skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emissions only 8 % lower last year. Yet everyone still seems to think behavioral change will solve this. Nope.

Geo-engineering, co2 capture and other tech are the only solution.

The strange part is that even on HN people seem to think technological solutions are immoral. As if humans need to be punished for their ‘climate sins’ by lowering their living standard and comfort instead of just fixing the problem with our brains.
I'm trying to hold out for an AMD cpu on the framework but I might not be able to wait much longer.
Show HN: Torchlight.dev – A VS Code Compatible Syntax Highlighting API
Evergrande Borrowed from Everyone
> That's all concerning the content though

Ah yes. Just the content. Including things like WebUSB, WebHID, and a bunch of others.

> You could fairly easily make your own web browser that uses HTTP and only reads (gem)text files and ignore the rest of the web.

Yes, you probably could. And it wouldn't work with most of the web.
The sad part is that this aesthetic even "modernized" enough will not be approved by any major media outlet of today.

Mainly because "the trends" are pseudo stylized 3d or flat shapes with childishly over-saturated colors.

I miss the time when trying to create something unique and deep visually was properly rewarded. And from the looks of it I am not alone.
I don't follow this issue in detail but I think Elsevier edits the drafts so you are not free to publish it elsewhere unless you pay extra to make it open access. The other option is to publish the draft copies elsewhere before Elsevier touches it.
Ok, so you're a communist. Good luck trying to decrease poverty with communism.
> Tax-financed, obviously.

Obviously (as in my New York example.) I am just making the point that this stuff costs people whether it shows up in the article or not.

> A big difference here is that non-university career paths seem far better accepted than in the USA.

I actually think this is one of those things where following "what's acceptable" is going to hurt people, as it often does. For example, there's plumber in my town, one of the things he does is helps people drain their sprinkler systems for the winter. $70 a pop for 20 mins of work, so $210 an hour. I would be very surprised if he has a degree.

Meanwhile, someone can have a $240K degree from Columbia in something totally useless and be working in retail for minimum wage. To some degree this person is "more acceptable" because he went to college, but in a real sense this person is powerless, not just despite their degree but in part because of it. That's not a sustainable situation and I can't see this kind of thing continue.

As a side not, it's funny that we sometimes make fun of politicians that have support among non-college educated adults. But in my mind, I am much more impressed with someone that my plumber thinks is good, vs the 240k-in-debt Columbia grad.
Feels like western markets have lots of "fictional growth" on the books lately. We'll see if/how that unwinds.
That’s how it works in multiple other countries in the EU too, like Germany and Austria.
What human orgs have the capacity and trust to ensure safe and good use of AI?
I think that argument has been applied to LPDDR4, which is what most laptops use now in pursuit of battery life
Dig a little.

Why?

Why is anyone at war with anyone else? Usually the answer is, "because they did this first". But if you follow all the trails, you ultimately come to the conclusion that the real answer is either, "well, they're not us". Or "they look different".

Or sadly amusingly, because "they claim they invented hummus, but WE invented hummus". Or "they wear their little caps differently from how we do".

But if you put two people from opposing sides together at a dinner table, or with musical instruments, or in a crisis situation, you may be surprised to see that they not only can get along but can become friends.
It feels like for years we were constantly told by these corporations "it's impossible to have slim, tiny laptops and make them customizable", and I guess at some level I believed that, and just accepted that laptops with upgradable components were a thing of the past.

After seeing the framework, I'm more than a little annoyed that I fell for this. They proved you can have a slim, clean laptop that's somewhat modular, and more impressively, with something like 1% of Apple's budget to do it. Had I known about it, I probably wouldn't have paid an arm and a leg for a maxed-out Macbook Pro a year ago. MacOS is nice, probably my favorite consumer operating system currently available, but Apple's walled garden approach is beyond annoying.
And why are they BGA chips these days? That's the real problem. Did mobile CPUs somehow advance past desktop ones while I wasn't looking?
U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
It doesn't really make sense that it is easier to take down 10 bombers than 1, does it?

