person and be very calm.
The market is temporarily disturbed by COVID WFH. The regular market either doesn't there it because they have blackboards/whiteboards, or they are rich/corrupt and buy overpriced overengineered things like Prometheus instead.
I wonder if we should be surprised at this. Modern devices (phones and laptops) are designed to be small and cheap to produce in bulk in countries with cheap labour.

Very few people will buy a more expensive, larger device that might be easier to repair or extend in a few years time.

Doing bespoke repairs in high labour cost countries is always expensive. More so when devices are small. It's probably cheaper to get a lower skilled worker to replace the whole board than a higher skilled worker to fix a board involving soldering that could cause further issues. Do we really think that it's going to be cost effective to take apart and fix airpods?

If you want something that is more easily repairable, extendable, and recyclable then a desktop/tower is the answer.
Sorry, I don’t mean to sound rude but if you could please rephrase that as I have no idea what you mean?
Was not aware of these before. It reminds me of a more functional version of Jenny Holzer's "Truisms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truisms_(Jenny_Holzer)

Where Holzer's statements can be used to explain, Eno's are to resolve.
>They’ve also quoted me more than a whole new pair to repair some AirPods Pro that I accidentally washed in the laundry.

Weird considering that the AirPods are not repairable. They just replace them.
What should CPaaS providers do today to prepare for the “post pandemic”?
How many have actually done it though?
Hey, happy to see this mentioned. I am the developer of Maxima's Pytranslate, developed as a GSoC project.

Would be happy to answer any questions about it.
It comes back with some updates.
I am not a native speaker, but I do feel my comment was accurate. For the price of an airpod, you can get other brand earbuds that are better in every metric relevant to an earphone.
On a first pass through the paper that you linked, I see a couple of instances where they use parameters that directly match conditions on earth. I don't know how well some aspects about Venus are known (e.g. the exact rates at which trace gases are emitted by volcanic activity on Venus).

My personal take on this is that the big claim doesn't seem entirely watertight. And claims like that have been taken apart quite quickly in the past.
> If they want a world-class CPU team for the data-center, ARM isn't that (Graviton

Graviton uses Neoverse CPU cores, which are designed by ARM. To say that ARM is not a world-class CPU team is unfair. Especially as Ampere just announced an 80 core datacenter SoC using Neoverse cores.
> There is no such a problem with HTML/CSS which should be the norm for internet documents.

It should be. But meanwhile everybody seems to think it is perfectly ok that there is a bunch of JavaScript that needs to run before the document will display any text at all and how that text makes it into the document is anybody's guess.
Targeted ads are a relatively new phenomenon - many people (especially older generations/parents) just don't understand how poisonous they are. 70 years ago parents were okay with their kids smoking cigarettes in school. Ads and tobacco and sugar and whatnot are not good for the consumer, but they're addictive and lucrative, so they will be pushed on us until we stop buying.

1. People need to be educated on the manipulative and detrimental effects of ads, which is difficult because

2. There is a concerted effort by advertising companies to keep people in the dark in order to keep milking more money out of them.

Hopefully it won't take a generational mental health epidemic (as smoking was to lung cancer) for us to regulate Big Tech. We're already seeing depression/anxiety/suicide rates skyrocket, teen/young adult quality of life dropping, people of all ages addicted to dopamine gambling systems, etc.
Thank you for the kind words..
Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent
Here's why offsets are bullshit. Imagine that I go and plant trees every weekend, because I like them and because I don't want to see my world burn. I'm planting trees, everyone is happy. One day, someone contact me and say "I like your work! Would you like to receive 50 cents for every next tree you plant? I want to support you. Just print a paper certifying that I'm supporting your work". I can't refuse that offer, right? I'm getting paid to plant trees! My new treelover friend is happy too: he's saving the world, and he can travel all over the world without remorse, since he's offsetting his flights.
UK government to “opt out” of parts of the European convention on human rights
If it's DNA at all then it would be from the same origin?

How likely is it that alien life would also use DNA?
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,... And to back up parent claim - where where they produced?

I am not saying it is nothing - surely better than 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 - not from google serving them but actually reaching destination and browsers processing them - and not all electricity is coming from "green" sources.

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, strictly driven on public transport or bicycle (:D) I do my best here.

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

But looks like it worked. BBC cached it and is doing an article about it.
Couldn’t any form of bad news make people panic, sleep deprived, and stressed? I don’t think communicating the science or real world impacts is too hard for people to handle. If it is, we are going to have a lot more problems as the climate continues to warm.

Edit: We told citizens about Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks and it caused panic, sleep depravation, and stress. Why is this risk different?
I remember a prior boss of mine was once asked if our reporting product could use PDF as an input. He chuckled and said "No, there is no returning from chaos"
Let's assume, by chance, there's some strain of bacteria that can not only survive but thrive in Venus's environment.

This bacteria is introduced to an environment that has all it needs to spread quickly. There's absolutely nothing out there that it has to compete with. There's nothing out there consuming it or infecting it or otherwise inhibiting its growth other than a lack of whatever nutrient it consumes.

Rabbits went from 0 to over 200 million in under 200 years in Australia, and that's with snakes and disease. Apparently they spread across the continent in just 50 years.[1] Rabbits generally reproduce at a small fraction of the rate of bacteria, although exceptions exist.

Note: I'm not saying humans definitely introduced bacteria to Venus and that's the source. I'm saying if conditions are by some chance ideal, and these things are apparently thriving in the atmosphere, it shouldn't be hard to spread across the planet incredibly fast.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/how-european-rabb...
Need a periscope version so it doesn't awkward cram onto the keyboard.
They lost me at "We need more drama..."

No, I do not think we need more drama.
Not necessarily. They are buying renewable power, however, the actually generation that power their data enters come from the grid and includes coal and natural gas. When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, they are powered by coal, nukes, hydro, and natural gas.
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