skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please say more.

I would LOVE to hear how Wiener might interpret today's world.

As a total noob, I'm often delighted by the insights of earlier commentators. The people who lived thru great transformations, so can remember the before times, allowing them to see the now more clearly.

Like your lament about Wiener's ignored analysis and insights, rereading McLuhan was very fruitful. His concept of autoamputation seems to have been completely ignored. (Over stimulation leads to shutting down that sensory input.) But it's such a great way of describing the impact of modern rhetoric.

Sometimes I wonder if it's like Steve Jobs' visit to Xerox PARC. Jobs admits they (Apple) were so captivated by GUIs they totally missed other breakthrough concepts like object-oriented.
Perhaps more famous - Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels.
It seem's super cheap for planting trees. But it is not completely crazy.
If I use the Lufthansa calculator to offset flights I roughly pay 20 Euro per 1000kg CO2 [1]. A litre of petrol produces roughly 2.3kg CO2. So roughly 450 litres produce 1000 kg CO2, meaning Shell can compensate CO2 for a quarter of the price of Lufthansa. It is suspicious, but with economies of scale it might be possible.

[1]https://www.lufthansa.com/am/en/offset-flight
[2] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/oee/pdf/...
Even if it is DNA, if it encodes the same proteins in the same way than the life here would a be very improbable event. Think in an alien alphabet looking like ours, but also making the same sounds and some common words and meanings with the similar looking symbols.
Show HN: Mininote – fast as native app, serverless sync via Google Drive
I hope Luke Tully is around and reading these comments, the only contact he has on his site is the twitter and he looks inactive on it.

But his 2015 MBP delamination is covered by an Apple Recall from many years ago! He doesn't have to pay a dime to get that issue fixed.

I first took my 2015 MBP to Apple a few years ago for the delamination problem and was told it was covered under a recall notice, but at the time I didn't have up to 2 weeks of service time to be without my MBP, so I just dealt with it. This Spring I finally called up Apple and told them I wanted to get my delamination issue fixed. The Apple rep was completely lost about the recall I was talking about, but about 15 minutes of looking around he found the recall information. 1 week later I had my MBP back from the service center looking b-e-a-utiful :)
> In the US, kindergarten is the first year of compulsory education

Usually, not.

It's generally the first year of free, available education which most people take advantage of because it's free.

First grade is usually the first year of compulsory education (e.g., in California a student must be admitted to kindergarten at parent request if they turn 5 before September 1 of the school year and to transitional kindergarten if they turn 5 between September 2 and December 2, but compulsory education starts at age 6.)
Here is a quick reminder of what Britain looked like in 1890. It must have had the highest CO2 emissions per citizen by far.

https://i1.wp.com/www.cabaltimes.com/wp-content/Manchester_I...
being carbon neutral is not as economy-killing as some say

I think this is a big part of it. Just look at carbon tax proposals. A commonly suggested initial tax is $40/ton. My family racks up about 4-6 tons of CO2 each year driving. That's $160-240/yr. By comparison, registration is ~$300 and insurance is ~$700.

A large portion of the voting public opposes virtually all regulation & taxes simply on principal. For this cohort, it simply doesn't matter what the math says.
You mention this as if the alternative was obvious.

AFAICT the two main alternatives are a Windows Laptop and a Linux Laptop. Each of them with their own _ton_ of problems.
> I spend lots of time reading. Is reading an addiction? I don’t think spending time on something is necessarily an addiction.

Anything can become addictive, really, if we use ASAM's official definition: «People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.»

The difference between books and feed-scrolling is stark. Books are linear, static and finite, while your feed is ever-changing and adapting to your patterns of behavior – and practically infinite. These differences are huge when it comes to the potential for "continued used despite harmful consequences".
The TikTok Tick Tock, Skipping to the End Game, Trump’s Choice
From what I understand, the economic revolution / experiment in Chile was abruptly ended due to political forces, not market forces.

Basically, any socialist (sympathizing) government during the under a US magnifying glass. Oil money went into funding far-right fascist / military groups, which eventually caused turmoil in a variety of industries, including a steel worker’s strike.

The entire CyberSyn operation was conducted on a series of glorified typerwriters—-at the time, they were the only computers that the Chilean government could purchase, due to sanctions.

If the US had stopped strangling the nascent Chilean economy, then it would have been better positioned to handle social turmoil and competing political interests.

Instead, on September 11th, 1973, far right militias backed by US money raided Allende’s central command—-he ended up committing suicide rather than ending up a political prisoner.

(Sorry if this was a bit unrelated to the initial reply—it just bugs me how removed from actual market forces these economies are operating in. I feel like it doesn’t matter what you are exporting—-if the US wanted it post-WW2, they came in and took it).
I have heard about similar things about hybrid car sails in the EU.

