skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By that logic every crypto or blockchain website or video on the internet not blocked in North Korea is guilty of violating the sanctions.

Making something available on the internet has non-illegal purposes. Specifically flying somewhere that is sanctioned and presenting the information specifically to them has no non-illegal purpose.

If you drop a $20 bill on the street and a member of a terrorist organization picks it up, it's not really funding terrorism just because you didn't explicitly ensure whoever found it was allowed to have it.

If you go find a terrorist organization and give them $20, you've funded terrorism.

Intent matters.
That's going to depend on the design of the bulb. If it's off for the length of a blink, it probably doesn't need to strike again. Or you could dim it to 10% for the duration instead of turning it off.

But the other factor is dealing with the delayed response of the phosphor. Can you actually turn the light output off and on fast enough?
I'm glad you left out the hyperloop/boring company and the intercontinental travel rocket out of your list. He might be a great computer engineer, but i think the most stupid thing i ever saw is the Vegas loop. At least it was entertaining (and oh boy, i hope his intercontinental travel rocket have a few launch, this is promising).

I do like Elon, though my sympathy for Tesla and SpaceX will probably be overshadowed by contempt and amusement at another "Vegas loop" (the "loop" for the Dodger Stadium was even dumber, i'm a bit sad that this did not work.)
This might have been covered in some part I skimmed over, but they never seemed to offer a mechanism for contaminated water in a drainage basin entering the local food supply via processed foods in a way that wouldn’t also impact a plant-based (e.g. potato-only) diet. Did anyone get any insight there or is that really a gap in their explanation?

As an aside, I have an unfortunate and deep association between Microsoft Word-typesetting and graphs with papers I wrote in high school that put me in a skeptical stance from the start
> Apple is exerting legal power and the threat of force to prevent you from doing what you want with your phone pursuant to the DMCA.

No. https://www.wired.com/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/

They simply make it technically infeasible to jailbreak since jailbreaks run untrusted code that bypasses security restrictions (eg. adware that survives resets).
A water shortage is something most of the world has been dealing with forever. The only people who panic about this are just privileged people who grew up with super cheap/unlimited water.

Collapse of ecology is certainly a problem. The Colorado river is not (for residents). A tiny portion of the population who farms consumes more than all of the residential use combined.

We make farmers pay for the fucking water they use and then the problem is solved. This doesn’t even require a technological breakthrough.
From meticulously monitoring macronutrients and body composition over periods of 3 months, I find I can eat say 3/4rs of my calculated energy requirements and still get slowly fatter over time. This slow fattening effect is associated with poor sleep, occasional massive calorie bombs due to social events and, for me at least, eating a lot of starches often in snack foods. The sleep is particularly important, when deprived I develop incessant cravings for low quality food. If I sleep well and restrict carbs, I can lose 5kg+ without trying despite no exercise.
I’ll try to help you feel less bitter it may not work. The problem is not your fellow man or the need to burn to keep warm and provide energy… the problem is simple, there are too many of us. I don’t view this as an impossible thing to over come rather I trust we will over come this - you will wake up tomorrow drive or not to work and continue on your merry way. The economy is shifting to more efficient energy sources. And tomorrow will be another day. Earth has the best atmosphere and gravity of any planet in the solar system. Whether we live in domes here or not it’s the best option until we break the light barrier and learn to live forever.
There's a lot of concrete and steel in the urban lifestyle, which according to Gates are the biggest contributors to global warming. Not saying urban lifestyle is the worst, but there's a good chance it's just not enough.

My guess is no matter what we do we're over the limit, a reduction in one thing leads to an increase in another, and probably population reduction is the only solution.
I may be blind, but I don't see the NYT / Crawdsen reference there.
> average income has been going down for 40 years

Not true [1]. This is true across economic strata, with real stagnation being the plague of our most destitute.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPI
You impose tariffs on their exported goods to compensate for their failure to impose carbon taxes, and maybe even impose an export tax on goods shipped to them. China needs trade with other countries and will get on board with a carbon tax if enough of the world is on board with such a plan, no war needed.

Of course if things are truly implemented fairly, the US will also likely be subject to such taxes due to our own apparent inability to reduce our per capita carbon emissions...
> There are many deities

Proof demanded.
> If there is a fourth stage then it’s getting to the point that it’s more profitable to run a side business renting out your unused resources to others and you become a cloud.

This is a common belief about AWS, but I find the counterpoint persuasive - if AWS involved Amazon renting out its unused resources, it would have to shut down in December. But obviously AWS does not shut down in December. They're not renting out their unused resources; they're renting out their experience running this kind of system.
A lot of energy goes into manufacturing products such as steel, plastic, aluminum, servers etc.

