skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right, but at the same time, if the cost of manufacturing doesn't reflect the overall cost then we need to make laws for that.

Also in video after video of electronic repairs:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOrKQtC1tDfGf_fFVb8pYw

The primary reasons for why he can't repair something are:

- lack of documentation

- can't find the components for sale

- design choices (like using glue instead of sealing rings)

I think at least some of these things can be easily provided at little to no cost to the companies.
A user password doesn't enable encryption. Bitlocker or another Full Disk Encryption solution is what you would want to use. If you can see the data, that means it's not encrypted.
As a software engineer in the US (and I don't make whole lot of money compared to other software engineer), I make more money than two of my closest friends(one has PhD) and my gf combined.
I realized this fact few months ago and made me almost depressed.
What makes them illegal? I imagine the only reason nobody does it is because there’s no market - anyone that wants their phone jailbroken probably doesn’t want to pay, or just doesn’t want to be without their phone for a week+. Plus, it’s not like a commercial operation like this is going to start making their own jailbreaks and then hoarding the exploits so that you can’t use your own PC to perform them - the jailbreak community would immediately hate such a company.
This seems like an exciting new phase of climate change denial.

Mostly it's the same as one of the previous stages: "pretend dealing with climate change will cost everyone lots of money to put them off doing so" but I like the references to the East India Company. Very worldly and vaguely progressive sounding so ideal to disguise arguments that amount to "dealing with climate change is too expensive lets not bother".

Of course they provide no evidence of this claim (because it's not true), just a weirdly stretched metaphor and a suggestion that taxing carbon will anger the proles and anyone who believes in climate change is a big hypocrite.
This is an excellent answer.

The number of Passivhauser in the US is apparently in the thousands. What would it take to scale this up to 100-1000 times? What would it take to change the status from luxury good to mass adoption?

https://www.pembina.org/blog/passive-house-revolution
This has been a problem for a long time. I'm not sure why other distributions are better at this than Debian, but I think it has something to do with how Debian splits up software in much more packages than other distributions. Maybe it's more difficult to keep track of the state?
If they want to make the biggest impact they should still sell the oil but invest in technology that might mitigate climate change. Playing defense when your overall impact on climate change is so small is a poor choice.
The evidence (both linguistic and genetic) currently seems to tilt in favor of the idea that Polynesian contact did occur, as evidenced by the presence of pre-Columbian sweet potato cultivation in Polynesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato_cultivation_in_Po...

Although natural dispersal of Sweet Potato is a possible explanation, the evidence for natural dispersal is weaker than the evidence for pre-Columbian contact (for instance, the similarity of the Quechua word for sweet potato, "kumar", and the Maori "kumara").
Do you mean gitlab? :)
> Maybe you need to live that time to realize how pathetic today's technology landscape is.

I think that is going a little far. There are some incredible technologies out there right now. What GPUs can do these days is amazing. For another, the phenomenally fast SSDs in current gen consoles like the PS5 will trickle down to PCs. On the flip side of the coin, you have very capable microcontroller platforms based on chips like the ESP32 for a few dollars, not to mention the latest offerings from the Raspberry Pi foundation. Really low cost boards like these put the technology into the hands of anybody that might be interested in learning something with next to no investment required. Even the Amiga couldn't make that claim back then.
> Buying an expensive product is surely more enjoyable. We all want quality products, and everyone deserves the best. But, is it always a good idea?

People often imply "long lifespan" when they buying expansive products, which is not always the case. Take phones for example, a well-made "cheap (inexpensive)" phone now days could last as long as the expensive one under the same usage.

(Heck, the cheap/boring phones lasts way longer than some crazy expensive ones such as Galaxy Fold/Flip)

I have a bluetooth bracelet myself, made by Garmin. And my friend got a similar product from Xiaomi at around half the price compare to how much I paid for mine Garmin. We all brought the device around the same time, around 2 years ago, and both device are still functional today.

However, due to how Garmin designed the product, the glass surface on my bracelet can be scratched really easily. While in the case of Xiaomi, they designed their product in such way that the robber fringe around the glass will protect it from been damaged. The result is, after 2 years of use, my friend's Xiaomi looked almost new, while my Garmin is telling the others that it been abused by a barbarian.

So I think the author has underestimated the "worst-case scenario". No, the real "the worst-case scenario" wasn't "the cheap one breaks", instead, it's "the expansive one breaks".

Shop smart, I guess :)
The problem will never be the seller, its the demand thats problematic. Solve the problem of demand with suitable alternatives and you have solved global warming. Of course blaming those who produce and sell is easier but they're selling it to someone too.
It could be because so many of them have used for decades and have experienced no long term effects? Since peer-reviewed studies into the long-term effects of marijuana are still lacking, most evidence will be anecdotal.
That's about what it has been the whole time in my region and there's no sign of a problem yet.
The root of this issue is that everyone is doing what they can to appear clean and eco friendly without much regard for actually being clean.

