skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be really surprised if the Chinese “secret police” drive around with an array of plushies on the passenger side dash. However neglecting motor vehicle law is very typical in Irvine in my experience.
Can somebody give a simple to read breakdown of what compromises the majority of the global carbon dioxide emissions picture/pie?
Yup, just going to Skype right in to my brother's wedding...
The people of the US won't if....

1. The alternative's include things they can own and control. This is really important in rural or suburban areas. It's also important for a lot of businesses.
2. The alternative's are handled in a cost effective rollout manner.

Basically, the solutions need to be in the public interest with them in mind. Not sure how that factors into startup and VC thinking these days.

I would imagine that eco friendly public transit systems could cut down on emissions, cut overall costs, and cut congestion in cities. That seems like a good place to target as low hanging fruit.
I think you've missed the point. This does not make it illegal to collect or even sell user data, it makes it illegal to do so without consent.

Any concern regarding whether consent is likely to be withheld really just points out how stupid a company's business model is. Incumbent vs. Startup is also a false premise because Facebook is an incumbent that relies on selling user data. They do make some money from purely internal advertising, but in total Facebook only makes less than $5 per user when selling data, and that's lifetime, not per year. So the only way to make real profits from selling data is if you sell millions of people's data. Their internal data use however, is just for add targeting which they make more money from each year. This internal use makes more per user and is therefore a more viable strategy for a small company than selling data.

There are already regulations that make it impossible to sell user data that would be valuable that apply to more than just internet collected information. So, any data selling strategy a startup or incumbent company might have will either not earn significant profits or is very likely already illegal.

In any case, advertising revenue rarely ever covers a company's expenses. If a company is only staying afloat because of selling data, then that company is achieving a very poor return on investment and is wasting the time of everyone involved. Either they need better business processes, strategies or they're not offering something of sufficient value to be worth the time put into the business.
This is sad to read as the budget airlines are really just taking off.

So many people are just getting to obtain some of their travel dreams and now they have to stop :(
Yeah, this reads very much as the same kind of moral panic we recently endured over plastic straws. Air travel does emit a ton of carbon per person, but on the whole we're better off putting effort into making renewables cheaper and greening up the agriculture industry. Not that we shouldn't put pressure on the airlines to put R&D into lowering emissions but pretending this is something people can fix by "flying a little less" is silly at best, and smacks more of religion than of reasoned responses to climate change.
This information is part of the commit created by git and not "associated data" added by GitHub.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that Microsoft has the means to open source Consolas as it (along with most of the rest of the Office C-Family fonts) was a commission from / commercial partnership with Monotype (company/foundry; albeit I think it was Ascender at the time but M&A since then it's definitely Monotype that owns the commercial rights today).

Commercial licensing info: http://catalog.monotype.com/family/microsoft-corporation/con...
What's the tradeoff? How many people aren't driving because flying is cheaper? What is the economic efficiency gained by air travel and how does that translate into emissions?

A cost number without a benefit number is completely useless for real analysis.
They are absolutely using tracking - the unique views counter in the analytics dashboard shows as much.

Many of these sponsored ads ask for access to the YT analytics data for these channels, without which they wouldn't even consider a sponsorship. Add to the fact they all use a tracking link.. etc.. So yes, they're not personalised, but that doesn't mean you're not being tracked.
I think the point isn't that pardons are fair, but that pardons can be used to make unfair court verdicts fair (ie acquit someone who was deemed to be guilty but the people feel is not).
Interestingly I've been told by handgun users that this is currently a popular idea.
Seems implausible to me that this is a problem that's going to be solved by asking people to make personal sacrifices. The numbers don't add up.

When the op says, "we should focus on…" I assume he's talking about policy, technology, etc., not individual concessions.

The best argument I can imagine for encouraging individual concessions is that, if the campaign to do so is massively successful, it might create a new norm, which will increase public awareness, which will increase public support for new policies and participation in the development of new technologies. But imo that's an unnecessarily roundabout course to chart.
turns out 2fb.me redirects users to this PayPal page after they share their twitter post on Facebook:

https://www.paypal.me/qkast/2#_=_
I wonder how much revenue Facebook made off these apps.
Everyone knowing he's lying is probably a better PR situation than everyone knowing the truth.
Airbnb to Go Public in 2020
It is an interesting exercise to ask people to imagine a world without air travel. Where you can't just appear halfway around the world at the drop of a hat. Travel again becomes the domain of boats & trains.

