skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reads to me as a response to Gebru's paper that led to her getting fired. A paper on the externalities of training large models, like the environmental impacts due to the large amount of computation required: "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

That would explain why such a mundane subject is in a blog post, it's focused at tech news to be all "we really do care about this thing" rather than academia.
To others who might be interested in trying Nix instead of Homebrew:

There is a `brew install` equivalent in vanilla Nix -- `nix-env` provides an imperative interface pretty similiar to `brew`.

`nix-darwin` is a third-party thing that tries to give you a NixOS-like experience on macOS. It's not necessary if you're only interested in replacing Homebrew. You can have `shell.nix` files and ad-hoc environments without replacing your entire system configuration.

Vanilla Nix is very well isolated, and you can try it side by side with Homebrew to see how you like it -- one of the nice side effects of Nix-installed software being independent from the rest of your system is that, well, you can install whatever you want without breaking the Homebrew equivalents. For example instead of putting binaries in `/usr/local/bin`, Nix creates a directory of symlinks to files in `/nix/store`, and you can add that directory to your `PATH` if you wish.

I switched to Nix a few months ago and have found it... fun. It's not something I would recommend if you want things to just work, but if you're curious about Nix, you can learn quite a lot about it from the comfort of your MacBook.

I wrote a little about this experience here, including how to map common `brew` commands into their `nix-env` equivalents: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/switching-fro...

(Warning: it's more of a rambling diary entry than a blog post.)
This is the first time that I have heard someone complaining about AirPod batteries and it really just seems like a marketing piece that is trying to associate with the Right to Repair hotness even if they don't really fit the main narrative.
I'm glad you mentioned evil, because that's the conversation that isn't being had, and it's the personal belief factor that is driving a lot of private decisions. For us to spout talking points about noisy data just talks around these deeply held beliefs, and I think the only hope is from addressing those directly.

I happen to have some rare professional insight into how evil this all may get, but if it's as bad as I suspect, a small risk of rare side effects is really the least of your worries on that time horizon, and you can't do anything about it if you are on the target list.

If that's on your radar you need to know that doing nothing is not fighting evil. If you are going to fight, get out there and do it, but if you aren't going to do that now, then I'm recommending you take the benefits of a vaccine with some known risks and some unknown ones, keep your family and social connections who will otherwise write you off and isolate you when it counts, and then fight or continue to do nothing when you are ready.

Dismissing someones beliefs as conspiracy theories has never once convinced anyone of anything, so addressing how to effectively navigate a world with a belief is much more logical.

I don't think the reason to take it is scientific. Literally nobody who didn't invent it has taken it as the result of their own emperical research and discovery. I'm saying this vaccine is not the hill to die on. There will be plenty of other opportunity for that.
> Expressing skepticism surrounding the efficiency of social distancing, masks, "non essential business" and all these lockdowns is not a "far right" talking point.

You're absolutely right. This kind of misinformation isn't limited to the far right.

> To this day we cannot say for certain that lockdowns did anything at all,

LOL, what? This is a truly astonishingly statement.

Literally every place that instituted lockdowns saw a drop in COVID transmission, and every place that reduced or eliminated lockdowns saw an increase.

This isn't even controversial. It's an application of the basic germ theory of infectious transmission.

You can't seriously be making this claim in good faith, can you?
I missed that it doesn't support 15W charging when portable. That's erodes quite a bit of the benefits then. No reason you need the magsafe case, as far as I can tell though.

Also, the Anker device does have magnets. Looks like they operate just like the magsafe.
Indeed. He's got a series on brain and sleep and I'm learning a lot especially that I'm having a lot of sleeping issues.
Solar can be used to a certain extent.

And geo-thermal - that is currently being used in Iceland by Carbfix + Climeworks.

Also worth noting that a lot of these technologies do thorough lifecycle analysis to make sure that despite the energy usage required they are still carbon negative.
Ted Lasso is a show that I didn't think I'd like at all based on the synopsis. But after a rave review from a friend, I gave it a go and found it to be compulsive watching. It just goes to show that music, movies, and art that is way outside your usual tastes can still appeal if it is really good.
This depends on whether they're wired in series or in parallel.

Wired in series, mAh won't change, wired in parallel, it's additive.
Can you expand on the design differences?
Obviously both vitamins and plant extracts need to be treated with care, after having done thorough research. Thankfully there is plenty of information available, and as I've said the HN crowd should be especially well equipped for this.
> I don't know. My experience is, for many smaller niche things, they're entrenched in orgs and used The One Way, and any deviation - change a button label, add a menu, etc - will result in a lot of complaints from existing users. They'll have to 'retrain', etc.