The energy sources for these items are at the discretion of the large buyers. A steel plant can absolutely make the switch from coal to solar/wind at its own discretion.
To be fair, backlash against games like Myst started as soon as they were released. I remember reading at least more than one games author from the Halcyon Days book (freely available online) complaining about "games like Myst don't appeal me, where is the gameplay?"
You see mil in small scale CAD all the time, circuit boards and chips and footprints are close to 50% mils vs mm in my experience if not more.

I use mm, but it’s often a pain when premade parts and libraries are in mils.
> Elon Musk - gets a degree in physics and a PhD in materials and builds rockets.

Unless PhDs are awarded to people who dropped out after two days, that didn't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education
Congratulations! I am really glad to see Framework deliver - I forwared your website to everyone in my contacts list as I was really stoked by what you promised. I certainly hope you can keep up the momentum and consider launching better screens (bigger size, higher PPI, higher resolution) with better processors (AMD). Will definitely be ordering a Framework v2 or v3 (when hopefully you've ironed out all the kinks in v1).
If we could wave a magic wand & cut global energy consumption in half via more public transit & denser living, but still burning fossil fuels... we would have the exact same crisis, perhaps delayed a few years.

I'm naturally inclined towards austerity, but this problem cannot be fixed with cutbacks & efficiency alone.
Even replacing coal with natural gas generation would eliminate about 2.5T PP/yr. Obviously we can do better than that, but it probably makes sense to some extent as an interim measure. What I mean is some highly beneficial changes don’t even need to be particularly drastic or costly.
It hasn't? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
The EU already have a solution for this - they tax imports from nations that don't have an ETA themselves.
> It’s surreal.

I would say it’s human nature. We, humans, learn by making mistakes. There may be small differences among countries in the way we address, let’s say, climate change (e.g., Amsterdam is full of people riding bikes while Madrid is not), but at the end we all behave the same, whether in NY, Athens, or Santiago: we, as a world-wide society, only care about our immediate future, about our needs right now. The future? Well, let’s talk about that tomorrow. Countless of civilizations have disappeared (or transformed) due to this very short-term thinking way of doing things. We may disappear (or transform) as well.
The larger issue is that measuring the problem in degrees, doesn't convey the gravity or the urgency of the situation. Most will associate it with seasonal changes, or sea rise or extreme weather. But that is just the surface level.

What happens when millions are displaced because India, Pakistan and much of Africa can no longer support human life? What happens when food and water output is reduced? What happens when droughts stops being weather events, but become permanent? What happens if ocean accidification gets to levels where a sudden massive extinction happens? People are greatly underestimating the dangers of climate change. If what is described in the IPCC reports comes to pass and if we really are already at 2C as some reports indicate https://www.ecowatch.com/greenhouse-gases-paris-agreement-26.... Then we will see massive destabilization of global society. Most current societies are simply not equipped to deal with all the problems that will happen at the same time.

I do hope we can still do something to prevent this. But at this point we really need to go to negative emissions and fast, yet the best we can muster is 10 years of increasing emissions followed by another 20-30 of decreasing, and this is assuming the governments can stick to those targets. Assuming we are at 2C, then 4C by 2100 seems probable. Interesting times ahead.
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. This isn't a right/left problem - both parties have let corporations get away with runaway pollution for entirely too long.
If you want to feel some level of empowerment around this but don't feel like you have much time or direction, I'd recommend joining the Citizen's Climate Lobby. It's quite influential in the U.S., and is gaining influence globally.

I'm Canadian, and I joined a year ago. Since then I've been able to join several lobby meetings with politicians and gotten involved in many other local issues that I never would have learned about otherwise. It's quite organized, I get to see the impacts of lobbying, and I meet many other groups that I could choose to join if I am so inclined.

I've found it to be productive. If you feel helpless and are thrashing when it comes to figuring out how to make a difference, I think this is a great first step.
Be careful with collapse Reddit. That’s pretty typical doomer material so be careful going down that rabbit hole. It’s very focused on lots of what-ifs and not so much solutions.
Living more efficiently obviously saves money.

The absurdities of what's happening is literally the Sierra Club opposing density in San Francisco. The environmentalist are literally opposing density across California. Los Angeles, to San Francisco, to Marin County, under the banner of "preservation," we're going to destroy the climate.

