skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With work from home this kind of setup can become a viable option for many.

Living in the city feels really more and more repulsive to me, so hearing about people who have moved off-grid or to a rural location sounds super interesting. I have so many questions now, sorry.

Where are you located roughly geographically? (Trying to map your story into places close to me. I'm in Sweden and trying to form a picture of everything you described, and judging from the biome with ash and oak you're likely to the south of my location, latitude-wise.)

Was the farmland a big investment? Do you have prior professional experience with what you do there -- I mean, what you've done sounds successful, how did you know what has to be done? Do you work from your farm? Do you have a blog or something?
> And now let's say you want to get out of the city for the weekend. Do you rent a car? That's way more expensive in the long run compared to owning.

Are you doing it every weekend? Renting a car for just the odd weekend away would be way cheaper than owning. The initial cost / capital depreciation aside even.

I live in London and don't have a car, a £50+ train out to my parents' seems a bit absurd next to the cost of a train to Paris, Ryanair flights, or my Netflix subscription. But I could do it every other weekend just for the cost of insuring a (basic, sensible) car.

I could probably go more often than I do, take taxis there and back (>2h each way) and still come out ahead vs. car ownership.

Really need a 'day to day' (or specialised, such as needing capacity for something, or disabled access) use to make it worthwhile IMO, too many people I think see it as just a 'standard' thing which must be had.
> You would think that trillion dollar companies like Amazon would care about not being able to operate at all in a few decades.

Lawmakers are the issue, not big tech companies.

I know it’s popular to hate on big tech companies, but many of them are actually doing a lot more to improve the climate impact of their own operations than average or required by law.

Amazon has committed to switching to 100% renewable energy in the next few years and also going completely carbon neutral before the date proposed in the Paris Agreement: https://www.aboutamazon.com/planet/climate-pledge

They’ve also created a program to coordinate with other companies to join the same climate pledge and funded research in the area to the tune of $2 billion (so far): https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/about/the-climate-ple...

I don’t understand why Amazon is the first target that comes to mind when they’re doing more than required to reduce their own and others climate impacts.

It’s not the big tech companies we need to be angry at. It’s the lawmakers who are failing to put appropriate regulations in place and the voters who continue to enable them.
I disagree. I think it's the first step towards enabling e2ee on iCloud photos. This system will replace the server side CSAM they have done for years.
I like to squat when interacting with toddlers as they are less afraid of someone their height and the act of squatting reminds me of when I played catcher as a young man.
And if that's the case how long until other things get added to the scan list given the precedent has been set.
>I'm not sure what to do about it

For starters, please give up the defeatist attitude. They deserve the frontlash; even if it serves no purpose, as you describe it.

Apple have placed 'Privacy' at the core of their messaging, in order to sell their high-end products. In comparison to the already excessive pearl clutching based on moral panic within the ecosystem e.g. sanitising and censoring language and apps. This is a scope-creep via thought terminating clichés like 'think of the children' and the boogeymen, which will not be enough of an explanation, when Apple ID's start getting locked out for capturing entirely innocent moments of their children's lives, or the intimate holiday snaps etc. Conversely, someone can weaponise it by sending you content that will besmirch your good name, or send you away for a stint in prison.

Nonetheless, they will be a couple of moves away from either a lawsuit/collective action or a pushback from consumers, especially when the algorithm (wrongly) labels you as paedo, porn baron or worse -- then placing you in a Kafkaesque nightmare to explain yourself.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your...
Switch to what? Patent trolls can sue other Captcha users just as well.

The patent is on Captcha, not on using Google. It even appears to be a patent on image Captcha, and Google is the main provider of non image Captchas.
So, if 450 ppm is bad, wouldn't 900 ppm be worse? It wasn't so long ago in the climate's history that it was that way. Not so long before that, it was 1800. Wouldn't that make the world ultra-XXXL screwed beyond belief? What happened there?
I had almost exactly the same situation happen. I had to produce activation codes just before Christmas. I was on my break, chilling at home when I got a text message asking if they could email me the bit of script so I could change it to remove the vowels. I complied and when I got back to the office after Christmas asked why.

Turns out that when you generate over a million random letter sequences some of them are rather fruity words. In fact my original code was being referred to as "the random f*k generator" lol
> (fee) $70,000+ Your company tells DAD to “pound sand,” or the like . . . .

Patent trolls using troll-like language.
I used to have a personal list of stages but can't find it at the moment. Denying it's a problem/claiming it's a good thing is not the last one though.