If you fire an imprecise weapon at a group of 10 bombers, your odds of hitting one of them can be up to 10x what it is if the same weapon fired at a single bomber.

If you have limited ammunition, it is therefore sensible to wait for the group of 10 before firing.

So it's important to differential between potential destruction and actual destruction. The firebombings did incontrovertibly more damage, and after the war both governments had reason to not emphasize this.

Yeah. The USA invented a weapon (napalm) specifically intended to target the poorest neighborhoods in Japan. And those neighborhoods were so vulnerable exactly because the Japanese government didn't care about the people living there.

It was much safer to talk about how big and threatening nuclear bombs were.
Having read many many court documents, I couldn't agree with you more.

I have seen literally hundreds of comments/jokes/emails/phone call recordings/etc taken out of obvious context and submitted as evidence - often to the detriment of the innocent. In the serious environment of a lawyers office or court room, or in the intentionally biased environment of social media - NOTHING IS FUNNY. All jokes are insensitive at best, or are at worst evidence of malicious intent.

Over the years, in my opinion, I have personally this phenomenon getting significantly worse.

We advise all our clients just not to make jokes, unless you're in private with very close friends/colleagues you trust. Never EVER make a joke or sarcastic comment in writing. Anything that can be misinterpreted, WILL be misconstrued, often intentionally, when any relationship sours.

In general, if you are or might become under any scrutiny whatsoever, golden rule #1 is: Shut the fuck up.
> It doesn't really make sense that it is easier to take down 10 bombers than 1, does it?

In 1944, these were largely "strategic" bombers: who had more range than our fighters. I believe they were unescorted (our fighters / carriers simply didn't have enough range yet to provide assistance).

These large "superfortress" bombers may have had machine gun defenses, but they couldn't dodge or dogfight. They were sitting ducks (albeit at higher altitudes than Japanese aircraft could follow, but these superfortresses weren't made for air-superiority... not at all).

This means that if a Japanese fighter / interceptor was most efficient vs these strategic bombing runs. Once you shot down one bomber, you're already to shoot down a 2nd or 3rd. Your most efficient use of fighters was therefore against groups of bombers.

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Its not about the "difficulty" of the task, and more about the "efficiency" of the task. One Ace pilot could kill 2 or 3 bombers during the defense of a city.

But if only 1-bomber "scout" were going somewhere, its just not worth your ace pilot's time or energy. The best they could do is shoot down just one enemy bomber.
And apparently it made sense for him to pay 150$/year to get his laptop fixed in 24h if needed, and buy two powerbooks at once... I guess what he really should have bought is a Toughbook instead of a ThinkPad?
mRNA takes off – pharma's new tech is set to soar, can the industry keep up?
You definitely want to pick up a handheld bar code scanner and dump all the data into a csv.

From there it would take a few hours of playing with the data to get it in whichever form you prefer
Out of curiosity, do you have ghosting problems with the Mars? You can also connect a kindle to USB and use the internal flash without ever connecting it to the internet.
> The United States’ score declined for the fifth consecutive year. False, misleading, and manipulated information continued to proliferate online, even affecting public acceptance of the 2020 presidential election results. The new administration took promising steps to enforce stronger protections for internet users.

Why does the proliferation of misinformation imply a lack of freedom? Surely it should be the opposite.
These laptops would be an instant buy from me if I could get a new AMD chip instead of the Intel CPU's.
>And if I - earning 2x-3x more than most workers - can't afford these basic homes, how the hell does everyone else who earns the median income of $60K do it?

By living in a rural area or not on the coasts.

>And I don't think it's appropriate to expect 40 year olds to still live with a bunch of roommates like they did when they're 22.

I guess that depends on your culture. It's pretty normal to have multiple families or roommates in other countries.