But I wasn't able to find any articles wrt. that anymore, so it might be wrong or outdated.
Honestly I don't think so.

I don't think taping a CD to a laptop is perfect, but you can imagine all the technical difficulties that come from using something like a Wacom tablet like home, right?

Drivers/software/OS support for the tablet? What program do they use to write in? How do they share that with attendees? How reliable is all this?

There's a simplicity to keeping it completely analogue which has much less failure scenarios. I don't have a link, but a saw a tweet where a teacher (?) had 3D printed a mount for a mirror to put on the laptop lid, a more polished version of this same thing, basically an overhead projector for a webcam.
Just because jq is very well stablished doesn't mean their APIs are well designed and we shoudn't improved because will break existing scripts.

There're a lot of quirks from the usage of it and people struggling with learning such a great tool, so in the area of query-json it will try to make a better interface for users.
The harms of social media are understated. I live in Brazil. Social media was one of the main reasons of the election of our president, Bolsonaro. Now we have more than 130.000 deaths from coronavirus, the Amazon and Pantanal are burning, our institutions are crumbling. My fellow software developers aren't just make some far way teenagers depressed. This is is real harm in the real world.
Would refactorings [0], e.g. 'Extract Method', 'Replace Primitive with Object', ... , be an appropriate analog for programming?

[0] https://refactoring.com/catalog/
Ya, it’s interesting how materially ‘poor’ countries have citizens with more enjoyable lives (by any subjective measure, because you can’t objectively measure how someone is feeling).
This is like arguing that the fast food industries, the sugar industry, and the ad industries have no role to play in diabetes because it's your fault you can't control yourself.

Never mind that you will have been exposed to tens of thousands of hours of literal behaviour modification programming. You should somehow magically still have the personal, emotional, and cultural resources to override it. And if you don't - it's your fault.

But curiously it's not the fault of the corporations, because there is no equivalent requirement on them to control themselves, or to take corporate-personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
No, they choose their location, and some tech companies provide transportation. Facebook is even building their own employee housing.
I personally buy their products because they are absurdly reliable.
I have 4 year old iphone 7 that works perfectly for 4 years.
Ipad mini 4 - 5 years of lots of use every day. Works perfectly, battery still lasts like 6+ hours. Sometimes I wish it broke so I have an excuse to buy a new one.

iPad mini 1 - 8 years, my mom uses it for videos, facetime, reading. Still works fine.

Airpods are great.

Macbook pro 2017 - 3 years of use, works perfectly. Keyboard had its issues - had replaced it for free this year, wanted to replace a battery - they found some kind of defect there and replaced for free.

So yeah, I haven's seen anything even close to this kind of reliability and customer support. That is why when time comes I will continue to use Apple.

Before that I was a long time Android and Windows laptop user.
>I'm not sure how feasible that is

This is actually why I 100% believe we will not be able to change any amount of global warming, and if anything will make it worse as more and more countries become industrialized.

The only way to reduce usage is to change our lifestyles. Less consumption, less travel, less of the 'modern conveniences' people in wealthy counties have become accustomed to.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I genuinely believe humans are incapable, en masse, of that type of sacrifice - the tragedy of the commons and whatnot.

The only time something will change is when everything crashes down around us because of major disruption, famine, migration, and other life-altering events. Only then will we change, but not by choice - only because we will have exhausted all other options to keep our soft lives the same.
That's super weird, I think most people use jq for bash pipelines.
Will rename it to query-json. Thaaanks!
Your mistake is using "Log in with Facebook" on a mobile device.

Since neither iOS nor Android have any kind of trusted UI, there is no way you can be sure if you are logging into Facebook on an app, or just giving that app your credentials for them to do as they please.

Until iOS or Android get trusted UI for these usecases, I suggest using browsers on windows/Mac/Linux where you can see the in the address bar which company you are giving credentials to, and can't as easily be faked.

If you must use a mobile device to log into Facebook via a third party app, I suggest using a new Facebook account each time.
Only Google doesn't really do B2B. They're B2C. Oracle does B2B.
PayPal is not very dependable when it comes to handling disputes. If you paid with a credit card through PayPal, file a chargeback via the card itself and your financial institution should be able to help. But if you paid with your PayPal balance, you're most likely at Facebook's mercy at this point. Dutch laws might offer additional consumer protections.
As of 2017, pretty sure Redis is a large part of it:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
Agree. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I strongly suspect this is more motivated by weather news marketing and ad revenue strategy than an altruistic desire to "raise awareness".
Isn't rest offsets? Like they helping cut emission from non Google things and using that to offset what they can't eliminate from their own emissions.

It still reduces emissions on the whole.
Not really, for a couple reasons:

1) They have enough money to start initiatives, even geographically dispersed initiatives, independent from the state

2) They have a history of working hand-in-glove with the city of Seattle and the state of Washington; it can be hard to distinguish "What Microsoft is trying to do" from "What Washington state is trying to do" sometimes.
Given the amount of personal data now being held not only by credit companies, but also big tech, it seems like the liability for data breaches needs adjusted.