But:

1. Deny the Problem Exists
2. Deny We're the Cause
3. Deny It's a Problem
4. Deny We can Solve It
5. It's too Late
5b. And it's the fault of doom prophets who scared us into denying it (it's a mechanism to resist stress) and should have communicated better.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Also keep in mind that during that period the Black Plague killed 30-60% of the population. Serfs had more power because there were dramatically fewer of them.
Why are they not so eager about tax evasion and avoidance done by big corporations? Tax payer loses much much much more money through that, than through any crypto fiddles.
Makes you think who lawmakers work for...
Notice, for example, that Thunderbird is sending file names and SHA-256 hashes when you open most (e.g. .pdf) attachments, in the clear, to Google. This seems worse to me (in the Apple case, the information is revealed only if enough files from one device match against a predefined hash list) and nobody really cares...

I have just tested with a fresh profile with a freshly downloaded thunderbird-78.12.0.tar.bz2 (x64 Linux, en-US) using a Burp proxy. Here is the function that does it: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone...

Here is the about:config tweak to turn it off: browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.url

Here is an example request: POST https://sb-ssl.google.com/safebrowsing/clientreport/download...

Content is Protobuf-encoded payload containing:

- full path to the mailbox including the username and "secret" random profile name (e.g. /home/jenda/.thunderbird/ioi8uk0k.tbtest/Mail/hrach.eu/Inbox)

- SHA-256 of the file

- attachment file name (e.g. 10-test-blahblah.pdf)
Heh, v4 had to be from before VMs were common and MACs easily duplicated.
My pick with Latex is: Error messages look to me as complicated as C++ template errors, packages sometimes don't work well together, a lot of boilerplate is usually needed, and I feel somehow the Syntax needs too many keystrokes, like why not make {} for sub and superscript optional and everything until the next space character is sub or superscripted (and not only one character). Also writing {\rm text} feels wrong. Shdnd it be \rm {text} and maybe instead one shd be able to use $ in an equation block to get to a non italic font.

While markdown is not advanced enough, I feel the making it easier for the user to use is the right modern approach, from which maybe a full system could be designed.

Also figure placement should allow more fine-tuning (not sure how, and yes this is against the original spirit)
I hardly use any apps that are not foss, really I just need slack and whatsapp, and they work well (push notifications etc) so microG works well for me (I don't think these 2 apps would work fully without microG but never tested that). Banking apps I don't use, and they probably wouldn't work, but hey, websites are still a thing.
Fossil fuels are an absolute cornerstone of the world geopolitical order. The US dollar is at least partly backed by oil in that the oil trade is used to ensure its dominance. You are not wrong but Amazon is not the influencer you should be thinking about. The link between oil and the political order is deeper than that.
By nerdy I really mean following up details and learning things for the sake of it. Video games are not nerdy any more, nerd culture has completely won over the last 15 years or so.
I highly recommend the last episode of the “Corecursive” podcast. The guest of the episode is Zig creator - Andrew Kelly, and he tells about the history of Zig, it’s really interesting! https://corecursive.com/067-zig-with-andrew-kelley/
I've noticed that my unit tests are really useful to work out the bugs, but then they might get stale.

Once something is tested and worked out, it's like they become a little redundant.

In software of course re-iterating the tests is maybe cost free, whereas in physical production 'unit tests' introduce maybe non-negligible costs so the 'advantage' in not having to repeat them possibly makes a difference.
1.5GHz for the four high speed cores, by the way.
For what it’s worth, Amazon does care about doing more than required about climate change. They’re moving to 100% renewable energy within the next few years and funding alternative energy and sustainability research on the order of billions of dollars: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/about/the-climate-ple...

You can find similar commitments from other big tech companies like Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-commits-to-be-1...

Let’s focus on the lawmakers who are failing us, not the big tech companies who are already doing more than required by law to reduce their footprint.
with regards to #1, that is what I did last year when I chose to buy apple since safetynet would mean i would be completely hosed in buying a phone that works with privacy centered custom roms while also using important apps. now that apple is completely breaking user trust where you you possibly think people can 'vote with their feet'? this is a libertarian fantasy other than simply not using smartphones altogether?
>it must always be pretty nice living on the Mediterranean, drinking your wine with fresh fish, rustic bread and olive oil

Well I'm not gonna lie, it is x)
> Whenever technology raises your living standards, you have more children, and average GDP per head returns to subsistence level.

I thought it was 1. people have lots of kids because lots of them die, 2. progress in terms of stopping babies and children dying means more adults than expected survive to adulthood, 3. Those adults then adjust to the new reality and start having less kids.
A few years ago I wrote a diceware generator at work and used it to generate my login passwords. But then they changed the complexity requirements and I couldn't use that method any more. I was most disappointed.
They are probably slightly different prophecies and the nuances get lost by the media and/or by readers.

1990: We are 10 years from being unable to stop climate change. -- Happened.

2000: We are 10 years from coral reefs being killed. -- Happened.

2010: We are 10 years from farms being permanently scorched. -- Happening.
I suspect that if they were strictly bitstream hashes and not perceptual hashes, people would be less concerned.
Solar is cheapest in a similar way that fish is the cheapest food on an island.