People hate this just as much in almost any software (or, most any UI, physical or virtual, for that matter), they just often don't have a way to push back.

You wouldn't know it based on current trends, but consistency and predictability are king in user interfaces, as far as actual usability goes. So much so that high levels of severe bugginess can be preferable than less-severe and common bugginess, if the former is consistent and predictable ("if I press this button then that one, the application will crash or glitch, every single time, no matter what state the program is in—so, I won't do that") and the latter isn't ("about once a day this button takes me to the wrong screen, and the behavior seems random"). If your users are your top priority, changes will occur gradually, and only with excellent motivation. Grand re-designs are among the most user-hostile things you can do (despite their popularity).

[EDIT] to be clear, they don't have a way to push back in the modern age of rolling updates and old versions being infeasible to obtain at all, possibly broken even if you can, and, most likely, full of known vulnerabilities that will never be patched. In the old days of desktop software that you actually purchased, and that operated just fine entirely offline, the way to push back was not to upgrade, and it was common.
One of the most useful things we did was add a button to every alert we sent that said "Was this alert useful: Yes/No".

We would then send the alert creator reports what percent of recipients said yes. That alone got people to realize that a lot of their alerts were unnecessary and get rid of them. As a bonus, the most useful alerts actually got subscriptions from other people on other teams because it was such a useful indicator.
You can back up 10 TB of data to a single external hard drive these days. Making it "offsite" is as simple as taking it to a secondary location (office, family, etc.). Your one-time cost is higher, but there's no ongoing monthly fee.
Offering a prize could potentially result in more than the prize value ($100M) being invested into those very technologies.

As an example, we can look at the Netflix Prize [1], which was only $1M. But that $1M bought them way, way more than $1M worth of work: "over 20,000 teams had registered for the competition from over 150 countries. 2,000 teams had submitted over 13,000 prediction sets." It's hard to guess the value of having 20,000 teams working on the Netflix problem, but $1M invested directly by Netflix would probably only pay for 3-4 engineers for 1 year, so it seems like they got a lot of leverage out of that $1M.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
A lot of American cities have a “bulk waste amnesty day” which is similar.
I wonder what the aggregate cost of text-only screenshots is. Not so much the lack of accessibility and discoverability (which are probably the biggest costs), but the energy wasted from the extra CPU cycles, the extra storage space, the increased load on networks.

Come to think of it, it's probably minuscule compared to cryptocurrencies...
> you don't often see people raging about FF not being privacy sensitive enough....

There are actually a bunch of HN threads about just that.
It's self reported symptoms and the sample contains a massive amount of hospitalization cases compared to general pop. Couldn't they secure funding to do a more meaningful study where they actually examined random samples of population post COVID and looked for abnormalities in lung function or cognitive abilities, etc. ?

Considering the stakes this seems like an important question to answer correctly and gathering data about potential long term complication sounds valuable.
ASK HN: Is Windows going to force upgrade from 10 to 11?
I recall upgrading to Windows 10 with consent and having a laptop become bricked rather quickly and am concerned that Windows 11 might be a forced upgrade.
we look forward reading all your feedbacks

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There's no shortage of moral panics about all sorts of things, from rock and roll to dancing to drugs to games to political movements to demographic changes and social mobility, etc, etc, etc.

Anything that is seen to potentially threaten the status quo is liable to upset the people who benefit from it (who also tend to hold the most power in society). Combine such concerns with overactive imaginations and a media which thrives on sensationalism and you get the perfect storm of a moral panic.
What about covering oceans in plankton?
Yes indeed, I was giving hints for research, that will quickly reveal the best forms of magnesium to take (glycinate, chloride).
This is very interesting. I have plantar fasciitis, and I've gotten to the point where walking long distances isn't painful anymore, but standing in one place for a long time is still agony. Seems counterintuitive, but now it makes a little more sense.

Long line at the grocery store? No thank you - I'll come back later.
Ask HN: Why do SaaS companies not put up screenshots?
Why do SaaS companies have such bad marketing?
I’m very excited about them as a possibility (I think there’s another thread about them on HN?) but so much is unproven. We have no idea how much carbon the sand will absorb, or how fast, or how much it might mess with oceans along the way (it could be a positive because it would help fix ocean acidification, but it is a major mineral and ph modification to a complex system). No solution is as good as emissions reductions
I think the author is fighting the wrong problem. Webhooks are a notification mechanism first of all, not a data transfer protocol. You can view it as a control plane which can be mixed or not with a data plane.