Oil rigs hundreds of miles into the ocean look very clean when you can't even see them from the beach. Gasoline cars look much worse, so they're what gets addressed.

Home heating is another thing that is hard to see, yet is very bad for the environment. Eco houses that are super insulated and heated just with the body heat of the occupants have been around for 50+ years, but we still burn oil and gas to heat modern homes because nobody sees...
So not to be needlessly critical but this is not news. Of course a robot is faster in a known map with perfect state information. They have always been. The problem has always been exactly those two things: static map known beforehand, and perfect state information.

The paper also don’t claim this as the contribution so this article is just… misinformation? I think there’s a word for this, willfully being flabbergasted by basically anything so you can write an article about it.
You are exaggerating but you have a point:

P2P systems like bittorrent are incredibly resilient and low-maintenance.

We really need libraries and tools to implement distributed "crowd-hosted" services and contents.

E.g. ways to easily reach a user/application on a dynamic/natted ipaddr.

[please don't start recommending blockchains]
For anyone wondering about the utility: So this works on the machine that hosts ssh-agent, but obviously not on the machine you forward your agent to. It's my understanding that your key never leaves your initial machine, so that's good.

The situation where this would work is if your primary machine were compromised with a root kit or privilege escalation. They would own your box, but actually your ssh key would be somewhat safe because it's stored encrypted at rest (assuming you set a password).

What this does is pull your key out of memory that has been decrypted and reencrypted (in an easily reversible way it seems). The attacker can then log into all remote systems as you by taking a peek at your known hosts file.
> it’s really sad that we average out at around 100 years currently at least.

If we lived to 200, no doubt many would be saying how sad it is that we average out to around 200 years. To me, that we have what we have against all odds is anything but sad.

I take Richard Dawkins' view on this.

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
I left open a proxy by mistake on an ovh server years ago, for 4 days. People found it and used it for fraud.

A few months later, all my personal gmail account are seized and I reveive an email (that I could read after changing my password) from a police department in god fuck knows where middle of nowhere countryside asking me for data on the proxy usage.

Sadly I had revoked the server subscription since I didnt need it anymore (and probably hadnt kept any logs anyway since I was just playing aroud with a server) but I really really wanted to help.

I mean, it s rare the police would call you for a legitimate usage and political suppression. They call you for fraud with damage and it s awful being responsible in small part but unable to help... I was not mad they read all my emails, I was sorry someone lost money because of my mistake.
Can you explain that to me in more detail? This is interesting, and I am not experienced in that black sorcery.

If you need a loan or so, won't the bank actually investigate if the units are vacant?
AKA JavaScript on websites? Sure, it's sandboxed to the Moon, but it's still random people "installing" software on your computer.
FYI:

https://searx.me/ appears to be the link to the project and information on how to host your own setup.
As a former long term frequent user, weed makes you dumb for several days after and it's fairly obvious. The slowdown, increased introversion, and dented motivation will stick with you for a while, but so will the increased baseline dopamine, at least if the user isn't functionally dependent.

If you're already a shut-in, and smoke nonstop for years, it will multiply the introversion, and schizophrenia-like symptoms are essentially inevitable. You will be too nervous to let anyone see you in this state of degraded capacity, and cope with it by just smoking more, it's a vicious cycle. If you have friends who don't mind your habits, or join you frequently, the risk is mostly neutralized.
I worked with a company that did this as well - they even went as far as prefixing their _slack_ channels with $(companyName)…
When asked how I'd do some contrived text processing task, I replied "I'd look at the wiki page for grep and futz until something worked." (Today I'd probably start with 'tldr' command.)

Like I've done my entire career. Most of our job is mygyvering crap. Esp for scrubbing data.

"Well, ya, that'd work. And probably what I'd do too."

Next interviewer really grilled me about parsing and spam detection. For a UI job. When I explained some of the grammars I did write, for a hobby project, this "bar raiser" dismissed the effort by saying "well, that's nothing, lex/yacc did all the work." (To my overlasting shame, I sarcastically replied "Ya, and my compiler writes all my code too.")

Next interviewer, the engineering manager, grilled me, repeatedly, about how I'd choose between two options, using his current dilemma as the example. (Because apparently I was interviewing to replace him.) I related my prior experiences, eg satisficing. Not good enough. Try both options? Nope. Take a vote? Naw, that'd be too adversarial. Flip a coin? Oh, please, that's not rational.