To almost anyone you talk to, banning air travel sounds completely ridiculous. In reality it wouldn't be enough by itself. It's on the lower end of action that is required.
Can't read due to paywall, but does the 2.5% figure include the worse effect high altitude emissions have? I believe the best estimate is a doubling.
Star Polygons
Some form of sequestration is necessary, because if you consider climate as a sinking ship, trees and algae are just sponges. They sequester some carbon for a while, and then release when decaying or burning. So fighting climate change with trees needs to involve cutting them down and storing them somewhere where they won't decay for thousands of years.
Oh yes it will as soon as carbon and stratospheric water vapor is priced in airfares.
If we where serious about gun deaths we would not be debating the emotional issue of mass shootings and black guns, rather we would be focused on the real tragedy of handgun deaths which does not just eclipse the rare and significantly smaller portion of mass shooting deaths by long-arms rather it statistically makes them almost null in comparison.

On average handguns kill 19 times as many people than all other guns combined.

The number of people killed in mass shootings is a even significantly smaller percentage of that 1 in 19.
i would checkout spring.io's springboot web tutorials

theres lots of java jobs at banks/enterprises that are not going to dissapear for at least another 20 years
> When people attend conferences, they're doing it to be seen.

Not when I do it. I go to the conferences to learn. To learn what's out there, to see what people are working on, what they're excited about, what they want to talk about, what they want to hear about. Sometimes I give talks too, but that's usually not the fun part of a conference to me.
A scary thought I had was of the actual Chinese police coordinating with CHP and California DAs to crack down on this sort of thing, under threat of Tencent pulling its money out of Hollywood or something.
>I've also heard of journalists and PIs using vehicles that look like undercover police cars to get access to areas that might otherwise be off-limits to civilians

Never, ever, ever, ever buy a similar make/model and color car of any common current police car. People will drive SO SLOW in front of you because as soon as they see you in their mirror they think you're an unmarked car. grumbles and is glad a lot of the departments here are switching to SUVs the past couple of years. When I first bought my 2013 Impala (in late '13 when they were the common cruiser here), I'd have people in front of me actually let off the gas and drop 10-15mph when I'd get behind them on the interstate eye twitch. It doesn't help that every department has unmarked vehicles here (and have over the years) including Camaros, Toyota and Ford pickup trucks, Escalades, Corvettes, the same made and model of their rest of the fleet, etc. They'eve even used semis to get tickets over the past several years [1]

There is a used car lot by my work that ONLY sells used police cars, they've been there for at least 20 years, and I just don't know why people would go buy them. Most of them still have spotlights on them, the only way I can rationalize people buying them is that they buy them WANTING people to think they are law enforcement.

[1] https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2019/07/16/indiana...
Also if we suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere we could turn it into petrochemicals and fuel which would help with making existing things carbon neutral.
Any time someone actually does the math on sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, it seemingly becomes clear that it is simply not scalable to suck the carbon out of the atmosphere. Have you done the math, and if so, why is everyone who comes to the aforementioned conclusion wrong?
No, my previous comment was a somewhat knee-jerk of my belief that the media divides people in the months leading to an election so that they will go to the polls. They blow-up non-stories and downplay real actions where necessary.

Re: Trump, I doubt anyone cares what I think, but I do wish the republicans had a more approachable figurehead. The hard-nose republicans who wanted to buck the previous 8 years come hell or high water put him in and might keep him there. I would prefer a return to Bush's idea of a "compassionate conservative."
Even if your demand was valid, the first demand should be "stop driving gas-powered cars!" long before you ever get far enough down the list to talk about air travel.
They posted a video of their attempt on YouTube demonstrating their claim - which was quickly taken down again. Thankfully it’s been mirrored; one source: https://youtu.be/ML41g0hb7hM

Some highlights:

- they claim that the RSA equation underlies all electronic banking and public key crypto (when of course, DH, ECC and many other systems make no use of RSA)

- they apparently surveyed 500 CISOs and claimed only 5% understood the math of RSA (well, yeah, you asked CISOs and not professional cryptographers - duh?)

- as expected it was a really amateurish demo with pre-selected keys, not even remotely convincing. I’m actually surprised they even bothered to factor for real, rather than just faking the factorization of a 2048-bit RSA key or something

- they claim it was 50 seconds on a laptop in their press release, but they’re clearly SSHed into a Linux box with 32 cores (and it was 50 seconds per key, not for both)

- one line of debug output from their script matches CADO-NFS exactly, which is probably just what they’re using under the hood

- they won’t accept stranger’s keys because they’re worried that info could be used maliciously...

It’s so utterly absurd that this is even a thing. They have absolutely got to be running a scam, I don’t see how they could be serious about this (especially the bit about redressing CADO-NFS as their own factoring algorithm!!). If it’s a scam, I definitely hope they get sued by their investors or something...