The only legit way I can see to fixing some of these issues is to ensure you do not let investors outside of your country buy up property. China is notorious for this. Secondly maybe you limit companies like Blackrock as well. I really dislike the idea of rent control. I don't think people that own a few properties should be punished and pushed out of the market. This just leads to larger corporations owning everything.
Sure, US equities are frothy but are backed by cashflows backed by a consumerist society in a mostly functioning democracy. China's real estate market are tulips more people collect than live in.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+real+estate+occupied+v...
I have a DIY version preordered, due in October - planning on transferring over my NVME SSD and 32GB of RAM from my busted, falling apart XPS15 into the new Framework.
I strongly disagree. HN/PH launches are short lived media events with (usually) little lasting impact. If you blame a failed HN launch campaign for a failing company then I don't believe your company was ever going to make it in the first place.

Your product should be easy to find as early as possible. You need the customer feedback to build the right thing and you need the compounding effects of an early internet presence (eg SEO). Don't hold back launching, launch while you're still at least somewhat embarrassed of your product.
Mortgage rates in the US have been dirt cheap the past few years. They are currently between 2-3%. I don't think student loan rates are that low.
Known Attacks – Ethereum Smart Contract Best Practices
I own one. It's awesome.
The infograph reports also USA among the countries arresting people because of social media posts, in this case, Twitter.

I wonder if it's this case (or one of them): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/twitter-troll-arrest....
NFTs are a solution in search of a problem.
I’m generally sceptical of attempts to quantify concepts like ‘internet freedom’.⁰

However, the conclusion is probably right, insofar as it’s meaningful to refer to internet freedom ‘around the world’, even going on a qualitative approach.

The long-term trend is the spread of China-style internet controls at the very least in non-democracies.¹ There is not much stopping this process except bureaucratic inertia. It is in the interests of the zhongnanhai not to have to interact with a world set on democratic norms contrary to its interests. It is in the interests of local governments to be able to control the threat of dissent on the internet. Although there are some unsung victories (e.g. in Malawi, Zambia, and maybe Sudan) in which incumbents were thrown out at least partly by movements in support of constitutional democracy, just as many countries are slipping away from constitutional democracy, so the pool of dictatorships open to Chinese-style internet controls is at the very least not shrinking very fast.

In the West, it’s very hard to find principled defenders of freedom of expression in any political party, and the same applies to internet freedom. If the legal situation is right, judges are more attached to it.

0: for the reasons outlined at https://samzdat.com/2018/03/26/enter-a-search-term-e-g-democ...

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-internet-surveilla...
Well when you don't have any money left to buy your groceries, sooner or later you'll find out who's dependent on who
>> replacing their laptop every year?

Not really that uncommon especially with a MacBook Pro where a new one is released...every year.

How much sense it makes, that's another story.
Oh yeah, I always forget they're different. Anyway, soldered = dead to me.
They're not "demanding" anything. They're offering jobs for wages which you deem too low.
Sorry, I'd provide a non-paywall archive but I can't get to the .is domain
iPhone 5S started on iOS 7 released on September 20, 2013 and received a full upgrade to every version of iOS up to and including iOS 12 when it was dropped in iOS 13 in 2019. After that happened, Apple went back and backported security fixes to iOS 12 with the latest release in June of 2021.

Thats 6 years, 5 days of "full updates" if you consider the release day of iOS 13 to be the end of life support.
There’s waterfall.social which has been made open source (Idr under which license. I think it might be AGPL?) Not sure whether that’s what you mean by “open platform”.

It also has a number of nice features added compared to tumblr, like changing which blog of yours is the “main blog”, having a separate dashboard and following list for each blog in an account, a system to detect uncredited art-re-uploading, etc.
It's impressive to see the list of third-party projects on BitHunt. I've been following DeSo since a while back, and it's incredible (but also makes sense) how the creator coin became something these dev projects took advantage of to get attention and build their projects.