If you only look at the days when catches are high then it is the cheapest method to produce food. If fish are your primary source of food, and every day you don't get enough you will have to eat expensive imported food, you food cost over the year can be quite high for a primary fishing nation. The fish will still be cheapest, but as a strategy it is somewhat expensive or carry a high risk of starvation.

Nations will build as much solar/wind as there is peak demand, because it is the cheapest energy when it produce. Nation will also build coal, oil and gas power plants in order to be there when those solar and wind aren't producing. Economically that is the cheapest way to produce a stable energy grid. Environmentally it is far from the best. Falling solar and wind prices reinforces this model.
4k 39" 16:9 here, but it's a TV not a monitor. I'd also love more height, but I think we're stuck with 16:9's past 35" since monitors past this size aren't popular. While we're wishing, I'd also like curved please :)

I'm use Windows so AutoHotKey is my window manager: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-posit...

Usually my main window is an IDE and it takes 50% of the center, and I'll have miscellaneous windows off to the left and right peeking out from behind it. Creating shortcuts to specific programs (also to minimize/maximize/close them) is also helpful as mousing to the taskbar is just not efficient.
Amazon is investing quite a bit in this space.[1] It may not be enough by the UN committee estimates (edit: I think it actually is sufficient according to IPCC's scenarios [2]), but I don't think it's fair to say Amazon doesn't care.

[1] completely carbon neutral by 2040, carbon-neutral shipments by 2030, 100% renewable power for their operations by 2025, $2 billion pledged for decarbonizing tech, $100 million invested in reforestation
https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/.

[2] carbon-neutral by 2050 meets the Paris agreement goal-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007533/
I’d prefer not, I’d prefer an experience similar to Google photos or iCloud if possible. Well I guess it depends on what you mean actually because those services require the family to log in…
Surprised not many people talking about /e/ https://e.foundation/e-os/
It’s never going to happen unless they can solve the deflation problem. Why would I use a unit of cryptocurrency to pay my rent today, if I think the real value of the cryptocurrency unit will buy even more rent next month? The Internet is full of stories from people who bought like a pizza with Bitcoin years ago and realize that same amount of Bitcoin would be worth like $10,000 today.

Using cryptocurrency to transact every day items is directly contrary to the “HODL” culture around cryptocurrency that exists today. It works in society like an investment, not a currency.

The ever-decreasing value of the dollar is a feature not a bug. It encourages people to transact their dollars for items of real value like pizza, and store their wealth in items of real value like real estate, stocks, etc.
> Was a little too theoretical for me

I sort of agree - it reads like a literature review converted to an article. But still, pleasantly readable IMHO without much prior knowledge.
Looks very useful. It would be good to know how it compares with alternatives
I used https://github.com/SaraVieira/starter-book - works well if you're familiar with GatsbyJS
Much more than brownie points. Apple et al all check CSAM on the server today. If Apple is wanting to announce further e2ee at the next iPhone event, moving a privacy protecting CSAM check to the client is how to stave off encryption destroying legislation.
Yes I’ve seen that which is why I’m having a pause. Thanks for the reply and helpful tip
Personally I've never really been under the impression that bellingcat were strictly neutral, I mostly buy that they get tipped off and then rejustify the story using OSINT sometimes, but let's not forget that they have published information which is embarrassing to the US. See the recent story on procedures on nuclear bases leaking from flashcard apps for example.
Because solar only works when it’s sunny.

The quoted prices for cheap solar energy don’t include storage. Solar plus storage is still expensive.
That models are inherently biased. A model does not contain or produce 'truth'.

A model will produce what one is comfortable with.
As a faculty member and PhD advisor, let me offer my reading between the lines. The student and advisor did not get along already. The student went to China and found a girlfriend. The lockdown separated them. Hormones flared, exacerbating what was probably already a tense situation.

The student was increasingly a problem (note the screaming at the advisor mentioned in TFA). The advisor decided that it was no longer worth the effort to maintain the unofficial relationship and broke the promise of supporting the student's future re-enrollment. Dealing with unprofessional students sucks. It's very hard to "fire" grad students for unproductivity or workplace issues, unless they are egregious. In this situation the advisor had a convenient out and took it.
We should radically scale genius grants
Yeah, that's why I "choose" Windows and Office 365 for my own company. Now that this is over, and I have a new set of employer owned hardware for work, I can get rid of that for my private life. Hence Linux and I guess, LibreOffice. Once I have time I'll also quit Google's Android on my Pixel. I need time for that so, good thing is most of Steam works on Linux just fine. I'll do some digging first so if Linux on my X1 Extreme works just fine. I am not motivated enough to solve driver issues...
Bitcoin Impacted Tesla, MicroStrategy, and Square’s Q2 Earnings
> ”Software should be protected with the same rights we have with speech.”