What they offer is a data plane and it makes sense. Although, it doesn't contradict the idea of webhooks, but rather complements it. A consumer can get notified via a webhook when new data is available. Whether the data itself comes with the webhook, or is available via an additional API request, is a matter of design. Personally, I like the idea of separating the control plane from the data plane. However, in some cases it can be an overkill.
> It’s great that we’ve went full circle. But make no mistake that this only means one thing: that servers are cheaper than ever. We can now afford to entertain previously extravagant ideas.

We've not come full circle. This is just one blog saying "how about long-polling". While also ignoring that since then we've gained web sockets, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, each of which make long-polling pointless in three different ways.
Olivine has great potential (although it takes a while - up to 1000 years - to reach maximum sequestration).

Project vesta tries to use the sea and waves to accelerate this process. It's a bit of an unproven experiment however it definitely has potential and needs supporting to prove the hypothesis and improve the method.
I have a Garmin Fenix 6 Pro, which I had before I got sick with COVID-19. However, it is spendy (expensive).

I did a search and Body Battery is available on cheaper models like the Garmin Vivosmart 4 ($129 USD). I put into DuckDuckGo and verified:

"Garmin" AND "vivosmart" AND "body battery"

Link to Garmin Vivosmart 4: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/605739

Proof: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivosmart4/EN-US/GUI...
Treadmill Decarbonization Doesn’t Help
> Carbon removal machine could potentially create c02 deficit regions, creating hostile environments for trees.

If we could remove so much CO2 from the air that it prevented plants from growing (even if the effect were highly localized, which is pretty much a certainty), then we might actually have a shot at being able to remove CO2 in a reasonable amount of time. So this definitely sounds like a good problem to have. Personally I think that's pretty unlikely though.
The Great British Tea Heist
You will test positive for antibodies for months after infection.

Kind of the whole point of the immune system and the vaccine.

Contrary to some beliefs, Covid doesn't spread by people looking, touching or talking to each other. The latter has a higher chance, though.

It's highly likely you've never gotten it from your coworker.

Assuming you mean antibody blood tests, I don't know anyone who would willingly take several of them in a short time.
Last time I used FF on my Macbook (about 2 or 3 years ago) it had a big issue with battery drain (IIRC it was because of high GPU load even when idle). Did they ever fix that?
The answer to your question lies in the number of people who are buying the MagSafe battery pack. If it is a large amount of all iPhone customers, the phone should be just thicker with a bigger battery, if it is a small fraction of all customers, the battery is probably fine except for some high workloads.
Personally, I am fine with the battery capacity (iPhone Pro Max), I wouldn't mind a little bit more of thickness for a bit more reserve, but it shouldn't get much thicker.
is 'coherence' a scientific term as it's used here? I would love to learn more about this.
> 20h/week

That's what I have an issue with.

When I'm working on a problem, I cannot simply forget about it at 3pm and head to the beach to enjoy life. The problem will be in my head 24/7 until one of us gives up.
There's no reason not to plant trees in addition to everything else we'll need to do to fix this problem. The advantage of planting trees is that we know it works, it's cheap, and we can do it right now. So some people should be doing that, and others should be doing R&D on other means of carbon removal. No need to pit one against the other.
I've been using nix on macOS as my primary package manager for years. Really love it! Specifically nix-shell is a blessing a you can quickly try out things without worrying about breaking some other packages on the system.

Initially we've only used nix for development at my company, but now we're also running most of our servers with NixOS. This allows us to use our dev package definitions in production, so our dependencies are always in sync between dev and prod. I've written a blog post about all the advantages we get with nix in our framework IHP a while ago, if you're curious, check it out: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/blog/2020-07-22-why-ihp-is-...

If you're using an older mac and have troubles with installing nix, try out the new installer in this GH issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4289 (the command is in the "Try it out" section). It's already merged, but not released yet. So far this has solved all the issues on older macs for me.

Also check out https://nix.dev/ which has many great resources to get started :)
There may be a pattern here of YC funding carbon removal techniques that perhaps cannot work at all. Here's another one: Remora https://www.remoracarbon.com/

As far as I know there is no research paper on the topic ... nothing to indicate it actually is a viable solution.

They also don't want to talk to anyone about hard questions. It's like the Theranos of carbon removal, using Silicon-valley style secrecy.

I can't help but feel that if we are to successfully save the climate, it won't be dependent on secrecy.
The Garmin instinct have that function and works great. There are way cheaper options like the Fitbit charge, it also has a body-battery and is very accurate.