It's neat there's also a natural, built-in ranking of dev projects (via their creator coin price). I do wonder what the creator coin price will eventually end up reflecting. I remember some projects were saying "if our coin gets to this price, we'll release this new set of features". Will be cool to see how this evolves.
The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)
> Left claims voter ID racist because minorities are unable to obtain an ID

No, the center-right-to-center-left coalition party claims concrete voter ID proposals are racist, partisan efforts by right-to-far-right coalition party because proponents of voter ID laws keep getting caught in venues that are viewed as friendly to their partisan alignment promoting voter ID as a tool to keep people of the “wrong” race and party from voting.

Its true that the former party also, in certain cases where this has occurred, points out access issues that the latter party deliberately creates in parallel with the voter ID effort as part of the mechanism by which the racist, partisan goal is acheived.
Manning books in the US watermarks their ebooks too (each page have a "property of XYX" on it). Its not DRM or even unsharable, I think it just makes you think about who your sharing with...)
Vantage Launches Advanced Analytics: See the Cost of Individual AWS Resources
The requirement to use game console for programming is not obvious to me. Yes, Commodore 64 was "PC of today" -- but Atari 2600 was "xbox of today", only programmable using complex procedures.

And once you stop looking at consoles, there are many programming languages suitable for beginners, many even web-based. For example, MIT Scratch is visual language, but satisfies many of author's requirements.
There's a plugin for Calibre that converts epubs to kepubs automatically when you send them to the device.

Literally set and forget. Install plugin, get kepubs always.
No, nothing cryptographic here. All I'm saying is that you can memorize the dataset by extracting a small fingerprint of each training example and associating it with an output label: ie, learn by lookup table. Then you don't need to memorize the whole training set, you just need to find/learn the fingerprinting function. With no augmentation, you might as well use MD5... With augmentation, you do need to do some actual work to learn to extract an augmentation invariant projection of the training examples, but the basic principle is the same.
Smart is an ill-defined marketing term just like AI.

But in the end everything is just hardware, and some of it runs some software. If "just running a program" is your yardstick I'm not sure what could satisfy your definition of "smart"?
Ask for less fossil fuels and you shall have what you want. Take this as a warning.
The lifecycle of oil and gas projects from exploration to production is decades. Disrupt it and you have long and deep energy shortages.
We can stop using fossil fuels. But people don't seem to understand the consequences we will face as a result. Be careful what you ask for. 21rst century populism unfortunately means your uneducated opinion based on FB posts forms state policy.
I'm wondering what topics of computer engineering still fit these types of covers and paper magazines?

I think it has to be some topics that are not easily Googled, otherwise there is no purpose to buy a paper magazine.

Retro computing, Computer virus research, anything else? It should be something deep and niche. The magazines should be monthly and each issue a few hundred of pages.
2013 MacBook Air daily driver here. MagSafe? Usb A? Sd card reader? User replaceable battery? Runs Linux? All checks. It’s light on RAM (which for just chrome and light app use honestly it’s fine).
If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code
Hey y'all, creator of Torchlight here!

I wrote Torchlight because I was super frustrated using the other two syntax highlighters, because it seemed like each one failed in novel and unique ways. I just wanted a syntax highlighter that was rock solid and I didn't have to worry about.

As I started writing it, I realized that there were other features that I had always wanted in my docs/blog posts that I could build into Torchlight and solve once and for all.

Stuff like
- line numbers

- diff highlighting

- focus lines

- collapsing blocks

- multiple themes on a page

- hyperlinks from within the code block

I think the best part about Torchlight is that you configure everything via _actual code comments_ meaning that you're not adding garbage to your code examples, so they're still 100% valid and can be formatted by your IDE.

It also makes them super portable because all the annotations live _inside_ the block, which lets you write your examples as separate files for better organization.

I'm still working on new clients, a Ruby one is in the works right now but there are a lot I want to tackle.