P.S. I thoroughly beat their little record with my actual 8-core laptop running YAFU - I did two keys in 28 seconds to their 2 keys in 1:40.
I see your point. It opens a door for a lot of bullshit.

Really, I suppose I am advocating less for secret subpoenas and more for secret warrants. If someone really has a reason to keep something concealed in the interest in justice, then they should have no problem with a Judge signing off on it, under seal of course.

And if the secret warrant is a part of a series against a suspect, again I think a reasonable Judge could be convinced of the necessity of keeping the ongoing investigative activities concealed for the time being.
As noted in this article, aviation is responsible for just 2.5% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. To put that number into perspective, cars are responsible for about 10x that.

If everyone stopped flying today, the impact on climate change would be almost nothing. If everyone stopped driving, the impact would be huge. Furthermore, there are very few good alternatives to flying if you actually need to get somewhere really far away. Cars with internal combustion engines have tonnes of lower impact alternatives though - electric cars (if you have reasonably clean electricity), public transportation, biking, walking, etc.

Aviation seems like a weird sector to focus on, if you actually want to make a difference.
One thing that will cost you comparatively little and is often overlooked is moving any savings investments into options which have some form of climate/ethics guidelines (for example investing only in wind, water and solar in the energy sector). A lot of people here on HN often talk about index funds and these quite often invest in large oil companies such as exxon, shell or bp. I don't know the rules outside of my own country for selling and buying investment options but generally if you move a large sum of money from one option to another you need to pay taxes (and you seem to be able to put away some money per month for this so thats why I suggest it).

I also think it makes sense if you are the kind of person who wants to help fight climate change that you do not let your savings fight against your personal goals and values.
"Move fast and break laws..."
I am finding the day to day experience of being a developer in a team / corporate environment quite taxing on mental health these days.

Some issues are:

JIRA / agile / whatever methodologies, so many metadata fields in the ticketing system that are all just matters of opinion. So much time spent hoarding and prioritizing "wishlist" items, and discussing which order to do things if, hypothetically, they were to be done... instead of actually doing them.

Pull requests / code reviews - now that these are done in a web browser, there is no bar to having an opinion and having your two cents. As a developer, the pull request is something I produce after executing and debugging some code for a few days, but then I cant merge it until people are happy with how it looks, not how it works.

Testing & documentation - everyone wants this, nobody can agree how it should work. It's in a constant state of "aspiration", a few broken / flakey test cases from the last attempt that slow down development, but provide no confidence in the safety of changes. You can improve the situation by writing new testcases and fixing old ones, but sooner or later someone will have an urgent change that they "know" is safe that breaks the test cases that they will merge anyway, and then it's back to square one.

General poor quality work environment - open plan, long hours, noisy, some "interesting" characters. Very little scope to ever control your work environment.

I find all these to be instances of cognitive dissonance, where there is a huge gulf between how people think things should work, and the actual, day-to-day reality of making a change. Somehow people are only interested in talking about some hypothetical future state, but nobody cares about how things are now and how to get there, and if you do, you are perceived as being "difficult".
The article at the Flemish tv [0] has a little more background (also in Dutch, but often they create specific English versions for this kind of articles, which can take some time [1]). They mention 4 reasons for the forced stop:

- There was no prior study about possible the privacy implications.

- No approval was asked before the project started although such an approval is mandatory under GDPR.

- Some changes in law are needed to allow to keep such a database. Current laws only permit licence plate databases.

- There were too many false positives.

[0] https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/09/20/politie-mag-geen-aut...

[1] https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/
This is mostly cultural no?

We've done an excellent job of moving away from basic animal instincts thus far, what exactly determines what cultural behaviours can and cannot be changed by technology?
I don't know.

But it makes me feel better about the second amendment.
Cultivating Stoic Antifragility: Stoicism and Emotional Resilience
Something interesting I learned was one of the lesser known things that's good about America is how easy it is to wipe your hands of insolvency. Bankruptcy is often seen as an "end of the world" type of situation but in the grand scheme of things it's really a new beginning and a chance to try again.

It's interesting after looking it up that Kenya passed some sort of "Insolvency Act" in 2015 which did some bankruptcy reforms. It apparently made it more difficult to qualify for bankruptcy which might explain what's going on here.
It is a nice font, but a bit too wide for my taste.
For business purposes, I believe it. I've been working remotely for a long time. Sure, it is easier to do some things in person. But not impossible to do remotely, and it saves everyone time and money, so it is worth learning to hold even large, long meetings remotely.