I didn't get the job.
I don't get why you're downvoted - you are completely correct in your analysis of public perception!

The key issue underlying all of the chaos is that scientific literacy isn't taught much in schools. Too many people think that "once scientists have declared something, this may be as irrevocable as the stone platters on which Moses wrote the 10 Commandments", whereas the reality rather is that scientific knowledge is always expanding, including retractions or corrections as more data becomes available!

Another part of the problem is that politicians - not just in the US but also in the rest of the Western world - have dropped their role of taking in scientific knowledge and distilling reasonable policy out of it. And to top that, media has been massively cutting down on their "science journalism" departments that could provide context and education to public debate.
If I am not mistaken the oil company in Norway - Statoil - is owned by the government.
But I guess the argument regarding lobbying still holds.
Come on, we didn't even have time for the trials we actually ran. Thousands died while we waited for rubber stamps.
If there were less migrants, natives wouldn't have cushy farmworker jobs. That wouldn't be profitable. By and large, there would simply be fewer farmworker jobs:

Farmers would switch to less labour intensive crops, eg wheat instead of fruit, and make slightly less money.

Migrant's basically 'create' their own farmworker jobs. Those jobs wouldn't exist without them.

Researchers have looked at the effect of migration on wages. Just ask your favourite search engine for 'migration and wages' (or similar terms), and see many papers.

Eg https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2017/does-immigration... or https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th... or https://wol.iza.org/articles/do-immigrant-workers-depress-th... or https://www.oecd.org/els/42365109.pdf (just to give the top results I get from Google).

Basically, the papers say that the effect is probably zero, or at most very small.

So something you could relatively easily compensate existing workers (or voters) for, by laying a fee or tax on the migrants.
>Does that mean you can't bring your kid on a trip to the supermarket?

I would support a law that prohibits kids in a grocery store
That's the point.

They managed to get a product out quickly. Rivian did not.
As a subarctic country with little sea level land, they have little to fear from a warmer climate.
Having lived in the US and the UK (as well as several other countries within Europe) for several years, I can say that in my experience the "license/permission to do X" is generally far more prominent in the UK/most European countries than it is in the US.
Platform members are receiving a better ROI than Facebook and Google ads
> Moreover, the government has recently decided to expand exploration and production of gas and oil in one of the areas that the very same government acknowledges are most sensitive to climate change — the Arctic Circle.

I believe this is the most egregious charge in the article, which turns out to be true

https://europeangreens.eu/news/norway-opens-arctic-more-dril...
There's a winery in France that makes wine as close to the ancient Roman method too http://tourelles.com/
Norway is the 13th biggest oil producer in the world, and outside the Middle East the 1st per capita.

If you were looking for changes from the first world, you'd start there.

I agree that non-first world countries are the where you'll see the most growth in oil consumption.
No, it was much longer ago, especially for pre-RGB applications. OLEDs came about in the late 80's, and mono displays started showing up in the 90s (I think one of my early flip phones had an OLED exterior display). RGB units were demonstrated around 2000 and commercialized in limited uses in the very early 2000's.
So was it ethical to gamble on a four week interval when it wasn’t proven to be the best option?
Microsoft can easily pay for external software audits. They just need them to sign an NDA or other agreement that the access to code is only to be used to audit the code, and nothing else.
I'd love to hear more about MPS. I tried looking into it, but the 'getting started' tutorials involved tens of files with arcane (for a novice) logic, so I gave up.
I think getting off of fossil fuels should be a worldwide priority, and expanding fossil fuel exploration is a bad way to spend our time and effort as a species. But I don't understand this line:

> Moreover, the government has recently decided to expand exploration and production of gas and oil in one of the areas that the very same government acknowledges are most sensitive to climate change—the Arctic Circle.

My understanding is that the fossil fuels that may be extracted from the arctic circle would be exported and processed elsewhere. The arctic circle is not going to be more affected by climate change just because the fossil fuels causing climate change came from under the arctic circle, right? Or am I missing something here?
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Let's give them some credit here - they've done quite a lot to move the EV industry forward and widespread EV adoption will wreak havoc on the oil industry. Exactly whom and how badly it'll hit is hard to predict, but Norway will be able to take a hit regardless.

But "hypocrisy" aside, the article is generally spot on. Climate change will be addressed by lowering incomes or standards of living anywhere in the world. Schemes to make people give up comforts, personal transport or their houses are going to fail. Schemes that aim to simply decarbonize existing lives (EVs, heat pumps, air capture fuels, carbon capture, novel protein) will succeed. Essentially, convincing people to switch to carbon free alternatives (EVs, protein) is about as much as you can expect from people.
I only asked why the target is impossible.
Also, spectre meltdown, all the hw cves, there are a bunch of bluetooth protocol flaws.. the list goes on.
Pretrained and external cameras, so a completely synthetic environment
Here is the primary source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985/

The authors, universities, and funding sources are clearly indicated. IIRC there's even a description of who did what, though you can also work that out by looking at each of the authors' other papers; that'll show you what each specializes in.
> This article is so quick to blame a national government when the problem is squarely on oil and gas companies.