BTW I never had covid but if my body battery gets below 20, I also feel like shit. That´s the point I guess.
What if I use a bitcoin node and not an exchange?
Thx for the help :)
Feeling like crap for half the year seems like a much worse outcome, no?
Isn't the enthusiasm enough of an argument? People like it. It's good to do thinks we like.
I ended up just turning the tab bar off and using the Tree Tabs extension
I really enjoyed "For All Mankind" from Apple. I'm surprised that this tv show is not more popular.
Part of it is that most links, even when the content is good, come with some amount of pain in accessing it. Cookie banners, in-line ads re-flowing the content, pop-over ads, "subscribe to my mailing list" popups, donation begging popups, long-winded articles needlessly stuffed full of SEO keywords, auto playing videos, and most websites so full of all this stuff they jank out my phone and make it heat up.

I remember the web as fondly as you do. I spent hours on StumbleUpon just finding cool websites. But nowadays even if the content is just as good (it rarely is), the websites are just so bad.
Indeed, getting emissions under control is key. And so are developing solutions to removing carbon from the ambient air, with fewer than 2,000 people working in the industry worldwide.

Regarding your point about carbon capture, XPRIZE recently closed a $20 million prize for making products out of carbon emissions captured at industrial sources: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/carbon/articles/xprize-announc...
What did J. Mack Adams do?
> Would anyone else just be fine with a thick phone that had a better internal battery?

I think you miss the point of maximizing the customization of the phone. Because phones have to be in a single unit, user customization can only be done through external peripherals (vs. desktop PC where individual components can be customized).

To make the external peripherals as non-invasive as possible, the phone should be as small as possible while still being usable for most use cases. For example, if battery is your priority, get a case that has a built in external battery; many exist. Then you can have your extended battery, while a user who doesn't care about it, can have a smaller phone.
No, I'm not. Interestingly, the app never asked to update. I'll give 8 a try, thanks.
The average human is about 18% carbon.

We could all be doing a little more to reduce our carbon content.
They seem to withhold that information on purpose, so I guess the pack is not very slim. We’ll know in a week or so.
I really love hearing about your personal experiences with this, and I think a lot of other people do too.

if it were low power electronics you were powering, I would suggest taking the battery to 14.4v and using some diodes to drop the voltage down a little bit. There would be some power dissipation in the diodes and that would increase with current, so it's probably not a great solution.

It might not be that bad to run the motor out of spec a bit. It sounds like you have a good solution. Did you consider putting the lead acid battery in a towable floatation device of some sort?
In memory of Proust...

We used to have a Sizzlin' Sirloin here in town, a buffet-style restaurant serving American food including steaks of not-great quality. It's since gone out of business, COVID I think. But for a while, a couple of years ago, somebody in the back owned a madeleine pan and knew how to use that sucker. On the dessert bar, in addition to the usual pies and cakes, next to the soft-serve ice cream, there were madeleines; usually chocolate, crunchy on the outside and soft inside. Delightful.
I'm talking about the elevator pitch of their blog post, not of their company. Which are actually two distinct things (they're not describing their service in this blog post).
With the exception of the last item, these are all problems I would love to have considering our current situation. Graft and administrative burden is a real concern, though, although I don't think it should stop us from trying.
I'd argue that the undecomposed watt-hour is in fact the superior unit for batteries.

Because what I want to know about a battery is exactly how many hours I can use it at a given wattage. The voltage is determined by application, and the only amp-related stat I'm interested in is maximum current, which is more useful to me in watts anyway.

So a 50 Wh battery which I'm going to draw at 10 watts? five hours of use time. 20 watts? 2.5, and I can do this in my head all day. Joules are less convenient because going from seconds to hours is too annoying to do as mental maths.
This is my stance exactly. It doesn't hurt to try, and you will learn a lot in the process. Also, some of these are proven by science, just remember there is a lot of science out there and doctors are only aware of a tiny fraction of it.
> Transport alone to the sawmill, then the lumber yard, then the job site might actually release more carbon than the tree is storing.

If we're building the buildings anyway, we have to compare with alternative building materials. That is, how much more would transporting that lumber emit, compared to transporting for instance brick?
If you find a way please consider me for your team :-)

My current attempt to support projects like these is to make them as accesible as possible on https://carbonremoved.com

You get your $1M and I will include your removal method in our portfolio!
Simply indicate that you are unable to accept the offer at this time, due to the commute requirements. They’ll adjust (remote) or move on.