Now, for seeing family, travel makes sense. You can't hug your grandmother from 2000 miles away.
Yes. If they did this, private commits might even leak into packfiles fetched from GitHub by git.
You realize people self-report their work history on their resume? I can omit something and it isn’t a liability for anyone.
Corporate America Has Found a Way to Turn a Profit Off Being Green
I will happily continue to vote for and fund our over-budget under-delivering mass transit projects, even though I (and the overwhelming majority of people providing said funding) won't be in a position to actually use them for the foreseeable future, because it's the right thing to do.

However, if someone tries to take my car before those alternatives are in place, we're going to have a problem. My problem will be getting to work. The transport authority's problem will be obtaining money from a hostile and/or evaporated tax base.

We build a better world by working together, not by raiding each other and hoping that somehow, in the aftermath, the mass fixes itself.
Oh, so that's what those Google job listings for datacenter-builders were for...
It’s a rich world which can afford constantly having several million of its people sitting in a chair elevated six miles.
Now you really don’t want to buy a ford compact SUV, especially if it’s black.
Or we invent solar-powered planes. Not feasible yet, but who knows.
I think the method of creation is sometimes relevant. Like if you can prove that you wrote a poem before someone else did, but they registered the same work coincidentally I don’t think you will be treated the same as if it is shown that you copied. So it’s more than if the results are sufficiently novel to a blinded human... perhaps in the future this will be an area where you could be audited - forced to show your training sets or you will be assumed guilty???
IIRC "Distraction" by Bruce Sterling covers that sort of thing.
Don't do math, don't question the dogma, and don't bet against markets. Coastal florida prices are skyrocketing because underwater real estate is just gonna' be the new trend. And Holland is leading the world in supposed refugees of underwater refugees. I'm incapable of thinking for myself and believe everyhing I'm told. Let's go to war again in the Middle East! Better downvote this comment for offending your regurgitated ideologies.
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What if said super batteries and efficient sequestration never develop? Why isn't creating lower emission power supplies on your list? I understand that the batteries save green power for when it can't be produced, but if we could find other, better, low or zero emission power sources, wouldn't that be just as good?

I'm just confused why those are the two must have technologies, which don't yet exist, and not others, which also have yet to exist on the scale we need.
> As a European I should be free to order my product from any EU country of my choosing

As a person, we should be able to order anything we want from any country we want, free of protectionist plots to artificially distort markets to favor politically connected groups such as farmers or auto makers or textile producers.
They had a business model?
Since posting this and leaving comments below, my inbox has become flooded with spam garbage.

Some of you are signing me up for mailing lists, gay porn websites, right-wing anime news? This is no coincidence.

Thank you all for taking time out of your day to “prove me wrong”, I hope you feel good about it.
There is an argument that it will become cheaper if more investment flows into the technology. For example, when solar power was originally conceived it wasn't cost-effective, but over the years it has seen tremendous gains in efficiency.

That said, I'm not educated on the topic well enough to say whether this argument applies to carbon sequestration.
“PHP is not important, what you do with it is important.” [YouTube]
A man doesn't love you unless he kisses you like this
Legal residents of a country choosing to relocate to a new city is a different issue than the enforcement of national borders.
Utah Phillips phrased it as "People back East have a tremendous sense of place, here in the West, we have a tremendous sense of event."
Wait, the fed wants an overnight rate in a specific range. To do this they just set the deposit rate under the "floor" to encourage banks to lend above that, but they didn't set a ceiling, assuming it would magically stay in target range??

Now they are "thinking" of making a standing offer to lend at the top of their target range. Makes sense to me.
Yeah. I mean, impersonating US police might actually get you somewhere. But Chinese police? I get pulled over by someone pretending to be Chinese police, and I'm going to tell them to get lost.

Unless (as tomcam says) these are actual Chinese police, blatantly here in the US, trying to tell dissidents "even here we can get to you".
CO2 absorbs in three spectral lines out in the infrared, keeping the quantum mechanics and molecular spectroscopy simple, one line for each of bending, twisting, stretching of the molecule.

The photons the CO2 absorbs are supposedly mostly just those radiated by the Planck black body radiation of the surface of the earth heated by the photons direct from the sun. Lindzen argues why this absorption is not affecting the climate.

It's a long way from that molecular spectroscopy to the climate effect claims of the alarmists. The analysis in the movie Swindle...
from Lindzen and others explains clearly.
> wanting to imply that they are somehow hypocritical or crazy to do so.

There's no such implication in that line, especially in the context of the rest of the article, unless you're straining for a reason to be offended. "They did it first" reads just as easily as "they have more experience with it and this is how it developed over time for them".
You need to divide that 3.4 tons of carbon by the ~270 people on each flight
Seeing family or friends and like, you know, maybe something like doing stuff together?