I just, i cannot believe this is happening. They same people who would hand wash a peanut butter jar, to recycle it, are the exact same people who are literally creating suburban cities designed for burning carbon.
Drive day 1 sales, increasing your chance of getting featured as a "hot new release", increasing visibility and trying to ride the recommendation algorithm.
The problem would be solved if we had cleaner sources of energy. Get rid of coal and you're most of the way there. None of that requires us to change our way of living, it just makes certain rich people less wealthy.

No scientist is arguing that we need to live in poverty, please keep the straw man arguments out of this.
Forgive me but what is wrong with the AP classes/exams. And yes you can take them with out taking the class(I did.)
Not just a public-image deficit. The $billions already poured down that rathole would take decades for the first fusion plant to pay back, if it had to, before ever achieving the break-even that actually counts. Especially so, when running it only at night after cloudy days when the much cheaper wind, solar, and storage flag.
Comes from mille, means thousand.
I would actually guess "cigarettes".

Nicotine is an appetite suppressant.
They don’t. They have shut down. Why would they care what happens?
We can know an origin of some life, but never the origin of our own life. It's simply not testable, and without tests it's not science.
It is already happening. Just searching a bit…

Katrina displaced 1-1.5m immediately and about 200k never returned.

The upper estimates for 2050 is 1.2 billion displaced world wide.
Ah, thanks for the link!
Bullshit. 100 companies are responsible for extraction. They are selling us the carbon we are actively buying.
And what if your friend doesn't have it on their non-Apple device? You waste time because you have to use third-party solutions for something that is built-in the device but restricted due to the software (ios limiting Bluetooth or Wifi Transfer to not work non-Apple devices).
> Because only brown people are terrorists, amirite?

I chose "murderer" as a stronger word than "shooter". I didn't say anything about "brown people". I'm not sorry and you are out of line.
On a related note, Libreboot would be a killer feature for these things.

If I'm being honest, there's very little chance of me leaving my M1 MBA for anything other than another Apple Silicon machine any time soon. That being said, a modular laptop that was also fully open would be very tempting, particularly if it were otherwise competitive (in terms of portability, performance, battery life, display quality, etc.).

All of that would probably also require supporting next-gen desktop ARM SOCs (like the 8cx, but from the future), or waiting for x86 to catch up and then copying Purism in neutralizing Intel ME / AMD PSP.
Schrödinger's cat was originally intended as a reductio ad absurdum.
The same people that can't do a accurate weather forecast more than 5 days into the future are telling you the world is gonna end due to climate change ... and you blame the common man for not freaking out? I mean put your self in peoples shoes.
Dropping the SAT is an affirmative action measure.
>Fun fact: the US military is the largest polluter in the world and has held the record for decades

Source?

> So take your three showers a day. Keep your car idling at stop lights. Burn your garbage. I'm not trolling. Your 'foot print' is a drop in the ocean compared to the real behemoths out there.

Your footprint is a drop in the ocean because you're one of 8 billion people on earth. Just from that figure alone it's obvious that a you can't do much by regulating your own consumption. However, telling people to do whatever they want and it doesn't matter because they're 1 in 8 billion is the wrong message to send, because if all 8 billion people follow your example that would lead to a massive increase in pollution.
> I look at what I can do about this. I can turn up the temp in my room, and the house. Meager difference. I can use less water - I already am, with getting showers every other day on average.

Depending where you live, it might not even make a difference.

I'd say the biggest contribution one can make is to aggressively vote for parties that support green power generation. Project like these [0] are stalled by lobbyist but offer a real chance to curb emissions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_%E2%80%93_New_England_T...
I think it depends very much on what your product does. E.g. in your case (games) bandwidth is a big deal. The last three companies I've worked at have all had AWS bills of more than $10M/yr and data egress costs were never more than 2-8% of the bill. A mixture of B2C and B2B SaaS companies.

In that case, the economics of bare metal aren't as clear-cut.
Google's Ngram Viewer shows no instances of that phrase in print prior to the early 1990s, and even the early hits there look questionable. The project likely was not known, perhaps at all, and at least under that name, in 1977.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Operation+Mock...

The Wikipedia article does not make clear when the term entered the public domain, though the associated reference (Deborah Davis) seems to have been published in 1979.
Seattle is sometimes pointed to as a “climate sanctuary”. A couple of weeks ago it was 108° here in Seattle. Let me repeat that: a hundred and eight degrees. In Seattle.

Our reaction as a city: air conditioning installation is booked out for months.
Haskell would conquer the world if it had a C-like DSL with C-like semantics. Think do notation with a state monad, on steroids. Thing is, there's already a dozen homespun libraries of various kinds doing just that. As an extreme example (mostly just to prove the point): http://kormacode.blogspot.com/2011/11/c-style-haskell_10.htm...