Is this the first time you've heard of Norway? It's one and the same. Statoil is majority owned by the Norwegian government.
The article also says UAPs. UAPs include UFOs but not interstellar comets and such stuff.
The A stands for Aerial. The title is not misleading UAP is what normal people name UFO. Its just more correct because some things visible in the sky are not not flying and or not an object. for example ball lightnings.
I had something similar at a liquor store in Utah.

My mom (well over 21) tried to buy liquor, but was refused because a lack of ID. She sent me (also well over 21) to buy instead. At the register, I made a passive aggressive comment about how my mom was refused 30 mins ago. So they refused ME because they wanted to "ID all people at my party" - or something like that.
Fellow natives should be able to propose changes. Some symbol choices will never be consensual but some are clearly a mistake[1]. I believe many Portuguese don't even know the presented monument. Belem tower is the reasonable choice[2].

[1] https://symbolhunt.com/portugal/national-monument/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m_Tower
Norway has very diffrent terrain from neighbouring Sweden, she is practically all coastline. Not much easily logged forrest, no big lowland plains for large scale farming
"If we want to really confront –as opposed to just talking—climate change we should first, be rid of extreme hypocrisy (as this one), and second, design policies that would be acceptable to the population."

I don't really understand the hypocrisy argument. Would it be preferable if Norway continued to produce oil while not doing any work towards climate change? The current oil situation in Norway is a huge political topic and several of the more left wing parties are for stopping oil production - but the population and political system as a whole isn't ready for it. It seems that the current compromise is investing in green energy while making the transition towards non-fossil fuel based economy in the future. The Norwegian population and political system isn't a monolith and the hypocrisy argument just doesn't make sense to me considering different factions promote the different actions.

A bit OT but I've had some discussions with people who seem to care more about perceived hypocrisy and double standards than they care about the actual outcomes of actions. It's morally just if a business ruins the environment or lives of people if they believe that they are in the right about doing it. On the other hand they are morally unjust if they see the issues they are causing and take steps to minimize the externalities. I've chalked this up to a more deontological instead of consequentialist moral stance but I still find it a bit confusing.
Ok and what's the plan when California's groundwater is depleted?
I graduated in Massachusetts in 1979. I've never seen a beer vending machine.

But even after age 21 drinking came in in the state, most of the bars where I went to school were perfectly fine with a college ID with no age on it. (And my drivers license at the time was an unlaminated piece of index stock with no photo.)
> It looks like there are a bunch of programmers who think that having taken the first year uni course on data structures is more important than having experience actually building product and having it used by millions.

To be honest, drilling down on all the stuff they teach you in first year helps you more in getting a job at Google than having lots of practical experience.

I'm inclined to believe that this is a problem with Google. But I am not sure you should trust my opinion: I am sure Google spent much more time and money and figuring out the right approach here than I ever laid my hands on in my whole life.

See also https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
It was before my time, but based on what I can read and see on YouTube, it strikes me what made the Amiga special in its day was its pile of custom chips that aided graphics, audio and kept assembly costs down by integrating tons of IO and glue logic into a chipset. Everything else seems to built down to cost keeping the overall system price from going into the stratosphere.

And while those custom chips are fine, they seemed almost targeted at sprite-based gaming and cost reduction. Again, I’m just looking at it through other peoples nostalgia, but it seems like it just wasn’t that remarkable of a machine for general purpose usage.
It doesn't have to be completely blind, the local council could have options to waive or adjust the taxes or the law could include ways to show the landlord is trying to attract tenants by lowering the rent or something. Also most of the places this is suggested for aren't significantly shrinking.
Dealing with climate change will cost money. The article is suggesting that if climate change activists want to be successful, they need to acknowledge that and start talking about cost-benefit trade-offs. The argument is, explicitly, that this is a precondition for effective political activism. If you don't want to do that, and if you want to kid yourself that transitioning to a carbon-free economy can be done without spending money, fine, but there's no need to misrepresent the original argument.
No one ever claimed that it was the best option, just that it was the only option clinically tested. It would have been irresponsible to recommend a different option without at least some limited clinical trials. Sometimes you can't wait for perfect data.
Khan Academy offers VERY nice, free resources for practicing.

Throwing out the SAT is the wrong move.