If a companies main asset is their data, that means that you can ascribe a value to each person's data that they hold. If your data is stolen, they should be on the hook for value of that data to each of the people whose data was stolen.

They need to stop being able to value the data at the cost of credit protection service on the liability side while booking value significantly higher on their assets ledger. This would encourage them to be much more careful in both protecting the data and mitigating breaches versus the current blase approach.
for human reception I always add the day of week.

A very strong hint for personal planning (Thu? Never have time on Thus).
For all its faults and imperial tendencies and repression of its minority peoples, the USSR was more than just Russian. It had many peoples who all contributed to discoveries, but "Russia" today has inherited the "creds" to what the USSR accomplished, both good and bad.

(For a tiny glimpse of the USSR "feel", watch the BBC movie "Afghan experience" where some USSR soldiers from other republics than Russia proper speak.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta...
> The scammer used my Facebook auth token to remove me from the Facebook Business entity. Strangely enough this is possible without getting any emails from Facebook. I had no way to check my Business entity or Ad account on Facebook to see what's going on.

This is an error on the Facebook side. Actions like this should never be possible without appropriate confirmation or re-requesting the password for 2FA confirmation.
> What if it was the "copy" you owned?

If the copy were perfect you would not be able to tell the difference. In essence there would be no "original" and "copy", just two instances of the same information. This is basic particle physics or information theory. Particles do not come tagged with UUIDs. Once you duplicated all properties the original and the copy become interchangeable. At the macro level we only care about the difference because analog copying processes tend to be lossy.

> I only have my own set of conscious experiences. My set is not the same as the clones.

It is at the moment of "cloning" (assuming that includes memory duplication). They may diverge afterwards, but at the moment the copy is made the sense of self is the same for both.

> When people seriously argue this, I start to wonder if they are bots or NPC's that somehow have no conscious experiences.

Perhaps some people overrate this near-magical concept of consciousness? It temporarily ceases when you sleep or are comatose anyway while your biochemical processes keep shuffling around atoms all the time and that's not the end of the world either. The body ship-of-theseuses itself all the time.
It seems odd that the Facebook authentication token would allow that kind of access - admin on the business pages - by default. Were you asked for particular permissions? Or did they fake the Facebook login completely?
True, if US companies are disallowed from giving licenses to Chinese companies, then likely the US would also block import of competing Chinese CPUs.
Semgrep: A Swiss Army knife for understanding code
Yes, I don't understand how people end up with assertions that the filename is a require argument. At least we've got /dev/stdin or /proc/self/fd/0 as workarounds.
"Gqd" = graphene quantum dot ?
This sounds like the author typed their facebook and paypal credentials into the app.
Youre right, it definitely isnt a large amount of work. Its the annoyance of the work and the leaky abstraction of "multiple returns" that _look_ (and sort of act) like its a tuple. In addition to channels, it also comes up if you want to store an array of return values.
Fellow gay man here: thanks for making our struggle a victim card to play when you’re confronted about your lack of soul. How supportive of you.

I already told you hostility toward religion is my concern, because I employ people of many diversities and faiths. If you want to make it your imaginative slight that’s your prerogative, but I think I’ve been quite clear and consistent throughout the thread.
> the scammer used my Facebook auth token to remove me from the Facebook Business entity

If you are able to use the account to purchase something in my name, I would expect the security to at least include a 2FA prompt. I'm not really big into the Facebook ecosystem but this sounds terrible.
Fricas supports several different output formats including TeX and MathML, which can be toggled and redirected independently. (There is some relatively recent work on that front, so changes are possible. I hope interfacing with Fricas programmatically will become nicer.)

It's an ugly solution, but when an output expression is complicated enough that I want it nicely rendered, I copy the TeX output to, e.g., https://arachnoid.com/latex/ while removing the \leqno command and replacing \sp commands with carets (^).
You can make paypal charges with a Facebook oauth token? Or they keyboard log his facebook password
What I hate the most are those job sites they extract the text from your PDFs. They are close to 99% failure rate, requiring me to manually tweak the content they extracted
> Initiated a PayPal chargeback process - PayPal responded: "we’ve determined there was no unauthorized use"

Just wanted to highlight this. Things like this is why I avoid PayPal as much as possible. For many years now.
The app looks poorly made and there are clear spelling mistakes plus the fact that it was not offered by TikTok which should have made you suspicious. It sucks this happened but maybe you should have done some research and checked if this app actually did belong to TikTok. I assume the app also asked you to login to Facebook directly rather than OAuth which should also made you suspicious.
While the autotools system is very powerful, I think people’s problem with it (`make`) is its syntax. `configure` is usually a bash script, but `make` isn’t. It’s pretty unintuitive to a newbie. It looks like a script, but it’s kindof not. The lack of arrays is a weird choice (AFAIK everything is a string) that requires one to use quotes in a lot of places so “array-like” “functions” work correctly.