Let me know what you think!
Linus (the "tech tips" one) said something that sticks in my mind: "The only reason other companies can't do this - and Framework proved it - is because they don't care."
He mentions it at the end of this entry: https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/11/visurf-announcement.html
Go-Multikeypair
Water isn't a fundamental necessity (as in required for life) for 70-80% of the water used.

Water markets aren't typically (maybe there are some?) aimed at individuals, they're aimed at commercial users (farms, power plants, data centers, factories).

For example, see the : https://youtu.be/druiwE_GjRI?t=559
and the last section where they talk about waste.

Pricing encourages factories to do things like recycle water on site.
can we go back to when Javascript wasn't used in EVERYTHING please
Part of "build quality" in my mind is the ability to repair your device. Apple has shown this to be something they do not care highly about:

https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability?sort=score

While, yes, they may be built well in your mind, in many other people's minds they aren't.
That's a great idea! Could you please link the arm you use?
I don't believe anyone can prove how the violence has actually preserved my "liberal" western life.

If you go to the "worst" territories with the worst regimes, you will find people surprisingly like us. They are individuals and families who care for each other, who work hard (or harder), and who don't wish anyone harm.

What we have are power hungry people, often with financial agendas, at the controls of media and politics. That's not to say that some citizens don't get caught up in these false narratives and grab their pitchforks, but without the perpetual skewed influence, "normal" people tend to behave pretty decently.
Go-Ipld-Linkstore
I think they are leaving a ton of money on the table acting this way, taking their ball and going home out of pride instead of making more money.

For one, subscriber counts would go way up just like how literally 1/3 of Americans are allegedly legitimate music streamers, because paying one fixed price for literally almost all recorded sound is a pretty good deal in the eyes of consumers. For two, you'd end up with higher 'real' subscriber counts with a one stop service; right now its probably $90 a month at least for an individual to subscribe to all the popular streaming services which is why literally everyone I know is sharing account passwords with like three other people rather than shelling out the same price as the old evil cable bill. Personally, I'd be happy to pay $10 a month for a one stop shop and not have to deal with texting my brother to ask when he will be done watching Survivor on the shared netflix account.

All this would add up to more customers lining up with more money, but its not done seemingly out of some false sense in these executives that their Disney+ or their Peacock will somehow capture market share (which by definition means securing more of the limited available popular IP) in a world where IP holders no longer play ball with eachother.
Payoff of the debt becomes like an option because it is floored at 0, but there is a chance they get something out of it. And it's not abuse of terminology, it's the technical way to describe that characteristic of distressed debt
Buying a new thinkpad every year is especially confusing to me given that Lenovo’s switch from mobile to ultrabook processors in the x40 series meant that for around 5 years, buying a newer thinkpad than the x30 series meant getting a speed downgrade.
The Case Against Everything Buckets
That's a harmful way of thinking. That's the kind of rationale that shames fat people for leaving food from single-sized meals because somebody far away lacks it, for example.

The GP saving water would have no impact at all on the people that miss it. It's not a "do your small part", it's simply no part at all.
We've been told for years that "slim and tiny is what you really want!"

No, I don't want slim and tiny, I want to be able to replace and upgrade parts. I want a battery I can swap out or RAM I can replace.

The problem is that being able to swap parts extends service life of machines. Can't have that when they want you to just buy a new one ever 3 years.
Multi-device beta: WhatsApp web without the need to keep your phone connected
What do the interviews look like?
> In this case, if you look at the videos it doesn't look like this trailer is doing anything smart at all, it just accelerates/breaks when you pull/push on the draw bar.

Seems like a smart solution to the problem "I want to transport stuff, but bike trailers are too heavy"
Take a poll of users on here. I guarantee you that 90%+ of them want all those places you listed censored as well. There's a cultural shift to shut down dissenting opinions and provide places where only like minded people associate.

This is inherently bad for everyone. You don't change anyone's opinion with segregation. You just enforce their current stances.