And also regulated the same way as anything else. If you’re operating as an unlicensed money transmitter, you can’t pretend that it’s legit because your ledgers are printed and therefore protected by the First Amendment. Same applies to “but it’s just code”.
Three random words are great. But for this to work in real life requires dozens of sets of three random words per person.
The Simplest Social Media Algorithm Hack to Transform Your Entire Life
Better title: study picks 9 categories and assigns chroinic pains to one of those categories, proving that data can be sorted into arbitrary categories.
How does this work with the placement of a webcam? Wouldn't such a large monitor put the webcam a bit too high?
Would it change the effect much to add miners? It seems like this would tank the prospects of most mainstream crypto as is.
Expect people to be swatted by placing CP on their laptop.
How to Explain the Rise and Fall of WeWork?
The Milky Way Warp May Be the Legacy of an Ongoing Galactic Collision
Yes, eventually. But you know what’s bad for the environment? Recycling programs. More trucks driving around picking up waste that most likely can’t be recycled, and when it is, results in more energy costs. It’s a nice thought, but recycling is just a bad implementation and it needs to go away. Just sequester the carbon in the ground/landfill. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
>Healthcare spending has skyrocketed over the last 20-30 years

Aging populations with for profit healthcare will do that.

>US teachers are among the best paid in the world

It's still a comparatively low paying, thankless profession and consistently fails to attract talent because of low pay. Most Engineers, for example, have starting pay similar to a teacher's pay with 15 years of experience. Both jobs require the same level of training and degree (Bachelor's).

>total US government spending is taking more out of the US economy than it ever has,

Government spending is still economic activity. It doesn't 'take money out' of the economy, it contributes to it. It pays workers like any other employer that can then spend that money in the local economies. If your argument is 'government spending is bad' then that's a terrible argument.
To a community whose origin revolves around the value of their labor going entirely to violent oppressors, ownership structure of enterprises that claim to represent them is understandably prized.
Sounds like the metaphors we apply to insect colonies - defining Queen, soldiers, and workers, or seeing factories, or brains, occlude a more objective understanding of how they organise themselves.
I believe the standard inflation measures in the US are based on people living in cities, as I do.
Super solid firewall, since I found it never look back.
If this was going to happen, it would have already happened on Android, Gmail, OneDrive, or any of dozens of services which already do what Apple is now doing.

Or are you saying that malicious activity is only interesting if it was on an Apple device?
We have lots of choices, but driving is the norm. There is a train near Ranier, it’s still operable (steam train!) but is now for tourism. Let’s hope it reopens.

Switzerland has trains and postal buses to serve its mountain villages and make tourism easy. The distances involved are a bit greater out west, however.
I wonder why...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Unite...
Do you have any proof of that actually happening? Genuine question, because fining someone over pure hearsay seems insane.
Then there's places that don't allow that long passwords, like PayPal! Max 20 characters.
> I get it from behavioral science why it all works like this, but one still wonders if it's the same for every other civilizations out there, if there are any.

I'm pretty sure that this is the great filter: a species evolving under the constraints of competition for resources inevitably fails as soon as it steps on the land mine of global dominance.

Joking aside; it's kinda tragic to see this happening. The worst thing about it is the willful blindness of many people that should know it better; we're at the brink of extinction and still people find ways to close their eye and go "lalala".

It's fantastic. As in; beyond believable...
Not really, Cyprus is full of rich and very rich people, like i feel poor more often than not.
> I mean for pete sake is Microsoft or Google even trying to compete?

Forget the evil monopolies. Consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinehone. They may not be ready for an average user, but the HN audience can take advantage of them and help their develoment.
To be clear, what happened to this kid is horrible and just demonstrates that we have to get serious on this problem.

However this comment annoyed me:

"«I'm in Switzerland, not China,» Gerber replied. «I can say what I want here.»"

You can tell this kid grew up in the la-la land that is the West, particularly Europe. I find this comment to be an infuriating mix anivete and patronizing.

For the naïveté Switzerland is a landlocked country of 10 million people. Tough guys, great companies, great economy, sure. But a minnow. China can and does throw it's weight against people in countries like this.

For the patronizing part of the comment, it's the Western attitude of "this can't happen here", or "that will never get to be so bad" typical of people that are 70 years removed from tyranny (I'm Western myself, but my parents lived through a dictatorship).

This is the attitude that allows people in the West to compartmentalize all the known abuses (snowden leaks, NSA spying on European leaders, Big Tech squashing our rights, etc) and live in a permanent state of double-think.
Removing parking space and giving it to less wasteful modes of transport is one of the more efficient ways to improve an area.
Reading the bills, they are not banning anything. Just changing the reporting requirements. Doesn’t POS supporters want government oversight of the pseudo-decentralised actors required in POS?
The punishment for strict liability is much lower than for the same act with intent.