When I was learning C++ a bit ago, I tried to write basic `Makefile` files, but switched to CMake. There is the disadvantage of practically every Unix-like OS having `make`, but not always CMake, but I found the trade off worth it for one-off projects

I am partial to Rust over C/C++ here, but I do like Rust’s method of a simple `cargo build`, but with the ability to write a program (`build.rs`) for non-Rust parts.
He addresses that in the video as well (I think he said it wasn't economical).
The DRM was not a whim by Apple, it was demanded by the labels, though. At the time that was the only way they'd even permit an online music store. I don't think there were alternatives that weren't just as locked down, unless you're talking about sailing the high seas.
Interesting idea.

You could carve a few cubic kilometers of rock. Raise it when the moon is at zenith. Lower it when the moon is on the other side of earth.

There was this idea to use a carved rock cylinder for pumped water energy storage (have the water under the cylinder).

You could even combine these.

Of course, in reality the difference in gravity is so tiny, the round trip efficiency is too low, killing the idea.
As someone who also takes all the right account security precautions, I too have been fooled by a scam Facebook ad. It seems like this is an increasingly-common attack vector that FB needs to address.

Specifically, I think it would help for them to verify ads, as they do people / pages.
Google could reduce carbon emissions quite a bit by making Chrome's stupid "Software Reporter Tool" consume less CPU power on millions of computers. This almost undocumented program could easily be the most energy consuming software worldwide.
In the last +5 years Apple has been very busy securing their monopoly on every bit or screw their machines have.

In certain models you simply cannot plug another ( Apple original ) screen, it will not work. Also many "regular/mundane" chips are not available to anyone but Apple.

Apple not only doesn't support any repair initiative, it actively sabotages anything they see as a threat. Their Authorized Service Provider Program is a complete joke done in a way to keep other people busy but set for failure and to give Apple lawyers some leverage they can work with.
Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
"WordPress, on the other hand, does allow much more flexibility but it runs on PHP and its not the 90s anymore and PHP’s logo is an elephant, which, you know, speed.
I needed something modern."

This is the most petty reason I've ever seen someone give to not use WordPress. There are a number of reasons why you'd prefer a headless CMS over WordPress to build a backend. It not being "modern" enough is definitely not one of them.
This is super useful. I have a daughter who is a piano performance major and I spent ages getting a working two camera set up for her. I wish I had seen this then (or better thought of it myself).

I expect her university will end up going fully remote again next semester, so we will no doubt be putting this to use.
I dunno, that sounds correct to me (contra the article here where they're just mindbogglingly wrong). The customs process isn't designed to prioritize customer value, it's designed to prevent counterfeit goods from reaching the market. These were counterfeit. Demanding that they part out the shipment for you to separate the stuff-they-can't-prove-is-counterfeit from the stuff-recipient-actually-wants isn't their job.

You bought bad goods from a bad supplier and got scammed. That's not the fault of the police.
iOS will redirect you to your Facebook app
So this basically amounts to “sign in with Facebook and the app gets a token with which it can control your whole account”?
Whatever your opinion is on which way the issue should go, I think we'd be far better off if every single senator had an explicit stance on the issue.
He addresses that in the video, customers are fine because Apple sabotages repair shops and then blames them for the failures.
Rethinking E-Commerce for the “Magic Window”
I think the trick here was to prompt the user with a fake oauth screen. Many legit apps show the oauth screen using a web frame inside that app. It is absolutely stupid that it is still a common occurrence.

If you need to enter your credentials when using sign-in-using-xxx, be VERY cautious. Even if you have 2FA enabled, the fake oauth screen can just ask you for the 2FA code. You have no way of knowing whether the login page is keylogged or hijacked.
Would also be interested in learning more about this. Was this work recent? More generally, is there on-going research within the field of cybernetics?
Changing the Chrome on iOS User Agent for Request Desktop Site
> Solar needs to have standby fossil plants that keep at idle or else you get brownouts

That's strictly cleaner than running the region on fossil plants only

> Natural gas to startup

That's strictly cleaner than running the region on natural gas only

>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.

Lakes of toxic sludge are bad, but they're a localized problem. Atomspheric CO2 balance threatens to crash the global ecology for everything larger than bacteria. Of the things you've listed, the risk factor for killing everyone is CO2 --> ocean plastic --> e-waste --> toxic sludge lakes.

> We need to consume less things

That'd be cool, but unfortunately, have you met humans? We've been trying the "Consume less things" approach my entire life; it doesn't take. We need the consumption to be more efficient and less environmentally impactful.