Which leads me to perhaps the real thing functional languages need. A standard way of doing things. Standard patterns for standard problems, familiar and normal, which the average programmer can recognize. This is related to the Lisp curse:

> Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html Most functional languages suffer from this to some degree.
Mil is used in circuit board design, not sure about other fields. I find it very confusing
You don't need skyscapers. You need the density levels of Paris. Six-story walkups. The concrete can be put into 5/2 urban buildings, or it can be put in to driveways, pools, and sidewalks no one will ever use.

Pretending that urbanism is somehow remotely equivalent is naive at best.
US urban sprawl is costing so much GDP it is not even funny. And i don't understand why they don't invest in septic and would rather install a full sewer system for less than 200 people.
> We don't even have serious bicycle or transit prioritization in our major urban areas. We don't have any concern for reducing our meat consumption. We don't have any concern for alternatives to airlines.

Sorry, but this stuff is a joke. Population control and non carbon based energy sources are the only things that can really make an impact.
Not at all, reducing global energy consumption by half would massively reduce, as well as delay the total long term impact. It’s true a lot of impact is baked in due to past emissions, but that’s no reason for complacency or fatalism. There still a lot we can do to reduce total impact and mitigate the impact we will suffer.
[2018] but spiritually [1995].
I hear you and I understand where you're coming from. And it's serious. Very serious.

And while I do think habits both have to change and will be forced to change — I do think it's useful to accept that we have to build our world and our environment to our behavioral tendencies. It's easy to look back cynically and say, I wish we'd never done X, or Y, or Z. The reality now though is this massive economic engine, which has lifted people out of poverty and created opportunity -- polluting in its current form though it may be -- might be the thing that saves us and helps us escape velocity. Technology can help us adapt and solve this. I know it's easy to live the cynicism but I promise you, challenging though it may be, we need each other and to believe in possibility more than ever if we're going to pull this off.
FYI for anyone reading at Cornell - the donation page fails with "Fund Code This field requires a value." I wanted to make a contribution because a few months ago I was using the iSeek app[0] while hiking and I thought, "You know, with enough recordings of birds, it should be possible to build a classifier to identify birds based on their bird songs. Someone should make an app for that." And here it is!

[0] https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
Most people who weren’t 18 and living in CA in the last 3 years don’t know much about how UC admissions work.
To me, it is just the nature of large groups of human beings that sometimes there is an impending disaster, but people do not agree on what to do about it, and humanity stumbles into disaster. Look at Europe before WW1 or WW2, how many people predicted an imminent disastrous war, and how little agreement there was on how to fix it. Climate change is probably not as bad as impending WW3, but it shouldn't be surprising that we haven't had a mass changing of opinion to avoid disaster. That never really happens.

The simplest answer is that we just need to prepare for a hotter world. This article points out that there will be "no safe place". Okay, we won't have a safe place. We will need to do the best we can to minimize natural disasters and at the same time try to figure out political and technological solutions to limiting climate change.
Thank you, I could not agree more. These companies exist because their services and products are being bought by someone else, and in the end the consumers are either actual consumers or governments (who consumers vote for). I place minimal blame on companies, because clearly consumers don't care, and instead want to buy the cheapest products possible.
I don't know who you're referring to as 'we' but in the US, carbon emissions have actually peaked in the early 2000s and decreased in an absolute sense since then, despite growing population and industrialization. We're currently at 1986 emission levels. US has 15% of global emissions, while China has 28% and is growing in both per person and absolute.

I don't think you're wrong to be cynical about tackling this problem but you should be honest about what reducing emissions means to billions of people that are just now coming into the industrial age.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
Not to mention quite a few of those 'companies' are state-owned entities...
The article does a plausible of refuting this and other common theories. It's quite detailed and it's worth a read in detail.
“Population reduction” again? It might be the most politically expedient option, but the planet isn't overpopulated. We're just polluting way too much. If you model a back-of-the-envelope sustainable civilisation, you'll find we're nowhere near any sort of fundamental population limit.

As a species, our median per-capita pollution is okay. It's the mean per-capita pollution that's the issue.
>> Berlin is heavily associated with crime

Can't find 2020 numbers, but all of Germany had 720 murders in 2019. Last year Chicago, which is the main city in one metro area of one state in the US had 774.

Chicago is around 2.5 million people, Germany is 84 million people. From an inner-city US perspective, violent crime in Germany basically does not exist.